skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be in the same situation. Two pieces of advice come to mind from my experience.

1) If you have a problem, most likely someone else does too.
2) Although others can replicate what you have built (proves it is a good market fit), many will still prefer to pay something reasonable for it (to save time or simply because they can't build it on their own).

Just make a landing page for a handful of "projects" you already built, post on HN/twitter, and see how much traction they get (google will also pick them up if it's a good niche).

At that point, you will know if investing time for minimal packaging (payment system, user admin etc) is worth it.
The disadvantage is that you have made a huge compressed air bomb in the event of failure. The concrete blocks would fail in a more local way by just falling down.
Kind of. I run Streama https://github.com/streamaserver/streama

Combined with ripped dvds and/or pirate bay, can make for a refreshing video streaming service you own and host.
The compressed air systems anger the thermo gods though
I used to read reviews on a movie I was on the fence about watching. I used the 5 star rating for the same reason. Now I have no information to guide me and in the last month, I have started several movies and stopped watching after 10 minutes because they sucked. Then there's the week delay to send in the DVD and have another one arrive by mail. This makes the service worse in my opinion.
This is a very easy thing to avoid though:

if (ad target == anything to do with housing) {disable options to exclude ethnic affinity [and a bunch of other things]}
Possibly do an occasional freelancer work? Earn a bit when needed.

Also, you can work your way up by offering an additional customization to projects you release as open source.
To simplify the issue here: Amazon made buying books 10x easier, and expanded the easily purchasable selection by more than 10x.

Mastodon doesn't make anything 10x better or easier. It will never gain mass adoption accordingly. Mainstream users will never care about it, not under any circumstances.

It'll languish as just another techie fantasy, with every other decentralized premise (not one of which has ever acquired mass consumer use, not in decades of trying). It's the standard techie failure to understand average users. The same reason techies for nearly two decades have been baffled as to why average people haven't adopted command-line Linux - they can't be objective and properly put themselves into the shoes of other non-tech people.
What social life? It barely existed before I started coding, and coding hasn't exactly made it any 'worse'. In that sense, it's not really done anything that writing, game development or running internet sites had probably done already.

Being introverted and not being too sociable was probably a factor in me becoming a programmer to begin with.

But hey, it can definitely hurt your ability to socialise as well, especially if you don't have anything else to do outside of work/computer related activities.

That said
That's a personal attack. We ban users who post uncivilly to HN. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From an ethics point of view, why is this illegal?
Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. And when he needed to learn a new language he actually went to school for it.

I just started a new position, I have to learn at least 2 new languages (on my own time) which I need to be proficient in basically immediately. My very first project was, fix something in this new project which uses a new language, you have 3 days. And I felt lucky to have been given 3 days instead of 1 so I could learn the language. And then dozens of new frameworks and complex tools, complex and evolving architecture. In 2 months I will have my first week as being the point person to fix anything that goes wrong in production. And I feel like this is ok, this is normal.

I wonder if most engineers now are just permanent amateurs hopping around between tools and projects, learning just enough to make it work without breaking, but not knowing how to build things properly. How many years would it take to really become expert in that language? Even if you focused all your time on that, by the time you have mastered it another language will have come along to replace it, or the language itself will have been transformed into something new.

If you stay still and become an expert in something you run the risk of losing your relevance and not being able to get another job in just a few short years. 25 years? Will the company you work for even be around in 25 years? Doubtful.

Then again, back then they didn't have Stackoverflow and all the resources we have now that make it possible to learn so much so quickly.
You say you are moving country so I suppose you’re flexible. Try giving Poland a go. Polish language is not required to land a job and dev salaries compared to cost of life are insane. Just avoid Krakow for the pollution
All the results in that link are height requirements.

You don't need to be able to read Chinese to know that a 160cm bust size requirement is implausible...
Are you serious? A crane vs corrosive water?
In practice, for better or worse, a lot of things escape notice when done obliquely at small scale.
Very cool, thanks for the clarification.

To me, this is yet another perk of using RR on top of the actual api. As someone who works on a smaller team, updating our projects to use the new context api would be a significant undertaking. By using RR, the implementation details are left better equipped engineers, our team can focus on meeting business requirements.
Here are the likely relevant laws in question:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

By law you cannot discriminate by any designation of protected class, which includes not only parties to a business transaction but also messaging and opportunities there upon.

I do understand why Facebook would allow ad display filtering by race and other demographic categorizations since they are a media organization who sells advertising. Whether or not that practice is morally qualified or agreeable it makes sense from a business perspective (oh how I do detest advertising).

What I don't get is why Facebook would allow ad suppliers the option to set values to these filters. Facebook has the data to make optimal demographic determinations for a geographically centered business market. Perhaps this indicates that either Facebook isn't very good at that or that ad supplies prefer to perform their own independent research out of distrust or lack of availability from Facebook.

Anyway, this does look like a valid complaint. I wouldn't just sue Facebook though. I would also seek for discovery of the ad suppliers and sue them as well. Facebook is just the proxy here. Somebody is making a deliberate determination to racial profile in violation of the spirit of the law.

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EDIT. See the third bullet point here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968#Types...
Probably blackjack somewhere too
Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
I’m sure their counsel knows exactly what they’re doing. Sometimes when you’re big and bad enough it’s worth it to take a gamble and see how things will settle in court.

And that’s not even necessarily a bad thing. People and cultures change and so should our regulation and laws.
It's not really a solution. Screen shot; toot with your mocking comments.
> but the knowledge and evidence we do have very heavily favors a diet that is primarily plant based, low in protein, and has very little chicken/pork/beef.

Hong Kong has one of the highest life expectancies (Surpasses even Japan) in the world yet their cuisine is mostly based on meat, not plant-based

Furthermore not a single country from this list is a plant-based or low in protein, all of them eat alot of meat, dairy, seafood etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian
The ceiling height is not the same as the floor height of the next storey up.
How do they determine what's a housing ad?

There's two pieces to this a) Facebook makes this possible and b) Facebook damns themselves and promotes that they make this possible for housing. Part b is easy to fix: make it harder to do housing ads that are targeted. However, part a is much harder: what stops me from advertising my AirBnb listing as a URL on Facebook as a "generic ad"?
Numbered pages is a plus, but I’ve found the Moleskines to be brilliant field companions - there’s always one in my boiler suit’s breast pocket, and no matter how wet it has become, be it rain, seas or hydraulic oil, no matter how greased and dirty my fingers have been, the notebook holds up. I don’t think I’ll ever use anything else for jotting down notes while offshore.

My local dealer stocks Leuchtturms too; I’ll pick up a few next week.
As far as I know HOPA is the only federal law affecting housing age and it allows them to create "senior only" communities. So it is effectively the same. Older people can discriminate against younger people but younger people cannot discriminate against older people.
Taco al pastor and it's the result of Lebanese immigrants to Mexico bringing the doner kebab/shawarma "trompo" and applying it to pork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor
Whether a show, book, movie, song, etc is "worth the time" is entirely subjective. There are million dollar franchises based on material that I don't consider worth my time. But you better believe that stuff is worth Netflix's time.

A perfect example of this is "Bright," a netflix movie that was critically panned. But people watched it. And now they're making "Bright 2". Are you really suggesting that Netflix should stop making movies that people want to see because critics (professional or otherwise) dislike them?

Two things people need to keep mind:

a). There's no objective way to judge this stuff.

b). The existence of movies like "Bright" does not prevent "high quality films" from being made.

Werner Herzog, Kelly Reichardt, Wong Kar Wai, Michael Haneke, Mia Hanson-Love, etc can keep making movies whether or not "Bright" keeps getting made over and over again. Both kinds of movies have their audience, and that's fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA
So do I, the post has since been un-[dead]'d, which is why there's seemingly two duplicate comments now. It was really shocking to see the comment become [dead] within EIGHT MINUTES of having been posted.
This creates ghettos
Looks like something hosted on Geocities. Just like with old paintings, when judging, you have to take into account the period it was produced in.

>Article added 2005
Down the the literal words "red line"[0]. For, I suppose young or otherwise ignorant people, here:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
I do not know much about engineering this sort of things, but it seems to me that working against gravity is easier than working against elastic force (as you propose), because the force of gravity is independent of the amount of energy stored, while the elastic force depends on the amount on energy stored (when the air is already pressurized it is much harder to push in some new one). And in general I believe that it is more difficult to build a motor or a generator that are efficient independently of the force they have to work against/with.

Just random thoughts, though...
Netflix's DVD service is still active. They just hide it under a separate URL: https://dvd.netflix.com
>Older people can discriminate against younger people

No.

Family status is protected in housing law, so no, a landlord can't refuse to rent to someone because they have young children.

Exceptions apply for certain senior living communities, but they are 55+, not 40+.
I think Rust makes a lot of very hard things possible, at the expense of making some easy things more annoying.

That's a tradeoff that bothers a lot of people who hear the Rust hype, only to find that it's more annoying to write the things they want to write. But if you use Rust and it makes a very hard thing possible, this is an incredibly empowering experience and you'll become a passionate believer. This is a dynamic that leads to arguments on the internet.

I've never done any substantial low-level systems programming, but there are high-level situations where I think Rust was better than anything else.

In one case, I simply couldn't get decent performance for something out of any garbage collected language I tried -- and GC time was the actual bottleneck. Rewriting in C++ seemed very intimidating and likely to be error-prone. Doing the same thing in Rust gave me the same benefits with the confidence that I hadn't made any dumb memory errors.

The second benefit of Rust is that concurrency and parallelism is easy, in the sense that 1) for basic parallelism, you can use Rayon without even thinking about it, and 2) in more complex cases, you can share stuff across threads and be confident that you haven't introduced any weird, hard-to-debug race conditions.
There’s a few of these types of things in Canada.

Boston Pizza: Started in Edmonton

New York Fries: Originated in Brantford, ON
Maybe there's something inherently wrong with thought-policing via "anti-discrimination" laws.
I've wanted multi table foreign keys and join indices for Postgres. What exactly is the design here?
Moving ambient temperature water through an appropriately sized pipe is nearly lossless from an energetics perspective. Moving steam through a pipe of any length is far more lossy even with significant amounts of insulation.
Holding off buying a new MacBook Pro at the moment. It’s like issues pop up every other week and I simply cannot buy a machine that is not reliable. Also looking into a Lenovo Thinkpad w/ CentOS as an alternative, even though it would be difficult. It’s a pity.
Well, 40 and 64kW batteries in Kona compared to 50 and 75 in Model 3. Plus Kona is only available in 24 weeks according to their website, so 6 month wait.
It's a nice place to be

No one has to care about which pair of celebs are arguing

No bloody advertising

People are building interesting stuff with it

Third party apps work

It's not run by a guy seemingly at war with his own users

edit: more

Your parents aren't there

The people who left twitter years ago because of all the harassment and you've been missing are probably already there

If you've got a feature request or something, you can just toot Gargron and you will get a reply
Pretty much every ad ever written in any medium is targeted to some degree or other.
> “Netflix customers were able to leave reviews on Netflix.com until mid-2018, when reviews were removed due to declining use.”

I still think this was done on purpose to an extent. In the beginning the reviews were really easy to find when you were looking to see if you wanted to spend time watching something. As they "upgraded" their UI on the web they really buried it and made it more difficult to find. I had to use the netflix help a few times just to find it near the end. And with most people now using the app on a smart tv or roku, fire tv, ect, they never integrated the reviews into those apps. So to me its saying declining use is of course it was, the only way to get to it was having a laptop handy to check. At that point you can read reviews from any other site.
I think the root issue is that there is just simply too much to know and too little time to know it. Everything is completely reinvented every 3 years now it seems, so many of the successful young engineers I know tend to develop a herd mentality, just do what everyone else is doing. You don't need to understand it, just pick your favorite thought leaders, emulate them, and things will usually work out well enough.
You've inadvertently highlighted part of the appeal of Mastodon here. People using Mastodon are the ones who see problems with platforms like Twitter. People who use Mastodon are often attracted to it because they care about issues like centralization, that most people don't care about. This becomes a filter for the community of individuals who share some common ethos that's not present in mainstream communities.

Personally, my reasons for using Mastodon are purely ideological. Companies like Twitter and Facebook go against the very principles of having an open and distributed internet. They centralize power, and get to decide how people interact online. They also create walled gardens that make it difficult for users to move their data between. Each of these platforms locks the users in.

With ActivityPub federation, you can have many different platforms interacting with each other seamlessly. For example, Mastodon already federates with PeerTube, so you can post a video on PeerTube and have it show up in your Mastodon timeline. This is something that will never be possible between Twitter and YouTube since they're run by different companies that have no interest in letting their users communicate with each other.

I think whether Mastodon can succeed or not is past academic debate at this point. The community has over a million users now, and it's growing actively. Mastodon is very resilient by it's very nature of being open and distributed.

A company like Twitter needs to make money to stay afloat, if it doesn't grow then it will go under. This is not the case for Mastodon since it's largely an open source effort, and the core team needs relatively meager amount of money to stay afloat. Meanwhile, the distributed nature means that the cost of running Mastodon is distributed across the community. Instead of one company having to run servers that can support millions of users, you have lots of small instances that each support thousands of users and federate together.
Those that would dominate first seek to disarm those they would control.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
-Benjamin Franklin

Make no mistake. The period during which our government was a tool of liberty preservation seems to be long past.

I believe we may be well down the slippery slope to despotism Franklin feared so much.

I pray I am wrong.
Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage
Do the humanities really succeed at accomplishing those goals? In my own college experience, the humanities courses I took mostly taught me how to parrot the professor's opinions, how to write long-winded dissertations with overly complicated language with the goal of appearing intelligent rather than being understood, and how to insert meaning into literary works that author likely never intended.

And while I was very successful in those courses, I fail to see how they prepared me to be a better citizen, or to think critically about the direction society is going towards. For my daily life, I would probably have been better off taking a course in plumbing than literary analysis.
In fact, since most cases are not so blatantly obvious as this, using disparate impact is often how these cases are brought.
Why is San Francisco covered in human feces?
This is comparing far more than Xeon vs. EPYC, not even a single mention of the storage subsystem on these respective machines. It's not like the tasks being timed are 100% CPU-bound...
This complaint seems like its shooting itself in the foot - discrimination isn't inherently bad. When you hire, you discriminate based on ability. When you date, you discriminate in a number of ways like beauty, personality, etc. If you're selling ads for wheelchairs you want to discriminate for people with disabilities. If your houses aren't wheelchair accessible, you want your ads to discriminate against people with disabilities. If there are "majority-minority zip codes" then maybe advertising against the demographic is a waste of your time and money.

The idea that we should operate without discrimination is a toothless platitude with little bearing on reality. It is not Facebooks responsibility to change reality because they are able to accurately quantify and qualify it's existence, and sell ads based on their findings.
IMNAL and I dont have a source, but I believe credit agencies were once sued for this type of indirect discrimination. If I remember correctly, the argument was that credit scores unfairly treated some protected classes.
Kanopy is incredible if you want quality curated worldwide content. Free with your library card, at least in LA.

Filmstruck for criterion collection and worldwide classical cinema. $80/y.

If you have amazon prime you get some blockbusters for free.

Some att plans include hbo go.

Netflix still has some good documentaries but their new releases have been low quality, except possibly for black mirror.
Why not just look the movie up on an actual review site?
That may not be necessarily the case. Hyundai is having issues with producing an appropriate amount of battery packs[0] and it's not planning on delivering more than 2500 units to Norway in 2018. I don't think they're planning to sell more than 25k overall this year.

Sure the Model 3 is considerably less affordable, but it has scale[2].

[0] https://electrek.co/2018/05/31/hyundai-kona-ev-gets-norwegia...

[1] https://electrek.co/2018/05/08/hyundai-ioniq-electric-batter...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
Companies operating on Google scale should also have the scale to ensure that their ad platform doesn't enable people to target ads discriminately, especially when it's on something like housing where there are laws against that. They're probably more worried about their quarterly results and shareholders than they are about potential problems until it becomes a big problem.
Azure Cloud Security Workshop – Slides – For Real This Time
Ask HN: How many of you sponsored their O-1 visa with their own startup?
It seems like the O-1 visa is the perfect fit for an entrepreneur starting his own company in the US to work there. Of course, if the requirements are satisfied. But then at the same time many attorneys say that it is not possible to sponsor the O-1 with your own startup. I think this is the best place to ask for some real experiences.
That is not what OP is saying...
My question would be if an advertiser advertised housing in a demographically targeted publication, for example, a publication focused only on single gay men, if that would necessarily function as discrimination since single mothers wouldn’t be reading that publication, nor those ads. Facebook allows demographic targeting that just happens to be more “effective,” but no more discriminatory that the way conventional targeted “offline” advertising works now. Advertising housing in a newsletter for Jewish people, does that not result in discrimination against non Jews since they wouldn’t see that ad? It seems that as long as the housing and the ad content itself weren’t discriminatory, the law would seem to be upheld. What this suit seems to be saying is that you are obligated to advertise your housing where every protected group would have an equal chance of seeing the ad, anything less would be discriminatory right? The very slippery slope is that housing ads themselves could only appear in official, government publications otherwise some group or another would be discriminated against since they wouldn’t normally see the ad.
Probably the easiest if i link some of the doc to show some examples of usage:
https://github.com/gsvigruha/cosyan/blob/master/src/main/res...
https://github.com/gsvigruha/cosyan/blob/master/src/main/res...
It's not like I posted porn; it was just a comment, you guys truly are super sensitive over there in California.

Plus I really wanted to point out that 99% of the straight males in the world would do sexual things in their dreams if they TRULY could control their dreams, if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.
I'll have you know that I earned my degree at the finest toad university.