skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Job post says “good data, a stiff drink, A/B testing and gangsta rap” (Twiddy job)
Anyone know how much effort Google is putting into improving Translate? It feels like it hasn't gotten much better over the years even with these first-tier language pairs.
I can't quite believe I'm being sucked into the vortex of irrationality and tedium that is the "Code of Conduct" debate, but if you cannot see that the various codes of conduct in the F/OSS community obviously go beyond merely labelling racist slurs as inappropriate then I'm not sure how we can move forward.
Everything I've read on the topic of aging suggests that it too, is not a single problem with a single solution. There is no "senescence switch" that can be turned off. Our bodies break down in a myriad of ways, and to "kill the dragon", we have to deal with all of them. This is a massive sleight of hand on part of this article: describing the fix for aging as a single event.
and the other amendments (to the US Constitution) are all absolute too. It's not a right if it can be restricted.
> but not that big of a deal. I think parsing and reading are far more important to get right which XML didn't.

...in your opinion, for your use cases. I think XML is eminently more readable due to the fact that it has named types and also because I never have to read the following and figure out what goes where:

}}}}}]]}}]]}}

JSON is great for sending data to Javascript though and I'm pretty sure that's the only reason anyone is using it.
Here is the official blog post about it http://blog.coinkite.com/post/119362064671
Unreliable Standby mode. Upon waking up, peripherals won't work until reboot, the Dock is unresponsive, applications crash and more.

Overall stability. I've never had so many system freezes and crashes than with Yosemite. It started with the upgrade progress that crashed on me and even a fresh reinstall didn't help.

On Lion, I let my machine run for serveral weeks without any problem. Now I have to reboot at least once a week because the kernel is working on something that seems like bitcoin mining from the looks of the cpu load.

Rebooting shows a black screen for 2 minutes and I often thought thank god I have a backup because my filesystem got screwed up (it didn't but apparently that's also a problem for some people).

Applications not quitting, Dock locking up, Finder unresponsive, drives not showing up in Diskutil.

WiFi not working or working extremely slow. This even happens when I'm connected via cable and I turn WiFi on. Suddenly I have a really slow network connection. The WiFi issues even occur on iOS devices (not mine, but some of my family members)

These are not minor annoyances. This stuff keeps me from working and gives me an extremely poor user experience. In fact it's the first time in years I'm looking forward to a Windows release.

And of course there are some smaller things like
Removing features from applications, for example the whole scripting part of iWorks.
From the hostname, it seems like I run a few thousand Macs in my network.
The software 'industry' moved in the opposite direction.
A great work! intersting and useful!
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Memento mori, motherfucker.
Yes, definitely.

For a quick example, there are many languages where you cannot accidentally run off the end/start of an array, barring a compiler error.

With a language like C / C++, it's possible. Not probable, given that sort of testing. But possible nonetheless.

Some languages are also easier to test than others, partially because of this, partially because of other issues. For instance, in some languages you can guarantee at the language level (again, barring compiler errors) that something won't be modified. (Like const, but actually working.)
This is incorrect. For most movies there's an iTunes Extra section that comes with the movie when you buy it.
Why do IT companies use Recruitment Agencies?
I know hiring is not an easy task but why do companies use recruitment agencies where these guys have no idea about programming/IT?
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I'm all in favour of funding for anti-aging research if the money gets taken out of our beer and circuses budget. What I object to is the way the article insists that aging is some kind of low-hanging fruit we could pick if only we realized it, and describes all other problems in the world as distractions.
Those policies are already worthless. Trust is dead to anyone paying attention. The entire notion of contracts between large corporations and individuals leaves me feeling dirty because I was raised being taught that consent is meaningless in a vast power difference, where a vast power difference is magnitudes smaller than the difference in these cases.

Perhaps I'm too cynical, but when the only recourse is through lawsuits that most can't afford, and even that has been taken away by biased arbitration, we are at a point where most keep their eyes down and hope they don't become a victim of the system.
Cruise ships are kind of ecologically awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship#Environmental_impa...

As a Mexican who has seen our beaches gradually destroyed by endless visiting cruise ships year after year, I feel compelled to remind people how terrible they are for the planet.

Not to mention, they are also super legally sleazy. They are often harboured at countries that have no legal protections. If something happens to you on a cruise ship, it's your own damn problem. Being registered in those tiny corrupt countries also means that they don't have to answer for their ecological destruction.

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/3-dark-facts-cruise-lines...

I wish I could be excited about going to such an event. It seems like it would be super fun. But I don't want my fun to promote such evils. I am very saddened by the coral reef destruction I have witnessed first hand throughout my life.

http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/environment/how-ships-ar...

http://notigodinez.com/empresa-constructora-de-muelle-dana-g...
Is this switch from Nvidia to AMD new in this generation? I'm so glad I got in on an nvidia based rmbp in 2013. I've had nothing but trouble with amd graphics across 3-4 older laptops running windows and linux. Never again.
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Demo on Heroku
https://afternoon-refuge-4404.herokuapp.com/
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H1B is not outsourcing. They are full time local workers by definition.

It's amazing companies can get away with firing people and then hiring H1Bs, who, by the government requirements, can't take a citizen's job place.
Still no adequate amount of RAM.
> well, "your" data in perhaps some rhetorical sense.

In this context, "your data" is 100% of the time used to indicate data you've provided to someone else about you. Have you ever seen an article saying "Facebook to target ads based on their photos" or "Google using their data to make money"?
Yosemite and Mavericks really are a major regression. I' confident that I'm onto something if even known Mac enthusiasts like the ATP people report on the quality fall.
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> I'm quite concerned about getting a job doing something interesting where I feel like I have some sort of positive impact on the world, and I'm worried that with my current situation my options will be limited.

The first thing right here is to realize you are putting yourself under way too much pressure. The world doesn't work like that.

Enjoy your summer. Go on lots of hikes and enjoy every moment you can.
I hope the same as you. At least in the one where the goal is to have people work on the things they like. Both parties benefit from this, no?

Just to be clear: I'm not expecting everyone to always be able to work on what they like. But as _a goal_, it sounds better to me than making as much money as possible.

You'd always take a better paying job over one which overlaps with your passions?
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Im not sure why you would want this, but I made it a bit more 'insane'

body,
body * {
animation: insanity .001s infinite alternate cubic-bezier(0.455, 0.030, 0.515, 0.955);
}

@keyframes insanity {
0% {
margin: 0px 0 0 0;
}
25% {
margin: 40px 20px 0 20px;
}
50% {
margin: 0 20px 0 0;
}
75%{
margin: -12px 12px 0 -1px;
}
100% {
margin: 20px 0 0 0;
}
}
I disagree. iTunes offers a massive amount of convenience that bluray doesn't offer. When you buy something on iTunes, you can start consuming it almost immediately. Versus a bluray, which you have to either wait to receive, or go to the store in person to buy.

This "on-demand" nature of iTunes is enough of a value-add to justify the increased price, at least in my eyes.
Having lived in Belgium, Sweden, and now in France - 3 different EU countries in 3 years- I can 100% confirm the parent commenter's almost comical ignorance about the heterogeneity of European life and mores.
This is a complex question, don't reduce it to the one dimensional "decent person" angle. If it would be so simple, the CoC would consist of one phrase: "use common sense during communication with others".

I understand and emphasize the need for a comfortable experience for all members of the conference.

However, I'd like to present you and others with a hypothetical scenario. The CoC states "Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to ... religion...".

Simple and factual statement that scientology is a total sham (this statement can be easily extended towards most organized religions) would put the speaker in violation of the CoC. Does that seem reasonable to you?
Honestly, it matters. Current web technologies aren't the end game solution for interfaces and, IMO, are pretty horrible to work with for that purpose. (Pretty beaten up topic by now, but lets take a moment to think for a second about vertical centering in HTML+CSS. /sigh </rant>)

Still, my answer was just referring to the fact that this is not using web tech, and thus, not using servo or any other existing browser engine.
Ustream isn't a Hungary startup, it was founded (and is based) in San Francisco. It opened an office in Hungary.

http://www.ustream.tv/our-company/about

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ustream
I agree this car analogy is flawed because it correlates a movie to a car as if they are both goods. Media is actually a service (a recorded performance). This not only causes this analogy to break down but your underlying argument that because the owner still has a copy it is therefore acceptable.
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It's called 'Western culture'.

Edit: a.k.a. occident
I haven't tried Swift yet but my latest observations and guessing about your grave accent example are as follows.

Based on direct cut/paste and inspection, the grave accent (in the "`" string above and here in these parens too) is codepoint 96. This is a non-combining (standalone) grave accent that is meant to be its own grapheme. Appending it to another grapheme such as "e" should not combine. The result should be an "e" followed by a visually separate grave character. The string should contain two separate graphemes and have a length of 2.

I can't tell if the confusion/complexity in this case is due to some cut/paste/storage/browser bug, or Swift's handling of the special case (called "degenerate" in the Unicode standard) of an isolated combining character that hasn't yet been combined, or something else.

So I read some of the Swift docs to see if that revealed anything.

The Swift docs I read used the example of appending a combining grave accent (ie codepoint 768, which is NOT the same as the codepoint 96 stored in "`", but rather something more akin to "̀"), stored as a Character value, to an "e" string, stored as a String value. After appending a Character that is a combining character, the length of the new String is the same as the old one. And that's appropriate.

I presume that the Swiftian character count concept, which is applicable to Swift Strings, and which is returned by .count, is inapplicable to Swift's Character values.

Presumably, when a Swift Character value needs to be displayed, Swift generates a String that contains it and displays that. Further, perhaps, if the Character value is a combining character, Swift automatically prepends an appropriate base character (a space, value 32, or NBSP, or dotted circle, or some such) to ensure it becomes its own grapheme.

Part of the confusion may stem from the decision in Swift to use "..." quotemarks for literals of both types. It seems you have to explicitly tell Swift that a "..." literal is a Character, not a String, if you want a Character. At first blush I like the sound of that.

Alternatively, they've screwed something up.
Other than violating social norms, would there be any problem with purposefully making the data socially poisonous (not Bobby Tables, more like saying your name is Mao or Stalin and you on 101 Legalize Murder Avenue... and this is a tame example compared to what the internet could come up with)?
Although there are many start-ups in Berlin it's pretty tough to navigate all the laws and regulations and more often than not it involves money. So when you try to start a garage business you will discover obstacle after obstacle. It is pretty hard to "just try" a business idea because with all the crap you have to do and pay it HAS to work. I still after 5 years discover some regulations that I completely missed and I always hope that there's no big one hiding behind the bushes. There is a saying in Germany: if you own a business you got one foot in prison.
You can begin a lot of things with "The nightmare Vladimir Putin has visited upon"...

I'm an LGBT person (specifically, I'm both L and T), and after seeing what Putin did to my people, I have absolutely zero respect for anyone who supports Russia in any way.
I read this maybe last year, but had totally forgotten that it was written by Asimov. Great writing, thanks for posting this here.
I think you're so right about these questions and how it relates to potentially convincing me.

I had a meeting with them yesterday to discuss in more detail. I asked them questions like "What's supposed to separate you from all of the other chat apps out there?" I understood their idea, but I don't see it as very unique. I asked them about how they'd monetize, and they told me -- a lot of it depends on star power (big people using the app in order to entice potential users). I wouldn't consider myself business savvy by any means, but that plan doesn't seem like something solid.

They told me they can make one or two calls to get funding, but that they just need an app. In my minor experience, the funding part of the operation isn't even half the battle. So, even if it is true that they can get funding just like that, it doesn't mean that this idea is strong enough to make a sustainable, considerable profit (then again, what is?).

One of the founders brings connections, but I'm focused on the idea and how it's solving a problem. I asked if there's a problem being solved, and their answer wasn't very strong.
You can definitely cherry pick some examples for that to be the case, particularly for historical reasons and/or very close cultural ties. From an outsiders perspective, Austria and Germany are extremely similar (though neither Austrians or Germans would tend to agree!)

Whilst cultural differences in the US do undoubtedly exist, in Europe simply travelling a hundred miles can take you across 3 countries with 3 languages and 3 distinct cultures. There's plenty of diversity to be found.
I think London has a better reputation as a cultural melting pot really
Hang out on the freenode freelancing channels.

I work in Magento. I hung out in #magento, and #magento-jobs, and a few other more general PHP/HTML freelance channels (#startups can help you find channel names for freelancing). I answered questions in #magento for a month or so, got a little bit of rep, then started responding to requests for work. Eventually I got work. Some of it turned into reoccurring work.
The macro is a better solution, since you can't rely on every library doing this kind of thing.
You've fallen into the classic trap:

No one is obliged to give you free content in the form of movies, music, books, video games, television shows, etc. Just because you can pirate or steal something doesn't mean it's morally or legally justifiable.
>> Pretty much the majority of European countries are Christians.

Source? I doubt this. Secularism is quite high in Europe and I think their is also quite a high muslim population.

>> IMHO there are more similarities between European countries than between US States.

I can't believe you actually believe this. Different languages in most European countries. Different customs and traditions. Vastly different tastes in cuisine. Vastly varying levels of wealth/poverty. etc.
For those in the UK do the "attend meets" and "network" advices still apply?
Or is it still normal to get a good gig from job descriptions posted online?
I had pre-ordered in March of 2013, and tested it upon receipt of the device that September.

Glad to know support now exists, but the device was sent to a thrift shop many many months ago.

No worries on a refund now, it was just frustrating at the time :)
They could switch to webtorrent: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
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I expect the remedy in that situation would be to recommend that the speaker and offended person not discuss religion any further. The horror.

I guess it would be harder to deal with for someone giving a talk, but contrive away why it is necessary for a talk about python to make simple factual statements about various religions.
>> One of the problems caused by the non-understanding software manager is that he thinks that his subordinates have to produce code: they have to solve problems, and in order to do so, they have to use code. To this very day we have organizations that measure "programmer productivity" by the "number of lines of code produced per month"; this number can, indeed, be counted, but they are booking it on the wrong side of the ledger, for we should talk about "the number of lines of code spent".

Amazing how we still haven't figured this one out yet.

>> I know of one —very successful— software firm in which it is a rule of the house that for a one-year project coding is not allowed to start before the ninth month! In this organization they know that the eventual code is no more than the deposit of your understanding.

It's so hard for me to imagine that such a software firm could actually exist.

Even though I've noticed the advantages of thinking first and coding later on a personal project done in a more relaxed period, I guess it's just too hard to justify your cost without having deliverables (code commits, in this case).
> A) People won't like working with you ?

Why is this? If enough people follow the "work with people that are SMARTER than you", which I think it's really important and I hope a significant number of people follow, why wouldn't they like working with you?
Yeah, they adjusted for the weak Euro. The Apple developer program also went up in price last year in Europe.
looks like a trend towards more general skills than highly specialised people, I'm calling that a win for cross stack engineers.
But didn't you know there was a massive STEM worker shortage?!
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Yes, the company does and will. But there are managers who won't. Same thing in defense - you can still get clearance but considering how many in the industry are Mormon you decrease your chances of being hired.
My friend and I built something similar to this a few years back, but we never found the right audience. Here's the old kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1847359812/motobox-conn...

Ours connected to WiFi in driveways and dumped all driving data to servers that users could connect to via an API and web tool. I suspect our messaging and graphics were not polished enough, even though our hardware and software was cool.

I'd be really curious to find out what the most popular use of this "Automatic" device is. I'm always excited to hear about new uses for automotive data.
I'm on GitHub pages, so I should be fine.
There were two reasons to why I don't use iCloud Drive for photo backups:

- iCloud Drive doesn't support selective sync. 50 GB photos? 50 GB consumed everywhere.

- Apple is for some reasons so weird when it comes to workflows in general. I don't know, some love iTunes for music management but I never really got along with them. The problem is that you're always S.O.L. if you don't think as different as them.

Nowadays I use Dropbox, who conveniently enough revised their account pricing due to added competition, as my photo archive. And I can store whatever damn photo formats I wish. Fujifilm RAW's (.RAF) included. :p As well as (perhaps at least as important) -- formats from future camera purchases I haven't thought of yet.
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Really? 16GB combined with the PCIe swap really does seem like it would meet the definition of "adequate" for 95% of users.
is this still true if you bought a mobile phone from them in the early-mid 2000s? I seem to remember a form with lots of sensitive info.
The CV looks nice.
However, IMHO, giving your self a "X out of X" score for a specific area is highly unprofessional, and it doesn't give much information regarding your skills.
I'd rather explain what experiences I have within certain areas.
Of course your boss and customers only care about the output. But if you need to make sure your output is correct or want to make it easier to add new things, a good design is crucial
Six months of severance per fired employee is a rounding error. If you're doing things right and hiring properly, less than 2% of the people you bring in should ever be fired anyway. So you're talking about 0.12 months (just 4 days) of salary per employee. Again, a rounding error.

Also, the sleazy tech company alternative (to severance) of PIPing the employee for 2-3 months is more expensive than severance, because of the effects on morale to force the manager to run a kangaroo court and the team to deal with a walking-dead employee who's probably pissing on morale intentionally (I would).

France (and, more generally, Europe) has its problems but that is not even on the top 20. Social class fatalism is more of a problem, and that's reinforced by the fact that (unlike in the U.S.) it's very hard to get even moderately wealthy by working. Programmers and lawyers and doctors make less than here, and costs of living are higher, which means that born social class imposes a ceiling. European countries are far better places than the U.S. for the poor and working class, but the middle-class people who want to rise further tend to come here. This is even worse in parts of Asia, where the idea that you can get rich by working is laughable.
Hope this work could be wildly used in the future. i think it's meaningful
I've known several people from Croatia, Latvia, Georgia and now Ukraine. They all look down upon Russians and are easily offended when people refer to them as such.

Definitely no love loss for Putin or Russia among them.
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Sounds like a bad deal. In reality the product you're building is almost entirely technology based. They wouldn't really offer any value to you unless they were technical as well.

What would they spend their time doing while you coded?

The only caveat to this is if they've already exited and are successful entrepreneurs. My guess is they're not, and just looking for someone to do the development for free.
That is exactly how most foreign aid to developing countries is given. Germany will give Malawia money to build a dam, but they have to pick a German construction company and engineering firm.
This will sound facetious, but maybe it's because IT companies know nothing about recruitment?