skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following is my unsubstantiated theory about recent bank involvement in bitcoin:
The banks won't go down without a fight. They're setting up a legal minefield for bitcoin entrepreneurs. I doubt they'll use these patents other than to protect the status quo. If the patent minefield doesn't work, they'll capture the market by investing in their own ringfenced version of the blockchain (see "the open ledger project") and PR the hell out of it to ensure that it gets adopted rather than someone else's.

Granted, their strategy won't work if they can't influence adoption or sue the pants off of startup competitors.

Again, this is just a theory. Maybe they really do all of a sudden want to spend millions on something that does basically what their existing services do except they can't control. /sarcasm
I agree with all the points here.

Despite all of this, Linux is still my preferred desktop. Why?

The power! I can literally do anything with it. Including writing my own drivers/applications. Linux is my go to for doing things with zero crap. The same can't be said for Windows nor Mac.

For me, this pro weighs very close to all of the cons I have experienced, experience daily, or will experience.

Also as a desktop Linux user since 2002, it has gotten a lot better. Xrandr and pulseaudio apt-get are good examples of this, despite their design criticisms.

Of the things he listed, the things I would like to see most:

* application-level Sandboxing

* stable and universal high level application API, like Win32/GDI32/DirectX or Cocoa. GTK2+/Xlib/Xwhatever really dropped the ball here. An API that not only assumes a file system, or additionally a graphics system, but an all-encompassing desktop.

* stable and universal application packaging
Oxford Flood Network
http://oxfloodnet.co.uk/
"Making a flood detection network in Oxford, using low cost sensors and volunteers"
Another example of this might be some unreliability in a part once it goes out of warranty.
Not usable on the net?? Shit this was close spec'd to my compiling machine a few years ago.
While I think there are a lot of people who do it for this reason : making themselves seem more appealing to others, I think a lot of people do it for the right reason too: to look better for oneself and to be healthier.

I personally started lifting in college because I thought it was fun and was sick of being super skinny (6' 130lbs). I wanted to be stronger and healthier because lord knows the rest of my time was spent programming, playing video games, or drinking. And I think that's the key, you should be working out for yourself not for others. Do it because you want to look better for yourself, do it because you want to be healthier.

(Anecdotally, I didn't notice that girls found me any more or less attractive after working out and putting on 20 lbs of muscle. That would be have been shitty if that was my end goal.)
But how do you paste? I mean I have all sort of keymaps to enable paste in vim using CUA (shift-insert), but try explaining that to a first time user.

Its the small things that OSX does right.
Arrogance is basically over-confidence to the point of brash, rude and delusional.

So assured of your correctness that you'll ignore contrary information. A military type example would be to assume that your forces are so superior to the enemy that you ignore information about new countermeasures and send your troops to their death.

In programming or business terms, you could have a process that people assume is the right way to do everything in every situation who are unwilling to adapt to nuances.

A few relatable examples:
- Do everything in the database!
- Do everything in the application!
- Do everything in the client!
- This Javascript framework will always be around, we should totally build our business around it!
- Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM!

Usually the best way to detect it is to ask somebody holding hard to a point of view to explain it.

So IMO, the best way to explain arrogance would be delusion in combination with ability to act on it.
Do you know if Starting Strength is available in eBook form anywhere? I can't seem to find it.
CRISPR is far from being the first technology to be held up in the United States while being available elsewhere. There is very little chance the FDA will materially budge on their standards, and even less chance the FDA will be abolished. Most people have a high degree of trust in the FDA (they have a 65% favorability rating according to Pew).

Note that the FDA does allow some compassionate use of experimental medications and technologies in extreme cases. I'm not familiar with Editas's regulatory strategy but it wouldn't be crazy for them to pursue that avenue for, say, a child cancer patient as an early step. But even they will be cautious, as any misstep (i.e., harm to a patient) will have major negative consequences for the technology as a whole.
The Amazon Whisperer (2013)
About your #2: be careful (maybe practice a bit first) not to sound sarcastic/condescending.
I left it open-ended, actually. I talked to the CDO and explained why I was leaving. He agreed with the decision and thanked me for being brave enough to stand up and say it.

It ended up being three weeks before we agreed that I'd successfully handed off everything.

No bad feelings either way -- I'd joined the company because they had said that they wanted to 'grow up,' but that was a feeling percolating up from below. The lower levels of the company wanted to grow up and stop firefighting all the time. The top levels of the company would fight you every last way.
An invention to clean up the world's oceans
Over the last year I've been thinking about switching careers as I've noticed how unimportant what I work on is

If I might suggest an alternative way of thinking, I would argue that even if your day job is figuring out ways to entice people to click on ads, it can still be important because it allows you to make arseloads of money which you then turn around and redistribute to the charities of your choice. Me, I like my work and like to think my work makes the lives of the people that use it just a teensy bit better. But like my work or not, when the local charity says "help, we're in a crunch and need money for $GOOD_CAUSE" I can whip out the checkbook, write a $1000 check and still make the mortgage payment.

And this isn't theoretical, I've actually gone through this mental exercise with the local animal shelter. Is it better that I do a job that doesn't have quite as high a hiring bar as software, for less money, but doing "good work"? Or continue pulling down fat stacks in software, physically volunteer when I can, and write big checks? I chose the latter. As Tyler Durden said, "you are not your job." You are, however, what you do with the fruits of your job.
I assume this tool isn't meant for everyone, but rather those who feel they struggle to be heard and taken seriously when communicating via email.

Sometimes it's effective to be direct, and if you intend to be direct you might consider flagging those words and phrases. But if you are trying to either be conciliatory, or generate consensus, then you need to use phrases like "I think".

Email tone is incredibly difficult to manage, and most people fail. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to de-escalate a situation that was caused when email tone was misinterpreted as harsh, mean, condescending, sarcastic, whiny, etc.

It's to the point where my perfect email plugin would basically block the page and say "isn't there another tool you could use to communicate this"?
I stopped using Linux as my primary desktop OS around 2012. Until then I was an Arch user with my own desktop environment built on StumpWM and a hodge-podge of hand-selected tools. There was no Gnome or KDE in my setup. I liked it quite a bit.

I used Ubuntu on my laptops since I wanted to spend less time administering drivers and arcane configuration formats.

This is a good list.

I just got tired of the configuration formats, crappy drivers, inconsistencies, dependencies... I was irritated at how easy it was for Apple users to plug in a projector and have it just work. I was irritated by every update to some random library that would cause a sub-system to stop working. I hated having to spend any amount of time administering my desktop environment. To me it should just work and the less time I have to spend trawling forums, logs, and restarting processes to find the correct incantations of dependencies and configuration variables the better.

I've stuck with my MacPro Retina, despite my early trepidation about a GUI-driven proprietary OS, because I've spent probably less than an hour in the last 4 years administering it. It's still snappy and works as well as it did on day one (also the hardware is nothing short of amazing). The only thing that sucks at this point is that the OpenGL drivers Apple ships are woefully out of date and I'm thinking of jumping to Windows unless something changes (damnit I wants me compute shaders).

I still use Linux every single day... just in a VM, container, or on some server.
BigDog's power pack was originally a constant speed gasoline engine driving a hydraulic pump and an electrical generator. That's the noisy engine in the earlier videos. The LS3 was supposed to have a new, quieter power pack developed with a small variable-speed Diesel engine. That was subcontracted out by Boston Dynamics. This is as good as it ever got: [1] It still sounds like a dirt bike.

The hydraulic system used is very controllable but not particularly efficient. There's no energy recovery and no springyness; it's brute-force hydraulics. That was reasonable for an experimental machine, but not acceptable in the production product. Atlas, the BD humanoid, has the same problem. It's too similar to BigDog, and weighs about 330 pounds. Schaft, Google's other humanoid robotics company, uses water-cooled electric motors, like Tesla. You can enormously overload electric motors for a few seconds without hurting them, and if you have cooling and temperature monitoring, that works fine. This is probably the way forward for anything smaller than a pony.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arIJm2lAfR8
most of our current enemy combatants probably cannot afford heat sensitive googles

This is likely to change as electronics get ever cheaper.
We've actually incorporated some of their comments (provide more detail, focus on monetization features...) into the new version of the on boarding.

Yet it feels very long and new members don't seem to grasp the other 'basic' features (ticker symbol for stocks, sentiment tracking, etc...).

We're seriously considering revamping it again to try to simplify steps further and make the process more interactive... What is your experience there and how could we optimise our current onboarding?
I don't think piracy is the main driver of the subscription model. Certainly its a factor, but it's not like non-subscription models aren't viable anymore. Preventing piracy has a negligible impact on revenue for most products. There's a combination of factors that make it more appealing.
Motivation for the General Adjoint Functor Theorem [pdf]
It is entirely possible for a centralized organization with membership lists to still call itself "Anonymous." It's become nothing but a gimmick that can be picked up by anyone, or any number of groups. Get some Guy Fawkes masks and hoodies and make threats on Youtube and put out press releases. Congratulations - you're Anonymous.
Unfortunately I don't know much about hypertrophy training, so I may be wrong with a few of the things I'm about to say.

I think that yes, higher reps at lower weight in the 8-12 rep range will generally target hypertrophy more than strength. You wouldn't necessarily want to do a strength program with higher reps to build hypertrophy however, as things like recovery will differ at higher ranges. I want to say that there would be diminishing returns fast if you only did compound exercises at high rep ranges.

I also see many hypertrophy programs will incorporate more exercises which isolate muscles at higher rep ranges than strength programs. I'm sure that this has to do with recovery, since you'll often see split programs like PPL (push pull legs) which offer more days in the gym split up between different muscle groups.
Some additional details and their mail to customers here: http://blogs.intevation.de/thomas/hetzner-duplicate-ed25519-...
"I must say, I’m impressed. Especially at this time of the year I would have expected a slower reaction or a less detailed announcement."
Why do I write Sinux, a flux inspired library for React Native
One year if I read it right - see "What is perpetual fallback license?"
https://jbssales.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb
Yeah. GP's point was overstated. But there's a weaker claim that is just as important and, I think, indisputably true: Windows supports virtually all hardware that is popular among desktop users. Or, even better, Windows supports far more hardware than desktop Linux, especially if you weight hardware by popularity.

It's understandable, of course--Windows has a greater consumer installed base resulting in greater manufacturer interest in supporting the platform. For Linux desktop users, unfortunately, the dynamic is often the opposite: the manufacturer has no interest in supporting the platform, and users/volunteer developers have to do all the work...which the manufacturer may then break at will.

But that doesn't mean that hardware support is not still a major problem for Linux desktop adoption.
Revolutionary France actually tried this. Thankfully, Napoleon saved the French from themselves.

It's not a bad idea in principle, but the massive cost of switching wouldn't be worth the marginal gains.
Seven+playoff+implications+from+Broncos'+victory
I think that they host CS2 for the sake of letting existing license holders continue using the software, and public access is just an obvious side effect iirc.
there is a kindle version for sale on amazon.
Free Wi-Fi for everyone
I love how 6 years later, "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" is still being submitted 6 times a year, getting 1243 points, and is the top post of 2015. Just goes to show how amazingly hilarious it is. I think anyone here should reread it, even if you already have several times.

http://james-iry.blogspot.ca/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mo...
I think you're heading in the wrong direction. First, I think they are buying these for protection, so they can experiment with blockchain tech and no get sued.

Second, I think they want this for inter-bank commerce, not for end users. It makes more sense to implement for banks as a way for them to exchange monies between themselves, at least, at first.
How does a place survive being down 37 days per year (one nine)? Cripes!
OK, I'll amend that to "there is a known mechanism by which the desire-to-eliminate-humanity may arise from pure thought, but no known mechanism by which a utility function may arise from pure thought".
James Clapper’s Twisted Definition of an Insider Threat
Yes, I meant 3 times a week.
I think your response here is a perfect example of what the article rants about.

It may seem normal to you and people with a "good idea how the paper mill works", but it is absolutely insane from the point of view of a lot (hopefully most...) people outside of that bubble, who would likely mostly expect the results in a paper to at least be possible to replicate with the information in the paper.
Ignoring the fact that a lot of software/hardware with cloud components is about lock-in, lately I've been on a quest to replace as many cloud components as I can with sandstorm.io apps.

Some things just work better with centralized cloud-based storage, but there's no reason users shouldn't be in control of that data. Social networks are the big exception. People are working on decentralized social networks, but it's a much harder problem. Many cloud services are just data storage, though.
2015 – What Didn’t Happen
> how do you avoid being arrogant?

Listen, no matter what, and make it a point to not interrupt.

This may or may not stop you from being arrogant, but it can avoid that perception, which is almost as good for group dynamics.
"Fair" meaning "as I see fit", right?

>Taking as much as possible is what the wealthy do.

There's a difference between taking and earning. Some wealthy people take wealth (e.g. steal it), but most of them earn it. Bill Gates didn't take any of my money, but he earned some of it, because I decided that a product his company sold was worth the price.

Taxation, on the other hand, is not earned money; it's taken.
I find your butler analogy intriguing. What are your favorite such books?
Oh... and integration with my devices too. I use hand-off to take calls from my phone on my MBPr all the time. I also use the Keynote app on my phone which controls the application on my laptop. The sync features I don't use as much only because I trust their cloud about as far as I can throw it.

I don't remember Bluetooth or any device integration working well or at all on any Linux distro I've tried. Maybe that has changed but that kind of stuff is nice!
I have to agree with others who point out that this is not at all typical. I have two SSD-backed Windows 10 machines (one at home, one at work), both with much less fancy SATA SSds than yours. Neither takes more than 20 seconds to go from powered off to fully usable (unless I mistype my password a few times).

I'd check my autoruns if I were you.
Thankfully there are still plenty of places where skills like programming and soldering intersect in the "modern era." I also feel (maybe I should say I hope) that we'll see a resurgence in this set of skills in the future as the old guard starts to retire (soon).

I was fortunate to have started my career in the embedded world. I eventually got in to the habit of bringing my laptop and prototypes with me to the lab every morning so that I could stop all of the back-and-forth walking when I needed to attach a lead to a pad, etc...
As it so happens, I'm pretty sure the marginal Linux laptop installation is on a new machine. So from the universe of possible hardware installations, Linux might be superior; from the universe of actual installations in 2015, it lags well behind Windows.
Right - this is a very important point. If you're paying a lot for a thermostat, something is wrong. If you want this to be a smart device (as with many IoT functions), you're better off with an anduino and re-implementing thermostat function with a new array of sensors and software.

an Arduino and a $15 PID will give you a better result anyway, and you'll also get to have the luxury of better sensor distribution, since you can instrument all of that stuff yourself.

The major problem I have with IoT stuff, is that outside of the initial telemetry/sensor/data gathering phase, many of these devices won't change...The idea of a smart thermostat is not really special, nor is the app. Where the IoT would be best is in making it easy to diagnose heat loss in the system/air delivery inconsistency, and then provide a way to make physical changes to the system to improve things. Barring a way to act on the data, its useless. Its also useless to continually collect data over time, since the system has already been optimized. (unless you're expecting your instrumentation to either measure degradation of performance over time, or you can incorporate the instruments into a closed-loop system where they validate that the output remains constant).
The shovelglove is another great quick and dirty way to get into lifting:

http://www.shovelglove.com/
A Free, Almost Foolproof Way to Check for Windows Malware
Maybe this is a case where geek interests and casual interests converge. Some people may literally be doing for chicks. Personally, I'm about to start because a) I want to be healthier (= longer life and better life quality in old age) and stronger (= more capabilities), and b) because it's efficient. I have shit ton of things I'd love to do in little time that's left after dealing with work and other people, so I want to minimize time spent on things that I don't care about per se, but only seek their outcomes.

Oh, and c), I heard it helps with depression.
This was the year when tech became the bad guy
CA adopts sane “hoverboard” legislation
Same here: started using Linux in 2000. Back then hardware support was a real big issue, software was missing, graphical environments for normal people not completely ready, etc. I think things really started to change after Ubuntu, and I would say that Linux got "ready for desktop" around 2008-9. My parents for instance have been using Ubuntu for many years (they also have a windows 7 laptop that is completely owned by malware) and they are very happy with it. Things changed a lot, but yeah, Linux isn't perfect yet, and I agree with some points (for instance the dpi thing). The only way that Linux could be massively used on desktop is by having a company like Microsoft making deals with every single manufacturer in the world for decades.
I did some Prolog programming too for fun, and boy! it requires a complete paradigm shift in thinking! For those unfamiliar with Prolog, Prolog is very different from procedural programing languages. In procedural languages like C and Python, we assign values to variables and ask the computer to do operations on them. In logical programming langauges like Prolog and LISP, we tell the computer truth values of a list of statements, and ask the computer to check truth values of other statements using the provided list.
In the past, Prolog and LISP aimed to become the go to language for Artificial Intelligence programming. Sadly, not many people use them any more.
All Ideas Are Crap
Not arguing but I'm curious what the total cost of ownership of a mule is. Handlers, stabling, feed, medical care, waste, etc. And all that is on a year round basis, you can't just stick it in the garage in the off season. Not to mention a human required to accompany it to the destination.
Now I haven't worked too many places, so I may be naive and/or ignorant, but it's my feeling that most software jobs outside SV and the startup culture are also the wrong environment for "move fast and break things".
The word "arrogant" is more appropriately used with the benefit of hindsight. It's not appropriate to call someone "arrogant" simply because there is a disagreement of ideas.

Napoleon was "arrogant" for thinking he could march 500,000 troops into Russia in the middle of Winter. But had he succeeded, he'd be described much differently.

Frequently, people that call others "arrogant" are actually voicing their own insecurities and using it as a crutch to avoid moving outside of their comfort zone.
doteasy is serving a 200k "exceeded" page to protect themselves from serving about 50k of page?

Maybe it's marketing, but "Look! I'll randomly embarrass you in front of your readers!" isn't much of a selling point.
I agree with you on weight training. I would also recommend taking the time to learn to lift correctly. I see a lot of people at the gym lifting in ways that can do a lot of damage, especially to one's back and knees. I would also recommend free weights over machines, since they require more balance.

I think it is also worth looking at kettlebells and gymnastic rings. Here are some good exercises using gymnastic rings. They're a bit challenging at first, but worth the effort, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrFB9AV3VMg
Although in modern times it's almost ridiculously hard to avoid added iron in food these days due to enforced fortification based on outdated ideas from the 1940's.
Yaks and camels too, depending on the environment.
As a fun bonus, you also get to have a daily 1337 o'clock celebration!
Open Source Software Went Nuclear This Year