skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's both but mostly the market. I've written essays condemning the demand side before as ultimately responsible. Yet, remember the users make up most of the demand. They want it faster, more features, cheaper, and so on with very few willing to sacrifice any of that for quality or security. So, companies focusing on the latter mostly withered with remainder in niche. Most deliver users (or shareholders) what they wanted or a knock off of it.

The part where I see developers at fault is rejecting options that improve things, for them and users, that they can actually use within this mess. An example might be the web security frameworks for PHP while developing a PHP service. It takes almost no work to use them with many components pre-built. They prevent total disruption of service or record theft from hackers. So, why aren't the developers using them?

This problem manifests all over the stack for many preventable issues. Most developers consistently refuse to put in a little extra rigor or effort upfront to prevent problems down the line. Those that do... a little closer to engineers to me... experience rewards then write blog posts or papers encouraging others to do it. They're mostly ignored. This is the problem. Management and users aren't causing this one.
What the Fuck Is Heap Analytics?
Because when the US does it, it's also framed as totalitarian and unfair?
This is a good point. The Steve Jackson raids were ridiculous, but given that the perpetrators didn't even know what a role-playing game was, I doubt they drew a connection between Cyberpunk and D&D.
I'm sure it will be a great morale booster for the Yahoo team to know Marissa will continue being their CEO.
Well is there not a bit of an issue currently in that linux is not able to run many programs that people either need or really want and Windows is the most widely supported and also while I may not be correct I believe that OSX is even less open than the current windows OS as long as you have custom settings.
OT interesting note: the video in the screenshot is Maeda Jun's Angel Beats
I certainly hope that they are uploading a portion of my hard drive, although I also hope that it's limited to providing the cloud save functionality.
Of course our a modern CPUs have generic enough instructions that let you do that. Harvard pretty much forces it though, so much so that many Harvard CPUs don't have a way to get code into data registers and vice versa. Since they are separate busses they may be different data widths and therefor incompatible.
Many lights is not the only advantage. There are some deferred decalling techniques that I could see be very useful to a flight simulator for terrain drawing, for example.
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How does the NSA program suppress dissent?

Seems to me that it's about stopping deaths. The reason they don't go after drunk driving and heart disease is because different kinds of deaths are valued differently. And while that's obviously crazy from a rational perspective, it's how the public views things.
Hi, not yet. But we definitely want to add some scripting in the future.
> 1. I know the game won't dump save and log files in my Documents folder (that place is mine, GTFO).

It's infuriating how many games do this, on both Windows and OS X.
I've heard variations of the theme from others, and it makes total sense to me. It is a dead simple to implement: just rank the requests in descending order of salary, and take the top N. Boom. Done.

Of course, if a company then reduces the salary later, or does some shenanigans, nail them under the "intent to defraud the government" laws.

Some people are suggesting tweaks: make an exception for startups .... take the geo location into account ... etc. etc. That makes this more complicated, and adds more avenues for cheating. Keep it dead simple, and problem solved.
This, and this is why I loved the 17" MBP. I'd love a 19" rMBP with 4K or even native QHD screen, dedicated graphics, two SSDs (M.2 would be fine), lots of fast IO ports, and an all-day battery. I don't care how thin it is. It would spend most of the time docked to 2 or 3 external 4K displays for "real work", but then come with me to meetings and on trips.

The only thing that comes close right now is a Thinkpad P70. Can get it with 64GB ECC RAM, Xeon E3-1505m, 4K 17" screen, 2 SSDs + 1 HDD, and a Quadro M5000M. The only problem is that it can't run OSX in some supported fashion, and the battery life likely isn't great. Sad that Apple has been falling short in the professional market for a while now and they expect everyone to be happy with thinner & lighter.
2D arrays that are laid out as a linear array of mn elements are faster to iterate through. That's what happens when you declare e.g. int a[5][4], you get the same layout as int a[20]. A vector of vectors is fairly sprawling in memory, and generally matrices don't get resized so you want this compact form because it's quicker to loop through (either way is O(mn), but one has a way better coefficient).
I think it depends on the level where the business acts on.

If you have a real low level technology, an acquisition can be a good thing, because the big corp could integrate it some of their products and increase the spreading.

But yeah, if we look at Skype and WhatsApp, it's probably good that Slack didn't get acquired.
In winter put a jacket and gloves. When riding, own temp rises fast.

In general, exercise like riding a bike will get you less physical problems in the long run. Some anecdotal data points :

- Here in Japan, bicycles are hugely used by elderly, with health benefits. My karate teacher, 80 this year, does his daily shopping this way (he is also hiking up mountains 2~3 times a week).

- My "elderly" relatives (65yo couple) ride at least 40Km every day since retired, actually are in better shape now.

- I also guide people in a touristic area, and regularly had foreign >70yo clients joining bike tours (in winter too). Granted they were regular riders already.

Maybe you don't enjoy riding personally but you should not dismiss it so easily (nor attributing stupidity) as it often is the superior transportation system (even in winter, provided that you are not under heavy snow of course).
Liked the tone of your post. Did not detect any bitterness. Does your mathematical background serve a use in your current career, which I assume is as a dev of some sort since you are on Hacker News?
When I was forced to use Lync (due to an acquisition) in 2014 it was absolutely fucking terrible. The OS X client failed to report online status correctly, couldn't participate in most group chats or video or audio calls, and crashed regularly. Also weirdly non-native UI. And, no linux client to speak of - for a startup like the one I worked for where many devs used linux, that was a nonstarter. Has the story improved since then? (Thankfully no longer have to deal with it since I quit that job a half year later)
akka-http and the rest of the ecosystem run fine on Scala 2.11, that's the status quo.

The question remains how well Scala 2.12 will help in migrating to JDK 8.

The Github activity of the scalac core contributors [1] [2] [3] shows no hurry on that.

[1] https://github.com/adriaanm
[2] https://github.com/retronym
[3] https://github.com/lrytz
They should consider what it would be like to live in an alternate universe where they were a consumer of their service. Not just being a customer themselves (that would be "give the customer everything, and pay him for the privilege"), but what would the rest of the world look like - would the company be in business, would there be negative externalities, etc.

For the reasons described, the thought experiment would (in my mind) suggest that there should be no speech restrictions, so that's the action they should take. Or you could describe it as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
I don't understand the security layers between Mint users, Mint, users' bank accounts, and banks very well... It seems like Mint has to store users' bank authentication information unencrypted in order to be able to log in as a bot on the users' behalf... If this is the case, how does multi-factor help security on the Mint <-> Bank layer?

Is this actually an improvement to security? Or is this theater? Mint seems like a large target because of all the logins it holds, but if they hold credentials in the clear anyway, I'm not sure how multi-factor protects against a attack against Mint...

Any insights?
Maybe a "reported to work but not guaranteed" section is in order.
The missing part of the advice is that you need to hire the best _for your company_. But there isn't an objective definition of 'best.' People can be great at one job and not right for another, great in one company and not right for another. Hiring and job hunting is about fit.

I've worked with people who were A players, hired into a new firm, and quickly spun out. Other people were C players, found a new job, and quickly became A players.

If you're a company who's great at training people, you can hire for energy and eagerness to learn. If you expect people to know everything on day one, hire for experience. The same people who succeed in one of those companies will fail in the other. A big part of hiring is knowing yourself and knowing what makes people successful.
Those are little 50-cent chips that sit next to the real Thunderbolt controller (a small grey box in the diagram) which is only made by Intel.
It's probably a historical oddity. Remember, Javascript started out as just an optional piece to copy-and-paste nifty effects in the beginning. You wouldn't want one script tag to kill the whole page.

For a web app this behavior is horrible, and I say that as a big fan of Javascript and the web platform in general. I would love to be able to specify a setting and just have exceptions kill the app with a nice error message. So many times have I had users report weird problems in my single-page-app, and my only possible explanation is that they've had the app open in a tab for days on end, run into a random unrelated silent exception at one point, and that has later affected the behavior of a different feature later. Sigh...
Please don't post garden-variety political articles to HN. If we allowed those, there would be nothing else on the site.

Also, please don't rewrite titles to editorialize them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
PDFs can be inserted into PSD file as a smart object. So we will need to add PDF support into Photopea in the future. Luckily, there already exists pdf.js https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/ :)
tl;dr:

"This configuration is the most advantageous for molding and for shipping in cereal packages."

The patent is on the specific packaging efficient design, not on the general idea.
It's funny to hear that because I just typed "learn to code" into Google and the first page (ads included!) are all fine and mostly free resources, many requiring only a web browser to start.

Just 10 or 15 years ago the process was completely opaque, a lot of books in your local store had omissions or bugs that made them impossible to follow, it was a seriously frustrating process unless you stumbled into the right community, were a genius, or had lots of guidance.
Low cost add-on boards let Pi Zero do robotics
I did edit the post, despite the fact that the reference was towards management thinking about programmers as "monkeys" it appears it was being misinterpreted by skim-readers as overseas people being called monkeys.

My point is that if you do not understand that programming is highly skilled work (and many companies think this) then you might think you can get anyone to do it for a similar outcome and therefore it is a commodity and therefore the only thing that matters is price.
Relate to both of your points. Being disrespectful and straight up insulting others shouldn't be acceptable, but having too stuffy a working atmosphere creates this feeling like you are walking on egg shells which in my opinion is not conducive to effective and productive work.

But I wonder who it is that sets the culture or tone of a workplace. Is it every employee in concert or more management / the team leads / bosses etc?
You can count US social security contributions towards the requirements in other countries (and vice versa) if they're covered by one of the treaties: https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreements_overview.html .

It's a short list of countries, though, and doesn't cover the top H-1B senders
I don't how GapJumpers fits into what you're saying. I'm not saying it isn't important, I just don't see why an investor would care.

Otherwise, I completely agree.
The goal of the project is to "freeze" a minecraft rewrite at beta 1.7.3

To add support for 1.8 is entirely out of the scope of the project.
I thought this was already well known.

To clarify, the effect of insufficient sleep is more generic than that. Lack of sleep will weaken your willpower and has a cascading effect on your life.

* You will be more prone to overeat and eat junk food.

* You will not want to exercise.

* You will have difficulty concentrating.

* You will be more likely to give into temptations.

* You less be less likely to do things you need to do but don't want to do.
Weren't both of these somewhat successful acquisitions? i.e. Would Skype have been better today without the acquisions, and did WhatsApp suffer product-wise as a result of being part of FB?
GIF me a new tab – A Chrome extension
After graduating and being thrust into the working world, I've become very disillusioned and wish to avoid this "deadness" inside.
Wow, how precious, someone who believes in the system! It suppresses dissent subconsciously. You start censoring yourself. If you think there is a shred of humanity within any of the NSA or any of the alphabet boys, you're in for a ride.
Yeah, big air cooling has come a long way. My i5-2500k on a stable 4.5ghz with 2 Radeons is nearly silent (thanks Antec Sonata + extra acoustic damping sheets inside). It's hard to beat a NH-D15 these days, and phase change is an order of magnitude more costly.
i just looked through it beyond the abstract after your comment. "probably deserves a patent" is a weak argument for granting protection.

i did not find anything that was so novel as not to be obvious to any high school student if presented with an assignment to design this device with the purpose of minimizing cost/weight/assembly.

i suppose it does protect from very literal copying, but it is trivial to make any of a dozen modifications such that not all claims hold up to scrutiny.
How Encryption Became the Ultimate Utilitarian Thought Experiment
If It Were Easy
The economics are usually way out of whack though. In my experience, a good programmer is easily worth 5x a "not-so-good" programmer and rarely costs more than 2x as much.

We do have a college intern and hire program, but it's very rare for a new college hire to have the same ROI as my best experienced colleagues.
I'm sorry that there were mean girls in your childhood. I'm not sure why you think your experience disproves the experiences of thousands and thousands of other people, though.

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting more than one downvote here. For example, my gaming group in college was about 1/3 women, and they got along fine with the men, in both directions. I could follow rustynails' example and call him a liar and a revisionist for saying that he knew mean girls--but that would be a stupid and shortsighted thing to do, wouldn't it? There are all kinds of people in the world; you don't get to claim that the ones in your little circle are the only prototype for all the rest, for better or worse.
Ask HN: Which graphical SQL client do you use?
I must say development of queries in terminal is so-so. Would love to have something more functional that covers MySQL/PostgresSQL/ODBC etc. Do you guys use anything like that?
Well USA does fund National Institutes of Health for Cancer, Heart Disease, etc.
Another case of hostility masked as objectivity on HN. You are entitled to your opinion, but it seems like you are justifying your position in life more so than providing anything of value to the conversation.

I do agree with you however in that there is a difference between greatness and adequacy
That's good to hear, I hope it is as streamlined as Discord because it really just works there. It's also free in Discord (although I don't know what their business plan is) and according to that page it'll be part of the Standard plan and above. (group calls, that is) But I understand if they're targeting different audiences (business vs gamers).
What matters is "the claims". That text is not in the claims.
> How does the NSA program suppress dissent?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/nsa-surveillance-chill...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131108/10430625184/22-ex...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/17/chillin...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nsa-chilling-effect

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/15/1263032/-Now-It-s-O...
Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies
>Wages for H-1B workers in computer programming occupations are overwhelmingly concentrated at the bottom of the U.S. pay scale. Wages on LCAs for 85 percent of H-1B workers were for less than the median U.S. wage in the same occupations and state.

>Applications for 47 percent of H-1B computer programming workers were for wages below even the prevailing wage claimed by their employers.

That is pretty damning evidence. The program is clearly not being used for its intended purposes. When somewhere between 47 and 85% of H-1Bs are being significantly underpaid compared to their peers, the program is not being used to being over workers with "specialized knowledge" as they claim--but to drive down wages. It makes sense though, when you look at the biggest H-1B recipients: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx It's all low quality outsourcing shops like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, and Cognizant.

Make the H-1B 'lottery' into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, and Cognizant that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.
I know for a fact my company would not use this method. All of our programmers are too busy.

something online might work better.
> Someone found out about their upcoming game "Cyberpunk",

Nitpick, but the work in question was "GURPS Cyberpunk", and its not a game in itself but a genre supplement for GURPS, SJG's generic RPG.

> So yeah, the SJG "Cyberpunk" raid was probably the peak of the anti-D&D frenzy.

The SJG raid had pretty much nothing to do with the larger, moralistic anti-D&D frenzy (even though that frenzy did also target other parts of the RPG industry), and was more related to completely separate anti-hacker panic, the bureaucratic turf war between the FBI and Secret Service over computer crime and the Secret Service's desire to show results on that front (coupled with a near-complete lack of knowledge about what it was doing in that field), and the fact that the freelancer who was writing GURPS Cyberpunk was a highly-visible hacker with an arrest record.

Other than the fact that it happened to effect a company in the same industry, it was a completely separate thing.
Do you mean the problem is technically hard or politically hard? From my understanding, it's not too difficult for an ISP to implement, the problem is convincing ISPs to implement it (when many don't care).
What gets upvoted. That's kind of the whole point of a site like this. The content is submitted and selected by the users.
I have a policy to return hostility in kind. The commenter DanBC was being vulgar without making any points, so I decided to respond in a manner befitting his tone.

But since you seem to be a levelheaded individual, I would like to seriously discuss the suppression of critical thought on Hacker News, and why moderators such as yourself enforce it ruthlessly.

Let's start with the parent comment:

>When those gender roles are all but constant across countless independently developed cultures existent over tens of thousands of years, with distribution of visible physical traits to match them, it's pretty safe to assume that they're baked into our DNA and not some random whim of western culture. Imagine how long a tribe with male caretakers and female warriors (who it cannot be argued are not on average significantly smaller and weaker than men) would survive against a tribe of male warriors and female caretakers. There are species with much less divergence in biology between males and females. We would not have evolved to have such divergence if it were not useful for our fitness to have distinct fighter/protector and caretaker roles. Indeed as K-strategists that take a very long time to mature, having dedicated caretakers was an extremely useful evolution.

There is absolutely nothing controversial about this statement to a trained biologist. In fact, you could not get through an undergraduate degree in biology if you did not understand sexual dimorphism, r/K selection theory, and the sexual specialization that results. As such, there is nothing political about the statement. It is merely a statement of the current scientific understanding of the evolutionary history of homo sapiens.

Now let's look at your response:

>This turn into generic gender-war predictably degenerated into yet another tedious spat. Perhaps elsewhere on the Internet there is a spot where people haven't had enough of these yet, but HN isn't one. Note the guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

So, the statement of scientific consensus stated by the original comment is labelled by a moderator as "gender-war" which "predictably degenerated into yet another tedious spat." And you summarise with saying HN has had enough, and the debate is to be ended.

So I just want to be clear, which branches of evolutionary biology, and science in general, are off limits to discuss on HN? And how does censoring known science help critical thought and discussions regarding the current entrepreneurial markets in tech?

Thank you for your time.

EDIT: to address your final statement:

>It takes a lot of energy to post these responses, and it's hard to justify the investment when you're not making any effort to be civil, and when instead of open-mindedness you display only a desire to score ideological points.

It is a bold assertion that stating known science is "a desire to score ideological points." This line of thinking demonstrates more about the reader, and less about the material. Evolutionary biology is not an ideology, it is a science. Stating it does not make one an ideologue, but an empiricist.
The "claims" portion of the patent does not reference any of that. The scope of the grant is wider than you think.
Google Keep or Trello if its project specific
If the government was truly worried about US deaths, it would be looking at drunk driving, lung cancer, and heart disease in earnest, some half million deaths a year.

This is a silly statement. Fighting terror is more than just preventing deaths. It's preventing the destabilization of a society, of markets, etc.

Not all deaths have an equal impact.
While true sandboxing if implemented correctly could prevent cheats in the first place rendering things like Warden unnecessary.
Curious - no Theano benchmarks?
Are there any sociologists studying the current moral panic around gaming?
That's not a general requirement for H-1B. (It is a requirement for EB-2, which is the immigration category for a permanent worker with a degree, versus a temporary H-1B worker).

For "H-1B dependent employers and willful violator employers", there is a requirement to "not displace any similarly employed U.S. worker" and to "recruit U.S. workers for the job for which the alien worker is sought, at wages at least equal to those offered to the H-1B worker". That doesn't apply to normal H-1B applications.

(From http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/elg/h1b.htm .)