skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is definitely a division between people who are attracted to the profession because they have an intrinsic interest and those looking for extrinsic rewards.

I bet asking what age someone started programming is as good an interview question as any other.
What tool are you using for Redis Management? Is there one that you'd recommend?
Let's be a bit honest here. California public infrastructure has hardly contributed to the windfall people are getting due to their work in the tech industry.
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> AOC's 70% tax

Also doesn't apply to capital gains.
The person attempting to revoke their GPL licensed code is known for harassing the Debian Women and LinuxChix groups, as well as generally advocating for violence against women and feminists in particular. I mean the guy has openly advocated for the legalization of rape. He's absolutely a troll.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/MikeeUSA

EDIT: lol, the trolls are definitely out in force today.
I fly out to California 5 days a week for consulting work currently. I live in Texas. So does my wife and dog.

My paycheck’s now include the 13% deduction from California :(

I’m leaving this project as soon as possible.

Would happily pay 13% more for federal income tax FWIW.
I haven’t seen that one before and it looks pretty good. Interesting that it doesn’t mention sed or awk (edit: I'm wrong, it does mention sed & awk), let alone Perl. I would say that Perl’s so powerful for one liners and Unix text pipelines, I’d consider it required in a text processing reference.

Another one I like, and I think it’s mainly because of the philosophy contained in the title is “Ad hoc data analysis from the Unix command line” https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Data_Analysis_From_Th...
y is this not on Windows... Windows Sux
"Absurdity" is not a legal term, to my knowledge. Don't assume that because a contract is absurd, exploitative or even satirical that it won't hold up in court.
Why Your Big-Team Software Project Needs a Utility Player
Probably this is the reason:

> In 1979, Steve Jobs arranged a visit to Xerox PARC, in which Apple Computer personnel would receive a demonstration of the technology from Xerox in exchange for Xerox being able to purchase stock options in Apple. After two visits to see the Alto, Apple engineers used the concepts to introduce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
What are your favourite keyboard hacks or shortcuts when coding?
Newbie dev here. I'm trying to improve my workflow but trying to not use my mouse at all if possible. Just wanted to see if you guys had any cool keyboard shortcuts or hacks that speed your workflow.
My college, part of a larger university system, was in the first wave of campuses to switch from a hodgepodge of legacy stuff (CICS-based student info system, with other apps probably in classic ASP and ASP.Net, plus other vendor products) to PeopleSoft (Campus Solutions, HCM, Finance, etc.). The major complaints - from students, staff, and faculty alike - were about excessive pageload times and significantly more clicks to do simple things. They added huge sticky headers and layers-upon-layers of portals.

Perhaps the only people happy with the migration were the Oracle sales reps.
Your summary reads like Netflix's culture page: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
I found this article enlightening but not as much as the feedback. The number of developers that seem to recoil at the thought of empathy as part of their job description and the reasons why they do is very interesting.
Until the default rate of bad loans turns into a banking crisis.
The Hebrew version does not mention a finger. It just says "my little" - קָֽטָנִּ֥י
China’s Didi reportedly lost a staggering $1.6B in 2018
> The strongest argument against Usury is that it creates an unlimited claim on the future labor of the borrower making it into a kind of forced servitude.

payday loans are a pretty distasteful business but you are exaggerating quite a bit. unsecured personal loans like this are almost always dischargeable in bankruptcy, unless the judge can be convinced that the borrower never intended to pay them back.
What about the deafblind?
China’s crackdown on young Marxists
Great idea. I'm working on a real estate idea myself that is not a million miles from this idea. Will be interested to hear how far you get with this.
My suggestion would be to start off by focusing on one country or region. I would have a lot more confidence in such a product myself.
My mom made some really amazing stained glass projects when I was a kid and I've always been fascinated by it. Recently I had the thought that the process could be singnificantly sped by using CNC/Waterjets or something else to help with the really time consuming cutting and fitting aspects.

I've found a few instances where people have used CNC cutters with a diamond drag bit to help score the glass, and a few industrial glass cutting applications of similar to stained glass size items, but no real start to finish projects.

This is an interesting industrial example as they were able to produce a stained glass piece that is made almost entirely from curved pieces (a near impossibility with traditional scoring and breaking) - https://semyx.com/solutions/waterjet-applications/glass/

Industrial waterjet glass cutting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_qMKKwvzz8
In addition to Sysinternal's Process Explorer, there is also a built-in application "Resource Monitor" (resmon.exe) linked on the Performance tab of the regular Task Manager.
Doesn't that make it worse? They paid him money and didn't really get anything out if it means he just scammed someone else.
that's a good question. i have an archive of star trek fan films, almost all of which are youtube originals that i'd like to somehow upload to the internet archive.
We have a robo dialer that tries to deterimine whether there's a live (human) or recorded voice (I say try, because it's not as easy to determine as you might think), and if it thinks it's a live voice it will play a message that it's going to transfer and transfer to a live agent, otherwise it plays a message intended for voice mail.

The main reason we have this is to lighten the load of agents manually dialing phones and wasting time on getting answering machines, fax lines, disconnected numbers, etc, which costs the business money and makes it harder to reach the coverage required by our clients by a certain date.

But like I said, it's not perfect, and we are currently fighting an issue where not enough disconnected numbers are being identified as such by the carriers and our agents are having to spend a lot of time manually verifying that they are disconnected numbers.

We don't make an attempt to spoof anything, though. These are calls done on behalf of companies that have active business with you (i.e. you got a new insurance policy and the insurance company wants to ask you some follow-up questions, etc).
Any reason you choose to build on the command line interface of lsof rather than reusing its api by diving into its source code?
Yes, it would be helpful for journalists to take a look at the concept of absolute vs relative risk: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/toolkit/tips-for-understand...
Sounds like he needs dealing with via law .. codes of conduct won't fix his behaviour.
If you live in California, you obey California laws or you go to California jail. If you don't agree with what California has decided is necessary for a healthy society, you have states like Mississippi and Louisiana to choose from. Good luck finding a high-paying job there.
> Just playing the Devil's advocate here, why is this bad if profit and growth is the ultimate motive?

People who have shifted into a permanent state of servicing high-interest debt tend to be useless to the economy once they've entered that state. Unable to consume much (and this is still a consumer economy), unable to train for new work, probably overrepresented in public welfare programs for which others foot the bill. Literally the only "profit and growth" involved is for whoever holds the debt. The overall economic effect beyond a few big bondholders is quite negative.
For what it's worth I used VSCode as a ARM build on a Chromebook with crouton. It was fine. I think it cost me $150 used.

> cancer that needs to be nipped in the bud.

Come on with the hyperbole. Electron is effectively (nipped) as it is most usually just the shortest path to giving apps a persistent offline option outside of the browser sandbox. I don't know of _any_ electron app that isn't also a dedicated web app. VSCode is embedded as an editor in a few online code sandboxes.

Electron apps will almost certainly be replaced with PWA akin to the MS strategy. Shared run time, distributed via a 'store' of some kind, etc. It's an arc that we are in the middle of.

I get it, the world needs a better solution. However there isn't one. There isn't even a #2 best option. Electron's success is just the industry's continued failure.

You'd think Google would be close with Flutter, but Flutter doesn't run in the browser. So, fail.

Are there any options you'd suggest using _over_ Electron?

Every couple months an electron thread pops up and gets the same bashing.

The world very much needs electron and that's why it exists. jQuery was the same way forever. People just complained _constantly_ that we should be advancing the spec and using built in calls. That jQuery was some sort of bloated misstep. Well, we're still waiting for web components to be standardized more than 15 years later.

So as I understand it, people that don't like electron would rather us use _nothing_. Thus providing _no_ stepping stone to what should rightfully come next.

I see the same thing with electric cars. They aren't perfect _now_ so why invest in them at all? Why even explore an avenue that could lead to other innovations if it isn't _perfect_ out of the gate? 91% of the world population don't even own cars!
Lol, have you ever actually been to California? The infrastructure was all built in the 1960s, and appears to have been abandoned as thoroughly as the Roman aqueduct system after the barbarian invasions.

Easily the most corrupt state I've ever seen; most of the money goes to buying votes.
Ctrl-A - beginning

Ctrl-E - end of line

Ctrl-W - delete word before cursor

Ctrl-K - cut from cursor to end of line

Ctrl-X Ctrl-E - edit line in VIM

Ctrl-D - show choices (git Ctrl-D)

Ctrl-X Ctrl-I - choose selection

Alt-T - transpose words

Alt-F - jump to next space

Alt-B - jump back to previous space

Alt-Backspace - delete previous word

zsh-autocomplete and fzf Ctrl-R for history.

and many more in VIM but that another whole story
Online Dating Scams Cost Americans $143M in 2018
From: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

Appropriate Uses For SQLite:

SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server since SQLite is trying to solve a different problem.

Client/server SQL database engines strive to implement a shared repository of enterprise data. They emphasize scalability, concurrency, centralization, and control. SQLite strives to provide local data storage for individual applications and devices. SQLite emphasizes economy, efficiency, reliability, independence, and simplicity.

SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().
It would be nice if we'd institute the EU's right to a basic bank account. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...
I will build a simple website for you for $100
Sue the state for falsely claiming you as a resident for fraudulent tax purposes, and file the suit in Texas. Your airline tickets and job alone should be enough evidence for a Texas judge, and that will firmly establish residency in Texas. You may then nail California very hard for their fraudulent scheme.
In the early days of the internet, companies like Microsoft and Lotus Notes invested in corporation-controlled private messaging applications instead of using things like email and the world wide web. But in the end the benefits of open standards and interoperability made public networks more useful than a walled garden.

JPM thinks a centrally controlled digital currency is better than a public currency. Of course there are benefits to JPM in controlling this currency.

The interesting thing to watch is whether public and interoperable digital currencies prove to be more valuable and useful than a centrally-controlled one.
I found this a very interesting discussion: https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/usury-faq-or-... (And I'm not Catholic.)

But in short, if I'm getting this correct, usury is lending for which the recourse of the loan is not limited to some specific and concrete piece of collateral. A home mortgage is not usury, because the recourse for the loan is repossession, and the loaner does not (in the ideal case) have any further ability to claw away assets away from you. A critical aspect of this is that the lendee is not in any sense enslaved by this loan, because in the worst case scenario, they walk away from the loan, the home is repossesed, and the case is closed, and life goes on. (Your credit rating will also take a hit. One could quibble around the edges about this, but I suspect that news of the fact you fail to honor your loan obligations is going to get around one way or another, even in an older era.) Sure, it sucks that they may have lost their home, but at least they are not carrying that burden forward and are not a slave.

I'm speaking of the standard modern US home loan. All it would take for them to become usurious is to start including clawback provisions above and beyond the collateral, and while I'm not specifically aware of that happening, I'd personally lay money there's someone out there making such loans.

I suspect some payday loans are usurious, and some may not be, but I gather most of them have substantial or unlimited recourse to recover their monies?

Student loans are usury; there is nothing that can be repossessed. Our government is a full and willing participant in the usury, providing the money, special dispensation that such loans are very hard to discharge even in bankruptcy, and the incredibly self-serving Public Service Loan Forgiveness program: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancell... , which is totally not debt slavery how dare you think our government engages in that, it's just a friendly loving way of getting your loans forgiven if you spend ten years working for them in an approved manner.

Note that "outrageous interest" isn't necessarily part of the deal; the recourse for that is to simply not take such a loan. Non-usurious lending with outrageous interest rates still doesn't enslave you, because you can walk away forfeiting the collateral, and you have a clean slate. An usurious loan even with a seemingly low interest rate (or hidden fees or whathave you) can still enslave you.
They really do light up the ground green on occasion. I've seen it with my own eyes. First hand. I'm not being subjective about this. As a photographer myself, I don't have the photographic skill, nor the post production skill to have done it justice. It was magnificent in the truest meaning of the word.
They have jot(1)
The Beginning of the End of Robocalls
I think in China there is a scheduled A380 China Southern Airlines service Guangzhou to Shanghai.
I grant you this is mostly true. They sure have their moments and give us some horribly vague legislation, open to overreach, now and then.
Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Maybe I sound naive, but why do we need to move electronics there?.

Why they don't just use a disposable lead tube ending in the minimum working telescopic lens (mechanical) system possible and a cable moving electrons inside to build an image in a computer at km of distance. The brain of the robot should be out of the building, not inside.

Couldn't we estimate radiation by how long some well known matherial is surviving before to crash instead to use a sensor?.
If profit is the ultimate motive then sure, these aren't bad. But there are all sorts of things the government regulates that, absent regulation, might result in higher business profits. They're regulated because they're seen to be a social good and/or in the interest of public health and safety.

Just about any law might serve as an example here: Murder isn't allowed, even though it might be very good for a business that offered it as a service, or a business that endeavored to literally kill off its competition.

That's admittedly an extreme example, so consider some a bit more banal: food quality regulation and ingredient label laws, or safety features built into cars.

The entire concept of law intrinsically, implicitly, exists to limit some behavior that might be advantageous to one person or group but not to others or society as a whole. And so once you accept that laws of any sort are a necessary part of society, you're no longer arguing about something like whether or not laws and regulations should impinge upon a free market pursuit of profit-- that is a given. Instead, you're simply arguing about where the line should be drawn.
Ofcourse there is; multiple times have I gotten documents via-via that were identical to docs I received before and the lawyers billed hours for that copy/paste work making it sound, like your wife, that it is custom and a lot of work. It can be Ofcourse, but most, even complex company documents I have signed (and that's 100s) are indeed boilerplate and the lawyers are scammers trying to bill hours for 'writing' them. If they would say '$1000 - boilerplate document (c) OurFirm' that would be fine, but making out it took days to make while it is exactly boilerplate/template with changed names is what all lawyers (at least the Corp ones we deal with) do (and they also spend > 1 week delivering these templates because 'so much work') but it is a scam imho. Akin to me selling a software application and charging all buyers 1000 hours and deliver it after 2 months instead of a license and an immediate download.

Obviously ymmv and I might have just encountered crappy ones, but 100s of signed legal docs in my career from at least 30 different lawyers show me that actually 95% is boilerplate of the docs we get.
Do you have something more detailed I could read about that?
That's right.

Once you've got the equivalent commands for each platform, it should be possible to build and package for all of them (Mac/Win/Linux).

I've just done a tri-platform Electron app which handles quite a few platform-specific commands. (For drive listing, SD-card formatting, file decryption (in custom C apps), etc.)

It does take a lot more work (and lots of time-consuming testing). But it can be done.
I too hate this phenomenon, but this one has version history going back to 2004, so it's not exactly your generic JS framework-of-the-week with nondescript cutesy name.
I work in an organization that asks for innovation, but doesn't allocate any budget for R&D or investigative projects. The company also doesn't have any culture of being ok with taking big swings and accepting misses.

The project deck is fully loaded with status quo type projects, based on client demands. Teams are asked to track all of their hours toward these projects.

The subtext is, "Do the grunt work during your 40 hours that we're sure will generate revenue, and please, please, do something innovative on top of that on your own time/dime".

It just comes off as begging.
>It's 13% - that's about the same as sales tax in many places

No, not really.. You're free to choose states with sensible department of revenues.

Wyoming has a 4-6% sales tax, nowhere near the 13% you're arguing about. If capgains of 13% is levied upon 10mil, that's 1.3mil.... while Wyoming's 4-6% sales tax is (obviously less than half that) only levied upon actual purchases (which in practice is way lower).
Lots of progress in this field lately. Google, IBM, and Intel all say they've built experimental QCs or quantum processors with 50-70 qubits, and a startup called Rigetti plans a QC with 120 qubits. And Microsoft seems to be betting big on exotic physics (Majorana fermions) that could create far more stable qubits, in theory.

With all this investment, quantum computing may be coming soon.

ETA: links

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609451/ibm-raises-the-bar...

http://ai.googleblog.com/2018/03/a-preview-of-bristlecone-go...

https://newsroom.intel.com/press-kits/quantum-computing/#49-...

https://medium.com/rigetti/the-rigetti-128-qubit-chip-and-wh...
Disentangling Distributed Tracing
Reducing a complex task that takes 10 fingers and gratifying thought to a single button choice architecture is trivializing. Recognizing that interests are rarely articulated is the real art.
I wasn't asking anything. The web is ephemeral and the information on that page became superfluous.
Yeah shame on them for not taking their extortion in stride. Their contributions are essential for all that great infrastructure like the new high speed rail between SF and San Diego, oh wait..

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-bullet-train-calif...
Isn’t this called jailbreaking? Not everyone who circumvents Apple’s walled garden is a pirate.
But weren’t you a user of the bus system in the scenario you laid out as well?
Also only would apply to income over $10 million.
But the price can't be beat.
"Good luck finding a high-paying job there."

I guess you have no clue what jobs actually exist in those states. They're the same jobs that exist in every other state.

Then to boot, there are plenty of high-paying jobs which exist in those states which generally do not exist in many others, like offshore oil rig jobs.
> If so you can save yourself a lot of complexity.

The complexity exists, you're just shifting it around some. The "complexity" of setting up a populate db server is non-zero, but generally a known-entity. The complexity of managing your own stuff 'in-memory', with all the attendant issues about concurrency/corruption/performance/etc - would almost always end up being far more custom to your particular project.
Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think
Calm Became the World’s First Mental Health Unicorn (short Version)
Definitely check out perl one liner patterns. Perl is less scary and more powerful and usually almost as short as sed commands. Perl can often replace pipelines that use both sed and awk. Perl one liners need judicious flags though, common patterns look like perl -ne, perl -pie, perl -lane ... these do very different things. Once you know them, it’s like a minor superpower.
Than don't work there. Or try to influence how those riches are spend.
>On the other hand, Silicon Valley money is made in California and draws on California services. Employees commute to work on taxpayer-funded roads and many studied at taxpayer-funded schools. And one extreme example: When a gunman shot four people on the campus of YouTube last spring, it was San Bruno police that responded to the scene.

This argument is scale invariant, you could say that any level of taxation justifies any level of services. The moral argument for not aggressively minimizing your tax burden has to pass through the question of how effective the state is at spending the money it collects, and so it must also depend on the question of how other states manage to do the same work the California Government does (having schools, roads and police) with much lower rates of income and sales tax and a much less smaller tax base.
Is the article disagreeing with you, or are you saying a couple millions of dollars taxed on a stock sale is, in fact, a small concern?
This is what I have always been wondering. If according to no free lunch theorem, there is a bias in every learning method, what kind of bias do the neural networks have?
Does the UC system not count as "public infrastructure"?? I wouldn't be surprised if the UCs are the core driver for a lot of California's growth over the decades.