skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you, and I probably agree, but the entrepreneurial spirit can be found in the most unlikely of places, and whatever the je ne sais quoi is that makes a great founder might well be as common among "help desk or equivalent". Many people with great skills are in unlikely places because other factors in their lives are reducing their choices. I worked for a bootstrapped startup in rural England that made a successful exit (acquisition by Microsoft), you never know.
>> use home-made charcoal

How do you make your charcoal?

The only method I am familiar with is the method used at Plimouth Plantation - a giant pile of wood buried under earth, tended round the clock for two days.

http://blogs.plimoth.org/pilgrim-blog/?tag=charcoal
TrueCar: http://www.drivenbycode.com/
Well sure, but when the license is perpetual and royalty-free, what's the difference?

> For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you [...] grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License).

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
You're not the only one, sad to say.
>I bet flight attendants take more sick days than most workers do

I'll take your hypothetical bet with my own speculation to the contrary: I imagine most flight attendants are in better physical shape than, say, your typical office worker due to the nature of their job, as well as being more on top of preventative health measures (vaccines and such) precisely because they know they're at higher risk due to the number of people they're exposed to.
Hedgy.co is looking for awesome people and we happen to be using meteor for our FE development.

Feel free to reach out to me directly at kevin at hedgy dot co
We're both trying to be good people and improve society, which is why we're debating a moral code to live by.

Correctly assigning blame is an important part of diagnosing a problem. Otherwise, being free from scrutiny, the responsible party keeps right on creating problems.
Party (round) all the time?
Valencia College sued over forced vaginal exams
Nice work! IMHO, Snake is one of the best games to get your feet wet programming. I have very fond memories of writing a snake game on the TI-83. IIRC, my event loop was so slow that I didn't even need any wait states to make the game playable.
Login system supplies fake passwords to hackers
I just carry a couple flash drives around. You can get a 256 GB one for < $100.
I have two Quora answers on similar questions:

- http://www.quora.com/Which-startups-use-Meteor-in-production
- http://www.quora.com/What-open-source-software-uses-Meteor-f...
It gives you the bare minimum you need to schedule and start containerized workloads and leaves the rest to however you want to build and deploy your software

Isn't this a bit of pushing the problem somewhere else? It seems that complexity will be "load balanced" to all the containers owners, which is great for infrastructure owners but does it "solve" the underlying problem (as it's stated in the article)?
Potential new vaccine blocks every strain of HIV
Does anyone know if this works for any bluetooth obd-ii adapter? I have another one I've used with Dash but wasn't sure if it will work with Automatic or if they use proprietary hardware/software.
The personal anecdotes here are amazing. Betting a 100M$ project on a liquid metal set of pixels. Animators going mad. People tearing up when seeing life-like CG creatures for the first time.
Cngutierr/ErsatzPassword
Create an account on ssa.gov to estimate your Social Security Disability benefits and Social Security Survivors benefits. Mine are plenty enough for me to live comfortably on but I have a very, very modest lifestyle without any debt.

If fact you should create an account on ssa.gov and irs.gov no matter what so nobody else does it for you if your identity is stolen.
Find a friend in the same situation as you, and agree to be each other's back-up parents. Get some term-life insurance in a fairly large amount to go in trust to the kids if your spouse dies; that will cover the expenses, and term-life is pretty darn cheap.
Happy, Sad, Evil, Weird: Putting Use Case Planning into Practice
Given that facebook isn't an essay - it provides different value to an essay, under different circumstances, to different people - I'm not sure what you're going with that question.
Honestly, most of these complaints just seem like bugs. I've heard a number of people complaining about speed / CPU usage problems. Genuine problem, but presumably not a design flaw. Frankly, iCloud Photos is so much better than the previous photo solutions on iOS that slight troubles at the start can be overlooked. Now let's just hope Apple fixes these problems soon. If they don't, that will be the real problem.
Real-World Development
Offsets "generally don't matter" now, which is why this is an obscure bit of minutiae you're reading about on HN instead of NYT.

But they matter to some applications, and those people have arguments trying to decide which to use.

But yes: the ultimate solution if the world were to move to atomic/absolute clock synchronization instead of referencing the Earth's rotation is that every few hundred years we would need to adjust all the time zones by an hour to keep "noon" in the middle of the day. Given that we do this every decade or two anyway chasing DST vogues, I think this would be acceptable.
I find the life expectancy vs. heart rate graph very interesting. The human point is the only one that lies well off the line of correlation, and it's tempting to see the distance as a result of our technological achievements. In other words, we're the only animal to have pushed ourselves to the right of that line by being able to fix at least some of what goes wrong.
Take a job, get some experience and perspective. While at that job, network with others, compare experiences and think about how you would do things and why that matters and what it's worth. As this happens, you will gain the insight you need to sell your contract services.

Then, job scenario permitting, take a contract. Complete it, and take another one, ideally at a better rate, or that is more challenging, or both!

Continue to network. If it were me, I would make sure sales people and that process is part of your network. Tech people often don't enjoy sales, and that's perfectly understandable. Do it anyway. Do it because contractors / consultants do much better when they've got a good understanding of the sales process and the "science" behind it. When you approach sales in a technical way, identifying value, helping others to understand it and being able to ask them for the business means more frequent and better gigs. All of that reduces your risk and improves your income.

At some point, you will understand how you can make it on your own and then you can leave the job and go do that.

...by "network", I mean meeting people and talking about stuff as well as using the Internet, blog, social media, etc... to establish your personal brand and value.
We're still a ways away from having to make our choice of container orchestration framework(s), but it seems like it's getting to be an increasingly difficult decision to make. There are a lot of great pieces that can be used independently, alongside one another, or on top of another.

For example, Kubernetes + Mesos, Kubernetes + CoreOS, Mesosphere + CoreOS, Swarm + whatever else, etc.

I guess it's a good problem to have, but I'm looking at this as a question of what the jigsaw puzzle is going to look like for us in six months to a year. I'm not sure I buy the notion that all of this reduces complexity, it just shuffles it around.
We don’t need more options. We need fewer.

We’re moving past the days where we take an operating system off the shelf and plug things into it until it can serve our application and into the days of purpose built OSes that push software complexity into the realm of software engineers.

These two statements contradict each other.

On top of that, it isn't even anything exciting, per se. Special-purpose and tailored OS have been the norm for plenty of fields, though I suppose not web application deployment.

And of course, the obligatory false dichotomy about init systems:

Just because something like systemV has worked very well for 32 years doesn’t mean it should not be torn apart and re-invented.

"Full reliance on the init suite" should rise some alarms about fault tolerance, honestly. But I don't know.
The social security administration notifies banks of your death.
How to Write with Style (1985)
I disagree. There's a realm of fields to which software engineering applies. There's fields where correctness, elegance and formal methods definitely matter; those involve complex products like airplanes (RIP, A400 victims...) or nuclear plant control systems. Or academia, which cannot progress with imprecise thinking. You can't run Facebook's operations the way you'd run a bakery's website's.

But then there are heaps more fields where correctness absolutely does not matter, where a shiny cover over an awful spaghetti ball is enough, where you can lose half the client's data and say "sorry, crash" and he'll just nod and shrug, and where this is a lot cheaper and faster than hiring a professional and doing things properly, where the determinant of success is not the engineer, but the management team, their connections, and the sheer amounts of money that investors are willing to pump into the company to win the market (money they will mostly give only to the first competent person that pitches them the idea, giving the pretty-"MVP"-in-a-week team the edge over the formals).

It's a trade-off between time and cost to market, and product quality; it won't change until the second way beats the first on the first two dimensions as well as the last.
The trailer for the documentary:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/1971/

The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Inve...
I don't think that's correct. You can get the base $1999 model and upgrade to 512GB for $300. Not cheap, but doesn't include the processor upgrade.
Maybe, just maybe, that means Thunderbolt 5K Displays are coming.

Maybe.
The World Is Missing Out on $1.2 Trillion in Wages
It is the heavens that set the time for humanity, all else must either imitate or pick another name. Abandoning the leap seconds means breaking the connection between utc and what the people consider time to mean.

It is not so much that the actual times drift apart very fast, it is that the clock tries to corrupt the meaning of the word "day".

If leap seconds cause problems for your application, you probably should find another source of synchronisation signal.
You, presumably as an American citizen, already trust the government to do a whole lot more than "wash your car," so the fear seems a bit unfounded. You implicitly trust them to fund/manage/develop/build: the entire infrastructure your car rides on (and which your safety depends on), the educational system that will likely educate/indoctrinate your children for 12+ years, and the legal system (and all of it's record keeping complexities) which preserves and allows you to uphold your rights and well-being. That's just to name a few that are certainly more complex than the task the GP is envisioning. Maybe you can pose a "free-market alternative" for the second one, but you can't for the other two. (Thankfully.) Plus, if you still prefer having a "real" physical executor there, just put that single person's name down for all of the fields from the SSA.

Adding a few fields to a database is well within the capabilities of pretty much every government agency around. At least until feature bloat and cruft starts to develop...
Principal Java Developer – Financial Systems
Is it still illegal content if its a fragment, or part of, the file? Because if its an encrypted portion of a file, then you actually only have bits of nothing.
I just saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo the other day.

The hacker is supposed to be researching a series of cold case murders... and when we see her typing, she's messing with a big-assed sql query with multiple joins and realistic-looking column names. Wouldn't be shocked if that did come from a real law enforcement database.

Was slightly surprised. Even serious movies (ones that want to be taken seriously) seem to stumble on this stuff.
No it does not. Earthquake changes the internal structure of the earth, which offset its rotational rate (as angular momentum must be conserved and the moment of inertia changed).

It does not change the angular momentum of any system, nor does it change the moment of inertial of the sun-earth system.
I should've clarified that we aren't exactly HURTING for developers, but when positions are open they stay open for awhile.

We're generally looking for people already up to speed on our stack (which isn't to say this is an explicit requirement) with a few (2+) years experience. We generally hire interns during the summer and many of them have go on to become FTEs.

We have remote employees (in Iowa) and a second office in Colorado, but being just a medium size company, it's hard for us to compete with McKesson (across the street from us), Rockwell Collins, Deere, etc for such a small talent pool.
Exactly! My dad remarried and moved to Georgia. He didn't change the will at all thinking all are set.

When he passed away, I found out that the will is invalidated because that's how it works in Georgia's legal system. Luckily my dad's wife is a nice woman and worked with me to ensure the estate went through probate properly.

But always double check when your life's circumstances change (new residence, etc)
Every time I see comments like this I wonder if most people here are advocates of "unfair competition". You want everything now and it has to be cheaper and you sometimes have to stop thinking only about the consumer but also the producers. This not only goes for cinema but also for food, services, etc...
well, in this context no one is really "giving", it is there anyway and yours to decide if you just take it or pay for it.
In a society where products are intentionally and willingly overproduced to maximize profit (while at the same time trying to dump wages and social securities), the moral boundaries on piracy and/or stealing are getting a bit hazy, at least in my opinion. Of course, the legal situation is pretty clear in most cases.
Nice. Thanks for sharing the writeup and demo.
You'll probably want to rate and character limit it.

edit: also perhaps deny a single user from duplicating tabs and saturating the bandwidth. ...but it's a neat demo and useful for trusted users.
The main difference is that "non-exclusive" part: you retain the right to license it out to other entities, or to use it for your own purposes.
I wonder how much a lower resting heart rate average over a lifespan influences average life expectancy.

Is it enough for us to consider lower heart rate as an ideal value to optimize? Obviously being in better shape and see often correlated.
I see your point about businesses being unsellable.

What's the difference in Facebook acquiring WhatsApp's customer database via purchasing the entire company and it being sold numerous times during a hypothetical WhatsApp liquidation sale? None really, and whatever WhatsApp's (and all other companies) Privacy Policy said about protecting user data is somewhat meaningless.
Direct Match (YC W15) Hires Former Citi Leader
Thanks for your response.

I feel ambivalence about the use of "engineering" in software. We do have "sound engineers" and "special effects engineers", consistent with a vernacular use of engineering to mean "the ingenious use of technology" (made up by me). Within that context, the term software "engineering" really isn't especially outrageous. I think that the public is not threatened by this use of the word, since they are not confused by the difference between a sound "engineer" and a licensed structural engineer. However, software "engineering" could slip into that grey area.

One thing that makes me worry less is the restructuring of the FE exams to reflect the body of knowledge in the various fields. For instance, Industrial Engineering is now substantially different from Mechanical even at the FE level. Another interesting thing I learned is that certain fields are just title based - I believe that this means you can't represent yourself as an "Industrial Engineer" in a professional context if you aren't a PE, but there isn't a practice restriction (at least that is how I interpreted it, because I don't do either it doesn't really affect me).

But one other thing I would like to mention - while I phrased my argument in the context of not wanting PE to gain control over software licensing, I do agree with you about the term "engineering". I do agree that you should have a background in those things you mentioned to be using the title where "engineer" implies this sort of background, and it is hard earned.

So I'd agree that software engineers may be grabbing a title they don't really have rights to, though I would still argue that software has far more in common with math (even math theory, like abstract algebra) than heat and mass transfer.

Oh one more thing - your description for the intended use of "software engineering" as "formally trained engineers who are working on software-intensive projects" sounds reasonable - it covers software for specific engineering systems. My worry is of scope creep - the initial process is limited, highly relevant, and justified, but it later morphs into an "I'm licensed and you"re not" situation. If that happens, I'd almost want to see some math body establish a degree requirement and math background (including things like abstract algebra and real analysis), along with very intensive algorithm questions, as a counterbalance (au contraire, mon frere, you're not licensed).

I read Milton Friedman's bit on "abolish the AMA" and enjoyed it, but ultimately, I support limited licensing and credentials to protect the public - however, I do feel that scope creep really is a serious risk here.
Some investments are multipliers not profit centers.

If you invest in 9 companies that use Meteor then investing in Meteor means you've invested in those 9 companies. It's an investment in infrastructure.
Interesting! My impression was that Apple engineers were prohibited from building anything outside of work.
Microsoft Releases Preview of Office for Android Phones
Compiling a Lazy Language in 1,000 words
This is a company that famously required people to give a phone number to buy batteries.
Also, Lisp dialects tend to use 'nil' for false and 't' for true. Schemes usually use #f and #t

There's the convention of using "?" for predicates. Lisp usually would use 'p'. As in 'stress?' vs 'stress-p'

So yeah, most likely a form of Scheme. Which can be considered as a 'Lisp' dialect, so not exactly wrong either.
This flag is Android-only. It seems that disabling WebRTC on the desktop versions of Chrome isn't easy.
I'm curious how they do this. Do they provide a list of SSNs on a schedule to financial orgs through the Fed?
Who said there is no feature engineering?
Meteor's security model allows app developer to validate any operation or RPC going through, based on the arguments or userId (by writing JS code). Also, the published set is controlled by publications, allowing to publish only filtered out data with specific fields.

Unlike Firebase, Meteor actually allows you to send "first top 20 guest posts from November" as an example. The filtering can happen on the server, before sending the data and the data model usually fits into a sets of documents in set of collections. In Firebase, everything is part of a big subtree that is not filterable (the last time I checked).

Firebase is a good choice for keeping your real-time data. But knowing its limitations is as important as knowing its strengths.
I've long since dreamed of working remotely while taking a boat over to Europe - this is exactly the reason why I haven't. Hopefully one day...
Ask HN: T-Mobile data cap warnings?
Is anyone else getting scary text messages from T-Mobile saying your 4GE LTE data cap has been reached? If so, is your usage really over the cap when you check? (Mine isn't; it's less than half gone.)
I like meteor, I think it's a good framework, that solves well the "Make a webapp with non critical data but where real time is critical" problem.

I've also used angular, which I also like, but has a little bit more of a learning curve drawback.

I do unfortunately believe that a project or framework should make it not because it's CEO or leader is good at selling something, pitching VC's, and creating a brand, I think a project or framework should make it because it is the crowdsourced best solution to a problem. And this kind of money raising worries me a little, because it gives an unfair advantage to a framework. Now meteor might be the best answer, but if it's not, this is a shame and we all stand to miss out on a potential right answer for this...

Anyway, all of this is a little moot because I believe you shouldn't be using javascript for this kind of stuff ^^ but that's another debate altogether
Wait, what? But there is no model with AMD Radeon R9 M370X?
Anyone know what his parents do?
You don't get paid for the time after though.

If I pay for a concert, and I leave 10% of the way in because it's awful, will I get 90% of my money back?

No.
As you know, 4-5 hours a week won't get you much. Even a POC will probably take a few months at that rate. The ratio is inverted. It should be two devs to one business person. As others have pointed out, you're going to be doing all the work while they're glad handing and doing lunch. Also, not having the background, they will have unreasonable expectations and will have no appreciation for the amount of work you put into it over time.

It also sounds like you have goals of your own. There is a true opportunity cost here. This will be your side project for longer than you probably expect. You don't really get any others if you're trying to get a business off the ground. I'm not sure how old you are, but divide the remainder of your working life into 5 year chunks. That's how many tries you get, roughly speaking, if you're going the startup route.
Why is the title labeled "2009"? I presume it's because that's when the transcription was last revised, but the actual essay was published in 1982; anything written by Dijksra cannot be more recent than 2002.
The more I read about aging, the more interested I become about the subject, especially after Google created Calico and after watching some talks by Aubrey de Grey.

Reversing aging seems like such a science fiction thing, but then you take a look at how things were 50 years ago and how things are right now and you realize that a lot of the things that seem impossible right now might very well be possible in 20, 30 or 50 years.
I thought this is a great starting point.
Also, after looking through the actual wills, they are already filled out with George Washington's information so the legal documents are used as an example, not for actual legal use.

Plus, I'm not sure my family would enjoy looking through my will upon my death with: Get Your Shit Together! printed at the bottom of each page :)

This site is helpful to let me know which parts I overlooked like simple things like passwords or account access.
As seeing before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9571394 (this submission)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9455330 (21 days ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850080 (1 year ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7804377 (1 year ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472719 (3 years ago)
Apple "I-want-all-your-data" and AT&T "you-have-to-opt-out-of-tracking". Of all companies. We have to count on our enemies to protect us because we are powerless. Let's just hope they start privacy wars.