skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The programmer is only as good as his manager. If a 10x programmer is working under the leadership of a 1x programmer, he will probaby turn into a 0.5x (due to lost motivation).
A 10x programmer in a decision-making position will actually bring up the output of all other programmers.
In reality, a 10x programmer doesn't have to be fast at programming themselves, they just have to be able to foster good habits which make everyone else faster.
That's why it's dangerous to promote 'fast programmers' to leadership positions. Fast doesn't mean good - In fact, most of the time, 'fast' is bad/suboptimal (especially when it comes to design decisions).
I remember from the PHP on Java that there were huge performance benefits. So large PHP hosts should see benefits.
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Farnell UK has 18,230 Raspberry Pi 3Bs in stock. Between Farnell and RS most of the boards are available in many hundreds within a few days.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, Arianna's former chief of staff and managing editor, Jimmy Soni, was accused of exactly this sort of behavior [1]. In my circle there, those allegations were considered to be highly credible. And given the hush-hush departure, it doesn't seem to me like there was any real accountability.

http://gawker.com/top-huffington-post-editor-was-investigate...
My employer (Big engineering multinational with a finger in lots of pies, including aerospace and defense) issues travel laptops and phones if you go to any number of countries, including the US.

Fresh OS install, required additional software, VPN client, 2FA for connection, one factor is given to you by a local company rep after you have cleared immigration. No company info whatsoever on the laptop as you depart - not even your itinerary.

Instructions are to wipe the user partition (using some proprietary, presumably good disk wiper) before heading for the airport again - and not leave ANY information on that partition unless VPN is unavailable, anyway. Also, do not leave the laptop unattended or on a network unless necessary.

When returning to HQ, drives are said to be removed and zapped before a new HDD is installed and the laptop is ready for the next user.

The plural of anecdote is not data, but based on what I've heard from others I've worked with, this is now close to standard practice.
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It will result in changes in total 'energy', but that's fine if you account for this in the acceptance probability.
It already has, but it is at or near its peak. Javascript is a decent language, but the primary reason it is used everywhere is because, at the end of the day, it's the only language browsers support. WebAssembly will soon change that.
there is nothing 'nightmarish' about this robot. I really hate hyped up titles like this.
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I don't care about performance, show me if security has improved!

(which in the case of Wordpress can't be that hard)
The best programmer I have ever worked with used to be my boss. When I learned Perl, he had me write a very simple program to monitor some network printers. When I was finished, I showed him what I came up with and it worked pretty well.

I guess it was to show me that I was thinking too much like a C programmer, he rewrote my program in about 10 lines of Perl.

He was always willing to listen when I had design ideas that differed from his own. When my ideas were better, he'd incorporate them into our plans.

We had a four man team that was probably the most productive one of which I have ever been a member.
> Bloomberg only keeps its intraday data for 50 days

Just for the record, I'm looking at intraday data from a few years ago right now so that cannot be right.
Yes, I misread the post and the replies. You can sed my reply s/amateurish/poor design choice/ and the point stands.
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Look into the Next Thing Co GR8 -- it's a vaguely similar SOC (the thing in the Chip Pro) but is (in theory - I haven't investigated) available in small quantities and with an accessible datasheet.
> The fastest way to kill high levels of productivity is to not value high levels of productivity.

I have not found that to be true. In my experience the fastest way to kill productivity is to measure it incorrectly & incentivize bad behavior chasing the wrong thing.

Everyone values productivity but virtually no one has a good way to measure it, at least not in software.
In this thread: mostly people responding to the headline, not the actual content of the article.

And the headline was purposefully chosen to elicit that effect -- nothing engenders a massing crowd response quite like summoning the boogeyman of the 10x programmer, allowing everyone to flow forward with their anecdotes and personal grievances.
Hypothesis thinking from first principles. In the department of manufacturing the productivity is directly correlated with followup which is directly correlated with insane work hours which suits men better than women which correlates with hike.
It's pretty boring to be honest, which is probably why it's so reliable. I sync media using rsync, the movie and stream player is omxplayer, the image and news feeds use Lua and Love2D, and the scheduler is a simple algorithm which was written first in LuaJIT, then Python and soon in Go because of speed and concurrency. The players push their status to a central server for monitoring purposes but I'm replacing that with pull and Ansible. The customer interface is web2py and the schedule creator is desktop wxpython running on Linux, the Mac and Windows.
I think of this symbol as a way to find a needle into an haystack. You have so much data that you a need to "zoom in" to a precise location in order to find what you really need.
PHP 7 improved performance by around 3x compared to PHP5, so I wonder how true that still is.
Trouble with the dareboost service is that it's nothing like real world speeds as measured by a real world browser on a real world connection. I've tested multiple websites and your results are very skewed, often double the speed of other tests....
> the place where people try to answer to an expression

burden is on the you to show that "10x programmer" is "an expression, a saying or an image". Plenty people consider the term to be literal, and argue as such all over HN.
I used to use them as well - but I had some fail for some reason and then I bought a samsung evo + card in 32GB during a sale. I have been using those ever since since the iops seem to be noticeably better.
So you're saying that 10x developers definitely exist, it's just a disappointing state of affairs.

Like how the Turing Test was rendered obsolete because online comments (e.g. Youtube) became so bad, the bar to writing a bot that passed as one of them was lowered dramatically.
Interestingly when you start typing and it goes to result preview page which includes a magnifying glass.

I am thinking the reasoning is google main page and its only job is searching things so they just decided not to add it. results page is a lot more complex so the icon is added
Interesting. I had heard of https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger the predecessor to PeachPie.
Yes, simpleStorage is good too!

I believe store.js addresses all the use cases of simpleStorage, and then some (E.g Safari private mode, etc).

If that's not the case I will make it work for your use case :)
Wasn't Google supposed to sell the division last year? What happened to that idea? Or has it decided to break its promise and become a military contractor?
From their benchmarks page (which looks remarkable)

http://www.peachpie.io/benchmarks
This intuition is correct -- symplectic integrators admit highly accurately energy conservation only when you have access to the exact gradients. When the gradients are inexact then you get bias in the integrator that pulls you away from the target energy level set and decreases the acceptance probabilities (or rather the transition probabilities away from the initial point if you using a more sophisticated scheme as advocated in the paper).

Note that symplectic integrator trajectories stay near the target energy level set but they need not stay near the true trajectory itself. In general the two will diverge pretty quickly (a manifestation of Hamiltonian chaos) within the level sets, but that's not a problem as we don't really care how they explore the level sets, just that they're staying on them.
If it was not a serious question, then it was disingenuous and unhelpful.
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This is another one of those articles saying that people tend to overuse easy-of-programming and language power features to the detriment of speed/efficiency (of compiling and perceived execution) and understanding. While this sort of argument has some merit, in that typically new features are overused just after introduction, it basically relies on the infallibility of the programmer not to make simple mistakes.

To me the trick is not to have magic things in the code, but instead use the language to the best of ones ability to write simple non-magical code. Unlike in the article I include things like smart pointers and the STL as some things helping me do this.
If your goal is to address the existential dilemma posed by an unkind universe, by spreading to humanity to the stars, you'll need to divert the entire economic output of the world to the problem for at least 100 years to produce off-earth self-sustaining infrastructure.

That's a big difference from sending a box of lettuce up into space so that astronauts don't have to eat paste.
I buy from modmypi: they ship to Brazil (to where some shops are afraid of selling) and have reasonable shipping fees.

Adafruit has lots of cool stuff, but it charges at least $40 for shipping. Not worth it for a casual buyer.
My understanding is TCC does little to no optimization; it's intended to be used for bootstrapping.
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Even though I agree with all the points made by the author, the notion of 10x programmer reminds me of one-man army movies like Rambo and it's equally ridiculous. Software development is a collaborative effort, not a contest where whoever commits more LOC or finishes more tasks wins. It's not that hard to be 10 times more productive than anyone else if you built something from the scratch, possibly reinventing the wheel instead of using common libraries/frameworks, wrote no documentation and you're not really willing to share your knowledge with other developers. Sadly, this happens - see e.g. http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
[edit: added link]
Just another thought. She moved from engineering(manufacturing) to purchase, sound like not much opportunities available.
Sexual harassment is illegal, but it is a tort and not a crime, and it is a tort on the part of the employer (and, maybe, in some cases the employees supervisor; most Circuits do not allow this, but there are District Courts.in the First Circuit that have, apparently) not the individual harasser (unless the harasser happens to be the supervisor, though that seems to be the case in the hypothetical here.)

The conduct involved overlaps with a number of different torts (some against the victim of harassment, some against the employer) and crimes on the part of the perpetrator, even when they are not the supervisor, though.
Responding with civility to the pedantry is just a part of HN. I've found that being humble to comments like these, even if you disagree, is the simplest way to defuse the situation.
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heh, i already stayed away from them like the plague, mainly out of concerns for gem sources and inflated prices.. this article does not help.
I've been following the peachpie project for a while. The effort they put in is very impressive.

They choose to heavily modify the C#/VB compiler (Roslyn) to handle php syntax. Microsoft should be investing time into helping them succeed, it would be great to see the Roslyn compiler platform become more broadly used.
> we use a javascript scrolling library, for reasons etc, long story short a programmer spent a couple day trying to figure out why the horizontal bar wronly showed on edge, until I went in and dropped a display none on the bar itself.

Wouldn't an even simpler solution be to just use the scrolling built into browsers?
Minecraft was working and it was already quite big. Quite bad programmer would not achieve working Minecraft. Notch have his limits and made some decisions that did not scaled, but "quite bad programmer" is an overstatement.
I disagree - some of my best managers weren't exactly the best programmers. They did, however, have a mind for smart architectural decisions and knew when to "back off".
There are also talks focusing on HMC available online, the most recent of which are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnNdhsm0rJQ (more introductory) and https://icerm.brown.edu/video_archive/#/play/1107 (more mathematically formal).
Whoa.

I will not use this, but I can say this is an amazing piece of hackership.
> While I don't know what this article says (it doesn't load for me)

That is strange, first time apache crashed like this in the 5 years I run this blog. Usually it throws an error at least instead of connection refused.

Anyway, kicked it back alive. Sorry about that.
For goodness's sake. Stop connecting things to the Internet.
Currently, all chief executive positions are held by men at Tesla, and out of more than 30 vice-presidents, only two are women, she added.

“It’s shocking in this day and age that this is still a fight we have to have.” - Isn't this simple probability or law of numbers because your company has less female employees. I work in a tech company which has healthy amount of female employees and guess what we have lots of female executives too.
> I don't want a web where every time a user visits a new domain they see a scary interstitial warning that asks them to make a trust decision.

I don't want it either as it easily trains users to click though it.

User goes to new website: "Oh yeah I have to click allow <CLICK>"...
User returns to site but its now being MITM'ed: "Oh I thought I had clicked allow. <CLICK>"...

Even if the warning is something like "the public key for this site has changed, do you wish to continue?" The gen public will click continue. The problem is not designing a system us on hacker news can use, understand and keep us secure but its building a system that "non-technical" (Throw in generalisation about parents/grandparents not understanding the interwebs here...) minded people can use, understand and be kept secured.
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Over the the last 4 days I got over 2000 sign ups from programmers (mostly beginner to intermediate) looking for a friendly open source project to contribute to.

If you want me to include your project, please add it here: https://devchat.devolio.net/hellocode/suggest/
Wait, so you say 'that is patently ridiculous', then completely agree with me while trying to add your own little spin on it? Okay bud.
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Check out another app using ML/DL to detect unprofessional social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) posts and images:

https://www.repnup.com/
This page doesn't have memory usage -- large PHP applications tend to chug memory. But the execution time does look very impressive.

Next step is to get Symfony, Laraval, et al to run on this.
Currently there are few microbenchmarks on http://www.peachpie.io/benchmarks Expecting to be updated soon
Hi. I'm not pulling full reviews, only benchmark results. Which benchmarks are used can be seen by hovering over the performance chart, they are linked. That currently does not work well with Kaby Lake processors, since their ratings rely mostly on logic deducing their performance from their predecessors. That will change soon when I'll add another round of benchmarks, at the latest when Ryzen gets released.

I'm not fully sure how many views I get, it is only using piwik which gets blocked by adblockers and respects the dnt-header. But I can tell that sharing the site here gave it a big spike with 3000 visits in the last 24 hours, counting those that piwik can see. I'm not comfortable with sharing the income, sorry. It's not that much.
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1) GPL does make statements about the output of it (i.e. binary builds, which is distributed over the Google Play Store). The app itself does not mention it's GPL, but Telegram.org does.

2) The old code was GPL, so the new one (unless they rewrote it) is a derived work.

I'm not sure the second one applies if it's the original author who relicenses it, but I'm reasonably sure it's at least a legal grey area, and the first one would still be a thing.
Console.log('PM2.X has been released')
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When I was searching for an engagement ring I started at Kay, as I think many people do. The stones are low quality, overpriced by 20% or more (which is impressive when you're buying something as artificially overpriced as a diamond), and the service is generally good but not great.

I ended up going to a private/independent jeweler and getting a much higher quality piece compared to anything Kay had, let alone what they had that I could afford.
I'll do r&d for 1 or 2 days and give you the right answer :)
The internet has changed significantly over the last few years and a lot of sites don't support unencrypted connections.

It's pretty entertaining to read this stack overflow questions about using ssl from 7 years ago:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2177159/should-all-sites-...
I agree ! They tried to rebuild, they rebuilt with bugs !
True, I've been noted, for example, about issues with openssl library, which is updated with every update of PHP ... while Peachpie uses the one provided within .NET which might be more frequently updated by Windows Update.
> They have no qualms with racism -- only with racism against Han Chinese.

> Affirmative Action is somewhere near the mid-bottom, not the top, of a long list of very serious problems deeply rooted in racism.

To you the fact that there are still black people who lived through Jim Crow matters more than the fact that there are Asians today who are turned down by high education institutions because of their race. Why can't a Chinese person tell you that you have no qualms with racism - only with racism against black people?

It seems to be a common viewpoint in the West that the response to racism is a hierarchy of grievances, and that for example a white person who supports preferential treatment of black people at the expense of Asians is not a racist, either because "racism" is defined to mean "disagreeing with the hierarchy of grievances", or simply because it's only "racism" when you're trying to get preferential treatment for your own race, but it's not "racism" if it's for another race. This is not however the only possible definition of racism, nor the original definition, nor the definition used in the report.

BTW I'm not sure whether a 100% color blind policy is always the best thing or not, and perhaps it depends on context. I'm just saying that I think it's a much thornier subject than people with (many different) strong positions seem to believe.
It's only meant to intimidate people. There is no way it could serve a real security purpose.
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$10 is an awesome price point. I've never toyed with any of these, but i think i'll pick one up!

How long do you think it'll be before i can safely hook up powered electronics into a system like RasPi? I'd like to make my home "smart", but i don't want to have random IoT vulnerabilities in my home. So a simple network of tiny linux machines powering desk lights/etc will be plenty for me. However, hooking electronics up is dangerous, so i'd rather wait until a professional makes it accessible to someone like me.

Thoughts?
I think my perspective is quite close to yours. Definitely agree that the idea of facts as "unknowable" is hurtful.

Thanks for your reasoned response! In terms of trusting "offical" unemployment figures I actually think they're not too bad. At least compared to say, money supply and accessible economic metrics :)

For unemployment we can talk about things like "Oh, you mean U6 or U3?": http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/12309/has-the-wa... - and then be prepared to understand changes in how they are measured, which are a little contentious but IMHO not too bad in U.S. over last 20 years.

In the end, questions like "how many jobs are there?" or "how much money is there?" are not really that simple to answer. From this perspective, the "current environment" is not really any different to how it's always been, but I think people are much more sensitive to difficulties in measurement and definition right now. It looks a lot like an environment where you get to make up facts.

Political candidates shouldn't get to make up facts. For example, if they rely on narrow definitions of employment increasing or decreasing in making arguments, the exact definition in use should be made clear and if an unusual or non-standard metric is used that should be highlighted. Unfortunately this looks increasingly like an unattainable level of political discourse.
Thanks!

Any particular reason to not use it? Just to know if we can improve something.
I worry more about being profiled for my donations to FSF, EFF, and the Tor Project.
That sounds like a cool side project/business! Would you mind elaborating how you got started this business and how you acquired clients?
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Agreed as a spearfisher (and a spearfisher in a sharky place), I am well aware that an overwhelming majority of attacks happen to spearfishers or related activities (abalone divers). It is not uncommon for a freediver with some sort of food to have an encounter with a shark and most people that have been doing it for a while have several stories. It comes with the territory but those who do it accept the risks. If you factored out spearfishers, abalone divers and surfers the numbers would look drastically different. The reality is it is very, very rare for some random person in the water to experience an unprovoked attack.
Hi Philip, does your app build really take 20 minutes?
"When the task at hand is much more rigid, with specific guidelines about what tools to use and how to implement things, the ability of a 10x programmer to perform a lot of work in less time is weakened: it can still exploit “local” design possibilities to do a much better work, but cannot change in more profound ways the path used to reach the goal, that may include, possibly, even eliminating part of the specification completely from the project, so that the goal to be reached looks almost the same but the efforts to reach it are reduced by a big factor."

This is one of the reason working in software sucks so badly these days. You'll inevitably be forced to work with lesser tools in more ceremonial ways, which takes away most of the leverage from experience and skill; effectively dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator where everything is done according to some stupid, over engineered specification.

And one of the beefs people seem to have when I share my code publicly. Cutting corners and side-stepping complexity is where coding turns to art for me, where the fun begins; which means that many of my programs look like toys in comparison to "serious" software. Yet they still manage to get the job done for less effort, and a closer look reveals that the simplicity is carefully engineered. I just don't have much time or patience for ceremonies these days.