skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, I believe Software Architect is a better term/analogy. My dad is an architect that also built his designs: he did it all from design to construction including project/budget management. He's over 70 now, graduated almost 50yrs ago and since then the 'field' has changed: it has become specialized. Now the architect only 'designs' the building, the civil engineer calculates the structure, the PM makes sure times and budgets are met; and there are a dozen more specialists handling a specific task. The same transformation is happening to the production of software to the extent that we now even have UX specialists. Most of us are still like my dad 30 yrs ago, we are 'full-stack' devs, we are craftsmen (or craftswomen!), we do it all. Give it time and the software engineer will have is place with a specific skill and task in hand, the title won't be ambiguous. This is already happening with big ticket projects, it will eventually trickle down to the small ones.
And this is why Haskell is developing into the next "brogrammer" problem, except this time it's not as easy to give a catchy name to. Haskell programmers are developing a reputation (at least it seems so from the people I work with regularly as a system administrator) as arrogant obsessive purists.

Would it be that hard to give python and Perl programmers a reason to consider Haskell for their next shell script? We aren't stupid, we will use what's good and worth it, many programmers start out writing simple imperative scripts, they are wonderful places to learn new skills, so why be dismissive about non Haskell programmers like this.

Not saying you are trying to be an asshole, just saying that the lack of reasons other than "Haskell is better, just accept it" pisses off a lot of people and the more we see that message the more grating it becomes.
>Design is complicated and very much like taste - subjective.

Aesthetics are subjective. Design is not. Design can contain aesthetics, which complicates things.

Just because something is difficult to measure doesn't mean that it can't be measured. A design exists to solve a problem. How well it solves problems is not subjective. The priorities might be subjective, but how well it fulfills its goals is not subjective.
Anyone seen I Dream of Wires yet? ( http://www.idreamofwires.org/ )
> It’s frankly pretty offensive that the author considers men who keep their promises to their wives (e.g. who promise to be home by a certain time and then won’t break that promise for their poker buddies) to be only half persons. It seems to discount the personhood of the wives, or not recognize that the marriage relationship is one between two “persons” who negotiate with each-other.

It's not necessarily that. Have you ever met a person who uses "Oh, my [X] won't let me do that" to get out of social situations? I think that's a better interpretation of what the writer means; it's not where they're keeping a promise to their spouse, but one where they use their spouse to deflect decision making. They make the choice, but claim it's their spouse's decision, to prevent having to explain their decision.
Actually, Azul attempted to get others interested in their technology with a "Managed Runtime Initiative" (see e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/392307/) and released a lot of code, under the GPL as I remember.

Per https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/... the Linux kernel types had no interest in incorporating it (it requires some things like bulk page table changes with only one clearing of the TBL at the end).
Would disagree here. Facebook as a platform promotes feel-good stuff and it's been self-reinforcing. It makes the space more attractive to advertisers and everyone "wins" (while we all lose).

I still however believe people are smart on average, and are becoming better and better at thinking critically. Possibly a bit naive, but I hope as information becomes more accessible, people will only develop a better sense for what's bullshit (again, no matter who it's produced by).
Reminds me of this Conan O'Brein piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA#t=26

Basically, 100s of local newscasts are all using the exact same script, even on trivial human interest stories where they could improvise.
Wow, this is a long read but definitely worth it. I have never read anything by Pettis, but I am thinking about picking up The Great Rebalancing if it explores similar stuff more deeply. It doesn't always come naturally to look at country economies as a bunch of open systems all operating in a closed system, but this read will certainly encourage that kind of thinking.
I think you really need a clearer explanation of your goals for the project. I mean, it looks like it could be a neat time-saver, but I don't think I can customize it (I've picked my subscribed reddits carefully already), and it doesn't have the niceties of Reddit Enhancement Suite.
I set up a number of small companies in the Philadelphia area with Foxbase running on Xenix with terminals on each desk connected to a cheapish PC. Much cheaper than Netware and separate PCs!
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Main difference is stories aren't fact-checked before discussing. In the end the right information ends up disseminated probably as often as a standard news story, it's just the 'sausage is made' in the public eye vs. in a closed newsroom the public has no visibility to.
This part:

>Now we have Silicon Valley challenging Detroit's leadership in the auto industry's most promising growth areas — autonomous cars, connected vehicles, eco-friendly powertrains

made me snigger. "Detroit's leadership" - and this applies to many of the overseas subsidiaries of Detroit's companies also - has been mainly in rent-seeking behaviour for years. Since 1970's the only trend they have kept up with is the move to SUVs, missing just about everything else: downsized engines, turbocharging, diesel, reliability engineering, interior design and of course the electric car.

I had a little glimpse through my job at the inside workings of one of the "Big Three" US carmakers. I got the impression that far too few people working there actually, you know, liked cars. The employees were generic dispassionate corporate managers, engineers, accountants etc. They really needed an injection of car enthusiasts.
People have made various arguments for why this is arbitrary and may not apply.

A reason why it may: VC advise start-ups on what their run-rates, burn-rates, and staffing levels should be. VC operate on standard formulae.

One result is that you'll see a fairly strong pattern.

Or at least that's my hypothesis.

Phenomena and relationships such as this are why there may be relationships between data patterns, though causality may not be on the basis that's first apparent. And why there may be strong autocorrelation between variables.
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The beauty is there is always plausible deniability. But take diabetes (I'm speaking type 2 here, to be ckear) as an example: we know there are safe dietary interventions that result in controlled blood sugars and significant reductions in medication use. These diets have study after study showing their safety. Yet, when a person is diagnosed as diabetic, they are told to eat a diet opposite of what the studies show will manage their diabetes, all while being given a prescription to take more meds. Dietitians are openly hostile to a diet that literally saves people's limbs.

If you look at how the sponsorship model works in these orgs, companies are essentially buying the ability to provide continuing education. And while I don't necessarily believe the sponsors are out-right lying, I do think they are presenting a very one-sided view.

There is a further problem that we saw as soon as the USDA published its food guide (a document that hasn't changed substantially in 30 years): the government now had a baseline of what research should try to prove. If your hypothesis didn't follow the orthodoxy, you lose your funding and perhaps your job.

Diabetes is a complex illness. We don't know the actual cause, and we don't know what actually will cure it, but today's pharmacological path sells lots of drugs and results in lots of neuropathy, amputations, heart disease and dementia. Hardly what I would call managing. It's not a given that a strong focus on diet would change anything, but it might. It's worth a try.

I fully admit to being biased. It is not only possible, but likely, that I overstated my case on TLAs caring more for themselves. Certainly, tuberculosis organizations did wonderful things. It does make me wonder if we passed a point somewhere where corporate interests in profits at any expense overshadowed the health of people. I don't like that hypothesis (I don't believe people, in general, are that selfish), so I am actively looking for alternatives. Understanding the cause helps us solve the problem.
Ironically, German is probably closer to Emacs Lisp than English is.
To wit, Tesla selected Nevada as the site for its first $5 billion battery factory. Alternative sites included Sacramento. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-nevada-...

It's certainly not necessary to have R&D and manufacturing in the same location.
There's not any reason to think corn and corn syrup are any worse than sugar or rice. Which is to say they're not really a problem at all. Corn syrup products are just tasty things that people with poor self control overeat.

What does appear to be an actual policy problem is polyunsaturated fats. Soy and canola oil accumulate in tissues and slow the metabolic rate, interfering with mitochondrial respiration. If you eat a lot of margarine and fried foods and ranch dressing, your resting metabolic rate will measurably decrease over time, leading to fat gain even with static calorie intake.
There's a tiny bit of substance here, but what's amusing is how out of touch with reality they are on some comparisons. For example:

“You’ve got people spending their time figuring out how to send a file instead of getting their work done.”

This happens in every company with an internet connection.

"That has led to the rise of a number of locally run application stores, which analysts say will sometimes market pirated copies of software or charge extra to promote a new application."

So the piracy problem doesn't happen so much in the west, but the objection here is that simply advertising on Facebook or Google isn't going to get you a global audience because someone has split off part of the market. This is like saying how terribly inconvenient it is that not everyone in the world watches US based TV channels.
A few years ago there was no annual limit on my plan. Not with co-pays, just co-insurance. I ended up needing outpatient treatment almost every day for over a month. Each day was a $25 co-pay. I then moved on to a once a week treatment for close to the next year. I could afford that, many people cannot. I was also lucky to be able to collect my pay while I was getting treated because my employer provided me disability. The cost just skyrocketed beyond belief and while I already maxed out my co-insurance my treatment was billed like an office visit so co-pays are treated differently.
The sales graph in the middle looks remarkably like the sound envelope for the SID chip (attack, decay, sustain, release).
I found "great chef" in a hidden comment at the bottom of the page, but it still has no connection with Tim Cook as far as I can tell.
> This idea that gaining/losing weight is hard is nonsense.

Fat people have it easy, they only have to deal with the discomfort of eating too little.

Gaining weight is on a whole different level. I can try to play through the pain and eat more when I'm already full but it doesn't do me any good if I throw it back up or have diarrhea. Both of which happen frequently as soon as I start trying to bulk.
There are services which offer medical bill review for patients, usually via nurses or others with clinical and medical billing knowledge.

I know of these largely through news coverage, and cannot speak to how effective they are (or what the costs are).

The stories I've heard, though, of the absolute complete and total nightmare that is the US healthcare scam, are heartbreaking.

I'm looking for online references but cannot find any at the moment, maybe others here have more information.
In general, I agree. However, I think there may be some benefits in "organic". It actually says something about how the food was produced. It's not perfect, but it is a step. Things like "natural" are beyond useless, trying to capitalize on health halo effects without meaning anything. The best bet is to source locally grown food and meat from farmers you trust. Easier said than done. :)
"Stay awhile...Stay FOREVER!"

Great game, good times.
Old first so when you teach the new, they understand what has been abstracted away.
>seeing our best minds work on our lamest problems is distressing

I've seen this a lot, and it's probably true. But because of cuts to research and capitalism's "market failure" as Gates calls it, when it comes to research, does it really matter? The highly motivated and brilliant people will go off into research anyway.

The fault isn't the people of course, it's the markets.
The article takes a simplified theory about obesity based on caloric intake and thermodynamics and pokes holes in it. But of course there are holes, it is a simplification!
Yeah. You would use 8,0 for BASIC source, and 8,1 for assembly. I think.
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There used to be good independent radio in the early 90s too but it all got bought up by clear channel. I used to listen to the radio but the music stopped changing in the early 90s after grunge came out.
Yeah, I should have been clearer that a bulk can be difficult - I was mainly focusing on the cut, which is what most people claim is hard.

Certainly there are people who gain a lot more muscle from a bulk than I do. I'm on the wrong side of 30...
I have the Bluray. The voiceovers near the start initially kinda annoyed me, but I got more into it over time! Definitely worth checking out if you're into this kind of stuff.
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The author sounds like an arrogant feminist.
tl;dr:

* Bullies bully due to their own insecurities.

* People make assumptions. These assumptions are guided by their experiences, prejudices and stereotypes.

* The media will distort your message into the story they want to put out, regardless of whether it's what you intended on saying or not.

* Speaking out about sexism experiences is risky. She can do it now because her startup has failed.
That's be honest that this is inevitable after Snowden. The delay from the incident to this broad regulation pretty much show that Chinese Government as an omnipresent regulatory force can do a lot to enforce national-wide regulations. And with Alibaba and many other Chinese Internet companies' global presence, it would become inconsequential to block any foreign Internet companies... Oops, this part is probably scarier...
I've been living in China, and I can definitely feel a shift here. These days, as an English-speaker in China it's almost impossible to get anything done online without VPN. Google, for most practical purposes, is blocked. Using other search engines, a large percentage of sites won't load when you click on them. Considering the scale and importance of China's economy, the Chinese gov. is moving in an ominous direction.
Never believe anything.
In case you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend taking the next 11 minutes to watch John Oliver talk about native advertising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
>The man I paid was in his forties, and he spoke to me in the most patronizing tone, as if I were some silly little girl who did not have the right to question his work, despite the fact that I was paying for it.

I'm not surprised in the slightest because as a young male this has happened to myself numerous times in the past before I got sick of it and decided to learn programming myself.

Generally programmers who you hire for a one-off programming job and don't really have any connection to will berate you if you call their work sub par.

In a way, I almost agree with their attitude. Because what do you honestly know? If you knew the best way to program what you think you wanted, why didn't you code it yourself?

In hindsight, the things I thought the programs I paid for should or could have done better were actually impossible and I appreciate now the bluntness of the programmers I paid to tell it to me straight.
All of Google's data centers aren't in Mountain View. Wherever said manufacturing takes place, I'm pretty sure it'll be in a location where union labor is nonexistent. (Consider that a large number of Toyota's trucks are produced in San Antonio)
> "Current cars have one occupant a high percentage of the time. That occupant drives the car. Change that and every design parameter changes."

I doubt this. The American car (distinct from cars in general) is not only a utilitarian tool but a cultural artifact. For huge portions of the country it is the manifestation of freedom - especially now that we've demolished all of our urban areas in favor of freeways and strip malls. Look at American culture and you'll see that personal car ownership is intrinsically associated with freedom, coming-of-age, and a huge host of cultural values that Americans take very seriously.

If you think making driverless cars is going to suddenly tilt us away from single-occupant SUVs and into little self-driving pods (Minority Report style), IMO you're sorely mistaken. At best we're going to get SUVs without a steering wheel. Cars will not get substantially smaller without regulatory intervention, people will continue to own personal automobiles, and they will still have more seats than are needed 99% of the time.

Driverless cars will be great, but I think you're severely overestimating their impact on car design/ownership/usage patterns. I know it's popular to imagine a society where people stopped owning cars, where cars are always right-sized for the situation, where cars show up on demand and parking lots made obsolete, etc etc, but that's a 1950s Popular Mechanics style of sci-fi pipe dream.
See: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...
Perhaps this should be "Big Bang Gravitational Wave Signal" could all be dust.

From the headline, I was expecting something more shocking about cosmic microwave background radiation[1] generally. That would be THE Big Bang signal in my book.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_b...
The 20 file descriptor limit was a pain for an app I worked on that wanted to write data to 26 files based on the first letter of a person's last name. I would have killed to have been able to keep 26 descriptors open at once. Ah, the bad old days...
I am not allowed to have a prescription that has refills (I assume due to law? Maybe office policy though). So when I need a refill I have to call and leave a voicemail message. It takes up to 72 business hours then I get a phonecall my prescription is ready. I have to physically go there and sign two forms saying I picked it up AND get my ID photocopied. Then I have to go to the pharmacy and show my ID AGAIN. I hate being treated like I'm a criminal!!
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Boy does this bring back memories. I still have my CARDIAC somewhere. I think it was my seventh or eighth grade science teacher that gave it to me.
The Urban Village: Data Viz of How Human Interactions Scale with City Size
My family has done business in China pretty much my whole life, and my take on it is that the Chinese gov. is more or less a bloated system. As the economy grows, greater access is definitely needed and I think top gov. officials realize this, but really nothing can be done in a timely fashion there because of how their politics work.
3D bar graph of English language letter frequency
Apple’s dangerous game
"Keyboard Frequency Sculpture", by Mike Knuepfel.
I had the same happen to me, I was a 17 year old who was running my own agency (4 employees, the youngest of which was 21 at the time). That's not to take away from her experiences though, but I have experienced a lot of that myself despite being male. Great article though!
People have been pitching electric cars in Detroit for a long time. The Big Three aborted every opportunity.
Ugh, please knock it off with the taubsian glycemic misinformation. Nobody with a clue buys into this carbs and insulin story. The 90s science hasn't changed and is right as far as obesity goes. Low fat is a good way to lean out. The human body is very inefficient at lipogensis and so carbohydrates in isolation tend not to contribute to body fat gain. All stored fat is simply swallowed fat.
Having spent my previous career studying the effects of interstellar dust (though not in this wavelength range), it's amazing how often I would be the buzz kill by arguing that something that someone saw actually probably could be explained by dust. It has major effects on the radiation we receive and its effects are sensitive to the exact details of how it's distributed and what it's composed of.
> Now it is scary because it survived and it is the future, not them.

The future is civic design around people rather than cars, and that's a threat to Tesla and GM alike
Not sure where you're from but the US government doesn't fund any news organizations in the US. In developed countries with taxpayer-funded news (like the BBC), there are several layers in between the funding and reporters to protect their independence.
In the example in the article, the private insurance DID pay the full amount. I don't understand why the private insurer would ever do that, but in this case that's what was reported.
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BuzzFeed is a content farm that steals other people's work and reposts it without permission or credit. At least that's what I've heard. Here's a random example - http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/culturebox/2013/09/...
Actually it is a universal problem. Anything that involves a central server or a legal representative will be under government control.
> Could you explain more about obtaining it under someone else's name? There are many checks in place to prevent this.

Here's what I know, which is not conclusive but possibly persuasive, and as I say below, I've never seen someone call the checks effective: 1) In my experience obtaining regular certs, the identity verification looked ineffective (though I wasn't trying to fool anyone). 2) Regarding both EV and regular certs, I've read several times about ineffectiveness of the verification, and I've never seen someone say otherwise. 3) Finally, effective verification is hard and manually intensive; it's hard to believe it's economical or practical for the large volume of certs issued.