skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally in support of your quote:

Where I presently work, about half of the staff have migrated from a technical/support (but not IT) side of the business to the "productive side of the business.

They all get the national minimum wage plus a few coins, to make them happy. Where they came from, where I am, is minimum wage part-time/casual (legally part-time/permanent, contractually casual). If anything goes wrong - and with our failing electronic equipment it happens all the time - then there are warnings, there is much screaming and swearing at, and so forth.

Since we recently merged with another business, the new hires - who are fresh out of training with no experience and rather poor skills in our particular area - get about 35% more pay, better conditions, and the managers are far more tolerant of their mistakes. (You produced under 40% of your weekly minimum requirement? That's OK! You've opened us up to serious lawsuits because of your poor work? No problem! You smashed the state-of-the-art equipment we bought you, and then snatched your supervisor's unit to replace yours, and she couldn't do her job? That's fine!)

The lowest paid of these staff, the internal promotions, are responsible for all our production and training at a fraction of the pay. The new hires are classed as full-time/permanent, the internal promotions are part-time/casual and so can be dismissed at any time with minimal notice. Needless to say, they're leaving as soon as they can find a job anywhere else.
I hate it when a website takes over my preferences and sets the language to Italian solely based on my IP. Hate. It.
For instance, in the [Siemens] program you mentioned, what
happens if [Siemens] closes up shop and moves to Brazil?
Is the vo-tech grad with years of [Siemens] specific training
and experience going to be flexible enough to take a job at
another tech firm? I'm honestly unsure that would be the case.

One difference between the programs described in the article and apprenticeships as they work in Switzerland or Germany is that in the latter countries, the professional degrees are standardized as well, so you don't get a degree as a "Siemens Widget Wrangler", but as a "Polymechanic" (despite having done the same combination of working for Siemens and going to school that you might have done in the US). The standardization is supposed to make it simpler to move between employers.
The conceit that the obsessive pursuit of information is necessarily a good is also a quirk of that personality type.
I agree with everything you listed, but I have one complication. "went to bed as soon as tiredness kicked in".

Give me a night or two of good sleep...and I won't be tired until 1am. Waking up for work will then be hell (I don't function well on low sleep).

My body knows when it is tired...but that doesn't match the work schedule :( When I'm practicing sleep diligence (which comes and goes based on whether I've been tired a lot lately or not) I have to force myself to go to bed when I'm not feeling tired. That feeling of sacrificing time is almost as hard to maintain as being constantly fatigued.

First world problems, but they are my problems.
I would say that is because, in the past, "work remotely" wasn't a viable option. Today, that sounds like a much better option than a war of conquest. To me, at least.
It feel like a normal font that squished each character into a slightly-too-small box.
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> Well then there are reasons hard to understand unless you understand the socio-economic context in which a lot of people grow up in India.

I think you misunderstand my post. I'm saying Americans can found start-ups more easily than immigrant workers.
In the past, we had the Hollywood backlot.

We still have the Hollywood back lots, and studios still use LA, New York, and Chicago streets as their sets. A lot of times, it's cheaper to just pay for a filming permit than it is to recreate the real world in a computer.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508035
> Couldn't they just go overseas? I think it's only in America where produce tastes like cardboard.

No, tomatoes taste pretty bland in many European countries too.

The Netherlands and Spain are the two top tomato-exporting countries in Europe. As you can probably guess, the sunny climes of the Netherlands aren't exactly conducive to ripe, flavourful tomatoes. But large-scale industrial tomato farming is conducive to achieving cheap prices that consumers expect at the supermarket.
Adding words before/after your ideal domain tends to work: gotinder.com, hioscar.com, invisionapp.com, etc.

For domain name example.com: tryexample.com, getexample.com, goexample.com, hiexample.com, exampleapp.com
John McCain is the Republican lawmaker most willing to defy Trump
I have kept every work note in the same file, saved to git, for a little over two years. Instant help from @Jermolene. Have found no fault with it.
Some materials are reported in mass, some in volume. I used to do groundwater plume maps for superfund sites, and the data units varied by compound.
Does anyone have a better map? Would like to see if I'm in the highlighted range or not - I'm pretty close to one.
The movement of labor and ideas also means that there is no shortage of educated people to speak out against said orange demagogue's terrible policies. And most peoples' postmortems of the election agree that the election was close enough that higher immigration (or even better distribution of existing immigrants) would likely have kept him out of office.
I follow them as well :) Their work with containers, and their general commentary make for fascinating reading.
It's this company:

https://www.vmssoftware.com/about_faq.html#faq1

They didn't buy it. HP is too greedy about the lucrative revenue & maybe patents they get off VMS that made me wonder why they killed it in the first place. Instead, it appears (not certain) that VMS Software Inc gets some OEM-like license that puts them in control of it while HP still owns it, can license it themselves (probably existing customers), and likely gets a portion of VMS Software Inc's licensing revenue. So, they've pushed off almost all responsibility for it onto another company without actually selling it or losing all the revenue.

Still a good development for VMS customers. Both legacy and people who will suffer through archaic stuff to reap benefits of bulletproof clusters. I'd be happy to. :) Only problem is it's basically got no security attention over the years with plenty of zero days or configuration issues lurking in there. If I deployed in a company, I plan to put network guards in front of it to absorb attacks while converting the traffic into something easy to process. Ideally, a PCI-based guard that forces it to only talk to the application's memory instead of rest of system. Plus safe-coded apps (Rust, Ada) and API wrappers to try to spot BS. That VMS supports cross-language development will probably help.

EDIT: The weird thing is they finished a port to Alpha ISA before they got to x86 ISA for migrations. I thought Alpha's already migrated to Itanium. Didn't see that coming lol.
I like this mindset.

> It's not amazing that we amaze ourselves.

This realization is super assuring with the complexity of the discoveries broadcast on HackerNews. Sometimes it's overwhelming, but now I can think of it as a sort of... scale.
Jeff Atwood is not a serious programmer. He writes stories.
It's because the liter was originally defined as 1 kilogram of water.

For the various concentrations, the volume and mass of the displaced water is ~0.
And it seemed to be great for that purpose. I might not be the only one to think so. A warning seems appropriate.
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Globalization, technology, union decline, foreign-bankrolled censorship (of course original Red Dawn is wildly propgandistic), feedback loop of banality, monopolization---for one, Netflix and co practicing the same vertical integration that was broken up at the end of the golden age. It's all here.

The article adopts the classic disruptor snide and glee, but seeing the political blowback of the past few months, and the inherent dubious benefit of some of the things I listed, I'd have adopted a more ambiguous tone.

It's one thing for David to kill Goliath, it's another for Goliath to kill his parents.
There are toxic compounds in your water...and your food...and that sunlight? Toxic UV.
Huh. Yeah, I dove around a bit, browsed the wiki, etc, and so far all I've seen is the equivalent of "an open source version of the Parse backend". No description anywhere that I can see about what it does or why you should care (unless you're already on Parse, of course).

IIRC the Parse homepage used to have this, but ever since the shutdown notice (so, for the past year) the homepage has largely been useless.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467572
Eli has highly technical in depth dry stuff. I followed him even before he joined google and became core python developer.
I also grew up with subtitles, and I agree they're the best compromise when you don't understand the dialog. But I never acquired the skill to ignore them once I understood what was being subtitled at a native level, and I really don't really understand how anyone could.

The human vision is drawn to quick changes & movement, when you have an otherwise immobile scene that's mostly just dialog subtitles will pop in & out, I can't help but focus on them just like I would if something else suddenly popped into the scene.

If you have words pop into your vision you also can't help but read them, at least I can't, subconsciously reading the translation and hearing the original version at the same time is really distracting.

I found the only way to deal with them was to position myself behind some sofa so I could only watch the top 3/4 of the screen, but of course you miss a big part of the movie that way.
> [...] why is it not possible to cause objects within our perceived

The universe is currently not in the holographic phase. That is thought-provoking, though. Let's assume that this is plausible. During the holographic phase, the speed limit wouldn't apply. There are a few interesting theories that require FTL during the big bang.

What I find interesting is that the universe went through two very distinct phases and we have two distinct physical theories.
It's hilarious. I grew up in the rural midwest and I was taught to make "popped corn" on the stove in a pot with a little bit of oil by my grand mother. I love it this way, so does my wife, and I still prefer to make it this way to today. However, we had a very good friend over recently and I made popcorn for the 3 of us on the stove and she thought it was way beyond weird. She actually bought us one of those air popcorn makers for Christmas and was like, "Here, now you guys don't have to use the stove to make popcorn anymore!"
Yes, one is right. But which one depends on who you are.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467572
Can someone clarify: does this mean all older versions of apps that were dependent on Parse are now orphaned?

That is, even if you've released a new version of your app that uses the open source Parse Server, any of your users that haven't updated to the new version now essentially have a broken app?
> This is by no means an actual competitor to Erlang's actors - for one thing it lacks any form of supervision

Author here. That is simply not correct. It has a full supervision hierarchy as well as a compositional strategy system for creating policies that handle failures. The strategies can also be scripted as part of the config, to detach the failure handling entirely from the actor itself.
While it is true that they are libertarian, a think tank would never "support" a candidate in that way. The reason I lump them in with the ideological right in america is that their thought has been precursor to legislation championed by the right.
[EDIT: I regret entering this conversation. I don't expect anything productive to come from it.]
I think the executive limits worked pretty well here. President Trump may have wanted a muslim ban, but they couldn't do it.

(Aside: may have wanted? Can't even trust what Giuliani said Trump told him?)

Great. So we're supposed to be happy with a President who stretches the law as far as he can to do what he wants. This smacks of the "well, it was legal, so what's the problem?" argument we hear all too often. Just because you can figure out a way to do something legally doesn't mean it's the right or moral thing to do.

Response to the edit: Yes, I think there's something you're missing, and it's not subtext at all. Trump at minimum wanted a Muslim ban. There's no reason to think he won't continue to push for one, or one that accomplishes the same goals.

Trump is very good at not clearly expressing what he means. I'm not satisfied yet whether this is intended or not. If the latter, it's sowing a lot of needless confusion domestically and abroad. If on purpose, it makes it very difficult to trust him and know what his intent is, domestically and abroad.

Evidence on HN: Trump supporters are divided as to whether this is a Muslim ban or not. You'll find comments expressing either opinion.
Your comment would hold a lot more weight if EPA or some other massive government agency found it possible to help people in Flint, MI, which did not have drinkable water for years now, and still don't have it.
Copyleft addresses the freeloader problem, true - but GPL goes on to grab patent rights - that's what usually prevents corporate use. Sadly, you aren't the only one whom confuses copyleft with GPL; which has (unnecessarily) badly tainted the idea of copyleft, itself. GPL deserves its terrible reputation, copyleft doesn't. But someone (cough, cough) over-reached.
You couldn't do an odd number of codes, but if you have an odd number of positions, I suppose you could have one position represented by two adjacent codes.
So, you could have a wheel with 5 equal pie slices, but on the reverse, one of those slices is divided in half, with a different encoding on each, that both resolve to the same value/result.
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The article seems to play extremely fast and loose with watershed vs waste treatment plant sludge vs drinking water all being the same. Which is it?

I'm particularly interested because I live in a community marked blue and I'm sure our industrially polluted river tested positive, yet our drinking water comes from 800 foot deep wells and is extremely hard although otherwise extremely clean.

So are we contaminated because somehow the deep wells are contaminated with just this unusual pollutant, or is our industrially polluted river (or some old industrial EPA superfund site, who knows) verified as being polluted, or is our waste treatment plant essentially failing us? (Or of course a combination)

In an era of infotainment and clickbait and fake news its sad to see harvard in the domain name, but its the current year, its not the authors fault that someone is profiting off scientific research, etc.

Its surprisingly difficult to figure out the percentage of people who drink deep municipal well water vs groundwater vs near-ground-water (shallow wells often private and contaminated). Therefore I don't know if my situation of drinking deep well water (presumably safe) but living in a contaminated area is unusual or typical.
Yes, but it's not the case that everything is equidistant. Allow me to illustrate with a simplified example from lower dimensions.

(Warning: pseudoscientific bullshit ahead)

Picture a transparent sphere, covered in tiny dots. Imagine that you live on one of these dots and the others are stars. Now, mark 'your' dot and look around on the sphere to find the dot that is farthest away, on the opposite side. If the internal radius of this sphere is 1 unit, then the distance to that dot (traveling on the surface of the sphere) is pi units. Imagine yourself in Edwin abbott's Flatland, but thanks to relativity you know this flat universe to be finite and bounded, such that if you set out in any direction in a straight line you will eventually arrive back at your starting point.

Now, let's designate that point opposite you on the sphere as the Maximally Distant Star. There's no doubt, no matter what route you take along the surface of the sphere, this is as far as you can go before you begin coming back, if that makes sense. But suppose you were able to transit across the interior of the sphere instead of across the surface. It's still the farther point from you, but by transiting by volume instead of on the surface the distance is only 2 units, or 63% as far as it appears to the surface-dwellers.

Of course, this realization is of little help in figuring out how you as a Flatlander can access that theoretical 'volume' so as to shorten your transition time. If you could, you'd seem to disappear at your existing location (most likely by shrinking down to a point, or possibly seeming to turn inside out, or both) and then reappear at your destination, assuming you hadn't been eaten by the great old ones said to inhabit that forbidden space by famous horror author J. Q. Likecraft.
Even if the ones found were not the ones you theorized?
Just say you freelance.
Could you drop a few names here?
I'm not sure I understand you. I'm asking for query parameters (`/foo?genre=mystery`), sometimes called search parameters, not URL parameters (`/foo/genre/mystery`).

I referenced the URL Parameters example in my original question and gave an example of what I meant, so I'm unsure how I could have communicated more clearly. That leads me to think that you are trying to answer my question and I'm not seeing it, but neither of the links you provided seem to show any URLs with a querystring at the end, after a `?`. Please let me know what I'm missing.
As I have understood it the AGPL forces you to have any code that uses the software to be open sourced.
Even though the drivers are of a different license it doesn't matter right?
Shitty scientific journalism. Abstract says something else but who cares.
While that is a good point, it's easier to break open your keyboard and ensure it's not emitting RF than it is to audit a site that may be under an entirely different state.
Cool intro to the basics of the mechanics, short and insightful, thanks.
That's true.

However, people were sent to concentration camps for their actions and beliefs, and we all think that's wrong...
Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement
"The good news, however, is that we’ll never be bored again."

Ok, please have that final, ominous line mean the tone of the piece was at least somewhat satirical.
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oops. looks like added to the wrong article.
I thought of "Shadow" upon reading this. Delightful series. Fun romp.
Or, scientific research? We do have that in IT.
dropbox evolution:

sync files - Google Drive

sync photos - Google Photos

sync docs that are like websites and also track progress and chat and tons of other features you don't really need but will be shut down in a year!
I disagree with saying "Not a serious programmer" but I would say his blog is not a "serious programming blog". As far as I remember, his blogposts were not _that_ technical in nature, and dealt more with the human aspect of software engineers and the people using their software. We need that as well though.

But he did work in Discourse and StackOverflow, which I'd say are pretty good achievements in the software industry.
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Choose who to love;
Your father ...
or your mother.
Your father's uncle,
but not your mum's brother

Nah, I don't buy the idea, Is plain BS.
I like that poster ;)
For those who wants to try, a demo is available on oasis.sandstorm.io
Your argument applies well to commodities. Today there are so many commodity products that we're almost drowning in them. Amazon, Walmart, Costco, and others have risen because they are optimized to take advantage of commodities.

Your argument does not apply to new products and services. Let's say you've written a new AI-driven CRM product that maintains customer contact automatically without being overbearing. How do you price it? There's a lot of risk because it's never been done before and you don't know how easy it is for other companies to copy you. You need to build in a margin that allows you to fund not only your current staff but also future improvements.

So, in short, it's important to know whether your product or service is a commodity (or whether commodities compete with your product). It deeply impacts the way you develop your pricing.
> Think about Chromium (which is not derived from webkit, that had to be replaced by Blink)

Blink itself is derived from WebKit.
Maybe I'm still not being clear. I don't think people mean "the effects of having slept" in a symptomatic sense, either (alertness, etc.)

Rather, what people want is "the effects of having slept" in a physiological sense: a pill that rapidly sweeps the same toxins out of your body that sleep does gradually. Taking such a pill would have all the same long-term benefits that a healthy sleep schedule would have.

Of course, a "pill" that did this properly would likely have to contain something like complex organic-waste-molecule-chellating molecules, or perhaps even biofilm-scrubbing nanomachines. :)
> the differences are mostly theoretical

This is simply untrue, and bad advice to anyone thinking of using the product in a way that's inconsistent with the license. Is the author actually suggesting people should do that?
I'm not sure how anyone is better off with reduced regulations. Except possibly developers.
But… who selects these pieces and how?
Is it? I'm really interested in knowing why.

Do you call this meta because the question comes from a previous experience of mine?

I've never understood the word meta as it can have a lot of different meanings depending of the contest.
1) Are tap water filters likely effective in removing the dangerous compounds?

2) Is there any way we can search up our own zip code to see at a higher level of resolution whether our home water supply is impacted?
For a while I did something similar. I used a private instance of WP to generate my blog content and then scraped the site to get static pages which I could then serve from another machine. That meant nothing dynamic, no WP "vuln of the week" treadmill, and no cache-layer validation headaches either. It worked pretty well. For a larger site I could have made the generation more selective, and (re)optimized the output in many different ways, but it wasn't worth it. Then I got off WP entirely and it was all a moot point, but it's an approach to consider for those stuck in WP-land.
A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking
Not to diminish the Flint Michigan situation, as republicans did when they shuttered the investigative bodies that were looking into it. But how dafuq can the EPA be doing nothing if flint is the rare exception to the rule? If they are to lose credibility for not catching one thing, how much credibility do they get for all the stories we DONT read?
Sounds good to me. Hollywood is a trash heap and every single person on Earth would be better off if it didn't exist.
TiddlyWiki had a complete rewrite a few years ago (this is what you get on http://www.tiddlywiki.com ) and the new interface is top notch.

It is truly a remarkable piece of software, mostly because it is DESIGNED to be customizable to ones needs.
I had a go and worked out a Gray code for 12 positions. There's probably a neater solution, or even some sort of algorithm for generating this, but this seems to work :).

0110
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