skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you be unemployable if you know php or .net? If you look up job postings for plain software development in Denmark right now, 35% of it is JAVA, 35% of it is C# and 15% of it is PHP while the remaining 15% is split between every other stack.

I work in the public sector and we operate more than 300 different IT systems, which means I get to see a lot of different tech stacks. None of them run a backend build on Node. This will probably change going forward, but right now it’s mainly JAVA or C#.

I think you’re biased toward frontend development, it used to be unimportant and now it’s not. I’d go as far as to say that if you can’t do modern frontend development, then you’re just not a full stack web-developer, but unemployable? In what world do you live where C# or PHP makes you unemployable?

I get the FOMO though, especially if you spend a lot of time here on HN. I think a better approach is to ask yourself what you want to work with, so you even want to learn and work with angular/react/Vue? If not, then why bother? Chances are that none of those frameworks will even be around in 10 years. I know people who wanted to work with python, even though it’s not a popular choice in Denmark, who now work with Python. We’re software developers, the world needs a 100 more of you, so you’re free to work with what you want. Enjoy that!
I've given this a few minutes of thought. Basically, the situation is that some bacteria take nitrogen from the atmosphere and then spew out ammonia and related compounds, which are taken up by the roots of the symbiotic plants. I would call this "fertilization" (in the agricultural sense).
What if being awake is worse than the "waking sleep"?

Recently I was awoken to the reality of how fragile our lives are. I would prefer to stay asleep.
We hire remote software engineers to work with Python/Django/Vue. We believe talent can be anywhere.

Many companies will ask you to invest a couple hours of your life writing some toy project as a code exercise (often unpaid). Instead, we ask you to pick any open issue in an opensource project and contribute a few hours to fix it (we suggest links to a dozen issue lists filtered by "easy for beginners" tags) - we call it "social code exercise".

Of course if you have such contributions already you can skip this step. We will analyse your github profile and give extra points to:

* any PR to projects in our technology stack

* good online citizenship

* constructive, reproducible bug reports

* well written documentation

* test coverage

We penalize:

* unprofessional, disrespectful or toxic behavior while interacting with the community

* non-constructive comments and answers

The rationale is that while pushing the envelope with an opensource stack we often have to report (and fix) bugs or implement lacking features.

Projects like Python and Django have a high bar for accepting contributions so any candidate able to land a PR is capable of basic communication in English, writing acceptable code, documentation and tests.
Times were different during PayPal mafia. I don't see how just working at Airbnb or Uber makes one any different than the rest in 2019 to start a successful startup. Bias maybe ?
I'd love to see that but I don't have my hopes high :)
It is still OOP from CS point of view, regardless how you want to sell it and keep hand waving the fact that Java got it from C++.

The Gang of Four book uses Smalltalk and C++ for its pattern examples, Java wasn't even invented when the first edition came out.
> There's something else going on with meditation and mind, that we can't adequately explain with science at this moment.

I was with your list of truths until this.
> I’m aware of only one country, Japan.

Germany is one of those, too. We have fairly good taxi services in any larger city, at least as far as I've seen as a user in the last 15 years. They usually have clean cars, are there on time (or waiting in taxi queues in front of public spots) and take you to your destination without major detours. I've never encountered any case (visible to me as the customer) of tax evasion or trickery with manipulated meters, so I guess correct metering is properly enforced by the regulators. And, very important: they also had apps for summoning them spontaneously and tracking their approach and optionally paying them relatively quickly after smartphones became ubiquitous and had those in widespread use by drivers, either provided by private non-taxi-related corporations (like MyTaxi) or by conglomerates of taxi companies that bound together to develop an app.

But I had multiple opportunities to "enjoy" taxi services of the classic kind in the US, specifically San Francisco and Miami, before and after Uber was a thing. And I definitely see quite a difference to the level of service I enjoyed back home, especially in the "before" time. I even think that this difference wasn't present in the minds of the Uber management - they probably thought that any taxi service in the world was generally as bad as the one in San Francisco and was thus in need of "disruption", and it seemed as if it took a while for them to notice that this wasn't the case, and to realize that people in places of the world with fairly well-working taxi networks might have much less understanding for their "civil disobedience", as you call it.
I read this when it came out, and it's only improved over the years. At the time we were just graduated and it felt otherworldly and futuristic, especially considering we had been taught to use VAXen and used 680x0 Macs...
People are friendly, alcohol is good: https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/53j9n3/i-went-to-a-c...

And a 1000 left their lives that this small strip of land can exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War
No idea what recruiters look for, but when I'm part of a hiring process I'm particularly interested in evidence about how well a candidate communicates with other people, whether presenting their ideas or discussing options.
Nobody buried XMPP. Write good server and client, comparable with proprietary protocols by features and it might work.
>>a bunch of sloppy inscrutable code on your GitHub, people are going to assume you tend to write sloppy inscrutable code

Im sorry, but wouldn't most developers have a large amount of code that fits this description? I likely have several mB of hacked python and bash scripts that were only intended to run once. But, I kept them in a repo because I occasionally would refer to an old script. But expecting a readme is a bit much, most of those scripts were lucky to get a descriptive file name, much less documentation. I hate doing documentation professionally, I'm certainly not stressing over it in my free time.
yeah you are right. (I am in VN and I wear KN95-certified mask, that does protect against those.)
The censorship is also sprouting up conspiracy theories, claiming that they're taking down the video because there's something to hide in it compared to the official reporting.

This video is historical fact, the most direct record of an important terrible event that had wide-ranging effect and became global news. Its accessibility helps squash rumors about what people think happened or didn't happen. Combined with the manifesto, it also shows why it happened.
That is true, although compatibility issues will quickly catch up with you (both with file format and plugins).
This is actually one of the reasons: to prevent the wind and cold from entering the body [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine#S...
I'm not terribly impressed. A lot of these are of the form "do [something that's obviously a good idea]" without much info on which things to prioritise or how to actually do them. Stuff like "Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity." (as though anyone wanted to pick a dumb, lazy, sleazy business partner)
Cool project! It sounds like you've run this in previous years, so I'm curious - how well has the model done in the past?
Smart Contract Co. OpenLaw Launches ‘Forms’ Doc Automation System
I live in the valley and have been to a few of the fruit stands; Columbia City Farmer's Market can be OK too. Still, not much luck. I am aware tomatoes are hard as hell to grow consistently well and I should accept some variance, but man, outside of Red Roma Tomatoes (had had good luck with them generally for caprese salad), it's been tough.
Smalltalk had to cut corners with messaging due to the limited processing of the time, nevertheless it has fully reified messages; one can express the sending of messages between objects.

Smalltalk inspired Erlang, which is the fully-asynchronous messaging/independent threads of execution part of OO only.

Self did OO without inheritance (composition by prototypes).
Portuguese. :)
Model Y was a known character before the announcement, so its official unveiling if anything had kind of the opposite effect. It put a pin to hoping for it to be available soon enough to hold off buying a Model 3 today and it is sufficiently advertised at a more expensive price to deter some more.

Tesla's currently in a weird situation where it is in a local minimum of US purchases that it needs to book to make the quarter, while it has unsatisfied demand in EU and elsewhere but the delivery pipeline is not mature yet. Once that global shipping pipeline starts to fire on all cylinders (pun intended), it probably gives them enough runway to get to the Model Y without too much worry of shrinking demand in the US.
PUBG Mobile Game Banned in Some Cities in India
My late sister actually worked with Saint $ilicon (Jeffrey Armstrong) at Seagate in the 1980s. I have an autographed copy of the book.

I got my second ever hard disk drive through her employee-purchase discount. Eighty megabytes!
I’m living in japan and the thing I hear a lot (a japanese people told me this) is that they don’t wear the masks only out of courtesy. It’s also because not only they don’t want to get sick, but because they will lose holiday days if they don’t have doctor’s note. So just having a flu / slight fever is not sufficient reason to get the note.
Seems to ignore the main reason people in Japan wear masks - Sugi induced hay fever which seems to increase in intensity every year.
A great collection of reads for the web developer
You can't prove me wrong since it's source is not available.
Why Choose React Native for Mobile Development
A blast from the past. Semantik Web used be a good buzzword to receive EU research grants, and RDF tripel have been useful in some areas. What else remains?
Who knows but it the chatter makes it sound like the system doesn't have redundant sensors. You have two systems with one sensor each. One system is active and the other is inactive. And no voting logic.
This book is hilarious, love how the frustration is underlined with email conversations and just the right amount of sarcasm.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002103360646823936.html
[0] is shill work by researchers working for a MSG manufacturer. I have seen this before. One even has an "ajiusa.com" e-mail address right there, /palmface/. Can't comment on on [1]: the entire paper is paywalled as far as I can see, not even a hint at the results.

Let's try something else:

Graham TE, Sgro V, Friars D, Gibala MJ. 2000. Glutamate ingestion: the plasma and muscle free amino acid pools of resting humans. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism 278:E83–89.

These researchers provided single 150mg/kg oral doses of MSG to 9 healthy volunteers (8 males, 1 female) to determine the plasma and muscle concentrations of glutamate following ingestion. All volunteers reported transient headaches.

Shimada A, Cairns BE, Vad N, Ulriksen K, Pedersen AML, Svensson P, Baad-Hansen L. 2013. Headache and mechanical sensitization of human pericranial muscles after
repeated intake of monosodium glutamate (MSG). Journal of Headache and Pain 14:2

More than 50% of healthy, male subjects given 150mg/kg daily doses developed headaches.
In Vietnam most don't wear surgical masks. We use fabric ones generally out of cotton.

They do protect against larger dust particles while driving, which is why I wear them, but as said above, Vietnamese mostly wear them to protect skin from the sun. The higher quality masks are really just too hot to wear as they do not breath enough.

There is something called a Lead Ninja, which is a woman on a typical motorbike (Honda Lead), dressed head to toe completely covered... to the point that driving is dangerous because they can't even see where they are going. There was a funny blog post about driving etiquette here a while back [1] that is sadly pretty spot on.

What gets me is the general lack of wearing eye protection while on a motorbike... not only do your eyes dry out more quickly, which affects vision, but the dust and bugs getting into the eyes makes driving almost unbearable. I don't know how they do it here. Solution is literally $0.85 clear plastic glasses found everywhere on the street.

[1] https://matthew-pike.com/how-to-drive-a-motorbike-in-saigon-...
My wife stays the FUCK away from people wearing them - she thinks they are all ebola carriers. I think that alone is what keeps the mask wearers healthy - all the americans think the mask wearer is the sick one.
Except on Halloween? What about on your way to a masquerade party?
Read-only properties would be implemented as methods that return the value of an internal variable. There should be no way to directly access the internal state of an object, even if it is read-only -- because that would prevent you from changing internal details (eg. do you store the property in a float or a double?), breaking the "encapsulation".
The Model S was their flagship mass market car, and the Model 3 is a "Budget Model S". The Model X is their flagship SUV, and the Model Y a "Budget Model X". I don't get why this is "Osborning the Model 3". They serve different market segments.
Airbus also loads up its avionics with protections against dangerous pilot input. Quantas Flight 72 is an example of when that went awry with a random pitch down effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
Unless is a separate topic, I think there's a confusion here. When Moldavia is mentioned, they mean the historical region Moldavia, part of the Romania. We normally refer to that Moldova (that the parent is talking about) either as "Republic of Moldova", or Basarabia. Historically, there was one big Moldova, currently only about half of it is united with Romania.
And bandwidth...
Paraphrasing

fold[max] y # maximum
fold[min] y # minimum

Those two characters have no connection with the operation they stand for

| — logical-or, min
& — logical-and, max

0|1
1
1|42
42
I wonder, how do you do source control, unit testing, docs/comments in visual programming?
I can only read first two sentences of the article. How am I supposed to comment it?

Edit: I think I'll write link based rss filter, it seems that all medium links are either from medium.com or they match this regexp: /^http[s]+:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[a-z]{2,3}\/[a-zA-Z0-9-]+-[a-f0-9]{12}$/
Yes AFAIK it started in Essex where someone would buy a “shed” car typified by the Vauxhall Nova with various attachments to it and drive it around town all night being a “Barry Boy”. As we all got older, grew up and went to work in the city (London) it seems to have been adopted as a definition for anything that looks ok from the outside but is made of sewn together corpses and bits of tape and straw inside.

I’ve heard it used in London and Nottingham regularly.
It's really cool, but from my understanding you get only the traffic exchanged with your browser and not between the servers. I wonder if something similar could be done at the server level, aggregating traffic from all the servers, merge together and display
It still is in British English (though this is apparently beginning to change? Bloody Americans :p).
China to Overtake US in AI Research
Sure they do, in most C-like languages || is OR and && is AND.

For OR, from

1 | 0 = 1

It's a small step to generalise to

N | 0 = N (~max)

and then

N | N-1 = N (max)

The same goes for &
Maybe, but I think that we'd've evolved a way around it - probably doable in terms of the distribution of the different cones in the eyes.

One thing that stands out to me is the relative rarity of blue in nature.

Compared to red, a blue colour is far more likely to be sourced from the sky, rather than a source up close.

It's not unreasonable to think that there might be a bias toward perceiving more probable structures, similar to (but far less extreme than) what occurs with the hollow face illusion.
Tesla is done. They have not done a capital raise and CapEx is too low for Model Y. You can't produce cars without first investing in plant & equipment.
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By collecting challenge submissions, RevEngE can demonstrate the strength (and weakness) of various obfuscation techniques, similar to how the RSA factoring challenges tested the strength of RSA. RevEngE contains several compiled binary challenges (with different types of obfuscation) for you to deobfuscate; when you and others solve these challenges, we can determine how difficult they are.

For more information and to try these challenges, go to revenge.cs.arizona.edu and navigate to the competition page. Additional information is located under the “Challenges” tab.
Ask HN: How do you deal with dullness?
I am asking, what are your hobbies? (Recently lost one lately and I am looking for something on weekends)
What even is Semantic Web in modern terms?
In practice, dental implants are more work to maintain being much more difficult to properly floss. This leads to bone absorption and receding gums.
Given the insanely high price elasticity of demand on rideshare, i severely doubt this. Show me anyone who does not have both uber and lyft apps, and does not immediately go to Lyft when uber prices seem a tad high (or vice-versa).
Maybe so but the Model Y is so similar to the Model 3 it may not require that much more than what they already have.
The secret power of memory, images, and video
"an array of tiny infrared LEDs wired to the inside of a baseball cap"

I had that idea some years ago, but using instead big powerful IR LEDs around a hat or cap to create a sort of white halo around the entire head. Never tested it...
And here I was thinking, I was the only one who was utterly confused by Apple‘s docs about Objective-C and calling everything slightly different than I was used to.

Also, isn’t it odd that your replies all say something different what message passing actually is?
So, other clients with fully working E2E encryption include: Seaglass, Weechat, Pattle and nheko (although it needs to implement attachments, but they is easy). The weechat and nheko implementations are independent implementations (ie not the same as the Riot ones).

We are starting work this week on closing the E2E gap for all the rest.
Very odd angle.. Seems to be written by someone with little on-the-ground experience. I can only speak from my experience in Hong Kong, where masks are worn when you've got a cold or flu to keep from infecting other people. Sure, ideally, sick people should be home in bed, but the pressure to work here is extreme, even when sick, so you'll often see offices full of hacking employees with surgical masks.

As for the pollution, the masks don't do any good at all and people know that. Go up to Beijing, for example, and the masks are mostly not surgical, but rather 3M pm2.5 filters.
In the paper I cited there is a reference to another one by Shimada, et al. 2013. Those researchers estimate the daily intake of MSG in industrialized countries to be between 50 mg/kg and 200 mg/kg. (That reference is given in section 2.4.1, p. 76).

So you're saying that MSG doesn't cause headaches, because nobody would be crazy enough to put 2.5 grams of it into the meal consumed by a 50 kg person? Or what is the logic here?

The paper cites at least two other studies which found that 150 mg/kg daily doses caused headaches: to 100% of the subjects in one of the studies, and more than 50% in the other.
Only problem is Transmission uses its own core, and as a whole, core + UI it doesn't seems to be getting anymore development.

Which libtorrent just had its 1.2 released that has lots of changes.
It's about SUSE kgraft, kernel live patching.
With 75% of parts the same for Tesla Y and X. I don't see why they needed to raise more capital. 2-3 more profitable quarters will increase share price and better prices when they raise capital for the Pickups and Trucks.
>If you're cooking food for people it's not common to get pre-approval of the ingredients beyond asking for any dietary restrictions.

you're a lucky chef. You'll get a real reality check when cooking for an elderly bunch of diabetics who automatically presume the world is low-sodium.

I've found it's just easier to automatically presume that everyone has dietary restrictions, just some much more mild than most (some hate brocolli, and some will die if they are near peanuts, but it's the same scale.).
This is great.

It would be nice to have a way to auto-play each piece (something like https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/dronezone) so that I can start the music automatically (e.g. from a script) without having to click.
It only a blank slate on the surface.
What happens is there's huge corruption and incompetence in the local and central administration which means bad planning, huge cost overruns, refusing to use E.U. funds because those imply higher scrutiny, and bad execution.

Also corrupt officials who have inside information buy land that will be crossed by infrastructure then delay it with lawsuits and astronomical prices for the land that has to be expropriated.
Totally agreed. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177... is the core of the plan.
Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood
My wife is Japanese and I lived in Japan for 6 years.

The main reason I've been informed by family and friends for wearing the masks, is to prevent others from catching their cold/flu, as a courtesy.

I don't think that article (which I've read before) is a particularly good one - in my opinion it highlights the 'outlier' reasons rather than what in my experience is the main reason, cited above.
Moldova, the Romanian region (not the Republic), isn't poor, or at least not all of it.

We've got Iași there, one of our biggest cities and an important economic center, home to thriving software companies actually, because we've got an old and reputable computer science university there. Next to Iași's district is Suceava, another important district.

EU may not be interested in this region, however crippling this region due to a lack of infrastructure projects is going to cripple Romania.

Of course, the EU isn't to blame for us not being able to build one freaking highway that connects Bucharest and Iași, just saying that it's very shortsighted to dismiss infrastructure projects based on proximity with the former USSR.
Which leads to the well known callback hell, no?
At the risk of coming off as snarky toward Alan Kay, whom I respect tremendously, I believe the Kay-official answer to the question "what is Kay oop?" is "you just don't get it." Which for me has always raised a flag. We all know how to call methods, exchange messages, and raise and subscribe to events, yet there is always the implication that we haven't yet understood the real meaning of Kay oop, as if there's some gold nugget of knowledge yet to be gleaned. Pretty sure there's no nugget.
huh after experiences otherwhere in Asia, Vietnam is very void of bugs, compared to Thailand for example. Someone told me it's mainly because of napalm in the war. Who knows
The user list on the right can be closed, and the channel list on the left can be collapsed.
You could keep the site free while still allowing people to pay for it if they want to.

(A service like Liberapay might make this easy for you to do.)