skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have known people like this, but my point (poorly articulated) is that I don't think these biases against enterprise devs who happen to have experience with a particular toolchain are appropriate, since not all enterprise devs are like this, and, as others have mentioned, they aren't unique to developers with experience in those technologies -- for example, I've run into this issue pretty much exclusively with folks on the data side (not in the company I work for) using Python via Jupyter Notebooks and R via RStudio.

Anyway -- I think it's fairly straightforward to filter these kinds of people out of your pool without going the nuclear option?
Probably done by a senior hunter to explain how to corner and kill food animals. The earliest known example of a PowerPoint presentation.
That's illegal in California, but in Canada you will see things like that come up, even to the extent of saying the company owns anything you think of while employed there.
But my point it that these customers would not be protected by that license, since they'd be using the code of other contributors without license, so they'd still be potentially open for extortion by hundreds other entities (I suppose there were many contributors).
I think this is Steve Job's famous truck, the vehicle that only very few people need.[1] Admittedly this is slightly ironic given recent Tesla news headlines.

Unlike with the iPad this device can be upgraded, repaired at home, it'll run software purchased outside the app store, the battery won't degrade and users may even get a whole decade of use out of it.
One could argue that's all lost potential revenue to Apple and thus priced into the machines.

Perhaps I'm wrong. The main thing that makes me doubt this theory is that the Mac mini exists at its current price point.
Come to think about it, one could build quite the renderfarm out of these for $60k.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJ3QxJYsw8
Even if you don't use these services, they use you. The tools these companies provide to different websites to use will collect data about you. So just visiting a website you are affected. You seem to recognize how Google affects you, but the FB products do as well.
From later in that second twitter thread:

> I was at a party tonight and someone asked me what my favorite book was. Couldn't answer. They relaxed the constraint and asked about "a good book". Couldn't answer. They relaxed the constraint again and asked me about "any book, good or bad". Couldn't answer.

From his blog, Dan is obviously a great engineer. I'd love to say as an interviewer I'd recognize this and say "strong hire". But I have no idea how to interview someone who gets this nervous. I've written "don't hire" in such cases before.
So, what is the actual "vehicle" with which the shares will be purchased?

And is this something that exists outside of Robinhood?
Recruiters generally don’t evaluate programming ability. They pattern match on keywords in the resume and act as a very crude crap filter.
The last time I had to go through Union Station in DC, I tried to get water and it tasted like it had come from a pool. An unusually chlorinated pool. I almost threw up.

I also don't have reliably potable tap water where I live now.

If they're doing the filtration that the public infrastructure isn't, I'd hardly call that freeloading.
Tesla's plan to solve one of its toughest customer challenges
Boxers and a white sleeveless undershirt. Unless you really are a leet ninja guru rockstar.
The upper was discussed here in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112145
> One frustration I've had recently is the number of companies encouraging or requiring code in the public sphere.

As someone coming from the hiring side, I don't understand how these companies are finding enough candidates that they can afford to put up all these arbitrary requirements.

Right now in the US, software engineers are one of (if not the the most) in-demand position in one of (if not the most) tightest labor markets in economic history. To find engineers we've had to scrape the bottom of the barrel, throw piles of money at recruiters, and literally beg candidates just to come it to talk to us.

Are these companies requiring things like 1000 Github stars or a resume with experience exactly matching twelve different super-hot tech stacks actually finding people? Because if so, it boggles my mind?
The mass media is going nuts about not controlling the narrative anymore, that's why they want to bury big tech. They will lose in the end, so I don't know if it's worth it to fight.
Not to be confused with Hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
> the biggest problem we have in putting water on the map is a fundamental mistrust of drinking sources

I've never met anyone who wouldn't use a public water fountain to fill up a bottle they had. Not saying they don't exist, just that it's not "the biggest problem".

The biggest problem is obviously forgetting to bring your water bottle with you everywhere you go. When that happens to me I buy a disposable bottle and refill it till I lose it. Why don't we just require that all disposable water bottles are built to be reused? With wide mouths so they can be cleaned, maybe even compatible with Mason jar lids.
the thing is: you have to introduce very subtle bugs when the code is open. And if you exploit it in the millions someone is going to notice.
> My PageRank is still high enough to get requests from people trying to leach off from it.

One of his guesses for this is because he doesn't try to game the PageRank system. I hope he's right.

I've argued with other people that the best way to score well on Google is to create the best website you can and forget about SEO games. The specific example we were talking about is recipe websites. They all seem to have pointless essays about the first time the author tried ossobuco when they were an exchange student or something else irrelevant. The theory is that the essay is for Google and not for the poor schmuck trying to make dinner.
Is there a way to do it for a Auto head unit? I would love to try using OSM in my car.
Get ready to learn to code diagnostic radiologists.
> Dangerous Dave

That game is awesome. The upside-down levels blew my mind as a young kid!
Okey lets not take about GDPR and simply talk about personal data gathered by companies. Is requesting a copy of that data the same as requesting a service without paying for it?

And since we are not talking about GDPR, who owns the personal data gathered by a company. The company or the person. Is there any argument in favor of the person having a right to access that data without paying?
My last job had that clause in the contract. I was actually discussing with a co-worker on doing a game jam thing together outside of work and that got shut down because we didn't want to get into legal issues.

The fact that they'd likely lose the lawsuit doesn't matter, it's the threat of legal action which we couldn't afford in the first place. Mind you, this was a company that had absolutely nothing to do with video games too.
The headline does this article a disservice. The data does not boil down so cleanly (as the article itself points out clearly) and to leave out the other factors it discusses is to invite false conclusions.

I realize that it's difficult to write a headline that is both scientifically precise and short, but the point remains.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15591441

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326940
Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?
What are your plans for the weekend?

It's also ok to do nothing at all!
My experience is different. I write a decent amount of JS code each year and try to catch up with current best practices where I can, but every year it’s been a bit of a pain to write any code that’s shared between browser and client. Various ES features will have different levels of support in different layers, and this is especially tough once you take into account the various transpilers or polyfills, and the big sticking points for me over the past two years have been ES imports and async (shockingly, with backend support lagging).

These days my main strategy is to have three TypeScript projects—frontend, backend, and common. I then whitelist imports in the common libraries.

> It's the same language, using the same JavaScript engine (v8 for chrome).

I find it completely unacceptable to assume that V8 is running in the browser. In general, I do all of my JS development work in Firefox or Safari, and this saves me a bunch of time checking portability later.
This perspective reminds me a lot of the philosophy behind moneyball. You pay for players who are likely undervalued, not necessarily the highest valued players, because the highest valued players are too expensive for a smaller team to get when competing with the Yankees or the Red Sox. I think this probably applies to eng hiring.
Great article, but to me hooks solve problems that I rarely have.

Anyway I left React/Preact/Inferno/Vue for Mithril and my life is a lot simpler now.
I didn't know Rita's opened a franchise on Mars!
I'm disappointed given the headline that there wasn't any mention of the make of mattresses that are being stolen. We bought a new mattress about a year ago and sampled some in the $20K+ (yes!) range just for the fun of it. If these are legit 5 star luxury hotels experiencing mattress theft, they could be of the same cost variety. We like our much less expensive one a lot better, even if it isn't the same model that was on the Titanic or used by royalty.
Amazon Ring owners foil $400K Bitcoin extortion plot by removing batteries
> Really feels like a "Damned if you do/Damned if you don't" situation

Maybe this is something that you (=FB) should have given some thought before navigating yourself into that situation. Finding a solution for this is hardly anything that outsiders should have to do. Solve the mess yourself and better do it fast.
They point out that the get* functions are supposed to be "computationally expensive", and you don't want something like that in your render method.

But also in either the current or near future versions of react, with Suspense and concurrent rendering, the render method may be called multiple times over the course of a single render. So if any of those functions aren't entirely pure, there is a good chance there will be bugs from that.
Reproducible Builds in November 2019
Drinking fountains aren't all there is to drinking water infrastructure. If your tap water has never come out yellow, reeking of chlorine, tasting like dirt, etc., consider yourself lucky.

But drinking fountains add some funny flavors of their own. And what incentive is there to avoid that?
Ah the follies of ignoring and not having social capital
Since we're all sharing coding playlists here, happy to share mine as well:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hLUvezSiJ2TpmSQq27IQI?si=...

This is a ~21hr mix I use basically daily when getting into flow - I love it. It's mostly high-energy electronic, some electro-swing, and I'm sure a whole bunch of other genres I'm not equipped to describe (not a music nerd).

Almost all of the music has been discovered through using Spotify Radio, Pandora, etc. and saving the songs I really liked / helped me keep the groove going.

It might or might not work for you, but always happy to share. Also - feedback welcome! If you like this and there's some other stuff I'm missing out on, lmk :)
> It's 65,000 years old which means it was painted by a Neanderthal.

I'm not saying it wasn't made by a Neanderthal, and I don't think it's unlikely that Neanderthals made cave paintings, but there were human expeditions out of Africa during that time[0].

> To me, that's as profound as the discovery, if ever, of another intelligent species in the universe.

For me, the fact that Neanderthals are so closely related to us removes some of the amazement. If octopuses were making paintings on the ocean floor, that would seem more comparable to finding aliens doing the same thing.

[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/oldest-human...
I’m not saying end to end encryption should be forbidden, just that it’s a toxic argument to go “haha, stupid law enforcement doesn’t realize there are already places that are hard to spy on!” Of course there are, nobody thinks otherwise.
Intel has generated $19.3 billion in net income in the prior four quarters, giving it a whopping 12.9 PE ratio over that time.

What vanity stock price exactly? You could hardly have picked a worse example in this bubbly market.
Godot Engine exports to all these platforms with the click of a button.

It is mostly lauded for its 2D capabilities. 3D can be hit or miss.
Did you all read the article? Their goal is to reduce plastic bottles, and they notes that bottled water is a Veblen good: people trust it BECAUSE there is a business model, more than they trust a random pipe that offers up free water.

So they monetized the pipe, they say, not because they wanted money, but because they want people to stop giving money to their competitors (plastic/chemical companies).

Please do question their motive, but at least understand what they are saying.
Screenarino: Digital Signage (and More) with Slack
In one of our solutions (about 75+ projects) we have a single VB.net project with just a few classes. Nobody has bothered to port it over because it never needed changes. So it sits there doing its thing. The funny thing is that it was converted from C# code, which was promptly lost, some ten years ago because we thought it would be easier for the dev unfamiliar with C#.

On a personal note, I collect vintage computers. I have too many and stopped counting at 50. So I do use BASIC in that sense.
AFAIK most early animal paintings in caves was to show what game/food/animals there was in the local area.

Makes you wonder if future archaeologists would have the same ore and wonder at finding a McDonalds menu board buried some 50,000 years on from now. When you think of it like that, you wonder what people of the time would make of interpretations of them and how accurate they are.

EDIT - Spilling error
> I disagree strongly with closing off an entire sector of content to political advertising.

I feel like you are inadvertedly misrepresenting OP's point. The OP specifically referred to geographically targeted ads, which have already a long history of being manipulated to subvert the Democratic process by foreign actors with disastrous consequences, and instead you somehow are talking about "closing off an entire sector of content to political advertising"?

It might not have been your intention but your post sounds like a disingenuous strawman.
Do you think a judge would be influenced by the distinction between tracking a person and tracking the property of a person?

I am also a bit curious of how the contract between the company and the device owner would transfer to the thief. The common way for companies to enable tracking is by having the user agree to it, but the thief clearly did not. Do a thief in EU have a GDPR case against a company if the owner track the stolen device through a service like this one?
5+ for UX!
Delete your google play services and install microg
Disclosure: I work for AWS

T3 instances provide hyperthreadded vCPUs to EC2 instances, and the Nitro Hypervisor uses a core based scheduler (coscheduler) to ensure that cores are never shared between two EC2 instances.

Upstream Linux kernel changes that are based on some of the changes in the Nitro Hypervisor were posted to lkml in 2018: https://lwn.net/Articles/764482/

I hope to see the GCE team contributing more to the ongoing discussion on core based scheduling!
There are studies that show merging late actually reduces congestion:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-m...
I assumed he/she was. Internet.org is in direct opposition to the principle of net neutrality.
I think it can work both ways, but I was looking at it from the perspective of the parent post.
The Pentagon's Terrifying Plan for Cyborg Supersoldiers
The article index at https://danluu.com/ is a better source: it's from March 2016.
I’d put it differently: targeted ads allow campaigns to do more with less by focusing on people who are more likely to be receptive to their messages. That’s a valuable thing that shouldn’t be prohibited.
1. We're talking about interviews, not daily wear.

2. Right. Luxury bad. Class bad. But what you are wearing has no bearing on your skills. Even if you are wearing a suit.
The corruption in judicial circles of Russia works this way: the police had opened the case, the defendant obviously isn't guilty, we state that he's guilty with a penalty of conditional term instead of a real one and free him in a court's room. If we state that he isn't guilty, then it would start the process of quality check in all parties involved in the development of the case which unavoidably ends with penalties or criminal cases upon the policemen, nah we don't need that.

I agree on a perfect world scenario, but we in Russia have a big pile of ridiculous court decisions every month.
> While Facebook will select the first 11 members of the board, the eleven will choose the remaining board members, with terms lasting three years.

Call me skeptical but that's not enough to distance yourself and set up a "fair" court. Facebook still has lots of influence and I doubt they'll recommend something that would truly hurt Facebook's bottom line.
> The alternative is interview coding tests

I've all but given up considering finding a new job at this point because even with a solid github project in the target company's language of choice which goes above and beyond their "homework" and/or pair programming interview, they still ask you to do their ridiculous coding test.

Too old for this shit.
meanwhile, in commie europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GceNsojnMf0
Some of the top of my Head:

- Antlr (https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/master/doc/javascript-target.md)

- PegJS (https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs)

- Nearley (https://github.com/kach/nearley)
Every job i've had has had something to this extent in the contract.
Disclosure: I work for AWS on EC2

EC2 instances that have no local storage state can move between hosts in response to events like reboots.
I don't think it's just the water fountains themselves, but the pipes and all the other infrastructure associated with transporting water.

Instead of having a central location where water is filtered and distributed from, Tap is trying to have filtering occur at each endpoint in a more distributed manner.
I would totally disagree. We started migrating our front end to React this year. We dipped our toes in with Class based components, found out about hooks, and never looked back. Hooks are confusing when you're trying to translate a class based component to a functional component with hooks. Starting a component or page from the ground up with hooks is so, so much simpler than class based components. As with any iteration of any framework, there are gotchas, but they are no worse than Class based react (totally opinion there). The mental model, once you latch on to it, is so simple.
You can buy that Gabriel Knight game from GOG for $6:

https://www.gog.com/game/gabriel_knight_2_the_beast_within
Assuming you're the person I linked to, and you're not a VC, how come your website says, for example, that you did a series-B investment on checkr?
Just on the Commander X16. The built-in interpreter is 100% backwards-compatible with the VIC-20 and C64.
If she interviews with me, she absolutely will. Appearance? Who cares.
In California it is illegal. If you work in trendy software companies, startups, etc - it probably isn't common because so many people have Githubs.

As a embedded software engineer, I've had specific language claiming rights to everything (one even called out "songs or other copyrightable works") I do while employed at the company at 4/4 of my post-college jobs.
It sounds like women who grow up hearing they can be whoever they want to be tend to not want to be techies. I don't blame them. If I were any good at anything else I wouldn't do STEM for a living, either. It's a thankless job best outsourced.
That it didn't help CA doesn't matter.

What matters is that you can target specific people when you have a lot of money because Facebook gathers/gathered that data.
I generally agree with your statement, otoh I have used some libs that are not being actively maintained for years and they still work, out of the box.

Clojure strength is its weakness.
But yes, there is a long way to make it more beginner friendly
"but Node.js itself is based around async callbacks for the simplest stuff with no easy way out, which makes it worth avoiding".

Huh? Async code is so powerful. You can use promises instead of callbacks. And you can easily make a async call "synchronous" by adding the await keyword in front of it.
Article from BI: https://www.businessinsider.com/robinhood-stock-trading-app-...
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn
Now we just need ads in our public parks, preferably for tobacco products, and the 80s vision of the dystopian corporate future will be complete.
How would breaking up FB into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp help with this at all? They don't even share ad inventory. It looks like you're out to hurt the company and that's it.
Big tech also wants to control the narrative. Due to the nature of their platforms, it's much more difficult to do but that hasn't stopped them from making a mess trying.
Fantastic!! Accelerating MRI with ML is an idea I've had in my little idea book for years and I'm delighted to see it getting some mainstream attention!

It's a serious technical challenge but the benefits could be enormous.

IIRC the vast majority of the cost of an MRI is the amortized cost of the imager, so faster scans should hopefully directly reduce the cost to patients, perhaps to the point that regular full-body MRI scans for preventative healthcare could be feasible.
Hainbach, whose website is linked to so he might have created this, has a really cool youtube channel where he repurposes old engineering equipment to make music. Heres one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KbrTpgiEM
Yes, a derivative called UniBasic (which is itself a derivative of Pick BASIC) but the system it's used with provides an additional set of extensions to the language. UniBasic + extensions results in a language referred to as Envision.
The problem is... those tools are usually context-free, and almost every language is context-sensitive.
Is it even possible to prove objective causation in a complex social sciences study, since there can be no control group?
They'll need to hire idubbz so they can have a proper content cop for the content court.
You Complete Me is pretty good for autocompleting python, c, c++ and c#. For python it doesn't need any set up.
"fundamental mistrust of drinking sources"

I know a few people like this but I don't understand it. Why is the water coming out of a faucet not safe, here in NYC?
Couldn't agree more, really good advice there.

In fact, I think the same can be said about pretty much anything. Sometimes it's hard to figure out how you might find something to contribute to the world. Sometimes we have the tendency to think "too big", asking ourselves what do we excel at, in which way are we especial.

Turns out that we all live in different places, have different views of the world, different skills, ideas and contacts. That's a better starting point than many people realize.

I'm working on a cultural/creative project, and I've also taken that approach starting locally.
CC65 targets it, which is fun. I want a physical one when they are released.
What are you replacing it with, if anything?
Don't know the party, but it would be a weak question in an interview in my opinion.