skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping that the "2.5 kids" part would enforce that I'm not talking about me in particular since no one can have half a kid, but I was using the cliched "average number of kids per household".
It saddens me to hear such stories as they show up from time to time. I can't help but feel that a lot of programmers just decide to stop learning at some arbitrary point in their career (my observations suggest that point is around the end of their university term or their first job). The industry too seems biased heavily in favor of using lowest-common-denominator, dumbest possible solutions they can get. And not "dumbest" in the sense of "simple therefore robust" - but in the sense of "barely suitable for the job at hand". It's like wanting to dig a pool, and hiring a lot of people with spades, even though you can get excavators for free - but what, you couldn't be bothered to find a few drivers? And the spade crew comes and is all, "no way we're going to learn to operate an excavator, that's too much, let's dig by hand".

I can't explain it any other way. Learning Clojure, or another Lisp, to the point of being comfortable around a codebase, is a matter of weeks for an experienced programmer. It's comparable to the time you need to even figure out how to rewrite an existing mid-sized codebase, and since you have to read it to understand it, why not learn the language along the way? Then suddenly the rewrite isn't needed. But it feels like a concept of learning a new language on the job isn't even considered by people.
@danaris - Thank you for stating out loud what many people think a Trump supporter is. You summed up the stereotype very well. That's important.

Now please take a few minutes and look at the people in the videos (see my previous comment) who are Trump supporters. Those are real people who support Trump. Please let me know specifically which ones are bad enough that they should not be welcomed.
I certainly had a lot of trouble finding my first real coding job, as someone who's mainly into C. The relative quantity of web jobs is frustratingly high, and while a few of these openly admit willingness to hire people without prior experience in their tech stack, the handful of C jobs were all for seniors with years of experience plus specific experience in things like RTOSes or Linux kernel drivers.
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It's funny how "the keyboard" actually identifies a number of issues, of which only one has been fixed:

1. The Memebar ("TouchBar") is thankfully gone.

2. If a single molecule of dust gets under a key, the key has a non-zero chance of no longer working.

3. The travel distance is basically non-existent, like typing on a squishier iPad.

Seeing them deal with 1 in at least some capacity gives me hope that they will deal with issue 2 by the third or fourth iteration of the keyboard. Unfortunately there is no chance of issue 3 being addressed.
Does Nokia count as a case of EEE?
One of the few roguelikes I use tiles on, and my first roguelike ever.
Uh... my Amplifi is dead simple to setup. I bet the eero and others are as well.
Black Male here.

2014 - 58,000 -> 62000 Entry Level Dev at Fin Company X

2015 - 62000 -> 65000 Entry Level Dev at Fin Company X

2016 - 65000 -> 70000 Intermediate Dev at Fin Company X

2017 - 70000 -> 74000 Intermediate Dev at Fin Company X

2018 to mid 2018 74000 -> 84000 Intermediate Dev at Fin Company X

mid 2018 to end 2018 84000 -> 95000 Senior Engineer at Consulting Company X
Data: long tail keywords are coming to an end
To me the delimiters help with readability by breaking up the statement into its component parts in a visual way that I can immediately parse.

Before even reading the variable names I understand the role of each in the statement.
"It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers. Not a filmbook, but actually printed on filament paper. It has its own magnifier and electrostatic charge system." He picked it up and demonstrated. "The book is held closed by the charge, which forces against spring-locked covers. You press the edge - thus, and the pages you've selected repel each other and the book opens."

"It's so small."

"But it has eighteen hundred pages. You press the edge - thus, and so.. and the charge moves ahead one page at a time as you read. Never touch the actual pages with your fingers. The filament tissue is too delicate". He closed the book, handed it to Paul. "Try it."

I don't really have anything meaningful to contribute, this just so very much put me in mind of Dr. Yueh's gift to Paul Atreides at the beginning of Dune. A kind of retro-futurism, where the imagination can't conceive entire new forms of things, and so just tries its best to figure out what a faster horse looks like (granted, in this particular instance, there are other reasons). I wonder what books for a creature with three arms would look like.
This "the new iPhone is insanely fast at Javascript" story needs to die. It has always been wrong conclusions drawn from the wrong benchmarks. Speedometer is a DOM benchmark with very little actual Javascript weight. DOM performance on mobile Safari is relatively good, considering that the DOM in general is a performance trainwreck. Apple has really done a good job optimizing this so that the "modern web" runs on their devices in an acceptable fashion. It probably has a lot to do with efficient GPU interfacing.

Furthermore, it is impossible to properly benchmark any JIT language on a non-jailbroken iOS device, because JIT is not allowed on iOS, only Apple's implementations like JavaScriptCore are available. It's pointless to make such benchmarks and draw conclusions about the hardware. Even if you benchmarked JavaScriptCore on different platforms, it wouldn't necessarily be fair, because you don't know how much more effort went e.g. into the ARM backend.
If you can, I'd suggest use spec to improve your understanding and verify behavior. I certainly do know that Clojure can get very dense if you're not careful.

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/6/19/improving-on-types-...
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Guess I am mistaken then.
Damn, you have just brought me an idea for next weekend project. Copyright-year updater which submits PRs to GH projects :) In Clojure of course!
Very interesting project! I'm also building something like this. I'm also using constructive geometry to build a scene, but I'm using tree hierarchy instead of graph of nodes, and primitive form of ray-tracing to produce output. Few days ago I managed to get recursion to work. Graphics programming is insanely fun!
Wouldn't it make more sense to ask country first and then generate examples? I'm from the U.S. and 10% of my examples were Bollywood actors.
The unsubsidized launch price of the base model iPhone was $499 in 2007, which would be $600~ today, not too far off from the $749 price of a base Xr, and worse than the $449 of a base 7 today.
==But a cliff is an obvious threat.==

But there are also other people around and animals and high wind speeds and any number of other factors that impact safety. I bet you still follow stop lights when nobody is coming the other way.

==Because children are not responsible and hence have to be protected from them self.==

This is an argument for putting rails on cliffs, as children are not barred from cliffs. Seems like you have talked yourself into a pretzel.

==I said that back when they didn't exist people drove more careful. With all those protection in place in cars - many people drive more reckless having those protections in mind. ==

I get the point, people may drive more recklessly because they feel protected by the seatbelt. I would say that all regulations are a cost-benefit equation. In the case of seatbelts, the benefit of more people living is larger than the cost of lost freedom.
i think you're making the author's point for him. it's an inferior machine in every way except for an inch of screen size. People are willing to pay extra for a marginally smaller computer, and apple is happy for that.
Where does marijuana suddenly not fall under the same characteristics as any other leisure activity?

It's blatantly obvious some of the comments are speaking out of unbridled ignorance.
> However, the outside world looks at us with disdain

The only people that view the tech industry with disdain are journalists and old media.

Regular people happily use their iPhones, Facebook, Uber, AirBnB...

Just because a lot of ink is spilled trying to keep outdated media models alive, it doesn't mean the general population feels this way. The success of all of these services is proof enough that people are not bothered.
Job's Apple was about minimizing choices.

At this point, Apple is nearly back to the mid-90's state of having an assortment of overlapping products that compete against each other due to overlapping pricing.
I also recently bought one (~3 months ago?). My main reason for getting the machine was the small weight and size. I'm a fairly small person with small hands and like to travel extremely light for work (which is very often).

The keyboard was my biggest concern since I've been touch typing most of my life.

The v2 butterfly keyboard are a marked improvement over the first gen. The first gen was very difficult for me to type on due to the small key travel -- it felt like I was typing on glass.

With the second gen, I did a lot of in-store testing and speed tests. My speed only dropped to like 80-something WPM from my normal ~100 wpm. Within a few hours of owning the machine, I was pretty much back to full. (Their return policy is also something to keep in mind if the keyboard concerns you)

It increasingly has become quite possibly my favorite keyboard ever. I'm even unashamed to say that I prefer it over my mechanical keyboards. Never thought I'd say that about a laptop keyboard. Obviously down to personal preference.

I'd say if you haven't tried the v2 butterfly keyboards (can't speak to the v3), try to give them a test with an open mind. Do a couple typing tests. Type as close to normal as possible (both speed and subject).

> whether you use it much for text input (such as emails) or programming

I use it extensively (>8 hours a day) for programming, emails, and chat. The only thing I don't really do with it is play games (not exactly a gaming machine).

For some added background, I also used an Acer Aspire One 522e netbook running Linux for a few years (this was a while ago), so I definitely have some abnormal tastes when it comes to daily driver machines.

Overall, the only thing I'd change about this laptop is I'd swap out the headphone jack for another USB-C port, but even that isn't that big of a deal (to me).
Unhappy Elon Musk went on firing spree over slow satellite broadband progress
Is combosaurus one of the 10,000? https://www.quora.com/Whatever-happened-to-Combosaurus
Working 24 hours a day is a good way to burn out. Sometimes you need to switch contexts and look at the problem in a new direction.
> If you're smart, it's fine

You just confirmed it’s no myth. Not everybody is smart _all_ the time.
The fact of the matter is that freedom should not be some outlier for people who roam about unanchored, though. This is why I hate leftists and fascists--to them, it is all about controlling others, placing us in our little, one-size-fits all boxes and letting us suffer in chains. They are control freaks. It is about time that we stopped allowing control freaks and social engineers such broad powers of control.

That article has everything I want to criticize about modern life--seems like human beings have forgotten what is truly important in life is having no master and we in the West have traded away our rights and freedoms for hollow promises and material goods, neither of which make us happy or elevate our spirits.

How do I get started bombing around Africa, I guess?

Oh also, the Spanish were real dicks!
Throw away ID and first post. Some perspective from an old timer. All in the NYC financial disctrict. While finishing my college BS degree I was working at a major bank doing data entry, at the end supervising a night time data entry crew. This bank ran an internal training program for programmers, I applied and and started programming full time for them.

- 1987-1992 43k-60k programmer Bank 1 (IBM mainframe, cobol, 370 assembler, IMS, CICS)

- 1992-1997 60k- 80k senior programmer Bank 2 (was actually lucky enough to work in Smalltalk for the first 5 years here)

- 1997-2017 80k-221k various titles Bank 2 - java and the internet killed smalltalk and the project we were working on, the technology group jumped on java and we had many years of work converting mainframe apps to java apps.

Played many roles from leading a small team all new to java including myself, up to architecting and building the shared components and shared architecture for 45 J2EE applications. Was let go after 24 years there in yet one more reorg/RIF 1 year after the last major mainframe app was migrated.

I am retired now, and feel lucky to have been able to have an interesting and challenging “normal” career with 2 large stable companies, with pensions, with matched 401k, etc.
True but that’s purely for legal/ethical reasons, not (directly) scientific ones. Most scientific uses of CRISPR (and other gene editing techniques) by far happen in the germ line. Germ line research (and, thus, applications) are lacking in humans not because it would be scientifically hard, nor because it won’t eventually happen, but because of hard ethical problems with such research.

And the comment that I replied to implies that it is talking about certain applications of genetic engineering which have to happen in the germ line. So I disagree that what it says is “plain wrong”, it’s just incomplete.
this is a pretty interesting idea. I feel like this should just be implemented at a Jupyter (kernel) level and not in an editor though....
US Male, MechE degree doing CS, Denver:

2017: 75k

2018: $45/hr (~93k. no benefits, but still on parent's healthcare)
Thanks. Trump is certainly a symptom of something that existed before he took the stage. I don't think that absolves him but the problem isn't going to go away just be putting him out of sight and out of mind.

(p.s. the Thanks is generally for your response. Just want to be appreciative for peoples thoughts while discussing this topic)
>Besides using spear phishing, watering holes, malware, and domain hijackings, prosecutors said, the defendants also recruited employees of some of the targeted companies to infect corporate networks and provide intelligence about investigations.

This lines up with having a Chinese spy in California Senator Diane Feinstein's office: Being both a California Senator and a 'Gang of Eight' intelligence member, the Chinese could be alerted early on about potential investigations or indictments.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Sen-...

We've seen several indictments of Chinese nationals since this story broke.

Edit: Actually the previous indictment I had in mind was the original arrest of the agent, this is just building on that case: http://www.atimes.com/article/chinese-agent-indicted-in-jet-...
I will stick with my kindle
It's not bad at all when you use something like Kubernetes, which they recommend, since cert provisioning is built into Kubernetes.
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The next generation of Jupyter, JupyterLab is turning into a whole IDE/platform, not just a notebook. They are also trying to incorporate the monaco editor which drives VS Code. Wouldn't that be a better solution?

https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-monaco
>Also? Who said anything about banning pot?

Everyone. Like every gov't globally in the past 40 years.
They are a lot more similar than they were when the MacBook came out a few years ago. However, the MacBook is fanless (which also means much slower) and smaller/thinner/lighter than the Air.

Will the MacBook stay around? I suspect Apple is quite disillusioned with the performance that Intel offers in this TDP range, and the MacBook will either get dropped or go ARM.
Thanks for sharing. After you (I assume) went remote while working for the same company, how did you go about getting new remote gigs at large tech companies? I’m remote now and would like to stay so, but I’m finding that companies that pay the sort of comp I’m looking for are often remote-averse.
From the very same sentence you quoted:

> ...when the laptop was new, but right now everything as reliable is as you can hope for.

Is reading before replying really all that hard?
Belgian research shows we could replace USB sticks with data stored in powder
If only their customer service could match Metro Bank
Since your mind is so glued on Aegis, here goes another example, maybe drone avionics are more embedded to your liking.

https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/adt/fea...
London is actually among the best places to spend Scottish pounds outside Scotland, because they are used to dealing with unsuspecting tourists in many areas.

Anywhere else in middle England, though, you will likely get some angry refusals...
that won't bring the rich support of extensions VSCode has.

VSCode's magic isn't just the monaco editor, IMO it's really the ecosystem and really nice Intellisense the other extensions provide.

though I do agree, this might be the better solution in the long run.
>The same?

It is not the same.
Look at the opioid epidemic in teens across USA, talk to health care providers in that area, there is very well recorded evidence "a BIG percentage" of kids who personally noticed "Learning problems and other mental problems" are UNABLE to STOP using weed.

Vs.

There is recorded clinical data evidence throughout USA hospitals. Millions of kids across the country were found having various kinds of food allergies and advised by the doctors to stop eating those foods and the vast majority DID STOP eating them.
> The art is really what makes or breaks games.

Yes, it's so much more important than gameplay.

/s
Yeah I don't dispute any of that, but that also wasn't the point of discussion. I'm criticising the censorship of legal content.

> A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.
"Labor skews further left than Capital, more at 11"
>First, none of this further shows that they actively avoid leaking documents critical of Russia

No evidence that you would accept. Someone else posted a link of them declining to publish Russian military leaks [1], but you rejected it because of course you took WikiLeaks' response at face-value (why would they lie, amirite?). The wikipedia article I posted references multiple instances of direct coordination with Russian intelligence, such as Russia getting a heads up on upcoming leaks, WikiLeaks criticism of Panama Papers due to embarrassing info on Putin's inner circle (Assange blamed USAID and George Soros for the leak), and of course declining to publish leaked documents that would be embarrassing to Russia. Not to mention the clear political stance they took during the election to hurt Hillary, that just so happened to align with Russian ops. Assange was also employed by RT with no transparency around the nature of compensation. And on on on on. There is a mountain of evidence that shows coordination with and deference to Russia.

>The general claim that Wikileaks/Assange is under Russian control is not shown.

That's you moving the goalpost. Whether they are under direct Russian control, or a willing patsy or are manipulated or some combination of all those is interesting, but immaterial.

>the intelligence agencies conclude that Russia is using Wikileaks

Again, I don't know why you feel the need to downplay and soften the accusations against Assange/WikiLeaks and Russia? Are you just so enamoured by them that you can't even take a step back and see what they are doing? It isn't just Russia using WikiLeaks as a dump of incriminating information against their targets (which they are), there is active willingness on the part of WikiLeaks to play their role as that kind of dissemination medium. And that's what intelligence agencies concluded, not your waterdowned statement.

I think you're dishonest.

[1]https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
Agreed. This investigation was incomplete without actually running an ad. Just because Ninja Turtle's PAC was approved to use the "Paid for by" byline doesn't mean they could actually get their ad all the way through Facebook's approval process

Maybe Vice didn't do it because it would expose them to criminal impersonation charges? And maybe that's also why Facebook feels their current process is good enough.
Debugging seems acceptable on emacs with cider. Sayid seems interesting as well.
One reason to maintain skepticism about the “cognitive biases” concept is that the phrase implies a value judgment— “cognitive heuristics” would be a more value-neutral framing.
Faster Reactions?

I havent noticed any difference in how fast I recognize changes between me and coworkers. If at all, I seem to miss changes more often, as my mind usually goes "was that allways like that? I guess so", since recall of memories can be pretty flaky
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Warning: rant. These terrible bindings you have to fight are a relatively new development. Back in the 80s even mass-market paperbacks, while they didn't open flat, at least were not "perfect bound" (the orwellian term for this cancer on book UX -- OK, I have feelings about books).

When I ordered a new Knuth volume 4A and found it couldn't be comfortably read -- you had to hold this heavy book open firmly at just the right angle or else the text on the inner margin would start to edge into hiding -- it was the last straw. Reading it in bed was an exercise in weightlifting. Even Knuth can't stop this? People can warez e-books instead, you know.
I don't think there's anything in the story to suggest that the retro-futurism was because of a lack of imagination regarding future, alien-yet-familiar, sustainable information technology.

Perhaps the point was, the book aesthetic was important to the character.

> I wonder what books for a creature with three arms would look like.

Indeed, the book was probably designed for space travel, i.e. usable outside human limits. Perhaps, given the proper circumstances, the book would propel itself through the vacuum of space by way of induced charge ..
I have a feeling that in the next year, the macbook may disappear again. I know others have mentioned the size and weight being a huge draw for the macbook, but I can't imagine at it's current price, many people will pick it.

I could see Apple just dropping it again and focusing on the Air/Pro lineup.
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Not zen 2 / navi. There were some possible kernel patches for zen+ apu. There was a refresh coming for the desktop apus. I can't recall the name though. AMD has been really quite on the mobile front though :\
Business partner I don't know much about, but finding jobs: you can apply directly, bypassing recruiters. Doesn't reduce the hassle, but definitely doable.

If your resume is generalist you just need to tune it to the particular company's needs. Specialization to some extent is a marketing thing, so you just need to edit resume to highlight what's relevant to that particular company.

Longer version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/01/19/specialist-vs-genera...
I completely agree. I'm pretty sure we share similar views on this. Sorry for my confusing comment at the start, I'll choose my wording more carefully next time :)
Wow, this is so God damn interesting. Thanks for the recommendation
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They failed, it wasn't extinguished. Their plan wasn't to fail.