skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can reach out privately to other companies and leaders you know if they may have a position for them. HR can also help find positions for people, that’s part of their job.

What you can’t do make a decision that’s good for a very small number of people at the expense of everyone else in the company if you’re a leader.
Show HN: Have I Been Bloomed?
It's the whole ecosystem with Erlang, OTP (Open Telecom Platform) and how they work with supervisors and monitors etc.

Everything is built so that you can operate a telecom switch and never drop that emergency call.

Erlang (Ericson language) is not necessary, you can also program for this in Elixir, although personally I prefer Erlang.
Spending months (literal days worth of time) leveling, and then entire evenings raiding is just not something I have time for now.

On the other hand I have to imagine I would play a lot more efficiently/smarter than when I was 16.
Could we not also correct by simply telling the participants this technique (I used it too and have the same experience of only being 100% sure after bubble sort)
Show HN: Janus Workspace Desktop
Best description yet!
Why should people in the US care what people elsewhere like to watch or what they call it?
Hiya

Janus Workspace Desktop is a desktop application for Linux, Windows and Mac that takes on a different approach to browsing. It allows you to open as many windows as you like in every tab and navigate easily between them.

All windows opened within Janus Workspace share the same session. Meaning you can log in with a certain account once and use the same login in Janus. If you want a separate session, sort of a persistent Incognito you can open such windows as well. It is really useful for monitoring several ad campaigns for different profiles. It supports a huge amount of regular browser functionalities and shortcuts -> https://janusworkspace.com/#features You can find Janus Twitter account at https://twitter.com/JanusWorkspace and here is a simple usage example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSucYy58TgQ

If you want more lightweight and limited version of it you can check out the chrome extension version of it - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/janus-workspace-ne... One user account works for all Janus versions.

If you want to try it out - I have added a special user for Hacker News - username is HackerNews and password is hackernews.

No usage statistics are kept in the application. The only user data that is being kept in it is your registration info. All login details that you use in it are out of Janus's reach. Google Analytics statistic is anonymous and can be stopped from the settings menu.
Designing a product for developers
Wow, 10% of unsolicited requests are worth looking at? That seems remarkably high.
Vitess (https://vitess.io/) is the closest alternative I know of. Vitess came from YouTube, and is used at some other sizable companies. They have a similar model of sharding, they both support the MySQL wire protocol and a binary RPC protocol (gRPC for Vitess, Thrift for ActorDB).
Find someplace that challenges you. When you don’t feel challenged, move on. Rinse and repeat.

I like this question because everyone has their own answer. It all depends what you want out of life.
Making buildings, cars and planes from materials based on plant fibres
More like "sigh, programmers". Guarantee the computer is doing exactly what it's being told to do.
Same here. DM me on Twitter or email my username at Gmail if you can't use Twitter
T1ha
Eyeroll.

Original poster is 20 going on 30 and clearly worried about that milestone, like I was, like many 20-somethings in the industry that are taught that young=desirable. Let's not kid ourselves, there's a de facto shelf life for developers in SV and elsewhere due to current culture, and I think it's a hard thing to come to terms with. I probably could have chosen better language (and might be perpetuating the problem due to that language) but drive by comments that are like "haha you're not old" maybe be "technically right" but don't really help anyone.
Is there any data on this? I just can't imagine the market is that large, except in the smallest of town with the largest of tourist attractions.

I mean most large cities have hundreds of thousands to millions of people. I just can't imagine Airbnb would even be 1% of available properties.
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2013/neutrin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_beta_decay#Neutrinoless...
Do you actually have accounts with all 100 companies?

If not why would you send them on a wild goose chase?
TLDR: “A python web server focused on async and offbeat network traffic” now with Python 3 compatibility (for those not familiar with the project)
Often times leadership will ask for a demo before being convinced, which results in a catch-22. At least in my experience.
Yet another distributed database. How many more do we need? Time to just hide in the cave again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> there is a reason behind much FDA bureaucracy, and it’s to protect people’s health.

This is what people don't realize when they try and say the FDA is a bureaucratic nightmare. Every process in place is designed to make sure that the drugs that hit the US market work. Look at what happened with Thalidomide. The FDA didn't allow it to hit the US market due to strict requirements about what tests and processes the drug companies were required to follow. Europe had a massive problem, while the US didn't.

What most people don't realize or know, is that the FDA will readily expedite promising drugs and/or products if results are promising and the data is valid. Companies, if they have strong data from Phase I or II trials, can be bumped to the top of the review queue or be granted interim permission to sell their drugs before Phase III trials are complete.

I personally think the FDA is a great example of a well designed bureaucracy. The value it adds to the public is insurmountable, while not being unreasonable.
The other side of a game like football that makes it so interesting is that the part of the game that involves technique - i.e. the ball kicking part is by its nature very dynamic. Passing, receiving and shooting is going to be comparatively far more unstructured than other technically difficult activities. (consider something like swimming, gymnastics or archery).

As a result, a great deal of the actions you will see will be necessarily improvisory - which makes those moments of rare brilliance all the more amazing. Especially given the stakes often at hand during these moments.

If something like gymnastics is like classical music recitals, then football is like jazz music ensemble
I don't think that statistics agree with you. The most dangerous thing about driving around in a car is getting physically smushed in an accident. Gasoline fires injuring people are much more rare. So it doesn't significantly change overall safety that gasoline ignites more easily than diesel.
Ask HN: Frequencies of electromagnetic spectrum
What frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum are most active in our universe?

That we know of.
The most meaningful work I do is open-source projects in my spare time (or occasionally at work when open-source projects I'm already interested in align with my wrkplace's goals). It sounds like you might already be in a position where you're getting paid well and putting at most 40 hours a week into your day job - have you looked into saving your mental energy for other projects?

This doesn't work for everyone, of course (I'm young and single so it's easier for me) but if it's an option for you it seems worth exploring. Even extremely technically challenging jobs are going to be constrained by either "We need to solve this incredibly boring problem so a customer can pay us a few million more" or "We didn't do that enough and now we ran out of funding for the technically interesting work, sorry".
in that case, do you skate extra hard at times to draw attention away from teammates who are moving into position?
Distributed key-value store. On Disk
"As a great Swiss historian once pointed out in another connection, history is the one subject where you cannot begin at the beginning." - J. M. Roberts
If you are not familiar with how big players like Fedex (or UPS) run their operations, go check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDctEAS0fw_zzOnWDJA7d...
Isn't the spanish version just Football, but in Spanish?
The NSA released a graph database. I wonder what they use it for. /s
This critic complains the sodium lights are like daylight.

The LED lights are even more like daylight. This would appear to undermine the original poster who preferred LED.
I still don't understand why they didn't go with either Diablo or Diablo 2. Much easier to make compatible with modern settings, much easier for new and casual players to get into, much easier to maintain, and arguably more people hungry to play it online over legacy WoW players.
http://www.rocklandstrand.com/sites/default/files/heirony.jp...
And likely much less profitable as well
I guess online vs-code for github will be available soon.
As a terrible programmer my trick is to read statements backwards. Maybe programming should be taught that way too not just reading of it but the history of it all the way back to Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and even weaving looms.
I like the gravity analogy. Sounds like you live there.

What is the life like there? Professionally and outside of work?
I've slept with LG Tone headphones as well as Beats X. I'd say the LG Tone was more comfortable to sleep with, since the connection to the neck part is very thin and moves around easily, and the neck part is free to move around loosely as you move. It never seems to get in the way, and the buds aren't ripped out. The BeatsX had a bigger problem with their stiffer neck part, if I moved they'd be pulled from my ears. Plus their at-best 8 hour battery life doesn't always last a full night, so I've been woken up by the sudden lack of white noise.

Then again, when the Tone dies, it screams "LOW BATTERY PLEASE CHARGE NOW" at you over and over again, which might wake you up :)
Turning 36 in a month and I agree that sometimes it's hard to cope with the fact that I'm no longer in my 20's. I don't think it's the fact that i'm aging as I certainly enjoy the wisdom, the money, the confidence that age has brought me, it's the increased responsibility that seems to come with age.
People feel the need to constantly ask me (especially family members) questions like "when are you getting married" "when are you having kids". I think that's what bugs me about getting old. Feeling the need to settle down when I don't want to. The thing that I'm working on remembering is that I need to live life on my own terms and fuck what everyone else is thinking I should be doing. Same advice I would give to you. Enjoy your life no matter what age you are and live it at your own pace.
No reason for this to appear on Hacker News. Zero.
> Australians, an ex-English colony who stills technically is under the English monarchy.

Australians are under the Australian monarchy, which is not the same monarchy as the UK.

The same monarch, but not the same monarchy.
Special envoy to UN Refugee Agency visits Mosul a year after its liberation
Erlang and especially OTP "forces" you to follow a standard that usually results in highly reliable service powered by concise easy to read and maintain code.
How Benedict Arnold went from wartime hero to resentful traitor
Chip Dis-Integration: Continued integration is no longer the natural way forward
Perhaps what you mean to say is I have a profound disagreement with the common narrative spread that “capitalism lifts people out of poverty.”

If capitalism had such a mechanism, perhaps we could see it in action?

The truth is that the world bank seems to just shift definitions of “poverty” to fit their agenda and to make global poverty a more manageable problem.
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> He was making tons of calls and explaining everything in a really friendly and approachable way. It was impossible to not be at the edge of your seat as you watched each play being made.

I had a similar experience and it's really nice, you realise you miss so much of the actual game if you just follow the ball blindly. That being said it's still enjoyable.

Cheers to all the people who take the time to explain the game like that to others!
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“Frontier Tech” and Blockchain / Crypto
Or more like, how does this compare to any database that runs in production with non-trivial scale and load in a company. Does this database add anything to the data storage landscape that is worth to note? I am not sure. There are pretty good and reliable databases out there.
Join FAANG and you will get to work on projects that will impact millions of lives.
this "Medium" style of writing kills me. Lots of words, little substance.
The key is to find the place where interesting technical problems intersect with the immediate practical needs of the business. Then take the tech to the boss and sell it. I'm working on such a project now.

If you can't find interesting problems like that, you need to open up, because they're everywhere, for coders anyway.

If the boss won't buy it, either fire him and get another, or come up with a more compelling pitch.
Straight out of the article:
"India’s air quality crisis is usually most acute after the Hindu festival of Diwali in autumn, when hundreds of thousands of Indians release firecrackers".

I think Indian Hindus should go easy on their festival celebrations, especially given how it pollutes the already messed up air.
For all the "intellectual property" insanity that comes out of the movie industry, one contributing factor to the rise of hollywood was the difficulty that inventors had enforcing their patents in California.
Were they not also religiously motivated?

Stalin himself was educated at a theological seminary. You should also be aware that Stalin drew upon the ideas of divine right that previous monarchs of Russia had used to claim authority. He used the Russian Orthodox church to grant himself legitimacy, and that church never left his side even through all of the atrocities. To this day, they create iconography of Stalin (typically with a halo).

Either way, this is decidedly NOT secularism.

I certainly didn't "gloss over" anything, having given approximately equal time to talking about religion and the suppression thereof. That's entirely unfair, by the way, since it's hard to find examples of the latter, while history is replete with examples of the former.
I suspect that their standards are different.

Someone who's willing to jump through the hoops to play classic WoW on a private server likely has a willingness to deal with glitches and troubleshooting issues with running a 12-14 year old game client.

Whereas Blizzard wants to provide a smooth official experience, which they're going to give to their mass market audience. They can't get away with saying "yeah, it crashes a lot, and runs terribly on New Video Card X, deal with it", because it makes them look bad.

(For that matter, I suspect things like saying "that crash bug was there in 2007 as well, so it's the authentic experience" wouldn't go over fantastically...)
Eh, it might as well be the equivalent of "soccer" (a meaningless made up word), since the Spanish word for neither "foot" nor "ball" are in the name. (In contrast to Chinese's zuqiu which is literally "foot" "ball").
It sounds like you are trying to get meaning from your work. I struggled with this problem for a long time. I have seen two broad solutions solve it to varying degrees of success:

1. Sacrifice earnings and / or stability in favor of meaning. You must be willing to compromise and you may have to bounce around through a few jobs until you find something meaningful, or you may have to start your own thing.

2. Stop looking for meaning in your work, and find it somewhere else. The people I’ve known who make this work the best are parents. However, I know some who are not. If you live in the SF Bay Area and work in tech, there is pressure to make your work your whole life, and that means that if your work feels meaningless, your life feels meaningless. It’s not the only mode of living.
It's the same API, but I highly doubt that his implementation is fully compliant with the C++ standard.
My sense is that the other motive to insist on "football" is the perception of American chauvinism. If a different country had their own name for the sport, I don't think you'd see people complain that they were being parochial or ignorant by using it.
Maybe not constant, but certainly "readily available".

Don't get me wrong now, I understand that this might not be feasible or comfortable. But OP did not actually describe his/her needs that much, so we are all speculating.

Some good questions that OP could answer might be:

1 - Do you need to do your computation on the spot, like gather data and perform computations in "real time" ?

2 - When you say "travel", what do you actually mean? Do you "travel" like "I am always on a train/plane/bus" or "I move from a site to another constantly but when I'm there I can access a desk and a stable internet connection" or "I move from an airbnb to another" or something completely different ?

3 - What are your security/confidentiality requirements ?

4 - What are your constraints (weight, connectivity, budget, operating costs) ?

5- What are your preference in terms of tradeoff?

6 - What can you compromise on? And what do you value the most? Speed? Computing power? mobility? Energy efficiency? Operating costs?

OP should really answer some of these questions, then we can all come up with better solutions.
Are there examples other than thalidomide? Because e.g. the FDA was just as bad with Vioxx and worse with OxyContin.
Try reaching out to professors or research labs at universities. I work with a professor who would love to hire more Software Engineers with industry experience. It is by far the most meaningful and interesting work I've done in my career.

There are tons of interesting projects going on within academia that unfortunately don't take advantage of any software engineering best practices. Many projects are prototypes hacked together in MATLAB and I know in our lab we are looking to build more robust products that are open source and extensible for other researchers to use.
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Yes. I remember in the 90s when I was in kindergarten, a 1-hour afternoon nap is "mandatory". I hated it.
Ask HN: ZOS/Cobol Development in Canada?
Hey HN,

I've been playing around with zOS in Hercules and the MTM Learning System for the past few weeks learning how the internal plumbing of the system works and how to create Cobol programs and using tools like DB2, CICS, JCL & whatnot and quite frankly I am absolutely in love with the system (as weird as that is to say about a development environment limited to the width of a punch card). I'm curious if anyone can weigh in on how the current landscape looks in Canada here and maybe give me some advice moving forward.

I currently do not have my CS degree, I attempted a few years back but failed out due to non-school related issues. Despite this, I have been working with Go/React/RN/GAE with a few projects and small utilities for my own use, primarily stuff to scratch my own itch. I'm much more comfortable and capable on the backend using concurrent and distributed code but can hack together a janky frontend. Most of these projects are unpublishable. That and I live in the middle of Saskatoon Saskatchewan, not too many CS jobs out here and most of my CS boys that have graduated and stayed are employed in other functions. So relocation is pretty much required but I'm not looking to leave the country.

I'm coming up short on ideas to build that would both expand my Cobol knowledge, familiarity/exposure to IBM system facilities and looks well in a Github repo. Could anyone point me in a decent direction for contemporary best practices/codebases or just give me some project ideas to go bash my brain against? Short of that any sort of advice here would be wonderful.

Thanks boys, I appreciate it.
I we started with the abacus schooling would take a while.

Judging by your username you want to see the world burn.
> in-memory compilation cache

I'd like to see a persistent cache. In-memory doesn't work well for the "occasionally recompile Firefox, LLVM/clang, WebKitGTK, etc." desktop use case...
> Of course everyone knows how to get there now

I like how everyone conveniently forgets that hundreds of millions of gamers never played Vanilla WoW.

Everyone does not know the game like the back of their hand. I have tons of friends who missed Vanilla and she's looking forward to playing it for the first time.
Look at Code for America. Also, look at positions at your local governments. Some city and state governments have been getting things together.
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Man... some Rarebit an hour or two before going to bed (eggs, cheese, mustard, Worcestershire and a couple other spices)... that is a guaranteed way for me to have totally messed up dreams. They’re generally not nightmares so much as super vivid and weird.

At least I’m not the only one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Rarebit_Fiend
I am in the US. Is there a form of internet commerce that doesn't depend on credit cards?
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WARNING: This link is included in the article (though not shown).

https://imgur.com/a/Binbc

If you are like me who enjoys looking at human anatomy, click on it, otherwise, do not. I repeat, do not. But it's somewhat interesting to see the actual foot.
“Soccer” is closer to being the correct word though, because it’s specific. There’s many types of football, and in Europe we usually use the word to mean “association football” specifically, as opposed to “rugby football”, “Gridiron football”, “Australian rules football” or a number of other games named football.

It was in Oxford, where both Rugby and Association football are commonly played at the university level, that the term soccer came up, as an abbreviation of “association”, in the same vein as rugby football is referred to as rugger — the -er ending is a common form of local slang, and is why Boris Johnson is often referred to as Bozzer.
If you already know programming, you can learn the basics of ML in a month. TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc, makes it super simple to build deep networks and you don't need any advanced math. That's where I would start. Also see the Stanford ML courses: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/
Soccer is short for association football, formed analogously to rugger, which is short for Rugby football.
I wonder why the strategy of these "brand personalities" has to be limited to "luxury" type branding.

For example, could you build a following traveling the country by interstate in a Fiesta, staying at Motel 6 and eating at Waffle House? It wouldn't cost Motel 6 and Waffle House almost anything to comp a few waffles and otherwise-unoccupied rooms as an experiment, if they aren't doing similar things already.
I used this extensively when I was a student (MIT '07). I sort of assumed all schools did something like this. I still reference the action verbs (page 31) when updating my resume.
Might be an interesting idea to hit them with a GDPR data request letter and see how they handle it. Practice what you preach and all that.
Tangently related (mobile GPU): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjty3I3Cdg8

In this video Linus Sebastian is using a Razr Blade because that is the laptop he chose as a daily driver, but OP could use any laptop compatible with the enclosure.

I would like to add that using external GPUs is nothing new and there are people that have successfully attached high end external gpus even to old laptops like the glorious ThinkPad X220 (via an ExpressCard adapter).