skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Probably" and "I think any court would be friendly" do not cut it, not even close, when your life could end up in ruins.
GraphQL Server – Nested Query Implemenation Example in Ruby on Rails
Wake up at 6, code until 9, walk until 10, work at cafe until 13, break until 18, code until 1.
"Non-strict, not lazy"
The minch, the mound, and the light-gigaminch (2013)
Profession: Software Engineer (medical software)

start:

[07:50] First alarm

[08:10] Out of bed and getting ready

[09:05] 10 minute trip to campus + 5 min walk to office

[09:20] Catch up with Slack, Email

[09:50 - 12:30] Work with regular interruptions

[12:30 - 12:45] Eat a quick lunch

[12:45 - 17:30] Coding, or meetings with some interruptions again.

[17:30] Head home, cook, have dinner with my wife and talk with her, do dishes.. (or, go swim 2x a week and short dinner)

[19:30] Play around with some other projects

[21:30] Play a boardgame with my wife, talk, watch something

[00:00] Read a bit and sleep.

GOTO start;
Comcast tops out at 60Mbps where I live, which is basically Beverly Hills, a pretty wealthy area. Oh, the upload speed is a comcastic 5Mbps. It's $80, it's regularly throttled, and it has data caps (although I've gone over and not been charged.) If I had a 4K tv, I'd most likely be over.

This is a perfect example of how they stifle innovation by being another impediment/middle man in the move to 4K TV.

Previously, I lived in a ramshackle studio apartment in Venice that had Fios where I paid $50 for symmetrical 200Mbps.

I don't want or need my ISP to be innovative. I want a dumb, no BS pipe that offers a decent price without bundling, since I don't need tv or a phone
Before I heard about rails (pre 1.0) I had been doing some stuff in PHP that was quite similar to Rails simply as my preferred convention. So when I saw Rails the thing I was most impressed by was Ruby, a very nice (aesthetically) language.

It took me longer to realize that I would prefer not to use ActiveSupport or to allow any of the monkey patching and metaprogramming-because-i-can that became en vogue in the Rails community for a while.

I think that if DHH had known about REST sooner, Rails controller layer would have been identical to Sinatra.

The convention for building controller classes in Rails involves several more layers of indirection than Sinatra... the routes.rb file becomes a lookup table for classes whose names all fit a pattern that the programmer should not have to be aware of. The flexibility of the router is still nothing beyond what Sinatra accomplishes with its matching DSL.
To that end, I'm curious how the internet works in countries without net neutrality protections: https://www.thisisnetneutrality.org/

I know in china there are a handful of telecom companies with absolutely terrible peering between each other, so that companies have to buy CDN services which have points of presence in all the carriers. But that may or may not be an effect of their lack of net neutrality policy, since there's so much else going on there.
Offline.

Seriously. It slows you done, which gives you time to focus on how you're feeling while you're writing. Plus, it's a nice break from screens...
Varies wildly. It's like trying to measure a driver's performance in degrees-of-steering-wheel-turned-per-hour.
Experienced Developers / Sys Admins making $41K per year
I work for a rural American wireless telecommunications company. Our service area covers half of the state. The company employs a little over 200 people. The IT department is small, but has a few System Admins who also are responsible for VMWare, ~200 Linux Servers, Windows and Exchange. As well as tasked with all internal development. This includes custom intranet tools, command line scripts, public websites, telco integrations ( SMSC integrations, Apple API integrations ), web applications for the customers, etc. We work with lots of technologies, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, multiple API's, PHP, Python, JS.

All of us make around $40k per year regardless if we have been here for 1 year or 15 years. Considering the amount of responsibility and the type of work involved, is this level of compensation standard ? Does anyone have similar experiences ?
While the case may be resolved favorably in the court of law, the defendant will still be pilloried in the court of public opinion. There's also the issue of having their assets seized, with all the financial costs associated with that.
Profession: SysAd- Full time remotr at company of ~800 employees

[7 AM] - Baby wakes up. Wife gets her and begins process of waking me up. Brings me some pre-workout.
[7:45 AM] - The combination of unreasonable amounts of caffeine and my wife constantly prodding me finally gets me out of bed. Shower.
[8 AM] - Head to the gym.
[8:15 AM- 10:15 AM] - Work out. I'm already late.
[10:30 AM] - Log in to Lync/Slack. I'm a half hour late, but nobody notices or cares.
[11 AM - 2 PM] - Messages start rolling in. The QA environment is borked. Prod is screwy - better have an hour long meeting to discuss the ten minute fix. Someone wants to use me to unlock their account. Random questions.
[2 PM] - Realize I've done a lot of bullshit but have accomplished nothing. Attempt to scrape up enough concentration to make a dent in one of my projects.
[2:15 PM - 6PM] - Get side tracked and spend the rest of the day on unplanned work.
[6 PM - ??? AM] - Relieve my tired wife of her motherly duties for a while. Catch up on TV. Do some programming. Play Zelda.
Leave the internet free. I support net neutrality!
"Just Add a Blockchain." The universal solution.
Fair enough!

From your pov hopefully much lower than I think it should be. B^>

Rgds

Damon
Reading historical advice, I find I must continually remind myself that it isn't descriptive. All these things happened with some regularly or they wouldn't have needed the advice!
2nd year Surgical resident, part of my education to be an orthopedic surgeon. Currently working in a town 100km away.

05:45 wake up, quick breakfast and cycle to the train station
06:20 train. Grab the laptop, prepare for procedures or work on research
07:45 handover or
08:00 start of first procedure. Do timeout, grab a coffee while the anesthesist does his job
12:00 when lucky time for lunch behind the PC, administration
16:30 usually last procedure, handoff when on wards or clinic duty
17:00 see patients of the day, check for question from the new shift of nurses
18:00 train home. Do some coding for a company my friends and me run
19:15-19:30 home

Excerise, work on scientific papers or meet with the team at the office. Work on some points in the job queue. Sleep at 23:00.

Just a few more months and I'll change to a job closer by
Not security either, did not realize how much I can relate to 10:45 and 13:00.
> Without net neutrality, Facebook can simply pay your cellular internet provider to block all messaging apps but WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger (does that still exist?). Then their (as you put it) 95% monopoly can permanently increase to 100%.

It makes much more sense for FB to pay ISPs to make access to WhatsApp and Messenger free. That way the ISP doesn't have to deal with the angry backlash.
This is pure socket programming and contains very simple encrypt method. I wrote this for socket programming example about four years ago.
Peter Norvig on “As We May Program”
Truck won't start
My truck needs a jump can you please help me?? Thank you!
This is the ploy that Yahoo used to shrink their workforce. It was my first thought that IBM is doing the same thing.
There is a clear and very simple harm in:

This thing can operate in various fashions. Unmodified it works like this, modified it works in another way. Leave it as is and there's the option for both at any point. Make the decision now and one of the options is forever gone.
> Do you want government enforcing your personal security (also known as policing)?

As a rule, no.

> Would it not be better if guys who are richer and can afford more bullies, intimidate you and ask for money while you are trying to walk by their house/business etc?

Definitely. Rich people are both busy and fewer. Right now I have people who are poor (and not busy) intimidate me and asking me for money. Why is this better?
Yeah, I do have two apps in the Play store and I love tinkering with Python... I have a dream that when I retire from the fire service, I will develop software for money or no money. It's a long shot... but I try to stay abreast.
Preserve net neutrality! This time do what the masses want not the select few!
Like many "hackathons" and "competitions", this event will gather useful creative work from a large pool of participants. Only a handful of "winners" will actually get paid for their effort, and not very well either, given the challenging and highly technical nature of the project.

In creative professions, unpaid work like this is often called "spec work". Employing or encouraging spec work is an unethical business practice: http://www.nospec.com
This is correct. Maybe we can say "unreadable" not encrypted :)
Also: http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...

The above comic strip absolutely perfectly shows what's it about for me. Though I agree there is stuff better done with others (brainstorming, or discussing hard problems where you're stuck; also variants of rubber-duck debugging/designing; I'd say it boosts "breadth" and "lateral thinking"). But for many people there is most certainly also stuff better done alone ("depth" I suppose? often things like analysing interactions between subsystems; or building an algorithm; or reading docs or a paper; researching existing apps/solutions/libs in order to "spreadsheet" their pros & cons; also analysing/designing thread interactions; or debugging, building internal knowledge of a problem - which is also a required step before rubber-ducking, or generally discussing it, is even possible; also arguably maybe reviewing someone else's code).
Because legislating every conceivable fear and every instance of mass panic will lead to an overly complex and overly burdensome legal system that hampers legitimate activity.

In the words of Cicero, "more laws, less justice"

When we start having problems with net neutrality, we can legislate against it. As we don't have any such issues, and there is no evidence that we are in imminent threat of net neutrality being dismantled, I see no reason for net neutrality legislation.
I simply won't be carrying my passwords with me, and I don't have them memorised.

I would use fresh accounts while travelling and not update social media.

I would apply the same rules to China, but nowhere else that I can think of right now. Maybe Russia.
They call it the trump handle
FBI paid $900,000 to unlock San Bernardino iPhone
I've read a bit about how taking cold showers can supposedly stimulate immune function.

I wonder if there is any connection with the "shock" of jumping into a cold shower and the electro shock therapy detailed in the article.
New Ansible os-, ssh- and mysql-hardening releases
You didn't say "IPFS", which made me realize that your post is largely repeating the same points in favor of censorship on Usenet.

This is only increasing my confidence that networks which are aware of their underlying contents are inherently unable to effectively counter censorship, because individual nodes can always be pressured to drop content, and the Pareto principle guarantees that this censorship will be effective as long as the pressure is put on the most popular nodes.

I hear and am sympathetic to your point of view. Google takes a similar stance with email, Gmail, and spammers; consider, "Yes, Google censors when we don't relay someone's spam and serve it off our servers. At the same time, we're not preventing any other mail relays from forwarding that mail." (I'm not speaking for Google, merely making a rhetorical argument.) This is widely considered a good thing.

I am merely disappointed that IPFS, which has a lot of backing and is growing in popularity, may become both the dominant content-addressable distributed object system, and also remain lacking in terms of anonymity and availability.

(Also, while I am no fan of Freenet, you are equivocating censorship with cache expiration. One is done by people and one is done by an content-oblivious algorithm. Tahoe-LAFS's garbage collection works in the same way and is also not censorship.)
If you have a community that regularly posts images of drawn child porn, as the community grow and time passes, the probability of someone posting actual child porn approaches 1
Free trade has 3 kinds of benefits:
#1 All consumers benefit
#2 Vast majority of workers in the poorer country
#3 Some number of workers in the richer country

Basically, for every unemployed worker in the USA, there's a Chinese worker who benefited. In addition there are new jobs in the USA (such as in entertainment or banking or information technology).

For this reason, both countries benefit in aggregate but if outcompeted workers fail to adjust to a different job, specific workers can suffer (like Mexican farmers suffered from NAFTA).

Economists favor free trade, but they also favor redistribution of some of the gains of trade to the losers (this redistribution hasn't been done historically).

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/china-us-trade

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/04/does_trade_with....
Our stones specifically say not to use them with the broiler.

Which one do you use?
folks, lets be honest here. There is no right answer to this question. It depends on too many variables.

react, vue, ng2, whatever they choose will work and will be mostly the same. We argue about trivia and do flamewars but all those solutions are more similar than different.
I think there's a key difference between building your architecture with plenty of headroom to scale (leaving plenty of low-hanging fruit), and actually implementing high-scale function before it's required.

In a cloud environment, it's quite easy to be comfortable that you _could_ scale out to 10-100x of your current capacity, if you have to. But it's probably not worth proving that fact until you have some customers.

Or put another way, being in a very flexible environment makes it even more of a no-brainer to delay building for scale, since you have so many free or nearly-free options there.

Now of course, if you really do hit scale you'll have the fun problem of needing to optimize your spend, but you can probably delay thinking about that until well after you've proven product-market fit.
It's not a good trade if more people are struggling to get by, and can barely afford those cheap goods. It's not good for others either, since those cheap goods have (more often than not) poorer quality.
Google's only non-technical reputation in the search engine department is reputation. Should google fall, Bing would easily be replace google.

The biggest challenge in replacing google would be getting the advertisers. Especially because at the start, your low userbase makes targeted adds much harder to pull off.
As U.S. Life Expectancies Climb, People in a Few Places Are Dying Younger
http://www.filfre.net/2013/07/the-quill/
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West
They were commissioned by a European NGO, the international council on clean transportation (ICTT)[1]. The ICTT wanted to include diesel cars from the US market where regulation are stricter with intent to show that it was actually possible to have lower emission from diesel cars.

As stated at the beginning of their report[2]:

The Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions
(CAFEE) at West Virginia University (WVU) was contracted
by the International Council on Clean Transportation
(ICCT) to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty
diesel vehicles, using a portable emissions measurement
system (PEMS), over a variety of pre-defined test routes
exhibiting diverse driving conditions pertinent to major
United States population centers located in the state of
California.

You can also have a look at the ICTT report[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Council_on_Clean...

[2]: http://www.eenews.net/assets/2015/09/21/document_cw_02.pdf

[3]: http://www.theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT...
I do generally remain in support of net neutrality, but your point about the big tech monopolies supporting it is still worth discussing.

If ISPs could charge web sites for fast lane treatment and such, Google, Netflix etc. would have the largest bills to pay.

They'll argue it as a moral point to drum up grassroots support, but in reality its just a business item for them. If the roles were reversed they'd push for the policy that let them charge other companies more.
That's a voting mechanism. How do nodes decide which version to vote for?
Doctor's offices don't bill in minute amounts, they bill for a visit (with variance for complexity). Even a low-complexity visit costs $100+ here in upstate NY.

While there are certainly plenty of cheap ones, there are antibiotics that cost $1k for an oral course like Zyvox.
Viewing 3D Volumetric Data with Matplotlib
How did you start the process of switching and becoming a travel writer? The idea of such a big leap seems impossible to me.
You can use the http version until I get some time to setup letsencrypt (feel free to disable javascript/css/etc).

I've used macaroons in several settings and highly recommend them. The only thing really missing for "wider" adoption is something like a standard caveat language, the lack of which keeps macaroon use pretty localized to your specific deployment.
Let me preface this by saying that I don't in principle agree with poor labor laws or polluting the environment, in fact very much the opposite. I only think that the West cannot claim a high moral ground against China, or any other developing country when it has itself been guilty of the very same practices in the not too distant past. That is by definition, hypocrisy.

> It's also worth mentioning with respect to the environment that they didn't know any better. Now we do.

Yes, so what do you propose? That China not build power plants to provide a higher standard of living to the masses of Chinese people who desire to benefit from it? Let's remember that currently China is a signatory to the Paris Climate Accord and its Trump who is threatening to withdraw. Lets please stop treating China as the enemy of the environment when its still the West that's responsible for most Greenhouse emissions.

> And with respect to treating workers terribly, there was no concept of treating workers well, for the most part. You can't really apply our standards today on people of the past. It's not hypocrisy. It's enlightenment.

I mean, come on... people thought that sending kids to work in Coal mines was OK in pre-industrial England? Really? London at one point was a huge slum with regular outbreaks of Cholera. It wasn't like nobody knew that was bad...people just didn't care. And conditions in China, although they are bad for workers, are still better than that.

> But let's say you're not ok with it, do you think China should ruin the environment, let kids get their hands cut off working in factories at 13 years old, or die have workers die en mass in industrial accidents and stuff just because the US and Europe did it 100 years ago? You also can't oversimplify "we have a higher standard of living now" based on ruining our environment and treating workers poorly. It is FAR more complicated than that.

I didn't advocate for any of that. But it is a fact that Western wealth was built on the backs of extractive industries that exploited the lower classes of their own countries at first, then exploited slaves, and currently exploits low wage workers in developing countries. And for all those reasons its very hypocritical of the West to criticize China.
Right, but that's the core of the Basic Income argument.
I don't know whether or not it is a conspiracy theory but John Oliver's link has not worked in either Chrome or Firefox since he exposed this last night on his show. So, I went at it manually because I have not been able to overcome the blank screen effect and this is important!

Here are the manual steps:
1) Navigate to: http://fcc.gov/ecfs/search-proceedings
2) On the next form, fill Specify Proceeding box with 17-108
3) Search
4) On subsequent page, select: Restoring Internet Freedom
5) Then choose + Express link and complete the comment form

P.S. I cleared my browser cookies first to ensure any cookies dropped by the FCC site weren't inhibiting me.
Countries to fight wars over data centers?
By corollary, have you seen non co-located groups of people solve complex problems creatively? I have, many times.
I have submitted a swab sample (for $100) with https://bethematch.org

I have emailed them to see if I can get a text file or be able to share my info with https://dna.land
All fair points. I think the thrust of what I was saying is simply: resist the pressures to provide huge scale before there is reasonable evidence that the product has some traction. Some huge percentage of companies will have to do a major pivot before they get that traction, so the balance should be heavily on simplicity, speed and agility, and if that's at the expense of scale, so be it. Obviously, performance does matter, and so does good architecture, but staying in business matter most :-)
Profession: Remote Software Engineer (REST APIs).

[06:00] Start work.

[07:00] Actually start work.

- Sporadic work, youtube, walks, and, today, HN.

[13:00] Daily Stand up.

[14:00] Doubtful I work past this point.

I don't have to maintain hours. I just happen to wake up at 6 so I might as well work then.
I guess heartbleed gave everybody the wrong image, but most TLS vulnerabilities were vulnerabilities in the spec. The fixes to RC4, BEAST, SWEET32, POODLE, LOGJAM, CRIME, BREACH, BRICK, BORKED, BUSTED and whatever else you could think of - all involved changing the spec. Sometimes by adding mitigations, but mostly by banning TLS features.

TLS is a legacy protocol. Nobody likes it very much, but it's such an established standard that you don't have much choice than trying to fix it. The same might happen to JWT, but in both cases we'll be fixing the specs, not just the implementations.
Unemployed post-exit startup founder

-[4:30] Guess I'm awake now.

-[4:45] Hungry. Eat.

-[5:00] Read another article about automation and the collapse of the middle class on HN. Wait for the sun to come up.

-[6:00] Two-hour walk. Receive endorphin-fueled inspiration. Forget everything the moment I re-enter the house.

-[8:00] Watch Magic the Gathering streams. It's a nice game.

-[10:00] Hungry. Eat.

-[11:00] Read another global warming article on HN. Contemplate the future.

-[12:00] Watch an endless stream of whatever the YouTube algorithm feeds me. Kids these days are so talented.

-[18:00] Hungry. Walk to store. Eat.

-[19:00] Friend calls. Flip coin. Tails. Don't pick up.

-[20:30] Feeling sleepy. Floss and go to bed.
Profession: Freelance computer programmer

[5:00-10:00] Wake up (no alarm).

[+:10] Grab coffee cup, walk to casita.

[+:5] Make coffee.

[+8-15 hours] Sit at desk.

[+:01] Leave casita.

I have a very solitary career.
Panini's work is considered to be the precursor of Backus-Naur form.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#Histo...
It depends on your genome
I feel like I have read this exact article before, but instead of Sanskrit it was about Greek. I know this adds nothing of value to the discussion, but I thought it was an odd deja-vu. Does anyone perhaps know which article I am talking about?
>One of the main accusations the Protestants levied against the Catholic Church was that Catholic Church was too liberal and too willing to be flexible in its theology.

Some did yes. For others the appeal of Protestantism was flexibility.
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