skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are SE degrees common the US? I've only seen a couple of colleges that offer them and they weren't very good colleges or quite obscure. If the top 50~ universities offered a SE degree that included say, half of a CS degree with the other half being project/internship/"real world" stuff, would the job market still prefer CS?
There's also no blockchain in ZeroNet.
Good questions. Couple of things to note:

1. My paid features are all built on the core APIs that are open source. Almost every feature I sell has an OSS variant that someone has written. If you want to plug in a dozen different OSS libraries, integrate and test them together, you can get most of what I sell for $0. You will get varying levels of support and yearly upgrades of that stack will take days or weeks to validate. My customers recognize that building and maintaining any system like Sidekiq is non-trivial. You can spend a week or more annually maintaining your own Sidekiq "distro" or you can pay me to do it. So far, many hundreds of companies have opted for the latter.

2. Regarding multi-process specifically, each Sidekiq process is multi-threaded and will execute (by default) 25 jobs concurrently. Multi-threading is the OSS feature and delivers a huge jump in efficiently versus the old single-threaded Ruby job processors (Resque, DJ). multi-process makes it easier to spread work across many cores with a single command but nothing is stopping users from running multiple Sidekiq processes, they just won't share memory and must be managed separately.
There are a lot of good reasons to not vote for Hillary, but this has to be one of the dumbest. She's awkward and uncharismatic, so she must be a psychopath? How many actual psychopaths have you met, to compare her to? Have you ever seen her off camera? Do you not have any friends or family who aren't good at faking enthusiasm? Is disliking campaigning really the sign of a psychopath? Is "cold and calculated" not a good quality in a president? Aren't great manipulators usually extremely charismatic? Even supporters agree that Hillary is not very likeable or charismatic, is that really the sign of a great manipulator? How many years of psychological study have you spent calibrating your "internal psychopath detector"?
doh! you're right https://12factor.net/
While the OP is wrong about being able to "do everything in parallel" via quantum superposition (we have plenty of no-go theorems when it comes to quantum computers being faster simply due to parallelization) some interesting algorithms that are relevant to data science in general have been developed. For example, this[1] one provides an exponential speedup (over known classical algorithms) for calculating persistent homology, a useful method for identifying scale-independent patterns.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3106
16 years of continuous human presence in space is the biggest achievement of the ISS program, along with a lot of knowledge on long duration manned missions. A manned Mars mission would be a complete venture into the unknown if it weren't for the space medicine research done at the ISS.

Losing the ISS will be a step backwards for space exploration.
Typically when asking someone to substantiate a not-widely-accepted statement, "I asked first" is a valid response.

I asked first.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725653 and marked it off-topic.
Good idea, but don't you need a working prototype nowadays with Kickstarter?
This is a massively duplicated dupe. There's a flag war right now over this, so this too will probably get flagged.
this is a great idea, congrats.
reminds me of a project where people intending to learn English could speak to elders and seniors living in a retirement house.
Will follow up.
Thanks,
M Matos
I can say that the media took a sharp turn around 2000-2001 era, especially after 9/11. The rise of 24x7 news outlets and the internet (which has killed journalism in newspapers financially) turned it into basically a PR agency for the government and powerful interests. "Scare, divert, suppress, collude" have been tactics that have gone on at least for the past 16 years.

In fact, I think they were going on in the 15 years before that as well, though they were less pronounced, less obvious and less extreme. The media has probably always been a bit of a propaganda organ... it's just that the voices were a lot more diverse.

The really alarming thing we've seen this year is Google, Facebook and Reddit starting to use algorithms to suppress some voices and amplify others. Combine that with "Correct The Record" (the army of paid hillary shills who have taken over at least reddit) and the internet is no longer the alternative where you can have a reasonable discussion.

Why participate when your opponent is most likely a hired troll?
Hard decisions
I read this and my first instinct was "what PR team pitched this story?"

Maybe none. But one way the times could re establish credibility with me is to be transparent about how much the writer engaged with pr reps or communications teams in each story. It doesn't have to be exhaustive.

By the way- Part of my journey to this level of skepticism was "Trust me, I'm Lying" by Ryan Holiday https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulato...
Beyond that, the NYT actively culls comments that disagree with their political position. Even when this is not happening, they try to shape discourse with the NYT picks.

Even when I do agree with their positions, it is disconcerting to feel like I am being spoonfed political ideology.
I often hear many many people say "what you want is Software Engineering not Computer Science" and I'd say YES that's EXACTLY what I want. The problem is finding a university that will give it to you.

In my opinion the field of Computer Science should be the study of abstractions, logic, derivation of algorithms, understanding the limits and possibilities of computer hardware, and programming (being the development of a real-world solution to a problem that can be run to process data). If it's not one of those items I don't think it belongs in Computer Science. Sadly, our field has been managed, since the beginning, by professors who think it's math field.

That's the way I'd say most hiring managers look at it: Computer Science = Programmer. The only place this isn't paralleled is academia.

So I'm perfectly fine with saying either everyone else is wrong and my definition is correct, in which case we need to seriously evaluate how Computer Science is taught in schools. Alternatively I'm wrong, in which case I'd love to attend a university that will allow me to get a bachelor's, master's, and maybe even a PhD in Software Engineering because the truth is I hate whatever it is that academia considers Computer Science but I love logic, creating solutions to problems, thinking about the limits of hardware, optimizations, and everything that goes along with it.

Sadly I cannot find any university that offers this. My university offers a SE masters degree but it requires a BS in Computer Science! How ironic!

But yea, I'm perfectly happy with either of those outcomes. The people who are, in my opinion wrong about what "Computer Science" is can stay in their corner and I'll stay in mine.
> I don't think writing bug reports is as simple as it seems.

Only because most CS students have never taken a real laboratory course.

If you get a hard-nosed lab teacher, you figure out real quick all the information required to reproduce your results. And it's remarkable how much you have to record and how detailed you have to be.

The best lab teachers are the ones who will flunk your assignment if they can't reproduce your results from your lab notebook.
I Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail
> Even then.

How about you try getting chased out of a subway station after midnight getting called a "faggot" and we'll talk.

And people say that the SF tech class is out of touch.
Is Peter Thiel a lawyer? I seem to be missing a large part of this line of thinking.
It doesn't make much sense to me given that it's so late in the game that it's unlikely to increase his likelihood of winning, even if the Trump campaign is struggling for funds.

I think like many people, Thiel is tired of the status quo, but I can't really see why he would consider Trump to be an effective leader to change the status quo.
Oh and don't forget initiating covert actions in pretty much every South American country, Iran, and others.
Rev.ng: tools for binary analysis based on QEMU and LLVM
The latter – and it is likely that we will change this API in the future and update the devtools to match. No guarantee that your monkeypatch will continue to be possible, especially as we rewrite large parts of the internals (https://github.com/acdlite/react-fiber-architecture).
I agree with your sentiment that society would be much better without racial segregation, but pretending it doesn't exist won't make it go away - the first step to fixing a problem is to acknowledge that it exists.
Electoral reform is a hot topic, but what people usually mean by it is not a change in how the votes are counted. The most popular issue is campaign financing (with the current arrangement being that there's no practical limit a private party can pour into the elections, so long as they do the Super-PAC dance). Another big issue of concern is gerrymandering. For Democrats, the way their primaries function (superdelegates etc) has been in the spotlight.

As far as voting system itself is concerned, electoral college is the most common issue that is raised, and switching to national popular vote counting is the most common proposal to fix it. There's an ongoing attempt to do this from bottom up, by signing up enough states that they can basically impose this without changing the Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

Things like STV for presidential elections, or MMP for parliamentary, are mostly under the radar - there are certainly people who are aware of them and push for them, but they're a very small minority, and the public is largely unaware.

Just to give you some sense of how these stack up, the only electoral issue that has been discussed at length in this political campaign by any of the major candidates (including primaries) is campaign finance reform. I haven't heard a peep about electoral college or proportional representation.
>There is no evidence Russia is involved.

That's not what the FBI investigation is saying:

> Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday that they are confident that senior-level Russian officials were involved in the hacks.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/john-podesta-wikileaks...
Yeah, definately picking up a "omg he doesnt google ten thousand times a day" vibe.

Kinda guessed as much from the start (hence the - probably to forward thinking conclusion).

But probably worth pointing out. The reason i noticed I hardly used google any more last week, was because I did a search and realised it had been so long since i saw google search results on a desktop i almost forgot what they look like.

And yeah, i know that is because i spend most of my time now on places like hn, closed networks with all the technical manuals you could ever need on hand, specialist forums or tor sites that google doesn't even know exist let alone provide search functionality.

But i am definately not alone. And it definately looks like the future (or at least more like what the internet used to be). Infinately more valuable information. No spam bots or corporate advertising. Just experienced techies sharing knowledge, skills and resources.

But all that is irrelevent to the point that unlike historically techies arent earning google revenue and non techies really dont use google that much.

We went through a time when adsense completely dominated the ad market.

Yet there is another google "dependancy" I havent seen for a very long time.

And that i share with pretty much everyone techy enough to install an ad blocker.
> We got zero.

For someone ragging on the lack of investigation the press are doing, you're doing a poor job of it yourself. Simply googling 'nyt clinton email' comes up with a handful of stories from the past 10 days (there's also a lot of stories older than 10 days in the search).
> Increasingly, the skills developed by spying and waging cyberwarfare don’t stay in the military. Unit 8200 is a feeder school to the private surveillance industry in Israel, the self-proclaimed “startup nation” — and the products those intelligence veterans create are sold to governments around the world to spy on people.

I find it surprising that Israel would allow exporting its military technology just like that. I'd rather believe that the servicemen of Unit 8200 would sign NDAs that put them in prison for a long time for even mentioning the more modern cyberwarfare inventions, let alone productizing and exporting them.
While a flexible battery would be really cool, I thought flexibility was a major problem for lithium ion.
VeraCrypt has not been usable for me, since upgrading (if I can call it that) to macOS Sierra. There seems to be an issue with FUSE for macOS, preventing me from mounting anything.
She allegedly said this in 2010, two years before Assange entered the Ecuadorian Embassy.
There's reform happening at courts of protection and the family division to publish more, with appropriate anonymisation.

Remember that these courts deal with really vulnerable people.

Have a read of some of these: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2016/9.html
I agree, it was political theater. Romney in many ways to me reminds me of Hillary as far as style is concerned and I would say Hillary's "basket of deplorables" comment is far worse politically.
Why Elon Musk's Mars Vision Needs 'Some Real Imagination'
We've banned this account, of course.
> It's not political for many people who will see — and have seen throughout this election cycle — very real repercussions in terms of discrimination and hostility that affects them every day in their lives.

Of course, if you fire people who are supporting your opponent, then you will have caused 'very real repercussions in terms of discrimination and hostility' that effects them.

That's what creates the cycles of radicalisation and polarisation: he-said, she-said, tit-for-tat, eye-for-an-eye politics.
I grew up in USSR in the 80s and there were two major newspapers distributed across the whole country: "The Truth" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda) and "The News" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izvestia). So the joke about these newspapers was:

There is no truth in "The Truth" and there are no news in "The News".

Update: Added links to wikipedia
Here are some of the results: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/09/german-political-partie...
It looks like the True Pundit article (linked above) is the original source for this claim, which is sourced as "according to State Department sources". Then there was a wikileaks email (https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/1099) which has the subject "an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re wikileaks", but which doesn't actually mention the strategies and only says "The result is the attached memo, which has one interesting legal approach and I think some very good suggestions about how to handle our public diplomacy". The attachment is not provided as far as I can tell.

IMO, it was likely a joke.
I've been pushing the head of the class I help TA for to make it mandatory that students use PyCharm. He's still afraid that PyCharm will intimidate the users but I think it's well worth it.

We have 2nd and 3rd year students at my college who still haven't opened Eclipse, IntellJ/PyCharm/Whaterver else, or even Visual Studios. They have also never used a debugger. They have no idea what formatting standards, or naming standards are. It's crazy.
> The problem is finding a university that will give it to you.

Go find one of the multi-week intensive programming "camps" with a good reputation (do be careful--there's a lot of snake oil out there). That's what you want.
> Compounding that was the un-googlable nature of some of the operators like ":<"

Ah! souvenirs

"- [..] Oh, but you have to use the epaulette function!

- The what?

- The epaulette! (>>>) it's like the zigouigoui, but you don't have to lift anything. Just flatMap that shit and you're good."
It's not the whole truth, it's blatant bollocks and it's really disappointing to see many on HN fail to do even simple debunking.

http://www.headoflegal.com/2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the...

http://www.pinktape.co.uk/cases/i-am-calm/
The article is full of distortions.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCC/Fam/2013/B14.html

http://www.headoflegal.com/2013/12/04/booker-hemming-and-the...
This is applicable to an Intro to SOFTWARE ENGINEERING course. As an exercise. Not the primary content. It is not Computer Science.
Would you hire someone who brags about voting for trump?
It's not only possible, but easy isn't it? Couldn't they just cut the cables leaving the country?

The article mentions they targeted primarily mobile communications. Well, a quick Google search for a map shows only a couple dozen cell phone towers in Ethiopia, so it's not hard to seize them all.

And China shows that it is perfectly capable of controlling internet access for a billion people.
"Congress shall make no law" meant the laws that Congress gets to pass, which are laws that apply within the United States. Congress doesn't get to pass laws that apply to foreign countries. ("Laws" here are distinct from "treaties".)

"People" meant citizens, not foreigners, even though I cannot think of any place where that is explicitly stated. It's pretty clearly implied, though, when you say "right of the people". What people does the Constitution give rights to? The people of the US, not the people of any other country.
I guess you could try to make a composite steel-aluminium material, as the steel has a yield point and will take the load when stretched. But I doubt it will work good for compression.
I wrote a shell toy to help me learn vim motions.. the idea is you can grab parts of the output of previous shell commands by passing vim motions. So like when you want to say "git checkout <that branch mentioned 5 lines up in the previous command's output>" you can do it :)

git checkout $(lw 5kyiW)

It's more of a toy than a power tool but I do use it somewhat regularly.

https://github.com/bgribble/lw
What metrics do you use to evaluate 'best programmers?'
> This pull request showed me just how much the Scala community values good documentation: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/6545 – tldr: not much.

Erm... But the change was shitty. How would that make good documentation?
The phrase just before said "Here's example JSON", and the JSON got changed to
Scala code. How is that indication of appreciation or not of good
documentation?
Where do they do the bragging?
DNA provides evidence of paternity of Sally Heming's children. Which appears to be that the father was Sally Heming's owner Thomas Jefferson.
Sally Heming may have been head over heels in love with Thomas Jefferson. But on the balance of probability I would guess there might have been coercion (hence rape) from a slave owner to a slave. Evidence, not proof.
This is not to mention that they aren't advocating 'free speech' like Alex Jones(not that I agree with him); they are actively fostering division and inciting violence between American citizens(using the mentally ill as their pawns) to manufacture outrage and promote a narrative.

I encourage anyone reading to watch the video, acknowledge it's biased and draw your own conclusions.

You can't edit words into someone's mouth.
Redgate Coding Challenge
I'm not a Trump supporter, I just don't think Trump is any more corrupt than HRC
Yeah like it's the CURRENT YEAR. How can anyone disagree with what i'm thinking in the CURRENT YEAR?? How can anyone disagree with celebrities and politicians in the CURRENT YEAR????!
> I think learning Scala comes out more naturally when you have some exposure to Java.

My experience at the office is different. I come from Java, but I've seen people who literally never programmed in Java or any other Java-like language succeed with Scala (and then they get horrified when they find out what Java looks like). They have none of the bad habits that come from years of writing Java code. It's enlightening, really. A few years ago this experiment wasn't possible -- of course everyone doing Scala was a Java expat. Not anymore, though!

I couldn't disagree more with you about excluding people. Excluding newcomers is always bad, but also, don't people "comfortable with advanced programming" deserve good documentation? Of course they can and will succeed in the absence of it, but only after wasting valuable time.

Linus' statement is controversial and shouldn't be quoted as gospel. In any case, he argued against C++ programmers because he thinks they -- and their chosen language -- suck, not because of advanced programming or whatever (note: not my opinion!).
There's a dimension/axis of time involved in the pattern. At least some (substantial?) positive coverage of Trump before Republican nomination is due to Hillary's cozy relationship with media.

I, for one, am also comfortable blaming the Republican electorate for allowing the three pied pipers, including Trump, to have been elevated.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-press-buries-hillary-clinton...
Am disappointed how often posters here have flagged submissions on this topic to death. It's an important one, and HN's inability to allow discussion of it speaks poorly of this place.

It's telling too that this is now larger than just HN — YC's weakness on this point is now affecting its relationships with other orgs.

Peter Thiel, especially part-time Peter Thiel, seems a strange choice of hill to die on
So... we're back to server-side rendering?
Not to mention the same doc page already showed how to convert JSON into a Scala value earlier.
> I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I don’t see how anyone could support Hillary, based on her actions.

I feel that way about them both. Who can legitimately be excited by any of this? It's just degrading to see our republic reduced to these depths.
Well that's just a ridiculous claim. Are you literally saying that no (successful) startup has ever been founded by anyone who is a pathological liar and a sexual predator? I'd love for you to be right, but I really, really doubt it.

And as is often pointed out by women, sexually predatory behavior is much more common than most men realize. (not sure if you are a man or woman, but putting it out there for other people, mostly because I also tend to forget this point).
Scala came out in early 2004, Scala 2.0 in 2006 and I'm not sure about actors but probably not before 2007.

In 2001 Martin's lab was probably working on Pizza / Java generics :)
Please acknowledge that this is a huge backpedal from your original statement.
"A minute to learn, a lifetime to master."

Seriously though, do you feel you missed out because your CS degree didn't teach you how to write bug reports? I mean, really?
People can think what they want about Prop 8 he shouldn't have been forced out of Mozilla because of this. There is absolutely not 1 proof that he behaved inappropriately at Mozilla. His track record was almost flawless there. He was pushed out by people who clearly don't care about Mozilla, just about unrelated politics and of course ,nobody can ignore the cabal right here against Eich on HN. It was despicable back then it still is now.

It's exactly the same things as the handful of idiots who tried to paint Doug Crockford as a misogynist and kicked him out of Nodevember conference. These people don't have the best interests of the technology community in mind. For them getting the head of this or that prominent guy is just about collecting trophies.