skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These stereotypes are very similar to the ones misapplied in helping the impoverished. What studies actually found is that if you give the impoverished money they spend it pretty well.

If you gave a developer company accounts to spend as they saw fit then they would probably make good decisions too. Why a developer would give their own money is a mystery to me as any time they save has to still be used for their employer.

Instead, at best a manager can make these decisions and even they are usually limited by corporate policy which must deal with the complexity of tax and corporate law.

If you want to fix the problem, push a tax compliant product that startups can use to supply their developers with quarterly funds for this purpose and then advertise it as a benefit of their work environment.
I'm assuming this works seamlessly with public libraries and international public libraries as well? Third world countries?
Industrialists in the US advocated for (and implemented!) forced society-level eugenics as a way of creating a more "desirable" pool of employees for them to exploit. Germany just copied the US, then the robber barons had to distance themselves from the ideas of controlling humanity person-by-person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#... — "Every 7 1/2 minutes a high grade person is born in the US" almost sounds like modern tech/startup "some people are actually just better than others" rhetoric.
None of those groups you are thinking of, including black immigrants from Africa, experienced Jim Crow and the extension of those policies in the Drug War and school-to-prison pipeline. Or are these not the white racist "cultural issues" you are looking for? Treat people the same and you get the same results.
These were pretty neat, and very nearly Apple's best keyboard. But I went through several of them; the keys would wear out after about six months of use (not sure what failed, my guess was keyboard contacts).
> I had only like one game which I never really played but instead I spent hours writing mini games and setting up communication between the PSP and a PC, using it as remote control and whatnot.

And that's exactly why manufacturers go to such lengths to prevent people from hacking on their consoles. With the way they are priced, and depending on when you bought that PSP, it may have cost Sony money if you didn't buy any games for it.
Has The Guardian Been Bought By The Onion?

http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/09/05/the-guardian-been-b...
John McAfee AMA on Reddit. McAfee’s Life Revealed
In the startup world, "Passion" is a shibboleth, or a way of speaking that signals yourself as part of the in crowd. Or, in full startup vernacular, people who are "passionate" about programming are a good "culture fit."

I'm not saying people aren't passionate about programming, but in the context of the startup world, the literal meanings of the words don't matter. The subtext is what's being listened for.
"Datahand patents are from <1995, so are now expired."
As you have noticed, there are fine tasting tomatoes already, so its likely not a genetic thing, more that they get picked too early.
This is a misleading title. Managed cloud services run on servers. There has to be a better title. For a moment I thought they were proposing P2P hosting.
This is where the rise of Patreon is huge.

Kill the ads. Get supported for your work directly. If she's getting 100,000 page views A DAY, and she's been writing for over a decade, I'm sure she could get enough subscribers to overtake her ad (native included) revenue.
Too much vendor lock in. Will keep my VMs thanks.
Do these throw-away PDFs have an ISBN you can put on the CV? No? In that case, from the perspective of the academic, they are useless.
That has little to do with the fact that they are ebooks, and everything to do with the fact that they are about data science. Just about the sexiest 'academic' topic right now, and in extremely high demand outside academia. For the vast majority of academic books, there is simply little or no demand.
And its insulting to a professional if any one working in the industry thinks that tipping is acceptable then they need to be "managed" out to Starbucks
Eugenics, and social darwinism, are alive and well in the elite realms of science and technology. Modern tech/startup rhetoric is not immune to association by osmosis in this regard, in my opinion. Fact is, one can observe heinous totalitarianism anywhere authorities are given power, and that is a lot of what our tech world is about, after all ..
There's also the "Reimplementable independently" column. Rather important.
Why wouldn't the answer be to have the libraries not buy books from unscrupulous publishers?
Thank you for your explanation. Another thing learned today.
it hasn't been published to npm yet. the instructions are for cloning the repo and installing it locally to test. that's an install script
My wife and many friends are academics. They don't exactly just type the thing up. Writing books for them is a painstaking process during which they sacrifice and put their blood, sweat, and tears into those pages.

I think this article is saying, there is a disingenuous motive on the part of the publisher. The article does not seem to imply that the authors are complicit by playing along and pumping out the academic equivalent to pulp-fiction.
When an academic puts their name on a published piece of work, it's a serious thing. To accomplish something worth attaching one's name to, it's not economically feasible for the vast majority of academics to write pdf books pro-bono. Often their already barely making a livable salary and have their plates full. To expect them to write books for free is not at all reasonable.

I agree with the other commenter that this is indeed a good outcome. Paying academics to write these niche books is paying to build the modern Library of Alexandria. Walking through a top tier university's library, one can't help but be in awe of the wealth of knowledge being accumulated. And it has value. Some today. Some down the future. But it has value.

I myself have made use of several of these esoteric books, and could tell that they'd barely, if ever, been read. I couldn't help but feel some gratitude toward the author for writing something so wonderful given it feeling like they'd written it for me and a few dozen other people. But then, others used the products I created based on that work. And so, in that sense, they wrote for those people too.
Touchscreen keyboards are a massive backward step in terms of usability.
If you want to keep other software from depending on systemd, the onus is on you to provide a reasonable alternative.

You're saying it as if there aren't already plenty of them.
The argument is a bit ridiculous - simple logging of all messages sent also requires the same storage, and that is commonly done whenever each individual message and it's delivery is considered important.

As long as the storage requirements are bounded by number of messages times number of recipients times some reasonable constant, it is perfectly feasible to assume that you will have sufficient storage; the storage requirements are finite and predictable, and it's only a matter of your choice and priorities.

Acknowledging that doing X will require Y petabytes of storage and cost Z dollars may mean that you won't do it, but it's very, very different from stating that it's impossible.
Good list. Dimple and DC should also be mentioned at the top of the list. And to provide a more extensive list people can evaluate: XCharts, D3xter, Metrics Graphics, TauCharts, N3, and Dangle.
"Microservices without the Servers: the Uberization of IaaS as PaaS for SaaS"

Like when you say you have no carbon footprint because you don't own a car, even though you call a taxi every time you want to go somewhere?

Are microservices different from SOA? Or is it just a more modern, streamlined buzzword?

You say "microservices," but all I see is "omg, you realize inter-node latency isn't a trivial component to ignore when building interactive services, right?"
Just something to add to your comment, I don't disagree with your suggestion: I frequently switched between a normal mouse, a Logitech Trackball (with the thumb on the ball, but I would definitely want to try one where I have to use the middle finger on the ball) and a Wacom pen-tablet.
When I used one of the devices for a couple of days or weeks and when the pain (at least an annoying feeling, not necessarily pain) came back, I switched to another one.

This is not the only option to avoid or decrease pain. Like some other commenters said: your body position is important, frequent pauses away from keyboard (good for your eyes too), a smaller keyboard so your mouse is closer to the imaginary center of your body, regular walks or runs are very good (when you walk, don't wear a heavy backpack or coat, so you can move your shoulders properly and relax your core, arms, shoulders and neck even more).

At the end, it's about listening more to your body, I guess. I ignored the symptoms for too long, not knowing what was happening to me. And finally the RSI kicked in. I'm glad I didn't have CTS, but I had to recover for a couple of months and slowly had to build up the time I spent behind mouse and keyboard again.

The Body and Mind approach some other commenter talked about is also important and, I think, at the core of the problem. Relax, don't stress behind your computer and mouse/keyboard. Peace of mind translates directly to a healthier body, in all sorts of ways.
I’m willing to accept the claim that there’s not a lot of nuance to WWII era Germany’s actions and motives, etc. ("Schindler’s List" notwithstanding.) But to claim theres no nuance to the people fighting against Germany, seems ahistorical.
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The book you list as your #1 book is most certainly not an 'academic' book. Just because a book is written by an academic, does not make it an academic book. Just the byline gives it away ("A Guide for Anyone Who Works with Data"), but the description even more so: "This book describes, simply and in general terms, the process of analyzing data. ... This book is a distillation of their experience in a format that is applicable to both practitioners and managers in data science. "

In other words, "we've written down our experiences as applied statisticians". Which is fine and actually it sounds like it would be useful for me, but it's not "academic publishing".
Are servers really that hard to manage these days? This seems like way more work and pretty limited in what it can really do, especially compared to a few lines of code in any decent web framework that can perform a lot faster.
Tableau interactif
In case anyone else has been getting the "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" error when attempting to access the page, here's a link to Google's cached copy:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
Folks interested in this might like to know that ContainerCon also had a session on Containers and Unikernels. http://sched.co/3YUJ

A write up and audio from that session is also available.

http://thenewstack.io/the-comparison-and-context-of-unikerne...
Not really. Phones and tablets are mainly used for consuming data, not creating it. Text messages / whatsapp are usually short. Do you actually know anyone that writes more than a normal letter page on a touchscreen? (I am sure they are out there, but in a minority).
This is why, if you want to be an author publishing through the more or less conventional publishing industry, you need a first-rate agent, and a knowledge of who is a first-rate publisher.

There's a big difference between a global publisher placing your book in their professional publishing imprints versus an obscure publisher leaching a bit of money out of libraries. The first-rate publisher will also get your expensive book into their subscription programs that they market to corporate subscribers, for example.

If you have a good agent, they will steer you toward the goals you are pursuing, if you communicate those goals clearly. That's where some knowledge of which publishers have the best and/or most widely read books in your field is important.

If you want to get your book into the more-widely sold trade paperback format, you need to tune your proposal to that goal. Most publishers require you to do some competitive analysis in your proposal. That's going to be important guidance for where your book ends up.
I don't know the psychology of racists but in Europe I see very often a pattern, when person A feels discriminated by person B, A would rather blame racism or xenophobia if he can, than admit he is discriminated because he has different social class, different culture|religion|sexuality, lower level of education or intelligence, unpleasant behavior or physical appearance, etc.. So when an individual gets along well with several people of a different race but he's accused of racism by others, I tend to believe the source of conflict is not racism but some other "unspecified" reasons.
There's also the recent (2014) "Online Computational Biology Curriculum" paper that might be interesting:

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...
A factory fire triggered the spike.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/business/the-executive-com...
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> Of course what's absolutely a joke is people acting all aghast about another country's culture from behind their white picket fences. You do realize that if you were born in their country, you would have the exact same perspective?

From the article:

> With so many hit-to-kill drivers escaping serious punishment, the Chinese public has sometimes taken matters into its own hands. In 2013 a crowd in Zhengzhou in Henan province beat a wealthy driver who killed a 6-year-old after allegedly running him over twice.

Clearly people born and raised in China do not "have the exact same perspective".
Alda: A music programming language
How to Be Happy: The Key to Happiness
Microsoft Is Not Spying on Your Hard Disk Because
I get tight muscles down might right arm (I am assuming its from keyboard use). I can swa between left and right with the mouse. I use the mouse with my left hand, but my right hand side is tight still.
Structure of Tumor Suppressing Protein Identified
I'd say the answer in this case is a definitive "YES"; making 50000 a year (as the article suggests is readily attainable) is plenty in most parts of the world.
Plink: multiplayer music experience
What about non-magnetic metal debris?
The question was about levels of anti-semitism. The highest level is gas chambers.
What's your point? When $15 is a week or a month worth of wages, you're not going to buy the ebook or paperback of it either. Or are you saying that all academic books should be free? Why?
Leave a good legacy (in PHP and JavaScript)
The current problem with this architecture is the network cannot be used as a security layer. Databases, search engines, etc need ports opened to the public rather than to selected servers.
Are you the same Jim Hefferon who wrote the free (as in freedom and beer) linear algebra text [0]? If so, I'd first like to thank you (your book is great) and then agree that it is possible to publish a .pdf online.

That said, patio11 is talking about writing books in highly specialised academic areas. Linear algebra is standard fare for an undergraduate curriculum - taught at thousands of universities - using innumerable textbooks. So it is not something highly specialised. It is conceivable that your book was largely inspired by other linear algebra books, if indirectly. For instance, you might have had strong opinions about why a particular approach does not work [1], and chose not to follow it. The search space has been reduced by authors who have come before. An academic writing a book in a more specialised area would probably not have the luxury of a writing precedent and would have to figure out a lot themselves. This translates to more time spent on a book for which they would otherwise receive no reward.

Of course, it is possible that this premise is false and that it is easier for a researcher to write a book on their own research specialty.

I would imagine that your research appeals to 'a very, very niche audience'. Would you consider spending a lot of time and effort on a book (.pdf) in your research area - for no material reward? To be read by a very small audience? Orders of magnitude smaller than undergraduates looking for a good linear algebra text?

[0] http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
[1] I certainly do - I dislike Anton and Rorres
"This is blatant dishonesty from The Guardian."

Well, it is The Guardian...
Lighter faster version of Ipython/Jupyter.
Has this been taken into account regarding the magnetically aligned cow theory?
I use a Kinesis Advantage. I have two of them actually, one for home use, and the other as at the office. I honestly would not have a job without them. I destroyed my wrists on that crappy Apple keyboard. It's awful for your wrists and gave me crippling RSI. If I use a laptop for more than an hour or two, I'm going to be feeling it later.

I've never tried the datahand. I'd love to but, my understanding is that they're super hard to find and very expensive. Also, there's a stigma that goes with weird looking keyboards. I always get comments about mine. People definitely prefer aesthetics over preventing an RSI.

Developers, protect your hands and wrists and get a GOOD keyboard.
Making this efficient at the machine level gets hard. Hardware engineers really want to do 32 or 64 bit add/subtract/etc. datapaths, and handling range types in pipelines is hard, so it's up to software to do anything more complicated. Suddenly you're talking half a dozen instructions to do an ADD and programmers no longer want to use your language.

Efficiency is a convenient god when you're not willing to pay for being correct.
If you use it all day and all night, it's worth the cost.
>Try to get enough sleep, exercise, eat well, and avoid too much chronic stress.

Specifically, do exercises which strengthen your hands, wrists, and arm muscles. In my early twenties my hands and lower arms would get so sore after a day of typing that I could barely move them, with searing pain shooting up my lower arms into my wrists. I knew I had to do something quick so I focused on strength, taking up climbing and water skiing. In less than a year I was pain free & twenty years on I'm still fine.

I know guys who took other approaches like using voice to text dictation, pretty much joining "the keyboard of the month club", using funky mouses, using wrist braces, etc., but never focused on exercise. From my limited sample set, I'm the only one not wearing a wrist brace and who can still type at 100+ WPM with no pain.

Don't underestimate the benefits of strength training when it comes to solving RSI. Of course your millage may vary. I suspect that once you have the first signs of RSI you need to be on top of it before permanent damage occurs, but there's some pretty good science out there which backs up strength training when it comes to mitigating RSI.
I have a few ergo 4000's and the build quality is most certainly not crappy, this makes me skeptical about your other grivences.

However, I have found that people not used to the tilted + split-key design style find it weird. And it is a big keyboard.

My personal issue with the 4000 is the worthless "zoom" toggle in the middle. It would be much better as a vertical scroll, or even better as a trackball/nub. Whatever Msft design committee who put the Zoom+Back/Forward buttons should be shot.
Because it's a scam. The publisher makes money by tricking libraries into buying the titles.
The author seems confused, as the code here doesn't actually involve recursion. I wouldn't normally nitpick too hard, here, but he spends a lot of time talking about how Elixer made it possible for him to understand and use recursion... The trouble is neither of these things seemed to have happened...
As a kid, we went on a field trip to a place that had a cannulated cow and they let us put a (gloved) hand in to feel what it was like.

...I forget if I actually did it, I remember it being warm and bumpy, but I might also be projecting memories of what the other kids said.
This article isn't really about the "effects of programming on the brain."

Instead, the author has a pre-determined value judgement of what is a "good" or "bad" allocation of priorities. From that premise, he works backwards to a observation that coding can be addictive. This addictiveness is then judged as "bad":

>someone who may be suffering from what I can only really describe as coding addiction, the solution may be to find healthier rewards.

For some people, the healthiest reward is the coding. For others, it's working on solving a 300-year old math problem, or struggling for hours and days to find the perfect word for a line in a poem, or a sentence in a novel. There are no "healthier" rewards than those intellectual gymnastics.

Sometimes it's true that these "addictions" don't perfectly align with business priorities and client demands. Saying that the addiction is "unhealthy" is favoring the perspective of the business. The other perspective is that the individual is in the "wrong" day job.
what has been shoved down the memory hole is that hitler was a stooge/front man for the upper class and the corporations...and that was why the media here loved him....they always love those at the top...

read the essay called 'I was Hitler's Boss'...it's online...published anonymously in the 1930s, this essay makes clear that the general idea of the nazis and the third reich was already in place before hitler was even hired by the reichswehr...the most well-known hitler biographer Kershaw identified the author of the essay as Karl Mayr, who was indeed hitler's boss..

read the essay...this is what it says:

the german upper class & corporations were afraid that the same thing that was happening in russia during the bolshevik revolution was going to happen in germany...and indeed there were dozens of burgeoning worker's populist parties springing up...and what did those parties want? To disempower the rich and powerful...so the rich and powerful began using the german army to spy on and subvert these populist uprisings...they hired hitler because he was a war hero (although recent books make it clear that hitler did not deserve his iron cross and was known as a brown noser among the troops during WW1).

They hired hitler and put him to work spying on these working class parties that were the enemies of the rich and powerful.

As mayr writes, when hitler was hired, he was basically a pauper, and was just a lost dog looking for a master...didn't care squat about jews or anything like that...but the reichswehr and the upper class were planning to make the jews a substitute scapegoat for the rich, as mayr explains...the jews were a big part of the educated class, and those were a big part of the bolshevik revolution....so the planners of the third reich has already set their cap for the jews when hitler was first hired....

hitler was indeed born with an undescended testicle, which made him an outcast, mayr explains....so when he was a boy he wandered the hills making speeches...that talent came to the fore during his spying on the populist parties...and so the reichswehr and their corporate backers had found their talented orator to lead a fake-populist version of the true-populist workers parties that the upper class/corporations feared.

Now you know why hitler was actually quite popular with the media...the media is and always has been supported by advertising purchases by corporations...