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Is there any good book for learning COBOL and maybe even tools?
What makes you think parent is trolling?
Ok. I think you are wrong. But I will clearly not change your mind. I also don't downvote people I disagree with.
This seems like a very good pricing model. If he wants mom-and-pop customers to get a free taste, he can just make the first 30 days at the $20 level free.
Nice job. You may want to take a look at https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/, who wrote a python script to extract location info from who's hiring posts. (Demo at http://gaganpreet.github.io/hn-hiring-mapped/src/web/)
Does this use a persistent cookie which YouTube can use to personalize search results?
Ok. So doesn't hard evidence of spying invalidate all possible utility?
> No, I think they're dead on. They're allowed to fire people even if the community likes them.

Well, this is true, because as owners can do whatever they want. But Reddit's 'product' is community, plain and simple. So firing a loved admin is essentially taking away a bit of the reason for being on the site for many of the users.
I think at the heart of the discontent is the tension between a grass roots community and the fact that there is ultimately a autocratic power over it all. In other words, the firing is a reminder to the users that they don't have control over their community.

This whole incident is just growing pain. Ultimately, they will form or join another community where they don't need a paid liaison to the AMA person. That community will have more self-governance. Additionally, that community may self-fund itself, and the destruction of the the community in the interest of monetization will be less easy. There is likely a lot of work that needs be done to enable that type of community, both technically and socially.
Sorry, I worded my comment rather poorly. I meant to say that I think CR has been handling things very well so far, and I personally believe that he has the experience necessary to keep things under control during this process, and to make SC an historically-good game, with a long, successful life. Those are the odds I'm playing.
Yeah, I did 1 week of it in the summer of 1978 and for what it's good at, it was slick. Found myself missing the decimal arithmetic stuff when I was doing C on early UNIX(TM) systems in the '80s.
What are the differences between this one and http://materializecss.com/ ?
the interview with the hell-banned founder (Gavin McInnes):

http://canadalandshow.com/podcasts/vice-oral-history
Hi HN,

We built this last weekend because we love interesting talks and presentations and thought there should be a centralized place to find them.

Let us know what you think!
Yes, your solution is correct! I discovered this issue too late for launch, but I have a PR open with this.

It needs some extensive testing because there might be weird interactions with our layout component and all the different header modes it has (scrolling header, waterfall, etc). Working on it :)

edit: https://github.com/google/material-design-lite/pull/730
This sounds very much like "The Abolition of Man" by C. S. Lewis.
What am asking is there conceptually a talent/skill that would allow me to do that, and should I have any reason to think I've got it?

Excellent question. The answer, well my answer, is that it's a different skill set. I think the value the manager brings is their skill and diligence in handling the implementation details (which commodities to buy, securities to short, options to write; how to manage risk) of a strategy, which could be as simple as some directional conviction (I like renewables, say) or a philosophy (opportunistic investing in special situations in mid caps).

Your skill is that of an educated consumer: deciding what product you want (your conviction), and selecting a provider based on whatever subjective and objective metrics you deem important. Not all that dissimilar from choosing any expert vendor in an area you don't understand in depth - doctors, contractors, lawyers, even financial advisors (to whom you could outsource the selection part entirely, of course)

Note that nowhere here am I denying the existence of luck in getting into those funds which were able to do well in the crisis.
REALLY good piece.

The bit that stood out to me in particular was his embrace of deliberate practice. It's been identified in studies as the most powerful tool for learning skills like this - good to see it born out in at least one practical example too.
I suspect the added complexity is because of the care some of the more visible AMA subjects take in managing their image.
Alexis' early responses were the exact opposite of "graceful".
See @thirdsun’s comment :)
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Don't you think you're being a bit premature in your assessment of Pao? She's an interim CEO who's been on the job mere months. Shutting down the subreddits she did needed to happen in order for reddit to be viable long-term. This latest issue is just about disaffected male teenagers looking for a reason to get mad at the new female CEO. It's so transparent and so pathetic.
A bunch of misogynists who are upset that a female employee was fired. Right.
All of their interests and investments are all justified because it either drives people to look at advertisements or it generates more information about the users to make their ad platform more valuable.
"Popcorn tastes good." - Never forget that. Personally, I've moved on to Snapzu. Peace out Reddit, it's been real. :)

http://i.imgur.com/rburhK9.jpg
It's looks great. Nice job!
One problem I had with site is that the scrolling is unusable on mobile safari. Would be great if you could fix that.
Why not ask the person who had been filling the fruit bowl what's going on?
Do I? Please enlighten me as to my definition, near as I can tell I used the adverbial form exactly as defined here: "not under the control of another; as one wishes."

Were you inferring that I meant that abortions and birth control are always freely available? I did not state that.
Thanks!

"The [fruit] were just the wake-up call"
One of the things I'm pretty jealous of is that in my career path (as admittedly vague it is... I'm 25 and my education & experience is in marketing, but being a CMO certainly isn't my life's ambition) is that I couldn't really start young and produce a tangible good that's worth anything to jump start a career since Marketing is really all about numbers. Anything without results is just speculation. (Nice job cross posting across the internet, btw)

I'm not a programmer, so I can't build an app... I'm certainly not an artist and can't paint or sing... Although I like carpentry and ok at it, I don't want to be a carpenter... So for me, being successful and earning a decent wage is either from climbing the corporate ladder or building my own company. Both are possible, but talent is really not much of a factor.

Anyways, the point I'm getting at is that it's impressive and inspiring to see talented people (like yourself) with artistic skill-sets and ambitions put the hard work in to get their inherent skillsets noticed and make a career for themselves.

Talent doesn't get you everywhere - and neither will hard work - but together they can do great things.
This seems like a clever way to nudge users in the general direction of self-driving cars as a service for local public transport.
There's no authorisation at the moment. Plain requests.get is used.
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I'd rather they'd spend more time making their rendering engine e.g. implement the SVG spec properly[0] than fanny about with this, but, y'know, I'm not in change.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437554
Chill out, man. I'm not criticizing anybody. Just showing some incredulity.

When I said where and why, I meant in what context does a health department employee hand out condoms?

Like, does she wander around the area shopping malls with overflowing pockets, handing them out to anyone who looks like a teenager? I'm just trying to figure out how what you described works.
Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images
A lot of Reddit users forget or don;t realize that Reddit is a business, not a non-profit.

For all we know, it may not have been Ellen's fault...a lot of people jumping the gun
Expect to reach preliminary conclusions regarding last flight by end of week
Since this is actual carpooling, unlike Uber, there won't be any regulatory pushback. Every jurisdiction loves carpooling.
Ask HN: How do I view stories that have gone into spam (shadowban)?
Is there any way to view new stories that have been banned or shadowbanned or spam filtered? My buddy just asked why he wasn't getting any comments or upvotes. I checked his profile and also new stories list and nothing was showing up. Apparently he's been shadow banned. I remember there was a url like /banned or something or /dark or /shadow that showed these stories and if you upvoted them you got out of spam. Anyone remembers the url?
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I feel bad for Pao on a personal level, but I feel like she is too divisive to be an effective leader of a site like reddit. All people deserve respect though and should not have to put up with hateful personal attacks.

I think mainly this underscores the need for the internet to evolve. Sites like reddit and twitter are too important to be controlled by a single for-profit entity.

We need distributed systems that respect anonymity and privacy that prevent censorship.
We also need the ability for groups to form where content can be curated.

I think there are a number of projects in development that have potential. It will be interesting to see where things go.
I disagree that it's all because she's a woman. Just read her statement here. http://www.thesocialmemo.org/2015/07/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-va...

She has no clue that the "vocal minority" is the one that creates the content that the majority consumes. She comes across as aloof, as if she's just playing out the role of the CEO without really understanding the soul of Reddit. Of course, the vitriol poured out by some of the users is misogynistic, but the larger backlash is really because of the way things were handled by the company.
I think creative writing can also be a good analogy, for the reasons you state and also it seems closer to me since we are authors of the code we write.

Stories can evolve, plots get interwoven and some cut, its never finished until publishing maybe, and even then there can always be sequels.

Anyway, we could do this all day.
I am relatively new and don't want to appear too uppity without a few months' under my belt. I think I will ask eventually.
I don't know, lot of interviews I've been to in the past doesn't seem to value the fact that I spent almost 4 years of my life working on a single project (which will never be finished but pretty damn good by now) or that I've been selling and supporting customers with it.

A basic memoization algorithm type questions or 'tell me about a time when you...' and I choke every god damn time while a fresh graduate with a CS degree breezes through it.

I don't spend time on any of that when I'm working on a problem, it's important for me to build something that just works first in order to meet project deadline and then optimize afterwards but I guess this is not good for an employee point of view since they want someone who is more focused on producing code over product functionalities and features. At that point it would be useless if you've built something they can't look at the code (why the hell should I reveal proprietary information?).

So basically I find myself with the ability to finish but unable to be hired as an engineer as I lack CS and experience writing code in an office environment. Contrary, finding freelance projects and landing work has always been far more easier, and I can maximize my value for my client and also myself, since it is tightly coupled to the ability to complete projects on time and solve problems. Pushing back deadlines because of disagreements over code formatting or technology choice is not how I want to spend my time.
Look at the change. They went from a unix-like file system path name to a Windows one. Considering they call to_utf16le_binary_null I'm going to guess they just wanted it to look reasonable (and perhaps not crash?) on Windows.
So, I just wanna say I am absolutely, incredibly excited for this. I've loved the design of paper-elements, but I don't want to attempt integrating Polymer into my projects.

That being said, the use of BEM is a huge turn off. The markup for a simple card uses seventeen different classes, which is absolutely a nightmare to memorize. For comparison, a card from Materialize uses only five to seven classes (depending on the type of card).

However, since this is built in SASS, I assume you could use the extend keyword to combine a lot of the frequently used together classes into something more manageable. I haven't really used SASS in this way, so I'm not sure how that'd work.
Nothing about the language itself requires targeting LLVM IR, that's just what the (currently only) implementation targets.

But either way, what about targeting LLVM IR makes it unable to replace C? Portability?
My impression is that computer science education is light-years behind things like physics and math.

I feel a lot of it has to do with the amount of money you can make straight out of college even as a mediocre coder, compared to the low-paying, unrewarding mess that education currently is.

Good on you for trying to do things right :) I was lucky to take the non-self paced version of CS61A, and I do think the class is top-notch. But even then there's tons of room for improvement, but no one has the time. We're all too occupied with our start-ups here (professor was amazing, but it says a lot that he was a full-time employee of Google while he taught our class).
You're right, they have to get goods from somewhere. The currency situation is due to the imbalance between what Greece produces on the world market vs. what it consumes.

Their government can certainly print money endlessly, but it's like issuing more stock: it doesn't just make the value of that country go up, it makes the value of its stock (money) go down proportionately.

So the fact remains that Greece won't be able to buy all the things it wants without outside cash. And who is going to give it any now? If you just print money without limit, you'll soon find that there's nothing to buy with that money due to inflation.

Maybe they can copy Argentina, but when their finance minister's exit speech is basically "haha, later suckers!" I don't have high hopes.
Wow. I really didn't expect this type of shill comment on HN. I mean, I know YC has a vested interest in Reddit but this comment is just awful. Perhaps you should look into what real issues exist within Reddit before saying everyone who doesn't think favorable of EP is an angry "child".
> With no word as to why she left or was fired - it screams something political or a massive disconnect with the userbase

No it doesn't, and in most cases the company is protecting the privacy of the individual being fired. Can you imagine if she were fired for something like sexual harassment and reddit we're telling the world all of the dirty details? In all likelihood, saying nothing is what they should be doing.
Can you elaborate on "design explicitly to plant false evidence"? I don't know what the program does, but those path names are zero evidence, come on.
Well, not as much a return as a stubborn refusal to be phased out, resulting in a trickle of new development and job offerings.

Fortran is also alive and kicking, also in narrow but well-entrenched niches. Modern Fortran became a nicer language, though, then e.g. Fortran IV or 77.

Bigger fun will begin when C will be universally seen as a legacy language, inexpressive, full of pitfalls and undefined behaviors, etc, but huge amounts of important C code will have to be maintained without a chance of rewriting it in a nicer language in sight.
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This is a first step into google's next big play:

Self Driving Cars/Taxis/Carpools that are subsidized by Google's ad business.
>> I'd be willing to bet, if you've ever been in a relationship, that you've also been attracted to other people

I will assume that EugeneOZ is male, and has decided that this rule only applies to females, so your logic will fall on deaf ears.
If you set "showdead" to "yes" in your user profile, you'll see dead stories/comments.

I've never heard of any way to display only the dead items, but there may be one.
Why rock paper scissors when you can jamwich
No, your brain isn't a computer
Calling people emotional children and upset kids is just flame inducing. Maybe that person wasn't actually trolling but it was obvious crafted to illicit an angry response.
I'm curious about something - do you feel like the obvious bigotry in your statement is justified? It's almost entirely unlikely that you have any real demographic information about the people you are slagging, never mind any actual knowledge of people's reasoning, so from my POV, your statement is borne of pure prejudice. Care to convince me otherwise?
I really wish every material design UI framework didn't look the same
[offtopic] font on that page is unreadable (chrome on windows)
I agree, dot is a horrible language. I say that as someone who uses it every day. One of my earlier python experiments was to build a tool to take csv's and covert them to dot language. I started building a web interface around it as well, but left it on the shelf shortly after.
https://github.com/gardenmwm/pydepgrapher
> Take your claim that "hiking" is a noun: To me, it analyzes as an inflection of a verb ("hike")

I wouldn't say you're wrong about this. However, I'd be much more willing to defend the idea that, as it appears here, "hiking" is a one-word noun phrase containing a verb form (and that compound nouns are formed NP-NP, not N-N). Traditional grammar has gifted us with a rich vocabulary of specialized terms for specialized syntactic functions, and the traditional term for a verb form which functions as a noun is "gerund". (Um, technically, infinitive forms can also function as nouns.)

I'll pause here to defend myself from an argument you haven't made: there are people who will say that "beef" in "beef stew" is an adjective simply because it modifies a noun. They're wrong. I say that a gerund really is a verb form acting as a noun. The difference is that I'm saying that gerunds can appear in basically all syntactic contexts that permit noun phrases, so the definition I'm using is syntactic (as appropriate for a syntactic term of art like "noun") rather than semantic. I'm not saying gerunds are nouns because they refer to objects -- I'm saying they're nouns because they can be the subjects of verbs (and otherwise appear where nouns appear). To me, the best analysis is just that noun phrases can be constructed from verb forms. Linking back to the subject at hand, I'd agree that "hiking", the word, is not a noun in the same way that "iron", the word, is one, but I am saying that this "hiking", as used in context, is just as much of a noun phrase as "this rusted iron" is.

> Specifically, when looking at the list "crummy old worn-out tan leather gusseted hiking", with modifiers lined up in order of significance, what about the word "hiking" jumps out at you as plainly different in use or meaning?

In all honesty, what jumps out at me is that all of the others are descriptions, while it would be odd to use "hiking" that way. For example, in a certain style of speech, you could see something like this:

Get out and take your crummy, old, worn-out, leather, gusseted, boots with you.

(In actual rhetoric, the descriptors would probably be different.)

But it's completely impossible for the "hiking" of "hiking boots" to be delimited by commas (in speech, emphatic pauses) that way. If you did it, the meaning of "hiking" would change -- it would mean that the boots were out on a hike. This demonstrates that "hiking" is not a descriptor for "boots" -- rather, "hiking boots" is a single unit. (Yes, with internal structure.)

> To me, the most intellectually honest thing is to see compound nouns as a sort of epicycle-style theory to explain why words in our non-modifier class are actually used as modifiers all the time, just according to a subtly different set of rules than applies to the modifier class.

English is way more liberal with modifiers than that.

He gave me his I'm-going-to-kill-you look.

I agree that language requires a bit of a fuzzy lens. But grammar is very much a real thing.
Sounds interesting. Curious about something — if my app relies on cloud services (Amazon S3, Google BigQuery, etc), does Replicated do anything around that? I'm guessing I might need to modify my app a bit to ensure that cloud services endpoints are stored in deploy configuration, and not baked into the code?
Well, most of it isn't, but some things are. Radio buttons and checkboxes on Gtk for example: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/gtk/gt...
No, it is not. Regret does not require you to currently see a way for you to of made decisions which would of led to a more desirable outcome had you known (you may see them but it is not required). You can have regret over the passing of you cat, even though you know there was nothing you could of done to prevent it. Guilt is a regret but with you having the idea that it could of been prevented and a better outcome achieved had you done something differently.

Can they though? Or are people just too arrogant to admit that they can not define them in absolute terms, and if they can what could the definition of right be besides 'what is most beneficial among possible outcomes' and wrong be 'what is not most beneficial among possible outcomes'? That can not in my opinion be a definition of anything absolute as it varies based on the circumstances and individual values.

Feel free to propose an absolute version of right and wrong, to me it seems like an impossible task, but perhaps you could enlighten me. Until this last reply you had asked very good questions, showing that you welcome discourse on the subject, and I hope you can return to doing so rather than simply stating that I am wrong.
The only software that gets truly finished is embedded firmware for small devices, which is done when it is debugged and covers all the conceivable use cases, and development stops. (The firmware may still generate new descendant code, but users have to get new hardware to get that code.)

For much software, being finished is actually a kiss of death, because it is expected to keep improving and putting out new revisions. So "finished" is regarded as a synonym for "abandoned".

"Finish your stuff" for that kind of software is a poor directive. Rather, it should be, "before each release, get your stuff into a state of completion whereby everything that is documented is implemented and vice versa, and the quality is good (bug-wise, etc)".
Ditto for chromium on linux. Can't see the majority of text.
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Sometimes when I read about Google dipping their hands into totally new things (another example is Google +) I think, "those greedy ...", etc., but then sometimes I read it and think, "perhaps Google is simply trying to prevent monopolies in tech fields where competition is sparse.".

If the latter possibility is sometimes the true motive, even if it is done out of self interest, the result tends to be good for all of us (except for the monopolists themselves), because Google doesn't tend to be able to maintain a monopoly in any techs other than search and advertising.

One example of the benefits of this kind of competition is the advent of larger iPhones. If not for Google's Android and subsequent proliferation of large-sized phones that evolved out of customer demand, Apple might have ignored (or not been nearly as aware of) the demand for a larger iPhone.