skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are developers who have not worked with Clojure "less serious" than those who have?

In a typical Java shop or enterprise code factory, after 2-5 years you reach a plateau and the only way up is to become an "architect" or move into management. So that's what the better people in the mainstream Java world want to do, and ultimately the tenor is focused on "enterprise architecture" and Spring/Hibernate add-ons instead of making beautiful, powerful, or maintainable software and solving hard problems.

The Clojure community (I'm at Clojure/West as we speak) is full of people who (a) are really good, like top 1%, and (b) have at least the intention to be career-long programmers (in some capacity).

That's something you don't see in the Java shops. Yes, there are good programmers in them, but they usually are planning a move into management because the way most companies do software is limiting and puts you at an artificial ceiling after no more than 5 years.

Is it a gross simplification to make this about languages? Perhaps, but the empowerment that languages like Clojure give to individual contributors can be a game changer. It's reminiscent of what startups used to be, before the VC-funded ecosystem became MBA Culture's west coast colony.
sheepmullet - I appreciate your thoughts above but let me highlight the issue in simple terms

And finally there is a big difference between actions that enhance the market and allow it to operate efficiently and negative market actions.

You see, Google and Apple can very easily advertise openings GENERALLY TO EVERYONE, let's say on a job board. Advertising a position doesn't mean you have to offer it to anyone -- this is technically called Invitation to Treat.

Moreover, Google and Apple and any other companies can widely publicize these opportunities. Any employee who is interested in looking around is able to go to a job board or some other marketplace and see the job listings posted there, the same way real estate agents post in MLS.

But just like real estate agents would get real pissed off if rival agents hang around their showings and try to poach their clients, the same is true of companies. (Actually, although you say that marriage is completely different, actually the same mechanisms that lead to jealousy and guarding from 3rd parties are in effect.)

This is completely different from trying to steal key players simply to harm your competition.

THAT IS EXACTLY THE ISSUE.

Basically when companies TARGET specific people in other organizations to lure away, it might not be taken kindly. How do you know that Google isn't trying to lure a key member of the Apple team away and pay them a huge salary boost just so Apple's product is now going to have a harder time competing?

This is after all competition! But who is it good for? It is good for the small number of people who make themselves indispensable in a company. But it destabilizes the very teams that are building the products that help the public, so the vast majority of people is harmed by this practice. Or at the very least it's not clear that they benefit enough to make a law banning agreements to scale back poaching key people.
I know a few of them but I like the concept of involving the user before even building it.
There is no magic with usage of faraday-http-cache. IMHO you should clearly point how to setup grape to send cache headers. Without cache headers faraday-http-cache won't work.
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Apple Improves App Store With Related Search Suggestions
Yeah, I think charging per feature is fundamentally better than charging per hour. For you to start your business up, you need to ensure your clients get a fair price for what they want.
Really? I've gotten my fair share of recruiter emails looking for Clojure work. I introduced Clojure into my last job quite easily as well. If you're doing anything Java or JavaScript related, I've found it's pretty easy to get Clojure in the door once people see what you can do with it.
That doesn't seem likely to be true. What makes you think it's cheaper to shepherd an employee from, say, India through an H1B process and then pay them in the Bay Area versus setting up shop in India and employing Indians there?

There'd be a one-time cost to creating a campus in India, but honestly, it would be more than compensated for by the fact that they could almost certainly pay Indians in India a considerably lower wage than Indians in the Bay Area.

The reason they don't make their major campuses in other countries versus the US is because they feel that they have talent that is determined to stay in the US and which will not cross-pollinate well with physically remote offices, not because they think that it is cheaper to employ foreigners in the US than it would be in their home countries.
Is it really possible for most enthusiasts to hack people's Wi-Fi networks?
This is not a sentence anymore. This is manslaughter.
Why not? I haven't checked the license that Keybase publishes things under but even if it wasn't an approved open source license, how would that impact the security so long as everything was published?
the name is Japanese for safe box
The path to $50m in digital gift card sales
They don't have to be microwatts. Galileo, for example, used 17 pounds of plutonium to generate 570W of power at launch, with a half life of about 88 years.

Not that you'd want to carry 17 pounds of plutonium around on an airliner all the time, but power output is not an insurmountable problem by itself.
25 Entrepreneurs Share What They Wish They’d Known before Their First Startup
Every real estate investor/landlord I know has worked up to a 7 figure net worth pretty quickly. Started with single family homes or a few duplexes, traded them up/reinvested cash flow, and eventually settled with a few multifamily complexes. Property management does the work, they collect the check. It's not easy, mind you, but it is worth the efforts. The rental market is the most solid investment vehicle out there. The market may go up and down, but it's always trending upward. Can't say the same about the stock market.
github backups:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd"

Or at least, that's what I do ...
Right, I think it's worth it to take a job that pays you, and you can use that money to develop your passions.
What is the Linux market share across all platforms?
Nope,
Had to look at the javadoc for those two classes too.
I guess you don't memorize this stuff when Ctrl+Space in eclipse constantly tells you what you need.

And it probably doesn't help that the java.io package is also really horrible.

read() returns byte[] but print() accepts only char[], so you'd need to cast or use write() which accepts byte[], but you need to pass it an offset and the length too:	write(byte[] buf, int off, int len). Eh, that's just stupid. I'm happy eclipse tells me that stuff...

If I had to do this at an interview in Java, from the top of my head I'd probably ask if it's okay if I use Apache Commons IOUtils and try to IOUtils.copy().

But again, the article talks about language of your choice. I was just a bit shocked when I was able to write this in C and perl without autocomplete even if I practically never use C or perl.

Makes me wonder if it's really the IDE's that make you not memorize the standard library.
Or if Java's standard library is really that horrible.

I think it's a combination of both.

Or maybe because I usually don't deal with this stuff in Java while implementing boring business logic.

Also, C:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
char strbuf[1024];
while(fgets(strbuf,1024,stdin)){
puts(strbuf);
}
}

Perl:

perl -e 'while($a=<>){print $a}'
Survey of ARM cores used in iOS devices
If you'll allow, another story. I grew up in a small town with a prestigious private school. I was no where near rich enough to attend. However there were other "townies" with parents as doctors or dentists that could afford to attend. Even though they were rich by small town standards they were seen as poor by the students with parents that were even wealthier. So perhaps even when you are rich, you can still feel poor.

So I think you are right, maybe it's better to be the richest in the middle class neighbourhood, then the poorest in the upper class neighbourhood.
This book was useful in changing my outlook on what I really wanted. I actually realized I did not want to be entrepreneur because I didn't want to do the hard work (non-engineering work like dealing with lawyers, accounts, employees, etc.) that it requires to be in the fastlane. I really just want to be a great engineer. It's not that I couldn't have come to this conclusion without the book, but the book just made it clear in ways that I hadn't seen elsewhere. Guess I'll just try to be slowlane defiant.
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The creators founded/exited SparkNotes and OkCupid. I don't think they are looking to be aqui-hired.
I'd like this better if it wasn't tied to Flappy Bird. If it were just a more generic kit for fun. I definitely like the idea of using it for workshops for kids to get into tech, etc. But blatantly Flappy Bird? Sours it a little for me.
Clojure strongly encourages referential transparency (e.g. immutable data structures), but doesn't demand it (e.g. STM). The convention is simply to mark any function with side-effects with a !, which almost all external libraries follow.

Without the !, you can have some confidence that a given function is pure, since pure functions are sort of the "default".
FYI an easy way to get around the nytimes paywall is to open the link in an incognito/private window (no cookies).
I'm waiting for the Kinect version of the game, so I can play it Minority-Report style.
To me I think he's clearly qualified to make all sorts of judgements about Perl. For opinions on Java, I'll look to people who have written well reviewed 500+ page books on Java.
I say "activist" because the rational basis test was applied incorrectly. If you are citing experts (as this opinion does), you are doing it wrong. The rational basis test is simply supposed to determine whether there could be a rational justification for a law - i.e., it's not the job of the court to determine whether the legislature chose the right expert to believe.

As for your "treating people the same" bias, which people get treated the same? Gay people? People who prefer to marry their brother/sister? People who prefer not to buy health insurance? You haven't addressed this at all.

I have no idea why you believe I'm "freaked out" about gay sex. I really don't care what private acts consenting people choose to do. I just don't understand how one draws a line between gay sex and, for example, non-reproductive incest or unlicensed medicine. Nor do I understand how subsidizing preferences for straight marriage are illegitimate, but subsidizing preferences for immobility are legitimate.

You've certainly provided no such justification - it's not as if the 14'th amendment says sex preferences are protected, but risk preferences are not.

Clearly you haven't thought things through well enough to provide any explanation, so I'm signing off. Enjoy the moral posturing.
I thought kinko is fedex'es defunct parcel delivery business? Will check that, thank you.
It would have been wonderful if this had been released back in the day.
Woman Says She Spots Strangers on Smartphone Security App, No Intruder Found
I never suggested he was leaving. I wasn't even referring to a talk he gave. I said he is easily the worlds foremost expert on scalac, and he does not think it is fast, or that it is slow because it has to do a lot of work other languages don't. He thinks it is slow because it needs to be re-written to not be a mess.
I'm still happy with the M7 version and CyanogenMod. I do like the metal case and build quality of the M7. It's nice to see they are keeping that and improving on it.
"Often time when using high level algebraic languages we have a tendency to do things in a way that looks the best, or in the shortest number of statements. Often completely ignoring what will execute fastest." - Donald Knuth The Art Of Programming Volume 1 Second Edition Preface X.
The problem is in having a common currency without a central bank of last resort or a common financial framework. It allows Germany to loan countries on the periphery money which will be used to buy products from Germany. Those countries cannot adjust their currencies to adapt to the threat, so they're left in a constant state of penury and dependance on Germany.

It's not about kumbaya and peace in Europe. The Euro does absolutely nothing to maintain that, and conflating Europe as a political entity and the common currency is a deception.

I hope Merkel will change course before Germany is surrounded by failed states headed by populist right-wing nationalists running on anti-German platforms.
Yes, Apache Commons has IOUtils.copy and Guava has a similar ByteStreams.copy.
That would completely kill public transit navigation, however, which relies on live access to current public transit schedules and tracking data.
Lots of interesting projects here. I am especially interested in Ambition, this could be a very cool way to drive sales.
This is one of the more whiny-er pieces I've read from the NYT.

There's going to be rich people out there. Get over it and stop acting like the cards are always stacked against you. Yeah, it sucks not being loaded. Yeah, I wish I were rich. Sure, things would be easier. Do I spin my wheels thinking about the inheritance baby boomer kids will get from their rich parents? No. I'll spend my time thinking how I'll build my own 'empire'.
Love it, but it seems like this would be a perfect case for using D3 rather than hacking away in pure JS, and a good excuse to learn D3
finally something that will protect me from the NSA ;)
but yeah, accessing email from everywhere and with a sufficient degree of security is something that people stopped believing in
Edit4: Obviously I was talking about keybase, not coinbase. Too late to edit now.
As technology moves forward, all businesses slowly become non-capital intensive businesses.
Sure, but my point is that if key base folded, there's nothing inherently "key base" about any of the underlying data. You still have your key pairs and can put them up somewhere else.

There's almost zero impact to you if they shut down.
Would love to get some access codes :)
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That's a lot of work made available for free!
Credit unions are intended to be individually focused. I believe regulations limit total business lending to 10-15% of the credit union's assets.

I think the intention there is to avoid a "company store" situation when a bunch of employees fund a credit union, and end up loaning their money to their employer or favored business. If the employer goes bust, the Federal government is left holding the bag of paying back the depositors.
I don't get this just like I don't get the bitcoin "hubs" or "wallets" or whatever they are.

Your crypto keys, like your bitcoins, are just small text files. They are nothing special at all and can be completely managed, and secured, on your own local systems.

There is nothing but fragility and loss down this road and people that really need security in their comms will not expose themselves to that fragility (just like smart folks probably weren't putting their bitcoins in third party "wallets").
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>> neither the woman nor police realized that her smartphone app showed a recording of the intrusion, and that it wasn't happening in real time.

I sense an app update in the near future...
Despite the terrible title and cover image, it is actually a very useful book.

I see it as a set of criteria to analyze any project by to see if it can potentially scale. If you focus your time on business that can scale, you improve your chance of making big bucks.
Is the Turkish Twitter ban even legal? Experts say no.
Dune, and Why We Have 37 Package Managers
I do believe viewers would likely choose the "without commercials" option ahead of time, but chances are good that they would enjoy it less. We're horribly bad at guessing what will provide the best payoff for us over time. And even when we know, we are horribly bad at making use of that knowledge rather than letting ourselves be led by impulses.

To take the lottery example: How many people do you think would opt for $1m today vs. $10000 this year, $12000 the following year, $14000 the year after, and so on, until they'd have received, say, $3m? Pretty much all research into both lottery winners and the way we judge rewards now vs. later indicates that most of us would likely opt for the $1m now, yet be less happy for it over time vs. an option where we can look forward to steadily increasing rewards over a long period of time.

I'd be willing to be that you could show people data on how the options would likely affect their happiness, and the majority of people would still opt for the $1m now, and go out and start spending.
>it would be impossible to explain why the yields of German/Austrian/Finnish bonds are trading at a vastly different level than the Italien/Spanish/Portuguese etc... bonds!

Only if one doesn't understand the difference between a debtor and a lender. The common currency helps the core, and hurts the periphery. Where's the contradiction?
The Internet of Things: Its Impact on the Enterprise
Another issue is balancing great passion with higher cost. For example, I quit a previous job (that I had some passion about) for my current job, which is ... ok ... but pays twice as much.

As a result, I'm able to fly more, which is something I'm very passionate about.

Sometimes hobbies that we're very passionate about can also be very expensive. There's ways to reduce cost, but in the end, sometimes the best way to have more opportunities to enjoy that passion is to take more "non-passionate" hours that generate the funds.

I'm not saying my choice was right or will always be right. I still struggle with it. I guess the point is, optimizing for happiness is not as simple as it appears, especially for someone who is not independently wealthy.
There's another HN thread that points to the actual MIT Mylar project website:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465015
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Very cool. The 1 TB drive off to the far right though, shouldn't it be way off the top of the chart? Assuming you made some kind of adjustment here to keep the outliers within a reasonable range though it looks like it's a 64GB drive.

Edit: Looks like the axis are inverted?
> In the beginning, we thought we were rallying around Linux, but really, we ended up rallying around the ability to do things differently, and Linux was just the first step.
I think that some screenshots would help to understand how the final product is rendered.
Mylar includes authentication of the code; see the project website:

http://css.csail.mit.edu/mylar/
Anyone interested in 'haber-ery.com' or 'productbacklog.com' ? email me.
Big enough to move their highend bicycle manufacturing (Orbea) to China.
Mylar includes support for secure sharing of keys and data; see the project website:

http://css.csail.mit.edu/mylar/
Ask HN: How do you manage your work-life with a substandard boss?
The article doesn't do much to offer a solution (if you believe there's a problem). Inheritance taxes? Gift taxes? The article points out that most wealth disappears in 3 generations. Look at the Vanderbilts as an odd example. Cornelius knew the 3 generation rule, and left his entire fortune to his oldest son, leaving his daughter and other (mentally questionable) son out of his will. His son is considered a great business man, who expanded the empire. But even that vast wealth still disappeared 2 generations later, on Newport mansions and the "lifestyle".

Also, I'm amazed every time I read the stat that the top 1% owns 35% of the wealth, more than the bottom 90% owns. (Does that imply that the 9% upper class own up to 30% of the wealth?).
Take that one step farther and you wind up with silliness such as an unwillingness to discuss obvious gender mental differences such as the differential performance under the Piaget water level test

So what? The veracity of scientific studies is not at issue here. My point is that unlike the abortion debate, there are no muddy waters in play here. It's unequivocally wrong to deny homosexual couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples, there is just no other reason beyond bigotry to deny them the freedom to be married. I'm not saying that we should hunt down all the bigots, I'm saying that bigotry alone is not a satisfactory justification for any position and is easily rejected as such.

But wait, what can of worms did I just open? I suggested a connection between widespread homophobia and an innate phenomena that causes the vast majority of humans to feel revulsion under the right circumstances. And it is a pretty strong revulsion

Ok... Perhaps that's a possible explanation, it's also a completely irreverent one. I am revolted by the sight of individuals who put 4 inch gauges in their ears, but that personal disgust doesn't justify an attack on their right to start a consensual legal relationship with another consenting adult. My disgust doesn't matter. Their relationship is none of my business. Laws against gay marriage are in a similar vein to sodomy laws, namely, a bunch of hateful, entitled, "revolted" traditionalists who want to leverage the force of the government to prevent consenting adults from living their lives in a way that affects nobody but themselves. It's simply wrong. There are no two ways about it, nobody gains anything by keeping homosexuals away from marriage, it's only purpose is to deliberately deny homosexual couples the satisfaction of inclusion in a legally recognized institution.
"We spent it to be able to figure out what went wrong, so that the next 100 planes could not-crash."
This is the system we have and it needs to run its proper course. If the Supreme court won't uphold our rights then obviously we have a serious problem. This has not happened yet. The other alternative is if the Supreme court rules spying is unconstitutional but then they are just ignored by the Executive branch and they do it anyway. We'll have to cross these bridges when we get to them but for now there is still constitutionally protected rights and limited government.

> Get out while you can?

There really is nowhere to go. We have to fight for America.
http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-8-vs-scala
Well, when looking at all the tools that are out there, I really miss features that are targeted at charging for webinars. Submitted my feedback and hope that this becomes a reality!
One explanation I've seen, is that the "9" prices have come to be associated with discounts. $34 sounds like it was set based on cost. $39 sounds like it was set to be cheaper than something.
Simon Peyton Jones took a stab [sic] at explaining lenses in a down-to-earth way

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/4251-lenses-composition... (log in to view)
Except an argument can be made that this referendum mean nothing, the turnout was 53%, only 53% voted against it and 40% of those 53% didn't even know what they were voting on[1].

And things even changed between referendum[2], so yeah, a second vote was warranted IMO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-eighth_Amendment_of_the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-eighth_Amendment_of_the...
"I wonder if we're only a few years away where technologies and practices like this become standard?"

Businesses that store your data would likely have to stop being predicated on the ability to mine your data.
Meh, Android is a locked-down OS that happens to use the Linux kernel. ChromeOS is a crippled internet-only OS that happens to use the Linux kernel.

Sure, this makes a lot of people have "Linux" in their hands, sort of, hidden away where they'll never find it and where it doesn't matter. I'm not sure this is much of an "open source" victory.