skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the point, the economy behind it is not obvious.

It is more often a cultural thing when 20-somethings working on their startup don't want a daddy to hang around with them. Corporations with strictly formal hiring procedures are usually less ageist.
> the core WTF is this: why doesn't OSX integrate a
> package manager for its unixy side?

They could, but my guess would be that they don't want friendly-looking tutorials (i.e. ones that the average user wouldn't be scared to follow) saying:

> Ah, you just need to update your packages; install foo:
> macman -Syu && macman -S foo

They don't want to 'have to' offer support for average users accidentally doing 'power user' things, because they were built in.
I wouldn't give my bank credentials fora 3rd party app. Even if you forgo trust, what happens when something goes wrong and the bank doesn't take responsibility for the 3rd party app?
There was a remark recently that most Jeopardy answers are Wikipedia titles. Consider Wikipedia as an ontology, with Wikipedia titles as the vocabulary. A search engine could associate articles with relevant Wikipedia titles, and try to do the same with queries. The first step of search is then relatively straightforward.
The really great thing about being in software in Silicon Valley is that you can more or less write your own meal ticket somewhere else.

My advice to anyone else in this situation is to do just that. The first time abuse happens, just walk out, have a laugh about it (it reflects on them not you), and find another gig. There are a lot of great jobs out there.

I have a lot of empathy now for all the crummy jobs where people don't have that agility to move - we are really privileged in that we don't have to put up for this.
Self-censorship in Putin's Russia
Yes. In an actual labor shortage, you'd see salaries going up 5%+ due to competition for candidates.

If you see something on par [or even worse, less than] inflation, there isn't a shortage of any kind.
Arielle Zuckerberg on Her First Six Months in VC at KPCB
I bought a 1W ultraviolet laser pointer and thought it was cool, but disappointed with how dim it was. Then it destroyed the CCD in a digital camera after a brief exposure, and I threw that shit away because it dawned on me that it was 200x more powerful than my 5mw red laser, and 99%+ of the light was invisible and that I was playing with something extremely dangerous.

It should have been obvious from how quickly the batteries drained, or how much heat I could feel from the beam, or how bright that dot looked when I pointed it at something UV-reactive.
Solar in Florida
That's a horrible experience.

But, to be fair, many newer structures have all their smoke detectors wired together so when one goes off, they all go off. I experienced that in my house, built in '97, which was extremely disorienting and stressful when it first happened. Growing up in a house built in the 80s, only the kitchen's smoke detector would go off if you burned something. I understand the perceived safety enhancement, but waking up the sleeping baby because dumb ol' dad smoked too much oil when stir frying something... Ugh.

Edit: formatting.
Wanted: remote work, light workload, results oriented company
I'm a strong engineer that hasn't found any problem that has driven me to dive in 110%. On its face I find the 5 day, 40+ hour work week ridiculous. I don't have a great network or like networking in general, so I don't believe contracting is a fit.

I'm looking for one of two things: a company with a result oriented culture that can withstand certain employees working less than 100% time; or, if the other isn't possible, an organization that is incapable of noticing when/if an employee is working. I wouldn't even include the latter if I didn't think it was probably easier to find, as sad as that is.

Any recommendations?
(I'm sure not wanting to work my ass off and get my rocks off learning the latest way to move/store/manipulate/interpret bits is going to offend some people here. Get on your soapbox if it makes you feel better.)
How much of those salary statistics are just reflections of general trends? An 0.4% increase per year over 12 years compounds to roughly a 5% increase. Given the stats at http://proximityone.com/statetrendsmhi_20002012.htm , we see that only two states had an increase in median income higher than that (and one, ND, is surely due to an oil boom).

What I find more sobering is that the real US median income decreased 6.6% from 2000-2012.
Excellent response. My default recommendation is Ada + SPARK but I can easily recommend a C subset + tooling for those reasons. Especially on the compiler issue as it's known that Ada compilers aren't what they advertise themselves to be. The static analysis observation I'm not as sure about. A combo of SPARK, safe concurrency, the monitor concept w/ restarts or failovers, and one analysis tool should cover about anything they want. There's a quality vs quantity effect in Ada vs C static analysis where I can't be sure which wins here.

The ecosystem is really weak, though. There's no doubt about that. I don't see that changing regardless of whether Ada stays around. It's why I'm excited about Rust's mainstream adoption where it might get where Ada is or exceed it as tooling improves. It's one of few times mainstream goes for The Right Thing over Worse is Better. Eiffel, esp SCOOP model, being another good example that has significant momentum. The CompSci people are doing amazing things with SCOOP extensions right now that could be implemented in an Ada successor.

So, still potential at least. Plus, at least our tooling for C is now good enough to emulate Ada's safety with the right people doing the work. Plus, we only have to buy 5 tools now. Much improvement over old days. ;)
Pointing out how foreign nationals are buying up houses in the Greater Vancouver Area and feeding our local housing bubble is "slightly racist"?

Edit: Nevermind, your post seems to have completely changed. I suppose you're just afraid this will translate into Xenophobia against [presumably] people like you.
...except, chemical engineers never get laid off. Those folks rock, and are always in high demand.
In a company environment with shared machines?
.NET

http://haacked.com/archive/2016/01/20/scientist/
Publicized "shortage" + stagnant wages = An attempt to lower employee costs by getting more people into the labor pool.
What is a white paper?
What is a white paper? What can and can't I do with it? Is a white paper a foss object for writers?
It would have been great if the author had mentioned the very important "how not to use"[1] text on httrack's site.

As an admin of a multi-gigabyte site I regularly have to deal with people who use httrack or similar tools without regard for bandwidth and cpu usage on the server side. "Dealing with" means to do binary traffic shaping via routing into a black hole.

[1] http://www.httrack.com/html/abuse.html
Related: http://monodraw.helftone.com is a beautiful ASCII Diagramming Tool for Mac.
Yep, please give full context. What was your question?
Thanks for being honest, though. It's interesting to read your perspective.
Laziness is a secret form of technical debt.

For example, I hit an issue when using Kimono where it refused to accept a given regular expression as valid, even after trying testing many variations which passed a regex checker. If I had just started with Python/BeautifulSoup, I could have completed the entire scraper in that time.
That influx of rich Chinese money is, if anything, slightly inflating the cost of education and punishing your referenced hard-working Americans. Identical to what it's doing in the real-estate market in, for example, Vancouver. Influx large sums of money into an especially finite system, and what you tend to get is inflation.

Taxpayers are mostly the ones doing the student loan subsidizing. Whether the loans are funded through the Treasury or semi-indirectly via the Fed, it overwhelmingly comes out of US taxpayer pockets one way or another.
> Especially with Java9 on its way, it's only going to get better.

What's Java 9 going to add that Kotlin can benefit from?
This type of workarounds would make sense if we were dealing with a product built by a few makers and released as a set of blueprints online...

This is produced by a company that Google, the most valuable company in the world, bought for $3.2B. It's weird that one needs to script around these issues.
> someone in Greece 2000 years ago

How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Philosophy-Programming

Summary:

Matt Butcher explores the philosophical systems devised by Plato and Aristotle,
showing how Plato laid the foundations for what is now OOP,
while Aristotle’s dynamic model is at the core of FP.
My main point is that there is no way for something like "2 + object" to do the right thing when member-function syntax is expected, whereas there is at least a way for a free function to do so; and the language could have avoided this problem.

I believe this is also the entire reason that recent C++ standards introduced free-function forms of things like begin(thing)/end(thing)/etc. because it was just too hard for something like a template to operate on a value when it couldn't tell whether or not object syntax would work.
Blank page?
https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix

...
It's what I thought, too. The split may come from the fact that the front-end is more complex, richer in information, harder to analyze, and harder to transform. The more you can do with it the more code it takes to represent. That's my hypothesis.

Far as Ada, I figured it would be difficult due to the large number of language features and complexities of analyzing a program for safety w/ all its rules. And any interactions that might emerge in that between features and rules. Could be easier than I think but my default belief is that it's not easy.
Does it really matter how many H1-Bs you allow every year? Look at how many big companies are opening offices in other cities especially in Vancouver or London just because of visa issues. Limiting H1-Bs is just going to force Facebooks and Googles to open up overseas dev centers. At least a high paid H1-B worker helps the American Economy in some ways.. He/She pays a ton of taxes, buys real estate and hopefully employs other Americans..
It wasn't really faster. The OP actually touched on that point, but let me repeat it without ambiguity:

An actual parser for the complex use-cases requires some custom code and isn't covered by what Kimono does.

What Kimono does can trivially be achieved by writing 15 lines of python (after importing httplib2 + BeautifulSoup).
Which is even reusable.

The only real use-case they had was the visual interface, so that "non-programmers can do it. No code required, etc. etc."
Heh. As if that ever did, or ever could work.
I currently have non-Wi-Fi programmable thermostats. I have no experience with Nest directly, but from the description of how it determines when to turn the temp up or down I don't see how it would be that "smart" for me. I work from home, but my office is nowhere near the downstairs thermostat. So any motion detection it might do would assume that nobody is home, when I in fact am.

On the other hand, my simple Honeywell thermostats do wonderfully because I can program them to my actual schedule and only need to adjust things twice a year. Sure, it's probably not as efficient as a dynamic algorithm, but I'd rather to do this than worry about waking up freezing in the middle of the night, or worse, having my condenser unit fried by an over-eager thermostat by starting/stopping it constantly.

I am thinking of getting something Wi-Fi compatible though because setting the temp from my phone would be really nice. Too bad not many work with multi-zone systems.
It was Erlang!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919897
Yes, that's one funny name for a thing. Another is "social justice" as in SJW.
"The remark is tailored to those..."

Ahh. Ok.

"Yet if it wasn't for the VM detour of the last 20 years"

You mean the C++ and VM detours? ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_paper
Ever since Windows 7, the taskbar has been on the left on every machine I use. I tried doing it on earlier Windows, but the small and long buttons made usability suffer and it looked stupid.
This "female founder" lacks diligence. There are many wrong things:

1. The guy on the conversation has an opinion. Everyone is entitled to his opinion. He is clearly not the guy doing the picking/selection. Just a stuff crew. Shaming people for their opinions (it'd have been worse to name him) is just as racist/sexist as you endure.

2. Every one, race, religion... goes through this. You can't prevent selection bias. But you might be able to defeat it with your startup performance. Human are biased, and trying to change their minds will not work. Which will lead us to the third point.

3. Markets will decide. In a capitalist market, the inefficient guy will not stand for long. In the long term, the efficient guy will win. Which is probably why software is eating the world. If women are better (or equal), things will work out in their favour on the long term. (e.g.: a VC that keeps an eye on female-founders because they are under-valued).

Conclusion: Don't write offensive and controversial blog posts when you are trying to raise money.
There's still a lot of programming out there that's not web or app programming (e.g., on the back-end side). Also, in the enterprise world, there's much less chasing of cool new web frameworks or languages. For example, there's nothing cool in the web sites where I do my banking or stock trades.
i was in the middle of editing my comment when you replied.

how is this any different than rich white dot com yuppies pushing lifelong latino or black residents out of San Francisco? am i supposed to feel sad for them, or sad for the white people getting pushed out of vancouver by rich asian people?

the answer is i don't really feel sad for either group. i'm sure it's sad if you're the one being pushed, but hey, apparently it happens to everyone.
Show HN: The Polyline
Just to take nationalism out of it; would you feel just as screwed if they were rich banker? You don't own that land and you can't use it unless it's literally a friend of yours. So what is the actual impact? Just the language on the signs?

Interestingly this is a bit of an exceptional case; it being a bubble and all you actually have leverage. The interesting thing about real-estate is that it's not like factories; the land doesn't itself produce value. If the people of Vancouver leave and it's nothing but investment property those prices will go down. Once they begin going down, it'll be a bad investment and they'll come down a lot (pretty common bubble situation). So if you think the market put the wrong price on those houses, just don't pay it and leave. Plenty of other good cities out there.
> when a post on better diffs showed up on Hacker News
> last week ... people below are asking why a bash script
> (that depends on a perl script) is being recommended to
> install via NPM? [cont. about using Homebrew]

This post is useful in general, but just to circle back on its motivation, for anyone wanting a non-npm (brew) install of the aforementioned diff tool (diff-so-fancy, not made by me) - I've a PR pending merge - Homebrew/homebrew#49040 [0].

In the mean time, you can tap it:

% brew tap OJFord/formulae
% brew install diff-so-fancy

[0](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/49040)
I didn't work at Nest, but for 2011 to 2012, I was a Systems Analyst for a similar company - selling smart thermostats to Quick Service Restaurants (Taco Bell's and McDonald's). One of the hidden problems we had was maintaining "smart" control when the end-user's thermal comfort level wasn't lining up. We turn on A/C to help dry up some humidity, but what we regard as ok the end-user was now "freezing".

The biggest issues and where I think the "always crunch time" mentality is due to the fact that customers ALWAYS have A/C or Heat. Messing with it leaves a very negative opinion, especially when we you think they want and what they really want don't match up. I remember tech supporting a call at 11pm on Christmas Eve because I was on duty and the steakhouse in Texas was having a party (Side note: AC units can't handle a lot of people in a confined space). Another time, I made trips to many fast food places the day before Thanksgiving since I was already driving that way to see family. I started at 6am and didn't get to my parents til 8pm.

Sadly after the Nest and the Internet of Things spark, a report came out about a year later that pointed out just having a simple HVAC scheduler was all you truly needed to be energy efficient. All the "micro-savings" you have by using PID controllers to 'ramp up' and 'coast down' did nothing for savings. If I can dig up the report, I'll post a link to it.
This is why I like the FirstAlert wireless detectors: mesh network so they all go off, but you program each one to announce with a voice which room the trouble is in. They even announce which one has the low battery instead of chirping in the middle of the night.
Some of those are really funny, but I was really hoping for a use of machine learning to generate names. I suppose that's too much to hope for eh? :)
> If how the English treated First Nations is any guide, you'll get a reservation at the end of the day.

Only if your vast assumption about China is correct, which it isn't. Their economy is in free-fall.

China's imports just collapsed by 19% in January, exports collapsed by 11%. Trillions of dollars of capital is rapidly fleeing their economy. Their government is in the midst of an extraordinarily violent and widespread crackdown on individual liberty, murdering billionaires and disappearing high-level executives and journalists. And they're going to have to dramatically devalue their currency, which will have the effect in real terms of slicing their economy down to size, including their wealth.

I'm not worried about your premise in the least.
Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor?
I am co-founder at a health care startup and and we are interested in building a service to help people find doctors. In talking to folks, we have found people value opinions of their friends and family in choosing a doctor over review websites like Yelp or HealthGrade. However, we have found some people hesitant to reach out to friends/family as it can understandably be a sensitive issue. We are trying to make this process a little easier.

1. Poll Your Friends/Family - This would be an easy way to send a request out to friends (whether from FB, Gmail, etc.) asking them for help in choosing a doc in an anonymous way. For example, someone may be looking for a good psychiatrist but this can be a hard to share unless done in an anonymous way. We would have pre-loaded data on several physicians making it easier for all involved to browse through options.

2. Free Personal Health Advisor - This would be a real person helping you choose a doctor. There are my nuances to choosing a doctor that many might not be aware of like choosing one in the same health care system.

Thanks! Would love to hear thoughts.
I did much the same and had a pretty horrible experience with Blackberry after owning multiple Iphones. I guess i realized that there are just so many basic IOS apps that actually had value to my life that weren't available on BB. These weren't the time-hole apps either that the article talks about (Snapchat, Facebook, IG, etc). I don't use social media at all (unless HN is considered social, which I guess it is) - but having things like reliable GPS, a reliable camera, apps for my line of work, Siri, etc, was just too good to pass up for me.
Well, lemme think...

2012, October. I, an American from upstate NY, am traveling on the Queen Elizabeth Way to visit a friend in Toronto, a city I last saw at the age of 3. There are at least 6 lanes on the highway, packed with drivers so cantankerous and forceful that save for the autumn gray I could swear I was in LA.

I'm approaching the city and a display by the road says the route is closed for construction. My maps app redirects me to another highway, which is completely closed after 15 miles of driving. Another redirect, all while forcing my way through the automobile equivalent of a massive hockey team.

Suffice to say, I didn't know the city, and I didn't have the chance to unfold a map.

The only part that was out of my control was the $300 in roaming charges.
>I expected very little from Honeywell, who I regard as a quaint, old-skool company.

Honeywell has been in business for 110 years. If you are in business that long you gotta be doing something right! I would assume.
Adobe Creative Cloud is the Tyler Durden of software.
The Trouble with Superman
"Why?

As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses" ... from FAQ: "service will shut down Feb 29, 2016"

In fact, they are so proud, they're giving all but ~2 weeks notice to said 125K developers, data scientists, and businesses to migrate off the platform? That is an abysmally small amount of time and if I was a paying customer, i'd be furious.

On the other hand, congrats to Kimono team!
I can remember only once having to take out my ID for a test - and that too was a school ID and not a state one. I went to a high tier midwestern school.
He gets cause and effect wrong. The reason why enrollments are so high is BECAUSE of the shortage. An increase in demand for X causes wages for X to increase. This increase in wages causes more people to want to supply X, by joining that field.

Also, the common argument of "There is no shortage for X, people just want to pay less money, than the current, extremely high price of X", is completely nonsensical.

The DEFINITION of a shortage is "I believe the price is too high". Thats how supply and demand works.

Example: Imagine if bread costed 100$ a loaf. Is there a shortage of food, or is it just people complaining that the price of bread is too high?

How else would you even define a shortage other than "the price is too high"?
Just a stupid rant.
What point are you trying to make? All I said is that Women is a (significantly!) larger group than Mothers, so it's wrong to equate the two. The latter is a subset, and an explanation that only covers them, as valid as it may be, is insufficient to explain something about all women.
Sad to see Kimono close down. I enjoyed using it for a small project, and was waiting to see a paid version with private APIs, but it was always "coming soon"...

I don't quite get why startups are not trying to generate revenue from day one.
I think your problem is your worry about offending people. When you are losing your home then offending anyone is the least of your worries.
Honest question: how did someone with such an abusive management style lead his company to success? I'd think that his employees would just leave and go work elsewhere.
Reddit employs an automoderator bot that supports a lot of different types of customization. Each subreddit may have a completely different bot configuration.

In the same context, you would think that the asshole/quality spiral (love this description, by the way) could be managed by a combination of moderation bots/humans and (especially) the voting system, but when a sub gets big (say 70k users), it's quite often the assholes who are most vocal and cause the most trouble. With that amount of users, there will be a certain amount of "brigading" and a certain group of users who will play along with the griefers for fun.

It's been mentioned above, but a user base can reach a "tipping point" where it becomes impossible to manage with a a small amount of moderators, a bot and a voting system.

Something will eventually give. I've seen all this play out numerous times and experienced it first-hand.