skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year I had my resume submitted by a third-party recruiter for a role there. My resume was rejected out-of-hand by the hiring manager because the companies/customers I had worked for were "too enterprisey" (i.e. I had only worked for government contractors at that point). The "too enterprisey" quote came directly from the recruiter. I suppose he could have been blowing smoke up my ass, but I don't think he would have said that if he was.
My opinion doesn't represent everyone's of course, but I don't like touching my desktop/laptop screen and getting smudges everywhere. I'm quite happy with a keyboard and a (good) trackpad.

Apple said the touchbar is their first foray into a new system of inputs, perhaps a larger touchbar and some sort of haptic feedback is a new interface their going down, I think that could actually be pretty cool and innovative.

As for putting a touch screen on everything and desktops, eh... I mean, that Surface Studio looks amazing and likely appeals to creative professionals, but probably doesn't effect many people besides that. Kudos to them for the innovation, but I don't think it represents a better ecosystem.
If that's your image of working, you should consider working for different companies. This would not describe my workplace, or most of the ones I've worked for.
Regret posting this. Sorry!
How does this compare to Nissan (US), also non-union?
Shoreham was completed but effectively never generated power. The evacuation method for an accident was "everyone drives away from Long Island" and Long Island refused to allow the plant to be turned on. The community paid back the entire cost of the plant through taxes because they had agreed to the planet before construction and effectively reneged on the deal.
Weev's use of every IP-connected printer in the US to publish antisemitic "samizdat" significantly predates this. There's no real exploit in most cases, just things connected to the internet doing what they're told.

https://storify.com/weev/a-small-experiment-in

https://storify.com/weev/why-i-am-getting-a-bowlcut
Project Data, 0.18.3 released
Am I the only one that read this as porn-porn crabs?
'I still maintain this - any immigrant system that allows corporations to decide who gets to come here is flawed.'

Corporations ARE the workforce market, which should indicate what kind of workforce is needed.
It can only go from employer to employee, not vice versa.
You can also look at that from company's perspective:
You not only paid for someone's visa but also went through all the paperwork and then the person leaves in a month, just because he got a bigger offer. This should somehow work in both directions.
Jesus, get some coffee or something. 34 Grand Prize Winners out of 1300 isn't something to scoff at. Considering his situation. It's not like he's being coddled with a participation trophy like some white kid in Beverly Hills.
But how far down can that go before nobody is interested because there is no profit to be made?

We already see how in the PC market the margins are razor thin. The markup do not have to be 10s of percentages, but it has to be there or there is no point in being a merchant in the first place.
Problems of output are problems of input
Should it be illegal for s man to shout SELL! on a crowded trading floor?
Basically, it's because we expect markup to have meaning. The situation is pretty different from what it was with a traditional GUI builders because of the markup hiding back there.

In the bad old days, Dreamweaver had visual tools for this stuff, and it generated a horrifying mess of nested tables. This was rightly criticized because it made for a huge amount of markup, the markup was difficult to embed in a generator, there were lots of ways to destroy the layout if the content you inserted into it was the wrong size or had the wrong stuff inside it, and it was hell for web scrapers and screen readers. The generated page had no semantics and tripped up all these secondary uses. It also tended to be huge, slow to load, and hard to edit later.

Once CSS grew more powerful, a big fight ensued for semantic markup: keeping the template semantically meaningful (no tables of images and lack of table content), easy to generate and fill and easy for scrapers and screen readers, and doing all the layout in CSS. The mantra became something about hand-coded HTML always being better than machine-generated.

It probably could be done better today (and with the prevalence of JSON APIs semantic markup may not matter as much as it used to), but once the philosophy becomes widespread it becomes difficult to unseat. When you have developers who are competent at CSS and semantic markup, the sales pitch of moving back to a visual editor becomes harder.
>That sounds reasonable, but why then require that a company sponsor an immigrant in the first place?

The point seems to be to let immigrants punish punitive or abusive situations themselves.
Summary: the cofounders disagreed so two of them left.

Maybe I'm an old guy but I don't really understand why this blog post exists, it's like hundreds of words of emotive rambling and vague talk of journeys and values and euphemisms for simple concepts.

Would it like have ruined anything to write something like "A couple key early people are moving on but we're doing pretty good, we make social media software and have revenue ok hey thanks for listening I'm going to get back to that now have a great Friday" and then hit save?
> Unions in Finland have abandoned part time and low income people and only look after people who have full time jobs (who are members in the unions).

A union is a membership organisation that looks after the interest of it's members, I don't see how they could have abandoned people that aren't members. What has happened in other Nordic countries though is that politicians have worked hard to lessen the power of unions by decoupling things like unemployment and introducing other form of employment. Therefor it makes less and less sense to be a member of a union. But that is to a large extent a political question not a choice by the unions.

I also think maybe one of the biggest unanswered question with basic income is how you can guarantee it long term. We already know that things like minimum wage, unemployment benefits, student benefits and social insurance don't keep up over time despite the power of the institutions and the unions. Now people are saying that we should put all those things in one basket and hope that the politicians don't screw us over later?
i talked to my friend, a UPS driver, about this last year when this same story surfaced on HN. He said it's not really true and that they turn left all the time -- but he was aware of some training about it.
I don't agree with this article mainly because one's passion for anything in life is dynamic. It starts and stops at points in your life that you can't anticipate.

I didn't know anything about programming until university - I took the courses CS majors had to take in my stats degree until the end of 2nd year, and I definitely wasn't "passionate" about it. Actually, I was quite convinced I didn't want programming to be in my career whatsoever. But after my first co-op term in a start-up where I got to see what actually could be done with a team of people who knew how to code, coupled with 3rd year classes being more interesting and relevant than the fundamentals, I gained my passion. I now run a SaaS that combines programming, statistics, and other passions.

If I read your article after 2nd year while applying for my first jobs and taken this advice, I would have said "screw it, life's too short" and not be in the situation now where so many more doors are open compared to my classmates. I'd be on track for pigeon holing myself into boring stats jobs that need SAS certifications, with none of the skills I have now for a career in modern data analysis in the tech industry.

Side note, I hate reading about developers who lament about the career trajectory compared to being a doctor/lawyer. Most good developers are smart enough to genuinely believe that being a doctor would have been attainable if you just switched another lever earlier in life. I think this is a valid regret if you had actually always wanted to dedicate your life to legally/medically advising people, but you chose programming for the money. But for almost all of these developers, the decision to choose their career wasn't 100% about money and being a doctor/lawyer was never a serious consideration past wishful thinking. You're just viewing the grass as greener on the other side without considering the cons and consequences of actually being a doctor/lawyer, and that type of negative mentality is not healthy.
My comment was more about the reliability of replication across geographies (author writes, "and it will be stored redundantly in news servers all over the world.")

The par2 files would be more surefire if you're using your own subscribed newsserver in a closed-loop fashion for backups. However par2 technology doesn't mean NNTP will guarantee those parity files actually got replicated to other servers.[1] If one is looking for safety beyond your own newsserver, you'd have to consider increased probabilities of failures. I think that's ok for sharing rips of Blu-Ray movies. However, for the irreplaceable backup photos of your children, hoping for par2 files on other Usenet servers you don't subscribe to may be too risky.

[1] http://ask.metafilter.com/237447/How-do-files-on-Usenet-deca...
I run one with a 5930k, 980ti, nvme. It had huge issues with el capitan, but sierra has been a breeze. The pascal part is an issue, but running a small card/integrated graphics for the screen is perfectly fine if you're dedicating the GPU to computing.
I think the Perl 6 example should really use [0-9] instead of \d because it's unlikely that unicode numerals are allowed (in the Common Lisp spec).

Anyway neither example fully covers the Common Lisp spec for a number atom (for eg. scientific notation or rationals).
Is it not a coding competition?
Having a hard time understanding your comment. Are you saying UBI should only be for lower class? Isn't that just a welfare program?
If you don't think we've entered an era where "facts" are invented from thin air without fear of repercussion because the media portrays opposite sides of a demonstrable fact the way it portrays differences in opinion, you're woefully naive.

Recent events may have had a side effect of making honest people need to work harder to prove their claims. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, we could have used more discipline and scrutiny there before the era of fake news anyway.
Grep 3.0 released
The templating is fast and safe but a pain to use. For example, an HTML Select needs a 3-value list: id,text,selected bool. You can't evaluate a comparison (if...) or call a function in the template. It's unpleasant.
I don't see how that is possible unless you work for someone else perhaps. If you are a licensed, bonded electrician and work for yourself (which a sizable portion of trade workers do) your earning potential is only limited by the amount of work you are willing to do. Stay busy and you make a lot, work one day a week and you starve. YMMV.
Other replies are implying vote rigging/bias. IMO, that's not the case in this instance, there are other terms which reliably get a lot of upvotes just because they are in the headline. (namely, Rust and Machine Learning)
Recently, I've been wanting to document how I setup my servers. I would start from a blank slate base linux install and go from there, listing each command I run and what it does. Then building off each command into the next leading the reader through the steps of configuration and installation of software. This is all for a blog, so take that into consideration.
I came to the same conclusion too, but I felt the blogs left a good taste in the end rather than raising questions in my mind. I was surprised at the number of "retreats" the team seems to have had though, maybe that's baked into the compensation, etc.
Interesting. Were actors available at the kernel level? If so, how?
Show HN: Aragon – Everything you need to run your company on Ethereum
The Oatmeal had fun with that critter.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
They are stuck into supporting their shrinking support base for ideological reasons.

Unions are strongly connected to both social democratic party (SDP). Unions and social democrats achieved many good things for several decades. But things have changed and they and their support base is trapped in the past and looking back to old good times. They are basically party for baby boomer generation.
Was just going to say that. I'm all for getting teens involved, but it's dangerous to puff up too much. I'm sure he's very proud of his work, but I'm not sure I would categorize it as a "series of complex technical tasks". I can't find exactly what he worked on, but from a blog post he wrote [1] it seems like pretty basic stuff:

I made a few PRs on the OpenMRS source code (had to squash a lot of commit though), and a PR on the reference application to allow login using only the keyboard! That was the most tricky task I did

[1] https://collingrimm.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/gci-week-7-over...
You're just being too harsh. Most people have no idea what Google Code-In is. Sure, you can change it to "Google coding competition winner" but "champion" is not that bad anyway.
> Why do we think that programming is so different from plumbing that we not only need pure skill but "passion" too?

I know little of plumbing but I was under the impression that programming projects last quite a bit longer than plumbing ones.

Even the maintenance phase also seems to be much more proactive in programming than in plumbing.

In my opinion passion is important when we're talking months to years per project.
I wonder if there's anything professionals developing software could learn from this by analogy.
> Exactly. It's been a decade since I've used Usenet but I remember there were always tons of messages complaining, "part43.rar and part62.rar is missing please reupload!!!"

Just use an error-correcting scheme, such as used by RAID.
> The 6 years he spent learning at another trading firm or the fact that on his own he probably had alot less risk oversight that allowed him to lever up more than he would have in side of an investment house.

Maybe neither? As good as this kid might be, hard to believe he did a 30x year! Even with more risk and there was some crazy volaility back then, a 30x year going from half a million pounds to 15 million in 12 months is very high.

Never know of course. He might have done it. theoretically possible with the exotics CDS in that year. But also hard to trust journalists aren't just twisting facts these days.

Another explanation for the rise: He already had several million while working at the firm, but they weren't in his name, not in a public filing anyway until went out on his own and took out the funds.
The social media sphere has never been more crowded
That's a good one. Although, considering I built the library to allow developers build their own bash like experiences I think it might be better to leave it up to them to define their own editing config files
Just stick with bonds for wealth preservation. Keep your target yield around 5.5% and you'll be okay, even with a bit of leverage.
Basic income is more about social security, even if it changes price points. Plus, the most basic needs have a somewhat fixed consumption rate.

You don't buy more bread if your income goes up. If anything, you buy less and use your money elsewhere.
Initially, the point was that it is only Trump supporters that are uninterested in actual facts, but sure, plenty of conspiracy theories on the left as well (was just trying to keep it clean):

"Trump has had or wants to have sex with his daughter..see, here is this picture of her sitting on his lap when she was 12"

"Trump stayed in a Russian hotel room, found out the Obamas had previously stayed in that room so hired prostitutes to urinate on the bed in front of him"

"Russia sold 19% of their state owned oil company to an unknown party and there is a document 'procured' by the Never Trump movement that says something about 19%, so Russia made a deal with Trump to get him elected and give him 19% of their oil if he would lift sanctions"
"Deep learning gives 20-30℅ better results than other algorithms developed by people who have dedicated lives towards malware detection"

What the fuck! At the risk of sounding butt hurt, I feel this is such nonsense.
Yes, I know exactly what GCI is, being a finalist myself.
I like this blogpost on the subject: https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150622-remote-assess-dev...
It makes it sound as if he's a champion coder at Google, because it's lacking context. It's a clickbait title to drive views towards an exploitation piece (not necessarily negative exploitation, but still exploitation).
Why would someone go to a Michael's when there's no shortage of independent framing shops pretty much everywhere?
How utterly pointless is it to say "This experiment will fail" - they seem to have missed the point of what an experiment is.
One way this is done is exploiting routers that incorrectly allow upnp on their wan interface.

http://toor.do/upnp.html
I used to work at American Express as full time H1B employee, Arizona location as an Engineer I (10 years exp). They paid me 80K while they paid 110K starting salary for fresh American graduates from Arizona State for Engineer III position. (Engineer I > Engineer III). Also they were promoted from Engineer III to Engineer I within an year, while I did all the hard work with no promotions or salary raise.

H1B visa abuse at its best by an American Company. I am not in US anymore. Left it for good.
Naive? This is exactly what they do. If you come over from Facebook and Google offers you the standard RSU package, but you let them know what kind of vesting RSU packing you already have, they'll up the ante.

Sounds like you are more uncomfortable with the idea that some people don't have to work for the same outcome.
It's not TSP. In TSP, you have a graph and want to visit every node exactly once. Here you have a (road) graph and want to visit some set of nodes (the delivery addresses) at least once (it's okay to drive past a house where you dropped off a parcel earlier if that somehow makes the journey shorter).

Also, consumer satnav systems don't support this kind of query. You can't plug in a list of dozens of destinations and ask for the shortest path to get you to all of them, in any order.
To clarify/correct here: satellites do not use a slower medium than fiber; satellite (and radio in general) and fiber communication both happen at the speed of light (since they both use light to communicate). If we had a space elevator, and someone were to string a fiber-optic cable along its length and ping something at the other end of it, it'd take just as long for that signal to reach the top of the elevator as it would to reach a satellite orbiting right next to it.

The "slowness" is due to the other factors you've described (the longer distances and the increased risk of environmental interference).
Load-balanced insanity. Truly, we are living in the future.
There is no rule that stops an H1B from transferring to another company.

It is a two way "at-will" law that supersedes any employment agreement.
Not exactly what you are asking for but https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/au-revoir-utm...
Right, there is such a point, and it's exactly how things are priced now. Bakeries already have to turn out some profit.

I should clarify that this works for commodities but not for monopolies, eg Disney can jack up prices for new Star Wars movies all it wants, as SW fans don't really have a choice :) But for groceries, clothes, texh, etc, it does work
Also, if you ever get bored putting junk mail in your recycling bin, why not mail it to the author of this article?
When trains run in tunnels, or even when on aboveground rights-of-way, the rails are generally spaced very close together. A 3-platform station therefore requires the tracks to turn away from each other to make room for the central platform.

They don't usually have to be that sharp, but they tend to be noticeably sharper than the turns in the route.
1. The phone line that was losing a ton of money

2. This is being worked on, there is cortana for cars, pc's and phones, so it would make sense for it to expand to even more devices in the future.

3. This is the point of windows 10 cloud, which recently leaked.

4. Windows is really not the cash cow of Microsoft, getting more people into the ecosystem is better for buisiness.

5. Free alternatives have existed forever, alternatives that you could argue are the same or better, recently SQL Server was ported to linux which actually should shore up its market share, and even possibly increase it.

6. True but does this actually matter that much?
A huge number of people do pay negative taxes.
>Cosmetic surgery provides price competition because patients pay the bills.

Is this supposed to be satire? Do I even need to explain how ridiculous this stance is? I'll save my energy until I get a resounding "yes."
Planet Money did an episode on that quite recently: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/27/512060753/episo...
Your question is exactly correct. As long as they are real orders, with real risk of being executed, there should be nothing at all wrong with this behavior. If people are so stupid as to move their orders trivially based on others' actions, they deserve what they get.

The reason this gets prosecuted is that it's an easy target for the exchanges to make it look like they care. They are now publicly-traded companies interested in profits first and foremost--not market integrity (which maybe used to be the case--different discussion).

source: 25-year vet of futures markets, the last 10 in HFT; many many millions of orders and executions
I've found I really enjoy using webflow (a YC alumnus I believe) for responsive front end design. I literally design all my templates and components in their app now, export the raw HTML/CSS, and add any templating or client logic if needed. It's fun as hell. I also find looking at the generated CSS files helps me internalize CSS stuff I wouldn't otherwise have time to dig into. I know some folks look at me aghast for not hand coding my front end and I couldn't honestly care less.

I don't think it would work for everyone or every app, but for me it's been a dream come true.
Programming as a career allows me to have a great lifestyle: I get a lot of time off, it pays me very well despite graduating college pretty recently, most tech companies don't drug test, and I have fun and get to solve puzzles every day.

It's a great job, but I'm not passionate about it. I won't go home and work on a side project or pick up a book about.. any learning or reading I need to do happens at work. I have other hobbies I'm actually passionate about and I simply don't have time or willpower to do something that feels like work not at work. And there's no way pursuing my hobbies full time would lead to me being happier - I'd be much poorer and have a way worse lifestyle.

I also don't feel like I'm locked into programming as a career forever - it's a great gig now but should it become less desireable then you can bet I'll adapt to whatever allows me to have the lifestyle I want. If that means moving into management in 5 years, so be it.

But that also doesn't mean I don't accomplish as much as other more passionate programmers per hour worked. I don't think passion has nearly as much to do with that as much as being able to find your work fulfilling and wanting to do good work. But those aren't the same thing.