skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Billboards That Drop Angels On Your Head
sanxiyn is actually a Samsung employee, and on their behalf has contributed to Rust in the past. IIRC he's not currently employed to work on Rust, though he's still an active community member.
Being fired is very different from being laid off. In the latter case, there's no reason not to tell you that say your job is being outsourced.
I'll give Wunderlist a vote, its simple and cross platform. When taking notes never over complicate.
Correct, that's why I wrote $10B and not $4B * 1.15^12 = $21B.
Coworker had this at a dayjob recently - it involved a full screen Windows Remote Desktop run from a Citrix Remote Desktop, on a bad day run from another remote desktop.
If you didn't move the mouse enough: the connection did indeed fail. The connection took 4-5 minutes anyway, so quite annoying.
- Sledgehammer to CPU. Torch the data-centre. Kidnap the users.

- Roll your own crypto. Claim unbreakable. Hold contest. Post on HN.

- Army of four-year olds.

- Invite NSA to design committee.
Once you understand the space of possible programming languages you can often learn a new one in just a week or two, I learnt Go over the last two weeks and it is so similar to C there wasn't much friction involved and I am already getting things done pretty comfortably. As always on such occasion I must recommend the book "Programming Language Pragmatics" for getting a good understanding of various possible language semantics.

What is harder and crucial for productivity is remembering a wide subset of the standard (at least) library, and this is much harder. I wrote non-trivial software in C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby and Lisp/Scheme, but I only really know by heart the standard library in Ruby, because I do it for a living currently, and a fair bit of the Java one, in other languages I have to look up things all the time.
I think we need to remove that complexity and find a simpler approach to things, not just "better" (more complex) tools to layer even more complexity on top of complex.
"The opinion" needs to have a multitude of expressions. Philosophical papers should be able to re-capitulate the point. If the opinion is expressed once and only in the introduction, that is a problem — it looks like a stroke of luck.

Look at Kant's Groundwork or Sidgwick's Method: you have an almost desperate attempt at finding just the right way and right context in which to normatively ground a proposition.

Look at Heideggar, look at Nietzsche. Even look at Orwell. The "opinion" is the "point", and the point has to be teased, flipped, tossed, rejected, restored, restated. A paper that makes its opinion in one statement is like a kid in class who accidentally blurts out the right answer.
Dictating the text is an extraordinary advice! I (still) didn't manage to build a decent blog, but I do write a lot. When I started to think about the text as if I were simply going through what I wanted to speak with someone, it was liberating.

On the other hand, though, I do understand the need to use the five paragraph structure (or, here in Brazil, the "three sections structure"). I, just as you, was usually pretty annoyed with these formulaic approaches to text, until I've had to re-learn all this essay writing stuff for my masters. In my college, professors and students are pretty close and debate is (really) stimulated, so I decided to throw my ramblings onto the writing professor (a very good writer, indeed). I used José Saramago (a portuguese Nobel prize winner that uses commas as periods, writes giant paragraphs, all the weird stuff) as my "strong" example, thinking it would shed the formalized structure argument to pieces and I would rise triumphantly from the talk with a Portuguese PhD specialized in text analysis. It didn't take me so long to realize why she had her PhD, and that her point of view was pretty convincing and, of course, well structured.

Kaboom! And I was illuminated. She agreed with each of my complaints. But then she proceeded to show me some texts from the beginning of the semester, comparing them with texts from the end of the semester. They were, in general, much clearer, concise, straight to the point - in one word, better. She argued that a course like that was intended to make people that do not write start to write something intelligible, comprehensible. It was not a course on creative writing. Therefore, the need for simplified rules and structures.

I do understand that this was the OP's whole point: upon reading his colleague's text, he judged it based on the rules he had learned. Then, when he talked to the other teacher, he realized that the main point of a text is to communicate something, irrespective of the number of paragraphs it has or the position of the goddamn thesis.

This rambling of mine is just to point to the other side: rules are important in some specific moments of the development of a proto-writer :)

That happens with all kinds of expressive, communicative actions we humans perform (in my opinion): photography, painting, music, poetry... All of them have some (or plenty of)rules. But these rules are not meant to be used as a "ruler" to judge if a work is good or bad, they are just a compass to guide the noobs :)
"Comparing men and women job-by-job conceals the fact that men still dominate many of the highest-paying jobs. PayScale studied more than 120 occupation categories, from "machinist" to "dietician." Nine of the ten lowest-paying jobs (e.g.: child-care worker, library assistant) were disproportionately female. Nine of the ten highest-paying jobs (e.g.: software architect, psychiatrist) were majority male. Nurse anesthetist was the best-paid position held mostly by women; but an estimated 69 percent of better-paid anesthesiologists were male."

Blasphemy, I know, but it was your link.

edit: This is exactly the case I made, and it is the conclusion to the reference. I don't know what kind of dissonance it takes to downvote me for pointing it out.
Sure, pulling off a hack, if that makes you feel better.

Where does it say he needed to go to the network closet to regain net access? It sounds like the admins didn't have him on their radar until after he had planted his download box. It just seems like a convenient place to leave a computer downloading things for a long time.
http://www.yandex.com is a real competitor
The 'system' they are trying to game is Google's system - tuned to maximize the profitability of Google's ad business. It's not some benevolent public good that is being 'gamed' here.
I always wanted a tablet PC, but mainly for the resistive touch. I continue to be in the silent majority that wishes Apple would add fine-point stylus support to the ipad (via resistive touch or any other technology).
Every single startup I've worked for, one of the objectives was to befriend Matt Cutts so you would have a quick line to getting stuff like this fixed. Seems like a reasonable amount of power to give one person/company...
But a paper about King Lear is not in the business of "informing people". It's not informational, it's dialectical.
The editor in one note is way better than Evernote, which is a constant frustration with anything even remotely complicated like a checklist or numbered list. It's too bad they don't have an osx client.
There's a whole issue of what the definition of 'using google' is to people. Even if I never search with Google, I'm still often using google stuff - or, more precisely, Google services are using/tracking me. And there's no obvious way to turn it off or opt out of it.
IIRC, older versions of Excel didn't work that way. The OP talks about "a few years ago", so it may have been with an older version that didn't work that way.

I have never been able to remember how Excel and Word for Windows handle multiple windows, as it changed in subtle ways (can you alt-tab between Excel documents. Between Word ones? Do documents appear in the taskbar, or windows, or just Excel?) between versions, as Word and Excel within an Office version do not appear to behave 100% the same, and I as I tended to encounter different versions, for example when helping a friend, or when using RDP to a different server (yes, we had servers with Office installed, and we didn't even use them for COM controls) at work.
Meet The 20-Year-Old Millennial Making A Living Off Facebook
How Python 3 Should Have Worked (2012)
So many are commenting on how it "looks" and if they were as fashionable as sunglasses that it would become mainstream.

I couldn't see this being farther from the truth. If it was a useful product in its current incarnation then people would be using it. I think the real problem is as of right now it just isn't that useful.
Nice draw
Check out NoteCasePro. It's the only solution I could find that allows me to sync an encrypted file myself that I could open in Android and Linux (/windows/mac). It has a ton of advanced features, but I just use the basics like hierarchies and image embedding.
I think those that have been paying attention know this. If it is bad from one party it is bad from another.
However, perhaps this is a calculated attempt to rally TV conservatives around the cause. It may not be completely accurate, but it might work.
It is true that Obama is limited in what he can do, but apparently he isn't even willing to do that.

The Obama administration has decided to preserve a controversial arrangement under which a single military official is permitted to direct both the National Security Agency and the military’s cyberwarfare command despite an external review panel’s recommendation against doing so, according to U.S. officials.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-...
Thanks. Now we've done it again
I don't know why this is still disputable, and seems to be such a contentious issue.

It seems like everybody who does dispute healthy food costing more is

a) basing this on their own experience as a single mid 20's male
b) not taking into account the cost of time
c) fancies themselves as a cook

Considering that most families in Europe and America are two income ones, considering that retailers such as Tesco openly subsidise unhealthy food and make up the loss on fresh food, and considering that you can buy 1000 calories of pizza for less than €1, it just seems obvious to me that fresh food is far more expensive. Bad food may cost you more in the long term, but if you go to a chain retailer right now, you'll get far more calories into you if you buy shit food.
The rule they broke is clearly laid out [1]. The practice of manual penalties is as well [2]. They outline a course of action on how to remove the offending links [3]. How is this arbitrary?

[1]https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356

[2]https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604824

[3]https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2700611
No one, and I mean absolutely no one, is confused about what it means to sample a song, or to create a sample, or to take a sample from a song. That would be a tedious semantic argument of no value.

So most people interpret would instead interpret it as snide commentary on the illegitimacy of sampling as an art.

Which most people also don't like.

Hence the downvoting.
Thanks this is interesting. For me I am new to owning. Blog and using HN so thought it was interesting
Vim to Dropbox with markdown files.

You get encryption for free with :X.

You can also easily set up Vimwiki.

You can do real-time collaboration with Floobits.

You can store them in git repo and access them via Github (or http://prose.io), and manage with git-flow.
In my postgrad days I had two cats. I used to practise my presentations on them. They found it amusing and I could work through the irresistible temptation to talk a character out of Wacky Races so that I could concentrate properly on the day.

I now have a dog. Dogs are good for fresh air and exercise too and you meet other humans too.
Honestly, this is just saddening. Google needs to have a consistent policy towards these blackhat SEO offenders and enforce it for everyone. RapGenius bought backlinks to artificially inflate their pagerank. They knew they were cheating but they did it anyway. They got caught. And they were hit with a manual action on Google. Sounds good so far. But that's where it stops. RapGenius, using the connections they have from their multi-million dollars in VC funding, got back on Google and was able to avoid paying the price for their cheating.

Compare this to regular websites. Lots of smaller sites will end up paying a "whitehat SEO" firm to work on a "link strategy". These firms will claim up down and sideways that what they do is legal, ethical and follows Google's rules. But, what they actually do is either (1) create networks of fake sites to provide backlinks on certain terms to artificially boost the site, (2) place spam comments using bots on legitimate sites to do the same [not that this will thankfully no longer work well due to the latest Google algorithm update], or (3) pay legit sites to place backlinks to artificially transfer pagerank the same way that RapGenius did. Now, these other sites, when they get caught, they get a manual action or a smackdown. The difference? They have to actually pay the penalty. Arguing that they didn't know usually doesn't work. The penalty is LONG. They can't call on their VC firm to make calls at Google to give them a get out of jail free card.

I'd like to call on Google to create a public policy on how they handle these manual actions with some clearly defined penalties (example: 3 month manual action of 6 PR drop, etc) and to consistently enforce them across the board. That way a mom and pop site that pays a 'whitehat SEO firm' and gets caught doesn't have a worse time than a site like RapGenius that purposely engages in blackhat SEO who can use their VC connections to get out of having to pay a penalty in under 2 weeks. It's also sad that Google gave this get out of jail free card to a site whose entire business model is based around other people's copyrighted works which RapGenius doesn't have a license for, doesn't pay for, and publishes illegally.
The question didn't define "fluently" as "never needing to look anything up." I think the concept of fluency (of any kind of language) is being able to use it without significant effort. e.g. I would consider myself "fluent" in Java, but not Lua - that doesn't mean when I write Java I never have to look anything up, but certainly far less so than hypothetically writing the same thing in Lua.
Back when I was much more likely to end up kidnapped or in a gun battle/IED and dead, I had all that stuff set up automatically (much easier since it was all on my own systems). (and went so far as to take down all web content beforehand, just to buy myself a few more hours after being kidnapped for JSOC pipe-hitting services to arrive). When I upgraded, I didn't transition it to the new systems.

It's a bit harder with web services to do it automatically, as they end up breaking the login process, adding 2fa, etc. frequently enough that unless you test the whole system frequently, it probably wouldn't actually work. I guess 99% of the value is from mail, twitter, and facebook, though.
One of the viable venues to compete with Google is not by developing "new, better search engine", but rather "better vertical platform".

What's the best search engine where buyers go? Not google.com and never really been google, it's amazon.com and ebay.com.

What's the best search engine to find answers on technical questions?
Stackoverflow.com is approaching google very fast.

So the answer would be for sharp minds to develop sharper and better vertical portals/platforms and pick google apart piece by piece.
My $0.02 is on a dull explanation: the max length and #remembered parameters must be configurable and/or depend on the access method, and the printf-like call that creates the message string must have passed erroneous pointers pointing into some DLL. When that DLL changed, or when another DLL changed in size, causing the DLL to move, the pointers pointed to different, but still constant data.
Long tail SEO and content marketing is an effective way to reach niche audience. Additionally, we've got a lot of users from niche forums. Moreover, this is the kind of traffic that converts best.

I have been able to get very good traction with it, and my app has not been featured on any main stream tech blogs yet.
In the UK, you can offset the costs of the office space against tax - proportioned heating and lighting etc. But if/when you sell the property you need to be aware of possible Capital Gains Tax liability on the office space.
I have been working at learning Emacs and have just recently started using org-mode and love it. I tend to not trust anything but a VPN or SSH connection these days and being able to just ssh into a box of mine (down with the cloud) and quickly take notes is not just handy and fairly secure, but it's cross platform because SSH. (putty if I'm stuck at a windows machine)
Fine, then I won't even accept that it is a generalization. Men actually run everything, and when there's a woman running something, there's ultimately a man running that woman.

>And since you haven't refuted any of the facts I've posted

None of the facts that you posted speak to your point that "the world isn't nearly as bad as you seem to have been lead to believe." You haven't shown me anything that I didn't know, but I enjoy the condescension.

>men do not often think of women as less than human,

saying it again doesn't make it true.

>women do make the same money as men,

No, they don't. Read your own references. Women make the same money in the same jobs as men, early in their careers.

>more women get degrees than men,

True.

>women live longer than men,

Again, what does that have to do with sexism?

>and your generalization that men are attacking women is also not true.

Bullshit.
Its interesting that despite their founders outspokeness, the influx of heavy weight VC, tech press expose's on their offices, etc., RapGenius is really no more or no less than a standard, multi-multi-page SEO site, no different than the countless others just like it. No brand, no user affinity, no direct traffic to speak of. Just a bunch of drift net pages crawled by Google waiting to pick off unsuspecting search traffic. My favorite line of this post was the last: "Much love. iOS app dropping next week!" - unless you are searching that term in google, Im not sure who that is addressed to.
While I totally agree that the 5 paragraph essay format can be restrictive and is not suited for every situation, I think a good thesis statement in the first paragraph or two is frequently a good idea. Too often while reading posts online I often find that I'm most of the way through the post before I find out what point the author is trying to make. There are cases where keeping the actual point of the post or story is done as a way of adding suspense or gaining the reader's interest, it seems like most of the time the writers of posts like this are rambling or front-loading the piece to such a degree that it is off-putting and distracts from their message.
A few good men.
I think its a great idea.
Go is similar to C in the sense that for every decision C made, Go made the opposite.

Go: no headers. C: headers.

Go: no pointer math. C: pointer math.

Go: multiple return values. C: one return value.

Go: no parens for if/for. C: parens for if/for.

Go: interfaces. C: no interfaces.

etc.
It seems clear that the window message pump was being used by the Oracle driver in a way that made it break when hosted in a GUI application. Message pumps are not atypical of event-driven GUIs on many different platforms, and problems with multithreading abound everywhere shared memory is the default. IMO it's a big stretch to try and blame MS for this.
Make them play 10 games at the same time. (Perhaps in different shards/worlds to avoid cooperation between the different “personalities”.)
I can't imagine it'll make any difference at the hiring stage (I certainly interviewed my fair share of older interns and often found them to be very strong).

The only way in which I think it will make a difference is if you end up working for a large tech company which has an intern community. It'll be harder to fit in socially, but you won't be the only older intern in general -- some of the PhD interns I worked with were late-twenties, early-thirties -- so you won't be totally alone.
He has no eyebrows.
Cool! Slave labor and/or illegal minimum wage violations. Sounds like a great company.

Only an asshole company would do this to a future employee. And only an asshole would allow themselves to be exploited like this.

Guys: work on contract. Get paid. Your lack of self-esteem affects everyone else in the workforce trying to earn a living. Don’t sell yourself--or your peers--short.
Absolute numbers aren't really all that interesting. Much like human languages, the differences between programming languages are not all equal. I've been told by native Italian and Spanish speakers that, even absent any formal training, it's relatively trivial to become conversant in the other language. My wife is a native Turkish speaker, but she can tune in to the Azerbaijani news channel and understand everything the announcers say, though reading is essentially impossible (modern Turkish uses a modified Latin alphabet while Azeri uses Cyrillic). However, as a native English speaker learning Turkish, I can vouch that it's significantly more difficult than when I was learning French or German. (Turkish is, interestingly, something of an outlier when it comes to language families.)

Likewise, anyone capable of writing a program with Ruby should be able to pick up Python in a day or two. Java and C# are, for the most part, just a few syntax conventions apart. What's more impressive is if you can code, competently, in a pure object oriented language as well as a pure functional one.

If you already know Ruby, I'd wager your time would be much better spent learning Clojure or Haskell than Java or Python.
Don't let your political idealism blind you. Obama has control over the NSA, and Paul is calling out the man who can change its policies.
Effortlessly? Hmmm... 0, depending on exactly how you define "effortlessly". But if I understand the spirit of the question correctly, I'd say there are 4 or 5 languages I can be productive in without essentially having to learn the language and associated libraries from scratch. Offhand, I'd offer up C, C++, Java, Groovy and Javascript as languages I'm at least moderately competent in. I could probably still write Python without too much trouble with a couple of days to knock the rust off.

All of that said, if you asked me to write a non-trivial program starting today, and I had to optimize for productivity, I'd pick Groovy.
"I don't understand why you assume their only or main reason to develop Google Glass and self-driving cars is ads."

Because everything Google does is for serving ads. Every tech that Google releases is directly or in-directly related to ad revenue. Either serve ads or collect data to sell to advertisers.

Nothing wrong with this. Many companies rely on ad revenue (Facebook or example).

But I do know Google is desperately searching for other sources of revenue. It's just that they are addicted to ads. And social media (for ads). Which, IMHO is killing the company. Their total focus on Google + (and other social apps) is sucking the life out of other interesting projects; that might yield results that aren't dependent on ad revenue. But it's hard to think out-side the box. Sad.
Well in my opinion, that's actually a paragon of the American worker (someone working hard because they're passionate).

But if you'd like, consider it this way -- it's a lot harder to dislike a group of people working hard and not appearing to do anything wrong, rather than a group of people who write attack pieces against those who do not fall into the same demographic as them. If news sources like ValleyWag do not have anything to write about, it'll be a lot more difficult to associate Silicon Valley with negativity.