skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
enraged_camel says>"college is tremendously more expensive today than it was back when Boomers were attending it..."

Especially when you're

- unable to understand cumulative interest (slept in math class),

- unwilling to take advantage of cheaper state and community colleges and trade schools,

- unwilling to avoid careers with little to no viable economic future (women's studies, fine arts, politics, history, English,etc.).
It won't get interesting until they start selecting breaking proposals.

From what I see in the past couple of decades in popular languages, is there really a justification for breaking changes, from the POV of project maintainers?
If you want to see what a wholesale relationship with Amazon looks like, check out Amazon Advantage (https://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-product-page.htm...) which media publishers use to sell physical product through Amazon. 55% discount off MSRP, demands to ship single units to warehouses scattered across the country, no shipping discounts, no payment until goods sold, and badly designed algorithms that usually order far too much. Some media publishers are leaving Amazon Advantage because they can't make money (see http://articles.ibpa-online.org/article/breaking-up-with-ama...), pricing higher so they can make a decent margin, or simply telling Amazon that there is no more inventory.
> I don't know how you city people do it.

We feel the same about you. :)
Aging IT specialties that just won't retire
Inadequate sleep Boosts Appetite
Little known fact: a lot of the Apple Connect was outsourced to Infosys in India. That is how important Apple thinks developers are to them.
I should be able to get you some files, getting approval now; can you let me know how to contact you?
Custom runtimes for Lambda: bring your own language
Going to zero has zero to do with real estate being a secure investment. Owning an underwater property and running into a situation where the investor can't continue to make the mortgage payments is just as bad as the asset going to zero for most.

> you can invest on loaned principal without extreme risk in case of failure

Yes, when this happens thousands upon thousands of times you have the 2008 world wide financial crisis.
AWS Step Function Integrations – Compute, Databases, Messaging, and ML
Yay transit, but it seems like this trend tends to make housing more expensive as businesses move to the hearts of already-crowded cities and make rents even worse. Wouldn't it be better for a company to move its headquarters to a new transit stop that's in an outlying area?
The deposit won't be nearly enough to cover the damages people can cause.
New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
They can do harm too. In my personal experience, they have caused much more harm than good. Not saying that for everyone, but ymmv with doctors.
Might mean the 101 down by LA
Problem is, Amazon is becoming an online monopoly and this policy has a pretty fast slippery slope to - we don't want you as a customer for many, many reasons including: you post unfavorable reviews, you tend to only buy things on-sale...
Yeah, it pays way more.
> the best solution involves an outside party unilaterally establishing accepted rules of behaviour, forcing cooperation instead of defection.

This assumes that there is an outside party that (a) knows what the best rules of behavior are, which means it has to know when cooperation is in fact a net benefit; and (b) will in fact enforce those rules of behavior, and not be co-opted into enforcing other rules instead.

History shows that no such outside party ever actually exists.
Meanwhile, we FLY down 101 every morning because reverse commute down the Peninsula into the valley. I don't think the people who complain about CA from what they hear online could even believe the speeds we manage.
Khrunichev is a design and manufacturing facility, directly comparable to SpaceX. SpaceX also manages its own launches.

The whole idea that a post-Soviet state bureaucracy is not just comparable, but somehow more nimble than a new commercial upstart is ridiculous.
I generally agree there's probably no point in discussing this without an end game. So here's one:

Do you believe that python/ruby/go/node.js/etc.. can replace php and do a better job?

I haven't heard a recent apples to apples comparison, and the ones from the past have faded in relevance because of improvements made in php. I suspect that is because there are business reasons php runs circles around other solutions, and that technical superiority doesn't mean financially superior. (how many key google products run on javascript?)

If php is going to go away, it needs a jquery moment like this:

http://vanilla-js.com/

I am actively gutting all jquery from all my projects because it truly needs to go away because something better came along to replace it. I haven't seen that with php yet and I have looked because I want my business to stay running and not fall behind because of a poor platform choice.
Case in point: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9z9q04/update_...
Dividends (MSFT paid much more than AAPL) is one major difference. Is MSFT worth less than AAPL just because MSFT handed out cash to investors instead of keeping that cash in a bank account wrapped in AAPL shares?
Would you say AAPL is worth more if it issued a new pile of stock and just sat on the cash? The market cap would grow, but it's pointless to say it's worth grew just because it's a computer business with a bank account bolted onto the side.
Yes! When the Expo line opened in Los Angeles I restricted my job search to companies accessible via the line.

I chose my next job because it was accessible via the Ballona Creek bike path and buses (though the 2 buses made a 20 min drive take an 1hr+).

My current job is a shorter bus trip and a shorter bike ride. I'm not willing to drive 1-2 hrs one-way to work. I want time to be a part of my community, to have hobbies, to do more than drive, eat, sleep, work and to get that time I need a short commute.

If a long commute limits my existence to drive, eat, half hour couch potato, and sleep than the job is not worth it.
I think that's what he's saying - they go to the ER.
Except the first example in the article was in Illinois.
Another example of the dangers of putting all/most your revenue-making eggs in Facebook's basket:

> Facebook recently cancelled a deal with Mic to publish a news video series. People familiar with the company say that move removed a crucial source of revenue and scared away potential acquirers and investors.
> I really disagree with your wording, and the slant you're taking with calling an above average representation in your company as an overrepresentation.

An above average representation is the definition of an overrepresentation. I'm not sure why you are attempting to state otherwise. Whether you desire a larger representation of women in tech as a whole does not alter the objective fact that a company with a share of women in tech roles larger than the tech industry average has an overrepresentation of women in tech roles.
I hesrd a good discussion on Joe Rogan about how distance (physical and figurative) enables people to do things that would normally make them feel horrible. Most not sociopaths don’t feel good about insulting another person in person, not to mention there’s a certain danger of getting your ass kicked. The internet enables someone to act like a monster. Pathetic but unfortunately wide spread.
Too bad that kind of thing is difficult to catch using static analysis.
For the record, Apple did hit the trillion dollar mark, but has since fallen
The odds will vary greatly depending on whether we mean any life (microbial or unicellular life seems most likely), or complex, let alone sentient life.

Technically the term encompasses the former too, but all too often people seem to equate it with the latter.

Personally I am more convinced by the "rare Earth" hypothesis too, and I don't believe humanity will discover complex alien life ever thorough its existence. Obviously I understand why this point of view gets the boos.
America as a whole is obsessed with labels and categorization, and an obsession with making things fit neatly in buckets, which is ridiculous. The media especially loves it, look at all the new acronyms they concoct on a daily basis.
Cyber Monday Runs All Week
Did he really do that bad or was he stymied by anti-trust concerns. Major miss in terms of executing on Windows Phone a few years too late but in other ways he really could not use the strength of Windows too much for fear of the government.
Great work Bob!
Who will attend to RWC?
Assuming you purchased your house with 20% down and 80% mortgage (which is very common), housing only has to go down 20% for you to "go to zero."

Further, unlike stocks, buying/selling houses incurs fees (round-trip fees can be anywhere from 5% to 12% depending on your city/state/country), so really, a house going down 15% is like you going to zero.
I can see why MS would want to keep Apple alive, but wouldn't the shared ownership raise even worse antitrust fears?
My big city commute is a half hour walk. Best two parts of my day. If it's raining, I hop on the train.
I agree, I own a car but take a commuter train daily to downtown Chicago and it's so nice to catch up on news and drink my coffee instead of swearing at traffic. I still use the car when leaving the city.
We are making these open source runtimes available soon:
C++[1]
Rust[2]

We are also working with our partners to provide more open source runtimes:
Erlang (Alert Logic)
Elixir (Alert Logic)
Cobol (Blu Age)
N|Solid (NodeSource)
PHP (Stackery)

There is also native Ruby support as well[3]

1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-the-c-lambd...

2. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws...

3. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support...
Aviation has always been a mix of government regulation and industry self-interest that has worked better than all-regulation or no-regulation alone.

https://www.slideserve.com/wauna/we-need-to-continuously-imp...
Understanding Connected Living Room Audiences
It is very good at doing exactly what you don’t want though.
Sorry, not really on topic, but the market for tablets is really saturated? I can hardly find one that meets my goals, and the one I do like is Huawei (the M5 looks cool), which has a history of backdooring their products for Chinese spying purposes.
Very exciting announcement at AWS re:Invent :)

I'm personally very hyped for using Haskell natively on Lambda! In the keynote he mentions the partner sponsored runtimes, and actually said "Scala and Haskell, you'll just have to bring your own!" (as in, community effort).
The stats are sort of misleading. Of COURSE 97% of people drove to an office park in an Illinois suburb, because that was the only way to get there.

OF COURSE almost every commutes to downtown Chicago by transit, because parking costs are insane.

I'm not saying I'm not pro-transit; I am. Very much so. But these stats don't capture how many of the 97% hated commuting by car but had to, and how many of the 90% "non-automobile" commutes are being done by people grudgingly (or AFTER driving a car to a train station, paying for parking, waiting for a train, and wishing they had a nice big free parking lot at their destination).
Or just give people cash and let them make their own decisions.
Amazon Is Showing Healthcare Is the Next Big Thing for Machine Learning
Career change is definitely possible. I’ve done it. I think it takes time and that The key is to not rush it. Make the transition one step at a time, while trying to think ahead, like a chess match.
This article was so bad that a morbid fascination took over and I read the whole thing. I was gearing up to rip into this until I googled the author and saw they're only 24. I fell into cliche thought bubbles believing they were insight when I was 24 too.

Edit: Wait a sec, The Paris Review? Is this some clever Parisian social satire of the anglosphere? If so, those scamps got me.
Overdose Deaths Set a Record in 2017
I definitely know this pain (and glory) from experience and can relate. It all began when Ontario started enforcing AODA and the brand I was working with at the time had to be compliant due to their business operating in the province despite primarily being a U.S. company.

I've done enterprise-level a11y projects for major brands, and the problem isn't always understanding the WCAG Success Criteria or WAI-ARIA, it's the _how_ that gets you. Multiple times, I literally had IBM's a11y practice and that of another major accessibility vendor (both of whom were hired for validation of approach and certification of the product coming from my team) disagreeing on which UX direction actually fulfilled the Success Criteria. The grey area of accessibility integration is _vast_ and in many cases, outright subjective.

Oftentimes folks believe that just because you plunked ARIA roles and other a11y-specific best practices into a framework or design system, it actually works out to be a11y-compliant. While it gets you closer to the endgame, the complexity of the actual User Experience (e.g., running it through screen readers and other assistive devices, and not relying solely on static analysis like aXe or pa11y) is where the magic (and pain) actually happens. Accessible responsive patterns, contrast ratios, UX metaphors, affordances, etc.; all of that is yet another level of abstraction that'll keep a team with work for a very long time.

(For those that really specialize in a11y to the point of becoming a consultant, though, it's a very lucrative career path for the above reasons.)
Not sure about your commute, but the thing I hated about commuting in a car was the variability of it.

I was commuting from Seattle to Bellevue, a distance of about 11 miles. On a really perfect day, it could take 15 minutes. On a normal day it would take between 30-60 minutes. On a bad day it could take up to 2 hours. There were enough bad days that I had to plan everything around that 2 hour commute.

After switching to a job in the city, I knew the longest it would ever take me to get home was about an hour and 15 minutes, and that was if I walked.
Comparing Windows, Office & Xbox vs iPhone, Mac and AppleTV, I wonder if NYT readers spend more time interacting with Microsoft products or Apple.
Same world since Multics.
This is not meant to sound like an off the cuff comment, it is not, a lot of thought has gone into this:

Remember this piece before you argue with someone that they should move away from their friends, family, their support systems for work or other development opportunities. It Takes A Village, and your local support system is not to be underestimated.

In the end, all we have is family and/or loved ones ("chosen family"); everything else is fleeting. Spread your wings, but know where Home is (and remember Home is something to be cultivated, and not to be taken for granted).
Gotcha! Definitely an interesting marketing point. I probably would have had the same reaction :)
Varnish and A-B Testing: How to Play Nice
No shit, your quality of life is poor when you spend a minimum 1/8 of your waking day trying to get to and from work?

You're framing it as a "man, suburbs suck" argument when it's more like "man, choosing a job really bloody far from home really sucks".
This is particularly interesting in light of the way Nashville just rejected transit: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/what-went-wro...
The article seems to imply that "talent wants transit" because they want carless urban life. OP says there's the other side of the same coin.
You're right. I changed the word. :)
Sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are starting to make editorial decisions of what counts as hate speech, what accounts and pages should be banned/removed, what affect do algo changes have on the content surfaced, what suggestions should show up in auto-suggest or the front page, etc.

I don't see the same choices being made in regards to Gmail spam filters for instance. I'd say we're at a time when this conversation is necessary. And I'm not one to trust the politicians with this decision, but it'd be nice if he showed up to some open forum on the topic.
The iPhone ecosystem has the most lock-in by far and even has hardware and app store lock-in. People are forced to give up 30%. iPhone 4 was the last truly innovative phone, the changes after that have been either iterative or waiting for Samsung to take the risk on phablets and then making phones bigger. Apart from things like touch-id.
Exactly. Also hopefully we can create a world where politicians aren't enemies of the people.
The traction control on my Mustang that allows me to drive it in the winter and the ability to turn it off in the summer :)
I moved to Dublin in 2000 to go to college, and finding a place to rent was extremely hard, they were very expensive, very low quality (eg. tiny mouldy basement) and you had no protection, there was no PRTB as far as I was aware, the landlords would always just keep your deposit and do whatever they wanted. I learned to never pay the last months rent (just keep fobbing them off with sob stories for a month) as the landlord would surely never give back my deposit.

from roughly 2000, to 2010, things got much better, it actually felt like a renters market at times. You could rent a whole house in the city for a reasonable amount, and tenancies could new be registered with the PRTB. So both parties had protection.

After that I found things gradually harder and harder. Harder to find a place, more crummy places for more money, landlords no longer registering with PRTB, doing whatever they want again, cus they know any tenant will have to put up with it and just feel lucky to have a place.

In 2016, I had had enough of it. I moved down to the country. It was a great move, I can go on great walks and cycles from my door, its quiet and peaceful, and I am avoiding all the noise, air pollution, scumbags, and issues of housing in Dublin.
That's not a fair assessment. Ebay doesn't bait & switch fast/free shipping or swap vendors when you add an item to your cart. I am frequently disappointed by ebay's lack of polish, but I have never gotten the impression that ebay was actively trying to defraud buyers or enable such behavior from third parties. Amazon, on the other hand, is 100% guilty on both counts.
> Only extremely naive investors would be spending their cash to buy a property

Smart investors use other people's money and hope for the bailout.

Galaxy brain investors use other people's money and write the bailout.
There is no reverse commute in the bay area anymore. It's uphill both ways
Ask HN: As fo 2018 – best framework for web forms entering data into SQL db?
This used to be the chat de-rigeur for HN, as a lot of early startups tried to figure out what was the best way to enter data into a database backend. The chatter seems to have settled down - has the industry settled into some standardized framework? Are there optimal, well maintained frameworks for a simple web forms/data collection type site?
I'm very glad that issues of urban development are now getting more attention on HN.

Urban development will be one of the biggest challenges of 21st century.

This issue deserves both more money, and talent being directed to solving it.

And Californian people, your issues are truly severe. I met Chinese people who ventured to SF and Silicon Valley, and called it an urban hell.
What's the use case for this? Maybe being able to bulk-import relational data?
Isn't the premise of Go that a team sufficiently large enough will eventually act as a collective idiot in terms of code maintenance? I'm looking forward to some real research on the question of whether Go's design choices have had real world results in improving productivity with supersize code bases.
Nice! Though we've been playing with this for Azure Functions over the last few months.
I'm one of the people who solved problems very quickly (3rd overall last year). I'm somewhat competitive by nature, and I did ACM programming challenges in undergrad (although I was never good enough to make the local team, heh). Happy to answer any questions you might have about "competitive" AoC; it's fun in a very different way than learning new languages for the competition. I personally used Python for the last few years, and I'll probably use it again this year (assuming I try to compete).

Part of it is familiarity with the format, which of course assumes they keep things reasonably similar this year. Knowing the kinds of problems that appear (parsing, graphs, optimization, reverse engineering, etc.) helped me put together a little library of code that means I'm not spending time rewriting fundamental algorithms.

Reading problem statements is one of those skills I picked up from ACM programming competitions. The problem statements usually contain a lot of fluff - to speed-code you want to be able to pluck out the relevant bits quickly so you can start formulating the solution.
I live and work in SF and my commute is mostly walking, including past a park, which helps me wake up or wind down. I also ride a train for about 10 minutes each way and use the time to study foreign language (using apps like duolingo).

I find car driving to be claustrophobic in comparison to being outdoors. I can't think of a more miserable commute than trying to be entirely attentive to driving in traffic when not awake yet. I've turned down jobs in the south bay / SoCal for that reason.

I don't pay any more for the house I'm renting than a decent apartment would cost in the south bay, and I have a small yard and a quiet neighborhood to live in.

(downtown is, after all, only a very small part of SF)
>I tried Go a while ago. I was hooked by the performance , the community around it and vendors support ( AWS , Heroku , GCloud etc...) but I got quickly fed up by the awkward package management system, the weird syntax and the horrible idea of $GOPATH, especially on Windows.

My experience was similar. In addition to those, I found I really missed a REPL console and moreso something like byebug that RoR has. For those that aren't familiar, byebug lets you put the command "byebug" anywhere in your code that opens an in context REPL. It's enormously helpful for hard to figure out bugs.

The other thing that turned me off from Go was testing. It has good enough support for unit testing but it really lags behind in integration testing. Sometimes you want to know that if you hit this endpoint with this payload you get this response back. It's harder than it should be to write integration testing where you spin up the application and test it end to end.
The problem with new towns now versus the 1800's is now all land has an owner in the USA with legal protections, in the 1800's we just took land from the occupants the native Americans - it's sort of like a Platonic ideal to start from scratch but never going to happen without a disruptive event. Europe just got lucky that so much of their cities were pre-automobile age, USA got unlucky in that sense. That sort of brings us back to the Amazon/sports type bidding war with incentives from local government entities.
> The main places where "government" provides value, in my opinion, are where there are market failures, or where collective action gives a lot of benefit.

Unfortunately, even in cases where there is a lot of theoretical benefit to collective action, government intervention rarely, if ever, realizes that benefit--for exactly the reasons #1 through #4 that you give.

I like to use in this context a paraphrase of the old joke about regular expressions: Some people, whenever they see a problem, think "We'll just get the government to fix it." Now they have two problems.
and companies offering remote job gaining even bigger upper hand.
https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/wiki/Language-...
A library for checking JAVA class fields regarding data validation&verification