skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.The Knowledge Economy is an economic system where the most advanced form of production is based on highly skilled labor that is easily transferable between organizations. Our modern example being Silicon Valley. This type of work has replaced industry/manufacturing for the title of "most advanced." Most advanced being summed as greatest returns for input.

The problem we have right now as Unger argues is that this new Knowledge Economy is insular - in that it is self-contained to tech hubs. His argument for the Progressive Movement is to spread the most advanced forms of production to all sectors and the only way to accomplish that is through institutional reformation. The labor of the future will be broken into cooperative efforts and self-employment - all under a system of free labor which can now be realized and empowered by technology.

He argues that no man should have to do a job a machine can do.
The best science reporters earn their keep by balancing "wow!" and "really?" at moments like this. Sometimes it's a matter of spotting an outright hoax (i.e. Piltdown Man fossils in the 1920s.)

Other times, what's at stake is an overly decisive attempt to interpret exciting data that might not be so exciting after all. The cold-fusion "discoveries" of 1989 fall into that camp, along with this gravitational-wave claim.

It's hard for journalists to referee everything in the first few hours. But by talking to other experts in the field, and by being willing to comb through the methodology underlying the claims, it's possible to get a sense within a few days (weeks?) of what's holding together very, very well, and what's starting to seem a little shaky. There's nothing wrong -- and a lot right -- with writing post-announcement articles that acknowledge such uncertainties.
likewise I found a bug on a major UK website that was costing them > 500k£ per week an also early one the web as one of a two person team delivered I a month what another part of the company has quoted as a 2 year project :-(
Currently I'm the "surviving senior dev" for a very old crufty mission-critical legacy app, and I'm painfully aware how broken it is and the ways in which is breaks.

So sometimes I have to kindly remind myself that its current state isn't indicative of some damning (yet oddly egotistical) personal failure, where I "shoulda" rewritten everything from scratch by now.

On the plus side, the QA team is gradually learning to do more than manual browser tests...
The suggestion is to design an application-specific format that avoids storing redundant data in the first place. When that's an option at all it gives you higher compression than any general-purpose compression algorithm can achieve.
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888016
You weren't accused of "making a joke about racism". He posted the part of the CoC [0] that he believed you to have violated. He then gave you a 24-hour-block because your remark "counts as doubling down" on what he originally accused you of.

I guess he didn't appreciate you implying that the CoC is a bunch of facile garbage.

[0] https://github.com/bundler/bundler/pull/5808#issuecomment-38...
Flickr acquired by professional photo hosting service SmugMug
He meant that he's surprised that you're learning the language using the simplified type system instead of the traditional one which is used in Taiwan.
That's $4 per TB-month. Meaning you're effectively paying more than the cost of a 1TB hard drive replaced every year, for every TB you're storing. Plus fees to get your data back out. An 8TB drive, replaced every year, is half the cost per TB, with no additional access cost.

Depending on how price conscious you are, I agree with the GP's "keeping it cheap is tricky". And with things like backup, even if you do it yourself, the time spent maintaining it should be negligible: Occasionally kick off a format shift or failed drive replacement, have scripts running everything else.
More correct, descriptive title:
Foreign Software Developers Are Leaving America for Canada.

Engineers have actual engineering degrees. i.e. Electrical (I have undergrad), Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear.

The title to me implies America citizens leaving for Canada. When in fact they are foreigners who are not American citizens. Many of these people have come to America as H1-B Visa abusers and at any rate serve to depress labor prices of STEM workers (see "global labor arbitrage").

The fact that non-Americans are leaving America is a good thing as it serves stop the depression of wages.
After the Civil War, all of those who were in favor of ending slavery became the most vicious opponents of labor and unions and worker rights.

Their reasoning was that this was a form of governmental control over working and the freedom of workers, just like slavery was.

Every time they defeated a minimum wage law, or broke a union, they congratulated themselves for standing up for “freedom”.

Anyway, this is one of the reasons that the Republican party drifted into conservatism slowly after the Civil War.

We are seeing something similar now, with Democrats so focused on the rights of smaller and smaller groups, it’s starting to look like “extreme individual rights” all over again. Will they drift towards conservatism while Republicans do the opposite, cross-pollinating some positions between them on the way?
It doesn't need to be the public sector directly. What I mean is that banks are not using their own money to do what they do, so it does't make sense to let them charge interest. There could just be a set of regulated institutions that charge fixed fees (independent of the amount of the operation) to perform these tasks, which basically consist of converting one form of wealth (real state or business assets) into monthly obligations.
No, the existing privacy legislation already requires opt-in for processing of biometric data; GDPR makes many things stricter, but much of it is already a legal requirement.
Fifteen years ago I would not have been surprised by the reverse.
This is actually wrong. You can order off their website for an additional surcharge.

"Non-members may be assessed an additional surcharge for purchases (does not apply to prescription items)."
Also "Bitcoin traders have been less than pleased with the realization they have to pay taxes on any of their earnings" isn't a fair statement. I have spent a lot of time reading on crypto currency forums this last year. I think most people (aside from some of the more libretarian / anarchist "taxation is theft" folks) were aware that that would be some kind of capital gains tax on what they cashed out. What people didn't realize was that you would get taxed per transaction on unrealized gains.
There are different ways to do it based on the transpiler you use. With Webpack and dynamic imports, you could create a custom loader around the promises returned by the Webpack generation.

For React, you can use React Loadable (https://github.com/jamiebuilds/react-loadable) that provides a Higher Order Component and Server Side rendering.
12% of Americans are in food stamps.
> I definitely met a bunch of people I wouldn't have otherwise had a chance to talk to.

To elaborate on this, Amtrak staff will seat you with strangers to fill up tables. Kind of excruciating for an introvert, but looking back I had some good conversations.
i hate javascript, it got too much hype...
> FB is doing their absolute best to make sure no "user" understands what they have agreed to*

But before making this argument, one should go read FB's ToS and data policy. Here they are:

https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Here's a more detailed article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-...
Short answer: No, but your best bet might be to read old, substantial books, and find other work by the kind of people who read and wrote those books before they were old.

Longer answer: Basically, you need to get away from the world of front-end web development, and from the echo chamber blog posts and conference talks by people who have only ever worked in that area. No-one is writing anything large, high-performance, high-reliability or long-lived there yet, so you need to look for experience from people who have had to do those things in other contexts instead.

Classic books like Code Complete and The Pragmatic Programmer, early "serious OO" books like Design Patterns, and practical advice books of a similar generation in the Effective <programming language> style all contain a wealth of knowledge and insightful commentary. Of course some of the technical details are quite dated today and some of the specific techniques discussed might no longer be considered good practice a decade or two later, but many of the underlying principles and the discussions around them are as relevant as ever. A bit more recently, there were interesting discussions about a broad range of programming issues in Beautiful Code and the related titles, and there have been some interesting case studies based on open source software too.

If you want to read some shorter pieces online, I recommend finding a few authors who work in fields like games or embedded software, where there are often significant performance and reliability constraints to deal with, not to mention hard deadlines that force difficult decisions and compromises. There are some healthy doses of reality in there that you won't find in less demanding environments.

Enterprise applications, while often considered bland, can also be large and some of the longest-lived software we develop, and much has been written about organising and maintaining them, including real-world pressures like changing operating environments and large development teams whose members come and go. Perhaps a little ironically, this now includes a fair bit of back-end web development. Some of the writing around this is well worth a read as well, but beware that this part of the industry is plagued by consultants who talk a good talk but don't have much of a track record or other evidence to back up their advice. Approach with caution, particularly anyone who uses words like "agile", "lean", "craftsmanship" and anything else on the buzzword scale.
How well did those things work out for him?
not losing any sleep about it, although I really can't comprehend why, as an OSS maintainer, you want to reduce your pool of contributors over something so petty.

Oh, also, if it did, that's pretty bad because he banned me for pulling funding...?
Vue.js does https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/components-dynamic-async.html
In a way it's not so much rediscovering the principles themselves as discovering something about the ways that "pain points" in a language have changed over time... Such that the techniques' benefits begin to visibly outweigh their cost.
Martin Fowler's site is a good start, especially this collection: https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/ . And then read his books...
Not sure I would say Harvard itself is "leading" this. The university was found to have been interfering with the unionization process.
And I'll add that I'm excited by this. I have a lot of photos on Flickr, but fell off using it as Yahoo neglected it. I still don't feel like photos are a solved problem for me. Hopefully this will at least shake things up, but I'd love to see them turn again into my favorite tool for managing and sharing my photos.
Which is why it doesn't have any place being used on a web page :/.
I would've disagreed with you a few months back, but now seeing how a CoC can be pulled out as a catch-all to silence anyone who disagrees with you, I'm firmly in your camp.
Yeah, but Kinoma is basically dead and all their products discontinued.

It looks like there's nothing out-of-the-box but they do recommend ESP8266 based boards[1] on their site. Which is interesting as I thought that was just a wifi chip...

edit - It does look like they're producing their own board[2] as a demo/hacking platform which is pretty great!

1. https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-Internet-Development-Wireless...

2. http://www.moddable.com/moddable-zero.php
The software engineering body of knowledge approaches this: https://www.computer.org/web/swebok

I can’t give a personal recommendation as I’ve never done more than skim but I know some who hold it in high regard.
The problem you may be having is there is no separate thing called 'space'. There is only 'spacetime'.
What was the backlash specifically?
Yes, you bite the hand that feeds the horse baseballs.
You can determine that by ie looking at the issues list and eyeballing whether there are pages of issues with no comments on them.

Not necessarily whether there are commits or not.
There are plenty of ways in the which immigration makes the pay cut less problematic.

1) You have a deathtimer that if you dont get the paperwork in time, or the lottery, or whatever, you can be kicked out of the country.

2) You dont enjoy the same liberties as nationals

3) you dont qualify to multiple benefits that make financials tennable (i.e. medicare taxes, college subsidies, etc)

4) Up until recently, spouses of H1B workers could not work. That is somethign that was added in 2015, and that in this administration its been talked about removing, meaning 50k people lose their legal right to a job.

5) Inherent social issues of the popular cities. San Francisco and Seattle have very high homeless populations.

So yes, there's plenty of reasons to take a pay cut, one way or the other.
Good luck on that, I'll follow this project !
I wonder if they'll put something in place to link accounts for people who have them with both services. Funny thing is that I used to have a paid Flickr account, but at some point they downgraded me and stopped taking my money; I think around the time they bumped up free storage to 1 Tb.

Not a huge deal either way because I haven't uploaded anything to Flickr in ages, and I imported everything into SmugMug when I signed up, but it'd be nice to have them unified.

It's also very weird that one of the promo scenes is a dumpster fire. Wouldn't have been my first choice, but what do I know?
Both problems can be resolved by moving your accounts to a credit union, and encouraging others to do the same.
Apparently the research was led by Dr. Upamanyu Madhow. I wonder what he's up to these days:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/upamanyu-madhow-7a124512/

> On leave (2016-17) from UCSB at Uber

Pretty cool when fairly technical research has immediate real-world applications.
Discount Tickets for “Company Culture” Conference
Hey YCers,
I help run marketing for Echo Life. We are running a “Company Culture” conference. I have discount tickets for all YC folks. Feel free to share: YCNETWORK $75, dropped to $40

Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/echo-conference-learn-how-to-build-your-company-culture-tickets-44882719422?aff=YCdiscount

Event site: http://echotalks.com/

Speakers:
Luke Roush (VC)- Sovereign Capital
Henry Kaestner (VC)- Sovereign Capital
Jon Beekman (Founder)- Man Crates
Liz Bohannon (Founder)- Seek Designs
Jason Khalipa (Founder)- NC Fit
Jordan Gilbert- eSport Gamer
Jennifer Camera (Founder)- Ability Revolution
Andy Wood (Founder) Echo Life
Flickr has one really useful feature that I've used a lot: easy searching for public domain imagery. It's great that you can dial in whichever level of CC licensing you want and then grab some photos for marketing or wireframing. Also handy for machine learning!
Americans will no longer have to sign for credit card purchases
Net loss. So, if a ticket costs $10, and it costs the bus an average $12 per passenger, they'd have a $2 loss per passenger.
Is anyone able to answer this. He seems to have put up two vertical wooden planks in what appears to be the basement and it seems to be supporting the entire weight of the house except for the sides. Is this a normal way to do things? I couldn’t believe the physics of this
Yes, but the mechanism need not be "voting with your wallet".
Instead, I put forward the mechanism "voting by voting". That is, such vicious backlash gets picked up by politicians, who act on it with regulation.
Any NodeMCU compatible ESP8266 board should work. Moddable Zero starts with a NodeMCU board and adds a color touch screen for $20 (and they are handmade to order in California). http://www.moddable.com/moddable-zero.php
Their first example

for (let _i = 0; _i < arr.length; _i++) {
results.push(_f(arr[_i], _i, arr));
}

This is recalculating length on each iteration
Traditional legalese has plenty of ambiguities, they're just hidden behind obscure language.
Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message
SF’s scooter skirmish: City escalates battle over the motorized two-wheelers
I have a Flickr account with several thousand curated photos in it. Several years ago I let myself get convinced into turning on automatic photo upload. Before I knew it, my photostream was filled with garbage screenshots and photos of people blinking. It created 100s of tiny albums that cluttered my page and made my Flickr page a mess that I could no longer use, and I mostly abandoned photography.

I spent several days this year deleting all of those photos (because of course there was no batch delete that I could find).

Hopefully Smugmug does something great!
The idiom that always comes to mind for me is "good fences make good neighbors."

In the long run ugly lines of code are so much better than a broken architecture or too much coupling.
There's Vulkan stuff coming up as well
http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2018-April/228571.h...
I don't know your use cases, but FWIW I've been really happy with SmugMug.

Browsing and discovering other people's photos is easier on Flickr, but SmugMug is miles ahead when it comes to hosting, printing, presenting, tracking, and organizing. Then again, I pay for it, so I'm sure that's part of it.

I would love if SmugMug kept their existing interface (which I'm sure they will because a lot of pro-photographers use it and want it the way it is), but also gave an option to show SmugMug photos on Flickr.
Hopefully they're smart enough to ask Stewart Butterfield to sit on their board. I remember when Flickr came out - pulled a lot away from the deviantART community and caused me many sleepless nights. :)
Well, that is where Simple operates.
Link for the lazy: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/04/book-review-losing-...
As a long time smug mug customer, my perception is this is the best possible home for Flickr. Smugmug is the online photo site we all want.
There will be if pulseaudio starts using it to encode. The decoder and encoder in the codebase are both LGPL licensed.
I remember an April Fools joke to this effect a decade ago, and it's great to see it come to life now.

In the height of my pro-photo life, Smugmug was the only place to care about durability, presentation, and maintaining reasonable margins. While dozens of competitors faded off over time from ignoring one or the other. Glad to see the good ones win.
Like WTF, it's clearly your mistake you didn't invest time in understanding people you work with.
It doesn't matter where you work, it's universal that even if you are a superstar work on the right problems, and before that influence people in a nice way that this is the problem worth doing. Checkout "First 90 days" book you will know what I am saying.
Isn't this very simplistic? In my (limited) understanding, the North was a Republican stronghold, controlled by manufacturing interests, and without a strong economic interest in maintaining slavery. This meant the abolitionist movement was not opposed by the economic elite. On the other hand, Northern industrialists always had an economic interest in fighting against unions. To say that their anti-union sentiment was an extension of the anti-slavery sentiment seems too generous.
You're responsible for the data you store and have access to that can be linked to an individual.

The GDPR is quite clear on this.
The text on a pic of a dumpster-fire:
"A Place
Where
Perspective
Is Shared
Not Forced."

Nice commentary on Yahoo!
This is exciting! I've long believed that Flickr should have doubled down on their existing users instead of trying to become another Instagram.

Over on the USA Today article[0], there's this line:

A longtime fan of Flickr, MacAskill says before making any decisions, he plans to collect feedback from employees and users.

Hey Don - I used to pay money for Flickr, and I'm happy to start paying again if there is evidence of forward motion. I want to have a place to securely store my RAW files in addition to my edited photographs, and I want to see a focus on community again.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-...
Flickr used to be great. Now it's unsuitably bad.

I was a premium Flickr user for years, and then they broke sharing in a big way. I could no longer send "private" links to people I knew of my photo albums and expect them to be able to view the photos without signing up for an account.

I now share simple photo albums with Microsoft Sway.
By the way, if you are a Flickr user, then you control what I see on my television. By "television" I mean the screen and Apple TV, which is the only television I have. And I went into the settings and set "Most Popular on Flickr" as my screensaver. So I've often fallen asleep watching whatever images you have upvoted.

The one feature I hope Smugmug adds is captions. I often see incredible nature photos, and I've no idea where on the planet the image is.

Likewise, some images appear to be old, I would love it if these images had years attached to them.

"Most Popular On Flickr" is the "show" that I watch more than any other, in the sense that I if I am home at my apartment, I often leave the screen on all day, so it is always there playing any time I look that way. A lot of the photos are mediocre, but sometimes something catches my attention and I look up and see something great.
The aptX reference implementation is not GPL.

But FFmpeg have a clean-room implementation, based on the (expired) EP0398973B1 patent and from reverse-engineering the binary library.
> Why don't the non-tenured (and non-tenure track) faculty unionize?

They do; traditional higher education unions like AFT have organized wall-to-wall (single faculty unions encompassing adjuncts and tenure-track faculty) in public institutions, while unions centered outside the higher education space (notably, SEIU) have organized adjunct-only unions in a number of private insitutions (the Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that private institution full-time faculty are managerial and thus do not have collective bargaining rights in US law, which is why wall-to-wall only happens in public institutions.)
There are building codes everywhere, but yes, many places that don't inspect. Where I am from in the south, there are literally no restrictions and that includes septic. You can go in a 5 gallon bucket and dump it out the window if you want.
A lot of people apparently hated that I attacked this person, and downvoted me; but what the person who posted this comment was doing is intentionally throwing shade at and casting doubt on a project by saying "I think that the claims on this webpage don't make any sense as this should be impossible". It comes off as "oh come on, this doesn't even sound plausible; I call bullshit".

This then causes people who aren't versed with the product or the technology to decrease their perception of the product, and puts the team behind it in a position of having to not just come to its defense but to do so quickly due to the perception concerns.

Meanwhile, if they just do a basic search for "MVCC serializable" they would find that they were wrong; which means that it took more time to leave this insulting comment than it would have taken them to learn how this can work.

As a community, we really really really really need to beat down on casual cynics like this, who like to lazily "call bullshit" or play the "citation needed" card as a way to undermine the credibilty of other peoples' products. We live in a future where the answers to these kinds of doubts are a moment away: this particular form of debate tactic needs to die.