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"It's simply too alien for your typical CS grad"

That's just a question of teaching it to more CS students then. I don't think it's outside of the reach of the average programmer.

And yes you probably wouldn't use it to build real-time applications. But you probably wouldn't use Python to write an operating system. No language fits all use-cases.
I totally agree. This is the path I have taken and I do not look back.

I rebuilt the recruiting process at my first IT-company after college.

Now I started my own IT-recruiting agency in Zurich. If you look for a tech-job in the most liveable city in the world, check out my story "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" on http://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to... or send me a mail to the mail-address in my HN-profile.
"oftentimes they're contractually forbidden from disclosing it"

Is that true? That sounds illegal.
I want a droid...
Ugh, god, will this news story not go away? The statistical significance of this finding is not high enough to warrant the hysteria surrounding its reporting. As quoted in the article: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this is not that".
Strange, it's my desktop. I wonder how I manage.
This matches my experience.

At the company I work at, we use Haskell for HTTP services. The software stack we've grown is extremely opinionated about how to do things. We provide just one way to do things like report errors, run queries, do work asynchronously, and so forth.

We get people up and running with about the same amount of effort as we spend getting people going on our PHP, and I think a big part of the reason why is because we're able to constrain the education effort to the slice of Haskell that we want them to read and write.

For instance, we accept the fact that we have new teammates who haven't yet truly understood what "do" blocks are all about. These people are nevertheless able to write perfectly serviceable, production-ready code. They've learned that they can chain imperative actions together in a particular way, and that's enough for awhile. Deep understanding comes later.
>there's still something that makes it clear that I am I: cogito ergo sum

"There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are 'immediate certainties'; for instance, 'I think,' or as the superstition of Schopenhauer puts it, 'I will'; as though cognition here got hold of its object purely and simply as 'the thing in itself,' without any falsification taking place either on the part of the subject or the object. I would repeat it, however, a hundred times, that 'immediate certainty,' as well as 'absolute knowledge' and the 'thing in itself,' involve a CONTRADICTIO IN ADJECTO; we really ought to free ourselves from the misleading significance of words! The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: 'When I analyze the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertions, the argumentative proof of which would be difficult, perhaps impossible: for instance, that it is I who think, that there must necessarily be something that thinks, that thinking is an activity and operation on the part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an 'ego,' and finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by thinking--that I KNOW what thinking is. For if I had not already decided within myself what it is, by what standard could I determine whether that which is just happening is not perhaps 'willing' or 'feeling'? In short, the assertion 'I think,' assumes that I COMPARE my state at the present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to determine what it is; on account of this retrospective connection with further 'knowledge,' it has, at any rate, no immediate certainty for me.'--In place of the 'immediate certainty' in which the people may believe in the special case, the philosopher thus finds a series of metaphysical questions presented to him, veritable conscience questions of the intellect, to wit: 'Whence did I get the notion of 'thinking'? Why do I believe in cause and effect? What gives me the right to speak of an 'ego,' and even of an 'ego' as cause, and finally of an 'ego' as cause of thought?' He who ventures to answer these metaphysical questions at once by an appeal to a sort of INTUITIVE perception, like the person who says, 'I think, and know that this, at least, is true, actual, and certain'--will encounter a smile and two notes of interrogation in a philosopher nowadays. 'Sir,' the philosopher will perhaps give him to understand, 'it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?'"

~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

P.S. I'm quoting Nietzsche because he pretty much condenses every objection I've ever heard about the cogito, which isn't as much of an unassailable argument as Descartes thought.
Which I didn't dispute. I disputed the idea that it's 500% from some guy who has 4 years experience.
Did it work for you? Any side effects?
Some cost of living calculators make $150k in Dallas equal about $250 in NYC. It's worth noting that $150k is high for Dallas, but not impossible for people with Principal, Fellow, or Chief in their job titles.

It's worth noting that using a flat cost-of-living adjustment both overestimates and underestimates things.

The kind of place you'd likely rent in Plano or Addison would cost ridiculous amounts in NYC, given comparable neighborhood qualities and commutes. You can easily afford to have three, four, or more kids. In NYC, one kid is doable, two is a challenge, three is crazy. From that metric, $150k in DFW sounds awesome.

Though if your goal is retirement, maxing out your 401k in NYC is much easier. If you plan on moving to a lower cost-of-living area to retire, or are otherwise looking to hit a certain dollar-figure for some reason (paying for kids to go to college), NYC probably has the edge. That is, people usually adjust their total salaries for cost of living but ignore that annual contributions to medium-term and long-term savings generally shouldn't be adjusted.
Consistency in Data Science
What about a system where, if a product gets a certain amount of upvotes, it gets pinned to the top. So maybe there could be 10 or so products that get pinned to the top each day because they hit a threshold of upvotes, with the rest battling for a spot on the pinned list every day
how do you plan to filter spammy links?
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Nostalgia for the past is pretty universal in most people old enough to remember 5+ years ago. OP's article seems to be missing that everyone's nostalgia is very distinctly and uselessly different, like snowflakes.
Agreed, I live north of Vancouver in a town whose name you can probably guess and work remotely for a SV company. I make at least 2x what I'd make in Vancouver, based on various offers and talking to friends. I'm pretty happy with the arrangement.

So along with all of its other problems - ridiculous home prices, "zombie" neighbourhoods, terrible traffic, no night life to speak of - Vancouver also has awful salaries.

That said, we'll be driving in this weekend to see Star Wars.
Initially misunderstood your question and went to look-up what SSRI stood for. If anyone wants to know:

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i...
Tractor Beams are so much cooler than droids.
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At this point in time i feel the Linux world is split in two camps.

The "old" camp that has been with the ecosystem since the late 90s, and the new camp that came in with the post-dot-com/browser-war cheap and easy access to LAMP servers.

The former knows Linux from the kernel up, where the desktop is for the most part a way to deal with things that can't be represented in text.

The latter knows Linux from the desktop down, and want those shiny graphics everywhere.

GTK2 is of the old group, where tweaking and maximizing personal efficiency was king.

GTK3 is old the new group, where presenting some kind of top down design experiences is paramount.

Hell, it may not even be limited to Linux. Look at how Slack is getting all manner of attention, even though at its base it is IRC recreated. But now you can plaster every line with emoji(?!).

Damn it, i should not be feeling like a grumpy old geezer. I'm not even half way to retirement...
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Jack-of-all-trades is not everyone's metric.

Not all software works on whatever system you run, does that make that OS not worthy of whatever accolades it gets ?
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Ok it's working for you then. I think with housing costs factored in plus the net pay as the pay increase is taxed at a higher rate, plus quality of life issues make it less appealing.

In the main I'm talking about "world cities" where the big finance firms launder money through property, detaching the price from local wages, such as NY, LN and TK.

I wouldn't count Seattle as a "big" city. The OP was talking about NY and SF, both of these are very big.
Trust me on that.

Nah, you need much better evidence than that --esp. for such a sweeping claim.
Quite frankly I'm not surprised Wes is sour about how this was handled and the amount granted as bounty.

It's very rare for a single vulnerability to grant you keys to the kingdom. If you check pwn2own vast majority of the hacks leverage more than one.
Most major attacks start with a small bug.

The real severity of the vulnerability is how far can it be pushed to broaden the scope. In this case that admin panel was just an entry point to a whole chain of security SNAFUs (aws keys in files at a multi-billion-dollar internet company, seriously?).

To reiterate, he got access to:
- source code
- aws keys
- plethora of 3rd party platform keys
- a bunch of private keys
- user data

This might not be the million dollar bug, but close.

Just thing about what an actual attacker could have done with it:
- login as / impersonate ANY instagram account
- impersonate whole instagram (code + ssl keys!)
- inject malware into instagram app and sign it with your keys
- download tons of user data
- wreck havoc in aws (possibly expanding what he has access to - we don't know what else he would have been able to access had he spent weeks not hours exploring).

This is not a missing permission check allowing you to delete other peoples photos. This is huge and based of that credit and significantly higher bounty is due.

Aside from that the handling of the whole matter was not good:
- if your policy is not precise interpret it to your disadvantage. you screwed up not making it clear
- contacting his boss should only happen (if at all) after he has been asked the same account
- the post about "bug bounty ethics" misses the point. Following your logic heartbleed investigation should have ended when someone discovered a buffer over-read without exploring where that leads.
> "With the newly obtained AWS key... I queued up several buckets to download, and went to bed for the night."

This isn't about whether viewing files on an internet is technically downloading them; this is about retrieving files of enough size and quantity that you have to queue them up for an overnight download.
I get the sentiment of the thoughtcatalog link you posted, but aren't those exchanges either an extension of people taking advantage of either the relative anonymity provided by the internet/social media or private text conversations where no one else will likely ever read the messages?

I have never seen a guy get turned down by a woman in the real world and disparage her in such a way. Not at the bar, not anywhere else. The exchange is often over as quickly as it started. Any guy who responds to rejection in such a way and using such mediums of communication is spineless. I've come to see the terms "b---h" and "a--hole" in a dating context as words people use to describe others who won't give them the time of day.

At any rate, I think with dating today, people who are uninterested tend to just cut off all contact. It sucks to have somebody just ignore you, but they if they weren't an absolute "yes" to dating you or going on a date, then what's the point?
I really disagree on this.

Though I am biased, I've been working remotely for 5+ years.

Since relocating to the US I've been working part time from the office (I am about 30m away).

We are a small company and we still have 10-20% of the people working remotely, some in different time zones completely.

It takes time and process, but given the opportunity I believe it will work really well for a lot of organizations.
Please don't feel bad about this. The challenge wasn't to do something; it was to think about what you can do. If the answer is "I can't do anything to help right now", that's a perfectly legitimate answer.
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Read that in the form of TALKING LOUDER when people seem to not "get" your point.
>As I am a big proponent of free speech online, your implication of what I should and should not be able to say has been quite vexing to me, hence my annoyance.

See

>Stop reading so far into it.

and

>Be civil. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I make less than the year 0 at year 3.
Does anyone know who the author of this presentation is? It doesn't seem to be credited to anybody within the presentation itself.
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this is the point I am making - you want proof you are part of the problem before believing there is a problem.

We are so ingrained in this it's hard to think our way out.

The scientific approach here would be to record our words and tonality when dealing with all our co-workers and look for patterns. Anecdotes from blog posts are not going to cut it. This is something really deep in biology and society.

Good luck
SpaceX is launching its most powerful rocket yet this weekend
Posted (and flagged) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759316
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IMO, to hell with consistency. Windows is perhaps the most inconsistent ecosystem out there, but at the same time the most used one.
I'm not going to just sign on to an arbitrary promise like that, though. In the United States the people who talk about remediating what our societies have done, etc., have proposed things like massive and unending wealth transfers, unequal enforcement of the law, explicitly segregationist race-based government systems, and even secession. For that reason I am disinclined to just take someone talking about this subject at their word and say "sure, whatever you want."
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I agree. There's "fixing the PH democracy issue" and then there's going to far down the "hippy free love everything is a community all decisions are joint and open and everyone's opinion counts". The hippy path is a recipe for stagnation and failure - vision is needed and decisions, not abdication of responsibility to "the community".
Should. It wouldn't be the first script to have a bug.
The essential elements of a Rome-like ecosystem are willingness to innovate, the ecosystem exerting a pulling force on the surroundings drawing resources inexorably towards it due to ideas built structurally into the empire, and the aforementioned myopia and self-obsession stemming from pride. Power and innovation.

I think that programming can be further subdivided into web development and everything else, and then Rails as a platform compared to other frameworks.

Rome had its own evolution, and so each individual Rome is also in a different part of its evolution. When Rome fell, it did so not because of any real weakness on the part of the Romans, but because they'd succeeded in exporting what made them powerful to the surrounding lands. Rome couldn't maintain dominance faced with its provinces each wanting self-rule.

So I consider Rails in the last throes of empire. Its legions will still fuck you up, but it can't fight the whole world anymore. Still the best web dev framework out there, every other framework ends up reimplementing Rails, but it can't be all things to all people anymore.
I'm not an expert on federal campaign law, only state level, but it's possible this could also be considered a large in-kind campaign donation by the DNC. Certainly, there are real dollar prices associated with access to NGP VAN's databases and it seems very unlikely that the Sanders campaign got in for free. I can't speak to the legalities of it, but a court could certainly treat this as the DNC providing monetary aid to the Clinton campaign or even denying pre-paid services to the Sanders campaign without just compensation.

When we were given discounts on campaign databases, our financial paperwork was required to reflect them as donations.
"The argument on rents is important because, if correct, it means that there is nothing intrinsic to capitalism that led to this rapid rise in inequality, as for example argued by Thomas Piketty."

Isn't rent seeking the defining characteristic of capitalism? (compared to other ways to implement a market economy)
Yeah, but it's the same answer I would have had if you posted this last year too. That's what makes me feel shitty.

The only thing I've been able to do this year was find vulnerabilities in popular PHP projects and get them fixed. But that's par for the course and nothing special, really.
And when things lock up, you can't move or close anything because the buttons are unresponsive?
What bothers me is that:

1) "We invented W^X" -- No you didn't. Well, at best you re-invented it.
2) "It cannot be done on x86" -- Uh, PAX is doing it on x86.
...
3) "Oh look how awesome we are, we invented a way to do it work on x86 too." -- Whatevs.

Don't build a straw man from my comment and pretend that I said things I didn't.
(Sorry, this is a bit rambling. Hopefully it'll still be interesting to some of you. Have had a few pints at this point...)

EDIT: Actually, this is nearing "crazy" levels. Just ignore unless you really enjoy stream-of-consciousness. Sorry about this, HN! :)

I know I'm really late to the party here, but there's a premise in this whole discussion that I'm not sure I understand.

Why should we prevent AI from taking over? I mean, I "get it"... it wouldn't be HI and that feels kind of weird, but what's objectively special about HI? Why are we treating "HI==good" as axiomatic? I mean even us tribal, overly-emotional (&c) humans value DI (Dog Intelligence) even if we're pretty sure that it can't contemplate the fact that we're all made of the remnants of supernovae. There's no evidence as of yet that a greater intelligence a) exists[1], even in principle, or b) would be any less benevolent towards us. Perhaps they would even create nice little simulations for us to exist in. Though, I wonder what the purpose of my simulation is, given current circumstances :).

Yes, a transition from HI->AI would inevitably lead to a lot of human death (unless we're talking really out-there take-over plans involving disease and such), but would AI really be worse? And for whom and why? Humans themselves have caused a lot of death and we seem to value ourselves pretty highly overall (and undeservedly, IMO).

It might be that HI is the "end of the road" just like the Turing Machine appears to be the end of the road in terms of what you can compute... but not in terms of how fast you can compute it. Would "faster" automatically mean "better" (see footnote)? I dunno.

[1] The existence of a "higher" ("faster" is probable) intellige is a interesting question. How would you judge such a thing? Is there more "power"[2] to be gained through something other than being able to reflect at yourself? AFAIUI self-reflection is one of the distinuguishing features of intelligence, but given that we're "better" than Chimps -- who have an idea of "self", thus self-reflection -- it may not be the decider. And even so, such reflection is still subject to Physics and thus without "free will".

[2] Not just faster, but "better", in some non-linear sense.
I am about as partisan a supporter of desktop computing as anyone. I am utterly biased toward both consumption and creation using desktop-grade accouterments—very large screens, full size keyboards, mice, etc. To my mind, mobile devices are a stop-gap measure that suffice when I am indeed mobile. I don't (yet) expect my mobile device to project a 50 inch display and provide a solid tactile keyboard.

However, on that point made by the linked author, I do agree that mobile devices see far too much usage while situated in front of a desktop PC. In fact, I have ranted about this several times, addressing the specific matter in a blog entry from 2012 [1].

I feel there are two problems:

* Desktop computing has suffered from about a decade of lethargy and technological indolence. 4K monitors represent the first forward motion of note in a long time. For a non-trivial number of people, their desktop computing environment is inferior to their mobile device. Many people still aren't using 4K or better on the desktop; many people haven't upgraded their processor or their memory in a very long time; many people still use spinning hard drives.

* Today's common cloud model of computing leads to a disappointingly fractured multi-device lifestyle where we find ourselves drawn to interact with our mobile devices even when sitting at a desktop PC. Technologies such as Continuum and Handoff are a meager simulacrum of what we should have. I've been waiting for the advent of a computing model I call PAO, wherein applications are personal and where singular instances are made omnipresent across all of your devices. I believe we'll eventually get to something akin to that, though probably with a lot less control in the hands of the user than I'd like.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/i-see-the-problem
Just in the states? What about in Europe? FB, Google and others have headquarters in Dublin. I don't think they pay anything like that, do they?
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I will definitely use this over ProductHunt. I mean, for crying out loud, I signed up for PH just now to leave a comment and the first thing you get is "commenting is restricted to those users invited by others in the community". Yeah, so I have to supplicate myself to some random Internet stranger and beg permission just to comment on your site? Not happening...
By diving the theme scripts and dumping a crapload of settings in there, lovely...
You'd like to believe that but it's not.

See my reply to the other person replying to me.
"the best Linux desktop toolkit" depends primarily on the language you choose and the quality of its bindings to the toolkit

but consider that Qt aims to blend nicely into a GTK-based desktop environment, while its sometimes not even possible the other way round - eg using the "native" widgets of the desktop environment like file dialogs etc

"cross desktop environment" or whatever you might call this, is definitely not a top priority for the gtk-devs (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735211 for example)

its all fine if you develop for GNOME only, but you should be aware of GTKs current limitations when it comes to writing applications that look nice on all linux desktops

and porting from one toolkit to another can be heaps of work, so choose wisely..