skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've created a long series of accounts to do serial ideological trolling on Hacker News over the years [1], that in turn have gotten serially banned for a long time. There's no change in policy or direction here—nor in your practice of keeping your main account studiously separate from the ones with which you stir up shit. That is not using this site in good faith. None of this is the least bit new—you're simply relying on the fact that the fair-minded users of Hacker News don't have access to all the data.

In the latest episode—this one—we learn that you're adding concern trolling to your repertoire. Your mention in another context of how this terribly-concerning "new direction" that HN is taking would never have happened under the author of "What You Can't Say" is especially rich, given that PG would have (and, as I recall, did) ban your ass hands down the fastest of any of us. It's I who have consistently been the moderator most hesitant to do that (Exhibit A, the present discussion), oh and I've been doing this job for years already, so maybe find something else to "concern" about?

You really got me with the "professional management" though.

1. Anyone with showdead turned on who'd like a glimpse of what I mean by "serial ideological trolling" is invited to peruse this eugenicist tidbit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7447575. There's a lot more where that came from.
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Agreed; for this reason fixed headers annoy to no end. I'd be so relieved if this trend stops.
Well, Google acquired the defense contracts that Boston Dynamics had during their acquisition, so I guess the answer is:

Yes, they are going to build robots for the defense department.

not that I like Vice.. but: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-google-will-manage-its-...

better link. a list of Google defense contracts :

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?indexName=awardfull...
Keymetrics I/O – Monitor and Augment Node.js
Work for what? and which kind of meditation?
At least you should try. Maybe start small (and stay small..), there is always some path to escape from cubicle nation.. ;)

As for "github is your CV" hype:

http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-an...

https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-c...
I think there are multiple factors at play to make it seem worse than it is:

The field has grown so fast that there are relatively few "old programmers" still.

And a portion of older people will appear "less viable" because a portion will be plagued by deteriorating health.

Then you have another portion who have been "kicked upstairs" into management because in many companies that's the only career path if you care about continuing to increase your income etc.

So the proportion of healthy, high performing, highly skilled older people who have remained in software engineering is likely really tiny.

I don't doubt that there are places where there are biases against older workers in software, but personally I've only ever interviewed one older software developer, and I hired him right away and to date, ten years on, he remains one of the best developers I've worked with.
Taking laxatives in large quantities (as some misguided young people do) does indeed reduce water mass significantly, besides screwing up one's digestive system.

That may be where the confusion comes from.
High protein is definitely the solution for everyone.

But how high depends on the level of activity and total caloric consumption. You can eat both high protein AND high fat. 40% of calories in protein, 50% of calories in fat, 10% of calories in carbs would be an example of a diet high in protein, fat and low in carbs.

For weight lifters I would recommend 1g of protein per pound of lean tissue (approximate) and the rest of the calories in carbs or fats however you want to distribute those, but some carbs before a workout.
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I imagine that being a programmer is a much more lucrative job in China and India than being a lawyer/doctor, compared to the US. Programmers are always present on the global market, while lawyers and doctors are inherently local. I might be wrong though, this is pure speculation/no data.
And it's able to go and get any historic data. It can scale up to thousands of machines (petabytes range), it can scale up to simultaneously ingest thousands of data flows, and so on, and continue to do whatever you want based on event processing (Storm can watch for any strange rules you can come up and fire off events [triggers] to an other component to execute trades), without stopping the flow for even a second.

It's a proof of concept in distributed systems engineering.
Tells me "WebGL is not supported" on MBP Yosemite - Latest chrome version.
What It Took for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Disrupt Boeing, Leapfrog NASA
Because they still haven't finished the last redesign. I still get a few pages on the old design.
Strange! I'll look into this, what about safari?
And... the header is back again. Haven't made any further changes to privacy preferences (all opt-out).
Though it looks awesome, It's spamming my console with WebGL errors:

[.WebGLRenderingContext]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION : glDrawArrays: framebuffer incomplete (clear)
[.WebGLRenderingContext]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION : glDrawArrays: framebuffer incomplete (check)
WebGL: too many errors, no more errors will be reported to the console for this context.
The Ethics of Growth Hacking
I'll reply here because apparently I can't reply to your response. "Because everything that is written on the internet is true". Let's think a little: Intel pulled their ads because they got intimidated by a handful of trolls, yet they didn't returned after it was shown to them that they are supporting misogynists by pulling the ads. Explain to me how a few trolls are more powerful than the media?
changed the title. I'm new to idea just been hearing a lot about it and how it can change the brain to become happier.
That already happens on long coach journeys - you have 2 or even 3 drivers and they switch every 8 hours(maximum allowed in EU).
I'm not even 30 and I feel like my skills are in decline. I can cover it up with experience - I know the libraries and tools and how to use them, and that can make you 100x faster. But I'm getting set in my ways after seeing what does and doesn't work so many times, and I'm losing the ability to just do something without thinking it through.
Photographer who sued Imgur now finds his 20k pic archive on Pirate Bay
I'm not getting these, what's the browser?
I rather think it was a play on the word "antidisestablishmentarian" which technically would be one who is opposed to the disestablishment of the Anglican church as the official church of those lands governed by the queen of
England. [1]

In this case an establismentarian would be presumed to be anyone who favors the current order of things; whether it be a democracy, a cryptocracy or a kakistocracy.

So, yes. A statist shill.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism
CVE-2014-4114 can be used without SMB Share
I'm on a retina MBP, Yosemite, latest chrome, and it works amazingly for me.
fructose does not lead to an insulin spike and goes directly to the liver
I think you missed the whole point of the book. If you were a gamma, you would like being a gamma, and wouldn't want to be an alpha. The only reason you feel the way you do now from the outside is because you are pretentious enough to fancy yourself an alpha.
ups - copy and paste error - this should have read: it would be interesting to include Mythryl to the comparison.
But now the "intellectuals" (like OP) who have the power are drastically far removed from the common person, and thus their opinions of good and evil are harmful.
Mark, I think you're undercharging. May I ask you, have you tried higher rates and had problems with finding clients? i.e. how did you arrive on your current rates...
Actually some are..... 10 gen have a very effective sales force I guess!
France here - they don't. Relying on translated material is the kiss of death (it's old and will discourage exposure to the bleeding edge, trains will be leaving the station without you for the rest of your career.) I've noticed good forum answers though, mostly sysadmin related questions for Linux systems.
Learning to “google well” has become the fundamental skill to replace reading/writing well in life. Scary.
How Marketers Track SEO Performance Today
Make sure "Use hardware acceleration when available" is enabled in Chrome.
>Google might accidentally build SkyNet one day, but they're not going to build it on contract for the government.

You're right, but only by default.

Google forgoes DoD funding once they acquire companies which :

1) have already received DoD funding/grants

2) already have contracts in place with the DoD that must be honored post-acquisition, but are contractually in name with the previous vendor, using Google only as the global representative of the previous existent vendor, while reaping the benefits of a contract.

So, Google surely won't create SkyNet. But 'Cyberdyne Systems : a Google Company' probably will.
Drop me a line, I work in a bank that's always looking for python devs. Contract rates in London are excellent too (easily > £500/day).

I'm ben <squiggly a> perurbis <dot> com
I actually use google to find products on Amazon ( using site: ). Works just fine.
1. Rounded glass is nice, although mine does seem to be lifting near the power button.

2. This was a silly decision IMHO. I'd have rather had a thicker device, however my leather Apple case makes this a non-problem.

3. If they'd left it at the top, people would complain that they can't naturally reach it. It's really easy to get used to and makes a lot of sense being on the side due to the size of the screen.
Seems he removed the website because of it :(
Maybe it's just a difference in how things are done in different countries. In mine private schools are almost non-existent, and those that exist have a really bad reputation for basically giving out diplomas for money. There is a broad selection of public schools, and where I grew up(city of only 15,000) there were 10 different schools,and you could either go to a one which was bad with education or one which was consistently in top 50 in the entire country. Every single one of them free. That's what I mean when I say that I pay for education in my taxes - every level of education over here is free, including higher education(so colleges and universities too) - not using it and resorting to home schooling seems borderline foolish.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141023002010-177256...
Hi. We're trying to test a widget embed in your site, but it seems the iframe is possibly being embedded in another iframe, when in the site editor mode.
Which is strange, because when the page is published, it actually displays the widget:
http://testandu.broadsheet.io/544a10fa5065790200338377

On our platform we're testing the referrer to make sure there's no unauthorised embeds, we cannot access it hence we cannot preview widget in the site editor mode.
When Is an Expert Opinion Allowed in Law?
Although that's correct, IT opportunities depend a lot of on businesses having plenty of activity and, in a sense, an expectation of having to scale up in the near future. That's definitely not the case in Spain.

When I was young(er), a lot of dev work in Spain looked like just building business database interfaces. My hunch (based in practically zero facts), is that many devs have been stuck there until those jobs ran out, and their skills may not fully align with more generic app problem solving.
Global warming 'not real' claims Weather Channel founder
Does he know node.js? if the answer is no there is your problem. Its not that he doesnt now node but that he is not keeping up with the rapid changes in the IT world.
I worked at a pretty large bank (one of the biggest in the world and US) and I was working with MongoDB there. It was for a non critical reporting system for a configuration management tool.
Chrome V38.0.2125.104 on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04
Privacy Matters (A revolutionary product concept)
Nadella does deserve at least some credit for Azure. During my time at Microsoft, I was quite pleased to hear that Nadella had said something like: "We can either sell the 'One Microsoft' vision, or we can make money" - which I understood was how he explained why Azure was adding support for Linux.
eventually we'd get one with the same Mac address but new internal IP address

This sounds like an EC2 bug, not an ElastiCache bug. EC2 uses "locally administered addresses" for MACs (as it should), but the administrator assigning MAC addresses is responsible for ensuring that addresses are not reused within a collision domain.
I don't see how the privacy policy wording can be interpreted that way.

The wording you've clipped does not suggest that the "unique, anonymous identifier" will be sent to every website. (It does suggest there's a customer choice in some way, but that's unclear and so far no one has reported a reliable way to have Verizon suppress the X-UIDH header.)

The note that "many opt-outs are cookie-based" may not be relevant to this tampering. In particular, there's no clear way that cookies to Verizon websites could be consulted when doing the tampering on each HTTP request to other websites: they're not part of the connection. (I suspect this section is boilerplate related to some other opt-out.)
Ask HN: What's your IQ?
Better, I'd like a list of the banks using Mongo, I wouldn't want to risk having eventually consistent money balance during the day xD.
I agree that the announcement doesn't make it clear where to click to access the guide. I jumped back to HN's comment to find it.

Then the ssd.eff.org page feels just like an empty shell, a nice logo, a bunch of empty space then a footer with links to workaround the lack of relevance of the page. Then I turned on javascript and it was the same but with an unnecessary and quite useless animation in the middle of the page.

Then I found a guide from and found it less readable and usable than the old one, though I like the bigger fonts.

To me the whole thing feels like an amateurish website and makes me think the content is on par with the design. IMHO eye candy should be left out of a project aiming at conveying important information about a subject that matters, especially when it gets in the way as it does here.
FITS was developed in part because of the problems NASA had with long-term storage formats. NASA realized that they were losing historical data because people were creating one-off file formats and then losing how they designed and developed them; libraries that understand FITS are available for pretty much every non-trivial language. For what the Vatican wants, it is better than JPEG -- it's lossless, it supports arbitrary color depths, its metadata format is much more extensible than JPEG's Exif, and it can support multiple images per file; for example, holding an entire multiple page manuscript in one file.
I started learning in 2000, before Google was big and Stack Oveflow didn't exist. I think every new programmer gets a false sense of how easy everything is.

14 years of learning later, I now realize how little I know.
Upvoted for the courage of recommending a service that actually works fine but is not welcome in the HN's hipster culture. Expect getting downvoted to oblivion...
The obvious example of an extreme post-scarcity society is, of course, the Culture from the novels of Iain M. Banks.

Interesting to note the emphasis in both BNW and the Culture on drug taking. In the case of the culture their bodies are engineered to produce a wide variety of drugs on demand:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

You could argue that the humans in the Culture are effectively kept as pets by the god-like AIs that run that civilization. However, this is probably less threatening than it sounds as the Culture seems to be quite open to people (or AIs) leaving for whatever reason and seems to be slightly reticent about encouraging immigration as they are aware that it looks like a form of disguised colonialism.
Trust me it won't make that big of a difference. The main work is in learning how to use the in built libraries. Swift is still in flux and so my advise is to start out with Objective C and learn to build a functioning app. Once you have a basic understanding get some swift under your belt as well.
I always google in english and this is a huge plus comparing to my coworking looking for answers in french. Even when they find answers, the quantity and the quality is lesser.

Hopefully, it doesn't take a lot of english to be able to read programming question on stackoverflow. If you have difficulties reading english and you want to do programming, focusing on just that will help a lot. You don't really need to be able to speak or to listen which are harder (at least for me ).
>It's treating the symptom, not the problem. Just a hunch.

So then why isn't taking an ibuprofen for a headache, or cold medicine to help with cold symptoms the same?

Plenty of medicine treats the just symptoms, and there don't seem to be people proclaiming the downfall of society because of cold medicine. It helps alleviate the symptoms and allows the sufferer to work towards curing the cause. I would imagine that this is especially true for something like depression where the symptoms are a direct obstacle to curing the cause. I've read that exercise and a healthy diet have been shown to help with depression, which in my opinion is probably better than just taking medication. However I'd be willing to bet that someone who is currently experiencing the symptoms of depression (such as fatigue, apathy, and a reduced motivation and task salience), is going to have quite a bit a of difficulty in doing that, and sticking with it. On the other hand, if the medication gets rid of the symptoms, the individual would probably have far more success eating healthy and exercising, or addressing any other issue that may be the cause of their depression. We don't tell people to get over a heart attack or chastise those who take medicine to help with cardiac problems, we deal with the symptoms as best we can, and then we deal with the cause once we get the symptoms in check.

Now to make some wild and likely inaccurate generalizations. I frequently get the feeling that people who rally against mental health medication have the mindset of "It's their fault, and it's just because they're weak, they should just stop being lazy, buck up and get over it like I would instead of cheating and taking pills for it." or even think that they deserve it due to some unknown choice they made and should have to deal with the consequences.

Honestly, even if it was "cheating" to take a pill, and people could just get over depression if they tried hard enough, why the hell is that a problem? I'd have no qualms "cheating" and taking a medication that improved my cognition, abilities, health, or anything else even if there was no issue with it in the first place. I know I'm just knocking down my own strawman here, but isn't that the whole point of technology? We create new things so that we longer have to waste our time and effort doing things "the hard way". Why is it any different when that optimization benefits our body or mind instead of our computer? Pshh, smart phones, get over your laziness and hand deliver letters to whoever you wanna talk to, don't cheat and take the easy way out. You got hit by a drunk driver? Well that's your fault for driving, you should've just walked 30 miles through the woods instead. And now you want to go to the hospital too? Why don't you just buck up and walk on your broken leg, no one else has a problem walking. And don't give me that paralyzed crap, everyone else seems to be able to walk just fine, you just want attention. Getting surgery is the easy way out.
Good marketing + Low Barrier to Entry.
>Packaged food often does not have anywhere near the same calories as the label claims. Food manufacturers often aren't very precise and they have an incentive to underestimate.

Source? If they aren't within 20% they can be shut down by the FDA. Not exactly something you would want to risk.
So here's the thing - even if the chemical weapons found were not as massive as you expected, there is still enough evidence there to believe that the invasion was undertaken in good faith.
France here - starting as a student and stepping into the university library, it took me 30 seconds to realize that everything interesting was written in English and not being able to proficiently ingurgitate vast amount of it was going to be a problem. I just shunt French as written input for the next 5 years. When the valley called for a job, I was ready. Pasteur said "Chance favors the prepared mind" - he was relating it to the field of observation but it obviously applies almost anywhere.

Nowadays, if you have access to the Internet, there's no excuse not to be proficient with English. I've noticed during my travel that youngsters with a bit of education (high school or better) in countries where movies/series aren't translated (because the market is just too small) have very good English level. France has an official language which means that content is vastly translated and this-is-bad(TM) - the we are slower at getting better at English.
All true, but you're forgetting that Mono can AOT compile C# to native code using LLVM. That's how Xamarin.iOS works. So il2cpp doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
They pay nothing for their by far most important input, and in fact actively guilt people into giving it to them. For free.

You also appear to have a, well, econ for the gullible version of how executives get paid. Reality is much closer to managing to stack the board with friends, etc -- read eg Jack Welch.

Your argument about the dynamics of the labor market for execs is specious -- arrived at by assuming the current state, then proceeding to demonstrate the current state is necessarily optimal because we are in it.
I could argue that adding the fact that a lot of PhD students receive DARPA funding and trying to mingle it with corporate funding is problematic on the same grounds, as it adds context that I don't feel worthwhile, because it distracts.

The attempt to put all context into all discussions is obviously futile. Adding relevant context is a worthwhile way of debate, but not necessarily part of any particular statement. Assange doesn't see that piece of info as relevant.

Trying to turn this on the person is not a way to go in my opinion. Prove a lie before.

Interacting with his statements (and be it "I think he's overinterpreting and I won't further engage"), is the way to go.

(To add context: I live in Berlin, a person in a rain coat and an umbrella on a sunny day is nothing special.)
Can you elaborate why you think Fastmail is "evil"? It's the first I heard about it (being evil). Is it because of its proprietary nature?

I think solutions like Fastmail is popular because they work well, and most people would rather focus on running their business than working on mail server administration.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/

I saw this film a long time ago, and as I remember it was enjoyable and inspiring, so I recommend it as an easy to watch introduction on this topic and era.
You're right. I switched to incognito mode and got the new design.
Thanks jbrooksuk. And do you think it's too big? Did you prefer the size of 5S?
Amazing! Too bad I don't have anywhere to put it...
I feel the same. I don't think I want to post here anymore. I mean, I should have known that it's not worth discussing politics on HN, but there's something really demoralizing about putting sincere and civil comments together just to have them deleted, all because a few people took their disagreement personally.

When I'm trying to keep it civil here and upvoting people I don't agree with when they make good points, and I get silenced in return, all it does is polarize me further. gg folks, have fun thinking I'm evil/brainwashed/sexist in your echo chamber.