skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of the thing that is ludicrously depressing about living in London. I'm Norwegian, and my brother has two children in Norwegian nurseries. Even with the current atrocious exchange rate, he pays about GBP 6k/year combined for the two of them...

If it hadn't been for work situation (especially that his mom is a UK solicitor with a big firm and wouldn't stand much chance of getting a decent job in Norway), it'd have paid off massively to move "back home" for a few years.
WinAmp 2, which I believe is from 1998/1999.

I have a zip of the download, and just keep installing it and moving forward. I never quite made the jump to Winamp 3 and once I stopped moving forward every update to Winamp deterred me some more.
I think it partially exploded because this wasn't some youtube celeb or musician (not that they don't have a right to be harassment free), but a _professional_ blogging about, of all things, _user experience_.

There was quite a bit of 'oh, that happens online in scummy places, but surely not in my community', until people saw some of the things that were said and done.
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Does anybody dare to argue that angry birds did provide more value to peoples lives than a cure for cancer?

Why is it so obvious that curing cancer is the right thing to do as opposed to engaging in economic and cultural activity, which has been the norm for mankind as long as we have been around? (and by the way provides the social stability that is the very basis for any kind of progress at all)

What's worse is the implication that there is a cure for cancer and all it would take is a few talented entrepreneurs to tackle the problem in an directed effort (which, to my knowledge, is happening anyway but with limited success while chemo therapy is still around, which was a by-product of war efforts)
Airbnb, TripVillas, and a rogue spammer
There's no freude like Schadenfreude. A legitimate promo code to encourage homeowners to list their properties on Airbnb "escaped into the wild," — where one individual used it to spam owners of vacation homes who had listed on the rival listings service TripVillas.
Quite frequently, what someone says does not exactly match what they mean.

When presented with with a "fact" that is very easy to contradict, like this one is, it's an indication that the author has made a poor choice of words, not that their point is without merit. In that case -- in all cases actually -- it's best to read for intent.

(edit: In this case, Schmidt is arguing that although the ad might say "rockstar programmer" that that's not what they're really looking for.)
One thing to note: it's a "magazine" article. Those are the some of the most superficial articles on the BBC website. Even the material that is aimed at kids can be more hard hitting.
For a lot of people in non-technical professions it might actually be Windows XP.

That is, of course, if we're putting aside some of the basic UNIX tools that probably haven't changed since the 1970s—which I think is fair.
"No one is looking for" ... sorry, I beg to differ.

I just got the following in my inbox a few days ago.

---

Hello ____,

I stumbled across your profile on LinkedIn and was impressed by your background with (company) as their (tech title). I would love to chat with you about what we are building here at (startup).

I am the CTO and one of the co-founders of (startup) - we are a startup with an office in (location) and we are very successful in changing the way companies do business with each other. Our customers are companies like (big companies) and many more. We are looking for help from people like you to scale our product while we grow in terms of data, processing, customers and users.

Our infrastructure runs on AWS using Cassandra, MySQL, ActiveMQ, Tomcat and other technologies/services. Most of our code is in Groovy and Java leveraging Jersey, Grails, Spring, Hibernate, .... On the front-end, JQuery, Mootools and other libs and frameworks.

In short: We are a fast growing startup that solves real-world business problems for huge companies with an awesome, committed and agile engineering team.

If that sounds like something worth talking about I would love to get a few minutes of your time when it fits you best.

Hope to hear from you.

Cheers,

(somebody I've never met)

---

He doesn't say "rockstar programmer" in there but he should have. It would have at least brought a smile to my face. Companies _are_ still trying to sucker young kids into this kind of stuff with words like "rockstar," "ninja," "awesome," ...

I know how hard it is to find talented people. I suppose an email like that has been finely honed to net the most applicants possible. But if you want _those_ kind of applicants, you're already behind.
I normally work as a contractor, so I get paid for my time. So I'll work overtime, and in fact will work as much as my client wants. They're aware of the costs, and so everything works out.

But I have to say, if I didn't get paid for my time, I'd be heading out the door the second that I was no longer being paid. If that means watching the clock, so be it. My time is worth something to me. Maybe yours isn't.
I am Danish, and I approved this message.
In the UK if the person on the other end hasn't hung up and you dial 999, the call ends. It's the only way I know to force-end the call.
No, really, I discharged a patient from the hospital late the other day because the software gave me no indication that the 4 pieces of disconnected discharge orders/paperwork were missing a fifth piece that finalized the discharge. Software is a real problem.
There are no longer any install DVD's for most macs, which don't come with optical drives anymore.
I believe the standard neoliberal answer to such questions is: DOOM DOOMITY DOOM DOOM DOOM privatize industries DOOM deregulate DOOM financialize DOOM beat down wages DOOM outsource and globalize DOOM DOOM MOTHERFUCKER DOOM.

Not surprisingly, once you've gone down the list and done everything there, you're doomed.
HAProxy does have the ability to gracefully reload a config file, which is what I use in a similar situation.

I think (but might be wrong) that the old process stops listening for new connections, and shuts down when all of its current connections die.
Yet, here you are, using TCP/IP to criticize it and to read my response.

Say, you're not a LISPer, are you?
I hypothesize these types of arguments would fail if you quantified them, ie. compared the actual amount spent investing (VC money, people, manhours) in (1) Angry Birds type startups versus (2) training medical researchers, medical research in academia and industry.

Ie. I hypothesize (2) >> (1)
World's oldest 'calendar' is discovered in Britain [8000BC]
Does my copy of Asteroids for the Atari 2600 count? It's been locked up in storage in my mothers attic for about 15 years and the last time I was back home it still worked perfectly. I believe the game is close to 30 years old.
Will body-worn cameras help the police and the public
I have no idea what your actual argument is.

Whatever your problems are they have nothing to do with this particular git branching model. I suspect you have an issue within the culture you are a part of and no git branching model can fix that.
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This should save a lot of people a lot of time. FYI it's all done under Creative Commons license allowing commercial use of the images.
I guess it's easiest if the bank doesn't have any contact details apart from snail mail. I'm skeptical already when banks want my email address upon opening an account.
I'm constantly asked for that sort of thing. A lot of friends are at the place in life where they are higher people to work on their own personal projects, but 75% of the contractors they hire manage to make more work then they actually accomplish and somehow never finish or get anything working good. There's just huge frustration in the run of the mill programmer and people just learn to hire as good as they can. Article title doesn't make much sense.
> Getting the customer to call a number is another, they could have transferred the customer.

No way. If someone claiming to be a bank cold-calls you, you tell them you'll call them back at their official number. Only deal with bank information on a call that you initiated.

I don't know how to work around the flaw in the article. Luckily it's not something we have to deal with here in the US, as far as I know. What a dumb "feature."
Wait: The fraudster gave you his license plate number?!
My experience of working with rockstar programmers tends to be woeful, they spend far too much time dousing themselves in cocaine and hooking up with groupies, their code is shambolic and occasionally they smash a computer for the hell of it.

However my experience of programmer rockstars is just as bad, their stage presence is pitiful. Instead of cutting it with wild guitar solos they tend to spend to much time StackOverflowin', when we're wailing out a tune they often grimace and put on their sound cancelling headphones.

Please, everyone stick to your profession.
I don't understand this.

The claim of the article and many others implies that Denmark is near perfect system.

That is what we are critiquing, not whether it's better or worse than other places.

It's just not as rosy red as it's portrayed and some of the claims in that article are flat out wrong.

I can say that both as someone who been an employee and an employer.
Why is "it was like this before my changes" a thing you should never say?
In case of sysadmins, those five points can be boiled down to just two: ability to learn and ethics.
So if you're not a clock watcher you don't mind if I show up twenty minutes late, right?
I dislike 'ninja programmers' even more. If you hire one, you can't complain that you never see them in the office.
Odd move for the lead publisher of the NSA surveillance stories, considering that the US has reserved for itself the right to seize and shut down any .com domain, even those that are based in Europe.

http://phys.org/news/2011-06-spanish-website-domain-seizure....

Would the DOJ seize theguardian.com? A year ago I'd say that's ludicrous. Now I'll say it's unlikely but possible, if the NSA/US felt cornered enough.
In long-term employment, once you're in a spot where you're doing clock watching, both the employee and the employer are much worse off.

I probably work on average an hour or two a week above my contracted hours (depends how you count stuff like handling a few urgent things from home etc), but I see it as a loose agreement - I get a pile of cash each month in return for generating as much value as I can in roughly 40h/week.

Sometimes that means that I work 18h in a row (rollout of a new product for instance) and sometimes it means I leave early on a slow day.

While the agreement says in pretty black and white that I work 9-18 Mon-Fri (I think - it was a long time since I read it), neither side is trying to encode the agreement fully, nor follow it to the letter, because doing so would be detrimental to both of us.
If they manage to depress the cost-to-orbit sufficiently, they'll maybe be able to take more shielding along. It might even be dual-use stuff like carefully placed water tanks or stacks of prefab building materials, which can then be used on the journey or at the destination.

On the hardening ICs specifically, I recall that SOI is potentially a better performing technology than bulk silicon wafers, the actual performance drop is due to much larger feature sizes to better handle low-energy rad strikes.

I suspect (but haven't looked in a long time) that the performance could be radically improved if they could develop the process to modern equivalents, but the economics just aren't there.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to use ECC on the core internals rather than just the RAM, and it looks like someone has considered it for the register file[1]
I suppose it might be useful on the instruction pipeline as well, and other places.

Then again, it may be just easier all round to take the SpaceX current approach of many simple cores, and redundancy in software.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4708869
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
Why are brogrammers, rock stars, and rails users automatically "bad programmers"?

It's possible to drink like a fratboy on the weekend and crush code from M-F.
Apologies. I won't repeat the mistake.
Ask a mainframe shop. The back-compat date for mainframes, even just-off-the-line System Z boxes, is 1964.

--edit-- I also play Commodore 64 games in emulators, and they date from the 80s, but I suspect this is not the sort of answer you're looking for.
Nope, web apps are just as good.
The advice is nice, but in case of a truly constructive, non--judgemental feedback it's really hard to implement due to our communication habits. The OP himself illustrated it perfectly on the slide #8. We see a great suggestion to critique the code not the person. But in prev line we see something exactly opposite. Instead of saying "there's always someone writing code worse than yours" we see a clear judgement of the person. Yeah, feedback is hard :)
> In this area and at this scale it seems to me that it's disruptive.

It seems disruptive because you have no background in aerospace. This is bog standard.
To be fair, the BBC did hire an Yahoo manager to manage it. Doomed before it even started...
Or maybe it's about more than just maximizing, to the penny, the dollars-per-hour you can make. If it's as a contractor, then I'd give you more lee-way, but as a "full-time employee", there are other things that motivate me, at least: reputation, ability to get a job done on or under time (negotiating power in the future), responsibility to co-workers, pride in my work, etc.
FAA urges foreign airlines to use GPS at SFO
Stolen car?
I made a website that's by now obsolete for anyone but me, but I still use it. It went live in late 2002 and hasn't been patched since early/mid 2003. This year 1and1 (my host) disabled MYSQL 4, so I moved database to MYSQL 5, but did not change the code. I have grandiose hopes to update it to look current.

Although now that I look at it, they say my version of php will be phased out August 1'st :( And they are raising the price on August 1'st ...
How do you feel about MagicalRecord for alleviating CoreData pain?
I've developed for multiple medical companies and applications. This describes exactly 0 of the doctors, radiologists, surgeons, or researchers I worked with.

I quit the medical field because it's incredibly hard work and very difficult to succeed because of the additional hurdles (regulation, entrenched interests) unless you are a large corporation. And large corporations suck.
Most people dream of working abroad. When it comes down to it they really do prefer to live at home. Same things goes for being self employed.

You can't judge anything based on what people say they want to do, you have to do it based on what they do, especially in a country like Denmark where it's literally risk free to start a company.
...a group of professionals have examined you, your team, and your idea and decided that it's worthwhile risking a sum of money backing you...

You could make a similar case for mortgage approvals before the financial crisis.
Personal appeal to Ed Sowndon from Paul F Renda
Please please do not release any more of the NSA information. I am sure you believe it is just unstructured bit and bytes of information. However this data has a face to it, that it is the face of the first responder or innocent civilian who are maimed or killed in a terrorist attack.
I am a survivor of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. On 9/11 my Cousin Tommy Farino died. He was an NYC Fire dept. Capt. The youngest captain of engine co 26. My family buried an empty coffin. The fire was so intense that the DNA was cooked out of the bones. You should Google my name
Paul F Renda and Paul Renda WTC coins. Again please negotiate with the US government to return the NSA data.
Yeah, but try to factor in the cost of ownership too. If you drive a lot you might save the entire price of the car in just a few years. Then any used car value is pure bonus.

(At least for a cheap EV)
> ... especially with the node.js crowd (essentially where
> the "rockstar" programmer meme gained its popularity)...

The rockstar programmer meme is far, far older than node.js. It crops up any time the labor market for programmers becomes tight. It's a lazy way to (a) try to draw attention to your job ad, and (b) a cheap play to the reader's ego.

> I personally do not think that re-solving the problem in
> the old way in a new language/framework/whatever is
> really worthy to be considered an achievement.

Not an achievement for the world at large, perhaps, but for the individual, it is certainly an achievement.
I believe that honour goes to dc (if you're in linux, you can still use dc).
Coming to Terms with the Loss of a Dog
Then i think that any recent issue tracking software can be used for that :).
That s what I do already with Jira
As an engineer, if you're not late for a meeting, I don't care. I expect that you get your work done, and you're around the appropriate amount of time. If you're regularly coming in after your coworkers and leaving before them, then we probably have a problem. I'm not sitting with a stopwatch and noticing holy crap you came in at 9:09 and left at 4:51. If you're the last one in the office and the first to leave, week after week, then there might be an issue.
The "running unpatched" part would make me bet on embedded software. Maybe some machine in a factory still usefully following a 50-year-old punch-card to "print out" patterned carpets, for example.
We use DOS programs within virtual machines to process data that comes in on 1/2" tape from government sources and return it to them on DVD's. The oldest of these would be mid 80's I guess.

Edit: Changed "in-virtuo" to "within virtual machines" for clarity.
Sounds like it's the paperwork/bureaucracy, not necessary the software that struggles to keep up with red tape.

My doctor had to sell her private practice and join a medical business group, just to keep up with the new insurance/government regulations. Healthcare in the US is insane...
The Voice of the Customer Series: The Basics
Versioning a REST API
>Unpaid overtime when you're doing it willingly is not wrong per se.

If it is occasional, I think it is fine. If OTOH it is a regular occurrence that an employer depends upon, and others who are less willing to join in are compelled to stay because an expectation has been cultivated, that is wrong.
And a description of the driver?

That's bold.
This seems relevant:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_...
I was doing some work for a friend of mine late last year and he was still running his DOS-based accounting software from 1987 I think. I can't remember the name of it though. He wouldn't abandon it, so now that he has a new computer he's running it in a VM, including a virtual parallel printer since it wouldn't recognise his new one.

I still tease him about it.
I was rather surprised to find out that the current Norwegian royals were actually elected in 1905 :-)
This is actually the best reason for government funding of basic and applied research. Society has to take the long view since individuals and corporations can not.

This is why it is scary that politics has degenerated to the point where even 4 year plans are becoming difficult.
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Are you sure it's the actual card PIN they asked for? There may be a separate, different PIN used for phone banking.
With so much traffic over SSL now, I think sendfile's days are past.
Rebasing and fast-forward merging are two very different things.

whenever you rebase you create _brand new commits_ based off another part of the project history which bear a strong resemblance to the original commits but are nonetheless different.

adding -i allows you to do further modification of commit contents (reordering, squashing, dropping, etc. but a vanilla rebase is still changing history.

Linus addresses this in his mail early on: "People can (and probably should) rebase their _private_ trees (their own
work). That's a _cleanup_. But never other peoples code. That's a "destroy history" "
This is how I see it. Incidentally, stuff like trying to move from 37.5 -> 40h / week is probably one of the most stupid thing a company could do, assuming you have a culture where working time is seen as a social agreement rather than a strict contract. Once you are haggling over 2.5 hours, you open the door to haggling both ways, and the social agreement is at risk of collapsing. It's cool that you managed to break out of it, because (in my experience at least) one of the hardest things there is is to bring that back in once it has temporarily collapsed.
Agreed about the Scion iQ, but that design isn't terrible. Having watched the BMW's promo video (which shows it in its best light), the car doesn't look out of place on today's roads and appears quite practical for a "typical" suburban lifestyle.
There seems to be a general Scandinavian/Nordic idealism pervasive across the internet amongst young westerners. Countless reddit threads extol the glories of living in one of these countries. Young people facing the stressors of capitalism perk up at the thought of all that "free stuff." Free healthcare! Free leave! Free breakfast! etc etc. They never end up even visiting much less living there and realizing they could probably never stay there long term. Growing up in America, you are going to have a hard time acclimating to the lifestyle and culture of these countries.
I don't think all software patents can be lumped together.

Patenting an algorithm seems bad. Because it's not really a mechanism, it's discovered more than created.

But human-computer interactions seem more like mechanisms. It's software that requires a human touch, and it makes it more like dealing with a physical object. Software patents in this area seem more appropriate.
I work in the field of Computer Vision based 3D Reconstruction. Although this development is "nice", it is hardly capable of the potential applications cited. Notice any 3D reconstructions used anywhere other than novelty? That's because they are mostly useless. In order to create useful 3D Reconstrucions, the underlying reconstruction system needs to recognize the object and use prior acquired references to supply information obscured from view, and/or identify transformations (damage, wear) to the "original" objects and scene being analyzed. The goal is to supply one image of an object, and receive back a correctly formed, rigged for correct motion, 3d geometry of nearly any common object. And it's coming.
You're right. It's easy to forget how small a percentage of people actually use Twitter in the first place - but they often seem like they perceive themselves to be representative of everybody else. (Or worse, more important and "influential")
It describes a significant percentage of doctors, lawyers and airline pilots I've coded for...
There was an article a few months back about a company in Texas using a very old computer dating to 1948: http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_...