skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't even say that they do, as it is obvious on the face of it.

There's really no debate about this issue, like scientists debating some aspect of quantum mechanics seeking to get to the truth. This is a fight over how the pie gets divided up, and the billionaires and their commissars like Yglesias are trying to grab more of the pie. We're still at a historic unemployment high from the 2008 crash, current unemployment was not at its high current level from 1984 to 2008 other than a two month period in 1992.

As I said, this is not a debate like physicists arguing to get to the truth. This is a struggle of people trying to get their pockets filled, and lies and nonsense are par for the course. Every statement in a thread like this boils down to either "I am on the side of the IT workers who create the wealth in the US" or "I am on the side of the heirs and billionaires who extract profit from the labor of those who work".

So glad Yglesias is looking out for us common programmers...Yglesias's bio says he went to Dalton. Do you know how much first grade costs at Dalton? Over $40,000. The heirs, the billionaires and their agents got together to push for more H1-B slaves in the midst of this historic unemployment, and now the propaganda push happens. Arguing with their agents does nothing - get together with other engineers organizing against this type of nonsense and get going. There is no type of honest debate possible as they are just greedy people who will tell any lie to pile some more money on their billions. Your alternatives are join with those organizing against these types of things or do nothing. Yglesias and those who agree with them are liars who will say anything to rip you off, so talking to them is pointless.
It shows that Ember.js is a community-driven project.

Angular.js OTOH is run by Google, and like everything done by Google is part of their strategy to collect data and increase advertising revenue.
It's a software patent, therefore it's frivolous.

"The basic algorithmic ideas that people are now rushing to
patent are so fundamental, the result threatens to be like what would happen if we allowed authors to have patents on individual words and concepts."

- God himself, http://progfree.org/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt
If they are regulated monopolies, it seems like any issue they complain about is directly addressable by adjusting the rates they are allowed to charge, so as to keep their profits reasonable.
You need to visit a different link to enable it-

https://apps.facebook.com/get-spotify/?fb_source=notificatio...

Once you do that, then play.spotify.com will work. I believe it's still in beta and some weird bugs showed up for me about a week ago, but it's still sufficient.
Yes! But in that paradigm, where you generate 80%+ of your needed energy and rely on the grid for the rest, how does that affect the utility?

The only difference to them is that you draw less power than you used to. Sure, it would benefit them to learn your habits so they can manage steady power delivery at scale, but they don't get a say in your solar rollout. They don't get to prevent it. They don't get to be skeptical (or if they are, they can't act on it).

The person I'm replying to seemed to say that the engineers at utilities are skeptical of this technology and honestly I don't understand how they're relevant, since utilities aren't rolling out the technology, maintaining the technology, etc.
You frustration is from your false assumption. Businesses are there to make their owners as much money as possible. This frequently does not involve efficiency.
"In fact, no professor has an office, not even the dean, and Dr. Huttenlocher insists they will not when the campus moves to Roosevelt Island, either. Instead, each person has a desk with low dividers, and people can grab conference rooms as needed — much like the headquarters of a small tech company."

This sounds a lot like what we currently have in my university and it is hell. Right now it's only for PhD students but next year junior staff will share our pain. Communicating is all good and everything, but academic/research work also require quietness. In fact, I would even argue that it requires quietness more often than it requires communication, which is why all these "communication-first" offices drive me insane.

Or am I the one that is wrong, and everybody else is able to "focus" the noise out of their head?
Who should we believe, the "columnist who doesn't think it's obvious" that pulling in piles of low-paid immigrants depress local wages, or the capitalists who do think it's obvious? What possible reason would there be for hiring foreign workers if they WEREN'T depressing local wages?

And indeed, the studies confirm our intuition:

http://hothardware.com/News/Study-H1B-Visas-Lower-US-Program...
Google's actions in this area speak for themselves. Even in the few instances where they have been involved in patent infringement cases on the "offensive" side, the suits have been quite obviously defensive in nature (eg. the suit vs British Telecom).

The nature of reality as it applies to patent law is why I don't fault companies for acquiring lots of patents, but do fault them when they use those patents offensively. Google remains among the very few large tech companies I respect when it comes to patent actions.
In every tech company with open plan offices, the engineers all work late into the night while wearing giant headphones.
Wow, I hadn't noticed that.

I wonder if this new permission is for the purpose of app switching, since the launcher doesn't seem to require this permission in it's current functionality. It seems like a bad permission to add if the interface doesn't yet require it. Are they jumping the gun on new features or using it in the backend?
I just started using Vagrant. Can anyone recommend me any guide or tips?

This configuration generator looks like a very nice way to skip all the intitial setup, which looks confusing for a new Vagrant user.
Was that Sublime Text on Joey's monitor?
The same dichotomy exists in developer tools as opposed to recreational software.

Yes, please rapidly innovate my Facebook and NetFlix UIs, and even pipe those changes to me automatically. On the other hand, please methodically roll out changes to XCode and Django, and let me take them when I have time.
There could also be an option to provide the app with fake data instead of telling it to not have any permissions, e.g. an empty address book, empty list of currently running apps, a fake network access which actually routes the data through a proxy and so on.
On the contrary, he's unhappy that contributions (PRs) are ignored.
A thought-provoking viewpoint. I must say, though, that, while your heart seems to be in the right place, the specifics need some work.

Over the long term, a biodegradable item is not "clutter" any more than dirt is clutter. A disposable diaper is clutter. A piece of paper is future soil, which, in the meantime, is keeping some carbon from being part of a greenhouse gas.

Now, I grant that your digital books are not clutter, but the Kindle you use to read them certainly is. It wouldn't be so bad if you just bought one Kindle and used it for the rest of your life ...

> We each resolve to either sell or give away our digital gadgets as we upgrade to newer ones.

... but you've already decided not to do that.
Saw someone I know in a cam that is being broadcasted from my university. Weird.
Isn't it more likely that these descriptions are what the parents want to see in their children? As for 'rebellious', I see that as more of a humble-brag. "Oh, he's so rebellious, hehe". My takeaway from the data is these are the qualities that the parents in the respective countries hope their children possess, or perhaps that they've instilled in them...since in any meaningful sense most young children would be fairly similar across cultures, the differences the researchers perceived in the parents' answers must have been biases from the parents themselves.
It is regulated - the number of coins is a function of computing power on the problem. That makes it similar to gold - there is a finite amount on earth and we can mine more or less as our efforts dictate

The fact that coins are allocated to miners is no different than good allocated to miners

I am not saying now is a good time to peg the dollar to the bitcoin. I doubt it would ever be - but the concept is viable I think - and that makes it feasible - a government could set its own algorithms, and peg to its own mathematically deflationary currency. That would be an interesting step forward
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Yeah, I was asking if the experience he was talking about was an editing one.
I'm not from India but my parents are from Sri Lanka and when I went back there I was surprised to find what seemed to be middle class families having maids and butlers (they call them servants). Maybe some rich people in India must feel like they have the right to do it because they grow up having those people cater to their every need
Bruce Mitchener, I presume? I remember you from the days of hacking on Nebula!

I wasn't around by the time Nebula 3 came to pass, I actually didn't realize there was a Nebula 3 until I did a google search to see if I could find any of my old nebula code.
(unrelated to the topic of OP)

Which is too bad. Doctors do, but technologists arguably have a larger effect on the lives of all people.
> ... but when compared to the big disadvantage of having to maintain two codebases ...

It's about your users, not your developers. Of course it costs more to provide a better product, which was the original reasoning behind providing native desktop applications.

What they're doing now has more to do with politics and skillsets amongst traditionally web-focused engineering management and teams, than it does with actually creating a great product. Spotify has a ridiculously hard time hiring outside their management's core competency of web-focused development, including both for mobile and desktop. That has more to do with their management than the job market, though.

As an aside, I can't say I understand why web developers find it so impossible to migrate to mobile/desktop. Time and time again we work with organizations who have built a large server-side web-focused team and somehow simply cannot manage to support the mobile/desktop. What kinds of engineers are they hiring that they can't learn a new platform?
But what if you generate 110% of your electricity needs? You would push out more power than is coming in, sometimes literally running the meter backwards.
> They were getting rid of native rendering and replacing it with rendering a webpage. No wonder people were so pissed and no wonder so much functionality was dropped.

I can confirm this, and have heard that this was politically driven by their web-focused engineering management and teams.

Netflix did the same thing, for the same reasons. People built up web fiefdoms and had the political clout to put their job security ahead of user experience.
I'm not entirely convinced about that strategy. In the long term, them young people's kids are going to see Facebook as their parent's social network. I don't see that being a good thing for Facebook.
I think there are two worlds here. For folks in the Valley, in NYC, or in companies working at the bleeding edge, you want to fund the best, most qualified people, period. That makes sense, and in the best interests of the country.

But, in terms of numbers, the real money is the more banal "staff augmentation" programmers that you see in "compliance advertisements" in industry trade rags. There is a shortage of qualified COBOL programmers, but you don't hear about training programs for COBOL (back in the 70's clerical staff were trained to do write that stuff, not compsci types). But you do see government contracts paying $30/hour to "body shop" vendors, who in turn are paying Indians $12-17/hr. similar story for people doing business rules in some J2EE thing.

That's a problem, because many of the few million un- or under-employed workers in the US could be trained to do this type of work quickly.
All monitors seem to show the same screen (probably an image). Does anyone recognize the editor running ?
How about the standard solution, WPS. Depending on the method used, it does not require any UI-parts from the device (PIN or NFC methods) or just a simple push-button.
> That and making their every single a move a walled garden you have to use with no other options.

OSX runs whatever you want it to. If you are referring to code-signing, keep in mind that Android requires you to explicitly allow unsigned apps as well.
I agree that this is an antipattern. We don't use it in Meteor. We did use it in a project that some of us wrote together several years before Meteor -- it was our first big JS project and we were heavily influenced by Crockford's _JavaScript: The Good Parts._, which appealed to our Lispy backgrounds. Our experience was that the added hassle in debugging wasn't worth the dubious benefit of locking rogue team members out of your private methods. And as this article notes, you have to go to significant lengths to preserve basic OOP conveniences such as `instanceof` and `this`.

If you're concerned about coworkers calling your private methods, the right tool is coding standards and code review. If you can't trust your coworkers to use good judgement even in the face of those things, you have bigger problem :) On the other hand, if your goal in using this pattern was to protect your private methods from bad people on the internet, you probably need to rethink your assumption that it is possible to sandbox JavaScript without interpreter-level support.

We do use (function () { ... })() in specific situations when we need to create a new scope, but this would typically only occur in framework code rather than application code (especially once the `linker` branch lands, which lets you declare specific exports and imports at the package level, and then the `meteor` asset build tool wires them up for you so that each package gets just the global environment it asked for.)

Also for now, we prefer to use prototypal inheritance directly rather than use a class library. On the latter, our perspective is that if Meteor developers want to use a class library, they should be able to pick their favorite rather than be stuck with ours.
Seriously, it made me think that guy needed a new job. I do remember being that young and finding jobs that didn't suck so hard I had to spend all my time distracting myself from the job itself. I was not going to be one of those guys that needed 5 cups of coffee a day just to stay awake at work.

I mean, come on, 8, 10, 12 hours per day, 5 days a week, 50ish weeks a year. Soon it adds up to a real lifetime.

Find yourself something to do that you find interesting, young facebook dweebs.

Give up the damn money programming pointless apps, it seems to be sucking your souls away.
Should a book on art be a sculpture. On programming, a program.
terrible name
Oh, I sure hope he didn't mean F#, sure it's functional, but neither is it very pure, nor is it very lisp-like.

On the other hand there was a second part to the conversation that /also/ confused me due to comments about OCaml. So, maybe he's even more confused than I imagined.

There's no 'single true' lisp in the Windows big iron world then?
Hacker to FAA: Airplanes can’t be hacked? Prove it.
I'm an American that has lived abroad twice and spent time in over 50 nations.

You really waited to the last minute on this. Most visas take 3-9 months. I would suggest your best option would be to try to apply for a student visa. I think it's called F-1
Now that's why I come to HN - simple, straightforward insight that looks obvious but everyone missed it.

Thank you. I will now quote you as if I had though of it myself in future conversations.
Yep. Bird started voluntarily moving. I was getting concerned.
It's a rather naïve conclusion. If the job is relocatable the supply of workers who remain abroad will also reduce wages too.
Except that legacy system maintenance is like agricultural work. You can't get Americans to do the work.
I agree, you barely see salaies close to $200K for software engineers in Bay Area but it's a norm for good engineers here. They can get paid up to $250K for their job in Bay Area.
This brings up the problem of patent terms. At least in software, the ordinary term of a patent is obviously much too long. Even granting a ten-year monopoly would be onerous in this business; twenty is absurd - the technological landscape can change completely in that time.
Java tool for working with zip files(So easy to use)
Since I use byobu I neither know nor care what is going on under the hood. I use 4 keystrokes - F2 to start a new shell, F3 to cycle back, F4 to cycle forwards and ctrl-F5 to reconnect sockets (GPG agent, DBUS etc).

I did switch it from screen to tmux because tmux definitely works better for other things and seems more responsive when there is lots of output. By default screen did let each client view independent of any other.

I don't see how to automate getting the behaviour I want (independent client views) as typing commands and feeding them into tmux would be a huge pain (especially as byobu is already doing that).
Thing is that using common sense will reveal that this patent is restrictive in a bad way since it helps potential attackers to get into system. No matter if it's year 1980 or 2000.
When Volvo invited three-point seat belt it was shared with other manufacturers because they were well aware the obvious benefit to all. Same goes eg. with blocking simple passwords.
I've had a half baked idea about this for a few years. The thermostat has a terrible screen and is immobile, while my phone is the exact opposite. With Bluetooth LE, and perhaps NFC, you could make a configuration/maintenance interface that allowed for better setting management, using the phone as an interface.
> Very basic economics says that a greater supply

That explains why income and GDP keep going down the more people are born.
Judging from your username, am sure you know this already, but there is a very strong but implicit class system based on the amount of wealth you appear to have. You could be worth 10 crores (100 million) rupees, and yet not be considered socially elite if you don't flaunt it. The reverse is also true, where you buy way more than you can afford comfortably for the sake of increasing your social status and to be considered as "elite".
This happen to be a very Chinese and Indian thing.
You don't see this in say countries like Sweden or Germany.
Could you point to where the article talks about people disconnecting from the grid? I couldn't find it in my read through. For instance, the article says at one point, "What happens if a whole bunch of customers start generating their own power and using the grid merely as backup?"

I think the risk of people disconnecting from the grid is fairly low, since the necessary lead acid batteries cost thousands of dollars.

-Former utility employee
Why wouldn't this have a positive effect on you?

For one, if you are in New York or the Tri-State area, then a new (hopefully prestigious) tech school should at the very least pull more attention and business to this area, and hopefully educate future engineers that will fill empty spots in industry. It's true there are only 8 students this semester, but they don't even have a campus yet! According to Cornell's timeline, students will be moving to Roosevelt Island in 2017, at which point I'd imagine there will be at least a few hundred.

cite: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/01/cornell-tech-wel...

Second, if Cornell Tech succeeds, it would help provide direction to other states and universities who would like to do something similar. As an article in the nytimes stated previously:

"Colleges and universities across the country — a great many of which are scrambling to find new ways to finance scientific research, as well as new ways to profit from the fruits of that research — are watching closely. In the last year, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has announced the creation of technology schools by both Columbia and New York University. And Cornell’s president, David J. Skorton, said he had been visited by representatives from other cities hopeful that the Cornell NYC Tech model might work there, too."

cite: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/nyregion/cornell-nyc-tech-...

I hope that online education prospers so that more people can learn what they need with less barriers (low supply, travel, cost), but I think that's mutually exclusive to what Cornell is doing.

I think we need to ask a question for college students: Where does Cornell Tech find itself among the list of prestigious CS Masters Programs?

I also think we (the hacker news community, and engineers in general) need to pool together and see what we want Cornell Tech to turn into. It's a very rare time that we get to see a University in its early stages, and given that it seems Cornell Tech cares heavily about technology, they may listen to what we have to say.
You can find examples anywhere, even in the US; years ago I read articles of affluent seaside communities erecting no trespassing signs fences and such blocking off access to public beaches.. I'm sure there are more examples of it, but here is one interesting site about the US entitled rich problem.

http://www.cityprojectca.org/ourwork/beachaccess.html
I don't know since I am using byobu to front end all this, and it is what runs tmux/screen under the hood in the end.
I appreciate your saying that. I am definitely one of these people. For me, the word "hospice" only brings to mind the most difficult time of my life - taking care of my mom as she was dying from cancer.

I realize that there is a sense of the word that's related to "vagrant". But when I do a Google search, every single result on the first page has to do with end of life care. It's just stunning that someone could possibly think this is a good idea.
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Ironic
A hard case for memory safety
Using that same logic, it's not hard to make the case for imperialism. If the sole goal is to benefit Americans at the expense of others, why not steal everyone's natural resources and use them for our own benefit?
Doctors have an explicit moral code.
Question: the daily peak is at 9pm, but what time of day is the yearly peak?

I imagine the yearly peak might be earlier in the day, because it will occur on very hot days.

The time of day of the yearly peak is more important for capacity planning than the time of day of the daily peak.
http://emberjs.com/ doesn't say anything about being that unstable on the homepage and the list of users has enough well-known companies that you would reasonably conclude it's ready for production.

Various posts have made the front page here and I don't recall many (any?) caveats saying it's only for thrill-seekers, either.
This is not elite entitlement. This is right wing entitlement. The recent death of Maggie reminded me of what she really changed - she made it ok to be selfish and disdainful of "undeserving" poor.

India was a hybridised socialist country for a very long time - coming out of that will look at lot like Britain the in the eighties I suspect - and if you want to put bets on the next two term incumbent - they will look a lot like the drivers if the SUVs and will tell then its good to be hard working, it's what will get us to moonbase alpha

Welcome to running the planet. Beware.
I haven't been using Angular for long, so please enlighten me: how does it reflect those goals?