skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between news and editorial that has been increasingly lost. To give an exaggerated example:

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- Air strikes in the US killed 15 targets in Mideastland. Representatives for the US armed forces stated the targets were high priority leaders of Al Boom Boom. Domestic news in Mideastland claims that the strike was on a hospital. There has been no definitive identification of the victims yet.

- The never ending war machine of the US continues to ravage Mideastland as a brutal attack on a hospital where many women and children were being treated has been destroyed with mass casualties reported. Here's a sad picture of a baby by some rubble that's not related to this incident.

- An elite fleet of aerial forces unleashed a precision surgical strike in Mideastland decapitating important parts of the leadership of the extremist terrorist organization Al Boom Boom. Locals were reportedly seen celebrating and toppling a statue of the fascist organization while waving US flags and singing the US national anthem.

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There will, of course, be an unavoidable bias in what is covered since not it's literally impossible to cover everything. But in how things are covered, removing bias is not difficult and it's also testable. If an average reader can, with reasonable accuracy, state the biases and inclinings of the author of a news piece then it is biased.

The extreme bias in the news today is very much a contemporary thing. Here [1] are a list of online newspaper archives. Most are free and some go all the way back to the 1800s. Compare then and now, and the difference is quite extreme. I expect we're going through a time today that people will look back on with some degree of bewilderment, not dissimilar to how we might think of things like the two red scares we've gone through. We, collectively, seem to lose our ability to think coherently and impartially quite easily, but at least historically it tends to right itself quickly enough.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newsp...
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I don't think that there's any evidence at all that quantum computers will provide a speedup on generic problems.
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> "... they could start including ZFS with Oracle Enterprise Linux and boast about all the advantages of using it there."

As the copyright holder, can't they do that anyway?

By not relicensing it, they keep others -- Canonical, Red Hat, etc. -- from being able to do the same thing.
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It's up to the cafe owner, really. If they want a cafe with a certain type of atmosphere, it's reasonable for them to take measures to achieve it.
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I always find code coverage such a useless metric: if you have two independent ifs next to each other and one test goes in one if and another test in the other you have 100% coverage. Congratulations. But you've never tested what happens when you go in both
I dunno, I don't think its that cynical - they grew up, after all, with friends and peers who actually talk to each other, engage each other with play projects, do stuff outside with each other. I think its more that the situation is so dire, with the current new-teen generation, who expect an App-store like experience in their daily lives.

To arrive in high school, and nobody wants to talk about anything other than their Candy Crush score, or whether or not "Peer Y" has an "iPhone X", and so on .. this was a bit of a disappointment to my kids, raised as they were to have human interaction be a priority over technology and material possession.
The theory is that making your computer less finger printable and hence less unique is near impossible compared to a iPad you wipe on every use (you still have to use the iPad for other things). https://panopticlick.eff.org/ is pretty scary I'm almost always unique unless I do a trick like that.
Or just set a purchase minimum. Must buy $x worth of stuff for every few hours you spend there. Seems fair.

Cafes aren't your free all-day office offering complimentary wifi for the price of a $2 coffee, they're businesses trying to make money to pay their rent.
Yeah, but Darwin resumes. Places that don't make it convenient to pull out a laptop might not see as much traffic in 2050.
> But all this is also means that a VPN provider is less dangerous than public wifi is

Is it really? I guess it depends on what sort of threat you are trying to protect yourself from.

Using public wifi lots of places leaves different traces at completely disconnected ISPs/service-points. For an attacker, obtaining and correlating all these is probably not a realistic option.

Consistently using a third-party VPN service (as opposed to hosting your own) centralizes all your data in a single point which is much easier to target.
I'm sure you have plenty to choose from if you prefer a little more corporate hypocrisy with your fries.
Junior dev needs to establish trust before they can be put into the 'new' stuff. They are called junior, for a reason.

Ultimately, this industry now has enough people to spare, impact is what everyone is fighting for, this applies for junior dev as well.
No, semantic versioning and package management is really not a sane way to manage development. You're saying every time I make a code change, I should release a patch version BEFORE I can even test it, since I cannot test that dependency by itself. I'm sorry, but that's just insane, not to mention time consuming. And yes, my libraries are used by multiple apps. Why else would I need to split them out as dependencies? Actually, after thinking through this, the only solution I can think of is symlinks and those would work with a monorepo or multiple repos just as well.
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I don't think it's the silence the owners really care about, it's more that people aren't paying and they hog the seats all day for the price of a $2 coffee.
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GiveCampus (YC S15) is hiring engineers to better educational fundraising
GiveCampus builds fundraising software for colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. The company is less than 3 years old and already serves more than 400 schools, including 30 of the Top 50-ranked colleges in the United States. We're backed by Y Combinator and YC's CEO listed us among the 20 YC companies that he expects to be a household name by 2020 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296). You can read a bit more about what we do in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...).

We're still a small team, so if you're looking to join a fast-growing startup and have an immediate impact, we're looking for both full-stack (Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres) and front-end engineers with at least 2 years of professional experience. Our current team was previously with Facebook, Amazon, and Intel. Please no recruiters or dev shops.

Reach out to careers@givecampus.com with a bit about why you're passionate about education, and a project you've working on that you're particularly proud of.
Totally agreed. This is, in essence, what I would define as the line between "junior" and someone escaping it.

Learning how to discern relevant info from random and how to ask useful questions in new areas are skills that take time (and a ton of context) to acquire, but are utterly essential to doing anything beyond what other people tell you to do.
It actually is unreasonable for you to ask that. It's also a pretty bad take to bring up the 150,000 people die every day statistic as if the fact that a single person who many people had a connection to dying is not of significance.

If you truly don't care just move on. If you want to know more, it doesn't take a great deal of skill to use Twitter, GitHub, Google, and more to find out all that you want to know.
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47 here. I drove my career into a dead-end.

Always been a generalist. Tried many times to do startups and saas products. It never got me anywhere. Between my projects, I worked as a freelancer, while living in many different countries. I took anything I could get. Earned enough money, then tried again. I have broad work experience, but nothing deep. Started a family late in life (with 44). Now I feel my career is a dead-end. Plus I seem to have lost my ability to put up with all that technological mess and the ever-new-shiny-thing.

I'm in a real slump. It's been a long time that I slept well.

Last year I created an online course. It's self-hosted and on Udemy. Compared to the time I have invested it generates peanuts, but I enjoyed the process of teaching.

So this is my plan out of the slump: teaching and corporate training. I figure that once I have created sufficient products, I may be able to make a living. And I'm trying to get my foot into corporate training. Though I'm an introvert, I do enjoy a lot helping others to learn and acquire skills.

I'm working on my public speaking abilities as well. Last year I gave a talk at a conference. I was nervous as hell, but at least some seem to have enjoyed my talk.

It's a long hard way, but I feel it's the only viable for me.

btw - if anyone here wants to chat, get in touch, email in profile.
Thank you brother!
There are also multi-hop VPN services (similar to onion routing) that offer privacy beyond a "glorified proxy" [1], [2].

[1] https://restoreprivacy.com/multi-hop-vpn-chains/
[2] https://secure.cryptohippie.com/resources.php
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Ask the right question is a skill, and a good indicator for growth. If you have an ineffective team member on your team, you will know the pain. Junior dev isn't necessarily bad, some of them can ramp and contribute really fast, but some are just lacking.
Here's a plausible answer: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
I know a few people who do. One still lives with her parents (she freelances while going to school and tending bar at the family business). Her room is small, so it's mostly set up for relaxing. Thus, coffee shops for working.
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There's also a noticeable trend of tea shops and cafes buying more and more uncomfortable chairs to try and dissuade people from hanging around too long.
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> The reason being that "normal" people prefer ease and convenience

You're assuming we can't build a p2p network that is faster and better than the centralized ones we have today. People will eventually choose p2p because it brings them more ease and convenience.
US is definitely the exception. I've visited South/Central America, Europe and at home in the UK and WhatsApp penetration is extremely high.
I will happily pay more as a rider. The most significant factor is not the price, it's the service. Taxi's do not come anywhere close to the simplicity, reliability, and comfort that Uber/ride-sharing apps deliver.
Because the owner can't pay rent and wages if all customers sit around the whole day working on their laptops and buying two coffees and a sandwich.
I always love how succinct D is, whilst still remaining fairly readable.

I'd also like to point out that SafeD covers a fair bit of the language. Enough that I feel comfortable making it a requirement in production code.
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RiotJS since the day 2.0 came out. I like the simplicity, it's fast and provides everything I need.
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Actually you can have a ticket applied to more than one person in an agile process. You must've been thinking of Scrum in particular which does not allow the practice.

(The original agile process called Extreme Programming actually mandated pairs.)

Indeed, a task not budgeted in time is not done. That pertains to tests, static quality analysis, performance optimizations and use case analysis. None of these are explicitly budgeted in agile processes, though they say "write tests" or "definition of done", these are taken as suggestions.
Thank you, I will look into it.
These are pretty hard questions for an average junior role. But depends on a company.
Stupid question: there are so many public places that provide free wifi without authentication. If you go into one of these places and it is populated enough, and you have MAC randomization on, no smartphone on you, isn’t it good enough? Surely there are CCTV. But if you connect from a changing room or toilets of a busy mall, I don’t see how anyone could trace the connection.
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In UK, all ISPs have to log your browsing history for a year now. And from April, all adult websites have to verify your identity(proposals as to how include giving them your passport scan and credit card details). And British government has just announced a tool that will automatically flag extremist content on the internet using AI.

I'd much much much rather take my chances with a VPN provider and still route all of my traffic through any other country other than UK, thank you very much.
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That wasn't a joke btw. I was merely observing the over-connectedness of Linkedin.
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The interface might be perfect but if it doesn't change users will eventually think it's "too old", some users like you and me will happily use the "too old" interface because it's fast and works well, but the normal people want something "fresh". Design is like fashion, some design patters stay, but the look is constantly changing.
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Ask HN: Are there any aggregators for speaking opportunities
I mean in particular small opportunities like local meetups. I would like to give more talks and was wondering if there's a place that makes it easier to find those who need speakers.
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Probably proof that you have over $1m in seed money.
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Full disclosure: I work at Dropbox.
Dropbox is a company that values mentorship. It is something that is explicitly called out and rewarded in performance evaluations, and it's one of the reasons I chose to accept the job offer from Dropbox.
I have been lucky enough to work at a place that pushed me to be a mentor, and another place where I got to influence culture to value mentorship, and I have seen junior developers who barely had any idea what they were doing and needed lots and lots of guidance, grow into some of the most amazing and capable engineers I've ever worked with.
The firmware for the DM42 is based on GPL'd software available for all major operating systems (including iOS.)

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In France we have Anticafe[1]. They charge 5€ per hour spent there in exchange for unlimited wifi, coffee and pastries.

As I understand it they're quite successful. They have opened multiple new cafes in Paris' central neighborhoods.

[1] https://www.anticafe.eu/
> playing Tetris after a traumatic event (like a car accident) seems to help prevent the formation of intrusive memories.

And, of course, Tetris is enjoyable anytime...
Customers are people who spend money. Someone who bought one coffee, but is taking up a seat all day is not a customer.
In fact both quantum computers and nondeterministic computers can perform a computation on all possible inputs simultaneously. The difference is in what happens afterwards.

A nondeterministic computer halts in the "success" state if any of the individual threads halted succesfully. This turns out to be tremendously useful.

A quantum computer run on a quantum superposition of all possible inputs gives you a superposition of the outputs. If you we're to measure it directly you would just get one of the outputs chosen at random. This not useful. But sometimes (on particular problems with a suitable structure) further work can be done on the superposed state before measuring it, in such a way that the results of the measurement are useful.
Yep. When you setup your server with a project such as sovereign you get great, secure defaults and day-to-day maintenance is minimal.
Mostly keeping debian packages updated and upgrading the distribution every couple of years.
Dont't forget build tools.

Good luck updating a site that used the latest and greatest build tools that are now depricated.

Fun thing: a lot of times I download the Javascript from a CDN because then I don't need build tools because it was already built for me on the CDN...

People focus too much on ship fast.

They get in trouble when the product becomes a success.
> Ubiquitous banner ads, "free" 56k if you use our browser and click links, cookie bonanza, link hijacking etc... have been part of the web since day one.

No they haven't. I definitely remember the web before those were common, and it was great.

And while yes, the web was hostile back then, we also thought about it as hostile. There's been a definite shift in how the web is presented. Back then, we taught "Don't put anything personal online, it's all shady." But now, we want users to give us everything they can, and we've changed the language to allow it. "It's OK for you to give this data to us. We're Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc. There's no way we'd be irresponsible with that data"

It's not like we've come up with some new, super-secure way to store that data. The web is even more shady nowadays, but we're training users not to think about it that way.
Replacing tech interviews (even as quirky as they are) with credentials and school rating is even worse as it weeds out the wast majority potentially prospect candidates that had no opportunity to attend top universities. Of course, graduating top university shows that a person is capable, but it doesn't automatically means that (s)he's better everyone else who graduated lower ranking schools.
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> I guess the fact that the limits are higher also has some influence on this?

See the other comments on that people definitely go above posted speed limits, but limits are also not necessarily higher.

Cities are 50kph (30mph) with residential areas often at 30kph (20mph), outside of cities the limits are 80-100kph (50-60mph). You get a lot of 100-120kph (60-75mph) sections on the Autobahn where the otherwise _recommended_ speed is 130kph (80mph) which is when BMWs will be overtaking you at twice that speed on the left lane.

> I remember a Dutch engineer telling me that when they increased the speed limits years ago the average speed sunk and it was hypothesized that it was (IIRC) because as the limits became more reasonable more people decided to just follow them.

I'd assume they meant "rate of speeding violations went down" versus "average speed sunk". The problem with measuring the effect of speed limit changes is that so many things change over the timeframe of the measurement - better vehicle safety, change in traffic rate or overall transportation preference (increase of cyclist in the Netherlands)... studies on this topic are manifold and they all seem to come to rather different conclusions.
> If the screensaver crashes, it gets restarted, or, if that fails, you get in a lovely TTY font "open a tty, login as your user, and type loginctl session-unlock".

This is really offtopic, but you seem to confuse KDE with systemd. There is a bit of KDE that tells you to use loginctl to tell KDE's display manager to unlock the session if KDE's screensaver doesn't work properly.
The difference between 80% coverage and 100% coverage is overrated. 80% is more than sufficient, i'd even go ahead and say 70% is better.

100% goes into "change detecting test" territory. There's also the time aspect: going from 0-70 is not hard, 70-100 is extremely time consuming, and often not worth the effort.

Monitoring is a way more efficient tool at catching issues.
Sounds like senior devs who can't even do teamwork. At my job I'm a junior and guess what I can ask a senior for help cause if my job fails they also fail because oh guess what? Its a team and we are all on the same boat and wait it gets better!

I end up spending my own time helping out senior developers in places they get stuck! (Inconceivable!) Yeah sounds like a management team and a bunch of senior devs who have no concept of a team to me?... Which makes them no-hire types at my job. I help people regardless of what they're working on. If any of us fails it affects all of us in the long run.

I love programming and helping others achieve it and working with others to learn is one of the better and more fun parts of it.
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See if there's a makerspace around. The one I go to has free coffee, and as a bonus, I have access to an entire workshop worth of tools, good for almost any project I could imagine.
It isn't tech nor engineering nor science. Managers do not properly and scientifically measure their performance or performance of their teams. Nor run proper experiments on management practices.
Strangely enough, knowing that so many people have doubts about coffeeshop nomads was very motivating when I did exactly that. I sometimes lacked the discipline to get work done from home, but when I sat down at a coffeeshop, I never opened social media because that would only prove you people right - so I worked all day.
> If you are unsure of what the outcome of what you write tdd will give you training wheels and help guide you. That may make some quicker for a little while.

In my experience, if you are unsure of how you are going to solve a problem, writing test only makes you slower. When you are coding exploratively, you will likely have to delete and completely rework what you did several times before you find what works. If you write tests for all but the highest level, those will just be scrapped along with the rest of the code.
I don't think you were being negative or a prick. I think the worst I could characterise your comment as is blunt.
The German panzers were better than any comparable tanks at the start of WWII, but they were still a bunch of Nazis.
Unless the fit of the casing parts is atrocious, there appears to be a slit right above the grey ring the camera is mounted in.

Due to the shape, and it's location it's quite possible that internal shutters or ducts can be configured so as to allow partially disrupting the coanda effect on either side by selectively allowing air to exit through the slit. Possibly, but not necessarily ducted in from the fans high pressure zone.

This would likely cause a rather strong vectoring of the thrust as it would also almost certainly lower the lift on the detached side due to interactions with the fans.

If that isn't how its done, I'm quite positive it can be done in this way. I'll be happy to be named inventor in any thusly aquired patent and collect a very modest licensing fee, if only that would be how the world works...
Wow, lived to about 101 years old. I know its just one piece of evidence but I can't help but think it's the venom.
Gaining customers doesn't mean monetizing, and it's particularly relevant to point out that a channel is under monetized specifically when this channel has a lot of users.