skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came from the other way around. I only studied CS in college and my cs101 course is where everything clicked back in 1998. I didn't get my degree and took 10 years of IT to realize I needed to be a developer. I jumped to a company for abysmal pay but they took a chance and I proved I could hack it. The transition from .NET to PHP took a similar leap of faith where I wasn't even sure I wanted to take that divergence. Looking back, I feel I made the right choice but in both instances it required very good friends vouching for my skills as my interview chops were frankly abysmal and may still be.

Now I'm looking to jump to JavaScript or Elixir and analysis paralysis has set in. Unlike the previous transitions, I couldn't have these as my primary focus. I have to resort to personal projects or get very lucky to work with Vue from time to time. Proving myself to myself or other people seems much harder without a very current Github profile and gearing up for interviews requires a form of study that's difficult. I use these techniques consistently enough to be highly proficient but it's not easy to keep that breadth of knowledge on hand to answer most interview questions. I feel like this matters more than a degree at all tbh but there seems to be a bit of selection bias if they're specifically commenting on the type of degree you have. When CS is largely rooted in mathematics and a math degree tends to cover way more advanced topics that I feel are largely applicable.
Neat paper and a good fountain pen.
We have plenty of data that shows that more degrees = more salary though.

https://www1.salary.com/Salaries-for-Web-Software-Developer-...
That doesn't sound like the right approach. Google has the resources to actually defend the patent. While ideally/ethically Jarek should be the one with the patent, if the patent is only being used defensively, Jarek probably isn't the right entity to actually defend it.
been using Zim for my ph.d, it was absolutely great.
My blog is static, when comments are submitted they are POSTed to one dynamic end-point (i.e. a CGI-script) which writes them to "comments/$file".

I moderate by moving to "comments/good/$file", or "comments/spam/$file" as appropriate. Then I pull them down to my desktop (via rsync) as part of my build-process to include all the comments beneath "comments/good".

In short my blog is static, comments get written to disc, and the next time I rebuild the blog I pick up new comments - unless they're spam. The CGI also sends me an email so I know to do the necessary every few hours/days.

Of course moderation, and spam-detection, is annoying. So I outsource that to https://blogspam.net/ which is a service I created & maintain.
The "Simplenote" app. Simple as notepad and it does the syncs between my Android phone and PC.
Big question: where is the best talent getting sent to?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/14179705/antonio-brown-ty...

Below is the most relevant snippet, I don't think we see this as often for soccer as we do for other sports in the US:

Gwen Cherry Park is tucked near the edge of Liberty City, a lower-income neighborhood in northwest Miami that gave rise to Chad Johnson and Santana Moss; Amari Cooper, Devonta Freeman, Lavonte David and Teddy Bridgewater are also from here. Every Saturday, the park fills with dozens of boys, their families setting up tents and frying conch before football games. Grandmothers walk the fields in T-shirts with their grandsons' faces printed on them; high school coaches scout from the sidelines; grown men bet on games between children.
Are they trying to make this as obscure as possible? After reading the top of the scrollable page, I still couldn't understand what a CalVer version string looks like.

Also, I think version strings should contain information about compatibility, not just about time.
I think one difference that the author isn't necessarily seeing is that the "black swan" event has already happened (the end of guaranteed pensions).
>A Google spokesperson told Ars that Duda came up with a theoretical concept that isn't directly patentable, while Google's lawyers are seeking to patent a specific application of that theory that reflects additional work by Google's engineers.

and this is how you do it, children. You patent a straightforward implementation and application ("additional work by engineers") of the idea, and thus you effectively prevent anybody from _implementing_ and _applying_ the same idea while the idea itself is supposedly still patent-free (an additional bonus is that you don't even have to pay to the author of the idea :).
Interestingly, I'm learning Django right now because of enough bad experiences with Rails. This may sound obvious but if you don't do things the Rails way then you'll have a harder time taking advantage of what Rails gives you. Some things which I consider essential to web development are not included with Rails but available via gems which I think are unfortunate: session management, authentication and administration. The model files don't contain any information on the schema like you would expect. You have to dig into the schema file in order to find that. The documentation is bad for Rails and the Ruby ecosystem in general. Lots of magic...
> Elasticsearch is incredibly deep, and highly performant

For some value of "highly performant". I remember its search (exact substring
match) being significantly slower than simply running grep on the same data
(JSON documents produced from syslog logs) stored in flat files.

It did have several advantages over grep in that scenario (e.g. having
a structured language and being accessible for other programs through
network), but performance was not one of them.
> the more you care and provide for the society - the more you are punished for it

If marginal tax rates exceeded 100% you might have a point. Not to mention the implicit bizarre self-righteous assertion that income correlates directly with "caring for society". Tell that to fire fighters, EMTs, teachers, and disaster aid workers.

But I guess "marginally, the more you convince others to part from their money, the less you directly benefit from it" doesn't quite get the objectivists as agitated.
BASIC is just a ROM. If I recall correctly, I had a LISP cartridge for my Acorn Electron. Except I didn't know LISP and there was no internet. We had a library though.
There are such things as defensive publications, which prevents others from patenting something by providing a publicized proof of prior art.

But most companies would rather just patent something.
Or put another way: everyone's rights are equally infringed.

And if you really wanted to make everyone equal, you'd have to ban celebreties and the media from talking about campaigns. Bill Maher's TV show is worth millions in advertising dollars.
> Pointing out that they are bad is useless to everyone.

Only if the people making the decision are comptent and already considered the issues.
the c64 supported k&r c via the abacus c compiler.

I learned c on my c64, in fact. a skill I still use 32 years later.

you can download the manual courtesy of archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Super-C_1986_Abacus
To me, burnout is a symptom of always feeling hopelessly behind. My identity as an employee was always in knowing what was going on, where trends headed, new projects, side work, etc. I now have 3 kids and just navigating the whole parent scene takes up the time I would have spent keeping up. It makes me feel like, if I sit down and watch a TV show it was time wasted so I feel guilty about it. That has really had a negative impact on my own enjoyment in programming.
Doesn't every developer eventually alias building to 'b' or maybe 'm'? It's like a law of nature. Or you can just rebuild automatically every time you save a file, like js people do.
Unreal tournament for Atari 2600
It's a pretty harrowing story.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160118-the-tragic-fate-of-...
Have there been studies of sleep need, or sleep quality, vs temperature?

I wonder if the modern (American?) trend of running heating at night is affecting people's sleep?

As a Briton who moved to the USA a few years ago, I found the American habit of running heating overnight to be very odd - as I think most Europeans do. In Britain, we tend to run heating only during the day, unless it's extremely cold outside.
List of first female physicians by country
I find people with college experience are much more likely to be biased against people without than vice versa. But that is just my anecdotal experience. Google and Dropbox definitely had more people with degrees but a decent amount of people without. The hiring pipelines were more biased towards recruiting new grads out of good schools but we never turned down solid people with good experience.

I generally like to work with people, and at places, that value your contributions and experience rather than your credentials. I've been lucky enough to find that in every place I've worked. I can't say my experience has been one of only working with people without degrees. I've worked with amazing engineers with and without degrees and don't put much stock in the degree itself.
You seem to forgot that most independent developers don't make money, period. The fact that your app is open source or not is only marginally related to the fact that it earns you a living. Thousands upon thousands developed applications for desktop or mobile or whatever and simply cant' make end meet. Believing that because your app has a sticker price on it will make you money is an illusion.

I hire some dev interns every year. For the past 5 or 6 years, they all were using Sublime Text as their main editor. And none of them paid it, they simply clicked the nagging dialog away. To all of them I had to explain that it would be fairer either to use a free alternative like Atom or VSCode, or pay the fee (or learn to use a real editor like Vim or Emacs :). People go through incredible pains not to pay, even if your program isn't free. Even if they're programmers, and spend all day using your program.
Economists aren't stupid, and they've thought of these things like zero lower bound. This is a well-studied issue. When people say the concentration of wealth is increasing, they aren't saying it's increasing relative to Rockefeller's time (how far back should we go? 1492? The start of the neolithic?), but it's increasing now, such as over the last few decades.
Why Robocallers Win Even If You Don’t Answer – The Wall Street Journal
bioweapon defense mode seems to be a co2 sensor and autoswitch to internal air, plus a good filter. flamethrowers did end up getting created I guess (but they call them "not a flamethrower". I guess it could be like shooting nitro out the exhaust to make bigger flames or something. but there's no exhaust and no nitro on an ev.
I thought the received wisdom was that REM sleep was connected to memory. E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768102/
"This video contains content from eOne UGC, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
Determine the Wikipedia pages where the presenter cribbed all the information, and write down their names.
The best US male athletes play more lucrative and entertaining sports.
> "Enter the field" doesn't just mean majoring in CS. It broadly refers to everyone working in tech.

That's exactly what you get though, if you have interview processes that select for CS capabilities (which are not the only useful capabilities for a dev to have).
2D or not 2D (in the C++ Standard) – that is the question
Multiple models of IP-based #cameras from Chinese Foscam could be easily hacked
I misread your comment. I would expect that fuel would be excluded from 'empty weight'.
You can't patent an idea, only an implementation of an idea.
This is true for libraries that have a lot of variable sized types. There are however a lot of interesting problems where you don't need many of these apart from, say, one big buffer you work with. A good example of this is a parser, or this TLS library: http://bearssl.org/. It makes integrating with a library maybe a bit more tedious but it comes with so much more control. And you could always build a layer on top that does malloc for when you don't need the control. It's great for code that will be used in many different scenarios.
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One thing that probably makes a difference is there are a number of other sports drawing the young male athletes in the US. (American) Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball. If you look at the countries that tend to be good at football, the main sport everyone cares about is football.

So why do the women do so well? It's well funded, and it's more of a contender among the sports for women.
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I've recently become interested in permutation invariant neural networks. There has been very little work in this area - just PointNet and a few derivatives.

Anyway, I think that neural networks are now entering the trough of disillusionment as people begin to discover the limitations. Maybe in the future, somebody will come up with a new machine learning architecture that has better generalization. I'm not expecting gradient descent to give us general AI.
I think that's an interesting question: It seems that many people assume that taxation and regulation should be the norm.

One argument often made by governments in favor of the taxes they collect is the services they provide, especially, in the case of sales taxes, the legal protections they offer buyers. I wonder how well that justification holds up in the world of on-line retail?
Buy all the things! I never thought I would have a 100k car, yet there I went, stupidly (and joyfully?) spending my hard earned money on my S. The startup I'm in would have to IPO at a billion before I could imagine wasting 200k on one of those.
Agile methods improved things for a while in my book. Because the old style was WAY worse. Long projects that were designed by people who knew little about the problem or the complexities involved. Everything was under bid and it resulted in every project going through at least 1 death March period. But I think SCRUM has made things too formulaic and it causes bad decisions in project management. I still think it is better than waterfall.
So is RoR something like Flask[0] which provides you with basics and all other bells and whistles (e.g. ORM, Forms, Admin, Auth, etc..) are available via extensions?

[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/
Maybe the fact that there is no UK national team?

Edit: Frankly I don't care so much about karma, but this downvote is strange. I would have thought that this reason wasn't controversial at all. I've even heard british players say that. Anybody care to explain?
It's great and I wish everyone to achieve the same career progression during their lifetime.

Now, let's keep in mind that we are approaching 2020. The high school dropouts are facing support guys, online MOOC students and boot camp graduates who are all searching for the same developer job with no experience. The competition is more intense than ever.

Also, your text implies that you work in the bay area. It's an order of magnitude easier to find a tech job there than in the rest of the world.
> I have kids and a busy home life, but really it doesn’t take long to build up a portfolio of work that is representative of your skills.

There are two critical assumptions you are making here:

1) The kind of development you do is conducive to sharing via small projects on GitHub. The first four years of my full-time programing career I was working on firm real-time signal processing algorithms designed to run on an MPI cluster of POWER or Xeon machines. My skills were focused on low-level optimizations for that environment and hardware, design and implementation of grid-distributed algorithms, and understanding how to translate radar concepts and mathematical models into code. Anything along these lines that I could have thrown together for GitHub (had it existed back then) would ave been trivial and not really demonstrated anything.

2) Everyone operates under a regime wherein they do not need permission from their current employer to release things on the side. Needing to do so adds work and can be a real impediment to even wanting to put things out for public consumption.
The PDF it gives you on mobile is indeed one page.
But reading all the other pages it still doesn't change my view.

The part you cite is about whether that claim is patentable at all in view of the paper, it's unrelated to the prior art emails.
If that is upheld it would mean the person complaining here could not get a patent either.
They've made no determination that what is in the emails is relevant to anything that I can see.
It would also be par for the course since examination tends to take a while.
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Surprised nobody’s said Google Docs yet. It’s up on my laptop in every meeting.

It works well on every device, supports simple text notes or fancy formatting, good sharing options, good live multiuser editing, inline comment threads, free to use, works offline, keyboard shortcuts, etc...
I think office is a bit different as it is an end user software rather than a library. Operating systems (especially Windows) have very good backwards compatibility so there is usually not much need to be able to specify a compatible version beyond the major release number/name.
That's just how Office is marketed, the executables still use plain old versions.
Didn't downvote you, but I fail to see how your comments are related to the original post (why some countries are better at soccer).

Anyway,

Blind allegiance. Stop and think about the context.

P.S. I know European football has a lot of violence -- those stories about fan violence and absurdity. But I don't feel qualified to speak to it, really. I also don't perceive the players as being quite so chewed up by the game, although I vaguely recall some stories of arthritis and significantly limited mobility. And headers are becoming increasingly suspect in brain trauma.

I'm European but I watch a lot of NBA. Trust me there's no comparison when it comes to allegiance and supporting your club/team. In Europe and Latin America it's close to a religion. You stick to your team no matter what,changing allegiance is frowned upon and shows lack of character (what's called bandwagoning in the US). But is this unhealthy? Not to the degree your post argues

There's definitely sports related violence (especially in eastern Europe, balkans, latin America) but sports is just an excuse, there are deeper rooted problems that generate it. There's little to no sports related violence in northern Europe these days, even in Britain which was notorious for it in the 80's, but people are still loyal and mad about their teams.

As for injuries it's an occupational hazard with a great reward to risk ratio, unlike eg. working in a mine, or being in law enforcement - you're paid WAY better and you're WAY more popular even without being top tier. Risking your life for a few mil in the bank is much better than risking your life for a measly pension and a state sponsored funeral.
That's useful, thanks.
But to be a bit pedantic, this can only show that at a particular place where the measurement is taken, the earth has some curvature, that its a bit like a hill there.
This does not show that the earth is globally a sphere, which would mean for example that if you go in the same "direction" long enough, you arrive at the same point.
But I think the point is that if there is really only one viable implementation of an idea, they’re effectively patenting the idea via the implementation.
Aren't drugs patents ideas and not implementations?
Corresponding website https://runbit.se/ (Swedish only) But the app itself seems to be available in english as well https://itunes.apple.com/app/runbit-find-stars-walk-run/id94...
I always wonder if considering the processor and the “chunky pixels” of the Archimedes if had had something like a Wolfenstein or Doom back in 1987 if it would have driven sales enough to change.

Ofcourse that was probably pretty unlikely considering the Acorn/Olivetti bet so heavily on the education market.
I can speak for South Africa and Zimbabwe. Anecdotally based on everyone I grew with and went to university with. Most women give up sport the moment they leave high school. Only a handful of sports are professional. Women's soccer is not professional. As a result, both men and women tend to focus on studies and work. Logistically in your early career, it is also difficult to play sport. Getting lifts to and from practice when you don't have a car is a nightmare, buying kit and footing your own travel expenses to matches. The men continue to play sport on a social level right up to their 40s. I gather in the US women get soccer scholarships. It doesn't happen this side of the world.
99% of paid apps developers can't make end meet anyway. Another false dichotomy. Creating an app and sticking a price on it isn't a business model any more than creating an app and asking for donations. Both are almost certain failure. But people constantly hear about this guy or that company that made some huge success and became rich; nobody talks about the millions who failed and whose apps were simply forgotten.

Oh, and BTW, the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Greenpeace and many other NGOs live, AFAIK, mostly on donations. So that definitely can pay the bills, but the same reasoning applies: it's only true for a small minority, and you can't count on it.
> it was ultimately Netscape's failure to respond to Internet Explorer 4, 5, and 6's speed, relative stability, and superior (though still poor) standards compliance that won the browser war

The monoploist practice of bundling the browser with the OS isn't to blame at all?!
Thanks! We've un-generalized the submission title from “Why do neural networks generalize so poorly?”.
I get that feeling too that I can't enjoy anything until I get a problem done. Then I do that big thing, and for a few days I feel relief until another issue comes up that I have to do, but don't want to do or its hard and scary.
> This is beautiful in its simplicity and still has a piece of truth.

It will likely always be true. It is human nature.