skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook/Twitter.

Its definitely hard to make friends as an adult, so why not reach back into the past and pull an old friend out of the hat?

I moved to NYC at 27 with no friends, no family, only a job offer. It took me 6 months to get settled and in an apartment that I felt comfortable with my wife moving up to. But in that 6 months, I had co-workers that turned into friends, strangers from the neighborhood that turned into friends, and old friends that I reconnected with now that I was 2000 miles away from running into them randomly at a party, funeral, or starbucks.

So if you have a job, start hanging out with those people after work. You can easily find friends and mentors in that group.
Five reasons why Apple is ending unit sales reporting of Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Yes, that's my memory of it in the 199x, you had to sleep with peoples renting a part of their apartments.
That was weird to me at that time because it was the only show where that was needed.
My only memory of CEBIT, bad hotels :-)
>[The token] allows you to vote on how the Civil constitution is applied and thus how existing and newly formed newsrooms are shaped.

In other words, censorship is embedded in the platform.
Using Promise.prototype.finally() in TypeScript
Stupid idea with massive impact, now that it's pretty obvious in they they are a utilized food for many organisms [0].

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2180055-mosquitoes-are-...
I don't think that a single developer can be thought of as 10 times as productive. But a good developer absolutely can have a tenth of the "collateral damage" after releasing a product with less need for support, fixes, and refactoring.

If I think of it as team dynamics, I can see a single developer making that much of a difference. On his own (s)he is not that much better than your average developer, but in a team (s)he can lift the team with his/her experience and really make them significantly better. 10 times better is probably a stretch, but measurably better at least.
I think many people write their job description's requirements, as if it were the opening stage of a negotiation. You list everything you want as if it were a requirement, and you will only get about half of that. But the problem is, it isn't a negotiation, it's a minimum spec (especially if you put the word "required" next to that line), and so many quite good candidates won't apply.

However, typically, I see 20-30 requirements, many of which (e.g. "passionate about software development", "good communicator") aren't specific enough to tell the candidate whether they are a good match or not (do poor communicators know they are poor communicators?). Of the rest, really only 2 or 3 are actual requirements, and the candidate has to guess which those are.
First thought is "it only needs a driver for USB -> sound for the wireless dongle it uses"

Second thought is "what crap is it installing that is going to slow down my machine"

Third thought is "what kind of tracking/surveillance is it going to attempt"
> A monolith is an organism-like distributed set of services with predictable behavior. That predictability makes it an ideal foundation for SaaS architecture. With your monolith in place...

Wat? Title should be: "How to do tenant isolation and audit logs"; this is in no way a sketch of how to build a SaaS application.
Amazon's New Server Processor Is Just One of Several Threats Intel Is Facing
My electric blanket is plugged into a z-wave mains adapter and I have a usb stick (z-stick) in my home server which controls my z-wave devices. I have a small bash script to turn it on/off. It's a bit cold this time of year so I like to have my blanket come on a few times as I wake up to give me a bit of a boost. Here are my cron jobs on my home server:

# Weekday morning blanket schedule
# 4 min boost before lighting schedule begins
46 7 * * 1-5 blanket on for 4 minutes &>/dev/null
# 2 min boost before first smart-watch alarm
58 7 * * 1-5 blanket on for 2 minutes &>/dev/null
# 2 min boosts before each subsequent smart-watch alarm
8-38/10 8 * * 1-5 blanket on for 2 minutes &>/dev/null

My main bedroom light bulb is z-wave also. I have a similar system to make the light slowly come on in the morning as I wake up. The cron:

50 7 * * 1-5 for n in $(seq 1 99); do light $n; sleep 30; done; sleep 270; for n in $(seq 98 -1 0); do light $n; sleep 2; done

I also have OpenHab on my server so I can manually control the blanket and lights from both my Android phone and also my Pebble Watch.
I think Mark Cuban on Shark Tank used to tell founders this. Don't start a company because you have a world-altering idea. Start a company because you love starting companies.
You're right that it can get pretty clumsy and you can end up with parentheses all over the place. Paraphrasing to avoid it can only help so much.

In speech the only feasible solution is to use both forms, separated by "ou" or "et" according to the meaning you want ("les étudiants et étudiantes"). Some advocate using the "rule of proximity," which means that the adjective accords with the noun that is closest to it. So, "les hommes et les femmes sont belles," whereas traditionally the adjective would be "beaux."
It would have disastrous consequences for the food chain - the bird population in particular being hit hard.
The real genius of the plan is in its' second phase - dragonflies who will have nothing to eat will be hired by Google to fly around people with nano billboards.
If I set out to tell you the story of my life, there isn’t much – and yet, a whole lot! I’ve only been up and around for about 4 years, a happy ignorant high school teenager before that. I have yet experienced more in these four years than most people do in all of their lives.

Ah, the folly of youth. Of course you are more special than everyone else. Of course you are smarter than everyone else. Of course you have experienced more than everyone else.

I certainly was as well at 22.

”When I was seventeen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-five, I was astonished at how much he had learned in eight years.”
A millennial complaining that success requires effort? I'm shocked!

Joking aside, yes, building a business requires far more work than it may seem to the prospective first-timer. Fortunately there are some excellent book to help you know what to expect and what you need to plan for when starting a business. Michael Gerber's "The E-Myth Revisited" is the one book I would recommend as a starting point (and I would not necessarily recommend an entire library of books -- you want to start a business, not be a full-time reader).
> If there was some way to ensure that this never got bigger than China, I doubt there would be as much opposition.

Are you saying US companies should get one moral lapse for free?

> This _is_ better for the Chinese.

Neither you or the parent poster have indicated why it's better. You've described it as exactly the same as local search options. Is Google magical or what? Can the Chinese not make a search engine? Is it beyond them?
Hah. That's an understatement. It's even worse for research roles. Try finding a research scientist position at Google which is substantially different from any other research scientist position.

That and the fact that by applying your CV is typically sent to 4 - 6 other offices around the country and world, each for identical roles.
Google is the mosquito and should be the one eliminated.
Advertisement means advertisement. In a time when most content (especially video content) is consumed online, you for some reason call those videos "special-interest outreach".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/01/decade-smartphon...

> People are on average online for 24 hours a week, twice as long as 10 years ago, with one in five of all adults spending as much as 40 hours a week on the web.
>
> This is partly due to the rise in use by those aged 16 to 24, who average 34.3 hours a week on the internet.
That would still be discrimination though, just in a way that benefits an underrepresented group. Discrimination isn't always bad, and it is legal to descriminate in hiring if you are doing it for diversity.
The direct claim of Jay Cassano. "Civil repeatedly promised the tokens would be worth at least 75 cents. I have the documents to prove it."

Once again, no idea if this is true. But suggesting there's no indication is disingenuous.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention this, but one of the reasons restaurants are so loud is that many modern restaurants pack people in like sardines to maximize revenue. Many places I have been to lately give you about a foot of space between you and the people next to you. Not only does this high density create a lot of noise, but a lot of noise actually becomes necessary to have any semblance of privacy. It's ruined a lot of dining for me. If I wanted to eat as fast as possible while not saying anything of substance to the people I'm with for fear of being overheard, I would get take out and bring it back to my workplace to consume.
Since they're over 40, it may not be worth it but it's also almost certainly illegal. Assuming the employer is in the U.S. and has over 20 employees.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm
OpenBSD's official FAQ has this to say about Flash:

Adobe's Flash plugin is distributed in binary form only, and they do not provide a native OpenBSD version. Considering their security record, we thank them for this neglect.

The situation is equivalent here; given the kind of software that hardware manufacturers tend to write, I'm quite happy to take volunteer efforts over what they produce.
I think Chicken Scheme recently became r7rs in their new version 5
The arguments are well laid out by other responses, but the gist of it is that 90% of devs are wasting their time thinking about the details of infrastructure code, as it does not pertain to their skillset and it takes _years_ to master it.

You cannot get junior engineers contributing to infra, or most Semi-senior engineers either. You need a ton of upfront thinking about releases, policies, backouts, risk, etc.

And tbh, if you're thinking about those things it makes no sense that you also focus on user-facing features.
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This is also the standard for Common Lisp, Scheme, emacs-lisp.
Many states limit supply of MRI machines through a "certificate of need" program where you have to convince a regulatory body that you should be allowed to own one.
Teams are under control of their backlog in a way that let's them prioritise how they approach the UX/UI aspects. For instance, this is why you'll see 2-3 different UIs across AWS journeys, due to teams implementing at different paces and priorities.
They also act as pollinators.

http://www.mosquitoreviews.com/mosquitoes-niche-pollinate.ht...
Depends on the tunnel. A subway tunnel 12ft under the ground? Absolutely not. A deeper tunnel that I can't hear or feel? ...yeah?
What does the body damage look like?
A few years ago, we at Harvard have released a high quality data set of 1500 people with MRI images and behavioral information. You can get the dataset [1] and/or read the Nature paper [2].

[1] https://www.neuroinfo.org/gsp/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201531
The handful of successful entrepreneurs I know fit in this mold: they are addicted to starting companies. Once it's showing stable growth and beginning to mature these people get restless and starting wondering what they can start next.
yes? i don't own the prismatic wedge of land that extends all the way to the core of the Earth afaik
I moved to a new city in Jan where I know one person, am starting a new company, and have a young family (e.g. limited time). In the last month I've:

1. Spoken to a group of CEOs about how to solve their product management issues

2. Organized a group of 6 product managers for drinks (I had met two of them once)

3. Demonstrated credibility and a willingness to help enough that I've gotten a bunch of inbound intros to help people with their Product problems

Here's what I did:

1. Connected with people at the local startup hub. There's only one here as it's a small city (< 500k people). I've been working in tech since 2001 and have cultivated a fairly broad network. I was thus able to get an intro to the CEO of the hub here which helped immensely.

2. Share my knowledge. I've been doing Product Management for 16+ years. That's a skill that's needed here. So doing talks through the hub has enabled me to meet people and establish credibility. I put the word out that I'll meet with anybody in the local community to see if I can help with their product issues, and now people are sending me intros to others.

3. Organize people. It takes so little to organize a small group of like-minded folks. Last night I got 6 other Product Managers together here at a bar to talk shop. It was a matter of putting the word out amongst people I'd met via steps 1 and 2 with a time, date, and location.

If you lather, rinse, and repeat steps 2 and 3 you'll establish a good community because you're helping others level up.

Think about this time as an investment in your long term success. Work doesn't always look like writing code or talking to customers - having a peer group and mentors you can learn from will help with strategy, tactics, accountability, and - most importantly - your mental health.
Building a company is not hard. (Look around, we are surrounded by businesses).

Building financially and ethically sustainable business that employs people that are truly happy to work there IS hard.
Before people go too far with not actually reading the article, here are the main points to actually understand:

1. This is Verily, not Google, owned by Alphabet.

2. They are releasing male mosquitoes (that don't bite) in the area, where the species is not native. They are attempting to remove the species only from their unnatural habitat.

3. The headline is clickbait, as Google is not involved and no one is trying to eliminate mosquitoes "around the world."

In all cases I've seen of countering mosquitoes in any way, all researchers are aware of risks and take them very seriously. The goals tend to be similar to this one or have to do with eliminating the spread of malaria and other mosquito-transmitted disease.
I hate the trend of minimalist/industrial interior design in restaurants for this reason. There was a new restaurant I went to recently. We got there at 4 in the afternoon, and there were only 3 parties there other than us (out of >20 tables) conversing with reasonable inside voices. The music was calm and played at low background level. Yet my wife and I couldn't hear each other across the table. The floor was polished concrete, the walls tile, the (10') ceiling metal, the tables glass topped, the chairs unpadded. There wasn't a single sound-absorbing material in the entire room. It turned what should have been a quiet murmur into intolerable din.
Internal hire doesn't show investors much, also there was an interview which is pointless for fake postings.
> I have yet experienced more in these four years than most people do in all of their lives.

Lol, hearing that from a 22 year old.
>I think a lot of the frustration is that all this tunneling stuff seems like a huge distraction from what we KNOW works.

If we know it works how come no one has done it? Traffic and congestion is a major issue in basically ever major city in the US (and probably the world), why the hate for attempted innovation?

>The other thing about Elon is that one wonders how many clever people are toiling away on solving the world's problems but can't get attention/funding/support because Elon sucks it all up

Is this really your concern? If anything I'd say he's inspiring many more people to try and tackle hard problems on a major scale. I'm way more frustrated that all the clever people are being sucked up by Facebook and Co to make ads super good and make time-wasters more addictive.
100% agree.

I don't have any friends that pushed themselves to start an IT company and being successful. I only know people who claimed to do the best but failed miserably within the first year of their start-up.

I made also failures in my startup as well, but we closed because we were approaching the zero budget and without having real customers.

Partners who are not in IT cannot fully understand the struggle of running an IT company.
Kitty does not use SIXEL, but defines it's own format: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html
You want someone to elaborate on the unintended consequences?

To explain what we don’t know?

Can you prove there will be no negative consequences?
I'm really trying my best to see this from a perspective that Boeing ISN'T guilty of negligence here, but it's proving pretty difficult. Their defense so far as to how this should have been dealt with basically boils down to "RTFM, we explicitly put it in the emergency checklist that yoke pressure won't fix this, so bad on you if you didn't read it".

I understand that it probably SHOULD have been read, but I'd imagine that a line about this particular scenario could easily be overlooked even if one did review the emergency procedures for the MAX aircraft before piloting it. That is still a pretty flimsy excuse even if there is a grain of truth. This isn't some Monday detail that will cause a redeploy next week. A large number of people are dead as a result of this accident.

How a system that can so stubbornly keep overriding manual input made it onto a modern aircraft is concerning. I will admit that I am not in the industry and am speaking from a platform of ignorance, but it's less than comforting knowing that I may go up in a plane with such technology in place.
Gitote: Another source hosting platform, forked from Gogs
I have a degree in IT. My first job was through a personal connection after literally over 100 resumes I sent out (I had a huge spreadsheet of job positions and offers. Offers was almost always "REJECTED"). It was a bit different for me in that I didn't want to work in my home state anymore, and I was actively turning down any local positions. Regardless, I could only get about 2 to 3 companies to even interview a new graduate with nothing to really show on my resume. It probably doesn't really help with your situation, and it might not be what you were hoping to hear, but it's how I landed my very first dev job. Without my connection and someone vouching for me, I'm not sure what would have happened...

That out of the way, don't give up. There are lots of positions out there, and many people are hiring. Keep on trying and don't give up. Careerbuilder and other websites can help a good bit in terms of getting your name out there. Recruiters on there and other resume places have helped me find other jobs, and I am currently at a solid company with good pay. Passion helps a ton, I've found. Find something to be passionate about, both in the tech field and outside the tech field.

But just to touch one more thing - the concepts you are struggling with take practice. I had to teach myself most CS concepts, and a lot of it involved going to MIT's site or going to Harvard's site and grinding them out. I spent many many hours on YouTube and elsewhere just trying to understand the concepts and, most importantly, writing software utilizing these concepts. I still regularly quiz myself once a month on some random interview question, such as how to write a DFS or BFS from scratch, how to reverse a binary tree, or how to implement something like Dijkstra's from scratch without looking anything up. If I find myself needing to look stuff up, I make a mental note on the concept(s) I'm rusty on and do a few more exercises pertaining to the concept. If I find the stuff easy, I make sure not to review it for quite awhile (utilizing Anki is a great way to do this, by the way).
Nope, Google have to drop dragonfly too.
Emacs Lisp has rx: http://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-r...
Or (3) too weak and trying to gain sympathy from other governments.
And the event-stream implementation will blow your mind.
Funny idea, but I still didn't see any reasonable use-case for Alexa.
Combinators make for a very nice Regex API.

In OCaml, most people use the re[1] library for regular expressions (example[2]). I wrote a library called tyre[3] for typed extraction that follows a similar API.
Of course these APIs are much more verbose, but they are also very regular(hah!): Regular operators are normal functions of the language, typechecking and completion works, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-re

[2]: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-re/blob/master/benchmarks/ben...

[3]: https://github.com/Drup/tyre
Fair enough, I will elaborate on this: we have no idea what the effects will be. It could be anything from "nothing bad happens" to apocalypse. Maybe we shouldn't do things that have such a wide range of possible outcomes. Maybe.
That people that make the WWW stupid
I love to use the WWW in text webbrowser, I know we are in XXI century!
But w3m in emacs is just nice.
Here is now what Bloomberg tell me:
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Heh looks like this thread blew up. Really feels like community to just post a couple of my favorite tracks before bed and come back to all of this. Both the OP-1 links and the nyc offer are really great, thanks. Looks like a lot of fun.

Two of my other favs in this constellation of things are Walking on Thin Ice [1] [2] [3] by Yoko Ono which includes guitar and keyboard from John Lennon recorded as his last recorded creative act right before he was shot. Lots of people don't like Yoko but I don't care, this song is a great dancehall hit and that Lennon guitar solo at the end really gets me.

The other is Where You Go I Go Too [4] [5] by Lindstrøm which is more modern but unfolds as a singular kind of piece that was apparently toiling to make, listening to all thirty minutes each time he made a change. It's my favorite of his and has it's own unique sound but he's since said because it was such a grueling process that he won't make another like it.

I'm done and this can fade away. Glad y'all enjoyed these. Thanks for the notes to those who reached out to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzV7FiuDYKo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_on_Thin_Ice

[3] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-th...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4rQRJI4l4

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_You_Go_I_Go_Too
Who foots the bill for such an assessment?
Does anyone else find the amount of sub-genres in electronic music excessive?
If it's not on a site that manages a profile I normal check credo360.com to see what they have done or even to go as far as to ask them to sign up there and handle the transaction there
Thanks :) Weekend bars are now blue.
Insects get eaten by all kinds of other animals as food. In Germany insecticide contributes to a decline in the song bird population.
I think you mean C++, Objective-C, Java, Python, R, and Go engineers
ChessNetwork has my favorite analysis of the world championship games. His AlphaZero vs Stockfish series is also very good. https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork