skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it seems exaggerated, that's because it is. Outside of NYC and SF, there's basically nowhere in the US where businesses wouldn't hire a competent programmer on the spot.
same here. if they were to start sales in Europe, I'd buy in to replace the low quality lunches I'm having, but I'd keep a varied diet at evenings.

I'm sure soylent has many nutrients I'm not getting enough, but might also miss rare unknown nutrients that body needs in minimal quantity - not to be confused with homeopathy principles, I'm talking about quantifiable quantities of chemicals - I think the first iteration had a similar issue, lacking sulfur or something. because even stuff bad in quantity might be of use to the body and we don't yet know 100%

but since we do know that we get by nicely with incomplete diets, I see no drawbacks to a mixed soylent diet.
Not intentional. When many people describe a similar phenomena, trends will appear, independent of if they are well constructed entries or once off forum posts.
I'm using QuiteRSS and I'm quite satisfied with it.

https://quiterss.org/

I would have preferred a browser plugin, but all plugins had a really bad user interface. So I tried RSS tools that are separate from the browser, and settled with QuiteRSS.
The web is not compatible with the current economic system in place in the US and growing throughout the world. Strong property rights are in direct opposition to decentralization. Unless additional policies similar to net neutrality are implemented the web with end up an afterthought in the near future.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881

Here are some previous submissions of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989884

Canadian hitchhiking robot destroyed on trip across US
(globalnews.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990213

HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour
(cbc.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990215

HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending US tour
(gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881

HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour
(cbc.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9991824

Hitchhiking Robot Found Decapited
(hitchbot.me)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992506

HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour
(cbc.ca)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993561

America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot
(theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994123

HitchBOT scientist: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
(bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994125

HitchBOT scientist: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots'
(bbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994216

Hitchhiking robot meets end on streets of Philadelphia
(thestar.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995516

Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found decapitated
(wired.co.uk)
Interesting. Is there no way to pay the same fee a company would pay to apply for clearance for yourself?
> How do you know that 40-50% of places are rejecting you because of your lack of degree? Do they say this outright in their rejection emails?

How many positions have you applied for that itemized the reasons for rejection? I've had that happen maybe once, and it was for a role at a startup.

Anyhow, often times the degree is a hard requirement. Mine is in Philosophy, and for a long time I left it off my CV because I didn't perceive it as being relevant.

When I applied for a position with a research lab, the [engineering] team politely responded asking if I had any academic credentials whatsoever. They wanted to move me along the interview process, but the lack of a degree would have kiboshed the whole thing.
I agree that they don't get the concept of the Internet, my reading of dublinben's comment is that the issue is deeper: even the article confuses the Internet (the wiring, routers, etc.) with the web (the pages and software/servers). The sarcastic word 'Interwebs' came about to poke fun at those who didn't understand that difference.
Well said. Why are we so apt to forget how things worked in the past?
Gravity Payments, raised the annual salary floor for employees to $70,000
Marketplacer Raises AU$10M to Power Two-Sided Online Marketplaces
For those interested (i.e. shameless plug of my own project ;)), I'm working on a game editor that will allow you to create Action Adventures. Definitely not complete yet, but you can already create some nice levels, and add NPC conversations :). http://rpgplayground.com
Come on guys. So many negative quotes about wall street from people here who didn't even bother to read the article.

The article discusses the use of software to catch rouge employee's before they can do any harm and somehow this gets translated to anti wall street comments?

Having said that, the article itself is garbage, its a submarine piece for a Tennessee based ML company that doesn't really provide any real insight to this world and what they do.
I taught code at a programming bootcamp for a little over year to people who mostly had no experience programming. For the first 12 months the curriculum was mostly Ruby. I found it incredibly easy to teach Ruby to people and my students were able to build cool stuff relatively quickly with Ruby.

I taught over 100 people in that time and the vast majority of them are doing just fine now. Many are programming in some other language (Java, c#, python, js are common ones). Something about Ruby worked for them.
Two points on this.

"Cold calling" is a great method for making sales.

Cold calling and talking to women is hard, but doing hard things is a great first step for breaking out of a shell and getting ahead.

The more you practice defeating your resistance to change, the more you build your confidence that you can do it. It may or may not become easier, but at least you can become familiar with and even embrace the pain. Feel the burn!

Taking it easy may have been what got him into this mess in the first place.
They have a "billing alerts" feature that should help. It will send you email if your charges exceed the amount you've set.
> one doesn't find a job by approaching random offices asking for work

Maybe not "random" offices, but otherwise that's exactly how I found my first programming job out of college. No one does this, and you'll get a lot of rejections, but it can work to get a quick in-person chat with a hiring manager about your skill set. Doing some research on the companies beforehand is useful, of course.
http://pics.camarades.com/v/jacques/trips/scotland08/dscf158...

Awesome trip, we took a mini clubman (the real deal) to Scotland.
Can you provide evidence that Reagan's tax rate cuts actually improved revenues? Here's a counterargument that they didn't have that effect: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/reagan-and-reven...
2. The same could be said about any compensation. It generally benefits you, not your employer. That doesn't mean there's no incentive to pay you.

Training should be seen as a part of compensation. While there's some alignment with the employers needs, giving employees a training budget shoulder be seen as a cheap way to provide more compensation and they should be able to use it to hone their skills in whatever area they want, regardless of its utility to employers.
Apple iOS10 Features to Allow Siri Answer Your Calls and Transcribe Voicemails
Ask HN: What do you need from time-series database?
I'm developing a time-series database. My main use case is not monitoring but time-series data mining and I want to discuss some ideas behind it.

This TSDB should act as raw-data storage that can generate various useful representations of the original data (SAX, PAA, HWT, FFT, MA/MM, etc).

For example, you can ask it to generate SAX representation from original data and use it to find motifs or discords or to answer 1-NN queries approximately. Maybe you'll want to build index using Lucene or jMotif. But maybe SAX is not what you want and you need to index data in frequency domain or something else...

There is plenty of different indexing schemes and models for time-series data and I can't implement just one or two of them. I'm planning to implement different preprocessing steps for this models instead. I think that this approach (store raw data, generate various representations) would be much more useful. What do you think about this?
Modern e-commerce for PHP, based on the Symfony2 framework
NetBank was able to pull in information from my credit cards long long ago when it existed. I remember using this feature at least 10 years ago. I can't remember if it was transactions or balance only though.
I don't think it means "on average", since I do think the average quality of a dev is higher in the Valley is better than elsewhere. However, I am saying that getting hired as a marginal dev is easier in the Valley than elsewhere, since there are not enough warm bodies in that area and Valley companies only seem to be willing to reach outside the area for really good people.
For instance, https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-t...
from layperson's intuition - isnt this just a trick performed by extracting the extra elements from an infinity ? sort of the opposite to losing information through common scaling by zero ?
2 = 1 because (2)0 = (1)0
a matter of defining rules and staying consistent to them. the paradox arises from expecting a contrived model to manifest in physical reality
First off, in order for this statement to be even HALF true, you need to be consuming organ meats (particularly liver) regularly.

Even consuming meat from a variety of different species, and regularly eating organ meat, off the top of my head you would still definitely be deficient in vitamin c and vitamin k.

Edit (I was curious about the eskimo paradox): It turns out that whale skin is a fairly good source of vitamin C, and the process of fermenting meat causes it to become rich in vitamin K. So if you are willing to consume whale skin, liver and fermented meat regularly, you too can survive on a diet comprised entirely of animal products! I'm still sure the eskimo diet is far from optimal in terms of health and fitness.
Make It Look Like I'm Working
Precisely. They might as well have asked them if they use TCP/IP. What percentage would answer yes to that?
This is a great story. Perhaps OP will see it and get motivated
You'd get even more disparate results if you polled people on who used (a) Facebook and (b) the photoelectric effect, despite every computing device with a display that renders Facebook being driven by the photoelectric effect.

"The Internet" is taken for granted and is so down in the weeds for most people that they don't realize they're using it. Similarly, every time that I glance at my watch to check the time, I'm not thinking about how it's using general relativity to calculate the time from its GPS sources, but it is.
C/C++ are almost all I use all day, with some Lua for good measure. If you can find a register in a memory map and have a good concept of time and how it relates to the hardware clock you'd probably make an excellent embedded developer.
It was the problem, because doing REYES hiding you suffer the huge "overdrawing" issue, where you need to set the shading rate per object in the scene based on its size on screen such that it doesn't get too much shading. If it had too much shading (the shading rate was too low), many more rays will be sent. And this is because REYES shades stuff before it sees if it's visible, whereas raytracing from the camera (with the raytrace hider in PRMan) only shades the points which are visible, so it scales much more on complex scenes (when GI comes into the picture - without GI REYES can cope easily as it pages everything).
BBC International is not BBC UK. BBC International sell mostly to get money (exporting Dr. Who, Top Gear etc), and it's profits are put back into BBC UK.

However, they do a small amount themselves. This being one, and it's to do with annoying rules etc :(
Simplifying the Command Line with multi-argument natural language
Data Structure and Algorithms in Node.js
Agreed. The Android app is very good, too.
This is very cool. I'd have very serious concerns about using it in place of GLSL for a real project, but as a toy it's very cool. Seems to generate reasonable code as well.
I was wondering this as well. He didn't mention it. It wasn't a complete revolution for the franchise, but it gives me hope that we'll get something that isn't just a recycled Ocarina of Time someday.
We can only dream :(
Companies like that would benefit from being more flexible on the degree issue; there are a huge number of programmers out there who are self-taught. It makes things seemingly more difficult in judging qualifications, but if you aren't filling the positions to begin with, that would seem like a good problem to have in the first place.
This is actually something that breaks my heart a bit, because this might not work (or be heavily deprecated) at some point in the near future.

If, or when, HTTP/2 is the only protocol available suddenly you can't just return a string with a few newlines and have it mean something. Instead, you have to send a connection preface, then start building and sending frames of data in specific orders with specific binary packing formats.

Length, 24 bits. Type, 8. Flags, 8, an ignored reserved bit, an identifier which must be odd (except when it must be even), padding lengths, and finally a payload (don't forget that padding!)

I know there's value in moving to HTTP/2, but it's yet another stumbling block in the path to understanding how our environments work. The straw hasn't fractured the camel's back yet, but I imagine the camel is wishing it would all just end.

Maybe this tutorial just needs a part 4, how to respond properly to HTTP/2 requests.
Amazing effort by Linode that they keep striving to improve and have pushed up a gear to new features unlike years ago but Linode has the storage problem where they only offer SSD disk storage and there is nothing comparable to AWS S3 or even their SSD disk rates are not comparable to EBS - I do understand that Linode's SSD are better performance wise but when I do not need the performance I have no other options.. There is a bigger problem with Linodes is the Linode Images[1], how do they expect the disk images to be less than 2GB and here goes there policy on images- "There is no additional charge to store images for Linode users, with a limit of 2GB per Image, with a total of 10GB total Image storage and 100 Images per account."

[1]https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/linode-images
OP : that was jarring, and I feel for you. I'm sure others in this thread have already offered much more salient and actionable advice than I can, but I do hope you find a resolution to your unpleasant situation.
I'm from Pennsylvania. This comes as absolutely no surprise.
I must be incompetent because I'm having a hard time finding a position and I have over 15 years of development experience most of it in .net and have worked on everything from my own mobile application for small businesses and worked and learned a new platform for a $20 million enterprise project.
I was in a similar position with classic ASP/Coldfusion and VB6.

What I did was rewrite my resume to target the things I did like build reporting engines and dynamic web pages. I mentioned more of my impact on my job and accomplishments over what technologies I knew.

I highlighted more general skills like SQL programming and downplayed other language specific references like VB5/6.

I landed a job no problem. I spent the week leading up to the job studying up on the tech they used and was ready enough.
Too many of them. Enough that I'd probably rather not talk about it. It's stupid, I know it's stupid, but I do it anyway. I can't explain it.
Testinfra test your infrastructure
Unfortunately, I want to believe but I strongly doubt (based on personal observation of how the web ecosystem is evolving) that there are enough people to form a strong, healthy co-op ecosystem, for a few reasons.

1) Sysadmining is still hard, thankless, and tedious enough (outside the ecosystem of services that are paying sysadmins to do the heavy-lifting for the end-user) that you're looking at a very select clientele, even among the people who have become sufficiently fed up with the status quo to want to dive into that space. I'm capable of hosting my own blog, but I host it on Blogger because I don't want to deal with having to security-patch my tool of choice every week. Any popular toolchain monoculture is a target for security attacks, and any popular toolchain heteroculture (i.e. "tool that is flexible enough that no two installations look alike enough to allow for security attacks") introduces complications that diminish the adoption rate of the tool. The development of excellent tools freely distributed and improved is not at all a given; the bar to success is extremely high, even if someone comes along to foot the bill (which would be necessary, because if we could expect those tools to spring up for free, the web is old enough that we'd have already seen it happen).

2) Any small co-op that is successful enough either becomes a Facebook or gets bought by a Facebook. Blogger used to be independent. So was Tumblr. So was Livejournal. The monocultures have the money to acquire real competition, and it's hoping too much to pretend the central human owners of such co-ops (or even the entire co-op, if it really is structured as a cooperative) won't just sell the farm for a half-million dollars.

So I don't see independent blogs ever becoming more than a fringe exercise on the modern web (hell, even the original author's reference to Blogger is a service fully owned and operated by Google, which can at a whim change what content is allowed on that network [https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/googles-blogger-drops-plan-bloc...).
Do a Show HN. Post it on Reddit. Just keep honest - "I'm working on this thing, my aim is to make it do This Cool Thing; right now it does this-and-that. Check it out at http://mysite, I'd appreciate feedback.".
same thing in Ohio.
> Hopefully the taste has improved

Yeah, to me the powder is absolutely wretched tasting on its own without adding stuff. I've heard people say they like it plain, but I gag just thinking about it.
If anything Microsoft doesn't want another XP where people just refuse to update beyond it. Companies (NHS being a prime example) are willing to pay a lot of money just to be supported still on XP
whey is protein. It's the protein derived from dairy products. Also, I think the founder, Rob Rhinehart, is genuinely trying to make a good product that benefits consumers. Whether the results show these benefits or not, does not mean he is "laughing himself to the bank".
If you are hacked the first thing the bad guys do is to disable your billing alerts.
To me it sounds like someone "good with computers" but doesn't really know how to program. All that stuff about "commodore 64" and "garage startup" sounds a bit like a smokescreen. OK, you liked playing around with computers as kid. Great, most of us did. And that made you good enough with computers that you got a job at BigCo. Then you got a little lazy and stopped learning new stuff. It happens. This isn't a condemnation.

I don't think BS is going to help. So here are a couple of options. If you really want to do startups and glam and make hundreds of thousands... you'll have to learn how to program in modern ways. It's going to take some time and effort. And you will have to build some real stuff. You might not have the time.. you are in your 40's, and you might not have the real desire to put in the effort. It's not you can't do this, you probably can but it's going to be difficult and take some real desire and most important some time and a lot of effort.

Here is another option that might be a better one. Go back to a BigCo. You have a history of job stability. You know about BigCo ways of doing things. You are good with computers. Get a certificate or two if you need to. It's not a million dollars but given the required effort, the pay is pretty decent for sitting at a desk. Forget about the 100K+ salaries you see bandied around. That's for something else.
You are assuming the adblockers will enter said arms race, which they don't really have to.
What is the provider to do when I refuse to render his add? Block me from content? My guess is, given the necessity of disabling the ad blocking to view content, many users will simply bounce from that content.
Content is cheap compared to the scarce attention we pay to each subject when we have so much information so easily accessible.
FWIW, I would really like to be able to do scripted management of my finances. Stuff like automatically paying my credit cards as much as possible while maintaining some minimum balance in my checking account (moving money from savings if necessary), or if my checking account is over some value, use the excess to fill savings account to $X, or put it in an investment account.
Konami Is Treating Its Game Developers Like Prisoners
Node.js – Get free RAM space info from free command
True. I'm on my first batch of 1.5 right now. The instructions are pretty clear about it needing to be cold. Room-temperature, the Soylent mix is pretty gnarly (think chalk), but once properly chilled it pretty much tastes like nothing.
Time to dust off http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

"Here is why it won't work.

(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

(X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email

(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical

(X) Blacklists suck

(X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually

(X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work."
Yes, it seems that around the NES era, secrets were a huge deal. The idea that you could play Mario 100 times and then one day find a hidden block that you've passed by every time was exciting.
Programming Java in school is not really what they mean by "Java experience". They mean personal projects, freelance projects, etc.

> The worst thing about all of this is how harsh and degrading everyone is when you want to get into the industry. Questions are met with disgust derision, as if you are spoiling everyone's worldview. But I am just trying to describe my experience for survival reasons.

I have no idea what this super vague paragraph means.
To be fair I think the same is true of procedural languages. Parallel computation often requires some sort of coordination mechanism, and there are more failure modes. Functional languages often lend them selves to elegant mathematic-looking functions and algorithms with many of the dirtier parts figured out by the compiler.

In order to map algorithms to parallel computing for non-trivially parallel problems you'll need things like futures, message passing, etc. that gets you back into specifying the dirtier low-level parts of the algorithm again.

Its more idiomatic in a procedural language because your'e doing all of this work all the time any way. It is still a hassle, it just doesn't mess with the "Elegance."
> He told me he's dying for entry level .NET/ASP and Java developers

Why does he need so many entry level programmers?

> We talked about pay, and it wasn't terrible impressive

Is the recruiter trying to staff a company with mostly entry-level programmers, paying low wages? I've seen plenty of companies like that, including those who used mostly trainees. Usually, the work environment was the crappiest possible, and word gets around.