skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you making any sort of product it's a great way to reach your audience (speaking as a game dev here). Also I can follow other dev progress as they post updates to their feed, which I find really interesting! Some people post great stuff.

Additionally I can see all the latest industry news by just scrolling down a simple list. I subscribe to what I want to see, not to all the ISIS propaganda that is news websites these days.
> Be careful to compare like for like. A highly qualified ops person compares to a highly qualified developer, not merely a "skilled" one. For all the difficulty of objectively measuring skill, I would assume that a highly qualified ops person would make substantially more than a merely skilled developer.

I think that I failed to communicate my meaning clearly in that statement, so I will attempt to clarify. What I mean is, that in my experience a highly qualified Ops person will /also/ be a skilled developer, but a highly qualified Developer will /not/ be a skilled Ops person. E.g. based on skill-set alone, highly qualified Ops people bring more skill to the table in union than a highly qualified Developer. Whether that's the skills you value or prioritize as an organization or not is another question entirely.

For the purposes of my salary comparison above I used the same years of experience and skill rating in the calculator for the Site Reliability Engineer and Developer roles. As you say, I would expect a highly qualified Ops person to make more than a "merely skilled" developer. I wasn't really trying to state anything opposite of this.
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Tech workers probably want to put that $1,000 into their homes, or into their kid's savings, or pay down some of that student loan debt.

I'm a tech worker and I don't honestly see a near-term future where I would throw $2,000 at a senator to talk to them about, say, net neutrality. I've got all kinds of things I'm saving for! My boat isn't going to drain me of my earnings by itself!
>Tech workers are the American elites

Apparently I did not get the memo. </sarcasm>
Apparently it's new to some people that C is a statically-typed, weakly-typed language.
Sorry. Our experience is that off-topic meta discussions quickly get out of hand, most of all on divisive threads (which a partisan political thread certainly is). To stave that off I detached your comment right away, but it took time to give you a detailed reply.
I agree with a lot of this article, but want to call out this point for discussion:

>This means if you follow someone for what they have to say about professional improv comedy, you also get to hear them trash your religion, berate the intelligence of people who vote the way you do, and otherwise rant about and retweet topics you don’t want to hear about.

This sounds like the author is asking for Twitter to build an echo chamber for him? I would rather not have that for my account tbh and I would like to discourage Twitter from heading in this direction (though it has already started to do some of that).
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Hi there!

Yes, all 3 of the major browsers (and derivatives of them) offer the same support for a sandboxed execution environment. You can safely use any of them if that's a requirement you have :)

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With Windows 10, sideloading is permitted by default.

For now.
Twitter had 350 million active users in Q1 of 2016, this is quite a lot actually.
There's a pretty strong connection between the numbers the tool has and market rates - it's not like the numbers are pushed top down, they come from actually participating in the hiring market.

The calculator normally gets a few revisions a year, one of the things that prompts that is market rates changing (others are things like hiring for new skills, or new roles being created).

What's nice about the calculator is, if the market rates change, everyone gets a raise (and knows they should). It's not just the new hire (who's mostly recently on the market), it's everybody in the same skill track.

The calculator also keeps us honesty about what matters for compensation. When the yearly salary review comes around, you can point at things you've done in the last year _and_ at where it says they should matter. It means fewer surprises, less frustration, and less fear that you're being too aggressive or too passive in salary discussions.
Most of a second drivetrain, system to make them work together, a bunch of batteries and the associated weight makes a lot of sense in a harsh environment, not to mention the increased cost for something that will get the crap beaten out of it.

There's a reason oil field trucks tend to be the most minimal trim available. More stuff -> more stuff to break -> more complicated service -> waste of money. Automatic windows are a convenient but hard to justify when they cost more up front and cause more downtime over the life of the vehicle. Ditto for most other luxury features.

You know what sucks, having a Prius that won't use its electric powertrain because the software is trying to protect the integrated A/C compressor from damage because a rock kicked up by another vehicle was the straw that broke the camels back and causes the condenser to leak out refrigerant. Now imagine not being able to use half the powertrain of a pickup you're trying to do work in. See the problem? Sure you could do a different A/c system but you're probably giving up some other important performance metric (like fuel economy) or you could let it ruin the compressor (but then the customer will complain or you'll waste money replacing compressors under warranty)

GMC made a hybrid pickup. It was cool because it could be used as a power source to run tools at a jobsite. It didn't sell. They canned it.
With regards to the DNC revelations, I'm not sure it's so much a new development, as a reversion to old Tammany Hall style machine politics. - not that I'm entirely sure that the machine wasn't employing those tactics in all the intervening years, just perhaps doing so less blatantly and covering their tracks better. Now, though, the sordid deals are not getting brokered face-to-face in smoky back rooms or over mostly untraceable phone conversations, but are leaving digital footprints that can't easily be scrubbed by the politically, if not technically, adept.
> This is 2016. Tech workers are the American elites.

No, they aren't. The American elites aren't workers, they are capitalists. Tech workers are among the class of elite workers that have enough income that they can afford to make significant investments and tend to be in the petit bourgeoisie -- that is, in traditional terms of analysis of capitalist economic strata, the narrow middle class -- but "elite workers" are only elite among workers.

The actual American elites (as is true of all capitalist and most modern mixed economies) are the haut bourgeoisie, the capitalist class; those who derive the overwhelming majority of their support from capital which generates returns largely passively for the capitalist (usually, through the application of other people's rented labor.)

> Did you think elites were still guys with a monacle sitting in a drawing room that overlooks a coal mine or something?

No, but the elites are still the guys that have the same relationship to tech (and other) workers that those guys with monocles had to coal miners (and other workers.)
> That's people complaining.

That's your interpretation of a flagged comment. You have absolutely no data to support that my comment was flagged due to inappropriate content and people complaining about it.

As far as I'm concerned it's just people who can't stand a joke.
Different people have different opinions, but I would personally consider these serious issues:

> The country should set a 2020 ceiling on reactors in operation at 70,000 megawatts to avoid a shortfall of fuel, equipment and qualified plant workers

> "By bypassing the passive safety technology of the AP1000, which, according to Westinghouse, is 100 times safer than the CPR-1000, China is vastly increasing the aggregate risk of its nuclear power fleet. "

And this is just trying to increase nuclear from ~3% to ~4%.

Maybe the U.S. would do things much better, but we should keep in mind that we just had the first new reactor come online in 20 years. And in that case, it was mostly built in the 80's (construction was halted), it's sister reactor was already running at the plant (since '96), and it still took 9 years to complete (and it's still being tested, it's not commercial yet).

The argument that a main component - some people even seem to argue the main component - of the fight against climate is a large scale switch over to nuclear seems completely divorced from reality.
Thanks for sharing, and I hope employees keep us updated on this experiment (because transparency).

My reference to negotiations was mostly for a negotiation upon hire. A job is advertised at a certain range, and the applicant expects the top of that range. I know that Stack Overflow's process might be a bit more evolved, but most companies that advertise a range probably leave a little wiggle room at the top and don't expect to be negotiating with candidates asking the minimum.

>Secondly, I sincerely doubt we'd make an offer to a candidate that assumes their skills are all at the top of the range.

This comes across more like assessing candidates for hire based on ego or confidence rather than actual skills. Of course, companies don't want to hire people with inflated beliefs about their own abilities - those who "don't know what they don't know".

If you would object to the skills evaluations, and if we assume some of those people are earning more than you, how is that different than "salary envy"? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just not sure I understand the thought process.
The ones to the battery energy density
I'm a few hours north of the city, but if you need clothes I probably have a bunch, your size depending.
Are you saying that you remember a unique and sufficiently random password for every website/app/etc you use? If so, you've got a far better memory that me.
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Does it have virus in the firmware that works in both Windows and Linux?
Thanks for clarifying.

I believe the point the parent was getting at is that there could be other unintended consequences to taking relatively good advice.

Honestly, I'd even argue there is some better advice on server fault/HN than some professionals - but the difference is getting the professional has a paper trail that you can't say "well, some DBA on server fault told me!"
Agile is a pack of lies
People love to hate Facebook and Twitter, but they ain't going anywhere. The service they provide is too useful, and after so many years they are ingrained in people's social lives.
And you honestly don't think machine learning will be able to detect that as a gun sale?
It is like to do plumbing work by yourself. Always has unexpected and potentially catastrophic consequences.
> You aren't writing checks. Send a Congressman $1000 (that's really all it takes to get their attention) and you'll be amazed how responsive they will come. Senators are a little more expensive, but still reasonably priced at $2-5k. Presidential candidates are in the low five digits.

Except for the first, all of those numbers are (or state a range that includes) amounts that exceed the limit for a single donors campaign donations for a single election cycle to a single candidate.

Having to return your donation because accepting it will exceed the legal limit may get a candidate to notice you, but perhaps more as someone who they need to be careful around to avoid scandal than anything else.
If it is completely true, then surely "pain = progress - reflection" must also be completely true.
I think the only reason employers value employees who do not value salary is because they are cheaper.
Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed (https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/03...) is an interesting book that goes into some detail on the moral outrage and abuse side of social media.
In the context of hedge funds, I'm assuming compliance.
What I've never understood about Twitter is why it's so slow to evolve. Why doesn't it have better search and filter features? Why doesn't it give users better tools to organize their timelines? Why is its user interface so limited? Why doesn't it let you edit tweets you wrote in the last five minutes? In terms of features, Twitter today is pretty much the same as Twitter 3 years ago. That's insane. It makes me wonder what's wrong with their management.
Am I still the maintainer of this library? (spaCy contributor conflict)
Absolutely.

This looks to me like a developer who is frustrated that nobody listens to him, who wrote a manifesto saying that everyone should do things in the way that HE thinks they should be done. Reading through the manifesto, it is obvious to me why nobody is listening to said developer.
FWIW, the lender seems to take urgency into account as well. And it's important to have a loan agent who's will to go the extra mile.

We made an offer on $2.2M house last year in July, and needed a $1.3M mortgage and $500k HELOC (so $400k down.)

We had a fantastic agent at Wells Fargo who promised he could pull it off in 15 days, at which point we'd leave on a 3 week vacation out of country.

We signed 13 days later. The guy would call us at 10pm asking for more documentation when more information was needed.

However, we had to send a copy of our plane tickets to prove to approvers further down the pipeline that there was a justifiable need for urgency.
Profit and ability to finance aren't quite the same, though. So far, capital markets have been willing to give Tesla big piles of money with excellent terms (buying issued stock at a price that values the company similarly to major automakers and such) so they seem to have no trouble financing the Gigafactory.

Verizon may well have access to more money, but then that just supports the first half of "more money than sense."
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The severe limitation on the size of tweets selects for puerile violence rather than thoughtful, mutually satisfying interactions.

It's not just the size of tweets, though that does exacerbate things. The entire attention economy of online social media rewards viral attention, and therefore it rewards outrage politics. (Politics in the general sense of Homo sapiens following its social mammal instincts.)
Some of my friends started using Twitter back in 2008, right when it starting gaining traction, so I tried it out as well. I quickly grew bored with it and didn't use it until earlier this year. I tried it again, encouraged by its popularity, and again I stopped using it after a day or two. Twitter has managed to hook millions of people, but it can't seem to hook me. Though I'm sure that says more about me than it says about Twitter.
I haven't experienced harassment (only have 100 followers), but here's what I don't like.

Can't edit tweets

People follow you and unfollow you if you don't follow them back in a day or two.

Webcam porn stars like your tweets to draw attention to themselves.

Inconsistent user experience. Do I click the profile picture to edit my settings or edit my settings to change my profile picture? I always forget.

http://twitter.com/johnwheeler_
Apple is rumored to release updated MacBook Pros at the September event. I would wait for that before making a decision.
The message is genuine and simple: computers can now learn like humans.
Still a minority if you think how many are sharing their thoughts on fb or are using whatsapp for group messaging.
agree. all these "fixes" are to change what twitter is. twitter is a short-form, _immediate_ publishing platform. it's great for what's happening _now_. i don't want to read long-form pieces that took 2 days of editing.

i think moments and periscope are good steps. not perfect, but they emphasize _now_.
I use twitter as a secondary subscription mechanism to my blog besides the usual RSS. That's it.
I seriously doubt this engineer was operating without code review, test infrastructure, and other safety checks in place. They aren't solely responsible.

If they don't have those types of checks in place, that's the fault of the company.

If someone want's to sue over this, then sure, sue the individual (and the company). But as a manager in company, I would not not punish the individual. I would have them conduct a thorough post mortem and look for ways to avoid problems like this in the future. People do learn from their mistakes and that is valuable.
I don't think it's a problem. I think it's a valuable and fair discussion that is in some way the entire point of salary transparency. Those who bring the most value to the company in theory should be the ones who are compensated the highest. It's always a difficult question on how you determine who brings what value though, which is why compensation is such a contentious subject to discuss.

I should clarify I'm not claiming that an SRE is more valuable than a Developer outright. I'm saying that most highly qualified SREs are also Developers, while highly qualified Developers are not also SREs, so the amount of skill/knowledge required to attain the salary is more burdensome for an SRE vs a Developer. If anything, my statements should be construed as a realization that its a better career progression (at least when focusing on salary) to become a Developer than it is to go into Ops because for whatever reasons society values Developers more than Ops.
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For reference, here is David Rosengarten, apparently a famous food critic, waxing lyrical about Dutch food (and the Netherlands in general): https://davidrosengarten.com/blog/hollandwhere-have-you-been...
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> if I had an algorithm that could perform well, why would I hand it over to Quantopian?

I'll share my algorithm here:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/xiv-slash-vxx-pair-trade-1

"Pair-trading VXX and XIV based on the StockTwits sentiments of the SPY at market open. The backtest did really well from 2011 to 2014 with 1700-1800% return in 3 years; and flat between 2014 to present-time... would love to see what people come up to reduce the drawdown's and improve the performance from 2014-2016".

The reason I share my algorithms is trading is one of the hardest ways to make easy money. Making money due to slippage, regime change and overfitting bias is difficult, a poor investment (most hedge funds don't beat index funds) but sharing and learning about statistics, machine-learning and big data is a better investment in self.

Also philosophically, most strategies have limited shelf-life, so it is better to learn how to fish than to hold onto the fish you've got.
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I'm not making a Malthsian argument. I'm stating a fact. At current levels of consumption (which includes much more than food) we are beyond carrying capacity of the planet. Technology may eventually make this a false statement but it currently isn't false.

There is much more to living than just food. That we can grow enough food is not a persuasive argument that there aren't too many people on the planet. People shit, pollute, destroy, and consume.
Yes, I was a bit hasty to say every person has a charging station at home. I knew there were cases where it wasn't going to be true, but wasn't thinking it would be as common as many assigned condo/apartment spaces. There are apparently laws popping up in states regarding the ability of tenants to put their own charging infrastructure[1] in place, but we would probably be better served by complexes putting in a few shared community stations (depending on size of complex). IMO, when there are more cheap electric options (maybe now?), this would be a good stimulus target.

1: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/17/business/la-fi-assoc...
Australia works on a parliamentary system where parties elect their respective candidates directly. The US is a republic, where in theory any citizen should be able to run for the highest office with zero qualifications. Big difference.
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My understanding is that the content script can access the webpage DOM, but not the other way around (it's a "one way street", if you will)
Though unified virtual memory isn't limited to Pascal -- AMD's GCN architecture has supported it for years already, as do these products.
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Here's my experience outside the vehicle - I live about two miles from Tesla HQ in an area where electric vehicles of all types are common, and bike frequently in close proximity to motor vehicles.

You're right that there is still noise, particularly from the tires, and that they are actually surprisingly loud if you are expecting silence (mostly tire noise, particularly when turning, plus a little high-pitched whine).

But when accelerating from a stop, compared to a gas car or especially a truck, the difference is noticeable. No 'vroom' or 'rattle' or 'rumble.' Trucks in particular can be window-shakingly loud. Priuses are also nice and quiet...
For some reason this discussion reminds me of Yossarian's rant about pain and god in Catch 22.
Putting the court of public opinion aside for a moment, I think it's good for a company to hire an outside investigator to get to the truth, but I'm also concerned that when you get right down to it, it's the company that is to be protected. Yes they may get rid of bad employees, yes they may project a transparent investigation and its results, but at the end of the day it doesn't really do much for the people involved. It only serves to protect the company. Out of this I would like to see Tor and other silicon valley companies focus more on protecting the rights of employees, both those harmed, and those accused, until all the evidence is in, and then take steps to remedy the situation for those employees. So many of these investigations, from GitHub and Go Grid, to now Tor, is about protecting the companies and their executives. Only when that changes will things be better.
One could say that woman had balls =)
Does this bring to mind for anyone else movements crumbling from the inside due to clever sabotage? Huey Newton come to mind?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party#COINTELPRO

I'm not saying that's what's going on here.

But it comes to mind.
>Investing in infrastructure to meet the huge demand

Can you explain why Tesla didn't add to the capital raise in May? They couldn't foresee needing more capital for the M3 and GF a month-and-a-half ago? That seems odd.
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Has anyone done any work on handing words that have overloading meanings? Something like 'lead' has two really distinct uses. It's really multiple words that happened to be spelt the same.
> Static+strong typing is a nice combination, which is probably what hacker_9 meant to say.

That's a rather generous interpretation, given that hacker_9 said nothing about strong types, and instead made a claim about static vs. dynamic languages.

I do agree with your assertion, though; learning Haskell and OCaml prepared me for writing Python in ways that many of my peers in the Python community are unprepared. One big example is the difference between str and bytes in Python 3: a lot of Pythonistas find this distinction an annoyance, but I find it extremely useful, largely because I learned how to leverage such type differences to reduce errors from ML family languages.
Oddly enough, I remember several of my cards having a contactless option circa 2009. None of them do now. I'm not sure why, as that was a fantastically useful feature.
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