skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this view is more problematic than the one you're critiquing...

I don't think it's too unreasonable to assume more modern people (significantly more modern, even), are a bit more enlightened on some subjects. At least, we no longer consider things like slavery and sexism OK, yet ancient people did, which indicates some significant gaps in their philosophies and high influence from outside.

> Have you considered that this "primitive" idea comes up over and over again among great thinkers and writers throughout human history because there's something to it?

Well, there is something to it... it's often reflecting the natural order of things, or the Zeitgeist of that time. Generally, a great thinker does not transcend time and is somewhat locked into their time, in that only certain strains of thought seem to exist during a time period and others do not, which indicates that overall variety of thinking is just not very high, regardless of how much of a "great thinker" you are.

This, of course, it true for our time as well. Very likely many things we believe today are heavily influenced by whatever is, in a sense, "fashionable". Some ideas are best left unstated.

The age, or lack of thereof, won't really tell you how accurate or useful something is, you'll have to evaluate it on its own terms. I don't like terms like "primitive" because they don't mean anything on their own, but that's a different question.
Lessons Operating a Serverless-Like Platform at Netflix, Part 2
If someone is going to do something that is questionable unethical and more than likely against the terms of service anyway like find UPC codes online, then why not just torrent the movie and put it on Plex server and have more flexibility.
Thank you for this short and clear synopsis. I had gathered some fragments on how the 'nothing at stake' problem was supposedly solved, but this lays it out very clearly.
yes, also that it comes back to the left after it hit the right end lol
I am not sure, how "skills" would be helpful in long term. People need to develop a good understanding and ideas on Computer science, not learn a particular software/language or whatever.

As, there is no guarantee that it will even be alive by the time you leave university/your potential employer would be looking for that particular "skill".
I also head of it for a while before I gave it a spin. I finally got around to it about 6 months ago.

The game works really well. I don't remember noticing that anything was still missing in singleplayer. Multiplayer... there was something, but I don't remember what. Desyncs for sure, but I think those were always solveable by just reconnecting. I'm not sure what, but there was a reason why my girlfriend and I didn't play it. We played RCT2 a bunch, with one person watching and the other playing, and OpenRCT2 with multiplayer seemed epic, but there was something annoying in multiplayer, I just don't remember what.

By now, it might have improved again. I remember the development going really fast before. And in singleplayer, I don't think there were any bugs that prevented me from playing.

Give it a spin if you were (or still are) into the original Rollercoaster Tycoon!
> for another two decades

I.e. start investing and in 20 years you'll be financially independent. Sounds good to me to be living in the US.

> the guy who makes my morning coffee can't

I talked with a guy once who told me he "can't". He was driving a new car, and the payments, rent, etc., added up to more than his income. I suggested he sell the car, buy a car he can afford to pay cash for, and start investing.

He partially did take my advice. He sold the car, bought one he could pay cash for, and then blew the extra income on some other luxuries. Of course, then he still was in "can't" territory.

My current car I bought used 25 years ago and still drive every day. It costs me practically nothing.
While Japan actually adopted western style industry and became a powerhouse quickly.

Sadly Japan seems to be having their own problems albeit different but still regressive culture-driven. State-incentivized stagnation, focusing on the needs of a few small group of elite older companies from a past generation who are friends with the government, while neglecting the small young upstarts, disincentivizing risk and change. And trying to make patchwork fixes large under the guise of western economic theory.
Both Google and Facebook are also dealing with such large repos that they've needed to start either customizing or building their own SCM's. MS started the GitVFS project to do a similar thing to suit their needs.

Most people aren't at that scale, but IMO, many benefits people get from monorepos you also get by using GitHub/Gitlab with master projects mapping in git repos via sub-modules.

Anyway, it really sucks to work on extremely large monorepos when you don't have access to the same resources as Google and Facebook. For this reason I'm personally always hesitant to recommend monorepos as the be-all-end-all.
>software engineer jobs will be blue collar, $40-$60k a year jobs, by 2030.

There have always been 'blue collar' engineering jobs. When I started in the tech industry I was making $13 an hour writing HTML and a bit of SQL here and there.

There are probably tens of thousands of "Software Engineers" putting together PHP sites, doing front end JS work at an entry level, hacking together some minor software customizations. I think you're right, this will become more prevalent. The world needs a lot more engineers to do this kind of work.

>There is a disinterest among business to pay higher, and higher salaries.

Evidence points to the contrary, salaries have skyrocketed in the last ten years... have you been paying attention?
O(N^2)is hell of a drug
Yeah, but there's no certificate. And, despite what everyone wants to believe, most employers still want that certificate or degree. They're not gonna accept "I watched a bunch of videos on YouTube" as an alternative.
mpress is an even better, more modern alternative: http://www.matcode.com/mpress.htm

We used to compress all our binaries (desktop software developers), but fighting false positives from antivirus vendors became an endless nightmare. We just gave up and stopped using binary compressors entirely.
That describes my experience with some of my GitHub projects fairly accurately.

Actual commit I did a few days ago:

> Begin rewrite of rewrite of rewrite
My favorite part is the overloaded print methods: https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/blob/master/src/Te...
I wonder if the Feds could simply seize the company and issue treasury bonds to shareholders to cover the costs of their stake at the market's price. Eminent domain, or whatever legal term is latin for "we have the guns."

Then, yeah, liquidate everything and distribute the proceeds amongst the victims. It would be expensive, but...so what? The budget is $2T, and if the fine vastly outweighs the value of the company, then it is clearly a grave situation that demands an unusual response.

Maybe they could actually issue a realistic fine, and let the company deal with it. But the company would probably just distribute any remaining assets amongst their executives, fire everyone, and declare bankruptcy or something.
The word on the street is that it's not unused code but rather aggressively inlined code.
How else is Apple suppose to know that you bought a movie from Google Play? That’s the whole purpose of Movies Anywhere.
there's also a pretty nice Knights and Merchants remake
http://www.kamremake.com/
https://github.com/Kromster80/kam_remake
Following a standard commit format with commit-semantics
> And may in the end even find your "spaghetti" version is actually more performant at run time

not with those O(N^2) loops it ain't
35 yo here. yeah I was quite disappointed by the fact I'd finish it so quickly.
And yeah I have a strange memory, I tend to remember few stuff but very detailed
So it was a private room?
> Also, programming isn't the sort of job where you can fake your way through.

Not sure why you think programming would be special in that regard. In a lot of companies, you will be able to keep your badly done job for a really long time as long as you have a good bond with your higher-ups. This goes for programming the same as sales or any other profession.
It's public knowledge in China that all tech giants are in bed with the government. Considering Toutiao is one of the fastest growing media companies in China, you can be sure they too will bend to the will of the government at a moment's notice.
I think this is the biggest drawback to "stateless" JWT's that most people gloss over when championing. If you need to be able to revoke stateless JWT's, you probably shouldn't be using stateless JWT's in the first place, because you'll have to re-add state to the system to handle revocations. And at that point why not just go with the simpler mental model in the first place.

And since giving users (or you) the option to "log themselves out of other computers" on a fine-grained basis is often an important feature to provide, it essentially means stateless JWT's aren't a great solution for sessions in most web apps.

That's just what I've gathered personally. If anyone has a counter argument for this case I'd love to hear it!
"IQ" is a scalar semi-objectice well-defined metric that predicts some things about the much more complicated and less-well-defined concept of problem solving.
I see this behaviour in Chrome as well. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, as the common name for the certificate is a *.edgecastcdn.net, which doesn't match up with huffingtonpost.co.uk.

There's a ton of SAN in there, including:

DNS:gp1.adn.edgecastcdn.net, DNS:gs1.adn.edgecastcdn.net, DNS:ne1.adn.edgecastcdn.net, DNS:www.uship.com, DNS:www.bluefly.com, DNS:www.belleandclive.com, DNS:is.belleandclive.com, DNS:connections.cochlear.com, DNS:assets.pokemon.com, DNS:www.shopperschoice.com, DNS:www.biznessapps.com, DNS:cdn.shocho.co, DNS:secure.hibustudio.com, DNS:www.stardoll.com, DNS:adn.wiredrive.com, DNS:www.speedtest.net, DNS:www.cduniverse.com, DNS:ak-site-origin-cover.cduniverse.com, DNS:cover.cduniverse.com, DNS:g.cduniverse.com, DNS:www.renttherunway.com, DNS:cdn2.navexglobal.com, DNS:www.chdist.com, DNS:www.thefanorama.com, DNS:cdn2.mediasilo.com, DNS:cdn.citadoncw.com, DNS:www.woodcraft.com, DNS:marketing-admin.upsight-api.com, DNS:www.edgecast.com
Might be the first time I've seen the words "elegant", "simple" and "Django's ORM" in the same sentence. You could say it's easy to get started with, or do simple queries, but it's definitely not simple nor elegant.
Hint: it's not aimed towards non-Chinese speakers...yet
Tata. Is Accenture one of those ones with clauses that you have to pay a fine if you quit within a few years like Revature?
There is even an empty tomb next to Mohamed's tomb for when the Christians kill Jesus when He returns and proclaims Mohamed the greatest Prophet. The religions have interesting intersections but I have never had a good conversation with a person about it because they always assume I am trying to convert them.
Jeff Bezos Screws Amazon Workers. Now He Wants to Do That at the Washington Post
An amazing project, My only criticism is the scaling, playing in 1080p makes the UI really small, it does have scaling in the options but 1.5 uses antialiasing and kinda ruins the pixel graphics.

Otherwise the best way to play this. I'm pretty sure you can also import certain elements from RCT1 if you have it.
Just following up to add that these two 15's are unrelated, in case any readers get the wrong idea.

The area under the normal distribution curve from minus infinity to -1 (one standard deviation left of centre) is about 0.1586 or about 15-16%.

The 15 points = 1 stddev property of IQ is arbitrarily established.
Well... yes - one way to do that is to have a way to propagate revocation events from the issuer to the up stream applications - and each upstream application, possibly at the gateway level or at an inceptor will check the incoming tokens against a revoked list of tokens. You may also check: http://openid.net/wg/risc/.
You talk here about creating an "addictive" product. People in the industry usually use the euphemism "engagement" rather than "addiction" but either way, do you think that this type of product will eventually be treated by society the way cigarettes are now?
Why do studios need an “excuse” for loosening DRM? Copy protection has been a part of most mainstream movies since the early VHS days (Macrovision).
Ah yes, let's pull support from one of the most stable nations in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has their hands in some bad stuff but they are far preferable to ISIS or a prolonged civil war.
In one of my previous jobs there was ClassSomething1, ClassSomething2 until 5 just because java can't have more than 65535 methods in a class..
OpenRCT2 requires original files of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 to play.

It's the engine without the assets. Kind of like Open Rails, which is an open source engine for Microsoft Train Simulator content. That's been out for a while, and now others are writing content for it.
In the programming biz, they often will if you've got a track record to back it up. Contributing to open source projects is a route to getting such a track record.

If you already have a degree, just in the wrong field, you don't need to get another degree. Just get the training by whatever means.

Heck, my degree is in mechanical engineering, yet I had jobs writing software.
What's the difference, really?
Given all the stuff that's happening lately with people like Susan Fowler, a whole lot of developers could have benefitted from more of those.

Of course, that's completely ignoring that there is far, far, far more to "liberal arts" than gender studies.
This is you right now: https://xkcd.com/1901/

EDIT: Ok, fine, I'll bite: exactly the same how exactly?

Anti-depressants can cause suicide too: some people are too depressed to even commit suicide, and the anti-depressants give them enough mental energy to commit to that.

That doesn't mean anti-depressants are pseudo-science or a bad idea, it just means their usage must be determined on a case-by-case basis
This reminds me of the C# source code for DRAGON. Its code was actually much worse, because the creator wasn't aware of things like loops or method definitions (the main game loop and class appear to have been generated by a framework).

The C# code is here, and it works well enough that you can buy it on Steam, apparently:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/alessonforposterity/832da...
First of all, I wouldn't consider Toutiao content to be "quality content", as the article says. It's still pretty much all "soft news".
Secondly, this 100% engagement-driven algorism of content recommendation doesn't serve to inform readers in any meaningful way, as a proper News app should do. But rather, it just makes ppl keep clicking and wasting their time.
>doesn't require a lot of creative thinking

It doesn't, but you still need "higher level" developers to cover security and concurrent/parallel/distributed problems and maybe architecture.

It's not that someone can't also learn that stuff, but exposing a product publicly without some experience in those areas is asking for trouble.

IMO, Software is resisting division of labor and work by collapsing roles into "Full stack devs" or "DevOps Engineers".
The main point of HS2 is that it will relieve congestion on the existing tracks, and allow more commuter services to run:

https://www.railengineer.uk/2014/01/03/the-capacity-benefits...

http://www.citymetric.com/transport/hs2-isnt-about-north-eng...

The idea that it will turn a load of separate cities into one big city is basically fantasy, as i understand it - this is about HS3, but the analysis is much the same:

http://www.citymetric.com/transport/crossrail-north-really-b...

And yes, i do get all my information from CityMetric, since you ask. It's basically Buzzfeed for transport policy, i love it.
Great React visualization tool!!
Given that the Maoist gerontocracy managed to produce a dictatorship by Xi, it doesn't seem that it actually protects people from despotism. Eventually, someone wins the power struggle, and consolidates power under themselves.

Comrade Stalin didn't become Vozjd because the Bolshevik party wanted to instill an all-powerful dictator. Like Xi, he decisively won a power struggle in a government which was originally composed of a number of powerful committees.

The revolution had ~30 fathers - yet, 13 years after Lenin's death, all but one of them - Stalin - were dead, in a GULAG, or in exile (And soon to be dead).

The only way to protect against despotism is to have relatively frequent turnover in government. If US presidents and congresscritters were elected for 20 year terms, the US would have long ago become a dictatorship.
You're kind of right. I misread the decimal as a comma in $248,785,615.00. Pharma / Health is the next highest spending industry at around $144,778,982, about $100 million less than finance. Finance is the top lobby. Tech lobbying is at $68,403,203 which isn't even half of what finance officially spends on lobbying.

The OpenSecrets lobbying data also doesn't include lobbying money that isn't officially lobbying money. A lot of politicians, at least in the US - including state level legislators, have non-profit foundations with sketchy ledgers. With many of these foundations, little of the money dontated actually goes towards their publicly stated causes. Most of it is spent on miscellaneous expenses such as trips and dinners or on political ads.

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/02/09/politics-and-the-u...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/08/03/how-end-polit...

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/06/12/12794/state-legis... - oversight doesn't usually happen when it's not public funds being directed into the non-profits

If you include the finance industry's donations to sketcy non-profits that are closely tied to politicians, then I'm guessing it would dwarf what we're seeing compared to just official lobbying money

Tech would 'optimize' not just by spending more, but also in offering benefits that finance can't offer such as better data for say elections as an example
Yeah, it's frustrating how the narrative is that where you got your degree doesn't matter when it absolutely does.
This is a very fair point. There might be components that are routinely used in non-life-safety-critical applications, but this is no guarantee that they will pass certification scrutiny when they are in the critical path for thousands of lives every day.

I worked on an autonomous vehicle project here in the UK about 10 years ago (the Heathrow Pod). The certification process was absolutely intense. And this was for a system that was capped at 25mph; had we gone any faster than the regulatory burden would have become very significantly more onerous (below 25mph it wasn't necessary to test vehicles and infrastructure to destruction; above 25mph, it is).

In this domain, there's a huge difference between a cool engineering testbed, a private pilot project, and running actual service for the public. If Hyperloop is going to be doomed by anything, failure to appreciate this fact is probably at the top of the list.
Seems great. I would like something like that here in Brazil.

My big question for which I can't get an answer, no matter how many times I ask (in the context of Instacard and similar): How does payment works? People pay through credit card on the app, the money is capped, then capped again, then goes to the drivers after a month? How do the drivers pay for the groceries?
Reminds me of the UK government's premium bonds
Kentucky's bluegrass area (where my mother is) is entirely lime stone. Lime stone happens to dissolve trivially in water along with anything held in it. This was literally what the doctor told her and isn't hard to believe[1]. From that article, """Median values of TDS were found below the SMCL of 500 mg/L, but outliers were common,
especially in the Bluegrass (Figure 34)."""

She has to get one of the Zero filters[2] which removes virtually all TDS[3] and measures it using a little TDS meter. Parts of the bluegrass are super high (> 500 TDS) and they happen to be in that part. I believe it is very low in most the united states for sure, but not where my family is from (I live in Chicago currently) :)

[1] http://water.ky.gov/groundwater/Documents/BMU2_NPS_report3.p...
[2] https://www.zerowater.com/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_dissolved_solids
That's true, but that's also true of anywhere that uses social security numbers for identity verification (which is an atrocious pattern considering how poorly ssns are anonymized).
(minor spoiler) in my opinion, any book that violates the theory of relativity is not science fiction, it's a fantasy novel set in "space".

You can't transmit information faster than light using quantum entanglement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Quantum_mech...
The Terraria clone is apparently very much like the original:

https://github.com/raxod502/TerrariaClone/issues/2
They do excellent blog posts, outlining tech details and explaining it for less technical people.
This article http://acrwebsite.org/volumes/7610/volumes/v21/NA-21 claims that AAVE uses "theirselves".

A quick search on Twitter suggests that "theirselves" is indeed used by people who use "hisself", but perhaps half an order of magnitude less than "themselves".
And if I was a fetus in the early 80s? Or if I got sick and needed to sell that stock early to pay for treatment?

Your point still is predicated on the "already having money" part.
Yeah, it's also helpful that German tertiary education is free.
I continue to be thoroughly surprised by the people who are accusing me of things like "protectionism".

If you re-read my original post you will notice that I did NOT advocate for artificially restricting worker supply, or any kind of protectionism.

I merely warned that what we're seeing in tech WILL bring an end to the "high" salaries, and that those who wish to maintain their current state, should consider PERSONAL GROWTH and advancing their skillset as a means of protection.

We can debate all day about whether its a "perceived" lack, or a real lack. I whole heartedly disagree that salaries are, as you put it, "sky rocketing", especially when you account for cost of living in the areas where the "skyrocketing" is happening.

And oh, yes, how dare a doctor who spent upwards of $500,000 in medical training, and devoted years to internships, and residency, be worried about a lowered skill cap or regulatory protections (which they counted on) for entering their profession! How dare they!

Please. Of all the examples of protectionism you could have given, you chose perhaps the most acceptable and understandable. Yes, people care about their livelihood and the ability to retain efforts and investments they have made, so would you.
Thanks for the info, I definitely will. RCT and RCT2 are among my favorite games ever made. I still load them up at least once every 6 months. Leafy Lake / Lucky Lake will always have a place in my heart.
That's horrific in several ways, and in particular brings to mind the old joke about porcupines.

But it must have been a fairly old concept. I was a big Sega fan as a child, owning the original Sonic for the Master System, and don't remember any humans except for Dr. Robotnik.
A Mile-High Building Boom in Denver