skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum#Little_Ice_Age
The last Maunder Minimum was between 1645 to 1715 but there is no agreement (as usual) on whether it was a major contributor to the 'mini ice age' that occurred at the same time and had a big impact on food supplies.

Interesting that Annie Maunder was not recognized at the time due to lack of formal education qualifications.
Two papers were published in Edward Maunder's name in 1890[4] and 1894,[5] and he cited earlier papers written by Gustav Spörer.[6] Because Annie Maunder had not received a university degree, due to restrictions at the time, her contribution was not then publicly recognized.[7]
The reply stated:

>and not creating incompatible technology which would ultimately be a dead-end.

Why would the tech be a dead end if the Soviets won the cold war?

I really don't understand how I'm the one spouting any idolatry at all. No idea what that even means. I just think the argument is facile, and see no real grounds for believing it.

I do understand that you're attacking me though, in spite of me trying to understand your position. Not sure why I deserve that for politely disagreeing, but here we are.
It’s a start
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316438315_Gravitati...

Seems to be possible in theory, but appears to require pretty extreme energies
you mean, like they do in almost every single retail establishment you enter? Or do you mean like on the streets?

do you realize that your statement also implies it's "rude" and "unethical" to take a photo in a public place if there's anyone in the frame you didn't ask permission of?

Modern society has very much accepted that recording people unobtrusively without their consent is 100% ok. Not only does no-one refuse to go into an establishment that may record them without their consent, no-one gets upset when you take a selfie in public and capture the people behind you, or when you take a picture in a public park (or whatever) with many people in it.

The problem, and I speak from experience here, is when you actually make people actively aware of the fact that a person they know is taking pictures that include them when they're not paying attention to the camera.

Most people do not care that faceless entities are taking their photos and video of them without their consent. If they did, they wouldn't keep allowing their legislators to pass laws allowing this practice.
this is a pretty good prediction for 1988

Humm... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18403145 :)
As an interviewer, I’m not interested in having a “chill conversation”. I’m interested in knowing whether you have the minimum set of qualifications to know whether it’s worth the time to go through the trouble of setting up the in person interview, reserving a room, setting up the computer with my code interview, scheduling a block of time with other developers, etc.
I'd guess felt-tip pen and watercolour. Not a particularly exciting framework, to be fair, but works really well.
Implementing tracing in modern distributed app
There are some posts about it: https://pudding.cool/process/how-to-implement-scrollytelling...

And a whole category on it: https://pudding.cool/#how

And a repo for a "scrollytelling" library by the author:
https://github.com/russellgoldenberg/scrollama/

Source inspection is hard as it's all been bundled, but you can see some of the json data in there, and some custom functions to do the plot interactions. The plot code is almost certainly D3 (based on some of the non-obfuscated calls).
Something similar happened to a designer I was working with: The guy had his Apple Retina display Super-duper whatever, which he used to design.

At some point, he went to a developer screen to see how his designs were looking once implemented in code, and his first comment was "Why are the colors looking so bad?" ... Well, apparently the colors he chose looked great on his retina display but did not look that good on the average hardware.

After that day, we had to give him a second "normal" monitor so that he tested his designs for the layman user.
Perfect timing. I just started reading up about phaser since I was looking into building a html/js powered browser based gaming site, something like miniclip.com.

I am a complete beginner and I want to build a simple game to simulate trading bitcoin. Let's call the main character Wojak (since it's the most popular meme for bitcoin trading related discussions). Here's the idea : Wojak got into Bitcoin early and made a nice little fortune and now stays at home trading bitcoin on exchanges. I want the setting to be a house with furniture, a door, a window and a computer. Maybe something slightly better than this : http://img.phone.baidu.com/public/uploads/store_4/d/7/6/d769...

I will be using historical bitcoin price data to simulate a very simple exchange the user can trade against. Here are my questions for anyone who has built a game using phaser :

* Is phaser suitable for what I plan to build?

* can you give me an overview of what sort of time and effort building a game like this will involve?

* How do I generate the assets, models of the furniture? What tools are commonly used?

* How do I get audio for the background music and some simple effects for the scenes? Any good resources for this? Maybe there are apps that can help with this?

* Any good tutorials to get me up to scratch in understanding how browser based games work from a developers point of view?

* Any good resources and communities that might be helpful for what I have in mind?

I started looking into phaser and building browser based games a couple of hours ago, so apologies if the questions and my thinking are all over the place.
Though Assurbanipal doesn't really translate to 'king of the world' (see my comment below), the title in Akkadian is actually 'shar mātāti,' which is all the more striking. I haven't been able to find whether Akkadian shar shares a common root with Persian shah, although the ancient Achaemenid Persian empire did consciously model itself on a friendlier, ecumenical Assyrian model.
I'm afraid this would get used as an argument against global warming...
Last time I played with those console methods (about 2 years ago), I had to find out, that their cross-browser compatibility wasn't very good.

Does anybody know if that changed?
Sad that instead of having a discussion about this, my point of view gets downvoted. It's true. Where I live, cash has had more downtime than cards. That is just plain fact.
If it's a start it should still be planned though.
Passbolt can be installed in 7 minutes
I tend to agree.

I've been a GCP customer for ~18 months and as recent as a year ago it still felt like very early days for sales and support. Well, actually it still feels like early days for support. The products, however, have been surprisingly good for the most part and seem more mature and well-engineered than their market share would suggest, especially in comparison to Azure.

So, I'm of the opinion that if they can figure out how to sell, they'll do quite well.
One in four young women struggling with emotional problems
Here's a picture of how it looks, just in case:
https://i.imgur.com/ExxyA0v.png
This is a neat syntax, but it doesn’t seem at all typesafe (typesafety was the main benefit of JSX over the various string templates that came before it).
No. I have it install the manager. Literally all I need is the .vimrc and to start vim.
We have a similar story in one of the older Sanskrit works.

http://edition-open-access.de/proceedings/7/6/index.html
And now in act of insanity they plan to shutter Inbox . :-(

Please sign this guy's petition if you don't want it to happen.

https://www.change.org/p/google-google-don-t-kill-inbox
The Future of Apple as a Tech Leader
an archive of all the dead code of failed commercial products would be interesting. Both to study the implementation itself, but also to see the version history. Lots to learn / reuse I suppose!
Cloud computing alternative
My thoughts are that I don't know anyone that's adopted Azure at scale that are happy with the service.

N=1, YMMV, etc.
Make sure your are friendly to your colleagues. They know how to navigate through the company. They are also the ones who will give your manager feedback about how you are doing, as it is not unreasonable your manager is not able to assess that by him/her self.

Ask someone higher up to be your mentor.
There's not enough information in that comment. What kind of Math courses did he take? Did he ever take an intro to proofs course? Did any of his Math courses emphasize proofs?

All the proof heavy courses I've taken, whenever new notation was introduced the professor would explain how to interpret it. And if they didn't someone would raise their hand and ask what it meant. Which brings me to another point, was OP an active learner? Did he ask questions when he didn't understand?
Or the reverse: someone might not be good resume writing, but if you suspect this, talking to them can occasionally find some hidden gems.
To me embracing and extinguishing the wonderful Dejanews, then when everyone is accustomed to use Google to search for Usenet posts, removing the discussion search filter from Google search engine counts just like a milestone in the planned destruction of Usenet. That move to me looks a lot worse than axing G+ and other services I don't miss at all, because Usenet has been here long before Google and is not one of their products.
Why would you assume a developer has a Github projects? I work 50 hours a week including time I’m researching new to me technology. When I come home, I’m home and living the rest of my life.
because you’re writing extremely condescendingly without writing smart enough supporting arguments to get away with it
I'm in a quandary.
Is it better to have the government judging or businesses? Fuckbook, Goggle and Microslurp collect more data about you and in ways that any bureaucracy could not emulate....
Does it matter who watches us?
Do we want someone watching?
No it wouldn't. Voting methods and how presidential electors are chosen are entirely up to the states.
Isn't that just using something like an apple pencil to write directly on slides on an ipad? I didn't notice anything special. But maybe I missed something.
You can fuzzy search Amp's commands, or display a buffer with a complete listing of all of them[0]. You can also view the default keymap[1] right in the editor.

Hope that helps!

[0] https://amp.rs/docs/usage/#running-commands

[1] https://amp.rs/docs/configuration/#key-bindings
Also I've heard in Zoroastrianism asuras are the good guys and devas the bad guys whereas in Hinduism it's the other way around...
So ashurbanipal literally means God protects him

Here's one interesting read on how the myths evolved
https://videshisutra.com/2013/03/22/hariti-saraswatis-persia...
Generally in the UK, once you've been in a job for a few years, they need a pretty good reason to get rid of you, so it's less of a big difference from a normal permanent employment contract.
> Asking about previous work or interests in and out of software feels too subjective to compare candidates to one another

Yes, this is a problem in subjectivity, but I don’t think there’s any better way to judge a cadidate than their past experience. Experience is an important factor in determining leveling, etc.

> we once talked to a candidate with an interesting background and all the right buzzwords in their social network who did not even pass the screening challenge

Yes, and I did recommend giving a programming test. It sounds like your process worked if you were able to disqualify them early.

Behavioral interviews, when done properly, are not something they can easily BS through. In fact, I find I get far more details about how they work through this process than white boarding sessions.

Programming is not the only aspect of a job, understanding how they resolve conflict, disagreements about API design, how to design higher order interfaces, who they talk to and how they determine what to include in designs, how they deliver software into production, what they consider MVP; these are all things that can be discovered through behavioral interviews, and many people don’t represent these well on resumes.
"The only worse thing to training employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them"

-- Zig Ziglar
yeah, this was very clear.. I mean there were even pictures.
There will always be people like that, but your explanation just comes off to me as excuses to do nothing and continue the status quo.
There are technical reasons.

Azure is doing quite well leveraging Microsoft's existing enterprise relationships. I'm not sure how much success folks are having "lifting and shifting" their Microsoft infrastructure into the cloud, some, maybe?

However, everyone that I've heard of that understands cloud native type architectures that has attempted to deploy into Azure is looking to leave.
I agree with your list, but I'd add cars driven in famous races like Le Mans or Mille Miglia to the top (if they place well or win then it's really serious dollars).

It doesn't help 914 is one of the least loved porsche models, especially the 4 cylinder ones. 914/6 are slightly sought after, but base 914/4 like this one are just not desirable.

The right buyer who loves astronomy, grew up watching Cosmos, and already has a decent classic car collection might want to add this, but I doubt they will pay much of a premium.
I tend to resist arguments that rely on the term "impossibly difficult". At one time it was thought that a chess program playing at Grandmaster level would be impossible because of the combinatorial explosion, but we now have chess programs playing at Grandmaster levels. When chess programs started approaching Grandmaster level, people said programs playing Go at Grandmaster level would be impossibly difficult. But there they are.
While this is just my personal opinion, I view AWS, Azure and GCP as follows:

1. AWS is the clear market leader, tons of services, good support options, but you'll need pretty expert-level ops people to make sure everything is working together securely. You may have to build more plumbing than you think.
2. Azure is great for companies that are already MS shops and it makes lots of MS tech (.Net, SQL Server) super easy to use in the cloud.
3. If I were starting a startup, I would go with GCP. IMO their services are easier to use with a smaller ops team, and they have lots of services that scale more easily as you grow (e.g. Cloud Spanner). But not as good enterprise-level support.

I see lots of excitement for GCP in the startup scene, and as these startups become more mature I think the "enterprise-level"-ness of GCP will improve.
1. I can go into a grocery store and buy whatever I want without once thinking about the price of something or the total bill. It's an incredible privilege - one that I hadn't really thought about much until recently - but now I can't stop thinking how thankful I am for it.

2. I can go home to my parent's house whenever I want and I'm lucky to have supportive, loving parents and an extended family that openly supports me when I need it. We have our problems, but at the end of the day - I have a place to stay and food to eat even in my darkest moments.

3. A promising career in Silicon Valley and a great manager with whom I share a deep sense of mutual respect and friendship with. I know how rare this is, and because of that - I'm thankful.

A lot of work went into making this happen from a lot of different people over the years...so I'm actually really deeply thankful because this could have played out very differently.

Growing up, my family was lower-middle class, immigrant, and moved around _a lot_ because of instability in finances and my father's job was so uncertain that it could be axed on short notice among other reasons. I was a child for the early parts of the journey so only my parents can speak to the brutal pain of trying to start over in a brand new country that barely accepted them for who they are along with the burden of raising their first child. Not only that, but they started over with few resources - maybe the clothes on their back, a couple hundred bucks in their pocket and a few phone numbers to call if they were really in trouble. They/We did not have it easy by any stretch of the imagination and my parents themselves come from relative poverty where things like access to food, electricity, clean water and education was a real issue. We've come a long way and I'm both proud and thankful for that.

This only scratches the surface of the immigrant experience in America but I think it's highly relevant, especially during Thanksgiving and all the history imbued in the holiday.
> These examples were picked in the early 1990s, and are specific to the US market. Things change.

...like whether that claim is well founded or not.
Now killing G+, they can resurrect GReader :D
I don't. It's just helpful if they do, because through it I can learn more about them as a programmer.
Thank you very much for sharing, I am glad to have seen your comment here.
Space is BIG with a capital BIG !!! Small is human.
VSCodium solves that mostly (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium) but we'll have to wait and see if Microsoft keeps the repo up or finds a workaround.
What is "patronizing" about calling it "emotional labor"? The how moderating decisions are communicated is quite important for many communities.
Ok. Make a better one.
Why would they need Norton Utilities up there ?!
Oo..cool! I crowdsourced a lot of lesser known products over at https://killedbygoogle.com. I'll be pruning the list this weekend to combine/remove some of the phone/device additions that were added by others during Hacktoberfest.
Charity Strips Addresses of Gatherings After KSC Gov Poured Bleach on Food
This is a popular meme for some reason, but "And remember... don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right - speak up!" is literally the last line in the code of conduct.
You should look into Darch.

https://godarch.com/

"Think Dockerfiles, but for bootable, immutable, stateless, graphical (or not) environments for your everyday usage"

It supports Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/VoidLinux.
Assume his home was worth 1mm at the peak. He got a new loan for $750 k, paid off his old loan of ~$250k, and pocketed the difference.
This would be a great acquisition for Apple for Apple Notes!
I once worked for a Slot machine game company. The CEO said the main reason they developed a Slots game versus any other type of game, was that they knew people were addicted to Slots. I left shortly after and regretted working there ever since.
It was a feature not a product.
Singapore team develop PET aerogels from recycled plastics the Engineer
The complexity of AWS is exactly why it is so successful.

It is being pushed by both outside consultants and employees who become the experts within the enterprise. GCP's ease of use is a disadvantage in the big picture.
There's a ton of overhead. SGX uses encrypted ram, if that helps your mental state
https://killedbygoogle.com <- I got pissed after the Inbox announcement and turned it into a Hacktoberfest project. Going to prune it over the weekend to remove some of the cruft (specific phone models with clear lifecycles, etc).
It's not really, no, unless it's your job (or "job") to write this reply.
August, AFAIK.
"Commotitized" is not synonymous with low profit. There are at least a half dozen oil companies doing a few billion/qrt in profit.
Store-bought is not enough: My first hard cider homebrew
It is mostly the latter, as you'd imagine, and therefore most people encountering my resume already have some reason to pay attention. I think that lets me get away with being more opinionated in the way I present myself.
I wonder if the writer of that comment was American or British - it appears that the term is somewhat less offensive in the US.
Once, whilst watching a relatively mainstream US series I was surprised to see a character refer to their colleagues as "wankers", which seemed rather incongruous.
Its funny how to make something look 'advanced' or 'sci-fi' designers tend to spam pointless crap all over the UI.
this. The really great people we found were an absolute no-hope if you just looked at their CV. One of our best database folks was recruited into the company as a data entry staffer, and we only found out that they knew SQL from some breaktime chats. They were so unconfident about their skills that they didn't think they should/could apply for a dev position.
I'm not sure why companies are so insistent sometimes on doing UI/UX overhauls that nobody asked for.

At least Mojave has the option for a dark or light UI/UX.

Tons of older/less experienced people use Gmail. It's hard enough for those kinds of people to get used to a UI/UX to start.
About Google Reader:.
"Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader, stating the product had a loyal but declining following, and they wanted to focus on fewer products".

I cannot believe it's true. My understanding is with a news aggregator like it Google cannot control the news feed like it does with Google news.
Didnt Damore do just that? (I mean for his definition of "isn't right", yet isnt that the point?)
Why is this floppy disk joke still haunting the internet? (2017)
You got it. Deniers like to focus on the effect of the sun. But the sun can’t make much difference in climate. It’s all co2 and some methane.
For many years I only did this, but in most cases I was just one of several other interviewers.

Then I was the lead at a small startup where I was the only technical interviewer, led to a nightmare situation. The person could talk the talk but had dismal output in practice and was super defensive when things were on the line. Took a lot of work to convince others in the org he had to go as he was charismatic with excuses, personal issues, etc.

Never again. Now I grill people and only consider offers where I was sufficiently grilled, in real time, to ensure I'm around people who can do the job.
For the utility of astronortons.
Low-cost 'four-hour' bamboo house wins top prize
>That is provably not true in all (probably most) cases.

There are plenty of counterexamples: People who suffer from a condition which causes substantial chronic pain, those who wish to time their passing in order to minimize financial harm to their family, etc.
What makes a country poor?
Dang, true, I didn't make the connection between sending code through modem, and over radio :)
The author is mixing arguments. Sometimes he's referring to previous generation of Air (magsafe), sometimes to nobody knows what (touchbar -> you can buy pro without touchbar). Classic human behaviour in practice. First buying, then convincing yourself, that you did good, by making up arguments. We all do that, but I wouldn't write article about that, because it'll always end up unbalanced.
I've been thinking about it it too. I was really enamored with the touch bar until I received my current laptop, and I essentially never use it. The one killer feature is putting the lock screen button right next to the finger print reader so unlocking and locking is a breeze.

The reality is that when I'm at work, I'm logged in to a super beefy server. When I'm at home, I'm logged in to a moderately sized server in GCE. I don't use an IDE, essentially the only apps I use are Firefox, Spotify, and Terminal.

What's holding me back is the screen size. I'll take the biggest screen I can get. More screen == more panes. I absolutely love the 15" inch pro screen. Not sure if I could live with the 13" on the air.
I hope the Data Liberation Front, while not exactly a "product", lives a long and prosper life for as long as Google hoards our data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Data_Liberation_Front

They were quite helpful in getting about a decade worth of gmail data out of there when I decided I didn't want to use gmail anymore.
Brings to mind one of my favorite Onion articles:

"Partygoers Mocked By Catering Staff"

https://www.theonion.com/partygoers-mocked-by-catering-staff...

Experts say mockery of the well-to-do by the serving class is a millennia-old tradition.