skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't mean mostly (majority), just means the largest block. If 10% of software devs are married to other software devs, and the remaining 90% are scattered across 100 professions with no single pairing exceeding 10%, then dev<->dev marriages will show as the largest.
"Switching to another tool won't solve this problem they're having." It will if those users don't follow them from GitHub.

Whether this is a bug or a feature is left as an exercise to the reader.
Resonance is quite a bad term if that's what you use it for. Resonance would require some amount of positive feedback. Vibration or oscillation would be a much better terms for simple periodic changes.
Just curious - how do you find this wrong? What utopia do you live in where money does not confer power?
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Bank of America has won the most patents among U.S. banks in recent years, with an active portfolio of more than 3,000.

I really have a problem with the kind of terminology used around obtaining a patent. You'll often see things like the above, "won a patent" or "awarded a patent". Late night infomercials seem to prefer saying that something is good/worth having because it was "awarded a patent". As if it is some kind race (despite that the way the patent system is structured, it often actually is a race, sigh), with two, or more, parties going head to head and there's some objective measurement that we'd all agree on that legitimizes the point count and the final outcome, like it's the Superbowl or the World Series. These 3,000 patents that BoA has aren't populated with stuff that someone else was also trying to patent at the same time, 99% of software patents are for things that no one else thinks about patenting (because they didn't think of them because they are highly specific to a business and are just obtained to pad the portfolio; or because others think they are too trivial or non-unique enough to patent (the situations the TFA describes as the banks being in traditionally). The terms "won" and "awarded" implies some level of worthiness beyond just being the first to speak.

No one would claim you'd "won" your drivers license because you went in, filled out some paperwork the right way, and was able to satisfy some minimal testing requirements (both knowledge and skill/experience). And obtaining a patent is almost exactly that same case.
Their website won't let me see the article without turning off my ad blocker. Thanks, but no thanks. Are there ways to spoof this?
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ah. One level of indirection. That can work.
But those businesses are not losing anything.

Taxpayers don't have to cover any more than they currently do.
Sadly, most people have forgotten about Usenet... or never knew it existed. The typical web forum is vastly inferior to most news clients.
It has always been quite easy to get software engineers from neighbouring low-wage countries for relatively low salaries. I guess that has affected the market, and that's why salaries of software engineers in Singapore are relatively low.
When I was living in Singapore, I moved to another job for this reason, as I found it hard to make a decent living as a software engineer.
You sound like a target audience for Blend.io. I don't use the site anymore but you might find it neat.
> Nothing you say in any way establishes that regulation by government works better than regulation by free market participants. All you're doing is describing what government regulation does.

Regulation by free market participants? Is that a joke? You mean like rating agencies giving AAA ratings to subprime CDOs? Free markets do not self regulate, they simply don't exist to do that. Free markets don't have foresight or a self preservation instincts, why exactly would they self regulate?
Monopolies, strange things, pure free markets inevitably lead to monopolies and monopolies inevitably destroy free markets.

I wonder, in your ideal world, would you do a microbial test on every milk carton you buy? I guess not, you would vote with your money, right? You would buy from trusted brands which have their milk tested by a third party, like a private milk rating agency. I bet you would only buy AAA milk ;). But what if all the milk producers would get together and get to an understanding that none of them will ever rate their milk and thus save themselves a lot of money? Where would you buy your milk now? You would grow your own cows, produce artisan milk? Multiply that for all the products you consume, how much effort would you need to expend in order to participate (and not get completely trashed) in a market unregulated by the government?

> Government regulators do not give or receive anything as part of the transaction, which is the definition of "a party to the transaction".

Governments are elected and as such they represent the people and the peoples will, thus any terms added by the government are in fact terms added by those participating in the transaction. The timing when the terms are added doesn't matter.

> And those terms are not voluntarily chosen by the parties;

Yes they are, when I buy milk, one of my terms is that it should have microbial content below dangerous levels as stated in the regulation related to microbial content of the milk.

> They were side effects of markets that were meddled with by governments in different ways than governments meddle now.

Really? I suppose you have an example to back that up? While you think of one, I suggest reading about working conditions and child labor during the industrial revolution.

> Slavery, for example, was clearly not the result of a free market transaction; the slaves didn't voluntarily agree to be slaves. It could only exist because governments legitimized the taking of slaves by force.

WAT? Before slavery, slavery was illegal? And the slaves didn't voluntarily agree to be slaves, as opposed to the slaves who voluntarily agree to be slaves?
S Tacoma, wow, she must be a saint :)
> Get someone to join the team who wants to fill in a PM role.

That sounds simple. You're volunteering, then?
Right, there's obviously transportation and infrastructure projects that are positive-value. We should do those. What we shouldn't do is invest in transportation and infrastructure projects without evaluating whether or not they're positive-value. Even if we have unprecedented ability to cheaply invest in infrastructure, that doesn't mean that all projects are worth doing.
Yes, http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ popularized this for ruby / rack / rails with its forking model and preload_app option. http://puma.io/ does the same thing, but additionally runs multiple threads in each process.

The garbage collector in Ruby 1.8 / 1.9 negated the benefits of copy-on-write forking, but that's fixed since Ruby 2.0
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Hey guys, How many hours do you allocate writing code? What advice do you have on how often a beginner (Web Developer) programmer should code per day? Cheers
Well when CGI takes the models' jobs they'll have plenty of time to hang out
AWS' Terms of Service “zombie clause”
According to clause 57.10 of AWS' Terms of Service (http://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/), it is NOT OK to use Lumberyard for life- or safety-critical systems, UNLESS there is a zombie apocalypse:

> 57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard
> Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard
> Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical
> systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated
> transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control,
> nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live
> combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the
> occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or
> successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or
> contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to
> consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to
> result in the fall of organized civilization.
(not a physicist) The universe is expanding, which makes the wavelengths longer the farther away the source is.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but I just don't consider a fledgling electric car manufacturer to be an "established interest."
Great point, thanks for pointing that out.
That's still not really a reason for GitHub to not respond. They don't have to agree or promise anything one way or another, but a response from GitHub outlining their position would at least give everyone a clear baseline for what to expect from GitHub in the future.
> That's not what http://rethinkdb.com/docs/quickstart/ says. It shows a connection that exposes context-bound Builder methods with trigger (insert, changes, run, etc) methods.

I think the confusion stems from the fact that the Quickstart guide assumes that you're running queries in the Data Explorer, a web frontend for prototyping queries. In the Data Explorer, clicking the "Run" button is what triggers the execution of the AST.

If you wrote something like `r.table("tv_shows").insert(...)` in your application code, it wouldn't do anything except for returning an AST object. You can store that object, or call the `run(conn)` method on it to send it over a RethinkDB connection and execute it.

Note that the `r` object in these queries has no state. You can think of it as a namespace that serves as a starting point for building queries.
A lot of times, folks who don't know much about a certain industry just don't know what to look for. It's also a rather lengthy process.

I'm super interested to hear what / how you do product search! Feel free to shoot me an email at nima@asksuto.com if you're up for a quick chat!
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postmortem from CEO: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca9N_zXXIAAwfm2.png
Definitely understandable - I appreciate you keeping an eye on us! Hopefully we will deliver that value for you someday.
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You could also do was last.fm did and just base it on what songs other users were listening to. I found a lot of great music through last.fm and was never impressed by Pandora. I use neither now.
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Duel between fascist versus socialist in the upcoming presidential election?
If they interact with each other, then wouldn't any "wave" collapse?

The particles leave the event in a smooth wave. Then they run into other waves, or each other, or just the background gravity fields. This perturbation should cause them to clump together. So in short order the smooth wave would become large blobs of gravitrons more akin to raindrops than waves. And without anything holding them apart, might not some of these clumps condense into some sort of ... I don't have the words for such an object. I wouldn't want to get in its way.
Is this not what we call "the race to the bottom"?
Actually I think that a locality and a country are quite different. If instead the comment was "these both come out of Brasilia" then there's perhaps some sense - one might think that perhaps there is some local culture that's aiding this sort of development or that there might be a local initiative that's helping to create a tech hub of sorts [but it could of course just be serendipity]. But just having a country in common - suppose one main developer is in a favela using a XO laptop and another is in a high class penthouse apartment, what's the link then, why does them being in the same country mean anything, they might not even talk the same language or have the same ethnicity.

Some interesting thoughts, thanks to all for tolerating my ponderings.
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"Today, foreign-born residents account for only 13% of the U.S. population but hold nearly a third of all patents and a quarter of all Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans."

Source : http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-of-immigrant-genius-1...
> I've been in software for a long time. There's no tool that solves this problem.

There's not a generic tool, but there's often a lot that can be done one the client side to gather relevant information for a bug report. This is why, e.g., many linux distributions have a built-in bug reporting tool -- it will also hoover up non-personal information that might be relevant to the bug you are filing -- packages installed, error stats, etc.
Link appears to be broken, working one is:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=a18d697454f9261b28ff
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063963 (438 points, 2 days ago, 179 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063862 (114 points, 2 days ago, 42 comments)
As long as the newbie doesn't walk away feeling like they've been shunted into the kindergarten playpen. But so long as you get ahead of that expectation mis-match, it actually is a really good way to get to know both a project and its surrounding development culture.
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Why should the 'workers' pay higher taxes, and the 'company' pay lower taxes? What makes that a morally just argument?
Open-sourced Parse now supports push notifications
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Just as facebook and twitter users being, well, good at social media spawned viable careers in social media, the cycle continues with snapchat apparently. Is this the first time this has been done? I'm sure DJ Khaled and other notorious snapchatters have staff helping them, I've just never seen a job posting for one before.
There are two sides to any communication, and when an attempt fails to convey the intended signal, in almost all cases both parties share the blame. One can argue about degree, but that's rarely productive.

I think in most cases like these, where people are offended by criticism, the problem is primarily a mismatch of social expectations, rather than either party being obnoxious or thin-skinned.

That said, in this case I tend to agree that ESR is doing an fairly good job at presenting his criticism in a constructive way, and it's certainly not too aggressive for Torvalds of all people.
uBlock works quite well.
Also not OP, but perhaps (s)he's looking for something like Clippy to put a face on the digital assistant?
Interesting, I think ggplot of it as the replacement for base graphics. Lattice is for fast, ugly plots but with fast development time; I could always build things up piece-by-piece with base graphics but ggplot makes it more convenient.
I'm glad to get insights of how people perceive cold emails, thanks.

The thing with the schedule link is interesting. The tool has a schedule form that can be set as default...after the prospect clicks on the link, the schedule form will appear.

I thing it depends on the email you are getting and the timing you open the email. If you don't have a big "batch" to process, like in the middle of the day and the mail says "are you free on __ for a call or if you prefer, we can have now a 3 minutes chat" ... or something like this, I think busy people are more likely to click the chat link instead scheduling phone calls.
Yeah it says male software developers are most likely to marry female teachers or administrative assistants, like practically every other majority-male profession. Would be more interesting to show trends relative to males in others professions rather than in absolute numbers.

(edit: replace 'male' with 'majority-male' as I didn't mean to sound 1950s, just meant the left side of the chart)
Of course not, I'm not talking about 200 Teslas parked outside. My reasoning was more or less this: devs, general low level employees, IT technician - they're not paid that much. They would probably be the low end of the pool of salaries. To rise the average so much it would take some good amount of overpayment for upper management and executives. All for a company that doesn't make money. Hence the observation about the cars.
I wonder if it will be part of the nexus line; perhaps it will run apps targeted for the Nexus Player.
143 issues over 2 years is an "onslaught"?

Edit: my bad, 143 is only "open" issues. Nearly 3,000 total.
Never heard the analogy of PMs to APIs, but that's the kind of thing that immediately gets stuck in your brain. Nicely put.
is she hot? men dont value women as much for professional achievements...
I see. If that's true, then light travels through a higher dimension, and this is definitive proof of at least a fourth spatial dimension. Otherwise there would be nothing for the 3d space to ripple through, or for light to travel through.

I'm surprised I haven't heard that light travels independent of 3d space compression before. That would also imply that if you enter a black hole with your feet at the bottom, you would see them visibly stretched far away from you (noticeably? I'm not sure) because light would take longer in the distortion to reach your eyes.
Come to Toronto. Much more funding, much less foreign ownership.
You're right, I wasn't there.

But it's not hard to have an engaging conversation with someone, even someone you are not interested in as a romantic partner. Especially when you have things in common to talk about.

He pointedly stated that he didn't want to do this, citing a problem he had with her attitude. To me, it doesn't matter what tone she used, what non-verbal cues she put out there. You're sitting there with someone doing nothing else but talking for an hour or so. If you can't make the most of it, and you blame the other person for that, then it's you that has the ego problem.

A conversation, particularly in a date context, is a delicate dance of perceptions, temptation, discovery, and yes, ego. It's fun whether or not you plan on doing anything else with them or even whether you like them.
For the BOFH in all of us – Powerful, low status jobs can lead to conflict
We've heard from a lot of users who want to run RethinkDB on their Windows computer for development purposes.

Production servers could then run on either Linux or Windows.

I'm not too familiar with Microsoft's licensing terms, so I can't really comment on that aspect.
You can do this. In the song you like, click on a tag to create the station. Then under the station preferences you can add variety, such as an artist, genre or another tag.
Scrolling just fine on this Mac.
probably won't see that, html isn't processed on my client. Any chance of a text version?
I would say feature.

If you have to sign up to file a bug, the bug is going to be important to you. You're likely to put a bit more effort into making sure the report is well-written.

If you already have a github account, you will probably simply do a drive-by bug report on anything that looks like a bug.

Bug reports are the lowest level of "contributions", and losing some people filing them isn't a big loss.
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I had an ongoing email dialogue with the Pandora CTO about this feature. Soon after Pandora's launch he said the future was coming soon but several years later he said that the way they had set up their database made it impractical for them to actually implement this feature.
Of course you'll find some males that "marry up", but the data proves what many of us have known forever - as a man, you should strive to be elite in something, preferably something useful and sexually attractive. Otherwise you're just another brick in the wall.

Where this is all going to blow up in society is the fact that women are now better-educated, and will soon make more money than their male counterparts, who are slowly getting more discriminated against (see Yahoo lawsuit) and less engaged in the proverbial rat race.

A case in point is looking at highly successful black females. They have a rough time in the dating scene, and this is extremely well-documented. Over the course of the next generation, I see this spreading to other females as well.

What effectively is going to happen is that you'll see more men dropping out of the marriage pool, the pareto principle in dating will become stronger than ever, and reliance upon the nanny state to help single mothers raise their children will likely go up too.

Hate it all you want, but these are three extremely well-established trends and I don't see them getting any better. Tinder is the canary in the coalmine. This is where we're heading.

A country needs strong, highly-engaged men who act as leaders. America is losing that more each and every day, and it saddens me.
Hopefully the result isn't as horribly complex as the FIX protocol...
https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-powerful-low-status-jobs-lead-to...
Good god please fix the scrolling. FWIW I immediately switch to reader mode, which strips all your ads/everything but the text out, because the scroll interaction is broken.
I've been astonished, doing research, at how un-portable "The graph I used for something like this last time" code has been.
Losing soundcloud would be terrible. Half of my music discovery is through soundcloud; Though I find myself listening 80% of the time on Spotify instead, moving over once I find an artist through soundcloud.

Soundcloud's mobile app is terrible though, randomly freezing and crashing. Wonder if poor engagement through the app contributed to the this loss posting.
Indeed. I'm actually completely serious about enjoying this stuff immensely on Reddit. It feels like a guilty pleasure at this stage of my life, but after six years and a while before that on Digg, Reddit at this point is part of my (internet) life, my identity even.

I just have this other identity that is HN, and my fear, however unfounded it may be, is that the two will intermingle too much and that I'll have to find yet another new place. And I'm already starting to feel to old for such a move...
I love this type of stuff, because it is an insight into the way that normal people (ie. not royalty) lived.
On average the ones without proper docs are lower educated and obviously take bottom tier jobs.

Legal immigrants tend to be college/uni educated and are able to enter higher paying jobs and some contribute to R&D. Many countries have some EDU requirements or some monetary requirements for fast track legal immigration. It's not unusual.

Now, back when the while world was mostly physical labor, things were different.
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It's perhaps not the perfect metaphor. But up till now all we have really directly observed from outside[1] our solar system are electromagnetic waves(of various wavelengths including visible light), and this is something quite different.

http://gmunu.mit.edu/sounds/sounds.html has a bit more info on why scientists tend to use the sound analogy when talking about gravitational waves.

[1] Maybe not entirely true, we have convincing evidence of some extra-solar dust reaching earth too..
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2,915 have already been closed. Averages out to 4 new issues a day.
It's their right. I have the same issue, and I can live my happy life without reading their content, so no big deal...
Centralization happens naturally. There's a reason why we see it again and again. https://medium.com/@Exolymph/i-swear-i-m-not-a-statist-df990...
147 open, 2915 closed. First page of issues is 25 in past 8 days.

Not sure what determines an onslaught, but just so the numbers are clear.
Isn't the point though that the gravitational wave observatories are looking specifically for "black swans" rather than just observing swans generally. So when a swan with a lower reflectivity is observed then it now fits the "black swan" profile. Could be just a swan covered in soot; you need more data to show that this swan is always black or that the lower reflectivity wasn't caused by a measuring anomaly, etc.

I may have pushed the analogy too far!
reminded how 20 years ago a school principal wife of an older guy in our IT department made sure that all unmarried/unattached guys from the department attended the Women's Day party (Russia) at her school :)