skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, first of all, the relative number of times different people apply for jobs in a lifetime throws any kind of average/median out whack^. Some people never apply for any job off a posting. Some apply for hundreds. The former group tends to have more desirable employees.

Anyway… If you look at general job postings on most boards, a large chunk (sometimes majority) don't even have the job in the job posting, nevermind a salary. These are resume gathering exercises by recruiters. "My client is a fortune 5000 company seeking…" People still apply to these.

^ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...
> it states that "all algorithms can be computed on a Turing machine, and vice-versa".

It is about algorithms of a certain kind, the kind of computation that we do when we, say, factor polynomials or check a step in a euclidean geometry proof. That is the kind of computation called for in the Entscheidungsproblem. Turing's analysis of that kind of computation was very persuasive, and consequently influential.

But as to whether there is more, whether we can go farther with some kind of analog computation involving lasers and interference, or some kind of quantum stuff ... well, maybe. It doesn't seem impossible that Turing, in the 1930's, lying on the grassy river bank after a hard run and reflecting on what a device can compute, did not imagine it all. To date (as I understand it) no analysis of what can be done with a real device under current physics has for the community of experts the same persuasiveness of Turing's work.

This paper seems to me to at least hint that there may be things that nature computes, but which no Turing machine can compute. It makes me wish to understand the physics.
#FWP
I really appreciate your recommendation.

I did not major in physics, but I have studied and applied linear algebra and have fairly good intuition for it.

It seems to me then that I should study some intermediate physics (books or courses) before studying the Schumacher book. Do you have any recommendations for that? Thanks in advance.
Some interesting stuff, although confusing how it keeps conflating PR and content marketing. They're very much not the same thing.

There seem to be swathes of this article that are about online PR and getting coverage from tech journalists, rather than actually doing content marketing.

Anyone looking for real content marketing advice should check out resources like Moz and the (excellent) Content Marketing Institute blog.
In Germany you need to make about 60000€ a year to get private health insurance (better service, lower price) OR you have to be self-employed, where it doesn't matter how much you make. (500€ private, 750€ public)

Yes, this doesn't matter for an engineer who makes about 100000€ a year. :)

But!

If you're an employee, you have to pay into a government-controlled retirement fund, if you're self-employed you don't.

If you make about 100k, you (and your employer) would have to pay more than 10k a year.

So, no, if you're self-employed and make good money, you don't necessarily have to pay "the maximum amount of social security" :)
I would argue at this point it's a real business...
The rumor is that they intend to scale up a silicon photonic chip fab, which is very ambitious, and expensive. It will either be a spectacular failure, or a bold step into the future.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/538146/magic-leap-needs...
minor correction
https://taiga.io/
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll look for this.
I just wrote a blog post about this, frankly I don't believe a word of their explanation:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/volkswagen-and-the-blame-the-engi...

If the engineering department by its lonesome could do this then VW was out of control and had a completely incompetent compliance department. By far the simpler explanation is that they were ordered to do so from above.

Don't they understand that by continuing these games it is only getting worse? In the long term they'll have to admit it came down from the top if they want to rescue the VW brand they're doing enormous damage here.
All of a sudden, the topic is deftly repointed to the subject of religion, something that the current global majority does not believe is a lie.

They kind of do, though. If you take a religious person, they will (unless they're some kind of polyglot religious type) tell you that the vast majority of all the religions that have ever existed were a lie. 99% of them. More than that. They'll tell you that very nearly every religion, ever, is a lie.
"Sharepoint site"

I just had a flash of old nightmares that I used to get when working with sharepoint sites. Thx for that :)
If you encountered a problem like this when applying via Stack Overflow, can you let us know which job it was?

You can either reply here or email careers@stackoverflow.com. Thanks!
You can customize what's on any given view in a project. You can also use any number of plugins for Agile, such as Grasshopper.

It integrates nicely with various source control technologies to keep track of work items and tickets/stories, being able to plug sprints into cards on Confluence (say describing long-term goals or release requirements) is convenient.

There are certainly reasons for its success, despite the recent surfacing of anti-enterprise sentiment on HN.
It's easy to believe that violence is not the answer if you can outsource the application of it (to police, other governments, etc.)
Thank you for the recommendation. I didn't know the author of this post is himself a published author on the subject. Will check it out.
How to Make Your App Go Viral? (The Viral Coefficient)
A lot of employers want employees that will be active during normal business hours (+/- a couple hours).

There are still quite huge wage & cost of living differences, e.g. a Bulgarian programmer working remotely for a Danish, Norwegian, Swiss or English company will be getting several multiples of what they'd be able to get locally and still be in roughly the same time zone (which is important for some companies/individuals).

I am living in Berlin and work remotely for a west-coast Canadian company (9 hours time zone shift) and it is in many ways quite a sacrifice.
'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you', does a pretty good job of covering things.
Let's not forget the millions he just blew on the "Clang!" Kickstarter and gave backers literally nothing to show for it.
Sorry, but most hosts have composer installed, it's the preferred way to install PHP packages.
It depends in the country really. In Portugal and Spain it is really that simple, you do not live more than 180 days in a year in the country, you are not tax resident.
> Only in emergencies, and even then only 10h a day.

Are you saying that if there's some major medical incident, with medical facilities overwhelmed, hundreds of people needing help, German doctors would just say 'sorry, ten hours, I'm off home to watch TV'. I'm sure that's not true.
I'm diving in to a new project right now - third one with Jira/Confluence, and working with a freelance PM on it.

The one issue she's got with it is trying to generate "good reports" with it for the 'biz folks' on the project. :)

That said, we're still going with it, partially because the other tools we've tried all... don't work together very well. Documenting things in Confluence and tying tickets to those documents directly does wonders for bridging the gap between tech/dev and the other parts of a project that think in English.

There are no doubt better 'bug trackers' out there, and there are no doubt better 'document collaboration' tools, and better 'planning' tools, but I've not found any that play nice together. Open to suggestions...
A Middle Ground Between Contract Worker and Employee
WPENGINE Customer Credentials Exposed
Just got this in my inbox :

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"Incorrect", perhaps. The number that would say "a lie" about nearly every religion, ever, is considerably smaller.
Once the beta launches, the privacy statement can easily be accessed in English. But for now, here's how it starts:

===

Blendle takes your privacy very seriously, and will process and use your
information carefully. We keep it safe, and hidden from third parties. Since we
don't have any ads, there's no need for us to collect data to sell ads.

To use Blendle, all you need is a valid email address. Of course we (no one
else, mind you) are interested in getting to know you a little better in order
to make your Blendle experience even more amazing. For example: our head honcho
Alexander lives in Amsterdam, but was born in Oss. So what we'd like to do, is
show him news articles from Oss and Amsterdam newspapers in his Blendle article
list first. There are many other ways to tailor Blendle to what you want based
on your information, but of course we'll only use your info to do so if you're
totally okay with it.

Most companies have privacy statements of countless A4-sized pages, written in a
way neither you nor we can understand. We think that's ridiculous, which is why
we've asked our lawyer to use as much normal language in the text below as
possible. Using a down-to-earth writing style is pretty tough for lawyers, but
he did a pretty good job.

...
The Tab Raises $3M for Hyperlocal News Site Written by Student Journalists
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Sorry you couldn't detect my sarcasm. But it's disheartening to see U.S. of all places succumb to such stuff [1]. U.S. was built on enterprising immigrants who made it the country it currently is. No other country could then stake a claim to be a melting pot of the world nor could they dominate in so many industries. Software Engineering elsewhere is just following the lead established by American companies.

I work with Startups more often than with established companies (I work with interdisciplinary teams) and for a fledgling startup to onboard a remote employee is risky.

[1] - When a leading Presidential candidate wants to block you from entering the country because of your faith, I'd say most others would resort to stronger words.
How about remote admin jobs? I have quite a few free time, and would easily take a 2nd job remotely.
I had seen that, but hadn't really dived into it yet. That's a fantastic resource.
You obviously wouldn't think that poor performance and usability was an indicator of a reasonable tool for a job - no one would. Perhaps the people with which you worked were simply making bad decisions?

> those couple years of Black Death... err... Agile Lean Scrum pandemic.

What's wrong with SCRUM?
This article looks like the functional equivalent of writers at a travel magazine perusing Yelp for highest-rated restaurants, then writing a full article based on those rating but never actually dining at those establishments.
Thank you for that review. I should have phrased my question better, because I actually meant a book for CS grads that focuses on the computational side more than the physics theory. Programming was the wrong word.
Not only balanced, but constructive and well thought. Saying "this sucks" or "I can't believe anyone invested in this" is useless. The above criticism, while not very constructive, is still grounded in facts (that I can't judge since I don't know the field enough) and goes beyond "this won't work"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8OKMlqxLs
Building Project Comet: Details Matter
Also relevant: https://www.facebook.com/notes/alex-stamos/the-sha-1-sunset/...
As a former user of Atlassian products in a number of "enterprisey places", and having always myself said something along the lines of "this [Jira/Confluence/HipChat] is a big ball of enterprisey s!&t" I just now realised after reading these comments that we're all really just upset at Atlassian making great products for their. target. markets.

Besides a select few (e.g. Apple with Swift OSS Jira), how many companies which you really admire do you think would buy and use Jira? The reason Atlassian have made, and will continue to make a lot of money (think of all the businesses in this world who haven't even heard of the term "agile" who will buy Jira down the track) is that they make products which serve their target market - big, bumbling, _less than nimble_ enterprises.

And you have to respect them for that.

Every time you look at an Atlassian product and complain about it being crappy and having a bad UI (I've certainly done this in the past), just realise that what you're really upset about is the company in which you work where someone is willing (and able) to purchase such a product.
Related, this[0] Monday Note is interesting as well:

Last November, in a rather blunt way, I expressed my reservations regarding Blendle’s model (see The New York Times and Springer Are Wrong About Blendle[1]). My concerns ranged from the abundance of free content available on the web (especially in English), to the damage inflicted on the “cross-subsidy model” in which baseball coverage pays for the Kabul bureau, to the risk associated with the “unbundling” of news (and its impact of publishers’ ARPU).

To their credit, Blendle’s co-founders Alexander Klöpping and Marten Blankesteijn seized on my questioning and engaged me in an ongoing discussion focusing on business models that could ensure the survival of quality journalism. This could be a crucial factor in Blendle’s fate: this company has been created by journalists who fervently defend quality journalism and believe that great editorial must be paid for.
In spite of my initial reluctance, the more I explored its model, the more I came to believe it should be tested and carefully analyzed, essentially because it is much more sophisticated and carries more potential that a first look might lead one to believe.

[0]: http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/05/blendle-is-up-to-someth...

[1]: http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/11/02/the-new-york-times-and-...
This is hilarious and dystopian at the same time.

Actual quote: "Holly, Did you try rebooting the fridge?"

I foresee this becoming a big problem in the future with Google providing no explicit retirement dates for API's upfront (which is very understandable) and manufacturers of not-so-easily-updated devices not caring.
It's very disappointing not to see any sync options, or indeed support for plugins which could add such functionality :(
The Curse That Shoes Can Break
Software Architecture is the complete system, including the hardware and protocols. The complete system of an airplane is a software architecture.

It is very scary how naive and misinformed this article is coming from a .gov site. Given the misuse of terms and purely ridiculous suggestions, I wouldn't even show this to grade schooler.

http://disi.unal.edu.co/dacursci/sistemasycomputacion/docs/S...
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The closed form expression for Fibonacci numbers is actually not great, since the precision required ends up taking up your time.

A simpler way would just be to unroll the recursion until overflow and cache the small number of results.
> It's not exactly the zippiest platform around these days.

It's zippy enough, especially when you look at all the different platforms it works on. It's pretty far behind iOS, but then iOS has only a few platforms to worry about. Android is probably good enough especially when you factor in power consumption.

In the end though, it's all about trade-offs. Going with an Android fork gives you a pretty solid base to build off of. It's a nice option for app developers because the tools for Android development are excellent and the OS is well understood.
Why Swift?
I actually realize things appear that way. I started discussing it but thought it would be a tangent and deleted it.

First, just because there is a fallacy doesn't mean the conclusion is false. It just means that the middle part is not a strong logical argument.

Second, the final judge for who receives eternal life is Christ. There is no circular reasoning as far as that goes, assuming you believe the Bible is true. To have a "No True Scotsman" fallacy, you need to have moving goalposts. The goalposts on this are very clear but not very useful for several purposes.

Third, some of those purposes are legitimate from a Christian, or even non-Christian, perspective. People do lie, including to themselves (cognitive dissonance, even). How do you know if your pastor or fiance believes in Christ? The Bible gives us some heuristics for determining how spiritually mature a person is. One of those is the presence and absence of certain character traits and behaviors. Humility, peace, truth, love, selflessness, and absence of sin are all part of that heuristic. And that heuristic, again, has been fixed for two thousand years. No moving goalposts, so no "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

Anyway, maybe all that is not convincing to you and you still think it all adds up to a No True Scotsman fallacy. If so, maybe we should leave it at that. The labeling of the strength of argument is not very interesting to me.

I do find, however, that for the intents and purposes I've experienced, looking for evidence of a Christ-like character, or at least growth towards one, has proved to be useful as long as I understand that I'm working with partial information since I'm not omniscient. But I don't really need a full set of information to know Pol Pot didn't really follow the teachings of Christ.
So this is a solution looking for a problem, then?
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I thought for a moment this was about the propaganda "Channel 1" I was forced to watch every morning in home class in my Texan middle-school.
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UK petition to ban Donald Trump passes 300K
"You should never be in a situation where there isn't time to decide" sounds like I shouldn't ever need to wear a seat belt either.
>Is there any job at any company in any industry where "putting in your 8 hours" pushes you to the top?

Upward, yes. The top, no

>If you care about moving upward yes you will need to do more than show up for 8 hours.

This is not true. If you need to show up for more than 8 hours at the bottom to move up, then you are working at a place where it is expected you will show up for more than 8 hours once you move upward. In my experience, there are companies where almost everyone does 8 hours or less, and there are companies where the work never stops. It's an office culture and it doesn't change with titles, from my experience.
As did Public Enemy:

http://genius.com/Public-enemy-she-watch-channel-zero-lyrics
That done by somebody that the police should be monitoring closely should raise some flags.

Problem is, the police seems to be spending the resources that should be monitoring those people on monitoring everybody.
What do you mean by "don't"? There's nothing to "don't".
I'm working with a customer right know that doesn't even have shell access on their hosted environment. composer and git are barely usable under those circumstances.

I don't have reliable information about the market situation, but i assume that this is pretty much standard with shared hosting.
Actually, in addition to the sibling comments notes about plenty of non-bullying feminists that just perhaps aren't as visible, there are plenty (and highly visible) LGBT activists who will be just as bullying as you claim feminists, distinct from LGBT activists, are. The same is true of.pretty much any movement that has a political, or more generally "how people should act", aspect.
> be harassed by less-qualified xenophobic residents

Nice generalization.

> pay obscene taxes

I quickly skimmed the wikipedia article about taxes in India and it seems like if you were to earn as much as companies in Europe are paying for developers you would be either in 30% bracket or 20% bracket. 30% is more than I pay and I live in Europe. Doesn't seem obscene to me.
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Also, don't miss:

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-001-root-s...
> Intel killed 3rd party chipset market

Can you explain on this? By producing chipsets itself/any specific product?
Go scheduler is not single threaded (whatever that means).
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I guess that's the overall idea.

Also, the US will probably forbid anybody from outside their jurisdiction from creating encryption software, otherwise it won't work. \s
I have often appreciated your quick interventions to stop snark and abuse on this message board. But this doesn't seem right.

This thread by its definition is controversial and lends itself to subjective option and heated discussion, more than others. At what point does opinion become 'ideology' as every single comment can be described as such, who decides the thin line between ideology and opinion and worse cross it to label and dismiss a 'comment' in this context as an 'inflammatory ideological rant'? This is extremely subjective and dangerous territory.

Abuse, snark and insult do not lend themselves to subjectivity and are easily flagged. But in this case I think the comment makes a genuine attempt to engage, reason and articulate a point of view, and is not dismissive or abusive but veers slightly to the personal as did the original commentator. But still deserves to be heard and not hidden. The warnings about abuse or bad language is not subjective and hold.

But it would be unfortunate to want to hide away articulated and reasoned responses one may not agree with as that inevitably leads to an echo chamber bereft of diversity, pushing away diverse opinions, and in effect making discussion pointless. In my case, rightly or wrongly, it discouraged me from reading the rest of the thread, as it appears anything diverse will be flagged and leave behind a sterile and uninteresting discussion.

Perhaps Hacker News is not the right forum for this discussion. How does one discuss violence against people and sometimes entire populations for political or other ends with a distant and dispassionate tone without coming off as passive and unfeeling, unlike a more technical subject in which passion may be misplaced and derail discussion.
Google Play Music, YouTube Red and YouTube Music is my favorite service.

I have tried Spotify and Amazon and others. Google has two killer features.

1) I can upload my own music (20,000 songs) for free and stream for free. I have eclectic taste and some of my music isn't in the 35 million songs available.

2) The YouTube (Red (no ads), Music and Gaming) really are great on mobile.