skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is becoming problematic across the open source DB world. Witness the graph capabilities of Datastax Enterprise on top of Cassandra, and Riak TS also took quite a while to open source the "TS" version, hoping I guess to monetize without having to open source. This makes me worried about adopting in case I later get gotcha'd. I am really looking forward to a truly open source time series database. It's not that I don't mind upgrading to enterprise, or paying for services, but the prices end up being so "oracle" like. For example Datastax wants something like 10k per node per year! I mean a credible Cassandra cluster is going to be 5 node bare minimum which really is a lot for a bootstrapping startup.

One of the big problems in the TS world is that KX (KDB) charges an enormous fortune and all the wannabe competitors are salivating at grabbing some of that money.
Pretty much every language has a ternary conditional operator: C++, Java, Python, C#, Ruby....
Oh, also: if you're in NYC I'd be happy to meet over a coffee/beer to swap stories. Feel free to use the contact info in my profile.
Personally I'm in agreement with the rhetoric that blames the interests that we expose our children to, this tweet[1] really sums up that whole situation (though I'm not so naive to think that this is alone to blame). Some more questions:

1. Did you have [what shouldn't be] atypical interests as a girl?

2. If yes, did other girls discriminate against you because of those interests?

My thinking is that it's a compounded problem: as liberal as I might try to be with my children, their peers might disuade them from doing what they want to do (primarily because of their archaic upbringing). It's always good to re-evaluate your beliefs, so I'm genuinely interested here.

Regardless, thanks for your insightful comment.

[1]: https://twitter.com/mariofusco/status/772677525885640704
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I agree that things can be misinterpreted, but that's not a reason to avoid relationships with people. It's a reason to keep things clearly communicated. And if people choose to gossip and act like high schoolers, let them. Maybe call them out on it, depending on the nature of your professional/personal relationship this can be easier said than done.

But, maybe this is just me, I'm not going to forfeit my good relationships with women (several single, attractive) just because my SO is getting jealous. If she doesn't trust me, then that needs to be addressed directly. And if she can't trust me, that's a bad sign for the relationship in the long-term.

If my coworkers start rumormongering because I go to lunch or coffee with a female colleague, they need to grow up. Men and women are quite capable of having professional, and personal, relationships that remain entirely platonic. And barring these sorts of professional relationships on the basis of gender means reducing the professional network of both people, which can result in long-term career setbacks. This is exactly the sort of thing that can hold women back in a male dominated field.
Opening a newly cloned Chromium repository in ~3s is very impressive to be honest.
I took "A considering B" to mean "The truth of B strengthens the claim A."

Regarding Apple's history with DRM, that's not something to completely ignore but its not very compelling, either. I see no evidence that Apple (especially as it exists today) has a true, sustained ideological position against DRM. Apple explicitly positions themselves as the platform with the least regard for empowering their users to use their (mobile) devices as they see fit (because being seen as 'more secure' is marketing gold). If the situation arose in which Apple's leadership believed they would make more money (on the whole, and long term) by embracing DRM in more places, they would do so.
Ok, maybe a better analog is that Airbnb should have rules adhering to the laws for landlords?
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Wells Fargo lays off 5300 employees over fake accounts
>> you seem stuck on the "can have" bit, which isn't really the point.

Ok, so you wouldn't oppose if a man goes and creates a group called, "Ask a brogrammer?"

brogrammer = funny slang for male programmers, not meant to offend anyone but to bring male humor to other males
There are more than two decisions. Vote for a third party. Help them get federal funding and onto the debate stage.

No, you should not spend every evening absorbing politics. But you should spend a few hours one time looking at (all of) the options and their positions.
in UK Parliament a vote of no confidence (which is cast by MPs rather than popular vote, but still, a possible example), leads to the current parliament being dissolved and a new general election being scheduled for the near future. Canadian parliament is similar. In the German government an analogous procedure exists, except the general election is not an obligatory outcome.

in these parliamentary systems its a way to avoid total deadlock where the executive and legislature cannot come to terms. this is obviously a problem we suffer from acutely in the U.S. right now. however, that's a somewhat different scenario than what we're discussing here specifically, where the no confidence vote would come directly from the popular vote instead of as a parliamentary procedure.

In the context of a popular general election, this would be similar to failure to form a quorum, meaning no participant in the election can be considered to have a mandate or consent of the governed.

what would it mean for this outcome to "win" the election? Clearly that the procedures that nominated candidates for office had malfunctioned and that none of the nominated candidates are satisfactory to a sufficient slice of the electorate. This would be a protection against a form of oligarchy or minority rule. I think the reasons for considering this are abundantly clear in the U.S. in 2016.

what should happen as a result of a general no confidence result? my suggestion would be a special election where the candidates of the previous election are barred from being re-nominated. if the special election also failed to select a candidate with a mandate to govern then it should automatically trigger a constitutional convention, since that would represent a PROFOUND failure to represent the people and would need to be resolved by extraordinary means.
The solution to all gender problems: Actively ignore all topics and articles with "woman" or "female" in the title.

People are who they are and go where they want. Tech is no exception.

When one walks into a car garage, one doesn't make a fuss about mechanics being all men.

When one walks into a kindergarden, one doesn't make a fuss about teachers being all women.
We've tried allowing this kind of thing, and what we got was redlining, "No colored allowed" and "Dogs and Irish keep off the grass."

If complying with anti-discrimination law is a problem for you, you should generally not be in this line of business.
Do they color changed files in the sidebar now or do I still have to switch to the version control view?

edit: serious question, I like the coloring of changed/new files in Atom.
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If you aren't passionate enough about this work to continue learning and advancing on your own time get out.

I understand that many other domains value this sort of thing, but perhaps not to the same degree as the software industry. The issue could be that employers are afraid to invest in their current employees (that is, given them opportunities to advance their skills on company time) because there is such a high rate of turnover in many tech companies. It makes more financial sense to put the burden on the employee (or potential employee) because it likely only benefits them in the long run.

I do, however, see that in more established companies (particularly those that don't still operate in "start-up mode"), there is more willingness to invest in the employees and build their skill sets. I've been with my current employer for over eight years, and they have always been willing to give me time to learn new tech and stay on top of trends that affect our business. Of course, on my current team of 10 people, only one person has been with the company for less than three years.
You can find it under name IntelliJ IDEA.app ;)
I should probably have phrased what I said a bit differently. I have not had trouble understanding relative offset and how to use it. What I've always wondered about and finally got an answer to in this video is how the implementation works so that Excel is able to preserve the offsets even when pasting a cell in a random location into a spreadsheet :)
If everyone thought like that, nobody would vote.
Teachers are working for Uber just to keep a foothold in the middle class
Which makes sense, because whites constitute 60+% whereas blacks constitute 13%. Even if everything in the world was exactly equal, including percent of racist whites and blacks, blacks(or really, the group with fewer members) would experience more racism because of the disparity in population numbers.
If it really is OO

Python is a multi-paradigm language in the sense that it does not explicitly force the programmer to write all code in a particular way. So, for example, Python does not forbid the existence of standalone functions, or the execution of functions without looking them up through a class of which they happen to be a member.

But given that it is inescapably true that every function call in Python is translated to a call of a method of an object, it's hard to argue that it isn't "really" OO.
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I think that getting women involved in STEM does exactly this:
> attacking the mental characteristics that lead to sexist thought

I agree, but only as long as the end result is the best candidate for the job being hired. Granting special consideration to a group is just as bad as shutting them out.
Is there a suggested outfit that over-40's should be wearing to interviews? Is a hoodie a must-have? Is it better to wear an Apple watch, or say a Nixon watch?
Game Freak was pretty involved, though. So was Iwata.

http://nintendoeverything.com/niantic-on-pokemon-go-masuda-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go#Development
The biggest value Mailchimp provides is deliverability. They spend a lot of time working with ISPs to maintain the reputation of their IPs to make sure their mail ends up in the inbox and not the spam box.

You can't self host that.

The mailing list features themselves aren't much different than anyone else offers.
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The majority of white people believe that discrimination against whites is more common than discrimination against people of color, actually.

Ask your average middle class white person about affirmative action, preferential access for minorities to grants/loans, etc.
The issue is not when you powered up the machine and the ram boards, its more whoever powered them up before you got the machine.

That power supply may have failed decades ago. Was the machine known working when it was last powered up?

Is there any way you could build a rig to test each 4116 chip, or a rig you could plug each board into which would supply proper voltages (in the correct bring-up and bring-down order, because 4116 drams are weird like that) for the dram, and do a pattern test on the entire board all at once?

Personally I don't like 4116 drams at all because they're very unreliable. (4164s are far superior in this regard.) See the PARC notes on bitsavers re: the notetaker project, the notetaker test systems were frequently out of commission due to failed 4116 dram chips, or running with one or more chips dead and the ECC constantly correcting the errors.

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No shit!

The only DRM that should be on ebooks is there should only be one version of it at a time. Just like a printed book.
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And, of course, fewer features. That's unique, at least.
yes, understood that No Confidence has historically referred to a parliamentary procedure.

I think the term is appropriate here as well but might be problematic because of its historical usage. Avoiding confusion or conflation is a good thing, so maybe a different term should be used for this situation.

I think your suggestion of No Representation is a decent one. I'm not suggesting that that should result in an unfilled office though. My view is that if No Representation actually wins (takes the plurality of the vote), it should trigger a special election where new candidates must be nominated and a new popular vote must be held.
> Most other manufacturers in contrast to Apple do not only sell these overpriced "flagship devices" which few people really need these days but also offer devices in a more reasonable price range.

Like the 5 lines of iPhone that Apple offers[1]?

[1]http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/
Not that I disagree with you, but sadly, most companies don't seem to want to train people anymore. They rather push that responsibility to either universities or the applicants themselves.

In fairness, I do think that someone who is very comfortable with a language or framework will be able to do things much faster than someone who isn't. Considering how quickly people change jobs nowadays, I can also see how companies don't want to train people only so they will leave shortly after or even before they're useful.

Obviously this is just based on my own experience in the US.
I'm out of the country and will still be out of the country on November 8th. I'd like to fill out an absentee ballot for Maine. Is voteplz able to mail all the requisite forms to me internationally?
First thing I thought of was FFVII. This looks like a pretty solid tool, will definitely be trying it out.
I beg to differ :)

http://i.imgur.com/RtAsZKp.jpg

This is from a fancy-ish local (European) supermarket that's generally praised for the quality food they sell. The cost was around $15.
I have been in this situation a couple times, and it can be really stressful.

You will continue to be viewed as "the boy who cried wolf", and you should expect to be excluded from the decision making process in the future.

Put your thoughts in writing, and start applying for other jobs.
I don't hold allegiances to a text editor (c'mon, it just edits text!) so I switched from Atom for a while too: I was very impressed with it (it feels so snappy, and looks so cool!). It fell over on linting some of the ES7/8 things that we use in our code base - but as soon as they fix that I will give it another serious go.
I absolutely judge a company by the interview process and the questions they ask.

"Would I want to work for a company where the employees pass their given process?"
Are they looking for someone who must have every box ticked or are they looking for someone with enough qualifications yet needing work so much they are willing to undercut themselves? Are they justifying their salary offer because you tick 90% of the boxes and not 100%?

I've been looking for work in data engineering and databases for 9 months, and while I'm certainly not as qualified and experienced as you are, I consider myself capable. I've definitely passed the take home and whiteboard tests I've been given, etc.

When I read about a "shortage," I wonder if this is more indicative of unicorn searching than anything else.
almost everything is a method

Not "almost". Just "everything is a method", in terms of function calls. Even user-defined standalone functions. Consider:

def my_func(arg):
return arg + 5

The following are equivalent, and show how things work:

my_func(3)

and

my_func.__call__(3)

and

types.FunctionType.__call__(my_func, 3)
Wouldn't it be better for uninformed people to not mess up the results rather than voting for whoever sounds good or looks nice?

I mean, how many people are really putting in the necessary research and deep consideration for choosing the person most well qualified to run the (currently) most powerful country in the world?

Probably not many.

It seems more like two competing hype machines. Which bandwagon do you want to jump on? Except we're not choosing our favorite sports teams. The repercussions can change the fate of billions.

I would rather the uninformed/uninterested stay out of it than voting randomly. Yes, I think everyone should be able to vote. But no, I don't think everyone should.
City people are actually more selfish, depressed and obsessed with money.

It's not a stereotype, it's true.

There's a lot of data on urban/rural happiness and it all points in the same direction.

As for the other attributes, they are generally true.

Spend more than 3 months solid in the same small town. Then come back to the city - it will feel weird, antisocial, and a little crazy.
That's because the system is already optimised for the needs of HR people.
i can't downvote but:

> I really don't see the importance of sex in relations to engineering

that expression is too vague to really say anything about. there exist "minority groups" in various fields (such as "male nurses"), and said groups sometimes have distinct life experiences and insights as a result, including their relationship with the "majority group".

> Or perhaps explain why the following characteristics are irrelevant or less important when it comes to engineering

this seems non-sequitur or a strawman. the mere existence of "ask a female engineer" does not necessarily imply anything about other potential "ask a _ engineer" q&a's.
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there's a very large difference between "no preference" and "I find all the options unacceptable".
It's fine to analyze potential racism experienced by oneself in this fashion, but it really is out of bounds to analyze potential racism experienced by other people in this way. Perhaps that isn't fair to those of us who rarely experience potential racism, but so what?
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Diversity initiatives for the tech world baffle me. The tech world is already very diverse, along lines that transcend race and gender.

I am talking about national diversity. Engineering teams are composed of a huge percentage of foreign born workers who carry truly diverse experiences. The difference in experience between nationalities completely trumps the differences in experience between gender and race within the same nationality.

Looking for diversity in the form of race and gender is unproductive given the current diversity in the work force. American females have a very similar experience as American males, as do African Americans and White Americans in this context. Americans regardless of race and gender are all part of the same tribe.

The current diversity in the tech world have made in groups almost non-existent. No one nationality has had a large enough share of the engineering population for in groups to form and be problematic.

tldr: Diversity in the form of nationality is prevalent in the tech world. National diversity creates true diversity while gender and race diversity creates insignificant diversity.
I haven't noticed, always assumed you had to make contact with the thing you're swiping away which kind of makes sense. You point was that notifications are now more difficult to dismiss which I have noticed. If your point is based on having to make contact with the item you are dismissing it's quite weak. Is there something else they've changed that you're referring to and I have noticed in the betas?
>\Lxss\rootfs

Is not visible in explorer, you have to explicitly type this path out in the explorer nav bar to go there. But like I said it still doesn't matter because of file permissions.
> Until a court has convicted Appelbaum of the crime of rape, he is not a rapist.

Let's be clear that there's a vast difference between "a court has not convicted him of that crime" vs "he did not commit that crime". A statement can be factually true, even if you can't prove it in court and thereby you lack a legal defense against defamation.

Legally, I'm defaming Al Capone right now, because was into racketeering. It might be unwise to say that, as it would open me to prosecution, but it's certainly not untrue for that reason. (I've thoughtfully considered the risk, and will accept any libel charges from his estate.)

In any case, were Al Capone still alive, you would have to be a complete idiot to treat him as anything but a gangster. Feel free to extend the analogy on your own, and conclude what you will about the public figures in tech who face several rape accusations.
Twilio targets the enterprise, offering more security and regulatory controls
Xamarin doesn't support the platform the editor was originally written for: the web.
I had the same complaints and just went with the excellent ESLint plugin with a ES2016/17 friendly config instead of the default vscode linting.
I think he's paid by Apple.
Even that is not true any more. A few recent examples:

- iPhone 6s/6s+ are heavier & thicker than iPhone 6. They have worse, especially low-light, cameras compared to iPhone 6 and have smaller, therefore worse, batteries. All of this for a gimmicky, screen that pops up a contextual menu that is covered by your finger that brought it up.

- A computer with a single port for everything, even charging, i.e. MacBook.

- Apple TV 4th gen. remote and usability.

- Charging situation with Magic Mouse 2.

- Charging situation with Apple Pencil.

- Removal of the perfectly usable headphone jack on iPhone 7.

- iPhone 7 has stereo speakers in landscape orientation but the Music apps in iOS is portrait only.

And don't get me started on their software.
> I understand but your opinion is predicated on your particular reading of "brokering services" law you cited previously.

Well, yes, obviously. I was responding to your claim, which was about the utility of the position as a tool to convincing people about whether they ought to discriminate, and pointing out that that wasn't the point.

> That extensive enumeration of brokers/agents/salesman/employee is a person that does the matching work on behalf of the client.

I've done both sales (on both sides) and rentals (on one side) through brokers, and in no case have they performed matching for me, in every case they provided a variety of administrative support services, including assisting in the search for matches (though, in the present case that I am currently working on, I hope they don't need to even do that -- if things go well, the match we handed them at the outset will be the final one.)

Which is to say that I think your idea of what a broker/agent/salesman or any person in the business of selling or renting dwellings does is excessively and unjustifiably narrow.
"Update All Extensions" Nice! It was a huge PITA before to close and reopen the editor once for every extension that had to be updated. One of my last big gripes about VSC, gone.
I'd slightly change the wikipedia article to use "while True:" instead of "while 1:". Also, the C# is also quite readable (though very verbose).