skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the community? [citation-needed]. Also, I severely doubt that SO === all teh internetz; the premise "if it's not immediately and precisely answered on SO, all hope is lost" is just absurd (and directly contradicts most of the article which sparked this discussion, btw).
BofA offered 0% loans about 5-7 years ago.
It is very disappointing to see people who pioneered the Internet, and made fantastically wealthy in the process, abandon the old idealism of helping people - unless it conforms to their investments.

Reminds me of the comic about the guy who grew up on utopian futurism magazines only to find out it was all made up, and that people in Silicon Valley only cared about people with brains or money.

http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
But a stupid tactic is one that may result in defeat.

Sun Tzu's slightly-less-famous quote--"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight"--has two meanings, like a lot of Asian philosophy does. The obvious part is, as the saying goes, sieze the day. The less obvious part is that you should only sieze the day if you know you can hang onto it.

In the case of nukes, only a damn fool would nuke his own food supply or factories, or perhaps a spiteful loser.
> Pretty sure the best way to learn a new language involves lots of time practicing speaking.

It isn't. It really isn't. :)

While it is a big part, and necessary if you actually want to talk to people, in terms of time spent it is much more important to get the vocabulary in and as much exposure to expressions of the language by competent users as possible.

That's why people recommend travelling to where a language one wants to learn is spoken; not because one must speak it there as well, but because one hears and reads it there everywhere.
The issues with having the Space Shuttle slung on the side of the fuel tank, where falling foam could (and did, many times before Columbia) strike the Shuttle.
I agree 100%. I run into this every day.

The people who give up their ego and follow methodology, logic, etc. get things done.

The people who have an attitude don't get things done. Even worse, they often accuse everyone else of being arrogant and unhelpful.

On the Open Source mailing list I administer, I've had to resort to banning these people. Ask a question? OK. Argue with the answer? Not OK. Tell the people who are helping you that they're assholes for saying you did something wrong? Ban.
Where do you get "willingly, knowingly committing . . . felonies in the interest of making money . . ."? That's not what any of the articles say.

Inadequate process controls means employees were supposed to follow the law but things slipped through the cracks sometimes. Seems that happened a lot in Washington. But I'm pretty sure most of Zenefits' business is in CA. I would assume the brokers for most sales were licensed properly.
In your experience, are web designers big consumers of continuous-duty air samplers and continuous-duty air sampler accessories?

If so, the field has changed a lot since I've been involved.
Oh, you are right. I was mixing up FATCA and FBAR.
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Helicopters would come pick them up from the airport or embassy if it was necessary. The violence in Yemen started relatively far from the population centers where most expats are/were and progressed relatively slowly. They had plenty of time to get out of the country via normal transportation options. If outright combined arms conflict had suddenly erupted in the city, you can bet the various developed militaries of the world would have provided protection for their citizens to leave.

Also, a naval vessel absolutely qualifies as evacuating your citizens.
What if you went by a third-party review? IMO it should be illegal to remove functionality without changing the model number.
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Normal people aren't structurally important parts of the economy.

Not that I think it's clear that hedge funds and big banks are structurally necessary, but they've managed to create a system where they are considered important by all the people that matter.
If you can provide links to the relevant portion of the documentation or a relevant google search result, I think that's fine. But merely telling someone "read the manual" without adding anything else serves no purpose whatsoever.
I'm not saying we should ignore them. Just that for most people the two concepts "sex" and "gender" aren't separate, and trans people are simply regarded as quirky. For example there are people born with 6 functional fingers per hand but we still say that humans have 5 fingers per hand and don't say that humans have anywhere between 0 and 8 fingers per hand.

Treating sex and gender separately makes it seem like they just accidentally coincide in case of 99.x% of the people.
For anyone new to Elixir and is interested in it's performance, check out: https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown

tldr: It rivals Go in performance.
Thanks. Might as well say "Date: 1967" as well.

/s

This is obviously a historical piece.
Did you try deleting it and asking it again, rewritten in a way that makes it totally clear why it isn't a duplicate?
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It's almost laughable that there's no work to identify the most common mistakes beginners do and let compilers etc. explain them. You probably could catch most of them.

It's also ridiculous through how many hoops you have to jump to start programming. Take python, which is touted as a begginner friendly programming language. First you need to install it (most people use windows or os x, which both don't have python 3). Then you need to get an text editor. You're recommended to use the python repl, but it lacks syntax highlighting and autocompletion.
the reason for negative interest rates is deflation. any poor person earning a wage of any sort is getting a raise just for working.
Based on my understanding of genetics this reasoning is very unattractive. 500 generations is the blink of an eye in genetic terms, certainly not enough to establish a pervasive biological truth that splits the whole species across gender lines; maybe you could drive a single variant to global fixation in that time, certainly not a whole host of them. We also know nothing about how strong the selection in question might be. We know nothing, in fact, to suggest that evolution is "likely" other than our own gut feeling that it must be.

As for testing, that would be great. But it turns out that proving anything about human evolution is very hard, because most of the evidence is lost.
Thanks. I can't believe people on HN are defending FBAR. Go and take a look at the online form. It is disgusting how intrusive it is. I thought HN is supposed to be opposed to government intrusion into privacy.
> making it off by default guarantees the vast majority of users will never see it.

Good point. I suppose if I'm looking at it as a user I want to be able to turn on new things myself. If I'm looking at it as a creator/developer I want people to use this new awesome thing I spent all this time and money creating that I think will improve things for them.
Possibly. It'd have to be a huge battery, though.

New idea: Solar panels in a pyramid arrangement with a roll-cage to ensure that they land faceup. Throw on roof, leave. Let it autoconnect to Starbucks' wifi, then airpwn away.
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it just a race to the bottom. An attempt to force your currency lower until the other guy does it, one bank will lose. Eventually it will push the US to do similar if the currency exchange gets too out of whack.

it really does nothing to spur growth, if anything its an acknowledgment that those in charge cannot see the problem which means the credit market will stay stagnate and growth won't occur. Sadly it can also lead to more government borrowing under the idea "its free!"

if they want to spur economic growth they really need to look at the regulations which impact it and the tax laws the deter it. then top that off with forcing governments back to spending within their means so as not to take so much money out of the system
> I'd like an infix function composition operator.

Do you mean like the pipe symbol?

rand() |> println

Or are you referring to something else?
And much like the heroin addict, the highs these days just aren't that high anymore, and it will never even glimpse the power of that first time.
This discussion is making me think that Stack Overflow has a solid opportunity to rethink how their architecture/approach could be redesigned to minimize questions that get closed due to redundancy or other reasons. One could indefinitely kick the can by saying the user should have known how to use SO better, but the questions keep popping up and getting closed. I for one personally have only ever found useful data downthread in closed questions. You could say that means the design is working, but it would still seem like a ridiculous, even risible design.
A worthwhile article; thanks. I do think it could be improved with a link to esr's "How to Ask Questions the Right Way".
ZIRP is a massive wealth transfer as opposed to what? Positive rates?

ZIRP is a wealth transfer in the opposite direction if you compare it to what should be in place right now: very negative rates.

The wealth transfer argument makes no sense in the context of monetary policy.
I was discussing this yesterday with some people on IRC, and thought of writing a blog post about this myself.

Despite me being a very experienced programmer (I started to learn coding when I was 6 years old), I find SO extremely hostile.

Examples: One question of mine from 2010 got vote closed in 2014 (yes, people will hunt down questions even that later!) and now has vote deletes, also the same question the most upvoted answer is a snarky answer (copy paste of the answer: "You can't eat your cake and have it too.")

Recent questions: They all get downvoted and vote-duplicate even when they aren't.

I made some questions about RDTSC, people kept arguing with me about how I was doing something wrong, my CTO is retarded, or that I was retarded, or whatnot... and all I wanted was to fix some games (RDTSC behaviour changed from counting CPU cycles, to count whatever arbitrary frequency the hardware wants, this break old games that rely on it counting literal CPU cycles).

Another was when I asked details about some bizarre behaviour of Objective-C in recent versions of XCode, people said it was dupe (not exactly), that I was retarded, that it was all in the fucking manual, or that I could google it, and noone EVER replied with a single official answer.

I asked then on Quora, found out that XCode DO have non-standard behaviour (ie: stuff that ins't in Obj-C standard, and ins't in official distribution of LLVM), and that the Apple manual is wrong, thus no wonder why I wasn't finding the info on the manual or on google.

I asked about these issues on Stackoverflow Meta, got attacked, downvoted, deleted, etc... no meaningful discussion.

I am impressed that some people went to great lengths to argue with me without posting a proper answer, one guy even wrote something I considered an answer in the comments, but lacking details, I asked him to expand in an actual answer so I could accept it, and he replied in the comments: "Nah, that would be a waste of bandwidth."
This is very similar to how we're experimenting with adding Swift to existing projects. A nice read, well done.
I woke up twice at night when I lived next to the railway in London.

The first time was at 06:01, when there was a deep rumbling. I assumed a freight train had stopped outside for some reason, and was now accelerating hard.

The second time was a short while later, when my bedroom smelled like a bus depot and the sky had turned purple.

It turned out a fuel storage depot had exploded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire

I fled, to my university library in central London, which fortunately wasn't covered in smoke.
This is sound advice.

Also, I would recommend that you take your time and be picky about your next job. It may well take you into the summer and completion of your current project.

When I left my last job, I knew I was ready for probably a year beforehand. On the job, I wrapped up big projects, ensured my colleagues could work on everything that I had built, and mostly stuck to smaller projects and bugfix/maintenance sort of work. (It helped that I had a lot of antonomy in choosing my work.)

On the side, I spent time rebuilding my personal website/portfolio and creating/contributing to a few open source projects in areas I wanted to pursue. I applied to a few specific companies, but my next job actually came from an in-house recruiter who was impressed with my portfolio. I've been very happy so far.
Stores aren't "guilty" of anything. Prices fluctuate based on demand. That's normal. If you don't think that's normal, break out a basic economics textbook and do a bit of reading.
> It's a niche thing.

One needs a very special kind of schooling and/or social circle to even imagine there's a difference. It seems to be very limited to (some) Americans.

Some people suffer from phantom limb syndrome. The pain is real, but the limb is not. We've not yet reached a point where the politically correct thing to do is to pretend otherwise.
PC gaming is absolutely one of the main ways I relax in my spare time. It always will be because it's so effective (and fun).
This is just a tip of the iceberg. Junior questions on stack overflow and general attitude towards learning people how to work with the vocabulary and the basic concepts are sort of addressed by many great tutorials (codecombat.com <3), podcasts and in general helpful people that are out there.
But try to even formulate an advanced question, like "how should I fit this idea into my existing 200+ classes system". Even if you describe your problem in less than one page of text, there is no place to ask how to design stuff. I suspect most people just make enough mistakes to become this senior architect person who gets to say "oh yes, we did try that in the 70s, it won't work because X".

</rant>
The difference is that Intel is forcing this update (via Windows updates and by forcing mobo makers hands). Don't think AMD ever had that kind of power.

I am curious which AMD chips had the unlocking disabled?

I am still rocking AsRock 970 MB with AMD B50 which actually is an Athlon II X3 unlocked into a full blown Phenom II X4 (3 cores with no L3 cache into 4 cores with unlocked L3 cache).
Does anyone have a good online bookselling that isn't Amazon? I started using abebooks before realizing its Amazon owned. bookdepository.com is good, but not great. oreilly.com is good for their stuff. B&N is OK I guess.
I agree: since we're giving away free money, we might as well try to get something in return. But that's the beauty of our current system: one side gets money without having to give anything back. Companies would be suckers for agreeing to do anything in exchange for government money, today. Why do anything, when they can sit on their free non-inflating money and even get paid for it when rates go negative?

Which is why any real recovery from the current state of play can only be led by industrial and economic policy led by the State itself. The State will have to mass-hire and build something, anything, to kickstart new economic activity, because the private sector is just not going to do anything.
Thanks but doing a lot of things is at best neutral; at worst it distracts you and you miss the next Airbnb (though on the inside at least, it feels like we say no to a LOT of thing we could do).
As an intermediate developer I still have trouble with many source documentation. . It's a problem of information density- I don't know where on the page to get what I need, or the documentation examples have very basic implementation that don't cover my use case. And as a beginning developer you don't have the library of personal experience to work-around use cases.

Usually I have to find a third party simplified documentation sites, like dotnetperls or ss64, which have easy to read documentation.

Besides, at least with SO, it clearly states to search before you ask. The user is only asking because searching wasn't successful. An answer of "go search more" does not help the asker.
Maybe 'interesting tweet' would have been a better choice of words :)
Yesterday after I complained about Stackoverflow on IRC, and people on IRC could not help me, someone suggested that I asked on Quora.

I did, and they replied :)
Have you looked into Slant.co (https://www.slant.co/)
Not sure if I understood you correctly but replacing batteries yourself in your Macbook does definitely void warranty but does not brick the device.
This is another great example of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. [1] You're an expert in a field, read an article about it, realize how wrong people are, then read another article and think the author is an expert. Lots of people read this article, thinking the author and the novelist were correct. Then the actual experts wrote in and pointed out where it was wrong.

I think this is a great example of media bias toward drama without having the proper time to track down and research the truth. I expect, as the news cycle speeds up even more, articles will continue to be this wrong and worse. It's going to be ever harder to tell what is true and what is not. Anything pertaining to be true will require numerous citations and evidence. We can no longer rely on the brand ("NPR" or "NYT") to determine if something is true.

[1] https://embracepith.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/on-gell-mann-am...
I'll have to wait for my beta invite to put this to the test, but color me intrigued.
I guess I'm going to be the asshole today :

If someone lets a few rough edges on SO dissuade them from learning, they probably didn't care for any of this to begin with.

I mean, every single one of these traumatized "beginner" comments were sourced from reddit - where there are at least a half dozen subs that would gladly accommodate questions unsuitable for SO.

On a related note, I also don't understand why there is a constant push to coddle beginners to increasingly absurd degrees. It has literally never been easier to learn to program. There are hundreds of resources available to the aspiring learner - more so than any other field I'm aware of. Yet somehow the anal retentiveness of SO is the problem here? Come on.
Short summary: verdict - useless
I just use Priority Mode and put the phone face down if the notification led will distract me.
There are so many other ways to answer that though than asking why they are doing it.

Like.

"I would like to help you but I need some more context. What are you trying to do"
My understanding has it that this is a disingenuous misconstrual of what happened in the Hobby Lobby case. It's not that the corporation has religious beliefs. It's that the owners do - where that set of owners is sufficiently small and sufficiently homogeneous that that's reasonably well defined. And that those beliefs don't lose protection just because they are acting through their corporation instead of acting as an individual.

I have, at least, misgivings about the ultimate decision - and certainly disagree with the religious beliefs claimed by the owners of Hobby Lobby - but I think we should deal with the actual arguments.
While it address the situation on stack overflow, this is a problem in general with communities:

-It's my opinion that with enough time communities are
driven and shaped by the leaders this has at least the
following two aspects
-The leaders (assuming they were elected or emerged from
the community) will strength the core values of the
community (look at it as the identity).
-Previous statement can also be read as: they will make
everything they can from prevent the community to
become something they don't like

How do you prevent people with strong insert here characteristic or property, e.g. technical background and therefore after some time taking leadership from driving the community that way?

On the other hand (and I speak for myself here) when I started learning programming I were extremely frustrated with my first Java class for a desktop application, you copy paste something, modify it and then got into a situation where you ask for help.

Years later I did understand all the reasons why my approach was incorrect:

-you can place logic inside the class or outside of it
-You later learn that code should not repeat itself
something called *one source of truth*, how that
drives code from instances to the parents from where
it its inherit
-you later learn or discover that; that's the same
principle behind normalization on databases
-then you learn that behavior respects the same
rules and hence interfaces and contracts
-then you can understand easily mef and maf for
example
-....

for that basic point above I would have need to be told to read and learn about a lot of things, if you get to the other side, the simple question becomes a really long explanation and tutorship about something.

Maybe this exemplifies and proves the necessity that can be addressed by a new community, Ask and learn community with rules looking forward to address this kind of learning.
Pretty sure the microcode update is applied on every boot both by the mobo and the operating system.
A government aggressively trying to borrow less money gives you that image?
I struggled with this a bit at first. I moved all my config into my payload, which pleased me a lot, but only really works in the use case where Lambda is being triggered by a queue/topic message or by your direct invocation.
You can't concealed carry if you're in a bar either, or if you're intoxicated. There are tons of laws around guns.

That depends, the laws are so wildly varying that there are many states that allow concealed carry while at a bar, see e.g. the 2010 chart here: http://www.2acheck.com/but-you-cant-carry-a-gun-into-a-bar/ and as the article noted, states have been loosening their restrictions since then. Separately I noticed that includes Ohio as of a few years ago, and many of the in-between states have a "51%" law where it's OK if the establishment earns less than the majority of its income from alcohol. Virginia was in a weird state for a while, requiring you to unconceal while at one, a loophole in a poison pill added to the law that finally made it shall issue in the state.

Being "intoxicated" is a lot more complicated: certainly, in any jurisdiction where you come to the attention of the police while being both there are general laws that'll get you. But I seem to remember that at least one state, maybe my Missouri, allows even being intoxicated (as I recall, that was due to police arresting someone in his home where he had some guns while he was intoxicated). Many states allow carrying with a degree of alcohol in your blood short of legal intoxication (which can be below the statutory norm of 0.08%).
It's not a clear distinction. It's easy to point to, say, trans people, and cite them as an example of people with differing sex and gender. Yet that's not quite true: a trans person who has undergone hormone treatment, for example, is not quite their birth-assigned sex.
Are you referencing the PS3 forcing the option to either keep the ability to run linux or stay on the PSN, or was there something else?
Why wouldn't you just stick it in the mattress? When the loan matures, pay off the principal and keep the rest.
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I was talking about the T (since the question was how come someone doesn't get that sex != gender). The LGB part is a lot more, some estimates are even around 10%. The "gender issue" is almost 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the sexual orientation issue.

So that's the explanation why most people don't "get" or even think about the distinction, but they know about gays and lesbians.
I find that multiplayer games can become like this, which is why I mostly play immersive or lengthy single player games.
I think half.com is pretty good.