skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As some noted, the fact that you realized what drives your desire is very impressive. It takes a certain skill to understand those things!

As someone who's been at it for years, I'll just give you one little piece of advice. If you've already been through the fundamentals, you've done enough. Now, instead of focusing on learning technology, focus on building things, this is what real engineers do.

Let me explain. You'll probably get much better with at least one thing once you ship a real project to the end, and this is where you'll get better.

One of the best programmers I've ever worked with was a PHP guy when I met him, and he was good because he shipped efficient, tested, and working code fast, all while being able to document and communicate about it with his team. That's what being a programmer is. You won't become a good professional programmer by chasing after hip technologies (even though learning different paradigms always help), but by building things, and preferably with people, because this is how things work in the real world.

As long as you stay with startups and technology companies, you'll see that any CTO or lead dev worth his salt would rather hire a smart Perl programmer with strong fundamentals who shipped things over someone (maybe smart too) who knows a bit of JS, a bit of Java, and a bit of Haskell. This is, however, not true with a lot of non-tech companies, where keywords on resume, a professional-looking attitude, and some good sales skills will usually get you better positions.

It's never too late, don't fear irrelevance, build things, and have fun!
I wonder if that might be because everyone thinks of FourSquare as the "check into places" app. It's easy to dismiss it based on that.

When you consider the other features you mentioned, it seems far more compelling. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think those features came after the check-in craze, right? So most people are unaware of what it has become, and still think about it as what it used to be.
> Here is a thought to keep in mind: the more extreme the weather anomaly, the less likely it is to be caused by human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming. The current situation is mega extreme in terms of our temperatures. The reason this aphorism makes sense is that global warming due to increased greenhouse gases should warm the earth in a progressive, slow way---not in huge jumps. Here in the Northwest, temperature increases have been particularly slow (about 1F over the past century) because of the huge thermal inertia of the Pacific Ocean.

> And there is something else: the warming influencing our region is localized and does not have the characteristics of the global warming signal seen in climate models. While the Northwest has been hot and dry, much of the eastern U.S. has been much cooler and wetter than normal. Even the Rockies have been wetter than normal. Global warming would warm them as well. This week I was at a weather conference in Chicago....it was quite chilly there at times.

I think this section, particularly the second paragraph, shows the writer has a very poor understanding of what global warming is and how it can and will have different localized effects across different timeframes.
There are non-moving part designs that utilise fibre-optics or laser rings. I've only seen either the physical or laser ring gyros. Not sure about which ones they'd use in space though.
Irony alert: PageRank was originally modeled on the observation of how academic citations are a network. Back on topic - still many works are read, but never cited, despite their contribution to science (that's another nut to crack though).
It's 12 years old! Isn't it reasonable that support is phased out?
This is meant as a book for kids to bring more passion to the field.. Dont worry about the scrolling and fonts. Its the pdf of the printed copy..
To conduct, or to insulate? That is the question
To answer why, the links are different:

You posted the https version

This one is http
I can't really figure out if you're being sarcastic or not.
There's really no need to add complexity to a setup this simple. Docker would just be another tool to learn and maintain, with very little gain.
I'm not sure this is an "exploitative relationship", unless you also define your relationship with a supermarket chain or netflix to be "exploitative". You give money for a service. Said service tries to extract money as efficiently as possible.

It's a capitalistic relationship, certainly. But it's very different. reddit volunteers provide their efforts to improve reddit's brand, for free, generally just for personal gratification (from people who will turn on you and drive you to suicide the moment you make the wrong move). Thos efforts are exploited by reddit, rather than rewarded.
Elon Musk donates $10M to keep AI from going full Skynet
Where #liberty dwells, there is my #country. Happy #Independence_Day
Unfortunately the distribution is not optimal for economic reasons. I live in a village (Zoetermeer) (123 000 people) with an density of 9000 people per square mile. Is not uncommon for these densities in the Randstad, where the avarage density over this area is around 4000 per square mile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randstad
Maybe one of the existing satellites could emit a radio beacon or something?
Do you save write-through or write-back? If you save write-through your game is blocked on your disk write speed, which is not very high, and if you save write-back then (unless you're very careful with journalling) you run the risk of inconsistent state.

(Remember, this was 15-20 years of Moore's law ago so price/performance was about a thousand times worse than today)
I'd love to see a postmortem of why the original post failed. It would be useful for future posters. Honestly, we've all been there, even though you always feel like you have to tell people you're "killin' it!" with your HN submissions.
Database Design: more than just an ERD
Why assume when there's Wikipedia? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing#Hallway_test...
Horror games study shows men get as frightened as women–but lie about it
Your daily dose of male-bashing.
IEEE is meaningless. You need to look at the top 2-3 venues in your field and submit there. Most of the rest is noise. Except perhaps for work published in 2nd tier venues by people that have other papers in top tier venues, as most likely such work is at least solid if not quite novel enough to get in to a top tier venue.
8MW sounds nice, but a nuclear power plant will easily have 4 orders of magnitude more power output for the same visual impact, and that's around the clock, whether the wind blows or not.

I wouldn't dismiss rod reactors outright, but developing new technology to improve safety and fuel efficiency should of course be a priority. Especially since weapons plutonium production isn't a priority as it was when conventional reactors were designed.
Brigading is not against reddit's rules[0], despite semi-popular belief. Some big subs actually encourage it by not allowing np (non-participation) links to be posted on their sub[1].

[0]https://www.reddit.com/rules/
[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/39nwjh/meta...
I do love my trackpoint for these quick pointer movements between typing but I doubt many people can do prolonged trackpoint action without developing RSI.
Americans work more hours than any other people on earth: B. Sanders (36')
Yes, you are right.
Sorry I once again mistaken Dutch people as the ones living in Denmark.
Now it makes much more sense, once again sorry for confusion.
The people generally already do make the papers available, but that's still not a replacement for journals or indexed conferences; if I just put the paper online without it also being in a reputable publication, then from the point of carreer and future funding I might just as well thrown it in garbage.

The same goes with low-ranked open access publication venues - publishing in them is worse than not publishing at all; since it prevents me from publishing that research in some place that matters.
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> And each windmill may make 'little power' (though we now have machines capable of 8MW!), but in the aggregate they produce significant power.

Sway and AMSC have 10MW turbines (respectively ST10 and SeaTitan)

Still, you've got to compare that with a modern nuclear reactor producing ~1400MWe, and account for nuclear plants having multiple reactors. While hydro beats all in power per plant you still need quite a lot of turbines to produce as much as a nuke (especially when you account for wind variations, so you generally need to overbuild on wind capacity to get the same annual generation).

Alta in Kern County (California) has 440 turbines and while its nameplate capacity rivals a single reactor (1360MWe) its capacity factor (ratio of actual production to nameplate capacity) is under 20% that of an average nuclear plant (at about 15%, Alta running at full capacity all year could theoretically produce ~11500 GWh, it effectively produces ~1700GWh; by comparison Palo Verde has a theoretical capacity of 34531GWh and according to wikipedia an effective yearly generation of 29250 GWh, an 85% capacity factor)
The energy situation now is:

- A legal requirement to cut CO2 emissions

- A ban on building new nuclear plants as well as a commitment to close the remaining one

- A moratorium on building windmills because they scare birds and pollute the horizon

- The largest supply of natural gas in Western Europe, but an increasing limit on exploiting this because shifts in ground level are causing cracks in people's walls.

- A ban on fracking

- There so notoriously little sunshine that people refuse to take solar power seriously, even though it seems to be working just fine in Germany.

Different groups want opposing things. The energy situation would be fine if environmentalists would allow the construction of more windmills and nuclear plants, or if the CO2 reduction target was dropped. You can't have it both ways.

The people in Groningen would probably be fine with continued exploitation of the gas wells if the profits were spent there, but the money is needed by the national government to meet the EU's budget deficit requirements. Now much of it will remain in the ground while we buy Russian gas.

In my opinion the very concept that a horizon is something that can be polluted is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I think the Dutch landscape is featureless and boring, and windmills are a vast improvement. They look modern, industrious, cheerful.
Alternatively, idiomatic.js https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js/, an older publication with more people contributing to it.
Good programmers think they are mediocre, bad programmers think they rule.

Watch ancient code of you in PHP and after all you learned, read it again. Was it really that bad code? I always thought the same like you did, but when i read old code... I sometimes think it's beautifull ( can't explain it otherwhise)

Learning other programming languages helps you understand architecture and programming concepts, that you can probably implement in your "old" programming language. Not learning them, doesn't mean you're a bad programmer, perhaps just a lazy one :P
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He only thought about retroactively change how votes were to be interpreted. The default choice and the one used is to simply tally the number of votes and whatever get a higher number wins.

But I agree that if they had decided to use a non-default method, it really should have been said before the vote rather than after. How to count votes is a common theme in manipulating vote results.
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"Successful" OOP design pattern implementations are generally dependent on the kind of team you are surrounded by, and the people that maintain the code down the road. If you are, or want to be in a position to influence those decisions, OOP is good to have in the toolkit.

But most devs don't want to be in those positions :) Cause it involves a bit more people wrangling than code wrangling.
Don't have fear of fashion trends.
I don't know anyone with interest in Om/clojure though :(
> Hopefully this statement makes it non-patentable.

I don't think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inv...
HubPress: When Jekyll Meets Powerful WordPress
The bird strike issue seems to me to be vastly exaggerated, windmills are positioned as bird butchering machines with vast numbers of corpses lining their circumference.

In practice it rarely happens, I have windmills (large ones and smaller ones in significant numbers) within spitting distance from my house which also sits in the middle of one of the largest bird breeding grounds in the country. I have spent quite a bit of time at the base of the machines to look for evidence of birdstrikes but I haven't found more bird remains near the windmills than near other man made structures.

Of course I'm only one guy which happens to like rewewable energy technology so don't take my word for this.

There are some studies about this:

http://www.livescience.com/41644-wind-energy-threat-to-birds...

If anything my attempt at evidence collection indicates that the larger machines (which have a much larger swept area than the smaller ones) fare better in this respect because the rotors turn much more slowly, but the tips are still moving at very high speed (200 KM/h) and that's where the danger lies. Smaller machines rotate much faster and the whole disc area is a bad place for a bird to be.

Even so, anything we make (buildings, highways, windmills) affects wildlife and birds are killed by all of the above with the primary killer being the highways and the secondary one the buildings. Windmills do kill birds but they're a distant third.
Not if people save money.

What you're saying is some other formulation of the trickle down, and it just doesn't work.

Welfare is a form of redistribution. The economy is much better when money is spent for housing people, feeding people, and let them have a decent, small amount of leisure. It's a matter of scale. You better have more people spending money, than fewer people spending it.

You better build 25 town car than 1 ferrari. But I agree that some can praise individual success and consider that people living in poverty is okay, but I don't think it really the country as a whole.
Are you actually a PR/marketing professional, or are you just volunteering your personal speculation?
Sometimes you need to step away from something completely for a while
There's also a jscs default for this styleguide.

{
"preset": "airbnb"
}
Yes, see here: https://youtu.be/-yX1SYeDHbg?t=38m35s
They must be extremely close to the machine and the suns path would have to intersect the blades 'just so' for this to happen.

I can see how this would be a very annoying thing to experience, do you know how many minutes per day this line-up causes the problem?
Twitch still uses flash because HLS wasn't widely supported until recently. Everyone knows Twitch takes half of the $5, there is no naivety there. And the gamification of subscriptions is a good thing for streamers. Anyone who has been a partner with both Twitch and YouTube will tell you Twitch is miles ahead when it comes to actually caring about its partners.
On the technical side of things learning a different, not-so-mainstream programming paradigm (like functional or declarative) will broaden your perspective and allow you to tackle problems differently (pretty much as learning a foreign language also gives you insight into another culture).

In general I'd say that working with other developers is the best way to improve your skills. Ideally, some of those developers would be more experienced than you (so you can learn from them), and some of them would be less experienced so you can teach them (because teaching and communicating about code leads to a better understanding for the teacher as well).

If your environment doesn't reflect this ideal you might consider contributing to a larger open source project.

What sets apart great developers from average ones isn't technical knowledge or programming skills but communication skills and an understanding of user requirements. Most software development really is about communicating and properly understanding requirements.

Learning about design and business can also make you a better developer because it'll provide you with a more comprehensive view of the things you're creating.
Do you sponsor new H1B's and do not require US citizenship (for US based roles)?

Also, any prospective C++ positions in Europe (or home-based)?
MySQL: Converting an incorrect latin1 column to UTF-8
I am in Ireland, I wanted 1 single track (apparently there is no such thing as music shops or singles anymore, i feel old)

So I went to Amazon.com found the track for $0.99 and went to pay, guess what "your credit card has to be issued by US bank" error, despite me having positive amazon.com gift balance with no need to use credit card.
Fine so I went to amazon.co.uk, same track GBP 1.00 (notice the markup) and similar error once again despite me having credit on UK site and buying for years electronics and just about everything else for myself.

So in end I went to google and found what I wanted on mp3juices.is or something like that.

These music companies deserve to go extinct for wasting half an hour of a prospective customers time and putting up silly barriers.
For me, the major insight was to realize that the best of the best are struggling just as much as myself. I often come back to this diagram for relief, and it's true.

http://www.invokemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/venndi...

It's really all about focus. Learn one thing at once. Rinse and repeat, and come back to the topic later for more insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_approach

Don't be afraid to say "I don't get that (yet)." - for me it's a sign of quality in an engineer, if he realizes he doesn't grasp a concept yet.

All others are struggling too, even the best:

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/

In the end, if you're not embarrased about the code you wrote half a year ago, it's a sign you're not progressing.
It's actually a bit different than what you'd get from that table. NL (like most countries) has varying population density. What's not obvious is that NL has a crazy distribution where we have a large chunk (the 'Randstad') that contains a very large portion of the population and a relatively much larger area that is just about empty.

So depending on where you are you can travel for 150 Km and never leave the built-up areas or you can travel for 150 Km and you'll see nothing but grass, cows, the occasional farm and the highway you're on (A6/A7).
With evolution, if this really was a problem, it would not be one in a few generations :)
How about telling them to reply something like "ok" to the email just sent on login request. That email should properly have this instruction written so that someone can copy paste that code word if required.

Also, the email can have pre-built email link with the text and aprropiate sender written so that one just click it and send.
That's just not true.

Collision with the blades rarely happens. Birds usually collide with the tower itself, because they get disturbed and try to flee. Towards the sky, which their evolutional programming has identified as "the light".

That's why lots of wind turbines today are painted in different shades of green and brown on the lower part of the tower.
Voting a budget is a tricky subject. Sometimes ideals will get you nowhere, but I think developed countries have showed that redistributing improve not only the country as a whole, but it also improve the status of the wealthiest, the wealthy people will benefit from the fact that people are fed, educated and not just wandering around either stealing or doing shitty jobs.

At that political level, money becomes an abstract thing, and I think it becomes a matter of national interest, not individual interest. Try to think about absolute wealth, not relative wealth. If the koch brothers can have 100 villas, would they be able to have so many without a redistribution system ? I don't think they would. Look at developing or third world countries, and look at their wealthiest, I'm sure they don't even have proper health care.
Yes, nuclear power plants are bigger.

But so what, many windmills equate a nuclear power plant in generating capacity (but as you correctly state not in baseline generating capacity, windmills have 0 of that).

The visual impact of a windmill is a different category than the visual impact of a nuclear power plant, it is more distributed so affects more people, on the other hand, some people actually like the windmills.

Just windmills or just nuclear power is short sighted, there is an optimum mixture of both renewables and other sources of power.
Same here, I did mine in 2005 and it consisted largely of Microsoft Frontpage...
I'm surprised this isn't big news in The Netherlands. I have not seen a single thing about it in the news!
https://github.com/rectangletangle/imjf-py

I wrote this Python client which facilitates basic JS integration testing.
That's pretty damning for Meteor. I'd have ranked it similarly to React with the difference being that Meteor more actively markets itself and React is mostly being promoted by third parties.
But those thousands of acres are not covered with windmills, the land is just as arable as it was before. That's the really nice thing about wind power, it uses relatively little area for the power generated. The base of each machine is maybe 10 meters in diameter and usually there is some kind of access path.
This looks nice!

On a slightly related note, has anyone already run into a Spotify to Apple Music playlist converter? I'm curious to see if Apple Music has all the music available that Spotify has. I'm thinking about switching after all the changes that Spotify has implemented over the years.
Infact, this distinction of login system from the account itself can help in interesting consequences.

Consider like a command-line app running (actual stuff you do after login) along with a separate command center (your email), so that you could do queries about your account like who are logged in, logout everyone, or are there any pending notifications, and even is the service properly running?

But yes, people today dont like to do anything other than clicking buttons, so only geeks would be impressed with this.
Plenty of cool features - very cool!
The value is in mixing semantic properties of multiple (dozens) of languages in your single environment. Building the first fundamental blocks may take time, for they are fundamental for a reason, but then adding new things on top is trivial.

So, this is essential for building rich DSLs. See my framework as an extreme example of such an approach.