skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did OP said he is depressed? Did he say that he cannot do anything? He said he keeps failing, and is feeling bad because of that, which is 100% normal. Can we stop diagnosing every case like this as a case of depression? Just because you had depression, doesn't mean every case of 'having a bad time', is a case of depression, and you have to hasten every one having a bad time to take anti-depressants. I am seeing this trend growing in HN.

I think measures like that should be only considers IF you can't figure out WHY you are depressed. If you know why you are depressed, taking anti-depressants will only cure/suppress the symptoms, and without coming to terms with the actual fact that is making you depressed, you will be dependent on drugs for a long time.
Still if the party only lasts a year, it is good going. Just gotta make sure you save and invest it.
Hrmmm. Digging deeper (and trawling my memory), I'm getting conflicting information:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

* https://youtu.be/8RwlEZ88rKM
In the short-term, yes. But those wells decline in production drastically faster than traditional drilling.
I think this approach to teaching programming should be used more often. A good read for someone looking for something that is already out there is "Cloning Internet Application with Ruby". [I am in no way affiliated with this book]

It uses Sinatra & DataMapper to take the developer through some simpler projects (URL Shortener, Microblog, etc...)
If I could upvote your comment 10 times, I would. It doesn't seem that the OP knows what exactly they want, and so the question of whether they should be doing things in Node/Python/Bash/SQL/NoSQL is putting the cart way before the horse. It's quite possible grep -- and some regex, and maybe some scripting logic for tokenizing -- is all that's needed, if the hypothesis is clear enough. But right now, it just sounds like OP has a ton of text and is hoping that some tool can somehow produce an unanticipated, useful insight...in my experience, that rarely (OK, never, actually) happens.
Swift 2 Pattern Matching: Unwrapping Multiple Optionals
I think he just means that sexual harassment is different from "heat", however you want to define that.
I bought a YubiKey so I could use it on my laptop with LastPass. Works fine. One day I grabbed my iPad and opened the LastPass app and it hit me... how am I going to authenticate with a YubiKey on an iPad. It took my password and then just worked.

I guess I misunderstood. I thought that once I enabled two-factor auth for LastPass, it'd require that no matter what. Nope, just open the iPad app and no two-factor required.
Sounds like the same argument that the threat of terrorism makes it really hard to support civil liberties and personal privacy.
Same old rhetoric. Pretty scary that a growing number of people seem to share the same opinion.
Books are about communicating experiences. A great book can give you the knowledge it would take years to get by personal experience alone. If anything, people involved in programming don't read nearly enough. We have giants on whose shoulders we should be standing, and instead we just retrace their footsteps. We need to stop ignoring our past.

Obviously, practice is also critical, but my point is most people who love to program love the act of programming, so they obviously already do a lot of that.
> I would have been happy to see NaCl-minus-Pepper standardized[...]

If there was no standard API, then sites would have a different API they had to use for each browser. Then we're back to the `UserAgent` days.

Unfortunately, I think it must be an all or nothing ordeal :/

> [...]browsers could then choose what superset of APIs to expose to that sandbox.

Pepper can already do that. All Pepper APIs are retrieved by calling a function provided to the module at start with a single string argument (ie `"PPB_Audio;1.1"` or `"PPB_Audio;1.0"` or `"PPB_FileSystem;1.0"`). It's impossible to use PPAPI without first getting the specific interface structures from that function.
> no one wants to hire me

Are you getting feedback from the job interviews that you can share here, so we can give more targeted advice?

> I'm in the wrong field

Are you sure yet? Do you enjoy programming and tinkering with computers in general? If so it probably is not completely the wrong field. Although the roles you are applying for may be wrong for you.
It is called "Hackpad". You might need to hack it to see it.
How Obama’s Startup Work?
I felt so nervous reading that I actually felt a little ill.

How people do these jobs I cannot know. Yet somebody has to. Amazing.
Oddly, it would be silly to transpile to ES5 forever. By the time ES6 support is widespread, we'll be transpiling from ES8, and so on.
Because much like Twitter's scenario, they're not worth nearly as much in the public market as they are today in the private market. Their numbers today won't support that hyper valuation. So they'd have a celebrated IPO, raise $2 billion or so, and their stock would promptly crater as the first few quarterly results rolled in.

The public market is going to look at HomeAway's $3 billion valuation and $446 million in sales, and wonder why they're paying 8 or 10 times more for Airbnb, when the actual financial results are far less.

They also can raise this billion at a tiny dilution, while not acquiring the intense scrutiny that goes with being public. Twitter for example has been under a challenging microscope since they went public. It's painful to flesh out your business model on the front page of the New York Times.
Last week /r/all/rising was mostly swastkas and dick pics with most of them going to a site called slimgur which they then supposedly shadow blocked.
> Given that /r/all currently has pretty much zero note of the crapshow from a couple days ago, I would think actually facing it and just bracing for a couple of days pays off a lot more than just ignoring it and letting it build up over time.

A controlled burn of the forest if you will.
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If this company isn't affiliated with YC, they probably shouldn't be displaying YC's logo (which could be a registered trademark) at the top of their page.
Inceptionism:  Going Deeper into Neural Networks
I suppose you're right. I don't think I'd make the call to actually do it, but things have gotten so bad in the last year I'm just exasperated. And since law enforcement has been so apathetic/ineffective at dealing with even the most blatant cases that the negative externalities that would normally be there (arrests, social pressure, etc) can't seem to keep the dangerous behavior in check.

Don't know what else to do. Can't ignore it, and it's not getting better. Posting about how it's bad isn't useful/doesn't accomplish anything. Actively engaging has proven to very dangerous to people and doesn't seem to have helped.

Sometimes the call for censorship is a purposeful play to stamp out or control a group, sometimes it's just exasperation at a lack of any other idea of how to deal with a situation.
I nearly crumbled under the opposing pull of reading each word of excellent prose vs skipping to the end to find the result.

Thank goodness I went into programming and not brain surgery!
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I have already replaced all JavaScript with Go (by using GopherJS compiler) in my personal projects, as of about a year ago.

I am really enjoying it and I don't see myself going back to writing JavaScript by hand anytime soon. I use it to do some frontend stuff that involves DOM manipulation, XHRs, WebSockets. Another use is WebGL, it allows me to write simple multi-platform games in Go that target OS X, Linux, Windows, but also the browser. I would not be writing those games in JavaScript by a long shot.
Consider it like FB buying instagram. Company is playing around with a small amount of equity as a % of total value. Having some liquidity in the bank for a rainy day is a good thing in a bubble. As is investing it in a way that will increase an eventual IPO value. So in either the upside or the downside here they have options to use the money that likely will move the needle on valuation.
Care to explain why? (unethical)

Aside from stating your own skills, employability, and high standard of ethics, your post is lacking useful info about HFT.
Finding the perfect mix of code coverage
I agree. I guess the guys down here in the greyed out area are more after some kind of justice. It's more the arrogance of apple that people want to give back to apple.
I mean, I just read the news articles that that person posted. If you have evidence to the contrary of these stories, by all means bring it to light.
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The main discussion of this story can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736171
From the prosecution:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1672...

From the defence:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/25617...

--- Personal opinion below ----

Not necessarily relevant (I believe it is) but provides some more of a background is her husband (whom she married in 2007) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Fletcher.

Why it's relevant in my opinion? An old saying translates to something along the lines of "you are the sum of who support, live, work and play with", which I find tends to hold very true.

From what I've read, but haven't been able to look up sources (someone else might chip in here) - her demands for payment (settlements) have always equated to exactly or greater than the sums owed by both her and her husband to their respective creditors.

Edit: I believe she was discriminated against for not being a reliable/honest/good person to work with, not because of her gender.

2nd Edit: Having thought about it, I now agree with /u/obstinate below moreso - her husbands dealings have nothing to do with her. We only know of our partners doings from our partners themselves, so we can't truly be objective and tend to err on the side of trust and loyalty.

She felt as if she was discriminated against, so he likely supported her in her lawsuit. He's lost his business and a home, so of course she'll do what she can to support him.

I still reserve my personal opinion against both, as others will do from reading this against me. I'm leaving my original comment and edit for context.
That depends on your configuration. LastPass supports per-device exceptions, so that you can allow login from devices without USB ports. I'd suggest checking for the device settings in your LastPass vault; mine are reasonably restrictive :).
Support for Octal numbers is insane (especially since uppercase O is supported as well as lower case o) e.g. 0O7. Add a feature that will need linting... wow.

Overall happy with many of the improvements (e.g. standard syntax for modules and classes).
Maybe an office building is a little narrow for an 'area'?
Although I can't speak to learning two spoken languages simultaneously, learning a language similar to one I already knew (I knew Spanish, tried to learn Italian) was insanely difficult, because my brain couldn't distinguish them enough. It would get in a loop of searching for Italian words and running into Spanish words and then mixing them up.

On the other hand, learning German after already knowing Spanish was much easier -- and it was much easier to see the similarities and differences between the languages, because my brain would find the Spanish phrase while searching for the German one, and vice versa, but wouldn't get stuck in a loop about it.
I've never thought about it that way. This makes web dev in Eclipse suddenly make so much more sense.
Why something similar but not the same?
The argument is that the moderation policies are selectively enforced in order to shape the prevailing ideologies expressed on the website.

Reddit's response is that it isn't "safe" and they want to make it that way. If you've been labeled as somebody who makes the site "unsafe" your actions are assumed to be those of an aggressor and an oppressor. If you're somebody trying to make the site "safe" even when you cross the line you're viewed as an oppressed person fighting back.

It's an intentionally uneven playing field and the people it's slanted against aren't happy about it.
I don't think that's a good reason to use GPL.

I think it's better for something to be open source when its creator wants it to be open, not because they're forced to.
Their take is nowhere near $1 billion in annual revenue.

It would imply they're taking a thousand dollars in sales or so per listing per year at this point. That would more than require every listing be sold out at all times.
Dial-a-Ride was a horrendous failure in Santa Clara County despite the faint critical tone of this article. How it works among a small and/or dense population is another story.

My late father was a leading critic of Dial-a-Ride at the time, mustering his considerable organizational analysis skills to show just how unworkable it was even in the most perfect scenario. To wit: imagine an assortment of riders all lying roughly in a long line across the valley with a common destination. Even in that case, the transit time for the first boarder from origin to destination would be at least 10-15 TIMES direct door-to-door time, or at least 3-4 times as long as taking existing bus routes with transfers (if needed).

In a small town with a well-bounded small center of commerce and residences, sure, that could work.

Here's a postmortem analysis from Stanford:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00165244

VTA's current farebox recovery rate is below 15% and, to my knowledge, has not ever been better than that.
> going to websites, opening the inspector and stepping through their code

Good news then, because even when loaded from the binary representation, browsers will apparently be able to show a canonical text format representation. (more info here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...) Citation:

> Will WebAssembly support View Source on the Web?

Yes! WebAssembly defines a text format to be rendered when developers
view the source of a WebAssembly module in any developer tool.
We could say the same to you?
$2.7 million is the exact amount that her husband owes in legal
fees regarding that ponzi scheme he supposedly ran.

So, on one hand that sounds suspicious. On the other, I know how quickly the Internet (flash) mob is to pick up torches and pitchforks.

At the end of the day, what are we to do? Trust juries as the final arbiter, when we know that they're not infallible? Trust reddit - same, if not more? Has her husband been convicted of running a Ponzi scheme - or is it merely "alleged"? Did literally none of EP's lawyers think, "You know... that number is too obvious. We should fudge it a little."?

Armchair quarterbacks. :)
http://kedo.io --- for some reason, HN makes links in the original post unclickable
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Her husband "Buddy" seems to like penises, maybe Pao isn't a woman at all.

Edit: It's all in the article. http://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletch...
I worked as an editor on overnight TV news broadcasts (for the early morning newscasts). Since most of the early news was a recast of the previous night I typically only had about an hour or two of work. That left 6-7 hours of watching tv, surfing the internet (this was in the late 90s so much less net and slower as well), reading, etc.
Yeah, it amazing to see all the vendors working on this. Asm.js has momentum and dedicated support from Chakra and SpiderMonkey but this is actually going to be created, supported with tools and promoted by all the vendors.
http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-w...

In an enterprise product, sure, I'd include a logging framework, but for smaller projects, more often than not, it may bring in unnecessary complexity.
Would make an incredible outdoor work of art.
I assume that the money is going to Airbnb ads on TV (and on airline seatbacks, and on Facebook, and everywhere else). When you have a model that works and is proven profitable on a unit basis, it makes sense to cram as much money as possible into distribution channels to make sure that it gets in front of everyone.
Go back to reddit. This comment is over the line. Your other comment in this discussion is even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736628
I have seen these cases crop up myself. But... as Martin Fowler would say, YAGNI... you ain't going to grow arms and legs...
With the recently released 512GB microSD cards, you could carry all of wikipedia around (not text only).

EDIT: It appears that since 2013, Wikipedia can fit on a 128GB SD card, including images.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/all-of...
You and I had this exact conversation at Eataly a few months back. WeakMaps are cool, but JS is a garbage-collected language. All you have to do to GC something is stop referencing it.

WeakMaps are only really useful when you don't control the referenced object's lifecycle. Even then, you can simply invert your map or check in your callback.
I think Dropbox is the entity we should be disappointed in here. They clearly want to be good citizens of the community, but this is a sign of "evil megacorpdom" that rather contrasts with "employs Guido Van Rossum to work on Python and sponsors Pyston".

I hope we're able to demonstrate to their M&A team that moves like this hurt their reputation and make it harder for them to hire & acquire.
Seems incidental to me that money is technically going to their bank account(s) while the payments are being processed.
In order to turn a profit, speculators have to eventually sell their buys. So no supply restriction in the longer term.
Sony hack: Judge allows ex-employees to sue for negligence
The pros of using social networks in language learning
Heck, my 87-year-old Ma doesn't know what life is like with the internet. She's never touched a computer in her life, has no electronic gadgets other than a pacemaker.
This thread provides a nice crash course in the mentality and tactics that KiA and related manbaby trolls and hate groups are polluting reddit/the Internet with. Every act of moderation is Ellen Pao's fault, here's a bunch of unsubstantiated FUD about how everyone who got moderated was innocent and we'll constantly repeat these peripheral allegations about her husband. It's incredibly transparent and shameless.

"Downvote them all, it's the only way to be sure." - Susan B Anthony
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I guess Titan DB would fit the bill: http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/

Facebook has blogged about scaling Apache Giraph to insane number of Vertices/Edges.
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I think you're unclear on the definition of slander.

To put it as charitably as possible, the facts that came out during the failed lawsuit (and later attempt to get 2.7M out of the company to get her to go away) do not paint Pao in a good light.

Calling her a scam artist is putting it mildly, IMO. Real gender discrimination cases are tainted by this kind of BS.
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Recent Bitcoin price action has nothing to do with Greece (Charts)
Patent cases are definitely going to include expert testimony on what someone with ordinary skill in the art knows or believes, but other kinds of court cases (or types of participation in a case) don't always have a simple opportunity to introduce expert testimony -- like writing an amicus brief.

So it would be pretty awesome to have the Book of Tacit Computing Knowledge somewhere.
Or hover your mouse over the call, and see the prototype in a popup. Its maybe easier than visually parsing that complex enum form.

The problem with enums as class members is, they have to be scoped when used. I wish that method invocation included the scope of the class being called on.
To catch heat means roughly the same thing as to catch flak. In other words, to be complained about/insulted/whatever.
When you have a model that works and is proven profitable on a unit basis, it makes sense

...to IPO. In the normal world.
> I think Dropbox is the entity we should be disappointed in here. They clearly want to be good citizens of the community

Maybe or maybe not. I don't see any evidence (yet at least) that shows this is either Dropbox's or the original team's doing. I'm curious as to why they'd announce it then not go through with it without saying something to the community.
What line? Which part of the article are you responding to?
Gernot Heiser states it here:

https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/microkernel...

Their highly-efficient microkernel has been doing so well that most people using it don't know it's in their smartphones. Do most virtualization solutions have a similar impact on user experience? ;)
Stay on /r/babyelephantgifs. Always.
oh, there was a handful of tall buildings (I recall seeing the Community Bank and Bank of America buildings using a telescope from the eastern hills), but there was never sufficient density of population or workforce for transit to be cost-effective.

The (lack of) such commonality was key.

SCCTA/VTA's infrastructure was always politically oriented, not need-based. Note how Mineta obtained hundreds of millions of Federal funding for light rail along the Mountain View/Sunnyvale corridor (despite mass reductions of workforce in the area at the time from Lockheed and the Blue Cube)... then quit his House seat early and joined Lockheed Martin's executive ranks.

But I'm sure that was just coincidence.
> I do see the distinction there, but it seems to have interesting consequences for other industries that operate with a contractor model. If this woman could be deemed an employee by essentially contracting for only one customer base, couldn't contractors in other industries essentially become employees without ever being formally hired by restricting their customer base?

Yes. infact that happens quite a lot (subject to jurisdiction).

Many builders I know are very concerned about hiring the same contractor too often as they might accidently become an employee (and hence have to pay taxes on them).
http://www.dol.gov/whd/workers/misclassification/pressreleas...
Because it conflates fit and prediction. If I take a graph of the DJIA over the 20th century then fit a polynomial to it it's intellectually dishonest to turn around and claim that I have a predictive model of the stock market. I have a fitted function, nothing more.

This is similar to the sharpshooter fallacy. If I shoot at the side of the barn then draw a bullseye wherever I hit I can pretend to be a good shot.
So the larger point is that you are triviallizing legitimate issues whithout yourself having a grasp on what those issues really are.
If she wanted to punish KP, she should've said that she would donate whatever she wins minus legal bills to a charity.