skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they started to liquidate quickly, so would everyone else - and they'd piss off their co-investors too if they didn't do it fully planned out.
Regarding going long on investments in a different way - that won't bring them the same return.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you just make an image of the SD card and distribute that, as opposed to having people go through 88 (I counted) steps?
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Everyone is hiring right now, there is a shortage of good devs, and many companies don't care if you have a degree or not. Pick a language and/or framework and start working on a portfolio. You will get better each time you build something new.

I don't know about other communities, but Ruby/Rails is particularly hot right now.

Also, some companies hire junior devs who specifically haven't had a job coding before.

Just get at it and start building stuff. You'll learn faster than you might imagine.
Could you please explain more? :-)
> Are they discriminating against non-obease people?

Yes. It doesn't get any more straightforward than that.
In my early 20s I did a bunch of random freelancing. $2000 for a website, $200 to modify some graphics, $450 for a research project, $250 for sales copy etc.

In 2011 I interviewed Ramit Sethi and wrote a huge article about his system for $1 million+ product launches:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2012/01/26/ramit-sethi-ex...

After that, Ramit reached out to me to help w/ his business. I had shown 1: that I do a lot of work to be the best (see the above blog post), 2: we had matching communication styles, 3: he trusted me bc I wasn't some dude that was trying to shake him down for cash, and almost less important, 4: I had the technical skills for what he wanted me to do. Ramit became a 5 figure client.

Since then I've followed the same model. 1: provide a huge amount of value for free, 2: propose recurring work to the client, 3: do a really really good job. My average client provides about $20,000 work per year.

On pricing: for writing work I charge between $50 and $150 per hour, but I prefer to just set a day rate. I became a lawyer a few months ago and I'm leveraging other strategies to bill $550+ per hour. So depending on your skill-set, you can do pretty well.

If anyone wants more info, you are welcome to email me: malexis@gmail.com
> Working remote is not all that it's cracked up to be. It took me several years of actually doing it to realize this. I love my job at this awesome company but if I could work onsite and still have my family here with me, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Even with all of the not-so-nice things about remote work listed in your post, you've still chosen to work remotely -- to avoid upending your family. And I assume you would probably quit if your company were to say 'move to the Bay Area tomorrow, or else,' out of concern for your family.

That's, I think, the key point about remote work. You aren't forced to make that choice.

And that alone tells me it's better for workers (and therefore companies). Particularly if you're the best person the for the job (which I assume you are, since you work there!).
but why is it so hard for Harvard academics to understand that the factors affecting people from the Mid-Western middle class, Southern urban poor, New England suburban wealthy, etc. are all very different?

In the East it is understood and named millenias ago. Roughly speaking, it is what they call [inner] "peace" or "balance" (of mind) which comes from realizations of one's own nature.

This is, of course, not mere abstract concepts, at least to realized people, and fundamental changes that a different state of mind propagates to the whole system (body) are easily observable and scientifically testable (chronic stresses, anxiety/personality disorders, etc.)

So, all these middle-class blah-blah people, loosely speaking, need to know thyself and [then] transform themseves.)
Ah, yes, well that too ;)
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So you think "warm relationships" and IQ - two metrics used for some of the study's key conclusions - are represented similarly among this group as the general population?

I agree that it may be valuable for things such as health metrics, since it holds socioeconomic factors relatively constant, like another commenter on this thread mentions. But at the very least these people certainly had access to better health care than the average person, or at least higher-than-average intelligence to be able to handle adverse situations during their life. That alone should be enough to eliminate any meaning this may have towards people in general.
Oh, I think I see what you're saying. So calling them named pipes is inaccurate, then. If I'm not mistaken, using features of the /dev filesystem would be dependent on Linux, then. Either way, it isn't really a very robust design. Not like a pipe returned by pipe(2) and passed to a program that is expecting it. Simple unnamed pipes are a fundamental part of unix.

Here's what the man page says:

Process substitution is supported on systems that support named pipes (FIFOs) or the /dev/fd method of
naming open files. It takes the form of <(list) or >(list). The process list is run with its input or
output connected to a FIFO or some file in /dev/fd. The name of this file is passed as an argument to
the current command as the result of the expansion. If the >(list) form is used, writing to the file
will provide input for list. If the <(list) form is used, the file passed as an argument should be read
to obtain the output of list.

So it's done with /dev/fd if that's available, which basically means Linux with that filesystem mounted. Otherwise it falls back on named pipes.
While you are certainly right on historical facts and thus the implied legitimacy of RoC, the reality is when a news agency or the public in general mentions the term China, by default they mean P.R. China. Therefore, the quoted sentence is merely describing (not agreeing) with the POV of said China, which is not that ridiculous to a neutral third party.

Taiwan is a self-governed sovereignty by most accounts, with its own economy, political system and military. It does not have mainstream international recognition from other countries however, most due to P.R China's pressure. For instance, Taiwan is not part of UN, major nations like US failed to acknowledge it as a independent country due to their reluctance to upsetting mainland China - who frequently threatens open war for such 'treacherous division of the one China'. Therefore, there are only 30 or so countries openly supports Taiwan's independence.

The morality of Taiwan's sovereignty debate obviously takes the narrative of a oppressive dictatorship and its democratic neighbor, but to claim Taiwan or RoC as the legitimate government of China and label P.R. China as the illegal, rogue ruler is far-fetched in the current world's landscape; after all the latter has taken control over the China for over half a century, wield much more political and economical power, and is widely acknowledged as a legitimate country for decades. It's almost like saying US is not a legitimate nation, rather ilegal rebellion against the Great Britain ever since some two hundred years ago.
HN is a hotbed of early adopters (and Microsoft is not a favourite among many readers).
Reminds me of the Interface Hall of Shame [1].

[1] http://interfacehallofshame.eu/www.iarchitect.com/lotus.htm
Are you saying that making sure the type is correct (just before the cast) becomes the programmer's responsibility? How often does this happen?
Interesting! First Dianne Fienstein proposes a "bait and Switch" reform bill which is going nowhere and now you're suggesting Keith Alexander falls on his sword and takes full responsibility so the public thinks there is closure.

Sneaky! Will it fly with the common man or is the common man getting it?
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I've also lived in both, and that's nonsense.

Rather than compare anecdotes though, look at some actual data: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/

(USA is ranked 17; Philippines is 105. Lower is better.)
If they chose ruby, python coders might not like it. If they chose python, ruby coders might not like it, etc.

By using Go, it avoids a lot of existing biases. I think that's what that slide is referring to.
I'd tend to agree with you. McCain seems primarily upset about Merkel being spied upon, not the wholesale vacuuming up of the rest of the world's Internet communications. He's also clearly anti-Snowden/anti-whistleblower.

FYI - this is the entire Q&A on the Der Spiegel site: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-932721.html
Ask HN: What is missing from Android?
What is the killer feature that you think is missing from Android? For enterprises? For Consumers?

An there are no bad ideas so shoot :-)
I'm sorry if this is ignorance, but they can scientifically test the effect of your state of mind on various psychological disorders? That seems like it's another topic of immense subjectivity. Isn't the objective measurement of one's state of mind, and even certain psychological conditions, in practice difficult/impossible to the point where studies are non-reproducible or highly debatable?

I really don't know, so if you have examples of such studies I'd be more than happy to become informed.
And if presentation software played the tones, anybody could record the audio at even an informal meeting and tie it to the slides. The speaker could just do it with their phone.

If the presentation software makers wanted to close the loop, they could just give you an app that records the audio, listens for the tones, uploads it to their site where you've saved your slides and automatically put it all together where anybody can see the final product.
Machine Translation Engine For 22 Indian Local Languages is Being Built
There is a lot of overlap between CS and Physics. For one example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
wow -- surprised at all the folks that just quit their jobs recently. We've got quite an HN job-quitting support group.

i also just quit in june of this year and it's a big change. i've always been motivated to work on projects on my own, but going to absolutely zero supervision (and zero income) took a lot of getting used to. it's easy to get paralyzed thinking that you need to work constantly and you end up not having fun even though you're super free (for a little bit) and have a really flexible schedule.

we're personally having our official launch at a trade show next week...it's going to be a real moment of truth for us and i'm kind of terrified.

good luck!
I think you misunderstand the political debate. Neither the KMT nor the DPP wants Taiwan to be under the control of the PRC government. The difference is that the KMT wants Taiwan and the mainland to be reunited under the ROC government, while the DPP wants Taiwan to be an independent country.
Thanks for the link. I can only access the abstract, but conflicting results "over the extent to which elevated salt consumption has adverse implications for population health" is very different from saying that "there is a widespread and unsupported belief that moderation of sodium intake is a key public health concern, which it is not."

It sounds like the article concludes, contrary to your memory, that as a result of non-objective scientific practices, the public incorrectly believes that high sodium intake is definitely a huge problem for all, when in reality, it's either a huge problem for all, or it's a huge problem for some, or it's a huge problem for some and a small problem for others, or it's a small problem for some.
It's painfully obvious these guys have never created a proper distro package in earnest.
Position: Solution Architect, full time, remote.

Story: Ex-employer wanted me back, but were closing local office. I said ok, but I'm not moving.

Advice: If possible, don't be the only person doing remote work. That doesn't work so well.
Why Hardware Development is Hard, Part 2: The Physical World is Unforgiving
Take on a tough programming project related to one of your hobbies. Have big dreams but start small.
"Or the California High Speed rail is projected to be twice the budget they thought, and they've barely broken ground on it?"

A correction: They've broken no ground on it. An AP article today reports that the "California High-Speed Rail Authority is in escrow on just one parcel of the 370 it needs" for the first 30 miles. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=9320...

And the entire effort is in trouble: "Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Kenney ruled that California's high-speed rail authority had violated the letter of the 2008 ballot initiative authorizing $10 billion in bonds for the 500-mile train's construction." http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732410820...

I actually agree with the parent comment re: engineering but wanted to make sure that folks didn't think ground had been broken already on California's high speed rail plan. I wasn't sure and had to check myself.
Careful though, it is important to distinguish between storytelling about actual figures versus fictional or fantasy figures: Overall, children were more likely to solve the problem when it was told about a real child than when it was told about a fantasy character [1].

[1]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201311/...
my experience is the same. I usually skip meals in the lab for this reason.
"Taiwan is a self-governed sovereignty by most accounts"

Sincere question, even though this sounds rhetorical: can you provide a piece of data which suggests Taiwan is not self-governed?
> If revealing the truth about what the Government is doing damages the standing prestige of the country, then is he implying that much of that prestige is based on a lie?

Are you trying to claim that 'if the government has done nothing wrong, it has nothing to fear'? I mean, I don't really care which way you believe on that idea but you should at least be logically consistent :P
ok. I don't understand HN's submission system at all.

I was looking to submit an article [1] that was an intensely fun read. Before I did I looked for previous submissions, and found this: [2] and this [3]

Given the seriously low scores these stories had vs how good the article was, I assumed it just got unlucky, so I posted it again.

In response to my POST, Hacker News sent me a 302 redirect to [3].

Ok, that must be because the url refers to the same story. Which I figured was some automatic thing HN does to avoid reposts. Given that the OP url hadn't obviously mutated in any way, I knew I didn't need to check, so I submitted again... and nothing, that was fine.

So I have no idea how hacker news works. I plead innocent by way of insanity.

1: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/december32011/index.html
2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971657
3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3474763
To be fair, in all of my side stuff I ignore IE completely, but at work I've been tasked almost exclusively on the JS with IE8 support, so I haven't had to worry about it. Great point though!
Top 5 Must Attend Sessions for HA and Scalability at AWS re:Invent 2013
Twitter jealous of Fox Business?
The Turing test is actually a pretty decent and straightforward test.

How so? To me, it appears completely open-ended. You could sit there forever asking questions and never reach a definitive result.
> It seems like he thinks the spying was egregious as well.

To be fair there's a lot of people who think NSA has gone overboard, even when those people otherwise consider Snowden a traitor. That would explain why Sen. McCain says that oversight was insufficient while still being upset with DIRNSA for not having proper internal controls to keep an employee (but especially a contractor) from grabbing a hold of so much TS, even across compartmentalized boundaries.
I've been doing remote work for a little over a year now. My story goes like this:

1) Saved money and quit job for big vacation -- 2) came home but wasn't ready for job so started contracting onsite -- 3) eventually introduced to a remote/part time contract -- 4) started freelancing half time while working on my own projects half time.

Working remotely is terrific! No commute means an extra 2 hours in my day. I split my locations between home, coffee shops, and client offices (when they have offices) for variety.

For anyone who wants to go this route, I recommend building a solid network. The best contracts I've gotten were through former co-workers and former clients. Another route I've used are recruiters/agencies (for subcontracting work). It pays almost as well and there's less of a hassle with marketing and invoicing. I've also tried using the Hacker News Freelancer threads but the response rate usually knocks down my confidence a lot.
A tried and true method to create motivation to learn something is to sign up for a class that you'll get a grade in. You can take college courses without being in a degree program. Otherwise, I have no idea. I was internally motivated when I learned to code, way back when I was a child. It's harder to summon that kind of motivation if you haven't had it already by the time you're an adult.
There are studies of brain waves of Tibetan monks (compared to mere mortals,) but that is not the point.

The point is, that in a broad sense, Buddha's teaching (Four Noble Truths + Eight-fold Path) is an ultimate CBT, or meta-CBT if you wish, upon which any particular CBT could be easily made.

The notion that [only] a CBT provides "stable" changes in one's mental states, (de-conditioning, re-training) compared to "mere lifting of symptoms" by constant medication, for many people is not even debatable. It just works.
Ah, thanks. I thought they had started building something out near Bakersfield, Modesto, or wherever the heck that thing is going on.
How do we reconcile this with hunger causing ego depletion and choice fatigue? (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fro...)
That was my thought as well before even opening the article.

If he had won in 2008, he would be right in the middle of this too.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf
> The finding was startling, but “it makes sense,” Horvath says. “When you are hungry, you need to focus your entire system on finding food in the environment.”

I never liked these types of rationalization. If the result was opposite, you can easily say that it would make sense because when full, you can concentrate fully on the task at hand, rather than on finding food.
I'm pretty sure you are replying with the assumption that maaku was making a statement about who should be recognized as "China".

I believe he was actually making a statement about the legitimacy of the Taiwanese claim to sovereignty over their own island. Mainland claims to ownership over the island have to be argued from a historical context, since they haven't actually had any administrative control over the island for over 100 years. So maaku was responding to this argument (without actually invoking it) by saying that if the question is "who was there first, the KMT or the PRC" then the KMT technically wins since it both predates the PRC and has maintained uninterrupted control until Taiwan became a democracy.

Of course.. the situation is actually more complicated than that because the KMT and PRC are both mainland governments forced upon Taiwan (one successful and one still hoping), while Taiwan has its own history, language, and ethnicities. So in an even broader historical context both are technically "invaders." Such is the fate of all small island nations, perhaps...
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That might sound cliche but I wanted to add that it really helped me. I used to have a very negative/unhappy general conditioning but the basics of Buddhism have helped me make my life more pleasant/happy in general.
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Reconciliation: NYT wants to report on something that sounds interesting and people will talk about.
I don't know what to do with your comment. I think every single person I know over age 50 on Facebook has gotten a lot out of it, for instance, if for no reason other than they used it to reconnect with old friends. But you didn't get anything out of it so you deleted it.. ok - is there some bigger point you're making? I'm missing it.

It sort of sounds like another one of those "I'm 22 and don't understand why other people can't just be true to themselves and don't want their real name associated with every single thing they've ever said or done" rants against old people, but I wouldn't slap that accusation on you.

I think people just want to say things sometimes without it hanging around forever. Like yelling out something funny in a crowd. What's wrong with that?
Europe's gravity-mapping GOCE satellite is hours away from falling to the ground
I also find that I perform best when I fast for the morning, and then have a rather large lunch. Its a little hard around 11am, but I don't crash as easily - and I'm able to push through problems easier afterwards.

The only thing I find is that it sometimes impacts on my creativity; I'm not able to think of alternate solutions.
I would love to see more articles like this. Not just for Go, but for all kinds of technologies. A lot of real world case studies would make it easier to evaluate new technologies, and help justify decisions to management.
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But I could also argue that not all crimes are caught in the data, because the law is written wrong. In fact, I could argue the law as it is written is thus criminal. After all, this is a democracy and the people are responsible for the laws. The people are incapable of drafting the laws in a non discriminatory manner (because racial prejudice and its legacy). Or, I could argue the exact opposite. Both are equaly weak/strong. But, this style of debate is incoherent. For it to be coherent, it would require special knowledge. And is otherwise a variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
So did i. You are not alone. Heck even OP knows people would come for that. But still, pretty cool post. My CSS-writing colleague asked me this the other day, wrote the mathematical part of the code for him. though i used the n%3 == 1 method.

Though know that i think of it, i think he ended up using JS for this :/
The cohort of men who would have been undergrads in 1938 would have been in middle age at the time of the sexual revolution in the 60's and 70's. My guess is there was probably some political overlap with sexual-liberation, and that just unfolded in the bedroom into later life.
Using JavaScript to set keyframes in CSS animations (Windows Store apps, IE)
Yeah, the profile of people who would agree to participate in this study is certainly "biased". Not sure what you can do with the results.
Great, I have an expert here! So how does Kotlin bridge the differences between Java and JS? Can I write portable code that manipulates arrays? Does Kotlin use JavaScript's number semantics when it targets JavaScript, or does it emulate Java's?

I'm starting to suspect Kotlin is a unified syntax but doesn't actually have any unified semantics, or considers all heap objects to be "foreign" and owned by either Java or JS.

I was expecting to hear one of a few reasonable approaches to making code portable across Java and JS. For example, Kotlin has its own concept of an array which happens be backed by an ArrayList in Java land. Or, classes like ArrayList are emulated in JS by a runtime library.
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No you can't. This is one of the first fallacies taught in Logic 101. If A then B, does not mean if !A then !B.