skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's trivial for someone that is used to it to do with a calculator. Especially an expert. When I did a lot of cad/solid works I'd memorized the most common fractions anyway. About 68' is not "accurate" since the answer is closer to 63'.
As a 44 year old programmer myself I wouldn't say a 25-year old manager would be the problem but rather dealing with a manager with maybe 3 years of real experience. Good managers, like good programmers, are a mix of ability and experience and many inexperienced managers haven't taken the lesson from _Space Camp_ to heart: being boss and being bossy aren't the same.
I think "whole data center is offline" is the sort of thing you call the boss for. Otherwise why is there a boss at all?
No. RMP is disabled by default in production and must be enabled manually with `Rack::MiniProfiler.authorize_request` - so you can set it up behind a URL parameter, or something more secure like your already-built admin system or whatever.
Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Javascript, react native, iOS, AngularJS

https://github.com/halilb

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/halilb

I'm mostly experienced on the client side for web projects. I've built several SPA's using AngularJS.

I also have some experience developing native iOS applications with objective-c. And i've been using my javascript and objective-c skills in a react native project lately. I really liked the idea and i'd like building more products using react-native.
Company claims they'll be able to resurrect the dead
As a user, I don't care how irksome the language designer finds these things.
There are similar MiniProfilers for Go, Node, and Dotnet: https://github.com/MiniProfiler
So you're not concerned about the possibility that more companies could afford to hire right now but won't for fear they will not be able to afford the employee in the future?
If someone is really bad you have issues firing them. I mean if someone watches pr0n all day in NL you just collect proof and that's; in PT we had to pay for the guy even then. That is a perverse incentive for employees; just get through the trial and then jerk off. I am a left wing voter and I am for employee protection but you need to be able to punish abuse and as far as we found we could not in PT nor in ES.

Edit: and to make sure; if an employee is good we will do anything we can afford to keep her/him; we are not the employer frauders like Oracle is in Malaga you also encounter...
PDF of paper available?
Highlights:

"I am the president of a small Missouri based corporation Accident Reconstruction Limited."

"[An accident reconstructionist] is someone who mathematically accesses, usually traffic accidents, and applies known formulas and physics laws to the occurrences that happened. And usually what it boils down to in the final draw is an assessment of time and distance on the sequence, or the events that occurred during the accident."

....

[The mathematical expert witness is asked to covert his own drawings to real units using his own scale. The problem is (3 + 3/16) * ~20 = 68. Calculator in hand, he has no idea how a scale works. In reality, he probably just measures these things and puts the numbers in a computer. So he has no idea if the computer is spitting back the correct information.]

....

"Are you capable of deriving any of these formulas?"

"Of deriving them? No sir. Not generally. We have been taught of how to look them up in the book. We have been taught in the use of them. But to break them down and derive them back to the square root and kinetic energy, no."

...

[The mathematical expert witness is then given the basic formula for applying a scale (multiplication). drawing * scale = answer. The mathematical expert then claims that he does not know how to multiply a fraction by 20 without a "formula sheet".]
Not to mention the time saved in testing due to the compiler catching many errors only unit tests could catch in python.
People should start calling the hypothesized next version Python 2.great.
where does it imply that?

To me this is an attempt to look past the BS of generic reasons given while quitting. What happened a year prior to lead to that moment? Regardless if it's 1 or 20 years into the employment.

If what you said was the absolute case nobody would quit unless they were going to a job that is more meaningful to them in relation to their life goals, which happens to a degree but I believe is sill in a minority. Reality is much less idealistic and the 10 smaller reasons listed in the post can absolutely lead to shields down.

Even if you're at SpaceX you may treat it as "paying the dues" or apprenticeship period of your life until you can go off and have more impact somewhere else.
Hansel: Diagnosing Faults in Open Stack [pdf]
I agree that the standard torrent use case of torrents containing small numbers of huge files rather fails with this protocol. However, I think it could be interesting for systems with large numbers of small files.

For instance, think about a LaTeX install. The user could, in a matter of seconds, download a torrent file to a multiple gigabyte repository of all of the fonts an modules that are available. They then run latex on whatever document that they're trying to render. The filesystem would download the libraries as needed, so everything the user needs would be available, but she wouldn't have to wait while downloading a bunch of libraries that she didn't need. Nor would she need to decide before hand which libraries to install or ignore, as everything would be on the filesystem. The user experience of waiting for the executables and base libraries to download whne run for the first time wouldn't be great, but arguable better than waiting for the entire distro to install in the standard case.
When I hear the Facebook-React people talk about "MVC", it seems like their experience of the term is from Native-UI frameworks, especially those with active Views that call themselves "MVC".
Then we have "Javascript MVC" frameworks like Angular, which have "bindings" and this makes them MVC.
Then I think about the Server-side web programmers (i.e. Rails) which are also "MVC" that render the whole response for a request.. the view is often just a template. This is also "MVC".
Basically the term has completely lost it's meaning at this point.. It's simply a pejorative term now, because we don't take the time to name/reveal the particular things we don't like about certain frameworks, we just call them MVC.
Hi there - no problem. Feel free to ask any question you'd like. You're not going to hurt our feelings and we'd rather clarify any confusion than let it linger and manifest into some weird FUD. On that note, we're quite active in the JRuby IRC and gitter rooms, so you ever have a question you want answered more real time, feel free to hop in and ask away.

The "can of worms" comment wasn't meant to be pejorative -- only that there's a lot to the problem and it's not exactly clean. There simply isn't an extension API in JRuby. There's just the JRuby JAR and whatever is publicly reachable.

The situation today is there are two backends available for JRuby: the standard IR-based one and the Truffle-based one. The two backends make use of shared infrastructure, but are otherwise quite distinct. E.g., both backends have different object models for Ruby-level classes & objects. Take Ruby strings for instance. They use a shared abstraction for the underlying implementation, but there's no shared interface -- it's all composition. Creating a Ruby string in a Java extension means importing org.jruby.RubyString and creating an instance of it. JRuby+Truffle represents strings differently, so creating a string that way presents a problem.

The simplest thing to do is translate everything between the two runtimes, but that incurs a lot of overhead, unnecessary object allocations, and grossly limits our ability to optimize calls. The harder solution is to provide a JRuby+Truffle implementation of the API, but given its current lack of definition, we'd have to support the de facto API for 100% compatibility and the de facto API is massive. We're working with the JRuby core team to annotate a portion of the API to be used for extensions, at which point the problem becomes much easier to manage.

FWIW - Prior to joining Oracle Labs I made a big gamble on JRuby for my start-up (Mogotest). I love JRuby and have been working with it for years outside of my current gig. I'd love to see JRuby+Truffle simply work with Java extensions, because they can be really nice (JDBC + Sequel is amazingly fast). Unfortunately, it's just a messy issue at the moment.
From TFA:

"A new study on long-term unemployment from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis [1] found that the prospects for women over 50 darkened after the Great RecesAge and Gender Differences in Long-Term Unemployment: Before and After the Great Recessionsion. In 2006-7, before the downturn hit, less than a quarter of the unemployed in this group had been out of work for more than six months. By 2012-13, older jobless women accounted for half of the long-term unemployed."

From the study itself [1]:

"In sum, men and women of all ages experienced a rise in [long-term unemployment (LTU)] after the Great Recession. In this essay, we document the lesser-known fact that LTU affected older women more strongly. This group experienced a remarkable change: from a low pre-recession LTU-to-unemployment ratio of 14 percent to a post-recession rate of 50 percent."

[1] "Age and Gender Differences in Long-Term Unemployment: Before and After the Great Recession" https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
Overcoming the Tyranny of “Should”
The switch from natural rope to plastic would be the main cause. I wonder if natural rope could be made as strong as modern plastics that way it would break down once in the ocean.

I know fishermen prefer plastic since it lasts longer. Even lobster traps are plastic these days no more artsy wooden traps they're only for the tourists to buy.
Detecting Anomalies in the Order of Equally-Typed Method Arguments (2011) [pdf]
But there is no trademark infringement here simply from the use of the domain "trumpd". Maybe if it was a real estate site and the logo was in gold letters.
Here's one idea: http://cycle.js.org/model-view-intent.html
The video of this deposition is in the comments above and is pretty spot on to the reenactment.
One Year Without Facebook
Not necessarily. The weight of the vehicle is offset by the friction of the wheels on the wall.

Imagine an ant. It doesn't have an external force such as a propeller. It can climb up walls but it can't fly in any capacity.
I'm curious as to has this plays out at scale. If you can reduce the number of machines needed by a factor of 10, then apart from the hardware/power savings, there are staffing savings too. Managing 1000 machines is different from managing 10,000
I love how at the end of the article, Ms. McAfee says "I did everything you’re supposed to do". This little bit of information pretty much encapsulates the entire point of the article:

Either Ms. McAfee didn't do everything you're supposed to do, or everything you're supposed to do is wrong.
I am not sure I am agreeing with you here...

I mean, take, for example, learning computer related stuff. Learning six languages at the same time, togther with operating systems, shells, databases, network protocols, frameworks, all at the same time. For me, that does not work. It is better to find some area to grow in, and to stick to that area for a while. Pretend the rest of all-the-things-to-learn does not exist. Only after becoming fluent, it pays to take on a different thing.

I guess the same goes for relationships; with significant others as well as with employers.
As opposed to what? Liver structure? Brain non-structural characteristics?
> production environment locally on your machine

Oxymoron!
I would check out the loopback framework: http://loopback.io/

It's built on top of express.js and offers some of the more "Railsy" features that express lacks. Also supports this idea of shared models between the client and server (going for that whole code reuse thing you're talking about).

The company was also bought by IBM so I'm feeling pretty confident that it's going to keep getting regular updates and long-term support. They offer a bunch of enterprise-type features for the paid version, but the free one will be enough for your needs.
A bit does not get 3 values.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
I am an employer (manufacturing) in Arizona USA, a "Fire-at-will" state. If I did not have this privilege, I would not take the risk hiring job candidates who interview poorly. I would be compelled to take the obvious best choice every time, and to never take a risk. Risks are too costly.

With Fire-at-Will I can take a chance on anyone. This is especially useful with lower lever, entry positions where they learn on the job. I have tried hiring all types; the results have been surprising. The sure thing employees aren't always, and the WTF employees sometimes surprise you.

The woman in charge of my accounting, was an 18 year old goth cosplayer, moved from the warehouse to the office as helper during a layoff. She is now 22 (still goth/cosplayer) and does her job like she has 20 years experience. I would never ever have hired her for that job if I could not fire her easily. But she is great.

This is the positive side of Fire-at-will. In practice, you never fire anyone on a whim because it destabilizes the rest of the employees. I only fire the people who need it, and by then most of the staff probably wants them gone anyway.
> If the 50 year old has the same amount of experience that the 25 year old has, they have been doing something seriously wrong.

I think this is the crux of it. When most people hire someone straight out of college they're looking for someone with the potential to do great things. Whereas when they hire someone who's 50, they're looking for someone who has done great things. But since a lot of people reach 50 without having done anything especially impressive, applying what hiring managers perceive as being the same set of standards to both age groups leaves older folks less likely to get hired even without any conscious discrimination.
> The data and cell reception really is now as good or better than AT&T and Verizon

This varies tremendously by area. Have you seen a source that shows this to be true overall, or is this just in your area?

IME as a happy T-Mobile user, T-Mobile is great in urban areas, but weak in suburban and rural areas--where most Americans live. It's only anecdotal, but it lines up with the anecdotes of other T-Mobile users I know.
If you sufficiently disrupt brain structure, it stops producing abstract thought.

This means that either the brain is producing abstract thought or that the brain is some sort of dualist mechanism for interacting with a soul of some description.

We have a very good theory describing how (in principle) the chemical structure of the brain can lead to observed behavior. The hard part now is figuring out the implementation details. I can tell you how a computer works in general even though I can't tell you how, exactly, a particular model running a particular OS works.

On the other hand, we have no physical evidence that dualism is correct (i.e. that thought arises from some non-physical mechanism), and any theory posited to account for this is vastly more complicated than the relatively simple behaviour governing the activity of neurons in the brain. Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate.

It also seems strange to me, if there is a non-physical mechanism of thought, that imbibing certain chemicals can vastly alter the behavior of this mechanism. On the other hand, this makes perfect sense if the source of thought is chemical interaction between neurons.
Here's the data:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...

Men have the exact same long-term unemployment share (50%) in the 50-64 range. So, it's an equally large problem for older men. I 'm baffled by the chauvinism of the author.
As a full time JavaScript developer, I would never choose Node.js for the back end if I had the choice. Elixir or Ruby all the way.
I agree with you on most counts; I believe in employee protection but again not without limits. If you have a video of an employee sleeping or watching porn or facebooking most of the time for a month you should be able to fire without benefits if you have a dossier. In that case the state should pick up the bill to takw care of the person not the company.
In general I think the state should pick up the tab from our tax money anyway, not the company as it does prevent people from hiring. It did not actually help much weakening the laws because they are still way too strong. If the state would just pick up the tab it is solved on all counts. But then again I am for basic income.

Edit: and I just do not buy it... I would hire in Spain right now if the laws were more like the US. I cannot afford to risk hiring and getting a bad apple or not being able to afford her later on. I know many startups in PT/ES with that attitude. So maybe the NL system were a dossier will allow you to fire or just have the state pay from the taxes the company pays per employee anyway.
Mondrian-Rest: A REST Interface for Mondrian ROLAP Server
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"It is a matter of preference"

As the previous comment points out, too much employee protection means no employee, not protected employee. You're suggesting the choice is secure employee vs insecure employee, whereas it seems it's actually insecure employee vs unemployed. If you make conditions unfavourable for employers, there won't be employers. I'm an employee, so I'd like protection, but it seems that's only possible to a degree, and when competing with other countries I guess it's a race to the bottom, until employees start leaving the country instead of the employers.
Networking doesn't really work like that from my experience, you show people that you're reliable and a good person to work with in some area they will assume you can transfer to Y even if you specialize in X, even senior positions hire people without direct experience and not only in software.

I've seen things like this happen in several jobs I've worked with - not all of which were programming (eg. at my first job CTP was replacing old printing plate development with manual film montage/exposure). People good enough at their work saw this sort of thing coming a long time ahead and start moving to the next thing way before it actually happened, people who got hit by it were people who barely knew their job to begin with and had no interest in keeping up to date - so I don't think this goes against my point.

And are you really surprised that people with no relevant experience get discriminated on age ? If your experience is completely irrelevant then you don't really have a lot to offer over a younger person (and younger in this context means <50 which is different from the classic software story of 20 yearolds vs 40 yearols where the differences are still debatable, there are undeniable differences in the below above 50 age groups, you're just past your prime at that point at least when it comes to adapting to new things).
My first thought was: What is the education system like in Portugal? Your father has good maths and knowledge at a problem solving level of applied science, and the kind of communication skills that come in middle management/technical jobs.

Are there exams that teenagers have to take?

Do those exams include mathematics/science content?

Is there a market for 'coaches'? People who coach students in their home at an hourly rate?

Context: I'm a teacher in the UK where we have quite an industry in private tutoring. Needs patience, readiness to read the textbooks and think how to explain the content, and ability to work with teenagers (a skill set that successful parents may have mastered:)

My other thought was: how much do they actually need per month? Have they done a budget?

I'll be retiring sometime next year and my occupational pension isn't huge. I'll need to make around 7 to 8 thousand pounds on top of it. I have some plans to generate income around that figure while also having some time.
I have had sleep issues for many years. I have seen sleep specialists regarding this issue. They basically tell you to reduce stress. But my daily life is not particularly stressful.

But my job as a software developer involves brain-intensive work, and when I come home after work, I work on hobby software development projects, which means my brain is working intensely whenever I am awake. That may be the stress leading to my sleep issues. But I can't give up my hobby.

All doctors want to do is put me on prescription pills for the rest of my life, and all of these prescription sleeping pills are addictive. So I have been avoiding prescription meds.

Then I discovered that magnesium supplements largely solves my problem. I hope this helps someone: If you have sleep issues try Magnesium L-Threonate. Magnesium fixed two issues for me: sleep and muscle stiffness.
Exactly. Show us the data or the summary of it, adjusted for the education and work experience.

The article doesn't even mention what the first two women's education is (Chettie McAfee, Lynn Colafrancesco), it just complains that they can't find a job. VP title in the past means nothing, some companies give out VP title to thousands of employees to save the money, it's just cheaper than giving a raise.
Yes, yes they have. Hate them for the exact same reason.
It's not a matter of protecting employers or employees "more" (and how would you directly compare? you would need to convert all policies to some sort of "protection unit").

It's a matter of protecting people who currently have a job or those who don't (including those who recently did). If you make it impossible to get rid of problematic employees, you make hiring new employees too risky. That in turn makes it so you can't get hired unless you have a perfect resume, with proper education and grades, and no gaps in employment, as that could indicate a risk, and the employer just can't take any chances, they need to reduce risk to the greatest extent possible.

The net result is less employment, and more workers who would do a fine job but just can't get hired anywhere.
I would try and word it more carefully. The phrase "in production" has serious meaning. I think that's what startled myself (and it seems like some others, too).
> jingoistic

Unless you're suggesting another civil war, I think you've chosen the wrong word.
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Anti-Isis hackers claim responsibility for BBC cyber-attack
Oh look at that you're right. Damn.
Adapting the Unity Game Engine for Large, High Res Displays
I would look at my team. If I already have lots of 25 year olds, I would choose the candidate with 50 years of age.

You can't substitute experience with intelligence and youth. And people always look at the diversity debate through the lens of the individual (is it fair to the individual?), when diversity could be really beneficial to the team.
Heading to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at (http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat03.htm) to get the most obviously relevant numbers:

Unemployment, men 50-54: 4.3%
Unemployment, women 50-54: 4.4%
Unemployment, men 55-64: 4.5%
Unemployment, women 55-64: 4.2%

These do not seem to indicate a difference between genders.
That is, unfortunately, impossible. All AIs need some kind of reward function, an incentive to do things. Without that they have no reason to do anything.