skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I should mention that I haven't seen anything at all to think that we'd need this, but I'm a firm believer that all free software communities should have Codes of Conduct, just in case."

"because the participants in this thread would rather have a smaller but safer community rather than a larger but more dangerous (for marginalized people) community"

It all makes sense now.
David Heinemeier Hansson Q&A
I think Ackman would argue it's only the top management and insiders who are shady, and only they who make significant money.
That's a darned shame. I'm aware that there are a lot of areas that people want to fix on MW Core.

I get really concerned when I hear that the person who holds the vision and direction for the Wikimedia Foundation didn't really participate in it beforehand, and I get even more concerned when I see that she branches off into proposals for search technology that appear to be far outside the scope of Wikimedia projects.

Nobody has ever thought search in Wikipedia or the various projects was particularly effective. However, bringing everything together doesn't just involve searching, and frankly there are a number of more pressing governance and community issues that need to be managed.

Perhaps I'm being a bit unfair here, but she was profiled when she first joined the WMF Board, and the following was said about her:

At the meeting, she described the impact on friends and family of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the difficulty of getting reliable information in the face of “so much secrecy.”

Yet we see that this is precisely what happened with this grant proposal. A major grant was applied for and awarded and not even WMF staffers knew about it. You can see on the mailing list that it was a total shock when it was finally revealed.

I'm watching this train wreck from afar, but closer than others because some of my friends are deeply involved in Wikipedia and the WMF. I'm always amazed that a leadership change can complete kill an organisation. I've seen it in the corporate world, and I see it all the time in the volunteer world as well. The Wikimedia Foundation seems to be yet another victim of the appointment of a clueless leader, with no experience in the area or with the group they are meant to be leading, thrashing around, making changes without really understanding how systems work, the history of the organisation or relying on the experience and sage advise of the many expert and dedicated people around them, ultimately leading to a great deal of unnecessary turmoil, ill-will and frankly destruction in their wake.
Robots: Destroying jobs, our economy, and possibly the world
Interesting! Do you have separate symbol tables for functions and variables, then?

I've taken the major design decision that there's only one symbol table for variables, so every function is a functor. I'm not sure it's possible to reconcile this with function overloading (Go/Javascript don't)

EDIT: i suppose you could have a different symbol table for each variable type, incorporating function arities.
I think that says it all. Your HN Hiring Trends site is awesome!
It's all hearsay and coincidence, stop spreading GOP FUD,stop thinking about this, and vote Clinton 2016. Don't ask questions.
Yeah, nobody knows this more than myself. I created [citation needed] and I've watched it be misused for years. I am glad I came up with the idea, but I'm resigned to the fact that it's human nature to misuse a valuable idea.
http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=cobol Showing 1-10 of 131,923 Cobol jobs
The vanity of Mayer? FFS she's been trying to save Yahoo.
I'm not sure if that's the best way to describe them. IMO, NumPy/SciPy are probably best described as Python wrappers for a wide range of C and Fortran codes, but they add quite a lot of value on top of that. If you've ever used e.g. LAPACK or VODE directly, you'll probably have horrible memories that you prefer not to recall. NumPy and SciPy have a large contribution in that they unify (admittedly, neither is really a paragon of consistency, but...) a huge range of disparate libraries under a much more accessible interface.

To say NumPy or SciPy is just the sum of the libraries it uses is a bit like calling MATLAB a fancy interface for LAPACK. That really was what MATLAB was intended to be originally, but to reduce it to that is missing the appeal. As somebody who absolutely loathes MATLAB, even I wouldn't think that is fair.
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Keep in mind that scripting languages are often mentioned in job postings as secondary skills. There are TONS of "Java/C++ developer, would be nice if you knew some Python or Ruby" which get counted as "Python jobs" when you do something like this.
Hahaha those perfect post-its. Wonder how much that ran them.
American Rivers has a map of dam removal projects: http://www.americanrivers.org/initiatives/dams/dam-removals-...
I took an automata class where the professor talked into the chalkboard and refused to explain why we were required to learn any of the material. It wasn't until later in the compilers course that we had a teacher who actually took the time to explain how all that mysterious theory actually had a place in the real world. So many light bulbs went off in my head during that class.
Anything that breaks code AGAIN will kill the language for sure.
convicted felon Admiral Poindexter

All charges from Congress, and all quickly reversed on appeal, making him no longer a "felon".
I really do wish I could agree, but sadly I cannot. Let's grant that the last time I tried to put TeXmacs into serious use was two years ago, but I don't see indicators much of it would have changed.

TeXmacs fails at usability right off the bat, even being unfamiliar to those used to Emacs keyboard chords (it's sort of implied in the name to be for that use-case), and I found it a little better after changing it to a CUA mode (I think it was called "GNOME Look and Feel"?). Finding crap in the toolbars and menu was obtuse, or even what all the keyboard shortcuts were. And then there was the fact that it was super-easy to crash and lose all your work in an instant. I found a particularly nasty case where just changing the type of header (chapter, sub-chapter, etc) crashed TeXmacs and caused all further attempts to open the file to crash the program immediately... grr

I would love if TeXmacs improves, or has improved, but I absolutely can't recommend it for serious work. Way too crash-happy, on both Debian and Windows systems. LyX is rock-solid stable, on the other hand (and has fewer "gotchas" due to its lack of WYSYWIG).
Couldn't this be a result of the massively increased amount of conflict in the region since Bush's second term?
>Python is significantly slower than JavaScript

I don't think there's anything inherent about either language that makes it faster or slower than the other, and it's not really fair to compare one high-performance implementation (Node) with another specific implementation (CPython) when there are other options. For example, have you compared Node vs. PyPy? In my experience they're very close.
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I'm suggesting that Greenwald has no problems with hagiography when the subjects are politically useful to him.
Agreed. If somebody starts to writes this book, put me down for a few copies on "pre-order" now.
Twitter's UX and 'bullying'
Sad thing is Opalgate is real. Twitter stalking is apparently a key ingredient for making (safe spaces). Its almost imposable to tell if its satire or real anymore given how crazy some of these people are.
Yup, various court cases depend on it.

It was ruled that it was one http://mynewsla.com/business/2015/05/15/15m-settlement-appro...

then that it wasn't http://www.reuters.com/article/us-herbalife-lawsuit-idUSKCN0...
Site repeatedly rescans its spam/metric sites every second; I quit ten seconds in.
Why I never wrote down my company's values
Ddg has an option to disable ads, they just ask that you help promote them.
Let's take a look at their Bitcoin miner. From their FAQ: $399, 50 gigahashes per second, 0.16 Joules per gigahash.
Plugging those numbers into a Bitcoin mining calculator [1], initial revenue is under $0.05/day, and declines as the difficulty increases, until you're paying more for power than you're getting out in Bitcoins within a year. This does not make sense financially.

What's the point of the "miner", then? You don't need it to do transactions. This could be a pure software product.

[1] https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator
It's dead because new projects aren't started in Perl unlike C.
But the density of water does not vary much by depth (like 1% per 2 kilometers depth). Similar deal for temperature, density lowers by 1% per 20 degrees Celsius (and given that the temp of ocean water stays very much between like >0 and <<35, basically no difference in density.

In fact some of these properties of density of water are what make it such a weird substance, and enable the use of submarines, etc.
Don't trust any of the statements here. People are just responding with qualitative predictions and observations of the tiny little programming microcosms they dwell in.

No one here can produce an accurate prediction of the stock market anymore than they can predict the future of python. The thing with stocks though is at the very least they can look at a pricing trend line. People responding to you here aren't even looking at any quantitative data.

See the data here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_programming_language...

Is python dying?

The data says "Maybe?"
I once wrote a custom report generator that could pair basically arbitrary input formats (pluggable, I think by the time I was done I'd written importers for CSV, fixed width, and JSON data) and output custom PDF output, with fully-user definable formatting/elements - using XML "templates" just because I didn't want to write a custom parser. Included loops, if statements, etc, and some pretty fancy output features (e.g. output N records per page, with custom sorting, headers/footers/etc). Used ReportLab for the PDF generation. Whole thing was under 1k lines of Python 2.
Arab spring was happening during her tenure too, something that the countries listed wanted to make sure didn't take hold domestically.
Yes, Python is dying, that's why it just moved up in the Tiobe rankings to #5, displacing PHP (which obviously no one ever uses):
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

It's dominance of science is why Python has 25% science talks this year at PyCon, and why we see articles like:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3012442/application-develop...

But yes, if you didn't know any languages, then of course you should invest in an immature language with no mature libraries for the tasks you need to complete, because you were given a few months of extra runway time by your boss to fill-in the library ecosystem instead of getting your job done. We'll ignore that PyPy places you damn close to Go in terms of performance (except with mature proven libs), and that usually your task won't be CPU-bound anyways (the GIL release on I/O tasks)....

Why do troll questions like this even hit the front page of HN?
not if we get tired of the premise.
I've argued for a long time that America is in a privileged position where we can literally see our own future: Japan
Websites are becoming intelligent, so are website hackers
Email has the advantage of white lists. Until phones have the same you'll always be looking at a ringing phone trying to decide if it's a call you want to take - in of itself annoying and time-wasting.
> Curation doesn't scale and often assumes a single unifying ontology

Wikipedia is a pretty big exception to that assertion. Perhaps DMOZ (a clone of Yahoo circa 1996) is not the only way to do curation. Perhaps Wikipedia could apply what has worked for Wikipedia, i.e. develop a set of POV-neutral criteria for organizing collections of links and then invite everyone to participate.

It's really easy to be negative. But that's something that might at least be an interesting research project for the #1 open-curation system in the world.
Maybe this could help: http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html
Agreed. I'm pretty sure you can have integrity, individuality, and leadership traits without a James Dean attitude.
It's not the same John Poindexter.
No, it's just pining for the fjords.

People still use Perl and Tcl and Cobol. You'll be fine with Python if it's a good fit for what you're doing. It's a solid language with a solid community.
Could someone summarize the results? How did they represent the graph structure and attributes? As normalized SQL or as json blobs?

Also which RDB did they use? I saw mention of Berkeley DB, but can we infer their schema would perform well with stock Postgres or MySQL?

Ideally, there should be code so we can reproduce independently.
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Exactly, the vast majority of people who work in cities use computers to do their job. The whole idea of offices is a holdover from the last generation. You don't need to have people come to the same physical space to work together nowadays.

The other argument that gets thrown around is that managers want to make sure people are working. First, this is hugely insulting, as it implies that the company doesn't trust people to be capable of managing their time. Second, it's completely ineffective as people are perfectly capable of finding ways to waste time at the office. There are far better ways of doing performance metrics than making people sit in the same room together.
The age makes a big difference for at least these reasons:

- given I have a problem, how likely is it that it's a problem in the runtime nobody saw before?

- given I want to do X, how likely is it that there's a library doing it already present? (and how likely that there's one established library rather than 10 trivial attempts?)

- if I can't find a solution to X, how likely is it that there's a solution in the first link on google? (and how likely is it that it still applies to current version?)

These have everything to do with the maturity and popularity of a language.

The iPhone / Android move is exactly what I meant about predicting popularity being like stockmarket. You've got as much information as the next person normally. If you believe the logic was misguided and you knew better, I assume you made lots of money as one of the first people to invest in the right ecosystem, right? Unless you have the weight to move the whole ecosystem, you can just choose the right solution for yourself - and most of the time it's going to depend on popularity.

Scala, F#, Kotlin, OOC, Swift, C#, OCaml have performance and type inference, and that's just some more popular ones. Python didn't have a problem because of them. (and 3 of them have a massive amount of libraries ready to be used)
At what employee count is a company “too big”?
That is, no longer lean, agile, flexible, etc.
Intex launches its first Fitness band FitRist at Rs. 999
I live in China you do see a lot of Herbalife and Amway stuff here. It's the oldest trick in the book ... 1.4 billion people with a relative educational deficit and a huge social pressure to get rich quick ... a social system favoring small transactions among friends and family ... widespread appreciation of 'foreign' products as status items ... a fertile recruiting grounds for MLMs. Circa 2005 I went for a blind massage and the masseur began with "The American Amway company..."
There are a still Perl shops out there. ZipRecruiter (where I work) and Booking.com are probably the biggest Perl shops in terms of Perl Dev headcount but I could be unaware of another company that's as big or bigger. There are a number of small to medium size companies in LA that are primarily Perl based and The Rubicon Project has a bit of Perl on the web side and C++ and Java for their ad network. Perl isn't dead, it's just not the hot new kid on the block by a long shot.

As a point of perspective, there are still VB6 shops out there. That's way more "dead" than Perl or Python, but so long as the checks still clear...
I don't believe 2 and 3 are different enough that this theoretical company would turn someone away for being experienced in 3 rather than 2.

Learn that print doesn't need parens anymore, a few renamed modules, that Python 2 str is mostly equivalent to Python 3 bytes and Python 2 unicode is mostly equivalent to Python 3 str and you're most of the way there.
Good luck. We definitely need more search engines. (That Google announced to lower the PageRank(R)/site score for non-HTTPS sites is a clear indicator that they about to cross the line (monopoly). And no, DDG and most others are "just" meta search engines that rely on Yahoo Boss ($$$) which future is uncertain and relies on Bing.)

There was "Wikia Search" by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales:

"Wikia Search was a short-lived free and open-source Web search engine launched by Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.

Wikia Search followed other experiments by Wikia into search engine technology and officially launched as a "public alpha" on January 7, 2008. The roll-out version of the search interface was widely criticized by reviewers in mainstream media. After failing to attract an audience, the site closed by 2009."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia_Search

I used Wikia Search back then, it was good enough (like Bing in comparison to Google back then).

It was based on Apache Nutch and Solr/(Hadoop(?)/Lucene ...

Maybe you can rely on Lucene or SphinxSearch projects to kick-start.
How did arms sales to other countries change in the same period?

"Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies concerned about Iran’s regional ambitions, according to a new study for Congress." [0]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/world/middleeast/us-foreig...

When did the IB times folks look at their numbers? (from October 2010 to September 2012).

That looks damn cherry picked to me.
The hope is that a company's fate isn't decided by the claimant. Of course the claimant is biased, that's what would have motivated them to take this position in the first place.

The ultimate decision should be reached by an unbiased third party or parties, in this case the FTC / the market.
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For a sarcastic view on the concept, check out "Robot Girl" by Was (not Was)... here's an SNL performance from 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03LVC_r9gJE

(RG starts at about 1:45)
Cuil spent about $30M before they went bust. By the time they went under, due to a total lack of a revenue model, they had a halfway decent search engine that did its own web crawl. So that's a data point on how much it costs.
I'm sure there are some Spanish-speaking people that would appreciate knowing the URL to this hub, and a few more who wouldn't mind being aware of its existence so they can reference it, etc.
BBC to axe television and radio divisions as part of radical management overhaul
Well they do have some quality metrics, like duplication with other content, words used and so on. I suspect more, eg writing style measurements, correlated with other things that are found useful. There is a lot that could be done without actually understanding the content, although if course it can be gamed.
Google doesn't want to lower the PageRank of http sites, it just wants to use http vs https as a feature in ranking. That isn't particularly surprising, I would be willing to bet google already uses hundreds of such features (one of which might be PageRank).
Not on the team. Not even close. My under standing from other comments from the team is yes and yes. The reason we needed a collision of black holes was to get the signal up to where we can detect it. And they definitely said that this proves that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light.
Ford hasn't done anything good since the original Mustang, if you ask me.

An outmoded company that loses money on all its cars save the F-150? Rather than being bailed out, it should have been left to rot on the vine.
You're not gonna quit, you're just going to take a break. Pretty soon you'll be ready to go again. Just take a breather.
> Mobile isn't a product, and even just as a general focus, Google seems to be making a bundle from the PC Web still, so why would Yahoo not continue to put massive effort into its most well known service?

Because mobile is growing faster.
Ask HN: Grep, Awk for Windows Powershell
Hi,

Windows Powershell if powerful and you can call any .NET function from it. Being developer, my work involves switching between Linux Shell and Windows Powershell. I got used to grep, awk for many years. Is there any package/tool which can mimic the same in Powershell without learning new commands
They are not relevant to measures of information storage. A megahertz is as irrelevant in this debate as a centimeter, or kilopascal --- except to the extent that it bolsters the argument that mega means million in all kinds of units, which nobody is disputing.
GOP FUD?

Doesn't the GOP support big contributions by corporations?

If anything it should be "Sanders FUD"?
Is this just fantasy?
Over the last year (for the first time) Python surpassed PHP in popularity and seems to be gaining on C#.

Python has never been more alive, IMO.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
> all anyone needs to know about Hillary Clinton is that she claims that huge quantities campaign contributions and face-to-face meeting time from Wall Street have no impact on her decisions and priorities.

In the most recent Clinton/Sanders debate, she made two claims within a few sentences of each other:

1. That the Koch brothers are using their vast wealth to bankroll elections for politicians in exchange for influence in lawmaking.

2. That contributions to her campaign had no strings attached and that she was immune to such corruption.

I was hoping that Sanders would pick it up but he missed that opportunity to expose her hypocrisy.
Verizon Shutting Down Public Cloud, Gives Users One Month to Move Data
"Finance" is such a broad term with respect to IT - you'll find anything if you look hard enough. The following is based on my experience only - I'm sure there will be lots on here with different experiences:

* I've seen more C++/Java/C# than anything else, with a large legacy base of COBOL/RPG (yes, GMI, we're looking at you...).

* Industrial-grade quant libs (for risk, P&L, models that need regulatory approval) tend to be in C++, with the infrastructure to run them increasingly in Java.

* Lots of VBA on the desktop. Every department runs on Excel...

* Python is making inroads (see Quartz at BofA, Athena at JPM), but I suspect that it's still vastly outnumbered (by whatever measure) by C++/Java.

Some firms (and departments in bigger shops) embrace new technology agressively - at my firm I know of large Scala projects, python, big data (mainly Mongo/Hadoop), R and some Haskell.

That said, on my first job in the UK for a large insurance firm, we employed a team that wrote custom CICS machine code for Z-series mainframes. Beat that with yer fancy functional languages...

So no, I wouldn't say that python is dominant.
The basics of search are pretty well established today. Just because it initially cost Google a ton of money doesn't mean it would cost nearly as much today.

This holds true for nearly every human endeavor.
Agreed. If anything, Python 3 is dying - Python 2 is going strong.

If the above is true, the Python language has outlasted the Python developers - like C.