skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pipeline for tech oriented careers opens up around the 6th grade, and starts to become harder to enter around the 11th. I know from personal experience that kids at those ages rarely have any idea about what career they'll actually be in at age 30. So the parents that have high expectations--and push their kids to achieve academically--fill up that pipeline early.

My own high school had roughly equal numbers of black and white students (40% white, 40% black, 20% others). But all my classes were overwhelmingly whites, Jews, Chinese, and Indians, and their parents were mostly doctors, lawyers, tenured professors (or even university presidents), and business owners. Most of the boys were all in the same scout troop (50). Few played a sport; if they did, it was tennis or cross-country running. Most played a musical instrument.

I don't even know where all the black people went after elementary school. They were still there at school, they just weren't in most of my classes (except for the 2 that were in all of them--they had high-expectations parents). Then, once I went off to college, most of the ladies vanished, too. They were in my chem and psych classes. They were in the band. They were certainly there. But they didn't take the CompSci classes.

And in the workplace, well, they show up from time to time at different jobs, but most places look just like all the boys from my 6th grade accelerated math class, 30 years later.

I don't think you can entirely blame the hiring companies for this one.
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Yeah, if you can wait another year or two, something like CockroachDB [1] might fit the bill. That is a database that is distributed from the start. So you (theoretically) won't have to worry as much about individual datacenter failures, and scaling.

[1] http://www.cockroachlabs.com
FaunaDB is hosted in several AWS regions around the world, so the latency is similar to DynamoDB if you're colocated. We will expand to more AWS regions and other cloud providers soon.

The biggest operational difference between FaunaDB and DynamoDB, aside from being globally distributed, is that you don't have to pre-provision capacity in FaunaDB. DynamoDB requires you to provision capacity per table and you have to pay for whatever you don't use. If you go over the provisioned capacity your app stops working. FaunaDB is delivered like a utility; you just pay as you go.

Also FaunaDB supports joins, transactions, unique indexes, views, etc., and you can install it on-premises if you want.
I have a similar experience when reading his books. However, I do feel like I should be testing through them much more smoothly. The ideas in them are great though. I think it is nice how he expresses big ideas seemingly very simply (some ideas do take the bigger part of his books to be expressed so simply)
Building a Prototype – Creating Freewrite, Part 3
Posts like this are annoying and completely stupid.

NoSQL databases encapsulates a wide variety of data stores including Key Value (Riak), BigTable (Cassandra), Document (MongoDB), Time Series (InfluxDB), In Memory Grid (Ignite) and dozens and dozens of others that blur the already grey lines. Many of which are strongly consistent (negating your consistency point). So your experience with one does not at all translate to other data stores.

The equivalent of what you're saying is "PHP sucks therefore all programming languages suck".
In my case, I often apply my effort to learning one more thing about Ruby/Chef. Something I didn't know yesterday. I try to apply what I've learned, so that the knowledge sticks, and I'm cementing the concepts in my mind.
15 km/h is quite fast
For Superset we use SQLAlchemy and much of the connectivity goes through the DBAPI Python abstraction, and I believe most of the drivers are using native implementations.
They came out of the same movement, you can be pretty sure they didn't take the same trade offs.
Did you read the article?

The new film works by a process called radiative cooling. This takes
advantage of that fact that Earth’s atmosphere allows certain wavelengths
of heat-carrying infrared radiation to escape into space unimpeded. Convert
unwanted heat into infrared of the correct wavelength, then, and you can
dump it into the cosmos with no come back.

the work is done by the huge temperature difference, about 290°C, between
the surface of the Earth and that of outer space.
Devices Threatened by Analog Content
Oh wow. If I were able to clone myself, and the clone didn't need to make any money, that's exactly what I would have done with my time!
Docs PM here.

Thanks for the feedback, we are working across-the-board to make our content easy to discover both through external and internal search indexes.
I will, it's still early so I hadn't taken a look. To be honest, since this is hosted on Netlify I was kind of assuming they'd be sending caching headers for all static files, but I see that they aren't.

I'll look into it, thank you!

EDIT: Netlify would be setting everything properly if I hadn't turned that off... Luckily they have great support!
PostgreSQL outperforms MongoDB how ?

Because as someone who has tried to update JSON documents (1M/s) in both PostgreSQL and MongoDB I would strongly disagree. MongoDB with WiredTiger was at least 10x faster per node and in terms of pure updates one of the fastest databases I've ever seen. And before the trolls yes I was fsyncing to disk.
Google apre ufficialmente WebVR in Chrome per portare la Realtá Virtuale nel web
Oh, I can prove it with evidence. The only thing that can change the direction of motion of a particle is a force. Photons have zero mass and zero charge, therefore no force (including gravity) can act on light (strong and weak interactions are not applicable here). Therefore light will always travel in a straight line. When light appears to 'bend' it is not because the light itself changed direction in its reference frame, but because the space the light is traveling thru in is warped. Any physics professor will understand precisely what i'm saying, and all agree. Someone who has only read a few articles online will not. I've understood this since 1986. I'm very old and wise you little child.
Reminds me of perl6. Why don't more languages support grammars like this?

Fun example: https://github.com/perl6/perl6-examples/blob/master/categori...
>> Building a web application is a young and poorly-understood activity.

Sorry, no. People have been shipping, and understanding how to ship web applications for... what, 10, 15, 20 years now?
We also have Tool Verification Engineer role open: http://www.elementscience.com/assets/tools_verification-engi...

&

Application Verification Engineer role:
http://www.elementscience.com/assets/application-verificatio...

Thanks!
Most other states will waive the pre-licensing requirements if you are already an agent in one state. Sometimes it depends on your state.
They still want their ~$100 a year though.

Zenefits fell down there as well--they had many gaps in their producer licensing. They've now open sourced a compliance app to track this.
https://www.zenefits.com/blog/zenefits-now-leader-licensing-...

(Most insurance agencies get by with a spreadsheet for this...)

They also list all their licenses here

https://www.zenefits.com/licenses/
Incorporate.

Get an accountant.

Buy health insurance.

Prepare to pay significantly more in taxes.
Yeah. I could see it for batch processing. It's just not suitable for real time / API work that I was hoping to use it for.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13611795 and marked it off-topic.
Then you wait one second after pressing j (until the timeout is over) and press k.
Key part below. The decision does not address the general question at hand, but finds that DDC has not demonstrated facts that align with the authority they cite.

"The district court, relying on an unpublished district court decision, rejected Design Data’s argument that the SDS/2 copyright could extend to the program’s output. See Design DESIGN DATA CORP. V. UNIGATE ENTERPRISE 9 Data Corp. v. Unigate Enters. Inc., 63 F. Supp. 3d 1062, 1068 (N.D. Cal. 2014) (citing Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of Am., Inc., No. C 88-4805 FMS, 1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8183, at *11–12 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 15, 1993)).

Other authorities, however, suggest that the copyright protection afforded a computer program may extend to the program’s output if the program “does the lion’s share of the work” in creating the output and the user’s role is so “marginal” that the output reflects the program’s contents. 4 NIMMER ON COPYRIGHT § 13.03[F] (quoting Torah Soft Ltd. v. Drosnin, 136 F. Supp. 2d 276, 283 (S.D.N.Y. 2001)).

Assuming, without deciding, that copyright protection
does so extend, we nonetheless conclude that Design Data did
not raise a question of material fact that the imported SDS/2-generated images and files reflected the contents of its program. Design Data did not present evidence establishing that SDS/2 “does the lion’s share of the work” in creating the steel detailing files or that the user’s input is “marginal.” Torah Soft, 136 F. Supp. 2d at 283. Thus, the district court correctly rejected Design Data’s argument that the SDS/2 copyright protects the images and files that UE imported and distributed.
Compressing hydrogen with explosions and bullets is actually very old and well-understood science ... if you have the clearance. Explosively compressing hydrogen is how you trigger hydrogen bombs (also via radiation pressure, which probably doesn't create metallic hydrogen). H-bomb research is all about slamming things into liquid H2. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that metallic hydrogen had been briefly produced somewhere in the desert during a bomb-related test.
Oh dear God, I read only 1/4 of the review and I feel like I've lost several IQ points. Yes, perhaps they were crude, but unlike Dr. Harris, I find no value in the philosophy mocked by Fashionable Nonsense. Even reading about that kind of postmodern philosophical claptrap is pretty devoid of value (which is probably why I never managed to read all of Fashionable Nonsense).

But yes, he's a mathematician, I agree.
Not really sorry, I've been using the same devs there for the past 9 years. They've been great
Schemaless design enables the organizations to collect data now and decide what to do later. Though analysts who work on these datasets should be able to write code to parse the records when needed.
Yes. But you can get licensed in every state in the US, but only do training in (for) one state. (Usually.)
You shouldn't make design decisions from case studies alone, but the subjective experience of each individual user is a perfectly valid measure of UX performance.
Compared to the history of agriculture, 20 years is nothing.
This would be awesome to put on cpus.
If I were a young software developer solely focused on saving as much money as possible, I would: move to SF in a heartbeat, work for Facebook, Google, or Amazon, pick a mission-critical team that exposed me to systems at massive scale, and live in a van a pleasant 5-10 minute bike ride from the office. After I felt comfortable I'd start to consult on the side on weekends for up to $53k of annual tax-free solo 401k sheltered income. Life doesn't present a ton of these "sell picks and shovels to gold miners" opportunities but this is definitely one of them.
Of course, there's the problem of comparing clojure and cl in the same breath....
Perhaps at first, but the eventual goal is to get rid of the expensive commissions altogether.
Unless your current clients can continuously refer you to your next one, expect to do a lot more talking (selling and spec'ing) than at your last job (assuming you were part of an engineering team as a programmer).

Great choice -- I did this two years ago and it changed everything :)
Also it would make a great clothing to wear in the summer or on a spacecraft heat shield.
Project Centennial https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=516...
Higher order components to me is a hacky technique and mostly seen as a monkey patch to the limitation of lower component.

A concrete example is responsive table components with the help of HOC, says `react-dimensions` (sorry author, I have to mention here but there is nothing specifically wrong with it), why do I need it as a separate component? Oh flexibility and reusability but when I tried wrapping 2 or 3 table libraries with it, it sucks at rendering on desktop, even worse on mobile! I gave up on performance issue. Ah that doesn't mean the HOC technique itself is bad, but from my experience it is.
The artwork made me think of _why's guide for Ruby.
There are a lot of "HTML programmer" types out there who piece together snippets without ever having to think about how best to solve a problem, deal with the fundamentals of computer arithmetic, or data structures. These people can't do fizzbuzz or something simple like construct a linked list (good one for the managed code generation used to containers).
It's much easier to write in a new database in the future, than it is to deal with greater complexity initially.

I find that in the first phases, I often don't know what kind of load is going to be where, so I simply use a relational database since they give excelent data security, and okayish performance for most things under low load.
There's a quote somewhere, which I can't track down at the minute, which goes something like:

How I'd like to learn coding:

1. From online documentation

2. From a printed book

3. From blog articles

...

99. Printed on the side of an elephant

100. From videos
Good Luck! My advice to you would be proof read any emails you're sending out. That stuff might not matter at a 9-5 (it should). But you won't get any work if you can't type a proper email without spelling mistakes.
And that's why we have the "NewSQL" movement, though a bit slow. The benefit of NoSQL in some cases (Cassandra and HBase for me) is that it restricts developers from using non-scalable data structuring and querying. RDBMS's have a bad reputation primarily because how they were used via unrestricted queries that came back to haunt the product owners.

And even then, some local DB approaches are fundamentally unsolvable in a distributed way (CAP, exactly-once-sends, etc) without trading something, even with cockroach.
That looks a lot better than the regular Eclipse IDE.

What's the story..?
True, but a large portion was devoted to writing simply and clearly, using everyday words.
I am explicitly not taking any side here, but that is certainly a matter of debate. Especially relational database management systems have all this functionality like views and triggers and stored procedures so that you can move a substantial part of your business logic into the database management system and only have very thin clients in order to minimize duplication of business logic across different clients. Treating a database management system as a dumb data store is only one possible philosophy, admittedly the one that seems to be the dominant one currently, at least as far as I can tell.
It was only just described in a Science paper, so you are probably going to have to wait 10 years before you can buy it at your local hardware store.
I think giant corporations' peddling CSS and JS libraries maybe have a lot more developers than they really need to keep ... usually one ... website moving.
At the risk of sounding cynical, there are also companies out there that want to _appear_ to be interested in all the things you just mentioned, so they'll hire a few people to do their [wave hands] data science, machine learning "thing" and those few people then go down the rabbit hole, untethered from reality. The C-suite people will then have their message they can deliver externally—and internally—about their commitment to [wave hands again] all that stuff. The tragedy when this happens is that sometimes that small team of people is not aware what their function at the company is—being the human props for the sales and marketing teams. The alternative, I suppose, is far more depressing—that the "data scientists" are fully aware of their role in the grand scheme of things.
Cost difference does seem counter-intuitive but not an expert. I also wonder if rather than transporting hydrogen around they could make it on site from piped water. Not sure if electrolysis of water has scale benefitsm of mass producing hydrogen then trucking around. That could reduce cost of transport... but then that would be much the same as electric anyway with the inevitable energy loss on conversion...
Scientists estimate solar nebula’s lifetime
Here’s How I Built and Launched a SaaS Company for Less Than $40k
Since around the time I was 15 or so, my parents told me that they'd pay for 4 years of college (no more than that) and that I'd be paying if I took longer than that to graduate. It was also clear that I'd be welcome to live at (their) home if I needed to, although I'd be expected to find some kind of job and pay rent. I took 2 quarters extra to finish, but also left school with a job lined up.

My father especially has always been a "live within your means" guy, and his intention was always that I should choose somewhere to live and work that I could afford on my own.
One point made consistently in this article is that life is getting harder for a graduate of the liberal arts. There are a plethora of articles that espouse the notion that art doesn't pay.

Yet, how is that surprising? You're taking four years to complete a degree program that provides you with no (measurable) practical skill.
Always be closing. Seriously. Everything needs to be logged and moved into your sales funnel.

Pick what matters, grow your team, trust your gut, and don't give up! :)

[side note] For some reason I read this post in Teddy KGB's (John Malkovich) voice from Rounders (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/.
I don't. I learn and do one thing at a time, close down everything else, and visit HN/Lobsters/etc as little as possible. I take notes by hand but that's just a habit—I don't go back to them often.

I casually updated a "knowledge" repo[1], but I don't do a good job at it. I keep it tech-knowledge only, though.

I think daily practice over long periods of time is more important than "keeping track" of things. Pushing your comfort zone a bit everyday (if possible) will lead you to mastery.

[1] https://github.com/sotojuan/knowledge
Economic Space Agency (ECSA.io) | SF, Oakland, Europe, World | Software Team Lead/Engineer

Our aim is to transform finance. We are building a platform on a beyond-blockchain technology for people to operate financial contracts that will produce a radically different economy. It is a place for rapid building & deployment of little DAOs. #p2peconomy #openeconomy We are looking for:
1. Team lead experience

2. Skills with Javascript

3. Web platform experiece (HTTP, HTML, NoSQL)

4. Experience with smart contracts — game design and blockchain experience a plus

*Also another senior software architect position for Open Source protocol (Agoric)
- NodeJS expert

- NoSQL database

- Experience with Computer Language design+implementation, Distributed computing, and blockchain technologies highly desired.

We also have more financial instruments technology in the money market and capital market space in the pipeline. Candidates with experience of financial algorithm (or just algorithm) are encouraged too.

Contact: recruitment@ecsa.io
if you have enough money, there is no risk.

you simply call the bank, and tell them to credit you the money back, which they do immediately, and then they launch an investigation into the felony crime which occurred. they'll send you a couple of affidavits to sign in the mail later.

it's even easier with a credit card because the money was never taken to begin with.

and get this, with amex you don't even have to call, because they call you, and you tell them which charges you want deleted, while they send you a new card.

not having money totally sucks in comparison.
Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13381591
In fact, basic income is actually just a continuation of the same inflationary alchemy that's been eroding the middle class for decades. This is why a seemingly revolutionary idea is getting so much press - because it actually isn't revolutionary at all, but a doubling down on the status quo!
USD to INR rate is less competitive than an Indian bank. Probably because not many adopters in India.
Hmm. "Languages and systems that are of sound design will persist, to be supplanted only by better ones." I wonder if the author still thinks that, looking at the programming language landscape today. (Either he would have to say "it didn't work out that way", or to say that C++ and Java were better than Smalltalk.)
> Fwiw, everyone is responsible for maintaining the handbook/our process and procedure documentation. The docs team isn't on the hook for it, nor is it the sole responsibility of engineering.

I find that in practice, with non-mission-critical activities, especially documentation, when everyone is responsible for getting it done (And making it useful), no-one is.
Collecting wine can be come quite an addiction. My wife and I both love wine and living in NorCal we have easy access to tons of great producers. We would taste a wine, like it and say, well lets get a few bottles. That turned into a case, then a few cases. Right now we have around ~3000 bottles and are in the process of building a cellar for them. The cellar will hold 4106 bottles. It is nothing fancy, just a room above the garage that has been well insulated (spray foam) and as a dedicated AC unit. The unit is pretty cool as it has a probe you put in a wine bottle full of water and it uses that to set the temperature.

We have in the last few years had the opportunity to taste and acquire some older wines from France from the 1960s. It is a completely different taste profile then anything from CA. Then need to open and sit for awhile (a few took 6 hours to really open up).

As far as cost go I think the most expense bottle I buy is around $200 (750ML). I just have never been able to justify the cost vs taste difference. Heck, one of my favorite bottles was $6 from Trader Joe's (a Chilean that they do not sell anymore).

If you live in the Bay Area I and want to try some very interesting wines that are not stupidly priced there are some great producers in the Santa Cruz Mountains area. Try one call Storrs or Silver Mountain.

For Napa - Corison or William Cole on the high end. Both can be aged for years. We had an opportunity to taste 25 years worth of Corison at a dinner and it was amazing to see how the years changed the wine.

I tried Screaming Eagle at a friends. Amazing wine, but not that that price point. But to each their own.

At the end the best wine is the one you like to drink, preferability with friends and family over a good meal.
So, in what sense is it true that it costs (present tense) 50¢/m²?
So much of what you said is hilariously wrong. Probably the most acute example is your claim "Standard Model is mute on gravity". Are you kidding me? Page one of any book of the Standard Model discusses the 4 fundamental forces. Guess what one of them is: GRAVITY.
Forgive me a boast about a nbody simulation ive been developing: I got the details 60 planets and moons etc. from Nasas JPL server and put them into it. Running at a timestep of 30 minutes or hours (virtual time) for a year, the Earth ends up within a moons orbit of where JPL says its supposed to go. I think the innaccuracy is due to limitation of javascripts 64bit float (rather than, possible relativistic effect). Not sure yet, Solar system scales are so huge.

When dt is too large and bodies get too close, they get super-attracted to each other in one step, and by the time of the next step, they have travelled too far to get slowed again, this is where I see major errors can occur. Its necessary to put a throttle in the force calculation, or to reduce dt to deal with that 'near missing'. Or to substep but that seems to require excessive adjustments.