skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anybody surprised by this? A boss who can do your job can:

- Fill in when the team is busy. Ever seen the manager at McDonald's flipping burgers or frying fries? Some goes for any other manager, sometimes, they have to step into the code or read legal docs, or operate the machines.

- Provide a perspective that's likely to be relevant to you. He knows what it was like doing your job, and has a good guess as to where it's going. As opposed to simply imagining what you do.

- Understand push-back. A boss who isn't an expert will require explanation that an experienced boss will not. "We can't add this feature because it breaks our database schema". "Uhm what's a database schema?". Only so many times you can hear that from someone who supposed to be deciding things before you lose faith.

- Guess what the team wants. Better experience -> better guesses. Even if the boss hasn't done the work for a while.

- Give feedback beyond "work completed/not". Because they can see where the hurdles are before you complete, and they have an understanding of how big the problems you've solved are on the way to completion.

Looking at my experience, anytime I worked with someone who didn't have the technical understanding, the worst drops in morale happened when I felt something was obvious, but the person needed it explained. It would have been fine for a new staffer to ask, or a graduate, but not a decision maker.

The main annoyance was the issue of where costs could be cut. Some people I've worked with seemed to think that just by asking enough questions, some piece would show up that could be cut from the solution with no harm. And so they'd keep asking around about whether this-or-that was "really" necessary. And perhaps when you're not an expert you can't come up with new pieces or processes, so your line of questioning is inevitably towards slimming whatever is already there.
I had 3D TV from LG, and I am kinda sad to hear this. I used it to play Skyrim on it, which was very nice, even though I had to reduce quality to maintain reasonable FPS. I didn't watch much movies on it, though, but I greatly enjoy good 3D ones in the cinema.

What I missed the most was Minecraft (actually, I found some older mod and it was kinda weird in 3D, so maybe that's for the better) and porn. If this was available, I could still use it, but as it isn't, I gave it to my parents to replace their TV.
Wait, Boston Globe, for shame. Ana's height, bone structure, and hair are described, but we never get even a cursory description of Ted?

When you start looking for this shit, it's everywhere.
> what you owe in tax is not your property

So you're saying that it does not violate my rights when someone else claims to own an arbitrary portion of my income? With 25% taxes, I work for 3 months of the year for someone else. If I choose not to pay, then people with guns come to lock me up. How is that not slavery?

> It's everyone's, in the form of the government.

Government is not society. Government is a group of people who consume the productive output of society by force.
What a great piece of software! Congratulations!
Make Learning a Lifelong Habit
It sure is not killed by Spotlight, I use many features in Alfred that are not available in Spotlight. Launching applications and doing simple tasks like calculations are possible with Spotlight. Snippets in Alfred work better than the OSX 'text' feature. Alfred with the Powerpack is really great.
Here in the U.S., very few public high schools have single-track education, at least not for "core" subjects such as English, math, and science. There are typically remedial, standard, honors, and AP classes for these subjects.

And I would think that if you're OK with multi-track education, it would seem like having a separate school for gifted students is just an extension of that.

That said, in my own experience, although there were down sides to having some single-track subjects (e.g. physical education), one benefit of attending a school with children of all ability levels was that you were exposed to children from all walks of life.

I would imagine that a school for gifted students would have skewed socioeconomic demographics compared to a school for students of all ability levels, and in many places, that might also mean less racial diversity.

At my public high school, we had a program where students at standard-level or above would assist special-education students. That type of opportunity would probably be missing from a school for only gifted students. You would be less likely to come into contact with (and befriend) people with intellectual disabilities, or even people with average intelligence.

Edit: One other point. Academic giftedness is often thought of as one monolithic thing, but I know several people whose giftedness varies wildly by subject. If you attend a school for gifted students, would there be an expectation that you would be gifted in all subject areas? Would it be more difficult for you to get help in the subjects where you struggle?
The Death Star and the Final Trench Run
Gamasutra - Epic Games launches $500,000 year-long game dev contest
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/290011/Epic_Games_launche...
my perspective on this is that that is a remarkably short list of complaints for a programming language, all things considered.

Python is certainly not perfect, but a similar list of pet peeves and grievances for, say PHP or Java would easily be 10 times longer even under the most charitable interpretations.
I tried both the 9.7" and 12" before I bought my 9.7". For me, while the 12" is fantastic for the available space (and the side by side tile feature is also awesome on the bigger screen), I found the size and weight meant I wouldn't want to carry it around with me wherever I go and is harder for me to hold eg on a bus. The 9.7" is small and light enough to be portable, which was important to me.
That's not inconsistent with OP's case though.

It sounds like France has a national (presumably minimum) notice period. In the UK, and I imagine many places (but then, I'm sure we all imagine 'many places' are like our own...) it varies, and typically is longer the more senior you are or time spent at the company (as obviously there's more 'wrapping up' to do, like you describe).

OP describes having given notice, pushed back by a week in order to finish the project, and it still not being due for completion on time. We don't know how much notice they gave initially, perhaps 3mo exactly as you're accustomed to, perhaps not.
That's how metaphor works. It actually happens a lot in English, here's a list of so-called "contranyms" http://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-con...

EDIT I'm actually not crazy about this list, some them are pretty tenuous.
Happened to me twice, had decided to quit for a while and my last day was supposed to be after the go-live of long projects.

On the first case, the project was so mismanaged that eventually even 3 months later the project was still not launched, good thing I didn't stick around.

On the second case, the project was delayed by only a couple weeks. My past employer just hired me on contract for the few hours of support they needed me for the production launch. If your role is truly critical and you still want to help, take a few hours on the side for them, and ensure you are paid properly. Nobody ever considered me irresponsible to leave at the time I wanted to leave. If your employer runs out of money, they won't hesitate to lay you off as soon as possible, regardless of projects. That works both ways.
From the comments: "I'd bet a lot of workers who are unhappy for other reasons end up judging their supervisor to have low technical competence, making causality hard to determine."

Curious to see how competence is objectively measured in this case.
It seems like the development process is somewhat waterfall-ish (which most development often tends towards). With that in mind, I believe that the original plan - of leaving right after the app goes into production had a small flaw in it.

In my experience there are often a large set of work that is left when a big production release happens - from the minor like bug fixes and features that were deprioritized to the bigger and often more urgent ones like performance problems and non-validated 'shadow beliefs' being tested.

I would recommend sticking with your original plan, but making sure to spend the next week or two to mentally prepare the team that they are likely only just finishing the boring 1/3 of building software and going to start making an impact in the 'real-world'.
You seem to be confusing work without net pay with slavery.

Sharecropping was abhorrent but was distinct from slavery.

Slaves may be killed legally by their owner.
I never said anything about due process.
0%...I work remote and make my own schedule. I'm on my way to the airport for a month long vacation. As a contractor I can take a month off without needing approval from anyone. I can take a Tuesday off and go to Disneyland with my daughter without needing to lie about being sick.
I'd say it's extremely subjective which language is more readable, for some that might be Elixir and for others it's Erlang.
Resilient cooperators stabilize cooperation in repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma
The short-term focus of humanity sometimes worries me as we keep making mistakes that are likely irreversible and preventable. Passenger pigeons were once estimated to be the most abundant bird in the world. There were so many that no one thought they could ever go extinct, until they did in the early 20th century.

Ignorance befell twice when people failed to realize a bird that would "darken the skies" could go extinct like any creature and that their breeding habits weren't as straight forward as one would assume. Passenger pigeons would only breed in large flocks, so by the time that anyone realized they were doomed and tried to breed them, there weren't enough pigeons left to form a flock of significant size.

Some might argue the pigeons or even the chestnut/elm/ash are not a regrettable loss, but miss the point--that our assumption we can easily undo the damage we cause to the planet is not always possible. The trees might make a comeback from genetic engineering eventually, but bringing animals back from extinction is still more theory than application.
Funny that I had very nearly the same experience in Texas. I had even been moved into a "Gifted and Talented" program which segregated us from the regular kids. While we did occasionally get to do something above and beyond the vast majority of the time was spent in a prison like setting where all we did was focus on standardized testing.

I remember literally spending weeks of schooling in primary school learning how to bubble in a multiple choice answer sheet. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for weeks on end having the fact we need a #2 pencil and that you shouldn't fill outside the bubble when answering the scantron on the TAAS test.
Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end (2014)
Wealth is not necessarily the product of one's labor— especially in large quantities.
There's a lot of politics in science, so these people have a fair share of experience i would guess.
But, on the flip side, faster-learning kids need to learn how to live/work/deal with slower-learning kids and vice versa. The purpose of schooling goes beyond the accumulation of facts.
True, their actual expertise is left kind of hand-wavey. On the one hand they can genetically engineer exploding pumpkins, on the other hand they can't fix their lab door alarm keypad. Maybe they're more biochem-based, but I digress... I don't think we ever learn enough about their skills to know what they can and can't do.
By that argument, jury duty is slavery.
Mostly what I learned in high school was how to talk to kids from blue-collar families. Don't use multi-syllabic words, and talk only in concrete terms. Avoid use of abstraction and don't pontificate about anything.
How Co-Working Is Transforming Cities
Ok, wow. That blew up. Let me see if I can respond to the main points. Seems like I went for shock value more than clarity in how I said things.

The point with the election polling wasn't statistics. I don't have a source, but I read on HN and Hillary's emails that much of the mistake was a misassessment of the voter base due to bias. I'm questioning the likelihood that the news sources that were biased then will be unbiased now.

> So are you suggesting that the "millions" claim stands until disproven? Is that really how you see things?
Check my last statement...I'm agnostic until better information shows itself.
I think tech people should be doing this too.
How Canada became the world's newest tax haven
Yes, I remained a bit skeptical, but it seems to be taking off after latest iteration.
mJS – A new approach to embedded scripting
Sorry I'm not sure what your point is here.

You seem to be suggesting a positive correlation between private property and freedom, but I think that's a far more complicated relationship than an implied correlation allows... as shown by the fact that 'socialist' democracies like New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, etc. consistently rank highest on indices of freedom (e.g. Cato) and laissez-faire democracies like the US tend to trail them.
This is an interesting comic, but I'd like to point out that becoming a society concerned with triviality is nothing new. Just look at the crap they were watching on TV in the 50s and 60s. And even if you go back in time to before TVs, there was plenty of crap that people occupied themselves with. It's just a lot easier now since so many of us no longer have to struggle just to survive every day.

Wishing for the entire population to be highly educated and interested in important matters is, I think, a fool's errand. You're never going to get that from people unless you start culling less-intelligent people, which obviously isn't a good idea for many reasons.
This.

I remember a similar (but less serious) situation in which I went 2.5 yrs with 0 vacation.

I was feeling pretty much beat and close to burned out so I scheduled a vacation outside of the country having basically the max number of PTO days an employee can gather. Told my manager of my plans and he passive aggressively told me that sure, you can take PTO... the project is on fire and we'll launch next month but sure, you go on your vacation.

Did not go because I was genuinely scared about my career.

Project got pushed another two months. Tried to do the same, same result. Got pushed back again two months. And I was still there, working my ass off.

Rewards for that year were mediocre at best, although I worked my ass off.

What I learned from that is the fact that work never ever ends. There is no 'perfect' time for leaving. Even after launch, the team may need the original developers to fight fires all day and patch production to keep things running especially if the project was a death march or if the schedule was pushed back a couple of times.

Leave, try your best to not burn bridges and be honest with the current employer.
Staying Motivated as a Software Developer
Yes. Without a single doubt.

I attended the long-running #1 public school in the nation. The School for the Talented and Gifted Magnet High School in Dallas, TX. The environment fostered creativity and learning. There were no distractions or negative pressures or stressors. Being smart didn't result in being bullied, it resulted in being respected.
I also use GoodNotes. I chose it because it's relatively low input latency and has handwriting recognition.
Wouldn't negotiating down this delay make your employer think that you plan to leave the company shortly after joining?
Can I buy trees from lowes or homedepot or walmart to plant them? At Texas we do have some chestnut trees, but not too many.
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Human rights include property. To say otherwise is to water down the concept of human rights.
It's good that you want to take care of your employees. But I would say that at least the big publicly traded companies don't care for their employees anymore. They say they do but that lasts only while it's convenient.
Yeah, I meant OS-specific binaries. For performance reasons I'm way more interested in important services being delivered by Linux binaries than Chrome or Firefox binaries.
It's not extreme at all. All of civilization has only existed for 10k years. Most of the time our species has spent on earth, there was no wealth, there was no hoarding of basic goods, and there was no infrastructure. Hunter-gatherer tribes did not accumulate wealth.
Trump is kicking ass get rid of junk science and bring back science.
Indeed. So is conscription.
Why not just make it a dev/production flag, then?
This is one of the reasons why I do love the system here in Belgium. I studied at a university which is at the moment number 40 in the world university rankings (https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...) which is pretty good if you ask me.

And the price I paid for each year was about 700 euro plus whatever the books cost. Came to a total of about 4500 euro (books included) for the 5 years that I studied there.

I'm glad that I did not have to pay the rediculous prices they do in the UK or in the US, because my parents would not have been able to afford that.

EDIT: And there is actually a system for parents whom do not meet the minimum income either, that the university covers part, or all, of the cost. I do not have experience with that though because even though my parents did not attend a university, their income was above the minimum to apply for that.
Well, one of the reasons they call it Big Data is that it can get big. You can store the same data point multiple times - once in the "player" record, once in the "game" record, once in the "weapon" record, etc. Whatever makes it faster/easier to process.

You have to forget everything you learned about "normalization" if you've ever studied relational databases and SQL. If redundant copies or even multiple platforms and data models allow you to make faster queries, use them!
Because of the direct correlation with # of rigs, the job loss will be linear with the loss of # rigs. However, the current situation is that each rig that is still working is getting more efficient and productive on a daily basis. So much so now, that there are fewer rigs coming online to produce the same amount of oil that we had before the drop in oil prices. This is where the job loss will be. Some of it is due to automation, but most of it is due to the efficiency gains in the drilling and completion process itself.

http://www.otterwoodcapital.com/static/media/uploads/2016/03...
This is anecdotal, but in 10th grade I transferred to a charter school with no separate classes. The "gifted" students were in the same school as the students who needed extra attention.

The end result was just that-- all of the attention was given to the students who needed it. The cirriculum was dumbed down, and the "gifted" students didn't learn almost anything.

It was better for the students who needed help, and much worse for the students that didn't.

I view the end result akin to eliminating salary negotiations to help those who are too afraid to negotiate.
Nothing more annoying than an incompetent co-worker or boss. I don't think you're alone in that regard. If someone is competent that means I can trust them to do the right thing. If they're incompetent it's a crapshoot and causes unnecessary stress. I guess that is not necessarily the same as deep expertise but it's hard to imagine someone with expertise who is also incompetent in that domain.
Daily interaction with people who are clearly in very different socioeconomic circles than you is so godamn exhausting. I studied with a bunch of rich kids when I was a child and I still have self-esteem problems 20 years later.

Harvard is overrated anyway. You're not going to get a better education, you're just going to be around a lot of rich people.
The newest version finally does, sort of. It supports setting a "bedtime" color (and a custom time) independent of the "sunset" color, so you can have eg. 5500K in daytime, ~3500K in the evening (matching normal interior lighting), and ~2000K when it's actually bedtime. Or just set the same color for the first two.
Yes it's required but you can negotiate a shorter notice period.

If your employer refuses to apply the notice period, you are entitled to financial compensation (3 months of salary).

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2883
The article doesn't mention the word "technocrat" but the wiki seems relevant even if the scientists only have modest goals of participating in government rather than grand ambitions of controlling the government from the top down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
> Despite two Senate inquiries in 1988 and 2001, it has taken 15 years and a state parliamentary review for the Victorian government

This is an incredibly disorienting sentence for one not familiar with where The Conversation is based! (Australia, I suppose, having had a few needed minutes!)
It starts to get really complicated once you involve edibles, though - you can't just straight up eat plant matter and have it take effect as if you'd eaten a brownie, even though the dosage would technically be much, much higher if you straight up ate a bud.

I'm no scientist nor a baker so I don't know the details behind it, but as far as I know the THC needs something to bind to before it's digestible, usually a fat - probably why cannabutter is the most common way of getting it into edibles.

And that doesn't even account for the CBD which I have zero idea about with regards to edibles.
Well, there shouldn't be trust by default, but the government should be able to earn our trust on a department-by-department basis.

For example, I have quite a bit of trust in the CDC. I have less trust in the EPA. Trust is hard to earn but easy to lose.
The 2016 Open Source Yearbook was just released
I had something similar happen on PSN. IIRC it wouldn't let me add Plus to a UK account using a US card.

I ended up just creating a new account, but it was surprising how difficult they made it to give them money.
> When these students are academically isolated in a non-selective school, they can “dumb down” and underachieve to improve social acceptance

I have heard of lots of anecdotes of this occurring. I can believe it takes place. IMO this reason is exceptional and should get special attention.

The article is fairly Aussie-specific. In the US we have an education system which has a lot of opportunity for improvement. But the metrics focus on either the median student performance against milestones/proficiency or the median student progress. As long as this is the way they're measured, the outliers will not get special attention. As a result, parents should be prepared to spend time and money educating their gifted children above and beyond the school curriculum.
This is not your fault that the launch date has been pushed back. You already made arrangements with the other company so I'd stick to the plan. It's your current employer, not you, who should be dealing the consequences of poor management.
I agree on lamdas and the gist that things must look pythonic to be accepted as that holds the language back from iterating or evolving. The rest of his points read like scope creep in that he seems to want the language to be something it's not.