jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they are referring to the fact that unfortunately many “React programmers” don’t have much experience of programming in other contexts, and fall into classic beginner programmer traps of overengineering, overabstraction, etc. It’s similar to the “jquery programmers” of yore.

This style of react can be pretty weird to “normal” programmers, intolerable even.

Fortunately there are many full stack programmers writing sensible react, I have worked on such teams and had no problems.
Mercury is hiring ~50 developers to write Haskell this year. Our entire backend is in Haskell, and powers banking for many startups and e-commerce companies

Try it out at demo.mercury.com

Jobs page: mercury.com/jobs

To the OP: I asked our team to reach out to you
The entire article reads a bit like the scene in The Life of Brian where the Jewish rebels enumerate all the things the Romans have done for them, and then say "but aside from that, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

I get where Gruber's coming from, and there seems to be a legitimate point in here about the difference between consoles and ordinary computers. But I'm not really seeing anything listed under the iPhone-exclusive category that is worthwhile. It's clear that it's going to be a profit center for Apple, and it's clear that some people enjoy it, but Gruber's assertion that it's intrinsically better doesn't have a lot of weight to it.
If Zoe says no, she will not be part of the deal, simple as that. I think that an offer saying "all the music from ten thousand artists" sounds better than "some of the music from a hundred thousand artists".
If you have a cooperative LCD monitor, it will play some tones:
http://genabitu.github.io/screentunes/

From here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856829
I realized that Adblock plus was a performance hog a long time ago and it is good to see that information being shared widely. The issue especially impacts those who have many many tabs open all at once.

Interestingly, there is a uBlock alternative which I had not heard about[1]. If the more efficient claims are true, it would definitely be worthwhile to switch over to that instead.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...
>> Notice that this is a feature you have to turn on (try it!)

This isn't true , according to this post in google product forums(and others like it who complain about unwanted sharing and how stop it) :

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/hOk8r9...

And personally i've tried it , and that's false - the default is history sharing.

I don't want to be rude, but are you some kind of a troll, or just enjoying spreading lies ?
Do you have any insight about how other stacks fare on that same workload? (*bsd, qnx, ms-windows, minix,osx...)
Yeah, I used it while in college thanks to their library.
Why would a bakery use nitrous oxide for whipped cream instead of the old fashioned way, actual whipping?
Can you explain how you reached this conclusion?
oh hey that's pretty cool. I was just wondering what the best way would be to store a bunch of image annotations in a really accessible way. Will dig deeper.
Isn't that exactly what SeqCst atomic access gives you in this case? Assuming that the critical sections are restricted to doing read-modify-write of an atomic-sized memory location - which would have to be enforced at compile time or require whole-program analysis.
You can tell "git blame" to ignore specific commits which helps a lot here: https://www.moxio.com/blog/43/ignoring-bulk-change-commits-w...
That's a pretty awesome way of letting iphones start to replace POS terminals. It's been done before through add on and swiping, but the major cc companies are phasing out swiping. And the real play is introducing this into an iPad at some point. An iPhone is handy day to day and great for small run produce markets, but it's been a long while since I have gone to restaurants around my college campus that didn't have an ipad or tablet for paying.
and who's going to be responsible when that car drives full speed into a mother and her 3 kids?
> I find medicine to be as interesting as mathematics while the workload being significantly lower

Dude, there’s something wrong either with your schools, or with your perception of reality.

In any case, life is not a picnic, there’s nothing unusual in constantly putting extra effort to achieve something worthwhile.
Please don't do this here. You may not owe the third party better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
That's a great idea. I'm having trouble with Crosh and I'm certainly a big fan of being able to switch easily between ubuntu / chrome os.
Why, yes, it has been a couple months since the last Toxoplasma freakout in the press. Guess we were due for one.
If it were a question of letting "passionate, smart people have it out", then sure. Unfortunately that's not what you get in practice on the open internet. What you get are (a) people who want to vent their personal issues in the form of public issues, and (b) windbags with a lot to say, who think themselves smarter than they are.

These types can quickly dominate the threads. That repels the smarter people who have no interest in such threads. This is how HN could fall into a death spiral. Worse, the risk grows as the site grows, because then more people are attracted to it for wrong reasons. (Right reason: curiosity. Wrong reason: hearing the sound of one's own voice, or making others do it.)

I think the only way you could sustainably have a forum of the kind you describe would be to close it off from the public internet. We're not going to do that with Hacker News. This arguably does leave the site "a little flat"—I've made the same point in the past using the word bland instead of flat. But better flat than dead.
> Yosemite. It's not that bad

Is that Apple's tagline for the product now?
Nice! Is this full time and you're making more than stated above - or are you part time and you are making ~1K / month as a side biz? Just curious about order of magnitude?
It is a simple script.

cat `which gdbtui`

#!/bin/sh

prog=$(basename $0 tui)

dir=$(dirname $0)
if [ "$dir" != "." ]; then
prog=$dir/$prog
fi

exec $prog --tui "$@"
The component laws behind the crackdown, at least in the US, were written ahead of time. They'd been on executive-agency-wishlists for years. It might have taken a crisis to justify actually passing these laws. But they were not purpose-crafted programs and laws in response to particular events.
Maybe elite is the wrong term, I'm not a native speaker... what I meant is that KTH is probably the best technological university in Sweden and one of the best tech unis in Europe overall, so the math level of its admitted students is not necessarily representative of the general level.
This is just another example of the imbalance of the hiring process

Who a.i to complain: I'm the person. Interviewing your company
Example? Let us decide if they were so innocuous.

To be clear though, I'm against police harassment regardless.
The article starts with

> With only 1 per cent of the world's vehicles, India accounts for 11 per cent of the global death in road accidents

so it's 11 times higher than expected.
The annoying habbit of incessant honking is surprisingly effective though - I've found it safer to bike in India than the US (statistically verified in terms of crashes). At least it would be if you don't account for stray dog who chase you for fun.
You don't need to have it installed in /usr. It can be (and is by default) completely contained within your home folder.

Anyone not doing it this way is just making life needlessly hard for himself and his problems should be ignored entirely.
I agree with that observation. I don’t understand how that rebuts the presumption that I should pay market wages to avoid trapping overpaid employees in jobs they don’t find fulfilling.
It’d have been great if Glenn Greenwald had of stuck to hard hitting, fact-based journalism instead of devolving into the indolent, self-interested tabloid, click baiting writer he has become over the past few years.

Bellingcat, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, ProPublica and even Snopes/Politifact have become the standard for others to aspire to.

Unfortunately, the general public do not know about these organizations and the work they do.

It’s really really hard to just present evidence and facts without being concerned about your brand, financial supporters and ego. (Maslows Hierachy). Kudos to those who try!
Even if you forget what you've learned, having learned it once makes the acquisition faster the second time.

Though really what matters most is wanting to learn it. The problem with most formal education is that you're taught stuff that you don't really care about at the time.
I also took issue with that argument. I suppose you could argue that the declarations are statements for the compiler or JVM. But even then, there is a layer of translation that is problematic, in my opinion. If you were to say that

public int max(int x, int y);

Is a program that tells a compiler or VM to add an entry to its public symbol table that allows it to compile or execute third-party code utilizing this function, and that the declaration, by itself, then qualified as a computer program and could be copyrighted, where would you draw a limit? Would two different programs that produce identical assembly instructions infringe on each other's copyright?

What about system calls for an OS? For example, Linux system calls have names, but they also have numeric identifiers. If someone copied Linux system call names in a new BSD-licensed OS, would they violate the GPL? What if they only copied the numbers?

It's interesting to think about. I'm glad this was the minority opinion.
Don't know about soccer, but both of Andrew Gelman's books are bibles for me (economics). Data Analysis Using Regression and Hierarchical/Multilevel Modeling[1] and Bayesian Data Analysis[2]. He uses R. They're approachable, but get into some real hardcore stats.

[1] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/arm/
[2] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
He talks about The Bank of San Serrifee near the end.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/boss.html
Montreal, please.
I agree Erlang is also very interesting. I think some of the features looks absolutely fascinating (hot updatable code!), etc. I just haven't found the the time to learn it yet.

I wish Erlang's syntax was more like Haskell, though :\
The outrageous fees don't go to the professors. Only an idiot or a teacher [1] pays to get a PhD - it's usually free, typically coming with a poverty level stipend. The salary after graduation is still very low.

I interviewed at a great startup which offered me about 3x what I was making as a postdoc and more than what my PhD adviser (a senior professor) makes. (I turned them down, in retrospect a mistake, but impossible to know at the time.)

The system is not supporting itself based on the tuition/fees of PhD students.
Their cheap labor certainly allows the administration to capture more of the rents, but the system wouldn't sustain itself with only PhD's and PhD students.

[1] Many public school teachers get a pointless PhD in education since they get a guaranteed salary hike.
404 - Page Not Found #FAIL
Not really. A friend of mine does, and google map set it up as mine default location. I've changed it now, but it is really good to know Google likes to give on its tiny url my default location.

The sense of invasion of privacy is so overwhelming that I can't describe how happy I am with the url shortner lab feature.
I don't like the way in line functions hurt the readability of code. Is there anything out there that solves that issue?

Also I haven't had an excuse to use it yet but F# seems to have great syntactic sugar for parallelizing things in a more natural way than the typical map reduce.
I think many people dismiss this recommendation right away nowadays, but here it goes:

Adobe Air comes pretty close to "WORA". For 2D games it goes almost without saying, but throw in the excellent Starling + Feathers framework and it is great for Apps too. A drawback is of course that you do not have native UI, but if you can get passed that it works really really well.

I evaluate cross platform technologies quite regularly and my opinion still is that Adobe Air is the best (just make sure you stay away from Flex ;) For everyone who gave up on Adobe Air some time ago I highly recommend to take another look. The Eco system did not stop to evolve at all and it provides a really good development environment.
I really enjoyed Ghost in the Wires (basically Mitnick's bio). I had first read Takedown by Tsutomo Shimomura which told of Mitnick's pursuit by the guy who ended up help to catch him. "Wires" was the other side - what Mitnick did when he was on the run - and his side of how he was finally caught. Really interesting stuff. It was like the Rashomon effect[1].

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/d...

http://www.amazon.com/Takedown-Pursuit-Capture-Americas-Comp...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect
what's the weissman score?
I wonder who bought the last license, and how long since it now became free to use.
I would not put nordic countries as an example. They taxed cars to oblivion without providing much alternative. Its freezing cold in there.
Clearly there are benefits to these apps, but the concern was about exploiting the user.

Presumably, the chief concerns are tracking and security. For instance, why does DropBox need to access my entire contact list just to backup my photos? Some people don't even think about it, others don't care but some do.
The point is it's not diminishing returns or "not helping", approaching some maximum efficiency,
but rather it is negative returns. Even before you get to the point of squeezing out maximum yield, more farmers
are going to eat up all the net yield they contribute and then some.

Subsistence farming has not historically been a great lifestyle.
it will be nice if I can choose the license on the tool and the tool make a PR automatically
> I have no idea why people like to use HS math problems
> for interviews.

Did you go through Google's hiring class? I did. There is a lot going on in an interview, and much of it has to do with how people respond to stressful situations. That is especially true of people interviewing at a place like Google because they often feel like it is their "dream job" and if they blow it they will end up homeless or something.

The important thing about interview success is getting an understanding of three things, can the person listen, can they reason under stress, and can they get stuff done. The candidates always over think the questions, it is the nature of things. Locking someone up mentally because you've over stressed them a question on tensor physics really doesn't help determine if they would be a good candidate or not. If you start with the HS math and they blow through it, you can work your way up to multi-variable calculus :-)
Among my favorites:

> Short words: use them.
A running joke at Uber is that every single configuration management system will end up re-implementing a half ass version of Git.
I feel like Amazon's teams have actually the opposite mindset of this if you actually use their product/services. No affiliation to amazon whatsoever saying this.
>There is no context in which this is acceptable.

Oh for christ's sake. Have you ever tell a joke to talk to a girl?
This feels like an unnecessarily harsh reply. It is easy to find that Diane Greene came onboard with a product called Bebop: https://venturebeat.com/2015/11/19/google-buys-diane-greenes.... It is easy to find articles as well about how bebop turned into Google Hire.

Personally I think this was fascinating. We got a glimpse at how Google decides to create products and later kill them. In this case - executive pet project that died with the executives departure.
Did anyone call this early on? Would’ve been nice to hear a free and open debate from the start—I don’t recall seeing one. There are costs to doing things everywhere on the planet “just in case.”
Children seems like a strange choice of vocabulary to describe people in their 20s.
I grew up on neuromancer and the burning chrome short stories, count zero, etc... I thought those books were excellent. Pretty much from The Difference Engine (awful) forward, I haven't liked anything he's written.

The thought that runs through my mind whenever I read his non matrix stuff is "what the hell am I reading and why am I spending time on it?"

I realize it doesn't matter if I like the books or not, other people obviously do. I'm just jealous because I enjoyed the early books so much, and they were so influential in my life. I wish I could like his more recent works, but they just aren't for me.
Opinions will differ, of course.

Personally, I think his Bigend Trilogy is every bit the equal of his Sprawl Trilogy. Extraordinarily perceptive about the contemporary world and the way our social lives have changed over the last 15 years, in both scope and in experience.

I'm not crazy about his Bridge Trilogy, though it has its moments. Overall, I think those were his weakest books.

The Peripheral also sort of underwhelmed me. I liked the near-ish future, with the look at how hopeless redneck-ville would be affected by technological and economic trends. There's a mix of the past and the present (our present and our future) in those bits that plays quite nicely and feels very real. His far-future London, though, felt very under-imagined. I don't think it went far enough. I also think he tried something interesting with hicks being just as dangerous as the sophisticates, but it didn't quite gel the way I think he meant it too. Still, it's not a bad book, it's just not as good as I'd hoped.
Anyone who describes Boulder as undergoing gentrification has clearly never been here. Upper class whites have been pushing out middle class whites for 15 years now. Comparing this to the situation in SF seems irrelevant.

Edit: I've split time between Boulder and SF for the past few years and have experienced both.
Do you just buy what looks good when it comes to men's shoes?
I have heard of loans either secured by or "based on" shares of privately-held startups. I have no idea how common this is -- probably pretty uncommon.

See e.g. https://www.svb.com/private-bank/founder-liquidity/ and http://www.founderscircle.com/services/
>If you intend to stay where you are for the long term, you want your property value to stay exactly where it is. If your valuation rises, you might be forced to move by taxes.

Hail the direct democracy of CA in general and Prop 13 in particular!
I couldn't even make it through this entire article, almost like it was satire, yet sadly it wasn't.
That's assuming that the atoms around you aren't fighting back. Its simply easier for a machine to get itself into space to do whatever it needs to do rather than fight with the organic things on a planet.
Something which has been neglected, but which has clearly shown its value in VMs is the information gained by runtime tracing.

We should make this more available to the programmer! It should be possible for a programmer to highlight a section of code in an IDE and choose "Apply Trace," whereupon the IDE will apply static type annotations based from saved runtime trace information. The IDE should be also able to present the same information as profiling data to let the programmer quickly home in on the 15% or so of the app which is most performance critical. Using techniques like this should let us get C-like speeds from many dynamic languages.

(Admittedly, this sort of thing would also be highly dangerous. One couldn't apply such semi-automated annotations in ignorance. This could also break otherwise correct programs.)
Well, right, but how many people here have actually used ed standalone? (lone hand) It's overwhelmingly likely that most people picked it up from vi(m).
isn't that why the US salaries are higher? move to US get paid fat stacks, then when health suffers you have some more $$$ to stay alive with
Yep, we recently had to give several IT staff very "motivated" retirement packages because they've been on payroll for 30 + years. One guy was here for 42 years. Literally his entire career.
That promo video is production grade stuff.
Mostly in places I knew Rubyists hang out online. Message boards, link aggregators, etc. Twitter helped very little towards sales. Although I use Twitter here and there, focusing on capturing emails was more valuable.
What would be some ways of going about building an extremely small, inconspicuous, and reliable personal recording system?

I would think you could almost use a phone with some extra hardware if you could find some ways of offloading or reducing battery consumption. Then it's just a matter of streaming it to the cloud.
I think you are forgetting the element of psychology that enters in to poker.

While it's true that all the top players understand the odds equally well there are some players that are still considered better poker players as their ability to read other players is better tuned. That's the skill element.
What's also interesting is that that seems to confirm the East-side theory about cities (at least for San Francisco) mentioned here a couple of weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1391400
I find the terms self-employed and freelancing much more satisfying than unemployed.
And a European concept that is similar:

https://vimeo.com/25403519

Side-by-side instead of on-top. The Chinese concept has the benefit of using less space. I don't know if either could be engineered to be practical or safe.

At any rate, the most important question is... Did you NUGGET your boots this morning?
I've crimped some RJ45s for my own house, but always got wrong, and have to crimp 3 or more times to make it work (cut off connectors at both side, and re-crimp again). Any tips on it?
This is helpful, thanks. Do you publish on a blog or elsewhere?
Incidentally, he passed away recently. He had a varied career and was actually my pediatrician and encouraged my interest in astronomy. I only learned at his death about his contributions to systems theory...
Median household income for SF is 72,947.

For San Mateo it's 87,633.

For Santa Clara it's 89,064.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_locations_by_income
Agree, people will say content over design but this is a bad website. Plus, first link I clicked gave me a 404.

I like the concept though..
It's a shame that Arduino SRL is behaving like this. The smart move would've been to make up with the original founders instead of trying to shove them aside.

"Open Source is the environment we want for millions"

In my view, their actions don't seem to embody the spirit of the open source movement.

I've gotten into the arduino environment recently and really enjoy it, even though I come from an embedded background. I hope this doesn't stop the arduino environment and ecosystem.
This looks great! Curious what tech stack/framework you're using?
You speak as though mail groups were not invented several decades ago and don't see widespread use in pretty much every organization that uses email.