skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the ...3..pictures it looks alright i guess, but when you're managing someone's finances it's probably in your best interest to put a significant more content on how you do that exactly
Which places Haskell and Scala behind Perl, R, and Shell, at position 14 and 15, respectively.

And PHP at #3... shudder

That said, I don't see why I should believe RedMonk any more than any other ranking. Heck, any ranking that places C++ behind Python, or C behind Ruby, I don't believe for a damn second.
I think you're right about the ductile nature of society, but at the same time I think you're on a fine line about how to change it.

I really believe that only love can overcome hate- you can't fight personal negativity with more negativity or disparagement. It only makes people dig their heels in deeper. I know this is a controversial and probably offensive opinion, but it's a core part of who I am so I feel I should say it and take whatever comes.
We had this "problem" at two of my workplaces; one where I was the one doing it and the other where someone else was doing it.

In my case I lived nearby but sometimes was 5-10 minutes late despite having moved to live literally 5 minutes walk away. Why was I coming in late? Because while my direct coworkers and manager were amazing, we had been acquired by an evil company, and being ordered by senior management (from the safety of another state) to treat customers without human decency.

The only way I could continue to work, aside from the feeling that I was in the belly of the beast and secretly helping all the customers that I could, was that I was in control of that 5-10 minutes in the morning. I was the one doing it, they weren't doing it to me.

After some poking and prodding my boss decided it was not a big deal. Yes the phones had to be answered, but it wasn't an issue when a few people were likely in the office, they can call back a minute later and have someone, and my mobile number was also published for outside of hours contact. No big deal, no internet post, no ego, no whinging.

At another company an employee was even more late; 30-60 minutes every day. I wasn't privy to the conversations about why (I think it was just more convenient because they had kids and both partners worked) but the boss had a talk with them and changed their working hours to start at 9:30. Again, the phones have to be answered, but it's also useful to have someone who stays later in the day. No big deal, no internet post, no ego, no whinging.

Do you see the pattern here? An employer and employee talking about something, realising they both want different things, and deciding well it's worth it to retain the talent. The idea of a manager and their bruised ego trying to force everyone to fall into line as if workers were cattle is disgusting.

What amazes me from the post is the number of managers (or manager wannabes) who insist that the employees are either insulting them, insulting co-workers, refusing orders, or failing to meet a contract.

* I can guarantee at every company, anyone with kids, comes late at some times and leaves early to pick the kids up. Nobody bats an eye.

* Coming late has nothing to do with you, the company, or the job. Some people just work this way and you can judge them on the work or be pig-headed and lose their talents. (There may be a slight correlation to being a bad boss and having employees come in late because they hate dealing with you.)

* As for not fulfilling a contract, if your lawn gets mowed once a week, or the paper or milk is delivered, or you're in the doctor or dentist's waiting room and they're ten minutes late - try refusing the bill and tell me how it goes. Good luck.

* You may write a cheque but you will never own a person and get to push them around however you like. Let them go if you must. But if doing so doesn't strongly benefit the business to the tune of the tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars of investment it costs to retain an employee - versus ten minutes a day - then if you do it you're just a bad manager.
Take a look a Mike Acton's talks, he does a pretty good job of breaking down why OOP just isn't built for high performance(arranging data by logical association rather than data access patterns).

Yeah, your metapoint is is worthwhile, all the JIT in the world aint gonna help you if you're cache missing every damn fetch(hello Java).
Can you only use the Nexus 6 with the plan? I've got a OnePlus
What I Learned from Wasabi Ventures Academy: Seven Easy Lessons (#1)
> Do you respond well when someone yells at you?

Of course not. But just because I don't like being yelled at in the moment doesn't mean I don't need it sometimes. If someone's angry at me it's because I've hurt them. I'm not going to scold them for yelling if I'm clearly in the wrong.

> In a lot of cultures blah blah

Thanks for explaining that like I've only recently arrived on Earth! I'm obviously not saying that anger is always good or useful. But if the cause is just and the pain is great, a well-articulated anger is going to be far more effective than milquetoast pleading.
Redesigning a Website to Attract Top Product Talent
I agree. From what I have seen every version of ASP.Net has been radically different from the previous and hence the name change.

Should they be changing technology so rapidly? You would hope not, but is the technology getting better, you would have to say yes it is.

But sometimes it is hard to keep up!!
It also makes me wonder how it behaves for numbers below the limit. I would wager that there's substantial bias in the results if you ask for a max of, say, 2^31 + 2^30.
I don't know. I've worked for grocery stores when I was in high school and one cashier running 15 minutes late was always noticeable, especially early in the mornings and late at night.
Not that I know of. It exploits some of JavaScript's weird scoping rules to keep everything very short. You're not going to get that in most other languages.
I wanted to make HTML5 games. So I searched and eventually came across an open-source "Catch the demon" game[1]. I studied it and some other Javascript code, and modified the game to take mouse input instead of keyboard[2]. You might be able to make better modifications, or even a better game!

[1]www.lostdecadegames.com/how-to-make-a-simple-html5-canvas-game/

[2]http://gilgamech.neocities.org/demon.html
> I don't think history bears that out. Society is a soft ductile metal. If you bend it, it'll stay bent. You have to hammer it back into straightness. Talking (and browbeating and prosecuting when necessary) is how you do that.

Society is constantly in flux: it's not like a metal in any way. Rather, it's like a fluid (or a particulate flow, such as a sand pile).

If you change things about the underlying flow dynamics -- viscosity, particle size, pressure, channels, etc -- you get significant effects on the structure of the society, or in analogy, the dynamics of the flow.

You're mistaking the foam for the wave, and the tsunami as being a crashing wave. Really tunamis are just little disturbances over a wide area, and they're best addressed at that stage, not when they're a crashing wave.

However, if you adjust something about the mechanics, it will settle in to a new flow, and remove the crufty parts on top naturally as those pieces of the flow dissipate.
Considered harmful considered harmful.
Everything considered harmful.
Harmful considered RESTful.
Weird, I haven't seen that. I'm referring to vertical scrolling, and what I'm seeing is typical tearing like you'd see when you're having vsync issues in video games. When movement stops, everything looks fine again, there's no lasting corruption.
Now this is one company I don't understand. From everything I read, it sounds like a technology consulting company (which is going to have huge scaling issues). Yet it raises money like a software startup. What's going on?
"A bed net is more effective than this vaccine, but nonetheless it is a very significant scientific achievement. I see it as a building block towards much more effective malaria vaccines in years to come."
And what is even more worrying is that the examples of abuse of surveillance laws have been frequent.

President Mitterrand was spying on anyone who could expose his lies (bigamy, fake medical certificates). President Hollande was spying on the discussion between former President Sarkozy and his attorney.

Even in the US, president Obama was using his own surveillance powers to expose the sources of political journalists.

It doesn't take a lot of imagination to consider how badly these laws can be abused.
It may be that the plane needed to be in Antofagasta because the return flight was full(er). So a partial ferry flight.

I had a flight like that in the late 90's to Minneapolis. The flight crew wouldn't let the few of us sit in the 1st class section. :(
The GDR was socialist and arguably a tyranny.

Edit: As was The Third Reich.
It's The Verge's article that gets 15%, OP gets 63% (faster than The Verge, obviously).
I have been using NoScript for years and I selectively whitelist enough domains until the site loads properly. Typically the actual domain, perhaps a web server & CDN. The raft of ancillary domains I just leave blocked.

Working at a major e-commerce company, I get I why they're there. Like many others, I've found the web much more... responsive... without the huge page loads, and I don't like the idea of how far my data travels around and is shared, corss-referenced, etc.

Great post.
New record: electric race car 0-100 km/h in 1.785 seconds
The victim mentality is the basis of all of the problems in modern -isms. People who (perhaps rightly) feel maligned by the world congregate, become an echo chamber, and then build in intensity. In effect, their altered perception of reality becomes their coping mechanism for something painful or traumatic that may have happened in their lives. Throw in a few drama addicts or discordians, and you have a recipe for zero discussion, and zero progress.

Is there sexism in tech? Yes. Is it condoned by the majority? No. Is it generally called out when it happens? Yes.

These people don't need to be derided, ignored, or educated. It wont work. They need healing.
I don't think (1) really applies. It sounds like the vaccine is very cheap ($20) and you simply don't take the boosters if you're not returning. At that price, the significant side-effects of most antimalarials are more important considerations.
It's interesting to me that you only point out males that do that as if it's a gender specific quality. Where do you live that you haven't noticed women's infatuation with social pecking order?
Just in 2012 alone Google stored 76 PB of content. With higher quality feeds and multiple sites you can quickly start getting beyond the limit.
Just to confirm, that's exactly what it is. From what I can tell around here, it's mostly for places that already have a larger unionized food service organization. Two examples that come to mind are the local university and a local hospital. These "Starbucks" use all of the branding and coffee, but are staffed by the organization that hosts the store.

Agreeing with you, I'm pretty sure there's no way for an individual to open their own Starbucks store; the licensed stores pretty much have to exist within a larger organization where it would be impossible to open a store independently (in the local cases, that'd be due to the food service unions).

In Canada at least, there's also instances where Starbucks has worked out some kind of cross-renting deal. Chapters/Indigo Books is a prime example. Every Indigo I've gone into has had a Starbucks, but those are staffed by Starbucks employees and not Indigo employees.
I'd argue the Irish have "unbent themselves". What prejudice or discrimination do the Irish face in contemporary America?

(My background: Grew up in the New England then moved to Austin. I look Mediterranean but my last name is Farrell and I play the bodhran...mediocrely)

I'm highly skeptical of the idea that this "unbending" is anything but a loud, activist process.
Predictive Models for Fault Detection in Semiconductor Manufacturing [pdf]
Indeed, i see the other posts now. Must have taken off while i was writing my reply! :/

I have been to the doctor, he wasn't able to see mine either. I think i might pay another visit.

By static, i mean their position relative in the eye, they do follow my tracking. Otherwise, they roam around mostly free, and blinking a couple of times pushes them outwards and out of my way.
That Oracle wants to prevent Java from being used on certain platforms after how heavily Java was marketed as the "runs on everything forever!" language is absurd to me.
I love coffee, particularly darker roasts. I tend to drink my coffee black, I usually buy better-quality coffee (pretty much all big-brand store-bought coffee, e.g. Folger's, is bland and weak).

That said, I hate Starbucks coffee. I'm sure their fancy, sugary drinks are better (and the reason people prefer them to another coffee place) but as far as just black coffee goes, Starbucks is terrible.

Dunkin Donuts is better (particularly the dark roast) and I also enjoy the new McDonald's coffee (although it seems to depend on location, some McDonald's seem to be better than others).
Thanks for the shoutout, David
QOR: First CMS Written in Go
It's not like Amazon is issuing a lot of new stock, so they aren't making any money if the stock changes hands.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/shares_outstanding
I don't suppose you could elaborate on what you mean by atoms vs arrays here? I've not heard anyone say "atom" outside of a LISP context.

A fairly random example of OO "business logic": https://git.eclipse.org/c/b3/b3.git/tree/org.eclipse.b3.aggr...

(I went clicking through Eclipse because I knew I could count on it to have lots and lots of this kind of abstraction-heavy bland Java. I'm not even saying this particular bit of code is slow, it's just that there's a lot of OO code that looks vaguely like this.)
How much of this is cash-out of previous investors & employees? AFAIR Palantir employees have compensation packages ridiculously overweighted to illiquid and hard-to-value stock.
Everybody now writes a "considered harmful" article. I think it's the coder-hipsterish thing to do now.

If you don't like it, don't use it.
Men are rapists and sexual offenders by default.

Men are violent.

If a man finds a woman physically attractive then he is objectifying her.

Men should not be paid according to the merits of their work and ability.

Men should not have any reproductive rights.

Men should continue paying for a woman's lifestyle after a divorce.

Men should recognize their "privilege" and be constantly reminded of it, even though being told you should be ashamed of your gender is at the very heart of sexism.

Men should not be allowed into women's "safe spaces", implying they are dangerous and intimidating by default. Similarly, men should not be allowed to have their own "safe spaces", because that's sexist and exclusionary.

Men cannot have body issues resulting from over-exaggerated muscle-bound heroes in cartoons and movies (He-Man and the like) because they represent a "male power fantasy". But Barbie is responsible for decades of female self-image issues.

Men cannot discuss their issues in a public forum without feminist protestors shutting down discussions.

If a female character chooses to dress provocatively, it is because a man chose to objectify her, not because a woman can take charge of their own sexuality.

If a man is harassed online, it's unfortunate (sometimes). If a woman is harassed online, it's representative of a disturbing trend. Similarly, men cannot understand the plight of a woman's harassment, even if said man also receives daily death threats and has had a gun fired through their living room window.

Men should receive much harsher punishments than women for committing the same crimes.
The description of the book I'm reading doesn't specify, but from what I understand, Borkenau spent a few months there in '36 and in '37, so he could have written about both.

The book just made it to the top of my to read pile. :)
Switching a static blog to OpenBSD's new httpd server
> I think "other careers don't require knowledge and ability like mine does" is the perfect example of illusory superiority.

Actually that's plenty fine. Just do a quick thought experiment: a career like garbageman or janitor. Some careers require more knowledge work than others. There's nothing wrong with that.

When did this attitude of "everything's equal all the time and nothing's different" become so pervasive and accepted?
Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4M Vehicles to Defend Against Hacks
> I wouldn't say that musl is particularly aimed at embedded stuff, simply that its small enough to fit most times.

Maybe it's not particularly aimed at embedded stuff, but it sure does fit well. I've used it in 3 embedded projects recently, with great results.

The only issue I've run into when trying to use musl is there are a lot of softwares out there that expect glibc, and refuse to run without (even though it probably would work). The Oracle JDK/JRE for ARM is an example, you must compile the OpenJDK from scratch to get it to use musl.

Otherwise, it's a fantastic libc. It's fast to compile, it's tiny in size, and is feature-complete enough for most of my purposes.
A nice article, the key ideas can be scooped by reading headlines.

REST has its limitations, but it has one nice advantage: it uses a very well-understood, totally ubiquitous, firewall-piercing protocol. I suppose it's still a huge win for any public-facing, moderate-load service. One can use compact (non-JSON) data representation and even compress headers to save bandwidth.
Suggesting Technical Improvements
Way back in like 2010 there was a clause added briefly to the iOS developer guidelines saying things had to be in Objective-C. There was an outcry and it disappeared not long afterward. Unfortunately, the idea that other languages can't be used persists. Shows how much damage a dumb political mistake can have, even if it's quickly walked back.
This was a standard argument in economics: any business or culture that systematically discriminates against women (or other races, or other "types") is going to be at a huge disadvantage in identifying talent. And if you believe talent is everywhere, it's hard to argue with.
Is it wrong to object to Shanley for the same reason I object to Tourvalds?
You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s College Chances
That's interesting and strange. Thank you.
Those oppressed groups mostly came "unbent" because they stopped putting up with their oppressors and started killing them.

Are you even at all aware of the history of any of the examples you just cited?
Half-Life running on Android Wear
You should checkout Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Additionally, why would people use < and > to browse posts? I don't want to see every post. I want to see a list of posts, then click on the things I want to see
Well, that's the way the law works, perhaps, but is that the way it is generally implemented? You occasionally hear about Kafka-esque takedown request disputes with big services like YouTube and I guess even if they're indemnified there's no obligation to put your stuff back up.
We need to buckle the trend and write more 'considered beneficial' posts!

Partially this is already happening with <whatever>-awesome curated Github repos.
did you miss?

> PS: Obligatory appendix: "Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful. [1]

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
Yeah, I don't get it either.

> CEO Alex Karp announced in 2013 that the company would not be pursuing an IPO, as going public would make “running a company like ours very difficult.”

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

11 years old, 1500 employees, never planning to go public. At some point you have to stop calling it a "startup".
What does clashing column mean?
Show HN: Dimple – A Hacker News Reader for Android
I updated my hacker news client and released the new version as a beta. Now it display the news items in "Google Now story card" style (There are thumbnails for articles too). Few new features like automatically loading items while scrolling, News article sharing are also implemented in this version.

Screenshot : http://i.imgur.com/aaVmqJz.png

G+ Community Page : https://plus.google.com/communities/118167818139031156233

Blog post : https://kasungamlath.com/2015/07/24/Dimple-Hacker-News-Reader/

Appreciate if you can give it a try. Any feedback is appreciated, thank you!
In my experience, this is horseshit.

You should make your deck as simple as possible but no simpler. Really, you want it customized to whom you're pitching. If your audience wants to know a lot more about your financials, then one slide probably isn't enough. If he wants you to go deep about your solution, then one slide isn't enough.

If it's just you and your audience knows your background well, then you don't really need to waste time on a slide about yourself. It just comes off as self-preening. If it's an ambitious project with a lot of moving parts, then you will need multiple slides to get through your team.

Presenting to an audience is about knowing and serving your audience. A lot of people don't want to waste time on a deck, because all it really represents is time you blew on a deck.

You can clearly see how much time Guy blew on his 10 slides presentation from how gorgeously it's laid out- a lot. When you see that sort of thing, it means a lot of copy editing happened to get the text just the right length. In other words, the tail was wagging the dog.

What's noticeably missing is any meat. If 10 slides are what you need, show me actual correlation between length of deck and closed funding and how that centers around 10 slides, and isolate other factors to demonstrate causation. You won't find that in his pitch, because there is no correlation. It's mostly about who you are and/or a demonstration of progress.

I've closed more money with a demonstration of the product's progress than the right deck. It's more important to execute (you can stop here if you like) and then for extra credit, show your pitch to multiple potential backers at the same time in order to improve odds you'll have multiple options that can hurry each other along.
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Of course JSON has one (literally, one) tremendous advantage - it's human readable.
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I was surprised he didn't mention ease of use inside JavaScript.
They named their framework ASP.Net MVC, as it is an MVC framework for ASP.Net, The naming isn't that problematic.

Lots of people in the close-minded cult of Microsoft (which does not include all Microsoft devs.) both shorten the name to "MVC" (which isn't necessarily bad in certain contexts) and have little-to-no understanding of what MVC is other than ASP.Net MVC, so both themselves confuse the pattern with the Microsoft product and promote others doing the same thing.

Roughly the same thing happens with Microsoft SQL Server (which becomes just "SQL").
My 16 word rebuttal is: Shitty APIs are shitty, but shitty RESTful APIs are better than shitty SOAP/CORBA/etc apis.
Just bought one of the cheapest.