skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not trying to start an argument here, because there are many disadvantages that are hard/impossible to hurdle. However, being unemployed comes with a single, potentially powerful advantage: time. As a programmer, you need a computer (cheap second hand one is fine), you need a place to work and you need and internet connection.

If you are unemployed for more than about 6 months, people start to look at you suspiciously, but after that you can't really fall any further. Being unemployed for 1 year or 2 years can be an advantage if you use that time productively. It won't appeal to everyone, but battling back from nothing is also a compelling story.

Like I said, there will be many people who can not do it, for one reason or another, but I think the message that brand is important is not wrong.
It sounds like maybe you do know what your goals are, you just aren't sure how to get there?

I am skeptical automation will make all jobs redundant. Someone needs to figure out what to do, for example; there's no way a computer can do requirements gathering, or UI design, or process improvements.
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How strong an acid is this?

If it's not extreme then handling shouldn't be much worse than petroleum fuels which are mildly irritating, toxic, and flammable. We have built infrastructure to let people handle those products (rather) safely.
... You're being sarcastic right?
> BTW, I agree that you want to differentiate between bytes and text, but the underlying representation should be utf-8 bytes

Sure, but for most languages older than a few years this ship has sadly long sailed and few would be willing to switch to O(n) indexing.

> It's much better to mess up in not having a clear distinction between bytes and text (annoying, but mostly easy to work around)

Except when it's not and the packages you're trying to use simply do not work and fuck up mightily with non-ascii data.

> then to mess up by having constant-time indexable utf-32 as python3 does

It's funny that just above you praise Erlang which does exactly that. Meanwhile Python 3.3 introduced a flexible string representation so depending on the content of the string the internal string encoding may be ISO-8859-1, UCS2 or UCS4 (and yes sadly only these as the designers refused to break the constant-time indexing guarantee).
Static website? Just write HTML files in text editor and copy to a server running nginx via ftp.

If you are going to make changes to the website often, add an extra step for creating git repository and instead of using FTP to push files to server just pull from git.
You're right. It's starting to seem that Tech is full of people who say one thing and do another.
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Spend some time in Kerbal Space Program to get a sense of how little energy it takes to change a low orbit to one that grazes the atmosphere.
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673603
Doesn't mean I want systemd silently escalating my process to root when I think I've told it to contain privileges of the process to a specific userid. Clearly the correct behavior for such a program is to throw an error if it is rejecting a username for ANY reason, even when that reason is supported by stilted reasoning.
> The issue in question is whether the islanders can return & have the right to self-determination.

Your comment is either extremely naive or terribly disingenuous. Even in the XXI century we see nations invested in annexation campaigns motivated by their need to reach military and strategic objectives. There are even nations that are deeply invested in creating artificial islands much like Diego Garcia to achieve goals that are achieved by Diego Garcia. Why can anyone talk about self determination if nothing stops an occupier from simply dropping anchor and taking over the place?
This is true, but the bioavailability of non-heme iron is 14-18% of heme iron https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-HealthProfessional/

It makes sense to just eat a balanced diet.
>Mindmap as a study method relies to hand-eye coordination. Scrawling and fudging with a pen is a way to memorize things.

Perhaps, but most people already do it with mind-mapping software, not pens.
>It’s sub-optimal because it has to type-erase, where a lambda allows the compiler to do much better

Bind doesn't have to type erase nor in fact does on any of the implementations I'm familiar of.
Cant wait until, 45 years from now, when the first one of these are hacked and satellites are prematurely de-orbiting
Pseudo random data generator written in Go Language
To preface my answer: I don't work at one of the companies you mentioned, but before I joined a graduate program I didn't have any undergraduate degree and I still worked in the industry just fine. I am reasonably certain I'd be hired at at least one of them if I tried, and I've been invited to interview at one of them a few times by a specific team.

It's going to be hard to be hired at one of those companies without previous experience, whether that is through academic accreditation or through relevant work experience. So if you're already working as a developer in some capacity that's a good first step.

The knowledge you're missing (specifically for the interview process) comes in two flavors: breadth and depth.

In terms of breadth, you want to understand databases (applied set theory, you can focus on RDBMS), networking, computer architecture (including latency and memory), and system design.

In terms of depth, you want to dive into complexity theory, algorithms and data structures. You'll want to know data structures and algorithms such that you can both implement them and reason about their asymptotic complexity. Specifically, know data structures (arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, etc) and algorithms (searching, sorting, graphs, etc) and know their respective complexity classes.

On a practical note, you should practice whiteboard coding for implementing the foregoing as well as 1) testing your code and 2) incrementally improving it (i.e. get comfortable writing a reasonably quick solution to a problem, then grappling with it to improve the approach and make it faster). You'll also want to practice mapping problems to the algorithms and data structures you've learned.

Functionally, in an interview you'll be doing the following:

1) Receive problem,

2) Think about the problem before diving into it, and map the problem to a first order solution,

3) Test the solution to reasonably account for edge cases,

4) Now improve your solution's complexity for time or resource requirements.

I can't comment on how happy the working environment is, but I'm familiar with folks working at at least two of those both with and without CS degrees. It's not at all an insurmountable hurdle; the biggest obstacle is taking an inventory of your unknown unknowns and working through them.
Yeah I routinely exceed 60 during peak season. 80 if I'm working weekends too. And that's focused work with lots of context shifts. So yeah after peak season I'm on the edge of burn-out.

I'd imagine I'm not doing myself any favours there health wise.
I think of it as task scheduling, I'm not sure what "messaging" is that RabbitMQ refers to but I've heard of it else where as well.
not if the universe is flat and simply connected (i.e, infinite): https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109063/how-come-...
Your website is only about 7 months old. I was lucky to have 30-50 visitors around then. Think about the universe and you are Earth. It is kind of like that. Social media will help you get it out there. But the majority of people have no idea that you exist. You have to work to get them to notice.

Meta tags don't work anymore or at least are not very important. You should, however, have a good description and a headline that is unique for every page you have. A subheadline is recommended. Then it is just unique content from there. It looks like you are on the right track. I'd recommend getting a Twitter account and sharing those articles with some hashtags.

Remember that your audience is a niche audience and you will attract people who are interested but there are only about 20 million coders in the world, not every single one of them is going to be interested in your website, and others who might scan it once and be done.

You have the right idea on your "getting started with coding", as you can gain attention and traction to get new coders on board. So you just need some time and exposure. Any time you can, mention tutorials on your website to help others.

I run a website called http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com and I remember when I had just three visitors in the beginning: my mom, my girlfriend, and Googlebot. Having posted to Twitter, Triberr, LinkedIn, and other media over the years, I'd say my average daily visitor count is around 1,000, over 4 years later, but I have seen the website go viral at times, in fact, just a few weeks ago, it was getting 10,000 visitors a day for almost 2 weeks.

What's my secret? I'm not the only one writing articles for the website. I opened it up so everyone else can write and share articles. What does that do? People who are likely to have their articles on your website are going to share those articles with their fans and following. So if I have a thousand articles on the website written by different people who have their own fans and following, and you encourage them to share for maximum exposure, that amounts to at least an average of 500 people each (with generosity for exposure in mind), that is the potential reach of at least 500,000 people.

Become a community that people want to be at and write for and you will find the best SEO results that you never had to pay for.
Ford engineers show progress they're making toward driverless car 2021 goal
Any data to back this up? I'm a millennial and know plenty other millennials and they usually put 35-40h per week as is standard in Europe.
World clock, when?
Are we going to terminate the absurd concept of time zones? I wonder why those feudal folks decided that it is important that at noon the sun must be above.
Saying that gender imbalance in the industry is not really the problem in no way denies there is some systemic problem. I agree there is a systemic problem. But I believe gender imbalance is a symptom, not a cause.
Compiling Haskell functions to GLSL
He probably meant Parkinson's.
Video hosting for your startup-videos wtih Call-to-Action features
I advocate total transparency. I believe that privacy contributes to more harm than good. I believe that all laws should be systematically enforced, even though I probably break many on a daily basis (knowingly or not).

Systematically enforcing bad laws is probably the best way to emphasize their damage, and the fastest way to eliminate them.

Imagine putting half the population in jail because they once consumed drugs, did not pay taxes on all income, etc. I'm sure this wouldn't happen, and laws would be changed.

This would help getting rid of obviously bad laws, but this probably wouldn't help minorities (those who break less often broken but still bad laws). Therefore, we should still be critical of all laws, and focus on reducing their number to a minimum.

Personally, I believe that 99% of laws and regulations do more harm than good, and would get rid of them all. I don't really like the idea of a central government, and would prefer not have them enforce any law.
..Specially when people tends to travel more and more
I thought this community could recognise passion, hard work & genuine innovation, but wow, the comments on this thread. This team might not make their investment back, but they're shipping a game and a work of art in a way that literally nobody has tried before, and probably nobody will try again.

Cuphead is a bizarre and wonderful experiment in one way, and a classic genre piece in another. Yeah, you do have to try something different to stand out in indie games and this team is delivering. I've not been more excited for a title in years.
Why in the world should we care, especially when the overwhelming majority of their countrymen don't believe they should be engaged in the activity at all?
Yeah, repossessing the land seems the right course of action here for continued and blatant disregard for the law for so long. Monetary fines will do nothing against him, so take away something he can't buy (the right to occupy property). From the sound of it, he seems to have a "come at me bro" attitude towards the government and law enforcement, so this too would likely get delayed and fought indefinitely in courts. At the end when he loses, he'd probably just sell it somehow (for a profit) and move to a different place, then do the same thing.

A lot of money shouldn't mean a lot of potential to cause a lot of strife for a lot of people.
Respectfully, these animations are more gratuitous than beautiful. Animations are meant to add to the information and demonstrate relationships over time and place.

For the Simple bar charts, the animations should only show growth and decay, not fly around the screen nor flash through 16 decimal points of precision if the final value only needs 3.

The Pie Chart handles growth / decay very well, but it's only half-complete by starting with visible text markers around a pie that's not there.

Alphabet and State Bar Chart are simply bad, but I did enjoy the States Circle Pack animations. Curiously, I found the Circle Pack can't really display more than a dozen states at a time (at that size), and showing fewer is equally incomplete. So does it actually need a count slider?

Finally, the duration slider in the State Circle Pack doesn't add much to the information since all animations are slowed down, including fade out / in. It might work better if it simply paused on the informative steps (all old states, remaining states, all new states).
"Watson" is not a thing, it's a brand.

IBM have built several, individually successful pieces of technology, all branded as "Watson", and used the impression that they are a single entity to market it as far smarter than it actually is.

Under the hood "Watson" technologies seem to fall into 3 categories:

- The very successful publicity stunt on Jeopardy. The technology here was good, although from what I understood from tech talks given by IBM, it was a bit more brute force than you might think.

- Custom built software, often for medical and legal purposes, that is effective, if limited in scope, and comes with a hefty consulting and support contract. You're essentially buying a data science team at IBM.

- Productised machine learning APIs, that aren't particularly great, and are very isolated in their abilities.

(1) is fun but not useful to anyone really, (2) is useful, but expensive and no better than what you'd get from most other consultancies, or might be worse knowing IBM's consulting practices, and (3) is too limited to build the core of a business on, so will likely only ever be used to provide a step up until companies move technologies in house.
As a Brit, I would have no idea what "Tylenol" is, so I'd question the usefulness of using brand names.
Paracetamol is the far more common name. In the US and a handful of other countries they call it "acetaminophen", though.
There is no US/UK power monopoly. The rest of the world is resurgent and willing not to be brow-beaten into line.

I find it hard to believe that the British government have allies. As for British people, sure, friends all over the world, but the British government? I am scratching my head. Apart from the U.S. maybe it is just the Falkland Islands and maybe Gibraltar that are genuine 'allies'.

Even the relationship with the U.S. government is a bit strange - the 'special relationship' is something the likes of Tony Blair bark on about but the U.S. government don't use the term so readily, regardless of the intellect of the POTUS.

The deal with the E.U. was never on equal terms, e.g. adoption of the Euro or free movement of people, the U.K. was just one of those relatives with special needs that the E.U. had to put up with.

Even the Commonwealth is something you never really hear about these days. I doubt the average British citizen/subject can name five members of the Commonwealth correctly. Sure the leaders of Commonwealth countries might curtsy for the Queen but there is no guaranteed backing for what Britain does from any Commonwealth country.

The NATO alliance is just a collection of vassal states corrupted and bullied by the U.S. into some 'alliance'. There is no bond between Turkey and the U.K., these 'allies' are just 'allies' because the U.S. wants to have its weapons in Turkey as well as in the U.K. Same applies for the other NATO countries, there is no special love for Blighty just because our soldiers dress up in silly uniforms and play wargames together.

Essentially the US/UK governments have lost the respect of the rest of the world, even if there are loyal stooges in place, e.g. those in-bred oiks that claim to be royal family in Saudi Arabia. This lack of respect results in a lack of fear and growing of backbone, hence decisions such as this.
What is the "standard american diet"? Are you talking junk food which is certainly a bad diet? Or are you talking about the food plate/pyramid which is definitely a good diet?
Same with Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam etc.,
True but it is as mentioned above 50% each, eg. Eating out is charged 18% GST, half of which would go to state and the other half to the centre. 9% + 9% of the bill value.
I've been getting a steady stream of subscribers with blogging (150/month on a slow month). Write a blog post, link to signup at bottom, get subscribers.

My newsletter isn't typical "here's a bunch of links every week" thing, though, so possibly easier to go this route: the basic pitch is "if you like this post, here's some more of my writing that will also be useful."
Have you been stung by an ant or stinging nettle? It's not fun.
This is certainly disappointing to see, but it's not new and it's not surprising. It is incredibly difficult to get a travel visa from Afghanistan to the US, last year's refusal rate was 74%.
Unconscious bias in Australian Public Services shortlisting processes
Also zinc and copper is found in animal sources. The only non-animal source for vitamin D is UV exposed mushrooms.
OK, so at Stanford no one cared or heard of ABET -- not anyone that I knew.

Maybe at your school they did. I guarantee you that employers don't care, and government officials don't care. It's not like being ABET certified grants you any abilities beyond being ABET certified. E.g. If the American Bar Association doesn't recognize your program, your graduates can't take the bar. There is no such equivalent for ABET -- there is no stick or tangible loss in not being ABET certified, other than possibly some marketing. No grants are not received. No professional organizations refuse entry, etc.

Back to the original point, you can't say that because ABET wants X, that the "U.S." Curriculum thus requires X.
if you would like some background on this question, as I do, there is a SE discussion that makes it a bit easier...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3189/is-the-abra...

There is a summary statement that I found to be especially helpful in framing the question:

"To summarize... it's probably OK to "redo" the budget in such a way that a part of the momentum of the photon is attributed to the dielectric material when the photon enters it, and then it is returned back to the photon. In this way, one may justify the Abraham's form - and probably many other forms - but why should one really do it?"
Strictly speaking vegan is obviously a more limited subset of omnivore. But in a practical sense, it would surprise me if vegans didn't have more variety in their diet.

I was vegetarian for almost a decade, basically my 20s, and what became clear immediately was that I had to figure out different stuff to eat. Default food wouldn't work anymore, so I have to branch out a lot and find foods that I would've never thought about before. I think my experience is relatively common.

That having been said, it IS easier to have a deficient diet, if you're not paying attention. "Carbitarian" is what some people call veg-ns who just hork down pasta, bread, and whatever other unhealthy nonfood is technically animal-free.

So I think it's possible that veg-ns have a more diverse diet on average, and that they also are statistically more likely to have deficiencies (something like a bimodal distribution).

Obviously, these are empirical questions.
O, you're right. Well that's even longer ago.
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I'm pretty sure you don't need to de-orbit CubeSats manually. The drag on the satellite will slowly decay the orbit of CubeSats much faster then most satellites.

We also already use "de-orbiting" systems in real satellites: we just burn their remaining fuel in the RCSs to either push them back into space (the normally talked about junk cloud) or we pull them into a decaying orbit (what already happens with CubeSats). The only reason this is done in the big-leagues is because the average "normal" satellite is about the size of a small car.

A CubeSat will effectively be taken out by gravity/drift very quickly (most missions are 2 months to 2 years) and it is perfectly safe to do so.

I don't see how this is a "Space Junk Solution" and from the article:

> "The planned demonstration is an important milestone to develop and promote the use of this technology," Krag told Space.com. [Space Junk Explained: How Orbital Debris Threatens Future of Spaceflight (Infographic)]

1. This is already something we do

2. This is no needed in CubeSats
Breaking backwards compat isn’t actually such a big deal in certain cloud applications, or for e.g. Java or Go. When you have full control of the stack, a lot of interesting possibilities open up. The main issue is probably that removing old crap isn’t going to save that much die area.
I asked for links in the schools accreditation sites, not in ABET's site. I can give you links that FIRE "certified" a school as having FREE speech. That doesn't mean the school cares. It means FIRE cares.
> ...I can say people who live on islands feel close to each other

The Chagossians were deported by the UK, so technically some islanders deported other islanders.
Yes. Jobs famously took a calligraphy class at Reed college, and mentioned frequently how it influenced him and e.g. the design of the Macintosh.

http://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-tribute-to-a-gr...
A few years ago there were approximately one billion people who travelled abroad for at least one night (that's the last year I can find a number for). That's about 15% of the population of Earth. It's reasonable to say that most people don't travel internationally, even if the amount has gone up by a few percent. We're a long way off abandoning timezones.
9 million terminals for a total population of 55 million, it is pretty good coverage. I used to live in Cesson-Sévigné, where it was born. One day, my dad came back home early 80's with one for free.

After few years everybody I know had one per household, except for my grandparents. Pretty much every household who wanted one could get one.

Later they built more fancy terminals (faster modem, combined with phone, better screen/graphics, etc.) and rented them. The free one was still a good deal.

The White Pages where totally free. And if I recall the Yellow Pages had a the first minute or so free. I remember navigating the pages as fast as possible to not pay the fee.

As mentioned before some school results and even applications were made using the terminal, for residual fee on the phone bill.

My mom was buying online (3Suisses, Redoute and CAMIF) through the terminal from early 80's until early 2000. She had a hard time to move to internet website when it comes to buy online. She heard so much of CC fraud online that she felt safer using the Minitel.