skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you can't afford to pay a bounty just don't write software right?

Don't you think it's odd your answer to what you are replying to is "I have no idea, ask someone who knows" yet you feel compelled to weigh in on who should not be allowed to write/distribute software?
Disagree. Status is attributed based on "How useful are you or can you be to me?". A doctor and lawyer could be very useful to me personally, selfishly. A software engineer tends to be very useful to capital (institutions, etc.) but not as useful to an individual personally. Facebook engineers have a lot of status - because people use Facebook personally all the time. A great engineer who programs stop lights, manufacturing PLCs, business application, etc. not so much. No selfish benefit = No love.
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Are there apps to assist in workplace union organization?
Seems like this could be something that would be really improved with an app that you could have on your phone -- but I'm not sure legally how it would/could actually work.
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And the new generation c class
Kind of like how Google does with Google Fiber? They seem to engage in this just enough to keep carriers in in limited markets but not much more.
Maybe this is not really an issue for homosexual couples, but I would never have considered Tinder because unlike OK Cupid, there's no way to filter out Republican-hates-the-gays-hates-abortions types. The question/answer filtering and profile text was the most important part of online dating to me.
Some guys I've met in person through friends or on my own had really impressive resumes. But to my nose they smelled really bad. I don't think it was that they needed to shower more. They just naturally smelled bad all the time at least to me, so we weren't compatible.
Do you read it everyday to be sure your comment is pertinent and stands as accurate reporting? If you do, one has to wonder - what drives you to overcome your distaste on a daily basis?

You certainly enjoy sneering ('cater for their own audiences ...') at the 1,708,006 people who buy a hardcopy everyday not to speak of the 43 million (of the unwashed presumably) who read it daily on the internet (quoted in the The Guardian for December 2015 so it must be true).

Nothing to be done with the masses I guess except educate them in the ways of the politically correct.

The Guardian of course never errs in the service of a leftist agenda! And I'm Marie of Romania (apologies to Dorothy Parker).
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California and NY have no contract with Puerto Rican or Illinois pensioners.
"So our final estimate for the total size of the Google Earth database is 3,017 TB or approximately 3 Petabytes!"
Regardless of personal opinions about Marks, the war of drugs has created an insanely profitable black market that is ideal for funding terrorism and other unsavoury activity.
Whats the Zen offering? This is the first I've heard of it. Unfortunate name considering theres already Xen.
Attractiveness is, as everyone should recognize, subjective. Some people are very sensitive to height and some are very sensitive to intelligence and so forth.

After being married for the period when most people were finding partners, I divorced and started dating again. I realized that I wasn't very good at small-talk, and I was having trouble meeting women.

The HN comments here are full of suggestions, but they are isolated and not systematic. By now I'm sure that everyone is aware of the "pick-up artist" community on the internet. I'm not a fan of the idea of learning how to impress as many women as one can in order to have sex with someone you really don't care about, but while that almost underground community was still nascent I read about it and decided that it was something interesting enough to investigate. I traveled to southern California and met Mystery, the person described in Neil Strauss's (at the time) new book, The Game.

I hung out with them for two days and was invited to go out one evening with them. There were around a dozen guys in the group and it was a very fascinating evening. No, I didn't pick up a girl in a club and get laid, but talking to the guys was very interesting it did change things for me. Most of the guys I met were like me. They were lonely and wanted a serious girlfriend and had always had trouble approaching and striking up conversations with stangers.

I was always able to talk to people from my field or other academically inclined people, but I learned to be more interesting to others and to understand attraction from both sides. It helped my confidence tremendously and consequently I found more women attracted to me.

That's a long introduction to my recommendations:

- don't get caught up in the manipulative techniques being promulgated by the recent pick-up experts

- learn more about attraction by reading some of the early stuff talked about by, say, Mystery

- approach more strangers and stike up conversations (you don't need to be online to meet people)

- develop a wider circle of friends

- get out and make your life itself more interesting by finding new interests, this make you interesting to others

- take your company public! Success helps.

Generally, I've found online dating to be a slow, frustrating process. It's much better to simple strike up conversations with people that you find attractive. The time to line up dates online and exchange information and then discover that the person is nothing like their old high school photos is disheartening.
I wanted to buy American when I was shopping for a family car recently.

So I bought a Subaru Outback.
> If you got (0,0), how would you know which country

You could read the "country" field that is returned together with the location.
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That's the problem. The places that are affordable don't have jobs, and the places that have jobs don't have affordable housing. As soon as a place has jobs, the affordable housing disappears.

This sounds like supply and demand, but is exacerbated by investment concerns changing the dynamics of the market.
Does it make any sense to you to compare a particular group to the general population then? I think it does, the insights you may draw from such a comparisons are obviously different than comparing two sub-groups, e.g. programmers vs. doctors for example.

Also the article doesn't judge the differences of incomes, the "overpaid" is your interpretation.
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I totally forgot about gas prices. Looks like some of these trucks can consume >15l/100km.
I guess it only makes sense that we don't have them in Europe.
Especially with recent emission regulations, downsizing, etc.
Wow, imagine ending up with Paul Dacre as the new boss...
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Did you check the article, though? In quite many European countries the median software engineer earns less than the average salary.

I wonder if they meant "median salary" instead, as median vs. median would seem a better comparison than median vs. average.
I am married, but was given a pass to use Tinder while researching a dating app. One of the most interesting things that came from it is that I saw a definite pattern in the women who swiped right on me. Dating apps are markets where we are the commodity. If I were to assign a number to my matches, they would've all been in the same range. From that I extrapolate that I must be in that same number range to the opposite sex. I got true "price discovery" for myself.
Forgive my ignorance -- what does this achieve?
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I'm not ignoring it. I think the effects are terrible - Germans work so efficiently producing goods and services for others to consume and never get to enjoy the fruits of their own labor.
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Perhaps I am overly sensitive to smell, but it happens to me all the time, also in real life: women who are otherwise extremely attractive become repellingly unattractive just based on smell, where the smell is picked up at conversation range.
Not really. SW engineers are more like the better paid regular engineer.

Hired for a specific, technical purpose. Expected to (usually) have gone to college.

No offense, but equating a comp sci degree (even with years of work experience) to a medical doctor is a little laughable. Doctors (as a field) are a step up from software engineers in terms of professionalism and work expectations.
Lisp (Common Lisp, anyway) has not changed in this century -- and even 20 years ago, Common Lisp didn't require a very high end machine (at work I had a modest Sun workstation and at home a Macintosh -- and both did just fine with Common Lisp).

It's still an amazing vehicle for exploration -- and it's still very good for building software. Some of Lisp's benefits lost their impressiveness because other languages have included those things as well.

But we live in BlubWorld.

And most people don't see the value in languages that look weird to them. They can't.
A lot of software engineers are autodidacts and never graduated in IT. I didn't (I have an MA in politics, obviously irrelevant to my profession). In general unemployment in IT is very low, and there's always a shortage of programmers, so job security is clearly above average. (And government administrations have IT departments, too).

It's supply vs. demand, that's all there is to it. I'm not buying any of the above as a justification for big salaries.
Just a note, variables are always replaceable by constants ;-)

@tailrec
def pow(n: Int, result: Int = 1): Int =
if (n > 0) pow(n - 1, result * 2)
else result

But yes, mutability isn't problematic if it's well encapsulated. Works well for simple functions, but when you get to more complicated things (e.g. classes/modules) the problem is that proper encapsulation is very hard to do, sometimes next to impossible.
Keeping the DM site up and snappy for so many users is no mean feat. Making an efficient digital workflow for users (journalists) who are quite picky consumers of IT solutions (I have my way of working and only my way)... The DM, technically speaking, is an impressive beast.

Perhaps this is a real story even though my gut says this has agenda written all over it.
RCD?
Yeah, its usually the AMPs that kills you not the voltage.
"Why isn't AMD trying to reach this market?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture)
Weird. Looks correct to me. Is it possible your system time is weird? It might be based off of that.
If an attacker is able to write arbitrary code through to memory, they won't then be able to actually execute that code.

It's a solid security enhancement.
It's meaningless to directly compare software engineer salaries with the rest of the general population because our work is a 'force multiplier'. A single software engineer can displace the labor of 10 staff - often permanently. While we're compensated more highly than 1 lower-skilled staff member it's still actually not commensurate with the amount of value we actually deliver. My (unscientific) belief is that we actually capture less of the value we generate than most other staff, out of the sense of "fairness" espoused in this article.

This applies at all levels of the spectrum, from a junior developer working at a contracting firm to high-end staff working for Google or whatnot. We wouldn't be paid those salaries if we didn't bring in 5x more than our pay.

Apart from that, supply and demand/etc also apply. We're highly-trained staff who often deal with mathematics that the general population can't or won't deal with.
This is not true of people older than 26 on the app (at least here in the Atlanta area). The profiles of that segment overwhelmingly signaled they were only looking for relationships.
> Unlike doctors and lawyers, software engineers don't have any respect and are pretty much working class, but that's another story

I see this kind of Rodney Dangerfield sentiment a lot on HN but it has never made a lick of sense to me (especially the "pretty much working class" variety).

And also if software engineers want to get into the "doctors and lawyers" category we need to start doing doctory and lawyery things like "professional societies with teeth" and "board/bar certifications" and "codes of ethics" (good luck on that last one).
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That you can't have a bug in your code that lets an attacker overwrite data (aka a buffer overflow writes into memory) AND have that part of memory executed.
It's either data (which can be overwritten) or code (which can't be overwritten).
> In other news, the next firefox release is going to have W^X

That's nice and all, but if the people behind firefox keep on taking away the features that convince people to use it (Panorama, for starters) then these little accomplishments don't accomplish much.
Neither does IBM as of last year - all IBM POWER chips are fabricated by GlobalFoundries.
I think status is a sub-category of "charisma".
Not true if you're a woman. The playing field shrinks as you get older, at least if you're looking for "good men."
FreeBSD ports and pkg allow you to set the installation base, with $LOCALBASE and $PREFIX (I guess other BSDs do too). Also AFAIK Guix. And BSD systems use /etc and /bin and /usr/bin for OS stuff, and /usr/local for packages. Even the config files go to /usr/local/bin/etc (NetBSD same, but in /usr/pkg).
At what time will be the YC S16 invites/rejection emails sent?
Can you explain how and why 48V is a barrier to begin with?
There's a reason Roland went to Ireland along with Lebanon, Palestine, and Berkeley.
> 'Theoretical Mathematician'

what does that even mean ?
> Attractiveness is, as everyone should recognize, subjective. Some people are very sensitive to height and some are very sensitive to intelligence and so forth.

While it's subjective, there are stats from MANY dating sites that show having certain traits (e.g. tall black guy or short Asian woman) will give you an advantage in dating over others (short Asian guy or tall black woman).

Oktrends showed tall guys unequivocally have more sexual partners than short men.
Good point. By the way, I've heard that the sense of smell of a woman changes during pregnancy. A friend told me that she didn't like the smell of her husband while she was pregnant. Not that it matters much in this case :) but interesting anyway.
That seems fairly tautological.
> But that doesn't really mean that this reasoning replaces the reason that many poor people don't know how to handle money, family, friends well enough to keep their head above the water.

Do you have a citation for this opinion?

Seems you're shifting focus from the concrete cause of poverty, lack of money/resources, to one of character. The article points out that others profit from this lack of resources and contribute to that cause of poverty.

Why is it harder to read that than an article that speculates that the poor are poor because they are shifty and can't balance a checkbook?
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I am disturbed by the caviler dismissal of the security vulnerability created by mutable and upgradeable versions.

npm does not have "immutable versions" -- the library you depend on can be replaced with different code given the same version label and with a normal toolchain this change would be picked up without even alerting you. As far as I can tell, this has not been exploited, but it is ripe for abuse.

Furthermore, a package manager is more than just the server it runs on -- things like the culture of how it is used also matter. As far as I can tell (please convince me I am wrong about this), common practice with npm is to import "the latest" version of a library -- that's a security problem AND a version incompatibility just waiting to bite someone.
Dundee utd in Dundee, Hibs in Edinburgh, even in England, Everton was traditionally the catholic club in Liverpool and Man utd in Manchester.
I'd say Glasgow remained the most bitter one on account of its close links to Ulster.
If you read about Irish navvies working on the canals and the railways in Britain it was in Scotland that they were the most disliked and where the most violent incidents occured. Even today a lot of scots seem to be anti irish.
You see it to a lesser extent in Liverpool as well if you scratch the surface of some people.
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To add to my comment since I can no longer edit, I see nothing incompatible between cooperatives and capitalism, even if the end result is cooperatives "destroy" the profit margin of profit-seeking equivalent enterprises offering the same goods and services. Cooperatives doing this are commoditizing the cooperative owners' complements, to borrow a concept from Joel Spolsky.
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> The correct response is to stop writing to the filesystem.

Stop writing AND READING, as what's read can be corrupted and yet written or used elsewhere.
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When the car's brand-new, you probably can use a foot-long breaker bar. Over time, though, they can get seized.

I have a breaker bar, but I haven't used it ever since I got an impact wrench. You can put a lot more torque on a bolt with a handheld impact wrench than you can with a giant breaker bar; they're really a quite remarkable invention when you think about it. The one I have (1/2in drive Ingersoll-Rand titanium body) has 1000 ft-lb IIRC.
This is complete horse shit. There is no such thing as an 'alpha male'.
That's interesting. I'd be very interested in determining my "market value". So on the app you can tell which women swiped right on you and which didn't? I am going to install Tinder tonight to check it out then.
The article mentions that vDSOs have negative security implications. After reading up on what a vDSO is, it is apparently (in Linux) a security fix on an earlier implementation called vsyscall. Can anyone enlighten me what security issues are left in the vDSO system?
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Is there enough juice in ARM chips to power servers and compete with Intel offerings like Skylake/Haswell?
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I'll just say that CFB isn't more or less better than other online dating sites in the regard of being 'picky.'

I've used it for the last four months and have gotten a grand total of... drumroll please one date.

And trust me, I've been really kind to like many women of various interests and ethnicities. I've also been thoughtful in my messaging to women.
People don't read the directions on the over the counter medications they're taking, so don't be surprised if there are people sending you messages who haven't bothered to read your profile.
Value and worthiness are two different things. If a CEO is valued at 12m/y and another one at 6m/y that does not mean one is worth twice as much, nor does he bring in twice more revenue. I hope one day you'll realize that one way or another everyone is worth more or less the same (eg societies need both good software devs, farmers, doctors, teachers, cleaners, carpenters etc) and we are only valued in very extreme ways.
Your link goes on to say, in a paraphrased quote corroborated by the NYT: "we approached them in the past for a similar story, and they didn't want to be involved in such a large collaborative effort, so we didn't bother this time around"

The NYT can't turn up their noses when they were invited to my birthday party last year, then complain when they don't get invited to my much cooler party this year.
It should be noted that we've hit that BUG() assertion on ext4 using the mount option errors=remount-ro - it should just not be possible to trigger an invalid state causing your kernel to Oops when you've configured it like this.

See Vegard's discussion with Theodore Ts'o about this: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=144898400422842&w=2
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No, the graycolor field don't exist. Each comment has a graycolor in the site that somewhat indicate how many negative points the comment has. But to read it you need to scrap the site, it's not available from the API.
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Dean Kamen is an amazing man. Myself and many other FIRST Alumni thank him, Woody Flowers, and countless other volunteers for creating such an amazing organization.
That sounds pretty creepy but I can understand how big of a factor smell is in regards to dating.
Erm... How many people are fed by a combine harvester driver? How many babies and mothers are saved by the staff of a modern hospital, who drastically lower child mortality? If 10 future programmers are delivered by a single nurse, should she be paid 10x what a programmer makes?

(Supply and demand I get, "force multiplier" I don't get.)
Oh is CAPI an onboard FPGA with a memory controller?
this is where the myth of "outkicking coverage" comes into play.
Am I the only who thinks that the "average income" in a country is a meaningless metric? Depending on the area (e.g. big city, desirable area, etc) average salaries and cost of living may be very different. It is easy to see in the US for example.
The key part that I got was that, while OpenBSD (rightly) prioritizes security over performance, all those little performance degradations can add up if you don't pay attention to them.
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Chinese characters allow to "compress" information, at least compared to alphabetic writing systems. That made them relatively transportable.

A good example of how a library might look like at that time can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3cnH5-nMbM Those rolls of slips around characters are books.
I expected ext4 to last longer than the others.
Portuguese here. Same crap, everyday, everywhere. :)
In math, this means that we've established that he exists, but we haven't found him yet. Last I checked, they established a lower bound on his street address of 6325.
> Instead of giving money to poor people, who then have to spend it all on rent, why not provide affordable housing?

You could probably make the same argument for prescription drugs and patent fees, no?
Just three (four) words: Embrace, extend and extinguish

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
I think the problem is further compounded by the fact that "software engineer" is woefully vague. Are we talking a highly educated Machine Learning specialist working at at top tier institution, or are we talking about the CRUD dev working for the local bank; or perhaps we're comparing generic IT that barely codes at all? The former might be underpaid, the latter maybe over paid, but they're all going to reported as "software engineer" and it really muddies the waters..
this is a cultural/ethical/social issue. not an economic one. you can't have the rich without the poor.