skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the direction, it's the lack of delimiting.

((1 2 +) (3 4 +) *)

is fundamentally different from

1 2 3 4 + + *

Each word has a clear arity, and the arguments are delimited. We can follow the evaluation of the parenthesized expression in multiple orders and they come up with the same answer.
Hilde Proescholdt discovered how an embryo organizes itself into an adult form
I didn't break any guidelines. I didn't introduce this topic and a one-word insult is within normal bounds of civility.
> Most people are very angry about how Microsoft acts.

While I support people getting "mad as hell" when a business abuses their customers, harsh words and the occasional strongly worded letter won't change anything.

MS will continue along this path until they see their revenue dropping or their market share shrinking. Continuing to use windows - even with the spyware disabled - tells MS that they got away with it. They will continue testing that threshold to see how much they can get away with. This strategy works particularly well because memories are short and every every new release moves the Overton Window[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Next Time, Fail Better (2012)
It is extremely hard to maintain good and safe codebase in both languages. Which is important when you make code that other people use. Above couple of hundred lines of code you need either some form of type safety or very talented and disciplined programmers.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but (disregarding the risk that I might get as well) I agree. Especially how quickly Hollande seized the opportunity of the tragedy-shocked nation to start attacking Syria...
Forget about whether it has blowback against the company- It's totally legal AFAIK to fire someone for their "off the clock" speech for any or no reason at all.

In reality, though, I think a jury would be very skeptical of a company's claims that someone was fired for promoting the gay agenda (which would be legal) and not for being a gay person.
Commodore UK Boss David Pleasance Interview 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3ef8ronz9E

this is the guy that came up with Amiga 500 game bundles. Some good sad stories in there.

AMD is currently on the same crash course :(. What other great, but terribly mismanaged companies were there in computer history? DEC comes to mind.
> you'd probably want to be hiding yourself from the task manager.

Why?
If images used on the dating site also appear on Facebook then Google Images can do the rest...
Not only this, but in the conclusion you get this pearl: "learning on your own is neither efficient nor cost-effective when factoring in time spent."

And now everybody learns the same way?

I can tell you that for a self-taught person, learning by yourself is much faster and deeper than being taught by someone.
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See "Rights Amplification" at http://erights.org/elib/capability/ode/ode-capabilities.html -- the general term for how things like binary operations can fit with an objects-all-the-way-down model. It's true that it means an extension to the model, but it's not really about machine words vs. objects.
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You're commiting the same exact mistake the article is. This is the vocal minority who is, you know, vocal and unrepresentative of all software developers, the majority of whom have little to say about the religious battles on online forums and don't give a damn about programming except to feed their families.

If you want an example of a real problem of elitism go look at the metastudies on narcissism, which talk about how the selection process for surgeons (brain surgeons especially) tends to select for egomaniacs and results in a very politically charged industry.
I would, in fact, argue that computer science is in fact deeply anti-elitist; there are no formal barriers to entry, the discipline has no hidden knowledge, there are no licensing and accreditation requirements. Difficult is not the same as elitist, and it's an abuse of the language to conflate the two.

As a rejoinder to the author, I would say that one can be a programmer and only know JavaScript, but one should not be a programmer and wish to only know JavaScript. Go ye forth and read some Wirth!
Google Web/Search History Disable Does Absolutely Nothing (2014)
The author comments here at HN pretty often:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kabdib
Lol, that's probably where in the past explorer would just lock up. They probably just converted a spinlock into "return null".

I remember sometimes XP would do a full, multi-minute lockup (including keyboard) when the C drive was trying to recover a bad block.
Why would you want your malware visible to the user?
It's unlikely that most driverless cars will be SUVs. They'll be more like smart cars. Take a look on a busy New York City block. You might have 30 cars between intersections. But if those cars are small, driving bumper to bumper and door handle to door handle it would take up far less room. Similarly with parking. Driverless cars can double and triple park in parking garages with First In Last Out ordering.
Yes, tamagotchis did age and eventually died even if taken care of.
>Grunfeld
The parent was taking about how soy products like tofu couldn't be tasty.
I think people can write good code in PHP and JS and I think those standards for what is "good" have been elevated a lot in the past 5 years. PHP and JS still seem to carry this tarnished reputation with a lot of people and so many (especially in IRC) immediately discredit it with some hyperbole. Yeah both languages have their shortcomings, but there are so many patterns in place to use that can make the code well structured, perform well, maintain well, etc. If there is one thing that drives me up the wall a bit, it's people who go on sites like this one and internalize all the PHP and JS hate without hardly ever using them. By the time they have to at some point they already hate it so much that any part of the language that is "different" is now a negative quality.
I'll go ahead and admit it: I still use an N900 just because of org-mode. I can't really recommend it to anyone else as it's not going to meet expectations of a modern smartphone, but I love it. That and git syncing with my desktop make it really effective for me.
Quill – Compile-Time Language Integrated Query for Scala
Toddler loses an eye following accident involving a drone
Wow. Democracy can be ugly, but to look to an oligarchy for the solution? I think this is the antithesis of Russell’s thrust.
Some of this advice is really good, but some of it is terrible. The section on gamifying user interaction is absolute garbage. I'm not "80% done filling in my LinkedIn Profile." I'm 100% done, but LinkedIn just wants me to give it more for its benefit. I will never give it the remaining information. It isn't encouraging me to do the remaining 20%, it's just annoying me that LinkedIn can't take "No" for an answer.

Also, I object to breaking the interface down into "screens". It encourages creating modal apps. Thinking about working in Photoshop, for example, while there are modes that depend on the tool you're using, you aren't in a different screen for every thing you're doing. (In fact, Lightroom does sort of have that problem, and it's why I don't use Lightroom.)
Native iOS and Android mobile apps using JavaScript (No WebView)
HN is not a place for political views, there are plenty of other platforms for this, let's not litter HN, let's keep it clean and valuable.

Read paragraph 6 of HN welcoming guide:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Sweden will not ban Pirate Bay
Quite possible, but it's worth pointing out that Lorraine was named after the wife of David Morse, who was the CEO of Amiga Inc.
>>> By murder, by torture, by imprisonment, by the terrorism of armed forces, they have subjected the intelligent and humane parts of the nation and seized power with the view of furthering the glory of the Fatherland.

reminds of current US foreign policy.
I would argue it was only through 'bullshit relativistic cultural arguments' that equality for women and freedom of speech are even considered basic values to begin with.
ES.stage3: Trailing commas in function parameter lists and calls
The Safyness of Static Typing (2014)
Many military processes use decision cycles that are similar to OODA. An example is the intelligence cycle [1] whose steps include Direct - Collect - Process - Disseminate. Similarly, the targeting cycle [2]. These cycles are integrated in an HQ to support the commander's decision making. So OODA itself might not be obvious to an individual soldier, but the orders and reporting that drives his activities will follow from cyclic thinking in the HQ.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_cycle
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeting_%28warfare%29
So essentially he re-invented segmented memory for memory protection purposes. Neat hack!

There was a brown box at the time, iirc by Torch (?) that ran a version of Unix on a 68K. Does anybody know which machine that was?

The 6809 OS that was 'unix like' referenced in the comments is about OS/9.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

Which is a really neat little OS that you can run on the TRS-80 CoCo and the UK clone of it called the 'Dragon 32'.
It should be noted that certain 680x0 Macintoshes could run a real UNIX, created by Apple no less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

What was unique about it was that it could run System 7 applications alongside your common System V/BSD tools.

I've still got a Quadra 800 at home running it.
Again I really appreciate the angle. Working in the technology sector I am wondering what is limiting Whatsapp to expand the features or if the are limiting the features on purpose. I would really like to understand the product design decision.
In what specific, concrete ways does it not work out the way you think it is intended?

I think we are starting to go in circles, but: It has the effect of cancelling out free discourse which is important to a functioning "democracy". A trivial example is that a business owner cannot be vocally anti-same sex marriage, because if she is, and a gay employee is fired for a "legitimate" reason, her behavior will go a long way towards convincing a jury.

Where this is going is why we are expanding the number of protected classes over time is that the real "intended result" is that you should not suffer at work for attributes that have nothing specifically to do with the job you are hired for.
Not only FAA, there are additional regulations that prohibit use of aerial vehicles to spray crops. The reason to do that is to minimise chemical pollution to other fields/nature. These regulations depend on country and few other things.
Some of us OCD types just like having so much detail, which you can get with org. Need to track hours for billing? Org can do that. Need to be able to capture notes/tasks at a moments notice with hyperrefs back to what you were doing and what file you were in? Org can do that. Need to build new habit(s)? Org can help with that.

If nothing else, org helps me to not forget to do things, and also to capture every idea that comes my way. Sure, a lot get thrown out, but at least I can track them and make a conscious decision about abandoning them. Also, I might have been as, or even more, productive before I started using org. But I don't know because I wasn't tracking and quantifying it. Now I can see at the end of the day (reviews and planning supported by org) what I've accomplished and what's left to do.
I've been in this situation twice before as a developer. The first time, the devs bought nerf guns and scooters to counter the new corporate atmpsphere, and the second time everyone who wasn't part of the corporate in-crowd got systematically excluded from social events, and various dogmatic "managers" got brought in, who were friends with the CEO.

If you can, you should talk to your colleagues and the people in charge, to convince them that the company needs to be kept awesome and weird, while growing. Maybe suggest Open Allocation - Github and Valve do it, and I know people who work within that kind of structure and really enjoy it.

Be extremely wary of lies and corporate doublespeak that some CEOs and HR people often use to convince you that they care about your company's atmposphere, when they really just want you shut up and work. I've witnessed that far too often.
Computer science isn't about programming, so one wouldn't expect that it teach people who to program well.
Open Source framework for building cross-platform native iOS and Android mobile apps using JavaScript.
If there was a competition to find the craziest idea that will one day be found to be true - I'd pick panspermia. Although all life being descended from tardigrade cancer is a little out there even for me.
Our Father’s Retirement and the Shared Fear Of Uselessness
BBC Article - http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34944136
> Also, I can do most things that I want to do without having to deal with common-place gangsterism.

If I start a business in Canada (or the US) I can expect minimal to no interference from the government, organized crime, or the military. My impression is that this is not true in China or Russia.

If I want to build a rocket, I can actually do that and launch it while complying with minimal regulatory oversight. Maybe it would be different if I were Muslim.

Basically, there aren't too many things that I want to do that living under US rule prevents me from doing, whereas the same is not true for other regimes.

EDIT>

> Sure, it's much nicer to live in a "representative" (hah!) democracy than in Russia, but the fundamental arrangement is the exact same everywhere: rulers ruling over their subjects.

The details matter.
Technology can enhance education but it cannot fix it. Education is a personal journey and it is different for most people. If you ask most people who do well and are well educated, they have common traits like high level of curiosity, very driven and have lofty dreams.
For me it was present day US in place of Germany.

It would be interesting if people reading this would say here which country they associated Germany to. I suppose almost all the countries will be on the list.

So an interesting question would be which country you associated the US in the essay to?
Are there plans to support DDL in 9.5 with the new event trigger functionality? [1]

1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-event-...
That was a real missed opportunity, the equivalent of OS X decades earlier
You can also get overhead plane positions using an rtlsdr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBv_Jv2r84,

https://github.com/antirez/dump1090
There's a certain degree of irony in a man who pens an article to complain about elitism in his industry who bakes his social climbing right into his title ("engineer turned founder-CEO").

"Elitism grows out of arrogance mixed with insecurity. Elitists aren’t interested in sharing knowledge, they’re interested in being the source of the knowledge. Elitists are only interested in disseminating their knowledge to the larger population if they are the authority."

Like, say, if they're the engineer-turned-founder-turned-CEO of a coding academy for instance?
I'm sympathetic to the GUI dream, but do note that language is far richer than pictures: we graduate from picture-books to literature, and from pointing and grunting to speaking.

I do think that a Smalltalk future might have actually managed to be the best of both worlds, combining images and text into one coherent whole. But it never really came to fruition.

As things are, since I may not have both, I'll choose the power of text over the ease of pictures.
What We’ve Discovered by Tracking Over 1M App Users
Good choice. And if he were still alive, Christopher Hitchens.
SQuery: natural language database search
Interview with deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy
> This is because there is only one way to ensure human needs are met, and it isn't technocratic anything. It is to ask people and empower them to get what they need directly. I.e. democracy, in as direct and total a form as we can manage efficiently.

Which would work, except that what one person needs or wants does not align with what the other needs or wants. If you'd then purpose to 'weigh' the needs and wants against each other I'll point out that there is no way to do such a thing. Since all human judges of what is ethical are biased by everything they are.

Supposing a AI regime could be established it'd be so powerful as to completely annihilate proponents of values that it considers inferior and thereby creating a 'perfect' society from a certain point of view...
"I mean, I think everyone knows that 'Dark ages' is a made up label from centuries ago during the Enlightenment era."

Actually, the idea comes from Petrarch, who was a late Mediaeval writer who was upset at the disrespect paid to ancient Latin and Greek literature and culture during the Migration and Mediaeval periods. Of course, Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment intellectuals all picked up on the idea for their own reasons.
Congrats on your accomplishments; ignore the haters on here.
Currently working at a place that considers itself 'flat' I can say that it's one of the most confusing things ever, and the management tries to continually tell me that it's such a great thing that everyone can take ownership of things themselves. It's a bunch of bull really, it just means no one has to take responsibility for failures to meet goals, there's no pressure to meet deadline and there's no actual ownership of product. This article hits all the points on the head about said flat structures, and how they don't work at all. They breed distrust, and resentment toward management because of an apparent (or real) lack of defining what's expected.
>Now, maybe this is wrong, but it seems that situation #2 arises a lot more often than situation #1.

It will always seem less common because #1 is always disguised with bullshit. "Bad cultural fit" or whatever.

#2 is never disguised.
The police also claim the video has no sound because "the batteries were put in backwards"
I'm a web developer, contact me through aladin.bensassi@gmail.com and i'll be more than glad to give You some advice, and walk You through it
The biggest man-made environmental disaster
That's not what the statistics say.

The top coding bootcamps like Hack Reactor have 99% placement rates for their graduates within 6 months with average salary of 100k.

And if you don't get a job, hack reactor charges you NOTHING. That is how confident they are in their students.
Ah! I was in full cognitive dissonance, like how did that stuff get into the strait of Gibraltar, why does the fisherman have an English name etc.

Well, I have an explanation that doesn't involve aliens: I didn't read the name of the island correctly. Good job from the conspiracy to hide itself very well, but next time I'll catch you anyways.
Can we not make this a gender discussion?
Most of what the US is leading the world is in how much military we have and how much we incarcerate. Technological improvements, health improvements, life expectancy, etc. are no longer US led.
Yeah, by "launcher" I meant "rockets that can put things into orbit".

New Shepard is cool and all, but it's not really in the same weight class as "real" launchers.

https://i.imgur.com/g2VIKVC.jpg
> But it is always disappointing to see how much of the apologia is supported by tech workers themselves.

It's insane how quickly we forget history, even our own internal history, in this industry. Just as a small unrelated example, take the monopolistic cases of IBM, followed by Microsoft, followed by Apple. I've often wondered if it's a cost of the rapid pace of development of technological power, or just that the industry is still so (relatively) young.
The original article at Perfect Privacy: https://www.perfect-privacy.com/blog/2015/11/26/ip-leak-vuln...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10636912
Yet this whole event is being used as a catalyst for further degradation of freedom and encryption.

How can we take the powers above seriously when they can't even catch a fairly large network of terrorists scheming over the clearnet?

This is a lesson in the ineffectiveness and incompetence of the spying apparatus of the free world.

We've given up so much already for no benefit, and whenever they fail it's never because they were bad at their job, they just didn't have enough power or money to do their job.
It is not silly. There is no such a profession as "programmer" (and I believe that this "profession" should have never existed in the first place).

There are many very different professions. It is not silly to say that "a midwife is not a real dentist" (and the other way around).
> "learning on your own is neither efficient nor cost-effective when factoring in time spent."

Tell that to John Carmack.
Actually, this article does not say anything about how the plan was "hatched" (i.e. thought up and planned), it just talks about the final days/hours.
TH2 deleted every application with custom driver installed.
Then I disagree with the premise of the article, and the dozen or so friends on my Facebook feed that attended Mt Holyoke are proof that this sort of outrage is a real thing.
That's because graduate students at universities are shitty coders.

CS degrees teach you how to do math, not how to be a software engineer.
The "not enough women in tech" thing is driven by tech CEO donations, I think (over the last 3-4 years anyway). That's why those articles about it and institutions keep popping far more often.

It seems to be working, too.

I'll not posit why tech CEOs might be trying to drive a flood of new developers into the industry... I'll get accused of being elitist :)
Car rentals seem like a weak point for terrorists. The options for obtaining a private vehicle are very limited. Stealing a car is a good way to get busted. So it hijacking a car.

If the "Do Not Fly" list is a good idea, it probably makes sense to apply it to car rentals if they don't already.
Russell had no idea nor could anyone have imagined what the modern news media would turn itself into today. Which is why I posted the Taibbi piece.
This was an intelligence community failure - and even though they clearly failed to thwart the attacks, they are asking for more power. If this article proves anything to me, it shows that these attacks are not preventable. So giving up more freedom and supporting dragnet policies is obviously not going to do anything, given they used their real names and public websites (as opposed to encrypted communication).

I wonder what is stopping people from seeing it this way?
They're one of the exceptions. However, antivirus market is really crowded, so I don't there're anything exceptional in that. Same with Avangate. VectorWatch is making the news these days, I'm personally not impressed, but if they do make the news, there must be something in it.

You're most probably right, the employee feeling is more broad than Romania.
Adding one thing not addressed directly: sometimes people disagree and there needs to be a decision mechanism.

Consensus is obviously preferable. But it scales very poorly. A simple workaround is to nominate someone as the tie-breaker. To avoid secondary rounds of nonsense, you try to pick someone with the respect of their peers.
Waiting for six confirmations is enough, as it's been shown both in theory and in practice.

I was correcting the parent as saying Bitcoin loses transactions is false. The network never loses a valid unconfirmed transaction.
How to Raise a Billionaire: An Interview with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston's Parents