skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have much advice for feeling unemployable, but I can provide a helping hand with feelings of depression. Right before I moved to the Bay Area I was feeling the worst I'd felt in my life with loss of love and passion, as well as desire for life, and I know exactly how that can feel. Please drop me a line at philip at starryexpanse.com. I hope I can help you through this by telling you the things that helped me to make it through.
He was talking about the specific post under discussion (which was flagged and is no longer visible).
Apple is under for the excessive overtime at Pegatron because Apple mandated labor standards for their suppliers according to the article. Apple is company which is subject to public pressure due to being a consumer product company whereas Pegatron pretty isn't subject to direct pressure. Thus Apple gets the "fire"
I went back and fixed the script to turn a portion of the JSON API into a set of useful Python objects. The code looks mostly OK now.

It's no surprise that it took about the same amount of time again to tidy it up. Apart from making me feel better, and a promise of less work in the future for updates, it's hard to justify the extra effort.
First, do you remember when the US engineered the Orange and Rose 'revolutions'? Or when the US incited Saakashvili to go to war with Russia?

As for Syria, I don't see what you could possibly blame Russia for there, except preventing a genocide of the few Christians and non-Sunni Muslims that are left there.

Concerning the DNC 'hack', most of the new evidence points to it being a leak, not a hack. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/julian-assange-more-cl...

But yes, blame Russia for everything.

PS. Have you seen Victor Yushchenko's face lately? He's looking pretty good.
That's a threat. If you are living here you will notice that criminals doesn't fear the law before Duterte took office. Why would they? Corruption is from top to bottom that nobody gives a shit what would happen to ordinary people.

There's a documentary video where the head PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) said that are ordered not to arrest drug pushers even if they know who and where they are. Obviously the order came from the top.
I'd love to make $100k USD working a 40h week.
"People outside the Philippines are greatly misinformed by the media."

I'm not sure that the people inside the country are any better informed. For one thing, I'm curious as to how you were presented with the "600K+ surrendered" figure. That number sounds very high to me. Where are all these people now?

All details aside, sorry, but whereas once your country was on my 'to visit' list, it's been crossed off now. This situation must be costing a bucket of tourist dollars.
Under 40% these days. In Iowa the largest buyer of corn is Pepsi. Oh! Unless by 'cattle' you meant people?
How do they define "family"? I tried to find that in the article, but didn't see it (and didn't read every word in order to discover it).

Colloquially, you might say two families are distinct if there are no marriages or blood ties between them. But if you go back far enough, are there any distinct families by that definition, especially within one country or region?

EDIT: Nevermind. I can see how, by limiting relationships to one advisor relationship for each person, there would be more distinct families (or in another language, disconnected graphs).
Excuses of what exactly?
I use reviewable and like it a lot better than github reviews if there's more than one commit in the pull request.

Thanks for making it!
There's nothing wrong with dreaming.
I'm not sure that argument really holds up. AirBnB is very popular in Japan (hosting not renting), tons of listings, all of them are breaking the law. (most of them are lying about their listings as well with AirBnB's blessings)
Netin: A way to get hired as a team
I did one too of people I'm interested in

http://i.imgur.com/JuHbnk9.png ( http://imgur.com/a/mhFn3 )

Minsky, Abelson, McCarthy, Sussman, Steele, Dijkstra, Papert, Winograd, Erdos, Cantor, Wirth, Aho, Ritchie, Kleene, Turing etc.

Most are descended from Gauss and Euler, some from both.
I never heard that one. I mean you can just use shorter names. After all, you define the functions, or at least most of them, and the built-in ones are not unusually long.
The Scheme programs are usually much shorter than most of their counterparts on rosettacode.org.
I program in J, and that is even shorter!
For me, the slight against Java is the length of the class names themselves (e.g. TransactionAwarePersistenceManagerFactoryProxy), and all of the curly braces mixed with all sorts of other line noise ;
Trump is the result of a reality show. Duterte is not. Why the hell would you compare the two?
This is pretty common.

Us geneticists have used Flytree (later academictree.org) to figure out our lineages.

http://academictree.org/
> But it isn't universal.

Neither are people being highly productive without "adult supervision."

In all seriousness, I find your comment incredibly insulting. I gave an opinion based off of experience, that doesn't mean that I'm some sort of child that needs to be supervised.

> the specific type of person who ends up working where you work

I typically prefer to keep my comments here civil, but seriously? Fuck you.
I guess that's why I don't understand the hype.

In many countries Uber is just another taxi brand, one that's licensed by the local authorities. The only thing it has going for it is the app, but all their competitors have apps too. Plus, I've never had to use an app - I just call an automated number, press one digit and a taxi arrives at my door within a few minutes. If I'm using a mobile phone then the operator answers.
Advisor-Advisee relationships now. I'm a math PhD student, and I can trace my "mathematical family" back to each of Newton, Leibniz, and the physician mentioned in the article Sigismondo Polcastro. What I learn from looking at my family tree is that it's quite interconnected. The additional relationships come from students who claim more than one advisor (like almost all of Hardy and Littlewood's students, for instance) or students who got multiple PhDs and therefore have multiple advisors.
Sadly they did nothing that's why we are in this state now.
Any way the wind blows
>> It's sort of an open secret that in the Philippines you can bump someone off for PHP 10K.

> That's a pretty strong claim (as are many other statements). Is there something to back that up?

That's about $215 US, for the record. From the time I spent in Davao back when Duterte was mayor: no one I met was afraid of any crime, certainly not some weird public assassination market. The only people that you'd ever have to worry about were police, and that was only if you were a criminal yourself.

That being said, that was back when he was a somewhat crazy mayor and not President. So maybe there's been a shift in the politics and perception of these things? I can say the city was tremendously livable and while there was some anxiety about him and the extrajudicial killings, it was offset by dramatically reduced worries about normal crime for everyone I spoke to about it (which says a lot, I think -- WHAT it says is a bit more complicated).
Taxis are about 20% (rough estimate) cheaper than Uber in Japan. That, plus the already mentioned abundance and good quality of service of taxis in Japan (as well as the ease of booking one through phone/internet/mobile apps), leaves no real reason for most people to use Uber in my opinion.
You aren't pragmatic enough. Syndicated crime sets up the equivalent of parallel governments inside of your country. They compromise the integrity of your people by taking advantage of weakness and fostering distrust.

There is nothing to negotiate: you give these people money and they will just want more. You give in to their demands, or ignore them, and you become a part of the problem. A war suddenly becomes a lot more tempting to wage...
This comment greatly improved my understanding thanks
Weird, in Windows (Python 2.7.10) I have it without having ever installed it. Even pip uninstall didn't get it (just to make sure it wasn't installed from a dependency) but I can still import it.

On my Linux machine (Python 2.7.6) I can't import it without a previous install from pip install (that's reasonable).

Can't track down much about why this happens because googling "python attr" brings results about hasattr, getattr, etc, but few about the attr module.
I have to admit I've never seen those in person either. I have played with Amstrads, Amigas and Commodore 64s, though, and I have a BBC Micro in a box under my desk. :)
If Duterte did not won, we are in status quo right now.

I don't see how the current situation is any better. I can certainly see how it would look like Duterte did more than the other presidents, though.
Go's first commit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace

Rackspace was launched in October 1998 with Richard Yoo as its CEO
> Is there something to back that up?

Did you not read the "open secret" part? While it may or may not be true, you're going to have a hard time finding an "official" source for that kind of open secret.
And you wouldn't worry about people plotting on either how to get you fired, or I suppose in the "best" situation loosing out on working on the good/funner projects? From what I've seen from other people taking extended time off from work, it is super dangerous. Hell, I took three extra days for Thanksgiving and found myself removed from an interesting project and placed on some maintenance tasks afterwards.
I don't think the example of metabolic rate changing with scale is as interesting as Geoffrey apparently thinks it is. Natural selection doesn't produce organisms that are "all over the map"-- for example, the mitochondria of a human are not that different from those of a rat, or even an earthworm. Natural selection keeps tweaking the same designs. Often this results in solutions that aren't optimal. For example, maybe a cheetah would be a better animal if it had wheels. But they don't, because evoluation is a kind of hill climbing and You Can't Get From Here to There (tm).

Larger organisms don't need to generate as much heat as smaller ones, because heat dissipation occurs across surface area, which increases as the square of mass, whereas heat generation increases as the cube (assuming a spherical cow, but close enough.) This isn't particularly deep or profound, just basic physics.

New York isn't a whale, and Microsoft isn't an elephant. This whole thing just reminds me of the endless, pointless debates comparing Linux to a truck, and Windows to a car, that people used ot have on Slashdot years ago.
Why are you concerned with your safety now where crime rate is 45% down? You should've come here before Duterte took office so that you will experience the "laglag bala" or bullet scam in the airport.
> There's a documentary video where the head PDEA (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) said that are ordered not to arrest drug pushers even if they know who and where they are.

Any links to this video?
This is how Philippines has chosen to solve it's own societal problems, and is none of HN's or UN's business. I won't put judgement on it, but Philippine's people deserve to experience the consequences of their own choices, and not have other's views foisted onto them.

This is part of the reaction against globalism, and centralisation of power. Le Pen, Trump, Brexit, Duerte. People, and collections of people have a right to choose to do things differently from what the rest of the world considers normal and acceptable.

Those viewing Duerte as a figure who is centralising power in the Philippines into himself are viewing things upside down. This is a revolt against the United Nations, against "human rights agreements" between countries, against focusing on appearance of being good to the rest of the world. This is the pendulum swinging from globalism back to nationalism. This is a nation whose people is choosing the method to solve it's own problems, ignoring what we think of it, and we have no right to intervene.

Countries must be allowed to make their own choices. Their nationalistic tendencies must be protected. Things must exist separately, before they can be together. Without this separateness, and expecting every country to become globalised and be governed in the same way, like food in a giant blender, it's called narcissism.

Stop viewing things from your own lens.

Stop trying to look good to yourself. Cast political correctness away. Focus on the actual underlying reality.
In Defense of (some) Unpaid Internships
Then the guy next store turns his house into a flophouse, and all of the sudden AirBNB is a problem.
That's only because C++ makes this hard. It's not fundamentally true that you're editor needs to own the build process to be a useful tool.
Agreed. I am just struggling with Shutt's paper, but every now and then I get an epiphany in my understanding, and so I keep reading on. I am basically revisiting the old history of fexprs for my own education.

PicoLisp is pretty fast as an interpreted language, and holds a niche spot. But then again, the creator built it up over the years for his own work. It is very practical and compact when you use it in certain scenarios. I am ambivalent about the way it mixes PicoLisp and HTML in the Canvas examples. It cuts both ways to be that integrated.

Still, I always go back to play with it, because I just love how succinct and logical the code is for a lot of typical programming chores.
I tried doing a game with it, but it was too much work (for me) to get it going cross platform, or at least Windows aside from Linux. I don't like Cygwin at all.
To be fair, there are many places where the police do shady things, but a certain segment of the population don't see any issue with it because it's always those "other" people feeling the brunt of it and "they were probably up to no good anyways."

There are many white people that feel this way about police violence against black people in the US. "Well, they were black so they were probably up to no good; therefore the police only do bad things to bad people."
Right, we are getting paid to solve puzzles essentially! Lots of people would love to do that kind of work, and many do it for free solving Sudoku or what not (not that it's mathematically comparable to what OP does, but in a similar vein).
https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-08/invest-330-pm-ramp-...

I barely know anything about trading, and nonetheless this is absolutely glorious. It's grown into a subculture that rivals any subreddit, with its own set of memes, photoshops, even animations. And to listen to the ever-bullish narrator, there's no end in sight to the ramp...
Another perspective:

"CTO quits startup, takes tech with him after team ‘screwed him over"

https://www.techinasia.com/cto-quits-startup-takes-tech-team...

I saw the TechInAsia article with quite a contrasting headline (I'm pretty sure the TIA article was even posted here, but now I'm not seeing it appear in the search results anymore -- was it removed?).

What do you think? Was he "let go" or did he "quit" himself? Did others leave at the same time? Were they engineers? Any ideas?
Really? I loaded a 1.2GB ISO in the demo and it used… 1.2GB of RAM. (At least it worked though, coughAtomcough.) And more importantly it has no unicode support whatsoever as far as I can tell (any non-ASCII characters I typed showed up as ?).
I'm skeptical of claims that developers are underpaid. Maybe I feel differently about this because I'm not in a major tech hub and am not faced with the prospect of buying a multimillion dollar cottage, but when I compare my life as a software developer to that of more or less anyone else I know, including doctors and lawyers, I struggle to find a single person who seems to have a more comfortable life than me.

I'm not the highest paid person I know, of course. My low six-figure income can't compete with $300k+ salaries that many surgeons get. I couldn't afford the $1.2M Mediterranean mansion that my dentist lives in. And I'll never get the sort of pay package that big law firm partners can command.

But I'm not performing life-altering surgery. I didn't even have to go to medical school, let alone complete a residency.

I didn't have to start up my own dental practice. And I'm not in my hypothetical dental practice every Saturday morning at 8AM taking care of patients who couldn't make it during the week or couldn't afford to take off work.

I never had to go to law school. I didn't have to pass a single licensing exam. I took out no loans to get to where I am. And I was never worked 80+ hours a week as a young associate.

I worked less than these people to get to where I am, and I continue to work less than them. My work is easier than theirs too. It's less stressful. Even if a problem does consume me for days, including outside of work, it's just not that big of a deal. I started making this income when these other folks were doing nothing but accruing debt. My lifetime earnings won't be all that different from theirs because I got such a tremendous head start.

If I look at friends who are not in any of the above three professions, not a single person comes to mind who makes as much money as I do. Many make half as much as I do but have much more stressful jobs, fewer perks, etc.

And yet apparently I'm underpaid. I don't buy it.
Dark Matter is really a bad name. Too confusing.
"Not quite up to the standards of a topic expert" is still a damn sight better than most science reporting.
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> It's similar to the way tech companies have a concept of a "terminal level" where it's considered fine to spend your whole career with no pressure or expectations to earn further promotions.

And who else besides Jeff Dean, enjoys such a distinguished role?
I was hoping to see a framework for getting notifications in the shell, like in the screen / tmux status bar.
Move to the bay area and stop being average
آفر تور مشهد در هتل عماد و پارمیدا ورود ۸ شهریور ۹۵
Why couldn't he use this huge public push to reform the courts and simply arrest and prosecute the whole drug-pusher military industrial complex? If he has the military power to kill everyone, he has the military power to imprison and document everyone's transgressions. Why is there so much support for police being able to kill people without much documentation? In an environment where a given administration can pretty much kill anyone they want, why would you expect them to not take advantage and eliminate rivals?

I get that drugs are a problem, but why the support for extrajudicial killings when you have the resources to arrest, prosecute, and document?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUVA6GDinvM&feature=youtu.be
Settled out of court for undisclosed terms? Sounds like Reid really made out well then?
Every situation is different, I don't mean to preach like I know what is best for all startups, so take it with a grain of salt. MUBI definitely has a licensing burden, but it goes beyond that, even to very vanilla SaaS.

My thesis is this: if you can't get traction in one country, then acquiring customers in other countries is not going to make the difference which pushes you over the top. It may be the case that the country which you can gain traction in is not your own country, which will bring its own challenges but still doable. However, if there is not one single country which can offer you a sufficient market then I suspect that trying to piece together a customer base from many countries will drown you in overhead. You can make qualifications like English-only, USD-only, EST-business-hours-support-only, etc, etc, but at the end of the day each country has its own culture and you end up diluting your effort. This is to say nothing of regulatory or billing issues (note that accepting and clearing payments in other countries is a lot more involved than just looking at Stripe's supported countries list). My experience is that the human mind, especially the software engineer's mind, is very susceptible to building a mental model where going global appears to be a small marginal effort. You can even design your business plan that way and it still looks relatively tidy, but then once you get into the weeds you find a never-ending stream of details you overlooked. I guess this happens in all companies, but if you are serving multiple countries it's just more compromises you don't want to choose between: do I do something that sort of works globally, or something that really works locally? Companies that have some kind of physicality like Uber or Airbnb obviously have to think even more locally to individual cities, but for the average SaaS my instinct is country is the right granularity.
What software did you use for the graph? Looks nice.
If you even read my comment, I'm not even comparing Duterte to Trump, I'm comparing your logic to Trump's supporters' logic of holier than-thou, media is biased non-sense.

Yes the media can be biased, but in this case, he was quoted word for word (and he's basing his platform on that, so you can't just say the media is misrepresenting him)

Anyway regardless, I don't want to get to an extended discussion with you, as you seem deeply entrenched with your views.
> Certainly, favoring Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Assad is not "left-wing propaganda", as easy examples.

Didn't you hear? Putin invaded the Ukraine because he wanted to setup a bunch organic grocery stores and yoga studios? He's really a left-wing kinda guy! /s
Saudis are both the arsonists and the firefighters
> At 25, I grew up in one of the last unadulterated times to be young in our history. (...) I wonder how long until true childhood adventure is lost for good

Perhaps whenever something is lost, something else has been gained. And this even when we not able to spot it from each of our unique, and no less important, vantage points.
Pretty awesome. Though mostly I use Fatwallet, I enjoy to see what popular deals from other sites like Slickdeals.
Underpaid is an interesting term, I guess. When you think about it, software (in its many forms) isn't like retail or hard goods; it can be sold - usually - an infinite amount of times. The upside is massive since all hard overhead is eliminated. Where then should that overhead go? To management?

It's all about ratios, of course. If the owners/management of a company are grossly overpaid in comparison to the workers who produce - especially if physical overhead is nearly eliminated - then yes, developers are indeed underpaid. And I would posit this is true in many areas of software development. Perhaps not your situation, but overall? I buy it.
By the way, there is a well-written and thought-provoking essay by Steven Jay Gould about the relationship between the size of animals and their shape. http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/size_and_shape.html . He mentions Galileo as the first one to comment on this!
Idea may be independent from spin. All companies have people responsible for turning everything they possibly can into good PR.