skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it is all relative to you cost of living, but this is slightly better where you are part of the solution, and not part of the problem, meaning: if you are on a tech company, and you bring in the money, you will command a higher wage; whereas if you are working in a bank / telco / doing ERP software in a "carnica" (cheap sweatshop outsourcing company), and the executives think you are a "necessary evil", just a cost center, you will be paid less. This happens in every place; but Spain doesn't have a lot of Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft kind of companies to push the talent demand upwards (so talented people try to leave the country).
Submitting pull requests without forking a repository
Scoop.it
Most weeks I expend about 40 hours (mostly remote) working as a software developer in order to pay the bills. At the same time I'm spending between 10 and 40 hours working on my own startup as I don't want to be an employee forever. I also have a young family and I really do my best to fulfil my obligations as a parent, as is fair and right.

A day for me does not stop from the moment I wake up (7am) to the moment I get into bed (11pm) and weekends are no different. Sometimes I feel like the entire world is crushing in around me, sometimes I wonder if it's all too much, but then I get back to it and I keep moving forward.

I've been doing this for about two years now. There are definite ups and downs, where my energy and ability to produce (code, or business related output) is greater, and lesser. Sometimes I feel really shitty for not doing more than a few hours side work in a week. Sometimes, when I have taken a weekend off, I have felt guilt.

It's tough. You find you are doing essentially 2 full time jobs, 7 days a week, almost 52 weeks a year, but I was raised to work and to work hard, while I am young, while I can.

I think if you want to do something like this, you have to have a solid reason. If you have a family, even more so, you have to make sure it's fair to them too.

I wish I knew why I feel the urge to work 24/7, why I feel guilt if I don't work, and whether this is actually a problem?

Alas, it's time for me to get back to it.
upvote.
As someone who enjoys cold pizza, I like reheated (skillet) pizza too.
It sounds like you dont actually want to do those things.
>Why the scare quotes? It is still debated

Only as much as needed to clean-up a predetermined decision for a show of power for the post-war era to fit the official narrative.

(And even if it was "that a land-based invasion of Japan would be extremely costly for both the invaders and the civilian population" still wouldn't justify nuking civilians. War crimes are not excused when they make one win more cheaply).

>It's pretty terrible as a weapon of mass destruction. Don't you think that if the US had wanted to annihilate the population of North Vietnam, they would have employed something a bit more direct?

Why would they want to annihilate them? They wanted to win the war. So fucking their livelihood and health over AND still getting to use the hypocritical defense of "see, we weren't meaning to annihilate them" works even better when you need to maintain face.

If anything of the kind was done on their own soil of course, they'll still be screaming bloody murder for all eternity (like Pearl Harbor, even though they purposefully provoked Japan for months before it acted).
No that's stupid and not even thorough. Did Australia have a genocide campaign in Asia? We were involved in all the same wars. Of course in terms of sheer body count we probably killed more Turks then any other single nationality in the 20th century. But that's my guesstimate based on Gallipoli being a large campaign for us, and in turn brings us back to just how useless and stupid this type of reductionist historical metric is.
I think motivated teachers would come naturally to that system. Glad to hear there's a workable model.
Modern SMB. Version 3 undoes many sins of the past.
> Their Trump stuff has been spot on.

As verified by whom?
These are not schools. I don't know what to call them, "Public institutions for young people waiting to go into dysfunctional lifestyles" comes to mind. There could be others.

Shut them down. Seriously. If you are failing this terribly, the very least you owe taxpayers and the poor kids and parents associated with those schools is honesty. Not spin. Not statistical bullshit. Honesty. Shut the damned schools down. The resources we are allocating there are actively working against the public interest.

I'm sure the cries will come out "What to do with these at-risk kids?"

That's a great question, and folks can have a wonderful public discussion about that. Unfortunately, that discussion gets into winners and losers -- various interests have various goals that they want to achieve.

So let's separate that out, put it aside for a few months. For now, close them down. Immediately. Try some brutal honesty and see if it doesn't move the dial forward a little bit.
IIRC, Welchia tried to do that and ended up imploding networks globally instead!
Where do you live? I guess I've only lived in poor and/or stingy countries, where frugality has a high status.
FYI even users with low access can view drone feeds.
If you didn't want to wait, and if the problem is the flight, you could take the QE2 ship from New York to Southampton with your dogs. Unless they're particularly huge.

From Portsmouth harbour (30 minutes from Southampton docks) there are ferries to Santander or Bilbao in Spain, which also allow pets.
For what it's worth, I think you should have taken the advice of the guy you're replying to. The first result for "TFS file system" is https://github.com/redox-os/tfs.
It's interesting to compare this with the 2006 book of the same name by Tim Wu.
Installing FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Using Linux
Their names? on the record?
I think it was, and could have been a part of the game.

For instance, add one more vector-graphic guru to the team and they could kludge or slice new features in.

Kudos to open software devs! Lots of work.
Even worse; the 2600 CPU must run at exactly 1/3 the pixel clock.
Thank you for writing such a well considered summary, particularly addressing both sides of issues like language and the unusual economic split of large & small companies. In these HN discussions about the tech industry in various cities there have been too many comments that are entirely one-sided pro or con.
Ah, okay. I thought it 'd be more like a typical PC motherboard with the hundreds of tiny components and iirc a dozen layers.

So basically, when I understand you correctly, a PC motherboard is only as cheap as it is due to scale advantages and lots of the parts on a motherboard being resistors etc.?
The 'Audio Twitter' is launching in the U.S
A web component for drawing patterns with css
Free as in paid with your high taxes (30% income tax on a 80k salary and 21% value added tax when you spend your after-tax money).
The absence of a deep state would be much scarier than the alternative!
Consider if every person thought he/she was in the 60%ile for some skill. Then, the best people would underestimate their skill and the worst would overestimate.

This would produce the statistical results of the Dunning Kruger test, but I don't think that's nearly as exciting as what is claimed.
I've long believed the same thing. Our "liberals" today focus on schools because it allows them to buy into the idea of meritocracy and dismiss the other pesky social justice issues with a clean conscience.

After a few years of living in downtown Baltimore and similar places, I've concluded that equality of opportunity achieved through schools is a crock. My wife and I lived in a high income Baltimore neighborhood (Bolton Hill) adjacent to a very low income one (Sandtown). Our daughter went to a private pre-K. You could put a retinue of Nobel laureates on the faculty of the elementary school in Sandtown and you wouldn't be able to convince the folks in our neighborhood to send our kids there. Trying to fix society with school is like trying to wag a dog by its tail. We're talking about neighborhoods here with massive dysfunction. Where gangs literally divide up the blocks and you'd better be in one or another lest you get beat up walking to school. There are no jobs--you see men milling around the neighborhood in the middle of the day. Teachers can't fix that.
This might be a dumb question, but after figuring out the width of "AB" and "BC", how do you know the width of "ABC"? Do you just calculate the distances A–B and B–C as ab_distance = width("AB") - (width("A") + width("B")) ... and so on?
Ask HN: How much equity in early stage startup for a developer?
How much equity should I get from a startup given the following:

- Worked part-time (after-hours and on weekends) developing prototypes for the product and iterating ideas for ~9 months without salary.

- As of now, the company is incorporated, the developer pool is currently allocated at 5%, with 80% in the founder's pool.

- Am one of the 3 engineers on-board, the remaining 2 have been here before me (>1 year) but I have the most experience. (>5 years)

- Worked both on the Ops side (AWS/Azure/bare-metal) and on the application side. Developed the core infrastructure on which the current application is deployed.

If it helps, the product is targeted for third-world consumer markets and is being developed in a third-world country. All involved parties belong to the same country, although the company is incorporated in the USA too (for funding ease etc.).
You're welcome!
I have gotten so much value and entertainment from HN over the year that I'm very happy to give back when I have the opportunity, so please ask if you need me to expand on anything :)
I actually don't fault them at all for believing this. The only way to know that A causes B, is if you consistently observe the absence of A, paired together with the absence of B. Ie, you need a control group of women in their teens/20s/30s who are not having sex.

In societies that frown upon premarital sex, this control group is easily found. But in a society that practices free love, this control group doesn't exist at all. Even worse, the people who you think are in the control group (the wife of the guy who went on expedition, and the "truly hideous" women), are actually having sex secretly, and thus further misleading everyone else.

I wonder how many such "obvious truths" we ourselves are missing out on, simply because we haven't done any structured experiments relating to their absence.
> I love to write blog posts and some of those I'd like to sell on Amazon as ebooks.

Are you talking about a compilation of articles/essay or one post per book (Kindle Singles)?

> For me, it lost my images for some reason

Sorry about that. I have fixed the issue.
Can't resist: https://www.math.uh.edu/~jmorgan/trinity_talk/square_wheel.h...
In 2011, state run media repeatedly criticized Apple in connection with a 42 page report that condemned Apple on a number of fronts. A coalition of 36 environmental groups also rated Apple last of 29 tech companies. In truth, there were serious environmental costs to the actions that Apple (and its suppliers) took in China. On the other hand, local businesses were not scrutinized nearly as closely. It could be argued the difference was due to size, but it would be surprising if protectionism played no role at all.

Since that time, Apple has made tremendous efforts to improve both its labor and environmental efforts, gotten all 14 of its final assembly sites compliant with UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill validation, gotten over 90% of its energy from clean sources and has even gone so far as to make sizable investments in Chinese clean tech companies.

Links related to labor disputes and strikes are harder for me to find due to all the western press on the issue but here are some related to environmental issues:

http://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2016/12/09/apple-in...

http://www.cultofmac.com/442650/apples-environmental-efforts...

User tracking:

https://www.techinasia.com/apple-loses-court-case-cctv-calls...

And anti-trust:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-antitrust-idUSKCN0WY...

http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/china-antitrust-crackdown-for...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/business/international/mi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/technology/apple-no-longe...

I believe this is a higher level of scrutiny than Apple faces in the US or EU.
> I'm blogging one a week about dev stuff and it takes 2-4 hours depending on the topic.

I'm so jealous! :)

I publish a new post once every couple of months. Some posts take really long to prepare, like 40 hours (and more) of work long. The biggest problem is that it doesn't really show - for that much time my posts should be each as long as "Steve Yegge's Best Of" anthology.

I'm not even sure it's worth it as a learning experience, but at least it's still fun. I'm being told that my writing quality improves, too, so it's not that bad overall. It's still irritating that every time I try to write a post in a short amount of time it somehow spirals out of control and becomes 3 full days of work...
This is a hilarious, sock puppet-esque take on Imperial Japan, which is suitably foot-noted as fertilized by Chomsky's fever dreams of anti-Americanism at any cost. I think the Koreans and the Chinese have a slightly different take on the issue. And the Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam... "The Japanese are a hundred times crueller than the French. Even a worm or a cricket could not live under their brutal violence" (Elliott, 2016).
If you’re looking for Java and the first result is the Wikipedia article on the island[1] do you just switch programming languages?

I hear C is very search engine friendly. Probably why it’s so popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java
The SS Palo Alto and the Surprising History of Concrete Ships
Yeah, I'm surprised by the speed as well. It's just a WP site with some customized open source scripts.
I keep the landing page up but show an alert that the project is discontinued.
Nobody does. These things are all about old enterprise apps and pirated windows.

In a very large network that I'm familiar with, we killed SMB1 globally to mitigate exposure, and in the process killed a bunch of apps.
This doesn't mention server-side JavaScript at all. There are lots of blocking routines in Node.js, the standard library is full of them.

But it is interesting that it doesn't mention the oft repeated meme "JavaScript is single-threaded". Would be nice with an example showing parallel number-crunching without WebWorkers. Is that possible?
Access to drone feeds from basically all CIA/DIA operations provides breath of access that compromises the security at completely different level than being part of a operation.
My bad. Please forgive me Mr Robot Researcher. Tell me again how all of AI exists to feed your robotic fever dreams.
I could say the same about Tibet but for some reason, I think you would be one of those people who call for "Free Tibet".
Out of interest, what band were you in?
`end` is pretty much universally used to end blocks in 'wordy' programming languages. Are you seriously suggesting that `esac` is more intuitive than `end`? Cute, perhaps, but not intuitive.

"How do you end this block? Maybe... I type 'end'? Nope! You write the opening statement backwards! Ha ha get it? Backwards lol!"
I think you have to reinvent quite a few wheels yourself to become a competent programmer instead of just comfortable gluing services. And maybe, just maybe you will make an actual improvement on the way.
> A very interesting property of the event loop model is that JavaScript, unlike a lot of other languages, never blocks.

That seems like a dangerous, misleading statement.
Or if they really want a lightweight cipher with a small block size, they should consider SPARX, especially since a Rust implementation is readily available: https://github.com/jedisct1/rust-sparx
The Adylkuzz smb variant - a monero miner which actually came out just before Wcry disables smb1 but clearly didn't seem to help probably because it afaik didn't have a hunter. In theory if it had done then wcry may not have happened as all the base would have been already gone.
Web server, suddenly.

The need to open and change files right on remote pc (while it is online) always seemed strange, because companies do not work this way. Documents should be received and sent, not mounted and edited silently. I'm sure that there are thousands of info-sharing web projects, from phpbb-likes to specialized light/heavy solutions. But MS sticked to closed, indiagnosable, randomly slow SMB. Traditional file sharing must be killed as an evolution error.
> I'm not sure why America is singled out when war just happens to be brutal.

Though I agree with the US hardly being "the" aggressor in the world, the second part, that "war happens to be brutal", is precisely the reason starting one was declared the worst crime of all, encompassing all other crimes. You can't just say "oh well, it's war after all".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty857CeVM4M

> at high costs they were will to pay.

Defending such monstrosities doesn't leave a man's soul untouched, either.
Scandinavian school systems
that have demonstrated good results
[...] have spent decades gradually
de-emphasizing tests and grades.

The Asian systems that have demonstrated good results emphasize tests and grades heavily.

What conclusion do we draw from this? One might wonder if different demographics do well with different forms of teaching.
AA is nice but nothing to write home about and no one will mistake AA as a travel destination.

If you work in tech and likely earn enough to live comfortably in bay area or the other places I mentioned, the quality of life isuch better
Because I am not inclined to provide an email address routes to my inbox I am curious if there is a timeline for shipping the tool?
> 'Coolness' is an unmeasured and a dangerous motivation.

As is curiosity, but we have little problems with people motivated by it in tech?
Restoring Hope and Humanity to Health Care (follow Up to “Dark Side of Doctoring”)
I agree. I think India is positioned to do quite well, but what happens to the pollution in five years?

It's not going to magically become better. This is the thing lurking in the shadows that will cause major problems.
This may be oversimplistic for many people's use cases, but personally I write my notes in Markdown and store them all as plain text in a Dropbox folder. I search them the same way I search code with The Silver Searcher (`ag`) [1].

It works well for me and I don't run into any problems with being locked into software that's either not interoperable with anything else, or which is no longer maintained a few years from now.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
The Evolution of China's Metro Systems
I've engaged with the specifics of each of your points. We may disagree, but it's not because I misunderstood your claims.
Using text mining to analyse user opinions and predict Bitcoin value fluctuation
Is the pay cut equivalent to the difference between London/S.F tech salaries and Berlin or would it be even more drastic?
I'm not very Radio 1 so I've not paid much attention to Zane Lowe on there. He founded a group called Breaks Co-op in NZ back in the day which is the only reason I really know of him [1].

For years I've been listening to Tom Ravenscroft to find out about new music. When I found out he was John Peels son the penny dropped.

[1] https://youtu.be/QW8lD19bQG0
Indeed, nothing in Javascript _language_ indicates that is has to be single-threaded. Then the author continues by comparing this with C and talks about threads. Again, nothing in C programming language indicates that it's multi-threaded.
>>What are the revolutionary things that are starting right now that will be obvious in retrospect?

You could make a good case for the internet turning into something more like AOL or cable tv. Net neutrality going away, search engines preferring to show their own content, DRM going into browsers, various monopolies forming up, etc. At the very least, what's usable on the internet might be different depending on your path in. You'll have the iPhone internet, the Comcast internet, and so forth.

Not a great development, but there's probably money to be made in there somewhere.
I remember a Spooky who wrote (harmless) normal.dot worms a loooong time ago... any relation? ima lookup Anna K now...
Eh, it's a bit more complicated than that (like most things). When the Vietnamese removed the genocidal Khmer Rouge, the United States opposed the action (viewing it as Vietnamese expansionism). The Khmer Rouge joined with other factions to form a coalition that fought the Vietnamese and the new government, and the U.S. supported this coalition.[1][2]

[1] http://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/22/Reagan-to-meet-Cambod...
[2] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-07-18/news/900228054...
Why We've Left Watchville (2015)
Like these numbers? https://hackernoon.com/putting-wordpress-into-hyperdrive-470...
As "we" have fewer children and "they" continue to have more children, I'm not sure where the future is headed. I'm not saying Idiocracy levels but you have to wonder if the video is correct.

For example, what is erdogan thinking when he says Turks should have five or more children? I'd love to be able to read what's going on in people's heads. Personally, I couldn't give two (insert expletive) if my "culture and heritage" were to disappear or dissolve I to something new in fifty or a hundred years.
Look into The Tourist/Milo Weaver trilogy by Olen Steinhauer. The third book (An American Spy) is where you'll find the US/Chinese intrigues (and an incident that has a similar ring to it as the above news article). I recommend the full trilogy, as the first two books set up the third.

You might also try The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré. Set primarily in Hong Kong, it's part spy novel, part sweeping tour of Southeast Asia just as the last dominos are falling to Communism in the 1970s. Although it's technically in the George Smiley series, I don't think you really need to read those in any particular order.

Steinhauer if you like beach reads/page turners. Le Carré if you like a more literary slow-burner.
Thanks for paragraph two, but why the snarky dig at "liberals"? This tribal caricaturing is itself becoming part of the larger problem.
Just don't do what the guys at TreeOfSaviour, great game but also great failure. Try ads, app installs, and stick to what works for you.
It's more than just a bad VCS. It's a bad bug tracker, a bad build system and a bad workflow system as well.

But yeah, if I wanted a set of three letters than suggested quality and reliability, TFS would be near the bottom of my list.
Building robustly with ACID databases, or why Postgres is often the right choice
Don't contribute out of guilt. You'll never make anything good that way.

At certain points in your life, you'll be inspired to build something for its own sake. THAT will be something worthwhile to contribute. Until then, chill out.

Want to increase your odds of that happening? Train your creativity. How do you do that? Play!

Play with things. Fuck around. Use it in ways it's not meant to be used. Break it! Have you ever seen kids keep themselves occupied by using things in weird, wrong, and probably useless ways? Do that!

Do things that nobody else is doing, not for what riches it might hold (because it probably won't), but for the pure joy of play and exploration, not caring about the judgments of everyone who will inevitably shake their head.

Randomness breeds novelty.
The `defer` attribute waits until the document is finished parsing. Async doesn't wait.
May I point out that probably nothing was clicked with wcry2.0 that the worm access via smb from internet facing 445 and then internally on lan. Although yes random clicking not advisable ever...
There's also https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Ato... that I know of trying to solve this problem.