skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do and say stupid things all of the time. Each of us belongs to that group too.

With that said, I'm always surprised when HR or management say stupid things even though it happens all of the time. I still try to sympathize because exit interviews are awkward. I noticed managers take exits personally and receive bruised egos.
Energetic. Productive. Cheap. They want all three. Easier to get that when you target college students.
MariaDB column store
Significant metabolic costs that have proved for several thousands of years a compelling survival strategy. Nature is the ultimate field tester.
Would you care to elaborate what you find wrong/bad about "parallel histories"? I'm curious.
For the hosted service, you'll want to determine what are some of the core functionality that your users will care about.

For folks who don't want to do deal with setup and maintenance, they could be a completely separate crowd than the folks who will be downloading your open-source version.

You'll have to balance the needs of both audiences. What's critical will be to start chatting with people to get an idea of what they want.

Inexpensive options like DigitalOcean are great (we're on there as well) for testing out ideas. However, you'll have to balance technology choice, ease of implementation and costs as well.

Feel free to shoot me a message if you wanted to chat further.
I agree with a lot of your points here. But lets not give the viewing public the idea that being a programmer is an 'easy' job.

First programmers suffer from the same lack of loyalty that permeates most companies these days. They can and will be let go pretty much the moment it is financially convenient to to so. As a software developer, it burns that much more when you were a large factor in the reason the organization was successful.

Second, since people can be self trained, and they are, this is a hyper competitive field to work in. Everyone says they can do everything, and resumes are no help in distinguishing candidates. While at same time many people directing the work of software developers have no idea what they are asking for in terms of complexity, while being given business driven time frames.

This is a hyper competitive field that inflicts serious mental stress on the people performing at high levels. I have many a day where I long for the simplicity of a'menial job' where only really thing you need to be successful is a positive attitude.
The LTS to LTS upgrade path usually isn't enabled until a point release anyway. For example, the the 12.04 to 14.04 upgrade wasn't enabled in the software update application until 14.04.1 was released a month or two after the initial 14.04 release.
Probably excluding the foot pads it would be comparable...
> One excuse for pushing out older workers is that technology changes so fast that older people simply can’t keep up. Veteran coders don’t know the latest programming languages, but young ones do. This is bunk. There’s no reason why a 50-year-old engineer can’t learn a new programming language. And frankly, most coding work isn’t rocket science.

There's plenty of reason why it'd be more difficult for a 50-year to learn a new programming language, here's a big one: time

As people get older they have more time constraints and generally have "better (or just other) things to do". This is true for 30 vs 20, 40 vs 30, and probably 50 vs 40 (you could argue that as your kids get older you have more free time but then again people have kids at an older age now). A young person is more likely to be able to forgo those other things and learn the latest transpile-to-js-lang-of-the-week (v2.x).

Sure, people need to be evaluated individually but if I interview 100 people I'd bet dollars to donuts that the older crowd would have less free time than the youngins.
Yes that is what I meant.

The pointless arrogance of the powerful is the lesson.

This is expressed in various ways, from the HN chortling about ignorant legislators attempting to define pi = 3, to the extremely correct observation that the bond market holds far more power than any central bank.

Politicians are mortal and fallible.
"Servers are a personal thing."

If you are paying for the servers out of your own personal funds, sure.

But if it belongs to the company employing you, no, it's not a personal thing, it's a corporate thing.
State of Delaware launches blockchain using Symbiont smart contracts
Reference to using freshwater for desalination has nothing to due with waste, but to make the point that boiling saltwater is only one of many ways to desalinate saltwater.
But they most likely also will settle for far less.
This is great -- it has a killer feature that I think GitHub Pages is sorely missing (unless it exists and I'm just ignorant to the fact). Custom domains WITH SSL.

Right now I have my custom domain set up on GitHub, but it's not SSL. I would love to be able to do that.
its very typical for people to want their cake and eat it too. They want the benefits of having the US passport but don't want to pay for it.
Thanks for Cachet! Been definitely on the lookout for exactly this for our SaaS.
It's not 100% green water since the fertilizer usage will contaminate some runoff, making some water "grey".
w3schools is where I've gotten most of my DOM/HTML information as a non-web (for the most part) developer - simply because it does show up first in searches. I'd never heard of MDN until now, but it looks really good. I'll definitely look there next time I need to know something.
For anyone interested in more about this and how to protect yourself, I suggest reading Strong on Defense (http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Defense-Sanford/dp/0671535110)

The longer an encounter with a criminal, the more likely they are to commit a worse crime: both "practical" crimes like killing you to keep you quiet and purely malicious crimes like rape and torture.
Yes it is.

Production Desktop Down = Company loses $X/hr in Dev salary until it is available again.

$X is generally $50-100/hr, more if you need someone in Ops to help you out.
Amazon May Finally Have a Vital App Store with 'Underground' and Why That Matters
Totally agree, but maybe not quite as fat as Rails/Django. I wonder if just a solid bootstrap app would be sufficient such as Angular Drywall (MEAN stack)? I just want to see the right way to access db, perform basic crud, user accounts & login, db browser/admin, simple view templates.
Where the lettuce has 70 calories and the chocolate has 2500. So about a 5:1 difference in efficiency.
Amazing. It's definitely one of my dreams as a financial analyst to be able to do that. Would be happy to provide any feedback.
What do you do when you're in a bad mood and you blow up on someone?

You apologize the next day / whenever you calm down. And then that out-of-character event doesn't end up being someone's lasting impression of you.
To put things in perspective a little, my younger brother works as an inventory clerk for a company that makes custom industrial fasteners in the Midwest, US, and the working conditions you describe are actually better than his working conditions -- though I wholeheartedly agree that both of you have unfortunate working conditions and more should be done to improve the situation.

If your situation is so extreme as to involve threats of violence, then it is non-negotiable that you need to remove yourself from it, even if it means facing grave and dire financial hardship. The psychological damage of an employer threatening you is worse than the damage of financial ruin or uncertainty.

Also, on one hand you are claiming that minimum wage laws are beneficial, but then you're also saying that the political favoritism of your country allows those laws to be basically ignored (as in your case) with no consequence.

To me, your comment is much more about ensuring legitimacy of government and enforcement of laws overall, and is very much unrelated to minimum wage at this point. Only after the enforcement of those laws is legitimized can you then begin to ask questions about what is the actual human effect of the law.

Finally, I'd like to point out that I already said this type of reasoning (the argument that minimum wage denies opportunity to those who would agree to work for less) is overstated. I understand the economic rationale in the ideal case, and I was explaining that case just to clarify for the OP that I commented on ... not positing it as a robust defense or anything.

Here's my other comment if interested: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424743 >.
Exactly. A small difference in the server config from what you expect can mean hours and hours of debugging...
And yet it wasn't selected against. :)

Evolution and natural selection were probably not designed by an engineer. Or if it was, then they also probably designed the DC-3, which I have jumped out of when I was skydiving years ago. Exceptional longevity and reliability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3
Somehow I knew this would be about Hubspot.
Yeah, and on this end is me. Therefore a conversation is personal. This is flabbergasting. Under what conditions am I allowed to judge a personal interaction based on how it affects me?

> It's equally absurd to take every personal interaction personally.

Ok, which personal interactions should not be taken personally? Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds definitionally?
Just for reference—you can achieve this if you run your site behind CloudFlare. I run my own blog this way.
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"In the vegan world its standard to count every drop of rain that hit the livestock pasture as being used"

Do you have any sources for this? I have never heard a vegan claim this once.
Show HN: Terminal real-time auto-complete for common commads usage
Do you have to hand over your private keys for that?
Citations below. It's very, very easy to Google these, by the way. There are literally decades of research that, all things equal, women are perceived as less competent, less hire-able, and less intelligent than men.

I agree that there is bias against men when it comes to domestic and caretaking tasks. The point that people are trying to make is that the discrimination against men is far less painful.

Your examples are actually perfect. They're small issues that didn't bother you. But what if you're a single mother trying to get a promotion? That bias could affect where your kids go to school, how much you save for retirement, and other vitally important parts of your life.

A really important note: we'd rarely discuss inequality in STEM fields if those weren't some of the best-paying and most sought-after jobs at the moment. Context and circumstances do matter here. There are certainly issues of discrimination against men that are important (men are less likely to seek mental health care because it's not "manly" to have feelings or be "weak"). But those things are also caused by men, aren't they? Are women the drivers of any seriously harmful discrimination against men? (I'm genuinely asking here.)

The overall point I'm trying to make is that bias against women happens in ways that have a huge impact on their lives, and bias against men (while still a problem!) happens in ways that harm us far less.

That's all moot, though: if we move toward gender equality, all of the discrimination should diminish. Men and women will be affected positively.

Copious citations:

1a. (writeup) http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/02/11/male-biology-stude...

1b. (study) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

2. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474

3a. (writeup) http://www.amazon.com/Blindspot-Hidden-Biases-Good-People/dp...

3b. (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL9__gD88xk

3c. (study) http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/research/publicati...

3d. (study) http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/research/publicati...

3e. (many more studies) http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/research/publicati...

4a. (writeup) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/stu...

4b. (study) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109

5. (research done by my incredibly smart friend showing that the gender wage gap is about $.10 on the dollar when controlling all possible variables) https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2013/04/0...
I have noticed a definite racial tinge to the conversation when people talk about preferring their Uber drivers. Even if it's not overt racism, there is unconscious bias at play.

I have also noticed that when I get matched with a black Uber or Lyft driver they tend to have a low-ish rating (4.6-4.8 whereas most white drivers I get are 4.8-5.0) but I have not personally found drivers of any race to be any less skilled or courteous.
>I think the sentiment the author is sharing is that a lot of women feel social pressures to appear outwardly successful, popular, etc, and this creates a very difficult situation where its perceived that asking a question that might make you sound stupid causes you to lose social status.

This not a gender issue, it applies to everyone in every real world setting.
Are we talking professional or personal here? You seem to be jumping between the two.

A server purchased for your work is not _your_ server. It is a company asset. If you buy a server for yourself and your little brother messes with it, go ahead and get mad and lash out. If your business has procured a new asset, you are tasked with managing it and someone else gets in your way (junior or not), deal with it like a professional.
I'm from outside the US, it was just a joke :S
Let me be that guy and ask: what's the point? Who wants a thinner laptop (besides Steve Jobs)? I understand the drive for lighter laptops but thinner poses engineering challenges (in cooling) which drives up costs. I just don't understand the point.
Productive? On the surface maybe, but any product with any lifespan will trend towards ball of mud very quickly if you only have greenhorn devs.
Collage graduates even at big name schools are rarely productive.
Building a marketing automation platform for small businesses (http://orchestrahq.com). Not really satisfied with it at the moment as I would love to incorporate machine learning capabilities into the system. However, it's been a great learning experience.
My pleasure! Let me know if you need anything; james@alt-three.com
This is awesome. One question I have in comparison to GitHub Pages is if a global CDN is used and if there is effective DDOS protection built in. GitHub has to deal with regular DDOS attacks, and I imagine GitLab will have a few too. GitHub does a pretty good job with it, but before I move to GitLab Pages I'd like to understand that better but didn't see that info anywhere.
what is the experience of this on twitter though? You scroll thru timeline til you see the stream, and it keeps restarting as you scroll around? Or you pin it somehow? Fixed tweet on a fluid platform is weird
Haha, yes.

When I saw that LiveScript was using Makefiles[0] to build, I was baffled. To me they were ancient and complicated C/C++ stuff. But when I looked into them, everything seemed rather straight forward, even a bit nicer than Gulp, because of the syntax.

[0] https://github.com/gkz/LiveScript/blob/master/Makefile
Sure, but there's no guarantee that evolution produces optimal outcomes at any given point in time (eg, the present day). Too much is a lot safer than too little. As long as you're alive, you can always eat a bit more.
Dear lord these guys are putting in work. I'm not exactly a huge supporter of Github (the company not the product) so I'm very glad to see it. I look forward to their continued growth.
I find the "wrong" usage very intuitive and vivid, while the "correct" usage is very unclear in its relation to its meaning. According to wikipedia the "correct" usage stems from a mistranslation, so maybe it is about time to stop saying "beg the question", when you really mean that someone is "assuming a point or conclusion", although honestly, I have never encountered this usage.

I suppose that begs the question: does it even mean "to assume a point" anymore?
You do but you would likely make a new key for this specific domain so you don't have to hand over any important keys.
Intentions don't change how an interaction affects me. Your definition of what to take personally is exactly that part of an interaction that is not me. That's absurd.
Yes, however, depending on the situation, it might be better to try to figure out why they want to do it themselves and offer an alternative, if possible. For example, if they want to do it because they want to gain experience configuring servers, you could tell them something like "I think I should really do this myself, but how about configuring $NEXT_TEST_ENVIRONMENT_SERVER next week?" or "Ok, then how about us doing it together?".
Clourfare provides free SSL - just proxy through them.
Another awesome benefit of using Uber I didn't realize until I started using it: you get a detailed invoice of each trip you take on your phone, instead of having to ask for a paper one to the driver, wait for it to be printed and then actually make sure you don't lose it. And that's not all! Uber's invoice includes a map of your route, so you'd be able to see if the uber drive "tried to scam you" by taking a longer road or by making a bunch of unnecessary turns. This is incredibly useful as it's a common practice (at least in my side of the world) with taxi drivers and tourists, and of course Uber drivers won't try to pull it off as they know you'll notice, even if you're not from there. One day our driver made a bunch of mistakes (he admitted as much) driving us home and we ended up with a, say, 20% extra rate for that ride than we'd normally get. This was in Mexico City btw. On the email invoice I could clearly see the funny way we took. I replied to Uber, explained the situation, and within 48 hours they reimbursed me for a chunk of the cost of the ride. If that isn't an absolutely delightful experience overall, I don't know what is. I know Uber as a company is guilty of some predatory behavior to drivers, ignores current legislation for profit and they'll put all their drivers out of a job as soon as they can get their whole fleet to drive itself. But dammit, if they're growing so much and they have so much of support is because the user experience is bliss.
You offer valid criticisms, but I would say over all this post generated a lot of impassioned discussion and seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of developers, whether they agree or disagree.

Which is not necessarily a bad outcome for a piece of writing.
>Yet apparently all she needed was a "doer" role model! //

Do you perhaps mean a "doer _female_ role model"?

Maybe the problem here is that [younger] females are particularly sexist and so won't consider males as role models?
White House proposes government open-source software
It's a Capital One deal with Uber. 20% cash back, but only for a year I believe.
Given the timing and who's involved, I'd guess it's probably Fledermaus. ArcScene is another possibility, but at that time, it struggled heavily with high quality output. These days, there are a number of other options.(Fledermaus is still quite nice, though!)
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"I suspect the truth is that tech startups prefer young workers because they will work longer hours and can be paid less."

Really? What capitalist wouldn't want this, especially if the quality of the work wasn't "good enough"?

I'm no fan of age discrimination, but I don't think it is an crime to choose the cheapest labor (for a given level of quality).
> https://konklone.com/post/github-pages-now-sorta-supports-ht...
> https://sheharyar.me/blog/free-ssl-for-github-pages-with-cus...

Looks like you can, ("sorta")
As pinaceae says below, a few of these are non-issues. NYC taxies always have working credit card machines, are relatively clean, drivers are usually polite enough.

In my experience (Manhattan), all taxi services have about the same service, and about the same pricing, with some special variations.

Anecdotally, Most people I know have Uber, Lyft, and Gett (a third service not mentioned in this article) on their phone. When they need to go somewhere, they request a ride on multiple services, usually taking the one with the fastest pickup lowest rate. But, at any point in the process, if there is a taxi driving by then they will just hail it down and cancel the ride requests.

Personally, I will default to the Gett $10 below 110st deal, then check Uber and Lyft. Sometimes I will take a taxi if it's there. Since the real benefit of taxi request services is not waiting, if taking a taxi would be faster, then that is what I will default to.
Wow, really extensive site (I sent you a suggestion btw).

Something you could improve: Screenshots (where applicable). The lists have that "wall of text" feeling without any graphics.
I wish I worked in a closet. Then at least I wouldn't have people looking at my screens all day.
Indeed. The cheapness comes from inexperience, though. These fresh graduates have also not learned the dangers of overworking themselves (both to themselves and their employers), so everyone is very willing to continue this grand delusion.
> and since it gave up power for the pursuit of fashion.

PC manufacturers with a corporate target market have never stopped selling 'power'.

Dell will happily sell you a Precision laptop with quad Xeons and 64GB of ECC RAM. It has the aesthetics and portability of a paving slab but by Jove it has power. They'll even knock-off $100 if you choose Ubuntu...

I've seen a few in ${WORK} and they were awesome beasts even beside otherwise impressive mid-tier Latitudes.
That's handy to know. I was investigating whether I could make my hydroponics system recycle the water but the waste ratio made it unattractive - it was only for science.
I really like GitLab, we use it and they follow the business model I wish GitHub had. But as they become bigger and bigger I have to wonder how much longer until they start antagonizing GitHub with these feature clones, and who should have my support when that day comes.
Sure, but generally the older have more experience, so a lot of the concepts they need to learn is just a rehash of the same concepts in a different paradigm. So it takes people with more experience less time to learn a new technology / language / domain.
>"The secondary surveillance radar, which is now the main system used by ATC, would be completely blind to them, as it relies on active equipment being installed in the aircraft. Requiring the installation of transponders in drones might be tempting, but they are large and expensive compared to a quadcopter, so it's impractical."

Interesting factoid: The new regulations put into place last year by the South African civil aviation authority mandates transponders for drones entering restricted/controlled airspace.

Apparently, there are commercial transponders in place that comply with the specs required, but are prohibitively expensive. At least, compared to most consumer drones.
Mega Millions,Mega Millions numbers
I would so switch to using Gitlab if my username was available. I'm `echelon` here, on Twitter, on Gmail, on Github... I was so disappointed to be `echelon1`.

Is there any means to claim a username if it isn't in use?
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"all hands on deck, no matter what" is business as usual at a number of places.
These are just lazy assumptions. Plenty of 20-somethings have young kids (the most time-consuming phase), and plenty of older people will never have children.
It is very snappy on my browser, especially for the amount of information that is being presented. How are you using d3plus, build tools, and local storage solutions (or service workers?) to accomplish this?

I haven't explored it too much yet, but I'm enjoying the breadth and succinct presentation of all this information in one place.