skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just cause of the imbalance, I guess. Same problem everywhere in the middle east - you have all these young, smart, energetic people who want to start families and careers, but there are no opportunities available to them. So they get mad and occasionally violent. And I don't blame them, either.
Cheer up! It's new beginnings , plenty of companies will hire with Google on your resume
Rest in Beats
Free Angular Widgets for Airbnb Property Investors
How do I use that built-in cons? What do I call it and how does it look? Is it visible in Yairchu's Euler problem 3 example?
"It's possible nowadays to live an almost completely ad-free life."

Sure, if you live in a cave. TV and movies are saturated with product placements. Grocers receive fees to give products better placement in the store. And it's amazing how many placements happen in health care--drug company sales reps are just the start of it.

Ad blockers are going to be like applying pesticides to insects. Those that don't die are just going to breed offspring that are that much harder to kill.
You can bypass the 7 free sessions limit by using Chrome Incognito, just open a new tab each time you run out of sessions
The /s went flying over my head.
I'm torn.

On one hand I do agree that she walked into the situation (living by herself, accepting that wage) with eyes wide open. But on the other there are a few valid points in both Talia's and Stefanie's letters that are, well, valid and useful observations and suggestions.

However, they're both lost in the entirely immature way both of these people went about expressing them. Both of these letters are full of erratic bursts of emotion, irrelevant sidelines and unbacked up statements.

They're both just rants, one a little more refined and sanctimonious than the other, but rants none the less.
Things have changed. In the 70s and 80s there was a spirit that things should become better for everybody. Then things changed and the motto was that the top people should take as much as they could get.

Even during the dotcom bubble there was a sense that this would be good for everybody. Obviously that was nonsense in hindsight. But now people have totally given up on the idea that things should improve for all of us. If you somehow didn't luck into the right job it's your problem that you don't make money.

Programmers watch out: Right now we are riding high but our day will come too when people will tell you "Who could be so stupid to learn coding.".
Excellent ! Thank you.. I am sure this will accompany me through countless hours of coding..
How important is the HR team at Google? Couldn't he try and go over their heads and speak directly with the people he would be working for?
I am mainly a hobbyist/newbie that recently started to learn Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. While I like them both, I would prefer to just work in Swift.

How soon does HN expect a Swift-based framework that is comparable to the maturity of Rails, or other powerful frameworks for that matter? Do you think Apple might jump in and introduce one of their own?
Man, completely agree. I fell in love with his work years ago and will never stop listening.

Not to compare these, because they're not even the same genre when you get down to it, but while poking around on Google Play Music the other day I found a series of tribute albums to Nujabes by Soul Jazz Collective:

Spring: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Soul_Jazz_Collecti...

Summer: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Soul_Jazz_Collecti...

Fall: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Soul_Jazz_Collecti...

Winter: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Soul_Jazz_Collecti...

Thought it was very sweet. And they're not bad for when you're just relaxing around the house
I thought you were exaggerating, but dear God.
For most situations, having the verb matching in person and number with the subject is enough redundancy. Conjugating also the gender bring the problem that every single thing you can name needs to carry a gender even if the concept of "gender" do not have any meaning.
Google Genomics Cookbook
From what I can tell, my boss told them I can do the job. They were too determined about it I believe.
Yup, I wrote a C++ implementation of the entire thing during my compiler class. https://github.com/jargnar/graph-coloring

Fun times!
The one that baffles me is how Chinese speakers (and other tone-language speakers) ever learn to speak and understand spoken English effectively. In English, tones (changes in pitch) are used to imply emotional shadings like sarcasm and surprise. In Chinese, tones are actually different words. It's hard for an English speaker to learn to pronounce tonal langauges (I did one year of Chinese, and my wife has a master's degree in it), but I'm amazed that Chinese people ever wrap their heads around all the unspoken, untaught meaning hidden in spoken English.
If this article would've been written in a more positive tone but managed to maintain the (rightfully) strong points it would have been much more effective.
> I'd argue conjugation and gender are just as complicated because they add additional memorization and dimension in order to speak correctly

I don't think conjugation is such a problem. I'm learning Spanish at the moment and learning the various endings is actually quite easy. What I find more difficult are all the irregular verbs.

On the other hand, I've been learning English for decades and oral communication is still difficult at times.
If you send me £30 I'll give you some of my double-strength placebo. Really powerful stuff, not available on the general market.
The problem is that during the shale boom and immediately after, technological progress has been such that a lot of the shale infrastructure is not necessary to maintain output for, say, another 10 years or so.

Rigs have gone down by 60-70%, oil production has gone down by ~4%. However even that pathetic 4% is not necessarily the result of rigs closing, as several oil storage facilities are quite literally full. There are a number of reports of oil rigs offering tankers full of crude free to anyone who'll come and get them. I'd bet we're going to find that a lot of crude has gotten dumped somewhere soon. None of that is counted in that statistic that's dropped by 4%.

Here's why : suppose you are a massively indebted oil producer, like all US oil producers are, and prices duck beneath your cost to produce. This does not delay loan repayments and/or interest repayments. What do you do ? Well, there's 2 things you can do:

1) You stop pumping. This stops cashflow and makes your situation obvious beyond any doubt. It also will immediately remove all control over the company by management and shareholders as bankruptcy proceedings begin.

2) You keep pumping. You stop paying suppliers ("delay" paying them is the polite term). You keep cashflow going. You're paying off most of your loans at the moment, because what's dragging you into the red is loan repayments. Bankruptcy proceedings will be delayed. In many cases the banks and your suppliers won't have many alternatives.

And so a lot of these companies are faced with a choice between "death now" and "death soon". In such cases you can bet "death soon" is going to be the more popular choice. That means insolvent companies will keep pumping up crude and selling it until their cashflow gets to the point the whole thing locks up.
I've got a 5x and it's been awesome. Haven't had any issues with the camera.
Canada's Credit Cycle Has Never Been This Desynchronized from the United States
Actually my parents' generation had it even easier. For example, baby boomer university students in the UK paid no tuition fees and were paid a grant by the government to go to University. When I went to uni that grant was changed to a loan. Now there's tuition fees on top.

Same for unemployment benefits. Stories from the 60's and 70's show British counterculture surviving pretty well on benefits. When I did a 6-month stint of unemployment in 1990 it was still possible - the state paid my rent and enough money to feed myself and buy cigarettes and a few beers. Now it's a brutally harsh life on benefits.

I know that's only examples of state handouts, but it's an indication of attitudes. Again, when did we get so convinced that life had to be so tough?
Rust exists in a domain where one-size-fits-all approaches to concurrency just don't work and where asynchronicity is usually irrelevant. Meanwhile Rust's type system manages to statically prevent data races without requiring Erlang-style deep copying, which is an advance to the state of the art. :)
The Rise of Robotics
Funny you should ask....

If I'm looking for something to buy:

1. I'll search for it directly. In particular, I'm interested in solid reviews. This quite often means not giving much credence to review mills -- CNET, Yelp, etc., -- where the nature and intentions of reviewers are quite often suspect. Amazon have this problem as well, though to a very slightly lesser extent.

2. Map-based systems (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps) are often what I use when seeking a specific option locally. I suspect thes are underappreciated.

3. Classifieds systems. There's a reason Craigslist took off like it did, though its quality/relevance have been lagging for some time. It's still ground zero for housing ads.

High quality recommendations mean a lot. I happened to be reading a blog through one of my rare unfiltered browsers, and realised it included book recommendations on the sidebar, for which the blog editor was highly qualified to offer assessments and endorsements. The state of advertising is so bad that I had missed these previously. The blog would be better off putting those recommendations into posts or other content less likely to be filtered. First time in quite literally years that I'd had the least sense of missing something.
what was cruel was trying to read that email thread.
Future Trends in Technology
I speak a couple languages and also noticed imprecision in each of them. What is interesting is where in the languages the imprecision occurs. It often seems to be a reflection of cultural values. In some Asian languages there is great importance placed on age-based social status. So the English pronouns he/she are replaced by pronouns that reflect age rather than gender. So on the one hand they are less precise because they don't indicate gender but more precise because they indicate age. And the titles for family members have many gradations. For example the English word "uncle" - there are different words for father's older brother, father's younger brother, mother's older brother, mother's younger brother.
Ask HN: Facebook Account Disabled
Not sure if anyone has the answer but I had a bunch of emails from Facebook today asking whether or not I requested my password to be reseted. Of course I didn't.

Just to be sure, I decided to add my mobile number to my account to add two-step verification. As soon as I added my number and verified the PIN they texted, my account was disabled and they requested I upload a government ID to prove who I was and requested that I do a social verification with a bunch of random photos to verify my friends.

I'm confident I got 100% of the tagged photos right but it keeps going in an infinite loop even though I finish tagging everything correctly (5/5 each time). Eventually it said I exhausted all my verification, essentially getting me nowhere.

I took a picture and uploaded my ID but I'm curious how long this process actually takes and why my account would be flagged by adding my number (a number I previously had on my Facebook account before).

Anyone who works at Facebook or dealt with this knows? As of right now my entire account is disabled and even a friend looking me up can't access my page or anything. This also means I can't access messenger or anything else utilizing my FB login.
is this even an argument against english? i can't really find the point he harps on about chinese and japanese for a bit (both objectively worse at being a lingua franca in so many ways) and then talks about spelling and pronunciation which i think misses the point entirely as these can be easily fixed with a modified simple english.

what language in widespread use is objectively better than english?
I won't put Google on my resume. It's hard to explain to the next employer
No, I'm implying that one way or another developers need to be paid for what they do if you want them to continue to write apps. I pay them directly because I don't like ads. Others choose free versions of apps to pay indirectly by subjecting themselves to ads. If I had a mechanism to pay publishers directly with a reasonable flat fee, I'd do that as well.
You want a nice even spread to make sure that one generation of workers can train, and in some way pay, for the other. The worse your education system the more dependent on the older generation you are.

In Japan I think the problem is a slow rate of birth. So the fear is that the percentage of the population above 65 will increase until it breaks the economy.
Because those people will need jobs. People in their 20's without jobs have a habit of filling streets and overthrowing governments.
Well, gosh. I submitted this to HN a day ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11140459
You were fired for not understanding the background check form and making a 'mistake' that is functionally indistinguishable from a commonly-attempted lie. Based on the title, you appear not to understand this. Anyone attempting to hire you who gets this kind of convoluted "because I didn't have a degree - well, yea, they have employees without degrees, I mean it's because I said I have a degree, and I almost do, but that was an accident, it was just checking a box on the form" story would probably be very skeptical - you would get further by saying straight up that you made a mistake on the background check form and they have a zero tolerance policy for this. Your current story makes you sound foolish.
Intentionally Deficient...
The same person behind that linked tweet has openly remarked about Dropbox's Rust usage, see for example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3w8dgn/announc...
As Ezhik mentions, this doesn't happen for me either so you might have installed a third party software that does this.
http://www.slideshare.net/SergeyMenshikov1/unique-elearning-...
And what's the rate of people believing in a God above?
For perspective 1% US GDP for 6 years is more than All foreign investment by Saudi Arabia.
True, but clearly there's people preferring a mobile home.
Nice. I built something similar recently, though not as fleshed out. It does use webpack for hot reloading on save: https://github.com/KevinGrandon/electron-boilerplate

And here is another popular boilerplate: https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate
Ok, I updated the title. But I really made a mistake. My educational background had little to do with hiring decision. Because you said it, many people work in Google without a degree. I said it in the story too. Google wouldn't have an issue if I was consistent.
Created an account just to say this is amazing. Rest in beats!
> When was the last time you bought something made in Saudi Arabia?

My family and I vacationed on Saudi Arabia back in 2000. We looked and looked for locally made items as souvenirs of our trip. Everything was imported. There was zero local industry. I finally picked up a discarded, hand-made camel hobble out of a dung pile. My family gave me a hard time, but hey! It was locally crafted with hand-woven rope and a hand-carved handle! It's now a unique momento hanging on our "travel wall" as a conversation starter.
Taiwan number one!
She was worth 100 million before taking the job. She's hasn't needed to work since 2004.
I visited North Korea on a tour in 2010. Back then, I had to leave my mobile phone in China, and the Google Maps of North Korea was totally blank.

The most important things for me - Jesus and technology - are illegal in North Korea. It was a fascinating experience! What surprised me most is that it is a "country", with working trains and postal service and businesses. The government just has totally different priorities to me.

I'd recommend North Korea for a honeymoon. There's no choice of hotels or restaurants, because you have to go to the government-approved ones. Other people can't contact you, so there's no disturbances. It was actually very relaxing!

On another note, I took the Trans-Siberian train across Russia in 2009, and narrowly avoided being arrested when trying to see if a North Korean logging camp is still active (I guess it is). Do you think it's safe to write up that experience now?
To me the goal is clusters of living units around a coworking space and a more specialized work space for some business. That way you can freely choose to be at home, get the benefits of an office without physical interruptions from your coworkers, or commute to your employer's cluster to get full coworker immersion. Some vacancy minimum would ensure as your family (or chosen family) shrinks and grows you simply switch to a more appropriate unit. Any extra inventory could be rented.

If a cluster was attached to a bakery for example, ideally it's super baking nerds who want to wake up at the bakery plus people who work in other domains but have a secondary interest in baked goods or eating them.
I wonder if we'll finally get sub 2ms audio latency from an android device via this dac, or whether its just going to be very nice quality audio with 100ms latency.
Economically and socially, Saudi Arabia is a mess. And it's not going to get better in the long run, even if oil prices rebound and they feel some degree of a respite. Technology is changing, and oil isn't going to be sufficient for the Saudis to keep the lid on things domestically.

When most countries industrialize, they go through significant social and economic changes. Saudi Arabia got to skip a lot of those changes, and the end result is that they're ill-prepared for when their reserves have dried up. Their non-oil sectors are practically non-existent, with very little non-petro industry in the country at all. They've got huge social stratification problems, and they have to deal with religious opposition to modernization and diversification (for fear of westernization). They've spent the 37 years since the Grand Mosque seizure radically empowering the extreme religious conservatives and bankrolling Wahhabi expansion overseas. It helped them avoid additional internal conflict by exporting their problem children, but when the money dries up, the devil's bargain is going to come to an end with it.

The reforms the Saudis need to make are too great, and they'd disrupt too many aspects of their economy at once. And that's before you include the religious opposition into the mix. Had they started years ago, and attempted to curtail some of the religious conservative's power early on, they might have been able to ride things out. As it is now, it's going to be a very bloody crash in every sense of the word.
We spent lots of time talking about parsing in my compiler class :-/
It's not a question of inherent difficulty, which doesn't make sense to quantify absolutely. It's all about how similar it is to the random person's native language, phonologically, morphologically, syntactically etc... Obviously Portuguese would be faster for a Spanish speaker to learn, since they are very similar in many aspects (in fact, they are both very conservative Iberian Romance languages) than it would be for a Spanish speaker to learn Polish. On the other hand, Polish would be easier to learn than Spanish for a Czech speaker. None of these are objectively more "difficult" or "complex" than one another. They are just "different".
It sounds like an unjust situation and I can understand being disappointed at what happened, but honestly I'd call it a win. You now have Google on your resume so you're setup for a much easier job search in the future.

You really haven't lost a lot: Google is now a typical big company with a lot of political stupidity that you have to navigate. You've just seen it for yourself: if HR is making decisions rather than engineers, then the environment isn't so good.

You'll have better quality of life, more of an impact, and more focus on coding at a smaller company.
SimpliSafe security system completely broken, no replay attack needed
I have some English knowledge as a non native speaker, and dutch was like Chinese for me, until some said something similar to this.

Not that I can speak or write anything but sometimes some isolated words make sense for me because of the English similarity
There's a before and after to Nujabes - it marks your life, enjoy!
I'm not too impressed with the article. Any language that achieves worldwide domination is going to expropriate whatever words are convenient from other languages, and they'll never fit in properly with the rest of the language.

English is one giant polyglot of other languages, including a hilarious mixture of old English with French (from when the French conquered Britain).

English also has many dialects and accents, some of which are borderline incomprehensible to other native (whatever that means) English speakers.
you can probably put that you contracted for Google and have your old manager confirm and give you reference
What was her net worth prior to moving to Yahoo? I assume she is wealthy from her time at Google, and the move to Yahoo was just because she wanted to work and was frustrated by what her position at Google had evolved to.
That might explain the lack of accountability.
If they can make a model i can hang on the wall (i really don't have the root space to mount this), i'm game.
While we are at it, the following is a selection of musicians whose work for me is both sedative and promotes focus (an oxymoron?). Ambient music usually garners a few sniggers, "this is what they play in spas" "whale music" etc, however in my experience can be an incredibly rewarding and effective method of relaxation and enjoyment.

Gas (Wolfgang Voigt) - Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s--IkNqI9og

Brian Eno - Discreet Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE6nQ0lkLdY

Willits + Sakamoto - Reticent Reminiscence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJdDwi1RS4&list=RDdskvPFt7w...

Aphex Twin - Stone in Focus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG16BTj5qT4

Bvdub - A Moment's Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exr3IAMaLPM

cv313 - Beyond The Clouds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqrRIDd5pSk

If you enjoy this type of music I thoroughly recommend the Headphone Commute blog. Apologies if a bit off topic.
Can LED bulbs already provide a light quality comparable with the light of the sun?
Saudi Arabia's population growth curve has been staggering.

1960-1980: 4m to 10m people

1980-2015: 10m to 30m people

650% increase in 55 years.

UAE 11000%, Kuwait 1250%, Oman 570%, Qatar 4800% and Jordan 680% have seen similarly massive increases.

(UAE is difficult to calculate due to political changes, either way it's a lot)

Syria 410%, Yemen 400%, Iraq 360%, Pakistan 300%, and Iran 250% have boomed to a slightly lesser extent as well.

Population growth by comparison over that time:

Australia 135%, Canada 100%, US 77%, France 47%, Japan 38%, UK 23%, Italy 20%, Germany 10%

Kenya 450%, Sudan 420%, Tanzania 400%, DR Congo 350%, Ethiopia 330%, Somalia 290%, Nigeria 280%, South Africa 210%, Egypt 200%

Malaysia 280%, Philippines 275%, Bangladesh 200%, Nepal 200%, Indonesia 185%, India 180%, Vietnam 165%, Myanmar 165%, Thailand 150%, China 100%, South Korea 100%

Venezuela 300%, Ecuador 250%, Mexico 220%, Dominican Republic 215%, Peru 200%, Colombia 200%, Brazil 175%, Argentina 105%, Cuba 60%
Japan is in dire need of more angels, investors say
“It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.”
Chinese is more full of double (or more) meanings than any other language I've studied. Chinese literature and poetry are famous for playing on multiple meanings of a single character or sound.