skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Holacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested at the top of a hierarchy.[1] Holacracy has been adopted in for-profit and non-profit organizations in the U.S., France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
As long as you get the right hiring manager it shouldn't matter. I agree that it is a valid concern of yours, and rightfully so in this hiring climate. But fair hiring managers do exist, and they build some of the best teams around.

I work at Twilio, and we put a lot of effort into providing a hiring experience that removes as many biases as possible. The end result is a solid, diverse workforce that understands that we all come from different walks of life and have different employment expectations. Other companies, such as Stripe, also seem to have similar initiatives in their hiring practices.

It's a concern, but some of us are actively fighting it.
I'm sorry to say you are making so many unwarranted assumptions and are displaying a huge bias.

People don't know things because they've never encountered them. People don't stop learning as they age, and the things to learn do not run out. What people have achieved or not in their careers is not your business, when you hire. You hire based on competence.

Assuming that people don't grow at 99 because they've been at it for 45 years is stupid and ageist.

In fact, it's perfectly equivalent to say "I don't hire women in their 30s because they'll want to have children".
I think even worse are the ones that show Calvin praying to a cross. Talk about out of character…
Why has this been voted up so much? It's dog shit.
Amongst other things this can be used for cleaning tables/lists from special characters, changing date formats and creating xml or json.

Feedback and suggestions are very much welcome! We plan on adding a few more features soon as right now it is fairly basic but would like to hear some opinions and see if there's people out there that have a use for this.
> Apparently the models developed by 1000s years of music theory is not good enough for haskell

Perhaps not, but Haskell is good enough for them:

Functional Generation of Harmony and Melody http://dreixel.net/research/pdf/fghm.pdf
The motivation for thart valuation is still relevant though.
I think that's kind of right - it's the explicit awareness of hierarchy or other structures that works. (I'd argue that actually you can have hierarchy-less (sp?) organisations, but they require particular consideration - but you'll still overlay other assemblages - social hierarchies or whatever, on top of it. I did a bit responding to the Tony Hsieh email from our perspective as a company that's trying to implement Holarchy right now: http://blog.granttree.co.uk/post/117079306181/zappos-two-poi...
Not an option. Concrete examples: anything webgl, image editing, games, even a simple curl app from yesterdays post (curlbuilder.com). Implementing curl app server-side would require double work which is against principles of progressive enhancement (or programming in general).
Actually a number of ads have content outside the bounding box for SD streams (though some SD streams now cut down things even more by letterboxing because of this). Ads were the first and still the most aggressive to have content strongly outside the 4:3 screen type.

Because if you can create an effect that works it can be worth more than the whatever small number of users on SD, especially as those are likely out of demographic anyways.
I feel like there's this stereotypical .NET dev in everyone's head on HN. Your friend, for example, didn't even know that Entity Framework was an ORM, and he likes "magic" and not understanding any lower level implementation.

That's too bad, because there are tons of sharp .NET devs who despise the concept of "magic" (and no, ORMs are not magic, and Entity Framework is fantastic) and who understand the abstractions that .NET offers. I would hesitate to write off all .NET enthusiasts as clueless less-than-hackers.

(disclaimer: Microsoft employee, nothing to do with .NET though)
> I know what they are in both the USA, France, Germany, and the UK and I can assure you that income taxes for middle class income earners is significantly lower in the US on average.

For France and Germany you are right, but that was not something I disputed. I specifically pointed out that I did not know the specifics of Germany, but disputed the claim that German taxes are twice those of California.

Yes, I've looked at my earnings statements. In detail. And no, my tax burdens have not been all that different.

I can't speak to your experience, as it obviously depends on what tax brackets you end up in and what deductions you get, and for the US it depends massively on where in the US you live. Specifically to the argument at hand, tax levels in California are amongst the highest in the US, which also makes them amongst the highest in the world, given that the US average places the US as a whole amongst the highest taxation countries in the world.

As for the averages, Germany and France near the very top world wide.

According to the OECD numbers for 2014, they're 3rd and 5th in highest tax burden respectively. But even then, Germany ends up at slightly below 50%, and the US as a whole slightly above 30% when combining income tax, employer and employee social security contributions.

Given that California tax rates are far above US average, with both a payroll tax and being one of only 3 states as far as I can tell that have state income taxes that goes beyond 10%, I can safely stand by my statement that the claim that it was an exaggeration to claim that German taxes are twice California taxes without even bothering to dig up the actual averages for California.

In terms of the UK, fully loaded taxes are actually lower than the US average according to the OECD (US was for 2014 ranked as having the 24th highest taxes in the world, UK 26th; and since I mentioned Norway: 21st)
It used to be the issue in the "old browsers", modern browsers optimize the css query selectors to a very high extent, so users probably won't see a difference on any real web page / app
This guys must be trying to win over public support. How could statements like this be any less than wildly popular.

"Cash therefore gives people an easy and effective way of avoiding negative nominal rates…(and therefore must go)"

I think he might be more likely to win support for the more popular position that banks should be abolished.
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> Then he got sent to someone else (someone technical?) for a phone screen, and they decided he wasn't a great fit.

That's certainly understandable, but another article[1] goes into some of the details of that interview that do make it seem a bit odd:

The interviewer was 10 minutes late to the call, "barely fluent in English," and "used a speaker phone that did not function well." Heath politely asked him, repeatedly, to use the phone's headset but the request was declined.

One part of the interview involved writing a short program to find the answer to a problem posed by the interviewer. Heath accomplished the task and offered to share it via Google Docs or email, but, instead, the interviewer required Heath "to read the program coding over the phone."

I'm not suggesting that's grounds for an age discrimination lawsuit, but it's easy to see how it could seem the interviewer wasn't that interested in giving the candidate a fair shot.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2914233/it-careers/medi...
I was at Google's NYC offices last week, and I immediately felt like I was on a college campus. The vast majority of people there look very young.

I'm not sure whether the underlying cause is age discrimination, but clearly it's not a NYC/California issue so much as a company or industry issue.
And what exactly makes you think that's google's business model?
He'd want the worthwhile employees to leave?
But you can still see most of them.. But how many websites are broken when js does not load correctly for whatever reason?
Would you accept repeated feedback requests?

For example: Someone paid and received feedback on an app from you, made improvements, deployed a new version. Can they then pay for more feedback? Do you imagine a limit for this, with each feedback request being paid for?
Catalan culture is scatologic, for Christmas they have a wood trunk that is fed and when is kick with an stick it shits gifts [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal
The electric unicycle is the electric vehicle for the masses.
Brian: Please, please, please listen! I've got one or two things to say.

The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them!

Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals!

The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!

Brian: You're all different!

The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!

Man in crowd: I'm not...

The Crowd: Shhhhh!
And it wouldn't work because 1% of the employees would read the whole email and then tell all their friends to send an email with a banana image attached.

On a parallel note, say hello to games in the age of internet.
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A duplicate with the wrong title.
"To look classy" has to be the silliest reason posited that a business would do something. For a lot of people, the "classy" ship has already sailed vis a vis Kleiner.
Oh sure, the stateful model thing you mention definitely sucks which is why I hate using asp.net web forms and prefer asp.net mvc at the office.

Both of them have lifecycle methods, (for app start, request start, request end, etc.) and for the most part I completely ignore them until the day I need to use them and I'm glad they exist because the alternative would have been writing a code in every endpoint of my application.
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For the same reasons that companies aren't prospecting for oil/gas in the US right now.
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As a UofT grad, I am envious of the co-op experience that you guys have. I had to carve out my own opportunities, which in itself taught me about paving my own path. Nonetheless, definitely a great university and a great program to help students build a solid foundation.

It was similarly hectic trying to arrange for my own co-op opportunities but correct me if I'm wrong, I felt it was only hectic because I had never gone through something like that before. Once we've all been through it, looking back, it doesn't seem so bad after all. What do you think?
I'm still shocked that someone explicitly vomited in a Disney film. (Granted, it was a robot vomiting gears in Lilo & Stitch, but still.)
So I like this article and want to learn more about sys admin/dev ops/whatever but where do I go. Is docker bad? What is a good starting point? What are best practices?
Another gem here :)

https://www.google.pt/maps/place/Takht+Pari+Forest/@33.50087...
I have used Leksah and EclipseFP a few times, they are ok. I don't remember how good they are debugging code.

http://leksah.org/

http://eclipsefp.github.io/
When I started out 100+ hour weeks were the norm for me. I worked the first year and a half without taking a single day off (neither weekends nor national holidays). Definitely not worth it for me.

In my 30's I got smarter and programmed as much as I wanted (which was still a lot more than I got paid for). Career was still a huge priority for me though. I struggled to find work/life balance because I thought it was a zero sum game.

In my 40's I took 5 years off and taught English in Japan. I came back to a programming career 2 or 3 years ago.

What have I learned? Heads down coding is really important to me. I prioritise it. It is what I enjoy doing most in this world. I pretty much ignore my career now and just try to help out my team the best way that I can. I like helping people (I learned that from teaching). I also try to write as much code as I can before I get tired. And then I rest.

My job is fun (most of the time). Sometimes helping people who make my job not fun is very hard, but you always have a choice whether to help people or not. Sometimes if I can't help someone, I have to let it go. I have learned that there are some jobs where you have to let the job go because you can't help the people who are there. But in my experience, most jobs aren't like that. Usually there is a place for people who like to write code.

This kind of life can be good too :-)
If you nationalize banks, maybe. And even if you do, meh.
Chronologically this is how rendering text has been typically tackled:

1. Rendering billboards from a texture atlas containing all the characters you could possibly emit (similar to your approach). Zooming results in blurriness

2. Turning the characters into a mesh on the CPU using a triangulation algorithm (such a Delaunay[1]) and pushing those straight to the GPU. Zooming results in straight lines on what should be smooth curves

3. Shaders. There are competing techniques but the differences are subtle.[2] High quality at all zoom levels

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay_triangulation
[2]: http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch25.html
Right? My irony detection meter pegged when I read this article/email. Beautiful needs, tragic strategy.
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At this point my mobile experience is go to website, read a couple of sentences, watch javascript muck with the layout as you describe, then a full screen popup wanting me to register or download the app, followed by a part of the top of the screen with a app store link for the app, then I get to read the article - maybe.

I think we need something that is to websites as markdown is to word processor files.
That's right, but the scale at which infringing content is uploaded to YouTube can make it possible for somebody to make a case that the DMCA doesn't quite cut it. I don't think anyone wants that.

Because even if you assume DMCA is sufficient, at this scale what is the alternative? The content owners would essentially have to implement their own content ID like system to find infringing content (which they already do to some extent), but rather than having hundreds of different stakeholders implement a hundred different systems (or the same system hundreds of times) externally, it's simply more efficient to centralize it at the point where the content is stored. Not to mention that the more likely outcome would be a massive lawsuit rather than content creators bothering to implement this system on their own.

Also, if YouTube wants to make money, let's face it, they need content people really want, which is what the big content creators own. Pretty sure they have this content ID system to keep those folks happy.

The issues are still less technical and more legal or business-related.
Oh well, since we're on the subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Hole_Road
I'm guilty of using this method in my side project (https://github.com/grn/bash-ctx). My goal was to solve the installation problem quickly. I absolutely would love to offer proper installation methods. However my experience with building *.deb packages makes me think that it's not something that I'd like to do (especially it's a side project).

The question, therefore, is: what is the simplest alternative installation method for OS X and Linux?
If there is no state-backed or state-issued currency, some other currency will fill the void. I wouldn't be hopeful about it being fair and not dominated by a handful of large players (like banks) though.
I, I, I have no response. I totally missed that when reading the article.

I'm flabbergasted.
Boost coroutines instead of state machines? Maybe
Yup, the entire project is a failure... /s
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https://www.google.com/search?q=bahria+town+statue+of+libert... - statue of liberty looks real too. Weird!
I'd like a browser that just removes all the CSS and JS and gives me simply the text, like Safaris reader mode, but without the need to ever leave it.
This was downvoted while there was an interesting point made. Suppressing cash means you no longer own your money. You only own credit lines to a private institution that can fail (and that charges you money when it doesn't). This is a stronger change than it seems.

If some deposit banks are public, at least you can have your money labeled as government debt (which it already is when you hold banknotes).
Repost - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427468
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I think we need something that is to websites as markdown is to word processor files.

We sorta had that, but CSS and Javascript got bolted on.
> You'll still get the type errors at runtime because there's no ahead-of-time typechecking happening.

That doesn't mean it's just documentation though. It could tell you that something is happening you didn't expect. Like passing a Role where you expected a User. (And if you wanted to operate on both interchangeably you shoulda put an interface on it.)

> The main type error you always have to worry about in both languages, though, is accidentally calling functions/methods on nil at runtime.

Agreed. Option/Maybe types FTW. The ?-operators sometimes presented as a solution feel very half-baked in comparison (they don't return a new type so just because you remembered to use it on line 10 doesn't mean anything to lines 20, 37 and 82).
This is just absolutely disgusting. I wasn't quite sure what Agent Orange was, so I looked it up in Wikipedia... as a Y gen, I knew that the Vietnam War was bad, but not this bad... It is absolutely disgusting and atrocious what humans can do each other.

From the article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Use_in_the_Vietnam...):

1. 20,000,000 U.S. gallons were sprayed

2. Military was told to destroy crops used to feed guerrillas.

3. Later discovered nearly all of the food they destroyed were being used to support the local civilian population.

4. In Quang Ngai province, 85% of the crop lands were scheduled to be destroyed in 1970 alone, leaving many to die from the famine.

I remember reading a book, Crimes Against Humanity, which said how Nazi leaders, especially those participated in the Holocaust were tried for their crimes. I cannot see how US Military leaders should not be tried for their actions in an international court.

And that's the thing. It annoys how easily the Americans are willing to criticize everyone else, and yet shift the blame away from themselves. If they weren't such a superpower, they wouldn't even be able to get away with all this.

This stuff sickens me
> such as clueless users installing malicious extensions or luddite users switching off js.

So if I run arbitrary, potentially-malicious code from the Web, in the form of a browser extension, I'm "clueless"?

Yet if I don't run arbitrary, potentially-malicious code from the Web, in the form of JS, I'm a "luddite"?

Considering that many browser extensions are implemented in JS, the only difference is in control: users can pick and choose which browser extensions they want to use (I use a few; I've skimmed the source of a couple and written a couple myself), whereas enabling Javascript turns a machine into a third-party free-for-all.
"Generally it is wise to import javascript files at the end of the body to reduce page load time."

Does this really make a difference? Even if it did, wouldn't it lead to seeing a jump in the content after the CSS loads?
This would probably be a good tutorial for you to give a whirl. It's applicable, slowly brings you into the more complex, and python :)

Framework: http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/
Tutorial: http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/gettingstarted.html#getting...
I don't believe there is, as it's not exactly easy to prove someone knew a specific fact. But it can be assumed everyone working at (or living near) the KZ and Vernichtungslager knew about their purpose, as well as the Reichsbahn employees involved in the transports.
OOCSS, BEM and staff like that is just abuse of CSS.
It is however widely used, because people are too lazy.
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LOL using the root of the word you're looking up to define the word you're looking up, classic!
In Germany and Spain Hypo Real Estate and Bankia indeed were nationalized due to the crisis.

In the US AIG, which is on that list, was nationalized [0]. I thought the others were as well.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Group#Li...
and if there's nothing on the page to read?

Should every chat app have a non-JS fallback option? Do we need to implement all color scheme, layout and templating tools in pure CSS?

Facetiousness aside, the web is most definitely not just text based anymore. Whether we like it or not, the web is now in part visual (and aural) and is becoming increasingly moreso. This is not a bad thing. It provides a platform for rapidly developing and deploying applications that cover the full gamut of uses we have thought up for the personal computer.

Using JS to simply display static content is overkill and not the best use of the technology and it is absolutely correct to say that this is better served by using Plain Old HTML. That is not the entirety of the web anymore and the more I see this argument that every web app must support a text only interface the more it sounds to me like an argument for every television show and movie to be produced as a radio drama with pictures.
Time for age transparency reports.
People live there? Want to look at the map where they are?
I almost reflexively hit the 'Reader View' button on iOS these days, to circumvent that.
There's almost certainly oodles of caches between the data and the images.
For those not familiar with the novel to which stegosaurus is referring (doublespeak, boot stamping) - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Actually, I think it was newspeak and doublethink, but no matter.
Or you could all choose the German solution...

1. A photo on your cv. Or it goes in the bin.

2. Birth date.

3. Marital status and children.

4. Every educational achievement documented officially since highschool.

5. Every working position with an official written reference, in deeply codified form, written mandatorily by your boss, who probably inspired you to want a new job in teh first place. The last company I left had a secret ten factor 5 level numeric rating system, which was then translated into the codified text by the personel department.
Used?
The late, great Sheldon Brown on locking your bike: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html
Just because someone doesn't understand it doesn't mean it's magic.
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Modern browsers do their best to optimize typical use-cases for CSS selectors and .collection li for sure will be handled optimally. You shouldn't worry about CSS selector performance unless you have to provide good performance for very old browsers or hit specific performance problem. Optimize for humans, not for computers.
As someone who is over 40 and took a few years off, I can tell you that having recent working experience is more important than age (or at least it was for me). Nobody seemed worried about how old I was but many people wondered if I could still code after taking 5 years off (I kept coding as a hobby, though).
Aren't there a lot of "1st Street", "2nd Street" etc in USA?
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Ask HN: Top Developer Interview Questions
I'm working on compiling a list of the top interview questions developers are being asked right now. I realize it's hard to generalize questions across disciplines, languages, etc.

Assuming a full stack web development role, what sort of questions are you asking or being asked related to: CS Fundamentals, Data Storage, Optimization, Scaling, etc. Thanks in advance!