skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that most of us don't have the time nor expertise to validate his claim, it is perfectly reasonable to take into account the reputation of the author, the reputation of the journals that published his work, as well as obvious problems in his methodology. That doesn't disprove his claims but there are enough warning flags that should leave you highly skeptical of them.
Could also be fun to compare to the Servo source: https://github.com/servo/servo
It was fresh once. I feel the same way about the current style of ranty blog posts where the author drops a lot of excessive swearing, caps, and exclamation marks into a post about some relatively mundane subject, like grilled cheese or wet shaving or whatever. I laughed out loud and genuinely enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but that was like... 2008? It's not really funny anymore.

Clean, clear, and concise language never goes out of style. I wish more writers would learn it.
like Crinkl? I mean look at how many companies go public on the Dow without ever showing profitability...Netscape's IPO seems to have created this trend where tech IPOs don't have to be viable businesses
I have run DO + Docker and the reason I do it is because it makes deployments dead simple. Through up Ngnix as a reverse proxy to the port that is exposed through docker and you're done. I'm deploying an Elixir/Phoenix app, so it makes dependency management dead simple too with not having to worry about versions of Elixir/Phoenix and it makes changing droplets a breeze too, since the only pre-reqs to install are docker.
Last year's US election often made me think of Thompson's brilliant book "Fear and Loathing: on the Campaign Trail '72", in which he mainly followed George McGovern's campaign, running against Nixon (Nixon ended up winning in a landslide). McGovern's campaign chief Frank Mankiewicz called it "the least factual, most accurate account" of the election... this quote in particular stood out:

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?"
Contributor was extremely unreliable in multiple ways. I want something that unconditionally blocks the worse kinds of ads, and that doesn't give more money to sites just because they have more inactive ad rectangles.
It was society-wakening at the time. He employed aspects of yellow journalism to draw attention to the dark spots, to expose the mess lying underneath the fading formica surface on American public life and society.

He had to engage. He had to annoy and disgust and enrage. It all started around the time of Nixon's dirty tricks campaign and they bludgeoned politics into the festering pit of corruption and back-hand deals it is now. That game they played didn't slow down. People like Roger Stone doubled down each time they had a chance, and they got rich off of doing so to the great detriment of much of the US. There was no stopping. The "good" people in politics didn't play the same way, and they continually got buried by drama and scandal.

You see, he couldn't just report on it. He had to make it real. The problem was, with time the issues became decentralized and more common. That's when he began to lose heart. This is why by the end of his life he had no laser-like focus any longer.

I understand where you're coming from, but he shouldn't be conflated with the type of the self-indulgent writing you get from the likes of Vice. Those guys just often grew up worshipping this guy because it wasn't "boring" newspaper reporting, and they all want to be him. It's nothing like the same.

There are still takeaway lessons, though. The whole gonzo thing got journalists more interested in the field and long-term investigating on a personal level. I've seen some great docs that occur in first person in really interesting and sometimes life-threatening scenes because of the influence of HST.

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The Really Big One (2015)
You seem to be mixing up several things here.

Central planning, totalitarianism, and communism/socialism are not the same thing, and can't be used interchangeably, just because the USSR happened to have all three going on. Each one of those can be a thing without some or all of others.

You can have a democratically run, centrally planned economy. In fact, that's what many Western capitalist countries are in many ways. On the opposite spectrum, a truly democratic, anarchist-style "centrally" planned economy could also be possible, check out "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin for a fictional example.

As someone who also lived in the USSR and also caught the tail end of the country's life, I know of older people who would prefer Soviet-style life to what they see now unfolding in capitalist societies. And that's taking into account all the worst problems and mistakes of the USSR and not even talking about what could have been done better, or fundamentally different, while still rejecting capitalism.

USSR of the 80s was different from the USSR of the 70s, and that was different from the 60s, etc. And you'd probably get different reactions from ex-Soviets, if they only experienced the turmoil of the 80s vs the optimism of earlier decades.

So again, I agree that non-democratic or totalitarian control of the economy is indeed bad, but that has nothing to do with central planning.
generally startups hand out titles like cheap candy on a reception desk.

Regard notions of "senior" in the tech world as you would "vice president" in banking.
The new plans are:

0.1TB = $11.99
1 TB = $59.99
2 TB = $119.98
3 TB = $179.97
4 TB = $239.96
5 TB = $299.95
6 TB = $359.94
7 TB = $419.93
8 TB = $479.92
9 TB = $539.91
10 TB = $599.90
20 TB = $1199.80
30 TB = $1799.70
Airbus A320 Family Non-Normal Notes [pdf]
they seem to already have: http://gatebox.ai/
Poll that predicted Brexit shares raw data for UK elections
Principal components analysis explained
Yugo was way richer than Albania, and I doubt Poland was as poor as Romania. So wasn't just a "we don't care they're mere peasants"

Again, ppl were technically allowed to leave the USSR (and East Germany too). But it might take 10 years and you were a social pariah in the meantime.
I'm happy about this. Finally a good excuse to get rid of it rather than having to go "but Wire has better privacy and is open source", which is of course my real reason for moving away.
EU antitrust regulators to investigate $38B Qualcomm, NXP deal
Ask HN: Is server side rendering necessary for good SEO of a React app on Google
In my company we are working to release a new version of our website which heavily uses React. For SEO reasons, we have been asked to create server side rendering. Historically, search engine crawlers do not support JavaScript. However, I have read a few blogs that hint Google renders javascript.

Is there any proof/does anyone have any experience with Google improved search rankings with server side rendering?
Did Front-End nanodegree at Udacity 1.5 years ago. It's an online self-paced program. Dropped out of college and worked part-time while staying at home. Took me 5 months to finish(with only have written my first line of code 2 months prior) and got a job the week I graduated. So from scratch only 7 months of study to land a job. Low paying (San Diego) but so much better than fast food

I feel the program prepared me well for the day to day things I do and projects I've been able to work on.

Currently working on my algorithms and data structures. Feels like it's time to move on. Been taking courses online to finish my undergrad degree but don't see the value in it at this point.

Considering moving to the Bay Area or remote work.

I'd definitely recommend an online program if you're disciplined. Worked out great for me personally. An in person bootcamp would help getting past sticking points a lot faster, but all of this can be learned online for free like others have pointed out.

Have seen others who took the program be successful in their careers
Don't even need the supercap.

Resistor as the inductor, HW012 IC, hook up a solar cell, LED, and battery. Boosts 1.2V to 3.6V.

http://i.imgur.com/3y1PMoP.jpg
It's scary isn't it? Not just how many are on your desk, but how many are around you. In your office, or home. The possibility of abuse is endless.
Immutable date and time library for JavaScript
last I checked, you had 2 possible colors due to attribute cells.
This isn't quite accurate.

On such bills there is an additional phase in the process where the English MPs can veto the bill, but they must also be voted through the full parliament.
Just missed you! I was in 9.

To the above poster that was flagged, it sort of sounds like you're accusing me of lying, but I'll give you the benefit of best intent and answer your questions.

Yes, I created this account just to make this comment. I was introduced to HN by someone in my bootcamp cohort. Never felt the need to comment on something until a post that was directed right at me. Never made an account either because no reason to. So, hope that clears it up.

I think you are assuming my tech progression started at Hack Reactor 3ish years ago. It in fact has been most of my life. I was building computers from spare hardware in grade school, learned some code in middle, took 2 yrs of college classes while in high school to prepare for the CCNA exam (cisco certified network associate). I entered college as a computer engineer.

Then I switched to a totally different career path from which I learned how to be an effective leader and teacher. When I hit the end of that path, I came back around and did Hack Reactor to work my way into an engineering role.

I became a senior in a relatively short amount of time because of my background but also because I learned a lot at my first startup gig after my mentor quit, leaving me as the only engineer responsible for the codebase. Thrown into the deep end for sure, as the business had to keep moving forward.

I have taken on volunteer work at my current job outside my normal responsibilities, give meaningful review to my peers, and work on large, impactful projects. I make it a point to get to know other engineers and get my name known in the org. I placed myself in the senior role and was rewarded with the title after.

Another point, many of the people in my class already had a technical background as well. More then half. I think among all bootcamps this is probably more rare today.
Ask HN: Tentative offer before providing references?
Is it unreasonable of me to request a tentative offer before providing professional references?

Having been at my current and first job as a software developer for a couple of years, I’ve started applying elsewhere. I have a couple interviews lined up and they’re asking for a background check (which I have to objection to) and references.
The only issue is that the references I’d provide are for folks at my current job, as they’re the only ones capable of commenting on the quality of my work, personality, etc. I’m not concerned whether they’d have positive things to say, or that there might be some form of retribution. I’m just not comfortable signaling that I’m looking for work elsewhere when I ask them for permission.

Am I being unreasonable?
Show HN: Link.fish – Bookmarking Meets Web-Parsing (HN Exclusive)
There's Already a DIY Kit to Double the 'Maximum' Amount of RAM in the New iMac
I see you've never used slack ;)
Absolutely! It was almost uncanny.

I highly recommend the film "Where the Buffalo Roam" with Bill Murray and Peter Boyle. It' split into thirds with a frame of HST writing in his cabin. The campaign trail is cut to a short for one third of the film.

Murray filmed it right around the time of, or before, Caddyshack. It kind of frames his character in the latter for me. He was spending a LOT of time with HST.
> The founder and chief executive officer of a now-defunct Silicon Valley technology start-up company was charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in Orange County, California with allegedly defrauding several of his company’s former employees by luring them to join his company based on false and misleading statements about his educational, professional and financial background, and by allegedly enticing them to continue working for his company by providing them with forged documents purportedly reflecting payments for unpaid salaries.

I experienced something a little like this years ago. It was an awful experience, owing mostly to the fact that I was too young and naive to recognize it quickly and run away.
LED counts as a third part. Battery a fourth.
Of the Spanish arrival in Hispaniola, he writes:

They introduced Christianity, forced labour in mines, murder, rape, bloodhounds, strange diseases, and artificial famine…These and other requirements of the higher civilization reduced the native population from an estimated half-a-million, perhaps a million, to 60,000 in 15 years.

Obviously it sounds nicer when you call it “innovation” and “collective learning.”

--Interesting way to frame it.
HBO Silicon Valley’s Decentralized Internet? These Teams Say They've Got It
The French plantation regime, he claims, bred a “culture” of “ignorance and superstition,” “no long-term planning,” and “low loyalty”—factors that impeded successful slave insurgencies.

Yet at the same time, he notes that such a culture can be transformed, almost in an instant, by a charismatic and creative leader.

Kinda make you wonder how important leaders are? It would be my assumption that on some things a leader is nothing more than right time right place. But, you have to wonder about people like Einstein would his theory have been thought up by someone else at the time? or a group of people? Obviously without a time machine no one can answer that but still something to think about.
Actually I like it better than any alternative we have use so far (NIH InHouse solutions, NetMeeting, Sametime, WebEx).
Ah, fair enough. That's what I've been using Hangouts for, and I don't think it'll change, but more competition is always welcome.
Still, better this is done in the open. Otherwise Russia and China will just continue in secret, which is definitely a world I don't want to live in.
Reminds me of a classic Achewood: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06072006
Isn't LSP an application of Pareto Principle ? 80% of your needs are covered by small set of features.
Tesla plans to disconnect ‘almost all’ Superchargers from grid; go solar+battery
> But isn't that exactly the point of the post? The approach is nice for editors but unsuitable for IDEs.

Yep. I'm just giving my thoughts on what it'd take to extend LSP so it addresses the issues raised in the blog post. I think it's much harder than it might seem.

> Seems to me LSP has the exact same problem with use-cases. By the description of the post, the goal seems to be to solve a fixed set of use-cases (highlighting, autocompletion, etc) for a flexible set of languages. If you want to add use-case n+1, you're faced with the same rewrite/hack conundrum.

The difference is between "What does an editor need?" and "What is a faithful representation of an element of code in a programming language?" The former is easy (and it's what LSP does) even to do for 50 languages; the latter is way harder than the casual reader would expect.
It's such a bad practice that it is not a solution.
Sushi - Not a huge sushi fan but have good things about Shizen and Cha-Ya

Healthy - Project Juice, Gracias Madre, Mixt (have heard good things), Nourish Cafe

Also Ike's, it's not very healthy but they make great sandwiches.
Architecture.

However you must be really careful not to slip into full time CAD drafting where you will be in front of a computer all day also. By the other hand, the sallary of an young architect is, on average, an order of magnitude worse than programming..
You bring up a good point. I think your hinting to the server space when you bring up the shrinking margins in the PC space. And the server space already has some shipping hardware so I think that's what might pose an existential threat to Intel
Where will you be staying? When you're in Palo Alto, I highly recommend staying at or at least visiting StartupEmbassy. I'm happy to make an intro.
Come on, it's not exactly difficult to read? If Knuth used loads of rare x64 instructions then I'd accept the premise, but this is(http://mmix.cs.hm.edu/doc/instructions-en.html) is practically simple.
Your process is very good at achieving results fast. But the problem is you always stay in the same "level" of achieving results, which of course in the beginning is a very low level.

What do I mean with "level"? Let's look at transportation in that regards. At first we just had walking/running. Then we learned how to use horses. Then we developed the wheel and could use horse wagons. Then we discovered the walking bike, etc.

If you are on a low level you may be the fastest on that level, but you may be dimensions slower than people on higher levels. Think horse riding vs car.

But that is not the biggest problem if you only use the approach. On a higher level you'll also be able to solve problems that you didn't even know where solvable. For instance if everybody walks you won't even consider visiting other continents. But if you have airplanes you can get there in a few hours and it becomes something people do at least twice a year.

In programming this "solving problems easily that you didn't even know that there were solvable" happens if you really learn software architecture from actual tools, apis, how standards work, etc. The biggest wow for me was when I started to put in the additional 20-50% overhead to becoming standard conform for a standardized API. In the end when I had a problem I didn't have to code anything, because the other tools were already working with the same API as my tool, and I could just connect them and be done. This way I solved 75% of a semester long software project in one weekend, and I wouldn't consider myself especially intelligent. I just put in the hours to become standard conform, because from learning open source tools I found out it's something that people really do and that it is possible to do that.
> Seems almost identical to defining a record and module of functions that operate on said record.

OO is mostly that plus the ability to forbid people from using the record without using the functions.

> by attaching the functions you create new copies of each function with a bound reference to the instance of data structure.

Yes, but the compiler won't actually copy the function, it'll implement it as something closer to the record plus modules approach (for example a record plus a pointer to the module). This might not be true if you're trying to use OO in a functional language.
SF is one of my favorite cities (to visit :-)). And there's tons of other great stuff to do within driving distance from 1-2 hours on up. (You can reach the Sierras but I probably wouldn't recommend that for a first time visit of limited duration.) IMO, great choice for a vacation of just about any length.
Large Project Construction Management. Has everything a programmer needs, logic, abstraction, modularizing the problem, keep an eye on the big picture, working under pressure, people skills, planning skills, mythical man-months and unfortunately long hours as well. It is very rewarding to see something rising literally on the sand (from where I am).
We're a long way until free hardware design are a thing, for a more immediate solution, try this:

If it's processing power you need, I guess the ASUS KGPE-D16 with Libreboot would to the trick.
As a laptop - X200, X200T, T400, T400s, T500, etc.
You can find a list of vendors here: https://libreboot.org/suppliers.html
Those ads are very expensive to place on the page and have lower inventory. Aka less efficient than popular ads
Keep in mind that "senior" or other title doo-dads don't really have a fixed meaning.

Also, depending on the workplace you may be undervaluing domain experience. Yeah, of course, a taxi driver isn't going to ascend at Uber because of Taxi driver skills. But a high-skilled experienced CPA with a knack for software development could do really well against 20-something SWE's at a fintech company.
So does

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Interesting, thanks for pointing it out.
> Here it is pulling in the OpenBSD sources

There is a note that shows up when viewing OpenBSD sources

"C/C++ is not yet supported (beyond basic code browsing and text search)"

In my experience, these two languages are the most difficult to find good tools for, to browse, jump, and manage large code bases. Yes, some exist, but I thought this was the point of "good tools matter"?
Just to make it clear - my beef is not with HSJ himself but with the followers. Yeah, it made sense for him to write this way. But I hate digging through this shitty "first-person, rich in detail" narration just to get to a mildly interesting interview or report from an event.
The old Skype for Linux app stores its logs as a simple sqlite database from which you can export them fairly straightforwardly, see e.g. https://pastebin.com/bWXCQK83 for a simple script which brings them into Pidgin's log format.
For voice I can highly recommend Mumble, it's trivially self-hosted too and feels well integrated on all platforms.

For video though your options are definitely more limited, keep an eye on Riot, I'm not sure that it's ready yet, but when it is it will present an extremely good option. If you only need mobile, Signal does it today and is probably one of the most stable and secure products around, can't vouch for the video quality though personally.
Pandora needs help, and Sirius XM needs the internet, so they are hooking up
Heads up for Safari users:

> There is currently a bug in Safari which prevents our page from running correctly. So please choose another browser like for example Chrome or Firefox.
The App That Does Nothing
Your comparison is flawed because the majority of those in said shelter are people who didn't need a shelter in the first place and most of those in need are not in the shelter.

As for whether this is a good thing: Who is president in the US again? How did this come about?
There might be a workaround, but I think the common practice is to just avoid the problem with environment variables or by reading values from stdin.
You could start by defining "linux" app.

Linux is not really a thing. It's a mess of numerous operating systems. Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, redhat, slackware, all themselves available in different incompatible editions.

I pity developers who have to support desktop applications on linux.