skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is one possible outcome. I'm not convinced it's the most likely outcome though. I guess it depends on how well correlated engineering talent is with negotiation skills.

Personally I wouldn't imagine those things are well correlated at all. In my experience the best engineers have stayed around long after it was obvious that they could get considerably more by changing jobs (and sometimes changing back again).

That aside, I think it would be entirely possible to set this up transparently enough that an engineer can see their future compensation and thus see how many years ahead they are jumping and can make their own judgement about whether it's worth moving to a company where their future compensation will likely change in the usual haphazard way.
E.g. amazon resume sifting ai

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
I have that. It's lovely. My wife and I also did an 18 month subscription to an 18 print series he did covering the history of Japanese printmaking.
Kids barely use computers these days. Schools buy tablets (iPads/Android) and Chromebooks. Neither encourage computer literacy. At home they have phones and iPads for the most part.
I agree — I spend about a week every quarter with the wife at a rural AirBNB without access to internet or cell phone. There are a lot of positives (to me, anyway).

We actually cook pretty much every meal so we’re eating healthier and spending that time together instead of taking turns cooking while the other works. All of the time we spend on reading short articles on the internet is shifted to things like reading full length books. Instead of watching TV, movies, or playing online games we end up indulging in arts & crafts.

I also get to do a lot more conceptual / big picture thinking whereas normally I’m just thinking about how to execute my current and upcoming tasks; I keep a notebook and it’s pretty easy to tell if I was at the AirBNB or not depending on the types of notes I was taking.

I end up feeling less harried after a week there. And my experience has not been the same for “normal” vacations (I.e. sight-seeing, visiting family/friends, etc.). Those types of breaks are important for other reasons, but they don’t have the same type of clarifying effect for me. Maybe if I were better at resisting the siren call of the internet.
I bet they still pay less to break the law than if they complied.
Natural selection is a greedy algorithm. Being forward thinking or altruistic rarely produces more surviving progeny over the short term.
The cannons from the 1812 overture, over and over again. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? wasn't that awesome? Hang on I'll play it again, let me just adjust this setting first....
Overall looks pretty neat. I’m a big fan of dark themes, but I think this one takes it a bit too far. I’m having trouble reading the text which doesn’t contrast well against the background. Consider lightening some of the elements.
These guys are working on a solution to general authentication for the web https://universallogin.io/
I agree. Having trillion dollar valuation companies dominate the internet is akin to letting Standard Oil dominate a resource, or monopolies dominate the emergence of railroads. You have to recognize these technological emergence's when they occur, because typically they will be unlike anything we've seen before. I would argue Social Media is one of those emergence's. Smartphones arguably another.

Ideally, I would like to see tech giants split into 3 companies, with 2/3 residing outside of SV so as not to be subject to the group-think of that region. This coming from someone who grew up in the heart of SV, got into tech, and eventually left.
Cred stuffing is using botnets, you aren't going to have more than a couple login attempts per IP.
Awesome, I've always wanted to make something like this myself but never came around to do it!

It would be really neat if someone combined this with a very simple sequencer/tracker to create and manipulate tunes, which could then be dropped in (sequencer + synthesizer) directly into projects. It could be a quick and easy way to add music to small-scale retro game projects, for example.
The Milky Way devoured a dwarf galaxy 10bya.we can still see those stars
Consider using the correct tool too

http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=semweb-scalabili...

https://franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/lisp-...
Necurs Botnet Distributing Sextortion Email Scams
Wow, no wonder Box is doing well — that's a main problem they solve. I didn't really understand its value without hearing your predicament.
There are a ton of use cases in bigger enterprises (1000+ employees) for smaller applications that are not worth the costs you are offering currently, so I'm glad you're working on it. Cypher is amazing (as is most of Neo4j). I've used Neo4j for many years, going back to pre 2.0 versions. The database has evolved massively since then.
> In most other countries they trigger remote exploits (electronic and physical) in target vehicles which lead to terrible crashes.

Citation please! I’ve never heard of this actually being done IRL - only on CSI type shows. Where/when/who has actually used this technique in a killing? It seems overly complex and prone to suboptimal outcomes (the vast majority of car crashes only result in minor injuries).
Governance without foundations
New hire != new grad
Yeah. Honestly after his advocacy for the EME/DRM stuff it's hard for me not to be skeptical out-of-hand to any of his suggestions.
I teach college and the problem is much more fundamental than that. Certainly I have tech literate students but I can't tell you how often I see students struggle to just log onto their email when they try to pull up a class presentation.

The old cliche is searching for google is not only alive and well but now it is search for google, go to google, then search for youtube, then search for the video you want to show.

Even when they actually have the url for a video, in the last several years since I have started paying attention I don't think I have ever seen a student use the "paste and go" option in the right click menu. They ALWAY paste it in then hit enter. Paste and go is right under paste!

When I post a link to a survey or something I want them to go to I have stopped just copying and pasting the url. I now have to paste it in and make sure to delete http://www because nearly all of them will type it in and a large percentage will do it wrong.

showing them ctrl+f to find something on a page blows their mind.

I have started teaching some sections of public speaking online and I was driven crazy by the complete tech illiteracy of some of the "digital natives." (pro tip: emailing and saying "it doesn't work" is not useful.)

I try to keep the xkcd comic about being excited when I get to show someone something new but it is hard.
I get the feeling that many of the commenters on this story would love to see a law banning all religious practice.
I have to ask: how is all that not outsourced for half the price already?
Stop using JWT for sessions (2016)
What's wrong with smartphones?
lower the barriers of entry for competition.
The touch typing part is not true, at least from my experience. Almost every kid I know in my school can type at least 30wpm touch typing. In fact, we had 2 required typing classes in middle school that both were a semester long. This is not even a rich private school thing either this is a public high school that is composed of mostly kids from lower income families.
I don't entirely disagree, but I've seen taking these concepts too far blow up just as often as building without input (at least in my experience).

In those cases a company finally gets a customer, usually a big one(s) (everyone sees mega dollar signs and maybe they get a taste of it), and then that customer monopolizes the development demands to the point that the product and development are laser focused on the whims of a company or handful of companies, and not something that everyone else who isn't engaged in the process will buy.

It gets worse when those companies don't REALLY know what they will actually buy or keep long term, as they're used to effectively just picking from a list of what is available. When given a chance to influence development they often will make odd corner case choices that are legit annoyances with existing products or their own problems.... but absolutely won't sell the product at the end of the day or over keep them as a customer the long term. They won't tell you what really works already because they only really recall problems with past products.

It's a delicate balance. Getting user input is hugely important, but they're not going to tell you the truth all the time, and they don't always know it. Sales guys, also don't necessarily know what it is either.

I've been on both ends where I was all "OMFG engineering did you think about how people use this!?!? Did you ask anyone??" and "This product is now only useful to one company because all we do is take user input and make widgets what the hell is going on???"
Hadrien's book is so engaging I couldn't stop reading.

It's superbly illustrated. It steadily and seamlessly progresses through each topic that you don't realize you're actually learning 'deep learning'.

I'm sure this book will get lots of praise pretty soon.

Thanks for sharing it ghosthamlet. Thanks for writing it Hadrien.
I think we generally should discourage growth of any company beyond a certain size. I don't see any societal value in these large companies but a lot of disadvantages.
I live in southeast Alaska, where we have a relatively healthy population of coastal brown bears. When we go into the woods, there is always a chance a bear could be nearby.

Your first encounter with a brown bear in the wild can be unnerving. It's a really different feeling to see an animal that could easily kill you in the woods, without a wall or a fence between you and that animal. It's really humbling, and makes the woods feel entirely different than most other woods I've ever been in.

It's not that hard to be safe. You make noise when you're in brushy areas, and you stay aware of your surroundings as long as you're in bear country. If you're camping, there are well-established routines that keep bears from messing with your camping area. You keep in mind where bears are in their annual cycles; are they relatively well-fed, or are they hungry and looking anywhere they can for food?

I like the balance of doing technical work with the experience of walking in the woods with bears. The projects I work on are important, but they're not life-safety-critical. If one of my servers goes down, no one's going to die. Having interacted with brown bears at close range, a server going down is a relatively low-stress event.

I wish there were more wild areas left. The woods in the lower 48 feel empty after living in forests that still have the top predators alive and healthy.
How often do you release? How long is your release cycle.

What is your manager-to-developer ratio?

To what extent are developers involved in your planning and design process?

You’ve said you follow Agile development, is the Product Owner located in this Office?

What is regarded as the Developer’s deliverables? What is the ‘last point of contact’ between a developer and a piece of work.

What percentage of developer time is assigned to addressing technical debt?

[Red flag: There are no devs present during the interview]

How much "bad code" would you say there is in your codebase?
Why hip startups like Casper and Away love to send mail
> Such habitats should be able to support life inside indefinitely and be able to produce new habitat...

We have this already, and it's free.

We're just too short sighted as a species to fully appreciate it, so we degrade or even destroy those habitats for short term gains.
That may have sounded profound but it comes off poorly because it gets the theory of evolution completely wrong.

Success is the differentiator that allows for the selection part of natural selection. Also evolution cannot “grind to a halt” because it is an outcome of thermodynamics.

Evolution isn’t a metaphor. It is still the underlying physical process even in selection of political systems.
> and this makes me wish I could teach in high schools, even if just a bit

Reach out to a local school and set up a https://www.codeclub.org.uk/
The constraints of nature are not as strict as those of society. Food literally grows on trees but now you have to pay for it. It's estimated that our ancestors worked about 15 hour weeks before the agrarian revolution.
Tim, you made the web fundamentally client-server. Servers have urls, can be indexed, have centralising power. Clients do all the work: run the code, render the page, be subservient. Clients do not have urls, cannot be indexed and cannot communicate among each other (gRPC excepted). Don't you agree this design has massive centralisation as a side-effect, and how can we fix the design?
I mostly speak from my own experience growing up (90s). Briefly, this was Apple II in middle school learning BASIC for 6 weeks, Windows 95 in High School, XP in college (Liberal Arts). I didn't start writing code until I was about 25, and was 28 when I started in tech.

I can understand that it's possible kids don't know about paths, since most modern operating systems abstract this from the users, but I wonder if it has as much or more to do with never having been exposed to Linux. That was certainly my situation.

One of the first pieces of advice I read when I started teaching myself to write code was "So you want to be a hacker? Ditch Windows and use Linux full time." I realize there are lots of good Windows programmers out there - not trying to bash anyone - but for the programmer on a budget I think this is the correct path. I will also admit that I haven't used a Linux GUI in many years and I suspect that one could get by without understanding paths using a recent version of Ubuntu. One of the reasons I suspect this is that I have had my parents using Ubuntu since 2011 or so.

Nevertheless, many basic linux concepts were foreign to me when I started using it. Ever since, I've definitely thought Linux computers in schools rather than Windows would be a good idea. Linux computers without a GUI at all might be even better (at least for teaching computer classes), but I guess you might have difficulty holding their attention.
WP 8.x did not JIT code on device, hence the whole MDIL and cloud compiler on the store.

WP 8.x only did dynamic linking at installation time and when OS updates were done, by replacing symbolic labels with the actual target destinations. Everything else was already compiled at the store and downloaded as binary into the devices. This was the whole point of MDIL.

There is a BUILD session and a further Channel 9 deep dive interview showing how MDIL deployment works on WP 8.x.

So Chakra was the only JIT in town.
FastMail is standards-based, so it does not support labels. This is a good thing, and you should stop depending on Google-specific proprietary features. Even when I was on Gmail, I had a lot of issues with labels because the third party mail clients I needed to use didn't support them. The inbox tabs I ended up replacing in Gmail with rules/filters, that moved my social updates, for instance, to an actual social folder which worked properly on third party clients.

That being said, FastMail is also the leading developer/champion of a new mail standard called JMAP, which supports both labels and folders. I suspect, therefore, if it takes off, they may consider supporting labels themselves.
Have used Intellij for java and also noticed that it is the only IDE that will sort the completion menu the way I would expect it to with the methods I would like to use most of the time in the 1st position.
They really don’t.

They don’t have monopolies on anything and there is no high barrier to entry to compete, they are just really popular. Facebook is far more akin to Kim Kardashian than Ma Bell or Standard Oil.

You don’t need Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or any of that other crap. In fact, it turns out if you stop using them nothing bad happens to you at all. I’m many cases your life is better and you actually end up more connected to your friends and family.

Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon however… now those are some real problem companies that pose real dangers.
Make that "Sir Tim Berners-Lee" and I agree.
I think the problem is not with smart phones, but with the ecosystem around them. Eg, Apple, and iTunes. Android, and google docs
U.S. Dept. Of Homeland Security 2017 Data Mining Report [pdf]
The VSTi support is pretty sweet-it pretty much changes this sort of thing from toy to tool.
Nobody ever gets interview feedbacks in this industry.

What you are saying is true, but its always impossible to establish intentions. And either way you have to sue. All the best ever getting a job if you are known to do legal fights against prospective employers.

>>Union organizing is not a "part time political project," it is a legally protected right.

One believes in these things only until they become managers themselves. And every one aspires to be one in this industry.
> They all lack something important: success.

Are you sure? The increasing automation will perhaps give us a future where most people don't have to work and we'll still have plenty of food, shelter, social interaction and entertainment - the latter is almost free in this digital world.

Maybe it is just me, but it's as if one can start to see the contours of it forming, slowly, though, as many of the remaining automation tasks are really, really hard. Like building a house, or making something that can do the house chores that we don't have machines for yet.
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50 States of McMansion Hell
Not to mention file extensions. Windows hides them by default now, and nobody seems to know they even exist
> Problem here is that developed world has destroyed it's wilderness long time ago, used that land to produce food and resources, but now we demand that others don't do the same.

So why not pay those countries to leave their wilderness wild?

It would be like saying: "You know, we really screwed up, and you guys are the only ones who have some of this precious wilderness left. We'd like to pay you to preserve it."
The author made the speed of the player much faster a few hours after my comment was posted so my concerns regarding speed/difficulty are no longer relevant. The max speed of the player was barely the speed of the enemies before the change.

I’ve also tried it on my iPhone and it’s easily playable too.
The problem is the same people who want to kill themselves slowly want our tax dollars to provide them free medical care whilst they do so. Your comment ignores the real burden that self-harming people create upon those around them, and why we need to get them out of self-harm rather than bearing the burden of it.
Happy this conversation helped you :)

I find this topic to be really sensitive to me as I find that the first impact with the customer is always a big reality check for every idea I have.

I often find myself building what “I think” people/companies want, but I think it’s healthy to try and build what they’re already willing to pay for!
React Popup Component – Modals,Tooltips and Menus (3kb) –  All in One
Ok, let’s even stipulate that it’s a failure of data rather than methodology. The computerized climate models have very sensitive dependence on this kind of poorly measured data. Why should I trust them if that data is subject to wild swings as measurements get refined?
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Looks cool, looking forward to playing around with it!

If it is compiling, can it also export code/libraries that can be embedded in other projects, or is the way to go to embed the entire thing? Since you mention demos as a target group I'd guess the first, but it isn't entirely clear.
The front-end interviews at Google are about half algorithms and half details about how web front-ends should work, be structured, web technology problems, browser performance, etc. It's an entirely different interview track from General SWE.
> the vast majority of web-based exploits

Do you have a source for that? As far as I know, most web based exploit came from any external plugin such as flash, pdf, videos, etc...
If we ceased all carbon emissions today the earth would continue to warm for centuries, sure. But if we did that then it wouldn't the total temperature rise be lower, requiring less geoengineering? How is that pointless?
To be fair, Google released their own OTP hardware keys and have already 2FA login mandatory for accounts that they deem "high risk."

I don't think it's fair to blame them for the facts that most folks are not willing to give up passwords yet. Given that passwords are the current reality, shouldn't they do everything in their power to make them as secure as possible?
Given that religion preys on people’s fear and vulnerabilities, I don’t see why not. It’s a form of abuse.
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He's actually been working on solving that exact problem: https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-l...
Not sure that is a reliable indicator. How many times have you seen job openings that list under required experience years of Java, c++, JavaScript, angular, Java script, HTML, react, nosql, mongodb, and postgres all on the same line? The majority people writing those job ads have no idea what they're asking they just dump the list a few stakeholders gave them and these stakeholders will put anything they can think of in there, including technologies the company has used once 10 years ago for a small project that is long dead.
There is no barrier. There are OSS alternatives that are just as good as the real thing which you can spin up on an AWS instance in like 15 minutes. The cost to entry is $10 for a domain and a $1 credit card authorization to get started with AWS.
Selling indulgences was never mainstream or officially sanctioned by the Catholic Church, and it was formally banned almost 500 years ago.

And, in any case, many modern churches and denominations are only tenuously connected to Catholicism of any era.
Modern class D amps are terrific, but it's annoying to see THD brought up as a measure of audio quality. THD is terrible measurement - its value is not that it's relevant (except to demonstrate things aren't actually broken), but rather that it's easy to measure.

An amplifier's ability to reproduce a 1khz sine wave into a resistive load tells us nothing about how it behaves in the face of 8-10 octaves of frequency range and the real dynamic range and harmonic complexity of actual musical content, when hooked up to the absurdly complex and nonmusical behavior of real speakers. The 5% THD of single-ended tube amps that people who've never heard one tell us proves how "inaccurate" they are is inaudible, but the grimy, dull sound of cheap amps that have excellent THD specs is plain to hear.

It's frustrating, in part because this stuff is, so far, mostly impossible to measure. It's hard to get a sense of how an amplifier will sound from specs.
Aren't there already some competing social media platforms out there? Twitter, facebook(Whatsapp and Instagram too), Snapchat, G+ used to be a thing. You may say they do not compete head on to each other, but which one of them was immune to this problem? The fact that any internet based social platform will have a very large connectivity and will provide people a very easy way to communicate to an exponential amount of other people, that fact won't change by lowering barriers. The fact that all the people reading something online neither have the time nor the patience to research everything is not going to change.
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