skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if it is a good developer, I don't believe the qualities of senior developer are being acquired so quickly.

So here's where I have my issue. Why can't someone acquire those qualities quickly? Why should your belief be factored in when gauging someone's expertise? I say, let's just look at their abilities and then decide. You may be surprised at how quickly some people pick up certain skills!

> Most of the people say they were promoted so their business can sell them as senior. That's BS. I would not like to work with those businesses. Keep calling yourselves seniors.

Here I agree with you. Random titles for the sake of duping people make no sense either and are potentially harmful.

> ps. I dealt with the same stigma, and I would feel ashamed when I joined a team where all the devs were 35+ with 10+ YOE and I would call myself the same title as they did. (I was 21 in this example, with 5 years of professional experience). Am I too humble?

I would say yes. If you are able to perform the same tasks as them, with the same/better level of finesse, then the only differentiator is age. Why shouldn't you have the same pay packet/title/respect? I believe age is generally positively correlated with experience (i.e. more age = more experience), but I feel it is not really correlated with insight (more age != better insight). Thus, sometimes, younger people can have better ideas and inputs than their older colleagues and deserve the 'senior' title as much as someone that's been working 30+ years, in my opinion.
The Google Home Hub is deeply insecure
> Messages are propagated to superclasses if an objects has no receiver, so they are more messages than method calls.

are they ? this could be implemented with simple vtables and function pointers, without any difference in the case of a function being present or not in the child class case
After I used ESS with Emacs starting many years ago, I haven't opened RStudio. I know RStudio is very very nice, and ESS is a very complete option too.
WeWork ditches unlimited beer in New York to keep tabs on startup party culture
Senior within the context of the club, yes.
Absolutely. The main problem is exactly that - pretty much everything is good, in moderation.
Do you mind sharing where in the North East? I dream of moving out of Boston but I don't see nearly as many jobs in the other New England towns / small cities.
Classic tactic in the military: I wasn't a smoker, but under certain circumstances, I'd carry a pack with me so I could have a "smoke" break. Sometimes people would call me out, so I'd light one up without inhaling until that person left. Then I'd just give the cigarette to an actual smoker.
"Prohibition has worked wonderfully well for tobacco in many countries"

Examples? As far as I know in most western countries
tobacco "prohibition" is limited to interior common spaces, not in private homes or in the open (say, on the street).

It is actively discouraged (and in that it has been very succesful) through PSAs, medical counseling, warnings on packets, high taxes and the mentioned public bans, but that's not "prohibition".

"Prohibition" is more akin to the alcohol ban in the US in the 1920s, or the current status for drugs in most countries.

In all cases it has been far from successful, the only things that are accomplished is favoring the black market and related criminal activities.
These morons have in fact presented themselves as utter idiots.

Brazil just elected a racist cunt because an utter idiot decided that assaulting the candidate was a brilliant idea, but instead made him out to be a persecuted victim.

These morons are making the exact same mistake and making Trump supporters to be the persecuted helpless victims of the story.

Don't you understand the impact of this sort of idiocy? These morons are making Trump supporters to be the innocent victims that are persecuted by their political views and for supporting a candidate. How is this not a massive blunder?
RAID 50 doesn't really solve it, it exposes you to some more risk since you can still die with 2 disks but now you have more disks in each sub array.

The correct answer is either a 3-mirror RAID1 or RAID6.

Bcachefs also promises some solution to this by allowing both erasure encoding and replication to co-exist, according to it's documentation.
CircleCI uses ClojureScript last I read.
The headline sets the tone so you can't just ignore it. If he starts off with an extremely strong headline like "The Internet Will Be the Death of Us" then the article should have strong enough arguments to warrant it, otherwise the headline is just the kind of misinformation that he himself is lamenting in this very article.
As I've pointed out elsewhere, this argument implies ownership and content control beyond what we've traditionally held forum owners/operators responsible for. By claiming such control, do you think forum owners should be liable for the content posted on their websites?
The cancellation of a few major Clojure conferances hasn’t helped. I’m guessing it speaks to demand.

I used Clojure for a long time, professionally. Not much any more. Main issue is that the language is not very readable (a pain point mentioned in these slides) and very hard to find people to work in it. Also more than any other language Clojure is very sensitive to typos in your code. A misspelled keyword results in nil accidentally flowing through your app. It was frustrating to spend time on scaffolding everywhere to catch these things.
We're still using Clojure at Factual and are hiring. https://www.factual.com/company/careers/?gh_src=1pt2v8
This seems to be about the format of Reclam[1] books. I don't particularly notice any differences in the way German speakers read them. Other than them being cheap and conveniently sized I guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclam
How is tobacco prohibited? Smoking in public spaces is prohibited, but tobacco is still legal to buy, own, smoke or use in any way you want.
Looks cool, do you have an article that explains the stack from a technical perspective? Is this based on Jupyter?
Because more consolidation at the top is not good, and there is already far too much.
DFS Tournament Lineup Generator
Well, division was to be made with a binary counter. They typically work with rising edge clock, and you get a smaller circuit if you have 14 bits compared to 15 bits. I agree that 2^15 can be made to work by using both edges of clock signal.
I like George Carlin. He'd be banned from most forums - should I be banned for saying I supported his career?
I can only speak for myself, but I'm definitely much, much more productive using Clojure. I think its absence from HN is more reflective of a less-than-stellar onboarding experience for newcomers, and HN's general neophilia.
Couldn’t you make the same argument regarding whether testing physics or organic chemistry aptitude is necessary for every specialty? The admissions office could at least nudge students to not pursue surgery if they have poor dexterity.
Likewise I am considering replacing my 6 inch kobo with a 5 inch model.
Similarities between Blockchain and DNA
Maybe this is too reductionist but I once heard someone describe it as, "there's nothing fundamentally dangerous about pot, but one of its (often intended) effects is that is slows our engines down. And some of us need to be firing on all cylinders."

School was a tricky time for me. I'm thriving intellectually now, but I was a C- student pretty much 4th-12th grade. I needed those cycles that pot would have robbed me of.
well... yeah ? there are entire companies of thousand of electrical engineers working in LL. They just don't come and post about it to hackernews and make PLC projects in github, they do their 9-5 job and that's all.

Compare https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=PLC+engineer and https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=bash+programmer
Am I the only one who wants a list of such books somewhere? I've been looking round for one and not finding it.
Agreed with this completely. People really shouldn't be offended by job titles as they vary so much between companies.

Experience and output matter. I can't imagine interviewing someone and asking about the current job title.

Has this person managed people? Lead teams? Done good work? Great. Title doesn't really matter for that.
I’ve had many programming design breakthroughs while lifted. Write ‘em down, check ‘em the next day - many remain awesome (and some are confused).

Something about the heightened ability to focus on a single thing, deeply.

As you say - it’s a deeply personal thing. I also never actually smoke anymore. Edibles FTW
It's somewhat incredible that the cult-like following they have has enabled a multi-billion dollar company to get a workforce of "volunteers".
> there is at least six years of prior usage by multiple big tech companies

Irrelevant. This discussion was about the one and only use in town right now of "edge-to-edge" in a major campaign to sell new tablets.

"All screen" is more ambiguous. For starters "all screen" is not a pre-existing term. It could be used to mean there's no other elements or buttons on the front, except the screen. "All screen".

"Edge-to-edge" on the other hand, has explicit meaning built in. The primary component of which is measurement. "Edge-to-edge" refers to not one, but two hard edges, and describes that which spans in full from one edge to the other. There's no vague interpretation possible unless you force a square peg through round hole of English. It's either an edge-to-edge screen, or it's not.

I had to measure a washing machine recently to find out if it would fit. I measured edge-to-edge, and by that I mean the actual left edge to the actual right edge. But you knew that already without me explaining.... because I said "edge to edge".
I suspect these ports are only supposed to be open during the initial configuration phase. Maybe the author didn't actually finish setting up the device or maybe Google forgot to disable the configuration ports after setup.
Shutting down Kepler
Why React’s new Hooks API is a game changer
It's pretty sensible to assume that housing is one of the most important aspects of cost of living contrary to a Macbook.

Also the parent was stating "for example" which implies there are other factors.
You should probably quadruple that rate, my friend. Contracting should not be at the same rate as salaried.
Apparently they only want a particular flavor of social commentary.
Agreed with both of you, and using an exchange rate at a specific point in time actually could make deferring that calculation even more of a sound idea, depending on the exact semantics of what you’re computing.

At larger scales even exchange rates are a leaky abstraction over a forex market, so there you go. No solution will work everywhere.

But if you’re entering the prices of last week’s coffee and hotel room into a web app to see how much you’ll be reimbursed, you don’t want to use a new exchange rate every time a form input changes.

Source: worked on multi-currency expense reporting software where everything is done in JavaScript floats.
Its not loud, but its not silent either. You notice them running, but not so much to be annoying. My 13 MacBook pro was usually quite quiet except when pushed. Its noiser than that.

The fans run a lot, (especially when using the Nvidia graphics). I tend to push the machine a little though.
> 2017-present: software developer & architect at TELUS digital in Toronto, Canada, for not less than I was paid in the US

Huh, it's good to know Telcos in Canada will pay Software People well.

I worked in Software for a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell and the IT staff were paid a tiny fraction of your US salary.
> Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain.

"permanently slower" based on what evidence? By what measure? Are you speaking from personal experience? (i stopped a few years ago after decades of smoking. Memory as sharp as it's ever been. Creative spark is lower than when i smoked. Will resume when our laws change.)
A family member of mine basically smoked away her future, in a sense, throughout middle and high school. She wasn't always the brightest candle in the box, but the heavy marijuana use certainly didn't help. She has the cognition and mental maturity of a 14-year old, now at 30 years.

Seeing how it affected her prompted me to "take a hint" and I've avoided the stuff since. That's not to say I avoid alcohol at all, however, but my family seems to handle the latter much better.

Edit: this is complete anec-data - I don't have any hard-and-fast evidence of long-term impairments like I describe above. Just what I've seen.
Mastodon 2.6 released
Correlation without causation is a lack of data — the burden of proof is on the claim not the questioning of it
Should you adopt Java 12 or stick on Java 11?
Already beyond the Standard Model
Yeah. Definitely not an animal to be contained but creating an environment to keep healthy populations in stock would be a leap forward.
Clojure use has been growing steadily, and lots of companies are hiring. In a recent JVM survery of 10K people Clojure came in as the second most used language after Java https://snyk.io/blog/jvm-ecosystem-report-2018

My team has been working with Clojure for the past 8 years, and we're extremely happy with it.
Male, USA, college is nothing special (sometimes get laughs), other defining aspects I dont want to reveal here that probably matter and to make sense of multiple job changes. Not sure how I stand compared to others my age/skill-set. idk. I've made a name and strong connections in my industry... outlook looks decent.

2015 - mid-level at employer A - $80k

2016 - Sr Y at employer A - $95k

2017 - Sr Y at employer B - $105k

2018 - Sr Y at employer C - $130k base, $60k bonus plan, $100k RSU

2018 - Sr X at employer D - $190k base, 15% bonus plan, $100k RSU
>> it is so important that the people control the means of production

> Technically speaking, Amazon’s shareholders are people too - they aren’t part of the government.

You left out a very important word from your quote of the GP that's critical to the GP's meaning. I quoted him more fully and emphasized the unquoted word, the, above.

The people != some random group of people who aren't part of the government. The people should be understood as all the people of the nation. "People," by itself, could be a small (or large) group of oligarchs. Those are very different things.

> Should we mandate that workers own 50% of every corporation?

> Decision making is going to be much harder as you have to poll the workers to get a majority vote.

Democracies have a lot of experience with representative bodies that can support faster decision-making while still having some accountability to the people. It's a straw-man to to present worker representation as being direct democracy for every decision.
To those who say this is OK but net neutrality is something that should be, why? If people can ban others for speech, because they're the ones providing the hosting. Should ISPs not be able to throttle whoever they'd like for the same reason?
Show HN: Nnn – a feature-packed tiny terminal file browser
Spring Boot 2.1.0 – with Java 11 support
They still contribute to filesize.
You're incorrect about the science of cannabinoids. They are not "washed out from the synapses". As anyone who has made cannabutter knows, cannabinoids are fat soluble. Therefore, when they are taken into the blood stream, they are uptaken by fat cells. It is these fat cells that store the metabolites of cannabinoids for 2-4 weeks, and it is what makes cannabis a drug that can be identified in tests up to 20 days after consumption.

Please do not spread your non-scientific opinions as if they were factual.
Derek's blog is absolutely incredible. For the uninitiated, I suggest to start with the "Things I Won't Work With" category:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...
You wouldn’t know it to listen to them talk these days, but this was actually one of the original goals of the NRA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association
Agreed. Someone stated the other day on something similar and it matches up pretty well, it went something like:

"...you have the right to free speech, not consequence free speech"
Reading off a DS screen Jesus I’m not sure if I should envy or pity your eyesight at this point.
Well, in 2010 I was doing affiliate marketing via Facebook & Adwords. FB made some changes during that time that made it impossible for me to continue. I ran with Adwords for a while but then Google killed of the niche too. This is basically what happens when you trust your livelihood in the hands of other companies that can turn it all off in a second. The income that year was split in half between me and my partner so in total I think we pulled in 300k. It was nice while it lasted but then the real world knocked.
Sorry, my knowledge is from biology classes a few years ago, but no blabla (I am no biologist either). Washing out means, there is no real process in the body to cope with THC in a linear way and thus, if heavily used, it might accumulate and have side-effects such as worse cognition. Also, just a reminder, a little acohol is in many ripe fruits and your body will not suffer from it by eating many fruits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase
This is how the body copes with alcohol.

It is a pity that concerning THC, English Wikipedia is very thin. Concerning potential risks, you might use Google Translate for this:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Wirkungen Please review the English references 29, 30, 31 for a further discussion of the correlation of psychosis and THC.
By the time this will materialize (if ever, meaning what would have to happen to its neighbor China to have India THE superpower), class system as we know will be gone. It's on the way our already, as western culture and views on equality penetrate indian subcontinent.

Dispute with Pakistan - all the info I ever read (and it has been quite a bit since I visited those places), Pakistan was always the aggressor, India was defending itself against invasion on its own land. Pakistan loves to challenge Kashmir since it is predominantly muslim territory, but if we respect all treaties signed since India's independence, its simply part of India. The only reason there are issues is because Pakistan fuels the push for independence which wouldn't be there without this. People in the region would be actually worse off if they would be part of Pakistan. In this specific topic, I have 0 sympathy with Pakistan who is known to support terrorist cells in its neighbors via its secret service, and not event trying to hide it too much. India has something like 150 millions of muslims, overall less conflicts with them then ie in Europe so its not about hindus hating muslims. Also Rajastan territory has tons of muslims and no big issues there (who would fight for a desert). Its a shame that US supported muslim dictatorship instead of multicultural democracy defending itself in this conflict.

In the same vein China simply took some Indian territory in 60s by military, there wasn't a regular war since it was very mountainous region with little other value back then. These days they act like nothing happened. But this shows their general mentality - peaceful and avoiding conflicts. US would rather create WW III then give up an inch of its own land.

The rest of the points you mention are more controversial, but still, considering what a behemoth the country is, they are surprisingly peaceful.
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Also in a pretty LoC area.

2007: $35k (First job out of school. I didn't know to negotiate better. Also my favorite job I've had)
2008: $60k
2012-2015: $80-$115k
2016-2017: $117.5k
2018: $100k + quarterly bonus based on company profits

It's not crazy FAANG level income but the cost of living out here is low enough that I'm pretty sure I make out decently well in comparison.
Absolutely. It's not a public park, it's virtual private space.

If you say something on a website the owner is allowed to remove it, if you don't like that you are more than welcome to go make your own website for as cheap as probably 15$ a year with shared hosting.
The "dangerous cult" thing would have been bullshit even if the immolation stories were true, though. Self-immolation and other suicide protests are a well-known way to bring attention to an overlooked cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation
I hate to say it, but you've got it exactly backwards. QoL is much better after population crashes. I'll give two examples and explain the simple reasons.

For example, life in the early 1300s in Europe was awful. Life in the middle 1400s was much better. Reason: The Black Death killed a huge number of people, opening up quality land for people to live a bit more easily.

You don't want to live during the black death, you want to live after the black death. Because the black death can only happen above a certain population density.

Micro-example: Pitcairn island. A handful of men and women shipwrecked there in the 1700s. Life was good - go where you want, lots of space, pick wild fruit as desired. Then they multiplied. Soon the population is 10x as much, and they hit the carrying capacity of the island. Now you MUST use every awful marginal source of food.

The simple reason is: People exploit the best resources first. The first person in an ecosystem lives in the best spot, eating the best food from the easiest tree, pulling fish casually out of packed rivers. Paradise. Increase the population, and now most people MUST live on marginal land, eating marginal food sources, scraping every bit of sustenance out of the environment. QoL falls until it is just barely above what's necessary not to die - and then you're at carrying capacity and the population stabilizes because it can't grow because people die as fast as they multiply. This is how human life worked for almost all of history; it's how animal life works too.

It explains why QoL was the same in 1800 for most people as in 2000BC, despite great increases in technology. The technology increased QoL, but that gets consumes in one generation as the population increases to hit the subsistence limit again. So you get more people, but not better life.
Yeah - but I was referring to Ireland. When headhunters contact me it's weird how the British ones offer surprisingly low salaries compared to Ireland, Germany, Finland, etc. (obviously this is after converting to EUR). I suppose I should have been more specific about which sea I referred to.

And time is incredibly valuable, if only because for most of us enjoying time is the whole damn point of working. I find playing with my kid or traveling or working on side projects much more fulfilling than my day job (which is fine, but ultimately just a job)
I don't know what you do with your MBP but this is absolutely not the case I've seen on any of our machines at work (if you do any sort of container work). The fans are running 50% of the time.
Invent a better way of life so reality is the coolest thing possible.
think they stopped: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/9ho97m/is_circleci...
Nick is a very nice guy. I recall chatting with him back in his MatrixOne days. Great coder too.
An SPA by definition implies one one HTML document or page load by the browser. Following requests are all AJAX or async. So yes, they would be separate SPAs using the same code.
Dehşetin Yüzü Türkçe Dublaj izle (2018)
That's less exciting
I do and live by my words.
Schneier's post on it.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/10/chinas_hackin...
Gab.com is apparently on a payment plan
Pinning devices to a release is possible. See this repo[0] for the API calls (also covers staged rollouts). We're using these APIs for production deployments.

[0] https://github.com/balena-io-projects/staged-releases