skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any plan on adding built in FTP capabilities?, I would love to get rid of my current IDE and use VSC but is a hassle changing the code there and uploading using some FTP client
I choose to believe the article writer.
This reminds me of another very noticeable issue Chrome used to have with hardware acceleration enabled for html5 videos. I ended up turning off hardware acceleration when they started forcing html5 on YouTube because it bugged me so much.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=351458
Don't do this, it's an anti-metric. Unless you think Opera and Konqueror are the most secure browsers.
When I was at university doing programming, we just sat three people to a machine.
Same in US Congress. Most of them are millionaires who benefit from housing prices.
I heard a different story. Firefox was not at the contest because it was not in the same league as the others browsers (and not in a good way). See the last sentence of your link "We wanted to focus on the browsers that have made serious security improvements in the last year"
Might it work in vim8 now?
It does. We contacted them seeking academic discounts, and there wasn't. I was in a little university in Spain. No one is going to drop 20k like that.
I don't know what you're referring to. Not quite as laborious as what? When I mentioned things like "setting up a remote", I was specifically thinking of GitHub and GitLab's web forms. It's as exactly as involved as I outlined above.
How to Create a Distributed Work Culture
Cryptocurrency?
I've noticed that in the Chronicles of Narnia (written in the early 1950s), C.S. Lewis frequently included rich, detailed descriptions of the food. Knowing about the situation with rationing in the UK at the time helps put it in context.
Or maybe Lewis was just a foodie.

It was a fine meal after the Calormene fashion. I don't know whether you would have liked it or not, but Shasta did. There were lobsters, and salad, and snipe stuffed with almonds and truffles, and a complicated dish made of chicken-livers and rice and raisins and nuts, and there were cool melons and gooseberry fools and mulberry fools, and every kind of nice thing that can be made with ice. There was also a little flagon of the sort of wine that is called "white" though it is really yellow.
"The Horse and His Boy," Chapter V
Now, if you could work on making Visual Studio 64 bit, that would be nice. (And no the weird reasons given like a decade ago don't make it).
srcset + sizes, anyone?
> This means that the Senate has now made the tax reform bill a win for those who work in startups instead of a loss.

Grossly inaccurate statement. Nearly all of the analysis of the tax bill throughout its many iterations so far find that it is a long term net loss for all but very, very high income earners.
Should architects code?
AP US scientists try First gene editing in the body
Rewrite history to remove UPS integration from ActiveShipping repository
I'd consider actually doing it. Consider who's the dog and who's the tail- is your company making him rich or is he making your company rich?

By transitioning him to equity, you still get the benefit of his continued hard work but now the company's profits don't all go to him. Don't drop it in his lap- set it up with a standard 4-year vesting schedule, but I'd actually do one better and go above the 30% he asked for. (Maybe 33%).

I seriously doubt you could replace him under the same terms. Find someone else, sure. Find someone who performs this well, not as likely.

You have a golden goose here. Don't begrudge him his grain. Just quietly collect the golden eggs, keep him so happy he lays more eggs, and give him zero reason to think it's only a matter of time before you slaughter him for meat.
Junior devs finding an initial job and receiving mentoring is certainly an issue, but I think that the issue raised in the tweet is way more endemic to start-ups than more established companies.
Alot of companies think they need senior devs, when in reality what they really need is more junior or mid-level devs. Most developers aren't architecting whole new apps, or building out massive feature requests. Most of the time, it's fixing bugs, maintenance, adjustments to existing features, and other work that mainly requires navigating existing code and infrastructure, with the occasional new feature here and there.

You do need one really good lead developer on the team, to help mentor people. This is the one area that is sometimes a bit lacking. Most leads are great engineers but aren't very good at leading, mentoring or any of the other people type work they need to do. But, all they really need is some training and a personality adjustment, in some cases.
Ever been to a hackathon? It's hard to coordinate over Git when you're just getting started on a codebase and there's barely anything for the 3 other people to work on. I've used Cloud9 for this very successfully in the past.
Opera used to pass the Acid3 test.

And that version has been discontinued, the team disbanded, etc.
I miss subethaedit
A hidden consequence of prop-13 is that every city wants commercial real-estate and none want residential because they get more taxes from businesses. This restricts the supply of housing, and is one of the root causes of high prices and long commutes.

Without prop-13 we'd have more housing, more convenient housing options, and lower prices. Yes, long-term residents would have higher taxes. However most of us would save both time and money on our housing costs.
That's true, we could do that. But then we'd have to move twice, and at this point in our lives (we're both >50) moving is a non-trivial hassle. It's also not a given that prices will come down, so this strategy carries some risk that we end up stuck in a rental.
As if even simple cubic interpolation is energy intensive. Or allowing the GPU to scale instead of doing it in software.
I would have suggested "Momentum", positioning it as tackling the part of creator funding that comes after the initial "kickstart".
> Early next year should also see the rollout of a new GPU-accelerated rendering engine

So what version will get Webrender exactly?
Unlocking blockchain: 5 music startups to watch
This is true for developers applying through job ads. patio11 has a written millions of words of advice, many of which talk about how to land work (hint, don't apply through job ads), so I'm not going to try rephrase that, but if you're a developer (even without experience) and you're good at what you do, you really shouldn't have any issues finding work.

(shameless plug) I'm working with hyperiondev.com. We offer 6-month coding bootcamps, and our grads have companies fighting over them even though they have zero "real world" experience and only 6-months of training (yes I've read the bootcamp vs theoretical CS degree flamewars to preempt anyone who believes that anyone who writes a line of code should have 3 years of CS theory to back it up).

Know your stuff. Have a portfolio (minimal is fine). Talk to people (not recruiters or HR staff). There is almost no easier way to find work at the moment than by saying "hey I know what a for loop is", so I have limited sympathy for the people who claim they can't get jobs because of lack of experience in dev.
That's the wrong way to look at it. If you wait for the bubble to pop, it may never happen. Or it could happen, but only after prices doubles, and the "crash" may only take the price back to where it is now.

Buy now IF you can afford to hold onto the property through a crash. If you expect to need to sell this property in the next 2-5 years, do not buy it.
This comment might be a bit hard to swallow, I've tried to be polite but the message itself is a difficult one.

>I have a drawer full of stock option paperwork from various start ups I’ve worked with over my career, all of which were “confident” in their growth prospects and none of which exist anymore.

>At this point I feel like anyone who chooses stock options over cash is naive, delusional, or misled.

First let's assume you're a 10,000x engineer who was also able to change the course of small startups through your personality. Then if this has happened once or twice it might be bad luck. But a drawerful of times, and we should perhaps revisit the assumption that you are a 10,000x engineer who is able to change the course of small startups. Maybe this is about you.

You conclude:

> I feel like anyone who chooses stock options over cash is naive, delusional, or misled.

But there is a hidden assumption there that if you are not a 10,000x engineer, then nobody is. Do you think this is a fair generalization for you to make? If the startups you picked and joined failed is it fair to say had anyone else been the one to pick and join startups (not necessarily the ones you picked and joined) they could fare no better? That you're the best there is, at the task of picking a startup to join and lighting its boosters on fire?

Basically it is like dating: if someone says every single person has left them severely disappointed, that says more about them than it does about dating. To stick with the analogy: we know people enter happy successful and long-lived relationships.

We know there are successful startups whose destinies early hires helped set.

If every one of the ones you've tried with have failed, a drawerful over the course of a career - could this be more about you than them? Are you not perhaps the "truly excellent" husband who has given up on marriage, after 5 divorces.

If so, then perhaps it is not fair for you to generalize and say that anyone who gets married is delusional. Because you've been married 5 times, you know how to pick 'em, you know how to make it work: and it just does not work.

I tried to be a bit polite but I hope you can see the analogy. I get that it doesn't work for you.

But is it really fair to generalize your experience?
Techshop is out of business
I went by Techshop SF this morning and was turned away at the gate. The manager told me that they shut down the business and that he was just notified last night. There has been no notice to members yet. He said that he doesn't know how it's going to work out with refunds for existing members.

Relevant article: https://makezine.com/2017/11/15/techshop-closes-doors-files-bankruptcy/
But?
Technically yes. It will find words which are used in similar contexts such as synonyms, antonyms, etc. However in practice, word2vec and clustering does a good job of finding synonyms [1].

1. https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/lucidworks/implementing-co...
> But your own company doesn't capture all of that value.

If they paid their employees properly, with adequate salary bumps as their experience grew, then the company would capture all of that value, most of the time.

People jumping every 2 years isn't exactly something most employees want to do, it's something companies force upon them.
This is nifty, and congrats to the M$ teams for continuing to kill it on the announcements (right before re:Invent.) Will this service also support soft push via services like AirWatch for private/non-store deployments?
You home equity is only realised when you sell.

There is no loss. There is only the money you get net after the sale.
Did he propose a vote this time? I must have missed that.
That's purely a paper profit. As the parent said, they can't afford to move to a similar apartment, so they're unwilling to sell. That probably goes for a lot of other homeowners in the area, which seems likely to contribute further to higher prices. Seems pretty dysfunctional to me.
The title suggests something very different to the content of the tweet even though it uses the same words. I think this is clickbait.
Not sure I quite understand the premise that there is a strict delineation between programmers who are "prepared to accept more complex syntax and semantics for <...>" and otherwise. I can think of a lot of cases where I'd personally use either or (I've been looking into tikv contrasting it with cockroachdb's storage layer for e.g.), a lot of cases where I've used Rust's formalization of ownership/borrowing semantics to alleviate GC pressure in Go code. I'm hard pressed to find projects "for" Go that Rust wouldn't be a reasonable alternative to, and vice-versa.
Thank you for sharing the info. External link gets <10 hits from a 30,000 likes FB Page is really surprising. I'm spending dollars to get likes to my Page, seems I need to stop it.
Safari does a good job I guess, or my eyesight is getting really bad.
Can someone explain to me why UBI is preferable to a negative income tax?

I don’t get why we’ve come up with a worse version of a 40 year old idea. Are these two ships passing in the night or were there some perceived problems with Negative Income Tax that UBI is supposed to solve.
> But what he has done is something that very few living people can claim: Painstakingly bulldozed, with no experience whatsoever, into two fields with ridiculously high barriers to entry – car manufacturing (Tesla) and rocketry (SpaceX) – and created the best products in those industries, as measured by just about any meaningful metric you can think of.

So how about Tesla's reliability?

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

"Tesla Model S owners reported their car’s reliability has improved in Consumer Reports' latest survey, giving the EV sedan its first above-average rating."

Above average! And losing ever more money.
The 2017 European Go Conference: A Recap
> I have a feeling rent control is the only way we will ever get to the point where we remove this 'investment' opportunity.

And also remove the opportunity to live in the city. Rent-control is one of those policies that the economic community has consensus that its one of the worst things you can do.

"In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing."
I remember that quite a few were JS exploits (which is why noscript is so popular), and there's no plan to rewrite the JS JIT to rust (not that it would help much anyways)
I mean, it sort of does and sort of doesn't, but the hardware manufacturers just aren't used to thinking about things in the proper way. Just like the hardware is a black box with no user serviceable parts inside, as far as they're concerned the firmware (because that's still how they think of the OS and everything on it) is a single binary blob with no user serviceable parts inside, even if it's actually just linux and Android. And just like all the hardware parts are designed and qualified for a particular design, the same goes for the software: when you buy your hardware you get a software with it and that's that. As far as they're concerned it's just another component like a screen that gets customized to work with everything else and goes in the box, then is never touched again.
From what I understand, the issue that describe happens because the company doing the training doesn't re-evaluate the now trained developer as more experienced, and therefore, more valuable and deserving of better compensation.

A junior is a junior, until they're not. Pretending that the now trained new developer is still worth the same is foolish, but that's exactly what some employers do to their own detriment.
Seems pretty easy to verify where the traffic is going with Wireshark once it comes out. Given how easy it would be for anyone to check that (especially in a product targeted at developers, who are likely to know how to use network diagnostic tools), it seems rather pointless to lie about where the traffic goes.
This is terrible advice (IMO obviously). On the statistical level it basically amounts to "disregard the currently accepted best practices".

On the individual level none of it matters. The right school won't make a high achiever out of someone who's been a low achiever for 18yr and the wrong one won't make a low achiever out of someone who's a high acheiver.

Depending on where you start in life (i.e. social and economic class) you're probably only going to be able to go up/down a few rungs anyway and returns on time spent stressing over having a strategic plan for college diminish very quickly.

I take particular issue with 5. You should know what you want to do unless you've got so much money and time that you don't mind pissing a way a lot of both taking classes you don't actually need.

I partially agree with 3/4. New grads are hired for who they know or what they know. Nobody cares if you've got a major in psychology if you've spent the last two years working with some education grad students writing software to teach kids math.
From where? Article doesn't mention where they're migrating from.
> Regardless of how you built your app (Swift, Java, React Native, Xamarin)

Any word on Cordova support? All those Ionic apps (which uses Cordova in the background) would feel very at home at App Center...
The article praises some features adherent to the runtime/standard library: file system, Hypertext-Based User Interface, but what does it have to do with the language itself? What about clunky COBOLique keyword set: PROCEDURE, BEGIN/END? What about FOR loops, not implemented in the original Oberon? Ironically, LISP dialects predating PASCAL-family are still alive, whereas Pascal/Modula/Oberon are dead as a dodo.
> Remember this is NOT an rational economic problem. There are good reasons to live near by the same neighbors that you know well for years.

Why is a living near the same people you know and love irrational or somehow an inappropriate object of economic reasoning? You could even estimate prices for such things! Just because they're not typically represented as currency amounts doesn't mean they're not 'rationally economic' or that making tradeoffs that involve these things couldn't be better done with good economics.
Where are containerd’s graph drivers? Nowhere, snapshotters to the rescue
It might have a shot in making Java fast /sarcasm
According to the Wikipedia page Red Dwarf stars sound like they'll be around longer than our sun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf

"Red dwarfs therefore develop very slowly, maintaining a constant luminosity and spectral type for trillions of years, until their fuel is depleted. Because of the comparatively short age of the universe, no red dwarfs exist at advanced stages of evolution."

And here I thought because of their small size they'd be LESS suitable for life.
With floobits though you can go ahead and use atom while I chill in vim or sublime. It doesn't demand that you both use the same editor.
On the other hand, prices of computers and electronics are always dropping due to technology improvements. Stocking up on computer equipment in advance rarely makes sense since next year it will be better.

But this doesn't seem like a bad thing. Would you prefer the alternative, that technology improvements stop and computers become more expensive, so they become good investments? And people do still seem to buy lots of electronics even though they don't hold their value.

Generally speaking, lower prices are better. There are only a few exceptions such fossil fuels and cigarettes where you can say cheaper is worse, due to externalities.

To be sure, if tomorrow a magical new technology gave us free, clean energy, health care, or housing, this would be a tremendous financial shock. Many investments would be worthless. But this is because it's a big, sudden change, not because it's inherently bad. A more gradual decrease in prices is a good thing.
Go conference liveblogs
Wait, aren't they essentially the same thing?
Lectin in foods?
Maybe u need a lectinblocker?
And this is the problem with Sweden; we got rid of the property tax, but we kept the capital gains tax meaning people are less incentivized to sell since the prices are rising anyway, meaning fewer houses end up on the market, meaning the prices rise.

This is one of the many contributors to this crisis; high capital gains taxes for people selling their house, no property tax for people keeping it. Add to that our tax deductions on interest rates and local government monopoly on what types of houses gets built (obviously not affordable housing projects, they pay terrible taxes compared to the nice people who would move into luxury condos) and you have a recipe for disaster. There's many, many other reasons too but those things are what the government could and should work on.
I know, right? Vim and emacs should ease off a little :)
CoinHive + Social Cause = Bail Bloc

I've seen variations of this such as hurricane relief, etc. I'm not too keen on having Monero being the crypto because of the anonymous focus of Cryptonight altcoins. Here you'd want more transparency to see where the money trail goes.

The name escapes me but there was an ICO for a giving altcoin whose purpose was to track projects and spending. This way, you don't have Red Cross collecting from a disaster but not using the donations for that disaster.
1Password X: A look at the future of 1Password in the browser
And the result was unpleasant. Initial direction and goals abandoned
Day 15: Adding Shooting, Hit, and More Walking Sound Effects
But does ttul really get his point across at how he really feels without the colorful words?
It has not been that much of a price change and while it will of course affect some it has not been the driver. It is not THAT difficult to get an apartment in the shitty areas where immigrants want to live but those who buy apartments won't buy in those areas anyway.
surely an intentional thing. i'd be tempted to do the same, honestly.
Garbage collection by its nature implies dynamic allocation.

You're using value types and raw pointers in those targets because even the memory overhead of a heap/freelist/etc can be too much. With things like AVR you're looking at 512B to 16kB of total memory(part of which includes the code you write).
Capital gains is only applicable when you sell the house and it's not your primary residence, or if you made a ton of money on it. And it's only a tax on the appreciation of the house, not its market value.

Real estate agent fees are only applicable on x% of the value of the house you sell.

Higher property taxes do stink but are not applicable after you sell the house.

I'm not sure why you can't afford to move. Have you talked to a tax specialist or a financial advisor? If you bought a house at X and sold it at 2x, even if you haven't paid any of the principal of your mortgage(if you have one), you would likely pay a maximum of ~25% of X between capital gains (if you own multiple homes) and real estate agent fees. So you still made 75% of X from appreciation. I don't really understand what you think your problem is.
> If you train an employee and treat them well they stay with your company longer.

That's a huge assumption.
I've seen the same thing multiple times, especially with NodeJS all those jobs require 10 years of NodeJS experience, even though NodeJS is only like 8.5 years old at this time