skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a senior level developer (ie: if you've been doing development more than 7+ years), then you're in luck. Companies usually recognize senior level developers can migrate to a related technology stack without too much of a loss, and the skills of being a senior developer are more soft-skills than particular technical areas. Recruiters generally won't know how to sell you in this regard, but with a bit of networking, you should be able to find you a bridge position into your new technology stack. You are going to be expected to hit the ground running, which will make the first few months of that job really exciting, but it should be entirely possible.

A good place to look is in consulting companies, like my own Webonise Lab. Consulting companies will often hire experienced people to become generalists with broad skill sets, and will often take a specialist and give them an opportunity to train up through the company's open source projects and the like.
It's pretty impressive how LEGO has changed its destiny in the last 10 years, given this: [1]

In 2003, The LEGO Group faced a budget deficit of 1.4 billion DKK (220 million
USD at then current exchange rates; equal to EUR 175 million),[40] causing
Poul Plougmann to be replaced by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen as president. In the
following year, almost one thousand employees were laid off, due to budget
cuts. However, in October, 2004, on reporting an even larger deficit,
Kristiansen also stepped down as president, while placing 800 million DKK of
his private funds into the company.

Right now, LEGO is the largest toy company in the world, surpassing Mattel since late 2014. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Group#Financial_resul...

[2] http://time.com/money/3268065/lego-largest-toy-company-matte...
Flypaper accumulates more bugs than clay.
I have a hard time understanding why someone with a conscience would spend money in a brutal, repressive regime. Do you have any compunction about giving money that supports such a regime? Is there a level of brutality and oppression that would make you not want to directly support that brutality and oppression?

EDIT: I seem to have hit a nerve. Is it always OK to vacation in a brutal regime? If so why? I'd love hear why directly giving money to the North Korean regime is an acceptable thing to do.
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The author did mention Dropwizard:

The first wave was around lightweight Java frameworks (a few of which we wrote about: Dropwizard vs. Springboot). These delivered lightweight, modern frameworks for Java and helped cut down development time. Now there’s a second wave that’s been recently hitting the scene. That wave is Java micro frameworks.
While the math doesn't really support paying off your mortgage first, I think for some people is more for the mental peace of mind that you don't have something hanging over your head. I can see why that would be the right choice for some people that are looking for a total change in their life.
> At the very least I think I should be paid to learn it if I have to teach it.

What if you reframed how you approach your work role? The company is now an informal research lab-- you serve as its director. In that capacity you develop cutting-edge stuff. You also coach and mentor people (including the boss) in a collaborative team style.

Incidentally, do keep a journal of what you contribute in this area. Extremely useful at review time. Ultimately, this makes you irreplaceable.
Sony is experimenting with always-on e-ink on their watch face and band, http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/28/sony-e-ink-watch-aims-to-ma...
I dunno... anecdata here, but my kids have quite a few sets - Batman, Ninja Turtles, Star Wars as well as some brick boxes and Lego City stuff - and they mixed them all together and now build whatever they fancy all the time. I was horrified actually, they don't care. In fact when I tried to build up a mini Millenium Falcon that's hidden in there I was told to clear off.

The new sets do have a few weird "only for that set" bricks, like batman helicopter blades or weird rubber Jedi hair pieces, but generally everything still fits together with everything else. I will say that there does seem to be a high percentage of small round 1x1 transparent studs. Every set seems to come with loads of 'em.
Maybe?
This is an oft-repeated claim, but my experience tells me differently.

Contrary to popular tv shows, there is only so much that can happen. Lawsuits drag on whether someone is trying or not :)

Barring some outliers, the difference between lawsuits that are dragged out and ones that aren't is not a factor of 10, it's probably a factor of 1.2.

State court is kind of a crapshoot, for sure.
But you are super-unlikely to get away with this stuff in federal court (which is where ADP filed).

Most federal judges get tired of this stuff very quickly, and start sanctioning.
I am to the point where I try not to even read articles that begin "Why I broke up with...", "Why I no longer use...", "Why I quit...".

At best, they come off as immature ramblings.
> How does what they currently have help them?

It helps the user better understand the language, which I believe is their goal to begin with. For example, their current approach presents a conjugated word in the context of a provided sentence or phrase. When I'm refreshing a language this isn't a big deal, but if I'm starting from scratch I don't have the foreknowledge to understand exactly when and why the word appears as such. I don't really need to argue that learning the language structure is much easier than memorizing a large list of words and phrases.

More simply a better tool for learning, is a better product on their end. They don't have to sell it to schools, but if teachers see that it can work in tandem with their curriculum then it will translate to more users.

> If they came up with something good for classrooms, they might as well axe or install paywalls into their existing stuff.

You're only looking at monetizing and forgetting about growth.
These are two different companies, they just have the first tree letters of their names in common. Just like ZenDesk.
C++ reference would be longer if it had to define behavior for all the currently undefined cases.
This appears to be Israel from the technical report both because of the targets (Iran) and also the timezone data.
The DOS command line uses '/' to deliniate arguments. So I've just realised that that would have to change, a more serious problem.
I've been a tech consultant since my late teens but got out and passed all my clients on to a close friend so that I could focus on my own work about a year ago. It was a leap of faith for sure, but where there's a will there's a way. During my decade of consulting I set up some automatic income through a few different routes ( never put all your eggs in one basket! ).

I entertain the thought of selling what I'm working on some day for a big payout, but that's a completely optional scenario for me. Because of the simple fact that I've never been happier in my life.

I feel like my work I do now actually matters. And even if it never makes me a dollar, it brings me joy. And that's what life's all about in the end ( to me at least ).

I wish you all the best and in my opinion you certainly made the right choice.

One note: getting the combination of automatic income right was a learning curve, if you ever want to know what works for me, feel free to reach out.
This actually uses the same neural network discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584325
IIRC Palantir subscribes at least nominally to this philosophy, too. And they're trying to scale it, so we'll get to see how that works out in the near-ish future.

(Unless you work at Palantir, in which case I feel silly).
Radio doesn't have options, and has ads (as does youtube but I can block them). I can't play youtube efficiently and safely while driving, and it's a much higher drain on battery life and bandwidth. My main use case for spotify is driving music, followed by curated playlists while coding or gaming
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I've heard that it's mostly searching for VM addon software used in VMs, like VirutalBox Guest Additions.
I'm supposedly an adult and I'm totally jealous of this 11 year old. :)
>Since clearly you will have forgotten everything you knew about that language in 2 years time...

They are not wrong. I passed Duolingo Spanish course (it might have been extended since then) and barely remember anything now. I was also studying German in school, and later French by myself to the point where I could even speak with native speakers a little. Hardly remember anything either. English is the only foreign language that I haven't forgot because I use it constantly. But if you're not using a foreign language, after passing the test you will completely forget it in 2 years.
This type of misery is common.

The author decided he needs a change in his life, there is no arguing there.

But what makes the author so confident that quitting the job is the solution?
>They have a strong incentive to exaggerate and invent stories, and owing to the relative seclusion of North Korea, it's pretty easy to not get called on it.

So anything that contradicts North Korea state propaganda must be untrue? Oh, ok.
Has anyone at ADP been there 65 years? It looks to me like the current CEO started about 15 years ago.

I would say if you have as much power as ADP does, everything that happens is a moment for self-reflection.
Exactly. If she really felt like not talking and that the watch was subverting her own being, she could have just said, oh it's a no name knockoff.

If I have something which catches attention I don't want and want to end that line of conversation, I introduce the conversation kill switch. I found it at a garage sale, I got it at jc pennys or tj max. I have no idea what brand it is.

No, she's actually doing the inverse of what she claims to want to do. She's calling attention to herself by announcing how she goes out of her way to not call attention to herself.

Reporters, as if their life wasn't about small talk and schmoozing.
Since Clojure 1.6, Java 6 is the minimum requirement.

I'm sure there is a discussion somewhere, but I expect that there are quite a few people who run Java on commercial J2EE app servers and the like which don't officially support newer JDKs.
I'm interested in what you have to say about your automatic income. What can you tell us about it?
There would have to be a lot of careful discussion about such an organization. I would hate to see it end up being little more than a vector for rent-seeking, and shutting people out of our industry for a host of arbitrary reasons (immigrants, people with the "wrong" education, etc).
In the place I work we can deploy an enterprise Spring web application in 15 seconds, in my local machine. I truly miss those microframeworks, where a deploy is nothing but a restart of the process. I know Spring does so much under the hood, but those benefits do not make up for those ridicilous startup times and deploy scenarios.
> Stability problems with VirtualBox are very real. I haven't touched that for years.

What issues do you have? I've been running VirtualBox on OS X for 6+ years and have never had stability issues. I usually have a few VMs running at a time via vagrant.
Having too much passion? IMO, passion is not sustainable. I believe that dispassionate works much better over the long term. Of course, ymmv.
I have a lot of respect for what Zenefits has done to date in shaking up the insurance space, but you have to REALLY question what the heck is going on with Parker's leadership there.

What is going on that the founder/CEO has enough time to chastise an engineer candidate on Quora and put out factually inaccurate posts on topics like healthcare reform (he had something out on LinkedIn a few weeks back) but doesn't have the foresight to build a "real" integration with a payroll vendor that has one available (and an established track record of integrating with competitors in many cases mind you).

You read the glassdoor reviews of Zenefits and you get this picture where no one knows what they are doing. All symptomatic of a company in hyper-growth mode, I get that. The questions becomes, does Parker have the leadership chops to see this through?
> if you were to keep working for a little while after paying everything off you'd likely be able to save a huge amount of money very quickly. Save, invest, relax on a beach...any of it's easier without that mortgage eating away at you.

Except the money you spend on your mortgage is year 1 is worth a lot more than the money you spend on it in year 30. Especially with rates where they've been the past several years (our mortgage is 3.25%), cash flow is really the only upside to paying off a mortgage decades early.
I was only referring to the "why even ask?" part of your post. They most likely ask during the installation for liability purposes.

VM behavior or not, asking or not, I've hoped they get in legal trouble for this as soon as I knew about it, but of course, IANAL.
What do you do now if you care to share?
I can only hope that the 0days used were reported.
Isn't that trend gone since a few years ? Java EE was utterly bad in the early 2Ks, after years of industry remote and components love, then with added UML flavor and XML verbose redundancy, all allowed only by the relative authority of the companies in charge (IBM, Sun, ...). The same culture that gave Eclipse whose class graph was headache inducing. Since then, from the few articles I've read, EE was trimmed down significantly.
Well there are a bunch of things that are not really Java and it's best to just avoid them; that's not really Java's fault though. I'm not sure what you're talking about with android versus desktop applications though; in android or a desktop application one adds a library as a maven dependency in exactly the same way. (At least, I do).
I never use the "downloader", either from Akamai, Sourceforge, etc. I downloaded a few programs recently on sourceforge and never had to use their software.
What's offensive is that you had no moral problem giving money to such a brutal and repressive regime while believing said regime is a stain on the soul of humanity. you talked, in another post on here, that one can bicycle in North Korea or run in the Pyonyang marathon. Those are great things to do in a country that is a stain on the soul of humanity. Giving money to this regime makes you part of the problem.
It was a joke dude.
> when you see one, you know exactly what it does, compared to loops where anything can happen either intentionally or accidentally.

That is debatable, which is shown by the parent comment decrying the "bewildering zoo" of HOFs. I could flip this argument around and say that for loops have all complexity explicitly written out using fairly simple low-level constructs, whereas with HOFs I have to remember the semantics of each of them. And it would be equally unconvincing.
The Power of Decision is easily one of the most scary and disturbing films I have ever watched.

I always used to think that Doctor Strangelove was a really funny movie, but after this, it was a lot less funny somehow (still a great movie, though).
> Can definitely see this on the likes of CSI: Cyber.

The Surface is already used to a point of absurdity in NCIS - they use what looks like the previous iteration of this as well as Surface RTs.
So am I understanding correctly that "market research" means selling data mining insights to advertisers? Do you expect this to be a significant portion of revenue?

(I don't have a problem with this- I'm just curious.)
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I was simplifying. As Self roots are in Strongtalk, wich had as goal making a faster Smalltalk implementation.

Now the closest we have to Self is JavaScript, damaged by DOM and its UI hacks to bend documents into applications.
Is there a link to ADP's technical response?
I must have failed to communicate clearly. Let me explain. The fundamental purpose of life according to Judaism is about striving towards personal perfection and growth(Tikun Olam).

Striving towards being the key terms.as long as you are trying, you are serving your purpose on your own level. This is actually what ars was talking about...it's better to act without belief than to not act...my only point was not to lose focus on the end goal.

If I had to explain it without religion from the simple perspective of seeking truth. I would say," since intellect is driven by will(we only learn something if we want to, we only seek the answer to a question we care about, etc...)how can we seperate out our personal bias and desires and subjective needs from the absolute truth we all so desperately seek?"

Almost all the mitzvos in the Torah and ritual activities Jews partake in are about selflessness and finding ways to root out personal bias so you can see the truth. If you have to pray before biting into an Apple, you are essentially putting G-ds will ahead of your own desire to eat.

By nurturing this sensitivity and willingness to seek truth from outside yourself and your own research, you can be more objective and find absolute truth.

Think about a science experiment where you start with only one hypothesis. You can easily find evidence to confirm your hypothesis, but it won't prove anything scientifically because you didn't compare hypothesis to see if the evidence can support other hypothesis as well.

In order to maximize on personal relationships, life, etc... You need to root out your personal emotions and bias as much as possible...

That's all Judaism is about... rooting out subjective bias to seek truth in an effort to achieve personal growth.

This requires a willingness to trust others before you and recognize that if you only behave based on what you fully understand you will be acting on bias. So, we do lots of things we don't quite understand trusting our parents, grandparents, etc...as we seek to understand more and more.
I think 'belongs to Pegida handbook' in itself doesn't say much. It would be ideological (as opposed to evidence-based) political correctness to avoid stating the obvious: it is almost impossible to absorb huge volumes of immigrants, especially when a country has been largely homogeneous and insular for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It does behoove new immigrants to learn the language of their adopted countries. This does not have to be at the expense of their native cultures, insofar as it doesn't run contrary to humanistic principles (e.g. mistreatment of women and FGM are both 'cultural' and 'religious' for sure, but they still have to be repudiated.)
What are some of the other missteps Zenefits has made in the past (for the uninformed)?
Private wearables would benefit from open software that can be customized to reflect the local agency of the human person.

Replace remotely authored committee nudge policies with asynchronous versions of your past or future self.
Ahh yes, well if you can't take a message of support from someone who (independent of your article) supports "bro" culture, I should note that I do not support your lifestyle, that of the "uptight tool."

All the best :)
Personally, we've only ever implemented something of an ideas board but we also measured the cost of implementation and impact to the business. It has been useful in helping us figure out where we should focus our efforts on. I do think this system has value especially for seed stage companies with constraints. I do plan to apply this methodology on a personal level to see how things work - better prioritization means less time wasted doing non-essential work. After all, we only have 2 guys and a ton of constraints on our time. Thanks for bringing it up!

From my experience as a consultant, the way to develop positive dynamics between the business and technology side of things is to get them to talk and discuss what's on the table. The business should be familiar with what the customers want or asking for and the technology side should be familiar with what's needed to make things happen. There needs to be lots of discussion all round to get the positive flow happening and everyone agreeing on one direction. Otherwise, it's just a scattered piece-meal mess. It seems like this process would help get everyone on the table so in theory, this approach should help.

Good luck! Would love to hear how it goes.
Thanks!

We are focusing on people with autoimmune disease for exactly that reason. They are more in need of this kind of service, so probably more forgiving. Our long term goal is to solve my own problem, which is that I hate all the planning and decisions involved in cooking normal healthy food.

Here's a very terse page https://eatbetter.io/signup And this one is more informational https://about.eatbetter.io

We will definitely try a few ways to put more educational information on the interactive landing page.
I've never thought about creativity in this way:

If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be
entirely comprehensible to a single individual.

As a UX designer and investor, I'm constantly worrying about creeping complexity in interfaces and companies. Cluttered thought and execution has always been the enemy for me, but always in service of better conversion, execution and flow. The limits complexity brings to creative potential...that's a new articulation for me and an exciting one to think about.
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When I took the TOEIC (it was mandatory to get my diploma), the people in charge of the exams said that the TOEIC score is only valid one or two years (can't remember which) and if we spend some time in an English speaking country it was advised to take a TOEIC again as our score would be likely to increase.

I was thinking at the time (it was in 2005) that they were really out of touch with common sense, and right now I wonder if anybody outside academia gives some credibility to the TOEIC or the TOEFL.
Taking ownership of a file doesn't give you access, yet
Iterators are an interesting addition to Java 8, but a bigger change is what they had to do to enable iterators to exist.

What they did was allow interfaces to provide default methods. They then added stream() and parallelStream() default methods to the Collection interface to generate streams and start all of the iterator goodness.

The result is that in Java 8, an interface now behaves like a Ruby mixin. It is a way to do multiple inheritance in a language that officially does single inheritance.

I'm sure there will be some disasters before the Java community settles on best practices for this feature. :-)
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I agree. Zenefits had been in the news for last few months, but all for the wrong reasons, first the Quora fiasco and now this.
> Both the traditional "qemu-xen" or upstream qemu device models are potentially vulnerable.

VENOM was particularly nasty because, due to a bug/oversight, floppy emulation was always enabled in pretty much everything that used Qemu.

This only affects one specific network driver, which to my knowledge, is nowhere used as default.
Were you referring to this ? : http://www.adp.com/zenefits/downloads/The-Facts-About-ADP-an...
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Thanks werber. Clearly we don't communicate the purpose of the buttons well enough, as they are actually supposed to remove food you don't eat vs showing recipes with that food item :-)
I can't speak for the person you replied to, but I live in the Netherlands and here (and if I'm not mistaken in most of Europe) offering a pension plan is obligatory for companies in most sectors, including tech. Then again, our perspective on these things is quite different from for instance the USA, health insurance is not an option, it is obligatory.