skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8-10 weeks sounds like a very long time for basic sales training, whilst companies hiring mid-level candidates will tend to favour a track record of closing business over a sustained period of time (showing qualities of consistency and resilience that can't be taught) over successful passing of theory tests.

That said, there's a huge sales training market out there, I just think there's a good reason most courses are aimed to be short bursts at different stages of a salesperson's career.
What exactly is the panic button? Google didn't yield answers to that question
While I agree with you on this pessimistic analysis I also think you're neglecting to include a consideration of cultural context, relativism, and sunnier culture. I think it is a parochial statement that, anthropologically, most culture is ugly or bad.
Lovely language / solution mismatch.

Any compiled language would fit this much better - fail at compile time. Or in interpreted-o-world, at least do it at test time.

I guess it's just lovely when deployed, working, test-passing software suddenly starts failing on a server (all servers at once, globally), because someone added a TODO a few weeks ago.
Use a decent editor.
CodeSchool recently launched a (Google sponsored, free) Angular course with exercises too:

http://campus.codeschool.com/courses/shaping-up-with-angular...

The more the merrier!
Startup lessons from the worst drink in Chicago
12ish.com: Share your greatness.
What does "tput cols" say in and out screen/tmux? It's possible less doesn't know the proper width of the terminal.
Also, supposedly Google met with cable/phone companies to try to make pretty much the current fast lane proposal for their own content a few years ago (2008) [0]. Apparently those companies were "reluctant so far to strike a deal because of concern it might violate Federal Communications Commission guidelines on network neutrality." so Google's position here is somewhat confusing.

[0] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122929270127905065
Blogger is probably what I was missing, certainly a lot of x.blogspot.x sites out there. Thanks!
I was just trying to point out, that if you purchased an iphone for the hardware only that it was (for the basic iphone) only about 16% more than a fair price of what you would normally expect from another vendor.

And, a lot of people purchase iPhones because they like the genius bar, design, access to new applications which are likely to come , etc..

No arguments from me on the overpriced accessories from Apple though.
Vote for it to come to Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=206372...
That bizarre US popularity contest ... other countries don't seem to be hit as hard by that ... Maybe that's just because they have no football players and cheerleaders in the sense US has them?

If you elevate dumb activities to such esteem that you even tend overlook such thing as rape of school kids by school kids ... It can't result in healthy subculture.
"CSS is now a programming language.
XML is now a programming language."

Seconded. Could we please stop call CSS a language. If not, add PDF to the list.
I appreciate startup self-promotion as much as the next guy buuuuuut are you saying multi-hundred billion dollar internet companies shouldn't implement their own 2f auth? they should instead trust the security of their hundreds of millions user to you? Really?
Ya, it ended 4 hours ago, a bit late to post an invitation.
Like that one time when Google discovered and fixed the Heartbleed bug before anyone else did:

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/heartbleed-disclosu...
Font Awesome 4.1 released
The USA has a great firewall like china, Russia, and Iran? Well, til (or you could be exaggerating a connection between the USA and Chinese Internet, which would be very much BS).
Then they should be spherical; this shape's optimal only for a container which is gradually emptying.
Take this shape, minimize thermal conductivity to its surroundings but enable it to stand safely on a flat surface, and what you have got is a stemmed wine glass.
I believe your statement needs to be flushed out. It's very unclear and uninformative.
Why Do Millennials Not Understand Racism?
firefox 29 on ubuntu 14.04. Unable to scroll right when the tree expands past the windows width.
This is only tangentially related, but I remember seeing a site a few years ago that ranked languages by crowdsourcing about 100 subjective comparisons between different pairs of languages. It made statements like:

- Programs written in this language tend to work
correctly the first time they are accepted by the
compiler
- The type system in this language helps me to be more
productive
- Code written in this language is easy to read and
understand at a glance
- I would choose this language to write a desktop GUI
application in

and asked people to choose which of a pair of languages each statement applied more to. The data could be ranked by language or question, and I found it really useful and discovered a few languages I wouldn't have heard of otherwise. But for the life of me, I can't find the site anymore. Does this ring a bell to anyone?
Programming in Ada 2012 (by John Barnes) available in July 2014
It's turtles.pl all the way down.
Can someone explain the benefits of using tmux or screen or something similar over opening multiple terminals in a tiling WM?

The two arguments I could see are resource usage (not an issue on modern machines) or detach/attach (which is a huge benefit when working remotely, but I don't see any gain locally). But other than those, I don't see any benefits to having a second tiling system sitting on top of my current tiling system.

(For reference, I use i3.)
My main problem with this essay is the idea that the 'nerd' is a "few steps ahead" already.

I think this stems from pg's confusion of intellect (which he notes is not scalar but discusses it as if it is anyway) with 'nerdiness'. The nerd is no better (or generally, even that much smarter - many of the non-marginalised people will grow up to be just as bright and successful), they are simply marginalised for being different. And they have not created a judgement free utopia within their own circles either; their social constructs are every bit as abusive and oppressive to those who are different as the ones that marginalise them.

Nerds were never better, or smarter. They just weren't given the same opportunities to be as cruel.

The true evidence against the 'nerd' being superior is the society that they/we have created where we are in the majority. Look at the technology industry and look at how we all are desperate to conform. Look at the people who are different to what we consider normal/cool/popular and look at how we treat them.

As pg notes, people lash out/oppress/marginalise when they are insecure in their position. Perhaps people should try to truly understand how that has shaped the technology culture we have today.
You could say that the modern fashion-forward corporate culture is just the German-Protestant ethic with the family shaved off and some hedonism stapled on to replace it. Instead of the gospel, people read HBR or HBR-aping tech publications. The CEO becomes father, king/presidente/generalissimo, and priest, because it's likely that none of those things will exist in the lives of the employees to the same extent as they did in previous generations.

In California tech, something like half of the employees will not even have much stateside family, being immigrants, while another large portion come from broken families, are un-churched (but perhaps yoga-classed), and are often unmarried also. There is no 'society' there for such employees beyond the company, no rival sources of meaning. Perhaps after 'success' there is room for 'philanthropy.'

It is actually the whole culture because the alternate cultural institutions have become so weak that the corporation just fills the gaps, as the only remaining institution in the life of the individual with any confidence or capacity for initiative. Otherwise, a good article.

It's funny that a guy who has contributed to HBR, which has done so much to obliterate or subvert all competing institutions to the corporation, seems to have a little trepidation about going all the way.
From the README:

"In your production environment, set DISABLE_DO_BY=1 to disable checks."
>Nerds have actually won. Comic book and reddit culture is completely mainstream, bordering on oversaturation. Tech startup founder-programmers have replaced rock stars and professional athletes as the idolized figures of young males everywhere.

Well, you'd be surprised. Even if the majority cared about "tech startup founder-programmers" (which remains to be proven), it would be for the money and prestige involved, not the nerd factor. It's just this decades version of the Gold Rush, not some cultural shift.

As for comic books and Reddit, those are, as you say "completely mainstream", so they are not a differentiating factor between nerd and not nerd anymore. (Plus, the former are mostly mainstream due to Hollywood -- sales of comics have not really skyrocketed, and even events like Comic-Con are 80% Hollywood and TV these days).

Plus, nerds are not just startup founding hackers. Millions of programming nerds will never start their own startup. And there are tons of other kinds of nerds besides: book nerds, chemistry nerds, physics nerds, etc. And I can assure you they are as far from "rock stars and professional athletes" as ever.

And that's just for society in general. In high school it's same as ever, and one's ambition to "create the next Facebook" does not make him popular or get him laid at all.
I'm guessing you're not aware that top secret clearances more often than not require "code words" and you are read in aka given access to said code words on a strictly need to know basis. Some code words themselves are classified. Having a too secret clearance does by know possible way grant you access to everything like say the US nuclear defense details.
I'm not so sure. I think within the HN circle, it seems this way, but I bet if you go ask a randomly selected sample of people, you'll find they use their tech devices to look up sports stats and know better who plays for the Miami Heat than who started Whatsapp, Instragram, Uber, etc. I'm not saying it's good or bad—certainly tech personalities are more visible now than they used to be—but I don't think they've supplanted musicians and athletes in the eye of the general populace.
If something is supposed to work 100% of the time, it won't have an error return value. Otherwise there's a nonzero chance it'll fail. The time you spend writing a simple "network configuration file must exist" is way less than you'd spend trying to read a stack trace when your application crashes with "filenotfound: foo.json".

If Go is 1/5th as productive as Ruby to produce the same feature, either you're very new to go and very experienced with ruby, or you're doing something drastically wrong. Obviously, experience makes a difference, but Go has a very short learning curve, so you should able to get productive relatively quickly.

I honestly don't understand how you can only care about 10% of errors. You have to think about the error case, otherwise your application is going to be a crashy, data lossy mess and no will trust it.
Nature has an order.
Bullying existed and exists everywhere. He speaks of the bizzaro high school popularity contest, which doesn't. Not as much anyway.
Looks promising, but the videos don't seem to buffer for me at least. My internet isn't strong enough to play it continuously so I normally just pause videos, wait a few minutes, then try playing them. Doesn't seem to make a difference with their videos for some reason. Any tips?
> Tech startup founder-programmers have replaced rock stars and professional athletes as the idolized figures of young males everywhere.

This is just a sign that you're trapped in the adult nerd bubble. Spend some time with the normals, and you'll see that mainstream culture in 2014 is no less vapid than it was in 2004, 1994, or 1984.
IMHO the business environment is still worthy of anthropological study.
Please try using the Internet from China before you put it in the same sentence as the Internet in the USA.
President Obama’s Big Carbon Crackdown Readies for Launch
This sounds like it is right in the middle of not really a PM tool and not really a CRM tool. You want to track and forecast work and don't have varying tasks per item.

Maybe Basecamp? I have never used it but it sounds like it could be used in that way. At the day job many years ago we used something from Replicon that was time tracking based to forecast. Never got traction at work though because nobody liked tracking time since these were internal projects and salary based people at a big company.

Models could be:

- Company: has_many :people, has_many :products

- People: name, email, address, notes, type:tester|customer

- Products: name, desc, release date, links, notes

- Reviews: product_id, tester assigned, status, notes, links, attachments, etc.

It doesn't sound terribly hard to build, although it sounds like you might be sub-contracting your testing? If that is the case, you may want some financial aspect tracked like if they are paid by hour, by review, etc.

This gets complex if you have differing permissions, for instance if a tester can only see their own work or if customers can login and view status or collaborate (upload collaterals, contact tester).
bitcoind does not index addresses. It only (if you use the `txindex` switch) indexes transactions. You can't query arbitrary addresses using the bitcoind RPC API.
Yes. http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool
That's interesting. To my experience, in Asian countries --- at least in China, popular students are usually those who with higher grades. Physical education is only considered as a very small part of the school and usually not an important one. That's probably why Asian students are not as tall/strong as their U.S. (may be Europe?) peers.
I see Puppet but not Chef. That's something that should be fixed. Then again, this was done in 2013. I bet a fair amount has changed since then.

Also, SLOC for ranking on Github? We don't use that to assess "productivity" for a reason.
Probably copy-pasted the article title, which is all caps.
That's it! Thanks a million :)
Off topic, but I see you're in SA, I'll be living there for a year or two soon, I'd be really interested to get your perspective on the state of the technological landscape over there, things like ISPs, getting new electronics, tech jobs etc.
Well, let's just say there are different reasons necessitating different levels of operational security, and some are not as demanding as others.

Cheating on your wife with some cheap floozy? Dual SIM phone with a burner chip on a temporary number is fine for that. Spring break? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Sure.

But drug dealers, probably not. Bank robbers, probably not. Anything that's probably somewhat gangster, probably not.
Tech startup founder-programmers have replaced rock stars and professional athletes as the idolized figures of young males everywhere.

Look at the people the VCs are funding right now: frat boys and bullies (and sell-out ex-nerds who became bullies in adulthood, once one no longer needed to risk physical pain and harm in order to be a bully). Not nerds who actually love technology.

Instead of taking the nerds' lunch money, the bullies are now using MBA-school tricks, under the new banner of startup "culture" (stigniness), to work the nerds 90 hours per week for 0.03% of something. They've become better at what they do, but they haven't changed.

I attacked this here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/corporate-wor... . The institutional hell that, PG asserts, forms in organizations that have lost a sense of purpose (but still require a hierarchy) is, in fact, as prevalent in most corporations (even tech companies) as it is in high schools.

Raging against the jock machine is a lot more fun than being the machine.

What? That is patently untrue. People on the inside may humble-brag about how much simpler life was on the outside, but they never give up what they have.

Also, minor nit: in reality, "jocks" are rarely the same people as bullies. Athletes work too hard for that shit. Moreover, it's not the popular kids (yet another set) who pick on the nerds, geeks, and freaks. It's usually mid-range kids trying to push themselves up by knocking someone down. The worst bullies are other outsiders trying to get in to the popular crowd, but who tend to fail at it.
I wonder if some of us are turning tech startups into the high school we never had.
Yes but even such a solution would surely use some sort of existing internal interface such as USB or PS/2, even if in practice the wires are soldered directly to the motherboard? Otherwise you'd have to build special hardware, controller chips, develop and maintain the driver?
Wow, this Open Sans font is just plain unreadable on Windows (7) machines. It might be the fault of Windows' subpar font rendering, but here, the font is just too thin and blurry to be read.

Damn, how I miss the days of simple HTML pages with no styling at all. Not beautiful, but readable, usable, fast, and ... yes, somehow beautiful in a pragmatic and very nerdy sense.
> Because you're paying a huge price for a small amount of convenience: you are trusting a third party so you don't have to deal with a lightweight server and a few gigabytes of data.

Can you point me to a ready-to-use address indexer for the blockchain, that can run on a lightweight server and only consumes a few gigabytes of data?
A scale for cross-language comparisons seems a hard ask because everyone is implicitly interested in answering different questions. Which languages do people enjoy using the most? Which have the most code "out there" in some setting or other (open source, commerce, in deployment, scripting, ...)? Which have the most engaged and vocal communities? Which have the biggest pool of skilled workers? which will I get the most career benefit from learning?

Perhaps the useful information is more in the correlations between different related metrics, than in drawing up ranked lists (surprise surprise, Java > Haskell!). This graph helps visualise the correlation between these two, which seems significant but far from perfect. Outliers like SQL can then be identified, which point to problems with the metrics (e.g. with SQL, presumably github fails to spot lines of SQL embedded in other langauges).
free/open Internet in China? No way!

- You do not have choice of service providers. All providers are government department and there's nearly no competition.

- Try to use Google in China, lots of fun!

- Try to access any popular web site in China like Youtube, facebook, etc. Good luck.

- If you say something bad about the government on Internet, you may have the risk of being kidnapped by some unknown person and thrown into some unknown mountain area. (No kidding, one of my friend had this experience.)

Specific to RMS: I'm the translator of Free as in Freedom (Chinese edition.) Until now, I have no idea if the word "free" (自由) could appear in the title when we publish it.

Edit 1: grammar
Confessions from the Sex life of a Network Engineer
Who really thinks a manufacturer will recycle a car rather than sell it on cheap? Come on. This was on zero hedge earlier and it's still bullshit now.
But but ... MIT, Caltech, Switzerland, CERN ... amirite?

No honestly, thank you for your comment and the ensuing discussion - most people get swayed by big names and such and reading sincere criticism of this sort of stuff is important and educating.
> You've a wealth of freely accessible data in the form of the 20GB blockchain, why rely on trusting a third party for their uptime, privacy and security?

Except an address index, which is the added value that most of these types of services provide (balance of an address, transactions associated with a particular address, etc.).
We need to clone these beasts. Would love to have grilled dino meat some day!
For me, it was too many CIO type stores that lacked depth.
> I believe that a FSF world is the way go, long term. I think that tax jurisdictions that promote all kinds of open source

Yes, only FSF doesn't use the term "open source," except to disavow it.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...

Another explanation of this is included in the "rider" that someone linked earlier this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754412
"my book on conspiracy theories has no correlation whatsoever with this webpage." - well if that's what the author says, I think I can blindly believe all these bold allegations that come with no sources whatsoever (except google maps).
My TODO comments show up in nice view in GUI I use (Eclipse). I'm sure other GUIs have similar views somewhere. I'm also sure that plugin to turn old ones into syntax errors could be done in a day or two. That sound like much safer approach then runtime exception.
A complete idiot, that's who. To give one example - the Nissan Factory in Sunderland has a huge stockpile because they keep sending cars out to all over the world. Once every week a huge ferry arrives in North Shields port and they load few hundreds of these cars to be sent off to places in Europe. Basically the author has taken pictures of stock many manufacturers keep and somehow deducted that these cars are not getting sold. Of course they are. In fact, most of these cars will already be sold before they were even delivered.
This one goes on the first page of my playbook as of today.
US schools seems to be a horrible place. And that's encouraged by the system, like choosing king&queen couples or the fact that sports activities are worshiped mindlessly.
Congratulations - you have invented the answerphone.
It might not measure productivity, but it sure gives a hint about how much a language is used.

Sure, a language can be 1/5 as terse as another. But not 1/100 as terse.
Presumably then it's also easy to enable it - can you enable it for an arbitrary phone by using one of the caller ID spoofing systems mentioned in the article?
People Are Morally Different When Speaking a Second Language
In other news, no other goods are being sold because there are warehouses stuffed full of them.

Ugh.
> The move could produce a dramatic makeover of the power industry, shifting it away from coal-burning plants toward natural gas, solar and wind

I like how natural gas is put in the same category as wind and solar. I imagine even more people than the ones who believed in "clean coal" will think it's environmentally safe.
Female Entrepreneurs More Ambitious Than Males: Study
I blame Hollywood. High school movies and TV shows give kids a fucked-up sense of what it is to be a teenager. In fact, the whole concept of "teenage" life is pretty screwed-up. I also blame suburbia. It's a place where parents move to raise young children. By the time they're 14, they're bored and a bit stir-crazy.

Conformist, suburban culture infantilizes teenagers. It's car-dependent, so people who can't drive are third-class citizens, under their parents' thumbs at all times. (It also encourages middle-aged parents to pretend that their own lives and needs aren't important and that they have focus entirely on their kids, which produces fucked-up kids.) Then, Hollywood shows them these high school movies, set in that failed cultural experiment called suburban California, cast by mid-20s actors (who are at the height of their sex appeal, unlike most awkward teenagers who haven't peaked yet) and tells them that they should be experimenting with drugs and sex. And while I can't say there's something abstractly or universally wrong with people beginning these experiments in their teens, American teenagers (raised in the suburbs) are emotionally way too immature to take that stuff on.

American teen culture is inconsistent, bizarre, mentally unhealthy, and (I would argue) has outlived its purpose. It raises people into a life (suburban, institutional, conformist, metastable) that no longer makes any damn sense.