skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) An alternative reading of the magazine is that it is celebrating young creators, who have achieved success through alternative routes (make up lines, t-shirts, YouTube channels) than the standard middle class snake person career path of "being born into the right family, liberal arts education, job at BuzzFeed/Vanity Fair/Teen Vogue/New Yorker while building out performative angst Twitter persona." Following that line, for most people without the right background/connections/ability to take an unpaid internship in New York for three months, results in them becoming on several levels completely unemployable.

The "professional influencer" career path though, especially done the way the platforms want it done (i.e. NON STOP) requires that the person attempting it eschew any and all activities that don't work towards their perceived "career" in favor of ones that do.

It would be like if struggling to be an actor for a decade left to completely incompetent to even wait tables.

I'm all for approaching a utopian future where no one needs to work, but we're not there yet. If 1 in 4 young women are going for this kind of work today, we're going to have market saturation at peak levels. We already have way too many twitch streamers for it to be reasonably successful unless you slavishly dedicate your life to doing it, and I'd say the YouTubers are maybe a couple of years before they hit the same problem, if they aren't already.

We have an entire section of our economy right now based on, for lack of a more eloquent term, bullshit. Bullshit people pushing bullshit products with bullshit content published on bullshit platforms. And yeah sure, this has always been a thing, it's not new, but it's never been this HUGE. We're already seeing cracks forming from the sheer number of young women (and men too, it's for both sexes) who are dedicating every minute of every day of their lives to this "influencer" nonsense, combined with the fact that digital advertising is tanking, and long overdue privacy rankings are going to take the wind out of all of these platforms sales, and then we'll have to deal with having millions of people who's only once-marketable skill is smiling into a camera like an idiot, and peddling shit that no one needs.
It reflects on the entire tech industry. Good intentions won't matter if you're not considerate of people's privacy.
He’s not being ostracized for his drinking problem, he’s being ostracized for his “exposing himself to minors” problem. I come from the school of thought that believes alcohol doesn’t turn you into something you’re not, it just erodes your ability to hide it.

Fair enough that he did his time, but it’s also fair not to hire him. He’s looking for a job from a business, not a charity after all.
Vast majority of projects don't need the complexity of a multi-master geographically distributed append-only immutable database with uncertain transaction finality because other, simpler and better understood solutions already exist. Vast majority of projects don't have to deal with the Byzantine Generals problem that makes it so difficult to create a permissionless distributed value transfer system like Bitcoin.

Right tool for the right job.
An acronym for The (fucking) article. From RTFM/RTFA. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA

Despite the expletive it's not usually used in anger.
Kind of a bummer that none of the mainstream payment processors allow crypto related businesses on their platforms. Which banks have no issue dealing with crypto related businesses? Anyone know what banking partners Coinbase, Gemini, Bitpay etc use?
At some point MS switched update strategies for WP to cut out the carrier delays. Everyone gets WP updates on time if your device is still supported. They still seem to come out once every month or two, though there haven't been any major feature updates in a long time.
Most of us? I suspect that most of us do have the legal status to remain in our country of residence, even without continued employment. While there are a significant number of expats on HN, I'm pretty sure they are not the majority...
Chicago is a tough market for ex-cons. Illinois never lets the conviction drop off your background check, and a lot of companies won't hire a felon, period, even if it's for aggravated jaywalking or grossly negligent mis-parking on your 18th birthday.

You're not going to get a job in Chicago in software or IT unless you start your own business or work remote.

Apply at Goodwill or somewhere else known to hire non-violent, non-theft felons, to pay the short-term bills. Then you'll have to form an LLC and work through the business name. It will limit your opportunities until you can leave the area.
Not anymore, they have changed their pricing model recently.
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I'm not ostracizing him, just pointing out that exposing yourself to a child is a very serious crime. Found the articles about OP and it pretty well explains why he's having a hard time finding a job. IMO he should just start his own company, because most software companies aren't going to hire a sex offender.
> you have enough savings to last at least two years.

I've always heard it as being 6 months. Especially with his next point assuming you can certainly find employment.

Or maybe that's what I chose to remember, because I'm lucky enough to work in a high-employment sector in a region that can't fill enough positions: i.e. my profile is in high demand.

(... for now. I know)
With you on that but I think it takes a special kind of skill to bridge that gap. This is why I like Hacker News and Reddit, there's always someone who has the time and skills to find a good balance between precise and concise.
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i will keep saying this and do not care about the downvotes. this kind of shit is stupid and everyone on here who likes it is lame, you should only find get rich quick stories cool if they made something that was actually cool.
Like Steve Jobs didn't give iPhones to his kids.
They say domesticating carnivores are a complete dead end and still feature dogs and cats in their video...
Have you ever tried it? The forces you're applying are completely different. You're squeezing it against the wires of the grill, and it's all one connected piece of metal. If it does break, it will tear, not splinter. Plus, you want to wash off the crud you loosen anyway. Also, it's dirt cheap, You wouldn't keep an old one around for very long.
On the first try? I would hope that hardware manufacturers don't take the engineers' first attempt and immediately go into mass production.
Absolutely true about the fakes. A lot of times they use wax models of food.

I remember one example, most photographs of breakfast cereal (for advertisements or that appear on the box) use white school glue for the milk. Real milk is too thin and also ends up looking bluish in the photos.
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The irony is that can be applied to any multi-paradigm language, but since many are afraid of C++, only it gets the fame.

To pick on my favourite scripting language, Python, you can go from "I just learned to print hello world" style up to "look at me, master of meta-programming with multiple inheritance and dynamic code generation".

And this not counting all the changes that have happened throught all Python releases, with semantic impact how the code gets written.

Yet many assume it is a "simple" language.
Once sentence in and the part about pre-generated wallets struck me as a bad idea. Thankfully the other HN comments revealed all the other more subtle ways its a bad idea as well!
My guess is that there are other personal issues at play. I think that there is "heirloom" furniture involved, etc.

From articles I've read and conversations that I've had with different folks, I don't think that scenario is uncommon.
AFICT this replacement is hosted on Github pages, so there shouldn't really be any funding concerns.
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This may be the only 2 word "How To" I've ever written:

Just quit.

1. It's a job, not your life.
2. It's a company, not a person.
3. "Top Tier" means neither.
4. If you were hit by a bus, they'd cry for 7 minutes and never think about you again.
5. "My work is my reference." is my standard response to that request. It works. To those who matter.
6. Moving on can skyrocket your growth when done properly. Listen to your gut.
7. "I stagnate easily." is my standard response to "Why so many jobs?"
8. You'll probably be surprised how underwhelmed they are.
9. You'll probably be surprised how much energy you wasted over this.
10. You'll definitely be glad it's over.

I've quit 80 times (including contracts and customers). No regrets about how I've done it (except for agonizing over it early in my career). I've grown almost every time.

No one from work cares about you nearly as much as you care about your work. Don't make this so complicated.

You have personal relationships you'll miss and don't want to hurt. If that bothers you, quit over beer.
Happy to hear that Canon is going medical.
It only costs more power because of how many miners there are. The difficulty increases the more people there are to mine in order to keep the block finding time somewhat consistent. If we had 50% of the miners go away today, it would still take about the same amount of time to find a block because the overall difficulty would be lower too. Just one company in China, bitmain, has over 28% of the entire network. They are also the company that makes the best ASICs and they appear to be liquidating their equipment in China and starting to move to the US and Switzerland.
Could also just slap some tape on unfinished wood and call it a handle.
And one can use Kotlin with Apache Spark, e.g.:

http://tomstechnicalblog.blogspot.hk/2016/11/using-kotlin-la...
The article isn’t talking about someone quiting just any old job, but about the situation in which they believe they already have one of the best possible jobs in the industry.

In such a case, I imagine it’s easy to keep putting it off, precisely because you can’t think of a better scenario for yourself.
what's this guy's problem? He has problem with immigrants, he has problem with every other country, he has problems with people from his own administration, and now he has problems with companies that contribute to the economy..No wonders Melania always wears that fuck face everytime she has to be with him !!
Many, if not most, of the native americans weren't hunter gathers.

Always wondered how malaria was eliminated from north america, any additional insight into that?
Hey Roustem,

First off - thanks for making 1Password, I've been an unpaid brand ambassador since 2011. I've successfully converted over 5 users (rather lit if you ask me fam).

I was wondering if you can comment on plans for 1Password standalone (non-cloud) version. For me (and few others I'd imagine based on[1]) it is a must have feature. I'd be happy to pay subscription fee of using your software - just that I want absolutely nothing to do with hosting my passwords in 1Password Cloud - this was the argument I used to use during LassPass vs 1Password debates - "with 1Password, you can sync your vault any way you want (rsync/dropbox/lan sync)".

[1] https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/76885/1password...
Awesome, thanks for sharing your experience! I’ll reach out to them if I don’t hear anything. Looking forward to joining you all!!
It's unfortunate but OSX really does have lots of bugs and quirks that don't get fixed while linux and wayland are being integrated at a snails pace.
This is exactly how my Windows laptop behaves as well. I never care about it, and when I want to override it, I just do it in three clicks.
or maybe this is the corruption that Aadhaar is trying to solve.
Double-spending just means spending the same output in multiple transactions--there are many ways to perform a double-spend attack. Your interpretation of a 51% attack is correct.

If it wasn't clear, my comment was referring to a double-spend that would result in an invalid block i.e. both transactions are on the same chain. I simply used an example to argue that it's always been the case that invalid chains are rejected by honest nodes.
It's funny, my experience is that the same handful of technical problems keep arising regardless of the age of a code base. After a while, it becomes rarer to find yourself saying something like, "well, I haven't written one of these before."
What's astonishing is that the military would pay for each of those moves and they still didn't do it.
Trust me. He has been pushed out forcefully. Otherwise he would have resigned to "spend more time with his family".
They're not replacing him; after the reorg the position he had will no longer exist.

I have no idea whether this is actually on good terms or not, but there aren't very many exec VP level positions to go around; it's entirely possible there just doesn't happen to be one that works for both him + management.
A sane USB-C spec would not have required a resistor for an A-to-C cable.
Isn't that EXACTLY the problem solved by cryptography, ie I can reliably know that only supplier X could have signed the message with the public key of supplier X ?
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Amazon is now like google, they just keep building things without any commitment to it. If it sticks they will add more developers to it, if it doesn't they will kill it. They were pushing Spark on mobile. It's sorta hidden under the nav menu. You click on the nav icon, and then you get the menu, and to the right of the menu you see some spark cards. It's terrible UI, terrible placement and annoying.
Wow. I didn't think about it like that but Uber is transforming itself into a pirate taxi (G*psy cab) company.

Thats pretty crazy.
That's likely against all sorts of health and safety regulations . Having said that, there lots of small business in the UK being run from storage units - eBay shops, mail order, and even a karate training IIRC.

Edit: links

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25336446
https://www.safestore.co.uk/blog/2016/07/martial-arts-self-s...
Most people who want to quit, will. It is more a question of when. There are many valid reasons for sticking around a while -- to try to invoke change, waiting on vesting, set up your next move, etc. But I have talked to very few people who, in hindsight, wish they had stayed longer. Most people who quit, when looking back... they wonder why they ever stayed so long in the first place.
According to that page "Terra preta soils are found mainly in the Brazilian Amazon, where Sombroek et al.[18] estimate that they cover at least 0.1 to 0.3%, or 6,300 to 18,900 square kilometres (2,400 to 7,300 sq mi) of low forested Amazonia;[1] but others estimate this surface at 10.0% or more (twice the area of Great Britain).[12][19]

Terra preta exists in small plots averaging 20 hectares (49 acres), but areas of almost 360 hectares (890 acres) have also been reported."

So the rainforest doesn't depend on Terra Preta.
I would also throw in Haskell and OCaml in the native front.
We started by requiring email confirmation before allowing sign in but recently removed that requirement.

The initial friction and problems that arose from either the person not remembering its email access or not checking the spam or the email simply being dropped (hotmail inc) made us take that decision. For us the email is not very important, since we have other channels for communication with the user.

We will be adding an “annoying” banner reminding the user to confirm the email but the app/system is fully functional without it.
Again, I gotta repeat: this is not a promise. Development on 1.26 is just starting, so this is a reasonably far out estimate, and might be wrong.

But with that said... some possible features:

* dyn Trait
* unit tests that can use ?

But, looking at the tracking sheet I linked below, it's looking like 1.26 and 1.29 are gonna be the biggies, some 1.27 stuff is pushed back a bit. We'll see!
I remember telling my elementary school class when we were discussing what we wanted to be when we grew up that I wanted to be like Roberta Williams. Which was strange from their vantage point because I was a boy, and because nobody had a clue who she was. But my statement was driven entirely by my desire to make and sell video games.
I re-read the headline 5 times before clicking on it and reading it again. Then I read the summary. Then I realized it wasn't the online retailer.
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The go compiler (already) inserts yields in a bunch of places that aren't IO or explicit synchronization points. And it's hard to predict the exact locations they'll be because much of it happens after some optimizations have been made. It is very much already attempting to look preemptive, which is why the authors didn't use the term coroutine for the language feature -- it's an implementation detail.

This proposal is about fixing some of the edge cases where the current implementation doesn't do what the interface is supposed to. It outlines another, simpler approach which just has the compiler add more yields, but apparently the performance impact of that is too high. But it's just a question of perf & implementation complexity, not semantics.
An alternative explanation is "Triumph of the West" by Roberts which gives cultural reasons.
my answer was not about discussing Git. I was saying that it seems healthy to have a system that tracks errors and corrections
Can confirm. The variety of team cultures I've seen at Microsoft so far is insane, and my guess is that it would be the case for other similarly-sized tech companies. The range has been all the way from atrocious to good to great, with no particular leaning towards one (unlike what I heard about Amazon, though)
Nice set of samples:

https://petapixel.com/2016/03/24/photos-show-secret-tricks-f...

Spot the non-food items :)
More like the dark side of stupid B-school ideas that should be discarded in the dustbin of history. The data is there if one cares to measure them and incentivize properly.

But why would they favor that? They are intelligently blind.
So the people I have to go through to convert my crypto to real money aren't middlemen?
Seems like the quality of content & comments posted on HN goes down dramatically whenever the discussion is on Facebook or Snap. I understand these are hot-button companies but I think HN could do better than to have these aimless discussions on obscure things. For the vast majority of companies this news would hardly even get posted.
Is it really large, established manufacturers who are making these mistakes? Or is it random fist-time hardware entrepreneurs in Shenzhen?

Analogy: we don’t blame Javascript-the-language-standard for the Node community’s constant (and usually half-assed) reinvention of build tools. Javascript itself didn’t cause that. More than likely, it was a glut of newbie developers joining the community—and building tools for one-another, rather than leaving it to the experienced people—that caused that.
The short answer is that many written accounts aren't necessarily reliable--and we've come to understand (more recently) that many historians made things up if reality didn't conform to their world view. Actually, the "make things up" still continues to this day; most popular history books fall prey to this.

In the past 60ish years, we've started to make good strides in rebuilding our understanding of history based on firmer grounding of reliable facts and evidence, but where we lack reliable archaeological evidence to backstop our historical narratives, we still end up relying on plausible lies. South American archaeology is much less thoroughly explored than North American or European archaeology, so we've had less ability to revisit what we thought we knew. We are learning more, but this is very recent (21st century recent, far too new to really percolate into the popular history sphere).
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"You have enough savings to last at least two years." - fuck. me.
Anecdata: I have never had to re-install windows in the last decade on my personal machine (neither have I had to reinstall Linux or OSX). My current W10 machine at work is at a 140 day uptime because I netured the update and can't be bothered to update. My W7 Laptop hasn't been re-installed since I purchased it in 2012 !!

https://imgur.com/a/u1h1a
Sort of. Windows shell/app/device teams got merged with other "experience" teams (i.e., Office), while Windows platform teams got merged with other platform teams (i.e., Azure)
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>> These self-congratulatory articles are always a bit off-putting.

Are they self-congratulatory or self-promoting? Or both?

Just from the headline (before I clicked through), I wondered to myself "How hard can it be? Give notice. Be professional during your notice period. Leave." To me, TFA is less about "how to" than "things you might want to consider".
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SamPatt reminds me a lot of Ross Ulbricht[1], the creator of the Silk Road. Ross started silk road using tor and believed this open marketplace to buy and sell anything: drugs, child pornography, guns, bombs, organs, sex workers, etc. would reduce the government's ability to outlaw and let people decide. True Libertarian beliefs.

I would recommend to Sam that he reads American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silkroad [2] and figures out how far he is willing to go for his beliefs. When national actors get involved, your life can become miserable, you will be watched, followed, drug cartels could go after your family to build backdoors in, NSA will go after you to build backdoors in, there is no limit to human evil, corruption and avarice. Be careful man.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht

[2] https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-...
> even if they have no real utility, need, or capability to use them.

This is the critical part. The hardware may work as intended, but if no one can operate it what use is it? If it works as intended but is ineffective against the enemies weapons or techniques what use is it? Or if there isn't even an enemy to use these systems against? But to play ball with the US as an ally, nations can be placed in a position where they're making these purchases whether appropriate or not.
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You're saying that like spaceflunky's comment included an endorsement for that post, or that his posting a comment here means that he approves of every single post on the site.
Emacs still lacks quite a few improvements XEmacs had over it, and many Lisp Machine features are yet to be available on it.
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Tesla is only at around 1,000 cars pers week on the Model 3. There’s a link in the article where you can track Model 3 production:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

Their goal is 10,000 cars a week by the end of the year. Yesterday there was talk that Tesla used too much automation:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/tesla-is-overusing-automat...
Hey everyone!

One of my biggest mistake I made in my last startup was not focusing enough in retention and engagement, so I decided to make a directory I wish I knew before building a product

I made the directory in a day but I have been collecting the resources for 3 years I want keep learning about this subject so if you have a good resource just leave it in a comment to send it to my email at hernanaracenachirinos@gmail.com and I will add it to the directory

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