skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Shared behaviour — even juvenile — creates strong in-group bounds. And some competition within a cooperative environment is common. Especially if most of the group does relatively menial work.

Furthermore juvenile behaviour is commonly encouraged by both gaming and SV companies/corps: aside from being convenient to pull in just out of college without necessitating their adaptation to adulthood, it also serves as distraction/misdirection from work environment issues (permanent crunch, burnout, comp'): people who complain can just be feminized and dismissed as needing to "man up".

In fact, regular introduction of critics (and their following violent rejection) serves as both outlet for frustration and a strengthening of in-group bonds.
You don’t have to pay for using Java. You have to pay for continued support for a specific Java version.

You can even continue using JDK 8 for free indefinitely. Just don’t expect any future updates from Oracle, security or otherwise.

If you absolutely have to use JDK 8 another option is OpenJDK, which unlike Oracle’s JDK probably will continue receiving updates even for version 8.

I also don’t see why one shouldn’t use Java for new projects. With its huge ecosystem and modern toolsets such as Spring Boot Java is a highly viable option for developing new applications.
I wasn't aware of the term "champagne socialism", thanks for sharing that.
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As a CTO, how do you know the latest trends in your profession?
_or as a person in a CTO-like role: IT manager, Head/Director of Engineering, Tech/Team Lead, or any other technical leadership role_

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The latest trends, knowledge, and learning.

In every profession, you should be getting enough of it to “keep your saws sharp.”

I, personally, love to read well-written blog posts that evoke emotion in me, and motivate me to do things and advance forward. I love listening to audiobooks on 2x-3x speed, as well.

I spoke to a few friends of mine, who are in technical leadership positions, and it seems that they get bored very quickly when reading long blog posts or books.

Instead, they just love watching videos and listening to podcasts.

Don’t get me wrong, the written information is still valuable for reference.

So what is it for you? Are you a reader, listener or watcher? What form do you prefer your brain food to be in? And why? Tell us your story!

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Thank you for your time reading this and giving a thoughtful response! :)
GDDR generally has higher latency than DDR in return for higher bandwidth. The reason is that the minimum read/write size is much higher, so the overhead of addressing is lowered.

For graphics applications, this is a good tradeoff as they generally use large objects (e.g. textures) but for existing compute applications, the latency penalty is often too high.

The PS4 can presumably get away with this as applications will be specifically written for it, unlike PCs which have to support legacy software.
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We are selecting Hal´s for New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

The job is basically being with your phone or computer helping Hal subscribers, answering questions and assisting with their requests.

Most requests will be simple questions like where is the nearest best pizza or what beach should I go to this weekend with friends. Yet, you never know what can be asked of you.

You won't have a specific time to work and you will be able to pause, and stop receiving questions whenever and in anywhere you want. As more questions/sessions, you answer the more money you will earn.

You guys will see this is a wonderful job, you will learn a lot, and you will make people happy every day, besides that you don't have to go to work, you will be able to work anywhere.

Our main purpose is to help the world, so want to be sure that every Hal selected deserves the position and the job will improve their quality life doing the best job that can be done. In a near future any Hal Staff will be able to go around the world and work in any city they want being a Hal.

You can go here for more info https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hal-staff
> While on a team outing, the same senior staff member messaged a new employee’s girlfriend on Facebook asking if she was “DTF”

I would probably do something that would get me fired if this happened to me.
A lot of great tech has came out of military projects like GPS and virtually all of space technology. Arguably, a lot of these tech would not have been developed otherwise because either there was no commercial use case or capital requirements would have been too high. A lot of research is funded by programs like DARPA. There are several military projects that can actually prevent wars and save lives (drone surveillance in war zone being one). I think companies need to take balanced look.
500gb/month is fine for my needs.
What is the future of English in the US
No.

Has there ever been a black bar for a political thing or a terror attack or so? I don't think so.
The SQL API is exciting stuff! Great work, Flink team!
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The Washington Post and the NY Times are both very fine papers: they take the traditional 20th Century American view of journalism (attempting to be objective and authoritative, and taking accuracy seriously) which is a bit alien to the European print tradition, but that's not a bad thing if you want different perspectives. The Wall Street Journal is also a fine paper if you like your news more economically and financially-focused. The Post is probably better for the inside-baseball of US Politics, the Times probably better overall, and for global coverage. But that's just my opinion - try all three and see which works for you.

The opinion sections are of highly variable quality, as people here keep pointing out. And these have always escaped the objectivity ethic. I'd just avoid reading them.
>Which shows her "racist" tweets, and shows how they're only really racist if you strip away all context for them.

Can you think of a context in which it's OK for a white/asian person to use the "N-word"?
I wonder what the reasoning behind this is. It seems that it would reduce the amount of content on Facebook.

Perhaps the thought is that people will go and post directly to Facebook instead? Or it could be a way of reducing noice/spam.
Not expressing an opinion against immoral things is also a political act. You are saying that profits should come before everything else.
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Speaking as a dinosaur, that is not classic gaming culture. Anecdotally that highly anatagonistic language became far more the norm in my circle after gamers from the U.S. (and vocal communication) became common. I’ve always unfairly made the assumption that it was a reflection of culture when growing up in the U.S. It is disappointing that it is generally accepted as the norm worldwide now.
Perhaps this is a result of two different cultural approaches to conflict minimization? My naive impression of people from these two cultures is that Japanese people are typically willing to confront others but seek to avoid being confronted while the English tend to be the reverse. Both approaches reduce the amount of public confrontations but have very different results in terms of public behavior.
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Interesting - wasn't aware of that...
I have never played league of legends, but one of the things I've heard repeatedly is that there is an extremely toxic culture around the game. If true, it isn't surprising to see that the company has a toxic culture as well.

I feel for the author. It is sad that her dream job turned into a nightmare. I just hope some positive change comes from this at Riot and other companies.
That's a great reply there already.
We haven't yet reached a situation where we'd like to continuously query 'old' metrics.

Would love to see a nice writeup with any further considerations. Thanks for the reply!
'Switching electricity production from coal to wind and solar doesn't really involve personal sacrifice.'

This is glib assertion. You might explain how the economics of this would be accomplished country by country. Earlier this year the UK was without significant wind power for nine days. Well, in absence of fossil fuel, that would indeed be personal sacrifice - Old Testament style.
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Full text: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaap9815.full
On related note, Python's mechanize and requests libraries will probably soar in popularity.
This is not gaming culture at all, and even if it were it's still extremely problematic. Especially as Riot is not a LAN Cafe, but a company. Companies have codes of conduct and people can be reprimanded or let go for not following them inside the companies offices, it's that simple. Additionally this will remain gaming culture as long as noone takes an active stance of fighting against it.
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While this is somewhat true, it can easily lead to the idea that mental health problems aren't serious because they are just further along a scale than me.

We all have kidneys that don't work perfectly, so we are all on a continuum of kidney failure, however you'd describe some people as having kidney failure and others not, only a few people would be 'borderline'.

I appreciate that may not have been what you meant, just that your argument lies close to that kind of logic (though maybe by saying non-linear you mean to avoid this trap).
LoL has to be one of the most toxic communities for any game I've played. It's not shocking that it permeates the culture of the company that created it.
I think GNUstep is the closest approximation, but I have no clue how compatible it is to Cocoa.
Uhh, that logic doesn’t folllow. Heh. I’m a former S2 dev (heroes of newerth, a pretty similar game). The player base is uncontrollable. It’s a bunch of testosterone fueled teens.

Granted, we didn’t have any women in leadership positions either, but I’d like to think that was more because we were relatively small and it was Kalamazoo.
It's not exactly a new thing, even outside of gaming:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bro-culture-harassment-discr...

If you have been exposed to the same culture through school, higher education and then finally the workplace, it is not suprising some people find it acceptable or even normal...
This changes things. For one, Red Hat is now offering OpenJDK support for Windows.
Seems like it is more of a problem with how the company is ran than a positive of using AMP.
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You should checkout suckless projects, they compile in everything. There is no config. Or rather, the #define statements are the config.

I think the only time I legit used that is on an Arduino where both code and data have severe size limits.
> By calling it "personal politics," you are saying something against it.

I am being objective. If the political opinion was not formulated by senior leadership and passed down through management then it is not likely, at least at the time of expression, the politics of the organization. That said, it is personal politics.

Ethics is not defined by the industry. Ethics is quite literally perceptions of right or wrong in accordance with organizationally defined rules. Right and wrong where rules are either not available or not defined is instead the more generalized term morality. In the example of Google employees' boycott of the drone contract the political action was a moral judgement that graduated to an ethic once senior leadership made a decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
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Other than registering multiple keys with a service (as others have explained), you can generate the private key off-device, import the key onto your device(s), then optionally delete the off-device key and/or archive it to external storage (e.g. disc stored in a safety deposit box at your bank).
don't forget ARPANET, which later evolved to a little something we call the internet.

I see the temptation in avoiding military contracts, but "optics" aside, it's not all bad.

that said we probably shouldn't give the armies too many autonomous killer-bots. I mean it would almost definitely drive some cool technologies being developed for eventual civilian use that would be very difficult to fund privately..but also SkyNet..

basically, I agree with everything you just said, but wanted to elaborate a bit further :)
A teacher with same name as a World No. 11 golfer finds $154,000 in bank account
Ugh. What a terrible affliction to have.
Headline: "The $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life With Diabetes"

Article: "Sydney, now 15, is still using an updated version of that DIY system, which, because a fellow DIYer donated the pump, cost only $250 to make."
The job of synchronizing the system clock is not a job that belongs to the init system. It is a job that belongs to people who can write and debug the very complex cases of NTP.

The init system simply has to fire it up, take it down, and report on whether it's still running. Any further elaborations are features of the init system.

All the problems mentioned here were failures of the init system in doing things that the init system should be doing, but were hard to diagnose because this particular init system does not and never has put "easy to debug" as a high priority item.
Probably not. It doesn't actually fix its own nitrogen. This corn has a bunch of roots that don't touch the ground. It then produces an environment in/on those roots that is conducive to the growth of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This is very much not a case of having a couple genes that could be transferred to other plants.

To get modern corn to do this will probably require a lot of breeding to bring together and select for the traits of both varieties.
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i watched blue planet 2 and its stunning visuals are not enough to make up for the bludgeoning message it delivers about what we've done to the oceans to feel good afterwards. couple that with a record summer and the outlook isn't pretty.
What hardware are you running pfsense on?
I think there is something wrong with a culture that feels the need to supress what is effectively amateur comedy going on within small groups.

Targeted harassment sure, that's not something to just blindly protect but as a homosexual, i see more harm in trying to police jimmy calling his friends faggots playing CoD than I see in allowing people to speak their minds.

Until someone can posit a great explanation for why its funny for me to call my friends faggots when they have kids and I don't and why that is in the end bad for society as a whole, I don't buy the argument we need to be policing speech along these lines.
Hi, I've been working for the past year on this app to make conference calling multiple people as simple as a making a regular phone call.

With conference calls you need to dial a number and then a PIN. It can get pretty costly if you're based outside the US/UK and have to dial internationally.

The app leverages Twilio to handle calling people in 280+ countries. It uses the cheapest rate and allows you to setup calls immediately or schedule them in the future.

When the call time arrives the app rings everyone and drops them into a conference room.

Any feedback or questions appreciated!
These are very exciting news. The most interesting part:

The study found the Sierra Mixe corn obtains 28 to 82 percent of its nitrogen from the atmosphere. To do this, the corn grows a series of aerial roots. Unlike conventional corn, which has one or two groups of aerial roots near its base, the nitrogen-fixing corn develops eight to ten thick aerial roots that never touch the ground.

During certain times of the year, these roots secrete a gel-like substance, or mucilage. The mucilage provides the low-oxygen and sugar-rich environment required to attract bacteria that can transform nitrogen from the air into a form the corn can use.
> You are saying that profits should come before everything else.

I very deliberately expressed no opinion in that regard.

Not expressing an opinion within a moral argument is political only with regards for the motive of inaction. Taken to a greater extreme people are not necessarily expressing politics by not agreeing with your opinion.
> Usually because 'doing something about it' on a personal level means sacrificing luxuries.

There are a lot of easy win-wins when it comes to lowering our carbon footprints. Eating more vegetables has health benefits. More home working can improve quality of life, reduce pollution and congestion. Less street lighting improves sleep quality. Something people can do is lobby their employers and representatives to point these things out.
You don't need Typescript to use JSX without React. Plugging my own isomorphic-jsx project: https://github.com/TheKnarf/isomorphic-jsx
“is null” versus “== null” in C#
GMOs and pesticides are complicated. Some GMOs increase the use of pesticides, some decrease it. Overall the effect appears to be negative.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600850

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645698.2016.1...
Cancer cell lines evolve in ways that affect how they respond to drugs
> I am simply surprised they manage to produce anything at all in such a culture, let alone a hit game.

The same culture you can find in Holywood, where hundreds of successful movies with unrivaled popular impact were produced.
It is shocking. It was completely unheard of behavior at S2 Games. I was shocked to even be in the same market segment.
I am not gonna post this as anonymous, because I need to put this out of my chest: I am absolutely terrified of blood pressure being high/measuring it.

I was giggling (and almost crying) while reading the article, because putting it out into words makes it sounds really ridiculous, stupid, and obvious, but for us while we are following one of our 'mental stories', it feels very real.

I have the same stuff OP wrote about, but with blood pressure. I am absolutely terrified of 'having high blood pressure' because of traumas of the past, and stuff that was said to me that kinda stuck. I fear having my blood pressure measured and having that makes it go up as I try to measure it. It sucks and is really detrimental to my mental health.

I have anxiety and panic attacks. Whenever I feel uneasy or feel my heart beat faster and/or stronger in my chest, I think: "what if my blood pressure is severely high right now? that is why I am having these symptoms! what if... what if... what if..."

I have measured my blood pressure probably a million times and usually at the third reading it is fine (I need to measure 2-3 times because the first reading is always a little high, because I panic - heart rate goes up, my breathing gets strange). By the time I end my ritual, the blood pressure is always fine at 11-12/7 or 12-13/8, and I get relief for some days or weeks (the thought goes away).

I have also countless times doubted these good readings and thought 'what if by the time I just got this good reading it got back to being high? I don't know right now, it could be high right now?'. These doubts made me do insane things like measuring it all the time for some weeks (I'm past that phase, thank goodness).

I have also made my wife measure it while I sleep "just to make sure I really don't have high BP all the time" -- turns out, because I am sleeping and unaware I am about to be measured, my blood pressure readings (even the first one) are always good. I still can't let go of it...

Almost every time I go to cardiologist or anything related to heart/blood pressure, if the doctor approaches me to try to measure my BP, my anxiety goes off. And the reading is usually a little high. On rare occasions, if the doctor is understanding of my fear/condition and talks me out of it (and has patience), I get a good reading and that brightens my day up more than earning a million bucks.

Like I said, writing it out makes it sound so ridiculous to me, almost like a play. I just wish I wasn't cast to it...

'what if' is the true enemy.

PS: I jog 2km 5 times a week and swim 1.5km 3 times a week. I am still not convinced I am healthy and strong - if i get any palpitations from strenuous exercise "hey it could be my bp or my heart acting funny"

PS2: I have done multiple ekgs, dopplers, 24h ekgs, all fine. The only exam I haven't done yet is the '24h blood pressure readings' because guess what -- terrified of having that stuff stuck to my arm for a whole day.
They're only directing their hostility at the ""other"". All this shittiness doesn't affect their straight white male devs (the majority), so they can function just fine.

Game devs tend to be gamers who've reached adulthood but would like to stay within the gaming culture. That means they're either acclimatized to or actively enjoy the shittiness.

All this stuff used to be "standard business culture" in the West, and the campaign against it has been a long road since women got the vote.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17714360 had the correct title from the original. (-:
Sadly, lots of Christians forget that no sin is greater than any other sin because all sin separates them from the Father.

Also:

> Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Love the person. The sin is still a sin, but love the person. It doesn't get any more simple than that.
> i see more harm in trying to police jimmy calling his friends faggots playing CoD than I see in allowing people to speak their minds.

Who exactly is trying to stop Jimmy? This is about behaviour AT WORK.

Jesus wept, how are some people so utterly dumb?
I don't think it is the hard truths or wonderful knowledge here, it is the often condescending tone that usually makes me just watch from a distance.
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You seem to be suggesting that such a culture is not an impediment to success, based on the existence of some success.

I could blindfold myself and throw darts at a board. The fact that I hit the board sometimes doesn't mean that the blindfold isn't an impediment.

Many more movies fail before even reaching the screen. Just because we see some success doesn't mean that the culture isn't an impediment to success. Perhaps a different culture would produce many more successes.

We would need a lot more data before we could draw any such conclusions.

Edit: I see that's exactly what you're saying from your reply; "...such culture is not an impediment to success." I disagree; we cannot draw that conclusion from the data.

Extra edit: Oh, your answer has vanished.
Why would you turn down the ability to hack entire countries democracy? Think of the power! /s
Very cool. How did you scale device borders relatively?
> uncontrollable

It's not uncontrollable, you'd just rather have their money than ban them.
Basic principle is to try to build new habits of how we eat gradually changing only 1 or 2 things every week and re-enforcing what works/cutting what doesn't. Typical diets (in my community) are 70 percent carbs, 30 percent veggies. We started by basically reversing this ratio. We also completely eliminated sugar & processed carbs (ie. flour - basically no breads & only whole grains) - but apart from this, I didn't fundamentally change what I ate. Then we progressively started reducing eating window over 10-12 weeks to < 6 hours in a day and started adding 2/3 day fasts. However, there are many routes & it works best if customized to individual.
Markup also matters. With good markup and design the content can be more inviting. I think everyone should learn some basic HTML and CSS. Standard formatting is boring.