skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dude" doesn't necessarily imply male, but it is strongly slanted that way. I'm not sure if it would hold up as discrimination.
So, your answer is to assert privilege - they were there first, so they deserve it more, go fuck off.

What's been noted repeatedly across history is that rent control tends strongly to encourage a culture of NIMBYIsm. Rent control has contributed heavily to creating the current situation and its persistence increases the political resistance to building more housing.

Have you not noticed the routine grumbling about extending rent control to new housing and different kinds of housing? That scares the crap out of would-be builders and investers. Couple that with moralizing about how profit margins need to be razor-thin to be morally acceptable, and the scenarios you imagine are ones in which no developer is willing to work.

The result is pretty much what we have now - not enough building. If rent control were relaxed now, or even made hugely more difficult to extend, those fears would be reduced.

But right now? Rent control has created a witch's brew for political stasis. That's what you wanted, right? To enable privilege for people who are deserving by virtue of living in sufficiently old housing?
You're not wrong at all. Furthermore:

> 2. Under 30 years old

Is obviously age discrimination as well. Unlike some people, I'm under no illusions that tech is non-discriminatory, but it's still surprising and disappointing to see it stated so plainly on a job description.

These people are idiots for leaving this document online now that they've been caught. I don't know the specifics of UK labour laws, but in the US its mere existence would be grounds for a lawsuit.
I love that the title of this got edited to have the "[March 2015]"

That feels about right, haha.
http://docs.fidor.de/
Why SHE still keeps us alive ?
Do we need articles that (1) pick a straw man/hyperbolic image of an obviously dysfunctional stereotype (that I've never encountered to this degree) (2) pretend that these qualities are a typical end result of having passion (3) talk down to readers with obvious statements about avoiding dysfunction (4) assume that women are less prone to having passion for their jobs than men, etc?

Am I special for being engaged with my job and having a good work/life balance and having a good employer that also allows it? No, I hope not.
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Answer: Why Not?
I'll update the screenshots, ASAP. Thanks!
> You could certainly purchase access to private Github repositories, but most certainly you’d rather want to invest your capital in more pressing matters.

Getting a few private repositories on GH is $7/month.

It'll cost me more than that for a server, not to mention the time setting up and managing.
Duplicate post from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5039904
Haskell Development Role in Strats at Standard Chartered London
There are loads of uses for high-quality VR platforms. Even if first person gaming (or gaming at all) is the primary focus of early development due to easier integration with existing game engines, I imagine that in the long run, it will offer something more akin to the development of high-end mobile devices.

Sure, those allowed for some unique gaming applications but there are also things that weren't necessarily the initial focus but are now common uses of those platforms. I'm thinking of things like immersive 3d "movies" that put you right in the action as an observer while actually seated in your chair. The other massive application that is seeing a lot of promise is 3d telepresence. Instead of doing a video Hangout or a Skype call on a flat screen, you could use depth cameras to record 3d video maps of each endpoint and stream that info to the other participants. You won't just be looking through a little (or big) window into another location, you'll see things as if you were actually sitting there.

I still think the whole idea of treadmills or even Valve's thing to be a sort of attempt to shoehorn the conventions that were successful on 2D screens into VR. I'm glad to see any development and experimentation but I don't personally think the platform will ultimately evolve toward a more immersive extension of the current first person gaming paradigm. Just from my ~8 months of working with a Rift dev unit I've found first person, non-seated experiences to be some of the more limiting or difficult things to pull off well or for extended periods. I'm sure being able to walk around and get 1:1 representation will go a long way but you're still limited unless you focus on more of an AR solution.

Still, it reminds me of a brainstorm/daydream I had a decade or two ago when first reading about modern attemts at virtual and augmented reality. I thought the simplest implementation of a FPS would be along the lines of laser tag. Since laser tag puts you in a predefined environment, you could set something up where the computing was either done on a backpack/wearable platform (or now, I guess on servers that communicate with headsets) and overlay everything on the actual pre-built structure around you. That way you'd get the tactile response of whatever walls and floors and obstacles are around you but the AR/VR stuff would texture things to look like a space station or catacombs or whatever you want. The Valve device seems like an early version of this and I'm interested in how Microsoft's HoloLens will compare in real world usage.
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In theory, yes. In practice, local activists tend to demand new buildings be 100% affordable, and the result is generally gridlock where nothing at all gets built.
>> Enters into a state of Flow, where when the candidate is coding a long time they are wired in and cannot easily get
distracted

Haha, TBH almost every programmer I know under 30 years old is distracted every 90 seconds by a) a tweet, b) a text, c) a notification, or d) an email. Wait, actually that's all of us, under 30 or not.
No. There are some very strictly controlled situations where a UK employer can discriminate on age, and this comes nowhere near.

This document contains a bunch of stuff (long hours; sex; age) that UK employers just can't do. I suspect that Career Harbour is about to discover what regulation feels like.
>Imo people can create as many shitty photo-sharing apps as they want if this means not fucking up the world's financial system.

So quickly we forget that it wasn't long ago what were essentially "shitty photo-sharing apps", and the hype behind them, crashed the financial system.
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Yeah you can't ask that.

When you read the rest of the document it's clear the 'job definition' has been done by someone whose not a HR professional. It's probably a tech or developer whose inexperienced. The only thing I'll say in defense of it is that this isn't as unusual as you might expect - even if they don't write it a lot of people probably use heuristics like this, unfortunately!
Yet another problem that could be solved with good typing :)

Seriously though, it's very worrying to me that so many low-level ruby libraries have so many issues. I realise bugs happen, but at least in the python world there seems to be less "oh whoops the most popular OAuth provider lib is susceptible to CSRF"-type bugs.
>Almost everywhere in the US, almost every ISP faces at least 4 (and often more) alternative ways to get on the internet.

When you typed "ISP" is that supposed to mean "customer"? Citation?

Against whom is Comcast competing? I know very few people who can choose even between Comcast & AT&T. It's widely known that Comcast colludes with other cable companies (Time Warner) to avoid competition.

You're using a straw man argument. "Comcast is a monopoly." "Hey, look over there at something unrelated to your statement! Therefore, Comcast faces competition."
No idea about your background/skillset, buy you might want to consider volunteering with an organization that pairs technical folks with disabled people to build custom solutions to help with their disability. This is particularly true if you are interested in more than just programming (e.g., mechanics, electronics, fabrication). Here are two that I am aware of:

Tetra Society (http://www.tetrasociety.org/)
Tetra recruits volunteers to design and fabricate items that overcome barriers faced by people with disabilities, of all ages and across North America. Their main page currently features a project that allowed a 19 year-old guitarist with muscular dystrophy play the guitar again. Anyone that's a "maker" type should visit the Tetra site and look at their complete project database -- some are quite impressive.

SpeakYourMind Foundation (http://speakyourmindfoundation.org)
The SpeakYourMind Foundation is a growing team of engineers, clinicians, designers, hackers, and social entrepreneurs dedicated to empowering these individuals to re-connect with the world. Our goal is to turn our prototype technologies into viable, affordable and life-changing solutions for the many people with neurological injury and disease who struggle to communicate.

For some inspiration, check out this blog: http://www.hackingsma.com/
It's by the father of a young boy (~2yo?) that can only move two fingers and his toes. It details how he successfully designed a built a wheelchair his son could use to explore his surroundings. When you stop to think that only a tiny fraction of the kids with needs like this have parents capable of providing this sort of help, the need for volunteers becomes clear very quickly.

Quite different than working on the current hotness in FOSS, but perhaps more rewarding in the long run. Just a thought.
We use at this moment GitHub for "consumption-ready" projects and GitLab internally for young projects.

Reasons for hosting your own:

- Billing is complex as it has to pass through multiple departments;
- Most code never makes it out of the company (I sincerely hope);
- Configuration files and sensitive data sometimes ends up in repositories, especially with young projects.

So GitHub for big, released stuff and internal repositories for small projects and as a developer sandbox.
Fascism has a way of surfacing during difficult times. Greece has a big problem with Golden Dawn again. When crisis struck they started recruiting using food drives/soup kitchens for 'pure Greeks' for example.
I've worked with some people with passion that caused issues - put two people with passion on the same team who have differing approaches? The recipe is ripe for a powder keg, and just needs a match lit to cause sparks to fly.

Passion needs to give way to humanity.
Two thoughts on this:

1. From the headline, I was expecting this story to be about investment bankers walking away from ~$300K total comp jobs to join early stage startups that pay $85K salary plus equity. In fact, it's basically about finance people doing what finance people have done for years -- realize that they could make a bunch more money if they start their own firm. I am not sure that the fact that the new firms they are starting are using technology in order to disrupt longstanding paradigms is especially new or newsworthy.

2. I do think that the development of AI has some interesting implications for the business of investment banking. Specifically, I think that we are at or close to a point where software solutions that do the blocking-and-tackling tasks performed by a young analyst -- spreading comps, making profile pages for all the dominant players in an industry, etc -- will make analysts unnecessary. If I had to guess I'd say that in 10 years, the only reason there will be analyst programs on Wall Street will be to teach bankers the theory behind what is done in an instant by AI -- in the same way that student pilots learn to navigate manually even though there's GPS.
Ditto on the interview -- and if you really enjoy helping other engineers meet their goals you might want to consider a career in Developer Support. I've really enjoyed mine! Other variations on Developer Support include Professional Services, Field and Sales Engineering, Training, and Developer Evangelism, depending on who you like to hang out with more within your company (engineering, sales, docs, marketing) -- externally you're always talking with engineers.
Even though Minecraft is not top quality code, you've provided very weak source. See [0] which provided memory usage analysis, that turn out pretty bad. It credits Notch (remember that he stopped working on the game at some point) as author of more optimal code, though ("The original Notch code (pre 1.3) was allocating about 10-20 MB/sec which was much more easy to control and optimize.").

There are other problems with original Minecraft, that surfaced when people started to actively disassemble (or deobfuscate) it. But those are mostly unsourced, and I do not feel the authority to speak about it.

[0] http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/optifine-modder-rips-the-minec...
This is why I've been getting really annoyed with Google, everything is automated, but the systems aren't even close to being perfect. It will be difficult to find a human at Google to talk to, but I think it's your only choice so you can talk them through it.
I managed to see his tweets, where he apologised for his job-posting, by googling for his twittername and looking it up at google cache.
Internet of things seems to be one of the buzzwords for nowdays, with wearables and smart watches and everything controlling your home
Yeah, I always see this sort of comment and worry that I'm the only person using guys/dude/folks as a catch-all.

Quickly Googling seems to indicate that it's not set in stone, at least.
This product has made it really easy for the product team I work with to get real user feedback earlier and easier for the apps we have built. I'm glad to see they are out for Mac OX now so we can try this out instead of silverback since it would be good to consolidate to just one tool.
I've read several articles about some Silicon Valley employees living in their cars. Especially if the company provides most everything else- food, showers, entertainment. Why spend huge amounts on apartment you just sleep in? This happened at MIT and Stanford too when I was there.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/11089188/Google...
> The idea that landowners should be allowed to extract every bit of profit possible out of land -- a public, limited good -- no matter what the consequences, is absolutely reprehensible to me.

And this idea has led to strict rent control, which in turn has led to NIMBYism, which together have led to the clusterfuck that is San Francisco's housing market. Privileged groups act first and foremost to preserve their privilege, and rent control works by creating a privileged group. Hilarity ensues.

You said you wanted to gain in understanding. I think you should internalize that before going on. It's critical to the whole issue.

In short, you need to consider that attempting to put your ideals into policy may have resulted in creating the problems you fear.
The one purported benefit of TED talks is democratizing knowledge and inspiring people. The latter, possibly it does. Some claim its benefit as giving access to knowledge for people without direct access to universities, etc. The former, TED talks fail at, spectacularly and dangerously. In the era of MOOCs, for someone without direct access to good learning resources, or for people who cannot learn stuff from books, TED talks are a dangerous distraction. I tend to some times view more 'academic' TED talks- like the U Penn professor on swarm robots, or the MIT prof's talk on childhood development. These talks are cripplingly inadequate for anyone serious about learning stuff. They present very little, if any discussion of existing literature or about other researchers work. TED talks are the antithesis of 'standing on the shoulder of giants'. Most academic TED talk speakers tend to present themselves as the lone giant in their field of expertise, and their work as being the final truth in their field.
For those who are looking for a LISPish replacement for Matlab, you might want to try lush (at http://lush.sourceforge.net/ ) ?

It is a very mature platform, and has an extensive library, including bindings to GSL, LAPACK, and BLAS.

Lush started out as a (differently named) project of Leon Bottou and Yann LeCun, which might serve as an endorsement... :)
I checked it out the other day, and his whole start-up was based on this 30-second video "magic-pitch" thing, which is why they had it for their own candidates, I guess.
This is the only comment that rings true to me. I lived in Brazil for 7 years, and yes, people were unhappy with Lula before they were unhappy about Dilma Roussef. But overall, poor people (which is a substantial part of the population) were happy with their governments.

On the other hand, most people I knew voted for Lula and Dilma because they actually benefitted from their policies. When Lula left power his approval rate was something over 80%, which was better than any other president before him. And yet, if you asked the right people, you'd the country was about to explode because people were so unhappy.
Collected personal location data alone is 6-10 PB/day globally, most of which is currently discarded because few people can handle it

Knowing where everyone is at all times; the ultimate enabler for weaponised harrasment.
Stick your head in the sand if you want, but for a couple years now there has been PE licensure for software engineering: http://ncees.org/about-ncees/news/ncees-introduces-pe-exam-f...

Beyond the NCEES, the IEEE Computer Society and ACM jointly publish a code of ethics for software engineering: http://www.computer.org/web/education/code-of-ethics

Even if you're not a member, their code of ethics is similar to every other professional code of ethics I've seen. I don't see what's blurry about it.
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Older, hopefully still relevant, article about OCaml objects : http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/09/28/ocaml-objects/ (from 0install author)
When do you need a patent and when not?
Hey guys,
I was reading up on patent trolls and wanted to know if there are certain situations that patents do more good than harm.
You pay via an SSL link to a page with a Stripe payment form, for those want to know.
I think it's reasonable for the layperson to get a bit nervous. Even if it's 50 or 200 years, advanced, human-brain-like-or-better AI will happen.

Imagine the public sentiment if mass media made people aware of the inevitability of the nuclear bomb 50 to 200 years in advance and people (not just the government) were actively working on developing it.
For disambiguation: it is better to say "plantains are staples in many parts of Africa" since they are cooked.
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"Anything that becomes sufficiently popular eventually becomes diagnosed as an illness." -- laws of humanity [in the early 21st century] #512
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Everyone out there seem to start out with a CI traffic light using Arduino. This is no exception :).
They only need "Fast and accurate proficiency" in being under 30 years old ;) (so someone who just turned 30 is probably best, having the 30 years experience with being under 30)
Did you just include Tony Stark in a list of people worried about AI? ;)
There are a bunch of things about this document that are not legal in England. Age, sex, and long working hours are all things theycan be done for.
“ behind bars because he walked to school instead of taking the bus.”
Posted 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171722
> In California, there is a legal way to do this. It's one of the ways that the Ellis Act permits landlords to evict rent-controlled tenants.

And pretty much everywhere, you also have the option of increasing their rent to get them to want to move out. Like has happened here.

> The Ellis Act is a pretty fair and just law.

Really? Because if I walk outside and ask around, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be told that it's inherently evil and abusive and needs to be repealed, because a lease should be a lifetime contract for a locked-in low rate.
This is an incorrect rubric to judge the quality of these talks. The implication of your statement is that there is no value in speaking on current research or ideas until some point where the technique has been realized. But this misses the importance of spreading ideas for their own sake, to get people thinking about and excited about the future that technology can bring us.

TED seems to be a "futurology" organization in that it offers a glimpse into a future made possible by technology. They make no apologies for offering a positive outlook on the direction technology and society is moving, and I'm perfectly fine with that. There is a counter-movement to ramp down on positivity as if somehow we are better served by a sober analysis, and that anything more is naive or religious dogma in disguise. This not the case.
Looks like you need a `gitlab-ctl upgrade` command
Human level AI seems to be a far reach but AI in specific domains seems to be the approaching intersection. What I mean by this is the self-driving car...very discrete skills but not any where near human level. Let's not forget google's "Find Mitten's the Cat" AI on videos.
Would not get anything near that if the election was today. Election was won basically by public spending + promising that no austerity measures would take place after the election. Brazil has lost a golden opportunity to improve itself between 2005-2012 just because the current party wanted to win one more election.
> I'm going to give the "right" answer, not the honest one.

Curious what the "right" answer is?
Recently collapsed about 2.5 TB of nightly backups into 30 GB. So far it has been an amazing tool.
You put your React into my Angular
From the point of view each of the subscribers to a topic, they see a queue.
If you require people to jump through hoops for a job, only people who have time to jump through them will apply.
"The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees, job seekers and trainees because of their age." [1]

[1] http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1841
With open office plans there's no way anyone's keeping up 8 hours of deep concentration on any day.

And of course there's meetings, lunch, etc breaking up the day as well.
So along the lines of "use our product for your application"? That would make some resemblance of sense...
I went in expecting to see a write up on Common Lisp's CLOS[1], because at a recent Clojure Meetup, the speaker put forth the claim that CLOS is the most powerful OO system out there. He didn't have time to validate the claim, but it may be of interest to those who like this article.

[1] http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/clos-tutorial/index.html
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Remember when this site was about tech?
Go team Lookback!
Brian Wilson, Bonnie McKee and Others React to 'Blurred Lines' Verdict
But you have control over when you are responding to said distraction, so it won't necessarily get you out of the zone.
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Tony Stark, Elon Musk ... Same person, different multi-verse.
Yeah I really reckon that "what is the simplest thing that could possibly work" is the vital question. If you stray from that, getting stuck wastes what could otherwise be productive effort. I do have to wonder tho -- why is programming so complicated? Silicon and neurons so fundamentally different that we're always going to be fighting ourselves -- or one day we're going to have interfaces make programming way more natural?
OP you should probably message this guy