skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reversed from the DOS binary is an amazing feat. SDL makes this type of thing so easy and could be used for so many things in this regard.
“engineer's career usually tapers off beyond a certain age.”
With the caveat that we’re talking about software, not most other kinds of engineers, I know that this is broadly true, but just now this made me think of how modelling careers or pop-singer careers taper off beyond a certain age. There’s a lot of diva-like behavior in those fields - which aren’t so much about skills acquired through hard work but rather one’s inborn gifts (and a bit of malnutrition to stay skinny). Many engineers, especially ones who bank primarily on their innate talent/intelligence as opposed to hard earned skills (in combination with natural talent) like the average non-software engineer also tend to be predisposed to diva-like or fratboy like behavior.

I’ve also noticed that many of the (s/w) engineers who’ve survived way past that certain age tend to be of a very different personality type than those who “retire early”, and their persona has more in common with the average non-software engineer of comparable experience. Of course the huge bias on the recruiting side, and the fact that a majority of apps are basic CRUD type stuff fuelled primarily by cheap VC cash, that have no real use for 20 years experience, exacerbates this situation. But I wonder as the industry matures, and the proportion of apps with serious scale possibly grows, if the need for engineers “past their prime” wouldn’t gradually rise.

Just a thought...
By "flat" I mean a fixed percent of your income. A fixed $200 isn't a flat tax, because it's not a fixed percent of your income.

Yes, apparently-flat taxes can sometimes be regressive, for example a flat sales tax can be somewhat regressive because poor people spend a higher percent of their income compared to rich people. But this thread isn't about sales tax, so I don't think the flat tax in this situation is regressive.
You are right that laws aren't enough. It's the same situation with a school bully. You can complain to the teacher about it and they will make them stop. Often the bully will then recruit other kids to bully you because you are a "snitch" or teachers pet. Similar to the whole blacklisting issue. That person stopped my illegal behavior so I'll show them etc.

What we have to fix is the idea that because someone undertook an enforcement action that they are a risk. If your company treats it's people fairly, you generally have nothing to worry about. If when presented with blacklist info people reported it (especially when it is illegal) the culture around this would improve.
https://github.com/google/password-alert
Interestingly, aluminum is a really really new material for us. Wasn't really available until ~1950, and used to be more rare and valuable than gold.
I once wrote a network calculator in awk:

https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/e41ca479d70e60efe59fded93...

Backstory: circa 2000, at an early cloud company that no longer exists, we used Solaris boxes and provisioned them using JumpStart. They booted to a minimal state (we called them "embros") using DHCP. Later, our datacenter ops folks would have to switch their networking from DHCP to static as part of moving them to another network where a DHCP server didn't exist. So I wrote them this menu driven program they could run on console to help with the static configuration. (There were no high-level languages on the box save for shell, sed and awk. Even then, I apparently I had to use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.)
You might appreciate the original implementation of awk. Good engineering everywhere.

https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd/tree/master/src/cmd/awk
Agree on Tyler Schultz.
Losing your license is a major deterrent as well: as someone who finds driving a waste of time I cannot understand why rich people do it, but they do and they get extremely upset if that privilege is taken away. So 3 times and you lose your license for life? That would solve the reckless behavior and cannot be fixed with money. Ofcourse for less well off people this would be very bad (maybe not being able to go to work etc) but then again; they had 2 opportunities to better themselves.
> stop invading countries full of actual people and killing them before you worry about your foetus “kill count” ok?

> your concern is that women in your country aren’t sufficiently controlled on religious grounds?

> Leave women’s reproductive rights alone.

It appears I’ve touched a nerve; I’m not here to antagonize/flame. But I named the issue in the US that I truly feel the most consternation about.

Yes, the CIA’s methods are wrong, and yes — many of our wars have been unjust (and increasingly so as time goes on). But I think it’s right to feel the most angst about things that hurt/kill the most people. 60 million is an almost unimaginably big number.

As for women’s rights — I have nothing against them, but a right is not valid or just if it grants one person an unjust privilege against others. We do not allow women (or men) to kill babies after they’re born — that would be an unjust right. How can we allow pre- and post-birth to be a delineator of personhood? That’s discrimination — against the weakest and least able to speak for themselves, and it’s over the right to live (not even a lesser issue like employment).
The counterpoint of course is that without whimsical promises / decisions of leaders many jobs wouldn't exist for them to lose.

Which isn't to say they don't go too far on occasion.

I've always found the self-interested "safe" leaders to be the worse kind. They're also 99% of them.
And you would almost certainly be wrong.
I totally agree. The information environment we live in is extremely damaging.

Back in 2006-7 I attended a conference where there was a big panel on what the future of news was going to look like. Lots of newspapers were shutting down. They made 3 predictions - news would be replaced with pandering to the lowest common denominator in the arms race for eyeballs, ads and marketing content looking like news(fake news) would exponentially increase, real journalists would be replaced by the talking head/oped class.

They concluded that the only way out, was to hope that revenue generated from the transition from print to digital/mobile would prevent these three things happening.

Its been a decade now and that transition is more or less complete and many have figured out how to stay afloat and yet all three predictions seem to have come true.
Now that you mention it, a government stipend in some form seems like the only good solution. Without it, we're automatically punishing good nondiscriminatory businesses and rewarding discriminatory businesses who do get away with it.

It's spreading out the costs to everyone instead of focusing it on the one company that suddenly happens to have 10% or 30% of its workforce suddenly gone.

It seems much fairer to all parties involved.
It depends what they apply it to - and we can bet that a lot of thought will go into that.
My favorite one of these stories is about the "butthead astronomer". :)

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/butt-head-astronomer.ht...
Hotel – Start apps from your browser and use local domains/https automatically
GraphQL Microservice in Go
I've used Scala for years. If this is finally the thing that gets Scala a great IDE, it will be the single best thing for the language in a while.

I'm pessimistic, but also hope I'm wrong.
> I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow

And since Microsoft now own Github this will most likely be VSCode in the browser just like azure already uses. A lot of people will be happy with that
On pp. 381-382, my copy of Programming Perl (1992 printing of first edition) says he was trying to build a configuration management system for 6 Vax and 6 Sun machines, and he needed to solve some problems like file replication across a 1200 baud link and approvals. So he installed B-news, the Usenet news software at the time. Then he was asked to generate some reports and:

> News was maintained in separate files on a master machine, with lots of cross references between files. Larry's first thought was "Let's use awk." Unfortunately, awk couldn't handle opening and closing of multiple files based on information in the files. Larry didn't want to have to code a special-purpose tool. As a result, a new language was born.

So that's why it's the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. He wanted to extract data from files and generate reports.
They make money off you personal data why would they delete their money? Have you ever try to delete your account on something you use on the regular? I had to lie to amazon and tell them my email address was hacked for them to delete my amazon account but they still keep all that data. With vultr a vps provider I had to do the same thing to get my account deleted. This isn't just a facebook issue this is a massive issue where data is worth more then gold.
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As a coder I don't want to sacrifice usability, price, and / or power to get a flexible device like this. I have an iPad specifically for the chill out and consume experience. It has great battery life, lower power consumption, some simple games, and less distractions.

I don't need my car to make me toast either (not intended with snark, just an extreme example).

Apple sees (and hopefully continues to) an actual divide even if the edges are a bit blurred. So the question here is whether or not the tablet needs to exist as a category... and I think it does, at least for me.
Not that it doesn't happen, but even asking that question is legally actionable.
That book does not appear to be well-regarded.
I clicked that linked just to see if .abbott was a valid TLD. Apparently it is!
Yes, when I’m looking to promote someone to manage a team, I look for the person who is going to be absent starting in six months and for an indeterminate amount of time, and needs their job preserved for them when they come back.
An obvious problem here is that all for all practical purposes, all Nazis are "Hitlerists", but most modern Communists aren't Stalinists.
Asian-American admissions at Harvard
I don't think they'd all succeed, but all well prepared college students don't succeed. I think they'd have a harder time than an "average" student because at least they can't fall back on their parents for as much experience based advice or money.

I don't know what universities should use other than test scores. But I do want them to do more.
> I think forcing users to create a new password every 6 months might be a really powerful protection for consumers

I _almost_ (not quite, but almost) would rather get my investment/bank accounts hacked than this. I use a password manager, and just counting the ones I used in the last couple of months add up to like 150+ passwords. Total, I have hundreds for my active accounts across various sites, services, devices, etc.

If I had to change them every 6 months, I'd be doing almost nothing else. Could be mitigated with some API integrations where every 6 months my password manager could just update the password on its own, but that will never be standard across everything.
I started two small software companies before uni because no one would hire me; note that those were very different times (80s-early 90s); now people would have hired me. Both companies still exist and both are still profitable. I have never had ‘a job’ in my life, so you can say the experience was a positive one.
Because it's not legal to even ask about pregnancy or desire for children during an interview, there's an unfortunate side-effect the market has adapted to: under-the-hood discrimination against young woman candidates.

All other factors being equal, an employer knows a young woman could get pregnant and will probably quit to take care of the kids (going by statistics alone). So since they can't explicitly ask those things, the market prices in the risk by devaluing woman candidates in every legal way possible.

It's downright insidious.
As an aside: wow that timeline makes me feel really old
What are people's thoughts on how Bird can maintain marketshare compared to something like Uber/Lyft.

Like bike sharing, scooter sharing isn't a marketplace (right?), the only thing stopping competitors is the purchase of scooters, and building an app.

Does Bird have a highly defensible position I'm not understanding?
> The entire Clinton personal e-mail scandal was essentially her unwilling to give up her BlackBerry

The main scandal was her violating FOIA. There were some additional security concerns, but her running on a platform of undoing civil rights era legislation was the bigger issue.
Fair enough, it was a term I just made up to concisely convey the notion you described: “were it not for these factors, the results of the test may have had substantive differences.” Perhaps I failed, but I think my failure was an unfortunate distraction from the main point which you seemed to apprehend anyway. So there’s that.
But there's still a new generation of consumers and workers if only one company discriminates and everyone else plays fair.

Every company just thinks it gets to be that one company. It's a classic tragedy of the commons scenario.
> Spacex: we can go to Mars, but haven't even launched a Mars rocket. Google: AI is here, and the product? Waymo, logs millions of miles, is just sunny conditions?

I don't think that is their literal message and goal. SpaceX's real mission is to innovate space travel which they've been capable of doing and have demonstrated with clear achievements.

SpaceX's revenue is in the billions and is very close to profitable. It most likely would be profitable if it wasn't constantly spending money to expand like Amazon in its early years.
That article series is great!

You might also appreciate this video interview with Chahi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLLDpzwwUI

He also did a postmortem for the game at GDC: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014630/Classic-Game-Postmortem...
> The biggest problem I have is I can buy a chromebook with a decent screen for roughly the price of a decent windows laptop

Why would anyone choose the former in that situation? I thought the whole argument for chromebooks was that they were going to be cheaper than regular laptops. If you need a decent keyboard, buy a ThinkPad. You're not limited to windows, you can run any flavour of Linux and quite a few of them make a decent hackintosh
I think 1 is the worst thing ever and results in everyone being underpaid. People need to grow a pair and say that's not my job, pay me more. It's why everyone is underpaid.
Love hearing companies get their comeuppance. Happy to hear things worked out, hope thing are going well with your family.
I find the biggest mistake people make is that they think they're getting rewarded for what they did. That isn't how it works.

Think of it. When you go into an electronics store looking for a new TV, do you give the salesperson money based on what he did for you in the past ? You pay for expected future benefit. That's what you select the TV for.

Then think about it from a freelancer hiring process. Freelancers, like employees, are paid before they do anything (or at least the rewards are negotiated).

So the way to get maximum benefit for your job is to slowly improve, but stay far away from your top performance (and maybe you'll actually have enough energy left to have a hobby). You want planned obsolescence tactics, for yourself. Version 2.0 is just around the corner ! Do you want it ?

So the correct way to think about this is "let's talk about what you'd like me to do". I would shy away from the definiteness in those statements, for 2 reasons. Firstly you're unable to make those assessments reliable (so think about it, you're saying, money now, TV comes in 2 weeks, then deliver a substandard model in 2 weeks. If there is one way to turn the most kind person in the world against you, this is it). Secondly, you want to help them to make a decision. You have information they don't have. They have information you don't have. The best move is likely the one you figure out together.
Domain .my is down
Nobody needs to give out malicious references when everyone just does lunch with everyone else.

Silicon Valley is a small place.
> Behind the scenes, Ledger is currently powered by three cloud services. The first is of course the Firebase Realtime Database (acquired by Google in 2014), which specializes in keeping JSON data synchronized across multiple devices and smoothing over internet connection loss. This method also uses the tried and tested Google Cloud Storage, for basic file storage. There’s also work being done on a version based on Firebase Cloud Firestore.

Does Parse have a healthy OSS community as a Firebase substitute?

https://blog.back4app.com/2016/06/15/firebase-parse/
There's another meaning for buscar: to go get something of yours that you left somewhere. So "puedo buscar el auto?" could also be interpreted as "can I go get my car?", to which "si" is a perfectly expectable answer.
What every CS major should know
Brightness is done this way. The gamma function of your monitor/game compensates for your logarithmic brightness perception and allows a linear input (e.g., 1, 2, 3,...255) to map to non-linear luminance output.
First mover is a pretty strong advantage.
This is not true. If you're an employee actually brave enough to pursue a discrimination a complaint with the EEOC understand that you will be blacklisted and/or subject to retaliation by various firms (not just your immediate employer). EEOC understands that retaliation is rampant [1] but America's very pro-business courts have made it impossible to prove in court. It is hardly "free" and certainly not recommended for most employees to pursue an EEOC complaint.

[1] https://www.bna.com/eeoc-ponders-ways-n17179928871/
I generalized for the most common case, since there will always be special cases. But the tone of my statement could have been more understanding.
I'd say the other hard part is finding manufacturers you can trust. You have to think that you're basically exporting company secrets when you manufacture offshore.
It's stories like these that makes me thank God my wife (and mother to a 1.5 year old) doesn't work in tech. In her field of pharma there isn't a stigma associated with women of child-bearing age and when they announce they're pregnant.

What a field we're in when ranked output is all that matters at the cost of being human with human needs. I needed a kid as much as my wife. I guess I shouldn't expect any different by a field dominated by a bunch of male douchey autists.
> When they searched his car, with his consent

Without his consent.

> but I also think that he should be given probation or rehab or something.

“Given” how? Except with due process—including findings based on legally obtained evidence—the government can't “give” him any mandate depriving him of liberty.
Especially since it takes scooters so long to get up to speed.
Blacklisting is typically done covertly though.
Demo self driving cars working through the blockchain (Open Source)
Sorry you had that experience. There are certainly cases where this advice is not appropriate and moving on is the right thing.

However accusing people you don't know of being a bad manager (especially when they aren't even a manager at all) is unnecessarily combative.
Hello all, I've been working on an open source project to demonstrate how self driving cars may work with the blockchain to deliver a decentralized ride hailing experience. No middle man means no extra commission fees.
This is part of a larger concerted effort to decentralize ride hailing services like Uber and simultaneously make self driving car technology free and open to all people. If you are curious you can find more at moovnow.org
I wish GitLab would take whatever resources this has and put them all on site reliability.

They have a ton of open positions listed, but none are for Site Reliability Engineer.

Frequent slow requests and 5xx errors keep me from giving GitLab a real try.
Oh, that's different, IIUC, if an employer asks about a history gap, and the candidate volunteers the information "I had kids," they can take that into account.

The system's broken.
there seem to be serious problems with the gold standard because of what attracts people, that it is rigid and unchanging. If the us economy grows a lot, how do we get more gold? what if a ship with a lot of our gold on it goes down in the middle of the ocean?

What problems would it improve? if we have a recession, how would the govt help keep things going (ie print dollars)? Most people wouldn't have been better off if most large banks had failed then.
I honestly don't know what they might have other than early mover advantage, but in this case, that could be huge.

I was in a DC suburb last week looking for parking, and found two parking lots across the street from each other. They were both 'smart' parking lots, in that I could pay to park with an app. One of the lots was ParkMobile, which I've used before, and the other was another vendor (I don't remember which) that I hadn't. The latter was the far more convenient spot, but I was in a hurry, and I've used Parkmobile in the past, so I already have a login, payment details saved, etc.

The thought of taking the time to download a new app, go through the registration process, pull out a credit card, type it in, save it, and potentially put my data out there for more risk? It seemed like a lot to do relative to circling the block again, even in traffic.
Don't bite my head off, but is that really discrimination in the sense of what word actually means?

If you're literally not PRESENT to do the work, is that really a case of the employer discriminating against you? It's a privilege, not a right, to be paid to be at home taking care of a child.

I grew up in an area where a lot of discrimination occurred, but it was racially motivated. I've seen guys smarter than me literally chased out of stores, had fingers pointed at them while obscene slurs are shouted at them. I've seen brilliant minds that get trapped in the ""wrong"" bodies. They get caught in the wrong environment around the wrong people, and the stress and danger of it all breaks them down. I've seen racism obliterate men that could've been ANYTHING, rocket scientists or something, if they could've had the luck to have been born a different color or live in a different neighborhood.

So, from that perspective it's a bit mind-boggling that women will choose to pursue children and for some reason expect their employer to just pay them to be at home, while they aren't completing any work.

Of course it's important to be with your child early on. So do that. But is it really important that your employer pay for work you didn't do? That is something that I believe lies on the shoulders of government, not industry.

(And personally, I don't think govts should provide funding for it either, but that's for each nation to determine, and also cultures can be very different. It might not work here, but it may work over there.)

Nobody owes you anything because you went and got pregnant. Nobody should attack you for doing so, either. But to turn around and think that you are somehow ENTITLED to wages and compensation for that time is absolutely insane.
I speak Spanish as well. My translation of it would be "try to find" which I assume is related to what the article was trying to say. In either case we agree.
I'm super confused at what you recommend needs changing. The law against pregnancy discrimination exists, but because it's easy to circumvent you want something stricter? Or you want the gov't to subsidize it?