skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth it looks like Starling weren't the ones who wrote it: http://www.indiangeek.net/programmer-competency-matrix/ seems to be the original source as per other comments.
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Yes, always. Assuming your audience is maxklein. Otherwise, best to test.
Actually I don't think a colon or a semi-colon belongs there. Should be a comma if the "if" clause comes first. The rules might be different for an all-caps title though.
It is useful to share bits of a larger text. A "source" text box to input the URL of the source would be great. Thanks!
Is it an advantage to learn assembly?

Definitely. Necessary? Not really. Like others have said, learning assembly is more about understanding the underlying architecture, rather than learning assembly. However, its not a necessity to all.

It truly depends on what you want to work with. For example, if you wish to be a system developer that creates optimized web servers, compilers, middleware etc. then yes, learning assembly should be a top priority. Not necessarily because you want to put assembly in your code, but because learning about the architecture will greatly help you in optimizing your code in cases like these were optimized code is key to keep competitive. However, if you are a web developer, maybe learning assembly shouldn't be a top priority. Its not that you wouldn't benefit from it, because you certainly would. But learning other topics like scalability and authentication would be more profitable to learn.

Like with anything, it truly depends on how you would use your knowledge on what knowledge is most important to you.
OmniGraffle is even better for this — it implements all the same alignment tricks and more, plus it can take Graphviz dot files as input.
All well and good, but this approach implies that "someone" is better at predicting the future than the market. The historical record on this is pretty clear: nobody is very good at predicting the future, but out of central planners and markets, markets are far better at adjusting to change.

See, for the classic example, Japan's MITI. An uninterrupted story of the brightest men and women in Japan making incorrect guess after faulty prediciton, leavened with a dose of no-better-than-random-chance blockbuster industrial picks.
You could proxy the request through a back-end server that does support HTTPS.
thanks. but i'm a little more in the dark about their physical representation.

Is it email? analog audio via oceanic cables?

the wikipedia page is blank now. but it's history show that someone described it simply as "oceanic cable" sometime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_cable
that's hilarious - and amazingly ironic
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Hrmm...I am not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, having light shone on various dark parts of processes can be good for innovation and checks and balances - but on the other hand, it kinda feels like Assange is getting too big for his britches.

I feel like it might be getting to his head and he feels he is more important than he should be.

I also feel like he might be giving an outlet to squeaky wheels - i.e. disgruntled employees that have a bridge to burn because they are upset about management decision.

I am no big fan of corporate secrecy and perhaps shedding a light on certain practices can get 'big business' to stop lobbying lawmakers for some ridiculous things, but I am nervous that it might have many unintended consequences.

i.e. we turn Assange into a mercenary that releases stuff for his own self-aggrandizement than for the greater good.
In short, new ideas can't blossom into profitable projects if everyone in the room is contributing ideas, and the leader is too busy being outgoing to listen to or act upon them.

How can you be "too busy being outgoing"?
It isn't just you. I don't hear anything, either. [EDIT: Fixed; see below.]

Also, I agree on the poor UI design.

But in any case, assuming this works, which it apparently does, for some, it's a cute idea.

EDIT: Got it working. Are you running Flashblock? I am, and after I put translate.google.com into FB's whitelist, I get audio. When the button is light blue, press it. The button turns dark blue, and the sound plays. When the sound is finished, the button goes back to light blue.
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> The complexity of human society defies abstract reasoning, and begs for actual example. I don't see any grounding in actual knowledge of history in your arguments (though (1) I grant that too much protectionism is just as bad as too little, and (2) you are probably better grounded in fact than your arguments).

The complexity of human society is an argument in favour of freer markets. Knowledge about resources and demands is distributed extremely widely and no one actor can gather and react to even a miniscule fraction of it, compared to the totality.

Protectionism, amongst other things, is an act of central planning. Those who decide what to protect and what to leave open are making guesses about the current and future economy which might or might not be true. Given the poor record of central planning in every form it has been tried (most famously Gosplan), I would prefer to let a distributed dynamic optimising system create an approximate solution to an incomplete-knowledge problem than to wait for a single actor provide a perfect single solution.
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What is the margin of error? For example, if Texas debt is between 10 and 30 billion, then we can't comment. But if it is between 20 and 30, then I think we can reasonably say that Texas debt to GDP is worse.
A majority of folks earning 200k+/year went for Obama, as well.
This blog post reminds of an article I read a few years back, 2007 I think, in the Harvard Business Review called, The Making of an Expert. The article stipulates that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in a particular field. It also stated that having a mentor increased the probably of actually becoming an expert significantly.
> So how did Manning allegedly manage to get access to the diplomatic cables? They’re transmitted via e-mail in PDF form on a State Department network called ClassNet, but they’re stored in PST form on servers and are searchable. If Manning’s unit needed to know whether Iranian proxies had acquired some new weapon, the information might be contained within a diplomatic cable. All any analyst has to do is to download a PST file with the cables, unpack them, SNAP them up or down to a computer that is capable of interacting with a thumb drive or a burnable CD, and then erase the server logs that would have provided investigators with a road map of the analyst's activities. But analysts routinely download and access large files, so such behavior would not have been seen as unusual.

That sounds surprisingly involved to me.
the main reason I don't use js2-mode is that it breaks mumamo mode which I use in nxhtml. That said, it is a pretty amazing mode. I should look into js2-mode for js files and maybe espresso for nxhtml
Most 3rd party stuff is good and supports SSL. YouTube is the giant exception. Annoying.
He was talking about with-open not needing a change to the language to implement. In other words, Python's with statement did need a change to the language, but then Python is a (semi-)interpreted language written in C, so it's a cheap shot - just what I'd expect from a dirty Lisp hacker ;)
Am I one of the few who thinks that this is absurd? This reminds me of that 37 Signals Article: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-... I realize that this valuation doesn't come from a VC investment but from a private stock exchange. Regardless, is Facebook really worth $50 billion though?
Hmmm, a CLI that created a branch and an issue on github and tied them together in some magical way would be way cool.
I'm interested in his hacking bits such as the IP over PPP over DNS over IP script. It seems interesting to imagine what other inventions wikileaks uses to transfer information over channels unsuspected. Since it's not linked, that particular item seems to have gone un-cached so it's hard to evaluate how complete some of these bits of Ruby are.
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Thanks, yoinking this for Appointment Reminder.

In the spirit of creating wealth through exchange:

https://gist.github.com/721114

A frequent problem I have is using CSS files which include http:// linked background images, which will pass through every test with flying colors and then trigger prominent mixed-content security warnings in a browser I very seldom use. Slap this code in your initializers directory and you never have to worry about it again.

Just write your stylesheet_link_tag as normal, and then include :cache => request.ssl? ? "foo-secure" : "foo-standard"

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I switched from VIM to emacs. While a lot of the nice things in emacs can eventually be backported into vim, I think the extensibility and apples all/most of the way down approach of emacs is superior. Even after using it for 6 years, I'm continually astounded by the things people do with it.

I've just discovered pabbrev-mode for js and ruby editing. It's off the hook.

Also once you've coded with a repl in an inferior shell buffer, you won't know how you ever did without it
Sorry, how is that evil? If questions are known they can't be used anymore, and often confidential information can come up in interviews, so it seems only sensible. I don't remember hearing of it ever being used against someone, so it's really just a precaution against someone finding out and then disclosing something really important. I suppose I could have said that not discussing people's questions is only polite, for all the weight it carries.

*EDIT: added last sentence.
This article really hit home for me. Over the past month or so I have been blogging about my own side-projects and things I am reading about or playing with. But now that people are reading it (very few, but people nonetheless), I start feeling obligated to make progress or start a new and interesting project.

It is becoming a double edged sword -- I started blogging because I wanted some public accountability and motivation to finish projects or learn new things, but now I find it becoming less and less appealing. I now care what my readers think and how I present myself, especially since some of my readers are coworkers, and that is making it more like work and causing me to start avoiding it.

Anyone have thoughts on striking a good balance?
So plugin models are bad, period? No software should ever be extensible? What about operating systems?
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Ya know who are the real winners in all this madness? SecondMarket and SharesPost.
Are there any reasons to think that the speculative number will be off by more than a billion or two? If the real deficit is actually 23 or 27 billion, I don't think that really affects the comparison too much.

('Oh, Texas's deficit is actually $24.23 billion and not $24.24 billion? Well, obviously that invalidates all the comparisons to California! Let's discuss something else.')
I wonder why this was downvoted? What part of this do people disagree with? I made 3 main points:

1.) Obama had disproportionate support from the poor and working classes. This is easy to verify, there were many news organizations that covered this. Here is one example:

http://geocommons.com/overlays/6095

2.) The poor and working classes have less access to broadband Internet. Is anyone seriously going to dispute this?

3.) Therefore video was a poor choice for Obama, since many of his supporters lacked broadband Internet access.

My friends, instead of downvoting, why don't you explain what you are thinking? Does someone disagree with my thesis? I feel like I'm stating something fairly obvious here.
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That’s very interting.
This is perhaps true for a few; I've mocked the "every single instance of bad weather of any kind is due to global warming" folks myself.

That said, most of the "It's snowing! So much for global warming!" BS is far from a sarcastic comment on that behavior.
Looks wonderful, and in tests on small repos it seems to work well, but I can't get it to open the moderately-sized YUI 3 repository (10,000 commits or so) that I spend most of my time in. It just sits and spins forever.

Brotherbard's gitx fork has no problem working with the same repo, so it seems like Tower has some performance issues to work out.
It makes perfect sense. If you receive all your reports via email you need to save them some place so your 20 MB mail box doesn't overflow and whoever follows you needs to be able to search everything so you stash it all in PST files on your network share drive and then pass those PST files along to the next guy that takes your position. At least that seems to be what the article is basically describing, albeit poorly.
Pretty sure (but can't find source at the moment) that that number only reflects the cables on the wikileaks website itself. The number of cables released to newspapers is significantly higher but not a quarter million.
It never goes well for the less advanced civilization.

... on Earth. Let's be optimists for a change. :)
While the extensibility of Emacs could be ported to vi, it isn't fitting with the culture/design. The best summary I've heard is that vi is an editor, Emacs is an environment. (I prefer vi as an editor, but use Emacs. Go figure.)

pabbrev rocks! The fact that you can just add that sort of functionality to Emacs is telling.
Could I write a tiny one in rack and mount that in front of the rails stack using the new router in ActionDispatch 3? Hmmm...
Human beings and other large mammals suppress their telomerase. Why? Because it can save them from cancer. If the cancer cells never mutate to activate their telomerase or the alternative pathway for fixing telomeres, they start to malfunction and die off before the tumor gets larger than about an inch across. Often, this isn't such a big deal for a human. For a mouse, it's a really big deal and they'll probably die. Hence, there's no anti-cancer benefit for a mouse to suppress telomerase, so they're designed to have it "on" all the time.

Whales almost never die of cancer. By the time a cancer gets as large as a human's head, the cancer cells have mutated into dysfunction or parasitism of other tumor cells. Tumors that have been around long enough to get that big tend to die off. For a whale, a tumor the size of a human head is no big deal. The folks that still kill whales (for "research") find tumor scars in whales all the time. They just seem to shrug it off.

Activating a human being's telomerase in the fashion discussed in the article would likely bring about an early death of cancer.
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> It would be better to focus on learning current languages, programming patterns, concepts and styles.

Better for what?

And, after we've decided how we're defining merit, some evidence would be nice. At some point we get to talk about how we're measuring said merit.

You did want us to take your statement seriously, right?
A word of caution: it is very easy for naive attempts to do this to end up creating an open proxy. You don't want that.
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... tear up Australia's copper network and replace it with fibre. To every home in the country. In US terms that's approximately like a $630 billion project.

This deserves front billing. It will make us the envy of the western world when it comes to IT infrastructure and will hopefully drive a lot of innovation. We are doing this at a time when the rest of the world bar China (and thanks to China) is dealing with a crippling budget problem.

It isn't controversial so it doesn't hit the front page of (and I don't say this to be inflammatory) American centric sites/blogs/media. There are many sexy IT stories that appear in local media all the time, but don't get covered simply because of where the mainstream blogs focus themselves.

I have read similar complaints from non-silicon valley types.
Agreed. I recognized " This is probably the first case, though, of a cable-company ISP becoming large enough to extract transit fees from a big international carrier. " as being _your_ comment. The thing is - I learned that from _you_. So I'd kind of like to remember who I can trust to provide useful insight into these topics.
How many people in the USA make over $200k a year? And how many people in the USA can be classified as poor or working class?

If you make $200K a year, then you are in the upper 1% of income in the USA.

When I said "poor and working classes" I was thinking of the bottom 2 quintiles of income distribution. I think this is a fairly common reference. Certainly the usage is common in articles that write about the demographics of elections.

You realize there are more votes in the lower 40% than in the top 1%?
They're the representatives that you elected, so if they behave badly, that's on you.

There are no technical fixes for social problems.
after all, no other life form has contacted us

A bit far-fetched, but it could also mean we are the first. If there were/are sufficiently advanced civilizations in the past that could engineer on the scale of star systems or above (singularity hypothesis), there would be a certain probability that we would detect that (so far or in the future), no?
We used to call those things "anchors". :-)
That's still my second concern and also has to be satisfied before I would buy it. But if I can get around town on a $100 bike and the anti-theft device costs $300, I'll stick with a more affordable lock and buy a new bike occasionally.
The blog post is nice enough, but make sure you catch the comment from "onjibonrenat" - I got more out of that than the post itself.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc have a reasonable expectation the user who is installing their software wants it to work properly with Firefox. Does Mozilla offer any officially blessed way for third party applications to install extensions? Why is it even possible to silently install extensions in the first place?
Arbitrage is doing biz where it's most profitable.

In your case, you'll find that some govts are more tolerant of speech A they are of speech B while other govts are the reverse.
The same thing happened to me in a GOOG interview. Reading your comment, it just came as a picture in front of my eyes! I succeeded in the first question and gave some brilliant answers until we decided that we spent enough time on that part(aka, i ran out of ideas). I was relieved and we moved on to the next question. I didn't nail that one...no wonder i didn't make it to the next round!
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>My guess is they probably had this before java supported such a syntax so that you could create arrays easily

varargs came in Java 1.5, September 30, 2004

Groovy 1.0, January 2, 2007

Definitely could be for compiler optimizations or backwards compatibility, just providing some context for any possible historical reasons like the one you stated.
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This is just a valuation based on the last traded price on a relatively illiquid market. If Facebook was traded on a public exchange (where all market participants would have access to Facebook's vital financials) or was just acquired would we know its true worth.
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Not everyone who participates in an IPO makes millions you know. Especially those who join in the later stages of a startup's lifecycle, the combined effects of (a) dilution, and (b) increasing stock valuation means the lottery payout diminishes very steeply. And in the case of Facebook, where there have been a lot more opportunities for stock to be sold pre-IPO, that means there are more opportunities for the stock valuation to be established. This has impacts for what the company can offer as far as stock options are concerned, which influences the upside opportunity.

Furthermore, given the huge amount of attention and hype about How Facebooks Success Is Assured, a lot of the "pop" in valuation that took place pre-IPO has probably already taken place. People who expect that Facebook will have its valuation (its market cap is currently estimated at $41 billion; Apple is $219 billion; IBM is $157 billion; Dell is $22 billion) "pop" by another 10x post-IPO will probably be sadly disappointed. And if you don't get that "pop", those stock options won't be worth all that much.

Which is one of the reasons I really don't believe the stories of $3.5m and $6m retention offers. It would simply be insane to make such offers, because the payout for someone jumping from Google to Facebook at this point, roughly a year before when people are guessing Facebook will IPO, are nowhere near that large (after stock reserved for the 5 stages of VC investment, and the founder's stock, and stock already issued to other employees, not to mention the shares that you know, need to actually be sold to the public, the number of options that could be granted per employee won't be that high). And, I'm pretty confident Google isn't insane. Furthermore, if Google was doing this, it would be bleedingly obvious on the quarterly 10Q statements it has to file with the SEC. So if you really think this is real, try doing some digging in the 10Q's 2-3 months from now.
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> It isn't controversial so it doesn't hit the front page of (and I don't say this to be inflammatory) American centric sites/blogs/media

It is highly controversial. I run a blog network including the "Terrible Trio" of Ozblog politics -- http://catallaxyfiles.com/, http://clubtroppo.com.au/ and http://larvatusprodeo.net/ -- and they spend a lot of time arguing the pros and cons. The posters on Larvatus Prodeo are generally bullish on the NBN, the posters on Catallaxy Files are quite anti-NBN.

While I personally don't think that there can be any sensible technical argument made about the supremacy of FTTH for performance, the technical argument is not the key issue. It's about the cost-benefit tradeoffs, which aren't being seriously explored.

Remember, this is the single largest infrastructure project in Australian history -- bigger in adjusted dollars than the Snowy Mountains Scheme -- it deserves some serious scrutiny on principle.
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Two thoughts.

Would this be a nuisance to utility workers who have to access lights or wires on city poles?

This inspires an idea for a similar product. The bike could have an RC-operated hook and winch. The owner can toss the hook onto any high mounted object such as a street sign or low aerial utility line such as phone or cable. Then real the line in with the remote, pulling the bike out of reach. There would be many more potential "parking spaces". The utility lines are supported with steel guide wires that can handle a significant amount of weight[1] and they're much lower than power lines so a careful toss is more of a danger by missing and falling than by reaching an electrical hazard.

[1] as a former cable technician I can testify to this, we were trained to hook our ladders onto the lines half-way between two poles if necessary