skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a rather SV-centric view.

Trust me, it isn't. It's valid for every organization I've ever been in or consulted for (15+). I am in Eastern Europe and spent 9-10 years in offices, and the other 7 after that it has been all remote. I've seen a lot of companies for both consulting and normal 5-to-9 work.

While the reasons why most people don't stick around above 2-3 years are many and varied (and some are frankly quite stupid) to me it does seem to be the norm.

But I'll readily admit we all live in our own bubbles and confirmation biases. So I'm just sharing an additional anecdote here.
PDD is the best methodology.

(Panic Driven Development/Design)
Yes, his story and his humility are inspiring, but I think there is a bit of survivorship bias in drawing conclusions from a talk like this, or from one person's experience.

For example, I can't imagine someone being accepted to give a talk at a security conference about how they tried for 2 years to learn C++ to find a vulnerability in Chrome, but failed to even get as far as understanding enough to change a line of code.
These terms are interchangeable. Although typically one or other is used when speaking about a specific technology.

Also see datagram, cell and probably others I’m forgetting right now.
You clearly don’t work in the industry.

Edit: I see from your other post you haven’t interviewed since 1999. Sounds about right. The hiring process does not work how you think it should.
I don't know if it's widespread but at least here in WA you can pay Comcast an extra $50/month and they'll remove the data cap.
In my experience it's rare for even this kind of interaction to lead to an interview process-free result. The exception would be if "the guy" is brought in as a contractor (which these days should probably be your goal), but I've worked with a lot of large companies and HR almost always forces at least some portion of standard FTE applicant evaluation even for "the guy" type referrals.
Golang gives me that same C feeling.
Which is what agile started as and was in fact the whole point. It's like we're forever going in methodology circles:

One size doesn't fit all so we should make the development process more fluid.

Hey what a great idea! Here are some fluid methodologies I just came up with.

Woah this methodology is awesome; everybody should use it!

One size doesn't fit all so...
Me neither, if it is supposed to be an abbreviation of "character", I would pronounce it as "care" (based on my SoCal accent, at least).

I call it "char" because that's how it's spelled, though.
https://www.planttext.com/

Has an online split screen view with your text on one side, and the diagram in the other. It's quite crude - no auto refresh, for example - but it works.
Anyone who has programmed with Objective-C (or Swift) for years knows Apple's language deprecation cycle. Write code one year, the next year you are flagged with a deprecation warning -- Xcode of course will help you upgrade your code. Your unchanged code will probably work for another year and then suddenly it is an error. The "magic wand" of Xcode / Clang helps you thru this transistion. Apple likes to break eggs.
Note that I don't want to/don't think I should have to.
They sell their AdGuard program on Android. Because the full version of the program isn't available on the PlayStore (it breaks rules by interfering with other apps) they depend a lot on marketing and word of mouth to get new customers.

The code for their DNS servers is actually open source, so if you want the functionality without relying on AdGuard you can run your own server.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardDNS
I am currently working to reintegrate a feature in bake (from before the fork) that will allow you to run unit tests on discovered projects. Stay tuned ...
Web also doesn't have a linear structure, but the forward/back buttons work well enough.
> Yeah, it's badly written in a way to provoke controversy

I’m not sure it is worth my time to read something that is badly written to provoke controversy, even if it does make good clickbait.
You're responsible for ensuring your apps are in compliance with policies regarding its usage, as well as all Play policies.

And the developer will pinky promise that they won’t abuse it....
You seem to be intentionally missing the point here. It's about safety for playing children. Cars are a bigger issue than bikes. Especially when the bikes are being used by playing children.
Because I’m dumb, I write better code
https://github.com/fingolfin/memmove-bug
the damage from incompetence has already been done
Of course that's exactly what happened. The anti views are the minority. Their complaint is actually that they're losing out to a more popular position in a Democracy. The oil industry jobs pay extraordinarily well compared to (non-existent) alternatives that were there before the oil boom. There was no economy in West Texas before the fracking output soared. There's nothing out there other than Midland and Odessa, and their populations hadn't changed much in 30 years. The choice is extraction economy or no economy. And if by some unexpected effort + resources the state decided to invest vast tax revenue to build up a non-extraction economy in the area, it will take decades anyway.
Try Omnigraffle Pro - imports and exports to Visio.
There never was a non-extraction economy in West Texas. The place is empty. Some cattle. Fire ants. And the occasional SS retiree living in a mobile home in the middle of nowhere (such as the lady highlighted in the article).

Weep over the rainforests. Weep over the wetlands. Heck, you can even weep over the drained swamps. But, spare your tears for West Texas... there is NOTHING you could do to that terrain or ecosystem that wouldn't be an improvement over the wasteland that it now is.
Zuckerberg is who he is--the same guy who, in college, called his fellow students "dumb f---s" for trusting him with their data.

People want to excuse that as youth, but he wasn't an 8 year-old; he was an adult, with many of his morals formed. A statement like that is not indicative of immaturity, but insight into character--the way he views himself and other people--and it also reveals a willingness to use dishonesty to take advantage of people for his own gain.

In fact, his entire business model is built on the same "dumb f---s for trusting him" attitude. He has repeatedly monetized the violation of that trust and continues to do so. It's mind-boggling that people continue to allow him to get away with it.

This "gaffe" is not evidence of him being a "slow study", but borne of the same attitude he displayed in college and on many occasions since--one of superiority and condescension to other individuals and groups.
MEPs don't create laws. They make part of the deception. The body that shapes the EU and decides nonsense like this is unelected.
I thought Aristotle didn't do experiments.
Okay, I'll bite. With no updates since April 2017, why re-share this today and now?

Here is a link also to the legal page, last updated February 2017. Why am I sharing it? Also a mystery for others to solve, I guess. https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
If someone knowingly uses bad data, aren't the claims supported by it false?
There is a quote that says:

“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit.”

I would point out another important quote I live by:

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”

So I guess you could say I’m uneducated. But I believe I am a bit more charming and charismatic because I can quote others appropriately at the right times.
Why are basic services so special they should use competition to drive efficiency?

It’s well known that Singapore has a very high functioning govt with plenty of social services for its citizens and very low tax rates. I say good on them and if a company tells another country they are moving there then that country should take that as a hint to get their shit together.

And as for OECD countries not being satisfied with the US govt services who cares? The only opinion that matters is US citizens. Should Sweden care if the US complains about their system?
Show HN: Mankatha-da – Tweet SHA256 version of your 2019 goals and prove later
According to one of the siblings [1], Dia can export to LaTeX. I haven't used it myself, but a ddg search yields a promising workflow [2]. Myself, I usually export it to SVG, which I then use Inkscape to convert to PDF and include it in the LaTeX file that way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18789345
[2] http://lightonphiri.org/blog/latex-consistent-diagrams-using...
No offense but this comment is very pretentious. I think you’re trying to say you don’t like the term serverless itself. Your writing, on the other hand, tries really hard to sound intelligent and takes 2 paragraphs to state something you could have stated in less than a sentence.
For work, we use Concourse-CI self-hosted on EC2 using this script[0]. We have blue-green deploys to Pivotal Web Services (PWS) which is hosted CloudFoundary in AWS. We've written our own blue-green deployment scripts for Spring Boot, Node.js/React/Vue, and Python. We also have a pipeline for deploying directly to EC2 Autoscaling groups.

We have a Go service that is deployed directly to EC2 with a Makefile from its source repo. We deploy it so rarely that we haven't made a pipeline.

The deployment script is used to deploy first to a 'staging' environment and if all is well, a manual trigger to continue deploying the service to production. These deployments run from the 'master' branch from Github repos. We also have 'dev' branches that deploy to a separate dev environment for ad-hoc use for dev/integration.

Databases are PostgreSQL in AWS RDS with Liquibase used for migrations.

When performing a blue-green deployment to each environment, the test suite is run against the 'new' blue/green deployment. After passing this suite it becomes the current version in the environment and an additional 'Journey Test' sequence is run which verifies that the top 10 actions work as designed. We also run a 'Health Check' of the current production environment using the journey tests every 10 minutes.

[0] https://github.com/karmakaze/concourse-ec2

For personal projects, I've used Netlify for static sites, or webhooks/polling of Github/Gitlab repos to update prod deployments as well as a Makefile 'deploy-prod' target from the project repo.
I wonder if, now that processor speeds are increasing at a much slower rate, there will be a return to that lower level programming to focus on speed improvements through more efficient code.
Rob Pike's golang talks
Given the wisdom of experience he doesn’t announce that anymore.
That's an interesting idea, can you please share it in "ideas" section in ResearchCoders on the same page of the research.
8 reasons why China is the most fascinating tech market in the world
Unless you were interviewing for a mathematician position, I agree that's a garbage programming interviewing question. It's focused on your math skills far more than your programming skills.

If it's a "brainteaser" is I guess a matter of definition.

Look, I'm sure people are asked bad questions at all times in all companies, but the policy at Google was clearly to not do that. At least when I was there 2006-2009.
This is actually pretty good advice and I applied it as well. Go into an interview prepared for the expected questions (experience, behavioral, etc), but also go in with some well thought out opinions on the day to day work. I’ve found it makes a big difference even if your opinions are on the naive side since you don’t have insider knowledge.
Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites
What always strikes me when people talk about their interactions with charismatic people, is that they often say that the charismatic person seems genuinely interested in the person they're talking to, and that they make them feel like the most important person in the room.

So I'm starting to think that maybe that's an important key to charisma: being genuinely interested in the person you're talking with, and making them feel important, loved and understood.

I haven't applied it myself, though.
Malware that hobbled Union-Tribune may have come from `foreign entity'
Lambda is pretty useful. My team had a use case for data pipelines and some quick, easy monitors that do health checks. I despise the term serverless, but yeah... I see posts like this one, and it’s amazing even among seemingly intelligent circles, there are so many folks who will shit on something or a concept with absolutely no alternative or solution from them.

Don’t just complain. If you know of a better way, tell us or go do it yourself.
So the answer seems to be use agile to find a fit, or if that doesn't fit other organizational requirements/abilities, then choose the least poorly fitting process.
This is why I feel that the solution to most of the modern ailments in development is to just put Lua everywhere. All the great stuff of C, and all the new-school shit too.

If you do this, it'll seem soon enough that the Javascript nightmare was just a dream. Takes balls though.
The clock that will tick for 10 millennia
Well, I suppose it (the security page, that is) could be seen as a nice example of how good net citizenship works in two directions - 1) good people send friendly notifications when they find vulnerabilities, and 2) good people publicly thank people who send them - in that respect I guess it's a page that is of interest to some and may engender interesting discussion.

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone on the net acted this way?
What conviction? China is an authoritarian state, I’m not disputing that at all. My only conviction is that these articles are upvoted based on anti-Chinese sentiment, not on any real basis for learning something. Especially considering tech like drones and facial recognition aren’t being used by China any differently than how other countries like US, UK, etc. use them.
People lie on resumes. Anyone I am responsible for hiring is going to sit down to a computer with an IDE and solve some problems.
Not really. I also was forced to use a fountain pen in primary school (UK). A strange hold over since only penmanship hipsters use them in real life, and everyone used them to flick ink on everyone's white shirts.

Anyway back to the point, cursive - or "joined up writing" as we call it - is used by most people into adulthood even though nobody uses fountain pens past primary school because it is quicker than printing.
You could conceivably have a number of related experiments that lead you to conclude that phlogiston exists.
This is a complete house of cards, for multiple reasons. It's yet another boom that will result in a lot of hardship for people.

First, all the fracking in Texas is fueled by cheap interest rates and private equity. The industry as a whole is losing money -- to the tune of $600 billion since 2007. And when investors (I'm looking at you pension funds) finally realize that there is no path to making these companies profitable, especially when the decline rate on their wells is 70% in the first year, they will stop pouring money in. A lot of companies will vanish when this happens.

Second, the media loves to play up the notion of "energy independence" and headlines of the United States producing more than Russia/Saudi Arabia, but neglects to understand the differentials in crude quality. The US (especially Texas) is producing light oil, which increasingly is not wanted in the industry. The refineries in the US have consumed all they can and are increasingly in need of heavier oil to mix with, hence why you see the US exporting our oil and importing oil from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. When exports have been maxed out and foreign buyers slow their purchases these companies will have nowhere to send their oil and will need to slow drilling.
Wow.

When it launches publicly I'd like to get a satellite "modem " and test it myself. Although I'm sure others will before I do.
A very strange aside in my eyes. You almost don't touch the topic at hand.

Sure you can claw your way out by being financially wise. I just did that this year after life hit me really hard, several times, at my weakest hours. Took me 7 months to recover and I am pretty sure I know exactly what you mean by it.

Still, this piques. Yes you can have a decent way of life -- food, own home (increasingly rare), internet, a few vacations a year perhaps. But outside of that? Real middle class? Call me biased but I am not seeing it anywhere. Even the people who believe to live a middle-class life cannot afford more than 2-3 months of unpaid vacation (or a hiatus).

I absolutely positively cannot spend 2-3 years doing only the hobby projects I have in mind without caring about money. I simply am not at the level of a CEO pay + bonuses that enable such a lifestyle, and won't ever be if I continue to be a programmer for hire.

To me "middle class" means "able to freely switch jobs or professions without any financial pressure", combined with "able to enjoy leisure time as much as they like". But again, maybe I am describing the "rich life" and not the middle class. Perhaps we use different terms?

(Eating but also living the life is something money can enable -- but I agree that money alone cannot teach you that.)
(Edit to add: I’m certain this is a case of looking at the past with rose colored glasses but when I hear stories or look at movies, books, shows, etc... from the 50s, 60s, and 70s there seemed to be an optimism, a feeling present in the people that The Future was just around the corner, that there were big thinkers doing big things. That our brightest minds were working to launch humanity to another level. It worries me that we don’t seem to have this collective sense of optimism anymore. Now it almost feels like we’re just waiting for our greatest minds to figure out a way to drive ads directly into our brain. I think this lost optimism is why Musk’s projects make me smile a little. End Edit)

I think we’re mostly in agreement regarding Musk himself, I’m no expert on the guy, mostly just casual reading when he makes the news. His showboating has definitely seemed kind of unnecessary, though if I’m being my most charitable, I would say he may be showboating in an effort to inspire people to think and act on these large problems we face. And if I’m at my most uncharitable I might say it’s all an ego stroke. I honestly have no idea where his thinking really is on that spectrum.

Regarding large risky projects, the three that come to mind from Musk are SpaceX, Tesla, and the hyperloop thing. I personally believe all three of these are absolutely worth the risk and that all three are in the general direction of major changes humanity needs to turn.

Making a sexy, luxury, sporty electric car ubiquitous will, in my opinion, be a major step forward. Think of how many suburban folks we could never convince to buy a Prius, solely because its not as sexy as the neighbor’s car, or the masses of hillbillies who don’t need but surely love their massive trucks. Many of those people sneer at a Prius driver much the same way a racist sneers at a brown immigrant. My initial instincts would be to see this sneering and say “Fuck em, they’re just stuck in their ways, they’ll come around when electric is their only option” but I suspect Musk’s approach of building a sexy, fast, and luxurious car will do more to onboard the hillbillies and vanity-prone-keep-up-with-the-Jones-suburbanites than a Prius ever will. Also his public twitter antics with Australia’s power grid was an interesting study on how to snatch the world’s attention and bring awareness to the technology.

SpaceX seems rather important as a concept, to me anyway. But I can definitely understand why some people wouldn’t mark it as a priority.

The hyperloop project is a direction I’d love to see humanity look towards. Not necessarily the specific idea of a hyperloop, but ffs, lets at least start exploring ideas for new modes of mid-distance transportation.

Like I said, I’m no expert on the guy, but I do appreciate a risk taker who takes the risk-taking-urge and channels the energy towards thinking big and attacking some our collective problems.

All of that said, I can definitely understand why he rubs some people the wrong way.
2nd month after launch. Charging more and learning about UX/UI
The argument made in the piece is that there is increased polarization between the haves and the have nots. Successful professionals are haves.

I don't know what nuances the term "upper class" has historically had in California; perhaps it's not the right word for those earning (as little as) a hundred thousand a year. But the idea that there is now a privileged socioeconomic group which no longer blends, at the low end, into the traditionally larger middle class and lower middle class seems like a clearly testable proposition.

In other words, the claim is that the middle class is evaporating and tech professionals are left on the wealthier side of the gap, typically earning "upper class" salaries.

In the UK, a huge proportion of the population identifies as working class, somewhat bogusly. Tech workers tend to be part of what is sometimes called the "technical middle class", a new (post-WW2) and slightly wretched group with little cultural or social capital but strong finances. Ramen-eating programmers are in the technical middle class even if their earnings haven't yet matched those of more established professionals.

I agree that both "working" and "upper" are anachronistic categories.
You are right. I anticipate terms like “fully managed compute” may become more descriptive for FaaS offerings (Netlify Functions and ilk), and I’m not really sure what to make of where people will take k8s / on-prem FaaS / data layer offerings (Aurora).

Edit: I will say, the term “serverless” itself is certainly sticky and will continue to grow into a larger catch-all term for managed compute innovations over the next few years or more. I think it’s also likely that, from a sales perspective, the term falls out of favor for more specific (and descriptive) types of offerings that all fall under the serverless umbrella — which is pretty much what this article addresses.

Don’t be surprised to see different types of conferences that move away from the “serverless” branding itself as the space continues to grow.
The opposite actually. Allowing exports gives a market to that glut, keeping prices in the US higher.

Imagine a scenario where the US pumps more oil than we can use - prices would crash (until enough non-profitable production shuts down). Instead we sell the oil, and prices remain higher.

They don't go extra high mind you, it's more of a stabilizing influence, keeping prices inline with global prices instead of being extra low in the US, because obviously on a global scale more oil pumped by the US means lower prices (since there's more oil), and oil production is shut down in other parts of the world.
Would be a nice addition to the Arch Wiki as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_compared_to_other_...
Hopefully the problems will be relevant to the job.
> Everyone else is not doing that.

The US is. Let's not pretend that it's not happening, or try to justify it because a "good" gov't is doing it vs a "bad" one. Freedom, and rights, are becoming more and more of an illusion. For some reason, we've become conditioned to think it's only bad when the other guy is doing it and we're justified, somehow. It's wrong, period, and the outcome will not justify the means. It never does.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/22/amazon-is-selling-facial-...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surv...

https://www.apnews.com/b11e4bca11e548d3af7a63f24e348c6f
Not sure if you meant that as "it's obvious nonsense so of course you wouldn't have noticed anything" or if it was broader question about placebo/nocebo effect? I was just responding to the claim that taking NAD supplements could have tremendous effects - presumably I would have noticed those.