skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could disagree with you.

However my preference, and it seems the preference at the companies I've worked with, is to have a mix of folks have recently been exposed to something new (often recent graduates but not always) and people who have made lots of mistakes on other peoples' dimes (boy, have I made many over the decades).

In fact in my most recent startup we did a SWOT analysis just when we decided to get going and one of the strengths was "old farts" (5 of us ranging in ages 45-55). One of the benefits was all the mistakes we'd all made (and successes), one was that each of us had already worked with at least one of the others before, one was the depths of our networks, and because of the years of doing weird shit, we didn't have to try for "cultural fit" -- you couldn't guess from the outside that we might have (no stereotypical cultural fit; we include a hippy and a prepper/gun-nut, Americans and immigrants) it yet we all get along like a house afire.

And we'll be looking for the same in people we hire: do they know their shit and do they know what it means to screw up? Sometimes you find that in a recent graduate, but you're more likely to find it in someone who's been forcibly humbled.
Ask HN: Is there recent research about SOLID principles?
Interested in either partially or all of SOLID. Specifically reflecting and comparing to more loose approaches.

Linkdump:

- https://www.ijser.org/researchpaper/Effect-of-SOLID-Design-Principles-on-Quality-of-Software-An-Empirical-Assessment.pdf
- seems to be self validating SOLID
- http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~ebani/papers/ICSE-SEET-crc-baniassad.pdf
- states that post/precondition aspects are hard to remember and offers a visual reminder to compensate
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Given that my ISP currently tracks DNS and blocks whatever they feel like at that level, I actually think this is a good move.

The measure I'm looking at is that of sensible defaults: is this default more sensible for a majority of the user base than the existing default? For anyone outside the rule of GDPR using a regular ISP, this option is far better. The joint privacy policy Mozilla + Cloudflare is much better than a regular ISP.

And given that we all go and change the DNS of every computer we and our extended families own to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 or 1.1.1.1, I don't see why we'd think Mozilla doing it by default is a bad thing.
“Soft skills” are typically the hardest.

The Power of Vulnerability: Brene Brown

Non-Violent Communication: Marshall Rosenberg

The Secrets of Consulting: Gerald Weinberg
Show HN: Go session library which is agnostic of HTTP libraries and frameworks
You might want to look at that Bloomberg graph again -- 3 weeks over 5k, and now 2 just under.
http://archive.is/6aBOh
Requirement for a past job was that I take a traffic safety course, and one of the things they taught us was to never back up when you were caught out in the crosswalk because pedestrians will frequently walk behind the car. Better to sit where you are and feel stupid.
Cloudflare is too big and to much of an activist culture to be a stewardif such traffic as it has now let alone firefox's chuck of traffic.
I am a bit naive. Who is paying who in this contract? What is either side getting out of it? Why can it not just be a pluggable DNS provider situation and let CloudFlare compete with anyone else for opt-in (including extra privacy features if so desired)? Also curious, why would CloudFlare offer stronger privacy protections for one type of user and not another...what is CloudFlare getting out of the lesser-protected users since it is clear everyone is not given the same treatment?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-germany-daimler/ele...

"In another Tesla-inspired move, the three German carmakers are developing their own network of fast-chargers along major highways in a partnership with Ford".
I guess I don't know a lot about NYC living costs but $150k for what seems to be an entry level position seems generous to me. Even allowing $3k a month for a one bedroom apartment, that's over 70k in after tax income for other expenses. It's more disposable income that I have now as a senior developer working remotely, though granted my pay isn't great. Plus the position listed is also remote.
In those situations I'd generally recommend a conservative server-side approach...
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I also recommend Digilent, but they are not bargain basement. They're education targeted, often focused on the lab, rather than non-hobbyist R&D boards, but not $10.
Comparing the React and Vue Ecosystems with a Real-World SPA
How can I verify that your post is not a violation of copyright? Did you crib it from somewhere?

Maybe we should shift the burden of proof on you? Can you prove that you are not violating copyright with your post? If you can't do it, how on earth can Wikipedia do it?

In the Soviet Union, this was called "Prove that you are not a camel."
There's also:
- Living near people who are taking the same classes as you.

18-22 year olds often do not have the drive or study skills to stay focused and engaged with remote learning. My most educational experiences at college were studying with groups in-person. I don't know how well that can be replicated online, especially with youth.

I saw multiple students fail out of college because they skipped classes and didn't learn because they were faffing around. How much more common will that be when you're just sitting at home on a computer, without being in an environment that pushes you to participate in school?
I'm not sure what you're implying, but I would say that $69 million per year is incredibly small compared to the amazing benefit that Wikipedia provides the world. Also, this money comes out of the pockets of people like myself who are happy to sponsor it for everyone else. I personally love this patronage model and would be happy to sponsor an ad-free open-access newspaper in a similar way, if I found one that I had confidence in.
Now you tell me.

My conceptual problem was back then I couldn’t imagine people paying a monthly fee to access the Internet.

Apparently Americans have A LOT of disposable income.
Im interested in low cost FPGAs, like around the $5 range. My goal is to make a closed loop stepper microcontroller.

Ive never did FPGA design. what's good resources to start reading to get caught up with the basics? Figure I should ask those more in the know.. :)
Strategies for a New Economy Accelerate the State of DevOps in 2018
The idea that you'd even have a personal self-driving car is probably an insane fever dream already. We seem to be going in a direction where you'll hail cars as needed from a fleet someone else owns.
Ah, yes, the ol' "pull out one or two counter examples thus glossing over the point and being snarky about it argument!"

Well played!
Here's a decent getting-started: https://medium.com/@luke_73359/getting-started-with-icestorm...

There isn't really a go-to IDE that everyone uses. Each vendor have a proprietary IDE and they're all very bad. Lattice FPGAs have an open-source toolchain, but it's all command-line tools so you're left to build your own workflow of choice.
You haven't answered my question on why he hasn't presented concrete proof if he is so sure his method works. Or would that hurt sales?

Edit: Your reply is as deep as the nesting goes, so I am just replying here. I will look into your link, but you really have done nothing to substantiate your claims.
> Also shocking, AAPL is already worth $1.1T

This is why shorts on FAANG are so high.

Seeing GM, who has a gigantic infrastructure that is paid off being worth 60B, but Apple has... fans? Patents?

Tech if anything can be changed in years.

I believe in Amazon and Google due to the sheer use from consumers and business, but Apple is not like these.

They have a segregated population of non-business consumers using 1 product in an increasingly saturated and competitive market. I dont know if I'm allowed to say this on HN-

My (work) iphone has significantly less features than my pixel/android. Apple needs to innovate NOW.
Five Eyes Intel Alliance Urges Big Tech to Help Break Encrypted Messages
Using your horn as feedback means you missed the moment.

It's all the times you anticipated a problem and used it preemptively that are keeping you from getting a ride in my ambulance.
Yep. I used to have a Samsung SG2 with AMOLED and I hated grayish backgrounds in dark rooms at night: they emit light and hurt eyes when a pure black one doesn't emit any. Luckily my ebook reader of choice (Cool Reader) let me set the colors for day and night modes.
Bottom-Up Abstractive Summarization
A nice similar piece earlier published on backchannel https://www.buzzfeed.com/ipsitaagarwal/the-women-who-took-us...

"An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair and send rockets into space."

looked hard to find this one since backchannel moved back to wired and I didn't have free articles to read. Irony!

Edit: source on BuzzFeed took me to wired right link https://www.wired.com/2017/03/these-scientists-sent-a-rocket...
Are the cultures very different between Munich and Berlin? Your comment implies this and would be interested in hearing about this for those of us that have only infrequently visited other cities in Germany such as Frankfurt or Düsseldorf.
The Zoe is a great car, as is the Nissan Leaf that came out off the same development effort. However, you can't really compare it to the model 3. The model 3 is more upscale, to be compared with a BMW Series 3.

What I mean is that you pay a lot more (~20k) but get into luxury territory. The Zoe is like an electric Renault Clio.
Alternatives to agile certificates like CSM, PSM, or CSP
Cruz Releases 27-Second Video to Expose Beto O'Rourke; It May Seal the Deal
Study: Cities with more transit use could cut road deaths by 40%
Tesla was founded in 2003, that’s a long time for all these companies to have been sitting on the side line. Subaru is still in no rush.
It will almost certainly be configurable. My point is that you'd have to evaluate the privacy policy of each provider for yourself which is more work than just picking from a drop-down menu. And even if you put in the normal CF endpoint, you would only be covered by the normal CF ToS and not by Firefox's special deal. The "favoritism" has a material impact on privacy.
surely then, all forums should "verify the copyright" of posts before they are accepted. all email providers should screen all the mails users send.
Cloudflare wants to control the entire internet.

WAKE UP.

When is enough enough? We've seen what happens to these companies in Google and Facebook. They have to be stopped.
Shopify negotiation chatbot
> Just wait until it really sinks in for their dealers that selling electric cars means greatly reduced maintenance.

That depends. Initially, your argument stands.

While it will take years to figure out how to engineer in planned obsolecence into the electric car product, it will eventually happen. I would love to hear an expert opinion on this, actually.
Specifically for information security, have the team members had PREVIOUS ROLES IN THE FIELD?
Dealing with significant Postgres database bloat – what are your options?
> This seems likely. My model for predicting college bankruptcy has exactly one input, which is this dataset: https://ifap.ed.gov/DefaultManagement/DefaultManagement.html

This is a good dataset. It's important to remember that while the top 100 schools dominate the conversation around college, many many students go to smaller or non-selective schools that have a very different setup.
They already solved that problem with exorbitant markups on bumpers and mirrors. Just take that to the next level for all commonly damaged parts and wear items to cover the lost revenue from drivetrain maintenance. Also make sure all areas that require routine maintenance are hard to access and require many hours of additional labor to perform.
Microsoft To-Do App Updated for Insiders with Inking Support on Windows 10
> (looking at you peugot & renault!) are willing to make cars that have no value by year 8-10

But if we're being honest the money you lose after a decade is a lot less then the money you saved when you purchased it.
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Tracking and AMP abstraction were the first to come to my mind. Without a url you could AMP the desktop experience and just manage the entire experience.
You're really comparing two different things here.

Prometheus is great at alerting. So, where do those alerts go? How do they reach the right team, the right person who is on-call? How do they know that Person A is on-call between 8am and 5pm, but Person B's shift starts after that? Oh, wait, Person B is on vacation and asked Person C to cover for them.

Person A, B, and C's manager wants to monitor how the MTTR on all of those alerts is. Where does Prometheus provide that data?

These systems don't do the same things. OpsGenie isn't just an "SMS Gateway".
I had to join a conference call as I was about to reply to another thread and somehow I replied to this thread. My apologies.

The intended thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878239 in which there was a discussion about HE front-loading washers, which are notorious for growing mold in the door's gasket.
>I find it amazing that Linear Regression in scikit-learn doesn't return standard errors/t-scores for the coefficients.

It's less surprising when you see how some people work with these types of models in Python. They minimize the prediction errors, and if another method has lower error than Linear Regression they use that. There's very limited thinking around diagnosing why a model is not working or modeling at all.

As nerdponx pointed out, this is completely opposite to how social scientists or statisticians do modeling work for research. The goal is to support or provide evidence against a hypothesis that has a theoretical basis. You cannot do that by just focusing on minimizing prediction error.

Linear Regression in R vs Python is great example of how simple functionality like print(lm) and plot(lm) exposes the different ways of thinking about how to approach a problem. R's lm() provides strong diagnostic functionality out of the box with a few commands, which support people who are focused on diagnosing a model and making adjustments to how the model is defined, not just doing basic transforms (e.g. log) and adjusting hyperparamters to minimize prediction error.
There are brand new Ford Mustangs for 19.5K (2018, manual, v4 Turbo). The v8 can be found at 28K.
I'd imagine that it may go a bit lower with negociations.
No need to use a fax machine to number walk..

Remember ToneLoc?

War Dialers?

?N-?
My understanding is that failing is more of an issue outside the US. In the US, which is where the data is from, I tend to agree with DoreenMichele: Startup failure is fairly easy to recover from. You mostly risk opportunity cost (lost wages, lost promotion periods).
> But over time, URLs have gotten more and more difficult to read and understand. As web functionality has expanded, URLs have increasingly become unintelligible strings of gibberish combining components from third-parties or being masked by link shorteners and redirect schemes.

There's no reason a well-behaved web sire (or application) needs to have a complicated URLs, that's just bad design. No need to scrap the entire concept of URLs because some people use it improperly.
This is a bit of a strange article.

First, "in his recent book" refers to his 2011 book [1]. And Christensen has been prophesying this general bankruptcy "in the next decade" since that time. [2]

In any case it's interesting to think about the larger argument of the future of traditional higher education in general versus online education.

Bryan Caplan's thesis that (the state should cut funding for higher education because) higher education is mostly about signalling 3 things is a good tool. He argues that higher education signals a combination of intelligence, conscientiousness and conformity. The combination of the 3 is crucial for the model. [3]

Online education, and more generally self-education, fails on the conformity side. Companies do not want in general to risk such non-conformists, when they can hire from a stream of fresh graduates (smart, hard-working and relatively conformist).

Also, I think the socialization, friendships and networking that happen in the university are extremely valuable and not easily replaced by online education (where and with who can a smart, driven 18 year old hang out while studying and learning for 4 years on MOOCs and textbooks?)

And in addition, I hope, traditional universities are starting to improve their teaching methods (eg, flipped classroom, peer instruction) to multiply the pedagogical and motivational value they offer vs MOOCs.

For online education to replace traditional higher ed, it might require taking into account these factors. Could something like workspaces for freelancers or remote workers - but for studying - replace the traditional institution and the above benefits? Such that, for example, you would not be seen as an extreme non-conformist by not enrolling in a university?

Also, outside the US, tuition costs is often much lower. An online STEM degree, say a certified online masters in software engineering such as coursera or edx, could easily be more expensive than regular (or even the best) university.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovative-University-Changing-Higher...

[2] https://www.economist.com/international/2012/12/22/learning-...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/d...

(To be clear, he argues that from the individual's perspective, university is still net positive, if you have what it takes to finish the degree and don't get too much in debt. It's the state that should cut funding since it's inflating credentials.)
Sadly, that man is dead. The accountant they have running things now is very good at making money, but not very good at creating new products. They are already selling $999 phones, it's hard to see how he can squeeze any more money out of the iPhone.
I like this. This is good advice.

Containers are still fairly portable and I've worked at a shop where we moved from CoreOS+Consul to Marathon/DCOS and there were almost no app changes.

That is one of the big benefits of Docker. We had some stuff just running on nodes with Docker/docker-compose and even that stuff slowly got migrated over to the big platform.
FWIW ~2 months has sometimes been time it's taken me to find the used car deals I was looking for. Once I've been immensely lucky and stumbled on an incredible deal quickly. More often it's in between.

I'm not an expert, but my tips: figure out your budget (mine is usually $2-4k). Then cast a broad net for cars that have less than 120k miles. Many cars made in the last 20 years have upwards of 150-200k in them. So starting here is going to give you potential for ~50k at the cost of a down payment. It can help if you have a few models in mind that you know tend to have particularly long lives or tend to be undervalued (my favorite for a while was the Geo Prizm, which is a rebadged and therefore discounted Corolla, I've also had two Oldsmobile Cutlass Cieras that went into the 200k range... but these were both discontinued 15-20 years ago and good ones are getting rare). Do your own filtering on the health of the car. I'm not even an amateur auto mechanic but I have a few heuristics: is the temperature stable over a range of driving conditions from idling to hill loads or freeway? What kind of oil leaks do I see? Also I like visible brake & gas pedal wear as a proxy for general vehicle wear. If a car doesn't have any obvious problems on these points, fits my cost/miles profile, and I like it, then I take it to a professional mechanic for a pre-purchase inspection and follow their advice. If the mechanic notes some needed non-powertrain repairs that fit inside the budget, I'll usually buy, perhaps after some negotiation.

There's a downside to this approach: it can be time-intensive. If you're well-compensated with your job (or you're doing a startup, or you're a new parent, or you have some other time-intensive thing going on in your life), your time may more valuable than the economizing this approach can yield. It goes faster if you let out the parameters a bit (bump up the budget and take down the mileage). In most sufficiently large cities there's probably a <$10k Toyota with less than 70k miles on it out there that you can find within a week that will give you trouble-free driving for years.

If you want more tips, Google Greg Macke, who seems to have some sensible advice about evaluating cars and has some recommended/lemon lists.
I invite you to look at their product breakdown. What justifies the 1 trillon valuation is iphone sales

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q2_FY18_Data_Summary.pdf

Even services is a derivative of iphone sales, no one is using them on non apple hardware.
Typescript is a boon to large projects.

It isn't just about having a compilation process or something, but it's about the fact that a good type system (even like that of TypeScript) is like getting the compiler to do a lot of error checking for you without having to write the unit tests for it.

But if the project itself is so small that you don't care about writing unit tests, then sure fine use vanilla JS.
Twitter's struggle is to be profitable _at all_, which they are failing, and their effort to police the thoughts of their users is not going to have any effect on that.
That was a sarcasm. Nobody seems to get it.
Some lessons learnt at Twitter
>Tesla suck around and made electric cars cool and economically viable while the industry had it's backs turned

This isn't really accurate. Nissan and GM both had electric cars 20 years ago. And Tesla loses billions of dollars every year so they've hardly proven anything to be economically viable. The reason electric cars are coming now is because battery technology has gotten to the point of them being viable cars albeit with a slightly premium cost.