skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, given that he murdered himself in his last novel.
It is "failure to use issue tracker effectively" and it happens all the time.

The problem is confounded by many little cuts. For instance, they think that the issue tracking system is only used by devs, so it goes on a dust-filled desktop machine from '03 that is stuffed in a corner somewhere, so it is underpowered and takes 25 seconds to load a page over my DSL connection and about 22 seconds at the office.

The people at the office don't care, however, because the boss thinks the issue tracking system is a waste of time. He bitches me out for taking 10 minutes to write up an estimate and then giving an estimate which is always "too long." I am carefully watching the star programmer to understand what he does right, and finally realize the reason he doesn't have this problem is that he doesn't estimate anything. Sometimes the testers put in tickets, and sometimes the star programmer puts one in, but the "product owner" never puts one in or bothers to show up at the scrum meetings down the hall.

Top management assigned a project manager to our team and she was putting in the scrum thing because my team had been going in circles for two years and they had to get a product in front of the customer. My boss pushed her out and she left to work for some kind of Christian charity.

At some point our boss got the religion of checklists, gave up on the idea of estimating or scheduling, and somehow we got it across the finish line.
As far as I'm concerned, any use of Bootstrap is misuse. The classes are absolutely hideously named. Anytime you have to break the mold it's way more painful than it has to be.

I default these days to building up CSS from scratch. The decision to use a framework has always bit me bad in the past. I do not want to have to become an expert in a framework, but it seems you need to just to be able to use it effectively.
So many internal IT departments don't have the luxury of a designer, so Bootstrap is great for them. All of our internal tools were old-school, table-based layouts and slowly they're making their way to Bootstrap because the pure coders there can implement it easily for all the boring dashboards and intranet level things.
In fairness, it's probably the only way to get the coveted billion-dollar valuation. If that's your metric for success rather than operating margins or return on shareholders' equity, you don't really have much of a choice. A small company could serve those 50,000 very well and make its founders and investors quite rich, but very few people want to run a small company. It's all about getting to $1 billion and either selling out huge or going public. That status is more important to almost everyone than actually making money or creating something people like. So enjoy your Apple Music and your Pandora!
This blog elicited a chuckle. My employer recently mandated JIRA for all teams, even those teams which have been using other agile tools for years. No good explanation was given.
Oh man. Writing banned words with object drops (or corpses) was classic humor back in the EQ days. Even better if your writing made the zone laggy.
Aye but ZFS on Linux is rock solid and definitely the way to go.

Technically you don't need ZFS to use the Manatee state machine. You could swap out the ZFS snapshot transfer service to use pg_basebackup instead.

For anyone interested I have made the appropriate alterations to Manatee to get it to run on Ubuntu with the standard ubuntu-zfs packages.

The fork is here: https://github.com/josephglanville/manatee

Chef cookbook to help you get started along with the other dependencies: https://github.com/josephglanville/cookbook-manatee
It's an investment in the future. The Japanese will be much better off with a third or a fifth of their current population someday on their overstuffed islands; that's going to require some shrinkage. If you intend to encourage everyone to live out his full natural lifespan in comfort -- as we should -- then it's going to cost a little. Shouldn't cost too much, though.
LCDs do smart processing. In the past reaction time of the crystals was also kind of slow, but that isn't a factor nowadays. It's just the various filters that are applied on top of the image to make it "pop" more.

Edit: some high-hz TVs can have 2 or even 3 frames of lag, due to having frame interpolation algorithms that take a 23.97/24/25/30/etc signal and interpolate it to the native 144hz. The frame interpolation algorithm needs to know 2 or 3 frames in advance, so it buffers up those.
Probably one. This means it has roughly 8ms/request and likely works because it's not computationally bound.
Mind to tell some pros for that?
I am pretty aware of the difference given that I said I grew up in a mixed household. The Seventh Day part of the name is because of the rejection of the belief that the Catholic Church has the authority to move the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday (The Lords Day in Catholic terminology) thus they worship on the seventh day. Now I know your just trying to spread FUD.
Depends on the language. Some languages the core contributors are active enough across the language that you can get a very wide view of the projects happening in that language. Certainly it will never be as efficient as a flat list, but it can still be useful for finding interesting things.
The JetBrains jquery cookies console
I did exactly the same for almost every project I started. Just extract the grid, vendor-prefixes and a few other generic rules for alignment and you're set.

The only wish I could make is a "simplified" responsive menus/navbars, so it would be easier to build on top of that after.
The reason why everyday heroes emerge in atrocities
Actually, that's an entirely subjective statement. While I think they're monsters, many people feel that western culture is immoral and downright evil. To people who have seen nothing but the West waging war in their region, these people may appear to be freedom fighters dying for a noble cause. Good and Evil are entirely a matter of perspective.
I'm not convinced about the necessary part. They may have forced their own hand (knowingly or not), but no outside force made intervention in Iraq a necessity for the US -- neither the first, nor the second time around.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say or what you think the OP and GP are, but saying "the Paris attackers were bad" doesn't really add much so you might need to clarify.
Facebook's editorial control of users' postings makes it feel I have no control over when/where my own updates appear, thus rendering it irrelevant to me, though I do use it to follow others.

Also, the bulk of my friends on Facebook, by and large, regurgitate garbage 'viral' content I have no interest in.

Links to interesting content for me, are on Twitter, Bandcamp and YC.
We've got the fourth lowest tax rate among OECD convention countries (if we're looking at taxes vs GDP). Look at it from a perspective of rates on $100k gross income, and we're still not even in the top 50%.

I don't think any US economic issues can be laid at the feet of our tax rates with that in mind.

Interestingly enough, Japan is usually only 3 positions above us in Tax/GDP, and 9 positions above us in Tax/$100K, which calls the thesis of this article into question...
"If you are rich, you must, by definition, be doing good since you are providing a valued service that people are paying for." This is the logic; find it in this very thread.
You can't generalize over a billion people like this.

Of course you can. The issue is not that such generalizations are invalid, but what conclusions to draw from them and what actions to take in response.

Also note that I have a black friend^W^W Muslim roommate (in fact a Hafiz) I get along well with. That does not mean I don't consider Islam as it presents itself today on a global scale a dangerous ideology.

For example, there are many Muslim-majority states that have had multiple women as heads of state.

And how many out gay politicians are there in such countries? And anecdotally speaking, remember what happened to Benazir Bhutto.
Genuine question:
Why does Facebook and Zuckerberg get such a hard time on HN when Google and Brin/Page doesn't?
They basically have the same supposedly shabby business model.
> You really have to go back in time to find these examples

I remember the centre of my local town being blown to shit when I was a teenager.

1996 is not that long ago. You really shouldn't discard it as 'the past'. What's funny is, large segments in the US actively supported these terrorists. All their rhetoric and they're just as guilty.
Thomas told me that our final beta starts at the end of the day today. Go Ptaceks go! (My stuff is sitting on AWS chilling behind a basic auth barrier.)
And car-pooling has a long history although my sense is that it's perhaps less common than it used to be--probably because work hours tend to be more variable than in the past. While apps and so forth can reduce transaction friction enough to create markets where they didn't previously exist, I reserve the right to be suspicious of claims that an app suddenly makes a service viable that wasn't before.
>> A normalization solution, typography, buttons and a grid system, just roll your own, with your own presets and much less bloat.

I've gone with the "ala carte" solution and just grab a minimal grid system, a minimal css framework for buttons and other smaller components, and a normalization tool. I've found by being able to pick and choose my tools, it still takes a lot less bloat than BS.

Having said that, I still find it useful. For example, I've been working on a large enterprise billing application. We used BS out of the box and although we ran into a few issues, it saved us months in design work and allowed us to start writing the services and UI pages much faster than if we had we taken a more "ala carte" approach like the kind I prefer.
This kind of moral equivocation can only come if you really have no clue about the reality of these conflicts, in my opinion. It's one of the great weaknesses of our civilisation that we are "too broad-minded to take own own side in a quarrel" (to quote a phrase I just learned today).

In the large, one side wants to impose rule based on beliefs about what an omnipotent sky person wants and is willing to sacrifice innocent lives (even celebrate such sacrifice) to do so. The other side wants to propagate individual liberty and democracy and takes great lengths to avoid civilian casualties.

In the small, things don't always play out quite like this, but to draw equivalence between the two sides is morally abhorrent.
Ditto... it was a way for them to standardize reports from various teams veiled as a cost cutting initiative. Since they are unwilling to pay for anything (read plugins), our JIRA boards are shells of the tools we were using and paying for team by team.
Why isn't bootstrap acceptable for production?

For smaller projects why shouldn't I be able to use it? If I'm building a 5-10 page website for a small business it's a prefect fit. I can customize the colors and use the image sliders and other features already given to me. Add what I need and I have something that's easily to remember at a later point.

If I created a larger app why would I want to rewrite everything for prod. It makes it easier if multiple people are working on the UI because we are all working with bootstrap. Newer people are able to get up to speed on the project faster since it's a common framework.
Exactly. As someone who has spent a lot of time writing intranet sites as a one man army (with more strength in application development than design), Bootstrap has been a godsend for me.
Endless growth is impossible.
Unlike gold, the treasure Saudi Arabia is sitting on top of is: in higher demand, more easily convertible into wealth and prosperity, and among it's resource class, the most easily accessible in the world. That, combined with the fact they live in a dangerous part of the world, leads me to believe it's a rational decision to try to protect their treasure.

Whether their armed forced are capable is, sadly, depending on your POV, another story. Like in most autocratic societies, a strong military is seen as a threat to the leadership.
If you ever have a free hour, check out the wikipedia page for regression analysis.

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

It's by far the most approachable wikipedia page/section I've encountered for explaining a mathematical topic.

Regression analysis has a few things going for it over other topics.

1) It uses simple math. We aren't solving black scholes here and using Ito's lema. All the math you need to do least square regression you learned in high school.

2) Its graph-able. Some people are fine learning via numbers only, some people need to visualize the result. For the later, being able to show a line going through a series of points makes analysis super easy.

A few weeks ago my 7 year old daughter saw an R kniter doc with a grid of 25 plots on I was using for determining co-integration of various ETF's for the purpose of pairs trading.

She doesn't obviously understand linear regression though she was able to look at the plots and find the ones who had the best "fit".

2b) The results are dead simple in most cases to interpret.

I think one thing that trips people up with statistics is that up until they encounter statistics, most of the math they are introduced to is analytical, you take the numbers, apply the formula and get a definitive answer.

Then you encounter statistics and realize there is no black and white, you can get an average, but what about its standard deviation? Ok, now you have to analyze the standard deviation, and repeat to infinity.

You never really get a definitive, "this is the answer" style answer from statistics. Everything is "here is your result, but you should also apply this technique to analyze your result".

With linear regression, its often very simple to interpret your results, which makes it one of the more approachable statistical techniques.

3) It has well supported libraries in almost any programming language.
I so totally needed this. Thank you,.
I love the idea that Haskell users are all wringing their hands about .... Idris.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/resurrecting
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Is there a word, possibly related to "humblebrag", for this habit of putting down and insulting popular tools?

Don't use Bootstrap, don't use jQuery, etc.

I mean the basic concept of the article is the assumption that you, the average reader, were going to use it in the first place, which means it's probably wildly successful.

And the comments fall into the same kind of area, "Sure, if you're some kind of big baby amateur idiot who doesn't know what they're doing, then go ahead and use one of the most popular tools in this space."

https://xkcd.com/378/
No. Not 'he', and not just distributing how-tos. Read the link if you'd like to be aware of what's happening though.
Thanks! I should mention that these tests were for a specific (highly tuned for the specific job) production HPC machine, so I don't know how this compares to a more generic setup - unfair of me to generalize the results to every matrix multiplication. We developed off the production machine in GFortran, and it worked very very well for us - didn't do timing tests there, but anecdotally, in development the difference was unnoticeable.
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I dunno, I'd say the social norm involves kids that wish to rebel do so by smoking, drinking, doing drugs, the odd bit of petty crime and having underage sex. If anything, Muslim kids are the exception to this standard rule (but given the reported behaviour of some prominent terrorists, that's probably too much of a simplification too)

I quite like your story concept but I think the realistic plotline would have many of the most successful kids at defying the rules doing so because they have no scruples whatsoever about throwing their classmates under the bus to get their way, whilst even the relatively sane rebels might feel inclined to celebrate their graduation by continuing to altogether reject the system.
Pretty much. For me, I think bootstrap comes out ahead even the projects that wanted to tweak everything. It gets a little messy, but not as messy as building from scratch.

Projects that allow you to work within bootstrap's limitations and simply tweak the colors and other basics are a dream come true and wind up looking great. Not design award grade artistic, but functionally very good in a way that's not hard to look at.
although some very basic abilities are innate in the brain, it's through processing of zillion-bytes of data throughout development that humans acquire most of the skills. plasticity basically boils down to network training, although we still know far less about the former than the latter.

It's quite likely we ll have intelligent agents before we can model the brain (even better, we will let them do that for us)
SMS is not safe. Why companies should use verifiable communication channels onl
>Sandberg: Mark said, ‘I’m going to make a marshmallow,’ " she tells me in her conference room, which is adorned with a framed drawing of her as Spider-Woman. "I looked at my friend and said, ‘He’s going to make the perfect marshmallow.’ Because he’s going to be the one out of all of us who is going to have the patience. In order to make the right marshmallow, you can’t do it right in the fire, because then it gets burnt. You can’t walk away. You actually have to sit there for five to 10 minutes with the marshmallow above the flame, but not too close, so that it gets completely heated but doesn’t burn. And the only person who’s actually willing to do that is Mark. Because he is that focused and that determined. I’ve never met anyone with more perseverance than Mark Zuckerberg.

Coming soon to a VC interview: The s'mores test. Burn it and you're toast.
Every day is the last day you have to make a decision about the rest of your life.
Design and Cognitive Ease: What Max Martin and Starbucks Have in Common
I actually am an ADP user/administrator. As crappy as their system is (I could go on for days), their domain expertise is unmatched.

I wish a payroll startup would put resources into a nice UI and having some really season support too. Just doesn't seem to be there yet, unfortunately.
The ideal scenario for the NSA-types is "unbreakable" crypto with a built-in NSA-only escrow/backdoor and possibly a secondary backdoor for five eyes allies (with domestic traffic free of 5-eyes backdoor.)

Suspension of disbelief on security of escrow mechanism is a necessary pre-condition.
I would argue that ts the experience and not the result (I'm talking about SV of course, those that go to Syria are probably going to be dead so their experiences won't count for much).
I think there are methods of becoming rich that pretty clearly do not involve doing "good", but even so, since Facebook users are not paying for the service, the most we could conclude here is that Facebook is doing good for advertisers. That may well be true.
> Yes indeed, but you don't find too many people trying to actually behead or stone people to death based on the Old Testament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_God_%28United_States%2...

Funny that when it's Christian fundamentalism, it's the perpretrator fault, but when it's Muslim fundamentalism, it's Islam fault...

Yes, ISIS/Daesh is as removed from mainstream Islam as LRA is from mainstream Christianity. The main difference I think is that Daesh has a few rich patrons in the gulf states, funneling money to them while acting friendly toward the rest of the world...
Windows 3.1 still in use in Air Traffic Control
I don't know much about actually merging networks. I knew a guy who trained multiple networks in parallel for his M.S. and then combined them by just averaging the corresponding weights. It seemed to work well. For this to work, the networks needed to have the same architecture (same number of layers, nodes in each layer and same connectivity between layers).

Now if you just want to train multiple neural networks (or other classifiers) on different datasets (to have different strengths) then you can keep them separate and build a composite system that lets each network "vote" on an answer to a given problem; the decision of the overall system is a weighted some of the components. See [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning
Sure, they're like religion.

But the claim wasn't religion or things like religion lead to extremism.

It's wrong to say that only religion leads to extremism, and it's even more wrong to say that only Islam leads to radicalisation.
>There is no 40% group of the population in Europe that holds views that are anywhere near as disgusting as that.

Well, only 50+ years ago there was an over 40% population in the US that thought that blacks were inferior and shouldn't sit in the same restaurants/hotels/schools with whites. In fact it was even law in some states.

Beyond that, there were about all major western countries, France, UK, Belgium, Holland, Italy, etc, that had other people enslaved in colonies up until the sixties. 2+ billion people had their countries managed by foreigners, and their fellow countrymen tortured and executed when asking freedom (and sometimes, just killed for fun).

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-...

http://www.monbiot.com/2005/12/27/how-britain-denies-its-hol...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/inside-france...

http://www.theplaidzebra.com/human-zoos-one-europes-shameful...

Heck, even in Paris itself, the French police famously killed over 200 Algerians marching for their country's freedom in a single day in 1961 -- and it took them 40+ years, after all officials were dead or too old, to finally admit it and ask for an apology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

These countries also thought that they should have a say as to whether a remote country should have this or that president or regime -- to the point of toppling legitimate regimes, bombing those countries, coming to assist one party or another in a civil war, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

There have been over 2 million victims of those interventions in the last 10 years alone. Every despicable hit by muslim terrorists (and we all agree its despicable) was met with 4-5 orders of magnitude many more innocent victims on those countries.

If some muslim country managed to harm 1/100 that number of, say, Texans, where would the percentages of "tolerance" and "acceptance" towards them go?

We should condemn all violence -- not forgive the one that has better PR and is done by cool looking people who have the same background as us.
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US citizens are at greater risk of harm from police officers (who kill about 1,000 people per year) than from Islamist terrorists.

US citizens are at greater risk of far right or Christian extremists than they are of Islamist extremists - see the numbers of people injured and killed by various mass shooters or clinic bombings.
What is disruptive innovation?
IoT and Big Data are creating hidden death traps
Mapping Electoral Finance in the United States with the help of Graph Theory
It is not the fact that nobody needs them. It is rather that members of such societies delay this step (to an uncertain extent) due to having a large amount of possible/alternative life choices, which sadly a negative consequence of such a blossoming society.
If you want to consider the list (that's as long as my arm) of Islamic terror attacks in the 21st century "insignificant", then that's on you, I guess.

It's absolutely not inconsistent to hold the view that Islamically-inspired terror is a big problem for the world, whilst simultaneously holding the view that the vast majority of muslims are peaceful. I don't know why anyone would think otherwise.
In the spirit of rapprochement, how about we say bad vs bad people?