skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several things at play here. First, it would be great to find a century-long study on the number of millionaires by year. From little I could find it seems their numbers fluctuate like a sinusoid, especially after bubbles burst, meaning there are a bunch of new rich people every couple of years, and another bunch that go bust. Second, it would be nice to measure actual wealth of poor people in 1900s and today - my assumption being that poor people are actually getting wealthier, just not fast enough to catch up millionaires pace. Here's a note: intelligent wealth management pretty much guarantees logarithmic increase of wealth - the more you invest, the more you profit. Thirds, I have a feeling the middle class collapsed and 1/3 got richer while 2/3 got poorer. It would be super interesting to read some deep and long-lasting studies on this.
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Do those studies explain why it relates to productivity?

Correlation studies are useful but limited. If the increase in productivity is correlated to employees general acceptance of different views, then yes, diversity of music taste should show a small positive effect but diversity in politics and religion should have a much bigger effect, and I would guess that nudism would have a major effect given peoples strong views on nudity. This could be rather easy tested as causation.

If correlation is with genetics, studies on people born of different gender but raise/living as an other should provide proof of that. Same goes to people born of one ethnic group but raise under an other. Fairly easy to test, but I doubt productivity has anything to do with genetics, as genetics generally don't have much causation with cultural phenomena.

As with other correlation studies, such studies tend to raise question around the studies themselves. What work are the test subjects doing, and is the result same for all kind? As an example, work demanding multiple spoken languages would benefit of having different people that talk fluently different languages, and people from different places and different cultures often speak different languages fluently. Such aspects need to be considered and removed from studies in order to not create unintended correlations.
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Great suggestion! We'll have a follow-up post soon that goes into greater detail on the mechanics of how Mux uses Flink.
Should hire a nutritionist, your concept is flawed in a few ways. First and foremost, ditch BMI or realize people will know this is bullshit. Pitching halfasses weight loss advice is downright unethical. Shame on you. If you knew how hard it was for people you would not choose to profit from it.
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You can find events feeds by clicking Export at https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/area/59-scotland - the rest is not available yet, but request noted.
In case people aren't familiar, while San Jose is indeed quiet compared to SF, it is actually the 10th largest city in the country (SF is #12). Of course, it's really sprawling so not as high density as other major cities, but not quite the sleepy "town" it's being described as in many places either.
And then there are people who reject any "big break" coming to them because they feel they need to accomplish something on their own.
I also wrote my own last year. It was fun and a great way to learn some APIs I'd wanted to work with.

I used CouchDB/PouchDB, Mustache.js, JQuery, TinyMCE, and a few other open source tools. I wouldn't say it was necessarily "cheap" since I built it on a $20 a month DigitalOcean server but when considered as an investment in learning it was a huge bargain.

Personally, I like mine a lot better than WordPress. I think it's a lot easier to learn how to use and as far as "Looks Great", well, that's also something that I had to make happen so I went with using a Bootstrap template and while I didn't create anything award winning design wise with it I think it's at least pleasant to look at and usable, and it's easy to customize.

I took mine a step further and set it up to let users create accounts and publish their own stuff there, so you could actually use it to blog if you wanted to.

It's written almost entirely in Javascript so almost all the code is accessible. Check it out. If you want to set up your own I'll zip the code and give it to you with a GPL:

http://ibloc.com
That's not what the article showed. It showed that synchronous IO latency was the limiting factor. By arranging your IOs into little 512-byte chunks, you don't make it terribly easy for the filesystem to efficiently use the underlying device --not surprising, given that it doesn't even want to work in 512 byte sectors, and operates more efficiently with lots of a parallel io operations.
Problem? On the contrary, it's one of the wonderful things about the language and community. It's alive and evolving.

And what's with the Scott Meyers ding? I think of him mostly as an educator and in that respect he's very accomplished.
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Often the TBM is just left behind in a spur tunnel after finishing the main excavation. It would be too expensive to disassemble and remove.
When I was as young as you are and applying for jobs in the US (while living in Europe), I applied for jobs in about 250 companies. Eventually I got 10 interviews, and two job offers. It sure felt like a million applications. I spent roughly six months doing that.

But I targeted every single one. I sent a custom cover letter to every single application after researching the company, their clients and their work. I only applied for jobs in companies that were doing work that I liked / knew I could contribute positively, and I showed it in my cover letters.

It's tough. It's especially tough for young, jr. folks. Hang in there!

Talk to a trusted person who can give you good feedback on your resume and cover letters, and the whole process you're using to apply for jobs.
Why do republicans seem so obsessed with making everything shittier instead of making an earnest attempt to fix some of our country's problems?
Obviously this is just one person's side of the story but if any of this is true, ML sounds pretty dysfunctional. Even if they can get a product out the door by the end of 2017, I don't see how management can sustain a work environment like that for much longer. Good on Campbell for not accepting the severance pay so she can raise these issues in the public light.
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Yes, I love giving in to chilling effects that modify my behavior out of fear of consequences!

Or perhaps a government shouldn't be party to my social life?
As an aside, you can have facebook logins, without having facebook installed on your phone, and you can make your profile unsearchable.
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More and more it seems to be the prevailing attitude even within the Linux "community".

Just observe how systemd is overruling and countermanding Linux behavior any chance it gets.
Hey man, don't apply from a distance, and worst of all over web forms / email. Go talk to real people (meetups and conferences), give them free, useful advice from your expertise that you think might help their business (e.g. your website/api has such-and-such issues). If a company you like has open source repositories, attack the issue queue with PRs.

You'll be hired :) Take heart.
You make a very fair point. Shame on me for taking such a one-dimensional view of the matter. Cheers!
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Apache often houses existing projects; sometimes becoming a home for formerly-proprietary software that gets thrown over the wall. Remember Google Wave? That's Apache Wave now. Apache Storm started out as just Storm, open sourced after a Twitter acquisition. Twitter Heron was open sourced by Twitter. Flink is a fork of Stratosphere. Et cetera :) So: ASF is doing no such thing, they're just providing a framework for open source projects to function in.
That looks like an accurate process.

What I meant is that people frequently find truth locally, but miss a lot of larger context because of narrow focus.

For instance, those videos and articles are about Clinton's emails. A lot of people analyzing that issue determined, correctly "Clinton made mistakes in email management".

The error there would be to think, without examination "Trump would be better at document security", or to hold the slightly more nefarious belief "therefore, clinton is the worse choice on document security". They're the same statement, of course, but cognitively the second one makes the believer less likely to notice they only examined one half of the equation.

The media more or less ignored Trump's data security practices, so there was no opportunity to raise the question if you only do media analysis. It's a comparison you have to do on your own.

Now, given the revelations about discussing classified documents in the open with u secured cellphones at mar a lago, it seems likely Trump is worse on data security.

This was something I think was possible to figure out before the election.

So, if you held the following belief, congratulations:

"Clinton has made errors in data management, but I have no idea if Trump is better and this has no impact on my comparison" or

"Clinton made errors, but based on other external evidence Trump may well be as bad"

But if you left things unexamined, you may have fallen into a trap. Both youtube channels you linked are Trump supporter channels. Did you analyze them as well? (In that case, the question to ask is not "is this video footage real, but instead "why am I seeing this footage at all? What do they want me to conclude?"

To more concretely state the error I'm worrying about: many people exercise skepticism only with regard to the mainstream media, but then are fairly credulous when dealing with alternative sources.

And for what it's worth, I don't watch CNN. But if you had told me they said if's illegal to read Wikileaks, I would have said "that's absurd, there's no such law".

I have a background of political knowledge and context that lets me make that judgement. My worry when I read people expressing skepticism of mainstream sources is that they frequently lack that context, and are vulnerable to being right on a few details and wrong on the larger picture.
Super niche balance of skills, but the kind we are looking for. Unfortunately in Amsterdam, not NYC/Paris.
I have had ok luck with using Gambit for standalone executables
I would respectfully have to disagree with you concerning social media.

- I've been in IT 20 years and have no social media

- I meet my friends in person, since they're all local, save 2, and we prefer to talk or text

- I've never had a potential employer bat and eye or even care that I have zero internet presence. In fact, many have said they prefer it because I'm not distracted whilst at work. Besides, I enjoy being something of an anachronism where this is concerned. Granted, my stance is my own and I encourage others to do what works for them. I have considered that when I travel I may be harassed because the powers that be will assume I am lying since everyone else seems to have social media accounts.
Dysfunctional doesn't bode well for a startup. You either sink or swim and if you can't get all of your employees to work together nicely, you will sink regardless of how much cash is thrown at you.
Has anyone else found it much more efficient to learn C++ (or any other programming language for that matter) using books like this one, YouTube videos, and help from forums than sitting in a classroom at a college?
Answering my own question, bit by bit: It looks like there have in fact been improvements in tunnel creation in the last 50 years. Examples:

- NYC Third Water Tunnel, under construction since 1970. 24 deaths, the vast majority of which were decades ago as safety improved. In fact, the first tunnels were blasted and drilled; the newer ones are made with a boring machine.

- St. Gotthard Road Tunnel, 1969-1980, just one lane in each direction and 2 deaths per mile. A comparable transportation tunnel today in the area is the Gotthard Base Tunnel, 0.2 deaths per mile.

- Older tunnels apparently caused thousands of workers to die due to silica exposure.

It also seems that tunnels are more dangerous than roads per mile by many orders of magnitude. For example, the aforementioned Gotthard Road Tunnel had over 875 accidents and 30 deaths in a span of just 24 years.
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>I basically don't consider anything I do online "really" private. The only reason I assume nobody knows what I do there is that I presume nobody cares.

Thats for /You/ though. Laws are for /everyone/. Also, everyone does private things on the net. Any credit card transaction should be a private dealing. If all your google searches were put up for the public to see, I don't think you'd be too happy about that. For others, they could have very negative social consequences.

I would argue hard privacy laws are more important on the internet, because you can mass collect data and make infinite copies, but in real life you can't mass collect the contents of homes and where things have been. The physical barrier is by itself a natural privacy maker, something that is important to try to replicate in communication with data.
Everything to do with iOS development and deployment is just so mindbogglingly complicated.

I dread everytime I'm forced to open XCode to compile or deploy something.
If your border crossing strategy involves a wiped/clean/factorydefaults device, always, always, always put a zip bomb[1] in place.

Name it something helpful like "do_not_open_this_file.zip".

They can't say you didn't warn them ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
After serval attempts I really made is this time. DDG is now my default search. Please join us to make the results better, it needs more people searching to get better.

I need to use google sometimes because for some terms google is sadly just better.
Canada requires this too. I'm sure other countries do as well.
> I would not like the walls of my house to be transparent, for instance. But that's the thing : they're not

Do you have an Amazon Echo or Google Home (or even a "smart" TV)? If so (and with no privacy regulation to protect you) the walls of your house are now basically transparent to sound. As net-connected cameras become more plentiful, visual "transparency" is not far behind.
As a US citizen with no other nationality, where do I go exactly?
What's a good book for learning current C?
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>With those speeds 5G could be an alternative/replacement for cable/DSL for home internet access.

Though 3/4G already is, it's what many people use instead of wired internet here (Finland) and it's often marketed as such. I rarely get under 25mbps in our clubroom that only has 4G internet access.
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Good points. A couple of comments:

> I wanted Strongtalk, and they gave us Ocaml

Pithy, and there's some truth to that, but I would point out that (a) StrongTalk is now well over 20 years old (b) it has a sophisticated type-system that could certainly have been developed further and (c) it requires a JIT for performance.

But "Objective-C without the C" does point very strongly in the direction of Smalltalk, and a Smalltalk language that can be AOT compiled roughly as efficiently as Objective-C and is at least as compatible with C/Objective-C seems like not too much of a challenge.

After all, Objective-C now has tagged pointer objects, so a lot of the need for primitive objects has gone away. So let all literals/variables be objects by default and the syntactic overhead due to duplication goes away ( 1, @1, "string, @"nsstring" ).

What if we want "C" level primitives? Just type them:

| aNumber |

| <NSNumber> aNumber |

| <int> aCInteger |

Pointers are tricker and should, IMHO, be generalized to 1st class references that subsume things like KVC/KVO/bindings, file references, URIs etc. (see http://objective.st/URIs ).

So the point is not 'Objective-C forever', but rather: let's actually learn from what was good and bad about Objective-C and base our language design on that, rather than coming completely from left field and then only putting in compatibility kludges.

Then you wouldn't have the situation that we have now where people are clamoring for "pure Swift" versions of...well pretty much everything, and those things are, if "pure Swift" going to incompatible with what is there now. And more importantly, not build on the knowledge/learnings of what is arguably the best UI framework ever built.
Or instead of going through a bunch of effort in order to risk pissing off border agents with shenanigans, you can buy a dirt-cheap Android phone for travel. Bonus: then you don't have to worry about it being stolen, lost, or broken, either. It'd be a sensible move even without the border search risk.

Incidentally, is this limited to phones? Are they only searching these accounts because they're authed to the phone they make you unlock? Or are they saying "oh, OK, so you're traveling without a phone. Please step over to this kiosk and log into your Facebook account" as well?
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Yeah, I'm sure two extra employees this year would have made all the difference.

They're doing pretty well at an impossible problem. I'm cool with them giving back to the global community.
The technology is still a bottleneck, but the business model just isn't tightly fitted to the limitations of the bottle neck.

4G cannot viably stream 1080p netflix into the number of homes in America that use it at any given time (unless you use an unrealistic number of cell sites).

Some sort of rationing has to occur otherwise cells would be overrun.

Carriers should bring back free nights and weekends.
The internet encompasses so much of what was once in the physical world that it would be better that your walls were transparent: then they would only have access to your activities at home, instead of your every question asked of google, every communication you have with another person not face to face, everywhere you go with your phone, everything you buy, all your contacts, and all the information they have.

Even if you forgo the internet for all those activities it will still be possible to triangulate much of what you do by tracking any of your contacts who do not. And most of them will not.

And as people in the tech industry, we should be selfishly invested in privacy online, because either we will make products worth sacrificing privacy for and increase total surveillance, or people will not use our products because their privacy is not guaranteed.
You kinda sound like a primadonna. It's an "inhumane effort" for you to even just apply for a regular job? How are you going to react when I give you a task that's actually unpleasant?
> Any credit card transaction should be a private dealing.

I'm no expert but I believe they are since they use encryption. I don't think republicans plan to ban encryption.
VLC is free software but still isn't included in Fedora because of patent issues. Ubuntu includes it (Ubuntu MATE even in the default install).
Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer/former Living Social CTO, was a pro jazz musician who transitioned to programming. He drew quite a few parallels between the two fields regarding deliberate practice as a path to mastery.
Such rules don't need to be 100% perfect or 100% effective to be beneficial, and the so called downside is that they block companies from building a business selling information that users may not be aware they are collecting.
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Any authority not explicitly granted by the US Constitution to the Federal government lies first with the people, and second with the states. The Federal government is supposed to be the weakest and least privileged by design.

That may not be the most humane, egalitarian or efficient way to run a country at the scale of the US, but to many people that is the way it's supposed to work.
This isn't to catch terrorism. Though they'll probably get a few idiot "extremists", this will mostly stop people coming in under false pretenses. It's bizarre how people don't think ahead to their border crossing and are willing to admit they are going to live with their SO, or work as a nanny -- while under a tourism visa.

It'll be very effective at this. Most people aren't going to establish a plausible social media profile after they figure out they're going to the US to live/work/whatever.

"Real" spies and terrorists and whatever can obviously afford to setup enough cover. (Though there is the case of a spy getting discovered because she used her real frequent flier number while traveling under aliases.)

At best, this might put a chilling effect on Facebook and other things like that, which is probably a net win for humanity.
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There are increasingly two types of law in the USA: felony punishable by no less than x, and misdemeanor punishable by no more than y.

I've taken to sighing and accepting y and just being grateful it's not a felony if I do it. Felonies are bad, you'll lose your rights, you can't vote, they're harder on you in court, and they follow you everywhere.

I'll take misdemeanors for $1000, Alex.
Would someone care to ELI5 the differences in functionality between C, C+, C++, and C#?
It might be worth trying the monthly 'Who is Hiring' thread. It posts at 9am US Eastern Time on the first working day each month.
That book works well as a reference, as a supplement to the C++ Primer, 5th Edition.

Not to be confused with C++ Primer Plus.
That is very cool, but why do G type stars render as red?
But then the sentence no verb?
The tracking of everyone else still affects the view in incognito.
There is also the combo of fde + factory reset of your device after landing.

Yes it is inconvenient, but far less so than a total compromise of your credentials.
There's a show on Netflix that follows the Australian immigration cops. They go hard and frequently examine text messages, email, social, etc. for non resident entrants.

If you think this is just the US, you are mistaken.
Great analysis. Targeting and messaging is key. Treat the job search like analyzing a problem. What kind of industry do I want? What is my market? How am I marketable in this market? Do my skillsets match? Create lists so you can visualize your opportunity.

As far as messaging you need to show accomplishments? Translate to measurables like $ grown, $ saved, % improved, % eliminated, etc. Those pop out that you are goal oriented.

I've found the generalizing duties and skills doesn't get much attention.
Update: WSJ articles that are paywalled are now marked as subscription in google news.