skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people can assume things they don't participate in are simple, stupid, and trivial

I do not "assume" that web technologies are stupid. I know they're stupid and I can prove they're stupid. Where shall I start? Javascript? All of the W3C issued mess? All the damage left from the browser wars?

This guy said it all much better than I can: http://beauty-of-imagination.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/tcltk-vs...

When you have something to compare with, something as simple and beautiful as Tk, all the complexity of the modern web looks like a steaming pile of stupidity.
4G Modem for Arduino, RaspberryPi, and BeagleBone Black
Every city in the world needs something like this.
I know someone who once bought a house built by students, but I'm not sure whether they were high school students or community college students. They didn't do any excavation work though, and it ended up being moved to the final site rather than any excavation work being involved. This was in southern Maine.
Sears CEO Eddie Lampert Should Stop Reading Ayn Rand
I never got used to the Microsoft commute, and that was rarely worse than 90 minutes coming home. It sucked, it continued to suck, it never got any better, it ruined my day, I hated my life, and it felt so good to drive away on my last day of that terrible job knowing I would never again have to spend any time on SR520 if I didn't want to. (I avoided that road for years afterward, actually, even when it would have been the sensible route to wherever I was going.)

I'm not going to try to get used to it, never again. Life is too short to waste that much of it in hell. I won't even consider a job with a bad commute anymore. If that limits my employment prospects, so be it - I have a life to live!
I can't speak much to the construction end of it, but things like plumbing and electrical were still contracted out because of code/liability issues. There were many "subject matter experts" checking things out.

For the drafting side, we agreed on a design and used our learned techniques to create the drawings, guided by Mr. Hansen and a residential architect. The plans had to be proofed by an engineer and the usual building code folks with the city.

The kids design and build the thing but there is some oversight to make sure everything is up to snuff. From my experience and what I've been told over the years the houses exceed code standards in many ways which is one of the reasons they always sell quickly. Word gets around fast in this area.
For all that work to be done in just two hours is amazing, especially with degraded internal tools, and both hardware and ops teams working simultaneously.
All of the brouhaha about self driving cars is moot until real user testing begins. I'm not talking about driving a google mobile around the streets of mountain view with an engineer in the driver's seat.

These vehicles (I would hope) are designed to drive around people in different circumstances. They're software for use by people and until we have realistic tests with different kinds of people, ages, driving experience levels, etc. it's all academic.

I'm somewhat wondering if all the self driving car stuff by Google and Tesla is primarily a vehicle (no pun intended) for marketing rather than actual tech that will yield a real product.
The real advice, having been thru many non-coastal telecom mergers:

Its just like a merger on that old TV show Survivor, there's 3000 of us, 100 of you, and after "synergy" there's only going to be 3000 positions, so nothing personal but you are all gone.

The first meetings with the new bosses are a job interview, treat it as such.

Highest priority should be a transfer into the buying company. You want to get on to the existing team as the newest hire, not sitting on the team that's being picked bare before downsizing. Existing teams in the big company have political power and thats all that matters.

Start saving every penny, your job is gone but you have warning you'll be looking for work soon. You may have relo expenses, may not find a job immediately, who knows.

Its easier to find work when you're the first rat to desert the sinking ship, not the last. You want to be the first guy to get a new job. Unless you're 64 and planning to retire, ignore a couple thousand bonus if you stick around. Six months of lost income is probably a lot more than $5K if you're the last downsized. Pretend that bonus doesn't exist unless you're planning on retiring or dropping out.

Assume you've lost it all. The job title, the work environment, the benefits, the vacation time, the seniority, the freedom, the technology. If you get to keep any of it after the merger, you'll feel better.

Sometimes the merger is the time to get away with things. Why, I've always been able to work from home. This is my last chance to upgrade the software without 500 pages of paperwork and procedures, hurry up!
Why is increasing numeracy "well-nigh impossible"?
Or use the Netflix model: Chaos testing in production.
Kismet 2016-01-R1 Released
Based on what evidence? Most of the EU will respond to extradition requests and render subjects in response to the crimes Snowden was indicted for.
Was it a good incident to see how dependent we are on GitHub? Every time there's a GitHub outage, a vocal group of people will voice their opinions that we are too dependent on GitHub, we should be using open source alternatives, GitHub should be open source, etc. Then, within a few days, everybody goes silent and we return to our normal lives.

I don't think outages at GitHub are very frequent. This one was lengthy, so it's definitely been on a lot of peoples' minds, but this conversation always comes up when it happens.
Moral of this story is that packrat is really important. It's more or less reckless to use Dropbox without it, because explaining the difference between a syncing service and a backup service seems to be next to impossible. In fact, IMHO they could even rename the company "PackRat."

The only annoyance with dropbox I have is there are certain scenarios where you can't play audio from the website and are forced to download it, which is annoying when sharing links.

Agreed.... and once they really get their media and file rendering act together, that multi-billion dollar valuation is going to make a lot more sense. Despite what I said earlier about renaming the company, they're not in the "storage" business, but rather the "delivery" business.

The latter category has an unbounded upside.
So, you've made - repeatedly - the completely obvious point that, if you can account for every term in the equation, calories in - calories out = change in weight.

Thank you for that. Now if you'd like to adopt the assumption that your audience isn't brainless, let's talk about the interesting point that everyone wants to be talking about: that the 'calories out' number varies for the same 'calories in' number across people, diets, and behaviors.
With absolutely sincere respect, given your credentials and your role on this forum, I will ask you to answer for what you say when it -- albeit perhaps unintentionally -- entails false innuendo.
Thought this article was a nice recap of what happened with the Fine brothers react video debacle, what exactly went wrong and how the internet of the future may attempt to monetize itself more carefully.
In some(most/all?) states, all accidents over a certain dollar amount or that caused injury to any party are required to be reported to the police.

But the lack of police reports is why the article mentions that insurance companies believe the accident rate is higher than the 'official' number.

Anecdotally, the number of times that someone has hit my car, and then asked me not to report it in exchange for cash is non-zero.
Fructose is a sugar from fruits, dextrose could be bought in the pharmacy and i always thought it was a healthier form.. ( my reference for that was multiple sport people who did professional cycling. They added it to their water instead of a "real" sports drink ).

Wikipedia says dextrose = d-glucose, so i don't really know the difference between normal glucose

Off course, always limit sugar as much as possible ( as said earlier)

I totally agree with the rabbit starvation and fats though ;)
Why not ban the men and only allow the women in?
Surprised they don't have anything about the rebuilding of Christchurch. 45% of the CBD was destroyed and the rebuild is interesting.
I have been through five as an employee of the acquired company.

My advice is to polish up your resume and dig your job search network out of the mothballs the instant you catch a whiff of one. If you're lucky, you will have approximately one year to find safe harbor before the storm hits.

I always ask leading questions about ownership structure and acquisitions at interviews now.
Along those lines, it would be wonderful if someone would write a coffeescript implementation that output clean, idiomatic ES6 rather than ES5!
People are not resources and they don't perform, they do
The Paperboy, the Wallet, and the Law of Demeter [pdf]
pretty much every modern car is designed with pedestrian safety taken into account, that's why they all look so goofy now
This article reminds me of a report that John Stossel did some years ago on the economics of sport stadiums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bGNIgdOLa0
Which of his arguments do you specifically disagree with?
Go-like Swift channel implementation
Zuckerburg is in bed with the Chinese government, so it would make sense that he uses their tactics of controlling a large group of people.
I have never heard of this as a slogan at Facebook and I have close ties there; this seems like someone venting emotionally.
Or Google for that matter. DiRT.
igrado!
seriously torturous ergonomics, but sound is above expected for the price.
throw out everything except drivers, sew them to a headband :)
Spark windowing functions (like pretty much all notions of time in Spark streaming) are based on processing time, not event time.
In this case the more non-threatening the cars are, the more likely people are to accept them.
because, per my original comment, they had super-charming accents. I added the word "jamaican" so that you could imagine the accent.

Would it have made you more comfortable if I said "two gentlemen of an unspecified national origin who had super-charming jamaican accents"?
Unlikely. There is competition from other geographic areas. If a team can simply play one venue against another they do have the upper hand unfortunately.
Between the scam of municipalities losing so much $$ on stadiums, how the stadiums cause urban blight sitting empty most of the time then causing major traffic headaches the other times, and the CTE injury rate, I can't fathom how football still exists today as a popular sport. Seems like the whole thing is a house of cards that needs to collapse.
Like many "knowledge workers" I don't track my hours, but my job requires a certain amount of in-office time, and the length of my commute doesn't really affect that requirement.
I can't remember Google ever giving an open source project a kicking like it feels they've been giving Apache Spark recently, seems very unlike them.
Does Github run anything like Netflix Simbian Army against it's services? As a company by engineers for engineers with the scale that github has reached, I'm a bit surprised they are lacking a bit more redundancy. Though they may not need the uptime of netflix, an outage of more than a few minutes on github could affect businesses that rely on the service.
It's in development by several N1 users: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/96
"This is why no city..." "Any city" sounds more like non English grammar.

That said, I most certainly agree that cities should not be in the business of subsidizing sports teams, when those are private money making enterprises.

St. Louis should sue the NFL and all cities in the same position (potentially liable for stadium costs, if team were to leave) should hold out till the NFL guarantees debts.

Build schools, get more teachers, do something worthwhile with the tax dollars you have.
John Oliver did a good piece on this as well and how crazy it is that the public pays so much for these things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs
Your codebase is very modular and wonderful but for other projects, large files (100kb+) are not uncommon. For those projects, "clean up your code before using my product" is not an acceptable answer.
Ways David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Predicted the Future
Kolmogorov and Chaitin got a different view on this matter.

This is actually what science is all about - finding an information in data, or, in other words, measuring the complexity. If you can reduce a complex set of data to a simple algorithm, then this algorithm is all the knowledge that is there, and the rest is just a noise. By definition.

What Phil Anderson is talking about is a different kind of complexity, which is sort of irrelevant in this context. Yes, knowing the fundamental laws won't help you to explain, say, a protein folding, not without hundreds of years of a CPU time. But it does not matter. It does not make this science more "complex".
What evidence? Certainly individual humans (anecdotally: like myself) do.
Lenovo revenues fell first time in 6 years; shares fall 10%
I don't know. When cities get involved in a venture like this, it's usually because that is what their citizens want. For example, Levi Stadium in Santa Clara went before the voters, who approved it's funding model (1). On a moral level, I have a real problem with a sport that when played successfully leads to debilitating brain damage (2), but it's pretty clear I am in the minority on that.

1. Without going too far out on a tangent, there was more to the story, see here: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_20107165

2. "Stabler is the seventh former N.F.L. quarterback to be found to have had C.T.E. by Boston University, which has found C.T.E. in 90 of the 94 former N.F.L. players it has examined" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/sports/football/ken-stable...
What about manufacturer liability? That's the critical question here.

It can't just be 2X or even 10X safer than humans if the manufacturer is liable for the accident. That would EXPLODE the cost of these cars and bankrupt companies -- even if just a small fraction of today's fatal accidents due to driver error became Google's liability.

Consider that even single-vehicle accidents, which today might be the driver's fault, could result in a manufacturer lawsuit.

This is why I think fully autonomous without any human to intervene is a pipe dream, because the safety level required for that is pretty close to perfectly bugfree in an almost infinitely complex world of roads and conditions. Just for liability reasons.

These test cars of course have human copilots. But it remains to be seen if that really will grant manufacturers immunity for accidents. If the car is perfect 99.999% of the time, wouldn't that train the human to trust it and not pay as close attention? And then miss that 0.001% of the time when it hurts someone? Would a judge find it reasonable for a human to stay vigilant and responsible for that fatal corner case bug that cropped up after two years of perfect autonomous driving?

Liability is The. Critical. Question.
What is Stackless?
Isn't BB's problem basically that there are too many users? GH's outage writeup is cool, because it's a one off and it can be analysed. When BB is just overloaded for a long time and needs more power, it's not going to be very interesting.

(unless I missed some specific non capacity related outages?)
This is certainly a logical possibility. We are in the midst of a scary slide toward authoritarianism, and an even more scary slide away from respect for the rule of law.
A lot of tools and services people use either don't have HA at all or don't have a native support for true distributed HA. But that can't stop people from making some HA or alike solution. I am not sure what they use Redis for but along the line of caching and key-value store they must have figured out how to invalidate data, otherwise they'd be running only a single instance of Redis. i.e. they are running "HA" just in a single data center, so logically speaking that's not difficult to port over to another data center.
Ok, when can we expect holodecks, and even better, Quark's holo-suites?
What is the need for nationalization before a city should foot the bill? This isn't to say that cities should pay for a stadium, but there are definitely dynasty franchises that are guaranteed to generate income for many years. Would I build a stadium for the Rams? Not likely. Would I build a stadium for the Patriots? Immediately.
"There were 272 instances in which the software detected an anomaly somewhere in the system that could have had possible safety implications; in these cases it immediately handed control of the vehicle to our test driver. We’ve recently been driving ~5300 autonomous miles between these events, which is a nearly 7-fold improvement since the start of the reporting period, when we logged only ~785 autonomous miles between them. We’re pleased."

785 miles between anomalous events that require manual control is bad enough. 5300 is worse! That honestly needs to be 0 events (impossible as that might be) or only events for which advanced notice can be provided to be market-acceptable.

It's the TSA screening problem all over again: 13-88 hours of mind-numbing normal operation, with a single incident of something potentially exploding that you have to catch.
>At this rate how long until Google re-brands itself as Omni Consumer Products

You mean like Alphabet? I only lived in Mountain View for a few months last summer, but I gathered at the time that the city of Mountain View is already fighting tooth and nail to avoid becoming Google City.
Some explanation on the start page would be nice...
There's safety restrictions for flight paths - in case of sudden engine failure, you want the plane to be able to glide to an airfield or other inhabited areas that you can get rescued from.

I'm also not familiar enough with air-traffic control rules in the area to be sure, but it looks like you'd have to either pass through Icelandic or Scottish airspace to get to Scandinavia.
In Search of Forty Winks
I am in a similar situation and it's usually just fine, but it becomes difficult on days when I would be better off sacrificing that "me time" to do something else (chores, errands, family obligations, etc.). When that happens, the only thing I can cut back on to meet those obligations is sleep.
Proprietary technology in a subscription-based Linux? Thanks, but no thanks! I wish I was able to undo my upvote!
It's funny, but I'd offer just the opposite advice these days. Most people don't spend enough on their speakers, both in terms of cost and in terms of devoting the space and time to set them up properly.

The amount of money you should spend on your source as compared to the rest of your gear has just kept going steadily downwards. Back in the vinyl days you really had to spend a mint to get a good record player, and it didn't hurt to keep buying copies of records that got a lot of play. Spending even more would net you concrete reductions in noise, less wear on your records, etc.. These days S/PDIF out from an the on-board audio chipset of a motherboard and a decent receiver/pre-amp or DAC are overkill for 99.9% of the sound systems out there. High end CD transports are pure snake-oil.
I don't understand why it exists as a popular sport anyways, it's 5 seconds of action followed by 30 seconds of two guys talking about it. The average football game has 11 minutes of action[1]. Everything but the last ~8 minutes of the 4th quarter is boring. Yet Americans love it. I don't get it.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487042812045750028...
Space is f'n enormous and it's cold. People don't belong up there at all. I think we have a better chance of evolving into a different species, rather than the species we are getting past Jupiter.
The app itself is yet-another-email-client. Those original verbs in the screenshot are just pre-built macros. I don't consider "Inbox Zero" a worthy goal -- because the REAL goal should be reducing your total volume of email, by conducting one's work in a way that minimizes reliance and interactions with other people for day-to-day matters.

IMHO the REAL solution to less email is smarter communications and personal empowerment: keep your meetings short and laser-focused, keep conversations focused and purposeful, make sure everyone is in sync before beginning, and don't hire/work with stupids. I shouldn't have to email Bob just to ask him to request deliverable X -- I should be empowered (and intelligent) enough to get X on my own, and if I don't know how then I should use my powers of observation and inference to figure that out.

People over-rely on email, and on communication in general.
Right, though I'm skeptical that the program would also be able to correctly identify the motivation for the typeface, which drives all of the decisions about how it behaves. That component of the program would end up being far more complex than generating the actual kerning pairs themselves.
In my experience, there's only one rule to surviving an acquisition: find political cover immediately. Upon acquisition, you and your team are an alien entity embedded in BigCo's immune system of political networks and operating rules. They don't know what to do with you, you are a threat to established patterns, and you will lose to the experienced players. So unless you have C-suite cover and a title to match it, you need to find existing, powerful entities with complementary capabilities and a need for what you do. If you make yourself useful as you are, then your patrons have an incentive to not meddle too much with your team. But if you don't have anyone protecting you out of self-interest, eventually you and your people are going to be absorbed, rebuilt and rebranded.

I mean, that'll happen anyway, but at least you have the option of staving it off long enough to get your team safely out of there.
I feel like we'll get to the point of hijacking brain signals first. All the senses are inputted by the computer and all the voluntary muscle movement signals are intercepted before they reach the actual muscle.
Video Converts Better
I'd expect that there'll be more examples of the type of company that you're describing as interest rates rise.

Regardless, once investors pay for growth, they require it, in order to be paid out on their bets and remain profitable.
And what evidences are you bringing to the party?
"With a couple of exceptions"...

Scotland in particular is one of those exceptions.

There really is no one magic rule that says 'country vs no country' - even what you offered up is a collection of rules, where some rules catch edge cases that other rules don't.