skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call bullshit on this. The problem is centralization, but that hasn't prevented startups. It just caused them to be bought by large companies like Faceook (YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram are some examples)

I write about this extensively here: https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/08/centralization-and-o...

Decentralization of trust, power, energy generation, and much more is on the way. This will lead to a lot more startup activity.

https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus...
Apps have never been that exciting to me, especially in the "on a smartphone" incarnation. Partly that's because I'm a h/w and s/w guy, but also because it's clear from a number of angles that only so much real wealth/happiness/etc can be had from just shuffling bits around without reference to the physical world. (And I say that as someone who worked in derivatives finance for the best part of 20 years!)
Requesting Weed from Kushy's Open Source Cannabis API
Seems like a nitpick.

You might find these interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%E2%80%93Stiglitz_the...

http://news.mit.edu/2016/economist-bengt-holmstrom-nobel-pri...
The Way the World Ends: Not with a Bang but a Paperclip
Friends don't let friends host their own email. It's just not worth the hassle these days unless you're managing hundreds of accounts and it's a full time endeavour.

Even at the hundreds level, I'm sure there are people who'd rather outsource. It's not just email that these guys (Gmail, Outlook, Fastmail, etc) provide.
Out of curiosity, why does your LinkedIn not list months for all of the 1 year jobs you have? It seems really suspicious to me, and as a hiring manager it would almost certainly have been a red flag.
Yeah good luck achieving that using pure capitalism. Unless you liberate all the farm animals by buying them out. You need regulations to prevent factory farming!
I actually used this OS in 1991 (with an X.25 card) to make a 12 station (over two sites) POS system. That main station was a 486 and all the terminals were 286s.

It worked very, very well.
There was another such system back in the day called TSX-32. Before I had discovered Linux and heard of TSX-32, my dream as a kid was to create a multi-user DOS.

[I'd paste the link but the Android paste popup isn't opening for some reason.]
BTW, compared to many of my peers I have done all four.

http://www.earth.org.uk/

I'm definitely not strictly veggie: I just wolfed down a nearly free burger when offered! And though I haven't flown for years, I may need to visit China once or more over the next couple of years.
Did the mods just delist this post from the front page? I can't find this story anymore in the front page or any of the subsequent pages.

I don't think a story like this should be delisted. This is a major problem in this (and many other) industries and should be discussed!
We could stop flying, driving and buying electronics from Asia. Are you willing to do it?
> In-memory reflection operations are hilariously, stupidly, insanely faster than I/O. The JVM fetches and loads classes individually. So if you have a lot of classes, it takes a longer time to load.

One thing that I have noticed is that with all these annotation, the Java compiler is not doing much any more. Java has effectively became a dynamic language (as in an interpreted language) where errors are only visible at runtime when hitting some specific method.

Coupled with the really slow startup time (again, I talk about Spring Boot--I get a steady 10s vs 0.01s for Go, same functionality), it makes developing a simple CRUD a pain compared to both Go or Python/Ruby...
I spend about 50% of my time doing freelance dev work and 50% course creation.

Then another 50% coding side projects, blogging and contributing to open source.

But Nick, that's 150%. Yeah I know. What can I say. I love writing code. :(

It's all in an Indie Hackers interview btw if you google my name you'll find it.
Most cars won't have people in them.
When they talk about Autopilot, are they also including assisting technologies that help you avert accidents even when you're driving yourself (technologies that other car manufacturers have too)? I'm asking because AFAIK you can't use the Autopilot in urban driving, and I would expect most accidents involving insurance (including non-fatal ones) to occur in urban driving...
The myth that java is slow is not a myth it is true for medium to big programs with lots of interconnections, because with the abstraction you loose control on the program behavior.

You gain in other things, like abstraction, but the penalty is enormous. We use very high level languages in house, but when we do it performance is not the priority.

Doing "Hello worlds" is not a valid debunking of anything because , guess what? printing a Hello world in a screen is a very simple operation.

We have millions of lines of code and we have done tests on just converting 20-30Ks of our c,c++ code to java and the result has been disaster: Hundreds or thousands of times slower. That's right.

In my opinion if other companies are deluded wanting to be lazy, much better for us as competitors, but children should not be intoxicated with bad advice.

My advice is do not believe me or anyone else, when in doubt just test on your own.
I operated in the shared hosting space for years and sold a shared hosting company to a company you know for six figures (not "omg" but I was 19 and it was only two years old) — I'm very, very familiar with shared hosting. I've been in it for more than 10+ years.

> You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting.

I'm going to very much disagree with you.

Why does Joe's Pizza need managed? They can follow one of the zillion tutorials on using fantastico/softaculous to install WordPress, find a theme from ThemeForest, learn how to install it, and then add pages. They don't need to pay ungodly managed hosting fees for their low volume.

What defines a successful website? Not IPOing? I would define a successful website as one that has organic traffic (somehow), content, and response times under 250ms.

If you use my definition, 99% of websites are successful.

Sure, shared hosting is a volume game for the most part because the volume game is _easy_. There are providers who are on the higher-end of shared hosting spectrum, charging a premium and providing a premium. All because you don't see their ads every day doesn't mean they don't exist.
Don't bother. The history repeats. There was the same thing with vitamin C and cancer with everybody citing Moertel's studies that debunked the protocol and it just happened that something people reiterated for more then 30 years got debunked itself:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981594/
Cars are such an emotive topic because they are a powerful democratizing force. Any ordinary citizen can have at their disposal a machine that can transport them, their family/friends and their stuff, anywhere they want to go at any time, can be packed in advance and unpacked at leisure when you get back, can act as a base or a shelter at the destination, can extend a bubble of personal space on long or stressful journeys that no other means of transport can, and so on and so on. The self-driving car utopia breaks all of this. You can experience it right now, we have voice-activated self-driving on-demand cars right now, running on artificial-artificial-intelligence: they're called taxis. Taxis have not supplanted personal vehicle ownership by a long shot, therefore neither will self-driving cars, unless personal vehicles are banned by government edict - and a government would love to determine where and when you are allowed to go. Will it be worth it?
I am not an expert in this, but SV has actually a great record on taking on super hard problems. It's just that Facebook is not one of them.
Even if all cars were fully connected and automated, I don't see traffic lights going away outside specific types of areas (rural areas, etc.). In cities, pedestrian infrastructure is pretty much built around the presence of intersections and pedestrian walkways. To keep pedestrians moving relatively quickly, you need those intersections. And while there are options (elevated pedestrian walkways, etc.), those have their own problems (size, expense, ADA compliance, etc.). If you enforce delays for people to cross, which would be the cheapest option, you've just got a stop light by another name. Make it too annoying for people, and they'll run across when they think there's room. With as cautious as autonomous cars have to be with pedestrians, you'd probably wind up with more traffic delays than what we have now.

We already have traffic controller systems, but I'd imagine that vehicle communication would allow them to be even more sophisticated.
>> The car could become an extension of the office and allow commuters to arrive at work less stressed and better prepared.

Wouldn't it be far easier for companies to embrace telecommuting than to have a worldwide network of autonomous vehicles?
Could be you had a customer/other recipient like my ex-boss: I'm fairly certain he used the spam button instead of delete on his Google apps for your domain (now gsuite I guess) account.
> You may be blacklisted from traveling in any autonomous by corporations, governments, police etc.

Well, I mean, you can already be blacklisted from travelling in regular cars: your driver’s license can be revoked.

Or are you referring more to capability than legality? Because even in a world with entirely autonomous cars, I would find it hard to believe that all such cars would be “non-rooted”, for the same reason we don’t live in a world where 100% of computers run iOS. Large companies (e.g. logistics companies) need total control and predictability over their vehicle fleet, just like large enterprises need total control and predictability over their servers. So there would likely always be a category of “dumb autonomous” vehicles like all-terrain pick-up trucks, sold to farmers and loggers and quarry workers et al, that you could buy; just like you can buy a regular PC today. You, as its “OEM” owner, would have complete control over what cloud traffic-control systems it submits to, if any. It might be illegal to configure it in certain ways and then drive it on the road, but that’s not the point here.
Hold off on the -Weffc++, it is known for false positives. It is based on a set of guidelines for C++ that appear in Scott Meyer's book (first edition!), but these guidelines are routinely violated in well-written code. For example, it warns for any base class having a non-virtual destructor, warns if any member is missing from an initialization list, etc. Some of the advice is inappropriate for modern (C++11) code.
I used to be incapable of approaching even the thinnest spiders.

For a reason, now I don't scream in terror if one reaches my bed. Last summer I even drove one outside in a tiny plastic wrap, no harm was done.

I'm still surprised at the loss of fear and even the slight curiosity about their biology.
This is merely because of the structure that has been dominate for organizing large corporations. It is authoritarian heirarchy, which is essentially the kings of old. We need new ways of organizing our companies, new ways of empowering the employees, and better ways of distributing and holding the value of the company among more equal ownership proportions. This is a tough sell, but I think this period of history will go down as a dark age of freedom in the private sector and the next age will be the empowerment of individuals as the owners and decision makers in large organizations.
> why assume that an older person should earn more than a younger person

I personally feel there's a point where it's a law of diminishing returns, somewhere around the 5-10 year of experience mark.

> it's better to think about paying people in proportion to the value that they provide to the company.

In general older developers are bringing experience from other projects, other industries, past crises, and soft skills that provide value (for instance, I think a 24 year old and a 40 year old have different approaches to telling someone they disagree with them)
There's some information here - they don't link all the tools mentioned, but it'll give you the terms to search for: https://mail.live.com/mail/services.aspx
No, the questions in the original comment were posed in a clearly dismissive way, in a way trying to get others to join in the dismissal ("Does anybody else..." isn't an honest question, it's a call to action).
Minority Report does a decent job depicting several of these topics. Self driving cars[1], intrusive ads[2], and "no crime".

[1]https://youtu.be/Vrxyr1CjiSM

[2]https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ

Not bad for a 2002 film adaptation of a 1956 short story.
> the war was enacted by a democratically elected government

If Burns' documentary is correct, the government and military lied about pretty much all aspects of the war. If that wasn't the case, I would agree that the American people are to blame.

> Very few folks decided to return their passports and emigrate.

Thank goodness for that. The people that fought the most against the war may very well be the best Americans.

In the first Gulf War when we (the US) were bombing Iraq to take out the supposed weapons of mass destruction, I supported the action. I remember arguing with my sister that even though it might be wrong for the US to invade another country, removing Hussein's offensive capabilities was too important. The ends will justify the means! Boy, was I wrong. Again though, it was lying by the government, failures of the press, and failures of officials I trusted (esp. Colin Powell) that was the basis of my support.
Exercise 'not key to obesity fight'
To my way of thinking the pendulum is swinging away from funded startups to folks bootstrapping side projects.

So, on the "large" end you'll have the googles, facebooks, etc and on the "micro" end you'll see a bloom of people starting small projects like those shown on indihackers.

It's something I've been hoping for since 2011!

http://justinvincent.com/page/1392/entreporn-the-fallacy-tha...
>By adjusting for purchasing power, we shine a stark light on inequalities in the affordability of food.

So the actual problem here is low wages, not expensive food. That's funny because this article seems like an attempt at justifying massive international food subsidies which destroy local agricultural jobs and cause the massive inequality within these countries between the warlords and their violent militias who get to dish out the subsidies and the starving disenfranchised farmers who can't compete with the aid sold by the warlords, and so are dependent on it.
I think this was a very sober presentation of things, however it seems that it underestimates our inability to tell how the future will pan out, especially when we're moving on an exponential function of technological progress and creativity. Sure, the Internet window is closed and so is the mobile apps window but no one saw either of them coming - likewise, I can't tell yet what the next really big thing will be or when (unfortunately) but I wouldn't mourn garage entrepreneurship just yet.
"I'm seeing a lot of comments here that is discrediting Susan Fowler's accomplishments in taking TK down, and I would like to correct the notion that the culture/TK himself/Waymo is what brought TK down."

I'd like to take this opportunity to plug Joanna Russ' book, How to Suppress Women's Writing. It's hard to find now, but a very entertaining read.

Specifically, in this case, I believe this is the "she didn't really do it" step, or possibly the "but it's not really very important anyway" step.
If the stuff in this slide deck was all "essential", barely anyone would get hired for C dev positions imo...
Having lived through three "deaths" of silicon valley so far I will reserve judgement until the price of housing goes down to the national median
Maybe I don't understand but it sort of sounds like in the last sentence you validate what you don't buy in the first.
People say their contact details are in their profile, but I never see contact details in any profile I view. Am I missing something?
Really quite a stretch to call it fraudulent, given that the formula is derived from the State Legislature.

In any event, I have very little sympathy, since the current car tab is at least an order of magnitude too small.

The car tax rate in Singapore is at least 100x higher than the Sound Transit tax. The tax is equal to 100% of the sale price of the vehicle for the first $15,000 USD, 140% between $15,000 and $35,000, and then 180% on any value above that.

That seems a bit too high given the way American cities have been built up, but 1.1% is just absurdly and catastrophically lower than it should be.
My bet is on lab produced meat.
Elm + Elixir/Phoenix + Postgres
Those two things are entirely independent.
It’s almost as bad as when we solved all of physics in 1917.

I’d write more, but I have to go to the chemist’s to buy some westinghouse relays for my Bell systems electrified collating typewriter-telegraph.
Why would we do that when are bodies are specifically evolved for eating both vegetables and meat?

I, for one at least, consider along the millions of years that evolution tried a version of homo sapiens that couldn't eat meat, and it was selected against...why would we now attempt to overturn the apparent wisdom of that selection?
The sad fact of life is that large corporations often dictate the platform. If you're a mobile app developer, for example, you're only native options are Swift, Java and Kotlin unless you're prepared to settle for a less efficient end product (Xamarin, Scala/Android, Clojure/Android).
>"Morally it seems fair. But like most things in our system, I'm sure it will end up being rigged legally in the big guy's favor"

Indeed, corporations are now considered people in the US, which more or allows allows then legislate away any perceive threats to the rigged system.[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/raisins...
The latter will be more useful for my organization. Job hopping also seems negatively correlated to specialization, which IMO is your key differentiated value as a prospective employee.

That person who has specialized for 10 years probably hasn't been exposed to the five different environments with 5 different ways of doing things and being able to mix and match the best of all of the environments.

That person who has specialize may know how to code, but do they have experience talking to different customers in different verticals? Have they been involved in the full life cycle including devops?
given the thousands of road miles in tunnels that already exist

The Big Dig in Boston cost what, $20Bn? For less than 4 miles of road tunnel? The maths just doesn't work. What does average road cost per mile?
Read tMcGrath's sibling comment. "Gradually decline" refers to 3 IQ points over time. You probably have team members who are > 3 IQ points apart.
The equivalent of the ultimate promise of the self-driving car that we have right now isn’t a taxi; it’s a limousine driven by someone you have permanently on your personal retainer, like a landed noble’s man-at-arms.

Such a person might favour the law over you, but they won’t like doing it, because they try to hold your beliefs as their own.

Or, for a simpler comparison: a horse. Your horse, from your personal stable.
Yes! Jeez, thank you. These articles are nothing but clickbait, but more insidious clickbait than the other stuff, because it's cloaked behind a faux point: It's not actually a thoughtful piece of writing, but it's trying to dress up like one.
Do you have any proof to back up this very large claim?

As my own personal anecdote, I would say that it's the exact opposite. The only time I see claims of age discrimination are from people who have grown into a very awful attitude.
Cheap and fast can cost you more over the long run, a truth I've seen play out over dozens of companies that could've used the wisdom of someone who did it all before.

There's a legitimate concern over age discrimination which you seem to have underscored with your comment that you "dont really need someone with 30 years of experience".
Make a Self Powered Paper Airplane
How expensive is a can of Coke if social cost is priced in?
>"non-rooted"

That's a nice dream!

Car companies will fight this tooth and nail. For an example, see John Deere who use patent and cyber crime law to prevent their product owners from fixing/modifying their equipment.

Or, look at Tesla and how they have fought releasing service manuals or allowing owners to make any kind of modifications/repairs to their cars. Don't be surprised if you have someone coming into this thread to also tell us how these are "good things".
It’s far from perfect, but Scandinavia frowns upon anything too blunt in that direction. Depending on the country, they have influential female politicians, board members, etc. Trying to leverage position of power for sex is presumably highly unlikely to get you anywhere else than the front page of a scandal magazine.

I’d recommend interviewing men and women living there for some context on what a word like that could be like.
I find it infuriating that Renton asked for nothing in the ST3 bill, and Kirkland was swayed by a small group of activists into asking SoundTransit not to use the Cross Kirkland Corridor.
I think the future is even starker, that todays graduates will be just as likely to work for Jared Kushner as Zuckerberg, and I'm pretty sure history supports this. That is, who under 40 manages the largest workforce? They'll probably keep doing that.
I don't even know what to say about items #1 and #2 here. Unless you work for JetBrains, is Swing relevant to anything? And virus scanners shouldn't be an issue unless you're running on a Windows server, in which case I question whether you know what you're doing.

If you really believe that JPA means "you don't have to understand SQL", then you definitely don't know what you're doing.

As for Spring, I get so tired of reading lengthy critiques that boil down to:

1. "It uses XML! (or at least it did 10 years ago, when my personal experience with it was last up-to-date)"

2. "It has some classes with long names! Named after design patterns that I don't like!"

By all means, don't use Spring if you don't want to. But know that Spring is very modular, letting you include or exclude whatever you like, and the core is rather light. If you're not using at least some of it, then you're probably re-writing it... and doing a worse job than they did. Either way, stop ranting about it on web forums if your knowledge is from 2007.
From my point of view, seeing through bullshit is not about being intelligent, but rather having experience. After you have lived through different situations, some of them shitty, I believe you can get better at identifying them from the get-go. I'm not old myself, but I definitely understand things now that would simply go over my head when I started out.

There's no silver bullet of course, but usually a company should strive to have a mix of both experienced and less experienced workers. Less experienced workers cost less and will be more willing to "deal with bullshit", but more experienced workers bring knowledge with them that can prove invaluable to a company. They've lived through different situations, and they've seen success and failures. Finding the good balance depends of each company's situation of course.
By the same token, alcohol consumption has been shown to lower IQ over time, so should we value sober job candidates?

"People who have been drinking large amounts of alcohol for long periods of time run the risk of developing serious and persistent changes in the brain. Damage may be a result of the direct effects of alcohol on the brain or may result indirectly, from a poor general health status or from severe liver disease."

https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm