skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What we have is a <i>status</i> economy"

Which actually sounds rather like the original definition of "meritocracy":

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
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Same with OneNote. It has a lot of great features... and a metrick fuckload of legacy creepy crawlies under the hood.
Python support is a plug-in and I haven't noticed any deficiencies between it and PyCharm.
I think he means that he has 'jessie' listed in sources.list, rather than 'testing'. The latter will refer to a different version when jessie becomes stable, and again when the next one becomes stable.
And? It still has key sizes, the enemy still knows the system.
When someone in Algeria clicks your ad, is the website and product they find written in Arabic, their official language? Does the pricing reflect the potential customer's average salary of, at most, several hundred dollars per month? If not, why would you expect them to buy from you, even if you do happen to have other customers from Algeria?

I have customers in many countries as well, but that's because they happen to be English speaking businesses with international client bases, which means their budget allows my type of service. If I were to advertise to those same countries, though, 99.999% of the people my ad reached would neither be able to read nor purchase the product.
UC Berkeley Hackathon Shows Bitcoin's Ability to Power Global Remittances
I agree. Almost every time I refresh the page, I see something political, and that kind of stuff is really better suited to Twitter/YouTube/Slashdot/Reddit.
No need to be a lawyer, Washington residents have already been told not to try and bring back any BC bud across the border. EDIT: because one is entering the U.S. where it is illegal, not WA where it is legal. Once past the US border, one is then in the weed-friendly state of WA. /EDIT Conversely, our neighbors to the north have made it a point to remind WA residents that weed is still illegal in Canada. Source: stuff I tripped across while looking up border crossing procedure for a recent trip, which I could probably find again if I had to.
Ubuntu OpenStack is ruining executive careers in HP, RedHat, VMWare, etc.
It's most definitely possible to put in 40 hours of work. This mainly happens in more labor-intensive jobs. Note that it doesn't have to be construction work. Even your primary care physician's job might be described as "labor-intensive," just because they have so many patients to meet with and so much administrative work to do for each one. I'm sure many (most?) doctors do put in a legitimate 40 hours of work a week.

As another example, when I was a college student there were definitely a lot of weeks when I put in a legitimate 40 hours of work. But it was distributed over many activities, from actually sitting in lecture, to attending office hours, taking tests, studying/reading, working on homework, and participating in extracurriculars. There was a ton of downtime mixed in, and there certainly were virtually no solid eight hour blocks of nothing but work.

I honestly think a major impediment to office workers like programmers getting in a full 40 hours of productive work is just the environment itself. Just remaining stationary in an office for 8-9 hours a day is intrinsically exhausting, not physically but mentally. The worst part is when you have downtime, but still must remain stationary at your desk in the office. It now feels like you're working, but you're not. Your energy is draining, but you're not actually doing anything productive with that spent energy.

(To be fair, I also frequently would do homework up to or beyond midnight, or even on the weekends, whereas today I very rarely do work for my employer after I go home, unless an emergency comes up or I just honestly am so interested in a project that I want to. The upside to the 9-5 workday is that it has a well-defined beginning and end. In college, there was never a feeling of being done, except maybe after your final final for that semester.)
I've seen plenty of platforms that write their own code from UI-type elements. That code is scary.
I'll tell you my story from being in this situation from both sides. Like the OP I consider myself able to do a lot more work in a lot less time than others. Companies I work at tend to take advantage of this. So last year I decided to look for a new job. It didn't take long before I found something and gave my resignation letter to my employer. They immediately setup a mtg with myself and the bigwigs and essentially asked me for what it would take for me to stay. Knowing the rule that you never take a counter-offer, I made the numbers extremely high. Huge raise, huge bonuses for multiple years guaranteed. To my surprise, they gave me everything I asked for.

Then I notified the company I was planning to leave for that I was planning to stay where I was working. They asked me what the offer was and I told them. Within a day they offered me even more! What an embarrassment of riches this seemed to be. So I went back to my employer at the time and said I was actually leaving. This made them really mad. But Left and went to the new job.

It turned out that the new job was completely different from what I was sold. I was leading a team of well over 30 devs (all but 2 were consultants from large consulting firms) across multiple countries around the globe with the intent of performing 24 hour development. We had meetings every 8 hours to do handoffs between the timezones. My first day was over 14 hours of work in the office. The first weekend was completely consumed by a horrible deployment. The team members were absolutely exhausted, sleeping at their desks. This was an absolute nightmare. I was essentially brought in to get rid of the consultants (to save money) and replace them with in-house staff. I was initially brought in as a lead architect/dev. So I went to my boss, who hadn't talked to me my entire first week and never even introduced me to the team, and asked him what the timeframe was for me taking over this team and he said "within a month we'll be letting go most of the consultants". I was absolutely shocked and immediately begin trying to find a new job and it took a few months of true hell to do that.

There is a lot more to this story, you can email me if you want to hear it. But my points would be, if you're talented, people will take advantage of you. And you could end up in a situation where a company will take advantage of you up to your limit. The consultants I worked with were from large well-known consulting firm and I'm sure they were paid well but their lives were hell and they had no recourse. Almost all of them smoked chronically to deal with their stress, amongst other things. If you're like me, you'll find that you certainly can be more productive but you'll end up with two choices. One, work at a normal job where most of your time is free for you to be productive at things you want to do. Or two, be your own boss and choose your own workload.
What is it? The site tells you nothing about what your signing up for?
When it reaches the point where death threats are being issued against people, I personally do want to hear about Gamergate stuff.
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the cops can't force you to decrypt an encrypted device because of your 5th Amendment rights

I don't believe this is quite correct.

AIUI, they cannot demand that you hand over the password as such, because that is tangential to the case - it's a third piece of information that has no bearing. But they can sit your down and tell you that you must unlock it for them - enter the password yourself - under penalty of the law.
"Interesting thought. But I can't sample TV signals from a mobile device. "

You couldn't sample FM radio or GPS from them in the past either :)

But honestly, i don't expect this to take the world by storm either, i'm just pointing out it's a better possibility of working for the use case of "indoor mapping".

" I'm looking at applications that can be implemented underground as well, unique use case. And in this case, proximity might be just fine enough rather than positioning."

Underground is really hard, yes.
If all you care about is knowing you are within 40 feet, great.

Truthfully, specialized wifi points are likely to be better for indoor positioning than bluetooth.
I feel the exact same. It feels as though ReactOS, if it is ever released, will serve a similar function FreeDOS[1]. When I first stumbled upon the project, I had really high hopes for it but the development team hasn't made up any ground. They're unable to implement features faster than Microsoft is producing new iterations of their system (and with it, new or updated features). If it ever sees the light of day, I would give it a try but until I see more progress I think I will stick with something I can use now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS
Their website would seem to indicate that they're still in business: http://www.enviromission.com.au/EVM/content/home.html

But I couldn't find any information about the solar tower they were building.
Thanks! Nice explanation and very clear code.
I hope that the "pinning" work in the GC code is a first step for better CPython extension support. Classic C interop requires that some memory pointed from the C side in the Python heap stores the same thing. i.e. is not moved. Pinning is one way to do this.

Otherwise the same idea that Jruby/Graal did with co interpreting C code can work for PyPy as well (http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext/). Although that would need someone to step up and implement a RPython C interpreter, which to be honest is not a trivial exercise.
As usual, the future is already here, just unevenly distributed.

https://github.com/capitaomorte/yasnippet

I do wonder if you gave $11M to João Távora what the end result would be. Probably pretty cool.
...just happens to also work on occasion...

How often do these occasions arise? If I used this technique every day, would I last a week before going broke? Give us some indication that this is more valuable than flipping a coin.
I half-remember they tried to do a subset of this with some LISP/SCHEME, but it didn't pan out too well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM
I don't think there's anything actually "leaner" going on here. If anything, it's the reverse - much higher investment of effort up-front for supposedly avoiding risk of bad hiring choices and effort replacing them later.

I think the word they're looking for here is "internship". That's a longer duration and more expensive, but probably(?) less distrustful to the regular team.
>The Open Standard does not support shouting down people that we don’t agree with; we believe you attack the argument, not the person.

Ah, that explains why they chased out Brendan Eich.
Anything I can try using? rememberlenny @ gmail if there is. I'd like to try with graffiti.
there's also http://iobound.com/pareidoloop/, a project that uses a genetic algorithm for breeding (random) polygons into a shape with a face detection algorithm as the fitness function.
I'm planning to launch in London for an early private beta, but when I launch publicly I will launch globally (well, at least the US + UK as they're both english speaking) as it seems uncomfortable to launch a product online and then also have to gate it substantially.

Thanks for the tip RE: submit button - what browser + OS was that? I've only been testing on OSX so far!
Functional programming's high efficiency comes at a cost
Able to identify common methods/algos/calls and correct a programmer's use of them, add in missing checks, remove unnecessary blocks/lines?
graffiti? and not yet; but soon-ish. I'll shoot you an email once things get there.
Healthy migration habits
Easy to do if you don't have kids who need food, insurance that might lapse, rent that might go unpaid, etc etc.
Why? Do you genuinely believe that tech is purely meritocratic?
is this deliberately named to confuse people with the kdb q language?

http://code.kx.com/wiki/JB:QforMortals2/contents
Here's the slide for the curious https://imgur.com/yutx7vF
Oh, you mean the portfolio theory that "risk managed" so many financial institutions safely through the latest financial crisis without a scratch?
Nice press release- this is all old news. If you know where something is well enough to hit it with a laser, you're probably better off leaving it where it is and tracking it.
That would certainly push the conversation on a national/ federal level. It seems most of the legalization efforts have focused on in-state use. If one of a state's primary goals was to become a producer serving other states, there would be pretty strong motivation to bring federal policy in line with what's happening at the state level.
The Java debugger does the same thing.
Wow! I take the absolute opposite conclusion from your story that you do: you're getting the best rates I've heard of anywhere in the US, and you're complaining that it's somehow reflective of inefficiency!

I've lived in extremely rural, suburban, and inner-urban areas all over the US and I've never paid less than $60/month for 10/1. That your bandwidth isn't increasing doesn't sound to me like a bug, it sounds like they're amortizing their equipment over a long time horizon and giving you a great deal!
This is easy. IDE bot scrapes stackoverflow as you type. Ctrl-space to paste 'best' solution.
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Wait, I don't get it... The apology mentions an article by "Audrey Watters", which is the article mentioned by your parent [1]. However, you mention another article [2], which was apparently "more upsetting" (personally, I see both articles as basically saying people should not be getting death threats), written by "Georgina Young". So which one is it? Or maybe both, or the mention of a controversial topic itself?
I think industrial hemp holds even more promise commercially, but I suppose the marginal profit by weight on cannabis vs. hemp is greater since it's either slated for recreational or medicinal uses rather than the generally less-sexy uses for hemp fibers and oils.
For touching the third-rail of crazy.
No, you should immediately punish bad driving but the punishments can be much lower.
I think most of us are in the 'discovery' process. Personally I like the navigation app. It feels more natural than looking on your phone.
No. We have website only in English. You can only use our product if you know English because complete documentation is in English.

This is a mistake on our side because we didn't have someone consistently checking AdWords numbers. And now when we find this, we have already lost good amount.
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> Ignoring GamerGate is basically tacit approval

What utter twaddle.
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> This is something which HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TECH.

THIS. You get my upvote.

This is what is wrong with Mozilla and it was exposed for all to see when they forced Brendan Eich out over a political donation he made years ago.

Too many people at Mozilla are spending their time as social activists instead of working on technology. They are bringing their own personal beliefs to work and in the process ruining Mozilla.

Perhaps the first line of the employee handbook should read: "Open Web" != "Social Justice".
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What a great idea - I wish every employer did this. A secret of mine : I always carry a notebook at work, when I start a new job I have made a habit of sketching the floor plan myself and labeling it with names and positions of the people I meet. This has helped me tremendously... I gotta say this seems like a tool that businesses NEED to make new hires more comfortable.
Humour is often used to find a common ground. Humans are very uncomfortable if they don't know what another person finds appropriate or not. Faking it isn't the best way to respond to that because it gives the other person false data. I'm not going to defend the "bruises" guy because I have no idea what the context was (though I doubt the context makes it any better), but if you desperately try to fit in, that's a problem.

Of course there's no point in blaming the victim. Most teams don't have an inherently inclusive culture. Maintaining your differences when you join an otherwise homogeneous group is hard and most of us (probably women even more so than men, because culture and testosterone) were raised in a way that makes us think trying to give up our identity in order to fit in is the right thing to do because it reduces the potential for conflicts.

Ideally teams should be inclusive. That is difficult, because it goes against much of human nature (othering and tribalism used to be a good evolutionary strategy). Sometimes getting it right can be impossible. But it's worth trying.

There's two sides to this issue and both are difficult to fix. But we need to understand that they both contribute to the problem. This problem is deeply ingrained in our culture and in our natural psyche. It won't go away just because we tell people to stop doing it.
This is really awesome! I looked quickly at your self-hosting guide and I was wondering is the only option to deploy the static website Google Cloud Storage? I would like to setup webhook on a Heroku with free-tier dynos and deploy to AWS because those are the services I already use and love. If it's not possible, do you think I could fork your project and integrate AWS deployment somewhat easily?
> [Almost] everyone looks away, tries to act busy, and you are not included in any of the socializing

Indian here, that is probably because they might be intimidated by you. I am assuming that you must be tall.

About socialising, most Indians prefer to talk in their local languages because they are not comfortable talking in English. If you are part of the group they are afraid that they will look foolish in front of you talking in English.
Do you still believe, that spreading your data withouth any control throughout the world will make you safer in the end?

What happens with and in a car is highly private and I wish that to remain as it is.
also https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#Which_Toy_Story_chara...
I bought the IntelliJ when it was not free for students around March last year. I got an email saying I could upgrade to an individual license as if I had already purchased the individual license. If I want to upgrade to IJ14, would I need to buy an upgrade or do upgrades last for a year after my purchase?
> I think in large part, automation/technology has made most work unimportant.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, though I find it sad that most people think it's a bad thing. In most cases, at least the way I see it, automation intends to do away with menial (human) work.

If I had to describe the true social value of technology, I'd say it resides in its ability to let us concentrate on more interesting problems, put our efforts somewhere else, for the greater benefit.

But there seems to be a ruling set of values in our society dictating that we have to have one job, between such and such hours, and that the more you do so, the more you can have a "career". This is a gross simplification, but I honestly think it isn't that far from the truth. We've intertwined time and value so poorly that we think time itself has value, whatever we do with it (looking at you crippling bureaucracy).

In an (my) ideal society, people who don't need to produce more work at any given time would add value to other areas of society by achieving different tasks for different people or learning something new.

I'd like to see more architects, electricians, plumbers, car makers etc. go into schools and show kids what they do, show University students what their purely academic professors can't. I'd like to see more theoretical mathematicians learn about the wonders of growing vegetables. I'd like to see people who generate and get actual value from others, rather than constantly proxy it through money, idle time and displays of self-importance.

I find our society tends to formalize everything, and that of course includes jobs, even when it's not necessary. The intent seems to be able to measure everything from productivity to worth, even though both these things are themselves penalized by the activity of measuring/observing them. I'm a fierce advocate of science and technology, but that certainly doesn't mean we're compelled to measure everything in controlled conditions.
Do you really consider the work corporate lawyers do can be summed up by the plotlines to Hollywood movies like "A Civil Action" and "Erin Brockovich"?

Because that's effectively what you've done in your reply.

Fundamentally, lawyers exist because we no longer (generally) find it acceptable to challenge each other to duels, or send Vinnie and the boys to bust someone's kneecaps when we don't like what they're doing. Irreconcilable disagreements between companies/businesses/individuals all need a means of resolution.
That's not really a solution when using precompiled native extensions. Not much of a solution either when the native extension (precompiled or not) is a wrapper against a separate native library (which may or may not be coded in C).

Basically, it only works with "native accelerators", libraries which provide a pure {language} implementation as well as an optional self-contained C version of a subset of the library. Which is a case where you'd hope a high-quality JITed implementation would have a good speed on the "pure" implementation (and would probably prefer work be done on improving the JIT to make the pure version fast)
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Sure!

Let's take the immediately preceding example, where the author had a black woman as a supervisor. The author describes this as 'diversity lightning'. If you interpret this narrowly, this makes absolutely no sense: there's no way in which a single person can be considered diverse. On the other hand, if you think about it at an environmental or company level, things look different.

Suppose we take a random US tech company's employees and dump them in a vase. (Let's ignore the ethical issues with this for a moment.) At this point, we'd expect the odds of a random draw to reflect the tech industry's demographics, which is to say, predominantly white and asian males. If you draw this 'predominantly black' development team from the vase, though, you need to update your priors. You probably shouldn't calculate your posterior as 'everyone at this company is black' -- but you'd still probably guess that you're looking at a tech company where there are more black people and women than average. Which is to say, you'd expect that the company as a whole was more diverse.

I think this second reading is a lot more charitable to the author. I also think it's the more interesting reading; the demographic representation in a small group is subject to a huge amount of randomness, but the demographics of a entire organization are more telling, and can reveal more interesting things about policy and bias. As a community, software people are normally biased toward systems-level thinking; it's weird to me that in this particular issue people have this laser-focus on small groups and tokenism.
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Either there are vested interests at work, or Hawking is in fact a zombie.
Won't prices eventually start to fall, though, the more legal it becomes? One much-repeated theory explaining support for the initial wave of prohibition was that weed (eh) was too easy to grow, and as such it was depressing prices for a number of other crops. If that's true, I would expect states where the agriculture sector still holds significant power, to be the staunchest bastions of prohibition.
Thanks NicoJuicy!

It's primarily directed at people from the local area who would (hopefully) be more familiar with the organization.

"At-risk" typically describes teens who are considered (statistically) vulnerable to abuse or delinquency. Similar to underprivileged or under-resourced.

You can also see the total raised at https://christmas.goattrips.org/goal