skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that gets the words "twit" and "corporate" in the same sentence gets my vote.

Twitter is a user driven content system and in that closing and limiting the API in the way they are doing does optentualy hint that there going to somehow charge down the line for it's use.

Googe MAP's API was free competely at one stage, they introduced charges and then reduced those charges. Twitter is trying a different approach - not saying there approach is better as I personaly believe it is not. But there certainly trying something that will eventualy boil down to MONEY.
> So, why would you want to learn 6502? It’s a dead language isn’t it? Well, yeah, but so’s Latin

6502 isn't dead, it has even been relaunched:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Relaunched-the-6502-m...

6502 was my first processor, and it was real fun to learn Assembler. I used also figForth and learned from the ground up how it was implemented. Amazing days!

Today Assembler isn't fun anymore.. I don't even know the exact name of my current quad core :)

Could it be that FPGA programming will be the next golden age of "Assembler"? Content industry works hard to lock computer hardware with DRM. So if we want to keep our freedom then we'll have no other choice than to build our future computers ourselves - again.
Like many others here, i've been in the same situation, and like many others here, I also made the decision to quit.

In my opinion, when things have reached this point its time to go, there is nothing more you can do there.

Even staying there for the money is ultimately a self defeating decision.
okay that's good. is that why I'm having trouble logging in at the moment?
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When I was ~12 I wrote a 4000+ line monstrosity in Pascal. I had to learn about functions/procedures because the GOTO wouldn't jump far enough anymore.

I called it an OS, even though it was just a text-based visual shell running in DOS that let you do pretty much anything. Actually used it as my primary "OS" for a few months.

Another cool thing was a game I wrote in BGI graphics with Pascal. Was fun to play, but I didn't know about arrays so there were roughly 200 global variables.

Oh and all the code I wrote before I was ~15 tried to use as short variable/function names as possible for some reason. When I used up the alphabet I'd go to aa, ab ... I want to slap my young self for that.

PS: I started programming when I was 9, in Logo. That was fun too. But the real fun started when I "unlocked" Pascal at 11.
So? Who says the verified package isn't malicious? My point isn't about cryptography, it's about complexity. Unless you personally read through every line of code, how do you really know that there isn't something in there waiting to screw you over?
And I've added you to the list of guys that think they are "the shit" because they have hiring abillities (in some shitty company) and need to tell it on the intertubes.
Erm you don't run assembly languages you still compile them to machine code!

Fixed width is easier to process and not necasaryly to write. Remember it is about learning a assembler here - not pandaring towards limited computer memory and processing approaches of the time. THAT is a seprate issue and on that note thanks for the mod down point ;|.
Here in Europe, in the countries which have the system, it is referred to as "civil partnership" and the LGBT community is happy with that despite it not being called "marriage". Actually, complaints about the system in the UK came from heterosexual couples who want want to have access to civil partnerships instead of marriage (ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11625835).

Read that campaign again - it's as much about LGBT people having a right to marry as it is about civil partnerships for straight folk. It's about equal rights. Some of my gay friends would prefer to marry over a civil partnership. My partner and I would prefer a civil partnership - but can't coz we're straight.

Indeed - in the UK anyway - LGBT are likely to have the right to marry soon (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18412222). I don't think we'd be changing the legislation if folk weren't unhappy with the current status quo.
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I am not sure of your point that it doesn't count because it is discussing the US. Anthropology applies just as much on a street corner in Delaware as it does in the middle of the Amazon. But ok, here's some more, and two of them are global. Perhaps I am researching the wrong sort of anthropologists.

Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights
Committee for Human Rights
American Anthropological Association

...As a professional organization of anthropologists, the AAA has long been, and should continue to be, concerned whenever human difference is made the basis for a denial of basic human rights...

http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/humanrts.htm

American Anthropological Association Statement on Laws and Policies Discriminating against Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Persons

...the American Anthropological Association will henceforth sign no contracts for any of its annual meetings in any state or local municipality which has such laws or policies discriminating against lesbian, gay or bisexual persons...

http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/discrimination.htm

AAA letter to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

...we wish to express our grave concern for the status of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in the ongoing effort to have it approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations...

http://www.aaanet.org/press/pdf/20070611120331.pdf
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Life is not about winning or losing, life is simply an existence where we have to spend time without getting chronically bored. For some it may be startups, for others it may be spending happy times with the family. If you consider anyone else more "successful" than yourself (say a founder of a recently IPOed company), do you think s/he is happier or more satisfied than you are? How about if you get to know the founder recently went through a bitter divorce and also that his board doesn't have faith in him and is actively planning to fire him. Different levels of so called "success" are simply different modes of living, each mode bringing its own nuances or subtleties. From media or personal stories, all we hear about other "successful" people is better parts of their lives. The boring or bad events are seldom talked about.

Once you are beyond basic poverty, your basic self (and happiness levels) more or less remains the same (no matter what you do or where you go). It's a myth that "success" _should_ be had and a worthwhile life is the one in which something worthwhile (as defined by the society, and not you) was achieved.
Keep in mind that Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland started from very low GDP per capita levels when they joined the EU and received quite a lot of net aids, access to rich markets and capital. That helps starting a growth cycle. It becomes more difficult to maintain it later, especially if that growth starts sustaining itself with a housing bubble (as it very often happens in booming times).
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've always found the notion of faith (firm belief in something for which there is no proof) to seem hollow and meaningless compared to the joy of evidence, humility from understanding the size and time of the known universe, and the fortitude to accept that some questions have no answers.

At some point in the future, science will probably identify the origin of homosexuality. (Given its prevalence in nature, consistent trigger rates, and the seemingly smooth continuum between hetero and homo, it's likely to run deep within our genetic makeup.) So if physical evidence is found for homosexuality, should your faith reconsider what it means to be "made in god's image"?
There is viatec which shows a listing of possible tech companies. Go through the list and see their hiring pages.

It might be booming for Victoria since a industry sector that is actually growing in the area, but I doubt it's much compared to NYC/SF. For comparison, Seattle across the pond pays more, is easier to find a job, has significantly cheaper housing, shopping, airfare and taxes and doesn't have a housing bubble waiting to pop. And your not stuck on an island with a $50 & 3 hr one way ferry barrier. Victoria can be a frustrating place at times.
really? add: floating point everywhere, objects that act like hashes but not exactly, fucked up scoping rules including global by default, the braindead Dom API, a severiously limited standard library, and brain damage coersions to the list...
Random observation -- my family seems to have a gene that makes us basically immune from cavities. My father has, to my knowledge, never had a cavity, despite being born in the 1930's, when health care, hygiene and regular dentist check-ups were not what they are today.

I've gone months without brushing my teeth. Been to the dentist twice in the last 10 years - no cavities. (Of course, starting in college I realized I should probably brush in the mornings for breath reasons...)

I've often wondered if some clever bio hacker could figure out what protein my genes are telling me to include in my saliva and reverse engineer it. Perhaps these guys did something similar.
I agree with many points of this article, even if it simplifies too much. But, more than corruption, I think that the biggest incentive to keep your business small in some countries is the ease of tax evasion if you stay small. This can give a very high competitive advantage and compensate for the economies of scale of bigger firms.
Read my point again.

I wasn't saying that the AAA couldn't issue specific lines protecting cultural diversity or addressing a specific policy in a specific time.

What I said is that they would not get involved in a global campaign of this sort. The question is particularity and whether one is actually understanding the culture affected.

One can have opinions of whether recognition of gay marriage is a good thing or not for the US, or whether discrimination against gays and lesbians are a problem in the US without making these into issues which homogenize the world.

Also it occurs to me, the question of human rights is kind of a funny one to bring into anthropology since on one hand ethnocentricity is inescapable, and on the other, there just is no solid epistemology to justify these on a cross-cultural basis. I can't help but think this is either somewhat overreaching or perhaps more likely a miscommunication.

For example, I could see an argument that human rights and human rights violations don't necessarily take a specific form, but rather are emergent properties of cultural systems. Perhaps there is a general right to dignity and not to be singled out for particularly harsh punishments by law, beyond that.... Can you really tell the !Kung tribesman that he has a right to marry a woman who has the same name as his sister? can you really tell the hunter-gatherer in the jungle that they must respect property rights of their co-tribesman? Can you tell the eskimo that he has the right to free speech and that taboos regarding speech should be removed? Can you tell the Sambian boy that he has a right not to be beat or forced into fellatio in coming of age ceremonies? Can you tell the Hopis they may not beat their children when initiating them into the religious community of the tribe?

One basic human right that I think most anthropologists would agree with is that of collective self-determination. I think the group to some extent has to define these issues for themselves. Hence the rights of "indigenous" peoples (although there is no consensus as to whether "indigenous" is any more than a political label--- the general trend in the articles I have read is to treat "indigenous" as only meaningful in political discussions).
That's a cop out. Yes it's great getting married and having kids but you can't answer DM;HK to everything.

Doesn't matter; Had kids.
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>And what do you do with all the coders like me who would refuse to change their habits?

Reformat their code.

As for "per language consistency", Go does it just fine...
This brought back my collage days! I had job coding Z80 ASM to control electronics and RS232 data links... such fun :)

People would give you such funny looks when they saw you staring into a terminal of hex and you pointing out .. ahh that 3E CF needs to be 3E D3 :)

Best thing is that I ending up knowing all the op-codes and most of the instruction timings of by heart (which made interfacing to those 16 x 2 line LCD modules easier)

NMI anyone?
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This is exactly why I viewed my PhD as a 3 year graduate scheme and a jon that just so happened to let me call myself a doctor at the end of it. I know PhDs take longer in the US than here in the UK so maybe this method wouldn't translate well, but I treated my PhD as a job on a three year fixed term contract, during which time I had a series of tasks to complete and some milestones to hit with a big report at the end of it.

I knew I never wanted to be an academic when I started, if opportunities arose to change my mind then fine but given that the majority of PhDs do not get academic positions I think it is important to look at a PhD like a graduate job rather than the first step on the academic ladder.

I did electronics though so I guess my view point is different from the case studies in the article.
> The Web is the platform.

The network is the platform, web is for documents.
I just see that some billion dollar companies that got big through the web or computing are already going downhill again. For example Yahoo and Nokia (not sure about Microsoft).

For business management, off the top of the head I would ask: what devices will be used to run it in the future? Will desktop software still exist? Will everything be in the cloud? How will data enter the system?

One scary thing about the internet is that for a lot of things, a single company can cater to the whole world. That eliminates a lot of opportunities and competition.
More than 90% of the radioactivity of the Red Forest is concentrated in the soil.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Forest]
Even comparing your present self to your past self is fraught with numerous biases. Humans have imperfect memories, so they only remember most interesting events from the past. Based on the few remembered details and a vague sensation of your self 2 years back, you would construct a full detailed description and compare it to your present self. But you forget that the past self that you have constructed is influenced a lot by your experiences in these past 2 years. Your past self really wasn't what you think it is.

You cannot accurately compare yourself over a time period. Moreover, on which dimensions are you going to compare? Say if I had a successful software company, but I give it up and move to Paris to become a mediocre painter, a vocation I'm currently enjoying a lot (but can't say if I keep enjoying it forever), have I made a good or a bad decision? Have I "progressed" in life or not?

Key should be to not overanalyze life, but rather simply live it as if it is not that important (in face of death, it isn't). Life should not be obsessively optimized. You can spend your whole life analyzing what you have done and still find yourself dissatisfied.
> back in the 1980s compilers actually cost money

They still do, only in Linux/BSD land they do not.

After all, people have to bring bread back home.
I think this puts me in a distinct minority among the HN community, but in a possible-majority among the American population (with the mainstream orthodoxy of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all teaching the same; and ~80+% of the U.S. self identifying as holding one of these faiths).

I'm an agnostic atheist. At some point in my past I identified as "christian". At no point did I think gay marriage should be illegal nor did I think that gays were immoral.

Further, civil rights, interracial marriage (mine, for instance) and various other issues were deemed "socially unacceptable" by the majority of people in the US at some point in time. It wasn't majority voting that gave women the right to vote, removed segregation and created equal rights for all. It was a minority of people recognizing that this way of thinking was antiquated, crude and reprehensible.

The issue today is gay marriage and it falls in the same category as the above. Imagine looking back 50 years from now and seeing yourself on the complete wrong side of the debate. How stupid, and hopefully shameful, you'll feel.

BTW...I'm thankful the US is not a true democracy when I see what opinions the majority tend to hold. I am glad the leaders are not bound to do exactly as their constituents "want". As we as a human race advance in our thinking, some quicker than others, we need to shed the vestigial dogmas of our past...all of them.
You still needed to write the program before assembling it, so your suggestion would be taking too much memory in the assembler editor.
I trust my system's package maintainers and the signing makes sure that it is them.

I do not trust a random website that could easily be MITMd.
I only wasted a few hours integrating face.com and used it for gender detection mainly. In the end a lot of african people showed as the incorrect gender so I'm okay with removing this option.

I am glad i did not use it further.

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Living in the present.

Time spent on dwelling over past happy moments is time wasted. The only reason I could imagine for looking into the "happy" PAST so is because I'm not happy NOW. But if I'm not happy now, dwelling over the past isn't going to fix it. Instead I should rather think about what's bothering me now and what it'll take to change the situation.

I've found out [through experience] that it's also useful to talk with strangers, people who aren't "tainted" by my view of the world and don't have an interest in whatever course of action you take. Independent perspective.

By "Living in the present" I don't mean to totally forget the past -- you need distilled past experiences for further success in life [learning,yay!]. But when past becomes a refuge in hard times for some person, it's as if that person gave up his/her life. They become "living dead" in a way.
A lot of people outside of Google don't take it's "Don't be evil" pledge seriously anymore but I know from talking to employees that it's still something Google cares deeply about. Most of the people in this thread seem to analyzing it from an amoral, self-interested business perspective and twisting facts and circumstances to justify that narrative. I think the far more parsimonious explanation is that Google felt like it couldn't sit on the sidelines of the gay marriage debate any longer and still uphold it's values.
My concern with nuclear, is not the risk today, but the risk we are leaving for those 500, 1000 or 10,000 years in the future.

Turning to nuclear power means that we will have more waste to deal with - and more risks for the future of human-kind. I have no idea what society will look like in just 200 years, but it feels dangerous to be storing up these issues for them to deal with. (I have the same concerns about rampant fossil fuel use).

Yes in the short term nuclear power can also have a 'boogie man' affect, but that shouldn't take away from the concerns that many, who are wary of nuclear power, have for the future.
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You can make a strong business argument for this move, I think. Google comes across as young, hip, ahead of the curve, and that's among it's most key user base. It's an interesting concept but actually helps their PR with people they need most. "Pink-washing" if you will :)
I have yet to meet someone with decent software development skills and a degree in a scientific/engineering field that had any trouble finding good work. I have seen a lot of unfilled postdoc and higher positions due to inability to find competent people.
As pjmlp points out, not everyone compiled to machine code by hand - I talked about assemblers being faster, not assembly. Those who did work by hand would also appreciate fixed width and short opcodes, and squared paper...

If this is about learning 6502, then rewriting the official assembly into something new would be antiproductive. But don't blame me for touching your mod points.
The hard data doesn't matter to those who suffer statistical deaths or through the thousands of extra non-fatal complications which are always missing from the statistics...
It's not that we need more scientists in the traditional Phd -> academic track sense necessarily, but rather more technically trained individuals. Folks with science degrees can find lot's of interesting work that others from humanities backgrounds have trouble competing for and can open up new business spaces by being part of innovative fields.

It's certainly a mistake to think most science-trained folks work as stereotypical lab-suit-wearing scientists. Science-trained individuals have fruitful careers across the map, and we benefit from more of that, that's all!
At 33, I was single, penniless and back living with my parents. I had spent my twenties partying and getting drunk, somehow managing to carve out a career as a middling journalist during the sober bits. Journalism does not pay well and I was always teetering over the edge of my overdraft limit.

In my early thirties, I sobered up a little and noticed that my career was going nowhere. I decided to sack in my reasonably secure job in publishing and move from Manchester (a provincial city in the UK) to the capital London. Big mistake. I struggled to get a job, got into debt and, eventually, in desperation, asked to move in with my parents.

So there was I - a guy who had always valued his independence, who had on several occasions even mocked people who lived with mum and dad - staying in a tiny room in his parent's house. I was the epitome of a loser.

I am now nearly 40 and my life situation has improved immeasurably. I am married to a wonderful lady, I own a house, I have a couple of reasonably successful projects-cum-start-ups that pay the bills and free me - hopefully forever - from having to work for someone else. I am not a mega-success on the world stage but, compared with where I was at 33, I am in a very good position.

I suppose what I am saying here is that one can bloom at anytime, early in life or late in life. I would also add that being a programmer (I got a job as a web developer a couple of years after leaving my parents house) gives one a far greater chance of financial and business success than if you are involved in most other professions. Try doing a start-up if all you know is nursing or stacking shelves.

So we are lucky in that we have a skill that can turn-around our lives at potentially any time.
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