skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, don't blame them. above certain position (which is usually pretty low), politics overcome skills in terms of progress in career. so what do you expect from bullshitters who bullshitted their way up there into positions of power, that they would cut off their own source of (current and future) success? :)

I work in same type of company, and it's pretty obvious how this and similar corporate cr*p clearly doesn't bring the best out of people, sometimes in contrary. If I would be owner/shareholder of any company, ever, first thing I would be concerned how incentives/bonuses for that extra mile/good work are being given. The higher the management, the more bonuses would be tied to long term progress (i know it's easier written than done, but i consider it at least partly responsible for financial turmoil of recent years too).
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A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers
State engineers we do have (Army Corps of Engineers, NASA) often do a fantastic job.
Yeah. I still manage to live in a gtk2-only world for now, but mostly because I don't really need too many GUI programs (I can't remember the last time I opened something other than Thunderbird, Firefox, Emacs, and whatever pdf reader and image viewer I have lying around) but that's obviously not sustainable.

Unfortunately, GTK3 (and, for that matter, much of the modern Linux user-side development ecosystem) is increasingly hostile. Frequent, often unwarranted changes (implemented through code of dubious quality), crap documentation (when it exists). It feels increasingly like developing for (and using) OS X or Windows, just without the good parts that we all secretly covet, like Visual Studio and Interface Builder and the MSDN.
some of these comments are baloney, e.g.:

"This country is the only one I know in which 'popularity' or 'coolness' are even concepts for middle and high school -age adolescents. There is something seriously, deeply wrong with the way young people grow up here, in a bizarre hierarchy of belonging. Envision a world in which all teenagers are accepted equally, including their different talents and quirks. That is the world which most of the world lives in."

that is someone's ra-ra "everything that's bad about America simply doesn't exist in any form in Europe" cheer and it's tiresome.
Try Clearlooks-Phénix https://github.com/jpfleury/clearlooks-phenix

It's quite mature and available in number of distros. I'm pretty happy with it since I've discovered it.
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> And society. Sports and jobs are different.

How does society benefit from it?
You're welcome! I'll be following your product closely, it looks very interesting.
It is so amazingly disturbing

https://dreamscopeapp.com/i/ZTBsNTKfTv
Should all land be publicly owned and rented out? I don't see why that's unreasonable.
Olympic shooters are forbidden to use beta blockers.
I'm currently using Greybird[0] under XFCE, but I'll keep my mouth shut since it's both blue and grey with black desktop panels ;) The widgets sizing and layout is decent though

Honestly I haven't seen anything GTK+ based that looks as good as KDE (4.x).

[0] http://shimmerproject.org/our-projects/greybird/
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I don't think this is necessarily true for part-time managers -- those folks that have productive work to do, but also have a team of people to do formal paperwork, timesheets and such for.

If you don't tell your management that you're unhappy, you're bound to remain unhappy because your management may not notice that you're upset, at least not in a specific way. Being given a clear problem, "I'm unhappy because of _____," gives us an actionable goal to work toward to making your work life more enjoyable.

Management aren't mind-readers, and it's particularly frustrating when you ask an employee if anything is up and they say "no," when you know there is an issue.
Yeah, but the backend seems to be buggy, the documentation is not up-to-date and basically half the things that work in 3.x break mysteriously in 3.(x + 1).

Meanwhile I can use a gtk2 theme from 2006 without any problems (and it doesn't make my desktop look like a kid's HD drawing). As long as I can do that, I have very little motivation to put up with gtk3's crap.
I was making a distinction between sport and economic activity; rather than the strict definition of a job.

A sport is zero-sum. Economic activity is normally positive-sum.
So going to https://app.trygigster.com/new

Gives me Heroku's application error message. I guess they should have used their own Gigsters:

Application Error
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
Great tool to build LoveBrand! )
Integrating all those ad networks is unreasonably hard to do well, so it's done badly to save time. All ad-financed web sites have that problem to varying degrees.
I read a article that had dug into this and found out that lack of light (sun) was the cause of bad eyesight in kids in asia.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/4140371/Spen...

So have a brightly lit room and get outside during the day, that should minimize your risk.
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Total nitpick on my part, but the line is from an urban legend, which "When a Stranger Calls" (among others) is based upon.

A few references:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCallsAreComing...

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

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/babysitter.asp
How does society benefit from products/services and innovation/invention? Really!
I really like the concept actually. Its almost like what food trucks have done to some brick/mortar companies. I dont think this will take on starbucks, but appeal to a millenial userbase.
discredited, but important

So even though the article wasn't true, and it was based on a completely fabricated story by a person who may actually be insane, it's still "important", because it provides ammunition to build up the narrative against those hated (i.e. White and Male) fraternities.
> are malaria vaccines not interesting for drug companies because there's no money in them

Considering the nature of market economies and how the wealth is distributed in the world, it is not particularly surprising that most most medical research is aiming to cure ailments that affect white western men.

This is why the huge commitment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is such a huge boon. We see progress in the fight against malaria in the developing world for the first time in many decades.
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Government IT has a huge impedance mismatch in the interface from the government agency to the contractors.

Specific to "Obamacare"/the ACA, America missed the move to "socialized medicine" immediately post-WWII. Europe had significant disruption because of seven years of tanks and bombers. There was during the Truman Administration a "wage and price freeze" in place to avoid a phantom anticipated inflation. Employer-based insurance and other "perks" were given tax protected status instead.

And for a long time, this turned out to be a more effective system. But accumulated rent-seeking and other problems rendered it less cost effective over time.
Interesting. This does tie in with what Bates called Sunning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method#Sunning). (The image there make me cringe.)
This is well put. I do think having others in a starbucks can be a blessing, rather than a detriment to their business.
It also has bad performance if you need to pass function pointers around.
Is it competitor of "User Voice"???
Data shows that new subscribers are signing up at an annualized growth rate of 480 percent each year . Between the third quarter of 2014 and the second quarter of 2015 gigabit, subscribers grew from 40,000-174,000.
Welcome to our "College Party Themed Party with Typical College Party Games such as Beer Pong".

(it's NOT A FRAT PARTY!)
>>C++98 code out of GCC has also been ABI stable for over 10 years now btw

I was specifically picking on Visual Studio and vendors who decided to distribute C++ dlls. Sometimes they provide several versions depending on which Visual Studio version you have installed at the moment.
This might not work in the webViews but will definitely work in the new Safari View Controller which will most probably become the default way for applications to display links.
Same here - a light LI update and recruiters are all over me. Alternatively, one month of subscribing to LinkedIn Premium (or whatever) got me some great leads at good companies - it was very easy to target the right level of higher-ups - but I had a good gig by the time I got the ball rolling with them. So I can agree with the complaints but in another sense it's one of those technologies that's like having a superpower compared to the old days of job hunting when I graduated from college in 2003.
Now, that is a great idea. I love the openness with the sign outside! Excuse my newbieness what city is 53/3rd in? Nyc?
Not so different from what we have known since 2007 [1], right? It would be nice if we could focus on discussing the diffs of what was cool in 2007 and what is cool now, instead of presenting a complete new deck that isn't all too different. Building on existing stuff instead of building from scratch.

[1] http://venturehacks.com/articles/deck
Sure, at the moment, I'm creating a new project and arranging elements on the page to design one group of components (for instance, the main table panel of my monitoring app).

I then start with the "deepest" children that I want control over (beyond them just being Bootstrap components) and begin creating components, each time including children. I generally put everything into a single group. When I am finished, I just take that group's folder and add it to my components/ folder of my project. I then do all the functionality in my text editor (Sublime).

A few caveats to keep in mind:

- I filed issue #24 on Git which you fixed, thank you - very helpful. I have react-ui-builder running on an ec2 instance so I can switch to it between computers and do not have to worry about running the server locally.

- I am a data scientist/statistician (both in my job role and by training), however, I build internal applications for all sorts of visualizations/dashboard monitoring purposes. I do most of my backend programming in Python (Flask) and have been using React for the front.

I hope this helps. On the flip side, I'd love to hear any tips to improve that workflow. Currently, I'm using react-ui-builder as a sort of "component factory" but I'd be open to using it more extensively.

I'm hesitant to suggest component placement features as this might just be coming from my inexperience building interfaces but a few sticking points I've ran into:

- The 'wrap' component button is useful. It would be helpful to have an equivalent 'get wrapped' button (ie. insert child).

- The up/down arrows for moving components work well as does the 'move cursor one parent up'. It would be useful to be able to do this with a component as well. (ie. make it a child of the following component or make it a sibling of its immediate parent).
I also use singular for every table and column name. It just makes everything simpler. If I had table of scissors, it would be called `scissor`.
Ah, it's that site that's mostly known for posting inaccurate information about Android and closing off comments because people called them out on it. Why would anyone even go there anymore? They haven't published anything worth reading in ages.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/littlefox-for...

This firefox theme makes the app's decorations really small. The icons look as if they were designed in 1995, but if there is a choice between slick and compact, I pick compact.

On second thought, Classic Theme Restorer works just as well with the latest firefox dev build.
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"Frat party" is offensive now? What about the very existence of frats altogether. Should we ban those? Oh what about men's clubs? What about groups of men?

Some people do believe that any men organizing and assembling in groups - specifically as men, and excluding women by choice - is actually unacceptable.

It would be interesting to compare the set of people who believe that, with the set of people who believe that exclusionary, so-called "safe spaces" are fine for women and/or minorities.

(Obviously, no sex-exclusive "safe spaces" are permissible for men, for any reason.)
Firefox smooth scrolling tears on every Linux machine I've used lately. Different distros, different video devices abd drivers, different compositing managers, etc. If I disable it, either the tearing is gone or the issue is difficult to see, I'm not sure. If this fixes that, that'll make me quite happy.

[edit] Oh, reading that thread, it sure does sound promising. I'll have to check it out.
Rust also has experimental support for MUSL as of April:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24777
> You only get ABIstab in C if you never change the size or layout of your structs

Well, and you can append new elements to a struct and are guaranteed that the initial sequence of common elements is identical. This is not mentioned explicitly in the C language standard, but it follows as a corollary from point 6.5.2.2.5 of the language standard:

> One special guarantee is made in order to simplify the use of unions: if a union containsseveral structures that share a common initial sequence (see below), and if the unionobject currently contains one of these structures, it is permitted to inspect the commoninitial part of any of them anywhere that a declaration of the complete type of the union isvisible. Two structures share acommon initial sequenceif corresponding members havecompatible types (and, for bit-fields, the same widths) for a sequence of one or moreinitial members.

Consider

a.h

struct a { char aye; short bee; int cee; long dee; };

a.c

#include "a.h"
int aye(struct a a) { return a.aye; }

b.h

struct b { char aye; short bee; int cee; long dee; double eee; };

b.c

#include "b.h"
int bee(struct b b) { return b.bee; }

Now if we add c.h

#include "a.h"
#include "b.h"

union ab {
struct a a;
struct b b;
};

The language standard warrants, that the common initial sequence of both structures can be used interchangeably in that union. Since however compilation units a.c and b.c are processed individually without knowledge of union ab this enforces the compiler to use the same memory layout for an initial sequence of member elements for either struct. Hence it is legal to extend structs without out altering the memory layout of the previous elements.
I'm also an Arch user (not use Linux that much now, but my VMs and servers are all Arch, as well as my netbook before I tried to install Plan9 on it the hard way, now it's waiting for some OS) and OSX user. After reading what the OP wants from an operating system, then bashing OSX for not being that is like wanting a spoon, getting a knife and complaining about what a shitty spoon a knife is.
So many comments here reflecting ideas from the 2002 book "Abolishing Performance Appraisals - Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead".

I think it's well worth a read, especially if you're implementing or in a position to influence these sorts of processes.

Feedback is important, but once a year/half/quarter isn't really doing it. And ideally it shouldn't be related to what you're paid, though that's harder to convince people. It can work though, and the book provides some examples of alternatives.
I'm not quite sure what the point of this article is. He's quite clearly not the target market, and is shocked and enraged by this. This is clear right from the get-go:

>Be customisable. I want to be able to replace any part of the system I would like

So you're going to use a closed-source OS that's notorious for enforcing homogeneity wherever possible?

>Be transparent in its workings

Again, so you're going to use a closed-source OS?

He then complains about a lot of optional features that can be turned off in a few minutes (Gestures, SIP) and have clear use cases for the remaining 99% of the system's users. His complaints about SIP are particularly bizarre. It's obvious what the utility is, it's trivial to disable, and yet it's "the sort of decision that is endemic to a system which is designed to lock you into a software prison"?
Ah, the no true scotsman fallacy. I hear that one a lot. It's an oldie, but a goodie. Communism is a subset of socialism; the share they same root philosophy. They never actually implemented true communism because it's not possible. Humans will always create a hierarchy. Where no official hierarchy exists, they will create unofficial ones.
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Well, at least Disqus has the merit of actually providing value to people visiting your website.
And surely Reddit is a legitimate site as well.
That IMDB page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/ has several videos on it. It's possible that one of them was infringing. But even if it was, I doubt they would really want to delist the whole page from Google searches.
I think it generalizes to Americans being uncomfortable with anything they perceive as ideology. The propaganda just serves that.

Lyndon Johnson would have "gotten away with" The Great Society had he not also been forced to deal with Vietnam. Regardless of what we in the US say of that, those programs are very much part of our ...portfolio.

At an ethical level, Americans are much more likely to embrace consumer surplus as a core value, hence the emphasis on work rather than on government. Our "conservatism" when it is coherent is really a more-radical Liberalism in the sense of an emphasis on a self-reliant individual.
I will agree that innovate does not mean hockey stick, and I appreciate the clarification; I meant to convey "disruptively innovate" and that happens extremely rarely as a native occurrence in bigcos.

I also agree about the "segregate the company" idea; for example Amazon silos its innovation units into separate companies with separate campuses to compensate for the natural organizational dynamic.

But I do not know about the history of Bell Labs (except its prestigious accomplishments) and what enabled it to be so effective. Perhaps there is a telling history book?
>But as a scientist and as a programmer, I will never understand why people enjoy such childish things.

This is why we end up with software that is painful to use.
Yeah, he seems to completely miss the idea that Macs are meant for the everyday person.. particularly with that can't modify system files bit.
Not really, Copiny is more similar to GetSatisfaction. UserVoice has a feedback form and a help desk, but it hasn't a powerful community functionality.
Maybe because it's nice sitting next to a window?
“Employees that do best in performance management systems tend to be the employees that are the most narcissistic and self-promoting,” said Brian Kropp, the HR practice leader for CEB. “Those aren’t necessarily the employees you need to be the best organization going forward.”

Maybe I'm fooling myself and I really am narcissistic. But my feeling is that it's not narcissism but simply a rational adaptation to the conditions. What I do when you put a self-review form in front of me, is similar to what I do as a musician when you put some sheet music in front of me: Play the notes and try to make the audience happy.
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C11 has type generic macros. You can build your own with the _Generic statement.

int maxi(int, int);
double: maxd(double, double);
...
#define max(x) _Generic((x), int: maxi, double: maxd, ...default: maxi)
I agree. I've wanted to write my own blog post about the things that suck about Mobile web, it's not the device or the software (typically), it's the way websites are designed (or not) for phones that sucks. You get advertisements that hijack all your screen real estate, open up the Android Market out of nowhere (why do they have this much priviledge? That shouldn't happen on the desktop without asking for permission). There's also the hell of being redirected to a websites "mobile" friendly site, only they redirect you to the home page, not the mobile version of the content you were trying to get to (seriously?) I mean there's so much. I usually have to ask for the desktop version of websites, and this is ignoring JavaScript that jacks up your resources and flash based content. Try triggering OnMouseOver on mobile as well. Lots of warts to browsing the internet on a Mobile phone.
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I thought this would be an analysis of mails, meetings and Issue comments, looking for who talks to whom and which words are used. That would be really cool.

Just having a lot of polls doesn't tell much of a story, I think. Most people will simply not do them.
Yes, it's fairly obvious that the author wasn't go to like osx from the start. However, I really do appreciate him giving it a go for a week. It's mind-blowing how many supposedly open-minded people refuse to try something before knocking it. Seriously, this is Green Eggs and Ham level stuff: try it try it, and you may. But geeks are some of the most stubborn people out there. Good for him for giving it a whirl, even if it was inevitable that he was going to hate it.
You get the same guarantee in C++, as well as a language mechanism to exploit it (inheritance). You still can't pass structs by value across library boundaries in either language without fixing your ABI though. This isn't a language intrinsic problem: it boils down to the linker model, which only C and C++ share.
System doesn't conform to my biases, waaaaa, film at 11.
After much clicking through, it seems like this is the best view of the original:

http://visual.ly/only-10-slides-you-need-pitch
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"Fragile By Design" does an excellent teasing apart of the small differences between Canadian and American social... consciousness as expressed in government policy. A very surprising book.

The too-short upshot is - Canadians actively consider the social welfare function as a thing in itself, while Americans try to bury it under complicated things like mortgage subsidies.
It sounds like you have experience of the firm. I'm interested in tech consulting and was planning on applying after graduation. Would you advise against this? Are there any firms in a similar line of work that you would recommend? (This question is open anyone on HN who wants to chip in).
the exact period of time was not my concern - the perception of calm and orderly shutdown is. What matters is how the founders are seen to handle that last few moments. Doing nothing would be bad. Doing this is fine and decent. Even better would be to say "hey it did not work, but even so our last act is to <maintain high perceived value coz we are the good guys>." It might be download your contacts, it might be grab your dogs' friends circle. Whatever - if it was important enough for users to give it to you for safekeeping that should be treated with kid gloves.

This is sadly one of the more high profile moments a start up has - Handle it well, the founders will be seen as a safe pair of hands, do the equivalent of dropping the casket into the ground and walking off, maybe not so much.

It's not great that this is a metric, it's not great that more VCs will see how they shutdown than saw how they started up - but this is just another startup. The founders have 30+ year careers ahead. Good for them for making something, good for them for trying, and good for trying to land it at all. Many just told up tents and steal away.

We as a community are trying to learn the dos and donts of startup life cycles - seems to me this is one of the more high profile and often ignored donts.
Thanks Universal for links to Jurassic World!! I have been looking for that.