skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's now coming to mean its opposite

As long as by "now" you mean, "over the last several hundred years":

My daily bread is literally implored
I have no barns nor granaries to hoard;

John Dryden, The Hind and The Panther (1687)

Every day with me is literally another yesterday for it is exactly the same.

Alexander Pope, Letter to H. Cromwell (March 1708)

His looks were very haggard, and his limbs and body literally worn to the bone

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby (1839)

If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)

He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies.

Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague (1769)

I look upon it, Madam, to be one of the luckiest circumstances of my life, that I have this moment the honour of receiving your commands, and the satisfaction of confirming with my tongue, what my eyes perhaps have but too weakly expressed — that I am literally the humblest of your servants.

George Colman and David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage (1766)

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet.

James Joyce, The Dead (1914)

that he had shared her bedroom which came out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out of an upstairs apartment with the a ssistance of a ladder in night apparel...

James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom wasliterally rolling in wealth.

Mark Twain, "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer" (1876)

All colors made me happy: even gray.

My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)

Literally, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)
Toward Ultra Rapid Restarts [pdf]
When I had a Dell technician visiting and replacing CPU on a laptop he applied it using the X-method.
Personally I've only tried the dot in the middle method which has worked great for me, but when I look at video tests through a glass plate it seems the X method is a bit safer/more accurate.

If there are instructions available from the supplier I'd recommend sticking to that though because it seems like the different thermal paste brands behaves differently in terms of spreading.
That's a fantastic example, thank you.
"Amazon hires intelligent people, and they retain the sociopaths"

That is a damning statement that unfortunately has the ring of truth to me.
http://www.Tinykernel.com a platform that connects (new) programmers together to work on toy projects. The reason I am working on this is because I see post like "I want to build something, but don't know where to start" all the time. Currently, I am still trying to pinpoint the core features of the site so any feedback is welcome. I am probably going to release something within 3 weeks.
The current-gen consoles are effectively mid-range dedicated GPUs with a CPU integrated in terms of stuff like die area[1], compute and raster/pixel units, memory bandwidth, etc, and even then performance isn't exactly something to write home about.

[1] Compare http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/11/21/sony-ps4-ap... to the die shots in this article, for example.
Good grief, this is the first time I've seen Github rate limit anything.
Thanks for this. I keep seeing all these doomsday posts of people feeling like there is an axe hanging over their heads waiting for it to drop. The same is true about the real estate market.

The reality is that outside of a few people, the last crash was largely unanticipated. Just as with that crash, the next one is likely to be another black swan event we cannot predict.

Black swan events don't stick to a schedule and you can't time the market.
How Silicon Valley and Wall Street Are Gambling with the World Economy (Again)
Why is there no hope for this world?

Less people using C/C++ just means less security vulnerabilities as far as I can tell. Not entirely sure why C# is listed but not Java here.
Would be nice to have these stats just for private repos. My idea (maybe wrong) is that private repos are used mostly by startups and enterprises so will be interesting to know which language is really trending in the industry.
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I don't mean to sound too cynical when I mention organizational savvy. These people don't create the illusion of a contribution, they really make the contribution.

It just isn't all based on technical skill. Experience has shown me that people (managers, senior developers who have delegating authority, and so forth) have trouble resisting the temptation to take the interesting work for themselves and assign the difficult, risky, and often dreary and dead end work elsewhere. Socially savvy developers are able to avoid these projects and instead end up on teams where they do interesting, relevant work that aligns well with their own interests and builds a lasting skill set. They don't end up debugging the old perl script that migrates data from peoplesoft to oracle and/or porting it to python. They end up on relevant and interesting data science, UI, or infrastructure projects, where they can learn tremendously. They are able to work on projects that align closely with their own personal interests and passions, which keeps them motivated (for instance, if they aren't into UI or Javascript, perhaps they work on a high profile machine learning or infrastructure project). They don't emerge two years later with deep understanding of a legacy system that mainly irritates the organization, they emerge with a skill set that aligns closely with the exciting new direction an organization wants to take.

Again, I don't want to sound cynical, they also earn this through excellent technical skills, hard work, and meaningful contribution. But it does require social and organizational savvy to make sure your career trajectory doesn't get derailed. Almost every time someone looks up in the org and says "yeah, well, that programmer is just a technical badass", this is true, but I guarantee you there was exceptional social and organizational savvy behind that ascent as well.
I get

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Please wait a few minutes before you try again."

When trying to visit the page. Can anyone post it in the comments?
> "you can disable it in the BIOS. It's a CPU feature meant for sysadmins, it's not like it enables access for intel. (although it could.. in theory)."

Call me paranoid if you want, but I think the recent Windows 10 privacy debacle shows that even if you disable something, doesn't mean it's actually disabled.

> "what's your issue with AMT? (also, not all chips have it)."

My issue with AMT is one of security. I don't believe there won't be an exploit in the future, it's not out of the question, some versions of it have already been exploited:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...

AMT has full remote access to your computer, beyond OS control or visibility, and can be utilised even when the computer is in a powered off state (still needs to be connected to a power source and connected to a network of course). The risks are huge! I'd rather choose a competitor that doesn't have it.

Which Intel CPUs don't have AMT?
Oh, too bad about that.
Steeper meaning a larger upwards delta. Starting at #2 and going to #1 is less "steep" than, say, starting at #7 and going to #4.
Or to put a positive spin on it, this person was hired to do a job, was good at it, but was prevented from doing so by internal corporate politics.

I've worked at companies where meeting major customer deliverables fell through the cracks. The managers simply didn't notice, and didn't care that the software was late and/or non-functional.

What is an engineer to do?

a) say he knows better, and get called "difficult to manage" by your criteria

b) give up, and let the managers run the company into the ground.
Evaluating MongoDB vs. Postgres for a Particular Use-Case
Wouldn't those standards be called "idioms"?

What's the value of a community writing them down in a book and teaching them rote like, en mass, when they already know them and hand them down organically to their kids?

Attempting to do so quickly devolves into "right/wrong" thinking. Which is the exact opposite of what this article and volumes of academic research suggest is reality.

If you encounter a language barrier, figure it out with those folks. Oh noes, human interaction! Just read this book instead and come back to me when you're on a level.

OK, so I'm being glib, but the point is obvious; just talk to people.
Link is down due to Github's rate limiting. Mirror anyone?
Same, gists are rate limited?
lynx has competitors?
Same. I guess sudden inflow of traffic triggered it. Considering it's on front page of HN on a sensitive/popular topic, I'm convinced.
Me too, luckily it's in google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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IIRC the guy who wrote this article http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/05/02/github-language-tren... about GitHub language trends scraped the numbers from the search page, e.g. the following search yields all repos created in 2014 and the language breakdown in the sidebar: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=created%3A%22%3E%...
Don't you think trying to blackmail say a SAD operator might end up badly in a Mozambique drill type of way.

"why yes officer Dibble the perp made a suspicious cross body movement :-) "
Exactly! if you are building like some custom CRM-ish application ,Bootstrap is really helpful.

Your users(and clients) won't care that the buttons are not flat or that it looks like many other applications ,if anything that's a positive if you build a UI components like Navbars they's used
It seems obvious that this person is aware they don't work well with others, and actively refuses to try to do better -- while writing a self-aggrandizing story about how he is both the smartest person in the room and most everyone around him was an idiot. He seems to believe there was no one else smart at Amazon either, and all projects that 'got in his way' were created my simple minded peons. This type of retrospective naiveté smacks of narcissism.

I'm not saying Amazon is a great place to work -- but its clear this person isn't a great person to work with.
Glad it wasn't just me. For a minute there I thought that I had done something to get rate limited personally.
The colloquial usage doesn't erase the technical usage. They can coexist. I dare you to construct a normal sentence in which the particular usage of "begs the question" is not entirely clear from context.

(This, by the way, is my personal test for whether a language rule is useful or not.)
Looks like one of the x-stream guys replied: https://github.com/ar104/sortingVsScanning/blob/master/Sorti...

Related discussion on twitter: https://twitter.com/roy_amitabha/status/634078514698952704
To me this also rings of "I'm too morally superior to engage in corporate politics."

Suck it up and kiss ass, suppress information when necessary, make allegiances, and whatever else is if you want to move up in that structure.

If all this is beneath you, then time to work for yourself.
Sounds just like the world of large law firms, actually. They hire top people from top schools, most burn out within 2-3 years and leave, occasionally someone is sociopathic enough to make it to about year 7 where they're made partner. No efforts are made to retain the people, they're just worked crazy hours until they either crack or, rarely, make partner.

Even the incentives are kind of the same: Great pay and looks great on a resume. The latter allows one to move over to things with much more reasonable hours if desires, albeit for lower (but still very decent) pay. Not sure how interesting the work is for an entry level position at Amazon, but I can say at large firms, the work for first years is mind-numbing and useless, basically reviewing documents for minor things.
Tech jobs aren't as liquid as you think.

Sure, he can move to another job that has the same kind of stupid demands. However, finding a job that doesn't have those kinds of demands isn't so easy. Now, let's add in the stress of uprooting your family as well as a new job where you have to prove yourself (so you're probably going to be spending the same number of hours, anyway, for a while) and it's not so obvious a choice.

The real solution is for labor laws to start biting and saying that salaried workers are to be compensated after 40 hours and have it enforced. Once you have to pay a salaried worker overtime and a shift differential, they'll hire another worker.
I'm 50+, I have Microsoft on my resume. Just like everyone else in the Seattle area. No one cares that I worked there 10 years ago.

That's not to say that I have trouble finding work in my decrepit old age, but that's a different discussion.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kti7jV2...

There you go buddy.
Most people who use literally "incorrectly" knows very well what it means, but use it hyperbolically. As in "I will literary kill the next person who misuses the English language". "I will figuratively kill the next person who misuses the English language" doesn't really convey the same sentiment...
Another example:

"That's so bad!" meaning "That's awesome!"

If I can go on a tangent about poor terms...contranyms will throw people for a loop if they are unaware of one of the meanings. Or worse, if the sentence is constructed in a way meant to cause confusion.

"I would be bound for Chicago if I wasn't bound to this chair." [0]

"It is transparent that the transparent man cannot be seen." [1]

"Three people are left after five left." [2]

"If we go back two weeks, when Tom came back, we decided to push the date back three weeks." [3]

[0] I would be moving towards Chicago if I wasn't unable to move from this chair.

[1] It's visible to anyone that the invisible man cannot be seen.

[2] Three people remain after five departed.

[3] If you go into the past two weeks, when Tom returned, we decided then to push the date further by 3 weeks.

I had fun writing those.
> If I wanted to accomplish my goals (which I am ostensibly judged on for promotion), I had to do it on my own time.

At a former job as a software engineer at a smallish (~250 employees or so) enterprise, I sat down quarterly with my manager to sketch out "my" goals for the quarter. I did my best to set my sights high, and I outlined technical goals (underneath most folks' radar but my own) that I wished to accomplish.

Ultimately, though, I didn't have the authority to set my own priorities. Generally speaking, I was assigned work to execute, and it was my job to complete that work; I was not supposed to choose, as the OP did, that my goals were ever more important. But I did. I still tried to make progress on my goals, either by delaying completion of assigned tasks, or by staying late and hacking away after everyone else went home.

Looking back, it would have been better for me (because you do get judged on this stuff in reviews) to just write down goals for myself along the lines of "do the work that is assigned to me", "keep management informed whenever I am unable to do the work that is assigned to me in the timeframe expected", and "report to the office during business hours."

It's great to have employees that are passionate about making your business succeed. But you need to wield that passion during normal working hours -- don't hope that it somehow seeps out of the cracks during evenings and weekends.
Except that she worked for herself, she loved what she did and did not really have much of a life outside of the spotlight.

Can't compare her to some poor schmuck slaving away for Amazon (or some such), who most likely is NOT enjoying his lifestyle/work.
> c) Leave. If you really do know best, why aren't you running your own business?

That's not a good answer. A person staffing an assembly line making widgets may know how to double through-put. They do not know how to sell widgets.

It's unreasonable to expect them to "start their own business" because they're competent at their job, which is probably one out of 100 jobs in the company.

As for (a) and (b), I also find those outcomes unsatisfactory.

There are people who manage to get promoted in corporate hierarchies precisely because they can solve problems. By your choices (a) and (b) above, doing anything is bad, and will result in bad outcomes.
Amazon called me up one day trying to recruit. I haven't shuddered like that in a very long time.
Hear, hear. http://handmadehero.org is almost therapy for me in that regard: Casey looks at assembly output from the compiler all the time.
I think that would require a consensus among experts to adopt a language specification. That would also be a good time to clean out any artifactual warts.
http://pastebin.com/q0YYj7RY mirror
"literally, not figuratively" might do the trick
It's interesting how this worked just fine in Edge but not in Chrome, I'll take a look into the code later
http://pastebin.com/q0YYj7RY
Still working on the same uninteresting projects.

Working on making Space Invaders in C++/SDL. Since the last thread i've added vector motion (with terrible "physics"), sound, gotten enemy fire to work and a basic game state running. Currently i'm working on string rendering and UI so I can have buttons, then the first game state transitions (title screen to play screen.)

Also, a threaded forum which is turning out to be an anonymous Hacker News clone in PHP: https://imgur.com/Yojr7Dv (I'm not actually calling it Slacker News though, I just thought it was funny.)
http://pastebin.com/taccdWUn
" The managers simply didn't notice, and didn't care that the software was late and/or non-functional."

So then maybe it wasn't important?
(I don't know, i'm just suggesting maybe this goal was not as important to the business as you think it was. :P)

"let the managers run the company into the ground."

Look, if you escalate stuff up your chain, and the answer comes back "no, please do what they are telling you", then either do it, or find another job.

Otherwise, yes, you are "difficult to manage"
The fact that you think it's running the company into the ground is an opinion, and one apparently not shared by the people responsible for directing work. So while you are welcome to shout such a thing from the rooftops, if you don't actually do what you are supposed to be doing (and note, very carefully, what you are supposed to be doing is not what you think is the right thing, but what the business thinks is the right thing), you are difficult to manage.
I don't own a laptop at the moment (I only have a phone and an MP3 player), but if I did I'd probably go for a 64bit AMD APU-based machine or a ARM-based Chromebook with Linux or BSD (and fit a larger SSD).
Ditto. They seem to be triggering off the referer header -if you either copy/paste the link into a new tab or right click + "open in private browsing" it then loads for me.
Look at Pylons Pyramid powered by Python, you can serve it with uWsgi and NginX. http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/
Sunport: Demand solar energy from the grid using a plug adapter
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Market sentiment is a powerful force. Never underestimate a critical mass of pessimism/optimism, no matter how irrational.
If the threads and their scheduling are implemented wholly by the language, not the OS, then perhaps the ordering of their wake-ups could be guaranteed -- although I'm not sure these languages do guarantee it.

Maybe they had some reason for using a LIFO instead of a FIFO, who knows; one needs to check these things.

However, the thing that triggered me to comment was this part:

> If it runs significantly after 953ms, that’s OK, but there probably needed to be a good reason, like the entire thread being blocked unexpectedly.

This is simply mistaken, in strongly implying that it takes unusual conditions for events to lag significantly; actually that is just normal functioning, and does not need "unexpected blocking" or anything else unusual or rare to occur.

It is ameliorated a lot by avoiding heavy loading of systems (that doesn't fix it, but it can reduce strange behavior down to a statistically tolerable level).
Hey, that looks great :-) I'll try it.
What do you think of https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules/issues/23#issueco...
"He/She clearly states that their progress was objective and benefitted the company."

Objective?
By what standard?

"benefitted the company"

By whose measure?
By their own?
All modern Intel chips have the dedicated, non-user-controlled management processor used for AMT/vPro whether they support the feature or not, and you can't disable it - the BIOS option just passes a flag to the code running on the management processor asking it nicely not to give anyone remote access to your PC. The area of Flash it boots from is even read-protected so you have no way of knowing what code it's actually running short of sticking the Flash chip in an external programmer.

Edit: Also, apparently at least some version allow remote provisioning of AMT with no user intervention even with it disabled in the BIOS. You need an expensive SSL certificate, but that'd be no obstacle for attackers like Hacking Team or the NSA. See http://people.kth.se/~maguire/DEGREE-PROJECT-REPORTS/100402-...
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Mentioned on github before https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9366#issuecomment-2...

Personally I hope they never impose such an awkward naming convention.
This is all a bit reminiscent of Double Helix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(database)).

The best part of using Helix was that the people doing data entry, and the people who worked closely with them, really could and did update the forms themselves.

I like paper for a lot of things, but in software, I've always hoped we can arrive at systems where users get more of a hand in shaping the tools they use. We're not there yet.
A lot of UK expats are retirees, eg in Spain. To me the word differs to emigrant in that UK expats still consider themselves to be citizens [well subjects at least] of the UK. They wouldn't seek to be naturalised to their host country and will often spend a prolonged time in the UK (like many UK families with Pakistani heritage seem to spend a long time there). The flavour or how "expat" is used in the UK is for people on an [very] extended holiday.

People who "emigrate" from the UK primarily seem to go to Australia, by that I mean that's how the word is used. A high-school friend went to "work in the States" rather than "emigrating to America", for example.

Migrant (emigrant/immigrant) seems to be used primarily for those under some duress of compulsion, eg threat of violence or need of work that is otherwise unavailable.