skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 100% concerned that this post was AstroTurf'd to the front of HN given the negative article posted against Lambda hours before. This managed to hustle up in less than 15 minutes and kept climbing.
Agree with @bradlys' comment:
This just suggests more highly paid people are being allowed to work remote, vs. remote jobs being paid more.

Given the expansion of high paying roles across geographies, this could be driven almost entirely by FAANG opening engineering / R&D centers in other cities like Denver / Dallas, etc.

Also 'remote' could be laxer standards for these same companies on going down to Mountain View / Menlo Park driven by commute and traffic. Many of my friends commute 2x a week, passing the 50% threshold for remote work, even though I wouldn't consider Menlo Park / Mountain View to SF 'Remote'
> There are 3 people on the planet who can make changes to it

Anyone on the planet can make changes to it and distribute those changes. The only thing those 3 can do that the rest of us cannot is get their changes into the copies distributed at sqlite.org.
> A modern transistor is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 atoms.

Um? A silicon atom is something like 0.2 nanometers. 1000 times that is 200 nanometers. We passed that a long time ago. Am I missing something?
It's much more likely to depend on what UK legislation is in force. Right now there is UK legislation to enact GDPR and that does not simply disappear because the UK left the EU. Unless new laws are passed, whatever is on the UK statute books remains unaltered.
Why cars and cities are a bad match. (2016)
Of course, the flip side is that such a government can't accomplish anything positive either.
Libertarianism just replaces one tyranny with many. A powerful state is replaced by powerful corporations and individuals.
Another reality check is that fixing build I broke is typically quick while fixing build broken by somebody else takes a lot of time. Those errors are rarely as exact ad to allow you to fix issue in 5 minutes. Occasionally, stack trace leads to quick null pointer fix, but it is tricky as real cause can be deeper (null should not even happen) and quick fix is just hiding larger problem.

Moreover, having person who made bug is just good practice. Feedback, basically. When people know about own errors and have to fix them, they learn more about errors they make.
Good luck,have fun.
I wouldn't be surprised if economy class on this future supersonic jet costs the same as first class (or at least business class) on a traditional jet.

Though either way, even after a 9 hour business class flight, I'm certainly not ready to go to work when I get there even though I had a lay-flat seat.
But then the presumption is that software engineering just shot up a huge amount in 2 years as a total of remote workers.

To me - that seems suspect.
I won't be doing that! Offering a full react version.
"Ha ha!"
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> Their role "requires" it only because their employers have followed that trend like lemmings

You speak as if the employer is a different entity than employees.

it's a collective. a composition of employees.

The employees bring it upon themselves.

Employees have to deal with BS like whiteboard exams because the employees themselves conduct the whiteboard exams!

The reason, why you are not subject to the rules of the employee is because you are playing a completely different game.

As the employees waste each other's time doing pointless pushups to prove how good of a fit they are at a moving company (after all a physically fit person can move more stuff per hour than one less fit!) you help sign up more customers who need to be moved and make it a more pleasant experience so the same customers remember your client.

It might be that you end up doing a few pushups or even move boxes but the real value is in the above.

While every employee at a moving company is focused on maximizing their push up count, you make your client come ahead in the market by retaining more customers and sign more up. then repeat
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It would be relieving to see this effort fail. The popularity of platforms should be based on the merit of the ideas, not money spent.
This is a feature, not a bug. Facebook accepts the inverse casing of your password as valid in case you accidentally have caps lock on while typing it.
It is called "puffery"[0], for anyone who is interested.

The wikipedia page says a "puff piece" is journalistic puffery. Neat, I hadn't made that connection.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
Right. I work with a lot of people (and am one myself) who were hired into an office but are reasonably described as remote, whether or not 100%, now.
Curious, have your spiral based tools been documented/published somewhere?
Right, that'd be my concern - that if their implementation could be modified in a similar manner to create jammers that would be quick to deploy but difficult to locate.
I suspect he'll continue to campaign and rally in various states where there is resistance to his goals (one could argue the people's goals), making it very costly to oppose him if you're not on solid footing.

Pretty much what Trump did to Republican resistance, but doubtfully as amazingly successful as it's been for Trump.

Something of note that Obama did is turn over an enormous movement to the DNC when he assumed office. Not sure anyone knows why except insiders, but it was definitely his biggest mistake, and neutered his clout. (https://newrepublic.com/article/140245/obamas-lost-army-insi...). No chance Bernie will do that.

Bernie's answer to your question would probably be "I can't, but together we can." As cheesy as it sounds, it's true.
Cheers! Hang in there. :-)
This conspiracy has been debunked. The VIPS statement you linked to doesn't name their "independent cybersecurity" source, which was later proven to be the work of UK trolls:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180802/07182740351/as-dn...
Different flavors of dictator. Confederate Fascism where the leader rules based on tribal loyalty vs. an Octavian-style emperor who rules by controlling everyone who matters behind the scenes.

Neither candidate believes in compromise or their own fallibility. In either case, we would be choosing to forfeit the ability to decide for ourselves going forward.
I did this exact thing with Perl, 1993...I'd just switched majors from English to CS. Very much expected an invitation to switch back.
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I would probably retire, before I reached that kind of salary as a Software Engineer in Germany (especially as a foreigner from a post-communist state). There's a very hard glass ceiling here.

Alternatively I could highly increase my chances (and quality of life) by jumping the border to Switzerland.
Per Wikipedia [1]:

Under section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018,[2] the GDPR will be incorporated directly into domestic law immediately after the UK exits the European Union.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_2018
[2]: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/16/section/3/enacte...
Agreed. Any remote company that adjusts salaries based on location gets a hard pass from me.
It's worth noting that golang builds can be smaller than that with `GOOS=linux go build -ldflags="-s -w" .` (assuming a build on macos for linux.) From there I usually run `upx --ultra-brute -9 program` before dropping it into a `scratch` docker container (plus whatever other deps it needs).
Doesn't polling above 10% make him a legitimate candidate?
Firstly, I'm sorry to hear about your community, that is rough and hope people are ok. And thank you (and your fire buddies - my cousin is a wildfire-fighter) for all your work to keep your community safe!

To your question on self insurance - it's a matter of risk and statistics. No insurance is less money up front than coverage, but you retain the risk which may or may not cost a lot. We give a quote everywhere, and we think it accurately represents the risk Goodcover is covering for you, but I concede it is more expensive than it used to be.

Something else to know - CA has a non-renewal moratorium in force for wildfire areas, if anyone is being cancelled or non-renewed in your area please check this out:
http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/20...
I'm not sure what your exact use case is, but if you need to connect to oauth-based APIs have you tried https://pipedream.com? It's a free developer tool that provides managed auth (including oauth token generation and refresh) for 100+ apps with an easy way to orchestrate those APIs in Node.js workflows. I wrote a short blog post at https://dev.to/pipedream/use-any-api-in-seconds-with-auth-ma.... I hope that's helpful!
Don't see how an academic background would help you avoid this it's a skill you're far more likely to learn through practical experience. I don't see bootcampers as being particularly vulnerable to these gaps in knowledge.

My experience in learning computing in school was going through large months long projects where later stages built on early stages but the entire project was throughly documented and paint by Numbers so long as you followed the directions exactly. If you came up with a valid but undocumented solution you would break the assumptions of the documentation and forever be hacking the program to get it to work which was still possible just time consuming and nobody knew how to help you. The end result is students who can follow docs without fucking up but who also don't know how to fix things other than by rolling back to a known good version.

I've found these sorts of problems to be very difficult to solve in academics due to the need to standardize assignments and grading yet a few months doing an original project will infuse you with troubleshooting mojo.
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Networking is always a center of awesomeness in those companies. I've seen things like six (at least) layers of NAT for "extra security" or super fast fiber optics that are unused because someone left everything hanging off a backup cable line months ago and forgot. In the latter case it was discovered after they spent weeks tweaking QoS settings to make it go faster to no avail.
Perfect! A great picture of the lightbulb. Its easily identifiable not :)

Nonetheless in the last 20 years all my normal light bulbs had to be replaced on a regular schedule which was often enough that i got slightly annnoyed by it.

My expensive philips hue, no issues so far.
I have not read the NYMag article, but I personally think this approach makes a lot of sense.

My own favorite higher education reform idea is to have the gov't fund higher education by paying schools a percentage of the student's increase in W2 earnings for a period after graduation. That would avoid the 'indentured servitude' aspect, because the gov't would be paying, but would only reward schools that could increase students' W2 earnings.

To the extent that lambda school is exploring models that do something similar, it might eventually make space for a gov't funding model build around the insights they have had (like the one in this announcement, about how to pull future revenues forward to fund the school in a practical way).
George Washington lost his first campaign to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1755, 271-40.

When he ran again 3 years later he gave away 28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum punch, 34 gallons of wine, 46 gallons of beer, and two gallons of cider royal — "nearly enough for a half-gallon per voter." And guess what, he won.

Considering we wouldn't even declare independence until 18 years later, it's safe to say that buying influence in an election has been American since the beginning, and even before.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12384/swilling-planters-...
There are inherent limitations to edu that go unacknowledged.

- There are a relatively fixed number of high skill jobs.

- More people with the same skills/portfolio reduces the value of that skill/portfolio.

- While people can learn new skills, people have different learning rates and integrating that knowledge deeply often takes much longer than teachers/bootcamps want to believe.

- Most edu info exists for free online, what school/bootcamps uniquely provide is feedback. Quality feedback is HARD to scale.

- How much does pre-application screening find people who don't really need that much help vs trying to help every applicant and getting unmotivated people in your bootcamp. I have seen very few examples of a bootcamp fundamentally changing someones motivation/work ethic.

ISAs will be the big winner in the ed tech space and providers of education will likely come and go unless someone cracks all the issues above. Perhaps the current distribution of students to universities (having plurality) is actually more suited to serving this function than a typical tech world power law distribution where one or two companies would provide 80% of the edu.
The UK has all the EU laws it had before Brexit. It needs a new law in the UK to remove existing things. UK will not lose protection until the UK decides upon it.
So they're basically admitting to what the news articles were accusing them of in the first place. And what they're describing seems to basically be a CDO. The thing that gets me about this company is that it very much seems that to the public they're saying "Aww man doesn't it suck that student debt is a $1.6Bn business" whilst saying "Aww man we're going to get some of that juicy juicy $1.6Bn business" to investors.

If Lambda school worked, their ISAs would be paying off at this point, they'd be seeing a profit from their first cohorts and so not only would they have fresh cash to invest, but VCs would see the ROI and growth and throw down some cash. It seems very clear to me that they've failed to demonstrate the business model. So they hand off the core of their business (taking the risk students don't pay off) to a 3rd party and try to just spin some cash from the classes. If I were them I'd be looking for an exit, quick.
There's one thing on his wikipedia page which I think is probably wrong: I don't think Wirth had any involvement with Object Pascal.
As I explained elsewhere, Alphabet's moonshot investments are a different kind of investment than the what Amazon has been making for decades. But Amazon has been investing very heavily in changing the nature of buying stuff. To much grumbling from people who preferred profit.

15 years ago Bezos could have retired rich and turned it over to a standard CEO, who would have milked their then-excellent position commanding a large and growing share of ecommerce. And he would have been applauded by a lot of analysts, etc. But instead he's put titanic sums of money into making what are, at least on paper, pretty modest gains in terms of purchasing friction and latency. Is 2 days really that much better than 3-7 days? Is next-day and same-day really better still? The customers' answer is "fuck yes!" But it wasn't clear up front, at least to a lot of investors and commentators, that it was really worth tens of billions in capex.

In both cases, what I'm talking about here is investments that go beyond the time horizon of most companies. If you measure them by the average company (which has a much shorter exec and CEO tenure), of course they'll look bad.
I would guess autodidactic learners are more likely to pick this up than those who mainly learn through formal education. I don't think stack traces or debuggers were ever really covered in my CS program.

Then again, neither was version control...
I met Larry in about 1992 when I went to work on the Newton project. I had seen him around Apple before, and I knew who he was and what he was known for, but I didn't actually meet him until I joined the Newton team. I found him friendly, modest, smart, shrewd, compassionate, full of interesting knowledge and ideas, and interested in other people and their ideas.

I got to know him better when John Sculley ordered him to have the Newton team ditch its Lisp OS and write one in C++. Larry approached me and a couple of other Lisp hackers and asked us to make a fresh start with Lisp and see what we could do on Newton. We wrote an experimental OS that Matt Maclaurin named "bauhaus".

Larry had a sabbatical coming up right about then. He took it with us. He crammed into a conference room with three or four of us and hacked Lisp code for six weeks. He was a solid Lisp hacker. He stayed up late with us and wrote AI infrastructure for the experimental OS, then handed it off to me when he had to, as he put it, "put his executive hat back on." He hung around with us brainstorming and arguing about ideas. He had us out to his house for dinner.

A little later, when things were hectic and pressure was high on Newton, one of our colleagues killed himself. Larry roamed the halls stopping to talk to people about how they were doing. I was at my desk when he came by, next to another colleague that I considered a friend. Larry stopped by to check on us. My friend had also been a good friend of the fellow who had died, and he lost his composure. Larry grabbed a chair, pulled it up close and sat with him, an arm around him, patting him gently while his grief ran its course.

After Newton was released, Larry moved on to other projects. I worked on the shipped product for a while, but I was pretty burned out. Steve Jobs persuaded me to go to work for NeXT for a little while.

Steve is infamous for being, let's say, not as pleasant as Larry. In fact, he sat in my office once trashing Larry for about half an hour, for no good reason, as far as I can see. I politely disagreed with a number of his points. Larry made important contributions to the development of personal computing, and he didn't have to be a jerk to do it.

Larry was extremely smart, but I never knew him to play I'm-smarter-than-you games. I saw him encourage other people to pursue, develop, and share their ideas. I found him eager to learn new things, and more interested in what good we could do than in who got the credit for it.

We weren't close friends, except maybe when we were crammed in a conference room together for six weeks. I didn't see him much after Newton, though we exchanged the occasional friendly email over the years.

I was just thinking lately that it was about time to say hello to him again. Oops.

Larry Tesler was one of the best people I met in Silicon Valley. He was one of the best people I've met, period. I'll miss him.
Governments of the world just ramped up spying on reporters
Ha, how did that not register??
Which doesn't matter because absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Perhaps not a timelapse in the traditional sense, but Gource (https://gource.io/) is a fun way to watch a Git repo evolve.
The problem with Lambda School is the model and vision that suggests a general college education isn't worthwhile. That college should focus on a marketable skill directly leading to some job. That's optimal, but that leaves out the social aspects, the critical thinking aspects, and the safe space to have an open mind and absorb and share ideas.

I would argue those other aspects of higher education are far more critical than the bootcamp model and vision.

And eventually, it boils down to a waste of time for some subset of students, which is not helpful to our higher education interests.
Why is image size important? Should we instead optimise for speed of build?

If storage is cheap. And CPU costs Co2 does it make sense to spend longer time and more energy to save disk space?
Not sure what pointers you are looking for, but you can start by saying hi in the chatroom.

If you think it is helpful, you can breeze through the lessons and exercises so you know / understand how other students use the curriculum, then work with the more senior students as a team on c0d3.com and build features to make it better. Proudly put all your contributions (features, mentoring work, authoring work - if you contributed to the course material) on your resume.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I'm pretty sure one can implement buffers in Haskell, so it obviously can be done.
I just recorded everything. There are some gaps, but I have something like 3 years at 50 million AIS lines per day. I keep 90 days locally, and then throw the rest in S3.

I should say this isn't all AIS data, just all that comes through this particular network of receivers. For truly global coverage, there are satellite AIS receivers, but I don't have access to that.
This almost sounds like a super well connected CRM. We use Pipedrive and our email, intercom, etc flow in automatically. It’s super helpful.
It's interesting that you say that, since looking through your post history here you've engaged in identity politics all the same.

Everyone engages in some form of identity politics. The post we were responding to engaged in identity politics as well because they believed white men were discriminated against the most.

If you want to make an arguments make an actual argument against their position, not one against the concept of identity politics because that's an inherently flawed argument.
Coaching senior people is different. You can coach in small increments. Somebody who is new needs to understand the tech, current implementation of systems and all their quirks and also needs to understand how the company works. That’s a lot to teach at once.
I think this is the punchline
In which case you probably don't care about quality matches and begs the question why are you dating?
Best place is probably my thesis: https://levien.com/phd/phd.html . All of the code is available under permissive open source license. I've been continuing to poke around with this and hope to have a newer set of tools before long.
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> It's well known in the cybersecurity industry that the DNC email hacks performed by Guccifer 2.0 were Russian GRU.

That piece of disinformation was thoroughly debunked: http://www.g-2.space/
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I have to seriously laugh at the idea of comparing Oscar Wilde, a gay dandy in Victorian England to the few racists that patreon has thrown off its platform. But I guess comparing the worst corners of the internet to great historical artists is worth an attempt.

Either way I'm not really sure where the death talk is coming from because patreon seems to be doing fine.
All my websites are built with Unity targeting WebGL! /s
You know a lot can be said about deficiencies in the democratic process in the U.S. but the crazy guy would just be removed. He'd need decisive support from the military to stay and ride out the fact that he lost all democratic legitimacy. I don't see a coup on the horizon. Do you?
A 1966 demo of his pioneering Ph.D. work on interactive visual programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLyIYmPfCps.

His Ph.D. dissertation is here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13474. It was some of the earliest work on dataflow and graphical programming. I know this because Alan Kay told me to read it, so I did. You should too.

Edit: Bert, of course, was Ivan Sutherland's (of Sketchpad) older brother. There's a delightful dialogue with the two of them from 2004: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1bNR4DmhU ("Mom Loved Him Best: Bert & Ivan Sutherland").
One can only hope. Big EU initiatives are two types - first prove that road to hell is paved with good intentions, the other are similar to Herod reforming the preschool industry in Bethlehem.

GDPR is nightmare that has not improved anything except now we have to click for both cookies and GDPR form. I don't feel protected by it, mostly annoyed. And a lot of sites did the smart thing - just cut off access for EU ips - thanks Brussels.
Politics being strongly influenced by money is healthy, because the most successful people have the most money.

The more influence successful people have on politics - the better it is for the country overall.

Countries that try to manage themselves by poor majority - quickly deteriorate into chaos or into dictatorship.
Ah, got it. Good point. Thanks for clarifying!