skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently saw a resume claiming to be a "Senior X" where they claimed literally zero experience in X. (X in this case is a type of work, not a language.) Given that the person in question had what appeared to be a standard bachelor's degree with no particular focus in X and less than two years of work experience in the general field total... it was a bit hard to believe.

(If that's "Senior", then what of someone that does have ten years of experience? "Decrepit Software Engineer"? Maybe a series of promotions named after increasingly elaborate tombs? Grave Marker, Marble Headstone, Vault, Mausoleum, Master of the Crypt. Who wouldn't want to be introduced as "Software Engineer and Master of the Crypt"? Apropos of the current day. Or maybe progressive tiers of Undead. "Jerf, Lich Lord of Software Engineering". That could work. Or maybe you want to go up the Vampire tier... "Jerf, Vampire Patriarch of Software Engineering".)
I've seen research that smoking can impact the brain development of adolescents, but nothing that shows it permanently impairs the cognition of adults. Please post that research, I'd like to take a look at it.

As for lung cancer, that's a straw man, vapes and edibles make that a non-issue.
We've had them here in Belgium as well for quite some time. (Not that surprising, we can share translations :P).

Personally I'm not a fan of it. Even in transit, I often have a backpack with me and can read the paperback books I have just fine.

Plus, what's a better replacement to me, is just having the kindle app installed on your phone. When I don't have a paperback with me, I just open the kindle app and read from there.

Which arguable is even easier to carry for being in-transit than a small book, since people usually have their phones weith them.
Hey everyone,

Today, I'm launching http://bareproduct.com as the second product of my challenge to launch 12 startups in 12 months. I developed it over the last couple weeks and populated it with some data to be ready for launch day.

Bare Product is a place for brave makers to share numbers behind their products, and a source for curious people to follow a journey of success or failure. Of course you can find those numbers scattered around the web, but it wouldn't be nicer to have a single source for such information?

Do you have a website and you are open enough to share some private numbers? Go ahead and submit some of your interesting numbers. Also, You can generate few visitors regularly.

So, what do you guys think? Will be a place you like to share and follow numbers?
Free Guide for Choosing Your Major
Is it not related to sleep?
> The argument is that

The argument means shit. It's the action that counts, and these idiots decided it was a good idea to atively persecute and censor anything related to a political movement.

These morons don't even realize they're setting totalitarian precedents and are so full of themselves to the point they even boast their totalitarian leanings to have any moral basis, just like the textbook fascists from half a century ago did.
Maybe they need to flip their process. Rather than default accept, maybe they should have default reject.
The industry can rip Clojure from my cold, dead hands. It's still used in smaller teams at a lot of places including some of the BigCos. It's a simple joy to use and it is a damn shame it's not more popular than it is, but I don't think it is a fad.
Actually yes, it's society's choice to tell you what you can do or not. Deal with it, or maybe go to live to Liberland.
Is it any surprise that startups pay less than Google or Facebook?

I don't know anyone that thinks they'll break even vs. FAANG, and that's even when counting stock options as cash (which 99% of people will rightly tell you to ignore).
One datapoint if it helps someone: these guys are full clojure. https://www.relaynetwork.com/careers/
That's just correlation. Maybe they started smoking early on because they had big psychological problems already.
"An attempt to place an ad posing as Hillary Clinton was denied."
This usage (considering "molecule" as a superset of "atom") is entirely confined to kinetic theory of gases AFAIK - ideal gas law, Boltzmann, etc - which treat gas particles as ping pong balls in Newtonian collision. Their composition is irrelevant, and it would be annoying always to write "molecule or atom".

The definition sounds very weird outside this context. You'd never hear a synthetic chemist talking like this!

It doesn't sound weird or objectionable to me to say "molecular helium" in casual speech, any more than any number of grammar errors I regularly commit... but if we're taking the time to get pedantic... no, it's not at all technically correct to say that helium is a molecule in the same way that a square is a rhombus.

Chemists ain't mathematicians. There's a useful distinction between things you can split and things you can't, and chemists (as opposed to thermo weenies) do in fact make it.
We've been using Clojure for 3 years and ClojureScript for 1.5 years. We're actively converting more of our legacy codebase to Clojure/Script.

It's been a great choice for us and even the skeptics have become converts over time. I think it's a joy to work with and allows us to reason about our problems and solve them better than many alternatives.
PHPvatch: Top 1M websites leaking PHP versions
React vs. Angular: Comprehensive Comparision
Another dupe with lots of comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307524

With so many dupe on a paper which in my personal opinion is poorly written, it looks more like a xenophobia or propaganda attack.
I adopted eBooks about 15 years ago because I preferred the tiny form factor and portability that offered. (I read purely free books from Project Gutenberg on a Nokia N-Gage, the second gen one, ah the memories.) That's why today I still prefer to do all of my entertainment reading (basically anything 100% reflowable) on my phone.

This feels like a decade late effort to compete poorly on the same basis.

That said, I'm convinced reading is vastly more enjoying in a visual form aligning with news columns vs. the large space in trade paperbacks and the like. So if you're a paper slave, I'd suggest giving the small form factor a try.
The traditional touch
Julia has it's own "*verse" type data pipeline framework, with an even greater variety of backends and plotting solutions than R.

It's still in development (mutate and select have PRs) but it's almost there.

https://github.com/queryverse/Query.jl
yup, if you really wish to give your money to Google, create a new disposable account, don't link it to any of your other accounts. The worst thing about them shutting you off is assuming you have a personal account, and then it's somehow linked to your business account. Your cloud access and business goes poof as well!
I wonder how much heartache it would be for the next revision of the C standard to go: Integers behave as if they were two's complement for all overflow behavior.

It's already true in just about every system in the world today, and people with extremely obscure hardware can just hack a workaround into their compiler (or straight up ignore the standard because they're just a handful of people anyway).

I get that back in the day the K&R didn't want to impose on the hardware vendors and left the standard vague where they had different ideas, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve the standard as the hardware evolves over the decades.
I've not heard of Purism before. Have you ever owned any of their products and how was your experience?
Benefits of Advanced Analytics
This is Journalism !
That wasn’t my take-away from the article at all. TFA is not at all asking lower level schools to provide students pre-trained for any specific need. Quite the opposite.

Anecdotally, this Professor believes that increased focus on exams and computer use is leading to a generalize dulling of dexterity and specifically tactile sense / fine motor skills.

This isn’t something that you can prep for like an exam. It’s specifically the exam focused mentality and the idea you can cram or prep for this that is the root of the problem.

The untested theory behind the article is that children and adolescents need long term and broad exposure to all sorts of varied tasks which challenge their fine motor skills to develop the pathways that will shift the bell curve back to where it was, and lead to a greater number of students who are ultimately capable of achieving an ‘elite’ level of surgical skill.

In the absence of these programs and with the arduous focus on exams/testing, that the nervous system development and motor pathways for an increasing number of otherwise perfectly qualified students are simply stunted. Those students will have a much harder time developing the necessary dexterity and fine motor skill required for even basic tasks like stitching and suturing. But more likely it’s not that they won’t get the basics, but an increasing percentage will never even be capable of approaching the skill level of an elite surgeon.

Now, the whole things smacks a bit of generational prejudice and seems totally anecdotal. It certainly seems like it is something quantifiable that could and should be more rigorously studied.
It's interesting that in the current state of software development, a programming language that have been stable for not even a year might be considered obsolete.
I’m not sure what this articles point is. Disruption as called by Christensen, Andreeson, Thiel, etc all talks about displaced jobs and industries. I don’t think this is unknown. It’s just that the benefits outweigh the costs (to some).

So this isn’t an alternative history more than it is just a weird anecdote or two without follow-up.

I’m not sure what Wired is as a magazine any more. It really needs knowledgeable editors to plan and shape stories along some theme. I feel like these stories about rich and bad Silicon Valley is are pretty common and all boil down to the same reality that Silicon Valley has high margins and makes a lot of money for in demand employees and stockholders. This isn’t relevatory though and I’m not sure what Wired’s angle is.
Titles are a means to categorise resource by HR.

Titles merely offer a bracket of salary that a resource can have, once they reach the peak they either have to go up a rank or leave to get more pay.
> What if a political opponent's main platform position and primary rhetorical tactic is to make discriminatory statements?

Censorship is never the solution. Censorship is the problem. Keep censoring idiots instead of demonstrating they are idiots and you end up making them out to be poor democratic martyrs instead.

Have they learned nothing from the history of fascist europe?
Bitcoin whitepaper was published 10 years ago
Many. At the moment I have a salary as my main income, so I live only on the amount of money I would get on benefits if my company collapsed. I use the rest of the money to reduce my expenses and provide security. I own my house, grow a fair amount of my own food, sew my own clothes, and use almost all my 'effective income' for fun things. It wasn't tough to start, since it's a pick up from my student days and I just haven't increased my expenditure, only reduced my costs.

I wouldn't make so much myself if I didn't enjoy it, but I do so it happens to work for me. I pay for others to do things I don't like, like laundry and heavy housecleaning.

My startup expenses come out of the other free cash I have, so it wouldn't hurt my lifestyle if my businesses failed; I wasn't going to use that money for living anyway.

Health is my main focus, now. I've bought a very accessible house on purpose just in case, but unless the whole country collapses I'm fine financially now until I die, and I'd kinda like that to be a while off.

I was doing something more typical initially, but honestly, just work out what you want your life to be, and then work out how to do that without it being super risky. Much happy.
as an ex-smoker who sometimes relapses for short periods, for me it's not to avoid withdrawal. It relieves stress and anxiety, and also gives me an excuse to step out of the office for a few minutes for a break or to collect my thoughts.
> Is it any surprise that startups pay less than Google or Facebook?

I always knew startups would pay a less, but I always thought it wasn't that much less. Turns out I vastly over-estimated the chances of liquidity in startups, and vastly under-estimated just how much the BigCos are willing to pay as you climb up the ladder.

Was a very eye opening experience when I started having frank conversations w/ peers at those BigCos
This kind of tone is why people from lower cost of living areas don’t post in these threads.

> Some people can spend a month reading "SQL in 21 days" and get a higher salary than you in many places.

Can you show me a job listing you think one could apply for after reading a book on SQL?
SC rejects challenge to Trai’s power to cap cost of TV channels
I don't know much about biology, medicine or toxicology so I can't really refute your argument but your first sentence triggers all sorts of red flags for me, mainly because it appears way too simplistic and fails to provide any source or real scientific argument.

What does "washing out" mean and why is it bad if remains of pot can be detected in urine months later? What does the fact that the human body is able to "cope" with alcohol quickly have to do with the relative danger of the substances? I seem to recall that the human body is able to process cyanide pretty quickly to get rid of it for instance, I don't think that's enough to say that it's less dangerous than pot.

I definitely don't think we should push people to smoke more (I'm not a smoker myself, pot or otherwise) and we should definitely fight teenage smoking but your pseudo-scientific babble and anecdotal evidence resembles way too much the type of "argument" I see from anti-vaxxers and similar unscientific movements for me to take it seriously.
Depends on which APU you have and which features you need. The latest Raven Ridge APUs had stability problems until 4.17, anything older should work on 18.04 which ships 4.15. HDMI/Displayport audio support for the older models landed in 4.15 but wasn't enabled by default until 4.17, so in 4.15-4.16 you have to pass the amdgpu.dc=1 kernel parameter for it work.
Costs me about 20,000 baht ($600) per month in Chiang Mai:

Rent: 6000 + energy bill

Gym: 1000

Internet: 600

Food: 7500 (250/day)

Laundry: 100 (25/load)

Transport: 1000 (40/ride)

Fun: 1000

Misc: 1000
If Steam are not going to subsidise hardware, then they are a parasite on VR gaming instead of an asset - charging 30% commissions for any VR games sold whilst developers take all the risks.

The future of VR is with a PS5 console that can have an official VR backpack and headset, maybe even a battery pack, and thus be inherently portable with good enough power to run a 1440p display.

VR games need to be so optimised (1440p or 4k @ 90fps) that I don't think the experience will be good enough on anything except console device, that developers can target and build for precisely.

On a side note I think PC gaming could be seriously threatened if console makers ever get their act together with keyboard and mouse support - even going so far as to allow developers to sell games that require KBM to play. There are too many greedy actors like Nvidia and Valve that are ripping off PC gamers, and the physical dimensions of a PC case are just too big - the platform hasn't been modernised to make everything smaller and more compact.
They always have: ad agencies, pr firms, law firms, many times customer service, and probably several other functions.
Ha - I had an experience with one of these recently, entirely by accident[0].

I purchased the 7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens for my oldest boy this summer on Amazon. It's an older book so, naturally, I went to the used/new and found a listing for the 'paperback' version of it for a few bucks delivered (compared against over $10).

Then it arrived. And it was about 4cm x 5cm (estimated). I laughed, figuring I'd been working a little too quickly when I hit the "Buy Now" button so I went back to the listing. Sure enough, the picture was of the original paperback and there was no note about it being the "Tiny Version"[1]

At first, I thought 'scam', and it probably was one, but at the end of the day I ended up with a book that had the content I needed -- not sure if it was abridged or not, but being that the target reader was an almost-teenager, this resulted in the material appearing to be a "quick read" which he was able to complete in a day. And I paid less than 20% of the original price despite discovering that -- at least in this case -- it was a better option.

[0] Maybe ...

[1] It may not have been; it's entirely possible that my seller was just selling that version
> We should move towards the elimination of all drugs.

I agree. While we're at it, also elimination of all crime and immorality. Let's start by executing offenders on the spot. Guaranteed to deter drug usage in adolescents. And adultery, too.

Also, we could and should do better than allow people to harm themselves by unhealthy food choices. It logically follows that we need to ban cheeseburgers and sugary drinks!
Set a go to bed alarm. Most people have a wake up alarm. You can set an alarm on your phone for bed time. The same way you have a wake up ritual, you need to set a strong go to bed ritual.

Once alarm rings, shutdown TV or computer, take a shower, change into sleep wear.
To quote another book I hold in very high regard (and I love Permutation City too):

"The King leaned over, looked an saw, yes, the Middle Ages simulated to a T, all digital, binary , and nonlinear, and there was the land of Dandelia, The Icicle Forest, the palace with the Helical Tower, the Aviary That Neighed, and the Treasury with a Hundred Eyes as well, and there was Ineffabelle herself, taking a slow, stochastic stroll through the simulated garden, and her circuits glowed red and gold as she picked simulated daisies, and hummed a simulated song."

The key is in the last two words.
I bought the Galago Pro in my last year of college from my CTF winnings. Worked out great.
Will do, this project has started using resin\b\b balena a lot in the past few months so I will definitely reach out to the Balena team.
So are they just going to keep rewriting shoddy dynamic language run-times for every project? There are real cross-platform programming languages available with highly optimized run-times and tons of scalability features--just saying.
There is a big difference between criminalising/punishing people and hyping drugs as all those cannabis activists do. Smoking may be your personal choice - but I honestly think it would be bad for society if the majority did it. There is a reason that under current law using/selling drugs is punished: society as a whole might suffer.
Dang thats some expensive cloud pricing.

Your cheapest plan offers 512MB of RAM for 5 Euros a month. There's well over 5 competitors who can get you quadruple that amount of RAM and maybe even double the storage for half that price per month. This is due to renting out space at datacenters, no? I'm no hosting expert.
> For instance, the same year the government loaned $535 million to solar-power company Solyndra, it also loaned Tesla $465 million. “Taxpayers footed the bill for Solyndra’s losses—yet got hardly any of Tesla’s” gains, she says. Solyndra has become “a byword for the government’s sorry track record when it came to picking winners,” a story that has helped keep regulators at bay, she says.

I'm no Tesla fan, but that's sort of how loans work. You get your money back plus interest. It's not a lottery ticket. And Tesla paid back their loan early. I don't think the program lost very much money overall.
Augmented Reality Jack O Lantern
Its no different. React/Vue are modern evolution of jQuery. They allow you to organize front-end code with strict conventions and best practices. You can achieve the same result with jQuery and Backbone for example. But you'll need to discipline yourself a lot and good luck hiring developers (they all want to work on React and Vue).
New details about the model that decides which Alexa skill will handle a request
Completely irrelevant, yet amusing: At a former employer, we had access to what can only be described as unlimited supplies of hydrogen.

This led - in addition to lots and lots of eardrum-splitting workshop pranks - the occasional kids' party balloons being inflated with hydrogen. (As it was free, which He definitely isn't. HS&E be damned.)

A then colleague of mine claimed they'd cracked a window and caused instant panic at his son's birthday party when a bright spark decided to put a balloon to a lit candle to show the other kids it'd pop.

I doubt the cracked window (given a standard party balloon is pretty small - and a cracked window would likely mean lots of -ahem- eardrum deficiency in the assembled crowd) - but I can imagine it got the kids' attention all right when the balloon more or less exploded.

(We did crack a couple of windows in the workshop, though - you'd be amazed at the bang a litter bag filled with a hyd/ox mixture can produce if set alight.)
The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again
>People are quick to point out that First Ammendment doesn't apply, but Freedom of Speech isn't just that, it's the principle - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

I'm sorry, if I'm paying for hosting and you come to a page I run and start saying stuff I don't care for yeahhhh I'm removing it. That's my right. It's not a public venue, domain names are usually handled as real-property as far as taxation and hosting fees are a real thing. If you come into my house and start spouting stuff I don't approve of, I'm showing you the door.

I'm all for free speech, and being allowed to support who and what you believe in but not on any given website. If you use a website, you have to play by the owner's rules. If you don't want to do that, go make your own... it's pretty easy and affordable.
The Philosophy of Horror
Whoa, Can I ask what made you switch from that sick-looking 2010 gig?
I don't think anyone is saying it wouldn't. But it is worth noting that usage among teens in Colorado has been declining since legalization: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/11/follo...

Perhaps reducing the black market and reassuring that the option will be open to them down the line makes the drug less accessible and less immediately desirable.
Your point is valid but somewhat exaggerated.

There should be some companies somewhat in the middle of the two extremes you've laid out. Companies that are reaching product market fit but still have a high level of uncertainty.

Note, I'm not saying this structure will necessarily see huge demand. But I also don't believe the terms are completely out of reason.
I read several Dostoevsky novels from Project Gutenberg on my Nintendo DS Lite about ten years ago. The fact that I could actually hold it like a book was quaint at the time.

These days my primary eBook reader is a Nexus 7.
Not GP, but I think the websites would be largely similar to the end user (multiple pages with dynamic bits). However, I think there is a notable architectural difference. Modern JS frameworks are much more focused on providing reusable components with clear methods of interop and communication. I think the codebase of a "multiple small SPAs" would be easier to reason about and develop than a jQuery tangle. But in terms of functionality, its probably not much different than sites from 10 years ago (I don't think this is a bad thing).
Yes, we are using it at a BigCo. I am extremely happy with Clojure. I wouldn't think Clojure is a fad, it never was that popular.
This is really important.

Free and open debate exposes evil. Attempting to suppress debate gives it a platform and allows it to grow.