skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I'm using an open source password manager (KeePassX), and syncing the encrypted password database over several devices. Hopefully this gives me protection from loss from this data and I've thought about giving somebody the passphrase, in some way. I guess I could write it in a will and seal it up or leave it with a solicitor, but I think the best thing might be to give it to an old friend of mine who I don't actually see all that often these days though I met him at uni, 30+ years ago (but I went to both his weddings, was best man at one of them). I'm pretty sure I could trust him to know how to close the accounts and/or give the details to my next of kin.
It's a translation of various Muslim historians. So you can go read the original text. You can completely ignore the "British commentary" if you so wish.
Not especially baity, I thought.

Also, I can make the search work via archive.is, though this doesn't count as a good workaround!
I am willing to bet that computing is a much older field than you realize. And the amount of change is much more than you're aware of.

Furthermore I do not believe that the rate of change will stop in several lifetimes.

On how old computing is, automated computing using punch cards was invented in the 1800s. "Programmer" has been a viable job title since WW II. Essays about programming written 50 years ago are still relevant today.

On how much things change, that depends on your environment. Across the hall from me there is a company of COBOL programmers. A lot of what they need to know hasn't changed since before I was born. Sitting next to me are people implementing code in node.js with react. Most of the libraries and best practices that they are trying to follow were invented in the last 10 years. I'm maintaining a legacy project that isn't using any technology less than 10 years old. The experience of how much things change is highly dependent on what exactly you are doing.

However I'm minded of what my sister said about nursing. When she started as a nurse she was told that on average half of what she knew would be out of date in 10 years. This is why nurses need continual retraining. This was ridiculous to her. But guess what? When she retired it was true, every 10 years about half of what she knew went out of date! Between new research, new technologies, new best practices and so on, nursing never stopped changing. And hasn't stopped changing since modern nursing was invented in the 1800s.

If a profession so much older than ours shows such sustained change, and our profession has shown an extended sustained rate of change, why would I expect this to change? The truth is that I don't. Sustained change is more the rule than the exception in technology, and none of the fundamental reasons why have changed.

Some knowledge is core - the ways that programmers get defensive and have trouble accepting their own bugs and mistakes has not changed since before I was born - and others change constantly. Learn the principles. Learn what is core. And be prepared to continue learning trivia forever because programming is continuing to change.
Could put something like a 1password (or other password manager) key/password somewhere accessible.
Did you try Debian or Arch? I tend towards Debian but I realized the time I spent with Arch, too.
You could push the exhaust single-file in a highly focused beam, leaving most of the solid angle around you unpushed.
The design of this site has a lot of parallels with Wealthfront (https://www.wealthfront.com/) made me think it's a Wealthfront project.
Stealth promotion network exploits financial sites to tout stocks
Doing the math for 2017 (using population demographics from 2016 since those are the most recent) we find:

Of the total 987 deaths by police for 2017
Caucasian - 2016 percentage of pop: 76.9 * 987 would be: 759 This group total was actually: 457 or 46.3%
African American - 2016 percentage of pop: 13.3 * 987 would be: 131 This group total was actually: 223 or 22.6%

That is a significant difference and nowhere near in line with population percentages. There may be some stories behind the shootings as the article you link to mentions. However, that article is relying on an article at the Marshall Project which was written by Heather Mac Donald who is the author of a book called "The War on Cops". A quick search on this shows quite a few articles claiming bias.

It took just 20 minutes of following sources and looking at available data to come to the conclusion that there are biases in your statements and sources. please do some more research and math in the future.
It is too bad it was a private conversation, I would love to be able to point to a published form, but I discussed with one of the Googlers in charge of optimizing Android.

He did not exactly have nice things to say about how OEMs are optimizing their phones.

Basically they optimize in order to get higher benchmark score but it very often goes against general smoothness.

In the end he published a detailed article detailing how his team had optimized the pixel phone rendering pipeline so OEMs could try to do it correctly as well.

And that's for a high end phone.

However, I have got to say that after using iOS phones recently, I have not exactly been impressed with their smoothness either. Even system apps miss frames.

That's not shocking in itself, mobile computing is pretty hard, you can't even table on a stable cpu frequency (thermal throttle) but not what I expected due to the reputation of apple phones.
Rights are a consequence of citizenship not tax payment.
I think it would be more accurate to say that human population growth rate has never been exponential and was never going to be, than to say that production has grown at a faster exponential rate.

Malthus has historically been excused with "just wait and see" explanations about his ideas, but no one seems able to say what is the kernel of truth in his theory or framework remains after you wipe away the details that were based on misunderstandings about his own time or about the actual dynamics of population growth.

For instance he paid almost no attention whatsoever to mortality rates or the disposition of ages within a population and their effect on growth rates. He also paid no attention to the relative fertility of families with different levels of wealth identified by Adam Smith long before him.

One way to summarize his work is that people's biological capacity to reproduce exceeds their physical capacity to increase the food supply, and that food supply is the ultimate constraint on human population that will be hit without other active constraints on population growth.

Of course humans have the ability to grow faster than their conditions support, or they would not be able to grow when conditions improved, or recover from traumas to a population. But they also have the capacity to not reproduce, and not replace people as quickly as they are dying. It seems like a real leap of faith, to claim that people can only be actively constrained in their fertility, since there hasn't been any evidence that people only limit family size when actively compelled to.

It is also strange to say that if there is no other limit on population growth, food will limit population growth. That's like arbitrarily stating that the only limit on fire is fuel, or that the only limit on fire is oxygen, or temperature. Population growth is a function with many inputs, and populations would approach some equilibrium even if food was hypothetically limitless.

Maybe the excuse is that food is just a metaphor for the basket of all resources that people need, and that it can still be argued that populations without active constraints on growth increase exponentially until they inevitably result in famine, plague or war to decrease their numbers.

What human populations work that way? They tend to ebb and flow in size around an equilibrium, then with a technological advance or environmental improvement they shift from one equilibrium to another at an increasing rate then a decreasing rate, just like a logistic function. Even with a collapse of a civilization the numbers decline like a logistic function. The curve might be steep, but it starts slowly, decreasing faster and faster then more slowly again as it gets close to zero.
As a somewhat frustrated user I can't understand the design decision Crashlytics did that they won't notify you of crashes unless they have a matching dSYM.

I've tried to explain why this complicates the use case for Bitcode enabled apps but so far I've only gotten a shrug back. Their stance is that everyone should check the dashboard daily and see the badge indicating that there's a dSYM missing.
I feel like that means they were teaching from the wrong perspective. All of my cs classes were about principles, and the language was incidental, and I don't feel that the things I learned have gone out of date at all.

Edit: On a related note, I don't think python is a very good first language, despite it being my absolute favorite, because it uses kind of a mishmash of paradigms.
China has been getting aggressive with India

India is a nuclear power. Then again so is the UK and Argentina still invaded, so maybe that's not so much of a deterrent.
Yes, that's true. But there really is a shocking percentage of Americans who really do believe that no long term thinking is needed because the Second Coming is imminent.
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FDA green-lights 23andMe to sell test for 3 mutations of breast cancer gene
Google even has a designated feature for this, Inactive Account Manager.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en
Outside of the west, democracy is generally held in contempt. This can be dated at least as far back as Plato. Trump isn't misinformed, he believes that democracy is contemptible. And whether he is wrong is arguable.
I chuckled a bit when their git-sizer tool pointed out a high level of concern for the 66 parent octopus merge in the Linux kernel.

See https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2017/the-biggest-and... for the story behind the Cthulhu commit.
This is not about your expectations. This is about the expectations of a user who knows that VPN stands for "Virtual Private Network", and that the feature has the word "Protect" in the title.

FB creates the expectation of privacy by using those terms, and they (or you) don't get out from under that expectation by splitting hairs.
Doing things that are unprofitable is also unsustainable on a large scale. It an only be done by using subsidies, i.e., other resources generated from profits, which does not scale.

Losing money is not a viable long term solution for a business, an economy, or mankind.
> This article appears in the April 2018 print edition with the headline “The Case Against Retweets.”

So the title was changed from "The Case Against Retweets" to "Retweets are Trash". Seems that the editor took the author's advice on creating sharable content - this is a pretty clear-cut appeal to emotion.
Who said anything about disagreements, much less outrage, though? The context was cutting out noise, and muting is a more effective version of skipping your eyes past it. Some topics just get spent and become boring.
I disagree. 5 mins of work to install a new programming language impacts so much of what you do with that language and how you would deploy it in production environment. As the GP says - Python 3 is the future.

By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows.
It's not self driving. But it may be One of the first places that get paid real money(lets say UBER'S commission) for testing self-driving.
>Part of me hopes software development is the next job we automate away

We are hard at work automating software development. Thanks to massive advances in programming language design, IDEs, the invention of module systems in combination with the massive success of OSS in that space and the proliferation of massive frameworks, something that took a year of work two decades ago is now at best a weekend project of a much less skilled person.

The thing that keeps us all employed is the incredibly elastic demand. And of course that the work to find and describe requirements is unlikely to be automated away anytime soon (and already often takes more time than actual implementation)
Considering how easy it is to for people experiencing a lack of equality and prosperity to direct their animosity toward foreigners, is anyone really surprised by this?

If technology like this is going to increase unabated while the economy remains erratic, wages stagnate, and government legislative ability decreases under the weight of their own bullshit, then I expect this will become more frequent until we have a genuine neo-Luddite movement on our hands.
This has actually been one of the harder parts of integrating. We mirror all of the products in your store in our db so that you can use them in Shogun pages. We have a Data Collection for your Shopify Products that you can use in Custom Elements as well.

We're flushing out integration with Shopify collection pages right now, so it might be that we end up with a Data Collection for those as well, which I think would make your life easier.
So your argument is that, choosing to index instead of actively manage is the same thing as not having the option at all?
Even factoring the cost of living, if you're getting 1500€ after tax in Lisbon (which is an excellent salary for Portugal), and you pay rent on room in a shared house (~400€) you're not going to be saving much. Plus, an iPhone costs the same in Portugal as in the USA, if not more.
US military expenditures are also very disturbing.

Yes and no. Remember how much goes on white elephants like the F35 and the Zumwalt-class. Does China have programmes like that?
If it’s important, people will figure something out; if it’s not important, who cares?

When my dad passed away, I looked through all his files (fortunately he had one password he used everywhere), but in the end there really wasn’t anything important.

There where a bunch of proposals, half finished projects, gigabytes of various data files, but following up on any of that stuff would just be a lot of work and require time that I don’t have.

I think that 99% of my data/code/digital footprint is only valuable because of me; when I pass away, most of my stuff will become worthless, and that’s okay.
I was primarily in gaming, and I know it's not the same across the board, but with "work" I can't say there was anything I disliked. Honestly I enjoy the technical challenges and problems of programming.

Issues I had: Crazy hours, the interview process... and with the bay area the CoL. Last job was a little more complicated, but I would say I need a certain degree of autonomy. Things were measured to 15 minute intervals on tickets, and I couldn't do it.

Retraining... I have thought about this. I don't know if something like CNC operator is the way to go, or follow a passion. No clue on what to look for or what makes sense. Don't know bang for your buck works there.
> I'm writing this on a Moto G5+ which has 7.1.1

Well my G5+ says it's still on 7.0, and 7.1.1 still isn't the 8 update that was promised many months ago.

> and the January security patches

If you want to sleep at night, don't count the number of critical severity CVEs fixed in the February and March updates that you don't have.
I've never lasted more than 1 year at a programming job, either.

My solution is to take contract work. It helps so much
to know that there is a definite end date coming up where I can step away from the company and forget about all of the nonsense. Having time off between contracts helps me recover from the hard work and overtime. It also has a second benefit of allowing me to charge a higher rate, because sometimes companies value a person who is available to jump in at a moment's notice to help with a crisis.

Having a decade of short-term jobs listed on my resume might sound bad, but it's worked out very well for me, in compensation and in skills development. Rather than be negative about not lasting long at one company, why not be proud of the diversity of experience you have and at how comfortable you are with joining a brand new team?
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Sure they might eradicate cerival cancer - but at what cost? Parents having to deal with the fact that their kids just might not be reduced to terrified neurotic messes when it comes to their own sexuality! Certainly that might be OK in some nations, but not in the USA. Our neurosis, especially when it comes to this, is far more important than any reduction in suffering or saved lives such vaccines might promise.

(This comment has been sarcasm, but bears the unsaid words believed by the groups in the US who oppose these vaccines because they are terrified adolescents might have healthy active sex lives.)
> There could simply be a registration category for vehicle dwellings with increased fees to offset the difference.

What incentive do people have to not lie about that? When someone loses their home, are they obligated to go to the DMV and update their registration and throw in a bunch of extra money? How do you police this? Do you have the police capacity to handle this?

How do you enforce violations? If someone is living in their car but didn't pay the registration, do you tow their car? Doesn't that get right back to the original problem?

> This could even translate into states providing facilities for pump outs and showers for those registered for vehicle dwellings to improve the sanitation of what's going to be happening regardless.

In the Seattle area, at least, there are free RV hookups for people to dump their waste. Many people just don't use them. Their vehicle may not actually be that driveable, or maybe they can't afford the gas, or maybe they simply don't care.

> There is essentially no practical need for a mailing address or land line anymore for example, smart phones, internet, efficient solar panels...

Yes, a well-adjusted, committed person can leave reasonably from a vehicle. But what about the people who live in vehicles in part because they aren't doing the work required to keep the social contract and be a participating member of society?

> Drug addicts/cooks living in squalor who happen to be in vehicles will be committing myriad obvious and easily policed crimes.

Many of these crimes aren't easily policed, actually. Drug possession requires a warrant to search a vehicle. Finding discarded paraphernalia isn't enough, nor is a witnessing drug use. Littering and waste dumping are almost impossible to police — you have to be caught in the act by a police officer.

Ignoring that, the reality is that Seattle isn't policing these.
Shut up and pick yourself back up.

What makes you think you can't wash out of being a DJ or any other job?
I can't edit this on my phone but I meant 12-16k post tax.

I multiplied 1000,0 by 12 and somehow and got 24.
Programming can be so different just switching from one industry to another or one sized company to another. If you hate javascript, try embedded C++, or visa-versa.

People overlook red flags on a resume if you are the right fit. I have switched jobs just about once a year for 5 years and I still find jobs if I look in the right place. There are always people looking for talented people who do not fit into the mold of a perfect hire. Do not let a couple short gigs dissuade you.
It's sad that people who write such articles know so little science.
My current approach to this problem is a feature of LastPass - if a designated person requests access to your account, and you don't respond within [x] days, then they are granted access. I set this to be the people necessary for after-life management. I know this doesn't answer all of the details you've asked about, but it is a mechanism for leaving the authentication details and instructions for those who remain after us.
You are ignoring violent crime rate, as I posted below.

Also, as posted below, this information can be inferred from two popular left leaning media outlets, in addition to raw FBI statistics.
What attracted you to software? What didn't you like?

Maybe you want another IT position, just not software (ie have you looked into hardware or networking)

Their are many good middle class careers to be had - big city, small town, blue collar, or white collar. Narrow it down by your life preferences.
Would the UK really nuke Argentina over the Falklands? That's just absurd.
Mostly.
I know this question is rather vague, but the basic idea is that a web-based application could be created with every American having an account. The purpose of the application would be to allow votes on each political issue from participating citizens (instead of representatives and senators) as it comes up for a vote.

I know that I am glossing over a lot of technical issues, but in theory it should be possible. The question is mainly designed to spark discussion around representative democracy vs direct democracy and whether politicians actually contribute to or even help the country and its citizens.

I have purposely left out my opinions on this matter so I could hopefully see more sides of the conversation.
I've had pretty amazing experience working with polish developers and designers. Definitely very top notch. Found them through Github mostly. Romanians, Belarussian and Bulgarians also turned out to be smart and hard working.
If trucks could drive themselves with just rarely needing someone to intervene in tricky situations (and not immediately - e.g. the "passenger driver might have to wake up) then it's going to be much, much cheaper to have the "tricky situation intervention" done remotely by a having a single on-shift driver ready to handle tricky situations for a hundred trucks.
Multi-threading library in JavaScript using web-workers
Asteroid mining and orbital construction would require trillions in investment, and years of focused work by a number of institutions. As far as I can tell, Musk uses that rhetoric for PR, and it works. So far an electric car company and rockets suited for LEO don’t add up to grand space adventures.
So how does this play out in Europe? Say, a poor immigrant can't afford housing in London so he sleeps in an illegally parked car.
Again and again, I come back to the Gervais Principal as The best literature for understanding the corporate environment. Thanks for the refresher!
>> So, why can't someone coming to Python with little or no experience just be welcomed to use what they have for now?

So, why can't someone coming to Python with little or no experience just install the latest version?

Just shedding some light on both sides of the argument. I'd prefer people starting out use the latest version because it is not hard to install Python 3 and takes very little effort.
The US defense expenditure as a percent of GDP has gone down as a long term trend.

https://goo.gl/images/sQPFFy
I moved back to the "real world" in the last 6 months and couldn't agree more.

But, I think that the issue is just that startups, by their nature, aren't a good fit to less dense environments. If the focus is to grow, grow, grow, I imagine that the density of major population centers helps that significantly.

Granted, they have a couple ideas on the list that would help:

- One Million Jobs

- Transportation & Housing (I have a dream that the combo of self-driving ai and low earth orbit satellite internet will bring a resurgence of rural opportunities)

- Diversity (I'm reading this generously on the hope that more companies will consider using remote work to bring in non-urban perspectives)

- Future of Work

- Underserved Communities (they're probably not thinking of rural communities here, but they should)