skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really see it. Yes, affluent people are the one that can afford to "whine". That's because you need a certain level of independence and education to be able to represent a position. Women have been "nice" throughout history. No one cared. Now they are outperforming men and the only reason we are talking about "sexism in tech" is because women are doing so well in many other fields.

The whole premise of the post seem to be that women should know their place. A woman overreacting over being felt up is "whining", while men have been punching people in face over petty things for decade. Some men hesitate to work with women. So? Women didn't have it easy in the past. Now men share the world with women and those that can't work with them won't have many opportunities.
Why do you think the two are mutually exclusive? I was under the impression that the NSA publishes security advisories all the time?
Why does a chemical engineer have more in common with an electrical engineer than a software engineer? The term engineer has been diluted ever since it first referred to people who made weapons for war.

Speaking of which, let's not pretend that everything an engineer makes is magically beneficial to society. Engineers have a hand in creating: low-quality garbage, harmful materials, weapons, sprawl, low-quality buildings, obesity, and on and on and on.
I feel like those who are good at letting their minds wander are also good at concentrating when the need arises.

I can knock out a feature in 3 weeks or in three hours. I could do 13 features in a week, if there were that many to do. My ability to get things done is limited not by my own time, but in my company's ability to put projects on my plate.

Letting my mind wander, even when I'm pretty busy, allows me to think about the context of my work and is a pretty clear force-multiplier.
I actually find myself reading the site considerably less because of this, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Please let me set a cookie to keep the desktop version!!
I guess I share author's sentiment quite a bit. Personally, I don't call myself an engineer even though I'm legally entitled to. Engineers build bridges and houses and space rockets. I just code some trivial stuff for a company.

When getting my engineering degree I actually felt proud. I even bought a safety helmet and wore it for my thesis defense, as a symbol. But just after getting the degree I came to the conclusion that my friend captured in words as: "If I'm an engineer, then I'm afraid to visit a doctor". That is, our (software) engineering titles were awarded for doing mostly simple shit (programming) any high-schooler could learn in his free time, and enduring academic bureaucracy for 3 years. We didn't feel proud of our skills.

Since then one of the things that fuel my drive to learn and improve in hardware-related skills and natural sciences is the feeling I need to at least learn something to make myself worthy of the title bestowed upon me.
Agreed, addressing the fact that it's a self fulfilling prophecy at this point is a whole other issue. If very few developers are professional engineers, even less new graduates can become one.
Meh on the degree. I've known quite a few people without degrees who can engineer rings around folks with those pieces of paper.

If there needs to be a test, make it like the Bar; you don't have to attend law school to pass (though it helps a lot!). Actually measure the thing being controlled or categorized.

[Licensing comes up every once in a while. The last time I looked at one of the licensing programs for software, it was about fifty percent EE. Really not sure what impedance and amplifier design have to do with writing software. Frankly, it looked like a politically motivated power grab by some folks who wanted to gatekeep the market. "Nice career you have there, bub; it 'ud be a mighty shame if something . . . happened to it, right?"].
I posted this 22h ago:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5930/deletable/hn.png

But it's showing up on the front page that I posted it 4h ago:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5930/deletable/hn-frontp...

The id is the same (10531322) so I'm guessing this is part of the "repost interesting stories that didn't get traction" experiment that HN is trying.

FWIW I didn't actually repost this a second time. Guessing the software or one of the mods has a "move this story back to the 'new' queue" feature if they think it should be given a second chance at frontpage glory.
Clearly unconstitutional according to whom?

It is valid to criticize the state secrets defense which keeps the NSA out of court – it's not valid to unilaterally decide what is and is not clearly unconstitutional.
So all resources are to be distributed from a central organization. Pray, who will be decide this? How will disputes will be solved when, inevitably, an armed group decides to use resources some other way?

Also, the whole point of leaving earth is leaving scarcity.
There are meteorites with gold, we can and we should mine them as we see fit.
I didn't follow this. How is the hyperloop related to space?
Also what exactly would it be a horrible expenditure of resources?
To play devil's advocate for a moment, I'm not sure that the paper is complete as it's described. The authors do a fairly straightforward statistical analysis on an openly-available dataset, and that's that. I see many reviewers asking the question, "yes, so what?" which is exactly the question that we should be asking as scientists.

To go back to basics: start with a theory or model, make a prediction based on that model, then test to see if that prediction is correct. In this work, the authors explicitly stay away from anything other than a hand-waving explanation of their results, and seem surprised that the reviewers keep asking them to "frame" their results in a broader context.

It would be as if Newton published an observation of fruit falling off a tree, and failed to mention gravity. An interesting observation, perhaps, but not an advancement of science.
How about NSA director lying to congress? America doesn't care
I can't see how arXiv helps with the outlined problems. The goal of publishing is getting a stamp of approval from your peers, which you can then bring to hiring or promotions committees to buttress your case. Arxiv merely helps you put your paper online, which I would argue is a trivial problem (and has been so since the personal university homepage was invented).
I do not remember watching this episode when I was kid. But it is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Yes. And many don't look like stereotypical homeless and have enough wealth to buy books. Thank you, I forgot about that explanation too.
Even now, I see a lot of parents/kids on weekends browsing/shopping in old style bookstores! There is a definite need. Good to see the offline stores coming back!
So, what are Lean Processes? Lean Processes are the antithesis of rigid BPM tools.

Here are the key concepts behind lean processes:

1) They are oriented towards knowledge workers (rather than I.T. employees or straight task workers).

2) They allow knowledge workers to start with simple discussions then progress towards goal-oriented discussions and finally lean processes. So, rather than starting with a fully formed abstract process, the idea is to start with examples, observe patterns and then rapidly iterate.

A related idea is to allow users to rapidly achieve Process-Problem fit. (This is analogous to the Product-Market fit concept from the Lean Startup methodology)

3) Zero-Code or Code-Later: The philosophy of Lean Processes is that knowledge workers need to be able to rapidly iterate on processes. Accordingly, anything that slows this iterative process down (such as requiring support from I.T.) is discouraged. To the extent that integration is required a code-later philosophy is implemented which allows a hardened process to be integrated with no interruption in the knowledge-worker flow.

4) Guidance and Support rather than Control: Traditional BPM is more geared towards a high-level of prescriptiveness and control. The Lean Process philosophy is that these types of processes are better handled by apps. Lean Processes are geared towards guidance and decision support. A related concept is that there is expected to be significant variation in processes and which requires a lean process system to be adaptive.

5) Communication and Collaboration are central to Lean Processes: Communication and collaboration need to be tightly integrated into the lean process.

6) Lean Processes span intra-business, B2B and B2C processes.
It's not a "front" for that... that's literally what it is.
> It's a curated collection of items available for immediate purchase. If that doesn't sound revolutionary, it's because it isn't! It's how stores have worked for decades now.

Saying "decades" seems pretty inaccurate. We rather speak about millenniums.
The only legal requirement is that cash be accepted as payment for debt (so a restaurant that gives you your check after you eat must accept it).
Depends on where you are. And even if globally or even regionally they aren't, in the US there's a history of legal and extralegal abuse of Chinese immigrants. And then go back and look at the way they have been represented in numerous movies and tv shows over the decades in the US. It's not a pretty picture.

Calling them a minority group may not be accurate, but there certainly is or was racism/nationalism/religionism targeted against them.
They're already selling Kindle and Fire devices in the store from what it looks like (presumably Echo as well).
Never experienced that, no. I guess I haven't bought anything twice from Square. I think that in places where Square might be used (that I'd be (food truck perhaps?)) I'm much more likely to go to cash as a first pay method. Amazon isn't the first place I've been that cash wasn't accepted (only the second I can recall off the top of my head, though), but I think it's supremely odd that I can't use legal tender to buy things. When a till can't break a $50 or $100 bill, that's understandable, but when a business refuses to deal with cash currency at all... well that's strange to me.
The problem is the use of which journal a paper is published in as a measure of the quality of the paper. Until moronic hiring and tenure committees use a better measure of research quality than the journal a paper is published in then these sub-optimal practices will continue.
Well, should OP had asked "What general advice do you have for someone in their 20's I might have taken studies and their data into account."

My advice to myself in my 20's to avoid dating is based out of how much I've fucked up, having no mentorship and poor instincts in that area. If it helps understanding.
>Well... As the guy that did all of that let me tell you: it's futile

Wait what? you're Snowden?
I do note the amount of containers that start off by installing gcc, make, autoconf et al, use that to building something, and then just bundle all that into the container.
I wonder if this is just a temporary phase in the store format ,and the next format will include an on-demand book printing machine and some nice way have the shopping experience around it ?
Any chance python could be a first class citizen here, or are we looking at more compile-able languages?
This is awesome—I use Mou right now, but going to try switching to this for a while.

This really highlights the need to create some sort of shared library from Electron's core, though. I've probably got a half dozen copies of Chromium bundled into various apps now!
Funny that you should mention Marshall McLuhan, because the TPP changes to Copyright law in Canada would mean his works don't enter the public domain for another 20 years, which would be a shame.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/11/official-release-of-tpp-t...
Ufo Sighting- Navy tell the truth or not?
It's your (our) generation that will be trashing the next one in the press now. Standard conflict-of-generations stuff.
Add Hyperlink to PDF TextSegment and Better Support for HTML5 inside .NET Apps
Stuff like handicapped access, fire escapes, sprinkler systems etc. can be eschewed from the grey area apodments fall into. Because each unit doesn't have a full kitchen it's not classified the same way as a normal apartment so they can skirt a lot of regulations.
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/heartbleed-in-rust

I tried writing my own commentary to go with the link, but I decided that it would just be a bad paraphrasing of tedunangst's writing.
I think java apps failed to achieve more mainly because they didn't have decent access to the DOM, and the HTML rendering engine that goes with it.

IMHO that's the killer app of the browser... for all it's faults, the HTML+CSS rendering engine is a superior UI description api than anything previously devised.

I remember the brief period I wrote some java apps. The main pain was choosing between rendering a native java gui, or establishing hooks to have it instrument an html interface from behind the scenes. The native gui had better connection to the code... whereas using the DOM was insanely flexible, but talking to the DOM was like trying to drive a car by reaching through the tailpipe.

That I think is why java apps never prospered (outside of the whole "loading" issue... which could have been optimized away if the motivation was there).

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JS currently has the best of both worlds, and not because of anything native to the language (though it does have many positive points).

I feel like WebAssembly, and things like PyPy.js, are a step in the right direction. Making the DOM and HTML+CSS just another ui library available to the language of the moment. Having PyPy.js is great, because (I assume) where PyPy's python goes, all the other pypy interpreters (Hippy, etc) can follow.
It looks like many users decided to submit links of this subject. I think it not a spam campaign.
so what are we waiting to deny third-party cookies?
Next we can expect an article about how giving someone the title "Engineer" can give them some dignity and increase retention rates.

"sanitation engineers" should only refer to themselves as Waste collectors http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/sanitation+engineer

A "property engineer" was sent up to my sister in law's hotel room to unclog the toilet after my nephew finished his business there. http://www.maintenanceresources.com/referencelibrary/ezine/h...
for one thing, i know that a local bookstore will never punish writers by, say, yanking all Hachette titles off their shelves in a vindictive, monopolistic fit.

like others have said: Amazon has been a big reason why other bookstores are going out of business, and we are culturally poorer for it. bookstores are about culture, not speed. and it's also about who drives culture: neighborhoods and curators? or a neoliberal megacorporation that holds authors and publishers in disdain?
Our light rail and commuter rail system is a joke. I mean, they are nice to have but decades of NIMBYism and political interference delayed and morphed them into systems that work but are shadows of what they could have been.

IMO the one thing that saves our mass transit is that busses are allowed to ride on the shoulder bypassing most traffic. I lived in the north burbs and had a job downtown Minneapolis. I could take an express bus from a nice ramp facility to right into downtown with just one extra stop. 20 minute trip vs nearly an hour in a car.

However, forget about using mass transit if you're trying to get anywhere outside of downtown Minneapolis.

Also, the cities are bike friendly but not as friendly as most 'best places to bike' actually say they are. Most articles go by sum of miles of bike lanes, but many bike lanes here are pretty terrible. Not protected, poorly maintained, not plowed or light enforcement for cars badly parked. I'd say Minneapolis is as bike friendly as any other ubran area with a sizable health conscious population.
It may sound like a joke, but there might be something to it. It's probably hard to measure, but I can't imagine the easy access to lightweight mood-improving content doesn't have an impact of people. Personally, I don't browse cats too often, but I've experienced many times how a single picture of a cute cat sent by someone can keep me smiling for a long while.
3 - 8 PM. I tend to stay late at work as a result.
With the exception of 'good friends' (unless you're lucky) you're just describing a houseshare.

This is what everyone does in their 20s (and probably becoming the norm for most people through their 30s too) in cities in the UK, London in particular, because rents are so high there is literally no alternative that doesn't involve spending most of your salary on rent.

Even with a houseshare, a 30 min commute is not just normal but actually, rather good! You're usually nowhere near the centre. Again, this is particularly true of London.

I'm sorry to deflate you on this one but I can tell you, having lived in houseshares for years, it is absolutely not an ideal living situation. Everyone in one wants their own place, but can't afford it without moving way out of the city, or saving nothing, or living somewhere truly awful, or some combination of the above. It's not a choice but a corner you're backed into by the market.

If you're contemplating this as something which is optional, you are lucky indeed, and I'd advise you to stick with your current, non-shared, living arrangements :-)
Official corruption was certainly a huge issue. I don't have it on hand, but I recall reading in one of Pamela Crossley's books a study on the staggering percentage of the Green Standard and Banner military units that carried dead men on their rolls, officers selling off land designated for the maintenance of the military to line their own pockets, and outright embezzlement of military equipment (like the decades-old gunpowder and concrete-filled shells mentioned in your link to the Yalu River article). To some extent, the potentially ruinous expense of training and educating a candidate for the imperial examinations was predicated on a certain level of winked-at "squeeze."

The Taiping Rebellion can't be discounted when looking at the inability of the Qing Empire to cope with Western gunboat diplomacy. Wikipedia lists it as possibly the third most bloody war in the history of mankind[1], and besides dragging on for fourteen years and devastating some of the most productive areas of China, the government nearly fell, and increasingly impoverished and ineffective Manchu banner military forces were phased out and replaced with more regional, semi-private local forces, outside the traditional chain of command, raised and led by men like Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhan and Zou Zongtang. While these initial commanders were more or less loyal to the Qing government, it arguably started the slide towards warlordism.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
If using mobile Firefox on Android, there's "request desktop version" on the menu pulldown.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529613

Stop, please.
I dislike that the author went in ready to "write a takedown". Dissuaded me from taking the authors opinions very seriously. (Is that ironic?)
If it were all a matter of interpretation we wouldn't need an actual written constitution.

If it were all up to judges the constitution wouldn't be on display and would be written in Latin or somesuch. But the constitution is public, readable and fairly plain. Now maybe the constitution is outdated. Maybe it should be changed. I don't know that. But from what the constitution reads at this point a number of these measures are manifestly unconstitutional, and it doesn't take a mosque full of Koranic scholars to ascertain that.
I remember seeing this when I grew up in China (translated into Chinese). Last time I saw this film was 30 years ago. Thank you so much for sharing.
I started using FOSS Phabricator on a medium-sized team (~20) for private central git hosting, code review, issue tracking, project management, etc. We absolutely love it and I wonder how it compares to Confluence/JIRA.
I don't get if you are sarcastic or not.
I read the paper before I finished the article, and I really didn't like the abstract. Reading the original abstract in the article, it makes me sad that it was made so much worse.
Minneapolis/St. Paul are not huge cities and having the benefit of growing up here I find that my professional network pretty much covers the greater metro area. It seems like everyone knows each other or is only a connection or two away.

With that being said, the best way is to pull on a professional network (natch) and the best way to build that network is to attend some of the tech focused meetups in either city. Ruby.mn is pretty popular if you're into Ruby (or just wanting to meet devs in general).

Otherwise the safest route is to join up with one of the large firms and build a network from there to branch out into more smaller gigs if thats your thing.
Yes, that's totally broken. Sorry; we'll fix it.
Might have something to do with this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/science/good-news-spreads-...

Also the trend seems stronger the younger you go. My guess is 18-29 is too broad a range to show the real trend.

http://imgur.com/q1WtBPe
Here are some examples of the text/debug format,

1. factorial in S-expressions: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/ml-proto/tes...

2. ray tracing in a C style: https://github.com/ncbray/wassembler/blob/master/demos/raytr...
When I got mine done (in the US) they gave me an IV of something that took care of the pain but didn't make me unconscious, and afterwards it gave me amnesia, so I can remember the fact of being aware, but not the details. Kind of like when you wake up from an epic dream, then ten minutes later you can't remember anything but how epic it was.
All the Kindle devices (which I'd say might be the highlight of going to the store -- if you've ever wondered what form factor / features you wanted, and were a bit timid from guessing and buying online -- drop by the store and find out first-hand), and the Echo device (dimming lights as a show of strength to an entertained audience), and some other things like headphones and AmazonBasics bluetooth speakers...
Engineering is usually considered to be concerned with the application of science and math to build systems and solve problems. On a continuum with pure math on one end and applied physics on the other, most things that we think of as engineering fall more toward the applied physics end.

Computer science is much closer to pure math than chemical engineering for example. That said, I think computer engineering is a real thing and just because SV uses engineer as an aspirational title doesn't mean that writing code has nothing in common with engineering.

Software manages all kinds of critical systems from automobiles like the author mentioned, to auto-pilot in airliners, and control systems in power plants.

Maybe one day we'll have a recognized PE designation for pure software engineers too.
I don't have a problem... really; I don't need an intervention.
Especially when they're going to show up with a bus full of new grad MBAs and bill like crazy for each of them. A few whale charts and a huge billable later, they'll tell MM what she wants to hear and they're off to their next engagement.
This is a trend that slowly starts showing up around the world. In Oslo, they still tend to accept cash in shops, but they look at you weirdly. It's understandable - well-designed contactless card payment process is faster than cash, not to mention more hygienic.

(OTOH it can shut a store down if the Internet Connectivity Gods are in a bad mood that day.)
Thank heavens NSA have already redefined "collect" to exclude saving all the things in their database.