skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My greatest manager hired me for my potential, was always honest and open about everything, he was a great listener and great guy when giving feedback (0 ego). He was lacking empathy, obsessive at times but being open and seeing the goodwill in his every behavior was compensating all of his bad sides. One time he told me "I am not that smart, but at a young age, I have found a way to trick people that I am really smart" (he was Harvard grad with full scholar and worked with best names)

After many years I am still using things I have learned from him and those are saved my ass countless times.
The traditional short has to close their position at some point is well. It’s never an unlimited duration.
Mirai botnet creators praised for helping FBI, won’t serve prison time
I'm atheist but I like that saying. I'm amazed I survived my 1970s childhood intact. Plenty didn't.
PostgreSQL as a distributed computing platform
PlayStation Classic, a $100 mini PS1 with 20 games, coming in December
There's a good video about this which shows some details on the bike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZhrqKrljig

Apparently it uses motorbike wheels, and it has a double reduction gear system. There is a cool section where the journalist tries to ride it without a tow-start, very difficult to peddle under normal circumstances.
I downloaded Hamming’s The Art of doing Science & Engineering - Learning to Learn book only 2 days ago. Skimmed through the chapters on hardware & software.

What you have summarized above is very much applicable to me :) Thanks
This is so inspiring, thanks a lot. It's great to see that there are now resources going into supporting OSS developers that require only an idea and pedigree, and not a finished product and a business plan.
It's rosy, but there are actual theoretical limits (like the halting problem) which act as a bedrock in that magic. Eventually we might find a way around, but we cant be sure of it now.
So does social housing make the situation better or worse?

Looking at London, for example. There are surprisingly few nice areas in London to live in with a family, in close proximity to the City, even if you had loads and loads of money. That has always seemed very odd to me. As a result, the few reasonably nice houses that you do find, have prices that are "maxed-out" - that is, if you are in the "high-earning class" - e.g. working in finance in London - and buy them, all your "excess earnings" are sucked into mortgage or rent, and you are left no better off than if you were in a median job, except now you live in an ok neighbourhood close to work.

If you had no planning laws etc. and it was easy for property developers to develop how they like, you would think that the area around where the highest paying jobs are would be more uniformly nice, developed in such a way that the people working in those jobs would want to settle there. So the supply of houses for those workers would increase. At the same time, low-income workers would likely be pushed further out, with some finding that the extra commute makes working in the city centre not worth it. Thus the wages for the low-income workers will probably go up as the supply of labour goes down.

It seems like the overall utility would go up - London would become a nicer place to live in, crime rates would drop, etc.
I envy you :) I always had this fear deep inside that I will run out of money and boom, poverty awaits (even now, that I have a more than decent salary).
I started a Wordpress consultancy with a couple of friends. The idea was to eventually transition into a proper design agency that can also code.

One friend was part-time and did only design because he didn't know how to code. The other friend never did any work at all so I ended up having to do almost everything, which wasn't really that much anyway since we only had a handful of customers.

Eventually one of those customers led to a full time gig so I shut the whole thing down.

There were many lessons but the main lesson was that you cannot rely on a person's word.
How long? And how random-access does it have to be? Setting lists to music is a pretty good way to never forget them even if you wanted to.
You do not create an account on the website. Right now the only way is to open the Alexa skill and it will give you a 4 digit code for your game. After you open your game on the website you can continue adding rules to your game via Alexa. New game logic will update in the game in real time.

I would like to make a version 100% on device. A few have suggest how.
x86 16-bit real mode! It's certainly easy, but only because all the real work (initialising the PCI bus to speak to the video card, USB host drivers for the keyboard) is being done by the BIOS somewhere.

Does anyone know these days if the 16-bit boot environment is still "bare metal", or is it inside an UEFI or ACPI hypervisor of some sort?
Obama's final State of the Union is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlLSBTAg0aM.

More archived videos are available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfNiThyt4vg4MlTQ/vid....
The secret to getting rid of AMP may be to actually adopt it, and be happy about it. That way Google will end-of-life it soon.
> However, I can't get Facebook ads targeted to a different gender.

Actually you can by lying to Facebook. I have been doing this for a long time and the bullshit ads I get are kind of amusing.
I like Evernote a lot ...

Evernote has great discoverability of notes. Search works. And when viewing a note it suggests related notes. With the browser extension it even suggests notes in Google's Search (too bad I'm now using DuckDuckGo), related to what you searched for.

I also like the multimedia support, like being able to record audio. Other people like web clippings. Unfortunately their business isn't sustainable, as we can see and I'm thinking of switching.

The "encrypted text within a note" is pretty cool too, although I haven't used it much.

Frankly, I can't find a replacement that works as well. I hope they can restructure, but with only $10MM annual revenue, I don't see how that's possible.

So on the alternatives I'm thinking of:

1. Other proprietary alternatives — like Dropbox Paper, which is nice, but Dropbox has killed products I liked before, therefore sorry Dropbox, but you're not fooling me again; this actually goes for other note taking apps out there; fool me once, shame on me, etc.

2. Something based on open standards — e.g. Apple Notes is OK, but very basic when you sync it with FastMail or a Google Account; this is what I was using before Evernote; I might go back to it

3. Open Source — Standard Notes (standardnotes.org): love the idea, open source, end to end encrypted, does daily backups in Dropbox which is awesome; unfortunately it's not very polished, had issues with it

So if I'm going to switch, I'm going to choose either open source or something that syncs with my email or Dropbox account.
Yay for Palatino. Garamond and similar fonts are nice, too.

Times New Roman and Computer Modern should not be used by anyone. I don't have a "rational" argument, but just look at them, they're ugly.
This is a strange response. Reporting a bug is likely easier than creating and maintaining a package. It’s also the better solution for users, rather than getting website operators to install yet another lib and then remember to remove it once a fix does land.
The book itself is quite entertaining, but the layout... Gosh, I hope the author gets a professional to do the layout of the next book, it's really annoying.
Why would data scientists aspire to write an OS? Sounds puzzling.
This website is a pile of shit nowadays
What a useless commit (Linux Kernel)
This is really good advice. In addition:

1) Your network will be your main source of work. I've been freelancing for just over a year and every single job I've had has come as a result of relationships I made when I was in full-time employment.

2) In terms of billing do not be afraid to charge a lot more than you would expect to make if doing the same work as an employee. You'll get better at this.

3) It also helps if you can save a few months worth of money before hand. I've found that it helps psychologically when negotiating if you know you don't need to take a job. In practice you will (ideally) a fair amount of what you are offered, this can be because some jobs simply aren't worth taking and the opportunity cost of a mediocre pay-day.

4) Take time off when you can and always sleep well. You will switch between periods of no work and periods of too much work. Relax during the former so you are ready for the latter.

5) Know your stuff and work hard.
Getting one of these next month and i cant wait, i was saying for a while my dream device would be an x1 carbon with a discreet gpu and they went and dropped this beast
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. A few times she wobbled and I thought how terrifying it must be.

I wonder if the slipstream would tend to keep her inside it - I mean, would she in some way be repelled back into the slipstream if she strayed towards the edges? Or is that wishful thinking?
I know that once I motivated two full-stack developers to work a lot more than they were being paid for by saying 'just because the New York Times frontend developers can't do it, doesn't mean we can't do it'.

I still feel a bit ashamed when I think about how much time they invested (~160%), but I wasn't forcing them in any way. They knew the total budget from the beginning, and with that in mind, we were setting the scope together. It was their will to deliver the best possible quality which made them work the extra hours.

In the end, everybody was happy as the project was pretty successful.
That reminds me of the Blaise Pascal[1] quote, "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

[1] Maybe... https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Introducing PlayStation Classic, with 20 Pre-Loaded Games
If that was true the US would have had giant import tariffs after WW2 and been promoting the absence of them in other countries. Even if you assume the US would have abolished tariffs knowing it'd cost them little immediately after WW2, they'd have put them back in the decades that followed as places like South Korea, Japan, most of Europe recovered and started exporting again. But the US didn't do that, as far as I know. American tariffs are something I didn't hear about until very recently. The US can be criticised for hypocrisy on various issues but this doesn't seem to be one of them.
A Cat Meme Photographer from a Century Ago
For a start, you have a market because people are willing to wait in line for free furniture. Stop giving it away and clearly people will pay for it.
I know a number of people who were non-Chinese "foreigners", but who attained Chinese citizenship. As long as you legally remain in the country for sufficient time it's not impossible.
Hence why I said these
I was talking from the viewpoint of the OP who was asking if data scientists were replacing programmers.
Build a custom/weird CPU: https://cpudev.org/wiki/Main_Page
and write an OS for it: https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

I know what I'm gonna do this winter :P
> Most rich people maintain their riches by adding tremendous value to society.

That's not the impression I'm getting.
FWIW I disabled animations in the slack settings and the difference is night and day.
I'm pretty sure I've seen adverts asking for women (but not the contrary); can you cite the legislation (at UK level is fine).

rant incoming:

Indeed in my small niche the almost exclusively female company owners, who always address group messages to "ladies", when enquiring about taking on employees always say "I'm thinking of taking on a girl, where should I advertise" or similar. Weekend help is "a Saturday girl".

Ageism and sexism, completely unchallenged by all the feminists who are supposedly keen to see equality.

Anyway .. carry on.
Why do companies have to get so big? Does anyone value equilibrium? Let's say I make the perfect app that does exactly what it needs to do, and no more. It seems way more logical and appealing to keep things tight: just have a core team to maintain the product and company. No more features need to be added, it's already perfect.

What's the point of expanding? Would you even be making much more money per employee by growing huge? If I were the founder, I would much rather try to get the company stable, and have it become a passive income stream and have the time to make a new thing, instead of spending my life milking every last drop out of it until it becomes an irreparably bloated mess.
The delay should not be simply random, it would need to be carefully chosen to make the load time distribution independent of the user loading the page. Otherwise an attacker could just average multiple requests to get rid of the randomness.
Sometimes the most important job a manager can do is make sure you have a full queue of day to day work to go do and stay the F out of your way. :)
Anyone know what Julia is using for those handwritten slides?

I absolutely love everything Julia writes. She writes in a way that makes absolutely zero assumptions about your level of technical competence. You could be a junior, mid, senior and still get something from most of her articles.

Anecdotally;
Almost every female engineer I work with writes and communicates in this fashion and I really bloody wish more of my male counterparts would speak with less jargon/acronyms for the sake of new starts/non-engineers.
Draws them, I’d assume. They don’t look particularly complicated so probably just any old drawing software.
I bet no one would blink an eye if Facebook allowed targeting jobs to only women. People really need to get over themselves, men and women inherently have different strengths, and so there are just some things that only men should do.
> Today I can stand up anywhere and talk about anything to anyone without notice.

You can be comfortable doing it, but doesn't mean some practice wouldn't make it more enjoyable for the listeners.
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Not that I have ever used it, of course.
There's a discussion of this in Peopleware. If memory serves me well (I read it over 15 years ago), their data suggested that:

1. If you - the manager - set the deadline yourself, the estimate will often be off (unless you're very experienced and could do it yourself; see 3).

2. If you let your engineer set their own deadline, the estimate will often be off (unless they're very experienced; see 3).

3. If you have a very experienced specialist set the deadline, the estimate will often be about right.

4. If you give no deadlines at all ("wake me up when you're done"), directs will pour their soul into it more often than not, and beat the estimate you'd get from 3.

The main argument against 1 and 2 is that having too tight a deadline is very demotivating. What's the point in working against a benchmark you can't possibly meet? (Having too loose a deadline runs into Parkinson's law, but the problem is usually that the estimate is too optimistic.)

Having tried 4 with various teams over the years, I'd suggest it can work wonderfully - but only sometimes. It requires that your team consists a) entirely of professionally minded engineers who b) can see first hand that what they're doing is useful. You're better off sticking with 3 when not.
Do your genes determine your entire life?
In this case, the free market is a poor substitute for proper disaster preparation. Compare the results of hurricane Katrina in Cuba and the U.S. for example.
State of JavaScript 2018 (Survey)
Sexism isn't automatically unethical. There's also more than one ethical framework.

For example, buying different scented shower gel based on the sex of the recipient.
I have a lot of experience in academia, ranging from management to teaching to doing research and over a long period of time.

In academia the only thing that impresses is academic accomplishments. All the things that you are contemplating are unlikely to be of any value in the eyes of bureaucrats doing admissions.

You don't mention whether you are still in your home country or have moved to another country. In addition to the many world class universities in the USA there are several very well regarded CS/SE universities in Germany and France. If you are determined to move to the USA you need to be aware that in order to succeed you need good English language skills. The cost of education (even with financial aid) is very high.

If I were in your position, then I would choose to do a final year, capstone project/thesis which is very much in the field of data science. I would also research data science programmes being offered and identify who the course leaders are. Then with that information you would write tailored emails to them explaining what you are seeking, why and what you intend to accomplish. The personal contact and possible introductions could ease your path towards admission.

The common aphorism "It is not what you know, it is who you know" applies to all fields, including academia.
It would be nice to add a column with stackshare.io links, so that it's easy to check what the company's tech stack is.
Thanks, but I was really asking my question about Snips.
Funny English sounds like PHP programming language when it's used broadly, relatively easy to understand but sometimes the rules are too loose and some other languages are more strict but not everyone likes the strictness.
You're talking about reducing drag. There's a difference between trying to reduce drag and piggybagging behind something that almost complete eliminates wind, and perhaps even helps because of the way the air flows around the chute and creates a push effect behind it. Just the same as what's happening here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwwuCK-3iQ
I disagree that this is even close to the same as other categories.
I'm a well above average cyclist, unless there's some efficiency from group cycling then reversion to the mean doesn't help me.
And I thought itvwas Cape Cod.
You might be interested in this tutorial:
http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Ph...

It shows how to extend the concept to a full blown engine
Would be really cool if you could just, you know, download the program and run it, not have to go through Viveport at all.
The OP is explicitly about the kind of programming work where "An entire interesting application may fit in one file.", which doesn't tend to apply to OS's nowadays.
Right now the employer can claim that your severance pay is your consideration for the noncompete period.

In cases of layoffs (vs resignation) where severance would be due non-competes are almost always voided. You would only see it if the severance package were substantial.
How to create an OS from scratch – tutorial
You can force enable hardware accelerated video encoding? How? And what difference do you notice when you watch Youtube videos?
Sometimes I think it's better if some mysteries remained unsolved; can't wait until this is leaked to shark hunters and the "secret" habitat is decimated; humans are "wonderful" and "surprising" all the time...
Aaron Swartz on Bitcoin(2011)
It's funny how you buy a physical copy, but license very limited rights with an electronic copy.
Does there not exist some ridiculously parallel equivalent of Bresenham or Wu? I imagine with the right datastructure you should be able to do pixel/line intersection tests in the pixel shader?
Where are these kids?
Works on iOS 12.1’s Safari as well, but that’s to be expected assuming that Apple shipped that without knowledge of this bug.
I'm still living in my home country until I graduate. I'd rather move to some other European country (I'm fluent in German and proficient enough in English, although some more practice wouldn't hurt and I'm working on it as of now).

Thanks for the idea, I'll try to do something that is related to data science for my bachelor thesis.
Startup's AI Chip Beats GPU
If anyone is surprised by that they haven't really been using Evernote. Honestly, there is so much they could improve about their product and business model just going through this thread and reading the feedback. It's such a shame as I believe it had a lot of potential.

I used to use Evernote daily (was even a paying user for a while) and I hardly ever do anymore.

After the last few redesigns have I have started searching for a decent alternative and recently came across Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com/). It can do everything Evernote does and more for a way cheaper price - WYSIWYG editor, markdown support, hierarchical lists, kanban board, mind maps...
Don't think I'll be going back.
You say equity, what innate advantage are you suggesting compensating for? Who needs extra help in this situation?
The weirdest thing about this is the fact that the bug occurs after a page reload. Does safari cache jit code and the javascript heap/objects between pageloads?
Thanks I got this, playable with VLC for example: https://skyfire.vimeocdn.com/1537357126-0x19388e9cb2a5d6095b...
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So this was created by MIT students? Geez...

> When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At the same time, the mind registers the sense of an agency with free will, the sense of being, the cause of voluntary action.

After reading these first two sentences I thought this was supposed to be a parody or somesuch thing.

> The design of Masque draws inspiration from Italian carnival masks. For critics of Commedia dell’Arte, there was a direct connection between covering one’s face and hiding one’s heart. [...] The visual design implies the inherent tension between self-control and self-disguise in the device.

Yep, art project gone haywire. This apparently is part of some strange armchair psychology/human biology Master's thesis: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/114069

The design of the mask does look intriguing though!
The gyroscopic effect is not what causes a bike to balance, it's the arrangement of centres of mass around the pivot or steering. It is harder to maintain that balance at high speeds since small adjustments to the steering produce much quicker responses.

https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/SUMMER11/ResearchSpotlight....
> what obligation is there beyond the letter of the law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
Inspiration for developers and designers
The Red Queen – Programming is a risky business
Me: "Alexa, open Voice Coder"

Alexa: "Sorry, I don't know that"
Hi spacehome, you need to create an account in order to use the webconsole to build the assistant (create intents and queries), then once this is done you can use it 100% on-device!
Similar story from months ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/technology/cryptocurrency...