skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While people agree on most of ICOs being scammy what is really disheartening to see is that many big names in cryptocurrency space end up being featured as "advisers". I have been told that these many of these guys are given lot of ICO coins for free or charge up to 10 btc.
> Who Killed the Junior Developer?

Those who thought it a good idea to promote people to senior level after 6 months or a year.
This font is pure digital poetry.
http://www.foundem.co.uk/ is so fast. It's lightyears faster than any other ecommerce site I've used.

Even though the content itself seems non-existent now, I would have used an ecommerce/comparison site which is that fast despite lacking on the quality side.
Though neither freezing nor preparing off-site means flavour has to deteriorate. Frozen food can be preferable to chilled ingredients (whenever you can't get them really fresh). And much prep can be done half a day or a day in advance (as basically all restaurants do it), doing so in a centralised location shouldn't have any negative effect on flavour.

But in Chipotle's case, switching ingredients and preparation methods as a quick response to the outbreak probably led to sub-par standards and lower quality ingredients. It's not that easy changing the whole supply chain in a matter of months.
Updates to Uber's Open Source Project for Differential Privacy
That's a silly generalization. I've got a pretty good overview of software development in Western Europe and NL isn't a special place for better or worse compared to the surrounding countries.

If you want to get paid a lot more and you have the right skills the City or Silicon Valley are good options (assuming you are allowed to move there).
Document your art: how to archive
> All signatures by specially programmed robot-arm will be written and published in the unitary book.

Cool
Teenagers go there because it is cheap, and open 24hrs a day. If it is 2 am and you are hungry it is basically Taco Bell or Waffle House with the bell being the cheaper of the two.
Amazon Scam Floods Couple with Unwanted Packages
How Safe Is Your Personal Data on Dating Sites?
You're right, I just used them and it works. Weird how Mozilla didn't mention it on the link I provided.
Charge them, or install some kind of time limiting then. Cafes here either charge at least $5 for a coffee (note that wage in Taiwan is about half than the US), or would ask you to leave if you stay for 2 hours (they will tell you first, of course). If this is what the owner really cares about, I feel the article is solving the wrong problem.
Amazon is unfortunately not using any metadata information for reviews (probably to prevent easy scraping for competing companies). You can only get it from from html (At least from what I can see).
Fliq.ai – What “the Buzz” Tells Us About Black Panther
What do you consider expensive? You can easily get a VM with 1TB bandwidth for $5 a month.
Very nice write up! I haven't tried doing web apps in Julia since Escher (https://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl) but this new framework seems interesting.
I haven't read this about Starbucks in particular, but that is a pretty common trade-off for large retail businesses to make. They accept the fact that a certain percentage of stores will operate at a loss, but keep them in existence for other reasons (branding, in most cases) if the losses can be managed.

A friend of mine is a middle manager at a retail kitchen goods chain you've probably heard of. I've heard from him that many of their stores are always struggling to break even, and that most of the business is supported by a small number of stores that do an outsized amount of business.
how can one of the languages with the most tricky syntax to parse "flow naturally"?

and I say this as somebody proficient in C.
There were never any junior dev jobs. You have always had to lie, cheat, and steal your way into the field. I have a buddy who legit cheated his way to the top Magento certification and now cycles through $150k+ jobs where they keep him on long enough to realize he doesn't have any coding skills then they fire him.

Reason is software is always an ancillary concern to the business. You see this in other fields, like say accounting, but the difference is that accountants leave school fully capable of employment. HR understands how to hire and manage accountants.

But programming is this black box in the corporate world that no one knows how to understand, value, or hire for. This is why every company wants rockstars, they're hoping that someone whose at least confident to present themselves as a rockstar won't be a net negative to the company.

Eventually they'll figure it out, took them a decade to figure out how to manage IT. Then companies will learn that they can't skimp on middle management for software developers. Some companies will need to give software a legit seat at the table and hire upper management. The political cover will allow shops to stabilize and with stabilization, you'll finally start seeing small and midsize organizations open up positions for juniors.

But it'll never happen so long as companies don't take software development seriously by giving them political cover. If you are a software developer nearing the middle or end of your career, you're pulling the ladder up behind you if you don't seriously consider moving into management. It's too important a job to ignore to go chase your dreams.
Good for the owner, I guess, but why do I have to talk to people wherever I go? Why is being alone with your thoughts considered antithetical to being out in public?

I don't mind being around other people but sometimes I just don't want to talk to them. I stopped finding "awkward silences" awkward long ago. Silence is ok.

FWIW, I'm not usually on my laptop in public.
Process before the european court of human rights is free of charge, but requires a lawyer (you really might want one). There is however also the european court of justice; again, not to be confused with the europea justice court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Righ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Justice_of_the_Euro...

has your family received "compensation"?

IANAL, in fact I lost a case before the local court just trying to receive support for legal aid, but at least I could object to paying the opponent lawyer an illusory sum.
Higher rates based on supply and demand is vastly superior to medallions.
> There is something relaxing about the combination of being around other people and still not having to interact with them. I don't get it either.

We are social animals. At least most of us. If you go for a few days with no interaction/seeing other human beings you'll go crazy.
Doesn't this question apply to everyone, because at one point everyone was a "non-programmer"?

I think the most important thing to remember as someone developing their own internal models, is not to get caught up in agonising over tooling vs actually making things.

Lot's of new programmers ask questions like what language should I LEARN, instead of asking things like how do I build X.
I was wondering if this was somewhat related to Apple trying to find a future direction because lately they've been just adding new versions of phones or macs or adding new updates to them but have not introduced anything except for maybe apple watch 2 years ago which has been steadily growing but not the immediate hit or newly introduced like Amazon echo or Google Home for right now.

Maybe this prioritization of a lot of new features is them making up for introducing a new product direction?

EDIT: oops, found Apple Homepod, maybe they're not marketing it well? Anyone here that uses it? My friends are apple lovers, buying nee iphones and macbook pro and havent heard of it either.
Given everything that has been discussed on this very page, what's wrong with mercenary tactics? WTF? Companies hold no loyalty to anyone except maybe their inner circle, MBA types are the most mercenary pigs around, and yet you expect a developer with actual skills and something to offer to act differently? How about no?

You get maybe 25 years to make all the money you're ever really going to make as a developer. That's it! So you better fucking be a mercenary. What you're really saying when you see that on a resume is: "Here's someone I can't exploit, mistreat, or fuck over" and that terrifies you.

I'll change jobs whenever and however it suits me. Hell, I once quit a gig because the bathrooms stank too much!
Maybe you could have a wifi system that disconnects after a set time period. Buy something and your code gets renewed.
c) without amp sites work with no misbehaving header bar that they cannot fix. Every time I scroll down it pops up. If you have an iphone, you know how safari header behaves and it is convenient/usual. This damned amp plate only allows you to scroll down and close. Note: I’m not talking about “tap clock to scrool to top” here. If you don’t understand these UX details, well, don’t blame then.

I’m pretty okay with google substituting ssl/dns/content even for their cash flow, I don’t care until they turn my browser into common-standards web crap. It turns safari into chrome, which I tested on an expensive sony sevice and couldn’t stand any more than two days.

Edit: I know that my “don’t care” is not popular among hn users, but it resembles regular non-tech folks thinking — amp is that thing on some sites that annoys you when you scroll and share links. 98% of us really don’t care and notice inconvenience only.
Really? The "killing" of the junior developer seems like an anecdotal claim. Hasn't ageism been a concern here on HN? Doesn't that tend to suggest that older, and thus more senior developers are "discriminated against" in favor of younger, CHEAPER labor? The reasons being that either:

- you don't need a senior developer for your needs

- you can't fork out for a senior developer

- you could really use a senior developer, but won't fork out for a senior developer because your penny wise and pound foolish

- you don't understand the difference between a junior and a senior developer

- there is a labor shortage in software development and all you can hire are junior developers
I can point to my well documented track record: code reviews, bonuses, promotions, code longevity, metrics, etc. as evidence. I can code multiple features in the time that a junior dev does one, even with me mentoring them. That doesn't mean they're bad, or even worse than average. It just means that after a career spent honing my craft, I'm much better than average.
FYI, I just tried your game on windows 10 and the "enter" key is not working to start the game. So I can't get past the start menu. No errors or warnings in the console.
Also, those numbers are absurdly low in my experience. It claims that Purdue's starting is $64,000, but I don't know a single person who's graduated and started at less than $75k, and I know plenty more that have started well into six figures.
However they do it, it repeats deterministically. Every third character in a repeated string is the same. If you paste "EEE| |EoEoEoEo| |EoiEoiEoi|" into the box and note the changes to the 'E' you should observe the way the E is dependent on the previous characters, but only for a certain distance. I assume this is a ligature-like feature but I don't know enough about fonts to say any more.
Were the fees mostly made up of the lawyers fees? It would be possible to do it without the lawyers, but it's a long shot, or better would be to find people with a similar case to band together to take on such a case. It's usually because of a conflict between the EU regs and the implementation of said regs in the member state, this could be a conflict that also exists in other member states so it may be possible to find a group of interested parties from various parts of the EU.
I can get 2/3 hours sometimes of serious hacking work on a noisy, busy coffeeshop. The combination is 3-4 days of isolated work and then boredom and then boom. Working alongside of very annoying people can work.
People can still run their own email server if they want, and it will work just fine, and receive and deliver mail to other mail servers.

A monopoly situation would have some kind of limits enforced, correct?

I have dealt with spam issues with Gmail and solved them all. I send HTML formatted email to many Gmail accounts. I suspect you have not setup SPF, DKIM or are blacklisted on spam lists. Or if you've done all this, possibly the formats for your emails is suspect. Either way, it's solvable. At the very least, your clients could white list your domain.

Edit: I am not saying it's pleasant, but it's hardly monopolistic behavior...
We should have never allowed email to have more than plain text.
I have been trying to years to raise someone at the ISS on ham radio without success. Even on the EchoLink. Anyone have tips for what I might be missing here?
Probably a good time to say that we're trying to hire a Junior Developer in London, and I'll be providing as much mentoring as they want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285477
None of this is really surprising. The issue with picture meta data (esp location) is well known and not Facebook specific.

I was actually surprised how little information came with the data download. I would've thought they have much more information on me (e.g. profiles on usage times, scrolling behaviour, interests), instead they basically just show what I can access on facebook.com anyway.

Maybe they avoid disclosing that by not tagging it to one profile but to groups. I'd be surprised if that's really everything they save.
IMO Not Working? Look What You Can Do
I had the same thought as I clicked on this. I've thought about it before, too. I wish there was a Feynman Lectures equivalent for math (and other subjects, too). For someone who didn't take much math in undergrad (regrettably), I find it difficult to navigate on my own, especially as it's a very incremental subject in the beginning (i.e., you can't ignore the fundamentals, or you'll be lost/confused).

Although I like https://brilliant.org/, I find some of the lessons to be a little too thin for me.
I would tend to agree, but not their email. That's easily replaced.
/r/sysadmin is one of the best tech subreddits IMO.
I find it surprising that my search seems more comprehensive and faster in mutt than by the king-of-search's very own.
Hi there,
I followed the link and saw this on your web site:

How much time will it take me to read this book?
The book has 158 pages, so it should take you about 3-4 hours. I value your time, so I worked hard to keep the noise-to-signal ratio high to make sure you can finish it over a weekend.

Well, unless I am getting this wrong, I think you mean the opposite.
You want to keep the noise-to-signal ratio low !!!

you see, errors like those, discourage me from going any further with your book.

that said. Good luck with it.
We currently use KeyCDN which works out well, both performance & money wise. You may want to try it out.
And Google shopping is full of original content?
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In Poland, right-wingers / conservatives use "lemmings" as a derogatory term for political opponents and basically anyone who doesn't agree with them. It isn't because they're fans of the game from 90's. There was a Disney animal "documentary" which had a scene with lemmings jumping off a cliff. The thing is, lemmings don't do that (don't suicide). In the movie, they were pushed for dramatic effect.

Moral of the story: conservatives in Poland live in their own delusions.

Redneck Mythbusters: put the term in search engine. Youtube works well most of the time. If you can't find multiple videos or photos showing it happening, it's probably not real. If all you can find is reports like "a bloke told me", it's probably not real.

If you're not at work, try it with "fluffer". Some stories are too good to be true.
I'm sure I read an article once, maybe about Andrew Wiles, where they said something like "there is no map of mathematics, you can trace the routes from point A to point B, but you'll never get a feel for the territory"...
I never traded, but is it really different from any other competition? For you to win the gold, someone else had to settle for silver.
World Chess body has Swiss bank accounts frozen
Not sure any have been at this scale and lasted for this long.
I have tried using AWS Route53's latency based records, but for some reason, it always didn't work for me. I need to check it again.
Ever heard the term "public interest" and "tragedy of the commons". You are implying it would be best if everyone built their own search engine because one can't and shouldn't trust anyone except to backstab when one isn't looking. Well, that is how society works indeed, but there are enough eyeballs and by your logic it is completely acceptable to stab google in the back.
Three Event Technologies to Boost Event Engagement – NVOLV
Is this like, a version of Unix to standardize all the version? You just end up with - another version of Unix.

So, more cars on the road (at least at first) will help with pollution?
I was working as a .NET Developer (still do), but around 2010, I was neck deep in a codebase that was passing around DataSets, stuck in VB.NET, no real leveraging of code. I interviewed for Amazon and tanked miserably, which was a wake up call for me as I wasn't aware how much I had let my skills slip.

I knew I had hit something of a low point so I started learning on my own again outside of work. I picked up several non-MS languages and technologies which helped me to understand better how I should be using the MS stack. I eventually found DDD, CQRS, distributed computing, and other concepts that colored my design perspective. I petitioned for, and through threat of leaving, got the department permission to use C# and I started to refactor code when I touched it.

It was a tough road. I sometimes didn't have patience with myself, but I started counting the little victories and kept going from there.

I am currently learning front-end frameworks, ES6, and Typescript. Nobody asked me to. I just know I will learn something in the process that I can apply in the future even if I never get a job related to this tech.
Rising Sun–A cerebral board game of conquest, diplomacy, and betrayal
For all the beautiful ligatures that it has, the í (accented i) is very crude :(
You're right - it looks like it's available as the text-x-amphtml MIME part. I missed that on the initial read-through.
> Second, BGP routes are not that stable. While DNS requests only require a single packet to be sent in both directions, HTTP (web) requests require establishing a connection to download the content. If the route changes, the HTTP connection is broken.

I thought Cloudflare uses Anycast to avoid targeted DDOS? How do they handle changing routes during HTTP requests?
Quite interested in legal action against Experian. As a person who has faced a lot of cyberstalking in the past, I enrolled in their dark web product mostly for kicks (and it was free).

... then I posted my name buried in a long post in the most popular Tor forum.

Zero notifications months later.
Great job guys on this long journey.

I used to make Web Games, but then I realized the race to the bottom and bailed all together. I found after 10 years as a GameDeveloper (where every project is practically unique) has made being a React developer almost like using a baby's soft toy.

My job is beneath me, I sleep like a baby, and I get paid 4 times more than being a game developer for a job that demands 1% of the effort on a daily basis.

I don't miss my times with gaming at all and I would never go back.

Each to their own!
Really great end-to-end write up.

Just a few things: in general case it's better not to use MSE after sigmoid due to slow convergence.

And "logits" variable is not logits actually, it's probabilities. Logits is what you have before applying sigmoid activation.
Find your niche. Preferably one in a rapid growth area.

Cryptocurrencies are a great example of this. If you visit sites such as ethereum.org. You will see they share a certain design aesthetic.

If you can provide a unique service. Private blockchain development and hosting, for example. You immediately have an "in" with which to begin the conversation.

Good luck!
Here's some extra information about what running each piece gets you. Assuming flpc.c is already compiled,

./flpc with no arguments drops into the FlpcForth REPL. But absolutely nothing is defined in that case, of course. You can try to paste in some source from files in precompiled/*.

The sample sources in precompiled/ are all for parsing (some of) its own source and/or generating its own source. Pass one of them as argument to ./flpc and it will run and drop into the REPL at the end.

In the REPL, "ps" is probably the most useful command to get information about current state.

There’s no FlpcPython REPL yet (it can parse FlpcPython but doesn’t know what to do with the resulting AST). So right now, to write FlpcPython, I suggest writing to a file, say foo.flpc, and running

python compiler.py lib/stage{0,1{a,c,d},3{a,b}}.flpc foo.flpc > foo.f
./flpc foo.f

This uses the external Python compiler which will eventually be removed.
A lot of stuff is objective[1] but not everything is and there we can't really do better than "personal taste". A coherent vision by one person might rub me the wrong way but a design by committee will certainly do so.

[1] in a practical sense, I'm very skeptical of absolute objectivity.
If 1/3 of you developers are eating all of your mentoring time I would think that either you've made a hiring mistake, or lack appropriate teaching tools.

In one case you've hired someone who isn't ready to do the tasks you need without excessive scaffolding. In the other you're not providing enough structure and scaffolding for the intern to succeed with help.

Mentoring, particularly in the legal context of what makes an intern, an intern and not a Jr. Developer ought to be a short run project, and frankly if you can't commit time to providing an educational experience you shouldn't be filling your staffing needs with an intern at all.
But in your analogy, nothing was lost. Sure the training didn't get the silver medalist into first place, but it's not as though that training somehow becomes useless.
In the 1980s, most software on 8-bit computers were written in assembly, as compilers for high level languages like C or Pascal were available but 1) used up too much of the (maximum) 64K available 2) generated terrible code.