skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, even if they would, where are you going to get the associated 'stuff' (the board, the drivers, the operating system etc. etc.) around it to make it work ?
Is anyone else even remotely worried about Amazon’s eventual reach?
there is probably some kind of sweet spot where you get to do whatever really cool stuff you can think of and your company is just pretty good
[missing features]

Well, MS Office, for example, is around 20000x the code of early Smalltalk "Personal Computing" systems. Let's assume that that core code covers only 1% of the features, so you'd need 100x more code to implement all of them. I think this is being very generous, but let's stick with it.

That would mean you still have a factor 200 unaccounted for. In other words, even when being very generous, we still haven't accounted for 99.5% of the code.
Crunch Report – The Many Faces of SpaceX Explosions
why isn't everyone paid exactly the same? because that would suck for all of us here and be great for everyone that doesn't work as hard. I was messing with strange *nix distros for years and teaching myself programming before I got a tech job. I would be seriously pissed if someone that didn't know as much got my same job and pay just because they were a _____
Facebook is the latest tech giant to hunt for AI talent in Canada
Yeah, I mean solid state drives.
It is being implemented by the big three (GCC, Clang, and VC). In Clang and VC it is already usable to some extent.
There is little difference between "experience programming during a job" and "experience programming for fun". It is the same activity.

Over of my more recent hobby projects was writing an RSS->IMAP bridge in maybe a couple hundred lines of Python. It has one user (me). This is fairly typical.

Until this year, my primary work project was a toolset for streamlining one-off ETL projects. It has parts written in I think five different languages, it has parts that run on Windows user machines and other parts that run on unix servers, it was built to reduce the annoying parts of a business process, it evolved over the course of almost a decade, etc. It has a couple dozen users (the team I used to be on).

The two are about as different as adding a new attached garage and workshop vs building a dollhouse.
I think many people complain about this too. I remember a very famous HR person of a famous IT services firm in India once told in a public event that software was one of those areas where every one expects to be treated special and expects to be given a job where they feel they are generating tremendous value, by the virtue of which deserve a very high salary.

While only a handful such jobs exist in any company.

The standard response for these things used to be 'Go find a different job which you think works for you'. But these days its either 'do as I say' or 'prepared to get sued'.
And as usual: let's shame CentOS for their embarassing manuals page and their unwillingness(!) to fix it: https://www.centos.org/docs/
I'm not typing a 13 character phrase every 15 minutes when I unlock my phone. Before TouchID, I didn't even bother with a PIN since it was such a PITA to unlock
to the victor go the spoils
Here's the thing: despite what JS fans will tell you, you can make visually appealing, quick-loading, useful page/site with just HTML+CSS(+images/svgs etc) client side.

You don't need JavaScript.

The reverse isn't true. You can't make a page out of just JavaScript. Even if JS builds your DOM and builds the styles for it (because hey, crazy people have crazy ideas) the DOM and styles are still HTML + CSS. You still need to know what the JS should build.
This is tangential but I really like the design for that page. The audio time-stamps that appear next to the transcript are just awesome.
This should have a 2013 added to the tittle.
Sell branded t-shirts and stickers and anything else you can get your audience to buy.
If you click "New" at the parent site, you'll see that essentially it' micro-Patreon/Kickstarter full of beggars and spam that baits you to click "read more" to earn that 10c.
Ask HN: Why don't more people use the Korn Shell (/bin/ksh)?
It's installed by default on macOS, Solaris and easily installed on Linux. It offers a superior programming features[1] to /bin/sh, much faster than /bin/bash, and you can easily match bash's interactivity with a simple 'set -o emacs' to get redline keybindings.

Why is it generally ignored in the shell discussions?

[1] http://www.kornshell.com/info
This is sort of correct, but what you need to understand is by simply putting something on the web you're probably "violating" dozens of patents held by multiple big scary corporations. The big difference here is that FB has specifically described the patent grant, while most open-source projects leave it ambiguous.
> It developed from an earlier form of language called Parlyaree which had roots in Italian and rudimentary forms of language used for communication by sailors around the Mediterranean.

> Polari itself had Parlyaree as a base, but once in Britain was supplemented with a wealth of slang terminology from different sources, including Cockney Rhyming Slang, backslang (pronouncing a word as if it was spelt backwards), French, Yiddish and American airforce slang.

So perhaps its a dialect of Italian which borrows heavily from English? Or?
It all goes down to definition of "quality" used.

Maybe food analogy is good? If you put on the table: potato chips and a green salad with grilled chicken which one would most people choose? Could people agree on the definition of "quality" in this case?
For anyone else, I'd say that's letting us know a bit late. For AWS? Huge improvement.
I used to feel that social networks were a waste of time (even when I worked for Facebook) but in the last couple years that has changed. My social life has been dramatically improved by Facebook because I started using it to socialize with people who share my hobby (growing fruit). Through Facebook groups I've made a number of new friends I never would have met otherwise. We communicate and share details of our hobby on a daily basis. It's great fun. I hardly use the site to socialize with my family and old friends - it's basically a glorified message board.
A number of Chinese Android models have been found to contain back doors.

And you CAN use an iPhone without Apple if you jailbreak.

That said, Apple has taken a number of social policy positions and my 3 year old 6 Plus is getting the latest OS this fall, and for my load, the battery life is still well beyond a work days.

It's expensive but I'd end up chucking half a dozen cheap Android phones by now. Ultimately spending the same amount

I know all about walled gardens and don't care. I bought a device with long term intent. So far I've been "rewarded" for the decision

Meanwhile, official Android gadgets are quickly deprecated, leaky dinghy security wise and AOSP is a time consuming PITA
Thanks for the condescension sensei.

I think your position is equal work experience should merit equal pay.

You seem to have missed my point also - experience outside work also counts as experience. And millions of things besides experience determine your salary. So we should not be so quick to assume that 2 people with the same years of experience "should" merit equal pay - its obviously false.

If all people with equal work experience are simply equal in the value they bring to the company then why do we conduct interviews or ask for resumes or anything? Lets just set everyone's salaries to "$100K + 10K * (years worked)" no?
42 minutes before you wrote your comment, a comment was posted which includes a link to an article that does complain about the lopsided gender distribution in nursing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15254670

When I read these comments just now, it was literally 2 comments above yours.
Would participation in athletics or math competitions fulfill your requirements for early hard work and adversity? I do agree with your premise. I just don't see where you actually disagree with mine.

I'm not discounting anything. I'm just saying that it shouldn't be a given that engineers who got into the field late are automatically less able.

> early starters are likely to get very good at things in a far more disproportionate way than those who come later.

We think that but it's not actually demonstrated. Entering a field at the age of 18 or 20 isn't actually late. Until we actually have evidence that people who programmed before college have better outcomes, we need to stop talking about it as if it's a known truth.
The way that it works is that you hire anyone at all who can pass the hiring bar, and then negotiate salary afterwords.

The problem is quantity. At the end of the day, if only X people that you interview pass your hiring bar, it is impossible to hire more than X. You can't just say "Lets double X!".

Now, would companies do things like try to reach out to women groups, so as to increase the amount that interview with them, and therefore increase the proportion that are hired?

Yes, absolutely they would do that. As has been demonstrated by all the diversity reachout efforts that companies are doing to women and minority groups. Diversity efforts are PROFITABLE.
The original post said that they were "stealing" the water, which implies a violation of the law.

I was pointing that that they apparently had the legal right to the water.

Why can't local groups be given the tax benefits and other handouts to manage this? Are the people at Nestle THAT good at this? No one else can figure out the logistics?

What is the "this" you're referring to? Getting permits? Bottling water? Do you think "local groups" are less likely to be influenced by businesses and other special interests than federal agencies? Who would oversee all of these local groups to be sure they are operating fairly?

The whole notion that my community, a metro area of 3 million residents, multiple universities and tech companies, needs this redundancy

Again, you've lost me, what redundancy are you talking about?

But if Uncle Sam says so! Well who am I to question them!?

By all means, question the government, but why blame a company for operating under the conditions of the permit issued to them by the government agency that regulates the resource?
Oh no! I'm losing fake points that don't matter!
As it is zsh.

I remember the days where each login into an UNIX system would give me a totally different shell.

But all relevant ones were installed, so it was only a matter of having the right shebang paths.
And what's worse is when utility companies require me to "authenticate" over the phone with my name, address & dob: all publicly (to varying degrees) available information.
Dupe: submitted 1560 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838326
Because feminists don't consider nursing and construction to be jobs worth fighting over. They have a target on lucrative tech jobs and corporate leadership positions due to being inside air conditioned buildings with high status, and high pay. Nobody is going to be fighting to be a coal miner.
This is actually very helpful to know, thank you.
Straight C is ridiculously hard to write at any scale with any sanity. Not to mention it requires re-inventing stuff that you're basically guaranteed to get wrong (such ref counting), which of course none of the libraries you want to use will support so you have to wrap that up in something else.

C++ is a massive improvement over straight C in pretty much every practical way. And best part is if you don't want to use awkward, heavyweight abstractions like std::variant then you can just not use them and be no worse off for it.
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I have a habit of hiring entry level folks for CSR work. Generally not much coding experience. Those that grow to want to contribute to our WebApp I start with HTML+CSS. Asking them to redesign screens, or modify/tweak the UX. It's a great way to start and many times their contributions make it in production. This creates a positive feedback loop. Nearly everyone expands to some scripting language after that (JS, bash, PHP, python).

My goal is to train them all up on coding but if you "only" know HTML+CSS there is still room - or rather an open door to more.

It's just one rung on a mobius type ladder.
Well I agree that hours don't always equate to value, in many cases they don't for the reasons you pointed out. Ultimately it matters what kind of experience you have and how valuable that is in a given context.

My point was if I had to pick one broad generalization - "value increases as hours increase", "value is independent of hours", "value decreases as hours increase" - it certainly makes sense to pick the first. Extra hours are more likely to make you more valuable than to make you equally or less valuable.

This was what I was replying to

> I find it interesting that HN commenters frequently take it for granted that someone who tinkered with programming at an early age and do side projects is a better performer at work.

Thats why I do take it for granted (on average) that people who do side projects do better than those who don't. With 2 equal resumes I would confidently pick the one who started programming early. Nothing is certain when generalizing like that obviously, but then again no signal ever in any interview is a guarantee of future work performance.
The same logic would mandate that everyone gets paid the same amount of money, which I personally would be sort of OK with, depending on the details, but it is generally considered such a radical idea that it suggests there's something missing from your argument.
That is interesting and odd as Uber in general has become significantly worse in directing drivers to pickup locations. In my experience over the last month, most drivers ignore the app and use common sense with a far higher degree of accuracy vs Uber's broken GPS
This is ideological warfare, it has nothing to do with logic.
No, he’s saying that if Apple chooses to trust the license author when they say that they interpret it in a specific way, they might get screwed if the license author changes their mind. Should that happen, a court of law would have the authority of legal interpretation.
> As Apple is not developing this software in the public, it would not make sense to put it on GitHub or any other code hosting site

No, the reason they don't put it on GitHub is that they have no intention of participating in the community that made the software they are using.

All of these tools already have sites, communities, repositiories, etc. Apple could easily participate as many other companies do who also have proprietary patches. Apple actively chooses this over being a member of the software community it takes so much from.
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Yes there are, but as I mentioned the culture also matters, and the Linux culture worships CLI and window managers like xmonad, not graphical developer tools and UI/UX.
Python explosion blamed on pandas
So true.

People didn't give two shits about the ladies and doing the tiny useless portion of the world known as software they occupied 50 years ago - back then it was less glamorous and less money involved.

Yes, women used to dominate software development. Until the money and prestige started coming in, then men started dominating the profession.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmin...
TensorFlowSharp: TensorFlow API for .NET Languages
I was so on-board at the beginning - yes, html and css skills are undervalued.

And then the essay tried to generalize the lack of respect for HTML/CSS specialists as an example of lack of respect for specialists compared to full-stack devs. This is where I think the essay took a wrong turn.

The technical community has tremendous respect for backend or math specialists. Now more than ever, ML and data science is cool. High performance is cool. Security and cryptography are cool. Etc.

But HTML and CSS? There is a general attitude that they're "easy" and javascript is "harder". But writing good HTML and CSS should be considered one of the highest art forms. Good HTML and CSS makes the end user go "wow, this is nice and clean" and makes the javascript developer go "wow, this is nice and clean". Achieving both of these is so fricking hard!
Not everyone reads HN obsessively.

If you've already seen this article and a healthy discussion, you're free to move along.
how will you make sure that's the case without answering all of the above questions?

you're all idiots.
I'm don't even like the idea of biometrics for user names. I don't want malicious actors to easily correlate distinct accounts (this guy's fingerprint has an account at Facebook, Reddit, Chase Bank, ...).
What makes you think people get rehabilitated?
Saul?
>>Imagine working all night and getting paid the same as someone who works half as much.

You don't. And that's where it will all begin to break down. Things as a whole will be mediocre.
Yup. Whether the word "union" is seen as encumbered with unfavorable baggage by us or not, our employers are pretty happy to organize to push our conditions in one direction. It is irrational to be opposed to organizing to push our conditions in the other direction. They're more scared of us than they let on! : )

(Regardless, I'm extremely pleased that tech workers are lending their support to getting the lower paid workers at their companies organized and able to negotiate better conditions.)
Professional associations are just unions for richer people. Accountants, actuaries, doctors, etc. etc. ad nauseam.
In the US at least, we can start with healthy tax reforms that actually redistribute wealth downwards, not up. Not everything has to reduce to the USSR straw man.
The confusion here is between "women get paid less on average" and "women get paid less on average because of sexist treatment/assumptions". If the latter, more specific statement is true, then we have a problem. However, if women are paid less because of less career-oriented personal life choices, maybe making an issue out of it is an overreaction.

Left-handed people earn less on average than righties. Tall people earn more. With a sufficiently large sample you'll probably find a correlation between salary and hair color, hand size, skin pigmentation, freckle density and a million other arbitrary factors that we've long decided are not worth fighting about.
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> Google can't win with its current culture. This is what happens when a company or group is too left leaning. You always get attacked by the very people you're trying to help.

Yah, this sums it all up, Google makes this assumption that everyone they hire has the same mindset, and this is not true.
Have spread the word amongst ones i know. Good Luck to your friend with the study!
PowerShell is one of the few bits of software which has actually made me throw a computer in anger. The idea has potential but the implementation is just bad.

It's slow (I have to wait 5-10 second and before it responds on an i7?!?), inconsistent (some things return local time and some UTC), unreliable (it will just fail randomly after working for two months), has terrible memory usage problems (try copying a large file with it via WinRM), has a terrible scheduling and security model (scheduling something that actually doesn't barf with errors is difficult), spooges out UTF16 randomly, and is full of nasty surprises which are constantly lurking waiting to bite your face off.

It is entirely the opposite of what I want from a language of any kind.

That man owes me at least 3 months of my life back.

The lure is a few one liners work pretty well to start with but the moment they turn into two liners then problems start but you're invested in it then and it's too late.

I use python for automation now. No such problems.
> eg the Bay Area has maybe 100 BLM/Antifa instigators total.

Yes, but how many who agree with them, but have day jobs they need to go to? I can assure you that my childhood friend was not joining the BLM protests, but he was still calling for Nazis to try to march in Oakland.
I work in advertising.
I've even worked literally trafficking ads.

+1 from me for admitting it. That's the first step. Good luck!
Same in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. I saw an article that in the Netherlands it apparently is installed on 90% of all smartphones. As far as I know, WhatsApp is pretty much the default in the EU with the exception of Scandinavian countries. Norway, Sweden, Finland are more often to be found on Messenger.
I looked up the etymology of the word and this is in fact where it came from: https://nursemanifest.com/2012/04/24/some-history-on-the-ori...

> The first instance in English of nurse occurred in the early thirteenth century as the Anglo-Norman nurice, derived from the fifth-century post-Classical Latin nutrice, a wet-nurse (hired to provide an infant with breast milk when the infant’s mother would not or could not do so), although by the time it entered the Middle English lexicon, it had already absorbed the figurative sense of any female caretaker of children (Oxford English Dictionary 2010). Etymologically it is related to our modern word nourish, to feed.

Unlike other professions like stewardess, nursing has never broken away from the gendered roots of the term.
NPUs are not used in data centers. They don't need the expensive but totally flexible network processing capabilities. Think carrier and enterprise access networks that have lower Ethernet bandwidth requirements, but higher processing requirements per packet.
I was on my 2nd CS year when Slackware 2.0 was released, and we had big boys UNIX on the department, like Aix and DG/UX.

Yet the majority of lab computers were running Windows 95/98.

UNIX was mostly used for the OS, compiler design and distributed computing classes.

Everything else, including graphics programming was on Windows.
The building codes are mostly the latter - maintain integrity of the roof, don't become projectiles. The manufacturing standards are more the former, such as "withstand 2 inch hail at X mph and maintain at least 95% of rated capacity"
Untangling the Complicated, Controversial Legacy of Sigmund Freud
Web components in go
I don't understand why the author is so surprised about the reaction of her audience, who would not hire someone who just does HTML + CSS. In particular, I totally disagree with this paragraph:

> I understand the desire to have people who can do a lot of things. What I don’t understand is why it’s okay if you can “just write JS”, but somehow you’re not good enough if you “just write HTML and CSS”.

_Writing_ JavaScript is programming. Writing HTML and CSS is not. Programming is several orders of magnitude harder than writing markup languages. Most of the time HTML and CSS are just tools to show the results of something else, they're auxiliary technologies, just like XML. You wouldn't hire a _XML & DTD writer_, you expect a programmer to know (or have heard of) XML.

Anyone who blindly and directly compares "Just writing JS" with "just writing HTML and CSS" is short-sighted.
Assuming you don't mean help Google, why not?
Seriously the amount of fingers cutted since the introduction of iPhone 5s amount certainly to zero or we would have heard the information buzzing around on all cheap news networks almost immediately.

So I'm pretty confident now that this argument is moot by now.

Yet we still don't have enough mileage to determine if face peeling will be a more likely issue with iPhoneX. But I could bet that "face offing" relatively is not more likely than finger cutting...
Nobody has found it doing that, though. It could be something that will be added in the future of course (let's hope not...), but "could be" is not really interesting for the current situation. It ain't analysing your chats at this time.
i think you are confusing appearence with physical existance. much like the eu that thinks they can apply their laws and taxes to a world where reincarnation is a "real" thing available at a few clicks of a keyboard.

and servers are now homed deep under the sea.