skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the objective of the OP, my single most important piece of advice is: And may I have the envelope please? And the nominees are, work harder, improve your knowledge and skills relevant to the job, get noticed by the C-level people, come in early and leave late, and play politics. And the winner is [drum roll, please] by a wide margin

Play politics.

For more, usually assume that your direct supervisor does not want you to do more or better because that might get you promoted over him. Instead, he wants you to do not very well. Then he can have an excuse to fire you. Then he can argue that he has to pay your better replacement more, and then, since the supervisor gets paid at least 15% more than his highest paid subordinate, the supervisor gets paid more. And he is sure to hire someone, really, less good than the one he fired. Really, what the supervisor wants as subordinates is a lot of people who can't challenge him and, from their large number and relatively high salaries, get him paid more.

For more, there may be some cliques; join them and appear to be loyal to them.

A lot of the advice in the OP will scare your supervisor and cause him to try to get rid of you.

Net, play politics.

For one step more, the politics you are playing is well known in the literature of public administration, organizational behavior, and sociology and is called goal subordination where the workers subordinate the goals of the organization to their own goals.

Goal subordination is common in middle management in an organization big enough to have several levels of management. There commonly a middle manager wants to arrange that his position is relatively well paid and stable. To this end he wants to build an empire of subordinates who will not challenge him. The middle manager gets paid more because of his relatively large number of subordinates.

In a lot of medium to large organizations, an employee who is a star gets attacked. E.g., an employee A who sells more makes the other employees look bad, and they can retaliate by sabotaging employee A.

E.g., in a research university, never tell the others how your research is going. Instead, say nothing until the corresponding papers are PUBLISHED -- then it is too late for the others to sabotage the research, e.g., cause you to waste time by constantly dropping by your office to talk, putting you on silly committees, assigning you new courses to teach where you have to do new preparations, etc.

Net, instead of working to make the organization more successful, it is super common to replace reality with easier to do/defend processes and to fight with others in the company, especially just down the hall.
I agree that these are the same skills. Outside of the programming context I would not call it debugging but rather just rationality or problem-solving. Some call it the scientific method, though that's not exactly the same thing.

In the debugging context there are some more specific applications of the general principles, which should also be taught.
Wouldn't it be nice if those "rich residents" focused on fixing their driveways instead of forcing everyone around them to alter their way of life?
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After the city put in a speed limit sign with radar that shows speed, kids put up a high score list under the signs. I thought it was hilarious and scary.
I heartily agree. You might also want to read:

http://scribblethink.org/Work/kcsest.pdf

http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html

I don't know why this isn't a standard belief.
Extreme premature births are the leading cause of infant mortality in the US. Even if the infant survives, they often have incredibly complex consequences that cause lifelong issues because, e.g. the lungs have not fully developed but are required to be used after birth.

It's possible that keeping extremely premature infants in an 'artificial uterus' could decrease some of these complications, especially those related to respiration.
Thanks! I went through ~8 years ago when there weren't any SE focused licenses. Hadn't heard that anything had changed. Will take a run at this if it isn't too expensive.
So what happens when you fight exploitation successfully, and every employee now costs their employer 3x more than the employee's salary to pay for better health insurance, EI, etc? I don't see why it makes sense to keep any jobs in North America if employers can avoid it.

"Don't ask what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
"real engineer" here. Computer Engineer freshly graduated from GT and looking for a job in embedded devices. I can tell you on the other side of the coin it's also annoying to be muddling through a sea of software "engineering" jobs to actually find one for an entry level engineer. I believe the problem is that software engineering started as a buzzword then got its degree paths. Also I am under the impression your curricula is nowhere near as rigorous as required for engineering.

I have been on HN since the beginning of my studies and after a decade of lurking I have made an account. If anyone is hiring CE's or would like to help me out of the good of their heart please PM me. I have had a tough time landing an entry job since medical reasons extended my college time to 7 years.
You need to look into mutation testing. Pitest is a great tool for java
I presume because the author was more familiar and experienced with C++.
Remorse for what?
Won't let me edit, but thank you - I had no idea!
Where have I disputed that it is a restricted title in some jurisdictions?
Shameless plug here, but if you were using Hackpad for meeting notes, links, code snippets and other short work notes, you should give https://memo.ai a try!

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Hi Benjamin. I'm curious about how you found the move from Oxford to SV. Was it good? I'm a Brit considering moving.
It's definitely true in my experience, or rather that those people drive at 5-10mph slower. This problem is exasperated in those small towns where overzealous officers strictly enforce a ridiculously limit, simply to fill their ticket quotas.
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I have memories of people trying Java for the same purpose. I believe, the C# will ultimately meet the same fate. Here is why (I believe that):

Switching from C/C++ to a GC language is nothing like switching from Assembler to C/C++. We did not write Assembler because we liked it. We wrote it because we targeted 8/16-bit archs, which did not fit C/C++ memory model quite well. Because of this Assembler had huge speed and size advantage. As soon as flat memory archs became viable almost everybody dropped Assembler without regret. We lost a bit of performance (which could have been easily regained by rewriting inner loops in Assembler) in exchange of reusable, portable code, type system and terse program texts. These allowed to write much more complex games by engaging bigger teams who could sensibly collaborate over a much bigger project in C/C++.

What is the transition to GC from C++? You sacrifice a lot of performance for freedom from managing memory. I don't know about other people but having shipped few AAA games my only concern was fitting shit into available memory (which GC does not help, to say the least). You allocate memory on load. If you load multiple levels you nuke the previous level's memory. If you stream you do the same but your "levels" are now "segments" in a pool. Of course, if you want to go full-GC and allocate your structures byte by byte, uint32_t by uint32_t - be my guest, not sure how you plan to compete but, hey, load times (same as frame rate) are not that important as they say on the internet :) Nevertheless, as soon as 32-bit targets become completely obsolete people will find out that you can pre-allocate everything off-line in 64-bit so all you will have to do at run-time is map/unmap pages (which GC won't help either). In conclusion: one dropped performance on the floor (due to cache issues, SIMD issues, off-line vs JIT quality issues etc) and picked up the solution to the problem one should not have had in the first place.
Also the addition of racism really muddies the waters.

Given the various factors at play, I would investigate further before offering such a blanket dismissal. But that's just me.
There are tricks to making roads feel smaller / trickier / slower. Search for the phrase "traffic calming" to find material on the subject.
> but certainly enough preponderance of indication

What does that mean exactly?

The only people who are giving the "evidence" or "indication" are the people who stand to profit the most.

Once you get something that says that Uber is either racist or promotes work practices that lead to suicide, by un-unbiased external party, that's interesting.

It's surprising how otherwise intelligent seeming people can get taken in by not understanding inherent conflicts of interests in cases like this.
This reminds me of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. Absolutely one of the best books to read if you're looking to improve your social skills.
If I only had time to learn another game engine. But I'd rather spend it making games with Unreal or Unity, and I doubt Xenko has something important they don't.
If you want to use a precompiled version from a repository, nginx has its own, which always stays up to date: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
It is a "blog-vertisement" [1]. Just flag it and move on.

[1] An advertisement disguised as a blog posting.
It's also used in virus and malware detection. Lots of stuff lays low for a week or two to help hide the attack vector.
But varnish lacks some features like dns-backend-resolution that are essential on modern microservices world.
Sure, and imo, those more complicated questions which don't have a clear answer shouldn't be top snippets. Snippets are things that you can explain in 1-2 sentence. Most of those political issues are far more complicated and require paragraphs to fully understand all the nuances and sides of the story. A simple quick reply by Google Home isn't gonna cut it, so they shouldn't even offer it.

That's the difference, when I search something on my PC and get 10 different results I can read through, vs when I ask Google and get a single sentence back, or see a snippet at the top with a single sentence.
> So then how would you

You don't.
Interesting. In modern devices people most likely learn intuitively from other factors such as the total absence of other buttons, central or uppermost placement, or from the light shining from behind it when switched on. We have been encountering the formal industrial / product design disciplines a little at http://8-food.com/ recently and I for one am having quite an enjoyable time similarly dissecting things! :)
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And justice is served!
Followed by the board somehow firing Kalanick to save Uber from himself!
Your comment was, "Did anyone ever believe such a thing?"

Again, from the article:

> One particularly disturbing medical innovation was the "Radiendocrinator," a device the size of a thick stack of credit cards to be worn with an adaptor "like any 'athletic strap.'" Its inventor, who fervently claimed to use the product, later died of bladder cancer.

The inventor used the product, and presumably so did the poor people consuming the quack products. Prevarication doesn't change the logic here.
This topic comes up, and people really love the "people don't follow the speed limit", but I remember seeing a couple studies that were very explicit. Places raised the speed limit, and fatalities spiked upwards.

People focus on whether the speed limit will be respected and not on what the full consequences up.

(Right now I can find a couple studies, but they're mostly from... insurance lobbyists? I feel like the interests are aligned there but lobbyists so...)
There's also fluxcapacitor:

https://github.com/majek/fluxcapacitor
Like, you know -- leaving 2 children without a father, and a widow with a broken heart. That sort of thing.
How do you like to manage your files and your deployments?
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What other factors are there? The article has brought up none.

The reasoning of the matter is this: Uber has few black technical employees, one black employee committed suicide, hence racism. Or is there something else that is missing?

You realize that the same argument could be made (and has been made) for female employees? <tech companies> have few female technical employees, one female employee complains, hence <systematic sexism, "bro culture">.
So I assume these must be rival alt-taxi companies, but I have never heard a whisper of their existence before this story.

Uber, despite the seemingly coordinated smear campaign, reigns supreme in this area.
This reminds me of a Rabbi who I forgot his name. There are Jewish communities that like to speak in Yiddish and others where the members do not know Yiddish. There was a Rabbi who wanted to appease to a greater audience by giving his sermons in Yiddish. The only problem was that he didn't speak Yiddish, nor did a lot of people who wanted to hear him. So, he made a list of about 300 Yiddish words and small section about grammar. It was meant for people who knew Hebrew and English (Yiddish is basically German + Hebrew + Russian + Eastern European languages). He then learned how to use all of those words.

The idea was that the Rabbi would only use the 300 words on the list (plus Hebrew, English, and Aramaic for quotes) during his sermon. That way, it wouldn't be to hard for a non-native Yiddish speaker to understand his sermons.
looks interesting.

Are there any studies showing that mutation testing significantly reduces the amount of bugs released ?
That's implying causation. Two children without a father and a widow with a broken heart happened. Why would anybody want to scramble to assume financial liability for such an incident?

Do I feel remorse for people starving in Venezuela? No, as I have done nothing to directly cause the starvation. Nobody's agony should have a claim on your financial resources or your property.
per-vhost metrics is the big one for us. We're not going to pay $2,500 just to get them though.

If you enable the stub status, that gives you metrics for the master process and not any of the virtual hosts.
> Go to Silicon Valley for technology, LA for entertainment, New York for advertising / fashion / finance, Boston or Cambridge (UK) for science, London for finance, and so on.

That kind of remains a cliché, but it's less relevant today.
> if someone is on vacation it is okay to take over work that had been assigned to them

I really hope this means it's okay to do that with discussion before the employee goes on vacation. If not, holy crap that really does sound awful.
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At that point you've created a different language with different semantics.
Why would anybody want to scramble to assume financial liability for such an incident?

Because it's the right thing to do (in this case).
Many of the mail-order brides are actually seeking US citizenship via "green-card marriage", often with an agreement to live together for a set period, and then to divorce after that set period. That's a very similar position to that of the "sugar babies", with either wealth or freedom on the table.

For the mail-order brides who actually want to be someone's bride, yes, it's a bit different.
I don't understand how having a small population means anything when it comes to the most local of things: the speed limit on a bit of road.

I can understand saying "well they have a bunch of Oil money and not much ground to cover" but most things in the universe can be solved at scale in the same way they're tackled in these countries.

It'd be like if Sweden was the only place that invented spark plugs and you're like "Well they're a really small country so they have less people to give spark plugs to so it's feasible".
Ask HN: Is white noise good for you?
I am wondering if there are any downsides of using white noise during work and/or during sleep.
> A billion super humans that land on earth who were all manufactured in transport.

This is a common concept in space-faring science fiction. It's one of the few 'practical' methods of sending a species with a human life span far out into the universe; with an ark filled with genetic material.

Although most stories have the humans being manufactured in the good ole' fashioned way during transport, a few franchises (warhammer 40k, mobile suit gundam, certain entities in mass effect I think, halo to a certain extent, etc) speak of body-assembly-lines.

(and in the case of Halo or Warhammer40k, yes -- the clones are quite often treated as expendable cattle.)
I wonder if schemes like this are used anywhere other than the US.
Even using "\\?\" you may hit the max filename limit of NTFS, which is 255 (aka maxComponentLength) ala NAME_MAX. The Win32 error is 123: "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).asp...
> And by the same no-ambiguities token, presumably repeated names in an object would be rejected by the parser.

Correct:

https://github.com/tjson/tjson-spec/blob/master/draft-tjson-...
https://www.tjson.org/spec/#rfc.section.3.8
> Because it's the right thing to do (in this case).

Please explain how it's the right thing to do. Somebody committed suicide, was not covered by life insurance, didn't get life insurance.
> bus,

Maybe "tomo tawa kulupu" 'group travel space'

> train,

Maybe "tomo tawa linja" 'long stringy travel space' (or alternately "tomo tawa pi kiwen linja tu" 'travel space of two stringy solids')

> airplane,

I've previously used "tomo tawa kon" 'air travel space'

> elevator,

Maybe "tomo tawa anpa" 'downward travel space'

> shipping container,

Maybe "tomo tawa esun" 'commercial travel space'

> bobsled...

Maybe "tomo tawa pi telo lete kiwen" 'hard cold water's travel space'

I'll also add that there's been some debate between "tomo tawa" 'travel building, travel space' and "ilo tawa" 'travel tool' for vehicles. I would certainly regard a bicycle as an ilo tawa because you don't enter inside of it. (A problem with "tomo tawa" is that "tomo tawa kon" 'air travel space' is arguably ambiguous between an airport and an airplane!)

Although toki pona is super-bad for any kind of precision, you can often figure out how to express more than you might first think. :-)
... a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics.
Totally agree, but the US is huge!

It would be much more informational to take into account things like average number of cars traveling between various locations, number of lanes between said locations, residential density...
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Traffic pumping
Clearly he is saying that people that don't understand what the word capitalism is associate it with every instance of greed they see. For example, working hard for long hours has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism but for some reason people here seem to be saying capitalism is evil because of it?
In PPP terms, 3 RMB is closer to $3 than to $0.4. The official exchange rate is not relevant to questions about daily life.
I believe Smugmug's basic plan may be what you're looking for. They've been around for 15 years (and I believe some of the founder's articles have been on HN), so should be in it for the long haul.
Scott Aaronson left a smoking hole where Tononi's theories used to be not too long ago. If you want quantum theorizing about consciousness I suggest you start here instead - https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161102-quantum-neuroscience...
I think that's a fascinating concept for a hard-fiction author to go nuts with.
Lol maybe if we were still stuck with jquery and aweful es5. Es6 though? Omg its powerful. Ever try manipulating arrays with Java? Not fun. To some people Java is a "real language" but just try to do parallel assignment with Java, not going to happen lol.
Maybe. But I'm not sure it's as easy as putting things in a scale from more modern to less modern. The places where India has leapfrogged has been on stuff that needs new infrastructure development since there was never any good old infrastructure to take up resources or incumbent players to choke out new players.

Self driving cars don't need new infrastructure, its functionally an application that runs on existing infrastructure. If you have decent roads it'll work the same way whether you're in India or anywhere else.

Although I guess you could argue that Indians are less prissy about what they're willing to tolerate. A self-driving auto-rickshaw wouldn't fly in America, but it would be just fine for just about any Indian, and it's a much more useful application of self-driving tech than expecting everyone to have their own robo-chauffeured luxury cars.
Its more of you shouldn't give legal advice, and let people assume you are a lawyer, if you are not a lawyer.

Presumably, if he prefixed this with IANAE, there would be no issue. Well, in this case, a traffic engineer.

But essentially he was defining himself to have greater authority over the subject matter than he actually had, which while here is not really problematic, the act itself often can be.
My toddler says "bye bye" when he can't find a toy, runs out of water or food, when the movie is over, etc. Unless rushed, it is kind of fun to learn to communicate better with him with each passing day. His creativity in using his very small vocabulary to describe new concepts or desires is fascinating.

Just don't think I can get as excited about adults wearing diapers for fun.
https://github.com/kryptco. No need to trust krypt.co, anyone can review and compile the source code themselves.
In part this is the result of being written by a female, strongly feminist author who has the gender implications of sci-fi technology in mind.

On a separate note, I quite enjoy the way that she also explores the relationship of a "backwards" polity with a more advanced international community.
As far as I can tell, the custom CSS is holding reddit back from any type of optimization/modernization of the HTML markup. Removing it and adding other customization options could actually improve the experience while still allowing subreddits to make changes.
What are you offering that Skype, WhatApp, Viber and Google Voice aren't?
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Uber has few black technical employees,

Along with a culture of bro-ishness and clique-iness, hypercompetitiveness and backstabbing, and a sweeping disdain for ethics in general. You forgot those parts.
The placenta, however, would be a sweet target for 3D tissue scaffolding: grow the embyro on one plate and maternal on the other.
The onus of evidence is on the person making the claim.
Sometimes I dream of a world where C had a built-in string type. Imagine how much time could have been saved, and how many crashes prevented.
>To restate that: what precise type of disaster would destroy "technological civilization"—presumably, all traces of it, because it's pretty easy to bootstrap back up†—but not the human species itself?

Technology onset: Grey-goo type scenario

Human onset: massive cultural shift to demonize knowledge.

It's happened before. It didn't wipe all technology away, but it slowed progress to a stand-still.
Please explain how it's the right thing to do.

There's more to "doing the right thing" than simply "doing the bare minimum that the law requires you to do."