skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cool thing about react is that it doesn't try to do everything. Compared to Angular react is minimalist. So that's why react is used so much: because it doesn't try to do everything, it's basically just javascript and doesn't require you to re-learn web dev, and if you want to extend it you can easily do that. React can be made to fit most needs.

If all you're doing is serving a static web page then any framework is over kill, but then again, if all you're doing is serving static web pages you probably aren't a paid professional web developer.

To be a web dev professionally you need to know some framework, and react is really the best one. Angular tries to do too much but still makes you implement everything "the angular way" and meteor isn't a good framework for companies that want mix and match different technologies on their stack.

Then there are other alternatives that are non-javascript based, but in the end you still end up having to use javascript somewhere most of the time. Why take all the nastiness from the web-dev world and add even more convolution to it?

React isn't perfect but it's the best we have. And this is coming from someone who hates facebook and was once an angular dev.
Ehm, FPGA/CPLD are everywhere, it's hard to say, but my educated guess is that hardware market consumes similar amount of SoC-like and FPGA/CPLD chips, look, even Pebble smartwatch uses Lattice iCE40 FPGA, MacBooks also usually have few FPGA's here and there. FPGA/CPLD's are essential to implement "glue-logic", which does what it says - glue different pieces of hardware together. Of course you can do "glue" in software, but than your customers will enjoy poor battery life time and random glitches here and there. And nobody gonna spend big-money (it's actually depends, sometimes it 1kk+$, sometimes you can get away by 30-50k$) by running their own ASIC's when you can just buy jellybean FPGA's.

Indeed phone/desktop market might move to more one-chip-for-everything solution, but even then we need glue-ish logic to control something like screen backlight DC-DC converters, charging IC's, etc, which is much more easier done from FPGA/CPLD-like devices. On the other hand FPGA/CPLD's are essential in some classes of devices, for example test instruments: modern oscilloscopes usually have 3+ FPGA's in them, companies like Keysight usually only run custom ASIC's when they hit limitation of current silicon tech, like their N2802A 25GHz active probe (starting from 23500$) uses amplifier IC made with indium phosphide process (InP), which is kinda far away from whatever current consumer product companies are doing, you can check the teardown of this beast here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnFZR7UsIPE

So in my opinion FPGA/CPLD market will live long and strong, players might change, but demand is enormous. The only problem in my opinion is that whole market is more B2B-like (FPGA's are usually just a humble IC's inside end customers products, you don't see stickers "Altera inside" or anything on products themselves), so it's kinda hard to get grasp what's going on.
IMO, the more women sharing their positive experiences in the profession can only help encourage more to enter it. I don't see how this could be damaging.
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Sure, no problem! Was just curious, it seemed too good to be true :D
every time I hear about "inclusive" practices at github it makes me grimace, not because it's not a good idea. Diversity is good. But because it's rather racist, partially sexist and it's increasingly the norm to be this way.

Equal opportunity, not outcome, if 4% of your applicants are British, but do not pass because of technical reasons. (I'm using British because I am one, replace with $minority), then why should I hire them? Ideally we'd interview blind and whoever is the best tech, is the best. I'm not sure why this isn't possible in our technology culture, do you really need to be face to face with a person to assess their technical merits and ensure they are the right fit for a company.

But, anyway, to me this stuff is exclusionary, I am apparently cursed to be a white male in tech, and as a majority I now have to work much harder for SV to acknowledge me for my merits, I am of the firm belief that if I were a black lady I would have enough support to prop me up above my current experienced position in no time. I'd love to test this theory honestly.

And anyway, who cares who delivers github/facebook/$website at the end of the day, hire who you think will do the job, nobody is going to feel excluded from the services you provide because you didn't meet your quota of transgender people.. and if they were, you could very easily mislead them.

edit: I know it's against etiquette to mention downvotes, but if you must downvote me please reply stating why. That is also against etiquette.
Just leave some 8" floppies in the parking lot ;)
Yeah, and it doesn't really matter. Nobody's going to stop you from buying multiples of the smaller quantity hairspray, in different stores or with friends, etc.
> I hope you had some time to visit europe.

I've lived there my entire life, and not in native English speaking countries. As I said at the start of this thread I'm not a native English speaker.

> In european countries were films and tv
> programs are translated to their own language.

This isn't the case in all European countries. I don't think Germany, Italy, Spain etc. are doing themselves any favors by doing this. Not dubbing your movies is the perfect opportunity to teach your population the lingua franca, they're missing out, and it shows in their English skills.

I didn't grow up with dubbed movies, and I think it helped by language skills immensely.

> your best deal is to travel to UK and get a
> crappy job so you can learn the language.

Plenty of people learn English a near-native level without living in a natively English speaking country. I did, just watch some TV (not dubbed) and read lots of books (not translated).

> If instead of a natural language they got
> taught a non natural one.

I guess, maybe, but really this is never going to happen, we might as well fantasize over how easy it would be if we did away with this whole communication via sound waves fad, and just all learned the same sign language instead.

We live in an increasingly globalized world, English is the de-facto world language by sheer inertia. States that don't have it as a native language that aren't teaching their children it at a native level are at a distinct disadvantage.
> cities that have faced similar population growth

You've simply ignored my point about the rate of growth in demand. That introduces a new factor, which is the need to control displacement of lower-income people and maintain healthy economic diversity.

Also, the issue here is not that SF is opposed to density. SF has many high-density neighborhoods and virtually all new construction is higher density. The issue is how hard the city should negotiate with developers to set aside price-controlled units to maintain economic diversity.
Did they limit regions? "Not being sold" only means "no warranty" I suppose. N9 / N950 also weren't officially sold in US, yet they worked just fine.
The parent comment mentioned "licensing", so I used free as in libre, not beer.
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I worked, once, at a large, national (US) company that will not be named.

They had an old database from the early 70s that stored _all_ of their data, everything, contacts, billing, etc.

That was accessible through a special proprietary program, that was overseen by one college kid after the rest of his team was let go.

That proprietary program was essentially an old DS prompt, which was connected to via a Java applet for an early version of Internet Explorer < 7 that emulated the old dos-like user interface.

That Java Applet was connected to via a Java web service, running on machines that had the java applet and ie installed.

The Java web service was accessed by tens, possibly a hundred thousand people nationally, through a few different interfaces.

The one I was aware of (probably the largest), connected to the Java Web service, through a C# WCF service.

The C# WCF service was built as a backend for a new javascript / html4 front end for their company.

That new UI, was intended to partially (BUT ONLY PARTIALLY) replace a strange, 100% actionscript web ui made previously.

Learning about their system architecture, was quite literally like stepping back through time. I felt like an archaeologist, uncovering layers of an ancient city.

It was also amazing how many people were employed supporting each system, each of which could have replaced the lower tiers if they had just upgraded at the time.

It was similarly amazing, how the company had laid off everyone at entire layers, when management arbitrarily decided they needed to make cuts, while other layers doing the _exact_same_thing were staffing huge quantities of people, completely unaware that a single bug in the layer beneath them was not being overseen, or supported, and could bring the whole house down at any time.
What?? Maclean's? How could you?
It's not, but Oracle had got themselves into a bind over the definition of 'interoperability'. They did indeed argue that Google hadn't copied enough, in so many words.

The trouble is that interoperability takes many forms and can't be shoved into a neat box like that.
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You raise a really good point. Antibiotic resistance doesn't always go up. For example, the rates of MDR gonorrhea have dropped substantially.[1] There are other examples as well.

Is it a problem that needs to be addressed? Yes. Is it the end of the world? Unlikely.

[1]https://www.poz.com/article/drug-resistant-gonorrhea-25776-2...
as long as you have good public transportation to ship in the low skilled labor sure
Do you never do anything fun?

Go to the movies? Play a video game? Watch a sporting event? All of these are mostly meaningless but fun activities.

I think it's great that a lot of people are working hard to build fun things for other people.
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What are you doing with python and go that "just works"? Writing scripts? It takes a lot more work to build a yelp clone with python than it does with react.
The UK recently promoted the same thing. However, the prizes were $1B for a new antibiotic. Not exactly super compelling when even a mediocre drug would have an NPV much larger than that.
If not directly from Oracle than indirectly.
Some engineers like working on hard engineering problems. Others like working on products used by millions of people, and making that product as good as it can be.

The existence of the one doesn't invalidate the other. There's plenty of room in this industry for both types.
No need to be dismissive. This isn't a peeing contest.

OOP, Ethernet, the mouse, GUIs, and tablets were some of the things invented at Xerox PARC.
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"Saying you love or hate something to show off what a virtuous person you are, instead of actually trying to fix the problem."
It may be frustrating when these sorts of cases wind their way slowly and expensively through the legal system only to achieve (sometimes) obviously correct results. However, that's actually a much better thing than having a person or persons handing down a decision based on what seems obviously right.
NuVAX or equivalent if you need real hardware compatibility and physical to virtual for everything else. Seems like a golden consulting opportunity to leverage SIMH.
I think GH is starting from the point of "the distribution of our employees doesn't line up with the larger population of the country we operate in". If you think each of those groups of people has the potential to be as talented as any other, then why is there a discrepancy? I think they're saying, "We don't think the market is working." There are hidden biases at work.

For example, people with "non-white sounding" names don't get hired at the same rate as those with "white sounding" names when they have the same skillset. http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html

I think these biases operate at a low level, below most of our understanding. I like that GH is having this conversation in the open and working to rid themselves of these biases as much as possible.

To me, this is all relevant socioeconomic data. Why not look at the distribution of gender, race, sexuality, religion, etc, in your workplace? If there's a discrepancy, why not figure out what the root cause is? Given the starting point of "all these groups of people have the same capacity for talent and skill", why is the distribution skewed? What does it hurt to ask?
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A friend of mine has brought this to spin class:
Scenic cycle - http://sceniccycle.com/

He drove and recorded all the footage himself then opened his studio!
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> it is a fact that simply letting any casual passer-by copy and distribute any creative work with impunity would

That's not how facts work. You can't say "it is a fact that [hypothetical scenario] leads to [expected outcome]" except in the case of very well understood mechanisms narrowly applied. I don't think the sociopolitical effects of copyright law are one of those situations.
Using your metaphor.

So the judge could use discretion such that all the damages related to the fallout be paid. Otherwise it's a bit like being somebody in debtor's prison to pay their debts. This means the side affect of killing Gawker should be taken into account by the judge.

There are at least three confounding issues though. The first is that this guy who crashed into your house has repeatedly done the same thing to other people's houses. He's a habitual drunk who shouts mean things while shaking his fist at other cars as he drives. Public menace. Maybe having him off the road entirely isn't such a bad solution. He can catch the bus or get a new line of work and pay off his debts gradually.

The second is that this guy has other coworkers that could lend him money to pay the damages. He's not homeless just yet. The question is whether his support network exists for doing so. (i.e. Gawker could just about scrape by, it's not dead yet)

The third is that the man could just declare bankruptcy. Then all his assets are gone but he won't owe the remainder for covering the problem he caused. A new start is underrated. (i.e. Gawker cannot pay what it does not possess, I assume here Gawker is a LLC of some type) A harsh punishment by the judge but we have to send a message to these drunks driving crazily on our roads.
Oracle can appeal all they want to the CAFC. Overturning a unanimous jury verdict is a herculean task.
The last time this topic came up was around the same time that that open letter of from maintainers of GitHub repositories was making its rounds.

If I recall correctly, GitHub responded to that open letter by implementing the lowest hanging fruit - bug templates and +1s - and then went radio silent. Have there been meaningful product updates since?

Now we know what happened: they minimally addressed the PR needs of their business, and then went back to doing nothing interesting to advance their products.

I was on the fence before, but now I'm certain: GitLab is the superior experience.
Capital costs for software are low, but labor costs are huge. Once you try to scale past the "you and a couple of buddies from college" stage good people become extremely expensive.
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> This blog post reads to me like the Pokemon motto "Gotta Catch 'Em All".

This. It's just ridiculous. Just as racist as negative discrimination.
Yer, it was absolutely hilarious.

They had to get a tech guy in to open Java files on a computer. They didn't have an IDE installed on there and there were complaints that there were too many folders!
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I'm curious how we feel as tech creators.

Do we have a responsibility to our users for their sleep?
Well, IIRC he is (or at least was) an intellectual property lawyer. That may have contributed to him seeming to take personally any limitations on what can be covered by IP.

Or maybe not. Most IP lawyers are less unhinged than Muller...
Feudal life was not onerous and difficult because of "taxes", especially not as we define, legislate, and collect them in contemporary society. The feudal "tax system" was in no way easily analogous to our own.
On the other hand, niko has described trait resolution as "basically prolog", so that's something you can push to perform as degenerately bad as you want (the recent addition of specialization only making things worse).

The issue is just how degenerately bad "most" code is -- and I think that hinges a lot on how excited the word "higher" gets you vis-a-vis expressing your programs. If you think C# is a pretty cool type system that doesn't afraid of anything you'll probably be fine. If you think scala or haskell with All The GHC Extensions is where it's at... watch out.
I've known a number of people from various Latin American countries, and am married to one of them, and they've pretty consistently report that racism is a feature of society there, though the particular forms vary. Anti-black racism is apparently significant in many parts of Latin America, as is (though not separate in the same places) anti-indigenous racism.
It sounds like the author is being categorically dismissive of a group of people that I can't even match. Is he against people with salaries developing software? Is he against people who aren't paid from writing software? Should people who aren't paid be paid and those employed be fired? Should whites pursue primarily agrarian careers so that non-whites can pick up technology-minded hobbies in order to transition to lucrative careers? The start and end point of his discussion in that paragraph form a very narrow loop which defies logic.

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On privilege:

I completely disagree with the necessity of being engaged in a community to be a compiler developer or to learn any CS domain.

But stating that free time is a privilege is a bit absurd. You could be a 23-hour a day gardener and still write a compiler. It's not as if there's a time limit.

Dividing by gender is ridiculous---the first computer programmer was a woman.

All that it takes to become a compiler enthusiast is the understanding of languages and computers. Having a pencil and paper is a plus.

Alan Turing was gay but it didn't prevent him from inventing a form of universal computer.

People should be celebrated for their differences, not admonished for not having enough outlying characteristics.

Remember, the first programmers had neither computers nor compilers, and the first compiler writers had punch cards, so who exactly is privileged?
Personally, I don't think I would be very comfortable knowing I was hired because company X has to meet diversity quotas and not solely because I was the best candidate for the job. I think it's an offense to hackers in general—I'm hired based on merit.
Nope. Oracle can appeal to the Federal Circuit.
Even then, generalized, FDA-approved "Phage Kits" that don't require bespoke lab solutions for each and every patient likely won't be free as in libre.
There was an interesting write-up on this by Hintjens at http://hintjens.com/blog:111
"Design flaw" might not be right description. Maybe, "Naive implementations with nearly useless documentation" is better.

When I first started using puppet, I would go home absolutely exhausted every night. Their design choices, along with a lack of documentation, would turn the equivalent of a 20 minute bash script into something that would take days. Best example I can think of is the arbitrary ordering of module execution. I understand why they do it this way, but if they documented it in plain sight, then maybe my desk wouldn't have a forehead shaped dent in it. Similar goes for the other tools.

The only thing I can think of that prevents companies from releasing proper documentation is because of their expensive support contracts. There's a lot of incentive to make a standard incredibly difficult.

I just want accessible tools :(

edit: fss looks pretty neat! Kinda rpm-y, but it fits a nice middle ground.
I'm not sure about "large applications", but agreed about "data that changes". It's definitely not like dropping in a library like jQuery to spice up some interactions on a webpage.

I wrote something about the 'Why' of React (with some related links that talk more about it):
"Interface from Data... Rendering views as a function of state."
https://medium.com/@firasd/interface-from-data-using-react-t...
this looks neat.

i notice one of the supported languages is go -- if you're doing much go, i recommend installing godef and using go-mode.el. no tags files or anything like that, and works perfectly well for jumping to definition.

(i also highly recommend gorename and guru.)
Does anyone see problem with these retarded feminist blogs and posts?

While they constantly keep on reminding us how gender should not matter and how she/her/someone "feels more like a programmer than a girl", still every second they advertise these discriminatory "ONLY girls/lesbians/black women" programming/tech clubs and they spend million times more writing blog posts and whines about how there are so few female in the field instead of googling for i.e. C/C++/Java/Node.js/iOS tutorials and actually learning something useful.
This probably plays a role: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt
Oh, it's fine that it's racist, because I as a white male have it so good?

Seems odd to me mate, there are things that being white certainly doesn't buy, it's not a ticket to middle-class.

Being cis doesn't make me any more worse at my job than being gay would, don't judge me on that merit it's bullshit.

FWIW I grew up incredibly poor and my "advantage" in IT was that people don't care about your background. If I had wanted to be a lawyer or doctor I would bet my life that I would have failed. Tech is definitely inclusive as hell by default and making it less so is rather stupid.

If there are people who are actively stopping women in tech or downplaying them then those people are at fault, I would argue as at fault as a company that wont interview me based on my skin colour or gender.
Even the article implies your point. Some fear here and there it's good for the clicks tho.

>The strain found in the woman is treatable with some other antibiotics.
It allows for as little as 5%. Some in the city are fighting for more. For example Jane Kim, the SF supervisor who Bernie Sanders just endorsed for state senate, is fighting for 25% (down from 30%).[1]

Basically this state bill is a developer move to undercut SF's negotiating position, as they have more political influence at the state level.

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201...
So is this really over for good now? Can Oracle appeal and drag this on for another decade?
Well the economics get awful for designing chips as the feature size gets smaller, which is keeping 28mm fabs pretty busy and will just get worse at 10 or 8 nm or whatever comes next.
I would care, personally.
What's going on is that this company is under a magnifying glass over everything even their fucking rug: http://15809-presscdn-0-93.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/...

Crackers in Silicon Valley are so PC police...
Who thinks APIs should be protectable? That's thought crime.
You're asking for a citation for zero being less than non-zero? :)