skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I did an okay job selling myself if we get to the offer stage.

I don't understand why overselling oneself, or convincing the business to make a bad business decision is a valuable trait.

I don't want to work with Alec Baldwin, coffee is for closers, dude seems like a difficult person to work with.
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No, I've not actually seen anyone else saying this.

No one calls any of those "sex abuse hysteria", and no one has claimed that false memories are at the root of the problem.

Did you even bother to read my comment in a critically, or did your eyes glaze over and you just replied with a stock answer?
I think immediate consumer convenience can turn into a bad consumer experience once the company providing it becomes the monopolist. Monopolies do bad things to customers in the long run. So we can end up with large consumer inconvenience and unhealthy economic ecosystem. I prefer a little less convenience now and let competition improve it a little bit or keep it at a reasonable level.
I think intentional infliction of pain on those not convicted of some wrong as a tool for getting those people on whom pain is thereby inflicted to side with one faction's political view on a policy issue is an illegitimate use of government power irrespective of whether or not it might in some cases actually work, and, to the extent that "it works in some cases" is at all relevant to its legitimacy, don't think its actually a positive factor.

So, I don't so much discount the possibility that you raise as dismiss its relevance as a defense of the tactic.
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I agree. I just don't like when people dress it up as promoting racial equality when they're doing the exact opposite.
I've never been asked to negotiate my salary. But I have been contacted about a position while I had a job. They kept pressing for me to leave and join them. Once they gave me an offer, I said it wasn't enough to leave so I negotiated a higher one.
It has SPOF on database/queue. You could run distinct sets of them though, and if one goes down you just use the other's API.
Wouldn't the logical conclusion from that premise be that everyone who owns a BMW is in danger? How do you go from BMW being compromised to everyone?
Tech Bubble? Maybe, Maybe Not
URX (YC S13) is hiring lead PMs and Software Engineers to bring context to mobile
Arguably not pure bash, in that it calls out to external executables. I'm pretty sure all the head/cut/tr invocations could be easily replaced by appropriate parameter expansions though, and the `read` builtin could probably supplant `dd`, so it should be doable.
Downside to this - Do you think about work on your off hours? Do you go read a tutorial on some new tech in the evening? You are then doing "unpaid" training... whereas if you are on salary, you can at least make some claim that the training and thinking you do off the clock is still working...
Probably because the marvel comics API that this is likely pulled from gives it out that way.
"Sequel". But I also used to pronounce LED (light-emitting diode) as "lead" until I heard an optical engineer (with PhD) say "l-e-d" and felt stupid. "Ping"(PNG) still sounds weird to me but scuzzy(SCSI) and as-key(ASCII) don't. It's a mystery.
Very cool! The reference to Comedy of Errors is a bit misplaced, however, as the play is set in Greece.
I second that; Java has solutions for all problems described by this post.

- constructors, private fields, methods, addressing the "separations of concerns"
- how about Enum.valueOf(enumClass, text.toUpperCase()) to avoid the "classic shadow array of string literals"?

Here is an example of what can be achieved by Java enums

enum Type {
ANIMAL(null),
MAMMAL(ANIMAL),
DOG(MAMMAL) {
public void makeNoise() {
System.out.println("Woof");
}
},
CAT(MAMMAL) {
public void makeNoise() {
System.out.println("Meow");
}
};
private Type parent;
Type(Type parent) {
this.parent = parent;
}
public boolean isA(Type type) {
if(this == type) return true;
if(parent != null) return parent.isA(type);
return false;
}
public void makeNoise() { }
}
assert Type.DOG.isA(Type.MAMMAL) == true;
assert Type.CAT.isA(Type.DOG) == false;
Type.CAT.makeNoise(); // "Meow"
OP is being sarcastic.
ISP choices aren't that much more limited than search engine choice. Google and Bing appear to be the only large-scale commercial search engines running. Ask, Yahoo, AOL, etc. are powered by Google or Bing.

But I don't think that really matters. The fact that you can not use a monopoly doesn't really diminish the monopolies power, especially when the monopoly power is used to attack other markets.

Does the existence of linux make it okay for Microsoft to lockdown desktop applications and charge 30%?
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The flip side to that is that "Computer Science" traditionally wasn't about programming either, but closer to applied mathematics. It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if a data processing technician's role back then was a lot closer to what a modern web developer does.

Figuring out the best heuristic function for A* to do path finding through your dataset? Probably computer science. Writing SQL queries and presenting the results as HTML or JSON? Probably a lot closer to "data processing technician".

Edit: looks like people are downvoting you because they disagree with you. I disagree too, but I think it's a valuable avenue to discuss.
But if lenders don't factor in the deduction, has no relationship to being able to deduct your mortgage interest.
Bug bounty programs seem to be more and more necessary for a mature security program. I feel like this can span the gamut from resources for responsible disclosure all the way to robust bug bounty programs that offer pay outs. The barrier to entry for the former should be low and something that every organization with security personnel can arguably support, but once you start doing pay outs, the need to run a tight ship in regards to how bugs are evaluated becomes far greater.
New music app from MP3.com founder with unlimited skips and search
Back in the late eighties and early nineties it wasn't difficult if you had a Ford product. My escort key would unlock another same color Escort in the parking lot. My Aunt was able to take the Mercury to the mall but was locked out as she had her husband's keys to his Ford (I forget the model)

However now with the new chipped keys that is far less likely. Yet at the same time we introduce new means to communicate with cars its likely without some sort of industry standards there will be holes as manufacturers will not be inclined to pass on lessons learned to others
And your key battery will thank you... Freezer would kill the battery in a few days of such treatment.
It's not the tech part that's the barrier to entry, it's the social aspect. Figuring out a new way to represent social relationships that attracts users.
It's been illegal to get an exclusive cable franchise since the early 1990s.

Google probably has more marketshare than Comcast does (even if you only include areas where Comcast operates).
Acorns raises a $23m Series C with Sound Ventures included
I guess saying that I don't log anything wouldn't matter to you.
Creating animated 3-D data visualizations in Python and matplotlib
Generally, if you have a relatively large chunks of non-relational data, you can use a document store.

I could imagine the data model for superheroes being a fit for documents - information on one super hero is not tightly coupled to another super hero. Sure you could normalize some of the abilities and what not, but the main chunk that you'll be searching by/storing is a Super Hero (or whatever you want to call that object).

Also, note that document stores support somethings that you would consider relational (ex. RethinkDB supports joins), so the lines are becoming blurred these days.
So in other words, only use Enums to declare a set of 1-dimensional items that can't be broken down further (i.e., item is a property, not an object). Otherwise, you are going to run into trouble.

Isn't that kind of the definition of an Enum vs. Struct vs. Class/Object? And the problem lies with what enums are being used for in some cases, rather than enums being a bad practice?
UK company wants to deliver parcels through automated underground tunnel system
That looks incredibly uncomfortable. I can be pretty cheap but I occasionally bring for the slightly better seats just for some more room to stretch (especially on really long flights); I can't imagine staying seated in there for long periods of time.
The tech portion of a dating app is trivial. The marketing and business side? Less so. Even UI - Tinder wouldn't be Tinder without swiping.
This looks cool and sexy, but I have to say, I still prefer the wikia database

http://marvel.wikia.com/Main_Page

It's much uglier, but much more useful for any actual, ahem ahem, "research".
Our POV is right to us because we accept the concept of objectivity. To those who believe identity is the primary determinant of truth, it doesn't matter what we believe. And so we're going to keep arguing with them right up to the point where we collectively decide to ignore them.

Which isn't likely to happen any time soon, given how many of them work in the tech press.
How Brain Pacemakers Treat Parkinson's Disease
Wait I thought it was minimum interstitial spaces between conductive cage elements proportional to lambda.
In my part of the world (Europe) there has been a kind of triple point in March 2012 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200807-201504 Chrome and FF overtook IE, then Chrome kept growing, FF and IE kept falling with FF maintaining an edge over IE.
> I think SCSI as "scuzzy" is incorrect.

I don't think the word "incorrect" means what you think it means.

> Because you just have to ask one question: who decides the vowels?

As with pretty much everything else in language, its decided by what people use and understand. Its not, of course, necessarily obvious on the face of a string of letters how it will get turned into an oral utterance, and, yes, some things written as initialism that end up treated as acronyms in speech do so by having vowel sounds inserted that are not unambiguously inferable from the written initialism.

> Why "sequel" instead of "squel" or "skull".

Because language is memes (transmitted, repeatable behaviors) and particular memes have been created and spread related to the terms at issue.

> Isn't it just something a guy said once and everybody else just accepted as correct?

Welcome to the whole world of language.
Indeed. In most markets there are at best, two options. And one of them will likely suck. In Chicago, it's Comcast or AT&T. And AT&T's top speed is Comcast's minimum speed, so your choice is made up.
I also heard that google is testing out mind control using chemtrails.
Embedded 32 bit x86, with the SysV ABI and support for register calling conventions, though?

This is specific to i386, as far as I'm aware. And even then, the worst parts of it are only specific to i386 using the same SysV calling conventions -- ARM has PC relative addressing, as do most other processors commonly used in embedded systems. If you have PC-relative addressing, the entire problem goes away.
If you're looking for places to gain value, your family and friends is a good place to start.
I see plenty of them on my feed. I'm not sure that "success" has to be measured the same way in Facebook's case since they offer quite a few different things to do, and not just checkins.
Well no it's highly contrived. I would hope the world doesn't oscillate radically back and forth between extremes.

But, if you hire more women than men to fix the skew, you're going to end up with more younger women in the department than men. Once the ratio has been fixed you return to free hiring, 50-50 or whatever is considered fair at the time. Years down the line all these women you hired to fix the ratio start retiring. Your ratio drops precipitously and you start hiring women again at a higher rate. This pulse continues, every 30, 40, or 50 years, it can converge or diverge depending on what the actual ratio of gender is in the hiring pool.

By purposely hiring more women you are forcing the ratio away from it's natural state, and you will have to continue poking and prodding the numbers to continue being PC.
Exactly, they have gathered precious and unique data but world is changing so fast and if these data are not updated they will be worthless.
::Claps slowly::

This is positively the way to go.
Harm to competitors is most definitely harm to consumers.
Apparently, people who voted on this comment have lost the ability to understand sarcasm.
Not really. Majority of the Android market are cheap devices, not 700$ ones.
A javascript universe without Node.JS would be like god without Jesus.

NodeJS completely change the way you write JavaScript. What's so fantastic about node is that you can not import, use or include. You can only use modules. This combined with full object oriented programming support and asynchronous code execution makes NodeJS truly revolutionary!
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Java 8 times faster with arrays then std::vector in C++. What did I do wrong?
My eyes glazed over, yes. Your comments are noxious.
This is a more full featured than forever. Check out the comparison chart.
A different type of problem with electronic keys, mainly for motorcyclists, is if you have the key laying nearby in, say, a garage, hop on and ride off (there are some bikes with keyless start), you just stranded yourself wherever you end up shutting the ignition off.

Harder to do with a car unless you forgot your keys and someone playing a joke on you had an amplifier near your car.
> Waiter said than done

What does that mean?
Killing the battery isn't a bad idea either, actually :)

(Usually there's a recessed traditional key in the fob that you can use as a backup)
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Seems to me that the whole point of OOP is programming is to encapsulate this information. An enum is basically just a degenerate class. If you're finding that you are doing a case on your enum all over the place, you should probably be defining them as objects (or possibly subclasses).

The solution of creating a bunch of tuples (or structs)...well, that's just creating a bunch of objects. The language and paradigm already has a way of dealing with these that's a bit more flexible and powerful than tuples.
The link on the comparison page is a little muted, so I didn't notice it right away.

In case anyone is curious about strong-pm vs. pm2 vs. forever: http://strong-pm.io/compare/
>there have been cultural protectionist barriers set up to protect the most bountiful activities.

How is tech bountiful for men and why would men keep anyone out of it? My female friends all went to medical or law school or got a fancy post-graduate degree and used their prestigious bonafides to go straight into a high paying career. They make more money than me and anyone I know in tech.

The realty is that tech kinda sucks for everyone but a handful of personality types. If you're overly social, outgoing, not detail obsessed, not interested in puzzles, etc then you wont like it.

I think the gender argument is bunk. There's more division intra-gender than inter-gender. Instead we should focus on personality types, but frankly, I don't think society is mature enough for a rational discussion of this topic. Outrage and gender politics rules the social media roost and in the future people will look back at this time and think us all morons; and rightfully so.
Yes. We could perhaps rescue that argument by making it more subtle: not about money, but about uninterrupted, long stretches of time to think and learn?

(How would we falsify this?)
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I'm an (older) woman attempting a career change into programming. (But not new to tech or being the only/few woman in a given environment.) It's disappointing that every time this conversation comes up, it devolves into mean-spirited pseudo-'objective' statements about how 'maybe women just aren't as interested'/'not as good'/'PC/SJW-bullshit'/etc.

Look, I'm basically a reasonable person. I'm not looking to be offended at every turn or by every possible 'microaggression' (a concept I personally dislike, btw). I personally haven't experienced many of the issues that other women have. That doesn't mean those issues don't exist in the macro, simply because I haven't experienced them in the micro. Nor does it mean that despite one's 'objective/rational' view, that there aren't underlying subconscious assumptions/biases at work in some situations.

Small example. I'll be attending a new coding school in June, developed by the Nerdery in Minneapolis, called Prime Digital Academy. The guys (and they're all guys) running/developing curriculum/teaching seem like genuinely nice people who are putting a particular emphasis on diversity (women, older career changers, etc.) In fact, the oldest person accepted so far is 60!

Now, take a look a some of the recent images posted on their @goprimeacademy twitter account. Notice the seating. You're wanting to be accommodating to, among others, older people (not to mention potential disabled people), so you put them in beanbags and on hard (or maybe foam) cubes? Perhaps, despite good intentions, they're making unconscious assumptions about the people that have to sit on them.

I don't speak for all women, nor do I think that all women have some universally shared experience. However, I do think that it's very possible (if not extremely likely) that despite one's best intentions, preconceived notions/biases (including the idea that you're an 'objective' person) can preclude you from seeing other people have had different experiences than you, or came to different conclusions.

Those notions/biases don't make you a bad person (we all have them, of course), but if you're unwilling to examine them honestly at some point, then it seems reasonable to conclude that you're probably speaking/acting in bad faith. If a lot of (women, POC, or yes, even men, in the case of nursing[1]) are telling an existing environment that they're unwelcoming/unfriendly in some way, then perhaps the most 'reasonable' or 'objective' conclusion is that there's a problem.

[1]http://www.professionalnursing.org/article/S8755-7223%2810%2...
Sure, https://www.gandi.net/
The primary way that a wind turbine "stops" is by pitching its blades (in some vendors' terminology they call this "pause" because the machine is still connected to the grid just not producing any energy). On modern machines this can reliably be achieved in less than 3 seconds. There is also a mechanical brake that can be applied for emergency stop in 1 second or less. However, mechanical braking is not to be used in normal operations.

However, going to the maximum ramp-down rate (which for a large wind park can approach hundreds of MW/s) is usually not desirable because it will impact grid voltage. At most wind parks voltage control is accomplished using on-load tap changes of the main transformers as well as switched capacitors. Both of these need a time delay of at least 10 seconds to avoid wearing out quickly so if you ramp your whole wind farm from max output to zero in 1 or 2 seconds, you will see a big impact on grid voltage. So if we need to ramp down for a transmission system thermal constraint, we will do it at the slowest possible rate that still meets the transmission utility's needs.
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Well, there goes Glimpse: http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/glimpse-app-instagram/
The site doesn't actually say what the license is, only that it's "open source". The repo lists it as dual licensed, under Artistic 2.0 or the commercial StrongLoop license.
It is. The charges filed today are about Search. And then the EU is opening a separate investigation about Android, though the general concept of the problem is the same: Google relies on bundling and self-promotion to create a walled in and monopolized experience.
Yeah, but we all know the embedded 32-bit stuff that's going to be around forever is ARM, not x86.
You can't patent swiping, and now that Tinder is charging there exists a vacuum in the market for someone who doesn't charge (or monetizes differently).
Site to check:
https://lab.xpaw.me/MS15-034
Harm to competitors literally means less competition in the market for producing good products for consumers. In the worst case, that means you depend on a single monopoly corporation to produce the best possible product. It is almost a given that that results in lower-quality products for consumers.

Although it might be hard to prove using examples - as the better products that would have existed simply never appear in the first place. It isn't that competitors fail, although that happens too. It is that it is irrational for competitors to even try to spend money on products to compete against a monopoly that will crush them.
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Sounds like you have a mostly unexplored passion in programming. So why not do it on the side? Some nights or weekends just read up on whatever language or platform interests you and have a go at it. After a few months when you get a handle on things decide if it's something you REALLY want to do or not.

If it's something you want to do then just go for it. Figure out a way to either stay in your business or sell it. Life isn't very long, if you can chase your passion you should do it in my opinion. Just make sure it's your passion first :)

Also don't worry about the hard problems; it's hard to crack a hard problem...okay didn't mean for that to sound like that, ha! But not every developer is going to crack a hard problem and you'll likely find different developers have different definitions of what a hard problem even is.
Are you suggesting that all of this is not publicly documented? The White House has hired multiple high-ranking Google employees in the last two years, and the campaign contributions made by Google to the Congressional representatives lobbying for them are all of public record.
Reminds me of cronlock[0] which is a bash script that uses Redis as a global lock that you can use across multiple servers. Needing to just download a single bash script makes it easy to drop into an existing project.

[0] https://github.com/kvz/cronlock
I would love to hear this end up being a feature not a bug, where the programmer, in fact, began his counting from 0.
I'm really struggling to see understand your stance here. I think ISP choices is a much different situation from search engine choices and consider it pretty ridiculous to compare them in a meaningful way.

Does the existence of linux make it okay for Microsoft to lockdown desktop applications and charge 30%?

Again, I'm not seeing the comparison. Are you saying that any given user switching search engines is comparative in difficulty to switch from one OS to another?
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Also note, the graying of your hair or beard isn't necessarily related to thyroid hormone levels, unless the hairs themselves are also becoming very fine. Graying, of course, can also be related to stress.