skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very interesting that in these predictable "oh no, the PC culture is oppressing me" stories, the hapless victim is inevitably a white male of extraordinary privilege and power.

I put forward that this is not a coincidence. We tend not to see these stories written by, say, a trans Woman of Color who works as a cleaner. Why is that? Do you think she faces less oppression and discrimination in her day to day life than this privileged white male who works at NYU? Of course not!

What we see here is one of the subtleties of privilege, power structures and white supremacy in this country. White people, upon encountering even the slightest challenge to their power, will lash out with extraordinary anger and self righteousness (exhibit A: the Trump campaign).

In contrast, trans people, People of Color, undocumented immigrants, and pretty anyone whose not a straight white Christian male is expected to endure any number of indignities at the hands of the white power structure.

What we are seeing now is People of Color, LBGTQs, and other oppressed groups saying to white men like the author is we've had enough. I commend them for it and hope everyone can see past his crocodile tears.
With the exception of the recent 18F/USDS/etc groups acting as contractors to the rest of the government, the USG doesn't produce much code. Code is produced for the government by contractors, and that's not in the public domain. Here's a decent discussion of why the government doesn't regularly produce its own code, or much of anything:

http://politics.stackexchange.com/a/7742
another book by Jim is "Built to last". In the "startup" frenzy, it is difficult to focus on things which matter. We are hammered with news and the general knowledge that it takes a brilliant person a great idea to start the next Google.

In Built to last, they have compared what great companies had done different from their companion companies which went defunct. Of course, it neglects few aspects like luck, but it does explain a lot of things which are notably absent from folklore of "create a great app, disrupt a market and go count the number of 0's in your bank account", except that it rarely happens like this!
The point of WebAssembly and WebGL is to remove a few layers of indirection and that inefficient GUI stack.
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> The US economy isn't going to suddenly whither

Right, it'd take a while.
Here is one interesting App helpful for relaxation but in a different way.

I notice some improvements since one month using it.
- better sleeping
- more focus
- positive thinking

(Unfortunately the app is just for iOS at the moment)
https://appsto.re/de/8PGcfb.i
I got mine as well - make a game with Pico-8, it is really fun.
> Qt developers are nowadays pushing for JavaScript instead.

Uh. I've used JavaScript in a production environment, and I really really don't like it. It feels like a massive step backwards to me, when there's so many good languages out there. I wish developers would stop pushing for JavaScript everywhere.

Having to use it in the browser is horrible enough. Please don't write servers and other back-end code as well in it now. I personally wouldn't even use it for web front-end--- I would rather use a language like Elm, that cleanly compiles to JavaScript.
Isn't Qualcomm in San Diego?
"ogamita" is an obvious palindrome of the "atimago" suffix of "informatimago".
You don't want the Javascript jobs.

Rails is no longer bleeding-edge, but it is quite productive still and there will be gigs to come for another decade of helping do long-term support and maintenance on all the Rails stuff that sprang up in the last cycle.

Node/JS is probably going to die off in the face of better tech like Elixir and Elm.
That's my experience as well. Considered opening an office in Bangalore as I was thoroughly impressed by some candidates I had interviewed. Performance on the job was significantly different... like by several orders of magnitude.

Taught me a lesson. Interviews can be gamed!
Network stack written in Go
Anecdotal data here. I'm a regular mediator for the past 10 years. I'm not currently working, but when I was I would one or two 1 week meditation retreats a year instead of a "normal" vacation. My experience was a one week meditation retreat felt like a 3-4 week normal vacation getting a break from my job. Generally by halfway through the first day I more or less was not thinking about work anymore. However I don't necessarily think the experience would be the same if I didn't have a regular practice and doing the retreat with people I normally meditate with.

I'm skeptical in general about health benefit claims for meditation, what I would say is if you think it might help you, try it, but gradually. Like maybe do a 1 day or 3 day meditation retreat and see how it goes.
> I feel there should be a separate category for visas for students who study in US so that they get a fair chance to participate in US workforce.

Every year 20K visa are earmarked for exactly this - see http://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-2015-2016-masters-quota-determin...
Then after collecting your deeply personal information, they let it leak through poor security practices. This has happend to me and to other members of my family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
It probably means some of their developers, the ones who glue systems together --also maybe the sysadmins for mundane things but will probably keep key people like LDAP/Auth dev, InfoSec, network architect and then move all the other routine operational stuff off-shore.
Seems more useful to use as a local resource for building tools and habitats. Ie. to scale up earth supplied tools.
> What I don't get from these articles is why are they only talk about outsourcing IT services and how it hurts US employees?

It will hurt US workers in the long run because Indians are known for their hiring bias[1,2].

> This will encourage talented folks worldwide to come to US

Come to US for layoffs? XD

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2692372/former-infosys-...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-bias-among-Indians-of-hir...
"Self Driving Car Engineer" with no hands-on experience? Scary.
Note that it's extremely difficult for a non-Indian to work in India. "Business visit" for 60 days a year, yes, but work?
My friend just did a Construct Engine with React, and it rocks
Pretty much the same for me but i went down the XFCE road until i switched again to KDE
Well, it's the same way that highly paid professionals like tenured professors, lawyers, scientists, politicians tend to be liberal when it comes to cross border labor --because they believe their positions are secure, due to structural quirks, but if these positions were open to competition as manufacturing and call center as well as help desk and software development are, you'd likely see them change their outlook toward these things.
I'm no fan of ITT Tech, but when the author says "ITT was never an accredited school", that's not true, right?

My understanding is that it was accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), which was recognized by the Department of Education as an accrediting body until about 3 months ago[1].

[1] http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/2016/10/10/department-of-e...
Then what is your argument? If people are willing to view ads when the content is good, then why does it matter if it's a native app or not?
A recent survey of startup tech floated on HN, and Ruby + Ruby on Rails took 30+%. Along with Python and others, the majority was sedate, but robust and mature technologies. I was pleased most startups are not wasting precious cycles chasing the hotness.
Those get filled out fast. What do you do with the rest of international students. How would you explain a talented Joe who is in South Africa to come to US to do his Masters if he has no guarantee that he will get a visa?
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Drumpf is supported by David Duke, the KKK and legions of neo-Nazis.
Jobs are not a zero-sum game. The more smart engineers we get in Silicon Valley, the more innovative companies get built. Many startups are led by immigrants.
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Yep. I have a slightly unusual graphics setup (one GeForce, one Quadro set up for Nvidia 3D Vision 2 stereo) and Windows 10 destroys my setup by installing the wrong graphics driver and makes me reinstall graphics drivers every update now. Huge waste of time. Infuriating.
The initial qualifications expected of the typical manufacturing worker: has high school diploma or GED, passes piss test, and can handle 8 hours of 'put nut A on bolt B', and will be trained on the job. The typical qualifications expected of an IT worker are more like: BA in related field or additional 4 years work experience, passes background check, might have collected industry certificates, will have a 'manager' but won't keep job if individual 'needs to be managed', and will self-train on evenings/weekends. Unlike manufacturing, not every high school graduate with clean urine can get an entry level job in IT. That assessment is from years knowing auto industry workers in the Midwest and aerospace industry workers in the Pacific Northwest - friends and family in both, and 20 years of my own work in IT.
Clearly you have never visited Venice in the 90s... I don't think anyone in their right mind would morn that.
Simply... public funded jobs should remain public not offshored.

The UC system should face significant fines for this move.
Sounds very east german to me.

They are not even remotely comparable. The East German government created a network of hundreds of thousands of informants, maintained a separate penal system for political prisoners, prevented citizens from leaving the country, and used information gathered from surveillance to systematically destroy dissidents' lives.

The author of the article was put on paid leave for the remainder of the semester. It's unlikely that professors and classmates reported to the hotline would face even that.
I'm sorry, but why is that salary out of the question? Assuming he's actually worth his salt, he could make that at Google, probably easily, as an executive. Do you propose replacing him with someone who's worse, simply because they're paid less?
You are exactly why I voted for Trump. You're trying to undermine the Federal Bureau of Investigation because it's "privileged".

I'm not a white supremacist. I just want everyone to try their hardest to at least have a net zero (if not positive) effect on society.

All you do is call people racist.
You have no idea how much of the value currently created by immigrants creating businesses would be lost. And if the answer is a big minus for the US, don't you think it's important that we talk about it? And not the "lump of labor" fallacy?
> This begs the question, are majority of the job positions out there an over exaggeration of the requirements?

I read "desired" requirements as "here's the magic pony that could immediately fill any void with no ramp up time in our org" - and is likely out of their price range ;). It's not even that they're exaggerating per se, it's just that everyone wants everything. Doesn't mean they won't be happy with someone who only knows half the stuff - or less.

> Should one apply to job postings even if they do not possess all the required skills?

Worst case scenario, they'll simply say no.

So... sure, why not? Even if their list of requirements really is a hard list of hard requirements for that position, it's quite possible that's not the only position they're hiring for. And even if it's normally a hard list, if they happen to be short a couple devs, they may care a lot more about not slipping further behind schedule than finding multiple perfect within-budget matches. Most are reasonable enough and realize "perfect is the enemy of good enough", so to speak.

Now, personally, I prefer to be up front about any skill gaps - this way I don't waste my time nor theirs if I'm not enough of a fit. I'm sure one could debate how wise this is, but it's worked out okay for me so far - maybe works out as something similar to a humblebrag? Meh.

For example, I'd point out my linux experience is moderate at best, and stale by a few years - unless you're counting "adb shell"ing into Android phones, or using the command line to script builds for iOS on OS X. I've only written a few hundred LOC of python, and maybe a few KLOC of Java and refactoring Java - all Android. And the only SQL I know is "give me parameterized queries or give me death". I didn't even remember to add password salt or password hash version fields into my last whiteboard schema, IIRC!
" statistically significant improvements in scores of stress and depression"

It's hard to measure what 'benefit' means.

These things are a matter of choice as much as anything else.

Moreover, it may very well be that some of the answers were 'primed' by the content of the retreat.
Your friends just sound like bitter assholes tbh. LA is a sprawling metropolis that makes absolutely no sense to compare to San Francisco. LA as a whole isn't 'like' anything because it has such wildly diverse areas. Do you think Santa Monica has a similar feel to Compton or Hollywood?
good to know. i just checked out your website on my phone . i have to do a google login auth before i can see pricing?

i wanted to see what you offer... replication strategy, etc

EDIT: I just went to your desktop website and can see pricing. Do you do failover ? AWS RDS does failover and high availability - which makes it worth it.

If you can do high availability on digitalocean. That will be killer.
Consider wrapping your code in a closure so that all the variables and functions aren't globals. It's good performance-wise and for not polluting the global namespace.

Otherwise looks good. :)
Well, if we want to see the long declines in healthcare costs we all love so much continue, we are going to have to accept these sorts of capital efficiencies, now aren't we?
I'm just reporting what I heard.
Skype can be self hosted.
What are the products better than Fitbit's which the article alludes to? I've generally been impressed with their products, and my experience with a competitor (Virgin Pulse) was terrible.
"In the AdS/CFT correspondence Maldacena showed that one can completely describe a black hole purely by describing what happens on its surface. In other words, the physics of the inside—the 3-D “bulk”—corresponds perfectly to the physics of the outside—the 2-D “boundary.”"

Very interesting!
I think I applied to them about 6 months ago. I was rejected for "not doing TDD" because I checked in my tests and code at the same time.
In any organization, nothing raises employee morale more than listening to someone who makes 10X what they do talking about "cost pressure" and "tightening belts" and "doing more with less".
The UC system stopped serving students way back in 1992, I was there, when I went to UCI in 1990 the tuition was 500 a year, by the time I graduated in 1994 the tuition was up to 17k a year. At this point things have degraded so badly there are very very few Californian students who get to go to these schools, they make far more money admitting foreign and out of state students. The UC exists to serve the Regents and their administrators, the professors and students are irrelevant to the Regents.
How does MCMC improve this state of affairs? From what I can see, MCMC only worsens things since you can't be sure you are sampling the entire manifold.
Nah. The sites are very deliberately not charging because they want more users. An analogy that involves a bill isn't appropriate.
I wonder how you can avoid users from tampering with the licence check in dynamic languages like javascript and ruby where anyone has access to the node_modules or rubygems directories.

I know this is not the focus of this particular product but since it has come up in multiple comments. How could this be solved?
OT and FYI: I think you meant 'censor' instead of 'sensor'
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Kenneth, what is the frequency?
Agreed.

I don't even like MS, but MS VS Code is just great.

Sadly, I think they kind of ripped off most of Sublime's 'ideas' (who knows where they originated) ...

But I'm pretty impressed with it as far as the 'light editor' category goes. I've stopped using Atom and Sublime altogether.

It's perhaps the only MS produce I've ever thought very highly of.

Bravo to them on this one.
Dude, you're telling me in the same breath that you're not a white supremacist and yet you voted for a racist billionaire whose supported by David Duke, the KKK and legions of Internet neo-Nazis?

Look, if you're some angry high school drop out living in West Virginia, I could cut you a bit of slack on a Trump vote. You'd still be wrong, you'd still be an ignorant bigot, but it would be a consequence of a lack of education, not entirely your fault.

However, if you're here on hacker News, your presumably educated and have a grasp on the actual issues at stake. If that's the case and you still voted for Drumpf you are by definition a racist, sexist, hateful bigot and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Giant post about the nightmare that is making robust code in node.js. Summary, don't use a language in large projects that makes it so easy to leak errors and exceptions. There's something to be said about the compiler forcing you to declare what exceptions your code can throw to force you to think about this stuff up front.
Google is very good at coming up with benign official motivations for decisions that just so happen to also result in them getting access to more of your personal data.
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Is there a way to follow your experiments ? What heating method are you using ? Have you developed a technique to evaluate your spermcount yourself ?

would be very interested to discuss more, send a mail if you like hn(a)tokiop(dot)com
There is absolutely no way a university is able to accurately judge the valuation of its chief information office vs competition. And no business at scale ever operates that way. Once your enterprise (including schools) is old enough, and the politics drop the meritocracy, all it takes is knowing the right people to be guaranteed gratuitous compensation regardless of job performance.

Even without that, the only way you are going to weigh alternative candidates for any chief officer position would be to poach from competing businesses with the same department chair titles. The market is so limited on people who ever get those kinds of jobs anywhere to begin with that it is unreasonable to expect to ever be able to accurately claim if they are or are not "worth it". Success is more about aligning with the overall vision of the business and not causing conflict more than individualized performance. You could be worth a tenth your salary but as long as the other officers like you and the board does too you are set as long as you don't break anything.
Not only that, his comp (linked by parent) includes base + bonus for TWO positions -- VC and CIO -- which he currently holds.
I tried to email the dev-recruitment address and gmail was unable to deliver my message.
That's not really true. They won't consciously believe that, but they won't use the technically superior product, if the competitor has the basics and a better design.
According to PayScale [1] he's making 3x the median for a CIO. In understand that $150k seems crazy low but even at the high end of those numbers he seems overcompensated.

[1] http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Information_Of...
Thirded w/ Chrome 54.0.2840.87 (64-bit) on OS X 10.11.6. Stopped about 15 pieces in the first time so I thought it was just an abbreviated demo.
3scale, Apigee, there are many of these services
Shameless plug here, but you could give us a try: https://pogo.ai , we aim to solve that problem (and more :) )
Mindfulness meditation is one of the pillars on which my life rests. If you have never done it before, realize that it's hard, especially if you fall anywhere on the ADHD spectrum, and it's just brutal for the first few weeks for anyone. As your brain becomes more still and your focus improves you'll notice your productivity improve. As the mental chatter drops you'll also notice the problems in your life, that you've ignored or been too distracted to see, impeding your ability to meditate. Only working to fix them will allow you to continue, but you'll be better off for it.

I rarely talk about meditation in professional circles because, for one, people think it's weird or have a preconceived notion of what it is, but more so it's so damn effective that it's seriously my secret weapon in life and part of my competitive edge. (As an aside, it has nothing at all to do with "strange religions", vegans, or yoga pants.)

Start slow, 10 minutes a day for a week, then add 5 for the next week, and so on, and don't rush. Take it seriously and don't disrespect it. I simply cannot recommend it enough.
It isn't a skills problem, its a salary problem. Cost of living in the US is astronomical compared to any of the nations you import IT labor from. The only leg up the US (still) has is that there is no accountability in bad business done overseas - if you get crap products from your outsourced developer team, you don't have a floor to go down the elevator to where you can yell at a project lead in person.
Item one: if he were worth his salt, he wouldn't be replacing eighty sysadmins with offshore contractors.

Item two: That is a staggering salary. UCSF is a school, not a major technology company. UCSF honestly doesn't _need_ a CIO who's worth half a million dollars a year.
Exactly this! If I can take a shot or a pill rather than a scalpel to my balls... sign me up.
Thank you for that! I seem to be in an eternal "paralysis analysis" stage when deciding what to study. I have gone years searching for the right tutorials/courses so that I can learn most efficiently. I know this is unhealthy and actually really inefficient, but I still do it :(
Again, maybe he's not a 'median' CIO. UCSF is one of the top medical schools in the country. Just because they're not a tech company doesn't mean they don't know how to compensate someone to run a mission critical IT infrastructure.
Sorry but I gave up like half way through. He was like, sounding like a 12 year old. With so many likes you know. Like annoying. Like.
That's... an insightful comparison. I like it a lot.
1. He's not just CIO, he's also a Vice Chancellor.

2. Median pay for the US is a poor proxy. Using your same site, the median pay for Software Engineers is $80K/year. It doesn't reflect market (CA) or expertise (healthcare).
Visitors say this. I don't buy it...I feel like LA natives avoid these kind of traffic disasters by avoiding peak times and knowing traffic patterns.
How about someone equally good that'll work for less pay (because they have fewer friends/credentials)?
Switching from MacOS: Creative Work (elementaryOS)
It's more than just a school, it has an extensive hospital system involved. How do you know what they need or not?
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Are you sure?

My assumption is due to the state of QtMobility vs the APIs available on these other systems.
And horrible domain name: How come `code.gov` is US-only? How come it's motto is "Help propel America’s next breakthrough in innovation"? If this in not imperialism, I don;t know what is.
Hacker news is regularly gamed by various media promoters just like any social media site. It doesn't take a lot of votes to get to the front page as long as you get them quickly, so 10-30 sock puppet accounts is enough to bring anything to the first page
Slack copied Yammer and HipChat... and now it's angry that Microsoft stole some of its unique features - such a hypocrisy!
And https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/ is an actual implementation of that sort.
Fact check: Drumpf's not winning [1].

[1] http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2016/forecast/president