skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes, there was a period of time during the 20th century when all commercial activities were banned from the internet, until around 1995 IIANM. Basically Internet was non commercial from about 1978 to 1995, though I think the first banner ad came to existence 1 year before in 1994, that's still a longer period without ads than with.
A lengthy example of "ignorance is bliss"
Their credibility was shot for me once they decided to release the DNC materials in a piece-meal fashion in order to affect a national election. At that point, I lost all respect for them.
I got the strong impression that those self-proclaimed "professionals" are more or less exactly the opposite: people who spend an inordinate amount of time plugging in dozens of different peripherals with random port requirements, fiddling around with the hardware, and running benchmarks.

For what it's worth, a Mac today is still as useful (at least for web development) as it has always been. Much more so actually because homebrew has evolved to be completely stable.

And while CPU speeds have been stagnating (mostly because they've reached "good enough" and then some), people are ignoring two major shifts in hardware that have significantly improved the dev experience: Retina screens and SSDs.
> NPR and WaPo

It would be pretty hard to pick two more biased sources than NPR and WaPo.
The guidelines have made this crystal clear:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could someone lay out what is, and the difference between a junior(beginner) and an intermediate developer?
Have you ever experienced a flight delay like this ?
If you're not in a rush, it might be worth keeping an eye on the factory outlet [1] as they pop up at a bit of a discount there and could be available locally if you're not in the US.

[1] http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/22/campaigns/outlet
The sombrero indicates a senior developer.
SFP+ 10Gbase-T 3rd party optics started hitting the market this year, but none of the major switch vendors offer them yet, so the coding effectively lies about what cable type it is. Just an option to keep in your back pocket, as onboard 10Gb is typically 10Gbase-T. Thankfully, onboard SFP+ is becoming more common however.

For short distances of known length, twinax cables which are technically copper can be used. They're thinner than regular cat6a but only about the same as thin 6a and thicker than typical unshielded Duplex fiber patch cables. Twinax can be handy if connecting Arista switches to anything else that restricts 3rd party optics, as Arista only restricts other cable types. Twinax is also the cheapest option.
And decades of people like Limbaugh blatantly misrepresenting issues like Sandra Fluke's testimony since the 80s. The "alt-right" news phenomenon isn't anything new. Hop onto any forum website's political section and you'll get plenty of links to crazy. Been that way since at least W. Probably since Drudge and the Monica Lewinsky thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh–Sandra_Fluke_con...

I've noticed that ever since the election result, it seems like the NYT has completely lost their minds, nothing but doom and gloom. At least wait until something happens to report on rather than rampant speculation. I'm so sick of hearing about Trump. Isn't there any news fit to print?

I remember when Hillary started using the term "alt-right" on the campaign trail, as if it were something different than the typical Fox / Drudge / Limbaugh drivel. It seems as though she was trying to protect the GOP from the master it created by disassociating it somehow. It's the same ole same ole, just evolved.
The BenQ BL2411PT is still hard to beat quality / price wise.
Look for the gray hair and the world-weary look in their eyes.
I'd argue that mainstream news sources promote a false understanding of these topics. If you truly want to understand then you are going to need to do your own research. For example, The Sun is one of the most popular newspapers in the U.K.:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+sun+sensationalist+hea...
Gitlab package includes too many things! I remember Gitlab sponsors a guy to do proper packaging to include Gitlab in debian last year, not sure what is the status.
Personally I love this monitor. Its about $150 more than you were looking to spend, but they have a 24" version at $300. The big feature here is 4k resolutions for a VERY reasonable price.

http://a.co/eLC9Z7z
But.. but what happened to "refugees welcome"?
I would say if the programmer can show progression in coding, design and independently working on modules they can move up the junior, intermediate, senior ... ladder
In general, I agree with everything you said. However,

> No thanks. I would rather control my own news firehose, and be selective about the information that I want to learn more about.

My worry is: Isn't this what caused the fake news / misinformation silos? By being selective about our information sources, aren't we distancing ourselves from how a majority of the world lives and thinks? And as product developers (as majority HNers are), isn't it in our benefit to understand as much of the world as possible?
FWIW I made a map this year about Non Fossil electricity usage around the world and the results are quite surprising actually, supporting the article for the most part. Btw. this was surprisingly quick to do with google spreadsheets.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16K4gNhy_AN8Eg4Ov3z7p...
Excelling Pre-Medical Courses and Requirements
I used to agree with this until I realized that if an organization could feasibly purchase the prisons and reform the treatments without having to wade through the bureaucratic nightmare that is public administration, the system of punitive repercussions could be made well. In other words, if one can see past the money to be 'made' via the graft, kickbacks, and underuse of resources that government grants and other capital available to privately owned prisons tends to engender, said private prisons may just hold the answer for what ails the DOC by the very nature of their privacy.

Take SpaceX for example, they have done more for space travel than NASA in recent years, not for want of intelligence in NASA scientists, but because SpaceX is streamlined bureaucratically in a way that, currently, NASA is not.

A bit sad, really, as public jobs are far more comfortable and secure, and so should be used by the administrators for greater performance output.
> You bought that pizza, and you own it. Period. When you go to a website, you are not buying or owning anything. You are requesting a set of data and refusing the price that comes along with it.

I bought my computer and my internet access. I then sent a request to another computer on the internet, and the owner of the other computer had every right to instruct the computer to either deny or fulfill my request. The request is explicit and the successful response is explicit, without any condition that I go on to make other requests that may be described in the response body. These network interactions are well-specified and explicit. The computer fulfilled my request, period, and I have no reason to believe the computer was unintentionally programmed to fulfill my request. I am fairly certain I have violated no laws (unlike your poor analogy to trespassing), and even more certain that I have no moral qualms over my actions.

To say that my initial request for an HTML document constitutes an agreement on my part to parse the response body and make all subsequent requests and execute all code described within (recursively, perhaps) is frankly ludicrous. The response body could contain descriptions of requests for unwanted, offensive, dangerous, or even illegal content. It is ridiculous to claim that I have agreed to these things, especially when I couldn't possibly know what I was "implicitly agreeing" to.
News sources will be biased. That's a fact. But hard to pick two more biased sources than NPR and WaPo? Compared to what? Off the top of my head I'd say the National Review and the Nation would be two with stronger biases. What are your recommendations for less biased news sources?
This is highly subjective maybe US news but I find news here on Canada trustworthy.

US news is what the Enquirer was in the 80s. PBS news hour and BBC America are good.
> And in case if someone from Google is listening, give the option to opt out of this AMP crap, I'll gladly pay for extra bandwidth.

How exactly do you land on AMP pages? Can't you just use Firefox on you phone?
i don't really know of any aside from the brokerage itself going under.

i would imagine brokerages want to make this as low risk as possible as it encourages more transactions, so they can charge more fees. and they also get their cut of the premium.
> [..] There’s a big difference between watching a half hour of CNN’s refugee crisis coverage (not that they cover it anymore) versus spending that time reading a 5,000-word article on the same topic.

In my opinion, in some cases like this, the lengthy thousands word articles are often much worse.
I like the table that 18F uses to distinguish between the federal pay scale levels[0]. I.e. Comparisons like

> Your supervisor reviews your work from an overall standpoint to ensure its effectiveness in meeting requirements

Vs.

> The results of your work are considered technically authoritative and can be used to establish best practices

0: https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/pay-grades/
:) what about principal developers.
Just posting a follow-up comment to say that the interactive simulation is really the highlight of this set of pages. I was expecting a trivial demo widget, along the lines of the animated GIFs in the article, but it's actually a full 3D rigid-body simulation.

Playing around with blocks and ramps in a browser does a great job of taking the mathematical analysis given in the article, and making it at least somewhat intuitively understandable. But on the other hand, it doesn't exactly make a convincing case that a world built according to these rules could ever be stable!

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DICHRONAUTS/02/Inte...
Never been asked about them. (I've got 3) Never heard of it being a problem. People constantly fly with usb drives on their keychain, so don't see how this would be different.
I'm dealing with something similar to what the article talks about. I've been with my company for 3 years. I wa shired as a "new college hire." I am ~6 years older than a typical grad and had worked in the industry prior to joining my company.

Ever the course of my time I've:

1. Learned C# in order to rewrite an app I wrote in Java
2. Self-organized a team to implement a UI in HTML/CSS using a JavaScript tool I wrote myself that allowed different team members to work on components a layout and have the partials dynamically reconstructed.
3. wrote a connection pool class in C# from scratch that has been in production for 2 years without a hiccup.

The list goes on. I suppose I've been rewarded by my manager with substantial raises and he always says he notices my work but in 3 years the only responsibility I've had was when I took it on myself to bring coworkers together to implement the UI (which we delivered in 2 weeks as opposed to the 3 months they had blocked for it).

Am I wrong to feel slighted when far less capable people have been promoted to leadership positions? My boss does stuff like take me to events where I'll meet big wigs, but I don't care about that stuff. I just want to be in charge of producing good, maintainable code.
moving beyond entry-level is about learning to do your job without any handholding. this usually doesn't take that long.

but any title progression beyond that depends on getting good at navigating the politics of your work environment. you won't get far without people skills. banks actually do a good job of mapping out what this looks like for analysts coming in, in terms of leadership skills etc expected for different titles. technical organizations, however, tend to leave their staff in the dark about this sort of thing -- which is a political move in itself, i suppose.
kernel 4.9 is the first kernel with full dynamic tracing support built in (beyond the power of systemtap, etc) . We are soon going to see tools like dtrace being built right for Linux.

Im excited for thw future of application development and monitoring on Linux. Imagine a whole bunch of tools more powerful than NewRelic.
Oh, this is another example of why fake news works.
I always use the simple rule: Senior means you can finish a complex task on your own, without being told how to solve it.

Of course, now we have to define "complex", but the salient part is being able to work independently.
And grown adults bombarded the organization qith phone valls asking where to buy a house hippo.
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There's an interesting book by Jack London, "John Barleycorn"[1], which is about his battle with alcoholism. He didn't start drinking in earnest until he was 25, though he tried (and absolutely hated) alcohol earlier.

An interesting read, and recommended for one very talented person's view on alcoholism.

[1] - https://librivox.org/john-barleycorn-or-alcoholic-memoirs-by...
Jesus. How horrible was life for these Scotch-Irish/Germans that they would willingly undertake such a treacherous journey with their young children?
Right now I'm most worried about two places when it comes to carbon footprint: US and India. The US is very worrysome now, India in a decade or two. China is worrysome as well, but at least there you can see progress being made on a national scale, which can't really be said yet about the US, and with a Trump administration I'm afraid that even commercial attempts could be spoiled again with an artificially propped up fossil fuel economy. If that happens it's borderline suicidal really.
Have you considered Soylent or one of its many derivatives? Some such as Joylent are a little cheaper while others have a wider variety of flavors and there are even keto options like Ketolent and Keto Chow.
Well, "idiot" has rich, historic semantic content that I think fit really well for the occasion. It's not my fault that it's a blacklisted word according to the book of HackerNews Ethics.
The thing is that such engineering of healthy food is not really needed in developed countries with reasonable income levels.
Yes, if one wants cheap processed food that is healthy, one needs significant engineering.

The raw ingredients that are part of classical preparations are extremely cheap.
For example, in the United States, rice can be had at ~ $0.50-$0.75 a pound, or in my favorite normalization, < $1 per 2000 calories.
Beans can be obtained for ~ $1.00 a pound, or ~ $1.50 per 2000 calories.
On the other hand, bread is far more expensive at standard grocery stores, and typically comes in at ~ $3 per 2000 calories.
The above is an illustration with respect to carbohydrates,
there are similar easy examples with respect to protein/vegetables/fruits that allow significant optimizations as compared to the average diet.
The end result is that (dependent on location) balanced meals requiring a minimum of preparation work out to roughly $2.50-4.50 per adult per day.

As for preparation time, again with some thought one can minimize effort (pressure cooking is one concrete example).

The point is that if people thought a bit more deeply about their food choices and the cost tradeoffs made, healthy food budgets should really be very minimal as compared to far more expensive things, like health insurance, rent, etc.
Most media outlets instead spread a lot of disinformation - the standard "working" assumption is that healthy food is organic, is found in expensive stores like Whole Foods, and that one needs to pay more for healthy food.
A fun experiment that illustrates this point: try looking at the labels of marketed "healthy/organic" stuff at a store geared towards such things and examine the sugar content in them.
And this is why such places get away with ridiculousness regarding their prices on basic items.
The article talked about how Linux supports several models, not just the latest one. If I owned an older Macbook but now regarded the product line to be doomed, I'd want to know how painful it would be to start migrating to a different platform on my current hardware.
The problem I have with the economist is they mix opinion into almost everything they report. It's a very British aristocratic opinion. I can almost hear the exaggerated accent sometimes when reading it, like it's a Monty Python skit. I find it annoyingly predictable and somewhat patronizing to the reader.
Sure I have. There are some things that are done in a "non-standard" way because it works better for us.

Instead of just turning off SELinux, however, I did things "the right way" (fixing labels, contexts, etc.).
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I don't think that is it. The tools aren't open source free, but they are dollar free.

Xilinx is the leader in FPGAs and their tools are free. Lattice tools are also free. Not sure about Altera, who is #2.

I've worked multiple places that shipped products using only the FPGA vendor's free offerings. The FPGA vendors see the tools as a way to sell silicon.
It was a fix in PCI error handling on powerpc for a reasonably rare situation where the PCI card doesn't successfully come back up after we reset the slot or the PCI controller...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/949e9b827eb4736d96d...
They're not mutually exclusive. For example, I've done consulting work for a private geothermal energy LLC (AltaRock) that does a fair amount of R&D funded by the DOE (and maybe NSF?) and other public sources, though I believe that the company is also venture-backed.

A lot of the hard part of the development in geothermal is fighting with problems that aren't very solved scientifically, particularly understanding the dynamics of stress and temperature in the upper several km of the earth's crust near active volcanoes. I was working with AltaRock on these issues, which are chewy enough that NSF doesn't consider the baseline levels of knowledge good enough to fund research in, as NSF wants science to be at a point where some sort of obvious scientific outcome is highly probable before they will fund it.

I assume that this is pretty widespread in cutting-edge R&D: Those involved find themselves working at the ragged edge of the known universe, even if both academic scientists and the general public think of the topic as pretty mundane.

So I view a fund like this one as quite complimentary to public funding: At some level, venture-type funding that has a high risk tolerance can help get projects off the ground to the point where they can get funding from both more conservative government funds and more typical institutional investors.

(Full disclosure: I also own a private geoscience research company that solicits a lot of public funding as well as doing consulting and non-fundable research, but it's really just a shell for me to try to get paid to do cool science, rather than a nascent company focused on growth.)
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The Economist is a good review, but it's laughable that so many people think it answers for "not particularly ideological". Capitalism is an ideology - albeit one basically invisible to Hacker News members - and the Economist has that one in spades.
The problem is, under the current legal framework, if Google has access to the data for any reason then so does the government.

The only way to protect your users from the government is to not possess (or be able to make sense of) their data at all.
I do hope that's not the only requirement.
> NSF is somewhat insulated from the standpoint that NSF directors are appointed every 6 years and the current one will get through most of Trump's term. No clue about the NIH. NASA is similarly not in as dire of a situation from the looks of it.

Potentially, but there has already been a lot of meddling with the budget that the NSF director gets to put to use. Basically every year congress tries to ensure that the NSF stops spending money on climate change and 'social sciences'. There has been broad pressure to cede to congress's demands that the stop funding anything that they disagree with as well as general budget cuts.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/battle-over-scien...

The NIH/CDC have been repeatedly denied funding for Zika and Ebola research.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cdc-and-niaid-offici...

NASA will definitely have all of their climate research gutted, and given Trump's relationship with Lamar Smith and Jeff Sessions, I'd expect decent funding toward big projects that favor Alabama and Texas sites.
never had a problem flying with one.
Note that BookmarkSaver isn't merely claiming that you are obligated to curl a URL without grepping the output. He/she is claiming that after you curl the URL you are obligated to parse the response and execute all code and make every request described in the document (recursively, perhaps). It's a more laughable (or horrifying, or some combination) position than you are portraying it to be.
Wow this is really interesting. I didn't realize there were different implementations.

Do you have a resources regarding these? I would love to learn more about this.
Exactly and more so for those like us who participate in forums like Hacker News. I.e. if one is getting their tech news from a set of links online, it seems odd that that same person would be watching television for other news.