skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like quite a hyperbolic statement.
- you can locate the north with it

- if you are using a 24h sovjet analog clock or a pocket sundial (as i do), you are more in tune with the cosmos on which our time, day and night schedule is based

- it associates time more with quality then with quantity

- can be purely mechanical, no electricity or batteries
Obviously, companies advertising a job are more likely to have a job; this does not nearly imply the converse (that a majority of jobs are advertised).

Your experience might also reflect the type of job you were looking for. For a job with a large pool of potentially compatible employees that advertising gave me easy access to, it would be prudent to advertise.

Finally, I could offer anecdotal data in the opposite direction.
I now wonder how much of the Asterix universe is historically accurate.

Most of it! That is what makes it so funny!

It is chock full of references to actual historical stuff, and in jokes that you have to know a lot to get. You can enjoy it as slapstick, but there is tremendous depth to the series.

I'm always amazed that it never caught on in the USA. Certainly everyone I've introduced it to has liked it!
That's actually not the problem at all, as described by the article. The problem you describe is a completely separate issue.
I did that, it bailed out because it wanted dependency problems to be fixed first (and the dependency fixer bailed out because it wanted the dupe problems to be fixed first)
You, sir, are quite wrong. Traffic shaping, counting packets per user in the bus, is not deep packet inpection. Intercepting port 53 and replying on behalf of the real owner of the destination ip is seep packet inspection.

Also, blocking a site that sometimes does and sometimes doesn't use a lot of bandwidth, instead of just blocking all uses of lots of bandwidth by measuring it in a destination-agnostic way, is clearly the worse option.

Finally, rules and restrictions on technological devices and connectivity are retarded world-round. Your personal gadgets, your home internet connection, your phone's internet connection, all have ridiculous restrictions that no self-respecting technically savvy person follows (although most don't realize all the things they do that are against the "terms of service"). I don't get too worked up about them anymore, just systematically work around any I run into, just like any sane technically proficient person.
I use Angular with Django-Rest-Framework and I love it.
The Tetris Effect and Markov Paul Graham
It was also a little unnerving having his giant head staring at me upside-down the whole time I was trying to read the article.
Encrypting DNS should be standard policy on all roaming computers.
Now and again I like to watch one of those crackpot alien contact or religious prophecy documentaries, just to be amused at all the same techniques being employed on a message that you can never take seriously.
If you are going to criticize this approach to C# you are going to need to be more specific - the classic argument for this kind of thing is correctness, and against is optimization, is it the latter you are implicitly pointing out? And if so, what insight as to implementation details that you think make the solution slower?
I've FUD'd myself regarding lowendbox.

Using a Digital Ocean droplet as a VPN is probably the same as driving to Fort Meade monthly and handing them a hard drive with your full upload and download streams for the month, but using an unknown provider from LEB feels like handing out 2 drives: one for no such agency, another for some guy with a lot less data to sift through, thus a greater disposition to look at my data.
You're not maximizing your browser, are you?

The monitor my browser is on has 2560 width, but the client area of the browser window itself isn't much more than 1200 pixels wide. I keep terminals and the tree-style tabs to the left of the browser.
> This research is definitely a net positive.

I couldn't agree more, but that knowledge can be abused.
I didn't think it would be interpreted that way. My bad. It seems like it's not a leak in the http library, just allocating memory and not releasing it sooner than expected.
Actually there is such a helpfulness rating; thumbs up/thumbs down option for every review. I did not check on phone, but Google Play for desktop has that kind of system. I guess the problem is... nobody cares to vote.
The Legend of Granny G
"inceleme" may cover "review".
it is used to be like this in turkish websites:

"Galaxy S3 incelemesi"
"Samsung SyncMaster 2333 incelemesi"... etc.

Turkish users are used to the word "inceleme". Yorum/comment is like: ah yes I liked, fuck this sucks. A yorum/comment may not include why do you like it/why does it suck, etc.
I would have expected you to think a little more creatively than this! Bitcoin is a replacement for banking, in this case, for legal marijuana businesses. It just might not be the (best|most practical|answer) for these businesses at this point. Also, the issues you present are problems created by existing financial institutions. Bitcoin doesn't exist to solve problems caused by $BANK, or to create a buffer between $BUSINESS and $BANK: it exists to replace $BANK.

To think that your curated list of issues that Bitcoin does not solve is in any way a reason that there aren't many other issues it does solve is fallacious.
Statistical algorithms that make predictions based on signals can't make good predictions about something that is unlike they've seen before. The algorithm being used does consider profitability. Even if you added "massive profitability" as a signal to AdWords, an algorithm would still struggle because it's the first and only data point like that for Google. They have decent other businesses (hosting, enterprise, etc.), but none in the same class as AdWords.
Wow that is amazing, I can't believe I have never heard of it. Makes me much more comfortable with him going if he pulls off something like that again.
When you're the market leader, you have to work twice as hard as the next guy in line. Paypal has at least 2 companies plus Bitcoin threatening to replace them at any given moment.
I think it is important to point out that no one has been declared guilty of "waging war" at the Nuremberg Trials but for waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties and conspiring for such a war. (The full quote can be found under "Nuremberg Principles".) You are certainly right that such trials always will feel wrong and I'm sure a lawyer could bring up several good arguments why they are wrong.

I still think they are better than plain shooting someone because they indicate a willingness to follow higher standards than the other party. Moral high ground is important in conflicts motivated by ideology. On a tangent I also feel that the lack of moral high ground is why approval of U.S. foreign policy is declining among its allies and even more so among neutral countries.
Cyberport and Science park in Hong Kong are both quite good.

http://www.cyberport.hk/en

http://www.hkstp.org/en-US/Homepage.aspx
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This seems like the buried lede? Note even in the story!
I can't imagine what was going on the devs head when they decided this would be a good idea.
People will notice eventually because your relationship to advanced AI is going to determine your relevance. And 400 years is wishful thinking. The new lifeforms may arrive well within two or three decades.
make your own from bits of paper? coins? 3D printing a bunch of stylised chess pieces? honestly, they're just symbols with a rule set...
Do those slides all add up? Incomes are rising ... except the world probably can't support a billion chinese at 1st world income levels. There are many billionaires ... because their gini curve is shot to hell. They have a higher percentage of graduates ... but most of their degrees are of a low standard. Looking at the company valuations on top of that and I start to get worried that this is a giant bubble that's going to take the rest of the world down with it when it bursts. I hope you can prove me wrong China!
>C# is one of the only languages that I can't remember reading any complaints about

I've been using C# for about 3 years now. A year or two into using it I thought I was developing fanboy syndrome so I started a list of all of the dumb quirks and pitfalls the language has. Last time I checked, there were only 3 or 4 items on the list compared my python/c++/java lists which have 1-2 orders of magnitude more quirks.

C# really is a solid language, it's just a terrible shame it had to have the Microsoft label attached to it.
A bit of a hack? I find that this article has "self-irony" if there's such a thing - the fact that the writer works for the preeminent American newspaper completely refutes the premise of the article. Mediocrity will forever have a place in this world, if Thomas Friedman still has a job.
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This just sounds like pure propaganda.
I have written "realtime" web applications in Django, using Tornado for websockets (or their emulations). While a pure realtime non-blocking solution might be able to squeeze out a lot of more performance, it's certainly possible.

Realtime web applications require a choreography of communication between server and client, with an unpredictable user and network messing stuff up all the time. Like much of web development it comes down to not going crazy. Otherwise we would be writing web applications in C++ or Java, wouldn't we?
We use Close.io
I would love to see the down sides. It feels like he's on his honeymoon stage with the country.

I know of a few downsides but the current article make it seems like a tech paradise.

* pollutions

* the # of people graduating college doesn't imply that the quality of education in China is the same as USA. I've heard stories and my ex went to China to study abroad and cheating is rampant. It's mostly rote learning.

* the stock and IPO he've mentioned make it seems like China stock market is awesome. I've played around with China stocks when China started to trade. Let me tell you, there were tons of pump and dump and companies lying on their balance sheet. An example was JRJC, CAST, CCME, etc.. It's hard, very hard market.
> the higher cost of living in cities often means that you can live at 110% of the poverty line and be truly struggling to get by.

I think it's important to make a distinction between "poor" and "poverty" though. Struggling to get by infers that they're getting by and could be called "poor".

Poverty, I think, implies they're not getting by in the local socio-economic area they're in. It's easy to move between categories. Poverty vs. poor could be as much as $20 to make rent this month.

Having grown up pretty poor, and having relatives shift in and out of poverty (American style), there's a qualitative difference I think.
A lot of innovation seems to come out of China. I know that, at least in the world of Clojure, the fastest webserver is http-kit, which Shen Feng spent a lot of time developing:

http://shenfeng.me/async-clojure-http-client.html

http://http-kit.org/600k-concurrent-connection-http-kit.html

https://github.com/ptaoussanis/clojure-web-server-benchmarks
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> But you should dial back the entitlement.

Not that you're completely wrong, but he is most likely paying to be there. If the company advertised the WiFi as part of the deal, and he paid for it, I'd say he is at least a little entitled to it.
"Recruiters aren't all bad"

I keep hearing it, but I haven't really ever seen it.
I think the purpose of the rating system motivates how people rate. Since the App Store appears to give importance to mean average data, I am given motivation in that direction:

If I think the app is good, and other people should download it, my rating makes the most difference if I award a score of 5.

If I think the app is OK but not worth downloading, I can most effectively indicate that by scoring it a 1.

If I want people to read my review (as Turkish reviewers have observed), I should perhaps rate it a 1 as well.

So, if I want my reviews to have an observable effect, I should (perhaps) rate everything 1 or 5.

(Or, I could decide what rating I want the app to have, then rate it a 1 or 5 depending on which direction I need to move it)

The motivation initiated by Apple here is bad - by simplifying everything to a single figure average, we lose all the nuance that you are trying to give with your Norwegian-style ratings.
Very nice, I thought i was the only one creating my own personal time system! I really like the counting down part, haven't thought about that. The 8 hour block is nice, but I thought it better to carve up the day in 12 parts, locked to midday, but perhaps local sunset is a better option.
If you like a modern fairytale about time go see the movie 'Momo' (in german, but subtitled) or read the book.
The code signature is on the multiple architecture binary, thereby including any statically linked object files, right?

If Apple were to add dynamic libs, they would presumably be separate binary files, with their own signatures. This could raise the concern noted by 0x0.
> I do feel it is totally possible to teach people how to "program" without knowing how to code.

What is the benefit here compared to learning programming by coding?
You know, that's actually really insightful and has brought sudden clarity to the paradox of poverty "donuts" that circle a number of city universities I know about.

Even if students are spending $50k+ per year on school, very little of it makes its way out into the neighboring economy.
He said income wasn't the problem, the lack of W2 income was. This is the outcome when the decision tree is a strict set of forms and boxes to check. It lessons the likelihood of rogue employees pushing through bad loans, but also increases the likelihood of not making some loans that would be good.
+1 for Streak.

It's really simple and frictionless if you are using Gmail.
It's a two sided coin, if you update a dynamically loaded library that subtly breaks backwards compatibility, you end up with apps that mysteriously stop working because of some other update in the system.

Really, it's up to the app maintainer to update their program, and if it has a vulnerability, in theory the sandbox will prevent it from doing damage to others.
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Great introduction - really well written, enjoyable to read. I read an article about clojurescript / om / react [0] the other day which piqued my interest - this is the first tutorial I've gone through on Clojure.

The api actually feels pretty similar to Python (eg rest-param ~= args) so it mapped over nicely for me. I studied functional programming some years ago and have tinkered with the like of erlang in the past so none of the concepts you presented felt too foreign.

I might be going insane but it looks like you have a typo in there - 'whether the ;; the part's name'*.

Kudos, again.

[0] http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...
Hi all, this is the first side project I've had that I've been happy enough to share with the world at large. I hope someone finds it useful and would be very eager for some feedback :) (Especially negative!)
And you just signed up to write that.
I dunno, I'm ok with anonymous reviews, but not false reviews. That's what's being claimed here: that the people leaving the negative reviews were never clients of the carpet cleaning company.

I can't think of a way to weed out the false ones, though, other than to reveal their names and allow them to be sued.
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Are most of those numbers that surprising considering China's population? To me, it's not very interesting that a country with a huge population has a huge amount of graduates, etc.
I always wonder how easily scientists (and journalists) fall for the correlation vs. causality trap. It looks like that scientific community lost the critical thinking.
I always think the other way around when I read a "scientific" study and ask (in this case): "Do people with higher life satisfaction earn more money?" (=the cause of the better earnings is the satisfaction, not the other way around).
Without reading the study it's impossible to tell that the researchers ruled this out, but it is imaginable that this is the case, too.

And it could be that there is a factor that is invisible to the study (maybe... IQ, height of the person, shoe size, ...?) that influences BOTH.
For us, we realized we entered into something when we starting discussing why we viewed the particular 'venial sin' in that certain light.

Like everything dealing with morality and what-not, there's no clear division. From a traditionally religious standpoint, there isn't really much of a division either. Christians would say that Jesus died for all sins, not just a handful of the most interesting ones.

I would say that the line between venial and mortal was a line drawn by man to feel something.
People should know that Rotschild owns part of the magazine The Economist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
Do you sell your themes from your own site?
It was meant to be an observation, no judgement or opinion. Now that you have provided some background, it is interesting that you produced the same set of priorities in the same order.
I wasn't seriously suggesting otherwise ... It was supposed to be funny (and to subtly make the point that we really don't want that here).
Play online: (vvs AI/2P) http://boardspace.net/english/about_tablut.html
Ajax is Good Enough for this use case (and probably a lot of others), imo. Even polling every 10s is plenty for messaging on a site like localbitcoins.
I don't think it was meant as a review of China. It's a comparison of the tech industries.
A Google Programmer "Blew off" a $500,000 Salary
I doubt any spinning disk buffer writes, it's risky and requires a battery to prevent corruption. However most enterprise RAID systems buffer writes so it could be happening there.
The best development books almost always have no code in it. Success or failure of projects is mostly caused external constraints, pressures and relationships and learning control those factors, and not the specific technologies/programming languages themselves.
Yelp's response: http://officialblog.yelp.com
> The digital watch has too much precision and requires too much parsing

Funny, my stance on analogue clocks is they have too little precision and require too much parsing. If I'm tired or stressed it can take me seconds to read one, while digits practically beam the numbers into my head simply through the act of glancing at them.

I do have to admit, though, most digital watches are monstrous things, with tiny displays to leave room for all the trademarks and other nonsense they feel the need to plaster everywhere. I seriously don't understand why they're almost universally awful.
Time zones are kind of arbitrary.. there are infinite ones, for each horizontal movement around the earth.
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It's only uncommon when it comes to sites running under TLS.
There was also this workflow [1] posted recently, which is what I'm basically doing at $work. It's simpler than gitflow, so the reduced overhead might suit you better as a sole developer.

[1] http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/01/simple-git-workflow-simpl...
> Django's event system lets you avoid polling the DB.

Django's signal system must be run on the same instance, synchronously, before returning any response to client. This means if a signal blocks, the response will never reach the client.

It's technically impossible to handle post-response events in WSGI.

http://dirtsimple.org/2011/07/wsgi-is-dead-long-live-wsgi-li...

For example, user requests a blog post, you can't first return response then increase your view counter by 1. You just can't. Unless you use some container specific hooks (like uWSGI, Tornado, etc.)
I think the interesting thing is how little awareness of all of it there is in the US. It's easily explained (language barrier) but many people probably think that Twitter is the most active micro-blogging service in the world, that PayPal is the only really huge payments service, or that Amazon and eBay are the major players in ecommerce. For any service you can think of in the US, there's one in China that might be even bigger.
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I've never heard of Self. So I wanted to find more about it. I had to click on several links to find some example of the language. I found this.[1]

In the graphical representation of the object, we can distinguish
method slots from data slots, and constant slots from assignable
slots, by the icon in the button at the right hand of the slot.

Huh? Maybe I should go find a description of the language.[2]

Self is an object-oriented programming language and associated
programming environment. It is close in spirit and semantics to
Smalltalk

Oh! Okay. Now I get it. But that's only because I'm vaguely familiar with Smalltalk.

(My intention of this comment is to save others some time trying to discover some basic facts about Self.)

[1] - http://selflanguage.org/_static/tutorial/Language/ObjectsAnd...

[2] - http://selflanguage.org/_static/tutorial/General/WhatIsSelf....
FYI, Homakov started out with a slightly different tone, over a year ago, and posted a few items to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3791281, which got flagged to death, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778158).

The reception he got here was really not great.
Why? Do you not believe the numbers? Do you not believe that the services mentioned exist? Do you not believe that the services work well?
Wow, that site is great. It's like John Nash and a librarian had a secret love child. Organized thoughts are clearly a virtue, but not quite his forte.
Education quality and pollution (lots of high-tech hardware industry stuff) are very relevant to the tech industry, I'd say. Also government and regulation issues.
Unless it's an ad from a recruitment agency. While I'm certain that recruitment agency ads do often advertise real jobs, there are instances where I'm pretty sure there are other recruitment agencies that advertise fake positions. They are then used to collect CVs of the applicants so they have a database of candidates which they can use if an employer asks for someone for another position.
"As my project grows in size, significant whitespace becomes more and more of a problem. It’s just plain not readable or visually parsable. Your files become a wall of dense text. Damn you Python, damn you to hell!"

I would appreciate an explanation of this paragraph. How exactly does project size compound issues with significant whitespace? Are you indenting five levels or something?
That's some dark magic out there. Does Meteor oplog monitor process need to run on the db instance as well?
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This is total linkbait. Neither the startup nor the programmer are named. The split between cash and equity in the mysterious programmer's compensation is not made clear. This entire article could be fabricated and there would be no way whatsoever to prove it.
I'm not sure if there's an entity that could be trusted to do this, but if there were, the court could simply have Yelp release the identities of Hadeed's reviewers, and Hadeed's release its customer list, to the same (bonded, or otherwise contractually/legally obligated to maintain privacy) third party. That third party could then LEFT OUTER JOIN the lists, and release to Hadeed's the identities of any parties that have reviewed, but aren't actual customers, without also disclosing the identities of actual customers who've left legitimate negative reviews.

Of course, that might risk revealing the existence of any positive non-customer reviews, and with a company of the sort this one seems to be, I'm not willing to bet that's the empty set.

EDIT: phrasing.