skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frustrated and wanting to improve your skills -- fine.

Hate yourself -- hmm, not good.

Everyone struggles and it's very hard. Looking in the mirror and figuring out what you can do better, not being satisfied with what you've achieved, I'm all for that. It's how we grow. But you cannot allow your assessment of yourself on a single dimension to become your entire assessment of your entire worth. I'm certainly not saying we're all special flowers, and our professional is hugely important. But it isn't all we are, and those skills aren't static anyway.

Also: If you want feedback, you can do things to improve your chances of getting it. Be incredibly positive in your responses -- "thanks for the opportunity!" People are obviously reluctant to talk with someone they've rejected, so signalling that you won't make this hard for them can help. If you have guesses at the problem, or suspicions you'd like to rule out, suggest them. Statements like "I think I need to build up Z" or "I worry that I come across as Y" might give you useful yes / no answers, if they are set up properly.

Think also about informational interviews as a means for seeking out fit. If you're just having coffee with someone, about what they look for and how people succeed, they are much more likely to be brutally honest than they are after rejecting you. If I'm having coffee, I can politely tell you why your resume or body of work look off, because I think that's helping you.
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Web Programmer using Microsoft Stack. i do my hobby projects using Racket (mostly PLT stuff)
The fact they block Youtube isn't anything new, it's how they're doing it that's the news story here. They are tricking your browser into thinking they are Google but it doesn't give any more technical details unfortunately.

On a side note, here's a pro tip: Always buy the full day pass before you're actually in the air. It's $16 on any network but their own, which is almost double that once you're in the air. They also don't give better deals for mobile vs laptops like they used to so this is your best bet for a 'deal' these days.
Is this how one plays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic through Github?
I love Tom Scott's computerphile videos. His frustration grows over a few videos; his videos about the difficulties of internationalization[1] and the problems of electronic voting[2] are even crazier.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Tor: Illegal Weapons
Brazil is another fun one that has caused my team's systems to blow up: since their DST transition occurs at midnight, there is no midnight on the DST transition day.
I have a bit of the opposite problem - I have too many things I could be doing, and not nearly enough energy to do anything beyond the one project I'm working on.

I'll tell you how I got there: every time I'd get annoyed, or see someone else get annoyed, I made an effort to imagine what would it take to make the problem go away. Once I achieve a decisive imaginary victory by any means, I start walking back from there to the realm of possibilities - can I make it cheaper or quicker? Without Superman's help? Without magic non-existing material? It becomes a habit after a while, and you start seeing opportunities everywhere. I'm not talking about necessarily software, any case when a person is annoyed will do as a training exercise; you'll be surprised.

I imagine it can also make a fun game, if you have friends who are up for it.
With this scheme, the merchant still has to pay for swipe fees (which are ultimately transferred to the customer through higher prices -- the ultimate hidden fee!). Swipe fees are evil.
What if someone adds in a .gitignore file that ignores everything except for itself?

Evil? >:D
GitHub's king of badges
Why does that matter?

Your question isn't very good if you are selecting for people that know your question vs are smart/skilled.
No, the idea is that people who find it easy to praise themselves may actually do fewer praise-worthy things. Like when I sit on my butt for weeks, then wash the dishes one time and consistently remind my wife of that one time I washed the dishes. Whereas she might wash the dishes every night and never asks for praise.

In that situation, if someone asked "tell me what special activities you've done in the past month", I might point to that one time where I washed the dishes, whereas my wife, not seeing dish washing as anything impressive, might say she's done nothing special. Even though I only washed the dishes once, I come off looking better there since I have an example I can point out.

Simply saying "I did my job every day" isn't good enough. However, not doing your job except on one occasion makes that one occasion seem special.
Did you mean "on avg 10 a [month]" ? 230 over a 23-year career doesn't seem like all that many.
I haven't had an opportunity to try this myself, but rather than setting up some kind of MITM proxy, maybe you could try this:

https://jimshaver.net/2015/02/11/decrypting-tls-browser-traf...
I find it almost never takes more than 30 seconds to figure out the right thing to add to my build.sbt file unless I don't really know what I'm looking for. If that's the case I'm going to be spending some quality time with Google regardless of which language or what batteries are included.
Brazil is the most populous, which is why you've blown up there. They are actually one of a group of ten locales that transition at midnight. They have the dubious distinction of making the JS Date object revert back to the previous day if you create a Date with the transition day due to the constructor defaulting to midnight if not specified. (e.g. new Date(2013, 9, 19) in Brazil) The rest of the locales are much smaller and less likely to have customers you will break: Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, Gaza Strip.
Last time, because I really can't see why we're talking past each other.

In this entire conversation

Imagined Utopia of Perfect Markets, not mentioned once
American Capitalism, not mentioned once
Soviet Command Economy, not mentioned once

Lets assume for the moment that I am talking about a system and how it should allocate resources. Can there be other systems? yes, can there be better systems? also yes.

Now, based on objective vs subjective morals and values (which is a dichotomy as far as I can tell), we have two types of systems.

1) Given objective values/morals => There exists an objective best allocation of resources and laws governing people and we need to find a system to achieve this.

2) Given subjective values/morals => There is no objective best allocation of resources and laws and we need to find a way to reach consensus on what is produced and what laws are enforced.

Capitalism is a type 2 system, it might be terrible at allocating resources but it does this by reaching consensus
Communism is a type 1 system, it might be terrible at allocating resources but it does this by determining the best allocation
Democracy is a type 2 system, it might be terrible at determining laws but it does this by reaching consensus
Dictatorship is a type 1 system, it might be terrible at determining laws but it does this by determining the best set of laws

The first step is to figure out which universe we live in.

If we live in universe 1, we need to pick type 1 systems. If we live in universe 2, type 2.
In my case it seems I only got what seems to be allergies when I moved to the city some 5 years ago. In my rural area I don't remember ever sneeazing so much as if I was gonna die.
There is a classic aphorism: "democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner."

This country was very specifically founded NOT as a democracy, for the very reason elucidated above. If the mob wants to vote your rights away, they should not be able to.

Self-defense and transfer payments from one individual to another (i.e., welfare) are different issues fundamentally. We authorize the government to solve the problem of coordination---in terms of defense, we don't want a bunch of private militaries roving around the countryside. At the heart of this is the issue of rights protection: if one man steals from another, his rights have been violated and government must act in response.

However, if the issue is whether a man has a claim on another man's property simple because he "needs" it, this is not sufficient justification for him to take it by force. Indeed, most people would call this "theft". Why is it different if the thug steals a dollar in dark alley from you or if a government coerces the same action at the point of a gun? Because a majority have voted for it?
Please avoid gratuitous negativity.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline
YARN is just a resource manager on top of which Hadoop jobs are run e.g. Hive, Pig.

It is analogous to a set of Docker containers distributed across nodes. The same methods you would use synchronize state in that situation you could use with YARN. For example using a persistent distributed system e.g. Hazelcast to handle system failures and checkpointing.

I am not saying this is some amazing solution to every HPC problem only that Hadoop is far, far more flexible than many people give it credit for.
This is misleading to the point where it's not really true. They can't read your email -- or anything else -- unless you click through the extremely dire security warning in your browser. They don't have some sort of CA cert. This is one of the few threat scenarios where HTTPS works exactly as designed.

They're serving a page with a mismatched certificate becaus they want to tell you why YouTube isn't loading instead of simply just blocking it. Bogus HTTPS is at least a feeble attempt to do that
I think what we can glean from this is that Netflix is just smart about picking the "right" tool for a particular job (they even say exactly that at the start of the original blog post). I imagine they will continue using Java where it makes sense to do so and other languages where they make sense.
IMO the benefits of seeing the company's reaction to one's lifestyle far outweight the risks of making the interview process slightly uncomfortable for risk-averse interviewers.
Sorry to be so flippant, but you know how to click links, right? http://www.nyclu.org/files/20150331-ComplaintInfoReports-000...
Most incidents read like, "ASSIST TOWN OF HAMBURG POLICE WITH CELL TRACKING REGARDING OUTBACK ROBBERY ON 09/26/2011, MCKINLEY PKWY, HAMBURG, NY"
Some others are even more vague: "ASSISTING NYS POLICE, HOMOCIDE[sic]"

These give the impression that the use is targeted and for a limited time, but of course one can never be sure. I'd like to know:

* For how long was the device used in each incident?

* How was it deployed?

* How many other cellular devices were picked up?

* What happened to the irrelevant data collected?
Okay, here is an idea.

The Julia people are complaining that their language is great but it is not being picked up because their standard libraries are missing a ton of functionality.

Start knocking out some standard library functionality.

Sure, you may not be interested in Julia. But there are plenty of other projects out there that are understaffed. IPython Notebook needs developers. Octave needs somebody to write a good front end. It goes on and on.

The advantage is that you don't have to be super creative (compare Julia's libraries to Python, and start implementing something that isn't yet in Julia), nor predict the future (meaning, you can make a brand new X, but if the world goes to Y, you will never get picked up). What you write will be used by (at least) thousands, and you will have to write production quality code to get your pull requests accepted. I'd be impressed with anyone that did that, even if I had no interest/need in the project that they contributed to.
Well I was planning on a .gitignore that ignored everything. Now I feel like that might qualify as a dick move :(
Scala is very much a there's-more-than-one-way-to-do-it language, which is why there's no official JSON library or HTTP client.

Moreover, most of the big support behind Scala comes from the Java world where you're expected to pull these things in with your framework rather than from the stdlib. Using Play? You've got a JSON processor and HTTP client right there. Spray provided the same. So did Lift.

Why provide the batteries when no one can agree on what they should be?

Rapture is probably the closest to what you're looking for but it's still in its early days.

http://rapture.io
Someone should submit a PR with a Twitch-plays-Pokemon style dynamic where any PR which receives a few upvotes automatically gets merged.
This reminds me of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtractin...
Check out halfbakery.com , a not-totally-serious compendium of near-inventions, which is at least useful for getting some mental sparks going.
To add to your side note, business AMEX platinum comes with 10 flight segment passes (not day passes, my bad) as well. Probably a few startups here that already have that card and don't know about it.
Me too, but I'm just listening to what some Python/Ruby/Node developers tell me - "yes, we know your guys are 'smarter' - but we prefer our 'stupid' and shorter / more fun way to do things".

In other words, this is a major put off and a hurdle preventing Scala / Java to gain more followers. Developers are lazy by nature, and syntactic sugar does matter. If not, we would have all still be writing in assembly.
> My concern though was that her allergy might be so bad that just having a little tuna juice on her plate, or for her other sushi to be cut on the same chopping board or with the same knife as the sushi could kill her.

I think that would be their concern, too. If they gave you a meal and didn't add the tuna, how can they ensure that every station, utensil, and dish hasn't touched something contaminated by tuna? They probably can't.
If it's a minimal Arch Linux install, it could well by under a gigabyte.
I really want to believe in this idea and I really wish human nature and greed weren't relevant to this discussion...but this is one of those ideas (like communism) that looks great on paper but are destructive in action.

Just watch the final table of the world series of poker and you'll see what I mean. The guy who comes in second place or for that matter ninth place becomes a millionaire, yet he feels crushed and robbed by the few ahead of him.

People are generally terrible at being happy with what they have and the age old maxim is still true that he who gets $100 wants $200.

All these folks being taxed...even if they agreed initially will feel robbed by the recipients and resent them, and who knows how messy it might get. People are weird when it comes to their money.This will especially rear it's ugly head when peoples shares on paper cross their financial freedom number on paper prior to a liquidity event. (I.e. by each round of financing and a valuation is set.)
Personal platinum amex covered by that as well?
If you can get Gradle going, most stuff is fairly straightforward within a few lines of build script. It might not be ideal, but it works pretty well.

I've definitely used far worse in terms of time to get started.
I actually think I remember seeing this on IGG not too long ago. I think it's a great idea, and yes, I would want it.
> - Group purchasing for work - what if you wanted to break the cost of a Foosball table up over a group of people. It's cheap if you have enough people involved.

It's called an office manager. Combined with an expense account for the company.

> - App for finding which stores are open at 11pm (or on Sunday in places where most things are closed on Sunday)

It's called Foursquare. Bonus, it does this for a radius around your current location and when it doesn't have official data, it makes a guess based on check-in data.

> - Swarm - Reverse how people get taxis, register that you're looking for a taxi and expose to taxi drivers where all the people are

It's [probably] called the Uber/Lyft interface from the drivers' side.

> - Reverse registry - wedding registries are obnoxious...register your gift so that people don't buy the same thing.

Haven't reached the Omg Everyone Is Getting Married age, but I'm sure this also exists already.
God-mode

http://chrisdone.com/posts/god-mode
I won't be surprised if some startup comes out trying to sell services/enterprise support for I'll Accept Anything. I'll be even less surprised when they raise like $20m in funding within the month.
> i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need

There's a contradiction buried in there somewhere.

You're really just in the market for inspiration.

Maybe build a program that randomly generates project ideas you can thumbs up or thumbs down. Maybe just mash together subjects and predicates from other github project descriptions into some kind of project madlibs. It could at least be entertaining.
> Do you imagine that these people will openly disclose that they are discriminating?

Actually yes, since mid-size or larger companies are required to file EEO reports [1] that are used to compare the hiring/retention rates of protected groups against the available labor market and competitors in the area.

Even unconscious bias (to say nothing of deliberate bias against women) could result in nasty lawsuits if actions are not taken and enforced by hiring managers to correct biases against protected classes.

[1] http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/whomustfile.cfm
What he said ^
I once tried to work out, based on power usage levels, if DST saves power (it's original purpose in wartime)

At best it's a wash. People all think that domestic lighting is a big power user, but in reality it's things like commercial shopping centres and office buildings that really suck down the juice. And typically those are run on a timer, so the pattern doesn't change (even if the timer is adjusted, the lights,ac and services are on for a fixed period of time).

Any savings for people having their lights off for 60 minutes less is swamped by people switching their AC on when they get home an hour earlier.

I still support DST as a quality of life thing, though.
One of my favorite mysterious test failure is from BeOS folklore:

http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue4-22.h...

A Testing Fairy Tale

Two test engineers were in a crunch. The floppy drive they were currently testing would work all day while they ran a variety of stress tests, but the exact same tests would run for only eight hours at night. After a few days of double-checking the hardware, the testing procedure, and the recording devices, they decided to stay the night and watch what happened. For eight hours they stared at the floppy drive and drank espresso. The long dark night slowly turned into day and the sun shone in the window. The angled sunlight triggered the write-protection mechanism, which caused a write failure. A new casing was designed and the problem was solved. Who knew?
9-year-old destroys Florida’s new standardized test in front of school board
It's not gratiutously negative - or even negative at all. It's a matter of fact. The advice in that column will not lead you to create a successful company, so take it with a healthy dose of humility and with a grain of salt.

Indeed, while your post can be considered harmful, mine cannot.
Thanks.
Yes, forgot about Rapture. It seems a little lacking on the docs side, but this is exactly the direction I'm looking for.

Liked your talk on Akka by the way...
Emacs is actually a lot better with tools like helm:

http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html

Ace-jump is slick too: http://emacsrocks.com/e10.html

IDE's like IntelliJ let you type a lot less. Emacs has made some great progress in this direction in the past few years.
I think they are objecting to your generalisation of construction workers as lacking in imagination or dreams beyond "living to work". Which I object to, as well, as when I worked in construction that range of people I met and the dreams and goals and ideas they had were immense. People are fascinating, regardless of what job you do, and I think you would be amazed at what people can do when given the opportunity.
Uber's popularity surges; business travelers avoiding taxis
On the last one, I've never seen a formal registry (managed through a retail store) that didn't denote whether someone had already purchased an item.
This is the page for it, it doesn't mention personal (but also mentions corporate plat + gold). Probably worth trying!

https://promotions.gogoair.com/promotion/amexSplash.do
20% of pull request comments are about style and best practices
I have:

openbsd.systems
twatlonger.com
unhash.pw

Each one was meant for a project I no longer have time for. (The openbsd one was meant to mirror goatse.cx and/or the defaced OpenBSD flyer.)
> In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn't learn what C++ is actually good (and bad) for.

A couple of things:

- A good programmer won't just write C++ in the style of Basic.

- A good programmer wouldn't just use C++ to accomplish a task, there must be a legitimate reason, performance, etc.

I myself have done exactly this, I just wrote a Ruby C-extension to make my program faster and I definitely didn't write it in the style of Ruby.
"Python 'replaces' Java" plays well in the hacker community? I don't really know. It's just a guess.
That ['DARPA created the Internet'] wasn't the point they made though.

If anything I think your "many other networks" example reinforces the point. The private sector left to its own devices came up with tons of incompatible small networks all vying to be the juggernaut.

The government, when faced with much larger problems than growing market share, instead invested considerable resources into solving a problem in a way that could handle the needs of a large national government, and then later invested more resources into making that internet a public good.

Even if the government hadn't developed its own internet protocols (and standardized on a notional private sector one), the government would likely still have been instrumental in expanding the use of some other standard. E.g. Eisenhower didn't invent the road, but his Administration sure did ensure a lot of them got built.
The state was auditing some cases, but according to the article his didn't come up for an audit. This was just the DA reflecting on his handiwork.
Thank you for the awesome advice!! I will definitely start doing that.

Recently I have been thinking a lot along these lines, and I came up with somewhat similar approach. When I stuck at coming up with ideas, I make a list of what I would do if I would have time/power/resources of:

- God - literally ability to fix any problem, do anything imaginable.

- Google - billions of dollars and smartest people in the world

- Elon Musk or Richard Branson - millions of dollars, decades of time to plan for

- 10 years and 10 million dollars

- 5 years and 200k

I've recognized that my lack of ideas comes from me "filtering out" everything too expensive or too hard or too uncertain, and making such list helps me to get rid of that. Think of a project ideas from the opposite direction, not "what can I do now", but "what needs to be done", and then solve it from there.
Assuming her contract was at-will employment what right would she have to sue?
Ned Batchelder had an interesting post recently about finding temp file creators through monkey-patching[0]. I could see a similar approach being helpful here by patching the socket module to find all call stacks.

[0]: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201503/finding_temp_file_creat...
1) NDAs are pretty much unenforceable. If someone asks you to sign one, that means they are very new to the business, and probably have a lot of other mistakes to make.
2) It shows they don't trust you. My rule of thumb is: distrust is a disease that NDAs won't cure, and indicates much deeper problems. If you don't trust someone, just don't share with them.