skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article, it sounds as if records are pretty informally kept in most cases, if at all. I’d be interested in how this breaks down across gender lines. When I think of (jobs requiring licensure) INTERSECTION (jobs that don’t pay enough to pay down student loans), I come up with non-doctorate level healing/helping professions, like nursing, social work, and education, all of which are predominantly female.
A countervailing authority:

Why keep kids away from tech they will create their lives with? Creative, not passive. It's like keeping our generation away from pencils.

-- Garry Kasparov
Learning some basics of vi(m) and using some plugins to enhance it can improve your productivity compared to Nano on the long term (e.g. syntax highlighting with color palettes, linter, tmux support, and what not).

That said, I prefer Sublime/Vim (Sublime also has these plugins), but Nano is a decent alternative and resembles the first text editor I ever used. Sublime is lightning fast for me, but it isn't open source.

To break the habit of firing up Nano I symlinked it from /usr/local/bin/nano to /usr/bin/vim. If you use Vim regularly, the shortcuts will stick in your head whereas if you resort to Nano you won't memorise them for long. If I ever still require Nano then I can execute it by executing /usr/bin/nano

For people on a Mac, I can recommend the app CheatSheet [1] available in Homebrew. If you're lost in an application holding Command (⌘) for a few sec will represent you with a cheatsheet of shortcuts. It won't work with CLI apps though.

[1] https://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/
Yes this is why Google, Apple, and Facebook all have 1 programmer.
You make it sounds like the big corporations that pay developers good salaries are doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. Apple, Google, Amazon, UBISoft, Nintendo, etc. are just as "exploitative". Part of developing your career as a software developer is knowing what you are worth at any point in time, and what your options are, and when to switch to a better option. I get the feeling the parent poster actually cares about maintaining a longer-term mutually beneficial relationship with his student/employees, which is already better than a lot of corporations out there.
Seems to be a media attempt at drumming up panic. The post outlines that the Norwegian fund won't be the first institutional investor divest itself of fossil fuels and is doing so for simple diversification purposes. The decision's also not set in stone and will take at least a year to be finalized.
Yeah, but when you retire in Norway, you will be taken care of. Not so in the US, so you need to save for that from that extra 50%.
Try Unread - I’m using it to read feedly on iOS and it’s absolutely beautiful.
The problem is that internet advertising as a model for 99% of companies (Facebook, Google, and a handful of others making it work being the exceptions) is fundamentally broken. When you're a media company you fundamentally trade on people's attention and advertisers pay you to get a piece. You can do that with great content, or with dark patterns and manipulation. Usually its some combination of both. Regardless the vast majority of the web needs a new business model, but I'm not sure what the answer is.
Correct but then it's nothing official yet with an uncertain future? Even if it would become community backed it still is a backend that needs to be secured, maintained, updated, etc.
Therefore a file only based solution is imho preferable from this point of view.
How come did president Clinton continue but every man now is brought down?
So actually larger than moment (which is 16.3kb gzip)? Hopefully it will improve over time.

API looks better than moment though.
Marionette.js?
> all you're doing is making sure the company is owned by people more scrupulous than yourself.

You mean "less scrupulous".
I agree that it is rooted in suspicion around technology, but I think the suspicion is well justified.

Even those who are pretty sophisticated about maintaining control of our own technology can easily lose control of ourselves when using it.
Frustrated foreign leaders bypass Washington in search of blue-state allies
From the paper, it sounds like the particle they constructed is about 120nm in diameter. So a bit larger than the viruses previously used. Which are also nanoparticles, so I guess it's more that this delivery system isn't based on a virus.

I guess, one thing I don't quite understand: are the viruses used in CRISPR really viruses (can they self-replicate using the cells they alter?) Or are they just nanomachines based on viruses?
This just seems completely irrational. Do lenders imagine they're more likely to recover their money this way? This article needs more information to explain how something so completely irrational-sounding could arise.

Questions I still have after reading this article:

* Are we specifically talking about loans by the government, or student loans in general?

* If the latter, does the lender have any say in this, or does the government just do this unilaterally?

* How the hell did this happen? Yes, it was part of a bundle of "aggressive collection tactics" but... really, more information is needed here. Is this, like, a case of the government having the wrong incentives, needing more to look tough than to actually recover their money? If this applies to private loans, what did private lenders have to say about this at the time? Etc.
My dad had a business in Colombia and had worked between Colombia and other South and Central American countries all his life.
In the mid 90's they killed his business partner while he was out of the country. When he went back for the funeral an attempt was made on his life.
He was approached and gun point on the ports had to jump into the water and dive understand the docks to escape gun fire.

My dad fled the country and left his business and all his assets never to return. My mom told his it wasn't worth his life, which it wasn't.
My dads business partner's wife was at the time was trying to install herself into the day to day operations and have more of a role in the business. He thought she was simply greedy and harmless. My dad now feels different about that because she was the only one that knew my dads schedule and where he was going to be that day.
She was also the only one that knew that her husband was going to be without his body guards that time of day.

My dad has lots of stories of Colombia and it's violence in the 90's, most of which was drug influenced.
It wasn't the media blowing anything up and exaggerating.

My parents loved Colombia and it's people though. It would be great now that it's safer so he can maybe visit the place he loved and worked most of his life.
This type of stuff is hard to figure out but where I currently live there are a lot of people who would be much better off if they were locked into a career progression to become an electrician at age 10.
I've never used AWS, but I keep seeing news about large companies or organizations, such as the recent Pentagon story [1], exposing all of their customers' data in plain-text.

Is Amazon making it that easy to screw something like that up, or what is going on here? When you see a few random cases likes, you might think it's just an engineering making a dumb mistake, but this is starting to seem systematic, like there's a UX/UI issue at play here that makes all of these companies that should know better screw-up so easily. Or maybe Amazon just needs to make it hard to screw something like this up. So what's going on?

[1] - https://www.pcmag.com/news/357465/pentagon-accidentally-expo...
It matters so much that its part of the fuel of why some people think the situation of the bottom of the h1b's today is so heinous.

Companies can make second class citizens within: higher intensity and time of labor + lower benefits.

You can reduce PTO, you can reduce the quality of the healthcare plan, you can increase working times (ex. be on call on saturdays), you can assign the even worse and worse quality job opportunities (lots of current H1B's do bank-jobs, maintenance and dying tech jobs) etc.

If it were just the same, then what you need to pass is a law that bans all these other instruments like bonuses and equity. Id like to see americans in general say "it doesnt really matter, because I always looked at total compensation".

This just harms the poorer immigration in favor of the richer immigration. Its an active ingredient of inequality. For whose benefit?
It also recommends running an antivirus on desktop, using a VPN, using tor browser, pidgin and goes as far as discussing android as a viable option.

The “lock up your SIM” part is simply ridiculous too, this has never ever stopped anyone.

This article is terrible because it has clearly been written by non-experts who should not be writing any security guides.
Walls, floors and rocks: England and its swastikas (2014)
From the article "A startup has no chance against the A team from an internet giant. But they should have a very strong chance against a C team"

I think this is the challenge for anybody trying to take on Google with internet search. Google makes most of its money from the search. They are probably smart enough to keep the "A team" assigned to this problem.

Hackers dislike the direction Google Search is taking, but I think they are trying to defend themselves against the competition. No startup can challenge Google on the hardcore internet search. Where they might be able to do that is providing direct answers to most of the questions. This is because for large part of the questions you don't need to index the whole web (just my gut feeling). Get data from Wikipedia, social media sites, price comparison engines etc. The problem becomes more of building partnerships than pure technical stuff.
Do you really know why you prefer REST over RPC?
Cells need to be able to control how much cholesterol they have (cholesterol, notably, makes up about 25% of the cell membrane). They can either synthesize it themselves, or import it from the blood.

The system for importing cholesterol can't run continuously or else it might cram the cell full of cholesterol, so there needs to be a way of turning it off (or at least slowing it down) when levels are satisfactory. PCSK9, the gene that they targeted, does just that.

So it's not a "gene for high cholesterol" per se - but if you delete it, cells will import more cholesterol, thus lowering the levels in the blood. I really don't know much about this system, but I imagine you'd have to combine this modification with a low-cholesterol diet or else it might have an adverse effect on the modified cells.
Yes they produced no new commentaries... Byzantiums were extremely conservative, they disdained innovation, so why would they write new commentaries where there were already several hundred years worth of commentaries?

We have also lost a lot of Byzantium primary sources but it is obvious from reading the remaining primary sources that knowledge of Aristotle was assumed.

It is not stated anywhere that Aristotle was "forgotten", in all the primary documents including Neoplatonic Aristotle is frequently mentioned.

Where do you get the idea that Byzantium and Islam were in philosophic discourse?

Also see this article: https://books.google.com/books?id=uU8Sgwge6NsC&pg=PA15&lpg=P....
In not saying it's a bad idea but this is basically the oft decried security by obscurity (something I often rely on tbh).
I have programmed the home router to turn on and off at various times of the day. Since we stream all video, and many games require an internet connection, this has the result of automatically controlling screen time. I tried it after this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13395964 comment, and it has worked really really well.

Children are 14,10,7 and 4 years old. I am waiting for the day the kids learn to hack the router, but so far they are too well behaved.

So if you have kids, try it!
You got probably flagged because -- all things considered (see other comments) -- "CloudBuddy" seems pretty sketchy, to be honest. You do not inspire confidence or trust. At all.

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"We"? You keep saying "we" but, c'mon, we all know it's just you, running this off of a machine in your home office or garage or whatever.

I don't know why people always try to make their little companies seem much larger than they really are but... you know what? It's perfectly fine! It's okay to be a one-(wo)man shop, doing everything, at home, by yourself, in your spare time -- especially here on HN!. That's how a large number of companies start out. It's not something to be ashamed of or to try to hide.

This practice of trying to appear as some big large company is counter-productive. If you act like a big(ger) company, I'm going to treat you like one and call you out on things you should be doing (but can't, due to it just being you). If you stop pretending and just be honest -- "Hey, it's just me building this myself, trying to make a business out of it" -- then I'll cut you some slack and give you a chance.

Apparently "fake it until you make it" is still a thing.

</rant>
You have to learn that you need to strike a balance between wanting to be left alone (while productive) but not to the point that you are abandoned by friends and loved ones that you become lonely.

You need to make time to do things that will allow you meet new people: visit the library, gym, etc but keep in mind good character is relative. Please accept that although you seem to have the tendency to want to make things perfect before shipping, you'll never to be able to truly ship one.

Oh, and you'll make stupid mistakes. It's unavoidable, that's part of what makes all of us human. Better to accept it and view embarrassing mistakes as a learning opportunity.
Yep. Even a co-located or dedicated server in a datacenter would be better than a Comcast connection (and probably cheaper) when just getting started. He could always "move up" later, when needed.
Sparkfun.com is great.
Thanks for untangling that.
You should also take a look at https://diff2html.xyz/ and it's integration with https://diffy.org/ to share diffs with co-workers, also both Open Source. (Disclaimer: I created diff2html)
There is a huge difference between parents who feel they are responsible for their children's education and see the public school as an important tool in fulfilling that responsibility and parents who feel the government is responsible for educating their kids.

Communities with a large number of parents who feel that education is their responsibility tend to still do a good job of educating their kids in their public schools. Without that parental mindset, the quality of education goes down.
Reverse engineering the Intel FSP: A Primer
The viruses used to deliver CRISPR in the past are not able to replicate. They're so small that you have to remove all of the viral DNA in order to even fit your CRISPR-coding genes inside.
What's the issue with "watch someone else"? I have an 8 year old, and I don't have issues with it - in moderation. Watching other people play games has taught him how games are played.

As my mom taught me: you need to find balance. After an entire day at school with almost no screen time, and lots of social interaction and learning, I'm ok with him coming home and sitting in front of a screen. Assuming his homework and chores are done. He also has lots of after-school activities (martial arts, basketball, right now).

Mostly I think he is growing up in a world deluged in screens and information and propaganda flowing at him, and he needs to learn how to swim in it.
>Super impressive to have that much knowledge for a system that only had a couple thousand programs ever written for it.

Released for it. Officially.
Who beat Microsoft in what? Microsoft's primary business is Windows. Who has beaten Windows? Obviously new businesses have been born that Microsoft would love to own...but so far, there has still been no successful assault on the main business
My understanding is that kindergarten radically changes the kids learning. Why eliminate it? Or what is the replacement?
"Secure boot doesn't mean the user isn't allowed to replace the bootloader or kernel,"

Unless you're on ARM, right? What makes you think Microsoft will always be so kind to x86 users? What makes you think there will never be pressure from the music/movie/gaming industries to make PCs "more secure" by locking down bootloaders etc?
You would do better to look in the Appleton area if you don't want to travel far, otherwise Milwaukee/Madison could be worth a trip (especially conferences) and Chicago should have everything.

Rob Walling is in MN right now, might be worth asking this question of him via his podcast, Startups for the Rest of Us. I assume he mostly interacts with his existing network remotely now though, not sure he could offer advice on creating such a network without bootstrapping in-person.
By continually trying more difficult things. Of course, you may find that as you try more and more difficult things, your skills continue to grow. So your level can keep getting higher and higher. Also, note that some people reach higher levels in specific areas. One person might be amazing at low-level, highly optimized C++ or assembly, while another person might be amazing at building deep learning systems, while a third person might be great at designing hugely scalable and robust distributed web applications. Be curious, try learning a lot of things, find out what interests you, and what you're good at, and see how far you can go down the various rabbit holes.
I recently switched to BitWarden and have had zero problems. The Firefox and Chrome extensions work great as does the Android app. Overall it has been a pain free experience and I'm very glad I did it.
Ignoring the coin jar/charity box confusion, I've tended to keep the bigger coins around and just spend them - a few £1-2 coins don't weigh that much, aren't taking up a great deal of room and will buy your lunch entirely. Then they're not your problem any more.

500 yen's over £3, so I'm guessing you don't get many of those in your lunch change? The top result for "how much is lunch in Japan" [1] suggests that your 500 yen coin would just about cover the next day's lunch and is lighter (barely; 7 grams versus 8.75g) than a British one pound coin [2,3].

The coin sorting machines that you might tip a coin jar into take a decent chunk of your money for the privilege of counting it (e.g. CoinStar charge 9.9% [4]).

1: https://www.withhusbandintow.com/costs-to-eat-in-japan/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_pound_(British_coin)

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_yen_coin

4: http://www.coinstar.co.uk/FAQ
I have look into Bitwarden twice now but I am still Dashlane user. However, I can see Bitwarden https://bitwarden.com/ has now family plan. This is great as I want my wife and kids to use password manager but it is quite expensive to buy and manage license for everyone.
This is (I'm told by my cousins) what they do in Europe and it terrifies me. When I was 10, I was kind of a shit-head and didn't know what I wanted to do, and wasn't really on a path to go to college. You would have locked me in to a career progression to become an electrician. Instead, I worked part time here and there and went to school on my own time and am now ABD in a PhD program.

Who are you to look at 10 year old me and say "no, let's keep this kid in votech and deny them access to higher ed"?
Battery Technology Is the Driver, but Which Battery Metal Could Rise Most
"Heroic" and "adventurous" OK, but- "nice"? I can't believe anyone ever thought that going to war -to kill and risk getting killed- could be "nice", except perhaps for murderous psychopaths.
Germany has a different model for education, but they had to lose World War 2 and had it imposed upon them by the Allies.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-ger...
I think it is a mistake to think rules like Twitters and similar are based on research and observation. They are based on the zeitgeist and are always changed to make as many users as happy as possible to make the company look good.

It would be enough with one guy saying a wants a white genocide and then killing a white person with the media picking up on the connection for twitter to enforce it heavily in the future. Even though nothing had really changed.

Is it not an empirical fact that hate crimes against white have risen sharply in the US and that blacks are using violence at a much larger degree against whites than the opposite? So you could probably infer that divisive speech from the black communities has the same effect as divisive speech from white communities? It will increase violence.

There are probably no studies but then again there is most likely no studies on the fact that white hate speech on twitter increase violence either, right?
Cracking the Mystery of Egg Shapes
"Bill and Melinda Gates have said that they intend to leave their three children $10 million each as their inheritance." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Honestly, I think it's disingenuous to think that your whole community consistently limits screen time based on those guidelines.

Have you ever seen what parents do when their kid is throwing a tantrum? No matter how disciplined they think they are, shoving the tablet in their faces gives them an immediate solution.
The death of configuration management
Huh? So, someone boots your computer, assuming no login password, then launch your browser to get your passwords but need a master password -- how is that not protection?

From the point of view of cracking the password file I'd assume that Mozilla use an encryption key for passing the password file around, just that the key is available to anyone who has access to any of your browsers?
Vape manufacturers are copying Big Tobacco’s playbook
Sounds like where you are printers are like fax machines are here in the US. Which I find both fascinating and kind of great.

In the US we often have printers in every home and often big ones in offices that are made for printing thousands of sheets a day.

In fact, I have an office quality laser jet printer in my home office which I had to use the other day to print + sign + scan a 20 page contract. Your way sounds way better.

Generally speaking most of the time when a document needs to get signed it gets printed out in the US. and it is quite common to print out paper copies of slides to hand to everyone prior to a meeting. Going into a board meeting to approve a sale for instance and often everyone at the table will get a printed out version of the agreement.
Building a Cryptocurrency Portfolio
>> In a world where apparently drone-swarms are this cheap...what, no one ever developed counter-drones?

Well, in a world where developing assault rifles is actually rather cheap, nobody has really developed any convincing countermeasures. Infantry still gets killed if you shoot them with an AK-47, etc.

So there can be weapons without countermeasures. The point of the video is that the possibility exists to develop the weapon to begin with - and that is already concerning enough.
I recently went thru the exercise of creating a "starter" for a frontend project; and I guess everyone has got their own way of doing things.

To be frank I don't consider your approach "simple"; just look at the number of build and configuration files you got or the number of dependencies in package.json.

IMHO a good starting point is one that you add to. Not one that you subtract from.
Video showing huge security breach in iOS permissions nobody sees
iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On ‘Hey Siri’
I alternate between being a real fan of Bezos and concern about the company's sprawling and growing power/interests.

Jeff Bezos is a true visionary, brilliant, and absolutely should be rewarded for that. We need more folks like him.

On the other hand, at what point has Amazon won enough? Selling things at a loss to drive competitors out of business verticals is surely bad for the consumer in the long-term no?