skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote here: I think that self help books are full of two things 1) obvious stuff, and 2) garbage. I've never found much use for self help books. My roommate in college read several self help books, and put into practice a lot of the tips on leadership and management. I think we've both done fine in our respective careers- me, a statistician, and him, a manager.

I think there are people that can benefit and also people for whom self help books are a waste of time. It depends on your mindset, and in my opinion whether you can think for yourself or whether you prefer "experts" to tell you what the best practices are.
I think with modern advances in facial recognition technologies, a human participant wont be necessary. Have you seen how accurate these models are nowadays? Many big tech companies have already released tools that make it possible for just about anyone who can write code to implement sophisticated CNN models for facial recognition. These technologies are more accessible currently than they've ever been.
Kivaloo: high-performance key-value store
Studies suggest that many inventors do their best work at later stages
There may be high numbers in captivity, but those will be genetically very similar.

You may be interested in learning more about genetic drift and effective population size, it should clear things up:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Genetic-Drift-and-...
Should also publish the benchmarks of best of class machines running TensorFlow - for Linux, Windows and Mac HWs.

Show Apple why they need to release better Mac Desktop/Laptop HW or risk loss the heart and mind of next generation of developers.
If vim is available, then you can do

VISUAL=vim visudo

or

EDITOR=vim visudo

According to the man page, VISUAL is preferred.
Non destructive editing is in their TODO list for version 3.2.

And for tablets, Krita is pretty good.
Wow, what are we looking at? The least weird thing that comes to mind is some kind of SEO witchcraft...
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I think the answer is that the UK would have been happy to locate the sub ... and sink it.
As long they are interested in coding, they can code.

It may take longer if they're not as adept. They can try some strategies to assist coding, such as books, checklists, pair programming, etc.
Hi thank you very much, I work in the industry and I will definitely take a look at it. You seem to be one of the developers behind this project. Is there any way I can contact you in the future?
It's too bad they couldn't update the firmware in time, but it sounds like they did the responsible thing and built their drones to be safe. Do we really need a drone with an easily flippable "Trust me, I know this is a no-fly zone but I have made precautions to be perfectly safe!" switch?
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Are you referring to nothingness?

I think that most of us can remember being 'nothing' (this might be wrong), and it baffles me why people are afraid to die, which is simply returning to 'nothing'.
Not everyone can learn to code (well), imo. But, that's not an elitist coding-is-harder-than-other-things statement -- it's just the truth for any discipline.

Not everyone can draw/paint; not everyone can sing; not everyone can learn new languages proficiently; not everyone is good with numbers; not everyone is good at teaching; not everyone is good with working with other people; not everyone is athletic. And by this I mean that some will naturally be good at learning and ultimately mastering the above list of things, while others have to work much harder to get even close, with a lower ceiling.

Most importantly though, it's not up to someone else to decide whether you're good at something or not. Everyone should have an opportunity to take class or learn a subject and find out for themselves if that's something that they're good at or naturally inclined to. And if they're not good at it, it's not the end of the world because there is something else that's probably more suitable for them that's just as important to this world as coding.

The trouble we run into is that we often think of programming or coding as something more important or more sacred than other disciplines, when in reality it's just another in a long line of disciplines that takes practice and a little bit of natural talent.
You want HebCal for that. Open source! Has an API available, too!

http://www.hebcal.com/home/developer-apis
I'm not actually a libertarian either. Of course the particular reasons depend on what kind of libertarian you're talking about, but I have different and serious disagreements with all of them.

For example: I'm not an anarchist. I don't think there can be a market in courts, police, armies. (Yes, I've read Nozick.)

Another example: I don't think that non-intervention is the fundamental on which to base a proper foreign policy.

A third example: I don't think that fractional reserve banking is a form of fraud. Or that gold is the ultimate currency.

Fourth example: I neither lionize nor demonize the police as an institution. Civil asset forfeiture is an abomination, to be sure, as is police racism, brutality, and their present "warrior mentality." These are definitely problems, to be sure. However, they are neither solved by markets, nor by simply eliminating a necessary and important pillar of society.

Fifth example: Libertarians seem to despise the idea of intellectual property. While I have seen my share of asinine software patents, I generally think that IP is extremely important to protect. I think it's proper for the government to protect innovators (not as a matter of utilitarian principle, but rather as a matter of justice.)

I could keep going from here, but that should be sufficient... I'm no libertarian!
I’m not sure if this is the right place to share this, but loneliness as an entrepreneur was painful and was extremely bad for my mental health. When I give it another go, it will be after having secured a much better set of relationships.
Oh wow TJ is working in nodeland again. I thought he had moved entirely towards Go.

Glad to see more of his work!

Edit: It's Go lol.
> U.S. company specialized in satellite communications

Nice. Hoping Argentina and US can bring these sailors back safely.
Oh hey, I recognize who wrote that article!

Super interesting to see she found something others would consider niche to cope with depression.

I spent the last few years at the same time bouncing around various ISP's in different roles. Some friends and I have joked that I'm the "Roy Batty of Telecom". Having touched just about every method that people these days use to access TV, Internet and Phone

There's a certain wonderment that these inexplicable mishmashes of tech that cover the entire world "just work" with one another. Providing services that most people take for granted
https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e...

Update: I see now it's written in go... :-P
MS is still kicking.
No, we are discussing resentment.
I use the same kind of search for most of my searching. Does anyone have any tips to add to this?

e.g specific sites for any particular demands, or any other tricks
I think with many small countries outside US/Europe becoming developed, one needs a shopping site with wide variety of international products and minimal shipping rate.
This is something I would love to have. The possibilities are endless. Status screens, quotes, project progress, server health, etc. I really wish something like this existed that I could use to show some basic info that would be nice to have a screen at home, but not so nice a monitor is even a remote possibility.
Universities are cap-exempt, but yes, this will harm industries that have lower salaries on average. As an alternative, they could normalize for the median salary in the applicant's industry.
May I ask what is the area you work on? HFT, derivs etc? Also are you a developer or trader?
So yoy shouldn't minimize a problem just because you can't completely nullify it?
sed -i s,^EDITOR=nano$,EDITOR=vim ~/.bashrc
That's true. Paired with "go", can we dwell on the irony that Google has come up with the worst names for programming projects when it comes to searching for them?
nope: https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e...
Im interested
Google search earns over $138,000,000 per day. Best of luck outgunning them.
The sensationalist title is to be expected from a not-so-well-known Indian news outlet.
How about 'there's no good replacement yet'? All that the firmware should be doing is making sure the hardware is intact enough to load the next stage, then finding, loading, verifying (a the very least, checking signatures for accidental modification, and ideally checking the keys against ones that require physically moving a jumper or dip switch to change), and executing the first on-disk stage. MAYBE initializing a very basic text mode so it can show errors, MAYBE a halfassed keyboard handler to let you help it out if it gets confused.

Granted, this does mean it has to have some sort of bus it can use to talk to various storage devices, but even this should be as simple as possible - you can switch to a more complex but faster one later, you just need to be able to load a couple kilobytes.
I'm honestly surprised that Hitachi is even on that list!
> Worlds largest ICT companies by revenue, category and year founded:

> [...]

> 2. [2] Samsung (1969)

I know, I'm nitpicking here, but I guess you are thinking of Samsung Electronics here, which is just a part of the Samsung Group. Samsung was founded in 1938.
As someone on H-1B, but NOT employed by one of these low-paying consultancy firms, can't these employees find a new employer in the US and switch over? H-1B doesn't prohibit that. That is, unless most of these workers are not skilled enough to find alternative jobs easily...
Neovim v0.2.2 released
Not only SB, but that is a significant part of the WeWork business imo. I feel it myself.
Thanks for the praise, and for the insight per your experience. Sounds like a great gig!

I looked you up, and see that you are likely working exclusively in Haskell, but thought you might derive some value from Carl Cook's presentation on optimizing HFT code at the most recent cpp convention. I recognize the languages are distinctly different, but he provides some interesting theoretical points along the way that might be advantageous to you.

Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM&feature=youtu.be

Also, I can sympathize with your plight to run scalable sims. I've done some work in bioinformatics, and am building a small cluster at home so that I can learn to write code that'll scale to more massively parallel systems that are de rigueur in that domain.

Cheers!
The causality arrow might go the other way. Heinlein was a naval officer before he was discharged on a medical. He never served on a sub, but he did serve on a destroyer, so he would have been familiar with their weaknesses.
Why is this comment being downvoted? Can't anyone else see the poor taste in words? I'm not sure it deserves to be flagged but definitely worth calling out.
It's not unheard of. Instead of putting a hard limit and playing the random number generator game with peoples' lives, maybe approve visas on a case-by-case basis...?
>The magic has become mundane.

Classic Louis CK routine: "It's going to SPACE!"

https://youtu.be/q8LaT5Iiwo4?t=1m31s
>There are many, many households in the SFBA with incomes in the 200-300k range. Buying a 600-900k house on that just isn't that hard

Thanks for sending me on an interesting stats search. Looks 19% of Bay Area households do indeed have household income over $200k [0]. However, this is not typical of tech salaries (and two-earner tech couples are certainly not 20% of the Bay Area population, given the gender ratios).

Glassdoor has the median software engineer at $129k, or $150k with 15+ years experience [1]. I'll go with the whole population. With a $100k down payment, 1.18% property tax rate (San Francisco), and no other debts, Trulia says that that median software engineer can afford a $720k house [2]. Per ADP, with a maxed 401k (as everyone should have), this person takes home about $6000/mo [3].

If we actually look at some inventory in this price range [4], we're talking housing expenses right around $4000/mo, or 2/3rds of take-home pay.

Assume we're targeting a 6-month emergency fund (as everyone should, if not more) and a 20% down payment. You'll need $145,000 for the down payment + $24,000 to be able to service the mortgage in case of unemployment. So, how fast can you save an after-tax $169,000?

Personally, in a good year I can save about $2000/mo in addition to the 401k. So we're talking about 7 ideal years after establishing an emergency fund (0.5-2 years after college, no moves, no significant copays, no rent increases above salary increases). In order to commit 2/3rds of your take-home to housing, for a starter condo or faraway house in a mediocre school district, as a ~32 year old).

What happens to Bay Area house prices in 7 years? Over the last 30 years, somewhere between 50% and 100% appreciation, depending on your choice of interval [5]. How fast can the median engineer save $338k?

>Too much eating out, not enough packing lunch.

Let me check YNAB for the last year... yep, it would take 26 years for the last 12 months of my (admittedly pretty lavish) entertainment spending to fund today's down payment. 75 years for the dining out portion. Also, what the hell kind of tech job doesn't provide lunch? Try again.

[0] https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francis...

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...

[2] https://www.trulia.com/house-affordability-calculator/

[4] https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/451-Kansas-St-94107/...

[5] https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/3-recessions-2-bubbles-and-...
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I think this is also true for PDF.
I don't think this is true. There are per-country queues for permanent residence.
Where is this 17th st BART you speak of? :)
Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_height–velocity_dia...
This was cool. But what interested me more is the site it’s hosted on branchable.com. Is anyone else drawn to the ability to fork things on the net?
actually, there is an E#. It's called E#! There is also a Cflat! F is the enharmonic spelling of E# and B is the enharmonic spelling of Cflat.
It's like WWI all over again. In WWI, people went happily off to war thinking it's going to be nice and heroic and adventurous like the good old days and they all get slaughtered in a pathetic pointless way in a blink of an eye by newly developed automated war machinery.

The first AI War is going to be a really brutal wakeup call. The part in sci-fi where anyone actually has to aim to kill an enemy was a big romantic lie. The robots don't miss and they draw and shoot before the humans even know they're there. William Gibson, to his credit, did anticipate this with the Slamhound assassin robots in Count Zero.
People on H-1B move companies all the time. The new employer simply has to file for a new H-1B visa that is not cap-exempt and is not subject to any lottery this time around. As soon as the documentation is filed (even before approval), the employee can start working for the new employer.
This is a blanket statement. You seem to have a very distorted view of the situation. Working on H-1B does not equate any of this automatically.
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It is not in the current online tool but we will add it again soon. It is still in there the way you describe it (passing transpose down to the leaves and simplification rules as well). Btw: How are you doing and where have you been? Would be nice to also add a link to you and your current site. GENO is also on its way.
> the sheer volume of random brands is really off-putting to me for some reason

Your example of 'usb cable' is a very good one for highlighting this problem. You are seeing so many brands because of an army of "Amazon Associates Sellers" / FBA - Fullfilled by Amazon Sellers ( I like to refer to them as scam artists) who identify various electronic gadgets, household items, and other things that are in demand, that are light (so cheap to ship) and that are available in bulk in Alibaba or Alibaba Express. They simply slap on their brand logo / name on packaging, pay a few select reviewers to do a 5-star review on amazon and make a whole bunch of sale.

So in essence, the chances are that these 10+ brands you are seeing for 'usb cable' are all sourcing the same exact 'Made in China' product from the same factory in China through Alibaba. Do a search for 'Strawberry corer' and you'll see what I mean :)

This is a very real problem that amazon has been very slow to resolve.

There are even Fiverr gigs that do the product research for cheap. Source: https://www.fiverr.com/gigs/amazon-fba
>LPT/IEEE1284 gives you 8 bits of GP(I)O with ultra-low latency (microseconds vs milliseconds for USB.)

USB is also microseconds (hundreds of them, but still)
Online Experimentation at Microsoft (2009) [pdf]
Woah. I have problems with Stripe since I am from India & it is not supported in India so I have to go PayPal way. Also, can u tell me how much hidden fees they will charge me to convert from USD to INR ?
> This is OK for many cases, but gets pretty expensive and inefficient for prototyping

I used to think so too once upon a time and i used to etch PCBs myself etc. Then my child was born and the value of my own time sky-rocketed. Now even when prototyping my hobbies, I'd rather focus on the work where my doing it adds value especially with the internet making producing custom designs a commodity.
orcas, with humans, are one of the most widely distributed mammals. they live nearly everywhere.
I'm happy with whatever works, but what I have in mind is very simple so I don't expect it to take a lot of engineering time :)
Talk to your customers. They should be your best friends.
Paraphrasing from the book The Four by Scott Galloway:
Apple is a company that has positioned itself as a luxury brand. Apple is about sex and signalling. Carrying an Apple phone signals more status than if you were to carry an Android phone, since it is more expensive, just like with other luxury items.
But in addition to attaining this status, it has done something that many other luxury brands have not: low production costs in addition to premium pricing. Now, no other techbrand is a luxury brand, which puts Apple in its own league. Either it's going to take a very long time to unseat Apple, or they need to miss a big new market, that they didn't see coming. Now, most of us believe AR/VR and AI to be the next market, if they aren't able to get to market fast enough with products that we have come to expect from Apple, this can be an issue.

I recommend reading the book by Scott Galloway, it is insightful.
Ask HN: What activity should I spend most time on?
I am a software engineer turned freelancer, and I started a company some time back with a friend.

I am good at making stuff and my other co-founder is good at design & research.

We have a couple of clients right now that are helping us pay our bills and take care of a couple of employees (excluding us).

Obviously, for increasing the revenues we should focus on increasing the sales and marketing. Right now I am not sure should I focus on just catering our existing clients(which is a risk) or should I spend time on some other activity too?

PS: We provide Web design and development services to our clients.
I agree in the sense rest is not as imortant as say: is the api XML or JSON? I’ve integrated many B2B APIs which tend to be varying degrees of XML, plain and sane to rabbithole insane or worst of all SOAP which apparently is really still a thing people use and take seriously in B2B api context.

Sigh, xml hard at work solving a problem we never seen, but creates such a bloted horrible mess where json would have been simple and better.
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Filetype: is also a favorite of mine.

One thing to note when using filetype in bing by specifying xls it also catches other file extensions (xlsx) while google in my experience only would find xls.

Yes I use bing sometimes and especially when troubleshooting Linux error logs I find it parses a copy paste better. Just my experience. Important to note I do not use profiles.
People being amused by irregular verbs is, in my opinion, a sign of how much regularity there is in English. For an example of irregularity in Russian there is a short story by M. Zoschenko, "The fire iron" (Кочерга, М.Зощенко [1]). The plot of the story is about some office workers who are trying to write an order for five fire irons but don't know how to write "five fire irons" so they toss around ideas to order three and two in different orders or request "a fire iron, five items of" etc. It makes no sense in English, obviously, but in Russian the issue is that a noun, when used with quantity, has to be in different cases depending on the quantity and for quantity of 5 the case is genitive plural[2], which is rarely used naturally with "fire iron" so most people don't know how to make one.

1. http://fanread.ru/book/7894628/?page=1

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_declension#Numerals
Volunteering is awesome and I'm glad you have found a niche and are recommending it.

For me, it's been excellent too but I chose something physical, challenging, outdoors and completely unrelated to tech. Selfishly, it's a needed change from sitting in front of a computer but still gives the satisfaction of helping people in deep ways.

But yes, directly helping people is deeply rewarding and satisfying.
orcas have very good eyesight, including out of the water. they often use a technique called spyhopping where they intentionally poke out of the water to see along the surface of the water for navigation, to see prey further away, or just to inspect their surroundings.
Wow, great job on this for being someone who dosn't play an instrument. Seriously. Sure, there are some kinda not exactly right things, but sheesh, maybe you should make your own instrument! This is a great way to teach people about machine learning in a friendly way. Keep adding to it. Obviuosly you know there is random music- you were just speaking of songs. And You seem to know about blues, so you probably also know about rhythm changes and stuff? If not- check that out- see also Donna Lee.
Yea, bad bad windows for following standards.

The SI prefixes are well established before 1998 and the cause for this brainmelt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
i am not arguing about orcas eating sharks being new behavior. i was just pointing out that one of the most intelligent species on the planet learning major new behavior is not breathtakingly unlikely.
If you wanted to replace a bunch of characters in a string. I.e. all 'a' to 'b' you can operate on the span, and not have to re-allocate a new string after each replacement
That's nuts. That's like asking a beginning programmer to stop coding because their code is garbage. The only way to be a great singer is to be a bad singer first.
What about Corel Photo-Paint?
orcas eating sharks is well known. if i am not mistaken, orca pods off of california and south africa are the main ones we know about. great whites have been observed to leave the area off of south africa when orcas roll in.
I don't know about Argentina's submarines, but the diesel submarines in WWII could get down to around 1000 feet. I wouldn't consider that to be "near" the surface.

Most diesel submarines are actually electric submarines, with a diesel generator to provide the electricity for the electric motors and to charge batteries that can be used when the submarine is too deep to run the diesel generator.
I highly recommend to look for real examples on Google Hacking Database[1] for more tips & hacks. The audience of this site are mostly people looking to use google to find exploitable websites, but it shows techniques used to narrow your Google Search.

1. https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/