skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to hear that "young people" have finally caught up to the generations before them. My 70 year old mother, who worked in software for many years and even benefits from a pension from a previous employer, said decades ago: "my loyalty extends to the day the paycheck clears. On Monday we start all over."

Employers have never been your friend, nor have they necessarily been your enemy. Your job is a business transaction, and to try and make more out of that relationship than it is should be considered foolhardy and more often than not will lead to disappointment. This is not the news flash the clickbaitish article makes it out to be.
I don't think parent was referring to Amazon as having given anything away. Still, if you're not in a position to use this sort of tech, "tens of billions" is probably an exaggeration.
Human's aren't rational and they're inherently social. As much as you are right that you can really think of it as a monetary transaction most jobs and workplaces go beyond that. You have social relationships with people you work with. You work on tasks not merely because you get paid for it but because you genuinely want to make things better.

And it's not just employees that are loyal; I've know of many companies that go above and beyond for their employees when they need it. I definitely know companies that keep around long-term employees out of a sense of loyalty when younger employees would be both cheaper and more productive.

It's not completely black and white.
Money well spent if the goal was to condition people into obedience.
I like having it enabled, so I don't know what you guys are talking about.
I thought her last sentence was actually spot on. When people argue for egalitarianism, I actively support them. When people argue using the approach she condemned, I vehemently oppose such people because it's toxic, drives people apart (as does any type of identity politics) and breeds resentment.
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> Basically, it turns out that your population explodes when you're very poor, but then stabilizes and even shrinks as your society gets richer and richer.

IIRC, "strong social support network" is more accurate than "richer" as to the factor that reduces natural growth rate.
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Expecting people to be able to look up basic information is now irrelevant and "hoop jumping"?

The adversarial tone was present in the original followup. I don't see what's wrong with continuing it. It's better than "sorry you feel that way, but we expect people to be capable of looking things up; there's the door."

This is a pretty trivial question. It should take somebody who knows Google and grade-school math about 30 seconds to solve. I'll give you ten minutes just to be generous, though.

Your "confounding factors" are irrelevant. If you crush or melt ping pong balls then what you're carrying are no longer "ping pong balls" so the question as asked can be answered by using the standard 38mm diameter of a ping pong ball and working from there.
.. until you're building a problem that requires regular external security audits, and you have to keep up with all of the micro-libraries you're using and any security issues they may or may not have. The Angular team has been very responsive to any security issues that have come up, and you get so much for free by using the framework.
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In 1972 the »Club of Rome« published »The Limits to Growth« [1] where they used a computer model to model possible scenarios for the longterm development of human society. More than forty years later the actual development is pretty close to a scenario predicting a collapse mid century. This chart [2] based on a study from 2008 [3] compares the prediction of the »standard run« scenario with thirty years of actual data.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

[2] https://pbmo.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/world3.jpg

[3] http://ecohist.history.ox.ac.uk/readings/Technological_limit...
I can't think of a better example of how the Patriot Act and all of our knee jerk reactions after 9/11 have been ineffective and need to be reexamined. Unfortunately I think the response is going to be even more of the same. Sort of like the saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
Third party search providers are not supported in Windows 8.1 and you're talking about Vista. So no, Win10 will probably not support third parties.
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The TSA is not actually there to catch 'terrorists'. Its mainly there to play a role in the mythical world that supports war and hegemony, and despotic rule domestically.
Sure - but that's not what the OP is referring to. There is no "sync" step in multiple parallel chains, unlike particle swarm & genetic algorithms.

MCMC is also used for finding MAP solutions, an operation which is strictly less difficult than computing the partition function.
Yeah, sure, "young people know it". Because they invented unions, labor laws etcetera.

This self-congratulating bs is an insult to the people who have quite literally laid down their lives for workers rights.

If anything, most of the young people around me are totally naive when it comes to their relationship with their employers and the economic consequences of lack of job security. It will hit them hard when they want to buy a home and start a family, but by then it will be too late.

Sure, some will have cool careers and write awesome blog posts about it. But the vast majority of millennials are getting screwed hard exactly because of this clueless attitude.

If you are this naive and self-involved, you lose the right to bitch about selfish babyboomers taking all the things.
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The algorithm works, though it doesn't distinguish between the parent and child - the first process to call check_fork() after the fork will return false, and the second process to call it will return true. (Note that upon returning true, it should remap and reset the state.) This is sufficient for the use case of reseeding a PRNG, though not for your signal handler/file descriptor use case.

The problem with the algorithm (which I'm discussing on another subthread) is that the increment of the shared counter needs to be atomic, and the integers need to be 64 bits to avoid wraparound, and I'm not sure that all architectures support atomic 64 bit increments.

Edit: I just realized that check_fork() would spuriously return true in the first process after the second process calls it, which isn't so nice. Maybe this can be prevented by comparing before you increment, but then I think there might be a race condition? It would be helpful if geocar could provide some pseudocode so we're not left guessing how the algorithm works.
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Everything old is new again if you do a s/gen X/millenial/g on the article.

You can seriously do a google search for 1990's and find all the articles saying basically all the same things.

30s of googling and here's an article from 1998 saying the same things about Gen X: http://www.strategy-business.com/article/9760?gko=fea27
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Population growth is half of the problem. I do not deny anything you have said, however...

What do you make of the DINK couple that has foregone their reproductive rights for the sake of "environmental concerns" but still get themselves a couple of pets and treat them as upper-middleclass children. One would say, disabled children that are never going to become productive members of this society and most likely will be dead by age 16.

Maybe there would be enough room in this world for the people we already have - at least for long enough that the correction in overpopulation comes from the fertility rate rather than otherwise - if those of us at the top of the pecking order would not insist on wasting so much real wealth in our natural but unexamined impulses.
> it has little to do with the tool itself (vim vs. whatever)

I don't know about that. I've been proficient in other editors too, but I found that vim's modal editing mode confers unique advantages when it comes to staying in flow.

But if compared to an IDE there are several flow-breaking things in vim that just don't work as well out of the box (navigation, indexing, debugger integration etc), so if that's your point then I agree.

Of course most major IDEs have some sort of vim emulator these days so you can have your cake and eat it.
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And with some of the dynamic entry of 3d pictures, I could add you in to an arbitrary scene with your voice saying vulgar things.

Is the Twitter hate army going to fact check it? Hardly!

So again, I ask, how do you defend against these kinds of attacks?
> the TSA's failures doesn't really have anything whatsoever to do with the patriot act

Not directly, but they both are connected to the overarching theme in American politics of "OMG TURRURRUSTS" (and the overarching subtheme of "our various means of removing the privacy of Americans are not actually doing anything they were marketed to do"; with this article, it seems that neither the TSA's security checks nor the NSA's surveillance are actually doing anything to stop terrorists).
I'd like to propose a different approach to that problem, one that also addresses the issue of startup time: a boot image. I got the name from the Avian JVM (https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian), but a similar concept can be seen at least as far back as GNU Emacs in the 90s. The idea is that as part of the build process, you load all of a program's code and initial data into memory, then dump the heap. Then at startup, you just have to map the heap back into memory, and possibly fix up pointers if you can't load everything at the same address as before. Of course, you'd have to make sure that none of the objects in the saved heap contain handles to external resources like files. Also, for PyPy, which is JIT-compiling a language that's not really amenable to static compilation, the boot image initialization process could include a custom script to run functions that are known to be hot, to warm up the JIT compiler and include the compiled code in the boot image.
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An American friend who lives in Vietnam has told me he finds that while Vietnamese people aren't bothered by foreigners speaking broken Vietnamese, they also don't have an especially practiced facility for guessing what someone might have meant when they butcher something. He theorizes that because there's almost no non-native speaker population, Vietnamese people just don't get much experience having to do that the way Americans do with non-native English speakers. The impression I got was that if you messed up tones, you might get a delighted, but also perplexed, response.
FTA: "At some point, millennials are going to grow up. They’ll start caring about stability for the sake of their families, and they’ll make decisions that likely look more and more like that of their parents. Isn’t that the circle of life, anyway? But with every generation comes a few changes. What makes millennials look “reckless” or disloyal now might actually be the key to their success, especially because corporations are never going to be their friend, no matter the generations of change."

There is some confusion here. Millenials don't dislike or disregard stability, they've learned by watching their parents and peers that job stability is not something an employer is interested in providing as part of the compensation package.

The lack of loyalty is a result of being or seeing others get cut loose, not of some chaotic-neutral desire to jump around depending on the mood of the day. This isn't a matter of growing up, it's a matter of learning that loyalty earns you nothing.

Then there's the adversarial and asymmetrical relationship that exists between employer and employee in the US, generally speaking. They control the flow of your life's time, your effort, your income, your healthcare, and your future job prospects in the same field. They are purely indifferent to you, because you are (relatively) easy to replace, whereas you may struggle to replace them. If they ask for more, you must acquiesce to their demands or risk being released. If you ask for more, they have the power to say either yes or no, and exercise both options as convenient.
I don't think geological records are all that helpful in this case. There has never been a life-form that pushes the pendulum the way humans have. We have done so many things to limit and prevent the natural cycles that would have by now surely led to a significant limitation of the human population.

War, famine, disease, disaster, etc. they have all or are all being limited if not practically being eradicated. The danger is that if you keep pushing and pushing the pendulum the marginal effort needed to push it not only becomes ever greater and the duration which is can be held decreases, but the risk of something causing the pendulum to slip and swing freely exponentially increases. We are approaching several means in which the biosphere that is earth may collapse. We don't even really understand all the finer intricacies of our world, there is absolutely no chance we could even identify some sort of black swan even that we sure as hell won't be able to prevent, let alone reverse.

It all seems to grotesquely stupid how ignorantly we are treating our only habitat. The very single place that we can exist at the moment and we are risking it all on a stupid bet.
I know those feels; I had an old PGP key (private key and passphrase now both lost) linked to my old AOL account (long gone, of course) using my old surname (been married eleven years now), but registered with the MIT server back in 1997, so it's still visible to the world. It's like a digital version of some mysterious, unopenable time capsule.
When you say "HFT really means that you're gaming Reg NMS", are you saying that true HFT strategies all rely on multi-venue arbitrage?
I don't know if you'll ever read this comment, Thomas, but that was probably one of the most positive examples of condensed wisdom I've ever seen you write.
>>10x is shorthand for "as important to the business as an executive"

This is very true. Another thing is lack of a clear purpose. To wake up every morning and to fix bugs day after day, without any higher or a coherent goal to chase demotivates people badly.

The only other thing I which causes burn out I know of is lack of meaningful rewards. To know that there so much politics around and you are being treated unfairly. And you are failing repeatedly for reasons beyond your control.

I don't know of one single person worth I know of who can't handle a lot of work or can't take long working hours. But at least give us a cause worth fighting for.
i know more than a dozen of friends who applied and never got any response back neither from you neither from that jaredf@scribd.com .