skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 78% is worldwide, and a lot of Android's share is in countries where price is king (Android devices start at $50 unlocked). In the US Android has ~50% of the market and I imagine the US has the majority of the world's hackathons (esp. ones that would be represented in this survey).
Leibniz dug into so many areas, but I wish people had found and published his writings on quantum theory far earlier.
Same deal with trees. As far as I understand, the trees holding back the advance of the Sahara are being cut down for cooking firewood, and the rainforests are being deforested for ordinary farmland.
“Flee the Jungle” set up to boycott Amazon
Can we call this what it is?

It's not the sharing economy. It's the sharecropper economy.
These are the same folks who also used to own the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MY_Ady_Gil which was famously destroyed in a collision with a whaling ship. It's interesting to read internet comments describing these incidents.

The universal opinion on the Internet at the time blamed the Ady Gil for being reckless. I wonder what people would be saying if the Bob Barker hadn't been able to handle the storm.
Alan Kay on Getting a CS Degree [video]
Thank you. Nobody believes me, but I sink like a rock too.
Nice write-up. I hope you do understand that the original message was a sarcastic joke.

The point was - there's just so many technologies to consider and it's been just 15 years.

When I got my first PC, my choice was: MS-DOS 3.3.
QuickBasic, Pascal, C or Assembler for writing programs.

There might have been other stuff, but I had no access to it. Ditto for documentation, tutorials or books.

Things have definetely evolved and if the rate continues, we'll have thousands of languages/frameworks in the next decade, unless something absolutely mind blowing comes up and replaces everything forever.
Yes, and even when you run your own hardwares, it's still far easier to just KVM up your virts and "bash bootstrap.sh". For your developers, tell them to "vagrant up" with the same "bootstrap.sh". This setup and a Jenkins server for build artifacts solves all my devops needs.
Tourism Marketing. [both audio and text]
By the way, feel free to annotate the above article with Hypothes.is: https://via.hypothes.is/http://hapgood.us/2015/07/21/beyond-...
Thanks for pointing me to Racker (https://github.com/aspring/racker). I'm currently building Packer and Terraform images with chunked together Python scripts that work, but I wouldn't call them a great solution. I'm actually using Packer specifically so I can start with regular EC2, and then move to a more Docker-based infrastructure.
Leaves from the mental portfolio of a Eurasian (1890)
OP here, would love to hear if people agree with this, or have a defense of getting an undergraduate degree in CS
Seems to me Google could just update the "Hangouts" app to handle this, assuming people download the update. Yes or no? I think news articles are saying you have to wait for your service provider to issue an update? Sounds like bad advice.
Virgin Galactic Executive Summary of Submission on SpaceShipTwo Accident
If what you said was true, then we wouldn't be using Visa. As is, we don't use bank transfers here.
BuildZoom is hiring for all positions (we sponsor visas)
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Exactly true. Railroad companies maintain their own "right of way", which is the tracks plus the margin of land on either side. Since railroads depend heavily on communications, they maintain their own poles/trenches and cables etc. Their telecommunications infrastructure is an integral part of their rail infrastructure. And yes, they make lots of money by leasing bandwidth and resources to telecoms. (I used to work for Burlington Northern Railroad).
So many valuations in the last 2 decades. Netscape, Pets.com, Tumblr, Instagram, Klout, Worldcom, AOL, Broadcast.com, Solar City. I hear about them monthly. But no real global impact by any of those 'valuations' can be seen. Seems like this is a great way to boost readership by Techcrunch and others.

What you're missing is that they're having local impact, in a region that most of the tech industry has almost no impact in.
Even worse: The coming AI overlords can use this list as the first people to target for their "re-education program"
What about dogs? It always seems to me too "cutesy" to refer to my dog as "she", but too cold and impersonal to say "it".
Do you want to do it as a career or just to play with?
Good point (re: Big Bang theory), and also I thought that show just came out last year... proves the point even more.
NPR said the Messaging app is safe... ?
Not shits and giggles, it's access to the array: subarray and word line decoding plus sense amp time. Find me a technology that does not need all these and I'll bow to you (and invest in your startup :D).
Or someone correcting him so he can learn better.
It could? I mean it's obviously a terrible idea, but how is forcing someone to hold a full breath for two minutes going to cause them actual major harm? Can oxygen levels actually drop dangerously low that fast? People can hold their breath for that long with barely any setup or practice. Plus having a plastic bag to breathe in and out of should remove a lot of the discomfort and panic since mechanically you're still breathing.

Again, not saying it's a good idea, but the idea that it would kill someone suggests that I'm missing something I should know.
Interviews with digital health innovators
Yeah you just need to say "laid off". Startups come and go all the time. Nobody would bat an eye at it.
yes, which is why "imitating native", aka not reloading the entire page, is seen a lot more on sites like facebook and twitter (the ui stays the same as the main page reloads), this is done to provide a more comfortable experience, sans screen flashing rave party

navigation transitions (more of this horrible ugly "native" stuff) is standardizing a mechanism for this
Samasource has its own sales team. It's not designed for tiny self-serve projects, but it completes projects for larger organizations, including quality assurance.

Source: Used to work at Samasource.
[Trash] Errors dump for Go
I've heard the Happy Birthday song in a Hard Rock Cafe. I suppose they paid for the right to do so.
I'm running it on three different MacBooks and I haven't run into any major issues. There have been the minor bugs but I haven't had any issues as of late.
spoken like a pivotal employee... cf has almost zero support for data services, and suffers from nih at almost every layer of the stack from routing to mq, to one of the worst ux for installs ever (aka bosh), cf is a great example of commercial opensource primarily controlled (inspite of foundation) by one entity (pivotal/vmware) that figure out how to switch from monetizing virtualization to single processes. you ever try the ui on the opensource cf?.. oh there isn't one.
Even if they allow him to do it it wont matter. Every year thousands of young people gather at Rosia Montana at a festival to protest. I'm pretty sure he has no way of implementing his plan - people will join forces and stop it.

Romania is a beautiful country - fuck your money!
"Most people" cannot code an Excel formula.
Your response tells me you're somehow missing the point. Sort of reminds me of a funny joke I heard a long time ago. I don't know original source, but I found this joke, in many similar iterations, across many forums online:

--------------------

A farmer asks an engineer, a physicist and a mathematician to build the most efficient fence around his flock of sheep.

The engineer builds a square fence around the sheep and says "That's the best I can do".

The physicist builds a circular fence, then says "That's the best I can do".

The mathematician smirks and takes a meter-long length of fence, wraps it around himself and declares triumphantly "I define myself to be outside!"
Well, if the market sees a technology as solving a particular problem it will adopt it. As you suggest, this is more complicated than nine words can cover. It may only be temporary -- like flash video. Up until flash video took over, the existing solution were plugins like RealAudio/Video. If mobile application development solve a pressing need better than other solutions, ideally it will be adopted. Of course, technical merits are not the only issues at play here. Marketing, costs both hidden and direct are all absolutely factors determining whether change will occur.
OK, so even with terrible delivery cost, CHIP makes sense for the general public in Brazil: 24USD for lots of systems & games.
Even – Get your average pay, every payday
Self-sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme (2009)

Tracey A. Lincoln, Gerald F. Joyce

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652413/
Well if you're letting me order it the way I want it, I wan the candidate pool to be infinite and to all be extremely qualified :)

What I'm actually finding is the candidate pool is getting larger but the quality hires are about the same. Ostensibly this is a function of the pay rate pressuring people to join the hiring pool.

>All other things being equal, wouldn't you want a larger candidate pool? I >have done some hiring and while it was a grind to screen applicants, that >beat the pants off of not having any applicants.

No argument, I have played that game and its not fun.

For the sake of argument though if we look at the total number of candidates you want to hire (1) then any pool size over one does create more work as it grows (I'd like to avoid that if at all possible :) ). Assuming the individual that matches your criteria is in your pool at all (again an oversimplification).

I also can't stress enough aptitude as a component of a good dev, which you alluded to. I've never seen a dev who was great (whether self taught/code school/cs degree who had no aptitude for the work.

I've also seen people with tons of aptitude and no credentials absolutely own people with phd's and masters degrees in a tough problem.

Before we had colleges/code schools there were always engineers, how do you think we got the wheel?
Insert Inigo Montoya quote here.

"0-day" is a vulnerability that's discovered at the same time there are already exploits in the wild. It means you have zero days to get a patch deployed before the target is vulnerable to attack. Obviously a very bad situation to be in.

And yet these days it gets thrown around as if it describes the severity of the vulnerability itself. Thus the above scoffing at "0-days that go back years". What does that mean? It's like saying you have a matinee movie on blue-ray that you'll watch tonight.
The issue is with the parents, who just want to let the kid in the pool so they can go back to their phone.

I do volunteer work with my local surf live saving club, looking after the kids in the under 7 program. It is exhausting work standing in the surf watching 30-40 kids at once. Most parents see it as a child-minding surface and are content to sit way up on the beach with a coffee and a phone.

The point is the parents - in many if not the majority of cases - don't pay attention to their kids swimming abilities.
Half of the time, the build system of companies I join is unnecessarily complicated. I often end up simplifying things once I get a handle for how it works, creating nice one command deploys or workflows that don't require chaining multiple things or memorizing a gazillion abstractions. Meanwhile, people often waste lots of times on inefficient build tooling and multiple steps to get to the end goal.

None of the companies I have been at created a good model system (although one came close, the employee responsible left due to the startup acting like a consultancy instead of focusing on a quality product) - this has often bit companies hard as data structures start mutating due to changing API & changing requirements, making certain things such as offline caching more difficult.

Architectural choice tends to roll into poor time constraints since poor time constraints puts even more pressure on the code base when poor architecture is involved.
One I made ages ago:

https://twitter.com/WhoNotWhom/with_replies
Yes.

They conflate 'can swim across shallow pool' with 'johnny can swim now, so I can relax'.
The Unicorn List: Private Companies at $1B and Above
Yes, Blendle in the Netherlands (and Germany?) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453821
In the 1980s and early 1990s there was no HTML and JavaScript yet. Some companies still used IBM mainframes and I had to know JCL/JECL and COBOL before I converted the programs to a different language like Turbo Pascal to run on a PC using DOS. Back then it was hard to learn how to program, not everyone could do it. I learned from books at the library and going to the right high school and college.

During the 1990s during the Dotcom boom I was helping people learn how to program in Visual BASIC and ASP using VBScript and JavaScript. The company would hire people who didn't know what they were doing, and I had to mentor them. Visual Studio had Visual Interdev which made making ASP pages better with an IDE to highlight syntax and preview the page before publishing it.

I learned stuff like Python and Java but most of what I worked for was Microsoft IT shops. My wife wouldn't let me relocate so I was stuck in the Saint Louis Missouri area.

I worked for a law firm that did VC funding and many people who worked before me left to do their own startups. We helped out a lot of local startups.

On Linkedin most people sponsor me for Databases because I had to fix problems with the SQL Server tables and indexes a lot. They'd hire someone to do DBA work and they'd mess it all up and I had to fix it. I did the same thing for VB and ASP code. I was considered a super debugger at the time.

I can do HTML, SQL, JavaScript, I learned C# and other languages. I could still work in theory but I am not medically cleared to work yet.

Part of my breakdown is they changed the deadlines from months to weeks for my projects and I had over 141 projects to be done because nobody else could get them to work. When someone failed to get a project done, they transferred it to me. The code was undocumented, no comments, and a big spaghetti mess and it forced me to rewrite parts of it just to get it to compile without errors.

I tried looking for a different job, but nobody was hiring in St. Louis because there was a recession going on.

If I went back to work, I'd take an entry level programming position and work for less pay and have less stress. I wouldn't mind being a junior level developer after all my experience.

I still get job offers but they are for high level stuff I am out of practice in. If I do go back to work it would be an easier job with less stress. One that they could help me with my mental illness and support me with it.
Ah. A libertarian.

Being an employee is strictly better because you are protected many ways. You get workers comp for on the job injuries, overtime law, OSHA compliance, unemployment compensation, along with not paying the employers' tax yourself.

The gig economy is the starting of stratifying out undesirable people to a less-than-minimum-wage employee. And this is disgusting and wrong. We as a citizenry deserve better.
I'd like to play with it at first but with the goal of someday making it a career.
This happens all the time with pharma. See SSRIs, drugs that have no theory behind them, tiny effect sizes barely better than placebo, terrible side effects and withdrawal symptoms. They make billions for decades; they are still widely prescribed. What pharma can't do with science, they paper over with marketing.
Man born with “virtually no brain” has advanced math degree
So I'll admit, I didn't set the rules, I enforced them. I agreed with them, but I was not the rule-setter.

I'll also say that I could find ~1000 families who are probably devastated every year, most likely any marriage that existed was challenged, and possibly broken up. Lives changed forever. Why? So some kid who can't swim could float in 6 feet of water for a few minutes.

Yes it is on parents as well. I am a parent. Fortunately I can swim well. I am not the parent that takes their child to the kiddie pool, and while I'm in the middle of a sneeze, my child takes off and jumps feet-first into the "big" pool, and I can't do anything to save them because I can't swim.

I'll agree 100% that the parents that showed up at my pool and took a 2 hour nap, those were bad parents. I woke them up when their child was misbehaving, and sometimes just because I was severely annoyed.. My guards were guards, not baby-sitters.

Perhaps my child is hanging out with friends, and one of the friends parents takes them all to the community pool. I'm not there. Is is still on me as a parent?

I understand and appreciate your comment. Life just isn't that simple sometimes.
They should rename it to "a simple 20 video course on how to slow your computer down to a halt" /irony
Learning to Code My First Website
And offering only during surge pricing at a set rate is somehow equal to setting out a shingle with your desired price?

Right.
Drone Control: Here’s How Amazon Thinks Drones Should Fit into U.S. Airspace
It's interesting she mentioned Rich Hickey's simple made easy talk. I thought gophers ignored him, because they obviously don't have a problem with mutable state.

Fliam also mentioned Hickey in his talk. It was something about place oriented computing.
If they are learning and developing, why can't you
treat them as a very junior developer, help them
develop their skills, and eventually they will
become a useful asset to your team.

This has been my attitude so far, and my original title (before being edited) had "[How]" in brackets: I'm not at all sure what to do. But the alternative strategy, the optimistic, mentorship one you outline, hasn't been working.

They must have skills of some kind if they got the
product to a point where they could raise money
and hire others in the first place?

It's absolutely true, and I would never advocate anything but generous treatment of the employee. But not meeting today's expectations (not just mine, the whole team's) also matters.

As for the equity issue, even if they do get fired,
that doesn't mean their equity is up for grabs to
award to new engineers. So it probably won't solve
your issue their.

Very true, and as others have stated legal matters around termination can make this very complicated.

I bring it up more to worry about simmering resentment from e.g. peers. I'm happy with my compensation, but I worry what an impression of "early, ineffective dead weight" can have on newer recruits. It's something I've seen earlier in my career.
WOW, a WOMAN is doing it! WOW! You go, girl!
Very similar to blackout. [0] Depriving the brain of oxygen, in general, is a terrible idea and yes it can kill you.

Regardless if it is in a semi-controlled setting and if the intent isn't to continue until you black out but only until you begin breathing in a panic it's still very dangerous. [1]

[0] http://www.today.com/parents/kids-are-passing-out-deadly-hig...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia
> Not all places need a CS genius, most just need someone with the skills to use established frameworks and tools.

Unfortunately, many of them think they need a CS genius, or only want to hire them for the prestige of having an elite workforce.
Quantum theory? He would have been quite ahead of his time given he died in 1716.
For clarification, this is the Settings option -inside- Hangouts, not Android settings.

Contrary to the NPR article, somebody further down this page said this hack may affect Messenger users too. So I'm sticking with Hangouts!
"Does the weekly $3 fee every change?" - Some obvious typos on the site.
Randall Kroszner on how bits are replacing banks
That certainly sounds like a more senior role.

My take on bootcamp grads (I am one), is that the purpose is to make them a competitive or superior option to a fresh CS grad. How does that expectation compare to your experience?
Perhaps in the US it is considered the paper of record. In the land of shoddy journalism it is pathetically easy to be the best print paper. However, the rest of the world has significantly better news and papers- Spiegel, Le Monde, FT, Economist, Haaretz.
That was precisely my point.
Off topic, but NYT seems to be breaking things again. I have media.autoplay.enable set to false, yet all the videos on this article still autoplay. Better yet, if I change from true to false and then reload the page and scroll down firefox crashes when I reach the first video.
edit: ye old error.

console.error:
[CustomizableUI]
Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node
Segmentation fault
>What is a mitochondrial uncoupler...

Examine link #2.

>why would they help with neurological problems?

Good question—perhaps the alteration in ambient energy in the brain prevents certain proteins form forming (amyloid plaques in this case). Honestly, it's hard to tell; it's under active research.
Is $150k for a strong full-stack midcareer developer really like trying to get a $10k BMW? What compensation range would you shoot for?

We're shopping in that compensation range and my experience has been exactly like cairo140's above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9964934
I reported it a few days ago. It seems they haven't updated it yet.
Hall Effect Sensing and Application (1998) [pdf]
Add OCaml Labs (at Cambridge) to that list; their work is helping to remove some of the big gripes with OCaml whilst Mirage is genuinely interesting new (I think) work.
For me, the second video was different but it kept repeating, so after 6 tries I quit. Also, it's impossible to navigate back to a sequence of the video, so I couldn't train to see when the child started to go wrong. There's also no link to Youtube. And finally on the iPad the background is black and the video is black and doesn't start, so I really wondered what the website was about at the beginning. Typical example of how doing less design and not removing Youtube's default controls would have helped. The rest of the website is a great idea implemented with talent, despite the details I teport.