skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We may get to a point where building software is more like building a car, and we just need humans to work on the factory assembly line. But we're not there yet. So the experiment failed.

I've seen this sentiment being thrown around a lot lately. I don't think it will ever be the case. There will always need to be someone who can build the tools or the tools that build the tools or the tools that build the tools that build the tools.

Let's use your auto assembly line idea to illustrate this. A good portion of auto manufacturing these days is completely automated, the body is assembled by robots for instance. Well, a factory had to build those robots, right? That factory probably bought some robot control software from another company who specializes in that. The company that built the robot probably didn't manufacture all of the components for the robot. For instance, their welding robot may have a wire feed spool that was manufactured by a company that builds welders. However, the company that manufactured the spool probably didn't forge the metal themselves, they bought it from a forging company. That company in turn bought ore from a mining company. The mining company mined that ore using an automated tunnel boring machine. The automated tunnel boring machine was built by another company that manufactures automated mining machinery, and the trail starts anew.

Somewhere down the line in every industry is an engineer who designs and possibly even builds components that are necessary for that industry to operate.

Now, applied to software engineering:

Even if we did have software that could automatically build a web application tailored specifically and exactly to what any given company wanted down to website design and SEO, that software would have still need to have been built in the first place. If that software was built by another piece of software and so on up the line, at some point there is a person who built the progenitor. Regardless of who built the original, wouldn't these pieces of software still have bugs? What if these pieces of software involved more software that could fix their own bugs? Well , who fixes the bugs in the bug fixing software?

Beyond this, what if there is a new feature that needs to be built out? Will the software be able to build out that new feature and integrate it with the existing application? If so, how will it handle conflicts?

As it currently stands, it takes a team of multiple professionals to simply maintain any non-trivial codebase. I don't personally believe that it is possible to design an AI that is powerful enough to do this kind of work without this AI having human levels of intelligence and creativity. In order for this AI to be able to reach this kind of proficiency it would have to be self aware. And then we are forced to ask the question: is self aware AI still AI, or is it alive? We are not ready to answer these questions. Until we are, there will always be a need for flesh and bone engineers of all sorts.

That ended up way longer than I intended.
Black Lives Matter organized something similar this year for Mother's Day https://www.thenation.com/article/this-mothers-day-black-liv...
What are the major differences between Goobuntu and Ubuntu, from which I assume Google's distro is derived?
Or, publicly shame them.

There's a reason judges impose gag orders which violate people's right to free speech. They're OK with violating peoples constitutional rights to serve their own self interests.

Who bells the cat?
I think the point of doing this in SCC is that the cost of defending against small-claims is usually greater than the cost of just settling the SCC. Lawyers aren't cheap, and folks going to SCC are banking on them being more expensive than their claim.
That's kind of indicative of another American value; namely "my money trumps your knowledge".
How Entrepreneurs are making profit of ICOs
Cost of living and unwillingness to bend over backwards for tax breaks take NYC out of the running. I think their list -- Toronto, Boston, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas or Denver -- is pretty decent though Washington and Toronto seem less likely than the others (COLA and ex-US respectively).

Except for being unwilling/unable to offer very high tax breaks, Chicago would be right up there too. But I have to imagine that's going to be a very significant factor.

Other long shot, but still plausible, cities are: Las Vegas, Charlotte, Detroit, and Minneapolis.
Looks like they're predicting larger than usual aurora effects as a result: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

Still not getting too far into the lower 48 states, but looks like there should be good visibility throughout Canada and northern UK.
> I’ve stated numerous times in the past that I uphold the right for any business to decide for themselves who they will or will not conduct business with. In the long run I firmly believe an unfettered free market would sort out who is on the right side or the wrong side of history.

> That means that you can’t force a bible-thumping fundamentalist baker to make a cake for a gay wedding if he doesn’t want to.

> It even means a restaurant should be able to refuse to seat (pick one): black people, white people, males, redheads, left-handed people or introverts. Whatever. They probably won’t stay in business very long, it’s a form of corporate Darwinism.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way. Consider just how pervasive and resilient segregation was; or, how a restaurant might actually attract business from like-minded customers who want to make a point (e.g. Chik-fil-a)
Actually, at least where I live the law is that it can not be an attorney.

It must be a regular staff member or manager.

I did not check how many states have a law like that.
The difference is that their intentional leaking of classified information as people with a security clearance is letter of the law illegal. The difference seems huge and obvious to my untrained eye.
Just in case you aren't aware, another competitor in this space is flippa:

https://flippa.com/

It's probably a good idea to learn from what worked for them/what they iterated to as well
I the US military actually that much more powerful than China's? I'm asking honestly, I don't know much about this stuff.
I don't understand how Philadelphia is not near the top of the list. The cost of living is way lower then any other top 10 metro area, There is a huge local talent base, and lots of highly ranked feeder schools.
And if Amazon attracts enough talent to turn Philly into a tech hub then PA will have all the same "one city runs the show and the rest of the state resents them" dynamic that NY and IL do.

It's probably still a win for Philly though.
....but philisophically... why would I put my information into a site that is already known to have a leak? obviously im just checking to see if i was affected, but by checking, if someone is snooping, would validate that i'm actively concerned and possibly extortable. just sayin....
You might change your mind after spending a couple of summers here. ACs run 24/7. But 1" of snow sends everyone home - to clean grocery stores out of milk and bread.
Simple and easy to use. Official vue-router and vuex (centralized state management) libraries are excellent.
Amazon seem to be looking for a well-functioning city with a lot to offer in the way of workforce and amenities, but they also really don't want to pay the top dollar it takes to locate and hire in places like SF and NYC. That means they need a second-tier center of some sort.

Atlanta has been proposed several times.
Just shove it all in midtown.
Unlikely. China has no experience and insufficient infrastructure to project power over an ocean to take and hold land against the US Navy; logistics would get difficult once the US Air Force and Marines enter the picture, as well. Also, they currently enjoy a highly-advantageous position by keeping their relationship with the US somewhat ambiguous, by turns friendly and icy. This strongly advances their mercantilist posture, while giving them cover to engage in low-intensity conflict (like the South China Sea islands activity) with impunity.

If they openly turned hostile against the US like that, then their economy would have to do without much export trade in a short amount of time, months instead of decades. Doable, but a mess, and it's not clear that the initial domestic support the current regime would enjoy from a war would outweigh and outlast the longer term economic adjustments to be made. They're trying to pivot away from exports at the moment, but it's pretty addictive.

I tend to buy more into arguments that the PRC enjoys the cognitive/attention bandwidth NK occupies within US leadership, and if NK happens to first strike US, successfully or not, the resulting chaos would net benefit the PRC's global power position. They keep the benefit of a buffer state by insisting the US not take pre-emptive action, while simultaneously refusing to take stronger action (using the avoidance of absorbing a NK humanitarian crisis as shield) against NK, yet not actively help NK beyond the current nominal assistance levels, so I don't see significant downsides for the PRC and RUS to let the status quo reign.

I suspect the PRC's unofficial statement that if NK struck first, then the PRC would not oppose a US reaction, is a thinly-veiled threat to the US: even if you or an ally absorb a nuclear first strike, you're not going to replace our buffer state. We'll intervene to topple the Kim regime, perhaps even help you do that, and then we'll ensure we control the agenda going forward of what emerges to replace that regime in NK.

Before we get all doom and gloom over ICBMs, the chances are greater NK will ship a nuclear bomb to the US inside an ISO shipping container crossing in by ship, train or truck than lobbing it with a missile. The difficulties from this point in their ICBM development program are still substantial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A00QWVHem3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elEh4EBrqTQ

I agree with other comments here that the bigger, long-term threat is nuclear proliferation. We might successfully enter a MAD scenario with NK, only to get clocked by a Hezbollah-assembled device painstakingly purchased and gleaned from multiple sources including NK among the list. It's not even the materiel or finished devices that has me wondering as much as the practical knowledge that sits in scientists', engineers' and technicians' heads. We could magic away all of NK's nuclear infrastructure, and that still won't solve the problem of they have all these people that know the how-to's of building the devices. That's going to be a tough problem to solve.
Stats for 'top' coding bootcamps for January to June 2016
SLC might be too 'small' but it growing, has a super strong university system and tons of software engineers.
Have you tried going to bed earlier?

I've been a night owl for most of my younger life, and only started going to bed earlier after 30. I've noticed that even if I sleep the same number of hours, I feel more energetic if my sleep hours are just earlier. For example if you're going to sleep 6~7 hours a night (which is minimum I'd say), doing a 10pm - 5pm sleep schedule would make you feel better than if you did say 2am - 9am.

I don't know the science behind why that is, probably something to do with natural human biological clocks.

You mentioned your 3 jobs and school are all flexible, so it shouldn't be too hard to adjust your sleep schedule.
Yeah, the article doesn't address the Twin Cities, but it meets his criteria:

- 3.5M metro area population

- Very high education levels

- Diverse population protected by strong civil rights

- Major international airport (Delta hub; 16th largest in the US)

- Very affordable

- Large business community already (Cargill, Target, Best Buy, major Wells Fargo office, etc.)

On the negatives, it is growing slower than other metros and the weather will be a turn off.

Honestly, I think Amazon has a pretty good idea of where they want their new HQ to be. They are using this process to extract concessions.
Probably should add a contact form. so people's emails aren't exposed.
USPS is a good contender for identity validation, too.
oh, that's really interesting!
In a perfect world no true Scottsman would trade BTC directly.

Bitcoin will struggle as long as their development team struggles with fixing the 3-4 transactions per second limit. $20 fees to process a transaction in 20 minutes? Good luck.
Alright, I still think it hints of a trend. Feel free to think otherwise.
And then change their name to Omni Consumer Products?
For anyone reading this: I believe it’s a one time $10 per credit bureau to freeze your credit. Equifax would obviously like to charge you more if you’re willing. Do not sign up for Equifax’s service. It is a rip-off for a number of reasons.
It takes special dedication and focus to learn the rigor on your own. However, once you are able to naturally recognize what's rigorous and what's not, I think it's possible to do it on your own.

I think the issue is not how hard it is, it's just that most people have never done anything like learning advanced mathematics before. If you're on your own, you can't learn math by autopilot and reading and regurgitating and allowing the info to naturally propagate through your brain. You have to learn to focus and interactively refine your own version of mathematics.
A Simple Visual Proof of a Powerful Idea in Graph Theory
I went through Alpharetta with a friend once and saw all the expensive cars and jerk drivers. I thought it must be what living in Silicon Valley is like.
Maybe I'm cynical but this seems like a vacation to me in the name of 'raising money for kids'. How does this actually help the schools?
Shouldn't Amazon be more interested in the economic conditions, rather than hiking and biking and the brewery scene?
HVDC transmission is huge in China. Cheap hydroelectric capacity is in the northwestern part of the country, and the big loads are near the east coast. So there are thousand-mile million-volt DC transmission links.
Functors, Applicatives and Monads in pictures
How to Deal with Uncomfortable Emotions and Reshape Your Identity
Arbitration clauses agreed to by who? Do most individuals have any relationship with the credit reporting agencies beyond having their private information siphoned up behind their back? (and trying to keep a handle on that, so that their "credit score" remains favorable?)
Philly is at least half way there already - it's just Philly and Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia is bigger.
The psychology of imagined crimes
I had to go check the certificate chain to make sure it was legit, and they're using an amazon-generated certificate that appears legitimate. Definitely looks fishy but I think they're just that bad at making trustworthy websites.
http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/testing.html
Why do big hacks happen? Blame Big Data
Why is this downvoted? Sounds like a really fucked up place.
It's interesting, because they really need to pick a city that won't have trouble attracting software developers. Some large companies (like Epic) have trouble recruiting and have to pay people way more because they're so far away from normal tech hubs.
Many techies not only want to live in the South, they are FROM the South.
Do you think that the FCRA punitive damages ($100-$1000 per person) might apply here?
Minneapolis would definitely be a great choice.

For those that don't know Minneapolis like the parent commenter and I do:

- Amazon already has an engineering office in Minneapolis. Check out some of the jobs here.

- Amazon has a fulfillment center in Shakopee, MN -- a third ring suburb ~30 miles away from Minneapolis.

- This is mostly anecdotal on my part, but it's pretty typical for top computer science students at the University of Minnesota to go to Amazon / Microsoft in Seattle. Silicon Valley doesn't seem to bother recruiting in Minnesota, but Seattle-based companies seem to have good luck recruiting out of Minnesota -- where the weather is even worse.

- Minneapolis has the headquarters of some of Amazon's biggest "old retail" competitors -- Target and Best Buy. A large Amazon presence in Minneapolis would go a long way to poaching the top 10% of talent at both companies.

- Minneapolis also has a small but promising tech community. BuzzFeed and a few other tech companies have an engineering office in Minneapolis.
So TLDR - how can I find out if my data was stolen?
Flippa is filled with MFA sites and I find really hard to filter signal from noise there.
I never signed anything with Equifax, but they still have my information. I'm sure the great majority of the ~140M records they have are in a similar position.
That was the threat when the OPM got hacked a few years back -- anyone who ever had a background investigation done for a federal job now had their background info in some russian or chinese database dump. With that level of detail, you could start blackmailing some Lockheed or Raytheon employees until they leak some stealth fighter radar secrets to make the monthly false homeloan headaches go away.

I don't think the next world war will be fought with nukes, it will be an economic fight. Leak a few corporate secrets [1] to stall the economy, use the OPM dump and this Equifax dump to originate enough false loans to seize up the financial sector, then cause havok across the electrical grid [2] like you did during the annexation of Crimea just to make sure they stay down.

We've been blind to the other half of the threat of centralized information repositories... the 1984 Big Brother scenario assumes the holder of the information wants to control the citizens, but we never considered the information might have leaked to an actor who wants to destroy the citizens.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack
[2]: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-gain-switch-flipping-acc...
Wait, are we talking about the Taliban or ISIS?
I think Toronto came first in their final list for a reason. It's a way to hedge against US immigration policies and also for Jeff Bezos to thumb his nose at Trump.
How? Why? What? Are you serious? This doesn't sound reasonable in the least.
how is this different than a coupon? or a store branded Gift card? .. funds available for redemption at a subset of merchants.

Edit: I see now that its considered the same for tax reporting purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerkShares#Taxation
You're what's called a "consumer", as in "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau". You're only a "customer" of Equifax if you purchase one of their products.

The CRAs don't make or break your credit history, that's the businesses that supply information to them. The CRAs are aggregators, and just report what their members tell them.
That is my impression too. I find that the most relevant metric impacting the bug density is number of lines on this one project, and it's very non-linear.

That puts at advantage both languages that reduce line count, and languages that make it possible to abstract the plumbing into a generic library (if it's not generic, it's part of this one project). I think mostly everybody has that same impression.

Still, we shouldn't pretend that impression is a scientific certainty.
Has this already occurred? Has anyone been able to use their phone's location history for their alibi? The data exists. Isn't this what subpoenas are for?
I'd like to hear this from an actual attorney, not some "not a lawyer" dude's Twitter account.
Well about 2 months ago (when the leak was happening apparently) I had false information showing up on my credit report for a Comcast debt.

The weird thing is the Comcast debt couldn't have actually been mine. As the date of the debt was smack dab in the middle of when I had service with Comcast before switching to ATT.

Now, during this period I tried to refinance my home and was denied due to a low score with Equifax. I pulled my EQ 2 weeks before trying to qualify and there was nothing. Then I found that after I was denied and pulled it again of course. I submitted a challenge on it, and it was removed within 2 weeks but the damage was already done.

So would this count as real damages?
When it comes to comics, No Starch Press (https://www.nostarch.com/catalog/manga) has manga/comics that describes advanced ideas in a fun way. A Manga Guide to Algorithms and Data Structures sounds like a great addition to the collection
And because their security will probably still be a joke after this is all over, someone can hack their database again to ensure they actually put the claim in there.
Well the obvious problem is that you have to test all of the code paths before deciding that your code is type safe. Static types do not have that problem.
I was thinking that the ultimate response could be to start your own registrar. However, I have no idea how difficult that would be.
Definitely plenty of supply for this anyways :)

Congrats on shipping.
You are not an "average American". But really, it doesn't matter what the average American thinks; it's about the strategic calculus of showing that Japan and South Korea are under US protection.
A lot of businesses these days prefer web apps. It's not hard to understand why - all the hassle of system maintenance falls to the people who host the app and can afford to know their stuff. If your Windows PC is suffering from rot just replace it with a Chromebook.
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I'm sure equifax would respond by offering you free credit monitoring for life (which costs them nothing to do)
If you can't afford to give that many people due process you can't afford to imprison them.
Any corporation large enough to have its own PR department is in the business of making fake news.
How a fake war photojournalist fooled media organisations worldwide
Looks pretty neat, thanks for the link. From a quick look, it seems like the performance characteristics will be pretty similar to a xi-style rope (it seems extremely unlikely to me that the time spent finding the child is significant, so the radix trick can't save much time), and it's a bit more complex. That said, I do expect it to perform nicely for read-only access to large documents, which is definitely an important use case.

It would make a fun project for somebody to implement it and compare the performance. I'd certainly take the PR for it if the performance was better :)

[edit: followup] The rope implementation in xi has an additional heuristic that tries not to split lines across leaf boundaries (ie most leaves should end in a newline). It also has a hard constraint of not splitting a unicode codepoint. Thus, leaves and subtrees would have an unpredictable number of elements (as opposed to being a clean power of two when full) and I think that pretty much invalidates using the radix to select the child.
Alone wrote a series of three blog posts in 2012 ostensibly about hipsters on food stamps. It's an interesting analysis about downward social mobility and the defense mechanisms against the resulting anxiety.

I think it's relevant to middle class angst and a precursor to the Premium Mediocre concept. What could be more premium mediocre than buying fancy food on food stamps?

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam...
But the supposed mechanism in this case basically boils down to "not manly enough to put pee pee in vajayjay". Even if group means differ slightly, there are so many feminine straight met and masculine gay men that it's very doubtful that this hints at an underlying mechanism. It is rather like noticing differences in haircuts between straight men and gay men and surmising that grooming makes you gay. The idea that effeminacy is the underlying mechanism makes sense only given the homophobic stereotype that all gay men are limp-wristed pansies (which of course it is perfectly ok to be, gay or straight).