skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too bad there's no Wikipedia article for Norden Systems. The company kept on doing business for another 65 years after the war, first as part of United Technologies in Connecticut and then Northrop Grumman, who appear to have closed it down in 2012.

http://articles.courant.com/2012-06-08/business/hc-norden-sy...
It's just a matter of time until WMD's will be available to small groups or unstable countries. What than ?
Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley talk covers Silicon Valley's role in the bombing campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
How does it compare to other sync apps? Especially those connecting to standard ical/webdav servers

Maybe add a table comparing the other apps to etesync
More recent articles discussed in the past couple of days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13973727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13967955
The people complaining that this isn't free-as-in-freedom should remember that there's a lot of code in here that Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent does not and has never owned. 10th edition, specifically, was never 'distributed' and probably could not be because it contained gcc. You'll note these archives are not even hosted by the corporation. They STILL aren't 'distributing' any of this. There's no way to know a priori whether there's someone else's IP in here... the packaging method for these versions of unix was "Dennis makes a copy of a running system, including whatever happened to be on that disk."

So, this is a kind gesture made for the benefit of software archaeologists. Retroactively applying some kind of modern-hippie license would cost a tremendous amount of time and money.
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> You can make all the theoretical arguments you want, but the fact remains: when gas prices go up, sales of trucks and SUVs goes down. And vice-versa.

If I was attempting to make an argument against that, I would have done so. You seem to have mistaken my comment as some rebuttal to your entire argument. I just thought one specific point was interesting, but not entirely correct from my point of view.

> You think car companies want to change their assembly lines and tooling, if they can magically change consumer buying habits with a bit of advertising? Come on.

Since you're asking, no, I don't think car companies want to change anything. That doesn't mean they won't be forced to change, and I think being forced to change rarely works out as well as noticing the trends and changing along with, or better yet, slightly in advance of those trends.

It's obvious by the change in types of cars bought based on gas prices that gas prices influence buying decisions for many people. But influence does not necessarily mean control. Many factors go into the decision of which car to purchase, electric or not. Fuel cost is but one of those factors. Tesla has shown that there are people that buy based on other decisions, since the price of a Tesla means that fuel costs are basically moot. Luxury, performance and status are all factors that the automakers and intimately familiar with marketing towards and selling to, usually each to varying degrees with different products. That they've left these areas mostly untapped for electric vehicles after Tesla has shown there is a market, since there were 400k+ Model 3 preorders as of roughly a year ago, leaves many people confused, and I don't think it can be entirely explained away by gas prices. That's enough presales a year ago to be on par with yearly Camry sales. GM is obviously doing something to try to tap into this with the Bolt, but that's still one entry and at the low-end.
> I just wanted to hop in here and say that there is NO WAY the FDA would give you clearance to use the device you describe on African Americans under the circumstances that your posts have postulated.

The FDA has approved drugs that are specifically intended to target medical issues in specific ethnicities, so I'm not sure about your assessment. That said, this product's market was outside the scope of the FDA, so it's irrelevant.

> It seems a no brainer that the facial recognition software should not be used on African Americans either.

Any data source which produces data that's better than a random guess should be considered when trying to solve a problem. That it offends some people's social sensibilities is a separate issue.

Look, I don't like the mere existence of the FBI's system, and I don't think the public's continued lack of concern for placing constitutional restraints on systems like it is a wise course forward, but to say it's a "no-brainer" when it might produce valuable leads is to focus on one aspect of the problem without considering the rest of it.

Just as it would also be a mistake to consider it more accurate than it is when trying to identify dark-skinned suspects. Witness accuracy is not a new problem.

It's also worth noting that the human eye is just as bad at facial recognition when the light and/or contrast is lower.
By "you can leave" I mean you can quit and find new employment.
One thing this article and the comments haven't discussed yet is how much the viability of local newspapers depends on the local real estate market. Take a look at your local newspaper if you have one, and I bet it's chock full of real estate ads. (Where I live, the Palo Alto Daily Post certainly is, as is the competing Weekly; example here: [1]). And it makes sense: the most relevant ads for a local population are matters of local interest, and for expensive houses, the ROI for ad-spend can easily make sense.

So I expect that a big factor in whether quality local newspapers can survive is the strength of the local housing market, (measured through e.g. median house price and yearly volume). As a practical matter, this means that only in relatively affluent places is local news financially feasible, (although the housing market isn't the only reason why that's the case). It also means that more people searching for property online may present a challenge for local news.

[1] http://www.paloaltoonline.com/morguepdf/2017/2017_03_24.paw....
How to evaluate job offers:

"Do I know someone in it and do they say it's awesome?"

Anything else is just bullshit, come on. you're a programmer. network just a little teeny tiny bit with your peers. you can work wherever you want. why should you be the first person to try an unknown job environment, when you can just join one that is good already?

Statistically, nothing else you can possibly do will come close to having as good a result for you. Find out which of your friends are working at awesome places and then just onboard with them. that simple.

Now, I realize you were asking about how to evaluate a job offer you've already received! Well, the answer is simple: using the exact methodology above.

But how can you do that, you say? How can I evaluate a job offer on the basis of my friends working there, if I don't have any friends working there?

You still can. But how! How! It's a logical inconsistency!

Nope. Just make a friend!!! If you're in the office, go barge in and apologetically steal 10 minutes of someone's attention, become friends with them and figure out if they're saying the workplace is awesome.

Can't do that? You'll have to dig deeper. Network your way into finding someone (by name) who works there. Then figure how to email them and make a friend over email. 100% serious.

This is how you actually separate bullshit from reality. You'll be investing many months of your life there. A bit of hustling to make sure you're getting someplace awesome will pay better dividends than anything else you can possibly spend that time doing.

EDIT: Downvotes? I've just given you a formula that is all but guaranteed to make you happy.
Yes to both. Googlers start as not-googlers, after all..

There's a lot of reasons to do this that go beyond recruiting not the least of which was our old site was getting super crufty..
I'm really happy to see commute time in your list (among the other points). I'm a big believer in increasing quality of life by decreasing commute time, something which is increasingly difficult in the largest metropolitan job centers of America.
A lot of young Israeli artists and designers are in Berlin too. When I go outside here, what I hear is a mix of German, English, Turkish, Italian, and Hebrew - not a mix I ever thought I'd encounter.
Yeah I disagree with the pivotal point they used for that decision, that it wasn't a direct tax, it seems very much like a direct tax to me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

> Examples of Violations

> a. Intentional or repeated refusal to use an individual’s preferred name, pronoun or title. For example, repeatedly calling a transgender woman “him” or “Mr.” after she has made clear which pronouns and title she uses

[snip]

> And this isn’t just the government as employer, requiring its employees to say things that keep government patrons happy with government services. This is the government as sovereign, threatening “civil penalties up to $125,000 for violations, and up to $250,000 for violations that are the result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct” if people don’t speak the way the government tells them to speak.
> giving the appearance of return-type dispatch

It don't know that it was an appearance, my understanding is it is return-type dispatch which is supported by the JVM (but not java).
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That's new. Initially she was saying she doesn't believe in burnout, and if you're 'strategic' about showers, you can sleep under your desk and work 130 hour weeks.

Random reference:
http://www.thegrindstone.com/2013/01/22/mentors/becoming-mar...
I agree, that's why I objected to the "Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off" sentiment.

Most of us are very lucky compared to most other professions.
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You're getting downvoted because you missed the argument that I presented.

It's not about what market segment that sells, it's that dealers have no incentives to sell electric vehicles since there's no margin on services and maintenance.
Much as I like Randall Munroe and xkcd, I don't see any sources cited in that comic.

I don't know that we know, precisely, how fucked we are yet, but I do think it's clear that humans are having an effect, and we know very convincing reasons for why we're having an effect, so we should work to reduce that effect regardless of whether we're fucked in 100 years if we continue this way, or if it will take 1000.
What if the technical challenges of identifying a person's face mean it will always be challenging to identify someone when the light and/or contrast levels are lower? What then? Manually cripple the system and misidentify white suspects, too?

This post's comments are a great example of why technologists are fairly terrible at engineering social solutions, much the same way sociologists tend to be terrible at engineering technical solutions.
>I am not a "denier", but I do struggle with the evidence I have read as most of it has too much subjectivity or is based on meta studies where all underlying papers are highly subjective.

So you would be persuaded if you thought the evidence was objective, not subjective. What are some criteria you use for determining if evidence is subjective or objective?
If you read carefully, you'll see that I'm not arguing for the deletion of stubs. I'm arguing against the creation of the "deletionist" identity. Deleting a stub article is an action. If the action of deleting stubs is making Wikipedia worse rather than better, then the policy needs to change. We don't need a campaign of shame and a witch hunt for "deletionists".
2 years max.
The documentation font for me is way too small, any way to make it bigger? You can see my IDE font size on the left.

http://imgur.com/a/4B2GB
Snippets in Atom is the first time I've ever used any kind of autocomplete, and it seems to mostly just slow me down. If it finds a match on a thing that's at the end of a line, it'll replace what you just typed when you hit enter...changing it from what was actually intended to the snippet. And, even when it's not at the end of a line, I end up context switching a lot more to figure out what just happened and why my text changed.

I feel like with Java it makes a lot of sense to have smart completion, because you end up with incredibly deeply nested identifiers and such. A whole lot of typing. But, I don't code in Java, in the general case (aside from occasionally tinkering with Android APIs, with thoughts to some day making an app). For many more concise languages, it feels like a solution looking for a problem.

I could be wrong. This could be a thing that would provide clear value, if I were to put in the time to learn how to use it correctly. But, so far, I just feel vague frustration when I have the feature turned on.

That said, having docs available as you type is something I can see clear value in. I have to have API docs open 100% of the time when coding...having it jump to the right function as I'm typing it would be awesome. It seems like Kite does this, too, which is probably enough reason for me to use it. I've been poking at Python again lately (after many years away from it), because of Tensorflow and Keras, so I'll give this a go.

I wish they had a Linux version. I rarely work in Windows (though ConEmu and WSL has made it so I'm not terribly unproductive in Windows anymore, as I once was).
My experiments on myself in reprogramming my brain as part of my recovery from addiction have led to a surprising conclusion: an addict can perform the same behavior with a different mindset and get different results. The problem is when the addictive behavior is performed in order to escape/numb their emotions (or whatever problematic motivation was driving them in their addiction).

Also, the phrase requires predicting the future of a complex adaptive system, aka. a human. If 12-step groups besides Codependents Anonymous actually spent time looking at codependency, they'd be able to catch the glaring future-tripping nonsense in the idea.
We just banned youtube and youtube kids unless a parent is there. Basically those unboxing toy videos are worse than ads.
Please no trivia sections. There's something incredibly embarrassing about having a short article on some fairly important subject, followed by a huge list of every time that subject was mentioned on any obscure TV show.

Culturally significant references, yes. Trivia? Don't crap up the main article with that sort of thing. An article about Person A should be about Person A; nobody cares about a song they were mentioned in 100 years after they died.
Not necessarily, you'd just need a syntactic mechanism to disambiguate.
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Even if you knew every function in every lib in your head, typing with autocompletion from some good IDE like IntelliJ will make you write code much much faster. And I do not talk about just function name completion (but include them too of course).

Typing just the first or few random letters of veryDescriptiveLongMethodName and completing it with space/tab will always be faster. Using stuff like templates, smart completion, emmet, refactoring tool, constructor/method generators will always be faster, if you know your tools well.
At first blush, the "we wouldn't be able to ship the entire index along with the client" makes perfect sense. However, I have found that I can store the entirety of the raw Python 2.7 documentation to disk in under 15 MB. It's mostly text, so it compresses absurdly well (2mb, gzipped). And if it was just an index of all the functions with little to no markup, it would be even smaller (this doesn't even account for the fact that all of Python's documentation is typically already on disk, in the modules themselves).

So, given that these indices could be obtained as needed, I'm not sure I buy this argument anymore.

If we can justify the download of a 20mb for a set of plugins, I think that we can justify a 2mb download to document the entirety of a language's standard library.

As a few points of comparison, Atom's download is around 80MB, Docker 110MB, PyCharm is around 175mb, and a ctags file that covers over 8,000 source files (including boto2/3, aws-sdk-go, the python standard library (both 2.7 and 3.5), the go standard library) is about 6 MB compressed.
I made a quick gist of the current LOC/file size stats: https://gist.github.com/kanaka/fdef20f5d0c2e04b97d9106b2f2f2...

Note that this should obviously be taken with a grain of salt: the implementations were created by many different people each with their own style and differing experience levels with the target language. That being said, from my own experience, I think the concision (size) of the implementation often reflects how "Lispy" a language is. Most of the Lisps are in the top half of the list (fewest LOCs). Ruby is often described as very Lisp-like. Factor is one that stands out for me (second after mal itself). Factor also happens to be one of the fastest implementations (for certain microbenchmarks).
I do think that's a large part of it, but burnout of small business owners is also very common.
same here, from Sweden

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Message: The specified key does not exist.
Key: index.html
RequestId: 7928D2D3EE5313F6
HostId: 2iAqS6E1PciR/++frE0wVXo/jlBhK24kopo93WRvVieuepmCctk1v+m+yOAIZZz1q5qIA6HVH9w=
Getting the same here
I meet up every week for beers with some long time friends. I seem to be the only one who works 40 hours, and I get chastised for it. Called lazy, good for nothing, etc., you name it. I don't care, I smile and sip my beer.

I tell them we'll see if their opinion changes upon life reflection while in their final hospital bed.
> Vacations allow employees to regenerate so they can elevate their productivity upon return.

Sounds like 1975.
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Congrats on the launch! As any early beta user on public code, I was really impressed by Kite and my only concern was ability to use it on private codebases ie, work code. Glad to see that you've addressed that.

Does the Sublime integration support packages installed in the current virtual environment (that might not be publicly available)?

Aside: The pricing page is broken on iOS.
I like the rebuttal but would disagree that addressing memory safety without GC is harder than writing a correct garbage collector that addresses your specific performance needs.
Former is solved by formal proof, latter as well - though there is less to prove it requires much more involved proofs for a nontrivial and especially concurrent application.
Stories related to badly written GCs exist in quite a number in the internet.
Plus action at a distance by GC makes debugging harder in general.
Rust's way with static checking is better, writing a good correctness proof is yet better still.
SSSh - we like reinventing the wheel in web based form!
I'm not sure I'd agree with the TIOBE Index as a measure of popularity. It ranks languages based on search queries, which more than likely does not correlate that closely with use.

For instance, according to the Index, Java (#1) is twice as popular as C (#2). While Java is certainly popular, it seems a stretch, given the amount of code written in C, to say that Java is twice as popular as C.
I don't know if it succeeds at that, but it promises not (only) code completion. It promises documentation, code examples and answers to common questions as well, exactly the kind of stuff you as well say that you do more than actual coding.
Yeah, I love the examples too. Where do they come from?

I think allowing users to submit code examples could dramatically increase the value. Maybe even microservices.

The ideal (and perhaps impossible) version would look at my code structure and suggest replacements for components from people who are better programmers than I am.
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Another huge fan here since the Black Flag days.

Rollins did a book of poetry in the 90s called "See a Grown Man Cry"...had a profound impact on me, and I've never run across anyone else who read it.
No, but I'm always looking for new content ideas. People like my R/Python for Stocks posts, and ask for more, but I'm not really sure where to start in terms of giving them what they want.
I'm kind of surprised there is someone defending American patent law - but then I saw your username.
Only #2 is affected by the Fed/QE, points 1 and 3 would still be true. And look at Europe for an example for what would have happened without our Fed's intervention.

The ECB did too little too late and this led to massive youth unemployment; on the other hand our unemployment rate is nearing historical lows.

Not being able to get a job (which happened to a lot of grads in 2008) is devastating to people's careers. The employment rate matters!
are u located in hyderabad?
Absolutely! But I think that's actually a point worth making.

I hear all the time that higher-ups think that the key to retaining women is hosting diversity events, adding parental leave / mother's rooms, or other stuff specifically catered to women. Not saying those aren't good things to have, but for the most part, if you listen to your employees and treat all of your engineers well, you will see gains to retaining everyone, including women.

Women being so "in demand" for tech companies looking to improve diversity numbers also gives some of us the opportunity to be pickier with what kind of work environments we'll accept.
When I smoked I would keep my hands much closer to myself in the winter(since I was cold standing outside like an idiot). So the smoke would definitely have more of a chance to waft over my body.
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Nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you do the job or live in the bay area, move and do something else if you don't like it. Trust me, the service worker who commutes on public transit for three hours a day and makes 1/5th a tech salary would love to swap spots with the tech "serfs" if they had a chance.
Looks like they've got a whole section in their docs on how they use GitHub at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/github/
This and other questions are discussed at http://stackoverflow.com/a/442291
Well, when the "thriving new business" isn't paying tax in Denmark and its employees doesn't pay tax either we have a problem.
Another point to consider is that even if you are a genius expert a lot, if not the majority of the code that people deal with has business specific models that you interact with.

It doesn't matter how well you know library X or the stdlib.

Some made up examples:

userRepository.findUsersWithPlan(planName);

customer.sendPaymentLateEmail(...);

Having powerful IDE assistance reduces the barrier between your thought and the computer.

When I think "send email to customer" I just want the shortest path to achieving that. I don't want to fiddle around or context switch.

Another advantage is that it can guide you into picking the correct option.

I have been burnt many times when looking things manually because you may find one option but not be aware that other options exist.

It's nice for the IDE to communicate to the human "now here's a list of valid things you can choose from".
> But in my mid 40s, I don't think my body could handle a purely physical job.

not assuming your physical condition, have no idea if you work out or not, but still wondering if you think sedentary IT career has contributed to lack of physical fitness?
>Calling people 'deniers' is an ad hominen attack that doesn't prove anything, and most importantly doesn't help change people's minds.

There are many people who openly state that the climate is not changing. It is objectively correct to use the term "denial" to describe their position.

However, you say we should not use this term, and don't propose any alternative labels, so in effect you are saying we should not talk about them at all. I think that is a very bad idea.

As far as changing people's minds, I was asking what would do that.