skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twilio has a product specifically for the 'get a code via SMS and verify it' use case: https://www.twilio.com/authy
> How else do you test?

More like: How else do you compile?
The standards one holds emerging technologies to tends to be proportional to how much one personally dislikes them. (and of course the corollary vice versa)
>Squats and deadlifts are how I cured my back pain

This is sort of the same conclusion drawn by the article. A stronger core supports your back better and reduces chances of developing back pain. Squats and deadlifts are among the best exercises to build a strong core.
My issue is similar, though not so tech-related. I do VA work for some startups but would like to get into a growing interest of mine (journalism), though my time is limited. I have experience as a writer, but not a background in journalism. I could make the complete jump to being a journo and self-publish, shop stories and find my way, but that'd mean giving up what pays the bills (pay & responsibilities of which are currently on the rise). Doing what I want to do means way more work and, very likely, less pay.

Does anyone else here juggle two different jobs? Is there a secret to doing so?
> I don't understand why systems like freenet and bitmessage have not taken off.

I think the problem has been always the poor UX, but eventually something well thought out like popcorn-time could appear and cause a greater adoption.
Apple is in the business of selling Apple hardware. Google is in the business of selling services across all hardware.

I don't find it surprising in the least that Apple requires you have an Apple device to watch their developer keynote.
Indeed. This is infuriating. Apple should make it easier for me, a non-customer, to see the promotion of their products - not harder.

With Apple it's basically: "if you're already in our ecosystem we love you. If you're not, we hate you".

Well, screw you, too, Apple!. I'll happily continue to live outside of your ecosystem then.
Maybe they should still review it or set proper requirements.
Because for Apple, Cupertino is the center of the universe, and they don't try to hide it. That's their time zone and that's all they really care about.
But it will get you clicks. Which means more advertising, which means more money for (probably) Google.
I came here to second this. The author clearly has experience only with Goenka and has absorbed their atypical use of the Pali word "vipassana". It's not usually used as a noun to describe a retreat. Nor was it "lost" for centuries. Most serious Theravadan retreat centers have been doing plenty of vipassana.

IMS is a wonderful facility. On the west coast, its sister center is Spirit Rock, though they're not quite as well set up for long retreats.
> Then he opened the coffin and placed a Mac OS 9 box in the coffin.

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
Let's continue this conversation offline (see my profile).
It depends. It's more about developers pigeonholing themselves. Some CVs come along and are e.g. all Java, EJB, Spring, Hibernate etc. - they present themselves as completely unidimensional and more or less rule themselves out of something broader.

There are different things you learn when you've coded in a mix of C/C++, Java/C#, Ruby/Python, and perhaps something functional. But having all your experience in one of these buckets is more a sign of a junior developer, or the old "one year's experience ten times".
Watch the WWDC from Windows on Twitch:
http://www.twitch.tv/thehogbit
Two words: Wii Remote.
VCBlog is the VC team's official blog. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/06/c-14-stl-f... for where I announced the alignment thing.
Identity coherence in Google products left when Marissa Mayer did.
As one that is in and out of PT fairly frequently, I can tell you how absolutely FRUSTRATED PTs and orthos get by people that have lower back pain and want some medication or special chairs or stem, as opposed to buckling down and strengthening their abdominal muscles.

Weak abs = lower back pain. For most cases. In my early years playing football, I used to get lower back pain from the contact. I was weightlifting regularly, but always skipped my ab exercises because I hated them. One year I was like, screw it, I'm going to do these. Abs got strong, back pain disappeared.

This posturing stuff engages your core and helps keep the spine supported properly. If you want faster results, get in the gym and get an abdominal routine going.
Interesting, thanks.

Any idea how to get a dynamic stream in VLC?
Not questioning your decision at all, but I'm curious, you say you're "all the better for it".

How?

Better because of the experience of paying off your debt?

Better because of your experience in the military?

Both? Something else?

I mean, I've certainly paid off my fair share of debt in my lifetime (fortunately, where I live, tuition isn't nearly so astronomical, so my student debts were modest and everything subsequent to that has been manageable consumer debt), but I'd never have considered debt repayment a personal growth opportunity.
This is advice that many seem to overlook. Leverage the current skills to get exposure to the ones that you want. It is not always easy to find companies that both use your dated skill and the skill you want. Devs at those companies probably aren't that interested in using the old technologies, so you should be welcomed for your willingness to do the job they don't want to do in exchange for learning something new.
The fingerprints are included in the bugzilla ticket and the CRLs are signed with the certificates, so TLS doesn't technically add anything as long as you confirm the fingerprints (though it doesn't hurt anything either).
No offense, but the whole essay hinges on some core concepts that are NOT logically robust, hence the ultimate 'paradox' is really simply an application of reductio ad absurdum

Basically the premise of what it means to be 'powerful' is at best ill defined, and most likely is not logically consistent.

More or less there is no clear qualitative definition for 'powerful', nor is 'powerful' meaningful across all developers, organizations, or application.

Now by an empirical definition in this context the meaning of 'powerful' is clear. 'Powerful' means how strongly the program language selection correlates with successful projects... based on that the 'powerful' languages are pretty much the 'blub' languages. there are many many successful PHP, Java, and especially C projects.
Career changes also allow for switching roles. There's no reason to keep playing grumpy at a new job. First because good workplaces are often good because they don't place a premium on grumpy, and second because at companies that value grumpy that slot is likely to be filled. I'd throw in that thirty-something is a bit young to be the go-to-get-off-my-lawn person.

Good luck.
Lifting is actually pretty safe, provided you do it intelligently. But even if you do it recklessly, your body is more resilient that you give it credit for (depending on your age).

The key to strength is longevity. The guy who adds 2.5kg on the bar every session and hurts himself two months later won't end up as strong as the guy who adds 2.5/5kg every three weeks and sustains his progress for 5 years without injury. If you are of a population "at risk" (preexisting condition, etc.) you can set your mind at peace by finding a good coach.

To actually answer your questions, there are some stats here: http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Safety.html
George Orwell has a great essay about his visits to coal mines: http://www.george-orwell.org/Down_The_Mine/0.html

"It is impossible to watch the 'fillers' at work without feeling a pang of envy for their toughness. It is a dreadful job that they do, an almost superhuman job by the standard of an ordinary person. For they are not only shifting monstrous quantities of coal, they are also doing it in a position that doubles or trebles the work. They have got to remain kneeling all the while--they could hardly rise from their knees without hitting the ceiling--and you can easily see by trying it what a tremendous effort this means. Shovelling is comparatively easy when you are standing up, because you can use your knee and thigh to drive the shovel along; kneeling down, the whole of the strain is thrown upon your arm and belly muscles. And the other conditions do not exactly make things easier. There is the heat--it varies, but in some mines it is suffocating--and the coal dust that stuffs up your throat and nostrils and collects along your eyelids, and the unending rattle of the conveyor belt, which in that confined space is rather like the rattle of a machine gun. But the fillers look and work as though they were made of iron. They really do look like iron hammered iron statues--under the smooth coat of coal dust which clings to them from head to foot. It is only when you see miners down the mine and naked that you realize what splendid men they are. Most of them are small (big men are at a disadvantage in that job) but nearly all of them have the most noble bodies; wide shoulders tapering to slender supple waists, and small pronounced buttocks and sinewy thighs, with not an ounce of waste flesh anywhere. In the hotter mines they wear only a pair of thin drawers, clogs and knee-pads; in the hottest mines of all, only the clogs and knee-pads. You can hardly tell by the look of them whether they are young or old. They may be any age up to sixty or even sixty-five, but when they are black and naked they all look alike. No one could do their work who had not a young man's body, and a figure fit for a guardsman at that, just a few pounds of extra flesh on the waist-line, and the constant bending would be impossible. You can never forget that spectacle once you have seen it--the line of bowed, kneeling figures, sooty black all over, driving their huge shovels under the coal with stupendous force and speed."
I'm getting 404s on the pages on the actual https://www.investigativedashboard.org site.

This sort of information would be useful for a project I'm working on, especially the business relationships.
"hashing in geek terms using bcrypt"

<sarcasm>
I believe you
</sarcasm>
One of the developers I previously worked with had gotten his job in a similar fashion. He went and made friends in the community and ended up getting a good job because they saw he had learned enough and was an experienced programmer that the growth from that point would be pretty quick.
> not the target of WWDC

Someone that needs to come up with solutions that work across various operating systems, including iOS isn't a target of the developer conference?

Just because I don't personally own any Apple devices does not mean I don't ever do any Apple dev.
What about people who contribute to clang / llvm using linux as their primary platform?
An end-user of software licensed under the GPLv3 doesn't ever have to read the license until they decide to modify and share it.

At that point they should be well-versed in reading licensing agreements because they're touching others' source code.
If this is the case, why do people put tech under the 'requirements' section, rather than the 'desired'?

Hiring managers, you are going to get what you ask for.
It isn't. The manner in which it was evoked in the above comment was rude and dismissive, and that's the problem.

Incidentally, I'm irritated by Klabnik's politics. But I don't find them disqualifying. I am not so sure about Yarvin's. Can I reliably articulate why I think that's fair? No, I don't think so. And I can live with that.
> You are a walking machine. Walking will put your body back into order.

If you've got bad posture, and you don't work to correct it, more walking will more likely exacerbate the problem than magically fix it. Some people will intuitively figure out the right responses to pain feedback to correct some problems, particularly the easier-to-correct ones, on their own.

Better, though, to work with a trainer (either one-on-one or in any of the many fitness walking training programs you should be able to find) and get direct feedback while walking to correct the issues more quickly.

What worked for me was ballroom dance first (with both group classes and private lessons), then adding fitness walking and weight training, but that wasn't a deliberate strategy aimed at back pain, and certainly isn't likely to be a cost-effective strategy if dealing with back pain is the only goal.
I totally agree with this. Privacy is a lost war. We have to turn this on its head. Seems paradoxical, but anyone who doesn't like the surveillance state, having lost the war for privacy, should be FOR surveillance and accessibility to it for all. Equalize the power.
> Each monad indicates one particular kind of interaction, such as using memory or perform input-output.

NO NO NO. Stop. It was cute when people got this wrong in 2010; now it's just ignorant to pretend to know enough about Haskell to tell us something about it and still get this so wrong. There is no inherent connection between monads and statefulness; none whatsoever. Monads just happened to be a useful abstraction to make opaque for the purposes of IO.
I visited that page in both Chrome & FF and see no use of parallax scrolling. This is a good example of parallax scrolling:

http://www.firewatchgame.com/
If you enjoyed this, then you'll like reddit.com/r/shittyrobots
The Verge's Apple Watch review will probably blow your mind, then: http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review
I just lost my Aunt. Her last years were a battle, but it often felt like a proxy war between Medicine and Mutation using her body as the battleground. First they sent in advisors, then they attempted regime change, then there were truce talks, then the conflict reignited. At the end she told the doctors to fuck off with their knives and needles so she could melt slowly into a hospice bed, robbed of her beauty, dignity, and life.

fuck cancer.

i hear what you are saying, and i will try to phrase it differently, but i do see it as a war. i am a smoker. i often work with carcinogenic chemicals. i see cancer as an inevitability, and when it shows up, i plan to either do nothing therapeutic (chemo, removal) and just go on a no holds barred adventure around the world to look at stuff i've only read about OR donate my body to some team of researchers who need a living model to test their ideas on. this is just my thinking currently; it may change. i have no children, few possessions, and few ties outside of family.

So for me, i do see it as a war that i will inevitably become a part of.

fuck fucking cancer.
Good information. It's clear I'm outdated and off-base here. I didn't realize they had such backbone.
While Dr. Sarno's theories were helpful for my carpal tunnel, and apparently for many others, I would be hesitant to apply TMS to all back pain, carpal tunnel, and other "office chair diseases." I know you said "overwhelmingly psychogenic", which implies you meant not all cases. But I'm not sure overwhelmingly is accurate either, especially for back pain. With carpal tunnel, it's clear based on the plethora of cures with random success that calling psychogenic may often be right. But back pain has alternative, and seemingly better explainations (weak muscles, poor flexibility). So while TMS may be the diagnoses for some with back pain, and a contributor for others, I would not go around slapping it on everyone who says they experience back pain.

That said, Dr. Sarno's book is worth the cost of reading. It's very staunchly in the pseudo-science camp, and Dr. Sarno spends a lot of time bemoaning his ostracization from the medical community, but his theories are ultimately interesting, hold some weight, and have been helpful to many. For example, I haven't worn a wrist brace to bed since I read the book (about a year ago). And, even if it hadn't helped, it brought more awareness to just how stressed I was. I do a better job managing my workload and consequently stress these days. Just keep a healthy heaping of skepticism by your side while reading.
> and hope that even more talented programmers will enter the fray

Where'd be a good place to start? And is it all statistical modelling and stuff, or what's involved in programming in the fight with cancer?
Exactly. And that is the answer to the question "Why should they not be?"
I see no need for that - it was the very smugness (and the lack of basic understanding of libertarian tenets) that I found to be amusing.
And I'll second the caveat. I agree with this and the grandparent--if you are in reasonable shape, and want to maintain that, lifting low (< 5) reps and high weight is a great thing. If you do other activities, you could probably lift 30 minutes, two to three days a week, and see health improvements.

But, yeah, think hard about form, and start lifting too light. What does bad form look like? Start with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9TVFxPUZ6E
Yes but when Microsoft pulls this kind of crap, they're demons. Apple is justified because what, they have prettier laptops for landing pages?
> It could have easily been something much worse, like Tcl.

Ouch. Tcl might not be the right choice for many situations, but it's a fantastic language for many. It is, by far, one of my favorite languages to work in.
I had a rant about this on Twitter yesterday[0].

Google makes money precisely because the web is centralised. If we moved to P2P systems they could still provide an index, but I'd wager far less data would ultimately pass through them. Not to mention that if people were more in control of their data rather than LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, I bet they'd be less inclined to having it indexed publically simply because they have a choice.

There's all sorts of network effects and shitty incentives at play, and it's a shame.

My twitter rant (not the whole thing even)

> though they have their place, centralised systems reinforce the role of the middle man, which is prime for rent-seeking and lopsided value

> in reality networks exist on a continuum between centralised/decentralised. The web makes it difficult to choose the correct degree per case

> both centralised and decentralised systems have trust issues, but they are different in kind not magnitude

> the incentives are wrong for innovation. Google requires centralised, so HTTP is fine. Ubiquity, so HTML is fine

> web developers have spent years becoming skilled in their corner and are incentivised to defend and perpetuate the platform

> if you think discoverability, zero-install and sandboxes are only possible on the web, I invite you to consult the literature

> we could have decentralised, secure, simple, efficient primitives, but network effects and incentives steer us away

> tech solutions are moot unless they incentivise behaviour that leads to better returns for everyone. layers on HTML/HTTP will never do that

[0] https://twitter.com/benkant
Yeah, it just seems odd
Sweden Moves Forward with Open Standards Requirements in Public Procurement
The Verge Liveblog of WWDC 2015
Show HN: Innovation Squad -Helping Parents, Children secure their digital world
How did the embedded c person make the transition?
Feels like "Show HN" implies that the submitter is one of the creators of Kantree, but it does not seem to be the case. Maybe a title change would fix that implication?
Does Google have a team working round the clock to develop the most annoying webpages possible? For as many "cool wow amazing" CSS tricks as this site uses, it doesn't do a good job of explaining what it is at all. And what's up with the products page? Why does it scroll so slowly?
But it is inevitable. Even if it doesn't happen in the short-term, you're setting up a turn-key totalitarian state. All it takes is a major crisis, and the right leader to galvanize people behind the cause. Just look at how populate opinion has changed towards things like surveillance in response to the War on Terror.
Not all type systems allow for subtyping. In particular, Hindley-Milner does not. Nor, as far as I'm aware, do any of the consistently-typed proof languages (like Agda, Coq, etc.)
Peppermint: Desktop Linux for the cloud generation
Former .NET enterprise dev, current Rails consultant here.

I did this with a twist, if you can swing it.

1) Find a local client that is looking to do a project on the cheap - someone who has an Elance budget but is uncomfortable dealing with someone remotely.

2) Propose to do this project pro-bono if they budget the availability of a sr. resource for mentorship - say 5 hrs a week.

3) Put in reasonable constraints AFA availability, estimates, testing, etc., that befits your jr. status. Ultimately you want your mentor to guide you as much as possible and the client to understand this relationship. It shields you from unreasonable expectations.

Doing this, a) you get to work on a real-world project (it pushes you forward faster with issues that a side project usually doesn't... if for nothing else you're interacting with others on their schedule, their whims), b) you get on-hands training, and c) you get access to the networks of your mentor/client if the relationship is fruitful.

I did this back in 2012 - the only work I had done prior to this was going through the Hartl Rails Tutorial. The initial project lasted for 4 months @ ~20hrs/week and I was paired with someone who was an early engineer from Gilt Groupe. During this time I continued to work my day job.

Toward the end of that project my mentor brought me the opportunity to bid a long-term gig. I quit my job the day the that contract was signed w/ about 3 months of financial runway. A few months later he brought me another, and that work kept me going for over a year at an overall cashflow greater than I had made at my enterprise job. Toward the end of these engagements I started consulting for a local startup which converted into a FTE situation for a year and a half. Now I'm back consulting on another long-term project by way of a recommendation from the design team on one of those earlier projects.

The one thing I will say about consulting is when you're starting out communication is more key than technical skill. Just be open w/ the client, you're both making concessions in such a situation.
Watch the Apple WWDC 2015 Keynote from Twitch via TheHogbit
The AppleTV app is smart enough to give the local time, interestingly enough.
I started reading that as

> Squats and deadlifts are how I broke my back

While I take care to contract abs at all times and keep a straight back during SQ, DL and MP, I have been getting some lumbar pain/discomfort. Not when I lift. But typically 1 or 2 days after.

Sleeping is not optimal either as muscles contract. As of lately I find myself sleeping on my side. I know it's the advised posture, but some years ago I could sleep (ie: eventually wake up) with my stomach down with no problems. I can still go to sleep that way, but during the sleep I end up switching position -- and I'm aware of it because I "wake up" for a brief second or so.

Anyway, do you have any tips? Do you ever get sore lumbar spine or overfall back?
It's normal, since their CA certificates aren't added to Firefox yet :-)
If you're acute like that there are a lot of exercises that can make the situation much worse, particularly if you don't have a diagnosis and are unsure of where the injury is located.

Best course of action is go to a Dr and push them to prescribe physical therapy over surgery or meds. Once you know the site of your pain and have a good physical therapist they will give you safe exercises that protect from additional injury. Some lazier doctors will often resort to pain killers or worse, surgery, as a quick solution, but in most cases a few sessions with a good physical therapist is all you need
Wide Eye Creative Is Hiring Front End Developer (DC or Remote)
SPY 2015
Yea. It was common knowledge to me just as the sky is blue. Seeing where we were at with technology, it's a matter of fact that the "government", (which ever of the 3 letter divisions we are talking about) would have the tech and the want, to do this.
Or you can start your own company and write good old code at work for profit.