skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm not mistaken, isn't "confirmation bias" basically the thing at play in the existence of both of these?
You say tooling, but then talk about libraries.

Because, from this outsider's perspective, it seems like most of the tooling is library management (rather than, say, profiling or linting -- does javascript even have a linter? -- or debugging).
Stereotypically entertaining.

Living in the bay area and working for a startup it's easy to relate and it's funny, i'll five the author that.

After the second paragraph it starts getting pretty old though...
The difference is that this is aimed at one market, whereas other "New Resumes" try to be a catch-all.
How to attract thousands of users to your business chatbot?
In a way, it would be a very luxurious lifestyle; all basic necessities would be taken care of by automated systems. It's not like you'll be slaving naked in the fields to cultivate the crops. Probably it would be more like sitting at a workstation all day, monitoring life support systems and sending orders to the robots.

The hard part would be missing the fresh air, green fields and blue skies of home. But, if there's an eco-catastrophe on Earth, there may be nothing to go home to.
Regarding the vectorized function calls (sorry if I misunderstood something): but how is this generic?

if I have a function:

```
function addone{x <: Real}(x::T)
x + 1
end
```

Wouldn't it be natural that `addone.` is dispatched when I call `addone([2 3])`?
Right, this would benefit from being a bit clearer.

Our backend query execution service connects to the customer's own DB as a client. The connection can be secured via SSH tunnel and firewall rules (for our NAT gateway IP addresses) - that way the database would never have to be exposed to the internet (as it never should be).
I think we have to distinguish between jerks who are making a serious and pointed critique through humour and those who are merely misanthropic.

> We could make this world a paradise with a wave of our hands, but we have bad dreams.

That is actually the core point behind my last post on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686698

To me it seems like society has decided to taboo major lines of inquiry in physics, chemistry and biology because it didn't like some of the answers it got initially.

These are my bad dreams.

Research into nuclear energy, the source of all power: Taboo. Not even taught in Britain anymore. No building for decades but lots of empty promises.

Research into genetics, the source of all natural variation and adaption. Taboo. The cult of egalitarianism has seen to that.

Research into drugs. Not many people know this but there exists a reverse of Moore's Law called Eroom's Law in the phamaceutical industry. Ignoring the recreational drug side of things which is tabooed, outside of DARPA I don't know any mainstream research into fine motor and brain chemical control in conjunction with control by computation.

The core problem with all of this tabooing is that we're prevented from opening up new avenues of exploration. You could taboo some things and it wouldn't matter because they're just a leave node on the tree of ideas, but if you outright forsake an entire branch node then you lose much more than just the thing you tabooed. Nuclear energy physics and genetic manipulation of humans are definitely branches and not leaves.
Thanks! corrected.
How is men losing a career path due to discrimination and choosing to enter a different one an "unfair advantage for men"?

Were the discriminatory practices that led Jews to start their own business also an "unfair advantage for the Jews"?
It might be interesting and helpful to try to narrow down what areas of science or engineering would be most interesting to them (if you know, and if the kids know!).
I can't speak to the norms of employment in therapy as I have no experience in that field whatsoever.

> nurses work insane hours

Healthcare in general has long hours. Nurses are paid hourly and most are protected by a union. Nurses are very well paid even after factoring in the long hours.

> many [nurses] are addicted to amphetamines and seriously injured by middle age

Citation needed.

> the ridiculously transparent OSHA violation that is every piece of hardcore pornography

I'm not sure what OSHA violation(s) you're referring to, but if there is a law being violated there is presumably video evidence of it, so it would be pretty easy for you to submit a complaint and get someone fined or arrested. Unless this is just a gross mischaracterization of an industry in which most people are more likely to drive around in a Bentley than anything else.

> I'm glad people like you will set me straight

Why do you need to take the decidedly negative tone of "people like you?" Tajen, whether you agree with him or not, is making points backed up with (anecdotal) evidence, and is doing so without resorting to hyperbole like you are.

> by letting me know that women being pushed into the more social and less technical role of manager is the harbinger of the fempocalypse

Yes, because more responsibility, more organization power, and more money is "being pushed." And see my note above re: hyperbole.
Great advice, except I'd change one thing: encourage the kids reach out, don't do it yourself.

And if they don't want to reach out, don't push them to. 5th graders are incredibly capable and should be given agency to make their own decisions.
JavaScript has enough issues that I prefer to not touch it, focusing more on backend Python work. Yarn is one of the first steps I've seen that makes me interested in JavaScript again. Excited to see where this leads the community.
Unless you've lived for meaningful amount of time in various cultures throughout your life, this type of stereotype ("Americans are such and such") tells more about yourself than what really is true.

I say this because I have lived in multiple countries/cultures and have seen many people who say the same thing. Regardless of which country you live in, there are people who talk about how some bad human trait is specific to only their culture. If people from all other countries say the same thing, it probably means it's not unique to only your people.

Also, this is not an American thing. This is called "courtesy".
Ok, CALIFORNIA. That better?
I realize that your use of the phrase "functional language" seems to entail having a static type system and purity, but most people seem to consider Lisp to be the original functional language and it doesn't have either property. If one considers Lisp to be functional then it seems like Julia should be as well. Do you not consider Lisp to be functional? Real question, not a rhetorical one – I'm trying to assess where people fall on this terminology.
No. One of the worst spots to be in for a company is for your revenue to be dependent on one product. 'Services' is dependent on iOS/macOS (App sales, Apple Music, iTunes, etc.). Apple needs the Mac, because it's currently their only other product besides iPhone/iPad that brings in significant revenue (and not just dependent revenue).

I think problems with macOS are often magnified on discussion forums. Partially, because there is a subset of the community that heavily dislikes Apple (for ideological or other reasons). Some macOS updates introduced minor bugs for my daily use, but it is an incredibly smooth ride compared to most other systems (I have used Linux on the desktop from 1994-2007 and still have a Linux machine at home for porting software, etc.).
The "use IAM roles for EC2" recommendation is a bit sketchy. The current security zeitgeist, not just after Colin's post but also after DerbyCon and Black Hat, is that EC2 roles are dangerous and, when under attack, not very predictable.
I have never once attended an all-hands meeting that couldn't have been an email instead.
using node.js/express here and I share your pain/ Need to find a module or should I write one which automates major part of documentation.

This has python support.. might be helpful : http://apidocjs.com/#examples
Lingon is a GUI for managing Launchd, but does not have a menubar widget.

https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/
If anybody wants to found a startup with me that makes it easier to set up mentorships with tech companies and labs in a way that would somehow benefit the companies as much as it would the students, lets do it.
Previous discussion from earlier today (submission got flagged, eventually): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944.
It might sound harsh to you, but you'd feel differently if you sat in front of my computer. Each misclick costs me 1-2 seconds of layout recalculation (100% on 1 core). For reference, my computer is AMD X250 from ~2011, 4GB RAM (enough), and running Firefox on Debian 8.

Using chromium it's a tiny little quicker, but still annoying. They could easily stop the content bumping and the darkening "please subscribe" overlays.
Toxic SV culture is ripe for parody, but words won't stop it. What will stop it is when the money stops flowing so easily and the wider economy improves so that it's no longer the place to be for the greedy. Not sure I see both those things happening any time soon, in the meantime Tech is sadly the new Finance.
Same question. If you are in San Diego, let me know.
I was referring to the expectation that a political announcement would contain satisfying technical details.
Pornography was a poor choice of industry to make your point, considering that that female performers routinely make more money than their male counterparts.

Also, we're talking about IT. I'm not sure what it proves to cherry pick 3 industries where (you say) women are treated badly.

I could say the same thing about refuse collection, gardening and unskilled construction work. Oh look! Some predominantly male jobs also have low pay and poor conditions!
Louisiana bars illegal immigrants and some legal residents from getting married
I'd love to see support for the 65c816/5A22, to allow targeting the SNES. Anyone know of Open Source compilers targeting that family of processors?
He either completely misses the point, or completely gets it.

Every single one of these "benefits" are very well thought out and calculated shams meant to deceive and manipulate impressionable kids into working insane hours for less than a realistic living wage. That's the whole point.

It's just like that circus in the Pinocchio movie.
Astroturf 'Outrage Machine' of Paid Trolls Floods Social Media
Great to see an analysis of the various options.

A few corrections on Prometheus:

> an AlertManager which handles generating and transmitting alerts

Alerts are generated in Prometheus, the Alertmanager then groups, deduplicates and transmits them. See https://www.robustperception.io/prometheus-and-alertmanager-...

> Data Storage Model: Prometheus uses LevelDB as the storage backend

LevelDB is only used for metadata (we used to use LevelDB for everything, that didn't work out too well). The primary timeseries storage is a custom format, which you can find more details about in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbnGSNEjhUc&index=6&list=PLo...

> It has an active community but no enterprise support.

There's several providers of support, my company being one of them. See https://prometheus.io/community/

And some others:

> InfluxDB supports ingesting data via a CLI, client libraries and an HTTP API.

It also accepts a custom TCP protocol, the graphite protocol and the OpenTSDB protocol.

> Influxdb .. supports GroupBy but not TopN queries.

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/query_language/fu...
Why is it painful recovering from snapshots? (have just moved to AWS so have not experienced this yet)
Props to Andy Weir and his book The Martian.

Like how Star Trek inspired a generation of engineers and rocket scientists, his book is inspiring another generation to go even further.
The moon has a weaker gravity well to escape.
If by "effed up" you mean it now works in a way that is actually really useful. Previously, all monitors shared a single space, so you couldn't switch between spaces on one monitor without switching your others. Now all monitors have independent spaces, so you can switch spaces separately, and you can fullscreen an app on one monitor without affecting another. It's soooo much better now.
I suppose I could think of a number of explanations for this observed effect.

1. Selection- because so much of IT is hostile to women, the only ones who become senior in the field are the very good ones.

2. Affirmative action- companies promoting women regardless of merit to seem progressive.

3. Some sort of inate or socialized advantage– the "women are better at people stuff" philosophy. If this is the case, then you'd expect more women to be in management.

4. Methodological flaws in the survey. I can't find any detailed discussion of their process, but phrases like "Of the senior developers who responded to the survey" seem to imply there could easily be significant selection bias.

Feel free to take your pick based on what you already believe. Personally, I'm going to wait for more data before forming any solid conclusions based on this.
We are in LA but because it is a private home school situation we are lucky enough that traveling to SF is a real possibility. We were already planning to visit an autonomous car start up in SF sometime this month. If you want to pm me on reddit please do (https://www.reddit.com/user/yewew/). Thank you so much for your interest.
So never, then.
Thanks for the insight! Would you consider sending a pull request with a note on that?
1. Design a website that groups brands into pools of related brands (e.g. cars pool includes hyundai/honda/audi/toyota/etc).

2. Privately invite representatives from each company to sign up for the site, and invite them to a blind auction on each brand pool their brand is involved with (Toyota exec sees car pool with top bid of $0.87/comment, decides to bid over it to put Toyota at the top of the pool)

3. Maintain a million Turing-beating chatbots that trawl reddit/facebook/twitter/quora/g+/HN/etc looking for brands, looks up the pools that brand is in, and then leaves a good PR comment for whichever brand has the highest bid across related pools. Swarm properly to distribute these comments evenly across the internet instead of clumping together.

4. ????

5. Profit (and/or become a real illuminati)
fuck your anger. :)
In Sweden, when 60% of college students were women, they stopped affirmative action because it would benefit men, and women sued for discrimination when affirmative action worked against them. [1]

There's no point at which feminists stop looking out for women at the expense of men.

1: https://www.thelocal.se/20100112/24330
> Fuck your crazy work hours.

Yeah!

> Fuck you drinking culture too.

Yeah!

> Fuck your open space floor plans

Yeah!

> Fuck the transparency trend, the post mortem and the 5 whys.

Yea---wait, what? Those other things are reasonable complaints, but wondering why things go wrong and trying to stop them from going wrong for the same reason tomorrow is, you know, good.
Awesome tool. Very simple and focussed as it should be. Definitely prefer this over the bunch of launchd scripts spread all over my system.

Will definitely upgrade to your future paid version if you retain the simplicity and promise to respect privacy.

Cheers!
Wow, the link to http://www.ec2instances.info/ alone is so helpful. I wish I'd had this set of resources a year ago when I spent weeks trying to understand AWS' own documentation.
Nobody does that calculus except people who want to see more $MY_GROUP and then yell that they are underrepresented.
Now, if they could get Lemmy back then we're golden.
Hi AptDeco team,

When growth started coming in quickly, how were you able to distinguish between good and bad opportunities? Such that ones that would result in big revenue growth, but didn't fit your core values?

Thanks so much!
That type of study is not enough to change the war machine. There's too much profit at stake for war hawks to even blink.
Precise geek coding is typical behavior for NTPs. ;-)
Doesn't work.

My cat who died a couple of years ago at the age of 16 had a bell on his collar all his life. I couldn't pick that bell up without it tinkling but Radar could walk from one end of the house to the other, including the stairs, without a sound. Also when hunting he did most of it by waiting for his prey to get close enough so that any noise from the bell was simply the last sound they heard.

For a while he used to sit on the roof and catch bats
So,the lesson here is
Shit happens... at any scale.
"I know it's hard to believe, but women don't usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don't usually encourage us to take AP computer science, and our best friends aren't in CS and don't refer us for sweet internships at Microsoft and Google."

Is it hard to believe most men don't do those things, too? Some do, sure. And of people that do these things, historically more have probably been men than women (don't have the stats, but it sounds reasonable). But how many men do you think do those things, vs those that don't? Some anecdata: I didn't do any of those. Of all the engineers I can think of, male and female, very very few went to coding summer camps or took AP computer science. Few had best friends in CS in university, but sure, more did this than AP computer science or coding summer camp. And few had sweet internships at tech companies.
Fuck You Startup World – Medium
I remember when this was first posted to HN the top comment was about a serious flaw in this hypothesis. Need to find the comment thread again...

Edit: Found it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483751

e.g. the other explanation could be that women applicants are just better than men, and that they aren't discriminated against.
“Euthanasia needs to be part of a successful long-term solution.”

But linguistic abuse does not. Make whatever recommendations about species culling you want -- but there's no way that targeted killing can be compared to "euthanasia."
Linux Support in Azure App Service
people gather wild bird eggs for food as a delicacy in city parks. Yet we blame the wild bird decimation (those birds who was able to survive in already tough city environment created by humans) in cities on cats. Cats don't eat eggs, rats do. Cats control rats. Cats also able to catch and eat an ill bird. It is pretty healthy coexistence until humans forcefully insert themselves. And it is so typical of the human race to blame somebody else for the harm humans create. I mean just look at the environmental damage, including the damage to birds population, resulting from production of that burger you've just ate for lunch.
Meh. I could write this same post about the corporate world stereotypes, but that would be dumb. This person has a problem with healthy people, fat people, people who have an interest in their field, people who work hard and overachieve, just an absurd breadth of random adjectives and interests that make people unique.

It just seems like they wish everyone was the same so they wouldn't be compared to the tons of people who've found success in the 'startup world'.

2/10, barely entertaining.
Let's consider Microsoft Office. It is a massive software and such as massive software requires a lot of (internal) dependencies and toolings.

Now imagine Office 365, the same software with the same functionalities, except running in the browsers. The task is to essentially write Microsoft Office (front-end logic) entirely in JavaScript (or TypeScript), with the additional problems of dealing with browser compatibilities issues, which are just as hard as OS compatibilities issues.

Then, imagine all the software going to the "cloud". JavaScript now has to have the capability of re-writing all these software originally written in C++, C#, Java... all sorts of languages. It is quickly becoming a superset of all ecosystems where everyone is trying to migrate their software to. So it is not surprising that people are inventing more and more tooling to make it more powerful to suit their needs.
Custom batteries mean you can make optimal use of space within the device (i.e. pack in more battery life in a smaller form factor).
What makes you think this is more than just words? I get that this formally tweaks NASA's mandate, but it's not clear this would have any affect. After all, the Constellation program was not just an executive order by Bush; according to Wikipedia,

> NASA Authorization Act of 2005...directed NASA to "develop a sustained human presence on the Moon, including a robust precursor program to promote exploration, science, commerce and US preeminence in space, and as a stepping stone to future exploration of Mars and other destinations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program

Indeed, your second article says

> It’s not a legally binding bill. Future presidents or lawmakers, or even NASA’s own administrators would still be able to modify plans at their own discretion — and that’s inevitable given the development of new technologies and fluctuations in funding over the next couple of decades.

> Nevertheless, by using explicit language never before used in federal legislation related to NASA authorization measures, the bill would make it tougher for future administrations to cut funding for the Mars mission or scrap the mission altogether.

I'm not impressed by the "explicit language never before used in federal legislation" when comparing it to what's come (and gone) before.
This article explains well why I avoid startups. I've considered joining some, but always get turned off by the interview phase. The ones that bug me the most...

> Fuck your crazy work hours

In my opinion, if you're working crazy hours, you've already failed, likely due to poor management of the project. The only exception I see is if you don't really have a life outside work and are working on a project that you're really passionate about, but even then it should be a temporary thing.

> Fuck your open space floor plans, You really think Zucks builds a Facebook’s 2017 roadmap while a nerf war is ranging outside

I want to get work done and move on with life, not play silly office games. Open space floor plans kill my focus.

> Fuck you startups with your extravagant parties and crazy off-site events that cost way too much money

I've never understood this. I want to work for your company. If I want to go on vacation, I'll do it with my family, not my coworkers. I have no desire to be best friends with all my coworkers.
Did you have any experince in the field before you got to work on your startup or did you just learn in the go?
Why would it be a bad thing to support additional repositories? Personally, I don't like how centralized the JS ecosystem is.

For example, if I refer to 'left-pad', it would default to 'npmjs.org/left-pad'. If the author goes rougue, I think it would be great to enable people to publish and consume 'thirdparty.com/left-pad'

Disclosure: I'm a FB employee with no knowledge of our plans in this regard
> Personality tests measure something that we don't even know exists, personality.

This sentence strikes me as odd, because subjectively, the one thing that shines through the most with people, even people I haven't seen in 20+ years, is a distinct (and possibly largely immutable) personality. In fact, a large part of why I was so shy growing up is because people's personalities were so "bright" that I felt intimidated. Not of course "bright" in a literal, measurable sense, but in an irrational qualitative sense. And therein lies the problem with trying to discuss it rationally.

To this day I perceive distinct personalities in every child and pet I encounter. Not sure if related, these exact same entities seem drawn to me for some reason. I have often heard a pet owner say "my pet has never acted this way before" around me (such as sitting in my lap when it has never done so with anyone).

I wonder if it simply reflects what I see in them. Anyway. My point is that the inability to discuss something rationally is not evidence for its nonexistence.
Shh, they're on a roll. :)