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I feel like you are being harsh. Recruiting seems like a pretty essential part to a fast growing company. And to say they affect the “local intelligence culture”, well there’s a lot of locals in SF who say that about all of tech and there’s many a way to define intelligence.

As a developer, I appreciate the role recruiters play. Reaching out cold to people isn’t easy and the fact someone else spends time on this while I write code is great. And the fact that my LinkedIn has multiple leads from people about job opportunities should I want to move is fantastic. Are we so spoiled to scoff at people offering us jobs when so many people can barely find quality work.

Certainly there are some shady players, but not really more than I’ve seen on the Engineering side, and my main issues have been less with recruiters and more with the hiring managers who the recruiters work for. “Oh, your rocket ship hasn’t grown revenue for 6 months straight yet you told me 100% YOY growth.” It was two directors of engineering and not a recruiter that lied to me about growth at a well respected YC startup. I blame the people crafting the message more than the messenger.
There's legislation happening to avoid that, for example http://time.com/4146012/france-food-waste-law/

> Officials in the French Parliament voted unanimously to put an end to food waste by forcing large grocery stores to donate unsold food.
When I worked in crap jobs, smoke breaks were a life saver. I worked at one place (a growers in rural England) where we only had 15 minutes for lunch (probably illegal) but we could take smoke breaks if we wanted. Everyone smoked super kings to maximise their break time.

I think something about smoking cigarettes is intimately linked to control of time, particularly in regimented industrial environments / crap jobs where you have to clock out to take a shit. When I smoked at work, it was like I was free for the duration of each cigarette.
A small number of quality subreddits. Sometimes quora. Private google group w college friends.
I wish Adobe upgraded Node to the LTS at least; last I checked, they still used Node 0.10.
Twitter

also, would highly recommend this: https://www.launchticker.com/
Is "petehunt" really a different person from "Pete Hunt"?
You're welcome. GitLab is indeed used at lots of universities.
:) +1 for carrot breaks
This undermines much of what you've said. The addictive properties of nicotine have been well studied. The 'pleasantness' associated with smoking is mostly caused by the relief of the need for nicotine.
Understood. I wasn't clear that I have no problem with being able to download a copy of the repository from as many pages/places as is reasonable, and there is no need to change that.

The specific top level complaint is about the releases page when visited by a human who would have the goal of building and installing the software release. There the "Source Code" link is misleading if the maintainer has a release file that is the expected one for building and installing the software.
> A small number of quality subreddits.

Such as?

I'm always looking to expand my reading list, as I find that I frequently read everything and there being nothing left to consume. :-(
Sociability, Golf Courses, and the Performance of Institutional Investors (2015)
I'm leaning towards an army of battle droids. I wonder if I can kickstart that...
I disagree that that is a good source of guidance. Even if we take that as a given, OF COURSE few organizations promote breaking the law (sometimes a crime it self).

Although, many, many push to change the law / restrictions put on scientific research. I can't spend time to google and list all the references. start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science#Projects_promotin...
yeah I totally didn't notice. I'm gonna just order the dot labels and put stickers on top. that's really cool the keys are custom like that.
They encrypt their torrents, so it's pretty useless.
Plos or NLM or any number of people will host the content for free; bandwidth is not at issue.
Where I live, glass is collected in three bins, labeled "white glass", "green glass", and "brown glass". The classic question is "What about blue glass?" As it turns out, all oddly-colored glass should go into the white glass bin since the recycling processes for green and brown glass are tuned for the specific dyes used.
London Review of Books

Private Eye
At the risk of talking out of my depth, to me it seems very nearly a cliche in criticism to hone in on a person's inconsistencies in order to unveil him or her as a hypocrite.

It ought to be well understood that human beings are not perfectly consistent animals. We struggle to maintain an unchanging public image through the course of a continuously and inevitably changing experience. If we had to live up always to our highest ideals in order to advise others on the best course of life, none of us would ever be situated to recommend a framework for living. In Seneca's case, a school of philosophy would today be without many of its best-known works.

Incidentally, I think the fact of our inconsistency is a strong argument in favor of protecting privacy. Most of us have unrealistic and irrational expectations of consistency for others. The only way to maintain a sense of peace under these circumstances is to maintain the freedom to say one thing and do another, at least some of the time. A world without privacy might well be one in which we are all subject to the sort of treatment Seneca has received from this article's writer.
> I can see the value in quickly knowing if new code is mucking with private/protected properties.

Would this do it?

re.findall(r'(?<!self)\._\w+', sourcelines)

Anytime you're using ``obj._foo`` and it's not ``self._foo`` that suggests you're mucking about with the internals of an object that the author didn't expect you to use.
If I was in it for the really long haul I would try to strike an integration deal with gitlab, and position myself as part of the ecosystem with gitlab for the source, and sourceforge for the binaries / large assets, and (try to) make money with commercial developers purchasing more private space for their assets (say free tier is x gb, you can pay for much more)

Not sure it would work, but I think having a counterpart to gitlab for the binaries/assets and for the non-technical users in general would be nice
I've been using GitLab at work for 8 months or so and we love it. It comes packed up with GitLAb-CI, which we use a lot, and Mattermost, a Slack clone. I'm hoping my boss will come to his senses and switch to Mattermost.
I enjoy the Audio Edition of The Economist -- I listen to it while biking to work.
Looks like pretty folders for pictures with titles with a grid background. I'm not sure why it's so revolutionary all of a sudden. Maybe the UI is really slick?
It can literally burst into flames?
Start with HTML & CSS then move on to JavaScript. https://ilovecoding.org/

JavaScript is the hottest language on the planet at the moment and it's getting bigger and bigger.
Shades of 2000, when saying "We want to do XML and --" would get chopped off by the piles of money falling on you. Stupid, stupid . . .
Business idea: A weekly newspaper or website that just republishes decade-long articles that were prophetic at the time and are still valid today.
I agree that as a company grows the culture will always change, there is no standing still. But we're very active in spreading and prioritizing our values. For information about our values please see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#values
Is it not? You can have GitHub pages for your project if you wish. Static website with no ads or malware added.

Sure it's not like editing couple input boxes, but SF UX never was good. Even as developer I found navigating SF painful (back then when it was the primary hosting location). I can't imagine it was much better for the average user.

I applaud the commitment, but I think SF should remain dead. It must be a lesion for anyone considering similar actions. The trust is non-existent, there are better alternatives and the world has moved on.

I think the best course of action is to put that commitment and people into a new name, better product and help those few projects still hosted on SF to migrate.
Actually reading papers for content would be a start, and not just assuming that a first-author nature paper means you are a genius. Nature editors are human beings who use normal criteria for deciding whether a paper is good. They don't even have subject matter expertise all of the time. It makes no sense to trust the nature brand above your own judgment as a reader.

There is a larger problem at work, however, of university administration and departments using these sorts of signposts to decide who is worthy. I think both widespread managerialism in unis and a poor funding climate are both at fault.
"Paranoid much?"

Well, remember what working in the media is like. It's an industry where writing opportunities are contracting, advertising is stronger than ever, pretty much all but the top tier of newspaper is writing clickbait, it's perceived that there's little prospect of it getting better, and they compete with Congress for major institution least respected by the public.

I wouldn't consider schadenfreude a paranoid theory, I'd consider it the expected outcome. It's hard to avoid wondering how much of the general tone of opinion in the media is a direct reflection of the fact that they aren't doing well. (Are they worried about the "1%" precisely because a couple members of the .01% are buying up their entire industry, and they see the .01% showing up in the reporting chain? I've seen people similarly wonder if part of the reason academia is so pessimistic in their writing is that their world really is in terrible shape and the sense of immanent collapse is scaring everybody.)
Let's play a game. It's called "NAME! YOUR! REPRESENTATIVES!!!!".

We'll start with the easiest and work our way up (subjectively):

1) Who's the President?

2) Who's your Governor?

3) Who's your Mayor?

4) Who are your Senators?

5) Who's your Representative?

6) Who's your State Senator?

7) Who's your State Representative/Assembly member?*

I ask these questions every time someone brings up their "The system is rigged, maaaaan". I've only found a handful of people that could name their Representative. Most people can't even name their senators. I always find it fascinating how people are able to trash talk their representatives when they don't even know who they are.

* Excluding you communist unicameral Nebraskans
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Feedly works fine
> > Something about running as root iirc?

> The daemon runs as root, so your containers are only as secure as the daemon itself.

This is not correct. The daemon only starts and monitors processes in this case. You can start a process as a different user. You can also use user namespaces to make "root in the container" not root on the host.
This is the most high-brow site I visit, so I'd be embarrassed to give you my list...
JavaCPP
> Really, Let's Encrypt has made this a no-brainer.

Sure, if you have the time and opportunity to check that the certificate renewal has worked properly every 60 days. Once you've written a cron job, of course, to do the renewal.

For someone who's primary task isn't IT that's probably not something they want to worry about or will forget about until people complain that the SSL is broken.

Probably better to throw $ to her to buy a multi-year SSL cert from a vendor.
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> Maybe Java will adopt these things in say 5 years - but why would you want to wait 5 years for them?

Exactly.

I'm an Android developer and while I have followed the latest OpenJDK developments on Android with interest, I don't really care much because I and my organization have already switched over to Kotlin. And since mixing Java and Kotlin files is so easy, everybody can do the transition at their own pace (we're still in the transition phase so our engineers are allowed to keep using Java if they so prefer but most of them have already switched 100% to Kotlin and they are not looking back).

It's a bit annoying to review code that mixes Java and Kotlin but it's temporary and I predict than in just a few months, the whole organization will be 100% using Kotlin. I suspect that by the time Android fully supports Java 8, we won't really care about it any more.
Nim is a modern Pascal/Delphi with a Pythonic syntax. You'll probably like it.
This _is_ the most anti-pythonic thing I've ever seen.
You'd think we can put people on the moon, land a probe on a comet, create a world wide network of computers yet we cannot make one of the best and oldest human habits healthy....
I thought you said you were directly involved with that letter? Don't you want to talk to one of the people who could make that happen?
Let me guess: Because the spoken language is English and the site has a clearly US-centric culture? Even more specifically, an SV culture. Have you ever seen a housing article about Fresno on the front page? New York? One could argue the bias lacked utility, but it's hardly incriminating.
Ask HN: What is something someone said that really changed your way of thinking?
Artificial intelligence could leave half the world unemployed
The daemon has had many security issues. They also only recently grew support for ACLs (which are only available as plugins), so any user that can write to the Docker socket is essentially equivalent to root.
blog.fefe.de
Private Eye.
The Week.
The Spectator.
The Information.
Monday Note.
Speaking of moral courage, how does one contribute institutional login credentials to sci-hub?
Time acquires Myspace, creates 2004's most fearsome media giant
Yes. It's more complicated than it needs to be, but to jump from this to "aws java doc sucks"? Most AWS doc (java or something else is pretty straightforward).

Here is a minimal SWF sample I've put together a while back: https://github.com/mirceal/swf-flow-java18-sample/blob/maste...

Also, Flow makes things exceptionally simple once you get how it works.

The SWF api is waaaay harder to use (correctly) than going through this tutorial.
You're expressing opinions ("arguable") when hard evidence is readily available.

Mouth and lung cancers and cardiovascular disease get all the headlines due to their mortality rates and hideous pictures.

But there's a whole spectrum of harm that exists well before you get to those extremes, and the evidence is easily found if you care to search for it.

See this 1993 study "Influence of cigarette smoking on human autonomic function" [1]

In habitual smokers, smoking acutely reduces baseline levels of vagal-cardiac nerve activity and completely resets vagally mediated arterial baroreceptor-cardiac reflex responses. Smoking also reduces muscle sympathetic nerve activity but augments increases of sympathetic activity triggered by brief arterial pressure reductions. This pattern of autonomic changes is likely to influence smokers' responses to acute arterial pressure reductions importantly.

Also, "Endocrine Effects of Tobacco Smoking" [2]

Over many years a large number of studies have demonstrated that exposure to cigarette smoke produces marked neuroendocrine changes. The effects of nicotine on the hypothalamicpituitary axis (HPA) were first studied by Balfour (1989), who showed that nicotine was a potent activator of the HPA. The basic mechanism of action of nicotine on these systems appears to be contingent on its ability to mimic the effects of acetylcholine at selected central nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptors (Rosecransland & Karin, 1998). There are at least three types of nicotine binding sites in the hypothalamus (Fuxe et al., 1989). Nicotine stimulates neuronal firing directly by acting at the binding sites or indirectly by causing the release of acetylcholine or monoaminergic neurotransmitters (such as dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin) (Pickworth & Fant, 1998). Nicotine can thus affect HPA function through a variety of paths (Rosecransland & Karin, 1998).

FYI it's often been observed that dysfunction of the HPA axis is a factor in depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, hypothyroidism and other debilitating illnesses. Eg...

One of the most enduring and replicated findings in biological psychiatry is activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in a subset of patients with major depressive disorder. This review will discuss some of these findings and their pertinence to the assessment and treatment of depressed patients. [3]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8339419/

[2] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/496223_2

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC181180/
For world context: The Economist

For industry context: O'Reilly Radar

A national newspaper for headlines.

The rest is hobby related: bass guitar, 3D printing etc.
Stat's are taken from git repo. In general, it's not trivial to recognize the same person if he/she uses different names/emails. There isn't any heuristics in place and some people can appear more than once.
Publishing in the most prestigious journals is hugely important. The first thing many academic hiring/promotion/grant committees look at is how many Nobel Prizes you've won, the second thing is how many publications you have in Nature or Science. Everything else is just for breaking ties. I've even heard that there are fields where having any conference publications counts against you.
Death to Elsevier. I hope everyone knows the story about how they used to be involved in the international arms trade until outrage at The Lancet forced them to stop:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809159/
For a moment I thought "notebook" meant like laptop.

And I was like, wow that is amazing, they crowdsourced data from all over the world.

Then I remembered the sensitivity of the instruments used and how dumb I was.

But it really would be cool if oneday people had smartphones so advanced they could contribute to worldwide collection of data that needed a huge area to sample. I think they are talking about doing that for earthquake alerts.
Can you clarify what you mean by 'competitive'? Are you talking about performance, or some other measure of quality?
Revert on Red Build
https://lobste.rs/ _sometimes_ gets things before HN. I also follow Product Hunt but I don't find either are as consistently high in quality has HN. Last year I made http://serializer.io/ that aggregates items linearly from all 3 (and some others) on a single page.
So,

If, the king, reserves all the political power to themselves you would not join (and expect your children) to not join in a revolution against them?

If corrupt gov officials & cronies. keep all the food/medical aide for themselves, you would let your family starve, sick child die before stealing what you needed?

My point is your "lesson" is overly simplistic and naive. Reality is much grayer and messier. Some believe what in other contexts would be considered unethical, is morally justified, even morally required when it is needed to combat injustice/other unethical situation. But, sometimes the means do not justify ends. (messy). Why you and your kids need critical thinking more than simplistic platitudes.
It's as if we switched, in a culture of frequent duels, from dueling with pistols to the death, to dueling with new, fairly safe boxing gloves to the submission.

"But they cause concussions", you say. "But the children will be more likely to take up dueling", you say. "We should ban them". "Look, we banned putting stickers on guns long ago so they wouldn't appear to children, but they're putting stickers on boxing gloves now! The horror!"

"But look, the problem is this obscene need to fight each other over honor. It's a problem of the patriarchy. We should publish hundreds of studies showing this while glancing furtively at the 'ban boxing' folks"

The death toll from smoking rivals the death toll from all the wars in the 20th century. Even after this was made clear, people found themselves unable to quit, smoking until they die. The evidence suggests that e-cigs are somewhere in the vicinity of coffee as a danger to your health. They are incomparably safer, and if just one percent of e-cig users began using them in order to quit smoking, that's worth it.

This study is completely uncontrolled, and being promoted as a hit piece. "Environment influences gene expression" is not novel. If they want to impress on me that there is anything of any importance whatsoever, they need to do the same gene expression tests on groups who ate hummus vs who did not eat hummus, groups who took a daily walk vs groups who did not, groups who drink tea vs groups who did not.
That would miss some things, like iteration of all properties without a direct reference, subclasses accessing _Parent__private stuff, etc.

I'm not actively looking for a solution, just noting this might be more well received if you could easily turn it off and on.

Edit: Again, not looking for solutions. I thought the feedback of being able to turn it on/off might be useful for the OP.
There is one thing about github I find annoying, which is inseparable from what makes it great. On SF, it was normal and the cultural norm to find compiled software along with the the source. I just spent my morning going back and forth with a dev on github because his project will not compile on my machine. I had found a cludgey hack to get working, but it broke any chance of future commits, and I figured he would rather have things working right. We both just gave up in the end, it wasn't worth the time for the estimated amount of effort I was going to put into the project.

Given the widely different environments people work in, it would be nice to see a bit more compiled code, and the concomitant dev effort before release to make sure it is actually possible for other people to use. On SF I downloaded so many little utilities similar to GNU tools that just worked and got me running in under a minute on Windows, and that is much harder to find today (except on SF--and I hope they come back to rock on!).
> If you suddenly find yourself in a position when you need deallocation for something that is not supposed to be dislocated then I'd rather have it fail with as much noise as possible than have it covered. E.g. I prefer game crashing on out of memory rather soon than going on with thrashing the heap till it crashes 8 hours into the soak test due to the heap fragmentation.

How would this be different?

> I don't know anybody who would agree with this.

It isn't really something to agree on, in one scenario you have options for automation but don't give up anything, in the other scenario you have no ability to use ownership or scope semantics whether you want to or not.