skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A really good tech lead will manage you by telling you "do it this way or find another job", but will manage the more sensitive members of the team by gently suggesting what they might want to do, and might manage the more technically-minded members of the team by pointing out the concrete pros and cons of an approach.

The point is that different people need to be managed in different ways. You might want clear direction. I will quit if told "do it this way or find another job". The best managers will interact with you in the ways that get the most out of you, while interacting with me in the ways that get the most out of me. If we were to compare notes, it's doubtful we'd believe we had the same manager.
Archery. Lack of time/motivation.
They are separate repos because they have different mentalities. Stat is basic statistics for a (weighted) set of values. Floats is closer to dealing with properties of a vector (norm, distance, etc.). Sample has sophisticated sampling from distributions (metropolis hastings, etc.). gonum/stat/dist has sampling distributions themselves.

Documentation can be found in godoc, i.e. godoc.org/github.com/gonum/stat, godoc.org/github.com/gonum/matrix/mat64, etc.
I'd ask you to give some feedback on this thing: https://github.com/brainly/style-guide

It's definitely not as powerful as code abstraction, but we are trying to build clean and maintainable framework. What issues do you see?
I originally wrote this post as a response to Osmode, but it ended up swelling more than I'd intended. I fundamentally agree with his goals of supporting free discussion and suppressing self-censorship. However, I see several problems with this approach to achieving those goals.

The core problem with social-capital type schemes like Reddit (or indeed HN) is that they're very susceptible to bandwagoning. On Reddit the groupthink varies by community, but there's some mixing bowls and as a result the community does have an overall balance, despite having some short-term bandwagons. HN has a really strong bent towards the opinions of 20-something Silicon Valley startup coders without much counterbalance, and I know that I've certainly self-censored on certain topics that go against the grain here. Yes, in the words of Drew Carry, "everything is made up and the points don't matter", but then why is there still a counter in the corner of my screen?

Here, you're literally talking about putting a pricetag on dissenting opinions. If you go against the grain you're not just getting downvoted, each post actually costs you a certain amount of real money on servicing the blockchain. Conversely, circlejerking will get you a lot of kudos. That is - in and of itself - a strong social pressure that hampers the full spectrum of discourse. Much like the Bitcoin blockchain, it is fundamentally based on the assumption that no one group controls a non-trivial portion of the [social] network.

The same mechanisms that work against reprisal or spam also work against opinions that dissent from the common wisdom. It's vitally important for a strong discourse that sometimes-unpopular opinions be heard. Otherwise it's far too easy for the majority to carry themselves along (the Iraq war immediately springs to mind). I don't know how you counterbalance that against suppressing actual spam - because botnets and such mean that those groups will also have a great deal of capital from blockchain/network operation.

Some of the best communities on the web have actually been gated ones. Back in the day it cost $10 to activate an account on SomethingAwful. If you trolled, well, at least you're helping pay for the servers. If you leech on private trackers, you get banned and someone else takes a hit for inviting you. Gated NZB sites work in a similar way. I don't have a problem with such communities at all, but fundamentally they work on the basis of clearly defined social standards. On the flip side, Twitter and Tumblr have a very low level of discourse, because it's all about pithy soundbytes that get you retweeted. People leech from ThePirateBay all the time, because from their perspective, why not?

I don't see how this is different from "twitter, but using bitcoin". Something like FreeNet seems to accomplish the above goals much more effectively - popular opinions result in distributed re-caching, unpopular ones still get served if they have sufficient traffic, and really unpopular ones can be broadcasted by vigorous network participation and re-seeding.
The PC industry joins forces to promote PCs in a new, mildly cringey ad campaign
I guess this would be considered a Las Vegas algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_algorithm § “Relation to Monte Carlo algorithms”
Is The Hot Hand Fallacy A Fallacy?
What I see is you putting words into anigbrowl's mouth (letters onto his keyboard?)
I suspect that some league (NHL perhaps?) will specifically exclude webcasting from its next huge TV contract. Or it will extract a higher price not to be the first to do so. It will be the beginning of the end for regional sports channels, and eventually for ESPN.
Libertarianism massively overstates private welfare. Massively. We've already seen society that only had private welfare - look to our societies before public welfare existed, and you'll see that private welfare was basically a toy.

It doesn't even pass the sniff test; the idea that all these people whining about having to give up their money to other people would start giving up their money to other people if it was 'voluntary'? And people actually get sucked in by this argument?
>but it's great that the internationalization of modern programming languages and editors allows for this.

Having to juggle languages inside of my head while also deciphering code just creates unnecessary problems (don't know about you but I always need to "switch context" because I'm thinking in some language) - also there's the problem you have to learn double terminology and in reality few actually use the localized terms, they just mix in English ones - this makes talking about programming awkward because English terms sounds weird when you apply contextual rules for words, and (thankfully) nobody actually uses the translated terminology.

I don't believe you can be a good programmer without knowing English - most existing code/resources are in English and it's the language in which new developments are created and this is an industry with very fast innovation cycle.

Also we live in a global economy with multinational teams - why make things more complicated for everyone by using non-standard languages ? Sure the choice of English is arbitrary and it might not be a perfect choice but it's what we have and there's no good reason to change it.

I've seen some places (government related) mandate which language must be used but I would not call this "great".
I would like to work for a leader like that.

In that way, I would rather stay there as savy engineer for as long as it holds.

What impresses me the most are,

8. When you need a bad guy/gal, you're it.
9. When you need a good guy/gal, your people are it.

It is natural for good leader to think for engineers. But also thinking in the position of users/productivities wise is important.
So you're criticizing me for a suggestion I never made, about a country I never mentioned, and then you suggest my reasoning is insane? I think you need to work harder at this. If you can't countenance the possibility that your political hero figures could themselves be subject to manipulation then you're essentially adopting a religious attitude towards them.

Unfortunately I am too marginal a person to be hired as a disinformation agent; I'm just your friendly neighborhood sociopath reminding you that it's helpful to look both ways before crossing the street.
To be honest, I think the person who has spent a year with a framework and who is ok to use it on a day-to-day basis won't simply trust a random guide in a random blog.
For me, Discover Weekly is awesome, but misses about 50-90% of the time. It feels like every other playlist sucks, but could be just me (or the algorithm...). Thankfully, there's a skip button so I can find new artists/bands that I really do enjoy from the playlist (and I have found about a dozen new ones that I really love now).

Years ago when I used Pandora, their radio was amazing and really kept up with the seed well, I felt. I'm not sure how it holds up now since I rather listen to music I choose instead of the radio, though. I feel like they did a better job in terms of hit/misses.

So, while I really like the opportunity Discover Weekly opens up, it's far, far from perfect, but definitely better than nothing.
Bet you can't tell whether or not the girl in this picture is real
> As far as I know, some partners actually still embed
> /custom (I’ve only seen it at a newspaper a few months
> ago), so removing it might be problematic.

An ISP local to here does. [0]

http://centurylink.net/search/index.php?context=search&tab=W...

I see it every so often if a domain doesn't get resolved - they'll hijack the request and show you their own page. I was pretty surprised that that still happens.
> Some libertarians support the Basic Income Guarantee only if our only choice is between our current system and abolishing it for the Basic Income Guarantee.

What exactly would be replaced? It's tough googling around for how much the US government spends on welfare each year, at least partly because it's not exactly clear what counts as welfare. It seems like it's somewhere between 0.3 and 1 trillion dollars per year. If it's a trillion dollars, that's only $3,000 per person, or maybe double that if it starts at age 18 (although that sounds like a condition to me).

Isn't that not enough? As in, it must be a lot lower than the welfare benefits some Americans are currently getting.
That's interesting: surely almost none of the state violence still being committed under this law is aimed at persons who had anything to do with 9/11, right? As for organizations, isn't Al Qaeda just a brand now?
Brazil has being doing something similar for almost a decade. It's by far the most efficient poverty reduction program in place.
+1. That's one of the things we hope to accomplish at Wefunder. The gap between public markets and private markets in terms of wealth creation and deal access is really big.
Interesting. We use UltraDNS and didn't go down at all.
Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use and stores opened January 1, 2014. They are widespread in the state.

In 2014 and 2015, heroin overdose deaths in Colorado continued to increase over prior years. Among Colorado men, heroin overdose deaths in 2014 increased 31% over 2013. Among women, 16%.

http://gazette.com/overdosing-on-heroin-use-deaths-surge-in-...

Marijuana legalization does not appear to be a panacea to opiod abuse. Recreational marijuana use has a very different origin than prescription painkiller addiction (which often begins with usage to manage real pain, but spins into an addiction that then turns to heroin when the pills become too expensive).
schizophrenia has much better outcomes in developing nations than in the USA. In developing nations, the patients are not fed a regimen of powerful drugs that may calm symptoms but that have serious negative effects over the long term.

The love of a strong family is what helps schizophrenics. That is not something america has to offer much anymore....america is about money, not people, and prescribing drugs when there is an insurance plan is what happens in america...and when there is no insurance, there is the freeway overpass and then prison.
The article suggests that the Bible commands basic income and that economic conservatives like the idea.

As a lifelong student of the Bible and as an economic conservative of 20 years, I can say with certainty that this premise of the article is faulty.

Very early on in the Biblical text is the divine command to work and provide through labor. Basic income undermines and ultimately aims to eliminate this divine directive.

Among economic conservatives, we generally see Basic Income as a fool's errand and a pipe dream pushed by idealistic, Utopian thought disconnected from real world economics. We see Basic Income as a foolish idea with disastrous implications for the economy if attempted.
No, you don't miss anything.

Angular is pretty bad in my opinion. You can check out my rant here: http://www.fse.guru/2-years-with-angular

In my experience, those people who have tried it as a framework for "some web-related stuff we need urgently" find Angular really attractive.
When they need to dive deep in the magic they just hire a consultant...
Here are the sequence of emails we as a customer received:

1:44PM PST -
The Neustar UltraDNS service is currently experiencing DDoS traffic in the U.S. East Region. The Security Operations Team is currently working on mitigating attack traffic and further updates will be provided as soon as possible.

3:07PM PST -
The Neustar UltraDNS service is currently experiencing a major spike in traffic across several regions. The Security Operations Team is conducting routing changes and working to reroute traffic at this time. Customer will experience DNS timeouts and lack of resolution. Further updates will be sent as soon as possible.

4:50PM PST -
At 4:18 EDT time, a service outage affected Neustar’s UltraDNS service. The impact was predominately on the East Coast of the U.S., however some impacts could be seen in other U.S regions. Neustar UltraDNS Service was restored at 6:34 EDT time. We are currently investigating the root cause of the outage and will provide an update as more information is available.
Over Half of Google Searches Now Come from Mobile
This is the primary reason I moved away from them. First to BitTorrent Sync and now to Syncthing. I used to be a huge Dropbox fan.

http://johnrockefeller.net/the-lady-in-the-middle/
>with disastrous implications for the economy if attempted.

Oh? How would you characterize the results of implementing conservative economic ideas, as we've been doing in the US since the late 70s?
Amazon.com uses UltraDNS and Dyn
Ahh, heirloom. (That's the name of the system that renders Google for ancient user-agents). Takes me back. It actually got a small set of updates in 2010 when we wrote Heirloom+ and it appears that someone has collapsed the two systems into one since I left in 2011. I'm strangely gratified to see that no one has come up with a better layout solution than putting the results in a table.
Power line ethernet?
somewhat off-topic but 10Gbps would be pretty hard to fully utilize for the normal user... mosts sites/servers probably won't even send you small files at this speed.
You can use Backbone and Knockout with React. React is not a framework per se. It just makes things less complex.

I'd encourage you to read this article if you haven't done it yet: jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome
A New Golden Age won't come from basic income, it can only come from cheap, abundant energy. I won't dig out the sources atm, but its pretty obvious that coal, and later oil drove the last two centuries of rapid progress. Unless another abundant and cheaper source of energy is found, the world economy is in for a slowdown.
You should do an AMA here in this thread about the industry!

I'll start. What are some common misconceptions about the industry in general and what do you think about the accuracy of the article and how it paints the industry?
I voted CGI. The tip-off was in the eyes. Doll's eyes like the shark in Quint's speech in Jaws.

https://johnnycat.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/quints-speech-fro...
It's not so much a command as a curse:

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
You have a point however I just wanted to point out that RT is a very poor example to use.
Like most basic income proponents, this article conveniently forgets the actual problem with basic income: it hurts immigration. Granted, with the amount of people against immigration maybe it would actually help these arguments, but the truth is that such a plan can be potentially devastating to the long term health of the economy (if you know, these dreams of the end of scarcity don't pan out).

The basic problem here is that these plans mis-consider the US as an isolated economy. If you have basic income, what is the policy on immigrants? The options appear to be:

1. Open immigration and same benefits to everyone. Maybe you can argue that we can afford basic income for current US citizens, I think it would be a stretch for anyone to argue that we could afford it for anyone that comes into our borders, and thus...

2. Get even more hard line against immigration. America is already pretty anti-immigration, just wait how opinions turn when anyone inside gets a guaranteed income. As usual, anti-immigration laws will hurt the next round of brilliant foreigners from coming to the US and bringing their great ideas and prosperity here. Its already the case that we're increasingly lending foreigners our education system and then not letting them stay and thus exporting that knowledge and prosperity.

3. Make basic income only available to US citizens. Congratulations, we have now fully devolved into a classist society, where an 18 year old that wants to "figure things out" will be granted a monthly salary, but an immigrant who has 3 kids won't. To make matters worse, they probably WILL pay taxes on their income that will go for said basic income. Arguably we have this partially now, but since its services its not as unfair as giving a check to someone by birthright while the other person has to labor. For all the talk of automation the reality on the streets today is that immigrants largely do our back braking labor, and if you now "buy out" all Americans from menial jobs, you are cementing that these tasks are for outsiders.

Milton Friedman put it best: you can't have open immigration and a welfare state. We already see the effects of our current system hurting immigration. These proposals always have the ring of "post history" to them: we've figured out supply, now its time to just find out how to split up the goods. I think they greatly underestimate that the world economy is still not figured out and we could soon find the US behind other states.
And to add to that, how accurate was the documentary on Netflix, "Hot Girls Wanted"?
This looks good. Please email hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like us to email you a repost invite. This is an experiment we're running to give good stories a second chance at attention on HN.
Be very judicious about how often you put your own delivery on the critical path of the project (or sprint, or other unit of work.)

It shouldn't be very often.
> “Anyone can download them. You can. Your kids can. That’s just not a place we want to go.”

Steve Jobs was such a piece of work. As if browsers don't exist.
Reading the title I had a vision (sorry no grandiose talk here) of homeless free cities. Just being able to afford the slightest amount of private shelter, hygiene and nutrition.
In truth, we don't have a very good picture of how to model the inflationary effects of BIG, except by crudely analogizing one demand increase with another. IMHO the main thing to keep in mind is who immediately gets money as a direct consequence of a policy change, what they feel obligated to do with it, and how that might turn into a bottleneck later.

Traditionally when money is "pumped into" a economy, it's via lending to banks(producing a "multiplier" effect). That money lands in the hands of the biggest capital-holders first - big businesses, investment firms, etc., so it acts to stimulate supply more than demand. The hope is that firms will see the easy money as a signal to expand their operations and take on bigger projects. If it doesn't work - and efforts like QE have basically stopped working - all you're going to get is greater inequality of wealth, as the money stops being put to use and feeds itself back into the capital markets.

And when we stimulate demand in the fashion done in the post-war era, with a huge expansion of government spending, the money is mostly landing on people building war machines and associated technologies. People are being employed and paid, but they're locked into employment of a certain nature which isn't directed at consumers - so more money is chasing a broadly similar basket of goods. The late 60's and 70's saw rapid inflation, and the technical advances and new markets that opened up from that period to today are pretty much all rooted in that early investment in military R&D.

On the other hand, when you have money land directly into the hands of consumers, that money is only skewed by cultural values. They could go Kickstart some wacky project. They could push for higher quality goods. They could pay off debts, change residences, and go back to school. Consumers aren't purely profit-seeking or utilitarian - how the macro situation would change is one huge unknown, but the main point of appeal is that it would be a very fluid kind of demand, and if consumers start disliking their ROI in one category, they can smoothly transition to something else - which means the traps and bottlenecks of other policy changes may not apply.
Pointing to existing state of affairs as an argument why this is ever more efficient is to deny the existence of progress, which is clearly wrong.

Current advantage of electromobiles on the market over hydrogen cars is not important.
"Once more of us are familiar with it, the Basic Income Guarantee should be an easy sell politically. It gives money to poor people, reduces taxes for rich people..."

I don't have my work from the last time I ran the numbers, but I recall that the break-even point on increased taxes vs. guaranteed income was at about $70,000.

This didn't take into account the potential of eliminating social programs, but even without those, a BIG would require tax increases on the order of doubling the US federal government revenue. While I like the concept, I don't think you can sell it this way.
This guy seem like he deserved it: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-life-and-death-of-...