skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm, no. You are completely missing the point.

What this does is it shows middle finger to Google, which is the tracking entity in the vast majority of cases.
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You are confusing your political views with what the discussion is about.

It's not whether it's right or wrong that this exist. It's about WHY European startups have such a hard time building really big companies in this field.
To people who are not involved with web development in any way, they just don't care whether someone writes code for a living, or admins a site via a CMS like Wordpress. To most of the world, both types of people "make web sites".

Trying to claim a specific title for yourself, while telling other people that they have no right to claim that same title, is purely an exercise in your own ego.
I'd like to more about why 'WordPress Developers' are such a magnet for the author's ire.

The last paragraph was pretty weak. The bald assertion that "Installing a website itself is of no service to most clients who can accomplish the same in a couple of hours with a cheap host providing a detailed guide on their website", must be false. At least two hours of technically knowledgeable work is definitely a worthwhile service, and deserves adequate remuneration. The next sentence, about "providing real value" doesn't stand up, then, because such WordPress Devs are providing real value.

There's no reason why success should require taking on custom projects for larger businesses, when there is an ample market of small businesses and new businesses that are well-served with just WordPress and plugins.
Don't know about the project's motivations, but I've been hoping for compile-to-go languages because it has an amazing cross-compiler. My use case would be to develop small apps on linux and ship self-contained binaries for other platforms effortlessly.
This is spot on. I can't fathom how people can still pretend that more of the terrible, stupid, catastrophic policy that has been practiced since 2001 could be the response.

ISIS is desperate. It needs a victory, a vivid show of force to bolster the morale of its supporters, attract new volunteers, and with luck, intimidate its foes. [...]

This is why the response to ISIS is such a critical matter. A knee-jerk Islamophobic response that accuses Islam of violence will help ISIS by alienating Muslims and reinforcing the notion that the Islamic world is under siege and needs to be defended. Similarly, policies that will restrict Syrian refugees—themselves victims of ISIS—will only enhance the anti-Muslim image of the West. And military action might make matters worse, much worse.
I don't think the titles we use are irrelevant like some have said, but why draw the line at the manual editing of text that is ultimately translated into machine language? Do programmers working at a lower level of abstraction have a stronger claim to the title of "developer"?

I've never used WordPress, but to my knowledge this is just a tool that reduces the amount of manual coding involved in creating a website. To me this seems similar to the way Python reduces the amount of C you have to write, which reduces the amount of assembly you have to write, and so on to the machine code. Perhaps WordPress "development" is considered easier, but even if you equate the terms "developer" and "software developer," it doesn't seem like an unambiguously inaccurate or misleading description of the activity.
Interesting ReiserFS comment http://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/friends-dont-let-friends-use-...
> titles do matter

No they don't. Companies align positions to industry standard rates, not job titles. One place will call you programmer level 3, some other place will call you Senior developer but if they have the same responsibility, they will be aligned in pay.

Where I am doesn't use the title 'Developer' or
'Programmer. Do you think that means they have no idea how to gauge people coming in or other areas of the industry that do use those titles?
> I must admit that in the past I've outright skipped over new shiny apps and websites based in Europe (even if I believe in the idea) under the assumption that they'll just get crushed later by a US-based rival anyway

And this is one of our big problems in this space.
We can have greater involvement in the war in Syria, or we can have less. Either way we have to deal with the consequences. But right now we are in a war with Isis and navel gazing about religiosity is hardly going to help.
This is a journey strictly for trust-fund kiddies and other rich people, costs about $160USD/day for a bed on this boat, so she paid around $4,500 for her 27-day trip just counting accommodation.
The proponents of total surveillance never had a shortage of pretexts. And spreading the panic always helps.
How about first stopping with what we know makes things worse - NOT provoking them by for example interfering the way CIA have staged coups for decades, causing internal animosity, bombing carelessly (see the US bomb that hit Doctors Without Borders recently), etc...

All these countries are being careless and heavy handed, and the origins of most of the high profile terrorists of today can be traced back to actions taken by western countries. So many rebel groups armed by western agencies later turned into terrorists and guerillas once the agencies left, so many times, over and over. So many aided coup makers just defected and kept their power for themselves.

The most effective way to get rid of terrorists is to take away their recruitment base, by not giving people more reasons to attack. Yes, it will take long until all the current terrorists are gone. But the current methods are only making things worse.
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He owns very expensive things and gives away a lot of money, it would be shocking if he does not have significant assets outside of high-value startups and his Facebook stock.

His pre-existing wealth matters quite a bit with the decision of whether or not to sell out of a position that has been very profitable. Diversification is a fundamental part of wealth management. It's just not smart to have all your eggs in one basket, regardless of what basket that is. Marc already has a lot of baskets, while the hypothetical Facebook engineer does not.
Andreessen said in a podcast that to go public in today's market, you really have to build up the company as "a fortress", i.e. be prepared for several quarters of negative market reaction, and that he worked extensively with Zuckerburg before Facebook's IPO to do this. It's logical that if he had inside information about Facebook's financials, their strategy, upcoming moves, and monetization experiments, he could set a much more accurate price target than Wall Street.

Interestingly, you could probably turn this into a trading strategy by looking for other newly-IPO'd companies that Andreessen is a board member on, waiting for them to inevitably sink after IPO, and then buying in.
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To give a example, we have members living in Canada, Middle East countries, etc. Phone numbers, addreses, zip/postal codes are unlike those typical here in the US, so these are plain text fields in the data entry form.

If there's an entry mistake and database fields contain the wrong info, it's not a tragedy, we'll find out sooner or later and it can be corrected.

Of course, date entries by necessity can't be as "free-form". For one thing, browsers can be picky about their preferred format for type="date" inputs, accepting "/" separator, but not "-". Requiring a year to be 4 digits between 1980 and current year doesn't seem too onerous.

These might seem obvious, but complaints about such constraints still come up. It just needs to be clear to users that certain data needs be entered in specific format for good reasons. I agree with your comments about street addresses, phone numbers, or personal names which need to be unstructured input (but handled securely). .

I thought by now this stuff would be appreciated as pretty basic to the developer's craft, but apparently it still isn't widely enough taught or known.
This was already posted and discussed here 5 days ago!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538037
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize Go's GC also worked for pointers/references.
Well, that somehow reminds me of one hilarious subtitle:

Tim Berners-Lee
Web Developer
And the author mentioned how it has negative consequences when there is in fact an actual difference that the clients are not able to distinguish between. Some self-policing on the part of the people who can would help a lot with that.
All through the last month, the French have been bombing their "former" colony, Syria, continually. Last week reports were coming about the French bombs ( http://www.france24.com/en/20151109-france-syria-strike-isla... ).

Now the Syrians dodging French bombs have turned around and bombed the French. News reports say the bombers contained Syrians, and ISIS's statement makes the reason very clear - about the French's "strikes against Muslims in the land of the Caliphate with their jets".

France's bullying and killing of Syrians didn't get much press...if it did it was celebrated. Of course, the corporate media doesn't mention at all that the French have been bombing the Syrians for a month - only that some Syrians finally retaliated.

Insofar as ISIS being beyond the pale and such...ho-hum...US and EU leaders were saying that about Syria's secular leader over the past few years, that he was a monster gassing his own people. They've been trying to undermine his government for the past years (thus helping cause this over and above the bombings).

It looks like the imperialist powers have finally found some people with the courage to bomb the bombers.

When Syria was a French colony, Syrians marched in the streets at the end of World War II in 1945 to show their desire for independence. The French army shot into the crowds (as they did in Algeria etc.)

That the French have been bombing the people who just bombed them is probably unknown to 99% of people, since the corporate press never mentions it. So anything I hear is just some Orwellian Two Minute Hate.

It's kind of like 9/11...it was never mentioned the US had military bases in their puppet dictatorship "Saudi" Arabia for over a decade. Never mentioned most Arabians wanted them gone. Never mentioned that the US had armed and sent Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan, to overthrow a secular government, and replace it with an Islamic one. Even among the educated classes, everything that happened in history disappeared, just some people came out of the blue and decided to start bombing their cities.
Just now seeing this, wondering if it will generate code readable enough to contribute to Go projects.
""Before C there was assembly language" is technically correct, unless you know something I'm unaware of.

That there were other languages between those two isn't important in the context of creating an example in one presentation and it for-sure is not factually wrong.

Just so we're absolutely crystal-clear here, how, exactly, would you have phrased the paragraph about C, without wandering off into the endless maze of computer language lineages, but keeping the same general intent, in the context of the remainder of the presentation?
Your point about "Islamophobia" reminds me of this almost twenty-year-old article from The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/article/crazed-palestinian-gunman-an...
I'm a senior something developer something something.

That's what most people hear when I try and use my title.

I simply tell people I program computers. Why? Because its what I do.

Does it matter to me that I'm not telling them that I design/architect and develop solutions? Nope. I don't care. Because, to me, that all boils down to "I program computers".
> I've heard of NumPy, PyPy, SciPy, Pandas, matplotlib, and now Numba. I don't particularly know what these do or how they overlap or interact. Which is kind of the point: to a complete outsider, the world of Python scientific computing feels like a wild west where everybody is happily proclaiming that their setup is just right.

It's not terribly complicated once you spend a little time working with the libraries. Working with arrays? import numpy. Machine learning? import sklearn. Plotting? import matplotlib. Need to do some interpolation, integration, or work with some strange orthogonal polynomials, (etc...)? import scipy. Sure, there's some minor overlap between scipy and numpy, but nothing that causes any problems in my experience.

What I love about using python is that, in addition to all the great math and science libraries, you have all the other python tools at your disposal. Working with xml? import xml. Web-scraping? import urllib2 (or whatever people use now), PyQuery. Additionally, there's all the file system business work that's a joy to do in python using os, sys, etc... libraries.
Let me ask a few follow up questions:

1. What do you think it is?

2. Do you think this is unique to the Indian culture, or do you do you think it's shared by other cultures, including your own?

3. What do you think about cultures that breed the type of businesses that take advantage of other groups of people for profit?

4. Compared to Indian wages, could an Indian business owner could easily see themselves doing his fellow Indians a favor while making a profit?

Here's my point. Look before you leap before you turn this into a cultural or racist conversation, because it's a much bigger issue than that and it deserves to be looked at from a larger perspective.

My personal opinion is we need to overhaul to H1-B system to eliminate any leverage an H1-B employer has over their employee. If we want to eliminate the exploitation of immigrants, it's critical they share our freedoms to switch jobs. If we don't grant immigrants that freedom, we're just inviting an immigrant culture where immigrants will consistently earn less which will have the effect of suppressing wages overall.

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Privacy and security aside, trusting this type of information is very dangerous. Attackers could use this to their advantage by confusing and misleading authorities.
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So you don't mean scientists, you mean whores who pad out the opinion of their employer.

No wonder you find Harper's policies unobjectionable.
I am a developer. I have experience of working in different programming languages like C#, Haskell and Javascript. I noticed that all of them has similar library. Prelude for Haskell, Linq for C# and Undercore for Javascript. A lot of functions are common: map, filter, concat, join and so on. In daily life I need work linux shell and got the understanding that this kind of library can be applied in shell as well. So I rolled my sleeves and implemented the prototype. It would be great to read your comments. Thank you
I'm curious how this behaves in relation to blocking third-party cookies via Settings→Privacy→Accept third-party cookies: Never. I've had this turned on for a year or so.

Also, I wonder what this would catch that uBlock Origin wouldn't? I assume that if it's "good enough" then it's probably the better solution to use in Firefox, especially with the new extension format and multi-process (e10s) coming eventually in Firefox.
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Perfect. I think you nailed it. Posts claiming that European startup scene is bad is only looking for unicorn chasing. I just don't think it's a healthy, organic way of building a sustainable company.

I think more startups should stop imitating the SV culture and come up with their own way of doing business.
but what are we supposed to do?

How about we put the terrorists we can find in jail (after a fair trial), help the refugees who flee the conflict zone and convince the various "powers" covertly involved in the conflict to stop putting more fuel on the fire?
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> Until you need to do something very straightforward like web scraping or interacting with AWS

For web scrapping: https://github.com/porterjamesj/Gumbo.jl
For AWS: https://github.com/JuliaParallel/AWS.jl

Definitely, Julia doesn't have as many libraries as Python, but most common needs are covered. And for the rest you can actually call Python through PyCall.jl
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I didn't say they were intervals (I'm well aware of interval representations for numbers, which single point rationals are not).

> that floating point numbers by definition form an exact rational subset of the extended real line.

Sure, that's what they form; it's not what they (usually) denote.

> It's also false that the floating point number _f_ is the midpoint of the set of numbers that round to _f_;

It is close enough to being the case for my purpose in the grandparent article. Whether the cluster of numbers is lopsided one way or the other doesn't really detract from my point.
Amazing. What happens next?
Property developers would be puzzled by this suggestion.
> Allow me to randomly speculate that in your mental world, reading some Intellectually Fascinating Article has an extremely high priority, whereas eating dinner is just some stupid thing your body demands, and so because of this configuration of like/dislike or attraction/aversion you tend to chow down whatever is easiest so you can get back to the Fascinating Article.

I literally just chowed down an easy meal and rushed back to my computer to continue this Fascinating Article, only to find this sentence, which described exactly what I was doing.
Seeking feedback for a React/Flux/Rails gem (my first gem)
After rewriting a lot of the same code regularly for Flux patterns within Rails, I was wishing for a single command that could generate all the files and folders I would need (action, util, dispatcher, store, etc.) with a "general" placeholder that I could quickly replace. So, I decided to try and make a gem (which does seem to work at this point). I'd love to get some feedback on it.

Include gem 'fluxify', '~> 0.2.1' in your Rails project. And, do rails generate fluxify:install to see the files in your app/javascripts/assets folder.
Noted. We will implement it on the upcoming update.
Do you think only burqa wearing Muslim society is prosperous and cohesive? That seems to be only way how that Taleb article could support Radical Democracy.

To me the most homogeneous societies seem to be frontiersmen living in extremely harsh places. The Sami, Pygmy tribes and Inuits we're left alone for most of history. Nobody can fight off immigration indefinitely if there is some reason for them to come.

The most violent civilizations in history didn't seem to care who they oppressed. Roman Empire, Mongol empire and British empire had no problems taking different ethnicities as subjects. Some of them even had somewhat varied ethnic makeup in the power-base of the empire. For example Romans had Latins, Etruscan people and Greek city states assimilated into Rome proper.

This idea that ethnic makeup dictates success and violence of society is essentially racist. It doesn't really matter if you advocate a mix of ethnicity, you are still trying to sell policy with race. The only non-racist stance is to assume that ethnicity and success have no correlation what so ever.
> There are lot of bombers with high wing (B52, almost anything several engines from WWII).

Most bombers dispense ordnance from their undersides, ideally near the center of gravity; limiting the structural members needed in those parts simplifies things.

> About half of all propeller driven passenger planes have high wing.

These are designed not to require ground vehicles for loading and unloading. Propellor ground clearance is also an issue for the larger types.

> Unlike the An-124, the An-225 was not intended for tactical airlifting and is not designed for short-field operation
> It still has high wing.

The An-225 carries cargoes of unusual bulk to unusual places. Being able to get these cargoes on and off the aircraft without some sort of lift has advantages.

Low-wing freighters, which are all variants of passenger types these days, almost always carry palletized cargo of standard dimensional units (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_load_device) - this allows for standardized ground handling equipment for most loads.

> And U2 has high wing. It's probably the plane with most carefully calculated weight ever.
> If it was inherently heavier, this would make no sense.

The U2 is not a high-wing aircraft, it is a mid-wing aircraft with its spar roughly running through its center of gravity. This is actually the most efficient and aerodynamically cleanest configuration, and many high-performance aircraft use this arrangement. The main problem with it for passenger or cargo use is that the wing structure ends up interfering with the middle of the fuselage volume near the center of gravity, which tends to be valuable space in a transport aircraft.
Forgive me if this is in the linked article (it's not loading for me), but if we were to say to ISIS "let's negotiate", what is it that they want? Is it something reasonable?
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Some will be. Some won't be. WordPress developer, sure. O.S. developer much less likely.
Suppose you have a bridge. You must design it so it can handle the maximum weight expected. You must not design it with a simple Gaussian distribution in mind.

For example, a small bridge in a seldom used road in the countryside might have a few cars per hour. That's a load of a couple of tons per car. But cars density isn't randomly distributed. If one is slow, then there might be a lineup of 4 cars in a row, and that's more likely then a simple calculation based on 1-(1-p)^4 where p is the single car density.

Then twice a day there's the school bus. And there's the occasional cattle truck, and semi, and anhydrous tanker. So you might have a school bus with a couple of heavy vehicles behind it, as a possible maximum design load.

The odds of this can't be described with a simple Gaussian, so standard deviations make no sense.

Of course, there's no need to go crazy overboard and design all bridges to handle a convoy of M1 Abrams tanks. That's why rural bridge might have a posted weight limit of, say, 10 tons, with only 1 truck allowed at a time. Even then, some people will push the limits, which is why there's a safety factor.

For example http://blogs.mcall.com/roadwarrior/2014/08/wehrs-mill-bridge... describes a wooden bridge which had a 10 ton limit, until some dumbass fuel tanker weighing 38.2 tons went through. Now the rated limit is 4 tons because of the structural damage.

So it's not "the maximum that was ever recorded in the dataset of all rural bridges" but "the maximum expected for this bridge", along with efforts to restrict higher loads.
Sounds to me like "dey took er jerbs" fear mongering. Anecdotes without statistics are suspicious. US mechanics are hardly infallible. Show me the statistics about maintenance errors in the US vs elsewhere and we'll see.