skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a parent, that mother's story is horrific. I couldn't imagine the pain of something like that. Not just because her son died, but there's no way she doesn't somehow blame herself for how he turned out (as I know I would).

Moving one, there's is something to be said for the effect of expectations. The data shows that you don't see the same levels of mortality rise in any other population. Simply put, us minorities don't have a false narrative of the American dream instilled in us and therefore don't expect to achieve it. We don't experience suicidal disappointment in ending up in a dead end job because our role models (parents grandparents) are statistically likely to have held those kind of jobs.

Personally I hate "white privilege" as a trope, but it does speak to something real: minorities, until very recently, were largely locked out of the American dream (as white people know it). The wealth of white households was 13 times the median wealth of black households and 10 times the wealth of hispanic households[1]. Numbers don't get like that over night. They are the result of generations of discrimination and institutional systems designed to exclude and screw with people that were not white. The point I'm making is that the average white person today probably doesn't even realize that, relative to other groups, their expectation of what a "nice" life is is basically seen as unattainable for others. Hence, we (POC) don't kill ourselves because we failed to reach the unattainable.

As the economy, and society, has diminished the ability for many whites (especially in rural areas) to take vantage of their "privilege" and they're forced to play the same game as the rest of us, they find themselves feeling like failures right out the gate and aren't quite sure why - hence the anxiety and subsequently despair.

The answer to this is not that white folks "check their privilege" - although it would help to stop being in denial about it and the effects it has on them and their expectations. The answer is to realize that rugged individualism is just a myth. In no other culture is this myth so central, and now so damaging. Despite what their parents and grandparents, and TV shows and movies have taught them, their relative success is not due to how much tougher they are than other folks and America is not, and has never been a meritocracy.

At this point, white America can continue to believe this rubbish at their own peril. Support policies that acknowledge people need other people and we will, evidently, kill ourselves if we go at everything alone as "rugged indivduals" unless the game is rigged in our favor (even if we don't realize it).

1: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealt...
For them, sure, the idea is surely interesting. But for the end-user? Why would anyone go for this over just ..buying a bottle of juice? It doesn't sound like this would be freshly pressed or anything, just from a weird container.
And Twitter shows the consequences of just ordering by time posted
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I thought I'd bring it up.

Communication, communication, communication. I'll say it again, communication.

When it gets time to hiring someone to take over the day to day handling of your clients support needs and/or sales inquiries. I suggest you get someone who is very knowledgable about your product and who is interested in converting every single lead into a sale.

This will mean the difference in your business making money or not.

I'm starting a venture and I have many vendors. I must have spoken to 50 potential vendors across many different markets and there are so many sales and support people who are utterly clueless about their company and product. Who go above and beyond telling a potential customer to pound sand. Sometimes I am speechless in the service that I have had with some companies.

In fact, a few times I've actually had to use the nuclear option, which btw I hate. I've had to find the CEO's email and contact them directly. This always made the difference in the connection.

When I have had to do this, it always it went from the support person detailing reasons why the business can't do "that" and that they supposedly pushed it up the chain or spoken with colleagues and it's just not possible to accept my request.

After emailing directly with the CEO, who then forwards the communication to a senior manager and the issue gets resolved quickly.

In fact, I have a beauty of communication which I may one day publish on Medium. Which outlines the how someone went above and beyond not to win my business. I'll be framing this email in my office for sure!

Other great examples are when I am trying to clarify a question and highlighting something in a faq or a webpage and then I get that url link right back at me with the same quote. As if they are copying and pasting me wording from a support document. Which quickly leads me to believe VA's are handling the support and they immediately lose my interest.

Finally, the best ones are when on the vendors side, the communication goes cold. That they just are not interested in getting back to you. Which I can't understand. I want to give them lots of money!

Don't be one of these companies. One lesson I have learnt in the past. Is that if someone approaches you to make money, don't immediately turn them down. Even if they can't help you right now. They may do in the future and it may be really beneficial to both parties then!
Chill breh, a lot of devs in SV were college fratboys. I don't see anything wrong with their vernacular leaking into development. You act like being in a frat is an insult.

I don't think people should have to stick to any "business speak" when working on open source software. You're doing it for fun, and for free, who cares?
I wrote a 3D mesh reconstruction algorithm using feature point extraction in Haskell. The hardest part was graph algorithms since those can be pretty tricky to express in functional languages. But Even with 3D output to OpenGL, image loading and manipulation, etc.. I never touched a monad transformer. I think you are trying too hard. Just embrace IO for the effects and move everything else to pure code.
Brilliant, couldn't have been said better.
Correct, if it has meaningful storage on the headphones - anyone know if that's the case?

In any case, I would encourage everyone to delete the app at this point.
> and it actually results

Big if there...
Facebook skin listening project inspired by Braille and Tadoma
Why isn't PureComponent just default?
The scariest part of this is that the precedent is still holding... Could the government in the future apply this more?
Damn son shit just got real
AFAICT even the "chronological" view is not chronological. I don't know -- I switched over to mbasic.facebook.com because it works without JavaScript -- but I remember posts randomly appearing and disappearing.
There is such a vast difference between someone "not academic in the slightest" and someone who is actively limited by severe learning disabilities. I'm sure you mean well by this statement, but I feel like it leads to the attitude that even the disabled just aren't trying hard enough, and if they'd only pull themselves up by their bootstraps the problems in the article would go away.

I find it borderline condescending that so many comments below are just handwaving this as "he should just be a plumber!" as if plumbers don't need to take training classes or remember specific technical details. If you're reading this thread and wondering why manual trades are undervalued in the US and also suggesting gp's son become an electrician, you're part of the problem.

>despite putting forth his best effort because he simply can't remember anything

Acting like this person should apprentice as a programmer as some have suggested is wishing the problem away.
The bitness choice (and that entire screenshotted dialog) is only present if you select "Advanced Options" in the bottom left of the installer's first screen, it's not something that we force every user through.
Ha, what unexpected Rickroll! :D
> their AF systems are not as fast as the type used in DSLRs

Heh, my Canon 600D's autofocus is EXTREMELY slow D:
lol. They do, "college league" and "acquisitions league."
Ethernet provides (close to) the advertised bandwidth without any fuss and is compatible with everything. Contrast with the others you listed.
I still log in about twice a week to check on the two interesting guys (both Linux devs) who post on there :)

This is actually more often than I log in to Facebook because I get more interesting content from those two guys than I do from my friends and family.
Empirically, it's more secure over the whole user population than user passwords.
Doesn't work with Office 365 accounts yet. It will be a great addition once it's available.
I have to agree. Rails is so much more productive now that the cowboys are gone... they're all writing node.js now snicker
Do you have any code examples using this pattern?
My Big Brother Caught the Fresno Killer (alleged)
We need in-page javascript popup blockers like we needed normal popup blockers 14 years ago.
I'm sure I'll get down voted for this comment but yes, I actually do think this result is available to everyone willing to work hard but not the only reason.

The town I grew up in was very polarizing. We had both extreme wealth and extreme poor. As a retrospective, we had very equal opportunities from all income brackets. There were wealthy kids who had huge success but many others who fizzled out and didn't do anything. Some ended up with extensive criminal records.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, some of the extremely poor kids I grew up with could barely afford ramen as a family. Some ended up drug dealing and in jail, others ended up with massive success.

There were a few key attributes that I think determined success vs. failure for all wealth brackets. We had some very key teachers in shop classes who encouraged folks who didn't think they could go to college to specialize in trade skills. Those who took it seriously and worked hard at it are largely stable or well off. Those who didn't fizzled out.

Obviously this is all anecdotal as it was one graduating class in one city in one state. However, in my own experience the desire to work hard dictates much of the success of an individual. It would be foolish to say that it is the ONLY thing contributing to success but I believe that it is a large portion of it.

Also, that word "lucky" drives me nuts but I'll save that for another time :)
The EOS M6 has an APS-C sensor. In fact, it has the same sensor as M5.
Oh, you're preaching to the choir, friend. I very intentionally try to stay with modern trends, and evangelize to my fellow Ops people to do the same in order to continue providing value. The job description changes almost year to year anymore, and I'm fine with that. The source of my concern, which is maybe the wrong word, is that tooling is becoming so great that it's starting to look like I may not be needed on the bleeding edge at all!

I love this stuff. I deeply enjoy watching technology develop and become more efficient. This feeling is something akin to watching your kid drive off to college: I'm probably not needed as much anymore, but I'm pretty excited to see how far it has all come. That doesn't mean there isn't a selfish pang of nostalgia for how things once were (and a little bit of existential fear for my future financial wellbeing).
Common man, not another todo app....please.. Bytheway what about wunderlist...

Anyway I hope they integrate this with onenote, a way to set reminders in onenote would make it perfect.
You'll know Apple blew it when it makes a fingerprint dongle
This is not BigQuery.
> I'd recommend just making yourself pick up a project, and run with it. Try not to over think it, and if you start to feel paralyzed, just say "fuck it, I'll do it the first, shittiest way that comes to mind."

I tried that. When I got stuck (fairly early on), I ended up switching my project from Haskell to Clojure :/
Indeed. I don't know anyone whose life is where they want it to be. Certainly not me.
Strings, integers, etc
You aren't actually disagreeing with him. He's pointing out what's happening, and you're arguing that it's bad. Those two positions aren't opposed in any way.
Gendered terms have been shown to be exclusive

..in certain contexts, where maximum inclusivity is the actual goal, if not the law.

Why is maximum inclusivity the goal here, again? Why must it be?

My earlier assessment appears to be correct. No person can be pointed to that actually feels excluded by this, and so all this sturm und drang is about hypothetical straw people.

This conversation is no longer interesting.
This site is really cool! I work on browsers and often need to test things in IE (to see how behavior of a web feature differs across browsers) and hate booting up VMs :)
I have a Braun MP32, bought by my parents when I was born. The thing works fine. Parts are still available, as are the machines (2nd hand but who cares?).

http://www.dasprogramm.org/electrical/household/braun-multip...

http://www.ebay.de/bhp/braun-mp-32
The thing is, I think it's the only real way to achieve anything of lasting impact.

There will always be ways to exploit various systems, you can only react, not prevent in those cases. Because of entropy, complexity is always increasing. It means that not only are the problems going to be getting harder to address individually but that new problems and systems will be created at an exponentially increasing rate. Those problems are superficial in nature and more like symptoms in any case, than real causes. You have to address the root of the problem and that is human nature. Instead of chopping of the heads of a hydra, shoot in in the heart or something.

As long as politics can play on emotions, people will be liable to act irrationally and thereby manipulated.
Hate to pile on, but this was my reaction as well. If this were an article written today about someone losing their patience with MySpace it would only be very slightly more confusing.

FWIW, I really liked Google+ at release and had hoped it would become popular, but the platform's inability to achieve anything close to a critical mass with mainstream users doomed me to continue using Facebook as my "stay in touch with friends/relatives who live far away" platform and I haven't given google plus a fully formed conscious thought in years.
Well, I have just studied this, from Landau's Mechanika:

"It is easy to see that the mass of a particle cannot be negative. For, according to the principle of least action, the integral

\[ S=\int_1^2 \frac{1}{2} m v^2 dt \]

has a minimum for the actual motion of the particle in space from point 1 to point 2. If the mass were negative, the action integral would take arbitrarily large negative values for a motion in which the particle rapidly left point 1 and rapidly approached point 2, and there would be no minimum."

Isn't Hamilton's principle also valid in quantum mechanics?
Here we talk about social networks and I need advice. We combine search engine and social network, on Bubblehunt you can create own search system for bookmarks and other resources, but we using Twitter and Facebook for authentification. How you feel - it's right way? Or we need think about Reddit model?
I disagree completely. It was a good step, copied directly from the Facebook (and earlier: Usenet) playbook, and created a group that others wanted to get in to and join.

That invite-only mode should have lasted far longer -- 3, 6, 18 months.

Work out the kinks. Especially the kinks involved in scaling the system from its earlier 18 months or so of internal-only usage, where your criticisms were read by someone with hire/fire authority over you, to a limited but public context, where not everyone is friends, you can't fire the critics, and it's not just Job, but Life that matters.

I've long noted that FB started as, literally, Harvard, and expanded gradually out over a set of selective universities over about a year and a half.

The result was to create an in group with tremendous cachet, which Facebook capitalised on for years afterward.

I'm glad to find others have realised this, including danah boyd who mentiones that specific point in several of her own research papers.
I don't find it offensive, but I did find it quite annoying, likewise "Wat?" and "AF", and I thought to myself that it was a shame that what appears to be a useful tool had a README littered with this twee, cliquey stuff that I find somewhere between boring, irrelevant, and annoying, and certainly never funny. I don't know if I'm a square, yet, but I'm definitely a curmudgeon, especially when I'm hungry.

(As a passing observation, I might also add that any conversation which features the magical expression "virtue signalling" is unlikely ever to be a valuable one.)
They actually at least make an attempt to explain the hosting environment differences from inside CodeStar:

Elastic Beanstalk: Runs in a managed application environment

EC2: runs on virtual servers that you manage

Lamba: running serverless

From here:
https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2017/AWS%20CodeStar...
I think it's a big deal for important stuff like banks and email but for most stuff I don't mind if it's tied to a physical object. Interestingly, my house is secured by a physical object (the key) and it seems sufficient.
I'm not buying the article's premise, i.e. that pay is determined by productivity or its fascimile. As a counter-hypothesis, I offer the following:

Men are selected / promoted / rewarded based on reliability, women on desirability.

By reliability, I don't mean something mechanical such as defects per million, but closer in meaning to political reliability -- the tendency to adhere to norms and expectations.

By desirability, I don't mean attractiveness, though that might form the largest component, but also availability (would she like me if our situation were a little different?)
true but still why race issues i grew up with many different cultural backgrounds and ethnicities never had issues nor today. is it about misunderstandings or learned and/or brought up that way or trully just the news.
Could you run GTA5 and a CNN at the same time? I think that would fry your GPU.
Image featurization with a pre-trained deep neural network model
I still reject the idea that someone who is interested and good at cooking should be discouraged from it because they're likely to end up in a 'stupid job,' as you aver. I'd be more cautious about encouraging someone to pursue it now that kitchen automation is on the horizon, but aspiring to be a chef or run a diner or some other food-related employment used to be a perfectly valid career choice.

Every job can theoretically be automated away. Yesterday I was thinking about someone I knew who specialized in detecting detecting cancer on biopsy slides (I forget the technical term for her job). Last time I saw that person was 15 years ago and I was musing on the fact that her job as she described it then may well have been taken over by machine learning since, or will be soon if not. Did her teachers and family do her a terrible disservice by not telling her to get into a line of work that would be harder to automate? Probably not.

I'm arguing that we need a different approach as a society to choosing jobs based on an assumption of remorselessly increasing technological efficiency and cutthroat competition. This hyper-Darwinian approach to employment, productivity, and economic decision-making is reducing the quality of life for an increasingly large number of people, and at some point they are going to get tired of holding up the pyramid from which more fortunate people self-righteously piss down upon them.
Firefox and Chrome shipped it today: http://caniuse.com/#feat=flow-root

...and now begins the indeterminate wait for Edge and Safari :)
There was a time when Ruby was "the cool exotic and unproductive technology". A lot of wheels had to be reinvented (and new ones added) before it became what it is today, there is nothing special about it.

All mature technology will come with a known set of tools and processes to tackle almost any problem very quickly, as long as you're familiar enough with the stack.
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Thanks.

What's the default if you don't select "Advanced Options", btw?
The image buffer is 241 pictures so it'd be about 12 seconds of recording at 20FPS.
It's mostly college fraternity/sorority subculture which is pretty unique to the US. A lot of people hate college fraternities for whatever reasons and that hate sometimes extends to their language.

Ironically, it's used within fraternities all the time as a self parody. I was in one for years and never heard anyone say it in a serious matter. Essentially fraternities use it to troll people that already dislike the subculture.
From the blog post, it's very unclear what the positioning is between Redshift Spectrum and Athena.
A video goes a long way.

As long as there is a text with pictures for weird video adverse engineers like me.

I actively avoid videos.
A few reasons:

- PureComponent was only added relatively recently.

- While shallow equality comparisons are relatively fast compared to deep equality comparisons, they still burn CPU. There's also a number of reasons why props could have changed, such as object literals being declared in the parent's `render` method, or the component receiving other components via `props.children`. In those cases, the "pure" comparison will fail every time, and be useless.

- There is no "default" per se. Application components explicitly extend a React component base class - either React.Component, or React.PureComponent.
There's a Windows Phone app. The Windows app is UWP and it looks like it runs on Windows Phone (from the screenshots provided in the Windows Store).

For whatever reason it's named Project Cheshire and not Microsoft To-Do in the store.
Naively, there's nothing forcing these developers to chase that leak into the night, rather than into the next work-day.

But I do wonder whether some languages have debugging problems that require "keeping more state" to solve them than others, such that the developers doing debugging in those languages would rather forge ahead and finish, than drop it and pick it back up the next day. That'd be an interesting thing to measure.

It'd also be interesting if some languages attract certain developers, because the attention-span and "mental stack size" the language designers assumed for the language, feel better suited to them. Maybe there are languages better for people who can juggle many or few facts at once; languages better for people who can hold three screens of text in their head, or who prefer to only have to think about one line at a time; etc?
Amazon is doing ok though.
Me too? 3rd times the charm?
How is this different from having 'entry level positions' (ones that don't require 5 yrs of experience)?
Introducing Microsoft R Server 9.1 release
I use CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline.

I admit, it wasn't the easiest thing to setup. But its nice. When I commit my changes to my mainline, it deploys the code to the host and configures everything for me, and keeps all my hosts up to date.

Coworker uses it all to kick off lambda functions.

CodeCommit is just a basic Git setup, so nothing special. But working with CodeDeploy and Pipelines is ok. I wouldn't say its much better or worst than other products, and you can use them to deploy to non-aws environments also.

I don't know, I can't really sell it well. It does what it does, and it works well enough for me.
Another resource: http://www.chesscademy.com

Has a step by step tutorial from scratch, videos and interactive exercises.
Depends on market factors. Supply and demand and all that. AWS has created a situation where, from the consumer POV, they have infinite supply to meet whatever demand. Or maybe there is just so much slack in a data center system that it feels that way.

The real question is what does the cloud platform future look like when that slack goes away, but I think we're pretty far from that reality.