skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first real programming class was in 9th grade, 1997. That class was around for a while. The language was BASIC, but covered all CS topics (if then, loops, disk i/o...and even GOTO hah!).
My middle school had computers with rudimentary programming but I wouldn't consider it a real programming class.
> I get the feeling that many elements of your story don't add up. How can you work 10-12 hours a day and only have $1000 saved up, especially if you're in a tech-related field? I know kids can be expensive, but they're not that expensive.

Welcome to the real world my friend. Most people working in IT earn way less than you think. Way, way less. It's scary outside the bubble.
As an outsider to both: I think a lot of it is new/shiny. ruby on rails has been popular enough for most people to have seen the mess bad coders can make. Django never got as popular (I think it is older, but it for long has been an also ran).

The other half is ruby/rails got a reputation of being a language where some write-only code was encouraged. Djanjo and python have long encouraged writing maintainable code. This is a culture thing - there is no reason you cannot write unmaintainable code in python or maintainable code in ruby, but the reality is people didn't. This is part culture, part rails encouraged getting something working fast even if it wasn't maintainable while Django has also said take a little time to get it right in the first place and it will pay off.
Having the ability for users to pay granularly for their use of web infrastructure is a key requirement if we want to transition away from a model where big corporations with dubious motives pay for web infrastructure.
> In the coming months, we will start testing these protections with small groups of users and will continue to work with Disconnect to improve and expand the set of domains blocked by Firefox. We plan to enable these protections by default for all Firefox users in a future release.

Default settings can move the industry in a way that opt-in things like uMatrix generally don't.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google)
Sometimes even the instruments are maintained. I know a consultant whose job is to repair bespoke factory and laboratory microcontrollers in situ. When we hired him he spent two weeks covering our lab in blueprints, two weeks troubleshooting, and one week programming. 25K to fix the device, but much cheaper than a new one.
i had expected that there's a javascript emulator to try the games without having to download one and setup yourself.
Android Fought an Epic Botnet–and Won
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614674 for more discussion
> I was originally using a TRS-80 Color Computer, with a slightly different dialect of BASIC, so I was usually having to make modifications. Which also helped me learn programming.

Same here! Those two books, along with a ton of magazines and more than a few other books, plus one I found that had "conversions" - helped me greatly to learn programming as a kid.

I eventually found a great book on Fortran graphics - which I also started converting (Fortran and BASIC are very similar).

There's a third book in the "Basic Computer Games" series - I don't recall exactly it's name, but you can probably find it on archive.org. It had a blue cover, and I believed it dealt with much larger, adventure-style games.

Not to mention, there were special editions created for Radio Shack and the TRS-80 as well...
I wonder what those would look like if you had multiple oscillators that could move around the plate along the gradient of lowest resistance to their oscillation, sort of like the opposite of the flour. I'm also curious if there's a way of extending (or reducing?) this bulk material resonance to graphs of incompletely interconnected nodes.
They'll be watching from the back seat.

Does anyone have any examples of innovative products coming from Atlassian recently?
Nano cryptocurrency seeks dismissal of $170M “rescue fork” lawsuit
The ethics of this seem dubious. Those poor monkeys!
Some coworkers and I were talking about the Kentucky Derby over lunch the other day, a random topic that nobody in the group really was previously interested in. Nobody searched it or typed it into anything. Later that day my coworkers were seeing ads for the Kentucky Derby. Anecdotal, yes, but very creepy.
Not quite true! I was planning to complain that Free File Fillable Forms, the only way to e-file for free regardless of income, had been taken away a couple years ago.

However, I noticed that it's back for the 2018 tax year. https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...

It's very basic -- it's literally just a way to fill out and submit the paper forms electronically (though it does the "add lines 35 and 36"-type arithmetic for you.) But it's an option for you procrastinators who earned more than $66K last year.

Relatedly, Massachusetts used to run a free online "TurboTax" program for all. To file your taxes you went to a government website and answered the questions. Unfortunately, that program was canceled a year ago when they upgraded systems, and now the only way to e-file is via a paid preparer.
This feels more like a marketing move just rebranding an existing product than anything meaningful.
Thanks for sharing and glad to hear you're doing better now.

> She doesn't realise that without that escape I wasn't far off suicide. That addiction gave me enough time to sort out my life and figure things out.

This is huge! I always think about stuff like this when people dismiss "entertainment."
In this context yes. The sun also run out of juice sooner or later.
If it wasn't for Rails, Ruby wouldn't have had half the success it did. This is not the case for Python which is used for things besides Django.
Well GCP is mostly targeting highly sophisticated companies who need low cost but don’t need much handholding. Microsoft is on the opposite end. Amazon is in between.

Google is DigiKey, Amazon is Adafruit, and Microsoft is Best Buy.
Interesting - what would the evidence that current paywalls are/have restored quality journalism be?

As in, do you believe this uptick in quality journalism has already happened/is happening? And what associates it with paywalls? Presumably you'd have to be seeing quality journalism behind paywalls for this to be case?
Bit of an odd article causing a few wtf moments

> engineers from UK company Adaptix have used technology developed for space to produce three-dimensional scans that generate much clearer images.

3D xrays sound a lot like CT scanners.

> Miniaturised, portable and connected through satellites, the machine should also allow patients to be scanned in GPs’ surgeries...

Sounds very buzzwordy; there seems to be very few situations where a satellite uplink would be better than a bit of fibre, especially in fixed premises.

The rest of the article seems like flimflam marketing about general scientific discovery, nothing else about how this actually works or detects cancer so clearly other than "The device employs X-ray optics deployed on spacecraft such as ESA’s XMM-Newton mission, which launched in 1999 and is observing stars at X-ray wavelengths."

Can anyone comment on what it's actually doing please?
Every one of your comparisons is bunk.

Ethics are necessarily a consensus-building endeavor. Your personal ethics only matter in-so-far as they intersect with others'. None of your examples are subject to that same constraint.

>Curation is not consensus.
Exactly, and that's why I object to it being labeled a list of "ethical alternatives" with no explanation of the decision making process. The list is the artifact and has next-to-no value compared to the process they went through to come up with the list.

>If you think their definition is too broad or ill-defined, make another list with a more narrow one.
Or provide constructive criticism that expresses why I think their list is lacking.

My specific concern is not that this list "isn't correct", it's that I believe the idea of slapping an "ethical" label on a product as a guide to users is antithetical to the goal of having users apply ethical considerations when deciding which software to use.
The most restrictive license in both Firefox and Chromium is LGPL. In Firefox, the LGPL bits are carefully walled off in one .so/.dylib/.dll. In Chromium, the most core KHTML bits are LGPL.

As for whether there's a lot of MPL or a lot of BSD code probably doesn't have much practical effect for compliance. In order to comply, it's easier to publish all the code than to try to do the minimum for each component on a per-license basis.
I just got away from them because I'd lose them, forget to charge them or break them.
I'm sure you have a very coherent argument for how platforms can do any sensible sort of censorship at all without collaborating with the IP holders, at which point the 17.7 et all would apply.

In the end though, it is the ECJ that will decide if your head canon has any relevance for this topic.
You can often get that data if it really matters to you (flightstats sells it, for example), but I’m not sure I want to be running an MCMC analysis every time I book a ticket.
Ok so taking into account the UI is cool as hell, I love the design. I love the design of transit maps but the curves and fluidity of the map make it so much easier to look at.

Now if only boston could get one of these....
They had fantastic detection of headless Chrome and curl requests, a thorough IP blacklist, aggressive rate limiting, and possibly some JS stuff.
Do you think it's generational? People who were young developers back when Oracle was more ubiquitous heard the horror stories, and saw the end parts of how an Oracle contract plays out, which spread the negative reputation across the industry. Folks working in the industry a long time still at least have the good times with Oracle to remember, but as the younger folk move into management positions, they more and more exert their influence to remove Oracle from the conversation due to their bad reputation, perhaps?
> Pages don't need a fallback to non-Javascript in 2019. Accessibility technologies now fully support a JS enabled web, with accessibility standards following suit.

This is wrong, of course, because it requires that people buy expensive hardware to use the latest accessibility technology, which is not generally available. It's like demanding that people buy electric-powered wheelchairs instead of making your building accessible to normal wheelchairs.

> We simply don't support this edge case, and our legal department supports our legal right to do so (in particular in relation to ADA requirements).

And I'm sure that ignoring poor people enables you to sleep very well at night.
Python for NLP: Topic Modeling
Where does the data come from, and, why isn't Dirtybird Campout on the list?
Researchers Rethink the Ancestry of Complex Cells
A ton of other people hated it though. Is there a reason people hate Kotaku so much? It's always seemed like a pretty normal game site to me except for the fact it leans a little more liberal on social issues.
It's almost always clear in normal text whether you're looking at a word or a number.
if it makes you feel any better, many of the YC companies are looking for devs with Rails experience
I have a hard time thinking of anything you can do for 16 hours a day without having detriments to your health. If you think about it this is probably at least one big contributing factor to the evolutionary benefit of sleeping 1/3 of our lives.
"China bans Bitcoin, for realsies this time."
If you enable resistFingerprinting, Firefox reports a "standard" user agent. Without that, your Nightly user agent probably makes you trivial to track.
trading is suspended once it hits the threshold
Google Cloud Next '19 is live now
> You mean under 1% of users that intentionally broke their browser?

No, for the people who can't afford to upgrade to the latest technology.
I also don't understand this. Even today, Rails is, by far, the most productive environment that exists for developing a web application. I speak this as someone who also wrote a ton of backends in Node.js, Java, and many other languages (never tried Django though, so I don't know about that). Almost all of those applications would have been 10% of the effort if they were just Rails apps.

A sibling comment here mentioned that Rails' power came from other gems, but that's not really true. Rails is still actively developed, and just Rails, by itself, gives you more functionality out of the box than whole 1000+package Node stacks.
WebKit was designed to be embedded. Chromium not really despite the CEF and Qt efforts.
On the same day that the Stack Overflow Developer Survey indicates that it's the 2nd most dreaded database...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-mo...
You're basing your argument on a false premise: Staring at a screen isn't uniquely terrible.
This is exciting news.

How do you see `netlify dev` comparing to `firebase serve`? The `--live` feature sounds great and I can imagine the config variables are handled better, but otherwise I'm anticipating a similar experience. Is that correct or am I missing something core?
If you’re in Canada simpletax dot ca is great.
Dumb comment. "Not using Microsoft SQL Server" != "don't work with databases" Sensible people prefer Postgres.

"Like last year, MySQL is the most commonly used database. PostgreSQL has taken the second spot this year."
Enterprises would have to pay only if they want to buy support from Oracle. Oracle provides the JDK, without support, 100% free, for any use: http://jdk.java.net/
> In the coming months, we will start testing these protections with small groups of users and will continue to work with Disconnect to improve and expand the set of domains blocked by Firefox. We plan to enable these protections by default for all Firefox users in a future release.

While lots of people here already have uMatrix or other blockers running, blocking fingerprinting and cryptomining domains by default would be a big step!

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google.)
This is wrong, in the US and abroad in many cases.

"All Natural" is a marketing term... "Organic" labeled foods are certified and (in the US) must meet specific requirements set by the USDA.

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

I would agree that the GMO component seems overblown, but this also includes controls that protect the environment (reduced pesticides, reduced antibiotic use, more specific dumping regulations) and keeping better audit trails.
My friends have used netlify for dev deployments, and it worked out pretty well as a hosted solution.

For this product I'm wondering what does this give over, running setup and deployment scripts locally? Or running a VM connected to CI server that would run test and production deployment?
I’m not surprised, you can see it in our politics in the UK all the time.
> The founder would have been better off creating content for YouTube

And being demonetized by DMCA strikes from random companies?

Youtube is hardly a suitable solution in the long term.
E.g. on selecting 'Surf the Web with Microsoft Edge' I get a Vimeo page saying "Sorry, we couldn’t find that page" for URL https://vimeo.com/252211328
"Stop that or you'll go blind!" is a common refrain from the people scared of anything other people like.
One of the main findings of the SO survey was that Python is indeed rising, overtaking other languages as one of the most popular and desired, so although it was popular in the past, it's definitely rising.

Most everything else you said could also be said of Ruby - docs, helpful community, flexibility from scripting up to massive webapps. That's what perplexes me - what are the "more of the things people actually want" specifically that drive Python's growth?
Seven Pages Control Your Prospect’s Experience
That's why I said this is exciting. For normal users it's a big win, and that has much more potential to move the industry.
I have worked with an independent tax preparer for the last few years. In January, I walk over to a nearby restaurant where we meet, I hand over tax documents, she makes sure it's all there and asks some brief questions. A week or two later, she sends the completed state & federal forms along with the appropriate authorizations which will allow her to file on my behalf. I pay $200 for this service and consider it far more pleasant than dealing with TurboTax's incessant questioning.
non-development work is a subset of toxic work environments?

No. I don't think so. Depends on how you identify development work. Is documentation, test-writing, requirements gathering, planning, backlog grooming, educating, or advocating considered non-development work? (I think all that stuff pretty clearly falls under the purview of 'developer', but I've gotten a lot of feedback from folks over the years who think it's not.)

Toxic work environment can include things like sexual harassment, micro and macro aggressions, offensive language (I had a manager for a while who called his reports 'motherfuckers), etc. I wouldn't normally consider non-development work to be 'toxic' in the same way I'd consider, say, working with someone who consistently talks down to women and minorities.
It is probably worth pointing out that this survey is very web/mobile developer centric. If you surveyed systems/core developers -- the people who designed/wrote many of the tools used by developers in this survey -- the survey results would distribute quite differently.
Europe slams 'exaggerated' US tariff threat and prepares to retaliate
What exactly were you trying to say? I mean, you're not wrong. Taxes are nation-state sanctioned violence, and private companies providing services in exchange for voluntary payments is correctly referred to as entrepreneurship. These are qualitatively different situations; one involves force and the other does not.

The debate is not about the services. They may not be needed by everyone, or in the exact form the government provides, but there would still be at least some demand for them in the market if they weren't provided by the government. The question is whether these services are funded voluntarily or by force, by those who want them or by others who just happen to have the necessary resources.
From what I understand, we have generally had a positive experience with technical support from Google.
In what way is it better than other frameworks, like Laravel?
Sometimes the best way to learn the value of something is to try really hard not to use it.
"Heatwaves and little rain led to rarely seen forest fires in Sweden in July 2018."

Rarely seen, as in, seen before, presumably before the current level of climate change.

I wish articles like this would give some context, such as rare: once in 10/100/1000/10000/100000 years?

Also, satellite images in the last several years can't be compared with satellite images 100 years ago because man-made satellites didn't exist back then. So this is more of a snapshot with little context.

How does this compare with the medieval warming period as far as impact on agriculture?
Read on British debt and it’s relationship to the WWI and WWII.
> https://openforest.fs.usda.gov/christmas-trees/forests has a pretty heavy dependency on Javascript

And it doesn't even work with Javascript.
I live in a neighborhood with a Walmart + Sams Club center exists. Its walking distance (roughly .8 miles) from my house, and it is BEFORE the first traffic light. Extremely convenient.

My roommate orders everything from Amazon. Creature of habit? I dunno. I don't really understand it myself (especially because Amazon's pricing has gotten much worse). Mail-order catalogs were still used back in the day when you had to fill out forms and mail things to PO Boxes, there is certainly a convenience factor and greater selection of goods.
Aware of that. Spent 7 years there. It’s just additional context of the speaker.
It's pretty obvious why men at better are spatial cognition tests. Men were the primary hunters and needed to navigate complex spaces with little reference points away from camp for days a time. Because of this, there was probably a strong selection pressure for men to be good at hunting. Those who were the best at it and didn't get lost were rewarded with increased female reproductive access.
Firstly, I didn’t mean to suggest you cannot write effective code in statically typed languages.. only that it is no easier and no more productive to do it than with dynamically typed languages.

> “In my experience it's certainly possible to write a program in Python that is reasonably correct but it takes more effort.”

I think there is a pivotal trade-off though. I’d argue that in many cases it can be less effort to write correct code in Python for three reasons,

- the simpler types of compiler checks are just inapplicable or handled by totally ignorably-low-effort unit tests in Python and don’t matter 99.9999% of the time, and have low cost in the 0.00001% of the time they do matter.

- the extra type system code and constraints it imposes introduces more extra code than what an analogous set of unit tests would have required for functionally the same level of correctness guarantee in Python.

- the extra time cost of including a compilation step in many edit cycle round trips adds up to far more effort than writing and maintaining extra tests, and disallows flexibly deciding when to get rapid feedback when that feedback matters more than whole-program correctness required by a compiler (and these points are magnified if ever working in a monorepo).
I spent a minute sorting out that double negative headline.
In addition to the other reasons mentioned, I sometimes wear one at work on the side facing the wall of my office so I look more approachable.
CMU Practical Data Science (2018)
Yeah totally – saying you're going to be more like Oracle actually kicks Google Cloud down a few notches for me. All I hear is "So you're going to be openly hostile and intimidating to your customers since your products never keep up with trends?" instead of what is likely the actual thing: "we have great products, we need a better salesforce to sell those products"
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Given that students are probably learning Python in university, I could see this being a strong reason for its growth. I hadn't thought of the "manager" angle - it makes sense that it's easier to plug a new developer into a Python codebase than it is a Rails codebase.
Information flow with applications to security and cryptography
That's a really strong claim.
Dunning-Kruger effect is still a thing unsurprisingly
> You can get an emergency radio capable of receiving VHF NOAA weather alerts.

Apparently this was grandfathered in a long time ago. NOAA is only allowed to send weather reports by radio and on specific frequencies. Doing the same with the internet, why that would be communism!
This is exacerbated by the number of workers who don't actually pay any taxes (~44%):
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/81-million-americans-wont-...

The number is even higher if you count those who are unemployed or not working.
EU Member States sign up to cooperate on digitising cultural heritage
> I'm sure there are plenty of racists everywhere, but I do find it hard to believe that there aren't more percentage-wise in the south.

Isn't that statement prejudiced and discriminatory toward people living in the South? You're doing exactly what it is you're accusing and entire geographic region of doing.

Why do you think there are more racists in the South? Why do racists believe what they do? I suspect the answer is the same to both those questions.
No. Software development for any non-trivial project requires more than just slapping a few requirements down on paper and then flinging code into an editor.
And what would the Phase 2 of your pointless FUD be? You do realize that LSP was created by Microsoft, right? And it's pretty much the standard for language and editor integration right now.
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"Inpatient" means you've been admitted to the hospital. "Outpatient" means you're home the same day as your procedure.