skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this was voted on many times. The Supreme Court ruled that the democratic process was unconstitutional in this case.
This would be awesome. One of my favourite articles of recent is http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ which covers this kind of thing.
if it happens, it happens. Not something I put on my years end goals.
I'm a Perl dev for less than 5 years. Since last week I changed the company I work for. The new company has a project which is 12+ years old.

This project has a code base written in Perl which seemingly violates all programming best practices: files of 50k LoC,functions of several thousands of lines, there are frequently 5-6+ levels of nested ifs. It contains all the technical debt it acquired during these 12+ years.

However, it took me less than an hour from the moment I got access to a working vm to make the first fix - display the correct currency on invoices which were not paid in usd. And this, in the context that it was the first time I logged into the app and I also had to find such a buggy invoice.

Now, tell me again how unreadable and hard to understand Perl is?
I agree, although I find it to be a copout. It's like when someone is losing an argument so they say "oh, I'm not talking about morality, I'm just saying how the world is".

The task for anti-progressives is to deconstruct the progressive narrative. Just as anti-racists aims to deconstruct "Whiteness", we need to deconstruct "racism". That doesn't mean claiming racism is good, or racism doesn't exist, but rather showing that the way progressives conceptualize racism is wrong and exaggerated.
> And marriage is fundamentally a government institution.

That's nonsense. I'd stay married to my wife even if it were illegal.
Use something like https://icomoon.io and just mix-n-match between sets. Personally I've found that no one set covers everything I need (though I generally default back to the Material Design font), and there are enough sets with a similar aesthetic that you can still achieve a consistent look.
Try to fix/change/adjust something in the front-end and look back from there... Although this can be frustrating depending on the codebase, but your best bet in learning something new is to try to do something... even something small. If you want to go the extra mile, add comments to stuff that doesn't make sense as you go, and tag things for refactoring with Todo's and corresponding tickets.

Going a step farther still would be to add to the user documentation as you go...

Do something small, and iterative, and go out from there... for that matter, just getting a proper build environment is hard enough for some projects... automate getting the environment setup if it's complex. I've seen applications with 60+ step processes for getting all the corresponding pieces setup.
No inside info but I'm almost certain its preferred with a liquidation preference. Probably with downside guarantees.
is this a causation correlation issue of generations?

could i die alone without any great effort to do so having grown up on the internet?

i have seen promotional material for teaching seniors computer skills.. and there seem to be so many similar services and efforts that a search was unable to lead me to the specific video..

the internet is filled with a mess of stuff but within there are many communities covering very many interests

why imagine yourself alone?
Maybe this is why I like CNC machines so much.
Inside Out was inspired by the psychological concept of basic emotions, which boil down to joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise. They just conflated fear and surprise into one character.

What I think is interesting is that these emotional characters have different aspects and complexities of their own. Pay close attention to the scenes where we see Riley's parents' emotions. For her mom, Sadness is in control; for her dad, Anger is the leader. Yet they are not predominantly sad or angry people. In the movie universe, Sadness is responsible for compassion and Anger for our sense of right and wrong. If Riley's emotions seem underdeveloped in regard to these complexities, it's because... well, she's a kid.
That's still expected?
The article is written is if this is unique to Japan. But lonely deaths, unnoticed for months happens every day in every (modern) society. And it is mostly men.
What if I'am widowed?
Here's what happens at my current job:

The boss assigns me 5 tasks. I ask him what is the priority (offering my guess). He tells me the priority, and I do them in that order, and he understands that the low-ranking stuff might not happen for a few days.

Here's what happens in a toxic environment:

My boss assigns me 5 tasks. I ask what is most important. He says they are all equally urgent.

The 2nd example shows an ignorance of how programmers work. You do one thing, finish it, then do the next thing. If you try to do 5 things at the same time, it'll take much longer than doing them in order.

What you have to do is make sure your boss tells you what is the most urgent stuff, and let the less urgent stuff slide.
If I could up-vote recursively until the Inter-tubes segfaulted, I would on that link you provided.

A couple quotable lines from the article I have to throw out there are:

> One day, Netscape woke up from a truly epic bender to discover it had jammed a scripting language onto the web and millions of people were using it. Literally none of them liked it. Not one.

> Lots of programmers believe JavaScript is “basically” Scheme because it gives them something they want to believe: that the language they choose to use has some cachet and they don’t have to feel bad about it anymore.
The linked article by Joel Spolksy is also great:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202225
The more interesting question is: how has one traversed their entire life up to gainful employment and has no friends? This seems to be the more telling question.
Thanks. I'm looking at it right now, and it looks really cool.
This is why I switched from running daemons in tmux to having them start a slime listener; I can monitor them from any standard process monitor that will log errors and restart (I use daemontools with a run-script that sends me an e-mail to notify me of the restart).
I hate that I have to know this stuff. Working on implementing a spec today where handling character encoding is a requirement.
Great points
Also,

A list of the kinds of broad abstractions to look for might be useful;

* Each module and it's purpose

* Every global resource (whether global variables, message names, anything that the entire system has to deal with).

* The "style" that each coder used. Even "terrible" programmers tend to have a consistent approach and understanding that approach can make code much less opaque.

I also like to page though documents more quickly than my conscious mind can follow so as to get an unconscious feel for a code base. That might be just me.
I interpret it as "we enter the world greeted by a bunch of strangers" and "when we die no one follows us to the other side".
Basically, so the Mac doesn't become a "carrier". Generally, the mail and file servers should detect the virus, but Macs also have AirDrop and there are the various cloud file transfers that have varying levels of virus scans.

We do have the problem of Mac malware, but I don't think ClamAV does anything for that.
On the other end of the spectrum, check out the Detroit Water Project (YC alum) - which aims to solve a problem like a charity, but is structured as a profit-seeking company. Addressing inefficiencies can be helpful for society, even if you pursue profit.
Who used lispworks in an ATM switch? My very first job was working on ATM/IMA switches.
That's inconsistent with history. Off the top of my head, the Supreme Court ruled to deny rights in the Kelo and NFIB v. Sibelius cases.
Solution: Meetups. I am not sure if you remember an article from last year about elderly Koreans (in NY) who would do weekly meetups to check on each other...Maybe something like this can work in Japan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/nyregion/fighting-a-mcdona...
Excellent. It's just like what Donald Knuth said, "Don't believe something is good just because it's trendy. I'd probably go the other extreme way. If I find too many people adopting a certain idea, I'd probably think its wrong." Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ju0eM5T2c

I've always find those questions that are generally regarded as stupid party amusing. Because I think those questions showing the difference in out thought process, and instead of stigmatizing it there are valuable lessons to be learned here.
That much I'll go with. I have NoScript. I click on a Nigerian site and see nothing but a whole list of scripts? I'll pass...
Sad but not uncommon I think. There was a guy who had a radio show that interviewed people with odd jobs. One such jobs was sort of like Toru's but was "special cleaning". Basically the guy started a business to clean up crime scenes. But found that most of his business came from landlords and others discovering deceased elders in their rooms. His suggestion was to crawl your grandparents from time to time to say hi. Several times he had cleaned up places where the person had simply fallen and then died where they were because they could not get up to get any help.

This is probably especially challenging with people who don't have relatives or the relatives never check up on them.
There's a flavor of lodash with auto-curried iteratee-first data-last methods too. See lodash-fp – https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp
Marriage as an institution dates from the Neolithic. Nothing to do with religion. Source: http://www.econ.ku.dk/okojwe/filer/MEHR/adshade_kaiser_10_08...
BABY IS KISSED AND SMILES WHILE SLEEPING
How do your Airbnb hosts exit their positions? Who do they sell to? The more I think this through, the less sense I think it would make.

1. VCs won't buy tiny quantities of equity from these hosts.

2. If they're expected to sell to other individuals, you've essentially recreated the stock market.

3. If they're expected to wait until Airbnb IPOs, well Airbnb now has even less reason to IPO. They can finance in such a way that they can sell equity, but no one else can ever sell equity.
Keep at it! You're off to a great start. :)
Pluto-bound probe faces its toughest task: finding Pluto
Keeping Dropbox folder clean with Node.js
Hi, I don't know if it fits what you want. But there is something like that for clojure[0] . I liked the language a lot. I didn't have the chance to use it in production yet. Another option is hacker rank with challenges [1]
[0]https://www.4clojure.com/
[1]https://www.hackerrank.com/
Japan's problems related to the aging aren't unique and quaint at all, they're just ahead of the curve.

Most of the developed world has fertility below the replacement rate: where Japan is today, South Korea will be in a decade's time, and China and great big slabs of Europe will follow soon after. (America looks set to avoid this for time being though, largely thanks to immigration.)
> This is malleable and in the US Constitution is reinterpreted as views change.

This is the rub. What is the point of writing down laws and constitutions if the words don't stay put? If their meanings are ephemeral and open to interpretation, we are governed by men (executives, bureaucrats, judges, prosecutors, police) and not by laws.

There are states out there that make no pretension and are ruled by fiat. The U.S., in contrast, is supposed to be a nation of laws. The laws being checks against individuals and special interests. The legitimacy of the U.S. hinges on it sticking to the rules of governance that were set in place and upheld over the years.
The Moment of Truth for Greece
What If "the marketing advice" you're reading is the actual marketing?
what if i am gay ~>:C .... OH WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah that was the part that really put his entire explanation into perspective for me! It's... unnerving for some reason.
The only way you can truly be sure of your hiring process is to pick a random sample of people who fail, and hire them anyway.

I see a couple of issues with this:

- Could it get you in legal trouble?

- Are you capable of evaluating who are the best employees AFTER they are hired?

- Only a large corporation would have the resources to gamble on hiring a random sample of people who failed their interview process.

Here's one half-hearted way to do it. Pick a random sample of resumes you reject, and give them phone interviews anyway. Pick a random sample of people who fail your phone interview, and give them an on-site interview anyway.
From the article: "Overall, Unicode is yet another encoding scheme."

It is more than that - for instance, it includes algorithms as well... for instance, dealing with RTL languages with ordering and shaping rules (i.e. Arabic), how to know what to do when RTL languages are mixed with LTR (is that '.' at the end of '123' a decimal point, or a period? (determines if it goes to the right or the left or the sequence)) and how to know when data is equivalent despite being normalized or not, etc...
This sounds like an excellent approach:

"Master Password is a stateless password generator. It doesn't store, collect or transmit any secrets. It makes them ubiquitously available, on-demand, depends on nothing but your private master password, and is fully open source."

I wonder why it hasn't received wider attention since being released a year or so ago? The only real mention I found in a cursory search (outside of app store reviews) was here:

https://pack.resetthenet.org

"Are you using the same password everywhere? If so, change it, starting with your email account. Use a tool like MasterPassword or write it down."
He is right. If you modify and distribute GPL code, whatever changes you made have to be distributed with it in source code form. The BSD licensed code doesn't have this restriction, which is why it's used in place of GPL for those not wanting to redistribute their source. Maybe use that in the future for such things.

For now, if you're app forks GPL code, you have to release the source, pull it, or hope nobody cares. Good to start noticing these little, but important, things early to develop good habits.
Power always wants it's subjects to be more dependent on it.
My wife is a hospice nurse here in Japan visiting terminally ill patients at their homes.

She comes home with many different stories. Some people are incredibly wealthy but their family doesn't want anything to do with them so they basically wait to die alone. Some people are poor and mentally ill and are basically living in dumps with rodents running around. Some people do have good situations in which they are cared for and can die surrounded by loved ones.

My wife is the only person I've met who wants to die young (around 40 or 50). Death is usually hidden from our lives - especially when we're young and only comes up infrequently.

While some people who are poor do use their service due to government subsidies, a lot of people don't and there is no public service for the elderly. Stories like this will become much more common over the next 20 years as a huge proportion of the Japanese populations passes on.
> And that's why I have been phasing my tech news away from HN.

To where?
Taiwan becomes first Asian nation with Silicon Valley launch pad
Sounds like it's a thought-terminating cliche- of which we have many in English.
That's pretty much how 1Password works.
Even after many HNers read this thread and appreciate the points being made, I'm sure we'll still see the same "Site I made in unique2me.js" garbage headlines in the top feed. Hopefully what we all take away from this is that we need to better spot patterns of articles/blogspam and self-moderate those submissions.
"No, they usually went straight to "marrying pets" and "marrying children"."

I disagree. This is the first argument I heard about gay marriage and everybody said it was ridiculous. But I have now heard that this should be the next issue from many people on Facebook.

I guess they weren't so crazy after all..

"Just for starters, start thinking about issues like inheritance, custody, power of attorney, and tax-law."

..Or how easy it would be to bring citizens over from any country and fake citizenship.
In a split, your options split as well.
This is definitely not the case. I question how many elderly people (80+) you actually know in your life and see on a regular basis.
Losing friends is easy! Making new (close) friends is hard, and keeping friends is harder.
I was being dense. Reading a recent post to cpunks, I get that Dan is calling for laws to restrict surveillance and correlation by private institutions and individuals.[0]

Now his position makes sense. He wants governments (presumably those who fund his firm) to have a monopoly on surveillance and correlation. While I agree on dangers from other criminals, restricting private institutions and individuals is authoritarian, unless there's an exception for whistle-blowing.

[0] https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-June/008069.ht...
Off topic, but anyone know what font and theme (it looks like the default theme but I'm not sure) are used in the project's screenshots?
That's definitely the tone, but it's pretty funny since it's talking about the erosion of traditional marriage. Polygamy is almost certainly the most traditional marriage there is. Groups of people dedicated to each other who shared the responsibility of raising children definitely came before people decided to partner-up. For an example, I'm not saying you have to believe the Bible literally, but most of the men in the early parts of it had multiple wives. Now, maybe it's a radical idea for the majority of the population to consider Biblical marriage traditional, but even if you don't believe in that particular religious text, it's at least evidence that plural marriages were pretty common thousands of years ago. I'm not saying they're better or worse, but they're definitely traditional.
This is exciting to see here! I’ve spent a lot of time and effort on the challenges surrounding effective philanthropy.

Prior to seeing it firsthand while managing IT for a non-profit, I imagined that the bottleneck issues were advanced technical challenges; things like capital smoothing and what I think of as elastic capital allocation: capital allocation directed by marginal cost (per unit-social-benefit) among a portfolio of operating non-profits. That stuff is exciting - and when it comes to fruition it will change the world in a huge way.

However, as you get into it you realize that even for high-performing and well-funded organizations, the challenges and roadblocks are much more pedestrian. They’re things like standardized metrics [1] and data collection when your program’s target members don’t have internet access.

Perhaps the toughest challenge is the most straightforward: the non-profit employees trying to tackle these problems are non-technical, with limited access to technical resources. They’re forced to become subject matter experts on impact metrics and analytics, data science and their database-of-choice all at once. It’s quite a challenge.

My passion for both the sector and the technical challenges led me to found sluce.io [2], which makes software that addresses this exact challenge for operating and supporting organizations as well as Impact Investors. I’m happy to discuss these challenges with anyone who’s interested.

[1] https://iris.thegiin.org/metrics
[2] http://sluce.io
http://opencatalog.darpa.mil/MEMEX.html
They are saying compared to being an dependent on your parents taxes, you are better off being married.

The real alternative is to file as independent. I would want to know if there is still a discount to getting married compared to filing as independent.
The billions of people suffering from non age-related maladies and mistreatments aren't well served by devoting yet more resources to the health concerns of the wealthiest.
I was recently in a hotel room and as there was nothing else to do I looked up who Gideon was in the Gideon bible.
It turns out he was a major polygamist (Judges 8.29)
I've worked with him to resolve some defects in attoparsec the last few months and I can tell you he is still writing lots of Haskell. He's just in maintenance mode and probably will not start new libraries any time soon.
Sorry, but now I reflexively flag-on-sight any instance if this clickbaity, obviously overstated "every programmer needs to know about semiconductor opcodes/mainframe architecture/etc".
My advise: Try to not murder everyone while you build your tehno-utopia? Pretty please?
Have you tried using Purescript for frontend stuff? There is apparently a purescript-websocket library:

https://github.com/tekerson/purescript-websocket
Maybe that negation would be too obviously related to the idiom. There are other ways to say there is a way; e.g. instead of shikata, there is houhou： 方法　（方法がある）.

The counter-idiom, if you will, to "nothing can be done" might be "where there is a will, there is a way":

意志のあるところには方法がある。

If someone says しょうがない　or しかたがない, and you don't agree, that might be the thing.
What language(s) do you already know?

I'm also a fan of the Pragmatic Programmer and my lifetime language count is at 15. A few years ago I started using Groovy and haven't looked back. Very low ceremony language that gets rid of a ton of Java boilerplate. Borrows idioms/semantics from Ruby and Python, esp. list processing (collect, map, find/findAll, etc.), making those languages easier to learn. There's good library support, even outside of Grails, but Grails plugins are a big win. And assuming you want to be on the JVM to interact with other Java libs, Groovy makes this trivial.

I also love the optional static typing and compilation, which greatly improves performance.

I usually recommend people look at the style guide (http://www.groovy-lang.org/style-guide.html) and the GDK (http://www.groovy-lang.org/groovy-dev-kit.html). Pretty short reads that get you up to speed on much of the functionality quickly. If you like what you see, keep going.

I haven't felt motivated to learn anything new since this meets my needs so well, but if it had better library/framework support I'd give Clojure a shot. I enjoyed Lisp, but didn't use it outside the classroom except for Emacs. Probably learn it with SICP.
This could be addressed with monitoring. We have more and more alternatives to choose from. Either from external sensors (movement within the house, toilet usage, phone activity, bank account activity; or, alternatively, from devices worn by the people. This would be a great use of the IoT.
I got about halfway through the second paragraph before backing out of the article slowly with my hands up.
That doesn't seem like a very good feature for a reputable news site.

http://www.newyorker.com/breaking-news/scalia-arrested-tryin...
You can disable the phone in the Duo Admin Portal.
Thanks for this.

The essayist seemed to want a very different film. He wanted one that challenged its audience more directly with the childhood id (as he put it, presenting the audience with the "Big Fuck You"), and that had a more complex and unexplainable range of emotions on the part of both the kid and the adults. In this way, the OP claims, the film spent its time in the shallow end of the pool. (I have to agree.)

But, it was a kids movie. As an adult, I can view it as not risking much, but my 9-year-old was very anxious in several parts of the movie. It was a real emotional ride for her. On its own terms, the movie succeeded very well.

Malick's "The Tree of Life" (mentioned several times in the OP) also succeeded, but also was a flawed film, especially so for a non-believer like me. My wife cannot abide pretense and was giggling through the big bang/dinosaur sequence of TTOL.

TTOL and Inside Out are odd movies to put next to each other; one being so determinedly beautiful and almost too personal and idiosyncratic, and the other trying to enact universal emotional states for children.
ES6 and compile with Babel (I've tried every possible combination that you can name, and settled with that as the best choice)