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Same here. About twenty years. Started programming with emacs and cvs on DEC Ultrix machines. Learned UNIX the hard way. Good old Dave sitting in the corner, hacking away on imake, and when asked about something answered "Try man something. Don't know what man is? Try man man".

Been on and off with emacs, but never really got into elisp. Only after having to learn Scheme/Racket for a Fluxus project, I read elisp with different eyes now. Really whish I got into Lisp earlier.
"You will need a product key.."

Isn't the update feee if you have bought Win8.1?
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It can be quite significant. Authors' letters to their editors and the like often turn out to be important sources to later literary scholarship. Now, this might be somewhat less of an issue for the most modern authors, now that so much more stuff is written down, but for a notoriously secretive author like Thomas Pynchon for example any letter is likely to contain invaluable information.
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Every principal's office should have a instant open (biometric and push button pattern, as well as slower methods) safe with a few easy to use carbines (short rifles) with optical sights.

To take one of many examples, yet another autistic shooter who seems to fit at least some of the patterns in this, the administrators and teachers at Sandy Hook were entirely willing to die to protect their charges (per the official story). Which did neither of those groups any good.

Somehow, though, this sort of thing is "unthinkable". Just as school shootings were unthinkable in my father's days, when in the late '40s/early '50s lots of kids took a gun to school and stored it in their locker, to save an extra trip for before or after school hunting. Only a few years younger than my father Supreme Court Justice Scalia related in the Heller oral arguments that he would carry his .22 target rifle on the NYC subways to and from the range.

Various things have changed since then, and in this area nothing good.
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Voting for the corrupt does nothing but legitimizes the process. Only money matters.

Come up with a real solution because voting isn't it and I'm sick of hearing the same faulty advice.
How are the customers going to pay revenue if they're unemployed...
Could data breaches be reduced with blockchain technology like Storj?
I mean, both of those get things right. XAML/WPF tries to make the interface cleanly human editable in code, but is incredibly verbose, and the "can be human editable" constraint ends up being "is only human editable" pretty quickly. Interface Builder is a lot more intuitive and powerful, but it's more of an all-or-nothing affair, in my opinion.

Beyond that, though, they have way more in common than they do different. I'm not sure it makes sense to talk of one of them as a better model than the other, versus maybe a better implementation of the same workflow.
This is really nice.

Were the video's created using the GX7 time lapse feature?
Russian soldiers on vacation also borrowed surface to air missiles?
Solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

It's been done. It worked. Do it again.
Well, first of all, these kinds of things are really just insider baseball, aren't they? I don't think most readers of magazines are interested in or knowledgeable about the portfolio of the magazine publisher. So the influence is primarily on people involved in the industry. But secondly, as the other commenter points out, being associated with The New Yorker is something that just about any journalistic enterprise would die for.

I suspect the web will eventually cannibalize GQ (not because it's bad, but because it's not specific enough), but The New Yorker will outlive us all.
That was a very interesting and long discussion that you linked to in the second link, in this day and age it was quite refreshing to read an adult and polite debate where disagreements were discussed without resorting to name-calling and insults.

Emacs being such an important part of the FSF it makes a lot of sense that its maintainer should be conscious of this fact and prioritize it accordingly, even if sometimes that means not making Emacs as good as it could be (see the clang/gcc discussion in the linked thread).
You mean something like BelleSF? That mag has art too. I dunno. It's like a whole couple of generation shifts they're dealing with.
They also have an open DSL modem and two previous versions of their router (Turris 1.0/1.1).[0]

[0] https://www.turris.cz/en/hardware
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This is from 1827 days ago (>4 years)

A more recent (only 2 years) unofficial report is http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
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The good resume (and I read the comment re: "good resume = qualifications and not just a nice document") is where your argument falls a bit short. Make the recruiter/HR/hirer's job easy for them. Assume they are unintelligent, and don't give them an opportunity to misinterpret your background.

The resume is a single piece of the process. For me to open a resume, first I have to open an email. How long does it take to write a couple sentences to make me want to open your attachment/link?

Then on the resume itself: write a summary. Don't make a recruiter (who 6 months ago was a "struggling unemployed kid who took the first job offered") try to interpret that you are an experienced $LANGUAGE developer with n years of this and that. Come out and tell them exactly what they want/need to know in order to make the decision.

We generally have underqualified people reviewing resumes for companies (agency recruiters, HR, admins at startups). Don't give them an opportunity to mess up. The job says they want a "Python dev with >5 years and some experience with Django"? Tell them exactly that in a sentence in the email, and again as a summary statement on top of the resume.

This isn't 10x effort. It's minimal. It's the hiring company's fault whenever someone qualified doesn't make it into the interview. My philosophy to my resume clients is "don't let HR screw you over - hit them over the head with your qualifications and they can't say no".
I am just going to say: have a try with the LDBC social benchmark http://ldbcouncil.org/ and http://ldbcouncil.org/benchmarks. Where you can even have audited results.

These are also graph database benchmarks that are synthetic, designed to look like real data and are quite hard to do well on.

As someone responsible for a public free to use deployment of a graph database with more than 2 billion nodes and 15 billion edges (sparql.uniprot.org) I must say this looks like a SPARQL benchmark from 10 years ago.
And Special Collections libraries the world over employ students doing exactly that. I was one of them. :) I led this project (at UVA) for a couple of years, digitizing both manuscripts and first editions of Walt Whitman's works. It was fulfilling work as a student, and interesting.

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Nice find on the patent.

> So, what this product needs in order to work is a fiber that's durable enough to survive being dragged across skin while having very little cladding so as to allow evanescent coupling.

Facial hairs are alleged to be of similar toughness to copper wire when dry (see [0], too lazy to find a better reference). I have a difficult time conceiving how one could drag a multimode fiber across one's face without abrading the fiber to the point of failure.

> Second, they need to pack a high power multi-wavelength laser source and the power reserve to run it into a very tiny handle.

What is even trickier is incorporating a cooling mechanism for the theoretical self-contained, handheld, high-power, battery-powered white laser.

> There's nothing here that looks outright impossible to me. Just very, very tricky.

If it were not self-contained in a handheld unit, then yes, maybe it would be possible. I'm going to say that the their device, based on the proposed renderings, is impossible even if one were to throw Apple's war chest of money at it. There are also the problems of eye safety, skin exposure, heat, and fumes that remain to be overcome.

[0] http://www.economist.com/node/2281888
at the moment we dont. We're not sure the best way to verify information with user input at the moment. What do you think is the best way to ensure accurate information is being given. Public sources are typically hard to verify outdated information even when pinging a server (catch all and all). If you want us to update your information specifically, send me an email to yourfriends@legionanalytics.com and I'll see what I can do for you ^_^
Not exactly. Cosmic JS is a flexible, platform-agnostic cloud-hosted CMS, whereas the one you linked to is installed and locked into Node / MongoDB.
We honestly did not intend for this to be spam. I completely understand your point about this being a place for sharing code and processes.

Our intention is to get feedback from you on the process we created. We are a tiny company (2 founders full time and that's it) with very few users.

What do you think we can change to make it be less spammy?

We are matching people using ML and image recognition all coded in Python. I saw the recent post about facial recognition on ShowHN and am looking into that now as well. Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
Lots of people have great ideas but most governments stifle small business with excessive relations and fees.
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>Sounds like job applicants have the same problem that men have in online dating - no feedback from 99% no matter how much effort you put in, so in the end spamming seems like the most effective strategy.

And the same problem recruiters have when they don't get responses from potential candidates. If you wonder why you get 50 emails a week on LinkedIn, it's the same thing.
Alternatively, let's rethink capitalism now that automation is taking over jobs. Maybe we all don't need to work so hard anymore.
"usage changes" which have been around since long before you were born. Are there other long-established regionalisms/dialects you have a bug up your butt about?

It might be pragmatic to care about the judgment of one's ignorant elders, when the ignorant have power over you, but in no other sense should one care about such opinions.
It's simply true that, barring disaster, the next generation will have it easier with more resources for cheaper. This is because worker productivity continues to rise.

More is produced with fewer hours worked. It's beyond me why it's taken as a given that the result should be a decreasing share of the number of people employed at a constant rate and an increase in the number of people unemployed, rather than say a decline in the number of hours worked per worker. It would be much better to shift to a 35-hour work week and hope everyone would edit Wikipedia or put on free musical performances with the extra time (or 40-hour weeks in the developing world), than shift another eighth of the population into poverty.
Yep. Have a separate process cache a few up and simply cp over the active one to be served as a big bag of immutable bits. Bonus points for using a CDN.
I agree that there are a million things we could do, but at the end of the day,somebody has to be interested enough to pay for them. That was always the harder issue.

But if you have ideas that fit that criteria, please share. We need such discussions.
So you're saying they were vindicated in all the bias investigations, yet they have a political agenda?

Every person has their own biases, but as an organization the BBC seems to be pretty unbiased. Certainly if you're comparing it to any Russian news source, there isn't really much of a comparison.
Credentialism in industry will still be a problem. But hopefully employers are starting to combat that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/09...
Unreal. A couple of years ago, I was smoking dope on my couch with my best friend and we came up with exactly this idea. It's so cool you're doing it! Something I've wondered about: How difficult is researching possible explanations? Scanning the data is easy, but (as you mention) those with "no apparent explanation" might be cataloged somewhere. Have you made any effort to track this data down? What are your results? Cool project!
I don't think anyone is arguing that there are natural laws of "it gets easier with each generation".

But you're right, the wealth distribution during the economic rebound from the last recession has shown that the problem is sociopolitical in nature. I feel like we're headed toward another organized labor reform sometime during the next decade, not unlike that from a century ago.
This has nothing to do with gender issues, sexuality issues, societal changes, or Internet ubiquity. This is simply a flailing attempt to get press for a moribund flagship publication that is likely dragging down a profitable brand. This is a money and marketing decision and nothing more. Like New Coke, I can foresee Playboy returning to nude photos with some huge star in a few years.
I majored in philosophy, albeit with mechanical engineering, and I'd say that my philosophy education has been much more helpful for my consulting career. True, my ME degree got me the initial interview -- but almost everyone who interviewed me was very interested why I decided to pursue philosophy.
Show HN: The game is corporate chess. Avoid being checkmated. (Google Play)
22 for me. Damn I suddenly feel old.
While the exact output options aren't immediately visible, the Imgur site says that Graphviz was used, in the tree layout, and a force directed layout (probably sfdp).
That depends. I have seen a some acquisitions where the CEO of public company wants to go private and delist and a lot smaller firm buys him out using debt. Not on such scale though.
Also, please don't say that I don't know what those things are; I've spent more than a decade on each platform as developer/administrator and deal with both all the time. One of my first jobs was writing macros for Word in VBScript in the 90s.
I got my undergrad degrees in mechanical engineering and philosophy. I'd say the philosophy degree was for sure worthwhile for my life and career.
It's different this time. To do many things today(say like repair infrastructure) , the bottle neck is capital costs, not labor.
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The Internet may have provided the final blow, but it wasn't what killed Playboy. What killed Playboy was success.

The first issue of Playboy hit the stands in December of 1953. The magazine espoused a philosophy that was pretty radical for that time, namely that sex was not just not bad but actually good and fun and something everyone should be doing. It was "sex-positive" in a time when literally nothing else in the culture was.

This boldness served them well from the '50s to the mid-'60s, as the rest of the culture slowly started to come around to the same point of view. The problem is that by the late '60s the culture had reached the same point that Playboy had, and it didn't stop there -- sexual liberation kept galloping on, reaching points that were far beyond anything Playboy had ever advocated for. By the early '70s, for instance, American culture was so saturated with sex that pornography was just another part of the cultural landscape (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Porn). Playboy had agitated against the censorship laws that had kept such films out of general circulation; but when those laws disappeared, it had nothing to say about the results.

Playboy, in other words, eventually got lapped by the changes it helped to create. The culture galloped along, but the magazine didn't do anything to keep up, so its relevance slipped and eventually tumbled. It was still selling a Mad Men view of sexuality in a world where divorce and cohabitation and premarital sex had all become part of everyday life. In the 1950s, Playboy was daring and edgy; by the 1970s, it was positively quaint. And while porn can be a lot of things, one thing it can't be is quaint. Nobody ever got turned on by something that was 100% safe, 100% familiar.

So Playboy started dying way back then, when it gave up its claim on cultural relevance, and the story of the decades since has just been the slow playing out of the inevitable.
Thumbs up to this. My son did a pinewood derby when we were living on the peninsula and many (if not most) of the cars looked like they could only have been made by an adult. Not just like an adult helped, like everything was too polished to be made by a kid of the appropriate age. It just misses the point.
I have real trouble believing a competent developer can't find a job developing native iOS apps in this job market.
Who knows, maybe communism might actually work today. Technology and automation might be the key.
It'a also worth noticing that laser hair removal usually does not actually destroy the hair its self, it still has to fall out on its own. A laser that actually cut the physical hairs would probably have to be even higher energy than typical laser hair removal which is already not safe for home use.
Stefan has always seemed fantastic. Thanks very much!

The thread makes hilarious reading for those who don't care so much about the FSF's ideals. E.g.

> The liberation effort of the soviets died from these kind of treatment.
I appreciate the odds, but I'd hope the numbers would be better for both (we're talking chances of interview here). I usually expect candidates who are applying to jobs they are mostly or entirely qualified for will get response rates well above that (perhaps 40%), but that's only based on anecdotal evidence from my industry experience over the past ~20 years.
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That holds until the cross-over point where the unemployed half is larger than the employed one.

Note that most unemployment statistics define unemployment as a subset of the whole population that both has no job and is not actively seeking one. That last criteria is rarely as objective as the first one.

In Greece, unemployment is currently 25% or so. 48.6% for 18-25.

There were 3,644,000 employed individuals as of july 2015. For a total population close to 10.8m. Employed people are far from the "largest half."

For the US, from the same source (all number Sep 2015), the numbers are:

Unemployment: 5.1% (Youth: 11%)
148,800,000 employed individuals out of 319m population... So 160+m people are not seeking work either because they're kids, retired, unable to work, inmates or have given up.

Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/greece/unemployment-rate
I should've pointed the context: GUI.

Win32 is not unidirectional data flow. there is the API SetWindowLong to modify/update a component anywhere you like. It's used so widely everyone must've done it.
Thanks for spotting that! I'll sort it out.
"Nearly eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes did the math on economic growth and concluded that within a few generations—by the time his peers' great-grandchildren came of age in, say, the 2000's—the persistent economic problem of too-scarce resources and too-few goods would no longer bedevil a substantial portion of humanity. He was right—even in the midst of our current hard times, he is right." (2009) http://www.bradford-delong.com/2009/01/we-are-live-at-the-we...
I think the term we're working with here is "having a runway" -- An independent dev with a pile of money in the bank is in a very different situation from one who needs short-term profitability.
Wages, bills, rent, and taxation easily date back to classical times, and predate coinage (coinage being introduced in large part to make collecting taxes easier). Indeed, I believe the earliest writing that we've deciphered is an accounting bill or receipt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_21

"The airline had installed special lockers on the aircraft to store the corpses of any passengers that died en route, since the flight's routing over the Pacific Ocean and North Pole meant that there were few if any possible unscheduled stops"
Ah, I see. My apologies for misreading. But, alas, I have no magic answers. Except for the fact, I suppose, that there are no magic answer in general, and you may have to do something a bit spectacular if you want out, to prove to those outside that you can function outside. This is where programmers have it easy; it's really easy to get involved in an open source community or something, compared to a lot of the other people who can get stuck in Dilbert-land.
I don't even know how to begin to search for sources about "when in the late '40's/early '50s lots of kids took a gun to school and stored it in their locker..."

I'm not questioning your own validity, I'd just love to know how pervasive this was and where it was happening.

I was able to find references about Justice Scalia in the Heller arguments.
So what is the problem? You don't think if we had a culture more averse to violence and less access to firearms shootings would drop? I'm a firearm owner, but I'm not so blinded by politics to make the connection that little Johnny isn't gonna shoot up his class if he can't sneak the gun out of his dad's closet. I'm also not making the case that violent video games cause violence, but that we're so casual about it in our society that folks become a bit more willing to do harm. Some folks hear voices in their head, some folks are just filled with hatred for their fellow man. Writing everyone who has committed a crime of that degree off as crazy does neither the mentally ill nor our ability to understand them any good.
"In some hand wavy statistical sense, those old people you see bagging groceries probably would have been dead 50 years ago."

No, some proportion of them would have been dead between 0 and 3 years old (which is what brings down the life expectancy numbers dramatically) but 100 years ago those 50 year olds would still be living to 60, just like they do now.
Thats probably 10 lines of lisp ...
the sec filing says 8%
To be honest this is a "me too IA vs AI" kind of post. I upvoted to continue the discussion

Previous posts:

- AI vs IA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10373180

- Machines for thinking: Computers will get smarter, but with humans in charge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10324648
No you haven't: powershell isn't bash, WMI is much more then a /proc, and both VBScript and group policy are completely unrelated to SMB/CIFS.
I agree with your general assessment. I think one sane area for regulation is tracking large losers and having mechanisms to help addicts create self-enforcement (banning themselves effectively).

However, I think the mobile gaming industry is probably just as responsible in this way. Clash of clans has people spending 50k+ per year (outliers of course) on the game and also tries to trigger a similar gambling-style positive feeling. They also are some of the most effective mobile advertisers tracking individual customers all over the internet. Do you think these "whales" get enough control on how they're targeted by companies?
Except that was a short term fix. We need a long term century long solution.
One of the reasons I love playing Space Station 13 - you can do this ingame.
... and one line of perl.
Even if all this is workable I still don't see what's preventing the hair from being heated to the point it damages the surrounding tissue.
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