skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you're a really good mathematician (I count hardcore CS as math) your work will likely not bring any advancement because it is low hanging fruit.

Sometimes you get lucky like Apple, but the hard work was done by inventor guys like Kendall or a selection of electrical engineers in 80s.

In short, if it's not academia, it's probably 10 years outdated already if not more... or just a minor tweak. (Like high end 10Gbit routing, hardly life changing. Or yet another ANN architecture.)

Companies do not want a gamble and deal with science, they want instant gratification. (Except the few super rich like Google and Microsoft having small but great real research teams.)

Yes, it is a high bar, but a big difference between feel-good and actually useful and life changing technologies.
Maybe Godot engine is more comparable?
> there's no intrinsic reason that the same company that gives away labour as OSS should also make the best complements to that OSS

There are no guarantees that they will provide the best complements to their own product, but the common sense is that they will. From a marketing perspective, I think it makes complete sense, especially when selling to enterprise customers.
Yes, helping people with chronic medical conditions improve their health and quality of life.
The #1 economy in the world was taken to its knees by US, French, German, and UK governments and private industry pumping opium into China.

Overtaking China would not have been possible economically without this component of the takedown.

I expect WW3 will erupt before the "drug attack" avenue is allowed again into China.
Yeah, but it can be fought. I was never a nationalist, but I didn't realize how ingrained a lot of habits are until I started traveling through Europe. I've once read that "weirdoes start 10 miles from home" - well, it's not that bad but it's still amazing to realize that yes, people in different countries are still people.
NASA's deep-space nuclear-power crisis may soon end
A summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices
My parents had a Sony Mavica FD-91 for a conservation project in Panama in 1999 or 2000... the great joke was that there was an image quality setting where a single picture took more space than was currently available on the storage medium — floppy drives. At normal image quality, a single floppy held eight photos.

The amount of technological improvement and decrease in cost between that camera and a 2003 Olympus point-and-shoot was stunning. I don't think I've seen hardware advance that quickly at any other point, except maybe PDAs around 2003 or smartphones around the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.
Earn that much that you can afford to work just 80% or 60%.
60% would be ideal since it gives you a 4:3 ratio of free days, which is more than half the week.
What does your company sell?
Then they should be as successful as RedHat. Or maybe their niche is too small and the people in that niche don't need the consulting part.
So you don't have a 0day. Normally people don't brag about it, because it only lures attention. And now by your own definition, many people know about the (potential?) 0day, even without details.
I only visit reddit when friends link off to it - I rather not be giving reddit any traffic at all if I could help it, so downloading an app just doesn't make sense for me.
I am confused by this article. It says, "Schellenberg was arrested in 2014 and received his original sentence in 2016 in a case that went unnoticed."

But according to the Chinese court[link 1], he was first sentenced for 15 years in jail on 2018-11-20. Robert appealed to high court. On 2018-12-29, the high court decided the original sentence was too light and asked the intermediate court for a new trial.

link 1: http://court.dl.gov.cn/info/122_138614.vm
That seems a little glib. They're not going to scoop out your brain in prison and you have _a_ future, even if it's not the one you were planning for.

Invert it: if faced with the death penalty, how much effort would you expend to get it commuted to 15 years?
The open source that you call "isn't free as in speech" is actually Free Software. You are able to develop with it in whatever way you want. The requirement is that whatever you develop is also Free Software and is distributed whenever it is used. This is what Stallman has in mind when he talks about free software. Your freedom to develop above free software developed by others cannot come at the cost of others' freedom to develop above your software that has enjoyed the fruits of said freedom.
I am a (happy) user of homeshick (https://github.com/andsens/homeshick), but this project really seems to top it by providing the only feature that I've missed until now:

- use the same source file with different results for different machines (eg. .gitconfig for home and office machines)

- option to store secrets in a credentials database and extract them from there (because you wouldn't want to store them in a git repo - even if it's a private one)

I'll definitively give it a try!

(EDIT: formatting)
End of World War II in Asia, Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Very cool, I love that weird, hobbyist sites like this still exist. Nice walk down memory lane for those familiar with this tech.

Sometimes I look at pictures taken with my 2006-era 3MP Nikon Coolpix and marvel at how bad they look compared to anything I was using from 2013 onwards.
It was part strategy in that I kept my day job (web developer at a university) and split my paycheck with my two co-founders so that we could start our business/product. I would work on the idea on nights and weekends.

Luck and faith came into play when we applied to YC and were accepted. At that point I quit my job to move to Mountain View.

There are no regrets today, but it was a difficult decision at the time. Keeping my day job allowed me to still feel secure while also pursuing something ambitious.
By taking a massive pay hit over my potential, and teaching 2 days/week in China. I'd honestly rather die than getting stuck in a make-work 9-5 in America.
Our culture has two types of forgetting
This. My job provides the financial means of doing what I want to in my spare time.

I'm not going to be a hypocrite and try to find deeper meaning in a job which basically means I'm making money for the business so that the shareholders can get their cut.
China took the highly unusual step of inviting western media to the man's appeal trial.
Weird. I have never had a pleasant experience with US customs. They are usually not unpleasant either, but they’re never friendly or even more than vaguely polite.

(I say “usually” because my wife was once told off quite rudely when she went through the visitors line as a permanent resident, because she wanted to help and translate for visiting family members she was with.)

The worst part of the experience is knowing they will not hesitate to fuck me over if they decide they want to, and I have little recourse. They can’t keep me out of the country, but they can screw me up for hours or days if they want. They can keep my wife out of the country arbitrarily, and the only fix there would be a lengthy and expensive legal process with no guarantee of success.

It’s minor compared to the hypothetical example of being imprisoned or executed on false drug charges, but my point isn’t that US immigration isn’t equivalently bad, but that I felt and experienced no menace whatsoever from Chinese law enforcement.
I definitely think there's a strong classist component to who gets funded. Investors love pedigree. E.g., Zuckerberg not only went to Harvard, but he also went to a highly prestigious boarding high school, one that has a $1.25 billion endowment. Or look at Theranos's CEO, Holmes. She came from money and also went to an elite prep school (current tuition, $28.8k/year). For a time as a kid she lived next door to a famous venture capitalist in a town where the median income is $212k/year (and also 0.4% black.)

That said, I don't think VCs particularly care about what goes on in SF. Or anywhere. They don't need to make SF a citadel for the rich to filter who they invest in; they already do that well. But if it happens, I don't think they care except to the extent that it's raising costs for their portfolio companies. Even there, though, I don't expect them to do the obvious thing of getting on a plane and investing in companies in lower-cost areas. I think they'll just pressure their companies to open satellite offices elsewhere as a way of keeping labor costs (and labor power) down.
alias gitl='git log --pretty=format:"%Cred%h %Cgreen %cd %Cblue%<(14,trunc)%an %Creset %s %Cred %d %Creset" --graph --date=short -20'
Last I checked the US Federal Government alone has a handful of thousand websites (not sure about Australia). If you added state, city etc governments, the number can easily run into five figures. It might be a good idea if they followed a standard set of UI/UX patterns and language. That said, the hard part is actually making them use the consistent standards
Big Bang query: Mapping how a mysterious liquid became all matter
Most asian countries execute because colonizers were drug dealers. All the famous people we love like Thomas Jefferson's family, the Roosevelt clan, and extensions of the British Royal Family.
The internet needs a single sign-on. Perhaps that's why Microsoft bought LinkedIn?
Goldman Sachs gave its wealthy clients same advice for the 10th straight year
Working in Healthcare/Education is pretty rewarding knowing the products we put out are helping people (both improving education for new doctors and improving clinical care).

Sometimes working in Healthcare is annoying (Changes are slow and there are legal restrictions everywhere, e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" and refuse to listen), but it's still good to know we're doing meaningful work.
So you prefer the BSD licensed software ?
That's about as meaningful as these jobs get. Cut hours and perhaps teach the kids, you might get lucky, find and help a new genius or inventor.
I meant the gap between the US and e.g. Zimbabwe or Pakistan. As I've mentioned to Gitlab's CEO here, you should aim for fairness in terms of the quality of life. Otherwise, if you go with the "region market rate" - I bet someone living in US or Canada (or Switzerland) has much better quality of life compared to someone in Zimbabwe or any other poor/developing (or non-developing) country.

And yes, someone from Mozilla confirmed here some time ago that they do differentiate salaries based on the country/region - they won't pay "US salary" to someone in Ukraine for instance.
As a contrary anecdote, I once worked on a project where we had a method with a cyclomatic complexity of over 200. (The company had a tool that stopped counting at 200.)

I was not allowed to change it, or even add tests to it, because it was written by the NY office and they would have complained about it.

Bad programmers are everywhere.
wow that's so damn useful. stealing.
I use RSS for news, just need http://cappuccinoapp.com to be stable and to sync via iCloud properly.
> It has nothing to do with your value and everything to do with what the company has to pay to get the talent it wants.

Hmmm... this sounds very strange.

Getting a job is dependent on you proving how much value you'll bring to the company, but your pay has nothing to do with "your value".

Sounds like someone wants their cake and to eat it, too.
Doubtful. In China (and majority of east and se asia) severe drug penalties are common. Do not touch drugs in the areas. A friend from Shanghai once told me that he has heard (apply huge grain of salt) that there are 5000 drug related executions in China yearly - mostly in the southern and western parts of the country.

It is probably his original sentence was a show of clemency towards canadian citizen which they now take back.
A message of solidarity, which when you unwrap it contains a subtle threat.
You can detect which model of phone the app is running on, right? On these problematic models you should probably just assume that the app got killed in that circumstance.
My favorite new one that I have been using a lot:

function cheat() {
curl cht.sh/$1
}

It queries the cht.sh cheatsheet of various Unix commands. 'cheat tar' prints:

# To extract an uncompressed archive:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar

# To create an uncompressed archive:
tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/

# To extract a .gz archive:
tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .gz archive:
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To list the content of an .gz archive:
tar -ztvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To extract a .bz2 archive:
tar -xjvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .bz2 archive:
tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/

# To extract a .tar in specified Directory:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar -C /path/to/destination/

# To list the content of an .bz2 archive:
tar -jtvf /path/to/foo.tgz

# To create a .gz archive and exclude all jpg,gif,... from the tgz
tar czvf /path/to/foo.tgz --exclude=\*.{jpg,gif,png,wmv,flv,tar.gz,zip} /path/to/foo/

# To use parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of compression algorithms:
tar -z ... -> tar -Ipigz ...
tar -j ... -> tar -Ipbzip2 ...
tar -J ... -> tar -Ipixz ...

You do have to be online, but there are ways of downloading the directory of cheat sheets to use offline as well.
Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging
Why would meaningless and 9-5 be synonyms? Why does late evening imply meaning and regular managed schedule lack of it? Why would a company on edge of crash implied more meaning then the stable one?

For whatever it is worth, position I have now is a lot of what I was looking for professionally and I can be 9-5. Thankfully, they want output and not butt in seat. It is not saving world and have no such illusions. But my work is occasionally useful to real people I know personally and I work in team of people I trust.
I don't particular the implication that a safe job should also be consider as not meaningful. Would you continue doing a job that is meaningful but unsafe (kinda like a lot of the US public servants now due the US gov shutdown but I digress)?
That's not what the Ansible was, but I don't want to actually describe it in case someone here hasn't read Ender's Game yet, since it's pretty pivotal to the plot.

Also, Ender's Game was written in 1984 - the idea of networks wasn't so new then, but I agree that Card had a very prescient take on Locke and Demonsthenes' influence over world politics.
I think age groups would be better than individual years. Is there any advice that applies at 13 but not 14?

I do love the idea of collecting wisdom. The hard part is getting the 14 year olds to believe it!
If you don't take drugs there you have nothing to worry about.

Reminds me of all the people complaining about Singapore's tough laws when they punish American vandals and execute druggies.

Don't break the law, drugs are not a joke in Asia (especially true since western governments proved they were/are not above using drugs as an economic attack vector).
Throw away account, believe it or not, I've been doing exactly that for the past 3 years - operating a consulting business out of the Bay Area (virtual office) while actually living in Thailand/India/Kenya, etc. I'm always available and working till 7pm PST no matter where I am (Google Fi/Google Voice numbers). It's actually pretty easy to pull off.

It's almost a no brainer to me. If I can charge 3-4x more for the same skills that I have, why not. I'm not gonna take a huge pay cut just because my location changed. And there's almost no explaining involved.

At times when you can't go somewhere physically, sometimes you can tell your clients you're traveling this month. If something is important, you can take a flight. The amount that you're saving, the flight costs are negligible.
An unaffiliated group with plenty of cash could also incentivize individuals to submit records, and automate the process of requesting records
How did youfind whay project to buy? Are you active on the project, or going more passively?
At scale you need to move out of the cloud. Once you hit a certain point there is no economic gain.
OP wasn't talking about objective meaning, but subjective meaning. They sound like they want to move on to doing something that fulfills them.
I agree, but it takes a while for us to realize how much we are worth. Impostor syndrome is a big thing.
In combination with an element that has a state-related selector (eg :checked), you can implement something like modals or expandable lists without writing any javascript.
Your quote is very hard to read even on desktop - can you surround the quoted text with asterisks instead of indenting it?
Nice collection, but he wants to sell it. We still have a Sony Mavic camera somewhere with a 3.5" floppy drive. I think it has XGA (1024x768) resolution. I wonder if the battery is still ok.
The site has also a very vintage look that fits well. And it's fast, with high usability. The past is the future...
> I truly hope that we have learned our lesson from Flash and choose formats like SVG (human readable and an open standard) from now on for things like animations and games.

At least with a flash game, you can often just download the .swf file and run it however you like.

With HTML-based stuff, you're often reliant on a server being up. Authoring tools are also just not what they were with flash - the sheer number of quality vector-based games and animations has dropped like a rock. I'm not sure if this is something Adobe will resolve eventually, but at the moment it's just kinda sad.
unameOut="$(uname -a)"

case "${unameOut}" in

*Microsoft*) machine="WSL";;

Linux*) machine=Linux;;

Darwin*) machine=Mac;;

CYGWIN*) machine=Cygwin;;

MINGW*) machine=MinGw;;

*) machine="UNKNOWN:${unameOut}"

esac

unset unameOut

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;[${machine}] ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
I don’t think the inversion is a useful way to look at it.

Here’s the right way to look at it: what do you consider to be the acceptable odds of being imprisoned for 15 years while traveling to a foreign country? And what are the acceptable odds for being killed?

I don’t have a concrete number for either one, but they wouldn’t be much different.

Consider also that your odds of dying in a traffic accident are much higher than your odds of being executed on false pretenses by the state in most places (especially China, where they’ve only recently decided that wearing seat belts is something you should actually do, and the annual per-vehicle fatality rate is almost 10x that of the US), so the added risk from executions is hard to even detect.
>Did you have a strategy or was it a leap of faith?

Complete leap of faith. Got a very safe job in the French administration writing programs that manage pension for public servants and electronically archive documents. So safe I was bored to death and depressed.

I applied for a Canadian work Holiday Visa, got it with a friend, left and never looked back. My boss at the the time was so surprised I left such a safe place he literally told me "You've got balls" ("t'as des couilles"). Truth be told it was a matter of mental health.

I've spent two years in Vancouver, Canada, learned scala in a startup, met people I'm still in contact with.
Now I live in the UK and work for the Guardian which is by an order of magnitude the best job I've ever had.

>Did you regret it later on?

Never. It was risky but it also was the best decision of my life. I just miss being closer to my family.

> Are you happy with the decision you made?

Yes

>Where do you think you would be today if you had decided to stay in that job?

Probably still integrating bloatware in order to manage French public servant pension, if not in hospital.
Hmm,

Fall behind in search, spend billions on Bing.

Fall behind in mobile, spend billions on Nokia.

Fall behind in social media, spend billions on LinkedIn.

Hmm, so what was that definition of insanity again?
App crash leaves a crash dump generally. Also, if your app crashes too often on some oems, the phone will automatically clear the local data, to "fix" it. I forget which one did it or I'd shame them directly.
Hallway Dance Challange
Do you now? Have real data to back this up or is it just a feel good guess?

It is easy to deceive oneself that an app or a tracker equals health... better than pen and paper and minor instruction manual.

Now if you're actually working on safety critical health devices (say, insulin pump or oxygen meter or maybe a CPAP or perhaps heart monitor), then I hope you're working on cutting the price tag as they're super expensive for not really any good reason...

We were trying to figure out a reliable way to track sugar levels relatively nonincasively but found out that it was less accurate than a chart and simple alarm...

Sometimes being actually rational sucks, you see that your junk does not work or that you have to be smarter than super well funded geniuses at MIT or Stanford to matter. And have comparable fabrication and chemical analysis facilities and biolabs to even attempt anything.

Research is expensive. As in really expensive now in terms of hardware. As in some big universities not in USA being too poor to afford hardware.
That's not even counting lab space to actually house it.
I have zero confidence in LinkedIn. I was one of the first million users of it. I lament ever signing up. It's never found me a job, it's never done anything but expose me to a wide swatch of down market recruiting firms that try to use volume to make money. I don't want to help those fools, I have a problem with all these middlemen no matter what level they are at--they have done nothing to help the tech industry, they are just leeches who soak up money and provide no value. They have ruined our business, quite frankly.

I'm sick of it all. The 21st century is not looking very bright and we need to turn that around and doing something about privacy and big corporations running our lives is the first step. To hell with LinkedIn and Facebook and the rest--they aren't there for us, they exist to make money and push an agenda and that agenda is in opposition to a free and open society operating based on a set of laws that apply to everyone equally. All these companies do is undermine civic life and thus civilization itself and we should not tolerate that.

Next stop is Chinese-style communist tyranny arrived at by corporate means. It won't matter in the end how we got there, that's the thing. It is merely bad for us regular people.
It's an interesting question but I'm fairly sure that after ten years Bitcoin has matured enough that all possible exploitation vectors have been tested.

In theory though this would definitely cause some chaos if something like this happened today, I don't know if it's enough to kill bitcoin but it would certainly drop the price. Most people only interact with bitcoin in a very abstract way through exchanges and don't understand enough of the details to care. If the exchange switched to the proper chain and everything appeared to be fine to the end user I don't think you'd see too many long term problems.
No. Such a waste if time.
He was held for four years before being found guilty, with that first verdict giving him 15 years. Not sure what to make of the 2016 part, I think that refers to the date of his first trial.

Here's what the NY Times has on it:

"Last month, a court ordered Mr. Schellenberg to be retried after he appealed a 15-year prison sentence for smuggling methamphetamines. ... After his arrest [in 2014], Mr. Schellenberg was held for 15 months before his first trial, and it took an additional 32 months before a court declared him guilty and sentenced him to 15 years in prison for his role in a failed attempt to smuggle drugs from China to Australia."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/world/asia/china-canada-s...