skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no.

Yes: Homoiconicity is a big deal. It allows (Lisp style) macros, which are pretty unique and pretty powerful.

No: The argument of the Blub Paradox was mistaken then, and is mistaken now. The mistake is the idea that all languages can be ranked on a one-dimensional axis labeled "power". And (related mistake) that one should choose the most powerful one.

To see why this is mistaken, consider Lisp and Haskell. Lisp advocates looks at Haskell, and knows that they are looking down. (How can you get anything done in Haskell? It doesn't even have macros!) But the Haskell types (pun intended) look at Lisp, and they also know that they are looking down. (How can you get anything done in Lisp? It doesn't even have a decent type system!)

The correct answer is probably more like thinking of programming languages as a tree in a multi-dimensional space. The program you're trying to write is a vector in that space. Pick the branch of the tree that extends the farthest in the direction of the program you're trying to write. That is, pick the language that will do the most to simplify the task of writing the program. Sometimes that language is Lisp; sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's Haskell; sometimes it's not.
The phrase security through obscurity should be applied to algorithms, but it's been co-opted by everyone who knows a little bit about security as a catch phrase applied to everything.

Obviously things like passwords are security through obscurity, but the algorithm to hash the passwords should be well known.
The allure of a big payout seems to cloud a lot of people's judgement. Do people try to sue/demand money from Ford/Honda/etc the same way these stories are popping up for Tesla?

I'm curious if we're only seeing these stories because Tesla is such a hot topic.
>I've heard that the Atlanta tech scene is dominated by business types...

In ATL, can confirm. That's not to say there aren't good engineers here.
I wonder if any other companies with electrically actuated doors have faced similar lawsuits? Chevrolet Corvette comes to mind with the push buttons...
How Mad Street Den Is Bringing AI to Fashion
> One concern I have is that my hair is starting to turn grey so I think the HR process will get a bit trickier (planning on moving to more remote work so they can't see the grey :)

I'm thinking of dyeing hair before interviews when I face the same problem.
And I suddenly don't feel the need to support iOS anymore
Actual legal cases? Or just online petitions mumble jumble?
Only if you consider prison to only be punishment and that punishment should scale linearly to the 'badness' of the crime
All true, a high-quality comment. It's true about marijuana, and it may eventually be true about some other drugs that turn out to have beneficial uses -- in a process driven mostly by politics and public relations, very little science.
I'm 33 and don't really like the idea of going into management. This is an encouraging article (and comments).
I am reminded of the videogame in Spike Jonze's "Her" in which the main protagonist after coming home from his day job ghostwriting hikes through landscapes with his AI buddy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7aI0RqtXc
Nope. It will just cut down on the number independent apps being written about. In their place, spammy apps that are paying affiliate networks - whose creators can only afford to pay large per-install commissions though aggressive revenue techniques (malware etc) - will be reviewed and pushed. This cut will make things infinitely worse. The only apps you will see being talked about on thousands of blogs/social media/review sites/etc. will be "ad-ridden and malware-ish".
That actually overlaps with things like the power grid and ATC, for what it's worth. It's a little bigger than just "government computers".
The thing that most people fail to realize is that a lower corporate tax rate helps the overall enconomy and all Americans. Companies now suddenly have increased capital to spend on growth (hiring, R&D, and acquisitions).

Additionally it boost earnings which will likely increase most people's retirement accounts and stock portfolios.

Typical that I'm getting downvoted without any rebuttal.
Coming from c# and using Linq:

1. Type safety instead of magic strings

2. Composibiity of queries.

3. Testability - I can mock out the dbcontext in unit test and use an in memory List<T> to test queries without having a database dependencies.

But these days, for any new project, my default is to avoid relational databases unless there is good reason for them. Even for BI, my live database is more than likely going to be NoSql and use a combination of CQRS, Event Sourcing, and messaging.
You completely disregarded all of the organizational and communicative benefits I mentioned in favor of performance. Sometimes that will be the right choice to make, sometimes (I'd argue frequently) it will not.

> A highly performant data layer is going to interact with the database in ways that ORMs generally cannot.

This is not true, unless using the data layer instead of ORM allows you to structure your data differently. In which case, sure.
The door was damaged... no physically, but if it were a hydraulic door and the hydraulic motor was destroyed in the crash, it would be reasonable to expect it to be unable to be opened by hydraulics, right? Same for electric. And there is a latch to get out (and i've heard about this latch before from Tesla owners, so maybe its not made 100% super clear, but its not an unknown either). I know I'm going to sound like I'm being a dick, but thats an RTFM problem, not a car problem.
68, coding since 1965. There is no better job. I hope to be coding the week I leave.

(Note: there are more useful jobs: doctor, nurse, farmer).
Interesting, never heard of this option. The bank I use provides a switch in their online banking UI to instantly enable/disable cards. I find it useful.
How much of the capital would realistically go to those, as opposed to shareholder payouts?
Sounds like something littered with government regulations and patents. I stay away from anything bio for that reason. Hopefully this one finds some motivated individuals who can take it to industrial scale though.
You can blame job ads for that. Since nobody wants to be called 'junior' there are job ads that are clearly targeted at fresh-out-of-school people who somehow are also senior developers.

I've seen some amazing young coders that definitely were worthy of that title but they were the exception, not the rule. The tell tale is if the salary that goes with the job is one that you could support a family and a mortgage on. If that's not the case then the position is 'junior'.
Just curious: How are you connecting this Apple news with that theory?
This is a ridiculous oversimplification of the issues and a guaranteed way of hijacking this for a completely unproductive argument.
Scott Westerfeld's Uglies is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which civilization collapsed due to a bacteria that consumed oil very fast. Good read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uglies_series
Android was not started by Google; I presume when they bought Android Java was already entrenched
I didn't read the study, but my guess is they're not taking about literally pretending that things are people (like in the movie examples) - but that you develop empathy towards a device and interact with it/attach value to it in ways that were reserved for social interactions before.

If you replace the box of cereal with a smartphone, I think you can already spot that today. I also know at least two people who have given their cleaning robot a name and (semi-seriously) treat it as a pet. And let's not even start with realdolls...
Over 60 years ago, Frederick Lewis Allen published "The Big Change". He noted that we do not live in a Capitalist Society, we live in a Managementist society. Capital is too often diced up and spread around so that it has no bearing on decisions and the "owner" has no responsibility or even ability to track things.
Open-Source EdgeX Foundry Seeks to Standardize Internet of Things
Realistically what do you think shareholders do with payouts?
Wait..cities aren't already utterly lonely?
Unfortunately NNTP(like) is the only thing I have never touched at all. I have several years of experience with FidoNet's echomail (this is like NNTP), but today I see that most of discussion is done in mailing lists and I have got no usecases I really could use with something like NNTP (and that is disappointing, because I really like that echomail/news nature).
Doesn't matter: Model X's doors can be opened with a physical emergency latch in the event of power failure.

Apparently, the owner of the vehicle couldn't be bothered to read the manual. Oh well.
While I'm not the OP, I believe I get his point:

With the environment changing so do the evolutionary advantages that come with the environment.
In that regard, an evolutionary trait that is considered disadvantageous in one environment might be actually advantageous in a different environment.

Case in point: Humans fighting over rocks.

When there were only a few humans around but lots of "good rocks" to fight over, being competitive for the few humans might have been an advantage. Because there had been enough "good rocks" around so everybody could get their own piece of rock if they compete and some can even get more than just one rock.

Now change the ratio between humans and "good rocks", whether that be because there are a lot more humans than there used to be or because there are far fewer "good rocks" around to compete for or simply a combination of both.

In such a scenario competition for the sole ownership these few remaining "good rocks" between big numbers of humans, might be a massive resource waste compared to a more cooperative approach that doesn't pit everybody against each other for a scarce resource.
45, self-employed. I create and sell an iOS/Android plugin for use with Cordova, React Native and NativeScript apps. I love my job.
Do you have a product/service built on affiliate commissions?
Every time I advocate for animal rights on this forum, it's met with downvotes and people huffing and puffing about the benefit to humanity and science.

Your argument is sound...flies are animals. They have exoskeletons, six legs, and compound eyes but they are animals nonetheless. However, our cultural "worth" of flies is much lower than that of dogs, so even people who supposedly value logic above all else would rather scoff and silently disagree than challenge their own shaky belief system.

Granted, if a few dead caterpillars can cure our accumulating trash problem, that's a tradeoff I am ok with.
I think I agree that if your threat model is targeted, pre-meditated entry then going with a company that has never had any problem may be the way to go.

I suspect that you've never visited a Timpson's, which are your general, run of the mill high-street key-cutter. You walk in with your keys, ask them to make copies, they cut them while you wait (and watch if you want), you walk out with your new keys.

For most people that's pretty much fine whoever is cutting the keys as they don't know where you live.

If you're paranoid and/or have threat models that include lots of things that your average man on the street doesn't have to worry about, then you should be cutting the keys yourself.
I wouldn't rule it out, but I'm left scratching my head as to the motivation why. I remember reading about said data center years ago, before they even broke ground. The location was known at that time, too. If the physical location was of such importance to censor it from satellite images, why then retroactively add those images back in?
It would be interesting if there were a transfer market in programmers like there is in footballers, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

(Partly this is because the rules of the game prevent replacing Lionel Messi with 1,000 cheap non-Western consultants hired through three layers of outsourcing)
If I give a good review you're more likely to click my affiliate link.
webfaction is good, but no matter how much money you pay them they don't offer a phone or chat support. That's why we moved away from them. Otherwise, I think they are very good.
It should be updated with a functools.lru_cache decorator I think.
The paranoic stimuli and possible unfolding of latent mental conditions can't be underestimated though.
Who would want to promote something for $0.025 commission on a $1 sale?

The volume needed for that to be any sort of business model seems extraordinarily high.
They probably assumed scientists already knew about it but didn't think it was a bid deal.
Long before WikiLeaks, the FBI spent decades obsessing over Gavin MacFadyen
Yeah they definitely lied through their teeth about performance.

I probably won't buy again. But it did have great battery performance.

I switched to an LG G3 and it's battery duration is awful (it has way too much screen I guess), and it still has stupid lags and freezes.
That's not really the case here. Golden handcuffs refers to stock that was previously granted but either has not yet vested or has vested but the employee can't keep if they walk away from the job. While the employees in question surely own Yik-yak stock that stock is now worthless.

They're starting at Square just like they would start at any other job. Thus they will stay at Square if it is a better job for them (for whatever reason) than they could otherwise get.
Right because GE builds roads and funds public schools.
Wouldn't many such shareholders be Americans as well? Americans who could do something more productive with these payouts than the government might with taxes?

(Non-American shareholders could similarly reinvest these payouts in things which improve the global economy and, by extension, the livelihoods of Americans.)
> Kernels will probably not be one of the first areas of Rust adoption

You probably mean popular/used-in-production kernels, but there are OS's being written in Rust, e.g. Redox [1]

[1] https://github.com/redox-os/redox
The harm to the government and to financial institutions was acute, but the harm to individuals was (mostly) diffuse. What single victim of Seleznev's would have an argument for suffering beyond (say) 5 years?

It's not actually the case that more punishment = more retribution. The concept of retributive justice is that society should mete out a proportionate punishment, rather than see justice miscarried in either direction, or carried out haphazardly by victims themselves.
You might find this relevant:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/5/4061684/inside-ted-the-smar...
Raising taxes on profits would also incentivize them to spend their cash or they would just lost more of it in taxes.
relevant?

https://www.psychedelicsurvey.com
The Falcon wing doors were a mistake. Not having a manual way to open the door is also a mistake.

I'm not sure if these people deserve compensation but there should be a way to open the doors manually without relying on hydraulics.
But java.util.Date is mutable where a long isn't, and that's a problem. People can mutate a Date from under your feet if they manage to get a reference to it. This has a lot of far reaching implications, but essentially, unless you protectively copy all values of type Date you get or give, you can't trust your own internal state. You can't write a legal equals or hashCode implementation that uses a date field. The list goes on.

Don't do java.util.Date.
Trump. We'd need to teach people to assume anything unsigned is fake.
This is going to be increasingly key. And even then, it will be very difficult.

Books like "Trust Me, I'm Lying" reveal the lengths at which deception can occur. Though this book discusses deception that starts at the textual level (e.g. blogs), it is inevitable that these tactics will be translated to the video level once the technology catches up.

Also, "at face value" - Ha! ;)
Recently working on an embeddable shopping widget I noticed that if I animated it in certain ways chrome would block it as a popup.

Doesn't contradict what you said I just thought it was interesting that chrome doesn't just look for the most basic types of pop-ups.
I think the big thing about this is that it will lead more companies to bring capital back to the US from overseas where they are hoarding it. If they either spend it or distribute it to Americans that's likely good for the economy. It also improves the IRR for projects, which should lead to more investment. Hopefully, it works to get the economy going.
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics ?
Ask HN: Best US startup towns and cities outside Boston
Specifically regarding attracting SaaS software tech talent, what are the best places to headquarter a startup outside of Boston?

Boston is nice, but expensive, and a bit stressful to get around. We don't have to worry about VC money at this point, so I'd like to find a town or suburb where we could attract talent.

I'm considered as far north as Portland, Maine. Manchester, NH. Salem, MA.
By striking a deal with prosecutors and the court, not by availing himself of some process available to federal convicts generally.

It could indeed be that Seleznev will serve drastically less time by making a deal to (e.g.) rat out co-conspirators.
The waiting times for some countries suck but there's a reason for that.

If the US didn't have a considerable amount of immigrants from those countries then the times would be 8x less.

Same happens with Mexico. There are so many Mexican immigrants in the US already (legal and illegal) that getting a GC it's almost impossible now unless you have a legitimate marriage to a citizen.
Are most R&D activities not valid tax deductions? If they are, this should not significantly impact that.
How is that obviously fake? Are you saying every freshman at Yale, including international students, speaks and writes perfect English?
It's (apparently) common knowledge among reptile owners. That doesn't mean it's common knowledge among the particular scientists studying how to decompose plastics. Siloed knowledge will always be a problem (at least among humans. With omnipresent AI, that could change...).
I challenge all of those against this to learn what tax incidence is and how it applies to the corporate tax rate
CAS (Agile Spain Conference) Budget Explanation
Concealed carry provides a possible solution. Worked against train bandits in the 1800s and this is not much different.
I found that the "new" site looks reasonable with javascript completely disabled (i.e. turn it off in the browser settings). The problem appears to be when using a plugin to selectively restrict javascript (I use uMatrix) - in this case, the browser apparently doesn't interpret <noscript> tags. This is unfortunate, but I think its more of a bug/limitation in the script blocking plugins than a problem with your design.
...The owner of the vehicle and her boyfriend were sitting in the second-row seat...

Um, where was the driver? Did he/she flee the scene or something? Killed in the crash?
Van, not von.
> If you cannot help, I dont need your sarcasm.

This is not a productive way to talk to any community.
I also stopped using Uber and try to get my friends not to do the same.
Sooo, cover garbage dumps in caterpillars?
Financing innovation: creative destruction vs. destructive creation (2013)[pdf]
Extract from conclusion:

"The key problem is how to de-financialize real economy companies, and to find ways
that value creation activities (in both the financial sector and real economy) are
rewarded over value extraction activities. This will entail both finding and supporting
sources of finance that provide long-term committed patient capital, but also specific
policy mechanisms that limit the power of large shareholders, which has allowed
‘trading’ to be rewarded over ‘investment’ and also caused innovation-led growth (a
result of a collective process) to lead to a less collective, less equitable, highly unstable
economic structure." - M. Mazzucato (2013)
That's why I updated the question to prevent any more confusion.

Thanks-- plagiarism detection sounds like a good avenue to check out.
The debate is stupid because one side is taking an absolute position...

Look, I don't have a horse in this race, so let me tell you that, from the outside, it's not so clear which side is being more unreasonable. Or maybe it is.

Edit: just to add something tangible, you're misrepresenting others' position too much.
One of the arguments for lower corporate taxes is to move the taxation to the shareholders.
I'm 48 and use StackOverflow... not so much because I can't read tech books and docs, but because often times it's faster to at least get a lead (and to be fair, I'm usually using a search engine which in turn places StackOverflow answers towards the top of my result list). Also, if it's tech that I'm less familiar with, I'm often times looking for how others think about the issue I'm looking at which you often times don't get from documentation. Sometimes, I'm looking for contrary arguments if I've decided on an approach/usage but am less confident of my direction.

Now I do use my experience and knowledge to decide if I think any given answer on StackOverflow is likely to be "correct" in some sense (and by no means are all the answers, accepted or not, good all the time)... and there are occasions where I end up just going back to straight docs.

I have worked with other very smart over 40's (and over 50's) that do something similar to what I do with StackOverflow. I know none of us would take an online survey either.
I've run several businesses. I've never used fake testimonials, which is what I thought you'd done by reverse image searching the first picture.

I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions based on the first image!
I don't know if you're the guy, but what a crappy attitude.

Customer support was very professional, there's no reason to have that tone when talking to them, and it definitely won't make them feel like going beyond the minimum they have to do to help you out.

Regardless, this certainly doesn't make freelancer.com a scam. Just read their guidelines next time.
Doctors rely on software a lot to do their job. One day they may even be replaced by software.
I don't think you'd have an easy time getting one in Alameda County...
Can you speak more on the ATL tech scene? I've always been interested.
The Netherlands passed a law last year that requires all new car sales to be only electric cars starting 2020.
What data ?
I agree, but I think you lose that patience for reinvention in about year 6, not year 21. So, dealing with it becomes part of being a software developer. If you can't, you won't get to year 7.

And yes, there are more responsibilities with age, which means you also have to improve your time management. But, that's not unique to software developers. Waiting to see how new technology evolves before jumping on the band wagon is a good time management strategy for software developers.
HN probably doesn't need more culture war-baiting.
Did you read the article? It explains that there is a physical way to open the doors manually.
Shareholder's are investors, investors invest.
Not sure I follow this logic...

Do you expect everyone that rides in the back of your car to have read your owner's manual? I realize in this case they also happen to be the owners, but I don't think that's the point here.

Hiding a manual release BEHIND a speaker isn't exactly obvious. I have no opinion on if they deserve $1 million, but I do think Tesla needs take function over form in this case and make the manual override a lot easier to find.
7 ways you're doing innovation wrong
Soviet sci-fi: The future that never came (2016)
Paul Krugman on Tax Cuts: "Zombies of Voodoo Economics" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/opinion/zombies-of-voodoo...
They now confirm https://blog.hipchat.com/2017/04/24/hipchat-security-notice/
don't get sloppy about how you name things. this isn't "another name" for affirmation action. the correct name for it is patronage. Charles Kushner is a patron of Harvard and they gave his family a favor in exchange.