skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always more to learn. There's always more to the story. I don't think anyone has the complete picture and anyone who thinks they do is kidding themselves. Any process could be used by anyone, but I sincerely question just how long someone could remain severely misinformed by reading articles, looking for verifiable factual information, and then attempting to verify it.

Perhaps you think I'm trying to average out what everyone says as if the truth was always in the middle? That could scarcely be further from the truth. Especially in politics, both sides are lying, though perhaps to different degrees and neither side is true. Thus, I separate facts from opinions and look for which items can be corroborated. So if someone is reporting that X said Y, I would look for a video of exactly what X said and see it directly.

One example that comes to mind simply because I did a lot of legwork just to see who was telling the truth is when I was told by CNN that it was illegal to read Wikileaks [1] and that there was essentially nothing to see there except some metaphorical sausage being made. Then I find out that this isn't true [2], and that Chris Cuomo is a licensed attorney who one might think would know better. [3]

Then I find out that they were exposed in Wikileaks, cheating on the debates. [4] I also heard claims that the emails were altered. [5] The claims of alteration are later proven false because the email referenced in [4] has a DKIM signature, signed by both 1e100.net (Google) and hillaryclinton.com which provides cryptographic non-repudiation. It also explicitly covers the body of the email--note the 'b' and 'bh' parameters in both DKIM signatures, clearly visible when you 'view source'. It's well known that CNN terminated their relationship with Donna. As far as I know, however, nobody ever figured out who she got the questions from, so presumably they're still there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A

[2] https://www.popehat.com/2016/10/17/no-it-is-not-illegal-to-r...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cuomo

[4] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5205

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0pqa-cvGAs
Note that I do not agree with the premise of the topic article, but then, even the author positions it as a low-probability thought experiment. I take the standard position that Apple is betting on Swift.

What I do not believe, and what I am arguing against, is that Objective-C will continue to be supported as an equally first-class development language. Apple fundamentally does prefer simplicity, and whenever there are two ways to achieve something one is likely to be pared, and probably not the new and shiny one. Apple can lose interest rapidly, and any API or technology that has fallen out of favor will simply and intentionally be allowed to rot. OpenGL on the Mac is stuck at a version from 2010 while Apple instead pushes its in-house Metal. Dashboard is a vestigial growth that hasn't even garnered enough attention to be cut off.

My examples were meant to illustrate that Apple will not put resources into supporting much more than the minimum if it can help it, and that extends to development. As you have noted, iOS is on an accelerated schedule when it comes to switching to new tech, and this is possible due to Apple's much greater control of the platform and its developers. Given the sheer amount of app breakage in the Store from release to release, my impression is that Apple cares less about old software compatibility on iOS than it does on the Mac; and of course, they also care much less about the Mac than iOS. The Objective-C runtime will continue to limp along behind Swift on the Mac, but I think that the day that Apple decrees that all new iOS applications must be written in Swift is coming sooner than some expect.

> But Carbon was meant to be a transitional API since it was released with the very first version of OS X in 2001.

To my recollection, this was not quite so clear-cut at the time, at least to the public. Apple continued to maintain and add to Carbon in the years up to the 64-bit transition, releasing new Carbon sample code even as Cocoa got most of their attention. It was relatively common to mistakenly believe that the two APIs were simply different abstraction levels for the same functionality [0], and there were no serious signs of the imminent deprecation until around the five year mark. There is probably a historical lesson here.

[0]: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2001/05/23/cocoa_vs_car...
How about a way to report, "I don't like receiving this type of message" and "I like this type of message", along with an ML system that can learn which type of users send lewd messages, and which people either like or dislike receiving them?

The men who send DTF messages eventually only get paired with women who are interested to receive them. With smart ML, the site is what each person wants it to be. Beyond categorizing users, perhaps you can categorize the sentiment of messages themselves using unsupervised learning on the messages and user responses.

Or maybe just a star rating for messages, Uber style. Drive everyone who wants to send DTF messages to another site.
That all sound good but in practice rarely is the case. Good developers and every kind of smart people, scientists, are eccentrics, because they just know more then you and it is hard to explain everything every time.
From http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement

"...disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they'd like to keep for personal use."

Note the "personal use" above. Is a website like MovieChat.org considered personal use?

From http://www.imdb.com/conditions , section Copyright:
"The compilation of all content included in or made available through any IMDb Service is the exclusive property of IMDb...".
More than half. One flawed anecdote and then boom, we're at summarizing bullet points, which are shallow and repetitious.
You use $(shell) and sed in there which I don't think is much different from $(foreach), and perhaps it's gnarlier. Perhaps my counterpoint is "a build system is a program using a library/framework for scheduling work based on dependencies" and make's insistence on builds being about the dependency graph and delegating programming to shell commands and afterthoughts like $foreach, plus its very painful evaluation model with unclear order make for a terrible programming environment.
> When I got a new car with bluetooth calling, all of a sudden I was fumbling a lot less. A call is now about the same level of distraction as having a passenger or 2.

Most studies that have actually tested it have found that talking with someone on a phone, even if hands free, is much more distracting than talking to a passenger.

A big factor is that a passenger is much more likely to be aware of road and traffic conditions and stop the conversation during situations where the driver needs to pay extra attention to driving.
The irony is that Milo is a classical liberal. Lots of his headlines are provocative, once upon a time people understood what rhetoric was. Now people just want an echo chamber, and rail against anyone who disagrees with their group.

Also, kudos to the ACLU for supporting Milo's right to free speech. Liberalism is about freedom, not forcing everyone to agree with you.
I think my personal confirmation bias meter just burnt out.
That was it indeed :)
> You hire a team of devs to make ops tools that are so easy to use that all the other devs can manage their own ops.

We used to have people to make those ops tools, we called them ops. The whole devops things seems to be based on the false notion that ops didn't automate their work.
VCs also swipe left on Blockchain. I think we are going to see more "spaces" being abandoned left and right as we are entering the end of low interest rate capital.
Same here. The so-called "jerks" are still just people and leadership is all about managing different personalities. I've yet to encounter a case where the even the most difficult person couldn't be handled properly. Any occasional issues are more than worth the productivity increases.
It's worse than that. I'm a tinder user, and I understand the swipe. But I see the phrase "swipe right" so often, my brain automatically saw swipe right in the title. I read the on with a different expectation(that VCs were doubling down more dating apps).

Even those in the know missed it.
That implies an inversion of cause and effect - that the inability to exit is doing damage, and that companies want to go public but are unable.

That's a different argument entirely, and doesn't feel reflective of the current fundraising climate, which other comments to the OP discuss in depth.
On fetal MRIs:

"It also does not require intravenous contrast material (dye) or sedation."

http://www.utswmedicine.org/stories/articles/year-2016/fetal...
Is that the definition of "jerk" now?
Bayesian classifier should be able to correctly categorize these simple overused messages, right?
I've taken both Stanford's and Princetons Coursera courses, and powered through the MIT OCW, and I would say this evaluation is spot on.

If you have to pick only one go with the MIT OCW, and snag a copy of CLRS. I got mine from my local lib. and it gave me more than enough time to work through the problem sets from the mooc.
I think your assessment is spot on. I think his conservative take probably stems from the fact that he and Valve are going to be okay no matter what happens with VR. Almost nothing is at stake for him.
But it's not out of sight! Perhaps you don't realize how obvious it is! If you're in an SUV, you can easily see the phones on people's laps. If you're in a car, you can still tell because people don't normally stare at their crotch while at a red light. Even if they hold it higher, you can still tell they're not looking around them. ...

Finally if all else fails, at night you can see the reflection of light from their phone.

In LA I would guess something like 75% of drivers use their phones at red lights. It makes the delay of cars starting to move when a light turns green super annoying.
That's not how reality works. People are self-interested. The team is secondary, at best. This isn't war, it's software development.
Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.com

RadioLab - http://www.radiolab.org

For my Iphone, I use an app called Overcast - pretty decent.
How do you think it's better? I use both the internal and external and the only difference is that there are more Google-infra specific things internally. The external one is prettier :)
Best of luck! I sincerely hope you're successful.
Well, for instance, I supported clemency for Bradley Manning, and that Edward Snowden should be honored as a patriot for risking his own welfare to stand up for the people of America against illegal government abuses. I had no choice in the election in that matter. I did have some hope with Bernie, but all of the subversion against him by the DNC my hope was burned to shreds.

So there's an example of how, one of the most important issues, has no ability to be addressed in the ballot box in recent history.
I was friends with many foreign students in college (a large school in the midwest), and it was because all of them wanted to meet people unlike them. One friend, from Zimbabwe (who was originally from Sri Lanka), once said to me, "I can never understand why all of the foreign students hang out with only people from their own country." She was pretty exceptional, but it's true in general. A lot of Americans do the same thing when they go overseas. It kind of makes no sense to go all of that way, and then just hang out with people just like you.
Wickr and Threema finally publishing their code?
Another anecdote here: Both my daughter and son are on the spectrum (high-level autistic, or aspberger).

Son was diagnosed at age seven, daughter at age fifteen. Generally it can be harder to pick up with girls. They tend to be better mimics and it can present much more subtly. I really wish we had figured it out sooner with our daughter – she has had a lot of issues with anxiety and school refusal for the last few years, and I wonder if had had the necessary information earlier like we did with our son, how much of a difference it would have made. (Although both are autistic, they present so differently it was not obvious.)

So I reiterate scardine’s exhortation to seek a diagnosis and early treatment if you suspect there may be autism at play. There’s a steep learning curve to getting your head around it and figuring out how to best help yourself and/or your loved ones, but you read hacker news, so you’re up for the challenge. Find (or start) a local community support group – it’s a hell of a lot easier than trying to hack it alone.
> Good developers and every kind of smart people, scientists, are eccentrics

Not always, and "eccentric" doesn't mean "unable to be helpful or kind".

> because they just know more then you and it is hard to explain everything every time

Yes, it's hard. It's a different skill than programming or general intelligence. And it's a harder skill to find or to train. As a rarer skill, it's thus more valuable, and more useful to select for. And as an engineer, developing a rarer skill makes you more valuable, which will improve your career prospects (in both pay and position).

Source: I've been on both sides of numerous performance review processes, and seen what people value at many levels of a technical job ladder.
Toronto startup hire culture is really sad even today.

I interviewed at Top Hat 3+ years ago and I remember their hiring process was sad because it was a FizzBuzz test under conditions that were setup for me to fail.

I wasn't allowed to use my own laptop, editor of choice, or language of choice to complete the test. They wouldn't tell me what conditions they wanted eg. do they want test code?

I had to do the test on their computer, in javascript, no internet.

They said I was slow. Well you should have let me use MacVim and I would shown how slow you are in TextMate.

They said I didn't write test code. They wouldn't tell me, and they wouldn't even look at mass bodies of work of production apps where I had tons of test code I written with CI.
I would like to frame my thoughts on this as an American that is dating a Taiwanese person, and as someone who has traveled around the USA a lot. I also ran my thoughts by her and she agreed with what I said.

First, I think there are two types of people who travel to a new place (this can be a different part of the country, or a foreign student to the USA): 1) the person who wants to try new things and enjoy where they are, or 2) the type of person who hates where they are and refuse to try anything new.

The latter type of foreign student will not make any American friends. They will only stick with their culture and friends of their culture. She has also said a lot of people feel very nervous speaking English, because they will they will get something wrong and get ridiculed for doing so.

As an American with foreigners in my classes, there are also people who speak their native language to other students who speak it. I empathize with the fact that it is easier for them, but by doing that, the effect that I get is the feeling of exclusion, so I cannot even attempt to try to befriend them. As an anecdote to that, I can say I have felt resentful when I have been the only American in a group of Taiwanese and they did not speak English at all when I was there, as the message I got is they don't want me in the conversation.

I hate to say, it is very intimidating, but if you want to befriend Americans while in the country, you HAVE to speak English as much as possible. I am, and I would like to think any others are very forgiving in the fact that they know English isn't your first language, and are happy to accommodate that. If you do not, most Americans will feel excluded and not even attempt to befriend you.
There are just as many, if not more, situations where it's the rest of the team that actually can't handle the so-called "jerk" by being overly sensitive and defensive.
OpenBazaar 2.0 – 20+ screenshots of what it will look like
It has been several years, but I'm sure there was a version. However, part of the problem was that it wasn't just RHEL that backported stuff. Other distros (like SLES) did similar things. In the end, it was just easier to do a configure-ish script to see if a function foo() took 3 or 4 arguments than it was track N-different version numbers.

And you're right, if you always build on the base version, then you have greater compat. However, you also loose out on the backported features, many of which were important for performance.
I wish we would stop with the vaxxers vs. anti-vaxxers. I think most people (including myself) fall into the middle - we don't believe they are entirely safe, but understand its the lesser of two evils and have to roll the dice.

What I dislike about the "pro-vaxxers" is their unwillingness to acknowledge ANYTHING negative about vaccines.

- There IS "stuff" in most vaccines that we should ALL agree should not be in there (formaldehyde, aluminum, etc). There is no "safe" level of aluminum for a baby. Some vaccines manufacturers make them without these things if you really do the research for each one, but the chance your doctor carries the perfect brand combinations of the ones without all the questionable ingredients is unlikely. For example, if you find out XYZ co makes the MMR vaccine without aluminum, it doesn't really matter because you probably can't get the version from XYZ co.

- The packet insert clinical studies that come in the vaccines are usually absurdly small. We should ALL agree millions of people are getting these vaccinations every year and a sample size of 500, 5000, or 10000 people in 1980 just doesn't cut it. There should be better ways to keep these studies current with much more data.

But no one usually wants to hear these criticisms. "The science proves its safe!" Sure, until it doesn't. Wouldn't it be great if we could just acknowledge the obvious issues instead of opposing everything the other side says?
What most user's annoyed the most is years of profile status now gone. If you could somehow managed to get profile verification in sync that would do wonder.
It's not just the lowest impedance mismatch, but it's also a framework coming out of google, where python and Java were really the only two language choices for a high level interface, and of the two python is the clear winner in prototyping / scientific community acceptance. I think it's because of the ease in experimentation and expressiveness of the language.
Yes of course, choice of tech is mostly irrelevant as long as it works, and "cool" is an absurd criteria.

But you have to like it, esp. when you're a solo founder/programmer and it's what you do day in and day out.
> The other problem I have with all of these articles/arguments is this image being painted that the US would be dumb as a rock if it weren't for the influx of immigrants.

That's a silly straw-man.

The reasonable form of the argument is about marginal effects: for each smart immigrant you remove, America becomes dumber, for each smart immigrant you add, America becomes smarter. That form of the argument is evidently true regardless of how many smart people were born in America.

> This idea that we better let-in hordes of immigrants for fear of not having businesses launched or any innovation

It's not that there wouldn't be any, just less. America will be poorer — not destitute, but less rich — if it keeps out smart immigrants.
It's also three shots (by default) making the lining up even clearer.
Sounds like Russia?
Young children need sedation so they will stay perfectly still; definitely not without risk.

My 1 yo son needs a scan every 3 months and the hospital had to figure a better way to scan him so as to avoid sedation. They finally settled on ultrasound: faster, risk free and precise enough once you know what you are looking for.
I wrote about a similar problem a couple of years back. I called it the "hero anti-pattern".

https://mikeseablog.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-hero-anti-p...

While I'm sure we can all come up with use-cases where the pain of a genius jerk is outweighed by the potential benefits, it's worth always remembering that realisation of those benefits is the very thing that the jerk jeopardises through his/her bad behaviour.
The EU is an obvious special case because they have allowances for members of EU to easily travel between the countries.

And I can't speak for your one example, because that could have been a case of negligent border security. I could just as easily give an example of a person traveling to another country and having a lot of difficulty at customs, with them questioning why you are there, and forcing you to provide justification.

And also, if you happened to go to Norway as you say, staying there illegally, would you have felt justified to just live there indefinitely? Or do you agree the country has a right to deport you because you are illegally there and abusing the systems in that country.
This author has also forgotten about the annotations that Apple has provided to make interoperability between Swift and Objective-C quite a bit easier. See "Swift API Design Guidelines" from WWDC 2016.

Moving on ... "If Apple had to deprecate one of the two languages today, which would they deprecate?" Why is that even a question? I don't understand the motivation here. What if Apple had to decide between mobile hardware and desktop hardware? I guess they'd drop everything that wasn't the biggest revenue generator...
I find them invaluable as a programmer who also has to maintain systems. It gives me a rough idea if upgrading software and libraries should be relatively painless or a long endeavor. I like Apache Solr's release notes because they're well sectioned. A giant, unorganized change-log, while better than nothing, is not ideal.
"Doctor, doctor! I haven't any symptoms!"
Createspace? It's an Amazon company but it gets you into lots of distribution channels, worldwide. Zero setup or recurring fee, but a percentage of royalties.
I guess it's like newspapers not reporting suicides - it invites copycats, in this case, it creates potential looters
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Yes, it is all taste etc; I like doing sports (I don't like ball sports, but that's just taste); weights/martial arts etc and I still make friends that way. But watching... I just don't understand it, but I won't argue it either; it's just not my taste. It does prevent a lot of interaction though as so many Americans & Australians are fanatical about supporting / watching and I just do not get it at all. I go to my own bar when the EK/WK (europe cup/world cup) are on but I just pass out in boredom after 10 minutes. It's just a matter of taste; I end up outside talking with spouses that came with others who cannot watch either. It's fine. It's opportunity; got permanent clients for my business like that more than once like that.
Someone posted this in a different thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cVuvVRUE

(looks like Russia, though)
TL;DRs for hour-long videos are reasonable, I feel. I do get annoyed when someone does a TL;DR on a four-paragraph article, though...
Don't we already have a huge surplus of PhDs?
It was quite clear cut, even though you've found one person who was either confused or trying to be colorfully contrarian.

But the analogy to Carbon (or some other old tech/new tech switch) is really poor because Swift is just a language. There are no new Swift-based frameworks yet. After a few years of development, Swift itself is not a (let a lone the) true 'first class' language on Apple devices - that's still Objective C. It's going to take quite a while for Swift to assume that role, even if you think Apple is in a big hurry to accomplish that. There isn't much evidence of that to begin with.