skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just went through a similar experience after a 2 year gap traveling Asia and Australia. Are you looking for work in the USA?

My experience in interviews in Europe is that employers were genuinely interested in my time abroad and wanted to learn about my experiences. I am applying for jobs in Europe where a gap year is much more common. If recruiters are telling you the sabbatical is a problem they are not connecting you with the right employers. Every person I've talked to entering the job market after a year traveling did not have difficulties with the sabbatical as long as you can sell it that you were not partying the whole time. Good luck!
Firefox profiles are a hard thing to discover. When you start Developer Edition Firefox up by default it starts in its own profile. I'd guess Nightly does the same too. Regardless, it'd be nice of Mozilla to make profiles more accessible through the default UI. I've set up my FF to start with the profile selector every time I start it up, but in firefox in order to switch profiles one has to go to about:profiles.
I think he a word: The Apple Pencil
The Chromebook is targeted toward education, you can use a real keyboard to type your homework and, if you are savvy enough, you can even install Linux on them and learn to program. In a business setting you probably want a light laptop with Windows or macOS.
Venezuela is far from stable ATM. The country could just implode anytime.
Human driven cars have redundant brakes. There is one brake assembly for each wheel. The hydraulic system is split into two separate circuits to guard against leaks. Additionally, cars are fitted with an "Emergency brake".
The only thing I can find on the age is "younger than 500 years":

> the average DNA fragment size for Ata is ∼300 bp which, based on a DNA-decay model (Allentoft et al. 2012), is consistent with a sample younger than 500 yr.

https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2018/03/21/gr.223693....
I've never configured Outlook on my phone. If they absolutely -have- to reach me, they can text or call me.

The beautiful thing about that is it makes it difficult, but not impossible, to reach me. No one on my project has my number. They know who does. That person knows to respect my time. They also know I don't always pick up.

So there's multiple levels of filtering that means that if it arrives, it arrives as a voicemail, and is something so important it requires attention ASAP, -and- is something that can't be addressed by someone else (since if it is, it'll be faster to find someone who can figure it out than to reach me). So it's a very small class of problems that actually get through, and they're usually the ones I -do- care about.
Media also told us reason for war is WMD. His name is Seth Rich. Wikileaks has email from Podesta say he wants him to be example. DNC chairperson Donna said on national tv she also fears for her life. Ready downvotes.
There is no "shared ground." Prostitution is illegal in all but one state of the USA, and that under very specific conditions. Craigslist should self police and remove posts that more or less are openly illegal in a way defined by the laws of the land. It's not like they are just discussing it or using free speech, its openly advocating the sale of illegal services and should be against Craiglist's own TOS.

I mean hell, if they were facilitating the illegal sale of guns this site would be up in arms to ban them.
Don't see this as a huge loss for Craigs, they have already been charging me for simple "Gig" ads a week or so before this occurred. It's ALL about the money, always has been - - always will be.
Standard of living == hours available for chores. So the hardest-working lowest peasant on poor land wore rags. Because they 'couldn't afford' to make any better with the time and energy they had left over.

The single most significant living improvement in rural America in the 20th Century was - rural electrification. Because the housekeeper got almost their entire Wednesday back, no longer spent out on the washing porch scrubbing at the washtub, cranking the wringer and hanging/gathering wet clothes at the line. My Mom for instance.
But there's still the therapeutic section... They don't seem as concerned with prostitution as they're with litigation
Well, I guess I misunderstood you then, sorry for that.
My point still stands though, only not meant for you :)
I think you need more than just work ethic and persistence to build even a million dollar business. Those things help you with execution, but you also need a decent idea that is valuable to others and also motivating and exciting to you.
Hi Adventured. Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately in this program, there is no way of pushing off the demo day to the next one. I definitely agree that getting another co-founder in such a short amount of time sounds like a rebound in a breakup and will be destined to fail. Guess I'm wondering how much does it affect my investment possibilities.
Glad you like it :)

I understand, thanks for the answer
Indeed, the working class should be grateful to subsidise the lifestyles of their betters. For obviously we who love words are better than those who love life.
You'd be surprised by how many people think their First Amendment rights are trampled on by Twitter/Facebook/Google...
You're going to make this unwilling Brexiteer cry. Damn it.
Not just EU, any EU citizen or dual nationality with EU passport holder. So plenty of people from other countries too.
So will PornHub rebrand as "FreedomHub" or something or launch a similar site for those running away from YouTube for censorship issues? Now's the shot for someone to really compete with YouTube in an area where they seem to be failing.
To quote a friend... "disrupting traditional life expectancy models", or to quote Webshit Weekly... "A/B testing vehicular manslaughter"
Never underestimate the ability of an idiot on the internet spouting a first amendment argument getting upvoted to the moon and beyond
How many of the commenters read the actual bill, and not just about the bill? It's quite short, and it's on Congress' website.

I agree with everyone who says this will just drive prostitution underground, and isn't helpful. However, I am wondering about how hurtful it is to sites which are not designed to host personals or prostitution advertising.

Dating sites are in a gray area, and they have been vetting people's descriptions for a long time.

Social networking sites have flagging features, that others can use to flag profiles for review, under various categories. One of them can be specifically tailored to make sure this bill doesn't describe them as "reckless disregard".

All other sites that host user-generated content, such as programming forums, I think, are in no danger.

Again, this is not about the good intentions of the bill vs what it actually achieves to reduce human trafficking or prostitution. But rather, my comment is mainly about its effect on the vast majority of sites hosting user-generated content under section 230.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Respectfully, how does your desire to bear private arms contribute to your militia or the freedom of your state and country? I'm taking a chance here on hacker news with what might have been a troll comment, but please accept my sincere honest intent to understand your point of view.

How does a suppressed destructive device on an unregulated currency exchange make our society better?

How does your right contribute to the security of the state?

How did you come to believe you needed this capability?

At the risk of appealing to authority, we have established case law in all of our rights which to a reasonable extent remove the protection of our rights for the benefit of the community. We aren't allowed to have indentured servitude, but we legally have the draft in times of crisis. We have the freedom to speak and share our world views, but I cannot yell "fire" in the movie theater lest I risk my own imprisonment for endangering the lives of others.

Why should the second amendment be treated with any less discretion?
I'm not judging I wrote that everyone has it's own use case. My only point is don't use test version if you don't want to be tested or opt-out of it. ;)
The sad thing is that this kind of propagandistic sentences are crafted to make people believe that. Usually people don't understand producitvity so they understand what you said from the sentence. A German reading that will think "Ha we work less and produce more" but that is NOT what productivity means.

Productivity is the ratio between man work and output. So if someone works only 1 min a month and earns for that minute $30 you could say of that person that he is extremely productive. Compared to that person someone who works 24h a day and earns a million would have very bad productivity.

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So countries who find their competitive advantage in labour intensive industries and processes will by definition have lower productivity compared to industrialized economies. Germany being a very industrialized economy will have higher productivity by the nature of their business.
I worked at a different, large Fortune 500 company and this behavior was also common there in the upper ranks.

The sheer time wasted in political infighting makes me think anyone in a Fortune 500 with a SVP or VP title (or higher) basically doesn't produce anything for the company. They are administration and supposed to set strategic goals but are probably too out of touch to know where their company/division needs to go.

There is a long series of blog posts called the Gervais principle. Completely nails the behaviors and evolution of large organizations. Worth a read (again).

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
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Why is it so easy to spoof a phone number and robocall people, yet not to spoof an IP? Everyone's talking about the machine attribution as a given.
A far more accurate response is “we have no idea and no way of knowing there wouldn’t be major negative ramifications but it would seem like...”

My biggest gripe with climate science in popular media is the presentation of sparse data and unproven models as fact that should be take at face value. Milking clouds in one region will have an impact elsewhere, that’s the only guarantee.
It's a step up from standing on a corner.
You are correct I missread that tidbit.
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I'm not saying it does, just that it clearly isn't, and it seems to be not alone in the kinds of expression it's choosing to suppress.
Because you expect porn hosters to have a higher tolerance against those who want to pressure companies into their ideological paradigms.

In the end porn hosts might be the savest haven for controversial content as they have become used to creating revenue models independent from image conscious clients.
For what it's worth, the cell metadata in the post is from over a year before I even opted-into the SMS integration.

The SMS integration was disabled after a few weeks of usage, the app was too buggy.
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Hi I'm one of the authors of this paper. Sorry if it unclear, but we reduce the number of filters per layer to account for this. The quaternion networks actually have fewer parameters.
I just came from a state-wide, three day tech conference for K-12. I came as a technology person and thought I might just attend the sessions for teachers and boy did I get my eyes opened—Google Classroom is a major hit. Teachers really, really like Chromebooks. This is major.
> independent working people

Good. Sorry, but if you are not being exploited through human trafficking then you are exploiting and taking advantage of your clients deepest emotions of loneliness and love for profit.

Anyone close to that industry will tell you that the majority of your money is made off "whales" just like in Mobile gaming. Whales that fall in love and spend 5 figures and up a year on one person. Not some construction worker wanting a quickie after a long day of work.

Where did this fantasy of sex workers being some kind of net positive for the world come from?

I don't feel sex work needs to be illegal, but I'm certainly not going to have much sympathy for that industry as a whole. Go into a profession that makes the world a better place. No better than Payday loan dealers.
As far as I am aware, Cambridge didn't even offer a Master's in Computer Science until relatively recently, only the BA (MPhil added in 2009–10, MEng added in 2011–12), so I find it difficult to believe that is the prevailing attitude (at least in the UK).
Actually that's not quite true either. Pilgrimages were quite common, and although not necessarily a vacation as we would consider it, many even fairly poor people traveled quite far distances just for the spiritual pleasure of it.
You're giving Mozilla a bit too much due. This was not just a statement or suggestion but an announcement for the next Monday.

With an internal policy that all opt-out proposals requiring the transfer of personalized data must be discussed with the rest of the team (incl. PR) and publicly, the post would have sounded quite differently.

By the way, in less than three hours, there will be an AMA on /r/firefox with the Project Manager of the User Advocacy team at Mozilla:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/84xe7m/well_be_hos...
From your link, "the subjects consumed 1,823 calories on average per day, of which the majority came from carbohydrates (51%), followed by fat (33%) and protein (16%), with most of it (11%) derived from animal protein. The percent of calorie intake from protein was used to categorize subjects into a high-protein group (20% or more of calories from protein), a moderate-protein group (10–19% of calories from protein), and a low-protein group (less than 10% of calories from protein)."

Strange, that doesn't seem like a high protein diet to me. Athletes, particularly resistance trained athletes, regularly consume 30% or more of their calories in protein.

Further, from your link, "These associations [of protein -> higher mortality] were either abolished or attenuated if the proteins were plant-derived." So protein itself is not the problem, despite the study's authors repeatedly asserting this.
No. A few companies may have toxic expectations from management (and some of the stories here do show people who work for such places); avoid them (quit if you mistakenly end up at one).

But most of this is self-inflicted via tacitly accepting and reinforcing cultural norms that don't actually need to be followed. I've yet to work at a place that attempted to abuse my boundaries once I made it clear I respected them. I.e., "Didn't you see that email I sent last night?" "I did when I got in today", they now know I don't check email after hours. No one wants to 'officially' say "You should have no work life balance; we expect you to be on call 24/7", so just making it clear that you won't voluntarily do it, and will presume that you are always truly off the clock when not at work, means they tacitly accept it.
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Governmental incompetence is all a great charade meant to make their flawlessly-executed deceptions and conspiracies more believable.
Btw. gmail shows me this when i click the "Login now" link: https://vgy.me/QNXHml.png . I don't know why it considers your site to be "untrusted" (whatever it means), but it might be worth finding out and fixing, so it doesn't drive people away.
That's super creepy, but you can see how they get there.

I had a moment some time ago when it started suggesting I connect with people that I know from a private listserv I've been on for years.

Except I'm subbed to that listserv with a different email address from the one I use for Facebook, and I have no real-world interactions with these people, or friends in common. It was surreal.

Once I realized that someone on that list probably used Gmail, and shared their Gmail contacts with FB, it made more sense. Different email addresses don't do much when your name isn't very common, and the addresses vary only in domain.
I would not want to swap positions with the 14th century peasant

I'd go further than that. I would not want to swap positions with a 14th century monarch.
> Participate [...] in the bug trackers.

For anyone looking on and thinking of following this advice, please don't treat Bugzilla like GitHub, where advocacy and general discussion is the norm. Bugzilla is for code reviews and for people who are otherwise working together so they can coordinate and get things done. It's not an open solicitation for people to jump in and voice their opinions about general project directions, etc. If you do try to use Bugzilla the wrong way, you'll likely be warned about generating too much noise and possibly banned.

Please do continue using social platforms like blogs, comment sites like this one, etc. for posting opinion pieces and weighing in. That's where general commentary belongs, and it'll be much more effective to boot, if you're interested in getting people's attention or changing minds.
My kids have both iPads and school issued Chromebooks. They hate the chromebooks, only using them for homework. They call them "CrummyBooks." The build quality is terrible, battery life is terrible, and to my kids, they're locked down way too much (some of this might simply be the wifi restrictions/filtering at school).

Initially our school district planned iPads, but backtracked over cost. We were initially excited for them, so that our kids wouldn't have to carry so many heavy textbooks. But the quality of the textbooks on the Chromebook are terrible. It's as if the publishers simply took galley proofs and dumped them into a pdf.
A company like hostsailor will sell anyone access to your server for a few thousand $.
I hope those investigators know about cascading VPNs and hacked personal Computers that are used as VPNs/proxies...
>I have to void my warranty on a phone purchased at full price, with no plan, before I am allowed to install it from F-Droid.

You don't need to root the phone to get apps from F-Droid.
Maybe you can use the "THAT people on the continent have better protections than us"-argument to pressure your government Post-Brexit to introduce something similar. I wouldn't bet on it, but .. it's worth a try?
Many European universities often have 3 year undergrads with a 1-2 years masters to make up for that. All USA universities have 4 year undergrad programs and many have 1 year master programs now.

It is safe to say that the systems are a bit incomparable, since a 3 year degree in the states would be just as comparable to an associate’s degree.
Traffickers would be even less likely to operate in Sweden if the penalty was death by crucifixion. Do you also support that?

Forgive me if I’m not especially impressed by the think of the children rhetoric. Drawing a line from Lutherans to modern day Sweden isn’t exactly hard. The judgmental attitude hasn’t changed one iota.
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https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/playing-in-under-the...

https://www.quora.com/Given-that-Sun-is-a-name-of-a-star-and...

Just did some random googling, and a lot of people seem to disagree with you.
You are correct, and as a experienced hiring manager I’ve seen little evidence that a masters adds anything to the effectiveness of an engineer. The only time it will affect my hiring decision is it a masters in CS but their batchelors was non CS, ans it’s basically a conversion, having said that I have a personal contact who did this and from a good uni, the masters really taught him very little.
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>Bottom line: I would not want to swap positions with the 14th century peasant and I suspect the author would not want to, either.

But is that the issue here? What does that sentence even mean, or add to the discussion?

The article quotes the historian as finding that peasants in 14th century England put in at most 150 days of work per year. This was, according to them, an abnormal period of especially large wages. That tangent in preen-day America bears little relevance. Also when you say "food was likely not plentiful (when it is, population explodes)", you're making a big oversimplification. There are other factors at work: diseases, warfare, etc.
I know of two people who used Chromebooks around 2015. One of them basically used it as a light laptop. Took notes with it, traveled with it, etc. The other guy used it as his primary computer. In spite of him praising it whenever someone would ask about it, he was always complaining about how difficult it was to use as a development machine. Once you got external software properly installed and configured, it was fine.

Hearing him complain was reminiscent of using Linux in the early 2000s. No one really wrote consumer applications for Linux at the time, and driver support was a nightmare. Once you figured out all the warts and quirk, it was fine.

This was 3+ years ago though, so I imagine things have improved in that space.
In general the public does not treat all forms of illegal activity facilitation the same and this is a good thing. Some forms of illegal activity facilitation are much worse than others in the eyes of the public. It’s reasonabke and natural that one instance of this evokes outrage and another a nonchalant attitude.
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I also found work in Germany for a Startup (originally I am from the USA). I used Stepstone.de. In my interview we talked specifically about my sabbatical and I think it helped get me the job.
That’s useful signaling for both sides though: higher education isn’t relevant to that specific company and the job would probably be too boring to the higher educated applicant (especially a PhD).
But i think if you have friends & family that use android devices,..you are still in the loop.
Don't kid yourself it's the small guy just starting out that's screwed. Not the global giants with armies of lawyers.

In fact wonder if HN is facilitating with it's current moderation policies.
VS Code is by far the best optimized Electron app I've seen, but with a total of 5 files open, it will still turn my laptop into a pizza oven on my lap.

It, and every JS/Desktop hybrid has so much promise, but my Lord, as a proficient JavaScript junkie that has a deep abiding love for the language, it's not performant.

I just can't use either Atom or VS Code for day to day work.

PS, Sublime, please support some form of JS plugins, even if that means limiting the API for JS plugins.
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IRCCloud have actually written a IRCv3 gateway for Slack (although it's not open... yet): https://twitter.com/IRCCloud/status/971416931373854721
> the quality of the textbooks on the Chromebook are terrible

Would you expect the textbooks to be better quality on the iPads vs on the Chromebooks? Why?
Why can't you use the same texts on a laptop as on a tablet? Can't you buy the texts you were using on the iPad?
Inform. Even in such a culture, one person refusing to do it (not rudely, just passively; go home at the right time, not checking stuff) is enough to change things. We know from every bit of research that 60 hours is not more productive than 40 hours. The one person who refuses is going to shine. And their good habit, if they know to commit to it, and to socialize it, will help empower the others.

I know as a team lead I've tried to empower the people under me to manage their own time, and actively encouraged them to ignore workplace communication after hours
The reality is that they've given up on all other companies, so people are very sensitive to losing their one remaining chance of privacy, especially if that's the only reason they're using Firefox to begin with.
I found my job in Cologne. The language of my office is English. Did you have to know German for your job?