skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making the most out of a bad job (help a programmer out)
I'm searching for an extra revenue source since my 'working situation' is quite particular.. to say the least.

I'm stuck in a well paid job in a country where switching job (programming/computer science related) is not an option unless you relocate elsewhere. My wife doesn't want to move and I do not intend to leave her. This job pays well but as I said it's kind of 'particular': bosses are totally uncapable and fragile persons. We're a small company funded by rich guys who really can't run anything: they keep us 8 hours a day in front of a monitor in a nice office doing absolutely nothing. As long as we're there to fix some easy computer problems that show up once in three months, they're content with us doing nothing. They're rich (I'll never understand why they founded this company in the first place, possibly out of boredom) and they don't want to hire a contractor for the few hours of actual work they require: they prefer someone on-site all the time to be 'ready anytime' (economic-wise this is a catastrophe).

Since I'm in this bad situation I'm trying to make the best out of it: how can I use my programming and computer science skills to have an extra profit during those 8 hours? I constantly try to study new things / prepare for the interview that may never come (since I can't relocate right now), but that's not enough.

My bosses clearly stated I can train, do programming work or anything I want during those hours. As far as I know there isn't a market for creating and selling e.g. Java libraries, those things are either developed by companies or made available opensource.

Any idea on how could I make the best of those hours revenue-wise?
I feel that being kept doing nothing for that much time is affecting my self esteem and possibly my mental health in the long run.
Has somebody recombined low res data from many satellites to a high res free version? Sort of like many synced cheap oscilloscopes can form a expensive one?
In the cases I know of, including my own, one parent is a native Thai speaker, the other native English, kids went to international school. Instruction in the schools is in English, with a few classes per week of Thai language studies. The kids all speak Thai as natives but are weak in reading and writing skills. In my case, I speak Thai quite well and can read and write at a mid-primary level, better than my kid can. It's kind of funny that we think we will need to send him to tutoring to bring his Thai language skills up to par.

Yes, the international businesses all use English and the better jobs require English. But you still need to be proficient in Thai if you want to do business here, or even just be self sufficient in every day affairs.

Given all that, being an employee in Thailand, even with a good education and strong bilingual skills, doesn't really pay well. The only people in Thailand who make money are the owners of businesses, not employees. There's really nothing like the highly paid high tech jobs of which there are many in the west. Unless that changes in the future I will encourage my kid to go work somewhere else if he doesn't have a business of his own.
Does a CGM glucose monitoring sensor count? I get the values real time to my android watch and remote InfluxDB for later analysis.
It's allowed in Sweden: http://nordic.businessinsider.com/swedish-rail-company-scans...
There are plenty of incomprehensible Americans and Australians etc, precepts you either don't interact with them (poor people?) or you are American / Australian, and don't realise that as a Brit I can have difficult understanding a strong Boston accent.

(I think. One of the characters in "Spotlight" was the most recent time I understood almost nothing.)
My question precisely.

Ever since I started using mysql replication I've been mostly relying on replicated incremental backups with xtrabackup.

To workaround the downside of not being able to restore a single table I'm using some scripts I found online that perform automatic restore tests of the xtrabackup backups with docker. That way I can access the restored DB in the docker container and export/dump whatever I want.

This also enables me to run a restore test and data integrity test on the restored data every day and report the status to my monitoring platform.
One person left because he wanted to be paid significantly more than his work was worth at the time (according to me, my cofounder, and the 5 people we put in charge of a "pay team" to resolve this). He left, and it was better for him - he took a year off, decided actually the problem was he wanted to be doing charitable work and the money was a way to make up for that gap. He's now working at a charity.

I see it as a loss, but I'm not sure it was an avoidable loss.

Nobody else left because of pay transparency. Before we got our feedback in order, some people left because of feedback about their work, which only came after a round of pay changes, which made it clear to them that they were not doing work that was valued by the company. In those cases it would have been much better for everyone if we had delivered that feedback much more quickly! We're better at this now.
OpenBazaar never worked for me either.
The only time I actually bought something, the seller laughed me off and didn't post anything. Messages to "moderator" were ignored.

Since using the software is painful (it's an Electron app after all), I gave up.

I think that has been the experience of everyone that actually tried it more than once
This is very interesting - like most influenced by GI theory, I had assumed that rate of absorption/avoiding an insulin spike meant that if you wanted something sweet, it would be OK or at least least-bad, if it were mixed with slow-digesting items such as protein. Guess not :-(
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+7/23/17:+DraftKings+Top+3+Pitchers
You seem to be gitting a lot of downvotes but no response about why. Is this not true or what?
I'm not sure how to answer the first question... we pay good salaries, but we don't have primarily developers so I'm not sure how to compare us to google.

Potential employees get walked through the system we used to come up with what we think their pay should be, and get to see what everyone else's pay is, as a prelude to a chat about what their pay should be. Most are happy to go with our number. Some need more for some reason, and we're flexible about this.

We make the effort to be the first one to quote a number on the basis that typically, in salary negotiations, "the first person to name a number loses". So we deliberately lose upfront to create a situation of trust instead of an opaque, win/lose negotiation where each side is trying to squeeze the other. We haven't encountered a situation where the candidate behaved in a way we considered aggressive or dishonest after we opened the salary conversation in this way. Worth noting that the expected salary range is always advertised upfront with the job.
Nitrogen fixated feltilisers, our agriculture industry at its current scale is only possible due to fertilisers produced at mass from natural gas. There are other side issues that contribute too.
yes but this is also a problem in the real world right? I could order anything, sign the package once it arrived, and then complain that the box was empty.
With or without a smart contract, it is hard/impossible to prove I'm lying or not.

So I assume this case is mostly taken care of by insurance, not the platform fee? Or I guess that's what the platform fee is for?
It's a passive tag, so I can edit it all I want but then again I live in Pakistan, our tickets are paper :)
I'm not meaning to deal any blows at all, low or otherwise.

I'm merely explaining that to the reader not a student of typography, there's not really any indication that this should be taken with more authority than 'some blog author' per comments above.
You are confusing the literal definition of dangerous with the figurative definition.
"dangerous ideas and stories" !=== risk to life
e.g. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/09/...

To address your confusion on the last question:
There is some back story; she changed her gender to male a while back. https://youtu.be/gGpZSefYvwM?t=2m6s
Binary search would make a good bar bet. “Pick a number between 1 and 1000. I’ll make guesses, and you just tell me whether they’re too low or too high. I’ll bet you $10 that I can guess the number in only 10 tries or less.”
Scientists discover “angel” particle
A significant fraction of the builders in the UK are Polish.
If you cripple your software just because the average user isn't a power user, there will be no way for average users to become power users because there's no advantage to doing so.
The Austrian School of Economics fails because it's fairly explicitly not based on empirical evidence, and is explicitly proclaimed to be not falsifiable.
But i dont think the vietnamese would refer to it as the vietnam, but rather as the us invasion of computer science. :)
This may be a regional thing, or your friends skew towards non-normal. Almost everyone I know understands tethering, and is comfortable using it. I'm in Sydney, Australia, where free wifi hotspots are perhaps less common than your part of the world, the people I know are not (to my knowledge) abnormal, mobile data services are typically fast, but costs are also quite high.

It is a source of some frustration that devices connected to a tether will assume 'wifi therefore unmetered' and do all the non-time-critical stuff (such as application updates) that you'd really rather that they do on a genuinely unmetered wifi access point (eg. home cable or ADSL) later on.
Something like this has been done before, albeit in the form of objects like rings:

http://www.ds72.com/projects/oyster-ring

So while possible unfortunately tampering with Oyster cards is frowned upon by TfL. It might not technically be illegal but it'll certainly run you into problems when checked by traffic inspectors.

The answer to this StackExchange question gives an in-depth explanation of the Oyster card's cryptographic architecture, which shows that the card being as tamper-proof as possible is very much by design:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/78013/can-i-...
She purports to be a journalist; she wanted to document the boat ride, not participate as a supporter.
Here is her full explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtImwK5TI4g
Just like you won't demonize meat because [0] says there's increased risk, you won't make conclusions about other things from epidemiological studies.

[0] http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2517494
There is pansharpening (effectively improving the spatial resolution of colour images by combining them with sharper, higher spatial-resolution monochrome images) and using processing techniques to combine low-res images can certainly improve the effectiveness of detecting features which are smaller than the image pixel size, but I don't think anyone's likely to get comparable detail to a sub-1m or even a 5m pixel image out of combining 20m and 30m pixel images taken at different times.
There are probably satellites capable of very high resolution pictures, but tracking a person with a continuous video feed is probably not practical - you'd need a ridiculous number of satellites due to the orbit.

What we do have, and have had for a couple of decades, is drones, and they can definitely do that.
As all futurists, you seem to solve unexisting problem here. Only limbs are required to be local. If you can make artifical brain or parts without erasing your original, then you can easily offload new parts to datacenter, leaving only TCP/UDP interface inside your skull.

BrainHub. Additional brain processing and storage for $25/mo for your team of 5. Free for public memories.
Why not chop off part of screen?
What's your definition of moderately big?
Ushahidi board now fires director Daudi Were over sex scandal
I feel the exact same way. Before 2015 i did not even use a smart phone and i think this helped me a lot. Also as a father i think we should fight distraction rather than give in to it. Rather than preach multi tasking we should cultivate the art of doing one thing at a time.
Correct syntax highlighting is subjective, because color selection is a matter of taste.
Doesn't that mean we should also shut down casinos, for example?

I don't think the answer has ever been "make it so people can't buy the stuff", because that can't work. Instead, I believe that education, quality control, and help towards addicts would work much better.
Apparently we're not even close to '6th mass extinction' standards:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/the-ends...

“I think that if we keep things up long enough, we’ll get to a mass extinction, but we’re not in a mass extinction yet, and I think that’s an optimistic discovery because that means we actually have time to avoid Armageddon,”
Not only is it bragging about an outdated benchmark, but it's also using that trick where the "graphs" don't start from zero.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0196K1BZW/

If you search for "waterproof backlit mechanical keyboard", you will get a bunch of these (probably 20-30). Haven't looked in the US Amazon.
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Like... most of it?
You can't do linear algebra "safely" without doing error analysis. So lots of decompositions and operations are very useful for proofs and finding bounds - but can't be use directly to compute values. It's why a good fraction of stuff people do with linear algebra is numerically garbage
Probably to emphasize that it is a practical course. Numerical courses, at least those I've seen or completed, tend to focus on algorithms and their properties, not implementation.

> Jeremy and I developed this material for a numerical linear algebra course we taught in the University of San Francisco’s Masters of Analytics program, and it is the first ever numerical linear algebra course, to our knowledge, to be completely centered around practical applications and to use cutting edge algorithms and tools,
>>> Rental prices are half of LA's.

Because income is one half of LA.
I have a Ms in Economics and work as an economist. Most of the criticism and debate I see here is quite interesting, and the reflexions of the author of the article are similar to mines after working several years in the field.

You fall in the category of people who think that debate about science should be limited to those who know science theory. The problem I saw in the field is that people talking have to much to loose, hence forbidding a reworking of the fundamental assumption and a trashing of the useless models that we keep producing.

If you want to do real science, go ask the ones who are practicing economics daily about their heuristics. Nightclub owners figured out their economics interest long before two-sided market theory was out there, after all.
The colleague with the MRI scan is a man.

But isn't it altogether nicer when comments focus on the interesting parts rather than quibbling over the trivial?
Not on-topic, but definitely. English is like C++, it's a monster. Apparently Germans managed to revamp their own written language very recently.
This is great. It gets across some really useful concepts, without seeming inaccessible, by having some uber finished shiney 3d render in it.
Keeping people confined for long periods affect metabolism?
My pet theory is that multilingualism multiplies the delta in natural talent: gifted people become stellar writers/talkers, whereas less talented people might suffer from career-inhibiting deficiencies in all languages and often would have been better off focusing on a single language.

I'm far from considering myself multilingual, but if I could somehow trade a part of my English skill for a magical boost in my native language I would gladly take it: half of my English abilities would still be plenty for understanding the occasional stackoverflow post, this place here would be just fine without my contributions and ordering food at a restaurant is actually easier when you can fully embrace the "helpless tourist" level. In my natural language, one level better might be the deciding difference between writing as a necessity and writing as a selling point.
It's kind of weird reading all these comments about bilingualism while here I am with fluency in 3 Indian languages + English. Am I special :)
How Stem Cells Cooperate with Immune Cells to Unleash Potential of Treatment
Stem Cells, which is regarded as the ‘Universal cell’ based on the self-renewal, replication and mufti-directional differentiation characteristics. Medicine scientists work on digging the application value for tissue repair, cell therapy, drug development, toxicological assessment, disease model construction and so on. Although a series of studies already excavated the gene and protein for stem cells, however, the stem cell niche is largely ignored. What we would like to discuss in this post is about the connection between stem cells and immune cells.

Except for cells in stem cell niche, stem cells will cooperate with immune cells regularly. As the primary line to defend pathogens invaders, immune cells are known as the key elements to maintain vivo balance and speed healing! However, the effect of immune cells on stem cells is not simplification, it will multiply according to the species, development stage, damaged organs or tissue, the degree of injury, stem cell characteristics and specific analysis. In some cases, the immune system may even attack normal tissues and lead to the proliferation of cancer cells. But scientists can apply stem cells better while treating the various disease if can figure out the impact of immune cells on stem cells.
*Unless all people that might ever look at my screen are used to them.

If you work with people over the internet, it doesn't matter because they can disable ligatures and still read your code. And obviously it's not a problem if people know them and are looking on your screen.

But yeah, if you're doing pair programming and first dev is used to them and the second dev is not, that's a problem. The question is, is the solution that the second dev learns them or that the first dev stops using them - both will obviously dislike changing the way they like to code...
Why I’m Frustrated with Go
As this was only about efficiently enumerating the missing locations, not walking them, that's fine. I.e. I had to find the ~5 needles in the haystack of hundreds that I needed to visit. Given that sparseness, it was most efficient to just jump to the nearest warp point and directly go there.

Elevation and the like would be more interesting to figure out what's the most efficient way to collect all Korok Seeds, for example, when the interesting point cloud isn't as sparse. But then you'd definitely want to view it as a TSP problem anyway.
I would suspect that your troubles go beyond "frowns". A ticket inspector wants to see a valid oyster card, not a party trick, and whether it scans or not, I don't think it's a high bar to argue that a tampered with card isn't valid, period.

(Officially, at least. I've seen them happily scan the outsides of people's wallets.)
> A company ran by Software Engineers would have hired competent UI developers and QE engineers and would have demoed the hell out of the event before putting it into production

UI developers? Testing? You have apparently worked with very different software engineers than I have! Most I've worked with have followed the "if users don't understand the UI it's their fault" UI design philosophy, and all testing is handled in production because no one wants to put emphasis on testing when they could be working on the next feature.
It does not seem right that the systemd people are labelling Felix von Leitner, author of minit, "that troll".

However, several of the non-systemd people there seem to have forgotten that there are two strings maintained by operating system kernels.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/set-dynamic-hostname.h...
You mistakenly assume that all Vietnamese were on the same side in the war. Millions of Vietnamese lost that war to domestic forces who would never allow free speech, free elections, etc., armed by foreigners (Soviets) who never allowed free speech, free elections, etc.

The Vietnamese who cut my hair here in Silicon Valley possess nothing remotely resembling what you naively call "the Vietnamese viewpoint."
> the government prefers to invent increasingly narrow and meaningless jobs to keep the masses busy.

Even if one considers all public sector jobs and public sector jobs involved in areas like compliance and tax to be "narrow and meaningless", I don't think you can blame governments for the more recent growth in salespeople, management consultants, web-front-end-library-stitcher-togetherers or social media managers...
That's the use case I was imagining too. Something like in Mega Man, Metroid or Bionic Commando where the arm acts like a super fancy swiss army knife. Seems like something there could be military applications for, or something espionage agencies may want to have available.
Which is exactly the point. There is no proof of superiority, it is just a choice flavor
I am struggling to see the "improvement" in having a magnet in your finger. What use was it, because she describes a number of downsides?
If it's the same naming as banks, analyst is the lowest level position in the chain. Something similar to an intern at a GAFA. Not a dream position at all.
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Equilibrium Solution to the Lowest Unique Positive Integer Game
> How do you know what her ability in English would be if she'd not had the other 2 languages.

Not OP. I can speak 3 Indian languages and English. My English is better than native English speakers, I know that because I got above average points in IELTS.

Yes when you are learning as a kid things will be little show at first but most kids (sample size of my Indian friends who are trilinguals as well) will be fine after some years.
-> http://doyouneedablockchain.com
They call it ligatures, but prettifying --> to a long arrow is quite out of scope of historical and practical meaning of typographic ligature. It's abuse of typesetter to scratch one's typography / graphic design itch, no less.
ASP.NET Interview Questions – Beginner and Advanced Level – Real Time
Often people are wary of new results about health, so it's worth pointing out that this paper is rigorous and the conclusion is very likely to be correct, as explained by this comment on Reddit's /r/science [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6oufus/comment/dkk...
University may have to pay to review a paper that will be sold back to them
Automated ML using genetic programming
Yes. It's heavy on computation and put a fair amount of stress on my older Mac, but worth absolutely every compute cycle!
Best "hack" I heard for an Oyster Card was someone putting it inside an actual oyster, beeping in and out of the London Underground with it.
Design Index – A curated list of ui/ux resources
https://sciter.com/ is a light-weight html/css/script engine

There's also https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml
I found the part which use Zorn's Lemma pretty un-computational :) It's equivalent to the axiom of choice and is used to show that every vector space has a basis
They don't have to say it, it's implied by omission. When OOP proponents keep repeating that it breaks a program into smaller, more manageable parts, it's easy for beginning programmers to assume that this is a defining feature of OOP and that it's somehow specific to it.
TL;DR: An academic referee wants to check out a paper referenced by a paper under review. This may cost $39.95. By doing this work he adds value to the paper being refereed, and hence enables the publisher to sell that paper back to the University for an equally stiff fee.