skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'd ask for a portfolio, and if you do have some programmer friends that do have the experience, I'd ask them if they can sit in an interview with you. If a portfolio is not possible, I'd ask for some technologies that they've worked with, and try to find a project which uses those technologies. I'd ask for a work sample using whatever they are comfortable with, such as the 'TodoMVC' implementation, something small that can be finished in 4 hours that shows their skill. This isn't like you are hiring just a programmer, this is going to be one of the first programmers you hire, the one likely to set the standards. Yes, he may not respect your programming skill, but that's to be expected, programmers are prideful of their work. However they can be respectful of you while giving you the rundown of why what you wrote was wrong. You want to hire someone who is better than you at programming. At the same time you don't want someone who is an ass, that should be pretty easy to figure out.
Love the analysis of standing. The government said the ACLU did not have standing to sue because they could not demonstrate that their phone records, though collected, had been examined. The catch-22--that they never really would be able to because that's classified--was avoided by quoting the 4th Amendment:

"The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches
and seizures" (italics in the original.)
Most states limit the max outlay required before they give someone a pass. In some cases, a vehicle requiring repair expenditures over $450 may get a waiver from the state exempting it from further repairs regardless of test outcome.

You can see a lot of details here. http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-99-23-REV.pdf Also, repairs often increase fuel economy so not only do city's become far more livable again the net cost is fairly low.
This case would have been impossible without Snowden.

Previous attempts to litigate the legality of mass collection of data had failed based on problems with the "standing" of plaintiffs. Specifically, the people who sued could only say that it was implicit that the government had collected data on them, but they had no actual evidence that it had happened -- specifically, to them.

That specificity is necessary to have standing in cases against the government, as a longstanding principle that you can't just use the courts to claim the government is violating the constitution or doing something wrong in a general way, you have to present courts with a specific controversy and specific facts that yielded specific damages and have specific redress.

That specificity was provided by Snowden when he turned over copies of the actual subpoena/requests to Verizon by the NSA. The ACLU was then able to say, we are actual customers of Verizon on the dates in question, and this order is asking for actual information on us, specifically.

Without Snowden this issue would never have reached this point and this decision -- which indeed has ruled illegal the NSA's mass metadata collection of telephony records -- would have never happened.
Being an early Twitter user, I'd say that the value of Twitter is in who you follow, not who's following you.

When Twitter started it was a geek medium and dominated by nerd types. Back in 2007 it was almost a guarantee that I could follow any one and find interesting (to me) conversations and topics. For someone with poor social skills and living in a part of the world with no tech scene, it was an amazing opportunity to meet people and be part of a nascent community.

I'm pretty sure that if I have a career in tech today is in part due to my early involvement in Twitter.

With time, as its usage broadened, it became more and more difficult to find who to follow. Twitter seemingly tried very hard to divorce itself from the nerd community and became pop culture. Once it became Obama's and Justin Biever's medium it was pretty much ruined.

Today, it's still possible to find interesting communities buried within the nonsense but it's getting more and more difficult to do so.

(Non native speaker, sorry if something does not make sense)
Hobby dynos are real dynos. :) Professional dynos, like the new `standard-1x` will have scale-out, Heroku Metrics, preboot, and mix with other dyno types: all features we have found are most useful for apps at scale.

We hope that between the new `free` and `hobby` dynos you should have good choices that support almost any personal or small scale professional app you might want to build.
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I offer web sites and different web/desktop systems for hotels and restaurants and I have reached 2,000$ monthly revenue/most of it is profit/. This includes web sites, booking systems, some legal documents, specific SMS services. Also I partner with a marketing company, so there are additional commisions, which is what I use to pay the bills, so everything that I make through the main startup gets into a fund, that I want to use to grow the product.

I am looking for good content with useful information, that could attract clients. Posts that will be published in high traffic blogs or magazines. I tried with 40-50$ for 750-850 words in oDesk, but didn't work out that great as I received only offers from people, who were clearly not native English speakers.

Is it worth hiring people, where English is the second language/it actually is my third language/ and get a editor, who would polish the content for me. This is what I used to do for the last 4-5 months.

I like writing, I really do. But I reached a point, when I am not sure it is worth doing that, instead I could focus at sales/programming, which is what I do right now.
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https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/589974366055636994
Original posted on 20th April, 2015

"It's 2015, The top story on HN is how to center text in CSS. Humanity's takeover by advanced AI might take a while."
Here is a comment I wrote about the same issue some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085403

Haskell IO is severely misunderstood.
I don't think it's wrong when using git. However I think it shouldn't be designed like this though. Git rebase should add metadata not remove them. Essentially you rebase because you want to hide certain details because they are not important. Rebase could do one or more actual merges instead and mark certain commits not important so they wouldn't show up in logs by default.

AFAIK rebase is the only operation that happily destroys your history without any --force or --hard option. It always disturbed me.

There is a legitimate usage of rebase though: you really want something removed from history. Like you accidentally committed a secret, inappropriate message or you just want to fix a typo in the last commit.
The real reason young people are the poorest generation in 25 years
That's also a potential point of negotiation: a contract to develop software for exclusive use should charge a higher rate than a contract to develop software that can be subsequently released as Open Source.
Technically, it's possible. Practically, I think it's extremely unlikely that a law enforcement officers will request, and that a judge will approve warrants to arrest individual members of the security services, and that those members won't just mysteriously get out of jail a few hours later, and that a politician won't figure out a way to BandAid the inconvenience within weeks.
They also lowered the cost of that 1x dyno in the Pro tier, and if I'm reading correctly that $7 actually buys you two full-time dynos (but only one of them can be web, the other has to be a background worker.)

You can use both 1x web and 1x worker in the free tier too, as long as you abide by the new policy of sleeping 6 hours.
Inside joke. It’s the first episode of “The Prisoner,” a legendary dystopic television show featuring a prisoner whose jailers go to great lengths to induce a feeling of helplessness, but he resists.

That’s literally the plot of every episode: The jailers thinking up new ways to teach him that he cannot control what happens, and him coming up with new ways to make the jailers feel that it’s them who cannot control what happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner
Holy moley, I knew there were 24 function keys at one point, but 63? That's crazy! I love learning little things like that.

I'm definitely glad modifier+key shortcuts are so common. I like it when shortcuts can be somewhat mnemonic (and I love vim).
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I have found it useful since moving to a new city. Most of the time you are either overwhelmed with tweets or miss things because you weren't watching at the right time.

But these people curate a retweeting session which I find interesting :

https://twitter.com/HuddersfieldBiz : Use #HuddersfieldHour every Thurs 8-9 PM to discuss #Huddersfield, Promote your business & find out what's going on!

I have also found value in connecting with other community groups in the locale.

So, for me, it offers geographically related content which I don't seem to find elsewhere
A better static files offering is definitely something we've been asked for a few times. Near-term, if you put a CDN in front of a static app your dyno will wake up on release, fill the cache, and go to sleep. You shouldn't see much, if any difference for your apps at all.
I'm not sure what the purpose is of focusing on blame. You don't need to assign moral culpability to a machine for its catastrophically poor design to be something to worry about.
I doubt a system could be written with today's technology capable of deciding if a picture is funny/not funny based on a huge database of funny/not funny hand tagged pictures. Too much is involved. What does "is funny" even mean?
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The plan is to work 4 8-5 days. I like the idea of staggering Mondays and Fridays, though Monday is one of the more important days for work-wise so that isn't quite doable in my case.
Snel spieren opbouwen om meer vet te verbranden, hoe doe je dat?
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Hello, ever tried with a short siesta? When your brain is tired, nothing beats some sleeping. Some caffeine may follow.
Fair enough and thanks for the comment. The point I was trying to illustrate was the pace at which technologies evolve and few are quicker than the web industry. I wholeheartedly agree that the best blacksmiths were constantly improving but it was relatively slow compared to how quickly the web changes (i.e. they didn't have new tools/materials to learn every single day).
Gabe, This sounds like a really interesting and challenging project. I can't even begin to imagine some of the hurdles that you will be up against with this.

We just shot you an email and hope to chat soon!

Jake
(UK here but...)

33 hours a week over 4 days (the max IBM will allow you to do in 4 days). Two shorter days from home with an early start and early finish so I can collect my daughter from school. Longer days on the days my wife isn't working (she also works part-time). Prior to starting school daughter was at nursery and my hours were 9-5 for 3 days (so I could do nursery drop-off and collection) and one longer day.

Occasionally I work more than 33 hours a week but that's by my own choice. It's not expected of me.

Been part-time for more than 4 years now. I'm happy with my job, I've actively avoided career progression (as that would jeopardise the part-time arrangement) and my boss(es) are more than happy with this and with my output. They (and IBM in general) have been very supportive of it all.

Alternating days between home/office takes a bit of getting used to (and organisation) but I'm into the routine now.

Wouldn't trade that one day a week off for anything (even getting back the pay cut I took to get it), especially as it is "daddy day" during the school holidays (and before she started school). Now it's guilt-free time to do chores or whatever else I want.

We could both work longer hours, get a nanny, push for promotions and bigger jobs and pay off the mortgage in 5 years rather than 15 but I wouldn't get to spend any good quality time with my daughter so there's no point doing that. They're only young once.
I noticed that as well. The plaintiffs hadn't stressed that issue, it seems to have been brought up newly by the appellate judges themselves. It's an interesting and important distinction, they essentially said that by transferring the information to a government computer the government has conducted a "seizure".

That is excellent news for those of us that are opposed to these kinds of government databases. Though the supremes will have to agree before that becomes doctrine.
Ok, we've changed to that. Thanks.
There's a lot of truth to that. Basically, if you don't enjoy learning all the time, web design/development is not for you.
This is actually a good thing. You've got something working, it doesn't matter if it's pretty. I've seen a lot of successful things that started out as ugly code. The ones that start out pretty and "architected" always collapse under their own weight before they ship.

We've all written crufty legacy code, at least if anyone is any good they've written bales of it. I would respect that ugly code, because it shipped. What I don't respect is someone who claims code is great and doesn't need fixing.

Now you need someone who can come in and turn it into something beautiful and scalable and whatever. So when you interview them, just lay out the situation. "How would you turn a terrible codebase into something great?" "Give me some examples of legacy code that you cleaned up 'in-flight', without starting over or disrupting operations or putting things on hold for six months". "What are some difficult bugs you had to deal with in a messy pipeline, and how did you fix them"? Ask about how they would improve real pain points in your current pipeline.

If their answers are broad, ask them to be specific. You don't have to know what they are talking about, but if they can talk about specific steps and strategies, it will be clear they've done this kind of work before. If they are hand-waving about best practices and generalizations, and can't drill down any further, move on. Make sure they can actually write code, too, there's plenty of people out there who can talk about code but don't sit down and write it every day. If it's going well, take them out to lunch, tell them about this post. You need someone who you can trust and be honest with, someone who will give you honest feedback on technical decisions. You don't want someone who resents that you have less technical experience and are in a more senior role.
Article is from a few years ago, missed existing AGI research at the time. Deep learning is now mainstream and awareness of AGI research that has been going on for years is slowly creeping into mainstream AI.

Anyway he mentioned what needs to be done at the very end of the article which is to emulate the embodied human development process, and there is quite a lot of progress in that area.
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I personally try to meditate. I'm pretty sure I'm not doing it properly but it works. Close your eyes and don't think about anything.
he is talking with lithium miners for the gigafactory.
I do, maybe one coffee per day. I'll try to go two weeks with no caffeine.

I find snacking throughout the day helps a lot for consistency of energy (been known to forget to eat for most of some days...not good).
So it doesnt just come apart like normal spiderwebs?

I imagine breaking carbon nanotubes with bare hands...
Your Github account says you're in New York, but I know quite a few startups out in San Francisco that would love your geocoding experience. I work on a product that involves a massive amount of geocoding in several different ways, and I would love someone who thinks that's a cool thing on my team. Unfortunately, we're not hiring at the moment, but I'll keep your name on file and ping you if we ever do open up a position for it.

As for actual advice, I'd talk to people you know. Word of mouth is the best way to get a new job. I despise recruiters and avoid them like the plague, and I tend to recommend that you do the same. Find companies you want to work for and ping their hiring managers directly, if you can. Get your resume directly into the hands of the decision maker -- not HR.

Good luck.
Kneeling to standing jumps

Just doing a quick set of push-ups is good too. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just do it smoothly and with good form.

Sleep is good too. A 20 minute nap after lunch can sometimes work wonders with my attention span and mood.
Exactly. If your investment decisions can be made so spontaneously that you want to be able to do them on a train away from all the data you need to make a decision (historical prices, balance sheets) you're going to get burned.

There's no universe where a mobile-only trading platform could provide me any value.
I have question: You seem to be addressing "content" as some sort of bulk item, as in "I would like to buy five contents, please".

Are you looking for content that can just pull in a lot of traffic, so you can get ad revenue? Or are you looking for someone to write technical documentation, or something in that nature?

If it's the first option then I consider you a bad person. For the second kind of content, I honestly think you would be better for having the experts in your business, even if it's just yourself writing the content.
Yes it is. http://sourceforge.net/create/ (see also https://allura.apache.org/)
>CHANGES FROM 1.9a to 2.0 6 March 2015

I think they meant 6 May 2015?
I wonder for how long the Navy Seals have been using this.
We looked at the numbers and it's actually a very, very small percentage of applications that run between 18 and 24 hrs per day.

Eighteen hours a day is enough to keep your app running from 9AM to 3AM every day, and unless your application has a global reach, it should naturally equilibrate into a comfortable place.

We are asking that if you want 24x7 wake-time that you pay for a hobby dyno, but if you can let your application sleep when you do, you won't see any difference at all.
Testing !== using in production ;)
Thanks for the feedback. I do see your point as well; even though web languages and design techniques are constantly changing, our end goal is usually the same. However, I still run into too many web "experts" who think they've learned it all and, in my opinion, that's an outlook that will quickly make you obsolete on the web.
Purity is growing more and more day by day.

What I meant was this: a language should not be pure by default, rather, it should be possible to say (and get checked by the compiler): this is pure. Quite how to set up a pragmatically viable type and effect system to guarantee this is unclear.

PS what is the "normal" definition of purity?
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The NSA's Bulk Collection of Your Telephone Data Is Illegal, Appeals Court Rules
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I'm not an exerciser. I'd love to be but am not.

I'm not doing this now but when was working on my startup and working a regular job, I was taking "caffeine naps" at 4:30. There was something about this time of day which was magical in terms of how tired I was and how much extra productive time it granted me through twilight.
I guess you were not joking but we are not talking about web development in this thread. How does Django help my embedded kernel development?
I tried the stuff as a kid and in undergrad -- I was diagnosed with ADHD. It very much helped me concentrate, but stopped me from thinking creatively, clamped down on my ability to think socially, and gave me damned irritating headaches.

Today, I'm more successful with no drugs and an improved work ethic. And less headachey.
You may be more productive at making MySQL CRUD apps, but let's see you try to do anything streaming or real time or with frontend interactivity.
What about the other side of the coin though?

there has been an attack -see! the NSA can't even prevent single incident X and are doing NOTHING to protect us!

there hasn't been a large scale terrorist attack in north america in 13 1/2 years -there is no evidence that NSA is doing anything to protect America!
That is actually a rather unreasonable question. It's like telling Firefox users to install chrome.

Or that ponzu schemes are okay as long as you yourself don't have to deal with them.
In my opinion you shouldn't be a CTO but a founder. I don't think any serious tech team can respect a technically inexperienced or poor CTO for long and this will cause problems later.

It might be a better idea for you to go for a Chief Product Officer or just Founder and hire someone experienced to do the CTO role.

If you think you can lead from the front without being competent in a subject - you have another thing coming.
Not if you consider carbon dioxide as pollution :P
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Overall looks positive.

Though it closes the loophole for "free" apps which were keeping their dynos alive by being pinged frequently; now free apps can only be awake 18 hours a day, and go to sleep after 30 minutes inactivity.

But the $7/month hobby tier should make up for that, right?
I have a flex work arrangement right now where I do ~45 minutes extra per day to bank the time and take every second Friday off.

By the time you throw in Stat holidays, leave days and the odd sick day, a 5 day work week is abnormal, not normal.

The headspace I get from a 3 day weekend seems to be an order of magnitude more than a 2 day weekend. 4 day weekend is another order of magnitude.
Very good points. I think there are enough other estimates that the volumetric weight calculation isn't a huge impact. We could easily be off by 25% on the number of phones Apple ships to the United States, for example, since they don't disclose this number. But yeah, you're right.
As one of a small niche group who hosts Hubot on Heroku, this is horrible news. Chatroom bots are useless if they aren't in a room 24/7; that's the only reason why we have a keepalive. It's not as if the chat bot is doing a lot of computation, but this really does make it sound like I'll have to toss Heroku despite the convenience factor with it.
This sounds like an awesome project. We just sent you an email!
I'm surprised they didn't get any pushback from the Hoover Dam people about creating the illusion that the dam was falling apart.
> This argument is a little too close to justifying piracy for my liking. "I wasn't going to buy it anyway, so it's fine"

Do you also think not buying a Toyota is a little too close to car theft?
I nap often (in the sun too). I find there's nothing quite like a stimulating activity though.

There's interesting research on caffeine-naps (or nappucinos). Empirically, these are useful--http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/coffee-sleep-power-...
Ctl+s is particularly nice if you've remapped CapsLock to Ctl.
It is where I work!
I've been hesitant to spend a ton of time playing with Kubernetes yet, since it is still in such a state of flux (and the docs are woefully inadequate). With that said, if anyone can make something like this awesome, I'd put my money on Google.

Exciting times!