skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is no accident that socially conservative ideologies are correlated with right-wing / authoritarian politics

Now you are just being silly. The USSR sent homosexuals to the gulags. China considered homosexuality to be a mental illness up 'til 2002, it is only when they started to become capitalist that they relaxed! In the UK it is the right-wing Tories that are bringing in gay marriage.

Attitudes towards homosexuality are simply not correlated with left-right politics.
Everyone's underpaid because employers need to make a profit on you. If you bring a million in sales, and turn around and demand a million, then the company hasn't made anything. How much profit a company should be making on its developers is a different story.

And really, not all developers are mentally taxed for 8 hours a day. Some might do routine tasks for 2 or hours and then browse HN for the remaining 6, or just go right home. The labor market for developers is no where near efficient in this regard.

But really, if a high salary and benefits and perks aren't a luxury job, then what is a luxury job exactly?
They are also paid in dollars. If Bitcoin were an existential threat to the Federal Reserve banking system, I wouldn't expect them to rule in its favor. The dissenting opinion would probably be worth reading, but there's no way it wouldn't come down at least 5-4 in favor of their own paychecks.
Haven't read that before; thanks for the link!
What do you think of Ace Player?

It's a VLC branch adding BitTorrent support, which is a pretty slick addition. I've not been able to find their source code (wiki is down) but it looks decent.
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Who is "people"? The average US citizen doesn't express much concern about the NSA & GCHQ intrusions. Many suffer from celebrity-ism and fantasize about having paparazzi follow and photograph them everywhere. Even after admitting blanket spying occurs on elected Senators, there are no indictments or criminal sanctions.

What is a little stranger to me are those on hacker news that want the government to gain complete control over their personal autonomy with a "basic income." While they insist that the income would be unconditional, it would be from a government which currently revokes many rights -- voting, free speech, and even life from citizens and non-citizens alike.
Really a shame for them to resort to such unscrupulous tactics. I quite like 1&1 too. Their mail.com mobile interface ( https://m.mail.com/int/ ) works with NoScript and is perfect as far as my needs are concerned. Quite nice looking too. Very flat and minimal while being completely functional.

Such a shame...
Applications in most operating systems can set the cursor position. Full-screen games often reset it to the middle of the screen every frame.

IIRC it isn't exposed to JS except maybe for some new fullscreen API (not my area, sorry.)
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The game has funny and attractive colors and sound effects for both children and adults.
It is very easy to access and is based on your dexterity.
Are you ready?
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On Facebook there is a footer, and seemingly no way to get to it unless you find a short enough page or manage to get to it faster than the infinite scroll can load.
I don't get the appeal for trying to make long streaks since they can be easily gamed.
This is not the "business that happens in a vacuum or at least on the level of normal capitalism" "business" or industry you seem to think it is.

I know people who are involved in this. Just being able to bid takes decades and a network you either can't buy or need to be very rich to buy into. It takes either already being there or finding excellent bonuses (e.g. the kind of benefits that come with setting up your business in Detroit). And then you have to compete with the entrenched interests.

This is, or at least can be, far down the ladder from Lockheed-Martin. But it's the same kind of environment: If you're already there, it's easy money. If you're not, it almost certainly out of your league. If you know how to play the game, you still need to know the right people. If you do know the right people, you need to grease their palms. And once you've done that, you're part of the problem.

"Someone needs to disrupt x" is a magically simplistic and meaningless point of view.
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I agree in that case, but when it comes to commas, using spaces in a certain way is objectively better.
I think it comes down to the perceived lack of value to the enterprise of elegance in programming languages.
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Poku Crash and Hairy Bibots.
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Poku needs you to stay alive! During the fight, help him to get new weapons that make him stronger.
The game has funny and attractive colors and sound effects for both children and adults.
It is very easy to access and is based on your dexterity.
Are you ready?
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"good for mobile users"

Well, maybe; mobile browsers are often more constrained in terms of RAM. My Android phone only has 256MB, so infinite scrolling tends to cause the browser to bail out.
Shutting down the government for a few weeks probably complicated some things. Can always call non-stop hearings and bring people in to talk instead of work, as well.

What, you think nobody plays hardball in DC?
"PS: I am available for hire! Feel free to contact me"
at the end of the post was a bit ironic.

Otherwise I quite agree with the post, we tech guys have chance to choose our job.
The difference is that Discourse does it on a per-item basis, Google's on a per-page. A small implementation detail.
TDD isn't a tool or a library, and thus isn't specific to a language or a framework - it's a philosophy.

Get, read and understand Kent Beck: "Test driven development by example". The rest will follow naturally.
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Funny how she only apologized after it went viral, It seems it's not the first time she sends emails like that.
All of the links in the footer are also at the bottom of the right-hand main column
What about spending on healthcare and pensions? We spend more on each of those than on our military.
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there is apparently a generational gap here. There are people that have read The Mythical Man-Month, and then there are people that go and re-live it.
I also 'omitted' the rest of the bible. I quoted the whole verse of Matthew 5:17. I don't see any issue with Matthew 5:18 in regards to my statement.
Actually, you are wrong in this case. :/

Christians have absolutely no responsibility towards the Mosaic Law and only strictly towards the teachings of Jesus (whom they declare their leader).

Paul says this in a letter to a group of new Christians living in Collosae (modern day Turkey)sometime in the mid 1st century (50-60 C.E.) [0]

[0] http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+2%3A1...
You mean the re-worded http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/al-jazeera-... ? You are welcome for me sending you to Al Jazeera.
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Complexity. We have 10x more code, 10x more components, and 10x more layers than we need. If the initial architecture had been dirt-simple, I don't think the site would have had so much trouble scaling or staying up. But, of course, removing complexity without breaking things takes longer than adding it in the first place.

The other big problem is operations — many steps are done manually which should be done with tools like chef or puppet. When you have a lot of manual steps in your deploy process, it makes the whole system harder to scale, test, modify, and keep running. "Devops" has become a buzzword but it's definitely needed here.
Try a few and see which people you enjoy working with.

You also want people who will (1) be happy paying you real money if you can reliably produce value, and (2) be more or less content to let you be the expert as long as you're on the ball about producing value and communicating effectively.

You do NOT want cases where people will complain that $20/mo is too expensive, or that a $3 business app doesn't have enough features.

Once you pick an area or two that you have interest in, your first steps should be trying to track down and connect with people. Can you do that? If not, it's probably a bad domain for you. Then, customer development interviews. Learn about them before you work with them.

Existing domain experience from previous stuff you've done in your career is a good starting point. Never worked around real estate agents but have intimate knowledge of how to sell construction companies? That should tell you something about where to look first.

It's a matter of applying conditional probabilities, really. Want to work with barber shops but find that's too general? Okay, what about hipster barber shop owners in their early 30s with a master's degree in English Lit? Now it's suddenly way too specific. Somewhere between the two, you become the ONE person in the city who is right for THEM.
There's an elegant way to add some sort of progress indicator to infinite scroll. I just haven't figured it out yet :)
But what view will the historians get from us?

I fear, they will write, that the beginning 21st century was full of perverts!

What do they have from other centuries:

Goethe, Franklin, Hugo, ....

And from ours:

People that strip before the webcam??
Why are you using GA if you hate GA?
Of course, you are right, I did not want to imply that we should call C++ a garbage collecting language just because it has shared_ptr. And you are right that you can achieve more optimal code if you can use you knowledge to decide when reference counting is necessary and when not. But there is just an enormous spectrum of cases where the convenience of a garbage collector - which gives you less (but not zero) opportunities for memory leaks and speeds up development - far outweighs the performance hit. And the performance hit is really not large, modern garbage collectors are highly tuned pieces of software. Obviously you probably don't want a GC run when you are in the middle of some timing critical driver code, but I never wanted to imply a black/white world where garbage collectors are the silver bullet. But the article is definitely wrong - garbage collection is not wrong (in all scenarios).
Interesting to think a factor could be my grandparents still living their piece of the American Dream.
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That was later. They started off with $zero commissions (I believe this was the inspiration for the name Zecco). It started as no commissions no matter the account size, then they added minimums which crept up for a while, then, as I recall, they removed free commissions entirely, then they were bought by TradeKing.
Sure but a progress bar or "page" counter at the top would alleviate that somewhat.
Check out http://mojolicio.us/ for a more modern take on web dev in Perl -- the most common deployment is a nginx reverse proxy in front of the built-in (non-blocking and preforking) web server -- just like suggested setups in node/python/ruby/etc.

One cool bonus that mojo provides is hot deployments, so there's no need to restart the server process to get new code.
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As a citizen of the UK, I say - that's quite alright, happy to help :-)
Was more about the principle, talk to frickin' users!
But is that really unique to Perl these days? It may have been true in the mid-1990s, but things have changed since then.

Python and Ruby both have a much cleaner syntax, yet still offer very comparable functionality, excellent portability, ample standard and third-party libraries, excellent documentation, supportive communities, great regex support, and basically everything else that Perl offers.

Since everything positive about Perl is also offered by alternative languages today, and those alternatives are themselves much better than Perl in some respects, Perl seems like a less and less enticing option each day.
I think it solves a business problem rather than a problem that consumers necessarily feel. Google have good reasons (lessen effects of SEO & boost ad impressions) for not wanting all of their traffic to go to the very top results or the first page.

Infinite scroll encourages users to keep going. It's similar to how certain demographics will scroll through Pinterest for hours. It removes the boundary where someone might say "OK, that's the last page I'm going through."
Of course! Anything that brings visitors who you can serve ads to is good content. Re-wording AP releases or stories from news websites does not take much time.
I've lived and worked in two places you mention (Florida, Chicago, although very briefly in the latter).

There are "well-paid" software jobs there, if one adheres strictly to a comparison of salaries with the median. However the quantity of software jobs is lower, the type of software job is generally slanted toward the "crappy" end of the spectrum (software developers are an expense, and therefore to be treated as enemies to the mission of the company), and the pay is just not even in the same ballpark as the Bay area, even if it is (relatively) good.

Then there are other factors, such as quality of life, public services and other things that make it easier or even pleasant to raise a family. In Florida all these things, in my opinion, are seriously lacking or underwhelming. Coupled with the high level of job insecurity there, I didn't have to think too long or hard to decide to move my family from there to the Bay area.
It hasn't. The 'gotofail' bug doesn't exist in 10.8.5 or earlier.

The 'news' here is that Safari6 & 7 received updates but Safari5 didn't. Piggy-backing 'gotofail' is just alarmism.
What about the children and non-combatants who have incorrectly been killed due to drone strikes? What is the correct number of non-terrorists that should be killed per terrorist who is killed?

After September 11th some Americans thought a mass termination of people in Afghanistan would be a good idea (you had to be an adult or teenager at the time, people spoke this, they certainly did not print it in the NYTimes.)

The point is, once you begin making judgements solely on outcomes, those judgements become amoral. That can be ok when its an amoral activity, like optimizing server architecture, but when the activity involves who to kill and not to kill, the decisions last forever.
First, you're ignoring the fact that the woman specifically runs a listserv for people looking for work. That's what the woman DOES.

You're right I'm ignoring it. Because I don't take issue with how she responded, but rather with the "sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you hurt my feelings when you reject my request, I WILL DESTROY YOU IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION" approach the requestor went with, and how that approach has been supported by the bloodthirsty mob.

Second, what is it with people and the "almighty linkedin connections" thing?

It's their choice, is it not?
If you don't mind my asking, how far would you say that $110,000 has gotten you in Seattle?
I don't have a better one handy, but this definitely is a Wikipedia entry where "This article needs additional citations for verification." is more than true.

For example: "In the 1980s, a tiny CPU that executed FORTH was fabricated into a DRAM chip to improve PUSH and POP. FORTH is a Stack-oriented programming language and this improved its efficiency."

I would love to see a reference there. Anybody know one? If it only had pop and push, I wouldn't call it a processor in memory. I wouldn't say the MuP21 (http://www.ultratechnology.com/p21.html#p21) or F21 (http://www.ultratechnology.com/f21cpu.html) had a processor in memory, either.

Aside: I Googled for this (mythical?) CPU and did not find it, but I did find the next hot thing in agile programming: "Initially OKAD was implemented as the only application program in OK and was an experiment in sourceless programming. The structure of the programs looks like Forth code, but there was no Forth compiler or interpreter except Chuck himself. He entered the kernel of OK using a debugger and built the tools he need to build the rest of OK and OKAD" (http://www.ultratechnology.com/okad.htm)

Somebody should start a project where your system runs compiled Forth code, and the only way to backup the system is through a command that retrieve a set of functions from another running system ("please replace the 'BEEP' function with the one on the system at this IP address")
I'm not sure if I agree that your grandparents were under less pressure in their jobs. Overall, I think life is far easier today than it was 50 years ago, at least for most workers.

It sounds like you're doing better than 99% of people. Six figure income, no huge expenses. I think the question isn't 'what's the problem with the economy' - really the question should be 'what's the problem with our expectations?'

I think for all of human history the Joneses have looked more financially comfortable and happy than they really are. Perhaps the comfortable people you envy are not as comfortable as they appear. Or maybe comfort is more a state of mind than a state of finance.

Those are my two cents, at least. I'd be happy to hear more about your situation and where you're coming from.
is this true ?! Any evidence? Is there a page on whitehouse.gov with F R Smith - foot fetish (moderate), would like to be a Gimp but never found the right owner.
Good point Julian. Spending on healthcare, repairing infrastructure, cost of food stamps, etc. pores money back into our general economy, something that spending money on foreign bases, etc. does not.

One thing: it is very important to wind down the size of our military very slowly because we have made a commitment to supply jobs long term in return for being in the military and the sacrifices that entails. My solution is to bring most service people stationed overseas home as soon as we can manage that - better to spend the money inside the USA while maintaining our employment commitments to people in our military services.
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>Why are all the Haskell and functional folks trying to screw up C++?

All 10 of them? You do understand that these C++ proposals and additions have nothing to do with Haskell people, but come from seasoned C++ veterans, like Herb Sutter and such.
This is a networked society fighting against government system designed to be hierarchical and other way round. In my opinion one primary reason for this that the governance model through Democracy is broken. We need to evolve to something other than democracy.
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I wish to join your infinite scroll haters club.

To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum's "Ian Malcolm" in Jurassic Park:

"Yeah, but your front-end developers were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

I personally find infinite scroll to be far worse than cleanly paginated pages in every regard. YMMV, I guess.
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1913, I believe. Jekyll Island. Look it up if it interests you.
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Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Great. Powering oppressive governments everywhere.
Micron demonstrated early versions of this at Microprocessor Forum in 2004 or 2005. So it isn't exactly "new" but being able to actually get one is.

Pattern algorithms are pretty difficult to synthesize however, see the Conway Glider search as an example. One of the challenges is that the set of 'instructions' and the solution possibilities are quite tightly interlinked. I hope that I can get my hands on one at some point, some of the old texture research from the Image Processing Institute would really fly on this thing.
Yes! And 30 emails from recruiters isn't far off from par for the course.
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They actually don't quote all of the really awful anachronistic parts, just the parts that align with their world view. It's not like they have a problem with shellfish, after all.
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> The law is fairly obviously not an answer though, given the context.

You're free to think that, I'm free to think you're wrong. MtGox is in Japan, Coinbase isn't; the contexts are different.
To me it really depends on what I'm looking. E.g if I'm looking at clothes online I just really wanna look at everything at bunch click the few I wanna see and be done with it, not having to be clicking and reloading and what not.
If I'm looking at something like a blog or news it makes more sense since it helps me realize how old something might be.
"These posts are aimed at software engineers more than developers"

I don't know what this means
Most sites that implement infinite scrolling effectively "unload" content that's far enough off the screen, much like they delay-load content that's below your scroll area. The net memory usage shouldn't be dramatically worse.
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Well... if C and (early) C++ showed us anything, it's that programmers aren't very good at managing memory. (It's not just leaking memory. Accessing deleted memory is much worse.)

So, what are you going to do? Just say "Most programmers are lousy, deal with it"? Introduce garbage collection, which solves 90% of the problem (memory) with no programmer intervention, but does nothing whatsoever to help the other 10% of cases (files, sockets, mutexes, etc.)? Rely on RAII, which in turn relies on programmer education and discipline? Or do you have another alternative?

Optional GC could be interesting - maybe some kind of a switch that you set at compile time that says "this program uses GC" or "this program uses destructors". But then you're essentially talking about two similar, but different languages (like, say, Java and C++).
To be fair, knowing that your political enemies had purchased male and female slaves would also be useful political blackmail.
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It seems like there is a huge opportunity for a company to bring some efficiency to this space. -FreightMob
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(Doesn't help with the microphone)
Maybe FDIC insurance specifically doesn't make sense for Bitcoin, but it can still be lost or stolen in a full-reserve model and thus should be insured.