skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article gives as a potential reason for high developer compensation the possibility of a shortage of talent. That seems obvious to me, but the author goes on to suggest that if there was a shortage, you'd be seeing more people go into development.

Does this actually happen? My understanding is that skill supply is simply not elastic in this way. Kids generally pick what to do based on their aptitude and what they like to do, remuneration is a distant secondary concern. Changing careers is something people only do when they absolutely have to.

It appears altogether clear to me that supply and demand explains programming compensation perfectly, and that these dynamics aren't going to go away any time soon, for the same reason doctor and lawyer compensation stays healthy, lawyers less so.
A hardware wallet is safer than your bank account.
With praise, half got worse and half stayed the same.

With scolding, half got better and half stayed the same.

Scolding is obviously better, in terms of effect on outcomes.

Though it's probably a better parallel to the flight instructor case if you have a six-sided die, and you praise on 5-6, and scold on 1-2: most of the praised get worse, most of the scolded get better, those who get neither scolding or praise have mixed results, and a few of those scolded get worse and likewise a few praised get better.

The coin flip example, while in one sense more clearly showing the problem, simplifies to the point where the connection with realistic scenarios is harder to see, IMO.
Notion of wall clock time is probably unnatural and harmful. Humans for millenia did not follow wall clock time to wake up, go to bed, go to work etc. they rather followed the sun. Following the sun is natural because we all need light. For better mood, for being able to do work outside or for vit d. We should rather sync up our schedules with the sun rise/sun set (while minimizing the total wall-clock delta and confusion people experience).
>especially now that node has actually begun to enter real world usage and enterprise on a large scale.

That's why i'm starting to avoid as much as possible all new/updated online services for serious stuff.
Lets not labor under the impression that Epic invested resources in fixing these issues purely out of the goodness of their hearts.

The success or failure of the recent Sim City game was hardly EA's number one concern. Fortnite, however, is probably extremely important to the folks at Epic.

I'm not defending EA here, but it was definitely in Epic's best interests not to piss off Fortnite's player base given that there are some other, ahem, similar titles on the market right now.
We will put it tomorrow because it's midnight now in our country :D
Read about Ruby and DHH's opinion on DI. That's how.

Also, remember there's a huge swathe of apps where tests are wholly inappropriate and designing everything around DI is annoying for all those cases.

Prototypes, one time apps, internal tasks, the significant proportion of programmers who think testing's a waste of time and/or money, etc. or that only small, key parts should be tested.
I haven’t in my life seen a programming job that requires skills that are only available through university.

The only employers (USA) that I’ve seen even care about or ask about degrees are the ones that practice “alumni nepotism” (we only hire Stanford grads, etc.). Nobody else gives a crap.
Too little too late on the Fam thing. My exit plan was well underway when they announced it. FB stopped being for emo in 2013ish last I cared, yet I'm still going through the emotionally taxing process of extracting my friendships from FB lately. Meanwhile new contacts see no mutual friends since I don't add new ones for the most part, so I am eager to be able to hit logical delete (aka deactivate, no full delete anymore).
And with higher quality will come higher labour costs.
Marketing has had focus groups, and user use/studies for years.

They have always had ways of knowing exactly what their content does without having to track millions of clicks.

We have had sampling methods that makes the need to examine census pointless, it is just cool that today computing can handle the whole data set and scary that we are.

Still, today, some of the best ways to truly examine massive swaths of data is deducing to what is missing. Who turns their phones off from 10pm-2am and turns them back on at 2am? Who wasn't looking at facebook and watching netflix all night while everyone else was?
Node JS & Express Tutorial – Restaurant Website
Oh wow... Didn't know Shoes was under active development. Nice to see the community picked it up.
>The great thing about a headphone port is that if you stick something in it you won't ever hear anything over the speaker.

This still kind of depends on good software. On the Galaxy S5 (which I've managed to get along with still), the built-in voicemail app will play over the speakers despite having headphones in. Led to some embarrassing moments the few times I've listened to voicemail in public.
There's a lot of discussion about video game addiction in fact.
I find the social network interactions to be very mild quite often. It has value, but it's not the paradise of human existence it's said to be.
I didn't realise hardware wallets were FDIC insured.
When Amazon completely dominates the online market and all its aspects, wouldn't it be in a GREAT position to charge customers much much more? Would it still need to be "competitive"?
I've found videostream[1] to be amazing. Kind of sucks for the small team making it that VLC has this built in now, but I guess their startup was always on shaky grounds.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...
>boring

Not boring. Just "full of boilerplate" which also means that it will be a nightmare to maintain at a certain point of the lifecycle.
This is highly dependent on personality. As an anecdote, I know a developer that does not like working with "the best" because they make him look bad (even though he's not a terrible developer).

Given, he works at a company with stack ranking so I guess that company is self-selecting for developers like him.
Just to clarify, I agree, it's not nothing. But still.
I'm not sure it took a huge amount if visionary understanding of the currency markets. Fixing a currency to another and using the central bank to step in to ensure this generally goes against the concept of supply and demand that underpins these markets. It's just it took someone with enough resources to go against a central bank to carry it out.
Found the libertarian...
I have rent control in Los Angeles but they're demolishing my place to make way for luxury condos, most likely for absentee owners. You can't find an apartment for under 2,000 a month in LA anymore but the way in which they demolish perhaps run down yet affordable apartments to make way for high end condos is a huge factor in the utter lack of affordable housing here. Not like people get rich in LA there is not even the income potential you have in SF and no stock options outside of Snap. I was born here so I have been treading water for life here but its getting harder and harder for people on salary to even afford to live here at all.
DSM was last updated in 2013. When companies are employing psychologists to analyze user behavior and employ techniques that exploit the same mental vunlerabilities that addictive drugs utilize with the goal of attaining a similar outcome, I think we can call that "optimizing for addiction".
Who cares? Would TV have been that worse if it did the same thing?
Chromecast support took much more time to implement than we originally expected, that was probably the major reason for the delay.
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud so I will be speaking from the bias of knowing those products.

They talk a lot about reducing operating complexity and scaling their infrastructure, I wonder what the cost of their current infrastructure + the staff to maintain it might be vs the managed solutions that cloud providers offer now.

For example, using cloud datastore or spanner or big table as a persistent layer, these managed services can definitely scale to the current need and I've seen them go much higher as well.

For logs ingestion and analysis, big query can be a very powerful tool as well, and with streaming inserts that data can be queried in near real time. For things that are less urgent, batch queries. For other things dataflow can help with streaming workloads.

I think one of the problems they alluded to though was that at the moment they're on a single provider, and what they're looking for is a multi cloud strategy which totally makes sense. A lot of the above products create some kind of locking, with some exceptions, like using hbase as an interface to big table or beam as an interface to dataflow. Though I don't know what the other providers offer that may have these same interfaces.

Another option is kubernetes, which I believe all providers are pretty strongly embracing. Having most of the supporting infrastructure be brought up with a few kubectl commands could help them scale across several cloud providers quickly.
Will there be 64 bit builds for Windows?
I don't know why this is so heavily downvoted, it totally lines up with my experience. I got an iPhone 7 when it was released, and I even bought a second audio adapter thinking I'd need it. I've used them maybe 5-10 times in ~16 months?

I mean, at home I've got Chromecast Audio or Bluetooth speakers. At work or my desk at home I don't listen from my phone. And on the go I really hate cables, I always fear that I'm going to damage the port when walking with the phone in a pocket and positioning the cable is awkward with a warm jacket in winter.

Is my use case really so atypical?
I've not used a wired headset since I stopped gaming several years ago. Sony's bluetooth headphones have very good noise cancellation and very good sound quality. It's not quite as my old JVC HA-RX700 wired headphones.

I understand how audiophiles might really enjoy that quality gap, but beyond that niche market, I don't get it.

My bluetooth headphones even have wires to plug into 3.6mm / airplane connectors as well.

It seems that most people don't care about the headphone jack given companies have decided to ditch them en-mass. Certainly online forums give a voice to those that still want it, but I've not read any comments that seem to be valid for ME.

Problems I've seen described:
* connecting to airplanes (I have connectors on my bluetooth headphones)
* not wanting to use multiple dongles (bluetooth has no dongles)
* pairing sucks (modern bluetooth versions don't have the pairing issues of old. I don't have to repair to get it to connect. I just hold the button and tell it to connect to the already-paired device and it works every time.)
* "Considering the prices of bluetooth headsets, bluetooth ubiquity for audio will still remain a niche for the rest of the world." - bluetooth is CHEAP. high quality bluetooth are definitely more expensive than high quality wired.

Are there any arguments that I've not seen?
>If SWA is cheaper than FedEx or UPS, you can bet that customers will opt for Amazon’s service instead.

Not me. I hate their Prime Now drivers and pretty often get things delivered to the wrong house, or not show up at all when my Amazon things are delivered through them. I don't think they will be able to replicate UPS's strong delivery service and employee benefits, and also don't think the savings will be passed to the consumer.

All in all, I think everyone except Amazon loses in this deal.
We're working on it:
https://extranewsfeed.com/my-transit-density-bill-sb-827-ans...
While this is a cool concept, it will be interesting to see how well it holds up in terms of security, as the one under the screen will be an optical fingerprint reader as opposed to the capacitive ones we have now, which is in theory be much harder to fool than the optical one.
What format does ambisonic audio get stored in? I remember over a decade ago they had a method for storing the various harmonics in Vorbis streams in an Ogg container, but I don't remember that going anywhere.
Not to criticise the (very well written) article, but IMHO the best solution for rapidly prototyping cross platform GUI applications in Ruby is Electron[1] + Hyperloop[2].

GTK applications look very outdated/out-of-place anywhere outside linux, and especially on OS X.

While electron has its issues (large bundle size, memory footprint), it is a really flexible solution for cross platform desktop applications. It will still not have native appearance, but a modern L&F is quite easy to arrive at using CSS and libraries like react-desktop.

Relying on the browser runtime ensures that most of the form widget interactions work as users would expect them to on their own platform.

Opal[3] is a really good ruby to javascript compiler which can be used to target electron. This is particularly promising given that the hyperloop [2] ecosystem has significantly matured. Hyperloop provides a full fledged component oriented client-side development framework powered by best of breed frontend technologies/patterns like virtual DOM (through react integration [4]) and flux stores.

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[1] https://electronjs.org

[2] https://github.com/ruby-hyperloop

[3] https://github.com/opal/opal

[4] https://github.com/ruby-hyperloop/hyper-react
Yes, but Gates is focusing on developments that delivers instant fame, with things which seems to be outside his original expertise. And he even is using his name for it, instead of supporting it anonymous. This support the impression that he is doing this things for fame, less for the result.
I can see GoDaddy now rubbing their hands with glee as they ponder the prospect of selling overpriced server certificates to unaware website owners. No way they'll push a Let's Encrypt solution.
Show HN: Blog Skipper – Browser Extension to skip longreads and comment threads
Sounds like a recipe for really, really wealthy landlords.
Whats this thing you call "good specs"?
Yes, we had a last minute issue with the 64-bit builds, they will be available in a few hours.
These Bats Don't Seem to Die of Old Age–Can They Help Extend the Human Lifespan?
Quality declines as the gap between customer and devs increases.
In the past, when Apple removed certain hardware (floppies, CD drives) early, there was a clearly superior successor ready, and they were just ahead of the curve.

But the headphone jack didn't have a clearly superior successor, and from what I hear, still doesn't. The overall UX (and sound quality) of Bluetooth is worse, not better; it's tough to beat the utter simplicity of plugging in a headphone jack.

The only thing gained is no wires (and maybe some easier water-proofing, not sure). This is such a sideways move, it always struck me as a sign that Apple couldn't maintain Jobs's vision without him.
From a 2016 interview https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/16/08/26/1338246/the-s... (also https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/7hqusx/this_is_jean...)

"Well, it's important to remind people that we don't make money out of VLC and that there is no business model around it, we're not Mozilla or Facebook. VideoLAN only receives donations and that's not enough to hire someone. VLC developers are either volunteers (the majority since VLC started) or have their consulting business around open source multimedia."
For calendar on Android, have you tried Etar? https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ws.xsoh.etar/
Computer Color is Broken [3:30]
This! When I was on a cheap shared and hosted solution the idea of LE was waaayyy above me.

But, I moved over everything to AWS, for the same amount of money (OK, ~$0.60 more than what I was paying before - relatively nothing), and it became a piece of cake.

That initial time commitment to the move, though, will never be recouped. I do however look at it as a career-expanding experience (fairly confident in how AWS works for projects/companies), so I got that going for it.
I'd like to know how Amazon manages and organizes themselves with respect to leadership, teams, hierarchy, knowledge sharing and integration between different internal and external groups with everything they do and all of their business units. The fact that they succeed here is more amazing than any of the tech.
or use cloudflare

https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/
Will? I’ve gotten two or three packages this way.

On the plus side you get a picture of the package at your door (or whatever) so you know they left it.

But it doesn’t integrate well with my delivery tracking app. They don’t know to drop packages at the package desk at my apartment complex instead of leaving them on my doorstep to be stolen.

Interesting to see them go more vertical though.
You should read all the books by Pulitzer-Prize-Winning journalist David Cay Johnston:

"Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)"

"Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else"

etc.
>VLC 3.0.0 is the first version of "Vetinari" branch of our popular media player.

Also:

~ > curl -sI https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html | grep clacks
x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

I don't use VLC, but I gained some more respect for them today regardless.
Can someone link the original I can't find it.
I disagree with over and out. Out means more rural, over just means to another urban place.
I thought we were talking about security, not insurance?
Async/Await V: Getting back to the futures
Great example, very representative. Largest global tech company vs. your average offshore developer.
if you care about these things, I imagine that using the PUSH flag of TCP gets rid of Nagle's?
> Perhaps one day these addictive engines will be powerful enough to make this untrue, but we're not there quite yet.

Interesting question to raise, but you really can't come come to a conclusion without evidence.
As an addicted Fortnite player this is a neat read. However as an application layer dev, the architecture specifics were slightly over my head. My biggest concern is shipping a working docker image, all of the architecture is mostly abstracted at our company. This gave me some inspiration to dive deeper into our architecture.
You didn't give two data points, you gave four unsourced assertions (two for building booms, two for strictness of rent controls), devoid of any rigour (was the building boom even in housing? Or was it mostly commercial?) or control for any of the thousands of potential external factors.

But even if what you assert actually is true, it hardly is a rebuttal to the article. Her unsourced assertions actually do line up with a century of research and hundreds of empirical studies on the effect of rent control specifically, not to mention the much larger body of research on price controls in general. It isn't necessary for someone who is backed by scientific consensus to laboriously review an enormous body of research that supports their premise before making a policy recommendation. Only those who are speaking against the consensus benefit from an empirical review.

I'm actually in agreement with you on land value taxes. It's something that is long overdue. But even with land value taxes, land is only valued at the highest best use that is zoned and permitted to be built. And that's the true underlying problem.
I used to work for a company that did logistic software, and Amazon creating their own last-mile service was something they predicted years ago.

It's a nightmare for them because it will ultimately take business away from every carrier, and more sellers will ultimately want to use Amazon's service over time. The margins in shipping are already razor-thin, and Amazon would easily be able to take the loss to choke other competitors out.
I train users all the time on Thunderbird and to be honest, many people really dislike the UI/UX. Even though I'm primarily getting them to use it for security reasons, unfortunately so many of them really hate the transition from Mac Mail or Outlook. Working on that, rather than duplicate K9 Mail, would be my suggestion.
When I see a delivery coming from Amazon I know I won’t get it until 5-6PM or even later. UPS or FedEx have found a way to get it here by 10AM.

It often results in delivery delays as well, FedEx and UPS deliveries for Amazon orders are rarely late.

Maybe it’s due to more drivers and trucks, but so far I’m not a fan of Amazons delivery and would pay more not to use it.
Are those third party contractors or an Amazon service? Here we have some random guys driving around in their own cars throwing packages on your stoop. This sounds like a more formal courier operated by Amazon themselves.
I've had issues with Videostream, but it worked ok.

I don't think it sucks per se - VLC was always publicly planning to add Chromecast support (it's been out on a couple platforms for a while, just not the ones I care about)
still on osx: VLC 2.2.8 is currently the newest version available.

when you check for updates.
I’ll let the parent commenter correct me but being a product manager (or project manager) does not mean you are in a management role. I have had both titles and never had people report me. I probably make much less as a project manager than I could as a software engineer.

The real money appears to be in people management which is tougher to break into.
I played with Vault and it wasn't quite as simple as Consul and Nomad. My major issue was trying to figure out how I would "unlock" the Vault automatically in case of a system restart.

I punted for now and just stored sensitive values directly in Consul encrypted.
Is it possible TV did make society marginally worse, and each new dopamine trap captures an increasing fraction of society?

This statement is laughable:

> The thing that actually holds old friendships together and provides endless opportunities to interact with other people that you would have never done otherwise

Facebook's innovation was trapping users in a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising, perfectly timed with mass adoption of social media.
I'm sure the medical companies that sold HIV infected blood products to countries that didn't check for the HIV virus were also "intelligent investors" in your mind. Or the Chiquita fruit company

It might not be illegal but ethics come back to you
The point is that millions of people made sacrifices for themselves and their families which cumulatively created the greatest civilization in history. Why should we feel guilty about reaping the benefits of those sacrifices? Why should we feel obligated to hand over our prosperity to those who contributed nothing to it?