skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everything after the 'go' line is implicitly one branch of the PAR

No, it isn't, because Go doesn't do the italicized part:

"Everything in a PAR block will run in parallel and all their outputs will be collected and fed as the input to the next SEQ."
New live online Ethereum development course to ship your own MVP DApp
Some personal thoughts:

I got downvoted for answering some simple questions at stackoverflow.com for encouraging low quality questions. This was discussed in the article.

I can see why some people can get hostile as some questions are framed as please solve this for me. Usually people ask the posters to tell them what they had done but the tone of that request can be harsh.

I think the elitism is most prevalent in stackoverlow. The other stack websites seem less hostile.
Honestly that looks like the most boring roller coaster ever invented by man. I prefer the Sim City one, with its strong dystopian vibes ;)
An observation: trades aren't that welcoming toward women, which severely restricts the talent pool. Quoting a 2015 Chicago Tribune article:

Women represent just 4 percent of the workforce in natural resources, construction and maintenance, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Their underrepresentation in such high-paying industries is one key reason that women earn, on average, 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, the agency said.

What would have to happen for this lopsided gender imbalance to change?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-women-in-trades-04...
The gopher isn't going away, though. The last pages of the brand book pdf give guidance on how to use it.
> Who considers 55-60k "high paying"

the state's average annual wage of $54,000.

That accounts for all cost of living adjustments, since it is the same state. I wouldn't consider 2%-10% above average "high paying"
I'm pretty sure this is specifically what "passion" means. It means that you're "really" getting paid the full rate, but because you love the work you're doing so much, you are then paying the employer to get to do it so it comes out as a net rate lower than you'd expect for the amount of work you're doing.

I don't actually know if employers ever mean anything else by "passion".
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/335Qnh-GRcA/maxresdefault.jpg
Since it looks like an infinity symbol, so the little speed burst at the left is not working for me.
At first I thought it was Squarespace since they are in a similar market, but it seems to be the financial company Square. I wonder what their intentions are?
I don't understand why I'm getting downvoted, it's a serious statement, you can already upgrade to get a service with the business ToS, which includes different privacy treatment.

Personally, other than my work email, I still have a business account from my previous startup when google apps was free. No ads, less tracking, a joy. My only regret is that as of today you can't enable Advanced Protection on the business accounts.
I think "being nice on the internet" is typically a learned skill, unfortunately. That said, sometimes comments that appear scathing are actually warranted criticism - perpetuating "bad" knowledge can be very harmful to the person using it and to those that use their products or code.
Nah, I was clear you were characterizing that as the most conservative interpretation of the study. Your assumption is logically flawed. To wit:

> The only way for autopilot to be less safe than a human (taking the numbers from that study as true) is for those safety features to be substantially more effective on a Tesla.

You lumped the two types of features together. There's your logical flaw. The most conservative interpretation is that, yes, Tesla collision avoidance could be great while autosteering is "not nearly as effective as they claim."
Yeah, I mean seriously. SO is hostile to everyone. Seems like needlessly jumping on the diversity bandwagon.

I used to participate in SO but also stopped because people were answering questions faster with better quality. That's a strength not a weakness.
The people who strongarm every conversation always win in an open office plan because they can 'overrule' people when they are still trying to figure out what they mean.

Those people are ecstatic because everything is working for them.

Many people choose to suffer in silence. So if the office plan is part of their problem they won't complain very loudly. The conversations you see on the internet won't have their input and so what you witness in these threads seems pretty split.

Anyone like me, who tries to play ombudsman, goes around and tries to figure out what people actually think and make sure they get what they need. This is fairly effectively hamstrung by an open office plan because you can't express your fears and doubts in a one-on-one situation. You can't negotiate and coach them to something actionable.

The usual response at this point is "so get a meeting room". Yeah, the thing is that when you take out private offices and put in group work areas, you need to more than double your meeting rooms because you just nearly doubled the number of people you can fit in the building. But that totally ruins your pie chart showing how much cheaper you made your developers, so nobody does the right thing.

(Also, the next time someone increases density at your offices, I highly encourage you to check out the OSHA laws governing the number of people allowed per bathroom stall per gender. It's a good bet your company is violating the rules, or will if they fill all those cubicles)
What about all the training they need? Maybe they make more per hour, and more per year, but also work fewer years because they have to study, or work for cheap, for a long time before they reach their top earning potential.

I googled for life time earnings by profession and found this document by the US census bureau that makes it seem like they earn similarly (and engineers make a bit more), but they mix nurses and technicians together with doctors and surgeons.

https://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acsbr11-04.pdf
I would see this as a positive step - it’s a lot harder to legislate against E2E crypto for the populous when the govt is relying on it :)
How does anyone even know what color or sex someone is on SO? Seems like those people are either imagining it or they're generally intimidated by programmers and their typical arrogant or blunt attitudes everywhere.
Nope, I don't buy it. I can get Ritter Sport, Kinder Eggs, and other imported Chocolates from my grocery stores that taste just like they do in Europe. That chocolate was shipped over the atlantic in addition to taking the same transport routes as Hershey's does. Conclusion: Hershey's just sucks.
Rocket Chat supports WebSockets. They don't advertise it very well, but if you look at the nginx config under the manual installation, you'll see that the 'upgrade' header is added when using nginx as a reverse proxy, presumably for ws support. Also, they have an experimental realtime API that uses WS and it looks like it's just the API that is still experimental, while WS are already in use for the regular desktop app and the new (still buggy) mobile app.
A user with zero rep can both ask and answer questions.

Letting them vote seems like it'd quickly result in voting rings via a bunch of zero rep bot accounts.
Ah, good for you for planning ahead! Then my advice is save early and consistently, and look into Bernie Sanders or other progressive politicians. I'd rather be paying higher taxes for very low cost to free public universities than the current system - I think that's much more economically efficient. The current structuring of public universities is actually a drag on our economy. It's a financialized extraction of wealth from most income-earning people of any class, and reduces economic activity by pulling working cashflow out of the real value-producing portions of our economy and into the banking/finance sector.

This is said as a parent with a kid going into college soon. None of what I've advocated for there probably lands soon enough to make a bit of financial difference for me, but maybe for you.
Square is buying website maker Weebly for $365M
I'm sure no fan of dismissive, know-it-all programmers, but to play devil's advocate, who's injecting their feelings into a site with the explicit purpose of solely answering programming questions?
What makes you think the skills required for both of those are the same?
From the linked article:

> Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups

Breaking that down...

"...people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place..."

This is obvious just by looking at the discussions that happen here, or, even by observing the SO-related memes that bubble up to the top of Reddit programming subs. I have commented on it myself.

"...especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups."

lol what?

Like most programmers, I use SO practically every day. I don't post much because that's usually a waste of time, but I land on SO from searching for errors all the time. I cannot recall ever, even once, seeing someone's race, sex, or orientation being mocked or even mentioned. As far as I can tell most users don't have full names or photos on their profiles. So it isn't even possible to know such things unless it was volunteered, and that never happens when asking questions about APIs and whatnot.

So what in the heck are they even talking about? I'm glad the issue is getting attention, but justifying like this strikes me as pointless virtue signaling. Perhaps they are trying to stem criticism from their power users who like SO the way it is.
Why are A level candidates incapable of studying the questions?

Someone who's A level in my book knows how to get the tasks in front of them done. If half the steps to getting them done are beneath them, they do so anyway. If one of the steps is stupid political nonsense, they do so anyway. Someone who is amazing at hard technical problems and refuses to do anything else on principle is not a worthwhile hire.
And then all the high-paying jobs will go to people who went to MIT and Stanford, and if you're great but couldn't afford more than community college, tough luck, because your credential is the same as other people who barely finished high school.
Having just finished a PhD and working full time in industry, I still find myself having the appetite for some unfunded personal research projects. Clearly didn't want to continue in academia, but there seems to be no middle ground yet, apart from landing a job at Google or the like.
I got a stackoverflow account once they stopped requiring you to link to a Facebook or Google account but I've never done anything with it. It's seems somewhat difficult to contribute if you're an expert. The site seems to be geared more towards newbies in design and the community is hostile to them.

I suspect a lot of people who use Stackoverflow have now used it enough (grown up with it) that they don't have these kinds of problems anymore.
I would not put much stock into those numbers - for example, they are not even remotely close to who makes the highest - those are going to be neurosurgeons who start at over $250k and within a few years make close to a million - those numbers however should not be used for anything meaningful as there are so few of them.
I hate if I help people, provide the correct answer but they never accept it. SO should encourage people to accept the correct answer somehow. Maybe force them to review answers to their questions before posting new questions.
There is an interesting parallel here between bottom-up programming and the common law system. Common-law courts don't create law in advance; they wait for conflicts to arise.

After enough similar conflicts arise and cases have been decided, an abstract "law" organically emerges that is used to decide future similar conflicts.
Not to mention the millions of homes/buildings using fossil fuels (natural gas furnaces) for heat.
Java, C#, and C++ have changed a lot over the past decade -- the languages themselves have changed, and the way they are used has also changed a lot with the rise of microservices and stuff like that.
This is a welcome addition. It surprises me that it took this long for Google to introduce this into sheets while other competitors like Zoho (https://blog.zoho.com/sheet/macros-pivot-tables-more-in-zoho...) have critical Excel functionality like macros since 2008.
I have not.
I too was wondering how this shakes out. The vast majority of <100 rep users I come across that ask pretty dicey questions have a default user profile picture or a picture of something that is not a person, not associated with an ethnic/religious/political group, etc. How can a group be intentionally or unconsciously hostile to POC and women when their photo is a stock photo provided by SO and their handle is user12098739578?
I read the title and was thinking someone want the original crypto ratchet back, before it got rebranded by Signal/Moxie and kept from mass adoption by means of a GPL lawsuit threat.
Yep that’s pretty much exactly why they wanted it built around a spreadsheet. Before they had an app somebody built and never maintained. It was buggy and the data was more or less inaccessible.

Now with the spreadsheet they not only have access to the data when/if they want it, it’s also super easy to roll back if something goes haywire.
Raw numbers are meaningless outside of context.

The Case-Schiller index the GP was referencing takes CPI inflation into account.
Why does loaded up with debt imply interest rates will be low? Most debt is fixed-rate and not inflation-adjusted so there is a strong incentive to drive up inflation and interest rate with so much outstanding debt. This may fail in which case you get a deflationary collapse, but a priori it's not clear at all which direction things go.

If the stagflation era of the 70's is any guide, the world will undergo a significant bout of inflation to clear the plate and the holders of USD (playing the role that gold played then) will be wiped out and it will no longer be the reserve currency.
The keyword being experience. The same behavior is experienced differently by different people, and being in a group who is more at risk for self-doubt tends to produce the experience of hostility more easily.
I've never seen minorities being mistreated on stack overflow. Does anyone have any examples?
The gopher's in the brand book. Doesn't appear to be going anywhere.
what are you on about?

decoding the movies has nothing to do with anything.
I guess it depends on where you draw the line on when liberty should be taken away from children (or their guardians) to make choices on what they are/are not allowed to do.

Personally, I believe casinos pose a risk of not only spending money, but also exposure to much more harmful activities (drugs, prostitution, violence). These other risks have to factor into the equation, and for playing a game on a computer/phone, those risks just aren't there like they are in a casino. That's why I have a separate opinion on loot crates vs casinos.

I guess what I am getting at is that loot crates can only be a waste of money, but kids already spend their money on other "wasteful" activities like purchasing video games, so why should there be any difference just because the mechanics of the game are different?
I have a newer Kindle Paperwhite and you can turn the back-lighting completely off.
I'll believe they changed when I see it. Pretty sure it's not going to any time soon.
I am going to miss the gopher :(

Go's branding will always be the gopher in my eyes.
Those aren't the 'good things' that trade wars are supposed to bring. Some people believe trade wars bolster local economies, by giving local manufacturers a price advantage for their goods.. thereby increasing demand for local products and "increasing jobs". I don't think it has ever worked out that way, despite all the rhetoric.
Just to paraphrase, you're asking for more data right?
Yes, but snarky blasts of the Fed and invocations of "taxation without representation" cross out of thoughtful discussion and into ideological battle, which is an entropic state we're trying to avoid on this site.
Ditto. We should all be careful to make "I" statements here.
Some of the active users in the PHP tag (where I spend some time) have pre-made snippets for common issues, like SQL injection, deprecated function use, etc.

On really problematic code, this can lead to a stampede of comments, each mentioning a different issue with grim wording, which can be really unwelcoming even if they're completely correct.
Verticals for small business. Now they're a one-stop-shop for payments _and_ a website.
It is pretty shocking for someone to consider the years leading up to 2008 as being in equilibrium, economically.
It's pretty common. Almost all EU governments reserve the right to decrypt encrypted communications by law, also India, Russia, China, Australia. Here's a map https://www.gp-digital.org/world-map-of-encryption/, click 'Powers to intercept...'
My response seems to have upset you. I'm sorry that happened.

In general I believe that number of lines of code is correlated with number of bugs, but I would hesitate to say that it is proportional to. Going in with the explicit goal of reducing the number of lines could easily lead to more bugs, not less.
> Prosody's XMPP server implementation dropped websocket

Quite the opposite, but I admit the documentation is in need of improving to make the websocket functionality easier to discover.

It is in the default config file however, right next to BOSH.
For some reason it instantly made me think of the cover of "Go,dog. Go!".
I don't disagree with the article in general but I was surprised by the women and people of color comments -- how does anyone know someone's gender or race on SO?

Of all the sites on the Internet, SO seems to be particularly well suited to the anonymity of posters -- even more so than HN because HN is more free form and conversational.
"I just feel it's ok to have variables named after single letters."
They do come out of taxes, but the tax based systems are more efficient and if you lose your job you don't have to worry about losing coverage. That's a big deal, especially for people working in high risk trade jobs where injury is common.
When I was active on SO I did often see unwelcoming behaviour. Closing questions as being dupes or offtopic, with no explanatory comments, was the most common thing. Infuriating too (and not only to new users) was the proliferation of bad edits, clearly undertaken by clueless people to try and amass points.

More of an irritant to me was the generally noisy and poor-quality content. I will only follow links to SO now in areas where I know enough to be able to filter for quality myself (usually it's wanting). From my perspective, the gamification schtick is a failure.
I've always felt the problem was the moderators have too much control. A bad or dictatorial moderator can ruin an SO board. Hanlon seems to imply moderator changes but doesn't say anything specifically. So, I'm dubious until this is directly addressed.
It's projected to be half sometime soon.
I have serious doubts the same stigma exists for employees of other tech companies.
That might be survivorship bias, plus in the end it's just anecdotes.

What do life/health/disability insurance companies think? They might charge higher prices to people in more dangerous professions, and they have big incentives to get it right.
> I don't believe this is accurate. The causality runs the other way. Medicare takes the oldest sickest patients away from private enterprise. Private insurance gets to cherry pick healthy people and aggressively denies coverage whenever it can.

As I explain below, Medicare reimburses providers rates that are below COGS. That's not a secret, and Medicare itself admits as much. It's not hard to see that, if Medicare reimburses rates that are below COGS, the only way providers can stay in business is by making up those losses with non-Medicare patients.

The patient pool of Medicare is actually not relevant to this entire conversation, because we're talking about what Medicare themselves reimburse for individual services, so we're already comparing like quantities. But if you really want to explore that line of reasoning, note that privately-managed Medicare plans (who have the same general patient population as Original Medicare) systematically outperform Medicare on the three top metrics: medical outcomes, cost, and patient satisfaction.
Looks like the logo for a stop-n-shop-style grocery store.
FB messenger actually uses MQTT last time I checked. In practice long poll HTTP is fine for most purposes, and meanwhile we have a GSoC project which should help improve on that this year (starting with push; then the protocol itself): https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-search...
i've seen them online, but have not had a chance to try them in person.