skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had said "pigs" instead of "cattle" it might have been relevant, but cattle are herbivores with 4 stomachs who send their food through the system several times (aka chewing their cud). Similarity to humans is pretty low.
Sounds like LA is a pretty crappy market for employees. Move someplace with a reasonable cost of living and some big corporations, stick with corporate-friendly technologies, and it's not too hard to pull a six-figure salary in an easy 40 hrs/wk.
As smeyer pointed out, email address is not public. I have updated my about field with my email address
I see what you mean. I think the reason why it may be appropriate here is that poor health and being overweight are big risks in the field of programming. If you are not actively managing your health as a full-time programmer your health will likely degrade. More solid data is needed, that is true. Unfortunately the accepted facts on this issue are turning out to be suspect.
Exactly. Aragon is one of the few voices of reason in this ridiculous field.
Yeah. One slightly annoying thing is that git doesn't provide a way to disable force pushes to particular branches (how would such a thing even be implemented? I guess the remote would have to remember the old and new branch pointers and determine whether the change is fast forward for each individual branch)

So if you want your team to be able to do what you say then someone could force push to master by mistake.
So basically you are clearly specifying you are using DigitalOcean to host it, and just multiply the price by 2 :/.

I don't know if that would attract someone, it doesn't work for me. Not enough features for twice the price. I would advice only a small increase (+10% or so).

Quick general question:

I have a server in Montreal. My server hosting doesn't have SSDs for cheap. For a semi-big database (2gb), is it better for me to get a DigitalOcean with SSD in New York? Would that improve my database, or will the ping slow it down too much. (in my example the ping would be of about 23ms)
Nice double entendre
fyi, if you're interested in losing weight using this approach the /r/keto subreddit is quite good and very encouraging.

I won't say its for everyone, but it certainly worked for me, and after getting over the initial hump I felt better than I ever had. Huge amounts of energy, feeling great after 4 hours of sleep, brain feeling like I was grasping concepts and finding solutions quicker.
Looking at the single review they link to on the site[1], it looks like the major speedup is due to internal response caching, high concurrency comes from non-thread-bound connection pooling, and there are a few other niceties relating to Nginx integration.

[1] http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-bl...
They've got like tons of CAs.

In China, it's very common for websites to ask people to trust their self-issued certificates. If you want to buy train tickets in China, you end up with this page (https://kyfw.12306.cn/otn) which asks you to trust its own cert.
I'm 48 and programming since I was 11 (on a PET-2001 ;-). A few years ago I wrote up a 'résumé' because everybody seemed to had one - since then, a few people told me it's more a 'bio' than a 'résumé', but who cares... It's at http://www.michielovertoom.com/cv/software-developer/

"I was born in the mid-sixties and got in touch with software programming at an early age. It became my hobby, along with the field of electronics. I was very keen to get to know exactly how things worked and what was happening, even up to the level of the silicon. In those days I spent more time reading datasheets and computer manuals than I did reading comics. "

I find great joy in exploring new technologies. At the moment, I'm learning Docker.
"There is no engineering in programming."

It really depends on the industry and context. Part of me really envies you if you can say that much and that reflects your experience.

I spent most of today making sure that my SPMP, SQAP, SCMP, SRS, etc... documents conform to the relevant IEEE standard.

If none of these acronyms means anything to you, again, I envy you.
Tim Ferriss is legit. The marketing speed is definitely strong, but there's substance behind it. His four-hour workweek, for example, was showed me how to create a successful business I enjoy (and work more than four hours on).

I don't like the slow carb diet personally, but it's better than what most people are eating, which I think was his goal.

The four hour body is meant to be read in parts, I wouldn't read it cover to cover. Read it with an open mind. If there's something you disagree with or wouldn't want to do, ask why he recommended it, rather than trying to prove it wrong. (Though do try to prove stuff wrong....just not as a knee jerk reaction)
I tried the TextMate 2 beta, and while it is nice, there's still some rough edges. For example, I had to go in and set a variable and edit a config file to enable soft tabs. Also, I was never a TM1 user like a lot of folks, so I feel much more at home in BBEdit 10 than I do in TM2.
It's useful for hightly intensive workload that can't be distributed but that can use multicore. Like SQL databases, video encoding, etc...
love it.

i just recently switched to fedora. i was on debian, then i went to arch because debian is too outdated, and i wanted systemd. but i don't enjoy the flakeyness of arch these days, i did when i was younger, but now there's more than just me using my computer, and when i do use it, i want to use it for work, not fiddling with stuff.

so when i was looking for a new distro, systemd was a requirement, there's no way i'm going back to sysv init, thought i'd give fedora a try, and so far i'm really liking it, everything works, and is upto date enough for my needs

anyway, systemd ftw. if you're against it and you've not used it, then that's stupid. if you're against it and have used it, fair enough, i can't fault that. i hate gnome, you can hate systemd. although the comparison isn't fair, as interaction with the init process if fairly low, but interaction with the de is high
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My first post-college job I created a piece of security software and I still run into people that say "you wrote that? We use that!"

But I've also noticed the people who love talking with me about that are not hiring me. It seems they bring me in to reminisce about the old days, and then go hire someone else. As nice as it feels for my ego, I might drop it.
It's also popular in Norway.
Fair enough. In my caffeine-deprived state, I was somehow under the impression that Rails was a server instead of a framework.

Time for some more coffee...
"I lost body fat while eating as much as I wanted of that..." you clearly seem to know what you are talking about...
education & available time are issues for the poor as well, not just availability.
IBM just abandoned its $20 share price target so there was a bit of meaning in the price. But no there usually isn't.

Edit I think it was $200. See numbers matter.
This is a really good point. As someone who wrote software for over a decade, then moved to the business/management side, I can tell you that on the business side (and to a lesser extent, in engineering management), there is far more opportunity to "punch way above your weight class". In fact, many places expect you to.
After I realized how little we know about the human body I stopped worrying about these things and I now eat what makes me feel better. The reality is that in a lot of areas medicine don't' have an answer but they just guess given some observations. SO I started paying attention to how I feel after eating certain food. For example I noticed that a nice breakfast and rich salad for lunch keep me lucid for the day. I also avoid ingesting a lot of sugar at once and caffeine, with this I feel less tired at the end of the day. I don't track long term effects but for the past six months it worked pretty well, and without eating like a monk.
I recommend it, but obviously it won't deliver on that type of hyperbole. I'm on month ~3 and I've lost significant weight but more importantly it's a very manageable diet that I expect to stick with.
The smallest thing is $10/month, that's way too expensive.

I think you might get more traction if you did more to explain exactly what someone would be getting that price BEFORE you showed them the price.

Right now, the feature area (below the pricing), is so sparse and all over the place that it's a chore to read.

It seems like you're going to completely manage the database side? if so, then maybe you should say something like "we'll be your database guys". If it's not that, and it's just hosting the database/making sure it's up then have some sort of message specific to that?
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Yes. Animal fats particularly. We know from the fossil record and studies of traditional societies that even bone marrow (high and dense in fat and calories) is prized. Science shows it to be unbelievably rich in all sorts of good stuff.

There are some theories out there that modern human brain development was strongly tied to the ability of early humans to make tools to successful extract as much marrow out of an animal carcass as possible. It's basically the raw building blocks brains are made out of. Plus it increases wound regeneration and boosts your immune system.

The science of nutrition is so stunningly complex and difficult that lots of notions about what to eat and not eat have been overturned time and time again. The only thing that seems to have held out is to eat a wide variety of foods from all sources. Limit sugars and sweet things, eat lots of fiber, protein and fats. Cook in butter if you need to use oil. It's better for you and it tastes better.

Traditional societies actually do a pretty god job on many of these fronts. There's some things they screwed up on, nitrates aren't real good for you, but limited amounts of alcohol is. Yogurt is great for you, but Bracken (Fernbrake) turns out to not be so great an idea. Many traditional diets are usually rich in variety, and many of the good things you should be eating, and usually don't have too many of the things you shouldn't be eating. Don't confuse traditional with customary. A customary full-English breakfast every day is something north of 1,000 calories, but there's not much reason to assume it's a good traditional foodstuff. It turns out oatmeal with some fruit is probably better for you.

If in doubt, variety variety variety. As evolved opportunistic omnivores, our bodies are superbly evolved to eat a little bit of just about everything, but don't do so well on lots of one kind of thing. Humans are one of the few species on the planet that can do what we do, and it turns out, just like with any animal, that we kind of have to do what we do to live right.
There are introverts, and then there are introverts. I can easily see somebody who is particularly introverted not developing a deep network after 10, 20, or even 30 years of experience, simply because they are very introverted (or socially maladjusted; the two are different, but in a world run by extroverts it is arguable that they may as well not be). I'm not that introverted, but I'm introverted enough that it is by sheer luck I have more than two people from my first few jobs I could ask for references or even directly for work. My last couple of jobs, however, have been another matter--I "got over it," as they say, and have put more effort into networking. I even recently developed a connection completely outside of work!

Leavnig that aside, sometimes people move or switch focus or have to take jobs at crappy "body shop" companies to make ends meet during a bust, etc. Hence the quality of the network isn't necessarily good enough to have the kind of "I need a job, whatcha got" connections you mention.
IO Feels Like a Human Friend Who Gives Great Restaurant Recommendations
It is actually very clearly stated when you first use it (and every time thereafter, until you disable it):

http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/10/spotligh...
The macronutrient content of your diet has nothing to do with how much you gain/lose. The only way you are losing weight is that you are in a caloric deficit. Whether that's from increased activity, decreased energy intake, or a combination of these, there is no other way (besides liposuction).

The low-carb thing is just a trick to get you to eat fewer calories. Not to say it's not valuable - whatever works for you - but low-carb is much more about limiting calories through food avoidance than anything about carbs.

Although you did say "lately", and moving to low-carb will lead to a lot of initial weight loss. But this is due to water-loss as your glycogen stores are depleted (every gram of stored carb energy gets stored with 3-4 grams of water). Again, do whatever works for you, but it grinds my gears to see all this unfounded carb-hate these days.
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I find this creepy, but I'm not sure I'm seeing what's so interesting about it. Various police departments within a discrete area of Virginia (and who, I'm sure, often coordinate in other totally legitimate ways) are simply sharing information that they have obtained through supposedly legal processes.

I for one am completely fine with law enforcement agencies sharing evidence that they have lawfully obtained (and they do this routinely with, e.g., the NCIS fingerprint database). That law enforcement agencies around the country do this with other information, including phone records, in so-called "fusion centers" was, I thought, already widely known. Is this somehow different?

Of course, here, there is good reason to be concerned about the way that many of the records have been obtained, and certainly this revelation provides further illustration of the unsettling ways that law enforcement can use phone records. Accordingly, it provides further reason to scrutinize the original collection of those records. But is there reason to think that this sharing is illegal in itself?
> it takes a large and sustained effort to redirect a civil service as large as the US, kind of like trying to steer a 400m long container vessel.

That's why Thomas Jefferson and others straight out of Enlightenment wanted for the Federal government top be very limited and for the law-making power to be left to the states. Each US state is much smaller than the US.
"People eat too many carbs in their daily life and don't even notice and they carry lots of long term health risks."

Stop spreading this. There are people eating +400g of carbs a day while being exceptionally healthy.
Tech journalists for the most part are journalists first, and interested in tech second. This is why you need to pitch your idea through a PR company, and never "cold call" send it yourself. Journalists do not have the ability to see why something is interesting or different; that is why they are journalists reporting on what others are doing and not devevlopers or doers themselves.

If you want your idea to get noticed, you need to either know a journalist personally and ask a favour, or throw a free drinks launch party, RSVP. Then you will get some results. Failing both of those, you need to hire specialist PR to push your message. They do all the things you cannot do; offer freebies down the road, invitations to parties, access to celebrities in whatever field, scoops, etc.

The other way to generate interest is to avoid the press entirely, and go directly to the public by whatever means is convenient and cost effective. If you've written a new Perl Module, suggesting it to TechCrunch will not get you anywhere, but posting on a relevant forum will. Of course, TechCrunch cant tell what is interesting in advance, wether its a Perl Module or some new consumer device no one has heard of or thought of before.

Then there is the problem of noise. Even if all journalists were capable of understanding the ideas and products that are sent to them, and the way these ideas and products will interact with other parts of the economy six level in, they do not have time to look seriously at everything that is sent to them, and so they must use some form of filter. A convenient one is the PR firm, that packages, and contextualizes the idea for them, so that ideally, they do not even have to do any writing themselves, they just copypasta the press release and photos that are handed to them on a plate. From their point of view, this is ideal. They get their work done for them, they are made to look like they have their finger on the pulse of the hottest ideas, and they don't have to do any writing or research or photography themselves.

This is the reality of not only tech news, but of all news where new products are mentioned. Its not news, its all pure Public Relations, which is all about ego, money, freebies and status. There are notable exceptions of course, and if you find them, you must tailor your approach accordingly.
It gives a basic warning to make the user aware. Any time they use Spotlight until they disable the related features. http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2014/10/spotligh...
What am I supposed to do exactly? Call up some co-worker from 3+ years ago and say "hi, remember me? Can you get me a job?"

I don't have a network. I have friends and I have colleagues, but I don't really have anyone that could get me job leads (maybe a couple of my friends)
Tutorial: prevent subscription sharing for SaaS
Can't speak to the code, but the name seems unforunate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
A list of "fusion centers" from the DHS itself -

http://www.dhs.gov/fusion-center-locations-and-contact-infor...
I'm glad I used my spam address. After you enter your email address, you get "an entry" to win this "prize". Then you get another entry for every 3 friends you share it to, or something. It seems like their entire business is founded upon this pyramid scheme of social sharing.
I'd like to see distinctive feature list (and not the underlying cloud provider's features). How is this better than spinning up a pg instance on AWS RDS? Heroku Postgresql? Or if you're running a Rails app, pointing Cloud 66 at your repo and your Digital Ocean account, and getting a full stack built?
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Message Systems: Callbacks, Events, Pub Sub, Promises, and Streams
Clearly they will call their gem rubyraptor.
IBM has been exiting low margin businesses for years now so the chip announcement isn't that surprising. I don't see how cloud can be high margin because there is some serious competition in that market.
Personally, I refuse to treat my job as "just a job." I want it to mean something.

That's fine for you, and quite a laudable position to take.

But the reality is, in a great many environments, across the board -- in blue chips as well as in startups (often quite insidiously so) -- as soon as you start personally investing in your work, you start taking on considerable risks. It means, almost by definition, you're going to start butting heads with people -- or at least take on a heavy risk of appearing to others like you're butting heads with them, even though you're not. Because they'll have to start justifying their own decisions, and exposing their own lack of depth and experience. And that's really, really threatening to a lot of people.

The safest route, by far? Keep your head down, and don't become "personally invested" in your work. Otherwise you risk becoming (per the Japanese proverb) "the stake that sticks up."
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It's money related and customers are never going to see it so I thought it worked well. If people think it's offensive I'll think about changing it.
Or just Setup -> Meters -> CPUs bar -> Remove (However leave the CPU (average) bar)
The problem is you think this is somehow normal. That's not how all engineers work. Maybe you work a job and do good work, but then the team disintegrates, people quit, you lose track of co-workers because they were just co-workers and not friends (even if you had an excellent working relationship). It's not necessarily normal at all to retain close relationships with past co-workers, even less so to routinely network through them let alone retain them as references.

The entire reason LinkedIn exists is because most people, even many very highly skilled people in professional career roles, find it difficult to make effective use of such networks, for example. And if you're an engineer who has experienced a rough patch of employment or worked at a company or in a role or under a boss they hated or experienced a period of burnout or underperformed somewhere due to any of those circumstances the whole thing gets that much more difficult.
Clustree uses Big Data to help employees identify their career path
I attended a conference and took an all-day workshop from the author of this series. He covered a lot of the content from his books in the workshop, and it was phenomenal. Highly recommended!
Ah, so there's an expectation amongst Chinese users that a self-signed cert is sufficient? Well.
There is a project on the Schematics org page for using with sqlalchemy. I haven't used it myself, but I would look there first.

https://github.com/schematics/schemalchemy
Advocating table based implementations that are not secure is not taking it seriously. Providing implementations that are not secure is not taking it seriously. They may have taken it more seriously than had they designed it in 2001, but it clearly wasn't a major issue for them.

I will admit they are less at fault than the CAESAR candidates who insist on re-using AES.
I, for one, am quite happy to be "screwed" by lower prices.

Recall that Amazon publishes directly right now. They haven't raised prices unreasonably.
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It may be similar now. It was borrowed from Django before there was one in the stllib
If you stacked all Instagram pics uploaded in a year, how far would they reach?
I'm sorry, I edited a lot of time the description and indeed "make" does not go along anymore with "hype dev", I removed it, thanks for your feedback!
Half our industry is built on fooling users. Exploiting their cognitive biases. Seriously, we understand where they fall, and if we really wanted to, we absolutely could look out for them -- at least, certainly better than we're doing right now.

Your response is like saying when Facebook was privacy zuckering (http://darkpatterns.org/library/privacy_zuckering/), the user clicks right through the settings that should have sounded an alarm.

What can Apple do? They could make a better browser (I like how Chrome and Firefox do things - you have to go out of your way to reach a page with bad SSL -- compare Safari's rather passive and enabling error message: http://blog.serverdensity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ssl... vs. chrome's: http://i.imgur.com/ttmmDJ8.png -- you have to REALLY see and think how to access the site despite the warning, it's that good). They could be more vigilant in alerting users of where and how this can happen.

If we were talking about any other young startup, your apology might fly -- not so with Apple, they're sitting on billions, they have the resources to think of a solution and implement it.
I did look into SAP modules and thought about learning them but how do I market myself after learning the fundamentals? Don't they require some sort of computer degree? How do I gain professional experience which the job opening might require? That thought made me abandon learning SAP.
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The thing with carbs is that they don't really satiate you as much as fat and protein does. You'll stabilize on a much lower weight if you (partially) remove bread, pasta, rice etc. from your diet. It requires so much less willpower to lose weight without them.