skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it a load of crap on so many levels?

To take one example, the media and politicians have put a huge spotlight on the plight of coal and manufacturing job losses, while only recently did we learn that in fact we're losing even more retail jobs. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/the-sil...

Want to guess at the racial and gender makeup of those manufacturing jobs vs. retail?
Try Before You Buy: AI Remakes the Home Makeover Business
The 40% figure you mentioned is far higher than I've seen previously, for example here:

https://fullfact.org/immigration/immigration-and-nhs-staff/

That dates from last year, but suggests only 5% of NHS staff overall and 10% of doctors at that time were immigrants from elsewhere in the EU, and that this was a lower proportion than immigrants from non-EU nations.

Talk of farming collapsing also seems rather extreme. There are some important subsidies from the EU that do support genuine farming, but there is a lot more in the CAP that really doesn't.

I'm far more worried about not just underfunding but morale in the NHS, and in those who are leaving it or who might consider working within it in the future. For example, the figures for doctors planning leaving the profession in the near future compared to those starting to train to become doctors are not comfortable reading next to our predicted national demographics in the future.

I'm also far more worried about the kinds of conditions that make genuine farming need hand-outs to be viable. If that is the case then it seems likely that market forces and/or national resilience strategies have failed catastrophically already and those problems need to be addressed in their own right.

It's not that Brexit couldn't affect these things, I just think some of our existing problems are significantly bigger and their effects longer-lasting than any likely changes due to post-Brexit arrangements.
You're talking about possibility. The economist is talking about what's actually happening. Two different things. You have a point they're not unrelated. You can indeed help individuals by pointing them in the right direction, but that's unlikely to scale given limited opportunities. Most people are not suited to be entrepreneurs, in this culture at least, and there are a limited number of trade jobs.
ECT is still used and it's an important, life-saving, treatment. It's rightly used as a measure of last resort, and there are extra controls to make it much harder to give someone ECT against their will (in England).

If it's being misused in the US that's a problem with the fucking awful state of healthcare over there, not with the treatment itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/17/licking-a-ba...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/17/what-is-ect-...
The single most "Silicon Valley is a bubble" paragraph I've ever seen:

Doug Evans, the company’s founder, would compare himself with Steve Jobs in his pursuit of juicing perfection. He declared that his juice press wields four tons of force—“enough to lift two Teslas,” he said. Google’s venture capital arm and other backers poured about $120 million into the startup. Juicero sells the machine for $400, plus the cost of individual juice packs delivered weekly. Tech blogs have dubbed it a “Keurig for juice.”

I've got bingo!
I've definitely seen people work to retirement or occasionally injury in both industries, in the latter case long term disability picks up the tab using money paid in during the first 30 or 40 years of working.
How many people do you know that drag the razor across their face without the handle? Sure it's where the profit comes from, but you do need the two parts to have a consumer story. Otherwise they'd just sell the blades and drop the ruse.
This. 1,000x. Some of the most successful folks I know went into trade, became "masters of their domains", and then bridge their skills with business to create their own businesses.

As an example: A friend from back home got into boring right out of high school. 20 years later, he runs one of the most successful directional boring companies in the region and is a multi-multi millionaire. He was told in high school that if he didn't go to college that he would fail.

I don't find this to be a unique story from my perspective but I do have some bias.
Not really, only 1/3rd of millennials have degrees.

Meanwhile there are tons of trade jobs that don't get filled because there's a stigma against it.
It's worth noting that getting to the low percentages requires a society that subsidizes living costs. In the Nordic countries living with your parents as an adult implies some non-financial reason to do so; every adult will receive housing benefits for independent living if needed.
You better patent that. Actually... I CALL IT. No take-backsies.
Plex itself is a US company and were it "obvious" that its existing Cloud product was infringing on copyrights, it would have already been the target of a lawsuit.
I was very amused one day in one of Sun's offices to see a big eco friendly poster of some sort--this was during their green computing kick--right above one of these pod/packet machines.

It's tough in a big office though unless someone's keeping the coffee made and fresh as is the case in a meeting setting. People take the last cup and don't make fresh coffee or they just don't want to wait.

We have both a coffeemaker with thermoses and a pod coffeemaker which seems a reasonable compromise.
Promises are meant to be broken: Cancelable Promises in JavaScript for all
In my perspective, it IS racist that American cares so much about rehabilitation and empathy for the white drug problem while the black drug issue was dealt with with violence and tearing apart famalies. Is it wrong to want white drug users to go to jail just like black ones were?
You make it sound like the non-US countries have "living with your parents" as a cultural phenomena but this is barely true.

It became a "culture" (if even that) due to economical pressures. Buying a flat or, gods forbid, a house in Bulgaria's capital (Sofia) is honestly a nightmare. The mortgages might as well be called slavery agreements (so don't give me the argument of "if you're 25 and have 3-4 years in one organization the bank will give you a mortgage") and well-paid jobs on the local market are as rare as unicorns. Thank all the gods for remote work or I'd probably be flipping burgers, my programmer skills be damned.

In these conditions people try to optimize and make do with what they have. Bacterias adapt their behaviour depending on the environment, chickens do it, fish do it, everyone is doing it -- humans as well.

Other posters here comment that obtaining homes in USA is becoming harder. I have no idea if that's true but if it is, expect more living with the parents in USA in the future as well.
I don't think that's what the parent meant: your time is better spent understanding the whole market than a subset, and your time is better spent getting the important trivial thing done now than working on the not-as-important nontrivial thing.
no mention or picture of Windows Phone?!
Essentially what that's saying is, white people now have black-people problems.
Joy and happiness are nice things to have. Making rent every month is nicer.
Words like "bruh" and "gainz" send a signal that is probably better off un-sent.
paywithapost is a widely used tool by many bloggers looking to gain publicity. I could have asked for an email id, but instead, I took this path.
This ^^, you can do well as a plumber and retire after 2 or 3 decades of working if you play your cards right, leaving you with a fairly functional body and freedom from working 1 to 2 decades ahead of most people in the US.
> I really do not understand how anyone...

Someone contributing to an official Stack Overflow blog seems like a likely candidate!

Sure, the conclusions are the result of a fishing expedition into the usage data for something to comment on, rather than something scientific that began with a question or tests a hypothesis.

However, while the total number of questions isn't so meaningful, that is the denominator used to normalize the data across languages. Think of it as `n`, where the confidence interval for Java is probably smaller than the one for Sharepoint.

I think it is best to think of this as exploratory analysis rather than a study exploring a specific question. It would be interesting to see further analysis into what puts Paris and London on one end and Moscow and Tokyo on another.

Let's say that Stack Overflow makes programmers more productive, but some cultures might have a tendency to think that it is "cheating" to use the site while at work. Addressing that would be an easy way to increase market penetration. Maybe they should get some submarine articles published in Japanese and Filipino trade publications.
Use Hyperloop.

http://ruby-hyperloop.io/
Depends on the human.
The number of total publicly traded companies isn't projected to get anywhere close to historical levels in the near future. There are steps being considered to change the current definition of accredited investors and/or to permit non-accredited investors to participate in private investments. See helpful reading/viewing:

- http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20170224/FREE/17022994...
- https://equityzen.com/blog/alternatives-part-of-investment-p...
- http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000598150

Disclaimer:
Links #2-3 are affiliated with my own company, so you should decided whether or not to believe me.
An alternative interpretation is that C# devs are willing to ask for help at any time, while Haskell devs can only summon the humility to ask for help after they've been suffering all day.

:-)
The color palettes in charts with 2, 3, 4 colors are the ggplot2 defaults, and the author David Robinson has written packages that fit into the "tidyverse" of which ggplot2 is a part, so that seems quite likely.
SSNs are issued by the Social Security Administration for the purposes of keeping track of social security (read: government-backed retirement pension). The Internal Revenue Service keeps track of taxes and uses SSNs to keep track of all taxes (including payments into social security).

Some individuals (such as yourself) are not eligible to receive a SSN. For those individuals who need an identification number for US tax purposes, the IRS issues ITINs. See here for more information: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identifi...
You set up a company with 16% corporate tax.
Chill brah
> a workplace full of only entry-level opportunities

I agree with the rest of your post, except this part. Entry level jobs are what people should be getting straight out of college. Senior positions and management jobs go to the people with the experience to do them, and that's almost certainly not a person with a year of experience and a new bachelor's degree.

I kind of wonder if these weird expectations aren't part of the problem. If the definition of success is to graduate college and move straight to senior management, things might not work out so well...
Things are already going bad for anyone who believes in Moore's Law. Intel themselves have switched focus to getting more out of silicon because they don't believe in magic speed boosts for the future. Part of why they bought a FPGA company. Also why AMD's Semi-Custom business was booming. Even large customers are realizing you gotta do something other than a process shrink.
I have been a full-time remote software engineer for a large (> 15,000 employees) company since 2001, before they even had a formal telcommuting policy. I have seen a lot of things change over the years, much of it in favor of the remote employee. That said, there are still limitations that come from working from home.

The distractions issue mentioned at the beginning of the article falls on the employee: you simply cannot do two things at once. When I first started out I would take a shower, get dressed, etc., then move into a room that I have dedicated to work. That physical "commute" served as a mental delineation between the home and the office, and served me well. Over the years I've been able to change gears more easily, but that break between home and work is still essential.

The larger issue that I feel affects my career is the lack of "water cooler" connectedness that comes from being out of the office. I lose track of company/team strategies, decisions, projects, code names, and the like - all things that are usually handled by walking down the hallway. Mitigating these issues requires a change to the way the company operates. It needs to have managers that are aware of and accommodating remote employees in ways that would be automatic for an office of employees. When I travel to HQ for work, one of my primary jobs is reminding folks that there's a person attached to the voice on the other side of so many phone calls.

After more than 15 years outside of the office, has my decision to work remotely impacted my career? Almost certainly. Have there been days when I've wondered if it was the right way to go? Sure. At the end of those musings, though, there are benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. I get to have lunch with my family daily, I have the shortest commute in Los Angeles, and I get to set my own hours (within reason.) Professionally, too, there a benefits. I can crawl into my programmer-cave more easily than someone who is part of an office environment. In some ways I am easier to contact than my colleagues, because I never leave my chair.

To address another comment made elsewhere, I have been contacted by other companies, and been given offers that are very competitive to my current compensation. However, the ability to work remotely full-time has usually been the reason I turn them down. Maybe in another stage of life the answer may change, but for this season, I don't think I'd have it any other way.
> Not only do you get a big performance boost,

Depends on the size of your data. AFAIK handling immutable data has a performance penalty on smaller datasets. Before I go immutable I first assess whether I really need it.
Schwab recently introduced much lower fees on their index ETF's. According to this, they're lower or equal to Vanguard (depending on how much you invest).

https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/m/indexfunds.html
> C# programmers start and stop their day earlier

Maybe because they're often in finance?

Why wasn't Java compared?
That's honestly a good enough idea already, especially if the pouch was recyclable. Then the straw could be metal (reusable) with a pointy end to pierce the pouch. Boom, solid business to have 10 of these pouches delivered weekly.
> It is for example quite common to have two types of data, one is frequently reused over very long periods, the other is reused over short periods after the first use.

I can't help but see the parallels with garbage collection algorithms, which seem to actually be the same problem approached from a different angle. Which objects should be scanned for cleanup and how often for optimal use of time maps very closely to what items to keep or event from a cache.
Oh. I thought it would question your unneccessary update of dependencies that didn't close any bugs or introduce new features but require you 3 days to change code according to a new API.
it's really getting annoying how US news outlets always separate the ethnicities in USA, let's stop focusing on who's white and who's not. I'm sure a lot of these same problems mentioned in the article affect other ethnicities.
Machine Learning Gets an InfiniBand Boost
My grandfather was dyslexic and in his 92 years, he never could learn to read. He started his own garbage disposal business and became wealthy from it, eventually getting contracts with several significant municipalities in the Northwest before he sold it off. He surrounded himself with intelligent, well-educated people who would read the contracts to him and advise him (primarily his sons and wives, but also trusted employees and confidants).

Of course, this was a different time, but I believe the principle is valid. If you have confidence, charm, and enterprising spirit, the world is open despite any particular individual limitations.

The white-collar career path of collegiate education is not the only option, and as many upset Millennials are discovering, it's often not even a good option anymore.
Yeah, sure. Let people suffer, at least they can suffer with the knowledge that the 'spiritual' people like wu-ikkyu approve of it.
> A-Frame and React VR represent different styles

They both use HTML-like markup to declare scene graphs. I think the only difference is that procedural content is easier to generate with React VR. But then again, if I need to generate objects programmatically, why not just use Three.js directly? It's a very easy library to use.

> React VR integrates with the entire history of React tooling and libraries

That doesn't strike me as a good thing. Once developers start writing VR scenes in React, it's only a matter of time before they pull in abstractions like Redux. This means using a state library to drive React to drive Three.js to drive WebGL. This seems unnecessary and inefficient in an environment where framerate is king (because as I'm sure you know, dropping frames in VR causes motion sickness).

Given ReactVR is just a thin wrapper over Three, I think most developers would be better equipped just to learn that. They're going to have to at some point, because last I looked ReactVR had a pretty limited set of inbuilt entities.

> Our goal is to take all web developers who know React and enable them to become VR developers as well.

My goal is to remind JavaScript developers that there is a world outside React, just like there was a world outside Angular and even jQuery before that. I believe the sooner they engage with the fundaments and free themselves of proprietary abstractions the more powerful they become.

To that end, I think the React monoculture is holding us back, and perhaps that's why I have mixed feelings about your project.
Perhaps if he hadn't tried working at the dining room table with an infant it would have worked.

I work in an office now but have worked from home both as an employee and a full-time freelancer. With the exception of children and sick pets, distractions at home during the work day are a choice. Someone knocking on the door is no different than a phone call at your office desk. If you have the time, answer it. If you don't, don't.
Also, the author says in the comments that he used ggplot2 for the static plots and gganimate for the animations.
I'm not talking about working conditions. I'm referring to employment. We need less people to do stuff. Thousands of years ago everyone was involved in subsistance. Pretty soon we developed technologies (the wheel, the plow) that meant we needed fewer people to do that. So people were able to move on to doing other things (like making pots or clothing). Pretty soon we automated those things as well (potters wheel, the loom, etc.) and people needed to start making other things. Over time not making anything at all, but doing service work became more common. But automation means we don't need service work as much either. We're running out of places to move people who's jobs were automated out of existence. I don't deny that life is much better for all this technology, but we need to acknowledge the other problem.
In the video, we see a reporter squeezing green juice out of a bag. Presumably pre-pureed kale or spinach.
Way more role-playing potential in Mass Effect than, say, your typical JRPG. And than most of the story's-barely-there stat-bashing dungeon crawlers, Western or Eastern. For that matter there's more in Dishonored, and your character doesn't even speak in that one. Of all the games under the RPG tent I'd say Mass Effect is well in the top half as far as having role playing in it, though it's admittedly a pretty low bar.
True true, and we should ignore the worthless opinion of those stuck up people. Who can't value a day of labor?
How we built our April Fools' prank site in 48 hours
May I know what you built and they're building? Maybe different product easier with different tech stack?

I use Scala because Google App Engine didn't support PHP for example. It's an Android app, so I use Kotlin for that.
California again leads list with 6 of the top 10 most polluted U.S. cities
Why not demand more money for putting up with an aspect of the job that you hate and which they need? You have leverage, apply it.
Cheaper college education.

Legalization of marijuana.

Better social structures to remove isolationism.
"America is not a great place [....]"
The longer between your requests, the better.

If you generate a load greater than what a human would do, this might become problematic. A human wouldn't poke a website forever every 10-15 seconds.

The 10-15 seconds is more for web crawlers. Eventually, a crawler will run out of pages to crawl on a website, so it will stop sending requests to it.

Personally, I would stick to the 3 minutes delay. But it depends on what type of website you're scraping :)
If the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (in its stronger forms) is false, there should be managers who are able to identify the cheapest stocks within the S&P 500 and thereby outperform the index. A disbeliever in EMH should look to identify these managers and pay them some fee, rather than simply investing in the index and trying to minimize fees.

I think it's plausible that these managers exist, but they're impossible to identify ex ante. Furthermore, a smart manager will charge fees that are equal to the alpha they generate. So even if the EMH is false in some broad sense, individual investors should act as if it were true and simply invest in low-cost diversified funds.
Canada has <5% minority groups... most are 2-3%. It's pretty much all white (86% or something)

US is 60% white roughly.

It's a bigger deal because it's a more noticeable issue.
Ranking system?!
I have far less distractions at home and see many benefits:

no chewing, no talking, good food, no noisy coffe machine, breaks when I need them (even a bed) and a good sound system (I'm slightly audiophile).

I still never dilute work too much. Sometimes 45min of table-tennis or something, but in general never more than 1h of break time during the work chunk of the day (I do quite strictly 8h plus break-time and finishing some smaller task or short communications with the team).

I do make sure to tell the others what I accomplished or when I'm stuck a bit so they know what I'm up to, even when not following the tickets closely.
How do you explain the countless penalty orders and verdicts over internet posts that were issued in the last thirty years then? People were punished for internet posts that are against the law and will continue to be punished for internet posts.

Arvato was contracted by Facebook to enforce their own terms of service and comply with the law. They are free to contract any company they like to operate on their platform. It's not the government that chose Arvato.

If you think that law is the result of lobbying alone you haven't followed to large public debate that happened over this topic the last year at all.

And please refrain from name-calling. This doesn't make your arguments look any better.
In this context I would love to see more programming languages available for tablets, because tablets are good for learning.
its very strange to. i never saw it as a child nor expeirienced it but when i got older in america every one seems to be about race and other things that can differentiate in one way or another.