skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to read other people's code and understand the intent behind it is one of the highest attainments for a professional programmer. It requires two difficult, but important and related capabilities: first, that one be dispassionate enough about one's own views to even accept that other views exist, and second, that one be capable of understanding how code works from reading it (and perhaps interacting with it with a debugger or logging statements).

So, rather than lambast people for not being able to read code, perhaps we'd do better to praise those who are particularly good at it, and encourage them to share their insights, if they have them.
> Aside from that, open salaries are pretty naive idea, if not completely dumb and dangerous.

In Sweden all salaries are public, look how awful they are doing.
Because they can. They've only raised a small angel round, so have no investors telling them what their salaries need to be.
You're the only one who's full of bullshit in this thread.

Well, you and the OP, assuming you're not the same person. I have a feeling you might be, though.
Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
I changed the title because it said "Millions" while it's not true, as explained in the article.
What do you think about Surespot?

https://www.surespot.me/documents/how_surespot_works.html
"official PHP engine is switched to HHVM, it would catapult performance past Python and Ruby in pretty much all scenario" <-- official php performs faster than ruby/python anyway!!
Diana Tribute Song for the first time ever in Urdu with English translation
This is the first tribute song made ever in Urdu language for the late Princess Diana. Pl enjoy and share! Thanks !
Liquibase is a fantastic tool, but the quick-start guide on the website leaves something to be desired. At first glance, this looks like a rather better prospect for getting started with it.
Author here: as I state in the article, every programmer is at least one of these at some point in their career, myself included.

I was definitely an Island as recently as a few years ago, and I've been an Artist before too. It's part of the learning process.
The stuff coming out of those computer algebra things is not always exactly the form you want to be stuffing in your code. Working it out manually focuses the mind.
That statistic is complete bunk.

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/one-in-four-lie...

Rape is a bigger threat to men.

http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US...

You knowingly perpetrate lies under a sexist agenda. You have absolutely no shame.
The difference is that nobody cares if a man felt the same way, nor would he feel a need to blog about it years later.
Welcome to Hacker News, home of the worlds largest contrarian user base.
Why I gave away my company to charity (2009)
There's nothing funny about either your lies or your sexism. They're terrible. You're terrible.
Oookay buddy. I didn't know about the prison statistics. I do now, and I even thanked you for providing the link. It has everything to do with the argument, because we're talking about online harassment, which you can't do or be a victim of if you're in prison.
Interesting, I never considered how that could spoil the surprise. I guess the most straightforward solution is to do private browsing when shopping for gifts. Pretty annoying since it won't have any of your saved data (logins, saved forms, etc.) but you don't have to worry about the ads.
Exactly this. Learning things word-by-word is pointless and unrewarding. Being familiar with them, however, is a great idea.
That's not the point. They knew that VHS provided a poor copy of the original film. But if someone saw a copy on video before the movie was in theaters or on TV, they would almost certainly consider the whole thing to be of lower quality.
No. You made a specific claim about women being the victims of rape more often. That got debunked as a lie, and yet you're repeating the claim all over the thread. You can't claim ignorance at this point. You're malicious.
Git with PowerShell
The point is, once you figure out what to do, you really appreciate the comfort of such interface.
How did those deaths affect your workplace? Do people try to hang out and talk more or do people generally just carry on normally?
I still am unable to understand the connection to religion.
Ask HN: Tried learning web dev for years, always painful. Maybe it's not for me?
For roughly 4 years I've tried to teach myself to program while in graduate school. I've been interested in transitioning into startups at some point in my life, pending I learn some basic programming skills. Over the years I've picked up beginner books, I've done tutorials, I've taken introductory courses online, I've completed Codecademy et al challenges, etc, all to no avail. I don't find it entertaining, or particularly stimulating. The number of tools and languages and commands and errors and settings and undiscovered answers I spend hours and hours trying learn feel wasted. I'll finish a tutorial (eg. rails) that walks you through the development of the most basic and isolated app, then find myself in a sea of uncertainty and confusion, not knowing how to handle the hundreds of configurations, commands, incompatibilities, etc that were never mentioned in the tutorial. So I'll drop it only to have that (perhaps romanticized) desire resurface a few months later. And I'll try again, get frustrated, abandon, rinse, repeat.

Maybe this just isn't for me, or maybe there's something wrong with my methodologies. I love startups, want to get involved, but feel my lack of tech skills will preclude me from ever being considered for a position.

I guess I'm looking for advice and anecdotes from people who themselves have felt the same and ditched programming, and perhaps from those who finally found the light.

Thanks,
Frustrated guy
OK this is my life too. But there are clever ways of unit testing statistical systems. Hey, not that I do all I say, just saying ;) Sometimes it saves many days.
> If someone calls me a "faggot", why would I get mad? I'm not a "faggot", so how can this persons words possibly shape me into one?

It's fortunate that you can simply choose not to identify with that particular insult, but what about people who do identify as homosexual? Or who are genderqueer?

Edit: Why does this matter? It's just especially shitty and dehumanizing when you identify as something that is seen as culturally acceptable to debase. Privilege is being able to dismiss things with "Hah! That's ridiculous! I'm not a Foo," which still allows room for and/or even implies the denigration of Foos.

That's not to say you should deviate from your fuck-the-haters approach. It's great that you and your mother have sufficiently thick skin to forge ahead in spite of ill-informed discrimination, but not everyone has the same fortitude. The cultural norms we establish can go a long way toward creating a better context for everyone.
I guess I rationalize spending the money for University in two ways:

First, the cliché: You are almost guaranteed to make enough money coming out of college to pay off debt incurred in a reasonable amount of time. Anything extra from that point is profit.

Second: Use college as a time to not only learn what is being taught, but also to explore your crazy interests that would never get the time of day if you weren't being fed, housed, and taken care of. There is so much about college that you really do gain aside from the degree.

Definitely look into financial aid if you haven't already. I had many friends attend their first year of college without exploring financial aid, only to discover that their next 3 years could be 50% cheaper.
Curated Vintage Hip Hop Music Videos
I think you should look up the definition of hate speech.
I timestamped a hash the other day at `18QX4nyBndkwmgisdeDi6Nhm69TaR7mDPi`. (But as I said, I can't guarantee I'll ever release this information.)
This has happened in my experience before, and it is one of the strongest reasons for good source control that is infrequently considered. It was a tragedy when a very wonderful and dear researcher in our group died suddenly, especially to his three children and wife that he left behind. It was also a great loss as well that we could never recover some key bits of source code from his computer, and that a very promising cancer drug trial was derailed because we couldn't articulate why the compounds were chosen for study in the first place.

He died of a heart attack at age 42 after pulling three 90+ hour weeks. It completely changed my attitude towards work. May he rest in peace.
I was under the impression that it was illegal to work for the federal government for free. It came up during the USG Shutdown hoopla, where workers had to expressly forbidden from anything work related.
This comment is not really fair [1] but when he writes "I get the safety of knowing I won't be the target of a frivolous lawsuit, since I have very little net worth" I had to wonder. I did the math to see that translates to an annuity of over a million a year. I don't know about you but I tend to think that if one lives simply with just 'a good apartment, a good laptop, and a few other basics' then (even after taxes) one's net worth would probably be increasing fairly rapidly over time. Even on only a million a year! Guess I'm feeling very Mrs Bennett right now, though fortunately I have no daughters to thrust in his direction ;_)

More power to Mr Sivers who has made a great choice of new location in my humble, but biased, opinion.

[1] This is not really worthy of our hero D Sivers because as he notes 5% a year was apparently the minimum allowed.
I don't think it was sarcasm.
Someone has a chip on their shoulder about Python.
commonly called the bus factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Are you there with friends at all? I'm just curious because for me I always want to be near friends and family, but know that for some people they would rather do something new and exciting.
What about them? How does being called a faggot hurt someone who is, in fact, a faggot?
Mother Fukushima
When I was working for an Indian out sourcing giant we had a 9 floored building each with a wide gallery. I liked working beyond 8pm and when I was about leave at 9pm I noticed a small crowd near one of the parking entrance.

Soon found that someone had jumped from one of those galleries. An sms from the individual to his elder brother blamed the extreme work pressure. Knowing his team and manager, surely that did not seem to be the case.
> We also can't ask the corrupt official whether he wants his communication to be traceable and seizable, yet cryptography enables him.

I take the point, but communications privacy is much more of a cultural norm than an individual choosing whether or not to pay tax. We could live in a world of communications privacy far more easily than a world without government.

Also, from a technical point of view, communications are pure data (with an origin and a destination), a currency is much, much more. The ability to hide data is not enough to make a currency functional.
What an incredibly misleading title.
Happened to me once early in my career.

I was working as tech support at a manufacturing plant. As I'd be walking around a lot fixing things I got to know everyone fairly well.

Manuel was the production manager. A nice guy, always seemed relaxed but always got shit done. He had been working there for about six months.

One morning I get in and hear the news from the somewhat insensitive IT manager, can't even remember how he said it, just remember not liking him at all after that.

About an hour earlier Manuel had been waiting at a round-a-bout. A semi carrying a load of fuel comes down from an off ramp approaching the round-a-bout and the breaks begin to fail. The truck driver attempts to veer but then the trailer starts to skid and pivot.

It crashed to the ground in front of Manuel's car and everything explodes.

I drive past where it happened every time I go to visit my folks. It's been at least 15 years. Someone is still putting flowers there.
Nobody should accept any premise from you. You are a shameless, serial liar.
I guess the point I was making is that there are a few toxic online communities, but a large majority are not anywhere near the cesspit the article describes. If you just avoid those it really isn't a problem (the games they center around really aren't that interesting anyways for most).
I think the crux of it is despite being a gamer, the author wants to distance himself while criticizing said "gamers" from his high horse. Also, the author admits to avoiding multiplayer so it's mostly his opinion on secondhand information from female gamers (selected from a pool of the most offensive stuff).

Not saying that etiquette isn't an issue but this article doesn't really advance the cause. However, the way you call out the behavior and setting an example is really the only viable solution.
That's something I wondered after I had already submitted the story; I apologize if winds up being misleading. I feel the page is noteworthy either way.

Edit: the title's been changed
Check timestamps?
I've had this twice. Once to a car accident on the motorway in 2002. Once to a bizarre form of leukaemia such that (from our perspective) the guy had back pain on Thursday, and died over the Easter weekend by Tuesday in 2009.

Still think of them both from time to time. Some of my now-ex colleagues still comment on the anniversary of their passing on Facebook. I don't think I could honestly remember the dates if they didn't... Their names always stick with me though.
The issue during the shutdown was that it was illegal for them to create a financial obligation for the government during the shutdown by working a job that was supposed to be paid.
Less flashy perhaps, but he owns the obligatory private island, Porsche collection, and a couple hundred million worth of art and artifacts.
It seems people are already downplaying this because it's volunteer. However, this is actually an awesome opportunity. First thing I see in the job posting [1] is "Security Clearance: Secret". That Secret is worth quite a bit, especially for technical positions at government contractors. That's money in the bank in the long term and can almost always guarantee a job.

Secondly, the best way to get a technical government position (it's pretty competitive), whether it's at a federal laboratory or DHS, is to get to know the right people. Yes, it's more about who you know than what you know.

[1] https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/356670600
Even the federal government evades having to pay their interns. The DHS is looking for 100 unpaid student volunteer assignments. Oh please, having to take a free internship in one of the highest paying fields, cyber security, is ridiculous. And then having the audacity to call it an Honor's program is just abusive.
In Norway too!
"a bunch of local yokels ordered around by some set of corrupt local politicians would be allowed to run around with military grade hardware ..."

This won't last long. When municipalities find out how much it costs to maintain these "freebies" they'll put them out for bid. You can buy one and park it on your deer-hunting lease.
I suppose it is true that when we turn 40 our brains rot. All we care about is keeping kids off of our lawn and catching the early-bird special.

Many people don't like to share their salary - not because they wouldn't "dare" as if they are cowardly or not as enlightened as you. Some people find talking about personal salary or wealth to be distasteful - like a braggart yammering on about his expensive possessions. If you have no economic diversity in your group of friends then it's probably no big deal, but otherwise you likely are making people feel ashamed and unsuccessful. Some people might feel it's rude and unnecessary to discuss your salary unless there is some reason to do so.

I don't personally have a problem with a fair and consistent formula for salaries within a company, and people within my company may be able to deduce what I make. It's not a power trip thing. But I don't really want my salary mandatorily posted on the web for every random friend or stranger to investigate. Unless I'm working in the public sector it's my own choice and my own business.
for what it's worth, i wanted to buy your crosswords on android, but your version there is incredibly dumbed down. I finally got an old ipad a few months ago so finally bought it there.
Dealertrack to buy Dealer.com in $1 billion deal
Does this mean that you were unable to recover Alice's message?
What, you think I'm willing to use anything else ever since I read this?
http://www.amazon.com/ML-Working-Programmer-Larry-Paulson/dp...
Sorry for your lost job. In all honesty though, I don't think ARM in the data centre will ever be anything more than a niche product. Considering Intel is 2 manufacturing processes ahead, the microarchitecture and any potential advantages there won't even really come into play, and Intel's not exactly any slouch either. If 64bit ARM came out a year ago, there might have been a fighting chance, but any chances of a major uptake pretty much died with the release of Avoton. That may very well have been why the next round of funding fell through. Intel's next two generations, Broadwell and Skylake, are both heavily focused on reducing power consumption, and achieving parity with their peformance/watt would be enough of a challenge, let alone creating a significant enough advantage to take away a real amount of market share.

Best of luck on your next venture.
Communities don't form in a vacuum, site ownership abetted, if not encouraged, the reddit culture:

A few years ago, while Jailbait was still going strong, Reddit's administrators gave him a special one-of-a-kind "pimp hat" badge to honor his contributions to the site, which he proudly displayed on his profile. Brutsch said he was even in the final running for a job as a customer support representative at Reddit last year.

(http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...)
Sure , but that's the entire debate. In that example it's easy, of course you'd rather cause a child a little discomfort rather than let them get run over. But what about more serious examples? Would you support the people behind 9/11 if it lead to less deaths overall over an X year period? If yes, would everyone?

It's easy to make your decision when the potential downside (a child cries for 5 minutes) is so minor and the potential upside (a child gets saved from dying) is so much bigger in comparison - it only becomes an interesting debate when you up the stakes considerably. For example, the debate about whether what Mandela did, back in his "terrorrist" days, was justified.
No, no — I think Bill Gates is absolutely genuine. I think those who may follow in his footsteps will be less so.
"The point is that the gaming community is driving away women with this behavior", I havent seen any studies or research to suggest that women stop playing games after being harassed, no more or less than men.
Thanks for reaching out to me! I just replied to your email with more details, but this is fixed now - I was incorrectly placing the 'doctype' after some javascript, causing IE9 to fall back to 'quirks mode', which seems to disable css and js. Since js is used to load the results, the results never loaded.
> You seem to imply that just because the employees know all the salaries, they have more control. This is not accurate.

No. I'm saying that because the employees know all the salaries, the employer has less control.

The employer can no longer dictate terms and make secret differing deals with different parties.
This. To suggest that Putin's Russia is a freedom-loving country beggars belief.
I think I was misunderstood — he's very genuine, and has always been. The copycats, though, are more unlikely to be.
I can't believe I interviewed Walt Mossberg
Dang right it was flawed!
Especially the part about being able to smoke banana peels.
No buzz and this (then) 16 year old had a sore throat for a week!
Married with a baby. But other than that, I don't know anyone here. That was part of the appeal. I prefer solitude right now.
I am homosexual. I really don't care if someone calls me a faggot. What's it to them? If someone cares enough about something as intangible as my sexuality to make a flippant comment, I pity them.

The only reason you ever have to get up in arms is of consequences stemming directly from the sexism. Then there's an actual problem.

> but not everyone has the same fortitude.

That's too bad. Sink or swim. Everyone is much too hyper sensitive from growing up in such a protected and privileged culture.

People often forget that in the end, it's you vs them, crying about it on your blog and writing to newspapers and starting all these silly little groups and protests does not do shit.

Keep your head down, play the game, and when/if you come into a position of power, deal the cards you've been holding on to. That is how society works, and that is how everyone who ever came into a position of power has played the game, men and women alike. In fact my boss is a short fat black woman and I work in the investment sector.

If my mom and coworkers made it, so can you, and if you can't, then that is your problem and something you need to work actively to change, not society.

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The reality is people ARE going to have different opinions, good and bad. People WILL make sexist jokes. People will berate you for your gender, just because they can. People will do all sorts of shit. You have to accept that no matter what someones stance is, whether it's wrong in your mind, it is still their right.

It is entirely up to you how to choose to react to it.
Just yesterday I was nearly run over by a taxi (in Seattle, what?) running a red light. As I realized he wasn't stopping I thought to myself, "at least all my code is checked in and pushed".

True story.
The story (and code) behind Square Cash's holiday theme
Beware of Coinbase. They Reversed My BTC Sale
I sold 5 BTC on December 6th: http://d.pr/i/n9Zc

Couple of days later the BTC showed up again in my account saying they needed to "offset" my transaction which makes no sense because I originally purchased the BTC using Coinbase. I let it be. On December 13th I got a notice saying that the sale had finally completed and so I waited hoping any day my bank account would be credited with $4,118.94.

Instead of the money, they added a transaction to my account saying that I had "Purchased" 5 Bitcoins which I never did. So now instead of having sold 5 BTC at $832. I'm holding 5 BTC at a much lower price which I never wanted. How convenient Coinbase. You obviously benefited from my sale because you sold my coins to someone. And now you conveniently added it back into my account since the price is lower.

The worst part of all this is that I have opened support tickets, tweeted at them, wrote an email directly to the CEO Brian Armstrong. And there is nothing but silence. I even wrote a blog post: amit.roon.io/an-open-letter-to-coinbase

Things can go wrong in a fast growing startup but ignoring customers is the worst thing you can do.
You need to stop using hate speech.
Around 26 years ago, I was working on some C code that was ported from assembler. It was too long ago to remember the actual bug, but I was stumped how a certain variable "C" was getting set. I wasn't set explicitly anywhere in the code.
It turns out that is was declared like this:

int A, B, C;

and it was being set something like this:

int* pA = &A; // pointer to contents of "A"

pA[2] = 3; // WTF?

A,B, and C where assumed to be contiguous in memory and the code was treating "C" like the 3rd item in an array starting at "A".
http://blog.pricecharting.com/2012/09/emilyami-sexism-in-vid...

Not as academic as I'm sure we'd both like, but there's not a lot of funding for studies that deal with online harassment.