skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://lambdaschool.com/ - Lambda School is a 9 month, immersive program that gives you the tools and training you need to launch your new career—from the comfort of your own home.
Is MathML even made to be written by hand ? Or should we use another tool that translates our formulae into MathML ? The syntax is awful and redondant
If you work in a lab in microbiology you already have the mindset for detail, dedication and testing that development requires.

Since development is problem solving, find something that you can solve in your field, a tool for other microbiologists maybe (web, app, content, tool), and build a prototype. Keep iterating on projects, and ship to the world in whatever tech you find fits your style. Or do something entirely new in a field you want to work in, I prefer gaming, promotions, household management and more, but find one that you will enjoy.

Having a project to work on will propel you through all the walls, from design to develop to ship to maintenance, the full cycle. The projects might be subpar initially as with anything newly learned, but they will be very empowering because you will hit some shots on the fairway and green even if you spent some time in the rough and sandtraps. I still love the feeling of solving problems and shipping games/apps that people play or use, almost a drug.

Don't worry about age or your field, you are too old when you are dead, and you clearly are alive with motivation to want to make a move.

A great coder who shipped solid products and fun stuff that I worked with was an agriculture major and worked on farms initially.
Almost certainly. Most wave metamaterials aren't broadband. I can't actually remember any that are.
FWIW

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is idiomatic in C, for example
Or for many of the organizations in question with your privacy
Switzerland takes part in a lot of EU programs. The treaties are very complex and include financial contributions, free movement of people (with minor restrictions) and many other rights and obligations.

You can rest assured that Switzerland is not getting anything for free.
that's probably more towards Microsoft forcing you to combine your outlook and Skype accounts and not having them separate
I started on a side project after getting rejected from one job and the interviewer on the next job said they read the code on my project and said it looked great. This was a fairly difficult project that I'm still working on today. 8 months later and its almost ready to use :p
This is the best answer.

It also depends a lot on where you are from, or if you are willing to relocate.

In the UK, for instance, you can get MSc in Computer Science in 12 months, and the tuition fees are much lower than in the US.

In Germany, MSc in Computer Science takes 24 months, but education is essentially free.

I see bootcamps as the best solution for people without a BSc degree, who are not eligible for MSc.
Making big companies less bureaucratic
Early 2017. Southern Nigieria is mostly "OK", but Northern Nigeria is off-limits, as far as I know.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts of Leetcode and HackerRank
Forget about the whole argument about understanding data structures and algorithms and just focus on the websites like Leetcode and HackerRank. These services promote the idea of cramming question and answers until you memorize them. You can be bad at data structures and algorithms and still pass these tests given enough tries. Many engineers on TeamBlind would openly admit once they pass the interview, they would forget the answers. What are your honest thoughts about these services?
CFA Institute has made their resources for Claritas Certification (Investent Foundations) freely available online [1]. It covers ample material on economics and finance for people from non-finance background. Material is not as rigorous as CFA level 1 but is sufficient for Software Engineers.

Link:

[1] https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/programs/investment-foundati...
ProtonMail is fantastic. I'd recommend (and do myself) using it for a small start up. Hopefully this funding will allow development of some of the features which make it effectively impossible to use for an enterprise (or group > 20 people IMO). It's currently missing things such as:

Enforcing 2FA on anyone inside your organization.

Setting company-wide signatures.

Using HTML as your signature.

Setting company-wide/user details (ie. Allowing appending "Regards, %%Position%% %%LandLine%%" on an outgoing email).

Mail-flow rules (though admittedly, this is basically the same as the previous point).

Tagging of external emails ("This email was received outside of the organization at the start/end/subject of an email).

These are a few QOL suggestions i can think of off the top of my head. However, the enforcing 2FA on users, and being able to tag external emails are outright security issues which should genuinely be implemented as ProtonMail is both security and privacy focused. I did raise a ticket with all of this in a few months ago, but hope this gives the devs some visibility so they can use that sweet EU funding to improve on these. These basic features would make a world of difference to all users.

The use of HTML as your signature (last time I checked anyway) is silly, as this actually works absolutely fine. We ended up manually pasting the HTML into the page using right click -> inspect element, and hitting save... this works fine if anyone else is having the same problem.

TL;DR: Highly recommend ProtonMail but only for small orgs at this point.
Although I don't know the details, I agree grants should be for open source software. For the record OpenPGP.js is largely developed by ProtonMail. Their frontend is also open source.
Romania receives more funds from EU than it provides. Afaik Switzerland pays large sums to be a Schengen member and associate to the EU. Thus, likely, no worries for Romanian taxpayers...
> since NASA killed the propulsive landing for Dragon 2

What was the price of that program module for propulsive landing? $2B or the amount of money wasted on the knucklehead category of Ofo bikeshare app business model?
Except governments don't move to tax heavens or other countries when things tank. It is in the interest of governments to maintain a viable economy and society, not so for private sector. That difference alone is enough to not do this silly "if you don't trust corporations then your government is the same" bs rhetoric. We don't even need to talk about due process and duty of care.
Cannot it be reused because of the splash or because of the salt? What about splash landing in a natural/artificial lake?
My understanding is that most (many?) vegans even today accept killing when it's necessary for survival. That necessity is just extremely rare for modern humans (or it should be, in a fairer world).

That said, I find the idea of game-theory as a "universal basis" of ethics intriguing.
This was me 3 years ago! I was an academic cellular/genomics lab tech and now I write software.

Have you tried programming? I got my start with python courses on coursera and udacity, then moved on to solving problems on Project Euler. A few years after my first taste of python, I started going to meetups, then researched and entered a boot camp, graduated, and got my first job.

I went into the boot camp knowing that I liked programming, and that was important. I'd strongly recommend you see if you have that inclination as a first step.

Personal projects are great, but as a project manager told me in an information interview, a well chosen boot camp can provide you with structure and accelerated learning.

"too old to ever get a job in the field": I was only a few years younger than you when I started my boot camp. I don't think your age should dissuade you from trying. Your age = experience you have in a different domain, and in my experience, helps with the learning, application, and working process.
I've enjoyed reading about other people's quirky eating habits!

As for myself I have eaten the same thing for lunch for the past 2.5 years!

Chick and rice. Cooked in a crockpot in a 2-3 day batch. Before I used to use all kinds of sauces and spices and vegetables in it. These days I just use half a bottle of barbecue sauce. I do mix up the sauce every week though.
It's worth pointing out that the FBI is known to leave forensic evidence implicating foreign groups when it does hacking. The FBI should't be a trusted source, especially when they're already blaming this on foreign groups.
I was in YC W16 batch.

Coming from abroad, part of the YC experience was, besides the program itself, renting a house in a residential area of Palo Alto where our team of 4 lived and worked. We didn’t have a car and the nearest bars & restaurants were at a 20 minutes bike ride. This set up felt like a retreat, and really pushed us to 100% focus on our startup. Basically the only things I did for 4 months is working, exercising in the surrounding parks and eating homemade food.

Had YC been located in SF it would have been a totally different experience. It’s a vibrant and exciting city specially for new comers.

However, I understand YC’s rationale: most local founders live in SF and the 1h commute is painful, the current building is not easily accessible, and doesn’t scale to bigger and bigger batches, etc.
ThanosJS: Reduce the file size of your project down to 50%
Nim lang compiler was originally written in Pascal
And lot of money too, for lobbying
Yep, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

> The Confederation made compulsory contributions of CHF 724 million to the European Union from the launch of Horizon 2020 to the end of 2017 [...]. According to the most recent official data from the European Commission (as at 6 March 2018), between 2014 and 2017 Swiss institutions received a total of CHF 654 million from the EU (not including Euratom and ITER). This means that Switzerland’s payments to the EU to date are CHF 70 million higher than the amount researchers in Switzerland have received in funding from Europe.

https://www.sbfi.admin.ch/sbfi/en/home/news/medienmitteilung...
Ask HN: Which SDK company's tutorials you like?
Hi there,
I'm responsible for creating tutorials for our SDKs. I'm trying to get some inspiration from other companies who might have built really cool interactive tutorials. Wondering if you like any, that you'd like to recommend?
Interestingly enough, the US paid $840 million for a Canadian company, CGI, to develop the Obamacare health insurance website.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/healthcare-gov-has-already-cost...
To me it just reinforces those algorithms are only comparable to spouting out the intuitive, unconscious first impression of what they see in the image.

Like if something passes through your field of vision an you recognize it as lets say a god. But a second later you feel something was off, turn around, look at it in details and determine it to be a weird looking cat? Yeah, those "AI"s so far seem incapable of such deep thinking.
It's worth understanding that Pivotal are hiring for a work environment that is almost entirely pair-programming, with teams of 2 to 8 engineers that rotate pairs almost every day. With that in mind, it's absolutely critical that Pivotal consider the social side of candidates while pairing.

That makes the process less suitable for other types of working environments.
Microsoft office is far and ahead the best document system- you probably use open source and standards compliant gdocs?

Bringing it up in comparison for no reason and just general being hostile to MS is the reason MS doesn't listen to non-enterprise feedback. They have their faults but people like you are the ones who don't let them improve. For you, it's not about technology- its about your personal grudges.
Which type of Smart City do we want to live in?
Delivery managers at WITCH (Wipro, Infy, TCS, CTS, HCL) outsourcing firms are paid based on how much they can earn from every account. So, this drives them do many things. One of the consequences is the perception of the said discrimination.

Delivery managers prefer a cheaper resource to an expensive resource. They also practice this in India: that's why every team in India is filled with 80% freshers or those who get paid $5k per annum in India.

In the states, they look for the cheapest resource to fill a position. Often times, they find spots that just require warm bodies to add billable hours. Guess, who would they go for? They will hire some H4 EAD who asks $65K per annum in NJ. These people are happy to get some job and experience.

In old days, companies used to have lots of people coasting in their jobs. Now, WITCH companies have captured that profit in a two prong process: offshore to India and charge the client $30 per hour per person, then pay some desperate college grad in India $3 per hour. And capture that $27 per hour.

This is similar to outsourcing the manufacturing, as the middle layers capture the profit, by paying peanuts in China and by getting rid of expensive employees in India.

Edit: basically, these companies are making money off of outsourcing lots of bullshit jobs. They are NOT eliminating bs jobs. In fact, most of WITCH company onsite people are project managers pretending to be super smart workers.
I'm also in the same boat, I imagine with countless others. Trump didn't win in 2016, Clinton managed to receive 4.5 million votes fewer than Obama 2008 did. And she did that at the same time that the pool of voting age population grew by more than 20 million. [1] Quite a remarkable feat! The party has left its base far behind. Or perhaps it's the other way. Same result in either case.

In thinking about this though I realized something. Almost like clockwork there is a shifting of the zeitgeist of the nation on 20 year intervals:

- Roaring 20s

- Warring 40s

- Social movement 60s

- Huge growth 80s

- Identity politics 2000s

- ?? 2020s

You can't explain these shifts in era by a new generation alone, as would be implied by the 20 year intervals. It has to be in large part substantial chunks of the existing population also shifting their views. I'm not sure if this is a product of people changing, perhaps as they age, or maybe it's some organic factor of political competition that results in the parties changing. Again, going back to the top - I guess it doesn't really matter. It's the exact same effect and result in either case.

The point being is that I think this is 'normal', but we're the first generation to get to share and experience this sort of shift, and in such a public way, due to the internet.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St...
Smartphone screens found to be more than three times dirtier than a toilet seat
And now you understand brexit..
Rebrand as a data scientist.

Data science is eating the world. Everyone wants data scientists.

You’re a microbiologist. It’s hugely credible that you’ve done some crazy data crunching for your science work. Spin that into an increasing interest in the pure data science.

Voila, you’re writing python for a living at the top of the market with a hugely valued differentiated skill set.
Rovers on asteroids, landing on comets, exploring rocks on the edge of the solar system, returning asteroid samples to earth, landing on the far side of the moon, orbiting mercury

But sure, single handedly.
Switzerland pays into Horizon 2020. From 2014 to 2017 Swiss projects received over €60M less than those payments.

https://www.sbfi.admin.ch/sbfi/en/home/news/medienmitteilung...
Norway is starting the world's biggest divestment in oil and gas
> Our public transportation is terrible

Cannot agree with that. It has one of the cheapest public transportation fees in the country. And one of the most diverse, on par only with NYC, where everybody commutes by train and subway.

Of course it's crowded because everybody takes the bus, compared to cities where nobody but the poorest takes the bus.

Compared to Dallas, Dallas is still much more like Silicon Valley. Austin is doing the catchup lately. Houston and San Antonio are bigger and have a bigger market for specialized SW development, Austin is more for the Berlin-like hipster culture, ruby on rails and Javascript mostly. Android/iOS apps.
I like to imagine the movie trailer voice over guy

“Do you have what it takes?”

“Do think you’re tough enough!?”

“You call yourself a....”

“PROGRAMMER?”

“Then... SORT... MY... LIST... WHILE... TALKING... OUT... LOUD”

But really, I feel like the whole process is uniquely American, kind of like crossfit. Very intense very trying. Like Nike; “JUST DO IT!”

The problem about this very intense “game” of interviewing is it’s for a job, for you to eat, to afford healthcare, to survive. To afford basic necessities and save for retirement. To buy a house. To start a family. To afford a car. Or even simply to not be just another body stepped over on Market street.

You've probably enjoyed 7 some years as a web developer, as a productive team member or consulting for happy clients. Now some stranger is dangling a carrot in front of your face telling you to implement an LRU cache under bright fluorescent lights while badgering you with “what are you thinking, I need to know what you’re thinking” ... after you’ve just spent the last 5 hours talking about your work history etc
As a non-mathematician this shone some light on a story that I am aware of being interesting and controversial but have no understanding of. It let me see how the debate is developing, and I think it left me with a fair and clear idea of where the story has got to - with enough explanation that I can see why the debate rests where it does. It also helped me see a little of what the argument is about and what the protagonists are arguing over.
Predicting a house price using ML.NET
Exactly, you can understand the misguided reasoning that leads to Brexit.
You're not alone, brother
The site is incomplete. I wouldn't worry about the lack of HTTPS yet...
The EU already invests in closed-source software with grants. I don't like it, but there are worse choices than ProtonMail.
A list of best sites to promote online giveaways and contests
To get the same (perceived) amplitude a low freuquency wave needs much more power than a higher frequency one. In a speaker most power is used in the low end while the tweeters use just a fraction of it.

This means that given any kind of regular music played on this speaker the created air pressure differences will be much higher for the bass frequencies than for the treble frequencies.

On top of that the difference in wave length also changes how it interacts with materials. The long bass wave bends around corners and goes through walls (which is why you can hear them two rooms over), while the shorter treble wave is bascially reflected by even a thin wall and looses energy fast in free air.
Or the girl killed by her “mother” this week [1].

Humans mostly follow their instinct, and it is absurd/dangerous not to zoomorphise their behavior.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-accused-killing-14-year-dau...
I learned html/design in 98 when I was 18'ish, but I always thought of it as a hobby - not a real career, till web apps and wordpress came along, still I would install wp sites, and do SEO for people but still worked for shit pay and shitty jobs, in 2011 at 31, I started learning to code using MVC frameworks (Ruby on Rails and Laravel specifically), I learned better coding skills, etc...and it's only the past 3-4 years that i've been taken seriously and started being sought after by companies and small businesses for freelance work.

Best advice is just build stuff, and always work on your portfolio and resume. The more you can showcase that you've accomplished the better.
That’s another issue itself buried inside of this report. Here’s the meat of what the report is bringing awareness to.

>Among children who had gastrointestinal illness, 84.6% (family income <$35,000), 86.1% ($35,000–$49,999), 90.3% ($50,000–$74,999), 89.6% ($75,000–$99,999), and 87.4% (≥$100,000) missed school in the past year. Similarly, 83.7% of children living below the poverty level with gastrointestinal illness missed school, compared with 88.3% of those living at or above the poverty level.
I think this is probably the main point. By dividing people into two camps you help solidify your own grasp on power. Again the 2016 election is full of just so many interesting lessons. How many people voted for Clinton thinking 'Yes, this person genuinely stands for what I believe in and will make a great president!' How many people voted for her because the alternative was simply unacceptable meaning they feared 'wasting' their vote? And the exact same is true of people that voted for Trump.

Think about how 'great' an achievement that is in terms of population control. You, as a player in the entrenched powers, have managed to get people to not only participate in 'your' democracy, but to actively vote for people they don't even want in office, and to actively attack people that vote for third parties. For instance already see the (rather orchestrated) massively negative reaction against Starbucks' Howard Schultz announcing his intentions of running for the presidency as an independent. How dare you run for president unless you declare yourself one of these two parties that fewer people than ever actually identify as, and that are ever more out of touch with the population! How dare you!
Uhhmmm Yeah, why didn't Joe Rogan and Alex Jones trend on YouTube this week?
I mean regardless what you think about Alex Jones, Joe Rogan deserves recognition and exposure period for all the hard work he's put into making the best podcast on the planet.

I mean i can understand when he doesn't trend on his typical videos because they aren't as popular, but I watched this live and at one point i checked and there were 30k people watching live in the first 15 minutes.

Which means it was getting liked and shared ALOT in a very short period of time.

What im asking is if its not deliberately being censored by the powers that be, then Google actually owes us an explanation to the reason why their algorithm spectacularly failed in this special case and how they can make up the obvious damages done to Joe?
> But the liberals think the conservatives are dumb enough to actually believe that Obama is Kenyan.

The Republicans elected a prominent birther so this should not be especially surprising. To look at it a little more precisely, depending on which polls you prefer, somewhere around half of them are, in your words, "dumb enough to actually believe that Obama is Kenyan:"

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-birther-obama-poll-republican...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-persiste...
This is well known to anyone who has worked in a public school system. My friend used to work as a sub. One day, she found a sick student and sent him home. Later, she was admonished by a teacher there: this kid lives in a garage, where they don't have a heater. At least, this kid can feel better in a warm class room. This happened in Milpitas, CA, last year.
Wrong on two counts. The UK home office is not interested in simplifying but in creating a hostile environment for skilled immigrants [0]. Second, the current government is certainly not centrist but far-right nationalist - if the above policy doesn't clue you in, Brexit should...

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environm...
Mathml is not important for being a latex replacement, it's important for being a unified and native way to render mathematical formulas in browsers.

With mathml supported by Chrome, you could instead of the whole Mathjax renderer use only a lightweight "latex/asciimath to mathml" translater and let the browser do the rendering job.
I guess so, but when you use energy instead of pressure, and a linear scale rather than logarithmic, it makes the results look more impressive.
So someone could phish it and pretend it's complete to get people's data...
I have a pair and I can attest to that.

Unfortunately.