skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
27-year-old who launched a 7-figure business in 18 months tells all
How can the infrastructure be built for free? Volunteer labor and donated capital?
I agree with everything you said.

One thing though, I think "One Special Bigger Request" still makes sense in a lot of situation where you have some kind of "transaction" going on. I often encountered code that calls multiple HTTP endpoints and a failure in one of those requests would actually lead to inconsistent data in the backend. This code is pretty common because many developers assume that requests never fail.
Similarly, can you imagine the USPS ever doing something like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi
Node.js and Good Practices – Separation of concerns doesn't need to be boring
> It actually is very important because this is exactly what distinguishes between labour slavery and ordinary paid work.

"Ordinary paid work" that pays less than a dollar an hour. And if you don't go you are put in solitary, instead of just being fired. That means you don't see any other people. Ever. If they really don't like you they can put you on the loaf, too. Look that up. And that "opportunity" for "ordinary paid work" only exists in prison: you also aren't handling jail, where the Thirteenth doesn't apply because the inmate has not yet been convicted. So now everybody in jail starves under your final solution, before they can be convicted by their peers, all in the name of economic purity.

I have to say, as a former inmate, watching ostensibly well-off people who've never seen the inside of a drunk tank talk about "reality" like this just bugs me. It's just such a lack of perspective, which is fine, but there's also a lack of awareness that it's there and it's dehumanizing to see people speak about inmates like this. You're arguing basic economics and applying it to the incarcerated human condition as if inmates are a line item of cattle in Excel. (Ask me what comes out of the hole when someone gets repeatedly stabbed with a sharpened toothbrush and what color it is. Hint: not red. That's reality.)
I think there's been a lot of projects like this around the world? In Finland there have been the Elcat electric delivery vans for the local post office and others since 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elcat_Electric_Vehicles

You see them around every now and then in private use, but of course the technology is outdated by now.
But not in the sense that programmers do it. Of course there is the 'hackers and painters' essay by PG but I don't see it that way. Artists are a lot freer in their expressions than programmers ever will be, syntax, coding styles, those pesky specifications and so on.
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>Healthy for who? The way you're using it, healthy is a weasel word.

"Healthy" is not a weasel word, but one half of a common term that people use[0].

>If someone is paid to literally write code, it's perfectly healthy for them to want to only write code and not provide free labor in a different domain.

It doesn't sound like humbleMouse is getting paid to literally write code. It sounds like they're getting paid to write code and mentor junior developers. It's also not free labor. If someone works 8 hours, gets paid for 8 hours, and spent half of that time mentoring others (which is incredibly generous), then I don't see the issue.

In any case, if someone finds themselves in this position and are unhappy with it, they should talk to their manager or find a new job. There's no shortage for experienced developers.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-healthy-attitude
See also Roofline Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofline_model

and Memory Wall https://www.google.co.in/search?q=memory+wall+computer+archi...
I'm reading the Undoing Project right now, by Michael Lewis, which is about the work that the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky did together. Within the last week, I stumbled upon a great video of Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman [1] having a conversation regarding their work. Kahneman said at one point that “we’re designed to try to avoid stressors” after Taleb said that stress is good.

Nassim Taleb has greatly influenced my reasoning and thought process but the only people who can really appreciate his work are people who have invested time and or money in anything while knowing that the resources they invested could be lost for good. For everyone else, Kahneman is right that most people will see the possibility of a loss (no matter how small) or stressful event(s) and stop right there.

I stopped referencing Taleb with certain friends and family because they focus exclusively on half of the equation (the loss factor) and nothing else. For those people, I just recommend saving up as much cash as possible because it is just a matter of time before an improbable “stress” event occurs to them or, maybe, I might need them to bail me out which then means I did not follow Taleb’s advice.

[1] https://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/live-nypl-nassim-taleb-danie...
It is espacially amazing given:

- the problem blender is solving is super hard

- the competition was way ahead

- FOSS don't have great track record for this kind of challenge (gimp has never replaced photoshop nor LibreOffice MSO)

- they don't have that much resources

- professionals are very demanding

- the graphic space is not really foss friendly

- the amount of work they poured into this is incredible

They are heroes really.
I probably was wrong and most probably the user visited the shopping place of the item, which probably would have a facebook javascript library.

But there are ways to get information of you browse history:

with a facebook like button (other facebook library, or google analytics), which it is in almost all websites, you have the previous web.

There were bugs before in browsers that exposed the previous history (sorry I cannot find the link)

You could have an extension in your browser that analyzes the whole history.

You can also get information by opening an iframe and accessing other site cookies.

Doing history sniffing (although unlikely)
Not comparable to Google.

OVH is only a hosting company. Low margin business. They have no software side, they don't make billion of dollars, they don't run thousands of projects.
I only go back to sublime when i have to open really large files. Apart form that, couldn't be more happier with VS Code.
Yeah, I've started to eye Vice articles with more and more suspicion, and this is another example of why. There's a lot more playing out here than implied by the Vice story. The headline is especially egregious and inaccurate.
I'm not seeing where you got "you wouldn't want this crowd anywhere near your house" out of this comment chain. Please elaborate
How is this relevant to the topic at hand? I don't mean this in a "so you shouldn't post" sense, I simply feel that you ended your post too soon: if vice is biased, and an example of an old, biased article on a very different topic supports that, how does that then demonstrate bias in this article?
That has never happened in my experience, and I've been through a lot of layoffs. It's usually the exact opposite. They lay off all the peons and keep the few high level experts. They're a lot harder to replace.
You observation was already covered in the very first sentence:

> Patreon has a rather large problem for poorer people.
Liteicon for apps with ugly icons.
Reading the actual bill [0], this coverage seems slanted. The bill specifically allows rural electric and phone co-ops to offer broadband, and also says that they can provide it outside their service area as long as they get the permission of the municipal/co-op who does service that area.

Also, the grants are not specifically to Comcast/AT&T, or even just to private businesses. From the text of the bill, the grants have to be able to go to: "political subdivisions or entities of political subdivisions, corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, or other business entities that provide broadband services; cooperatives organized under the Rural Electric and Community Services Cooperative Act or the Telephone Cooperative Act, and any other entity authorized by state law to provide broadband services."

While I'm all for freeing EPB to do their thing wherever they can, this article seems to be slanting things more than a bit.

[0]-http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNu...
Other coverage:

Qualcomm [0]

CNBC [1]

Engadget [2]

The Verge [3]

CNET [4]

PR Newswire [5]

[0] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2017/04/12/arbitratio...

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/blackberry-awarded-815-millio...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/12/blackberry-wins-815-mill...

[3] http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15270006/qualcomm-blackber...

[4] https://www.cnet.com/au/news/blackberry-qualcomm-apple-award...

[5] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/arbitration-panel-aw...
It's not essentially rural, it's ingrained into the American psyche (along with the belief that what's good for the rich is good for me, because I'm gonna be rich!).
This was my understanding as well. with EPB they were responsible for the Cap Ex with Comcast the Cap Ex would be paid for by tax breaks(corporate welfare.)
> Wear goggles when grinding steel and even if you do, take care when washing your face afterwards.

Go one further: Goggles and a face shield, minimum. Why?

Have you ever had a right-angle grinder wheel explode? I have (it was actually a cut-off wheel). At the time I wasn't wearing even goggles, just my eye glasses. Amazingly, nothing hit me in the face, but I do remember hearing the part ricochet around my friend's shop (fortunately, I was the only one in it at the time).

Unfortunately, a piece hit my knuckle - extremely hard; I thought I had lost my finger, but amazingly not (oh, I wasn't wearing gloves, either).

I should've got stitches, but my friend took care of it; we washed it out, wrapped it up, then he gave me a percocet to take the edge off the pain. I remember at one point we looked at it after it had been a few hours, to see if I could still move it; I started to flex it, and had a small Monty Python flesh-wound moment (seriously, it made me laugh it was so cliche looking - though completely real); but I could move it. All's good today, still typing with it!

Basically me doing everything wrong (it really was all my fault, I shouldn't have been handling that equipment - I think I was also wearing shorts, a t-shirt and open-toe sandals at the time - a total DERP moment, but that's all it took), I knew better even then, but I was stupid that day. Faster than you can blink, bam, and there it was.

I take a lot more precautions now before I handle spinning cutting/grinding shit moving at 20k RPM (though I am still not a fan of my friend's open-guard 9 inch grinder - the thing will grind anything off anything, but holy hell is it dangerous to use - if that thing let loose, no amount of safety equipment will save you).

Oh - and if you are arc welding, don't wear a white shirt; reflection of the arc can bounce off inside your helmet, and still cause "welder's blindness" - which is basically a nice sunburn to the cornea; generally not a permanent thing, but hurts like hell for a long while.
Exactly. It looks like. You can't just blame authorities because they arrested him for investigation while the only thing you know is that it looks like he hasn't written them.
>I have learned to hate this term. Sometimes it means choice other times it means different solutions to the same problem.

Anyone framing these issues as fragmentation is using it as a buzzword. Fragmentation isn't a thing when you're comparing three things that provide meaningfully different pros and cons.

Fragmentation is an issue when it means having the same 6 solutions to the problem, all poorly implemented, compared to 3 good solutions.
An Illustrated History of iOS
Hubble just spotted something massive coming out of Uranus
Having a smartcard and having a single database are two completely orthogonal issues. In my country, we have the former without the latter - in fact, we still have different IDs for different services¹. The smartcard serves as a single authentication device, much like you can have a single SSH key for many servers.

¹ Using a single ID for each person is forbidden by our constitution, in the article regarding the usage of IT.
It would be interesting to do a study, for a busy site with a big enough sample size, counting ad clicks locally and then comparing with Google's reports. I imagine you could attach your own javascript events etc. to do your own comparative statistics, and see if Google is cheating.
It will be adopted in Russia. I have an acquaintance who's working on deep packet inspection for Rostelekom and he tells me it should be ready within the next 2 years.
Homeschooling is a purple trout. The one thing the rather small fraction of homeschoolers are certainly succeeding on is basic literacy. It's things like higher math and science literacy that would be an issue.

(People aren't taking their kids out of schools because they want them to stay uneducated...they are doing it because they disagree with what the school considers education. But they don't disagree about things like knowing the alphabet or how to read or whatever)

Anyway, my guess was that you were probably making forceful claims about anecdata and here we are.
I would say that's not very high on our backlog. That sounds like something that we'd need to implement directly in cmd.exe (the shell), not conhost.exe (the terminal) and changing cmd's behavior is VERY HARD to do without somehow breaking the world.
Yeah, all but one of your complaints would be solved by a door[1]. Are there actually programmers who prefer the open-office setting? It's not like I magically stop socializing if you put me in an office.

The only thing worse than open-office for me is a setting where my back is to a space that people are walking through. I can't even have my back to an open doorway in an office (assuming the hallway outside is somewhat busy), or I spend much of my time in a low-grade fight-or-flight situation.

If you put me in an open office where people are regularly walking by behind me, you are probably getting (at best) 60% of my productivity in an office with a door. Actually, in this job market, you are getting 0% of my productivity because I will work elsewhere.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door
Chances are low, the graphics library has problems to be cross platform.

The work on wpf was 'finished'. It's not abandoned, but there is no innovation in it anymore. They will keep supporting it, but are looking for a way to do it crossplatform, which isn't an option yet
> Many of those who would receive help are most concerned in making sure there's still someone else in a worse situation than themselves.

This is true and explains a lot of situations where people seemingly vote against their own self-interest. The fact that responders choose to reject in the Ultimatum Game[1] shows this in action.

But an even more fascinating example than the ultimatum game (sorry can't find the link) is research that shows subjects are willing to pay money to burn the money of others, just so the other test subject ends up with less. For example, offer to give test subject A $10, tell him that you're giving subject B $20, and then give subject A the option of giving up $2 of those $10 just to reduce the subject B's gift from $20 to $5. It was found that a percentage of people will be willing to accept that choice even though it's not the action of someone with rational economic self-interest.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
If ad-supported blogs are a viable alternative, then there were always be ad-supported blogs. If it isn't, well, some of them will probably go on with tip jars. But some won't.
I switched to Atom after years using sublime and I love it. Only wish they had syntax highlighting for Swift, something that I have yet to encounter in any text editor.

Edit: Looked around a bit and it's fairly simple to add it to Atom.
I've been working remote almost exclusively for 13 years now. It has its own benefits and problems but I really, really hate hearing it described as a "perk". We've had the technology for many jobs to be 100% remote for a very long time now, and I still see it treated by companies as a benefit like "summer hours" or casual Fridays or whatever.

It's pretty insulting, actually, to frame people like me as entitled slackers.
They are not saying "our elections are unhackable" they are saying "our already manufactured machines as available to register votes are unhackable". It could be true today. But now that they have thrown open the challenge who knows if future such machines will be or not. IIRC the machines are hardware with no installable software.
The issues you raise about chip and firmware vulnerabilities remain. And the Govt of India have painted a target on their backs for the foreseeable future and way beyond.
Finally, a place evil overlords can go to dress all their hench-people.
True, but searching by name it's one of the main features of Albert and it's certainly more convenient than using ST to search your computer.
The article is very optimistic about memory availability per cycle, reality is way worse.

As an example, on my Macbook Air 2011 with ~10 GB/s of maximum ram bandwidth, random access to memory can take 100 time more than a sequential one.

This in C, with full optimizations and using a very low overhead read loop.

Using the same metrics of the author:

best case: ~ 3 bytes per cycle

(around 6 Gigabyte per second of available bandwidth)

worst case: ~ 0.024 bytes per cycle
(every scheduler, prefetch, already open column mostly defied)

Note that worst case uses 10 seconds (!) to read and sum in a random way all the cells of an array of 100.000.000 of 4 byte integers, exactly once. Main loop is light enough not to influence the test.

That's about 40 megabytes per second out of 6.000 available.

What can I say.. CPU designers are truly wizards!
The code of conduct just applies to behavior inside the community. It has nothing to do with stuff happening outside of it.

The community would not tolerate discriminating behavior against members of the community or while doing work for the community. But what you do in your private life is non of it's business.

I hope you understand what I mean.
Given the choice between these options, which would you pick? Or, at what price points would you consider each to have equal value?

1. Train ride with half hour viewing time to observe the Cristo Redentor. No cameras allowed.

2. Train ride to the statue for a photo of you in front of it, but while the camera can see both you and the statue, you can't see it from your position.

3. Green screen photo of you artificially in front of the statue.

I think a lot of people would, if they thought about it, strongly prefer the first option and ascribe little value to the others. But because they do have cameras and there's an expectation that you take a picture as a tourist, they end up viewing their trip through their camera lens or smartphone screen.

I think it would be a compelling sell if the camera app on a smartphone could prompt users with an offer of a professional-quality photo or video (optionally with the user green-screened in) of a concert, sporting event, or landmark. "Studio X has a professional recording of this event from N angles with better equipment than yours. Add this video to your library instead?"

The killer use for this might be to record/sync school concerts, plays, and sports. So many parents with mediocre cameras all trying to capture the event, and no good way right now to share the output.
Not that it answers your question directly, but this might be the best shot at finding out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4892602/how-does-the-gith...
As I wrote in my comment:

>I believe this is especially true for aspects outside of writing code. This probably isn't true at every company, but from where I've worked, a big part of being a senior engineer is understanding how to tie in business goals to development. That's not really easy to learn in a tutorial online or by contributing to open source.

I went through four years of computer science education, had multiple jobs/internships in college, and even took over 10 MOOCs across Udacity, edX, and Coursera. None of those things prepared me to be the developer I am today (I won't deny that they helped, though). They certainly put me in a great position upon graduating college and got me a great job, but nothing increased my skills more than simply working with more experienced developers in a full-time role.
Welcoming New Colleagues – A Data-Based Story
pledge is not similar to jails in any way, jails are "chroot on steroids" (isolate network, PIDs, users, etc.)

pledge is more similar to Capsicum. It is simpler to implement in some programs, sure, but:

1) I don't like how pledge just kills the program. Rude. Capsicum refuses the offending operation.

2) Capsicum has an absolutely brilliant feature for directory access — you just open() a file descriptor to a directory, then you cap_enter()… and in the sandbox mode you can use openat() to open files below that directory! This is just so clever. Meanwhile pledge promised a simple directory whitelist option that is STILL NOT IMPLEMENTED :(

CloudABI is a portable ABI that can be described as POSIX plus Capsicum minus anything incompatible with Capsicum. So CloudABI programs start already in capability mode, expecting necessary file descriptors to be already open (there's a launcher tool for that). You can just run CloudABI binaries unmodified on several operating systems and they are always sandboxed, they have no way to access anything you didn't pass to them. CloudABI is out-of-the-box supported on FreeBSD, there are kernel patches for NetBSD and Linux, and a user-mode syscall translator for macOS. https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/
Well, my hypochondria just kicked in. Taking my contacts out and working in glasses this afternoon since I ran out of my hydrogen peroxide solution last night and used regular no-rub solution in an old case (which I rinsed with solution before hand).

The CDC puts the rate of AK infection at 1-33 per million contact lens wearers, in case that makes anyone feel better. Still, it's something people should be aware exists.
Some banks have a e-card option for internet payment.

The most extreme can give you a unique card number with an expiry date of your choosing, whenever you need one. That does wonder against shady practices.
The Swiss Watch Industry Should Double Down on Mechanical Watches
Introducing slim-redux-react, a more concise way of building redux-react apps
For those who are unaware in some recent state level elections in India some political parties were roundly defeated. So as part of introspection about campaign and policies they decided to blame it on voting machines.

I am not sure that voting machines are unhackable but when today's losing parties were winning in past years they seemed pretty sure that win was all due to overwhelming public support and not some rigged machines.
Oh man, I had the same question because I got PRK and I didn't know whether or not my cornea is fully healed.

Since the pain stopped, that's that.

And everyone's stories are the same stuff as I felt PRK post-op.
Story from 2003: 39% of Americans believe they either are or will one day be among the top 1% of earners [1].

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
Microsoft Bets on Artificial Intelligence to Help It Succeed Again in Travel
I never said "don't know, don't care" - though I certainly don't care, even if I do know. I was only attacking the idea that it's a bunch of nebulous "SJWs" kicking Larry out of the community, and pointing out that this is a nonsensical idea from the very start. There is no better way to do that given that many people believe SJWs are literally the devil than to say "we do literally this, why the fuck would we attack someone for it?"
> files that just close for no reason

I never experienced this, which type of files ?