skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TypeScript is a structural typing model vs nominal one, such as Java, which we are more used to. Not that one is more sound than the other, just different approaches.

I actually like the structural system a lot, and found that combined typescript expressiveness, typing a code base with TS is much more intent driven and requires much less contortionism that a class-for-everything nominal system such as Java. In fact, we ported one of our java backend to node/TS, 40% less code, and as typed if not more. Also, there are simple ways to bring some of the nominal characteristics when needed, but in a language like JS where object literal is a intrasic part of the language, a structural typing system is great fit.

So, yes, their are different approach, but not sure soundness is a good description of those differences.

Now, if TypeScript is used to code JavaScript ”a la” Java, then yes, it could be seen as a loss of functionality.
The pricing is wrong. It is based on the size of the company. It should be based on the number of candidates/resumes in pipeline.
If you can live with yourself working for an adtech company.
It is really not in a companies interest to ever do a 'mass migration' excepting dire or takeover situatuons
I agree that estimating time of individual tasks is unhelpful, which is why story points as abstract units of complexity are, in my experience, more useful measures.

That said, I've always been able to provide fairly good estimates for how long work will take, something that I got a reputation for doing well.

In my experience, that's not really true; I find value in time estimation to come from actually scoping the work again and probing for traps or pieces of complexity that weren't obvious in the first estimation passes. It's not true that software takes as long as it takes. Software projects expand to fill the amount of time allotted. Holding yourself to deadlines creates room for compromises and creativity.
Because the graph has an agenda and it shows.
>> The examiner came back. "You're having a problem with one of the questions. Do you know which one?" I had no idea. I'd answered all of them truthfully. She said, "How about, 'Have you ever lied to your boss?'" I said I hadn't. She pressed me until I came up with an occasion when I'd passed my boss in the hall. She said, "How are you?" and I said, "Fine." But I wasn't fine, I was in the middle of a cancer scare.

Heh. In machine learning, when someone gets a "successful result" like that they publish a paper.
Sorry, I was mis-remembering, Wikipedia claimed it was a ponzi scheme. The rest still applies.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196238.0

I'd note that this:

The second two refer to the multiply-cited opinion of prominent economists, and are presented with disagreement

doesn't make any difference to my opinion. Who cares if they're economists? Either something meets a definition or it doesn't.

That is far cry from it being demonstrated. When fact-checked, it ranks among more accurate news sources. The usual rejoiner is that fact-checking can't be trusted.

I would be fascinated to see who claimed this and how reliable their fact checking is. Because yes, literally anyone can call themselves a fact checker and then announce their views to be 'fact'. I've noticed more than once some person or site claiming to be a 'fact checker' and then engaging in very dodgy behaviour. The ones that try to give 5 star ratings to claims seem most susceptible to this. Anything beyond a binary yes/no is too tempting for people to insert their own opinions and views. BBC "reality check" is notorious for this.

And it is stoked much like your comment: some vague innuendo, unsubstantiated claims, false equivalence, and gaslighting of evidence.

Quit with the ad hominem. My post wasn't a scientific article - it was reporting my own experience with fact checking various different outlets. But fine, I'll raise the bar.

If you really believe that these cable news outlets are more honest than average, then please go read Greenwald for a while and explain how they keep publishing false stories by their own admission, that are always false in support of the same narrative.

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/cnn-credibly-accused-of-...

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/08/msnbc-does-not-merely-pe...

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-...

This one has a very good collection of juxtaposed stories

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/dutch-official-admits-ly...

I read lots of news sites from across the spectrum. Perhaps it helps that I'm not American so a lot of what happens there is merely interesting, rather than something threatening urgent impact on my own life. There is very little difference between them all. New York Times is not better than Fox News is not worse than CNN, and so on. The journalists at all these places feel strongly that it's OK to mislead people if it's in support of the 'right' cause.
I was thinking less of the flavor and more the credibility as journalism. Even most people who disagree with the WSJ editorial positions would agree that they don’t just print bald-faced lies.

I’m not sure what that’s look like for nativism since so much of that movement has been based on mistruths but it’s definitely not Breitbart.
It’s easy to believe things when you’re not bound by the truth.
Our society considers it a personality defect because people suffering from mental health issues have behavior that deviates too far from the average.

It wasn't that long ago that people thought cancer patients were contagious.
Paradigms of AI Programming by Peter Norvig is a beautiful illustration of code as data.

I learnt loads translating the Lisp to Clojure.
Unfortunately, this advices is potentially too shallow to be useful, as (private/individual) DI is tricky.

For it to be useful long-term, you'll need to find a policy with both guaranteed renewal and guaranteed coverage increase as your income rises, before any chronic conditions appear (or are diagnosed) or things like car accidents occur and become pre-existing conditions.

There are other details that make shopping for a policy tedious/tricky, such as differences in "own occupation" coverage, post-disability inflation protection not being standard, and the fact that you probably want to choose a company that'll be solvent 40 years later (since there's no pre-existing condition exclusion-exception portability like for health insurance, AFAIK).

Meanwhile, while you're employed, those payments, which can be $50-$100/mo post-tax, may be a total waste, since your employer is likely paying for group disability coverage, and no (reasonably-priced) policy will double-pay. Usually, anything you get from Social Security (or any state-mandated) disability will also reduce the benefit. That is, the total from all sources will be capped by the most generous policy at somewhere around 60% of pre-disability income.

The market seems to be geared toward self-employed professionals, such as dentists, rather than the typical tech worker.

All that said, here's my advice: If your employer offers you a "tax option" or "imputed income" on the disability insurance premium, choose it (and if they don't offer it, ask for it). Paying the extra few dollars per paycheck in tax will mean that 60%-of-pre-disability-income won't be subject to income tax and would actually be close to a total income replacement.
"It is a strange idea that the rich work better if they constantly get richer, while the poor just work better if they get poorer"

John Kenneth Galbraith
I've never lived in the USA so I'm kind of talking out of my ass here... but I wonder if the awful costs of healthcare might prevent changes in that mentality.

Here in Europe, if your income is about average or even a bit less, you might have some small trouble at some point of your life, but for the vast majority of people there will never be a single incident that sinks you into deep shit, financially speaking.

Compare to the US, where a sudden accident or illness might suck your savings dry. Even worse, a lot of people will start their careers with a lot of debt because of the overinflated tuition costs and student debt.

My point is: it seems there is a real incentive to accumulate a lot of money in the USA (which happens at both individual and collective level), and in order to remove those incentives, many things need to change. Private prisons may just be a particularly twisted product of those incentives.
Did you mean it's not medicine because it's not reproducible? I don't really understand the statement either way tbh.

Let's acknowledge that my question also assumed the most favorable scenario for your argument. Most objective observers would agree there is a nonzero chance that the treatment was not totally based on placebo effect, but rather on undiscovered science. You do understand that, right? That not all science has been discovered, there are many things we do not know or understand, and yet are true. If we cling to what has been proven and refute anything else, we freeze all progress. I can think of nothing less scientific.
I currently drive for Uber and both of these are 100% true
When a request pops up all I see is the estimated time it'll take me to get to the pickup point, I also have exactly 10 seconds to accept a request.
Two Jews murdered in Islamic attack in Israel, Muslims pass out candy
RIP Ken Bowles,

Unfortunately, this only highlights the continued lack of ability for some US publications to get their act together regarding Europe.
IIRC, the unemployment number comes has eligibility requirements. Meaning some NEETs are no longer part of the statistic if they've been out of the workforce for too long.
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Location: Currently Mexico, usually British Columbia, Canada.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not.

Technologies: Mostly server-side with some frontend. Java, JSP, Spring, MySQL, Git.

Resume: https://ggabelmann.github.io/

Email: greg.gabelmann@gmail.com

I have over a decade of experience, mostly server-side and Java but I've done some frontend work with whatever framework happens to be popular at the time. I like to do "full-lifecycle" development and release to production frequently. I've been learning about Rust and hope to write a Network Block Device server with it when I find some time.
They only started offering it at that price after great public outcry when it was exposed they were purposefully slowing down older devices..
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Snapchat has failed the test of feature vs. product.

Everything that made Snapchat unique is something easily emulated in a myriad of other apps. When you strip away the interface, the only unique part of it was the network/aggregator-effect they have. However, they were much smaller than Instagram and as a result would be fighting an uphill battle with a product that already has the network and could easily duplicate the features.
There is an interesting clip from Jordan Peterson on IQ and jobs. Sure intelligent people want something meaningful from their jobs, but at the lower ends people are probably happier with something less challenging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0

Personally I wouldn't mind cycling around all day and staying fit, but keeping software running pays a fair bit better.
Yes, areas that suffer higher than normal cost increases, are areas that capture the attention of the public and government, because those are the areas that have important concerns to address.
Thus you are proposing that the most literate people (i.e., those that would be offended by such ridiculous handholding) leave Twitter and Facebook? Do you think this would contribute to "fix the problem"?
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How much longer can Apple avoid making a touchscreen laptop?
Coming off of the recent SEC case against Elon Musk, does anyone know how they look at leaks from public companies, especially high impact ones like this? Are there any examples of SEC action in the past?
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I still don't get it.

How are you getting a successful request and a page render for the 3rd party site, but not able to query the 3rd party DOM?

If you phished someone, there's probably better things you can do to lead to a fuller compromise.
> I disagree because time estimation in software is not a useful activity.

Anyone who can say this has the privilege of being fully insulated from revenue generation. But at some level of the company, resourcing decisions are made, and they depend on understanding the costs and benefits of various tasks. If you are deciding between having your engineering team build an Android app and adding an API integration, you need to understand how much revenue it will bring you and how much it will cost, and that’s where estimation comes into play.

Man months are very non mythical when it comes time to write paychecks.
I don't use Snapchat, but now I understand why the redesign I saw so much hate on was pushed into production. I can't speak to the specifics of what changed, but I don't see why you wouldn't even A/B test such a massive change to your service.

Instagram Stories seem like they might've had a big impact on the popularity of the app as well.
What’s the third one?
Go read the set of stories published in the west about Russian hacking. Every story collapses when examined. Again, I cited Greenwald above, he was written about this extensively.

The only reason you believe the outlets you named are "legitimate organisations with bias" vs "hack conspiracy websites" is you haven't picked up yet on the conspiracy theories being peddled by those so-called legitimate organisations.

Another example beyond Russian hacking: it's common for such legitimate outlets to claim there's a shadowy, far reaching conspiracy by men against women, which is why <insert any difference here>. It's literally a conspiracy theory. They report on it as if it was fact, and lie to push the conspiracy forward.

To back that up, examine how they falsely reported the contents of Damore's memo. So many articles claiming he said women aren't biologically suited for programming, even though he stressed in his memo he was not saying that and was talking about general interest across populations. I stopped keeping track of which outlets were lying about the memo's contents after I realised they virtually all were.
Isn't evaporation a problem? Lots of water could evaporate before it gets discharged.
They had a working thing and then ruined it. I’m not sure how they managed to do that with a product change. Didn’t they have a way to release changes and measure impact before just forcing it on their entire user base?

Once a company gets to this level, they need to recognize the role that luck played into their original product and design. They hit a resonance with people, and it was probably more luck and timing than anything else. Changes to that core product need to be treated as an experiment and conducted as such. Show some discipline.

You can still innovate but those ideas should be made to stand on their own, grow on their own. Just because you have control over a platform with millions of users and can make changes doesn’t automatically mean you can do no wrong at this point. It just means you will have more time and resources before those mistakes take you out of the game completely.

He should be punished for his mistakes by the board installing some experienced adult supervision for a while until he shows he can fix his current mess (reverse negative growth) and innovate in at least an additional major product category tangential to Snap. If he can’t do that in the next 24 months, he should step down for the good of the company.
Microsoft re-open-sources early versions of MS-DOS on GitHub
That's actually one of the points discussed in the article. Investors don't want this to be a temporary solution. Like the Hoover dam system, this should last a century. But they need the economic incentives to be higher priority than home solar storage.
If you don't have any resources to fight the legal claims you should not do it. You won't last very long because you can be sure that there will be some legal claims, valid or not. Even a frivolous claim will take resources to defend.
Perhaps drugs are just easier? You spend 30 years learning how to be depressed, do you really want to spend another 30 learning how to unlive the last 30?
They can't hack what you don't bring. Buy a cheap amazon fire tablet or chromebook for use on wifi / in flight entertainment.
In NYC it's absolutely not expected or normal to wear a suit for a software engineering interview.
The SEC allows companies to make corporate announcements through social media. Tweets of a public company’s CEO are thus corporate announcements. Leaks are reported on by third parties, and thus don’t fall under the same rules. The leaker might get in trouble for Reg FD violations, or for violating an NDA, but given the reduced risk of damage (particularly when the leaked information is not fabricated), it’s been a low enforcement priority.
As am I. The encoding detection used for a standardized(!) feed file format I had to write had cyclomatic complexity of 16 and only supported 4 encodings(X). On the other hand it was almost always correct. How you would do that on a global scale is beyond me.

(X) I hear you ask, 'Why would you do that even!?' Try telling tiny companies without IT department what an encoding is. It's faster to just figure it out on the receiving side.
Who’s asserting a personality defect? There are plenty of people whose depression stems from real, tangible issues in their present or past life. Solving these problems or, if they don’t actually have any active relevance to present life anymore, just processing them, has also been shown to be very effective. You don’t have to have a “defect” to have a problem.

Depression spirals and is self-perpetuating, so it has a nasty tendency to stick, but assuming that all depression only stems from a simple chemical imbalance, with no correlation to anyone’s life situation (again, past or presence) is very simplistic.

I’m not arguing for the article, but against the opposite view that all depression is rooted in chemical instead of psychological causes.
Yeah, and they were all caught during their polygraph interrogations right?
What is the difference today? They are much more affordable due to technological advances in thes upply chain.

Folks in this discussion are missing the point. Just because it is no longer human labor, does not mean it is no longer work.

When apps connect customers with providers instead of people, that is automation.
You're selling software, which you can exclusively purvey on a different continent, and you're probably unhappy about relinquishing quite a bit of coin to VAT and/or other taxation. Am I right in thinking this is why you're considering incorporation?

While it may very well be true that if you try to incorporate some alter ego of yourself as an LLC or similar in another jurisdiction (e.g. the US) and thus you'd be subject to local taxation, there's probably a much simpler approach, of simply being the majority investor in an established overseas corporation.

You buy say a 51% stake, it sells your software (with your marketing and continued development efforts) and it acts as a passthrough, keeping your hard-earned money (probably earned largely outside the EU) away from the watchful gaze of local tax authorities. You derive any income in the form of dividends or draws held in overseas accounts. (The minority owner might also be some form of you, or an agent willing to own 49% and do nothing for a reasonable fee).

The US is not exactly paradise for all entities and purposes but buying a Wyoming-based shell corporation can be done for under 1000 EUR. This can provide you with a US situs for the business, which unlocks all kinds of doors for legitimacy, particularly when it comes to accepting payments. Am not a tax expert but it occurs to me that taxes can be legally avoided through this approach, given the size of the "shell company" industry in Wyoming (and a few other states) and the level of foreign interests therein.
I don't think that there's any kind of SEC impact to memos that talk about strategy and product goals. It's different if you offer material previously non-public finding info, as Musk did.
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By and large, people are interested in VPNs because they're vulnerable, in some way or another. By becoming a VPN provider, you become a "pinch point" for the connections of a number of vulnerable people.

That way, a hypothetical bad actor only needs to compromise one entity (you) in order to gain access those people who rely on you.

Aggregating vulnerability makes you a target, and puts your customers at risk - Especially when you're relying on third-party virtualisation providers for your infrastructure.
This is very smart.
Also a very good choice of language. Reminds me of a comment from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18144385
"I'm sorry, that's not true.", then wait for them to continue the test?
The only thing I could think through reading this madness is as if the author was in the movie Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
"Nothing personal", you attacked the team, not just me. If you want to do that all day long, go for it.

I’m done with attempts to frame yourself or your “team” as a wronged party.

But what I'm asking you to do, as a better course of action, or on top if you prefer, is say what "existing solutions" are superior and why they win. We started with baseline ad blocking and some of our users, who see the ecosystem problem of free-riding (which you still dismiss)

I don’t dismiss it, I encourage it. I’ve actively stated several times that it’s a model in need of a bullet in the neck. I’ve pointed out that much ad-supported content and “journalism” exists on a scale between useless and toxic. Moreover, the ad industry itself is inseparable from the industry of information brokering, creating demand for crap, and the subsequent environmental catastrophe of modern consumer culture. The death of it, and the noisy bollocks which exists to draw attention to it would be a good thing. Given their history they don’t deserve more chances, and it’s reasonable to suspect that even if they started off allowing for good intentions, over time the envelope would be pushed until we were back where we are now.

I understand that you disagree with what I’m saying on several levels, but the good news is that ad blocking is free and easy, not to mention popular compared to what you’re attempting.

asked us to build an option for giving back. So we prototyped with Bitcoin, and when that got expensive and cut off users who could not buy it, we created the Basic Attention Token instead.
Again if you dislike our ethics, no need to rehash. But I'm still interested in how you think pure blocking, AKA "free riding", will result in a superior outcome for anyone in the long run. Publisher revenues have been falling for years, decades if you look at newspapers. How do your top ten sites keep their lights on?

Less noise, more signal. Will “free riding” kill loads of clickbait, outrage factories, and “journalism” that is really a collection of affiliate links? Yes, and it’s a feature, not a bug. As a bonus it could even encourage a more functional and less societally destructive means of remuneration for content creators that isn’t mediated by profiteering sociopaths who call themselves advertisers.
The reason they give is based on self evaluation.

People are particularly bad at self evaluation.

Keep in mind, most people don't know what their IQ is. And most don't consider themselves to posses less intelligence as they don't know what more intelligence feels like.

See this video for relationship between job expectation and IQ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0