skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Constraints provide freedom" is a nice saying but I think it's commonly applied to forms like poetry or sculpture. Unlike the discipline of creating a sonnet, virtually all modern programming languages provide few constraints on the form as a whole compared to the requirements of poems or realistic sculpture (whatever local hurdles they might involve) - remember the old saying: "A Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language".

I think programming languages do provide something unique and distinct from libraries.

Essentially a language is a generative, infinitely extensible tool. Another way to put it is that a language provides a geometry to move through the "space" of all possible programs. And different language make different potential programs closer.
How many times will he be on-site for advising?
It doesn't, but more detail here> https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/16/us-uk-digital-gov...
Olympic athletes will sport Visa's new payment ring in Rio
I had to create an account to reply to this. Surreal.

"# Massive flooring of the Canadian dollar."

The Canadian dollar is currently at 0.772, which is historically pretty much the natural level for several decades. When the oil spike caused the dollar to rise, it gutted manufacturing and other exports because they had come to rely upon the lower rate. As it dropped these industries revitalized.

"# Continued job losses months on end - Unemployment rate of 7.1% !"

Surreal. An unemployment rate of 7.1% is far below the going average for the past several decades. Countries with stronger social nets universally have higher unemployment rates as people are less obligated to take terrible employment situations just to survive.

I feel like some right winger from the US is giving their "take", to the detriment of all.
> I have been thinking of moving to Canada due to all the good things I hear from my Canadian friends.

Either they never lived outside of Canada, either they're lying to you.

Canada is a third-world country compared to the USA.
Very possibly yes.

But it sure helps when telling my wife I should work a couple of extra hours.
Your mention of Alberta made me realize—the low dollar, the unemployment, and the wildfire are all hitting the province of Alberta in particular. (Respectively, oil dollars, oil jobs, and oil sands, may be responsible.) And the three are intertwined: the fires aren't just destroying nature and wildlife, they're destroying liquid-asset real estate and arable farmland (i.e. jobs) as well. A lot of people are going to be suddenly qualified for income assistance in Alberta this year.

If Alberta were its own country—as a few of their conservative pundits have semi-jokingly called for—this would be the point where you'd start to see pleas for international relief aid on the news, like those from Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Instead, the Canadian government is going to have to try to soak up all those losses on its own. I wonder if its treasury is even that big?
Sorry, you haven't thought this through. As long as XMPP exists in a state where there are public servers with varying XEP support then adoption rates will always languish. A user would actually have to do considerable research to understand why features they've come to expect from centralized IM aren't working should they happen to choose the wrong server or client. Without a large degree XEP parity, XMPP has ZERO chance to ever compete with centralized IM. The average user simply won't put up with it.

Matrix has a shot because it's consistent right now. If they stay consistent, they will have an even larger shot.
They are actually prospective customers, as Experian is direct marketing a free trial of their product to the recipient.
The network effects that Facebook enjoys today didn't just happen, how they got there is the story.
Now, finally, can we get a renewed focus on Dropcam (outdoor camera, dash cam, microphone accessories for adjacent/large rooms, improved website, local storage option)?
Lots of people quit jobs and take some time before doing their next thing.
> I think most UK web users (using Google UK) would consider the NHS website as more reliable and appropriate than livestrong.

It is strange, as there have long been rumoured to be manual tweaks within Google search that say, for instance, BBC iPlayer radio will always come on top of a search for radio. You'd think there would be even more reason for the same to exist for health information.
Have all these changes made you happier? We all love status, having influence, etc., but are you actually enjoying work more than when you were coding? Many times the status comes with so many strings (and responsibilities, and headaches) attached that it doesn't really improve our lives at all.

There are a number of good suggestions here about how to make the best of what you're doing; My suggestion is to look closely at how the job feels while you're doing it (as opposed to how it feels when you're telling people about your role). You may find that being a senior engineer or architect minus the planning, tracking and administrating makes for a better work-life.

I know I did.
Interesting. It works great on my iPad Mini 4 on Safari. Maybe the problem is either the browser or your graphic drivers, not the CPU.
Nothing. But finding out how you ended up being underpaid does. The mistake was not getting a paycheck but the bargaining for the amount. The difference between what you should get and what you get is money you pay for your education.
Working under a jerk for a very long time can also teach you to be a jerk. Being a jerk for a very long time is what makes you feel normal.

There is this multiplier vs. diminisher comparison. A lot of people originally start out as multipliers but having worked under diminishers makes them forget or never realize what gifts their original talents could bring about.
I hope you understand that unless you have a job lined up or citizenship it is somewhat difficult to move to Canada.

If I may make a modest suggestion perhaps try visiting Canada for a period of time in a region where you would want to eventually live instead of relying on the opinions of your friends (who may be biased) or statistics (which may not tell the whole story.)
Tony Fadell is leaving Nest
What I referred to is the death of a human early in its development (blastocyst) resulting from the steps necessary to derive embryonic stem cells (as opposed to those necessary for adult stem cell derivation like here and elsewhere)
This tweet in particular is just jaw-droppingly stupid: "Tor had the chance to nip this in the bud back when Jake was just a plagiarist. They ignored it, and he graduated to sexual assault."

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802325565755392

I'm all for believing accusers as a default position, but where the fuck is the actual accusation? It's all vague and secondhand.
I am not sure this is going to happen. Calgary is a very conservative city, very little public transportation, a terrible cab system (and a city council who opposes alternatives), terrible road network (especially crowchild) no nightlife and very conservative drug and alcohol laws.

Software engineerings in Calgary are lucky to make 70k canadian (54k usd), so the good ones just move the the USA or work remotely. I don't see Calgary becoming a booming tech scene anytime soon.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, as have others you've posted. We ban accounts that do this, so please stop doing it, and instead post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833516 and marked it off-topic.
Because they're highly educated.
Check out English version of the official newspaper of North Korea
Turns out setting it to 72deg is a pretty effective strategy!
VMware Introduces Liota – The IoT Developer’s Dream
I agree, it looks like the demise of Google+ is direct effect of mismanagement by Vic and integrating everything (YouTube, Gmail etc.), not any kind of Zuck's "genius".
I did this on an xbox (using xbox-linux kernel) when I was a teenager. It was such an awesome learning experience. Between this and running gentoo is how I got all my commandline and linux internals chops. Glad to see it's still around! :) (I did it ~2004)
I cannot imagine a single meaningful thing "the elites" could do to have a concession to the human heart. They best they can do is things like taking the boot of Jim Crow off the neck of people. That's not that far from the arsonist-fireman syndrome.

Most of the concessions to the working class are still with us. Everything except jobs. And for a while, "restoring growth" worked. my hobby horse for why it stopped is low interest rates and low inflation.
I thought the goal of simulations is to simulate behaviour. Its easy to impress the uneducated.
http://www.stubhub.com/nba-finals-tickets/grouping/145491/

Seems like there are tickets to be had if you want them

Not sure why I should be upset people can't get below market prices
this is literally already spot 1 on the front page...

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832828
Can you define inertia in this context? Does it mean the risk of staying stagnant in a lower paid position?
Crazy. I'm two years younger than you and everybody I know uses Snapchat.
Leveraged buyouts: you borrow a bunch of money, buy the company with it, use any stored cash to pay that down, and saddle the company with the debt you used to buy the company in the first place. Then you repeat this a couple of times to buy up portfolio of related companies that might be better together than competing, reshape them and put them back on the public market at a profit.

Debt repayment from free cash flow is appealing because it's comparatively less risky. Startups building products have no free cash flow to speak of and require regular VC cash infusions to balance the books.
> Some of her neighbors lost their homes, and a combination of the rebuilding challenges ... resulted them in selling their houses and moving away.

If this occurred in an urban/suburban environment, it would instantly cause the sort of "shrinking city" problem affecting places like Detroit—suddenly, your house might be the only house on its block, so the viability of delivering power, water, or mail to your lone house (or even keeping the roads maintained around you) would have to be reconsidered as a matter of urban planning. Your house might still be there, but if the city decides to redraw the city limits to exclude it, you may as well give it up as lost anyway—it doesn't have market value any more.

On the other hand, if this was a farm—probably then on unincorporated land—a very different set of considerations would be in play, since you (or a co-op you're a part of) would likely own an independent contract for the installation and maintenance of the entire run from the utility to you. On one hand, it would probably end up your responsibility to pay for any repairs to power poles/water mains/etc.—which might be a lot. On the other hand, knowing that, you'd probably have insurance for those "backhauls" for just such occasions. (A lot of farming is risk management of often-volatile commodities. There's a reason the CFTC—the US futures-market regulator—is under the Department of Agriculture.)
This is a good 'start' to an elixir list, but i'm surprised it's missing 'Programming Elixir' by Dave Thomas, which is probably the de-facto pick-axe/K&R/whatever of elixir.

The title is a little misleading as it contains other resources than just books (unfortunately missing http://www.redfour.io/ too)
So who is this article aimed at? If you intend to torrent, you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you. DO and AWS are not cool with operating as high-transfer seedboxes and will be fairly expensive. If you're trying to remain hidden from a nation-state level actor you're obviously not going to use a VPS, but you also have bigger problems than HideMyAss accidentally leaking your ipv6 address. If you're like most people and don't want to pay $$$ a month for a VPS but want to torrent a bit, you just want a straight up regular VPN recommendation which they never provide. "Choosing a VPN is hard", yeah no shit, that's why I was hoping you would provide some value by doing the work for me.

I was in the market recently and ended up going with iVPN for $100/year. Their "18 questions to ask your vpn provider" [1] page is basically a more practical version of this article. Not that I am going to use it, but they also have guides showing you how to created nested and branched chains of tor/pfsense vm clients across countries, if you really did want to hide traffic from a nation state. If putting your trust into a VPN is the issue it's much easier to trust someone that links directly to security forums and openvpn documentation.

[1] https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/18-questions-to-ask-your...
Sorry about the confusion. In my mind conservative is fiscal conservatism, smaller government, more liberty, etc. Liberalism is about bigger government, larger social programs, sanitation of speech, etc.
Not to mention that it turns out he actually wasn't a plagiarist and there was a misunderstanding on both sides. Also throughout the ordeal Jacob seemed to handle it reasonably.

Edit: I didn't think my parent comment was inflammatory, but it's been flagged...so just to provide context for this follow-up, here are two sources to consider:

# Meredith's and Jacobs previous interaction regarding her referred to plagiarism incident
https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/302261054497509376

# Public email thread on otr-dev about the event in question
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.otr.devel/1546
truly, the worst of all
So many people will believe anything a "hacker" says as long as it's bad for them. In general, these 100 million password dumps are almost always complete garbage, but everyone along the way says "better to be safe than sorry" and ignores all the warning signs (in this case, that the file obviously wasn't Dropbox credentials).
I've just discovered this repo that teaches you Elixir in a very original fashion – in case anyone is interested:
https://github.com/elixirkoans/elixir-koans
Might be worth it to mention some Erlang books. I've heard many have benefited from Programming Erlang.

Also, stronger curation—Introducing Elixir is kinda old right? I'd put Programming Elixir instead of it.
Do we really need yet another special ad hoc scripting language?
1. Yes, Facebook have won the Social war. To date.

2. Yes, Zuckerberg managed to avoid technical errors and tarpits, mostly, to get there.

3. No, the "Lockdown" thing had little to do with it. If anything it may well have been counterproductive.

4. God what a horribly written, horribly analysed piece of glurge this is.

5. Harvard.

6. Google shot themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. With tremendous technical ability. With tremendous effect. Taking a service I wanted to like, wanted to find useful, and wanted to support, and uttershly gobshiting it.

Put the blame squarely at the feet of Vic Gundotra. And more squarely: at the feet of Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt. The rot does straight to the top. All four men did a tremendous disservice to Google, torpedoed massive amounts of brand equity and consumer trust, and have done very, very, very little to redeem it.

I've dug at G+, critiqued it, analysed it, and compared it with other alternatives. All in the hopes of finding a decent goddamned place for intelligent conversation online.

Hell if I know where it's at.

(HN is a small piece, but only a small piece, and not without its own major faults.)

More: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/SCqMujFZ...
WeWork Is Cutting About 7% of Staff
You've worded this vaguely, but I think the answer to your question is "no, that is not a good description of the Swartz case".
Thank you. You are absolutely right.

I conflated conservatism with libertarianism and liberalism with progressivism.
By "do" the NHS I meant the whole interactive system, not just providing information.

User interaction, booking appointments, reading case notes etc, sharing data between medical staff, the big ugly monster that scuppered the previous attempt. Was it really £14b wasted? [0]

I wish them all the best!

Regarding the the NHS information; this has always impressed me. They put a date on each page when it was last reviewed, and when it is next due to be reviewed. I keep wanting to do this on the websites I work on, if I only I could get beyond maintenance.

[0] - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-s...
I didn't down vote but from a different perspective:

- Not being able to hear / audible warning is a terrible argument for many reasons
- The danger is understood, but that's because of a lack of training for all road users; no amount of visual warnings will mitigate the lack of education / training

I think the downvotes stem from the lack of critical thought portrayed by the comment? I can't really say - to me it doesn't add anything meaningful to topic at hand and detracts from the intent of the article itself without giving tangible reasons.
Well sure I assumed that it's actually a sidewalk, but there's no reason to be authoritarian. If there really aren't any pedestrians around then cyclists really aren't harming anyone. If one is cycling on the sidewalk and sees a pedestrian, one simply hops off the bike and walks it until the pedestrian is out of range.
Apparently, as keeper of the secret knowledge, Fadell's next cross to bear is the smart Go-kart. Y'know, for kids.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11799682/nest-tony-fadell-...
Nope. Nosal has been used as a foundation to shoot down other cases for third-party TOS violations; see for instance Matot.
Harvard as a founding user cohort helped a tad.
If you're thinking of saving money, investing in insulation (ie, getting to R38+ in your attic, exterior walls, and also insualting under subflooring) would be a better win.

We're heavily insulated and don't even run the AC on 100 degree days.

I'd be far more interested in automating the combination of our whole-house-fan + windows/shades.
also "elegant".
Just to add another datapoint, I'm also in MSP, and I'd say ~120k is where I'd value myself as well, though I ended up taking less than that for my current gig because I wanted to work with Erlang (amongst other things), and it was an opportunity to do so. I'd +1 everything you said.
What's the alternative? Standing on the pedals? Or are there other styles of seat, not covered by the word "saddle"?
I think the National Audit Office would disagree about GDS being an unmitigated success: http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2437392/defra-and-gds-sl...
Well, Jake's listed as Tanja's PhD student, so there's one example right there. If you google for a bit longer you'll find others who hold PhDs who don't have undergraduate degrees. It's definitely rare to be admitted this way and then not all these students end up successfully defending after admission, but the formal requirement for an undergraduate degree does not exist at some institutions, or can be waived with some uncommonly used paperwork at others.

Most people are surprised to find just how many things universities have a form to do. There's very few rules at a university you can't get waived with the right signatures on the right paperwork.

My own time in academia required a lot of paperwork...
My understanding of Python and its community is that they have good solutions for basic problems and so they have the luxury of focussing on cool or esoteric stuff.

Also a lot of the power of Python comes from the extensive ecosystem, so the fact that certain domain problems are made easy in Python is itself an achievement of the language.
I generally tell a recruiter on the first phone call to tell me the salary range. If they refuse, I tell them I'm not interested. If they name a range that's low, I tell them what I'm looking for, and see if they're able to budge. If not, I tell them I'm not interested. Sometimes the range is higher than I'd initially expected and end up pleasantly surprised.

Either way, I don't talk numbers first and I still don't waste time with places that can't offer the sort of salary I'm after. I'm not going to even bother with a phone interview if I don't have a firm number in hand.
Not really...

On the low end (small ISPs with zero or a handful of downstream ASes), people aren't aware or are too lazy to implement egress ACLs. Complicating this: A surprising number of small ISPs and telcos don't actually staff for internet routing skills (e.g. can work with BGP & have heard of a BCP). They'll bring on a consultant to "turn up my new circuit" and move on. If the first consultant sets up egress ACLs and they get a new netblock chances are the next consultant will just remove the ACL instead of updating it...

Medium to large ISPs: IRRs are supposed to solve this but implementation is spotty / OMG scripting changes on routers / etc. http://www.irr.net/docs/list.html

High end: I've heard that some providers have so many customers landing on a given aggregation router that the ACLs from IRRs end up too large for the router.

Cogent's approach is to require a LOA for the subnets that you are announcing and filter out everything else. This seems reasonable, though it gets annoying when you have a downstream AS that has downstream ASes (BUT that's fairly uncommon).

I use egress ACLs that allow my RIR-issued and downstream customer blocs and drop everything else. I have a friend that runs a slightly larger ISP (5x more downstream ASes) that does automation with IRRs.
>People in the general public don't really have a clear idea about what Facebook, Google, and Amazon are doing.

But neither do you really, right ?

Sure, you may have a better idea than them of what's technically feasible, but the general HN consensus on the motives, values and internal decision-making process at these companies ("always assume the worst from them, they're optimizing for money!") is in my experience (of working at FB a few years ago) a simplistic view that's way, way off the mark.

>"hey, you know Facebook use a lot of state-of-the-art technology to algorithmically understand the meaning of everything you post and write, feeding this massive data set into their huge artificial intelligence program?" I don't think it's likely that many people will say "cool, that sounds like a great deal, because I love it when I get very specifically targetted ads."

I think this is again where nerd-bias is misleading you : 1) Many people would answer your question with "yeah ? is this the thing that enables translations, picture captions for the blind and suggests me events I might like ? Please, bring it on!" 2) people actually do prefer very specifically targeted ads, rather than annoying+irrelevant pop-up banners of the past. This is why FB is making a killing.
In a historical sense, Canadian dollar isn't particularly low, at least not so low that I would call it "massive flooring". [0][1]

Canada's unemployment rate of 7.1% is normal. [2]

0: The 80s were turbulent: http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/map-history-dollar/

1: There was a spike and collapse where you'd recently expect: http://www.profitconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12...

2: Historical unemployment data: http://well-being.esdc.gc.ca/misme-iowb/.3ndic.1t.4r@-eng.js...