skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's just not the pragmatic reality of employment in the US at this time

Correct, look at the German approach.

I'm not sure if the government subsidizes the companies for the lack of production, but the state mandates 1 year paid leave, and up to 3 and ability to get the same job back.

Now I know that is totally impractical for the tech sector, taken verbatim.

The US can learn from it anyway.
The one that's saved me the most time is probably "foreach" as a way of accessing enumerables in c#.

Simple, readable, and easy.
Not yet. But the important thing is to have the will and to be good to developers. Then after some time and hard work they'll get there.
> didn't like how I used branches for feature development (why don't you just commit to master?)

Jesus I just threw up. s/commit/force push/
The thing is, traditional tunneling projects in the US are incredibly expensive and wasteful. Someone approaching it from a fresh perspective (or even a, say, European perspective) can easily improve on it.

What we need is more people like Elon. It's not magic, many others can do what he does, though few do
(maybe because of social pressure? Look at all the crap Elon gets). There's a lot you can do just by having energy and willingness to try things and being unsatisfied with the crappy status quo.
I ended up out of school working in a field and role I wasn't happy with, so after saving half of my salary for a year and a few months, then I resigned. I started a marketing agency with two friends, we had the business model down but two of us were not good at sales and the one that was had a life issue occur and left. We were cash flow positive the whole time just not enough to support my two friends as I wiped out my savings. We all learned a ton though. Around a year after, I did a career switch to SWD and am currently retraining.

I would do it again if I had an idea that legitimately solved a problem. We created a marketing agency knowing how to run things as ICs but not as owners. I'm not sure I'd want to sell a consulting service again but maybe another type of business. I've always been interested in WISPs and Real Estate, so maybe something in those areas.
Even if it does get merged or renamed, I don't see why Microsoft wouldn't forward the URLs.

Link rot is a real issue in general though, I don't mean to minimize that.
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The College Board released new results in 2017 showing a more than 50 point increase out of 1600 versus students who didn't practice.

This was with just 20 hours of practice. Many high achieving students practice for 5+ hours per week.

South Korean cram school style 2-3 hours per day is in a completely different league than a standard SAT prep course, but much of the research that shows no result counts them the same.
I agree - which is why I haven't moved my lab's accounts.
Why would anyone want to buy a scooter from craigslist when you can just walk outside and use the one on the street?
Say what you will about unions, or even automotive unions, but the crap the unions pull when it comes to tunneling projects is insane.

We probably need unions to help stop wage stagnation. Which is why it sucks that unions in the US are so terrible.
This is largely true, but not entirely. UNSW definitely had a program for accepting engineering students who didn't get the appropriate UAI, based on other criteria. I don't remember what it was called, but I definitely applied for it because I spent a good chunk of school fucking around and wasn't sure how badly I had messed up my grades.
Many would love to see a single US official going to jail for starting wars under false premise, installing puppet regimes and ruining whole ecosystems to support business interests, from banana imports to oil and gas, and cheap clothes.
They're much better off just buying Bird
That's a nice story, but True and False are keywords in python. Such assignment attempts are a syntax error.
Memory Management – Changes for the programmer over the years
Maybe what he meant was one large corporation.

It's usually the large players that start taking down accounts at will and have bogus takedown rules, because they are the largest and don't care about any one account.
Here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/gdpr-attacks-first-google-face...
Neither Sergey nor Larry went to Harvard for undergrad, but I’m not aware of any data that says they were rejected. Both went to their states flagship before Stanford.

Maybe we should make ladders of opportunity wider, and not just focus on HYPSM and Ivies? Just a guess.
Or just build longer pods. Or link them together like a train. Can still be narrow.
I imagine there’d be a lot less opposition to affirmative action in the US if it only applied to descendants of Native Americans and Black people whose ancestors had been held in slavery in the US. Affirmative action as reparations plays a lot better than a spoils system which is what they have now.
This is a problem because you often can't just find a room to rent. Instead you have to lease an apartment with other people and be legally responsible for their behavior. It allows landlords to shift risk on to tennants because leases make everyone responsible for everyone else.

If someone loses their job or abondons the property (an almost inevetalbe eventuallity in a group of young people) whoever's left is stuck holding the bag to clean up the mess and pay more rent than they can afford, or get saddled with an eviction or abandonment on their credit so they can't rent again. It's like playing contract chicken. Also, many leases include maximum occupancy and/or charge more for more tennants, such that tennants are not legally allowed to reduce consumption to within their means.

In my hometown (in Alaska) the lowest rent was more then full time minimum wage. Ther was no road out of town, so you couldn't even leave if you couldn't afford a plane ticket to Seattle. Lots of people I know were sleeping on couches and in closets trying not to get caught by the leasor's landlord.

I'm guessing E.B. White was doing this before the Equifax era.
The private sector is not a fast mover in infrastructure. It's the prototype public good, where the gains are vastly redistributed to society rather than being easy to isolate into a transaction. A road not only reduces your travel time from point A to B, a service worth $C to you. But also enables economic activity along it's path, makes it possible for you to get a job in B in the first place, etc. and all these are worth a large multiple (N * $C) for which nobody can be charged.

The net effect is that there is drastic under-investment from the private sector compared to the needs or the economic potential of a society with good infrastructure.
> What we need are privacy notices that describe in plain language how a company's policy deviates from some standard privacy policy that we do take the time to understand.

And that’s exactly one point the GDPR asks for:

(39) ... The principle of transparency requires that any information and communi­cation relating to the processing of those personal data be easily accessible and easy to understand, and that clear and plain language be used. ...

So thank you, EU!
ughh... just roll with your own git server.
Aho taught the programming languages course at my Uni, and he loved to tell stories about Bell Labs, and this Brian guy in particular. ‘Let me tell you, I’d walk into Brian’s office and say, Brian, you really messed that language up...’ The entire semester I was like who the f is this Brian guy? Years later I was like oh shit, Brian is Brian Kernighan, and the language is C! And I realized I missed a freaking awesome opportunity to ask Al Aho about some serious heads in CS.
They’re “changing” the world, not “saving” it. Change can always be for the worse.
My undergrad was basically scores only (gpa/SAT grid) and I’m in America. This is only an issue at the very elite schools.
The corporate tax rate has been reduced to something like 20%. Most companies in the US pay much less than that. The state is already subsidizing a lot for big corporations.

Companies are nothing but made up of people. The irony is at one time or another these same people would have wanted the exact same benefits for themselves but they don’t like extending those same benefits to others.

If they can’t act in the larger national interest on a few of these occasions then they won’t have a population to sell to.
An object as prosaic as say, a window

I think about this alot, starting from absolutely nothing I doubt I could even make a nail, let alone a screw, let alone a nut and bolt. I have no idea what iron ore looks like in the wild or where to find it. I could probably make charcoal and a furnace... if I had the tools, which I wouldn’t. It’s quite humbling.
Thanks for that info. "Us" there means:

"Founded in 1982 by the major space agencies of the world, the CCSDS is a multi-national forum for the development of communications and data systems standards for spaceflight."

And indeed, the epoch:

"The CCSDS-Recommended epoch is that of 1958 January 1 (TAI) and the recommended
time unit is the second, using TAI as reference time scale, for use as a level 1 time code. This
time code is not UTC-based and leap-second corrections do not apply."
Ha, good times!
Missing from the article were the amazing “manoir de mortevielle” and “maupiti island”. First games with speech synthesis. All the character sounded like Stephen Hawking but they were great!
Replacing ATAR with more holistic admissions is like the campaign to get rid of the GRE in graduate admissions, a combination of the ignorant and venal. The well connected, rich and prestigious will get ahead just fine in a system where academic merit is not the one and only measure.

Amusing that ANU is changing to keep out Asians the same way the Ivy League did to keep out Jews.
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>On an equally important note, why is it that people out there assume that ANY form of electronic communication is impervious from government surveillance? The reality is that if a three letter agency is after you, it's probably unwise to be using WhatsApp and Signal in an incriminating fashion. (Or anything else for that matter.)

Signal has a feature for self-destroying messages (on-read, or after x amount of time). Seems like that could've been used and it wouldn't have lead to this right here.
They build a succession of models each one in the sequence with more controls than the previous. As examples see tables B.6.1 and B.7.1. I think merit would fall under the 2nd model (SAT scores, academic index, GPA, ...).
> An actual Commodore 256 was designed, but never built, thank goodness

I have to disagree with "thank goodness". David's source is undoubtedly Brian Bagnall's "Amiga Years" follow-up to his Commodore book. He leaves out many tantalizing details. The C256, codenamed BMW, was being designed by Dave Haynie with Dave DiOrio on the team. These are really brilliant guys and they were putting together a beautiful machine that was never intended to replace the C64, mind you. It was another product family altogether.
Better yet just make the scooters tap to pay on device.
>I can't imagine the feeling of working so hard through elementary school, middle school, and high school to get into an Ivy League school, only for an admissions panel to declare me "low in personality" or too introverted.

And yet, hundreds still get in.

I went to a public school, not elite in the least, but I also worked hard throughout my K12 education like the folks you mention - and I’ll be honest, this continual focus on the tiny percentage of folks that didn’t get into Harvard but got into institutions of equivalent pedigree (one of the plaintiffs in an earlier NYT article goes to Duke) while my classmates have to struggle with a lack of opportunity and poor perceptions as a result of a lack of pedigree, even if they are hard working and talented. To me, it feels like a slap in the face. Am I wrong in thinking this?
> GM got rakes over the coal

After many years of the incident.
Maybe I wasn't clear about this distinction. Python is an interpreted language. Even if you are matching a "compiled" regex, you are repeatedly interpreting the line that says to match it.

Awk is a compiled language. Your Awk script is compiled once and applied to every line of your file at C-like speeds. It is way faster than Python.

If you learn to use Awk well, you will start doing things with data that you wouldn't have had the patience to do in an interpreted language.
> "It is incorrect to call it “racism,”

Citation needed.
It may not be bad luck/time or bad soft skills, in my experience, as soon as you hit 50 in the United States, you're no longer a good "culture fit" in a majority of software development roles. It's my understanding that in places like China, the cut-off age is closer to 30-35 which sounds terrible if true.
There are SAT prep books in the thrift store for a dollar. Nobody is shut out because of poverty.
I agree with this assessment. We need to focus on improving class mobility for all hard working folks, not just those that win the HYPSM+Ivy lottery.
It's not really a naming problem.
There was something really magical about that game the first time I tried it. It gave you no direction, no instructions, the world was hostile and ready to blast you away at the smallest mistake. This is going to sound cliche' in 2018, but it was somewhat Dark Soulsesque in its nature.
Enron is not remotely comparable to Tesla. Tesla makes first class products, products the world didn't know could be made.
Everything else follows that. It may bear superficial resemblance to chosen points of Enron, but that is just pattern matching mammalian brain at work.
Also - Asian Americans comprise a larger percentage of California’s population.
Why are people building these verticals? What happened to Unix philosophy? Build tools that do simple things, and make composition do the work for you.

I don't see why anyone needs an online IDE. Much less one interfaced with Gitlab. What next, invent a new cpu too?
This was not true in Python 2, and redefining True to False used to be a jokey way to break the interpreter in a bunch of fun ways.
How about the math part? Besides, if I was on a college admissions board, I'd give consideration to an L2 speaker if his verbal scores were unusually below his math scores.
To be honest, I don't think GitHub is to be blamed for how scientists use it. AFAIK there are data repositories more suitable for the purpose of sharing data sets and metadata, and out of the hands of big corporations (but may subject to big governments), e.g., Zenodo (funded by CERN) and DataONE (funded by NSF). Zenodo can even generate a DOI for your data set, which GitHub does not do.

That being said, I think this Nature report adds nothing new to the narrative. Sure, open science is great, but who's gonna pay for it? Neither GitHub nor Microsoft is a charity. Since most of the research mentioned in this article are funded by government, they should go to the data repositories that are designed to store data derived from publicly funded research. GitHub just wasn't designed for that purpose.
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Three bad recipes generated by neural network (2017)
And DOS before it. There's a reason more on Windows is named more.com (despite being a PE).
The description appears to be something more similar to the "reduced-carrier single-sideband." There's long history behind the variants of sideband modulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation

In the same article, vestigal sideband is reported as used around that time for modems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation#Ves...
Stackblitz is definitely one of the few Web IDEs that I think has potential, because it can access the VS Code ecosystem of plugins.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312244
I don't know what their preferred phone was at the time, but they were unwilling to go through the same effort for the Secretary of State, instead offering her a choice of non-BlackBerry phones.
Studying hard certainly gives one an unfair advantage :-)
I thought most email clients block third party images by default? Certainly Outlook, Thunderbird, and K9 do. This must skew those results somewhat.
I don’t want to excuse Holmes of her many crimes nor rob her of agency, but the circumstances in which they met do not reflect well on Balwani’s character.
I think "Savings Rate" here is meant in the technical sense, not in the sense of household finances. It's an accounting identity in macroeconomics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_identity
Hm. Makes me think how many (few) bytes you could fit a "if a specific interrupt is received then copy bytes from wire to RAM and run that instead" preamble into the bootloader.

Presuming "killed" means "won't accept new updates but will read" (?), you could then continue to use the chip.
My Xiaomi Yi 4k has numerous basic issues. I'm really not sure they're superior. They're just cheaper. And cheap is rarely whats "cool". In fact it's usually the opposite.
I’m not allowed to ever drive an Audi no matter what I end up earning after the age of 18 (to continue the analogy) - so I have difficulty sympathizing with the people that have to drive Lexuses instead.
[disclaimer work for related company - Digital Science]

It's really worth getting those things into a system that will give you a doi and participate in an archive so that content should never be lost. Figshare is one, zenodo another (I think but can't find on a phone that the data is archived).

A doi, if versioned, can ensure people see the actual version you used. It can be pointed somewhere else if the provider goes down, and should be archived to ensure its not lost.

URLs are just not stable over time.
“Why don’t scientists use modern tools like GitHub, instead of these crap bespoke ones? They shouldn’t waste their time duplicating effort.”

“Why are scientists using inappropriate tools? These are for commercial use only!”

In practice, GitHub works fine for collaborative code projects and sharing data over the next few years. If you’re looking to store large amounts of data over long periods, you’re right.

If GitHub don’t want to support science (they’re just a business) then they should stop giving free products to academia eh.
My favorite, related, piece of trivia about JCL is the IEFBR14 program: the no-op program that took a few attempts to get it right :-) [1]. Its entire purpose was motivated by JCL not having primary commands to do file management, which is only allowed as a "side effect" of executing a program

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14#Implementation
Yandex and Google Put on Notice Over 'Pirate' Search Results – TorrentFreak
Unix philosophy does not work on the web because even with all the talk about micro services, you can not easily chain or combine web tools together.
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It's a fair question. Though it needs to be asked regardless of candidate's gender.
GitHub or just git? I thought just the latter.
Surely it ought to be possible to store all that stuff in git as well.
Whenever I feel like I'm not being understood I always ask the same question twice, but phrased so that yes to the second question means no to the first. This way if they're just 'yes'ing their way through the conversation I can catch it and slow down to ensure they're actually understanding me.
Sudo !! - sudo's the last command
I felt precisely the same for a long time. Then I started following Unix SO and realized that people are being taught the bad habits.

I tried answering a few awk questions being verbose and explaining the steps. But I noticed that most are not asking to learn but to get a quick fix. Soon after that came the second realization: several of the answers did not understand what they where doing.

My conclusion: We are living in a cut'n'paste world were actual understanding is less valued.

Naturally code reuse is nice. But I doubt that many users are able to construct their magic awk snippets from the ground up. Hence the prolific terse magic snippets.
"A group that claims Harvard puts quotas on Asian-American applicants contends the university scores them higher than students of other races on academics and extracurricular activities but ranks them lowest in a "personal" category covering such traits as likability and 'attractive to be with.' " - https://cnn.it/2ldoPd1

That last parameter - "attractive to be with" - is aggravating. What is this, a matchmaking institution or something? It's just bizarre that they would have the gall to feature engineer that..
IIRC they've said they intend to keep VSTS and github as separate products.
When coding JS, I've always tried to optimize based on my experience with multiple languages ... the usual culprits, like keeping the operations inside loops to a minimum, using native functions whenever possible, etc.

So I assume that the 'universal' speed tips apply to JS as well. So far - when I've refactored for speed gains - they have.
I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk, so that seems a little extreme.

Awk is a pretty terse language, and that gives you plenty of room to put in whitespace and comments and still have something short and sweet. I think that the idea of writing code to be nicely readable by your collaborators, or your future self, might not have been around in the early days of UNIX.

("But it's just a one-off thing I'm never going to do again, why should I save it to a file?", you may ask. Is what you do important? Then you'll probably have to do something like it again.)
To play devil's advocate - a personal anecdote: in a previous job, a newly hired manager announced she was pregnant and going on maternity leave in 6 months - threw our department into chaos. To me it seemed clear that in her mind, getting the job was a green light for getting pregnant - at the expense of the company! I can't blame companies for being nervous about these kinds of scenarios.
Which is absurd, a SOS is mobile far more than a President by nature.
If you want to checkout a POSIX RTOS for microcontrollers, I would checkout Nuttx. I have built some commercial products with it.

[0] nuttx.org
but why do people say she is the next Jobs

Because she put considerable effort into fostering that impression, even dressing like Jobs in the same trademark black turtleneck sweaters he always wore. All part of the con.
You can easily wrap python with a small script that makes it more useful as command line filtering tool. Most of the bloat actually just comes from importing packages.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import re, sys, json, other, useful, packages
def printf(s):
print(s.format(**globals()))
for NR, line in enumerate(sys.stdin):
match = eval(sys.argv[1])
if match:
eval(sys.argv[2])

Then you can use this in command line as

somecommand | pyawk.py "re.search(r'^(pattern)\s(otherpattern)', line)" "printf('{NR}) {match[1]}')"

I deliberately didn't pass pattern straight into re.search but rather provides the option to do other forms of parsing/matching in that argument, for example json parsing. I just spent 2 minutes writing this script so it's obviously not perfect and you probably won't be able to use it for json out of the box but give it a few more iterations and it will most likely work.
This phenomenon is known as the practice effect. It has a ceiling in terms of IQ tests, just like it does in terms of physical tests. IQ tests are designed to be as close to ungameable as possible.

This is like pointing out that I can make large gains in my 100m sprint time by practicing for half an hour a day for a month and predicting that I can make the Olympic team if I put in a thousand hours practice. Novice gains are real and significant but they peter out pretty quickly.