skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is the case, then it betrays significant naivety on the part of the OP (which is my assertion of the question in general). Good cleaning people/individuals, not just cleaning services, are not easy to find. My household has gone through a handful and at times struggled to keep the good ones.

The same goes for competency in many other jobs, like plumbing and yard work, that may be considered "unskilled" or not. The difference between some of these is that you often hire cleaning or yardwork services on a regular or scheduled basis, so you have a nice feedback loop on determining their value (both monetarily and for keeping them around/finding a new one). Versus services like plumbers, who most people only call when there is a problem (that is, no one keeps a plumber on retainer).
I don't think any car lasts more than a couple of weeks without being turned on, OBDII bluetooth dongle or not

For the airbag I think the sensors are passive, but even if they aren't, a grace period could be added (like, it will shut down after someone shuts off the car, then opens and closes the door)
I'm no fan of Bitcoin, in principal. I agree with you; it's flawed as hell long term, for multiple reasons I won't go into here. But boy, is it ever nice to work with. Several of the companies I have business with now support BTC payments, and all I do is click on the link, which opens up my Coinbase account with all the fields pre-filled, hit one more button and it's done.

Not easier than, say, Amazon, where I buy something every week at least, have my card information saved and make sure I keep it updated when it expires, etc. But, if it's a new place, where I just have to make a one-time payment, I'll choose BTC every time if it's offered.
> If you live long enough, you will get cancer

Is this true, though?

The really old rarely die from cancer, it seems.
http://z3.invisionfree.com/The_110_Club/index.php?showtopic=...
> If coin price > mining cost / 2, it becomes worth it to acquire 51% of mining capability so you can vote the other 49% to yourself, no?

No. The most powerful thing a 51% miner can do is roll-back transactions. The currency goes back to the spender, not to the miner.
I guess it's used only as an example, but we are really far away from being able to 3d print shoes. Or toothbrushes for that matter. Shower-curtain rings and toothbrush handles, yes. I suspect the author of this article has not spent a lot of time looking at the technical side of 3d printing: it's not some kind of magic replicator that can produce arbitrarily complex compound items out of arbitrary materials.
> If HUDs are considered AR (a valid viewpoint, as far as I'm concerned)

I don't consider HUDs to be AR unless there is some aspect of registration. To be fully what I would consider AR, they need to understand at least something about the scene and modify it. To add data to the scene without understanding it doesn't really count.
Creatine supp. isn't just for bodybuilders; it's actually beneficial for the brain.
You need equity to live in Silicon Valley
Gradle looks to me like it's full of good intentions, of exactly the sort that in a few years will have led them straight to hell, at which point someone will reinvent ant or make with different syntax and we'll be back where we started.

I worked on a proprietary build system remarkably similar to gradle for many years. The cleverer a build system tries to be the more likely it will become a self sustaining beast that consumes ever more of your time and destroys productivity. They look great with relatively simple systems, but a few years into production with multiple deployment target configurations and you will want to murder people. Build systems should be stupid, simple, and trivially predictable.
that's a pretty standard riot control tactic, executed quite well. I don't agree with the beating tho :(
Page caching: it's been around for a while. At least on unix systems. I imagine Windows, etc have it too.
In 1840 news: blacks are bought and sold to work as slaves in Southern plantations.

Cynical aknowledgement of the world as it is never changed anything for the better.
Would you argue that the Montgomery Bus Boycott was just fighting intolerance with intolerance? Is Richard Stallman intolerant because he boycotts the Coca-Cola company?

Boycotting isn't fighting intolerance with intolerance, it's just an instance of someone abstaining from something.
You should check out djb's redo [1], specifically the implementation by apenwarr [2]. It's close to the separation of concerns you're looking for: programs written in your language of choice enumerate the dependency graph, an external tool collects them and executes its way through the dependency graph towards your targets.

I agree with you that Make's pattern matching facilities are ugly and could be improved upon. I tried something of the sort [3] with redo, and it worked well, but felt too alien.

From what I've seen at big companies with huge builds, the "dependency graph itself changed, now what do we rebuild" problem is the killer problem. I bet you've seen instances of that at Google.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/redo.html

[2] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7464047
The root comment on this thread wasn't taking advantage of the instability of Auroracoin; it was taking advantage of a gold rush of other opportunists and the certitude (reasonable, and, as it turns out, correct) that the Auroracoin experiment would fail, leaving anyone who bought and held the instruments holding the bag. In other words, a pump-and-dump scheme.
The users are hiding you by their inaction on your posts.

If you "like" more posts from a page, you'll see more of their content. If you don't like their posts, you'll see less of it.
Different companies have different definitions for junior, senior etc. Like other comments mention, it's mainly length of professional experience.

Many places defines senior developers as having +5 years of professional experience (i.e. excluding college). But it varies a lot from company to company.
What makes satellite communication special? Is it okay to monitor the CEO of every communication company? If so, is it any different for non-US governments to monitor the CEO's of US tech companies?
Nicely put. I would only add that a senior developer is able to grasp the "big picture" of a project, and would have the ability adapt and influence (not just with words, but with actions and well-researched presentations) the rest of the team and management to create the best outcome for the project.

It all sounds so vague, so it's best summed up as "experience" and "people-skills"
Dabbling a lot does not make you a Senior Dev. It's the part where you create and debug complex systems, such as you don't see while doing your small school projects. That, plus hopefully a little more wisdom when deciding which frameworks or design patterns to use and how slavishly to adhere to them.
It's a bit of both, but it's mainly about experience rather than knowledge.

A senior is expected to be able to handle anything that comes up during the course of a project (including when things are on fire), to be able to delegate, to be able to mentor juniors and quality-control their work.

Juniors are expected to be learning as they go (to a greater extent) and likely to make mistakes or need help now and then.

In particular, a senior will know when they have something wrong or it's not good enough. A junior is reliant on others to tell them what's expected in a given situation.

If you are a recent graduate you are, by definition, a junior. After a few years you might have the experience necessary to become a senior, if you have earned the trust of your peers, especially those in charge of that decision.
Ah, recursive make. I once spent some time trying to convert a large multiple-directory product build from many makefiles into one. Now that was painful. So many concurrency problems...
If you understand the logic I was employing, your comment gives no sign of that. Epistemology is fun, but it's a tangent.
A 3D printer/scanner would of came in handy when I snapped a plastic part in my side mirror on my car. Had to basically get a full replacement mirror because they didn't sell the bottom plate individually. Can't wait until auto repair shops start using them.
I didn't really get the point of the article, so I'm just going to comment on work-life balance at Google in general.

Basically, you are freed from any unnecessary constraints in choosing your own work life balance. You are judged by the work you do, regardless of how long it took you to do that work, or which hours of the day you did that work.

The company goes to reasonable lengths to allow remote working, but they can't make up for the inherent disadvantage of not being in the office/campus when other people are.

In my opinion, that is the best that a company can do in terms of promoting work life balance. A company could also actively try and stop people from working more than X hours, but I don't see why that is a good thing, if a person really wants to do it.

Many posts on HN suggest that when a person chooses to work long hours, this is (A) an irrational choice on their part and (B) imposes externalities on other people, and therefore should be culturally discouraged. On (A), it's hard to judge all cases, but some people really want/need the money. On (B) that is really just wanting to avoid competition. If another person is willing to work longer hours or accept less pay, that is going to harm me, but it is also how the free market works. I'm happy to accept market wages because that's how capitalist societies work, and both in theory and practice, they work* pretty well.

* And by "work" I mean that they provided the overall best outcome, including for the worst off. I added this disclaimer because there is always one comment that says something like "yes capitalism works... for the rich".
The web site does not do a good job of explaining what their concerns are with the agreement.

But the pie chart shown (setting aside sample bias...) is stunning: it says that only 1.6% of people asked said they support the agreement.

This in a country where people believe in democracy as a strong part of their national identity, and as the main thing that makes them different from mainland China.
Exactly. Great project. The media is to blame for trying to portray this kid as some sort of brilliant revolutionary, all externalities are being tossed to the side. It's not jealousy to point out that our current inefficiency is preferable to faux-fiscal conservatism.
Indeed (http://www.indeed.com/) could be another good job listing site to check out. I use it occasionally just to gauge the number of openings in my area for what I'm currently going to college for.
Password security: past, present, future
It's about time Turkey took a step towards US in controlling the flow of information. I mean, how long has this been going on here, undetected? The obvious solution, Turkey, is to target specific individuals after digging into their background, confirming that they are not computer experts before attacking them via their computer.
I do not want to encourage shallow, not-thought-through ideas so we can fluff the ego of children. The problem is not that we're encouraging kids, the problem is that duller adults prefer simple ideas to working ones.
Fortunately I don't see a problem with spying on foreign companies or countries. Also you shouldn't downvote a perfectly valid comment. Thanks.
We'll have effectively created a new breed of super-mice though.
I want to add self-awareness to the list.

When I was reasonably new, but had a project or two behind me, I thought I knew everything that was worth knowing. Slowly, as projects, responsibility and, most importantly, failures, all grew in size, it dawned on me that there was _a lot_ one could know about development.

Today, I know vastly more than I did a few years ago, yet now I feel like I know very little, because I understand how much else there is still to learn.

Now that I've done some technical interviewing for my employer, I see the same thing in others. Some of the best people are those that are humble enough to say that they don't know everything.

And on the flip side I've interviewed someone who rated themself 9/10 with git. I asked for an explanation of the term rebase, and got "huh?" as a response. I also see it in some vendors I cooperate with, young business' with young developers who think they can solve everything simply because they lack experience with failure.

So in short, knowing something of ones own limitations is important.
Relevant comic: http://old.onefte.com/2010/06/19/i-am-legend/
There's a difference between "no negative reports" and "people actively reporting positive experiences".
Snowboarding.

Coworker talked me into group lessons in January and February. Had such a fun time I got a board and a season pass for next winter.
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I think it was a case of bad paraphrasing. Another source doesn't make Sinclair sound as odd: "Much like a married couple talks to each other when they're newly married but then they stop communicating after about 20 years, at least in some cases."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/scientists-develop-ant...
It's an attempt at politeness, not a strategy in itself.
I saw that once in a computer lab that had all-metal desks. There was on desk in particular that if you grabbed it and a nearby desk, you would get a strong although not painful continuous electrical shock. The sensation was very similar to those trick shock pens that you find in novelty stores.

I would say that that should not be normal. Anything that does that is defective. If it is a normal occurrence with Apple power adapters, I would say that those power adapters are categorically defective.
"How could there possibly be "no" to this from the Fed. Govt?"

Because legibility is more important than laser toner.
You still have to install Cygwin, other solutions require no .dlls
The papers asserts they controlled for that (in the Conclusion):

Nor does it appear to be proxying the effects of other biomarkers, nor parental background.

Also, since it wasn't due to education:

The effect of creatine on labour market outcomes does not arise through the acquisition of formal education as measured by having at least some university education.

I think that also insinuates it wasn't just a proxy for wealth, as the wealthy kids would, I assume, have had better education.
But you can doublespend whatever coins you've got, and reject all other transactions, so the effect is the same. (You're right though, I phrased that incorrectly with "vote.")
The advantage of make, or any other decent build tool, is the dependency management; what depends on what, what's changed, what needs to be (re)built, what order to do all this. In the absence of all that, everything gets rebuilt all the time. Not a big deal for small projects but an absolute killer as projects get larger.
dogecoin faced some issues like this, but community is strong and people promptly update their clients when announced .
They don't die _from_ cancer, but they tend to _have_ cancer when they die.

Tumours in old people grow slowly.
Yes, it’s sinking, but this drop is caused by another problem.

The pessimistic interpretation says that this is caused by a pump and dump scheme.

The optimistic interpretation says that Auroracoin was heavily (50%) premined. The premined coins were stored and the amount was approximately 100x the amount of the new coins. In the last 4 days they started to distribute the premined coins to the Islanders. So the amount of circulation coins increased heavily, and the price dropped. It’s like inflation.

I don’t have the actual numbers, but I think that the distribution of the coins was unsuccessful. If it were successful the price would have fallen even more.
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Just to be clear, increasing demand implies shifting the demand curve rightward, and increases the price.

The dynamics of economies of scale that we are familiar with are related to chance that suppliers can lower their marginal costs if demand also justifies a fixed cost in suitable technology. And furthermore, if there is a big enough market and enough suppliers, the market price will approach the marginal cost of production.

Imagine someone wants you to make a spoon that they'll buy from you. It takes you an hour to whittle one out of a piece of wood, and you charge $100. Then they want ten more using the exact same method you used on the first one. Ten hours whittling sounds like even more of a hardship than an hour, so you charge even more per spoon. A thousands spoons painstakingly whittled? Nope.

Now imagine on the other hand, they want you to make them a plastic spoon. Making one plastic spoon is going to be a lot more difficult than whittling one wooden spoon. And yet, if they want enough of them, and you can use any technology, your costs might start to approach $0.01 per spoon.

Anyway, since we think of anything that's to become a viable business in terms of how it can scale, it's easy to reverse the outcomes of changes in supply or demand in the base case where no technology or methods are changing.
While it is true that you learn your spouse that well, it will be long before that when you realize if don't like them.

However when you don't communicate, your lives get out of sync. At some point this has gone on long enough, the changes we go through (called life) cause people to become strangers again.

It's like two inertial systems. They drift, differently, over time and this difference accumulates. Communication between the two inertial units can synchronize them. Or a trusted third party (GPS) can give them both a course correction.
Spacebrew
Oh. Did someone in the media finally figure out this implication?
Yes, it's really nasty. Three groups with different agendas and none of them interested in democracy or the rule of law.
Our office has probably on the order of 40 magsafe chargers, and my home has at least 10 (not all of which are functional). The chargers fray and short out. They always have, and they continue to do so even in the most recent RMBP iteration.

This has been a continuous weakness with Apple chargers across every product line I've used back to the TiBook. They are pretty, and they are very functional, but they are not resilient.
I achieve my segmentation by studying, and I've been very successful at forgetting about my job when I'm not in the office. Not everyone's cup of tea, though. Other people I know achieve it with sports (not my cup of tea, at least not competitive sports), and considering what we know about how it affects body chemistry, it's probably a very good idea if you're into it.

Job satisfaction is, not coincidentally, a lot like money satisfaction. If you're not worried and/or pressured, you can pretty much forget about it; but if it's a problem, it may eat your life pretty quickly.

In any case, just remember: the most important resource by far is time, not money. Money can be the most urgent resource to attend, at some shitty/unlucky times; but in the long run, aim for the highest amount of time for yourself. I'll add this: the worst job I've ever had was also the one that paid the most.
To that effect, it's worth consider the same product has 188 reviews on Amazon.com with a 4 star rating:

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Magsafe-Portable-Adapter-MacBook...
But AR has the benefit of a built-in stable background with zero latency, which means that latency in e.g. head tracking might be a little distracting but won't result in VR's crippling nausea. Seems like that's one major problem solved out of the box.
> Think of a heads-up display for a fighter pilot.

Or the HUD in the Iron Man suit.
Jay Leno has you covered: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/technology/432...
"I will setup a a honey pot/trap/perform an SQL injection on a website then go to the people in charge and explain the vulnerability" is an incredibly stupid thing to do.

I think it shows an immature understanding on how large bureaucratic organizations work. In either way he might learn pretty soon. Depending on the incentive structures and their emergent effects they won't act rationally. He can be seen as trying to test vulnerabilities to exploit them. He might have broken some law he doesn't know about and someone is looking for a case to work on and might take it. He might be perceived as someone to be made an example of to discourage these things in the future. Etc etc...

I think there is a good chance he will be charged with fraud or a crime and the fact that he wasn't is surprising.
Keep in mind, it's not just that the power is getting cut, it's getting cut because the key is getting bumped or otherwise turned to the off position. Of course, there are generally 2 different off positions, and in one of them (the really off position), the steering wheel also locks. So yeah, losing power steering, power brakes, the ability to accelerate, and possibly even having the steering wheel locked up, all while the car is in gear, can make it impossible to avoid collisions. Combine that with the fact that it is a completely sudden surprise to both the driver and anyone else around the car, and to top it off, the airbags are disabled. It's generally an extremely dangerous situation.
no comments? wow.
Why should they? Is FB a movie studio, or a game or hw development company? This was an opportunity to hijack a platform in its infancy and fb took it - so, in short - they just bought a whole new platform here(you seem to underestimate the significance, extent and potential of this technology). That is a whole different story. If the HW is a hit(and I bet it will be) - we're talking about a door to the (updated) world of entertainment; they can make a LOT of money by just being the (creepy, spying) doorman.
This reminds me I need to go back to microcorruption.com :)
On the technical side, I will add "experience with systems as a whole, and knowing what's likely to fail in the future and how to design extensible and maintainable systems". I see junior developers who make things that work, but then are not easily extensible, cleanly abstracted, etc.

Senior developers know what to plan ahead of time, what to leave until later, what questions to ask, etc. It doesn't have much to do with the language itself as with the design of the system as a whole.
Sounds like luddism come again. Remind me, who won the last time?
I don't find this study credible. The folks I've met who react strongly to justice appears to me to be running through some intense emotions. Those emotions tend to be highly concentrated to a point where it appears to be reason, but they are still forms of emotions.
Great list. Another that separates the wheat from the chaff is by making yourself replaceable. To an insecure person (in any profession) this is anathema to maintaining a job; to a confident and professional person it is simply a requirement of the job.

- Documenting what you do. If you hoard knowledge or hide it in e-mails or IRC logs you're not helping anybody. If you're guy who changes something that affects other developers but don't send a courtesy e-mail or present your charges (your action being proportionate to the change you're making) -- you're that guy.

- Teaching others your skills. Being a font of knowledge, wisdom and ideas is also important. If the product owner, PM or a junior dev can approach you and get a straight-laced answer tailored to the skill-level individual you're doing really well indeed.

- Every team and company do things differently. Being able to contrast how you're going to do something against what you have done before is another useful skill.

- Caring about the 'boring stuff': release management. configuration management. proper continuous integration. simplifying your build steps. cleaning up hairy code or removing redundant files and gunk from older projects.
"I would guess the other commenters are jealous that their problem solving skills don't get as much attention"

Using slightly more literate ways to call critics "haters" is not any more constructive.