skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the Universities could and should be ones to solve this problem. They first of all need to start offering 2 year largely vocation degrees for people who just want to learn the basics of getting a programming job and in addition offer 4 year Software Design/Development/Engineering degrees in addition to Computer Science degrees and really differentiate between the two. Make it clear to the students (and by extension employers) that if you go for a software degree you'll mainly learn X but not so much Y and if you go for a CS degree you'll mainly learn Y but not so much X. Most people currently getting CS degrees should probably be getting a Software Design/Development/Engineering degree.
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Transport for London is a publicly-owned non-profit. They tend to make decisions that are in the long term interest of the city's transport users rather than improving quarterly profits...
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What's not standard about them already? Like most things with Amazon they want to do faster/cheaper and not relying on third parties is a great way to do that.
A lot of people don't actually want or need 30minute delivery, and are perfectly happy with Amazon's free delivery that takes a few days. I can get two hour delivery here in London, but I've used it once.

Amazon could get a product to a local centre, then instead of sending a van out driving all day going to one customer after the other, they'll hit a few key locations near multiple customers and launch drones out to serve them at the same time.
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So much to say about this.

I absolutely refused to learn the times-table in school. Even to this day I struggle to add seven and eight. That one seems to confuse me every time. I think the long division algorithm is one of the most difficult things in mathematics, and they teach this to ten year olds! (or they did when i was ten.)

So, fast forward many years, and I started doing really well studying advanced mathematics in my undergrad. But somewhere along the line I hit a wall: most math textbooks are written ass-backwards for my brain. I really don't get maths by looking at equations. It has taken another 20 some years to move beyond this, and to not be shy about being a disaster when it comes to algebra. Because when it's about shape or process that is when I really start to move.

My research today is in theoretical quantum physics (finally doing my postgrad.) I've started to see that there are others like me out there: we often sound like nutjobs when talking about maths, because it's all a confused mess internally. But somehow from the chaos miracles emerge. This is in contrast to the heavily-linear-thinking types: these people produce sparkling sentences one after another, but often get lost seeing the big picture. The "nutjobs" are a minority, and are so easily criticized. But I sure wish there were more of us doing this hard stuff.

One of my favourite math lessons in school occurred when I was about six years old. The teacher had some coloured shapes scattered across the floor, some yellow, some red, some triangles, some discs, etc. She placed a big hoop around all the yellow shapes, and another separate hoop around all the triangles. But there was a problem with this scheme: what to do about the yellow triangles? She let us all stew on this for a few moments, and then the magic happened. If you place one of the hoops overlapping the other, the yellow triangles could inhabit both hoops at the same time.
Bye, bye, bananas
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Overdraft protection is opt in since 2010.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/2009111...
It's a prerequisite to social distinction that can't be equalized, not to a standard of living far above average for the species by many measures.
The title is rather poorly worded. There is no need for "its own".
It's not about a yes / no answer. It's about negotiation. If they say no to more money then ask for more vacation. Ask for a travel allowance, ask for whatever matters to you.

Sometimes they may put it off until a future point. If they do hold them to that date to have the discussion again.

Failing that update your resume and go job hunting. Negotiate up from there.
> 'Asians' are a minority in the overall United States' population, but overrepresented in technology.

Because 'Asians' are too broad a category to be meaningful.

If a company of 10,000 people had 480 people from China and nobody from any other country east of Turkey, they would have the exact same percentage of "Asian" people as the general population in the US, but that doesn't mean that "Asian" people are not underrepresented at that company.
Be prepared to leave. Generally, you should have an offer in hand when approaching a situation such as this. This is a way of showing what your worth is to someone else. Companies will end up spending months and thousands of dollars in recruiter fees to replace you so it is cheaper and easier for them to pay the money. If you are reasonable, make a good case, and don't burn bridges in the attempt then you have a chance at coming out of the situation in a better place.
They even have a patent for shipping orders to customers before they are anticipated to purchase it (pre-order delivery!).

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/
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Which shop closed down because of Starbucks?
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Amusingly your article states, "As far as I know, this is the most progressive take on equity compensation that I’ve seen." Now that you've heard of progressive equity, maybe you should tweak that sentence?
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Their goal is not have free delivery take a couple of days. I got a free same day delivery recently and that's definitely what they aiming for.
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Is this IBM link the best first starting point to learn swift -- or should one look to something else as a first entry to swift?
Aeon is an HTTP server written in Swift that has an API that looks like Sinatra. https://github.com/Zewo/Aeon
Well today I learned something!
Isn't this what dropout does?
I do appreciate the simplicity (and effectiveness) of this wrapper, and I would definitely recommend this much simpler approach over a more robust tool in many situations.

I think the added value (and increased complexity) from tools like this is that allow you to store your secrets not only on the filesystem, but also in various (typically external) vaults. Some also provide more granular access control to only a subset of secrets, revocation and so on.
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Very interesting. After looking at the site and watching a few videos, I gather that there's no facility to round-trip code -- any code that's generated is one-way only and blows away your existing project. Presumably anything custom you want to do to extend the already-generated code would need to be handled via a plugin, so is there documentation on writing those? And/or is there a clever way to extend the generated code's functionality so you can do some advanced stuff directly in Xcode but keep prototyping new functionality in Neonto and re-generating the code doesn't blow away your extensions?
I wouldn't be too worried, yet. There is a lot more to shipping a package from KY to CA than a few trucks.
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As per the mail I got, apartment management has tied up with Dish TV and I have to cancel my Centurylink internet and subscribe to dishtv cable & internet. They stated this as cost of living. I do not want cable,just internet. But I don't have a choice ?

Here is the pdf I got in my mail today.
https://db.tt/eh7OgCXv
Selling hot air (or stock options) is a big business.

Of course RSU grant from publicly traded company is a sign of respect and appreciation from both sides.
Perhaps I am and perhaps I'm not, but it's somewhat less than helpful to say so without providing information which might correct my apparently inaccurate understanding.
Yes, this is what most of the other comments aren't emphasizing—resource forks had a standardized format and Apple even shipped a tool for visualizing/editing them. They were also extended so you could tag and embed any arbitrary data you wanted to. This was fantastic because it allowed me as a young programmer to poke around in real shipping products and see how they organized things. The same way you might poke around inside an .app wrapper or a .xib file nowadays. But 30 years ago!

From today's perspective, they are just there for backwards compatibility.
Excess space in the truck trailers will be used as employee housing.
While the article admits that this isn't very secure, I think giving any visitor a one in three chance to "authenticate" with any given mobile number is well beyond "not very secure" and into "false sense of security/no security at all" territory.

The introduction indicates that this is intended to be on par with confirmation emails or six digit SMS pins, but both of those actually prove that you own the indicated resource; asking someone which of three emojis they received does not.
It might not be the end of the world because Amazon shipments have to be quite low margin, but yes I'm sure they are worried. What's probably more concerning is the fact that Amazon has a history of letting other people use their stack (AWS, Marketplace, etc) which could definitely do some damage to UPS/FedEx.
That's great!!
I thought "air gap" meant a machine or network that is physically separated (these days also without any radio connection) to other machines.

How can those not exist?
Just a quick thought experiment (because my networking expertise is limited):

Take a single computer at the edge of town A. It's the only machine in town A that can connect to the next town B, because of the distance between town A and town B. All traffic in town A now has to route through this machine to reach town B. How will a single machine achieve this?

Even worse, what if the two towns are too far for any connection other than a centralized style connection (large wires on a pole).
Well they also have planes and delivery people... It's not that far off. They also have distro centers all over the place so orders frequently come from within a few hours away (or less!) and not a few states away.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-secretive-air-cargo-opera...
Definitely venture firm.

Basically being closer to the source of money and to decision making people is a good idea.
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I think most people understand meritocracy is more of a nebulous ideal rather than reality, in any place, whether monocultural or multicultural.

One of the factors as pointed out elsewhere is the availability of bodies. Is that pool of available candidates representative of the pop at large and also do the staffs reflect the characteristics of the availability pool . Companies continually show they are willing to go thru sponsorships of visas and surely hiring a local workforce, diverse as may be, would be easier than scouring continents for talent.
The "pipeline problem" isn't nearly as cut and dry as you seem to assert and ignoring systematic biases in hiring, promoting and funding by just saying it is an education problem isn't helpful. Thinking from a top down instead of bottom up, what if the lack of STEM education in a community is due to that community seeing no representation in the leadership (or even employees) of major companies? I don't think you can get people into STEM if the people think the game is rigged against them when it comes to hiring.

> The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: a 30-year analysis

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...

> Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/12/silicon-valley...
I'd love to hear more about what obstacles you faced (besides being undercapitalized) and which ones you were able to overcome.
Every year is another wave of this story, just like from the headlines it sounds like NASA just discovered water on Mars every year.

It's not all bananas, only the one shipped everywhere right now, and it's not supposed to be gone for decades. You can still get bananas if they can be locally produced, and we might find alternative breeds or do some gene editing.

I wouldn't worry about this too much.
Everyone who comments that equity is worthless until the day you can actually turn it into cash is completely correct. That said, presenting potential outcomes in an easily understood table, and in particular, extending the exercise window is really a fantastic idea.
Nope. node and server-side JS in general is a pretty gross fad.
So
a) Class A, B, C in this context means safety class(=IEC62304?)
b) I was under the impression that EHR is not FDA regulated in US? (There was been lots of discussion about this though)
> And a load of professional programmers are not able to finish programs.

I'm bad at this. I'm not sure if this is caused by a lack of programming skills or a lack of project management skills.
Link to full research paper [PDF]:

http://offers.bluebox.com/rs/080-XOX-229/images/wp-hello-bar...
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$4 toast isn't nearly as good a business as $4 coffee unless they succeed in making the toast literally, medically habit-forming. That's Starbucks' entire business model: ensure that a caffeinated beverage is part of your morning ritual (afternoon is a nice bonus, but they make a stupendous portion of revenue before 9 AM), get you to do it with the same regularity as brushing your teeth, and ensure that there is a pleasant green priestess very physically convenient when you feel the need to make your obeisance to the caffeine gods.

(Says a habitual coffee drinker who came to the habit late in life, and who is very happy he's moderately dependent on a substance which is highly unlikely to kill him, as opposed to being more-than-moderately dependent on any of the number of substances which would stand substantial risk of killing him.)
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see if you can use this as leverage to get out of your lease.
Or also read W3C's version of the SVG Origin Story:

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Secret_Origin_of_SVG
But it is now end of life. The people behind it went on to Snap.svg[1]. Raphaël was great for VML fallback but now that is no longer needed. It is interesting to see just how many people Adobe has hired that worked on SVG (and projects around it like Raphaël). When I was at Teespring, we used Raphaël and some plugins in the web-based design editor before we wrote our own equivalent (without VML support).

The huge pain point in SVG is fonts. Native SVG fonts died. Trying to do exact pixel-perfect layout in SVG for text is now very difficult. See trying to measure the width of a string in a given font.

http://snapsvg.io/
Software does two things generally - automates things, and improves information transportation (communication).

Neither of those create new jobs. If anything, they both seek to remove jobs and displace existing middlemen.
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Maybe if you couple that with an Oculus/hololens it could be a viable display.

I guess you can mix that with color syntax highlighting. Or maybe have the IDE run timing analysis on your code and adjust z-indexing to reflect where most of the time is spent.
In 1989, for the bicentennial, primary school held ceremonies/parties, some kids built a cardboard milk box Bastille prison replica.
On the contrary: there are many bugs you will not find until software is in production. (That's not a reason not to test or roll out to staging environments first and the like, because you can continue to find new bugs that way. But despite all of our efforts, there remain bugs that only manifest for the first time in production.)
Surely you jest! Impossible-to-parse trees of anonymous function is a crucial part of the JavaScript revolution.

Signed: someone who occasionally has to maintain a massive CoffeeScript clusterfuck. If you want to be trendy that bad, buy a turtleneck. Don't use CoffeeScript.
For comparison, software developers make up about 0.7% of the labour force (2012)[1]. It is always surprising to me how small the industry actually is.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...
PowerPC executables stored code in the data fork.
Well he was an expert.. wasn't he?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

(Draw seven perpendicular red lines)
I agree with a lot of your points, however I think that most of the points for Uber/Lyft that you made are also true of Flywheel or any other system of "regular taxi dispatched by a mobile app". And we have that now, but they are not widely used because they can't compete with Uber on price (and lack of marketing, etc).
Well that's a disagreement between positive and negative rights:

> A negative right is a right not to be subjected to an action of another person or group; negative rights permit or oblige inaction. A positive right is a right to be subjected to an action or another person or group; positive rights permit or oblige action.

You may believe in positive rights, like I have a right to food, shelter, etc. Others may believe in only negative rights, like I have the right to not provide you food, shelter etc. It's funny how so much of political debate can boil down to this fairly simple idea.
I thought SRI was mostly driven by being a psuedo CIA (and the IC in general) research division -- which provides a steady funding stream. Were they really close to bankruptcy in 1998? The article doesn't go into many details of that.
I largely agree with you. Its funny that "low feature" devices have such an instant response to input while modern devices running on processors that are thousands of times faster are slow and laggy as hell. The only major speedup I've noticed has come from advances in hardware tech - SSDs, faster RAM, GPUs, etc.

I feel like responsiveness, low-latency and high-performance especially when it comes to UI stuff is where it comes down to taste. Frankly most people are unlikely to be bothered by a laggy UI. This applies to programmers as well. IMO, the only people I would rely upon to write performant (consumer oriented) code primarily exist only in the games industry. I feel like being forced to "do more" on a hardware platform that is going to be static over the course of the next five years self-selects people who are good at saving cycles and extracting performance.

You can't expect a hardware company to write good software - All smart TV's and such are going to suck big time. The IoT is going to be a goldmine with outdated libraries, unpatched vulnerabilities and other goodies. But you should expect more from professional software developers. Unfortunately, I can't think of the a single Google product that I used that was "highly responsive". Certainly the ones that I use regularly - Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Search have consistently all gone downhill in terms of memory bloat, cpu consumption and responsiveness. I haven't used Android recently so I can't comment, but the last time I had an android phone it got replaced with an iPhone 4S within a week.
I hear you, but do you really think the people who spent the last decade+ working on Perl 6 would have done so because of love of the language alone? That would be a terrible waste of time and talent. I think we will see something of a Perl revival when people see just what they can do with Perl 6. I'm hopeful, but at the same time, you yourself know how useful Perl can be for things like one-liner quick, clever hacks and even better yet, I don't think anything beats Perl for rapid prototyping, even if it means the final product is written in C/C++.
> The article says "emits a soft glow". Since that's impossible for something which isn't radioactive…

Not at all true.

In this case, it could be a phosphorescence or fluorescence process (the NYT says fluorescence), initiated by ambient light.

I skimmed both scholarly publications on this material but didn't find any mention of optical properties. I would ordinarily guess that any optical emission would involve an internal defect site (as happens with other optically-active diamond structures), but I'm thinking that's not a good guess given the synthesis process and overall quality of the monocrystalline product. A better guess might be some sort of "deep trap" emission involving surface defects.
More likely there is a pressure sensor, intended to detect splicing attempts.
Official documentation is here [1], with additional documentation and resources (that are more iOS and OSX specific) available here [2].

In particular, the Swift Programming Language ebook isn't a bad starting point. The IBM Swift Sandbox looks like a nice little interactive environment to complement it, though, if you don't have access to a Mac to run Xcode.

[1] https://swift.org/documentation/
[2] https://developer.apple.com/swift/resources/
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The whole point of equity from a startup's perspective is to save on cash when you're small, so why would you get equity if it won't replace salary?

Yes I'm aware of things like restricted stock units. But you shouldn't really think of them as the same thing as private startup stock. Just like small-cap stocks need different strategies from large-cap, or stocks from bonds. You don't want to assess one category by the standards of another.

Salary and stock are separate categories, sure, but choosing an employer is nothing but an exercise in comparing apples and oranges anyway. You have to decide how much liquid cash you need for rent or a down-payment on a house. Once you account for such scenarios the rest is just an investment riding into the future one way or another. Past that point things get fungible.

It sounds like the bad experience you had may not have had enough cash to cover liquidity needs. The founder should have just expressed regret that they can't afford the salary a larger place can. It's another common mistake startups make: assuming (in the course of a hard sell) that there is one rational choice for everyone regardless of their circumstances.
I like the place, except this new policy.
That's your position, which I have not made any assertion about. My position is that I don't buy Apple products. That is not to say I believe Google is vastly better, from an ethical perspective, but, Android is more open. Until I can buy a reasonable Firefox phone in the US, Android will have to do.
I think that we underestimate our value as physically dextrous beings. Imagine a world where robots do large-scale work in difficult environments, in return for human-produced bodies - which themselves lack the dexterity to reproduce themselves. (And it's not an artificial lack, either: I strongly suspect that general fine-motor control will be THE engineering problem for AIs for a very long time, perhaps forever.)
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