skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea! That would probably be the best way
This is a new feature as of 2014. I hadn't looked at SQLite actively since before then
Seems like a play on "Shop Til You Drop" may have worked better here.
if you want people to pay you, they need incentive to do so. And unfortunately, the MIT license provides no incentive to do so.

Software is free. Experience is what counts.

You can make money by writing broken software then charging for fixes. MongoDB has their bananas valuation because they released hype-driven broken software, got it deployed globally, then everybody realized "this doesn't work! we need support!"

If your software is free and works flawlessly, average users are less inclined to pay for it. If users have money riding on top of your software, they will happily pay for commercial guarantees and support.

These days you have to release everything as open source, hope it gets wildly adopted, start getting it deployed bottom-up in large organizations, then offer large organizations support and SLAs on the software they bought.

(This is for software though. The other approach is obviously just make everything as-a-Service so everybody is paying based on their usage.)
It's hard to see how the police could help given that drones don't come with licence plates.
I play chess. Bet that's a shocker when you look at my user name...

I don't think that chess skills transfer to programming skills - I wouldn't recommend someone play chess as a way to get better at programming or vice versa.

Do I think being good at one indicates possible proficiency at the other? Maybe, but probably not. They can be approached the same way, at least below the grand master level - you can see each one as a series of small tactical problems to be solved.

However, some of the best programmers I've known weren't good at chess and the best chess player I've personally known was a mediocre programmer. So, anecdotal evidence is that the two don't correlate.
Floobits dev is amazing. Highly recommended
For Java, see my other comment for how to run real PostgreSQL or MySQL from unit tests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003789
To clarify, I think hybrids are great and electric cars are great. I think it's wasteful to take a hybrid and mostly use it as an electric car.

Specifically, in the linked article they are trumpeting increased electric range in the Volt. It makes more sense to get a Leaf and rent a Prius for long range driving.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure what the impact on our code would be. Feel free to make a merge request with an example and mention me.
I like the idea of playing chess a lot more than the reality of it. I usually go through a period with games where I don't understand them, find them bewildering, spend a short time on my own to learn the rules, then I'm good to go and can quite enjoy the game. Even with watching pro sports, if I at least know the rules, I can follow the progression of play and know when good plays happen. With chess, I've tried to read about it and learn how to play more than just the basics of moving pieces and still, I still don't "see" the game.

I guess it's the memorization needed for the opening and end games. I memorize by exercise. The things I can rattle of the top of my head are usually facts and figures and formulas I've had to use frequently. With chess, it seems to require a significant amount of pre-memorization, the broader, the better. I have always resisted such memorization tasks, even as a little kid. I prefer understanding core principles and reasoning my way to the details on the fly.

Most people who know my work think of me as an excellent programmer, so if chess has an impact on programmer skill, it's at the very least not required.
:) You're very welcome, glad you like it
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To be fair, it would require unfortunate care, but it's certainly possible to use GitLab.com and consciously avoid any of the proprietary features, thus not actually be dependent.
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we already have enough hoops for companies to jump through to prevent competition so we certainly do not need any more. New York is a perfect example were regulation and so contorted the market you can make money selling your permission to run the business to the point it might be more profitable than running the business.

From medallions to food cart and restaurant permits, regulation is keeping competition out while rewarding those who merely sit on permits and rent their use. It is nearly an identical situation to how badly patents are managed and rewarded
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There's no such thing as a majority group. "Minority group" is a sociological term, not a mathematical one.
Well it wouldn't really be fixing it, but you could render the images with different ordering and allow people to select. I'm not sure if there's a way to detect it in browser. Setting the ordering depends on what os you're on. In linux you can set it either with fontconfig and/or in whatever DE you use. In windows I'm not aware of a way to specifically set the order, but it can be changed with cleartype tuner. Osx I have no clue if you even can.

Example of bgr AA: http://paste.click/fXuAWF

It'll probably look wrong on your monitor, with red and blue fringing visible. Thats what rgb ordered images look like to me.

I think it may be possible to specify AA with css, so that might be another avenue, but I'm not sure.

I do like the idea of the site and appreciate all the effort.
Yes and No.

Chess is a lot of memorization once you understand the game. End Game/Open Game have to both be played prefectly at high end, or your opponenet will literally know how to defeat you.

I find Go translates more to programming since it forces you think about more abstract concepts like influence, when to/to not act. There aren't as many hard and fast rules in the meta-game like chess which allow more creativity and self expression.

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The idea a programmer has to play Chess/Go is lot like the idea a programmer has to study advanced math. Really you are just learning logical problem solving, and rational ways of analyzing the state of a system.
I weight too damn much :-), but I'm still a lot lighter than a four-cylinder engine and transmission.
Directly? No.

Indirectly? Yes. Learning to think through the steps of an operation in terms of available and unavailable options is probably highly correlated to thinking about code flow. The major difference between a competent programmer and a non-programmer is that the programmer is used to specifying what is going on in a restrictive, typo-sensitive written language.

Would I advocate learning chess as a specific method to learn programming skills? No, not particularly.
I occasionally play, and I'd like to play more. I don't think it specifically helps programming, but it does get me to concentrate on one thing only for an extended period of time (or lose!). Plus, you never know when you'll need to beat someone at chess to prove that you're the alpha nerd :P
That money is usually budgeted for charity, and probably can only go to "legal" charities (at least in the US there are tax benefits to this)

It is probably much harder to compete for a piece of that budget, and also there are a lot of hoops to jump through to become a "legal" charity (in the US, I don't know about other places). Since companies are already used to purchasing software, that is probably a much simpler way to go.
Yeah, that's what I thought too!
The most interesting I've gotten out of chess is to learn that analysis creates its own vocabulary: flight square, pivot square, backward pawn, dark-squared weaknesses, etc.

I think the best programmers get more enjoyment from programming than playing chess.
No and of course not.
If the evil extension only has access to mail.google.com, what is blocking it from sending an email with your google-password?
If it's "not a thing", why do they need to list it? Wouldn't their existing prohibition of racism be sufficient?
Yes, that is what I'm saying, and you're very welcome. Also see this guest post by Mike Gerwitz, a free software hacker and activist, and author of GNU ease.js https://about.gitlab.com/2015/05/20/gitlab-gitorious-free-so...
You are right about the salary.
but what is your opinion on job security and employability. the way I see it, in a tech role, as long as your are flexible and open to learning whatever technology is thrown at you, you will always be employable.
But in management,especially in junior management and especially in very large organisation, managers are in most cases dead weight. they don't do much.Don't they feel the insecurity?
No, I can assure you "then they added a CoC endorsing anti-white racism and anti-male sexism" is a phrase that betrays his political bent.
Entrapment is when you're coerced into committing a crime you otherwise wouldn't have committed. For example, if the police show up and say that they're going to arrest your relative unless you rob a certain store, then you rob the store and they arrest you for robbery, that would be entrapment. If they merely pose as a person interested in your criminal activity and get you to commit a crime, which you were happy to commit anyway, that's not entrapment.

The problem here isn't the sting operation, it's that it's a crime to help someone defeat a polygraph in the first place.
What resources are they using, though?

It's more of a moral argument. We want open source available for people to use for small projects, but once large organizations take our software and make billions of dollars on top of our architectures without contributing back to the 5 people who made that possible, it's disingenuous.

My general rule of thumb is: if you are a large organization using community powered open source software, you should be paying individual project communities 3-5 senior engineer salaries per year. If an open source project has 5 million users, the creators shouldn't be sitting around worried about making ends meet. This isn't about token gifts of $10k or $50k per year in "community sponsorship." It's about sustaining and growing projects big companies rely on to function in the first place.
I do feel kinda like you, though I'm more of a "jack of all trades". You can find C jobs in the embedded industry, in Brazil, have you considered it?
That's just not the case. [1] The law is not that you have rights 500ft above your property the correct hight is 83ft due to some chickens getting scared.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/30/317074394/drone...
The owner claims (with video/telemetry) that the drone was over 200ft in the air and not over his property at the time [1]. And that the SD card with the video was removed from the drone before he could recover it [2].

(Just adding a bit from the other side of the story)

[1] http://www.wdrb.com/story/29670583/update-drone-owner-disput...
[2] http://www.wdrb.com/story/29675427/drone-owner-responds-to-c...
I ordered a pound off Amazon for $24, but the supplier has it cheaper: RotoMetals.com. I would caution that even though Bismuth is considered non-toxic, there is some evidence that it will fuck up your brain temporarily. I strongly suggest heating it outside with ventilation.
I'd consider myself a good programmer but an absolutely terrible chess player, so no, I don't think they really have much bearing.
It's a loss of face for HR and the company.

Admitting they made a bad mistake makes everyone unhappy.
Hat racks; or appreciating people for what they do
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Well, they don't really. If someone wanders onto your property and starts shooting video, you're going to be in big trouble if you just blast away at them without warning.
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"women who are trying to make things better for women"

Please explain how removing a rug promoting meritocracy makes things better for women.
Automation is gradually stripping our economic power.

When everything is automated and nobody knows how to build anything anymore, what's the incentive to keep the idle masses fed?
Actually it is not very clever, pretty inflexible.

Had he used values in EMs instead of pixels, he could just set different font-sizes to different instances of the logo.

The way is done, you get the logo in only one size. If you want to use several sizes, you need to create some mixin, creating CSS duplicity, etc.

So, even if we all agreed that CSS-based vector graphics are cool (which we don't), this should have been done with relative measures, not absolute. This way this is not very practical.
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I have seen very similar things as a freelancer as well. It just seems like management is a much easier path when looking for longevity, money and work/life balance.
If program size effected programming productivity no one would use visual studio.
Well, it does say they "won't act on reverse-racism or reverse-sexism", so, depending on how you interpret that I can see what he's trying to say at least. "Endorses" is strong, but "ignores" would be correct. And one could imply something about the authors of this CoC from that.
yes, i am trying to investigate the market of people who spend money on wines.
Thanks for pointing me in the (right) direction!
Hmm, I'm actually on PostgreSQL right now using H2, this might come useful. Thanks.
Thank you thaomnguyenz!
Cool, it works great on mobile, feel like a painter
Political opinions != anger, no?
Sure I get all that. But that theme was poisoned by the fact that, he should not have been in the astronaut program, because heart condition. Which leaves him just a lying cheat, and not sympathetic.
Too bad they don't seem to do that, and stick to the standard "here's another book from an author you liked."
That is weird. They ask to rate not the person, but your feelings against the person.

Yes, this very much simplifies manager's job - but remembering Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, people are notoriously skewed at measuring things through their feelings. A lot of personal factors, including levels of sugar in reviewer's blood, heavily affect this type of 'judgment'.

I can see how Deloitte may be happy about spending less time on bullshit, and I applaud to that.
I can also see how this new system is no different in consistency of the results compared to the previsions one - both are pure bullshit, so weighted random number generators work approximately the same when asked for 4 of 10 weighted random numbers.
However, I really do not see this as progress. This is more of a regress - they see the problem, but they offer the
solution that makes the managers slightly happier, and does nothing to precision or fairness of the system.

What we need to do it stop blindly applying a sales-oriented performance rating system to engineers.

We need specific set of quantified criteria for each group, and resulting rating should be calculated independently of the rater.
We do not need more manager-oriented performance systems. We need to look at these systems form the point of the employee who is being rated.
The patch for this exploit was released by Adobe a month ago, within 48 hours of discovery. They always fix such exploits extremely quickly.
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Just so we are clear I'm talking about drones not RC Aircraft (which is the title of the post right now, and I'm assuming the aircraft in question).

http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2014/12/02/are-drones-alw...

You don't have to be above 400ft to be an aircraft. You have to be above 400ft for the FAA to give a shit about regulating what you do. If you shot down an airplane landing on your field you'd be in trouble.

I don't agree with it but that's how it is.
Much more in depth: https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles
Thank you nghiatran_feels! Hope that you will keep using Uplevo next time you need a logo! :)
I appreciate the no-humour approach in HN greatly. Almost every other forum is full of people trying to be funny. This basically infects the culture of the forum, and crowds out most other kinds of conversation.

I find the types of jokes people are likely to make about technology, or about interesting/engaging articles, very tedious. I also think a lot of the jokes are simply cynical.

I would much rather read comments that are earnest, than comments that were flippant.
You might want to read up a little bit about drones and how the FAA handles them:

http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsid=76381

"Myth #3: The FAA doesn't control airspace below 400 feet

Fact—The FAA is responsible for air safety from the ground up. Under 49 U.S.C. § 40103(b)(2), the FAA has broad authority to prescribe regulations to protect individuals and property on the ground and to prevent collisions between aircraft, between aircraft and land or water vehicles, and between aircraft and airborne objects. Consistent with its authority, the FAA presently has regulations that apply to the operation of all aircraft, whether manned or unmanned, and irrespective of the altitude at which the aircraft is operating. For example, 14 C.F.R. § 91.13 prohibits any person from operating an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger the life or property of another."

I would say in this case, it's reasonable to assume a hovering drone with a camera, pointed at your house is reckless enough to warrant suspicion from the homeowner, and allow him to act accordingly.
Only when I implement the n-queens problem in Haskell ;)

That being said, I would probably be around 1000 elo (that is, absolutely terrible) but I am a halfway decent programmer so I think there's barely any correlation, if any at all.
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-dehumanizing-myth-of...

Remember that the term "meritocracy" was coined in a satirical essay about a dystopian society. It was not meant to have positive connotations.
I think a better question would be, why are we still trying to write software with text editors instead of program editors.
Unfortunately, limiting yourself to only what is available in standard SQL is not practical. For example, doing idempotent inserts, insert-or-update, sequences, transactional behavior for DDL, data types, date/time manipulation, etc.

To paraphrase Tom Kyte from Oracle (Ask Tom): "Your company paid good money for Oracle and all of its features. Use them instead of wasting money reimplementing them poorly yourself."

There are many ways to achieve portability across databases, but limiting yourself to standard SQL is not the best way (at least for everything). And I say this as someone who develops an analytic database (Presto) that tries to follow standard SQL for everything.
>Entrapment is when you're coerced into committing a crime you otherwise wouldn't have commit.

Coerced is the wrong word, induced is the correct one, and that's what happened here.
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It makes sense on the most basic level of "we have 5 high-performing individuals but we only have enough work to support 4."

If you have a group of people who all get 5's on a review but you are required to let one of them go, how do you do it in a way that isn't picking a name out of a hat, or the first person to get stuck in traffic and be late to a meeting?
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I still don't quite get it - meritocracy should invite all to participate and have their contributions considered equally, that's what open source development in this style is about. To say it's not something we should strive for seems ridiculous.
200ft changes the story quite considerably as it is outside of the homeowners airspace (83ft) and it's reasonable to assume the drone was just up to get a panoramic shot/video of the area not to take video of a single house. There are easier ways to peep on someone then flying a noisy drone over them.
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Summary: I love my current job, but I am also interested in getting into a more traditional software development role or possibly an analytics role where I get to work with massive datasets.

I just want to continue to learn more about programming and to use it to solve real world problems! Currently I primarily use Python, SQL, and VBA to develop financial models, build analytics/reporting, and to automate business processes.

On my own time I am an amatuer web developer and have experience with creating websites/apps using Linux, Apache2, HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Python-Flask.

If it matters, I have a Bachelors in Acccounting, an MBA in Accounting, and am planning on starting a Computer Science conversion degree in September. To prepare for the degree I am currently going through Harvard's CS50 on EDX.

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I don't really see the need for one but it would be a really powerful union.

"Give us all a raise or we shut the internet off"
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Trying to prevent other people from winning stuff for no reason?

That's not called a "philosophical difference". That is called "I'm an asshole".
Many municipalities have laws against discharge of a firearm within the city limits. That said, a shotgun blast up into the air at a hovering drone doesn't pose much risk to anyone else (bullets are a different matter).

In a rural area, I'd think the most he could be charged with is property damage, but a drone hovering at a low altitude over private property must in my view (not sure about legally) be considered trespassing, which would be a mitigating factor. If a robot with a camera rolled or walked onto your property, what are your rights? The same should apply to flying drones, at least below a certain altitude.
No.

https://medium.com/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-...

Nice piece about "chess sickness" and Duchamp (and he created less art and became more consumed with Chess) that echoes this post: http://thepointmag.com/2014/examined-life/exiles-game
“Much of an exile’s life is taken up with compensating for disorienting loss by creating a new world to rule,” wrote Edward Said. “It is not surprising that so many exiles seem to be novelists [and] chess players.”

Additionally, I don't see the connection to programming.
Translatable skills? No.

Improved brain function? Yes, I believe so.

It has been shown in various studies that learning and excelling at chess changes the way that your brain is wired in a way that improves your analytical thinking and problem solving abilities [0].

Kids who learn chess at an early age, do better at math, for example. Personally, I played competitive chess at a young age (achieved Master level at age 17, which is good but not spectacular, before quitting to focus on engineering studies) and I do believe that my above-average analytical thinking skills to this day can partially be credited to the changes in my brain from those years in my youth spent studying and playing chess for hours.

[0] http://mic.com/articles/119332/how-chess-players-brains-are-...
cool & so quick for the full package
Jokes don't necessarily make the atmosphere friendly or relaxed. Lots of jokes are in some way cynical or sarcastic, which works much better amongst friends than amongst strangers.

Jokes also make the policy of acceptability much more blurry. It's relatively easy to find broad agreement on whether a comment is true/useful/kind, than it is on whether the comment is funny.