skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you iterate over an array in Rust?
A popular multiplayer cheat is to suspend the network stack somehow for a split second while their team gets into place and resume causing the game's network code to resync and players will teleport into advantageous positions or become extremely difficult to target or hit during key moments. It's very hard to detect especially if the program doing the suspending is on the router and not the system running the actual game.
Isn't the lawyer profession way over-saturated right now?
The Stripe web dashboard is nice, but it's completely unresponsive. Why are they developing native apps instead of making their main product mobile-friendly?
Purpose Isn't a Gimmick
Who were the true winners of the industrial revolution? The employees making the machines? Nah. The true winners here will be the ones that always have been and always will be the winners.
That raises an interesting question. Why is my SSN printed on my W-2?

Presumably I already know my SSN, so do not need the W-2 to remind me of it.
Great front end!
How Apple Screwed Up the Apple Music Pricing Strategy
It does make sense to concern ourselves with the results. At the same time, if we allow ourselves to be paralyzed by our inevitable inability to predict the results of our work, we will never accomplish anything.
Yep. The stb_image.h API is very simple. Also, because its just an #include, you don't need to worry about your users needing to figure out how to link a library.
Gmail having receive issues
Gmail is having some kind of outage:
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

They are not reporting it yet.
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The software employers are probably accumulating capital at a higher rate than the software employees.
Well, the distinction between those that love what they do and those that don't isn't the only way to slice things. You don't have to love what you do to want to conduct yourself in a professional manner. Even if you aren't passionate about your work, so long as you take pride in it you won't be producing "crap code."
As far as I can tell, you are far away from @tptacek's post on hiring. He's saying to ignore the resume, have objectively evaluated work-sample tests. You're saying you want people to look at your resume, and that you're really good at talking about stuff. The problem with coding exercise portions of tech interviews (if I'm repeating him correctly) is that they're not as close a representation of actual work as possible, and that they're subjectively evaluated. The standard "tech interview" sits in between your camp and his.
Why would i run out of money if i pay half of what i pay to a normal guard.. would i not be saving more money? there is more money to spend on more gadgets :)

thats how the economy works
http://uiautomation.codeplex.com/

Let's you do UI automation in PowerShell. This example starts calc.exe and clicks buttons 1, 2, 3:

Start-Process calc -PassThru | Get-UIAWindow | Get-UIAButton -Name [1-3] | Invoke-UIAButtonClick;
I don't think becoming a doctor or a lawyer are easy or low-risk. You have to go through years of school after which you are faced with a high probability of being unemployed. If you do find a job, you're likely going to work a crushing number of hours.
> Technology is like a stick. You could use it to sow seeds into the ground, or to beat people up with it. Its purpose is entirely infused into it by its user. The nature of the stick is irrelevant, it's the wielder that really matters.

Not all technology is neutral; some technologies are primarily used to help or to harm, and many technologies enforce policies in lieu of humans. It's reasonable to ask people to think about what they're doing when they develop technology.
This looks really awesome. I probably won't be an early adopter, but I'm definitely looking forward to more smart kitchen appliances. I just hope they can all work together. It's kind of stupid if my frying pan, oven, and fridge all have their own competing recipe apps and databases.
Works fine for me. Must be your setup/extensions.
The federal government dominates the mortgage market -- through direct insurance, guarantees, and purchases. It's tough to compete with them. The only comparable market I can think of is student loans where some companies have found a way to pick off the most credit worthy borrowers (e.g. SoFi). But in student loans the government does no underwriting and offers a uniform rate, some of which are quite high in the current interest rate environment. Whereas in mortgages the government underwrites and offers very low rates.

How exactly anyone expects to make money by lending out money for thirty years at 75 basis points above the risk free rate, with a zero premium call option, levered 4:1 or greater, and with low recovery percentages if the security needs to be seized is beyond me. That's even before getting into the high overhead to deal with servicing and regulatory compliance.
Lockdown Results and HHVM Performance
This is normal human tendencies and I believe even placebo effect is part of daily routine...which could be changed just as habits...there could be certain chances that it will turn once individual brain to be addictive.....its funny that blackmajic is shifting its platform to software...serious upgrade...
You are correct, but when I'm messing around with bumper plates, the red plate says 55kg rather than 539N. If you're not in the lab, a kilogram is simultaneously the mass and the force of gravity of said mass at sea level.
I can confirm this as well. If you simply switch to another window or application, away from the game, it'll pause the cutscene.
Reminds me of the water integrator, a water based computer built in the Soviet Union in the 20s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator

And also of MONIAC, a computer from the late 40s that modeled the UK's economy using water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
SO GOOD IT HURTS LISTEN TO ELSA Y ELMAR'S EXPLORADORA (LIVE)
This is part of a broader pattern. Congress is not capable of understanding or controlling what is going on in the rest of the government. They don't have the time or the resources to do more than play whack-a-mole. Many of them lack the personal and political security to attack corruption without losing their seats.

The FBI is quite capable of manufacturing a natural-looking scandal to knock down any Senator who tried to reduce its power. They might be able to do such a thing if they stuck together and presented a unified political front, but they are constantly divided, and strong forces are pushing them into chaos.
Many serious desktop bugs remain unfixed. Perhaps if there was less of a stress on new features, there would be more bandwidth to fixing existing bugs. Here is an example bug - drag and drop with filenames is broken out of the box on Yosemite and has been for quite a while - https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40449 .

Also you just have to go take a look at the comments in the Qt release announcements to see that the views I am expressing here are not an isolated case. Here is an example - https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/03/17/qt-5-5-alpha-available/#c...
I actually wrote a little GUI app to do this for me a while back! It works but the UI is a bit broken. Maybe somebody will find it useful.

https://github.com/archagon/app-pauser
Interesting points.

> The problem is that we are eating entry-level jobs, and in turn, creating an artificial scarce supply of "experienced" workers.

On the other hand, it is easier than ever to get cheap, basic education in a variety of things, with the Internet and MOOCs making information widely available. So entry-level jobs may be less necessary these days. On the other hand, it means the people who can afford to spend time acquiring this knowledge without receiving pay will have a bigger advantage than ever. Yet another argument for basic income, I guess.
Wow, coded like a simple old school Win32 API win app, I didn't realize that was still possible in modern Visual Bloatio. Nicely done.
The article could be extended and mashed up to obtain an interesting, perhaps useful, alternative conclusion.

A quarter century ago there were very popular pop psychology books by a guy named john gray whom I believe is still alive on the difference between men talking about problems and women talking about problems with the claim of an unusually accurate stereotype is men, especially tech men, mostly talk about problems to fix them as best they can (however poorly that may be) and women mostly talk about problems to air their grievances and de-stress and if they wanted a best effort repair, being strong women they'd have already done it themselves so men should F off, shut up, listen, and not tell them what to do. The above is a gross and inaccurate summary based on failing memories of an entire series of pop psych books from a long time ago, but I don't think I totally messed up my summary. At least not on purpose.

Anyway looking at the article thru 25 year old pop psych glasses in a crazy extended mash up, the author is bent out of shape because worldwide whenever problems are discussed the only response is the "manly response" of trying their best to fix the problem, however incompetently. So far the author and quarter century old pop psych are in sync. They diverge at my suggestion that perhaps attempting the "womanly response" of actually listening would be worth a try when confronted with a problem. Or maybe 25 year old pop psych is best left in the dustbin of history. But it is interesting to think about a bit.

I've made a lot of money for longer than many HN readers/posters have been alive by fixing stuff. When I've gotten really stuck, sometimes its helped to actually listen rather than wielding keyboards and screwdrivers and soldering irons. Just saying anecdotally the obsolete pop psych stuff is occasionally not totally useless.

Note I'm not trying to ignite a flamewar about women in tech. Especially since "shut up and listen" isn't necessarily only useful when talking to women, and I'm not even claiming that a quarter century old pop psych worldview is true or universal or even generally useful, although I am claiming its super creepy deja vu to hear a modern retelling of part of the story, admittedly with different conclusions. Its just that the author describing (male) techies trying to solve the worlds problems totally sounds like something John Grey would have written. I wonder if the author read the same books and quite possibly unconsciously is channeling John Grey or something.
If you think that's what happened then you know nothing about how big companies operate.
>>only people who don't cheat are the few who work for large corporations who handle the filing of taxes for them.

People in large corporations are well known to turn in fake rent receipts, produce medical receipts of their relatives/neighbors to claim tax benefits. So whatever 2-3% might be paying, aren't paying it completely.

India needs massive tax reforms.
With the exception of the immersion circulator, I don't understand these devices. Can you help me understand?

I'm an experienced cook, so (again, with the exception of the immersion circulator) I'm not in the target market for these devices. I'm having trouble understanding the target market though. I was thinking that it was for inexperienced people who want to cook at home. When I play that scenario through my head, it doesn't completely work.

Take your salmon example: getting the pan to a good temperature and cooking the fish to the ideal temperature is not easy, so I can see how an inexperienced person could easily benefit from real-time temperature feedback. What I'm having trouble figuring out though, is that after gaining experience from cooking fish a few times, what's the benefit of the real-time temperature feedback? I guess the thing I'm wrestling with is that as one becomes more experienced, the value of these smart devices seems to rapidly diminish.

I don't intend this to be negative or harsh, so I hope it doesn't come across that way. I'm genuinely interested in the thinking behind this smart device trend. Hope you can share.
Do you mean people trading with others on a voluntary, win-win basis, or do you mean what today is labeled capitalism but is characterized by coercive force and cronyism?
Physical duplication, packaging, inventory and distribution would have been significant costs borne by a publisher. Retailers would have taken, what, over 50% of the cover price I assume? Kids today with their digital downloads have no idea :) Still, 3% of gross seems low.
Show HN: Inwee – Conveniently send text/commands to WeeChat via FIFO pipe
How old is your "intense" kid now? I believe my stepdaughter falls in that category, and my wife and I seem to have the same worries you do (or did) about ADD and other psychological ailments.

She's clearly very smart. She's really good at math (she's in first grade but already has a good grasp of 3rd and even some 4th grade stuff). It took a while but now she's good at reading. She's creative, usually kind to others, VERY social (a challenge for both of us being introverted and shy to an extreme), and doesn't cause trouble anywhere.

However, every conversation with her is a challenge. She's stubborn, sticks to absurd ideas and gets really angry if we try to show her she's wrong. This is contradictory with her ease at math, but she has a hard time following logical things like if A -> B and B -> C, then A -> C, so there are daily verbal arguments with her that are very frustrating. It's practically impossible to have a 5 minute conversation with her without it drifting into nonsense.

Do you notice the same in your "intense"?
"By accessing and/or using the Site, you indicate your acceptance of these terms and conditions." [1]

IANAL - It seems as though they did agree.

1: http://www.adp.com/legal.aspx
Hi lucasjans, thanks for your note. The form should have been short and only a small set of fields required. We'll look into ways of optimizing that to reduce the appearance of friction. Happy to discuss your use case and how we feel about how we compare if you'd like to send me an email (joel at maraudersoftware dot com). Cheers
It is multiplayer only (always connected) but you can play it alone.
Right, this is the problem with capitalism. It's predicated on the assumption of returns increasing to infinity, which is clearly impossible.
> If you wanted to see which files use the interface in that header file directly, you can scan your headers for ones that include it explicitly, instead of working backward from the header.

Your .c files that use the interface will often be including it implicitly though, projects very quickly drift in that direction.
Facebook Pop :)
It can be single-player, but you still need a connection to do so.
The coming population implosion
Is "Pound" more like "Newton" than "Gram"?
Session at Twilio Signal: Lessons learned from starting the paperless revolution
Red Hat Software Collections 2 arrives for cloud and container developers
You're 100% right, nothing is free.
However, same quality education might be significantly cheaper in some places - e.g. medium-tier uni I went to in Canada charged ~$7000/year in tuition (back in 07).
I mean if efficiency leads to no one having jobs and thus cash to buy anything. That sounds like a broken system to me.

>It works until you run out of consumers with cash, at which point it no longer works.

edit: spelling
1 US city's cops killed more in 5 mos than Iceland has in 71 years
The challenge in MBS analysis isn't the complexity of the math involved (it's regressions and stats) it's understanding the business drivers, as it's hard to mine data that's so big.
Capitalism always tends toward monopoly, there's only a difference in the minds of idealistic libertarians.
Not to dismiss what you're saying, but in this case the 'client button' is for tricking the annoying client into thinking you're making a change when you've really done nothing.

This is kind of the same idea as throwing in a duck[1] or hairy arms[2]:

1: http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
2: http://www.oliverburkeman.com/blog/posts/the-theory-of-the-h...
Meaning, what other possible real-world uses can be conceived of?
Maybe. There is also a lot of work going into providing tools for domain experts so that entry-level programmers aren't needed for, e.g. data visualization. So it's not clear to me that the dynamic is any different in software engineering than anywhere else.
Does the Xbox One not do this? I mean suspend gameplay and resume with just a touch of a button?
Because the SSN is the "primary key" for pretty much all interactions with the taxing authorities. That's why it's called a "Taxpayer Identification Number" and so on. Sure it's a sensitive piece of info, at least to some extent, but it's not some highly classified secret. Putting it on tax forms is sort of the point.
I get that social order was produced in colonial Africa, but you kind of have to ask...for whom? To say that there was strong social order for Africans is probably a stretch. The crimes against them were probably legal in a lot of colonial areas. So while they had fewer public works that were rusting it was probably legal for certain parties to commit rape even at the height of colonial Africa.

Rape maybe one extreme...it was certainly the case that crimes perpetrated by Africans were punished differently.

Same thing for the Southern US ...there were some slaves that chose to stay with their masters, but most of them were ok with the hunger and joblessness that came with emancipation.

Is the question in the end something like...Is a safe and orderly society under a tyranny the same kind of good as self determination in the face of lawlessness? Which one is the greater good? Is that even a meaningful question?

(Keeping in mind, I guess, that these kind of beard scatcher's are the hallmark of liberal western privilege.)

Cheers.
Taxes are a really awesome invention, probably the best ever
In one sense, yes. On the other hand, many people take law degrees without any intention of working directly as lawyers, so "it's complicated"

Really, it doesn't make any sense to lump the two careers together (at least in the US), anymore.
I think we're both on the same page that the standard "tech interview" model is broken. I don't have a problem with doing work sample tests. I have a problem with contrived samples that aren't representative of my coding abilities.

My justification is that I have oodles of experience. I'm happy to prove it -- I just don't think generating an ASCII spiral is a good test of whether I am qualified or not.
Why Not to Overlook API Planning and What to Do About It
I wonder where that leaves the job market, given that there will still be a need for these roles in the future (and plenty of incentive for someone to learn the roles via whatever means become available).

Are unpaid internships a symptom of this flow perhaps? They read a lot like apprenticeships (but with a significant burden of responsibility missing).
But education isn't what you need to be an experienced worker, you need experience. I think the parent's point is a great one, and would add to it that things are headed toward a glut of well-educated but nonetheless inexperienced people.
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Leaked Oculus renders may hint at final release hardware and controller
New Hire Observations at Behance
LispyScript
That reminds me of the old "Supervisor Key" in classic early games.
For those who are unfamiliar with Prakash's work... He did his PhD at MIT's Media Lab on "Microfluidic Bubble Logic", which is the earlier basis for this work. Here's his thesis (big PDF): http://cba.mit.edu/docs/theses/08.09.Prakash.pdf
This is great news for DO users! We moved to AWS a while back but when we were a growing team on DO it was a bit awkward having our everyone using my personal email as the login, and the boss's credit card on the billing page.
From reading the launch posts it seems the real advantage is it allows Varnish Software to bring SSL under the same roof and offer commercial support for it i.e. more a business advantage rather than a technical one?
I believe this criticism is answered here: "Of course, such thinking, endorsed by no one beyond the world of technology, would be of limited force. But the technologist worldview has become widely influential."

No one's listening to recovering alcoholics outside of AA and maybe their families. Schwarzenegger, Reagan, Borge, Lehrer—these are all individuals, influential in their own way, but not commanding entire social movements with uncritical followings. (Well, maybe Reagan did/does.)
This looks pretty cool - I hope it works. I couldn't download the ubuntu package, as download.fpcomplete.com is unreachable here. I downloaded the linux-generic package, but it seems to be a bit older, and so doesn't cope w/o a stack.yaml file.

OK - now with a stack.yaml file it's busy getting me a ghci...

cabal hell was one of the first things that really put me off haskell. I was downloading and trying to get xmonad working, but within half an hour, had a completely unusable ghc / xmonad combination. I think I was on debian, and the version of ghc that was installed wasn't compatible with the correct versions of various libs that xmonad wanted to have installed... Very frustrating.

Well, looks like installing stack does at least allow me to get a ghci up and running. That's cool. The easier getting haskell up and running becomes, the better. It's a wacky and esoteric language enough without it being hard to get going...

Interesting how programming languages "need" their own package manager these days. A bit of a pain that there's no universal one for all languages, but I guess that would be just too convenient...
> Talks I can watch or go to?

Here's some excellent food-for-thought on the subject.

Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_ha...
Great read. I have one suggestion:

Get better games.

My 5 year old LOVES King of Tokyo playing with me as a family. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-tokyo

Also Animal Upon Animal is a fun game with my kid. It is a stacking game with animals and kids love it. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17329/animal-upon-animal

There are so many good games for kids and almost no one knows about them.
How would you judge that, though? And how much 'potential' is actually realised by the place you go to - faculty and facilities influence outcome (access to supercomputers, for example) and maybe the only thing distinguishing a good student from stanford and someone from maryland is the bias in faculty: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005.
In that case, most potential candidates are virtually similar, and some sort of affirmative action is required to balance out the gender pool.
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Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686466
I prefer the Ham Button: http://hambutton.com/
If it's yours, you own the copyright to the source code and game assets, so you are in good shape.
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Copy and Paste probably a terrible signal of plagiarism in the modern writing workflow -- which involves tons of editing, multiple documents, and more legitimate use cases for it than illegitimate.
Flattr and Gratipay work on this: repeatedly show support/gratitude to people (Gratipay is mostly oriented on software, Flattr is more broad).

https://flattr.com

https://gratipay.com

Then there's Patreon, but I don't immediately see any software-related stuff there, mostly other creative things (videos/music/drawings etc).

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EDIT: a few examples from Flattr:

NoScript: https://flattr.com/thing/42724/NoScript

Open Street Map: https://flattr.com/profile/openstreetmap

EFF: https://flattr.com/profile/EFF

AdBlock: https://flattr.com/thing/118424/AdBlock-For-Chrome

WikiLeaks: https://flattr.com/profile/WikiLeaks