skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article 34, apparently, although I can't really see how it's interpreted from the text.

http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/conseil-constitutionne...

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/research/foi/countrie...
I want to be, and deserve to be, very well paid. Do not mistake my lack of belief in the company mission for a lack of interest in capitalism or personal financial gain.
not yet (laid off at 55, new gig after ~2.5 mos.; now 56)
I plan on buying a coffee shop(tim hortons franchise) from the consulting money and leaving the software gig at 40. I am 30 now.
I am also interested in what ESA is using... I have used VectorCAST to generate MC/DC coverage reports for C programs. The interface is a pain to deal with and it crashed regularly, but it did the job.
Healthcare careers aren't poorly paid if a college degree is involved.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm
> medicine, education, mechanical or electrical engineering

Those fields all employ some pretty significant protectionism to keep the applicant pool thin.
I'm not familiar with a world where interest rates and inflation aren't low. What should I expect?
I'm not an older programmer, I'm in fact a pretty young programmer, but I want the same things:

+ A company that gives me a good work/life balance
+ Regular WFH or preferably be fully remote
+ Interesting tasks, in a relatively stable environment

Most of my peers seem to want the same thing as well. While I've done the crazy workweek startup thing before, it burns you out and it's simply not sustainable. I don't have a single peer who still works in startup land.
> it's filled with people re-inventing things that need not be re-invented

In parallel, there's a ton of legacy stuff that needs to be re-invented [1], but people are too caught up developing the umpteenth MVC framework for Javascript.

[1] I don't mean shitty reinventions where a lot of time and effort is wasted rediscovering the reasons for why the original system wasn't so bad after all.
None. They don't need to know that. The feature is on by default without logging-in.
>Status, envy, screen size - this is all bullshit. You have never been a good dev.

These are all serious people-management challenges that require competent people-managers working in cooperation to deal with effectively.
I'd suggest the Philosophize This podcast.
Well. Reality kicked in and now it seems that Digitalocean Spaces (ams3 region) is down. As you may notice that we are using Spaces for file storage, our service goes down when DO Spaces (at least ams3 region) is down.
I would say that the word 'brutal' is heavy with preconceived notions.

The fact of the matter is that all creatures have to kill to eat. That's true whether what's being eaten is plants or animals.

Having said that, humans are perhaps the only animals on the planet that can recognize a higher purpose in that fact. Like nurturing and protecting what we love. Humans can feel and express gratitude for that fact that other entities sacrificed their lives so that we can live.

Perhaps you could re-frame the question to something like this:
Why do people take it for granted that brutality is inevitable but compassion is optional?
Chip Guru Jim Keller Leaves Tesla for Intel
Aren't you just begging the question here? Personally I don't see why people take pictures of a lot of things. As for preservation -- if you remember it, is it not preserved? And if you somehow forget, could you not forget that you recorded it?
> The only downside to these kinds of jobs is while they’re in demand now there is zero guarantees they will be 10 years from now

How is that any different from programming? I know a few COBOL programmers who did very well in 1999 - after that, not so much...
Fellow 40-something software dev here. I'd love to ask you some questions about your background & experience. If you'd be inclined, can we chat? My email is in my profile.
That seems like a better thought out policy.
A radio amature most likely can't construct a bandpass filter with a high enough Q to filter out all of the spurs while still getting a usable signal. Releasing a tool like this and handwaving away interfearence concerns with an abstract refrence to 'proper filtering' is still iresponsible.
Ubuntu 18.04 focuses on security and AI improvements
Why is that? If you wear your PPE (helmet with appropriate shade while welding, face shield while grinding), I would think you would be protected.
This is where I think Wikipedia really falls down as a repository of information. It's crazy that if a new programming language is invented, people would have update N Wikipedia pages.

If I built a simple DB that had all this info and interfaces (web, API) that folks could use to query or contribute, would anyone find this useful?
Helped an academic build out http://www.humantraffickingdata.org/ to store research data related to human trafficking, supported group of 10 RAs doing analysis.
Just to provide a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d'Heures
Me too. Apparently similar etymology to English "-borough" or "-burgh". Contrast with Star Trek's borg, which comes from "cyborg", short for "cybernetic organism".
> So as long as the moves don’t go too far, increases in inflation and interest rates would be a sign the global economy is returning to a more prosperous equilibrium like the one that prevailed before 2008.

Pre-2008 was quite far from a prosperous equilibrium, otherwise it wouldn't have caused the crisis.
All points agreed with - and I'll add to the sixth.

>"Parents want success for their kids," said Mike Clifton, who teaches machining at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, about 20 miles from Seattle. "They get stuck on [four-year bachelor's degrees],

What parents want is to be able to brag on their kids. Which is to say, they want to be able to boast that their kid went to a presigious university and now holds a prestigious job. And the Education-Industrial Complex (tm) has milked that for everything it's worth. Which is trillions of USD.

Seventh, the people who work in the trades have a rep as rabidly anti-intellectual, for whom Playboy magazine is "too snooty."
:-)

In the early 00's we were looking for data centers to host our infrastructure and I remember a couple of the tours we took. On all the tours we saw the man-traps and the fancy hand scanning bio-metric locks as they touted how seriously they took the security of our servers...

...but as we were touring one of the facilities, a large back door was wide open to the outside directly into the main server room. As far as we could see it was unattended. To be fair, I'm sure there was someone around... somewhere... and that the door couldn't have been left open like that for long (forget about access controls, environmental controls were compromised by that one, too!)

At another facility during that same RFP, the sales guy was trying to get us into a room and the fancy hand scanner wasn't accepting his hand for entry. So in a fit of frustration he just opened the door... it actually wasn't locked at all.

Ah... good times...
Ask HN: How would you use technology to stop an armyworm outbreak?
Looking for ideas. There's an outbreak in Africa and farmers could lose up to 50% of their produce. This will lead to an acute food shortage.

CRISPR related ideas are welcome too.
Make sure you study business extensively. It can be very difficult and there are a lot of "gotcha"s and tricks of the trade.
It looks like the gopher support is old enough that it doesn't know about the (non-standard, but everyone uses it) 'i' item type for informational menu items, which is why that entire page, including the ASCII art and intro text, is one big pile of links.
Sitting at a desk in an office all day is a recipe for a heart attack. Every job has it's dangers and tradeoffs.
Honestly I think programmers like you will be ok. If coding is your primary creative outlet, you're properly motivated to continue getting better and should continue to stay competitive.

I'd spend some time learning technologies you think will be big a few years out. The industry moves on to new best practices pretty slowly (unless javascript) so you're still way ahead of the curve by learning, say, go or functional programming.
Someone has to program the programmers.
The much more likely reason, at least in the case of the Switch, is to lock users out of old software vulnerabilities that could enable piracy.
Exisiting consent taking procedures would still hold true till the GDPR date.
So, All these website have to do is update their terms of use and privacy policies before that date and they're safe. Since you've most probably agreed to their terms once. And those terms say that they might update it from time-to-time.

They would only be taking fresh consents from the signups and registrations after May 25th
Go's New Brand
It really depends on the place and the type of position. If you have a solid track of web development experience, people looking for a well-rounded engineer will not care if you know the latest JS framework. People just looking for someone to quickly stand up a site using that framework, however, may care more about it than your general skill set. I've looked for both and hired both at various times and places in my career.

I think the hole that older developers fall into is that their particular skills are out of date, and they have not expanded their skill set. I've talked to C++ developers who can't speak to anything beyond writing C++03 code for the last decade. You're basically looking for a niche position with that resume.
Loans cost more. The interest rate on my first mortgage (in the 90's) was 7%.
I use RF's commonly for getting that same feel, but I recently learned that I've been making some big mistakes when interpreting default feature-importance outputs; this recent article really opened my eyes: http://parrt.cs.usfca.edu/doc/rf-importance/index.html

Short version: always use permutation importance, but use leave-it-out importance when it really matters
If that was the case I think you might consider keeping a career eye on expanding what your concentration is on as a programmer. I have seen newer programmers doing a terrible to very good job on implementation that is coloring within the lines, but the best could still easily get into the weeds on larger architectural tradeoffs, and communicating them to a team. That kind of experience easily brings in more than 2x the value in avoided costs - but that's the rub, avoided costs are hard for a lot of companies to know how to value.

Edit: If companies want to get positive value from experience, they have to also structure their engineering teams in a way that it puts some technical people in charge at med to high levels - but again many programmers jump to management tracks because that structure often doesn't exist at parity in companies. The roles exist, they just might be called "programmers" at that point..
Curious, can you share a link to the OS project and the algorithmic art project?
Well, in medicine, I recall recently hearing that you wanted younger doctors (more recently in med school) to do a certain surgery, because they were better trained on new techniques that significantly improved patient outcomes. So, yeah, it can happen in other fields, it's just much more rare...
Katerra?

They recently raised $865m lead by SoftBank's vision fund [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/business/dealbook/katerra...
Dear Don @onethumb,

Thanks a lot for taking on the big task on reviving Flickr ! I think SmuMug is a good fit for this task =). If I can help in any way to help you do that, please email me ! I live in Europe so maybe if you need a rep there ahhahaha

Some suggestions :
- I am still a Pro Flickr subscriber amd I use Flickr mostly as my "photo hardrive in the cloud" and to share pictures in high quality for weddings & cie.

- However it's unbearably slow to organize your pictures on Flickr when you have 40.000+/10+ years of pictures. I even tried to use Flickr-Fuse, mounted as filesystem on my computer, to try to reorganize my content, but no help on that point.

- And I tended to use Flickr less as a "cloud photo backup harddrive" these last years because it has became quite slow and unreliable to upload pictures on Flickr.

- Please simplify and improve the API too, so we can have cool tools again to go with Flickr/SmugMug (FlickMug? Smugkr ? hahaha )

- RAW format upload/download would be a big differentiator from Instagram & cie.

All the best to you in this new big adventure !
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It has more than the chips, too, since the TPUs can't run a TCP/IP stack, gRPC server, etc.
I had to roll my own chat system recently because the open source solutions out there were surprisingly insufficient - nothing seems to support websockets. Looking forward to the French contributions to the ecosystem!

For instance: at the moment Matrix server implementations expect clients like Riot to long-poll for JSON about each room/chat they're connected to. Alternatives like Prosody's XMPP server implementation dropped websocket support in favor of BOSH years ago.

I wonder why this is - maybe there's just less developer interest since chat has gone mobile, and mobile devices break ws connections so frequently? But it's obvious that chat clients like FB messenger, whatsapp, slack, etc are establishing ws connections.

Strange.
Funny, I know at least one Mantas in Vilnius.

While I prefer speaking English when I am there (which happens pretty regularly), it seems that people are actually more willing to speak Russian. Probably because they are trying to sell you something...
Ionic 4 – What is coming?
Former recruiter and current professional resume writer. As the other respondent said, the quick formula a recruiter might use to guess your birth year is "college graduation date - 22" or "date of first job - 22".

You should keep this fact in mind as you write a resume and decide which jobs to include, which jobs to perhaps delete, and whether you want to include your graduation date. It isn't necessary to include a graduation year or all of your jobs, so you can usually shave some years off your age "on paper" without being considered as deceptive.

Sometimes I'll add a line "Previous experience included..." to indicate that there is prior work experience, but I don't list the years.
No he's saying separating security patches from feature patches would be beneficial.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Remains the best and most accurate article on programming languages available.

https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...
For me the killer feature of excel is RTD's

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/285339/how-to-creat...

Bloomberg, Reuters, and almost every trader in the world use this to pump in real time data to excel and have it automatically calculate for them.

to be fair, VBA is awesome as well, and almost certainly more used in general but being able to automatically push in new data and have your sheet automatically recalculate due to it saves so much programming work for simple exploratory work.

Intentionally inflammatory statement to prove a point....

The simplest way to tell if someone has ever been a real trader is to ask if they know what =BDP(.....) does.

I don't see how google sheets competes on this level with excel.
I think I'm in my prime earning years right now at 37. My plan B is a bunch of media plays, basically a land grab for a bespoke social network, and news/blog media engine, and a few other pieces of software I've been working on for a few years I'd like to develop / bring to market.

I have enough saved now to move to a cheaper city and live there for a few years (or break even indefinitely by picking up a small amount of client work). Retirement for me will probably mean happily working on and servicing a couple of income earning pet projects.
Bezos says he liquidates a billion of Amazon stock to pay for Blue Origin
Better yet, special-case them to add rel="noreferrer". If jwz wants to break a fundamental part of how the web works, HN can break it right back.
I am not buying that inflation is low. Property taxes and housing cost (especially rent) has doubled in last 10 years in New York. I think so has the medical costs. Just because gas prices are low dose not mean inflation is low
You largely are, but incremental damage does happen through error largely.

Examples:

Difficult to see work becomes root cause if phase error between protection in place and start of arc.

Ever glance over and see the bright arc? Hard to not do that.

Use of marginal protection happens for a ton of reasons.

Each flash exposure adds up.
The E2EE in matrix is actually based on the double ratchet from the Signal protocol. So you could think of the E2E in matrix as just a federated version of Signal. :)
?? But you had worked there before, right? Didn't they remember you?
Is there any company that fits your criteria? I can't think of a single company that pays "very well" and does not do questionable things.

EDIT: I do not necessarily mean "questionable" here in a moral sense, more so you disagree with it or find it questionable yourself, however your interests may lie.
If the last paragraph is true I am seriously curious now what code you write.
Moving Fast and Securing Things
> inflation aren't low

Inflation is only low if you trust how the Federal Reserve is calculating it. Personally, I think the weightings they assign to various categories are intentionally incorrect.

Anyone who lived through 2008 knows better than to think inflation was sub-2% -- yet many savings accounts have been paying 0.01% interest for over a decade.

The fed's monetary policy is taxation without representation.
Maybe that's just the way you're wired? I don't think any of the things you list when I meet someone who's a blue collar worker, nor do most of my friends...
Me neither, but I tend to think we'll not find out very soon. The article is heavily biased towards the US economy, meanwhile the EU, Japan still struggle with ~0% yields. Hell, Japan's been doing it since 1992.
This is a basic phone screen, not a "director of engineering" specific thing. I had a similar screen for an SRE position.
"And if threats of a trade war with China or other countries turn into reality, this will tend to increase inflation, driving up prices both directly through new tariffs on imported goods and indirectly by encouraging less efficient production."

...I'm confused as to why either of those effects are supposed to be good things.
Being able to implement a client that runs in a browser (and can thus only deal in terms of HTTP) is very valuable, and one reason to claim that the simplest solution is HTTP PUT and GET.
It doesn't work that way though. The company didn't spend an extra $500 that year because an engineer spent 90 seconds each day opening a few prompts. They paid that engineer the same salary as the other case. Maybe the engineer just spent 90 seconds less each day on their phone, or stayed until 5:01:30 that day instead. Or took a shorter lunch. Or only had 6-7 hours of work each day anyway so it didn't make a difference.
Google takes aim at U.S. law banning use of biometric data without consent
True! I think A/V can also help remember or trigger the memory feelings.
Less so your vision and more your lungs.
The last time someone tried to get me "passionate" about the mission of the company it was so I'd take less than market compensation.

Apparently because I would be "helping people" I should be willing to take a pay cut. The people I would be helping were paying for the service, but it seems that helping these paying customers wasn't enough motivation to set up some sort of reasonable profit share or equity scheme from the other side of this particular bargain.
If you read the article, her thesis is that we are under an illusion of consumer choice. That we have several dark and milk varieties of differing qualities and compositions undermines that thesis. Pedantic reminders of apples-to-apples are unwarranted.

From the HN guidelines:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
New Exascale System for Earth Simulation from US Department of Energy
Working for a non-profit doesn't necessarily mean you won't be paid well.
>In fact before Moxie went on his silly "only I can do security right" rampage

Do you have link or source for that? (I'm always interested in listening or watching stuff from Moxie)
Yeah twirl has gone down the greasy route lately ...
Alt-TAB thru to the window you want[0]

WindowsKey-ARROW aligns top to bottom fully, or if left and right, to the side, half screen (leaving the alt tab reduced windows still selectable, so I frequently switch to the mouse then, which is fluid for next seeking to insert my cursor to edit)) and I think Page Up maximises full screen but again not recently used this option.

Yes, Windows has had really very worthwhile UI shortcuts for a long time, since 7 definitely, I skipped XP mostly, W2K got just long enough support on contract I never saw SP1 or 2 even .

[0] I think you can go straight to the window you want by hitting the number of the window in order but I've never used this as too many windows and I'm in a phone now, but this could be cute if you're strict about your desktop layout and I'm a rare one who isn't so particular, a laxity learned from a spell in front line help desk
[Comment ignores hairsplitting over whether aviation is a profession or a trade. The point is there are many career options that do not require a college degree.]

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is rolling out a high-school STEM curriculum[0] for aviation. There are lots of options for aviation careers such as dispatcher, air traffic control, airframe & powerplant mechanic, and of course pilot.

A pilot who wants to make captain at one of the major U.S. airlines will want to add a four-year degree somewhere along the way, e.g., as a military officer or as a civilian climbing the ratings ladder. Part 121 is only one segment of the aviation market.

The FAA recently changed the required equipment for the commercial-pilot and certificated flight instructor (CFI) checkrides. Candidates for either rating until recently had to provide a complex airplane (retractable landing gear, flaps, and a controllable-pitch propeller). These take more time to train in and hence more expense.

[0]: https://youcanfly.aopa.org/high-school/high-school-curriculu...
Housing is not included in the CPI I believe. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/4777/why-arent...
In Canada it's between $25-$50 [1] depending on the test. The price of medical care in the USA has little relation to raw costs and if you approach it that way you will lose.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/practitioner-pro/la...
There is a life beyond corporate
Eleusis Express: Concealed rules card game of inductive reasoning
This is a frequent misconception that I had as well: nonprofits _can_ pay very well. I worked for a nonprofit as a principal engineer, and it paid better than Google (straight up cash too, since there’s no stock in a nonprofit). You just have to have the track record that shows that you “deserve” to be paid so much. Charging less sends the wrong signal to the employer.
Both good arguments for decommodifying housing. :) Your pay shouldn't be the determining factor of where you can live. In fact, if you get paid more, you can afford better transportation, so you should arguably live further away than a store clerk or a janitor.

However, that kind of policy would also hurt society by discouraging mixing of people with different jobs, so really housing should not be based on pay at all. First come first serve seems more appropriate unless there's a demonstrated hardship.
It wasn't the comment about banking itself, but invoking the (debunked) trope about the Rothschilds that I took exception to.