skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sure you're not me? I got into coding seriously in college after I started to take adderall to help study, and ended up making a career of it. I was absolutely terrified of quitting, because I felt like I couldn't do the one thing I was good at without it. I tried quitting and lost jobs over it, several times. It got to a point where I couldn't function as a human without it - I'd just sit in bed and feel sorry for myself. My addiction progressed to needing more than I could convince any doctor to prescribe, so I started getting more in various illegal ways.

I've been off the stuff for about 4 years, and I don't miss it at all. I'm actually a much better programmer without it - I don't get sucked into unimportant details, I have a more realistic sense of what I can and can't accomplish, and I'm more creative. More to the point, I have a life outside of a little bottle of pills now.

I got off of it after talking to some people who'd also gotten off - this helped alleviate my fears that I would have to give up my sweet programming career, and re-framed the problem as a matter of underused and atrophied motivation and willpower. It wasn't easy, but with a lot of love and support I managed to quit for good.

Hit me up if you want to talk - jonathan dot j dot mason, gmail.
An earlier draft of that comment had "not sure either company would bid very hard" phrased as "not sure either company has the financials to support" so I looked up RHT's market cap, saw it was in the 10s of billions, remembered GitHub is still privately held, and decided to stop the detailed research at that point.

Good catch, though. GitHub is a candidate because their core business model, like Most Linux Distributors, is built around aggregating and re-distributing open source software in a trustworthy fashion. (And support contracts around that.)

No acquisition is also a possibility. Neither Docker the tech nor Docker the company is too big to fail right now.
Nothing on PHP?
I don't condone these ads. They do look like stalking and harassment. One word I would use to describe these is "crass".

She says "I just mostly came here to see pictures of my friends' dogs and kids", but what she wants from Instagram is different from what Instagram thinks she's interested in.

It's obvious (leaving aside bugs in Instagram) that she has visited other websites to look up information on yoga and also probably on bras, or shown some kind of engagement with these topics in a place where FB/Instagram was watching, so to speak. This is where things become confounding, because the actual sellers of bras and other clothing have decided that they want to target people doing yoga, which is related to general fitness, which is related to feeling comfortable while engaging in fitness related activities, which they also believe is about looking good — it's a broad net that they cast so that they get more people to look at ads and buy their products. The sellers have also decided that these kind of pictures are what help them (oblivious to the actual experiences of those seeing the ads and the consequences). Of course, this seems like the targeting is actually pointless and that they're wasting their money, but this is how a lot of ads work and how a lot of these ad serving products (FB, Insta, Google, etc.) work. They're still not good enough to target people who're more likely to buy, but competition in a specific product/service space makes sellers wanting to grab as much as possible based on ill informed hypotheses of "their target customer is ____, _____, ____".

It's also clear that Instagram and FB working together isn't really that good for the users, and whatever services FB and Instagram use to profile people around the web look shady as well in how and where they collect information and how they use that information to make inferences that are creating such experiences. If it's not bras, it may be lipsticks or moisturizers or slimming products or bags or so many other things that are sold as things that we should aspire for.

This problem is not going anywhere unless people get more educated about online tracking, how to have at least some control over it and also demand more from these companies that provide "things for free".

In this context, this book "The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy" [1] is something more people should read.

[1]: https://www.nostarch.com/smartgirlsguide
A good indicator is no visible electronics other than headphones, turntables and a simple mixing board.
The future of GAE is K8S. GAE should be an app on K8S.
I found this line in an old blog post from 2013 in my drafts folder.

> But honestly, I've been thinking back, trying to remember the last time I felt like I was really in control and being the person I wanted to be.

That was 5 years ago and I now realize I've felt like that almost the whole time, with brief breaks. My goal is to treat this as a real problem and solve it.
Built a fintech-ish startup all by myself, zero funding. I didn't intend to do it all by myself but it's not a sexy business so no one was jumping to go full-time. It came close to breaking me as a human being, honestly.

Anyway, I went from being a CTO who was constantly being pitched horrible no-good business ideas by first times CEOs - who as a rule,
wanted to give me 10% equity but also wanted me to build the project for free - to a CEO who closed countless sales and knows his CAC and LTV like the back of his hand.

If I can, so can you but you have to manage CAC:LTV.
You must have pissed that person off at some point. Without knowing the context though, that's a very low road move to take on their part.

In any event, I enjoyed the couple of videos of yours I watched.
App Engine was free before it forced you to enter a valid card number to be able to use the service.
That's kind of a cop out.
Get a Higher resolution display (around 4k maybe) and be more ergonomic in general.

Release an Open Source Project and develop it for a year.

Turn my comments into blog posts instead of just comments.

But most important to have fun!
Would attaching a heat sink to the top of the lamp solve that problem? So there's always a heat gradient.

It would probably work better in a colder room, too.
I held a full time crm position while working 100 hours a month doing laravel development for a local startup. Created php websites and implemented features for other client. Watched 500+ laracast videos, went to my first online conference. Tried to re learned react instead learned vue. Tried to reimplement a movie game in vue / quasar framework with some success from a half finished react project which was from a 1/4 finished angular project.

Also moved around a few hundred websites from mostly hostgator accoints to a droplet setup.

The one area I struggled with was what to build next last year. I hope to get more clarity this year.
The spice must flow...
Well yeah dude, our corporate social media mobile app requires the best of the best! We have a $4M Stage 3A valuation from our VC and were in YC round 6 last month! Our team of 6 MBAs and 1 programmer absolutely requires the most prestigious of programmers! You think I'm really going to hire someone that screwed up a simple if statement?! PFT!
And you're essentially shaming people who do try to change who they're married to. It is difficult enough to be divorced with parents and relatives chiming in with "I told you so" and "how could you not see..."

In a question about national ID I said I don't have to be open-minded and consider every single proposal. The community here was loud and clear: me not wanting to consider an alternative solution is a bad™ thing. Well, I say a vegetarian wanting to never see a menu with meat on it (which is what this essentially is) is similarly l closed minded.

I mean if you're allergic to something, I think you have a right to ask "does this food contain x? I am allergic to x" but everyone else can shove it with their special diet.
I don't think that's a criterion now.
- Continue with habit forming practice

- Run and exercise at least 3 times a week

- Delta-debug how to get into flow state as many time and as fast as possible
Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
Learning a command line and a text editor cold is the best ROI for any developer. (As long as text is the primary interface, which it will be for a while.)
You may be right. The DJs I really like are also artists/producers (Armin van Buuren and Gareth Emery are on my mind as I say this).

That said, I feel bad diminishing the work that went into, for example, Laserface[0]. I didn't attend the NY show, but the set was, for me, amazing[1].

[0]: http://laserface.garethemery.com/
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gb2gmmTjx8
Merging Dynamic and Static Sites (2015)
> First thing in 2008

Hello time traveller.
While you're at it, buy/mine Bitcoin. It seems crazy, don't worry - it doesn't get any less so. Sell it Mid December 2017.

Also, if you're not getting anywhere and it's a business line service - find out who your account rep is, and call them up to fix this kind of rubbish.

Otherwise, yeah, go sit in a Telstra store until the cops turn up to fix the issue.
Always jump on the cool stuff even if it makes no sense for the business. In most places as SW engineer you are not rewarded for creating business value or saving money. You are being rewarded for knowing technologies.
I think the idea is that if someone decides later in life they want to change their sex, their birth certificate shouldn't be an impediment to their future life living as the gender of their choice.
It's a beautiful way to approach problems. But one problem I find with it is that I get a bit paranoid with my solutions. Sure, it's not being rejected by any of my experimentation, but is it ready for millions of dollars of commitment? How do I know when I'm confident enough? After all, I went into this trying to prove myself wrong, so my mind is in a place where I'm expecting for it to fall apart.
Ship something written in Scala, Rust and Haskell.
Basic Corporate Governance Pattern in Variable Interest Entities (2016) [pdf]
In Bangkok I got two wisdom teeth removed in a single operation with a local anesthesia for $300 without insurance, in a good modern clinic where everyone speaks English.
Submit a pull request - the URL just needs those colons
I've read that post now and previously (though not its references) and I feel that it never gets to the point where it explains how urandom can be equally safe as random.

Is the idea not that it is information-theoretically safe, but rather that the computational requirements are too great to figure out the state of the random-number generator even after a large amount of observed output?
The easiest way to see authenticity is to seek out producers doing shows. They may play a lot of their own music as well as a curated set of other music.

There's an old interview of BT in the 1990s where he thoroughly debunks that he is a DJ even when playing other people's music. He incorporates as much live control and variation as he can handle. BT is a neat guy.. he restored a Fairlight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI) as well as computers like the IBM PS/2 model 70 to use in his productions so he's a bonafide technologist aside from being a phenomenal classically trained musician.

Matt Darey is another that does a good job, invites the vocalists to perform live whenever he can. His radio show is my favorite thing to listen to when doing software development. He's been working with Dolby to incorporate Atmos into new and old productions so he's pushing the state of the art. https://soundcloud.com/mattdarey
UI enhancement suggestion: "May the odds be ever in your flavor."
I've been working with Terraform and Kubernetes a bit as well. Their strengths seem to be very complimentary when aiming for a platform agnostic system.
Technically it would not be especially hard - just add more clearances.

The trouble would be loss of efficiency.
If I signed the NDA, would I also be happy to know the roadmap for Python 3 on GAE-Std?
Created a passion of mine and finally overcame the fear of launching! BetterSelf is a side-project that's used to track supplements and medications and how it impacts your sleep and productivity.

Site : https://betterself.io/
GitHub : https://github.com/jeffshek/betterself
Want to chat? As long as you are living there is an opportunity to change things.
Would a heat sink on top help, perhaps?
I think all the major chains have a policy in place where you get the exact same amount of toppings by weight no matter what you order. If you only order pepperoni you get a ton of pepperoni, but if you order supreme you get less of everything but it ends up being the same overall by weight.
Good post-- looks like a recipe for success to me.
You'll get into withdrawal which results in mental (anxiety, paranoia, etc...) and physical effects (tremors, nausea, vomiting, sleeping disorder, etc...).

Depending how hooked you are it could be a real physical dependency which can be harmful.

That being said, its just the same as the effects of alcohol in general, they are just stacking up when you have withdrawal. If you have truly decided to stop/lower your drinking - and you actually have what you consider a problem - its wiser to tapper it off, but it does require actual will to do it...

Below is a link that describe the withdrawal you can go through (found after a quick search, looks fairly accurate):
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/alcohol-abuse/withdrawal-...
All three for one project?
Hey you’ve got a lot to live for. Hope you know that.
> No acquisition is also a possibility.

Oh my yes, the quiet release of CRI-O by RedHat and Google recently was a pivotal moment. You can run a container orchestration environment in production without anything from Docker the company. You still need it to build and maybe host images but the rest is pluggable.
well the problem is that most problems can be helped with first level support where the personal isn't trained for deeply technical stuff, they just need to follow their checklist. most often if you are not somebody who has an easy problem your pretty much screwed. since telekoms have a very bad way of escalating stuff to their trained personal. (probably because it's not cheap).
I'd like to play more guitar. Get a better grip on my habits and my health. Graduate university.
Implement a Haskell compiler from scratch.
I feel happy when I read comments like this and see that there are many people who think this way. I've started the move to using more cash myself, and one of the triggers was this Aeon article titled "In praise of cash" that impressed me and influenced me. [1] As a strong pro-privacy advocate in my circles, I also feel the despair that comes when I see that most people don't understand or don't care much, which (I believe) is a detriment to humanity as a whole.

[1]: https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...
Write a short tech book and publish on github. Related to front-end dev
They're trained to keep the peace. 'Measured', I don't know about.

I can imagine they're personally motivated to try and resolve things without resorting to arresting someone as that would result in paperwork/processing/etc back in the office.

It's not too uncommon to see police get involved in negotiating disputes where there's no specific powers they can exercise (other than removing/arresting the person for trespassing/breaching the peace/failure to obey a 'move on' order).

Have the cops turn up makes both sides treat things a bit more seriously - the store manager wants them gone ASAP to stop making a scene, and will be more likely to do whatever it takes to escalate the issue to someone more senior if the police ask.
Thanks, prop 57.
Imagine if American police could be trained to use negotiation tactics, and de-escalation methods.
Raiblocks seem to be the darling these days - it has a good chance of success just because of the founder, but it also brings a bunch of new tech :)
Well, in reality the productivity gains usually go to the owners of the means of production, not labour. So if Sweden only required one person to actually perform labour, then that person would get paid a high salary, but the owners of the company doing that work would get all the profit, and you would have to tax them somehow. And they would do all they could to evade taxes.

So to reach that limit example, you would have both productivity concentration, and an enormous amount of capital concentration in the background, screwing things up, making it harder to reason about the example.

I think Blockbuster vs. Netflix is a very good illustration of what happens when productivity concentrates. With Blockbuster, you had 300k simple low-wage jobs. But they were distributed across the country, so their collective income taxes were also distributed into a lot of local economies, doing good locally.

Blockbuster went bankrupt, and Netflix took their place. So instead of 300k distributed low-wage jobs, you now have 10k high-skill high-wage jobs, but they're concentrated to LA and Silicon Valley. Those employees pay local taxes there, and nowhere else. So from a national perspective, you now need to re-distribute those taxes to the areas who lost tax revenue, somehow, without pissing off the employees, and without pissing off Netflix, and without pissing off the local government in SF and LA. Usually this is done through federal aid/job aid programmes that take money from richer states and distribute to poorer states, but that's an incredibly blunt instrument.

But if you were to tax productivity and if you were able to tax it locally where it's consumed, this change from Blockbuster to Netflix wouldn't have disrupted local economies. Because then it wouldn't matter how many employees did the actual production, or where they were located, and that's good for the places that productivity is concentrated away from.

(Unless, of course, you are of the position that fuck those guys for living in the middle of nowhere, they should move to the cities like everyone else.)

Anyway, tying it all back to the original point, productivity concentration necessitates some kind of new/stronger redistribution mechanism so the gains are spread across the entire population. Previously, and still, when we have income-tax and a high percentage of the population participating in the labour force, that distribution happens automatically.

Maybe a productivity tax to make sure the country as a whole captures part of the GDP, UBI to spread it equally across the population, and then local consumption taxes to redistribute to local governments? I don't know.
The hard part isn't clicking 'next', it's picking the songs.
You could say that, or you could say that bragging about being better without a solid proof is disingenuous or flamebaity. Not unreasonable, is it?

In this particular case, I've seen scores of advanced economies where the eloi are clueless about the stinky and dirty morlocks breaking their backs to power the paradise, and I believe a tiny bit of blindingly obvious sarcasm is not an overreaction.
Maybe a high-end lightsaber?
..sort of..
I agree that is probably a civil dispute, but that doesn't help if the outcome is "violently arrest someone on camera"
What they are supposed to do is act with authority, use their position to resolve situations efficiently and rapidly. They almost always end up between unions and corps during strikes for example- and these sort of "civil" disputes often escalate into violence. So, solve it before it gets there. (15 years LE, LE trainer in use of force, recently retired)
I am very skeptical of this claim. There is enough variation between individuals of either gender to make positive identification close to impossible (not to mention that muscular / ligament changes in the hips on hormones can cause the hips to rotate over time into a different position). Sexual dimorphism in humans has such significant overlap and grey area that positive identification from physical characteristics alone is going to have a significant error rate.
Maybe Georgia’s farmers should try paying their labor more, and improving their working conditions.
Honeybees are not native to North America. They actually may have a negative impact on native species.
I would suggest that you also install and use ad blockers. Every user who does that sends a signal across that it's unacceptable (the entire tracking, profiling, sending malware, etc.). We need more people to do this because it's clear that the ad industry and the conduits don't care enough.
New Year resolution? Keep to goals I already kept and started from last year.
- Self study cryptography, algorithms, linear algebra, machine learning

- Work on some side project either being a startup or open source project - this will take priority over self-studying if I can find the right thing to work on

- Get a treadmill so I can run every morning when it's too cold to go outside

- Hit savings goals for retirement and buying a home

- Spend some time abroad

- Do a combination train/biking/camping trip
- minimise food wastage (realised that I throw away a lot of food but still keep buying stuff)

- no gadget purchases (I have enough)
I had a bad burn out and had to quit my job to keep my sanity. I've always had the habit of sharing interesting tech articles with my friends, so I launched https://discoverdev.io as a side project. It's basically a no BS curated daily list of good engineering articles that I feel would be worth your time! Had to teach myself some web dev and some basic design.

Right now working on a platform for developers to explain the internal workings of their projects. This would help a lot of new comers understand how a particular project works as opposed to being asked to read it's source code.

All on all 2017 was a meh year, hoping for a brighter 2018.
This largely matches my own experience in using GAE. I might just add that since I was using GAE for personal projects, it is very easy to accidentally use a lot of money with the ease to scale up and handle more traffic. There is a way to tell GAE to have a budget limit though.

And yes, although this is essentially vendor lock-in, the access to the many services provided is really really a timesaver that boosts productivity tremendously. I just wonder whether Google is spending much time on it, given how slow they support newer versions of languages.
Let me guess you are employed? I was in a similar situation and quitting my job helped me get out of this. Beginning was bumpy and I regreted it somewhat for some time, but I don’t even think about it anymore. It’s ok if you don’t have a plan or a project, you need some curiosity and general area of what you are interested in (a stack of unread books counts).

You aren’t betting on your project but on your skills. Like if you spend a year doing a thing, you’ll be a beast. And even if your thing doesn’t work out, you’ll be fine.

Email me (<my username>@gmail.com) if you need someone to help you plan it. I don’t have all the answers but I have some. This counts for anyone else reading this as well.
It affects everything. From job prospects to finding a partner.
China Shuts Down Its Legal Ivory Trade
This does not follow. Please elaborate. Theory allows a brute force attack on aes-256, no?
Now if you can make the plasma move through air at fast speed, Plasma gun!
Comments aren’t as bad as you think and articles aren’t as good as you think.
Bake, Don’t Fry (2002)
Brokers don't bear the risk. Insurers and reinsurers (and Lloyd's syndicates) bear the risk.

Brokers are agents; they aren't a principal in the insurance contract.