skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title inflation lowers the perceived value of professional development work. It goes from "I don't understand what you're doing, but it looks hard" to "My ten year old nephew set up a WordPress site, so why should I pay you $150k a year to build the CRUD backend for my brilliant startup idea?"

All professions that don't have gatekeepers, certification, and strong professional associations suffer from declining salaries.

The difference between good and bad web dev is the difference between a site that scales, is maintainable, secure, and reliable, and looks nice, as opposed to a WP site that does none of the above. (But looks nice - maybe.)

I've talked to "designers" who say things like "I don't know if we can do that - I leave all those details to my technical people."

It turns out all the "designer" did was pick a font and a colour scheme and draw a few wireframes. And they got the job because they knew someone on the board.

Meanwhile the "technical people" have done all the real work - and could probably make a site look just as good if they'd been asked to.
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Simple filter rule. If the resume doesn't have the work "hacker" then throw it away.
Sent – A simple plaintext presentation tool
I build all of my own containers.
It's actually just a very long signup form - you need to sign up to get your test results.
If they are containerized, no, they don't.
I think part of the issue is how do you tell if what you're getting is someone who knows how to click the buttons or someone who can write a plugin?

And 'interview' is not a great answer because the signal to noise ratio is so low.
Nothing so far that wouldn't compromise principles modern society lies on.

If people who do these acts have a mindset that they have nothing to lose and that their activities are righteous, then you have to think in a way that would undermine either their belief in that or put their activities at causing them more harm then their own life. KGB did something along those lines, where when soviet officials were abducted. What KGB did was effective, but it is not compatible with modern western society: http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-07/news/mn-13892_1_sovie... Could you imagine a modern country like France abducting and mutilating and executing all of relatives of attackers? I cannot. I can imagine Russia doing so, or even Mossad. Not France.

Personally, I do not think either way is a way forward. I'm jus answering your question - what can we do? There were several approaches, of which KGB's one was proven to be effective.
You're dropping the truth here. Hope it doesn't go unnoticed.
Are you sure you don't mean any Lisp is a Turing Carpet, with all those curling parenthesis nestled warmly together like deep twisting loops of shaggy pile?
Vanity Fear:Mexicans and El Salvadorans may be turning wrenches on your airplane
We need to merge. The issue is that the Win32 work was based on the co-routine branch, but I've chickened out on releasing this as the main version. Also JJ just got back from his honeymoon.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261900 bytes) in /home/content/83/12119383/html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 1247
The thing is that both Uber and AirBNB are harmful companies, and EU legislation hasn't quite dealt with them yet. But it will.
I may be crazy, but it may have something to do with us waging a war on them. What are they supposed to do, take the bombings sitting down, and never retaliate?
Vanity Fear: Mexicans and El Salvadorans may be turning wrenches on your airplane

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10570702
NO NO NO

Let's end the myth that Western foreign policy is (solely) to blame.

What about Islamic terrorists killing people in Southern Thailand? Is there something wrong with their foreign policy?

What about Islamic terrorists killing Filipinos for the past 20-30 years? Have Christians been oppressing Muslims over there?

What about the recent clashes between Muslims and Buddhist monks in Burma? What did the monks do wrong?

Radical Islam is a GLOBAL jihad movement.
This is great news for Julia.

As a person who has spent the best part of year coding almost exclusively in Julia (I work in finance, we were one of the main sponsors of JuliaCon, though these are my personal thoughts) I want to chime in a little.

To get to 1.0 many of the cons in the language will be solved and there are plans in place for much of this.

I never cease to be surprised by the brevity of code to solve complex problems. Something which would be hundreds of lines in Java/C++ often turns into 50 or so lines of much more readable code.

When asked to describe Julia I struggle but end up this way 'I can make Julia 'dance' like no other fast programming language' though to be fair modern JS is pretty close for many tasks.

The parametric type system is to me the strongest part of the system - I describe it simply as 'templates that work', it is ridiculously powerful and (to me) is the most compelling reason to learn Julia.

I personally find even at 0.4 it is very usable even for tasks which are not math. Though the run time is currently fairly heavy.

So congrats to the Julia team.
> For some reason people like to read "kill them all" when someone says we need to deal with them once and for all.

Yes, because that's what "once and for all" means. If you didn't intend that, then my bad, but it's the common interpretation of the phrase.

> I don't want to kill them, I want to never have them be a part of our world by means of segregation. Total segregation.

That's simply not realistic at all.

> In other words, give them a place to live where they can live by whatever rules they care to live by and be as crazy as they want to be.

They already have that in the middle east, we just keep going in and killing them because we're warmongers and we think our economic interests are more important than their lives.

> They --the crazy's-- don't get to live in Paris, New York, Munich or Tokyo.

That's also not realistic, who gets to define "they", you're just pulling some McCarthyism all over again.

Your proposed solution quite simply just isn't realistic, we live in a global society now, the economy of all nations is linked, we need to find ways to get along, not find ways to isolate which will only lead to more wars, more terrorism, and more death.
This isn't as hard as it looks --- lots of freighters are set up to carry passengers. (Apparently about 1%, but that's still many thousands of ships.) You're basically staying in officer's quarters. The reviews I've seen all comment on the cabins and food all being plain but really good. There appears to be no internet (but you can make satellite calls at €5 a minute).

Pricing is reasonable by hotel standards, about €100 a day, but of course you have to pay for the entire voyage. A transatlantic voyage from Felixstowe to New York takes about 12 days. If you have 130 days to spare, you can do a round-the-world trip.

There seems to be quite a community doing it, mostly older people. They're not cruise liners, so there's no entertainment --- it's definitely for the self-reliant only. And, of course, the ship's going to cargo ports, so everywhere the ship calls will be in the middle of nowhere.

See here for more information (yes, I've thought of doing a trip):

https://www.freightercruises.com/q_a_freighter_cruise_guide....
SQLAlchemy[1] is a large project with a very solid codebase; it is very well documented and the API is exemplary.

1: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/
I realize that it is missing some of the defining features of a real Lisp, that's why I wrote "Lispy" in the HN title. However, there's surely some parts in the documentation that says it's a Lisp, and that might be a stretch right now.

Anyhow, I wanted to get some feedback on this project and perhaps involve people early on, so not having macros yet is nothing that I'm ashamed of. I hope to implement them soon.

And yes, there are a lot of good compilers out there. Kashmir is not a replacement for any of them or any of the established Lisps. :)
Paris Attacks and ISIS as Virulent Memetic Infection
> I'm curious how this behaves in relation to blocking third-party cookies via Settings→Privacy→Accept third-party cookies

It doesn't. The option you mention is about cookies acceptance on a first-party vs. third-party policy; trackingprotection is about blocking regular http requests on a blacklist basis.

> 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.

I perceive it as exactly this too, a "simple and good enough" solution. Get uBlock Origin (or any other blocker) if you want the bells and whistles and more {white/black}list control.

Nit: e10s has no problems with uBlock Origin at all, it's still working within my e10s-enabled Developer Edition 44.0a2.
10 years for Google Analytics
Cached as down for me

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
> Canada's new government doesn't have that fear, so they have no reason to muzzle government scientists -- but that doesn't say anything about their principles.

It says that they don't feel like their policies and votes are threatened by the truth. That sounds like a "principle" to me.
How exactly do you propose we help the refugees? We're already failing to integrate culturally Muslim populations, and this failure is very much responsible for the current wave of radicalization. I don't see why accepting hoards of refugees should yield different consequences now.
He's saying the west should stop interfering in the middle east, with which I whole heartily agree.
here's that Vanity Fair article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-...
Better yet, let's form a mega human from all normal sized humans. Things like terra-forming, deploying satellites, war, choosing what to watch on netflix would be easily solved. Birth control would be replaced by portion control.
> This is why when you visit family for the holidays, you constantly hear "oh, you work with computers.. can you see what's wrong with my computer?"

In my opinion, the correct answer to that is, "Yes, for a fee.", and has nothing to do with the overloading of terms, but everything to do with the undervaluation of tech-related labor. I am perfectly capable of fixing your computer, I just don't want to waste my leisure time doing it for free.

Next time you get this, tell the family (especially if they are distant family) – "If your relative was a doctor, would you ask them to give you a quick once-over physical every time they came over? Or if your accountant brother-in-law comes along, do you ask them to glance over your tax forms for free? No? Then stop asking me to look at your computer."
What would you suggest that fits in 80 columns?
Nobody has asked you to support it and nobody is going to ask you for permission before writing something they want to use. I'm glad they shared us with us and I'm sorry you don't like it but that's not their problem and frankly whether you like it or not is none of their business or ours. I don't understand the frame of mind that makes someone comment on a freely produced and shared passion project with "you suck".

Regardless, this solves a very different problem to screen/tmux and they don't compete in any way. In fact IMO both would work best when used together.
This might have something to do with the Fed raising interest rates, all stocks will take a hit.
Radical Islam has become a global jihad movement and it was created by the west interfering in the middle east.
You're thinking different war theatre. Negotiating with ISIS will not bring the fruits you envision. You know when we say "we don't negotiate with terrorists"? These guys don't negotiate with us.
I am still working on being consistent on my learning but the one thing that I find very discouraging. My study schedule is very errant due to my varied external commitments and inevitably I end up having long gaps in my study. When I get back, I find that what ever I have picked up two months ago are again new to me :(

So one of the biggest stumbling blocks in independent learning is to actually retain what you have already learnt over a period of time. I am in the process of putting anki ( spaced repetition memory training program) to the task but I am not sure of the effectiveness yet.

Of course, I would be very happy to know if anyone has faced this issue and solved it!
Most recently for me, I saw Arthur's code which might not be what you're looking for. The origins of J[1], is publicly available C code, and even if it doesn't move you, consider spending some time on it anyway.

When I was younger, I learned a lot from reading djb's code[2] changed the way I think about application design and [3] changed my mind about system administration. Actually everything djb wrote is worth learning from.

Before that I recall specifically sicp[4] giving me a lot to think about.

There are also bigger things (like plan9[5] and emacs[6]) that I've found interesting.

[1]: http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

[2]: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html

[3]: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

[4]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

[5]: http://9p.io/plan9/index.html

[6]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
“f.lux has been ready to ship for iOS for four years, but we need Apple's help.”
I think you were referring to "pro-choice" versus "pro-life".
Hold on, let me just update my GPU driver so I can run my text editor
I love mid-century futurism. While they did get many things wrong, that's inevitable when you have big ideas and put them forward fearlessly. Whenever I read anything from that era in science, art, architecture, even philosophy, I am often struck by the boldness and fearlessness of it compared to the plodding baby-steps of today. Even today's most "radical" ideas like transhumanism, etc., are really just meek little echoes of ideas from that era.

The bold often seem foolish in retrospect when compared to the intellectually timid, since the latter get to avoid being wrong by simply not doing much of anything.
Ah, you're right about the cookies thing. Regarding uBlock Origin and e10s, you've never gotten the dialog "uBlock Origin is making Firefox run slowly" or similar? I believe that's related to e10s...
My experience with bridges is that they always suck, and the ways in which they suck are extremely difficult to debug and never obvious until after you've made a significant investment.

Shit I've seen: silent memory corruption, silently dropping the last element of an array if and only if it is the last declared field in the structure, killing the debugger every time you hit the bridge, inaccessibility of critical code because it uses X unsupported language feature, event-loop integration nightmares (IO suppression / null-routing / deadlock), exception incompatibility, unconfigurable signal/interrupt stealing. And that's all without counting the "usual suspects" of documentation, performance, and testing issues.

Maybe the Julia-Python bridge doesn't have any of these problems. But I'm not going to be the one to find out.
Exactly this. The elements for violence are baked into Islamic cannon in a way that has no equivalent in any other messianic religion.

The west holds its share of blame, but so does Islam.
Especially if you just do the compilation to Go and redirect the user to a prefilled play.golang.org page with the resulting code.

And a comment withe original code and a link back to your site :)
The issue is with non-technical clients that can't judge technical skill. Since in software, anyone can call themselves whatever they want (as opposed to medicine and party engineering), the less sophisticated clients are the ones who suffer for it.
What do they want? Here you go.

This is the first (and only?) interview ever given to a Western journalist.

https://www.facebook.com/JuergenTodenhoefer/videos/101527236...
These "WordPress admins" are just giving the rest of us a bad name.
Last time I tried to convince a client that a WordPress would suit their needs just fine with a custom theme that I'll write, they first disagreed and wanted some framework then tried to cut the budget in half (just for mentioning WordPress)
1. Take their arguments away from them. Stop invading countries trying to bring democracy, ultimately making things worse. Stop torturing and so on.

2. Take their people away from them. Like other forms of extremists, they need young male identiy-seeking misfits, who have nothing going on for them and want easy answers, somebody who gives them orders and to be part of something bigger.

3. Prosecute them like other criminals, too (with police forces).
And have you researched its origins? Have you looked into how it's funded, how it was funded, which countries support it now, and which countries supported it in the past?

Perhaps the media equivalent of "Four legs good, two legs bad" is not a very insightful way to understand geopolitics and post-war history.
An interesting part that the article didn't discuss as much was how to distill all mistakes into the finished product. It's one thing to say artists who make 50 lbs of ceramic pots have a few good ones, but how often are those pieces presented as the best by the artist, or iterated on.

In other words, deciding which projects to continue pursuing and which should be scrapped entirely is non-trivial.
> I also take issue with people who label Western aggression in response to terrorism "Islamophobic." We in the West are not the ones making it about Islam. The terrorists are. They are the ones showing up with guns screaming about their God. They are the ones using their religion to recruit and justify their actions. And so when governments go after them then YES, they are going after Muslims. That is the bed they made and unfortunately we all have to sleep in it.

However, our anti-terrorist policies almost always seem to wind up targeting innocent Islamic people (and people who look like they might be Islamic).
Wastern foreign policy absolutely is to blame. You need to look at it on a timeline of a century to get the complete picture.
Not my assumption. Well, our government doesn't function too badly as a democracy, but the US government is a corrupt mess where voter interests are mostly ignored.

The thing is, the moment you abandon the option of using the government as the tool by which society organizes itself, you abandon democracy. I'm not sure where else you can go from there, other than accept that you're never going to be free.
Then just use llgo and compile it to asm.js!
tl;dr: Too little, too late.
Follow the money. It might be uncomfortable to find out that much of it originates at home but would it be all that surprising? Money is our god and the West continually turns a blind eye when we can also turn a profit.

Violence is like a terminal virus, propagating it doesn't bring a cure, it just ruins more peoples lives.
ISIS attacked because their key financiers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere aren't dead yet. Western intelligence knows who many of these people are.

eg. http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl...

The mosques where operations are financed, recruiting done and plans laid are still standing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/1...

Terrorism viewed as overhead by some countries, encourages more of the same.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/08/italian-intelli...

I imagine much lip service will be paid and funds expended further analyzing and discussing the problem.
Make peace in Syria, and help them rebuild their lives there.
Seems like it'd be a little more honest to plot the range rather than the average, and report the range of ages you likely are rather than the "exact" age you are. I have aged between 23 and 55 so I suspect that the data aren't quite as neat as they're presented.
There are so many motivations for this (and so many lisp/go projects that are abandoned). This looks very promising and I hope it takes off.

A few of the motivations:

* A lisp with an amazing startup time

* A lisp that can tap into a big and vivid ecosystem, like Clojure is tapping into Java's and its own

* Cross compilation and self-contained binary (I've personally tried doing this with various lisps, and none of them really support it)

* Go as a platform is improving version by version and is very performant already

Another way to think of it - if only Clojure compiled to binary directly, then this would be pointless. Because chances of that happening are virtually zero, is why this project made my day.

Go is the assembly language of cloud infrastructure, just as Javascript is becoming yet another "assembly" language. I believe Go is perfect for this, because it is also simple (as opposed to ES6, for example).
Are you referring to that bulleted list of problems that he claims impact the "entire industry"?

Because that list sounded more like negative consequences to the author's business, not an entire industry. If he were truly succeeding as a services company focused on the Wordpress niche, those would be pain points toward which he would focus his own marketing, and they would be business opportunities, not global problems with people's titles.
Emotion Detection in Games?
Can we please drop this pretense ? One only has to look at the terrorists to know for sure that provoking them is not the issue, neither is poverty, or racism. I'm also seriously wondering what the Kurds ever did to provoke them ? The Yezidi ? The Shi'a ? The Iranians ? Iraqi Christians ? Alawites ? Druze ? The Lebanese ? Even if I can sort-of understand that Israel, Turkey and Jordan did do a few attacks, it did not justify the response at all.

I realize the problem : if you follow a normal way of thinking you'll invariable end up with that the problems are located in the ideology, and of course that indirectly attacks a lot of people. That however is not a valid line of reasoning, as it

Sorry I am posting this because Dyab Abou Jahjah posted an article in the newspaper. He's a local muslim, a mouthpiece for muslims and he posted an article that stands out massively : it does NOT condemn the attack, but the "western response" to it [1], describing it as a consequence of the conflict "the west created".

Half of all muslims I know on facebook are reposting that. I just want to say, if that's the attitude of even 10% of muslims, civil war is inevitable. And it sure looks like it's more like 50%.

[1] http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20151114_01970768
I'm really struggling to see what's wrong with that …

Priority number one should be to find those responsible and put them on trial. The second priority (connected to the first one – the organizers are probably still posing some danger) should be excellent police work aimed at preventing attacks like this in the future (with the knowledge that absolute security will be impossible and as such any kind of anything goes surveillance would be a bad idea).

Looking at the wider context ending the conflict in Syria and Iraq should also be a goal, obviously, but that is not as simple as war, certainly not. That's and always will be a delicate operation, full of pitfalls and with no easy victories. I don't think you will be able to achieve anything there if you just view it as a war against Daesh.
For one, it was guaranteed to make it to HN's front page.
It's fun and looks to be designed to go viral, but seems pretty useless. I got anywhere from "We're not sure you're an actual human being" to being a 47 year old.
They weren't sure if I was human when I was under 300ms quite frequently. One time as high as 43 years old, otherwise between not human, 18 and 25.
Bizimply win big at Web Summit 2015
We both have a programming background but we specialize in different areas. So we have enough in common to understand each other's joy and pain, while our specialization helps us to fill in where the other lacks.

This has been very useful as we have started our own little business in software.