skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at a big bank, managing the process of modernizing or replacing legacy databases is a very low-status job

Its also incredibly high-risk, so it generally doesn't happen. They'll keep ancient software running as long as they can until they need to switch over to something new. So, yes, you're right, they use separate, new initiatives with newer tech to essentially do "upgrades".
Behind The Curve from Planet Money talks with Duke Professor Campbell Harvey about whether or not to worry about yield curve inversion in today's economy -
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/12/04/673429096/behi...
Not really the type of attitude HN wants on here.
I would add that cellular phone vendors do not cover all of the POPs that they claim they do in the U.S.

No way am I going to spend big money for a cell phone plan when I also have to pay top dollar for a substandard landline and DSL. Sure, I could just use it when I am out and about and find some alternative way to get calls when I get home, but why reward the phone companies for underinvesting.

It used to be I could get a prepaid phone that was pretty good but the last few ones I have tried I had awful coverage, maybe they are only using Sprint for their networks now.
It's the breeziness and imprecision of "almost all" and "no problem" that gives a bad impression about how far these words can be trusted. What does such a claim actually mean?
You can run Lua natively in Redis.
Effects would be on sea life far removed from our daily lives. Seafood can be imported from other locations.
Yes, I've been one of those who knew programming as well.

But the problem isn't that new people join classes. The problem is experienced programmers being in the same class as beginners.

I could often just do the assignments myself and skip the rest of the course. The real problem was when I was forced to partner up with someone new.
Absolutely, the idea was to provide prepared queries while allowing people to migrate their code.

The point wasn't "this fixed the injection problem" it was that it provided a solution not available for mysql_
I think you're missing the point of Lambda school. Students get access to quality classes and a living stipend so they can focus on learning outcomes.
Sometimes I wish that we could depoliticize the environmental debate - but as environmental damage is externality, it is inherently political, someone’s balance sheet wins at the expense of someone else’s.

We probably need to recognize and own that reality.
You could implement a compatible API, but it turns out that consistent distributed payment systems are a hard problem, and blockchains are a solution to that.
I have not heard of any website using SCRAM, but recent versions of PostgreSQL use it for password authentication.
Good point.

Send .02 BTC to avoid locking your heart
Living in Berkeley/Oakland area I'm torn on this one we have a growing problem with tent encampments (in SF too) I don't know if this is anything but a cosmetic solution but its an interesting tact allowing people to overnight in vehicles.
Google also has an AI research center based in Beijing that hires Chinese employees.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/google-opening-an-office-f...
What would be really interesting to have would be an extensive set of automated tests.

A lot of the code can run in the build environment, supported by dummy components, without requiring to boot a VM. A lot would need that VM, and the VM would need to be able to emulate a lot of hardware for the tests to be comprehensive. OTOH, this emulation code (or the config files that would set it up) would serve as always verifiable definitions of how the hardware is supposed to work. And dummies and emulation could be automatically validated against actual live hardware when it's available.
Is this actually true? How do we verify this? (Certain portions of engineering have higher women participation rates than men- can we identify a biological cause for this disparity, or that many of the sciences have women on parity or overrepresentation?)

I agree that this is a definite possibility but I struggle to identify a reason to explain the disparities of participation in subfields purely from a genetic point.
Japan apparently celebrates Christmas with KFC [0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-kfc-became-a-christmas-t...
Anti-terrorist military troops will face the French yellow vests
Boeing takes $5B hit as Indonesian airline cancels 737 MAX order
No. We must demand government regulations so that they can commit the same fraud legally and also get bailouts when shit hits the fan. :)
I was at a talk recently where one of the main points was that doing pretty much anything with fabric is exceedingly difficult for robots.
>There are no rules.

There are lots of them.

>...it cascades and may even prompt the creation of a new protected class.

Eventually there will be a protected class that you absolutely object to. And then it will be too late to alter the way they are created.
It seems like an organized approach to homelessness that allowed vehicle camping but put systematic restrictions on it could be fairly effective. There could even be something like a "white list" where people could apply for a camping permit and have it revoked for bad behavior.

Of course, you could also allow camps on private property with provisions to meet basic health and conditions.

Both these measures would undermine the scarcity of housing itself, which goes against the interests of both landlords and homeowners. So I doubt either will happen soon.
This is EU. A shame.
Thanks! Indeed you should not have see that link! Can you point me where did you clicked?

The correct link is the following now: https://payhip.com/RediSQL

Passo got acquired and shutdown...
Intel Details Faster Gen 11 Graphics Architecture
Wasn’t this the early approach to HIV?
Jesus f'ing christ.

That's all I have to say.
It was sarcasm, all 3 articles once implemented on EU scale will make web even worse than GDPR made it.
Why is building robots so much more expensive than software ?

Software is complex. The main tools to create software cheaper are abstraction and reuse.

Can't those be available to new robotics startups ?

Is building a robot from standard components possible ? or using some sort of software based mechanical/robotic design tool, similar to the procedural modelling 3d graphic designers are starting to use ?
CentOS has repos that allow you to install other versions of PHP. I have PHP 7 on a CentOS 6 server.
The only issue with that is you sometimes develop duplication across siloes. Instead of one team building the framework/analytics engine, you have a bunch different experimental environments, datasets, etc.
I don't think throwing money and free services at women while we sit on our knees begging them to join us the best way to get them interested.

I'm generally against equality of outcome, and support equality of opportunity, which this is not.
I can attest to the truth of this. As an Amazon employee, I feel trickled down on by Jeff Bezos daily.
I worked 8 years at a large company. Saw many initiatives succeed and fail. The reason I attribute to most of the failures was the expectation that someone with an idea could just find 5 developers and do it exactly as they say.
Liverpool ready to make move to sign Chelsea star Hudson-odoi?
There are plenty of other words, and you're breaking the site guidelines. Please read them, especially the one about calling names: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 'it's cute' when the janitor learns how to write web pages

All that matters is the quality of that web page. This is no different from the janitor also being a novelist or accomplished musician.

I wouldn't worry if I were you; most people will only ever learn enough to program themselves into a corner they can't get out of in a small number of lines of code, in some scatter-brained scripting language for imbeciles.
> like if you're at that point you're so far past gone you've lost all hope.

for a 25 year library, thats not at all too bad. And even PHP developers admit that the lib was "not broken"
Arguably, the IRS needs to know your transactions

I think people don't want other people to know their balance, but remember, Uncle Sam prints the money, so he gets what he wants.

I do think we'll move to a cashless society exactly for this reason. It might be blockchain based. But I'm skeptical it will be a utopian move where we can all inspect the chain and verify no one is cheating.

I am pretty sure in the future the IRS will have the ability to know the details of every USD denominated transaction. Even still, I'm skeptical this will do much to stop tax evasion and fraud.
There's startups doing exactly this, "dorms for adults": https://www.geekwire.com/2018/quasi-dorms-adults-gain-popula...
> I don't understand why women in general need special help or guidance.

I do, but my explanation is not PC.
While not JavaScript, there's now Razor Components[1]. It doesn't work exactly like isomorphic JS, as it operates more like a terminal session (the server sends down VDOM mutations to the client). I'm not entirely sold on the approach yet, but I am going to be keeping an eye on it.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/razor-component...
I think the optimal situation if you're applying to a program like this is to be a self-starter that's capable and interested in programming already, doing the same kind of self-learning that I did online without anyone asking my gender. Then if you happen to be a woman, you can go to one of these events, be the best in the class and treat it mostly as a networking opportunity.
I know that. Autocorrect, on the other hand...

(And then I liked it)
This chart in our experience is significantly misleading.
Like to see the actual sample size, locations considered etc.

For example the "Orca card" gives it away that for msft & amzn only Seattle was considered. Both companies have significantly more employees at other locations.
In our experience both of these firms in Seattle had free snacks littering the place, ranging from bags of chips, organic oatmeals, and various food bars.
Same with drinks ranging from coffee, tea, fountain sodas to beer kegs and hard liquor in eat areas.
Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake
Why has no one done this before! Excellent idea Jean-Paul, will be trying this out with our team next week..
This was my thought - I mountain bike for fun. Maybe it will drive itself but having a car/truck with the necessary setup for my bike/camping is part of my transportation requirements that I've not seen addressed yet.
When humans are involved there are always failure modes.
Facebook's Failed AI Showcases the Dangers of Technologists Running the World
Cool snark, bro. Care to contribute to the conversation?
The problem is that American citizen males perceived to be "white" have been making a good living via programming, even those who are not graduates of elite schools.

In the 1990s there were many complaints about a "right wing" culture based in the "computer science departments" of universities. This wasn't true, unless "right wing" means "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" and "critical of political correctness" but these attitudes are considered "far right wing" today. But compared to the rest of academia, computer science specifically, and STEM in general, were not as far-left as all other academic disciplines.

So, in order to diminish the economic prospects (and reproductive fitness) of American citizen so-called "white" males they encouraged affirmative action for non-white males, mass immigration of non-whites and visa programs like H1-B.

Then various so-called "white" male cultures in technology were demonized as "toxic," "sexist" and "racist" in order to further diminish their economic prospects.

This campaign has seen the cooperation of the economic elites and the "social left" - many who still pay lip service to various Marxist ideologies - to destroy the economic and social power of working and middle class American citizen "whites."

Google.com is the perfect example of this but it's endemic in Silicon Valley since the defense industry became less powerful there.

This campaign is written about quite openly, in rather explicit anti-"white male" terms, across media and academia. It's barely allowed to be criticized even on sites like this.
Oh, I get it, it's a defense against plagiarism detection. The article is largely plagiarized from other sources, but since they didn't contain the homographs you can't just google the unique sentence "This is a fair and legitimate question, but not the first question you want to ask." (Original source, possibly: https://www.risesmart.com/blog/6-key-questions-ask-during-sa...)
I'm not arguing your overall point - but simply walking through the snow to the plowed road and a ready to go vehicle sounds nicer than being forced to shovel the whole driveway/windrow, assuming that rideshare will actually show up.

Clickbait necessitates hyperbolic headlines. I think the reasonably likely thing that will happen is that many dual car households drop to single car households.
Algorithmic thinking is part of math, and quite important.

Anyone who learns pencil-and-paper addition and multiplication is actually following an algorithm, so you basically cannot even learn arithmetic without touching algorithms.

People need to understand what an algorithm is, because more and more circumstances which affect their lives will be determined by algorithms.
I think unity is in demand for VR/AR rendering and CAD work. I think of geospatial data get presented that way, too.
I'm sympathetic to anyone who's had a challenging job search, and am glad that you found something.

Society is worse off for having barriers that prevent anyone who wants to code from being able to do so. That includes the inefficiencies of the job industry not placing you into a productive coding role faster. But it also includes the lower salaries, lack of support/representation, belittling, and near-universal campaign of horrible harassment that every woman I've talked to in the field has experienced.

Everyone in the field of software development struggles, and I don't want to take away from that. We should be making life easier for everyone. But doing so involves recognizing problems specifically and succinctly, and building solutions that fit those problems. One of society's many problems is that women in tech have to contend with a nightmarish swirl of negative distractions that I've never had to think about as a white man. In the face of such a problem, giving resources to the effected population makes total sense, and it's a good thing that more organizations/companies are doing so. Even more than that, it brings us closer to meritocratic equality.
> the single most important characteristic of proper FP is _strictly segregated side effects_.

This is one of the best definitions I've come across.
The most populous cities in the world from 1500 to 2018 [video]
MIT Develops Algorithm to Accelerate Neural Networks by 200x
Thanks man! Reach out if you need any help or have any questions!
This is the currently acceptable form of prejudice in this country, yes. It is totally fine to enact policies or make statements that hurt Asian-American men (and women, I don't think gender is much of a factor here).
The slide deck is worth reading. There are only 10 real Bitcoin exchanges doing real transactions. The others are all clearly faking it, just from observing the overall trading patterns.

Something the slide deck doesn't address is how much all that fake activity affects the real price. The slide deck demonstrates that the real exchanges track each other closely. But what's the fake activity doing to the price? It's much bigger than the real activity; it must have some effect.

This new ETF looks better than the rejected Winkelvoss ETF. This output proposes third-party custody and insurance from major insurance companies. The Winkelvoss ETF tried to unload all the risk of theft on their customers.
Short and distort? The ugly war between CEOs and activist critics
This is getting pointless quibble-y, but they said "not nearly as many as now" not "less than now." 263.6 is nearly as many as 240 by any sensible definition; I took them to be suggesting a significant decrease for some common-sense definition of "significant."
What exactly is xenophobic about my post? I'm not exactly saying "get out of the country" if you carefully read my post.
Yeah, I should have gone with a Vive.
Google refused to work on the machine vision for U.S. military drones that kill thousands of people (project maven). [1] Google's work in China is building an AI center to promote AI in general. [2]

These are not the same things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_arms_r...

[2] http://fortune.com/2017/12/13/google-china-artificial-intell...
There's a famous Channel 4 interview between Cathy Newman and Jordan Peterson that illustrates not just the flaws of being uncharitable but also how it can backfire spectacularly. Regardless of how one feels about Peterson, the nearly 15 million views are evidence that excessive straw-manning ends up helping the person and argument you're against.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
> she's not embarrassed with her first version, she's shipping too late.

Valuable wisdom! Thus inspired, I might make it "If you aren't embarrassed, you haven't shipped yet"
Potential recession signal: A key ‘yield curve’ has inverted
> It doesn't matter whose fault it is

it does for old code. and many people prefer a website with bugs than a website that doesn't work at all. And any website that was vulnerable to mysql_* attacks should have already been hacked out of existence by now.
Do you have evidence of this cooperation? Most stuff I've seen recently around cooperation between China and Google has been in creating a censored version of their search engine.
It seems unambiguously better, since the alternative to living in an RV would in most cases be... living in a tent.
I think it is largely a matter of volume, Not just the volume of robots sold but also of the sensors and actuators that go into them. It's also a matter of market, no one is really selling robots in this price range to consumers, it's all going to large manufacturing companies or to large research institutes.

There are of course even lower cost robot arms, ~$100 toys, $1000 educational platforms etc. They just don't have the precision or power needed for industrial or research applications.
HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China
Google are not refusing. It is some of their employees that are resistant. The moment there is downturn in the job market the corporation will deal with them and resume working with USG
This is an excellent thing! More women should be encouraged to code as there are too many men in the field already. I hope this sets the trend so that colleges mandate 60% quota for women in CS.

Companies should pay women more then men to encourage more women to join the field. Laws should be made so that companies have to hire women because the bosses are misogynist.

Destroy the patriarchy!
You go girl!
SEO is SEO. Not all of those sites are ad-supported. You could have a copy writer post an article for that TV show, for the blog of a streaming service that offers it.

There are also plenty of corporate sites offering some SaaS product that will put out semi-technical blog posts that rank high but don't give you the full picture and end with a CTA like "Want to learn more? Sign up for our webinar".

The goal is for you to arrive on their blog page, and "convert" into a customer, or fill out a contact form. The content is a means to an end, which hurts content quality.
It would be interesting to know what was actually asked for them at those meetings ... and later meetings.
GluonNLP 0.6: Closing the Gap in Reproducible Research with Bert
Hell, I live in a suburb in a pretty major tech hub with a 15 minute commute from work and even then it doesn’t make fiscal sense to get rid of my vehicle. Commuting via rideshare just to work and back (without even taking into account the grocery trips etc that would be required without a car) would cost me about $300 a month. That’s being extremely conservative, assuming no surges and minimal tipping, and assuming I do literally nothing but commute back and forth. My insurance, fuel and routine maintenance on my vehicle doing everything in my life (not just commuting to and from work, but also shopping and whatever recreational activities on weekends) is still less than that.
I would understand reverse sexism to mean consciously giving preferential treatment to women, all other things being equal (because sexism, bizarrly, means discrimination against women, not just discrimination based on sex/gender). But, of course many versed in feminist theory would disagree with such definition.
Seriously, nothing can beat the convience of owning a car.
Please do not take HN threads even further into ideological hell. In addition to destroying this place, it's tedious.
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The linked sources aren't saying "don't vaccinate", they are saying "weigh the risks".

There is not a single scientific source anywhere that says vaccines have zero side effects and/or zero negative effects on _everyone_. (it's common knowledge that immune compromised people can't even take vaccines)
I thought the use of quotes around "data" made it clear that I meant the "data" in anti-vax literature is not data at all.
"A technical leader should also make time for growing and mentoring others."

I like this. From reading The Idea Factory, I learned that at Bell Labs it was compulsory for even the most established scientists (e.g. Shockley and Shannon) to mentor newer recruits from time to time. Mentorship is one of the highest leverage activities one can possibly do. Even if you're a high muckety-muck, you're mission is still well-served by teaching others part of the time.
> Nazis don't exist. They used to, before most of us were born, but they don't exist any more.

So what's the term for a bunch of white guys shouting "Jews will not replace us" while holding swastika, iron cross, and Nazi eagle symbols?
Nasa Instruments Image Fireball over Bering Sea
So either

1) They are targetting EU users and serving to EU users and thus the block is pointless
2) They aren't targetting EU users and thus the block is pointless
For infrequent trips like camping or picking up Home Depot stuff, you rent a large vehicle. I used to live near a Zipcar garage for these types of trips.
It may not hold true for scripted, time-bound, many-to-one events like talks, but for person-to-person interaction, people see nuance and context more easily, and it's harder to walk out of a conversation because we'd be losing significant credibility in doing so.

That might be fine on Twitter, where no one's going to bother looking through your post history, but again IRL, people aren't randomly looking around for other people to get into arguments with in the first place.
Is it just google or all business? As china gets wealthier and as they develop, doesn't that also erode our military advantage? Isn't the overall economic growth a greater threat than one company, no matter how important? Not sure why Google is being singled out.
I played around with a Blazor POC not to long ago. It's something else to hit a breakpoint in Chrome in a DLL running on the mono runtime. It's wild tbh. I was able to leverage the trusty old C# Timer class to increment a counter every second and it ran just fine.
That's a very intriguing point!

Can you help me understand it better? Are you saying that it is currently against the law for @jl to donate to Lambda School to sponsor 40 men to attend for free? I don't think that is your point, but I'm having trouble interpreting it any other way.