skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>programmers who code during their free time

for my sideprojects i use mostly C because it is easy and straightforward - you just write what you need without satisfying all the other requirements. At work it is Java, C++, Python.
Is undetectable ad blocking possible?
I'm not so sure if the neoclassical general equilbrium theory applies so aptly to social constructs. Interesting approach, and I guess it gets the author's point across..
> and slides it back and forth as the tab panel expands and goes back.

There's a "pin" button there that keeps it open. I know, this doesn't fix your problem, but I and everyone I've seen using it uses the pin button, and IMO it's a much better experience :) I've noticed that on most high-end laptops websites have way too much blank space on the side margins so pinning a useful tab bar in that space works fine.
It would be interesting to merge this data with GitHub commits.
It seems to me that this is a bridge between Redshift/S3, so you can join data from both sources. I believe Athena is S3 only
I case people didn't click through it is an awesome comment by the original author of the IE5 DOM Tree explaining how it was implemented.
I wasn't saying anything about demanding perfection. I was saying that talking to someone on the phone is the worst customer service experience in common use.

It is because I have empathy for the person on the other side that I'm angry at the corporation for making me have a conversation I really don't want to have. I am always nice to the person I speak to, despite being angry at the company they work for for wasting my time and making me interact with them in a way I really don't want to.

My anger is over the fact that I've been given​ no option but a phone call.
I'm reluctant to use new Google services because I'm afraid they will be abandoned (Buzz, Wave, Reader) or pivot into a new direction different than what I originally signed on for (Picasa).

But I think social networks have a life cycle. I still use Twitter, though it's changed a lot. I still use Instagram and Facebook, but new users just coming online in their teens or earlier, will likely choose something else. Existing social networks could support these new groups, but they want a new identity.

That said G+ was trash from the start. Shoving it down our throats didn't help.
I understand what you're saying and totally agree. However, I was under the impression that the parent poster was talking about the products, not the tools, due to the way that it was phrased regarding "foundations".
The problem is, most people won't work for a company long enough to see your hypothetical doomsday scenario (if it even does). The people who will be screwed are not likely the ones making the decisions today.
That's a super interesting stat. Do you have a source for it that I can use if I want to steal your quote?
Here's perhaps a better way to say what I'm getting at: identifying and investing with a manager that predictably outperforms a benchmark is just as difficult an intellectual challenge as constructing a portfolio that outperforms that same benchmark. Both of these tasks are so difficult as to be essentially impossible for an unsophisticated retail investor.
"what is a company to do today if it finds itself part of the 71 percent of employers that claim they can't find suitable technology candidates?"

Increase the salary of what you are paying in order to attract more qualified devs.

"they're reinvesting the money saved from hiring less-expensive engineers to create "farm teams" within their organizations"

Aha! It is not about being able to "find suitable technology candidates" it is about being able to acquire "less-expensive engineers"

Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of companies investing in apprenticeship programs but let's call it what it is. Not a talent shortage but a willing to pay top dollar shortage.
This appears to be Amazon Athena / Presto, embedded into Redshift. The syntax for CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE is exactly the same, and the supported file formats and compression encodings are a subset of Athena. The big advantage of an approach like this versus running Redshift and Athena separately is that you can write a single query that joins data stored in Redshift with data stored in Athena.
You can right click the tab and "Mute Tab" without having to enable anything in the flags.
Containers are awesome and very easy to use compared to profiles.

I'm guessing that Chrome might not want to make such a powerful pro-privacy feature available to the masses, so this could be a good way for Firefox to distinguish itself.
This is probably because both are symptoms or at best syndromes instead of diseases.
Wikipedia is a non-profit and is thus distinctly different from Facebook. Non-profit organization enjoy many benefits like better taxes, but it's not seen as a slippery slope risk. The distinct line between for-profit and non-profit allows for some inequalities between organizations.

You can give tax exemptions to Wikipedia but not Facebook. Why then not also zero rate Wikipedia but not Facebook?
Never made sense to me, but that's fine. What's not fine is how it injected itself into my life: must have G+ profile to do things like comment on Youtube. That's a big FU. OK enable it and now I get a bunch of crap notifications from people I do not want to be in contact with. It behaves like social malware.

Even disabled, this asinine concept still exists in Gmail. On the left side UI, top part has Compose, Inbox, Sent Mail; and on the bottom are chats. About in the middle is my name, to the right is a + icon. Click that then search. Why in the fucking fuck fuck fuck does it show me people who are not in my contacts? It shows me people all over the fucking world, but won't show people in my fucking contacts. WHAT THE FUCK?

Google+ makes me irrationally angry. Still.
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Hello and Welcome. Thank you for bringing visibility to our little Class C and collection of machines with most interaction below port :80. The spotlight has been a lot of fun and we have already met many new and interesting people.
I wanted to let folks know that if you end up on irc.sdf.org or in 'com' you are welcome to ask to be validated by any MetaARPA member. See ya in the shell ;SMJ
What makes indexing worse in the short term?
Guile 2.2.1 released, includes sandboxed execution support
Lambda is a good example. You can't pick up and move a lambda solution to another provider without significant overhead, the lock in. Architecturely, migrating a lambda to another compute platform shouldn't be too difficult if its structured well and functionally, but it's still work that would need to be done.
I though MS was pushing towards F#. Is there any indication they plan to focus more on one or the other?
Bas Rutten interview
That's fairly nice now Firefox extensions stopped working in Firefox.
What would you think about a system where a major institution (e.g. Vanguard) holds index funds, but the shareholder voting for each company in those funds is done by a different in-house team whose compensation is tied to the performance of that particular company? (More realistically, you'd just need a different team for each company in a given industry, but one team could vote for multiple companies that don't compete with each other.) It's "passive investing with active shareholder governance" in the sense that only voting, not dollars, are actively directed.
Ask HN: Defending against browser fingerprinting?
I don't want to turn off Javascript and I don't want to use Tor as my daily driver. I was thinking that if there were a browser extension that forged values then it would solve the make-me-less-unique problem if many people use it. Would anyone use this? Is there a better way?
More docs on the sandboxed execution stuff: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Sandboxe...

Includes a great quote:

> Sometimes you would like to evaluate code that comes from an untrusted party. The safest way to do this is to buy a new computer, evaluate the code on that computer, then throw the machine away. However if you are unwilling to take this simple approach, Guile does include a limited “sandbox” facility that can allow untrusted code to be evaluated with some confidence.
This is true and I totally adhere to it, but, I also think sometimes it's useful to choose the latest and greatest not for the technical aspect, but to attract good devs to work for you.
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Precautionary principle is good, except when it harms people. We need to strike the balance here.

The drugs prescribed typically have been pretty well researched for the current lousy state of neuroscience. Including reasonably good long term trials. This is why we know side effects among other things.

Few other treatments have good evidence of efficacy, much less safety.

Lack of treatment also has a pretty well known side effect profile.

Everything is a risk, including doing nothing, medicating, using placebo, being subject to just a specific kind of therapy or combination or not etc.
This is no patch. This is a hack. This is the bypassing of a DRM protocol, an undoing of an antifeature and part of the ongoing war. I await the MS counterattack.
At a glance, this seems very similar to functionality that has existed in Azure for a very long time (templates in multiple languages, automated build and deployment, monitoring). Not sure why Azure gets so little love here on HN!

I don't mean to knock it, it's great to see this functionality make it to AWS, I was just wondering if there were any significant differences to Azure's offering?
Because we get paid a lot. The reward/cost ratio for studying for interviews is very high.
Almost. I think the concept inside many people's heads is simplified to the degree that it doesn't even need to describe a curve. A simple step function, for example (the simplest in this case being if you make less than $X, you pay nothing, otherwise Y%). In that manner, the concept is not approximating the curve, the curve is approximating the concept.
I'm having some trouble parsing your sentence, and do I don't know anything about when/where you grew up that would allow me discuss this in context. This doesn't seem like the place to do a review of the history of race relations in the US, which is a large and complex subject.
I think the ambiguity is between productivity as a result of feeling compelled to work, versus productivity as a result of being more competent.

I think people confound competency into the so-called "marriage penalty" and think along the lines of "more competent workers are more suitable mates and therefore more likely to be married".

But I think it's more likely the increased productivity (if there is any, as there are clearly countervailing forces) is a result of being compelled to work harder because there's a family to support.

So it's not at all clear to me that there's some positive signal to employers from being married. Certainly in the end the married guys get paid a lot more though!
Unless you're working in the embedded space, there's no reason to not write your C project to target whatever arch is the most debug-friendly first, and then just port it to the system it's "for" at the end.
> whatever I think or have to offer has already been said

I've only been on HN for about six months now, but from what I have seen in this short time, I wouldn't let "fear" of saying something or posting something you think has already been done stop you.

Case in point: Your first posting. Look at the attention it has gotten. I enjoyed it, and others have enjoyed it. But guess what?

In my short time here I've seen other similar projects posted - and that's not anything against you or them! Ultimately, it's how we all learn from each other, and you shouldn't let prior work stop you from posting - there may be a nugget of new work or something else interesting about it that makes it worthwhile.

For instance, while your project isn't the first of its kind, I do think it may be one of the first to be done in OpenAI's GTA V universe system; even if not, it's one of the few that have been posted here - so it's relatively "fresh".

Just my observations, of course - and thank you for posting!
Well, that's disappointing.
Hmm, you are missing the big picture.

AWS needs these to prevent other players encroach their ecosystem. The higher the upper-stack offerings in the tech stack, the lower the quality is requires to be dominant. But the ecosystem will secure the customers.

It's not that you cannot beat AWS in one or two offerings, but you cannot beat them as an ecosystem.
Kudos for honestly acknowledging your insecurities, and not angrily lashing out at Amazon. If you really feel that DevOps is a dead-end career choice, I hope you consider a lateral move to a different ladder, such as the SW-Dev ladder. As someone who made a similar transition a few years ago, I know how scary and difficult it must seem, and how much it hurts to go from a senior role to a junior role. But speaking as someone who's now a few years into my new role, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The long term benefits easily outweigh any short term switching costs.
I remember when ruby was the hot tech a few years ago, frowned upon by conservative developers. I learnt ruby back then. I'm glad ruby is now recognized as a more mature ecosystem that does things well, even though it is one of the boring technologies now.
A common practice among Sony shooters is to adapt Canon/Nikon glass to the Sony body if Sony glass doesn't cover a shot. Auto Focus takes a small to complete hit when this happens but it is less of an issue for stills than video.
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Germany has a split education system, where only college-bound students attend what we would call "high school" in the US. Others attend what are essentially trade schools, with strong industry ties and apprenticeship programs.
When is it coming to Linux? And is it going to use Vulkan eventually?
You can just re-structure your post and make it a blog article :)
Sony uses a mirrorless specific format with the lens mount closer to the focal plane than would be possible with a DSLR. This has some nice benefits for the optical design; you're removing a constraint that happens to be particularly painful for image quality.

For many decades this was the big advantage of rangefinders such as the Leica M.

For Canon or Nikon to do the same it would mean re-releasing their entire line (or duplicating it). Canon kind of doing this with their EOS-M series but they only have a few low-end lenses available. Lenses product cycles are measured in decades, so this is a massive undertaking.

Sony was never successful in the DSLR business and they have a much smaller library of lenses so it makes sense that they are abandoning it completely.
Well, it's just my personal impression. I'm not saying it's a majority, but there are a lot of trans people in the tech community. So if you want to make statistics, I think you should take that into account, and not pretend that they don't matter.
Or even embrace remote working. I know it's not for everyone, but it does work for many.
You think I covered all the evidence in my forum post?

Yes there are many question left, but right now there is evidence in non-human primates and rodents with causal experimental models, and in humans differences in brain morphology and intellectual disability are associated with increased levels of maternal cytokines and chemokines during gestation in humans. Of course, it would be unethical to do random assignment in humans to a condition causing a large cytokine response in mothers.

As far as treatment that is a difficult question. Active filtration might be a possibility. In any case, there is more of a possibility here for prevention than gene therapy, imo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-...

personally i somewhat agree with you. watercoolers like drudge report, techmeme, aldaily, redef show everyone the same page, not some regurgitation of their past. you experience new things by being shown something other than timehop.
> The advantage of no having vibration or rolling shutter or silent operation, will eventually drive people to mirrorless systems.

Those are mostly advantages of shutterless systems (which DSLRs can be and some have been, though sensor quality issues made them niche and actually mitigated some of the advantages; shutterless cameras historically have still had rolling shutter effects, especially at "shutter speeds" higher than those current DSLR mechanical shutters operate at, which is why those shutter speeds are used), except the vibration one is affected by both mirror and shutter (though DSLRs already have mirror lock-in to address the mirror impact.) Also, mirrorless has battery impacts compared to DSLR.

So what this says to me is that, if the sensor is really qualitatively good enough to allow this without the problems shutterless cameras have faced before, Sony has a sensor technology lead that will give them a better market position. But assuming everyone else catches up on sensors, DSLRs aren't what is in trouble, its mechanical shutters that are doomed.
The team saw your complaint and supplied an updated graphic, which is now in the post...
Well then I'm 20 and a square. "Bro talk" isn't 'hip', it's just a way certain types/groups of people talk (frat bros / gym bros). It routinely gets mocked by people my age.
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Yea, I don't really understand why tech companies don't just do this with the hundreds of qualified candidates who have 4 year degrees and actual work experience that they say no to.

My guess is that it's another way to hire people who don't know what they're worth and underpay them for a few years until the employees figure it out. Kind of like what the industry already does with new grads.
Where have all the devops gone?
And they get to keep the wages low!
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Not really the right term IMHO. Instead of calling a return which implies ROI, it's a discount. If you did sell it at the higher price and notwithstanding taxes, overhead of inventory management, other costs and your make 27% then it's ROI.

Isn't that how it always works at Costco? If you buy in bulk - you save.
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It is indirectly referenced near the bottom of the page, with a pointer to http://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html, which references http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook20...
HA! Fighting physics and fundamental limits of engineering don't exactly follow annual release cycles. You can't assemble the world's smartest physicists, pay them the GDP of Greece and demand a "Theory of relativity" every September.

Apple integrating the sensor into the screen should not be a barometer of "innovation".
It is definitely an endorsement that it is ready, although maybe not we-search-code-monkeys ready.

A large part of our jobs is figuring things out.

People looking for so-called production-grade tech are usually looking for ready-for-managers tech in my experience.
Nah, I disagree... my Windows 10 - 8 inch tablet is pretty terrible for proper applications. I can get by in a pinch, but much prefer a proper laptop. I also don't want to put anything larger than the S8+ in my pockets.
My ideal world would be when people stop being offended by silly stuff. But watching university protests and safe spaces makes me realise this ideal world no longer exists.
I think most people in the middle class or lower have debt rather than savings so they directly benefit from inflation (while also being directly hit by inflation in terms of purchasing power)
Logically even if the EMH is false that doesn't necessarily imply the existence of investment managers who can reliably identify mispriced securities. It's entirely possible that the EMH is false and yet no one is able to take advantage of that. But your recommendation makes sense either way.
Is Windows 7 abandonware to Microsoft? If so then this violation of terms might just fly under the radar of their massive team of lawyers.
You claim that Vanguard doesn't care about corporate governance, but that doesn't match their voting record.

For instance, at the 2016 Alphabet meeting, they voted for Alphabet shareholders having one vote per share and adoption of a majority vote for election of the board. Those are the very core corporate governance oddities that Alphabet is using to allow the founders and Eric Schmidt to have total control of the company and Vanguard voted their shares towards better governance.

Obviously, since Eric Schmidt and the founders have the majority of the votes, these didn't pass, but they voted the way you would have liked and against management.
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The history of science is also the history of human resistance to change in conflict with science. So are we really seeing anything new with respect to human beliefs conflicting with modern science? Or are we simply experiencing the same challenges with a new face due to how technology has helped us transmit and share ideas so quickly and easily?
I wish it supported Golang
I think we're seeing faster innovation in certain areas (software, mostly), but much slower in others (material science, medicine, sensors, transportation). Remember that line in The Graduate (1967) - "I want to say one word to you: Plastics." You get a new Javascript framework every 6 months, but the last major materials to gain consumer adoption were carbon fiber & titanium in the 80s.

The post-war years saw rapid consumer adoption of lots of technologies initially developed in the 20s and 30s but forced into rapid adoption by WW2: radar, sonar, aviation, refrigeration, antibiotics, nuclear energy, microwaves, air conditioners, interstate highways, computers, aluminum, plastics, synthetic rubber, rocketry, and then later the offshoots of rocketry & computers (GPS, software, and the Internet). That last wave is petering out now.

There is evidence that a huge new wave is incubating now, with 3D printing, drones, telecommuting, cheap satellite launches, mesh networking, solar and wind energy, and more far-out technologies like carbon nanotubes, memristors, and solid-state batteries. But all of these technologies will need sustained R&D expenditures to get to a robustness & price point level that makes them suitable for consumer applications.
I can imagine they're also investigating this because they're bad at hiring hidden/under-valued people for normal positions.

Maybe they're also discovering they get the best signal from actually working together on real projects.
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Or even worse, something HIPPA protected. They could be in for a world of hurt here.
they outsource plenty of jobs to India though.
Because 1) it's seen as juvenile at best and 2) seen as off-putting towards non-bro people (specifically, women) who aren't in the "in-group". It has nothing to do with insulting frats, just that particular language which is "frat-ish".

Does this matter in personal open-source projects? Not really, forking is a thing. When working with others / at a job, sure.
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I assume you're wondering if the "high quality" part is serious. The fact is, they do generally make good quality products. They may be overpriced for what they are (the "Bose tax"), but they're still good quality. Their current noise canceling headphones are considered among, if not the, best ones available right now.
Just for reference, how many people has capitalism "objectively" kill?
Any advice on how to transition from a day programming job to contracting? Any useful resources? Where to find contracting jobs/ through agency or directly approaching clients?