skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Global Computer Employer Index: http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

It's not yet really "global" by any means however I do have some decent coverage of Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz and New York City.

I've stopped posting new companies while I work on some tools to automate the process. For example I keep new listings in a bunch of LibreOffice spreadsheets. Last week I learned the hard way that the number of tabs is limited to 95.

It is my hope that by doing this there will no longer be a need to find jobs through staffing agencies. When I was just starting out I just looked up "Computer Programming" in the Yellow Pages.
I think it comes from scarcity and changing demographics... there is a very real feel of loss off status and power among the white middle and working class.

You are right about the crazy views on socialism and German politics in general.
I would pay money for an extension that would prevent websites from redirecting me from the full desktop version of their site to the crippled "mobile-optimized" version. Especially when the full site has to load completely, before a jQuery onready function fires to do the redirect...
By inviting people like Yarvin to speak a clear signal is sent: people with bigoted beliefs are welcome in the conference. This makes the minorities Yarvin rails against feel unwelcome.

There is no opting out of this kind of signaling. Either the conference is welcoming to marginalized groups in tech (and therefore shuns people who are intolerant), or the inverse.

So the best option is to tell neoreactionaries to get lost. This means we lose out on a potentially meritorious technical talk, but finding a replacement speaker isn't that difficult.
Well one of the points of an interview is to see how (or if) the person goes about understanding problems the context of a given problem. So presumably it's unclear to inverse a binary tree to you - that's why you ask clarifying questions. Perhaps you draw what you think it means and ask if that's correct. What will be considered the root if it's just a matter of reversing the direction of the pointers? Stuff like that. Google isn't dumb, and I'd be willing to bet that it's questions like those that are just as important than coding the solution (since it won't be that hard once you clarify the problem).

Here's an example to think about: You're asked to write a method that, given a word and a book, will return the number of times that word appears in the book. A logical way to continue would be to (after clarifying what a book is represented as and things like that) write a simple method that iterates over the book and counts how many occurrences of the words there are, and returns that. Is that a good answer? No, because you failed to ask questions like whether the method might be called many times for the same book (in which case it'd be better to build a map of words to occurrences). Or maybe the interviewer would say that it'd only be called once per book, in which your solution is perfect. The bottom line is that coding isn't as important as the way you approach the problem to the interviewer.

The best analogy I've heard for this: If you wanted to judge whether a person was a good chess or card player by seeing just a couple moves or hands - you wouldn't just look at the couple moves/hands played - it'd give you very little information. But if you asked the player to explain their whole thought process for the moves/hands, you'd get a much better indication of how good or mediocre that player was.
Where's the option for "Conferences should allow whomever they wish to speak, but don't come crying to me when it all ends in tears, as it will if you court controversy by focusing on technical merit over personal behaviour."
>Unfortunately, while I think the reasons for adblock can be valid, its allowing people to effective take content without letting the producers earn anything in return. Just because something is easy doesn't make it "right".

Do you feel the same way when someone mutes the TV during commercials?

What if I put a piece of tape across my monitor to block an fixed location add?

I don't feel morally obligated to view ads on publicly accessible internet sites in the same way that I don't feel obligated to stay in the room during commercials.

I'll happily pay content providers if it's easy, but it's a utilitarian decision for me not a moral one. If you put information in public, I don't feel bad about viewing only the portion of that information that's useful to me.
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I've done quite a lot of python work, and so have it on my resume. I also have lots of sample code.

But even so no one seems to believe I really know python. I like python, I really do but even so I've completely given up on applying to python jobs.
Here's a little web app I made for practising French verbs:
http://practicefrenchverbs.com/

The code is on GitHub:
https://github.com/euoia/node-reverb
This is temporary. Unfortunately, news sites have to get a clue...
I believe "invert" here means to flip the left-right direction. A better word for it would be "mirror."
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I dunno. I could see the likes of ChromeOS go down that path.

Never mind that iOS is getting more "desktop-ish" by the release.
+1, 30 pages of pure Elasticsearch metrics/monitoring goodness!
Even if you run a low-traffic or no-traffic instance you'll almost undoubtedly have REJECT packets. I enabled it on a VPC I barely use and had 100 events in a few minutes of rejected packets from port scanners and other attackers.
That was fantastic. Thank you.
You can block ads on iOS right now (but it's not easy): install 'privoxy' on a home computer and set up your iPad to use it as a proxy server.
Found a link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-ad-free-in...

>of the 316 million people living in the U.S. are online, according to recent estimates by Pew Research Center and Forrester Research, that would equate to roughly $159 per person per year

So yeah about $50 for a family of four per month.
In California specifically, I'd like to see a ballot proposition which would set the UC Regents salary to one dollar per year.

Presently they can set their own salary; the governor and the legislature have no say, nor do the students. So they lead lavish lifestyles at the expense of students who are doing pretty good to live under highway overpasses.
For those who prefer learning in a more passive manner, I've found these sets of screencasts on the Clojure Koans quite useful too.

http://www.clojurescreencasts.com/koans-walkthrough/01.html
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I wouldn't say burnout is just an office cliche, but your point appears to be supported by current research. Quoth the wiki:

> The symptoms of burnout are similar to those of clinical depression; in a study that directly compared depressive symptoms in burned out workers and clinically depressed patients, no diagnostically significant differences were found between the two groups: burned out workers reported as many depressive symptoms as clinically depressed patients. Moreover, a study by Bianchi, Schonfeld, and Laurent (2014) showed that about 90% of burned out workers meet diagnostic criteria for depression, suggesting that burnout may be a depressive syndrome rather than a distinct entity. The view that burnout is a form of depression has found support in several recent studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_%28psychology%29
Came here to say just that. Apple seems to be trying to make the case that users don't necessarily need to get in bed with creepy, data-mining-for-profit platforms to receive good service.

Whether that's really true, or just good rhetoric...
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At what point is Google going to officially become a consulting company?

Right now, they seem to be playing arbitrage with engineering talent. They buy up engineers with large salaries and fancy perks. Those people, who now span almost every industry, are then used on projects like these. This has nothing to do with Google's core business or any branch of it at all.

It seems like Google is designing all sorts of products outside of its core competency (medicine, cars, now this?) with the hopes of either spinning it off, selling to the highest bidder, or...? I can't see shareholders liking Google trying to enter every market in the world.
Just because it's easy doesn't make it right.
I used similar materials, and I found The Foreign Services Institute's course workbooks (1989) [0] as a helpful supplement for learning Spanish – and they have courses for 37 other languages, all free (PDFs and MP3s).

They courses were intended for international diplomats preparing for exams or relocation that require (at the least) conversational proficiency in their destination's local language. So, you learn the basics as quickly as possible without compromising understanding for rote memorization.

[0] http://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/
> You're only looking at monetizing and forgetting about growth.

Because of the valuation size, and because I think they've succeeded at growing quickly and becoming the most well-known language learning solution. Everything else about Duolingo looks really good, but the monetization side of things seems to be the elephant in the room.

What I'm also pointing out is that the growth among language learners cannot be easily translated into growth in institutions. To grow in institutions they will still need sales teams, and their consumer userbase doesn't necessarily gain them much of an advantage in that game.

All that said, in this article they hint at having plans beyond the $20 certification they've announced. To achieve the valuation they've now got, I think it's fair to say they do have a solid plan that they just haven't made public knowledge yet. It's probably something that will be a bit controversial among their userbase, like paywalls.
Reminds me of the performing arts center Frank Gehry designed for Bard College [1]. When it was first built, snow and ice would slide off the roof with such velocity that they coned off the area.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Fisher_Center_for_th...
> The facts are often stipulated to

But they have to prove that those facts constitute a violation of copyright, don't they? And that's not given, since that should mean they have to prove it's not fair use (since fair use can be viewed as a right). If it's not viewed as a right, then what you said is correct. But how it's viewed is decided by the judge ad hoc (since the law is ambiguous). Or there is some other logic there?
It is available for Safari on the desktop too... get your facts right before you start "calling out" Apple.
In practice, JavaScript on the Web doesn't seem to be very high on the list of malware vectors.
String diagrams are a way to describe morphisms (think functions) in monoidal categories.

A construction using monoidal categories (or a slight generalisation) can be used to give a categorical model for arrows.

http://bentnib.org/arrows.pdf

This gives rise to these diagrams:

https://www.haskell.org/arrows/
Be positive . . . make the most of it . . . but keep looking for remote rails opportunities . . . polish up your rails skills in the evening and start a side project/rails app to keep your skills sharp/improve them.

At work, stay positive, make the best of it, keep your head down and money coming in until you land a better remote gig.

Good luck sticking in there.

btw I don't think lawyers/HR is a good move unless something really serious happens.

If you need money now, make the best of it and keep looking for a rails gig or other local gig.

Good luck.
I would pay for this site, reddit, google search, maps and gmail.
Primarily my inability to spell naiveté.

It's one of those "gift/curse" things. It's good they can challenge assumptions, but they don't realize how wrong they are when they are wrong.

There are some notes at http://www.amazon.com/In-The-Plex-Google-Thinks/product-revi... and it's also drawn up nicely in the book itself.
I don't think anyone in this thread is claiming that the government should force Strange Loop to allow Yarvin to speak.
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I posted this on an earlier thread about the morality of AdBlock, but it seem relevant to the discussion:

There is a huge irony in that fact that AdBlock's function of keeping ads away from our content will eventually do the opposite. The alternative to ads alongside my content is ads inside my content.

Let's face it: paywalls don't work. The alternative on the horizon is native advertising. Buzzfeed is now famously refusing to host ads. Instead they sustain themselves by publishing content that subtly supports the agenda of any company with deep enough pockets to pay for it. A viewer's ability to distinguish between native ads and regular articles is small and quickly vanishing. If separate ads stop reaching people, the path to monetization remaining is to change your content to reflect someone else's agenda.

I keep AdBlock off by default because I prefer a world where creators can make a meaningful articles and a useful apps without caring about who they are supporting, and can, as the price tag, separately attach an ad.

I do see it as a moral issue. There are good people making content that's being sustained by ads. I am never going to remember to give them my modicum of support if I don't consider them innocent until proven guilty. It's worth the small annoyance. It's worth the 2 seconds it takes to turn it on for the problematic pages. Hell, you can even map it to a shortcut[1]. It sucks, but the alternative is positively bleak.

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TL;DR: The bathroom may be dirty, but at least no one's taking a shit in my kitchen.

[1] https://adblockplus.org/en/faq_customization#shortcuts
For a few years I've been searching all over for the woman I was with during the summer of 1985. The reason we didn't stay together was that her grandmother did not approve of me.

I'm not dead certain but I may have found her street address. She usually goes by her full name - with her middle name - but the woman I found is listed only by her first and last.

Today I bought a blank greeting card with the intention that I would immediately write her a nice letter. Given that I don't know it's really her it's not going to be dripping with romance but more casual, just to say I'd like to be back in contact.

But all afternoon and into the evening I've been dwelling over what we could have had, had her grandmother approved, or had I found some way around her grandmother.

She would be too old to have children by now. That's quite difficult for me to accept but even so I want to see her again, hopefully find some way for us to be together again.
Majority of what Apple does is completely unnecessary. They do it because they want to provide the best integration they can.

And they have ~180 billion in cash collecting nothing but interests. I'm sure the interests alone are paying for these "unnecessary" expenses.
My impression was that he was talking about usage for business, not personal purposes. As for the popularity, even if the 90% figure is made up, I was only trying to explain/justify his point of view.
That would be really really hard to pull off for most publishers.

As a simple example: it breaks ad networks, which rely on you having a cookie that is shared across many domains to figure out what ads to show you. That doesn't really work if that 3rd party script is blockd.
As a football (soccer) fan myself, this is one of the things I hate about the hyperbolic media; not withstanding the blatant ignorance of not knowing that none of the top players play in the Brazilian league. Possibility of being beaten or being killed? Gimme a break. Sure there is the occasional riot, hooliganism etc. but you're more likely to die or get injured in a car accident than at a stadium.
I'm not belittling the fact that these things happen, it's just the hyperbole that I'm amazed at. I don't see the equivalent reaction when there is trouble in the inner cities, which in essence is same on principle.
The success of premium devices like the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S6 undermines your argument that Android only succeeds based on price. Many consumers prefer Android over iOS, and deliberately choose not to buy iPhones.
The "Reactions" table is hilarious – thanks for the link.
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I don't follow what part of that is wrong. What do you think publishers should do instead?
This is a step in the right direction but falls short of being the right direction. An ad blocker built into a major browser and turned on by default should long ago have been available.

This will hopefully push websites, especially news websites, to figure out some other monetization strategy, one that's not based on ads and therefore doesn't undermine the credibility of the news and the site.

So it's a win for consumers as no one wants to see ads as well as hopefully taking consumers closer to ad free, unbiased news sources.
You simply can't separate out politics like this. Wherever humans interact, you have politics. Human interaction does not exist without politics. It's chasing a pipe dream to say that a talk can be given free of politics. Often everyone shares the same politics, so it's not a problem, but politics simply can't be hived off like that. This isn't to say that everything needs to be political; it's just that you can't eliminate politics by decree.

A technical conference that's full of talks that are politically volatile is a useless technical conference.

... I don't think you understand what I was getting at. I was defending the rights of conference organisers to stop that from happening. One way to do this is by not signing on controversial technical figures.

I really don't understand what you're trying to get across to me - that somehow you will have a politics-free technical conference by ignoring the political environment surrounding your speakers? Humans just don't work that way... as is evident by what happens when technical conferences ignore the political environment surrounding their speakers.
>> So they targeting companies like Siemens now? They do not make public transportation systems, they do not make energy systems, they do not build houses.

Am I missing something? That first link you provided: http://i.imgur.com/URR2MJK.png

The text I circled in red looks very similar to the 3 things you mentioned and looks like exactly like the kinds of issues sidewalkinc.com would be tackling.
If you live in Raleigh and want to work in games, you really don't have many options. Hate the hours imposed? Well, pack up the house, say goodbye to family&friends, take the kids out of school and move across the country. Sounds like a good option, right?

On the bright (?) side, the bonuses are epic (hee hee).
I'm old school like you? I've been programming since TRS-80/Apple II,Atari 800 days.

I know C/C++ and OpenGL, DirectX and can certainly get a simple game running faster with my own code than with Unity or Unreal at this point.

But... I also go to game jams and watch the guys using Unity or Unreal run rings round those coding from scratch. I see many of my favorite games of all types being created with Unity (Threes, Monument Valley, Crossy Roads, Ori and the Blind Forest, Cities Skylines, Besiege)

I also see the amount of time I'd save. I've written 6 game engines, animation systems, exporters, font renderers, image loaders, serialization systems, spooling systems, memory management systems, input systems, localization systems, etc etc etc. I've ported my engine to various systems. I don't want to do that anymore.

> What the hell ever happened to writing code?

If that what you like doing then do that but me I just want to get to the game. I can see very clearly learning one of these engines will get me there quicker. Sure the first time there will be learning curve but after I'm quite sure I'll be much more productive.
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Also - a big motivation for work is learning. Didn't someone say "never apply for a position your qualified for"?
Nobody's advocating rewriting your own red-black tree from scratch, for no reason. People applying data structures talent and skill aren't copying down algorithms they have in the standard library.
> "Cthulhu" was swimming rightwards from roughly the late 1960s until maybe 2013-2014

I have no idea what this means.
That is certainly one perspective, and this may come as a shock to you, but there are those that argue unions are not a universal good. [0]

A tech workers' union means not only the mandatory imposition of dues (don't need any more little cuts out of my paycheck), fixed hiring qualifications that are pretty likely to evolve into full-blown licensing (i.e., the end of the self-taught professional), removal of the right to independently negotiate, and affirmative action, but also a large, opaque body that engages primarily in political activities like lobbying and negotiations with very little oversight or transparency.

The benefits of a union are protection from predatory employment policies. That may be necessary in some fields, but in programming, it isn't. Most devs I know can have a new job within a few weeks if they don't like their employers' policies, and most employers I know appreciate the difficulty in sourcing good software talent so they don't want to do much to piss them off.

[0] https://www.unionfacts.com/article/crime-and-corruption
We made a language exchange social app that's the complete opposite of the Duolingo approach. You learn and exchange more than 120 languages with native speakers from close to 200 countries.

www.HelloTalk.com
This is interesting. Does Googles mobile chrome browser have something similar on Android? I'm not really a huge fan of advertising but this seems like a feature that would make a certain group of users choose one browser over another and I can't really see Google not adding mobile plugins to allow this as some point.
The Pentagon created Silicon Valley.

If you don't believe me look up the wikipedia for Onizuka Air Force Station. It was the first ground station for America's spy satellites and I am absolutely serious that it was placed in Sunnyvale because it was a radio-quiet location, being out in the middle of a bunch of orchards.

Right next to Onizuka is a large Lockheed campus; I'm not at liberty to confirm nor to deny that it was put there to make all the toys that were needed either by Onizuka or by its spy satellites.
Physical analogies are dated when we have accurate terms now.

"There are mental trauma, that has not been caused by physical trauma, that will end up being like the gash you describe never being able to acclimatize to."

I'm not so sure about this.

Stress happens because of stress hormones. You can develop a tolerance to those hormones like you could develop a tolerance to any drug.

The range of experiences that human emotion can adapt to are vast. People in far more violent societies have adapted to far more horrific things. If we didn't have the ability to adapt to extreme shock we'd be screwed as a species.