skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a full stack guy who was doing 50/50 front-end vs back-end till last year. But since then, I've started moving more towards the back end as I simply am not able to keep up with the newer frameworks and libraries coming out everyday.

What is worse, a lot of employers have already decided that if your app isn't written in React + Redux + whatever-is-hot-today, it isn't worth doing. I like to keep my stack fairly simple, and my approach apparently doesn't work.

I still do a fair bit of front-end development, but only when its on my own terms.
This kind of thinking is the one of them forces that drive initially good-enough designs into complete bullshit by spiral "aging" and "revolution" of even simple things. Thanks for all software that I dumped because of that.
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I don't really think they were barbarians in any very interesting sense, just that if there's some contemporary perspective from which you could have seen them that way it would be from a Greek cultural perspective. My point was more just that anything Rome might have lacked culturally was basically right next door in Greece and even familiar to educated Romans - it's silly to skip over Greece and denigrate the Romans from some "Asian" perspective when a substantial amount of that asian stuff derived from Greece in the first place.

And I think the Romans knew they had the strengths you describe and the weaknesses I describe - and in the case of some Romans explicitly preferred it that way. Again that's not well described as a society that is "cut off" from anything.
There are onhub apps for ios and Android

https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6273485
There's not one reliable, or a set of reliable, way to handle errors. A high level language could handle it for you reliably in the sense of throwing exceptions and hoping you'll catch it. That'd work, you'd get Java software that throws exceptions all the time during normal operations.

Errors are valid values, handling them is as normal as handling other values you get from functions.
> Still, worth saying, not an illegal salary.

"This is so shitty that the nicest thing that can be said is it's not actually illegal" doesn't merit the exculpatory nature of this sentence. And the sentiment behind it isn't really worth much in the first place.
I wonder if this will help any of the opentracing work? Cool to see this added as a first class citizen.
Alright, now we know how that weapon works in Star Wars Ep 7
Of course it's better elsewhere. Many companies are not under US authority. Many provide better security features. Many are not known for having terrible security, or the biggest breach of user data ever.

IIRC, Yahoo has always provided more data not even because they shared it, but because they were so lax with security.
AM I BEING DETAINED, OFFICER? AM I FREE TO GO?
No. Stop it. I don't want to hear that we should be re-writing all of our systems code in Rust, or that Oberon and the Wirth family should have won, or that C is crap, and Linux should die, and be re-written, or that this wouldn't have happened if we had all just adopted the Lisp Machine.

We've all heard it already, we all know what you'll say. So skip the smug post, and go do something productive. Like writing a really cool piece of new code, or fixing a use-after-free, or posting something more insightful, or inventing a new type of shoelace that doesn't come untied until you want it to.
Mesh networking has captured a lot of my attention lately. It isn't that new, but it isn't exactly available to people. Given that we overcome some of the existing challenges with meshes, we could have deep Internet penetrantion without having to deploy a lot of infrastructure.

There are some communities on the net who are working on homebrew cybernetics. I've seen experimental designs for transdermal data/electric ports, health monitoring implants, and implanted secure elements, &c. CyborgNest recently started taking pre-orders for a "north sense" implant[1]. Definitely my favorite fringe.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11778249
> What if you had all your mail scanned or OCRed to remove certain phrases such as "do not disclose" and then the resulting message was delivered to you.

Willful blindness is (as one might expect) evidence of willfulness of an act, rather than a way of displaying an absence of willfulness.
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Google has universally better UX than Apple. Have you used the enormity that is iTunes?
The sarcasm is strong with this one...
Parts of it have. Other parts are still very happily engaged in a race to the bottom that shows no signs of stopping. (Under no circumstances would I ever recommend working in mobile, for example, unless it's King or another hit machine.)
I was very late coming to Octavia Butler's writing, despite being a huge scifi nerd from a very young age.

I wish I'd discovered her sooner...she's easily in my top five favorite scifi authors, today. Parable of the Sower (and its sequel) is beautiful and thought-provoking; the Lilith's Brood series (starting with Dawn) was way ahead of its time, tackling gender, race, sexuality, and xenophobia, in a really thoughtful and nuanced way (in a genre that is not renowned for nuance on any of these subjects). Even her early Patternist series is awesome. It's like she sprung up fully formed as one of the great scifi writers (though, apparently, she had several years of rejection, so I guess she honed her craft in relative obscurity).

I suspect I was slow to read her because her best known work, Kindred, just didn't sound like something I would like (I did end up reading it, and liking it, though it's not my favorite of her work, and I don't really get excited about alternate histories or time travel stories). But, most of her other stuff is right up my alley. She's got dystopia covered with the Parable series, she's got weird aliens in Lilith's Brood, and she's got creepy evolutionary speculation in the Patternist series.

I really just can't say enough good things about Butler, and strongly recommend every scifi fan check her out. I wish she'd written more, as I've read most of her novels a couple of times, and loved nearly all of them. It's disappointing to have discovered someone so good, and then run out of books by them to read, knowing there will never be another. (Similarly, I never "got" Asimov as a kid, but then read Foundation as a young adult and finally understood it and loved it, only to find he'd died a couple months before...but, at least Asimov wrote enough books to keep one busy for years.)
IM. Signal is, IMO, the most secure one that anyone's likely to convince non-nerds to use.
Why do techies hang around in SF? Why do aspiring actors hang around in LA?
Some incredible open source projects came out of KSP.

This one: https://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/

Is a great example. This is the one game I've spent hours on as an adult. I wish the team the best.
Ah, so this is interesting from a historic perspective. I thought this was being released as a formal method that brought some innovation, as mentionned earlier I had no idea or context other than the slide I went through posted in the link.
A close family member was a Classics professor so while I have never personally studied Latin, I've been around it all my life, and my understanding is that your experiences are not close to typical.
People for thousands of years have used the plant for pain relief and spiritual well being. It's oils as ointments and fiber to weave ropes and make cloths. It's amazing that it has taken 100 years to convince todays society of it's benefits.

What a great story and more proof the plant is an important part of humanities history.
There's a lot of good information on how to improve one's memory on the Mentat Wiki:

http://www.ludism.org/mentat
As might judgement by a third party ...
> such images are quite familiar to any long-term resident of the city.

This. I think there is an amusing misconception that the world outside of SF has about the place, that it is an idyllic place full of rich technologists in multimillion-dollar hipster-yuppie homes, working to change the world from their conferences at luxury hotels and debating hot JavaScript frameworks over single-origins at Sightglass, Blue Bottle or Ritual.

Well, some of that is true, but by and large the city is a place of wealth disparity and struggle for a lot, and that narrative is conveniently lost in the startup gold rush. Nothing in this post is that "disturbing" once you have lived in SF for a while.

I don't understand why the Deli Board guy is now suddenly freaking out about this. SoMa has always been "urban decay", and the spot Deli Board is in was pretty cosmetically dirty even when Deli Board opened up there. Even then, SF was a hell of a lot seedier than it is now 15 years ago that's what makes it cool to a lot of people. I remember lots of shady raves down there, hanging out at nightclubs and S&M bars, I remember when kink.com moved to the Armory in 07 and SoMa had a small uproar.

Some pieces of that still remain along Folsom there (1015, like a block from Deli Board, for example). I'm happy he's showing off what SoMa is like but this isn't news to anyone, and it shouldn't be to him either.
To Dissect a Mockingbird is even better, though...
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The real disruption is in giving power to the patient not the doctor. I want that power. I check online resources all the time about every sign and symptom I get, about every drug and medicine and about all procedures in order to avoid visits at all cost, only for surgery, only as last resource.

Yes, self-medication is wrong, right now is wrong, and there exactly is the disruption. Give information to the patients as a first line of defense, then let doctors handle the special cases.
Most mirrorless camera are not full frame though and are probably just side cameras for photographers.
Rob Pike is far more pleasant than his acolytes (for lack of a better word). Pike makes me want to clap: cat-v makes me want to vomit. It's the DJB people with none of the charm.
Sir, I think you left your child in the car.

What child?
You don't trust your ability to critically evaluate the things you read?
> How many passwords do you have to type and licences to accept to do that on your Apple cloud?

I made the switch to Nexus last year for work, but my wife is still a devoted iPhone user and recently upgraded to the 7. As I was setting it up for her I was shocked at how poor the UX was and the number of times the iPhone asked for a password (in some cases asking for the same password multiple times). Just a week earlier I had set-up a new Android device and I entered my Google login details once and that was it. The contrast was jarring.
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html...

Better URL that goes right to the appropriate section.
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The fourth paragraph:

"The options under consideration, which remain classified, include bombing Syrian air force runways using cruise missiles and other long-range weapons fired from coalition planes and ships, an administration official who is part of the discussions told me. One proposed way to get around the White House’s long-standing objection to striking the Assad regime without a U.N. Security Council resolution would be to carry out the strikes covertly and without public acknowledgment, the official said."

> I'm not sure what you are arguing? It's impossible for every piece on Syria to include every single piece of information.
If your point is that the NYTimes is somehow systematically trying to advocate for something, then I'm unsure what that something is.

I think other commenters understand the following: the NYTimes and other 'establishment' media outlets edit and publish material material to cohere with state narrative.

The details left out of media pieces end up being the same details everywhere: the opposition in Syria has a deep relationship with al Qaeda, the US stopped bombing al Qaeda after it changed its name, Russia is there legally, the US primary objective in Syria is regime change and is illegal.

The way you've characterized it is that the media each miss random bits of the story here and there, and each story/outlet can't be comprehensive.

But that's disingenuous. When there's very damning material (thinking of the DIA FOIA document from ~2012, or the Victoria Nuland audio recording) the media inevitably leave out all of the same information they do every time: the context, motivation, objectives and legality that would contradict the state narrative necessary for maintaining government support and sense of legitimacy.

This bit of history with Kerry is just a recent example.

The distraction, misinformation and censorship of the Snowden Documents is another example provided in the very top comment.
It's possible. So far, they're just using what's already there.
Cal Henderson "Why I Hate Django" DjangoCon 2008 Keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk. Not that it is the most educational talk, but it's really funny (edit: added youtube link).
Middle class isn't about where you are employed, it's about you employing yourself eg. You're not dependent on someone else for money.

edit: although you are dependent on customers. But the recent /r/dataisbeautfiul post said that if you're employed, you're not middle class. Middle class is like a company owner.

I shall find the link.

Hurr tis

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/54ahqj/eve...

Saw this somewhere on Reddit.

Factory work sucks, but I see people who put in the years and get to 50K, but fuck factory work. Unless you do something cool. In my instance cutting meat (doing the same thing, 6,300 times in a day)
A homeless beggar can clear $2400 a year easy; that's less than $7 a day. You're essentially working for free at that point. I don't understand why they ever agreed to it, at least not without some sort of profit-sharing thing.
Introducing a new way to spy on you? A WiFi repeater will do the trick...
Iirc people ran with that figure...but it was actually given by just one of the employees, who was a 16 year old they got to do "community support".

We dont know how much the coders were making.
One of these things is a compiler-enforced piece of tooling; I know my errors are handled because I don't have any alternatives to handling them. The other is a code standard that people regularly ignore. If you want to assert equivalence between these two options, I suggest you show your work.
Your pricing page was fun to read, thanks
I would have enjoyed this more had it more nuance. Even if you don't know squat about history, its important to get of this single-dimension "who was greatest" + Western self-loathing (and ironic combo too).

========

From what I learned in school and remember off the top of my head:

- Rome was an ugly place, but they kind of knew it hence upper classes went Greek and the eastern empire became more prominent. Romans were great for trade, but their empire could only be held together by growth (plunder) and that's not sustainable

- Greeks were more civilized, but clearly sucked at empire building (Alexander is Macedon). Hellenization shows that even if he messed up Persia, the culture was influential.

- China couldn't really expand because it is so isolated geographically, so it is harder to for it to influence other places. But this had an effect that arguably they were less interested in conquest and influence (outside of uniting accessible areas)
- Confucianism raggin' on merchants, artisans, and whatever else might form a middle class
- Ming treasure fleet might have reached Africa, but no fucks given.

- Mesopotamia did do great things back in the day, but by 1000 was past its peak (as was the Levant). Interesting how ethnic identity, especially among Semitic groups, seems quiet fluid, though invading armies + Islam explains a lot of that.

- Persions were not at all taught (before college). Seriously wtf, we covered everybody else said to be skipped in American education. But I later learned in college that perhaps they were more rural/feudal than eastern Mediterranean, (the article says more Urban than Rome, but then makes a bunch of medieval comparisons, so who knows?)

- While we didn't cover it. I read about Kush/Bactria on Wikipedia (and the other Kush hah (south of Egypt not what you were thinking hah)). I can kind of understand that as an influenCED rather than influencING kingdom it was easy to gloss over (oh we talked about the silk road, but usually in the abstract). But I do like covering it as concrete evidence that those things which were said to be influential actually were.

Basically, even in fairly leftist history curricula, it was all about who does the most trade, most urbanization, and most interaction with neighbors. Any overly courtly civilization was suspect.

Arguably then the same things that made China so dominant early on and steady thereafter also lead to its eventual falling behind. Central Eurasia might have become the dominant world culture except the Europeans got a huge steroid injection with easiest access a humongous place you could depopulate by coughing.

==========

Author asked in a caption about better timelines. I inherited some company's Hammond's "Graphic History of Mankind" from the 1950s. Some things there should definitely be revised (though they kept on extending and publishing the timeline until at least 2000) but the concept is great.

Somebody should make some crazy SVG thing where as you zoom in more details would appear. Make it procedural generated and open source so non-technical history buffs can send you PRs (or figure out how to scrape Wikipedia). I'll be forever grateful.
I have that lens and its one of the best Canon lenses. Not much distorsion, not bad vignetting, very good resolution and with an included IS for video shooting as well. Its not without reason that most serious Canon pro photographers recommend it.
~13% of the fraction of the country that is formally employed earns minimum wage[1]... just not usually people in any sort of specialized profession working in cities.

[1] (in Spanish) http://www.milenio.com/politica/salario_minimo-aumento_salar...
Also between austerity and suburban hype---man talk about mistakes we won't stop repeating.
You have the power to help improve it.
> So we could conclude that, on the basis of the non-faked information out of Guccifer 2.0 that likely this information hasn't been forged either.

Sure, you could make that argument based upon your own web of trust.

Crowdstrike and others that have given this Russian intelligence attribution are higher in my web of trust than an anonymous Russian-appearing hacktivist, largely because they are people are in my own social circle and personal network. Believing that attribution and having an understanding of the history of Russian tradecraft and its current political leadership, I'll verify before trusting in this case. I'll assume something in here is likely faked, forged, or set up to deceive in some way.

Not believing it is Russian intelligence but likely highly partisan, I will maintain my skepticism given the timing of this release and the fact that this hacktivist has only been anti-Clinton late in an election cycle.
Every Android phone is an iPhone killer. Android owns ~80% of the market, to iPhone's ~18% [1]. Having many price points turns out to matter a lot; but, I think even people who are not price sensitive often prefer Android (I certainly do). I've loved every Nexus device I've owned...the pure Android experience is hard to beat, IMHO.

1: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/18/ios-android-market-share...
Read "Manual of the Mercenary Soldier" (1988), by Paul Baylor. Serious book for real-world mercs. It covers this issue. One well-known player had written something like "xxx happened. I was there" (and could thus get in on the war). Baylor writes "He didn't spend a lot of time hanging around Vancouver or Helsinki."

(Baylor was writing pre-9/11. The rules are different now for US citizens.)
His "Hammock Driven Development" talk is good too:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/03/tech-video-rich-hickey-ham...

A couple of comments there by me.
Better than those teapot domers
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Unfortunately, it doesn't take lead to attenuate WiFi signals. Many turn-of-the-century buildings used chickenwire under plaster on the interior walls. This makes a pretty effective Faraday cage:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126221116097210861

My SF apartment is the same -- well under 1,000sqft, need an enterprise router and a substantial repeater to get signal on the end opposite from the cable modem.
Echo chambers are dangerous places to make marketing decisions. Startup and tech and design conferences are peak echo chamber.
Dictionaries usually lag consensus among practitioners about what a field is really about. What is software engineering? We update our answer year after year, but Oxford English only does every decade at best.
DNS root is no longer controlled solely by the US Government starting Oct 1
Sinologist Victor Mair reports:
"
On Thursday we had our Spring mid-term examination. I always test the students on a seen portion and an unseen passage. Because we go over the text in class together so very carefully, they usually do well on the seen passage, but often the unseen passage — for which I try to pick a text that is at about the same level of difficulty as the stage we're at in class at the time — completely throws the students for a loop. This time it happened that the students (2 from China, 2 with a Japanese background, 2 from the United States, 1 from Hong Kong, 1 from Vietnam, and 1 from Ghana) were stymied by the unseen passage that I gave them. They could understand all of the characters singly, and I even gave them additional vocabulary notes and explanations. But they just couldn't make sense of the passage as a whole nor even of its constituent sentences. Among the 9 students, only 2 could roughly figure out what was happening in the unseen passage. Of course, this is terribly frustrating for the students, but it is also good practice to push them to their limits to see what they can do unaided (like letting a child try to ride a bike without training wheels after a period of using them). In cases like what happened on Thursday, I tell the students that I will be lenient, so I'll add on 20 or 30 points to their grade because I fully realize how hard the test is. If they can get any part of it, I'm proud of them."

( http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24459 ) and also a detailed answer from an otherwise-anonymous stackoverflow user: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15452/can-chines...
Ah yes, deprioritize features then spin it as "we just want to make sure it's perfect", as if IPv6 is some kind of work of art or delicate baking.
You said that it is just not very good. Go ahead and try to find a 24 105 lens that can outperform it at the same price range.
I'm probably missing some back story here. Why did the developers agree to work for such low salaries? If they accepted the job knowing how much they will be paid, why are they upset about it now?
"The sentiment behind it" is yours.
Preware was one of the most amazing pieces of software I've ever seen on mobile (I remember going out at lunch multiple times to hang around a fast public wifi spot to try and download an LDXE-based chroot that was too large for my home connection).

Stuff like Xposed is interesting, but I haven't seen any software for mobile that managed to match the kind of community driven tweaking that Preware fostered.