skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> automatic platforms verifying programming skills

Somewhat related, I withdrew from an entry level physics course in college after only two weeks since the professor insisted on using an automated homework platform that cut your grade in half if you couldn't figure out the problem on the first try.

This problem isn't exclusive to tech.
I know Lua

I process text (not in Lua). I do a bit of Troff, html, stuff like that.

Where to start learning ?
3 Steps to Finding Your Dream Job
Making ~$500+ per month designing handbags, word of mouth / text / facebook posts. Not just sewing bags mind you, unique bags designed to fit each person. Problem is throughput -- I'll have to hire soon or keep it smallish.
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DOM is what we're talking about. The fact that it's commonly represented by HTML and that somehow influenced how we ought to create/manipulate it in our code is exactly the problem.

React has users write HTML-like syntax sugar that turns into createElement calls and i don't like that one bit. Hiccup[1] lets me write idiomatic Clojure code that represents DOM tree using convenient data literals and provides all necessary functions to manipulate it - and that i like.

[1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
https://article.rocks

Started it in 2014 or 2015 and just keep rebuilding it every 3-6 months. Its a curation of news and articles that I personally like. Its a mix of scraping, automated curation, rough sentiment analysis, randomness.

I built it for my commute, eventually giving it its own domain.

Its no longer hitting that per month since I intentionally scaled back the custom ads that earned referral fees. Its just Amazon now. Money is not a goal.

This side project is more focused on keeping my coding skills going and playing around with ideas in media/publishing and ads.

For example, I redid things so it would get a 99 or 100 PageSpeed score:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
Worth noting this is international. The share in a poor country where the additional cost of Windows matters paints a much different picture than the share would in the US, for example. (drilling down to country requires an expensive upgrade)
No, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because doctors have unlimited demand and are considered more highly skilled?
ncurses and the terminfo database (which ship with pretty much every Unix-like) are maintained by one person, Thomas E. Dickey.
> Well, it still takes absurd amounts of memory for what it's doing

Does it though? There's a non-trivial amount of data being loaded (and generated) all the time.

You have mentioned modpacks. Those can be HEAVY. And a single not well programmed block can bring down and entire server.
I've never used it but as it appears to be made by the same guy that made password store[1] (i.e. "pass") then I've got a default high opinion of it. Will definitely be checking it out.

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
That's really not what the article is about at all. It's talking about the history of the tech industry and associating this kind of price motion with "peak" revenue for given hardware products.

Your same answer would apply to IBM's mainframes in 1990 and Sun's servers in 2001 too, and the point of the article is to associate Intel's current position with those products, which clearly reached peaks at those moments.

Personally I don't really buy it completely either, but quipping "because the market!" as an answer is missing the point. The article is about what that market desire means for future revenue.
Yes, I should have written languages, my idea was that if they'd look it up they'd see it's plural for huge parts of the world, but nobody bothers.

There's also the basic problem that just because people in country X speak Y and Z doesn't mean a user connecting with an IP that seems to originate from X necessarily speaks Y or Z.
IMO, there's room for both approaches, perhaps with the exclusion of the most the irrational situations as you describe. It's unreasonable to expect engineers to bring battle-tested solutions to the table 100% of the time.
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I have a Mythlogic/Clevo laptop running Mint that works quite wel, though I admit that it wasn't until Mint 18 that an annoying bug in the trackpad was cleared up. Other than that it is fine.
Hi there, those features are all available for free for public projects, it's only for private projects where we limit some functionality.
You may want to push back on that. I understand the reasoning but anytime upper management tells people not to work on stuff there is usually a communication breakdown some where.
9-7 certainly isnt, unless you are taking 2 hour lunches every day.
DonaldTrumpDogPoopBags.com pulls in about $500 in revenue per day after some FB ad tuning. I acquired the site from a client when he decided to shut it down. It's moreorless break even until his earn-out is complete after a few hundred more orders.

Fortunately running the site break-even supports main business, and e-commerce fulfillment company (MonthlyBoxer.com)
Ask HN: Do you mention pending patents on your resume?
I recently filed a patent through work and I'm wondering if it's a good idea to mention that in my resume since it's only a 'pending' patent.
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In 2016 we started offering Expert Advisors
we started for personal necessity, and now we are earning around 1.5k per month.

BacktestMarket will come out with a new version of the website on October 2017 with new products and new services
The (actual) art of over-engineering your side projects
> This is not a major eastern European city, certainly not one where IT jobs are available.

Cluj is Romania’s second city and home to buzzing IT sector. Granted, my house is a little farther away than the most popular suburbs for those wanting a whole house, but it is still possible to easily and fairly quickly commute into the city centre each day. Rents will rise even here at some point, but they haven’t yet, and for the IT sector (though unfortunately not for most local people) rises in rents tend to keep pace with rises in salaries.

> These private health insurances are hoax. The only thing they cover is a consultation and high five with the doctor

Getting even a consultation here from the public sector is unpleasant enough that an opportunity to freely visit the much nicer private clinic is a wonderful thing.
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Getting close with Optimage for Mac [1], a visually lossless image optimization tool.

[1] http://getoptimage.com
> I am hesitant to remap capslock because it will fuck me on any computer that isn't mine.

I understand the concern. This does trip me up from time to time, as do other UI preferences such as tracking speed and scroll direction. How much time do you spend (both frequency and duration) using others' computers? Regardless, I suggest you give it a try to see how often it actually does cause an issue, and whether or not it's manageable. Of course, YMMV. It's a trivial change to revert if it doesn't work for you. I know for me personally it's been a substantial overall win to remap caps lock.
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If the market clears that's the equilibrium.
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Chromebooks are very popular in education, so it really wouldn't surprise me.
It is important to compress it with bzip2 or your even better custom algorithm before finally archiving it in /dev/null
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I wrote a subscription service that notifies IT administrators when software they have purchased is coming up on End of Life. Helps plan and manage budget and for security reasons.
The biggest trouble I had with my current T was due to me buying it immediately after launch, and it took some months before the usual distros started working with wifi and 3g modem without hickups.
~$500+ per month making custom-designed handbags; not just sewing bags, mind you, but one-offs for individuals : word-of-mouth, facebook, friends, etc. Can't afford to advertise, couldn't handle the demand without hiring, don't want it to get too big.
macOS let's me get work DONE with the computer, not just work ON the computer.
Data science | Warsaw | Piotr M. | http://p.migdal.pl/

Especially - transition from academia (physics, mathematics, biology) to data science and machine learning. And: getting started with deep learning for image classification.
Which over a long term can attract more people to the field.
According to the wiki page the Pascal-B test was the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT.
Boom. This. I wrote a response to this in a little more detail - https://rsmith.co/the-actual-art-of-over-engineering-your-si...
I don't see why Charging cables won't just start coming with an adapter that lets you plug in headphones. It's either stationary, so the extra bit doesn't really matter, or you're already carrying the cable + battery, and you probably don't care about the extra piece too much.
Deutsche Bank Replaces Staff Blackberries with IPhones
Linux is very close to perfect as a "decision support and design" workstation. Tool performance, ubiquity, interoperability and stability are the big targets there. We have to name as a goal data and media asset durability and tool compatibility over years or decades.

Linux has virtues that end up conflicting. An occupational hazard of Linux as a tool and OS innovation platform are disruptions, disappointments, instability and dropped balls.

Other people are goofing off without enduring responsibility for a large user base. We confuse design criteria we inherit from the commercial world. Easy to use, easy to remember, easy to diagnose problems and "quick to getting going" are not the same always compatible design targets. The Window Manager wars took up tons of Linux desktop attention. Gaming is naturally an arena for hardware churn and 1-upmanship.

I have great hope for Linux desktop stability with government deployments and thus a global tug for stability against rushing breaking changes. The Linux platform and package manager contents are remarkable achievements.
True. Then maybe it becomes how you define the market. After a while people will crave something beyond burgers and sushi. The wants of mankind are infinite.

The thought/hope is that if individual chef's are freed from having to managing teams of people to handle backend restaurant activities like dish washing, food forecasting, etc. they can start bringing quality differentiated products (Sengalese food, Peruvian food, etc.) to market or existing products to new geographical markets (sushi to rural Midwest).

Sort of how personal computers and now cloud computing enable tech entrepreneurs compete against yesterday's incumbents.
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Agreed. It seems like side projects for work are basically research (and research is important!).
I've been a "Linux user" since 1998, but never have used it as my primary desktop. I recently tried going to Linux on an XPS 15 (with 4k display). I plugin into multiple monitors at home an work: 2 1920x1080, 1 2560x1440, and one 4k. I tried multiple distros, and even both Gnome and KDE Plasma. I'm sure given enough time I could have made it work, but eventually I had throw in the towel and go back to my MBP.
So how does this work. Do I give your anonymous "expert" access to my server for them to do the fix? Or do I provide database and codebase dumps? Where is the security in your service to not have my code stolen along the way?
meh if they sold it for $2 or $4 per game directly to the customer they would get the money anyway. They need to look at new ways to monitize and it probably involves cutting the commercials and the middle men and putting the money directly in their pockets. The only reason they need cable is for 1. distribution which is not an issue since the internet. 2. to splice the commercials in which could easily be done. Sell the games directly and get 100% of your add revenue and you'd probably make more.

If viewership continues to go down, and parent stop letting their kids play at lower levels because of health conserns, they will also lose money.
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I think the point was that user doesn't care about your stack, but they care about the consequences of the stack you've chosen. It's a subtle but important distinction.
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-4+ years experience in software engineering.

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> Where is the shelf-stocking robot

In an Amazon warehouse.
But glory...
Is Accept-Language widely and correctly sent by browsers?

I've seen some pretty weird Accept-Language strings getting sent by UAs, but I don't really know how accurate they are compared to GeoIP + Account Settings.
It's not what you're asking, but I've always had similar problems with tiling window managers. They want to use a lot of keybindings, typically keyed on Alt as the modifier; the problem is that lots of programs such as Emacs and Firefox also want to use Alt bindings.

Eventually I settled on stumpwm because the default bindings didn't interfere. In the same way Emacs commands often start with a C-x followed by some other key (e.g. C-x C-c to quit), stumpwm prefixes every command with C-t. So to split a pane, you do C-t s, then C-t n to jump to the next pane, C-t k to kill the window in the current pane, etc. The only thing it conflicts with is opening a new tab in a browser, and you can accomplish that by hitting 'C-t t' which quickly becomes second nature.

The other alternative is to use a mouse-oriented WM like fvwm or rio, but that's easy and doesn't involve memorizing dozens of key bindings ;)
By the way, IMHO much of the ugliness of shells comes from the requirement that simple filenames are to be used without additional escape characters. I think we should ditch that requirement.
Sure, nobody should setup incentives based on LOC. But in this case it's not about incentives, it just about seeing if something changed. Nobody writing code is going to be rewarded or penalized if this number changes.