skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3. Software Engineer

18. Computer Programmer

What's the difference? We can barely decide what to call ourselves. Is there a correlation between job satisfaction and a disposition towards calling yourself an engineer?
After AirBNB, startups are attacking more and more traditional businesses.
After I learned vim, I got very frustrated going back and forth between vim and Mac apps (Mail, MS/Word, etc) because I had to switch between the vim and Mac style of keyboard-based cursor movements/selection patterns. So I sat down for a few hours and figured out how to exactly replicate all Mac cursor/selection shortcuts in vim.

https://github.com/apinstein/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L57

Fortunately they don't really conflict with too many existing vim patterns, and it's pretty nice to be able to use the cursor/select patterns across vim and all Mac apps.
I can't say I fully understand it. One thing I've seen stressed is that there's only one timeline. There's never a time when the ball continues straight through into the wormhole, only to somehow emerge with an altered path. It only travels that path to the wormhole once, and when it does, it gets hit a glancing blow.

The wiki entry I linked is intriguing. It says in some cases there are an infinite number of consistent solutions. They found they could analyze those cases with quantum mechanics, doing a sum-over-histories that only includes the consistent solutions. That gave a probability for each particular outcome.

So maybe that's fundamentally how causation actually works in the universe, and in the absence of time loops it reduces to normal causality. Now I can't help speculate whether actual quantum mechanics involves time loops somehow. (And in fact, Cramer's transactional interpretation does involve waves travelling backwards in time.)

Another way to look at it, maybe, and take with a grain of salt because I came up with it myself: Imagine there isn't just one timeline. In the paradox the universe runs an infinite loop, the ball first going into the wormhole, then not, then it does, then it doesn't. But given quantum mechanics, the position and momentum of the ball is uncertain. Given a very large number of trials, it's eventually going to shift significantly. At some point, it hits on a consistent solution, and the looping finally stops.
The joke is that max-scale and initial-scale set to 1.0 in the viewport meta tag would probably be all that's needed to make HN better on mobile.
"That you can only get B-12 from meat"

Well, maybe "meat sources (dairy products under the umbrella) are the only significant source of B-12 without supplementation" is more accurate.

Cereals are "fortified" so I count that as supplementation.

Sure, many yeasts contains B-12 too, some quite a bit. I'd even agree that it is significant, but it doesn't occur in foods people normally eat (maybe a guess here, but if that were true, vegans wouldn't need to supplement with yeast, etc), so it's taken as a supplemnt.
Imagine a police state aware 'travel mode' that does the following:
1. Locks all your devices at the start of travel.
2. To log into your laptop, you need a code from your phone.
3. If your phone received a login request, it would record your location and ambient conversation
to a destination of your choice. Put in a little delay between recieving the code and displaying it.
4. When you login with this code, you go into a low-privilege user account and/or locks you out
of anything sensitive.
5. To unlock, you request another code from your phone. It only works if you are either at home.

You could carve out some exceptions for things you need while traveling that the bad guys who think they are good guys would already know.
Ah, yes. I thought the intent was to spread rumors about what Snoden might have done while working for Dell, and was oblivious to the elephant question of why Dell might have had that information in the first place.

Thanks for clearing things up.
What about Maxwell demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon ?
The Press Regulation Scheme is in no way similar to the use of MI5 and police resources to interrogate an individual who ,for all in intents and purposes, seems innocent of any terrorism related crime. I see no conflict here with the Guardian's stance on these issues.
The notebook hardware made for Windows 8 behaves differently than all PC hardware before. It's irrelevant that the old ThinkPad works, it didn't magically change because the new software arrived.
That is really nicely put, but by that same logic is who/whatever is responsible for simulating us somewhat responsible for genocide caused by humans since they, by necessity, gave us free will? What about the extinction of the dinosaurs, assuming the asteroid theory? Perhaps it was necessary to their simulation for a large asteroid/comet to be able to hit Earth, but are they somewhat responsible for wiping out life?

I guess these questions are very strongly parallel to those that can be asked about God, which is perhaps a better definition than computer for something that simulates our universe anyway.
When articles like this are submitted to HN, can we have a discussion on what us as individuals can actually do (if anything)?

I'd rather drop 100 comments on general FEELING towards the news, for 1 or 2 comments suggesting 'Let's create a campaign site' or 'There is nothing we can do, lets just sit here in silence'

Edit: For what it's worth my ONLY suggestion is that a campaign site similar to that for SOPA, etc. is put together - ideally on GitHub or similar so it can be rapidly put together.
I'm sure it's possible. I don't think NSA-style tracking of all requests would be in Google's best interest, as it wouldn't do wonders for their image.
> people further down the chain of command in any system

Here we're talking about people who aren't even in the same system!
You can use http://hackernews-mobile.tomodo.me/
It's similar to the css you offered.
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I'm glad you bring up the Copenhagen interpretation because the first time I watched a video of Richard Feynman explaining the duality of quantum particles [1] all I could think was "hey, that looks like an optimization you could put in a game engine or something".

At least I hope we're open source...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgcqgDc-YM
I had the same idea when Apple's Facetime came out. I thought it might be feasible to build a business around video-chatting with experts around the world, but then Apple reneged on the openness of the Facetime platform. Good luck to Google, I think it's an idea that has merit.
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The sociologist is making way too much money for a government job, our tax dollars at work.

The low-paying dangerous occupations are only that way because there's so many foolish men to take them up.

And you can blame the education system for turning out those foolish men - so a lot of that can be directly blamed on the corrupt teaching unions - whose main interest is in increasing pay and lowering work requirements.

This is where edu startups can come in and help society while earning money.

- Retrain the low pay workers into web designers and app developers. Gamify the education system and make profits by selling high-scoring students to corps that need them.

- Disrupt the teachers union with apps and websites that allow people to form ad-hoc schools outside the system - homeschooling 2.0.

As PG says - kill hollywood and kill government education.
So if our Universe is a computer simulation, this might imply that the advanced civilization that created this simulation consists mainly of computer programmers. I like!
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This is the best answer by far because it's snappy and clean. You can't comment or vote, but reading is great.
Government is us, when stomach tries to fight with brain over trivial details like food you or giving, amount, quality and so on. One day brain will kill stomach with all the control mechanisms, it dies too.

"For the benefit of all".

We already live in virtual reality where most of the things we do is just to numb our perception. Nothing to do with advancements in energy, space travel, consciousness. Going where no man has gone before.

And we lough and down talk anyone daring to, so we create spying/regulatory system, government that picks oddities and puts them in place. It works well, very well, so well that now we are stuck in place where we want to be, beer Fridays, pizza Saturday, sunny ice cream Sundays, something to look forward after week long slavery you hate so much.

It is so complicated and weaved trough all of us and all out needs/wishes/predicaments.
To long and want something, you create opposite situation that makes that "something" so amazing.

Sometimes I wonder, what would take this organism(humanity) to evolve/change. Searching for health(happiness) in cancer(fear)? Or total annihilation for something else to come in play.
Here's one thing about "complementary services".

"Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

Yes, Google and Facebook have their agenda, but that's their object, to make an internet connection as a commodity as possible.

In the same way auto companies want a gas station in every corner (and the opposite, gas companies want cars to be popular)
If you are not allowed to talk to your lawyer, then maybe your lawyer should be the one who has the password.
I don't really see a solution, and I'm assuming that nobody else does really. Citizens and foreigners (like me) have equally little power over what their governments do, just a mild decision between two parties come election time. The general population seems to be apathetic about it all, I don't think I know a single person who has any opinion other than the tired "nothing to hide" line.
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I listened to an interview with the Home Secretary, Theresa May, yesterday. She explicitly stated several times that she had no say in the Miranda's detention as it was a police matter. Odd, then, that she is responsible for the secret services and it is MI5, not the police, who are the primary in all anti-terrorism investigations.
If you're getting paid to program Haskell chances are you are in either academia or finance. I think it's safe to assume that a) Haskell programmers in finance earn more than most PHP programmers and b) that they're not allowed to upload their latest projects to github.
Even better, most of that "Libertarian Bloc" are actually just front parties for the LDP.
Except the US and friends aren't really "doing it" in the same sense that China, Russia, etc are. Those countries develop powerful surveillance capabilities and use them to target political dissent, among other anti-democratic things. Nothing that's been reported about the US comes even close to that sort of usage.
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The preferencing of Family First and Hunters and Shooters was a (very, very big) balls up [1] and sadly, will likely lead to an implosion of the political party.

[1] http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/the-wikileaks-party-announc...
why haven't we found any major bugs

God is a perfect programmer?
What does soylent give you that a vitamix and a fridge full of fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts does not?
From memory, the NSW upper house optional preferential instructions are that you must mark at least 15 boxes. It's a balancing act between enough numbers to ensure that most ballots continue to count, but small enough to reduce the effort, and consequent informal votes due to errors, of voting below the line.
anon1385's point was that it's very likely that all new Google projects will be tied to Google+, so either it's not a good indicator for what's going to be shut down, or they won't shut anything down anymore.
>When you were a child, would any of you have believed....

Actually, yeah. I read 1984 at age 10, and somehow grokked enough about what that would mean.

>Like a cheap sci-fi novel has become reality?

Like Orwell, Huxley, Bradbury, with a little Kafka thrown in. I'm not sure "cheap" is the word I'd use here.

>I for one am more scared, appaled by what has been bubbling to the surface every week, almost every day since Snowden.

I'm glad that I'm not 'crazy' anymore. It's a good thing that it is out in the open now. It was more frightening when nearly everyone ignored it.
While dare say the Guardian isn't perfect (not that it's relevant) I would distrust anything coming from Spiked, a magazine whose modus operandi is to be contrarian on every issue. They are, in effect, professional trolls.
Most commercial Haskell jobs are in finance

Cool - do you have any articles/references about that?
> But when scroll wheels were introduced, the scroll bar became less necessary.

This isn't true; scroll wheels are more convenient than using the scroll bar for progressing through a document sequentially, but there's no facility for absolute positioning using a scroll wheel. You can't move to a specific point on the page with the wheel, and can only move in one direction or the other at a speed limited by how fast you can physically spin the wheel on the mouse.

Probably the best alternative to a scrollbar for absolute positioning that I've ever seen is the "document map" feature of some text editors, which provides a vertical thumbnail of the entire document in a column that works similarly to the way a mini-map in a game works: you see the layout of the document, zoomed out, and can click on exactly where you want to go.
I've found I switch fairly easily between browser-style editing (like here) and vim. Sometimes I forget, and have a few moments of perplexity, and then I'm OK. Maybe it's different for other programming editors (as opposed to browser editing).

BTW: one thing that helps is adding standard browser key-strokes to vim, so if I forget, it doesn't matter.
If they didn't know they wouldn't destroy Guardians' hard disks but would take them with them to check out the data.
I suggest to do what 4chan has done some time ago. Rewrite the css & html in modern fashion optimized for all devices but keep the style the same.
I wrote a letter to my MP about ISP-level filtering, this was his response
> Bonus points for the bar (!) chart that starts at 90,000 and looks like ActionScript is twice as profitable as the rest of the languages.

When I make charts like this, I always let the X-axis be zero. I find it confusing to look at a chart and not immediately know the percentage difference without using a calculator. With the X-axis at 0 you can immediately tell the proportional differences.

It's like looking at the intra-day variations of a stock's price, and thinking "Whoa! What happened here?!". Then you zoom out and it's a completely straight line.
What happens when we, the simulation, become advanced enough to run our own simulations? Yo dawg, I heard you like simulations...
Here is how you enable 2FA (assuming the service provider doesn't provide these directly to the bad guys). SMS can fall to bad guys hands easily:

1. Install OATH Toolkit.
2. Encrypt Swap space using eCryptFS.
3. Create a TrueCrypt file system with your 2FA keys in it.
4. Every time you need the code, mount (3), run(1), umount(3)

Again, this assumes the service provider doesn't provide the access directly to the bad guy.
> I can't even write a short bio without feeling like I'm stepping out of line.

150% agree. I had to write a bio when I judged a hackathon last month. It took 2 hours two write, what ultimately became one sentence.
Just pay attention to the messaging coming from some of these media sources. The gov't propaganda is growing less subtle; making it easier to identify who is working for whom.
Sounds like we need a campaign against the "Nothing to hide" line. You could probably point out to them that there are so many laws now, they probably broke 10 of them before they left for work in the morning.
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Funnily enough, Coke are already draining the wells of villages that do have them.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2006/mar/19/business.india1
Switching from  SysAdmin to Dev. How much salary should I ask for?
Hi all.
I'm finishing up my Masters in C.S. from a school that isn't in the top 20.

I was working as a system administrator for two years before I went for my Masters and now I want to switch over to Web Development.

So,with no software dev experience but an M.S. what kind of salary should I ask for at interviews?

Thanks for any help.
I used vim on windows, but only started to like it after I installed ubuntu.
I also installed JOE, which has a word-star emulator, a pico emulator and an emacs emulator.... but no vi emulator.
Does that mean JOE has a 'vile' hatred of vi?
Quantum mechanics is a manifestation of lazy simulation. Decide states with a coin flip when necessary.
Trail mix is elementary school crap, we trail Nazis have all moved to pemmican. Better density and energy content.
... that they will key escrow.

Doesn't mean you couldn't implement your own secondary key though. Sign it with your ID and use that key for key exchange and you've defeated the escrow.
I like iPad and iPhone as they are. Apple devices don't come with random crud from the third parties preinstalled. Windows computers have problematic things even in BIOSes: different software from companies that claim to "protect" your computer but can even provide remote access for third parties.
Low cost, high reward. Like I said, I was always home from work anyway (different time zone from Google), so I was just sitting in my room when the call didn't come. If an opportunity to work at a company like Google comes along, I'm willing to put up with some minor annoyances.

They have a post-interview review process, and I gave the recruiter an appropriately negative review.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what's to stop the security services demanding you reveal the password to your TrueCrypt partition?
This isn't a big surprise. The US really only has a few net-positive exports, and media products are one of the big ones (and military products, is another, iirc)
This right here is how patent medicines and the like continue to sell. Placebo is powerful.
Of course, remember that the Guardian was perfectly fine with the government harassing journalists

It's fairly simple:

Journalists who break the law to bribe police and others for information, hack voicemails of private individuals, and intrude on the privacy of individuals should be punished. These things are not in the public interest, there is no excuse for doing them just to make money by publishing the (often prurient) details of someone's life.

Journalists who shed light on what the state is doing (even if that means publishing secret documents), if they can argue that is in the public interest, should not.

Of course there are some grey areas between the two, but the constrast of Murdoch's News organisation bribing policemen and the Guardian publishing stories based on top-secret documents from a whistleblower is an edifying one I think.
Bah! Who cares who if Facebook or Google makes money if it's a net win for everyone. They make money but those using the service learn how to use the internet and a few learn more then that. Those few then figure out how to build their own ISP. It's a conversation and a conservation has to have two sides. This provides a reason for FB and Google to start the conversation. It's a rising tide that lifts everyones boats. Sure it's optimistic of me and maybe those that use FB's internet never rise above that but I doubt it and it's better than nothing.
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I can almost picture NSA analysts vulturing all over the private data collected of these enemies of the state.

How soon utnil they send out the drones into the foreign lands where they have not so great a political strongarm?

"Drone bombing in brazilian airport kills dozens"

"Sadly it was necessary as one of the passangers carried terrorist intel that would put our free world at risk"
Controversial article that made me think:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100231711/why-do...
> That simply limits myself and has no effect on them. (as stated by others, we are a tiny blob in Google's userbase. Our negativity does not even tickle them)

So just because Google doesn't care, people shouldn't complain? With that very same logic, nobody on HN should go voting, we're just a tiny blob of the world's population anyway, right?
That is an epic suggestion :-)

Although, given how much lawyers charge by the hour, I'm nt sure I could afford to log in to Twitter any more :-)
The author of Real World Haskell has a startup that uses Haskell. I don't remember the exact quote, but it is in part to weed out crappy developers. http://functionaltalks.org/2013/06/10/brian-osullivan-runnin...

Jane St. Capital also does this to some extent by using OCaml, but I don't think that was the primary motivation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox is quite likely ;) There's many other variables apart from the programming language itself that affect the salary. They can be only indirectly correlated with the language.
Dear me no!

http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com/

All of my news and info gathering, from about 20 sources, comes in to one place (RSSDemon) on my Android Phone and tablet, and then if I click on a subject to read more or see the comments thread my (boat) browser takes over - simple!

Two apps for everything.
add a prompt you say?
do you think anyone actually reads prompts? or do they just dismiss them as quickly as possible, since they're in the way of the actual task?
I would go even further and say that the lack of scroll bar in OS X has lead to lower uptake of read material.

Here is what scroll bar does for me:

1. It gives me instant feedback about the size of the document (the shorter the scrollbar the bigger the document).

2. It shows me rough position in the document.

3. Provides reading context (I'm 35% into the document and I'm reading on subject X) which aids memorizing the material.

I'm a mathematician and numbers are my thing. Some people use number memorizing technique where they walk through a familiar place and assign numbers to landmarks. And to recall numbers they walk the route again in their head and "read" the numbers off the landmarks. This is the technique those freaks that can recite thousands and thousand of decimals of Pi use.

In effect the scroll bar does the same for me. It's my landmark and I assign topics to its position which allows me to remember better. If I want to quickly re-read something weeks later I can open the document and within seconds get there just by scroll bar position. And one could say search would work here too, but often times it does not because I don't remember exactly the string I want to find in the document (and some documents are not searchable).

Once I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, I found the default scroll bar setting extremely bothersome and my read content retention much much lower until I put the scroll bars back.

So another anecdotal reason why dynamically showing/hiding UI elements is usually a bad idea.
Sense of adventure, by the looks of it.
Hacking into a baby monitor
In regards to your first paragraph, its a question I keep wondering. What was different about these leaks then all the previous? Why NOW are people caring?