skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am deaf to high frequencies in my left ear as a result of an ear infection when I was a toddler.

Once this was discovered, I had a hearing test once per month for several years. This was always done by wearing headphones, then listening for tones of various frequencies. When I heard a "beep", I pressed a button. At times, white noise was included.

However my experience these days is that I can hear music just fine in both ears, but I cannot understand human speech in my left ear. It's not usually a problem unless you whisper into it - during normal conversation I can hear you just fine in my right.

This suggests to me that the way I was tested was not completely effective. Perhaps a better way would be to play recordings of speech and other sounds - not just fixed-frequency beeps - into my ears, to determine whether I understood them.

Consider that neurologist Oliver Sacks writes of people who hear just fine, but cannot understand speech at all. They can read and write, they can hear anything else, but their brains are unable to transform the sound into perceivable words. One such patient described speech as sounding "like the wind in the leaves of trees".
> I'm not sure... Probably not directly (if you could even quantify it). However, lemme ask you this: Do sick people pay more taxes because they use more healthcare? I hope not.

A) Sick people are not making a deliberate lifestyle choice.

B) Public healthcare is something provided by public decision-making and majority vote.

Therefore, frankly, if the public decides it yields greater public benefit to pour taxes taken from urban areas into improving urban areas rather than into subsidizing the suburban minority of the population, that is our democratic right.

It's also important to note the actual population shift taking place: it used to be in the USA that most people lived in either rural areas, outer suburbs, or inner suburbs, with the center cities containing only a minority of the population and lacking a plurality of economic productivity. Everything was genuinely more spread out.

Nowadays, things have developed away from the post-WW2 pattern and back towards the pattern of the Industrial Revolution: heavy urbanization of the population and the economy. Most people now live in either the core cities or the inner suburbs, and so does most of the economic value-creation.

Which means that there's an entirely legitimate reason why urban issues are back on the agenda!

Now, the stick up our asses we city-dwelling types have got, is that thanks to various aspects of the districting systems, our vote counts for less than that of a rural-dweller in deciding what to do with our own damn tax money.
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The paper (and subsequent book) is not about abolishing parking. It's about abolishing parking minimums and time based (free) parking. The first removes the dead-weight loss of regulated (over) provision of parking spaces for both retail and residential developments. The second is about allowing parking to function in an economic market where you can exchange the time you spend circling around trying to find a park for the (lower) cost of paying for the privilege of parking somewhere convenient for you. Hence the title "the high price of free parking".
Have you read "It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome"?

Even if it is Carpal Tunnel in your case, "It's Not..." is a superb book on RSIs and RSI-like conditions: well worth picking up.
A common problem I find is that companies that have open positions either do not advertise those positions on their own websites, or even if they do, they don't link to those pages from anywhere else.

Lots of companies have "Careers" or "Jobs" links, typically in the footers of their pages but often at the top. They're real easy to find.

But some companies have no such links.

I speculate that this is because the HR department is granted access to a specific directory on the corporate webserver, but somehow it never occurs to them to ask the webmaster for a link from the homepage.

Another problem is that the URLs are sometimes hard to figure out. If I speculate there might be a Jobs page, I can often guess at the URL:

http://www.example.com/jobs
http://www.example.com/careers
http://www.example.com/careers.aspx

But sometimes it's something really obscure like:

http://www.example.com/corporate/join-our-team.html
Keep in mind this is just one news story - I think it would be worthwhile to see what the actual facts of the case are as it develops.
You're right, I'd missed that - I imagine that would probably explain the confusion in the parent post then!
Job markets, even in tech, are quite tied to geography. From which area and perspective are you writing this? Knowing might help us discuss this subject better.

I live in the Netherlands, where programmer salaries are way lower than in silicon valley, but I don't know of a single half-competent programmer without a job.

All the hiring managers are complaining here just as you describe, but the net effect is that everybody gets hired. Even the mediocre folks (note: I'm not referring to skill as in "decades of Swift experience" but "competent engineer, quick learner").

Maybe the exploded salaries of the bay area take away any financial space an employer might have for on-the-job training? People still have to create more value than they cost.

(note, I hope this is not the case, because I think programmers are grossly underpaid here in the Netherlands)
Great perspective! I don't think 're-implement the world in java' was the point of the blog post. I do follow you're line of thought however. Vala is a Java like language (in the same way C# has a subset that is Java like) that is AOT compiled by translating to C.

Interestingly, it has a few departures that make it very un Java like. For example, Vala uses reference counting for memory management and provides a 'weak' keyword, passing reference cycle management off to the programmer. And voila, no gc (edit: or rather no centuries level of effort garbage collector implementation, with associated performance indeterminism). Another departure is no dynamic class loading.

Point: I use Vala as a proof by example there's a language out there that's statically typed, highly productive, GC'd, and AOT friendly, for which some formulation of "X Everywhere" is not far fetched.
I agree. It's a fun quote and has humor value, but it's the exact wrong stance to take when thinking about security.

Stupidity is one of the most commonly used disguises for malice.
I'm going to write an article Real Soon Now about how to choose a name for your company, a domain for your site, as well as a name for your product or service.

Among my key points is that it should be easy for most people to correctly spell the names after hearing them spoken over a telephone.

I used to operate a consulting business under a catchy name but it was quite vexing that no one could ever figure out how to spell it - I always had to spell it out explicitly to people when we would speak on the phone.

Another problem is that it may not be apparent how to correctly pronounce it, given the way it is spelled.

Finally, hardly anyone understands trademark law. I'm no attorney but I do know how to read. If you don't manage your trademark correctly, it could impact your sales, you could get sued for infringing someone else's trademark, you could cave to the threat of such a suit even if you really aren't infringing, or you could even lose your trademark.
The world is cracking down on the Internet, and each country is bringing its own tool set to achieving that end.

That Russia, Thailand, China, The Middle East, etc use the rule of law isn't suprising. It's how these countries work. They have strong leaderships, and those leaderships do the enforcing.

Western "liberal" nations are ruled via the invisible hand of capitalism, and that censorship is coming accidentally from these organisations. A popular website switches off comments. Social Media Companies pull users away from distributed systems like email and IRC to heavily managed systems like Twitter and Facebook. Seemingly unrelated light-touch legislation (e.g. copyright) is used by individuals and corporates to ensure transgressive individuals are denied a voice and are threatened with job losses and other punishments.

"The world cracks down on the Internet". I'd be a fool to assume that this is happening everywhere else but where I am.
> you should be training like you are gonna have to fight

Maybe I misunderstood what you mean, but that sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do. When you practice advancing under direct/indirect fire, do you actually have machine guns/mortars firing towards you? I would guess that you don't (we certainly never did in the Finnish Defence Forces).
I'm not an expert, but I was during last 3 years editing the voice for videos to upload them to YouTube.

The best improvement was to buy a headset with microphone (not very expensive one ~$30). It killed most of the background sound and the mmmm. Also the volume voice is more stable, because the distance to the mouth is constant. I don't know if this is applicable to your problem, but a little hardware helps a lot.
Where did you post them? Under what name?
The benchmarks could be misleading, given that it stores a reference to the element and attrs - I'd expect it to possibly mess with the garbage collecting, thus not giving you a true benchmark.
This reminds me of polygen[1,2] that I discovered among the many programs packaged for Debian... but looks at least in some ways friendlier. Is it very limited/tailored/specialized for English?

[1] https://github.com/Enucatl/polygen
[2} https://www.polygen.org [Mostly in Italian. I seem to recall there was a section in English ... but if there is I can't find any more]
>Maybe the exploded salaries of the bay area take away any financial space an employer might have for on-the-job training?

It's not like employers are keen on training anywhere else in the US either.

American business executives have become culturally short-sighted and the unwillingness to train is part of that.
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Very cool.

I just wish I wasn't so certain that the developers of spamming tools will rip this off with shrieks of glee and use it to stuff our inboxes with yet more junk.
You might also like this polygen grammar:

http://www.polygen.org/it/grammatiche/musica_cinema_e_spetta...
Wouldn't it be better to simply do

"$@" "${FD[@]" &

And also remember to

alias ds='ds '

to enable alias expansion.
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>Also, deleting your account is really difficult with Uber.

Not for me, there was a form on the site I think or an email, email reply from the local Uber rep (Ireland, we are small enough to have "a" local Uber rep) asking why I was leaving which gave me a chance to explain my reasons and then we were done.

We're lucky enough here that Uber is the newcomer, Hailo pretty dominant/less creepy.
Hey,

If you have any questions about the post or series, i'll be glad to to answer.

I'm still looking for how i can evolve this further, If anyone has done any research into this himself and found a way around one of the problems that exist, i would be very interested to hear!.

Thanks!.
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OT but: "The site is using outdated security settings that may prevent future versions of Chrome from being able to safely access it"
Neither here nor there regarding compensation, but if I were to describe this for the purpose of e.g. a resume, I do not think "I demonstrated a vulnerability allowing one to root a facebook.com server and thereby compromise any Facebook user" is an exaggeration. You're most of the way there, and while developing it further might be a fun exercise, from their perspective it should be a mostly forgone conclusion that you'll win.
>among the four big banks, which provides stability

I suppose "stability" is one upside of a government supported quasi-monopoly. Australian banks are an absolute disgrace. I say that as an Australian who returns home from time to time. Charging $2.50 to withdraw money from an ATM?? They get away with gouging customers in ways that simply couldn't happen in the UK or US.
Previous meta-story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711284
> but I have a Masters degree in science, excellent academic results, IQ well above average and still believe in God

Academic results and IQ are mostly about solving puzzles quickly, though. That's what most exams are about after all [0]. But the problem we are talking about is different, since you have as much time to reason about it as you want and IQ and grades probably don't affect what you finally arrive at very much. What matters is thinking deeply and honestly.

[0] Depending on your field of study, memorization may also play a role.
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would be cool to be able to upload your own photos / pull in from instagram, etc.

you might make a little coin by piping the finished images to a t-shirt or skin printer.

we'd be happy to give a free CreditCover, credit card skin to any one who wants one using your imagery. We have a standing $10 gift code for hacker news users (hackernews) but we could make something specific for you if you like.

CreditCovers.com/DIY

cool!
If Secret just rebranded with the name Trololo I'm sure downloads and usage would take off again.
Should we ban TOR then? What about VPNs? Anonymity all together? What's the line?
This is how you tell what kind of guy Woz really is:

Around the time of the Apple IPO in late 1980, Woz decided to give away stock options to the earliest Apple employees who had never gotten options -- including Randy Wigginton, Chris Espinosa, Kottke, and Fernandez. He gave them each a stock grant out of his own chunk of shares. It was a generous move, especially towards Wozniak's old neighbor and friend with whom he'd built his first computer and helped become Apple's first employee.
Derrida had some actual things to say.

But most of the valuable ideas he had to express had already been explored by Heidegger in a more complete way, or by Wittgenstein in an uncannily clear, concise and orderly way.
Aren't you supposed to use arc4random once to seed a high-quality pseudorandom generator? From what I understand, seeding a high-quality PRNG with good source of randomness is really all you need.
I've never known a language with so much discussion on why what you are doing isn't idiomatic as Go.

I'm enjoying using Go for the few small services I'm using it for but it seems that a language which has to constantly fight it's users to reinforce what it considers idiomatic has some core issues.
> [...] not being able to comment any current affairs can make some conversations quite awkward

Not really.

I don't watch TV since 1998. I also don't read newspapers (exceptions are sometimes made for weekly magazines like Time, Economist, Spiegel or New Yorker and monthly magazines of all sorts) and don't listen to radio (for example, I always drive in silence -- it's not boring as many people tend to think). I also don't read general-purpose news web sites, like BBC.

Despite all that I have never felt awkward talking to anybody about current affairs. Someone expresses to you their dissatisfaction with some politician or excitement about some celebrity you never heard of (I was in this situation trillion times)? Ask them who is he or she and why they cause this dissatisfaction, which party they belong to, or whether they have previous history of screwing things up.

People will gladly explain this all to you if it really matters to them. Your desire to listen will remove all awkwardness.
I'm more suprised at all the useless users still present.
I have been visited by deceased relatives a few times in my dreams and for me these experiences were convincing enough to serve as evidence that death is not the end of things. Of course this is just personal, but it's good enough for me.
I live in Vancouver, Washington (the "Original Vancouver", not Vancouver, British Columbia), but am looking for work in Portland, Oregon.

However I have also lived in Vancouver BC, Truro, Nova Scotia, St. John's, Newfoundland, Santa Cruz, California and Silicon Valley.

The claim that there was a tech worker shortage started to appear during the dot-com boom, but never really went away, even when the economy contracted during the dot-com crash and later, the subprime meltdown.

I have worked for a few companies that were happy to train. That typically happened when engineers who were experienced with the technology were not to be found at all. For example I was taught Python by a shop that was all-Python, quite a long time before it became popular. I was also taught Smalltalk at another shop, but that came after Smalltalk had declined in popularity.

In both cases the expense of the training was really quite minimal: I was given my regular pay to read a book, then write some practice code, for about a week, after which I was able to code productively, then was as productive as the rest of the staff after a month or so.
The focus on PlayStation is probably because the author saw it at a PlayStation event.
Sure, you can make that judgement for yourself, if under the pressure from your self-preservation instinct. The antianalist argument of the kind summarized in [1] concerns not your continued living but whether you should bring new beings into the world. One can't ask one's unborn children to consent to be born and hence to suffer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism, "Moral Responsibility".
It's true if a reasonable part of data can fit into cache. What if you've got a 2 billion subset of 64-bit integers?
Relatively moderate nit: Using the WhatsApp founders is a very poor example. If you look at their resumes (VP of Eng at Yahoo for Brian, presumably a very senior/architect-level engineering role for Jan), I have no doubt they were interviewing at Facebook for architect/engineering director-level roles. Whether or not you get hired at that level obviously depends on much more than baseline coding competency.
It only concerns automatic objects though, right?
The new planes - they can't look out the window to figure who to shoot so well. Too high and fast.

Drones - limited arms. Though they may be the future when they beef them up a bit.

Apaches - the enemy machine guns them. Not protected enough.

Here's a story from 2007 when the high end B1 screwed up, the Apaches were challenged and the A-10 helped save things:

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/a-10s-saved-the-day-in-botc...
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Its good that governments fear their people. The issue at hand is far too many in Western nations fail to see the threat to their intellectual freedom, if not personal freedom.
The Mr. Trololo Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM
this is especially true for everything related to error handling. I've never had to deal with a java codebase where exception were causing problems, but golang made me feel worrying about it from day 1. I really think they made the language a little bit too small.
When using WebRTC then data is already encrypted on the transport layer [1], otherwise use SSL. EME is a rebranding of DRM and nothing else.

[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-avt-dtls-srtp-07
651 votes 7hs ago, not in front page on a Sunday.

HN moderation or paid voting rings flagging stories are hurting the site's credibility.
I've made a similar project about two years ago in Python, called Choice Words [1]. I've had some really interesting results by encoding the grammar of SVG, which generates procedural drawings (the GitHub project shows an example).

My project was based on the Kant Generator, an example project from Dive Into Python[2].

[1] https://github.com/fdb/choicewords

[2] http://www.diveintopython.net/
yea was just looking for an opinion - these guys know their stuff, i never get to leave the frontend so idk which mq to choose ;)
It's always a nervy moment for mission operations to re-establish contact with a hibernating spacecraft. Much relief and much to look forward to, as the fastest object in the Solar System speeds towards Pluto. Pluto is a fascinating system and with the discovery of additional moons over the last few years, there's clearly a lot to be discovered.
I think that's mistaken. You can invest the not-yet-taxed amount, but eventually you're gonna pay the tax. The real advantage (apart from the lower rate) is that the taxes are deferred.
The moderation was explained quite transparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711660
Here is an alternate point of view. I recently went through the process of hiring a programmer. I probably interviewed 30 candidates. All of them had the required knowledge and experience listed on their CV's. Guess how many could write a simple program in the language of their choice? Exactly 3.

Yes, there are many people with the right credentials. In my own personal experience, many of these people can't do the work. They either don't really enjoy what they do or they simply aren't smart enough. They got into this field because of the money.
http://www.stashboard.org/ is open source.
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> Japan doesn't allow stock buybacks for most types of corporations.

Where did you get this? Stock buybacks are commonplace in Japan. Try and search "ＴＯＢ 株" or "株式公開買い付け" on Google News (use Google Translate if you can't read Japanese).

Non-dividend-paying stocks are much less common than in the US, but that doesn't mean that buybacks aren't allowed.
Marginal utility except in the crucial battle for sir space control. Without fighters, all other airplanes and surface targets are sitting ducks.
If this is an invitation to debate whether there is a god (or even if the observable universe is all that exists), I'm not taking the bait. My point was about personal faith not being incompatible with most definitions of rationality.

You could of course define rationality to be only caring about what is observable, measurable and understandable with the currently accepted models, but the history of science would have been very boring if everyone always took that stance. You're free to do whatever you want with this, of course, my point is that it's a personal choice which is not directly related to whether you are a rational being. ("Thinking deeply and honestly" sounds like intellectual hand-waving to me, but I suppose a lot of people would agree with it).