skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See for example: http://endoflineblog.com/gitflow-considered-harmful
"I remember reading the original GitFlow article back when it first came out. I was deeply unimpressed - I thought it was a weird, over-engineered solution to a non-existent problem. I couldn't see a single benefit of using such a heavy approach. I quickly dismissed the article and continued to use Git the way I always did (I'll describe that way later in the article). Now, after having some hands-on experience with GitFlow, and based on my observations of others using (or, should I say more precisely, trying to use) it, that initial, intuitive dislike has grown into a well-founded, experienced distaste. In this article I want to explain precisely the reasons for that distaste, and present an alternative way of branching which is superior, at least in my opinion, to GitFlow in every way."

And a summary of an alternative proposed there: http://endoflineblog.com/oneflow-a-git-branching-model-and-w...
"As the name suggests, OneFlow's basic premise is to have one eternal branch in your repository. This brings a number of advantages (see below) without losing any expressivity of the branching model - the more advanced use cases are made possible through the usage of Git tags. While the workflow advocates having one long-lived branch, that doesn't mean there aren't other branches involved when using it. On the contrary, the branching model encourages using a variety of support branches (see below for the details). What is important, though, is that they are meant to be short-lived, and their main purpose is to facilitate code sharing and act as a backup. The history is always based on the one infinite lifetime branch."
I haven't seen many Congressional hearings but what I have seen is always a sham. Are these things ever more than just for show?
The lack of an index (or something alike) was what made using hg/svn unusable one I'd moved over to git. The ability to closely review what I'm committing (and not commit "every single change in the repo") is a must.
I have used MediaWiki for unstructured information with additional extensions for structured data (Semantic MediaWiki or Cargo) with Page Forms Extension.

This is difficult and time-consuming to setup. But if you cann afford the effort, this gives you a very flexible system where you can decide what to store in a structured or unstructured manner. Structured data can of course be queried, aggregated, vizualized etc. Together with the Page Forms extension this can replace many Excel Spreadsheets and MS Access solutions.

If you really know what you're doing, you can even do moderately complex CRUD Applications. But then you really need to know your way around several extensions and of course wikitext.

For simpler use-cases I've also used Drupal. For this use case it's not as flexible as MediaWiki, but you can do a lot through the GUI and build custom Forms / Views.
What was your salary trajectory? Where did you start and at what point did you start reaching the 200k+ to 300k+ range?
Oracle LOL :)
IA is part of it, but the I would say the broader term for the field is "Knowledge Management".

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

Also related is the field of "Organizational Learning".

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

It's a huge topic, and would be hard to do justice to in a HN post.

There are a lot of good books on the topic. A few I'd recommend include:

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Organizational-Learning-Know...

https://www.amazon.com/Wellsprings-Knowledge-Building-Sustai...

https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Knowledge-Transfer-Michael-En...

https://www.amazon.com/Only-Knew-What-Know-Knowledge/dp/1451...

https://www.amazon.com/New-Edge-Knowledge-Management-Changin...

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Or...
In your demo, how are the images chosen for each image and algorithm combination? I mean how do you choose the compression level for each, to keep the comparison fair? I would hope you have a budget in KB and go as high quality as you can without going over that KB limit.
>While nothing is really exciting in the 3.x branch.

Sorry, have you looked at Python 3 lately? I don't think I can sum up all of the amazing work that's been done in one post (async? Cleaned up stdlib? Better errors? Not having an aneurysm from text encoding issues unraveling your whole project? New splat syntax?).

I would really encourage you to check out what's happened in the last ten years. I think you'll find many more exciting developments than you think.
Because it's currently free and the proposed alternative would undermine CC licensing.

EDIT: full picture here: https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for...
> Oracle lawyer

Ouch
Just curious: why WordPress and not a Wiki of some sort?
Cost of living in the US gets ridiculous. Healthcare is expensive and gets more expensive the more you make. As much as I make I'm probably one bad accident away from being wiped out financially

When you add a family, child care is super expensive; think $350/week for two kids

Not to say we aren't hyper-consuming gluttons, but I think that's only about one third of the picture
> This is propaganda from intelligence agencies.

What is? This article? The source? Or the arguments in general?

Claims like this require hard evidence provided in the same context, or they will be dismissed outright.
Thanks sir, fixed that
A lot of this seems so much later than I would expect. My parents discussed most of this stuff with my siblings and me at like five years old. What happened? 3/4 happily married, the fourth engaged. No STDs, no rapes, no children out of wedlock.
would still take 10 years to get enough money to maintain a beach lifestyle. Then, you have the boredom.
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I think you'd change your tune (like I did) once you dig into the ugly details of such mathematical modeling. A book like this will show you just how hard this is https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Representation-Reasoning-Ar...
Right now it's happening a lot actually, because of stock growth. There are a mountain of people making over $300k whose total comp should be lower.
Jpeg still trims the trees, just not as much.
When you can walk away from the trenches at any time without risk, you're not really "in the trenches."
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> Why does it always seem as if such proposals are written by clueless people?

Whenever you start to think that a complex thing was done by a clueless person, you should stop, and consider the possibility you might be lacking a clue yourself. That doesn't mean the other side wasn't missing a clue either, or isn't acting in bad faith, of course. But I find it rare that there's no actual good reason ideas happen.

In this case, it's definitely true that the "right" to refuse renumeration has been abused, on many levels — from free-of-charge press effectively displacing and forcing the rest to follow on the "big guy" scale, to unpaid internships on the "small guy" scale.

There are good reasons to reject the proposal — as outlined in the OP — but that doesn't mean the author was clueless. Whether incoherence comes from a difference in perspective or bad faith we don't know (though you can guess what I - a socialist - am guessing about the good faith of a CDU politician). But there _are_ reasons.

> Can't we, people of HN, draft proposals collaboratively, perhaps with some moderation system?

There aren't "we, people of HN", but if you want to collaboratively draft proposals, join your nearest political entity. My own even has a Discourse forum where you can get all meta about the policy process.
> Why does nobody talk about the fact that Clinton and Democrats spent 10s of millions astroturfing various online communities?

Because that's a conspiracy theory, based on one pet interpretation of one press release and ignoring all the times Correct the Record denied it (such as the instance in this article you posted: "Barrier Breakers accounts are always identified as Correct the Record").

The article you posted describes what they actually did ("Much of the effort appears to be fairly anodyne so far. An official-looking Twitter account, Facebook page, and Instagram and Pinterest accounts have been set up. The social media accounts seem to consist mainly of graphics and videos that deliver inspirational pro-Clinton messages, content that appears to have been designed in the hopes that it might go viral.")

I have little doubt that the CTR conspiracy theory was largely spread by the very real Russian astroturfers. It was super effective at effortlessly shutting down Clinton supporters online.
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Am i stealing from McDonalds when I decide to stay home and eat the tomatoes from my garden instead of patronizing their establishment?
Wasn't the main character who eventually discovers the secrets a the end of the book a female?

Also, was the book really meant to be Utopian in tone? I thought it was just a good space story, one of my most enjoyable reads ever (I read it when I was 23).
Yes, supposedly there is plenty of exploration going on in making the process more automated than it usually is. Unsurprisingly, and not unlike software, bringing about masses of issues of things not working out-of-the-box.

It will probably be great in the end, but stressful if the guy doing the exploring is you.
Oooh, nice. Thanks for the detailed recommendations!
Web design is becoming a copy of a copy of a copy
Could be part of a voting ring.
Off-topic, is there a way to control chrome/firefox through emacs or elisp? something similar to https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/awesome-chrome-devtools#ch....
From what I've noticed, there are 2 answers:

1. The smaller group: People who do retire quietly. You don't hear about them.

2. The larger group: People who are capable of earning that salary are the type who can't just sit at the beach. Much as youth is wasted on the young, wealth is often wasted on the wealthy.
Have the concerns raised by CC received attention from serious lawyers? I'm no lawyer, but I fail to see how this:

... an “inalienable right to obtain an [sic] fair and proportionate remuneration for such uses.”
suggests that I must get paid whether I want it or not, as the CC post seems to rely on for stoking up concern.

Surely it's the same as an inalienable right to free speech - you're not obliged to actually go round speaking freely, it's inalienable in the sense that you can't get rid of that right, not that you must exercise it!
Whataboutism, the new keyword to shutdown any discussion about how shitty the entire US political system is.

"US lobbying rules allow any company to manipulate people online that would be illegal in a rational democracy" --It's the American way!

"Russia does the same thing as US companies" --End of democracy as we know it

Now, what Russia did is wrong and illegal, but the discussion of saying that the solution to the problem is going after Russia and everything will be ok after that seems like manipulated talking points. All political ads and manipulation needs to be labeled or made illegal. Russia is just a little piece in a huge problem.
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It cannot be stolen if you still have the original. It can only be copied. To steal something requires you removing from the possession of the owner. Making a copy is not stealing. But you can steal someone's reputation.
Hello from the embedded world!

The web world indeed can rapidly change their entire stack from LAMP to MEAN to Dockerized Q-Basic CGI scripts and load balance their Twitter clone. There's challenges for sure, but pushing updates is simple and quick, and you can always throw more cloud if you run into walls. If your complete platform rewrite fails, just roll the load balancer back over and try again tomorrow.

It's a lot more difficult when your Python application is communicating with a temperamental motor controller over an ancient RS-232 link with AT commands.

There are only ten of these devices in the world, and three in deployment. They perform critical functions, and they need to run 24/7 without failure or human interaction. (Did I mention these devices are remote, and it takes an afternoon to go out and investigate a failure?)

Every single failure results in a few lines of change in the code base. Those lines cost quite a bit -- both time, money, and loss. It's quite stable now, but that stability came at a price.

But haha, what am I talking about? Geez, I've had ten years to move off this "dead" platform. Let's run it through 2to3, or perhaps try a port to nodejs and deploy it tomorrow.
Competition, and value. At the height of Microsoft's days, the average employee generated something like $2m in value.

Take a dozen companies like that, where the income of the company divided by the number of employees is still in the millions, and have them fight for the best talent.

Lately, tech is especially special for this because a good employee is so much more valuable than a bad one. Some developers honestly produce negative value, while a solid team of good people can pay their own salaries many times over.
What text are you going to include in your hyperlink? Must every hyperlink title be paraphrased? It does seem to impact even the most basic hyperlinking as it has been used for the entire history of the internet.
What should the future of computers look like? – The Verge
They are know for high compensation
Don't forget The Shining
I had a project where we wanted a ticketing / events ontology and budgeted 6 weeks for three people to build it, in the end we spent probably 3 person years on it, which was dim... but we got suckered in by the idea that the ontologies themselves would be valuable (spoiler - nope).

So, knowledge engineering scales badly, but there were other problems. There was a big debate in the EU community about what kind of reasoner to use, and for some god awful reason F-logic was chosen, at the time we thought that reasoners like Otter wouldn't be able to scale and do FOL tractably. It's a shame that answersets and MCMC probalistic reasoners were 10 years later - I think that the weak reasoning and poor representation systems were big gaps.

The other problem was institutional, the way that EU semantic web funding worked, and the way that the projects developed. A lot of money was spent, and then there was no money - there was no self sustaining legacy.
I wasn't expecting this depressing of a read in the AM, but its helpful.
Ours is here: about.gitlab.com/handbook - it's open source: gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/

My tips:

1. Maintain a clear single source of truth

2. Make sure everyone can contribute to it. We do this by requiring at least to edits to the handbook during onboarding

3. Embrace it as an organisation: if not everyone is committed to it, it's hard to maintain it as truth

4. Constantly iterate and improve it. Structure is highly dependent on the content.
Usually you'd save the users opt in time, and tie it back to their user account. You would need to make sure the opt in clearly explains what it's for. You would also save the context of the opt in - was it during account registration, when they visited a blog post, etc.

Obviously make sure to otherwise comply with the GDPR as you do this.
Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
...for a few years until the money runs out and your skills have atrophied.
Lyft looks to enter Japan
Because they are known to pay more in salary than the average tech company.
work @ $300K pre tax for a year == a life of luxury?

You from a 3rd world country?
Netflix and Apple are both weird additions. A lot of people skip Apple (FANG), but these days a lot of people just mean "big tech company" with it.
This is actually really good advice.
That implies that there are thousands of employees, including very hard to achieve senior engineer level who work at a
Amazon only because they dont care about making an extra $100k/yr or are in love with the company or can't pass interviews at any of Microsoft or Google or Facebook or one of the many local startups. I believe it for juniors who all quit after 2 years if they can, but seniors?
It is published: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/reviews/den160026.p...
The large software groups i.e. FAANG have very high margins and are very profitable. This means they can afford to pay their staff very well.

I live in the UK and the cost of living in London is roughly the same as NYC but salaries are lower for the same job.

Certain companies and countries (Luxembourg, Switzerland, UAE) have structural advantages which means staff get paid more. It is not always merit based. So you will have some very talented people who are are in the 'wrong' region or industry and get paid materially less than they could be.
How many people are making 3M?
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Any MechE here in the states that makes over $300k?! I rarely meet anyone that makes over $200K even if they are a principal engineer or management in the MechE related positions. Maybe high level engineering management will reach this salary but even then it's rare (I'm on the East coast if that matters).
I've thought about working remote but I've heard that unless the company is geared towards making the playing field even for remote/onsite workers you'll be having an hard time getting noticed/pulled into projects.

Might be something I'll look into if nothing I can find in the EU satisfies me.
Is that equity you can sell? Or does it have several years lock-up? In that case I can imagine that the value is hard to estimate, e.g. SNAP employees will have had a significantly lower comp than thought.
You are correct that the books are dated, but I have found the occasional teenager (I teach high school) who is able to look past that and be fascinated with the big ideas inside. I loved the books as a teenager, but now I have issues with some of the big ideas. Nonetheless, they are worthy of note.
Why do you think the US government is sick? It's certainly not perfect, but would you really prefer any previous or existing government over what we have?
Because you wouldn't be earning $300k+/y if you headed straight to the beach?

You have to do it for many many years to build the amount of wealth you'd need to live a life of idle luxury
That's too optimistic. Let's dive into how EU law is made:

First, the Commission (~government) proposes a law. They proposed this "extra copyright for news sites" that covers even tiniest snippets of news content and thus would put a price tag on links to news. In their version, publishers could opt out of it – but it would still cause major problems. Leading IP researchers said it will "deter communication of news", "negatively affect authors" and "hinder European innovation" http://www.create.ac.uk/policy-responses/eu-copyright-reform...

Next, the Parliament and the Council (member state governments) need to approve the plans or suggest changes. The Parliament nominates one MEP to shepherd this process. In this case that's Axel Voss (from Merkel's CDU). His job is to get together with the other parties and then make a proposal that in his assessment enjoys majority support in the Parliament.

This is what this article is about. Not "one individual's proposal", but the lead negotiator's view of what a majority of the Parliament supports: Doubling down on an already bad idea by making the right inalienable.

He may be wrong about that – we'll know when the Legal Affairs Committee votes on it on June 20/21. Other MEPs will file counter-proposals, but one of them winning out would be a rare, unexpected upset. Voss may also make changes to his proposal until then, but so far he's brushed off all opposing arguments. And yes, even if his plan is approved, there's a chance the "inalienable right" addition (the threat to Creative Commons) may not survive final negotiations with the Council and Commission.

The thing is: This vote is the number one chance the public has to affect what will be in this law, and thus whether there'll be a "link tax" in Europe. We need to push our representatives to reject that idea in that vote, not double down on it.
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They may not be compatible but they certainly seem at least related.
> Why not head straight to the beach and live a wonderful life of idle luxury?

This might sound nice to many, but for it might be preferable to work on something meaningful as well.
> There's a flip side to this: in part thanks to this lack of regulation, anything outside the popular protocols tend to be blocked in an increasing number of network.

That is definitely not the result of a lack of regulation. The networks doing that are predominantly not public networks like Comcast, they're private internal corporate networks. The issue is they're a large enough minority that they can't be ignored. But that can't be fixed with regulation of public networks.

In fact, it's caused by certain regulations and pseudo-regulations like PCI-DSS, which require the default-deny policies you're referring to.
From the FAQ: Can Blockstack apps scale, given that Blockstack uses blockchains which don't scale that well?

Yes. Blockstack only uses the blockchain for name registration. Everything else happens off-chain, so apps work just as fast as they do on the Web.
That's what I was meaning, yeah.
Other western governments take care of healthcare costs, unemployment benefits, maternity/paternity leave, holidays, education costs and retirement. For example, in France or Germany, tuition fees for your kids are minimal while it's a fortune in the US. Or the governments in Europe mandate companies to pay 4 or 5 weeks of holidays. If an employee in the US wants to take 5 weeks, he/she has to pay 3 weeks out of their own pocket.
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A lot of them do, eventually. Most of these positions are high pressure with a lot of hours. A lot of these people leave this kind of work after 5-10 years and do something more rewarding and less stressful. A guy I know used to be an investment banker but now runs a tea farm on Vancouver Island. There's a lot of those type of people about.

If you've never experienced burnout: it's not pretty, and can easily destroy your mental and physical health. At the first hints of burnout, you should get the fuck out!
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I take it you are not a parent. Or at least a parent of a more compliant child.
what would rent+bills cost in SF, for example?
Slight clarification: for example, the "moral right" of recognition isn't inalienable, one can publish [pseudo-]anonymously. Indeed your linked Wikipedia makes clear inalienability is not a characteristic of all moral rights depending on jurisdiction.

(I don't think you were asserting this, but it seemed you were on first reading, hence "clarification")
200k range is L4 at most big cos and mega unicorns. So 2.5 - 5 years exp. I studied chemical engineering in school, started at a bigger company, then small start up, then to Uber. Reached 300k this year w promo from L4 to L5.
An L6/SDE3 that started a few years ago might do it with stock appreciation
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