skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it has as much to do with parents paying for college as it does the fact that it's an almost-requirement to have a parent paving the way for the vast majority of kids to make it into a Stanford. Normal human beings don't exhibit the level of dedication required, but parents know they can set their kids up for life if they remove a lot of the obstacles. It's not surprising to me that pattern doesn't stop.
Not sure where 50% is pulled from, however, Erlang is currently used in some of Ericsson's flagship telco. products (along with other programming languges). About 50% of Ericsson SGSN-MME is written in Erlang (control plane), the rest being C++. Also Erlang is extensively used by the Ericsson RAN products (RBS 6000 family). This is for GSM, WCDMA, and LTE. People sometimes bring into discussion the AXE (AXD301) and how this was the only Ericsson product that used Erlang (I have seen "stillbirth" associated with Erlang due to this), however, this is not true and Ericsson still use Erlang today in a lot of products, both in production and for testing purposes. I believe the main distinction was that AXE was (almost) entirely programmed with Erlang as opposed to the products above which use Erlang for what it shines at and other languages for drivers, etc.

All the information above is public information that I have collected from various sources around the web. First source that comes to mind is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyiSYHfESX4
Ask HN: Freelancers outside US and EU. How do you find quality clients?
I'm from Tunisia and I have been a freelance developer for about 6 years now. I get clients mainly from Upwork (oDesk). My hourly rate went like this:

2010-2013 $16/hr

2013-2015 $20/hr - $24/hr (with some occasional $30/hr jobs).

My ideal hourly rate is between $30/hr to $40. But I have been struggling for more than a year to find clients with that rate without success. I have more than 5500 hours worked on Upwork and 100% job success rate and earned the Top Web Developers badge, so I'm not sure where the problem is. I also have good English communication.

I thought it may be because of the drop in quality of jobs posted on Upwork in the last couple of years so I tried other ways including AngleList, Monthly HN Freelancer posts but still no luck.

Now it seems obvious to me that the best tech jobs prefers that the developer lives in US even if the job is remote. Am I right? Any guidance or help is appreciated.

Thanks
Sitting for long periods doesn’t make death more imminent
Scientists Who Pee Plutonium
Or at any point in history. If something has value, people with interest and power will seek it out.
CFEngine also provides a scheduling capability that can be used in conjunction with other factors using boolean expressions. Something like "Run at midnight on Saturday if you are a production linux server." The splaytime parameter can spread out the execution of a command across a cluster based on its name hash.
> The key to Andre the Giant is this — even as a youth he knew that his disease would dramatically shorten his life. He knew there was no cure, and lived every day with the understanding that death could shamble around the very next corner. Knowledge of this sort can darken a life.
Yes, especially when they seem to affect their applications.

Automatic updates are easy (mostly). Healthy software and vulnerability management that doesn't damage productivity needlessly can be a lot of work. What do you test?

The classic simplified use case for this is Java runtimes:
Your organization needs:
a) A specific Java version to run a critical application
b) Not to have workstations compromised though weak Java versions.

As a technology and security professional in this space your objective is to meet both of these goals. As the application developer you may have totally different goals (release date, market share, sales, renewals) and may not have these on your map at all...
I believe there are two different things at work here. One is being an active parent and the other is helping your child develop grit[1] and I don't think they are mutually exclusive.

At what age can I let my child walk to school by himself? It all depends on the child, neighborhood, and other characteristics. But if my son never walks to school by himself (elementary and middle), that doesn't mean he is going to fail in the face of adversity.

Grit is about not saying "good job" all the time and instead saying thing like "you worked hard". You need to teach your children to embrace failure as the best way to learn.

I see this in myself. I walked to school by myself, wasn't really helicopter parented, but found school very easy and breezed through everything and was never challenged. When I faced real challenges, I had a hard time learning how to overcome them.

I don't know what kind of parent I will end up being, my son is only 3, but I can see myself being very involved in his life and decisions and making sure he is safe. It will be hard to balance between being involved and being a helicopter, but I think helping him embrace failure is the greatest thing I can do.

[1] http://mindsetonline.com/abouttheauthor/ - It is ironic that the leading researcher in this field is at Stanford.
You just tried to spin a cultural issue (that is, by the way, highly tied to liberal thought) to support your liberal political agenda. These helicopter parents are the same people that protest when their kids don't get a trophy for losing a soccer game. The "no child left behind" / "no hurt feelings" / "safe place" crew. To say that more of their ideas will help to solve the very issue that they created is simply laughable.

I don't disagree with you that competition for admission and cost of tuition probably do have some effect on this issue. But those effects have always existed in the higher education system and only more recently has this issue popped up. This isn't an issue of politics or economics. This is an issue of culture and parenting philosophy. Not everything can be solved with a Bernie Sanders bill. Some things require actual introspection on an individual level. Some things require a criticism of our own thoughts and ideas.
Who is upvoting this garbage. Come on hacker news!
> That was more relevant when XHTML was still vying to be the future of markup on the web.

Unfortunately many interviewers still ask these types of questions even if it's no longer relevant.
if "strong" applicant is defined by things that are not possible unless they have an helicopter parent it is fairly binary...

What teen would be able to have the breadth and variety of experiences that seem to be required nowadays to stand out in a university application unless they have a set of parents that make them possible?
The magic kernel
If there's a way to edit boxes/lines once you draw them to address kgen's point, I've never been able to figure it out in asciiflow.
MIPS is a good choice here because the relatively small transistor count means it can be produced in a larger process, which gives better resistance to radiation.
Indeed I did!
Dealing with the problem of passwords
That is the correct answer.
Google's business is to crawl all websites, but they IP block crawlers from their website. IP rotation is a solution to crawl such hypocrites.
Flask-KVSession
Because it's really easy, indexed and the Constitution doesn't make it clearly illegal.
> These helicopter parents are the same people that protest when their kids don't get a trophy for losing a soccer game

Facts not in evidence.

> The "no child left behind" / "no hurt feelings" / "safe place" crew.

No child left behind was a Republican (conservative) initiative.
> This change now sharpens the difference between our campaign and the others.

Not really. Now he's just yet another candidate who has an issue they talk about more than the others. For Trump, it's immigration. For Sanders, it's wealth inequality.

Except he's a fringe candidate talking about an abstract issue which most people don't actually care about that much.
you can use a service like Abine's Blur to signup, pay with a proxy credit card that never reveals your identity and pseudoynm and effectively be "anonymous". More here:
https://www.abine.com/blog/2013/23andme-without-violating-yo...
On a tangent, how do you feel about Tesla doing OTA updates for core functionality on their cars? Stuff like "autopilot" and whatnot.
In a study from Sweden a few years ago, it showed that women and men report essentially equal amount of violence in the home, which throws a big wrench into the perception of women as the perpetual victim and men as the perpetual aggressor.

But even more interestingly the study showed that men and women choose different method in physical violence, and that has a major impact on injures. Men favors unarmed methods by the use of their hands, while women favor knives or improvised weapons. In average the unarmed method cause more often damage which need the attention of medical help, while armed combat during domestic violence causes more damage in those rare instances where medical help was needed. The explanation for this is that combat with improvised weapons is simply harder to do than unarmed.
The idea that "today's youth" are more fragile than the youth of yore seems to be a growing meme. I do believe that there is a rise in mental health issues among young adults, but there are many potentially interacting causes. I haven't read the book in question, but I hope that anyone who tackles this subject addresses all the possibly relevant social phenomena before pinning it all on one root cause. Some things I hope would be factored in are:

- The tightening economic climate and increasing difficulty of staying in the middle class. Especially when it relates to the panoply of difficulties young people face: student debt, high cost of housing, the gateway of unpaid internships, the declining number of professions that can support a middle class existence, the clustering of opportunity in a few high-cost urban areas to the detriment of the rest.

- All the new systemic and political sources of anxiety - climate change, destabilizing politics in North America and Europe, mass migration, ambiguous wars, extremism, etc.

- Increasing diagnosis of mental health issues and occasional pathologization of everyday troubles.

- Decreasing stigma of mental health issues resulting in more young people seeking help.

- Weakening of existing family structures and modes of monogamous relationships, along with the appearance of a multitude of new family and relationship structures.

- "Helicopter parenting".

- The decline of the "traditional job" and all the security that came with it.

- All the various information overloads, distractions, and paradoxes of choice that come with the internet.

I'm sure there are plenty of things that could be added to this list. But generally, I think we are exiting a period of relative postwar stability and returning to a more chaotic status quo. But now a majority of people of all socioeconomic brackets yearn for a middle-class existence, and without the support of old rigid-but-secure (for some) social structures. The millennials-and-forward generations are going to manifest the stress of all these things in many, frequently-unexpected ways. Pinning it all on "helicopter parenting," IMO, is cruel and facile.

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Now I know to ask about goroutine leaks next time my colleague who loves Go talks about how bad space leaks are in Haskell :P
Polymorphic AutoIt string and file encryption
It's a good idea, but I don't see how the details work.

Would the government give out money to anyone who ran? How do you stop someone from using the funds for an election campaign that is indistinguishable from an audition for FoxNews or MSNBC contributor? No matter what the bar is for funding, the government would be picking winners and losers, right?

Would you ban private donations to campaigns? What about private speech that advocates for a candidate?

I'm not sure what that public money buys us that other regulations couldn't do better.

If we're worried about getting information to voters, requiring all public debates be in the public domain and posted in standard web formats seems like a sensible first step.
Bespoke.js: DIY Presentation Micro-Framework
You know what. Those parents got those kids into Stanford.
Obviously helicopter parenting is working for them.

90% of the decisions people make are based on the environments they are in. Today's environment is extremely competitive and the margin for error is lower. Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista... Get them into Stanford, then they have the rest of their life to "fail"
The Lonely Death of George Bell
If memory serves, the Democrats had the POTUS, the House, and the Senate in complete control for 2 years. Didn't get anything done.

I may be incorrect about this, was a while ago.
As your system becomes a zombie on some bot-net.
"Liberal political agenda" and "Bernie Sanders bill" in the same comment. I also learned NCLB is an integral part of liberal thought. Truly a better detachment of semiotics from words has never been foisted.

The butchering of the English language done by U.S. pundits after the New Deal era to redefine liberalism (or, really, to eradicate all meaning out of it) is unfortunately spreading all across the globe thanks to the web.
The difference is that for their new features like autopilot, you actually pay for the upgrade like DLC.
When I was writing lots of C, I found that unit testing wasn't able to test for the things that I really wanted. Looking back, I think adding -fsanitize=undefined or similar to the compiler options for my test suite would have gotten me much closer to where I'd liked to have been.
Even the idea that Iraqis tried to topple the statue at all (and then the US "helped") is highly controversial. (That's how CNN portrayed it at the time.)

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

If you look how the image is framed (especially in the Fox coverage) the framing cuts out or de-emphasizes the vehicle while emphasizing the (quite small) Iraqi crowd. The accompanying commentary is all about the crowd throwing stuff (they seem to be standing around, mostly). And the later coverage definitely emphasized the Iraqis pulling down the status with US help, not (say) the US pulling down the statue while Iraqi's mostly watched.
Yeah, just not in the actual history of science. Take the discovery of LSD for one.
>So, if you don't start to treat until there are symptoms, you could kill the fungus and at best, the person would not get worse. Which is not to be dismissed, but..

It's "not to dismissed"? It's the difference between life and death!
You're making a distinction that, if you were to actually explain it in a way that makes sense, would reveal a much more relevant solution to this problem.

What's the difference between a machine scraper and a human scraper? Humans use machines to access websites. All your users are machines. And behind every machine is a human.

If you don't want someone to access all your data in a short time-frame, then don't give it all away in a short time-frame.
A driver? Well, I think a better comparison would be to watchmaking or other crafts that require deep understanding and great attention to details.
Something else. The cron service is a one hit wonder. All it does is schedule. It places responsibility for handling output and setting semaphores for use by other applications to the person who wrote the command called by cron. You can't really blame cron if the command/script doesn't do these things. You just need to look to another type of scheduler/batch facility that provides a richer feature set for handling workflow, monitoring and reporting.
Up until 2013 or so, I was always a PC guy. I wanted to be a PC guy. But Microsoft did, and continues to do, everything in their power to change my mind about that. I still have one old laptop running Windows 7, the instant they force-upgrade that is the instant I bid adieu to the last remnant of Microsoft in my home computing life.
Things like socialising, a completely novel invention of the 21st century.
They got FDA clearance for JUST ONE test, the herpes one. It's not clear if it'll work for the many hundred others, as Theranos has suggested it can.
> your liberal political agenda

> protest when their kids don't get a trophy for losing a soccer game

It's great to respectfully debate across an ideological divide, but these kinds of propogandistic catch phrases immediately flag your comment as "looking for an internet food-fight" and shut down any thoughtful discussion before it starts.
That was my thought as well. The parents are making the rational decision that they can't afford their kids to fail, so they take every measure to make sure they get to a good start. A good start in this case meaning getting admitted to Stanford. It might have something to do with low-qualification jobs disappearing, which in turn means you have to have a college degree to be self-sufficient.

Once upon a time, you could be on your own when you were as young as 12 (yes, I mean ancient times). Not too long ago you needed only high school education to get a good job, so you're staying with your parents until 16-18. Now you need college.
What does /s mean?
If you can write a scraper which performs against any real world data, your new rate is $100 per hour [+]. Your first month you spend 140 hours of pounding the virtual pavement looking for clients outside of the markets for lemons that are the freelancing sites. You spend 20 hours on delivery. Now you have the same $2k that you'd have if you killed yourself working on PayPeanutsGetMonkeys.com and you have the nascent beginnings of an actual freelancing business -- a pipeline, people who are interested in working with you but might not have a project at the moment, a happy client who you can do additional work for and solicit for introductions to peers, etc. Three months later you're at 70% utilization and you start working up your rates.

And yes, this works from the Philippines almost exactly as well as it works from Gifu. There a mere one hour off each other and there is no social advantage that the Japanese engineering community gives you that you cannot trivially duplicate from any cafe in southeast Asia with reliable Internet.

[ + ] Journeyman rates for programming work, trivially paid by a variety of businesses across the first world capable of hiring professionals. This is far under the going rate for people whose primary skill is writing concisely threatening letters, for example.
According to this, they are being forced to seek FDA approval as well as go under review from other regulatory bodies:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hot-startup-theranos-dials-back-...

I say forced because you made it sound like they had gone out of their way to seek approval when actually they were not.
This "free" upgrade is currently disabled on "Pro" Versions of Windows.

If anything like this happens on those versions a lot of business might get into trouble.
I welcome anything that encourages computer science skills in children but this is stretching it just a bit. You'd probably learn more about cause-and-effect by playing a game of SimCity.
Here if you're asked to register after reading part 1.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4rknDaG...
He said "within 10-20% of the machines RAM", i.e., utilizing 80-90% of the machine's RAM, without exceeding it.
Optical Computer Prototype
I see you conspicuously do not address point 2 (which, by the way, is also buttressed by eyewitness testimony that Pakistani plain-clothes security showed up before the raid and told people to keep clear, etc.)

Your suggestion that all the radar was merely pointed in the wrong direction is ridiculous.

"You need to account for human nature, military bureaucracy and never attributing to malice what can be explained by incompetence"

But this is specifically addressed in the article. The Pakistanis frequently explain inconvenient facts as incompetence.
Speaking of which, using the term "PC" to describe x86 Windows machines somewhat compatible with IBM PC standards (a.k.a. "Wintel") desperately needs to die.
As someone with children and living in NY, my wife and I are very aware of not trying to push our kids in a specific direction or to interfeer too much if they are having trouble solving something themselves.

The problem once we start coaching our kids in an early age is that we are denying them to find a lot of subtle things out on their own.

It's very easy to think you are helping your kids to learn by removing what seem like unnecessary obstacles and of course sometimes you are. But a lot of the time it's those obstacles that build some sort of character in the kids and allow them to find out things by finding out things. By being too proactive as a parent we can take a lot of motivation away from them.

Our kids have bruises all over their body because they are allowed to do things other kids aren't. Of course we watch over them and make sure they don't do completely crazy things but they are capable of much more than one might think. By allowing them to find that out they will hopefully learn that themselves too.

Raising kids isn't a science it's an art. The art of creating a canvas for them but not decide what they want to do with it.

I think this comic shows one of the big differences between our parents generation and ours (I am 41)

I am always reminded of this http://i.imgur.com/LglSapk.jpg
What we know about Jack Dorsey's third company West Studios LLC
Yes. Constitutional amendments require two kinds of super-majorities just for this reason. Even if technically an individual mandate didn't require a constitutional amendment (I believe it did), the spirit of the amendment process indicates that you should get 2/3 support to propose and 3/4 support to ratify fundamental changes to our government.
But what if all campaigns for office were funded with public money instead of private money?

Then the game changes to who gets allocated said public money. Can't see how that wouldn't entrench the establishment a zillion times more. Note Trump's effectiveness because he can ignore the Republican Party donor class riot, which is in stark opposition to the majority of the party's base.

For those eeeevil people who nonetheless managed to get some, prosecuting them for not following one of the zillions of non-statutory but still the force of law rules they will inevitably break. Using another example of fighting gun control (because I know the most about how this has played out since the early '70s), here's just one notorious example of how that "works" http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/cac-info.htm (note, that's from a very partisan group, not the milquetoast NRA). That's sort of thing is also happening in Connecticut right now post-Sandy Hook.

Ah, and a useful analogy from fighting gun control: a lot of the laws in place and proposed are, as Michael Bane put it, "flypaper laws", designed to trap the unwary in "crimes" entirely lacking in mens rea or any actual good public policy results, resulting in a chilling effect on Constitutionally protected actions.

Same exact thing here, "campaign reforms" by the goo-goos, especially financial ones, have a greater chilling effect on genuine citizen grassroots actions. You have to hire really good legal council, and surprise, surprise, pretty much all those lawyers are already retained by the existing political parties and their units. And even then we see atrocities like the political prosecutions of Tom Delay and Ted Stevens, eventually reversed by higher courts but not before accomplishing the mission of removing them from politics.
Why I am building a company that will last longer than me
Disturbing that this is what the US foreign policy does for over half a century, Stratfor aside.
I wonder if the license allows this. "We can arbitrarily change the OS version that you are running."

Since you bought (a license) for Windows 7, I would think if Windows 10 degrades your experience sufficiently, you might prevail in small claims court.
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