skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how does this apply to developers? I remember in the 90s it was already considered the job to have if you want to make a lot of money. That's a good 20 years to prepare the workforce, at least (I start to become too young to have really paid attention to the job market before that).

I got my first full-time programming job soon after the dot-com bust and even at that time it paid better than the offers I'm seeing for new hires these days. And that's without even factoring in inflation. They are making quite a bit less than I was in real dollars.

By that definition I think it is very safe to say that there isn't any sign of a developer shortage. It is a high paying profession, for sure, but it always has been. It's not like it was a minimum wage job 10 years ago. It was still a six figure job even then.
Amazon just has such a huge head start in so many ways, it's difficult to imagine anyone catching up with them anytime soon.

For purchasing online, most people just immediately type "amazon" into their web browser. People will never have any reason to do anything differently, unless Amazon starts screwing up the user experience, or becomes significantly more expensive than other online sites. Neither of those things is likely to happen.

Suggesting that such things will happen is like suggesting that some other search engine is going to quickly replace Google.

I guess all bets are off when one tries to look ten years out–the entire world can change radically in ten years–but personally, I'd bet good money that Amazon and Google will still be the largest players by far for their markets.

The more interesting question, I think, is for how long will Amazon maintain its lead in cloud computing. Cloud computing is something of a commodity, so companies will have a great deal of incentive to go with whoever can do it most cheaply. As long as they do it well, that is. I'd still put my money on Amazon.
When the constitution doesn't quite suit us, we amend it. When we want heavier restrictions on immigration than some poem recommends, we elect Donald Trump.
I use it mainly to set timers while I'm cooking. So a little better than a radio clock but I don't think it's worth it.
what kale tastes like to you is not necessarily what kale tastes like to everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Specific_food_sens...
> Uber continued to pick up people at JFK when taxi cab drivers were striking.

Did Lyft do otherwise? That's not my understanding.

> Lyft donated $1 million to the ACLU

Lyft has so far (presumably) donated $250k to the ACLU. They pledged $1 million over four years. And you know what? Good on 'em!

Uber had already pledged to fight the immigration ban directly on behalf of affected drivers, to the tune of $3 million. I love the ACLU, but I'm not sure I'd bet on their lawyers over Uber's, and getting both mobilized sounds like a win.

> I'm more of a subway kind of guy

The subway to the airport was refusing to accept non-ticketed passengers during the planned protest (some time after the taxi strike).
This is great, I'm glad the developers are officially supporting this now. I had started building a simple bot before this was released https://github.com/pfista/generals
Feema
Ah, I did not know that. As far as I know the UI only offers deactivate as an option.

Thanks, I just deleted my account.
> I am not saying they can all be doctors or other very high aptitude roles but I have no doubt they can learn new skills that will enable them to do more productive things with their minds than warehouse work for example.

I have less faith than you that the market will value those new skills at the same level.

The Rust Belt in the US is the example I would point to. No job has appeared in those areas to absorb those people who would have been working in the mills or the mines.

I'm no romanticist. Those jobs sucked.

However, the market valued those jobs rather well at the time. Nothing has come along since that valued those people at the same level.
Nothing is FREE! As if they're not going to mine everyone's data for their own use. I'm tempted, but I'm not going to. Thanks.
What ad blocker are you running? I think you can use some from firefox on Android, but I prefer chrome. Is there anything out there?
The bizarre reason two competing drug prices rose in tandem
No "Infanterie Greift An" ?
The $500 Nintendo NES Mini
Leadership is key to everything you do. Everyone has to show it from the lowest rank to the highest. It is the most important characteristic of the US services.

This is the meaning of leadership:

http://msl-cdn.radiantforestllc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/up...

Also I can highly recommend Turn The Ship Around! by L. David Marquest

http://www.davidmarquet.com
I experienced first hand the drug like quality of Facebook when I made the decision to finally quit..I started asking friends if I had an up to date contact number for them as I was planning to leave the site.

Every single one of them, EVERY one of them made it a mission of sorts to keep me from leaving the site.

"Just unfollow people, spend less time on the site"

Well by spending NO time on the site I AM spending less time on the site so hey we both get what we want right?

One friend went armchair psychologist on me about the affair.

It was an interesting week between emails,phone calls and text messages asking me where I had gone and why. "was it something I posted?"

For my part three months later...I've been reading a lot more and my grades in pre-law are improving, and that's all the feedback I needed to know I was on the right track to removing unnecessary cruft from the life.
Does this delete your data too? I spent about 2 days the other day running a script to delete all my data way back to 2010.
Electricians and plumbers have the same kind of issues.

I have a relative who worked for a company that did the electrical contracting for a huge amount of [huge retail company] stores. Ultimately, [huge retail company] started bringing in large groups of cheap Mexican labor who were mostly inexperienced in the trade. These groups would screw up the job, so they'd bump the opening date a bit and bring in experienced crew to patch everything up.

The end result was a much worse job, but [huge retail company] didn't care because the overall cost was a lot lower.

The places where this does not happen are places where the electrical union is strong and laws make sure workers are certified journeymen/masters (or in an apprenticeship).

I've thought quite often that the world would view programmers much differently if there were a viable programmer's union.
My favorite one:

Me: Alexa, set up an alarm for 2 minutes

Alexa: Two minutes.

[Two minutes later]

Alexa: Beep beep beep

Me: Alexa, thank you!

Alexa: You are welcome... Beep beep beep...

Edit: formatting
Disagree. If you as a Muslim live as a Muslim surrounded by Muslims, you're eventually going to otherize the Christians living across the border. If OTOH your neighbour is a Christian and your cousin is married to a Christian, you're going to feel a whole lot more charitable towards Christians when push comes to shove.

Fact of the matter is, we're prone to split into groups. If you homogenize, then before long, you'll be a Catholic othering the Protestant, or if you homogenize those even, you'll be a Lutheran othering some other denomination. Your best bet is to use diversity and multiculturalism to teach tolerance to the point that tolerance is institutionalized in your society.
My home state introduced a plastic bag ban a couple of years back. It was acccompanied by a simple campaign that encouraged families to bring re-usable bags to the checkout counter when shopping for groceries. If you forget to bring bags, you can buy these re-usable canvas bags from the supermarket for around $1. Initially we all bought a bunch while our habits switched over, but this worked as the bags are useful anyway and most of us now keep some in the car and some in the pantry.

Thin supermarket bags were the focus of the ban.
Surprisingly after the ban a number of venues that sort of need plastic bags, eg for vegetables or takeout started sourcing 100% compostable bags that are allowed.
I didn't even know this solution existed before the ban.

There is a culture locally now to have reusable bags in the boot of your car and for a few items to just load up your arms.

It's been pretty successful and no-where near as interrupting as you'd imagine.

Ref: http://www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au/plastic-bags
Partner dancing is fantastic for this, IMO. Any sort of social hobby works, though. The less digitized the better - the fundamental problem is probably something like "by default, what I do is stare at a screen."
If you're looking to use Facebook less (but can't bring yourself to quit) I just launched a tool for that!

http://youjustneedspace.com

The iOS version is a web app because Apple rejected our native app. They said any app that encourages you to use your phone less is not appropriate for the app store.
Walmart labs is may be a little more 'technical' than current Walmart IT. From what I see on their website, it is developing bunch of Javascript frameworks etc. Nothing wrong with that but it is not comparable to likes of Amazon.
the default camera on iphone is used synonymously
But are those Cobol jobs remote?
Hilarious but said.

Perhaps the metric is inverted. Instead of years per language, it should be languages per year. Any software job today requires people that learn new stuff fast, not experts in 5 year old frameworks.
Rome2rio: discover how to get anywhere
Almost certainly that is the case. Look into things like Patreon, etc and see if they can make you more money a million users at say 1/100 paying 5$ a month is a nice income.

You might also want to look into cutting out the middle man and doing sponsored posts, or display ads directly from the providers - or if not make sure that any books mentioned has Amazon referal links.
Community radio serves this for me-- people uniting over common interests, volunteering together to keep the outfit running, and interacting in unexpected ways.

I feel very fortunate to have this in my life, and really wish there were more things like this for more people--
I didn't give it a second chance! Most of these things only have an impact over the longer term. Next time I have a blood panel done I'll reconsider supplements
This is very interesting and I'd love to play with it. As a player though, the thought of being matched against a bot sucks in the sense that it makes the game less enjoyable. I enjoy winning (mostly losing) against flesh and bone humans. I wonder if the folks of generals.io would implement a different "league" where bots are somehow not allowed.
And, more importantly, believe that a 23 year old's salary is acceptable because they're "building the future" or "revolutionizing the space" or "times are tough industry-wide" or whatever the CEO posts on twitter.
Hedging around these statements is important, but far too often I see people convinced they are in the 1% of tasks that truly need top level performance. Which is to say, I often see people who are wrong.
I think the fundamental thing you're overlooking is Amazon's wide selection. There's a long tail of relatively low-demand items that a company like Walmart would just remove from their shelves. Looking over my recent Amazon orders, I'd guess that around half of it is made up of this sort of item.
Give the Republicans a couple of weeks ... they'll fix that.
My recollection is that I took it immediately after a delicious lunch
Why is this not a step back from getting the stuff delivered in the first place?
https://lwn.net/Articles/708266/ -- 1,719 in a ~ten week window.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/ -- 128 individual developers have committed to FreeBSD head in the last ~ten week window. (svn log http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head |egrep '^r[0-9]{6,6} \| ' | grep -B999999999 2016-11-25 | cut -d" " -f3 commits.log |sort | uniq | wc -l)

So Linux has more like 13x individual developer count in recent times. You can round that down to 10x if you like, but 6x doesn't tell the recent story.

Note that this is comparing the Linux kernel to FreeBSD base, which is like kernel + glibc + coreutils + binutils + other stuff.
Jack Welch is retired. So there's no consumer pressure that can be brought to bear on him.

Bob Iger is the chairman of the Walt Disney Company. He hasn't resigned from the panel but after consumer pressure he's refusing to attend:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-iger-wont-attend-t...
Hi, President of SparkCC (sparkcc.org) in Australia here.

First I suggest you take a look at the hackerspaces.org Design Patterns (https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Design_Patterns), particularly the Independence and Sustainability patterns. Relying on donations is following the "Sponsoring Anti-Pattern".

I've seen a lot of not-for-profit groups who end up on the "grant cycle". The spend a bunch of time applying for various grants or soliciting donations just to survive. Once one grant/donation is secured it's time to start chasing the next one. Instead of spending time working in the 'space and making things.

You say you have paying members already which is great - this is the key to real sustainability. Perhaps you could follow the Charitable Member Pattern and see if they would be able to pay their entire year up front to get the space off the ground?

Starting a makerspace has been one of the most satisfying and worthwhile things I've done and I highly recommend sticking at it and making it work. I wish you good luck!!!
Similarly suspect statistics put the average age of commercial drivers at 55
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-14/2014-outl...

The average 55 year old has nothing to fear from semi-autonomous vehicle technology affecting their careers
Of course having the qualifications on paper isn't all that matters. But limiting yourself to a palette of people fitting the "protected groups" isn't what you need to flesh out a good team, either.

Wouldn't it be strange if, despite all the claims that race and gender, etc., don't matter, it really does matter as EEO regs keep telling us?

But people differ in ways other than skin color, gender, religion, age, physical ability and sexual preference. Members of our team from the city versus the country; short versus tall; early-risers versus nightowls; family size; headbangers versus country music fans; vegans or steak-eaters; and so on.

Why should we think that it's critical to have a pastiche of races, genders, etc.; while simply assuming that all the other interesting ways that people experience life differently is irrelevant?
Hi, I tried to read the two scientific articles present in that list of sources (the rest is opinion pieces and discussion related to the articles); unfortunately, the link to the first one (the study) is broken (as well as some of the others).

As for the second article, please correct me if I am wrong, but from skimming it I believe that first of all, it speaks of diversity in knowledge and problem solving approaches, rather than race, gender, age and other identifying features. In fact it remarks the following:

"The claim that perspectives and heuristics may be influenced by race, geography, gender, or age has much to recommend it, as does the claim that perspectives and tools are shaped by experiences, training, and preferences. However, even when applying our result to those cases when identity diversity has been shown to correlate with functional diversity, we need to be acutely aware that identity-diverse groups often have more conflict, more problems with communication, and less mutual respect and trust among members"

The other problem I see is that this model (from what I gathered) translates into software development terms as something like: 10 top C# developers are not necessarily better at writing a C# backend than, say a group of, 5 very good C# developers, 2 top C developers, 1 very good Python developer and 2 top Haskell developers. Rather than mix and matching experienced and junior devs because the juniors are more "diverse" in one aspect; as is encouraged and practiced by diversity evangelists.

This makes me further cement my position about the diversity question, and that is to just let people find their vocation on their own; the Internet has solved information access, we live in mostly free societies and we can learn on our own. Introduce people to CS? Absolutely. Artificially incentivize career choice by changing hiring practices? Bad idea.
I totally agree with stepping back, analyzing for a period, and figuring out the best approach; I just think if a managers first inclination is to derive pleasure from harshly criticizing someone there is something really wrong with the environment/leadership/their personality.
To a reasonable approximation, the goal of a business is to maximize the projected value of the business to investors.

If the business does not believe that it has growth opportunities that beat the market, then it should try to generate a profit and return that to investors so that they can look for better opportunities. Conversely if it does believe that it has such growth opportunities, the business should take any free cash that it generates and reinvest that inside of the business. If they are right, they will grow faster than the market. If they are wrong, they will at least acquire resources that can be sold later to recoup at least some of that money.

Amazon in particular pushes a tremendous amount of flexibility to individual business units to pursue growth strategies. As a result they always believe that they have better internal growth opportunities than the market in general. Their rapid growth is a demonstration that they have been right more often than not.

They can switch to generating profit at any time that they want. Just shut down unnecessary areas of the business that are losing money. (Something that they do all of the time whenever they conclude that an idea hasn't worked out.)

However when they take that decision, that will be evidence that senior management has lost confidence in the organization. Which will be a sign of internal problems.
Well then the OS that you're complaining about isn't exactly "your OS" is it? It's now someone else's OS and you're just complaining about something you don't even use.
Just to support your claim:

http://soils.wisc.edu/facstaff/barak/poster_gallery/minneapo...

(The link doesn't mention copper in particular)
For those wondering Chrome v53 was released about 6 months ago. That's quite amazing.
Theoretically, nothing. In practice, the isolation it relies on is somewhat weak. And in general, it is new and exciting and changing frequently, which means security bugs. Also, most people seem to rather suck at configuring it, as far as I've seen. (That's not per se a problem with Docker, but it is frequently a problem with Docker as-deployed.) And then there are potential kernel bugs.

When talking about "trusting X", one always has to answer the question "trust X to do what, exactly, under what circumstances?" I don't yet trust Docker to be secure enough for production, internet-exposed business use. I know other people disagree; YMMV.
There must be something other than the vegetarian diet you've mentioned because that's essentially one entire side of family, and quite a few of them are hale and healthy in their 70s/80s.
One thing that I noticed that Alexa is helping me out in: Speaking up!

I have come to realize I mumble and talk low and cold heartless Alexa will remind me to speak up.

That being said, I never thought of my Echo as anything other than a 1st step towards something greater.
They each have pros and cons. What are you looking for?
> Christians do not have a pass.

Members of "minority religions" in their country of origin are eligible for waivers of the bans issued in the EO. Trump has specifically said that Christians would be a priority.

> That wouldn't make sense anyway...how would they prove their Christianity?

Whether it would make sense or not is irrelevant to whether it is actually part of the policy.
This is an interesting discussion in Star Trek IX: Insurrection.

A society which knows about warp travel, but has chosen to live an agrarian lifestyle again, while keeping their technological knowledge.
I have an Amazon Echo in every room of my house, and I use it to control home automation, such as all of my lights, my ecobee thermostat, and my entire home theater (via a logitech harmony). I even use it to switch on and off my humidifier and space heater (and manage the temperature). My wife and I also use it to manage my shopping list (via the OurGroceries skill/app). I can use it to remote start my car and preheat or cool it down in the morning. I can even control my adjustable tempurpedic bed base, and have an IFTTT trigger which makes my bed vibrate whenever my amazon echo alarm goes off in the morning.

The possibilities are endless, and it's only going to get better.
Halite also looks interesting, but I think with generals bot-makers will have much more possibilities, because there are no limitations for your implementation. The game mechanics might also a little more challenging in generals, especially the fog of war makes a huge difference imo.
Cool! Thanks for taking the time to circle back and add this. I was also responding to the wave of "academia sucks!!!", which, while perhaps true (for some) is getting really old to read in threads here. Appreciate you taking the time to add this comment.
This is going to add a great new dimension to the game, especially in terms of being able to 2v2 with a bot for a partner.
Yes. Old story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandu...
That's how you have to read it, yes, but it doesn't match the anecdote that follows.
It's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUKjM_3DHc8
It only takes delivering to the ~40 largest metropolitan areas in the US to get to 50% of the population.
I know three people (2 immigrants on H1b) of the top of my head that are getting paid 200k + inclusive of year end bonus in NC and they have 10 + years of experience in the industry. My old company tried to find a Big Data and Analytics lead for 6 months before giving up. They simply could not find anyone good. This was back in 2014-15. They were willing to go upto 200k to pay for it. To pay anything more than that would not be worth it for them as the ROI just does not make sense at that point.

My role is of a Sr.Associate which requires 2-4 years of experience and I am a 27 year old guy. Would you really pay 200k plus for a person with my level of experience? Hiring a person with more experience for my position and paying 200k plus does not make sense because they would be over qualified for what I do. Also, there are not enough local developers with 2-4 years of exp with my skill set. At my old firm, I personally mentored 2 american fresh grads because they could not find Jr.developers with Big Data skills. I am pretty sure that I can make more than 180k in NC by the time I turn 32-33 but I will need to upgrade my skills at that point. I am already looking at Blockchain instead of waiting for my company to train me. I believe that it will be in demand 2-3 years down the line.

I support the increase in wages but you also need to consider what ROI you are bringing to the company if you are commanding a 200k + salary in a place like NC. Are you brining a 3-4x annual return? Then yes, command that salary by all means. If not, you do not deserve such a hefty pay check.
The subject of a data retention order isn't the person that gets to decide what data is or is not relevant.
That is already there :) Only one of the three servers allows bots.
Scaling Git, and some back story