skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being late sometimes is ok but every time for ~6 years ?

When people ask you to come at a certain time they are asking you if they can trust you to be here at that time. By arriving late deliberately you have abused their trust and been dishonest.

This is not a professional problem that you are having, it is a human problem : it is disrespect.
Customers are probably one of the highest rated "assets" of any company nowadays. So much of the expenses of the company go into acquiring them.
> Watching him reminded me of an oft-ignored piece of advice: Learn by doing what you love. Obsession is key when it comes to mastering programming (or anything). While it’s perfectly fine to choose this career path as just that—a career—it also takes a level of dedication and excitement that can’t be generated without a natural spark.

Or you could use a mixture of natural inclination, as well as trying your best to adapt to the situation and deal with it in a positive manner.

I suspect that the author's approach is too reactive, and doesn't work for anyone but those who happened to be lucky enough to stumble upon something that they love doing in their childhood or early adulthood, and then it happened to actually be employable. Not to mention, even if you loved programming as a teenager and/or in university and/or on OSS, that doesn't mean that you will love programming in "the industry"[1], which might be a different experience then what you are used to. Then what are going to do? Rely on this reactive attitude of "either I am naturally inclined to like this thing, or it isn't for me at all"? Well that might have been enough for you to learn the ropes and such, but it might be a crushing blow to find out that you don't fall immediately in love with whatever programming you find in paid work, or the programming that you have to do for you physics research, or whatever else you find yourself needing programming for. Then what are you supposed to do? Go back to school for another 2-5 years, change profession, or maybe stop being so reactive and start to find pleasure in whatever things you might think is your natural kryptonite, but actually might be a more superficial disinclination which can be learned or unlearned.

Programmers are supposedly so passionate. Or at least supposedly a large subset of them. But for such a passionate group, they sure seem to often default to reactively being upset and cranky and cynical over whatever facet of their programming experience they don't like.

[1] I use "the industry" as an example here purely because it tends to come later in the programming lives of passionate programmrs, not because it is necessarily terrible compared to other forms of programming. Indeed, I don't have any industry experience yet myself, and such fears that "You might like programming in university or whatever, but will you like it when you actually have to use it to support yourself?" has been a worry of mine for some time now.
Sure OK let's take the UK out of it.

However, I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that civil dispute resolution mechanisms for defamation have to constitute a restriction on speech. People can still say whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever they want. They can merely be called out if they are lying.
+1 for Piwik.

It's better to have the raw data on your own server. I also like Piwik better than GA.
That might be part of it, but car quality has increased dramatically over time. In many ways the average 10 year old car now is in about the same mechanical condition as a 5 year old car in 1990. Combined with the general low mileage of most city cars and there is little reason to drive a new car.
What happened to the "release early, release often" idea? That's pretty much the opposite of "don't put anything in repo until it's perfect".
Yes, but it will index it.
Pinterest’s Plans to Build Its International Playbook
Why 'Mobile First' may already be outdated
Part of the Bob's argument was that the function was not just doing a replacement, but also a ensuring the replacement was only done once. Essentially, there's state maintenance in there, which complicates things, hence the original post about extraction.

Extraction provides descriptions to the state maintenance. I would agree this particular post is taking abstraction to an unreasonable level, but that is definitely a subjective analysis.
Even spoken words can be magnified til they cause physical damage. In general, it is the information itself that must be held immune from restriction, not the physical expression via sound, light, or other physical medium.

Also, I'm not as clear yet on my views of the rights of protesting and assembly. I consider these important, but I have not yet thought through them and they may not need to be so binary in nature.
Erm. Hard to tell what I think of a piece of software when I haven't used it. There's plenty of reader extensions, greasemonkey scrips and bookmarklets to improve readability. What makes them better or worse is the implementation and styles.

As they say, the proof is in the pudding.
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is planning for 100 years of business a virtue? or even feasible? all I can imagine you mean by that is they try to be fiscally responsible and keep money for the future, and Japan has no monopoly on that practice.
I think for most professionals, the issue is indeed "human/position mismatch". I've been in that mismatch, and trying to make it work despite myself was one of the hardest things I've ever done. One day I had to decide to move on. Then things got better, after some very painful life changes.

I would have respected management far more if they had said "You're just not a good fit here, but you will be somewhere else, and we wish you the best of luck. Let's help you find something better." Does anyone do that?
Crony Capitalism is just regular capitalism.
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
" According to Tobin’s Q, equities in the U.S. are valued about 10 percent above the cost of replacing their underlying assets -- higher than any time other than the Internet bubble and the 1929 peak."

Cue the "new normal" excuses. The "prices have reached a plateau". The same pre-buble-burst talk that has happened every other time.

This will not end well.
Overviewer relies on a Minecraft client JAR file to pull the textures out of. It also supports pulling the textures out of a filesystem directory, so in theory you could just un-jar all of your mods, fish out the assets directories, and put them all where Overviewer can see them.
Rapid-fire editing with text objects [...] ought to work pretty well on screen.

I wish they'd just do away with the rapid-fire crap altogether. It breaks the immersion. A mildly witty easter egg does not compensate for making every nerd in the audience of your nerd-movie cringe...

Just show some realistic typing, with mistakes and perhaps a quick copy/paste.
Micro-Services: Clojure vs. Scala
Maybe try http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi and affiliated sub-Reddits?
There are consequences and there are government consequences. The latter is bad, the former falls under free speech.

A person can say <controversial opinion> and in response others can choose to no longer associate with them, do business with them, etc.

(There is an issue when the primary means of communication become privatized, but that is an area I've yet to work out.)
> The idea that freedom of speech is an all-or-nothing event is a simplistic, extremist position, that doesn't survive contact with the real world. You can still criticise, discuss, and be democratic with some restrictions on freedom of speech - pretty much all the nations we call 'western democracies' do exactly that.

See, you are casually ignoring he is talking about top-down Government censorship rather than the kind of speech that opens you up to civil liability (defamation).

Defamation, libel, etc. laws are necessary to prevent abuse of speech to the point it causes financial damage via falsehoods.

However, it does not require government censorship and prior restraint which is what the UK Government is advocating.

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EDIT (to get around post timer, this is the last time I'm responding to you because your argument is just disingenuous at best):

...that is such a disingenuous argument that I'm assuming you are just are oblivious.

> So let's change it to government censorship: an absolute stance with no restrictions on freedom of speech now means that there is now no longer any confidential or secret information. No need for spies - senior government employees can just sell national secrets to the highest bidder, and if they're found out, hey, speech is not restricted.

No one is suggesting people are suddenly immune to contract law or NDAs, which solve this problem. You simply sue such people for breech of contract until its not financially profitable to sell such information.

> And privacy laws go out the window. It's not defamation if it's accurate, right? So now people in the NHS can quite happily spread around gossip of your private medical history. Privacy laws are specifically, at their core, top-down government censorship.

...no?

NDAs also solve this problem and/or a requirement for NDAs.

The problem with free speech restriction is not that you can't ask people to sign NDAs in return for a job. The problem with free speech restrictions is when it restraints everyone.

I really don't think you are getting the concept that:

A) Everyone has a right to exercise their freedom of speech without restriction.

B) If they lie, break a contractual obligation, or otherwise cause destruction...they can still be forced to suffer civil financial penalties via the Courts to deter such activities without massive justification. None of this requires Government censorship beyond "NHS employees must sign NDAs" [e.g. Snowden would have stayed in the US if he would have been bankrupted rather than thrown in prison for decades, I bet]
Yup, pretty much. One of the challenge of information economics is that the cost to recreate the information on which a business is founded can be much much higher than the cost of the hard assets (imagine what it would cost Google to recreate their search algorithms and index from scratch)

That said, there is a pretty reasonable point that if bonds were returning 5 - 6% over 10 years rather than 1%, quite a bit of capital would move back into bonds and away from equities. That would put a lot of downward pressure on the price of equities.
Depending on your server, it can be a blessing and a curse.

Some players where I play have resorted to building things in ways that aren't visible on the map so that other players can't find them. Adding the map to the server made for some interesting dynamics.
> Last time I was fired because someone didn't like my visage.

Lesson learnt - never fade to grey in a work situation.
I'm not sure that Orwell had much faith that he was writing an extreme cautionary tale, rather that he was just exposing what he saw as real forces acting in politics.
hahahahaha this one cracked me up
"Writing code without a stack is a lot like driving a car without a brake pedal: you don't realize how badly you need it, until you reach for it and it's not there."
Free speech as a right to criticise government is exceptionally important.

Free speech as a right to abuse people is not something I want to see in Europe.

I don't see these as being the same. I think there is something wrong with the common English language usage that we use the same term to cover multiple definitions.
If you sold every share of every company in the U.S.
and used the money to buy up all the factories, machines
and inventory, you’d have some cash left over.

"So by this theory the value of a tech startup is the developer's laptops and the value of a yoga studio is the loaner mats."

Where do you see a "theory" in that statement? I only see a calculation.
My older sister was in Spokane at the time. The airport was closed - hundreds of miles from St. Helens. I asked her to bring me some ash. She scooped up a small bag full from grandma's front yard. I told small baggies of it at school for two bucks apiece.

I still have some.
We'll know we're doomed when WIRED has a cover story on "The Long Boom" and how this time it's for real.
Rationally priced assets are valued by their prospective value.

In principle, the valuation seems overly simplistic. Corporate stocks — the combination of people and entitlements that can be wielded to generate revenue – should be more than the sum of the value of the piecemeal assets, IMHO.

Even if not overly simplistic, I feel like the methodology would leave a lot of room for broad speculation. How did they value: future redeemable assets, trade assets, intellectual property, intangible leverage, market and demographic prospects, cultural distinctions of the corporation, and goodwill? These things all tend to be waffly in the accounting, but they have a real impact on future income and therefore the prospective value of the company.

Everything I have read about Tobin suggests that the man was spectacularly clueless, and every time I read something about him I cringe and emit some guttorial sigh. In all likelihood I deeply misunderstand his thinking, but I have yet to see anything remotely resembling clear, persuasive arguments in defence of his ideas, which seem tragically disconnected from economic reality.
No, that's punishing the speech itself - NOT addressing the consequences thereof. Do I really have to explain the concept? Saying that "I have it on clear authority that vacri & sillygoose are thieves; liars; adulterers; responsible for a toxic spill that poisoned kids; stole from the pension accounts; rigged elections; etc" is of itself not actionable, but if such libel can be adjudicated the cause of otherwise baseless abuse by society inflicted on vacri & sillygoose then yes I can be incarcerated as a danger to society.

Apparently some people can't discern the difference between punishment of speech and punishment for consequences of speech. Obviously such people need be kept out of legislative office.
You can totally use Angular without jQuery. Angular provides its own jQuery "polyfill".
Learn the Unnecessary Things
This is silly. If you have a user of your site going through your bots file and specifically going to directories listed as Disallow then you deal with that user. Blocking based on the robots.txt for a directory that doesn't exist anywhere but that file is fine. I did a two bad directory ban, it seemed to work fine.
This article seems odd to me. According to this article [1] a value of 1.1 is rather normal for the last couple of years and the value they are comparing it to is an outlier (of the 2009 crisis). It's likely that the intangibles are driving the recent values above 1.0. Anyways: Stock prices _are_ high - just not sure if Tobin will help us finding the right way out :)

[1] http://www.indexologyblog.com/2013/09/03/too-high-or-too-low...
It's quite possible that most startups are worth less than the developers' laptops.
Nop Hopping: Hiding Functionality in Alignment
Yeah, I really like building "hidden" structures that blend into the landscape. You might only see a door and stairs in the side of a cliff, but the inside is my masterpiece :)
naivePromiseAPI() {
if (foo) {
throw new Error('this will get swallowed!');
}
return somePromise();
}

Instead you want this:

cleverPromiseAPI() {
return Promise.resolve().then(function () {
if (foo) {
throw new Error('this won't get swallowed!');
}
return somePromise();
});
}

Because if the client of the API does something like this:

$('.my-button').on('click', function () {
cleverPromiseAPI().catch(console.log.bind(console));
});

Then the client might expect the error to get console.logged, but actually it won't in the naive case. That's because the error was thrown synchronously and thus bubbled up to the click handler, instead of being caught inside of the promise chain.
I didn't really understand that one. First of all, I don't see why a stack really is that indispensable, and secondly, JavaScript does actually have a stack so I don't know how he thinks it's operating stackless - where do the local variables go?
My thoughts exactly - first sentence in and we're already discrediting intangible assets, IP, and human knowledge workers.
So Lisp is riddled with fatal flaws because lispers wont accept that it's riddled with fatal flaws?
Shifting from ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale
Cars will become commodified, and as long as it’s running CarPlay or Android Auto, I won’t care what I’m driving.

Somehow I don't think so. It doesn't help that the author gets the mechanics of the PC transistion wrong as well. The biggest threat at the moment to automobiles is self driving. If we get a self-driving Uber or Lyft we're going to have an entire generation of people who just have their phone summon transportation and never own a car.
They crowdfunded $250,000 in 2014 when they were named Doorbot and delivered a fairly underwhelming product prior. No idea how the current product stacks up. I wonder how much of that money went towards the domain instead of engineering, software, QA, etc.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/doorbot-ring-home-security-...

This is one of the many reasons I'm wary of kickstarter-like activities. I think my money is going to go to delivering a product, but it may just end up used for marketing/branding I don't agree with, which may or may not detract from the actual product because $slick_marketing_firm knows make a geeky firm do their bidding. "Of course you need our gold star domain and SEO package!"

Frankly, it seems excessive. I'm pretty much the target demographic and am salivating at replacing my existing video doorbell with this (non-wifi). If it was still named Doorbot I would be just as excited. If anything, I'm wary of generic domains as they often seem associated with shady or uninteresting companies.
After native promises, is there much reason to use 3rd party libraries? Promises are a pretty small set of tools, so I'm not sure what one would have to offer over another.
Remember Long Term Capital Management... Just in case, Nobel Prizes & "Maths" can be very wrong.
You may have meant to cite http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86...., and for a discussion about that paper see this by Robert May
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/292/5520/1316

What other papers do you consider to be hallmarks of the success of network science from the stat. phys. point of view? The largest critique from non-stat. phys. researchers is that context seems more important than network topology in most applications. Indeed it is important to understand why there is degree heterogeneity. Without understanding the technology surrounding the network however you can not only make incorrect predictions, instead you might be predicting the opposite of reality. http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/this-man-wants-to-contr...
In Scheme, for example, a solution would be likely to involve delimited reified continuations and not need much in the way of macros. It's not obvious to me that the problem can be solved accurately with just syntactic macros. Would the solution involve transforming code into CPS?
yes but with public privacy setting.
Paul Krugman and the “Monday Night Football” Theory of CEO Pay
I believe the ratio tries to take into account all assets, tangible and intangible, but I have no idea how for example Facebooks user base/network effect would be recognized in GAAP accounting.

Does anyone know?
I don't think this is the right way to look at it after you exit. At that point there is no more risk, so that should be compared directly to the opportunity cost (if you're the entrepreneur at least). If you're the VC, making exactly the expectation value (risk*reward) isn't a success, but it's hardly a failure as long as it's beating market rates...
I would say it depends on the size of your pool. 30 seconds _is not_ long enough to bring up another instance.
All these languages have a similar enough semantic core which if you remove assignments and use mostly closures/hof you end up with a syntactically heavy[1] untyped ML (sic). {Coffee,Live}script comes to mind.

[1] remove return, curly braces .. with ES6 unpacking/pseudo-pattern-matching and let, you're half way there.
Hmm. I think the Bloomberg article oversimplified Tobin's work to the point where a) your interpretation of the article's claim is correct but b) definitely not in line with what Tobin claimed.

If Tobin were still alive, I think he would insist that intellectual property (read: code, patents, trademarks and software licenses) also be included. He didn't care about 'factories, machines and inventory'; he cared about 'replacement costs'. The author seems to have glossed over that bit for the sake of brevity and clarity, and in the process accidentally introduced a logic error, at least IMHO.
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Completely Agree.

To play devil's advocate, what about treason (or some other form of state secret sharing)? When Julius (and allegedly) Ethyl Rosenberg shared secrets from the Manhattan Project with the Soviets, should it have been a crime, let alone a capital one?

Conversely, if the government can say that certain speech is Treason, what stops it from declaring any speech it doesn't like Treason?
Great. There goes any chance of me actually doing work this week. ;p
I had an issue with codesigning, this document helped: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GDB_on_OS_X_Mavericks_and...
Typescript or Flow will catch many of these errors. Highly recommended!
True, but laptops have a fixed price. They aren't worth $0 most of the time and $1B a tiny fraction of the time.
Do you analytics show where the installs are coming from? As soon as an app goes paid, piracy kicks in big time. That seems high for piracy, but I don't have any good data to compare it to.
Not only is this model flawed but this sort of thinking makes it hard for small software companies to borrow money : banks value you company only based on hard assets. This limits software companies to raising cash only by selling equity.
snaps his fingers to the beat It's all just a bit of history repeating...
Punish the category of crime aggressively & severely enough, and evidence of such crimes will be hard to come by. Include lewd abuse of that evidence in the scope of "libel", and the occurrence of such crime can be reduced further.

A key problem which this solves, and which is a terrible side-effect of such law as currently implemented, is crushing punishment of those oblivious to their possession of such content (say, malware surreptitiously caches such content on your computer, then anonymously sics CSI SVU et al on you).
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Please don't give up. My son is 16. He still shows fairly severe symptoms of autism. In all these years, I have longed to have one conversation with him, but that has never happened.

However, to my surprise, he is also doing well academically through home schooling. He started out with a lot of prompting but now he can demonstrate his independent skill and mastery on fairly complex tasks - for example multiple choice tests in high school Algebra or English.

By now, we know he is highly intelligent, but he has so many repetitive and OCD behaviors it is hard for him to function in the real world.

He is learning to program and he shows some aptitude for it - he seems to be somewhat good (not yet surprisingly good) at finding bugs in short pieces of code. Our hope is that as he grows older, he will gain control of himself enough to be able to function in some assistive setting.
If you do this, please drop a link to it back here somewhere.