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Ask HN: Will programming continue to be a lucrative profession in the future?
Being a programmer right now is, in general, great. The job market is on fire and the industry is rapidly changing. Supposedly, the rate at which new jobs are created for computer scientists even outpaces the rate at which newly graduated CS majors enter the workforce.

Do you expect this trend to hold?

If so, how crazy will it get? The rumors posted on here of $300k salaries for non-famous engineers already seem unbelievable to me.

If not, what will cause it to end? The only doomsday scenario for developers in the first world that I can think of is a rise in extremely competent dev shops in developing countries.

(I realize that no one can predict the future, but I'm curious about the HN sentiment here.)
I'm in the US and I've never heard of 2015-04-03 being interpreted as March 4. I just see the standard interpretation as logical, since it's coarse (year) to fine (day).
> And the then CEO Yishan Wong publicly fighting with a former employee

This was awesome. The employee started the trash talk, fully expecting Reddit not to defend itself (as expected of bullshit corporate america). It was perfect /r/justiceporn when Wong came out swinging in response. Glorious to see.
You can draw that contrast (increasing vs strictly increasing), but what I was taught was to contrast increasing functions/sequences with nondecreasing functions/sequences.

A book or paper will make it clear what they mean by "increasing" by using the definition. There, it doesn't matter at all -- they could just as easily coin new words, since they immediately give the full definition. But the people hanging around this thread, telling people who are using a very common definition of "monotonically increasing" that (in paraphrase) "I hate to be pedantic, but you've made a mistake, in that I would have phrased that differently" have failed to contribute anything or to be pedantically correct. There's no case to be made that, if I say a "monotonically increasing sequence" must be increasing rather than nondecreasing, I've made a terminological mistake. This is a term with different definitions in different treatments.
People want/need x, where x : forum threads :: IRC : chat.
Quite coincidentally ran across this survey from 2014 that shows Jasmine and Mocha are pretty much neck and neck.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/dailyjs/files/2014-survey-summary.p...
"I often feel bad that I have zero experience with relational databases. Big gap in my skill sets." ~ John Carmack

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/457916010234777600

How can someone accomplish so much and not know anything about SQL/RDBMS. Pretty surprising though.
Trying to follow your logic... Freedom is important to you... so you measure a software license's merits by whether or not it is blessed by Amazon "We-delete-Orwells-1984-from-your-kindle" Inc. Amazon probably just hates RMS because he always calls them out in every speech he makes.

And the licenses are 2 totally different animals anyhow... BSD license incidentally grants some freedom... but FSF's licenses are designed to protect it.
You forgot ethics in game journalism.
Its more of a last straw. More at [0] but other complaints include outdated modding tools, new search UI, lack of communication.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_wa...
You know the drill: erase the hard disk, install your own system. Even if you run Windows, that's the best thing to do to avoid all the crapware (even the harmless one) that gets pre-installed by default of most computers nowadays.
> The community can be nasty but they do not treat every admin this way

Who would have thought that the minds responsible for redpill, mensrights, and coontown might make a community less than enjoyable?
Sure, will have a look tomorrow morning first thing
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Given the content of those replies, banning was entirely warranted.
“I subtract more and more to increase the negative space”
>Many of us build and scale applications far larger than this.

In general you do so with a huge corporate budget.

>Building another community like this is high risk and low reward maybe?

That's the answer.

You only have a few ways to monetize the product. Direct advertising; banner ads. The ad market is going to crap though, everyone has them, large numbers of users block them, and payments are very low. Direct payments for features. Reddit has 'Gold' as a means to get premium features and help pay for the site. The other way that has been bandied about, but with no direct evidence that it occurs is indirect advertising. For example a movie star paying for an AMA to advertize for their new film.

Even then those things only work if you can get the people to come to your site in the first place. It's highly likely a large number of social sites have a good deal of vice in their founding. People come to the site looking for porn or other somewhat socially unacceptable topics, but end up staying for the other parts of the community. As the site grows you run in to the inevitable 'great purge' which can cause serious issues.
Yes, totally different thing. :-) A great book on query plan stuff is here:

http://www.amazon.com/PostgreSQL-High-Performance-Gregory-Sm...
It seems more likely that her employers didn't fully appreciate how much value she provided.
But the problem statement doesn't imply the rule involves ordering.

Likely, it doesn't accept complex numbers (or vectors or matrices) as input as part of the (implicit) spec: in common parlance, "number" tends to mean real number.
No. Give it another few years and the fact that it's a red-hot job market will catch up and we'll end up like lawyers. The perception of high salaries and the reality of a lack thereof.
So who's going to capitalize on this? Lots of users are pissed off and want to leave. People are pushing "voat.co" really hard, but it looks like a weak clone of reddit that will ultimately suffer from the same problems.

This would be a good time for someone to figure out a decentralized solution to the links+comments app. There is lots of research into decentralized reputation and recommendation algorithms. Combined with cryptocurrency there could be some real potential.
Who gives a shit!
Agreed. That's pretty obscure.
Now we should also test the 'blondes have more fun' hypothesis :-D
Were oracle/DB2 systems considered viable options back in the day? Obviously not for a small project, but a company like origin was quite successful then and would have had the capital to buy licenses.
Loading animation in the beginning, I'm bored already. After loading, it just looks like some clickbait buzzfeed or auto-generated "read these 5 articles more, please" because of the big pictures set in a grid.
I'd love to hear some people's opinions: what's the next reddit? Where will people go?

I've been looking at alternatives ever since all the stupid crap with mods came out (mods messing with submissions, resubmitting under their name, and deleting stuff they didn't agree with) and some of my favorite subreddits started to rot. And now, it feels like Reddit is really falling apart.

Any suggestions?
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You may be forgetting that Reddit was built on the same 'shit'. A huge portion of the real content of Reddit was porn and other repugnant topics. The admins of the time faked a huge portion of their posts to form communities around them.
Does laziness have anything to do with the responses? You get a rule that seems to work and so you seek the reward early. It takes effort to prove yourself wrong.

I was trapped by this and guessed it was exponential series n^1,n^2 etc for n starting at greater than 2. While technically true this was not the rule they had in mind.
The average person from the US will assume that 2015-04-03 is March 4th, 2015

No country, including the US, uses YYYY-DD-MM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

I'm a bit surprised that you "have had to program date-related code" and "have never heard of ISO 8601", because it is practically the standard for date formatting. I know non-programmers from different countries including US/UK/EU, and although they probably haven't heard of ISO 8601 either, they have absolutely no trouble understanding YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. This is a very small sample size and probably not representative, but I doubt many people would attempt to parse it as YYYY-DD-MM.
[ 456 , 42 , 48 , No ]
[ 1 , 2 , 3 , Yes ]
[ 3 , 2 , 1 , No ]
[ 45 , 46 , 47 , Yes ]
[ -1 , 999 ,1238978 , Yes ]
[ 1+1 , 1+2 , 1+3 , Fail ]
[ 7 , 654 , 653 , No ]
[ 7 , 654 , 655 , Yes ]
[ 1.1 , 1.2 , 1.3 , Yes ]
[ 1 , e , pi , Fail ]
[ 1 , e , 42 , Fail ]
[ -1.1 , -1.0 , -0.9 , Yes ]
[ 2i , 3i , 4i , Fail ]
[ 1 , e , pi , Fail ]
[ 0 , 1 , 2 , Yes ]
[ -1 , 0 , 1 , Yes ]

If anyone's tallying
The same goes for Yishan Wong, who personally hired Ellen Pao, supports the recent moderation actions[1], thought he wasn't qualified for the job[2], and censored creepshots, right? The whole thing's been going downhill since 2012, I guess?

[1] http://www.quora.com/Reddit-Strengthens-Moderation-Spring-an...

[2] http://www.redditblog.com/2012/03/new-reddit-ceo-reporting-f...
On the flipside, I read it quite a bit (way less, though, since it is just celebrity PR). But I've never heard of her.
I'm asking about the security issues. Although they usually implies bugs the only one I mentioned is the OLE packager one that generated a big security problem.
Well, on the other hand, 'customary' US order is MM-DD-YYYY based on how we normally (verbally) say dates.

Honestly, its perfectly ok for an application to use whatever standard date format - as long as its clear and consistent within the application - at least in the context of North America, where everything is a mishmash of whatever standards you can imagine.

Hell, .Net datetimes specifically allow you to output in whatever format the current OS default is set to (or you can choose your own).
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I know the question isn't directed at me, but I thought you might want to know. I couldn't try negatives or floating point on the iPhone. The keypad didn't have the option.
Did you even read it? They don't use the meme 'symbols' but clearly mention 'dynamic property names'.

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript#3.4
Numerous subreddits were closed on Yishan Wong's watch.
OK, so I'm looking at https://github.com/soegaard/minipascal right now, and ok it looks like there's a couple thousand lines of racket code that will translate a very limited (no records, no reals, does not appear to be any pointers) pascal-like language.

So presumably for this to be exciting, it would have to be executing in a larger environment where it's surrounded by racket code doing its own thing. But now I don't see what's so special about that, and why that's different from, say, a python script that takes a string of fake-pascal, turns it into python thru an internal processor, and then calls an eval.
Because this stuff already existed in the ground (just not as concentrated), is not as toxic as radioactive waste, and can be recovered and reused. Nuclear waste generates new highly toxic substances that are extremely dangerous. And even after the waste has "decayed", the products are still toxic (just not radioactive) and last forever.
> being a default subreddit carries extra responsibilities.

Mostly filtering whichever collection of racists and woman-haters show up when they become defaults. So at least their moderators are getting a break from that.
Awesome, more features I'll never use...
The statement that "putting people on death row costs more than putting them in prison for life" is incomplete. The complete statement is "under our current legal regime, including costs of various appeals, putting people on death row costs more than putting them in prison for life."

Since the costs of appeals dwarfs all other relevant costs, it's just as true to say "under the current legal regime, appeals for death row inmate cost much more than appeals for life sentence inmates." That's a very different statement, and not necessarily something we want to fix.

If we did want to fix it, we could either spend less money on appeals for death row inmates (make it much harder to get off of death row/get exonerated), or spend more money for appeals for life sentence inmates.

Indeed, it might just be that we aren't doing everything we should to find wrongfully convicted inmates who weren't given the death penalty.

But that's certainly not the message people seem to be trying to make with the statement. The message I've always heard was "it would cost less to put him in jail for life." Or "it would cost less to get rid of the death penalty altogether." The first message has less impact when you realize that the costs involved are nearly all about legal appeals, not about running a prison, feeding the prisoners, etc. The second message is provably false: in a regime without the death penalty, the resources currently used to get people off death row would be used to get people out of life sentences.
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Look out for new US/EU public protections of those private margins. TPP/TTIP/TISA is rumored to criminalize non-commercial infringement, even if the copyright holder does not want to prosecute, http://japanitlaw.blogspot.com/2013/01/tpps-effect-on-fanzin...

"..in practice, it is rare for the police to commence an investigation without a complaint by the rights holder.
However, this situation may change. The draft of the request of the US on Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) 15.5(g) stipulates, "its authorities may initiate legal action ex officio with respect to the offenses described in this Chapter, without the need for a formal complaint by a private party or rights holder."
This has always been one characteristic of open source standpoints that I'm not such a big fan of. It's too tightly coupled to expect everyone with constructive criticism to also contribute. Yes, it would be good if they did. But it would strike a serious blow to many projects' mental capital if the only feedback they took from users was from those users capable (either technically or in possession of enough free time) of contributing the changes themselves.
I thought the super secret internet clubs era was over. How old are you? Most people on voat cross browse. There's even a plugin to put both aggregators in the same page. I don't get where this idea that voat is that "den of pedos and fat haters" is coming from.

Anyway, +1 for Snapzu.
GPLv3 handles contractors just fine, does AGPL not?

http://gcn.com/Articles/2007/07/23/GNU-version-of-GPL-gives-...
This is a very good thought.

The sense I get among most of my friends "in real life" is that they read reddit but would never post to reddit. A driving force behind that is the fear of being seen as a "redditor," which is an image generally associated with neckbeards (ironically a term popularized by themselves).

It could certainly follow an 80/20 rule, i.e. 20% of users post 80% of content, but 20% of users also cause 80% of the disruption. I mean ultimately, normal people are outside living their lives, not fussing over reddit drama. Much of the controversy is definitely stirred up by a "vocal minority." But are they necessary? That's the question. If the upvote economy is zero sum, why would you want to waste so much of it on loud muckrakers?

You might very well be right. Perhaps the reddit leadership realized they have an aggressive vocal minority that is actively damaging their reputation, so they don't mind culling it from their ranks. That would explain Alexis' overt willingness to sit and watch. He literally doesn't care, because why would he? It's all part of the plan to get more cats on the front page, and money in his pocket. (I don't blame him in the slightest.)
I don't see this being much different to a forgot my password email. Well the only difference is it makes it marginally quicker to carry out.
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I'm not sure I can really speak to how the "average person from the US" would deal with 2015-04-03, but two data points:

1. Everyone I personally know would know that that meant 4/3.

2. 4/3 in US usage is April 3rd. As I understand it, it's March 4th in European usage, but you say they have no problem with YYYY-MM-DD. I tend to suspect that you sort of half-learned that "US dates are backwards from European dates" and then misapplied that lesson here.
People caring to much about bullshit like ethics in game journalism are missing the forest for the trees.

Pleasing special interest groups in a massively diverse community isn't possible, that's why democracy is typically favored over this bullypulpit nonsense.
> But really, why not just replace it?

It costs money to run. Serious money if you're going to have employees. And, as voat have discovered, if you're going to become the favoured destination of the assorted gators, racists, pedo^h^h^h^hebeophiles, woman-haters, frozen peachers, and assorted bottom-of-the-barrel types that have been looking for reddit alternatives in the last few months, you may find it quite difficult to keep your hosting arrangements even if you can pay for them.
Simply running the software does not require me to accept the license. This is explicitly stated in section 9 of the licence. So it doesn't matter what it says in section 13, I don't have to comply with it. If you don't modify the software and don't "convey" it (for which usage is specifically not "conveyance" as per section 0), then there is no exposure to risk at all.

What does trigger that (which you somehow elided from your quote) is modifying the source. I must accept the license in order to modify the code as stated in section 9.

Having accepted the license I have a responsibility to offer the changes to all "users" interacting with it remotely. Very unfortunately, they don't provide a definition of "user". This may be intentional, though. There are legal definitions of the word "user" and it may not be possible/desirable to try to override the term in the license.

IANAL but in my experience, people who gain unauthorized access to software are not defined as a "user". I can't enter into a contract with an entity of whom I am unaware. There is a crucial difference between inviting people (even random people) to use the software and having a system that just happens to be accessible. There is a huge amount of case law on the topic, so if you are really curious I'm sure any lawyer can give you good advice.
By far and away, Airbnb is the most successful Y-Combinator startup. It's not a close race between Reddit and Airbnb. After that is Dropbox and Stripe perhaps. I don't think Reddit ever quite stacked up to these types of companies in terms of potential. Reddit is a link-aggregator, the very definition of a poor business opportunity (they don't own anything, and hardly control anything on their own site).

Airbnb is carrying a $25 billion valuation, and has a legitimate shot at justifying it in the coming years. They own their segment like an eBay or Uber, their network effect has won.

Was Reddit once the top start-up out of Y-Combinator, years ago? I'm skeptical of that having ever been true as well.
There's a flip side to that argument as well. If the moderators have such power, then why has reddit failed to court their favor?

I'm not active there, but it does seem to me like reddit owes possibly as much to the community as vice versa.
That's 'cause Victoria had a different job. People loved Raymond Chen back when Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft.

In particular, Victoria had the job of making AMAs happen smoothly, and /r/IAmA is this very weird subreddit, operationally speaking (how many other subreddits have their own mobile app?), that clearly needs a paid staff member. Ellen has the job of being the final say on anything that happens, controversial or otherwise. If the entire Reddit staff agrees that an AMA needs to happen, Victoria does it. If the entire Reddit staff agrees that a subreddit needs to be banned, Ellen does it (or at least takes the blame for it).
Before the graphics, there were thousands of MUDs. In fact, UO took PvP inspiration from a (still active) MUD called MUME [0], which I have played for over twenty years, and met my wife through. Not many people know about that, but you can find quotes out there by the creators of UO about it. Anyways, MUME doesn't allow scripting, but for me, it was MajorMUD back in the early 90s that started me on the scripting path. Good stuff!

[0] http://www.mume.org
Problem with the riddle approach is that there can only be so many answers. Any passive observer can infer the "password" (i.e. gain the ability to answer any of the questions) after a finite number of exchanges. Also, number of "passwords" the observer can answer grows with the number of exchanges he sees.

If you want to stop a passive observer, you need to turn to encryption... but then you are back where you started.
I bet he could have answered it in a charming way, though. That's what people like him are supposed to do.
Also Slashdot, digg, etc. These things have a limited shelf life.
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Just make sure you stick to alt.*, because of those fascists who control RFDs.
Do you have any examples of animal icons that should have been localized? I'm intrigued.
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Hrm, well, Yishan supports Ellen's recent actions:

http://www.quora.com/Reddit-Strengthens-Moderation-Spring-an...
> Well, on the other hand, 'customary' US order is MM-DD-YYYY based on how we normally (verbally) say dates.

Like the 4th of July?
Yeah. You have to be careful not just about what you say, and what context it could be taken in, but what any distinct set of N consecutive words will sound like when isolated between quotation marks.

You can't just ["]Abuse drugs and alcohol when you're young["] and think it won't catch up with you
with respect, you are missing the whole point of this issue! It isn't about doing X but about how you do X.

If Victoria had done her job with condescension towards mods, if she had been haughty in her communications, arbitrary and non-transparent in her decision making, etc. then you can bet your bottom dollar that she would not have been so valued by the mods and the wider community.

This isn't about making 'difficult decisions' but about how they are made, communicated and implemented.

That is why I added the bee analogy in my previous comment.
The question was on point though. It was a tough question and it hurt, but the guy isn't just "some guy" he goes on TV almost every night to push his political agenda. He was called out for being a hypocrite and people in his position deserve to be called out for being hypocritical, deceitful, and manipulative.

None of this is anything new though, it's widely accepted that Jackson is a demagogue.
You validated the necessity for prestige in the modern era, but didn't actually comment on whether 'selling prestige' in 2015 is a ridiculous thought.