skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my company, years ago, performance rating was done by your line manager just talking to your project manager(s) to find out how you were getting on, and the line manager would assign you a pay rise (or not) accordingly. This was a perfectly sane and workable system.

Then the place got engulfed by this insane fad for "performance reviews", which is idiotic on its face for a number of reasons:

1. You request review feedback from peers - this is unworkable because if you work with someone who is useless, and you say so in their review, your working relationship with them becomes untenable;

2. The process also requires "self review", which is nothing but a mechanism for bullshitters to big themselves up. It is also time-consuming, and good people are generally too busy to dedicate much time to it; the bullshitters and timewasters otoh will happily dedicate days to polishing their lies and exaggerations;

3. In general the process massively favours those who play the performance review system, i.e. the politicians;

4. You are required to set "career objectives", which is almost entirely pointless since as a tech person you are largely constrained by what jobs need your skills at the particular moment you become available; there is little tolerance for people sitting around idle waiting for the perfect role that meets their desired objective.
La Ferrari – 0-60 2.4 sec, Quarter Mile: 9.7 sec
I am not talking about C++ template nonsense, but not having to write max element search for every primitive type

How is it template 'nonsense', when those templates do exactly that?
Also, a lot of these products are part snake oil, so getting together to come up with shared tools would expose all that waste and redundancy and put half of them out of business..

Wait, that sounds great.
The problem is that many performance enhancing drugs are used to treat legitimate conditions. It will always be easier to get doctor prescription for some players than it would be for others.
If you ban Adderal/Ritalin/Modafinil (although the last one is very questionable when it comes to performance benefit but still very useful for motivation/energy when putting long hours practicing) and allow medical exemptions you will end up with privileged group who have access to the "right doctors".

If you ban it and don't allow medical exemptions you will eliminate people who need those drugs to function normally.

I would prefer the latter out of the two: you need a drug to function - tough luck you can't compete but I prefer just allowing wider spectrum of drugs to begin with.
P.S. and let's not forget that Gtk3 really really wants to draw its own titlebars and do its own window management.
Nilay Patel has the audacity to say that the mobile web sucks[0]. No. It's just your website that sucks, mate.

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9002721/the-mobile-web-su...
Awesome!

Like I always say: when these guys go public, I'll be the first in line to buy stock :)

Great team, great vision, great execution + no-bullshit, bottom-up approach.
I would like to see a screenshot of that xfce-b5 theme and what you want to achieve. For reference, this is how Firefox/Iceweasel looks in my system, running GNOME Shell: https://i.imgur.com/VedZNiC.png

I didn't crop it: that is all that is visible when maximised. I'm using tree-style-tabs for Firefox, and the Hide Top Bar and Maximus Two extensions for the Shell.
Why is socialism such a boogieman in the USA? I just don't understand it. Does everyone in the USA think they're a temporarily embarrassed millionaire?

I hear so many horror stories from the USA. People's lives ruined because they lost their job, got injured or have some addiction problem. But those same people will curse socialism in that same breath if asked. I just don't understand it.

I'm from the Netherlands, and I'm proud to say I live in a socialist country. It means that if I'm doing very well for myself, I'll give up a bit more than I would've in a strictly capitalist country. Instead of paying 25-30% tax, I'll pay 50%.

And that doesn't matter. If I'm earning 300k+ in a year, I can miss it.

In return I know that my life is safe from being destroyed, regardless of social class I'm born in or will move to. My parents don't have any money? It doesn't matter, education is free. If I have or get some disability, I will be taken care of. If I get injured, I will be taken care of. If I get sick, I will be taken care of. By the community. Anything else, in my book, is uncivilized.

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To those citing governments destroying incentive structures (can't reply - your comment is deleted), I strongly suggest looking up the Dutch model for infrastructure. In a very, very summarized example, the government gives subsidy to private/public hybrid organizations. Those organizations compete in the regular market. In order to qualify for subsidy you need to meet the government standards. Think internet companies, hospitals, etc.

You're perfectly free to set up a 100% privatized hospital in the Netherlands - you just won't qualify for government subsidy.
Hmm... I only experienced one web-technology which was proprietary software and had a strong 'opensource' community, being flash. Always seemed to me, developers using proprietary technologies tend to not share their stuff.
Never mind the bollocks – here's the Linux containers
Just make a bigger batch of pourover when there's a line? If anything it should be faster than the typical espresso style that requires a fixed minimum of 60s of attention per cup.
Not quite, but sort of. First, I don't think the transaction costs are hidden at all. But that aside, the transaction costs are exactly where they belong: with the miners.

Effectively, all the transaction costs up front and applied once. The problem with existing financial transactions is that they take a cut every time a transaction is made. In fact, they take little cuts every time a transaction passes through their system/network/etc.

Start with one dollar and send it through enough "transactions" and you end up with nothing. Bitcoin effectively solves this problem. No middle-man scum sitting between a financial transaction ever "adds value" (how a I hate that term). They just leech off the capital of the people. This is why I want bitcoin to succeed.

(Ended up a bit ranty there at the end. Sorry.)
I agree. Maybe you can remove the snark and make most of the moderation invisible, but if you remove moderation then the site will degenerate into a kittens photos stream.

[If you are not afraid of kittens, you can replace that with spam, porn, politics, ...]
How did you come to that conclusion? The companies involved do not appear to be doing any of the things commonly required by the various definitions of "patent troll".

Most definitions require one or more of the following:

• purchases a patent and enforces it

• does not practice the patent itself

• has no manufacturing or research base

• focuses solely on enforcing patents

This group comprises companies such as Dolby, Philips, Mitsubishi and similar that do have both research and manufacturing, are patenting technology they developed, practice the patents they develop, and have plenty of business other than patent enforcement.
Hmm, there may be merit in this. Though a counter case was when my brother just wrote a C# plugin for my dad to perform some of the more annoying functions he was dealing with.
I believe all of Borland's compilers all the way back to the original Turbo Pascal came with it.
Project Free TV shut down
If you returned it to shareholders they would be reinvesting it too (just somewhere else). You can return capital to investors tax efficiently using share buybacks. Haven't looked at Amazon's annual report in detail so can't tell if they are reinvesting profit in areas that will have high return or not.
C has a generic: "void *". It just doesn't have any type safety.
Are There Any Habitable Exoplanets That Can Hear Us?
They really glance over the fact that he had patented inventions, connections and quite a bit of money made before going back to Japan and starting Softbank. Still, good story...
The package version in Arch is 7.16, so I assume it's the latest.
Perhaps today the meanings are different (one is a superset). But according to Von Mises:

"In the terminology of Marx and Engels the words communism and socialism are synonymous. They are alternately applied without any distinction between them. The same was true for the practice of all Marxian groups and sects until 1917. "

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1060#lf0069_label_908

Also, uses of "Liberalism" has been changed even more throughout the history.
Brazil is IMHO well suited for trains, much more than the US. Connect all the major cities on the coastline. Unfortunately, strategic thinking is something not well suited for a Brazilian mind. And the money - a country with one of the highest tax rates in the world - is much better invested in some corrupt politicians pocket than into infrastructure, be it trains, ridiculous expensive airtravel or roads. Brazil had a home run the last 10-15 years. My prediction: Won't be a home run the next 10-15 years.
How British universities spread misery around the world
Firefox' LTS (called ESR) [1] only has one year of support in it (as opposed to default six weeks).

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
You're probably right against the parent, but in the long term I would expect use of ad blockers to rise, simply because ads are getting observably more bloated and intrusive.

Elementary example: the likes of us will get requests from our tech-illiterate friends and relatives - "my internet is broken. It's really slow." And we will install ABP/ublock whatever.

This is, of course, assuming that there are no dramatic 'interruptions' - eg, browsers ceasing to support ABP-type extensions, the ads-versus-adblockers arms race moving decisively in the former's favour; etc.

I can't find any numbers on adblocker usage over time during the recent period - would be a good thing to look at - but here's the google trend, FWIW. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ad%20blocker&cmpt=q&...
Many companies have that problem. They return the capital to investors to invest somewhere else. That is how equity is supposed to work: you give someone money for something and then eventually give you back more than you gave them originally.
According to Richard D. Wolfe
https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardDWolff

It's because American Capitalists felt threatened by the Socialists, because the New Deal and a bunch of other things that happened in the 20th century due to unions and Socialist activism along with American elite alignment that scared them and their continued ability to run America for their interest, so they spread tons of rhetoric and propaganda to make Socialism a boogie man, eventually associating it with Communism... and it worked.

In general in the United States ideological words get muddled through rhetoric and propaganda until you can no longer talk about them. When this happens it's impossible to act on anything because you can't talk about it much less come to any conclusion about whether it's good or not or if it serves your interests. It's a brilliant propaganda technique that seems to have been mastered to stifle any debate about ideology.
I've spent most of my career writing C++ in the "C with classes and containers" style. Apart from the compile times and library issues, this really is better than just standard C. You can automate much of the memory management.
Such a clickbait title. Former hedge fund employee starting a hedge fund a bit more accurate.
"Why is socialism such a boogieman in the USA?"

Propaganda I assume. Socialist ideas may be ok as long as the word isn't used.

I guess we need to find a new politically correct word for it because the old one is too pejorative now.
While it is of course a vast field with much complication etc etc, here's a simple one.

It does rely on you being right, but that's always true.

If you think company X is going to do well compared to some benchmark, you go long on X and short on the benchmark. As long as you were right (i.e. X does do better than the benchmark) you'll make money no matter how they actually do. If X drops 50% and the benchmark drops 90%, you've made money. If X rises 20% and the benchmark rises 15%, you've made money.
Foldable and waterproof Google Glass soon
I went the other way. I was introduced to programming at university, although not in a computer science degree. The professor believed in the hard way, so using some old Unix machines (it was in the 2000s), writing C++ in the equivalent of a notepad, and "debugging by printf".

Though I was keen on getting into coding, I was like many other students put off by this approach and only went back to programming many years later with visual basic.

I appreciate that one gets a better understanding of computer science by going really low level (assembler, etc) but I question whether this is the right approach if one wants coding to be more mainstream.

I think coding should be taught in high school like latin or physics, not because kids will all become programmers, or historians or scientists, but because having a basic understanding and culture will help in everyone's life and it gives kids a taste for what a career in that field may look like. And I don't think C++ is the right tool for that.
https://xkcd.com/927/

I'd rather see greater interoperability to enable parts of a project to be written in different languages. The C# ecosystem (F# etc) is closest to this, although see also Scala.
The US Army is the biggest socialist organisation in the US. They provide medical care, educational grants and benefits, housing etc etc.
Uniqueness is irrelevant, it's the 100 million+ DAU's which are valuable.
Still loads faster than The Verge ;)
Realy nice, thanks! What would be the added value of this compared to using vim handling autocompletion and syntax highlighting for editing queries and tmux for the output?
Sounds interesting! Is the vulnerability scanner of Gemfile based on bundler-audit[1]? Do you add other value to this part?

[1] https://github.com/rubysec/bundler-audit
Yeah aware of ElephantSQL but the concern is lack of SLA and lack of big company backing. If you guys disappear, what happens to my databases since they run on your subscription, not mine. Hence why having an IBM backed Postgres on Azure is attractive - even though big companies can be frivolous, there's a comfort in knowing they're less likely to go out of business.
Is Google’s motto “Don’t be Evil” still reality?
What tab management thingy on the left are you using?
It means that if I'm doing very well for myself, I'll
give up a bit more than I would've in a strictly
capitalist country. Instead of paying 25-30% tax, I'll
pay 50%.

And that doesn't matter. If I'm earning 300k+ in a year,
I can miss it.

In return I know that my life is safe from being
destroyed, regardless of social class I'm born in or
will move to. My parents don't have any money? It doesn't
matter, education is free. If I have or get some
disability, I will be taken care of. If I get injured, I
will be taken care of. If I get sick, I will be taken
care of. By the community.

Here, I'm only referring to the sensible, politically astute contingent of Americans who yet don't warm up to socialism or even high taxation for that matter. I'm not talking about the impulsively right-leaning lot here.

I think such Americans genuinely question if such a smooth trade off - between paying a good chunk more in taxes and a proportionate increase in the standard of living of those on whom that increase in taxation is supposed to benefit - is ever possible in a government that is rife with dysfunction, graft and bewildering inefficiencies at every level. The examples of this present themselves at regular frequencies - say the botched roll out of the healthcare website [1] a few years ago - in the glare of the American media, which don't exactly help either.

Further exacerbating this problem is that bright young Americans [2] don't want to serve in the public sector in similar rates as in Northern Europe.

[1] Obamacare Website Costs Exceed $2 Billion, Study Finds

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare-...

[2] 'Pro-Government' Millennials Take Government Jobs, Discover They Suck, Move to the Private Sector

http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/17/millennials-take-governmen...
Japan is building a 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' bullet train
SQL style guide – a consistent code guide ensuring legible and maintainable code
Not sure if I misunderstand you or disagree. Why should the miners bear the transaction costs? They provide a service, running the network and processing the transactions, to the users wanting to transfer money so they have to pay for this service.
This is great work, but I can't figure out how to configure the colors. My issue is that the grey in the green/cyan auto-complete box is too washed-out and the contrast is too low. I'd like to make the box darker, and the lettering a lighter color.

Any way to do that without patching the pgstyle.py file?
I once had to implement a tiny spreadsheet with cell references and simple ranged formula in Perl given 2 hours. Possibly the most interesting programming test I've had for a job yet.
https://i.imgur.com/wYVyJG5.png

Most gtk2-based (or dependent, in case of eclipse) apps I use at daily basis (incl. floating deadbeef settings window with older gtk2 plugin) side-by-side. I haven't included evince (gtk3) as I am using partially broken gtk3-Mist theme (not compact as xfce-b5, but still better than Adwaita). Nothing scaled, cropped or such. Btw, I use Classic Theme Restorer plugin, which also helps with firefox UI compactification.
Would it be beneficial if your dad was able to achieve the same on his own by using the language?
"Why is socialism such a boogieman in the USA?"

Because every single time it's been enacted in the past 100 years, it's resulted in the deaths of millions of its own citizenry. Because the very basis of the american legal system and the american legacy (not to mention english common law) is based on individual over collective rights. Socialism is, quite simply, unamerican, by definition.
"This looks"
- "The gameplay's going to be"
- "it's probably going to"
- "it's not going to be"

and the closing fireworks

"I can't believe"

It must be awesome to know what it takes to make you Beliebe in.
Flickr has just changed their policy on this. They are re-introducing pro accounts and will not show ads when anyone is viewing those accounts. Unfortunately, they also doubled the price of pro.
I was prepared to whine about exactly that.

There is literally no gtk3 theme that, simultaneously:

- Is not flat and generally grey or dark blue. It's as if everyone Apple fanboy who was rejected by Apple's UX department is now making GTK themes.

- Is not frickin' ginormous. I know multitasking is frowned upon now that we have tablets, but I have a bloody 27" screen, I want more than one window on it at the same time!

- Doesn't break in the next release.

At first (as in, 2011 or so) I just blamed it on gtk3 being new and all that. But we're four years from that. This disaster seems to be intentional.
> We keep things like Adblock Plus at arm's length for plausible deniability - but everyone I know uses it.

I wish this had been included in the main body of this post, with some metrics; everyone you know uses it because it makes the web suck so much less.

Loading The Verge's article in a Chrome incognito window: 19.6 MB transferred, finished in 41.9 s, huge ad covering the entire page above the developer console I had open to watch things load.

Same article in a new incognito window with Adblock Plus enabled: 1.5 MB transferred, finished in 16.94s.

Screenshots: https://twitter.com/jbscript/status/624535428620791808
Now if that doesn't start raising some questions, I don't know what will :)
bit of a biased rag? no?

". Naturally he was surrounded by leftist academics and apparently ‘encountered Fabian thinking’ in particular. "
> Flower head with a mutated floret cluster (unknown species)

Gerbera x hybrida
I'd respect you more as a manager if you caught me in the hallway and spent 2 minutes asking about that thing I was doing over the weekend, and were genuinely interested. Having me fill out this form every week would surely get on my nerves.

I'd pick the sad face every week and type "this form makes me sad :( "
As far as I recall the Obama Healthcare Website was not developed by the government. It was developed by a private company. The front end was developed by Development Seed and the backend was developed by a multi-national.

That's what I mean about propaganda. To say this is the doing of socialism is pure propaganda.
Except Ryanair are actually getting much better at customer service these days, while still nearly always being the cheapest.
The main partitioning is franchise which is somewhat tied to the single London terminus they have. Some of the ghost trains, eg Paddinton to Ruislip, cross these boundaries. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a6/3b/45/a63b45c48...
Cloud for All
Have you tried Haxe?

http://haxe.org/
Really hard to say I think, anything is possible.
In another DMCA take down request [0], Universal included a URL to an entry on IMDB.com, which is obviously a legitimate site.

Now that's not so funny.

[0]: https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10951315
Weekly happiness surveys? This is the "are we nearly there yet?" grade of annoying question.

Ctrl-F "privacy": no results. So in that case it's mandatory to always tick all the happiness boxes. You don't want to draw attention to yourself by being unhappy on record.
The Power of Immutability: Talk on the Design of Git, Clojure, and Docker
Should Britain Pay Reparations to India? Shashi Tharoor Says Yes
Perhaps it is because it is not applicable to most countries. Netherlands has a very strong private industry and a reasonably small population. High tech - high profit Industry can withstand the very high taxes imposed by the government. To me, Netherlands would probably much more prosperous if taxes were lower and Govenment is less socialistic. But, if people are ok with current situation, it is their choice.

It is easy to play socialism where you have strong private industry and/or abundant natural resources with small population. Try that in say, India and you will see the catastrophic results in very short time (In fact, they have recovered by abandoning socialistic policies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India#Post-liberali... ).
Seems as if Chrome is using 30.8913327029 bits to store the filesize :)
Isn't that the same as using vanilla laziness:

> let xs = [1, 2, (xs !! 0) + (xs !! 1)] in xs
[1, 2, 3]

It's order independent as well:

> let xs = [(xs !! 1) - 1, (xs !! 2) - 1, 3] in xs
[1, 2, 3]

Why do you need loeb?
And once it arrived, slowed down (haha!) and performed the survey it would only take another millenia for us to start receiving back information.

We need to work out how to bend spacetime.
You're going to have to back up those bold claims for them to hold any value.

Also, please do not confuse 'unamerican' for 'bad', and 'american' for 'good'. In fact, I'd argue that the american economic and social system is broken (and thus an 'american' social system does mean a 'bad' system). Your 1% is depriving the 99% of most value.
>we wish to ensure we can provide a fair playing field for all participating players

By restricting access to performance enhancing drugs to those who have the connections to get around the screens that the ESL end up using to try and catch people?

Here's a radical thought: it's a fair playing field if everyone takes adderal before the match.