skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 40, and some of my coworkers are like 25. I'm about two management levels above the basic engineers, but we're a small company and everyone knows everyone.

So I'm having lunch with some of the engineers, and one of them shares out of the blue that she regrets getting a computer science degree at her (good) college, and thinks she should've gone into business instead. And my immediate thought is, "For god's sake, don't SAY that shit around me, I'm someone who has a big say in your career prospects."

I like having a casual, informal work experience. But it's a thin layer. Ultimately, this is still a hierarchy, and ultimately, you have to think about who you're talking to.

(Separately: Don't get an undergraduate degree in business. What a worthless degree.)
Or for people who don’t care about morals and just want free stuff.
> Yep, the problem is cultural. The whole system of reciprocity is out of whack. The system would work more smoothly if more people took on responsibilities, QA'd, contributed patches. Give engineers a % of time to contribute back to the libraries they use.

It's more nuanced than that I'm afraid. I work on tooling for a living, and have in fact tried to contribute back to babel but unfortunately there's so much noise and traffic that there's just as good a chance that your PR is stuck in limbo forever than being merged or even reviewed. I understand why, there's only so much the maintainers can do with the limited time they have, but my point is that you can't just say that the problem is that people aren't contributing. It's a two-way street, and maintainers need to figure out how to actually accept (or reject) contributions as well.

There are other ways to contribute than opening PRs and issues of course, like sending money. But even sending money isn't without complexity -- plenty of companies have the ability to contribute financially, but they can't because they need a VAT receipt or invoice to make it happen. Accounting is a hard requirement for companies, you can't just send money willy-nilly like you can as a private person. It's surprisingly difficult for companies to contribute financially to most projects, and that's not even considering the hard ship of getting those expenses signed off which is often a battle and a half on its own. Babel has a decent set up, but still requires a credit card -- this alone makes it much harder since you'd probably have to personally expense it and then try to get it past accounting.

It's a problem, for sure, but I don't think it's as black and white as you make it seem.
By having a firm deadline.
For people wondering about the prices...

Here is the chef's website, with various menus and prices: http://www.jeromebrochot.com/fr/cartes-et-menus.html

It goes as low as 21€ for the Winter menu (starter, main course, dessert): http://www.jeromebrochot.com/media/original/575147df7d79e/me...

Up to 110€ for the New Year's Eve menu (170€ with drinks included): http://www.jeromebrochot.com/media/original/575147df7d79e/me...
My understanding is that those questions are disallowed for two reasons: one, they devolve into a kind of popularity contest, and two, the answers get stale faster than most others. But I'm with you, they can be incredibly informative and helpful. It took a while for those types of questions to fall out of favor, so the ones you find through Google invariably date back to when the site was fresh.
Power and Big Tech 2017
"You can't hold the tide with a broom."
Please try to be more substantive in your replies. I would love to hear why you think this is such outstanding material, or what your own connection to the subject is.
No, that's it. The prices I "sampled" were from 29 to prix fixe 130 (which I erroneously wrote as 110, but close enough)
> trained in cybersecurity

I don't think I've ever met anyone in cybersecurity who was "trained in cybersecurity". At least not anyone useful. They're all developers first.
I can't help but feel that these medications are being vastly over prescribed by doctors.

Why is this not a problem in other countries? Either the number of people suffering from chronic pain in the U.S is way higher (percentage wise) than in other countries (why?) or the doctors are prescribing extremely dangerous medicine as if it were candy.
It's not FreeBSD[1]. This is doubled up by the fact that the networking system module is called "bsd"[2].

[1] https://reswitched.tech/software/oss

[2] http://switchbrew.org/index.php?title=Sockets_services
ZFS raidz is software raid.

If you want the ability to scrub (in such a way that detects errors over the whole storage stack), you must sacrifice hardware raid. You must also pay the fletcher/sha256 tax.

ZFS enthusiasts advocate that critical data absolutely requires those sacrifices. I'm inclined to agree.
How often do companies come back from down rounds?

It seems like any company willing to take a down round is also fine with taking a publicity hit and a hit to morale, which suggests it's in an even worse spot compared to what the devaluation would suggest.

Is there precedent that suggests even that SoftBank will come out on top from this?
ROTFL sorry no I have worked on major sites and even if you use straight html you can screw-up your crawlability and using the latest trendy JavaScript frame works makes it a lot worse.

One major UK site made a simple mistake with the canonical tag on one of 12 websites cost them over £500,000 in lost traffic in lest than a week.
I keep hearing about this so-called backlash, the government is going to do this, the EU is going to do that. Yet Google/Facebook/Amazon et al's grip grows ever tighter. The bottom line is people have chosen these companies as the gatekeepers to the internet. I don't like it the least bit. Especially since it makes my life harder as a web site operator. I have to do everything I can to please the mighty Google and if I don't I'm as much as erased from the internet. It didn't used to be that way but that's how it is now. These companies have massive power and what the EU or anybody else plans to actually do about it is beyond me. We'll see.
Your mbp doesn’t sleep properly? I haven’t heard of such a thing. What all do you have running on it?
maybe he would refer "goes"? It's seemed okay to me.
Making your data publicly available doesn't require you to then support people who try to use it.
Stop the eye catching title, It is very normal tender offer with some discount.
FB did http://allthingsd.com/20110210/exclusive-facebook-exploring-...
There’s no stable version anymore.

I'm still running El Capitan, and not having any issues.

Admittedly, I would have upgraded had my mac been eligible, because I'm just that sort of person, but there's nothing in Sierra or High Sierra that would make a meaningful difference to me.
jQuery is more of an afternoon thing.. 1-2 days and it's mostly mastered. You just need to know how to use selectors.. and the most common methods like html(), ajax(), post(), get(), text(), css(), addClass(), removeClass(), toggle(), -- but really just being able to select an item on the page, and then google what else you need to know for what you want to accomplish...

I'd recommend learning VueJs -- It works well with laravel, not sure what backend you've worked with but I'm sure you can plugin any.

It has a LOT of articles/support online. There's a discord chat for more help. Learn the basics of jquery for sure (I still use it a ton) but something like Vuejs or even React would beef up your resume quite a bit.
Exactly. That sums it up. When you hear something like:

"Yeah, I know, I’m so scared. When Lawrence offered me this job, I was so worried about whether I could do it. I mean it’s all so complicated, and the connections to be made over the network are so uncertain, and then, everything, the timeouts, the servers, lost messages, everything I have to think about it, it’s just really overwhelming and scary, you know?"

It sounds like a lack of confidence. However, Deborah Tannen has suggested a different interpretation.
Then why are so many words dedicated to the City? It's ambiguous at best, but I really don't think that HSBC, Deutsch Bank, and JPM each own 1.7% of all London's office space, which is the leading comparison.
Whatever tech you choose, practice is the best preparation.. I've been VERY impressed by several young people that, through consistent practice, got pretty good very fast, and I hope they can become inspiration:

https://mxstbr.blog/2016/12/a-dream-come-true/

https://medium.com/@lydiahallie/advice-from-a-19-y-o-girl-so...
This reminds me of how OnePlus 5 (Android) sticks 8gb of ram in it, and is as fast as iPhone 7 which has 2gb of ram. Specs don't mean shit if the software that utilizes the hardware is crap.
Wages really do buy less house than 100 years ago.

This would have been about 1920 when the Sears kit houses were invented.

Look at this: http://eastsidehill.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1927...

The inflation calculator here:

32,424.83 in today's dollars for a respectable, quality 8 room house.

Sure it doesn't include land or labour but there's no way an 8 room house costs 32k today.

Today that would buy you a Tiny House on the low end of that market.

In my opinion, and I know we are far richer than our great-grandparents, but anybody arguing we're quantitatively richer than our parents has a long row to hoe. If this is progress it sure is lumpy. As Peter Thiel says the most likely explanation is we've had an nearly completely unacknowledged (by Western intelligentsia) stagnation technologically.
Some that integrate with popular issue trackers/ALM tools:

Microsoft TFS (self-hosted) / Visual Studio Team Services (cloud, with free plan): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/manual-test/getting-st...

XRay for Jira: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.xpandit.plugin...

Zephyr for Jira: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.thed.zephyr.je...
But Uber isn’t limited to the USA and Canada. At least, not like how Didi is limited to china:

https://www.uber.com/country-list/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_(company)#Legal_status_...
Ah the same old argument that everything that can be outsourced is cheap and repetitive. But again we hate the outsourcing industry for taking away our jobs. Seriously why should someone retain you and pay you top $ in the first place, if your job was repetitive and lack specialized skills?

And I have hired & worked with multiple consultants at my company. The quality of the code consultants create is sub-par irrespective of their country of origin. The end of the day, there don't have any skin in the game, and care only about the billing.
Your Sea lioning please stop it
Lots of different ways:

- Find a function call you're making in a library and see how it works

- Look through the top python libraries (see https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python ) and pick a few of the simpler ones to flip through

For reading code, some things that can be useful:

- Flip through test suite and get tests running; then break some tests to see what's happening

- Diagram out code on a piece of paper (file structure, data structure, stack trace for a popular call)

- Discuss implementation with friends

- For certain files, it's often valuable to rewrite yourself
On Democratization of Creativity
If you have enough points your edits don't even enter the queue, they're applied immediately.
I always find these discussions pointless without more context. How old are you? $40 in 1979 prices is $130 now.

And don't get me started on trying to define how American definitions of class have evolved in the last fifty years...
14 Linux and open source conferences worth attending in 2018
They probably could if they focused on profitable markets. They’ve been burning money because they’ve been obsessed with growth as opposed to profitable growth.
This seems kinda odd, because one of the main plus points for me is that Uber worked somewhat internationally. I use Lyft only, but that was a key differentiator for me actually.

As a more interesting question, is there any difference between saying SoftBank is competing with Uber and that SoftBank has hedged against an Uber investment? I feel like the latter may be more the framing of these investments.
Bret Weinstein, the evolutionary biologist, recently discussed similar ideas in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAgSp_O03I

Here is a shorter piece of the interview that focuses a bit more on the specific idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4j-jRDTlJg

If anyone has links to more discussion about this subject, I would love to hear about it.
Lots of people in the US with enough income to swing an occasional $250/couple dinner out consider The Olive Garden fancy and go somewhere like that for their “special” dinners. Source: personally know way more people in that situation than I do people who appreciate and can afford non-microwaved meals out. Could be regional—this is the midwest, after all. “Prix Fixe” isn’t in most people’s vocabulary here, even if they can easily afford good meals. It’s a socialization/class thing.
"We don't slow down old phones. They just slow down by their selves."
The article was specifically talking about sex trafficking victims. Sex trafficking victims aren't doing it willingly, they are sex slaves, not prostitutes.
Reads to me like "We've significantly reduced the quality of life for our employees, but greatly increased profits!"

More part-time contractors who don't have steady work and fewer FTEs who are on constant call.
It's not about people who do not work. It's about people who do work, sometimes two jobs, and still don't have, say, any kind of medical safety net.
Probably not for most residents of Montceau-les-Mines... ;-)
>> (Separately: Don't get an undergraduate degree in business. What a worthless degree.)

It's hard for people to learn things like this if they're afraid to talk to people who've gone down that road for fear that an honest expression of concern will be read as a critical lack of confidence.

Just because we're yelled and beaten down for every expression of vulnerability growing up doesn't mean we have to perpetuate it into adulthood. Stop the cycle.
Should have invested in bitcoin instead! ;)
The size of postgresql database was ~74GB for every test combination. The bare metal server had 256GB RAM for every test combination.

The only difference was the amount of RAM PostgreSQL could use - as specified in postgresql.conf.

So, 74GB database does not fit in PostgreSQL cache for 32GB instance and fits for 200GB instance.
For 4, I would recommend leetcode (or, others whichever suits you), and Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena.

2 activities that helped me greatly. Once you read and solve enough problems, then you will start noticing patterns while understanding their purpose.
I'm on the React Native team and if this is still an issue, we still want to know about it. As others said, the icebox occurs automatically after a period of inactivity.

From quick glance, this seems more related to Metro, the packager that React Native uses. It was split out from the React Native repo and the team working on it is extremely receptive. I'd recommend opening a new issue on https://github.com/facebook/metro and linking to the issue in the RN repo.
This is why there’s a unicorn obsession.
Yeah, and I think this is where it's fair for the author to use terms like "leverage", since you're effectively multiplying force.

To be fair, though, I don't think having that team-first mentality (where you're focused on improving the team's productivity as opposed to your own) necessarily implies pervasive "management thinking" (for lack of a better phrase) or even soft skills. I imagine we can all think of teams where that isn't the case.
Atari ST

- Can we start the screen memory on any address in video RAM? No, limited boundaries.
- Can we restart the screen display from another address during the display? No

What ? It could definitely be set to any memory address (with same 16-bit boundary as the Amiga)
I just don't see this issue the way others do. "Capitalism" or profit motive certainly is interacting problematically with the issue. But profiteers are not, per se, why we have an opiod epidemic to begin with. The roots of that look pretty complicated.

One of the roots is hopelessness. We need to pass universal basic healthcare and solve the affordable housing crisis to make headway on that.

Another is, frankly, the success of modern medicine. You can live for decades these days with debilitating conditions that would have just killed you decades ago. And this often means living with a lot of pain.

Figuring out how to not just improve lifespan but also quality of life is the answer to that. And it is no small ask. It is quite the tall order.
The hypothetical odds of having bigger issues does not justify creating additional issues for no reason at all.
Aren't they more like Pittsburgh, PA? They suffered some brownfielding but have managed to recover due to good govt management? And now the brownfields are getting cleaned up and revitalized.
This goes back centuries. There is a reason why the slogan of the US currency is "In God We Trust." As harsh as it may seem, when money is involved you honestly cannot fully trust anyone.
Same old china is a giant bodyshop story. And even now many fail to acknowledge how seriously they are in their R&D.
I've never seen any type of pocket checks thankfully, just bag checks. And I've never seen the bag handed over, just opened and quickly shined with a flashlight
The problem is the OS X annual release cycle is tied to the iOS annual release cycle, which is tied to the annual iPhone upgrade cycle, which is the core part of Apple's business. I wish there was a way to update a module to get whatever iOS-tied goodies Apple wants to offer, without overhauling the whole Mac OS.
For datasets from any field there is Zenodo[1] and for particle physics there is hepdata[2].

There is also the CERN opendata portal but this tends to be more about releasing large datasets which require non trivial efforts to analyse. I thought this would be too difficult to make use of but there was a publication earlier this year using CMS data[3].

[1] https://zenodo.org/
[2] https://hepdata.net/
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05066
Awesome Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things
Of course you can license code you don't own. Otherwise there would be no way to have a license that allowed its recipients to redistribute and then allowed the people who received the code from them to redistribute it themselves.
On the topic of reading code “written by brilliant engineers”…

Code bases can be so large that you might find brilliantly-written things intermixed with things that are not brilliant (and some of those parts may even have been added by the brilliant engineer on an off day). Therefore, it’s risky to just absorb an entire blob as Good without also understanding its history.

An interesting side effect of languages/ecosystems with single coding styles enforced: bad changes to good code no longer stick out like a sore thumb! In my experience, developers with the discipline to write great code also typically write it in a consistently structured way, and it’s kind of useful that “warts” added by others over time usually won’t follow the structure/style and those warts will be easier to find and scrutinize.
1 and 3: I think that the Mercury and Io data should be publicly available, but I don't know enough astronomy to know the correct spell in Google.

4: There are too much quantum mechanics experiments. Which one? If the experiment is easy enough most Physicist prefer to measure it themselves and not download a bunch of data that you can't be sure about the details. If it's complex the data usually must be carefully analyzed.

([not a qm experiment] IIRC in the last LIGO experiment the noise was much higher than the signal, perhaps 100x, the nice chirp that most article show has a lot of preprocessing.)

2: In the first result of https://www.google.com/search?q=black+body+radiation+experim... I get https://www.phys.ksu.edu/personal/rprice/BB.pdf Is that enough? Be careful because it is not a canonical source, it's not a peer review article, the author describe it as:

> Other Projects and Papers:

> Although not the groundbreaking by any means, the following are some papers I’ve had to write for various classes during my undergraduate career at the University of Arizona Physics Department. Perhaps to someone they may provide some value or reference:

I think it's a standard experiment in 2nd or 3rd year of Physics, so there must be plenty of tables flying around. I measure something like that once, with a tungsten incandescent lamp. (IIRC tungsten is not black enough, you have only 50% of the expected light at one end of the visible spectrum and 60% at the other end, or something similar, also the glass and lens absorb part of the light and it's difficult to get the data about them, so ... there are a lot of details that you must check before using the data.)

In Chemistry they use more tables, you can buy books with tables and tables of experimental data, but it's more difficult to have a clean theory to compare with them.
I agree it is stupid. There are other stack exchange sites but it takes about 5 minutes to read through their FAQs to work out where to go - Software Enginering? Superuser? Nope you need Software Recommendations. Obviously. A tiny meta-site where nobody will ever see your question.

Why do they need to separate clearly popular and related questions onto a graveyard site? Sure they might go stale quicker, but I have a load of questions and answers from Android 2ish that are totally irrelevant now and they are allowed to stay apparently.

Stack overflow doesn't have any solution for any answers going stale so I don't think they should use that as a reason to pick on questions that pretty much everyone except the pedantic editors think are fine.
Swap wins when you have different large processes open that you aren't actually using simultaneously. On my laptop with 2GB of RAM, it's why I don't have to close my browser before opening something else.
This is strictly for transforming JS. It has existed for over a year, here https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8475 as well.

It's certainly possible that the babel team was never aware of it, but I'd imagine this has to do with the seemingly exponential growth of transformation time per source KB.
The amount that people care is measured in dollars. We can likely conclude that the amount that people care is less than the prevailing wage of a professional proofreader.

A publication may one day be able to accumulate those who care the most as their customer base, and thereby assure the production of grammatically correct ephemera, but for now, other business interests prevail.
I was in Miyajima Japan recently and had a Michelin starred grilled sea eel lunch with a beer for 25 bucks.
This comes entirely down to how you define "middle class" and IMHO it's far too broad of a group to make sweeping statements on what they can and cannot afford. A family with 50k income total might be considered middle class and I doubt they would feel they could afford a $130 per person meal even once a year. A family with 200k income on the other hand might be just as you described. Both could easily consider themselves (or be considered by others) to be "middle class"
It still has the most stable implementation for Linux development when compared to VirtualBox or Parallels. Docker for Mac is great for user space dev, but I haven’t figured out how to kernel debug yet.

Two recent showstoppers, when I tried to switch from Fusion:

The shared folder driver for VB will panic a Linux guest if a shared folder is accessed from a multithreaded compilation.

The shared folder driver for Parallels will panic a Linux guest if you load a kernel module from a shared folder.
Anything written by Kenneth Reitz https://github.com/kennethreitz
Imagine what’s going to happen with all this drone R&D.

I don’t think the F35 will make it to its desired life before it’s obsolete. 50 years is a long time.

https://breakingdefense.com/2012/03/f-35-total-costs-soar-to...