skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love these kind of "man behind the curtain" things. I've had a few somewhat similar ideas I've meant to make, though they were more in the spirit of being silly and fun rather than "brutal truth telling."

They don't really make much(/any?) money or involve cool tech, but I think they are fun, and good times. Maybe I'll get working on the one I've been wanting to do most.
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Can give a try someday
Gotta disagree with you: marriage is a contract, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live

Not all marriages are presumed to be "for as long as you shall live". Though they don't usually have a set term, civil marriages (at least around here) are not that tied to Christian values anymore.
AFAICT, what displaced plain VB for much of its commercially-significant use wasn't VB.NET, or anything web-based, but -- and this was happening when VB was still current -- Excel (with VBScript), which was and is in many ways superior to VB as a visual rapid-application-development platform because you could do more without context-shifting out of the visual paradigm.

Of course, VB programmers may look down on Excel the same way lots of other programmers looked down on VB.
There's a great little animation inspired by "The Mysterious Stranger",[0] which is apparently part of a film called "The Adventures of Mark Twain".[1]

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Mark_Twain_%...
We have the power to grant rights to each other through our duly elected representatives. Note that the first three words of the US Constitution are "We the People" not "We the Framers."
>> the blase assertion that a nuclear Iran is any worse than the existing nuclear powers

Iran has one of the worst dictatorships around, it exports weapons and ammunition everywhere. The regime support groups that as SOP fire rocket artillery at civilians. The regime even support the politicians which organized the genocides/rapes of millions in Sudan. And so on.

Iran's priests is just not the kind of regime that should be immune to military threats, like Russia is now with Ukraine.

The really scary thing with that religious dictatorship, with both a fin de siecle attitude and nuclear weapons, is that they might get most of the Iranian population killed. Probably a majority of the Iranians really hates their priests and are a bit more west oriented than the average European. They have worked hard to push off their yoke, but their junta was ready for it. (I come from Sweden, there are lots of Iranian refugees there.)

That said, to use spying for economic reasons ("offshore oil drilling locations" in the GP comment) do deserve a total lack of trust. They lower themselves to the Chinese dirty level.
For easy access: The link to the video is: http://vimeo.com/107069470 (Some HNers just look at the comments first, so this might be useful for someone.)
Early Doctrow fiction is pretty good, he doesn't attempt to push his political beliefs as much. I actually don't disagree with a lot of the ideas he espouses, but his last two books were as subtle as a stomach pump.
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That's inflation adjusted, but now you need to do the compound interest to get it from $0.02 to $10.
Thank you for your comment. When I wrote the blog post, I had no idea it would be read by so many people. I wrote it thinking some friends, family, and acquaintances would be the majority of the audience. Those people already know who I am, and would understand that it was not written as a plea for more respect or attention, nor to seek employment.

You are right, I'm not too good for QA work (remember I also delivered newspapers to make ends meet), but I couldn't afford to relocate and pay my monthly expenses on a QA job salary at that point in my life.

Having been born in the US, I have it easy (even if I haven't taken full advantage of my privilege) compared with many others in the world. Your suggestion is to get an entry level job, or finish the degree first, then get an entry level job. I'm curious, is that is the same advice you'd offer to a non-US citizen?

We take for granted how easy it is to climb the corporate ladder or get a degree, and our society values those indicators. It seems as if the objectives behind them have been forgotten though. What should be valued is humility, a good work ethic, and a solid education with curiosity to continue learning and improving. If one meets the objectives but hasn't accomplished the accepted indicators, then that person often faces prejudice (at least in the countries I've lived in).

I'm not trying to imply I've met all of the desired objectives. I just strongly disagree with jumping through the necessary hoops to get ahead because everyone has to do it; especially if jumping through the hoops gets someone no closer to meeting the desired objective.

I'm sorry for the rant. I hope you understand my response is not about me, but about how unfair I think it is that most are so fiercely judged by indicators rather than the characteristics they're meant to imply.
I read Hyperion when I was a teen, it informed my choice of online nick the moment I finished it. It's a truly fantastic book, the entire cantos is worth reading.
There is Free Pascal[0] and their Lazarus IDE[1], which are free, open source, cross-platform and largely Delphi-compatible – but they still don't seem to be taking the world by storm.

[0] http://www.freepascal.org/

[1] http://lazarus.freepascal.org/
> I think that's the web. The development that used to happen in VB6 & Delphi simply has migrated there, desktop apps from that segment are dead.

A lot of the internal desktop LOB application development that used to happen in VB or Delphi still is done on the desktop, but happens in Excel with VBScript. That trend was very much visible when VB (pre-VB.NET) was still current.
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That is not a very substantive comment. Seems like you're just baiting for a flame war.
NSA has had whistleblowers before Snowdwen so this is not surprising.
Facebook to partner with Indian government for Internet connectivity project
If you're at all curious, by all means pick the Halo books up, just don't expect too much from them.
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> But the web is hard to write and hard to extend/maintain.

The web is distributed and distributed is hard. The problem is that it is also what people want. We haven't regressed from VB6 -- we've advanced, but the demands of the market may have gotten more complicated faster than the popular tools have advanced in their ability to simplify them.
>> there are exceptions -- e.g., files with newlines in their name

> I honestly find it extremely bewildering that any programmer would see that as being acceptable. It's not just that it fails to give the correct result, it fails silently. Silent data corruption is surely just about the worse class of bug.

Yes! We should strive to build our software on solid, non-leaky abstractions as much as possible, so that exceptions like a filename with an odd character in it just don't exist. Until we reach that point, computers will continue to frustrate their users for no good reason.
How many lines of code of each, how many people, how much work on which parts?

I dunno why, because I'm certain I've seen games like this somewhere, but this just seems really cool and sorta inspiring, along the lines of "hey, you can just write code and toss it in a browser and go". (Not to be rude; I'm sure it took a lot of effort.) This is one of the first times I've ever felt this way. Ever since '95, I've never been impressed with a web version of something, because usually it's a weak imitation of a native program. But this just feels like something different.
What is really needed are politicians having the courage to stand up. If the material of the Snowden revelations alone are not enough, then nothing will be.
Have you seen the film, or have you read somewhere, and then, where?
It's not the first time they send broken links. I've also received some in marketing emails from them. And it's not the only issue with Microsoft, but it's illustrative for how they are unable to manage the complexity of their stuff.
Note that Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) (Delphi clone, based on Free Pascal) works today and is somewhat like that. And it's Open Source and cross-platform (works on Windows, Linux, MacOSX).

But maybe it's still not simple enough. Also, Object Pascal is probably harder to learn than VB6, esp for a beginner.

I also started mostly with VB6 and still somewhat miss it... Nowadays I mostly use C++ and Python on Linux or MacOSX and have tried many many other languages in the meanwhile. But I still miss VB6 somehow.
Cool. So there's a list of my rights? Where?
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That is true, but I suspect it is due to Pascal style languages falling out of fashion more than anything else.
How about The Sparrow from Mary Doria Russell. An amazingly deep and personal tale about humanity's first encounter with alien life. Sci-fi in the way that "Never Let Me Go" is sci-fi - the backdrop to a literary exploration of what it is to be human.
So many ostensibly "urban" places in the US feel actively hostile to pedestrians. One of the best things about New York is that, more than any other place in the country, pedestrians unequivocally own the city. If you are in a car (or even a bike), you are on borrowed turf and must drive as such. This is as it should be – cities are for people, not cars.
The 7 Habits title emphasizes correlation. The actual habits and content of the book is much more causal.
> marriage is an agreement to learn to love the person that each of you become over time

The supposition that it is always possible to learn to love the other person is as ridiculous as the supposition that people are static.

> If both people are in agreement that they might change and get divorced later before the marriage begins, then fine with me.

Everyone who gets married knows that the possibility of divorce exists and roughly what divorce proceedings entail. How does making these details explicit as opposed to implicit help anyone?

> There is a stigma, but it's not on divorce; it's on someone who goes back on their word.

I would wager that very few people are as hot-to-trot as you are on the notion of honor in contract literalism.

> My life is simpler, more enjoyable, and happier if I associate with people who will keep their word at any cost. Maybe your experience is different.

It is. Honesty is valuable, but by my way of reckoning there is little honesty in the practice of enshrining outdated guesses about the future. A promise made without implicit limits is a lie.
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Yes I work for a stereotypical .Net shop. Just because it's ubiquitous in the Enterprise doesn't mean it's not crap. I generally love MSFTs dev tools, but web forms are still a ghetto compared to MVC.
There is something to be said for getting to HTML paragraphs and lists, and then stopping.

None of this "Everybody has a 2048 pixel wide monitor to view my 4 huge columns in" (I used divs instead of tables, so it's OK that it takes 2 K pixels to render, right? Right?)
I'd be interested to know if the amount spent on the wedding is the amount the couple personally spent on the wedding or if it's the total amount that was spent on the wedding.

If it's the former, that means couples whose parents paid the full (or most) of the cost of the wedding could fall into the 200+ attendees while personally paying nothing.
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Curious to see the Cryptonomicon on the second list.

It's a great books sure, but sci-fi? Surely just contemporary fiction? Hell, half of it is historical fiction.
The article mentioned the possibility of a peer to peer based internet of things and then suggested it use some sort of block-chain like algorithm as its distributed consensus algorithm. That seems a bit strange to me since if I understand the block-chain correctly it requires a massive amount of storage that only grows as the network is more widely used.

When you also assume that most of the IoT devices are going to be very low power and probably not have much storage or processing power, it seems an odd choice to use. What's the advantage of block-chaining over something like Paxos which is already widely used and more or less the standard distributed consensus algorithm?
>How is Apple differentiated?

Don't forget marketing. I don't think anyone plays the marketing game better than Apple. They are essentially marketing themselves as different and the fact that it works is nothing short of miraculous in the face of actuality!
VB6 (the last release of VB) is 16 years old, and has been unsupported for 6 years.

Even if it was your first language, you can't possibly be a typical new programmer.
Here's the paper from Emory that the post was based on

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480&u...

The only thing that was contradictory was the parts about the wedding. How can you not spend 20k or more when there are 200 or more guests?
They're using WebSockets.
Actually, more speed also means cars spend less time on the road, so throughput increases still. Bumper to bumper Traffic jams don't mean high throughput. What is most important is smoothness in flow.
Of those 37 countries, only a minor fraction have the budget to operate the way NSA does. That leaves approximately 160 other sovereign entities. Let's say half of them are despotic and don't count. That leaves 80. Out of those I'd wager that more than half are have governments too under-resourced to have the ability to put their people in the kind of panopticon Americans live in. In other words there may be hundreds of milllions of people who are more free than Americans. Who are not fearful Hobbeseans suckling at NSA'a teat. Somehow, those people have not yet succumbed to "terrorism" of whatever the scare du jour is.
You are over simplifying. The generic policies that are applied to an LXC instance are a trade-off between usability and security. A tightly bounded security policy will allow possibly correct behavior and nothing more, and this is very specific to the program.

Additionally, different parts of the program may need different policies. For example, qmail is structured to have components with different confinment policies. (See http://linux.die.net/man/8/qmail_selinux).

In fact many programs need to be restructured in this way. It is noticeable that Mac App Store programs are given very limited access and many needed to be extensively modified (http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/9/). It seems Ubuntu is on the same course:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Specifications/Applicat...
Most phone makers chase this market in some way, Apple doesn't.

Except that they still make and sell the iPhone 4s. That is absolutely and undeniably chasing the "very low end" market (it's $199 no contract, which is pretty bottom tier).

http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/iPhone4S-8GB...

Now I suppose we can just keep arguing this down, but historically Samsung was "Chasing the low end" because their devices were $0 on a contract (ergo, in the $600 range. The iPhone 5s is currently $0 on a contract). Now that floor keeps falling, Apple is selling a $200 device, and we're still going to argue that they super don't care about the low end, and they're some sort of exclusive device despite burger flipping teenagers buying it?
You're idealizing Access for reasons unknown. If there actually was demand for such a tool, one would exist and would be making a ton of money. The fact that people use off the shelf SaaS is an indication of the fact that off the shelf SaaS is what they want. My suspicion is that Access is too hard for most business people, yet not powerful enough for actual developers to make something unique with.

Salesforce has made a huge business out of business apps in the same category as whatever would have been cobbled together in the basement with Access by some 'IT guy' 20 years ago. The fact that this is the case is a reflection of the fact that people prefer the hosted, turnkey, polished experience that web-based SaaS provides over some half-baked internal app.
"Just because it's ubiquitous in the Enterprise doesn't mean it's not crap."

This. Look at Java, and the bloated mess it has become. Look at XML and the bloated mess it is.

Popular doesn't mean it's good. There are plenty of individuals at the top that don't know cisco from crisco.
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You're certainly correct.

I was just attempting to keep it simple.
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Surprised no-one has mentioned Glitch or GNE yet - love this kind of thing.
First thing I read when I hit the article is "One of Pong’s most ingenious features was its simplicity."

I am pretty sure that was more to do with the technology of the era, and not some amazing design decisions.
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This is a fascinating topic to me. I read it with great interest, and I might even go and do a bunch of my own analysis of the data. But I can't help but think that in a way the whole thing deeply misses the point. My skepticism started when I got to the third point: "How often you go to church". The results seem obvious to me. In general, churches frown on divorce, so of course church goers are going to have lower divorce rates! But that's irrelevant if the result is that a bunch of people are miserable because they're staying in marriages that make them unhappy. I used to be a regular church goer and I absolutely saw this. People would stay in miserable marriages because they thought it was the right thing to do.

So I hypothesize that what really matters is not divorce rate, but happy marriage rate. Unfortunately that data is not in this study. And furthermore, if it was, I would suspect significant bias. In the church world that I was a part of there was significant pressure to keep up appearances. So I don't think you would be able to trust either the married persons' self assessment of happiness nor the external assessment of the people who know them.

With this new metric in mind, I went back and re-thought the logic in each of the OP's significant predictors. First stop, "How much money you make". IMO this one falls flat on its face. It's easy to imagine situations where someone would stay in an unhappy marriage just because their partner has money. It's also easy to imagine situations where someone makes a lot of money, but stays in an unhappy marriage because their partner would get half of it in a divorce. Another factor that I think is suspect is "How many people attended the wedding". When a lot of people saw you get married it seems like there might be more pressure to stay in an unhappy marriage to save face to all the people who attended your wedding. I'm a little bit less confident about the reasoning here, but it still seems plausible.

The rest of the predictors seem reasonable to me, especially "How long you were dating". This one stands up under the happiness test and just seems to make sense, provided that the extended dating years were as similar as possible to the married years, minus the marriage license.
> marriage is a contract, forsaking all others, so long as you both shall live

Not everyone views marriage as a contract or as something that cannot be broken ever. The legal status of marriage in a jurisdiction != how people feel about and treat marriage.

> Divorce means your word is worthless, and that your own wants are more important than your word.

Giving your word on something isn't a clause that requires you to give up your own wants and needs. For example, if you married someone and one day they become abusive, you are not obligated to stay and take said abuse.

> It IS a personal failure, but go ahead, rationalize all you want.

This attitude is so unhelpful and smacks of a superiority complex.
He wasn't talking about rsync the binary but rather about librsync [0], the library that allows you to calculate a diff between two byte arrays without needing the cooperation of the other side -- ie you can calculate an efficient delta to send to remote without needing remote to be online at the moment you calculate, and without needing the complete old version, only a signature of it.

A good example use of it is the rdiff tool that allows you to do exactly what I said before. A better real-world example would be duplicity [1] or rdiff-backup [2] that use librsync to de-duplicate backups, without needing access to the whole previous value, only a small signature of it.

[0] https://github.com/librsync/librsync

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/

[2] http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
What, aren't you excited to be "accessed" by Microsoft as they exploit the world that rightfully belongs to them, as the article puts it?
That whole googlex thing and sending handwritten letters and more directly to Teller is a little creepy and verging on stalkerish.
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LoL is most likely more casual but they are definitely not the same game, they are the same genre and have similar maps and rules but they have extremely different mechanics and meta games and saying the only difference is denying shows that you haven't played both. Yes you are wrong.
The way I read that graphs - people in upper middle and high class tend to avoid divorce (probably for saving face). It says nothing about stability of the marriage.
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> but [helmets] also make motorist treat you differently.

The biggest threats from cars in my experience is when the driver doesn't know you are there.
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is that true ?
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The title isn't flame bait. This really is the future of programming, in my opinion.

The link is to LtU because I submitted it once before as a direct link and it wasn't upvoted. I couldn't submit that link again directly.
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> When a Python advocate wants to do some data processing, do they first write their own Python implementation in C?

They write it in C. Checkout the Python world sometimes.

* CrossTwine Linker - a combination of CPython and an add-on library offering improved performance (currently proprietary)

* unladen-swallow - "an optimization branch of CPython, intended to be fully compatible and significantly faster", originally considered for merging with CPython

* IronPython - Python in C# for the Common Language Runtime (CLR/.NET) and the FePy project's IronPython Community Edition

* 2c-python - a static Python-to-C compiler, apparently translating CPython bytecode to C

* Nuitka - a Python-to-C++ compiler using libpython at run-time, attempting some compile-time and run-time optimisations. Interacts with CPython runtime.

* Shed Skin - a Python-to-C++ compiler, restricted to an implicitly statically typed subset of the language for which it can automatically infer efficient types through whole program analysis

* unPython - a Python to C compiler using type annotations

* Nimrod - statically typed, compiles to C, features parameterised types, macros, and so on

and so on...

> So why does a lisp advocate feel the need to re-write lisp in C for a project that didn't actually need it? The lisp community would have us all believe that lisp is the "programmable programming language"

Why don't you understand the difference between 'a lisp advocate' and 'the lisp community'?

> nd all the other rhetoric about how every other language has just stolen ideas from lisp, etc., etc..

Nonsense.

> That's why I find it laughable that someone like Kaz Kylheku, a 15 year veteran of comp.lang.lisp, decided not to implement TXR by using a pre-existing lisp implementation.

I find it laughable that you find it laughable...