skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to talk at a local meet up group it's usually an informal process to introduce yourself to the organizers and pitch an idea.

If you want to speak at a larger conference you'll have to keep an ear to the ground for a "Call for Proposals" or CFP. This is a more formal process where you'll have to pitch your talk and make it through the selection process. Some conferences are more friendly to beginner speakers than others such as Pycon.

That's how I started. I've done about 5 or 6 talks now that have ranged from very small, informal talks to larger ones where I was speaking to a room of a hundred or so people. You don't have to be an expert right away or aim to be a keynote speaker. It takes practice and that might not be what success means to you anyway.

The biggest talk I did I had planned for months. I had done a lot of work and research for it. It was at Pycon in 2014 [0] iirc. I travelled with my family out to Montréal to give it. I was really, really excited: I was about to talk about procedural generation and algorithms for game design... when the night before I was to give the talk my daughter had come down with a stomach virus. My partner and I spent the night in an emergency room and I didn't get any sleep that night. I was a wreck on stage the next day. I'd cut out a bunch of content in the morning after rehearsing one more time, afraid I wouldn't be able to get through it, and when it came time to give the talk I rushed through most of it and had 10 minutes to spare at the end.

Despite how bad I felt it had gone more than a few people shook my hand after and had good things to say. A younger person there said it was the best talk they had heard all day. I'll never forget that.

I love teaching and speaking. It can be fun. But you don't have to be the best speaker to get started. You just have to put it out there and start giving talks. After a dozen or so I think I might start getting the hang of it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2YxsHPIfA

Update added link to talk
The ads on this page are almost intolerable. The page keeps jumping up and down. Normally I leave sites that do that, but the story here is interesting enough that I'm suffering through it.
It's not a truck
previous one was definitely code signed. I installed the previous one yesterday and it was signed. So, surprised when today's wasn't.
Are you talking about people buying a truck to get to their desk job, or people buying a truck to haul a load? Those are two different groups with different requirements.

The first group like the tough image, but so long as it goes 100 miles round trip and you can put something in it they have their needs met and the rest is about image. This group just needs an electric car drive train.

The second group actually needs a truck. They have a ton (literally a ton) of tools that they need to get from job site to job site (think the handyman type who does several 2-3 hour jobs). Or they are back and forth from the warehouse delivering materials to different work sites. Or they are bringing 400 liters of fuel to the tractor, and then off to the feed store. I can probably come up with a few dozen other groups of people who use a truck as a truck.
It is similar to several Rust features, but has its differences, as you'd expect. They're also in-development features, so I agree that "catching up to Rust" feels like a bad way to frame this.
Is that always true though? I could see doing that for longer trips (rare) and leaving it at home for the remainder of the 90% of trips.
That was my thought. Looks to be plenty of room in that front trunk for a generator to make this a not-so-poor-man's hybrid.
Why not just get a package box for your porch? I guess there isn't a guarantee they delivery person would use it.
A 70mph crash doesn't necessarily involve an unsurvivable impulse. Most accidents are not of the vehicle plows into immovable object sort.
Working on a side project with lofty goals - project domain is personal financial management. Phoenix/Elixir on the backend and ReactJS frontend. OTP is too sweet to ignore.Not decided on database. Currently using Postgres. May change to CockroachDB.
The ultimate front end dev toolkit – 60+ must-have tools
Not necessarily - you might only charge using the generator every 20th cycle; the other 19 you might leave it at home (or in your other vehicle, or whatever).
Well combinations of all
Some main roles like apis and user access are in db
But functionality , personalizations are in confit files sometimes it is more then 1 for app
Like :
1 for thread pools and db connections
1 for logs
1 for functionality
Now each client has different config
Total mess
Getting Started with Workbox: JavaScript Libraries for Your Next PWA
Is there some definition of "truck" which this vehicle does not fulfill?
Yeah but an equity investment has intrinsic value. Either through future earning to which as a shareholder you are entitled or to the residual value of the company if you shut it down now. You can trade it in a speculative way, and if it starts to trade at a level that cannot be justified by its intrinsic value, then we are in bubble territory too.
For some additional practical tips, see also Patrick Winston's "How to Speak" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjbmPuhuFv0&list=PL9F536001A...
Have a purpose.

People give talks to get something. Do you want a job? To make money? Peddle something? Get clients?

Then look for little events that are hard up for speakers. Hang out and talk to folks and you'll build up a critical mass and hear about better opportunities.
Good article. I've read about these options before, but not together, so now it's much clearer, cheers.

One thing about Definitions from Definitely Typed that is concerning me ........ how do we know that the functions we're seeing in autocomplete represent all of the available functions of the JS library?

Maybe the library has a brilliant update that we are now going to miss...
I have lockers next to the mailbox and I'm in the US. They just put a key to the locker in your box and then you go unlock the locker and the key is 'caught' and won't re-close. Yeah, it's not a perfect system, but it doesn't go out when the power goes down and it isn't going to get taken over by Bratslavian hackers to try to sell my neighbors Viagra via Twitter and even the most tech-illiterate/disabled people can use it fine.
It's a... series of tubes?
I am into that.
> that you specifically like

Also false. The requirements could be implemented by something I strongly dislike. For instance, someone's crappy one-weekend Lisp dialect, hopelessly unsuitable for real work, in which an error stops the entire process without leaving a clue where it occurred. I will certainly prefer a quality Lisp-resembling language to such a thing.
You can go one better than that: double tap with two fingers on the software keyboard to initiate a selection on the current word and then drag to extend selection.

You don't need to double tap on the actual text or characters, you just tap-then-drag with two fingers on the software keyboard.
Or more specifically if the restaurant didn't take the pennies and sued you for non payment the court would rule that you had offered payment as the tender was legal. It doesn't mean the restaurant will be willing to serve you next time.
Search for anti-aging starts with the blood of 600 Estonians
I don't think that sentence you quoted suggest everyone should get used to them. It simply says they're not that bad once you get used to them.
"Fool-proof" never takes into account the ingenuity of fools. ;)
This is so cringe, the notion they are pursuing keto with so much animal products is just gross. They probably think they've found their body's best way to diet. Ugh.
> One of the biggest problems we have today is that there's no shared vision of an achievable better world. As a society, we don't know where to go.

I don't think we as a society or even humanity ever shared a vision. Though you may be right, I think it has more to do with our advancing knowledge which is relegating humans to just an animal ( a biological machine ). We used to think we were special. The center of the universe endowed with an eternal soul. Now we know that we aren't the center of solar system let alone the universe. Science has debunked all notions of the "soul" and it's presence in our bodies/organs/etc. And advances in AI is making a mockery of human intelligence in many specific fields ( though not on general level yet ). And recent studies of our brain and consciousness is starting to remove our last "mystery" of ourselves. And as neuroscience advances more, the "special" nature of our "unique" consciousness will probably melt away like our theories about the soul. There is even talk amongst neuroscientists/philosophers/academics/etc that the brain is just a "predictive machine" and that our sense of our "self" may be an illusion.

And of course add to that the growing economic and power disparity between people and the elite and a better understanding of history which is tearing down all the fake facade of american primacy or "western" civilization or even world civilization.

It also doesn't help that china has surpassed the US as the world #1 economy in PPP terms and will surpass the US in nominal terms in a few years.

In other words, our problem is that we are becoming more "aware/knowledgable". As they say, ignorance is bliss.
I was trying to build a tmux style svg based windowing system for elm. Guess what? this involves a tree. Trees don't go well with functional programming. Ever heard of a zipper? lol.
You can also tap-then-drag with two fingers to do text selection right from the keyboard.
Toronto is not a tech hub haha. We have a huge financial district and lots of "financial startups". The salaries are absolute bottom tier though. 50-60k USD at the high level.
Hopefully these will be restricted to use on farmland instead of being inappropriately paraded in suburban areas.

Electric vehicles are not "clean", they're merely cleaner.
My definition of truck: if you can't dump a ton of shit in the bed with a backhoe, it's not a truck. It's a minivan.

For me, having a permanent bed cover means it's not useful as a truck.
Interestingly even emacs-style shortcut keys for text navigation have been supported in iOS text fields since forever when using a bluetooth keyboard.
Ask HN: Why don't more companies post to SlackAtWork.com?
Raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and being valued around $5 Billion, Slack is a juggernaut.

They offer a free job board for paying customers but there are only 30 jobs posted.

Why don't more people post to job boards that they have easy access to? Seems like an easy win for most organizations looking to hire.
And really it's hard to determine what differentiates the data between DC and Baltimore for a lot of tech jobs. The ranking calls it Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, so that probably means Fort Meade and a lot of other tech jobs that might be more 'in-between'.
The previous version of Peachpie, Phalanger, had several clients with huge codebases who successfully used it to migrate their apps or interoperate with C#. Peachpie works the same way.
Can't speak for op, but boy do I hate cooking.
Amazon is the perennial company in Seattle, but the Seattle's tech center has always been dominated by the empire Bill built (aka, Microsoft). Google, for example, has two campuses, a smaller one inFremont (which is Seattle), and a much larger one in Kirkland (to attract former MS employees). Ditto for Facebook.
More reading on this: There is a paper by David Axelrod and W.D. Hamilton called "The Evolution of Cooperation". There is also a book by Axelrod of the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
I'm lucky enough to be with a company with a couple people on both sides. Originally we were all blue team (that was VERY poorly integrated with the engineering group), but ive started shifting one guy over to full time pentesting and working on integration with engineering.

> results in internal tickets/issues/BUGs, while the development/operation practices are kept the same.

You could not be more accurate; this also applies to groups that maybe started out as corporate infosec (virus protection, simple application scanning, etc...) and were never really tightly coupled with engineering. We have identified essentially identical authorization issues in a pre-release version of one of our products two or three times this year, which was also present in the last 3rd party pentest of the same product before my time (which was pretty scathing). Its incredible.
That was the question until the Kalashnikov announcement.

Now the question is, "given that everybody from Putin, to terrorists, Maduro, and North Korea have these weapons, do you want the US government facing them without such weapons ?"

In an arms race, you can perhaps refuse to pull ahead (even that is risky), but nothing good will come of falling behind.
If they were willing to move to Reno (and if Tesla was down with it) they could piggyback on the existing Gigafactory here. I'm not sure how much it'd take to adapt the B1 to Tesla/Panasonic batteries, though.

As an additional bonus, there are lots of mountains over here, too, and snowy ones at that. Truckee or Tahoe during the winter would make an excellent proving ground for these things, and would additionally be close to a strong potential market for them.
It's a pretty pointless car, and unlikely to ever be available to buy.
EScan Anti-Virus 14.0.1400.2027 and License Key Free Download
Apple Begins Paying $2B in Cash to Nokia as Part of Lawsuit Settlement
A currency has value because you can force any shop keeper to accept it as payment against some good, and in certain cases you can convert it against gold. The minute commerce doesn't accept the currency for payments and the central bank won't convert it for gold, it has become worthless, irrespective of how hard it is to make copies of the bank note.

And keeping in mind very few people hold much currency. Usually you hold a deposit account, i.e. you lent to your bank. It is a low risk/low yield investment.
i'm not sure i understand how that is a 'perfect example' of 'don't tolerate dissent'. could you elaborate?
Seconded, in the beginning it almost has a fantasy vibe since what it describes for the most part is so advanced it almost seems magical, but stick with it because it is fantastic.
Excuse me? What claims are you making exactly regarding electric vehicles that mean they shouldn't be allowed on public roads?
I moved out of my previous apartment partially because they switched to something like this... in our case they actually put the locker outside the building/locks - far more annoying than when the building let services leave the package in front of our apartment doors. I'm pretty sure these cost money too.
+1, lightning talks are amazing as a speaking opportunity. They're drastically less scary than a 40 minute talk, so it's easy to give it a go with a simple talk without much prep, and as you gain experience they're an amazing place to practice honing more complex topics down to their essential essence.

They're also a great place for comedy, if you're into that sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xuvPPBPM4
I have some friends there, it seems livable :) But I'm in Canada so I'm not seeking U.S. employment "in these turbulent times", if you know what I mean. 8) Thanks for the offer though!
There is public transportation and hopefully it's on the way to getting better. I personally take the bus to work everyday. Cap Metro is adding bus routes on the mopac express lanes from RR to downtown Austin.

The problem is there is a culture of driving in Austin and not of taking the public options. Most people don't even know what is out there. We could do with quite a few less cars on the road.
I used to think that walking trees was a standard task in functional programming languages because the one I am used to (Clojure) contains gobs of functions in its library for all kinds of walking, zipping, combining, separating trees of different structures. But I've learned since studying other functional languages that it isn't as commonly done as I'd thought.
The bed cover's not permanent, though; it's removable per the pictures in http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1111790_bollinger-b1-the-...

It also has a recommended cargo weight of 6,000 pounds, so it can haul a ton (literally! and two more!) of shit.

This is really no less of a truck than a Ford Bronco or Dodge Ramcharger.
Everything many people said here + RECORD YOUR TALK and watch a few times with a paper and pen to note things you don't like. Things to look for are:

* Disturbing pauses

* Unnecessarily long sentences

* Too little jokes

* Too much jokes

* Repetitions (this is actually really hard to do, people tend to think every single phrase has its own unique meaning, but actually...)

* Slides hard to read from afar

* Slides with too many text

* Slides with too many code

* Slides with no code

* Slides with no helper shapes like boxes, arrows, stressed words etc

Also you should prepare for a Q/A section and study for some probable questions you come up by yourself.

This comment looks like an advice for "How to talk?" but actually these are the things to be careful about before you start giving talks around.

Good luck! :)
> If most companies are paying a certain salary, doesn't that imply that salary IS market rate?

In my particular case, the "market rate" at Location A is ~$40k higher (after COLA) than the "market rate" in Atlanta.

So, when I mean "market rate" I mean "My options at Location A + the options in Atlanta."

> I don't think you can directly compare salaries across cities even after factoring in cost of living since it ignores the fact some places are more desirable to live in than others and thus should command "premiums".

To be perfectly honest, I consider Atlanta vs. where I am now a wash in most respects and a $40k premium is simply too steep for the difference. It isn't like I live in the Bay Area where rent is $40k.
Atlanta is amazing. It has an extremely low cost of living, yet there are tech companies here paying SF wages.

Anecdotally, my rent is $1300/mo for a 900 sqft loft directly on Atlanta's Beltline [1], and my total comp is (edit: decided to remove this since I might get doxed. I'll be happy to talk with anyone seriously considering Atlanta via email).

It's also been really interesting to see Georgia rocket to the #2 location in the US for filmmaking (a personal hobby of mine). The folks I know in the industry say we're poised to overtake LA eventually.

I mention this because Atlanta has a great mix of culture from a variety of different backgrounds. The music and arts scenes are particularly strong.

[1] https://beltline.org
Minority view: I dislike airbags. If it were legal - which it is not where I live - I would have them out of my car today.

The rest of you are welcome to the damned things and the undoubtedly enhanced security they provide. Me, I shall never be thoroughly comfortable with a giant armed boxing glove pointed at my head.

[Edit: typo]
Here's a thread on doing this with a Nissan Leaf.

http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=5792

From that and similar threads on Teslas, the caveats seem to be:

- Need a sine wave generator vs the cheaper square wave ones.

- Some cars allow you to adjust the current draw to match lower output generators, some don't. Cheap generators probably don't output enough current.

- You have to tie neutral to ground and use a real ground rod.
I'm trying to do that, already done some in my company(including my previous one), but I am having difficulties transitioning to local groups/meetups, this is mainly because I have an extra issue: I am an expat who doesn't speak the local language and not many of them are in English(and I am not even a native English speaker as well).
Not true. If you weren't paying attention and crashed into a car slowing down somewhat gently in front of you then the crash could be rather prolonged and the airbag would be absolutely essential. If you crash into a brick wall going 70 mph that's a totally different situation.
I'm trying to find a use case for this. A .NET to php decompiler may be more useful at this point in time.
Yeah my point is that I absolutely don't buy that. If Bezos came out and said that the reason for starting Amazon is really altruism or if Kalanick, speaking to the NY Times explained that, actually, Uber is rooted in fixing the false perceptions people have that public transportation has to be ugly and slow and boring we would all see right through that. Those are obvious examples of bullshit but when Musk comes out and say the exact same thing we blindly believe it. Why? It's all marketing, Musk's marketing is just marketing that's targeted at "our" demographic.
> Turns out modernity is an extremely unhealthy environment for humans, especially men.

Not modernity. Modern western society may be hazardous to men. For all the talk about male privilege, the society seems to be geared towards keeping men down and lifting up women.

Of course the male elites seem to be doing well, but generation by generation, the non-elite males have had their status/wealth/income/etc drop relatively speaking.

> Despite the narratives being thrown at you, we live in an incredibly "feminized" society where social stigma/violence/shaming are more powerful for the average person than plain old physical violence.

Absolutely agree with you on this. Instead of men physically beating women, now the violence is social/societal/governmental/etc. Where laws are created to favor women over men. Where women attack men by calling men "sexist/bigoted/aggressive/etc".

There probably is an environment component to this issue. But there is probably a social/societal component to this as well. Being attacked by society since birth probably negatively affects the male population in the west.

Certainly, the concerted effort by the elite to effeminize the western male for the past many decades has to have contributed.
Does the second require more than 200 miles of range between charging (honest question)?
I guess my brain works differently than your's does; I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached.

I have no idea what a trusted contact is in email.

Also, our rentors never told us about this nonsense, they just appeared. So, trying to think up, de-novo, that these would have some website attached to them was too far-fetched for me, let alone many of my former neighbors.

You know SharkTank is highly staged and this is an Amazon thingy now, right?: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilycanal/2016/10/21/about-72-...
I'd love to get back to hacking and be paid to do it legally.
How Pakistan's Prime Minister was brought down by a font
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's SpaceX Now More Valuable Than Snapchat – Fortune.com
Go get a degree, no shortcuts in life
They have a native Linux version? Why running it under Wine?
It's hard to put a price on good will and customer trust. Every C level should realize that their company is an information company and take appropriate action.
Ask HN: How do you deal with depression?
The question is pretty straight-forward. I'm currently dealing with lots of pain and guilt from breaking up with a long-term girlfriend and leaving her with massive student loan debts. I'm having trouble focusing, losing weight, etc.

Aside from medication (I'm on some), how do you deal with pain/guilt/depression? This industry can be high-stress and we can all be hard on ourselves from time to time. Just interested in different coping strategies. Thanks.
Yes, but I don't live or work in the Bay Area.

The difference in rent/real estate is like $10k/year. I've been to Atlanta regularly for quite some time and I can assure you I know the exact difference in COLA as a result. ;)
Same here. Resolved by:
1. logging in through https://account.xbox.com/
2. click profile picture top right corner and click profile
3. Privacy settings
4. Privacy and Online Safety > Privacy
5. Allow all "Microsoft Can" options (possibly not all needed but don't know which ones required so..)