skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have an answer as to who pays more for equivalent work, but I don't think that is the only important question.

Suppose a bright young person has the skills to be a great elementary school teacher and to be a software engineer. If being a teacher is known to lead to a life of poverty, then few people who have options will choose teaching. If the only people who teach are those with no other options, then we have a problem.

If you need effective people to make your organization function, you have to compete for them, and not just within your industry.
That would just follow a singular simple algorithm, not really intelligence in any sense.
If you click through the links and actually read the content, I have plenty more to say about TypeScript, and why I consider it optional learning for JS developers.
Gates' did something similar (as far as high-tech'ing your abode) in the 90s that I thought was also very hacker-ish.[0]

“First thing, as you come in, you’ll be presented with an electronic pin to clip to your clothes. This pin will connect you to the electronic services of the house,” Gates wrote in The Road Ahead. “The electronic pin you wear will tell the house who and where you are, and the house will use this information to try to meet and even anticipate your needs — all as unobtrusively as possible.” At the time, Gates speculated cameras might one day supplant the pins, as they’d be able to do facial recognition. He explained that the house would learn your preferences and adjust to your needs. Your affinity to dimmer lights, R&B, and Monet paintings would mean the lamps, music system, and screens would all adjust when you enter the room.

[0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/the-awesome-technology-ins...
Because making safe, efficient settings the hard-to-tamper-with default would be waaay too sensible?
Admittedly, I found hundreds of resources.

Half of them said that "Private Makes More". The other half said "Public Makes More". The ones that said that Private makes more, usually added in commentary about Right-to-Work states, and discussed unions, whereas "Public Makes More" discussed the excesses and governmental waste, and evils of taxes. I'm sure you can see a trend of biases here. Attacking Private was Democrats and Left leaning orgs. Attacking Public was Republicans and Right leaning orgs.

The best, most impartial was from a reddit posting (https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/314v7b/does_pr... ) asking specifically about engineering pay between public and private. Of course, by the very definition they are anecdotal. But they seemed to try to answer "What is better monetarily and compensation-wise, rather than bringing in socio-politics in its stead.
My first requirement these days is fast, automatic security updates. I know the OnHub / Google WiFi devices use ChromeOS (https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...) and get updates on that schedule. The last time I checked (about a year ago) that was a unique feature but I don't know whether anyone else has improved their support footing recently.
Super cool to see TJ (creator of express) in the number 1 spot. I think he's mostly writing Go these days, but express is still massively popular.
It turns out to be less about time and more about focus.
I've worked in the public sector. It often pays better with better working conditions and better benefits (even excluding the pension) than private sector jobs. It just doesn't compare well to Silicon Valley tech standards, which is an entirely unreasonable comparison to make.
CP symmetry violation is the reason that the universe appears to be made more of matter than antimatter. Though if I'm not mistaken, the scale of the violations that we have seen, and the violations that must exist in order for the observable universe to be mostly matter aren't in agreement. We don't see enough CP violating processes to explain this asymmetry in the universe.

One of the big open problems in Physics.
See "You Might Not Need TypeScript (or Static Types)" https://medium.com/javascript-scene/you-might-not-need-types...
I'm not sure how you can portray taking away pensions as "the morally right solution". It's at best a moral grey area.

These folks took jobs with pensions as one of the understood, agreed-upon benefits, and likely made their retirement and investment decisions accordingly.
Not only that, but a PET scan (a common medical imaging technique, tangentially similar to an MRI or CT scan) relies on antimatter. The name stands for Positron Emission Tomography, in fact.

The general idea: You get injected with a tracer containing a β+ emitter. This produces positrons (antimatter) through radioactive decay. When the antimatter collides with regular matter inside your body, it annihilates, producing a pair of gamma rays moving in opposite directions. Those gamma rays can be detected and used to triangulate where the annihilation occured, generating a 3D image of where the tracer has accumulated in your body.

Typically, the tracer will be something that looks like glucose to the body, so it's accumulated in areas of high metabolic activity. This allows us to see what parts of your body are active. (For example, seeing which neurons in your brain are firing.)

More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography
This is very easy to say from the privileged position of being a developer. My fiancée is a teacher. She did CodeAcademy. Finding a job just from Code Academy training is not as easy as it seems. The problem is cyclical: you need experience to get a programming job, but you need a programming job to gain experience.

I'm not defending the OP; I'm just clarifying that programming jobs aren't as easy to obtain as people might think.
> throw away account [...] being an anonymous coward

Well. In the current era of NSA and surveillance, it makes sense to make a new account for every message.
I find there's a lack of clarity on just what technology is, and how the specific mechanisms incorporated into it operate. I've been constructing an ontology and identify nine discrete areas. Each has its own capabilities, limitations, and consequences. Moore's Law applies to only a very limited subset of dendritic and networked structures.

1. Fuels & combustion, generally. Wood, plant and animal oils, charcoal, coal, petroleum, steam, otto, deisel, turbine engines.

2. Materials. Functions dependent on specific properties, and abundance of materials they're based on.

3. Power and transmission. Simple machines, shafts, belts, cogs, electricity, magnetism, hydraulics.

4. Sensing, perception, symbolic representation & manipulation.

5. Process-knowledge. Arts and practical stuff, say, agriculture, construction, boatbuilding, sailing, etc.

6. Systematic knowledge. Science, geography, history.

7. Governance and control methods. Management, business, institutions, and systems.

8. Dendritic and network technologies. Cities, transport, communications, computers, organisations.

9. Hygiene factors. Sinks & unintended consequences: Pollution, effluvia, systems disruption, and their management.

More on this (from an earlier development): https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww
The claim that is the first time filmed seems very strange to me. Could be true. I don't know, but chimaera are relatively common and relatively well known species for its habitat. I had one (dead) in a jar for several years in fact. On the other hand, is true that are related with sharks, but is a totally different kind of animal.
I don't think he intended it to be marketing, but kudos to him for being able to spin it as a way to promote Facebook too.

I see it more as R&D than marketing, personally. His personal experiments may likely hint at new directions in which he wants to take his company. Depending on how you view Facebook, this could be terrifying or exciting.

One way I see it is: Facebook knows a lot about your (online) social interactions. Home-based AI would need to know a lot about your private behaviors and preferences. If they marry those two worlds, that's a heck of a lot of behavioral information to have. Google has a big lead in this area already, so if Facebook goes this direction too, it would be an interesting to see how it plays out.
Jarvis is from Iron Man.
If by "question" you mean an average web scripter with a community college degree in "IT" deciding what elliptic curve to use in conjunction with what cipher suite and protocol...then maybe the answer is yes?
A stupid, but widely believed projection. In the years before the .com crash many people really believed that "This time is different."
> Why wouldn't they be allowed to unionize?

Because businesses go out of business when they can't meet their financial obligations. Or they declare bankruptcy and restructure the debt. In the meantime, their competitors pick up their slack in the various markets (labor, suppliers, sales).

The same mechanisms don't exist when it comes to governments, who, by definition, have certain kinds of non-negotiable monopoly and monopsony powers.
Agreed. If I knew someone who was investing for retirement on the assumption of an 8.25% growth I'd be worried about them. The fact that a government agency did it is scary.
This is a good reason why becoming a "polyglot" probably does more good than harm. Many languages are often better suited to different programming styles or paradigms or problem sets or environments than other languages; learning a new language can help better understand a new concept, thus improving one's ability in general across all languages.
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Yes, let's combine open office plans with voice interfaces! Especially when entering account numbers, passwords, or email addresses to mistresses. Best interface ever!
Not only is it not just a theory, it's actually used in Medicine!

For example, PET Scans use positrons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography
Why does HN link to so so many sites with popups?
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So, that could be the reason for the way this animal behaves (in my amateur opinion a bit aimless), too?
> I still thought antimatter was a theory.

Your use of the word "theory" here seems to be a misnomer akin to the common statement "But X is just a theory."
I want voice-activated lights... That's about it.

The problem is: The electronic light control modules are expensive, break down after 1-2 years, and then go obsolete.

I'll spend more time rewiring my house than stumbling around in the dark!
I know all about Joseph Smith. I'll leave it at that.

However, my initial comment still stands.
Unless the global economy collapses, and your 401k along with it.
Despite the argument here being obvious, what I like is that the author calls out the reader. I have, so many times, said to myself "It's all the idiots that buy the products and click the links that cause the world's problems." It takes something like this for me to think "I clicked a ton of links that covered shallow topics this election season, I should try to avoid doing that next time."
If you want to blame someone, blame the accountants. Pension funds' liabilities are long-term and inflation linked. If they had invested fully in inflation-indexed bonds (as the Bank of England pension scheme does), they would mostly be alright now. But pension fund accounting allowed them other options.

During the 1990s and 2000s, pension funds underfunded their liabilities, assuming they'd be able to make up the difference from gains in equities, property and other high-yielding assets. In the process they created quite a few hedge fund billionaires and funded the venture-capital tech boom. Many of those investments subsequently turned sour.

But their most significant error was to assume that bond yields would stay high. Today's low yields mean that they can't discount their future liabilities as heavily. The icing on the cake has been a moderate increase in longevity, which has been enough to tip the whole industry into crisis.
All GPS have speed limits for all road, and they can beep when you go over the speed limits.

The speed is part of the map.
For some people, totalitarian dictatorship is a feature. Doesn't mean that it wouldn't be terrible for society as a whole.
OpenHAB is way more robust IMO
Write more and reflect on what you've written. I've come to have a dev diary where I reflect on what I did the past day/week, and note things I ran across that did/didn't work out so well, and why.

That said, if all you're doing is greenfield development I don't think it's actually possible to improve without third party input. A major goal of good code is maintainability, and that can only actually be known in hindsight.
Eat food. Mainly plants. Not too much. It is ludicrously simple. You don't have to keep track of anything, you don't have to research anything.

We would prefer to believe that nutrition is immensely complex, for the same reason that those "One Weird Tip For a Flat Belly" banner ads work. We know the blindingly obvious truth, but we don't like it very much. Pretending that nutrition is difficult is a cognitive defence against eating the things that all of us know to be healthy - fresh vegetables and whole grains. It gives us an excuse for eating foods that are obviously enormously salty, fatty and sugary.

In essence, we are addicts in denial. We are hooked on foods that we know to be bad for us. We are hooked on excessively large portions. We are hooked on fat, hooked on salt, hooked on sugar. We will invent any fiction we need to avoid facing the reality of that addiction.
For the record, Bill Chumlee is not a terribly bright man. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/bill-chumley-charle...
> Given that Google won't be able to use its same tried and true ad revenue strategy

Is there a technical reason why they couldn't play an audio ad after a response based on what you asked for and your account history? It seems to me that voice UIs, like mobile UIs, have constraints on the quantity of ads but don't make them impossible. These constraints, by reducing the ad space supply, can also drive up the price for said space, especially when you consider the audience for an audio ad is A) captive and B) not restricted to a single individual.
Looks like Facebook doesn't use this anymore. I wonder what they replaced it with?
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Didn't Opera do this years ago?
The third possibility that is curiously rarely considered by so called 'market' advocates is that it might be a competitive market and both groups are offered more or less equally attractive compensation packages.
Problem is that knowing what can be skipped and what can substituted with what (and how) requires quite a bit of experience.

Not to mention the actual effect on taste. For instance, butter can be substituted for olive oil in many dishes, but the end result will taste very different.
Note that the author didn't claim that it was the best way, or that it might not have drawbacks, just that it's the most obvious.
One minor nit - normally a prod db is subject to availability restrictions that limit your ability to run 3 minute-long queries on them that suck up a bunch of resources. Nightly mirror to a staging/analysis db of sorts is a bit better practice.

Window functions are extraordinarily powerful, as are Common Table Expressions (CTE's). I encourage anyone who uses SQL with any regularity to learn them immediately once they are comfortable with the more straightforward queries and clauses SQL offers. Once you've mastered windowing and CTE's, you'll wonder how you functioned without them.
That was called a 'Tall Wagon' in its day:
http://oppositelock.kinja.com/tall-wagons-ranked-1690577814

Convergent evolution has replaced many SUVs with 'crossovers', which are basically the same thing, without the word cursed word 'wagon', tainted in many Baby Boomers' minds as a symbol of stodgy parenthood.
This is rather debatable when it comes to human-machine interfaces. UI goes through phases of improvement followed by radical degredation due misguided, cargo-culted redesigns. Take cars as an example. In my car I can adjust the airflow and temperature with a button and a knob, but in newer models a touchscreen or voice command is required that takes quite a bit longer.
The exiting thing for me is at 1:30 in the video. Smooth changes in the latent space lead to smooth changes in the shape (eg. the chair arms gradually recede along their longitudinal axis). This means you have good generalisability (the network is robust to input noise) and composablility (the network can produce novel results through transformations in latent space).
I'd wager they love porn. I would bet a de-filtering fee that the person who wrote this specifically loves the kind of porn that looks like human trafficking porn, in fact.

But he has to signal to his constituency - most of whom probably enjoy porn as well, but can't be seen to - that he shares their surface values.
That shark is now blind and will most likely die from starvation. what a way to appreciate the diversity of life...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/askscience/com...
Because their employer can't go bankrupt if they happen to bargain themselves an impossible deal.
My vet told us to alternate between wet and dry servings. Cats are designed to get water from their meals and it helps for cats that don't like to drink water on their own. Dry food helps with their dental hygiene like you said though. Nutritionally I think they're more or less the same.
Reducing the maximum latency of a bound buffer in Erlang
I work at CERN. Before I worked there I worked on trapping "normal" atoms (as opposed to antimatter ones). So some of us do understand this stuff.
> In America you have a right to a union.

No, you don't. At least not as a universal generalization. The law is more complex than that.
They didn't use the terminology back then but the Volkswagen Type 2 would probably count as a minivan today.

VW has said it cannot build a modern version with the flat front given the required safety equipment and design requirements. The new Microbus has a much different front to make its safety rating.
If you're delivering software in 2016 in any language you're probably dealing with standards at some level. Are you using HTTP? Using a standard with a committee. Using TCP? There's an RFC for that too.
If the answer is to bankrupt the state and make millions suffer so thousands live in early retirement luxury, the morally right solution is to bring benefits back to reality. Down vote me all you want, when push comes to shove over the coming years, it won't be everyone bending over backwards to pay someone 90% of their highest income when they retired at 50. It didn't happen in Detroit and it won't happen anywhere.
> Every time a company, economy, nation or empire doesn't follow the route that saves more human effort they are outcompeted (or conquered) by those who do.

The economics of slavery seem to be an effective rebuttal to your point, unless slaves are put in the role of automaton (and not human).
Well, part of that deal is delayed pay, because the public sector pays a great deal less

Not true in the UK at least http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/...

The issue is that private sector pay fluctuates with the economy, but public sector ratchets ever upwards come rain or shine.
It doesn't seem like he's proposing the bill as a PR stunt to bring attention to human trafficking, but rather to the fact that porn is easily available:

> “It’s where almost everybody has access to a computer now. It’s porn on demand,” Chumley said. “We have to start somewhere. … We’re bringing attention to it. We’re not being political. It’s an issue I’m pretty passionate about.”

He also said that they're going to continue debating the bill:

> Chumley referred to the bill as a “beginning point” and said once the legislation is debated in session, changes could be made.
>we didn't want code that we wrote to have access to our private TLS keys in production.

Correct me if I misunderstood you, but you don't want _engineers_ who write your code to have access to private TLS keys which are _used_ in production
Would you mind elaborating? What makes OpenHAB more robust?
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So what you're saying is, had they appealed, they would have had a bunch of case law on their side, which may or may not have mattered to the appellate court.

Again, if they felt they would have won, they should have appealed.
In an ironic twist, the "TWEET" link toward the bottom of the page has atrociously-terrible contrast against the dark background.
Caddy server pretty much is bare net/http (it uses the stdlib), so it would be doing the same thing.
So you are interested in deep learning
Lived in a country without 401k and without private pension funds... turns out it's gonna collapse too.
Reading is how you learn.
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Maybe this is offtopic, but Backchannel seems to have a lot of these glowing, puffy profiles of tech companies looking for exposure for their new products. I mean, parts of this piece read as marketing copy. "It all starts with that tiny speaker. The Alexa-enabled Echo is a true unicorn, one of those rare products that arrives every few years and fundamentally changes the way we live. In 2017, we will start to see that change."

They had a few other similarly uncritical, almost breathless pieces on Okta [1] and Vote.org [2] earlier this year. Am I paranoid/overly cynical, or is Backchannel becoming the outlet PR departments grant access to in return for coverage they know will flatter them? Being hosted on Medium, they don't serve ads (AFAIK)... so this may even be a part of their funding model.

[1]: "A Comany You've Never Heard Of May Have Solved The Password Mess" https://backchannel.com/a-company-youve-never-heard-of-may-h...

[2]: "This Y Combinator-Backed Company Has a Secret Weapon to Sway the Election": https://backchannel.com/the-simple-secret-weapon-that-could-...
When I was teaching at General Assembly, I always tried to encourage students to read more code.

Could you imagine someone studying writing in college without reading a TON of books, analyzing, and critiquing the writing other others? Where all they did was simply write, but never read anything from great writers? No, clearly not.

Yet, that's what I see most new programmers doing. There's an urge to do it all on their own, without reading the works of others, and that is a surefire way to setup for failure.
If you feel better, this fishes can probably survive even being blind. Sharks have complex and sophisticated senses related with smell, touch and taste, and can also sense electric fields emited by preys (or machines)
> Surely it was someone's job

Yes, the actuary Ronald Seeling did just that, and they ignored him outright.
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Cook whichever way, but remember to wash raw vegetables thoroughly! Improperly cleaned raw vegetables are a common source of gastroenteritis and similar illnesses (or more serious ones -- I still remember a cholera epidemic in my country when I was younger).
I'll just throw for the opposing side and point out that "Gov. Pete Wilson, took $1.6 billion from CalPERS accounts in 1991 to help close a state budget gap". A random internet calculator tells me that investing in the S&P 500 with reinvested dividents since July, 1991 has had a 844% return. I wonder impact $1.3 trillion would have on the CalPERS shortfall (edit: this would only be $13 billion).
I know that it's easy to find 16x2 character LCD displays, 7 segment displays, and small monochrome displays (like old phone displays), but at least at the hobbyist level, it seems like you may as well go for the general-purpose color screen. Similar sized screens look like they're around the same price, regardless of if they're color or not.