skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I'd rather get punched in the face then lose a job I worked really hard to get. So why do we consider the latter not as bad?

This is strangely reminiscent of a lot of arguments that men's rights activists make. Namely, they'd rather be raped than lose 50% of their income to paternity fraud. They even attach a prefix to the word rape - "divorce rape" instead of "white collar rape".

I take it you also support their arguments, right? Or if you don't, you've got some clear principle separating the two cases?

(Note: I'm taking no position on any of this, just pointing out a possible inconsistency.)
I'm tempted to move to a cheaper city inland, but I've heard horror stories of people trying to get to work when it snows. Is it extremely difficult to get to work in the winter?
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This exists: https://blocktogether.org/
I don't know what Borg is either, but then I realized it is likely an internal Google thing; unit test, API, MapReduce -- these are all ubiquitous concepts to programmers outside of Mountain View, so the inclusion of Borg seemed a little out of place.
Yeah, spend a year in Phuket after browsing NomadList, you're culturally adventurous and a hero of frugality. Spend a year in a red state, everyone assumes you're making some terrible miscalculation.
>It's not something I ever consciously thought about

I think that's the point. Perhaps it's something that you might want to think about. Institutional bias is insidious because it's so pervasive as to be normal, banal. No one gives it a second thought.
When you're potentially screwed for life, there's no obvious solution because you're probably panicking
Elm [1] is not JavaScript. It's a pure functional language that compiles to JavaScript. There are no mutable variables in Elm as you'd normally think of them, but there are streams (called signals) and state machines.

The issue is that you can't really write UI components as you'd normally think of them; everything needs to be divided up into a separate models and view functions. The state of every single widget in the page (recursively) needs to be represented somewhere in the application model.

[1] http://elm-lang.org/
I also love Ninja Framework for support of the Guice: http://www.ninjaframework.org/
I'd say that's heavily biased by the fact that Chappelle spent lots of time growing up in Ohio (and specifically Yellow Springs).

Lots of people have seemingly irrationally strong attachments to their hometowns - not quite the same as randomly stumbling upon OKC and deciding it's what you've wanted all along, you know?

And Chappelle's probably not the greatest example, since he very famously got fed up with his celebrity status and wanted to retreat from the world a little. Surprised you didn't go to Lebron instead.
I've thought a lot about this myself, as a musician and lover of art and music. I live in a mid-sized Midwestern town, where even Chicago would be a step up culturally. But I've thought about what it would be like for me to live in "Chicago" with a spouse and family. It would probably mean living in a suburb, spending a great deal of time in a car, and having neither the time nor the energy to go into the city for a concert or museum very often.

And the suburbs are yet another 2 orders of magnitude below my little town.

I've probably attended the Chicago Symphony more times than the average person who refers to their home as "Chicago." As for my town, if I want to play music or attend the Symphony with my kids, we're 10 minutes away.

And while it's true that great artists and musicians move to the metropolitan centers, they also move back out, in droves, because only a tiny fraction can survive the scene, much less prosper. I play in a band with some of them.

This is all without denying the obvious cultural role of the great cities. Thank you for bebop. ;-)
We've all seen quite clearly in recent years that governments regularly socialize risk with bailouts of supporters and favorites. The worst part is the way they tip their hand in advance (e.g., The Greenspan Put [1]) incentivizing the the most reckless and morally hazardous behavior.

But the article does not aim at this real problem. Rather it's just a basket of plausible sounding but totally unsubstantiated claims and deliberate ignorance of inconvenient facts. For example, we're supposed to view China's giant investments "environmentally friendly technologies" as destined for success. We won't question the competence of the government that has so recently built several cities (yes whole cities, yes plural) which are completely empty while peasants subsist in garbage heaps on their outskirts.

Polemicals like this equate corporatism and cronyism with capitalism and free markets. Then with the straw man destroyed, it's not hard to guess what the solution will be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put
>These are extreme experiments, of course. We humans aren’t depriving ourselves of food for 12 hours and then allowing ourselves to binge on soda and doughnuts at the end of the day.

I guess the author is completely unaware of the lifestyle of many Americans? (Myself included). 12 hours is not a short span at all, when you consider time between going to bed and first meal.
Plenty of sugar to be found in all American meal options, doubly so if you add soda to any meal / throughout the day.
I loved my time in the midwest, but I don't miss the winters - they were brutal, and it would often take until May or June until spring weather would come.

I uniquely have friends around the world and spread out all over the US - location doesn't matter as much to me, since I could hang out with everyone I want. As a single man though, the Bay area makes a lot of sense for me as a result, since the pay still outpaces the cost of living for me. Being tired of wintry weather was also a huge factor in me migrating out west.

There is a chance I might migrate south to the Austin area in the future, or back east to the NY or DC area eventually - I do miss the strong ties I have to the east coast from having lived there for most of my life, but Austin sounds attractive as a tech hub and due to more sane housing costs.
French society may in that aspect be a little closer to Japanese, to which I'm more familiar with: Some cultures put more value on harmony than on justice. This was at first not very easy for me to understand, coming from a German speaking culture, and I believe it may be even more difficult for Americans (who according to my impression seem to be even more demanding of 'justice'), but it is what it is.

Just as an example, in case of a car accident in Japan, the blame (and thus damages/fines) is almost always shared (even in completely obvious situation where we would see one party 100% at fault), especially so when a passenger other than the driver was hurt - just so the driver in question wouldn't loose his face completely. 'Being there' at the wrong moment is enough to be partially blamed for what happened. There's something to this you know - if an incident is potent enough to destroy someone's social status, it often might be better for society to let it slip, rather than to go the 'nuclear option' (i.e. the American way) of throwing people in jail, make them loose their job, possibly their family, or even take away their children. With marriages it's similar - husbands/wives often rather don't want to know rather than to risk a family's stability.
As bglazer said, we have this magical thing called the internet that lets tech people work from anywhere in the world. No need to have a local office.
Of course, all the work the "Reputation Management" company performed for Lindsey was just pretty much undone by a Guardian Article, and it's huge Page Rank mojo.
It can be improved but not bad.
Your comment has no basis in this article. You're projecting a lot of hate, presumably based on your stereotypes of feminists.

This article is just a 12 year old girl wishing she could play as a girl more often.
The problem with working in the Midwest is: what do I do if the job I have goes under. In a tech hub I can be lining up interesting interviews in a few days.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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1 MILLION people aren't enough to see network effects??
Is 3M [1] closer to the magic number? I moved from Boston(4M) to Cleveland(1.7M) and although the lifestyle is different, there is still way more opportunities, culture, entertainment, etc..., than anyone could absorb in a single lifetime in either place.

I visit my friends in SF every year and although they make more than double my salary, they can't even come close to matching my apartment situation. There is an infinite number of things to do in any city, and I can already afford things (like a house, or an acre of land even!) that aren't even fathomable to them. I won't stay in Cleveland forever, simply because I'd like to experience other cities, but I can't say SF is even in my top three. SF is a great place, but I'd like to find one of the still relatively "undiscovered" great places that isn't completely saturated.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_are...
Why are there no referenced human experiments? Low/No carb diets have been around for ages. Surely it wouldn't be that hard to get good data on something this basic. The claims made in this article are pretty significant, why do we only have rat behavior to observe?
Slightly tangential: while everyone's banging on a lot recently about how 'quality journalism is dying', has anyone actually run the numbers - has anyone done a quantitative analysis?

Was it really the case that 20 or 30 years ago, and early, all / most journalism was high quality, or was it mostly trash back then too? And do we really have proportionately less quality journalism now that we did 'back then'?

If we take in to account all the amazing podcasts we have access to now (eg. 99% Invisible, Australia's ABC Radio National podcasts, etc.) and the NYT, the New Yorker, Saudi Aramco News, etc etc, I'd hazard a guess there's actually a lot more quality journalism kicking about now than there ever was at any time in human history. (Edited to add: at least in this particular human's short history)

I'm just stumbling around in the dark here though. Someone should do a Steven Pinker on this aphorism.
Thanks very much. I have experimented with used Riak as a backend with its search 2.0(lucene) for indexing the streams. I'm very interested in how the MySQL tables are laid out; On the watch/reading list for tonight :)
Ditto Blocks – The Amazing Tape Repellent (2006)
iirc the best two pieces of software in the world are approximately 2dan
Stuxnet, Snowden and Sony: Why we've passed the cyber security tipping point
I don't see your point. Society is made up of individuals who are affected by the status quo. The personal is political. The unconscious designer receives criticism from internet writers that he could choose to completely ignore, while millions of women get another contribution piled on top of the existing reinforcements in every medium.
A Better World, Run by Women
Thank you I hope one day you will try and like it :)
Not really. A company is always way more complex.
No, not at all. Every once in a while there’s an extremely bad storm that makes it difficult, but for the most part the infrastructure (plows, salt trucks, etc.) has adapted to the climate such that it’s not a problem 97% of the time.
What's really ridiculous is that companies force people to live in the bay area and work from an office. There is absolutely no reason for this anymore. Developers can write code from anywhere, whether that means Ohio, India, or wherever.
If you have multiple tags, do you canonicalize the ordering of the metric name? If so, where does that canonicalization happen (on the metric origination side or on the server/collection side)? It would seem to be a pain if you end up with metrics named

host.queries.type=GET.result=200.tput

and

host.queries.result=200.type=GET.tput
Thinking in terms of railways just made every monad tutorial I've tried to puzzle my way through instantly click in my mind. I/O monads? They're just sugar to help you maintain a parallel railway track of accumulated I/O side effects, while still thinking in terms of your primary track and what it emits!

If you're confused at all about monads, you're a visual learner, and you're tired of Yet Another Monad Tutorial, the slide deck in this link should be absolutely mandatory viewing. It's one of those things that is just the perfect mix of conciseness and humor, and I'm probably going to look back on this as "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Functional Programming."
While I find it hard to believe (on technicalities), I'm not surprised.

My world changed when hearing that GS's Blankfein didn't use email and used voicemail.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/goldmans-love-affair-...

"On the one hand, this is hardly surprising. Goldman has long had a culture of leaving voice mail, well before e-mail became a goldmine for investigating regulators. Executives joke that they “do voice mail.”

Roy Zuckerberg, a senior executive at Goldman Sachs during the 1980s and ’90s, used to tell trainees that he would do more than an hour of voice mail a night. Goldman staff members check their voice mail constantly."
I'd have to disagree. At least based on the companies I've observed coming out of the midwest (including the one I work for) [1].

1. http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=26301...
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Why leave? Report those issues. The real question is why just let it slide and then write a blog about it.

Rape is not something you should just let people get away with and move on with your life
No, it's not.

An integrated oil company like Exxon has activities that lose money when the price of oil goes down (drilling, exploitation) and others that make more (refining, retail). The price of oil dropped by about half during the past few months; Exxon barely budged.

A better proxy for oil price could be drillers (Diamond Offshore Drilling for example) but they're very far from perfect either. In general, it is very hard to track an asset which price is expected to be mean-reverting like the price of oil.
I've been using Kotlin and Dropwizard together and I quite enjoy it. To demonstrate Kotlin recently for a friend I used the Dropwizard Getting Started: https://github.com/doomspork/kotlin-dropwizard

My plan is to add more to it and eventually cover all the features of Dropwizard.
This one had a lot of discussion recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159557
True, but mortgage or rent is one of the largest items in most people's budgets. A new software engineer in Minneapolis can comfortably buy a house and start building equity. A new software engineer in the bay area probably can't even with the >40% salary difference.
I built an open source personal budget app using DropWizard 0.7.0 awhile back with AngularJS. If you guys have interest to see real world project using DropWizard, check this out https://github.com/paukiatwee/budgetapp

Cant wait to upgrade to use v0.8.0 :)
Or Garnett (Minnesota). Not his hometown, but longest place of residence.

Also, Buffet, Prince, Eminem, etc. You can find an argument about a lot of places. The fact that people write of (any) place without spending any amounts of time there, speaks more about them than the place they're referencing.
Because the speed of rage is faster than any damage control, people have an agenda and your a talking point not a person, people don't care about the whole story because they heard a sound bite, or your apology will never be good enough because you committed a taboo thought, or retractions and misinterpretations don't get as widely distributed because they aren't clickbait and don't appear first in Google's search results.

Given how many times I've watched a political speech only to be told the speaker said X when they said no such thing, I doubt any damage control will work.
Minneapolis also has an incredible local music scene (greatly bolstered by The Current[0] and Radio K[1]). If it weren't for the weather, Minneapolis would be a lot higher on city "tier" lists.

[0] http://www.thecurrent.org/
[1] http://www.radiok.org/
I program on my desktop with two monitors, I wouldn't be comfortable on a laptop without at least two extra large monitors hooked up to it already. And a normal keyboard, don't give me that laptop keyboard crap.
Rather than working against the interviewer I work with them. Rather than picking a pitiful problem I pick real ones. The only way to know who you want to work with is to work with them.
Without search quality, adwords would be nothing.
I believe this should cover all bases: https://bitbucket.org/iopq/fizzbuzz-in-rust
Isn't this a sort of generalization of the military-industrial complex?
I don't understand this quote: "[determining the number of valid positions is] sadly unattainable for Chess, where determining if a given position is legal is the essence of a class problems known as Retrograde analysis.".

Is this due to some subtle distinction between valid moves/games and positions? Because since the starting position is given, and the rules are set, surely it's possible (in theory) to simply emulate all possible moves, and recording positions as one goes along, backtracking on cycles [ed: and on check mate]?
and Japan does not? (referring to the Nanking massacre) or rather what country doesn't?
Right, if your tastes line up with mainstream cultural production, you're probably all set wherever you live. I happen to find it odd that people are interested in recapitulating the same music from the 18th and 19th century over and over again irrespective of what happened in music in the past 100 years (from serial music to minimalism, spectralism, post-minimalism, Wandelweiser, whatever, not to mention electronic music), but it is what it is. Not that no contemporary music happens in smaller cities – I know of a lot of great stuff in St. Louis and Minneapolis especially – but it usually scales with the size and prestige of the local universities and doesn't extend much past there. If your interests are more specific, you might get stuck with a few events per year.

That's actually the most important thing from my perspective. Somebody called me a hipster, but what I love about having access to a huge array of contemporary art, music, etc. is that it gives me the opportunity to see a lot and really understand what it is that moves me and that I can express myself through. As I learn more, my tastes become more specific and "obscure." On the flip side, knowing more also helps me appreciate more different things on a new level.
I went through both the US and Japanese systems concurrently. Both systems are working well, as intended.
1. If the price stays low you've lost because that money could have been better invested elsewhere. You would have been better off putting that money in your fuel tank, which you'll have to do anyway.

> It's almost like low oil prices will inevitably lead to high oil prices.

Well, historically yes. It's almost like markets exhibit some cyclical behaviour. Good luck picking where to get on and off.

You don't need to rationalise a gamble, just call it was it is: a gamble not an investment. And that's okay. As a perfectly spherical rational actor with zero information-friction I've placed a few bets too.
Anyone would take it as an assumption that all WaPo articles are edited by WaPo editors. They are her "own words" as much as any article is the "own words" of any staffed journalist. If one is assuming malicious manipulation on the part of The Feminists and are looking for the guarentee of unfiltered words from children on the internet on topics like this, they will be disappointed.
If you have a slow react component that uses mutable data structures for state, and implementing shouldComponentUpdate is hairy, you could always switch to using immutable data structures for that component's state instead. That change alone is very easy. From there, implementing shouldComponentUpdate is very straightforward.
German school teachings don't defend anything. Instead they spend, for many students, roughly two years in a concentrated block of instilling guilt and horror over what happened in WW2.
This is Portugal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4cyNK3BW7Q
I'm not quite sure why the comparison is being made here at all. Go has an incredibly simple rule set and is a game played with perfect information. That such deep complexity emerges from those things is part of what makes the game so beautiful. In Magic, randomness and limited information are integral elements of the game, as are the myriad rules and their interactions. That "so many rules have been piled on over time" is not some sort of accident; it's been the intention from the beginning and it's a huge part of what makes the game fun. It's simply a completely different beast from a game like Go. Labeling one game's complexity "artificial" in some arbitrary manner is not meaningful. What's rather clear is that creating a rigorous mathematical model of Go is fairly straightforward, while doing the same for Magic would seem to be a few orders of magnitude more complex.

(Also, that a creature's power and toughness might change has been part of the game since the very beginning: see Giant Growth.)
"Just following orders."

God, help me never.
This is why I can perversely justify the United States' gargantuan military spending as being "smart". When push comes to shove, force will prevail.

Unfortunately. =/
> I don't remember the summer program rate, but I recall the school-year rates were around $3,500 per course.

That's the right range. And it creates a "damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't" situation.

Students deserve to have some industry experienced teachers. Many of my students got a lot more education about the corporate world than they expected.

However, if I take the job teaching for that, I'm contributing to the downward pressure on the salaries. And that makes their academic teachers worse.
I thought the article was going to show brain scans ;-) I gave up sugar in high school because nothing else was working on my acne. It was difficult but you can replace sugar with maple syrup, honey and fruit. After a while the craving goes away and the effect for me was pretty much permanent.