jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I installed 11.04 and when I was first setting everything up (because the video drivers weren't installed yet) I played around with Gnome and actually ended up with a setup that looked a lot like Unity. The difference was I had a lot more control over the panels which I really liked.

Then, once the drivers were in place, I switched to Unity and was initially really wowed by the way it looked. I really like the idea behind the side menu but right now it is a bit finicky. Sometimes it will partially open when I move my mouse to the edge and other times it works just fine. I absolutely hate the launcher menu (might not be the right term - app drawer or whatever else might be more fitting) simply because it makes it a chore to find applications.

I've also found Unity relatively unstable. I've had it simply lock up and I haven't found a way to get around it other than resetting my computer.

Even stuff like the way moving a window to the edge of the screen and it taking up a portion works seems inconsistent. I can sometimes get 1/3, sometimes 1/2 and sometimes 2/3 but I honestly haven't spent enough time trying to figure out why it works in different ways. Nor do I feel I really should have to... UI should be relatively intuitive.

Anyway, I think Unity is promising but it is really rough right now... really rough.
Concerning the 35 hrs/week: it is the legal duration for work above which you are supposed to pay a higher hourly rate. It is NOT a maximum, and many people work more than 35 hrs/week (the figures for working hours are pretty similar between France, UK and Germany, with UK having the lower on average IIRC, but I cannot find the figure ATM).
I've researched it, and it seems like it was a satirical news website:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/patdown.asp

http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=603
Amen, a good portion of my team are recent college grads/unemployed/self taught etc. I realized early on that I'm not Google & I wouldn't be able to realize the value of "top of the line" engineers who everyone else if competing for. So, I try to get the best of whatever's left & try to get best out of them. I'm not worried my "rockstars" are going to jump ship at the next best offer. Like I said in my earlier post, it's like a "dating" realitionship initially. I've found people often are looking for work that they enjoy (including the feeling of community, comfort & being valuable) while covering their basic needs more than a very high paying job that makes them feel like crap. I've even had a couple of defectors from larger companies, just because I'd let them do what they liked and not just what they went to school for. Bottom line, I end up getting way more value from my team vs. my previous hiring model, which was more traditional & in line larger corporations.
Unfortunately it seems to be under heavy enough load that it won't quite work right.
Bah. I always have super+w mapped to close application like on OS X.
Not so fast. PHP evolved a lot as a language, maybe it will never be enough to fix its ancestry, but namespaces, closures, generators, ~~typed~~ expressions (you can finally slice a function call returning an array without unnecessary variables) and some literals. It's still not 1958-worthy to me, but they do evolve.
Hardly different to a company website, brochure, etc - just another medium. Not quite an exposé.
Doing this with the new open source dropbox thingy Sparkle would be great. I like it because it doesn't force people to switch from Excel, but adds another awesome layer: web access, versioning, syncing,etc.
Feel free to shoot me an intro e-mail. I visited your site and we would definitely try out something at our salon just to see how it goes :) Probably more like a pilot program but who knows! bradley@getmochi.com
Oh shit! Even worse! Break out the lead coffins!

Man, I should get better at math ("maths" in the UK).
Words are symbols for their referents, which are concepts - concepts that are a condensation of many, many observations about existents or other concepts. So yes words are simplifications of reality, they encode the essential aspects of some part of reality - but their definitions are right or wrong depending on the truth or falsehood of the condensed observations. Rand observed that biologically developed men were autonomous agents with the ability to perceive, reason and conceptualize (ie. conscious, self-aware individuals) and proscribed an ethical theory accordingly. She declares her definition so if you want to invalidate it you need to refute those observations or the manner in which they're integrated into a single concept.

Individuals are extremely easy to recognize, we do it all the time. We just don't know exactly how all the systems supporting our individuality work, but then we don't know exactly how all the systems supporting anything work either. Quantum mechanics, anyone? Humans are rational animals: that means as animals they have all the usual biological considerations of growth/development/decay but the end product of that growth/development (when successful) is always a being with the type of consciousness (ie. awareness) that allows him/her to not only respond to the environment and act autonomously, but also to abstract, conceptualize, and reason.

Also I think you misinterpreted my last line - Rand is only addressing or 'trying to reach' life-forms who choose life. Of course they could choose to follow some other advice and still choose to live (although not wholly consistently, Rand would argue)
See my proposal below. What I'm proposing would only require the installation of a Dropbox-like daemon on workstations and an Excel add-on that could make REST queries to a repository server. Otherwise, users of Excel just keep on using it, but their data is backed up, can be rolled back, and data in spreadsheets is available company-wide and can be integrated.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1430661
Oh my god, I hate journalists.

1. This is not an article about career opportunities for STEM (science, tech, engineering, math) majors -- of which there are plenty. This is about the very specific problem of there being a massive glut of Ph.D. students aiming for tenure-track academic jobs. The article makes no distinction here.

2. The problem of academia's imploding pyramid scheme is not at all limited to science. It's worse in the soft sciences and humanities -- picture the same situation of tenured professors overseeing teams of cringing graduate students, but without the NSF/NIH/DOD grant money to hire postdocs. Now, where do you go when you graduate? (Hint: you don't, unless you already have a job lined up.)

The article mentions the rules of supply and demand, but not in relation to tenure. Academia's cultural problem of deterring students from any career other than academic research gets a couple paragraphs near the bottom. But that's the problem! Regardless of the field, too many students are pushed into academic careers, but the world just doesn't need that many professors.

Lots of people love their job. It takes the arrogance of a professor to state that everyone should want yours.

3. Visa issues -- smart, talented students come from outside the U.S. to attend grad school on a student visa that prohibits non-academic work. They stay on as postdocs after graduation because every other kind of job is prohibited, unless some benevolent employer wants to lend a hand with the work visa application process, which probably won't happen. If they leave academia, they have to leave the U.S. Market distortion, anyone? Anyone with U.S. citizenship is clearly better off with a Master's or other professional degree; industry misses out on talent while academia suffers a labor glut.

4. Why does all scientific research have to be done by universities? If labs are funded with government money anyway, it's just as efficient (or more) to directly hire lab techs and researchers at government labs... assuming the research really is important. Academic labs are optimized for publishing journal articles, in absence of a better metric. Could we measure progress better by bringing the research work closer to the customer?
You seem to imply that because the Belgians made a profit off the Congo natives that colonialism was bad for the natives. But when you make a profit by growing the pie, the result can be good for both the natives and the colonizers. The material quality of live for Congo natives has declined remarkably since the end of colonialism. As one native puts it: "Even if you go 1,000 kilometers down this river, you won't see a single sign of development. When the whites left, we didn't just stay where we were. We went backwards.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1713275,00.htm... http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1713275,00.htm...
There are no mercury or radioactive gases from a landfill. Cattle is a larger source of methane. And there a LOT of it released naturally, human sources are very small in comparison.

And none of the other things you mentioned prevent making landfills. Every landfill has those problem. People talk as if we are going to run out of space - we aren't.

Use the exact same methods we use now to make a few extra landfills. They aren't even that expensive.

Of all the things you can do to help the environment, not filling landfills is the least effective.
> that sort of reasoning would force journalists to release all of the information they have about any topic, even when they clearly violate the professional ethics of journalists.

Jouornalists don't get to say "professional ethics" - you they to explain why the relevant decisions are correct, and journalists don't get to decide what's correct.

Example - it may violate "professional ethics" for a journalist to not reveal that US troops are walking into an ambush, but if certain journalists don't do exactly that ....
As a society, we do a terrible job at helping workers move on.

You go to school for 12 years, then possibly uni for 3-7, then are unlikely to receive more than a couple of months of formal training throughout the rest of your life, even if you change careers.

Virtually nobody does a university course after graduating. I don't think that's because university is useless (though there is room for improvement), or that skills are easy to obtain elsewhere, but a society that tries to load a lifetime of study onto people who don't even know what they are going to be when they grow up.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what you asked for. But if you are interested in similar mentions in print

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=monad%2CHaskell&#...
Great info. What's you take on branding trademarks, such as my company name? Is this something I can do myself, or is a lawyer required? Is it even worth the time to trademark my company name? Thanks.
s/mathematics/the universe/

:) See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
I think the issue is that Wired doesn't really come across as trustworthy and very well might be withholding relevant information. There are still a few somewhat fishy aspects to the story.
same here, see http://tinypic.com/r/2efkild/7
it also makes switching to this tab on firefox very slow, probably because you have a lot of javascript running there.
> Who maintains them?

Developers, probably. But generally, whoever your team/company assigns this task to.

> When product asks engineering to change code => you now also update state charts. Added technical debt.

So is documentation. I would hope a team handles this somehow.

But if you approach it as a problem you actually want to solve, here's an idea: have the canonical statechart in code, and have the visual statechart be generated from that code. Benefits include: your visual/documentation charts are always synchronized with actual code; if somebody starts playing fast and loose with statecharts in code, the picture generator will break - if you treat this as a build error, you've just removed one common source of project rot.
Very illuminating reading. I'm particularly fond of these closing lines:

> pay careful attention to what you’re afraid they’re going to write, and why you wouldn’t want it to be public. Then apply some rational thinking.

This is precisely the ideal I try to aim for. Sure, I get defensive when I feel attacked; that appears to be part of human nature. But the key to improvement is finding error and trying to correct it. It can be incredibly helpful to have an outside point of view.

She should do LessWrong next.
when people ignore moral or ethical concerns due to ideology or simply different goals, it's useful to have evidence supporting an argument that fits into their worldview, so compromise or progress is possible.

that said, this straw man is pretty fleshy. there are definitely plenty of bosses who don’t care about or at least don’t prioritize the misery of their poor employees, for reasons concerning their own profit. in the absence of government action or mass labor action, i’m happy this study exists.
I am not going to engage further with moved goalposts. It’s clear what the threat vectors are: Russian intelligence and a lack of due diligence.
Why is the development “this can’t fail” but the distribution isn’t? If we cut corners on distribution (and compound that with the real world flaws in the process) and you screw up, it would be a huge disaster. You would complete undermine the public’s faith in vaccines and lockdowns.
> Out of curiosity, why is viewing nursery footage seen as serious?

pedophiles can view/record naked infants and toddlers with relative ease.
The thing is, complexity cant be destroyed. You can just move it from one framework to another
I'm not sure what's more shocking

those results or that it ain't obvious in {current_year}

anybody that escaped poverty could tell you about that "overhead", I guess?

__________

We can go further - generally people who spend 8-12h/day on warehouse working + commute don't go back to home and spend time on advanced mathematics, theoretical computer science and stuff.
Found it! The new main documentation/website can now be found here:

https://ant-design.gitee.io
Most of the nurseries here have big windows so everyone walking past can see nearly everything inside.
Their goal seems to be providing a more convenient way to talk to the lower-level hardware interfaces that are normally not reachable from a running OS. The project includes a generic kernel driver and a python framework for interacting with that driver.

They mention that this should only be installed on test systems, not end-user production systems. I think it's designed for use in forensics and development.

Malware probably could still fake out the interface the driver talks to. Even good OS-level rootkits leave indications of compromise that can be detected from the OS. I suspect it's similar with compromised firmware.

Having some visibility is better than no visibility.
I am not sure what you did not like about the argument. What is really useless of relating languages to programming languages?
That's a stereotype; it's true of some people, but not everyone. Probably not even most. In fact, I have a hard time believing there are many people out there buying cars that don't care at all whether the car they get is gas or electric.

Sure, appearance matters. Most people don't want to drive around in an ugly car. But functionality is pretty important too. Fuel economy. Safety. How many people or how much stuff fits inside. How much gas does it use per mile (if it's a gas car). How easy is it get parts. Is it expensive to maintain.
It's part of the work.

Not all customers are happy, clean 5-star big tippers.

Certain percentage of customers are people with disabilities, drunk, with dogs and whatnot.

That's part of a job to spend occasional extra minutes per certain percentage of customers.

I agree that sometime (but not always) UBER needs to compensate driver for this and charge customer extra.

You cannot be UBER driver who is allergic to slow moving or non-tipping customers and refuse your service for them.
> Plogged (is that even a word?)

"Plodded" I think is the word you're looking for, if it matters. No worry though, your intent is clear and I think you've got some good advice here.

IMHO if the paychecks are coming in, and look like they will continue to, it's all good. Sometimes a simpler algorithm is the most robust.
> That is truly a nightmare scenario.

Absolutely, but courts are supposed to interpret the law, not rule whichever way avoids nightmare scenarios.

The risk of going too far in that direction (and this is by no means the first case in which SCOTUS c̶l̶e̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ may have rationalized a decision for pragmatic reasons) is that it makes the court more corruptible. I am glad the majority ruled this way, because I agree that it leads to a better outcome in this case. On the other hand, any departure from a pure interpretation of the law is very dangerous, because it normalizes the more-corruptible mode of operation, and that can lead to another kind of "nightmare scenario".
Always funny to read accounts of Red Bull's history which mention that people hate the taste. I recently overcame a 20-year daily addiction to Red Bull (thanks COVID, I guess – only a forced 2-week quarantine keeping me away from the shop worked) and my dependence was based on its taste. It couldn't have been the ingredients, because similar energy drinks just didn’t do it for me. At a certain point I was wishing that all food tasted like Red Bull, and that’s when I decided that my consumption might be a problem.
Where I work last year's salary reviews didn't happen due to the pandemic. I left a previous company because they froze everyone's salaries at a time when I was already severely underpaid. I think it's fairly common.

I'm more impressed that you consistently got raises (or inflation adjustments) for 20 years in a row.
How different is this from other companies' practices?
I disagree wholeheartedly with his analysis. Yes, Apple is more closed. But…you can do a lot with OS X, other than the window manager and desktop system.

I rooted my iPhone. Just like a lot of people.

I script everything.

I don't run the apple versions of openssh or openssl or a bunch of other things, all just done with the ordering of folders in my path.

Almost everything I want to do on Linux, I can do on OS X. And the things that I can't aren't GUI-based, so ssh works fine.

It's worth having to run another computer (or a virtual machine) to run some OSX/Windows-only apps. And it's not worth running windows.

The hacker culture is alive and well on OS X, and I don't see Apple as doing anything to stop it…you just have to learn a bit more…in a lot of cases, that's not even necessary.

But, I guess that fits…because it's all about user experience instead of coding the actual OS.
Yet another argument for why we should be impressed with natural selection: "we used to be a certain way, so we HAVE to value these things, however arbitrary they may seem!"

I value knowing what our evolutionary history is, and why we have certain biases. But I become highly suspicious of arguments that point to genes in an almost conformistic way. It feels like an appeal to tradition that is backed up by the dominant school of thought of the day. Why should I be impressed that human behavior is similar to that of animals? Our potential is enormous! I'm more impressed, generally, with people that aspire to be more human than animal.

It isn't that 'simpler' drives are bad, but I don't find them inspiring in the slightest.
Which effectively means private companies siphoning off BBC license revenue for their own pockets

Then you don't know much about the BBC, it's been farming work out to private companies for a lloooonng time. Do you think it currently gets its bandwidth for free? Or provided by another government department?
I disagree, in MPI you don't deal with locks and race conditions. It's like saying, that Erlang programming is harder than multi-threading in C/C++. I'll take Erlang over Pthreads any day.

MPI applications can be a little bit harder algorithmically, but a concept of Collective Communications (i.e. send/recv/scatter/gather/bcast/reduce) is easier to understand than threading and locking.

The whole concept of Shared/Distributed memory models doesn't mutter in this case.
Plus, it makes it harder to search for the discussion of the original article.
Though they don't tend to get mentioned, I'd throw .app bundles into that list, too. The idea of moving an entire double-clickable app around as a single opaque icon (but that can be easily drilled into without special binary-parsing tools) has always appealed to me.

And couple it with fat/universal binaries, and you've really got something special. As someone who just installed their first instance of Windows x64, the difference between that world of having both "Internet Explorer" and "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" icons and a world where a complete system image from a 32-bit PowerPC can be booted seamlessly (with all apps still working) on a 64-bit Intel processor is stark indeed.
They posted a couple days ago saying #67 would be released today.

I'm not sure what the deal is; seems like they're having trouble with their website as what would normally be the front page news is a non-functional TOC for #67.

Based on the title, it could also be them yanking people's chains...who knows.
Sure you can. It’s called “ghosting”.
>It’s not that I’m cheap either, I just want something that works according to my preferences, not Microsoft’s.

Well, except for lucky coincidence (of features/preference) there's no inherent reason a FOSS project would work more according to one's preferences though. FOSS projects also have leads, take decisions, do rewrites, change directions, etc, same as proprietary software...
Everytime I read about strace I feel guilty about not having tried it out.

Another awesome story: http://lwn.net/1999/0121/a/mec.html
I'd rather go for a real 'plane:

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=cri-cri+aircraft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_Cri-cri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGRB2UsH3AE

http://www.flight.cz/cricri/english/

Quoting from WikiPedia:

The MC-10 Cri-Cri has a cruising speed of 170 km/h
(92 knots, or 105.6 miles per hour) and a range of
750 km (466 standard miles, 405 nautical miles).

The MC-12 model has a cruising speed of 185 km/h
(100 knots, or 114.9 miles per hour) and range of
500 km (310.6 standard miles, 270 nautical miles)
That's still a bit worrying though; do people stop to consider that publishing a SHA256 hash bears the risk of being equivalent of publishing the file itself (assuming someone uploads it to dropbox)?

Another related attack could be to start with a known file (say, your employment contract), swap out the name with a colleague and generate a bunch of files with different salary amounts, essentially bruteforcing sha256 sums. If dropbox suddenly coughs up a file, you've revealed his salary!
> Have you never heard of network effect ? Having one the size of WhatsApp is absolutely a unique value proposition since it is impossible to replicate due to acquisition costs.

In 2005, one could have made the same argument about Myspace.
> And a serious question: How do these people have money and especially free time for this?

That this is a serious question shows how sad the world we're living in is.
I had to cut the title so three important words are missing. I did not know that a title limit of 80 chars is a thing a hacker community still accepts in 2015.
It's cultural, is it not?
There's many OS designs out there.

The Linux kernel is huge, complex and particularly messy in terms of internal structure. This makes even otherwise trivial modifications hard, and complex modifications extremely hard. The development overhead is brutal.

And hibernation just happens to be a scenario that's a nightmare to implement with such a design.
Jurassic Park was a tech compensation and infosec cautionary tale.
Yet 'bit' was never renamed.

This is a sad day for the revenge of french on english.

Is Lean going to be renamed too next ? immature people might mistake me for a proud drug user.