skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your tendency to undervalue modularization and code-sharing is one symptom. Another is your refusal to use systematic version-control or release-engineering practices. To you, these things seem mostly like overhead and a way of needlessly complicating your life. And so far,
your strategy has worked; your natural if relatively undisciplined ability has proved more than equal to the problems you have set it. That success predisposes you to relatively sloppy tactics like splitting drivers before you ought to and using your inbox as a patch queue.

I hang my head in shame at this. I'm lucky, though, that the other members of the D team talked me into using modern tools like github and bugzilla. I'm grateful for that.

P.S. yes, I really did use email as a patch queue and database.
Overcoming the Challenges of Grad School: An International Student’s Perspective
HiCharts has dynamically loadable data. I have a database that has 120M points. I just keep some pre aggregated data to populate the wide periods. As you zoom it it selects smaller aggregation sets. (Think; 1 month for 10 years, 2 weeks for 1 year, etc). If you have the data you only need about 20 lines of JS so support this with json.
That said, bokeh requires little to no javascript and that's a huge advantage if you need to get multiple visualizations. It does, pretty much stock, what you can do with HiCharts without needing as much full-stack expertise.
Flagging hits more than just low-value submissions. People also flag totally valid submissions that they just disagree with (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819778 is a submission I distinctly remember this happening to).
Richardson Maturity Model (2010)
Thanks. Here are some fun Linus quotes from that day:

> It's a stupid lie, and one we should ignore at all times it comes up.

> Make good interfaces. THAT will reduce bugs.

Showing that Linus is abrasive, but he's also right.
How a Team of 120 People in 6 Locations Manages Its Product Design Process
Good writeup for your experience with Rails and EBS.
I've built my project, Zejoop dot com, in Java/Groovy/Grails and deployed on AWS Elastic BeanStalk - and I'm very happy with my setup so far.

As for your comment about the multitude of services available on AWS, I agree. They've recently added ACM certificate manager which simplified my maintenance considerably.

Their ACM easy implementation probably saved me at least 20 hours of cert renewal agony, plus it was free!
If Linus really wasn't using source control at that time, then yes, he was correct lol
MS Office Product Managers do not receive feedback from support channels
The U.S. Presidential Nominating Process
Linus did change his approach, somewhat, slightly. Linux kernel development is less of the wild-west that it used to be, at least. Heck, Linus ended up writing git!
Not in Firefox, and the GP said they're only keeping Chrome around for Flash.
The Mystery of the Thousand Missing Airbnbs
Behind login wall.
Also related: https://github.com/awetzel/mailibex
Announcing the Google Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award Pilot
Through the back door
Obligatory XKCD chart for understanding the radiation amounts in the article

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

100 mrem == 1mSv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Rem_equivalence

Thinking about the article... for those who understand the risks of increased background radiation, I bet for these businesses rent is cheap!
My university (at least the engineering department, but I think all the STEM departments) uses a weighting scheme to adjust grades. They look at the average that students from that school gets after the first year and adjusts the entrance grades down accordingly. So, if a student who had a 95% average coming out of high school went to a school where people generally had about a 75% after first year and an entrance average of 90%, you'd reduce that student's entrance average by 15% so they'd count as having an 80% for comparison to other students. It's not quite as simple as this as the calculations are more detailed (one needs to account for comparing courses and schools with no or few previous students), but it's roughly the idea.

With this scheme, if a school inflates their grades it will have a larger adjustment down. It's entirely based on past performance of people from the school, so there's no standardized tests to worry about. Theoretically, one could have an adjustment upwards, but I've never heard of it happening (I participated in department meetings where they discussed admissions in general). The adjustments are usually somewhere between 20 and mid to high 20s percent. Some are higher (not many), but a few are lower but not by much.
They're taking deposits on the 31st. I'll be buying 2, and an X.
To be fair, Linus did change. That charge about not valuing version control and systematic release practices? He built git in 2005. Kernel release practices are now a well-oiled machine. And overall the kernel has likely got more modular, not less, over the years (although I have not had a look in a while, but that was the trend a few years ago).

ESR might have been wrong on the specific item at hand (I have not read the whole thread, and he, ESR was wrong on a lot of things over the years) but some of his arguments are definitely right - at least seen from a "gifted something" who flopped in uni ;)
People think it is transistor size that is 14 nm, which is not. It is metal pitch on high density memory chips that have repetitive patterns all over the chip.

That sentence is not wrong. It looks well stated.
>120 year old mother

good innings!
Well, there are still terrains where Sherp would need to be carried by DT30 Everpresent http://www.military-today.com/trucks/dt30_vityaz.htm
Something like the Scala type system seems like the best way to keep track of that kind of structure information and make use of it (perhaps even transparently). I can easily believe the current wrappers aren't there yet though. (Afraid I switched jobs six months ago and haven't been using Breeze or Spark since, so I can't justify working on it myself at the moment)
Probability is not a guarantee.

Randomness does not guarantee uniqueness.
Probably view it as a negative signal. If it’s a startup, and the revenue has flat lined for the last two quarters, making most peoples stock worthless, and all your team mates talk about is how the gourmet catered lunch isn’t as good as their friends’ lunches at Uber and AirBnb, well you get what you hire for.

If you’re thinking too much about lunch, you’re probably thinking about the wrong stuff. Which company has the better team, the better leader, the better market opportunities, the better product, the better learning experience, the better professional growth potential, the better lifestyle, the better equity, and so on. A lot of things should be way farther up on the list than what’s for lunch. Don’t let the frivolous tricks to trap you in the office distract you from the things that really matter.
> People don't talk about having anxiety or depression in the office, or mood changes

Thats one of the many things I love about where I work currently: we can, and do, all the way up to the top. It makes life a lot easier when I've been able to be open and honest about why things are they way the are at a certain point in time.
I wonder what impact this will have in creating toys for babies in that age range. Even if for marketing optics.
Show HN: App that helps with stress, depression and other emotional disorders
Oh come on, every phone can take a screenshot. Once you send a picture out - it's forever on the internet. That nude picture will end up in 4chan, 9gag, other teen image posting websites, then a dozen creepy guys will save them and share their collection...
Don't go to Switzerland. Flying into Malaga southern Spain there are lovely mountain areas between seville and Granada, Google el chorro for example. Or east of Rome about an hour or two are some wonderful mountain regions-you might find a hotel near sulmona. Or mallorca, sardinia, sicily all have fabulous scenery, history, lifestyle.
List of Leading CRMs for 2016 by Chris Lema
Quantum teleportation: beam me up, Einstein and Schrödinger
Just after our son was born this was wonderfully summed up by a friend of mine as being like levelling up in a game. You start off with the absolute basics of keeping them fed and clean, and then just as you've got the hang of that something new is introduce. Before you know it you're at month 24, and seemingly without effort juggling food, drink, changes, entertainment, nap times, and telling them what they just said is probably not appropriate in front of granny.
You would per core licensing, not Server + CAL licensing for the SQL Server.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/server-cloud/products/sql-se...

I thought this would be obvious, since Server + CAL Licensing would make any public site unfeasible, and there are many large sites running on the windows stack.
A diode isn't actually required for AM reception, it just happens to be one of the better ways if doing it. In fact, any non-linearity in a circuit will act to demodulate AM signals, as the video and your friends experience nicely demonstrate.
Morocco, marrakesh or essourira would also be a cheap option.
You might appreciate the second section of http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-20/bank-gloom-...
This sort of advice is always junk. If the trade tips were good investments, they'd capitalize on the info themselves rather than giving it away.
Hi,

how are static assets served? through django?
I came here to make the same comment. Overlaying the images with crossed eyes, you can easily see that snails A and C share the most similar pixels. The mistake is in Figure 1 of the original paper and has been copied to the article.
I was wondering, could DosBox do networking? If so, you could get windows3 with internet installed on anything that could run Linux and DosBox.
While I think the notion of intellectual property is a mistake, when someone offers us a half-full glass of lemonade, to respond with a complaint that the glass is half empty is extremely poor form.
I knew an incredibly gifted developer who was CTO of a company I joined as VP of Engineering. He was a genius level developer but didn't believe that any of the normal rules of software development applied to him - so no backups of product source code (which of course he wrote all the complex bits), no revision control, no build process, deployments by RAID...

Just before I joined, the CEOs nerves had taken a bad hit when CTO had power cable to only laptop with source for product stretched out at ideal tripping height, he runs to get something, trips over cable, smashes laptop...

Mind you he destroyed my nerves as well... <sigh>

Edit: Prize to anyone who can guess how "Deployment by RAID" worked...
Thay are called credit unions, the major players are DigitalInsight(Services) -> acquired from Intuit by NCR and FIServ(Data Storage). They are both slow moving beasts, but because of regulations in the US nothing will ever change.
The difference is that journalism comes with responsibilities, that are largely getting ignored. This article was supposedly exempted from political penalties because it's "so interesting". But if you look at it, it starts with the assertion

"Trump’s campaign has stirred bigoted feelings in the electorate and played to voters’ worst fears and prejudices"

has the first interview response say

"he’s totally foreign to any of the skills that are wanted in a president of the United States"

and then hopes you'll consider the rest of the article middle-of-the-road political analysis. Well, maybe if you're inclined to the "anyone who supports the candidate I don't like must be evil or stupid" line of thinking, you'll go for that notion. And you'll keep being befuddled by how more and more of the population seems to have gone mad...

Now, here's where I'll stick in the caveat: I'm not American, I don't really care who America elects (it's not up to me), but the problems with journalism in your country are the same elsewhere.

It is not politics that is broken; it is journalism, and the public knows it. People do not blame politicians for the 15-second sound bite or for spin, they blame the journalists because they know dang well that the politicians do soundbites because if they did long reasoned speeches the journalists would just cherry-pick whatever bits they liked to paint whatever narrative they liked. In the last few years, journalism has gone over the tipping point -- journalists are all over Twitter as the voice of the public, and Twitter re-tweets the journalists. It all becomes very circular, and quickly spirals away from any reality -- media and social media both get targeted by activism campaigns. Twitterstorms have too often become media headlines in themselves, and it has killed media credibility. Today the narratives all reek of being inventions.

"Trump is a clown", "Trump is bigoted", "Is Trump a fascist" and yet his numbers keep going up -- it's nothing about anger or a more prejudiced population (nobody's replaced the US population between 2012 and 2016...) It pushes votes to Trump because media narratives are now actively unbelieved.

Sanders and Trump sound extreme? The electorate doesn't care (why should they -- the "establishment" in congress and the courts will stop all the extreme ideas anyway). But it's a marker that they're not saying just what you're allowed to say. Jeb's biggest gaffe was when he commented "you can't say that" about Trump. Do you reckon the US public wants to elect a president who would shirk from expressing their opinion for fear of a Twitterstorm?

Sanders is perhaps a genuine socialist campaigner. Trump is essentially a smart operator who was the first to realise that this year you can essentially ride "F you, Twitter" all the way to the bank.
It would be cool to see a guitar amplifier that worked like this. It seems dangerous, but that would be awesome to hear/watch.
You probably can't because, if nothing else, the water should act like a faraday cage.
Building small java docker images
Why have any business there at all? Use the area for storage or parking, or something intermittent like that.
14nm is supposed to refer to the gate length (which may be larger than the node name).

The gate pitch of Intel's 14nm CPU process node is more like 70nm. [1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in...
Your Number26 Mastercard knows what you did last summer…
Should I test my external providers?
I had no idea that was the case, but that's some next level psychological shit to be pulling on a predominantly teenage customer base. Does no one see the proposal to do something like this and think to step back for a second and consider the effect its going to have on people's lives?
Long distance phone cable bandwidth and switching capacity were very very limited.
Well, IMHO, when you are playing Nintendo you are just consuming and Snapchat involves creating, so...
Your first explanation is far more likely: water conducts sound waves far better than air.
the microwaves being transmitted themselves can be enough to kill
Spain's (and Portugal's) case was more of a traditionalist, catholic thing. Franco just appropriated the imaginery of the falangist party, then proceed to do what he wanted. Which was autocracy at first and, when it didn't work, technocracy. That did indeed work and built Spain's middle class.
Neurofeedback with anxiety and affective disorders [pdf]
Software developers looking for project to work for
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Tumblr or Twitter, probably.
I got a login screen that popped up after a while. Pressing ESC got rid of it.
Are you going to be the representative or congressman who proposes a bill to decriminalise child porn? Or the president who signs an executive order to not prosecute child porn cases? How do you think that would play in the media and with the voters?
So you seem to want to:

- socialize with other engineers,

- work (= program, I suppose) on interesting projects together.

My opinion is that programming is actually a very lonely activity to the point where I think it is actually harmful if you are not concentrated during programming. It may be more fun to get out of someone's own "bubble" for a couple of minutes and have a talk with some fellow programmer, but that fellow might be very comfortable in his/her bubble at that time, so you are actually distracting him/her.

So maybe you should try to find interesting software projects one way and try to socialize another.
IRC has a protocol for avatar photos. Some clients will even download/display them automatically. And a lot of clients render emojis these days.
Me too. Also because the default Chrome was good enough.

But i came back to firefox recently and now it is my default.
The "Reading list" feature is so good productivity-wise.

And using firefox again made me realize that features like Reading-list, Tracking-protection, or even offline-mode would never be implemented in Chrome because of the fundamental conflict of interest between its users and Google
Life is a Skinner Box. That was the whole point of Skinner's experiments.
Show HN: How to add jitter to a plot using Python's matplotlib and seaborn
I believe there's a fair amount of evidence that praising effort, not cleverness or 'being gifted', is much more productive for children in the long run.
The article is wrong about safe doses by a factor of 50-100.

"a worker at Los Primos is exposed to about 300 millirem per year (100 per year is deemed the highest "safe" dose)"

should be "5000-10000 per year is deemed the highest safe dose".
More articles like this in Raymond's blog, which is full of anecdotes from his time at Microsoft.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
I miss the old The Old New Thing look. I also miss when all links to it weren't broken.
> but would you say your anxiety is more 'mental' (e.g. catastrophic thinking) or 'physical' (e.g. shaking, butterflies in stomach etc.)?

Not the parent, but are there different types of anxiety?

For me, the most prevalent effects are faster heartbeat at anxious moments (this even happens in the morning after waking up) and elevated symptoms of tinnitus and muscle pain in the neck.

Interestingly, working hard mentally seems to make the anxiety go away, but at the end of the day it hits me back hard.

I wonder how such symptoms would be classified.
Truck in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7n00Xx38o
Does the IK12 and YC merger disadvantage edtech startups?
We (a school teacher and an unemployed hacker) have an idea we think could massively empower educators. We had plans to apply for Imagine K12's fall cadre. All we were waiting for was the IK12 application to open.

But an IK12 application didn't open. Instead, IK12 folded into Y Combinator.

We had weighed the pros and cons of applying to YC (under the education RFS) vs IK12.
We had concluded that the latter would better suit our needs/circumstances.

So we're scrambling a bit.
Now, instead of being first out the gate, we're applying in the middle of an application cycle. We won't know anything about our status until mid-April (as opposed to three weeks, rolling basis). And we'll need to relocate to the Bay Area three months earlier. Etc.

I'm NOT complaining. Really. Adapt or die.

Plus, I love the idea of being amongst the YC set. But there's a lot I would have done differently if I had known I'd be applying to YC rather than IK12. I'd have spent more time on a prototype. I'd have applied earlier. I'd have been more active on HN the last few months.

With IK12's process, my roommate/co-founder could take a sabbatical (where he could go back to his teaching job, if needed); now, he's going to have to burn some bridges if we get accepted. Etc.

These are sacrifices we're willing to make. I know this surely sounds as though I'm just whining about how "the rules have changed". But what I'm more concerned about is if we'll get as fair a hearing as we would have with "the old" IK12.

At the end of the day, if our idea is good enough, it shouldn't really matter. But I can't help but wonder if we (not just myself, but the edtech set as whole, who would have applied to IK12) is going to be somewhat disadvataged, at least for this application cycle. I guess we'll find out.
Rythm, the first active sleep wearable
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Does iOS lose MMS sent to "apostates" like it does for SMS?
Secure Boot's aim is mostly to protect against malware persisting through the boot process ("bootkits"). Given that it's anchored in the firmware and the firmware is unverified in almost all consumer x86 motherboards, an attacker with physical access can still bypass it in a trivial amount of time (it requires some preparation to figure out what to patch, but the patching itself is quick).
Well, the Warsaw Radio Tower used to be the tallest man-made structure in the world until it collapsed due to a guy rope failure - and it had a 2 megawatt transmitter, it could be received literally anywhere in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_radio_mast
That was an epic read. I've only ever known ESR from his 'edge' opinions but this email feels like a pearl from the wise.

He mentioned code sharing and using his inbox as a queue, was this pre-source control? Stupid question, but does anyone have any context to what it was like when this was written?
you can take a look at http://ef.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ I've been using it to get startd with ef7 and I find that it's well explained
> I personally would prefer to have the parser in Julia, but at this point the most pressing issue with parsing and lowering is speed – so it's possible that the parsing and lowering will be converted to C instead.

But isn't Julia supposed to be fast? ;)
Why does it depend on having a unix file systems ? (note that it doesn't use /proc on e.g. freebsd)
An Exhibition That Proves Video Games Can Be Art
Forwarding a webhook to multiple endpoints
Webhose.io archive access is now live
You are not alone... on my first internship, we were transferring code by USB keys, I just can't believe I used to work this way at some point.
Or maybe just pack a tiny GPS device with extra batteries for emergencies instead of a tiny drone.
Thanks for the tip. The current static site is being taken out of service soon and the app being moved to the main domain.
128 Cores - nice: http://hisham.hm/htop/128.png
No steering wheel, but two levers instead: https://youtu.be/JLnSlJVAsvU?t=1m44s
Actually you are right. I remeber this also, people seem to have catched on. Although my question is probably more aimed against the media endlessly throwing articles of this cycle out.
I just wanted to say it's really nice to see this type of moderation. I'm much more in favor of corrective action than just removing comments.

Thanks for doing such good work!
There's a patch which adds emulation for the popular NE2000 network card: http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/ne2kstuff/db_ne2000.html

DOS itself had no networking support. I don't think Windows 3.1 had native networking either - you had to install Novell for LAN networking or Trumpet Winsock to use a modem.
Copied from the main site at http://hisham.hm/htop/ ?
I was impressed years ago when some bright spark got linux running in a web browser session, and I'm yet again impressed that we've progressed in technology to the point that I can watch a quicktime video in Windows 3.1 in Safari on my laptop. Not to mention a fantastically organised and easy to use collection of historically interesting software, nice!
Not sure subtitles contain character information but the people running https://frinkiac.com/ might have the data.