skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sad state of Web Development
Elixir, Clojure and Scala cut across this distinction. They're very new and shiny but built on proven technology. In that sense maybe they're a better bet as they definitely bring something new to the table and help solve hard problems. I think Clojure suffers most from this familiarity bias as I'd argue it's at the top of the excellence tree despite being largely ignored by an industry forever wedded to C# and Java.
Is there a resource for other styles? I'd love to learn about them.
"Confidential" means the content of a communication is (intended to be) secret. "Anonymous" means the identity of the author is secret. Big difference.
Wait...so they decrypt the files before downloading. So this isn't secure file transfer at all.
This is great! I found the more robust examples really useful, like the ones that show notes and triads in a key. I'd love to have something like this in the form of a VST or something usable in Ableton.
Love it. Thanks for sharing. Wish I had this when I had some music theory classes back in college.
I am not a lawyer and none of this is legal advice. That being said, as long as you have been doing what you've been directed to do, doing it to a professional standard, and have a paper trail to demonstrate that, it's unclear what grounds they would have for legal action against you. I would recommend, if you have not been doing so already, having periodic meetings with your supervisor to request feedback. This will help document that your work was satisfactory.

Re: referrals, I would give that up as a lost cause. If nobody cares what you are doing, they are not going to give you a referral.

Re: talking to the CEO, I would recommend do that but _only_ when you've got everything lined up to find a new job and not one second before. It's a high-risk tactic that may simply leave you working under a (now angry) supervisor or, since by your own words, they have no need for you, out of a job. In the meantime, put in your 40 hours a week building the app skeleton, use what opportunities you can to learn new technologies and build a portfolio, and, as I said, prepare to find a new job.
Sure, you can read React docs for an afternoon and get a basic feeling for it.

Then there's the million fine points to master. Like the minutiae of React.propTypes. Or how to use {' '} to avoid having spaces rudely removed. The fine details of react component lifecycle, or how you have to set "className" instead of "class", or ... ...

The rough high-level idea is ALWAYS easy. The devil is ALWAYS in the details.
The articles linked in the grandparent post suggest the opposite: That all the procedural barriers the US sets up in an effort to prevent corruption tend to run up the costs.

For example, lowest-price bidding rules tend to result in more expensive projects overall because the agencies feel the need to do a whole bunch of up-front micro-planning in order to try and prevent the contract awardee - who, as we already know ahead of time, will be the lowest bidder - from cutting too many corners. Or to put it more simply, we've essentially mandated that public projects have to be the waterfalliest of waterfally waterfall projects.

Our "starve the beast" approach to funding public agencies, also inspired by our hysterical attitude about government corruption, comes into play, too. Since agencies end up with limited resources for permanent staffing, they don't necessarily have in-house resources available for project planning. But they can use funding set aside for projects to hire consultants, who are naturally expensive and less worried about what happens to the project 5 years down the line. They'll be long gone by that point.
Yeah, I guess, I just rarely see this many privescs. Am I not looking in the right places?
V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.5
Some developers (including FB) are using .js for React JSX files now, instead of the .jsx extension. I think the best argument for this is that, while JSX features aren't in the ES2016/7 spec, they may be eventually. And when you're transpiling your code to JS in the end anyway (potentially using JSX, Flow, and other tools that aren't actually valid ES2016/7 code), it's simpler to call it .js than think about renaming files when you add more steps to your babel process (file.flow.jsx.xyz...).

It hasn't taken off completely, and personally I like having the ".jsx" extension indicate that file will export a React component instead of plain javascript.

There are lots of arguments online about this:
https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/3582#issuecomment-8...
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/4kkrwg/ask_js_or_j...
You seem to be under an impression that holy books are just collection of facts that you accept or don't. That's not how it works. Approaching it with that makes as much sense as asking soccer players why they don't just start with the ball inside the goal and save the time. That's completely missing the point of the whole thing :)
I meant old in a nice way :-). As in been around a long time.

And timeless sure, although I have never written any lisp, maybe I should.
It's ultimately a matter of personal preference, to some degree. If you agreed with me, you'd probably already be a lisper.
It's always a pleasure to use golang software. It's always fast and reliable in my experience and Rclone is no exception.
Agreed. Many of the "unbillable" work items listed in the article seem to be establishing important procedures and tools to improve productivity and a positive work environment, which most tech companies do as well.

Makes you wonder whether the author and the poster are affiliated with one of those old-school government consulting or contractor companies that would gladly see 18F disappear so that the government would outsource the work instead.
But why are they so UGLY?
There is a smart watch craze?
Just invited: 70MillionJobs.com
Yes, I loved Elixir as soon as I set eyes on it. However, as far as "easy to reason about" goes, Clojure in an Emacs CIDER repl is about as good as it gets.
No it's not. It is precisely equivalent to the argument you're making.

No it's not. I would go into more detail but I don't feel you are arguing in good faith, so my effort would be wasted. It seems more like you are trying to out-post your opposition with silly false equivalences that waste time and sidetrack the discussion about drones.

But for anyone else reading, I will say that a distinction can be drawn empirically. Body armor doesn't seem to change the types of situations in which an attack would be considered, while drones do.
I agree with the entirety of your post, but I'm unsure what can be done practically. Can you recommend an organization that is pushing for your positions? It may take a long time, but similar to marijuana legalization, it's gotta start somewhere.
"Three Lame Excuses," or, a brief glance at the real world. I think I threw up a little reading the post (out of envy of course).
Intersting how broad it was, some bits of "semantic web" in place. And at the same time, as described here, it's mostly multi user hypercard.
WIP Website Creation Guide for Entrepreneurs. Rate My Progress?
I'm creating a website creation guide for beginners b/c my friend was recently quoted $35k for a website I knew he could make himself.

In the process of helping him, I realized there was a need for a guide like this for other entreprenuers starting up so I've started creating one.

Let me know how I'm doing so far and what I can do to improve?

http://smcmarketing.org/learn/how-to-make-a-website/
> Agreed. Many of the "unbillable" work items listed in the article seem to be establishing important procedures and tools to improve productivity and a positive work environment, which most tech companies do as well.

I have nothing but disdain for someone spending $4,000 of public money writing a Slackbot to politely encourage you to not use the words "guys" or "dudes" [1] [2]. If that's important to you, go burn up VC dollars doing that, not tax money that is desperately needed for real work. This opinion is not about having an agenda; that's common sense.

I'm off to craft a FOIA request for the historical Slack logs for 18F.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792768

[2] https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/01/12/hacking-inclusion-by-customiz...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12789343
In 1894, science fiction writer, journalist and eugenics proponent H.G. Wells, ...

Mention of eugenics contributed nothing to the article, other than to create an emotional atmosphere.
Experiencing exactly this today with the timing chain tensioner on an EZ30D engine.
I don't think anyone would argue that a touch screen is better to type on than a physical keyboard though. It's just a sensible compromise given the size and weight limitations of an iPhone. Harder to justify on a (relatively big and heavy) laptop, but we'll see.
Both Hillary and Trump says they are going to boost infrastructure spending. I think its better to wait and see how self-driving/mobility as a service develops before spending money on transportation infrastructure
Polymer has been a very opinionated framework. It really seems in the last ~6 months that they're really moving back to their web component roots and being less of a rigid framework and more of a library with 'best practices'.

They're still a bit under-cooked on their data-binding stuff in my opinion - I've found it a bit unstable and hard to use (there could be some causation going on there).
Sure, but it wasn't an insult.
Aflize: automatically generate AFL-enabled builds of Debian packages
John Maeda's Flying Letters
I feel like "I didn't get into my first choice schools even with perfect SAT scores" is not necessarily the best way to sell an SAT prep course. (Though obviously that's his human interest angle, so I suppose it's better than no press at all.)
Apple is right next door to QNX in Kanata. If you had a good arm you could throw a rock from one building to another.

http://i.imgur.com/avtFKfj.jpg
More info on the project can be found here:
https://www.sfmoma.org/read/flying-letters/

and

https://www.sfmoma.org/read/theres-no-app-adventures-conserv...
Wow, this blog post feels like a giant nothing-burger. We're going to continue what we're doing by pausing what we're doing so we can grow. Mumle mumble marketing speak.
I think web components are a step sideways (and forwards) from libraries like Angular. Not necessarily that they don't have confidence in them, but more that they're taking a punt with what they perceive to be the next evolution.
Some slight corrections:

It's Ian Miers, not Meiers.

The Equihash proof of work, its name notwithstanding, is a real puzzle, not a Hashcash hash function.
Each instance can yield 0, 1, 2 or more solutions (though rarely more than 7).
>> I use a Macbook Pro 2015 and I don't think I'll be upgrading to the new one, especially if the specs are nearly similar.

Seriously? I'm on a 2013, and the specs of the latest machine are already "nearly similar". I have factory SSD flash storage and 16 GB of RAM. The CPU and GPU upgrades haven't been remotely worth upgrading to.

How can you be on a 2015 MacBook, talking about upgrading to a 2016? Nobody cares whether you own the latest gadget; upgrades should wait at least 2, usually 3-4 years. I'm not talking about the severe case of frugality (use the same laptop for at least 8 years until it dies!). Just basic common sense.
Best of lucks. I think what you're doing is awesome.
That was kinda impressively worded.

Like, it took me a while to realize that what they were saying is "hey, this isn't working, we need to cut expenses. Also, I quit."

So, good job framing this about investing in R&D. Any clues as to why they're actually doing this? Competition, regulation, ???
WinWorld – Abandonware Library
Well here is their paper:

https://www.fujitsu.com/uk/Images/Ambiq_whitepaper.pdf

Also always fun to look at their patents, but who knows which ideas are really used in the chip:

https://www.google.com/patents/US7009265?dq=ambiq&hl=en&sa=X...

This thesis seems to have a good overview:

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/THESIS/KIM_S/S.Kim_Honors...
In Boston, the presence of a nearby T stop massively boosts property prices, creates businesses, allows people to live without cars, and so on. Nothing improves an area holistically like mass transit improvements.
I think the improvements to turbolinks in Rails 5 make pjax more of an option now. Also, for scaling remember it's not the end of the road for Rails when you're running out of processes to keep up with requests. JRuby 9000 has been gathering a lot of momentum recently and promises huge performance gains when Truffle and Graal kick in. Migrating a Rails app to JRuby is not that difficult.
How about "let sleeping dogs lie" then?
An Object-Functional Example of Inheritance vs. Composition
"Cheerleading with an agenda" pretty meta if i may say so.
Raical has a Levenshtein distance of 2 from racial. Swapping two characters is a deletion + insertion. You'd need to use Damerau-Levenshtein distance for transposition to count as 1 operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_di...
What's the advantage of a laptop that's 12mm rather than 13mm?
It's important to note, especially in forums like this, that no amount of intelligence will save you from someone considering you an idiot. Doesn't matter how right you think your opinions are.
Do you want to crack the display the first time you bang the corner against something hard? It takes some space to protect such a big piece of LCD.
I think Elon said there is probably a market for delivering stuff to antipodes in under an hour, price doesn't matter. It's not a large market, and you don't get a steady daily business, but there will always be demand for it.

Until, of course, this sort of thing becomes trivial and super-reliable, and then the price will drop through the floor.
Anyone have some insight into why this is getting down voted? Is it not true?
WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold glyphosate (Roundup) documents
What is your opinion on Elixir as a next generation with the OTP approach?

I'm a Swift developer, I'm learning Elixir & I love OTP's model. In my opinion Apple or anyone else won't go in that direction is because it's way different & it's learning curve will push most developers away.
Should I Pursue My Passion or Business? Joining YC Research's New Cities
It has an AMD chip? ;)
What a myopic, Valley-centered view. Self driving cars still need to drive on roads and bridges, automated trains still need tracks. Four, even eight years is a lot of time to do infrastructure repair and upgrades, I highly doubt self driving services will take off exponentially in that period.
I think WP:UNDUE is one of the most disruptive and misused rules on WP. It's a trump card for anyone experienced editor who favors deletion. It's intention was as an equal time rule, where VIEWPOIONTS were balanced.

Instead it is used anytime an editor thinks one section weighs too much, or personally doesnt find the information of value. The thing is, if I only have part to contribute to an article, it makes no sense to put my contribution on hold until other parts of the article flesh out, it becomes a catch22, self limiting the article.

I think its pretty obvious I side with inclusion of just about everything. The belief in not letting part of an article grow until the other part does is asinine. If weight becomes imbalanced, write more. OR Maybe viewpoint A requires 10,000 words, and viewpoint B only requires 100 to prove its point. Eitherway WP:UNDUE stinks.
I disagree. We can't rely on self-driving cars as the solution to our transportation problems. Roads can only handle so many cars no matter how automated it is. Light rail is also a lot more efficient I'd imagine than a ton of cars using gas / batteries.

I'd rather take the 2.50 rail fare than the way more expensive lyft/uber/whatever.
Not to mention deBlasio's streetcar to nowhere.
If it's about reading moral stories then why identify as $religion at all instead of reading a variety of religious texts (and other sources) and taking the pieces you want?
I think the point was that the eugenics movement was one of the early examples of overenthusiastic technocratic cheerleading. Eugenics was all the rage among intellectuals and science enthusiasts at the time.
Hmm, odd; works on my machine. iPad Air running iOS 10. Haven't spent a lot of time on the site, and I see the occasional alignment glitch, but a long way from "not usable".
Because any excuse to post Mr Adams work is a good excuse, https://vimeo.com/72501076
Because the social consensus is that males are usually the sexual aggressors.
It's the lowest-effort of low-effort virtue signaling, that's why. Look at me, I'm so not racist, unlike all you racisty racists who have the gall to talk about a subway line instead of something I care about.
First off, I think you generated a lot of goodwill on HN with your previous technical answers such as your generous explanation of FedEx logistics.

With that thank-you out of the way, please take the following as constructive critique that's based only on the text as you wrote it rather than you as a person. When I read the following excerpt that you use when you discuss VCs here and other threads...

>the world's best solution, much better than anything else, for a problem that is pressing for nearly all users of the Internet,

>[...]

>So, what ARE the VCs looking for? How about [...] , each founder with a pregnant wife

... in the first part, it sounds like a "blowhard"[1] in the literal meaning of that word. The second part with caricatures is indicative of bitterness. Both attributes are radioactive to investors -- especially when there is no impressive revenue to offset the (perceived) unpleasant personality.

Like I said, maybe IRL you're such a inspiring and engaging businessman that any VC would love to spend 84+ board meetings with you. (7 years times 12 monthly meetings). Unfortunately, the tone of your writing gives off a different vibe.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=blowhard
Sorry to get it personal but it seems you are very shortsighted and need to see a specific keyword to understand the capabilities of the people.

Please let me know what specific topic of zkSNARK you find challenging to explain and we can write a blog post about it.
For most of our “potential Fiber cities” — those where we’ve been in exploratory discussions — we’re going to pause our operations and offices while we refine our approaches

NOOOOOOOOOOOO. Being trapped with either Time Warner or AT&T with max speeds of 40mbps had me really excited as a San Diegan for Google Fiber.
This announcement needs a little bit of translation from the marketing language it's written in:

> And thanks to the hard work of everyone on the Access team, our business is solid: our subscriber base and revenue are growing quickly, and we expect that growth to continue.

"We're not yet profitable."

> We have refined our plan going forward to achieve these objectives. It entails us making changes to focus our business and product strategy. Importantly, the plan enhances our focus on new technology and deployment methods to make superfast Internet more abundant than it is today.

"Building fiber infrastructure in cities isn't a viable business model."

> For most of our “potential Fiber cities” — those where we’ve been in exploratory discussions — we’re going to pause our operations and offices while we refine our approaches.

"We're not going to build out any more cities using this approach."

> In this handful of cities that are still in an exploratory stage, and in certain related areas of our supporting operations, we’ll be reducing our employee base.

"We're winding down Google Fiber operations and putting it on life support."

> As for me personally, it’s been quite a journey over the past few years, taking a broad-based set of projects and initiatives and growing a focused business that is on a strong trajectory. And I’ve decided this is the right juncture to step aside from my CEO role.

"I'm getting out of this while it still looks good."

--

That's too bad. Google Fiber has put a lot of needed pressure on existing telecommunications mega-corps to improve their services. I really wanted to see it take off well enough to result in some major improvements to infrastructure around the country, but having worked for an ISP in a previous lifetime, I was skeptical that they'd be able to do it profitably. Last-mile fiber is expensive, expensive, expensive.

I'm sure Comcast and Time Warner and friends are all breathing a sigh of relief.
Currently the phrase "perfect surveillance state" doesn't appear in the article.
The 10-month investigation by the GSA's inspector general
found that 52 percent of 18F's work was unbillable and
included an internal project to change its logo by altering
its font, alignment and background color. In all, 727 staff
hours, or $140,104, were spent on developing the brand,
including that logo change.

It seems that the author is intentionally obfuscating this point and making it seem as if 52% of 18F's work was put towards "making the logos look hipper," which is likely not the case. While "developing the brand" includes logo work, in most cases, that is just a small part of it. Developing a UI design spec, similar to Google's Material Spec [0], would also fall under "developing the brand."

Perhaps someone from 18F can speak to whether developing the U.S. Web Design Standards [1] is part of this category because if so, I would argue that spending $140k (which is roughly 1-2 software engineer annual salaries) on such a project is certainly worthwhile since this spec is part of the foundation for many future projects.

[0] https://design.google.com/spec

[1] https://standards.usa.gov/
I knew I'd seen it before. Thanks for that.
>Anyway, I'd write the ultimate thing if I ever found the time.

Sure you would...

Here's the thing, it's not that your criticism isn't valid, because I actually agree with it, but what's the point of finishing your remarks with "So anyway, this is why you're wrong and I'm right. Also, I would actually write the ultimate thing myself except I don't have the time."? Yeah, and I would write the ultimate language and compiler, if only I had the time, and I would invent fusion and cure cancer, if only I found the time. I mean, what's the point of remarks like those?
> there ARE memory vulns

If you could report these according to https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/security.html , that'd be great. Thanks!
While you're right that the 3 new stations are in a rich, white neighborhood, it will hopefully reduce congestion on the 4,5 and 6 lines which service many poorer neighborhoods in the Bronx and harlem.
He doesn't say go to Khao San to relax. He says go, grab a beer, chat to other travellers and make travel plans. Khao San is good for that. It's like the budget travel hub for SE Asia.
Well, it was all Javascript and Flash, so maybe really scary. And some of those web artists considered malware as an art form ;) But not the hell.com folks, I think. That was more 0100101110101101.org style.
The subsequent dig was weird too:

>If the public didn’t care about science, then there would not only be “the danger of supplies being cut off,” but also the danger of the public endorsing inquiries “of doubtful value” (ironic, given Wells’ enthusiasm for eugenics).

Eugenics is a legitimate scientific inquiry. The real irony is that this author's distaste for eugenics is likely an example of "supplies being cut off" from the field due to emotional, not scientific, reasons.
Well shit. I guess I'm never getting out of comcast's thumb. In the Seattle area, some places have century link / qwest 1 gb service, but most places do not. A few apartment buildings have wireless "wave"/condointernet (best name ever for an isp) that supports 1 gig. But the rest of us poor saps are shit out of luck.
Extracting 25 TFLOPS from AWS Lambda, or #TheCloudIsTooDamnHard
Never fear, I liquidated my entire 401k and put it into dogecoin, 5.56 ammunition and canned lard.