skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just bad. First of all even though the filter is optional - most large scale ISP's are rolling them out as an opt-out option. I bet a lot of people will not even find out there is such a filter.
Secondly, with such ambiguous categories like "obscene" and "extremist" content that have proven to block sites that contain information on LGTB issues and helplines for abuse people get trapped in filter bubbles. People are treated like mindless zombies and it's a self fulfilling prophecy because without alternative opinions or a wide and diverse specter of information people do indeed become mindless zombies.
Finally, this is the most lazy and stupid solution to the problem - does the state not want it's people to be able/learn to deal with various information that's out there (because remember - if you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there) and to think critically? Or is this a vile and through-through attempt at gagging the internet?

Bonus food for thought: remember how Tories recently deleted their internet archives... ?
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What's the line between "Getting a lot of buzz" and "I've never heard of them". I think for everything except teespring and ughworthy on this list for me is the latter.

Also I don't know about you but "Spring.me proves that we’re not through with new social networks" depressed me.
> Though such clauses don’t technically violate the First Amendment

Not technically, not in spirit, not in any way related to the 1st amendment. Have so few people actually bothered to learn even a little about the 1st amendment? You can read the entire first amendment several times and then ponder it a little in just a few minutes, because it's very short. In fact, I'll paste the entire text:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.

To boil it down even further for relevance:

Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

That's it. The contract and agreement to it have nothing to do with the first amendment.
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Industrial capacity is strategic, yes. But industrial capacity churning out something that's unneeded or overly expensive is not. Aircraft, I could be convinced to concede that that's sufficiently specialized and low demand. But our tank production, we're making tanks that the army doesn't need or want. Those facilities (if they weren't tied to military work) could have been turned over to producing large industrial vehicles instead of military vehicles. They'd still be operating, people would still be employed, and should a war break out and a need for more tanks exist they could switch production just like what happened leading up to WW2 (for the US). It is not strategic to waste billions on weapons systems that get grounded for years at a time (F-22, F-15, probably others). It is not strategic to waste a nations economic resources on military capabilities rather than education (future workforce), scientific (future capabilities), agriculture (resource independence and export) and energy (resource independence and export) activities.
My Ubuntu 12.04 machine shows up as Windows 8.1.
Your liability insurance probably only covers you for normal, personal, use of your vehicle. I suspect that anyone using that insurance for commercial work would not be covered if they had an accident. I don't think the insurance company would pay out unless the driver had suitable commercial coverage.
Shouldn't the US list be much, much longer taking into account the size of the various countries?
Yes, the world has changed and interactivity and animation are just as important as pretty pictures.
I mentioned "top athletes", since they're a very visible part of the curve where we can demonstrate that longevity in a field from an early age increases likelihood of success.

I would expect that all levels of athletic performers would benefit likewise - although they won't end up in the top 0.01%.

We like to flatter ourselves and think that programming isn't a skill like athletic performance, but that's just because it makes us feel better since it's harder to measure.
I'm working on putting out more tutorials on the topic. I just wanted to get the absolute basics out there first. My course will cover these basics, but also some pretty advanced techniques.

Stay tuned. More are coming!
This is great advice, since in general you would like to assume that the standard library is implemented well, i.e. by people who know the target language.

Unfortunately, for C this is pretty hard to do, at least for the GNU libc. I'm not trying to critique the implementation, but every time I dive in (generally to help someone on Stack Overflow) I'm confused and get to spend a lot of time searching the code.

It's obviously optimized for a great deal of other parameters before ease of reading, which I totally understand yet still am a bit sorry to see.
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She's not advocating for division of parental responsibilities to be a private matter between parents and child, she's advocating for non-mothers to support mothers:

...supportive social and economic practices for those who do chose to have children...need to be reinforced by some body such as companies or governments.
Gee, I don't know. Grace Hopper learned to program quite late in life and she did ok. Maybe it's not WHEN people start to code, it's HOW they start to code and whether they learn while doing it? Big-time athletes don't appear because they were kings of the middle-school playground for 10 years, they participate in an increasingly intensive program that winnows out pretty much everybody who participates.

I don't think that we see a huge number of failed programmers ending up as insurance salesmen or financial advisors because they blew out a knee.
To be fair, the whole EA Spouse thing happened quite a while ago.
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I agree many interactions should be designed directly in the browser, but even the designers I know that champion designing in the browser (Ryan Singer, etc) take a screenshot and move into Photoshop when they have something complicated to design.
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Let me explain by analogy:

Say you've got a ship. If you perturb the ship by tilting it slightly starboard or port, and then remove the perturbation, it will return to sitting upright. Most ships are designed to have a stable equilibrium along the axis of the keel. Simply removing any perturbation will return the ship to the upright equilibrium.

Now, say you perturb the ship by applying a deflection to the rudder, tending to turn the ship to a new heading. When you remove the perturbation, the ship will straighten itself out, and stop turning, but will not return to its original heading. While most ships are designed to self-equillibriate to traveling straight, each possible heading is itself a stable equilibrium.

The "equality is treating people as equals" viewpoint assumes that the world behaves like the first case. You remove the discriminatory force, and you can assume that society will return itself to an upright equilibrium. But that's just an assumption. The world could very well behave like the second case. Even if you remove the discriminatory force, you can still be headed in the wrong direction!

The experience of at least two professions suggests that the world behaves more like the second case. In the 1950's and 1960's, there was extreme discrimination against women in medicine and law. In the 1970's through 1990's, both medical schools and law schools took affirmative measures to increase enrollment of women. And it was a smashing success: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/hua_hsu/assets_c....

The key takeaway, though, is that the affirmative action moved the society to a new stable equilibrium. Today, there is no real advantage to being a woman when applying to medical school or law school. But the enrollment is stable because the new situation is self-perpetuating.
Great!

Yes, my tone may look like i'm doing some propaganda. I hesitated writting with this way, but I hit publish anyway to see what happened. But it's true, it doesn't feel natural.

Thank you very much for all the other constructive feedback!
Try this one - http://pbx.mine.nu/random/Series2004NoteFront.jpg
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> Assuming you have nothing disparaging to say, not agreeing is foolish

The article stated the author would have to give up his lifetime right to make "any negative or disparaging statements (orally or in writing) about the Company or its stockholders, directors, officers, employees, products, services or business practices". That's a huge thing. Let's imagine the company you worked for starts selling organs of little orphans for transplant. You are not allowed to criticize them for that. Let's say they start a fracking operation that contaminates the water of millions of people. Or irresponsibly build a nuclear reactor that melts down a week later. Imagine one of the stockholders is Carl Icahn. You'll never be able to criticize him again. Or Donald Trump. Can you imagine never being able to make fun of his hair? Imagine then your cable company buys one share of the company you worked for. Now you can't criticize them if your TV goes out because they are a shareholder. Imagine your ex-wife learns about your contract and buys one share.

You get the idea.
These agreements come with monetary penalties such as $10000 per disparaging remark. Also agreements come into place not necessarily with a signature but with the consideration, the severance money going to you.
Modern fighter aircraft need large single piece titanium parts, and this is essentially the only demand for the pressing facilities. If you don't support the presses somehow, the capacity goes away. This is just an example of how military industrial needs are specific.
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This HN discussion is leading me to that conclusion :)
The first amendment (and all the rest of it) has nothing to do with non-governmental, private interactions.
It takes money to sue someone, and, given that the company is downsizing, it doesn't sound like they have money to do that.

I'd consider taking the two weeks severance and ignoring the clause. What are they going to win back, the 2 weeks of severance plus what? The amount of time and money plus potential negative publicity they're going to generate just isn't worth it. I realize this might seem unprincipled, but they're being pretty unprincipled by putting the clause in the exit agreement anyway.

Regardless, it's usually best not to talk smack about previous employers. Better to damn with faint praise.
As someone who grew up thinking he wanted to be an attorney (until I realized how much paper work there was), I grew up participating in debate club and mock court. My sister grew up wanting to be a doctor and would research various illnesses and learn all about them; she is now in school for medicine. This sort of thing might not happen in every field, but the two you pointed to are probably not the best examples, since both of these behaviors are pretty common for kids interested in law and medicine.
Heh. Almost two years ago I was fired from a fairly prominent internet services company... Ah, who am I trying to avoid? It was Akamai.

I speak ill of them all the time. Not about their impressive infrastructure and engineering, or the scores of brilliant people I had the privilege to work with. No, it was more my experience with the corporate culture and the pervasive games of "power politics" that anybody who wasn't a manager was constantly subject to. Unfortunately I ended up in a position to be the patsy for a director's bad decisions, to make a long story short.

Indeed, I was asked to sign an agreement in exchange for money, and because of the timing of things (newborn baby 2.5 weeks prior) I needed the money more than I needed the freedom to speak my mind about the situation. And it really wasn't very much money, just like in the linked article.

However, despite sending the signed agreement certified mail, the money never showed up, their HR department claims it was never received, and the money didn't end up mattering so much as I was fielding offers within a month and began my current position in short order.

Since then I've received several letters from them, asking for my signature on various things and I refuse - There's simply nothing they can do to me. But I know quite well that I'm lucky. I've got a skill set and experience that puts me in demand, and anybody who asks why I was fired can get a simple answer: "Here's my LinkedIn profile, take note of the slew of recommendations I got within a week of my termination."

(I will add, my subsequent contact with their HR and legal department did have me worried about things for a while - not to mention various thinly-veiled verbal threats made by my former director before and during my termination, in case you're wondering just what kind of politics and culture made me dislike the place)
1000 engineers is not a very lean organization. Maybe they sit around all day and try to figure out some way for Twitter to actually make money? Or maybe they count everyone tech related as an engineer, like designers and QA and build automation, etc? Google says Twitter has 2,300 employees.
"2031—The vast majority of the world’s financial transactions take place through a decentralized crypto-currency (likely Bitcoin). Governments can no longer print their way out of debt. Banks can no longer siphon billions of dollars out of the world economy in the form of transaction fees. And those ‘computer nerds’ (like Thad Wormald) who bought Bitcoin at $12 will have models (and Jenna Maroney) fighting after them."

So basically an empty and vapid "Ra-Ra" cheerleading of bitcoin that showcases nothing but the total and wholesale ignorance of the author. Ignorance of economics, politics, history... need I go on?
I was waiting to find an article clearly speaking about this; which I think is the elephant in the room when it comes to female tech founders.
The issue, as it points out, is not being able to hack; or being able to learn, etc. Society has been proven over and over that females can do just as good as males.
The issue, I think, is purely social. Most people still see women with through a veil of prejudices, and this will only change with time as more women venture into that part of the industry.

Founding is barely about learning how to code. It's more about human relationships and networking. And as long as the image of a female entrepreneur keeps been looked down at, this problem will keep rising. May be it's not as easy to see in USA but I've seen it clearly in my country (Mexico) in small-medium businesses conventions and with clients.
That's something for which I should strive. I've never written "polyglot" scripts longer than 1 file with 100 lines. Writing compatible syntax is feasible without too much hassle, but most problems I encountered were when I wanted to use a library whose API evolved between 2 and 3...

Do you have experience with the `six` library[0]? I've read a few times about it recently and it seems a convenient way to write portable code. I still wait for an opportunity to use it!

0: http://pythonhosted.org/six/
What's your process from taking a new idea for growth and implementing it?
The problem is you appear to live in a fantasy land. I only read the second paragraph, but it is one of the stupidest things I've ever read (sorry, that is a harsh thing to say, but I think this requires a reply this strong).

"Work from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep. Take your breakfast while reviewing your to-do list for the day. Work a few hours. At lunch, discuss with your team what’s the best solution for that problem. Work some more. At dinner, have a great meal with your loving ones and tell them what’s going on with work. Feel free to ask them for their opinion. After that, go back to work, of course – it’s time to answer to those emails, and read a decent book about a topic of your industry. Have a good night’s sleep."

This is incredibly self-centered. What about what your loved ones have been up to (as one tiny example?). And god-forbid you have any children. You need to get THEM breakfast on a morning. Perhaps, maybe, you should spend some time with your "loved ones" on an evening, other than just telling them about your work over dinner then disappearing off to work?

I would hate to be your "loved one".

CLARIFYING EDIT: This isn't intended to be a personal attack on Daniel's life (which I don't know anything about), just my raw opinions as I read the first two paragraphs of his blog article, hopefully to help him understand why some people took harshly against it.
I had the same experience. They had me up and running with the $30 plan immediately.

For people wondering, the $30/mo plan is a prepaid plan that includes:

- Unlimited Texting
- 5GB of 4G data, unlimited 2G data after
- 100 minutes, $0.10/minute after

I switched from $90/mo at Verizon. Even my heaviest overages (~200 minutes over == $20) only get me up to $50.

Only downside: as a prepaid plan, it doesn't get the free overseas data and texting offered in their $50/60/70 postpaid plans.
The article works against your point. Ultimately, he didn't take the money. We aren't in danger of living in a world where people can't talk about work. The vast majority of employers wouldn't be able to afford such a clause.
It might be worth it, and I might sign it. I was just trying to get the point across (and may have failed) that the company will probably be as willing to give you 4 weeks as to give you 2 weeks.

A PS3 contract is signed under much different circumstances. It's a contract of adhesion and it's most likely to cover PlayStation's ass from people suing them for all sorts of bullshit reasons, not to enable them to sue you because you gave a bad review.

The company CEO might have something snap in his head and decide that the reason the company failed is that his ex-employees were stealing stuff. I've seen it happen twice, fortunately never to me.

On this note, I would be totally okay with signing a "this firing was not illegal" contract for a few weeks severance. That's more of the company wanting its ass covered if you try a bogus wrong-termination suit, which I totally understand.

tldr: I think "this is so you/someone else can't sue us" clauses are much more ethical and reasonable than "this is so we can sue you" clauses.
You're fortunate you can afford to expend development effort/money on an update that won't bring in any more users. Im still licking my wounds from the app store change that came with ios6, sales are way way down to the extent that significant development work to these apps cannot be justified. With the pre ios6 app store I could make a case for it but not today.
difficulty or incompetence?
Is there a way to keep applications in Mac OS X from stealing focus?
Ok. But I don't say the contrary - doing those things can also make you happy.

But using our job to achieve our life goals is one of the best ways to achieve happiness, in my opinion.

Thank you
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I think the issue that Will Blythe might face now is that he has now alienated himself against future employers. Here is a guy who is willingly going to criticize a company he leaves (or maybe even currently employed at), just because he feels like it.

There once was a hugely popular tech gossip newsletter in Chicago that once publicly criticized an employer for screwing over his part-time editor in some sort of business deal. On one hand it's great that the employer was called out for some wrong-doings, but most importantly who is going to hire that editor now? Not me, that's for sure. You want me to hire someone who if I have a disagreement with is now going to tell her side and her side only on this email newsletter which she has priority access too and essentially put me on blast?

Will put his previous employer on blast without any quotes from them or getting their side on it. Does Will feel better about it? absolutely. Is this going to help his chances of getting a job with a new employer. Not a chance. Maybe this will help him sell his books?

| Mind you, I’m not looking to disparage Byliner.

This is the equivalent of saying, No offense but.. or I'm not a racist, but...
Yet the past few months have seen stark harbingers of looming pain.

Strange notion of "pain", there. Coming from an industry whose main purpose, basically, is to drop fire on people.
> One of the side effects, is that you're really susceptible to alcohol. One beer, and I'd be really feeling it. Whereas before, I could drink 3 without really noticing. After I stopped, my tolerance was still pretty low, though it's fine now. I don't know if the low tolerance afterwards could be the diet specifically, or just whether I'd not really drank in 4 months.

After going Keto/IF my alcohol tolerance has gone through the roofs to a point that I really don't want to get wasted anymore (not that I did it that often). Around 10 beers used to get me in a great buzz, but now after a 0.7 litre bottle of whisky I could still easily get into a bar and continue drinking. But luckily there is something going in the back of your head, that "maybe this is way too much already, lets call it a day". And top of that, the day after, I seem to have no hangover at all.
Now a days, if I go out with friends I usually take one or two servings of some good quality whisky and leave it at that.

For the background I'm currently standing at 115kg
I probably wouldn't talk about any of those reasons in most situations.

People who leave usually negociate or talk up before they leave. If you need the exit interview, then your management is seriously unable to hear. In which case the exit interview won't be acted upon anyway.
> Better to design new social mechanisms to protect against misuse of the data, than try and prevent its collection.

The only way to achieve this, is to eliminate EVERY kind of asymmetry in society (which we should have achieved a long time ago, since we all always pretend that every life has the exact same value). If you keep any kind of asymmetry within society and accept mass surveillance, democracy is dead because mass surveillance will of course be abused to increase and further protect power monopolies.

This means, every kind of power would have to be distributed equally over every citizen. And that also means that everybody would have to receive the same amount of money per hour of work (all education being paid for by everybody, meaning entirely financed via taxes).

While that would be the perfect model and the most sane one, I doubt we are culturally mature enough to get there fast enough.
I prefer the simpler:

class A(object):
def __init__(self, x, y):
self.__dict__.update((k,v) for k,v in locals().items() if k != 'self')
Ok. That's a valid argument.
Would you disclose that it is possibly tainted or are you ok with possibly screwing over the next owner of the device?
I just want to point out that this story has been shot down off the front page, and 2nd page, in less than 20 minutes. HN really can't handle having the spotlight revealing its thoughts on gender & race. My browser history was the only reason I could even find this link again.

You know what someone should make in 2014? A website scrapes/mirrors HN, but only the topics about gender and race that get "disappeared"(made undiscoverable) from HN in under 20mins.
Or just "Web API", short but specific.