skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Looking for a helping hand
Hey, I really need some help. I should have asked sooner, but sometimes the first steps are the hardest.

A few years ago - as my partner's parents are aging - I made the decision to emigrate to my partner's homeland and setup a business with my partner. As so often happens, businesses don't always work out, and after a while the business failed. In short succession some of my close family members died, and all this resulted in me suffering from Alopecia universalis eventually leading to me becoming an almost complete recluse.

Time has started to heal these wounds, but the a lack of any network and some language barriers, starting again has been tough (I'm unable to work related to my studies in this second language). The only respite in all this is that learning to code has allowed me to feel some self worth, confidence, and a pathway to becoming a productive member of society again.

Starting again means I have a worthless C.V., a large period of unemployment, and next to no experience to show off my skills. I have learnt Ruby and Rails, with some side helpings of related techs (JS, React, HTML, CSS, SQL, PLPGSQL, Git, APIs, etc.), but I now feel as though after dipping my toes into Elm, Elixir, Phoenix, Prolog, etc, that learning new things will not magically get me work

I have tried job boards, freelancer portals, contributing to open source, and bug hunting, but I can't get my foot in the door when it comes to work that will help me build up my C.V. so I can help provide for those that I care for rather than continuing to be dependent.

The part where I need your help

I am looking for any work that you think I could be suitable for, long or short term (I'm in the E.U. but willing to be available in any timezone), the only caveat is that I will need to work remotely.

I have kept this anonymous as I would like to keep my professional an private life separate, but I will be happy to supply any further info as needed.
>Try to breath in through one nose hole and breath out through the other.

wait can everyone consciously do this? i can't
Ask HN: Questions from a self-taught (UK) intern
Hi,

I'm currently an intern developer for Coca-Cola European Partners and I'm in a slightly unusual position for an intern because I'm completely self-taught (as opposed to being a university student).

My responsibilities are mostly frontend stuff in HTML + CSS and some work with Saleforce, but I'm the only programmer on my current team so I'm doing bits and pieces all over the place. I've also got free reign to teach myself anything reasonably relevant when I'm not directly working on a project, which has enabled me to solidify my understanding of Javascript and start learning Haskell.

Currently I'm a month in (with an expected duration of three months, but the possibility that it'll be extended to six months). My eventual goal is to get into backend web development and move to London.

General advice from people who've been in a similar position would be great, but I also have a few specific questions:

- How much value is there (if any) in having worked for a relatively 'prestigious' company like Coca-Cola for development roles?
- I often read about how getting your first job as a self-taught programmer is the hardest part of the process. To what extent does having previously interned somewhere help with this?
- Is it reasonable for me to be looking/applying to jobs now with the expectation that I've got two months left, or should I wait until closer to when I finish to start applying?
- I'm planning to apply to both Junior dev positions and other internships (if the latter is closer to what I want to be doing in role), but I'm under the impression I was pretty lucky to get my current role as a non-student - how true is that?
This 1000 time. I only care about prices when I am shopping online. The problem is, Amazon is not often the less expensive option.
Or you could just spend time outside in the shade.
What Is Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)?
Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)
Thats talking about UI Design, not software design.
Concentrate on breathing in and out of one side of that nostril. Sounds pretty stupid but it’s no different to OPs suggestion - it will cause the same reactions.
This rings true for me - I had difficulty getting to sleep until I joined the military. Once I had to be able to get sleep where and when I could I learned how.
Some of more significant Tencent games are PubG and Fortnite.
Very glad to see some Remote jobs in Memphis.. I actually live in Memphis, have worked at UTHSC, and I've got a BINF M.S. from U of M.. Are you open to Remote if I'm already here?
Many small retail stores are so far beyond.

- Non-existent or rude service.

- Sales flea market style - you can only buy things that you can see. No, we don't have this shoe in another size. No, we can not order anything for you.

- Sales Tax reimbursement (20% in Europe)? We don't do this.

- Closed on Sundays by law.

Shopping is no fun.
Giving up social media is easy. Giving up HN though... :-)
Jamming C syntax into everything is how we get eyesores like ReasonML.

A syntax should match the semantics of the language. C style is not the only way to design a programming language and does not fit all domains and semantics.
It's not really about myopia as such... There's really two things going on here: (1) Many people increasingly regard video games as an addictive drug [1]. And there's plenty of anecdotal evidence of young men literally dying because they don't do anything else but play video games for 10+ hours a day, everyday. For various reasons, Chinese culture takes a very, very dim perspective of addictive drugs. (2) Some people believe Tencent is too powerful. It's well on its way to being China's first trillion dollar company and it's not just a Chinese company any more, it's a multinational corporation (MNC). For various reasons, Chinese culture takes a very dim perspective of MNCs [3].

I suspect pragmatism will win in the end though. There's enormous demand for video games and it's simply not practical to completely ban them a la actual chemical drugs. To do so would also be ceding what is likely a trillion dollar market to South Korea... which would be totally insane.

[1] https://index.qz.com/1024281/honor-of-kings-called-a-drug-in...

[2] http://www.ejinsight.com/20180608-tencent-walking-a-fine-lin...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-chinas-multinational-...
Where do we hear about these stories? Did people interview Gruber and were these interviews published? Was it on the news?
What to know about Ethereum's Constantinople hard fork
Have you heard of League of Legends? Path of Exile? Clash of Clans? Gears of War? They entirely own one of those, and own significant shares in the others.

Here, let me help:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_Games
Tencent owns Riot Games which makes League of Legends. It also owns a majority stake (84.3%) in Supercell which makes Clash of Clans. It also owns the rights to PUBG on mobile
Okay, so what's the secret military method for curing hiccups?
JSON Parsing with Tensorflow (2017)
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Its insane to shut down something liek 20% of the nations power supply that is zero carbon.

The current generation has its problems but shutting down before end of life is a absolutely insane idea in every possible way.

You can't magically replace 20% of the nations energy production with GenIV reactors. That not how technology works.

GenIV reactors are great and the companies building them will hopefully do it in the 2020 but to even then, the focus should be on replacing coal not existing nuclear.
Screen blue light is much, much less intense than the blue of the sky.
Brainfuck is esoteric, C++ Template Metaprogramming is pretty esoteric. But once you wrap your head around the pattern matching, the erlang syntax becomes pretty straight forward. I found it interesting because it explicitly didn't look like a C-derivative. The only thing that I think can be a bit cumbersome are specs and types.
I routinely get up and leisurely pace about my house for 5 to 10 minutes as I work on something, thinking it through in my head and then coming back and putting it down in code in a burst (currently working from a home office, not as applicable for someone stuck in a cubicle). Also works extremely well when I'm stuck on something and it doesn't require a large amount of distracted time (ie I don't have to go take a hike in nature for an hour in the midst of work). And of course sitting and staring at the problem is the absolute least effective approach. Also has the benefit of at least somewhat countering the negative health effects of persistently sitting for long stretches.

I agree that staying in the same room seems to have a considerably lessened benefit (seems to reduce the benefit to almost zip). I have to leave the room, just getting up and standing about in a small space doesn't do it.
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I wasn't aware that Riot games is actually a Chinese company.
Whether drinking water is a scarce resource or not depends on where you life. In many parts of the world saving water makes zero sense, because the sewers need a certain amount of water to prevent clogging. If people save too much the water company has to flush the pipes.
> Practitioners cite "American freedom" and a stand against "rampant environmentalism" as reasons for coal rolling

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

My god. Every time I think I've seen all the possible dumb shit people do something like this inevitably comes up.
You don't have to be able to do it (you can't).

But if you try to do it, you will concentrate on each nostril in turn and little else, in synchronisation with your breathing, which leads to the kind of mild auto-hypnosis that the GP is talking about.
Show HN: Store your financial information and funeral music for your loved ones
Steam Linux Usage Comes in at 0.59% for August
I only recently learned that LIKE also supports something vaguely similar to regex character classes:

SELECT * FROM customers
WHERE company_name LIKE 'foo[lt]'

will only return customers whose company_name is 'fool' or 'foot', while

SELECT * FROM customers
WHERE zipcode LIKE '12[^30]45'

will return customers whose zipcode is LIKE '12_45', except '12345' and '12045'.
Epic Games is actually a Chinese company? Bluehole is Chinese too?
I doubt it's "couldn't be bothered" and more "it's not worth it". Besides the development costs, there is probably a hit to revenue without ad personalisation and analytics.

Personally a find it much better than pretending to comply as many large sites do.
I remember when the Mir had a fire on board. They didn't tell the US crew on board until it was obvious I seem to recall (a while back now). Also, the ground crew reported all was fine, it was only when the astronauts communicated back that it was uncovered. This sort of thing has happened before and will happen again, sadly.
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3D Model Rendering with SVG (experiment)
I type 85-95wpm (peaking around 130wpm) in Colemak on a Kinesis Advantage I with cherry brown keys. I documented my switch to Colemak five years ago (February 2013) and am still on it:

- [7 weeks of colemak](http://petrustheron.com/posts/colemak.html)
- [21 weeks of colemak](http://petrustheron.com/posts/colemak-21-weeks.html)
- [Back up to speed on Colemak](http://petrustheron.com/posts/colemak-speed.html)

Don't switch unless you have RSI issues and you won't have to type on other people's computers. Whichever layout you choose, map Caps Lock to Backspace on QWERTY for an easy boost (and Backspace as Space key to learn faster).

To type fast, don't focus on speed; instead aim for 95%+ accuracy. Then push your speed up. The trick to touch typing is to maintain home row position, and the Caps Lock/Backspace mapping helps with that: [How to Type Fast](http://petrustheron.com/posts/how-to-type-fast.html)
Hanford is a cite of nulcear production for military use and there were problems with that.

It has little to do with nuclear waste for civilian use today and is in no way comparable to civilian nuclear waste and how it is stored.

Also, Fukushima is the exception of the exception, it is a bit of land that can not be used for long while its not a lot of land and its in a nuclear exclusion zone anyway.

I don't want to ignore the issue, but I will just say that the amount of time, ink and energy spend on it is way out of proportion to how much it matters

People keep making the argument that climate change is a existential issue but then saw, well, nuclear is not a solution because of this nuclear waste problem. That is insane reasoning in my opinion.
i still think osx killing opengl support is ridiculous.
Standard is 25 days but that doesn't include public holidays... So 30 days total is pretty normal.
>> I guess my (unanswerable?) question now is what kind of contract wording is used to stipulate security updates and full disclosure to clients.

None. They generally install security systems to reduce their insurance premiums.
Why are people stopping to shop online?
There is already a place to store it in Finland that is going active soon.

The is a great place that has been identified, tested and evaluated in the US. Most experts agree that it is a site that would work perfectly fine.

But guess what, its insane political battles that stopped this from being used and that is still the case.

Even so, without a end solution, there is no problem with storing it in a different place for a couple 100 years as it has a tiny volume.
Related to that, currently reading the book "DRAGONFLY: NASA AND THE CRISIS ABOVE MIR", there was a fire event at the station and Russian space personals circulated in the media that it was just a 10-second fire.
Assume _you_ obviously are doing _something_.
I had this done before getting laser eye surgery to ensure my prescription was correct (it was wrong, just like yours) but the effect wore off within 24 hours. It is very inconvenient though, my pupils were fully dilated and I couldn't see anything within 2 feet of me!
We left the Bay Area two years ago and went to Prague. I miss Philz and Blue Bottle but we are pretty happy here. Similar scene as Berlin - not quite as nice but cheap with lots of green space everywhere. If your wife has an EU passport you should be fine anywhere in Europe. I'm freelancing for clients in the Bay Area and east coast (software eng) so I'm lucky to have best of both worlds.

I would imagine you have a good network of people in tech so you could probably transition to freelance work and live anywhere. Email me if you want to discuss. Co-work spaces here are anywhere from $100 - $500/mo. Internet is so blazing fast it's ridiculous - 300mbs on ethernet in our apartment. What we had in SF was pathetic.

Condo prices in central Prague are about $4,500usd/m2 - so 500k usd will get you a nice 2 bedroom in a really nice neighborhood. For the same money you can move 20 minutes by train outside the center and get a small house with a yard.

If you are leaning towards Europe the best tech scenes IMO are in Berlin, Amsterdam and Barcelona. Barcelona has really been picking up in the last few years and is probably the cheapest.
Yet for centuries people have taken siestas in the blueish noon Sunlight, 5500 to 9000 Kelvin.

Why the sudden claimed sensitivity to blue light at night? Correlated to the ubiquity of indoors electrical lighting mimicking the colour of candlelight perhaps?

Or perhaps Westerners aren't going to bed physically tired after a day of sedentary work?
Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, 100% of Riot, and I think 10-15% of Bluehole. As well as 85% of Supercell, 80% of Path of Exile, 5% of Ubisoft, 5-10% of Activision (Blizzard), and notable shares in a variety of smaller studios that publish Cities: Skylines, Crusader Kings, Lineage 2, etc. They also fully manage the publication of games like Candy Crush and PUBG in China and even developed PUBG Mobile.

Tencent basically originated as an instant messenger with gaming integration so it's no surprise that they have large stakes in the gaming industry. It also helps that they're a huge company that dwarfs every gaming company in existence.
Samsung says new features could come to mid-range phones before flagships
Zionism
Swap: routing and wavelength assignment in optical networks (linear programming)
It depends what sort of business you're running.

If you're selling a product that's available nationally and appeals to a reasonably big demographic, you might not care much about targeting.

But if your business only supplies weddings in New York, then impressions/clicks by people who aren't planning a wedding in New York are largely worthless.
Dozens Arrested in Marriott Worker Protests in San Francisco
The reasons that boards (and OSS projects) systematically exclude women ... is what sexism is.
Why did you choose executions over something mundane like blogs or comments? Reading last statements isn't exactly something I want to be distracted by. The data is interesting sure and if this just happened to be based on something you did recently, I get it. It's not something I'd recommend to students doing data science or getting acquainted with SQL when there's less morbid source material out there. The interactivity provided is cool though, no doubt.
I think one way to look at it is that minimum viable products can easily be “viable“ in the short run and still fail in the long run due to lack of vision and willpower, grit, or conviction.
10% of the pieces in a Ferrari are inspected using x-rays. This ensures the motor has no defects, the bad pieces are melted again[0]. X-raying does not cost a lot nowadays and definitely helps the quality.

[0]: https://www.evo.co.uk/ferrari/10140/making-of-a-ferrari
Fires are not caused by global warming. I'm shocked to read that in Scientific American.
Is it worse than calling your auto-resizing-sequence type "vector", even though a vector is properly a tuple of (arbitrary) fixed size, and is incomparable with another thing of any other size?

(okay, I guess it might be worse than that)
O.o, my comment is now at -2. I'm a little perplexed.

FWIW, clickbait title aside, the rationale for my concern is that Forbes has just published that a specific model series of _security door lock controllers_ is vulnerable to a replay attack.

Ouch?!
Ah. Of course.
Anything about nuclear war just scares the shit out of me. It is fascinating but extremely scary. It is the first time I have seen this and even the helmets looks scary.
Funny you should say "god". Some argue that environmentalism is inconsistent with Genesis. In that God gave us everything to use as we see fit. But others say that God made humans responsible for managing the Earth. So that environmentalism is indeed Godly. That makes more sense to me, not that I'm particularly religious.
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"Just" a matter of distilling it? Have you ever looked at the sheer amount of water entering and leaving a water cleaning plant? It's not a matter of having the technology, but of doing it at scale.
Video vlogging and how it can help your business