skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Implementation-recipe design patterns only need to exist (or, rather, only need to be part of the active, day-to-day awareness of more than a small number of programmers per language) when the target language does not support implementing the common solutions as reusable code modules because doing so would require a kind of abstraction the language does not support.

False. Lisp has macro's and can abstract anything syntactically, yet still has commonly recurring design patterns such as with-X macros. You misunderstand what a design pattern is if you think new language features can remove the need for them.
Paying people 1 million dollars a year does not make more Geoff Hintons appear. It will increase supply, by taking it from other industries over time as people choose to go into these fields, but there is a lot of truly specialized work out there where it is just impractical to wait for the people to get years of experience. It is a gross, gross oversimplification, and a dangerous one.

The United States has well less than 5% of the worlds population. We are extremely lucky to attract the top talent from the other 95% and we need to defend that pipeline.
> There aren't many people in the world who can justifiably call Mark Zuckerberg a dumb-ass, but Elon Musk is probably one of them.

Of course, he's the god king.

Zuck is just some idiot kid who has been building impressive products using machine learning since he was in high school.
I built a system once based on a Microchip PIC running with a 32.768KHz crystal main clock. The CPU draws about 11uA when running in this mode. Imagine you can do something useful with only 32768 instructions/s vs the 1 billion you get a modern CPU ;)
Yeah, that last justification is one with which I wholeheartedly disagree. Cross-platform done right is a good thing, and yet here we have Apple explicitly describing how it wants app developers to not use cross-platform technologies and instead rely on Apple-specific interfaces. In other words: "screw developer productivity, if you're not exclusively targeting our platforms, you're doing it wrong".
A lot of people just aren't responsible enough to do this themselves. Most people from your city probably weren't. There's probably a nearly infinite amount of factors at play there, but that's a lot of opportunities for improvement that we just aren't focused on as a nation. We're all checked out and getting sold out by our own institutions.
Be nice if they just went back to desktop client; it was better in every way.
Maybe the placebo effect?
It's an expensive lesson to the society, not to rely on proprietary software for content creation. If we are willing to pay heed to it.

Now let me go back to my open-source community discussions in Slack. ;-)
swf is just a generic container like a zip, so there's plenty of tools to actually extract the original resources from there (no "conversion" necessary, that is).
I worked on a prototype new browser that understood this exact need -- visualizing browsing sessions -- so that you can quickly go to where you need. We used additional information, such as how long you spent on a page, to avoid cluttering it with less important information. Ultimately we were convinced by a former Mozilla C-type that getting people to switch their browsers was a herculean task (especially on the iPad where you can't change default browsers) and we moved on.

http://www.azinman.com/stateless
Thought people might get a kick out of this... I was playing with mitmproxy and checking out the different URLs my iphone was hitting. This is the only URL I saw that had anything interesting.

I'm not really sure what to title this, since there's no <title> on the page. Please feel free to rename it.
You could read my blog post about it instead: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h...

It's in russian but Google trsnalate crashes language baarriers! :)
Fraternal twins and identical twins both have the same environment growing up, they experience the same hormones at the same time during gestation, they live in the same city, sleep in the same bed. They eat the same foods at the same times of day and in the same amounts, excepting personal preference. However, fraternal twins share 50% of their genes (on average) and identical twins share near 100%.
You're right. During startup school [1], they pushed us to do things manually - which helped us to iterate quickly and learn the process. However, we've hit the limits of what we can do manually right now, so we are in the process of building out an app. (We've even been hiring moonlighters to help us out). We plan to launch the app in the next month, and with that - we should be able to scale the number of projects.

If you're looking to be featured more prominently - shoot me an email (philip at moonlightwork.com) and we'll feature you on the next issue of Orbit [2] going out to clients on Monday.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abtHadERzXU&t=27m

[2] https://www.moonlightwork.com/orbit
AR.js: Augmented Reality on the Web with JavaScript – DailyGit
Why can't they make Flash better and open like other people did with JavaScript? e.g. emScripten, WebAssembly, and WebGL

I left this question intentionally vague / and possibly wrong in order to give the person responding some leeway and the opportunity to dispel some myths that people might have about JavaScript technologies and the history of both JavaScript and Flash e.g. me.
In this day and age, low level software jobs should be considered as blue collar jobs that replaced manufacturing. When people think about programmer in boring job, the correct metaphor is think about working class mechanic in production line, not an engineer.

I was surprised how little people in US value hard STEM education. I think think that one reason for that is that tech in peoples mind is some type programmer.

When young people ask why should I learn math because I know python, I ask them how many unemployed electrical engineers with signal processing background you know? Programmers for bean counting apps become unemployable when they get older because there is no shortage of code monkeys working for peanuts and knowing some framework from inside out is outdated 10 years from now.
Meh, Opera was easily handling huge numbers of tabs a decade ago, while providing the option for vertical tabs, tab stacking and a tab scroller so that you could comfortably switch between them. By comparison, Chrome and Firefox have always appeared as dilettantes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism#Biological...
The concern I'm alluding to is a largely made up marketing one - putting nuclear-powered anything under people's homes is bound to be misunderstood in the worst possible way.
Seems to jibe with what I just read the other week in City Journal...

"""At a dinner for Silicon Valley executives in early 2011, President Barack Obama asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs what it would take to bring iPhone manufacturing back to America. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” the typically blunt Apple cofounder told the president. Examining Jobs’s claim, the New York Times looked at Apple’s vast Chinese operations and found that workers there not only worked for less than Americans did; more of them were skilled. To oversee production and guide some 200,000 assembly-line workers, Apple, for instance, needed 8,700 industrial engineers—positions that required more than a high school diploma but less than a full college degree. While abundant in China, these kinds of employees are harder to find in the United States. “The U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need,” an unnamed Apple executive told the Times."""
https://www.city-journal.org/html/vocational-ed-reborn-15253...
The property owner is at least partly culpable, wouldn't you think?
Unfortunately that's not possible, ceramic knives dull differently (the accumulate lots of tiny nicks or chips along the edge), but you can certainly sharpen them on a diamond stone, or with a dedicated sharpener, or in some cases send them back to the manufacturer[1].

1: http://www.kyoceraknife.com/how-to-sharpen-ceramic-knives.ht...
Using Paint3D, the bundled replacement.
How LG turned an early adopter into an active detractor
Yeah, the Flash creation tools will remain in development, simply rebranded as "Animate". The plugin is no longer needed, since Animate can export to HTML/JS/SVG or to video files. This is by far the best outcome: We get to keep the awesome creation tools, but it exports on free/open formats.
if you can succeed in an architecture program, you can eventually work in just about any field, by brute force alone.
I like what you got started on Caffeine. But how long would you say you spent on that? If it was more than 1 month, than that might be the start of your problem.

If that came together quickly, why did it stop? I need a tool to help me quit caffine. If this had a daily tracker, with little questions designed to assess my withdrawl and alert fullness, I would love to give you $5 a month for 2-3 months while I used your tool to help me gradually get off caffeine.
Oh, sorry, I just joined Turbine! They're fantastic :)

The company where I transitioned was Tracelytics / AppNeta. AppNeta acquired Tracelytics and that was part of the forcing function for making the leap.

They're a great company, but I left in 2015 because my wife got a job on the other side of the country and after 5 years with the same team, I had an itch to start a company. If we had stayed in Boston, I probably would have stayed at AppNeta, but sometimes the job isn't the only thing going on.
YouTube has great discoverability but no shareability with video. Facebook has the exact opposite. I wonder why they don't tackle this. IMHO videos in the newsfeed are not enough to attract content creators. There needs to be some kind of special section/UI.
Number of years since initial VC investment.

After 7-12 years in VCs will want to get their money out to pay out their LPs. Around this time they will start pressuring management to find a buyer or prepare for an IPO. Though this pressure depends a lot on the company's financial situation and how willing the VCs are to wait for an exit.

It's not the best indicator but it still is one.
Right? What harm has nationalism ever caused?
Tree tabs are godly for this because it lets you retrace your steps.

Say you start on HN and open five articles. You've now got HN/Site1, HN/Site2, and so on. Then you find an interesting link on 3 of those 5 sites.

With normal tabbing, you now have 9 tabs open and a majority of the text hidden on one line, where with a proper tree view, you can see the entire site, and how you got there, which is probably more valuable to me than the actual content.
Functional languages have a different set of patterns.
And due to Big companies being HQ there.
Does this mean an end of all things related to Flash ecosystem or just Flash itself? I still have Adobe Air apps (as rare as it may seem) that I use regularly. Does anybody know the best way to migrate Adobe Air apps to HTML5? My guess is to use Adobe Animate CC, but it is not free..
Huh? Now it's virtue signaling to say that people from other countries deserve the same opportunities as people from my country?

Of course I don't deny personally valuing my family and friends more than strangers, but that doesn't mean I think they fundamentally are more deserving of jobs than strangers. I would personally help a friend get a job before I would help a stranger, but I still think that Americans are no more deserving of jobs than non-Americans, and I don't believe that is a contradiction.

Edit: I also don't think we should be under a one-world government, and I don't see how that follows.
Since Flash and MS-Paint are going to be dumped, why not open source them?
I agree. If your goals are to make money on your side project, you'll have to invest time into sales, bd, or the marketing aspects of these projects rather than purely the technical aspects.

I don't think they are worthless, you learned a lot, but it sounds like you also wish to have monetary benefits from them, so I would suggest rounding out your skill set.
I think is not that popular yet. Look at this issue for the sublime elixir plugin [1], it's breaks a lot of things and seems stalled for a long time...

[1] https://github.com/vishnevskiy/ElixirSublime/issues/8
Which would require providers to cut as much corners as they possibly can to stay in business.
Vs all the cash in EOLing it? Unless the idea is to push people to buy a newer product?
It seems like instead of programming for flash player you have to program for each browsers HTML/JS quirks. People trash flash, but these browsers also have security holes. Its hard to make any really complex piece of software completely secure.
I think you misunderstood. A tab per site, some kind of drop down-type interface per tab for each page on that site. So if you had 50 tabs, you'd have an average of 20 pages under each per tab.

That would indeed be a much better use of space.
What about that man's picture says "homeless" to you, please?
I want to keep this not politicized but is there merit to the argument that immigrants are taking jobs away from other STEM majors who are from the U.S.? To find out we would need to look at STEM job growth for a year, then look at the number of STEM graduates, then look at how many STEM graduates go to work in their field, then see if after 52% of the jobs are subtracted see if there's enough left for the recent graduates. Also immigrant graduates would also have to be taken into account.
ggp here. it was really meant to be a dig against levels of american investment in education and worker competitiveness.

the only reason i'm posting is that i finally completed the transition from programmer to welder and i find my new peers generally smarter and harder working. fwiw
People mainly want Flash to die because it's a closed standard/platform that can't be improved by third parties and has lagged behind modern web standards as a result. Opening up Flash would address that problem and make the idea of Flash on a modern website significantly less horrid.
I am almost in the same boat. I kind of feel, that I did not make it big considering the amount of time i spend. If it worked on freelancing, I would have made more. But i still think, perseverance would pay. We may be down but not out !
It sounds like you want to build a successful business, but end up building another coding project. I think that this is very common withs devs and the vision involved in each (business vs project) is incredibly different.

For one, a good business does not have to be innovative, it just has to be something you can sell. You might be able to make the most innovative AI to do X, but if it is not useful to anyone, it won't matter how innovative it is.

It's fantastic for a coding project, just not for a business.

I think the big difference is doing the non-technical part well (sales, marketing, branding, networking) and having the vision for what your business should look like.

Personally, I like to read IndieHackers to see what others have done well. A lot of it tends to be overcoming technical challenges and then business side work. Seems like you can handle the technical challenges!
Thank you. That is exactly the type of response I was hoping for.
9% chance, the best possible case given the current data, of a horrible, slow, lingering death 20 years later is still unacceptable. What's the rate for getting mesothelioma after working with asbestos?
He is positing here that the alternative is being enslaved to the systems of the mind.

He is not arguing that you be a doormat. He is arguing that you be attentive and aware of your own mind's biases.

The supposition being that when you are free from these controls, you will be able to see others as more than just means to ends.
I think the issue there is determining who is worth training.

But yeah in general I agree with you.
AC21 porting to self employment
Can you recommend an immigration lawyer expert in self employment under AC21 provision?
> How is something not a shortage if noone can afford to buy it?

It's just expensive. It means that some low-value projects aren't profitable and all projects are higher risk than we are currently expecting them to be.

> SV has done this to itself.

I'm sympathetic here. But if we let wages in urban centers rise, companies will be more willing to set up offices in other parts of the U.S. Or virtual offices even.
Precisely. In rugby, it is much more stressed and emphasized to make secure tackles.

In football, at any given point and time there is one person with virtually a huge bullseye on them and it is sometimes a valid tactic to lay down a more punishing hit (cause a fumble, make a statement, scare your opponent to make a mistake or drop the ball next time, etc) at the expensive of not making a "secure, form tackle"

Ironically, if I am remembering correctly, the Seahawks and coach Pete Carroll teach more of a "rugby" style tackle, and that's why they consistently have one of the best tackling defenses.
Congrats on getting into YC! I like your landing page; simple and clear. One minor comment: it would be nice to see a short bio for each of the team members.

I have one technical question. How are you confident that your tech cannot be reversed? Since your company depends entirely on this technique, I'm assuming that your main priority is to avoid such a situation. I'm guessing that you are leveraging some sort of one-way function. If so, how "future proof" is the function you are using?

Good luck!
They are not low wages but are getting below market salaries. If that was what you're hinting at.

I'm guessing most people working for IT consultancies and services companies are paid way below market wages. Sure, the company hiring them is billing more than that, but the employee still gets significantly lower than market wages.
This. I really like the analogy that of running a city. There are just so many concerns in and around building and running microservice architectured systems: security, logging/analytics, failure modes/recovery/detection/self-healing, message protocol versioning, data persistence, capacity scaling and many more. Much of these are easy to defer/overlook early in dev't stage but will later become very hard, if not impossible to incorporate in.

Btw, we thank you and your team as we are Kong users as well. :)
I was introduced to this from a Defcon panel I went to in 2016. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAGDpJFFM2A . It gives a good conceptual overview.
This is as much a sweeping generalization as saying Americans are unqualified for tech jobs. There's an interview process for hiring H1Bs. So if you don't like their technical skills, you're free to not hire them.
It is, but now we know better.
And yet Lisp, the language that can abstract anything, still has design patterns because there's no such thing as a language without patterns that are useful to solve common problems.
Ambiguous. Please let me know what's not clear and I'll respond.
I'm talking about people buying the coins from the hacker on an exchange.

I think in my jurisdiction we have a law against pawning stolen goods: If the price is too good to be true (100$ macbook), and you still buy it, you can get your goods confiscated. But how does this translate to cryptocurrency and its volatile pricing (a 50% drop or increase in price is not extremely rare)? Is it illegal to set a buy order for 50% of the price? Especially if you set this before the hack, just hoping to cash in on a flash crash, I can't see which law you break.

About stealing coins, of course this (should) be against the law. But then again, data is not a good. For many jurisdictions, data isn't anything at all. You can not own data in the legal sense, because it only applies to tangible goods.

As to "stealing" coins by manipulating a smart contract, its a grey area. Of course in the real world, contracts can be breached in spirit, not only by the letter. But with smart contracts, you only have the letter of the contract: The code is law.
> Is there a trustless way to implement journalistic standards such as sourcing?

Encouraging others to think critically, to seek their own confirmation of information, both surprising and expected. Leading by example is powerful.
If you are an unprofitable tech company, you are probably going to cry about worker shortage as a means to raise more money, and distribute that wealth as you see fit.
Summary:

We are taking paint away from you and allowing you to come and get it through our funnel, erm... store.
I commiserate with your plight :P . I do think the points from upvotes are useful as proxy for the latent demand for newsworthy news on the part of members. As such, they should probably be split in some fashion (e.g. weighted).
At some point you should start getting bored with it. Same with porn. For a while it's interesting but then it just gets boring. Obviously I have no first hand experience watching pron. I only repeat what I hear from others :-)
A nation's government absolutely should discriminate in favor of it's own people. That's who it's supposed to be representing. In the case of the U.S., there's nothing racial about that. Opportunity for Americans is more important than opportunity for non-Americans.
The new system is less capable and everyone will be force-upgraded to that less capable version before the capabilities are restored. If that's even possible. Firefox will not turn into pumpkin.exe some time in November if they let it bake for a bit longer.

If they're going to make me throw away all my addons, I have no reason not to use Chrome. Literally every non-enterprise Firefox user will have this dilemma in the near future.
You could diff those lists and you would know which names disappeared, but you wouldn't know WHY. They could have thought of some excuse like: "we mixed in fake, test data" or "we forgot to remove some recently deceased people", not just say "you need to remove those records because they are top secret" :)
Why would we expect a global company to hire even a majority from the US?
I can think of two ways you can trade money for time as a SWE:
1) Amazon has started to offer part-time jobs for SWE's (https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-jobs-at-amazon)
2) relocating from the US to UK / EU gives you 25-100% more PTO and shorter hours in exchange for lower salaries
I don't think it's a question of the state of a Silicon manufacturer's $hit. Nothing about what you propose is technically complex. It just takes a large, long term investment to build and support a platform like that for >10 years. The manufacturers probably haven't done it because they don't see a big enough market yet. Most big consumer hardware co's can just develop their own solutions internally, and hardware startups are still incredibly niche.
CTE is a post-mortem phenotype. Dementia related to degenerative brain disease is common but not often measured (autopsies aren't done very often for senile patients with an obvious cause of death, especially for autopsies that disfigure the skull).

The idea that <9% of the general population at death have degenerative brain disease is highly implausible. Especially since we know AD has a prevalence which is multiples of 9%. Of course, I am not claiming CTE is not a problem in contact sports; merely that this headline is ridiculous. It's more important to estimate an odds ratio and confidence interval for the point estimate. My back of the envelope estimate for the OR would be ~3 (still concerning and large!).

There are related common problems in my field of biomedical research. I am a published author in Alzheimer disease, although it is no longer my primary focus. :)
Do you have samples of face images and their corresponding obfuscated images?
I sense this from AT&T as well. At IoT World they had a booth with "Cellular enabled IoT Devices," but they couldn't even explain to me how I put code on a device, or how I could scale a device up to production.
UBI that isn't enough to live on isn't UBI; the point of UBI is to remove the "need" to work at all by providing a minimum level of income that's enough to survive on.