skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the hell? I'm chilean, born and raised. I've been in the US for about 9 years and this depicts the problem the US has interpreting latin american news.
Did you guys know Bachelet announced in an INTERVIEW she had asked for the resignations of all her ministers and in the coming days would work on building a new team? Whatever the single quoted person on this article saying Chile will have free higher education by March 2016 is looking for a job right now.
This government is so full of shit not even the president could stand her own ministers!
World: please do your reading first before posting about something you have absolutely NO idea. All this does is give more power to the socialists running these countries for their own power agenda and wealth.
Chile's economy is where it is thanks to Sebastian Pinera, go research it. Like the saying says ... Socialism is a great thing! Until you run out of other people's money.
Read the book "The Verbally Abusive Relationship".

If you don't set limits with people, they will walk all over you.
I am disabled and mentally ill, which is why I don't get hired for a job. I didn't used to be this way and developed it from a lot of stress while working.

I can still do tech work and program, just that everyone can pick up I am mentally ill and discriminate against me for it. I'd have to find the right company that can accommodate a mentally ill person as an employee. I'm often accused of having autism in the way I talk and write.

I am also over 40 now, so age is a factor.
It should be remembered that this resulted in the nearly complete destruction of Native American civilization.
What I meant by unmotivated people with all basic necessities met being unmotivated - I was speaking of middle class suburbanites I know, who's goals and accomplishments hardly exceed watching full seasons of television shows. A civilization of couch potatoes just reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPGlVqqEP0

As for any reform that would help treat, rehabilitate, and employ [1] former convects (or differ to rehabilitation programs instead of the money sink hell hole of the prison system) - that would bring a welcome and significant impact to all the millions of dollars, lives, time and resources wasted on for profit prisons and the vicious cycle of convicts with no where to turn.

[1] http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/07/3p-weekend-10-companies-...
> What mattered to me most was getting away from "1 process per container" mentality.

As I understand, when Garden used to be called Warden, the team looked at the very early versions of Docker. They talked to the Docker team and didn't decide to use Docker as the substrate of Cloud Foundry because of the single-process model. Makes it hard to sideload agents.

That said, the next-gen Cloud Foundry guts (Diego) can take Docker images as native currency, so YMMV.
Well, today Paddy Ashdown in the UK said he'd eat his hat if the exit polls in the UK were correct.

They were correct. He didn't eat a hat.

No matter what happens, you won't eat a hat.

No matter what happens at zappo's I can 100% guarantee you will never eat a hat. I will 100% confirm that you will never, ever eat a hat because you are a liar. The only thing we can be 100% sure about is that you are a liar who will never eat a hat. I'm not going to offer to eat a hat if you eat a hat, because I'd be a liar as I'd never eat a hat, but I am confidant in saying you are a complete and utter liar who we should ignore because you won't ever eat a hat. Ever. You lied, you are a liar and you will never, ever, ever eat a hat.

So the complete and utter liar and completely pointless commentator in this entire escapade is you.

You said something, we shouldn't listen to it.

Simply because you are a liar who will never, ever eat a hat even if you are wrong.

My Dad once offered to eat a hat. Not to me, but to the local paper. Ultimately, he was right. He was still an idiot for offering to eat a hat. Because he wouldn't have eaten that hat.
The heat of combustion will also cause more space to be taken up.
....yeah.

SSL libraries never have bugs.

Its a great idea if it could be done without giving you any of my bank credentials beyond what is on a check and basically public knowledge.

https://plaid.com/docs/#add-user

That right there is why I won't use it regardless. No offense to you or Plaid's security. Just the idea I'm going to hand over the same credentials that let me transfer money out of my institution isn't an acceptable solution.
When you build your client base and you start off by charging a low price, any referral work you get (and it gets to be a large portion of your work as the base grows) will have a harder time with raised rates.

The underlying psychology shows us that we undervalue ourselves whereas other people tend not to since they view us as experts. They are generally willing to pay a lot more to have a solved problem than we would want to charge.

Start high and go higher until you meet resistance.
Challenges/Practice for software testing (prototype)
Journal article here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
0 & 1 is not 1, it's 0.

0000 0001 1111 1110 0000 0001 1110 0000
& 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 1110
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0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
I knew where it was going the moment I saw the title. Pity more people don't know about http://yves-bonnardel.info/en/manifesto-for-the-abolition-of...
2) is a pretty good point actually, maybe slack could integrate that in their backend - basically if the irc client is set as away do not mark read.
if not or returns from away, make all buffers read.

Not too hard and would be quite convenient (im not a slack user, but if i become one, id like that in case i log in the webui later..)
Michael, I hear you but haven't you noticed that most employers use third party agencies these days? Don't know about OR, but it's very true for NY and NJ (and probably CT). That's why there are threads about jobs being difficult to find. On one hand there are plenty of jobs, on the other hand there are none (or too few).

We're very sympathetic with all the job seekers but right now there are just too few jobs in our database. Eventually we may introduce a special keyword to omit staffing agencies from the search results or something like that.

And thank you for your input too! Good luck with your job search!
It's fast but needs some work. I get a lot of false hits, especially when you add the city.
Global Search Market share or cold war? You decide
Spot on. There either needs to be some kind of OS level control (Grand Central), or tweaks through the environment, like OpenMP - where you set in advance how much threads are to be used by the process.

I think Microsoft's PPL had something where it would've cooperated with the OS, but things did not worked out as expected and it wasn't delivered. Or I could be completely wrong, some links here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee207192.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd984036.aspx
There's still management in Holacracy, but it's not a full-time paid role, it's devolved into groups.
I'm curious. What is the definition of fairness and how does it not apply in that comment?
Followed by:

> These numbers are made up, of course...
"I don't look at it and think, well they should have started out with higher prices right from the start, since clearly they were worth it all along!"

Emphasis on "too little" in my comment leading up to your reply.

And it's not about what they are worth it's about what the solution is worth to the person buying. Almost always more than the developer/worker thinks their time is worth.
We're not talking about a system where people would rather stay at home, and the Western countries decide they know better and take them away.

We're talking about a situation where people desperately want to get to Western countries, so much so that they risk their lives journeys of hundreds of miles over deserts on foot and oceans in shitty boats, and the Western states are employing thousands of people to keep them out.

This isn't "Take Ye Up The White Man's Burden," this is "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
How so?

It is fair to the country that a greater number of people have access to good quality education. The lesser unfairness that this causes in the people who don't care about public education is acceptable. Same as the lesser unfairness that public roads cause to people who don't use roads is also acceptable. This is the greater good we are talking about.
Ask HN: Has anyone else found Angular to be destroying their productivity?
I recently joined a new company that uses Angular. I'm not really directly bashing Angular here, because I like the ideas behind it and think it's a neat framework that can potentially be used well.

However, what I've found is that every single little thing is being blown up by 10x LOC in order to "fit the Angular philosophy"....things I could accomplish in 150-300 lines of plain JS become 1600 lines of Angular code, written before I got here, which I have to spend hours debugging.

I find 90% of my development time is spent figuring out the angular flow of code when the problem should be so simple.

Has anyone had similar experiences?
> But what actually happened was that people who were good at their job, and could find work elsewhere, left. So they would have had all of the top talent leave the company and the remaining employees would be the people who did just enough to get by.

This reminds me quite a bit of a blog post from The Wetware Crisis on what he deemed The Dead Sea Effect ( http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d... )

While not a forced evaporation which you describe, its the 'the best people can get jobs elsewhere' and 'the less capable people entrench themselves as experts on critical systems to where they can't afford to be let go'.
> other countries are plagued by the missteps of their previous generations

Plenty of poor countries are plagued by the legacy of crimes committed against them by rich countries (and in some cases, ongoing exploitation today).

It's pretty glib to write that off as "oh well, natural state of affairs"
It's a shame that "living with mom and dad" is taken as failure in the US. If the situation could be a happy one, it seems like a nice way to do things.
Something worth pointing out here: apart from the EU, there isn't even open immigration among rich countries. A Swede, (or Briton or Canadian) can't just decide to pack his things up and come to work in the US (though the visa waiver program for tourists is pretty sweet). There are still visa hoops to jump through, paperwork to be done. It's easier, if you're a rich-country-citizen, to move to another rich country, but by no means a done deal.

It's hard to make a logical argument that immigration controls exist purely for economic reasons; social services and weather apart, Sweden (or the UK or Canada) and the US have comparable standards of living and levels of English proficiency. None of the arguments against allowing unchecked immigration from poor countries to rich (education, overwhelming public services, falling wages etc) apply in this scenario and yet (again, apart from the EU), open immigration between roughly equally developed countries doesn't exist.
The problem with open migration is that then those with the means (even limited ones) get up and leave, leaving the rest even poorer. As a very loose analogy, think of it as evaporative cooling; it results in a net loss for the source.

Instead of short-term fixes (which include distributing food, clothes, etc.) I would hope that Western countries would actually help build up the infrastructure in these poor countries, and let them run their own affairs.

And, for the sake of all that's good and holy, stop propping up dictators all across the world, if that means our gas is $0.05 cheaper or our phones are $.25 cheaper.
Interesting. Well, you would know better than I do since you obviously have way more experience! I appreciate the advice and will keep that in mind!
This article, to the extent it makes a valid argument at all, is not an argument for open immigration. It's an argument for removing barriers to adoption of children in poor countries by parents in rich countries. Extending that (valid) point to a claim about open immigration in general is not justified.

Also, I find at least one factual howler in the article: the claim that South Africa after the end of apartheid has been a stable country.
Chile is corrupt from top to bottom. It's true that you can't bribe the cops, and Chileans are very proud of this (primarily because you can bribe the cops in Argentina), but access to opportunity in Chile is almost 100% dependent on who you know. The entire business class has raised nepotism to an art form.

While free university education sounds good, even going to a top-ranked school like Universidad de Chile isn't going to help much if you've got the wrong last name and don't have the right pitutos.
You don't remember Microsoft Surface, the coffee table touch computer?
> . Granting free universal access to certain things benefits the poor and those with lower incomes, even if it's not particularly beneficial for people with higher incomes. That's a good trade-off in my opinion, and in the opinion of progressive governments.

This is patently, obscenely false.

A value-added economy depends on qualified, skilled labor. If the pool of people with higher education is smaller, you will have less potential to develop industries with that requirement. Training costs will fall on companies (which will be onerous and will not supplant a 4-year degree), and costs for the smaller labor pool go up.

It is in the interests of all developing economies to have talent in their workforce. It's a significant limiting factor in many industries in Latin America.
Space is not infinite, they check your 'file' and admission is based on your grades.

Also, priority is (or at least was years ago) given to people who come out of high school, making it impossible to get into university if you didn't go directly from high school.
Lot of people seems to be thinking that these 14% are leaving because they miss having a manager. Employees who take buyout in this situation are usually the ones in people manager roles. Many of them might also believe that they probably would not do as great in "individual contributor" roles as they did in management role. Some of these may be good managers and some may be just great politics player. However rarely would be the individual contributor who would want to take ultimate step of leaving because of the fear of not having a manager. If Zappos had 1:5 managers to people ratio then 14% makes sense using this theory.

Beside, in any large enough company, I think offer of fat severance is likely to be taken up by 5% or more of its employees at any point in time who were thinking about leaving anyway.

Management-less company needs to hire employees with specific cultural and social mindset. So this needs to happen at the birth time. Trying to do this at later date can feel like circumcision at 18.
It's not just freelancers, agencies need them too. Most agencies exist and die on a relatively small handful of anchor clients, if for no other reason than stable cash flow so they can make payroll.

By-the-way, these anchor clients usually aren't exciting or fun. In fact, they're usually creatively boring and predictable.
Ask HN: Any success with Toastmasters?
I'm looking into ways to get better at public speaking and have heard great things about Toastmasters. Has anyone here had success with their program as a way to prep for conferences and tech talks?
Doesn't Zappos make a similar offer to everyone that finishes their new employee training program?
Arguing that citizenship laws are complicated and burdensome so we should get rid of all of them is the left wing equivalent of the right wing argument that taxes are complicated and burdensome so we should get rid of all of them.
Yes, but you have to finish typing the syntax first, and the IDE that is constantly parsing your code file is always going to report errors as the code goes through a broken state while you're typing. That's one thing Unison is trying to fix.
There is a huge difference between "universities with a lot of money" like Harvard and for-profit universities like Corinthian College.
How will it make a difference?

Say you're a poor Chilean and thanks to this new policy you get a free ride at Universidad de Chile or Católica, the two top universities in Chile. You're well educated, but you've got the wrong last name and no connections - who on earth is going to hire you for anything? Say you start a business. Who's going to give you capital? Who's going to even do business with you, when they've never heard of you or anyone in your family?

This is a way to placate the often-radical student movement in Chile, but I can't see it helping poor Chileans that much if at all. Perhaps they can get their educations and then emigrate to a place with less nepotism.
Hi There. I'm just here to get in line for a "I've been working on something similar..." comment. Nice work!
Feedback: To be honest if I saw it while browsing links to check out I'd immediately disregard it due to the design - it seriously looks like an old geocities template. Even if your content is good - I think the design needs to be worked on, it doesn't need to be flash, but just modernised.
I've been looking for another RSS reader for awhile and this looks pretty cool, I requested an invite!
Hisense $149 Chromebook.  Has laptops gotten too cheap?
Unless you're trying to be precise and detailed (as opposed to spewing startup advertising), in which case "tell" is exactly what you should be doing.
What is it called? We chose to use full state names rather than the abbreviations, i.e. "New Jersey" rather than "NJ." That's why "District of Columbia" rather than "DC."

Right now at least one keyword such as Java needs to be specified in order for the search to return results (assuming there are jobs with those keywords). Adding a location (you can have multiple cities and/or states) narrows your search down to jobs in those cities or states.

We may change the logic to return all the jobs if only a location is specified. This seems to be the confusing part. (We're analyzing job searches to improve them.)

Thanks for your feedback!
Oh, no disagreement here. My comment was poorly worded. I meant "even if it didn't particularly benefit", but like you said, it's in the overall best interest of everyone in the country that the majority of the population has access to good quality education. And this is true even if you don't think in terms of the workforce.

With an exception, of course: some people would rather the rest of the people weren't as well educated as themselves. That way they can continue paying them miserably low salaries. It's a self-destructive behavior, but it still happens, because some people don't think long term. I didn't want to address this in my original comment.
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I understand clearly what it is; perhaps it's only fluff to you because it's aimed higher than your technical reading level?
In this case "I'll eat my shoe" might be more appropriate.
You are right, my bad. Actual average salary is USD 10k/year. Also notice the USD 5k/year is tuition for an engineering degree (2nd most expensive - only to med school) at the best universities, so it's pretty much one of the most expensive degrees you can get in Chile.

Also, it is really easy to get a low-interest student loan (which a lot of people don't even pay).

My guess is that access to education in Australia is definitely better than in Chile, but I wouldn't say education in Chile is the most expensive in the world.
Guessing he or she means they sell shoes, not software or hardware.
This is the problem I see with mass migration. People don't seem to consider the effects it will have on the society. For example, I want Northern European countries to continue to be secular and open, but what happens if millions of refugees from north Africa & the middle east come? Will they suddenly adopt the same values? That is doubtful, and if they become citizens and voters they can have a real impact in the direction of the country.
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> OpenBSD requires at least 8 bytes of random data per TCP connection. Limiting a system to 1000 conn/sec (to say nothing of any other processing those connections may require) probably isn't going to fly.

They can use the generated random values to seed a CSPRNG. I guess for containers or other virtual environments this has distinct advantages (at least that's one of the reasons given in the introduction).

> As a comparison, I can read from /dev/random (and write to /dev/null) at over 300 MB/s.

You can read from /dev/random only if there is enough entropy in it, and it's rarely very much, I don't know how you got that 300MB/s figure.
> haven't you noticed that most employers use third party agencies these days?

I have not noticed this in MA, and companies that do this go to the bottom of my response list. I had the same reaction as the grandparent poster, and something that tries to foist those sorts of things off on me is an immediate "nope, I'll look elsewhere."
The table that we run this on has 220K rows with a size on disk of 1.8 GB. I mentioned in the post that we'd tried out this approach with 23 million rows which was slow! From our (limited) testing the speed holds up until around 1 to 2 million rows, at which point I'd suggest a dedicated solution.
Would you not want to spend your money on social mobility, equality and education?
Where exactly are you getting the figure that 45% of the USA is illiterate? Measured rates are closer to 1%.

That kind of absurd exaggeration really discredits your point.
Zappos holacracy: Many employees choose to leave instead of work with no boss
> access to opportunity in Chile is almost 100% dependent on who you know

isn't this true everywhere?

how can you take an opportunity from a person you don't know?
Is there a pressure point at which the transformation cannot occur? (Obviously far beyond the realm of what a casket is going to contain)
Here are some leads for you:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/oregon/m...

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/washingt...

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/californ...

None of them are staffing firms.
Don't get me wrong, Skylines is basically a good game to me, but as someone that has been playing the "Sim" series of games since the original SimCity, I think they missed many of the lessons learned by those games and really could have released a much better game.

Most of my qualms with Skylines are sort of "nitpicking", but they are pretty glaring:

1) the annoying tweet bird with no option to disable (at
last check) because the devs felt it was central to their
design

2) terrible UI graphics (I know this is subjective,
but...) seriously; the UI graphics are not very
polished compared to SimCity 2000 or SimCity 3 even
and look like they were made by a programmer

3) funky road placement; the road placement tools have a
lot of the same "floaty" feeling that SimCity "5" did that
has lead to much frustration (see the skylines subreddit
for various complaints about this)

Personally, I wish someone would create a modern version of SimCity 2000 instead using a voxel engine. I miss the precision of placement that it had and the simplicity of various systems.

With that said, they did get a lot of things "right" as far as I can tell, such as traffic simulation, map size, and general performance (mostly thanks to Unity really....) and their friendliness to mods, no extra drm, etc.
mrmondo, you've got a perfectly valid point! The website was developed by C++ developers. We can write CSS but modern web UI isn't our strength, :-(. And thank you for your input too!
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