skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know no one likes me doing this, but...

I use bittorrent sync (stay with 1.3.109 until they stop messing it up or syncthing gets a bit more mature). I've never paid for it, it Just Works (no install, just binary, takes literally 30 seconds to get two machines syncing, I've used it to send files to my mum because it's easier than teaching her to use mediafire), it's not storage limited, it end-to-end encrypts and because it's peer to peer, it is way faster because it doesn't upload to a server first.

Remind me again why you lot insist on using third party providers for this stuff?
Those comments were all very gray when I linked to them. You are also hard to discuss with because you are inventing reasons why those downvotes were fair without considering the obvious reason: they were unfair.

> I'm fine with those downvotes - 9 downvotes over 4 comments isn't detering me from commenting, but is reminding me to not assume the reader will be familiar with my argument. IE, downvotes work.

Expand your mind - realize that not everyone works like you. There are people who are deterred by downvotes. Personally, I only use downvotes on comments which I think are crap (and your comments weren't crap, hence the downvotes were unfair IMO) so the point, at least of my downvotes, is to deter the commentor from posting more crappy comments.
BulkTracker - Follow bulk build status in Pkgsrc, the NetBSD package collection
On the other hand, how many older folks in high tech feel the need to look younger, through cosmetic, styling or dress?

I myself have adopted a "buzz cut" hair style that minimizes grey. I would consider going bald. I know that I'm not the only person over 50 that does this.
This post is really long, but if there is something I've left out, feel free to ask in the comments here.

I didn't say it explicitly: you should do YC if you get the chance.
Treat Li-Ion batteries like people to make them last
There is a big implicit "for now" after nearly every sentence in the article. Sure, we don't have machines that can autonomously optimize themselves. For now.
Rewatch RailsConf Keynotes with Live Twitter Replay
For organization of a local collection of photos or other digital assets, http://www.cdwinder.de looks promising. I wish there was an open-architecture alternative that could be scripted.
How I became productive in Haskell
Any 20-somethings working in tech, remember that you too will age. And what goes around comes around.
I still don't trust a computer's judgement versus my own, so I'm reluctant to jump right into wanting a self-driving car.

Instead, I'd want the transition to be gradual. Maybe start with the self-parking stuff and the automatic lane-changing stuff, then migrate over to more and more automation until it really is self-driving. Even then, I'll probably always want a way to take manual control if necessary.
This is not profound. Human activity is imperfect. That's the case whether the human in question is a famous tenured professor or a hermit on a mountaintop. Perhaps politicians ought to pretend infallibility, but serious thinkers shouldn't. It's possible that we must consider many ideas that aren't true in any objective sense, in order to get closer to the the truth ourselves.
Should have been, yes. Actually knowledgable - not in a million years. Those who sit on the Group Executive Committee are extremely far removed from the day to day goings on. Running a 100k+ person bank with 4 completely different divisions is totally different from running a desk. The odds that someone on the GEC even knows the name of a person on a desk lower than MD or D is slim to none, unless that person is an absolute rockstar.
Ignoring your pithy insult of Deleuze's work (which is not math), I did not mean to imply that Deleuze preceded Shannon but that my understanding of Deleuze's work maps well to my understanding of information theory. It was a rehash _for me_.
Android Apps – Before and After
Startup Podcast Show. Episode 1, Season 2
"Over 50 years old" is a protected class for employment purposes.

Which has gotten hairy in circumstances where employers have been accused of discriminating against <50 year old workers, or in favor of older workers.
Ok, I read that twice, is the summary "The market is a complex tightly coupled system." ?

I get that, and I get such systems can be subject to anomalous events (early fly by wire systems for dynamically unstable aircraft was a good test case to study). But such systems can also be 'calmed' by damping. Isn't the SEC in charge of adding such damping to our financial trading systems?
What a great idea... Tumbler!
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=219631401821
By "private" market, does the article mean the the one that has a government created banking cartel printing a $1T a year and dumping it into it's capital markets (aka QE)?
>Grandmother. Mature. Experienced. Tested.

That is amazing. Do you think its using some kind of graph to link the words or did you just get lucky?
IMDB for programming.
The most relevant [ETA: US] case I can think of is the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse) in which over 100 people died and the engineers involved lost their licenses. No one went to jail, and this case was actually noteworthy for professional consequences being imposed for negligence.
The Supreme Court just ruled on Tuesday that police can't hold suspects to wait for a drug sniffing dog, so there's even more reason to refuse now.
Found another link: http://www.dwheeler.com/gram.html
That 'idiomatic' JS is but a mere illusion perpetuated by a VM written in C++. We can do this all day.
I appreciate SSH's ability to work as a dumb pipe. Tunnels are a boon to my life.

What I really, really want is for the SSH documentation to make sense even to people who don't already know what it means. If I know what I want to do, and SSH provides a way of doing that exact thing, I don't think it's too much to ask for the documentation to be good enough that I recognize the thing I want when I read about it. As things currently stand, the ProxyCommand documentation is only helpful at all if you already know all about ProxyCommand.
It's important to note that some of the items in your list complement Kubernetes rather than replace it.

Think of a cluster of VMs running CoreOS + Tectonic as an alternative to Google Container Engine.

Kismatic apparently calls itself "the Kubernetes Company."

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Kubernetes or GKE.
No need. We can use the example of medical negligence, if your rather.
Screw startups, it's all about making nations and converting them to cash!

LIKE NO OTHER NATION.
Younation is a bright nation service that makes it easy to turn your nations into cash.

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=528893498703

:D
I think this is a real indicator and validation of what the next economy will look like: humans at the apex of the arts, where imagination and craft will be highly valued in the everyday folk worker, and mundane or trivial tasks will be assigned to automatons. We will choose our own employment adventure.
"Stacksort" is probably the right thing to bring up here. A sorting algorithm that searches SO and copies code from there until the list is sorted.

Origin: https://xkcd.com/1185/

Implementation: http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
> Exercise also works, seemingly about as well as SSRIs for many people with moderate depression (Googling will provide examples of studies from the last few couple decades to that affect). I haven't read much about this but I would imagine that the metabolic and cellular stresses of a bout of heavy exercise (in which millions of cells die) promotes the production of growth factors all over the body, including in the brain.

Evidence is inconclusive for exercise; more research needed.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depre...

> When only high-quality trials were included, exercise had only a small effect on mood that was not statistically significant.

[...]

> Exercise is moderately more effective than no therapy for reducing symptoms of depression.

> Exercise is no more effective than antidepressants for reducing symptoms of depression, although this conclusion is based on a small number of studies.

> Exercise is no more effective than psychological therapies for reducing symptoms of depression, although this conclusion is based on small number of studies.

> The reviewers also note that when only high-quality studies were included, the difference between exercise and no therapy is less conclusive.

> Attendance rates for exercise treatments ranged from 50% to 100%.

> The evidence about whether exercise for depression improves quality of life is inconclusive.

So far a talking therapy, or a talking therapy combined with medication, are recommended for mild to moderate depression. That might change for some people with depression if we get better social interventions and lifestyle changes.
In order for it not to be terrible, it should offer something better than competition (i.e. more bandwidth for lower prices, better customer service and so on).
Hell, if highways could have built-in charging strips (that would charge your car as you drove over them (assuming your car is electric)), all you'd need is a built-in watercloset and kitchen/pantry and you'd be all set for a non-stop road trip to anywhere!
Seems very balanced and well argued.
Scenario 2 is hardly taboo. It's a Hollywood trope
I've just tried rust beta2 on a fresh Windows7 VM, and at least the "hello world" app compiles and runs without any issues.

Would you mind filing a bug about this? (with as much configuration details as possible). Thanks!
>So are companies now supposed to mirror the demographics of a population exactly?

Uhm, no, that is not at all the argument being made here. The argument is:

Google had a median age of 29 in 2013, while the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the median age was 43 years in the U.S. for computer programmers
I like sex. People who don't should do us a favor and not have it so we can weed that out of the human race.
That's not a 1:1 analogy. Civil engineering is a mature field, and the best practices in design / methods for analyzing structures are very well defined at this point. Effectively regulating the finance industry requires more than following the rules to the letter - also involves who you know, creativity in catching new kinds of misbehavior, and a bit of luck.
My favourite account of Plato involves one of his alleged interactions with Diogenes. As told by wikipedia:

> "When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man." After this incident, "with broad flat nails" was added to Plato's definition."
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND
Regardless if it is true in this particular case, the real big red flag is in the final sentences:

> The lawsuit notes that Google’s Diversity webpage does not include age-related workforce data, despite disclosing data about other worker characteristics. Other tech companies releasing workforce diversity data did not typically disclose age data either.

The entire industry really trying hard to cover up the issue.
The author would have benefitted from a bit of historical knowledge of the university as an institution. The English were making the same sort of complaints about Scottish universities in the 18th Century, and it's pretty clear from our perspective now where more of the insights emerged in that period.

While he may find it distasteful, the first university in Bologna appears to have formed around a core faculty who decided to start charging students for their lectures.
I did understand who you were alluding to. But for those unfamiliar, are you implying that modern and historical feminists who have a conception of the oppression of women that you and some people in Queer Theroy and some tumblr users disagree with, coined the name "TERF", rather than the latter group? An uninformed reader would possibly take away that some number of feminists actually, non-ironically, take on the label "TERF". In my time in reading dozens of writers on these issues, which has been at least a year now, I've never seen this. So hopefully that wasn't the implication.

If one's confidence in one's own bias is such that one can inject it into discourse without feeling the need to cite any material which asserts ideas which they are biased "against" ("Second-wave essentiallism", whatever that entails), or even import material supporting their own claims, would one not mind if another was to comment with some reading material for those who may be interested in this thread? For example, the 2013 letter "Forbidden Discourse: The Silencing of Feminist Criticism of 'Gender'" written by 37 second-wave and modern radical feminists [0], or the essay "SSCAB/DSCAB: Reconsidering the Conversation" written by a black radical feminist [1], or glosswitch's "Beauty and the cis" [2]? Surely it shouldn't change anything to point out that these writings exist.

[0] reprinted here: https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/authenticity-...

[1] https://bmgnedra.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/sscabdscab-reframi...

[2] http://glosswatch.com/2014/04/20/beauty-and-the-cis/
One of my favorite parts of living in this (at-points) expensive, overcrowded, noisy, competitive, shallow, and brutal metropolis is the extensive walking culture that we share. My walk/bike commute to work could meander along the same main and side streets, with every one of the ~251 trips taken being uniquely constructed.

Furthermore, that ignores the wiggling route I enevitably travel, pushed left by a honking cab and similarly colored stoplight, or nudged right by the inevitable crowded side street filled with movie sets or construction vehicles.

Putting aside the health benefits of human-powered-travel, it's both a refreshing and invigorating way to spool up my mind on the way into the office, and also a way to decompress and release the day's aspirational steam that's best not blown out all at once, just inside your apartment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabiah_bridge_collapse is one in Israel.
5 Interesting Austin Technology Growth Statistics
That sounds a great deal like what Universities are supposed to be. (Or did I miss the funny?)
I got offered an alternative to that:

"SQUEEZE SOMETHING INTERACTIVE"

http://i.imgur.com/BfYOkLo.jpg
When events are happening at the microsecond scale, its not really a 'market' anymore, its more like a casino. Its just some game with arbitrary rules that various actors are trying to win via different strategies. The link to any real world concept of 'investing in companies' is very weak when positions are only held for the very short term.
There's not enough information here. Just because Google says you're a good candidate does not mean that you're going to get the job. It just means you look good on paper. I'm curious how the phone interview went. What details were discussed? And experience means nothing. If your skill set doesn't match what Google wants then you're a pass.
What's the basis for sending regulators to jail? Will you send cops to prison when crimes happen, because they failed to prevent them? This is somewhat of a pre-cog/ Minority Report dilemma. I think law makes a reasonable distinction between crimes of commission and crimes of omission. Proving motive and intent are important parts of the judicial process. Madoff intended to defraud.

You can prevent a person with malicious intent from causing further damage by imprisoning them. You 'deter' people who commit crimes of omission by keeping them away from whatever they proved incompetent at (debar lawyers, de-license doctors and regulators, fire engineers, etc.)
My wife is wondering why I'm laughing so hard that tears are rolling down my cheek. Excellent parodies, very well done :-)
It's 40, not 50, that the ADEA covers
I cut my hair short because I look better that way. Not for any other reason.
No one will deny that there are charlatans and poets posing as philosophers in the continental tradition. Tatterdemalion's post even prefaces with that. There are also straight up falsifiers and a endemic of p-value smudgers in the hard sciences. A good rebuttal to this Chomsky quote are the lovely debates he had with Foucault himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8

There is a plethora of writings of substance in the continental tradition. Writings that we should not ignore. 'Discipline and Punish' is one of them. I recommend 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment' by Adorno as your complement to Popper's writings.

On another note, I don't generally see the value in antagonisms between paradigms or presentation forms. I find value from the analytical perspective and from critical theory, and being able to dance both dances is illuminating. I don't think the empirical process can reveal the entirety of the human experience. Steadfastly stumping for one paradigm over the other is no more useful than being a vim/emacs zealot.

If Deleuze or Foucault don't grok for you, it doesn't mean the authors are _wrong_ or lying to readers to obtain mystic status. Just like someone not caring to study Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory shouldn't write off the entirety of mathematics.
>age is not a protected class, as far as I know.

Age >40 is a protected class (in hiring). Only older than 40 though.
...If we build framework to support such an economy, it may be possible.
The question is what's causing this? Is it income disparity and a lack of wealth distribution, making our universities tailor more towards making money? Is it the information golden age that we're in, making education more of a 4 year summer camp for people to have fun instead of learning? Is it leftism and our need for increasing political correctness and thus bureaucracy to enforce that? Is it a side effect of our new trend of sticking everyone into a skinner box?

I dunno.
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> Apple now has enough market share, especially in mobile

Not really. Depending on the country, the iPhone has between 10 and 20% market share and they are shrinking month after month. Android is on its way to becoming a monopoly, for sure.
I pluck the majority of the grey hairs in my beard.
"Google" was a good name...
>Paul Graham is a kind of stateless incisive advice machine.

Could you expand on this assessment?
It's not the "moving in the right direction", it's just slowing down the pace of going in current one, and I'd say it's just a stopgap. Even if you temporarily save a few high-skilled jobs (which are least endangered anyway), you're still waiting for software "gods" to grant machines the gift of self-improvement.
Mosselen in the Witte Wijn – Mussels in White Wine
I've read about this sort of discrimination in many industries outside of tech. However, what I'm curious about is this: what is the likelihood that someone this age will retire in < 5 years? If that likelihood is high, I could see why a company would pass over hiring them (though I know how annoying this can be if you're in that age range and looking for a job).

I wonder if anything could be done to make hiring someone who is potentially near retirement more appealing to companies?
I expect that economics of many of these companies doesn't work with people doing 35 or 40 hours a week. Which means that all these castles are built on sand because this will catch up with them.
True, but it was never the end users who were going to be affected by this deal. It was the suppliers and vendors and other service providers who were going to be hurt because there were going to be fewer and fewer clients that they could work with.
Idiomatic JavaScript is terrible to read. I'm not one for metalanguages but I'd be hard pressed to argue against it in this case.
They certainly aren't the only ones capable of critical thinking, but they are supposedly the ones who received a 4-year education in critical thinking, while other people were spending time learning about physics or what have you.
You really want the surgeon who is only doing his best due to fear to be operating on you?

None of those listed professions at any time motivate their training
due to fear of imprisionment. It is a complete non factor and it's
only effect is to shovel more pain and tragedy on already tragic
situations to the illusion of relief for a small porportion of the
parties aggrevied.
> ... which slows you to 2G speeds after 5GB, instead.

You do realize they really do offer an unthrottled unlimited plan, right? $100/mo. for 2 lines (so $50/mo./line) as of five minutes ago when I double-checked their site.
How do you manage with just one primary key column allowed by the ORM?
Yes, of course RAII is much shorter than a contrived example designed to be as long as possible. Here's a much shorter version:

int unsafe2()
{
A* a = new A;
int retval = 0;

if (a->f())
{
B* b = new B;

if (b->f())
retval = b->g();
else
retval = a->g();

delete b;
}

delete a;
return retval;
}

I agree that RAII is a good thing, but can we please avoid straw-man examples?
I'm not sure if this would suffice, but I came across https://github.com/tonini/alchemist.el
The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science
1. Cheating on some childrens exam should not even be a criminal offence. If people went to jail for fluffing up their progress we would all be in jail.

2. Disobeying your boss is usually not a good career move. This is not an ethics issue this is a "do you want to pay rent this month" issue.

3. Why not quit? A software engineer in the valley could go downstairs and work for another software company, a teacher would have to relocate to find another employer because the local district controls 95% of the local teaching jobs.
However, what I'm curious about is this: what is the likelihood that someone this age will retire in < 5 years?

In terms of headcount, how does that differ from (for example) a 25-year-old leaving for another employer after a couple of years?
Or go "silver fox", you will be upper management material!
Are you saying you can't predict the age of someone without a phone screen and that a phone screen predicts age? I'm not sure how I would know a person's age by talking to them on the phone. Do people "sound old?" Not something I've noticed. On the other hand it is easy to know someone's age from their resume. If they graduated college in 1965 and have 20 years at two companies than you know they are pretty old.

Though now that I think about it, the other day someone on the phone asked me if I was over 21. When I said I was 32 she was like "oh, I'm sorry, you sound so young."
Yet, they largely have a reputation as incapable of critical thought. When an archeology professor is talking about critical thought they mean an argument capable of convincing people. Technical people may view this as sloppy thinking as a transistor does not care what you think, but it’s a very valuable skill. It's not just useful for convincing other, but also to notice when you’re being manipulated.

PS: With this mindset listening to a news broadcast can become almost painful as you see layers of deception. Study a little marketing and suddenly a lot of 'toys' seem more like 'junk'.
To enable that, we need to have an economic system that redistributes the resources so that we can all have a shot a living a decent life, reducing the working hours of the many rather than the wealth of the few. Has there been a time in history where so many people have been working so much for so little?
Through some miracle, I am able to get Comcast, Verizon FIOS, AND RCN. I chose RCN. For $40/month, I get 50/10 internet. JUST internet. I didn't want a TV bundle, and with RCN, I didn't have to buy it. Amazing how that works!
I think age discrimination laws actually hurt older workers because companies don’t want to hire them and incur the litigation risk. And after this case Google would probably think twice before deciding even to interview older people.
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