skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if I'm agreeing or disagreeing with you, but I'd say this is exactly why programmers will do fine for a long time to come.

What we do, assuming we're not cranking out wordpress sites with existing templates, is solve problems. And so when we find ways to automate particular common scenarios for, say, certain types of websites (which I suppose Rails and the many CMS' do), we have probably already moved on because we were bored cranking out these things in favor of solving problems.

Contrast that with the auto industry. Car building may be hard, but much of the job loss in this industry consisted of work that was easily automated, and not solving problems.

Furthermore, part of this 'problem solving', in my experience, involves a lot of interaction with other people. This is not easily replaced by outsourcing to skilled programmers who are 1) non-native culturally and linguistically, and 2) far away.

In a way, we are better compared to plumbers or mechanics, 'full-stack problem solvers'.
I'm a Unity fan-boy. Deploys to almost every modern platform and uses a "code-once" approach so porting from Android to IPhone to PC to Linux is largely straightforward.

It lets you code in a subset of javascript or c# 3.0 and favors composition over inheritance. Just an incredible tool for productivity and the learning curve is pretty gentle. It also has a large community and a bunch of plug and play assets available in a built in marketplace. Be sure and check it out.
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I think this is a good thing. Let me explain.

1) You can think that there are hundreds of OTHER things worth pursuing, instead of spending time on a project that is very hard to complete, expensive, and benefits (initially) only a small fraction of the world's population.
Myself, I'd rather improve public trasportation in both SF and LA, instead of focusing on the Hyperloop.
But there are people willing to spend some time to tinker with the idea. Let them do it.

2) They might not be successful, but they are sparking a discussion on transportation, technology, and government. Having a discussion is healthy, and needed.

Good luck!
Which is a much easier problem to solve. I suppose this web server is in the same LAN, or at least whitelisted, so send the email directly to the institution's SMTP server, which is presumably not an open relay.
Yes a bunch of morons. I would even ask them to write everything in 1's and 0's to see what they really know.
Really great way of learning the overall concepts of Go, but that code should have been gofmt'd!
The article and Fowler's Refactoring book had a similar effect on me as well. Your point about statically typed programming languages is one that I've been feeling the brunt of, though I'm not convinced yet.

I've been 100% python for the last few years, after a career mostly in Java and I definitely miss the sweeping refactoring abilities and hard-breaks during those kinds of refactorings. It does lend courage for sure. I'm just SO MUCH MORE productive in python for most of what I do that I'm not willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater yet. Instead I've been trying to focus on leveling up test coverage, and experimenting with Rope for refactorings ( http://rope.sourceforge.net/ ). I'm also slowly learning patterns for coding to make refactorings easier moving forward.. choosing code and data structures that are more easily affect-able later, or even things as simple as naming things for grep-ability.
Oh yes I do.

Sounds like you think the IRA were freedom fighters. Did you donate?

So, what is your definition of "nearly". The cabinet were in a hotel that had the holy crap blown out of it. What injuries would be good enough for you for "nearly"? We they not hurt enough for your definition? Or was it soem sort of collateral damage?

As it happens, I despised that Thatcher Tory government with a passion and always will. Trouble is, I tend to think targeting and NEARLY killing an entire government is probably worse.

On the other hand, two of my close relatives got hit by Harrods building materials as that blew up, and I was personally 15 mins off being blown up in the Guildford pub bombing. I experienced what US funded IRA were capable of.

Incidentally, to really mess with your head, I sort of support the idea of a united Ireland. Problem is, neither mainland Uk or Ireland actually wanted Northern Ireland... Glad we got the solution of self governance. It was always my logical solution. Govern yourself, and if you still want to blow each other up, well, go for it. Or, govern.

Buy yes my friend, I know a thing or two about Northern Ireland. And I will never ever forget, especially in this US age of "Terror", that the IRA were funded by American dollars, freely given by American people, not in any way frustrated by the US government.
Firefox OS already uses the same model, push notifications will fire up the application, the application can then decide to create a notification, to update the internal cache to reflect the latest changes; it's called the Simple Push API[1]. It can also wake up the application every X minutes to pull the data (Alarms API[2]) and do the same thing.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Simple_Push

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Alarm
I went over there with the kids this lunchtime - pretty amazing heat focused into the street. Lots of journalists and TV news crews around, including one frying an egg. My youngest son found the heat too much, and ran down the street screaming "I'm burning, I'm burning!", so naturally the press then converged on us...

The funny thing is that the focal point is literally just round the corner from the Monument which indicates where the great fire of London started.
What they really need now is a roof of photovoltaic panels along the pavement, and they can really cash in on it.

Here's what it looked like today:
https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/375265729060163584/p...
Unity3D is the current hot tool. You can use C# or an ECMAscript flavor called Unity Script. There's also quite a list of growing HTML5 game engines. Beyond that, there's really nothing stopping you from finding an opengl binding for the language you love and writing something simple.
It's owned by LandSec. They don't give two hoots what they build, or how they build it, as due to their "special status", they make great gobs of cash for anything they build, regardless of whether it's commercially viable, suitable, needed, and so-forth.
IMO iOS 7 is a textbook case of fixing something that's not broken.
Why do you think that they didn't think about it? That's pretty silly.

I'm guessing that you haven't built tall buildings before (I certainly haven't) but it seems perfectly plausible to me that precautions were taken (coating/shape/etc.) but for various unexpected reasons they were insufficient.

Smart people make big things and big things can have big mistakes.

It's sad that its so easy for some people to invent unintelligent straw-men to mock in internet comments.
This is clearly fake as the Sun never shines in London.
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The website already seems to be down (it has always been dead slow)…

So what other OpenID providers are there?
Many Python programs have native dependencies as well. Also, what you suggest isn't at all compiled into one thing I can hand to a customer.
Well you'd initially fund a scaled-down prototype, not try to build the whole thing immediately from scratch.
>To me, hundred high-quality audio channels with lossless compression sounds not "INSANE" but "still less than the video".

Well, 100 audio channels 50% lossless compressed files would go about 60 GB for a 2-hour movie. So not really "less than the video".

And that's for 16/44.1 lossless. For 24/96 adjust accordingly.

(Of course not all 100 channels will have sound playing all the time -- except if we're talking for a musical or rock concert video. But it gives a taste of the max storage requirements).
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If you believe in equal protection under the law the fact that he's an asshole is irrelevant.
http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-working-more-than-40...

The studies showed that there's a short term gain followed by a fall in productivity.
Kim Dotcom's Mega resignation is a stepping stone into politics
I've noticed that architects, at least below median architects, generally ignore...

It's my experience that most architects, and certainly most "below median" architects, only ever design one building. Everything they design is a variation on the same theme, whether it's a bank or a house or a library (and certainly if it's the ninth house they've designed this year). Their theme might evolve slowly over time, but it's rare to find an architect capable of producing actually-new work based only on the client's wishes and the requirements of construction. This is why you're best off finding an architect whose buildings you like rather than trying desperately to convince any particular architect to change her style.

So, if most feasible designs do not have this light-focusing property, most architects will never run into the problem. However, an uncreative architect who does somehow produce this effect, may be expected to do so repeatedly. Hmmm, that seems to accord with the record here.
The use of "they" to refer to one person is incorrect. Maybe things have changed since I was in school, though I'm 20 so I doubt it, but it was never correct to use "they" instead of "he" or "she". The reason it sounds wrong is because it is wrong.
is there place or link that explains bitcoin in pure english, i'm so pissed off that i'm unable to understand thoroughly.
I do not disagree with you entirely, but I think what nuances the statement that 'programming is hard' is that this doesn't mean that other jobs aren't hard in other ways.

I believe programming does require above-average critical/logical thinking and continuous learning. On the other hand, it often requires less social thinking or management.

I have no problem saying that I'm a better programmer because most people are just sloppy and not as inherently curious and inclined to love clear, discrete problems and solving them. It doesn't make me arrogant, because I have huge amounts of respect for (some of) the project managers above me who have to deal with complicated schedules, higher-ups fucking up their shit, and managing prissy developers, designers, and whatnots who suck at communicating and collaborating.
It's not js that's the issue, it's the fact that the server can change the code at any time without the user being notified. So mega can backdoor its own encryption code at any time to retrieve your keys.

It's broken by design, it's not a flaw of js per se.
I'm guessing they don't realize much of anything related to the work they're looking to have done.
Hmm. Can an art gallery copyright the organization of art on their wall? What if it increases their revenue, and is an inherently creative act?

If someone bought a bunch of prints of the same art, tacked it to some dry wall in the same layout and sold it at a flea market -- would it be copyright infringement? If they blatantly copy the name of the gallery as well, I'd argue it as trademark infringement -- not copyright infringement. But again, this is the UK. I'm only lay-familiar with US copyright.

Some would argue the Java API took an immense amount of creativity to build. Doesn't mean it's copyrightable.

Some would argue that a cake is a cake is a cake, others that it takes a great amount of creativity to create a truly amazing cake recipe. Still doesn't mean you can copyright a recipe.

Just because creativity is involved doesn't make something inherently copyrightable.
If you are using CLASSPATH for Java you are doing it wrong. Full dependency jars with every class needed is really the only way to do this reliably. That requires only a single file to be passed around. You can even include native libraries in it. Hadoop is a nightmare, I agree. They are doing it wrong.
The obvious positive side of this is that existing cables will support the new spec without being replaced... Says so right there in the doc.

I'd rather stick with the same form factor and cables than replace everything at some insane cost. Not to mention the awkwardness of supporting 2 types of inputs on a receiver/amp/switcher to maintain legacy compatibility.
can you clarify something.

when you say 'typos matter', what you mean is that there was a correlation between 'typos' and whether Trialpay hired the candidate? The resumes with the least typos turned out to be the ones Trialpay hired (presumably because the technical team judged them to be the best candidates).

That's different from saying the candidates with the least 'typos' turned out to be the best engineers.
I finally got your point. It s a great idea indeed. Actually it was already part of the growth plan to target people with hiring powers. We were thinking of various ways to target people in hiring positions and get them here. Our options now include separate employer signups, thanks for the idea.
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Go isn't a Lisp, last I checked. I am referring to "Pair" as a class/interface in an OO language. If you're using Pair to construct a linked list in a OO language, I salute you, but that's even more of an anti-pattern.

Pair is an OO anti-pattern because it's an arbitrary grouping of two things in a generic container, and you shouldn't do that in OO - classes are cheap. You should make a class that represents what the collection of those two things actually are. Typical field names in generic Pair objects are 'left' and 'right' or 'first' and 'second' which tells you nothing about the values you stick into them (except the types, if you're using a strongly typed language). If, as suggested in the example, the pair holds a 'x' and a 'y', a better choice could be to call it "Point" or even "Point2D". If it's a key/value pair from a map data structure it should be "Entry" with fields "key" and "value" - etc.
For me it wasn't even usable. I can understand some glitches here and there. Most of time, it just froze or crashed when I only had a few tabs open.

"bleeding edge" to me is more than just being able to use a product for an hour at time.
Video projectors has also been "mainstream" for years and scream for 4K technology.

> I think it's a mistake to assume the existing sizes and viewing distances will remain the same into the future.

Exactly!
All this time I thought that building is going to be The Shard built upside-down.
There are 9 million millionaires in America. If each of them commmitted just $67,000 it would exceed Musk's budget...by a factor of 100!

iow each millionaire would have to commit just $670. Wow.

We need a kickstarter for millionaires, and oh btw everyone could join even without being a millionaire. And it could be open world-wide.

Why not do this?

It seems somehow more reasonable than a $6B Indiegogo project.... (Which would be hilarious.)
You would assume the versions of anything the NSA uses is significantly modified or different than the versions in public... these guys [allegedly] have the best cryptographers, mathematicians and programmers in the world on their payroll. You can assume that anything you have in your hands is either completely insecure or only trivially secure in comparison to anything the NSA has.

I'm willing to bet that the best security mechanisms you have at your disposal have been cracked, breached or otherwise compromised. I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that they hold secret mathematical breakthroughs that render half or all of the encryption algorithms the public are aware of useless.
Responding to emails seems like a good idea if the response is useful. Email isn't bad in and of itself.
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The zero value for a map is nil. The zero value for a struct is a valid struct whose fields are all zeroed. So for pair, that would be (0, 0). The zero value for a pointer is nil. If you had said `var p *pair`, then it would be a pointer to pair, and it would be nil, and you would get a nil panic error.
Unity looks nice. It's a shame I'm on Linux. Maybe it's worth it to dual-boot.
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The key sentence you buried there is "It's particularly difficult to meet every requirement/feature/bug of the old system".

Because that is precisely the point that Joel is trying to make. My whole job consists of doing that for code that will never, ever be 64 bits or multicore, and therefore had to go. But it is painful. Avoid it if possible.
Any comment is always better than 'No comment' . I appreciate your feedback.
Here is a link to the book. Yeah, I'm pretty shameless but haven't done much promotion yet :-)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rapid-Rubyist-ebook/dp/B00DPQ5P24
They'll join this thread in a while and call us all novices for not understanding that this is deliberate, well tested, and our fault.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166886
There's simply no room for the scenario you're proposing. The math of curved reflectors is reasonably simple. What kind of "unexpected reasons" could possibly cause this problem?

Maybe this guy did think about it. Maybe he's not stupid? But that's worse for him, because it means he knew what would happen and didn't care.

This is on about the same level as dropping a piano from the top of the building and crushing whatever was below at the time. It's so basic that there's no way to say that it was unforeseeable, so either the person dropping the piano failed to think about gravity, or they didn't care about the damage they did.
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It's reasonable that most people are assuming this is yet another boring jab at the ignorance that's somehow unique to us.

I could do the same and ask people to name a city in Georgia other than Atlanta, Athens, or Savannah. A lot of people won't be able to do that. I don't think anyone in Bogart or Carl is going to lose sleep over it, and I don't think it would tell you anything about the people surveyed.
That pretty much means that the biggest owner of patents for mobiles does not manufacture them anymore. Thus the mutually assured destruction does not hinder them anymore.

I'm not surprised if we'll see a bunch of patent lawsuits against everyone else except Microsoft within an year.
"Within 30 seconds, the back of my legs were burning. My first thought was, 'Jesus, they destroyed the ozone layer!'"
This is from 2000. People need to stop posting old articles without putting a date in the title.
Just what I want: every developer of the 200 apps I have on my phone thinking theirs is the most important one and trying to take over my entire phone every 20 minutes to background process.

The self-centered perspective of the article is even slightly disturbing, basically implying that their app needs to pre-load data because it's so important and can't make the user wait. A common perspective, sure, but this is the tragedy of the commons in app form.

This will require some careful government.
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Article and discussion on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436614
In Amsterdam, it activates the clicking sound for blind people. Very convenient if you're blind, I presume (I've never been blind for long enough to give it a try).
They could have an extra layer. The outside layer would absorb light, heating the air between in the middle, causing a chimney effect. Put turbines in and they're generating some energy.

This might be stupid, but I'm off-the-cuffing after hearing about seawater greenhouses. (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/sep/02/alternati...)
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> But you didn't use the word she in any of your response, so how could have you have needed to refactor anything from he? You might make at least some effort to keep your story straight from one sentence to the next. Honestly.

I refactored all usages of "he" to be completely neutral. There is no "he" or "she" being used, except when referencing the word itself. Perhaps you should think critically before insinuating someone else is a liar. Honestly.

> Also, you have a sexist learned behaviour as part of your language, you know about this and can decide yourself if it is worth giving a shit about. Learning the behaviour doesn't make you sexist, but not giving a shit about it might.

I guess I must be a sexist since I use the word "he" by default since my native tongue doesn't have a gender neutral singular pronoun. Sorry for being a lazy bastard and taking the "he" shortcut instead of the other linguistically cumbersome routes English offers to be gender neutral and thus not an irredeemable sexist.
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Oh, I agree with that: less than 10% (with variatons from country to country). Still plenty though, and (I'd say) more than would know the same thing in the states.

As for knowing just simple facts about DRC, like where it is located and having a vague idea of it's past with Belgium etc, the percentage would be quite higher.
Ask HN: Sudoku Island, launching my webapp.  What to do from here?
http://www.sudokuisland.com

After countless hours of loving labor, I'm finally ready to release this off my hands. I'm really excited to share this on HN and can't wait to see a response. I'd appreciate any kind of feedback, whether it's technical, design, or launch strategy.

What would you do from here?

My main problem now is that my app doesn't have much content, nor am I interested in constantly writing content, so it is difficult to get ranked in Google. To that end, I created a widget others can put on their site or blog to get links. I also added share buttons upon puzzle completion.

My goal for this site is simply to rank on the first page of Google and run by itself as I move on to other projects.

Lastly, how do I compare to an industry developer? I come from a different field and taught myself to code. Am I good enough to look for a junior role?

Thanks HN!
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The model is fairly similiar on Android too, for what it's worth.
Clickable: http://www.sudokuisland.com
Widget: http://www.sudokuisland.com/widget
One of those fakes cost me my contract. I bought a USB key from a big box store. And used it to store some client work on it. Brought it into their office and nothing worked. I tested it on my servers and everything was fine. A few days later after constantly trying to debug it I copied the version from my USB key to my servers and bam! I finally get the same errors as the client.

In the end I wasted needless hours and missed a deadline over a $20 USB key (you know the cheap ones they keep at the checkout line).
HTML5 looks nice. I want to make a game where users can mod it easily and maybe download mods (scripts) from a server to store them locally. Is that possible with HTML5?
That's a little silly though.
How is it our fault that there is only one British city that matters?

(Says the guy who lives in Sacramento)