skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a few words: In the old middle age hives didn't have methods to keep the queen putting eggs anywhere she wanted. Thus all the larvae where distroyed when collecting the honey. Currently we know that there is a measure that permit all bees enter except the queen. You can put a metallic mesh splitting the hive in two areas that the queen can not cross. In the upper area only workers (smaller) can enter and they store honey and other products as usual, but there aren't eggs, so there is not any dead larvae in your honey. It was a big revolution.
I tried signing up for Gitlab some months ago, and automated emails to my fastmail-hosted email address didn't get delivered. My blocking concern is that email delivery problems, if they persist, will hurt the site's usefulness. (For all I know this is already fixed.)
I was offering alternatives, there are many confounding factors I don't think the article accounted for. Maybe the 40% is very regional, or like others suggested tied to only certain job boards.
Yes, that seems to be the syntax used by literate markdown https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/LiterateMarkdown
That doesn't stop poaching. It would only make rhinos extinct in the wild.
Like I said, the difference is in degree, not kind. There's no reason two things have to be exactly the same amount of traumatic in order to be considered the same kind of trauma.

Losing 10% of your net worth and losing 90% of your net worth are both traumatic. One is more so because it's to a larger degree, but it's not an entirely different thing, it's just a different amount. That's why we have different punishments for petty theft and grand larceny. Not because they're completely different crimes, but because they're different degrees of the same crime.
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Meaning we have to choose our priorities. As if there's any contest, in this case.
But SWAT doesn't go in with the intent to kill (supposedly). They go in with intent to arrest or neutralize which may require killing, but could be shooting until the threat is neutralized and then calling medical help. A bomb has only one mode.
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Thought so! Know if servo is joining you guys on the build from a release train?
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But remember, the plural of anecdote is data http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...
If your giant tech employer and competitors are hiring apace, that is a useful data point.
According to this VICE article, there are in reality a lot of rhino farms. They say there are simply more illegal poachers because the trade has been illegal for so long, and became dominated by criminals. Sort of like prohibition-era USA.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/rhino-horn-crisis-and-the-d...
They probably should've used a more specific term; like "Oxidant".
There is absolutely no truth to the assertion that the haskell.org management
hasn't played fair or listened and responded to suggestions from the
community. These allegations are FUD spread by people who can't seem to be
bothered by the realities of large organizations balancing many competing concerns.

As near as I can tell these allegations are primarily referring to a pull request by
Michael Snoyman [1] that completely removed four existing sections from the
haskell.org download page and replaced them with a link to a tool only a few
months old written mostly by Michael and others at FP Complete. I think any
reasonable person would agree that a pull request like this to a language's
official website is completely ridiculous and should definitely not be
accepted. In fact, Gershom & co have proven very reasonable because they did
eventually add stack to the downloads page [2] after it had more time to
mature and became more widely used.

Furthermore, Chris Done (an employee of FP Complete who is also associated
with this new website) made the underhanded move of revoking his permission [3] for haskell.org to use the
web design that he contributed under a BSD license [4].

These are just two examples of a pattern of what I think is pretty lousy behavior on the part of
key players in FP Complete that should be taken into account when listening to
their rhetoric.

Regarding their point about /r/haskell being full of flamewars, from what I've
seen the only flamewars there are ones involving the above mentioned people from FP Complete and they are usually the ones doing the flaming.

[1] https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/130/files

[2] https://www.haskell.org/downloads

[3] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/2016-Ap...

[4] https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/blob/master/LICENSE
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I'm not sure what good that stigma does (or if it even makes having ivory more alluring). No new instruments use ivory, thankfully, and no one buys a gigantic organ because it has ivory inlays or a violin bow because it has tiny ivory frogs.
The goal is to have farmed rhinos out price killing wild rhinos, and you continue making killing wild rhinos illegal.
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Yes, although without JIT it's slower than CPython. So, what's the point?
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Yeah, so instead of being in Whisper Systems' walled garden, I can set up my own and ask people to install Rvense's Magical Messenger App. Sit there in my treehouse with a bucket on my head and a NO DUMMIES sign or something.
> Lets urge the young black men to submit to lawful orders and take issue later in a court of law.

How much experience have you had with the justice system? can you describe the resources you used to handle grviences with it on a political basis?
There are different types of recruiters. Some are junk. Some are good. But for better or worse, many many jobs are going to hire through them, so you'll want to get past this distaste for them.
Don't say "No rem0te workers." Just simply leave that word out and have ONSITE as you do. Putting that word in there messes up filters/queries people are using.
My leading indicator is that my employer (big, slow, enterprise) is hiring like crazy after a few years of low hiring of new headcount.

We're actually hiring good people in entry positions, which is an indicator that smart people are looking for stability, good benefits and mediocre compensation. That usually happens ahead of poor macroeconomic conditions for a variety of reasons.
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Old school + super stable (requires less upgrade type of maintenance): plain-old Servlet, Spring MVC

Slightly newer: Spring Boot (uses Spring MVC as well)

Cutting Edge + keep-up with upgrade mill: Play, everything else not on the list above
Software does not physically exist in the real world - it's just a recipe.

Pharmaceuticals, having chemistry as its underlying dependent science, required fundamental research to uncover the physiological properties of certain materials, the majority of the low-hanging fruits of which were discovered in the late 1800s because that was the time in history at which cheap instrumentation became available.

For software, new forms of electronics and systems create a technological feedback loop, which may continue to become available for many hundreds of years, if Michio Kaku is to be believed. If we grant that this will happen, we can keep writing new recipes on top of those new systems for hundreds of years. Now, you might say at some point that these new systems are no longer, "software," but then the argument from the article would kind of be reaching and making things up as it goes along, therefore not really saying anything.

You can't just take one technological movement and extrapolate its history on top of another. The Stone Age lasted about 6000 years, and then the Bronze age lasted around 1000 years. Nothing about the Stone Age predicted anything about what the Bronze Age would be like - it's more about the underlying physics of the technology itself, and the speed at which humans can build on top of that underlying physics given the current state of technology, and how the new technology generated feeds back onto itself.
This is probably the most "Hacker News" thing I've ever seen.
I'm sure they have people on both sides, but they're just being used to legitimize the Western voices.
I feel that in addition to there-could-be-a-gun culture [0], a large component of the escalation in the US is due to Hollywood's constant portrayal of oversensationalized violence. We're taught to intensely identify with a helpless victim and then root for a domestic military arriving in overwhelming swarms, yelling and shooting.

This is what people expect to be the norm, and apply the same narrative to real-life stories - eg the rise of terms like "home invasion" in lieu of "breaking and entering". My heart would be pounding as well if someone were banging on my door, but how much of this is due to being primed by a culture of constant passive-aggression rather than attempted understanding?

I assume you can't escape exposure to at least some US movies. How do you perceive such media? Are they just rare enough that you effectively compartmentalize them as foreign films and not representative of your own culture?

[0] which shrug imho at this point is impossible to fix via fiat, but let's agree to disagree
I often hear people use the word spike w/r/t this kind of thing, but it seems to me that "spike" is used as an agile code word when speaking with stakeholders to conceal what is actually going on: good ol' fashioned _research_. There's nothing wrong with research or planning, but I've seen a lot of engineers who seemed constitutionally incapable of calling it this in front of stakeholders.

You mention defining when a spike is 'done', and timeboxing. I understand why we do this, but there are times where I believe it contradicts the very nature of doing adequate research. We have a known unknown, and so we do some research to make that unknown known. In the course of doing research though, you will discover there's a cascading set of new unknowns which must also be understood. So, identifying a 'done' state, depending on the nature of the research we're talking about, can be a totally fraught activity.

Kinda ranting here, but this is a common scenario: "Within the next week, we'll spike to get a more accurate estimate of the time it will take to build a cluster that meets the requirements we've agreed to, and propose several technical recommendations which will fit the budget." I've seen too many instances of this where 2 more days, another week, maybe a whole month could have been spent answering these questions _correctly_. Now sure, if you have a trusting relationship with your stakeholders, you can easily negotiate that you think a solid set of recommendations will take another week, but there is a certain amount of pressure to just be done with it and smile, and I've seen
this kind of thing backfire over and over again depending on the level of trust that's been established between product teams, stakeholders, and engineers. 3 months into the project, the realization settles in that the database you've chosen will not scale on writes the way you'd hoped it would. Now what?

I don't recall where this quote is from, so if someone knows the source please let me know: "Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning."
Except startups are rather infamous for paying below market, with the idea being that equity will make up for it if the company goes big. Yet, many times the early employees, who are the reason the startup got to where it is many times, get their equity diluted to crap.
> It only drives the price up and makes crime and violence more likely as the rewards are even higher.

What's the black market price for Kinder Surprise eggs, an item that's illegal in the US.

Comparing this with drugs is not the same. No one "needs" ivory the same way they "need" heroin.

> Making it illegal is very short-sighted:

Why is it that poaching skyrockets whenever the restrictions are relaxed?

> Think of solutions that may be developed as far as harvesting ivory that wouldn't kill the animals if it was legal.

How does that stop poaching?

> Maybe private farming that sustains these populations in some way would be developed.

Do you know much about elephants? Do you know much about elephant husbandry? Can you talk a bit more about these proposals and the possible problems?
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LLVM isn't as widely portable as generic C, either. ARM and x86 are well supported in LLVM, but CPython runs fine on MIPS, Sparc, PPC, etc (via GCC or other C compilers).
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I would like to know, too.
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I'm not sure I agree with you - having a higher encounters rate need not be limited to simple neighborhood selection for policing (although there is likely bias there too) - rather simply choosing who to interact with may exhibit bias (e.g. is the police officer more likely to have an encounter with a black person even in a predominantly white neighborhood)?
Volume of job listings on one site over the last 30 months would be measuring far more than the trend in number of jobs. Did the job site add new features? Did they snag a big new customer who consistently posts their jobs there? Did they run a different ad campaign, or more of them? If the company is doing well, it'll probably have a steadily increasing number of job listings over that period, but it doesn't necessarily mean that there are more jobs available overall.
So you won't deal with recruiters, are only willing to work remotely, and don't want to look at any place boring... and you think that the unemployment rate has a lick of anything to do with why you can't find a job?
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I see, I made an unwarranted assumption about your prior post. And possibly over-explained bluetooth details. I apologize if that was patronizing.

I hope you'll agree that there is some number of devices beyond which we don't really need to worry about now many of them headphones can attach to. For me, for now, 2 or 3 would definitely be a problem, while 8 is more than sufficient.

My intention in this conversation is not to make a claim that there are no tradeoffs to be made, but to take issue with the poorly thought out nature of the article.

In fact, I think you make a better point than any of Ms. Goode's. And I'm willing to mention a couple of others.

1) It's not a super common case, but I have been in a situation where I was listening to music on my headphones, and wanted to hear what someone else was listening to on their player. With regular headphones, all you have to do is unplug and plug them into the other player, while bluetooth headphones would require the pairing complication (and un-pairing manually, lest you over time eject your own devices).

2) Wireless interference can be an issue in some circumstances. At one office desk where I sat, the Elite 800X cans had an issue with their connection to my Macbook, which I attributed to the in-office cell phone signal booster that was perched up on the wall above me. The audio stream would cut in and out rapidly. That was annoying.
> I wish left, right and center could come together just this once to urge young black men to not fight with police.

I don't understand why you are saying this like young black men are chomping at the bit to fight with police, or like there are people advocating that young black men pick fights with cops. What are you on about here??

> Lets urge the young black men to submit to lawful orders and take issue later in a court of law.

What we saw, twice, this week, was young black men submitting to lawful orders and being killed for it.

How about we urge cops to stop extrajudicial killings? How about we urge the federal government to define an escalation strategy for police that doesn't violate international law?

Your insistence in making 'young black men' the problem here paints you as racist, whether or not you think you are.
I can tell the number of people who weren't around for the last non-incumbent election.

Every major election year the job market does this. It's worse when it's an 8 year cycle.

Add into it the uncertainty around Trump and Brexit causing economic worries... it's basically there is less risk, so less VC capital, so less startups.

It's a normal cycle.
Data, even if only qualitative, about the psychological experience of technology workers seeking employment is very interesting to me. It may have fewer direct applications to policy adjustments, but provides insight into the overall mood and sentiment around tech hiring and employment.

The psychological and sociological aspects of tech employment are not discussed as much as they should be and it is a disservice. Again, I love data-driven policy as much as the next Bayesian, but positive description is not the only thing that has value. Sometimes normative description also has value, even if it emerges from a sparse set of qualitative descriptions.

I personally would like to see much more anecdotal data about how people feel about tech employment, because I think at this moment in history the interface between organizations and employees represents one of the most significant moral problems on the planet, that has wide-ranging effects stretching from income inequality to PTSD or depression to stagnation of innovations that could alleviate poverty or diseases, etc. In the same way that some claim that governmental regulations stymie tech progress, I feel it's perfectly analogous and perhaps even more critical to point out that organizational bureaucracy in the form of anti-human treatment of workers, candidates, and the unemployed, is just as much of an impediment to collective progress, but is much less talked about because it's fashionable to hate on government but taboo to hate on ethical failures of companies in their treatment of workers, candidates, or the unemployed.
What's so good about ivory? Why can't other non-animal-based materials be used? I don't see the appeal to go to such great lengths to kill an animal for its horn/tusks.
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Welp, that's pretty sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
Recode[1], Verge[2][3], and WSJ[4] present facts about gender/racial discrimination, which fail OP's requirements. I personally don't believe any valuable, reliable journalism outfit is going to ignore these issues (perhaps by definition).

1. http://www.recode.net/2016/4/12/11586072/pay-gap-women-men-s...

2. http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/29/11327036/north-carolina-bi...

3. http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/10/9885826/airbnb-guests-dis...

4. http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-year-after-ferguson-black-live...
I do get that Haskell is useful to be taken as a tool for these kind of code transformations (at least I have seen quite a few of those) but I am always a bit surprised that people would start such a project in a language that has -per se- nothing to do with either the source or the target language. I know, I know, it doesn't always have to be this way, but I am very much of the opinion that everytime good tools in an ecosystem are written in the language in said ecosystem you get a lot more (and meaningful) contributions.

Best examples: rake (and everything in the ruby ecosystem basically), the amount of people touching ruby c code is very small compared to all the 'standard tools', or cargo.
"Already does"? They're both from 2011. Even if they both do the same thing, do you have a point?
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Saltpeter is potassium nitrate. It's a diuretic, not sure why it would have any particular effect on libido.
The majority of PyPy development is done in RPython which probably makes hacking on the runtime available to something like 100x as many developers. The only limiting thing is knowledge and exposure, but mostly exposure.
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The Reason team at Facebook (http://facebook.github.io/reason), I myself included, are working on the syntactical aspect & more. Lots of OCaml's pitfalls are low-hanging fruits (imo), and we're actively fixing them.
I think you're confusing it with some kind of extremely low-quality gunpowder.
I listened to a podcast yesterday where a psychologist specializing in intervening with people who have been victimized by coercive negative cults was talking about how we all thought the increased information available on the internet would make cults less of a problem, but savvy recruiters have actually used better communication tools to make dangerous cults more of a problem than they ever have been.

He was very concerned about just how much power VR environments have over those inside them, and how destructive that power will be when controlled by bad actors.

So it's the standard tool argument of course, it's not good or bad, just a power multiplier for influencing people. But we do tend to ignore the inevitable abuses of this new power in favour of talking about the positive uses like this. Although addictive VR environments for lonely elderly people will be a great way to stop them from getting any physical activity whatsoever and speeding up the aging process.
I missed that sentence -- I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's not quite what I was talking about.

That statement says that areas with higher-than-normal black or white crime rates vis-a-vis the other, that there is still anti-black racial bias in terms of shootings.

I'm saying I'm wondering if people stopped during commission of a crime are 10x more likely to be white per capita, and 90% of police shootings are unarmed blacks and shootings happen in 10% of crime stops, and the population is 90/10 black and white (call it 10000 people, with 1% involved in crime stops and once per person), then we would have the following stats: 90 white people stopped, 10 black people, 10 shootings, 9 of them black.

What is the 'race bias' here? Do we normalize to population, or criminal population, or stopped population? Those stats look like: no bias: (9 / 9000 blacks shot, 1 / 1000 whites shot), incredible bias( 9/10 black criminals vs 1 / 90 white criminals), and we don't know because we don't know if there's any stop bias.

I'm not clear we get an answer out of the abstract or the study for this question. But, it's an important one to me for a variety of reasons, not least which is that I'd like to know if risky / criminal behavior statistically carries higher penalties for some race or socioeconomic groups in our country.
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I'm not sure you didn't mean it as such, but don't all lives actually matter?
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It feels that way to me too, based on my direct experience with my company and several friends' companies.

There you go, 2 data points.
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