skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you handle/deal with stress?
I am currently in graduate school working on my Masters in Computer Science. There are times when i get really stressed/overwhelmed with academic work.

I wanted to gauge, what techniques/methods do people in this community use to manage stress?
Security is sadly an afterthought because good security is expensive and the penalties or repercussions for being breached are generally inconsequential.
Here's the comment for anyone who's curious, posted by "Adam" on "04.29.2017 @1:19 PM" (I'm guessing EDT):

> Science journalism is basically dead as a thing. Many of the top publications pay late or not at all. The rates for freelancers is consistently low and the expectations are high and getting higher. Other than a very small number of high performers, this is not a job and the best that most can expect is to be scraping by as a freelancer. Understandably, many simply stop doing it.
How come there is no competitor and alternate solution to PayPal ?
Well, as a founder who has had some success hiring and retaining diverse teams, it was easily worth the effort.

BTW, why'd you choose use the word "demands" to describe this list? That's not the word I'd use.
Show HN: Human Routing Protocol
Furious agreement that locks aren't a great analogy. I'd hazard that for most organisations locks are actually to remove temptation from employees; and the quality of the lock is largely irrelevant.

A lock is only as good at stopping someone entering as the windows and doors are resistant to being removed. The advantages to locking something are:
* There is evidence that the door was forced after the event
* Very clear signaling of who is and isn't supposed to have access to a room.

Unless serious money is spent, I would expect that locks are delaying access by a matter of maybe up to hours. If IT security were that poor, the world would look different. A better analogy would be spending the money on security guards.
Although her TED talk is linked, there is no mention of Jennifer8. Lee's book, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles." The point of the book is that American-Chinese food and Chinese food in China are different. (The book was published the same year as her talk, 2008; which is six years before this article originally appeared.)
Is QNX available for download and install?
> there is no signal of recognition that diversity matter.

It's a company though, I don't see how diversity is important. The goal is to make money and they should hire the best people that apply, unrelated to the color of their skin.

I work for a company which is very diverse and I like it, I just don't see how it matters as a company goal (assuming that having "only white men" works for them currently).
1. Investor
2. Real estate property manager
3. Software Consultant
4. Startup founder
5. Traveller of the world.

All on leas than 42k a year. Next
Where are you located (approximately ofc.)?
The Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building (just got finished), has the fastest elevator in the world. The Burj Khalifa, while it's the highest skyscrapper, the top spire contains nothing, the visitor platform in the Shanghai Tower is located higher elevation. The Shanghai Tower visitor platform is at floor 118 (546m), a restaurant is at floor 119.

Trying out the fastest elevator, I am spoiled, now every other elevator feels so damn slow. It feels like taking off in an airplane, it also has similar slight effects on your ears.
Anecdotally, I built a small project (lambda fn) with just a single dependency (`request`) - the mac/alpine node6 build was 37MB.
> I did not go to the #fyrefestival. I'm shocked the majority of people didn't catch on to the fact that we were trolling.

https://twitter.com/storeyfrizzell/status/858562982627786752
You might find the result less surprising after you solve a riddle by Martin Gardner:

> A young man lives in Manhattan near a subway express station. He has two girlfriends, one in Brooklyn, one in the Bronx. To visit the girl in Brooklyn, he takes a train on the downtown side of the platform; to visit the girl in the Bronx, he takes a train on the uptown side of the same platform. Since he likes both girls equally well, he simply takes the first train that comes along. In this way, he lets chance determine whether he rides to the Bronx or to Brooklyn. The young man reaches the subway platform at a random moment each Saturday afternoon. Brooklyn and Bronx trains arrive at the station equally often—every 10 minutes. Yet for some obscure reason he finds himself spending most of his time with the girl in Brooklyn: in fact on the average he goes there 9 times out of 10. Can you think of a good reason why the odds so heavily favor Brooklyn?

The idea shows up again in the Elevator paradox, which has a delightful article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_paradox
Yet they aren't the ones putting money on Hotspot, Graal, G1, AOT compilation, SubstrateVM, JNI replacement, ....

The only core VM technology has been Shenandoah GC (which isn't production ready yet)and the Zero Assembly port.

Most of the Red Hat money goes on Java frameworks like JBoss or RichFaces (now dead).
Yes. In fact there are very little blogs and advices for the interviewers.
>You have a bizarre picture of the past if you think that people were forced to fraternise.

I wouldn't necessarily characterize what I was discussing as fraternization, but no, I don't think that's bizarre at all when compared against today's culture of sitting indoors looking at a screen bare minimum of 8 hours per day.

>Similarly, the advent of the internet doesn't mean that people no longer interact physically.

Obviously, this is not absolute. But it is seriously limited. If you wanted to have an active discussion of policy issues, what were your options pre-internet? Three-way calling (I think this came out in the 90s anyway)? You could write letters and stuff but that's quite the lag time. Serious discussion that kept human attention spans engaged had to happen in person.

>You say it's easier to remain close-minded, yet we are in a prosperous time with greater freedom across the board for all.

First, are these necessarily mutually exclusive? Second, isn't this discussion specifically about how our freedoms are jeopardized by the closed-mindedness that arises from cultural disregard for the social principle and value of free speech?

>Try being a minority fifty years ago, and see if you still think that people were more open-minded back then.

I'm not saying that people were more open-minded in an absolute sense, though I think it's easy to say that the mainstream political discourse was more civil. I'm saying that the way technology and telecommunication has changed our interaction is causing us to lose regard for the principles of free speech and open dialogue.

You seem to be reading this from a very narrow perspective that's not ultimately relevant to the discussion at hand.
OFFICIALLY NASA AND ESA TO LAND ON EUROPA TO LOOK FOR ALIEN LIFE
I think this video helps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU

As you can see this is some iterations away from being optimal but it is certainly getting there.

Primates eyes co-evolved with fruit evolving the colour-coded 'I am ready to eat' system they have to let us know when things are ripe. Imagine if the fruit picking machine gets to be reasonably aware of what fruits are ripe in the orchard at a given moment in time and is able to optimally pick fruit for a given customer, e.g. a sandwich bar chain may want ready to eat fruit whereas the supermarket may want something that ripens at home. A reasonable AI system could be trained to do a better job of reading the 'ripe' signals of fruit and even 'know' that given fruit since it was just a bud on a flower. Waste could be cut to a minimum if the system was aware of apples ready to go bad or drop to the floor.

As well as picking there is also the matter of grading the crop, getting it clean and so on. There is no reason why this machine can't do all of that at source, so the apple gets washed, blown spotlessly dry with a Dyson style dryer and then instantly sorted/graded and packed into some 100% nitrogen packet of some sort, sent to the distribution centre and on the shelves for lunch the next day.

Hopefully our new robotic overlords in the fields will work from above. Instead of heavy tractors, plant and people on the ground you could have some lighter weight equipment strung out from above, a mesh of wires held up by some massive wind turbine towers, to which the fruit picking machines might traverse.

McCain Chips are made with robots on the production line that pick out any defects, again, our fruit picking machines could do this and grade any cleaned produce as catering grade, nonetheless prepared clean and packed in nitrogen to prevent any further degradation. A whole new world of better product and time to market might be possible by handing over the fruit picking bit to the robots. Apples could even be picked when they got to a 'perfect size/weight' and not just graded that way, trees could be picked in such a way that all the fruit attains this 'ideal' which is optimal given inputs.

Such a system would work 24/7 in all seasons, tending the crop one way or another on a large estate, with some of its robotic arms going places at all times. You would need a team of maintenance and other support roles to keep things operational, all requiring a different skill set to the pickers of today. Their wages would be higher and spent in the local community rather than sent out of the country.

Orchards need not be so regimented for machines in this brave new world, orchards could have a mix of trees of all shapes and sizes, with different land use below, open to people and a proper 'forest floor' for small furry animals. Fruit in such areas could be expected to be part eaten by bugs but our robot overlords could also be experts at picking the bugs out to produce perfectly good fruit for pies and juices.

Rejecting our soon-to-be robot fruit picking machines is like rejecting the horse drawn plough as it might put the humans that pull ploughs out of business.
Problem is it's sometimes more annoying than helpful, e.g. having to copy files into the ~/.mozilla directory in order to be able to upload them to Dropbox via Firefox, or attach to an email.
I'm not sure who you're talking to, or what kind of sites you are talking about; but I think my site is pretty fast loading: https://learntemail.sam.today/

One "trick" that I've found helps to add place-holder gradients for images. So if you have a background image, add a linear-gradient or something as well. That means that there isn't such a jarring transition between the gradient and the image.

But really - keep the JS to the minimum and you'll be good. Also try and avoid using a large CSS "framework" - as that can easily add more bloat. If you start from scratch and only add what you need - keeping it very lean.
Does that help explain the changes in income distribution over time though?
Thanks for posting this story, I loved reading Nautilus articles. Today I've decided to do something about supporting them - I have purchased their Prime Membership.

I wish more of us can do the same.
OP & I were referring to companies paying (service) providers in Bitcoin; so if I deliver a content management system or 50000 routers to Walmart, can they pay me in Bitcoin?
Essence of calculus, chapter 1 [video]
> The skills of a con artist are not related to the ability to build good systems.

I think it is very very rude of you to call it a skill of "con artist". I have seen teams with average individuals achieving lot more than several very intelligent people simply because together they worked lot more better. Any company who ignored the communication and personal skills of their engineers is bound to fail.
Yes, and random loss in value which is just as bad as theft
I am currently co-developing a tech project with a woman. We have extremely disparate communication styles and we struggle at times. But because we both share common values, such as putting the customer's and team's interests over our own, it provides a foundation for mutual respect. We also both agreed to continuous improvement of our technical and communication abilities and now trust each other when providing constructive criticism.

It is absurd that it took decades before I had an opportunity to work this closely with a woman. I am now a better communicator, a better leader, happier, calmer, and a better follower. We need more women in tech.

I am rooting for this author and women in general, but you don't fight dysfunction with dysfunction. It's as if author wishes to replace "bro" culture with "me" culture. And beliefs like, "I don't care about your culture" can outright destroy a company. Perhaps I am taking that last statement it out of context. But I wouldn't hire Alan Turing if he said something like that and meant it literally.

Like it or not, culture is a top-down phenomena. Assuming the culture isn't totally broken, first learn it, then master it, then earn respect, then rise, then change it. There are no short cuts to influence regardless of gender.
You one of those baby boomers, aren't you?

XD
I still wonder how much Placebo played in that last win after cancer, and they were watching him like a hawk?

I just remember Dr. Ferrari claiming Placebo Effect. Something I doubt Lance knew anything about.

We will never know. I wish Lance didn't go after people in court. I still think he's a pretty remarkable athlete.
The other way around: smaller countries are more likely to produce data points that look like outliers.
My way is simpler and more broad: "Do you trust Comcast/Frontier is on your side? Why give them more power?"

Phrasing it as no more than "the latest trick from ATT to screw you over" has huge resonance with people I've talked to. They don't care what it's about generally.
Chicken chilli, chicken schezwan, chicken manchurian, chow mein, chop suey and what not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine#Dishes
You can take your pick. I am not constraining anybody :)
OMG, I just finished working through an example of this with my student, like literally minutes ago, and look what Hacker News brings me ...
Prison is where young people get radicalized.
> everyone ... is in one way or another annoying to someone else

One popular way to fix this is to allow or encourage users to cocoon themselves in intellectual bubbles. This solves the annoyance problem but discourages the discovery of new ideas, stunting the development of the individual, and thereby the utility of the forum.
Indeed, but then this is somewhat to be expected when the peer review process itself doesn't have much in the way of incentives for the reviewers. Journals ask reviewers to voluntarily put their own work on hold for a potentially non-trivial period of time to grok a non-stop fire hose of papers, just so their and the original authors' efforts end up buried under a mountain of other research behind some absurdly expensive paywall later. And if you regularly slip up on deadlines or opt not to play along with these requests for some reason or another, good luck maintaining good relations with that journal in the future for your own papers.

Morals and civic duty aside, it's hard to blame reviewers for skimming or 'phoning it in' under such conditions. With all these subtle politics and screwy incentive structures, I'm unfortunately not surprised at all that science is having a replication crisis.
There is a lift in Italy that goes horizontally and then vertically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A739p5HkRZ8
Skirting rules means exactly that - skirting rules. You are not supposed to sell things at a price higher than what is marked as the MRP - yet that is the norm with soft drinks of any kind. Taxis have a meter attached to them and they have to use it to calculate fares but the drivers here don't even bother to switch the meters on. The police is also apathetic.

This isn't capitalism I am talking about.
As an international student in Germany, you get an automatic work visa for so called student jobs, up to 19,5 hours a week, no limits on wage earned, no extra social security costs. Income tax starts at 8000 a year. As a student, you can get around with 500/mo in Germany, 750 may be the comfortable lower bound
@Animat gets it right - they slipped away from being accessible to developers and being a 'weapon in the toolchest' for tasks where a normal operating system would not cut it, even things like SGI IRIX that was tied into realtime things such as framerates. There was a time when you used QNX as tool of choice when you had a time critical task and a few 'perl scripts' to do the job. The I/O was easy to do and much like how you can put something together with a Raspberry Pi today with minimal domain expertise, back in the day you could with a QNX box. As noted, this is now just not so accessible.
> French food is great ... except in France it's very different (and outside of the center of Paris sucks pretty bad)

Others said it already you but you must be trolling; there is such incredible food to eat outside of Paris that we never get to Paris anymore. If you are not trolling you must've had really bad luck as in many places in France but outside Paris you'll trip over lovely food.

For the cuisine I cannot say (but I know it's a popular opinion to love it) I find Hong Kong very impressive; I went to all Michelin stars there (they change rapidly over the years and lose stars as easily as they get them) and it's just ok food. I find far better food in Shanghai and for some dishes (mushroom auntie dumplings) I would even say that I had better luck in Suzhou. Hong Kong seems to have far too many tourists/immigrants to sustain any authentic flavours (anecdote: we had lunch a few days ago and someone from the UK was barking at the waiter that his food was too spicy). There are some good Indian/Nepalese places in HKG but often you have to tell you are used to Indian food, otherwise you get the bland version (and that does not only mean not spicy as in chilis which is a matter of taste, but other spices are left out as well).

Ofcourse everything is a matter of taste when it comes to food, so not arguing, just hoping people will try more stuff open minded.
Can we shorten this to if you have a paypal account close it? Who wants to send money to a company that may or may not actually let you access your own money?
This is mildly surprising, because if your company wants to work in post production you need to pass a quarterly marvel/MPAA audit.

Amongst the things specified are:
o air gapped network

o All internet through a RDP/VDI service (no copy and paste..)

o all devices to be physically locked away

o all mass storage drivers to be removed

o Physical segmentation of all workspaces

o many other things

http://www.mpaa.org/content-security-program/

The other thing to note is that this is an audio facility, which is usually the last, or second to last point before release. It also by default has the whole film/show in one place, which outside of finishing and distribution is quite rare.
There is no way I would pay anywhere close to 120$ per year for a digital magazine. The magazine is a beautifully printed with amazing illustrations on premium paper. Looking at them on a tiny screen would suck.
The author Mark0 writes: "each SBX file can contain only 1 file and there are no error correcting informations (at least at the moment) ... But it's possible to create an SBX file out of a RAR archive with recovery records, for example."

IMHO that would be the win-win combination for data recovery. How common is the failure scenario? Common enough that there are people who make a living piecing lost files back together. See http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/File_Carving

More discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/duplicates/66hgnt/i_ma...
I have a hard time believing anybody starts from absolute zero in these scenarios, but here's an example from a self-proclaimed introvert:

- Pair up with random guy at a school hackathon because we're both without a project (+1). Meet a friend of his (+1).

- Meet him months later for birthday drinks. Introduced to his friend, we end up starting a band with 3 of his friends. (+4)

- Meet countless people through the music scene (+?)

- Go to another hackathon together with first guy, join another pair (+2), win, catch a recruiter's (+1) attention and get an internship.

- Meet countless people over the summer during the internship (+?)

- [...]

That's the very short version. Most of my network can be traced back to like, 4 people that started as strangers. There were a lot of dead-ends initially, sure. But it really does just take one person to build or reshape your entire social circle, change your career, etc. The first set is the hardest imo, but there's no excuse* for not going out and trying to find it.

*excepting, of course, any affliction which might make social interaction difficult. "i'd rather stay home" is not an afflication
If you’re a talented artist, you probably spend your time actually making art rather than discussing technique online. Top amateur athletes are too busy actually training and playing to spend five hours a day on a forum for their hobby.

Is this always true?

I mean, of course it's true at the extremes; if someone literally spends _all_ their waking hours posting on forums about X, they're probably not getting very much X done.

But discussion and polemic is more complementary to some occupations and disciplines than others, one must acknowledge—as this article seemingly doesn't. Publishing academics spend a lot of time on rigourous and structured rebuttals of each other's theories, a kind of highly professional and esoteric Reddit with long bibliographies. They probably partake of some informal channels to soft-trial some of their positions and hone some of the thorny bits before pushing to production, so to speak. They might spend a lot of time on that.

Attorneys learn how to write more eloquent and persuasive pleadings and briefs by way of practice. A lot of practice. Surely some of them chisel the background knowledge and social skills required to operate in their world online. If that's a serious learning tool, you're probably using it more than 15 minutes/day. You might even have a senior badge on some PHPBB legal board.

A lot of skills can be learned or improved on the Internet by reading and participating in sometimes contentious discussions about them. The strong religion in motorcycle repair and boating forums isn't all puffery and neurotic wheel-spinning; a lot of the commentators are quite well-informed about the range of available componentry and DIY techniques, even if they sometimes bite each other's heads off in arguments about the One True Way to overhaul a marine toilet or which ape hangers are the best.

The hours developers spend arguing about React vs. Angular on HN aren't necessarily wasted; some of the discussions are rich, vibrant and informative, and make both the writers and the readers better developers or technical managers.

I myself learned a great deal about history and politics in high school by arguing heatedly with informed people online. If I were an aspiring politician or writer, expository writing in support of a particular ideological conviction would have legitimate value and relevance as a skill set, and this kind of exercise helps to hone it.

It takes a certain kind of personality to devote a lot of energy to online discussions. Some people don't like to think and argue about methodology or meta- issues, or otherwise engage their analytical faculties very much when socialising. They just do. Good for them. However, this is a difference of style rather than substance. Everyone has to have "continuing education" of some description to remain fluent in their field. And yes, of course there's a limit beyond which pure theory and no practice lies for simple reasons of time and economics, but it just depends.

So, I don't disagree with the fundamental premise, but as is so often the case, this article paints the online world with a broad brush.