skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was my own off the cuff phrase. It's hard to relay the subtleties that I am trying to get across. I think that a lot of career programmers overstate the difficulty of their jobs, and how impossible it would be for people who don't closely hew to the archetype of the genius iconoclast hacker to contribute at all, even when they've demonstrated relevant aptitude and competence. These biases strike me as damaging to the motivations of people who don't look like, or particularly relate to anyone held up as a paragon of that archetype. Also, looking like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, or even Woz, doesn't actually strike me as being relevant to someone's potential as a programmer. That's why I call it bullshit. Because the tech industry selects for people who outwardly present as stereotypical hackers without even doing much to verify ability in many cases, while constantly relitigating the bona fides of people who don't outwardly present those superficial qualities.

Put another way, why have I seen many very good female programmers trapped in lower paying positions like QA and X-Analyst (but doing legit programming as their job) when there are men who are shitty programmers making 50% more and in a social position that gives them license to condescend to these women?
You're replying to a story about a guy who wants to replace tower cranes because two of them fell over and killed people in the same year.

That's why the city cares. Every time one goes up or comes down there's a risk involved.
Super late reply and I supect I'm talking to myself at this point, real life got in the way again. I did see your comment when you posted it and did mean to respond at the time.

Well, better late than never.

First off; I totally agree with you.

I wasn't trying to say that ability to configure xorg or tweak your desktop setup constantly was any indicator of technical skill and I've also met a lot of people who think that it is and they irritate me significantly too.

I'm not one of those. I don't judge skill on how well one can edit config files and I disregard the views of most of those who do as juvenile and in search of a measuring tape.

I had a similar journey to you w/r/t the need to get shit done vs having a fragile mess of customization to maintain and eventually it drove me to OSX (one 'yum update' before going away for lunch and coming back to an 80x25 console just as a change window opened was the straw for my particular camel).

I was comfortable there for a bit. It stayed the hell out of my way for most of the time (I just have fullscreen terms and a browser) which is what I needed from a machine that I'm working on. OSX stopped being the best tool for that job recently, but that's a post for another time.

So, back to my judgmental/biased statement.. I'm not really sure in both what I'm trying to say here or how to say it, but I'll try again for the hell of it.

I have found through years of personal observation (YMMVx1000) that windows users in any tech position that I'm involved with is an immediate smell of lack of technical skill. Again, that sounds really bad. Once again to be clear: I'm not saying there aren't smart .net or whatever folks around and I'll be proven wrong at some point (happily!), however I'm sticking to my view that as far as I've seen, on any team I've had (be it java devs or sysadmins) that the one or two folks using windows are always the weakest members of those teams.

While you can shoot me for being honest, I find the idea that a capable ops engineer or java developer would willingly choose MS as a driver, after they're at the point where they understand the issues around closed source and privacy, incomprehensible.
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What's an example of some source code that becomes unreadable when you change the size of tabs? Are you editing code in Microsoft Word or something? Setting custom tabstops and shooting yourself in the foot?

Don't mix tabs and spaces in indentation btw. That is the one thing you must never do.
Awesome news, and props to the DBSD team for all the consistent hard work they put into it, usually without much fanfare. I'm a pretty hardcore GNU/GPL guy, but I have said before if I were starting an ISP I would probably be doing it with DBSD. The networking stack alone is top-notch, and once HAMMER2 rolls out I honestly expect it to get the momentum to compete with ZFS and BTRFS. (not much traction now though, so as others have said, probably years down the road).
You're making a wrong assumption about what is being bought. (you aren't alone, everyone else in the thread is as well)

What's being purchased is 'standby reserve power per day 'not 'energy per day'

Digging it appears the promise being sold is. Will reserve of 2 hours of peeking power for $100 per megawatt _per day_.

That's where the divide by 2 comes from. because what you are selling is the ability to provide 2 hours of peeking power _if needed_. Not 24 hours worth.
In the face of a direct quote from the agency that inspected the crane and deemed it unsafe, the comment cited some unrelated union anecdotes as the reason why this specific guy's crane was considered problematic.

That's about as dispositive as me mentioning a bunch of optimistic inventors of construction equipment who had no regard for the safety of workers and killed people.

Despite that I said he might well be right. He just hasn't cited anything that shows it. I'm a business owner in New York City too, stories are cheap.

The reflexive statement that unions are what's getting in the way of fearless capitalist innovators is, in fact, a well financed argument that is harming our society and increasing inequality and political unrest.
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I'm sorry, but how is this different than discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)? This sort of stuff has no place in a business setting. Unfortunately this is the world we live in; everybody is outraged over something and claiming to be open and inclusive, as long as it prescribes to their own beliefs.

Where are the TechCrunch social justice warriors (Megan Rose Dickey) about this?
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Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.
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Google's Shell Style Guide says: Indent 2 spaces. No tabs. Use blank lines between blocks to improve readability. Indentation is two spaces. Whatever you do, don't use tabs. For existing files, stay faithful to the existing indentation.

Makes sense. I don't mind stick to established style, personally I'll still prefer 4 instead of 2 for readability (easy on eyes...).
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From the old post:

> I forgot my unlock pin (because I lent my iPad to someone else) and there is no way to factory reset it without also updating the OS.

You can do this from a Mac with Erase in Apple Configurator with iOS 10 or later. You always could have done it if you happened to own an Exchange or MDM server.
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A key to quieter seas: half of ship noise comes from 15% of the fleet
SMH at the libertarians who beleive competition magically always maintains itself in a free market.
I think a fair number of people major in computer science and get programming jobs because it's a stable job, yes.
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For background on the docs in the kernel source tree, LWN (as is often the case) had a good article about it: https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/

There's also a copy on kernel. org, not sure why Intel's copy is being linked here. It's probably the same text, so any copy should be equally good, it just feels less canonical to me. Probably silliness on my part for even thinking of it.
My theory has been for a while it is human-brain interfaces that will wake people up to the issues of GPL(v3) vs BSD style licensing.

No iBrain device is touching my brain.
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It sounds more like the difference between 20-year-olds and older people with responsibilities other than themselves and work.
Tabular alignment is practically the one thing of all these holy wars that actually improves readability. So no, that's not something funny — it's something that trivially and immediately improves readability of your source.

foo = 1;
this_value_is_not_foo = 8;
another_int = 419;
pi = 314159;

versus:

foo = 1;
this_value_is_not_foo = 8;
another_int = 419;
pi = 314159;
Essentially they're recreating a stimulus in the brain that occurred when the initial memory was created. I don't know if this means generally stimulating better recall, but it has interesting implications for students. If you study with a particular tonal pattern in the background, then stimulating a matching theta wave as was generated by that tonal pattern might also stimulate better recall in that instance.

Perhaps memory was originally developed for same-environment tasks, e.g. remembering complex routes through a forest at a certain time of day in a certain season.
You might be shocked at the amount of misogyny men in their 30s and 40s think is acceptable. (Also, contra 'amyjess - some of the conservative fields, in particular finance and law, are also hideously sexist & contain a ton of harassment.)
Hm. He is the customer. So I think we can safely assume that the customer didn't get a refund for the charges.
I fail to see the reason for the delay... Just stop enforcing, period. There is no reason to continue enforcing something that you KNOW is going to be legal soon. Its just letting the last of of the money feed into the judicial system...
It's my observation that there are a lot more women in roles like project manager or scrum master or business analyst than software engineer.
As long as it's idiomatic... I'm sorta fine with it.
The "Defend Kebab" one?
OK, so the comment compares to Paris, Madrid and Barcelona. Consider that in France and Spain, there are labor unions which make even the US' strongest, most ruthless and overbearing unions look like weaklings.

If labor unions are the source of problems, Paris, Madrid and Barcelona would have the same problems but orders of magnitude worse. Yet the comment claims -- and note I'm not passing judgment on whether this is factual or not -- that Paris, Madrid and Barcelona do not have these problems.

And it most certainly is true that labor unions in the US have been targeted by ubiquitous, well-funded, vicious attack propaganda from those who feel that people pooling a resource to wield greater power and reap greater returns than they could individually is the highest, noblest and holiest human endeavor when the resource in question is capital, but is the very worst and lowest sort of corrupt vile leeching parasitism when the resource in question is labor.
Sure, here's one: "Bad people think that skinning cats is acceptable. If Bob thinks that skinning cats is okay, then Bob is a bad person."

In the above, we haven't delved into why skinning cats is bad (it seems to be bad self evidently and without need for justification, although that's another story), we're just characterized Bob as himself as bad. That's an ad hominem, but it's not fallacious - it only serves to instantiate the badness of an action in a particular person.
Code and data:

https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer
The goal is for everyone to be treated equally, not just women. People tend to create an us-vs-them mentality and form tribes, especially when they feel they're under attack. Much of the online backlash against feminism is due to militant, insulting forms of it that are popular on sites like tumblr that trigger this us-vs-them mentalities. That severely degrades the image of feminism when it seems to be anti-white guy. You can't allow sexism as long as it's against white men. If you do, you're part of why feminism is stalling.

"Mansplaining" doesn't oppress you like "PMSing" doesn't oppress women, which it does. It reinforces negative stereotypes and forms potentially false assumptions. Just because other people say mean things about women doesn't mean you should say mean things about men.
C Programming vs most other languages is a different animal for readability and formatting, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "Honour what is already established"

On that subject, I really dislike some of the PHP PSR formatting guidelines, it is a C style language and they have implemented some really painful paradigms
Why would licensing be a barrier to unionizing? Surely a smaller licensed community is easier to unionize, but the whole idea is getting a lot of (skilled or unskilled) people together to bargain collectively when bargaining individually would be ineffective.
> A zero-byte in a utf-8 string is the null-terminator and utf-8 strings can be treated exactly like C strings in terms of where the string ends.

No, the parent was correct: UTF-8 encodes NUL (i.e. \0) as a single zero byte (e.g. in contrast, Modified UTF-8[1] uses an overlong for NUL, so there's never any possibility of an internal zero). Of course, an application/library can choose to restrict itself to only handling UTF-8 that doesn't contain internal NULs, but the spec itself allows for zero bytes in a string.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Modified_UTF-8
I'm happy about the prospect of Hollywood's death, but I'm disappointed with Netflix's current direction. Since House of Cards they have been creating fantastic quality work, but due to senseless DRM constraints, I can't even watch any of it in 4k without spending ~$100 on specialized hardware, even though my PC is more than proficient enough at video playback.
> For decades, the local has had control over the training of new crane operators—and therefore who can work on a job site.

That's a monopoly practice, right there.
That student needs to be expelled for grammar and spelling (if nothing else).
That may be true, but one must also consider that the public is also not well enough informed on many issues to have an opinion worth merit.

Health care, foreign policy, corporate taxes, etc. are all extremely complex issues, and its hard to derive an informed opinion from the press alone. I think that's why it's hard to be a good leader and a popular leader at the same time.
It's fine to use spaces for your tabular alignment. Go ahead. But whether you have tabs or spaces as the indentation portion won't make any difference to the resulting alignment.

The important thing is that you don't mix tabs and spaces in either portion. So, in my proposal, the indentation portion would be all tabs, and the tabular alignment part would be all spaces.
> I find those things obnoxious and I'm glad they're protected speech, they're of no threat to me or the President. I'll take that over prison for insulting the king every day of the week.

I think you're talking about something different than I'm talking about.

I was talking about saying hateful or insulting things about other people in society, not politicians and public figures.

Even to me it's clear that public figures in the US should have to bear a lot of criticism and ridicule in the name of preserving a free and open debate about political topics.

But, OTOH, even democracies like France make certain kinds of offensive, bigoted or anti-Muslim speech prosecutable crimes. That was the difference I was trying to focus on.

As an American, it's clear to me that the freedom to criticize, ridicule, condemn the government, politicians and other public figures is critical to maintaining a democratic process. But, at the same time, it's not necessarily as clear to me that being able to insult my fellow citizen's religion or ethnicity is. In other words, I'm not prepared to say that France is not a true democracy because of that.
what's the yield of a well maintained 4-plant crop, asking for a friend? i guess i should go bother /r/trees, see if anyone can gather enough neurons to conjure up an answer there. [0]
Trouble dealing with beards maybe?
I personally made huge leaps in empathy from watching boogie2988's videos about his struggles with weight.

It's important to note, however, that YouTube is first and foremost a kids network(kids video ads convert the best), and then secondarily a music network(music videos provide most of the audience growth). All the rest of the stuff comes way after those two in their priority list, so you have to wade through all the screamy reaction channels and music channels to scrape something wholesome for adults at the bottom of the barrel.
Actually there is, in the (stated in the movie) supposition that what you can think about is bounded by the language you think with. Corr.: learn a different langauge, change how your brain processes your experience. So learning Heptapod changes your sensation of time, because time is a fundamental component of the language. Note how her future experiences become more detailed, less fragmented, and more focussed on "current" context, as she learns more about thinking in Heptapod. Not just revealing it to us, the audience: showing its progressive revelations to her. And then she writes the book on it, for the rest of us. And thus closes the loop.
"Show user's total karma" would also be a helpful bit of info, since the assumption (a la reddit) would be "karma for that particular post"
I wouldn't be certain. A lot of researchers really are clueless about anything to do with statistics.

It takes much more work/time to do real research, so the funding system has actually been selecting for people who can remain ignorant (so it is not fraud) and just produce p-hacked "results". In many areas, this has been going on for multiple generations now and you are trained to do it as a grad student.
What I'm saying is you're deflecting the responsibility of creating ideal feminist societies back onto women to make it palatable to you, which goes against anything I've ever learned about responsibility and accountability after someone(women) tells you(men) something's wrong.
You're focing a lot on just one point. Many people will sacrifice ultra-optimization or even optimization itself for productivity and flexibility. There's whole industries dedicated to it.

A cheat, though, would be extracting lowest-level form to C to leverage their compilers. Lots of languages did that.
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It's great, or I would say if I could see it without shelling out $100 for some hardware that would have literally no other purpose than 4k Netflix. Not to mention, HDR is disabled in the drivers for any consumer video card. I would really enjoy the content, but I refuse to spend my hard-earned cash jumping through arbitrary hoops just because of proprietary software and DRM. Am I really asking for too much here?
It's a meme. Google "defend kebab" for more info.

As for why it's there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just like any in-office demonstration interferes. Its not special in any way you know.
I don't really understand this perspective. Are you arguing that we shouldn't try? Of course it'll be extremely difficult and the work will take place over decades, not months or years, just like Spacex and Tesla. Nobody's expecting Iain Banks's neural lace tomorrow. But if someone doesn't start working on it tomorrow, we won't have it in a hundred years, either.
"Why can't we just control prices?" wonders a publication called The Economist in the second graf.

This article doesn't meet the Hacker News bar for me. Why read a shallow, dataless, meandering, "could the grass be greener" thinkpiece when you could be reading and discussing a deep statistical analysis like:

High US health care spending is quite well explained by its high material standard of living
https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/high...

The two follow up posts on that blog (Random Critical Analysis) are also quite good. So many surprising discoveries await us in the actual data, but I guess opining and confirming bias is more fun? If real journalism is going to require active philanthropy to survive, I'm funding the kind of critical analysis on open data sets that makes me think & rethink, not the kind of stuff that makes me go "that's just, like, your opinion, man." This article was the latter.
Spread of ages is key to impact of disease, animal study finds
You don't think being able to communicate with a computer by thought is useful?
That's also the direction Linux is heading with Flatpak and Flatpak portals.

I'm excited because there will finally be a reliable way for me to apply my preferred Open/Save dialogs to KDE and GTK+ apps alike. (It's being implemented at the toolkit level and you can run an app in Flatpak with sandboxing set to permit-all to get the portal hooking.)
Can students expel faculty for their actions?
Samsung to sell 'refurbished' Galaxy Note 7 phones
Drupal is a fairly popular CMS. As for what this means for the project, nothing good, but probably nothing serious either. They've lost of of their major contributors, and they've gained a lot of bad press, but it's still a huge project with a major corporate backer. The long run trajectory probably hasn't changed too much.

(Note: Drupal is essentially controlled by Acquia, and it was Acquia's CTO who decided to purge Garfield.)
I've been mistaken as the driver instead of passenger when contacting support too, and that was ~2 years ago. Strange they haven't figured how to handle that yet.
So where are all the engineers who work for a handful of years and then retire as millionaires? Where are all the crane operators rubbing elbows with their fellows at Davos?

I'll give you a hint: someone may trying to mislead you and inflame prejudices which have been carefully drilled into you over many years of media exposure.
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Huh. Considering they also implement an 80 character limit to line length, that could be a bit restrictive. Perhaps it means you have to refactor into a function once you reach a certain depth of blocks. You can only really go 9 blocks deep.

I hate line length limits personally. Especially because I tend to use long identifiers which eat up most of my line length limit in one go if you try to utter them with their enclosing namespaces.
People interested might also enjoy the first, automated store: SmartMart. Made in the Windows NT days. We got one out here.

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