skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the same boat. The comparison should really be about the long-term downsides. Sure, the sedentary lifestyle of computer work could cause various ailments. But the farm lifestyle will cause its own long-term ailments. Everyone is built differently, so there is no guarantee of health on either side. Eventually, both forms of work will catch up with you. It's just a matter of which one you can personally handle better. ie. carpal tunnel vs slipped disks. Not to mention the difference in possibility of serious injury or death. There is a lot of opportunity on a farm to get injured temporarily or permanently. If serious, you either die or are unable to continue farming. I find this piece very short-sighted.
links are fucked on Chrome, text bleeding over into the neighboring words to overlay and make it unreadable.
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There are definite ways to succeed as a contractor without being the first to bid. A while back (when Elance was just Elance) I decided to do some digging to see how the buyer side looked and ended up with some key learnings that landed me most jobs I went for. Nothing too fancy or "hacky", but the majority of bidders - at the time, at least - were lazy and had messaging very similar to everyone else.

I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@disruptivedave/how-im-gaming-elance-guru...
With vim's python integration it shouldn't be too hard to add this; the elisp code for org-trello is reasonablly straightforward. I submitted a patch for a bug I found in org-trello when I first used it; it was the first elisp code I'd written.
Since cannabis is well known to be mostly harmless, and much more harmless than alcohol, it seems like a good start. LSD might be in this category too. There are other ones that have value in medical, psychiatric and therapeutic settings, and definitely should not be completely banned simply because of their potential to cause harm. Another class offers zero benefit or unreasonably small benefit for the risks. "Bath salts" anyone?

We have more socialism in the USA than many people realize and as long as I am paying taxes I'd prefer to not have to pay for unnecessary tragedies, second only to my wish to not fund the military and spies. We have to pay for quite a bit of emergency room care, social security death benefit, mental health or domestic violence counseling, etc. already due to the abuse of alcohol.
Been there done that. The answer is: No!
Think of a start-up founder like a con-man trying to sell you snake oil.
Now I have one more anecdotal confirmation for my hypothesis that all advice is bullshit.

I notice that the section on Networking has nothing to do with building cross-company relationships with your peers and future business contacts.

Nothing is said about interviewing or salary negotiation.

Suspiciously absent is the section about how to balance doing something correctly against doing it profitably--or how to stop arguing with your manager before you get fired.

I have to assume that someone majors in computer science as a means to land a job in the field. We all know that hobbyists don't need the expensive degree credential. The vast, overwhelming majority of work now available for software professionals is to take someone else's shit code and make it work better. A very tiny fraction of it is producing all-new code that is done right the first time. As a new grad, you are probably not going to get that work, and even if you do, your inexperience in the real world will probably still make it shit code that someone else will have to improve.

You do need a resume, even if you have a stellar portfolio, because the majority of available jobs are filled by people who don't know what a github is, or how much their mechanic charges to fix it.

It is blindingly obvious that the writer is an academic, who has never held a developer position in a startup, a mid-cap, a megacorp, or a government.

In the real world, the only skill you absolutely need is to learn exactly what you need to be productive. You don't just make yourself "T-shaped"--you also cultivate the ability to make yourself "Pi-shaped" by quickly growing a new stem of deep knowledge.
That's a good point to raise. I didn't intend to make that statement but I can see how it could sound that way.
Tolkien could probably have given a very similar interview.

He created an ancient proto-elven language called quenya, and a modern elvish language evolved from it called sindarin. He created the language with specific goals in mind, working on it over his whole career, and the Lord of the Rings came into existence as a result, in the same way that a really nice hat rack tends to naturally accumulate hats.

https://www.academia.edu/4901880/Elvish_Linguistics_The_Scie...
Every case is a case, but one of my best friends took control of his depression and anxiety by:

1 - Take meds.

2 - Buy a piano. It seems crazy (he literally spent all his money in it) but I can confirm that it was the best investment he ever did.
Would you mind tweeting over a screenshot of the bug you're experiencing? My username is @eli_schiff.
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I just want to buy the physical book, not e-book. There is no option like that:(
Hey! I'm an (novice) org-mode user, and a developer at Trello. I think this is really really cool, and just wanted to say thanks for making it.
Google Earth (Desktop app) has some historical aerial imagery for Berlin, a lot of other German Cities/Warsaw/Gdansk/ from '44,'45,'53

For more coverage look for gray spots in this overview map http://imgur.com/bfvJpR3

Helps a lot to get an idea of the extent of destruction.

Warsaw has coverage for 1935 and 1945.

For Berlin it's helpful to also go to the 1953 imagery to see which structures where demolished.

http://www.google.com/earth/explore/showcase/historical.html
Nice, a HN-Share button. Is it me, or is this a new thing?
rcurry is right if the knife wielder is within 20 feet AND the gun holder has their gun holstered, uncocked, with the safety still on.

Why not also do a test where the officer has to front-load the powder into their musket and put a bullet in and arm the gun? Have you seen those videos? The policemen are the ones who approach the knife wielder, not the other way around! They have the power to set the distance and to prepare themselves if they're going to close the distance! They're not hapless policemen standing idly by, suddenly assaulted by a knife wielder who surprise-jumps out of a doorway within 20 feet. That's a totally different situation.

What's more likely to be happening in a real situation, based again on all those countless snuff films floating around the internet, is that the officers have the safety off, have their hand on the gun, or even have the gun out of the holster in their hand, long before the 20-feet distance is reached.

That reduces the dangerous distance pretty significantly I would think.

So again, my point totally stands: unless the victim (I refuse to call them an attacker when they're clearly the one who always dies in practice when these scenarios happen, especially if they're black) is actually actively moving towards the policeman, there is no reason for the policeman to shoot their gun at a victim that's standing 20 feet away. If they feel the victim is a threat, then unholster the gun, take off the safety, cock the gun, and be ready to shoot, but maintain your distance.

It totally refuse that the only reasonable course of action after you deliberately approach a knife wielder is to shoot them when you get them within your 20-foot radius. That's murder, pure and simple.
I applaud the author for having the guts to make such a drastic change and see it through. I get it.

I'd be curious to know, though, and without being too critical, how this change affects his kids? Did they have to change schools? Leave friends and be further away from family? I ask mainly because as a kid I was often a victim of my mother's fickleness, and as a parent it has been a goal of mine to give my kids the stability I didn't have. Again, not a judgement here, just interested in hearing about that aspect of this endeavor.
Personally I don't mind when people showcase their work on HN (although I agree the landing page is a bit overloaded on marketing speak).

Perhaps it'd fit in better as a Show HN.
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As said, its just my opinion (and iam not a Putin fan or any fan of any politican out there). And i also look the 8PM news at Tagesschau, but, as you said by yourself, its always good to get more details somewhere else (SPON or not)
I think it's totally OK to have this link here, because content is relevant to the nature of HN crowd.
A stacktrace passed to a Word User is exactly the problem. The error was handled at the lower level system which includes a stack rather than at the higher level composite system that involves people. If the low level error hadn't been handled locally, a more user friendly level of the system could have made a more user friendly level presentation of the information regarding the failure.

Because the kernel code cowboys ignored the UX city slickers, the system failure is in a sense, double. Not only does it stop letting the user type words into boxes, but then it also fails by presenting the user with a bunch of useless gobbledy-gook. It would have been better if they had asked the people working on the higher level abstractions, "Should we handle <this type> of error and if so how?" Or with wonderfully non-technical ambiguity, asking, "What should we do when we crash?"

If the error is handled locally, there's no chance that a higher level can handle it more gracefully. What causes a low level system programmer to freak out, may be nothing if the higher level system is redundant in regard to the low level system. A system shouldn't assume it knows what is catastrophic in the large. A message stating, "I have an error" is the place to start.
> Iojs: 49 authors have pushed 168 commits to master and 572 commits to all branches. On master, 8,474 files have changed and there have been 1,524,012 additions and 708,276 deletions.

With that much change in such a short time, it would be extremely optimistic to think something didnt break. If I had a lot of production code depending on node, those numbers would scare the crap out of me.

You can absolutely migrate angular 1 to angular 2. Following good practices (i.e not having 4k line controllers) that were place since its inception only makes that migration easier.
Perhaps but I don't think the author is the one that submitted it.
Hmm, old news I guess..

http://www.hn-button.com/
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I'd rather have all of the bug-fixes and improvements from the new v8 engine.

I'm able to debug, profile and understand my application just fine under io.js. You don't need DTrace or MDB to do this.
Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance
Glimmer rendering engine is landing in Ember Canary today
He spent more time editing his manuscript than he did actually living in his cabin.
I totally understand why you have that preference, but I have the opposite view. I'm unlikely to discover stuff like this except through the curation of this community, and I really appreciate it when it happens. At least at present it seems like the signal-to-noise is pretty good.

Maybe it's better if it's all grouped under the "Show HN" titles so folks who don't like it can mentally filter it quicker. But I'd be sorry if these posts disappeared.

That said, I think the author should take your point about providing useful content to heart - I think it'd be better for the visitors, but also better marketing.
Sue the DEA, home of parallel construction? At least they aren't beheading women, I guess.
P2P microfinance: Zidisha (YC nonprofit) launches in Haiti
Scientists torture QWERTY layout into the wearable/smartwatch space
Ask HN: Office Cleaning Service in NYC?
We need a new office cleaning service. Do not want to use Handy or whatever it's called these days.

Suggestions and recommendations?
This has nothing to do with "American's puritanicalism" and is just a matter of there are over 700 emoji and Unicode 7.0, which added the middle finger one, added another 250. It takes time to create 250 emoji. Google and Apple just haven't gotten to this one yet.

If this was a question of "American's puritanicalism" or Google & Apple refusing to add this one to "keep things polite" then it just never would have made it into Unicode 7.0 in the first place as both Apple & Google are full members of the unicode consortium.
What makes PowerPoint the priority in your workflow?
And animated flame gifs.
Have you tried setting her up with a standard user login by default? I did that with my folks and the number of computer questions seems to have gone way down.
Just as I said above - find gigs on HN who is hiring thread, weworkremotely.com, stackoverflow remote jobs, wfh.io etc... just talk to clients directly. Oh, and needless to say - double/triple your rate, seriously - all it takes is to just ask.

Also, I was after more or less niche remote jobs (C++). In case of web or mobile dev - there are literally tons of jobs out there.
What do you think you could get in terms of salary at the best-paying company that you could be happy working at?

EDIT: Actually, let me expand.

1. That does seem like lower-than-expected equity for a senior employee at a small start-up that's pre-series-A.

2. But on some level, I don't think that should be the controlling factor. I'm assuming here that this is a pretty run-of-the-mill seemingly doing-well pre-series-A startup. That is, it'll be at least five years, and probably more like ten, before it monetizes, and the chance of it monetizing is sub-10%. And your options would vest over the course of 4 years with a 1 year cliff.

3. So that said, if you're going to be there 4 years, and the company is going to do well enough over those 4 years for us to care what your equity is, then I would assume that 4 years from now, you'll be a critical member of the leadership team. The company will have had to grow a lot, you're senior already, so... right? There's plenty of chance to, in that case, have your equity position "right-size" with the company. To, in other words, re-grant stock based on whatever inflation happens and based on how you work out as a member of the inner team of the company.

4. And given how far off any equity payout is, and how uncertain it is, I'd think that your decision to go with the company should be based on salary, what you expect the salary to do in the next year or two, and whether you believe that you can become a member of the leadership team of the company and whether you would enjoy all of that.

5. If, on the other hand, this company has some kind of special sauce that means that equity payout is more likely or more near-term, then, well, maybe that justifies the lower equity award.
I wish I could upvote you more. This is the proper context for our work.
CentOS would given even longer support! Just add epel and the Nux desktop libraries for multimedia
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I'm a bit confused by your comment - do you mean everything you've read so far in this book is about Eating The World, etc? Or everything you've read prior to this book?
Why are they typewritten, with corrections? Did somebody find them years after the typewriter was invented and transfer them from handwritten archives?
Thanks for your comments. I had to use what the client gives me. So the text and images I can not change. It's what my client wants. However, I can work with font size and make it more reader friendly.
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I clicked "Site Statistics" -> "Overall rankings"

http://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&...
I know it is generally true in California. And their intention is to balance out the attendance to the various schools. And it was not always bad like this. I feel it became worse when a state wide test ranking system was created then people knew which schools were better performing and started flocking towards them so things got imbalanced.
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I grew up in a relaxed beach town in Florida (Venice), and I liked it pretty well--but all of my peers hated it.

"There's nothing to do here."

I just thought "seriously? We have everything but a theme park." Go carts, beaches, movies, skating rinks, arcades, everything!

I've since learned that kids say that no matter where they live, seemingly.
There is a research and industry effort underway to replace TCP/IP with content-centric or named-data networking. No more servers or IP addresses. All content would be uniquely identified and optionally signed. It would become much easier to control content distribution, since routers would be aware of content names and caching. Think Cloudflare writ large.
The fact that people think dogs have higher intrinsic value than pigs, and hence deserve more rights, is based on completely arbitrary characteristics. The proof of that is that dogs are seen as food in some cultures, cows are seen as sacred in others, etc. It's all part of belief systems that, in most cases, are inherited without being questioned.

I have no idea if she has spent time within family farms, but I would guess that she, like most people versed in animal rights, would strongly disagree with exploiting the bodies and reproductive systems of animals unnecessarily. Regardless of it being done in a factory farm or in the best family farm, where animals roam free until the day they are sent to the house of slaughter, at a young age.

If you sent a perfectly healthy dog (or horse, or cat, or elephant) to slaughter, for profit or pleasure, in a culture that sees those animals as members of their moral community, you would get a very different reaction from society.
Here's a podcast interview with Mike Taber about his new book:
http://techzinglive.com/page/1541/280-tz-interview-mike-tabe...
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Jepsen is just doing a kill -9 on the java process.

I posted a comment on the blog:
https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-...

First I made sure that read() goes through the page cache. (It does as long as there's no O_DIRECT)
Then I went and checked the write ahead log on ES.

Turns out from my reading that ES is considering a write to be durable if it is put into a userspace buffer.

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/src/mai...

Data is pushed to kernel space whenever the buffer gets full. Then it is fsync'd on the timer.
Also, I'd be leaving a job I really don't like at a Silicon Valley spinoff. $150K salary, 0.75% equity, shiny CEO with regular Fox-Business-News appearances, rising company notoriety, selling into a hot market. The company will never raise more "venture" funding, the parent will structure future injections as debt (at a reasonable interest rate, likely, but probably less onerous than VC).

This current company has a highly dysfunctional development culture, no automated testing, poor choice of deployment vehicle, a VP high on the DK spectrum. I can't bear it.

The place has a very high likelihood of acquisition in the next 2 years. It's a question of how long product dev can go on before the product implodes vs how quickly the shiny CEO can attract a good buyer for the polished turd. I lose a bit of my soul every day.
I come from a graphic design background and I really sympathize with the author's grievances regarding the field but I can't help but to have a disdain for his victimized tone and lack of business knowledge or insight in all of his writings on the subject of flat design, code-first, function over form etc.

I believe he has not yet reached the truth and real drivers behind all of these concepts and developments in the field.
For the most part, almost all JavaScript code and modules will run the same under io.js as node.js. The primary point of breakage is binary modules. io.js is constantly upgrading their V8 bindings, so binary modules need to be updated much more frequently than with node.js.
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It was also used with live people in a Soyuz rocket. Google up Vladimir Titov and there's a video of this. He attributed to the designer of LES for saving his and his compatriot's life.
Yes it is Rival theme in both cases. I'm not a from scratch webdesigner so using a these off the shelf themes has gotten me started. I shall try to enlarge the font size though. Thanks junto
Not quite sure what your point is. What are these "right laws" and "wrong laws"?
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