skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reality check for the boot camps: students are finally getting wise to some of the issues. A major camp in NYC decided not to offer another web dev course because enrollment was so low. As the raging issues in tech with respect to ageism, sexism, and racism get more play, prospective students think twice before leaping. I can only offer NYC observations, and not an official study, but employers won't hire much over 35 here. And if you are a woman or of color to boot--- forget it, its like trying to be a famous actor in terms of opportunity for you. The bootcamps are more than happy to take the money of people of color, women, and over age 35 beginners without a word to newcomers who ask these questions before they enroll- these concerns are brushed aside. What is worse is that if you look at the employees at several of these boot camps, the faculty is under 35, and often 95- 100percent white and male. Often, if there are women employed there, the women are not just young, but the youngest. Or perhaps they have a woman faculty member, but she is kept off their website. (specific NYC example- can't name names, but just look at the boot camps' websites in nyc and you will find the one. - the one with no women listed as faculty- they do have one woman- they just keep her from public view on their website) This kind of blatant discrimination looks very amateur in NYC where companies who have already been sued try to be a bit more subtle about discriminatory practices) these bootcamps staff themselves in a mini replica of this industry as a whole- not w an eye toward positive change re:inclusion. But they preach it all day long. Perhaps they think they are really helping without taking a good look at themselves. I'm trying to err on the charitable side. And I'm not saying no one at all hires women or people of color or people over 40, but nearly all the boot camp founders tend to be middle aged and then hire staff and faculty who are under 40, white and mostly male. If asked, I'm sure the words "culture fit" would get uttered. I'm frustrated at watching too many exceptional programmers in these categories who have lots of valuable experience get passed over for younger, whiter, and more male folks w no experience. A former restaurant server with zero teaching experience/ability/empathy should not be hired as faculty at a bootcamp over a CS grad w teaching experience who former students love. I was "taught" by such a person at one of the top bootcamps. He and many others there had no clue how to teach. Their idea of teaching is to verbally code up a project while a student listens. He was not an exception - he was the rule there. The lawsuits are already in the pipeline, and that will provide an official data set soon. Whoever escapes these will get to move the model forward and hopefully do something about these issues and drive some positive change- not just give it lip service.
I'll second this. I wasn't exactly sure what you were selling until I got to the "try" page.
True. Comparing with Wappalyzer and BuiltWith, here's why we think we have something different (and maybe better):

1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them).

2. Ability to follow sites (and know what techs websites started using/ditched).

3. Very lightweight compared to our counterparts, and arguably better UI ;)

4. More accurate data. BuiltWith can be very inaccurate as you might've already noticed. Wappalyzer is fairly accurate, but limited in technologies.
WhatRuns is trying to be the best of both worlds.
If you take the price I paid for RP data and divide it over the number of months for which I had service, it still comes out with a competitive rate. So I'm not too disappointed there.
That would be an amazing feat with the risk of destroying an extremely expensive piece of equipment.
Sorry, you make up a role of Germany which does not exist and which is not grounded in reality. The reality is that Germany is in the area of security policy and military actions only a minor player. It's also not located in the region and has not many historic interests: no former colonies in the region unlike France and Italy. It's also not a protector of countries in the region, like for example the US or Russia.

Let's come back to the specific situation I mentioned: Libya. The largest weapon seller to Libya were Russia (by far) and Italy.

Not Germany. German weapon exports to Libya were minor.

The situation in Libya was neither caused nor fueled by Germany. It was Berlusconi (prime minister of Italy) who was a big friend of Gaddafi, not Merkel.

That there is chaos in Libya and that people are fleeing to Europe is nothing where Merkel or Germany in general has contributed much, compared to many other countries who were directly involved in Libya. That was contributing in a big way to the chaos there and the refugee crisis, not German policies.

Here is a nice articcle about Italy's involvement in Libya before the civil war and before the military inntervention...

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053363,00...
This is what happens to software development within large corporations. Developers are being managed by a bureaucracy that doesn't have a clue about software development.
changemyview is an interesting experiment but I don't find the format lends itself to a completely impartial approach to the subjects discussed. In particular:

* It is one poster listening to and responding to many people challenging her. That creates an inherent imbalance to the conversation.

* Since the beliefs of one person are the meta subject matter, that person alone (not other posters) is implicitly pressured to change their view to seem rational and open minded. Everyone else does not have the same pressure.

* To that end, I haven't seen a CMV awarded in the reverse direction.

* The up voted subjects are subject to the general biases of Reddit.
> I don't know how anyone can say that with a straight face.

Which part?

Do you disagree that they're revolutionaries when it comes to VR? Every headset out there right now is based on the prototype tech they developed

> Imagine for a second if Nintendo or Sony had released a peripheral like that and had released nothing but a demo disk in over a year.

Imagine for a second that Valve had ten times as many employees as they currently do. Then maybe it would be comparable?
In what roles at which businesses are new grads earning 120k-130k?
I was just going to say that. Because I found that on HN. I had also found this here https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ (before ventusky)
FYI all modern browsers support SVGs and SVG icons have much fewer problems than icon fonts (especially when it comes to fallbacks when the font fails to load).
Investigation of Stalling Characteristics of DC-3 Airplane [1938] [video]
> if you have 10+ years experience in something not-trivial

Yeah that sounds an awful lot like having critical knowledge. But 72k is not what an "average developer" would earn in The Netherlands, not even the average senior developer (I'd say something around 4000 per month?).

> you need to push harder if you're not getting paid this

Preaching to the choir here ;)

But maybe that's why we never heard about big software companies from Vienna then? If they have to pay average mid-career programmers 72k? ;)
Can you explain what you mean by static type safety?
But people seem to inherently understand that the sketch artist controls what you see, the moment they're showing you. They're less aware that photographers do the same thing - most people treat photographs as "objective truth".
Honestly, don't be perceived as a cost if you want to have a fulfilling work environment.
> I know you can't extrapolate that to a person's entire relationship, but it just seems kinda... unfortunate I guess.

It's important to remember this fact. Too many people judge others based on their own ideologies. It's their life; not your own. I'm just as guilty as everyone else to judge, but I'm working on it.
Honestly, almost any hobby with depth has one, but I know of no good generalist sites.

Here is a good example;

Bobtheoilguy - Forum dedicated to automotive lubricants. Some very in depth analysis and company insiders on occasion. Many users regularly send in oil for testing and post results. Great for info on the changing formulations of oil standards, and common additive packages. Very useful for me, owning old and new cars and bikes.
Yeah and that F2P MOBA is one of the most beloved, polished, and competitive games around. I don't understand the comparison to a slot machine.

I can't speak to the F2P card game because it does not exist yet.
The dragon book is very informative but is harder to parse (ha) than many other compiler books. People should definitely read it, it just might be hard to read as a "My First Compiler" book.
Could use a hyphen there, but I'd go either way
This is correct, unlike my assumption of a shorter cable above. OTOH due to lower gravity, the tensile strength required is still much lower. To quote the very article you lonked:

> the engineering requirements for constructing a lunar elevator system can be met using currently available materials and technology.
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"You might be wondering where my server costs are, and I’ll admit that I’m cheating a bit on that one. I host all of my projects on the same server—one that I’ve been paying for for more than five years—so I’m not including that in the budget for this project specifically. In reality I should probably include a portion of those costs here."
Show HN: CLI tooling to seamlessly jump between projects
We are back to the golden times (not so golden for most) of the steel, oil and railroad tycoons. The ability to assemble and run such disparate enterprises may be a function of wealth distribution.
In which ways was Microsoft evil?
If you can write to memory in a way that overwrites integer values the whole logic of a program falls apart. Imagine if an adversary could affect the result of everything you do with integers.

It's not necessarily a common thing. Most people aren't running python directly on the internet but being able to screw around with stuff like this is just another important tool in the toolbox when you're attacking something.
I've been a chrome user since it came out pretty much, I loved it. But I also love Rust, so I gave it a try when it came out in nightly. FF definitely 'feels' snappier and I've transferred all my bookmarks and everything over to FF sync without issues.
> I think a few aspects of the language contribute to this:

0. You have to use it because it's the only thing in browsers, just like VBA is the "popular" choice for scripting a Microsoft Office application.
Right, but debaserab2's complaint was that the ingredients alone bought at WF cost the same as a full meal at the restaurant (which includes all that other stuff).
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There is nothing illegal, it's just idiotic behavior. What's the point? Oh, not 100% of people that flee conflict are good people? Uh, congrats? There are bad people in every group, this should be common sense, and if you are working so hard to 'prove' that some refugees are bad, you are the bad person.
The world isn't that binary. No one is suggesting you hire a bunch of people who don't care at all about solving actual problems and who would just screw around all day messing with whatever shiny object caught their eye.

The discussion is whether someone who is just in it "for the paycheck" will be able to solve those business problems as effectively as someone who has a deeper interest in technology for technology's sake. By itself, that's obviously not enough signal to say one way or the other. There certainly are extremely valuable people who don't code outside of work, follow new language and tool discussions online, etc. I think it's equally obvious though that such an interest is a positive signal. If you told me nothing else about two potential hires except person A writes Java at work and has no interest in the field beyond that, and person B writes Java at work, but has a Github page full of utilities she wrote in Go, Lisp, Haskell, whatever, I'd bet a small amount that person B is probably better at solving technical problems. You can't say that for sure, and any of the myriad other factors that actually do matter could break the other way and make person A the better hire for an actual business, but outside interest is a positively correlated trait.
Source for Microsoft? I once read an article saying that Google, Apple & Microsoft forbade all their developers from even using React due to its licence and this was years ago.
I've never heard a theory that the moon itself impacted the Earth. There has been discussion of the idea of a fast glancing blow by Theia, which is omitted:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19011013
It is always interesting to me to see how they did things before computer simulation (and before giant wind tunnels with high speed cameras, in this case).
I taught at a boot camp; can confirm you are right.
They should consider hiring an American who is the exact opposite of JC (someone in the mold of Danny DeVito), except for the condescending tone.

George Wendt, maybe?
Twitter definitely has always had the quality, lurking beneath. Personally, I just find it mentally exhausting ignoring and filtering out all the low-value content and noise on most social platforms.
> I don't remember people shaking their heads at parents reading a paperback book at the park, or commuters reading broadsheet newspapers on the train.

That's because you're not old enough. Some people did complain. (I can't find the actual quote, but I'll wager you've seen the photo that usually accompanies it - a train full of people reading the newspaper.)

You're definitely not old enough to remember Socrates bitching about kids learning to read and write.

And I suppose you're lucky enough that your parents didn't complain about you reading books, like some of my friends' did.
You mean FreedomPop can't make / receive normal phone calls, like through the iPhone phone app?

Can you send / receive text messages to short codes?
John Lewis/Waitrose is a successful full scale co-op in Britain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership
Given that a cow basically serves as a way to convert salad into steak, it's pretty obvious that meat is less efficient. But it's also more delicious, which is why we eat so much of it. Life is about more than simple proteins.
Show HN: AmanithVG, blazing fast OpenVG engine
Three words, my friend: "calories per acre".

Vegetables are not good calories sources; they are good nutrient sources. Grains are good calorie sources: your rice, your potatoes [not a grain], and especially your corn. Grains will yield 10-20 times the calorie per acre of vegetables. Grains are so insanely productive that, on a calories per acre basis, it is more land efficient to get your calories from corn-fed livestock than from vegetables.

Calories per acre are a big reason why vegetables cost more than meat. It is also why we grow different foods in different places. It is why basically all of our [the United States] potatoes come from Idaho: the volcanic soils there grow potatoes so well that it makes more sense to grow highly efficient potatoes in Idaho and corn in Kansas and ship them back and forth, because you'd get half as much corn in Idaho and half as many potatoes in Kansas.
Would you consider exposing an RPC interface to JavaScript and/or WASM to enable faster vdom operations?

Also, after reading that old HN comment, do you think adding something like RenderEvent with values like client size already defined would make sense?

Servo feels like a great platform for experiments like this which, if successful, could move into Firefox.
I took this course it is wonderful and good. Also read her book.

I now always try to skim the index of a book or chapter before reading it. Also try to study in smaller sessions, every day, instead of cramming a ton of info in just one day.
The incentives are perverse when a co op runs this way. An uber for x (or pretty much any company) succeeds when there's a maniacal focus on the customer, sometimes even at the expense of the contractors or employees used to service them.

Coops on the other hand exist to serve themselves, not their customers. That's why small scale communes and cults work better. They enable self sufficiency and owner happiness, which may be mutually exclusive with good customer service.
Hi, Hacker News!

We are truly stunned to see us on top of HN today! :)

WhatRuns is a free browser extension that shows you what runs a website – from ad networks and developer tools to fonts and Wordpress plugins. You can also follow websites and get notified when they add or remove technologies.

We soft-launched a couple of weeks back and was lucky enough to be picked up by the Chrome team. We were featured on the Chrome Webstore, landing us 12k active users in one week. It was a huge validation and helped us tremendously in squashing bugs and making a finished product. We realise we have a long way to go, and our little team is working round the clock to make it happen. We also launched on ProductHunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/whatruns

Would love to hear what you think :)

UPDATE:

Thank you for all the feedback!

Sorry about the occasional false detections. We are looking into this. This is largely because we detect a considerably large number of technologies/plugins compared to our counterparts. Lots of possibilities for false pattern recognition etc.
Rest assured our team is working round the clock to improve accuracy and add more technologies/plugins.

Also, Our servers are going a bit cranky due to the huge traffic we are experiencing today. New websites (that was not loaded on WhatRuns before) are now queued up and might experience 2-3 seconds delay. This is to ensure best experience for our active users.

Thank you so much for such a great response!
Depending on your interests any decent hobby/professional forum should have a high level of discussion similar to how HN is mostly oriented towards tech. Do you have non-tech interests and if so, what are they?
Can i ask why do you mention rust ? By that i mean what prompted you to write about rust here and now.
> FreedomPop pays Sprint and AT&T based on customer usage. The two big carriers can see what websites FreedomPop users are checking out, but neither they nor FreedomPop can record or monitor calls as long as only FreedomPop users are participants.

I wonder if the major carriers track and log web browsing history of their own customers as well? And if we can opt out...
Well one instance I can think of is removing functionality in favor of libraries or higher level languages. That can usually cut down on complexity in the codebase significantly.
I have a friend that does this. I'll reach out to him. We're in Buffalo, NY. In the meantime contact me at jon kiddy at gmail and I'll see if I can introduce the two of you.
Yes, I do mind. Sorry.
Huh? I have two FreedomPop SIM cards, which I made a one-time payment of 3 € for (with no monthly fee), and it's been mostly reliable so far. Are you saying they're gonna add a monthly fee, or is the one-time payment new?
I did not get any similar errors on other GTK apps I tested, so I'm relatively confident that it is at least somewhat related to the way gtk-rs does things. I do not seriously expect any Rust code to directly violate memory safety, but calling C code in GTK incorrectly can still have the same effect.
SSH Browser and Rsync Transfer Engine = Rsync Client.app
"Static type safety" will generally mean type safety established at compile time. In this context, "static" tends to mean "compile time" and "dynamic" tends to mean "runtime".

For example, one might say "static code analysis" to mean analyzing code without running it, such as during a phase during compilation. In contrast, "dynamic code analysis" tends to mean actually running the code and making decisions based on what happens at runtime, such as in JIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation) techniques that identify hotspots.
Designers' perceptions of quality can get out of synch with what users actually want. Sometimes we assume that people want things that are actually negotiable.

More concretely, would HL fans rather have a HL3 that is merely a game, flaws and all, or are they waiting for the second coming (third?)?

If HL3 gets made, is a game with warts and all, that's not necessary a bad thing. It may be that the dev team is holding themselves to an impossible standard rather than users holding them to an impossible standard.
Prevalence is over 40% if you live into your 80s.
[Replying in a different comment, because this is more confrontational and less informative, but I still think it is important to say.]

Re: food prices -> minimum wage, is your plan seriously to (somehow) raise food prices, so that the people who cannot afford to eat will riot / strike / protest for higher wages, so they don't starve to death?
So I decided to give this ICO thing a shot
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Bodies of Swiss couple missing for 75 years found on glacier
As a longtime and current asp.net developer I use the Laravel php framework for client work and side projects. Modern php is very easy for a java or c# dev to pick up. Development speed and ease of deployment is what matters and Laravel is a mature batteries included rapid application development framework with a large community and ecosystem and even it's own hosting platform Laravel forge.
You didn't explicitly state this, but I think it's important to highlight: protein != meat. Farming fish is more efficient than farming cows, but it's still more wasteful than having people eat plants directly.

It seems to me that a lot of damage is being done because of the idea that getting enough protein is difficult unless you eat meat. In reality, it's difficult to be protein deficient if you eat 2000+ calories/day.

I'm not advocating that everyone go vegan, but clearly the amount of meat we eat today is unsustainable. I think a good first step to addressing that is some nutrition education, and dispelling the myth that protein = meat.
Exactly - I can have a data-only plan to receive calls on a number.
You really shouldn't be relying on security by obscurity to prevent attacks to your websites. If you check your access logs you'll see countless attacks that are unconditional, they'll just try the attacks without any kind of sanity checking.
So you can't stand people calling others racist for not being accepting, but it's OK to stereotype refugees? It's a contradiction.
Here lies Anarcho-Syndikalism, a concept that was proven to work under less favorable conditions, but stagnated in self-strangulation due to unreasonable risk avoidance.

One wonders how much that piece of paper at valve is really worth.