skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of questioning why others are getting so much, question why you're getting so little.
Right from childhood (at least in the US) the American system of capitalism is drilled into children's minds as the best thing there can be (perhaps even God's chosen system of similar bullcrap)

And then when they get to college, they're indoctrinated into the exact opposite ideology by marxist/socialist professors into your line of thinking.
No bounty for bug report? Should at least have a nominal fee of $100 (else no one would bother to report it).
Xiaomi phones are very cheap, and for its price, well made. At first I thought I had to use the Google play store but after not being able to install it because of some issues with MIUI6, I instead selected Amazon's Appstore.

It turns out that Amazon's Appstore was all the replacement I needed to get most of the apps I commonly use and if I really needed that one app not in Amazon, I can always find the APK for it provided it doesn't use Google Play Store's API.

I suppose there's a great opportunity ahead for Amazon to partner with Xiaomi should the latter try to enter the market in North America. Xiaomi phones will be stronger devices for Amazon's struggle for relevance than their kindles and fire phones.
An alternative to this system that I have been enjoying using is slidy, it makes slick presentation:

http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/
Joseph Nacchio is a better example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

They threw a bunch of insider trading charges at him when he impeded efforts by the NSA to get Qwest (of which he was chairman and CEO at the time) to do warrantless bulk collection.
Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/1lYGUROZ_Pg
Exactly.

"We don't do big data, we do little data" -- said no dev team ever, since Big Data has appeared.

Loading a 100MB Excel file -- big data. Dumping a few GB to SQLite -- big data. And programmers are now of course "Data Scientists".

Same with services. When microservices became cool, all the other services have disappeared and everyone is doing microservices.
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Ding ding - the part about my cluster being able to phone home made me both laugh and question the author's intent. Did the author really mean to target people like me, pulling Hadoop & Spark toolchain source, building them, and running them; or, was it an opportunity to hop on a soap box? Some decent points were made, but the tone of the article is really off-putting.
I'd very strongly recommend against starting with freelancing jobs. You don't have experience dealing with clients nor building software. Find a stable job as a junior dev at some company and don't be afraid to ask questions. The first year or two will get you some perspective about the industry and you will gain some experience. After that, you can try freelancing or getting a better job.
Generally, just searching for CS interview questions should give you a good number of questions which you should be able to spend a short amount of time on daily.
The Exploding Whale
He means mobile service provider (airtel, vodafone, at&t, etc)
Anyone know how to send an email to make it have a different day on it
I think Armin has got it; repr() is allowed (and does) to return unicode in Python 3, where as it's explicitly expected in Python 2.x that it will return a byte string.
The fact that you keep saying "you can't" is why you're not creating a startup to do exactly that.

TPB was floating this idea without funding almost a decade ago. it didn't take off because Cohen's Bittorrent Sync was implied to be open, and the project died in anticipation of the better (standard/trusted) technology.
No, it cannot, the design is a a randomized controlled trial, the controls would also go back, what is measured is the difference.
I used to find some romance in that. I don't know why, just did. Some crustie ate a pizza crust (no pun intended I guess) I threw in the trash once and I felt terrible.
To me it seems his complaint is not that hadoop pulls in binaries. The complaint is that it pulls in parts with unknown origin.
He wants to be able to trace the components backwards, and know the names of the people responsible for building them, ideally reputable people.
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wow. you pretty much hit on all the standard systemd/Lennart-supporting talking points. The future supporters should use your template as a fantastic starting point.

as for what I'm doing lately, I'm lurking in #systemd, watching you guys organize these reply-a-thons.
On Github:

> Xash3D Engine is a custom Gold Source Engine rewritten from scratch.

If that is really true, how can it be illegal ?
This bug actually seems quite critical imo, defeats the purpose of a feature and permits abuse/cheating
anti-systemd comment buried to the bottom of the page. worth burning karma for!
The difference between books and Internet articles is depth. A good book can take you from knowing nothing to a relatively deep understanding of a topic -- by nature of its format. Consider for example one of the classic books of all time: Newton's Principia. You can start reading that book with just a basic knowledge of geometry, and in a couple hundred pages later you'll know more about physics then you ever thought possible. And that book was presenting physics for the first time! That's not something you can replicate with Internet articles. It would be much more trouble to do that over the Internet, and you would cry "please, write a book and send it to me so I can read all this information in a easier way". Other books are like that, not only in science but also in literature, philosophy, computing (e.g.: TAOCP) and so many other areas.

The problem we have nowadays is that, because it became so much easier to write books, we have more and more books that don't add much to human knowledge. In the old times, writing and publishing a book was hard, which meant that the threshold for acceptance was much higher. Our society views this downgrading of book quality as a sign that books are not a good format, when in fact this is just an unintended consequence of our technology.
I think one of us is misunderstanding what he said.

The way I read it, he was not saying "butchering made a connection between me and the animal I was butchering," but rather that "butchering helped me make a connection between the steak and the animal it came from."

That is to say, I understand him as saying that he now recognizes that a given cut of meat comes from a given place on an animal, rather than being just a piece of meat.
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I do a lot of App Sec related things and I actually use mostly Chrome dev tools and command line instead of burp and other tools. The way I reproduced the bug when it was reported was by using the "Copy to curl" feature in Chrome, and then using it as follows

for i in `seq 1 16`;do
curl.*& #copied from chrome dev tools. & to background
done
The title of the book includes "from scratch" for a reason -- it's from "first principles" where you learn about something by building it up from scratch rather than using an implementation. At the end of each chapter, Joel points out the existing resources you can use after learning about the topic.
It seems like /r/vagabond is getting the "15 minutes
of fame" treatment - this was last week's version:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9403385

Check back in August or so to see if a moral panic
has erupted about the dangers of young people hopping
trains, or if Britt has become the new Burning Man :-)
Takes me a day
If there's any piece of open-source software that you like and use, maybe you could try to fix some bugs for that? Once you know a project, it's possible that each bug would take only a few minutes, especially if it's new and growing.

It's also a great boost for your resume.
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Well, there was the YF-12. (Though the model in question is not this two-seat variant which saw testing as an interceptor though was never fielded.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12
It really isn't a good read. I own the first three volumes. They are really just useful as a relatively comprehensive reference text explaining a lot of base CS algorithms and structures.
IMO it's more fun watching mini-quads than fixed-wing FPV videos especially from the very best pilots like Charpu, BorisB, Final Glide, Blackout etc.

The scream on FinalGlides 6S quad [4] gives me chills.

Crashes are always fun too, like when rianrex split his quad in half [6].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DyRGpKtz-M

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNObwimthF0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5a9TLb1Yl0

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxU4GdlTHDg

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DeK7zuLSw

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OKT4cx7UKsk#t=171

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avmc-vQRB4U
If it helps, the inaccuracy argument never really held water. 18th century grammarians (who wanted English to be more like Latin) argued that generic he was better because it agreed with its referent in number. But even if you accept that premise, all they did was trade an inconsistency in number for one in gender. That's certainly not a win and arguably a loss for accuracy.

People may not have noticed that at the time, but we do now for obvious reasons, which is why singular they has made a comeback, not that it ever went away. It's just idiomatic English reasserting itself. Soon we'll forget it was controversial.
Great Post, Thanks.
They give you different experiences. Small projects allow you to experiment more (try 1 new thing with each one, so as not to get overwhelmed). More importantly, they are easier to finish.

Larger projects will teach you about maintaining a codebase over time, working with others, and managing complexity. You can't keep 10,000 lines of code in your head at once. You'll start one, realize your mistakes about 6 months in, and most likely need to heavily refactor or rewrite it. But that's not wasted time- its a really valuable learning experience.

Do both, but get a few small ones under your belt first and keep doing them along the way (to get a break, or try out that new tech you're thinking of using for your larger project before you commit months to it).
I was so caught up in training Ralph, I forgot to add a license!

I've settled on GNU GPL v3. Thanks for the catch. :)
I tend to agree. None of these criticisms are from real-world experience. I'm not convinced the author can grow a neck beard yet :P
What character is used for separator? Comma? Semi colon? Tab?

It isn't Comma-Separated-Values if fields are not separated by commas, but the others are valid points. Failure to handle quoting correctly is the most common form of broken CSV support I've seen. Encoding is usually specified out-of-band.
Show HN: Tested-answers, post code answers and see the output
You define "processing" as not thinking of your problem, but not actively thinking of something else. A lot of modern people would also call that boredom.

There's growing evidence that creativity is mostly a background process that occurs while we're bored. Because creativity often presents itself to our conscious mind as an epiphany, we think it's an instantaneous event, but it's not.

https://www.google.com/search?q=creativity+boredom
An Introvert’s Guide to Greeting Strangers, Vague Acquaintances, and Friends
We raise ducks as well and the effort involved is definitely not huge if you have the space (although you a spending a lot less than us per duck). Just keeping them for eggs is very simple and has a lot of upside... best quality eggs available, nice yard art, fun for kids, life/death lessons for kids, etc. I have been thinking a lot about how much meat my family eats recently and nothing helped put that into sharper focus than starting to butcher some of our own animals. Whereas keeping poultry in order to gather a family's worth of eggs is pretty simple, the idea of producing all our own meat is really a tall order. We eat at least one full chicken a week, and those are pretty big. It would take at least two ducks to supplement that one fat chicken and even then we are eating a lot of other meat. We ended up buying half a cow from a friend and that goes a lot further.

On butchering side of things, raising around 100 birds a year for slaughter would be crazy for us. Going from a full vegan lifestyle a few years back to slaughtering and butchering some of our own food has been an interesting change. I would recommend it if you have second guessed any of the weirdness with how food makes it to your plate. It definitely gives you something to think about. Killing really cute ducks that we raised by hand was definitely tough in the beginning. I had never hunted or killed any animal on purpose before. It's always a bummer but it does get a little easier in time. We've got a bunch of our eggs in our incubator now, hoping for more ducks in 24 days!
Are you plucking or skinning or breasting?
You missed some more good reasons after that like:

"It's not suitable for big projects"

"No global variables"

My takeaway from the article is "I [the author] don't like Java because it is not C/C++"
I find there are two modes:

1. Learning- This is where the processing comes in. Lots of thinking about the big picture, figuring out some new tech or doing something new. It usually takes a first implementation which sucks, then a refactoring or rewriting once you learn from your mistakes.

Learning takes time, so def start early when there are deadlines.

2. Doing- After I've learned how to do something, and actually done it a few times, it becomes routine. It is less fun, but I can get into a longer flow. This is great for deadlines, because I don't have to think too much at 4:00am spazzing out on caffeine, since I've done it all before.

To be the most productive, I find I have to do both. I always try to learn something new, but when I'm 'processing' it I go on to doing something I've done 10 other times before.
chroot's aren't namespaced

Sure they are. If you chroot apache to /var/www, then /var/www is now / in the chroot'ed namespace.
Suppose the carpenter pulls out an autonomous house-building robot and tells it to build him a house. Is he still driving nails?

But to your main point, while we may be offloading only trivial decisions to apps today, the better they become at making these decisions, the more natural it will be to trust them for more significant ones. As the original article mentions, it's not much of a stretch to imagine an app that looks at your demographics and preferences and tells you who to vote for. And from there, why not apps that choose where to live, what career to pursue, or who to marry? Some day, it may even seem foolish not to defer to apps for important decisions. After all, how can one fallible, emotional person ever hope to make a better decision than a datacenter full of machines that can coolly consider all of the parameters and potential outcomes?

At that point, floating through a blissfully optimized life, one might say that yes, the apps are deciding everything for me, but they're doing so only in accordance with my preferences and values. I'm still in charge; I'm still exercising free will. But in the absence of making decisions oneself, where exactly did those preferences and values come from?
I imagine it's rather tough, reconciling the gap between people who murder by profession and those that like to push around bits inside of electronics.
Ask HN: What tools/sites visually display what locations startups operate in?
Example: If I want to visually see what cities Uber/Lyft/DoorDash etc operate in, where would be the best place to go? Looking for a visual-Crunchbase for example. Any suggestions?
If you can render it once, you can render it twice. So just render a shadow buffer pass, and now you have real-time shadows. This applies to any 3D engine.
Could you just find a host in their country?
In case you haven't tried pacaur, you should give pacuar a try. From my experience, pacaur is better than yaourt.

pacaur: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacaur
We outsource it out to WP Engine so we don't have to worry about it.
These days, participating in most western bitcoin exchanges requires going through many government requirements such as providing identity documents and going through various arbitrary screening and watch-list checks.

Of course, if any of these public or private databases matches you, it's not really in the exchange's interest to go to bat for you. There are other customers and they do business based on volume.

The basic premise that bitcoin has ushered in this new system of open money is false. Everything he describes is happening on existing, closed businesses.

The fact that the asset he's trading happens to be bitcoin is somewhat immaterial.
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It's not me; I don't run scripts written by people who think it's okay to exec shit from the network.

It's for the people who don't know any better and see this anti-pattern everywhere and thereby begin to think it's okay or accepted. It's not.
Add some small arms to something like that and it would be an urban terror. I assume the sole challenge is the ammo would be too heavy, but clearly looking at the future of warfare...
4 Simple practical steps for making the jump into creating a startup product
I just offset my emissions. Real simple - nice work!
Wordpress is not as insecure as people think, it's only insecure when you start loading unknown plugins and such (which it seems a lot of people do do). My wordpress site has been up for about 4 years without me updating it or doing anything at all to it... and somehow it still hasn't fallen down.
> Do you think you can get the ideas presented in, say, SICP or Principles of Mathematical Analysis by going through online material?

The parent was making the point that it's possible to have a much better system where the book authors communicate with the readers online which improves both the quality and ease of understanding.
As of now, it may not be the situation but in future there surely will be better ways to do things.

Also if we go by the literal meaning, book is defined as "a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers". The part which requires "approval and published by a publisher" is a model of a book making and there may be better models out there.
I sort of wish you had done:

declare(types=strict);

instead. That way other options can be added in the future.
Scientists use graphene to create 3D display
Spitzer was out of control. His sin was alienating all of those around him.... Many folks in Albany were cheering his demise.

The other two leaders of the legislature have been prosecuted for corruption. His Lieutenant Governor upon succeeding Spitzer disclosed that he was a cocaine user that routinely cheated on his wife. You need to look at Spitzer through the lens of corruption that is NY politics... He was a victim of hubris, not conspiracy.
I agree. If I had my own company I would surely provide some incentive for bugs found in the product. Whether that incentive was monetary, a free membership, etc. I think it's important to acknowledge that all software systems are imperfect.
Presumably you've seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYz_D89BLUg

The AA12 is an automatic shotgun
Funny, in pure mathematics the opposite is true. Examples of intuition defying theorems include the Banach–Tarski paradox, cantor sets, uncountability of the reals, gabriel's horn, the list goes on.
using non-white backgrounds, because it can reduce glare

The real problem with glare is excessively shiny, glossy screens.
1. Apply all the security updates and patches as they come out. It's literally just one click.

2. Don't to get too fancy with too much customization (writing your own plugins, weird post types).

3. Using a less mature blogging engine has its own problems. Rolling your own blog engine is nuts.

4. You can find someone to write a wordpress theme for you pretty cheaply.

5. There's a reason so many websites run on wordpress.

6. If blogging isn't your core product, there isn't much point to using something nonstandard. Would you write your own E-Mail system? Why not just use the standard blogging system?
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Search Messages Using Search String Encoding and Send DKIM Signed Emails in Java
Works pretty great, has a strong community, many contributors outside of Google. I highly doubt it's going anywhere (much to some peoples' dismay I suppose).
Point made, it's open source and even without Google, we still have communities. For these who are interested, you can Google Ruby history.
I would suggest you invest some energy in finding some mentors. Find people who you look up to. I wouldn't try to find Tim Cook or Elon Musk.. I'd look for people who've been successful, and who you can connect to through your network (if you aren't investing time in building up your network in LinkedIn, I suggest you do so).

There's a LOT of entrepreneurs who take a few times to come up with something that succeeds. Personally (I've founded 2 startups and worked at 4 others), I think it's much more about the people than the idea.

Get to know people who are passionate about creating things. Find some amongst them who have common interests. Build something you love. If others love it, too, you will build success.

I'm always happy to help people early in their careers (like you, at your ripe young age of 25). If you can't find others to help you, send me a THOUGHTFUL intro on LinkedIn, and I'll be happy to talk. http://linkedin.com/in/triantos

Good luck!
Why did the chicken cross the world?
I didn't find the article very insightful, because it lumps all "books" together. I haven't read a technical book in several years, because it's so much easier to find what I want online. But I read nonfiction whenever I have the time, or want to decompress. I have no problem switching between hyper-multitasking and deep focus.

Perhaps the author never fully learned that. I wonder if it's age-related. Or maybe I'm the odd one: ADHD/bipolar with hard-won focusing skills ;)
> Capitalism makes sense for producing widgets at low cost. For apportioning scarce luxury objects. Etc. But we don't win by trying to make everything profitable. We just make everything more competitive, more stressful, less... human.

But Capitalism also allows people a great degree more freedom to do the things they want. Are there constraints? Sure. Is it perfect? Clearly not. But there are many who justify themselves by the works they produce. I don't ordinarily think of myself as that, but when I was an electrician, I used to construct things, build things.

I still get a sense of pride whenever I'm home and can look at the light poles that I jackhammered the foundations from, directed the concrete pouring of, wired to main, erected with a crane and bolted into place. There's an odd sense of pride that I have every time I see them. That's something I did. And yeah, it's pretty trivial, but I get value from it.

In a capitalist system, not only can I prioritize how much I choose to work, but I also have the luxury of choosing what I do, where I can contribute the most value. I can't say that I've studied it very much, but compared to assigned work for whatever the normal amount of pay is, I very much prefer the freedom of working more for more money, or working less for less money, in a field of my choosing.

I can then allocate that money to the items I prioritize most dearly to me. I never have as new a phone as my peers seem to, but in their stead, I have some very nice guitars that I gain great enjoyment from.

I'm not yet convinced that there a non-capitalist system exists that affords me such choices. Without incentivizing at least some people to go out and get work done, it seems unlikely to me that there is wealth enough to sustain our collective frivolities. And sure, looking out the window doesn't cost a whole lot, but guitars do, and so do canvases and paints.