skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that weird blog-speak or whatever did seem a bit put on / affected. Does this http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/guide-to-new-teen-slang.html reflect your experience? It's NY specific I guess.

I live overseas and have no reason to talk to kids so I'm totally out of touch with the "real Millenial generation". But I want to know how they talk and think about things. I tried "Millenials react to X" videos but nothing is that useful.

I don't think it's very good if I'm totally out of touch or don't understand the Millenial generation at all. For me ( 80s so that's a gen-x-er? ) Millenials really seem like an important generation to understand...they grew up with the internet. They act differently online to the rest of us ( more privacy conscious and so on ). It's frustrating that I can't find any first-hand sources or interviews to see how they think and talk -- except things that are parody / making fun of it...or just theorizing by "experts".

The other side of this is about inspiration. I realized that as I got older, my "generational culture" ( for want of a better word ) is basically static. The shows, the movies, the music, the people, the scene, the lifepaths, opinions and ideas of peers...it's all just...so familiar. So boringly familiar. And unchanging.

Only the new generations can really have some vibrance, vitality and fresh inspiration, in a very organic sense, in my opinion. Not just fresh relative to another, static generational culture, but somehow inherently fresh and inspiring. It really makes me appreciate youth in a way I didn't before. As, if nothing else, this source of a fresh way of looking at the world. I also think that youth who grew up in the last 17 years, have to be some of the most interesting, or somehow express the most faithful reflections our world right now -- because they were literally shaped by all the huge changes that Earth has gone through -- Western political changes, rise of China, terrorism, social media. So I think to some extent if people want to understand the world we live in now, we have to understand the generation that grew up shaped by it.
That could also make employees more productive.
Downvoting for the massive sense of entitlement shown, which is high even for HN!

Lots of global cities do have bubbles from foreign investment parking wealth in property, driving up prices and squeezing out locals looking to buy. Here's how it works:

Foreign investors buy luxury properties

Top-tier locals can't buy luxury properties, buy the next highest property class

Second-tier etc.

Lower-rung locals have no properties to buy. Not: they don't have enough money; but the property type they would traditionally occupy isn't available, and no alternatives have been built since it's always in a developer's best interest to aim at the top, in the abscesses of government incentives.
I really enjoyed this read. I still look at code I write every year and cringe.

Everything becomes influenced by the flavour of the week.

Don't be so hard on yourself, We all suck in hindsight, but its all about recognising it an constant improvement.
Or outlandish political statements. "Hillary Clinton has been diagnoses with cancer", "Pope Francis has endorsed Donald Trump". etc.
It's done regularly in trading floors
who says you have to run a DC if you're not on aws? did i say that, or did you project that onto me?

how about hiring a smaller company that can do it for you, for half the cost? i know why not, because you think they're going to fuck it all up, get you fired, and you'll be homeless and ashamed. and so back to amazon you go.

false dichotomy.
I moved to Sydney 3 months ago (from interstate) to study and pursue a slightly different line of work. I don't think I'll ever be able to own a house anywhere closer than 20+km to the CBD unless prices come down at least 30%. Rents seem higher than Chicago, comparable to parts of NY, and wages seem to be a lot lower (anecdata though).

If I want to build a decent nest-egg it's likely going to require spending a considerable amount of time overseas. That said, healthcare and affordable education is pretty cool.
Come to Melbourne, Australia. Tiny apartments is all you'll ever find, and we're building them in great supply. I'm sure it'll work out splendid.
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I'm the opposite. Have lived in high rises, small buildings, medium buildings, rented houses... the 6-9 size is the sweet spot for city living. Intimate enough where things like bringing in packages, giving a neighbor a spare key, etc still happen, but not so much that everyone is up in your business all the time.
> your best is good enough. The effort is what matters.

Not necessarily true, if you're (trying to be) a professional then it might not be enough.
And Facebook would track "viral", "engaging" content and promote it more to your friends. So a link to a website that looks like a newspaper with the headline "Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring" would be "liked" and shared lots and FB would promote it to many people.
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It's greens (left wing ultra progressive) policy too, just way down their list of priorities.
Also at least for those of us that care about C++, Google and Microsoft's adoption of it pretty much settles the question which build system to use.
Are you really serious? This is a post snowden society.

> An FAQ isn't binding.

Probably not, but please beware that this service is not subject to US law, but the laws of the Russian Federation.

> What does their TOS say?

TOS are subject to change, right? And even if it wasn't, do you really think the TOS will stop a company run by a russian nationalist[1] offering a free service with a million dollar bill will stick by their word (which, in this case is literally a single word)?

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/-MrPWGr7aL/
Kudos for Doing Parenting Right.

So many 'parents' dump their kids in front of Cartoon Network, and ignore them for 18 years.
> Prior to that there have been very few alternatives to C.

There were, but the market chose otherwise.
A good retrospective. I'm always inspired by Evan's passion and ability.
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Right, if you browse ED or LJ, your guard is up. But when armies of Twitterbots are blasting, it's hard to tell.
I write security critical software with C and I know exactly what you're talking about.

It's written in C because the tooling to analyze and certify it for security in embedded/automotive/aerospace is targetting C (or C++). For some industries, Ada might be an alternative.

It may be paradoxical, but you're not going to be able to write safety critical software in Rust because the tooling to certify it for security doesn't exist and it'll still take years to get there.

Do I like this situation? No, I do not. Do I think it's a big problem? No, not big enough that it can't be solved by pouring money and engineering resources on it.
Wouldn't separated, mini houses be better in that case?
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> have large numbers of small offices interlinked via tech

Like working from home?
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Oh c'mon. Encrypted messaging apps are orders of magnitude more efficient and discreet for communication in the context of the overall finance industry, compared to "talking over lunch" (or any other meatspace location).

Not sure I have any well formulated thoughts about the significance of this trend among finance types... but I don't think your analogy is terribly illuminating.
Ideally you interweave business and residential, like in European cities.
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I didn't read the whole article; I hope to be able to return to it tomorrow. However, from a brief skim, it seems it started out well and then quickly went downhill. A better title might be, "A strawman in defense of Scientism".

The gist of it is that the author starts with a decent argument about why philosophers against scientism might want to attack a weaker (i.e., more easily believed/more likely true) version of scientism, since that would give more weight to their arguments. But then the author goes off the rails by choosing to defend that weak version of scientism with some rather silly arguments, essentially arguing that since the term has been redefined, none of the work which has gone before (which has shown that these silly arguments are silly) applies any more.
Isn't that what suburbs are? I live in a suburb and while the apartment buildings are pretty big (but 3 story) they overlook lush greenery.
Of all the fads and foibles in the long history of human credulity, scientism in all its varied guises — from fanciful cosmology to evolutionary epistemology and ethics — seems among the more dangerous, both because it pretends to be something very different from what it really is and because it has been accorded widespread and uncritical adherence. Continued insistence on the universal competence of science will serve only to undermine the credibility of science as a whole. The ultimate outcome will be an increase of radical skepticism that questions the ability of science to address even the questions legitimately within its sphere of competence. One longs for a new Enlightenment to puncture the pretensions of this latest superstition.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-folly-of-scie...
How would separate houses be better? More to maintain.
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This is a great idea. And unlike rate limits per user, you should get better utilization of the web server. A drawback is request latencies and queue sizes could get out of control without a feedback mechanism to the client. I would probably want some active queue management to return a 429 if something stays in the queue too long. You could also put a single rate limiter in front of the web server, to prevent server overload.
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Hi! I'm the author of the library, and just wanted to say that you are absolutely correct about Redux Offline not being a suitable solution for weeks of active offline use :)

Regarding the "get a connection within one hour", that's only for automated, scheduled retries. When your app becomes online or is started up, no matter after how many hours or days have elapsed, we do continue retrying the messages unless you have a discard policy in place to remove them. The limited retry policy is related to not banging on a backend that is down or unreachable, etc.
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The biggest problem in the US is the wide-spread application of "Euclidian" zoning which strictly segregates use (often down to single versus multi-family dwellings), which leads to dead suburbias with houses everywhere but not a grocer or convenience store in place, which makes for absolutely dreary and dreadful environment.

You don't even need to run sims to get something better, you can just look at "organic" countries and cities and how they implemented their zoning.

Here's a comparison of Japanese and American/Euclidian zoning for instance: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.be/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html (the first link leads to an article on Euclidian zoning)
In modern economy, when business is doing well, profits and top salaries grow, but that's it. Salaries never went proportional with productivity or profits and this is another sad example here: despite 25 years of ongoing growth, people are confronted with extreme household debts. Obviously political decision makers became too greedy and lobbyists too influential. You see it anywhere, not only in AUS.
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And keep in mind that our President has appeared on Alex Jones's (infowar) show, showers him with praise, and talks to him with some frequency [1].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...
I would never put a "Like" button on a web site of mine.
Bloomberg (the parent company of Bloomberg News), of course, sells very expensive software to Wall Street that facilitates compliant / legal instant messaging. This is barely disclaimed in the article, in a parenthetical that does not note the obvious conflict of interest.
Just got the update here too. I have had Locations removed from G+, but added in Maps.

I have to define my sharing again.

I'm sharing my locations with family in a country that hasn't received the new Maps. Brilliant.
Why is Wall Street (finance) susceptible to this in particular? Is it just because they hold high value information?

I could share lots of strategically relevant data with people I know outside my employer and if I used WhatsApp then I'd be less detectable than if I used my work email account but so what? I fail to see why this particular communication mechanism is worse than others.
Indeed. The great irony there is that their main constituents (i.e. inner-city young professionals) are the ones who are copping the worst effects of high, unending immigration (e.g. congestion, lower public transport availability, lowered housing affordability etc.)

If they don't stop listening to the Sarah-Hanson Youngs in their party, and start listening to the more rational Scott Ludlams, then this issue will lead to their 'democrats' moment very soon.

EDIT: I also can't understand why either Labor or the Greens don't take the very obvious political opportunity right in front of them. They should essentially pull a reverse John Howard by increasing our refugee intake, move processing on-shore (or even start a community release program), and drastically cut 'regular' immigration intake levels while they work with State governments to stabilise infrastructure, energy and education.

Seems like a no-brainer to me. Good policy and good politics combined is a rare thing.
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Right. There's potential for anonymous rewards. For example: "Do ... now. If you want more updates, donate 1 BTC per ... to 1FBgaKqRZ1dFhjgAZuEqWNkoYdcFeJGPaG."
It does seem a little like the correct thing to do would have been to split those requested documents out in to individual PDFs or scans, which seems to be what they're asking for, rather than pointing towards one large info pack with elevating rage.
Many great open source products have huge commercial backers--the important thing is that there is a community, which is in fact very true with Apollo.

I get what you're saying and I'm sure there is lots of truth to it--that doesn't make what's going on now the best to ever do it (i.e. the fastest way to produce the most meaningful user experiences). If it wasn't the case, we'd be doing remote procedure calls in C or whatever.

Bottom line: ur point is one that should be heard, but there's a way more value could be added in how you present it.
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The issue, in my eyes anyway, is when the scientific method is used as a hammer; when it's used to crush a debate.

Any method, whether scientific, philosophical, spiritual or otherwise should be used to spawn debate, and to contribute to a rich discussion.

But science being used to stop debate, used to stop exchange, used to stop meaningful conversation does more harm than good to all involved.
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Bloomberg is supporting Trump theory of wage stagnation a bit too much lately. Maybe they are being pressured?

I know for fact that minimum wage has risen, so wage stagnation cannot be true.
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Decoupling isn't the same as statelessness. The state machine pattern used by OpenGL is a logical decoupling to the physical state of GPU hardware. State machines, buffers, protocols and the like - abstractions that we tend to think of as "low level" or "implementation detail" - are in fact the primary means of decoupling used when dealing with stateful systems. Computing hardware itself makes considerable use of these abstractions in providing modular interfaces.

Stateless abstractions are great when you can provide them. But the stuff you're building on isn't itself built out of statelessness.
Mining.
For the imperially challenged that's 20 and 28 square meters respectively.

And yeah 20-ish is really small.
It seems to be how 20something frontend developers talk though (source: work with a few of them and saw their talk slides).
looks like we're in a bubble.
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Other discussion with more comments already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14001310
Actually, it is the merit of the language. C - and FORTRAN for that matter - are fast because their restrictions force you to program a certain way. A way that just-so-happens to be efficient (if not particularly safe).

For example, generally, people use a lot of static arrays in C. Arrays are efficient. The way you program with fix-sized structures like arrays tends to be different to how you program with dynamically-sized structures and that style of programming tends to be more efficient.

In the vast majority of cases, a C or FORTRAN program will be more efficient than other languages not because they are C or FORTRAN, but because they force you to use an efficient paradigm.

Even other compiled languages like C++ or D are, more often than not, slower than the C counterpart UNLESS they are programmed in a "C style".

e: To be clear, the fact that they are compiled low-level languages obviously does help, but I'm trying to make the point that it's not the only reason.
That must mean they are evil spies, no?

...or just idiots. Not all unfortunate behavior is an intentional attempt to manipulate.
Why is Wall Street (finance) susceptible to this in particular? Is it just because they hold high value information?

Part of it is the rampant principal/agent issues all over the financial sector. Take, for example, the example in the article of the bond trader who sent a client a photo of the firm's current positions, in an effort to gain business. I very much doubt the firm wanted its confidential trading data shared with outsiders. I very much doubt that it was in the public interest for this one customer to have access to sensitive information that other customers lacked. But from the perspective of the bond salesman, it was a winning move, because it landed him a sale (and the accompanying commission).
The first part just means they need to have rubber padding. Still expensive since the design it's a one time job and can be reused for trains, trams, buses etc.
Our President made his name in Reality TV! That's no worse than The Gipper, I know. But somehow "Death Valley Days" doesn't seem so bad.
If anything, stuff gets less trustworthy when forced into 140 characters full of weird grammar tricks to keep the limit.
I try to always remember:

Floats are great for quick, mostly correct, math.

Think REALLY carefully about any process that then 'compares' the result. Usually you're "doing it wrong" if that's the case.

I think I might even find it useful if compilers could be instructed to warn whenever comparison operators were used on a float type value.
What is the expo.io client? The site you linked has a broken certificate and then just replies "default backend - 404".
The Apollo team also provides some superb GraphQL server tooling:

http://dev.apollodata.com/tools/

The ability to express your schema in GraphQL instead of JS is especially nice. The server+client Apollo experience is really nice if you give it a try, and judging by the roadmap laid out in the blog post there are a lot of benefits to come.
I think it shouldn't be forgotten that all this craze have a much easier time spreading since the western states did spread a lot of lies through the media in the second half of the 20th century.

One example i've actually lived, is when tchernobyl exploded, french media showed maps of the radioactive cloud stopping at the borders (due to winds) and never going in. This was of course a huge lie that e everybody now admits.

Then, we had the false testimonies at the UN of various sorts ( koweitien poor lady in the first gulf war that was in fact a member of the royal family), and colin powell for the second one.

And if i go back in time, JFK is the mother of all conspiracy theory, since no true investigation clearly explained what happened, and so the only explanation we have is the one of a lone crazy guy ( which remains unconvincing to many people).

So, all in all, i would say this trend of systematically questionning the official explanation is a very healthy one. It just needs to become more mature, and maybe be one day a new form of investigative journalism.
I'd take the $million, then go spend about $150,000 on a new dick-mobile. Then I'd go to Vegas, find some hotties, and do some sports gambling... And in about three weeks I'd be right back here in mom's basement...
Traders can get into and out of positions with inside knowledge very quickly without leaving obvious traces that may be left in other industries. Their moves could be attributed to gut feel or luck but is actually a rort.

Other industries, it can be more certain if you've ripped-off say a LIDAR design.
I haven't found one and I really wonder if everybody rolls their own sync solution.

> The one thing I dislike about couchdb is the default "user-per-db" model.

Why exactly? I think the overhead of the DBs is rather small. It's not like having a MySQL DB for every user ;)

Also, you can achieve something like "global data" as well: Either replicate from users' DBs to a shared DB or maybe make some kind of "system" user that has access to the users' DBs. I'm not an expert, but that's what I figured out so far with my limited experience.
AKG K845bt. These are my first bt headphones and I can tell you that they make a difference. I was skeptical about bt headphones but the freedom you get with them will change your mind.

About sound quality there is no doubts about AKG, in my opinion one of the best brands out there.

In reference to the price.. yes they are expensive compared to other headphones but for someone who uses them more than 5h a day.. I think they pay off
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If you use a simpler configure solution, then the user probably won't have much trouble figuring out how to deal with niche edge cases that they expect to work with autotools.

On the other hand, when something goes wrong with autotools, the first step is to pour yourself a drink.
I'd take more maintanence for simple lines of ownership any day. A line in the ground with everything on one side being mine. As far as I can tell, appartment body corps can be a political nightmare and contractors charge a lot for work.
Is this because New Zealand hasn't got a long history of apartments or is it difficult everywhere?
I'm in total love with Apollo Client! I'm using it at work with a custom graphql backend and on personal projects using http://graph.cool which just rocks! I hope the community will grow with people who use angular with apollo-angular as well.
This is a good, assessable discussion:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710
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Sounds like you just described every HN comment ever: 'Oh, you understand red-black trees and just scanned two Wikipedia articles? Let me hear more about your theories on political economy and your pronouncements on environmental policy regarding the Amazon...'
Whoever downvoted this: Downvoting should be for comments that are low quality or don't contribute to the conversation, not perfectly fine comments with which you disagree.