skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do some part-time (second job) lone web dev, this is why i don't anymore:

>"Maintaining a deep knowledge of both front end tools, libraries, and techniques (down to browser-specific quirks), as well as backend architecture […] requires years of experience dedicated to each in addition to the time to keep up to date with how those areas are changing." //

Basically the time to keep up to date with all the tech is increasing; like a growing snake, it's hard to keep track of both ends, and the middle. Also customers expectation increases as familiarity with the web increases.

My definition of full-stack web dev would be everything front-end including things like icon design and optimisation, handling hdpi, logo design, responsive page layout, SEO, font choice and optimisation, dom scripting, etc. through to in-flight issues such as browser caching, CDNs, DNS, security (certs, etc.); through to back-end reverse proxies, varnish, caching, failover, optimisation, actual production of the HTML (PHP in my case) [edit: not forgetting DB, and it's optimisation and management, I never got as far as sharding or anything tricky], and on to keeping servers updated and running securely (SSH key management, firewalls, backup, etc.).

(And in your spare time you do sales and marketing!)

I think it's near impossible to handle the full web stack now; I'd imagine splitting it in to at least 5 roles.

Their definition of full-stack web dev appears to be just LAMP (or similar). So then you've got at minimum a 3 person team: adding a graphic designer, server manager.

Full-stack elsewhere would be something like back-end, gui design, UX, _and_ packaging/installers for distribution?
That's an asinine assertion and it's insulting in a pretty aggressive way.

They're called person-oriented vs. thing-oriented preferences. One of the biggest smoking guns I've seen is the study on prenatal androgen and occupations. [0] It shows a marked difference between women born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and more typical women. This suggests very strongly that male sex hormones in utero affect the development of the brain in a way that orients the person towards things/systems rather than people.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/
“I laugh at 120k offers in SF, that’s like making 65k in a reasonable city.”

Wow, you are so cool.
Unless it's The Atlantic, which blocks all article access from my iPad even though I'm a subscriber. I can read their content only with a computer-based browser (with ad blocker, of course).
Instead of ZCash look into Monero. It's 100% about privacy and that's what a free society needs to grow.
Store a hash of the URLs instead of the URLs themselves.
Just to add a bit of context: that 15M figure averages out to a quarter million people every single month for five years.
I second the buy a fixed USD per two weeks / month. I kick myself for a lot of btc miscalculation (love my 20ish btc t-shirt) but that one has at least left me with a sizable (but less than 10x) return on average if I liquidated right now, rather than nothing if I just stayed away. I also figured the price would improve after the halving day last year since the supply of new bitcoin would go down, it did, so since I think bitcoin can last at least until 2020 (next halving) as the biggest cryptocurrency I figure buying more now is fine too. What other easy-to-buy asset offers the same chance at 2x+ over 3 years? I still put most spare income into an index fund with the conservative 5%/yr target that lets you retire when 4% meets cost of living, but if bitcoin keeps growing I'll soon have more in that...
Another example: a lot of rural areas have patches of gravel roads. It's not obvious from Google maps where the roads go from paved to gravel (and they sometimes do it in random sections).

Naively looking at a map, you'd think a roundabout route had potential to be shorter, but not realize the road was gravel.
Well, the funny thing is, there are no transaction fees, each time you want to send a transaction, you have to validate 2 other transactions. More transactions on the blockchain in bitcoin results in higher fees/slower transactions, with IOTA it's the complete opposite because more transactions automatically get validated. I still have a lot of reading to do however.
quite ironic isn't it, that it takes 21 seconds to download the 10.6mb website

On a 100M/b Connection
I sort of agree. I personally got tired of answering recruiters' questions about how much time i spent in frontend vs backend.

I also realized there was an increasing trend in job postings looking for "full-stack" so I started advertising myself as such.
Sure, this is why I don't always have fruit cake in the house. But, I have been making boiled puddings (a close relative of fruit cakes) pretty regularly lately because I've been watching the Townsends' videos on YouTube about 18th Century Cooking (which are among the most enjoyable, educational, and relaxing videos on the web) and I find the idea of a boiled pudding ridiculous. But, it actually works, and it's actually delicious.

Luckily, 18th Century recipes had a lot less sugar than modern recipes, and so I'm staying under my calorie goals for the day even when I have pudding.
I think you mean mean ETH is turing complete :) Awesome typo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332199
I have just been blacklisting those sites for myself. I haven't missed out on anything yet.
fallback + round-robin : <3
Awesome idea.
fallback : could be very usefull if you main provider is down
round-robin : send more free emails using multiple providers
Alcohol Use, High-Risk Drinking, and DSM-IV Alcohol Use Disorder, 2001-2013
Or D: add the popup asking me to disable my adblocker... to my adblocker.

Only works on some sites, but where it does it's effective.
Improve your servicenow incident management
I agree with xsynonym - stay away from ICOs.

If wishes were horses... I wish I'd been born 10 years earlier and bought shares in Microsoft and Apple!

There's no way of telling what will work and what won't (and also no way of telling what will continue to work - hence the gamble in any sort of investment).

Any investment should be done with as much emotional-detachment as possible - you have to see the investment money as something that won't impact your personal life in the slightest, whether it rises or sinks.

In this case, Bitcoin is a relatively safe buy, with Ethereum as slightly less so. Monero i bleeding edge, but has great potential.

I would read up on as many of the services being offered by the cryptocurrencies (or services) you're interested in as you can, and base your investment on what you perceive to have the biggest impact to their relative industries in the future.

It's the same approach to buying penny stocks, effectively...
Thanks! I've had a few people trying to submit the classic six word story over the years.
And then submit a subpoena for all users that have installed a user agent switcher plugin. Because clearly they're all criminals with nefarious intent.
Start at the beginning. Read about how Bitcoin works. Learn about the security model and how it differs from traditional banking. Try buying a small amount of coin, putting it into cold storage (paper wallet), then selling it back for USD.

Then when you're comfortable with that basic knowledge, start following the history of Bitcoin and current events. Get a basic understanding of the events of this year. Learn about other cryptos, too. You might not have an opinion about any of it, or you might.

Earlier this year I was trying to explain Bitcoin to a friend of mine and he expressed the common sentiment, "I wish I had gotten in sooner." That was when Bitcoin was $1,200. Now it's trading at over $3,400. In the 1930s, people were saying the same thing about Coca-Cola stocks: I should have bought them in 1918. Nobody can predict the future. Investing is nothing but learning and applying what you learn. If you understand and like something, invest what you can afford. If not, don't.
It was admiral that did this:
https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-...

They even clearly state they used the only tool available to them, DCMA. From all the current summaries on this, DMCA does not apply to a line entry in easylist. A domain can be trademarked.

This should be added back in. And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving a clear hard though to their continued use of the github platform.

Edit: it looks like EFF has gotten in touch with easylist. Good. https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-used-to-remove-ad-server-url-f...
Were you in a good spot? I can hear a lot of stuff with my shortwave receiver and I'm in SLC, Utah. Occasionally, I get to hear pirate transmissions and whatnot.
ServiceNow administrators may feel a sense of need to troubleshoot remote computers directly from their incident window, deploy business application to remote users, shutdown, restart, lock, and hibernate remote computers all from your incident window. If you are servicenow user please download the app and feel the benefit for yourself.
This is a perfect example of how the silicon valley echo chamber can have implications in DC. We all want cheap, fast, and open internet. Instead of the right people advising the current administration I feel like the polarization politics recently in the US is contributing to these advisors being picked. For example if the elites in silicon valley presented themselves publicly as more moderate and impartial they would have more say in the current admin. Its a bad idea to alienate yourself from half of the country no matter which side you are on.
I think it's more likely that your "great programmers" simply understand the difference between the same functionality and accidentally similar functionality. The latter is where you have two use cases that are very similar, so you spend all this time deduplicating. Then one of the use cases changes... The correct response would be to duplicate the code again, because the two use cases are no longer similar. In reality, they should have never been combined in the first case. They weren't the same; they were only accidentally similar.

But instead what you usually see is minor tweaks to the common functions. Pass in a flag here, tweak the inputs there, add an if statement over yonder... And before you know it, it's all a terrible tangled mess that is full of branches and technical debt. The two use cases have the same functions, but don't even follow the same branches within the functions.
> There are many actors in the whole Google/diversity drama

Says the guy who has just claimed its CEO should resign.
soon, someone will implement one-subscription for online content - something like netflix.
Its a smart contract platform, written in C#, that is based in China. It claims some features that Ethereum doesn't have such as parallel contract execution, smart contract authoring in C#, and instead of general mining, they have an Accountant node which is elected by participants of the network and validates all transactions (similar-ish to DPOS).

Their documentation says that one feature of the Account node is that you can pay them off chain to get your contracts mined for free.

I plan on building and testing NEO this weekend, but it does concern me that the blockchain is developed in China and 'elects' nodes that have full control over the network. It strongly implies that China will make them elect govt. controlled nodes to be accountants, but that could just be me being paranoid.

Their github is here (and not very active): https://github.com/neo-project

I chose not to invest after looking at their code, especially at the quality of their compiler, which is very messy code without any test cases, but I can't help but play around with it in a private network.
Differences Between Men and Women Are Vastly Exaggerated, Adam Scott
I paid for Windows 10 Pro and had to spend time removing all the adware they push. It's extremely unprofessional.
How people lose their shirts in any market:

- Trying to time the market

- Trying to get rich quick

- Believing that past results indicate future performance

- Making decisions based on emotions (regret, fear of missing out, greed, wishful thinking, etc)

Your comments make it seem as though you're doing at least half of the above, so be very careful.

Also...

> In retrospect, it was foolish of me not to get some BTC since they were $1 per coin (!!) last time I checked.

Everything is obvious in retrospect. Were you also foolish to not buy TSLA in 2011 when it was $30? No, because you didn't know then what you know now: That TSLA reached $350 and BTC reached $3,000. In the same vein, you are not not foolish (uuh..) for not (uuuh...) buying any other cheap investments that did not (oh lord...) grow insanely fast. In other words, you should judge past decisions by the information you had at the time, not by the information you have now.
He has repeatedly identified himself with conservative thinkers, which he claims are victims.
I never said that FOSS is worse than proprietary software. This is not what the discussion is about.

What I am arguing is simply that if proprietary software was forbidden, a lot of innovation would be restricted.

Imagine today if we were living in RMS world and everyone that writes software needed to have their software openly published and freely distributed. How many would simply not even start? Would there be a Microsoft, Google or Apple or Facebook? No. Who would be the big player that would have any interest in seeing the development of any technology that could threaten their business?

Most "innovation" would happen in academic settings, and it would never make the jump to any industry.
Call me crazy, but this seems like a pretty honorable scheme for profiting off of content.

Someone put effort in to create content, and has the option of putting this kind of paywall up. There is a consumer choice made to sell their own attention by viewing ads, pay a subscription fee for the content directly, or just move on to free content elsewhere.

That said, most places where you pay the subscription fee will ALSO show you ads and silently sell your data, but still... The above scheme feels reasonable in principle.
If you're going to use the video card anyways, mining will easily cover the electricity cost of mining in most areas, and can be a decent way to cover part of the cost of the card.

That said, I wouldn't buy video cards specifically for mining unless you have access to very cheap (or free) electricity.
Well, we'd need to apply 40 km/s of delta-v. The moon weighs 1/80th as much as the Earth. By the rocket equation, we'd have to throw the material of the Moon away from Earth at 3219 km/s or 1/100 of the speed of light in order to accelerate Earth enough.
Is there a "reputable cryptocurrency" index fund one could buy into?
Persians, only the Romans can compete. They only stopped being a problem when the Muslims replaced them.
Isn't what you're saying kind of exactly the point of the article in the first place? The conclusion even explicitly points out that the aim was not to actually claim small functions are harmful(!), but rather that the converse - small functions are good - isn't inherently true either.

And while the article doesn't make fully concrete examples, it does propose the outlines of a few; enough to get across a meaningful message (to me). Also; arguments that lean on concrete example are more at risk of attacking strawmen precisely because a concrete example can be flawed in irrelevant ways that obscure the underlying principles. Not that I'm opposed to examples - just that most examples are almost necessarily simplifications, and choosing a sourcecode simplification is not categorically different or better than choosing a pseudocode or diagram simplification.
We stand behind Surface
They say it's not an ad server but it sounds like one.
Aussie researchers lift the lid on USB crosstalk vulnerability
You speak as if AI is something that actually exists. The term AI is always a sales pitch (or the name of a field of research). In the '50s and '60s they called various symbol manipulation programs AI; later it was expert systems; now it's statistical clustering.
>solar PV

Fyi solar pool heating is a much cheaper option. They sell inexpensive unglazed plastic collectors specifically for this purpose. Reducing or eliminating that pool heating load should dramatically cut the PV system cost.

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/PoolHeating/pool_heatin...
Backward compatible means that a valid IPv4 address (127.0.0.1) should, by definition, be a valid IPv6 address.

Hence IPv6 is definitely not backward compatible.
Dan Rua. Fag of the day.

Dan the fag's response to being called out:

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Admiral asked Easylist to remove functionalclam.com from their filters and here’s why:

functionalclam.com is not an adserver.

That domain is part of the DMCA copyright access control platform Admiral provides publishers so they can engage visitors in a transparent way on the value exchange for their copyrighted content, instead of resorting to surprise ad reinsertion the way some of our competitors advocate but visitors and advertisers dislike.

Circumventing a publisher’s paywall or copyright access control technology is not OK and we don’t believe it’s core to the mission of AdBlock Plus and EasyList.

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Dan the fag's linked in page:

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CEO
Admiral: Adblock Publisher Solutions
2015 – Present (2 years)United States

Advanced Adblock Analytics with Automated Revenue Recovery

The power of the internet to inform, entertain and liberate mankind is at a crossroads. The future of ad-supported content is in peril, and with it, free access for citizens to critical news, education, discourse and resources the world over. The shorthand name for this looming catastrophe is "adblocking", but the root problems and solutions for users and publishers are more complex.

Adblockers claim adoption by over 200M users worldwide and publisher losses as a result of adblocking are estimated to reach $40 billion in 2016. Despite per-site adblocking rates ranging from 10% to as high as 40% for some tech-focused sites, the trend is still young and growing with a 40%+ growth rate over the past 12 months.

Admiral is the publisher analytics suite built specifically to help web and mobile publishers understand the impact of adblocking for their site, and automatically recover lost revenues by solving the issues driving adblock adoption specific to their userbase.">

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Sounds like Dan the fag is a liar.

(1) https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-...

(2) https://www.linkedin.com/in/danrua

(3) Using the word fag here to mean a piece of shit. No homophobia intended. Much love and respect for the gays.
> Wouldn't the compromise be unit testing?

I agree. Unit testing is done to ensure that all components work exactly as they are expected to work. If any component fails to work but developers only notice it "because the data after function 15 of 17 isn't quite right" then it appears that something is very wrong with the way those units are being tested.
McMansion means two things at the same time. Be wary of terms like those:

1. Badly-designed and badly-built (as in, objectively not up to some verifiable standard) homes built with the look of better-built homes but none of the construction quality those homes have.

2. Houses built by the newly-rich on small lots, in contrast with the houses inherited by the old money on larger tracts of land.

The inevitable and, perhaps, deliberate conflation between the two senses is pure class warfare, of the "Established upper class striking against the newly arrived" sense.
As the article says, just because you couldn't hear it the one time you tried, doesn't mean it isn't transmitting. You hearing it depends on the condition of the ionosphere. The time of day, the number of sunspots along with other things will effect your reception of the signal.
How can you make the claim that that $186M is liquid? Last time someone dumped a large amount - $1-2M worth of Etheruem's Ether? - it tanked.
It's a "detect-adblocker" service.
That still doesn't call into question the VC's investment strategy. You can't always time the market waiting for the killer app of Coins. Waiting to black swan the ICO space like John Paulson did with housing isn't feasible in the aggregate.
Afaik Michael Clark was the chief architect for Zen, Keller was above him though.
Death and Time Traveling
How's that relevant to the point of the article?
"Men and women don't have to have the same interests to find programming equally interesting, since there are a great many different respects in which someone might find programming interesting and rewarding."

This just doesn't make any sense. Just because a hypothesis hasn't been proven doesn't mean that it isn't the case. People don't argue that, "Men and women are different in some respects therefor we presume that they won't have the same performance in this particular field." They argue that, "There is a marked difference in outcome in this particular field and that difference may have something to due with the differences between men and women."

You are trying to argue (it seems) that the difference in outcome in tech is due entirely or primarily to social factors. If that's the case, the burden of proof is on you to show that alternative hypotheses don't apply. If it's not the case, then we need to evaluate how we pursue quotas and other diversity initiatives.

For myself, I've seen arguments that a pretty convincing case (from statistics and known biological factors) for the "interest" hypothesis. It certainly applies to the men and women in my personal life. (I've never worked in the Valley.) It could, I suppose still be largely wrong, but that's not a-priori obvious.
No. It's appears to be a weird situation, described poorly by all sides, each of whom appear to be highly concerned with promoting themselves within their explanations.
I don't think I've ever had one from Collin Street Bakery, even though I've been living in Texas off and on for a couple of decades. But, I happen to be parked 15 minutes away from their Waco location right now (I live in an RV and found a nice quiet park in West, TX where I'm holed up to finish some projects that are behind schedule), so maybe I'll pick one up next time I drive to town. Though, I tend to like making my own. It's fun to experiment, as fruit cake is such a weird creature.
Small scale mining is not so much dead as on the edge of profitability.

I have two graphics cards, I started mining ether about two weeks ago. I have about 0.2Eth now. This is not a huge amount, but over a few more weeks I intend to get a few more cards and build up to holding a few ETH and a few ZEC. I may mine other currencies if they become profitable, but will likely sell any gains for ETH immediately.

It's not exactly a time of bonanza AFAICT, but if you just want to get and hold a few things you can still do it.

I too regret not sinking £50 into BTC when it last plummeted into the $0.5 USD range, just to speculate, which I was considering... But them's the breaks.

--edit-- I'm not claiming this is a profitable way to operate! It's just what I'm doing to get my hands on some smallish quantities of the currencies.
It's fine if they're just letting you bookmark the particular spot in the page, but this is what replaceState is for. pushState is definitely wrong.
Yes, but:

A. Nobody - NOBODY - is ever punished for violating.

B. The folks in question here think they have a colorable argument for why it really is DMCA. As linked from the OP, this is here [1]. (FWIW, I think it's silly)

[1] http://blockadblock.com/adblocking/is-adblock-plus-violating...