skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me how surprised I was when I found out that many IP phone installations use multi-cast strictly to distribute on-hold music to all phones, instead of the phones pulling files from a server or storing it locally.
To me, it's an issue of political deception. Corruption is one of the prime factors in political decay, and history shows that there's nothing good about political decay.

In the US, people are becoming increasingly tolerant of corruption. These days it more often invokes funny euphemisms than action. Politicians have innate incentive to fall into corruption, and it's expected that some of them do from time to time. But, it's the people's job to keep them in check.

If this country values funding science, then it should let the scientists determine where and how the money should be spent, not politicians, not lobbies.
when I opened a topic a few days ago saying that mobile version of Gmail no longer works with JS toggled off, I got a reply pretending that JS doesnt pose a problem. As if all those Analytics and Ads were not powered by JS
>"Maybe racist by the dictionary definition"

That is the only definition that matters. Everything else is subjective, relative and open to abuse by bad people from all sides.

>"I as a white male can underachieve my way into anything while other genders and people of color must work much harder for the same."

Have you seen white people in poverty? They are no different than black people in poverty, and are just as needing of our help. To make a distinction and help one over the other is plain old racism according to the dictionary/textbook definition and has no place in an inclusive society.

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It goes very well for me so far, thank you very much.
If he is not paid out in the life insurance portion, it doesn't matter. If aviva collapses, he simply has a portfolio he can no longer rotate out of. So, his risk is really no different than risk of holding a portfolio of stocks in the worst case
You had to follow that shaggy dog a long time, but it finally led you to the girl from Ipanema.
So your point is that developers should stop developing because that functionality shouldn't exist?
Getting a technical/scientific undergraduate degree teaches you to think more logically and gives you the tools to understand the technical underpinnings of the modern world.

I have a friend with a BS and MS in Software Engineering and now his company pays his tuition as he pursues an MBA and he is managing a team of about 15 to 20 engineers and developers within a Fortune 500 company. It feels like that combination is really powerful.
Working as developer supporting and maintaining web applications , over past few years , I have spent maximum time fixing bugs left behind by those came before me , and more even debugging to understand functionality and architecture. A significant amount of time unit testing ofcourse and lastly some amount of time adding new features or extending existing features. Ofcourse like many developers out there I do however look forward to truly build code from scratch, like from a whiteboard concept to a MVP at work. No luck there so far, cause I usually end up serving businesses that have due a number of reasons chosen to remain where they were a decade ago!
Because it has the potential of reserving nearly all of your leisure time over months-years. Caring for a baby while a crazy 3 year old wants to play/eat/fight can be overwhelming compared to just one kid. There's also the organizational side - every step outside the door becomes an endeavour. Then there is housing - good luck with that 100 sq feet apartment (it could work with one kid, but impossible with two). Same with small cars - forget them with a 2nd kid.
What happened to the term "morning star"? I thought the term "flail" was used for threshing flails, a peasant weapon along with scythes, sickles, etc.

That the spiked ball and chain was not a particularly good weapon, I'll grant, and it represents a dead end. It just looks fierce, it always did.

But don't conflate that with "didn't exist".
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While I don't agree that programming needs to be all consuming, spend enough time around new programmers and you'll see a difference in passion. Someone who does programming because they can earn a pay check vs someone that does programming because they truly enjoy it.

You don't get that passion by doing it 9-5.

Programming CAN be all consuming if you let it and for a while, I did. I had so much work to do be it at my day job or side projects that it left 0 time to do anything else. Because of that, I gained weight and generally feel like crap most of the time (let's not even talk about actually sleeping through the night)

It's important to take some time and do something else. I'm trying to make it a point to spend at least an hour a day bike riding or roller blading or just even spending time with my wife. You'll go insane otherwise.

The eat, sleep, code, repeat may be originated from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBoRkg5-Ieg but I don't think that's the first occurrence of a "repeat" phrase...
I have been using an old version of Guacamole for quite some time, and it works very well. I don't like that it is so heavy (Tomcat, ..) and the setup and user management is rather complicated. Maybe that has changed lately, I sure hope so, because once it's set up, it works beautifully.

noVNC is much lighter, but it seems very limited.
I'm not sure how you found interesting people. Maybe luck? But people that work all day and then come home and hide in their apartments/homes, avoiding community contact, can't be interesting. Is it interesting how they express their individual character, and high brow culture, by buying the blue BMW M3 rather than the black?
Because my mother (and lots of other people I care about) don't understand how draining it can be for someone like me to carry on a conversation sometimes. Maybe having a high friend count is something you feel the need to deal with, but for others of us software like this might actually solve a problem. Please reserve your judgement on our social protocols for... Nobody.

(Disclaimer: I don't use allo so I don't know what it's capable of. I kind of doubt it's there yet. )
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Something that commenters here don't seem aware of is that Saturn's moon Enceladus has liquid water which is similar to Europa's and much cheaper to study. Enceladus sprays its water into space via ice volcanoes - all we have to do is fly by and we get samples of the sea itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_Life_Finder). On Europa by contrast we have to land on a heavy moon with no atmosphere and then deal with a huge coat of ice, just to try to get a sample. It's an interesting mission but a bad allocation of resources.
As much as HN hates adding stuff to browsers, this is something that needs to be controlled by the useragent, not the application.

Have the user tell their browser that the connection is metered, then have the browser request smaller assets, don't preload anything, maybe give the ability to mark some things as "optional", etc...

And by doing it that way it's easily "backwards compatible". Phones that don't understand the "this image is optional" attribute will just continue to render it, but those that do and know not to show them won't.
Coding (or problem solving) IS the fun part for me. Stealing the idea from a Ray Lewis quote: I get paid to deal with everything else at work. The coding I do for free.
Thanks I will surely look at it, possibly to try it. Ive heard about cookie addons but dont know of any killer cookie addon. Meanwhole you could describe that extension in a few words, it can save a some clicks to 100 readers who are on a mobile right now.
Hehe, nice story! Congrats ;)
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Ahh, you're not looking after the kids, your wife is :)

We both work, originally full time, but now 4 days a week.
> There will definitely be games that require a Playstation Neo and will not run on the Playstation 4.

According to leaks Sony doesn't allow that.
"But no one is paying to have me (or others) learn to code or update my skills. No one is paying to send me to a training camp or academy."

Many workplaces offer professional development budgets to attend conferences / training, many also offer reimbursement for continuing education. Additionally one of the smartest things you can do at your job is find promising tech that has applications at work. I've been getting paid to learn for almost my entire career, along with my coworkers, so this comment seemed really out of place with my experience anyways
That pretty much sums up my experience try to use an iPad on wifi for browsing. The browser seems to think I'm an idiot, it's to slow and tabs doesn't work. If the browser won't load the content of a tab in the back ground, then I fail to see the point in having tabs. The mobile devices I've used simply don't have the processing power to run a modern browser in my opinion.

After a few minutes with any mobile device I'm normally tense and angry and just give up and find a computer instead.

I also hate navigating on a touch screens, but that's sort of irrelevant in this context.
It's way easier to disprove something with the reenactment approach than to prove it. A lot of things could have worked (the Greeks inventing gun powder or actually using glue for their linothorax), but that doesn't bring them in existence retroactively.

Although in this case I'd probably go with the "it just was very rare" crowd. We've got all kinds of weird weaponry: three section staves, dueling shields, executioner swords, hunga mungas, mancatchers... People tried and still try a lot to kill other people, but in the end it comes down to the basics most often (like swords, spears and open office plans).

At least we'll always have enough evidence for all three squazillion variants of polearms.
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Yeah, this is really frustrating to me. No job I've had allowed for contributing to open source - the projects themselves where done under NDA, and you were certainly not working on anything that wasn't directly billable at work. On top of that, anything I do outside of work is (nominally) the property of the company. And I really don't have time to do any programming outside of work, even if I wanted to - I don't have any itches that need scratching.

Other people are saying "well, just find time". "Finding time" requires sleeping less or cutting out responsibilities. (I am HNing this morning while eating breakfast, if you're wondering. :)

This is really frustrating when looking for a new job and probably two-thirds of them want to see my Github profile.
Nifty. This after I start a project to emit 6502 assembly using Scheme -- for VIC-20 development rather than NES.
This reminds me of arguments in David Mindell's book, "Our Robots, Our Selves", particularly what he calls "the myth of full autonomy":

"""
The final myth is the myth of full autonomy. Engineers and roboticists tend to believe that technology is inevitably evolving toward machines that act completely on their own, and that full autonomy is somehow the highest expression of robotic technology. It isn’t. Full autonomy is a great problem to work on in the laboratory. But solving the problem in an abstracted world, difficult as it may be, is not as challenging, nor as worthwhile, as autonomy in real human environments. Every robot has to work within some human setting to be useful and valuable.
"""
- http://www.davidmindell.com/qa/

As a case study, Mindell talks about commercial airline pilots and the use of auto-land vs. heads up displays. (HUDs keep pilots' skills fresh and keep them engaged and informed during landings.)

I like that the article suggests a technique for building systems, where Mindell's book isn't really useful in that way.
It took me a bit to realize it was a book review. Until then the organization and style didn't make much sense.
Thank you for this thoughtful response - like a breath of fresh air! Among the elite, steeped in Federalist politics, and Liberals (often one and the same), it is almost unthinkable that one would question FDR and his big-government socialist solutions (which some would argue have actually increased the problems they claimed to address). Despair, dependency, and poverty are left in the wake of this "solution."

The contradiction of the self-proclaimed "proud, fierce, independent Mountaineer" archetype and the reality of the welfare-dependent and drug addicted (especially Oxycontin) culture that exists there today is shocking to behold. The state is a spectacle of wasted lives, like zoo animals pacing their cage waiting for nothing more than the next scrap of food to be tossed in, the population of the WV shuffles aimlessly to pass the time until the next welfare check. How many lives were ruined by these "gifts"? Uncountable.

Indeed - the Federalist solution is often worse than the problem.
In common parlance, "morning star" can mean both flail and (spiked) mace, so it doesn't seem to be used as often these days (just like "longsword").

And dead end? How dare you! You can always put on more chains. Until you end up with a cat-o-nine-balls.
That was just the carrier, hiding the steganographic payload.
The Danish Shipowners’ Association (which includes Maersk) were defeated at Paris when they tried to get emissions curtailed

http://shippingwatch.com/carriers/article8296860.ece
With the outlier of Chernobyl, nuclear energy has a very good safety record.

Fukushima is another example showing that fission power is dangerous and expensive - because of the safety precautions, insurance, disaster recovery and cleanup costs, and worse it shifts those costs and dangers from the power plant to the host country and surrounding countries. It's far more expensive in those terms than most other ways of generating power save coal (which has worse problems), maybe it should be part of the mix but only if there are no simpler alternatives like hydro, wind, wave and solar.

Fusion will be far better when we work out how to contain it. It's amazing to think of the progress we could make if energy was almost free.
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> I like the way you protect that Kings's particular right to own land of these people.

ommunist, I'd like to ask you very kindly and seriously to reconsider whether you should be discussing this matter in these pages. If that reads to you as protecting the king's right then you're so laser-focused on finding a way to grind the axe of "down with colonialism" that you've already made up your mind not just what's right and wrong but what everyone else thinks and as such you have no room in your mind to understand the motives of other people discussing the matter.

There is nothing in my comment to suggest any right which the King has to those lands besides the fact that he presently occupies them and maintains an ability to command force to protect them (force which the world is disinterested in challenging). Complaining that I'm "protecting the rights" of this distasteful actor is silly and as far as I can tell all you're doing here in general right now is looking for ways to spit bile at people. That's not conducive to a healthy discussion forum.

And that's the charitable interpretation which assumes you are operating in good faith out of your care for the downtrodden of the world. Maybe you're just a bona fide troll here, in which case, you're doing a great job.
I'm curious then, on what basis are new hires considered qualified? Not the ones moving horizontally from a similar company where employment itself in the prior company would denote ability, but those who are moving up in their career or from a different tech subspecialty? If a lot of the work is proprietary, you're not expecting FOSS contributions, and algorithmic tests are out, what metric do you use? Do you just match years experience with the stack? Educational attainment?
At $JOB-2, the CEO was clear in the application design that there were two classes of network: "free", and "expensive". If it's "free", do whatever; "expensive", minimise everything tenable.
Looks like those police bots in psycho pass
Do you really focus intensely for several hours at a time during a typical workday? What industry/domain are you working in? In my experience, most software jobs mix bits of intense abstract reasoning, distributed throughout the day, with an at-least-equal amount of tedious gruntwork or meetings.
Huh? It's a geographical term for the mass of land that has been in use since the classical antiquity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Etymology
We could write everything

as a list of nice haikus

if that's what we want.
Can we port numpy/sklearn to this?
It was an ex-NSA agent talking to his mom :)
I think the OP misses the point of the shirt. Lot's of different subcultures and activities have this type of shirt. Someone could just as well wear a shirt that says "Eat. Sleep. Hike. Repeat." And people wouldn't actually think the person _only_ hikes. The shirt is completely ironic because to suggest someone _only_ codes all day is ridiculous. The OP misses the irony.
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> I don't think that's the first occurrence of a "repeat" phrase...

I always thought this came from shampoo: "lather, rinse, repeat."
I applaud the effort and your curiosity. Any good tunes on that stream? Perhaps you're working on a remix?
Is recruiting just a job for you to get the bills paid, or do you have a broader interests?
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The difference is, Hiking is good for you.
Default ringtone ringing would be hilarious.
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Money can be good for you.
If that's all they have to work on, maybe. It's just broken windows if it's not actually an improvement.

I like to think that they've got real problems to solve though.
In all fairness, do you ask marketers if they go to networking events to gauge their interest in developing business relationships, or would you count that as a negative, because they're also exposing themselves to being scooped up by your competitors?

Do you ask sales people if they have independent side commissions, or would you consider that as cutting into the time spent chasing the deals your company looks after?

Do you ask strategic account managers if they take the time to visit their clients beyond an employers' requirements, or do you see that as a liability for having them poached as in-house talent?

I get that you want developers who show an intrinsic interest in staying current, because the field often requires training in deeper levels or new technologies. But that's different than avoiding someone who's obstinate about always doing things the old way: no one wants that in any role. The real question I think you're missing is this: is it the employee's job to do this on his/her own time, or should the company be providing the time and resources into it as normal staff development?
Very cool. I'm a lisp programmer now, but this reminded me that as a teenager I was learning how to do games programming on my C64 using an incredible Forth compiler and games framework called White Lightening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8609Pel_RU

http://www.forth.org/lightning.html
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> Between 2009 and 2015, the number of scripted shows nearly doubled, from just over 200 to an estimated 409 last year

This is probably related to the "reality" TV fatigue. They milked that cow to death. Gimmick after gimmick.

Anyway, I personally would love to see more well scripted shows.
> The QT gui library.

How?
Generally, this is an easy stance for young, unmarried, and otherwise unattached people to approach their career. A warning to those that think this will enhance their opportunities later in life. It won't. Sure there are a few great employers out there that will reward you with loyalty (or massive sums of money) but that is the exception.

After a life of nothing but work, no matter how much you love it at the time, you fill find yourself middle-aged and burnt out - and possibly regretting your entire career choice. This is coming from a person who was the class computer nerd, who ate, slept, and drank everything computer and software tech related for 25+ years.

I'm not saying tech is bad career choice - it isn't. But once you get burnt out at something, digging ditches out in the sunshine (or rain for that matter) looks much more appealing.
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I meant jargon drawn from ordinary language as opposed to jargon drawn from technical language.

I don't need your pointless definitions, nor do I need your corrections, your insults neither.
It's rather ignorant to suggest that the U.S. does not actually conduct pervasive Internet surveillance.
What about, e.g. boarding schools?
That's so silly.

If people are happily using a site I create (and I some cases paying money for use of that site) who are you to decide it's not worth it?
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Have you used the BBC site on a mobile?

It sucks ass and has done for a while. Blank spaces where pictures should be, suddenly fading in a few seconds too late, pixelated pictures that later resolve, elements change height and jump around the screen as it loads. Even though the text is there, you shouldn't bother starting to read it as it's just going to jump around in a few seconds.

It's precisely the sort of shitty site that the article is complaining about.

The guardian is another terrible site that's "mobile optimised" and have the cheek to give other developers advice on how to code for mobile, even though the site is an absolute nightmare to use. They have expanding sections on the homepage. You click a story, read it, and go back and the page takes 10 seconds jumping around to sort itself out. And worse still is the shitty adverts suddenly popping in after 20 seconds and causing you to lose position I the story you're reading.

HN and its basic style are much more useable than either the BBC or the guardian mobile sites.

It's like the developers don't understand that the reason I'm there is for the text and the pictures, not for the UI. So treat them as king and load them first and never, ever move them once they're loaded.
If your manager and/or corporate environment (whether big co. or startup) encourages you subtly or not so subtly to eat, sleep, code, repeat, there is no irony. The shirt reflects an unhealthy reality.
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At a certain point in any endeavor, you hit a point of diminishing returns. At that point, success becomes less about the logistics of getting enough practice in and more about the broader world. All arts exist in the broader world around them, programming even more so than most. You need to learn about that world.

Just like with the arts, a great great many things can be likened to code. Anything else you learn how to do well will also make you a better coder.
I think the irony is kind of offensive. It might work for other subcultures, but in software coding all the time is a stereotypical desire of an employer, who doesn't care about his employees.
So, is recruiting a passion for you? Did you find yourself driven to do it whatever the cost? What personal recruiting projects have you done recently that you're proud of? Do you connect your recruiting with a personal interest? What kind of recruiting do you do outside of work hours?

I would implore you to re-read what you wrote but instead of making it about software engineering make it about recruiting. Then tell me that it's not a double standard.