skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Strong work ethic. All of us believe in our work’s ability to change human lives, and consequently work not just smart, but also hard. It’s not unusual to see some team members in the office late into the evening; many of us routinely work and study 70+ hours a week.

lol. The classic "we're changing the world" excuse for justifying ridiculous hours. At least they were upfront about the the time involved, but I respect a company way more if they hold back the BS. Even more so if they actually treat their employees like human beings in the first place.

> Growth mindset: We are eager to teach you new skills and invest in your continual development. But learning is hard work, so this is something we hope you’ll want to do.

The wording of that statement is hilarious.

I'm sorry, I like Andrew Ng and his work in AI, but this is an extremely unappealing job description. I know lots of startups capable of raising way less money than Ng that have a far more respectful attitude towards their employees' lives.

I'm sure some (perhaps many) would jump at the chance to work here, but personally there is just way too much opportunity and too little time in life to justify slaving away for this man's vision.
I am pretty sure that xmonad, or tiling window managers in general, while popular are not the #1 in popularity on Linux so I will have to disagree with you again. You have many alternatives more featured than xmonad and I am very sure you know many of them already.

Going forward please keep those views to yourself. There are many developers putting a lot of effort, in many cases volunteer effort, to advance Linux on the desktop... which is already far better than many people care to admit.
Language does evolve, though, for better or for worse. I'm sure the term has contributed to the "nurses must be female" perception, but I doubt renaming the profession is going to do anything
Please note that duplicate submission are not discouraged on HN in general, especially not after such a long time.

However, thanks for sharing the link to the previous discussion!
Lenders in the US are just trying to maximize their risk-adjusted profit - there's no conspiracy here. If income alone was just as good as income + debt servicing history for making the statistical decisions required to maximize credit industry profits (decisions like whether or not to lend, at what rate, at what ratio to income/assets, etc), do you think the lenders would pay the overhead of the additional useless tracking? Are you suggesting that Equifax & Co. are pulling a fast one on the US lenders and their armies of actuaries and after all these years the lenders haven't noticed the uselessness of the product?
Rather than type it out, this link gives a good rundown:

http://www.actforlibraries.org/the-importance-of-zero-in-mat...

Namely, I think you don't give poor zero quite enough respect. Zero is one of the biggest advancements to mathematics. Anyone can count to one, and even count multiple sets of one. The idea that nothing is something is underrated.

Poor zero is often not given due credit.
So Calypso, which has been in the works for 2+ years, is going to be completely rewritten?
Suppose the thesis is true -- the job market has undervalued workers who can't write JS.

Why would the obvious arbitrage persist?
Are you saying that the plaintiffs in this case didn't do side projects?
>If you are making {$25M|$250k}/year through a job, and you depend on that money for daily life

Here's the thing: the second half of this snippet doesn't make any sense. No one needs that much money to get along with their life. Living frugal is precisely that: requiring much less expenditure than you make. It's entirely possible to live on $40k in expenses per year. Many, many people do that every day with $40k or even lower.

How can one depend on so much expenditure? There's no reason. That amount of money minus absolutely vital expenses calculated according to minimum market rates for healthcare, housing, and food will always be more than enough to retire on very early if saved wisely.

If you set yourself up to be screwed even after making that much money, you're making very poor decisions.
Lifted it off a glass/phone/anything else you touched. Or it can be "compromised" in the same way your SSN can be compromised through hacking. The millions of people who were exposed in the OPM hack all have records of their fingerprints now floating out on the darkweb somewhere.
From the article,

"a University of San Francisco study of data from 1988 to 2008, extended to 2013, demonstrated male nurses made an adjusted $5,148 per year more than female nurses. This inequality has persisted over 20 years with no discernible trend toward resolution in the future."

"The percentage of men in nursing has slowly risen from about 2% in 1975 when I entered nursing to almost 12% (or 330,300 nurses) now."

And I'm not trying to imply anything. I just thought it was noteworthy.
The polite convention on HN is to say this was discussed previously, and link to it, especially when it was last submitted and discussed over four years ago :-)
Yeah, but at least that open source OS dominates on literally every other platform in the world.
static_assert, nullptr, constexpr, initialization lists, for-each loops, default & delete for class methods...

and then there's things that are wonderful to use even if it's terrifying to look at how it's implemented like std::forward which is used with vector.emplace_back.

there's also simple things like vector<unique_ptr<X>> being legal C++11 syntax instead of an illegal right shift operator.
Whether you can fallback to not using biometrics is irrelevant to whether biometrics is equivalent to usernames or passwords. In fact, your point that one can fallback to not using biometrics once it is compromised proves that biometrics is not equivalent to passwords.
Actually, I'd trade any day wrestling with HTML + CSS for a day writing javascript. HTML + CSS are both less powerful and significantly more difficult to produce good results in than any programming language I've worked in. It's bad + worse.
Now to put my comment into context : I'm self taught.

I can now code quite comfortably in: c#, python, html, css, JavaScript, php, MySQL queries and can learn most frameworks fairly quickly. (Infact I probably missed a few things I have played with over the years).

Point being: if you can code htnl/css, from my point of view, it isn't such a stretch to learn a more formal language is it?

(I did start with Qbasic and vb though, so I may be coming at this from the wrong direction?)

Edit: after reading some more of these comments I can almost understand, but wouldn't someone who was able to show how they could work with htnl/css show at least a basic understanding at a technical level and be worthwhile at an entry level position?
You're both sort-of correct. AO kicks in on specific 5xx error codes: 502, 504, and then Cloudflare's 52x codes. It doesn't kick in on 500 or 503, or 4xx errors.

Ref: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202238800-W...
> _Writing_ JavaScript is programming. Writing HTML and CSS is not. Programming is several orders of magnitude harder than writing markup languages.

Hey, let's be fair here. I'm a great programmer, but I can't design worth beans. They're totally different skills.
It probably means the driver is earning more per ride. It might very well mean they're earning less in total.
Why the Republican party? Isn't the Republican party pro free market and business generally?
I know multiple css-only guys, employed and valued. None of them can do more then minimal js. They all have tons of work and we lobby employer for more of them.

It seems to be harder to find someone good in css and able to style things well and able to communicate with customers then someone able to write js.

Making UI look good is not auxialliry. It is something developers tend to sux at and it is quite core to the success. And also, css is not easy. It is hard to learn, especially to programmers who like things systemic and predictable.
>>Would participation in athletics or math competitions fulfill your requirements for early hard work and adversity?

Yes, but in School and a little higher- math is about learning heuristics and ready made procedures to solve problems in algebra and plugging numbers in formulas to get answers. And that is one of the biggest reasons why Nerds go onto to do things like projects to bail from the what is largely a useless academic exercise that gives you nothing real at the end.

Sports has a binary distribution, you either make the big league money or you don't.

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

They won't be treated as such. They will be evaluated on the same grounds as the long slog people. And that is precisely the problem. Somethings come only with time.

>>Entering a field at the age of 18 or 20 isn't actually late.

Its isn't late in absolute terms. But everything in the world is comparative.

The world is essentially a stack ranking system. You can do anything at any age you want. But there are costs associated with starting late, and they are in comparison with people who are long there.
> Nix and Guix are superior in concept, but they don't seem production-ready.

FWIW I have been using Guix and GuixSD in production since 2014. I use Guix with a cluster of several hundred nodes and on countless workstations.
Not that I agree that "HTML + CSS" only workers are improperly valued less than JS coders, but one reason that might explain if this were the case could be because the technology job market isn't as rational or merit-based as some assume. Instead it's festooned with the same cult-of-X (where "X" is "technology", "framework", etc.) bandwagoning effect many practitioners of programming mock other fields for having.

There's no reason, as I see it, to think that an "arbitrage" of this sort couldn't persist for some time (years/decades) in this industry: it's too insular and full of itself in many respects.
Mystery of sonic weapon attacks in Cuba deepens
In the US people have mineral rights to the earth under the surface of their property. This can be separated from the surface rights and sold off. If one buys just the surface rights, then the entity that has the mineral rights can, in most cases, access your surface to extract their minerals. Not reading the fine print on your title and having someone want to exercise their mineral rights is a serious issue in the US. I would definitely be very wary of buying land without the mineral rights.

But the right to use water that lands on your property? Never heard of "rain water rights". Unless it was previously declared somehow, forcing you not to collect rainwater would highlight the need for the right to bear arms. I would like to know more about how that came about in those cases.
The whole dispute is about roaming service. Verizon doesn't appear to be obligated to provide service in the areas discussed in the article, and it isnt profitable to buy wholesale from roaming partners for certain customers in those locations, so they are terminating service. I don't see the issue. Cell service in (many) rural areas is not regulated like a utility.
the number of people who'd actually take advantage of this is extremely low relative to the number of iPhone users

That's only because we live in a world where phones aren't treated like the general use computers they are. MS+OEMs and Apple fought hard for decades to create an appliance mindset around what used to be a user-replaceable component, the OS.

We can just as easily imagine and try to build a world where it's just as easy to mix and match phones with phone OSes as it was to choose DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS.
For those of us who remember the Web of the 1990's, HTML was supposed to be a simple markup language to allow ordinary folks to design websites.

I guess it turned out that non-professional website authors went with WYSIWYG editors (anybody remember Netscape Composer and Dreamweaver?) -- and today they've given up on entirely on creating their own site and just use hosted solutions like Facebook or Medium.

On the other hand, professional websites and their customers ended up deciding to create increasingly bulky, JS dependent monstrosities.

How can we get back to simple HTML websites without alienating users who've grown used to modern design, developers who insist on using Javascript even when it's unnecessary, and businesspeople who can't live without bars, videos, and ads?
Trump again blames both sides for Charlottesville violence
Giving preferential treatment to anyone based on their skin color, gender or sexual orientation instead of the value they provide or the skills they posses is exactly how not to address diversity issues. This line of thinking only fuels more outrage from other minority groups.
Reposts are ok after about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
But I bet you can render data out using html snd given a design you can get that html reasonably close with just some sweat and little stackoverflow trips.
Basically this:

>Hillary Clinton complains that her chief opponent in the primaries, Bernie Sanders, consistently undercut her by one-upping her "bold" and "ambitious" proposals without explaining how his policies would work.<

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/05/hillary-clinton-complains-...
Exactly what happened on steem.it, people just (re)-posted stuff like they do on reddit and made money from it with no attribution to the original author. I know they tried to crack down on this sort of thing but moderation is really labor intensive and difficult for other reasons too.
Humanizing Peer Reviews (2002)
Brilliant. Definitely.
Easy Drawing for Kids Educational App
It is odd attitude. Css is harder then javascript. I mean, javascript is quite easy to learn, that is its biggest advantage.
Seems like a less accessible alternative to Steemit.com
I have been hired few times to just write HTML and CSS. I am really knowledgeable about Javascript, but for some projects the hiring company (some of which you know) just needed those bits so I provided those. When a company is looking for advanced animations and transitions, with a big budget and fine attention to detail they hire specifically for this. Of course this is not so common, and I wouldn't expect the owners of these kind of companies to be in a random web dev conference, but there are some around.
Peter Theil: Founder as Victim, Founder as God
Sure, most people enjoy humor or wit, but most people aren't as funny as they think, and I think even you'd agree the luster tends to wear off once the top thread on every post is a chain of memes, in-jokes, and stupid puns nested too deep to fit comfortably on any screen.

That is the natural entropic end-state of all large social news sites. HN has anti-bodies against that by downvoting a bit more aggressively than might seem warranted at first glance, but all in all I think it's a wise choice.
> Point being: if you can code htnl/css, from my point of view, it isn't such a stretch to learn a more formal language is it?

No, it isn't, if that's your thing.

Personally, there are days I regret being a programmer and wish I had just stuck with being a designer. Usually, it's the point where I'm struggling to come up with something unique or distinctive.

Or when I realize that if I'd focused more on design, then I might be amazing at it, rather than mediocre at design and programming.

But that's me. You do you.
Very interesting, thanks. Wondering if Cython would have been a better compilation target. It would still stay usable from CPython.
I am very similar. Love to thinker sometimes so early this year downloading and installing many of the top and some obscure distro's. Just sort of felt like going doing an a No-Windows 30 days.

Antergos (arch made easy) was one of the distro's I tried last and it stayed on my Asus netbook the longest. I was fairy impressed with Antergos as it installed nice and felt pretty quick. But then things got too manual for my tastes. I just wanted to install Brave Browser. The tgz package didn't run and I couldn't obviously use the deb or rpm version. It wasn't in the default software add/remove when I searched. So I was thrown to using the command line (yaourt) and researching it's commands to get the repository correct, download and install a browser I simply wanted to try that would be a download from website and install on Windows as well as the more popular linux distro's.

That was one. Then a week later a update knocked out my wifi. I had to again mess around with some command line fix that worked. The real kicker was when I had not touched the netbook in about a month and when I finally did, I did the routine Pacman -Syu. This I found out the hard way was supposed to not go more than a week or so of not doing. This wrecked the distro so bad I couldn't even get the GUI. That was enough tinkering for me with Arch. I don't have time to research that as I didn't care anymore. Formatted.

I was most impressed with PClinuxOS. I just worked and had pretty recent packages on a rolling release. Never had any breakage and it also held hand enough I never touched the command line (even to install Brave). OpenSUSE, Korora and KDE Neon all were also decent and feel I could have used them long term if forced to.

In the end of about two months, I just wanted to crawl back into my comfy Windows 7 world and get some work done again. Be able to use literally any software I want and not be confined to lesser quality alternatives. Not have updates kill my install. Etc. I seriously applaud all the coders and individuals dedicating their free time to open source and thank them for that, but I guess I am fine with proprietary closed source that I've grown up on since 1984.
My pet peeve is an incoming call with authentification demand (name, dob) before we speak. As if I'm going to tell my personal info to random id, no matter is it publicly available or not. At the same time they easily send me sms with private accounting info.
"to a world where gay people have significantly more rights is a wonderful development"

You are being too optimistic. Gays have more rights in some (mostly western) countries, it's not even close to the whole world. Meanwhile in Chechnya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_concentration_camps_in_Che... and I'm not even talking about some Islamic countries where gay people are being killed on the spot.
The Fundamental Attribution Error comes to mind, but the last time I mentioned it someone jumped on me a little about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
In other words they're optimizing for bullshit avoidance - absolutely a valid decision. Or another way to put it would be that they don't want to be in the business of having to sell Facebook's legal turds. ("Sell" as in "persuade people to accept.") There are other client-side frameworks that don't carry that kind of baggage.

Frankly they get bonus points in my book just for the mere act of divesting from something Facebook owns, so that would've been a good enough reason for me. But hey, they also get to retain their right to sue Facebook if needed.
It seem there are two issues at hand:

1) Women who are in tech get paid less then men.

2) There are less women in tech to begin with.

They are related, in multiple ways perhaps and it's possible tease some links and accompanying explanations:

a) Maybe women know they'll be paid less so they don't go into tech to start with. It's kind of a chicken and egg problem.

b) As you've identified, because of so few women in tech, individuals who end up in well paid positions by chance are less likely to be women as well. So it's a statistical explanation in way.

c) There is sexism. I've seen it, together with xenophobia and other prejudices. And because of that women are rejected, as in not getting offers to start with, or even if hired not taken seriously.

d) In order to fix 2) women were hired but they didn't have an equivalent skill set or experience as men, so they got the job, perhaps to fill some diversity metric, but they did worse in performance reviews later on so they get a smaller salary, less bonuses etc.

Regarding d), I remember going out of the way to bring more women for onsite interviews trying to "fix" 2), that is I wanted to provide more opportunities for success and wanted to increase the diversity in the office. Most of the women failed the interview. I am sure c) was a contributing factor in some cases why the higher ups rejected them. But many simply didn't have their skill set at the level we were looking for. Had they've been offered and taken the job, they might found themselves in the position of getting a smaller salary and poor performance reviews down the road.

Now this doesn't present any good solutions, and doesn't address the lawsuit at hand because I don't know enough details about it. So it is mostly a breakdown of the issue as I see and from personal experience, as I was in charge of recruiting and interviewing for a good number of years.
At no point have I argued that biometrics are equivalent to passwords. But to conclude that biometrics must be equivalent to usernames because of that fact would be a false dichotomy. Biometrics serve an auxiliary role in security as an optional, subservient supplement to passwords.
Not justifying anything. But wasn't early programming two distinct tasks?

1. Writing the Program(On Paper).

2. Feeding the program to the computer.

People in 2. were called 'Programmers' because that is what they did literally- 'Program the machine'. Also early programming had all sorts strange situations where a large part of programming was actually getting results by plugging values in largish math formulas. So there were a range of people who did just that. Generating graphs, being the human equivalent of source control etc.

The 2. part wasn't exactly a very glorifying role and was more like borderline stenographer.

By some definition that is still true. Notice how many programmers there are who probably write MVP web apps for a living copying code from stackoverflow/internet, but there are also people doing all the real work thinking about stock markets, security, medical devices, writing compiler patches, building tools.

I've always thought as coding as a mere ritual the real work always happens on the paper.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15254245 and marked it off-topic.
What do you call a Javascript programmer who doesn't know HTML and CSS?

A backend programmer.
why should it be a problem? in the UK, methadone is normally dispensed from a regular pharmacy, just like any other prescription you might get from your doctor. I wonder if what you are seeing is that the clinic has been placed in a neighbourhood that already had high crime/homelessness/etc. since that is where the addicts who need its services are? it just seems odd that a clinic would be placed in an affluent area, where property costs are probably high, and the service users have to travel to get there, but maybe it's an american thing?
Coin-Hive for Node.js
Greenplum DB is alive and kicking
Another way to comply with the license is to remove the accidently shipped GPLv3 software. No need to release source code or keys if you don't want to.
I'm going to stop engaging with you, since it's clear that you'd rather make up facts and deliberately misinterpret my statements than discuss in good faith. For example, I specifically said $60k/yr in expenses—which obviously excludes savings and is a totally different number from income.

Maybe read up on investments and personal finance when you get a chance. You seem to have a very shaky grasp of fundamentals like opportunity cost or safe withdrawal rates. There are entire forums of people who retired on $1M or less in assets: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/