skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a job that:

* allows autonomy (depending on where you are)

* is lucrative

* makes you a valued employee (often)

* is mentally challenging

* has a low barrier to entry (though getting higher)

* is location independent (or can be)

* is in demand across different geographies (especially most cities)

* is easy enough on the body to be done into your 80s

* doesn't require selling anything

* requires you to learn every day

* lets you build things that actually help people

I've been a developer for almost two decades and have looked at many other kinds of jobs, but haven't found anything that compares to that set of attributes. At least for me, it's the bees knees.

Note that above I used the word "development" and not coding. That was conscious. The world of software development includes the magical flow of coding, but is so much more.

Edit: I did write a blog post about the difference between a developer and a programmer.
and then immediately went back to printing money.

I love the phrase "printing money". It's time proven. But it just occurred to me that it doesn't do Apple justice.

Apple's free cash flow for the trailing 12 months was $44.6 Billion. That's 446 million $100 banknotes. How many printing presses does it take to print that many bills? How many sheets of cotton/linen paper?

Apple's financial numbers are astounding.
I have never used Paypal to buy physical things on the street, but what would be the comission on that? I would never use Paypal for anything if I did not have to because of the comission and the bad conversion rate. So that could be a reason?
>If there is no such widely used search engine, then sites without scripting can't thrive.

Such a search engine would never be widely used, because there's no widespread desire to limit search results only to sites which don't use javascript.
How are they making money?
> The browser UI is terrible and there's been very little incentive to improve it.

It seems like a chicken and egg problem. There's very little incentive to improve it because practically no one uses it. And no one uses it because it's a bad user experience.

But I would prefer it over using a Yubikey because, IMO, the private key should be associated with a machine, rather than a person. That is, if one of my devices is stolen or compromised, I can use another one of my devices to revoke the stolen/compromised device's access.
I highly doubt it’s that simple. Most users don’t value these extra security measures let alone know about them. This leads me to believe that there’s a different reason why they’re upping their security more than other user oriented companies.
Like.. buying a product?
It's encouraging dog fooding. If you are forced to use the product, you'll learn its strengths and weaknesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
What's the deal with lost yubikey user workflow? Rely on individual websites to give you a one-time recovery passcode that you then have to input into every website? I can't believe I'm taking UX cues from cryptocurrencies, but what about providing the user with a seed for the yubikey private key they can back-up offline then reinstall in a new yubikey?

P.S. just ordered a yubikey security key, excited to add this additional layer to my own personal byzantine security labyrinth. Or maybe simplify it, who knows!
No, because we don't colonise the solar system using the surfaces of planets and moons — we do it by mining asteroids and building giant rotating habitats. There is enough material in just the asteroids alone to build habitats with a land area of millions of times the earth.

Look up the work of Gerard K. O'Neill or John S. Lewis for details.
this is why I will never use google pixel tho I will still be forced to use gmail, search, and Youtube because of its conveniences, hopefully in the future something new that comes out that has mathematical open source decentralized form of censorship-proof algorithms will come out
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I don't. Most users probably don't. This isn't going anywhere. It was easily one of the most praised features of WebOS by both users and tech reviewers. There's a reason both Android and iOS are going this way.
This brings to mind a classic pre-Disney, pre-NYT FiveThirtyEight article applying some of these principles to take some pollsters to task.

- From 2009, Strategic Vision Polls Exhibit Unusual Patterns, Possibly Indicating Fraud: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/strategic-vision-polls-...
That video was virtue signaling to the max.
I used to use Google Now on almost a daily basis. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to get the same functionality out of Google Assistant
GDPR is going into effect so tons of companies are changing privacy policies.
I can't agree enough. Python baked in would be a dream come true.
Modern AI Stack and AI as a Service Consumption Models
You can send a gentle ping but it’s not likely to have a high conversion rate. After one reminder I’d stop trying.
Jesus, so even super obscure languages that virtually no one uses is a problem?
Potentially there would be a way for both sides to recognize that the other side is a machine and they could switch to binary communication.
Very, very cool. Section 7 of the manual[0] gives some hints on how this black magic works:

> 7. Workload Requirements

> To obtain benefit from the current version of Dynimizer, all of the following workload conditions must be met:

> A small number of CPU intensive processes - On a given OS host where the workload is running, the workload must be comprised of one or a few CPU intensive processes. Optimizing a large number of processes at once is not recommended.

> Long running programs - The processes being optimized have long lifetimes, and their workloads are long running in order to amortize the warmup time associated with optimization.

> x86-64 - Optimized processes must be 64-bit, derived from x86-64 executables and shared libraries, which must comply with the x86-64 ABI and ELF-64 formats. Most statically compiled applications on Linux meet this requirement.

> Dynamically Linked - Target processes must be dynamically linked to its shared libraries. Statically linked processes are not yet supported. Most Linux programs are dynamically linked.

> No self modifying code - The target application must not be running its own Just-In-Time compiler such as those found in Java virtual machines. This therefore excludes Java Applications.

> Front-end CPU stalls - The workload wastes a lot of time in CPU instruction cache misses, instruction TLB misses, and to a lesser extent branch mispredictions.

> User mode execution - Much of that wasted time is spent in user mode execution (as opposed to kernel mode), as Dynimizer only optimizes user mode machine code.

> Because of these requirements, Dynimizer takes a whitelist approach when determining if programs are allowed to be optimized, with MySQL and its variants being the currently supported optimization targets on that list for this early beta release. Other programs are not currently supported, and while they can be used with Dynimizer, they should be very thoroughly tested by the user or system administrator before being deployed in a production environment.

> Future versions of Dynimizer may eliminate many of these workload requirements, broadening the variety of applicable scenarios as well as further increasing the performance delivered in previously beneficial cases.

[0] https://dynimize.com/manual
Just fyi, if meditation feels difficult or frustrating, it may mean you are meditating for the wrong reason. Your objective when meditating should be to observe your own experience as objectively as you can. This includes things like your chosen object of meditation (e.g. following the breath), whatever thoughts, feelings, itches, pains may arise. If you are failing at this, you won't be aware you are failing at it, but if you are aware your attention has drifted elsewhere aside from your goal of sitting and observing, you are now observing again and succeeding at meditation. So you can actually only ever be aware of succeeding at meditation :).

If you are meditating with the goal of relaxing your mind, for example, you can easily fail at that, and will likely fail at it more often than not given how much the mind can wander. Meditating with that goal in mind can be extremely frustrating. So a useful thing to know is that intentions matter a lot when meditating.
Encryption is useless if there is a way to brute force crack passwords or acquire private keys which could be used to decrypt a device. In most ways, yes, physical access is 'game over for security, so I could see Cook & co. make the case that these devices are so dangerous in that regard that they shouldn't be able to be used by anyone.

Tl;dr It's covering your butt when Apple can say to the FBI, 'We support your efforts and want to help you, but literally cannot because it would require dismantling our own security architecture.' No engineer would agree to that - they would quit in protest.

The NRA crack is more about them being the GOP's puppeteer. Under a competent (and probably Democratic administration), being labeled a domestic terror organization would kill their funding in 0.02s.
This is a great idea for a crowd sourced database!
"Lol, but if you think about it, what stops businesses from doing this today?"

Systems like that are much more expensive than paying a receptionist?
I thought the exact same thing. It's such a damn shame, WebOS was way ahead of its time. Apps could be built using web technology and they ran great!
You can't disable the only launcher on your phone. Just install another launcher, set that launcher as your default, and the end result is exactly what you would want (no Google launcher running). This is not possible at all on iOS.

Also, you've once again conflated "stock" with Google phone. If you use more precise terminology, you won't be so confused.
I think crypto currency is the best example of what happens in a wild west, unregulated market -- lots of fraud and instability.
> We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
It could also be a product of their engineering teams and upper management. Most of the Apple development staff are in California and are highly technical. If a majority of the top dogs really believe in protecting privacy then it’s easy for them to get it done.
I think passenger sea planes faded as airports were built and faster piston, later jet aircraft became available.

There are still some large sea planes used for fire fighting service and a few airworthy PBY Catalina's.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-415

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina

Catalina's were heavily used in WWII for scouting and rescue in the Pacific. There is a partial documentary of some guys flying a Catalina around the world which was cut short when they were forced to abandon it in Saudi Arabia.
Apple has been clear from the beginning. They do not supplement revenue with personal data sharing or ads. There is not hidden agenda here. Their major competition shares data with other companies and is very forthcoming with the government. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung all sell access to their user's data. This is a winning strategy because Apple already charged a premium for it's products. Now more than ever that value added is win for the customer.

Just to be clear Apple does give information to the government, but they stopped short of unlocking devices for the government. I see this as a very big important precedent.
> I wonder how that worked on the first Unix systems?

Probably the same way it still works on today's Unix systems: it converts NL to CR+NL on output. See the manpage for the stty command:

Output settings:
[-]onlcr
translate newline to carriage return-newline
It's a scam. I was searching some ebook for free and there are many links like that. It's funny that scammers might be more successful saving paid books than copyright warriors :)
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not sure what the battery life on x230 is. I usually get 6-7 hours atleast on my current chromebook.

Besides this was an impulse purchase. I was tired of my home laptop and wanted something so I went to best buy and purchased it within half an hour. I can't say the same for x230.
Worthy Pundit – A crowdsource editorial
The idea is to create a sounding board for informed voices to eventually and anonymously publish constructive discourse (via native onion desktop integration) to a central RSS feed hosted on GitHub automatically via CI consensus. Initial goal is to utilize FaaS (v8) on free cloud resources and eventually migrate to trusted ARM execution using google/asylo on home-fiber replicants.

https://github.com/worthypundit - PRs welcome
We’re the Good Guys, Right?: On the Marvel Movies
Yeah, but around here, most places just say the system is down and require cash.
U.S. Senate to vote to reinstate open internet rules
You could say the same about using CRLF instead of just LF.
You can tell Brøderbund was a small company at the time because they weren't actively designing the product around avoiding tech support calls.
The article doesn't really try to paint them as good guys?

It's mostly a list of things that happened before concluding that the anarchists were completely unprepared for partial success which caused them to fracture and ally them selves with various lesser-of-two-evil factions which further fractured them leading to their eventual irrelevance.
The books are up for sale again for now, but the seller has no way to know whether this will happen again or what will happen to their account if it does. That's what opaque means.

Would you be able to resolve this in such a way that you'd know nothing bad was going to happen to your account as a result of your resolution? Would you be able to do that just with information that Amazon makes publicly available?
I think it's more unfortunate that so many people are just so opposed to picking up the phone and talking to someone.
Out of curiosity, did you have a paid support plan for Google Maps, or what are you basing your impressions of their support on?

Also, part of the Google Maps Platform launch is that support (as in, being able to file tickets and get answers) will be extended to all users: https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-goog...

Disclaimer: I used to work on Maps Support at Google.
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A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf]
Recovery codes or 2 Yubikeys.
Low take off speed means you need a lower wing loading and that limits your max speed and ultimate range. Perversely higher landing speeds are safer to boot.

Also read an interview with a pilot that flew Clippers. He said maintence was nightmarish due to salt water. And also being able to land in water sounds good until you factor in weather and the need to eventually dock.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017975
Content authors either
Quite nice. I especially like the concept of application state. Well worth the read.
It's specifically for the salons, yoga studios, restaurants, etc that don't use any kind of online booking system.
We have definitely run into this, albeit only very very rarely. It's not viable for someone to build a usable DoS against us as an attack: our offices are on a whitelist and our set up prevents a viable attack against our internal infrastructure.

But yeah, like every tool, there's potential risks/down sides/things to watch for. There's no silver bullets!
More practically, it could be as simple as checking whether text files actually have CRLF line endings. That's one thing I personally use Notepad for.
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We're well past the point of Google storing private information and manipulating their users. If you're going to assume we have already lost those two battles, wouldn't you prefer your adversary to concede you a little bit of freedom to sleep better and feel healthier? The only alternative is to drop our technology all together, or develop a kind of self-control that most people have demonstrated they don't have.
I personally know two people who quit high paying industry jobs and moved to reputable research grant universities (within US) as Assistant Professors in their late 30s. This was about 8 years ago. Fast forward to the present, one guy is a full professor while the other is still an associate professor. The difference was that one used his expertise and experience to write and get more grants, publish more papers, and is popular for his research (both inside and outside the university). The other is known for his teaching (within the university), took it slow and didn't publish as much.

I also know another guy who got his PhD, moved to academia (research lab and all), quit and moved to gaming industry to code, worked for 5 years, and now moved back to academia (once again, research lab and all). Then there is another person who got his PhD, worked as a post-doc, worked as an Assistant Professor, quit because he didn't enjoy it, and now is working next to me, enjoying an industry position.

I think all of them are truly enjoying what they do. I guess the question for you is what would you like the most?

There are several questions that you'd have to answer for yourself:

(1) Are you in for teaching? Or are you into research, i.e., having freedom in what you work on? Keep in mind that if you join as a Assistant Prof. on a tenure-track role, you'd still have to prove yourself in the long run. This could mean working on some projects that you may/may not enjoy in the short term.

(2) If you are in for the teaching, do you care about where you teach? Community colleges or small universities are always looking for people to teach (as a full time professor, or as a part time lecturer). Do you differentiate between these as much over the love of teaching?

(3) You probably could try out guest lecturing to check if you truly enjoy teaching. Or maybe teach just for a semester, if that is any appealing.

I personally have a PhD, wanted to be in academia for a long time but jumped to industry for numerous personal reasons. This is my 5th year in industry and I love what I work on. However, I still feel that my heart is in academia. To get a reality check, I'll be guest-/co-lecturing several sessions of a course at a public university this fall. I'm curious how things will turn out. Good luck to you too!
Modern humans have to deal with a lot of stuff that was not part of our ancestral environment. It's not too surprising that this causes stress.
No, the argument in the book is that upbringing matters through ~college graduation but the probability of success (which I think caplan roughly defines as the ability to support an average American family) reverts to genetic probability by 35. Caplan makes a point to say this assumes upbringing in an OECD type of economy.

Been a while since I read it but he covered the obvious counterpoints from what I remember.
go to settings, gps mode, select "always high accuracy"

presto - no google - only actual GPS signals used. But good luck - you'll see just how terrible GPS is indoors and in urban canyons. Without wifi and BLE augmentation it truly sucks.
So is it like S3/Object storage with a convenience layer on top?

If you're targeting IT departments, I'd look into :

-Integrating with directories (AD / LDAP / ...)

-Search feature (ELK? Algolia?)

-Integrating with mail platforms (the on premise ones for example)

-Backup solutions

As others have stated, I don't think what you provide is the best fit for your target.

So instead you should probably look at what problems those guys have and the list above is merely a guess as to what keeps this might be for your average IT team.

Also, while you're trying to get the IT teams to want your product, it's ultimately the execs which will have to sign on that, so you should make sure you convey business value to those guys. Because right now, it's not obvious.

Hope this helps.
There is a difference between knowing something objectively and experiencing it subjectively. The really hardcore meditators do it not just so they can recount the experience of emptiness to someone but so they can actually feel it and learn from the experience itself firsthand.

It's like asking someone who did psychedelics to explain it to you. They'll always tell you the experience is not something you can understand with words alone.
> If you can't promote your own product then Marcus was right - go find something else to do

As a developer, should I also quit if I don't want to vacuum the carpets or restock the supply cabinet? If you need your product promoted, maybe hire someone with a marketing degree.
It makes me extremely nervous to see that a third party can even create this capability. If I had a say, I would just tell these guys this level of access to low level code just isn't possible for third parties.

As odd as it might be, I trust Apple more because they don't want my data and aren't enabling methods for other people to acquire it.

On aome level, this back and forth on encryption is an endless cat and mouse charade, but the fundamental assumption behind cryptographic security is absolute.

"You can't outlaw math"
CloudFlare has a maximum number of firewall rules, based on the types of paid accounts you have. Every couple of months we purge the list when it gets close to being full.

99% of IP addresses we block are from outside our target market - we're a very local/regional company - so we don't really have to worry much about blocking legitimate customers. Very rarely our support team will get a request from someone that's been blocked and we'll unban the IP address, or set it to a JS/Captcha challenge at CloudFlare.
Why everyone needs a book therapist in their life
You might want to try this:

https://news.google.co.uk/

Not perfect, but at least it brings more viewpoints.
Many differences
Possible Audi Diesel Emmissions Software Issues
Actually, now that you mention it, forcing all of my employees to run for five miles every week would actually be amazing. I bet the impact to health would be profound. (given able physical condition, of course)
True, many people know english, but that doesn't mean they know statistics or some other complex domain. "Show me a k-means cluster of this dataset", is likely to be parsed but not understood by many english speakers.
Upper managers often wax pious about underlings' loyalty to corporate. Not so much the other way around.
Did you continue the interview? That is a pretty big red flag for that interviewer.
How I start and scale content marketing projects
Yeah like the Facebook login button.
The concepts aren't new, the fact that they're now mainstream is new. Do you think Trump would have been elected 20 years ago? Do you think comedians would actually be scared to perform on college campuses 20 years ago?

The insanity was always there, but has become mainstream.