skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing weird about national standards. Everyone does it. Germany has DIN, for instance. Even tiny Belgium has the NBN.

Usually, these standards are either equivalent to international standards or are only relevant in the home country of the organization.
Every "Smart TV" I've seen is like a dumbed down version of a real device like a Chromecast or an Apple TV.

How do you make something so brutally garbage, anyway? Some of these TVs take so long to register a button press you have to wonder if they aren't using a 6502 inside to power the thing.

The only experience that's worse is those set-top boxes the cable companies provide you with. The Amiga had near flawless, real-time response and these things refresh at, maybe, a few frames per second.
Heroin/optiates are particularly interesting to me because of how huge the gap between the risk of pure versions of the safer opiates are vs. the risks incurred by addicts who end up shooting up street-quality heroin.

E.g. a common route to shooting up heroin that's often cut with anything from other drugs to 50% brick dust, or worse, is to start with strong prescription opiates like codeine or oxycodone (or, indeed, prescription heron - see below), become addicted, and rather than have healthcare systems treat this properly, risk having the prescriptions withdrawn if the doctor gets suspicious, get forced onto the black market, eventually find that too expensive, and try heroin as a far cheaper alternative (despite costs than can be tens to hundreds of times more expensive than the cost of medical grade prescription heroin).

Heroin itself is commonly prescribed as a safer alternative to morphine in some countries (UK for example) for things like post-op pain under the names diacetylmorphine or diamorphine - primarily because you need much smaller doses to get the desired effect with heroin than morphine.

There's pretty much no scenario where someone who is willing to risk injecting themselves with an unknown mix of substances of unknown purity, and the potential to include stuff like brick dust, bought at rates extortionate enough to drive quite a few into crime or prostitution, would not be vastly better off with easy access to a $10-$20/day medical grade supply (an amount in line with actual costs of medical grade heroin) of a drug that is safe enough that we regularly hand out prescriptions for just as risky substances solely for pain management (e.g. an ex of mine gets ongoing prescriptions high doses of tramadol and cocodamol (codeing + paracetamol/acetaminophen) for period pain - high enough doses that she avoids taking them as much as possible because she finds the effects deeply unpleasant).

I've pointed out before that I personally see anyone who still votes to continue the current legal regime for drugs as morally not much better than a serial murderer given the amount of deaths - and other suffering - these laws cause, even if you ignore all the misery around the illegal production and focus only on users.
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In my opinion "full stack" is what all developers actually should be.

15 years ago, it was normal that, as a developer, you know how to administer a server, know how Unix works, know how to setup/debug the database. Maybe know a bit of C.

Fast forward to 2015. Lots of developers are purely frontend developers and don't know how to setup a server, or don't know how to administer the database. This is now the norm. The developers who could do all that stuff (as they should) are suddenly "full-stack developers".
An old school example of "full stack" is LAMP: Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)
For me, A full stack developer is some one who has knowledge of ML, Web Design w/ UX, Application Development for web and mobile, Databases and Big Data
No surprise -- YC promotes launching fast and copying / plagiarism facilitates that.

This has happened before with a YC company (http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/curebit-apologizes-for-copy...) and YC companies are also known to copy (often verbatim) legalese from a bigger competitor and find / replace with their own company name.

Having started two companies, as a non tech founder, I can understand why they did this at the start, as there are many other more important things to do than CSS and TOS. But this isn't an excuse as soon as they had the resources to make the change.
Yes, that's correct. I thought I had that in the post but it may have just been a draft version.

I use nycunorgvpny because it's easy to remember.
> are able to/or pretend to be able

Why would you say this? It's incredibly offensive, and adds nothing to your argument. A full stack dev might not be as good as a specialized dev in any of backend / devops / frontend, but that's just the price you pay for being a generalist. That doesn't mean they 'pretend to be able' to do things.
There's no fixed definition and I've found that people use it when they're asking for 'broad' skills -- where broad is defined by their own experience (cf. most of the other comments here). For example, most web developers would consider front-end and back-end as 'full-stack', whereas an OS/systems person might consider knowledge of hardware up through kernels into the application layer as 'full-stack'.

It's about as useful as the term 'Ninja' or 'Rockstar' in that it's used when people can't articulate succinctly what they mean (or they don't really want to take the time to do so).
This confirmed some of my suspicions. Ruby seems to be in decline, just like Perl, but not declared dead yet, maybe in a few years. Python looks like it's getting to that point as well, hard to tell though, will be clear in a year. Go is growing fast and already ahead of Perl.
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Read the blog post again- there are side-by-side screenshots
An ex of mine is catholic and black. The amount of scrutiny I underwent as a white atheist was quite amusing. And quite enlightening in some ways. One of her aunts still keeps trying to invite me to church, several years after we broke up...
I guess front-end and back-end technology in the company "stack".

That reminds me how years ago companies were recruiting developers with PHP/MySQL/Flash/Photoshop/CorelDraw, etc...
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But I don't want my eggs in boxes of 5.
This was my take on it : http://daemon.co.za/2014/04/what-does-full-stack-mean

The term is very difficult to define, because you keep on getting different answers for what the stack actually is.

It's really a question of scope.
When I hear the term "Full Stack" or someone working as a "Full Stack Engineer" all I can think is someone who can hack its way through the full development stack when need be in a multitier architecture.
I sometimes joke around that when a company says they need a "Full Stack Engineer", they mean they want a "Software Architect" without the title,authority and a higher salary.
I haven't bought a TV for five years (a Samsung, as it happens, plugged into a Roku). Can you even buy a TV that isn't smart these days?
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He could create a (good enough) [software] product alone.
Thanks!

1) I think the fact of paying is already a good enough barrier. The price could be just a couple of dollars, which would be enough to convice sender to spend sometime on writing a personal email instead of using cold mail template.

2) Because of this barrier user will receive much less email + with much relevant content. As a result sender will have much higher chances for reply.
Because the panels are commodities and market pressures are such that "Smart" TV features are the battleground that the manufacturers are trying to differentiate on. You can get a reference monitor, which will be the same panel as a $800 Smart TV for $4k.
To a point, but there are clues:

马 is mǎ, meaning horse. It's a picture of a horse, with 3000 years of adaptation.

女 means woman / female. It's a picture of a woman.

Put them together and 妈 means "the female thing that sounds like mǎ", which is mā (a different tone), meaning mother.

(I'm very much a beginner, but my teacher claims ~70% of characters follow this pattern.)
You do realize that not all developers work with the web, right?

A lot of us actually don't even touch the web all day long, not even for fun.
You can actually update hardware on recent Samsung smart tvs without changing the screen, it's a separate component that slots into the TV
Well of course, but it's not like the dataset has any private repos for any languages -- so the data is only OSS.
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I think module size is a big factor. I would predict that C++, Java and C# tend to be larger, more monolithic projects, whereas JavaScript and Ruby have more broken up module ecosystems. JavaScript especially, with its "modularity shaming"...
I see it as us being in the early stages of a greater phenomenon of eventual complete global automation. Capitalism traditionally requires both entrepreneurs and workers to exist. What happens when we don't need the workers anymore? There'll be nobody with resources to afford the entrepreneur's products.

We're heading into a strange political and social realm not too unlike the beginnings of Soviet Russia, except this time the causal factors aren't transient; technology is here to stay.

It seems to me like the 1% is going to keep growing and growing until it pops under the weight of its own automation. From there it seems likely governments will assimilate company's resources and distribute them more-or-less equally. Its not something to worry about for a few decades, but automation is speeding up. Many of us will grow to old age in a very different world.
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Not defending it, but I notice there's a scroll button at the bottom of that panel. Perhaps disagree is below the fold.
In my context, Ruby in Nashville, full-stack has meant you can do front-end html/css/js, backend application code AND the hosting/deployment/linux systems administration stuff too.
I thought it was a play on "THIS IS SPARTA!". But copy-pasting seems more like it on second thought.
You are full stack basically if given a computer and access to server you can build and deploy custom webapp in reasonable time.
I don't think that open issues/LoC is very relevant since some languages despite doing a lot in few lines of code(or even characters) still require an amount of mental effort similar to more verbose languages.

I very much like how GitHut used issues/commits. In my interpretation:

(1) If your project has a lot of commits and few issues it has a very high quality.

(2) If your project has a few of commits and many issues it has either very low quality or is not being developed.

(3) Having a lot of commits and a lot of issues and vice versa is kinda expected, since new features(commits) often introduce new bugs and small projects often have few of both.

When you cross that with popularity(new forks, new watchers) over the years you can narrow (2) with some confidence.

Using that approach is trickier when it comes to comparing languages, but the data GitHut gives seems to be in line with common knowledge, at least when it comes down to open source software and and when you compare the most popular languages.
again? really? I guess it didn't get enough attention a week ago, let's rolllllll it all out again.

ffs. The article itself links to the previous discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998008)
Very nice sandbox
Personally, I'd like to run purely functional jobs, and get progress information while they are running (this is not as easy as it sounds). Automatic memoization of jobs. And automatic killing of jobs and removal of data when results are no longer required (this should work transitively/recursively).
I keep seeing it as "I don't have any support and am forced to do a number of things poorly." Sometimes it unfortunately comes with a gross misunderstanding of the needs of some part of the stack.
Please ban letter size, ever been at the printer realsing nothing printed and facing PC Load letter message? Ever been in a foreign country trying to find your home countries legal size of paper in a local store?

I think we should switch to metric, a4 paper and right hand driving.
As someone who printed every high-school and university essay on A4 paper, I can say it's a fine size for documents. You're right that it's a rubbish size for books, but that's a different question.
I really like that kind of definition. Maybe I was thinking about that too long:

What about running and maintaining it?
Thanks - that report contradicts the quote in question. Their data shows that opiate consumption is relatively low world-wide compared to marijuana and other drugs, yet they state in the initial paragraphs that opiates are responsible for the majority if "problem drug users".
It should really include hardware and electronics down to the transistor level, and higher level skills like UI, architecture, marketing.
True. 6,000 people died of cocaine abuse in 2006. Another statistic said 17,000 died in 2000 from all illicit drugs. Now surely moderate cocaine abuse is causing deaths in people who aren't known addicts.

But tobacco is certainly far far worse at 443,000 annual deaths. Occasional responsible use of hard drugs is likely not that bad for you.
Not so smart Samsung Tvs, not so smart watches with 1 day battery life. Why are these products called smart when they are not? iStupid
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Is it just me or does the logo look very similar to the older MS Visual Studio one?
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This is also the delineator between humans and animals presented in Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", and I had a knee-jerk reaction against it. It is NOT obvious to me at all.

I've seen my cats play 'jokes' on my dog. I've seen the squirrels tease her too by jumping down in the yard, then laugh-bark for minutes, taunting her from the the trees. Don't even get me started on blue jays.

I've repeatedly seen animals engage in behavior similar enough to laughter to make me doubt this claim or those making it.
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Not to attempt to reinforce the "common knowledge" that this article is challenging, but the author includes numerous references to Greeks and Romans drinking water. I thought the common assumption was that people in the Dark Ages avoided water in favor of wine due to poor sanitation practices. The Romans bathed frequently and had dedicated holes in their roofs with a bowl in the middle of their house to catch rainwater; I've never doubted that they could attain clean drinking water.
This refers to a developer who can eat a large, or "full stack" of pancakes.
I can feel their pain: I have two binders from school in Germany that don't fit on the shelf with my other (US-sized) binders. They're destined to be lying down for the rest of their days.
The point I am(should be) trying to make is that, the graphs tell us a lot more about how the projects on each language are developing than it does about the individual merits of the language it self.
As far as I know, following what you said, and nobody taking interest; Elon decided he would do 'something' which he never disclosed. I am leaning towards actual involvement here:

> Brogan BamBrogan (Interim CEO, CTO, Co-Founder): Prior to Hyperloop, Brogan was an early team member at SpaceX where he saw firsthand the power of a truly bold vision.
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1. Start at the top of the stack (nearest to the user, furthest from the hardware).

2. Keep learning about lower layers until you get tired or things just don't make sense any more.

3. Define that as "full stack" and ignore anything still below.

For most people the process seems to terminate somewhere around the kernel/user boundary, much like someone in a boat who's aware of the vast shapes moving below but never gets a clear sighting. IMX a typical "full stack" engineer can manage things like routing tables and logical volumes, understands that context switches and page faults matter, but becomes increasingly unable to explain what they really are to others. By the time you get e.g. to different kinds of cache misses or database/compiler internals (even those are still out in user space) forget it.

TBH I think most "full stack" engineers are half-stack at best. So am I. Twenty years ago the upper parts of a modern stack didn't exist and I could explain pretty much everything in the lower parts from tty to network to disk plus VM/schedulers/etc. Maybe back then I could have called myself a full stack engineer. With today's deeper stack (and my own career progression) I'm down to about half, somewhere in the middle. I don't actually know anyone who's truly full stack any more.
Don't forget about NTSwitch[1]. This little gem would switch Windows Server to Windows Workstation and vice versa.

[1] http://windowsitpro.com/systems-management/making-windows-cl...
In Europe yes.
Full Stack in the modern context has been re-defined from what it used to be - its now more referred to in the context of web software development.

But in the 80's and 90's, it used to refer to someone who could handle development at any level of a stack of OS/Framework/API's - from either building their own new API/Framework, to using it, to using others, and so on. A Full-Stack Linux developer wouldn't have any problems busting out the kernel sources to add features/fix/debug, compiling libraries (add/fix/debug), building user-space apps (dev/fix/debug), etc.

But these days you mostly only hear it in relation with web technologies.
The USA and the EU are currently negotiating a free trade agreement [0]. I would say call your representative to get it on the list. Not to get too political here, but that would be much more beneficial than much of the other stuff that is already on it, where usually the lower standard succeeds magically.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investm...
Where did the parent mention the web? I happen to agree with them that developers should be able to handle any level of abstraction, at any layer. But this doesn't have to be with web technologies - not all servers are web servers.
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Funny that segment design looks exactly like disk space analyzer for mac... http://lifehacker.com/5915508/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-f...
The USB Armory flash drive-sized computer
agree... edited. mea culpa
YARN was introduced with Hadoop 2.0, by MAPREDUCE-279:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-279

Note that YARN also supports Docker containers as of Hadoop 2.6...

YARN-1964: Create Docker analog of the LinuxContainerExecutor in YARN
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1964
At least in my case the apps for Netflix and Amazon get a lot of use. Netflix support was one of the key features I wanted when purchasing my current SmartTV.
Running as root? Really?
I would imagine that this is because R is a language that is more used for a specific purpose rather than a language that is developed.
Thats actually new school. ;)
How is this frightening? Aren't these the decisions that humans should make if they had the ability?
Any IT managers in companies would like to help a startup with their expertise?
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HTML to SQL and all needed in between.
"a framework created for people who have no skills or time to invest on CSS or design"

This is hilarious, I kinda agree with it though
I am not a fan of opening up grand jury testimony to the public, because that will likely end up revealing juror names in the end. I do think there needs to be a panel of judges who can review the proceedings in particularly sensitive cases and that panel should be well outside of the same jurisdiction.

Another reason it is hard to change the system is that many of these prosecutors end up in political positions of power and do their best to stifle any change that might reveal similar actions they took.
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He should have started with "Nice to meet you."
Honestly, their site looks a lot better. Taking inspiration from your KPI charts and flow is completely normal, everyone looks at their established competition for inspiration.
While true, it's probably safe to assume that in the context of a "full stack" discussion, "developer" can be taken to mean "web developer".
I used to publish a magazine (in Japan) that was A4. Because of all the ads were sized to fractions of the page it was a big job to change the page size, so we just left it, for years. When I finally had the chance to make a new magazine I went for letter size -- it's a prettier proportion. As the other posters have said, A4 is too tall.
> The website makes it sound like the novelty is extracting energy from salt water.

This is your interpretation. There exists no statement which says that this is a novel product. In fact, there is a direct quote where it says this is based on a well known scientific principle, and that this is basically a battery.

> This claim is preposterous, which is why all the commenters are complaining.

You have just taken a "this sounds like" and turned it into "a claim"; you have just invented through assumptions and insinuations a problem which does not exist. The idea that these people are being deceptive is in your head.

You based all this perceived deceit on the technical definition of the word 'power', or the phrase 'to power', and their lack of a complete, one-sentence description of the operation of the chemical reaction which creates energy in the device. In the end, they do get across fully the idea of how the device works and the implications thereof. But you ignore that so you can continue to paint them as bad guys.

This is a textbook example of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). And it's an incredibly long troll. I'm signing off.
You want a purely functional job with a side effect of updating progress info?
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Please elaborate why the anti trust suits did MS stop from developing a standards compliant browser.
As a student currently on an internship. I would really love to try pair programming. Unfortunately my supervisors are almost always abroad :/ This is something I'd really like to see myself doing when I graduate.
Interestingly the picture on the website shows a train car with a container and not with people. I wonder if they are focussing on cargo first and people later?
It would seem to make things a lot easier in the beginning, since cargo is much less problematic to put into a closed tube for a while.
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But for the most part we are not held responsible for our actions on the road, the insurance company are. The obvious penalty for bad driving (banning) is rarely used and requires lots of evidence despite the numerous benefits of eliminating threats from the roads. For the most part collissions are treated more like a social problem than a safety or criminal one. People are "good" or "bad" rather than safe or unsafe. Until unsafe driving becomes socially unacceptable these ideas are just pie in the sky.
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Reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMok0gslpA