skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard to believe that it would be bad for the US overall to let highly skilled people come here and work. They would increase innovation, grow the economy and raise employment as immigrants have done throughout US history.

However I have to admit it would probably reduce the wages of similarly skilled existing workers at least in the short run. This is basic supply and demand: more supply means lower prices at least in the short run.

For example would skilled US programmers be paid as much if any skilled programmer in the world could come here compete for their job? Probably not just look at the prices for contract programmers in India, Eastern Europe, China, etc.

However in the long run almost everyone should be better off because the flip side of lower prices is greater volume: more innovation, economics growth and employment as well as lower prices. There are other less understood benefits such as immigrants increased likelihood to start businesses.

Also in the long run it won't matter as much where people are located. Eventually most US skilled workers will be competing with similarly skilled workers throughout the world. So we might want to adapt to this future reality now as it will only get harder in the future. People piling up student loans need to know what future wages will be.

Overall I think we should be willing to take the risk and accept some disruption now. It should help almost everyone in the long run and it will happen in some form anyway. But I can understand people's reluctance to personally bare the costs.
Couple hidden assumptions:

1) Intelligence is a single digit number which can be optimized for, and (even more incredibly unlikely) the interview / hiring process is capable of properly determining and ranking applicants in a ridiculously short amount of time and effort.

2) Beauty (see above, although this isn't as strong of an argument).

I would say based on decades of observation, other than eliminating perhaps the absolute bottom 10% of the population, the overall hiring process especially the interview process is utterly ineffective at determining intelligence or effectiveness. On the other hand, internal promotions either select for that, or brown nosing.

This made the original article rather comical when it claimed hundred of women applied and they seriously think they'll be able to select the smartest?

Clearly, given the proven ineffectiveness overall of corporate hiring process, the average IQ of new hires is going to average 100 or so, regardless if the women are hot or not. So the question becomes given two individuals both IQ of 100 or whatever other ranking system you'd prefer, why do the hot women not get promoted but the men are promoted?
Drill this into your heads: Apple doesn't do "Budget".
It's not about being protective over DDG. You are being an asshole again and again in this thread.

By your admission, you don't have any experience with search engines, and yet you have definitive opinion about everything related to it.
I'm not disagreeing, I'm saying that if you've never met someone face to face but you've worked successfully with them using IRC/IM/Email/Some-source-code-revision-system as your communication tool (as the original article Author implies) then meeting 'face to face' to get to know them may not be necessary.
ah. i wonder if there isn't any json stuff that yaml doesn't support because the convert_json_to_yaml method does a bit of munging. if you take a previous PoC and feed it raw without any modification it corrupts it and makes it invalid yaml. for example convert_json_to_yaml will put spaces around the ':' character.
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I know it changes overtime. But anyone has any idea about the current threshold?
That's creationist logic.
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Accessibility is actually a requirement in many countries (per law). Obviously not everyone needs it, but just that you do not need it doesn't negate that others do.

Edit: Plus saying X breaks Y so X is not needed is not a good argument. Because you have not addressed if X is needed or not, only said that Y breaks.
when british english was transplanted to north america, a separate geographic context was created for one and the same language. a relative isolation was imposed by an ocean between them, and each continued to change over time. british and american english descend from a common ancestor.
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This sort of thing is much easier to understand if you think of languages as living, changing organisms rather than as static constructs. They actually change rather quickly, from generation to generation. Large human migrations tend to homogenize in the sense that they result in a single dialect propagating over a large land mass. But then they continue to diverge regionally over time in rather random ways, to the point where every city in a given country, or even every neighborhood in every city in the country, will develop its own distinct dialect. London is a good example--it's a city that's been inhabited mostly by the same ethnic group for many centuries, and their language tree has branched to the point where people of different districts and social classes there use very different-sounding pronunciation.
In interviews with agencies I've been told "You're not a designer" and "I hate personnel." In many cases the old agency curmudgeons are threatened by younger people with talent. This sounds like a similar example.

On the up side, this is an excellent indicator that you don't want to work for these people. There's always a better option.
> Mistyped a command?

If you mistype commands often, there's an entertaining package which contains an "sl" command.

sudo apt-get install sl

From the manpage:

DESCRIPTION
SL stands for Steam Locomotive.

BUGS
It rarely shows contents of current directory.
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Hm, off the tip of my tongue I'd say "два утра", but I haven't spoken Russian full time in over a decade now :/
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Are there? I know a fair number of people who are unemployed right now, but none of them are programmers. Most of the places I've worked have been constantly looking for more competent programmers too.
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No. Even as a percentage of jobs it's not very useful. I.e, do you really believe that engineering/programming jobs peaked in late 2008 / early 2009?
I'm pretty sure that other light guns and pens used the time from the start of the raster scan (the vertical-blanking interval) to when the raster entered the gun's field of view to figure out where on the screen the gun was pointing.

This would prevent cheating by aiming the gun at other light sources, and would make flashing squares and other tactics unnecessary. Anyone know why Nintendo didn't do thi?
That was the case many years ago. You really still have this?!?
Yeah and I bet they don't let you edit /etc/passwd either. Restrictions on their server have nothing to do with copyleft.
I have a suspicion that there's a cognitive bias at play here, whereby men unconsciously overrate the competence of attractive women and underrate the competence of unattractive women. While I have no evidence to back it up, it does a better job of passing the sniff test than the implicit assertion that men are consciously hiring unqualified women simply because they're attractive.
I think we've all met people like you describe. But let's not tar the author with that either. What he describes does indeed happen all the time, and you don't need to invoke irrational discrimination to explain it: employers offer lower salaries to the young and inexperienced because they can (these people are hungrier, "need" the jobs more, and have fewer options) and because it saves them money. That's maybe not noble but it's not insane either. This may be especially true in the web development world which (to my eyes as a 41 year old systems hacker) is populated by a much larger fraction of young and inexperienced developers. Unless you're a true rockstar, there are a half dozen candidates just as good as you willing to take that job.
you are right that there are probably many people who see immigration reform as a way to drive down labor costs. you're also correct in asserting that it's wrong to equate immigration opposition to xenophobia.

an elite investor like mike moritz, however, cares less about constraining costs and more about planting seeds, that is ensuring the brightest minds launch companies in silicon valley. he makes money when entrepreneurs dream of and execute against audacious ideas that change the world. people like sergey brin and andy grove. billion dollar ideas and teams, the ones he generally invests in, can attract financing and are not more likely to succeed if labor costs dip. in other words, most of his failed investments did not fail because labor costs were too high.

while there may not be a shortage of engineers, there may be a shortage of quality engineers. degrees do not guarantee talent or quality. i graduated with dual degrees in computer science from stanford, yet if i had pursued a career in software development, i would have been at best a good engineer -- not an elite one. the stripes, facebooks, and googles of today are seeking world class engineers. not merely good ones. this is the crux of mortiz's argument.
There's a joke in here about adbrite ending up on fuckedcompany.com
Interesting, especially considering today's headlines regarding a possible immigration agreement in Washington.

What I've read about it so far indicates that provision for more foreign tech worker visas will be shoe-horned into any agreement. I wonder if the mega body shops have insider information on this and are holding back to get cheaper labor.
Well at least you're in "pushing fixes to prod" mode :-D
Long past the salad days of the code monkey http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=code+monkey&l=

I think its an interesting way to drive traffic to the site. A variation on the "does this house from your neighborhood look like its worth a million bucks?" kinds of things I've seen Realtors do.

Any serious analysis of the health of the STEM job market would have to be a bit more rigorous than a text match search.
This is one of the most transformative things of the Internet. It is also one of the most definite things I dislike about, say, the post 2005 closed web. Age/gender matters so much to people, even hackery types. It didn't seem to matter as much.
No, bundle update rails will change your Gemfile.lock to the version of rails it upgrades to.
Love it. Bounties are a great motivator.
Well, that's something awful to see a fued company go under.
Right. It could actually show a downturn in the market for job posting sites like monster. When I worked for Simply Hired, I thought it was really odd that I found the job through Craigslist, but the White House was calling us for hard numbers indicating demand for skills in the job market.
This may then be an indicator that hiring is generally picking back up. Gobama?
Echoing the article and everyone else that this was an issue for me as well. I had an interview at a small-town agency once with the two owners. They talked to me for awhile, and then walked out of the room to speak privately. When they came back, one of them said he loved my work and he'd hire me today, but his co-founder wasn't comfortable with hiring someone "so young without any formal education" and wanted me to come back after I'd done so (haha, right). They actually bickered quite a bit between themselves on the issue right in front of me (which made me feel good), but settled on not giving me the gig. I went about my way, happier that I didn't have to put up with someone who cared more about paperwork than work on paper.

A few years later I was working at another agency where my art director was pleading with me not to go to college and to stay with the company (which, honestly I would have had it not been for the keylogger I found implemented by another manager). "School is a waste of time for talent," he said, "You'll be miserable. Stay here and do real work." Feeling like I'd rather see for myself than regret the opportunity, I went. It wasn't the private art schools I wanted (I couldn't afford something like that), so I ran into nothing but mediocrity and decade-old lesson plans. Underwhelmed, pissed, and broke, I went back to working.

Meanwhile, a girl I know that spent the better part of 10 years receiving design/multimedia degrees has little to show for it by way of skills. While she acquires jobs easily, she doesn't keep them for very long as her talents are so many years behind what people are expecting that she can't do what she wants to/what her degree seemed to "promise" her.

These days you'll see portfolios splattered with "~young designer~" or "~budding developer & entrepreneur~" and it completely goes against the spirit of being merited on your strengths rather than your accomplishments-by-age (ironically, I enjoy when kids/younger teens post their age in the titles of their ShowHNs). While it might make the kid feel more competent, acknowledging it is just asking to be underpaid because they know you won't know any better or inherently believe you aren't worth it.
He was 20, so he might still have not finished out his growth.

/speculation
I've never said they're "selling privacy", whatever that means. Presumably, that's shorthand for selling access to personal information, which is a simplistic characterization but not entirely inaccurate with respect to how targeted advertising works.

However, I don't understand how it is spreading FUD to point out that an advertising company sells eyeballs. It seems like you're focusing on connotations of terminology, but rephrasing what Google or NBC does doesn't change what it is they do: selling eyeballs. Why do you think Super Bowl spots are so expensive?

Maybe this clashes with the image you have of Google as a benevolent group of engineers who just want to make the world a better place. Certainly, a company can be comprised of employees who care about technology but also rely on a business model that might be cynically criticized or, at the least, described in a way that may not appear as benevolent as you previously thought.

However, that wasn't even my intent. I was just being concise.
> If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to find youtube videos for some of the more distinct dialects.

There's already this semi-interactive map that made to HN a while back:

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html
I feel like I am good at designing software, and been thinking on starting a software consulting group, but my area of expertise is SAP and I was wondering if there is other softwares I could sell based on commision.
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"Tax" is one which seems to be increasing.
I mean, CL jobs would end up on Simply Hired as well, I just felt like we only had a slice, even if a big one, and we didn't know enough about the sample.
The US also spends a lot of money subsidizing engineers. It spends $76 billion a year on defense R&D. For comparison, Google's annual revenue is just north of $50 billion.

I don't know how much of that money goes to engineers, but I do know that more than a handful of my engineering friends have been lured to defense. It would be interesting to a study that tried to quantify the distortions, though.
Something had a problem! Better rewrite everything.

All software has bugs, the pain involved in updating a gem and running test tests is very low. Instead of complaining, update your gems. I'm sure that there would be no security holes if you wrote everything from scratch.
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FTFY: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=engineer%2C+programming%2C...
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Do the PHP developers here practice domain driven design patterns? I'm just wondering if any of you have feedback on this little library I started working on: http://jrobertfox.github.com/DTOx/ to help quickly create tested objects.

There is a more in depth write up here: http://neverstopbuilding.net/the-dto-pattern-how-to-generate-php-dtos-quickly-with-dtox/

Are there other classes you have to write often that could be quickly generated?

Thanks!
I'm fairly certain that your subjective opinion of things you've seen on twitter doesn't count as "data".
I've unsubscribed you from their mailing list. You are welcome ;)
PulseAudio works perfectly fine for me. It did have issues in the beginning, but for many years I didn't have a problem. You said elsewhere that you had issues, but that you still have issues I can see. Others, could be, no idea.

But I don't have any issues. I don't have high CPU usage. It just plain works since various years.
URLs can't contain spaces; the space needs to be "URL-encoded" ("%20"). Many browsers these days render URL-encoded characters in the URL bar. Firefox (actually Iceweasel) 18 handles this by displaying a space in the URL bar, but "%20" when I copy/paste it. Without doing any extra work, just copy pasting that URL after visiting it:

http://www.stack-ed.com/#tag/python/user/14343/Ned%20Batchel...

Having URL-encoded values certainly is a usability problem, however, I do think that this should be registered as a bug with whatever browser you are using.
Considering the crash in VC follow-on funding, it's somewhat expected.
Ditto.

I'd also like to see an ARM Chromebook with a bigger physical screen (in addition to being higher resolution) and keyboard.

I love my Samsung ARM Chromebook (I've been using it since the week it was first released) but I'd love it even more if it sported a 13-15 inch screen (with corresponding increase in keyboard size) at a higher resolution.
Clickable...
http://jrobertfox.github.com/DTOx/

http://neverstopbuilding.net/the-dto-pattern-how-to-generate...
The Karl - Carol is probably caused also by the insertion of a schwa sound between some consonant clusters, it's a phenomenon known as Epenthesis; another typical is Film -> "Fil[uh]m"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AScottish_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis
>We all face challenges and each are unique to us.

Completely random musing, but it reminded me of my height being disadvantageous when in perspective:

I'm a pretty tall guy, a little above 6'4", and have an extremely large reach --

Also a pretty avid rock climber. I can rarely climb at my gym without someone commenting about how it must be so nice to be able to just "reach" for all the holds. Ignoring the fact that I probably weigh 30 more pounds than my sub 6' climber buddies, most route setters at our gym are probably closer to 5'10" and set/grade the routes accordingly; I often end up using sub-optimal (and tiring) form on the "crux" of the route as I end up cramped together awkwardly.
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Same here - I learned/used commodore HW with cathode ray timing. I thought that's how all of the others worked too, it's not like NES is wildly less powerful than a C20/C64, and was a little disappointed that this wasn't how it was done.

It really seemed to go out the window much earlier except for arcade machines before cathode-ray went out of style. I never really saw it widely used except NES on future platforms. If anything, the recent reboot with Wii (any screen, trigger off IR LEDs on top of it for direction) is a revival.
If you have demonstrably great work, what does formal education do for you that will affect your work for some company? Similarly, if this guy isn't the one landing the client or dealing directly with them on a regular basis, how can the pixels possibly care about for whom they are assembled?

I read these parts of his anecdotes as excuses concocted only after an in-person meeting.
This might be an interesting video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E) - its a video of Tangier, VA where they still speak English from when the town was settled in 1600s.
Philippe - sounds like a neat idea. I wish you lot of luck.
I love the UI, it's clean and very intuitive.
I personally didn't like how the pricing page is going over the website itself as you scroll down.
And yet, people are still so eager to buy in to the (often) self-serving meritocracy myth.
I think that kind of processing is just to work around bugs in the old YAML parser (syck). See this post for example: http://project.ioni.st/post/1067
Totally serious. I changed the graph to "relative" to show growth of the term over the period.
And the difference between universities are by far not as big over here in Europe. (In addition to the sibling comment)
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I tend to agree, when universities are supplying growing numbers of a type of skilled worker, it's counter-intuitive to flood the market with foreign skilled workers.

Importing skilled workers not only floods the local market but creates a shortage in foreign markets to depress those countries abilities at effectively forming their own industry.

This is in the investors best interest as it increases their ROI, but it isn't beneficial to our local workers, nor is it beneficial to the origin countries of our imported workers.

As an immigrant working in the construction sector and I can say that the "shortage of tradesmen" is genuine and widespread, which creates an exponential increase in wages and job costs. I receive in company benefits (estimated at my cost) monthly around the same figure as my monthly income, which is likely the point when an industry is in desperate need of new workers.
Especially when you tell him it's the same bug.
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it's a common question on r/linguistics and r/askhistorians:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k8t7s/when_did_am...

http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/l1z1b/did_the_f...

http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/vr14o/can_someo...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/rlv3j/would_a...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/t9frm/differe...

http://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/d82bv/did_americans...

although how is this hacker news?
You're right, my mistake. It's just a matter of running `bundle update rails` on your server as well as making the changes in your repository.
I've been looking for some sound clips of the different accents and would love to hear them if you have YT videos readily available.
Stop installing latest shiniest things manually and start using default package manager of your linux distribution. Then all the security maintenance you will probably need is to do equivalent of "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" once in a while. Yes, it was that easy before all these people who knew better came and decided that they really need latest ruby installed via rvm, latest gems etc. All these ruby/rails deployment "best practices" stroke me as advice given by people who had close to zero experience of maintaining a mission-critical application for a large period of time.
The weird thing is, I've been in some of those avatar worlds, and people still want to look humanoidish, often outlandishly 'supermodel'. Almost no one actually experiments beyond that. It's weird when I recall cyberpunk short stories from the 80s where people had all these radically weird and different avatars. Why should we be confined by our minds to looking like supermodels, why shouldn't we look like some sort of... alien thing in cyber reality?

Not sure. But it'd be an interesting study.
That did go through my head when I was writing. I'd say that there's different ways to use that word, and that usage felt somehow different to me than the one that you're referring to.
Ah, you're right. I misread.