skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two points I'd make:

1) Maybe yes. If the practices are really bad, it could be surprising that they're widespread and that people don't see a problem.

2) In general, when someone is pointing out something bad, saying "you're surprised?!" is counter-productive. You don't have to be surprised to call something out (I'm not surprised anymore how much our government spies on us, but it seems bad).
Less than stellar reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Ivation-Waterproof-Bluetooth-Handsfree...
i have visited colroado in the summer and man it does get hot. You are so close to the sun there
No, Woz commented on that post with the Instructables link.
CSS still sucks in 2015
> Also consider paying for high quality journalism

Absolutely! However in the case of the WSJ it is cancelled out by my desire not to give Rupert Murdoch any money.
Tech start ups are a rather small part of the overall IT industry. I dont really have the numbers to back it up, so i am not going to speculate as far as the actual numbers, but any discussiona bout workplace IT that ignores everything that isnt a tech start up is virtually useless.
>apparently it's apocryphal

It sounds like a fable. I know that primates are smarter than other animals but I doubt that without some strong negative association they would be able to keep up that convention when there's an obvious prize right there, especially if they got hungry.
Sure, what is fun to me may not necessarily be fun to others, I get that. The point I was trying to make was to perhaps try finding other ways to exercise - I found it in an unlikely (for me, 10 years ago) activity, maybe you will, too.
That seems like something that is worth (tactfully) screening for in interviews when given the opportunity to respond.

So instead of asking "are you Kaizen?" you would ask about practices performed that imply Kaizen, including the spirit of the law and not the letter.
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The challenge is on. I'm preparing some popcorn now.
Yeah contributing.md doesn't get read much, or it gets skimmed over.

Issue templates seem to MOSTLY fix the problem, so we wrote a bot that sticks in some canned questions when it looks like your bug didn't follow the template. People recoiled to the bot for months but new users were totally fine with it.

I really wish GitHub had some sort of optional facility for a stock template for the "bug" field, as it would save collective years of people's combined lives. It would just need to populate some text in the issue box by default. Call this ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md if you want, etc.

Various third party attempts to do this - like use this bug page instead of github's new issue form, don't really work as the one NICE thing about github is that everyone knows how every project sort of works. Sort of. Which is also the one nice thing as they don't join the lists or really understand how various projects really really work :)
I see, thank you for clarifying. Having used all versions of Windows up until 8[1] and 8+ years of ubuntu, I'm surprised I never realized this standard existed. It makes perfect sense that it does - I just didn't know it. I agree that it's unfortunate it's not as well supported on Linux as it should be.

Coming from the other side of things, I had a lot of trouble when I was lent a brand new Macbook Pro for travel during my last job. It seemed some things worked using cmd and others using ctrl. I don't remember the specifics, as I didn't use it often enough, except that I'd find myself mashing keys on occasion trying to figure out the right combination.

It was far worse when I dual booted with ubuntu. The keys made no sense to me there either. Finally, I replaced OSX completely and the keys were "normal" again (ctrl+* for everything).

1: Also lots of DOS, but I don't even remember what versions. I had managed lots of desktops and servers running DOS for a few years in IT a couple lifetimes ago.
Predictability is going through some unpredictable changes
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"...to a 5 year old" should be pretty safe. "...to your grandmother" could be construed as both sexist and ageist, so I'd avoid it.
thanks for the links - will read :)
I'd guess that they can do it under some sort of promotional clause in the contract, something stating that the publisher doesn't need to pay royalties for promotional copies of any book.
Can we not lobby hard enough for universal healthcare? Which has been shown to deliver healthcare at a much lower cost per capita?

Google, Facebook, and Apple are in front of how many people's faces per day? Sounds like a huge lobbying force to me
If this goes through Warrant Canaries will become much more popular.
> This is a problem even when cultures discourage meanness and encourage feedback: cultures of niceness seem to have as many issues around speaking up as cultures of meanness, if not more. In some places, people are afraid to speak up because they’ll get attacked by someone mean. In others, they’re afraid because they’ll be branded as mean. It’s a hard problem.

That's a really good insight, and it's something to keep in mind with all the recent controversy about development cultures.
Overall Context for the dispute: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3y91d1/dram...

(if there's a better source, let me know)

Key quote/thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3y6eqc/console_os_...

> After Christmas, we're getting back to coding, and yes - pushing to GitHub new content. We hope that this puts perspective to the situation - and why we decided to fork Android-x86 versus contribute to it.
That is a pretty cool motor, but the basic physics of a robot of this size suggests closer to 30HP or 22,500W. The fuel cell decomposing idea is an interesting one too. The good news is that the customer is price insensitive so you can charge a lot to cover your R&D expenses.
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au contraire: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TQ5TDLC
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Fair enough; I just dislike running into paywalls in the future, hence the preventative measure XD it's useful on sites like Quora, too.
This sounds great, a lot of applications are already a better experience on my phone than my desktop in many ways. The notification system and DPI scaling on Android would be killer features for me in a desktop platform. And that's not to mention the number of games and other little trinket apps that are just better than web clients for banking and such.

I just hope they can find a good way to do multitasking - that's really the only feature I think is really needed to get Android usable on desktop and laptop hardware.

If the Console OS guys can't deliver then I hope this money will be made available to volunteers willing to implement these features. Some of this is stuff I'd already like to have - getting paid a bit for it would be a nice bonus. I'm sure other devs think similarly.
This is that thing where managers buy a book and pay some consultants to (further) justify being dicks to their subordinates isn't it?
That blog contains some impressive image processing with examples, thank you for linking.
Managing to make various isolated domains gracefully talking to each other is nice. But sometimes real life is a bitch and forces you to make a big solo complex domain.

If you have to take that path, letting the side-effects happens only when the outside world actually asks you to do something (the operation) is way better than letting it happen all over the place.
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I've heard it a few times on HN (are you its dev?). Can you name so advantages of Beaker over Jupyter?
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I figured the tricky part would be automatic failover to a different data center when one goes offline. At least, I inferred that you had implemented that, from the part about you not having to get out of bed if a data center goes offline.
Space firm creates ArcaBoard – a 'real hoverboard'
Where "function" means "like in math", right? Not "arbitrary callable block of code". I think it makes sense to think of "functional" as more or less synonymous with "approaching Haskell", even if you want to include many other languages under the umbrella.
None of these articles explain why privacy is a good thing. They just assume it to be a fact. I have some issues with this.

What if the entire premise of privacy being beneficial is flawed? What if the actual problem is that we build systems and processes that rely on the unsustainable idea of privacy and the wishful ability to keep secrets? Do people not see that this makes everything more fragile and likely to break?

I don't want more regulations for startups that want to analyze my genome, nor do I want to become an expert in internet security just to browse the web. Writing software is already difficult as it is, and the requirement to protect privacy makes it even more difficult and risky.

The real question is, what can we do to make living a transparent and open life possible.
> It is really a generational effect. People in law school learned this way of thinking 10 years ago, and they are coming into their place in the regulatory space.

As someone in that group, I don't know if I see any evidence of this generational effect. The Internet is just the latest battleground for ideologies that have always existed: consumer protection, national security, business freedom, market solutions. The same sort of thinking guides the people who call for backdoors now, who called for banning encryption in the 1990's, who called for easier access to credit card and other transactions in the 1970's, etc.

Businesses that create technological products are always going to be entities the government can control. And regulators will never be encryption utopians. They'll always be mild pragmatists willing to make compromises whose values fall moderately left or right of center on the authoritarian scale.
This is absolutely true. However I just generally dont see the point in 'fighting' superiors... its not that its impossible to fight the system and make things right, its just not a good investment of an individual contributors time and effort. much better investment to move to an organization that is either already aligned with positive processes or actively seeking to improve processes.
What is meant is that the objective [paper-clip-building] is crudely implanted into the AI as an ultimate goal, in a similar way to how sustenance, pain avoidance and affiliation are very basic goals in our cognitive system.

Sure but it is a continuation of the argument in different forms.

If one is saying the AI is just a combination of crude imperatives surrounded by "intelligence" then consider, could you build a human-level AI without that AI speaking as a person and without that AI having digested culture?

Even the neural networks that exist today are rather dependent on their "training sets". Watson is a glorified natural-language interface to wikipedia and related sources.

Many hypothetical-AI arguments that appear, oppositely, imagine that some omnipotent thing will be created without that creation following the obvious path of digesting that vast store of information and communication that is human knowledge.

However, you might be saying that a creator first gives the AI all this nuanced understanding of human knowledge and communication but then doesn't do the obvious thing, give it the imperative, "follow my directives as a loyal but intelligent servant would" and says incidently, "one directive is get me some paper clips". Rather, the creator say "now that you understand everything, make paper clips ruthless, beyond all else, all other actions build to up to this paper clip building thing". Sure, GAIs could do insane damage but it I think one if one considers that GAIs would not be produced by accident, such damage almost certainly be a product of human intentions.
The best example I can think of is in middle distance running, when Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile.
I agree, but only mostly: there will always be companies that 'get it' and offer both a cloud and a standalone version.

For example (plug), we offer a product called Userify (ssh key management for the cloud) but we also offer a (rather expensive) enterprise version for people to deploy it on-site. In fact, we recommend that, since it's more secure for you to deploy and lock down your own version in your own VPC or DC.

And this is good for us, since the cloud version is free in its base form, and the enterprise version is currently the only way we're driving any revenue.

As time goes on, these models will stabilize and companies will go back to giving people what they actually want. You can't optimize for yourself forever; at some point, you lose customers.

So, as a counterpoint, large mobile providers have largely stopped subsidizing phones (which was blatant lock-in) in order to give people what they really want, which is choice. It makes more sense for the customer, and therefore automatically makes more sense for the company. Unless they have absolute market power, they can't throw their weight around that much.

So I'm not worried about TV manufacturers that require a monthly subscription. Those will get returned to the store fairly quickly and the ones that hide their costs will have a growing black stain on their brand and eventually fade into oblivion. It's said that customers are fickle, but customers as a whole are really quite rational.

(Counterpoint to this counterpoint: Apple and everything they make.)
I hesitated to reply to this because what I'm about to say could be taken as pedantic. However, it is my experience that many people experience a good way of working, apply a label to it and then use that label thinking that it will communicate all of the good things that they intended. This is rarely the case. At some point you see many articles entitled "Why X doesn't work" where they describe a broken version of X and why it doesn't work. The broken version ends up getting more popular than the unbroken version for some reason and there is a general consensus that "X doesn't work and anyone that uses X is an idiot", even though X works perfectly fine if you use it correctly.

With that in mind, "lean" as a principle is organized around the idea that it is better have people request functionality (pull) than for you to imagine what people want and then try to sell it (push). Many "lean" organizations happen to be very good at continuous improvement, but you can be "lean" without any capability for improvement.

"Kaizen" is the Japanese word for continuous improvement. It was introduced to western eyes primarily from the "Toyota Way", which is a lean manufacturing system that concentrates on continuous improvement. It is important to understand, though, that while workers have a responsibility for identifying problems, it is the managers who are responsible for working with the workers to implement improvements in the Toyota way. So there are clear demarcations of responsibility, unlike many of the IT processes that borrow the word "kaizen".

Even "continuous improvement" can be a loaded term with respect to responsibilities. The first time I ran across the term was dealing with CMM (the Capability Maturity Model). Once you are up to level 4 or 5 you are using metrics to improve your process in order to obtain continuous improvement. In every organization I've seen that attempted to achieve CMM level 4 or above, the primary driver was management (and often workers were not even consulted about improvements or why they were necessary -- they were only told to do things a certain way). I'm not saying it was successful, but it was very common ;-)

I guess my point is that if you are lucky enough to be working on a team that does continuous improvement well, be aware that what you call "Lean" or "Kaizen" is unlikely to be what other people call it. You can not communicate what it is you want to communicate using those words alone. If you have been reading literature using these words and believe that if you simple follow a "Lean" system and embrace "Kaizen" that you will transform your organization into one that does continuous improvement well, I'm sorry to burst your bubble. If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, all the difficult problems are people problems and those problems almost always require unique solutions. It can be quite tricky no matter what you are doing.
And there's a lot of discussion from when the article was submitted to HN two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738952
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The idea is to dispel office politics by telling people to stop hiding their feelings and opinions.

The problem is that assholes will use it to justify being a dick, just as they used office politics and Ayn Rand.
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That is pretty neat and I love seeing more project statistics- however, fair warning, I was a bit surprised it doesn't scan issues older than 6 months.

As a result, if a project closes all issues in either a day or ten years, it will report that the mean time to resolution is 1 day and not essentially ten years :)
I don't think this is a good idea. The point of a company is to execute the business plan and create revenue and profit by doing so. Requiring brutal honesty of employees doesnt help this. As an employee, you're supposed to play into your role as a cog in the machine. Your honest opinions don't matter very much.
I was never a fan of special cases in Math. Especially when it's not a special case. Saying that an element in the product matrix is a product of a row taken from one matrix and a column from another does not require matrices to be square and fits all possible applications of matrix multiplication already.
I must be unimaginative but I can't figure out what a Smart Fridge would do that a normal one doesn't already (besides the incredibly useless remind me to get milk or whatever).

Will it become as annoying as my printer that tells me when it's time to order genuine non-warranty voiding ink (just click here!)?

Or detect if I haven't used OEM parts or a factory certified repair service?

Edit: Wait, I thought of one. A Weight Watchers tie in that detects how many times I've cheated and locks the door.
Whether there's continuing support for a product is a very different issue. At some point, all consumer hardware was functional in a version of Windows or OS X, since it was released precisely with support for one or both of those OSs. Yes, updates break things, but that is a very different problem than the one facing Linux. The problem facing Linux is that manufacturers are not supporting (or not seeking with much vigor to support) any Linux distribution upon initial release of the hardware.
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Ask HN: Automated way to check open source licenses?
Is there a way to be alerted when you introduce an open source component with a dangerous license (GPL) into your codebase? Ideally it would integrate into GitHub like TravisCI, to alert me when a Pull Request introduces a component, or if a license changed on a component that was upgraded.

I know of a few products that are related:
- DavidDM (https://david-dm.org/) does dependency checking
- Snyk (https://snyk.io/) does vulnerability checking
- Blackduck (https://www.blackducksoftware.com/) does everything, but it's heavy, not hosted, and expensive.

I was thinking about building one myself if I can't find something out there. Would anyone else use it? Node.js and Bower support first, others later.
Does anyone know whether this is a degenerative disease or a condition one is born with? It's possible the whole brain is necessary for learning, (including learning how to learn more abstract things), but then can be pruned heavily to move information into denser networks.
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Yeah, I am. I am designing a vacuum system for the X-Casrve CNC. CF dust is really bad for electronics and your health, as you mentioned it. My vacuum will have a filter and outlet to the outside.
Well it's understandable.

While most of us are in the middle of holidays theres some poor soul beavering away trying to implement some feature before the "end of the year" deadline and tapped the wrong combination of keys and bam! the bank account graph starts dipping and crap hits the fan.

Hey, why don't you read some of the theoretical security / programming books that your company publishes?

-11 to Springer.
I'm quite surprised to see that there's no Aerospike in this comparison.
This is surprising to me. I do most of my web development on Linux Mint and crashes are rare - like Sasquatch rare.

I've also used:

Mandriva
Unbuntu 14
Slackware

And had the same near-perfect performance with those distros as well. I was always told one of the great advantages with Linux is how stable it is and for the last decade or so, I've found that to be true.

Now I'm curious to know what you're doing to make your OS crash so much.
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There are many who not only remain unconcerned but often seek to diminish or dismiss concern as hyperbole or exaggerated, often by pointing to the current status quo.

No one is interested in you the individual, but they are certainly interested in building the capability to track all individuals and preempt anything that threatens any entrenched status quo.

We are not currently a police state but we are certainly building the capability and the cultural language to justify it. The moral high ground and the entire framework of values that powered it have shown to be near meaningless by the alarming ease with which they have been discarded in favour of the language of security and paranoia. Everyone is safe in a cage. It will be naive to believe in the context of how modern states operate that a cluster of extreme right wing medievalists in the ME are bringing on this state of affairs, the bulk and most powerful of whom are paradoxically our best friends in the region.

Surveillance states are not a on/off thing, you don't suddenly wake one day to a surveillance state. These capabilities take time to build, but once the infrastructure is in place it will inevitably get used.

In this case we can see all the pieces being put in place methodically with language that makes George Orwell look astonishingly prescient. And its the self absorption of this generation who have inherited and enjoyed a relatively 'free' and equal state with 'hope for improvement' but are going to willfully pass on something more ominous.
In fact Ocatve was the first thing I tried, on Windows, but it wasn't quite the experience I'm looking for. I ran something like

a = [ 1 2 3 ];
plot( a )

On one machine it showed a figure window, then hung for like a minute and then showed the correct plot. On another machine it showed some exception in the command window, IIRC, but in any case it did not plot. Usually I'd investigate this further, report a bug and hope it would get fixed, or try to fix it myself and contribute, but this time I just didn't feel like it..
Because decentralized social systems don't grow very well, usually owing to lack of ease of use. Twitter, you sign up, plug in the name of some interesting people, and you're done.

(Also, RSS is strictly one way)
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Is being able to deliver blunt and direct criticism without being rude a unique or rare skill?
> There is an awful lot of pseudo religious bollocks that surrounds it but within that there's a really solid method for improving the quality of your life.

I bet Christian yoga will eventually become really popular in the US. I'd imagine it would keep the physical elements of yoga but infuse light Christian meditation into it, rather than the vague eastern spirituality that's currently everywhere in the industry.
His work is also at LACMA. Treasures, all.
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North Pole temperature is above 0; 50 degrees hotter than average