skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fancy degree is certainly an accomplishment and potentially a good path to follow, but it is one path among many.

There are lots and lots of other paths that one could follow, and they all have both advantages and disadvantages. One path is not automatically better than any of the others 100% of the time.

The problem is that the common, pro-fancy degree perspective comes from a very hierarchical perspective that just isn't true at all.

It assumes that Harvard is better Stanford which is better than a tier 2 or tier 1.5 school.

There is even a hierarchy AMONG similar fancy degrees. IE, Computer Science is better than Information Systems.

Many an Information Systems major will be able to talk about their experience of being shit on for their choices because apparently everyone thinks that the only reason to do Information Systems is because you didn't get accepted to computer science.

Because of the hierarchical cultural context in which we are in, I am not going to criticize Info systems majors for making fun of CS majors, nor will I criticize startupy, non-fancy degree holders on HN for making fun of the fancy degree holders.
No... Apple is the brand name, iPod is the product, and Nano is the descriptor for which model of iPod. As mentioned in my last reply, it's not 2 Whopper Jr.'s, it's 2 Whoppers Jr. Since Nano is an adjective, you pluralize the noun which, in this case, is iPod.
Damn. I better change my info online and stop people I'm a programmer. Better notify all sorts of census and demographic departments. We have been over accounting programmers in the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions!
Other than the guns where is the procedural generation in Borderlands?
Can I push back on the notion that "open access" can constitute pirated material (any more than the leaked Windows 2000 code makes Windows "open source"). Conflating the two things has been an anti-OA tactic in the past.

(Disclaimer: Posting in a personal capacity.)
The New .NET Application Architecture Guidance
Exactly. I'm liberal but I'm still astounded by the vitrol, hate, and language my colleagues use to describe conservatives and Republicans.

Inclusion means accepting people as people, not accepting just the people who look, talk, and share the same beliefs as you.
Why do you want server side rendered pages? are you building a CMS?
The reason why it's natural to do this is most of us don't want to waste time typing out a long-winded question if there's no one on the other side.
It's so weird, this community's obsession with article titles. What is the purpose of a link title, if not to interest someone and convince them to click it?
Counter-feedback: didn't bother me that pricing was at the bottom.
I assume they're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868390
The torrent repository is available on libgen.
The twist ending!

It's hard to answer this question. Is there any Russian literature you've read and enjoyed?
Amazon’s earnings miss means Jeff Bezos is no longer world’s richest person
Ah, I see. I assume you could compile to a C compatible library, but they you would have to deal with marshaling costs where the types mismatch, correct?
He didn't really blame the engineers. He blamed the engineering. Unless you were just saying your statement and not implying he blamed engineers.
Animal spirits
scientific papers and general blog posts have completely different audiences and intentions.

The purpose of a paper is to be rigorous and exact and move the field of study forward. That tends to make them dense and use the fields jargon - which is short hand for massive amounts of information.
Angular Essentials- Angular 2/ Angular 4 with TypeScript
They used to be the cheap option but that's the past. The ASRock Taichi is actually one of the best X370 boards.
Most? That sounds wrong to me, but I don't even know how you're counting.

Most by number of apps? Consider all little enterprise things built in Java or whatever.

Most by time spent? Browsers, AAA games and file managers aren't web apps, surely?

Most by HN hype and VC funding?
Yeah, in comparison to native apps anyway. At least they don't pretend to be native. But really, I think it depends on use case: most web apps I use aren't things that I need to leave open all day, while Slack is.
> e.g. drinking, smoking, driving, enlistment, marriage, tattoos, etc

Marriage and tattoos are allowed with parent/guardian consent at quite young ages depending on where you live. And not allowed other places, of course. Laws on this vary widely, even just inside the US.

> Maybe parental education and consent is enough for some people

Right, that is the question. Is playing football more like smoking? Or is it more like marriage or tattoos? Or like downhill skiing or any of a host of other dangerous activities minors can engage in with parental consent pretty much anywhere?
What a novel concept! I feel so edumacated now. Surely my IQ rose by a few points.

And to follow-up edit, of course theres no one true scotsman. The assembly-reciting graybeards look down at GUI programmers, who look down on the webdevs, who really don't have anyone to look down upon because they still have so much to learn.

And why does the argument always have to be about resource consumption? Does anybody actually even truly care? I hate Electron because it is an incredibly poor use of existing resources and that it leverages tools very inappropriate for the task of creating cross-platform GUI applications. Entire industries are built out of this unholy Frankenstein of duct tape and chicken wire. Now, for the job of quickly banging out an app so the business fucks can make their $$$$$.... now that's different
Which method (Chrome Dev Tools, Node, etc.) did you teach to your students? Any other online resources you recommend?
I'm not saying I disbelieve your own POV, but bias can sometimes be hard to recognize, both in ourselves and others.
It might be just as well that increased sugar intake is caused by mental disorders, as a form of self-medication.

In my case for example, my sugar consumption fell drastically since I received ADHD medications. It turns out I was using sugar as a stimulant/calming agent for years, and no doctor properly figured it out.
> Despite strict orders not to chillax with the enemy, British
and German soldiers left their trenches, crossed No Man's Land,
and gathered to bury their dead, exchange gifts, and play games.

Is this actually true? I'd love to read more about it.
Since I can no longer edit my previous post, I'm gonna add another one here.

Your premise is false because your examples ("Member of Parliament") are using a preposition. iPod Nano doesn't include a preposition... just a noun or an adjective. The only reason your examples work is because the noun is still being pluralized and the preposition stays the same. The object of the preposition is not the main noun in the sentence or term so it doesn't make sense to pluralize it.
> In the traditional model the library would pay for subscription, now it's the researcher paying page charges for publication.

Not necessarily. In my own field (a branch of linguistics), many of our journals are open access, but they are still free to publish in. Some of the publishing costs are covered by the fact that these journals are put out by learned societies that are sitting on large endowments or receive state funding, and even for journals that are open access online, libraries often still want to pay for hard copies.
https://www.ably.io/

Different kind of messaging.
Yes, it mimics the browser Twitter Search, with its scroll loader. (Excuse any hiccups you might experience under load).

It might not be ideal, but it works for the most part. Future plans include a proper API, as well as statistics and visualizations available to each search.
Filecoin: Proof-Of-Replication, Power-Fault-Tolerance and Research Roadmap
I wasn't able to figure out a way so I just picked a few at random. Is there an easy way to roll up like a heroku app or something that would check the health of only those torrents? That could be really useful to the libgen guys.
Sorry. You are right. That should have read "are on birth control" without the word "pills".
asyncio won't improve without help.
Conversion to dumb american: 16 teaspoons of sugar per day was considered high.

(If you don't enjoy cooking from scratch, try a mass-based recipe instead of a traditional volume-based recipe. It is so much faster and more convenient.)
See "How do I use cgroups ?" in the kernel docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/cgroups.t...

You can do it simply by mounting the cgroup fs and writing numbers to files.
I guess I'm contrasting it to Susan Fowler's piece "A very, very strange year at Uber" which if she wanted to could have been titled "Why Uber is the worst place to work at in the entire tech industry".

I really respect her for letting the facts and content of her article speak for itself. I wish more would do the same.
https://gigalixir.com is a platform-as-a-service designed just for Elixir. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
FDA Digital Health Action Plan [pdf]
It's a shame that Electron isn't modular. I think there were some attempts to make modular versions that would lead to smaller bundle sizes and resource consumption. I think the reason why Slack is os successful with such a poor performing app is most people using the app have machines provided by employers and they're good enough to handle the app without issue.
All Ryzen CPUs are unlocked so you can run the 1200 at ~3.9GHZ, 4 if you're lucky. And the cheap B350 boards support overclocking.

Unlike Intel where you have to pay more $$$ for a K CPU and a top chipset (Z170/Z270) board.
In the original article, the author's claim was "the most welcoming industry I’ve seen" while your founder describes it as "Claiming the whole industry is welcoming is in invalidating their experience" and proceeds to argue against that.

Unfortunately, this is the very definition of a straw man.
It depends a whole lot if you are releasing the software as open source and want other developers to contribute to it. That is what they have done.
> This is why Bowe Bergdahl is in a big pickle if he is found guilty: he will lose 5 years of pay and return to his original low rank (he is now a Sergeant, I think he was a Private 1st Cl or Specialist) as well as be discharged as something other than "honorable".

I rather thought Bergdahl was in a “big pickle” because the charges against him both carry long prison terms (one potentially a life sentence).
Because electron app was built on chromium
Millions of developers are working with Ethereum?
For some reason I found the "platform support" section amusing (https://wikileaks.org/vault7/document/Aeris-UsersGuide/):

PLATFORM SUPPORT

Debian Linux 7 (i386)
Debian Linux 7 (amd64)
Debian Linux 7 (ARM)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (i386)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (amd64)
Solaris 11 (i386)
Solaris 11 (SPARC)
FreeBSD 8 (i386)
FreeBSD 8 (amd64)
CentOS 5.3 (i386)
CentOS 5.7 (i386)

Even the CIA has a hard time supporting all the different distributions and versions of Linux/BSD/Solaris! I'm going to go out on a limb and guess this isn't an exhaustive list, but still somewhat funny.
I had this realization some time ago: almost everything I do on my desktop runs in Chromium wrappers:
Chrome (duh), Spotify, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal
From the beginning of the article...

> Although previous studies have found an increased risk of depression with higher consumption of added sugars, none examined the role of ‘reverse causation’. If people with anxiety and/or depression tended to consume more sugary foods and drinks, this could be the real reason why a link between sugar intake and poorer mental health is observed. Although the study looked for this link, it was not seen in the data: men and women with mental disorders were not more likely to consume more sugar. As a result, the evidence that mental health is adversely affected by a high sugar intake is strengthened.
I had that feeling too when the article was that light.
Oh, I didn't include edits to stay within house style, but then, I wouldn't submit a paper that wasn't already in house style.

If the editor sent some copy edits to the text, I'd just send it back to them unedited and ask them to publish it. In fact, I love pushing back against unreasonable editorial requests.
Fireworks and illustrators were vector based graphic softwares as well. I don't think you're right.
> Being inclusive and meritocratic doesn't mean accepting things that are within your culture.

I think there's some subtle definition creep in the word "inclusive" these days. It's starting to mean "cosmopolitan". I recall the recent STEM girl scouts story. One of the commenters called the initiative "inclusive", which isn't quite the right. It's the same girls scouts doing something different, so it's not more inclusive, really. Beneficial? Sure. Eclectic? Yeah. Progressive? OK. Inclusive? I'm not following.
I assume a book titled "X from scratch" requires no previous knowledge for the intended audience. It's hard to talk about writing apis without knowing the difference between POST and GET
Yeah, just to spell out how things work in CS for the things you mentioned:

> Peer review

Organized and performed by volunteers.

> curating for quality

Ditto.

> editing, typesetting

Done by authors (LaTeX isn't perfect, but it gets you "good enough" typesetting. And the last time a journal edited a paper of mine they mangled it because the person editing wasn't familiar with technical topics & jargon).

> creating physical copies

No one needs these any more; they just print the PDF if necessary.
Decentralized Long-Term Preservation
As a man, even on an all-male team, I don't want to hear that sort of thing. And it doesn't help if it's intended to be a joke.
:[ I'm a gun-shooting libertarian. Don't assume my Tribe.

You're right, the "tech tribe" does have improvements to make in inclusivity, but at least it's a home for some people who would otherwise be outcasts in socially conservative businesses.

As for a few things:

- I think we're just as accepting of blacks, our high school education system has just utterly failed them so much that we don't have a good pipeline for getting black people into tech.

- There are a different set of values in India that cause some clash between them and Americans/Westerns. There's the culture of following the letter of the request/task, rather than the spirit of the request/task. (Similarly but differently, mainland Chinese suck at asking questions when they don't understand something.) But my overall biggest complaints with outsourced contractors is a culture of "get shit done fast, and do any hacks to get it done". Because contractors don't stay with projects for the long-term, it's not surprising.

- The homeless and lower class are, almost by definition, not people who are achieving a ton. Tech is a meritocracy, we respect getting shit done, and we're not a jobs program.
It's far from common.

Are things really that different between here and there?

All the stuff described in your linked piece: I've never seen any of it in tech.

In garages? Sure they are full of what would otherwise be nsfw. But IT? Can't remember ever seing anything. 5 years ago I heard a couple of colleagues discussing the title of an NSFW video that someone had started playing or their computer as a prank after they left it unlocked. And about the same time we had what I consider ann @$$ as manager in the department next to mine.

He would attack girls yes but he would also attack anyone else so I think it was more about being a general @$$.

And I've worked at a few places.
> I also think that you underestimate the importance of copy-editors

Many Elsevier and Springer journals no longer perform copy-editing. Authors are expected to have their paper checked by a native English speaker and copy-edited at their own expense, and then provide the journal with a camera-ready PDF. In my own field, it is the open-access journals published by non-profits that actually have the best language quality and typesetting.

This is a problem that goes beyond journals into for-profit scholarly publishing more generally. In my field, Brill is an infamous publisher for this: it demands camera-ready PDFs for most of the monographs it puts out. So, your library ends up having to spend 400€ on a book where about all the publisher contributed – besides unpaid peer review – is printing, binding, and mailing it out.
React 16: Error Boundaries new feature
I used to own a chromebook and I loved it... until it failed.

I had computers that failed before, and usually I could manage to repair them somehow, most often by using a linux liveUSB, but with this chromebook, I've tried many things but I could not do anything. No access to BIOS, not bootable USB, nothing. Complete black box.

So I'm not sure I'll buy an other chromebook anytime soon.
For home defense, it is possible to keep a gun in a safe space that is both toddler-proof AND accessible when necessary. I'm talking about bedside electronic safes, commonly available with combination [0] or biometric [1] locks, always with a physical key fallback. These solutions reduce unnecessary coupling between access control technology and the gun itself. At the very least, this means the (well-maintained) gun will 100% go "bang" when you pull the trigger.

[0] https://lowes.com/pd/Barska-Compact-0-36-cu-ft-Electronic-Ch...
[1] https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/biometric-gun-safes
I don't understand this complaint. The study didn't look at a total rise in sugar consumption and a total rise in mental disorders over this period and just lazily guess that they were linked.

The claim is that, within the sample, those who consumed more sugar were more likely to have mental disorders, "independent of health behaviours, socio-demographic and diet-related factors, adiposity and other diseases".
Exactly I'm willing to bet 5 years from now, Google Home or whatever version of this will leave Amazon Alexa in dust.
If what you want to display is a subset of what web tech can display, it's lazy to embed a big web engine.

To me it's like sending a word doc attachment because you want to use bold type in a mail, and you already know how to use word.
Tools choice may be an alternative. For example, Erlang addresses many concurrency issues by design and the required code may be easier to develop and the finished code may be easier to understand.

Of course the price of using a tool like Erlang [1] is that all that knowledge of mutexes and semaphores goes to waste and different concepts like immutability and let-it-crash must be understood if not mastered.

[1]: or perhaps Clojure or Go.
It's a false alternative. Encrypt your hard drive with a key on a thumb drive on your person. Problem solved: nobody can read your hard drive unless they physically get your key as well.
The point is that it creates a specific type of environment - which is exclusive. It attracts a specific kind of person (competitive, usually male). There's nothing wrong with offering it, per se. But you should make sure it's not the only thing you offer. And you need to make sure it's not the place where all the decisions get made.

That is where the problem comes from. You'll be excluded from the "inner circle" unless you participate in a specific kind of activity.

Clearly, this is not limited to foosball tables. Or even typically male activities. The core problem is having only bonding experiences of a specific kind.

The biggest thing is, it's unnecessary. As a European, the US attitude of having entertainment at work continues to puzzle me. I go to work, I put in 8 hours of work, I go home and have fun. Why we need foosball tables (or reading groups, or wine tasting clubs, or whatever) is beyond me.

But if you must do it, you should be sure to offer diversity.
I like VS Code. However, people think it's "light" and "snappy" only because they're comparing it to Atom. IntelliJ feels pretty fast-loading and snappy when you put it head to head against Atom.

The reality is that Code takes multiple seconds to launch on my machine (a MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM), while GVim or Sublime or any native editor is subsecond. Granted, it does perform well enough once it's up and running. But startup time is probably an order of magnitude worse, and ongoing resource consumption even far less competitive.

Code shows that it's possible for a good Electron app to be better than a bad Electron app. But that's not a proof statement that Electron is in the same league is native.
I hate PDFs. Hard to read, don't own a printer, weird layout.
Bill Belichick didn't just exercise his First Amendment rights to nexpress an opinion I disagreed with. That alone is hardly a problem for me; for example, Danny Ainge's political views have no impact on my Celtics fandom).

Belichick went further, however -- he supported a pack of lies meant to undermine the value of First Amendment rights anywhere. And we've seen subsequently just how destructive lying attacks on the press can be. Anybody who, while knowing better, spreads those lies is damaging our country. I do not want them to succeed; hence I do not want them to have the kind of success that strengthens their reputations.
At this valuation I would start shooting for writing native clients at this point. They even have an iOS client that has done half of the work for them at this point on OSX.
> the news with his name stops the day he was arrested.

That's usually a good sign that nothing exciting happened; business as usual.

He was arrested in early June and by early July was on parole with family in Seattle:

http://databank.isranet.org/article.asp?article=64465

After which terror charges were never filed and the gov't began seeking deportation on extraordinarily pedestrian grounds, with his lawyer speaking publicly about the case:

http://www.kolkenandkolken.com/index.php?src=news&srctype=de...

Can't find anything after that, but he's not listed in the USCIS's Online Detainee Locator System and AFAIK could not have been legally deported to Somalia.

WikiLeaks documents on him, combined with other sources, paint a picture that he's either a) a somewhat prolific terrorist/human trafficker; or b) a politically active Muslim immigrant in the USA who might be kinda sorta guilty of some clerical crimes and may've acted a teensy bit dodgy when returning to the USA. (b) is probably way more likely given that DHS was apparently OK releasing him on parole.
>In August 2015, Urschel suffered a concussion when he went helmet-to-helmet with another player and was knocked unconscious.

>"I think it hurt my ability to think well mathematically," Urschel said. "It took me about three weeks before I was football-ready. It took me a little bit longer before my high-level visualizations ability came back."
Not for journal articles.

http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/
There are plenty of chat apps with rich interfaces not implemented in HTML. Some of them far better than Slack.
This is a great example on how one can get fooled by optimizing the wrong measure. This should be introductory material to machine learning, before any algorithm gets introduced.
At a bar drinking my default reaction would probably be to barely scoot across the bench and say "that should give you plenty of room"

In a workplace environment though it's definitely be a weird comment to hear
Without seeing the 3000 questions and what categories they fall in, I wouldn't put too much stock into this article. I use both on a daily basis and Alexa is far more accurate than Google Home, but again that's my use case, mostly asking for radio stations, songs, news trivia questions and simple arithmetic.
I agree. I'm not cool with the idea of some hardware device being plugged into my own, with no idea what the device even does, or records.