skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practicing engineering manager here: if you're overly enthusiastic about your current project/task and you can learn from it then it's ok to work more but in general I'd suggest doing personal projects, widening the horizontal bar on your T-shape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills) and/or getting your feet wet in different fields like UX, online marketing or product management. I'm always super excited and proud when I hear my engineers talk about their sideprojects on our 1on1s.

I find that (constant) overtime is just not worth it. While it may seem like good citizenship to put in constant extra effort but in the mid- or long run you'll feel that it becomes an expectation and you're not being compensated for it. It will lead to burn-out with time. If the projects are constantly badly planned/estimated use your extra time to get better at planning and estimation and coach your team on it - if you're slow and that's why you'd need to work more then use your extra time to get better in your trade with focused practice.
No they can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

If you have an example of an individual who committed large-scale fraud and got away "scot free", I'd like to see it.
No, they can't. The special versions of their editors do things that are not possible in a plugin because of how much the UI changes the editor. The good news is that you can now get a license for all of the intellij based IDEs. It's not cheap, but worth it.
Of course numbers his numbers don't add up, as barbie would say, "math is hard"
I had an interesting experience with alcohol growing up. My parents were pretty strict, so I didn't go to drinking parties in high school. I didn't get drunk for the first time until near the end of my senior year in high school. It was great fun, and it helped me feel accepted. I drank a bit more, especially as graduation got closer.

One night I blacked out, and scared myself at how much I drank. I asked my best friend that week to "Stop me if I ever start to drink like that again." He looked me in the eye and told me he couldn't do that, because his dad was an alcoholic and he'd grown up hearing comments like that all his life. I had no idea.

I decided to hold off on drinking for a while, knowing that I have a tendency to dive into new things. I ended up not drinking at all through college. I went to plenty of parties, and it wasn't awkward at all because everyone knew me as someone who just didn't drink. It was a relief to try a beer some time after graduation and realize I could enjoy a drink or two with friends and not get drunk.

I've seen a lot of lives seriously impacted by alcohol, and I'm grateful every day that I found a way to manage my consumption at a young age. I admire people who can pull back from heavy social drinking like the author describes.
Obama's CV
How to hire: False positives vs. false negatives
runs flawlessly for me on my 8~ yr old device (some AMD quad core thing). Boot ups are always a bit of a crunch, but afterwards its one of the best performing IDEs I've ever used.
Video: The Root Causes of Product Failure by Marty Cagan
Oh trust me, we tried. Even when he would order them, he demanded them all to be done. It was fundamentally inconceivable to this person, and to the founder who was relatively unfamiliar with software, that software can take time. And what is hard often isn't obvious to someone who isn't an engineer.

They did shit -- and the memories are coming back! -- like build multiple versions of the hardware that fixed different problems. Guess what they didn't do? Create any fucking way to query from the computer side what version of hardware you were talking to. Until rev 8 or 9. I spent probably a cumulative month figuring out (usually) non-destructive ways to guess from different faults which version of hardware a computer was talking to. And there was fun stuff like the servo motor with no hardware stop (used to move a lens closer/further from a laser) and different gearing ratios on different revs that could do $10-$20k of damage to lenses if you didn't know exactly what you were talking to. Because all you told the motor was degrees to rotate the shaft, but the aforementioned different gearing meant you could ram a lens into a laser because later revs traveled 3x as far per rotation.

One thing that solved lots and lots of problems for us was I finally harangued the ceo into just shipping our own computers with the machines. We used nidaq cards to acquire data; nothing was as fun as attempting to remotely figure out driver conflicts/issues or NI licensing issues or what to do when someone didn't buy the right type of card. Often with a not particularly computer literate bio grad student on the other end. Just shipping our own computer with daq and software pre-installed and refusing to support anything but our own computers ($600 dells) got rid of a class of problems and replaced them with just one: the NIDaq card was jarred out of its slot during shipping. Reseat it. Or eventually, have the factory screw it in then glue it to the motherboard.
As suicide rates rise, researchers separate thoughts from actions
Setting Up a Custom Domain for Azure Web Apps Using NameCheap's FreeDNS
see https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am
A collection of historical software for Apple II computers from the 1980s and early 1990s. Each item was originally copy protected (i.e. the original floppy disk could not be copied to another floppy disk), but the copy protection has been removed and documented. Most items also include a "work disk" comprising the intermediate files created during the deprotection.

To send feedback, ask questions, or get notified of new releases, follow @a2_4am on Twitter.
I recall from some other study, that while "idea" start-ups are basically a lottery, businesses which are working towards a product with apparent benefits, an apparent market, and an apparent R&D road-map actually have an impressively high success rate. Even if a bigger company beats you to the punch, you can ride on their coattails.
It's disgustingly bitter, so much most can only bare it with milk and sugar.

Your subjective evidence is not convincing, even less as I was implying coffee had an addictive and hence behavioral conditioning effect, part of which comes from advertisement like yours, so stop it, will ya.
Theres no link back to the HN homepage

When you submit successfully, the resulting page you get is not the Newest page (https://news.ycombinator.com/newest), with the HN homepage then directly clickable (the "Hacker News" link at top left)? Because that's what I've always seen.
Canada has an oligopoly of banks, so there are things Canada can do that seem to be difficult for the US, and vice versa.

In this case, when all five banks decided to go to pin-enabled credit cards, they just did it. Retailers were given a certain amount of time to switch over, “or else.” There are few alternatives, so the entire country moved forward.

Whereas, south of the 49th parallel, there is all kinds of competition for credit cards and for merchant services, so if a few banks don’t feel like sending out cards with chips an PINs, they don’t. And if a few retailers don’t want to go to the expense of upgrading their systems, they don’t have to.

On the flip side... There is nearly zero Apple Pay up here.
Wealth inequality and income inequality are often touted as the incentive for people to do actual useful work.

However, if you think about it for a second, it's clear that having more money in a bank or on a payslip doesn't make you work harder.

What makes you work harder is the possibility of improving your status, getting richer.

So, one would imagine that a society with drastically reduced inequality (both wealth and income) but with extra high social mobility could work perfectly well.
That has nothing to do with the JVM. It's simply a result of it being a very feature-rich IDE.
I agree. I was just making the narrowest claim possible by sticking to the word that is phonetically closest to "India" specifically (Ἰνδία). I've learned to get into the habit of using the weakest possible evidence necessary to make your point because you expose less of a surface for people to spin off into irrelevant objections (and by the time that's resolved, the main point is forgotten or one or both parties have lost interest). To wit, if I had talked about the Sindh or Hind roots, I would've opened the conversation up to a derailing diversion on how my main point was supported only by an unfair goalpost-moving from "India" to "Hind".

I know it's a little ironic that this is sort of what ended up happening anyway with this comment, but at least in this case I can firewall my main point off by saying "sure, using your suggestion doesn't affect my main point (or indeed strengthens it)".
Consider one ycombinator company,Uber. Do they generate wealth? From the point of view of a NYC taxi driver they are directly taking both the customers and the value of the drivers medallions. In return,uber drivers work giving 1/3 of their earnings to a company because that company built the software and lobbied the governments (presumably eventually) to allow this new form of public transport. It doesn't seem any different to the past. Those with the connections, capital and technology take a large share of the wealth being generated by the actual workers.
A2_4am cracks 1 apple2 game a day and documents how: 364 games in 2015
It's a complex topic that's really one of philosophy not science, and to try to discuss it in depth in an HN thread is to risk going down a very unedifying rabbit hole.

But in short, we can study matter to the extent that we can observe it from the outside using established scientific techniques. So we can form reasonably objective observations of the nature and behaviour of matter, because (at least for the sake of this argument), it is separate from our consciousness.

However, science is system of techniques and tools developed out of the consciousness of humans, so to study consciousness, you need to use science, which was created by consciousness, which we're trying to study using science... and so on.

So, short answer: we can use science to objectively study matter because it's separate from consciousness. It's harder to objectively study consciousness with science because that thing very we call science is a construct of consciousness.
> a supermajority of novel innovation comes from people at the bottom becoming rich, not the rich getting richer.

Citation needed? As PG points out, most startup founders are not poor. They take the risk of innovating not because they are desperate, but because they see a large upside. Reducing that upside will certainly reduce the motivation to innovate at the margins. The only question is how much does it reduce motivation, and do the benefits outweigh the costs?
It's right there on the homepage: http://kivy.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10826832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10827853
Location: Calgary, AB

Remote: sure I guess

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:
python, javascript, django, C, experience working on linux kernel, app development, Qt

Looking for an internship starting immediately, I completed a six month one in November overseas and enjoyed the experience. Most of it was web development with python and javascript although I did a bit of Go as well.

Github:
https://github.com/krruzic
Resume:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RyNSj1nwIhGdJWzfX_Rltj57...
Reddit had an ad that did something like this — I assume by a third-party, but can't remember.

The image was a nostalgic item from the 90s era Nickelodeon, with a title that made you go "what, that actually exists?" — a link to an item, out-of-stock (not sure if it ever had stock), but tagged with an affiliate link.

It was around the holiday purchasing season, so I'm assuming they raked in quite a few sales.
The lack of an IDE is incredibly liberating, I agree.

And you're right: http://www.strangegizmo.com/forth/ColorForth/msg00490.html

I really need to wrap my head around colorForth's interaction model so I can actually play with it and get a proper feel for how it works. I'll admit I haven't closely examined stuff like http://skilldrick.github.io/easyforth/ (a minimalist Jupyter-esque interactive tutorial using a tiny JS Forth interpreter) but I have enough of a notion to understand that most FORTHs provide a more abstract[ly scoped] generic/conceptual/arbitrary environmental model, while colorForth and similar direct-on-chip environments are effectively machine access accelerators, and my interest lies almost exclusively with the latter - Forth as a programming style is the definitive predecessor of the DSL, so I see no benefit in using it for standardization. (I think this is where a lot of other people sit too, unless I'm misunderstanding the scene).

Further exploration and digging may prove this first impression incorrect, but I get the idea that these types of systems distill the essential moving parts of current computer architectures into a form readily parsed by the brain with minimal effort, and they do so at an arguably mathematically perfect level of irreducible complexity.

My question now is, taking into account the ultra-long-term trends hiding under the surface of the theory of everything/mental model/dev setup/framework/language of the month and identifying the elixirs they're trying to reach for, would it be possible to produce a modern reimagination of these types of environments oriented toward the current architectural and social level of, er, progress? For example, "everything in Ring 0!!" (or the functional equivalent of it) worked great for the Symbolics Lisp Machine as a hacker's box, but everyone's obsessed with putting jails inside containers inside virtual machines now, so such an approach would no longer be found acceptable.

Now it's my turn to not be able to link something - I remember reading recently about someone who described their experience of using a Forth system on their microcomputer, where they could ask the environment they were using to display the internal code routines it would run when functions were called, etc, and it made tinkering with hardware, I/O, etc incredibly easy, since everything was right there, and you could get instant, direct and authoritative answers to questions like "what does this system call do?" and "how do <...> and <...> interact?". The author said that they'd never used something with the same level of interactivity (nil waiting time to get perfect answers, basically) as with that system.

I can, at least, mention https://instagram.com/tr1nitr0n/ aka http://reddit.com/u/thefinder - this guy's restoring a couple of old Symbolics boxes (besides a literal treasure trove of other historic hardware), I'm not sure where he's up to but I wish his success posts four-digit upvotes when they happen :) (He does take visitors, I think, but Seattle's a bit far away for me in Australia.)
You may have a point that the benchmarks do not rule out the possibility that D code might be asymptotically slower.

But benchmarks that are designed to hide the fact that CPython function call overheads and object creation overheads are a godawful abomination are far from a fair benchmark. Those overheads are real and have real effects.
Java UI is sluggish and looks strange unlike OS native UIs.
Oops, just hit the copy short link on Amazon and forgot to uncheck. My bad.
Probably should mention that you're only serving specific locales in the app description.

Looks cool, though, would be interested when you come to San Francisco.
I think it's a completely fair thing to politely ask why people are spending their time on this. Surely they have somg goal in mind.. Maybe they have some bigger goal, like commercial OS's tuned to the RPi or something that only BSD systems can do? Or maybe it's something simpler
I think this explanation ignores a lot of value. If all the value is really generated by the workers and the boss is just coopting it through connections and technology, then the workers individually should be able to to generate as much value,or at least wealth (as a proxy for value). But that's not the case. You can drive around all day as a freelance taxi driver sure. You'll get sued by the taxi monopoly of course, and riders won't trust you, and you won't have stable rates or work, and you won't know where to go to get fares, and you'll have to deal with your own payment system and accounting, and and and...

The value that a business owner generates is, at a minimum, coordinating the diverse people and elements to make regular work at regular pay possible. And that's if there is NO management required, or technology, or special access, or or or. In fact the "technology and connections" which you dismiss, is an important part of the value that the owner brings to
their status page is update after update of the same message, apparently being ad libbed by someone with a thesaurus
The reason why I mention in the next sentence - the ultra rich have a lot of power. I want the powerful to understand how us commoners live.

The ultra rich have a very large influence over politicians. This is why they are important. If they just spent their time flying around in private jets and talking to each other then it wouldn't matter - once they start to have a very large influence over public policy it matters what they think.
If we are discussing in 'would' and 'could' why wouldn't a D backend also be able to that. Lets talk once Numba is easy to install and use :)
Great job. How does it perform? I thought ZFS needed tons of RAM.
A counter-example, and a different framework to think about equality: Most of Scandinavia has fragmentation, freedom of expression, and genuine diversity of choice, diversity of lifestyle, of opinion, but it also has more equality. One can have a more equal society without raising taxes or massive wealth distribution. This is possible if a society ensures that its children receive adequate and equal access to healthcare and education in their earliest years, in other words, an equal start. This is where the US fails the most compared to Europe. Property taxes are the levers through the poor are priced out of good school districts. It acts as the algorithm through which self-segregation is made possible, often resulting in racial segregation as well. Education being a local affair ensures the wealthy and the educated have no incentive to fight for the rights of the poor and the ignorant, since they can get their fix via simply moving to a better neighborhood, leaving the others behind. Not so in Europe. The leaders of the community put pressure on officials and the system, and as the one system improves, so does the lot of all.A similar dynamic is true in healthcare as well, in Europe: A single-payer system ensures all get the same healthcare, and suddenly fixing it becomes a problem of upper-classes as well, but the entire society benefits from the improved system.

PG's post is self-justifying and self-interested.

Here's an alternative explanation of fragmentation: It is the sign of a new industry. It'll consolidate once it matures. Look at semiconductor & hardware consolidation. Google, Amazon, Apple, MSFT, Intel, Oracle etc. absorb a lot of software biz over time. There used to be hundreds of car companies, dozens of aircraft manufacturers.
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I think among millennials drinking has been in a steady decline - not sure if its due to the recession and its effects.

I already have difficulty dealing with caffeine at work - and sugar generally due to how common it is everywhere.

I am not sure if I want to add any more drugs to my life. Already sleep is a premium these days - I would never understand why people would want to screw with it further by drinking or doing cannabis.
Thanks. However, I found that original source for the wealth distribution figures, the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, to be a much more interesting read:

https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi...
Pretty much. I've already been billed my full monthly amount, and when asked about it they said its because its automatic and that the credits have not been processed yet...
...Why would you want anyone to feel threatened and dehumanized?

You do realize that many of your critics will point to statements like this and use them against you. So why make them?
As a non-member of the ultra rich all I can do is look in on the peeks they give us via the media. I am willing to admit that it is possible that they are exactly like you and me, but they certainly don't appear to be.

In regards concrete claims the ultra rich appear to far more to the economic right than the average person. I am sure you are aware of this.
From article:

> A lot of you now are thinking about making custom struct with named fields, than and passing typed result as this struct. This is good solution and there are a lot of cases when this will be actually better, but … this is not so simple. But what if you know that this temporary structure is rather limited in size and will be used just ‘here’ to pass results...

I'd still use a custom struct with named fields. I don't see the above being anywhere close to justifying the additional complexity.
I was almost scammed.  Changes to reddit/gmail/linkedin/skype could avert this.
By creating a "fresh" identity on these services he was able to create a "believable(ish)" identity.

Would be great if these services gave some indication as to how old the account was when the initial communication was made.

A warning that the account is new and to be careful when communicating with them would have put me in a more cautious frame of mind...

-- 8:04PM AEST 03012016 --

the first thing he did was toggle google talk to "off the record" mode - in my view is this should be mutual
The interesting thing is the GGP post claimed:

> [The term India] was not used by people in that area to describe themselves until european colonialists and occupiers arrived and promoted the term.

But your source indicates it was Persians who used the term Hindus while they had conquered India. So it's probably not entirely true that European colonialists gave the country its present name, except maybe to prefer the Greek variant over the Persian.

The underlying problem here is that non-wandering non-seafaring peoples often had no good pre-established name for themselves. The question "what is the name of your people and land" was sort of nonsensical to them. They might answer a term like "the people" or "the land" in the local language.

The term "Aryan" literally seems to mean "the land" or "farmer" as in "one who works the land". But the land they're referring to is ... Iran. Get it? It's the same word. White supremicists actually love Iranians.
Generating fake words with machine learning
Most drivers prefer Uber. Uber takes value away from the middlemen, takes a smaller share of the middleman cut, and redistributes the remaining value to the driver and the passenger. Hence its popularity.

Most of the profit in the old system accrues to the taxicab company + medallion holder. Uber does hurt these folks, by giving more of the pie to the driver, who can now drive without owning a medallion & is not hurt by this barrier-to-entry, and Uber provides the rest as a discount to the passenger, who receives a better overall service at the same time (you see where the car is + estimated time, ratings, GPS, etc.)
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The host does a terrible job. He's not printing the money. Woz is buying uncut sheets of legit $2 from the Mint and then having them perforated and bound. They are legal tender because they were printed by the Government.﻿
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10823272 yesterday, 16+ comments
Eat within an 8-hour window.
The comment you're answering to cited "Canada, Australia, England and Argentina". None of these nations has anything to do with communism. What the propaganda has created is the idea that anything that isn't Reaganomics means Socialism which mean Communism which means murdering millions of people.