skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notch? (The Minecraft one)
> Is there some benefit to giving a fuck?

Yes. Studies show diverse teams perform better... (and incidentally they also show that people who believe themselves to be unbiased are actually more likely to make biased decisions).
Thank you for the feedback.

Yes, definitely incorporating the metric unit as we speak.
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Man, I couldn't imagine that. People stare at me like I'm a martian Elmer Fudd and I'm only 31, really hope to be out of this town by 35.
LSD ‘microdosing’ is trending in the Valley – but can it make you more creative?
Linus is right that it's about the work you put in, but he's wrong if he thinks Tesla didn't work hard to develop his visualization abilities

There's a myth that some people are born with amazing powers (Tesla, Einstein) but what people don't see is the hours they put in from a young age

Therefore, both Tesla and Edison worked hard, except Edison bragged about it
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I suspect that's untrue for many modern areas of development that are still "worth" something. When it comes to road routing I don't know of any .Net libraries providing modern functionality (hierarchy pre-processing, landmarks, arc flags etc...).
Ask HN: How to Hire a Technical Writer for a Product Targeted at Developers
Hey HN crowd. One of our latest products bugfender.com is having quite some success since we launched just a year ago based on a simple tool that we developed internally at Mobile Jazz. We’re now processing 50 million log lines per day and have grown from zero to over 7k apps that use the Bugfender SDK on a daily basis.

I believe we have a great engineering team, but since we’re new to the SaaS product world, we’re doing terrible at marketing. I think we have a good product market fit, as we see people using our product anyway, even with the subpar marketing. We tried to hire many “marketing experts” over the last months, but every time we realize that they don’t get “developers”. And our product is for developers. So we decided to “learn” marketing ourselves. One thing we’d like to make a hire or outsource though is someone who can help us with writing. We’re all non-native English speakers and writing takes as a huge amount of time, which we prefer to spend on the product and development. So we’d like to work with someone who has great English communication skills, but also knows about the development world, both technically, but also in the sense of understanding what kind of person a developer is.

So was wondering if you guys have any suggestions on where to find such a writer and since this is HN, maybe some interested is even reading this. My contact details are in my HN profile. Feel free to get in touch.
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Doctors also make less in Canada. Lawyers also make less. Movie Stars also make less. CEOs too.

Everyone at the top makes less money in Canada, but the lower bound is quite higher as well. Education is much, much more affordable (e.g.: 4k/yr for university in Quebec), health care is universal (e.g.: as a clueless student I didn't pay anything when I had peritonitis and had to spend weeks in the hospital), etc.

People need to understand this. That extra money you get to pocket when working in the US isn't coming out of nowhere. You're complicit in the horrible state of US welfare, and profiting from it.
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Thanks to spronkey, speg and coldpie for your input!
very interesting resources!
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Reminds me of the time my team found a bug in the .Net C# compiler. A whole branch of an if/else statement was being ignored, as in, it simply wasn't present in the emitted IL.

Adding a little `&& 1 == 1` to the conditional made the compiler do the right thing again.

Edit: preemptively, no there wasn't anything special or weird about this conditional.
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Thank you for the feedback. There will be an option for the metric system.

For meal plans, we calculate the users' BMI, match that up with how much weight they want to lose/gain and in how much time they want to achieve that.

Right now it takes seasonal foods into account, but not likes/dislikes, allergies.. We are working to incorporate these in the future.
Minecraft isn't retro and Notch isn't byuu. I have no idea what either has to do with the matter at hand; at least one of us is almost certainly confused.
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A tunnel doesn't have to specifically be for cars. Could run busses, trains, etc.. More electric cars on the road though wouldn't output more pollution around the road.
You are supposed to win, but then adjust your goals, i.e. aim higher. This is a different thing.
C++ has an ISO standard. It doesn't get much more standardised.
No, working with heath data on a regular basis I can tell you that it's not a flaw in the study. It's a flaw in your interpretation of the study. Pill speaking behavior for example is common even amount those who don't consider themselves drug addicts.

Surveys are a very useful tool, but because the heath care community and patient don't agree on definitions they don't represent absolute numbers well.
I understand the impact you have in mind.

I mostly wanted to distinguish "saying those things as verbal salad" from "really assuming girls are like that and/or raising girls to be like that". Kind of like with the "killed him" thing - the person saying the words does not really think about killing. As in, the person saying it would treat me equally while different more polite person might not say it out of politeness, but will treat me like the stereotype. The latter kind exist and is the bigger threat to me.

I am not saying that our culture does not have elements of sexism in it.
> You are spending your time getting things into space and your CEO is literally heading in the opposite direction.

On the other hand, boring technology is almost certainly going to play a key role in the colonisation of Mars.
From my perspective this is not in question. Only the one who can prove his solution is worthy of credit in mathematics. Being a genius is not a value of itself!
Thank you for your feedback.

The Meal plan has the shopping list so you have the "what to buy" in there. What do you mean by "extremeness"?

I've got some other feedback about the sample meal and smooth scrolling that match up with yours so definitely making those a priority.

Thanks again!
It's not done at all. It just hasn't been favored in a few decades - if Chomsky is accurate, as the direct result of some impressively Gilded-Age-level corruption. Even Baltimore's relatively rudimentary system is excellent, if you don't mind using a bus or your feet to get to places the train alone doesn't reach.

And as we leave fossil fuels behind, the incentives will realign around what some forward-looking people (and a few contrary oafs like me, too) are already doing - that is, using public transit for the bulk of daily travel, and keeping a car or using hire cars only on those occasions when public transit isn't well suited to a need for heavy haulage, or close timing, or the like.

And, honestly, I can't wait. I'm really sick and tired of people, in some cases colleagues, assuming that because I take the light rail, I must be impoverished, or barred from driving for medical or other reasons, or possessed of an unusually high tolerance of danger, or whatever.

Not that they're not well-meaning, and I do appreciate them looking out - but I find it an irritating set of assumptions to overcome, especially when it takes a solid year to get it through people's heads that yes I commute as I do by choice and preference and no I do not need anyone to organize any car pools and yes I own a car and no I'm not suffering some kind of privation that forces me to take the train every day.

Ironically, what really put it over was an offhand joke I made during one of these conversations, to the effect that it saves on gym membership because, when your commute involves three miles on foot, every day is leg day. Why it should be that that'd get the point across and put an end to the questions, I've no idea, but it works, so I'll take it. It'll be nice to see the use of public transit normalized a bit, among professionals, if only to make one a little less odd-man-out to use it.
> You say you want to promote diversity, but do you?

Studies show gender & racially diverse teams perform better.

Not aware of any studies into whether diversity of music taste relates to productivity.
That's the good thinking, but because it isn't intuitive it often gets kicked to the curb by bad thinking. More roads = less traffic, right? right? No?

One could also use tunnels to build subways and presumably Hyperloops. I wonder, though, about why big infrastructure projects so horrendously expensive, in America in particular.
There are developers, planners, consultants, politicians, unions, contractors, sub contractors, sub-sub contractors, and they're all out for all they can get. There are lawyers every step of the way. Nobody communicates well. Small hang-ups at the wrong place send the entire operation grinding to a halt. Can this be fixed? Is a big dumb tunnel digging operation the point of entry for infrastructure construction disruption in America? That would be nice. We're good at moving the bits around. We suck at atoms.

Or is Musk setting himself up to be the next Robert Moses? Someone with the capability to move mountains, but not terribly discriminating about whether or not a given mountain should be moved. Musk doesn't talk like someone who's ever had a discussion with an Urban planner about the real reasons as to why our transportation problems are problems.
Flink handles failures pretty well with its automated checkpointing mechanism (in addition to an other feature called "Savepoints", which allows you make a manual snapshot of the current state of the streaming pipeline to restore from it later in case of failure).

You can find more details in the docs:

- https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.2/...

- https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.2/...
China Blacklists Carfentanil, Closing a Deadly Loophole
This article assumes that future patterns of development will resemble past industrialization, driven by growth in consumption and the availability of cheap labor. I don't necessarily think that will be the case.

And honestly, I really doubt India is going to get its act together in 50 years. Between a regressive social order and rampant, socially accepted corruption, it needs a major cultural revolution if it is going to achieve its potential as a world leader.
I'm not sure what inetd/xinetd is, but the general idea behind websocketd is that you connect stdin/stdout of a process to a minimal websocket server. In doing so, you achieve UNIX-y composeability and a convenient network interface to an arbitrary process.
As opposed to intelligence and sociability, among other traits, may be independently varying?

If one imagines that intelligence and sociability are merely two of many possible desirable traits, and that top firms with big budgets also see similarly, then eventually those with the highest concentration of desirable traits will be sniped up, leaving firms with lesser budgets to take those with fewer desirable traits of lesser magnitude.

The same can be said about customers. Some customers could be described as "10x paying nice customers", vs "10x paying jerk customers", and these could be thought of as merely two of many possible independently varying traits. Eventually, one might suspect that discerning firms will try to keep the best clients, while pushing clients with fewer desirable traits of lesser magnitudes to lesser firms.
If you redefine your whole language, how is your experience with understanding your code after say 6 months?
I find it funny, likely it was intended
I agree more studies is always better. It's trickier when something that maybe only benefits a very small % of the population.

Did you read my comment explaining my experience and what I know about AIT? I'd love to hear your thoughts on that qualitative data.

What I'd be curious about is having someone who's experienced with AIT, a practitioner and has deep domain knowledge, to see how they would counteract the information in articles like the one you posted.

I also always have questions for professionals/audiologists and organizations that are skeptical of AIT. I wonder if they have a sound (pun intended) explanation for why some people can have a diagnosable imbalance in their hearing, whereas others don't; I explain what I mean by hearing imbalance if you read my longer comment I linked to above.

Edit: Added and changed a few things.
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I've been considering writing a blog post on the topic. However, I don't think I'm arguing as much as you think I am. I'm not arguing for a status quo, greed or the American system.

I'm merely arguing that certain behaviors seem to be extremely common among the (American) poor and that these behaviors also have a direct causal relationship with being poor. This is my major claim - do you disagree with this?
I've become completely disenchanted with Elon Musk over time. I used to be a huge fan and cheerleader, and enthusiastically pointed to him as inspiration.

But slowly I started to realize that I was buying a lot into carefully crafted propaganda. The way SpaceX used lawyers to keep PSLV at bay, all the while Musk gassed on about free markets and competition made me a bit mad. Then he had that quip where he said he was "nauseatingly pro American" and that America was the biggest force for good the world had ever seen. Then he said he was a proud centrist and donated money to anti-environment republicans. And so on and so on. Accusing employees of shilling for unions. Misleading people about his level of technical expertise. Calling lane-assist "auto-pilot" for profit.

At some point I realized that his "brilliant" approach to tech was essentially promising elite people that they could be ultra-green, better than vegetarians and hippies, while keeping the luxuries of sports cars, mansions with solar shingles, and rockets to mars. You don't have to do anything other than express support for him, and you're already better than people making personal sacrifices for the environment. Amazing!

I now think of his "luxury-first" approach as "trickle-down environmentalism". And I think it will be about as successful as its economic counterpart.
You might be complaining about students being taught Python and it becoming their "blub" language. We all start somewhere, and you can indeed go far with Python in some fields. It's popular with scientists for instance.

Recommended reading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9nipa/joel_on_... ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html )

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/tag/paul-graham/ <-- note "flamewar" in the title!
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The fragment is what allowed you to submit it. This has been submitted four times in the last two days. The one that got the most upvotes and comments was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645825
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> at least try to be professional

Why? What does it matter?
> Regarding privacy, I disagree with your conclusion. I think as people become more aware of the importance of their dwindling privacy they will pay more attention to it and protect it. Perhaps I'm just overly optimistic.

To believe that we'll still be forced to rely on privacy in the future is fairly pessimistic.
It's a shame that the author of the infographic neglected to put the Newton on it...
In US the administrative cost makes boring very expensive. Technology is already solved problem.
Perhaps not a problem for Musk who also builds cars.
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> Syntax is fairly trivial

Logically, yes. Well, only sort of, but that's a different topic.

However, emotionally it seems to be of the upmost importance, and developers are just as human as the rest of the world, we just manage to rationalize our prejudices better than most.

I've talked to many, many developers as to why they like/enjoy/prefer Swift. A lot of the reasons that are given turn out to be, well, let's just say "less than substantive". And after a bit of digging it pretty much boils down to the "familiar" syntax.

YMMV
I've also done this for years using similar tools in Perl - https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::AsSubs | https://metacpan.org/pod/Markapl | https://metacpan.org/pod/Builder

Here's an example of something I'm currently using/building in Rebol:

[<tag> attr: value "content"]

Of course nothing new here because there have been other Rebol HTML dialects (for eg: http://www.hmkdesign.dk/project.rsp?id=html-dialect)

And there are plenty of CL-WHO related tools out there too - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671572/cl-who-like-html-t...
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Amazing. Works very well on Chrome but Safari (10.0.3) can't do the transition of slides in the demo.

It would be nice to have custom URLs (like mycompany.com/presentations/presentation1) and the ability to invite, have private/secure presentations, calendar integration, automated alerts, ability to register meeting notes, pointer sharing and integrated audio conference (maybe using webrtc?).

Screen sharing is somewhat inconvenient for a remote presentation but this can be pure gold. Congrats.
So from what I gather on the Twitter chain, a USPS employee likely stole the package and claimed it as "lost", then probably tried to sell it as a lot on eBay.

Since USPS is basically trying to blame byuu for this, I'm afraid the only option here to get any recourse is support-by-public-shaming. It would be a sizable blow to USPS's reputation to be framed as "A bunch of thieves who will deliver your stuff unless it's valuable, then we'll steal it, tell you we lost it, and sell it."

He could try to involve the police, but I imagine it will go nowhere. It's a pity.

EDIT: Corrected 'UPS' to 'USPS'.
Ask HN: What functional programming language should I learn?
I've dabbled in functional programming languages over the years but never got around to getting good at any one of them. I want to change that this year and build up some expertise. The question is, what language should I pick?

Here's what I have dabbled in in the past -

* Haskell
* OCaml
* Clojure
* F#
* Elixir
* Scala

What would you recommend? I want to be able to build simple CLI programs as well as use it for web application development (for hobby projects).
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Returns to San Jose June 5-9, 2017
I was wondering: The shipper used DHL, so how did the USPS get their grubby hands on it? Then I looked at the Wikipedia article for DHL and found that ~8 years ago, DHL started using USPS for local delivery.

I've found recently that when I order a package online, it will ship via UPS, but then the package is turned over to the USPS for last-mile delivery. I hate this because the package disappears into a black hole of USPS incompetency where they can't even do tracking properly, much less delivery. I wish Amazon had an option "don't let USPS touch this" for shipping.. I'd be willing to pay extra.
> I'll grant that this is true, but it's completely irrelevant to this discussion

Parent said he's uncomfortable with the choices Apple gives him; I pointed out that they are very much in line with standard Apple behaviour so it's unrealistic to expect anything better. I don't see how that's not relevant.

> Apple doesn't aggressively try to prevent cross platform development offerings

I see we've already forgotten everything about the fight to get cross-platform toolkits and runtimes accepted in iOS apps. It took a huge amount of pressure from developers for Apple to (partially) relent in this area, and still cross-platform toolkits have to jump through a lot of hoops to produce something the AppStore will accept. Apple use "quality" as an excuse to enforce technological lock-in. That's fine, everyone runs his own race, but let's not pretend that stercus non olet.

> Swift's Obj-C underpinnings are as clear a statement as Apple could possibly make that they're planning on supporting their existing Obj-C code base for the long haul.

I completely agree there. This is very much like VC++ and CLR: neither is going away anytime soon, they have very different roles. On one side, you have OS underpinnings that have to be close to the metal and as efficient as possible; on the other, you have userland apps for which speed of development is more important. I think this is the main take-away of the last 20 years of OS evolution: what is good for the OS is not necessarily good for app developers, and vice-versa. So all big players now have an OS story and an userland story: VC++/C# (MS), ObjC/Swift (Apple), C/Java (Android), C/Python-Java-JS (Linux)... Best tool for the job, and all that.
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The onus is on the shipper for not insuring to the correct value.
Bjarns books are dire.
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I have an application in python, which I would like to deploy on my client machine. After deployment, my client will have access to my code. I would like to hide it somehow.
Ask HN: How do you maintain local database for development?
Since last 3 years, I'm working at the company where every new developer faces this problem. We use Django and keeping the models and database tables in sync and have some data to work with in those tables is a tough job. I have seen new developers spend hours on setting up database for local development.

We tried to have a single aws instance where the tables are in sync and has some random data to play with, but it makes local development quite slow. Atleast not as fast as how it worked when we all had a local machine database.

How do you maintain local databases for development?
Ah, that makes a lot of sense.

The world is so large, it's so easy to forget this when living inside one bubble or another. Thanks for pointing that out for me :)
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this town = the valley?

Some companies have older average ages, just have to know where to look.
I think you're absolutely right with this. I've never seen age make a difference on someone's ability to learn programming.

The only thing I think that young people possible have over older ones is the amount of available time. In general, people in their 30's, 40's, etc. have family commitments that someone in their 20's probably does not (not married, no kids etc.). This is probably what gives them a slight edge, but it has nothing to do with age per se.

On the flip side, people who are older are generally more mature also, and realize that if they really want something they have to work for it. Honestly, now that I am almost 40, learning stuff (around programming, math, really anything) is so much easier than it was when I was in my 20's, because I understand the discipline that is required to do it. I'm more efficient at how I spend my time, and I see connections with what I already know making it easier to grasp concepts.
Reminds me of the Bitcoinica fiasco.

Stuff happens, especially under pressure. But yeah, if that happens to you, there is no more reasonable course of action than changing it right away.
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