skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff is a thicket of special cases:

“File I/O functions in the Windows API convert "/" to "\" as part of converting the name to an NT-style name, except when using the "\\?\" prefix as detailed in the following sections.”

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
And yet a vastly more productive environment than actually trying to get the same thing done in C++.

I've worked with two commercial C++ systems designed around the reactor pattern, so perhaps not an expert, but this is not a drive-by comment either.

The C++ projects I worked on ended up requiring extra little "threads on the side" to deal with stuff like sync DB drivers or closed source libs. Little inefficiencies added up to the point where we may as well have done the darn things in JS anyway.
A mid-sized software/services company in Ireland.
The article points to http://www.cbtforinsomnia.com but it's not an app. I'm likely to give it to my partner to try.
Sure...but the other, implicit side of "I'm quitting it because of all the social awkwardness" is: "This device is not good enough to warrant tolerating all the social awkwardness". The iPad was the only Apple device that I've waited on opening day for and when I used it at subways or at the coffee shop for what seemed like the first two months, I always got questions. And it was fun at first, then kind of annoying. But I never felt the urge to "quit" the iPad because its form factor was just so damn useful. If I couldn't stand the public attention, I could always use it at home and feel like I got my money's worth. Apparently that's not the case with the OP and the Watch.
His style of writing that you find boring is exactly what has made him a great writer.

The notion of conveying a powerful message or story as simply as possible is not an easy task, albeit seeming so.
What does "official language exams" mean?
>> Instead, the company is now using its Test Center certification program as a revenue source (the tests cost $20) and says that it has other plans to monetize.
"it's likely the author brought it on themselves by pushing too hard."

Or being in a job or a situation that didn't fit them and they exceeded their capabilities or their ability to deal with stress.

Yelp, or for that matter any job, is not an elementary school that you are assigned to that you can't change because you are 6 years old. It's a job. People have all sorts of capabilities that allow them to work or not work at a particular career or company.
I did not, no, but I've been to many other Chinese cities just like it.

Sinuiju is still an industrial city, so I wouldn't describe it in quite those terms.

Still, Dandong does provide a stark contrast, and goes some way to explaining why North Korea's list of "countries that have the best quality of life" has China at #1 and NK at #2. It's impossible to deny that China is getting rich.
I didn't knew that ycombinator allowed such xenophobic views on their site. This is an example of some guy that thinks that only the pure swedish people is to be trusted.

I'm horrified at what Hacker News can become...
The work doesn't scale and do more things and handle more customers if you don't hire more people and develop better systems
I've talked to several developers over the years that dream of being a groundskeeper.

A little about this. I worked plenty of my summers at a country club (my dad is a superintendent) and there is something to the work. There's some really shitty jobs (how about weed-eating the the creek banks in 90 degree temps and 90% humidity?), but mowing grass can be really enjoyable. When working at nicer clubs there is a certain amount of pressure to cut straight and even lines on greens/fairways/tees which is a nice little challenge and rewarding to look back on when you've done a good job (its art). Being out in the sun and working your body a little bit makes a man feel good and you're done around 3 (you start at 6).

It's funny how when we're young we'll look at a job like that with a sort of scorn as if we've got better things to do, but then as you get older you long a little for those nice summer days of cruising up and down the fairways, just you and your machine.

I don't think I'm ready to quit tech anytime soon as I do enjoy it and feel like I might eventually make some lasting impact somewhere, but thinking ahead towards "retirement", there's something appealing about the idea of heading down to the local country club, filling out an application and collecting my $10/hour to cut rough 3 days a week.
Most of the press play a big part in supporting this kind of nastiness, sadly.
Java the language is much simpler than C++. I sincerely don't understand how anyone could think otherwise.
I still would like to buy legos ala cart. Give me 1000 single units in black and 500 half units in black etc...

Actually using a CAD like program that would give a list of pieces needed and than a way to buy the items online would make my kids a wonderful place. Oh wait they killed that in 2012 (http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/subpages/designbyme)
> Generally speaking, if you have to pay people to do it, there is something nasty about the work.

No, generally speaking, it just means that the work you do has some value for the people paying for it, since they need it done and they lack the skill, the time or the will to do it.

It says nothing about how fun or stressful or nasty the work is for you (it might be fun for you and boring for someone else).
They also monetize with a paid translation service. The service is exposed as challenges to users and in effect they crowd translate stuff.
It's really great to see a platform that provides so much real value doing so well.
She mentions that a lot of cool stuff about the watch is moot as it is generally in screen off mode.
A lot of the value in a watch is being able to cast a sly glance towards it to see what time it is without anyone else noticing (e.g. in a boring meeting).

Having to do an ostentatious mime to awaken the screen rather defeats this purpose.
> I feel I need a mentor to help guide me--

Jump on Linkedin's advanced search feature. Sort for profiles of graduates from your program. Alternatively, sort for tech writers in a market where you want to live & work. Build a list of 10-12 interesting profiles; then reach out to these people individually seeking advice. You may be surprised how receptive these folks will be to your email/call. You may also uncover some hidden job opportunities.
The possibility of Kaspersky being a "stooge" for Putin is much less than the possibility of Symantec, Norton et all being stooges for US Government (well its a certainty actually) + all the arms of the octopus. This is why I use Kaspersky @ my home PC, at least I know if there are any backdoors, it would be very difficult for anyone in the west to get Russia to provide any useful data on me. While for Symantec - it would take one call and the backup keys to unencrypt your drive/snoop on you is in the hands of people who painted you a target.
I was also curious about the lack of promises
Asking for a raise is the obvious thing to do here; you're now responsible for picking and teaching new tech. That's an important (and pretty cool) position to be in. It should be worth something.

Of course if you actually dislike working here, you could also start looking for a new job. Programmers who learn new stuff and can teach it to others are always in demand. In fact, just getting some experience teaching that stuff to your boss and co-workers is not a bad investment in yourself.
So, correct me if I'm wrong: A non-technical user on their network DIDN'T have EMET running? Or did they, perhaps, have an EMET bypass in their shellcode?

If it's the latter, that's what I would be more interested in.
It's worth less than some companies that provide even less value.
No, You Don’t Have Free Speech Online
Melatonin is sold as a supplement, so it's subject to much less regulation than other medication.

Some consumer organisations have tested the pills being sold and found wide variation in the quantity of melatonin in the pills.

In the UK melatonin is a prescription only medication.

Personally: I found it useful. I strongly prefer zopiclone. That preference might be connected to how insomnia affects me.
It is in the fashion section. In the technology section, yes, this is vapid but in fashion it is par of the course.
And yet the video was awful in every way. It cut too fast, not allowing us to fully appreciate what was going on, and it had no playback controls so if you missed anything you have to wait for the entire thing to loop back up. Did you see the blue box that trapped the foot? I don't know what that was.
Have you had a look at it? There's no location information that I can see so the usefulness is somewhat limited. There are 160 lines with "Suspicion: LOW" or higher, but I'm really not sure what I'm looking at.

If someone with a bit more domain expertise could point out the smoking gun here, it could be very interesting.
How LinkedIn Thinks About Product
Docker certification program eyes long-term partnerships
IMHO it's more a function of their inability to compete with Github and Bitbucket. They were slow to react to the rise of distributed VCS, failed to exploit their social network features, and probably had already accumulated too much technical debt to effectively change course by the time overall trends became clear. Once developers shifted, power users had to follow suit.
If we're talking about ideas crossing over, Malaya and Kenya definitely inspired much of today's US focus on counter-insurgency, and Kitson's book on the subject [1] is still popular reading across the pond. He did talk about the necessity for the law to become occasionally "malleable"...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Low-Intensity-Operations-Subversion-Pe...
It wouldn't be called "the satellite paradox" if it did what you would naively expect. :-)

If you have 2 objects in the same orbit and one accelerates backwards, that one winds up below and in front of the first. This happens because accelerating backwards causes it to lose energy, so it falls, and in falling picks up more kinetic energy than it had before.
When I was eleven, three local K-mart stores had a simple drawing to win 1000 dollars worth of Legos. They had these little boxes with stacks of entry forms next to them and a pencil to fill them out while you were in the store.

Each store was going to give away a thousand dollars worth of legos.

Even though there was a store just a few minutes from us, we drove to the one 20 minutes away in a dilapidated shopping center because inspection of the drawing box indicated that fewer people were submitting entries at that store. We would drive to the stores in the morning, take all the entry forms available except for a few and I would spend my summer mornings filling them out. I believe we dropped close to a thousand entries in the various boxes. I put the majority in the low traffic K-Mart but entered a hundred or so in the other two stores as well.

I got a big manilla envelope in the mail with Lego letterhead congratulating me and 3 different catalogs, lego, duplo and technique.

I spent two glorious weeks poring over the catalogs with my brother carefully tallying up to the 1000 dollar total.

A month after submitting the order we received two giant boxes. Few things have ever made me as happy.
True, at least in some cases. You may like the anonymous comments then: http://hbs1963.com/wisdom/anonymous/
While I agree the article is trash I also think having it posted on HN provides value as the comments and reaction show clearly how unwelcome xenophobia is.
Don't walk, RUN if you can to HHVM. Like you, I was running on amazon. Sure PHP runs at scale but then you have to load-balance. But come on, we had 20 servers at a cost of ~$6k a month. Thats just for the front-end also.

In August, I switched to HHVM and I was able to shrink down to a single server. Now I'm running 3 for things like redundancy. My bill? Around $1500 a month, big difference. No wonder Etsy, Wikipedia, Baidu and others have switched over.

Not only this, but 3.8 is coming with increased performance over 7. Not only RPS but also latency as well. I run an ad server and the latency DROP was huge compared to PHP.

Oh and for the backend application. Moving to HHVM it definitely feels much snappier than PHP. In some cases, you can see the difference. I don't regret moving to HHVM. Very very doubtful I'd move back to PHP 7.

My only 2 complaints are that Postgres and zeroMQ drivers are 3rd party extensions. There is talk of Postgres coming in house. I just wish more people could petition for ZeroMQ to be included.

If you do go to HHVM. Maybe it may be worth moving from Laravel to Slim (3)? You may get a boost due to the lower framework size? I know I did when going from Codeigniter to Slim 2.
Yea, SSRIs actually made things worse for me (and they can be quite dangerous if taken alongside other medications that aren't "obviously" problematic, including some that merely affect liver enzyme levels).

You might look at magnesium/calcium/D3 in combination, specifically one of the chelated forms of magnesium.
They have a business model where they sell translation services to CNN, etc.

I don't have a business model but I'm trying to bootstrap an iOS language software company. Duolingo is really good but I think language learning is difficult enough that there are other good ideas worth pursuing.

Anyway, if anyone is learning another language, I'd appreciate any feedback on my apps. Here's my Spanish app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/h4-spanish-lite/id388918463?...
TL;DR - The watch is too flashy for the user. It didn't wake up reliably when the user looked at the watch. The user prefers to unlock their phone to do mundane tasks. The user feels like the step tracking and health functions of the watch are a burden.

If there was ever a product that was not right for a consumer, I think this writer has found one...

Personally I love my A.W. I have had 1 single person ask me about mine, that is it. (Which is good, because I didn't purchase it to be flashy)

Also, I think it would be a bummer if it didn't show its watch face when you look at it. I have heard mixed reports on this functionality. For me, it works really good, I never feel like I'm waiting for it to wake up. Maybe not everyone looks at their wrist in the same motion that is enough to trigger it. Definitely happy it doesn't activate while typing here.

Lastly, if wearable activity technology is not exciting, it seems like a significant portion of the "reasons" to buy one diminish. I was an avid fitbit/jawbone user before the A.W.
A person who self-admittedly is uninterested in branding in her fashion buys the most readily identifiable product in years from the largest brand in the world and she's upset about it?

It's not the Apple Watch, it's her.
It is J's 'insert' function. It inserts the verb on the left between the items on the right. I think I've see it called 'apply' for J too, and I think 'reduce' as defined in other functional languages would be correct; it's just that J calls it 'insert'.
There are also lots of awkward edge cases where Java specifies something just as complex as a more general language feature, that's then only used in one tiny case. E.g. Java has a specification of type inference - that's used only for anonymous classes. And another, more limited form of inference that's applied to generics. Java has a syntax for union types - that can only be used in catch clauses - and generic type bounds have their own parallel syntax and rules. Language constructs are inconsistent (braces are mandatory around the body of a try or a function, but not an if or while). A lot of parts of the specification need special-casing for primitive types and/or arrays, which most languages handle in a more unified way (e.g. accessing the length of an array via reflection is unlike any other method or field access).
Yeah, and there's a reason for that: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ARST&fstype=ii&ei=jlJ...
I don't have an Apple Watch, but I'm using Android Wear for 6 months now - Yes, it takes a while to get adjusted to forming a relationship with your watch. But you get there. The bond you form with watch feels to be deeper and more trusting. That maybe intimidating at first.

The author gave up a great device because of peer pressure, and came online to rant about it. Yes, it does start conversations, people ask you what is it that you're wearing. That problem would be slimmer with Apple Watch than Android Wear.

So what? It's an amazing experience to own a smartwatch. And people are genuinely excited about your new gadget, not judging on you. From my experience, they really want to know, and find out how I got one.

It is not yet a fashion statement, but the upsides outweigh the downsides.
LEGO just released their "LEGO Worlds" game that is very similar to Minecraft, but with LEGO bricks.

In recent years LEGO is ver much in franchise/brands, with specialised sets reach from StarWars to Batman. Nowadays kids get sets and build them once and that's it.

The joy of LEGO used to be to build what you had in mind with mainly generic bricks.
They've found an effective solution for self-study. Anything contextually different (eg. for classrooms) might need a vastly different solution.

Suppose they even managed to come up with that classroom solution for language learning. How does what they currently have help them? Teachers, schools & government education departments make the purchasing decision for classrooms, so what students use in their time outside class isn't especially helpful in driving more sales of a classroom solution.

If they came up with something good for classrooms, they might as well axe or install paywalls into their existing stuff.
You're pointing me to the essay, which was written by Russ Nelson. I couldn't find any commentary by ESR on the essay, just on the reaction to the essay.

> My point is that ESR is not a trustworthy source of information.

Then the word to use for that is "untrustworthy". The word you've actually been using is "racist".

Rationalwiki is not a trustworthy source of information. That's not something I can provide a firm citation for, so I don't expect you to start ignoring the place, but personally I try not to believe anything it says without doing the research myself. (And on the subject of ESR, I try not to believe anything anyone says without doing the research myself.) I don't remember the details of ESR on climategate, and don't particularly care to look it up.[1]

I do remember this, however:

> ESR wrote a blog post suggesting that the Haitian people really did summon up the Voudon god Ogun to kill off all the white Frenchmen.

and it's not a fair description. ESR suggested that the Haitians really did attempt to summon Ogun. He suggested that the ritual was valuable for physchological reasons. He did not suggest that they succeeded in summoning Ogun.

[1] There's a failure mode that I sometimes fall into, where I don't care about an object-level discussion, but weigh in on the meta-level, because the meta-level is more interesting to me. Then I get sucked in to the object-level. I'm trying not to do that here.
San Francisco Public Schools to Require Computer Science for Preschoolers
Because of the very real health risks, and the fact that generally, Teflon coated and aluminum cookware is of very low quality (no matter the price level, there's some really expensive Teflon stuff out there that is useless, clearly not made by someone who cooks).

I won't use ceramics either as there is no guarantee they won't leech dangerous chemicals.

The only thing I've seen that is suitable for long term use is cast iron, high carbon steel, and some 304 stainless steel variant (18/10, 18/12, etc). Its the only things we've been using for a decades on modern processes that are not known to leech anything dangerous (unless its extremely low grade Chinese stuff that isn't up to spec, which is easy to avoid).
Sure, the smartwatch or fitness tracker is not for everyone - I would never consider someone a luddite for not wanting a smartwatch or even a smartphone. And true, for some people, the statistics/tracking does indeed descend into "a numbers-driven neurosis", but for others it's a great way to provide an incentive to remain active, even if it does feel like a cheap gamification trick.

I don't buy this part though:

“Why is that more embarrassing than endlessly looking at a phone?” my friends said when I complained.

It’s a valid question, but after some contemplation I think the answer is simple: A phone is hand-held, and we are used to seeing people read things held in their hands. Like, say, books. But seeing somebody staring at her wrist (or merely sneaking a surreptitious glance at it) telegraphs something else entirely: (1) rudeness or (2) geekiness.

The "rudeness" or "geekiness" aspect is entirely contextual. When you're meeting with someone face-to-face (for dinner, an interview, whatever), constantly glancing at your {watch, phone} is an indication you'd rather not be spending time with them or that there is something else more important on your mind. The exact device through which your inattention for someone else is conveyed is of less concern than the human behavior underlying the action.
If you can afford Cisco's equivalent stuff you can afford this.

Still: probably not a product they expect immense amount of orders for at this point.
Also:

> "You can see this on your desktop by doing a search for “used iPhone.” The majority of the screen real estate is now ads! In the example above 11 of the 12 links are advertisements!"

Um...that's not what I saw. I get 6 links to places that sell used iPhones (not paid ads) like Glyde, Amazon, and Gazelle. Then there are a few news stories about iPhones, then some more links for places selling used iPhones or discussing what to look for when buying/selling a used iPhone.

Not sure what the author was seeing but it doesn't reflect my search results.
My wife has been wearing the LG G Watch since October. She has a petite frame and so it's pretty big on her. Occasionally people will ask her if it's the Apple Watch (this started happening as soon as the Apple Watch was announced, long before it shipped), and when she tells them it's the "G Watch" they lose interest. So at least for her there's not a "conspicuous consumption" problem like the OP is worried about.

She wears it because it's indispensable [1] for her, as a busy mother of small children, to know when someone is calling or she gets a message. She doesn't carry her phone on her person around the house, it ends up on a counter or table somewhere. In addition, she uses the find-my-phone feature at least once a day.

[1]: The other mothers in the neighborhood use SMS to ask her to send their child sent home if they are over playing and it's time for dinner, or what-have-you, so there are communications that are time-sensitive.
I routinely interview for jobs (even when not really looking) and for each one I ask 'how progressive is your company regarding remote work'. If they waffle, I walk immediately. It's time to imprint recruiters with the notion that great talent won't be constrained by offices.
With kids and a mortgage, my perspective definitely shifted. I could have continued on doing what I did with the contracting, but I know for a fact that my family life would have suffered as a result. Having a 40 hour a week job is great because it gives me the ability to plan better for my family, in terms of time and money.

Yes, it does feel 'transitional' but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I really like the company that I now work for, and I still have time to work on 'side projects' at home whenever I feel like it. It's also a hell of a lot stressful. I have the ability to 'let go' of work stress a lot easier than ever before.
you'll have a lot of ribbon cables, it probably won't work very well with mech kbs
This stuff is a thicket of special cases:

Is it? That's the only special case I find on that page. Are there specific API functions that have other special cases?