skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from 2012. There's a bunch of HN comments about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188 .

This feels like a Baby Boomer berating Gen X for being slackers. But the author is Gen X, so that's not, strictly speaking, true. It's an early Gen-Xer berating the late Gen-Xers, sorry, wunderkinder. Except even then, it's not.

The author didn't start to program until 1989. The autoconf author (David Mackenzie) chose m4 in 1991, and was programming since at least 1987, says https://ffkp.se/2012/04/13/old-interviews-david-mackenzie/ . Thus, choosing M4 isn't one of the dot-com era disasters.

It's a disaster, certainly. BTW, M4 was chosen because:

> I [David Mackenzie] considered using Perl to generate my style of configure scripts, but decided that M4 was better suited to the job of simple textual substitutions: it gets in the way less, because output is implicit. Plus, everyone already has it. (Initially I didn't rely on the GNU extensions to M4.) Also, some of my friends at the University of Maryland had recently been putting M4 front ends on several programs, including tvtwm, and I was interested in trying out a new language. - https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.67/h...

Portable tools got people (like me) to switch to GNU make, and GNU awk, and other GNU tools in order to get away from the non-portability of OS vendor tools. Which made it much easier to switch Linux with a GNU user space. Remember, GNU's Not Unix :)

"carefully designed cathedrals of the pre-dot-com years"

Romanticism for days of yore. "make" isn't a cathedral. Nor is "m4".
Salesforce Service Cloud Review
Agreed, while they have some excellent services
some other products lose the usability/practicality game . e.g: video transcoding service compared to zen coder, or cloud front service compared to cloud flare.
Show HN: Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present)
> Your opinion of how much value a software developer creates is irrelevant, except to the extent that it influences wages you are willing to pay to others, or wages you are willing to accept, and only that matters to the extent that there is demand for you and/or how many developers you can hire.

Or to the extent that the capitalist class can collude (with the help of useful idiots who have bought into the narrative) to avoid paying a wage representative of the value created.

Markets with imperfect information are set by the ones with the most information, and that's not the worker. The results are unsurprising.

> In the real world, median starting salary doesn't even break 70K, much less 85K, according to salary.com, even in silicon valley.

That's great. I live in the real world and I made $85K coming out of college, in Boston, at a decent-not-great company in 2010.

In this industry, "median" is fairly terrible.
I misunderstood. I thought your objective was to produce free as in speech and beer software.

One reason cross platform tools often require payment is that Apple's terms for the iOS app store require the use of Apple products for development. Part of the cost goes to maintaining remote services on Macs to comply with those terms.

The alternative for iOS development is to purchase, rent, or borrow a Mac and develop in Objective-C, Swift, or JavaScript. That's probably less optimized for type safety, cost, and cross platform deployment.

If you drop iOS, the JVM and Java is an alternative.
> Most good people I interviewed so far had something on there from pet projects.

So the good people who didn't are just SOL? I say this as someone who actually has crap published, albeit nothing complicated.

Furthermore, The "Github is your resume" crowd always claims they want to use it to see examples of how you code, meaning at least some of whatever you put there is supposed to be production-quality and representative of what you do or would write at your day job. They have a point, because otherwise Github is basically useless as a screening tool.
Eternalism
OSF/1 was always built on top of Mach.
Any government agency that wants to trash-talk Tor is already doing so, and already has plenty of ammo for the propaganda machine. They're not going to wait for some Mozilla employee to download a movie torrent, especially since that wouldn't actually change anything.
it's kind of hard to tell with that one since it has a rough style, but that splintering is actually a part of the design (if you're talking about the vineyard one)
.NET fits his entire criteria. Memory safe, type safety, open source, runs on all desktop and mobile platforms, available in either OOP (C#) or functional (F#) and has fantastic tooling.
> ah so your the one fumbling with a credit card and holding every one up at the bar when I want to get a round in.

Here in Canada I just tap my card on the machine and walk away - much, much faster than trying to count out the right amount of cash, then waiting for change, etc.

> and DONT! get me started on NFC credit cards that can be debited with NO interactinon

Let me guess, you also didn't like when it was possible to make CC payments over the phone with no signature (!)

And you also didn't like when it was possible to make CC payments over the web with no signature AND no actual human (!!!!!!)

Things progress, get with the program.
> With the exception of end-to-end encryption

And therein lies one of the big issues. As Apple is discovering, implementing good practice security with end-to-end encryption or similar untrusted-middleman setups is being made illegal.
My current one poked through it, but that was three years ago, when just having Github repos at all still had some signalling value.
Chimps and gorillas desperately need Ebola vaccine
I know at least two Iranian women who came to Canada on education Visa's in the last decade and have refused to go back, even to visit their families. I worked with one of them from when she first arrived. Initially she wore a head-scarf and was extremely nervous working with and even just talking to men. She gradually became more relaxed and one day the scarf went in the bin. The other considered her relatives "dead to her" from the moment I met her. Not surprisingly, she was not from Tehran.

Studying abroad is an important thing for Iranian students, but this presents some huge problems for a theocracy where sexual discrimination is so firmly entrenched. For every student that leaves and never returns, there are probably several who go home and try to change things for the better.

The fact that Iran allows students, especially female students, to study abroad suggests that things are not as dire there as one would expect from consuming U.S. media. The U.S.'s policy of confrontation with Iran's leaders is, strangely enough, probably one of the few things keeping them afloat. Fear of foreign powers is a powerful tool, as anyone in the U.S. should now know. The best course of action over the next few years may be to reduce the level of confrontation with Iran's leaders and let the Iranian people, who are increasingly at odds with their country's policies, take care of their leaders on their own.
paswordz sites will have a field day.

->access any chineese bank account here:
one click to transfer funds.
Oldest modern human remains outside Africa found in Israel
>Isn't Iran still backing numerous terrorist organizations, including Hezbolla

source?

>while proclaiming it their goal to essentially kill everyone in Israel?

source?
Hey Andrew, this https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-groups/id931735837?... app is build on top of ReactJs?
I heard the largest landholder, once you strip back the entities, is actually the Church of Scientology. Maybe that was just hearsay, or only visible in Hollywood, where it's almost certainly true.
Dell offers new Ubuntu Linux workstation laptop
That equation is rather unnecessary showing off, I don't see it being used later on, and the author doesn't bother trying to explain it. It looks like (going by the GM/r) that it might be the gravitational potential for a mass distribution described by a bunch of spherical harmonics.
Care to share your app?
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KPIs for APIs: Measuring API Success, Real World Examples
It certainly matters very much. I didn't mean to imply 'none of this matters'; rather, that the internet is anti-fragile and will continue to service humanity in more-or-less the same way regardless of any law (at least that is even remotely likely to be passed).

Besides, unless I am mistaken (I don't follow it that closely) there is not any whisperings of making things like VPNs or adhoc networks illegal. It is primarily about the "right" of the telcos to favor certain traffic, by increased speed or traffic not counting toward your quota for some sites/services.
But how do I remove non-visible elements from the render-tree? Is this something I have to do explicitly like I would have to do without React? Or does React somehow take care of this for me?
I forgot about F# on Mono. It's probably a bigger leap from C++ though.
No plans to make it non wi-fi.
The antenna is inside the main enclosure, together with ambient sensors and power supply, outside of the bed.
A Bug in the System
I believe AsyncDisplayKit is a dependency of the iOS plugin for React Native.
They're also the generation whose reforms were followed by several decades of the most incredible economic and technological growth in the history of the human race.

Everything they didn't wasn't perfect and it all didn't turn out well, but overall it was better than the return to feudalism that's crept forward since the Reagan revolution. Deregulating the telecoms will create a tiered Internet where telecoms shake down startups for payola and whole realms of innovation are just plain closed to new entrants. The regulations the telecoms will put in place will be every bit as onerous as the government regulations you fear.

It'd be simpler if the telecoms weren't the recipients of substantial public money and land rights, not to mention state-enforced monopolies. These are not purely private companies running with private resources in an open market, so we can't treat them like they are.
Advisor Pad
A lot of ISIS recruitment is through propaganda videos, and a video on Youtube has a larger reach then one hosted on a more obscure site. It is considered a major issue here in the UK, although it is often overblown like such things always are.
I can't find any information on browser compatability - does anyone know?
Ahh, it's just that "view all" doesn't work for me. I could page through each one though.
Hey there! We're very close to Edison support, hopefully by end of Feb.
It's just a copy-paste of the equation from the Wikipedia article on the geoid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid#Spherical_harmonics_repre...
>It might be nice to live in a world in which poets had the audiences of pundits. And maybe the making of carrot carnations should be an Olympic event.

I take the opposite message from all of this. It is nice to live in a world with such absurd levels of human productivity that people have the education and time for half a dozen "frivolous" hobbies. As a middle class person, I can learn carrot carving and wood turning and painting without expecting any financial gain, then stop at a free local art gallery on my way to hear some free live music at a bar.

Maybe the author thinks that the past was the time of greatness in the arts because the only people who could afford to participate in the arts were great.
Almost never. The part about temporary marriage most westerners seem to oblivious about is after the end of marriage (for any reason: death, divorce or end of the term of temporary marriage), the woman cannot get married for 4 months and 10 days. It makes "legal" prostitution impractical, as the cost for a "15 minute" sexual encounter should be high enough to cover 4+ months of unemployment.

That and the fact that it's the most socially unacceptable thing around here.

There is only one situation where temporary marriage is acceptable, maybe even expected. Because of the economic realities of the recent decades, young people may stay engaged for more than a year before they can afford to get married. So, many people "temporarily marry" their fiancé/fiancée upon engagement in order to be able to hang out without offending social and religious values.

(Even with temporary marriage, it's still taboo for engaged people to move in together or have sex, but this is different from family to family and from town to town.)
Ask HN: Starting a company for new app
What is the best thing to do before you release an app as an individual developer? Should I incorporate or is it best to release it as an individual and then transfer rights afterwards?
Testing Rust's IO Speed
It requires me to answer the phone.
There's never really been any money in poetry for people who were just published poets. "Great" poets were all subsidized by patrons, worked in odd jobs or other mediums, or died in penury (sometimes all three)! The same is true now as it was 200 years ago.
Yes, this is not at all a surprise. And yes, many nations are pursuing similar initiatives, to defend against Five Eyes snooping.

What varies more is the emphasis (in public, at least) on backdoors. China, Russia and the UK want them. The rest of the EU and the US have been conflicted.

Recall that US TLAs have been pushing for this since strong encryption became widely available in the 80s. And with all the FUD about cyberwar, they'll probably get their wishes granted soon.
Does it? I only see talk of accelerated flow on top of the wing leading to reduced pressure, nothing about arriving at the trailing edge at a certain time.
IBM Workers Report Job Cuts Are Underway
Isn't the SSD replaceable on all of them?
Sure, there are trade offs, but do you think built in Ethernet is important enough to warrant making a laptop thicker, given the WiFi speeds we have today?
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> Forbearance is a legal minefield.

Its really not.

> This is common sense: an agency can't just rewrite a statute by ignoring the 90% of it that it doesn't like.

Of course the agency can't "rewrite" or "ignore" the statute -- but forbearance itself is a mandate in the statute, which requires that the FCC "shall forbear from applying any regulation or any provision of this chapter" if the Commission determines that doing so is in the public interests and that enforcement of the provision at issue is not necessary either "to ensure that the charges, practices, classifications, or regulations by, for, or in connection with that telecommunications carrier or telecommunications service are just and reasonable and are not unjustly or unreasonably discriminatory" or "for the protection of consumers". 47 USC chap. 5, subch. 1, sec. 160(a) -- "Title II" of the Communication Act of 1934 is 47 USC chap. 5, subch. 2.
Was the update server side or should I wait for updated extensions for Firefox / Chrome?
I would still add another challenge for analogue: power harvesting. That's an environment where the amount of energy you can collect is so low that you can't simply afford to run a uC. However, you still need to manage that negligible amount of energy, because in the long run, it builds up, and then awesome stuff happens (switching a uC on, for example).

I bought the 2nd edition 15 years ago, I loved it, and I now cherish that useful book in my bookcase.
For those interested in the 2006-Libertarian-Loving-County story, I found the New York Times story about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/national/25loving.html?pag...

I really wonder what those folks are up to today.
Health insurance nightmare
Architecture and Civil Ingeniery. Try to stick to cathedrals and transoceanic channels (like the Panama channel). They tend to last for centuries and get well maintained. Just try to avoid the places where a big war is likely.

If you choose for example math, if you are very lucky you will get your own course in a math degree, like Fourier or Galois. The problem is that "your" course will cover not only your work but also the improvements of the next generations, and your exact work will be only a small part. Another problem is that there are only about 10 places for a full math course with a mathematician name, so it's a very difficult to enter this club. (It's easier than building a transoceanic channel, but much difficult than building a cathedral.)
The tension has always been there. The first university in Europe was Bologna's, which was chiefly known for the study of law.

As for 1967 and after, I would complain less that we are dropping liberal arts departments, though I'd rather not see them dropped, than that the cost of studying anything at a state school has greatly outrun inflation. It costs a hell of a lot to study philosophy, but it also costs a hell of a lot to study electrical engineering.
Servers should get away from rsa based key exchange once a user has a password.

client and server then have a shared secret, good IV and a strong cipher using that shared key, a strong IV and no more need for CA's and public keys can be nothing more than securely share the IV.
This is already happening, on a large scale. There are numerous posts about this if you are looking for further information.
The difference with irregular upgrades is that it's clear when the breakage is likely to occur and you can plan around that.
With that kind of money you could invent the future, or one small piece of it. Microsoft's HoloLens was a nice surprise, for example. Apple should take a big jump in something.
Yeah, Erdnase is the last thing I'd recommend to someone who wants to learn card work -- that is, I'd recommend it, but after all my other recommendations :) Erdnase was revolutionary as a catalog of slights and subtleties that existed -- but if you want to learn to perform them, all you'll get from Erdnase is frustration.
Islam is a bit more complex than "Iran supports Hezbollah, so they support terrorists". Look into the Sunni vs Shia split some time and then look at which organizations and countries identify with which side of that split.

Saudi Arabia is far worse than Iran. While Iran's strict theocracy is slowly falling out of favour with its population, Saudi Arabia is quite effective at perpetuating its theocracy thanks to its wealth and international relationships.

It's not just that Saudi Arabia does some bad stuff. It does the same bad stuff as Iran -- and worse -- yet we (and in this case I mean us, Germany, in particular) sell weapons and military equipment to the Saudis and buy their oil while sanctioning Iran.

I'm an atheist, so I'm strictly opposed to any form of religious influence on politics (be it Muslim, Christian or Jewish). But you have to acknowledge that Iran is taking a turn towards the better while Saudi Arabia sits comfortably in a Bronze Age form of government and legal system (with full access to the Post-Space Age technology we are selling them).
Masons
Please don't submit articles behind paywall.

The submitted URL results in the redirect to https://www.linkedin.com/start/join?trk=login_reg_redirect&s..., without any actual content being shown.
I don't believe a bill is possible at this point. Title II (read it, it has a lot of baggage) is feared for a variety of reasons and "Net Neutrality" as a term is so confused that I heard someone argue with a straight face that it would be the Fairness Doctrine[1] for the internet.

I would really like a simple technical ruling put into law that talks about peering and traffic shaping. I really wish someone with a bit of legal and technical background wrote a document that could be sent to our Congress People.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine I think they were in favor of it. They did seem to be confusing equal time with it. I was flipping channels on SirusXM while driving and couldn't stand more than 5 minutes of it. You shouldn't drive angry and I think they had seen one too many hacker movies.
Because when your code changes DOM, browser does not know whether you are going to stop at it for now, or do something else, so it has to re-render. In React you explicitly request application of virtual DOM changes to real DOM once you are done.
You don't have to have a tech co-founder to build a startup if you can build the MVP yourself. I'd go as far as to say that if the technology component of your MVP is just a Wordpress site, then you probably shouldn't have a tech co-founder.
ATV5: putting the brakes on the ISS
How Thalamus Gobbled Up the Biggest Names in Advertising Within a Year
Netflix.
Do a correlation between IP and watched shows.
Flag people who go for "extreme" shows such as say Frontline: United States' Secretes as "dissidents" and apply "appropriate" measures.
> Title II may even be what's necessary to upend a stagnated telecom market. But it's certainly not a good, modern regulatory infrastructure.

"Good" is subjective, and "modern" potentially just as subjective, and both are quite vague. What particularly are your problems with Title II in the specific use? Not "what are problems that conservatives associate with other regulations that have some temporal nexus to Title II", which you've provided an inordinate amount of unnecessary external references to, but what is the specific criticism of the thing actually under discussion in the specific context for which it is being discussed?
He Wefunder guys, thanks for all of this!

Given that this was supposed to happen over a year ago, how realistic is "In October 2015, the Law changes: Startup investing won't be just for the wealthy"[0]. Specifically the October 2015 part?

[0] - https://wefunder.com/jobs
NAT traversal is a security breach that became a de-facto standard and is part of the SIP, STUN, and IPSec (extended) standards among other RFCs. It exists because NAT itself is an abomination.
I don't understand why jobs and curiosity have to be so starkly opposed.

I studied mechanical engineering, and I consider that a degree for anyone who's curious about the world. If you want to have a strong foundation to peel back the layers of existence, you really can't do much better.

I think one thing we sorely lack in modern education is a strong minor system. Students could easily get their well-roundedness by obtaining minors in subjects that interest them, and if the subjects are quite different from a job getting major, then all the better. I believe Paul Graham would say this is how startups happen.

Furthermore we need a strong system of technical minors as well. If a bootcamp in SF can get you an entry-level dev job, then why shouldn't a minor in CS train you as a web developer? Or why couldn't a sociologist minor in UX?
But, structs pay a very small runtime penalty, if at all, right?

The verbosity will be mostly ameliorated with primary constructor. I propose going further by allowing programmers to annotate constructors so that they can be used as user-defined conversion operators.

Thus, the aforementioned code could become something like:

public struct GreaterThanFive implicit (int n)
{
readonly int n = n;

if(n <= 5)
throw new ArgumentException("n must be greater than 5");

}
This is huge. There are so many approaches to cross platform mobile development, yet none of them really make it easy to integrate a full stack web platform. This is one step closer.
Signals intelligence agencies have to deal with enough data as it is. They don't have the resources to care about piracy or even the vast majority of drug offenses.
What Facebook Addiction Looks Like in the Brain