skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this is something that I would really like to do, mind answering some questions :D?

When you say "freelance" are you contracting 'on location', or 'remote'?

On location, I can't seem to find anything that isn't basically a 40+ hour gig, negating the benefit of 'freelancing', and remote seems to be highly competitive/lowest common denominator.

I'm a decent developer (backend), in a decent tech city and I'm struggling to find a way to ditch my 9-5 in favour of doing my own thing.

Any resources/advice would be appreciated.
I wonder if they'll get a good image of the dinosaur's insides! What could they use to see through the rock?
I've read that a couple of times, but it's only a little bit. About half way between the far edge and the edge of the touchbar display.
> more fair opportunity

'Fair' is irrelevant, an excuse at best - they will do whatever is advantageous. They didn't roll back protections for any of their other industries, and they won't for this one, either.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-life-expectancy-of-a-Tesla-M...

"Tesla Tech Talk (06/13) - Speaker's main points:
1) battery degrades everyday
2) battery degradation is non-linear over time; meaning it starts very very slow, but after 4-5 years, it gets faster
3) after the first 5 years, degradation may be as low as 5%. But by the 8th year, they expect about 30% degradation."

Batteries will without any doubt seriously affect second hand markets for EVs. Especially when considering cold climates and the fact that the range can be quite limiting even when the battery is brand new.
Certainly not dead! One of the nice things about VS Code/Monaco is how easy they make it to embed the editor in the browser.

With Glimmer, for example, I was able to hack together this playground with full intellisense over a weekend: http://glimmer-playground.netlify.com/

Source code here: https://github.com/tomdale/glimmer-repl (itself a Glimmer app that wraps Monaco)
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14925135
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You document everything and peer review all the time. NASA has an incredible amount of documentation on anything they do. There are controlled processes for everything so whenever you need to go back and see how someone made something, there is an old document for it. The only thing that can't really be passed down is familiarity. You can have the old engineers write down every process, method, or quirk of a system but the new guy still needs to read all of it and get familiar with the system. Long term projects like these involve a lot of learning from other people so that there is a continuous chain of knowledgeable people running the project, like a master and apprentice kind of situation. And if the chain is ever broken, you come back using the documents and information passed on to get up and running as smooth as possible.
Traditional pensions are much less volatile. Cryptos might be dangerous as pensions.
As I've already noted, Germany and other countries have enforced their no-Nazi-stuff laws against US-based entities.

If you do a thing that's illegal in Hungary, and then put yourself on Hungarian soil, I'm not going to be surprised when you get arrested. In other words, this is not the knock-down "that'll really show him!" counterexample you're looking for.
You can't view community policy and government regulation as two unrelated things. The aviation community has a more welcoming attitude because of government regulation.

They know that someone's backyard airplane isn't ever going to be used commercially without certification, and even if it were the entire world's aviation fleet isn't going to start using that model overnight, as might happen with some homebrew crypto and a popular new app. So the situation is entirely unanalogous.
> how is that misleading?

I explained how. Take it or leave it.

> If the size can be reduced then why isn't it done when you publish it?

Because it's not a big deal? The only people who complain about this are people debating holy wars on HN, as if the static vs dynamic trade offs haven't been well understood by now.

> Again, it was an example. Show me a similar rust library that can be dynamically linked to like this?

Rust's standard library.
No, I wouldn't consider that at all definitive as a study, and the authors specifically note the following:

"This study is limited by the lack of a control group or active comparison clinical intervention that would provide a basis for making a stronger inference about how MBSR might modify the behavioral and neural bases of different types of emotion regulation."

So while MBSR may help some people, this tested one specific method and did not include a control group or test against any other treatment methods.

Now, I'm not suggesting that meditation - MBSR or other - can't be helpful for some people (possibly even the majority of people under certain conditions), but it certainly has not been studied enough to show clear benefits compared to other treatment methods.
Ah, I see. You're going to derive a system contrary to Westphalian states from first principles in an effort to show why it's unjust that someone who hacks computers in Country A from Country B can be arrested and prosecuted by Country B, since the entire notion of state sovereignty is flawed!

Let me know when your treatise on this is finished.
Perfect. Now, just solve that problem, and make a billion dollars!
I'm apparently the only person who thinks this is indeed funny. Wouldn't be cool with it as an adult, would find it totally hilarious as a teenager.
But Twitter has stayed relevant by allowing a screaming lunatic become President. In multiple countries. The platforms don't know what the fuck they are doing imho.
If it is, it's actually quite funny and well written. Thanks for the link.
> I joined Keybase as a public key repository with external verification support, not for them to store private conversations -- encrypted or not.

While I agree with your comments on feature-creep, in order for you to worry about someone having a copy of your encrypted communications you must assume that the encryption scheme is completely broken. This raises the question: why are you using PGP at all if you think the cryptography is broken?
back when there were magazines for starting businesses there would always be this full page ad talking about how to make millions from this secret report. Except the report would tell you to run ads selling reports.
By Deis, are you referring to Workflow? [1] There's no product called "Deis" anymore.

Workflow seems too high-level and large for my taste. It's an entire PaaS on top of Kubernetes, which also brings way too much to the table (edge routing, log/metrics management, alerting, etc.).

[1] https://deis.com/workflow/
I agree, but I'm going based on the road map, which plans for that version to become available this year or next year.
As hard as it may be for you to believe, police in many countries are generally not in the habit of warning people in advance that they're going to be arrested. I know it's rude of them since it may inconvenience someone's travel plans, but that's just kinda how it is.
>If only this were in any way true.

It's true in the ways that are pertinent to this discussion. Another poster equated speech with assault. I would guess most with that worldview haven't spent much time being assaulted in the physical sense.

No one is saying that words don't have significance or power. The point is that, in a very literal way, words can never hurt, physically hurt, those who hear them. The listener has time to collect their thoughts, understand the circumstances, and choose an interpretation and a reaction. We hope they will choose healthy interpretations and reactions, even if the original speaker did not.

Meanwhile, a victim of a true violent crime like a mugging, carjacking, or politically-motivated beating doesn't have time to think down the road about how badly someone's words hurt their psyche, because they're busy bleeding and dying, in the literal sense that their body may permanently cease to function, if they aren't treated within minutes or hours. They were attacked without choice or option, and their body is reacting to the physical realities thrust upon it, and all the victim can really do is try to remain optimistic about things.

Yes, it is sad when someone is bullied or otherwise made to feel bad about themselves. But it isn't anywhere near the same thing as a person who has undergone an actual assault.

The saying really is not really hard to grasp, and it's widely applicable. That's why it's a tired old cliche. :)
> In business disputes I always wonder "how did it go wrong", especially with smart people like the Mikkelsons.

It's a complex problem though. Even after 30 years or so of carefully nothing 'how things go wrong' there still appears to be an infinite supply of new reasons how things go wrong.
check implementation of Trie -
http://www.techiedelight.com/trie-implementation-insert-sear...

http://www.techiedelight.com/memory-efficient-trie-implement...
using STL -
http://www.techiedelight.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-...
Paid news. With crypto to hype crypto.
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I'm slightly disappointed by the target end date : 31 July 2019. WebAssembly seems like a huge deal to me and I was hoping things would progress quicker than that :(
> Is there some standard mechanism in silicon valley for avoiding divorce-related ownership problems?

Yes. Don't invest.
On most modern systems this is not strictly true anymore.
>> "Slippery slope" is the term used to describe the fallacy of logic in that sentence. Who must perform this proactive protection? Why should/must they do it? What constitutes "vulnerable"? This sounds like the musings of a privileged youth.

Fun fact: "Slippery slope" is the term used to describe the fallacy of logic in your sentences. The slippery slope fallacy lies in you rejecting the -- admittetly vague -- claim "Vulnerable people must be proactively protected." just because you can imagine that bad things might happen if this mind-set was applied excessively.

This is a fallacy of logic, since it leads you to reject a claim just because it is not as precise as you'd like it to be. However, a claim isn't invalid per se just because it is vague.
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The big stories at the time were that hospitals in the UK were getting shut down by it. If whoever did it lived in the UK they may have had a change of heart.
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You can pay better.
Do you prefer to remember your phone number as 378-2739, or as 3-782739?
I would ask for video evidence.

Somebody else mentioned that some areas have a system where if you show up in person, your mailed ballot is invalidated. That seems like a good safeguard.

The bottom line for me is that I think the option of mailing ballots increases participation. There may be an increased number in coerced ballots as well, but I think the net result is postitive.
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good topic
The keybase identity model combines the worst of the 90s geek internet with the worst of the 2010s social media.

Instead of private and distributed trust, we got public and centralized. No thank you.
People have been discovering and rediscovering gettimeofday is really slow for a long time now. I remember switching to OS specific equivalents for AIX, SunOS, Ultrix, HP-UX, etc. back in the late 80s and early 90s.
> What exchange could you borrow BCH on?

Anyone who borrowed BTC may have implicitly borrowed BCH. Suppose Person A owns shares in OldCo. Person B borrows those shares and sells them short to Person C. OldCo spins out NewCo. On Thursday evening, you go to bed with 1 OldCo share in your account; Friday morning, you wake up with 1 OldCo share and 1 NewCo share.

Bought Person A and Person C own OldCo shares, and so expect to receive one NewCo share. The company provides one. Who provides the other? The short seller. Presumably by buying Person A's NewCo shares. Same thing happens with dividends.

So if you borrowed BTC pre-fork and returned it post-fork, you're may find yourself owing BCH. Shorting is complicated, which is why I'm bemused by its proliferation around a blockchain that doesn't even natively support lending or interest rates.
What a strange article and outlook by the subjects. I cannot fathom the insanity or genius of cashing out and putting everything in a second tier cryptocurrency!
>> I honestly feel I am fairly strong on algorithms/data structures/coding

http://www.techiedelight.com/list-of-problems/

How many of these problems can you solve? Just saying, over-confidence might kill you.. good luck!
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It's available as a library: https://docs.rs/termcolor/0.3.2/termcolor/
The Windows version is absolutely brilliant: a shared area mapped into every process. Because of the way page tables work, this costs only one page (4k) of RAM and only has to be written once by the OS.
The government south of the border has failed. The cartels have more control over large swaths of Mexico than the Mexican government does. America should not tolerate that situation. The security of our people demands the pacification of the cartels.
It's sort of amazing that 600 ns is considered slow.
> here are many instances of content being lost in the mire of people treating what should be simple pages as if they are complex applications, but...

But.... I think this is the norm, and not the exception. Sure, there are certainly a lot more "web applications* out there today than there were in 1999/2003, but I would wager there are far more "web apps that should just be pages" than legit app use-cases.
Interesting. I had mined some coins a few years ago, and finally decided to sell them off. I was able to sell them on coinbase within 5 days and get the USD into my bank account the following day.
Is it still a lottery?
Hourly broadcasts which software you are using are not that great for some people.
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This one stinks.
Top 2 drug market disappear and a new search engine with fairy tale like timing shows up, with google analytics included, SSL by GlobalSign? Nope nope nope
In the US, 30% adoption by 1998, 50% adoption by 2000. But much higher rates of adoption for the wealthier households and much lower for the poorer.

So depends on your economic state then.
Typing commands was originally limited by the speed of a teleprinter (before screens became standard), not the quality of the keyboard (QWERTY keyboard was created to slow down typists that were so fast they broke typing machines so I'd assume that it already limited typing speed enough).

This is also likely where the prompt character comes from, today we can do without it because terminal emulators remember the input and execute it once the current command is done but back then it actually prompted you to start typing.

Teleprinters is also where the word 'tty' (there are tty and tty with numbers in /dev that represent virtual terminals and you can play with them a bit if you know how) came from.

Hidden files starting with a dot was also a quirk of the ls reimplementation at the time of making filesystem hierarchical that was supposed to hide . and .. (current and parent dirs) but the check it did was for the first character being a dot, thus the concept of 'hidden files' was born.

See: https://plus.google.com/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9jp
When I voted in Oregon, they mailed a newsprint book with the ballot that had a lot of text about each item with supporting and opposing groups contributing. You're right though that these days, a website would be a better way to do it.

Last election I voted in Texas as people voted quickly. It seems like they either are only voting for one or two races or they are just pressing the button that selects all Republican (I live in a red area) candidates.
As an aside... For those not in the know, the "author" of said book is a member of funk group Vulfpeck, which I highly recommend listening to.
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Website doesn't seem to be updated, received email notification says:

"(...) We are pleased to announce the publication of Nim in Action. As a MEAP subscriber you can now download your copy of the finished PDF eBook. (...)".

And the final PDF is available for download.
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Personally speaking, I wish this was Meteor.js - If only there was more hoorah for this tough as nails framework.
Sure. But if nobody else has the same itch, you won't be able to sell it.
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This post has a confused notion of why the TSC isn't used. It has nothing to do with integration with NTP -- it's because the kernel thinks the TSC doesn't work right on the machine in question. The kernel logs should explain why. Also, on some hypervisors, there are TSC problems, but the situation is slowly improving.

Also:

> The second value is the nanoseconds time, relative to the last second, shifted left by gtod->shift, Or, rather, it the time measured in some units, which becomes the nanosecond time when shifted right by gtod->shift, which, in our case, is 25. This is very high precision. One nanosecond divided by 225 is about 30 attoseconds. Perhaps, Linux kernel designers looked far ahead, anticipating the future when we’ll need such accuracy for our time measurement.

That's not what's going on. This is straightforward fixed point arithmetic, where the point just happens to be variable.
Yes, I admitted as much in my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921916). Out of curiosity, do you think this has always been the case or is it a more recent trend?
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> Refusing to rebroadcast or support the opinions of someone you don't like is at present not a crime, and I sincerely hope it stays that way.

Even when the shoe is on the other foot, e.g. a baker who does not want to disseminate interracial or same-sex wedding cake?

Deferring to "that is a crime" is no help because your argument is that it should not be a crime to refuse to disseminate speech you don't like.

There is no principled way to draw a line here. Either you don't compel speech or you do.
So much hype for a crypto lately. Crypto is not a solution, it is a simple, violent and uncertain option.

If you want to bet your pension on Crypto cool, but diverse your packages. Bet amount you can lose (let say 10% of your fund). At worst you will have a more humble life when you are old.
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Yes, a prenup or postnup and they are quite common the more wealthy people you know.

With the rise in land prices many farmers are now using them to ensure that a divorce doesn't result in having to sell a family farm that's been in the family for generations.

It doesn't have to be an adversarial process, and you need to make sure the other party is properly compensated, this compensation often comes from the firm/company/farm that is requiring the pre/post nup.

Now, if both parties are founders in the enterprise then it can be tricky if they both still want to run the company, in which case, I don't know how that could possibly be settled in a way that would make either party happy other than the pizza solution, one side names a price and the other side gets to decide to buy or sell.
Wayyy more dangerous than pensions. I love the idea of BTC as retirement fund, and that's kinda how I treat it now -- throwing money occasionally into it and hoping it's a nice sum in 20 years. But at least I know it's likely gone.
Both of you know it already, but it might be useful to remind the casual reader that while this is indeed not needed for tor hidden services, you still need https for regular web services accessed through tor (in some way even more than when not using tor). This interactive explanation by the EFF is worth a thousand words: https://www.eff.org/fr/pages/tor-and-https
Ah. I see! Thank you for that. It makes complete sense now. I was wondering why they had such a convoluted method for calculating the block size.
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What about the crashes a little over a month ago? BTC and ETH crashed hard for a few weeks in a row and Coinbase was constantly down, stopping anyone from buying or selling.

It was a real problem.
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That's the problem, haha :P

We all got a big bunch of ideas and probably not 1% of them make any money. I mean just look at Twitter ;)

The problem are finding people who...

...think I can help them, so they talk to me in the first place

...have problems I can solve

...can formulate their problem

...don't want to own the solution and sell it on their own
I think if you're talking figuratively, yes. Literally, no.
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You're on to something. The xhtml fiasco has a lot of parallels to Flash, when you consider the ECMAScript history and its relation to ActionScript's evolution.
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I would say that with .NET Core, there has not been a better time to choose freely from hosting providers since you can basically run it anywhere.

You don't need to run Azure?
What you really want to find are the 25 million dollar problems that you can turn into a monopoly. Sure you won't ever be famous, but you will have a great lifestyle that is 99% of what a billionaire has on the upside with none of the downside.
Just because they were optimizing for length doesn't mean they threw mnemonic potential out the window.

And either way it's quite arbitrary because almost all command names are still based on English that is a second language to many (including yours truly, but I'm not complaining, I find the usual unix shortcuts rather nice and intuitive most of the time and most of all - extremely quick to write, PowerShell makes me shudder and I had such big hopes for it).

Many concepts are also unique to unix/computers/low-level usage so any name will be non-intuitive. If you never encountered the concept of mounting a filesystem and don't know what an inode is then 'list inodes too' and 'list mounted filesystems' are no better to you than 'ls -i' and 'df'.

And someone who knows will prefer the latter, because it's that much quicker to type and harder to mistype.
Where do I buy Bitcoin Cash today from a reputable exchange?
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Same here. I got so fed up with their terrible support I left.
I don't think you realize the unfeasibility of you're suggesting. You're asking for

1. 15-20% of the world which have higher education degrees to have enough kids to carry the burden of the remaining 80-85%

2. You're also asking that same 15-20% of the educated world to voluntarily have more children with the knowledge that some of them will have to do less than salubrious work.

Would you take on such a burden yourself?
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Let's not mess it up just because we want it quickly, if we (they) do this correctly, it might be the final big progression, but if we do it too quickly, it might turn into the next JavaScript (problem-wise).
So if the Mexican government requests help in maintaining law and order, then fine. Otherwise it's breaking international law.