skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with "human skills" also.

Lower demand of workers and over-supply of candidates = employers' market = greater expectations placed on workers for lower pay. This would change nice-to-have attributes of excellent candidates from nice-to-have to compulsory as workers have to be even more perfect just to keep their job against the 100 other people lined up ready to take it from them. Besides, if there are 3 equally-qualified people with people skills and 5 without, it's a no brainer because the non-people-skilled folks are liabilities: they can kill the team dynamic, put people off and waste time & money (finding new coworkers to replace those that left whom will put up with their antics, finding new customers/vendors/partners/etc. that they put off, etc.). I know of a number of first-hand cases where some arrogant developers were passed over for hiring consideration at a successful enterprise startup because it was clear they would be too difficult to work with.

In labor markets with a foreseeable overabundance of talent, the future of work may include a number of people willing to work even longer for free, far longer than internships, simply to showcase their chops, get real experience and edge out other candidates/employees. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but it certainly seems headed down that path.
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Outsourced to India, with easter eggs in the code that even the savviest San Francisco net geek can't spot?
I predict that if this ever starts getting deployed, some truck owners will repurpose them to display advertisements.
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In my experience code review is not a protection from this. Rather the opposite actually, since reviewers often identify very similar blocks of code that should be extracted to methods/classes. Those observations are not always correct.
Yeap, I was just presenting the broader picture, specially since in the enterprise space, unit tests have even lower priority than documentation.
On my machine (archlinux, xterm) it flickers, as if there was a loop. Anybody sees the same ?
I see countless restaurants and food carts using square to accept payments
Today, setting limit orders is a bad idea because algos will go for runs to trigger these orders and use them to their own ends.

In a sense, you just publicly announce your intentions which is never a good idea when trading or negotiating in a non-cooperative way.

Of course, this means you can only use "buy and hold" or, if you know you still have access to your trading service in volatile hours, mean reversion strategies.
A lot of it is simply about learning when you know enough and when you need more information through the interactions themselves. If you have to "set things up" it seems tedious. If it's just conversing with you about the information it needs, and gradually learning your preferences, that's different.

I used to fly in to the Bay Area very often on business. At first the office manager arranging things would ask me details about which airline and which flights I'd prefer after listing the options, and which hotels, describing address and location and how near they were the office. Possibly e-mailing me a bunch of links for me to look at. But after just a few trips it was down to "is flying out on the 2.30 on Wednesday and returning on the 3.15 the following Thursday, ok? [she know when I preferred to fly, and she'd implicitly have ensured they were the right code to maximize my chance of an upgrade] Your usual hotel is full, is the Sheraton ok?" [no addresses necessary - we'd boiled it down to 2-3 preferred hotels within walking distance of the office].
I tend to work in two bursts during the day when working from my home office.

I work 10 - 1 have an hour break and then do 2 - 4.

I find I can get most work done using that framework whilst still allowing me time to get other stuff done in the morning/late afternoon that might otherwise be a distraction!
> Edit: Looks like ghost has 38 direct dependencies in NPM, of which many have their own dependencies, etc.

That's awesome! There's so much bad JavaScript around where someone writes their own case insensitive sort() function, or their own state machine, or scrapes wikipedia for ISO codes or currencies rather than using country-data.

It looks like ghost is working on the parts that actual deliver value to their users and letting common, well maintained projects do the common stuff.
> A true socialist favors workers owning enterprises.

> To repeat and sum-up the core point: socialism does not really care about taxation or regulation except as tools, it cares about workers owning their own tools, work-sites, materials, and enterprises, and thus controlling their own lives rather than being controlled by an owner.

Clearly you are talking about collectivism (as opposed to individualism), and the Democrats are collectivist. You just have this technical implementation difference.

Which is to have workers control enterprises by some sort of voting scheme. As opposed to the natural course of evolution from freedom to collectivism, where you would have "private" ownership of enterprises, but with the state controlling the owner through regulation and taxation.

That really is an implementation detail. There is a whole lot more that goes into a political system than just deciding how enterprises are managed. (And, by the way, it's not any different to have your 99 fellow workers decide by voting how things are run, vs. a bureaucrat from a central government. So it's also an unimportant implementation detail.)

I think that makes it pretty disingenious for Democrats to scream "we are not socialists" and socialists to say "Democrats are not socialists." Because the people complaining about socialism don't care about that technical implementation difference; that's not actually the issue being raised. Rather, they are arguing against collectivism.

People in general use "socialism" to mean "collectivism," and I think that's perfectly fine, because people in general don't (and shouldn't) care about some obscure implementation detail that is being argued over by true believers.

If you have an argument against what I've said here, I'd be interested to see it, but I'd rather get something really specific and targeted vs. more of a soapbox.
> This is just gold!

This thread reminds me of Tortuous Convolvulus.
You know, I'll never forget a quote of the father after their discovery. He said "Living without salt was a special kind of hell" and that has affected me pretty profoundly for such a tiny thing. I've tried to spend my days not taking things for granted, especially here in the developed world, and this man's experience (and subsequent comment) is something I remember every time I see or use table salt. It's become a kind of central theme in my impossible goal of not taking things (and people) for granted.
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I agree with what you say. Ultimately, the system (with all it's faults) only has to save more lives than without it before it has a net positive.

I think what I found interesting is that the liability could shift onto the truck when they were not the one who took a dangerous action to overtake with oncoming traffic.

I guess it's similar to me signalling to the car behind it's safe to overtake, when in fact it might not be. I could cause the accident.

Aids to improve safety are good because it's the last line of defense, and if everything went as planned, they wouldn't be activated. Aids that help people participate in new risks opens up new questions. Cars behind have the choice not to overtake and that could in most cases would be the safest option (albeit tedious and boring).

I'm all for this technology making roads safer, but I think it should be very clearly set out who is liable for it's failure. I don't want to be held responsible for my automatic breaking system failing, causing me to come to an unexpected complete stop on a motorway resulting in a multi-car pileup.
That actually makes more sense, as in "I'm pulling over to the right to give you room (or at least, I would if there were room)."
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I'm from Ahmedabad.

Background information:

What is happening is not a religious issue or in any way related to the communal riots 15 years ago.

From Wikipedia:

In India, the Other Backward Castes (OBC) status invokes affirmative action which provides reserved quotas in education and government jobs. In Gujarat, 27% of seats are reserved for OBC (Other Backward Castes), 7.5% for Scheduled Castes and 15% for Scheduled Tribes for a total of 49.5% of all seats. The Supreme Court has capped the maximum reservation at 50% in their 1992 judgement.

What decides if you are OBC, SC, or ST? Your surname, and the community your family belongs to. Note that membership to one of these segments used to strongly correlate once with lower economic status (and therefore opportunities), but in recent years this correlation is significantly weaker.

The agitation is a result of the unsustainable caste politics quoted above. 49.5% of people getting in through a quota is absurd. Now I think that elevating downtrodden sections of society (through economic incentives, or even a reasonable quota) is a good thing. but when half of all seats in universities and stable government jobs are tied to a quota, the playing field for the "general category" is significantly shrunk, and people are going to get frustrated.

The community that is protesting are the Patels. They are huge in Gujarat; they're all over the strong middle class spectrum, and parts of the upper class. What I mean to say is that they are not even remotely an oppressed downtrodden segment of society. They happen to be an entrepreneurial and dynamic class; if you're in the UK or the US, you probably are aware of Patels because they constitute a huge percentage of Indian immigrants/expats.
My point being: Patels asking for reservation is ridiculous.
I guess only in India can a community demand to be labelled as "backward".

But when the playing field is so small, is it a surprise that everyone now wants their own space carved out?

I hope this protest will die, because animosity between such a large segment of society and others can become a source of problems in the future. But I also hope that it will force the government to rethink the crazy huge reservation system.

People in Ahmedabad are feeling scared and angry right now. Just outside my parents' home, protestors/vandals lit three buses and a bus terminal on fire yesterday. Then there's the police, here's a video of the them going on a power trip: https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/636808983131525120

PS: Not all Patels are asking for reservations, there are a number of dissenting factions as well.
me being an european and having worked in berlin, paris, london and as such knowing the market. I'm talking about avg salary
Shrinkwrap doesn't slim down the trees, it just makes sure the whole tree is locked to specific version, so your Linux server doesn't end up installing a different version of some package than your Mac does.

You might be thinking of npm 3, where modules are installed at the top of the tree first, and there's only extra copies of a module down the three if something specifically needs a different version of that module.
Same here. I decided to stop playing video games cold turkey and what I did was grab an Arch Linux iso and follow the beginner's guide.

Much more decent.
Which came first? Threat Intelligence or Vulnerability assessment
The agreement of accession was basically signed under duress by a Hindu ruler of a primarily Muslim state in 1947 when he was being attacked by Pakistani tribal lords. Our prime minister basically said - "Sign the agreement of accession or I am not protecting you". I don't think that agreement means anything. You might disagree but lets present facts as they were.

The story of Kashmir is full of broken promises by the Indian government and people. So before we call it an integral part of India, lets at least own our mistakes. Lets remove AFSPA in Kashmir. Lets hold the bloody referendum. Lets at least grant them more autonomy.

But thats not gonna happen. Any government which grants more autonomy to Kashmir will be voted out and hence they will not do it.
I was going to post something about this myself, but decided it was still unverified. The Auto Motor & Sport article was as far as the trail took me. It quotes the Dagens Nyheter, which in turn quotes an anonymous Japanese car magazine, whose article may or may not be true (if it exists at all).

This has the hallmarks of an urban legend: Japanese car manufacturers do have previous form with the Toyota MR2 and Mitsubishi Pajero, so the story is plausible; there's a moral here; and the story has not been followed all the way to its original source.
TLDR; You find cherry picking, curve fitting, ignoring inconvenient data, and disregarding known physics.
I actually think those subtle differences are more likely to bring problems to the front earlier. If you have code that works on 20 slightly different setups, then it is likely to be more robust than code that has only ever seen one setup.

Obviously this is quite subjective, and depends a lot on what type of development you are doing.
"People Person" is something I still see on resumes and frequently accompanied by the ever popular: "Enjoys Swimming, Reading, and playing guitar". Do I yet care? I really want to see if you are bursting with enthusiasm when applying for a job. Any less than full enthusiasm for a place and you are fired before you even get the job.
I use an intermediary for all my takeaway. Basically in the UK there are now two big intermediary sites. On one hand they are annoying to many of these businesses as they obviously take a cut including of a lot of repeat business. On the other hand, I receive an e-mail around the time I start getting hungry on Friday afternoon giving me a link to click if I want to re-order from my favourite Chinese, that lets me choose to pre-fill the order with what I usually order. It makes it a lot easier than hunting around for the phone number or their website and placing an order manually.

That's why I use an intermediary. If that intermediary was being able to just say "I'd like my usual pizza/Chinese/burrito, but instead of X I'd like Y" and just have it confirm what it was about to do, I'd love that.

If want something new, or I'm somewhere I haven't been before, that's different - then I'll be spending time looking at the menu etc.
I have a part time TT gig, and live in the U.S. They've been excellent to work with: extremely professional and reliable. I earn 70% of my market rate which I find fair due to the added value of their system and their payment processing.

AMA.
The thing is that it's not a "weak response", it really is people's opinion.

I've experienced some cases where I've been spoken to a bit sharply, and some where people have come across a bit impatient when I haven't "got" something they understand. The thing is that I don't process it as people coming across as a dick, so my subjective experience is that the community is helpful. As to the three examples [1] you picked out of Haskellers coming across as pricks, I honestly, truely, completely don't see anything in any of these comments beyond forthright assertions of opinion. Would you be able to maybe break down what you find objectionable?

[1] As disclosure: I currently work with dons, and I also know willtim.
I am still undecided about Windows 10. I have been running it as my primary OS since release day and while it isn't bad I don't really see any benefit to it either.

Cortana isn't as helpful on my computer as it is on my phone but even then I don't really care about talking to my devices. The most helpful it has been is reminders, being able to say "remind me to call John at 5pm" is kinda nice.

Multiple desktops are very goofy on Windows 10. Not as good as on Linux or even OS X.

Microsoft's built in apps for media are pathetic still.

There are many annoying things also such as uninstall store apps constantly reinstall such as 3D Builder, Get Skype and Get Office. Even after I have Office installed!! Selecting a new Note from the Action Centre can only load the gimped built in OneNote not the full OneNote that is part of Office. Same with clicking the Surface Pen.

The start menu is seriously limited in where I can put things. I can't really personalise it much beyond putting tiles in the designated areas.

Edge is pretty awful with its current feature set.

Basically Windows 10 was released 6 months too early. I don't really understand why they were so desperate to release in July? Surely it would have made more sense to push back to October (Threshold 2 release window) or maybe even into 2016 when they can have a proper v1 version of Edge and more features in things like Groove Music which lacks even basic library management features like editing a songs tags.

Then we have the UI which is an inconsistent mess. Different styles all over the place.

So reading all this you would think I hate Windows 10 but I don't. I am disappointed with it as is but I am still using it over Windows 8.1 although it is more because it isn't worse than 8.1. At least not enough so to fall back to it anyway. It doesn't really give me anything amazing over 8.1 though.

I should add that I am not a Windows Store app user. I fucking hate how bland and limited most store apps are. There is no simple way to store app settings in a transportable way such as an ini file on a pen drive, for that you need to stick with old Win32 portable apps. For a tech professional/power user store apps are horrible.
Nowhere near 95% of the web; I can attest to this because I disable JS on my default phone browser, and it speeds up everything massively.

Something may be broken on 95% of web pages (e.g. commenting or menus), but the main bit of the web - rendering hypertext and following links - mostly works.

Web applications less so, of course. But I don't think they're 95% of the web.
Nope! I only use Mac and Linux.
Harvard Business School really has created the classroom of the future
What's the "hack"?
A Git hook that does your timesheets
Ghost was one of the most disingenuous kickstarters I've ever seen: the features that got people excited got cut pretty much right away, showing that the team was never serious about it. The blog itself came to light with some heinous overlooked areas in the user management, stuff that nobody has any right to get wrong in this day and age.

My personal opinion after being a user for a while is that we need less of this kind of projects (a LOT less) and more quality software.
it will encourage people and won't increase much safety. on a straight road yes. on a road with lot of turns even a truck won't be abble to see a car coming before the back driver engage
> If you deny the existence of the second group, you also have to deny that there are biological differences between sexes (apart from reproductive organs), at which point I'd suggest going outside and taking a look around.

I don't deny the existence of the second group, but you'd have to prove that those biases are somehow justified, which is a hard task because there are very few completely universal and immutable biases (or at least biases that change at the same temporal and spatial pace as biology). So, in short, that seems to comprise of a very small, very insignificant, set of social biases.

> My issue with the way gender equality is currently discussed is that people deny the existence of biological differences and their consequences, treating everything as baseless cultural bias that needs to be conquered.

That's not how it's discussed. It's just that there is very little evidence that biological differences are a significant cause of the great power inequality we see in society between the sexes and among the races, and a lot of evidence to suggest that mutable social biases are by far the dominant cause. So there's very little reason to talk about the biological differences if so far they've not been shown to be too pertinent to the discussion of inequality.

> Which happens equally on both sides of the issue, and that makes the whole topic toxic.

But there is a big knowledge gap. Those in favor of feminism, while not immune from assholishness -- at least have decades of study to at least support the premise of their position, while those against have just their own personal feelings on the matter.

> they have to agree with observable reality - otherwise, they're just results of crap research.

They do.

> I've never personally seen being invoked, by either side

They're invoked often by the only side that has them. Most government policy choices refer at some point in their inception to academic studies.

> Given the state of psychology and social sciences, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest (and no, I don't approve or criticize research based on wich side it supports, I view all soft science research with very strong suspicion).

Suspicion is good, and it is quite probable that many specific findings are questionable, but when you're confronted with such a huge body of evidence -- from history, sociology, anthropology and psychology -- you must admit that it accounts to much more than a gut feeling (which is what the other side base their arguments on).
The great thing about (at least the Swedish) 2+1 roads is that not only do you avoid accidents with oncoming traffic when overtaking, but since you can now put a railing in the middle, you also avoid accidental head-on collisions. Which is one of the surest ways to die in a car.

I'm not sure if it's pragmatic from an economic perspective, but it is from an engineering one.

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.safestates.org/resource/resmgr/...

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/roadsafe/unda/Swede...

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/11/the-swedish-approach-...
It's hard to get a balanced nutrition on a bush diet for two main reasons:

0. Lack of nutrition understanding: what are/where to get essential nutrients.

1. Nutrition-balanced foods in the middle of nowhere may be nonexistent or difficult to acquire.
The question asked about viruses, not malware.
This is not a lot of oppressed people standing up for their civil rights.
The issue is very different than that. More over, the size of crowd is way to large for the law enforcement to handle swiftly.

This is not a flashpoint event, huge number of people were mobilized from the neighboring states for the main rally that took place before the violence broke. (the number of people gathered there were more than 100K, and this will a very conservative estimate)

In such a politically charged environment, the spamming ease becomes a real threat to the law and order, and above all, to human lives.

I would very much like the system to evolve, but not at the expense of innocent lives.
Sony tests 'superfast' commercial drone
Judo focused on making a very safe art that could be applied full-intensity in a sporting context.

Just to be clear, Judo was created by taking only those parts of Jujitsu that could be actually practiced at full power and strength. It wasn't about creating a sporting variant.
Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Reduces Considerable Costs
Universe for iPhone 1.0 released – A native iPhone app for Sakai eLearning
India now has an airport completely powered by solar energy
Security Threats in the Mobile World
Just happened to be near my thumb and index finger :)
I guess you're implying that all those packages out there aren't as poorly-written as it would be if someone wrote it themselves? Have you actually looked through some of those packages published on npm and depended on by huge projects?
Content blocking in iOS 9 is going to screw up way more than just ads