skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you are talking about with regards to no discernible movement replacing postmodernism - both New Sincerity and New Narrative authors and works have gained critical prominence as well as wider readership. Ben Lerner, whose works combine memoir, poetry, and fiction, was just awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Knausgard's memoir cum novel "My Struggle" is one of the biggest literary releases of the year.

From this, we can see that whereas postmodernism was concerned with the massive scope of societal and technological apparatuses which formulated our doxa (see: JR, Gravity's Rainbow, White Noise etc), these movements have instead shifted their lens to the internal scope of the individual in face of a mind-boggling hyperconnected and networked world. How we come to construct a 'self' in this environment and how that self is perpetuated have become increasingly popular themes. Poetry, interestingly enough, is actually at the forefront of incorporating technological themes into its practice. Scores of poets use autogenerated content or appropriate text from online sources or otherwise involve technology in their works.

Furthermore, it is not as though SV is some uncharted territory ignored by the literati. Plenty of contemporary fiction authors have addressed SV and its "tropes and heroes" - Dave Eggers wrote "The Circle" and Pynchon himself dressed down the dotcom boom in "Bleeding Edge", and those are just two of the highest-profile examples.

But I think the dearth of your SV literary movement is connected with the notion of your last paragraph. A literary movement borne out of SV culture to supplement these "classics" would probably be much like the SV blogosphere and tweet culture is today: a hollow echo-chamber filled with self-aggrandizing boasts, brags, and takedowns occurring within a delusional bubble where the ultimate focus is profit. There's a reason the work in the article is pseudonymous. Great literature and the profit-motive of SV are antithetical. Most of the "heroes" in Silicon Valley don't have the self-awareness to see how inane the business model of their unicorn is, let alone the perspective needed to write a truly great and meaningful work of literature.

Let's be real: in thirty years we will be confronting the ugly face of the adverse effects emanating from this 'movement' - massive income inequality, gross materialism and greed, the privileging of technological progress over human integrity, and endless surveillance (whether conducted by gov't entities or private companies - pretty sure now that the metrics / data genie is out of the bottle it won't be going back in). So I doubt a literary movement will come from SV internally. Instead, I believe that the great works read by future audiences will be written by outsiders to address the fallout from SV's "tropes and heroes".
That's better than I put it.
I figured it'd be obvious in context, but if you've never had somebody way, way too into something and trying to pump up its importance get all spittle-flecked and food-spewy (literal Cheetos, in the case I most vividly recall) at you in person...well, I envy you. =)
> Not really

That's worrisome then. You'd expect a bit more rigor before putting a bot like that into production.
He left a cushy finance job to build the Goldman Sachs of Bitcoin
I'd look closely at how they interact with each other. It is entirely possible that they are genuinely looking for debates to get to the bottom of things (which can often go to the point of comedy in tech circles.) There are a lot of ways to get along in that kind of environment by picking your battles and knowing when to change subjects..

But if you don't find a way to get along with them that suites you, then I would recommend going on interviews as soon as possible to gauge your markets reaction. Just don't say anything bad about them; you can always find an arbitrary difference between two employers and pretend that difference is a little more significant to you.
I would leave if I was you, but I would leave on good terms. I had a job where I was in a similar position as OP, however another issue was my job was in SharePoint/SAP and I knew I wanted to be a Rails developer. That made my situation a lot easier to leave. I told my boss that working with SAP and SharePoint wasn't for me and that I wanted to get back to doing what I wanted to do. Because I left on good terms, I can probably go back if I ever wanted to... (but hopefully I won't have to!)

After thinking about it some more, I would consider if you like what you are doing. There was several people I dreaded seeing everyday, but I also didnt like what I was doing and wanted to go back to doing something I liked doing. Both of those problems made it pretty easy for me to leave my job. If you like what you are doing, I would try to make it work or at least stick it out long enough to find another job doing that.
Why? It says there is a 100% test pass rate on PHP7.
I'm actually just running a script blocker in default deny now - running an adblocker as well doesn't seem to be necessary.
Yeah i'm really not sure if that was a troll or not.

"Heroes of a movement"? Can you actually call financial investment trends a "movement"?
Thorn – Building an Army of Technical Defenders
Whenever I know something well I feel like I'm excited to teach people 'just the good techniques'. I do notice that the things I describe don't sound as cool because they haven't struggled with the less cool stuff, though
Show HN: Elixir School – Lessons in the Fundamentals of Elixir
Always?
Everything?

There's not even one example where they reacted in a "nice way"?

Seems you haven't told them how such thing make you feel?

Maybe it's not personality, and perhaps they don't know this stuff is bothering you...

Definitely talk to your manager, and try talking to your team as well.

Focus on observations/examples as well as how those situations make you feel.

I agree that life is too short, and IT is full of "difficult" people. Instead of running away from it, get better in dealing with them.
Can't the winds cause sea water erosion of the sand in the absence of volcanic upward pressure?
> But dealing with difficult peers never fully goes away.

Pure wisdom.
This was previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8207271
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Why can cloud computing complicate the software release process?
WordPress is a big part of it, but PHP goes even beyond that. 81% of all sites are powered by PHP. http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming...
To add to the older evidence: http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/ImprovingTCPIP.pdf
I refuse to believe in a Star Trek future that does not include Seven of Nine.
DevOps: Using enterprise automation to deal with complexity
Containers in the cloud have benefits. But know the challenges too
The "notebook" he refers to is the web page itself. It's a format that's becoming popular among Python / data science folks: a web-based, often interactive layout with code and results embedded in it. See "Jupyter Notebook", the viewer for which is what you're viewing as you read this.
It's called MDF. You can think of it as high density cardboard, it's mostly wood fibers and resin.
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What can a manager possibly do in this situation? "Hey, Boss. Everyone on me team is an asshole. Can you fix that?"

If it was one person on the team causing problems, it could make sense to talk with the manager. If the entire team is toxic (or a bad fit for OP), there is little to nothing the manager can do except maybe help OP move to a different team.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying it's a bad idea to talk to the manager, unless the manager is one of the toxic team members. But I'm not sure it's very useful, either.
ext/memcache is not the same thing as ext/memcached.

Yup, there are two, and they are entirely different.

One uses the historic library, the other uses the new library. Why they decided to do it this way is beyond me.
Engadget Redesign
Cover-Up in Chicago
Online Video Maker and animation maker
Sounds like Peach: https://www.peachd.com/

Except peach serves lunch instead of dinner. They appear to have the restaurants deliver the food themselves. Your office needs to have 50 people who have signed up for the service before they'll start offering menu items in that location.
The Apple Watch feels like a stalled platform
> The national security certificate will secure protection of Kazakhstan users when using coded access protocols to foreign Internet resources.

How is this protecting users? They are outright lying here, if I understand correctly. Also why are they asking for my location?

http://i.imgur.com/fYKHRK1.png
And the Maldives, supposedly in a similar situation, have been "disappearing" since the early-mid 1800s (and probably earlier).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVGSWCvUEAAF4pR?format=png&name=...
If you ever wanted to see what an ASCII game with framerate issues would be like, install a copy of DF and load up a big fortress.
So excellent that the rest of the comments have deftly proven Poe's Law once again.
Some of the more modern MUDs are pretty advanced. I was reading a bunch of stuff by the GodWars 2 guy and he has some pretty cool features (eg the areas are very dynamic).

Not the same scope as DF, of course, but still surprisingly fancy. There's still a lot of room for more, though :) I'd personally love to see or make something like what you describe too...

I even started tinkering with my own home grown little MUD server written in Clojure, where I had intended to try out some fancy ideas... but lost interest because it would take a huge time investment and I'd be the only player in a multiplayer environment - maybe a single player game like you say would be better after all.
So like, what's the plan for people visiting Kazakhstan here? Install some rando's SSL certificate in your trust store or just not be allowed to access the internet?
My brain hurts just reading through this letter. I'm trying to picture my parents -- or anyone's parents! -- writing:

"Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future...
Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality...
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work...
Love, Mom and Dad"

Philanthropy aside, doen's this "letter" read like a scene from the Silicon Valley TV show?
I love that film, but it's kind of weird that it doesn't mention what's probably the most important invention that makes this type of computer possible: The torque amplifier.

All the devices shown suffer power losses between input and output, some of them severe. A torque amplifier has two shafts that are 1:1 geared for speed but the output shaft has extra power taken from a third supply shaft, like the supply to a logic gate that lets it drive more output power than it draws from its inputs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_amplifier
GC pauses have little to nothing to do JIT process itself. You can get JVMs w/ read barriers and soft-realtime guarantees.[0][1]
Please note, gc and jit are quite a different thing, even if the gc needs help from the jit.

[0]: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYKE2_7.0.0/...
[1]: https://www.azul.com/products/zing/
If you're not the kind of person who can take flaws like crashes or game-stopping frame-rate issues and work them into your gameplay, DF is not the game for you. It isn't a friendly game. It can take hours just to figure out how to do core game tasks. "Don't do this thing that crashes the game" is just another task to learn.
Remember they have your location anyway from your IP address.
As someone posted NIH below, it's not a far reach to believe some populations have this gene.

And no, it's not an excuse to give up on them, just a hurdle that needs to be overcome.
PHP 7 literally cuts the load in half for PHP code which means hundreds of thousands of servers can either now save power or serve nearly twice the number of connections.

win-win

almost as fast as hhvm but much easier to adapt
Much less interesting than I was expecting. The program under test behaved consistently; the test itself contained logic to perform a different assertion on Sundays.
"telecom.kz wants to use your location."

NOPE
This has already been added to uBO's filters: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/ba05804060ec7c4399c...
Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo (2007)
Oh you can most certainly compile mysql right back into PHP7
Is there a citation for the following claim? I've never heard of such a thing:

"But then more results started coming back. Not only do astronauts come back with weak muscles and frail bones… But they also suffer from skin thinning, atherosclerosis (stiffer arteries), resistance to insulin and they suffer from loss of vision due to cataracts many years earlier than expected given their chronological age. These symptoms look a lot like skin aging, cardiovascular aging, age-related diabetes and so forth. In fact, it is pretty accurate to say that astronauts age at an accelerated rate."
As referenced in the article, what is "good" and "bad" is dependent on perspective.

Wikipedia has several perspectives just within the colloquial / perceived mission. Is it for academic integrity? For common education? For the rich and powerful? For the everyman? To record as much as possible? To cull the best knowledge from the stream?

Is it for progressive ideals, which may be opposed by the common majority? Or does it reflect a conservative viewpoint, adopting only what has proven to coalesce in society?

For who's society? What about two sides of a war? Or two equally opposing economic interests (entrenched oil vs alternative energy)?

"good" or "bad" isn't a number...
Dwarf Fortress is a truly special endeavor. The gameplay is unique and engrossing. And completely maddening, in a the best way. The quirky bitmap graphics are mesmerizing. Each time you start a new game, it's a new world with new areas to explore and new chances to make your kingdom last longer than the last one. But the music! Amazing! Honestly the music is my favorite part.

In a lot of ways DF is similar to the early days Minecraft. It was just "special". You can get lost in it for hours on end.

Girlfriend - "You want to go out tonight?"
Me - "Nah I'm good. I am just going to play Dwarf Fortress for 10 hours..."
Girlfriend - "Well I am going to go to Dim Sum Garden!"
Me "Iiee decisions, decisions!"
That's a nice theory, but I'm going to call [citation needed] anyway. Can you cite any explanations of how weightlessness would cause something like cataracts or insulin resistance, or even of whether there's a statistically significant correlation focusing on the single variable of weightlessness vs. others that might be involved?
Cache since it appears to be dead: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SYsBpU-...
Profitable space mining is easily 100+ years out. So, IMO your best bet is to invest in an existing company you expect to get into the field in the long term.

PS: We could extract gold from sea water, and there is a lot of gold in the sea. That does not mean it's a good investment.
Programmers in the future will spend the majority of their time debugging code written by AIs
Ask HN: What browser extensions do you use?
List browser extensions you use/love for development, privacy, or personal productivity.
I really appreciate how they're doing this. The Chinese built up an amazing infrastructure for the Great Firewall; the Kazakhs just say "install our cert!" The Chinese spend billions and have to stay ahead of all of their citizens' clever new ideas at all times; the Kazakhs spend a few hundred and just need to point guns at their citizens until they install a cert.

Sure, it's going to be difficult to enforce, but it should also be quite cheap.
Last submission two years ago went unnoticed, so I figured out it might be of some interest (as it was for me).
Scumbag Steve, his hat aslant
Anonymous classes are very cool and have a lot of potential uses, which are mentioned at the bottom of the RFC:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/anonymous_classes
The chart you linked shows sea levels are rising, but that doesn't seem to match the argument you're making?
That makes it only more interesting. However, I assume, IP-based location isn't that granular?
I just use a Makefile[1] for this, I just type 'make', and it builds it and uses xdg-open to open it in my PDF viewer. Much faster than waiting for ShareLaTeX or similar web apps to re-render.

Gummi[2] is also nice for instant feedback, and you don't need to get the whole toolchain working by hand.

1: https://gist.github.com/rhinoceraptor/8b7e9bf650db6396e27e

2: https://github.com/alexandervdm/gummi
Why Do Drug Addicts Lies About Everything? – Judalane
Date formatting is the source of so many of these headscratchers :(

I'm reminded of the difference between 'yyyy' and 'YYYY' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810157
Babies, Hashlets and Yahoo
Ask HN: Are there any “buy me a dream” fundraising websites?
Are there any specific websites for fundraising "personal dreams"?

What I mean is fundraising of things like buying a house, a Ferrari, a boat, the perfect gaming PC etc. An online place where to get funds to make your dreams come true.

Wouldn't that be an interesting startup idea and social experiment?

What do you think?
I cannot imagine doing this without coming off as a condescending ass. And "intolerably nice" sounds like a political way of calling someone phony. I would hope no one would ever call me that.

Sticking with a toxic job for a year also seems pointless. Hopping jobs constantly looks bad, but leaving one job quickly isn't a red flag if there is a reasonable track record on the resume.
They're likely only intercepting known https traffic (port 443). If you use a VPN and tunnel all traffic you probably won't have any issues.

If a nation-state with the resources of China has come up with a system that can still be (albeit nontrivially) bypassed then I would imagine Kazakhstan will have a much-less-sophisticated first iteration.
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/interactive-sea-level-t... shows about a 9 cm increase over 20 years.

http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/interactive-sea-level-t... does less drastic smoothing, to show a bit more detail.
Thanks for your feedback & advice!
They have a location, it may or may not be related to your location.
Thanks for your feedback and advice!
> it's going to be difficult to enforce

I guess it's just a matter of dropping every connection that you can't MITM, no?
No need to be hostile.

Perhaps you just haven't been exposed to the facts about drug prohibition (and its history) before.

Let me recommend a book which will crystallize these things for you:

http://newjimcrow.com/

> how brutalized black people are in America and turn it into a conversation about drug use and enforcement.

So, you keep making this mistake. I didn't change the topic; supporters of prohibition did when they argued for its passage.

You keep acting like prohibition is about "drug use" - it's not. It is about racial oppression, plain and simple.

Be reminded that "drug use" is almost completely legal. Of the tens of thousands of drugs in the contemporary pharmacopoeia, just a few are prohibited. These were selected specifically (and openly) because of their traditional use among non-white people.

Everybody uses drugs. Out of everybody, only poor people, and overwhelmingly poor people of color, suffer the effects of prohibition.

In fact, it's only recently (in the past 30 or so years) that prohibition (the "war on drugs") has even had a pretense of being race-neutral. From 1914 until ~1970, drug laws were open discussed as a way to perform racial oppression.

> "There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."

> “Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."

These are things that our current prohibition's earliest champion, Harry Anslinger, appears to have said whilst holding national office as the chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

So again: prohibition is not currently, and has never been, about drug use. It is a policy enacted in a spirit of racism, with a racist intent, and per its design, continues the institution of racism. It has no other goal.

No matter what other policy change may come to this land, if prohibition continues, racism will not have been defeated.
C++ shared_ptr versus unique_ptr in Factory Functions
Well now this needs to be on both.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/7788ddefda0ba2e5f9b688ab243df56f...
FreshBooks takes on Square with $30 card reader
More like "I am not aware that I troll therefore I am not."
Thanks for sharing that! Yes the key difference here on the backend is that we make the food ourselves. But you're abs. right that from the frontend it's very similar.
I'd be surprised if 0.001% of art projects are related to Kickstarter in any way, or even if 0.001% of artists have even heard of Kickstarter. Maybe in SV it's different.
At least they are honest - spying and not hiding it ;)