skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a social policy that one must adhere to when interacting with groups within certain "geekdom" domains. I learned it while idling on IRC EFNet in #Linux, #LinuxHelp in the early 2000's. To an outsider it comes off as harsh and dismissive but It really does weed out the random noobs/script kiddies who refuse to read a man page or put any effort into solving a problem themselves. I learned how to exhaust all possible search options before posting and how to formulate a question properly, by providing clear and concise examples of the problem resulting in less followup questions and quick solutions to my issues.
Wow, what an unbalanced article! No mention of casualties on the other side. Disgusting one-sided coverage. I am really disappointed in the Washington Post. Bad job. I find that Israeli news sources like Haaretz are more balanced re: the middle east than the US news is - strange. Al Jazeera is another reasonable source for middle east news. Forget about US news coverage of the middle east.

As an American, I find I often feel the need to use something like news.google.com to find articles on any given story from many countries around the world to get a more balanced view. This is a practice that I have introduced to several friends and family members, and once they make the little bit of effort to look at world wide coverage they understand my complaint about the US news industry.

In our modern world, I think that it is at least ill-advised, if not dangerous, to live in a bubble and not read many opposing opinions on important events.
AS HN: If I Write Code With My Brother Is That Brogramming?
So thinking about watching the detroit tigers play baseball tonight on the patio with my brother while were grilling and writing code....

is this Brogramming?
It will work at any company I think. I've used this for very large software companies before. LinkedIn is the tool. Intro is best so look for connections.
First, don't feel bad. I've seen a lot of smart people have a lot of trouble finding entry level jobs lately. Luckily you are in an industry with ample opportunity.

Next, be proactive. Apply to 10 companies a day. Just think about the numbers, your conversion rate, and sending out resumes. You won't know your conversion rate until you apply to a ton of jobs. With the background you said and lack of any real experience, 95% of companies are going to want to pass because they want someone who knows framework/language X and can hit the ground running. However, that leaves 5% that are willing to train interns or even full-time hires with 0 experience. The problem is that you can't really tell which are which type of company so you've got to send resumes to everyone. After sending out 100 resumes take a step back, evaluate your approach and success rate, then get back to it.

While you're sending out resumes, spend a small portion of your time reaching out to anyone you know in the industry (including your friends from school who just got jobs) and ask them to take a look at your resume.

There's really no shortage of tech companies you can apply to, especially if you're willing to relocate. Where are you located now?

One more tip: My friend who had next to no experience got a job at Google as a contractor through a 3rd party company. He gets very solid pay and access to all of Google's lux facilities/food and he didn't even have to do a technical interview. I think they do this because if you suck they can basically fire you anytime.

Good Luck!
Another comment has already pointed out that until we see the underlying study we can't be sure that this press release is really important. I note that the claim "In the largest study of its kind, an international team of experts led by Newcastle University, UK, has shown that organic crops and crop-based foods are up to 69% higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally-grown crops" doesn't tell us anything important unless it can be shown that those "key antioxidants" are genuinely important for human health, and despite some hand-waving in the press release, there is no epidemiological evidence at all that the presence or absence of particular antioxidants in foodstuffs is associated with better health in human beings.
Even at 0% humidity (which is virtually never; right now in 76148, or the suburbs north of Fort Worth, it is 95F at 16% humidity. Tomorrow has a forecast high of 101F at 22% humidity), temps above 100F are unbearable. I say this as someone who was born and raised in Texas. We planned our days around A/C, our parking around the afternoon shade, and it's gotten so bad now that high school football (a religion in Texas all its own) is restricting practices outdoors between 2PM and 6PM (the hottest part of the day) between mid-May and mid-September.

Yes, it's not as hot (115F on average) or as humid (80%+) as some parts of the world, but for us, it sucks. Especially since houses built in Texas since the mid-60s are built to have air conditioning. They don't have whole-house fans and they don't have large windows that open. Fancy houses have bay windows that face the southwest that don't open so the house is like a glass oven. Radiant barriers in the attic and high-efficiency A/C provide some relief, but most summers it's just a beating.

In 2011, the local news stopped counting the number of consecutive days above 100F and just kept count of days above 105F. Several days that summer broke 110F...
All the advice so far is great. The only thing I'll add is that applying to 10 companies is not enough. I work with one of these coding bootcamps and what we've found is finding a job has less to do with technical expertise and more with persistence. The students who applied to the most places got the most offers sooner.

That said, this finding a job process is hard, and tech companies are notoriously bad at knowing how to bring on new junior-level people. Keep at it, and good luck to you!
Neither did I use the term "pick up" in relation to what I do, nor did I imply seeing women as objects. Thats why I asked you to refer to what I wrote.

As for the dedication to become good (which mainly means more self secure and understanding) in the interactions with young beautiful women: Yeah! I would love to meet other guys who are into this. It seems to go against some old fashioned worldview you hold. My reply to this is: Get rid of values that have been drummed into you and start listening to your own feelings!
1. You didn't say where you're living right now. If you're still in the city where you went to university, you might want to try talking to your professors, explain your situation, and ask them if they have any projects you could work on for free. Even if they don't, they might have suggestions for projects that they'd be willing to advise you while you worked on the project (e.g. meet semi-regularly with you and offer feedback.)

This will be harder to pull off if your self-assessment is inaccurate :). Start with classes where you got As or really clicked with the prof, then work your way down. Whenever you talk to someone, ask if he or she knows other people who would be a good fit for your interests and who you could also talk to. If they mention someone you don't know personally, ask to be introduced by email. The usual job search/networking stuff. (As long as you're not obnoxious about it, this isn't pushy --- most people will be happy to send an email that will make it easier for you to talk to someone else but might forget to offer unless you bring it up specifically.)

2. At the same time, think about what sort of work you want to do. Then start learning more about that area and try to become part of that "community." Are there relevant conferences you could go to? Do you have friends who know people in the field? (This is a rhetorical question; you probably do, even if you don't know it.) Ask to be introduced, and then ask those people how to get started in the field. Don't be pushy about it, and try to make it clear that you're not asking anyone for a job. AND don't ask people for jobs! You'll get a lot more out of these conversations if everyone views them as "conversations" and not "job interviews."

2b. If you don't know what sort of work you want to do, maybe do a version of those steps, but aimed at learning about lots of different aspects of development.

3. I would strongly discourage you from spending 2-3 months working on your own on side-projects. It's too easy to fool yourself, and it's likely that you'll be back in the same place after 2-3 months spent unproductively. But, if you have friends in a similar position, and if working with a former professors isn't possible, it could be useful to work on a project with those friends. You're likely to learn more about "work" that way than working on your own, and you're more likely to get something interesting done in a manageable time frame.
> Well, only if the transmission is signed & trusted. Otherwise, an attacker could just spoof a payment by transmitting a modified blockchain close to the payment terminal.

As noted in the article (under the "technology" page), signing is planned but not yet implemented.

> Also, things like DVB tuners are not exactly cheap enough to be integrated into many devices (though FM receivers, which may be used in the future, are).

What kind of devices are you thinking of? It seems to me that the most useful applications of this system would be for vending machines. A $10 DVB-T demodulator (at scale they can be had much cheaper than that) is a rounding error in the cost of those devices.
Bank lending to small businesses is way down since the start of the recession, and if they were inclined to start again they could borrow at nearly zero percent anyway. Bank leadership has been saying they don't see good opportunities. In that climate, Amazon's account makes no difference.

See for example

http://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/wells-fargo-earnings-and-...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/12/eu-banks-dijsselblo...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2014/07/11/str...
Transgenics are absolutely not "seriously and obviously bad for us". Almost the entire debate around GMOs is about transgenically modified crops, and to date nobody has clearly demonstrated harm from transgenics in even a single case. It's a technology, it has myriad uses and there is nothing intrinsic to it that is harmful.
Do you think this would be a good choice?
http://www.amazon.com/Natures-Way-Magnesium-Complex-Capsules...

Thank you for the suggestion. I had never heard of the importance of magnesium and am definitely curious if it could help improve my procrastination and lack of focus.
The insight (made here by jwr) that TeX and Emacs and Vim are local maximums is a great observation that explains why we are stuck with these three programs. I've used these programs for over a quarter of a century and often wished for shiny, new replacements. Younger HN readers may not realize just how old these programs are.

How in the world did Bill Joy come up with Vi in 1976? It lives on today as the velociraptor of editors, Bram Moolenaar's Vim. I use the T. Rex of editors, Stallman's Gnu Emacs, another dinosaur of software, yet unsurpassed in scope and capability. These are great at what they do and so flexible and extensible that it's difficult for any new project to catch up.

TeX is different. Knuth, one of the greatest computer scientists of all time, created TeX. His choices for development tools were meager, but with the help of /literate programming/, essentially invented by Knuth to write TeX, he wrote TeX using the Pascal programming language in the late 1970s.

TeX, like Emacs and Vi/Vim, has an extension language. TeX has a powerful macro system that allows it to be extended. LaTeX is a set of TeX macros that most users use to create documents. The number of macro packages written for TeX to support every imaginable kind of typesetting (chess notation and boards, music, etc.) is staggering. This accounts for the large size of TeX installations. One can easily download and install every package ever available and be ready to typeset anything. The core TeX program, however, is composed of 1376 extremely well documented paragraphs (small code fragments). It is a pleasure to read through Knuth's literate code, all available as a beautiful book (naturally typeset in TeX).

The features of TeX were effectively frozen in 1985. Knuth kept track of every error in TeX during its development. Since 1985 there have been less than 100 errors found in TeX [1].

The open-source communities around TeX (and Emacs and Vim) make it is difficult for any new project to develop the features that make it worth switching. This is the uphill climb that is facing Patoline. Will it succeed? I'm not sure because many others have tried and failed. Lout was a really good attempt [2], but it seems to have lost steam [3].

[1] http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/errata/errorl...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
[3] https://www.ohloh.net/p/lout
Interesting feedback, I didn't expect the exclamation marks to have such an affect. It is more of my personal writing style, however since there were two remarks on the exclamation marks, I edited the article and cleaned out some of the exclamation marks. Hope you enjoy the article.
Best practices for a brick and mortar store to start accepting Bitcoin
I spoke with a relative who owns a brick and mortar shoe repair store about accepting Bitcoin for payment. He is starting to get more customers outside his geographic area and is open to the idea of accepting Bitcoin as payment to make it easier for customers to pay him without getting hit with high credit card transaction fees. However some of his concerns:
Considering how volatile Bitcoin can be, how does he look up the pricing so he and his customers get a fair price?
What are the transactions fees like for converting Bitcoins to cash?
What are some of the best practices for storing the Bitcoins securely?
How fast can he verify payment?
Any other hidden gotcha’s he should be aware of before moving forward on this?
Thanks
Well, it found no significant difference in nutrients measured except for phosphorus (the difference in phosphorus was significant but not clinically significant), and it did find that organic foods were lower in pesticides and organic chicken and pork were much less likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

I thought the reporting on this survey was so weird. Headlines trumpeting "NO DIFFERENCE!" Antibiotic-resistant bacteria freak me the heck out. Pesticides don't seem so tasty. And that CAFO chicken tastes like styrofoam -- being a vegetarian is no loss if you only know that *&^!. But a piece of pork that really tastes like pork..... mmmmmmm....... Doesn't anyone buy food for the taste anymore?
Mono had some issues with memory management that appear to make it less reliable for very long-running processes - I don't have first hand experience with that. The size of the community may also be an issue, since there are not many companies deploying enterprise applications on Mono and you may experience issues completely unique to your stack and have no other way to solve it than to redeploy on .NET.
Thank you, I appreciate the comment
/*

- Exercise more,
- Eat more healthy (less carbs/sugar/processed food, more vegetables and regular meat/fish/eggs...),
- Sleep more,
- Drink less.

*/

And as an insomniac I was having trouble with 'sleep more'. People with worse insomnia than me have to go sleep clinics to work out how to improve their situation. Mine wasn't bad enough to warrant that but fortunately there was an app to allow me to do a little of my own research. Without it I wouldn't be able to tell the time it took me to fall asleep - as I would be asleep.
Slow, painful support, absolutely crazy latency, cocked up reverse DNS, bad peering.
Microsoft shutting down MapPoint, will support it through July 2015
Ideally, that's how it handled. In fact that's how it's handled on OpenBSD. Getentropy either works or you're screwed. As it turns out, there are other systems (hello Linux, etc.) where you don't have such a reliable way to source entropy. I don't know how common it is to encounter this in reality but sadly it looks like it might be quite common indeed, though I hope I'm wrong. See the point about daemons chrooting into /var/empty for example.

You can disable the fallback code with a define, so if your distributors are sure your system should always be able to provide a good entropy source in normal use, they'll flip that switch.
'Sleep Cycle'. Orange icon with a clock on it. I was always quite skeptical of it and didn't download it until recently. It's been one of the top apps for a few years and has good reviews. I've found it to be quite accurate. It recommends that you keep your iPhone connected to a charger and under your sheet as you sleep but I've found just placing the device next to my pillow works fine and only uses about 25-30% battery life per night.
Bell invented this too?! Was this before or after the telephone?
When people say Java, I almost always think about mobile and enterprise applications. While true you can build desktop apps with Java, that's not a common usage.

And, mind you, you forgot the platform almost every internet connected server runs.
The difference of length between "he" and "she" would be enough to reveal that information.
a correction: the Washington Post does have does have a front page article that does a better job at covering the issues from both side: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/over-100-kil...

I stand by my comments on the benefits of reading news from multiple sources.
I can't be the only person who immediately thinks of the Replicators from SG-1 when self-assembling materials are brought up, right?
If the cops ever ask you "Where were you last week on Tuesday at 8AM?" you'll have a solid answer for them :-). My question is 104 days and no journal entries? Is the author reflecting on this information or just logging it?

I ask because I have a lot of unformed questions and thoughts about what is known as the 'quantified self' movement. Given the technological memory of all these things, what insights or changes do you draw/make?
Better TL;DR: cyberpunk is awful, and its tropes should be taken as a guide for what to avoid. Unfortunately, some small number of highly enthusiastic people in the tech industry haven't noticed they're the only ones who actually wanted to live in a cyberpunk novel.
>> "Personal health recording systems like this one are most useful for reporting symptoms to health care providers. In the event of a flu or a running injury, I like being able to tell my doctor exactly when, where and how the problem started."

I agree but recently I read that doctors tend to completely discount this type of data provided by a patient as they can't verify it's accuracy (did the patient collect the data correctly) and it would be risky to base their diagnosis on it.

Even if that is the case I think it can be very useful for people with chronic conditions. They can find out ways to minimise their pain through this kind of tracking/trial and error which a doctor would never have the time to do.
And the code y'all write: The Bro Code
The Stanford study also found significant differences between organic and non-organic in pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (in chicken & pork). I don't understand why these are considered to be unrelated to health in press releases like the one you linked. As they say, "the clinical significance of this is unclear", but I think that's because we haven't studied it.

If you buy only the tastiest plants and animals I will guarantee you a healthy diet.
They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now...

(No joke)
I suppose I should have seen that coming. I saw the article about it being on Google Glass now too. What a craze!
> OpenBSD is amazing software. By far the best OS I've ever used in my life. If the cost of that is a bad attitude, so be it.

I like to judge a developer's attitude by reading the manpage that he or she kindly wrote for me. OpenBSD manpages are comprehensive and still concise. So the devs respect my time. I really appreciate that. (Actually, I want to throw money at them just for providing such excellent Unix documentation.)

Yes, they tend to be brusque when you mail them about some issue and obviously didn't RTFM before. They are right: You show them that you don't respect their time. Why should they be nice to you?
So I agree one sided articles are generally very bad in regard to difficult situations like this. But in my opinion that is because they try to illicit sympathy for that particular side. However, in this case.. the post seemed to be about a new cool technology.

Perhaps it was just me but at the end of this article I felt drawn to neither side. The only thoughts I had on the matter were, "Man that is cool. Its too bad people have to be in harms way for such technology to get funding, but thanks for pioneering the simplest versions of the tech we need to stop asteroids".
55 Features needed from a hosted solution to sell courses online
If you believe that people are born in a state of innocence, meaning they have not committed a crime, as I do, then you believe they are innocent until they have been shown to be guilty.

In this case a presumption of innocence means "things are the same as I understand them to be based on previous evidence until I am shown that they are now different." You are not born guilty so you must remain in a state of innocence until you commit a crime. And because that crime must be proven you are innocent until proven guilty.

In this case neutrality is the same thing as believing in someone's innocence.

This is fundamentally different than, for example, the distinction between a lack of a belief of God and a belief that there is no God - because we know something about people, all people, from experience, whereas we know nothing about God.
There are also foods like nuts, beans and spinach that contain lots of magnesium:

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/food/magnesium-foods.htm

Two ounces of almonds contain 156mg of magnesium.
'@' mentions and the retweet.
A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregating us by education
Silicon valley's high-paid high school interns
Without looking, I would have guessed Edward Teller, but the gender thing shoots that down.
Popcorn Time DMCA takedown
How Sega Planned To Crush Nintendo, 24 Years Ago
How does it compare to nagios/icinga?
Slow Science
"Free collectible 5 Euro note with this purchase!"
All they're doing is creating an excuse for Israel to move in and crush them.
Why is it spelled Pheonix in the logo? Is that just a typo?
Levittown: The Imperfect Rise of the American Suburbs
Yeah he's (my roommate) been working on building the site and hasn't gotten around to any journal entries yet. He just launched this yesterday. I've been egging him on to put more time into the blog component though, so expect some posts about how he built it and why he wants to log everything..
This is pretty close to my summation to my gf the other evening

"Every few years Hamas launches rockets at Israel, Israel then uses the opportunity to smash the crap out of Hamas for a few days while "international concern" grows, at a certain point Israel stops the attacks, the international community claims a victory and Hamas gets a bloody nose, nothing changes and it all happens again in 2-3 years"

I suspect sometimes I'm too cynical..then I read the news.
glorious!
Coincidentally, I was recently looking up magnesium supplementation (together with vitamins b* and c) for histamine intolerance. Looks like magnesium is an all round metabolism superstar.