skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because CS and software development are different things with some overlap if you Venn diagrammed it. It doesn't necessarily mean the university is negligent or incompetent. It means that what constitutes the content of a good CS education doesn't map to in-the-trenches software development. It also probably means the schools reward and incentivize different things than a software development firm does.
Please see all my comments elsewhere in this thread for context on this issue from someone who has read a lot about it. I've responded to the points you've brought up, but in different comments. Feel free to respond to me here.
You're not a democracy that elects its representatives and government?
I spent 2.5 years living in Europe and just moved back to the US because my wife couldn't find a job there. After two months back in a place with values (buy all the things) and culture (work all your life) I find abhorrent, I'm terrified we won't be able to get back in.
I love these deals because they prove that cable is less than worthless: you're literally being paid to be a cable subscriber. It's worth is negative.
I hope it works out for you, but I don't work with (m)any reps who'd jump at that kind of deal. On your end, metrics don't fix the retention problem. On the reps end, you're missing a lot of emotional and phsychological drivers that sales people crave

1) no windfall opportunity - your rolling monthly commission eliminates any chance that someone is going to earn a six figure commission check by landing a whale. While most reps never or rarely pull that off, it is a huge motivator to both the rep who does it and his/her peers.

2) can you say handcuffs? A rep isnt going to want to get in to a situation where they know the only way they will ever get paid on the true LTV of all their customers is by staying with you until the company dies (not that it will).
You might think this will improve retention, but t will also drive away a TON of good and great sales reps.

3) you're going to burn them out - using your example of a rep who closes (and gets paid monthly) on 10 new customers a year, your most successful reps are going to overloaded in short order. This leads to ignored customers and stressed sales teams. The normal way of handling this is to progressively cut a reps territory and/or account list, which works fine if they've been fully compensated for the customers LTV, but if you take half of someone's landed accounts off their monthly rolling commission you're going to have a revolt.

Again, I hope this works for you, but I have my doubts.
I don't think so - in Google Finance compare both graphs are actually on the same scale. Since the scales here are independent, it depends on the chosen scale where they will cross. The graphs do not start in 2010, they start in 2000.
Still no recommended daily allowance for sugar, huh?
It's possible that Microsoft have been covertly throttling the WHQL process to punish Samsung somehow. They are competing head on with Microsoft in a number of other markets (tablets, etc.), and WHQL is not really subject to much, if any, legal scrutiny.
What a shitty experience. See stream...log in to watch...give up facebook connect email...no stream. AHHHHHHH
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769826
But it is not different. They both show ads, and neither would make any money unless the ads had benefit to a significant amount of users.

The only thing SO has done different is better branding towards top contributors, and judging from your post they've done it by targeting ads towards the top contributors.
Foreigners could have their cultural enclaves and Japanese theirs. Anyway, this is an extremely minor concern relative to the astronomic benefits of open borders. Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
LOL, now I really want to get an Apple Watch!
I wonder if the outcome would have been much different if the jakobegger did have Google Apps.

In my experience, a common problem with support is that they lack the knowledge and capabilities to deal with certain types of support requests. At some point, some support requests need to be escalated to the product owners within the organization. Some organizations are simply not prepared for those types of support requests.

Email does seem like a service that should be recoverable, though. If you depend on it heavily enough, you should probably:

(a) Own the domain that emails are going to. (so that if Google stumbles, you can switch providers)

(b) Have full records of all accounts & aliases. (so that you can continue to receive incoming mail following any switch of providers)

(c) Backup all email regularly. (so that you don't lose all existing mail in the event of needing to switch providers)
I thought people already put their SO points on CV's
Think about it, CEO pay is determined by the company board. Those boards are made up of people who are often CEOs or former CEOs (look at the board of Apple for example 6 of 7 are CEO's or former CEOs) In other words you have a situation where a relatively small group of people are determining their own pay.

What do you think would happen to engineer pay if compensation were determined by a vote of a group of peers and you knew that the person who's pay you were voting on today might well be among the group of people determining your pay tomorrow. Personally I would always vote to increase pay by as large a number as I could possibly justify with a straight face.
This should read, 'Why you should delete your emails immediately after reading.'
yes especially when you know that there could have been worse companies like experts exchange
Microsoft has had their MVP program for over 20 years!
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/overview.aspx

"Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs are exceptional community leaders who actively share their high-quality, real-world deep technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft. They are committed to helping others get the most out of their experience with Microsoft products and technologies."

These people are going to exist whether there's a program or not, so why not create a program to recognize them?
> I think it's weird that his ideas have essentially become a religion

If you think that's strange, read internet blogs based around the 'Austrian' economic school.

Anyhow, Keynes' theories weren't so much ideological as they were based on his observations of economic events and models. And they've been elaborated on in the current 'dominant' economic school, which is better called 'Neoclassical Economics', wrongly labelled as 'Keynesian Economics' by the naysayers (though of course much of it does develop on Keynes' ideas).

> while I think that rational people can certainly have differences with regard to his economic views

The problem isn't so much people with 'different' opinions, but rather those who have opinions about economics but no coherent economic models, theories or observations of their own.

And I've found many of those who argue against Keynes' theories are also the ones who espouse things like a gold-backed currency, or eliminating government altogether. I've seen blogs that equate Keynesian economics to satanism... There's far more 'kooks' in the anti-Keynesian camp than in the Neoclassical camp.
Yes, it has.

However, it's a bit more subtle than that. Yes, Stackoverflow is making some money, but everyone who contributes gets a few things out of it too:

1. They get the use value of the overall result. This is a non-trivial value. Linux operates under similar dynamics. A lot of "free" code was written, and it was written to improve on the use value in the body of code they found at the time.

Anyone finding Stackoverflow sees a lot of use value and they may well see improving on it in a similar way.

2. Reputation. I like to think of this as "feed the net and the net feeds you." Back in the USENET days, I was very highly active on SGI computers. Sometimes I wondered about the overall value of that. Then I got stuck on some painful Oracle installation issue. All I had to do was ask, and within an hour I got a nice script mailed to me along with a thanks for all the filesystem / disk questions I sorted out for people. (thanks Jerry)

Given the dollars in play at the time, that script was worth a ton!

3. Network, similar to reputation. My many interactions on the net has often resulted in knowing people who I could help or get help from or start projects with.

Clearly, this all must be balanced and weighed by everyone involved. People who do too much might seem over exploited or suffer opportunity costs of various kinds. And we all see what is worth what a little differently too.

But, it's not exactly free. There is value exchanged and accumulated. Making sure that happens is worth something. Maybe it's worth about what Stackoverflow is taking in.

USENET worked, until it didn't. And when it didn't, it all went down hard. Huge value lost. Maybe that won't happen this time, and frankly I think that's worth a profit to somebody because the use value is high enough to be painful should it go missing.
"open borders" doesn't have to mean you open them overnight. You can attenuate the flow to a rate that's manageable to keep up with, to give the various infrastructure a chance to grow/adapt to meet the influx. You've attacked a straw man.

Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
> like all companies agreeing together to pay more reasonably

I believe that's called wage fixing, and is illegal.
Ok, why do people keep down-voting movak. They just stated his opinion, rectify them if wrong, but down-voting is not very helpful. Also we should up-vote comments we truly disagree with to give others an opportunity to learn what may be wrong.
Hi Aline, very right. That's why everyone should do mock interviews at http://interviewing.io or http://interviewkickstart.com ;-)

I'm half joking, but yes, it's a serious problem. What sucks more, is that even if you clear the interview, you don't know what things you're doing well, because there is no feedback.
Why would people expect more support without actually paying for it?

Google actually does support the free offerings pretty well. They just don't do it on a case by case basis. Anybody who wants that has the option to pay Google to get it.

Otherwise, Google does invest time into making sure it works well for everyone and isn't just letting it all sit out there slowly breaking...
Also the http://reddit.com/r/haskell increased a lot over the last few years.
Well, in theory, you could just put the actual maximum salary on the ad, but there's rarely a fixed budget in practice.

If someone is very junior or has some other discount factor (in practice that's the only real one), you'll probably go lower than expected for a 30 year old with a PhD, freeing budget to bump up someone else.

And sometimes, you get a stellar CV with enough brand on it to make the staunchest McKinsey reconsider his limit policy, so whilst you can't put the number on the ad, you can warn the candidate, get his number, and take a punt on management in case it might work.

The strongest factor for flexibility is when you have a chance to affect the outcomes for the company, but need to prove it before you can claim the pay raises. Then, it makes sense to take somebody at under their market rate, and 3 months later have a chat with management and bump up.

Hiring is a really sensitive topic because HR is often the biggest budget. I once seriously weakened my political position by attempting to automate away "Excel blue collar workers" in another department, which would have lowered the budget and therefore relative power of their boss internally. Those with the most flexibility in hiring (startups, which have no established internal territory to worry about) also have the least resources...
Because they have the money to pay support staff but choose not to.

Your example is irrelevant because that's part of a paid career, not free labor farmed with manipulative YouTube videos.
I also know many people who lived and worked in the U.S. and got a green card in 5 years.. YMMV
Get NeXTSTEP 3.3 and Interface Builder running on the Watch and I'll be really impressed.
I agree, and Skinney made a similar point yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9759571). However, I think that an excessively literal reading misses the spirit of the quote (as I (probably mis)remember it). I elaborated in my reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760336 .

Incidentally, your question about the 10K-year clock (to which I think it is impossible to give an answer today even if one exists today, since I think clockmaking has not yet been practiced for 10K years!) reminds me of anecdote #3 in http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q3/oldanecd.html .
WhatsApp doesn't share that opinion: the number got blocked shortly after submission.
This doesn't really answer the question since I could point to hundreds of scandals at publicly run prisons (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/nyregion/even-as-many-eyes...)

Prisons are cesspools of abuse, that doesn't make private prisons worse than public ones.
"A basic security problem"

So what if anyone can come and go. You live in a town or city, right? So the adjacent towns, they let you just waltz in and out of them right? They "don't control who comes through." Is that so terrible? Do you think your town should have a big wall around it and strict security cause you're worried about a potential fugitive slipping in? No, that's stupid. It's just a really inefficient/cumbersome way to deal with the problem of criminals. Instead, you leave society open and free, and when a criminal pops up, you track him down, arrest him, stick him in jail or whatever. You don't wrap everything up with giant walls and security just cause sometimes there are criminals. So if we don't want walls around towns or cities or counties or states, why do we suddenly want them at the country level? What the hell is so special about your country? Does no one commit crimes there? No, of course they commit crimes.

And by the way, you can get smuggled into the US via the Mexican borders for like a couple thousand bucks. There's a whole industry around this. The people who do the smuggling are called 'coyotes". Any serious terrorist is already here, via that border.

Please see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
In Finland there is a collection of ancient stories or poems - Kalevala. It is something like Iliad and the Odyssey. Language of those poems is really something unique and exceptional. I have been always thinking that it is impossible to really translate it to any other languages. Probably same applies also to original greek works - we who have not studied ancient Greek, can read only bland versions of texts.
Notwithstanding the "fat-free everything" fad, the best epidermiological data we have so far suggest that fat consumption is highly correlated with coronary heart disease and all sorts of late-life complications. This could be wrong or out-dated, but FDA is only acting on the mainsteam scientific opinion that fat should be limited in a typical diet.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/clcentral/articles...

USDA, on the other hand, has been deeply troubled by the public's distaste of fat as they have an obligation is keep dairy farmers afloat. To this day they have been trying all sorts of things to promote fat consumption without much thought to the health consequences. South Park touched on the subject in the episode "Gluten Free Ebola", but I guess most people missed that point. New York Times have done a good article explaining the economic and politics between the FDA-USDA feud.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html

Finally, one must note that individual idiosyncracies play a major role in how we respond to external inputs such as diets, exercise and medication. I am glad that paleo diet worked out for you, however please bear in mind that it may and may not work for everyone when you push it.
What the hell. A developer who writes x << 3 instead of x * 8 when writing code that is logically doing multiplication is not a good developer. Written code is designed for human readability; the human should not be having to convert that mentally to its math equivalent to understand what operations are taking place. In nearly every possible case, this is at best a micro-optimization. At worst, a symptom of someone who writes unnecessarily obfuscated code to show off their knowledge in a manner that only hurts the maintainability of code by a team.

If I found bit shifting in an interview code sample as a replacement for basic multiplication, I would ask the developer why they chose to do it that way. They'll either a) calmly explain that their computer science classes taught it that way or it's a habit they've adopted after writing code for embedded systems or similar where the optimization actually made a difference, or b) their ego will make an appearance with a "because I'm so senior" attitude. The latter is not a good sign.
Configure phpspec for DDD
As with all ostensibly democratic states, there are undemocratic elements that act as a check on various things (including the will of the majority).

In Canada we elect representatives to a legislature, and those representatives effectively elect a government.

My representative won his seat with about 48% of the riding's vote, which is actually an extremely decisive victory for a representative, most of whom win on pluralities more in the range of 30-45%.

In total, approximately 39% of the 61% of the electorate that voted (or 23% of all eligible voters), voted in a legislature where the winning party took 53% of the seats and secured themselves virtually absolute power to enact their legislative agenda for up to 5 years.

I won't say we don't live in a democracy, but I do think we live in one that is only barely functional.

But to really specifically answer your question (which is actually two questions): I live in a democracy that elects its representatives. I do not live in a democracy that elects its government.
I attended a General Studies information session at Columbia. They sit you around a little table with 10 other people, tell you how great the program is and that it will cost $40k/year with little-to-no financial aid.
> If you think that's strange, read internet blogs based around the 'Austrian' economic school.

Well, I have. And I found myself mostly agreeing with them. That's neither here nor there, I wouldn't think someone was dumb if they didn't share my viewpoint.

> And I've found many of those who argue against Keynes' theories are also the ones who espouse things like a gold-backed currency, or eliminating government altogether. I've seen blogs that equate Keynesian economics to satanism...

That's not really fair though, you can find kooks in ANY subject matter. It proves nothing other than that, kooks exist. Also I don't think people that argue for a gold standard are insane. I personally disagree with them, but they do have some valid points. I actually think it's kind of weird that the modern, relatively young system of governments printing debt with no tethoring to actual economic goods or work is somehow considered "obviously" right. We're barely a hundred years into this experiment and a lot of really bad thing have happened already, it could be entirely wrong.
> they need transmission facilities to their customers outside the kingdom.

Just idle thought -- it would be interesting if they turned into the "big battery capital of the Middle East/Eurasia/the world," with electric cars etc. on the rise.
French court. Nothing is wrong with that. The new Canadian bill removes the court from the equation.
I knew the Apple watch was useful for something.
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Current WHO guidelines state 6 teaspoons a day total sugar intake for the highest level of health benefits. Really wish food regulatory organisations like this would start actually taking note of that
JanRain, Silk, Wagon, Better, Bump, Fynder, Hasura, and more.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

I expect some may keep it a secret, as it might give them some competitive advantage.
StackOverflow is an economy, though. You can spend your points (question bounties), the points serve as an indication of your expertise (eg. to potential employers), and having more points leads to "privileges" on the site. (eg. 200 points => reduced ads)

For the time being, at least, Google's Top Contributor program doesn't seem to offer any practical benefits.
When you four arrive I'll give you a tour in the city!

Disclaimer: I'm from Amsterdam ;)
Nice work, Colombia. I hope that others follow suit.

And maybe the awareness around this issue will then lead to a discussion of the high human cost of the War on Drugs, the greatest burden borne by our citizens of color. And maybe that will cause us to revisit our criminal justice system and end the war on drugs.

Private prisons are a symptom, not a cause. For a better understanding of the forces leading to prison privitization and a myriad of other woes and injustices I _strongly_ recommend reading "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander.
Have you taken a look at Japan recently?

They've been in recently for over a decade - probably close to 20 years now. As in, their economy has been going backwards, and shrinking.

That, and they also have deep-seated structural problems (e.g. aging population, incredibly high-saving rates with little spending - might be "good" for individuals, but not good for the overall economy is everybody does it/)
Ease of embracing cloud storage services
EB2 'other' anecdote: I came to the US in 2009 on a H1B (job offer in October, granted in December) and filed for my green card almost immediately. I had my card within 18 months, most of which was PERM.

I realise I was very fortunate in three things: timing, nationality (British) and education (two Master's degrees, so EB2). During this time I was paid market rates, though I did go through a period of minor panic when I realised I basically couldn't leave Google while my green card application was pending and I had no idea how long it would actually take. But articles like this make me extremely sad that others can't be so fortunate, and I wonder what it is we (non-voting residents) can actually do about it...
In the land of XSS ‘possibly safe’ means ‘exploitable’
Also it's important to remember that all user content posted on Stackoverflow is licensed under CC-by-SA, so if Stackoverflow started going south, someone else can fork the data and continue hosting it.

The data dumps are hosted at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Yes, the initial parts of the example could be accomplished with awk and xargs, but as the article goes on to demonstrate, even doing something like printing every nth element would be difficult.

I think the intent was for this to be more of a demonstrative example, and with a more complex, evolving, real-world processing pipeline, Akka streams could be really useful.
I didn't realize that. Awesome.
>> Private companies have a greater motivation to maximize profits than public entities do.

Corrections officers unions have strong motivations to keep prison populations high as well and unions tend to be stronger in the public sector than the private sector so its not obvious that private prisons increase the aggregate political pressure for high prison sentences.

http://mic.com/articles/41531/union-of-the-snake-how-califor...

>> The problems stem from that.

This seems like a serious inversion of cause and effect. Our problems with prisons pre-dated the growth in private prisons and private prisons remain a small fraction of the overall prison industry so its hard to see how private prisons could be the primary source of the problem.
Indeed. See how the FUD spreader bends itself in all kinds of curves in order to not drown in comments...
Would you say the average Japanese today is worse off than in say, 1948?

This is what's in your average PRC citizen's mind, not what the rate of growth will be in 2040...