skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet not all of your peers feel the same way. Some managers are better at playing politics than others and get more resources for their directs.

But I've given up on ever getting a decent raise from a company. I've been prepared to switch companies every two years.
If you click reader mode really fast, the JS deleting the article doesn't run.
Not necessary. Let Uber and Lyft run out of venture capital and start running their businesses in a P&L world and they'll soon have to adapt to markrt realities, including establishing a benefits system to keep the people who work for them today working for them in the future.
Lack of turmeric is the mind killer.
Growing apart and losing touch is human and healthy
Consider the case of two kinds of users operating on some kind of interface that is unfamiliar, say, MS Word.

One class of user will consult a manual and try to find the right answer, or perhaps will call an expert.

Another class of user will just start pushing buttons to see what happens, because they have a rough familiarity with the system even if the specific interface is not well understood.

It's that second class that I am thinking about when I think about how "hackers" operate.

In that case, I get that it's dangerous to mess around with a system whose internals you don't know about... but at the same time, there is a kind of fantasy that somehow other folks have a privileged knowledge of what our bodies do.

Personally, I quit wheat and dairy (and reduced my alcohol consumption) because it's a specific tree allergy season here. I have a couple possible accounts of why this is working (because I believe that it is) but I don't really understand the interface or even what I am manipulating when I alter my diet like that... I just know that I can breath, whereas historically I have terrible allergies at this time of year. Feel kind of like a hacky solutions... it's not an engineered solution, that's for sure.
Cold outreach. Github Advanced Search is your friend.

E.g. query for devs with at least one javascript repository (substitute whatever tech you're targeting), > 5 total repos (show they're fairly active on GH), with > 10 followers.

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=language%3Ajavasc...

Search documentation
https://help.github.com/articles/searching-users/
I'm not the original poster of this but its both possible and (probably) unlikely - Article says they have 2500 customers - so if their average price per user was $25 and their average customer had 10 users that would be ~7.5MM ARR - this is obviously just some back of the napkin math
Contentmint: Proof-Of-Content Royalty-Bearing Blockchain
I didn't want to presume myself, but I've now updated my profile. I'll reach out to you directly too, thanks!

We usually advertise on both of those but didn't have much luck some years ago with StackOverflow, but maybe we'll give it a second try.
In the late 1970s, I was the only teacher with programming experience in a system. I will never forget the words of my superintendent, coming back from a conference in Arizona. The experts at the conference told everyone that the world wouldn't need many programmers in a few years. And so, he had concluded, the school wouldn't need more than the two Apple IIs it had borrowed.
Wasn't this in An Inconvenient Truth? Old news
I just wanna say - that made me laugh so hard. thx!
Except customers can choose not to eat at the food court if they don't like the system, they won't starve they'll just go somewhere else. Boycotting / refusing your ISP is like going on hunger strike.
Hi. I'm living in the middle-of-nowhere California.

I'm a generalist, have written software for half a dozen of the worlds major corporations. I live 75 miles from OC, SD and LA, but have family obligations that keep me where I am.

If any of this sounds interesting please say hello :)
Tracking Protection uses the blocklist provided by disconnect.me.

I haven't yet had time to look into DDG's Privacy Essentials, so can't comment on that. But Privacy Badger functions by having a more limited list out of the box and then while you're browsing, it's observing the behaviour of loaded scripts and such, and then dynamically blocks them, if they seem to be tracking you. So, in the long run, it catches more obscure tracking scripts, though there is also something to be said about it needing this time to understand that a script is tracking you.

Then in addition, Privacy Badger also eats up cookies from trackers and blocks social media buttons (or rather replaces them with a non-tracking version). Tracking Protection is just a dumb blocklist, so if you are looking for an all-in-one solution, Privacy Badger is the better choice.
Python has sophisticated ML tools and Neural Net packages, I'm honestly not sure what they are called in Python land, but I see Python on the listings all the time for the top ML libraries. Clojure may also have really great frameworks available by now.
I keep reading online about how remote teams are so great, but in real life they are tough as fuck and require 5x the discipline and communication skills of in-person teams.
i didn’t dismiss it at all. it’s okay for me to wonder why i would want to do such a thing, especially when people claim it as such a simple thing and is instead a rather subtle thing that requires time and attention. i have other interests.

and how is it disingenuous or stretched? i count nearly everyone as, say, 95% of people. if you seriously think even 5% of people have both the skills and want to setup and maintain their own e-mail sever for many years, then you and i are on different planes of thought and experience.

i can understand the crawling thing, although you make a lot of incorrect assumptions. i don’t like it either, but i also don’t enjoy spending my time on things that other people have made trivial.

it’s good people have found your setup posts helpful. if it can be made easier to be self-sufficient, thne more people will do it.
Wow, I knew that Japan compensated engineers poorly but didn't realize that China pays well in comparison.

Unfortunately, money isn't as much the issue. I can afford and would be willing to live in Tokyo for a couple years and work on side projects, but this is not possible visa-wise.
"Where do the Bitcoins drop out?" is such a splendid question on that comment page.
> start your own company with a Japanese co-fouder and go there on a management visa

Will look into this, thanks!
> There could be anything underneath all the permafrost, including new biodiversity which we haven't catalogued yet.

This is stupid. A medical waste dump from "decades" ago leads to issues..... How do we jump to this science fiction and quotes below from NPR of unbelievable????

"Officials don't know exactly how the outbreak started, but the current hypothesis is almost unbelievable: A heat wave has thawed the frozen soil there and with it, a reindeer carcass infected with anthrax decades ago."

Waste dumps from the past cause issues in the future.. How on earth is this unbelievable? How is it even related to global warming? They dug a hole when it was cold, it got warmer in summer one year and defrosted?

It also only killed one person. And we were prepared for it. This makes for a crappy SciFi novel by any standards.
> Health data is only included in encrypted iTunes Backups. It is not included in either unencrypted iTunes backups or iCloud Backup.

Unless I’m misunderstanding you, your quote disagrees with your assertion. Health data is only included in encrypted iTunes backups. It is not included in unencrypted iTunes backups or in iCloud backups.

Of course, that’s just backups. It does say it can be configured to be stored and synced between devices via iCloud, where it is encrypted in transit and at rest. That appears to indicate it is stored pre-encrypted, and does not indicate there is any way to access it outside ones devices.
Indeed, 50% advertising seems outright ridiculous. Want to watch a 2-hours film? You'll watch two hours (!) of advertising. That's silly.
A sad day. Eve is/was really, really cool. I was looking forward to watching it grow.

I wish PLT was a viable path for more programmers.
I really don't think there is, and I don't think there will be one ever.

If quantum computers ever become "mainstream", I think we will need to start teaching the basics behind them in schools, because there isn't an easy way to map the ideas there to classical ones.

I think of it like imagine trying to explain how a CPU works to a person that doesn't know basic math. There is no way to even "ELI5" that, there just isn't enough of a foundation to work from, and any attempt to do so would take so many liberties that it wouldn't even really be useful. Right now quantum computing seems extremely difficult to even understand the basics because 99.99%+ of us are missing those foundations.
Isn't generalized AI and even more ambitious long term goal though? Why program anything, just tell the computer what you want and he'll make it for you.
Is there a reason they need to be in the officd at all?
Swift Playgrounds 2.0 Now Available
> What do you view as alternatives?

Some sort of vacation budget system, where you can take a certain amount each time period.

(Perhaps a certain amount could roll over from time period to time period.)

That manages expectations, and assuages anxieties about taking vacation. No need to constantly question "Has Mary/Dave/I earned this?" Big culture win.

---

Apologies for the snarkiness, but this ultimately seems like a self-imposed problem.
In my experience whenever you post remote jobs great devs come out of the woodwork to find you.

StackOverflow jobs with the remote flag was perhaps the most beneficial before we joined YC and could post to HN.
I wonder how the RAD Game Tools compressors would fit into that benchmark list. In their benchmarks Oodle Selkie has roughly the same ratio as Zlib but is 3-4x faster at decompression than Zstd (not the same benchmark though). http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm
What's to stop the WeWork of commercial kitchens from developing? I truly believe that it could, emphasize could result in a boom of small family restaurants.

There was a startup in Britain that was killing it with mom cooking and Dad doing the deliveries. But health authorities cracked down and the company cratered.

The customers loved the service but even with the help of an executive chef doing inspections the government wasn't satisfied.
Not sure if high natural background radiation really means more cancer.

I tried searching but I cant find a study where apartment builings in Japan were inadvertently built using steel laced with radioactive elements.

People (10000) were living in them for decades. Statistical analysis on them showed lower affinity for cancer related deaseses.
Not your misunderstanding. My misphrasing. That's what I was trying to say.
The Performance Characteristics of Async Methods in C#
Burger King Deviously Explains Net Neutrality Making People Wait Longer for Food
For an out there perspective, I am a big fan of fixed price contracts. I know what I can do and what it's worth. Can't speak for others but I want to share because I don't see people talk about it. A product can be dozens of pieces if you can integrate them.

Incentives are what you need to focus on. Why are they working remote? Why are you seeking remote? Are you investing or just using their labor? I appreciate when somebody is honest and treats me like shit over a dishonest time waster. Really, if given a choice I'd go back to a direct a-hole over a shifty smile. A little brief and all opinion, but my 2c.
How Much Swap Should You Use in Linux?
Oh okay. My bad. :)
I put it in my daily smoothie
Valve appeals $2.4M fine as Australian legal battle rages on
Cool, I'm glad it's still helping people. For the record, I was not the creator of the package. That was Jon Swartz.

I did a lot of work on it for quite a few years in the early 2000s and maintained it for quite some time after that.
Another good account of being in the water a long time is the experience of Webb Chiles. He writes about it here: http://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/swimming.html

He was swimming for about 2 days after his boat sunk of the coast of Florida.
Not ultra- enough, in Lovecraft's case.
This...is actually 100% true. One of the biggest struggles I've personally had in security is to not be super jaded and cynical. Helps immensely to not be in an organization that tolerates (or even rewards) shoddy security practices (at least that's how I solved it).
A lot depends on the people and the job the team is doing. I work 100% remote, but it happens to be on software that is for web-based collaboration, so the challenges of remote work are benefits to us (at least in terms of dogfooding our products).
I presume that the parent finds it worrisome that Johns Hopkins University (prestigious, academic, intelligent, good) can't compete, on employing neuroscience researchers (intelligent, valuable, academic, good), with Pinterest (dumb, corporate, useless, bad).

But it's a mystery for now.
--->This doesn't solve either of those problems. Nobody is going to ensure revenge porn veracity. They will be posted online, labeled "fake" and absolutely nothing will change.<--

That's what I am getting at ... things change 180 degrees on the Internet where no believes anything that is not posted by someone with their verified identity. Thus making revenge porn pointless. You even say they will label it fake thus no one giving a crap about some fake b.s. and it's totally and immediately disregarded.
There's many roles, on average I'd say on average in the US, InfoSec pays higher than Software Engineering roles - however worldwide I'd say there's many more engineering roles, and much more roles that pay higher salaries.

In saying that, the top-tier InfoSec guys get paid buckets, and buckets of money - usually through non-traditional means (ie bug hunters making $2-3M/yr on private bounties). That's 1% of the 1% though.

Can you make your question a little bit more specific?
Ok, but how would they know how many the company was selling, and how much to mark up there amount until they weren't getting the discount?
Sorry to leave two comments in the same thread, but while I’m here... A tablespoon of turmeric weighs about 8 grams, so I don’t see why 4.5 would be an unrealistic amount to consume per day.

Coffee is only about 1.8% caffeine by weight, but it gets the job done.
The article is about the Middle Ages in Europe, and points out that syphilis didn't appear in Europe until the very end of the 15th century.
IMAGINE a world in which you are manipulated
by intelligent advertisements from dusk until
dawn.

It may sound outlandish, but this dystopia is
increasingly what stockmarket investors are
banking on.

Except ads don't actually manipulate me. I know they don't because I don't even have the money to spend on the things advertisers show me. When I do have disposable money (a rare event) there are specific projects that I plan during the lean times. Those projects get well researched, and aren't impulsive, emotional events.

Day-to-day spending also is not swayed by advertisements. There are real reasons behind the choices I make, and those ideas, opinions and motivations don't source their information from advertisers. I'm not charmed by entreaties that pander to my niche demographic.

Advertising has one rare utility, in shedding light on things that are new. The cliche being that everything is "new and improved" if you believe what ads are trying to sell you.

The people that try new things are the targets, and learning who will try something new, and who will spread positive word-of-mouth endorsements, is the holy grail of advertising, but realistically most people do research and find real evidence, before parting with their money.

Ads can notify a person of presence, but in practice, people really do operate carefully before accepting invitations to buy, or R.S.V.P. with their wallets.
Penguin is also an old name for an auk or puffin; it didn't become a name for what are now called penguins until after Europeans got down there to see them, and didn't become exclusively the name for them until quite recently. So no reason, really, not to be afraid. Lovecraft would have preferred it that way.
That'll just prevent scripting. With GreaseMonkey you can fix html and css you don't like, and have those changes made every time you visit a site.
I'm happy for all the work you've put out, and I agree we need to try and experiment more and innovate, and so I found Eve was a more interesting experiment. That said LightTable had more potential for success and impact. I still dream for a more polished and full featured LightTable editor. A Jupyter notebook on steroid usable for generalized programming. ProtoREPL in Atom has picked up some of it, but overall there's just not the man resources behind any of these to really flesh them out and that's sad.
The majority of coal displacement in the US has been natural gas which is cleaner from a lung disease perspective but just as bad for climate change.
That was really interesting... makes you think there are definitely opportunities for clever middlemen / platforms...
It’s called research.
Native American Indian Lobby Day Brings More Than 100 Activists to Olympia
websites can't grab your screen (say, they can't grab what you have on your excel window, or what's your taskbar, etc), but they can grab what is inside their browser tab. Which is what his example is doing.
Agreed. So what changed the relatively sex-positive Middle Ages so suddenly? The horror of big S. did. It didn't just kill you, your children could inherit it, and your partner might well die of it, too. The author mentions it, but as one more sexual illness. It wasn't.
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I dont think we will get better tools until we as an industry get ready to pay for them.
Are you worried that you might end up reinventing Perl?
While I essentially agree, the attitude that millions of living creatures are raised and killed in industry so what does it matter that one cat is stressed doesn't help anyone.

Disregarding food waste, farm animals are raised for food and work to produce sustainment for society. At the minimum, their deaths help sustain our lives. This cat wasn't thought of as a monetary gain for the family until only after it became "famous", as the article states. That is when the family started showing it off for entertainment and as revenue.

Take this another way, why should the one girl complain I groped her breast on the train when there are thousands of girls being traded for sex across the world and even country? What's one girl got to complain about when others have it worse?

There are degrees of things. In this case, they are all wrong. Because A is worse than B doesn't make B better, it just makes A worse than B.
Same. I do as much as I can in short bursts but past that I’ll just wait for someone to start threatening me. HR can’t fire engineers for dragging their feet anywhere I’m aware of. Never shown up on perf.
So good to know. <3
> Small study

Almost entirely irrelevant, provided it's properly powered--and based on the effect size and p-values, it is. Furthermore, for an 18 month trial, 40 people is larger than most.

> probably not preregistered

I mean, true, and we should definitely promote pre-reg, but, 1. so few are preregistered that I'm not sure it's prudent to disregard a study based on this and 2. it's an academic study, neither a clinical trial nor a public-health decree--not a typical study type that necessitates pre-registration.

> Likely Publication Bias or p-hacking.

What? You're arrived at this conclusion based on... the fact that it's "small" and you couldn't find preregistration about it?

> I'm starting to get interested when it's been independently replicated.

Yeah, if only there were another trial that showed a positive cognitive effect of bioavailable curcumin... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25277322

I mean, the title of this post is by far the most wrong thing about this article, as...

1. it's not turmeric, it's curcumin, which is about 2% of turmeric by mass (so, you'd need to eat ~4.5g turmeric daily to match study doses).

2. curcumin doesn't even have any reasonable bioavilability by itself, so they're using a bioavailable analogue.
The sentence in the last box made me chuckle. It reads like a parody of something Deepak Chopra would write.
First of all, interesting! Second, this is some sort of security information and event management (SIEM)? At least this is what it looks like from the brief description put online.
They must be working for others. If businesses couldn't profit off of advertising, then they wouldn't do it.
Sure, it's mainly architectural and product viz, sometimes lookdev for CG studios.

It's a super tough industry, everyone else is at least 4x our size. Somehow we're still around, doing better than ever really :)
For some reasons most of the swift code I've seen doesn't use any namespace/prefix when it calls various functions from different "modules". It's used just like C "include"
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If you insist on analogies, just say "ECS is like a burrito" and get it over with.
Me too. Kinda envy GP, I had that for 4 months before the machine decided I was broken and ejected me. Now I only have energy between ShittySmallCo jobs because of the time and mind games they play for that moolah. Livin' the dream!
something was said similar to this , but the comment was deleted

"we need to add certificats and raise the bar, quality over quantity"

Im not sure why that comment was delete, hn is becoming very authoritarian
As someone who ran a security firm. Results are much difficult to show/prove in a security firm. Running a development agency, we can break down the project into tasks and the stackholder can review each step from our worklog. Usually, they are happy with the result. I've found the best way to run a development agency is not hire in range of 400-500 developers. This has some trade offs like some devs are not happy when we switch them from project 1 to project 10 just because stackholder lost interest or their funding dried up.
The kinship of two 12th Dynasty mummies revealed by ancient DNA sequencing
Clojure has Flare[1] and Cortex[2] for machine learning. Clojure is also a great language for data processing.

Python, of course, gives you access to a host of useful libraries for NLP (SpaCy[3], NLTK, Textacy), machine learning (Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow), and more general data processing (Pandas) and visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn).

[1]: https://github.com/aria42/flare/blob/master/README.md
[2]: https://github.com/thinktopic/cortex
[3]: https://spacy.io/index
I don't know if you're naive or not aware of Chinese law. The government of China will block any service whose data they cannot read. Apple is FULLY compliant with Chinese law. They even bent over backwards to enable payments via WeChat, which they'd never allow outside China.
What if Coca-Cola was written in Comic Sans?
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