skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even this is probably not very meaningful.

Seasoned and experienced Ada programmers are likely to come from a high-level (software) engineering background in some large company, e.g. in the aviation industry or military. Haskell programmers will more likely work in academia, e.g. a professor of computer science. And the C++ programmers could come from any field or industry.

These people will likely shine with certain tasks and be less productive with other tasks, depending on their varying skill sets. So you're probably only measuring the overall level of proficiency of programmers of certain languages in a particular programming domain. For example, I'd bet that the average experienced C++ programmer is slightly less skilled than the average experienced Ada programmer (if both of them are mostly working with their language professionally), simply because C++ is more widespread whereas the few Ada jobs left require a relatively high level of expertise. On the other hand, if you're writing programs in Ada for Airbus, you're probably accustomed to a slower development pace than if you write C++ code for a small gaming company, so the "productivity" will appear to be fairly low in comparison.

Then there are measures like LOC that are fairly meaningless across languages and perhaps even in general.

Finally, languages are usually chosen for their tool and library support and on the basis of available developers anyway.
What about IBM i, z/OS, ClearPath, INTEGRITY OS, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, Aix, ..... ?
> Which now couples my build with conan. If the user would like to pull down the dependencies without conan(ie using apt-get or manually installing them), the cmake build script will not work.

http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/integrations/cmake/find_packa...
Ha! There should be a comma after "documentaries". Unfortunately, this is the only one I know about baboons :)
UK's blueprint with telcos for mass spying and backdoors [The Register]
I'd just learn.

Learn everything.

I have a goal, it is to be better than average at every "skill".
Sure I do - Facebook has brazenly added Snapchat features to Messenger and Whatsapp and have undoubtedly clipped the wings of Snap Inc, at least for now.

But before Facebook did this Snap demonstrated that it's still possible to ladder up (https://stratechery.com/2016/snapchats-ladder/) from an initially seemingly easily copy-able idea into something meaningful - the reason why Facebook didn't copy Snapchat initially was because they didn't get it, and didn't see the threat until it was nearly too late.

There are new social network startups being developed every day, but the reason they don't succeed isn't because Google copy them - it's because they are trying to copy Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/AirBnB/Uber, not the other way round. Or because they suck.

Like I said before - if you develop your idea and the worst that happens is that Facebook copies it, then that's actually a really cool outcome, as by then you've probably done extremely well. The more likely outcome, as I suspect you well know, is that it is ignored by everyone apart from your closest friends.

p.s. Here's another Ben Thompson article about the Facebook monopoly. The real reason FB is a problem is because they own the digital representation of our real relationships, and no startup is going to be able to compete with that https://stratechery.com/2017/facebook-and-the-cost-of-monopo...

Btw, I know plenty of non technical people and teams that use Slack.
Yes. And to pile on the "I told you so" stack, I also have been saying here for years that Uber is actually worse and the way they're fighting the "taxi mafia" implies that we'll be worse off when they win.
It's possible to praise Stripe without mentioning Uber. I'm mentioning this because it's really tiresome to see Uber brought up in a thread that has nothing to do with it :/
Binding, as a term, is used for anything from assigning values to variables to what is essentially dependency injection of implementations of more or less abstract interfaces.

I'm merely pointing out that the term is vague and can cause confusion. That you make a strong association with one use of the term doesn't really govern what others associate with it.
The article is on the Google Cloud Platform Blog. What would you except, an honest and unbiased review?
You ask us to be adults and then finish it with _that_ link?!
Yes, obviously.

The point is that there would be no incentive for HFT firms to invest endless money and effort trying to eek out a few more microseconds because that would no longer be a viable trading "strategy" (if you can even call it that).

The problem with HFT firms isn't that they're fast, it's that their only focus is being fast. There are all kinds of interesting algorithmic trading strategies that use data analysis or complex models to make rapid trades: those systems are adding information to the market and making it more efficient. In contrast, pure HFT only adds dubiously-necessary "liquidity" by being quicker on the draw than other firms.
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That's an interesting idea. Is that rule just a holdover from the days of manual accounting?
I found it strange that the comment you replied to complained about 'not enough layers'. That sounds like a benefit to me!
The same way I do (and you do): get both ALAC and FLAC downloads from Bandcamp. ALAC for now, FLAC if you want to play your music on systems that won't run iTunes.
A build tool should be written in the same language as it is targeted for, no need for third party dependencies.

Many of us only install what we actually need, or what the IT department allows on our images.

I certainly don't want to open a IT ticket to get Python, just to be able to compile random package X.
This. I've found discussing law with programmers a frustrating experience more often than not. Yes, I'm impressed that your pedantic mind has found all the logical and definitional loopholes, but now back to the real world, where that's just not going to fly with a judge or in any other context where high-level intent and psychological deliberation is considered.
> Just doesn't feel right. ... various ... seem to ...

Could this sentiment be any less specific?
You guys have digressed a bit from the original topic, but I wanted to jump in and say that I agree with you, and so do a lot of other people.

I go to great lengths to keep Google and the like out of my life, and I find it really strange how accepting, and even defensive, people are with these intrusive services. It's a Brave New World, and Stallman was right.
It seems to be when it's coordinated by single organization across state lines. That's what turns it from a series of totally unrelated crimes in different states into one nation-wide criminal operation.
Yeah!
The key points: android/ios both ready.
> ... but ultimately it costs $ to the company.

I think "ultimately" is an interesting choice of word here, because spending the money is actually more of a beginning than an end (which is why people do it).

You're increasing individual engagement, generating social capital within your team, and creating opportunities to benefit from untapped creativity... all of which are valuable, potentially extremely valuable.
If you have to have fine-grained updates, this is so obviously the right way to do it that I'm startled it's not ubiquitous.

(But if there isn't a compelling reason to be counting the days, it's still nice to have the option to "go dark" for a few days sometimes)
I'd say that, since you've been out of employment for 5 years, you're definitely less than ideal candidate from employer's point of view (due to uncertainly regarding your motivation to get back to employment, team collaboration skills and attitude etc.). In my experience, remote jobs are offered to people who are almost a perfect match for the job. So, in your case, I'd start with an in-office job to disprove those risks, and then change jobs to a remote one.
In the context of the Penrose hypothesis, the question if the brain is a Turing machine is key, because if it is, the hypothesis is false.
Introduction to graph databases
There are other factors to power consumption: type of instructions used (eg. cpuburn generates more heat than a regular 100% CPU usage), memory accesses, cache hits/misses, ...
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I would be interested in the overhead of systemd. Amazon decided to drop systemd in favor of sysv/upstart init. I guess this is based on energy consumption but could not find any info online.
>I'm not a fan of Uber, but it seems like it's their right to decide who is allowed to use their service.

No, they have to provide service to everyone, equally. Imagine a situation: a cake store decides not to prepare a cake for gay wedding.
Kinda like when the Amazon "crying at their desk" incidents came out, Bezos said to email him _personally_. Those emails got forwarded to HR and those people subsequently got blackballed. Don't EVER trust a large corp that says they're gonna help with things that can even be conflated as "whiney." Corporate policy is to root out whiners, can you really blame them?
I started to learn Haskell several times and decided every time that it's not really worth effort and time spent. Technology should adapt to humans, not humans to technology. IMHO Haskell exemplifies the latter.
Because in most cases, your needs rise together with your salary. Once you start earning 200-500k/year, you just get a house/car/boat that costs nearly that much to maintain. Obviously there are people who keep their cost of living low and stash that money in a saving account so that after 10 years they can realistically stop working altogether, but that's not the pattern that I'm usually seeing.
It depends on how you can get that information, though. Recall that we are talking about a corporation, not a physical person.
She launches a USA only kickstarter (all rewards ship to US only). I genuinely hope she does well but I don't understand why she would exclude the global audience and alienate potential customers.
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> my workplace has instituted one of those pedometers that tracks your activity

Hang on - tracks your activity out of work? Are you paid for the full 24 hours? No. So you're performing unpaid labour (walking) for them?

Might want to consider a union there.
And thusly we went full-circle back to the OP:

Now LE comes along and says, gee whiz, our jobs are really hard having to catch criminals doing criminal stuff. You know, let's make it illegal to use your money as you like, to have any sort of privacy in your transactions. Tada, now they can just go after people for moving money around.
Ah is it their lunch if they haven paid fo it? Also I think you may be going a bit far with the schools as sanctuary angle. Schools are imperfect places and seeking to shield children from all possible stress only leads to raising adults who cannot take any stress.
Medium did this and it is horrible. Your suggestion solves nothing as you already considered, email bring a single point of failure. So why would anyone sign into a completely different service (for most people that being signed into Google which has its own baggage) just to use an app?

1. Sending emails is not very secure

2. Delegating your authentication to a 3rd party is probably not a very good idea

3. You still need to use a password somewhere e.g. accessing your emails, it can't be mitigated all the way down

4. Increasing the importance of social media accounts / email and allowing walled gardens to act as gatekeepers to services is annoying at best and very harmful at worst if you are concerned about your data
I do some contracting from time to time with a devshop that has gone "full agile" - I love these people, and have a lot of respect for the work they do, but OH. MY. GOD. save me from the fucking standups. What a totally useless waste of everybodies' time. I refuse to attend most of them in any case, which harms my standing with the project managers, but I seriously don't care - most standups as well as the majority of other project management activities they practice appear to be designed to keep the project managers happy, and contribute little to the overall quality or speed of delivery of the project at hand, and are a massive distraction to everyone involved. Daily $project_management_ritual should die.
No, it isn't. I have looked at several definitions now and none match yours, indeed explicitly the reverse.

I don't know why you keep prattling on when its clear everywhere you look for this defintion it is the reverse. It has nothing to do with an act of government. Government may censor, but so may a private individual: a publisher can censor an author, etc.

It is merely the withholding of information on political or moral grounds.

"to "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable. Censorship is the name for the process or idea of keeping things like obscene word or graphic images from an audience. There is also such a thing as self-censorship, which is when you refrain from saying certain things — or possibly re-wording them — depending on who is listening."

"to remove anything offensive from books, films, etc., or to remove parts considered unsuitable from private letters, especially ones sent during war or from a prison:"

etc.

On and on and on in every defintion.
This will the same way as any other attempt at this: with a revoked certificate.
It's not TOTP 2FA though right? I couldn't add it to authy if I wanted.
My bank in Germany offers a similar system - of course, there are limits to the security as well but there is no public infrastructure, radio transmission or an OS involved.

Edit: I also don't need to make transactions often enough for it to be cumbersome - if I was travelling a lot for business and needed to make a lot of transactions, I'd worry about losing the device and being unable to do anything without it.
Alexa skills adds Email Checker for hands-free email
Coffiest easily exceeded my modest expectations. Quick, easy to digest when I'm nervous, and the combination of caffeine and theanine is... nice. My diet is trash, and it's vastly better than not eating or stopping for an Egg McMuffin at the drive through.

Soylent has gotten me off fast food entirely. I keep a few bottles at home and at work, so that I can get a meal during my commute that doesn't come from a drive through.
No, it's a tiny cottage up a mountain in north wales. The previous shenanigans were in Fulham, however.
You know, there is a world of difference between each of those things:

> good luck with that if you do any physical activity

> close to a competitive

> on recreational level (how is this is even a thing? "competitive on a recreational level"?)

> you won't look like you lift

You've just substituted "any physical activity" for the "do you even lift bro" culture. Please don't do this and try to understand that the majority of people don't need or even want to be bodybuilders. For them Soylent is A-OK.
I wish they had prioritized HTTP/2 in HTTP mode.
I'd assumed it was capita, who seem to run the entire uk at this point - the state exists for their profit.
Having just finished a 5 week agile project with daily stand-ups I found:

1. I'm already aware of what everyone is doing which is relevant to my own work outside the daily meeting. Everything else is just noise.

2. I don't want to know what someone else did since the last meeting unless it was relevant to my stream of work, in which case I already know about it.

3. See above.

Needless to say I found the daily stand-ups a complete waste of time.
Over here (Finland, EU) there used to be standardisation that a mobile phone must be able to make an emergency call even when the phone is locked, and even when the phone's own carrier is out of coverage, or when there is no SIM card - the call must be routed as a guest in any GSM network that is there.

That may now have changed, because the user instructions for iPhone say (translation mine):

"iPhone can be used to make emergency calls in many locations, if mobile services are available, but you should not trust on it in cases of emergency".

Yes, apparently iPhone user instructions say that when you're in an emergency, don't count on iPhone. You should carry a phone with you in addition to iPhone.

When dialing 112, the phone goes to a special mode: the call is prioritised (if the cell is full, another call is dropped) and if carrier's network is not there, the phone tries any other network.

(I've seen this work on my phone, but that time it didn't help, the guy died.)
NIST recommendation: remove periodic password change requirements
> as long as it is software, is programmed with a very specific understanding of what is being programmed. Every line of code is intentional. Nothing exists in between the lines.

A reductionist would say that we can explain any phenomenon in the Universe because we know how atoms interact and everything is built out of atoms. When you ask why a tree grows, the answer that it grows because of the interactions between atoms is not useful and approaches the problem on too low level. Similarly a programmer can create artificial neurons and perfectly understand how these neurons operate on a low level, but it doesn't mean the programmer will understand the high level emergent phenomenons that can result from these low level interactions.
What's so refreshing about their post is that they admit not to have an unassailable "moral high ground". They highlight the strongest arguments, including those arguing against their decision.

They do this because they recognise that decisions often have competing trade-offs, nuances, ambiguity. There is, unfortunately, almost no recognition of this fact in public these days. You're expected to pick a side, defend it, and attack others, using whatever rhetorical tool is available.

Among those tools of destructive debate: reducing any ambiguity in your favour, i. e. "They are banning Z, and I don't know Z, so I'll argue that Z is like A and banning A would be wrong". Or, equally bad, the slippery slope: "Z may be bad, but you can't give me an algorithm that unambiguously distinguishes Z and Y, nor Y and X, or, by transitivity, Z and A. Therefore, you can't ban Z without also eventually banning A, and that would be bad".
GiveCampus hiring engineers who agree affordable education matters
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You can read more about what we do, and how we do it, in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...).

Who we are looking for: - Front-end engineers who can design something functional, more beautiful than just the basics, and can iterate with feedback from the team.

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Please email careers@givecampus.com with your resume, any past projects you're proud to show us, and a note about yourself to apply.

We are based in Washington, DC, and are looking for people here or willing to relocate. We are also open to the right person in SF.
I don't see people driven away from OSS. Rather I see even big corporations embrace it. Even Microsoft. And look at the explosion of public projects with Github.
How many bold faced lies can you fit into 3 sentences?

> It has to do with an government agency overstepping their authority

I've seen this horseshit repeated ad naseum.The U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 granted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority to regulate how customer proprietary network information (CPNI) can be used and to enforce related consumer information privacy provisions. In 2015, Broadband Internet Service Providers were reclassified as telecommunications companies, meaning that these rules will apply to them. They are not an information service. Google is an information service. They provide me with an internet connection, they do not provide me with any content at all and no consumer expects that from them.

Do you understand that an Act has to be passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by the president? I don't know how much more legitimate authority can get when you are granted authority by our elected representatives.

> and nothing to do with privacy.

From the very first sentence of the FCC's 2007 REPORT AND ORDER AND FURTHER NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING [0]

"In this Order, the Commission responds to the practice of “pretexting” by strengthening our rules to protect the privacy of customer proprietary network information (CPNI)"

>It Has been illegal for nearly a century and it id still is illegal to sell telecommunication customers' data.

FALSE

AGAIN, from the FCC's 2007 REPORT AND ORDER AND
FURTHER NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING [0]

"We modify our rules to require telecommunications carriers to obtain opt-in consent from a
customer before disclosing that customer’s CPNI to a carrier’s joint venture partner or independent
contractor for the purpose of marketing communications-related services to that customer.117 While we
realize that this is a change in Commission policy, we find that new circumstances force us to reassess our
existing regulations. As we have found previously, the Commission has a substantial interest in
protecting customer privacy."

"Based on this and in light of new privacy concerns, we now find that an
opt-in framework for the sharing of CPNI with joint venture partners and independent contractors for the
purposes of marketing communications-related services to a customer both directly advances our interest
in protecting customer privacy and is narrowly tailored to achieve our goal of privacy protection"

"Joint Venture and Independent Contractor Use of CPNI. We modify our rules to require
carriers to obtain opt-in consent from a customer before disclosing a customer’s CPNI to a carrier’s
joint venture partners or independent contractors for the purposes of marketing communicationsrelated
services to that customer."

> https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2015-title47-vol3/pdf/CFR-...

So do you think you can link to an obtuse document written in legalese, hoping that no one will read it? These are the rules from 2015...8 years after the FCC changed how telcos may use your CPNI

Just reading the rest of your comment history, do you do this for profit or for pleasure?

[0]: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-22A1.pd...
By eyeballing the graphs it looks like "tl:dr", yes by about 10%, and sometimes just because a job takes longer.

Another thing to note is that redis and postgres are i/o heavy and many production environments (esp in aws) will choose not to dockerise i/o heavy stuff.

I wish they had included a statement like that so I didn't have to stick my neck out and give an eyeball estimate, but I suppose this kind of statement is harder to defend and the data they provided was more nuanced.

With that said, power is largely divorced from cost in actual operation except at extreme scale.

This is because purchaseable and billable units of compute are usually not utilised to 100% capacity, both in cloud and bare-metal situations. Another way to say this is, most people essentially prepay more "power budget" than they actually use.

Since a primary use of docker (esp via kube) is workload consolidation, it's hard to know what real impact this has on the world.
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