skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even a broken clock gives the exact time twice a day.

As a professional community, we have uterly failed at giving a flying fuck about anything other than quarterly revenue (aka. upholding a basic ethical standard). But now, we can at least be hopeful that the biggest and meanest shark in town is going to sue into oblivion any other party that tries to spy on its customers; and over pattent infringement, nonetheless.
I would appreciate HN for what it is; the confluence of some of the smartest minds in technology. Let it challenge and inspire you, not intimidate you.

Also, do realize that not everybody is right on here all of the time either, despite some of their egos.

Despite occasionally butting heads with some of the people on here, I really do appreciate the community here for what it is; you really can't find a smarter group of people on the Internet.
Disclaimer: I think this article, and articles like it normally found in the Guardian, are bullshit.

But this is the second article of this sentiment I've seen, now in a national (UK) paper, so maybe this will be a trend?
You're right. I edited the growth hacking line a little.

I don't know if I can recommend "learning" to raise from VCs but you're right they should practice all aspects of launching and running a company a few times by doing it.
How to Provide Every American Citizen with a Basic Income
How is this different from about.me? The user still doesn't own a domain, they just have a hosted page to link to their other profiles. Is that the full point of the product? What am I missing?
As soon as you use more than one clock domain it's no longer completely deterministic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_in_electronics
I love HST, but a lot of what he wrote in Rolling Stone was not true either. Publishing "A Rape on Campus" was a major error in judgment with very serious and censure-deserving consequences. But RS has never been a magazine to "trust" in the sense you are purporting it once was.
Amazing. Well done Qriously, and thanks for sharing!
Actually I would rather see someone pick up Inferno and replace Limbo with Go.

Personally I see Plan9 just as a plain transition step between UNIX and Inferno, where the goodies in terms of architecture actually are.
Yes but you have to keep the phone registered on the network by topping up every 3 months and 'nursing' your burner phone. At least where I live this is the case. Apparently this is the case to stop terrorists holding onto sims for long periods of time and then using them in IEDs, or using them to start plotting at a later date.

Also, Google will periodically check to see if you still operate that number and will perform spot checks on the number, asking you to verify the phone again.
Stupid question, but why are Ansible playbooks supposed to be "more idempotent" than plain shell scripts?

Due to taking over a project I had to deep dive into it pretty quickly and to me it feels like shell in yaml syntax.
Looks like a fancier version of

ssh -t user@example.com "$(cat ./my-setup-script.sh)"

I'll have to file this away myself!
Chelsea Manning on responsibility: owed it to public, accepts it for actions
These days if there is not an example in plain sight I'm gone.
Just to expand on that, consider this scare-mongering quote:

"How would you feel about your ex boyfriend getting a robot that looked exactly like you, just in order to beat it up every night?"
When you're trying to put furniture in the room, trying to fit something with a rectangular base in a room with a rectangular plan is much easier than any other similar problem while minimizing the likelihood of having any wasted space.

Plus, it's also much easier to change the configuration of the room, or to transfer one piece of furniture from one room to another. So even if people weren't just lazy about how to fit perfectly pentagonal furniture in their houses, so long as they were trying and testing new shapes, furniture would probably evolutionarily converge to something squareish.
Wait, are people actually taking plan9 seriously now?
No link?
Give us a link, please.
Redneck flys expensive drone straight into a tree
Flash Industry Trends Could Lead Users Back to Spinning Disks
So is he going to lobby for a massive overhaul of Foxconn's employment practices?
Small quibble: fundraising is not an entrepreneurial skill. It's a substitute for lacking those skills.

If a business is solid, no funding is needed. Or, if it is needed, it's easy to get.
What We Think About When We Think About Code [audio]
If you clone a repo and cd into it, that's because you're going to actually do something in there. An install script that clones a repo, cd's into it, and then does nothing is extremely suspicious. But a script that clones a repo, cd's into it, and runs `make install` isn't particularly suspicious, so once again, there's no need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Hardly. You still need:

1. An in depth understanding of Physics, History, Literature, and Philosophy. You can just make up whatever you want in Economics, Sociology, and Bitcoins as fits your political leanings.

2. Learn to resist weapons grade grammar analysis.

3. Learn to recognize sarcasm in short, written text.
It doesn't need to come up "a lot" for your application to feel buggy. It just needs to come up.

Your UI has a selector for Date/Time and a selector for Location. They might even be different screens. The Location may have been prefilled with a guess based on geoip. Or maybe they saved the wrong 'Springfield'.

The user took an action to change Location. If that has the side effect of changing Time, the user will be surprised.
There is demand in Toronto. I am sitting in Toronto, and I still crave a lot of the good stuff I bought there when I lived in Seattle.

I can't believe they opened stores in Germany, but never bothered to open one in Vancouver, where there was proven demand for their products.
you don't need to remove it from kernel. You can choose which service to run on a machine. A 'terminal' can be configured without running auth service. But you need an auth server when you communicate with other machines.
Podcast creator here. Happy to answer any questions :)
I think this is much less of an advantage if you follow the pattern of "immutable servers", where, instead of mutating and updating servers directly, you just blow them away and provision new ones. The biggest benefit to systems like Ansible and Salt with that use case is the templating/config systems, which are much more flexible and powerful than what you can get with shell scripts (and which Welder, incidentally, provides).
Thanks - one of the best parts of Mitchell's translation. Just love it.
No, I don't feel overwhelmed. I am just happy to know of a place where it is possible to find meaty discussion that is reasonably civil.

I think this is a perspective problem. You need to stop comparing yourself to everyone in all things. That isn't what I come here for. I just come here to gratify my intellect and enrich my life. You don't need to compare to people here. You need to compare yourself to people you are in actual competition with at work or compare yourself to the work standards you are expected to meet. Don't come here and do that. It will only lead to misery.
This is a trademark infringement case. The (alleged) problem is that he set up a store which billed itself as being basically a Trader Joe's.
>>For one trip, he hired a couple who he said did not look like conventional Trader Joe’s shoppers. They had dreadlocks, tattoos and piercings. “They looked like they just walked off the set of a Burning Man documentary,” he said.

I'm sorry? Trader Joes, in at least 4 locations I've seen in California, does special signs and displays the week before Burning Man to market to Burners. Where is this writer from?
Whoever is wasting time on making Electron based apps, damned you are.
I fully ceded that point.

The question at this point was much more narrowly scoped and around how this is "closely related" to loss leaders. On that, no math was presented.
Oh wow what an awesome solution for stupid bookmarks. I was looking for something like this for quite a while. This should be integrated into every browser!
So you think "a massive overhaul of Foxconn's employment practices" will serve humanity?
I experienced much the same thing when I first discovered HN. What helped me was the realization that there's a difference between being aware of something and being an expert in it.

I've found that it's not often that I need to be as intimately acquainted with a subject as those who are feature on HN appear to be. In fact, just knowing about something has been enough for me to intelligently answer an interview questions, converse with a senior engineer, or make the right decision on a project. And usually that's because what's most important is being curious and asking questions - e.g. admitting to myself that I'm not an expert.

Now, instead of being a testament to my ignorance and personal failings, HN is portal that let's me feed my curiosity.

You may want to do some research on the impostor syndrome. It's been my experience that anyone who's any good at anything is convinced they'll never "catch up."
To my taste, the best burrito in SF can be found at La Corneta in Glen Park. I lean toward the super carne asada, but the fish (salmon) burrito is also amazing. The Glen Park La Corneta has amazing food in general and if you go there, you will not be disappointed.

Be advised that La Corneta also has a location in SoMa (on Mission) but the taste of the food is entirely different, not bad, but not as much to my liking.
What does it even mean "what America has to offer"? The Trader Joe stores are in America. True TJ is owned by a multi-national corporation, but almost all stores are owned by multi-national corporations. If what America has to offer only includes stores that are not owned by multi-national corporations then I'm not really sure what is left that TJ is being compared to.
Microsoft is so obsessed with Windows they'll end up making consoles that run Office and store files on SharePoint Home servers (another product they'll inevitably launch).
If you personal files are enough to bork a system, then either Macs are now unreliable pieces of crap or they simply chose to blame you in the hope you will believe it long enough for the warranty to expire ( or for a new model to come out ).

System overheating a bit and leading to intermittent connection in some components on the board maybe? heating/cooling cycles can play hell on badly done solder connections.

( or dodgy caps : I had a board unreliably work for a year after some capacitors started boiling away, then a triac blew up )
Tell HN: New comfortable wireless headphones – AKG N60NC Wireless
Our office has a very noisy ventilation system, so a noise-cancelling headphones help a lot. Over the years I tried pretty much every noise cancelling on-the-ear and over-the-ear headphones in the sub-$500 range. I have no idea how Bose QC35 and Sony MDR-1000X received "top picks" in online reviews. To my taste they put way too much pressure on the head and have relatively thin pads, making them unbearable just after an hour.

Up until last week I had AKG N60 (wired) and Beoplay H8. I had them both on my desk and I was alternating between them. H8 has a better noise isolation (larger cups), but was less comfortable to me over long periods.

Then I noticed that AKG released a "wireless" version of N60. I bought them and I loved them! They have bigger cups than "classic" N60 and block noise much better. The cups are still slightly smaller (and I think softer) than H8, making them bearable for a full-day wear. AKG also replaced the plastic swivel with the metal one (this was the source of many negative reviews of N60s)

So if you are looking for a new office headphones - make sure to check them out.
Somehow many Plan 9 fans seem to forget that the design continued as Inferno.

So with that in mind, I would rephrase that as "Inferno is basically a better Unix".

You can learn more about it, including the programming manual with lots of Limbo examples at:

http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/

You can easily see some of Go's pedigree on Limbo's design.

Nowadays Inferno is still being sold by Vita Nuova, the company that acquired the rights after Bell Labs folded the project.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
Interactive tutorial: generative adversarial networks (GANs) for beginners
Seed Fundraising – How to Get Early Momentum
It says a lot that you think the only alternative is "1960s-era IBM, going to work in a suit, and other dull things"...

Personally, I simply prefer to surround myself with people who've grown out of the phase where they value weekend benders and banging co-workers.
Indeed. That claim requires hard statistics on performance on multiple platforms and statistics of the hash function itself.

The floating point hash might be useful on a CPU for example.
Code from the tutorial, including the notebook itself, is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/jonbruner/generative-adversarial-networks
So, what I'm reading is: "Architects to phase in eye-candy as they find out bare walls to be unedifying".

Is this an overly cynical reading of the article?
Having worked IT at a college, I can tell you that it's very important to get every minute out of your class. When your class is only 60 minutes, and you spend the first 2-10 minutes getting logged in every single time, that's a huge chunk of wasted time. People are paying one way or another to be there, sitting there staring at a spinning cursor doesn't make anybody happy.
Are you sure you don't want to pool your efforts with intellij rust? Having one great ide beats having several kind of ok ones. They're releasing weekly improvements and it's the nicest IDE I have found to code rust in.
Declutter?

That's only a factor if clutter bothers you. It doesn't bother me. In fact, I find the need for order extremely boring.

As an aside, I feel like neat freaks are space pedants.
Contrast is clearly suboptimal. Lots of multigrey use in controls and noncontrasting colors in colored items. This would not go past our UX team.
remote and disconnected from society that I don't consider them an option

One person's bug is another person's feature :-)
Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
Can you explain how, exactly? Spyware would need to call out to system APIs to do anything useful, and that's not something that can be done inside an enclave.

Sure, it'd let you be a bit sloppier with randomware, not needing public key crypto to make it all work. Not really a huge deal.
I took on a position as the sole web dev as my first position, with promises that a senior dev would be onboarded within 3 months.

Instead, the company paid for me to pair program with experts in different areas (security, devops, general full stack) whenever I felt out of my depth; the first 6 months it meant I spent eight hours pair programming a week with the focus being on my learning rather than feature pushing. I found the people I wanted to learn from either from my past instructors at my bootcamp who really impressed me or from AirPair.

3.5 years later I'm .5 years from vesting 4% at a company that's closing its A rounds now. I work with people I love, I learn new things routinely, I regularly get technical level ups through pair programming or classes paid for by the company, and it's pretty awesome.

I renegotiated my compensation probably every 6 months. I'm quick to give pushback if I'm out of my depth or feel like I'm being treated poorly. It's a startup so it's been a learning experience for everyone.

I'm pretty damn happy how it all ended up.
Paper sizes might be a better example of this since the only difference is the dimensions. Something about the relative dimensions of A4 paper just looks nicer to me.

(I know the ISO sizes are based on the golden ratio, but I think this probably has more to do with me being a lawyer practicing in the United States. PerhapsUS-Letter and Legal sizes subconsciously read as "work" to me and A4 reads as exotic.)
Not fancier, just a bash-ism that may not work with some other shells.

[bash] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Command-S...

[posix] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
I sometimes feel the same way while reading HN.

I can usually cure it by going to a Sharepoint developers' meetup, or something similar. Running into people who there who are doing consulting work and doing very, very well for themselves while working significantly less that 40 hours a week and using almost none of the cool stuff that gets mentioned on HN.

I suppose the lesson there might be to avoid a game of one-upmanship with alpha nerds. And I don't say 'alpha nerds' in a derogatory sense. It's just that on HN, you're going to encounter lots of people who will run circles around you in one domain or another. And some people love being the absolute expert in their particular technical domain.

That's okay. Good for them, actually! Everyone should do what makes them happy. You might find you're actually happier in a role that is more concerned with the business problems you're solving than with needing to be an expert in everything you see mentioned on HN. Your technical skills will be important, but not as important as your ability to use those skills to help a business 1) save money, 2) make more money, or 3) both.
Sure, "not recommended", but works fine for 99% of people 100% of the time.
Even if you assume every comment you read is written with good authority, bear in mind that each time you read a comment on a different topic it is in all likelihood written by someone else; the two authors couldn't have written each others' comments.
It's sad to see Pirate Joes go away. I don't know anyone who shopped there on a regular basis, but I do think TJ would do well in that neighborhood.

The main draw to Trader Joe's is that its part of the journey across the line. This week I'll be doing this same old routine -- pick up some packages at the mail place ($2 per package), hit up a few grocery stores for different hot sauces and staples (including condensed milk in a squeeze tube), have lunch in Bellingham, go for a walk around Fairhaven, then return home.

Trader Joe's is part of that journey, much like Target (who had a massive, depressing attempt to break into Canada). Strip away that special-trip aspect, and all you really have is another grocery store with a few exceptional items.
When I worked there even people at Cisco hated WebEx.our team used hangouts instead.
pt*r being PIE wing as in pterodactyl ?
Scam: Bill Gates Invests $2B in Tech Startup
Ask HN: Parents, what are your favorite resources for teaching your kids tech
What resources have you found that best help you in inspiring, teaching, and fostering tech related concepts (math, science, programming, etc) in your young kids? Favorite Apps, books, websites/programs, or teaching aids. My son is 2 but looking for suggestions at any young age.
This is why earth buildings can be so healing psychologically.
As a Midwesterner myself, the Bay area is my favorite place in America to visit, but I don't really want to live there. I'd consider it, though, for the right circumstance. If I were rich, I might well pay for a timeshare out there, but keep my permanent residence here in Minneapolis.
The StartUp Podcast tagged along with him a few years ago: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/pirate-needs-pirate-season-3...
Except he didn't. It was always clear what he was doing.

This is pretty straightforward legal bullying, in my opinion.
A lot of the other comments mention valid reasons for this.

In my experience many of these folks are rails, js, or purely frontend devs. These circles seem to have a lower entry to those titles, for whatever reason.

I feel comfortable in saying, if I spent 2-3 years just on js or rails - I would have a higher title than if I stuck with what I am doing currently.

However, I'm not convinced on the whole that I'd be as competent in general engineering terms compared to if I just stuck with what I'm doing now. This is not to say some js or rails devs aren't quite brilliant - it's just a trend I have noticed.

This is from my experience interviewing rails and js devs, and also keeping in contact with fellow bootcamp grads that are currently js or rails devs. I am not suggesting this is a universal truth, it's just an observation

And to your point about fresh bootcamp grads being very green/not impressive. Unless you're interviewing the cream of the crop from the top camps (which usually have prior exposure to the field in some way) - you'll likely not run into any rockstars, or even anyone that impressive.

I'd be interested to know what your experience interviewing fresh college graduates is in comparison.
it runs the local contents of ./my-setup-script.sh on the remote server in a way that escapes all the special characters so they don't do unexpected things.
Sign up for the Meetup.com event at Google HQ on June 23rd. They've put a cover on the event($10) but I've been to many of these and can confidently say it will be worth it. Plus, they serve food, beer, and wine. I just signed up and I'd be happy to meet you there. (HN lurker and FrontEnd Dev in downtown SF).
I'll speak up from the (seemingly underrepresented) data science side here, despite not making the 3+ years ago cutoff.

I attended a data science bootcamp almost two years ago now. It was 12 weeks long and ran 9-5 each day with a mixture of lectures and pair programming exercises in the morning, and time set aside in the afternoon for working on projects. My cohort was very diverse; there were kids just out of grad school, teachers, actuaries, data/business analysts, and even practicing software developers all taking the same course. I came into the bootcamp with a fair amount of background knowledge (Bachelors/Masters degrees in Math as well as a ~10 year history of teaching myself various computer science concepts and languages), and I have to say that this served me quite well. I didn't struggle to learn Python (the language of choice for this program) or grapple with what gradient descent was really doing, because these were already parts of the way that I understood the field. Instead, I used my 12 weeks to learn about Git/Github, get really good at actually working from the command line, learn about different "big data" techniques and database structures, and pursue a passion project.

That being said, throughout the bootcamp I was keenly aware of the fact that no one was going to "fail out". There were students that needed more direct guidance than others when difficult topics were broached, and there were students whose presentations revealed that their project hadn't worked as well as they'd hoped (this includes some of my own projects). On the one hand, it was good to have a community of people (students and instructors alike) who embraced these failures and helped you learn from them. On the other hand, it instilled some level of self-doubt: "Maybe I am wasting a solid amount of my life savings on an experience that will only teach me how bad I am at this." Or even, "I feel like I did well with this project, and I have some validation from my peers and mentors, but what would a future boss think of this work?"

As a practicing data scientist now, I feel like the bootcamp prepared me to both know how to ask the types of questions data scientists ask, and to know where to look for the answers I need. As far as I know, everyone in my cohort is employed as a data scientist now, save a couple individuals with visa issues (and these few are still actively working on personal projects). Those with prior exposure to the field were certainly able to get better jobs, and quicker.

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Yeah, absolutely. I went through a period last year where I read every HST book in one continuous binge. One of the great pleasures I had was driving SF to SLC via nevada route 50 and listening to the '72 on audiobook. Something about that really helped it sink in.
> Truly everything is a file. No exceptions; no special cases.

As graphics fan, I wonder how this would work out with modern GPU driver layers.