skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your media mix will likely shift, but you'll still be paying Facebook, Google etc. as well. Btw take a look at Twitter if you aren't already. I've had good results there.
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It's a pretty arbitrary term, but based on what you've said, especially "I don't fancy the new and shiny. I just get things done fast and done properly", would be enough for me to label you a senior programmer.

Our industry is way too obsessed with fashion... sooner or later you realise that most of the "new" stuff is largely existing ideas re-hashed in a slightly different form. Senior programmers realise this and can pattern match to understand the role of various new technologies, and learn the details if and when necessary.

How do you get there? You already are, you just don't realise it yet.
Hey that's a neat trick. If I'm reading the docs[1] correctly, as far as the application is concerned it is connected to the loopback. The same thing happens when I `ssh -L <port>:localhost:<port> <local-vm>`.

I think it also follows the spirit of the idea since the change is local to the machine you're using.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/debu...
Maybe with remote rendering though. Which has advantages already, such as ease of spectating, lack of multi-GB texture downloads.

You still get to run a physics model and game logic though and that is a non-neglible part of modern games.
Man behind India's 20 bn 4G rollout believes in astro-numerology
I'd love to know what the incentives are for them.

ETH Zürich is among the top ten computer science schools in the world, that's what.

Zürich was and is a glamorous place to live, au pair with New York, Tokyo or Milano, and after the "Brexit", Zürich is the new London now. Financial industry is withdrawing from the island and going home. Those things create incentives and an upward spiral for Zürich.

And also bear in mind that Confoederatio Helvetica has some of the lowest taxes in the world; it's every American republican's wet dream in terms of that.
For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people.

It's actually been longer than that. The site at Monte Verde [1] in Chile seems to have been widely accepted as a pre-Clovis site nearly 20 years ago (1997 according to Wikipedia [2]). Awareness of the site, at least among the archaeological community predates that (1989 [3]). The first radiocarbon dates indicating a pre-Clovis origin for the site go back to 1982[4].

The idea that Clovis was not the earliest culture in the Americas, and the commensurate theory that the earliest colonists must have been traveling by boat [5] goes back decades. I know I've been reading about it (in the popular press no less) since the 1990s. It seems like every article I read about it makes it seem like some new and revolutionary idea. The only conclusion I can draw is that archaeological science operates on time scales only slightly shorter than those the archaeologists study.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde#Acceptance

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde#Diffusion

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde#Discovery (third paragraph)

[5] I'd like to give you a citation for this, but this theory, as far as I can tell has no official name.
Wasn't indehackers the domain that posted about the domain squatters who made '$xxx in a month' just the other day? Is this a real site that people go to or a thinly veiled marketing service?
> it's more like an ASIC.

I get the impression it's a lot like how one uses an analog computer.
Their average revenue comes from recent months. Seems a fair way to do it for companies that are continuing to grow rapidly.
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Tbh that's the effect of a low interest rate, not inflation. The inflation component would be the portion on your rent and even by that measure other items have decompensated more so than the rises in rent. Don't forget Oil was hovering around $150 just under a decade ago, and now its less than a 1/3rd of that.
Anybody know how this compares to Biblical history? This would have been around the time the Gospels were written, and Galilee is mentioned a lot in the New Testament. But was Christianity growing in Galilee at the time?
When someone gives you the title.
Why is it here? The other day US have killed another 62 Syrians and over hundred wounded by mistake. Still no news here about it.

https://www.rt.com/news/359678-us-strikes-syrian-army/
As for AI, Apple is a small and outsider player which will hurt in the long term.
It's mostly just a title on a business card and/or org chart.

Some times it's given to people instead of money.

Don't worry about the title. Worry about getting good at what you do, and an asset to your team and organization.
You aren't some kind of Canaanite genocide denier are you?
People aren't interested in backups. They're interested in restores.

People aren't interested in apps. They're interested in capabilities.

The apps markets are good for ... delivering a completely dizzying (that is: intentionally discombobulating and confusing) array of crappy software that sometimes works, always intrudes on your privacy and steals your personal information, and frequently goes titsup.com for no particular reason and with limited notice.

I don't want apps.

I want decent browsing capabilities with document management.

I want explicit control over networking.

I want a messaging capability. SMS, IRC, eMail, whatever -- there's no reason these need to be split out.

I want a multimedia player.

A basic set of utilities. The same ones as were on the Xerox Alto 48 years ago: A calendar, calculator, notepad type editor. Basic spreadsheet wouldn't hurt.

These days something with maps and an encyclopedia would be handy. Stills/video camera and gallery.

And since I'm not the 99.98%, I'd like a goddamned full-fledged shell running Linux or BSD.

But StuffMyCrapWebsiteIntoThisApp.com? Not so much.
The whole point of studies like this is to show that this not a new issue, it's been happening all along. The only reason it feels like "fomenting" to you is that you didn't notice it, and now that you do, you realize you liked it that way.

> Isolation on all sides is really all that's derived from exercises like this.

Helping fellow humans participate more fully in society is the opposite of isolation.
Derrida and weather control in one article.

Back before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley and had extensive agriculture, Santa Clara County had a weather control program. When water-laden cloud formations were about to pass over without rain, silver iodide generators would be fired up across the Valley. This would generate a little extra rain.
Is there an easy way to exchange some USD to RMB online? anybody help?
I would love to have someone like you as a mentor.
Did you report it? Because that sounds like extreme misconduct. Amazon could have got rid of those nasty people. It might be a criminal investigation actually.
who is amazon's biggest competitor in the e-commerce space? its a little scary that they seem to have a winner takes all effect and both create their own products, get all data from products sold, invest in companies etc etc. I just worry that they don't have adequare competition to keep them in check...
I was going to say, if one wants a go web server with LetsEncrypt there's also https://docs.traefik.io/ . I have heard about Caddy, but had forgotten it is also written in go. So now there's (at least) three.
That's their process of rolling over. They've specifically will at one point stop using the phrase in their monthly meetings, which means the bonds will be left to mature - thereby destroying the money they created & shrinking the balance sheet - the bonds get taken off, as does the reserve balance created to buy them.

It's nothing new in fact its near bog standard. This process is done with the lower maturity instruments when interest rates are higher by matching it up to the federal funds rate by purchasing or selling them & rolling them over in the exact same fashion (with this 'printed'/reserve money as well). It's just this is done using longer term assets instead.
I would consider you a “senior” programmer? Mainly because you know that you do not know much. While a junior or intermediate programmer think they know everything.
There are of course more to it, like when you are stuck on something; you ask the senior programmer, that will probably have solved it ten times in the past. Or if you want to know what the best method is to do this, you ask the senior programmer, that have done it hundreds of times and thus found out the optimal way, with all edge cases included. So I would say it's mostly about experience, and then expertise.
Also, a senior programmer should have gone though at least two paradigm shifts.
I see but what happens if the parameters of the transportation systems are regulated?
> I'm addressing his beliefs, not him as a person

That is ad-hominem. What is a person? His beliefs - and actions - of course.

Well, I imagine that you could argue a person is the structural disposition of a bunch of atoms, but it easier to summarize that as "beliefs".

Ad-hominem attack means diminishing some actions/qualities of a person because of other actions/qualities of said person, and that is what the parent was arguing. Not that it is always inappropriate, but it is ad-hominem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...
And I thought it was Palestinians all the way down ...
This seems to be an ad for "Phusion Passenger", which seems to be a re-invention of an FCGI server.
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I don't think that, in the context of moving to a libertarian-as-pitched-in-the-USA state, "didn't even decrease average welfare" would hold true.

A massive amount of publicly funded services would be cut. So if we take as a given the ability of these elites to capture the cost savings of that for themselves, you end up with the average worker receiving no more money (since it's been captured) yet receiving fewer services (since the public ones were cut).

All the leverage[0] is in the hands of the owners, not the workers.

[0] excluding leverage such as "there are more of us so we can outvote you" and "there are more of us so we could revolt" - the first is presumed to have not happened, for whatever reason, by the assumption of the existence of this libertarian state, and the second would be a violation of the property rights that USA-libertarians hold so central.
In an Agile context at least, it means test out ideas and reiterate quickly. Breaking does not necessarily mean breaking existing things in a visible way.
HTML5 use FileReader to read file in JavaScript
Google launches free version of Optimize 360
What would be an example of a more usable market that doesn't require some level of domain expertise?
> Now, instead of just normal network effects, there’s also monetary incentive network effects built into this protocol.

That kind of sounds like a multi-level marketing scheme. Is that a more responsible way to make money?
(a) This matches Searches to Apps, not users.

(b) The situations you're describing hasn't really changed since Facebook added ads, so they could've had that "realization" much earlier.

(c) Apple is positioning itself as a privacy-focused company with (for example) their lawsuit regarding iPhone unlocking and their implementation of differential privacy for their machine learning algorithms. It'd be stupid to give that up and risk a triple-digit-billion-business (iPhone) for what's bound to be a small fraction of that (ads in the App Store).
Yea. I really don't understand why "marketing" here means "hey, look how much I earn, I must be really cool". Money likes silence.
> I had literally 0 CS prior to college. I am not a programmer and have no desire to ever be one and I would likely be a mediocre programmer at best if forced to do so for a living - CS101 was literally the easiest class I had in college.

What exactly does 0 CS mean? If you've never picked up a programming book that doesn't mean you had 0 CS exposure, 0 CS exposure is if you've never seen a computer and never reasoned about a logical system. Extremely rare among programmers yet actually not at all uncommon among many people I grew up around.

If CS is so basic, why are there so many people who can't understand for loops? How often do we kick a person to the curb if they can't immediately understand simple algebra or don't instantly figure out how to read? Is simple algebra basic? Is reading basic? How long do those take? How hard it is to teach reading to a person who has never read? Among those who have never read, are there going to be a few who'll pick it up quickly anyway?

It seems you consider it simple because it was simple for you. Maybe you got the one 101 CS class that was actually reasonable? "CS 101" isn't a monolith, there are many of them across colleges and programs, and some programs have improved on the matter.

> I have NEVER met a person who failed out of CS101 and had any place trying to become a professional programmer.

Well, that's kind of a self-biasing conclusion, isn't it? And it's not going to be very encouraging to any kind of person to fail a 101 class in a field.

I don't trust any one person to decide who has a place to become a professional programmer so I don't see that as any sort of evidence or an argument. People not being able to see potential in other people is old news.

In every CS class I've been in there was a huge disparity between those who have coded before and those who haven't, and it was only greater in the earlier classes. That disparity was not replicated in other classes. Those who have coded before could effectively do nothing and pass the class with flying colors while the rest barely scraped by. I have taken multiple high school CS classes due to school jumping and every single CS class had this effect. No, not hard evidence, but something you don't seem to be mentioning at all, and I've heard similar reports from lots of people.

> You've got scientific evidence proving the chemical make-up of men and women are identical?

We're not discussing whether or not they're identical and never where. We're discussing whether or not they completely and utterly explain the current gender disparity. That we do not know and will not truly know for a very long time.

Assigning various things to gender differences has a very bad track record in history, which is why many of us will be skeptical of that easily available conclusion for quite some time, because there are other forces and motivations at play.

I don't need to prove that something isn't true. The onus is on you to prove that it is true.

You're generally not arguing in good faith, which, unfortunately, casts doubt on the sources of your convictions.
For trucks it's still easier to drive there automatically as they have less lane changing than other cars. And your example is from a city. I think the time drivers spent in a city is not what makes the job so hard, it's the endless hours driving through the middle of nowhere. Automating that could be a huge gain already.

As an example, consider freight from LA to SF. The driver would still drive until he leaves LA, the truck would drive up the I-5 and the driver takes over again south of SF. In the end, the driver only had to drive for 30% of the time and could be more alert during that time (and spend his time with sth useful in the meantime).
LendUp (YC W12) agrees to pay $6.3M in fines
One aspect that would separate a 'senior' engineer from the rest would be initiative, leadership and mentoring ability. These are the engineers who go the extra mile to ensure that the team gets stuff done, and assistance and guidance is provided where required. A senior developer isn't just someone who knows a lot of stuff, but has a time-honed wisdom as well, which they can parlay into their leadership and mentoring duties.
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>Perhaps redesign the app store UI to better accommodate new apps.

Do you have any ideas on how to do it?
sometimes these title can be dangerous.
Duh, the Bible is not true?
JDK-8166089: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
That it's fine?

The problem have always been running others untrusted code in your own jvm.
Check your assumptions, friend. Pizza delivery drivers in decent areas routinely make more a year than college professors and other more prestigious-but-ultimately-low-paying gigs.
They are their own worst enemy. It is getting too hard to buy physical stuff from Amazon and not getting fakes. :-(

Right now I have a new type of problem:

I have waited for a package (in Romania) for a month, which the German DHL won't deliver. I have contacted the seller every week.

Amazon has some "must answer in 3 days" rule for sellers -- but seems to accept auto answering emails as an answer! My claim was cancelled because the sellers promised to deliver, now nothing happens when I complain.

(DHL has delivered to me before, worked great. And I work from home these weeks.)

It is just ridiculous.

This seems to be some criminal that found a hole in the Amazon state machine for orders/sellers/delivery/returns/cancels/etc: Send empty packages with bad addresses and never deliver, after 3 months the sale times out.

The only problem is that every time this happens, Amazon lose an old customer.
If I had to insure transportation of a gas for energy storage, I'd make it methane. LNG is pretty safe. But right now, there's plenty of natural gas around.
So I spent some time playing with the Authy app.

Here's the drop:

1) Dave has an active Authy account.

2) Dave configures 2FA for Coinbase using Authy.

3) Coinbase, rather than asking Dave to manually enter a TOTP secret, registers a 2FA token on Dave's Authy account via the Authy TOTP API.

4) Mallory takes over Dave's phone number.

5) Mallory resets Dave's Authy account at https://www.authy.com/phones/reset.

6) Mallory gains access to Dave's email account (using SMS recovery?).

7) Mallory confirms the Authy reset email.

8) Mallory logs into Authy using Dave's stolen phone number.

9) Mallory now has access to all of Dave's Authy API tokens (Coinbase, CloudFlare, etc).

10) Mallory can try guessing the backup password for Dave's other non-API tokens. Assuming Authy transmits the entire encrypted blob (I'm guessing it does), offline brute-forcing is possible.

tl;dr: Don't use Authy for services using the Authy API.
Urs Hölzler is Swiss ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Hölzle ) and as employee #8 that probably has a bigger influence if at all. That said I beleive the Endoxon guys have had impact e.g. the current lead PM on Google Maps is one of the former Endoxon team (this guy - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tYw4zNfqBNs ).

The interesting thing - from what I hear from people working at Google Zürich - is less than 10% of those working there are Swiss.

The location seems to be more about having a place to attract bright minds from Eastern Europe and even Israel that's still close enough so they can fly home easily for a weekend. So quota restrictions probably would really hurt here.
Victorian free public Wi-Fi pilot
Ok, we took that out of the title above.
I was arguing that Paul Graham ought to judged by more than viaweb, not that Sam Altman isn't an excellent president of YC. He has done amazing things with the organization in a short period of time.
Announcing mod_reset for Apache 2.x
Gizmodo posting rubbish, who would have thought!
Whats the ideal running speed?
May the best apps win. Amen.
Stretch Goals
In my experience:

- you are technically competent

- can handle design aspects of full stack (backend, persistence, frontend)

- have enough credibility and confidence to say NO to business people

- you can lead a small team of developers (2 to 5 people)
It's common (if not strictly accurate) for people to think of HN as a programmers' forum, so the OP probably thought "software dev" could be omitted as already in scope. It is mentioned, after all, in the second sentence of the main text.

To prevent misunderstanding, we've inserted "for a software developer" into the title above.
> It does not follow, however, that species change is inherently unmeasurable, and that therefore we just can't talk about it at all.

Sure, and I didn't say or imply that anywhere. I said that no matter how you conceptualize evolutionary change, the concept "living fossil" will be nonsense.
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>Why that matters I don't know (politics) but they were adamant supporters of the Clovis First hypothesis.

I imagine that it's less about "being first," and more about not wanting a history of hideous exploitation to be washed out under the excuse of you weren't first.

I try to imagine what it must be like to only have had my family's history recognised in any meaningful way in very modern times - and then to have people tell me "no no no, actually that's all changed, this is your narrative now."

Rightly or wrongly, I think I'd be on the defensive as well.
"Accumulated capital (like Notre Dame and the Louvre) doesn't show up in GDP either, and if anything tends to lower it."

Notre Dame and the Louvre are a couple of the things that make Paris the single biggest tourist destination in the world, from which it derives a huge amount of GDP. The French tourist officials make sure to monetize the Louvre for all they can.

*

"Mississippi's GDP per capita being similar to that of France, Italy or Spain is really hard to reconcile with the fact that many of us would love to live in the latter countries and couldn't be paid to move to Mississippi."

No, it isn't, because people wouldn't love to move to France/Italy/Spain, they don't even want to. People say they'd love to live in Spain/Italy/France, but the fact that they don't reveals it's mostly cheap talk.

There are some exceptions in professions that make well above the average for these countries (also retirees, students). Europe is really very nice if you make well above the average, but this is not (by definition) the typical life in those countries. Very few Americans are excited by a 24k take home salary in a mid-sized French town, or 15k in an Italian formerly wealthy industrial city.

The vast majority of migration flows are up the GDP gradient.
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Wal-Mart in talks to buy stake in Flipkart
To me, it is about what they are able to create independently, and the value of the end product.

Senior people have made the right mistakes, wasted weeks of time, and know what to avoid, what to embrace, and what to ignore. A senior dev can understand the requirements and figure out what is important and deliver something without a lot of external input.
Not a recent discovery. I worry that these misleading headlines get recycled as anecdotal justification for Israeli land claims.
Did no one raise the possibility of having informative articles on ABA's website? They could/would then be sourced by Wikipedia authors.
Impressive. I'd like to see what they can do with Japanese, Google Translate remains notably bad there and essentially hasn't improved at all in the last 3-4 years.
History of macOS
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I like your definition because it is timeless and rings true. The same definition will apply in 10 or 20 years time when there are new fads in development processes, programming languages etc.

I would add that the senior engineer has a mature approach to selecting/recommending tools and frameworks, based on what is most valuable for the business and the team, rather than was is cool, good for their career or whatever.
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Nice to see someone use the word 'interwebs'