skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be anything in the top 20, really [0]. The problem is that devs have an impulse to do something experimental and cool, since they have to work with workhorse languages all day at their day jobs.

The myth that they tell themselves is that $REVOLUTIONARY_FEATURE_Y will greatly improve their productivity, but the fact of the matter is usually that no matter how revolutionary the features, it's hard to overcome the benefits that come from an active ecosystem of well-tested and widely used libraries. Even if productivity is improved 20x by the revolutionary feature, a library that has 10 man-years of effort in it will take you 6 months to implement. Rinse and repeat.

This is not to mention the availability of online references and established conventions/best practices, the impact of hitting esoteric errors, and so on.

A good example of this is probably reddit. Originally written in Lisp, they eventually gave up and compromised down to Python due to improved tooling and library availability. [1]

[0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

[1] https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/
>> an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage.

Wow, internet connected? I just can't understand this craze to connect anything and everything to internet.
For some reason, in my local tech community, the female/male ratio is higher among Android devs than iOS devs.

I don't know why that is, but it's something that I noticed. I'd be curious if that is a general trend or just a coincidence.
I think this waste/recycling thing is more of a SV/HN concern. Keurig tried to introduce a recyclable pod, called the Vue when their previous patent expired for k-cups. Seems to be a massive failure. Also HelloFresh and Blue Apron seem to get brought up a lot here for being hard to recycle and generaring a lot of trash, dozens of people I know have used these services and not one has mentioned the trash issue.
The way that title is worded makes me think that the author thinks that "Young White America" believes they should despair more!
Fair point about arms reduction. I'd been thinking "nuclear war in general" rather than "a nuclear war right now", which is probably the more useful discussion.
They do have one nice advantage over the office or home coffee pot, forgetful people and no warming surface. It does prevent some fires because you have people who forget the basic things.
>Is the time I'd otherwise spend lying on the couch worth ~$50/hr? Hard to say.

Assign an hourly value to your free time. If you wanted to relax at home on a Saturday playing video games, how much money would I need to pay you to do something for me instead?

I'll work for no less than $20/hr. I'll give up my free time for no less than $100/hr.

My rates differ because, at least for me, I'm required to work to pay bills and pay to do things I enjoy doing with my free time. Since I'm required to do it and I need to be realistic with what I ask for, I charge less. My free time is time I'm not required to work - so there needs to be enough monetary incentive for me to be willing to give up my free time. Idealistically my "work rate" would match my "free time rate".
I have the same commute and have settled on a similar approach. The balance has helped me tremendously as I know I can have 2, or 3, days a week of not hustling out the door and home.
Thanks Bose. This is enough to make sure I never touch the crap you sell
Your logic is useless against my feelings. ;) Seriously, I really don't have a solid argument here, it's just a fuzzy idea.
Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy have roughly three times the rate of adult children living at home with their parents, as what the US does.
It's not necessarily active vs passive. It's skin in the game vs no skin. Low fee index funds offer no incentive for the managers to do any actual managing. They follow an equation, and collect a few bps.
It isn't obvious, but the mention of the app is on the inner flap of the packaging

https://imgur.com/a/Uvzak
The problem is that they raised A LOT of VC money and it was supposed to be tech startup that creates a network effect and dominate the market.

Gillette model worked because creating that infrastructure back then had a huge barrier to entry. You had to get a factory to produce the blades, etc.

Compare that to juice mix delivery service in 2017. There are tons of organic juice stores around, and there are tons of delivery services like uber/caviar/doordash. These juiceries can take advantage of the distribution startups to deliver their juice and make money if they wanted.

Basically it matters because you need to take "competition" into consideration. It's an entirely different game than razor blades.
I find myself using stackoverflow more while using certain languages, and almost never when using others. IMO, a C/C++ developer or a backend developer is less likely to use stack overflow as compared to a python/javascript/php or frontend developer.
Scholarships are hard to get when you're a white male with perfectly good (but not exceptional) grades. A bit easier when you're a woman, since they have more scholarships earmarked for you.

Most people won't have scholorships, or at least not enough scholorships to cover their entire tuition.

> telling kids that they will be losers if they don't go

It's worse than "mere" peer pressure. A 4 year college education is all-but-required for entry level white collar jobs anymore. A college degree is this century's High School Diploma.
There is an opportunity cost to commuting, while you might not value it at your full hourly wage, taking a job that pays slightly less but has a 30min commute round trip instead of 4 hours can have large health and wellness benefits, and allow you to do things you previously couldn't (activities, business, etc).

Just curious, where all are you commuting between? I rarely hear people commuting over 2hrs round trip here on the West Coast, and a 2hr commute round trip can allow you to buy super far out in the gricklegrass, IE Tulalip, WA, where a couple acres with a house is ~170k, with a 5min drive to the park and ride and a 47min ride to Downtown Seattle. Living closer to the core, a similar house would be easily $500k, but it'd be a single seat, 20min bus ride, less if on the train.
I don't know what you're smoking, Canada doesn't have green cards. And no, Canada doesn't give PR status to anyone before they have lived there for some time.
Microsoft releases Wunderlist replacement To-Do; iPhone today, Mac/iPad soon
Maybe ad revenue isn't the correct way to fund a newspaper these days. Disruption!
Sure, but from the customer's perspective, why is this product necessary?
If you are intending to sell your startup, I can see it being quite helpful.
Videogame ‘Add Ons’: Billion-Dollar Business and Two-Edged Sword
Now I just need to come up with something horrendously risky to use this for...
The importance of images for building customer trust
The New York Times has presented a couple of articles over the last two years on dying towns in Japan, and it was noted that once the population drops to a certain point, the utilities get cut off, making it hard for anyone who actually wants to live there, to do so.
It depends on your goals and it depends on you (do you have discipline?) and the company you work for. If you're trying to climb the corporate ladder, then yes this will slow you down if you're working from home 3-5 days a week. If you want something else like work life balance or more time to work on your side projects by saving time (no more commute, less time spent socializing with coworkers, ...), then it's a no brainer. IANAL but I would advise against working on your side projects during work hours.
Microsoft To-Do Preview
Encryption and Decryption in Java Cryptography
IF they were up your ass you'd know
NPM package with no dependencies to convert Unix-timestamp to time from now
Because fuck you, that's why.
Nobody likes killjoys, and I see so much denial in these comments, yes, you will get old and the desitions you make today matter for your future even if you choose to ignore that fact and "live for the moment".
As an ex-customer of iron.io, I'd suggest looking elsewhere. They've been downsizing for awhile - I wouldn't be surprised if they ceased operations any day now.
One of the best things about remote work is that it puts the responsibility for the working environment on the individual rather than the organisation.

Agreed.

But there are some surprisingly paternalistic views out there about employer-employee relationships. You'll definitely find employees who believe it's the employer's responsibility to create a very structured environment where work happens, and managers who are very happy to go along with this.
> The government (imo) shouldn't be "promoting" any lifestyle

That can't be helped. The government influences the economy, the economy influences lifestyle. When they enacted NAFTA they knew jobs would be leaving rust belt and they knew that would affect people's livelihood. It's only reasonable to expect the government to have some response to the towns it destroyed.
Depression and IBS have the same problem.
68 Resources on Creating Programming Languages
I do a fair bit of drunk C. Something beautiful about a pointer to pointer after a couple of gin and tonics.
You really need to learn to look past media bias. This is the view the article author is leading the reader to have, but the reality is likely to be much more complex.

Just looking at the number of people who live at home with parents has no bearing on what got them there. Some may be actively looking for work but only able to find sporadic temp work. Others may be needed as a live-at-home carer to their elderly relatives. Some may be genuinely lazy. Some may be very hard working. There's literally none of this information conveyed in statistics alone, all you have in this article is a few hand-picked personal stories to present the view that the author wanted to convey.
Mind explaining the ==/=== issue which arises from the high/lo and array solution?
While you may not believe in CAPM and EMH and still invest in Vanguard funds, many do both. I used to participate in the Bogleheads forum and encountered many doctrinaire EMH proponents there. It's not an unreasonable inference to connect the two.
'Go with your members and get booted out of any sensible position'
I don't understand why its to be taken as a given that noone will vote for the anti-brexit party, given that a was a good 45% of the population supported it? surely then all you have to do is win 10% of the population over with other arguments to win?
That's weird, because all the times I tried the experimental support, it didn't need privileged containers. From the YAML files, it looks like it's using hostPath directories, but those don't require special privileges, unless you need to write to them:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#hostpat...

I suspect that there is a bug somewhere.
LD_PRELOAD in depth: code injection on Linux and macOS
I have a similar commute, though mine is only 75 minutes (when Penn isn't a cluster). Unfortunately, I have little WFH flexibility right now. I would love an arrangement like yours.
I would add many parts of India to the list as well.
Its the "unix toaster" of the 21st century although, to be fair to the unix toaster, at least DRM was not one of its requirements.

http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt
That completely depends upon the fine that is imposed, if any at all..
I think its only very recently that Nuclear families, living alone as a single etc. became economically viable and socially acceptable. Throughout most of history, generations have lived and died in the same houses. Building homes has always been a very very expensive proposition for most people through most of humanity.
Like the Campbell Soup company, for example:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/juicero/investors
these problems get 100 fold worse with increasing automation, and probly needing a triple PHD to actually get a job, maybe.

The fantasy that millions of jobs are going to fall out of the sky is exactly that. We need to think of real solutions, and soon.
Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
Knowing how to sell/market your product is more important than having a fully functional or carefully engineered product. Nobody will give you money for your (master)piece of software if they don't know what it does or what it's for. Sounds trivial, and yet the better you are at software development, the harder it is to keep in mind.

Just because you are good at something doesn't mean you should be focusing on that thing and leave the rest for later.
I'd love to hear a case made for Fidelity/Schwab being even with Vanguard. My understanding is that Vanguard's expense ratio is the best (and it goes without saying this makes a big difference over time). Has Fidelity's expense ratio recently moved to match Vanguard's?
Stop Wasting Your Own Team
Except the razor is $400 here. It's not a throwaway device like a razor or a printer.
War of the Machines: PVS-Studio vs. TensorFlow
England has a thing called "STOMP" to reduce polypharmacy and over medication of people with learning disability.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/stoppi...

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2015/07/urgent-pledge/

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/2016%20QNLD%20Annual%20Forum_S...

This kind of thing has a lot of support with NHS and LA care providers; from service users and their relatives, and from carers.

> “Is heavy drug use bad? That’s the question. We don’t know; it hasn’t been studied.”

We do know: Yes, it's bad. It's bad because of all the side effects. It's bad because there's risks with most meds, and you need to balance the risks against the rewards, and if there are no clear rewards it's unethical to subject someone to those risks just in case the med works. Especially so when these are children, some of whom will have lack of capacity because of learning disability, who are not making the decisions.
> I mean the utility of the computer was instantly recognized and brought into offices as soon as practically possible.

You may be too young to remember, but that is definitely not true. During the 80's, the only use they could advertise computers to adults was "you can keep you recipies in it" and "you can do accounting". Heck, "there is a world market for about five computers" was a sentence aimed at business at some point.

Wait till the Marketing departments find a way to create the need on all those FB followers, with those "trendy lifestyle" ads.
Alright, someone needs to make a hand cranked version of the juicer now. You could probably 3D print one on the cheap and open source the specs.
Although without super-impressive project, I didn't know Hacker News existed until a year or two ago despite over a decade reading on IT, INFOSEC, etc. I was mostly on blogs/forums where I saw knowledgeable people talking about my interests with low noise. Especially Schneier's blog before Snowden leaks when noise showed up.

I think Hacker News has a marketing problem. Many people here assume all the technical folks know about and read it. Whereas, most I meet have never heard of it. So, I just tell them about it. Now, we don't want to give it a bad rap by being zealots shouting about it in places everywhere. But, if bookmarking excellent discussions, you might just drop a link to them when they solve a problem or provide insight that's on another forum. "Hey, that exact thing was discussed on Hacker News with a lot of interesting ideas. Link below. You should probably check out the homepage as it often has lots of neat tech, businesses, etc sometimes with the inventors of them in the comments."

That's what I've been doing.
True, some people just have other goals in life than being defined by what they do to make a living (aka "career")..
The Lambda API is an HTTP API. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/API_Reference.ht...
The despair of learning that experience no longer matters
Cities usually significantly outperform when it comes to unemployment:

http://i.imgur.com/lPB3R7m.jpg
It says it has chopped raw vegetables and fruits in the packets. They would need to add fruits with lots of juice to compensate for vegetables that need more liquid to be juiced fully like beets or carrots.
Recipes for Health and Healing – Cure Alls
Show HN: Rltm.js – Swap between Socket.io and PubNub with a single config
From Colgate Lasagne to Crystal Pepsi: Visit the Museum of Failure
I've seen people gain skills while working remote with a fully remote team. If the company culture encourages the employees to be social and talkative, you can learn as a junior dev working remotely.

Offices may still hold the upper hand here, a lot of people have mental barriers about messaging coworkers vs casually wandering by their office.
Probably, the best business advice for software developers
"Solving the problem that frustrates you - may be one of the best ways of finding an idea for your startup". Look at these software developers who acted accordingly before they found success. https://belitsoft.com/php-development-services/saas-ideas-st...
> The fates of the less-educated and those who graduate from universities diverge in dire ways. Middle-aged white Americans without four-year degrees are at increasing risk of dying, a well-documented trend driven not only by drug use but also by alcoholism, suicide, and slowing progress against heart disease and cancer.

While that's pretty damn horrible, the fate of people with newly-minted bachelor's degrees isn't much to write home about either, unless you happened to major in the few areas of study where gainful employment is possible. Crushing student debt, high cost of living cities, an unreachably inflated housing market, low (but non-zero for now) job prospects, the looming threat of automation and robotics, underemployment--and if they get a professional job--a workplace full of only entry-level opportunities, with senior and management opportunities sucked up by boomers who refuse to, or can't, retire.

Sure, it's not at the level of dying of a heroin addiction, but there's plenty of anxiety and lack of opportunity to go around.
Don't know but presumably they were awarded a bonus.
1. SSH to server and vim.

2. I program in Perl primarily, and have been for over 15 years. There's not a lot language wise that I need to look up. When I forget the specifics of a particular built-in, I can easily look it up in perldoc. If it's a problem with a module, I can use perldoc on the system or use metacpan.org for a better representation with all the bells and whistles. CPAN modules generally have excellent documentation. If I run into a problem, I google it, and sometimes that leads to SO, sometimes not. Sometimes I google knowing that I'll find the same SO entry I have every year for the last few years for that snippet I can't ever seem to remember.

I think the sweet spot for SO helping you is often when you are learning a new language. As you become more proficient, the majority of the questions will likely be things you could answer, not ask.
Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
Take a look at this chart of the SP500 over time: http://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data

(Make sure to turn off inflation-adjusted)

I think you'll see that in the last 90 years, even the worst market crashes don't take the index down to a level lower than what it was 15 years prior. To put it another way, pick any time in the past 90 years, the S&P 500 is always higher 15 years later than that date and every day afterwards. Maybe slicing up your investments into finer-grained categories than the entire S&P 500 will help ... but I'm very skeptical that anyone can TLH for long periods successfully.

If you want to pay a perpetual 25 basis points per year for Wealthfront or Betterment, go ahead, but it seems unlikely to me you'll come out ahead of a simple index fund if you are investing long term.
>>“This is an experiment that’s going on, but it’s a completely uncontrolled experiment.”

All psychiatric drugging is a hypothetical experiment because psychiatric diagnoses are based on subjective social observations rather than biological pathology[1]. However the psychiatric/pharmaceutical establishment still assumes biological causes even though they have no real proof. The mind is a metaphysical concept which no one understands, and yet many stand to profit on this fact by making popular but unsubstantiated assumptions.

Mixing multiple psychiatric drugs further compounds the issue, because when the companies selling these drugs are conducting their trials, they don't do so in conjunction with the myriad of other drugs that are usually prescribed to those with mental illnesses.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#Diagnosis

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_rights_movement
Thanks for the long post. Somewhat OT, but interesting.
This is a very important article, I wish I could upvote it more. The dangers of taking such psychoactive substances regularly, in combination, at such a young age with a developing brain, are not to be underestimated!

Parents need to be better informed. They make these decisions for their children when really, a few decades ago, an iron rule was that medicating mental health problems in children is to be avoided if at all possible.
That was my point, rather than research a topic and give the reader/viewer hard facts, major "news" orgs bring in opinion panels that degrade the conversation and add nothing of value.
Radbahn could become Berlin's first covered cycle path
Laying objects and documents in 3D space is way more expressive than on a flat screen.
Active and passive are just marketing labels. The frequency of trades should be correlated with the expense ratio. If you do more trades, you better be hiring more analysts to figure out those trades.

Vanguard has lower costs because it employs fewer people to execute fewer trades. That's all I really care about.
That is something to be concerned about, but even rudimentary coffee pots have automatic shutoffs and most have other safety measures. Plus even with the long running heating element, they draw much less power than Keurigs. They bother me, but I usually keep my opinion to myself because people get emotionally invested in strong purchases (which coffee has become thanks Keurig).
The power of two random choices
Ceph is not a good solution at all for databases. Your performance is going to be terrible.

Ceph is object-based SDS solution designed to take servers with local drives and create a SAN out of them. In order to do this, they take each LUN (Ceph volume) and scatter the data across all nodes in the cluster. They do not assume that applications will run on these servers themselves... they assume compute is elsewhere, like a traditional SAN. The goal is to replace a SAN with servers, not create a converged platform. Also, Ceph was designed during an age where an Intel server did NOT have tier-1 capacity (8 - 20 TB), which is why they shard a volume across so many servers.

This causes a problem for modern applications like Cassandra, Mongo, Kafka etc, where they like to scaleout themselves and want a converged system, where data is not scattered, but on the node where an instance of that cluster runs. Ceph also disrupts (undo) the HA capabilities that these scaleout applications have (For example, a Cassandra instances data will not be on a node on which it thinks it is).
Sony Announces the A9
will this book be getting a paper release? i don't mind a pdf book, but at $59, i'd like a paper copy. just wondering if anybody knew.
How these 20 companies are tackling the challenge head on
As I sit here wearing a Pebble watch, I'd certainly like to know more about that collapse.
Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't cut one open to exam the contents. That being said, I think a rolling pin would probably work on leafy greens.