jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a team that would be dysfunctional at doing weekly updates as much as it is now at doing daily stand-ups, except that you get bothered by it five times more often not. Don't blame Agile/daily stand-ups...
Standup is a grind .. I think of ways to get out of it, like an extended toilet break
Thanks.

I have downloaded the github app to my phone. I likely wouldn't have wondered if there was an app if you hadn't mentioned other options.

One of my issues is I don't use stuff like Linux, so I really don't use any FOSS repositories. Maybe someday, but not today.
It's third party code I worry about, where it hasn't been written to expect a root directory. I can chroot on *NIX, I suppose.

Perhaps I should go and have a look at how code using boost normally deals with dependency injection for testing. Maybe I'm missing something.
This is load of FUD and you know it. First, your claims are completely from your experience, like email patch management. Only a few projects use that, and most just tell you to put it in a Trac or similar.

Second, all the things about "not being to see X" are configurable. But, then again I can't expect you to actually research a system before you go talking about it, 'cause that'd interfere with your FUD.

Third, rebasing is both a load of crap, and also not as necessary in fossil by design. It has a much more strick auto-commit mode that gets rid of plenty of problems with needing to rebase. In fact, I wish all the SCMs did this optionally.

Finally, it has a bug tracker. Come talk to me when Trac is DAG based.

So, you've demonstrated you know jack squat about fossil, then you come on here and talk like you are some authority on it and "other projects", then say "I would strongly encourage caution." like the world will end.

My only question is: How long did you work at microsoft? :-)
>When you say 'textbook definition' you are implying canonical usage, not there exists a textbook that I use that defines this.

I know. It seemed like the textbook definition because all the textbooks (and the economics related writing) I had read, as far as I could recollect, used it that way.

>European approaches to economic education differ quite a bit from American ones.

I don't doubt it. In Norway the education/social science establishment (who are pretty socialist) make sure you notice everything that may discredit arguments for laissez faire. Allegedly unrealistic assumptions about rationality and information are gleefully (and sometimes unfairly) ridiculed.

As for your other points it now seems like there is little factual disagreement. Discussing different definitions and interpretations of earlier comments further is probably a waste of our time.
Actually, this is a final role call.

The blog post has been up since the 1st of June, and was previously posted to HN 2 weeks ago at : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394658.
Yes, it is. Just shoot an e-mail to mcf@uvaresearch.com.
Partly because the WaPo article is behind a paywall. But mostly because journalists' glosses of scientific articles tend to be mediocre at best, and usually far worse. These days especially, it's important to go to the source.
The problem with using height is that there is already evidence that taller people are more successful due to hidden biases.

So perhaps the teacher measures were still valid because all the tall people were more successful because of other biases in the system?

I'm mostly just being cheeky here. To be clear, I still think it's nearly impossible to measure how good a teacher is based on student performance, since the teacher is only one part of the equation, the parents (and the student's home life) being a much bigger part of the equation. The teacher can only do so much if the child comes home to parents that don't feed them and tell them they are worthless.
Objective truth seekers aren't alienated by hyperbolic comments from individuals. If they were then by definition they wouldn't be objective truth seekers.
I would love to see Crayola or RoseArt using this for their quarterly reports.
It's worth it to try KDE Plasma rather than GNOME. It's lighter and faster than GNOME by a fair margin, and it's far more customizable. GNOME is great for your OS X convert who isn't used to anything being customizable, but KDE is an utter delight for everyone else.
Is that for Gluon? Sorry for not looking it up myself, but it's probably worth pointing out that at least Swing has (kindof) Oracle and a major Java desktop app behind, whereas JFX hasn't seen any love at all. I played around with JFX a couple years ago but there were serious problems with its WebKit integration. Coming to think about it, I'm wondering if there are any plans to integrate JFX and WebKit on GraalVM as a serious Electron contender.
Yes, wheat into flour for naan. In this video[0] linked by twic you can see them in operation

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv3Pn2DFkDw
Most of the C code is vendored third party libraries, there are only 2000-3000 lines of C that are actually part of the project.
ejabberd can host ~2k active connections on $2/month server.
Similar anecdote.

I googled some info about a rival college football team. At some point Google decided I was a fan of that team an my news feeds was flooded with news about that team... and not the team I actually follow.

No amount of user input saying 'don't show me this' would make it go away for more than a month or two, and eventually I just stopped looking at google news and turned off the google news feed entirely in android...

Google news, whatever it does has entirely disconnected itself from most anything relevant to what I want, to the point that it is a negative experience using it compared to some random news site.
Are you facilitating a Bad Guy payment if you use a bank that the Bad Guy also uses?
and sometimes you get free tuition!!
Kindergartens are quite pricey all over the world, so that's 3-4 years of approximately double rent / mortgage
The productivity hit produced by having to deal with the borrow checker and the design constraints it imposes into application architecture.

I won't take a GUI framework without a graphical designer, or a component ecosystem from companies selling GUI widgets in 21st century.

Distributed computing, again when thinking about distributed calls a la Akka, Orleans, SQL distributed transactions, I rather have the productivity of a GC.

Web development with Rust is nowhere close to the stack provided by JEE, Spring, ASP.NET, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, LifeRay, Umbraco, enterprise RDMS connectors, ...

Rust best place is for kernels, drivers and absolute no GC deployment scenarios.
I wonder if any of the penguins around today have any idea what that piece of iron is.

If they have any oral history or anything of the sort...
Many of the new features will help with readability.

Indeed, and this has been the argument for many of the new developments right back to C++11. There is something of a devil-you-know argument here as well, though.

SFINAE is a surprisingly useful consequence of the way overload resolution is specified, but as you say, it's been used a lot. Many C++ programmers have encountered it over the years. Much has been written about it to explain it for those encountering it for the first time.

Realistically, C++ programmers will still have to understand the resolution rules even after C++20 becomes widely adopted. Those rules are also relevant for other reasons, and even in the specific case of SFINAE, the entire ecosystem isn't going to rewrite all its code to use newer alternatives overnight.

So now, any new C++ programmer who wants to analyse a third party library to trace the source of a bug is going to need to recognise multiple techniques to achieve that kind of behaviour and not just the strange but at least ubiquitous way we had before.
What country are you in? Eggs are handled differently in the EU and US meaning safe handling at home is different.

Eggs last maybe 5 weeks after sell by date. It's great that you haven't had any problems, but don't forget that salmonella will be more severe for children or old people. Salmonella can, rarely, kill vulnerable people. "salmonellosis continues to be an important cause of preventable death [...]" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20617938/

CDC estimated in 2005 that there were maybe 1.4m to 4m infections in the US, with about 500 to 600 deaths.

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/nontyphoidal_sa...
It's an unproven proposition, and usually only applied to industry. If my refrigerator is more efficient, I won't buy a second one. A more efficient car might give me an incentive to drive more, but that seems really marginal.
Pentium I at 6, but started programming @ 14 with the same plain-old computer!
I honestly don't know. It depends on how you define "started programming." I remember messing around, typing in BASIC programs with my Bally Arcade console back when I was about 9/10 or so, but my interest in that fizzled out for one reason or another, and I didn't get back into programming until I started writing C code in college when I was about 19. I've been programming continuously since then.
So basically, Google has written the rules so they can call you on it at any time and if they deem they're paying you too much money, they kill your account? Seems to weigh the playing field pretty heavily in their favor - they're getting the benefits of your direction of traffic to their advertisers, while reserving the right to arbitrarily kill your revenue. Given their more-or-less monopoly status on search (80% or more - too lazy to check the stats), this should probably be investigated by the FTC or DOJ.
Have hosted with RimuHosting (years), Slicehost (1 year) and VPS.NET (2 weeks).

Slicehost VPS's by far had the worst real-world performance for me. After a year and multiple Slashdot or Digg front page stories taking down the site. I found that I had to scale to approximately 2x of what I thought I would need in order for the site to stay up.

More specifically, I had to scale to twice what other services were able to keep my site up on. So if I could get by on a 4GB instance on Rimu, AWS or Linode, that meant on Slicehost I needed somewhere between a 6GB and 8GB instance. Multiple times I found for my site to be responsive (Apache + PHP FCGID) I was always buying bigger instances on Slicehost than anywhere else. The disk I/O was one of the biggest problems.

To keep the site stable on Slicehost and support the traffic I ended up spending twice what I budgeted for, for a few months before giving up.

VPS.NET is really cool conceptually (I think it's like Heroku with the 'cells' of power you apply to your server) but I kept getting VPS failures. 3 times in 1 week and support would take increasingly longer and longer to bring the server back up. When you make your living from writing and publishing, have your site just be dead for an entire day is painful.

RimuHosting has been my favorite by far. I eventually went to a dedicated with them, but they are a quiet group of smart new zealanders with an ugly-ass website but excellent hardware and service. I don't have down-time with them and their overages for bandwidth is cheaper than AWS from Colo4Dallas -- $0.10/GB or less. They really should advertise that, BW is a killer for some folks (like me).

All that being said, if you like a nicer website and the real-time scaling functionality that Slicehost or Linode provide, I've heard lots of good things about Linode (and many comments here seem to verify that) so they seem like a safe bet.

Some quick-reference numbers looking at AWS versus RimuHosting are below... I had these handy when I update my comparisons every few months just to see what is out there. Thought someone might find them interesting.

AWS Bandwidth per Year - $0.15/GB

----------------

1,000 * 0.15 * 12 = $1800

AWS RESERVED INSTANCES per Year

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Small

227.50 + (0.03 * 24 * 365) = 490.30 + 1800 = $2290.30

Large (Most Comparable to Dedicated Below)

910 + (0.12 * 24 * 365) = 1961.20 + 1800 = $3761.20

XLarge

1820 + (0.24 * 24 * 365) = 3922.40 + 1800 = $5722.40

RimuHosting Dedicated per Year

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4-core HT-enabled/12GB Dedicated/1TB Bandwidth

306 * 12 = $3672

REFERENCES

1. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

2. http://rimuhosting.com/order/startorder1.jsp?hom=t-ded
Right! Is SMS communications with a business useful if its going into the same workflow as call center phone calls?

People aren't wanting for new communications methods. They want what they've always wanted: quick, useful support from someone empowered to provide that.
One reason for thinking that life on Mars might be similar to life on Earth is if they both had a common origin. This would be made possible by their relatively close proximity. Bacteria could have been transported between planets by traveling on meteorites. See also:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
Presumably such a computer would have to have been created by some extremely complex self-organizing system. I think we would call such a system "life" long before it was complex enough to turn a star into a computer (ignoring the thermodynamic problems with such a proposal).
Actually, Hacker School is vocational and requires an "M" visa. But, Hacker School isn't a Student and Exchange Visitor Program certified school. So they can't sponsor visas. Which would explain exactly why denials would be happening. The purpose of the stay is "study" but the visa type is "tourist." That's the reason for rejections. It isn't the school name that creates the problem, it's the mismatched purpose of trip/visa type.

I'm not sure why you'd be convincing the Immigration Officer of anything, assuming you were at the port of entry with a valid visa. If you were trying to get the visa, then that would be a Consular Officer. There's a lot more that goes into visa issuance than the name "Hacker School." One of the big things would be proof of adequate funds plus a compelling reason to return home. Essentially, you have to convince the consular officer that you don't intend to violate your visa.
Some wood, a hand saw, a hammer, sandpaper and a box of nails.

If you have a Rockler Hardware or the like in your area, visit it for ideas.

I grew up around woodworking because my grandfather was a professional furniture maker. I rediscovered it about 15 years ago by making jewelry boxes from tree branches and cut off bits of exotic woods. It can be anything from a fun, freeform hobby (making boxes), to an exercise in proper engineering (building a pole barn).

I've been slowly building an 8x12 shed as time permits. I really need to get it done by summer so I can move onto erecting a pole building from cut-down trees.
I read that post but I'm lost in the logic reasoning part....Dart is that great but then it's not included in Chrome, what am I missing?
Price is indeed a good point. It does have to drop further to make it hit that angle.
> every thing else revolves around it, the view of the heavens should be the same every night

Well, unless of course the heavens revolve as well. Which is how it was usually pictured in those days, the distance of the stars was surprisingly much larger than even the wildest estimates.
Something like "Aus der Wohnung ausziehen.." is perfectly fine for "moving out".

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0...
Maybe for just a small code segment, a comment is a lot more convenient than going all the way through git for it?

I don't get this; stashing changes, branching, even just copying and pasting something from history in git, are all very fast for me (using git in emacs with egg). Granted, I can comment-dwim with M-;, and I've conditioned myself against "just" commenting out code, but still.
You can use a USB audio dongle though.
Thanks for that. Interesting idea that security leads to empathy. It makes sense.

Three generations from now to majority vegetarian seems a little fast to me. In fact, at all or ever for the majority seems unlikely to me, but I'm not surprised by being surprised anymore.

I suppose we could consider the tobacco industry. Although we (the non-smokers in the US) aren't appalled when we encounter a smoker today, a lot of us are surprised. That only took a couple generations, I think. Maybe three. But changing habits for something you don't need for survival (tobacco) is probably a lot easier than changing habits for something that you do need for survival (food, the ultimate addiction).

I can't say I look forward to majority vegetarian, but I wouldn't mind it, even for myself (in theory :) My fear would be the horrid industrial food practices now observed in the meat industry transferring over in some way to veggies and fruit, as the companies involved "pivot."

By the way, will I be still able to eat insects? I think WRT to emotions, they're basically organic robots, no?
I agree. This bullshit temporal nationalism was also used as an argument for stopping Britain from changing to the European time zone (it makes way more sense). Apparently we can't do that because GMT is British. Ugh.
I'm sure it eliminates some bad behavior too. Just not bad behavior from the very determined.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Nobody ever drives more than 30 miles in one direction on a scooter, so plugging it in overnight would be a lot more convenient than driving to a swap station. Sure, it might only take 6 seconds to swap a battery, but even if the swap station is really close by, driving there every day will get old really fast.
Do you have a link to Guido saying that?
You're going to want to roll your own customer/accounts/auth system to meet your apps needs (lots of frameworks have gems/packages to handle most of this, rails/laravel) . . . login/logout/password reset/dashboard/app specific features.

Handle payments using stripe.com, it can handle subscriptions as well. You can store your customers stripe id and pull up their invoices, next billing date, last 4 of their cc, etc via the stripe api to show in their profile. And setup stripe api hooks to keep track of any failed billings (show a reminder when they log in) and other events that happen on the stripe side of things.

There are all kinds of smart ways to set things up with regard to signups, failed billings, tracking user logins/engagement. And there are always new ideas/best practices evolving.

For transactional emails I recommend mandrill.com.

Good luck in 2015.
Just wait until you go down the blackmail inflation epstein rabbithole.
At 100k euro is about $145k in the US. Depending on your marital situation, 401k (dc pension), mortagage interest deduction you're effective federal tax rate is going to be 15-20%. Add in another 6.2% (most of that only on the first 106k) for SSN/Medicare/Medicaid (db pension and healthcare) and 0-10% for state/local taxes and all in all you should be taking home 65-70% of your income. Yes, we are a very low tax country.
As a dev at msft in Hyderabad, I know that salaries around 100k (gross, not base) are quite possible for senior devs with over a decade of experience. However, we need some perspective here. There are 2.5 million people working in the IT-BPO industry in India. Of those a mere 100k work in product companies (domestic or MNC captives). My rough estimate is that about 1-2k of this 100k are developers making 100k USD. Outside of product companies (2.5 million - 100k), in the IT service companies, about one in every 300-400 guys makes $100k - and that guy is almost always a senior management guy.

Also, while a few make $100k, $50k is common for people with over a decade of good experience - but do remember that there are relatively very few folks (<5-10% of the industry) in India with over a decade of experience.
People have come up with many rationalizations, but really, anything that doesn't have a mostly C/Java-style syntax just pisses off the majority of programmers.

When you look at languages that actually, consistently use infix and mathematical notation (http://nsl.com/k/ray/rayq.k), they seem to give most programmers fits.

Infix also only really works for unary and binary operators, of course.
Two words: PLEASE DON'T.

I just hate when I get redirected to some "mobile version", which lacks some important points I want to see, and there's no easy way to visit "normal" version (like in the proposed example), so I have to change the user-agent or - even worse - use proxies (if some smartass had implemented mobile device detection by checking whenever IP's in range belonging to popuar cell operators).
Many is the time that I’ve gone to Amazon’s site, clicked on a genre and spent 30 mins working through the top 100 list, which remains fairly static, and wondering where do I go from here. It’s all rather frustrating when Amazon trumpets 15,000 books in some genre but there’s means or mechanism to get at them, no way to dive into the middle of them all and just “browse about”.

As a weekend hobby I’ve been toying around with some way to “deep browse” Amazon book offerings. http://goo.gl/tPPJz I’m very interested in any thoughts on how this is best done. Are carefully curated recommendations by a select and passionate few the right way to go? The current set social book sites seem focus on the “hits” being read by the “masses”. But the deep long tail isn’t being addressed. But how?
I'm of the opinion that you change more by talking with others.

I guess if you become a martyr, it's different.
Ah, I was just talking about dessert.
rule 3 is basically progressive wealth tax that replaces all other taxes
> Cognitive ability is an abstract thing, IQ is a form of measuring it. It's like using 10k running time, amount of weight lifted in a deadlift, bench press, and squat as a measurement of athleticism.

No, it's like picking one of those and using it as the measure. If you pick 10k running time, you'll be biased towards mid-length endurance athletes. If you pick deadlift, you'll be biased towards raw strength athletes. The question of if Usain Bolt or Hafthor Bjornsson is more athletic is malformed, it requires us to ask which athletic talents we value more highly (not to mention comparing to someone like Kobe Bryant or Tom Brady, where social interaction is a component of the athletic achievement).

Similarly, most measures of IQ contain implicit assumptions about what intelligence means, and those assumptions are based on western cultural norms. Even tests designed to be less culturally biased, such as Raven's Progressive Matrices, aren't free of this issue. And this ignores cultures where decision making is often a team sport, so being forced to take a test without aid is an unusual environment, and may be, culturally, a malformed question.

> The central thesis of his book The Bell Curve is that society needs to do a better job helping people on the lower end of cognitive ability lead fulfilling and productive lives.

Right, the unstated assumption here being that they are genetically predisposed to having lower cognitive ability (and further that this ability is highly correlated along racial lines). That they are genetically inferior and society needs to cater better to their inferiority: "we should be more willing to help the cognitively disabled". Not that they may be just as well equipped as everyone else, and we should address the biases in society that mismeasure their intelligence, such as biased IQ tests and other cultural assumptions about what intelligence is.

The Bell curve doesn't engage with any of this criticism (it predates some of, but by no means all of it). It assumes that the measure is objective and valid. I've read enough of Murray, and enough criticism of him, to understand how he's wrong.
mruby is embeddable today.
I thought I was the only one who did this kind of ribbing!