skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising today is fundamentally about denying us the chance to listen to and reject messages. When someone's pushing a product on the rational part of our brains, it looks like Amazon's recommended list - features and a price, presented in the faith that we really do want the product.

Radio, TV, and web advertising, by contrast, all share the assumption that most people won't actually benefit from what's being presented (at least, won't benefit more than they would from some equivalent good). As such, the task is to ensure that we're preferentially aware of one brand or product, regardless of its merits.

Your last point is the scary one. Most people have no training of any sort in defending against cognitive failures. Most people's "can't trick me" tools amount to checking unit prices and serving sizes - hardly a strong defense against the combined wisdom of advertisers.

There's a real argument that modern advertising is basically an information hazard. Just hearing a product name a dozen times biases us regardless of our conscious efforts.
The departure of most values employees is not surprising. In their place I'd do the same. I want no part of working in a place where salary is based 100% on politics and 0% on merit.

curious all the quitters said the same thing (if you read the article)
But this "submarine" is fully surfaced, they mention the book in the first paragraph, give you the full title and an Amazon link to it in the 3rd, and shortly follow with a big picture of the cover.

Sure, it's a type of advertisement, but it has a lot of stand alone value, and surely this is a legitimate way to try to convince you to buy the book.
This was the premise of a South Park episode last year.

It's amazing that Trey & Matt are so dead on when it comes to current events and culture critique that they sometimes even parody the future.
I don't think Red Hat was the driving force behind systemd's container and VM integration.

systemd-nspawn was created to provide rapid testing of systemd, and it was (and, for now, still is) marked as an experimental utility that isn't for production purposes.

If you look at many of the early blog posts mentioning systemd and containers/VMs, you'll actually see my work and my company (Pantheon) mentioned more than Red Hat. In more recent posts, you'll see lots of CoreOS influence. Project Atomic isn't working with systemd in any direct, significant way; you won't see much coordination other than in some shared philosophy about a stateless base OS, and even that is more attributable to CoreOS's influence than Red Hat's.

I think the influence of Red Hat on systemd is overstated. Of the two perspectives: (1) Red Hat driving everything and (2) Lennart answering mostly to himself, the latter is way more accurate, for better or worse (depending on your opinion of him).
The difference seems to be that a US grand jury can indict on a prosecutors motion (and even, IIRC, in certain cases independently), but no one is obligated to prosecute based on an indictment once it is issued (obviously, one sought by a prosecutor will probably usually be followed up on by that prosecutor.)

But, from the description in the article, when a citizens' panel finds that charges should be issued after a prosecutor has decided not to prosecute, the case is reopened by prosecutors. Assuming this isn't just a reconsideration where the prosecutor can again decide not to actually prosecute the charges, this is a fairly substantial difference.
Very cool.

After the stigma of the antisocial impact of game have followed them for decades, I'm glad to see some potential prosocial* impact of games.

*: I hadn't even heard or read that word before now. Excellent concept.
Differential Computation Analysis: Hiding Your White-Box Designs Is Not Enough [pdf]
That philosopky is what leads to the exploited poor being unaware of how much wealth the empowered are hoarding.
Why I'm upset
OUC‬ inked a deal for solar energy that cost LESS than coal and nat-gas plants
Coastal cities aren't expensive because of bad housing policy (though they certainly have that). They're expensive because lots of highly economically productive people and companies are located in them.
Even if people are paid the same, when times are tough the true value of each employee will be obvious. It's also not unusually to "signal" value through other types of compensation.
He posted that he was official diagnosed by a doctor.
It is actually pretty good for mobile and startup time isn't an issue. We have variants that run on iOS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/replete/id1013465639?mt=8 and Android is in the works http://tahmid.me/posts/2015-07-15-bootstrapped-cljs-repl-for...
If history is any guide, they'd mostly be used to indict minorities for crimes when prosecutors wouldn't go forward with the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching#United_States
Disclaimer: I'm a civilian as regards coding but I work as a teacher and I mentor new teachers...

The pedagogic design is really good as well, see the Coaching Guide and Organiser's Manual. This is quality stuff.
Thanks. It seems that same stuff can have so many different headlines that it's hard to find if something has already been discussed.
We could operate the economy by lottery.
While I think your analysis is poignant, I am befuddled by your use of the colloquialism "peeps."

I note that the FXI statistic isn't that surprising -- the hardest-hit Chinese stocks were small- and mid-cap. FXI tracks large-caps, which were not quite as affected.
Still on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9981745

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4889266 (many comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617708 (one comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971831 (no comments)
Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched
edit: I've been corrected, but will leave up for the argument's sake

I am not trying to attack you, more so just commenting on this type of phrasing.

Wouldn't it be more effective to simple say, "Going through their website, it seems like one of the best Django tutorials I've seen" -without the gender comment at all?

Reading that comment, it made me think that normally you consider gender when you consider the quality of a tutorial, but in this specific incidence, it doesn't even matter.

Just something minor to think about.
The downside is that the company innovation dies way down because you've killed the meritocracy. Good people will either slack or leave.
It's always easier to pitch it as "Those ABCs are mean to us DEFs". It comes with a neat moral clarity that is lost when you have to consider that DEFs treat ABCs similarly in analogous situations.

I was going to use X and Y before I thought about chromosomes.
The problem with this comment is that it doesn't teach us anything. If the article is wrong, it would be valuable to explain how it is wrong in a way that readers here can understand. But a sarcastic dismissal that leaves out the substance merely adds negativity.
Also, check out http://clojurescript.net which is running bootstrapped ClojureScript. It starts up instantly on an iPhone.
I'll try to explain.

People call it socialism because a starting salary of 70k is likely to be uneconomic. Ie the cost of the employee is set above their value to the company. This is done at the expense of other stakeholders (ie management and investors, possibly other employees who would be paid less).

That's kinda the basic premise of socialism - whereby an employee's salary is dissociated from the economic benefit they bring.

Ie the backlash is because he chose to set everybody's salaries fairly high, regardless of seniority, etc.
No love for C#, well one could argue that once .net 5 is done, it would be possible to use C#
Japan"bought" the islands from private owners (funny right?).

I do not feel that there will ever be any real friendship between these two countries. I would compare it to polish russian relationship.

Koreans have every right to feel strong about it. Every damn right. But this is a discussion for another evening.

And replying to your comments above i was talking about the situation in asia in general. You should also know that Korea donated a war ship to Philippines. Do you think this gesture did not have anything to do with the situation in the area ?
I very much doubt so.
This has nothing to do with what anyone deserves or doesn't deserve. If you want the poor to live in desirable places, the best way to do that is to give them the money to do so.

Trying to control prices directly has a track record of backfiring horribly, for reasons which are well understood by economists and uncontroversial.
I don't see why the CEO feels the need to fix problems with capitalism instead of just doing what's best for the company.
One scenario this article doesn't address is a situation where an employee who previously earned a lot less comes to rely on the higher salary and adjusts his/her expenses accordingly, but then for whatever reason ends up having to look for another job, which is unlikely to pay nearly as much.

I'm guessing that while the situation would be extremely unfortunate, the overall higher income should still help cushion the blow, provided the money was not completely spent, and leave that person better off.
Its cool our energy problems are being solved in two directions at once. We are (slowly) making better energy storage and generation devices. At the same time many of our energy needs go down by the rapid decrease in energy needed to power the electronics. It would be cool to see a graph of the watts/lumen efficiency of light bulbs over the last 50 years and of the joules/operation of CPUs.
They would need a slightly larger raise to offset taxes, but you're a percentage match is probably too much.
I have been looking at functional languages for frontend. But, I guess I am one of those people who just can't unsee the parentheses in lisp languages .

How does clojurescript compare to elm/purescript ?
In the industry today, we pigeon-hole as liking all things Star Wars and Star Trekkie. This is expanding the circle.
There's an entire economic theory that progress only happens when the older generation dies off. A bit grim, but I can believe it. There's a subdivision near my house that allows only 55+, and anytime anyone wants to do anything it's a massive shitshow. They stalled a much needed bond for a local highschool for two years (during which said highschool got really, really overcrowded) and actually ran insane smear campaigns against the school board. Not fun.
> the backlash from people calling this "unbridled Socialism."

It depends on the CEO's reasoning for paying the employees more. If he paid them more for economic reasons, reducing turnover, or incentive pay for increased performance, or a retention bonus or something like that then it's capitalism. If he paid them more because he's moralising about society, or out of pity, or fear of some kind of social backlash, then I would say it's socialism that motivated it.

Okay after reading the article, I would agree with Rush's take on calling it socialism.
Assuming that you want to allow poor people to live in an area that they couldn't otherwise afford, why are price controls used instead of directly subsidizing housing costs for those with lower income.

It seems like the direct subsidy would have a less distorting effect on the market.
Well, the subject in question is already explicitly gendered, so making a remark like that isn't out of place.
Sorry, but mildly put, your definition of opt-in seems to be an unrealistic one. If you think Mozilla should ask whether people want to have a change or not for every single change, then that's your prerogative, it has nothing to do with practical software development though.
What is the difference between horrible and not horrible in this case? NYC is not in flames.
Ted Turner (2004) – “My Beef with Big Media”
Not if you take into account taxes.
“I Couldn’t Bear to Lose Another Woman”: Three Stories of Quiet Courage
I remember this. Re-reading the Dennis Ritchie-penned "anti-foreword" is awesome. Dennis was such a giant.
The article has "Girls" in the title. GP didn't drag gender into the conversation.
I got a strong Final Fantasy Tactics vibe from your demo. I think your engine would be fantastic for 8-bit-style games set in a new, malleable 3D world.
The most useful thing about this site was that it reminded me I needed to uninstall Silverlight (dodged a bullet there!)

Edit: that came out wrong... I'm sure the site serves a legitimate purpose in education about programming, which is certainly useful. I guess I meant "the most useful thing for me".
Yoga is awesome. Sounds like a fun place. Hope this becomes some sort of trend at events like these :)
Some people care about things other than what's immediately in front of their faces on a day-to-day basis
https://github.com/davecheney/golang-crosscompile
I recall a friend doing something similar with mobs for Quake 1. The game used its own dialect of C, iirc. And it was possible to decompile the relevant files. So after some time he started modifying mods.

That Quake 2 and later required Visual-C++ and such kinda took the spark out of the creative mods, as the entry price became too high.

For instance Quake 1 had a "flight sim" of sorts that was basically done by one guy using Quake-C and some simple, freeware, modeling tools.

There was an attempt at making a successor for it in Quake 2, but even with a larger team etc it basically ran out of steam thanks to the complexities involved etc.
When was the last time you went to the Bronx? 1977?

The Bronx is no Williamsburg, but it's changing. Your snark is well-taken, but at least pick a city that's actually doing shitty... like Camden, NJ, or a decaying Rust Belt city.
It reminds me of the view that poor people should be happy because they are still living a very high standard of wealth compared to some people in other countries. People have already created a list of problems with using an absolute standard; I'm sure many of them will carry over.

Also, it does impact you directly. As those around you get paid more, there is more disposable income which impacts pricing. Now, a hundred employees in a large city has zero actual impact, but the psychological resistance is already there because it will have an actual impact at larger scale (also could impact if there is a company store/cafeteria or such, but I don't think that applies here).

Then there is the notion of unequal raises. If someone else gets a 200% raise because the company has enough money, you are left wondering why you didn't get one. Did you not do good enough? Even if you already had a raise, if it was for some other reason, you are left wondering why you don't get one. Once again, even with a rational reason (because you were already making above the new minimum), the emotional damage is still there. Such a raise doesn't feel fair, regardless if it is or isn't.

Finally, considering how many times people are denied wages 'because the money isn't in the budget for it' (even if that is just used as an excuse), there is a chance one who deserves a raise can be denied it because the budgeted money for raises was already spent on other raises.
The arguments presented by the employees quoted in the article make it seem that it is exactly about someone else earning more money taking your money, not actual money but potential money. One of the high profile employees that left talked to Mr. Price about the fairness of newer employees with less responsibilities getting a dramatic pay raise while she and her co-workers, who have been at the company longer and have more responsibilities, did not receive a similarly substantial raise. It doesn't say exactly what Mr. Price said to her, but from her reaction ("He treated me as if I was being selfish and only thinking about myself") I would guess she got something close to "how does someone else earning more money hurt you?"
Well liberals often favor regulations and licenses for everything, and these prevent or delay new housing from being constructed.
I've always dreamed of a movie featuring Samuel L. Jackson as Tom Bombadil.
Oh the injustice! Rent stabilization is only applicable to units costing $2500 or less (regardless of size), in buildings built between February 1, 1947 and January 1, 1974. http://www.nycrgb.org/html/resources/faq/rentstab.html#when
Nitpick, I know, but: it's not powered by gravity it's powered by human muscles, so in the end - by food.
> In Go 1.5, the order in which goroutines are scheduled has been changed. The properties of the scheduler were never defined by the language, but programs that depended on the scheduling order may be broken by this change.

Are there any more details about the change to goroutine scheduling? Is this more than the just change to the GOMAXPROCS' default value?
Doesn't Nim go a bit too far in that direction, though? Mutable strings seems a bit dangerous to me – won't you have to copy them all the time to make sure they don't get modified somewhere else?
It sounds like you are saying it is possible to escape cognitive bias, but that might just be my cognitive bias getting in the way. :)
None of this recent work facilitates compiling ClojureScript into CommonJS modules for use with Node.

But, the opposite is in flight: ClojureScript now has support for depending on libraries that are packaged using the CommonJS system.
Speaking of world space, have you run into any precision errors in world space? The further you get away from the origin, your floating point numbers lose precision, so I've understood that doing world space transformations and comparisons can lead to artifacts. Have you had to compensate for this anywhere yet?
Better to give everyone the same % raise, out of your pocket, then create a reason for jealousy and other silliness within the company. It seems irrational for someone to care about what other people make. As long as you're OK in absolute terms, what does it matter? But I've seen people get really pissed and quit over the perceived slight of a coworker getting a nominal bonus that was not "deserved".
I'm also not so sure if it's productive in the long term to portray it as a fight at all, but short-term it probably helps to give these initiatives a little bit of personality (people like to partake in things that feel competitive). Watching the presentation, however, 'escalating conflict' does not seem to be a core message here.

It would certainly feel more natural if the squirrels and badgers were equally well represented. When we reach that point squirrel identity will become just as diluted as badger identity. As long as you're a minority, you can stick together by defining it as a common trait, but that sort of thing will dissolve very quickly in larger numbers. Being a squirrel (or being a badger) is not an identity, but it may seem that way as long as you're the only squirrel in a badger forest.

This is all a bit long-winded way of saying "I think it will be alright in the end".
This is a massive loophole that has been exploited for decades.

Here's how it plays out, from board rooms to halls of Congress: I breach my loyalty so that you make $1million profit. Your spouse buys my child a $50K car as a birthday present.

In the cloudy eyes of the law, I received no benefit from giving you the tip.
You say that as if efficient markets is at odds with poor people. When you look at an economic problem such as this, you almost always find that the culprit is some market intervention. In this case, the problem of high rents in relation to income usually results from building restrictions.

No, high rents do not result from a group of greedy, fat rich guys, who wear monocles and enjoy preying upon the poor.
You are welcome to do.

Libav has a code of conduct and it is enforced so maybe you'd have much an harder time finding such gems.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/17927...

(Keep in mind at least one of the Libav supported got questioned on his dayjob regarding "thievery" because of those lovely examples and the legends the fans kept propagating)
Android security problems are worse than Flash
I agree completely. But as someone very interested in game dev, I am also terrified by the idea if spending 3-4 years on just the tech. I wish there was a good middle ground.
Dictionary definitions of words are usually not very close to the use of these words in political contexts.

Regardless of dictionary definitions, if we agree that building restrictions are a bad policy, it is a valid and IMO interesting empirical question whether most people supporting it self-identify as liberal, conservative or something else. (I honestly don't think I could guess the answer.)
yeah that's fair actually. I guess it would only matter if he introduced it to the conversation. Well put.
Something I hadn't seen discussed with much clarity is what happened to the employees who were already making 70k+? If I was working there making that much, would I see a similar percent increase? If not, then I'd be pretty angry about the situation and would probably leave as well.

I think part of it is that what you get paid is mostly based on your experience and skill set, as well as what you bring to the company. Let's compare a customer service rep and a web developer. They're both important parts of the company, but one has a highly specialized skill set that takes a while to develop, while the other person answers the phones. The developer has taken the time to invest in themselves professionally so that they could be a higher earner. The customer service rep needs about a week of training. To put them on the same pay grade seems unfair and illogical.
Do you want to go to those workshops? Why?
Absolutely some of the negative letters are worse human beings than that Minnesota dentist.
Well, Red Hat were quick to adopt CoreOS' appc, before a lot of companies ultimately united under the Open Container Project banner.

As for:

and it was (and, for now, still is) marked as an experimental utility that isn't for production purposes.

rkt used nspawn for a while, and it's still systemd-based.

The fact that Lennart was giving out presentations about nspawn specifically makes me believe it's very much intended to be used in production, as a "chroot on steroids".
Yayyy!

Now to elect people who actually use the Internet, or at least know what it is...
Well well, thats nifty. I recall playing with something similar on a old school computer using basics.

BTW, a team at Intel put Python into GRUB recently. And IMO they produced something that strongly reminded me of firing up something akin to the C64 and be greeted with a basic prompt.

Also, i swear i recently read about someone making a python enabled shell. Meaning that you could mix shell commands and python code on the same input. Had some small issues where python syntax overlapped with command switches or something.
So what you are really saying is the problem is people knowing other people's salaries? Because unless I'm the exception, the norm is not knowing what people are getting paid.

So, what you are really asking is: If you were getting paid $115k/year to do a job where $115k/year was the normal competitive salary in your area, would you feel that it was somewhat unfair?

I ask this because I wonder what would have happened if he'd not said anything.
How Computer Science Has Failed Girls, and How We Can Fix It
You have to use it for some time, and then the parenthesis will just disappear.
Steal? I thought the whole idea of open-source was to allow people to remix and reuse?

Why is their use of Laravel's code not applauded instead of being derided?
downvoted hard for assuming that most of the energy consumption by kerosene goes to visible light, LOL, come on man
Well, if you Google 'women only training' from google.co.uk you get a fair selection of workshops, many provided by registered charities so I imagine the legal aspects are well sorted out.

Nothing stopping us using the materials according to the licence [1] to organise open events.

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Cleaned Up Video Footage of Diver Finding Gold Coins Worth $1M