skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are wrong. The cryptocurrency industry is also made of real companies hiring real people. For example as of Sep 2015 there were 729 Bitcoin companies employing thousands of people: https://venturescannerinsights.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/the-...
Another "plane word" is lavatory. While this is certainly an English word for a bathroom, I don't think I've ever heard it outside the context of an airplane.
stackoverflow careers finds you remote work rather than you finding it
basically, forbes.com/sites/... = trash
> The adoption of Go, Rust, et al show that people just aren't that into VMs anymore.

Did you actually look at the numbers?

Go is certainly gaining some popularity, and Rust too (although an order of magnitude below Go) but both of these still have a fraction of the mind share that Java has.

You're being dazzled by the hype and forgetting to look at hard data.
Depends on the company. Some will hand out 30%+ annual pay increases to keep people at market rates. But, many companies are happy to have high turnover in exchange for lower pay.
The Black Smurfs
The most (debatably) useful thing they could do is write the LISP in Rust. That might have some use. As it is, this project just creates an Emacs with more dependencies.
Slow down, take a deep breath it's not hard! It should not be hard particularly if you are on a city water supply. If the system is old you'll want to check that there are appropriate backflow preventors on the system and that they are installed correctly and that they work
. Once you have that you install an inline pressure regulator to get the pressure down and simple inline filter on the line at the manifold where your valves are. This helps keep the drip lines from clogging. If you have pop up sprinkler heads you can easily retrofit them with drip. If you have the old style fixed spray heads you can still retrofit them to drip but it may be more work if you want to hide the drip lines. The whole conversion is very easy because your main lines have already been trenched. Trust me I've trenched my own lines and this was hard tiring work even with a trenching machine.

Some good info here:
http://www.urbanfarmerstore.com/converting-sprinkler-to-drip...
Of course it's much less valuable. The crypto currencies are intentionally difficult to mine, wasting vast amounts of energy. A small mining company could probably process all of Visa's transactions which outnumber transactions on bitcoin by at least an order of magnitude.
It's nice to read about your point of view.
Nix(OS) is basically that...
If only we could get upstream to start building with Nix
Happiness is an epiphenomena.

Success at work usually makes me feel temporarily satisfied, but rarely happy as such. Happiness sneaks in of its own accord.
By supporting the share price when they want to have a secondary offering.
The difficulty calculation is built into the software.

Solutions to the meaningless problem that must be solved to "win" a block are rejected if they don't match the network difficulty, so setting it low on your computer just wastes your computation entirely.
People constantly seem to get into mining by looking at the calculator at CryptoCompare without reading the last bit which states that "Block reward is fixed at 5 ETH and future block reward reductions are not taken into account."

Using CryptoCompare and assuming your 230MH/s of mining ability will net you $470 a month (at current ETH of $165.47) people assume they make $5,640 a year. That sounds great!

If, however, you use something like MyCryptoBuddy's calculator, which takes into account pool fees and difficulty increase, you realize you're only going to make $1,553 in a year. Which is a rather paltry return if you shell out for 7 GTX 1070s.
There is no Thucydides Trap
I found this part interesting:

> Followers of zombie fiction have remarked the similarities between the plot of The Black Smurfs and that of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, which introduced a new archetype of zombies that would be later used in other fiction works: Plagues of zombies that infect the living people, turning them violent, irrational and uncontrolled, as the black Smurfs.

I never expected "Smurfs" and "George A. Romero" to show up in the same sentence.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14784900
There are a lot of variables in quick ramp-up time. For development, it depends on codebase (the more mature, bespoke, convoluted, the longer the ramp-up) and developer style (I've seen copy/paste/modify specialists ramp up very quickly, but they plateau at an intermediate level and don't have a good filter on what they choose propagate in the codebase).

Making bigger changes takes longer; taking leadership on a new top-level feature without breaking other parts of the app or distorting the architecture isn't going to happen in a few months for a codebase of any real size. The question is: is a developer who ramps up quickly going to be able to do that eventually?
Spot on. It is amusing to watch though :) I think AI investors may be perpetuating the hype as it makes it harder for companies to not buy an AI product or two.. recipe for sharp correction down the road.
Feeling like you're a bad fit for your job or that you're underperforming can reeally contribute to stress and anxiety.

For me, I'm happy when I'm pushing myself to get deadlines done and to achieve goals that I set for myself... but also focusing on self care when I need to, and giving myself creative outlets outside of work (which for me is music and cooking).

So, success contributes to happiness, but it's important to try to strike a balance and not let that be the entirety of your life. There are some people who enjoy throwing themselves into their work, so for them it's a matter of working somewhere where they feel like their efforts are rewarded.
Concourse CI
Pay wall article. Did not read.
I am watching youtube videos at 2x speed by default. And will be really happy if someone can recommend an app to speed up silent parts even more.
A stupid website that turns what u send into speech and plays it on my speaker
That would have got you in trouble a week ago.
Yea, it's usually when things weren't set up properly to be a rental. It's painful for the landlord because then people don't pay attention to usage, and they're assuming extra liability for someone who might run up the bill and then skip.
Surprised that QR codes are not more ubiquitous in the USA. Seems like a great platform.
If a company has a large and old codebase with lots of interacting systems built with a lot of specialized tooling, it can take a while for a new arrival to get on par with the rest of the team. Two years is a lot, but six months to a year sounds very believable. Imagine trying to wrap your head around the Windows codebase or the Google ad serving stack.
How Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Stays on Top of His Game
I am very interested to see what people's answers are for this, because I pine for a version control system designed for the twists and turns of experimental investigation rather than the needs of engineering implementation. I very much suspect that some sort of structured approach to one's commit messages might be key, and a careful mapping of DAG concepts to experimental ones--branching as the modification of an independent variable, with a base commit selected as the control point of comparison? Would one want to be able to rebase in order to compare against a different point? What would the semantics of merges represent?
https://hanselminutes.com/569/a-new-kind-of-commerce-m-pesa-...
> Apple, Amazon

I was under the impression that Apple and Amazon tended to fall lower on the compensation scales.
Have you sold your "automated start a startup" app as a service to others in your situation? There must be plenty of other people in the same boat as you.
Prime Minister claims laws of mathematics 'do not apply' in Australia
But not as safe. There was news about people putting their own QR codes on rental bikes so that people mistakenly send cash to them in China.
Have we considered that maybe Facebook just isn't very good at this AI thing? Just putting that out there....
...is this an Eve Online reference? If so, although unexpected, I appreciate it.
One of my college apartments in California was like that. But I've never seen it anywhere else. On the other hand, I've never had to pay my own water bill in an apartment -- only power and gas.

Besides, there's no way it's really free -- it's accounted for in the monthly rent. If you use less power than average, you are probably better off paying for it yourself.
Often I'm on my laptop doing something and want to listen to a podcast. Why should I use two computers instead of just the one? Why should I expend both batteries? Also, my macbook does wireless speakers just fine..
Language drift is real, and it is starting to accelerate
"provides a read-only mirror" sounds like "developed behind closed doors" to me.
Oops, feel free to remove.
Fwiw, lisps have a somewhat interesting third way: you distribute everything in a single image like a statically linked program. But, since that image includes the compiler, it can upgrade itself.
Can confirm, in most supermarket, paying take literally one second. You pull out your phone and show your Alipay/WeChat QR code, the cashier scans it and 1 second later it's done.

People paying in cash is a small minority

Speeding up lines, they also can have more clients for less cashiers

In France, most people pay with a bank card, the rest with cash. The process is longer and less user friendly
I am sorry to inform you that Google engineers are not doing their daily pushes to github.com/android.

Yes, Android is developed behind closed doors. Primary development occurs with a Google-private repository, and only made public at or near the point of a release.

This is different from the way Chrome, ChromeOS, Linux, Swift, etc. are developed, where primary development occurs in the open.
They're up there with Google and OpenAI, so no.
That phrase is VC talk for no.
Minergate is not generally advisable. [1] [2]

[1] - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0

[2] - https://forum.getmonero.org/3/merchants-and-marketplace/2516...
Should compulsory education last for a lifetime?
Not sure that solves the same problem (but I'd love to hear how you recommend I use it if it's better :D).

The scenario I built Peep for is when I have a long chain (either internal or with a client) there's often a ton of information built up. I wanted a way to turn a thread into an artifact which is easy to ready and share.
It's a shame that WeChat outside of China is just a chat app. But I guess that when China is your home market, then that's all you really need.
I more or less have this rule, except I generally will use the --user flag to install things on a per-user basis if it's not being installed for a particular project.
Monero is not premined.
Someone does X, which you think is potentially wrong because you don't understand it, but you're not completely sure yourself that it is wrong (because not everything that is correct is always immediately understandable). Saying "I'm confused" seems like an exact honest description of the situation, no prevarication involved.
This seems well within "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
You're right, it's not a good example of bigger government. I think I got sidetracked in my reasoning.
Well... the form certainly works. I guess.
Off-topic, but lisper, congrats on your neat HN karma points!

It's 222-2222
I gotta answering machine that can talk to you
Hacker News is starting to get hate from Economists who claim Computer Scientists are morons:

https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/the-coders-over-at-hacke...
Correlation != causation.

Seems perfectly plausible to me that the more confident candidates are more likely to be poached by other companies, for example.
Apple tends to match after you work there for about 2-3 years or your a 'special position'. So it's a good place to be an intern and go up since the differences are minor.
One hypothesis is that a given planet will have one dominant line that will squash the competition, so it's hard to witness multiple lines even if they existed at one point. There are possible "winner take all" elements; for instance, if a planet has two lines of life that each prefer the opposite handedness, it is likely that over time one of them will "win", as the (say) left-handed biosphere generates more left-handed proteins, which are poison to the right-hand biosphere, resulting in eventually there being one dominant biochemistry even if you seed it from the beginning with multiple.

It is also possible that life is, say, "medium" possible, and over the course of the Milky Way's life could be expected to arise a few dozen times and spread via panspermia, but in any given area only one of these may seed us, meaning that while there is variation in life, we can't witness it without traveling a long way.

Another possibility has been proposed that as our detection tools tend to assume DNA, and we look for DNA when "detecting life", that if there was some extremophile bacteria a couple of miles deep in the crust that truly was from another line of succession that didn't use DNA, or used it in a way unrecognizable to our equipment, that we could indeed even have run samples of such life through our labs and simply not know it.
Officially deprecating JSQMessagesViewController
Yeah but you do have to wait for the kid in front of you to finish chatting to his friends before switching to the payment part of wechat
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Or it could show how most investors are still very unsophisticated and insecure. They don't want it to be the NBT, they need for it to be. If the music industry was this bad, you would mainly be hearing variations of Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber on the radio.

The lesson for founders, therefore, should be to avoid investors for as long as possible.
Is this faster than PayWave?

Ever since I could tap to pay with my card in AU, I have been going months without using cash. I usually still have money, but never use it. I've gone almost 2 months with literally 0 dollars in my wallet.
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Ask HN: Does anyone use CGI scripts anymore?
Just curious - doing a quick landing page for a client on shared hosting and another dev and I were just remarking on the reliable old /cgi-bin dir laying about the docroot.

In my entire career I've never used it - does anyone still use CGI scripts on a day to day basis? If so, what for?
A great platform for what?

It's only as useful as the payment sourcs, and us credit/debit cards are terrible. I don't see how qr codes could do a lick of good.
Sure, I said "type" because that's what I would do, but you can speak to the phone or Assistant and achieve the same result.
Do you mind sharing what region you're in? You may have found it was easy to significantly increase your compensation because you were significantly underpaid, instead of just because you were frequently changing jobs.
In urban USA, cash is pretty rare too. Almost everyone uses credit.
This brings me back to college days... when you could use your student ID to pay for everything instantly. And the ID# was encoded on the magnetic strip unencrypted.
it's common in college dorms. It is also usually against the law for a landlord to charge for electricity unless each unit has an individual meter. So if they are subdividing a house into multiple units it may not be economical to install per unit meters. In cases like that electricity is included.
As OP said, very few companies are in this realm. While many people assume this is the status-quo, it's not anymore.
I had the most surreal experience in the Shenzhen airport the other day. I was out of cash, with only my credit cards and Android pay. There was no place in the entire airport that I could pay with Visa or Mastercard - the first time I felt truly helpless in China. Uber didn't work either. I was forced to set up WeChat pay, which works absolutely everywhere.
BitCoin developer Peter Todd's part in this story:

https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust...
Well, of course if you are willing to pay the phone company for multiple lines and install an expensive phone system you can waste a tone of money doing it other ways.
When I talk to my director he seems to actually dislike people who have worked under him for more than 5 years. He likes "fresh blood". If you stay around you are a loser.
Feeling good about what you do will likely make you happier than "success", I know plenty of successful people who are miserable or still unhappy.

And unsurprisingly, not liking what you do will deprive you of happiness
There is a plateau as one reaches senior positions.

As I went from "no" experience to my current position my job switches (every ~2 years) always were for 10%-25% (in one case, 100%, but that was Midwest to Bay Area so other factors are at play). I never got more than 5% merit increases otherwise.

Most of my friends who have been at the same place for >10 years in engineering (not software) are just now reaching parity with my base salary (CoL-adjusted) and they didn't spend 6 years in academia before transitioning to industry.

Two year tenures isn't job hopping. It's a reflection of how this industry works. Very few companies offer sufficient breadth and depth of product complexity, career advancement, or other similar things to make it worthwhile. I'd say the sweet spot is 2-4 years, except at very large companies (e.g. Google) (EDIT:) or companies which are developing complicated products with physical engineering or regulatory factors complicating development. Anything longer, especially if there is a lot of long-term stasis on a resume (e.g. "tech lead on product X" for more than a year or two), is an indication to me of someone who either isn't capable of stretching himself or doesn't want to. Anything less, especially if more than one project per job exists, indicates an inability to see a project through to maintenance or someone who is easily bored.
I graduated a year ago and it was not mandatory at my University.
Amazon has a fairly low cash salary cap if you're not upper management. They make it up (nominally anyway) with an initial cash bonus and stock options. Don't count on any raise after getting hired though. Plus the average stay there is far less than the vest period for either bonus or stock, because Amazon is pretty much the hellmouth.
I'm pretty sure the "quit" was in reference to his job...
I'm guessing this has come about because VISA and Mastercard are US companies, where as WeChat is Chinese owned?
Somehow this doesn't seem like a desirable property in a language. One of the purposes of (human? inter-sentient?) languages is the reliable transmission of information. Verbosity and repetition in language have a purpose similar to that of redundancy in engineering: they ensure that if someone misses out a part of the message, the whole message isn't ruined.

If your message being get across is predicated on successfully transmitting an arbitrarily large sequence of symbols where every one of them might be crucial (supposing that word frequency is inversely proportional to meaningfulness, which is rather reasonable), this "talking" thing would get hard pretty fast.
I think this article hit the nail on the head when it pointed out that being ahead of the curve at one time (with Japan and their advanced flip phones in the early 2000s) can make it harder to adopt the next big advance because what you have is already "good enough".

Thus, in the US, I suspect that mobile payments haven't taken off as much because they are only very slightly faster to use than a credit card, as opposed to cash, which is much slower with people counting out amounts and cashiers counting out change. Before Android Pay came out and there was Google Wallet, I tried using Google Wallet but was super disappointed - it failed about 5% of the time, where my credit cards almost never failed. Lately, though, I've started using Android Pay and I've been really impressed. Just one tap with my phone and it's done, and it's very reliable. Still, though, it's really only slightly faster than swiping my credit card, especially for small amounts where a signature isn't required.
They kind of got a second lease on life with chromeos support for Android. However with Web assembly and progressive web apps the chromeos support for Android is a transitional move, eventually webassembly will eat the desktop market and the mobile app stores.