skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It makes no sense to me that union creating more expensive labor would increase the costs of non-union labor, except insofar as they reduce the size of the non-union labor pool."

I don't have a link. This is all anecdotal. I could be completely wrong but I don't think I'm far off.

Lowering the pool of non-union workers is one thing, but also competing to keep those workers from joining a union. Companies generally don't want to be unionized. Not only do they need to compete to keep the worker from leaving but they also need to pay enough to keep the workers happy enough to not unionize their shop.

I'm from WV which is basically owned by the coal mines. Each time one of those non-union mines go to vote if they will go union the miners I know tell me the company starts giving out bonuses and things like Harleys to sway them to vote non-union.

Even so things that were created or backed by unions have now become laws and directly benefit non-union workers. Like the 40 hour work week. The end of child labor. Employer health benefits. FMLA.
You can still read the document, which gives me a lot more confidence than if the file just became unavailable.
Nice "in the beginning..." hebrew string:

בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ
Not necessarily, I believe they're demoing this against OpenGL ES specifically because of google recently announcing that Vulkan will be available on android[1]. Given the 4 cores that seems to line up, since a lot of ARM devices are going to multicore recently.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/android-to-support-vu...
Why I moved from SF to Madrid to join a startup for my internship
Critical Path Performance Optimization at Pony Foo
"and most importantly communitarianism"

Regardless of your definition of a hacker, hacker culture was born out of interaction. It's sharing of information and exploring together that made programmers, hobbyists and tinkerers into hackers. I think one thing that makes "hackerdom" so easily distorted is that people don't look at what actually happened. It's quite illustrative how the article, in it's first paragraph, gets the story wrong. Which no one seems to have commented on so far.

From the article: "A young Air Force serviceman named John Draper – aka Captain Crunch – discovered that he could manipulate the rules of tone-dialling systems by using children’s whistles found in Cap’n Crunch cereal boxes."

From Wikipedia: "While Draper was driving around in his Volkswagen Microbus to test a pirate radio transmitter he had built, he broadcast a telephone number to listeners as feedback to gauge his station's reception. A callback from a "Denny" resulted in a meeting that caused him to blunder into the world of the phone phreaks. [...] A blind boy who had taken the moniker of Joybubbles had perfect pitch and was able to identify the exact frequencies. They informed him that a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal could emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new call."
I think WebVulkan would be great with WebAssembly! The nice thing about those technologies is that they are low-level APIs, which means less rooms for bugs.

WebGL, HTML, DOM, and most other web technologies suffer from not being consistent and they are full of bugs. How many graphics cards have been blacklisted from WebGL because the drivers don't have the required features or have too many bugs? [1][2]

[1] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...
If you for some reason find yourself in the west suburbs of Chicago I would definitely go visit Fermilab. I went during a Sunday and got to watch a lecture/demonstration and then take a tour and talk with real scientists that work there. The grounds are huge and you can also ride your bike through. I used to live nearby so I biked there all the time.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visiting/index.html
"the doctors were so horrible they couldn't even begin to figure out what was wrong with her"

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of our good doctors are swept by the offers made by the western countries. It's sad, but true.
Except that milk is not just empty fat. The CLA in grass-fed milk, the vitamin D, and many other vitamins in milk are not present in coconut milk. Best is to put coconut oil in your warm milk!
We're living in an alcoholic beverage renaissance.

Try a craft beer or have a glass of wine.

A drink a day is good for you anyway.
>They are genuinely interesting in part because they're "Far East" and seem foreign.

They don't "seem" foreign, they ARE foreign.

Unless you happen to live in the far east.
XMPP continues to work for Google Chat, so there may be better iOS Google Chat clients. Sorry, I haven't used any, so I can't offer any recommendations.

ChatSecure seems to offer OTR compatibility, so that may be a decent option:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chatsecure-encrypted-secure/...

and should be compatible with OTR Jabber clients on Android like Conversations.
Or they have their own minds, which occasionally decide to do things you don't approve of. You're just as much a product of the media you consume and the ideals impressed upon you by friends and family as anyone else. It is much more invigorating to feel like one knows the truth and everyone else is brainwashed though.
Wash your hands – and save the world from superbugs
African migrant surge imperils EU social infrastructure
I agree that Drexler won the debate (or at least that aspect of it), mainly because Smalley overstated his case.

I think the grey goo argument was directed against Drexler not because of his 'mechanical' approach to nanotechnology, but because of his claims that it would produce replicators that are far faster and more efficient than biological ones.
We employ 30 something people. About 50% are UK nationals, 30% EU, 20% rest of world on tier 2 visas.

Historically, they've been fairly easy to get - we've never had an application refused, and when the home office do their surprise inspections, they're pretty laissez-faire.

We had such an inspection a few weeks back - the assessor mentioned that we should go hell for leather on tier 2 hires now if we need them, as we're unlikely to be an eligible sponsor next year - it's being regeared to only be applicable for large (£10m+ turnover) businesses.

The tories are not pro business. They are pro lining their and their chums pockets, and blindsiding the masses into electing them. The most pro-small-business initiatives have come from Brussels over the last decade, from R&D tax credits to a plethora of grants - and they want out of the EU because regulation hurts energy profiteering.
The state of mobile development: Where do we go from here?
I collected many of Sam's interviews here: http://newslines.org/sam-altman/
At least it has earnings, AirBnB is probably in the red.
Both emails sent to clients AND employees posted here: http://www.brandoneley.com/zirtual-shut-its-doors-what-does-...

Definitely some WEIRD stuff going on here. I don't see how any investor would ever give them another round of financing after firing all their employees AND clients, and leaving many having paid up front for services they never received.
"If you don't know what CSRF is and how to protect against it, any website you make is probably going to be insecure"

A thousand times this.

I used to give a talk about basic web application security, and my favourite part of that talk was right after explaining CSRF when I'd point out that "... and if you don't have active protection in place against this attack, your app is vulnerable right now". You could almost see people's faces turning white in the audience.
How fast could humans travel safely through space
CORS will not protect you against CSRF - in fact, if you don't apply it with caution it will open you up to CSRF attacks.
This is the most concise expression I've heard of something I've felt was a fundamental truth for a long time, thank you!
A shifting label can be a problem, when it attracts tinkerer's to the SV tech scene, instead of places where they could find more joy.
The replies are correct--I mentioned Paint.NET mainly becaues that was/is a highly effective site to get people to click the misleading "Download" button ads.

As for browser cookie storage, there's not much the browsers can do. Even if they were encrypted or obfuscated somehow, the browsers themselves would still need access so people would always be able to reverse-engineer the process.

The only way I could see them preventing the web-based install exploit would be to always require a password first (and not just rely on session cookies to identify the user). I'm not sure if Google is doing that now or not.
Defiantly not any better than Skype from 10 years ago or MSN messenger video calling. "Progress!"
I'm 48 and I've been developing software professionally since I was 21 years old. I think I'm every bit as sharp as I used to be, and probably somewhat more productive overall due to my experience. My only fears are degraded eyesight (I have to wear reading glasses now), and age discrimination. Don't believe the hype.
It is valuable to determine what technology, not available in the past, would cause a reasonable insider to change their decisions if they could implement that technology.
The brain is fully developed by age 25 and starts to lose mass from then until death (see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19283594). Brains of 90 year olds can be just 60% the size of a young adult. Neurons do not repair well and they (or rather, stem cells) aren't programmed to divide after the skull runs out of room.

I would not worry, though. The brain is very flexible. If you keep your mathematics sharp, you will lose less useful things like old memories instead of skills. Many professionals work in difficult jobs (say surgery) well into their 70s by keeping their skills in use.
Do we still need a QA manager's role in agile organizations
I certainly didn't mean it as a "thinly veiled attack on minorities," and it does seem more likely linked to the economic history of various communities. Children of college graduates are more likely to go to college themselves; parents with PhDs are more likely to have children who receive them as well. That could be due to genetics or shared environment or other factors, and there's a whole realm of twin and adoption studies on how much life outcomes are due to shared environment versus inheritance. Bryan Caplan has a good summary of this in the book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids (p. 53-58), but it mostly favors the inheritance-based view over the cultural one (admittedly contradicting my original assertion), and so certainly isn't going to be more friendly towards your view of trends in generational wealth.

How the suggestion that some social environments will be more supportive of self-education than others automatically becomes an attack on minorities is baffling. There was no intended suggestion of any such thing, and the entire rest of my post was hypothesizing something completely different: society's increasing net productivity leads to increasing gaps in income.
Is LinkedIn outdated? Is it time for a new professional network?
There's an old story, the punchline of which is an invoice that reads something like this:

Pushing button: $1
Knowing which button to push: $9999

After almost 25 years in IT, the meaning is more clear than ever. Skills are great, but experience is invaluable. For better or worse, experience comes with age.

I've been pretty lucky in my career so far. I've not gotten rich by any means, but I've been steadily employed and, with a couple of exceptions, have enjoyed the work I do. I've also had the opportunity to work with some very smart people in various fields, both young and old, and have taken every opportunity to learn from them. Hack life? No. Just live it and learn from it. The only thing the average 20-something has over me is more time to learn.
How Hackers Steal Data from Websites
> * A database so large that even a minimally empty one cannot be created from scratch in less than 10-15 minutes. This creates problems for CI, integration testing, etc.

When we ran into this issue we would take period snapshots of the schema / data dump so that it could be recreated rapidly at a certain point. For example, we would create a DB creation and data insert script at version 2.0, then update scripts would be applied starting at 2.1, 2.2 etc.
Let’s prove what we all know is true
Anatomy of a failed Kickstarter campaign
I missed the original comment before it was deleted, but you are correct in that I wasn't trying to write this anonymously.
Yeah, this is a really stupid, cack-handed approach to immigration by the UK government.

I've worked with some people that had to just through preposterous hoops to come and work in the UK – we're not talking unskilled labour, but skilled engineers, paying a whole lot of tax on their generous salaries. And it's a field in which is increasingly difficult to recruit talented individuals, too. Their positions are constantly in limbo and require IMO far too much paperwork in order to remain resident.

Meanwhile, there is essentially no control over immigration from EU member states. There's a populist objection to immigration from the EU, because those flows are perceived to be primarily unskilled workers displacing domestic workers from low-paid jobs. It's not clear how much of a problem that actually is, but it's a common perception nonetheless.

So we've a government elected after lots of loud promises to reduce net immigration. Since there's essentially nothing that they can do about immigration from within the EU, there is pressure to reduce net immigration from outside it, to 'make up the numbers'. I haven't looked at the statistics on this, but I'd wager that this disproportionately affects exactly the sort of immigration we want to see into the UK – highly-skilled foreign workers.

One of the UK's strengths as a business base has traditionally been the ease of hiring internationally. Now we have an ass-backwards immigration policy which achieves exactly the opposite of what we want, primarily due to populist pandering. It's going to do nothing other than harm the UK's competitiveness in the short and long term.
Remove the Flash plugin from Chrome. That put its resources below Safari for me. Before I did that, Chrome would spin up my fans just by existing.
A database so large that even a minimally empty one cannot be created from scratch in less than 10-15 minutes. This creates problems for CI, integration testing, etc

You are certainly using the wrong technology then; at a previous job I was easily spinning up 3T Oracle databases in a few minutes using COW clones on the storage array attached to VMs. They were only good for a few hundred M of changes, but that was plenty for testing.
slight caveat: I think you can understand an issue very well and be able to concoct a strong argument in favor of the opposing view, which is nonetheless not very convincing. (Sometimes you may also be able to concoct a strong but unconvincing argument in favor of your own view. Some issues are like that -- the best arguments on both sides still aren't really convincing.)
The primary issue with Chesterton's long-revered fence is that puts the entire burden of proof on the person who desires to take it down.

What if the fence was put there for purposes of adverse posession? Those who would defend the fence, absent any documentation, would ascribe the most noble uses to it, as their desire is to maintain the status quo, or at least the status pro se. They would, to use Chesterton's term, 'go gaily up to it' and defend it with their lives, saying "clearly this fence always existed, and thus should always be."

Chesterton's 'modern reformer' is a strawman as bald-faced as any, and it's all too easy to use "Chesterton's Fence" as a defense of mindless conservatism.
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Good by what measure? Very little is public so far, though we are likely to see more come out during SIGGRAPH. It is expected that Vulkan will be very similar to Metal and DX12. They are all designed to be simple but hard in the "Simple made Easy" sense. For example, in Metal you can update part of a buffer using memcpy Is that better or worse than glBufferSubData? (yes, yes. gl has mapped ranges too)

A year ago I wrote a bit about how OGL3 and D3D9 were well designed for the hardware when they came out. But, the hardware has changed dramatically since then. After a decade of incremental changes, graphic APIs really needed a clean break from the past to move forward.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146533
Just a thought but, I wonder if the change you describe (from discussions about cool tech to how to monetize) has something to do with the demographics of the participants of Hacker News. I'm not sure it is a completely valid generalization (there are still cool tech discussions here that aren't about money), but I can see what you're talking about.

Certainly, many of us have gotten older while we've been a part of the community. This is a generality too, and probably not valid, but, I have noticed that for what we would have defined as a "techie" in the period from 1995-present day, many of us have tired with the hamster-wheel of technology.

By that I mean, we have tired with, a new tech or trend comes up, everybody goes crazy whether it is good or not, much hand-wringing and attention and money is spent, and in a few years, it's old and used and beat up and on to the next thing. It's like the wasteful consumer attitude of use and throw away rather than building things that last. I don't meant to say we haven't built things that last because many of our technologies and organizations certainly have. Just that we're quick to throw out the old for the new, and constantly reinventing yourself every few years can be difficult - at some point you hope to succeed because of your core skills and not just because you know the latest or greatest technology (which may or may not flop in 6 months).

Again, generally speaking, as you get older or as the world continues to get more expensive (the time value of money changing) and the requirements to pay the bills continue, the focus tends to shift away from the cool tech and into how to make money, products, etc.

There's good and bad in this - cool tech for tech's sake is nice but does not always solve real problems that create value or utility for people. Endless searching for profit can destroy great ideas. But in general, solving real problems/needs/desires using old (or new) technologies provides real value to society, and when those generate profit that allow us to exist in the world which requires money to survive, then that's great. One needs balance in all things, some people need to do "cool tech for tech's sake", some need to solve real problems every day, some need to pay the bills and some just need to help the world. Some want to do a blend of those things.

Knowing where you as an individual fall in the spectrum of efforts, needs, pursuits, desires, etc. can be difficult. I guess the best thing one can do is be honest with oneself and then project from there.

Perhaps the changing and continued diversifying demographic of HN, along with the dynamics of requirements of the "real world" are partly what has driven the trend in comments that you point out.
I've more commonly found "cultural Marxism" used regarding social issues. People who believe in the theory allege that Marxism has expanded into the cultural realm (rather than focusing on economics and class), as part of a long strategy to undermine western society. For example: immigration is alleged to be a cultural-Marxist strategy to undermine the nation-state, abortion & gay marriage are cultural-Marxist strategies to undermine the family, and focusing on things like slavery and Jim Crow in history textbooks is a cultural-Marxist strategy to undermine patriotism.

A funny thing about the more general critique of oppressor/victim narratives is that Nietzsche had a very similar critique, alleging that the pervasiveness of such narratives (which he called "slave morality") had weakened society. But he didn't blame Marxism for it— he blamed Christianity.
Alternative source: list of reddit usernames...
Onion: layer based configuration for golang
I was fully expecting synthetic-collateralized-yc-batch-convertible-debt-obligation. But no, it's just some unproven investment thesis presented as fact.
Q&A: Successful developer career strategies
Also happens with religion.
they can try, but you're allowed to reverse engineer. Which is why DMCA was written...
this is fantastic
I found a few studies but to be honest I don't have time to read them. Here is an interesting snippet from one report (which I believe is disputing the other studies that say wages increase in proportion to union wages):

The effect of labor unions on wages is one of the more heavily studied topics in empirical
labor economics. There exists a reasonably strong consensus among economists
that the average union-nonunion wage gap is about 15 percent, a consensus based in
no small part on the influence of work by H. Gregg Lewis (1963, 1986). A survey of
labor economists at leading universities by Fuchs, Krueger, and Poterba (1998) asked
the question: "What is your best estimate of the percentage impact of unions on the earnings
of their average member'?" The median response was 15 percent and mean response
13.1 percent; dispersion was low. "

http://www2.gsu.edu/~ecobth/PaperReprints/UnionWageEffects.p...
FFS. I think they have no idea how few people we can get locally in London who don't need a visa...
Finally: Jumzler social media project is online
Not All Stock Analysts Are Created Equal
Founders presume the stupidity of the competition because they're arrogant. Silicon valley, with it's notion of creative destruction and disrupting the establishment, encourages arrogance. We're blinded by the notion that new always trumps old, so we never consider that the established industry has reasons behind how it runs.
Portland is slowly losing it's edge. I say slowly because the wages here are silly low so that does keep out a lot of the yuppies the article is referring to (although many will come here and take advantage of that).

I've only been here for a little over a year but I've seen the city change very much in that short amount of time. Old abandon buildings are now apartment complexes for tech kids. In May of 2014 there was _maybe_ 3 co-working spaces. Now there are at least 7 or 8 (including a newly put together `we work`). Rent has risen more than 7% this past year and housing prices are poised to increase 15% in 2015 alone.

I moved to Portland mostly because it was a west coast city that didn't get snow and had a cool vibe the one time I visited. I'm definitely adding to the problems Portland is having but at least I didn't move here from California and don't have a trust fund...
Just ask for a white dolphin on the rocks (water over ice) :)

It is all about the glass shape, most people will assume you are having vodka soda.
Opera Software Board of Directors to Review Strategic Alternatives
Last I looked, Oracle was free for development and test use. Is that no longer the case?
> admission of ignorance

And although "ignorance" has a negative connotation, I argue it's a neutral thing unless otherwise modified, ie. as opposed to "willful ignorance".

The healthcare field uses the gentler term "knowledge deficit" regarding patients; I've taken to using that term in engineering contexts as well.
It would certainly be more charitable to think of "them" as what they really are: people who, just like you, are doing their best to figure out a path for themselves through a mystifying world. At least, I know that's what I am doing, while also being quite sure you think I'm a hipster web 2.0 wank poser.