skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They (kinda) exist in Finland, as lunch is unpaid, but the workday is 7.5 hours and the workweek is 37.50 hours. Lunch is often optional, but a typical workday can be from 9 to 5 with a 30 minute lunch break. There can also be two ~10min "coffee" breaks in addition to the lunch break but they typically matter only in non-software development work environments..
A lot of the best engineers work at companies with ~50-100 engineers and lots of revenue. It's not a big company, but it's also not a startup.
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I don't mind C++'s lambdas, but in some other languages they use "arrows", like

square = (x) -> x * x

C++ won't want to give up the different kinds of capturing, though, so it's hard to see anything much better than what's available now.

In imaginary, never-to-be-implemented language daydreams I toy with the idea of using curly braces and implicit positional arguments to have lambdas look like

square = { _1 * _1 }

and

factorial = { (_1 < 2) ? 1 : _0(_1 - 1) }

and with explicit captures and arguments,

partial_sort = [&lt_vec, &ge_vec, pivot](item){
if (item < pivot) lt_vec.add(item)
else ge_vec.add(item)
}

I suspect, though, those ideas are just horrible shortcuts to a Perl-like hell :-)
I'd say it's BLS numbers * H1Bs * 5
An exponential law of interface design
Yeap, although i'm just 35 (which makes me old enough to remember world maps showing "USSR" in school). But i suppose being a european makes it a bit different. We've been hit by terrorism a lot more frequently, and are involved in wars much closer to us than the US. Although to be fair a lot of european would have the same point of view as the typical HN
user.

Which reminds me of a recent trip i did to Israel. At the airport, some guy complained that people were searching his bag. Saying "why are they doing this, come on...".
He seemed pissed. As for me, well I was extremely glad those people searched every single bags coming in the plane.

But you're right, that was exactly my point.
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Yes, design is outdated. This was great at the time; people were still using tables for layouts.
Whoops, yeah I'll fix that really soon, and deprecate `Boundry` before it gets used too often. Thanks for the heads up!
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The only reason that hasn't bee done is that (at least in MA) there is a fee per share created. Here it is $100/100k shares. That would make it very expensive to file your articles of incorporation (roughly 1 Quadrillion dollars)
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Although we are all different, no study found a person that would be the most efficient at 80 hour work weeks. Similarly, although our sleep needs differ somehow, no study ever found a person that would be effective with under 6 hours a night sleeping.
"ALL sides", "no way to form an opinion", "information war".

Pay attention, this is how astroturfing to spread FUD looks like. The person is not trying to increase understanding, he or she is trying to promote apathy.
In 2012, I asked a few drivers in Seattle how they liked working for Uber. All of them had been drivers for other car companies, and loved how much better the pay and work was with Uber.
Utree tells rs dates back to early 80s...

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/usr/src/...
Saying that McCarthy was not entirely wrong does not imply that I endorse every aspect of his behavior.
Requisite comment on these sorts of posts - we are hiring for positions across the board: https://ifttt.com/jobs

It's a fun place with cool stuff going on.
I'm not an expert on all colleges in america, it sounds like I came across as thinking that way so I apologize. Right or not, the Computer Science courses at the University I was enrolling in (I ended up dropping out of college due to life issues) was 60% math 30% computer theory and 10% programming. I know, because I talked with the Department Chair and actually studied what the degree would do for me before deciding it was my path. I was fully aware i'd need to work on practical projects in my free time to get a job.

Instead, I just got a job by showing off said practical projects with no degree.
Something is happening on September 9th, alright
Did you even read the full results of this study? Only extreme BMI categories had strong correlations for increased risk of death and mostly for those who didn't have a chronic health condition at 50 already:

"Among all men and women, including smokers and those with preexisting disease, there was a U-shaped relation between current BMI and the risk of death, with the highest risk in the lowest and the highest categories of BMI. Overweight was not associated with an increased risk of death among men but was weakly associated with an increased risk of death among women."

Note that the highest and lowest categories were extreme values of weight for an individual and there were significantly fewer people in those categories compared to the others.

Moreover, the authors of this study even talk about being overweight vs. obesity in the discussion section:

"However, whether moderate elevations in BMI (i.e., overweight) truly increase the risk of death is controversial.2 Several studies reported no increase in the risk of death among overweight subjects even after those who died during the initial years of follow-up were excluded or subjects were stratified according to smoking status.25-29 Recently, Flegal et al. reported that overweight was not associated with an excess risk of death in the nationally representative samples of U.S. adults drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey."

They go on to talk about possibilities regarding smokers with the data from this study.

Finally, it is worth nothing that this study follow those aged 50 and older and did so through the AARP's health survey and is specifically focused on the health of older people and that is only looking at correlations for individuals who are already at a higher risk of dying in the first place.
To Curb Global Poverty Every 3rd World Currency Should Be Pegged To OPEC Oil For 4 Years Till https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma Is Resolved.
destined to trap people in a cycle of poverty.

Only if those people persist in committing crimes.
The key word here is "defenseless". Add "criminal" to that and they lose the protection of society too. There's nothing keeping us from grinding them to pink slime on an optimized exploitation curve. They die at 35.
Curtis wrote also wrote a great piece about the role incompetence played in the formation of intelligence agencies, titled "BUGGER: Maybe the Real State Secret Is That Spies Aren't Very Good At Their Jobs And Don't Know Very Much About the World".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER
Show HN: Really Good 404 Pages
URL: http://reallygood404.com/

I wanted to put together a showcase of some great 404 pages since there seem to be a lot of hidden gems. Would love feedback and other 404 pages that I haven't seen/found yet if people are willing to share.
>> HTTP.get() will have to deal with CORS on the web, but not in apps

You can still use exactly the same code in the browser and on the server. Allowing stuff like server-side rendering on old browsers and JS rendering for the majority of users from a single piece of code.
The New York Times profiled Palantir a couple of months ago. The article has interviews with the founder of Palantir. It also has photos of the office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/unlocking-secrets...
Yes, because we all know what is important is code and learning design doesn't already take 6 years of school and practice learning and doing other things coders would never think of </sarcasm>.

If you want to code, then learn coding. But if you want to do design, you are going down a very different path and might not have the luxury of ever coding again (even if you know how).
Wonder why?
I don't think that's fair at all.

The whole point of Meteor is to play with different approaches to web development that will be required in the future (if you want to build big distributed, interactive web apps). It's not finished yet, and they're pretty upfront about that.
I assume you feel the same way about US invasions?
I was just at their HQ yesterday - really friendly and open team!
http://reallygood404.com/
Not implying anything other than that it's a proper name. Meh.
Come on...

Has anyone in the US been arrested for political views after being wired or spied on the internet ?? Ever ?

I'm sorry to be blunt, but all the americans that think they're living under a surveillance state should truly get their ass in any non-western country in the world before claiming such BS.

People here are so spoiled it makes me sick sometimes.
Uber and vehicle services are just a piece of the gig economy. TaskRabbit, elance.com, etc are also growing, and most of those functions won't be replaced by robots.
XDR has no support for versioning. This is probably the most important features distinguishing PB.
SimpleNoSQL for Android Released
This Kid’s Dad Turned Home Videos into an Action Movie
If npm had some kind of conformance flag, where you could tag your package with the platforms it supports, this would help considerably.
I'm just about to start learning PHP, and I'm glad I'm doing so now.
How does this compare with nvd3?
In Austin, it used to be the case that IBM (and possibly Motorola or a few other places) had a serious lock on all of the seriously good people. The projects were cool, the environment was excellent (if you didn't mind managers selected by vocal volume). I'm talking about the guys who did the cell processor, the AIX kernel folks, a bunch of people who did good UI work, and so on.

When the internet boom rolled around in the late '90s and the startup scene hotted up, most of the people in it were straight out of school. When I interviewed around in the mid 2000s, experienced people were kind of rare.

On the other hand, about the same time IBM became a consulting service company. The cool, visible projects evaporated. All of the good people I knew at the time either got buried deep somewhere (and are presumably happy in their niche) or left.

It's been years since I moved away from Austin, though, so I've got no idea what it's like now.
Getting Groovy with Reactive Android
If only. Still on RHDS.
It doesn't seem like you understand. This privatization is creating a cycle that is contributing to people being repeat offenders.

So yes, "only if these people persist in committing crimes", but the government is making it harder on them to get their life back together after committing the 1st crime.
Sure. And I'm sure the hackers will check that the isThief flag is set on all the Chase accounts that they mess up. As we all know, real people are never affected by this sort of behaviour, only guys in white rooms stroking cats.
Apple announces 9/9 event with tagline “Wish we could say more”
For example, JPEG returned as a string or as part of a result object. Why is this so impossible to imagine? The rest is all options you can specify.
This seems like a decent site - I still need to go through all of the resources more thoroughly but I have two comments.

I am not a fan of using video primarily over text. This is also why I am not a fan of Khan Academy, so maybe it's just my preference and doesn't reflect what most of your users want but I do have facts and reasoning to back up my opinion. Anything that requires sound is going to limit it's use to a private setting, and videos can't be skimmed or used as a reference. I understand their occasional value for supplemental lessons, but I don't they should be required to use tutorials.

There may be a demand for UX designers but as much as I would love to focus my career in that area, I won't because UX is a bike shed. Even if you designed the perfect UI, you would never get it past clueless management without having it mangled. The fight to do your job makes of 90% of your effort, and you will always lose.
"low-skill jobs" - more and more jobs will be classified as such. People should spend time learning skills that are not low-skill instead of being a glorified taxi driver
A somewhat related question: I'm about to start a job at a company with "open office" structure, after having my own office for the last 4 years. Anything I should be prepared for?

EDIT: Any headphones suggestions?
> General opinion seems to be that democracy only matters to the west as long as it's not too inconvenient to them.

Maybe it's not true in this case, but that would be a much easier point to argue against if the west hadn't continually demonstrated that.
"You might want to check that."

You are correct. I should have said "Most colleges I considered when starting my degree".

Look, we might have to agree to disagree. What I think, and what the one Computer Science Department Head I spoke to thought, is that Computer Science is math. Period. Just like a degree in Math, it does not have to have a directly practical application to serve a purpose. The fact that we have machines that run these theories is purely a sideline to the theories themselves.

"A theoretician operating without any input from the practical world is a theoretician wasting his or her time, producing theories that will ultimately not even be of academic interest."

I'm sorry, but many many theories that have become helpful for practical purposes were created by someone 100s of years before who didn't have any "practical consideratinos". Just because something isn't useful NOW or even in our lifetime, doesn't mean it isn't useful.

Quite frankly, I think programming (distinct from computer science) should go back to an apprenticeship based program if we can make that sustainable, and computer science (as in the degree program) should be kept where it is: Mostly theorectical with a minor side of practicality occasionally.

Sure programmers sometimes need to understand Computer Science theory, but most of what the average programmer needs to know about it does not require a degree but simply reading a book or three.
I'm talking about the equity on day 1, not on exit day. But even on exit, the ratio is the same between founders and employees.
"Crony" capitalism is just regular capitalism.
Trying to help high school students learn about all the steps in higher education with a nonprofit -- http://www.realitystep.org. We haven't launched our main product yet but just conversations with students and teachers have made it worth it so far.
Several comments here are addressing the use of the word "capitalism." It's being used because this op-ed writer knows his audience.

Writing on the editorial pages of the Times, he knows he is reaching a primarily liberal audience. He is writing in the context of Democratic political campaigning against big corporations about the financial meltdown, growing income inequality, poor job growth coincident with record corporate profits, and tax shenigans like inversions.

In short, he's speaking to an audience that tends to be suspicious of businesses larger than the local grocer, and that has already been whippped up in that direction for several years now.

So: he frames his pet issue in those terms, in order to get the maximum response from the audience. (It's also why he name-drops several Republicans, despite the fact that these fees are charged in localities controlled by either party).

Seen objectively, the issue is not actually with capitalism, since one of the major examples of fees hitting the poor are municipal court fees--which don't go to private companies at all. They are directly assessed by the local government to pay government expenses. But they're still hurting the poor. NPR had a great story about it recently:

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312158516/increasing-court-fee...
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The Case Against the “Sharing Economy”
Nitpick: does the term "isomorphic JavaScript" to describe JS that runs on both the client and server annoy anyone? Where's the isomorphism?

When I think of isomorphism I think of two things that look different but have the same structure. If you had a set of functions that are synchronous and a set that are async, then maybe you can call the sets isomorphic. Or if you have a Python library that mimics a command line tool, then they could be isomorphic.
The issue with shifting to "soft" enforcement is that the softer enforcement allows the punishments to be extended for much longer than a jail sentence. Instead of 3 days for public intox it might be a year of ankle monitoring at $350 a month, and because the city wants the year to look attractive they either take away the incarceration option or increase the sentence. So the very poor get incarcerated for longer, and the less poor end up with a fairly massive chunk out of their income. Also because the city isn't paying they have a lessened interest in reducing the fees.

If you look close you can see some hidden pernicious issues with it. Fundamentally it means that the state can be really mean to the poor and not impact the better off. Penalties that one can buy their way out of can even to an extent encourage lawbreaking.
The day we can replace taxi or truck drivers is the day that we'll be able to automate most jobs from taskrabbit and enlance
Money (and property) are social constructs.
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Governments have been increasing their regulation and redistribution for over a hundred years now, yet we still call the system "capitalism". At what point will we agree that the Western nations have either blended or socialist systems?
They are relevant if and only if you're looking for a corporate job related to networking. Your can begin your career from a networking assistant engineer with CCNA and work your way up to a network architect - probably requires CCIE and up. The exam is actually not very expensive, so you can might as well get yourself certified but I find it unnecessary to sign up for the course though. There are plenty of resources online, so just make full use of it and you'll be fine. (keyword: question dumps/braindumps) Some of the benefits from attending classes i can think of is that you get to strip your ethernet cable and plug them into the physical switches/routers and of course configure them. But in general, you're better off reading the books and playing with packet tracer/GNS3 at your own comfort.
It will always be a mistake to overestimate the value of your stock or stock options. I'm not saying don't do startups. I'm saying don't be exploited. Take my 6-months-pay payout as a yardstick. Then ask if it's worth taking half the going wage, for 3 years, in return even for the guarantee of it, when it is by no means guaranteed.

If I were to go to a startup again, I would expect to be paid a premium over the market rate, and I would see equity as a bonus. Otherwise why should I bust my ass to make a rich VC even richer?
Any plans to allow user created courses? Can think of 100 uses for a user created course to be immediately accessible to a bunch of phones from a virtual alleycat bicycle race to a LARP.
It all seems logical to me: if (3) and (4) didn't happen (because the CIA knew it was the source of the material in the book), then it would have sent a strong signal to the Soviets confirming that the CIA was behind the propaganda. That may have bought extra KGB attention to bear on in-country CIA assets responsible for spreading it. The corollary being that a CIA reaction of (3) and (4) further bolsters the apparent legitimacy of the propaganda.

And, of course, what spy agency wouldn't want (4)?
I forked Project Gutenberg to github[0]. I've been doing some some work on newsdiffs[1]. I'm working on a python library for dealing with Library of Congress Subject Headings[2]. And I'm trying to get access to and release hundreds of syllabi collected via universities via FOIA request[3].

[0]: gitenberg.github.io
[1]: newsdiffs.org
[2]: https://github.com/sethwoodworth/LCC
[3]: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-wisconsin-will-turn-o...
"Liberty" is definitely not a part of Capitalism. In capitalism liberty only applies to those with capital, just like liberty only applies to those with power in any system.
Your productivity to potentially go down a lot.
Andy Rachleff has great advice on people looking to start a career in startups: Don't make a brand-new startup your first job--rather, look for a mid-sized, growing company, where you'll learn some valuable skills and set yourself up for better opportunities in the future.

https://blog.wealthfront.com/hot-mid-size-silicon-valley-com...

The list is getting a bit out of date, and he's writing for business students, but I think the advice is very sound for engineers as well. If I could do it over again, I would have tried to find a similar path.
Maybe in some high-throughput application, or something under hard performance constraints. IIRC VMWare uses Salsa20/12 for its remote desktop encryption thing.

20 rounds gives a more comfortable security margin, though, so it's a default that lets you sleep well at night. That said, an attack that convincingly broke 12 rounds could be enough to start thinking of switching to something else.
TLDR:
Whether you are using a powerful platform or multiple tools to manually sort everything out, it’s critical to listen to the signals your customers are sending.
Using data and technology for customer success will not only improve the performance of your team, but your customers will also be more engaged, they will stay longer on board and they will invite their friends to use your product.
Unhappiness.
I think you're exaggerating how impractical Computer Science curricula are. CSE courses at major universities generally include courses on everything from Systems Programming, to Compiler Construction, to Data Structures and Algorithms, to OOP design, to Database Systems, to Graphics Programming, to Web Programming, etc etc. Each one of these will (at least should!) have several homework assignments and a final project that all involve submitting working code.

I'm not saying that CSE degree programs shouldn't teach you how to write code or require you to write code. I'm just saying that they are not vocational training and therefore should not focus on training students to use whatever specific tools are popular in industry.

Contrast that with community college certificate programs where they offer courses like "C# Programming in Visual Studio" and "iOS Application Development." Those programs' mission is to get you a job, and they also cost much less time and money than a bachelor degree.
No, I'm appealing for help in trying to understand the situation. You seem to have a strong opinion on the matter. How have you come to that in such a hostile information environment?

Edit: on second reading, your comment seems tantamount to accusing me of being "one of them". Everyone seems to have picked a side and is part of the fight. Where's the verifiably objective and neutral commentary?
Buy some really nice noise canceling headphones is definitely top of the preparation list. You'll be wearing them 80+% of your day.
Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
The ability for a business to use the government to its own ends its directly proportional to the size and power of the government. One of the best examples I can think of is Gazprom. While technically a private company its really just an extension of Vladimir Putin's government. In the US you find the similar arrangements in the defense and intelligence sectors.

The less powerful the government, the less power there is to be had by co-opting it.