skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be surprised. "Obvious" UI hints that are intuitive for someone like you or me are not for a LOT of people. Some subset of those people is still likely to be able to notice that their searches now take them to a page that says "Yahoo" at the top instead of "Google".
Yes, after 6 mos..you demand $120k, if you're good, and you know you are. Demand $120k in St. Louis
You know that's still pretty shitty right?
I think you're remembering some papers from Dehnadi and Bornat, starting with http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
And this, of course, doesn't account for cases where a minor developer error results in code that, say, creates a new metric for every source IP address from which we see a request. Dynamic metric names FTW.
For a college grad in St Louis? In what context? Webdev, or...?
Chinese uses the numbers for days of the week, so 星期一,星期二,星期三,星期四,星期五,星期六,星期日 for Monday to Sunday. They can use 周 or 礼拜 instead of 星期.

I remembered Japanese copied the Chinese at something there, but, whoops, it was the names of the planets that were copied. So the Chinese names of Mars(火星), Mercury(水星), Jupiter(木星), Venus(金星), and Saturn(土星) are copied onto the same days as planets that Romance languages name their days after.
This only enhances my point. People should be worried about racism. Great coders can work anywhere. Why work amongst casual racists?
> Why does changing (fixing) these things take so damn long?

Because:

a. Established interests profit from the current arrangement or worry that their interests will be compromised if things chang.

b. Our system is set up to resist rapid precipitous radical change.

c. Changing institutions takes a long time and requires much political will, or at least alignment with social forces in play.

d. Change has costs; even if the existing system is wasteful, dysfunctional and cruelly indifferent to the pain it causes to some subset of the people in contact with an institution. The costs of changing that institution are unknown and unknowable and the argument against from fear of the unknown will always have weight with decisionmakers.

e. Institutional change always has winners and losers, and often the ones with the most to lose are close to but not at; the top of the hierarchy.

That's the short version. The long version involves quantitative social science and figuring out which nodes of the power network have the capability to drive change and which must be routed around to effect change and which ones are likely to be obstacles to change. Modeling the political economy of even a small institution is a considerable effort; and since it's hard to get people to precisely quantify their biases and predilections even if they are cooperative; a large amount of it is guesswork or inference from extremely thin sources ( like trying to divine someones political allegiances based on the corpus of emails that are sent to internal mailing lists ).

And since Psychohistory is bunk, there is no plausible way to predict second or third order effects ( the response to the response to the change you are trying to achieve if it were successful ).

There are only a few organizations that have the mathematical ability, computational power and access to significant communications between decision makers to even attempt to do this at scale. In fact I can only think of one that could attempt to do so at a global scale; and it's a TLA whose initials start with N, end with A, and have an S in the middle. But they wouldn't try to manipulate their host society like that; or would they?
My problem isn't with the obvious statement that everyone agrees with already (the drug war is ineffective), my problem is with the remaining paragraphs of bullshit in that post.
above, copperlight quotes about 3%-5% of metrics being system-level. A pretty small number would be process-level, I'm guessing, with the vast majority being app-level.

At Netflix-sized, the answer to pretty much any question is "a lot." :)
All jobs require some dealing with people and some dealing with things. Does that imply no difference between the fractions of the day that software engineers and social workers spend systematizing vs. empathizing?

But let's examine the point more closely: what is the name for the department that is explicitly in charge of managing human needs and social relationships at a large software development company? Who tends to prefer those jobs?
Unless you want to make games, then it's not such a bad idea. Get a few AAA titles under your belt and go hunt for the company that you want to work for.

Money isn't everything, some people just want to work in the gaming industry.

(edit: adding more)

That said, making any sort of racist joke (presuming it's properly racist) about the person you're ABOUT TO INTERVIEW and during the interview is just plain bad form. It's a good indicator that that company isn't the one you should be interested in anymore. My two cents.
Those names are from when the calendar only had 10 months. They tacked on two months at the beginning.

In other fun facts, March is so named because that's when you go to war.
It is extremely important in agriculture, which much of the world sustained, and sustains, itself on.
> the next one will be even worse than him

It seems to me as a distant observer that much of Putin's strength derives from a "cult of personality".[1] He's out there topless, catching fish. He's out there topless, swimming in a Siberian lake. He's out there on a tiger hunt. He's out there flying with cranes. He's out there dressed as an ice hockey player. He's out there doing judo moves. He's tough on terrorists. He's tough on breakaway republics. He stands up to "the Great Satan" (sorry, actually that's a line used by Iranian wackos). Etc.

This cult of personality takes many years, even decades to develop. Also these types of leaders hate up-and-coming competition. So there's no JV Putin out there, building up his own cult of personality. Medvedev probably doesn't have the charisma to take Putin's place. Plus, Putin was in what was probably a once-in-a-lifetime position to take over from Boris Yeltsin.

I don't think that any new leader could "be worse than" Putin without spending many years building up his own cult of personality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality#Russia
No, I mean, I wonder how Startpage got a deal from Google to proxy their results. What's in it for Google?
I made it as a reference for newer engineers to feel that they had the basics to be productive. When I started:
1. I found myself consulting 20 different resources, not 1-2
2. Was often unsure what commands were important
3. Had a hard time finding the most used examples (it often is passed down by word of mouth)

Clearly, it depends on context/audience (e.g., if you're a data scientist and work with CSVs a lot vs. a frontend eng) - but I wanted a good baseline (say for a strong startup eng) without getting too esoteric.

Not sure I've achieved that, but appreciate your further feedback or pull requests.
Just as a further set of links regarding subresource integrity in Chromium, you can try it today on Canary Chrome behind the "Enable experimental Web Platform features" flag. You can follow the feature's development here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=355467

In fact, we're having a rather heated discussion on the security-dev@chromium.org mailing list right now, if anyone wants to follow along: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/secur...
FYI, 日 is not "seven". It's "sun" or "day". It's almost like someone had a sense of humor when they named that day.

My interpretation has always been that 日 is meant to represent "zero", but I never put any thought into why they didn't just call it 星期零.
>Also, isn't regex-dna using libpcre?

It is in virtually every language on the shootout. That's one of the reasons the shootout is so terrible. A regex benchmark doesn't tell you much of anything unless the task itself is to write the regex engine.

>I love Haskell, but I still don't think it occupies the same space as Rust.

Neither do I. I am simply correcting this weird meme that "haskell is really slow and the shootout shows you have to write insane code to be fast" when the whole point of the shootout is to write the fastest code you can, the haskell code is pretty ordinary and still significantly better than most other languages, and an "idiomatic" version is not 10 times slower, it is 10% slower.
Genome by Matt Ridley.
There are many different companies. Very few hire regularly. In a company that is not hiring regularly the hiring process is not streamlined and the experience will be completely random.
Making SimCity 2000 Free Is Brilliant, and More Companies Should Do It
I've been in the games industry for almost 20 years and have never heard of anything like this happening. Coding tests are a fairly standard thing (good or bad) and they may have had their reasons for switching up the timing - would give Crytek the benefit of the doubt there.

However as someone who has been on the other end of those calls I am saddened that you were treated to such an unprofessional and disgusting display. When you contacted HR to reschedule did you mention how the interviewers treated you with such disdain? I would hope that their HR and legal departments take such behaviour very seriously (and HR probably have no idea what happened).

Personally I would take this experience as a bad sign for this particular application and not pursue the job any further (would you want to risk dealing with that every day). BUT you should make sure HR and senior management at Crytek are aware of what happened - it sounds as though US law may well have been broken (and probably european law also). Hopefully they will respond to you in a positive way.

Despite the games industry getting a bad rap don't let this put you off. The hit driven and creative nature of the industry does mean that sometimes the wrong people get put in positions of power and responsibility, but there are many well run companies out there where you'll be able to contribute to exciting products and work with skilled and passionate peers.

When you get into the interview process remember that you are interviewing them as much as they are you. If the job or company feels wrong you can and should respectfully pass on them and keep looking for the perfect match.

Be persistent, be professional, sell yourself and you'll do great!
Reminds me of the old ircii days. Very basic client, I like it!
If you perform certificate pinning, self-signed can be just as secure. I wish the message was slightly less scary, perhaps saying as SSH does, "you've never visited this site before, do you trust this certificate?"
There is quite a few books by that title, are you talking of the Peter Watts book?
I really wish we'd start calling it the music distribution industry instead of the music industry. Except for the musicians and the recording studios, it's never been about music. For everyone else, i.e. the overwhelming majority of those working in the industry, it's about sourcing a product an distributing it.

The "industry" is just a supply chain for auditory experiences, and when consumers became distributors as well, it cut out the supply chain folks. That is who is ultimately fighting back in all of this.
If your sole goal is to store information in the blockchain, why not use Namecoin? It's almost as secure as Bitcoin, and specializes in storing small bits of data in it's blockchain.
Back in the more sexist decades, having only the man working created a "one worker per household" policy, creating an even distribution of jobs. Today we have more double income households and more zero income households. The smaller labor pool also decreased the value of labor.

I'm not saying we should return to that at all, but I do think we should be looking at this (like most things) from a quality-of-life perspective. Now, working outside of the home gives many people fulfillment and helped reduce sexism, so I don't think one worker per household should be the goal.

I guess I don't know what the solution is before becoming a post-scarcity society.
It's not the industry: it's the country. I worked with German suppliers and I can tell you that German culture is generally permeated by a strong "superiority complex". If you don't come from a Northern European country or UK or USA people will generally be very suspicious about your honesty, integrity and skills. You will have to prove yourself on the field to gain trust. The strange thing is that I found the same attitude also in foreign people that stayed in Germany for a long time and considered themselves German as well. Of course this is a rough generalization and I found also a lot of nice people without any prejudices however expect to be
treated with distrust when you are in Germany.
Faire enough, maybe I should have chosen other words.
Great stonking wads of cash?
And you don't have to put up with "anchor speak". I don't know or where these people pick it up, but I wish they would talk like normal human beings.
Dear Hollywood
A not-so-subtle reminder to people who are "curious" and want to break things:

It's open source. Install it locally and break it to your heart's content. If you're flooding the public server, you're just ruining it for everyone else.

Yes, there are no spam controls. Yes, there are bugs. This thing was built in a couple of days on my free time, and here I am sharing it with you. Please find bugs locally, fix them, and send a pull request.

Enjoy. :)
Next time organize some microphone stands too :)
Don't forget London Oxford Airport!
Yes, St. Louis, a college grad..if you should demand at least 100k..and more if you're good. You should demand at least 90k in St. Louis right out of college. Demand is outrageous.
Senior devs in St. Louis should at least demand $75/hr..which ain't much on the coasts, but very good money here. You get it.
Some people believe that racial jokes make one a racist as much as cannibalism jokes make one a cannibal.
Huh. Understandable given the ongoing deprecation of the NPAPI, but still surprising to actually see it nonetheless. Wonder if they have any sort of alternative planned. A lot of applications out there that depend on this.

The in-house application I've worked on for the past few years started out using Google Earth, and I later added the ability to use the Cesium WebGL-based library. Wouldn't be surprised if this starts a mass migration over to Cesium.
CoolChip Technologies Is Redesigning the Humble Computer Fan
This is what's holding me back as well. I'm happy to put in whatever development effort is required to get everything on https, but many of our advertisers through various networks (including Google's) don't yet support it.
Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgacom
That quote is about memorizing a relatively arbitrary number (5,280 feet to a mile) which is only relevant when you have systems that can't be easily reasoned about.

This is precisely why the metric system, or uniform length of months, are useful.
Damage is worse than was previously announced:

"Publicly, Belgacom has played down the extent of the compromise, insisting that only its internal systems were breached and that customers’ data was never found to have been at risk. But secret GCHQ documents show the agency gained access far beyond Belgacom’s internal employee computers and was able to grab encrypted and unencrypted streams of private communications handled by the company.

The spy agency was able to obtain data that was being sent between Belgacom and other operators through encrypted tunnels known as “virtual private networks.” GCHQ boasted that its work to conduct “exploitation” against these private networks had been highly productive, noting “the huge extent of opportunity that this work has identified.” Another document, dated from late 2011, added: “Network Analysis on BELGACOM hugely successful enabling exploitation.”

GCHQ had accomplished its objective. The agency had severely compromised Belgacom’s systems and could intercept encrypted and unencrypted private data passing through its networks. The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013."
"星期日" is generally written Chinese, but in speech Chinese say "星期天" where 天 could mean "God" when the 7-day week was copied from "Christian" Europe. I just found http://www.cjvlang.com/Dow/dowchin.html to explain the history of Chinese and Japanese day names in detail.

I've noticed while living in China that, whereas Westerners like me virtually always remember what day of week it is but often forget the date in the month, Chinese are more likely to remember the day of the month and forget the day of the week.
I think bottled water is more convenient than that thing.
Agreed. I began to abandoned TV news entirely back in 2006, driven in part because of the (apparently universal) habit of leading and/or closing every story with a pun, idiom or catchphrase. At least when my eyes start to detect it in text, I can jump two lines down and spare myself the groan.
Facebook has an empathy team to teach employees that users are human beings
> There's no more good reason not to have HTTPS

Cost. Today I host my website for 6 cents a month as a static page on Amazon S3.

To go https, I'd have to first acquire a certificate (lucky that can be free and with Let's Encrypt will be). Then I have to find someone to host that certificate. I can pay someone hundreds to thousands of dollars in setup and monthly fees.

Or, the cheapest option I've found is to get a $6/mo VPS as a frontend, put nginx on it, and put my cert there. The problem is that costs 100 times as much as what I pay now, and I have to maintain a server and it's not served from multiple redundant servers like my site is now.

Or I can use Amazon's free SNI support, making it so that older browsers can't see my site and I have no way of blocking people from using http or redirecting them.

There is currently no good, cheap option to do SSL only that is viewable by everyone.

That's why I haven't switched yet.
Nice. Quickly reduces the news stream into relevant bullet points, easy navigation.
The discussion is about Google Chrome not working on Linux Mint. I said that Google Chrome works for me on Linux Mint. How is that not relevant?

I'm not saying there's no problem, I'm just offering my experience to demonstrate that perhaps the problem isn't just "Chrome runs poorly on Linux Mint", and to offer a counterexample to "Linux Mint is a buggy mess".
Compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. In the US, they would be breaking the law, and that's how these things get enforced.
Long overdue. :)
lol this is great. Running it on one of my monitors full screen for now :)
Don't have the study handy, but measures of working memory such as the OSPAN were found to predict proficiency in a programming course even better than an algebra test that participants also took.
SPYING of Citizens APPROVED & Encryption deemed a Threat by US CONGRESS Act
An even bigger example would be Apple.
Your quote doesn't prove your point that they're confusing correlation and causation. In fact, it even uses the word "correlation" in it.
Concealed shoes
What on earth do you see the benefit of this as?
>>… but it doesn't stop people from comparing languages based on the benchmarks game.<<

How could it? Some kind-of black magic?

The benchmarks game is just a resource. In the example you provided a discussion is taking place, and some opinions are being challenged.
Doesn't work with SSHInATab - I can connect (after adding a keypair) but the things I type don't show up :'(
A little warning: You should turn off SSH Agent Forwarding for this host. Otherwise it may use your SSH Keys to auth to other servers you connect to via SSH, e.g. GitHub git access etc.

You can either disable it for a particular session via -a argument:

$ ssh -a chat.shazow.net

Or permanently for this host in ~/.ssh/config:

Host chat.shazow.net
ForwardAgent no
All of this is predicated on the idea that programming is solving sexy math problems.

Reality is that most programming is taking bits out of one bucket, combining them, and dropping them into some other bucket. It's the digital equivalent of shovel work.
People still use Comic Sans... like, deliberately?
There is a Wikibook on Ada, although I cannot say anything about its quality.

Also, the Ada language standard and the rationale document are available for free. The standard is really more useful as a reference document, but it is surprisingly readable for a standards document.
Jesus Christ. If you're going to make a star wars joke at least fucking pay attention. Palpatine was emperor of the empire. The empire that replaced the galactic republic. The New Republic replaced the empire, after Palpatine died.

How about, Looks like Darth Vidra managed to take out the new republic for the emperor.

Or, Looks like the Hutt got their hands in the publishing business.

Or, New Republic veterans fail to embrace the dark side, reject the digital age.

If you're going to make a joke, at least read the fucking cliff notes about what you're making fun of. Even better relate the joke to the actual article, which you apparently didn't read. Puns are like Hacker 101, get better at it.
>Grid scale PV has to be continuously cleaned with deionized water because dust and greenery can dramatically decrease efficiency. If a leaf lands on a cell, energy builds up like a capacitor in the shadowed area, and it can eventually decimate the whole cell.

tl;dr the maintenance requirements of a solar panel are that it needs to be wiped down occasionally or it very gradually produces less power.

>On wind: the intermittency is overwhelming

Except in the places its been tried - e.g. Germany or Denmark or China. You can check out a live feed of how much energy is produced by wind energy in those countries and the intermittency is overwhelmingly underwhelming.
I think this can be great advice, but is dependent on your level of humility; it can also a recipe for a serious case of imposter syndrome
In short: This happens because __in general__ engineering, __on average__, german work is superior. Mind, this is not due to something inherent to germans, but due to our social environment. In germany you tend to get paid more* for your work and have more time to complete your work because it's expected that you deliver quality. Meanwhile outsourced work is paid little and expected quickly, so foreign workers (especially east-european) have little incentive or reason to improve their work quality and even if they care, have little opportunity to do so. (No time to actually read "Perl Best Practices" when some german manager wants the work done 'now'.) Added to that there's also the fact that higher education in germany is for all intents and purposes free, adding just another early education edge for people here.

* higher wages all around, illegal to work without health insurance, law-mandated minimum paid vacation (24 days), all (real) sick days fully paid
Spotify does collaborative playlists too. I made one, but I'm not sure how it works. Feel free to add/follow, and I'll follow you back or whatever so you can add to the playlist I linked below.

Sounds like it'd be fun if anyone wants to contribute. I love sharing music because I don't have the time to spend looking for new stuff like I used to. ^.^

http://open.spotify.com/user/121472720/playlist/5rNRmWIUZ7E4...
Exactly. The percent of everyone in America aged 25-54 in the workforce has dropped since 2000, not just women, which is the crux of the article. (http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet)

The article is titled:

> Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind

But should be titled:

> Why Americans Are Leaving Jobs Behind

And then it could be a single sentence article:

> Because the economy sucks.