skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does have a very polemical writing style but of the New Keynesian vs Chicago school (or saltvater vs freshwater) camps his side does come out of the post-2008 crisis looking better, if you look at the predictions.

Pro-austerity camp have been on pretty weak ice recently, with the IMF admitting the big multiplier and European states (eg. Britain) doing so poorly with austerity. And now this.

And yeah, he's not really blaming Excel, just ridiculing the programming error lightly. Hw could be saying Word if it turned out some key wording had been autocorrected to an unintended meaning.

Edit: your amended discussion about austerity goes ad-hominem against Krugman ("not serious"?, he's got a Nobel, and is one of the most respected & prolific guys in the field) and is based on counterfactual claims (absence of "serious growth in last 50 years", see eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_%28...)
Programming isn't math. Let me restate that again: programming is NOT math.

OOP works and is a paradigm because people can relate to objects and narrative best. It has much more to do with narrative and story. The word "language" is by design. Good OOP techniques can create great products.

Whatever the code is, unless you're writing machine language, eventually, you compile to or run bits of existing machine code. The important part is encapsulating the complexity. OOP or not, that's should be the goal of any module. Not all the details are important all of the time. In fact, it's generally much more important to hide details so one can deal with large systems in an abstract way. In many cases, details are unavailable and black box systems have to be dealt with. The point is logical abstractions, not details, are the goal here.

Just because you can write it in machine language doesn't mean you should.
Say whatever you will about Assange; it's clear he puts a great deal of thought and effort into what he does. I highly recommend his essay on the nature, structure, and weaknesses of conspiracies he wrote shortly after starting Wikileaks:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070129125831/http://iq.org/cons...

It's not exactly a pg classic, but it does give good insight into his motivations and thought processes.
> 1.9 will be supported for as long as people care about to support it.

This is what worries me. You only need to spend an hour on HN or Reddit to see that web devs couldn't care less about legacy browsers, even when most businesses need to support them.

I support the decision to fork jQuery, but I too am worried about whether the 1.x branch will continue to be supported, and also whether we'll see people releasing plugins that work well for both versions. It sounds like a 1.9 plugin will largely work on 2.0, and vice versa, but we'll have to see.
The reason why Americans still use checks so often suddenly makes sense.
The US is a big place, it depends on where you are. Where I grew up half the boys in my class would go deer hunting with their fathers. While gun violence was rare, guns were not. Now I live in Boston. Here there's literally the toughest gun laws in the country. There a very few legal guns in the city (and most of the illegal ones gravitate towards area of higher crime such as Roxbury), in fact a lot of the people I work with are even troubled with the fact that I know how to operate one. Its a different culture.
You are reading the docs, asking peers, trying to Google things while an already learned employee could have finished what you are working on.

Edit: obviously it's not literally either 100% production and 0% learning or 100% learning and 0% production. This doesn't even have to sum to a fixed "100%" value. The point is that learning has it non-ignoreable cost.
One who writes quirky and individualistic code. Not crappy. It could be well organized. And even good. And even solve the problem, at the time when it was written.

But. If that code is approachable by any regular developer, when the original programmer would not be 10x. And management and peers wouldn't think about the original developer as 10x.

But if, the code is quirky and individualistic... a funny thing happens. Suddenly whoever works (or can rise up and work with that code for whatever reason) is 10x. And peers and management would see them as 10x.

I've seen that quite a number of times. Many times as 10x, as 1x and even a few as 0.1x.
Those names were redacted. I can also attest that the same names were mentioned as the lead suspects.

I am still listening to the police feed as I type.
If we're talking about software development, I bet you can piece together a computer from the trash (where do you think my home servers come from :)) that will be good enough to run a company. After that, your only issue is food and rent (which can be either a small or big issue depending on where you live).
Ah, that's a much more proportional response. That makes a lot of sense to me (though maybe not to Apple who often seems to act in black and white).
I always assumed IBAN was a global thing. I don't know what I would do without it. I make/receive all my payments via direct bank wire. And I can do it from everywhere at any time for free.
actually posited on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cn9ga/is_missing_st... a day ago - well before his name was released over the police scanners.
space is amazing.
A "couple [of] functions"? What does the other do?
Yup. If you become good at corporate politics, you become someone who's good at corporate politics. It's the first time I really understood the whole 'if you stare into the abyss, it also stares into you' thing.

It's a bit like martial arts. Being good at it is nice since you don't have to be afraid of being beaten up. If you have to fight someone every day however, there might be something wrong.
"So the Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco needs to be seen in the broader context of austerity mania: the obviously intense desire of policy makers, politicians and pundits across the Western world to turn their backs on the unemployed and instead use the economic crisis as an excuse to slash social programs."

Amen. After reading any piece of news, you'd think that the only utility economists have is to (rather poorly) justify decisions that are actually fully ideological in nature, using numbers whose origin is uncertain.
I guess I could have been more clear.

When you toss a coin, you are already in a superior position. You toss the coin to be nice, and/or to affirm your position as superior (depending on your personality).

That's totally different from agreeing to work over the weekend to save somebody's ass. It's OK as a one-off, but if you do it more often than others, that's when you put yourself in an inferior position.
"" some correlation between high debt and slow growth, with no indication of which is causing which, but no sign at all of that 90 percent “threshold. ""

We aren't told how high high is. We don't now which direction it goes in. This debt ratio thing needs to be knocked on the head. Everybody without the correct information will assume that 100% = very very bad whereas it only means a year's GDP. I say only but you get my drift. If the consensus tomorrow was to base the debt ratio off of 3 years GDP then 90% (~10 months) would go down to 30% wouldn't it? 30% doesn't sound that bad! Hey we've only got a 30% debt ratio, let's party!
Github Pulse
> Anything that looks like it could be the next big thing attracts a crowd of copycats. Take, for example, Google Glass.

A much better example here would be the mythical Apple iWatch. Google's been talking up Glass for a while now, so it's not surprising that someone else would be interested in doing the same thing. But the iWatch? Pure rumor and speculation, and yet we're already hearing that other companies such as Samsung and Microsoft are seriously considering making a smartwatch in response.
100,000 users clicking reload every second.
500 posts per second.
And there's a text capacity on an article text body.

buro9 : This is just a complete conjecture. I do not know Reddit's internal hardware infrastructure. I just know that real-time police radio transcription is the best news source, bar none. And it's getting hammered.
the Sunil Tripathi thread started when his roomate saw the FBI photos and said on Twitter that it is Sunil
Google Map of tonight's activity at MIT and East Watertown
Yea I remember the ad listing a number of large Swedish banks and insurance companies that still use COBOL as an argument for why you should learn COBOL and why it would be easy to get a job afterwards.
(Generalisation Warning)

This is the dark side of the (otherwise desirable) trait of "getting things done" as employee.

I you don't actively manage your working hours and hold yourself back, somebody else will suck you out until you have nothing left.

At the end, you will be very unsatisfied for some obscure reason: You did everything you was asked for, yet somehow noone appreciates you and you still earn entry-level.

In my opinion, you should only use 80% of your working hours doing the "real stuff". Devote 20% of your working hours to non-technical work, active career development and image management.

1) talk with your boss about clients

2) show interest in the business side of your project

3) ask challenging non-technical questions

4) have a nice chat with your manager about non-work stuff

5) make sure everyone knows who had the interesting feature idea last week

6) make sure that the decision which overruled your recommendation is in the meeting report.

...

This is good for you and the company in the long run.

Some of your tickets will have to wait, then. Maybe the deadline won't be met perfectly.

That's fine.
This has worked for me.
He is basically doing the same thing He accuses r&r for: using a chosen snippet of reality, adding his conclusions as facts to support his broader world view.
I think you'll find that it's a common fear. But not so common a thing to happen. Lots of sensible things like exercise and leisure activities will work wonders to distract you from your stresses and worries
The unfair part is when it's the type of chatter that you have an extremely hard time finding anywhere.
For starters, they have the SolveForX project going.
>One who writes quirky and individualistic code. Not crappy. It could be well organized. And even good. And even solve the problem, at the time when it was written.
But. If that code is approachable by any regular developer, when the original programmer would not be 10x. And management and peers wouldn't think about the original developer as 10x.

Nope, still got it backwards.

The characteristic of a 10X programmer is how FAST he can write GOOD code that solves a particular problem. Neither individualistic, nor quirky. He doesn't even have to read Ayn Rand.

If it's not code that his 1x coworkers can understand, then he's not 10X, just show-offish and hackish.

To give some examples: Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. Linus Torvalds. Poul-Henning Kamp. Zed Shaw. Notch. John Carmack.

All of those are/were very much 10X programmers. But no obscure languages and nothing quirky and particularly individualistic about their code.

I think you have mixed the notion of the 10X programmer with the notion of the "cowboy coder" (with traces of crazy genius, e.g the autonomous, quirky, Lisp/Haskell/J/whatever yielding programmer who completes some huge project in his own peculiar way in a short amount of time).
A majority of my value as an engineer stems from the fact that, in general, I can learn new things extremely rapidly. "Learning" is what I sell, and business is pretty decent.
Great use of lists. News sites curate social media as it happens with their stories. It would be great if individuals on Twitter could do this. Curate tweets around a hashtag.
Bitcoin is back in the game?
This sounds like the final destination of burnout. Probably there should be more education about the effects of overworking on mental/physical health so that people can recognise bad situations when they're getting into them and pull out before it leads to self-destruction. Also the fault is partly on the management side. A good manager should notice if a particular person seems to be working a lot longer than anyone else under relentless deadlines and intervene.

While I've never seen anything as bad as in this article I have seen situations where the mild-mannered and earnest tech guy tries to be accommodating to help the company (and sometimes also in the expectation that their efforts will be recognised or rewarded) but really just ends up getting taken advantage of. On odd occasions (especially in the early part of my career) I have even been that guy.
I work at a large corporation that does not particularly care about international borders, and I have no degree. It can be done.
I get these from airbnb. SO ANNOYING since there mobile site doesnt work on my windows phone and they have no native app.
And this is precisely how the guy from the story thought, that's why he was saying he should be CEO, but the reality was different, because he was treated more like a slave..
Jolla Confirms It Will Show Its Debut Handset Next Month
> How relevant will IE8 be in just two years, though?

That very much depends on your target audience.

For home users IE8 is pretty much dead already, the only subset of people stuck there are the few who are using XP and have not switched to Firefox/Chrome/other. As more and more game-y things on the web start demanding newer features rather than creating/using/supporting fallback options for IE8 (canvas in particular).

In more corporate environments, IE8 is often still king and will be for several years. Most of the clients for the product I spend most of the working day panel beating are large banks and most of them have only just migrated to IE8 from IE6 because they have to soon (IE6 falls out of extended support in less than 12 months, along with XP+sp3). If they follow the same pattern (and I see little reason why they won't, slow moving mammoths that they are) I and many others will have to be concerned about IE8 until at least 2018 as IE8 falls out of extended support in 2020 (as it's support windows are tied to Windows 7's). Hopefully jQuery's idea of "several years" is as least as long as this.
I thought just watching the microphone float in front of him was interesting enough. I was totally not prepared for the awesomeness of the wrung-out washcloth.
beyond, perhaps, the difficulty of reviewing Excel code

This has always been one of my concerns when Excel is used much beyond 'electronic squared paper'. The interwoven data and code nature of the tool makes testing and verification more difficult - certainly not impossible but going against the grain of the tool. Excel is used by a diverse range of people, many of whom have limited software skills and could do with a tool that enforced the right behaviour.

Also I think this shows the need for openness when people make such important claims based on data. Particularly in this case where all the data and calculations could easily be zipped up and put on a website.
Paul Rand - The Politics of Design [1985]
Why aren't they concerned about water floating up to the electrical panels ?

How do they get dry ? Centrifuges ?
Agreed 100%

Never really used Twitter lists before but this one shows the true capability of having an aggregate list of important information on what is turning out to be chaos in the Watertown area.
There were so many wires and electronics in the background and the water was floating everywhere! Nothing to worry?
Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement
Red Hat Sets Up OpenStack Partner Network
Task.js: Beautiful concurrency for JavaScript
He stripped the site of contents now. Everything's still in the repository history though: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/commits/master

My mirror's at http://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/SPOOL/ has all the documents in PCL, PDF, and properly oriented PNGs if you're tired of turning your monitor upside down :)

I made an imgur album of the PNGs too: http://imgur.com/a/dJpuG
I thought it was a pretty solid introduction video, did anyone else watch it?
Google reinstates federated Jabber/XMPP instant messaging
Since nobody here said it, if you ever happen in this situation were management dodges accountability for their actions or doesn't understand they are accountable. then there are two options.

1. Stay: dissociate yourself from the work and the outcome of your work
2. Quit: start looking for companies that are a better fit for your professional pride and when you've found one, jump ship.

Technical skills are still rare, you're not working in a supermarket here. you've got options.
I worked with a guy who was an incredibly talented developer, and it was his first 'proper' development job. He was smart and good at what he did, and made a good impression, however as time progressed and the reality of ever shifting goal posts and getting half the time you really need to do something took it's toll.

Eventually he went to the doctor, who diagnosed a stress related condition and he was prescribed meds which helped for a while. But, it's that melting pot and eventually he snapped, smashed a keyboard and then threw a monitor onto the floor. I took the time to try and help and he realised whilst he loved dev work, he just couldn't deal with the stress of working inside a business and decided to give up.

It's a hard industry, I'm personally surprised there's not a much higher rate of stress related illness and depression. We've all probably skirted the burnout zone on a regular basis, long term that's not going to be great for anyone. I'd say the increase in startups being lead by technically gifted people who've done development should help, but there still seems to be an acceptance of push and push until you break or the job is done.
>This kind of article doesn't address the issue known as Chesterton's fence [1]. If so-called "low power" poses are so bad for you, why have they survived evolution?

That's not hard to explain: most of the selection power of evolution worked in the ancestral, hunters-n-gatherers environment, which covers most of the timespan when anatomically-modern humans lived. Selection modes changed significantly in the agricultural and industrial revolutions, but evolution works too slowly to align our biology ideally with the new environment (plus the local optimum problem).

Therefore, it's not uncommon for people to interpret their surroundings by the ancestral mind, even the basis for those "mental adaptations" no longer exist. Indeed, exploiting the difference is the basis for advertising and all other manners of social manipulation. And it's why Snickers bars taste so damn good but are so bad for you.

An especially relevant divergence on this topic is in meetings: the kind of things that were genetically optimal among a caveman tribe are very far from the processes that generate productive meeting outcomes. For example, your mind is constantly feeding you rationalizations for why something that happens to benefit you personally, will also benefit the group, even and especially when that is utterly false.

So ... I think the appropriate response to claims like the article's, on "Chestertonian" grounds, would be more along the lines of, "If this is so smart, why ain't you(r acolytes) rich?" That is, if people can easily switch to something so much more advantageous, why can't you just as easily prove it with working examples of people you've converted, rather than idly theorizing?
Someone in the comments on that site posted the following video that details how they clean up spills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hj3GnPRsJ4

In short: Tissues of various sizes which can then be hanged somewhere and evaporate the water.
Good code is dead simple to read and understand. That is what makes it good, because sooner or later, someone will need to read it and maintain it.

Getting to that point is difficult, and may require a 10x programmer. But the end result is simplicity.
The Reddit/Twitter/Social Media aspect of this entire series of events is truly unprecedented. It's truly amazing to see how the Internet has enabled a constant, real-time stream of information from thousands of sources to be analyzed, commented on, shared, sent in to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies for leads, and etc. Truly something special and never before seen.
Interesting insight. You taught me to be more grateful in my working environment!
I say let's not fight that stereotype; it makes us sound agile and stuff.
Real quick:

1.) Yes you have had reliability issues with email. And so has everybody else who has ever used it. It's inherently unreliable by design, and errors can happen anywhere along the chain and often don't reported back.

2.) I have used Netflix. It's the best legal solution I've seen so far, but the selection still sucks and it doesn't work internationally. Not solved.

3.) Most Americans you know may have stopped buying CDs in 2005, but not most Americans I know, and (more to the point) not most Americans in general[1][2]. I dabbled in buying digital music back then, but it was inferior, crippled, DRM-laden shit. iTunes didn't fix that until 2009[3]. US digital music sales didn't surpass physical sales until 2011.

4.) I wasn't using Rakuten as an example of shining engineering or design. I'm saying the horrible, garish store pages on Rakuten -- apparently as shocking to your sensibilities as they are to mine -- are actually what the Japanese people, in aggregate, seem to prefer. Understanding that goes a long way toward understanding why all my Japanese bank websites look so heinous[4], why my coworkers here prefer Yahoo to Google for web-searching, and so on.

The iPhone? Well fuck it, that must be the exception that proves the rule. ;-)

But before you diss those old Galapagos keitais, people did use the hell out of those. I know 50 year olds who can still reserve a flight way faster on one of those things while driving down the street than I can do with my iPhone using both hands.

My point in all of this was just to say Japan isn't "behind" the US in Internet use (in terms of per capita users, they are very similar, ranked #14 and #13 respectively[5]), they just use it differently.

Some differences I like (e.g., not prematurely accepting cunty DRM-ridden systems that aren't really as good as the old systems they purport to replace).

Some, I don't like (e.g., bank website design).

And some, like not really having digital books here yet (outside of manga, anyway) are a just function of the USA's global economic dominance -- those markets take an Apple or Amazon to spearhead. Japan is not those American companies' first priority. It'll take more time before those products are available here.

OK, I lied, that wasn't real quick.

[1]: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120105005547/en/Niel...

[2]http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130104005149/en/Niel...

[3]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/162732/drm_free_itunes_meanin...

[4]: Yep, including this one (lol!): http://www.rakuten-bank.co.jp

[5]: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/int_use_percap-internet-us...
I don't Google caters to small clients either. Yet, it has dropped support for IE6.
Interesting.

Are those are by-products of the threaded display? As a flat display of a thread would just result in new pages at the end, all of which would be incredibly cacheable.
Well-known angels back local services startup Thumbtack.com
Is it possible/likely that the marathon bombers were spotted planting bombs on campus at MIT and killed the cop that tried to stop them? If so, his effort and sacrifice may have saved many more casualties.
Mentioned by whom, where?
I know it's prejudiced, but I have a hard time taking someone seriously when they have a typo in the url of their site...