skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I took it at 40% of my normal day-job rate ... That was two years of nights and weekends that did not belong to me.

I wonder if the workload was high in part because you gave such an insanely good deal?

It took me a while to get my contracting rate up to where it was high enough to support me, and to feel comfortable asking for what seemed like large numbers. But the quality of work has actually improved the more I ask.

Contracting rate should be more like 150%-200% of your salary rate, since 4-6 billable hours are about the most you can consistently get out of a 10 hour work day. And that doesn't include the weeks spent looking for work between contract jobs.
I have literally never seen that. Wow, that's a good idea!
Reminds me of Dune...
So how was MySpace able to do that back then? Did they just have a lot of funding that they were able to use to give away all that free space?
This essay is most about culture, but it does mention an anti-plagiarism program (which sounds pretty hard to do except in very trivial cases, but who knows?)

There's another tool: the repo. My son was accused of plagiarism in his last year of high school. It could have been a "he said/he said" case -- in fact it started that way -- until I pointed out that if he believed he was in the right he had a record that could be checked.

The CS teacher had to explain to the principal why the repo proved who had copied whom (and left me wondering why the teacher hadn't looked there first????) which wasn't easy because the plagiarist's parents were big donors to the school. So in the end, despite what it says in the school handbook, the only penalty was a 0 on the assignment.

But a good lesson for my kid on both programming and the sociopathologies of organizations.
Off-by-default is an option now for advanced users (such as might be reading HN). On the same page I linked in my earlier comment you are responding to, see:

> You can try out these new policies by setting the experimental flag chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy to "Document user activation is required." in Chrome 64.

Like you, that is my preference as well, and I have set the flag.
wouldn't there be some sort of log that the http server utilized the network in some capacity? I have to assume its still opening TCP connections, and using all of the traditional layers below that, all of whose activities are possible to capture.
Indeed, foreign countries do block the US tech in sensitive areas. For example, Russia. Alleged partners (major EU and NATO members) do not, and they get spied on.

Also, in the case of USG we do not presume anymore, we know for a fact that it spies on both the US (which is illegal) and the rest of the world (which is scary).

For the rest of your comment, I have to refer you to the last paragraph of my previous comment.
The people seemingly screaming "fake news" the most in recent times are the same people vanattab is referring to as being misleading. People have always been screaming something synonomous to "fake news" against the other side.
Assign automation/macros to your numpad with a drag-and-drop editor
"Ask" is bad enough as a synonym for "request." I really hope we can avoid "ask" also becoming accepted as a synonym for "question."
Hey, this is a fully fledged app, but I'm giving away the first 125 licenses for free (forever) to get a decent user base - feel free to grab one for yourself :)

I'd also be delighted to hear your thoughts/feedback on this - I hope it helps your productivity like it has for me!
> I just watch the road in front of me.

Unlike many others, sadly - even when they don't have any self-driving tech at all
> to organize all of the data in the world and make it accessible for everyone in a useful way.

Parent link

> to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=age+of+president+of+north...

Formatting the G. query using the format of W.A. into account:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=age+of+president+of+north+k...

It would be interesting to see, given a Google query, which ones are xx% similar.
IBM is just getting rid of Americans with high salaries, health insurance and pensions and replacing them with much cheaper workers in India. It now has far more workers in India than it does in the USA.

Of course, IBM is also destroying the skills and experience that customers are paying them to provide, but it's happy to get a short-term gain and ignore the long-term pain. The people in charge will have stashed away their millions and left before most of the ordure hits the rotating device.

Bear in mind that IBM's turnover today is less than it was in 2000, and it's had five or six years of annual decline. As a company, it's failing badly, so perhaps it's unrealistic for it plan for a future that might not happen.
The Computer and the Brain
Has anyone bothered to request an upgrade?
It's still a reasonable starting place for anyone wanting asyncio on vanilla Python2. Outside of vanilla Python2, Tauthon also has some tracking issues for the language extensions and libraries needed for a backport of asyncio to Tauthon.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/10
I wonder if in the future this means large rockets may have to throttle back while transitioning through the ionosphere to reduce side effects?

Is the altitude stable enough to predict it accurately for a given launch?
There you go

https://remarkable.com
That's what I a call a content free sentence.

Saying "can" also implies "might not".

"Need" needs to come with "in order to do X". I don't need to breathe, but if I want to stay alive I do. So do I need to breather or not? It's either.
Sure, maybe they did the math, maybe they just couldn't be arsed. But whatever the real reason why they didn't take the job - someone else (DHL itself) actually did the correct math and is now actually a viable competitor for VW in this area. So yeah, again, maybe but they failed at it.
This is an excellent way to cater to the legacy app market, but not a very good way to ride the next wave.

The next wave is probably running on commodity x86 hardware running Linux and using gamer-grade GPUs. They'll probably be first deployed to production on x86 virtual hardware in a cloud provider.

If you want companies to adopt your technology, make their developers adopt it first. That's how most of the current enterprise DevOps tools happened.
When Great Employees Have Bad Ideas
I suspect you'll find a correlation between age bias and economic success for businesses. That may be a positive or negative correlation. And that may vary across cultures, industries, etc. Maybe old Mexican women are statistically just as good at nursing as young white women, but maybe old American white men are not.

I'm not presupposing age discrimination would be successful, I'm suggesting that no corporation, economist, or politician would likely be willing to publicly acknowledge that age discrimination is good for business.

The question is, if it could be proven that hospitals who hire more old white American male nurses make less money than hospitals who hire old Mexican female nurses, what differential outcomes would you be willing to accept? Would a company policy discouraging hiring old white men be okay?
fair enough i didn't know these things; learned something new today.
Krita 4.0 graphics editor released – Python scripting now possible
I think it would be expected for local access, on the device where the data was originally stored. It is wholly unacceptable for them to upload that data. If someone has my name and phone number and installs Facebook, they have just given Facebook all of my personal information.
Does that make it right for Facebook to gather this data? It seems entirely unnecessary.
How do I request such a zip for myself?
Au contraire. It is about paradigm shifting and has nothing to do with compulsive contrarianism.
> Courtesy of every idiot who (illegally) uploaded their addressbook, with my contacts in it, to the service.

I know your address is PII, but seriously it's illegal to upload that info to FB? The post office does this with your snail mail info, and anybody could pick up a discarded envelope at the dump, or see a forwarded e-mail message with your address in it.

I am not saying that people should be blithely uploading their address books, but is it illegal?

And, come to think of it: does google track the address graph of gmail users? They could do this entirely with envelope information (SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO), though message headers would be a richer trove.
I just signed up on your site, looking for kubernetes and Linux work.
Permissions existed, absolutely.

They were just "Accepted when installed" type permissions rather than "Hey, would you kindly grant me access to all of your data" type permissions.
Towards Knowledge Discovery from the Vatican Secret Archives
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Polari is an in-group language of gay and lesbian people, theatrical people, and circus people in Britain. It's interesting 8 and 9 are called "6 + 2" and "6 + 3" in Polari.

Crazy interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk
A client that doesn't know what he wants is a bad client. Those kinds of people often have unrealistic expectations like "I want a website like Facebook for $500". Don't work for such people.

That leaves people who do know what they want. So let's look at it from their perspective.

Let's say they need a Windows desktop app.

Two people apply for the job.

You say "I'm a great programmer, here's a website I wrote".

The other guy says: "I'm an experienced C# programmer. In the past I've developed 3 Windows desktop applications in C#/WinForms and I can do the same for you".

If you were hiring, who would get the job.

This is not about pushing C# technology but a best match between what the client wants and what your skills are.

It's also not about C#.

What the OP meant is that if you have a specific skillset, you should market that skillset specifically. Both ruby backend programmer and an iOS mobile programmers are programmers, but when a client is looking for iOS mobile programmer, he'll pick someone marketing his "iOS programming skills" over someone marketing his "programming skills".
Worth mentioning that Finland does this much better than Sweden. If you google "hemlösa" in Swedish, you will see pictures blond ethnic swedes living in the streets. If you google "kodittomat" in Finnish, youll see mostly dogs.

This is because in Swedens housing projects are foremostly aimed for foreigners. Even the web-page helping the "hemlösa" seems to be mostly aimed for EU-citizens, meaning beggars from Romania.
Nice design! What framework did you use, if any?
Yes but it's still possible to target a lower version of Android and request all the permissions up front which must users would agree to
Wel, they could, but ISP's (as well as regulators btw) are fairly reluctant to block 'popular' services. Companies generally use the legal system to fight back. They don't go around just ignoring laws when caught or scoff at verdicts. Facebook has already said they will comply but appeal.
could this idea work? tie these devices to balloons, so they can reach the high humidities of the clouds, then when waters collect the balloons will drop to the ground, dumping the water into a collector. as the water is dumped the device rises again to continue humidity collection.
"technology doesn't advance as a function of time but as a function of R&D investment"

Car companies are not in the business of advancing technology but making money. They will advance technology if they can sell more cars. Now with Tesla they have to respond and are slowly doing so.

Musk's motivation is technology for technology's sake. That's a totally different motivation than traditional car companies and that's the reason why Tesla is ahead in technology. It remains to be seen who ends up ahead in terms of business success.
Being a new resident in Quebec, I started to notice a pattern here.

https://www.spotify.com/ca-en/premium/

" Offer not available to users who already tried Premium or to users in Quebec. "

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

" Residents of Quebec aren't eligible for a free trial of Amazon Prime. "
If I'm understanding the other comments in the thread then the behavior is based on how Android worked in that older version... e.g.

if (on) { /* execute code for said feature */ }

Which implies:
"
In the version of Android mentioned the on flag is on when you install. It was a feature of that version of Android to turn it on... how can FB know you didn't want it on?"
Did it include information about a user's friends that the user themself didn't have access to? I think one can see one's friend's photos, checkins, and posts, so it makes sense that you would be able to forward that information (not that you should...). I think the grandparent was claiming that you weren't able to share any information about friends that you didn't already have access to.
Disqus open-sources project mgmt tools that uses Trello, Phabricator, Slack
Haha, no.

Typical politicians are dishonest but they accept the premise of honesty. In other words, they care that they can plausibly claim to be honest. They form lies in ways to attempt to get away with it and be accepted as true.

Trump has no premise of honesty. He doesn't care what's true or not. He doesn't bother lying and hoping to get away with it. He just wants people to play along and he can know who's loyal by who plays along or not.

That's just one of a massive list of distinctions. The short of it is: typical politicians accept the social norms of their corrupt political world. Obama was one of those. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't give a shit about social norms, and that may be one reason some people find him refreshing — too bad that some of the social norms are positive, and throwing it all away is reckless.

Anyway, my pithy initial reply wasn't clear enough, so it works for the joke. But really, Trump is not a typical politician. He's not even anything like a typical real-estate developer.
I don't see a link to the actual paper, or the title...
Is the press office concerned about scaring the general public with links to actual science?!
The DOW is already down almost 3%. Tomorrow should be fun.
This has a lot to do with culture. Microsoft had a mockup of an e-reader before the Kindle, but the powers that be in the company insisted that it should run Windows (not out of malice, but because that's how they saw the world.) When Bezos, who, at the time, ran a giant bookstore, started his Kindle project, he put them on a secret team in a different building.

Car companies are run by people who love engines that burn gas. The notion that electric vehicles might be something more than compliance nightmares, that they might actually be better cars than gas-powered vehicles is foreign. It's like the Microsoft execs saying "of course the e-reader should also be able to open spreadsheets and what-not." Meanwhile, the Kindle is better as an e-reader because they started from the ground up.

Same thing with Tesla. (With whom, none of these companies would be talking about going electric.) They started from the ground up.

If BMW wanted to make money on electric vehicles, Tesla has proven that you can sell an $80-$100K+ electric car (with a ~$50K interior) with profitable unit economics. I'm pretty sure an electric 7-series would sell like hotcakes, and make money. Instead, you get the i3, which some people love, but it's certainly an acquired taste, and the 3 series e, which I drove recently-- it has about 11 miles of electric range. ;( If they just made it all electric, I'd buy one tomorrow at the already high 3-series prices. But the culture isn't there yet...
Google Maps #LetsGuide
Yea, same here. That has been my only blocker — completing my registration
The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion [pdf] (2016)
Well it certainly wouldn't be superheated steam and it's not like it would be a ton of steam in the grand scheme of things. It takes about 2500 kJ of energy to boil a liter of room temperature water. Someone else mentioned 20 kWh of batteries which in a catastrophic failure I'm assuming the cells might release a little more than that amount of energy but for the sake of argument since I don't know exactly what percent to tack onto that we'll just look at the nominal capacity of the cells. 20 kWh is 72 MJ so that's only enough to boil a bit less than 30 liters of water. Submerging a burning lithium ion pack in something like a bathtub full of water is a great way to absorb all of that energy.
Ask HN: How do I develop polyglot thinking?
I am self taught for the most part when it comes to programming. The first thing I learned to write in C++ was a for loop. for (int i = 0; i <10; i++) { ... }. That's imperative. Now I write SQL for a living and still find myself not thinking in a very relational way. I have desires to learn what I can from the functional languages but have a hard time wrapping my head around the concepts to gain anything of value from it. My question: how do I enhance the way I think to be able to think in different domains and become a better engineer?
I think this is one instance where using a larger look-up table (i.e. multiplication table up to 10x10) yields clear benefit. The technqiue using only 5x5 increases the number of intermediary results to keep in one's head.
Can someone explain how this differs from tcpdump and what advantages/disadvantages this new capability has?
https://mobile.twitter.com/shell_ki/status/97680538533092966...
Those are fair points. By that logic, though, it's reasonable to say that there shouldn't be Net Neutrality regulation.

Let's say Spectrum doesn't like a certain service, say, LiveLeak. We've established that a business shouldn't have to devote resources to promoting something that its shareholders disagree with. It would, then, be reasonable for it to refuse its customers access to LiveLeak, right?
I will believe it when I can pull out my visa card, go to some online stores (such as those that resell Supermicro, Tyan, MSI, Quanta, etc), buy a Power9 capable ATX motherboard from one of the top-ten taiwanese motherboard manufacturers for $350, put a $300 CPU in it, $300 to $400 of RAM and build a 1U server with it. Until that happens it will not get into the hands of enough developers/sysadmin/devops/engineers to matter.
Older, incompatible apps still default to asking for permissions at install time. There are two problems with this - first, I suspect most folks won't know that you can go back and turn those off. That's a relatively new feature, and not really something people will explore on their own.

. Second - if it's an app you already installed that has required new permissions, that app can run (via BroadcastReceiver) when it is updated and before you have a chance to alter the fine-grained permissions.

Separately, the interface for managing fine-grained permissions in Android is weird. You get most of them in one place, but then it seems you have to check a couple of other places for 'special' permissions?

edit: never mind this - it seems like the old version is the one that will get notified, and the permission change only applied ot the new one.
It's worth noting that even entry-level machines were quite expensive compared to midrange PCs and were more or less in the same price range as high-end machines.

If, however, IBM can get me a 32GB single-core/8-thread POWER9 machine for the same price Lenovo can give me a performance-equivalent 4-core/4-tread Xeon, I'll be tempted. Worst case scenario, I'll still run my x86 workloads on my trusty Lenovo and use the POWER9 as a nice X terminal.
This is exciting news for a couple of reasons.

1. The origin of proto-dravidian and how it relates to other families is a huge mystery. There were speculations that it could be related to Proto-Elamite or the Munda language family but nothing conclusive. Another fun speculation is that it was the language spoken by the people living in the Indus Valley cities.

2. Dr. Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, probably the most prominent linguist who was studying dravidian languages passed away in 2012. There has been very little happening in dravidian linguistics. A while back, I was looking for scholarly articles regarding proto-dravidian and there hasn't been results since the early 2000s when it was demonstrated that Proto-dravidian split into north, central and southern branches (Note: I'm not an expert in this field, I might have missed some developments. Please point me to any research I might have missed). This result is exciting just because it looks like somebody is working on proto-dravidian again
Why is Quebec specifically excluded and not Canada as a whole?

EDIT: https://www.thebalance.com/why-are-so-many-competitions-void...
Always more to learn, but I've been happy with the results so far.

My rule when I was unhappy with my rates was simple:

1. Double my rates.

2. If the client mentions my rates, but still agrees, then I haven't increased them enough. Go back to step 1.

3. If the client says no because of my rates, I move on (this can be a good sign - if no one is turned away because your prices are too high, you don't have too high of prices). If enough potential clients say no because of my rates (50% lower conversion rate is break even when you've doubled your rates, so # of clients must more than half), then I lower my rates. I quickly climbed from $20/hour to my current rate using this strategy.

There's a nice effect here where higher rates suggest higher quality, which in turn attracts the right types of clients and makes them more willing to pay. I've also found that I want to give them $X/hour quality work, so I'm more focused and the quality increases as a result. Lots of happy feedback loops.

For your specific situation - do you have many repeat customers? One trick that worked well for me is to price my first project with a client at an introductory rate 20% lower than what I actually want to earn (positioned as a "first project discount"). When that project goes well and they come back for more work, the introductory rate doesn't apply, and you've earned yourself a 20%/hour bonus.
That's one way of kick starting a recession I guess...
Manage Postgres clusters roles, role memberships, schema ownership & privileges
> 1.6 Communications. All communications between Google and you, including the Contest website and email communications, will be in English.

Since you can't use French to compete in Code Jam, I guess it violates Quebec's Charter of the French Language.

http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/C-11
Pipe to /dev/shm/filename
Foldable screens have been real and orderable for several years.

There problem is, screens need a protective layer on top, and bendable glass tech hasn't caught up. You need to be able to embed a touch layer, have good optical clarity, be scratch resistant, and impart resistant.

I've, gently, played with production ready bendable LCDs. Then realized that they weren't practical for any of the sci-fi scenarios I had imagined.
A pure MOF based irrigation system that produces enough on demand seems a little far fetched but you don't have to go that far to see something like this as potentially powerful. You could run this thing all year and store the water underground and that could have some cool consequences. Imagine an area with good soil that gets enough rain to take plants 60% of the way through their growing season. Something like this might be able to supplement that supply enough to make it practical to grow there. Or, regions that are normally good for growing but have regular droughts could maybe use it to offset the reduced water. Or, if you can store up enough water through winter, maybe you could run a conventional irrigation system purely off the water from the MOFs.

Maybe transporting water is already a way better mitigation to the above scenarios. It really depends on how fast and cheap you can deploy something like this.