skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to find a new metric of success than comparing yourself to others' achievements. And at the same time, your comparison of your age to others is completely broken. No one under ~20, or over ~80 matters as points of comparison to "career age" and on that 20-80 scale, you're very young, so your obsession with your age as somehow being old and "too late" is quite simply, stupid. The bottom line is, I think you still haven't found a sufficiently interesting project that you compare yourself to yourself, rather than to others.

What you seem to care about is working on a "great project" as defined by others rather than something you think is interesting and therefore great all by itself no matter what anyone else thinks. This is classic lack of self-confidence.

And as for finding motivation to overcome procrastination, sometimes you need to merely be disciplined to overcome it. You have to recognize, and trust your assessment of the proper priority of a task, and when it's important enough you just do that task as a matter of discipline, not as a function of enjoying it. And sometimes you need to plot procrastination and just enjoy it.

When you're 80, I pretty much guarantee you you're not going to say, "fuck me man, I wish I would have worked more."
I'm sure the Russian internet community will respond to this with the tactful respect and dignity it deserves.
Update: we were not invited for an interview | aka: Rejected. Good luck to those heading to California!
We applied for W15, not this round, but our video was watched in full 4 times from SF, Mountain View, and NYC. Our demo was accessed 8 times from the same cities, and one message was sent through the demo account (it is a messaging platform). No interview granted. I think we have a strong team who has a history of shipping, we have known each other for a long time outside of work, but we were just at the prototype stage...my guess is that a little traction would go a long way.
There's no prosecutor. It's a civil suit.
In this vein, somebody, at some point, needs to investigate how precisely IBM and EA bamboozled Baton Rouge and LSU that they were bringing "tech jobs" there. LSU even gave EA two whole floors of an on campus building (the Digital Media Center) built largely with disaster relief money to host...wait for it...their video game testers.

We can now sleep soundly knowing our federal tax dollars went to ensure the quality of the next Battlefield and Sims releases.
do you have FU money in the bank? financially can you retire now? if not, I think its wiser to say no. Caveat if this is a case of something truly evil that was done. If its more of a protocol/regulatory/victimless kind of law, then I'd argue its not worth hurting yourself financially over. Again, unless you already have FU money in the bank.

There is no single perfect advice anyone can give. This is my off-the-cuff sense for what my own thought process would be.
Why does the readme use Boom and Bloom interchangeably? Is it just a typo that for some reason is randomly scattered throughout the document (and in the repo name itself)? Or is there meant to be a difference? I don't see anywhere that the difference is explained, if it's intentional.
have you got an answer?
I am also 23 from three years working for a company in EU, work was creative and I enjoyed, but when you work so long somewhere somehow the system they absorb and become part of one. Now I have decided to quit and start something of their own :)
They switched from Mahout to Spark a while ago. Two days ago Apache Mahout announced that the new version is using an Apache Spark back-end.

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/31yj71/apac...
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Conversely, the blog posts tell the story of the Amiga's origin in more detail than the book. So they do complement each other.
As crappy as this firmware is, the ones ~7-10 years ago that didn't run Linux were much worse!
> That begs the question: Would we be better off if CPU clock speeds were set such that the memory could keep up again

Memory latency is at best about 10 ns. I don't think a 100 MHz CPU would better in any way than what we have now. Well, except power requirements would sure be very low.
I'm British and went from industry back to do a PhD at 25. You don't even need to worry yourself about searching for funding - there is plenty available for CS and I found it was enough to live on even though I'd been used to a grown-up salary.
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The fifth amendment right against self-incrimination only applies to criminal matters, not civil matters. There is a lot about employment law, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act that is civil and not criminal.

Also it is the right against SELF incrimination. One can be compelled to incriminate others.
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I think it's important to make the distinction between the Shockwave Flash format and Adobe Flash the design tool.

Adobe Flash the design tool is by far the simplest and most intuitive tool out there for designing web graphics, be it in vectors or pixel-perfect raster graphics. Not to mention its combination of layers and timelines which allows you to do a lot more in less time. The whole animations / ActionScript thing is just an added bonus if you're feeling frisky.

Most people use Photoshop for web graphics but that's wrong -- Photoshop was meant for photos. Others use Illustrator but it is way overkill unless you're doing fine arts or complex illustrations.
My current team does a standup immediately before lunch, scheduled for 15 minutes and often coming in shorter. Those "oh, we should talk about that" realizations that come up then often wind up, when they do (and it's not every day), then often happen casually over food. It winds up pretty comfortable, although I certainly see ways it could go bad if we were focused on keeping the form of it rather than whether things were working well.
I've been wondering for quite a while, with most of what Flash is used online for getting replaced by HTML5 stuff (games and etc.), has a suitable replacement popped up for Flash as an animation tool?
APIs are whips
Looks consistently used to me. The project is a collection of stream-optimized bloom filters and the project or its filters, as a whole, are referred to as "Boom Filters" in comparison to the "Classic Bloom Filters" referenced in the paragraph directly above. Basically, use "bloom" except when referring to this exact source code or library name.

See also: references section at the bottom of the readme for background on bloom filters, examples, etc.
In a moment I'm going to submit this as an HN story:

"Is There a Cause for Which You Would Give Your Life?" http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/mental-illness/give-your-...

For me, now, there are lots of such causes. But then I am fifty-one years old, I have witnessed a great deal of evil in the world and so would welcome the opportunity to make right that which is wrong.
I would have loved to see the availability of a "give me all the ports from an 11" Air" adapter: literally giving me Display Port (not HDMI! and then I can continue to share Display Port adapters with all of my friends), two USB ports (which I use quite often :/), and (this is the most hilarious part) MagSafe 2 (so I can continue to share power adapters with all of my friends as well, and get to continue to use MagSafe).

The current crop of adapters for this device is infuriating: I already carry around VGA and HDMI Display Port adapters... now to have those two adapters, they are forcing me to carry around adapters that are twice as large (so I can still get power, and then get... just one... USB port). If I am going to be effectively carrying around a second massive adapter (in addition to two small ones), it should be an orthogonal one :/.
Some thoughts on this - big error in the long run: http://www.3scale.net/2015/04/loosing-innovation-twitters-fi...
Is There a Cause for Which You Would Give Your Life? (2006)
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Testifying in such a case certainly wouldn't be a negative for being hired into my group.
Kallithea is community developed under a GPL v3 license. There is no corporate entity primarily in charge of Kallithea development, and there is no for-pay enterprise edition.
As someone who is currently getting screwed over for helping someone out, by the person I helped out, because the thing I let him do was done improperly and it has caused ~$50K in damages I will likely end up footing, I agree 100% (I'm not going to provide details here just take it as given that I did someone a solid and they #$%^ed me hard in return, and yes, I have a lawyer, that's factored into the $50K).

IMO in our bizarre litigation-driven society, no good comes out of putting yourself out there unless you 100% CYA which is the mistake I made here. CYA or you'll (probably) be sorry.
I'm going to answer from my own experience, which may or may not fit your situation at all (you're kind of vague about it, so there's no way to judge). This is also in part inspired by the comment of humanarity (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9360218)

Several years ago in The Netherlands we had a website blockade of The PirateBay. Most ISPs had to block it, it was stupid, and it did not work at all. The ISPs were challenging it legally. The question got asked: "How effective is this blockade anyway? Can we measure it?".

I did not realise it at the time, but this was somewhat an identity inflexion point for me, and very much changed my career.

As a scientist in computer networking, with some knowledge of Bittorrent, I thought to myself, how hard can it be? I could take some torrents off TPB, record IP addresses passing by and checking which ISP they come from.
I finished the bittorrent measurements, wrote a report, and tried to publish it. Only the dean and the faculty lawyer got wind of it, and they were not amused, and saw a risk of getting sued by the entertainment industry.

I challenged them on this, and noted that I would publish this, even without their support. Fortunately I also got full support of my professor, and we did get to publish it. It was used in the court case, and it helped show the ineffectiveness of the website blockade, so it got lifted.

This little weekend project changed my research interests, has made me focus on ethics in computer science research, and especially security research. This has changed much of how I initially planned my career, and it has gotten me to where I am now. I have enjoyed every minute of it, and months later also realised I was not happy with the way my career was going.

I took some risk in doing this, but it was something I believed in. The change was possible because I was a researcher at a university, so that made it somewhat easier.
I agree with the sentiment but the issue I take with the original answer is that it is that it's completely unactionable. There's no litmus test defined for what "authenticity" to oneself is or how to achieve it, so there's no way for the OP to really take this information and tangibly apply it to their situation. In my personal opinion suggestion without actionability is not particularly useful and only convolutes the decision making process.
At the time Apple killed flash and announced the iPhone, they claimed they had no intention to support native apps on the iPhone. Web apps were the future and if developers wanted their app on the iPhone they should make a web app.
In all fairness, Steve Wozniak MAY have kissed the prom queen or threw a touchdown pass...
Just pay market rates. This company did not want to do that. They want to pay cheaper workers who then send that money out of the country. The company would not make the reported 700k per worker though. Not as good for upper management but better for America.
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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, she lost her job as a seamstress. No doubt she found it difficult to find work after that.
Before taking a 3 week vacation: 6 hours per day
After taking a 3 week vacation: 1 hour per day
Well, restaurants and small businesses in general usually have websites that come about through the joining of customers who have no understanding of ux or the trade-offs that come with going for the showiest thing possible, and creators who are offsetting their low prices by pushing through jobs as quickly as possible and don't have time to go through the delicate dance of telling the customer that their desires are unreasonable and awful.
Any employer large enough to have a legal department understands a subpoena.
These points stuck out from the interview:

Print-on-demand news

"..Monocle newsstand near London’s Paddington Station. The kiosk will offer a curated selection of magazines and newspapers as well as global newspapers printed on-demand. Customers will be able to register online, request a printing of newspapers ranging from Norway’s Aftenbladet to The Australian, and then come to the newsstand to pick it up ... “It’s important for us to, I think, remind the market that — is it really a crisis of print, or is it a crisis of print distribution?"

Trend chasing

"..We don’t have an issue of some digital guru or a friend or an investor or a board member who says, Why aren’t you slapping that little bird on the bottom of every webpage and every printed page? ... we don’t have that influence surrounding our brand, that we have to follow the dictates of a big parent corporation, and that’s been the great thing from the very start."

The companies they keep

"..the power of adjacency, of being in with a core print product group beside an ad for Cadillac, beside an ad for Cathay Pacific ... Here [his BlackBerry again] I can go and buy space in like-minded editorial, but I’m never going to be surrounded. I’m never going to have that pure adjacency right next to another brand in the same way that I would in print ... Brands want to have good adjacencies the same way that companies will wait forever to get space between 57th and Madison and 5th — because they want to be in the right company. I think that’s still very hard here."
The old saw goes VisiCalc sold more Apples than Apples sold VisiCalc. Of course then Lotus 1-2-3 came on to the market and even MultiCalc struggled to compete with that.
I have two t-shirts in mind myself, one is the logo on the top-right of my website, the other is my drawing of the Eyeball tree at http://www.warplife.com/mdc/drawings/

The Eyeball Tree is - and has been for many years - the single most popular document on my site. Back in the day, my girlfriend and I were looking for a way to kill some time. She suggested we draw. She drew a portrait of me, I drew the Eyeball Tree.
There's got to be lots of companies that, as a policy, don't do illegal things. Especially smaller businesses that can't afford to break the law. But larger ones too.

Presumably, those kinds of places just wouldn't care if you testified against a former employer who broke the law. Because it just wouldn't matter.
There's no such thing as an acceptable amount of hours. Is the goal reached or not?

Often in programming, you have this weird situation where spending more time makes the work harder. It is actually possible to dig a hole that makes you further away from the goal, while for the whole time you think you're getting closer. So I try not to get too tired, and I manage deadline expectations. Often you find the right solution to a whole day's problem in a few minutes of clarity the next morning.

Working from home, there are certain productivity benefits. There's no commute. The environment is familiar. I can take a break whenever I like, to do whatever I want, like take the kid out on a 2 hour lunch break. I can make more kids during work hours. Run errands. Often I find I can spread out the normal working hours over a longer period and feel better.

There's no meetings, other than online chats on Skype or Slack. There is a bit of a danger of chatting too much, but it's not as bad as when you're sitting in the office.

The thing that makes the most difference is whether I like what I'm doing. If I'm enjoying a project, time just flies by. It's like snapping your fingers, and breakfast turns to lunch, which turns to dinner, which turns to bedtime.
So if the law firm has contacted you then it makes things a bit clearer. Either you'll testify willingly or, if they feel your testimony is important enough, they will subpoena you to appear and you'll testify anyway. (or serve time in jail for contempt, which is not advised)

So it really isn't a choice of "do I or don't I" it is really about the choice you made when asked. The actual choice here may be whether or not you need representation.
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I can see neighborhoods having these things, to attack overflying drones that have no purpose being near the neighborhood. Parks departments taking out drones from "no drones" parks. With all this type of automation, compliance will also have to be automated. It's impractical to call the cops and say "I've got a drone buzzing around the neighborhood".
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And to add to my other comment, I'm willing to bet that large companies that break the law in certain areas sequester those activities away.

They don't put their "regular, probably honest" employees into areas that are lawbreaking.
Absolutely not. It's sad how all the hate towards the Shockwave Flash format has automatically spilled over on Adobe Flash the design and animation tool.

Adobe's best course forward would probably be to rename Adobe Flash to something like Adobe Vectorshop, discontinue support for .swf and replace it with SVG animations. Adobe already owns Snap.svg (https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/Snap.svg) so there's definitely a lot of potential there.
Since when is having a moral compass a platitude?
Currently developing a browser game, our goal is to take the market lead.
We think we have a serious chance doing so, because the current market leader uses a full flash site. (A normal Websites would be totally sufficient for that kind of game)

Well, thanks flash.
Yes, designing a proper module system and getting rid of the header system is the best way to improve compilation time. But it was not my point. There are other factors impacting compilation time. Look at Scala for example: it has a proper module system, but compilation is still relatively slow, even if better than C++. This is the reason why I'm interested in learning how Rust compiles generic functions, and what is the impact on the compilation time (because the compiler has to generate a version of the function for each possible T), the binary size, and the pressure on the CPU cache (because having many versions of the function makes harder to keep all of them in the cache at the same time).
If you do want to testify, definitely do it.
If you are worried about people able to Google you and find that you testified, there is a lot of ways to solve that problem.

You don't even need to go for extensive SEO, as Search Engines may change their algorithms every now and then.

What you can do is, you can create a website for your professional profile where you write blog posts. In one of the blog posts, you can clearly explain your standpoint in your own words. Just link this website to your Linkedin and other social networks. This is important because you have to say in your own words what you want others to see about you, so as to nullify any false idea others may get on googling you.

The recruiter who is going to hire you will surely see the link to the website that YOU have listed and if he really cares about you, that person will read the blog posts.
So you definitely have control.

Celebrities all across the world have to deal with stuff which might malign their image, every single day. And you can notice that many celebrities just give a clear statement in their own words and it works out well.

Finally, it comes down to the decision whether you would like to testify or not.
Or Bristol, maybe Southampton. Also maybe look for some hardware component to the work?
Sometimes you have to have the courage to care anyway, or nothing will change. When you look back, history is full of people giving a shit against all odds.
// The InverseBloomFilter may report a false negative but can never report a false positive.

This is actually not true and not possible. There is a good explanation here: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/14455/43

There will be a low probability of false positives ~ 2^32*k. (Also it's not an inverse-bloom filter, it's a cache).
> I doubt any powerful desktop OS (ie not Android/iOS) demos particularly well to a new user

Definitely so. I have switched from Windows to Ubuntu not because I liked Ubuntu in store, but because I kept encountering pieces of technology that appear first and/or work better on Linux, and I knew that I have to, for a while. I chose Ubuntu because it' apparently a solid mainstream choice and self-consciously endured the accommodation.

> it doesn't really feel like "acting like there's no choice"

I meant Apple's style here: they seem to be eager to simplify away things, making choices for you: 'you don't want to fiddle with changing batteries on your player/phone, do you?', 'who needs extra USB's, anyway?', 'you won't need that many configuration options for a PC', 'one button should be enough' - obviously, I'm not familiar with Mac software, but I get the impression that simplification is the norm there, too; which is great if the choices they make for you are mostly the ones you would make anyway, or you don't care much. I had the impression that eOS copies their style, here.

Choosing design, though, is the thing that Ubuntu really could use more of (Linux, in general, but Ubuntu seems to be the one that could potentially have resources to pull it off). I figured I could close windows with Ctrl+W: 'oh, so I can close any program with Ctrl+W instead of Alt+F4?' Nope, not just any program, e.g. not GNOME Terminal or Calculator. In Ubuntu I can start programs with 'Win+1' ... 'Win+0' shortcuts, maximize with Ctrl+Shift+Up. Not in Lubuntu/Xubuntu, it turns, out: I figure there isn't any design document for such things, spanning several official Ubuntu flavours; There isn't any reason for such things to be done differently, really.
Just yesterday I read in the Vancouver, Washington paper "The Columbian" of a lawsuit that a fruit distributor just filed against a railroad company. The fruit vendor had been shipping apples and pears to the midwest; this turned out to be hugely popular with the result that it was offered a $30M acquisition.

However the railroad is no longer willing to ship the apples as it is reallocating its resources to transport crude oil instead.

I don't doubt that in the short term the oil is more profitable to the oil company, but I expect that even without the lawsuit, they will lose in the end. Those whose livelihoods depend on shipping their product will look for other means of transport.
Try to imagine how you would think about this if you were 80 years old. Don't do something you fear you would regret sometime later. Be sure about yourself and only about yourself.
Adobe/Macromedia Fireworks? AFAIK Fireworks is the web graphics tool, so you should compare Photoshop and Illustrator to Fireworks not to Flash.
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