jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading him right, he doesn't like that Agile is dominated by consultants, meaning people who teach other people how to be agile.

I agree with that, but I think there's a further problem: a lot of the people practicing agile are consultant developers. They take on a project, apply their "agile methodology", and build some software. As the project goes on and begins losing its luster, the contract ends, and the consultants are on to the next Shiny Thing.

With this kind of environment, people don't have to face the long term consequences of their technical decisions.

(I think this is also why there is so much "what's cool this week" churn in the Rails world.)

I would like to see an agile methodology come out of a successful product team, that applies it for years.
I always think of game development as discovery rather than invention. Most game mechanics either already exist, or are distilled from psychological truths.
She also could have taken the negative and turned it around. If a restaurant gets closed for violating health codes (which is not usually permanent, from my understanding), that's a perfect time to put big glass windows on the kitchen, issue a sincere mea culpa, and say "look guys, we learned our lesson and are the cleanest restaurant in town now!". It worked for Jack in the Box after the e. coli scare.

While this obviously created a huge furor, I'd say at least 100x more people know about Cooks Source than did before. Instead of figuring out a way to relaunch the site, she basically committed suicide with a "they'll be sorry when I'm gone", poor-me kind of letter.
" but many of these are still not done because they’re annoying and tedious to do and developers are often focused on other things. "

To me, that situation always meant I'd find (or code) a tool to make that happen automatically. Having the right tools for the job always means things go better, both for the developer and the client.
> I think that "only difference" you mention is pretty crucial given the limitations we're talking about

Yes, it's a problem. A problem I talked about in the original post. However, it's temporary problem, and only for people that have to suffer with slow internet. For these people, even download speeds are horrible. Steam, for example, as wonderful as it is, is hated in places where download speeds suffer.

However, global internet speeds are increasing.

For me, I can stream my music and videos from my home to work. While I don't for a moment hide behind this problem, I won't pretend it's a road block.

Simply put: it's a problem as much as people without internet wouldn't be able to use it either. Enough people can use it that it would be useful.
VS2015 will have the ability to watch the result of lambdas in debug mode, not sure about edit and continue however.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/s...
Basically you are correct, although the existence of secondary markets and the greater-fool theory means that investors will probably be able to hedge their bets prior to IPO. OTOH, for a service whose growth is stalling this is a pretty bold bet for participants in this round.
Also the name of the standard us/uk english keyboard layout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
Exactly. Good thing it's a plugin. I've always loved how the vim core stays so pared down into not-much-more than vi, which is 99% of the time all I need.

I have difficulty understanding why a text editor needs to be anything but a text editor.
I love the way you've made this work. However, it does not behave well with PGP signed emails. When a message is MIME/PGP signed, the attachment is stripped and dropped. When a message is signed inline, posterous corrupts the message leaving the header in place, but dropping the signature. If this is fixed, I am likely to use this service for some technical lists.
If I had my wish, the QT containers would become the standard.

I know c++ and complexification go together like bread and jam but STL in general and especially Boost seem to go too far for even for the rest of c++.

Of course, I'm sure if I worked with it enough, I'd learn it's strange beauty. It's just I hadn't so far.
In my personal opinion, winning is getting the feeling at the end of the day that it was spent well.

Most of us of course define this as achieving something, like completing some new program module or getting a good contract.

The important part is that you are confident with the day, with your life.

Now I'm not sure if this guy in the article is winning or not, he forgot to state that. He just said that he was the best in a competition and got a very high score on a test. I guess he felt good those days, otherwise he would not post about it, I hope.

This is of course a subjective view, the concept is.
I’m not a company, I’m a person. International wires probably work better if you have accountants to hammer out the bullshit.

I’ve never had a Bitcoin ATM fail, but I’ve had normal ATMs fail all the time even in first world countries like Japan, HK, Singapore.
You forgot to multiply by the likelihood that the timer (or some other "too small to take the baby out" distraction) goes off mid bath.

When you say "the vast majority of parents appear to take 'never' to heart" I can't help but suspect that missing factor is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
This really doesn't have to be this hard. PMF means that your product and a market have found each other. For a VC, a worthwhile market is super big so rampant growth is evidence that you have PMF.

And Naval's insight there is a short version of all the things people say: scratch your own itch, dog food your product, etc. etc.

A lot of these things people say have insight that you can gather but you have to have some commonality. Their words are lossy compression of an idea, and it will only make sense if you're the right decompressor.

In any case, making fun of that stuff gains you very little. To the ones who have the appropriate decompressor you look like a fool. To the other ones who don't have the appropriate decompressor, they think you're being obvious. To the ones who have the compressor appropriate to you, the mockery doesn't signal that.

I suppose it does provide personal amusement, though. So there's that.
Yes! How can we help? Having been helped in the past I’d be more than happy to pass it on!

Super happy for you!
>They were expensive

$1,500 sound like the right ball park?

https://www.amazon.com/Canon-10x42-Stabilization-Waterproof-...
>The saddest thing about all of this IMO is they have been working on this for 14 years, and how much money was spent/wasted?

You think that's bad? In Canada my government funded the F-35 program but we're not buying any F-35 jets. Spending a bit less than $1 billion for nothing.
Well in use Intel CPU their management engine could steal your keys from RAM as you are making a transaction. So unless you build your own computer you are trusting someome somewhere
> I never said I wouldn't contribute something to make this happen,

I asked if you are willing to pay, you said no. So let me ask: is there any way that you are willing to contribute? Will you volunteer? Will you review the fork? What is going to be your share of sacrifice to the "community"? Are you going to do this continuously or find a successor? It's not just "funding" that I am talking about.

Moreover: if this is so important for you and if you believe that more people share your values, why don't you lead by example and start doing this instead of waiting for others?
I was suspicious about this quote as I thought tissue paper wasn't invented [1] when Rutherford said that but apparently Rutherford said this retrospectively in 1936; not in 1909.

[1] Kleenex introduced the facial tissue in 1924
On the topic of shamir shares, plugging a question I asked yesterday[1]: how do you manage them if you want to get them onto hardware? Do you just ask your tokens to encrypt the pieces and store the encrypted pieces along with the main ciphertext?

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/245233/long-ter...
The community git book will often do things "the old fashioned way" to keep compatibility with older versions of git.

Modern versions of git let you do this instead:

git checkout --orphan new-branch
Wye. ("Wye not?")
I got this error:

IP-0AF2C18B
HTTP
www.localstrange.com
C:/psc/htdocs/default/index.php

Not very erotic...
It might not even be simple over-reporting; women have more diagnoses than men. Women go to the doctor more.

This isn't to say it isn't still bullshit. I know two women with OCD diagnoses, but neither present typical symptoms. One is the most foul-smelling slob I know, the complete opposite of your typical OCD person. The other seems relatively normal.
The solution is quite simple: use Dropbox to synchronize a single binary file that is a LUKS-encrypted Linux filesystem (or TrueCrypt or whatever).

This meets all the requirements this person is asking for. All his systems could even be mounting the image using different passphrases (IIRC LUKS allows up to 8 different passphrase for the same image). It will work well because Dropbox will of course synchronize the deltas and not transmit the whole image every time a single byte changes.

Only downside is you can only have 1 client mounting the image at a time... Perhaps some clustered filesystem could get rid of this limitation (that would be an interesting use of them).
It's all the interesting stuff that you get with Haskell/Scheme/Lips/etc combined with the practicality of running on the JVM with easy Java integration. Practicality being the key word.
I decided to implement (nearly) all of foursquare.com in scala.
No problem, thanks for the links..

It says, "Shoes has to be built with Ruby 1.9.1." Is that strict, or will 1.9.2 work? Edit: Actually, I'll tell you in a minute.

Update: This is a bit beyond what I was expecting. What do I do with the .shy file after shoes is installed?
There's a big difference between the MBP and the Air/iPhone/iPad/iPod though -- solid-state drives. The sleep indicator tells you when it's safe to pick your computer up.
Agreed, but this: "all the Valley insiders they've gotten to use it." is a big one. Social sites are generally winner-take-all. You use it because of who's on it.

To me, most of the points that Scoble mentions are a result of the quality of community. None of those features would matter if there weren't engaging people and discussions on the site. As to whether Quora made the community, or the community made Quora, I don't know enough to say.
> If PHP hadn't evolved [...]

> But it has.

Honestly, how can languages (what PHP in the end boils down to) possibly evolve?

Example: you cannot bolt OO to it later on, PHP, Perl and to some lesser extend even Python are a testimony to that. It just does not feel right, leads to syntactic horrors and is usually not very performant.

Neither can you modify the syntax. You can add to it. But not much modify existing syntax. For tiny changes all hell breaks loose.

> [...] and feel like they're doing the wider community a service by making declaring a religious war against PHP.

I think the religious-war card is clearly overused. This is not a religious-war, it is an effort by programmers who rather use the best tool for the job then the bizniz/customer dictating them a languages/framework/CMS. PHP will not be fixed, mission impossible, they know it and therefor advocate a retreat-strategy.

The article describes that the community has (be it very late) finally developed some tool, a package manager, that make it slightly more bearable. But the language and its community still suffer the exact same unfixable problems.

An analogy: even in COBOL-land some problems get fixed up until today, but not fundamental language issues, nor community issues.

Yes, I compare COBOL with PHP. Many, or most, languages will someday be 'legacy' languages. Some just a little sooner then others. :)
They are blackmailing and targeting anyone that is in the way to their goal of total surveillance.

This hasn't gotten enough attention:

US targets lie-detector coaches following Edward Snowden affair

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1297622/us-targets-li...
I wish life were this simple.

Essentially, it seems Jan wants to replace capitalism with hedonism. Inevitably, we will find the problems with hedonism and need a (second) revolution. I'm not arguing that we live in the "perfect capitalistic society"—far from it. However, we can't fight fire with fire here, i.e., we cannot replace one broken system with another inherently broken system. Instead, we need to change people's ideas about life, money, and happiness. It's only when we change focus that balance will be achievable. Money, happiness, work are all amoral. Undue focus on money or happiness or work tends to bring about moral failure. So, we now know what it's like to live in a society that focuses on money (capitalistic). If we follow Jan we will know what it's like to live in a (more so) hedonistic society.

Instead of jumping from one school of thought to another, I think we really just want to find balance and purpose. That isn't found through revolutions; that's found through individuals changing and growing.

Edit: clarifications.
You're definitely on the right track, but you're omitting the factor which binds the value of money to the value of labor: taxes. Taxes force (upon pain of inprisonment) people living within the territory of an issuing authority to offer their output for sale in that authority's IOU's (fiat). This allows states to provision themselves using their own credit (that credit then becomes the private sector's financial assets).

I'm not as bearish on Bitcoin as a type of payments system, but it can never supplant traditional currencies (at least not without formal state endorsement, and subsequent deflationary problems).
Perhaps they believe that gaining the necessary amount of public attention and support requires these things to be revealed slowly and to consume many news cycles. I would argue that the pace things have been proceeding at has been perfect for those who generally don't pay attention to get a sense of how important an issue this is.

If this had all been released at once, it would have been much easier to sweep under the rug, and those who generally reflexively defend their political parties might not have had to really confront the issue. They could be proceeding this way secure a better chance of victory.
"I hope you have at least a few gallons of gasoline lying around and a gasoline-powered car to maintain locomotion."

Although during the last blackout in NYC, when the power was out in some parts of the city for over a week after Hurricane Sandy, gasoline was also hard to come by since (1) gas stations rely on electricity to run their pumps and had no backup generators, (2) gas hoarding disrupted supplies (gas stations would run out of gas shortly after they received a shipment because everyone ran to top off their tank), and (3) supplies were limited due to damage to shipping terminals. So having a gasoline car is useful, but it won't get you through an extended natural disaster or an attack that disables the electrical grid for an extended period of time.
Neither did calling out Biden for doing the right thing based on the best info available to him.

The person I responded to has clearly chosen his path. All too often, that path leads to abusing veterinary supplies... and telling the world how awesome it is to do so.
Just pointing out that there are a variety of motivations--community, fun, attention, money, etc.
It's better to link to the abstract at arxiv.org rather than directly to the PDF. In this case, that would be: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06231

The abstract page lets the reader see what the paper is about before downloading the whole PDF, and if there have been revisions will contain a link to latest one.
No, you have to allow the source to do the editorializing, because that's so much better.
> Because Coding is not Working

Then what is it?
From what I've read, it's not a political/ideology shift in Stross but more a shift in how you (don't) read the books. Stross has been very critical and antagonist against runaway effects ("anti-crypto") since his first book Accelerando. While a lot of the "cool stuff" and many of the characters, including some of the protagonists, are very "technolibertarian" most of Stross' plots are generally Very Bad Things happening to them, including various sorts of cascade failures in the "cool stuff" domains (up to and including Lovecraftian apocalyptic doom in the Laundry universe). Generally the moral arc in a lot of Stross' (as such exists) from meta/high-level usually seems to be wary of the "cool stuff" as Very Bad Things Can Happen. He's a great writer because those moral arcs are left subtle and to the reader rather than tagged on the end like Aesop's Fables.

(Sometimes I wish they were blandly tagged at the end like Aesop's Fables to avoid some of these conversations, because we're living in a post-Poe's Law Singularity and subtlety is all too often easily overlooked.)
Thanks! Your dashboard looks like a cool project as well!
If someone wants to begin their journey in understanding and level of aptitude you've displayed on your sites, where should they begin?
Can you share a good article about the misconceptions of cholesterol and the dangers of statins? I've been looking for a decent source. I have a family member on a statin now.
Attacking the weak and elderly is a pretty hateful thing to do.
Only thing I dislike from Flameshot is the "forced" compression of the screenshots. I only found out recently due to a need to have a non compressed screenshot, that in Ubuntu, Shift+Print seems to do the trick (uncompressed area screenshot).
DDG is more popular in the tech-literate crowd, most of whom are earning large salaries and therefore we'd expect that DDG usage should be positively (not negatively) correlated with credit worthiness
This is one thing I hate about these keys though - some services only support one key, and for ones that support multiple, I struggle to figure out a storage system for my backup key. I don't want to keep it with me (because then I am at risk of losing both), but if I keep it separate, I need to remember to add it to new accounts - there's no way to see a list of accounts a key has been associated with.

I'm curious how others handle this.
Cheat sheets are not form of discoverability. People generally want to use software and learn-while-using. By searching beforehand for a cheatsheet or reading a man page you are already studying how to use the software before actually using the software.

Compare that to most GUI apps where you can just open and use and learn as you go.
lots of airports do duty free. it's a good way to get regional hooch on the cheap.
>I've gotten really tired of this browser fingerprinting FUD. Removing features like WebUSB, WebBluetooth, etc, is not going to make users less fingerprintable.

Yes, it will.

I don't know of anyone who would seriously argue that less variation between client data doesn't also offer less uniquely identifiable variation between users.

Less remotely-viewable variables, less rolls of chance to be unique.

>Are users any less fingerprintable because WebAudio now requires a user activation to run, and timing information needed to have artificial noise added? No, users are still 100% fingerprintable.

Less fingerprint-able doesn't mean completely un-fingerprintable.

These very edge cases and seemingly unnecessary inclusions into the spec are the very things that allow you to keep the technology in place while reducing possible privacy concerns.

These changes and inclusions are designed as a compromise between the two goals of technological innovation and privacy infringement.
"She didn’t want to have to wear seatbelts on public roads passing through her property."

If this is your idea of a political issue then I strongly recommend the reading of newspapers and engagement with local institutions.

Also, I am of "the public" and I knew, due to reading Private Eye which had reported on all this repeatedly for the last 10 or more years.
i'd vote for any managed service

ieeg Webflow

'easy enough to operate' sites end up being a major pain in the ass.
I'm sympathetic to your point of view - but suffering must be relative or you would be concerned about the worms in a construction site or the bacteria you kill with bleach. There must be a spectrum of consciousness and perhaps there is a line where suffering begins, and is that not anything but relative?
In my experience time is the key. Keep posting, keep mentioning it, it takes me several months for any MVP to actually judge its value.

In the meanwhile find and describe use cases to make it more discoverable.
How is my comment "factually wrong on many levels"? You didn't show any of my statements as false, you just added additional context.

So you say:
>Other than that: Germany was in advanced talks with multiple suppliers way earlier than most EU countries in Summer 2020, was able to spend more and even got offered priority supply from Biontech (which only supplies Germany and Turkey directly, all other countries are supplied through Pfizer). Chancellor Merkel specifically ordered these talks and procurement efforts to be stopped, so that in solidarity with other EU countries procurement would be centralized by the EU (which then did everything wrong without politicians, also German politicians, intervening).

How does the above negate that German politicians were the first in EU to say they'll procure the vaccine by themselves few weeks after the EU procurement deliveries started? You talk about what happened directly after the end of EU talks. I talk about stuff that happened weeks later when it was apparent German-led EU effort was botched. Also I talk about it being "German led" not because U. Vdl happens to be German, but because first, it was a German's idea everyone agreed to, second I've heard they were given a leading role in the talks no doubt due to their prior involvement with the companies you mentioned(this may or may not be true as it is an unofficial information - names of 7 people from the so called Joint Negotiation Team have been kept secret by the commission despite multiple requests from the journalists, Eu Parliament members etc.) Now, looking at the whole situation a cynic could say - Germany was very involved in talks with manufacturers, but they were worried the rest of EU will start a bidding war with them so they got everyone involved in the " botched common procurement scheme" to finish their negotiations in peace. Then they cancelled their own already negotiated contract to show everyone they are serious. Fast forward to few weeks later. It becomes apparent common procurement is a botched job. Every other country has to consider if they want to start individual procurement negotiations while Germany has an already negotiated contract template they can pull out of a drawer. Is it an accurate description of intentions? Who knows, but based on the actions one could think that. German (federal) state actions annoy so many people elsewhere not because they are egoistic, but because at the same time as being self interest centered they are constantly telling other countries how greatly altruistic they are. Hypocrisy is what annoys people. Every democracy on earth treats its own citizens as priority - that is unsurprising. Not many of them, however, lecture neighbors on altruistic values while at the same time being the same as everyone else.
Seems like it's both actually, the more pronounced of which is visceral which seems to make up most of a beer belly.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/womens-health/i...
What do you feel is the best that we have? I'm not preparing to raise an argument, merely asking for information. My own experience with user interface development outside of the web is pretty limited; I've created a few winform apps and done some OpenGL stuff in college, but that's basically it. Compared to those, I prefer the web stack.