skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people are pointing out that what this guy said was in various ways kind of awful. I wouldn't dispute that. It's just- he wasn't fired for doing awful things. He was fired for being honest about it in public. What kind of perverse incentives are we setting up here? I can guarantee that there isn't a single exec right now looking at this and thinking, maybe I shouldn't be such a bastard. They're thinking, boy I better not let anybody know what I really think!
One's life changes so much, after they leave /r/javascript and join /r/clojure.

Forgot to mention, clojure community isn't doing too badly at StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
I think the misogyny claim is because the analogy portrays the choice between a rich woman and poor woman as obviously being in favor of the rich woman, and on top of that it characterizes the poor woman as needy and annoying. Further, he says girl instead of woman. And so basically he ridicules the entire point of marriage which is to commit to your equal life partner, not end up with the best deal, the best girl/wife-object to be purchased. And in doing this he's also denigrating the two competing companies.

But then again, it does reflect a lot of marriage decisions, particularly in high society, so it's probably appropriate. This is actually what happens when personal life starts to look like business life. So probably... better not to be so brazen about it because it's a bit chauvinistic. Honesty isn't always the best policy, sometimes you have to consider people's feelings and reactions.
What would you get from Nextdoor what you couldn't get from a Facebook group for your neighborhood?
Non-linear address spaces shouldn't affect pointer arithmetic though, unless I'm misunderstanding something. Otherwise, I guess the implication is that there are systems or implementations that rely on negative pointers; in which case I would think it should be up to the implementation.
What did he say that was factually wrong? I think he said most of what you said and didn't contradict the rest. For example:

“Along came Elon Musk and changed the game completely…we can’t afford [to bid] any more because the price points are coming down as low as $60 million,” he said. “The best day you’ll see us bid at $125 million or twice that number. Add in the capabilities cost, it eclipses the $200 million. … So now we’re going to have to take and figure out how to bid these things much lower cost. The government can’t just say, you know, ULA’s got a great track record, they’ve done 100 launches.”

What are you referring to?
They can just pretend that it's for the best of the planet.
Documentation and getting to build/use it feels to me like support, and I feel that needs to be billable. The source code is the raw product, which is also of value/crown jewels. But it is easier to give it to someone, then to support it.

So can the government force companies to assist them and to what extent? From the article it is suggested that Dell, Huawei, and Juniper have already done so.

But how where they compensated, because engineering time is not cheap, or where they given software backdoors and told to integrate them.

I don't think we will ever know. But would be interesting to know how managers had to explain to the bean counters, that limited resources was spent on project "top secret" instead of a real project making money.
> if he honestly believes that SES-9 required 100,000 pounds of fuel to make its landing attempt, should he really be part of the upper management of a rocket company?

What is the correct amount of fuel used to make the landing attempt? I just googled and didn't quickly find it, though I did find this speculation at StackExchange[0] talking about reserving 15% of the fuel, or 66 tons, for the landing. 66 tons is 132,000 pounds, so 100,000 pounds seems a reasonable rounding - what am I missing? (I don't know anything about rockets.)

[0] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4466/how-is-spacex-...
You could certainly make that argument, but I've struggled to think of cases where processes aren't the right point of container separation.
This is going to be a hard blow for all the people determined to believe the conspiracy theories about Google trying to take over the world...
You only hear success stories, but you don't hear all the things they tried that didn't work out. Success usually doesn't happen overnight, don't sweat it.
This is the phone NSA suggested Clinton use: A $4,750 Windows CE PDA
Looks like the U.S. is now copying what Canada, Australia, and New Zealand started doing around 1990. Not only do they get the international education dollars, but they also get their residential property market going up again, with the flow on effects on rents and house prices. Expect the U.S. laws to change to make it easier for international students to get a job in the U.S. and eventually stay permanently, just like what happened in Canada, Australia, and NZ.
It is not as simple as it seems.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171
>> The big iron approach failed in computing

If you mean 'failed' as in 'is widely used by all major financial organisations and thousands of businesses besides', sure, big iron failed.
Anecdotal on my part, but previous, intermittent lower back pain basically gone after I began standing about two years ago.
Jeez... I totally misread that.
I've come to realize it's an addiction/urge, that's the only /reasonable/ answer I can give.
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Take note fellow engineers: There is an effort from our industry, our government and our educational institutions to bring in more foreign students and keep them here. They are cheaper than you and will always be younger than you.
I do doubt the random HN poster over someone who definitely worked in the industry daily and was privy to more information. mike seems to have a bug in his butt about how "factual" it is, like the candid precept ensures it's all based in reality.
The only issue I have with the AP data is that it is so sparse. Based on the circle-sizing on that graph, the number of samples is tiny compared to the other subjects, and there is a definite bias for the outliers in both directions to be the tests with the fewest samples, while the tests with the most samples tend to converge on the parity line.

My understanding is that AP computer science is basically on life support right now and may be dead entirely within the next few years. It is probably a poor metric for measuring early interest in computer science.
No, it may be a common thing for boys to not be sensitive to language, sure, and all kinds of boys in business will simply not see misogyny hardly at all.
> His speech included a number of factually incorrect engineering statements

Such as ... ?
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Be the change mikeash, be the change.
Compare K-Meleon on Windows to Chrome and Firefox to Chrome. Switching between tabs, opening menu, etc is slower on Firefox while the difference is less noticeable between K-Meleon and Chrome.

And on Linux, Chrome's custom toolkit feels much faster than the Firefox XUL. Everything from opening new tab, switching tabs, menus, etc. And using Electrolysis doesn't help. So it's an issue with the XUL toolkit.
It's webmail. Everything is stored on their servers.
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I disagree somewhat, plausible deniability is the key. You acknowledge reality in internal discussions, but it is still coded in a way that is plausibly deniable and full of euphemism.

This is covered in V. Rao's "The Gervais Principle", specifically the section on "Powertalk" http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-i...
I love feathers. Simple and easy to use. The concept of services and hooks is an awesome abstraction that strips out more code than it adds.

I just wish the authentication was a little more robust. I like that they realize stateless auth is the way to go but how about we get rid of those passwords too!
Common knowledge indeed, absolutely everybody inside the industry understand that's just how things work.
Perhaps this guy, after 30+ years in the industry, just forgot that industry outsiders exist,and that they would be quite surprised.
I don't think the verification by postcard process is essential. Most Nextdoor users are confirmed through other techniques such as IP address geolocation, SMS, referral from existing users, etc.
Actually I see this as reversed, 5 years ago there were a lot more front-end developers (or just web developers then), since it was fairly common to create static sites with little or not interactivity, and if you had a fat client it was in flash (also a front-end only technology, mostly).

I don't think people writing some scripts in PHP would have considered themselves full-stack or back-end.
But having every library have type hints means your entire program could be provable. Business logic doesn't make up very much of most applications (at least, not as much as the libraries it's built on).

You're right, though. Python doesn't seem to be made for applications that would benefit from being provably compiled.
Are there any good tutorials out there on how to hook all of this up? Not super sure of the best thing to Google for this.
probably due to young populations in countries like India.
Craigslist still has a lot of traffic but it's dying a death by a thousand blows. AirBnB ate the temporary housing section, OKCupid and Tinder etc. ate the dating sections, and the 1099-companies like Homejoy ate the services sections, StubHub ate the ticketing sections. Now I find myself going there mainly if I need to buy something that doesn't need a company guaranteeing the transaction, and doesn't make sense to buy online, like a vintage stereo amplifier that I can inspect on the spot.
You keep saying that it would be ok to speak this way at a bar, as if anything that is said at a bar is automatically to be encouraged. That seems like a strange attitude. All kinds of demeaning attitudes are expressed at bars.
Apple engineers nick named Andy as 'Android' and he choose that name for his mobile OS (android)
There are many, many jobs where people stand all day long. Shouldn't be hard to find anyone working at cafes, hospitals, etc.
A few clicks and found this
https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source/
I wonder if we could say that this has to do with the integers having measure zero in the reals, so if you want to actually hit them you may need a qualitatively better kind of "aim".

(I don't know enough higher math to know if this intuition is meaningful or not.)
This is easy for you to say, you can easily make the trade-off of higher quality for more money. But is it right for you to force your values onto people with less money, who will feel the pain of that trade-off more sharply? Maybe they'd also prefer to eat in a nicer place, but their circumstances simply don't allow for it.

Keeping costs down isn't being miserly, it's helping to deliver a product that is within reach of the less fortunate.
Umm... wchar_t was not part of C89. It was added later. I think it was a supplement rolled out half way between C89 & C99, mostly as a consequence of a lot of platforms embracing native unicode interfaces (I seem to recall it was released just as Unicode 2.0 was coming out and making it so fixed width glyphs were no longer a thing).

...and digraphs & trigraphs had to do with different terminals/text editors that didn't have keys/characters for certain language symbols. Last I checked it wasn't really about internationalization, but rather the rather insane variance of character sets just for english (like EBCDIC).
HipsterHacker is always a hoot. I'm reasonable certain the person has a day job, though.
Send me a note, please? Aronchick (at) google

Disclosure: I (obviously) work at Google on Kubernetes & GKE
That money is (presumably) benefitting the whole state, whereas you're looking to take all that money and just benefitting the small part where you live. Not really fair.
Also, their oil needs more processing than the stuff coming from Saudi or Texas / ND. This has an effect on the break even price.
> Almost all of them suffer from the same problem. If you click on something in the feed that brings you to a new page, when you hit the back button or try to return to that original feed, your place is lost.

Does everyone else see this also? I don't remember the last time it happened to me.
I was hesitant, but pulled the finger, so to speak.
Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
Accessing beyond bounds is undefined, but leaving pointer arithmetic outside of objects undefined would preclude a lot. For example, building an OS page table or DMA, or RDMA, or MMIO, etc...
It's not a secret that Microsoft provides Windows' source code to some governments. Here are some reports from the same ZDNet:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/does-microsofts-sharing-of-sour...
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> ... most of the drive to implement these programs were not nefarious.

Nice choice of words there; that would imply some of the drive was nefarious.

In my case they wanted all the usual vitals (height, weight, blood pressure), along with a couple of blood draws... and if you started reading the little thing you signed along with it, it was unreal what you were signing away. I had co-workers getting calls from the insurance companies nurse practitioners wanting to discuss their vitals. You're basically talking a turnkey Gattaca scenario.

If the intention is truly just to make people aware of potential health risks, partner with GPs and have them do the conversation. I'd be much more comfortable with a "firewalled" abstraction layer between me and the insurance company that doesn't allow for any data sharing.
Coleca, sorry to say, outsourcing for IS&T's service desk has already been decided and is underway...
Yeah, but where are you? I'm guessing out in the middle of nowhere. While that appeals to you, it very much does not appeal to me. I like being where people are, where there is stuff to do, different types of food to eat, and culture around.
Right there with you. I was generally aware (mostly from HN) that it seemed less popular than when I started using it -- but _dread_? Surprising. I really enjoy it.
That's been true for a few years now. We've faced it when trying to launch a ridesharing startup (before Uber was a thing); everyone was already organized around Facebook groups.
It's really nice to have this kind of privacy, but I don't understand how people can use a service like this while they don't provide the ability to make local (encrypted) backups.

If their servers disappear for whatever reason (legal issues or hardware problems), you end up with 0 e-mails. Nothing.

Tutanota.de has the same problem, no backup feature.
Does those perks add to your quality of life? For me, I would put perks lower than having a lower cost of living, less commute time, less stressful lifestyle.

Horses for courses maybe.
Sure. But I think the distinction in view is that, in a bar, what's said is always off the record.

The problem comes when an executive is speaking on the record in the way he would speak off the record.
At 15 on average one might get a better worker, one more dependable, one who may be able to be rested before work, one which does not have to work as many hours at minimum wage to make ends meet. This will result in a healthier worker, therefore more dependable and offer more labor stability to the employer.
i just started using JIRA and I have loads of complaints about it. I have no doubts I can get used to it but a lot of the pain points on the page are pretty obvious, especially with the UI.
I don't have enough quality contacts to find these clients. And this kind of work is not common where I live so I don't have conferences to go... Do you have any suggestions?
"Django was born in the fall of 2003, when the web programmers at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison, began using Python to build applications. It was released publicly under a BSD license in July 2005. The framework was named after guitarist Django Reinhardt."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)#History
From the looks of it Ruby has really lost it shine.

It doesn't appear at all in the "most popular technologies, not even in back-end, and it lost 6% in "trending tech".
It also doesn't appear in any other metrics.

Is it really a trend or that SO's community is not representative of Ruby practitioners ?
Science is terrible at understanding long-term effects on complex systems (such as the human body). At some point you just have to listen to your intuition and evaluate things with a sample size of 1.

For me, buying an adjustable desk two years ago has been a fantastic investment. I usually spend the middle of the day sitting, but I love to stand right after breakfast (I get tired when I sit down in the morning) and when I play multiplayer games after dinner.
There's some more in-depth documentation in the repo in doc/user_guide.txt, at around line 520-ish.

It has Common Lisp style defmacro (augmented with pattern matching), and Scheme-inspired defsyntax.
The documentation warns that both are unhygienic, and `grep -ri gensym` didn't find anything in the repo.
I wrote a CMS for a large newspaper where I deployed new code on almost a daily basis using Django(uWSGI)-redis-PostgreSQL-Celery. 4 developers were active at the time. Requirements were not set in stone, we tested tons of stuff out and iterated every aspect of the site both on the development and operations side. Django was never the problem during those 18 months.

Django is like any other framework/language. Bad programmers can make a hash of it with ill-conceived ideas.
Link to tutorial:
http://business.tutsplus.com/articles/setting-up-a-hosted-em...
It can't be searched on the server. The article says "The app is encrypted end-to-end and, like Apple's iPhone, can't even be accessed by the company itself."
Methyl-sensitive transcription factors with an expanded epigenetic alphabet
Why would it be a disaster? The plants would be built and operated by an outside company - e.g Areva, Rosatom.

And hydro power they have today is not reliable. So they would need to use coal or natural gas. And both of these pollute compared to nuclear.
Verified neighbors and they live within a certain # of neighborhood.

I was part of a garage sale private group on FB for two towns and it sucked.

On next door they actually live in the area and are more authentic I guess.
In my book, some people are taking the quote "Premature optimization is bad" too far. To me, there is a difference between optimization of some kind, and not writing dumb code. After some experience, bulk loading data in a batch job, avoiding high complexities if you can, trusting your frameworks is not part of smart optimizations - that's just writing proper code.

Optimization in todays world starts when you're looking at reducing communication volume, lock contention, utilizing your persistence better, replacing locks with atomic operations, ... Those things shouldn't be done on a whim without measurements, because they will make code a lot harder for non-obvious reasons.
The facebook feed is unusable because of this. Not only you lose your place, but the whole feed is completely different.
The colocated queries on the frontend components are not datomic queries, Om Next has its own query language which is similar but the backend needs to translate it into datomic queries so you implement whatever security you need there.
You're reading a negativity into that phrase that isn't really there. It's harshly limited, but in a careful way. Despite having few parts and not being turing complete it has a massive number of use cases.
I wanna smoke whatever that web designer was smoking.
I predict in about 15 years drones will cover the cities for various purposes including real time traffic and accident monitoring -- smart phone data is helpful but drones get you deeper.
Don't I pay with my attention to their ads?

Granted I don't hand cash over, but the user is still paying if you really want to stick with "products are paid for" argument
Plan A: The material is difficult, so present it very slowly and carefully.

Plan B: To avoid boredom, present the material as quickly and densely as possible, with lots of constantly changing detail, with simultaneous visual, audio and even some light background music.

These videos are a bit like "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" meets "Khan Academy".

Some people will like them, and some won't. I like them.
What happens if your employer sets up a stingray to intercept your cellular communications?
Actually, voc tech careers do pay a pretty healthy wage, for certain things. Welders, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, mechanics, those are all still decent paying jobs. Hard, more dangerous than white-collar work, but you can make respectable money doing them. It's getting so the certifications are getting a little onerous, but it's still better than dumping tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars into a college education.

Especially for those that don't have the wherewithal or temperament to do school
iProtest
this is more the result of past failed policies and law enforcement racism not on the part of the newly formed marijuana industry. The new marijuana industry would be happy to hire convicted marijuana growers, they have proven experience that is documented in public court documents with tons of supporting evidence. Why would they not want to hire someone you can easily verify has successfully grown large amount of the product you are trying to grow? But current laws dont allow owners to hire or even allow these people to be any part of their business. It is a failure by legislatures to setup these barriers. They need to lower the restrictions to allow anyone without any violent felonies to be permitted to work in this new industry
Thank you, your reply is extremely helpful. I have some questions:

Can you expand on item 2? Also, I'm having trouble finding places where I can find the kind of clients that are looking for quality over fast and cheap solutions, UpWork is not that place and I don't have enough quality contacts (I don't have conferences to go near where I live).
Maybe "conspiracy" is too strong a word, but I have no doubt that the key motivation behind all these algorithmic changes is to boost ad metrics rather than to better serve the users.

(Free services, users, products, etc)
I would argue that was more of an expensive land-grab. Whatsapp was/is not an existential threat to Facebook.

If a messenger could overcome FB, snapchat might actually have a chance, but the key value proposition that FB offers is that it's your online persona. You have pictures up from all the years you been around, you have your friends' profiles to go check out at will, you can start a group, or make an event and know all your friends are already on Facebook to see it.

So why buy? Messengers have the highest retention rate. You can see them expanding upon it by integrating FB profile + allowing you to install "apps" or "plugins" that do X/Y/Z. There is a Chinese company, WeChat, that has made billions on this model. I'm sure FB would like to as well, but with it integrated with FB login etc..

Downvoters: Genuinely curious how I'm wrong if you feel like throwing in your 2 cents.
An organization can use transparent proxies and log web traffic for anyone using the network, among other things.
The real question is whether I can access and present a Facebook newsfeed via 3rd party application. For example: Can I create a "1337h4x0rbook.io" that contains a hacker-focused social network, but feeds / filters based on things that are tech-y.

Can I?