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The thing is that the job market is very competitive, and I can understand if people don't want to be self-deprecating and admit to not be very good at topic X since some employers might be picky and choose not to hire if someone doesn't know about topic X.

Some other employers would just consider that when deciding what role is best given an applicant strengths and weaknesses and address that deficiency as a team.

I think that if there's someone who meets the requirements for a position there should be no problem to hire, the thing is to establish what those requirements are...

To be more specific now: I think coding camps can help you getting started on web and mobile development, mostly covering scenarios when things do work as expected. But to go past the prototyping phase you will need to also understand how to deal with scenarios where things do not work as expected...

Having that said, that's where some more experience and knowledge starts adding value. You can accrue that experience and knowledge in different ways. But when you build a team you need to account for that by having at least one person who can make sure some advanced requirements are represented.

For instance, low level issues like race conditions, number precision problems, resource leaks, error handling... and non-functional requirements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-functional_requirement)... can be a bit counterintuitive if you don't come from a computer science/software engineering background, but it's not rocket science. Through mentoring, collaboration, etc... experience gets accrued and deficiencies eventually get mitigated. It just takes a bit of time, and some risk mitigation skills.

Personally my approach to mentoring is to avoid trial and error, and have people be vocal when they are unsure or they're blocked. I try to do this by asking newer people to write unit tests, to develop an intuition about how requirements get implemented and verified. Also, to create a culture in which asking good questions is perceived as a good trait, and guessing as a bad trait.
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me> Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
zo: What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early
Agree, we should debate censorship!!
Agreed. I've always shaken my head at people who essentially say "______ is terrible because it makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot."

The proper answer is to not shoot yourself in the foot.

Most of my programming is done in Python, where people cry about the inability to create private class members. IMO, use the convention of prefixing the name with an underscore, and if a user of your module messes with something marked as private, then it's on them when their program explodes. Don't blame Python for not supporting private members.
...and a terrible ecosystem. I recently mucked around with getting set up in Ubuntu Linux with F#, Haskell, Ocaml, and others. Ocaml to me was the worst in terms of user friendliness. I never got it working, so I'm working in Haskell. I hope some day somebody spits out a truly good docker image of Ocaml Batteries Included.
> Have you met people with limited computer experience just getting 'into' it? Computers and code are literal magic to them. I mean people who's lives don't really entail a computer at all beyond social media.

Then they need to learn to use computers, not to code. If they don't have basic computer skills then they are useless as programmers.
While ICAP is the most recent, several others shown on the screenshot look like they were updated only a few minutes earlier; only a few seem to be 12/05.
I thought "cost" was one of the simpler concepts - the price at which the store bought the item from the supplier.
If you look through the history of CVEs, you'll find that pretty much every implementation of calloc or a calloc-like function starts with m * n and ends up only changing after someone points out the security flaw.
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I completely disagree. The east coast states are a complete mess, because the state borders don't reflect population groups or metro areas at all. NYC's metro area spans 4 states, Philly's spans 3, and DC's spans 3, and Boston's spans 3 or 4 depending on if you count Providence. All the borders are completely historical, and should just be redrawn entirely, so that these metro areas have their own states, and local cultures are kept together. Upstate New Yorkers have long wanted to be freed from NYC, and western PA has nothing in common with Philly. The Delmarva peninsula is insane, split between 3 different states for no good reason, with the southern 2 states' holdings being almost completely rural except for Ocean City; that whole peninsula should just be given to Delaware.

All 50 of the states should really have their borders redrawn, except for Alaska and Hawaii.
can you elaborate on your first point? i've read fringe theories relating modern healthcare philanthropy with a sublimated form of eugenics, but they've all struck me as somewhat polarized and devoid of evidence
OTH I find the concept of religion to be very political...

The boundaries of political discourse are like art or porn. You know it when you see it but one person's+ definition is different to another.

+ NB I used the word "person" in this sentence rather than "man" - some would therefore say that my comment has a political slant because it is attempting to use gender neutral words - I would say it isn't because I always try to use gender neutral words...
Huge Debate = Click Bait

Spoiler R and Python(Pandas) are both great tools

R = Domain Language

Python = General Purpose

Some things in R are worth it for many people.
The offer was made: they didn't require an immediate response. They had refined their decision process, they didn't constrain my decision process beyond what's customary.
Also, ideas from consensus protocols from distributed systems may be useful for similar reasons.

But yeah, Byzantine fault tolerance is key here if the good folks are in majority.
Maybe a way to flag topics to hide similar ones from yourself would be helpful, but applying this more generally to the entire community doesn't sit well with me.
Basically, your point is that the US (and every other country out there) should realize that it has badness, even if it isn't as bad as China. It seems obvious to me, I don't see how it is relevant.

It seems to me that in many such discussions, some participants regard the US as something like a workable approximation of perfect. The sentences are often written this way: it suffices to say that China does this or that. That's like talking about an outbreak of E.Coli and not understanding that just about any creature with a colon contains a bunch of E.Coli. The significant idea is that the bacteria gets to places it shouldn't. In this analogy, it's not conveying the complete picture just to say there are bacteria. Since I pressed people in these threads, people specified exactly in what contexts with regards to business and IP that China's approach to law made a difference. Just to say that China selectively enforces laws 1) conveys the false picture that the US doesn't do this and 2) doesn't specify the exact problems and can be reduced to, "China primitive and bad."

I probably wouldn't disagree with anything you had to say on this matter, but I want substantive discussion and think it often stops short.

The fact that I could point such facts out, and people would react so strongly to them because of the possibility they represent "the other side" is another interesting data point.
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Sometimes I get downvotes, it feels like crap, and I realize my comment deserved them.

At other times... well, as I once posted, "One thing I've learned around HN is that sometimes you have to wear your downvotes with pride."
>At some point it moves from politics to history.

Aside from news and politics itself, I can hardly think of anything more political than history. People with different nationalities and sometimes party affiliations usually have wildly different perception of historic facts. Whether the Holocaust happened or not is an obvious and well-publicized one (I believe it did, for the record), but there's an uncountable amount of subtler and/or less famous differences in how humans perceive history.
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> You honestly believe people who build web apps with javascript are not "real programmers"

I didn't write that, nor do I believe. JavaScript is a programming language — albeit a truly awful one — and thus people who get work done in it are by definition really programmers. And some of them have done some really quite amazing things with it.

That doesn't change the fact that the success of JavaScript is an embarrassment for our profession.

Sometimes everyone is negative about something which really isn't all that bad. Negativity about JavaScript isn't one of those times.
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I'm also curious as to what the mean (or median) HN political viewpoint would be, and which is the majority/minority viewpoint.

Personally, I tend towards liberal politics. I interperent this statement as "Liberal politics dominates HN, and conservative politics is a minority that gets downvoted"

Even assuming that's accurate, I tend to find more conservative viewpoints on this forum, compared to other forums I browse, and I find those conservative viewpoints better argued, and more likely to affect my view.
This ban gives the status quo implicit support by stoping the discussion in its tracks.
Our reality includes political discussion and I don't think we can cleanly make a divide between it and other things that spark interest in hackers.
I don't know any research statisticians that produce code for excel. R is THE place to see their most recent advances. And sadly despite the algo's being ported to python, sometimes R still has the "best" implementations.
Yes, but I'm located in the US, so I get Fahrenheit.
The metric in the headline speaks nothing to the deforestation that is occurring due to the prolonged nature of the drought.

This kind of headline smacks of shoddy journalism, and is even more suspect when the publication comes from an area that stands to benefit from a change to the current status quo.

Let's see their article correlate to the situation in the Stanislaus forest.
I think most of the $100k/year jobs are outliers and indicators of hiring in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. I went to Origin Code Academy in San Diego and it was $12k for 3 months. They let you know that you'll be considered a jr developer even if you have some prior experience. Jr decs get around $60-65k in San Diego. Some of the graduates from my cohort who have been hired are in the high 50s, though that's a probationary salary for 90 days. I have an offer of $80k and am waiting for a comparable one but I only have these higher numbers because of a year and a half prior experience as a LAMP stack developer.
What about non-American politics?
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It's not an issue of time, but expectation. If it is clearly known that it will take 5 days to respond then the developer won't be peeved. The most important part of the process is to be transparent.
"Why? Political conflicts cause harm here. The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. Those things are lost when political emotions seize control. Our values are fragile—they're like plants that get forgotten, then trampled and scorched in combat. HN is a garden, politics is war by other means, and war and gardening don't mix."

This is so misguided and absurd. What is the definition of politics here? Trump stories? Or are fake news stories also political? Alot of the HN community came to value intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation from political ends
Would it be possible to train a neural network to automatically derive (aesthetically pleasing) font variations?

Also, given a small set of glyphs, would a NN be able to "design" the remainder of the glyphs?

At least there is plenty of training data available :)
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This. I work with both R and Python (I'm at Microsoft, doing ML for customers) and even with vastly improved R performance, scaling R is not so much about the performance of the engine but how you design the whole solution.
The content of the blog seems blocked by uBlock Origin. (More precisely: the scripts from gatesnotes.com, and the content is loaded in JS)
I agree, it's a start.

At its core, I'm having some difficulty wrapping my brain around the idea that any organization that's large and complex enough to demand to run their own compute platform (e.g. K8S) isn't also large and complex enough to demand a secure configuration system by default.
So "political detox week" lasted like an hour?
I see it more as "let's state that this isn't the appropriate forum for a political discussion for a week", as opposed to head-in-sand.

I'm okay with it, but would've preferred it in the weeks leading up to the election - I've got plenty of places for political news and discussion; that's not why I come here.
Crikey: "From January to the beginning of November, zero women have been speakers at meetups on their own." that's 114 events in 2016 from 16 DC area meetups.
Do different Unis in the US use different numbering schemes?
For the most part, the "they" you refer to is the community at large. By far the most flagging and down voting is community members, not the mods. And it's not "silencing topics worthy of discussion", its "avoiding topics that have empirically generated mostly uncivil, non-constructive flamewars". I've made comments expressing this distinction a number of times in response to comments such as yours (silencing/censoring worth discussion; why did this get flagged; this particular political view is always killed), and they've been consistently some of my most-up-voted comments. That indicates to me that this is an idea that has relatively strong support from the community as a whole.
Are smartwatches winding down?
None taken, the IC3 in particular exists so that people can say they're "certified". The qualifications are things like "Make some text bold in MS Word". Ridiculous.
At least most Spanish credit cards use the 3-digits code on the back of the credit card. And it's almost always asked for (but not in amazon iirc).
I use uBlock origin and it loaded for me
What evidence is there to support the US is a pre-ww2 imperial power? Please explain.

Why in heck would you ask that? Where did I ever say the US is a pre-ww2 imperial power? Congrats: another ham-fisted attempt to put words in my mouth.

Where do you live?

The Bay Area.

What Ivy league did you attend?

Dartmouth.

Which country has better enforced laws for businesses and the economy without violating human rights and freedom of speech?

I've always maintained the US is great in these regards. However, the US also violates human rights and while quite good, isn't perfect when it comes to freedom of speech. Please provide a quote where you had evidence I ever thought otherwise.
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I work at a data science company that uses both, in a DevOps capacity. We actually have a fairly hard policy against R in production or in client deliverable code. That's mostly because of the difficulty in 'productionizing' R code, and the relative immaturity of several common R libraries. However that having been said, nearly all of our junior Data scientists from a non software engineering background do pick up R faster and feel more comfortable in it, so we mostly use it for rapid prototyping.
Until you factor in the farms across the state further altering the local water tables by pulling up water by well.
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> I agree with your sentiments. But this is only for one week right? Let's suck it up and see how it goes?

Yes, absolutely! I said this in another comment, I'm curious to see how this experiment goes but I'm also glad it's just for one week :)
I can imagine this being made illegal when mass physical shop tracking becomes the norm (more than it already is).
remember to vote the post before start reading the stories.
If you vote it 2 hours later it will not be as useful
So what you are saying is it is good Russia is corrupt, dysfunctional and authoritarian because it helps Putin in his drive to gain superpower status for his country.
That's literally a bootcamp (at least, the good ones). I taught at a bootcamp myself a while back and the entire curriculum was project-based. We wanted the students to imagine something and build it. Most of the bootcamp was about teaching new tools/techniques and providing support to our students as they built things.
Agree. If topics and comments are going to be hidden because they're "political", there should be a way to view and upvote these if you want to "opt-in".
So that you can get the process started, since scanning can take a significant amount of time, potentially.
Recent winters have been so warm that early snow has melted very early. So reservoir levels are less of a trailing indicator than in the past.
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>I wonder if you even live in North America, the difference is night and day.

Do you even live in China?
It can be mildly entertaining to watch a post fluctuate from 1 to -4 to +5 and back and forth multiple times over the course of a couple hours.

They are just internet points, after all.
I support political discussions, but I also support these weightings. Without them the site would've talked of nothing else. It was a huge amount of stories which all got massive amount of upvotes.

I think we should aim for reasonable ratios. Maybe we should have an algorithm that categorized stories and tried to create a certain ratio of tech:politics:curiosities:startups, for example?
To be blunt, /r/politics is full of groupthink and represses alternative opinions. HN is much better in that regard. Also, the fact that everyone here is united by a smaller set of common interests makes the discussion more relevant to me. I enjoy reading political discussions here and often find them though provoking. I don't on Reddit.
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However if we have significant snow right now, that won't be showing up in the reservoirs yet. :-)
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In modern vernacular it seems that that sense might be better expressed as "policy", rather than "politics".
My method is DIY and dirty: Git project folders generally sorted by language, in Dropbox for availability across computers. It's not perfect when I have projects that span more than one language, so I'm open to new ideas! Do symbolic links work in Dropbox? Backups live across a couple different pieces of external media for resilience.
With the prop system of CA, who knows?

I thought the state was being responsible for the last while, and then the last election just pushed in $18B unfunded spending on the General Fund via Prop 51.
Darwin (macOS / iOS) is often counted as "one of the BSDs", just a fairly weird one. Big chunks of the standard library are copied from FreeBSD with changes to work on top of Mach.
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You've characterized what the act of honing emotional intuition needs, then what one would actually look like: block distractions, go for a long walk, generally think about the things you're uncomfortable about but let your mind wander. I think the hard part is, how much time do you need to devote before you get something back out of it? Best policy is probably just "always do it."

And in the last line, you elicited a reaction from me to say "This isn't hippy bs" and buy in to what you've said. Thanks for the deceptively good answer :D
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Not the author but I can answer your questions. Anyone can have a multilayer board fabbed by uploading the Gerbers to a fab house -- the board shows up on your doorstep anywhere from a day to a month later, depending how much you want to pay. Fine pitch SMD parts can be hand soldered with hot air and a binocular microscope; rework techs routinely do it every day.
I don't know why we couldn't have voted on this. Whether it's a good idea or not, trying to impose something so broad on a community of hackers is an exercise in masochism.

I agree with everyone who has said that we're capable of making up our own minds about what to talk about. I don't think political discussions were ever a problem
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Let me add that you look at things this way because, like most Russians, you have a highly win-lose view of international relations.
I get what you are doing - HN has been in eternal September mode for a while now. I'm not sure it will work but I hope it does I don't want to have to find a new message board.

My question is what counts as political? HN has been an important place for me to get news about censorship, surveillance and copyright issues that are just not covered by my country's press (UK). I would be sad to lose this news source.
Wish you'd wait til voting machine tapering allegations were cleared, but hey, go nuts.
Agreed. On a related note, I wonder with the extra efficiency gained from no checkout lines, how much it would offset lost revenue. In other words, if, say, you are able to serve 20% more customers, even if there's 4% more loss from tech bugs (not considering shoplifting), the fact that you're moving more people through the store might make up for it.

If someone buys 45 items, but 3 dont ring up, as long as the 3 were relatively cheap items like a can of beans, as opposed to a $15 jar of spices, does it really matter ? Over time, the system will learn which items "go missing" most often and focus on them specifically for better inventory mgmt.
If you know anyone with access to Bloomberg terminal, ask them to take a look at the Forex section. There are times associated to the rates. Bloomberg rates are from 12/5 (yesterday in China).
Water is an 'all of California' issue.
That certification sounds a lot like the job interviews HN constantly complains about - lots of minor Googleable trivia, no hard problem solving. I don't see how it'd be useful beyond possibly skipping the phone screen.

> Could it be gamed? Of course. But then so can a University course. As can an interview. As can a coding school.

It's a lot harder to game those things than it is a certification test.
> people project this into us because I can't say how I really feel about it without breaking our own rules.

Perhaps people aren't projecting so much as seeing your rules as a reflection of your beliefs, which you now say they are not.
Awful racist post.
so a predicted 4 million VR headsets sold in 2016? That's more than I would expect from a 'loser.'
Do you think it's possible anonymous markets themselves may not be the best sources of information about actual volume of transactions occurring on them? Certainly they have some incentive to fake volume, and no real accountability since .. they're anonymous.
Do #1 ASAP. Don't wait, start now. Once you have a job, get back into coding (if you want) and investigate consulting in your off hours (if you want).
oh ok. Thanks.