skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea. Seems like that question is a lot of the conversation going on here as well.
‘Serious problem’: 65-foot crack found in Columbia River dam
Prisoner's dilemma is the wrong example from game theory, but no harm done.
The thing is, anyone who has read, say the Django tutorial can say "I have done Django developemnt", whereas that is a world of difference from having a solid understanding of database design and deep understanding of all parts of the framework and able to set up such an app on various different servers.

Interviews in IT seem to be a mess, though looking at what I have been asked in the past few years. Pointless trivial pursuit sytle Python questions and the likes.
How hard would it be to just parse JSON5 into JSON? (Strip out the comments, add quotes around keys, eliminate trailing commas from objects and arrays...)

Once that's in place, then JSON5 would instantly become much more viable...
Yes, but it is trivial to then convert it to a date with the new Date() constructor.
How does this compare to an AVR (other than being a Von Neumann computer)?
If the support staff knows the answer to the questions immediately, and needs to probe the client a bit to find the problem, voice calls could be preferred.

However, if the support staff needs to look into the problem a bit, and already has required information from the client, I think email is far preferable. Being on the phone is likely to put the support person on the spot to make instant answers, else appearing to lack knowledge), whether or not correct.
Sometimes it is corporate policy, meaning if you are on a work computer you can't manually update it yourself.

There are still some legacy applications that require a specific version of IE, or specific IE functionality, in order to work correctly. The cost of "fixing" the application to work correctly may cost too much or be too much effort.

Of course, there may be others who may have no idea how to update, no doubt there is a whole group of (older) users where auto-update may be turned off and no idea the update process exists.
Yeah, that's horrible. It really drains the culture when personal loans/savings are the only way to finance a business. The US Midwest actually has a lot of talent (and geat schools) but so much of that talent ends up on the coasts.
I know how you feel, please sign the petition: http://www.saveie6.com/
It's also meant that JSON documents don't have data encoded in comments. Working as intended.
Right now, we're looking for folks who can move to the Baltimore/DC area for at least 1-3 months -- it's just hard to get stuff done in this environment without being here in-person!
Note the extreme lack of women commenting in this thread, as well as the lack of discussion of any of the substance of the livestream.

This thread is 100% nerdy dudes feeling offended by this event, plus other dudes attempting to counter this.

Is not this thread itself indicative of a giant problem?
This isn't very difficult to do.

Take 100K. Hire private investigators to find people who work at the place in question and who are not happy. Pay these people for affidavits stating that animal cruelty goes on. Based on that sworn testimony, go to a federal prosecutor and get a warrant. Take the warrant and gather evidence. Or, start a civil action and begin discovery.

This kind of thing is done all the time. But you know what it lacks? Publicity. Because at the end of the day, that's what activists want. It's not necessarily to stop the wrong, it's to get TV and internet coverage -- just like we see here -- and to use that coverage to raise money, gain attention, create an even bigger movement.

So yeah, I'm all for activists speaking out. Hell, I'll go march with them. But not onto somebody else's private property. They can go jump in a lake as far as I care, no matter what kind of impassioned cause they're thumping their chests about this week.

Look, either civilization depends on the rule of law or we all get to make impassioned speeches about things and do what we want because we believe our beliefs to be so special (more than other people). Count me in as a "rule of law" guy. Otherwise neither you or I are going to like things very much.
Meanwhile it's ok to film citizens to "prevent terrorism".

I bet you that Idaho law would still allow filming if you suspected terrorism inside the farm lol
(2012). This is not a Snowden leak, as I mistook it at first.
"Roman said while Kutcher isn’t actually working on any of the design circuitry, the user experience of the phones will very much be his."

Sounds like he'll actually be a user experience designer, not an "engineer."

Also, unless he's really doing the leg-work of user research, studies, interviews, and test sessions, he's not really a user experience designer, either. He's just a guy with some opinions.
I'm currently playing with a TI Tiva-C development board, and it's great.

http://www.ti.com/ww/en/launchpad/launchpads-tivac-ek-tm4c12...
Russia's military presence in the Black Sea and on the Crimea predates the founding of the United States of America. I agree that Russia might inflate the reasons for its intervention, but there is a lot of geo-political influence at stake here. The hypocrisy surrounding this scares me. If the NSA is spying on foreign citizens, other governments or foreign corporations everything is well because protecting national interest is OK. If other countries are faced with similar decisions and act in their own national interests, its 19th century style behavior and has to be condemned.

> "You just don't in the 21st Century behave in 19th Century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext," Mr Kerry told the CBS program Face the Nation.

Coming from a US official this sounds very much like a bad joke.

Imagine a different scenario: One of the the less stable EU members with a US base (basically all of them) has a revolution and the winning party plans to get rid of the US military bases. What is going to happen? Is the US just going to give up on it? Does it depend on the importance of the base (think Rammstein)? I'm sure no one doubts that the US would intervene in some way.
Except when an upgrade to Flash breaks an important site for a lot of users. Then you are screwed. Reverting to the regular windows plugin would be the first change i made for a large deployment.
And, more often than not, the owners who happened to hire a bad employee. Sure, there should be repercussions for the choice to hire the person, but realize it is not always obvious who is bad without hindsight. It is embarrassing to have hired a programmer who botches your application, and it is equally embarrassing to have hired a farmhand that abuses your animals.

I wonder how Google/Facebook/Microsoft would react if people started posting videos of people writing bad code while on the job?
Indeed. I suspect police officers have quite the extra cost due to presumably higher insurance premiums than an office worker.
... and yet the third side says that if an entire state's economy is based on sweeping illegal (and immoral) acts under the rug for the 'greater good,' then something is severely wrong.
to be fair they don't test updates, rather they test their internal web app lacking standards compliance or cross browser testing.
The full linked data for that occupation list really makes your point clear:

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm

It's certainly not the case that IT people are hurting terribly but it makes it hard to argue that there is in fact a significant shortage or that we need programs to attract more CS majors rather than, say, simply paying at least as much as some of the other things students choose to major in.
Paying taxes would be a start?
Your description is constructed to exactly dismiss what you already dont like -- but it's digital, you want a soulful dominant woman? You can have that! Whether you install the appropriate personality profile a-la total recall or with current teledildonics tech that avatar could very well be a real human being and the haptic telemetry is now genuine physical interaction, genuine long distance SEX between real people, represented by avatars in the game.

This is huge. Huge as in investors should be clamoring to get in! www.angel.co/frixion ;)
I feel like a lot of the knee jerk negativity comes from the implication that the event is 'good', 'great', 'inspiring' because of it being <under-represented group> only. Sort of has that liberal agenda, politically correct twang to it that really seems to exist in America, at least in this form. It gives a circle jerk like quality to it. I was personally uncomfortable with attending events in a minority only engineer group for the same reason.

On the flip side, there is an equally powerful emotional appeal to support an event like this when wife, daughter, girlfriend, female friend would like to attend. Though that might be more about the relationship of you and the person and less about the merits of the event.
Yea I noticed that too. You initially scroll down to see the rest of that sample chat inbox, which provides a smooth transition between the div with the background video and the div with the main content (since the first chat inbox spills into the second div). Looks good.
Some people here scoff at the idea that COINTELPRO-type operations are still under way. What do they say now about the dirty tricks campaigns recently revealed?
I'd love to have 100 of them! It probably wouldn't be $0.75/ea for only 100, probably closer to $1.00 each, but still. $100 for 100 MCUs to throw into projects would be awesome. 48Mhz is a lot of hertz to throw at a lot of problems.

Hell, at that price, you can afford to do stupid shit with them, like put them in your friends' LED lightbulbs to screw with them, or build a physical neural-network computer, just so you can hook up LEDs between all the interconnects and make a blinklichten display.

The only problem is that they are ball grid array devices. I wouldn't necessarily say that BGA is impossible for a hobbiest, but typically you're just not going to find that kind of equipment at your local hackerspace.
For what really happens when you add lots of convenience features to something like json -- it's not XML, it's YAML.

And it turns out all those extra convenience features in YAML are a mess -- if you haven't discovered that yet, it's becuase you haven't been bitten by a weird edge case related to the complex interplay of features yet.

Of course, this proposal is just a few convenience features, it's not nearly to YAML level. That probably also means it doesn't add enough benefit to any developers pain points to justify anyone using it instead of the more universally recognized plain old json.
It would be fun to take the HN database and do an automated search for the use of such techniques.
Probably partly due to the media induced paedophilia paranoia in the UK. (I know a male primary teacher and I heard he had to go through the crap of a girl accusing him of something inappropriate.) I doubt that happens to women often if at all.
I'm making an assumption that the majority (if not entirety) of GitHub employees use a Mac, so why wouldn't they make an editor for themselves on a platform that they use? I doubt they're doing it to bolster the OSX ecosystem as much as meet their own needs.
I wonder how much input he's really going to have. His endorsement is probably going to bring them quite a lot of value (I used to watch Two and a Half Men and he was regularly using a MacBook - switch that for a Lenovo product and they're getting a lot of free marketing). I remember trying a Twitter client he was part of creating once and it was pretty bad.[1]

[1] Someone else owns the domain now but I was able to find this: http://web.archive.org/web/20111011125847/http://www.aplus-a...
>But, even 200 sites per country is enough for a proper random sample

Yes, but my concern is that they may only have a handful of sites (or none at all) for a long tail of smaller countries.

>Even more so when you consider that a site is not a single observation, but reports data about all the users visiting it.

True, so it depends on whether or not users of popular international sites from a particular country are representative of all users from that country.
Let the guy have fun. Judge him in a year
> Russia was, is, and will be an empire with an eternal appetite for expansion.

Incredible double standard, harshly denouncing Russian imperialism, if it can even be called that, while completely ignoring American imperialism which is orders of magnitude larger.

(And then he goes on to criticize double standards! Russian of course, not American/Western).
As far as I know, the way ES6 works is that there is consent for everyone to implement features that have been approved in the "face to face" meetings. That is not the same way that the CSS working group works, however, because CSS is now modularized as opposed to monolithic.

You're trying to create controversy where there is none. Nobody on TC39 objects to SpiderMonkey implementing specific features with broad consensus before all of ES6 has been finalized.
oh, please do this.

I love yaml -- except on the rare by very painful occasions where I get hugely bitten by incredibly weird problems arising from unexpected interplay of yaml features.

Some of the originators of yaml are probably the only people who the social power to promulgate a revision with a haircut. That would be awesome.
AVR's are 8-bit microcontrollers, Cortex-M's are 32-bit and are generally more powerful and have more features (even the Cortex-M0's) than both AVR's tiny and mega series.
Ask HN: Is it possible to get asylum for developers?
As you know russians dropped about 6k military force units to Ukraine, and soon the can start to show some aggression. And for me as a developer(and I think for lots of people there) this situation seems very scary, and I'm starting to look some variants of relocation from Ukraine to some peaceful place and maybe to work remotely or to find place where I can be hired. How to do you think, what can be an optimal solution for this case?
Are your internship positions for Summer 2014 filled?
He's just a guy with some opinions

And not even very good ones at that: http://www.businessinsider.com/ashton-kutcher-fires-back-at-...

He actually now has a colorful history of saying and doing douchey things like this.

Edit: particularly the douchey thing here was him lying and attacking woz: ("He’s a brilliant man and I respect his work, but he wasn’t available to us as a resource, so his account isn’t going to be our account because we don’t know exactly what it was. We did the best job we could. Nobody really knows what happened in the rooms [...] Woz is being paid by another company to support a different Steve Jobs film."-- an outright lie; woz got back to them, and kutcher et al. didn't like making changes at odds with their preconceived narrative of how Jobs would be presented as the main hero as both a tech guru and frontman).
GNU/Linux was never aimed at average people - it exists to solve some problems average people just don't have.
This reads like black propaganda.

If you're politically active in any meaningful way, it's smart to realize that you're probably under surveillance.

It's not smart to start accusing people who 'Display banners with too many words that are confusing' of being saboteurs.
"[objects, arrays, ] can have trailing commas."

That's all I needed to hear, I'm on board.
>but there's a well-known "ripple effect" from educating a girl

If it's so well known then either provide us with the research that proved such an effect, or stop spreading dubious, sexist nonsense.

Seriously, this strikes me as sexist gibberish. I know I've personally educated 3 people so far, as far as software development goes. With one, I've spent a great deal of my free time educating them. Yet you come to me and tell me -- with nothing more than folklore and a spurious link regarding an unrelated issue as proof -- that men don't educate anyone.

The more outlandish a claim, the more proof it requires, and simply saying "some famous guy said it!" isn't a proof, and nor is linking to a source (your PBS link) which is essentially irrelevant to the claim. I would also say that the surest way to ensure fewer men educate people is to tell them that educating people is a gendered trait that belongs to a gender other than their own; pay serious heed to engaging in sexist tripe like this, because it may set a terrible precedent for the generation that follows.

Zmitri (the person who raised this spurious nonsense) has seriously offended me here, and so have you by claiming it has any factual basis. Please remedy this either providing proof for the apparent-nonsense, or rescinding your support for this claim.
There is a huge difference between a company town, feudalism, and Facebook building company housing. Comparing FB to them is an insult to the people that suffered under those systems.

First of all FB employees are paid very well. If they decide they don't want to work for FB anymore they could find a new job in less than a day. They can easily afford housing elsewhere. FB doesn't own all the businesses in the area and isn't paying its employees in vouchers.
"He's just a guy with some opinions."

You mean someone like Steve Jobs.
How not to provide binary checksums (looking at you, Oracle)
I wonder if there is a database or list of known forum accounts who have practiced these techniques? Would be useful for modelling.
Completely tangential - but does anyone know how to setup a call center this quickly? Is there a service that one can use?
What about the frequently (and generally??) much higher difficultly in letting people go, which I'm told results in it being much more difficult to get hired in the first place?

To the extent that's true, that would make it much more difficult to find good, "risk-seeking" or at least risk tolerant employees.
Warren Buffet: that's why he is one of my favorite people.
Bare metal, and preferably Assembly as you need every byte in those 32KB/2KB.
A notable difference between your examples and "religion" (or at least some subset of that widely scoped word) is that religion, at least in the context of this conversation, is someone else's large set of loosely-correlated rules. If one takes the Torah to the literal extreme, they build a fence on their roof, because it was common thousands of years ago to let neighbors sleep on one's roof.

Blind adherence to someone else's rules is certainly much more restrictive; it makes the box a lot stronger and less holey.
There are various FORTHs which run on this and similar chips. Search for M0 FORTH. For example I think this one will run on the Freedom Board:

http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/
You mean someone like your butcher.
Are you serious? You expect me to provide a Fox News fair and balanced response in any of my comments on Hackernews? I could understand your point if I would have tried to be polemic, but I surely wasn't.

The other position was already provided for by github and numerous other posters, while I pointed out a fact that was not yet mentioned.

By the way, "benefits of sophisticated analysis" for whom? Google's ad revenues? I actually agree that github could provide a better product with the information gathered, but I really don't think that google should be in between me and github.
I hope this whole thing is just a Punk'd episode.
So no different from any other mobile OS OEMs.
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Google disabled this feature in the "new" Maps application, releases few months ago.
Regen is factored into their calculations of battery life. While no one but Tesla knows the actual details of their recharging strategy, I suspect that the regen also selectively charges certain cells/strings of cells to reduce the overall amount of charge cycles. Hypothetically, maybe the car drains one string down to a low level and then each time the regen kicks in, it goes to that discharged string until it is full then that string will be put back into use and another discharged string will be the recipient of regen.
I wonder if it's the beginning of the end 8-bit and 16-bit micro. Prices of 32-bit micros are so low now, they are so small, it just doesn't seem worth the hassle of dealing with an 8/16bit. I'm sure they'll exist in legacy designs for another 20+ years, but new designs? Less and less.
I feel like a lot of the techniques are used by non-agents, like straw man or acting indignant of what have you. I know I'm guilty of it looking back. Certain techniques though are deliberate enough, like forum sliding.
> Why is Putin doing this? Because he can. That's it, that's all you need to know.

I stopped after reading the second paragraph. The conflict in the Ukraine is barely HN material and if we still want to discuss it, I'd suggest we stick to better sources - the nytimes did a pretty good analysis of what's going on.
My impression of Lenovo products is that ThinkPads proper have gone downhill since the IBM acquisition, and they have a lot of lower end brands that are typical OEM garbage. I think they also have been using the TP branding on lower end products as well, IMHO. Not sure why Kutcher would want to latch onto them.
Perfect example of a dumb investor who thinks he has a better idea of how to run the company than the founders themselves. I'm quite certain that bad influences of such investors have broken more startups' backs than pregnancies.

Founders, please choose your investors well.
> Some people here scoff at the idea that COINTELPRO-type operations are still under way

Given the sheer scale of pseudonymous commentary in internet fora in recent years, the attitude that "it can't be happening" is naive to the point of utter ridiculousness. Quietly steering the public conversation is an obvious and attractive idea to any existing power. And inexpensive to try out.
In other words, it's an argument-to-authority (discarding the Latin here). Claiming "some famous guy said it!" is no more a proof than claiming "crazy, homeless Bill said it!": a convincing argument should be able to stand on its own weight, without being stated by a credible source.

If the hypothetical 'crazy, homeless Bill' said that the sun were bright, he'd be correct regardless of the fact that it came from 'crazy, homeless Bill'. If Ben Horowitz stated that 1 = 2, then he'd be wrong, regardless of the fact that he's 'Ben Horowitz'.
He might have only seen Enterprise Guide, which indeed resembles Excel. But that a good thing, actually.
Thanks for the link. Would it be possible to elaborate as to how doing TDD made the algorithm evolve for you?

"TDD/BDD in one form or another". Theres the rub. That form mostly doesnt involve red-green-refactor and make the algorithm evolve from their tests. A lot of famous, widely-used open source software have tests, but doesnt mean they used red-green-refactor TDD. If you read my comment below the title, I am specifically looking for software that used the TDD method as prescribed by agile methodologists.
Given that it doesn't allow for pointers pointing into places they should not, null terminated strings without terminator, arrays that decay into pointers, double free(), buffer overflows, stack corruption, ...

I would say, yes it is more secure.
From the article "Kutcher studied biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa before leaving school to pursue a modeling career. " Just like I'm a mathematician because I took vector calculus as an undergrad!
>> "an outright lie; woz got back to them, and kutcher et al. didn't like making changes at odds with their preconceived narrative of how Jobs would be presented as the main hero as both a tech guru and frontman"

Source for this because unless that's true there's nothing particularly 'douchey' about his comments in the article you linked.