skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been very put off by their rah rah support for Agile. In many ways, I think Spotify cargo cults on the Netflix culture document, but they don't actually have a tech culture identity that they've created for themselves, they just make a big fuss about Agile, oppressive open-plan spaces, and fancy parties.

I think Spotify is a great example of why job candidates should look before they leap when it comes to agreeing to be managed in an Agile process or made to work in an open-plan office.

Unfortunately, I agree with you that these types of situations can be good for unproductive employees who want to hide somewhere within a company that might look good on the resume.

I can't say it definitively about Spotify since I have never worked there. All I can say is that the mixture of status signalling open-plan office + needless opulence + Agile strongly suggests dysfunction.

It's further discomforting that they plan to use this money for marketing according to the article. That seems like a big gamble. It's somewhat of a signal that they fundamentally believe what they have engineered is good enough and satisfies customers, and now they just need to generate spam to get more customers.

For a company at their stage and market penetration, I'm not sure this makes a lot of sense. I think Spotify might actually do better by creative innovative new engineering features and improvements, rather than just trying to lever up the number of subscribers for what will more or less be the product they have right now.
Being outside does not preclude internet access... :)
If you think that lovingly describing the details of an obsolete technology is "smug," then you are seriously on the wrong website.

(BTW, did you notice the part where the author specifically says he's talking about NTSC, and other standards work differently? Because, to be honest, getting all nationalistic over obsolete TV connection standards is kinda weird.)
Hypothetically, the car might be able to print its own systems report during manufacture. This might not be an entirely far-fetched theory given that a car contains numerous independent computers networked together and not all of them have direct access to a display.

Another possibility is that a "printing" metaphor is being used to communicate certain things between the various car computers. For example, if there's an engine fault, the engine's computer might "print" the fault report to the center console computer. On a modern BMW, the centre console computer shows a log of faults as well as a full service history and upcoming servicing requirements.
Apple iPhone SE review: A compelling blend of old and new
You can always create a dataset and make it public by setting open ACLs to it. The only downside is paying $0.02 per GB per month.

To participate in the Public Datasets program, you must contact us - there's a lot of legal mumbo jumbo associated with us hosting your datasets that I wish weren't the case :)
Since when did the GPL not cover non-code artifacts?

The FSF's view at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLOtherThanSoft...:

"You can apply the GPL to any kind of work, as long as it is clear what constitutes the “source code” for the work. The GPL defines this as the preferred form of the work for making changes in it. However, for manuals and textbooks, or more generally any sort of work that is meant to teach a subject, we recommend using the GFDL rather than the GPL."
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
And are there Windows and Linux ports being developed?
ETHICAL HACKING WITH KALI LINUX [5] – ROGUE WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS
I have several of my files in Dropbox and let it do the heavy lifting. I generally only view the file from mobile. There is a MobileOrg app but it isn't great.
Somewhat related, check out Vim Wiki if you are on the other side of the great editor's fence:

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

Not feature for feature compatible, but sharing the same spirit
I don't use emacs; should I still invest my time in OrgMode?
Probably relies on ActiveX controls or something else proprietary to old IEs.
Not using ConcourseCI, but I use containers for our browser testing. Blogged about it here - http://stacktoheap.com/blog/2016/01/04/running-webdriverio-t...
More often, the person is just a token hire who functions more to ensure legal deniability on the company's part for anything that might pop up related to a diversity issue.

I hope more companies hire diversity officers for the sake of thinking hard about how to ensure that policies and company behaviors aren't harmful.

But for me it's a "I'll believe it when I see it" sort of thing. The default belief has to be that it's just a token position for the sake of legal deniability, just as most of HR has evolved into.
Apps can teach you all about the stock market, but be careful
Apple’s New Challenge: Learning How the U.S. Cracked Its iPhone
What would people do if you sent everyone using your package saying it was pirated, the rightful author never open-sourced it? This seems solidly in the realm of copyright law and out of the realm of NPM's policies.
As a counter point, we use Cloudformation extensively at 99designs and whilst it has some quirks, it's also been stable, reliable and incredibly beneficial for automating lots of our infrastructure.
I used OrgMode during graduate school for all my math/science formula heavy papers. Org lets you mix OrgMode outlining (which is very close to Markdown) and LaTeX.

I generally write in org mode and then export to whatever I need to.

I use it on and off for TODO list management but it is really good for writing.
I suspect the first time that happens, automakers will move away from FOSS so that the can at least hide what outdated junk they're using.
or http://nwjs.io
Because Kik might have argued that any package named "kik" in any npm namespace could have been infringing on their trademark. Namespaces alone aren't the solution to this problem.
I haven't extended my use of org-mode outside of simple outlines for taking notes and todos, but for that it's been wonderful. Something always irked me about Microsoft Word, it didn't work quite right. I didn't like a number of other softwares I tried. Same goes for TODOs. Now I have a good place to manage both and I get to use that glorious evil-mode as well.
The only advice I have regarding debugging:

Interrogate every assumption you make.
I keep some org mode files in a Dropbox folder 'org' that I can edit with Emacs on all of my laptops, and with Dropbox friendly editors on my iPad and Android Note 4 phone.

It is OK to edit text org files with a plain text editor.
Just wonder is anyone tried to get (L)GPL sources from Tesla?
Cfoo (https://github.com/drrb/cfoo) is great, it's simply a yaml-to-json converter with some syntactic sugar for cloudformation. Troposphere seemed like too heavy an approach.
All out war for streaming customers with apple and google.

Someone is going to collect $10 (plus $1 or $2 increase every couple years) per month for a huge segment of the music listening population for basically the rest of our lives. Spotify want it to be them.
That's a good point, but in your example, wind energy is basically an 'extra', rather than the government regulating an industry. I'd be curious to hear examples of the latter in places like Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Fun article to read in reference to holoportation. Author has clearly thought about the pros/cons of various other super-powers. I must confess that I've done the same. Teleportation IS the best superpower!
True story: Back when they were beta-ing a famous OS in its first 64-bit version, I found that dividing by zero actually crashed the calculator application. It turned out that they were taking the exception id (as reported by the OS), multiplying it by the size of a pointer, and using it as an offset in a table to find the address of the exception handler routine. (i.e. JMP [id*size+table]) Lo and behold, on the 64-bit version of the architecture, the highest bit was set on the exception id....
What do you miss?
It does.

https://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.92-...
This is my concern as well - if I want to use Org Mode for everything, including "random thing that just occurred to me that I need to do," then what do I do if "random thing that just occurred to me that I need to do" occurs to me while I'm on my phone, not my computer? I want one unified way to organize my TODOs, and it seems like org-mode isn't great for that.
The Priceonomics Data Puzzle: TreefortBnb
> attempted to amicably resolve the problem

I'm not sure I'd use the term “amicably” to describe kik's emails. Was it really necessary to use the phrase “banging on your door”? It's perfectly possible to threaten legal action (it's their right) without, in their own words, “being a dick” about it. They could've phrased it like this: “We'd like to settle this dispute amicably, rather than pursue legal action, but we will defend our trademark.” Or something like that. Dunno, IANAL.

While Azer's knee-jerk reaction didn't help matters, I can't bring myself to blame him, because I know I would've reacted the same way, if not worse.
Perhaps they lied to safe face. But if now, shouldn't they be obliged to report the vulnerability?
See also some of the cool work going on at UC Davis; e.g. a phenotyping robot for reconstructing various plant geometry on the fly:

http://ucanr.edu/sites/dcslaughter/UCDavis_High-throughput_P...

(Disclaimer: relative of PI.)
Transmission on OS X uses native UI components[1] rather than GTK. In fact they seem to have 3 sets of UI code (AppKit, GTK+, Qt), plus the web interface, plus whatever they're using on Windows (might be GTK+ or Qt there?).

[1] https://www.transmissionbt.com/images/screenshots/Mac-Large....
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it is on hangouts for years. and it suck in all and every way imaginable. if there was a way to make it suck, they did it.

you have to keep switching accounts (close conversation, press hamburger icon, click account icon) everytime! got a SMS? switch to the confusing SMS account. Got a SMS on your google voice account? switch to the account (gets better if you have two!).

Dial via google voice? had your SMS account selected last? you will only get a "can't dial" error and the app closes.

it is the worst wtf fest of all google screw-ups in usability ever.
Using R packages and education to scale Data Science at Airbnb
A note on your edit: The difference you observed is not because of du. Your node_modules really does take 673 MB on disk.

File systems divide the disk into segments, confusingly also called blocks. Only one file may occupy a block. On my Mac, the block size is 4 KB, so a file containing a single byte will still occupy 4 KB on disk. The du utility reports the latter. The Mac Finder reports the former in column view and both in the "Get Info" pane.

Unpacked NPM modules have many, many small files, obviously.
Both Spotify and Pandora are losing money on a consistent basis. IMO streaming music is a losing business, and the only way a provider is going to stay in the market is because they have other services that complement the music.

I love Spotify and am a daily user but honestly it's going to take a lot of work to turn things around for them.

Content acquisition costs are killer and are not something that can go away.
I disagree. I think QML is faster to prototype (you can export an existing PSD file to qml). Also QML's anchor-based layouts >>> flexbox.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."
Blockchain’s Next Big Test: Trillion-Dollar Repo Market
I haven't seen this come up before, but skimming through the features it reminds me a lot of Engelbart's NLS [1]. Tables, lists, links, exports to other formats, all from a plaintext base, it seems like this was directly inspired by a lot of Engelbart's ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Agreed.

If people want to use reactive programming for their view layer on iOS or OS X then ReactiveCocoa is probably a nicer fit.
How does Lyft expect to maintain a financial middleman relationship in a carpool relationship? What incentive does a commuter have to keep paying Lyft?
YMMV, but I'd much rather Cfer (https://github.com/seanedwards/cfer), which I found useful enough to contribute back to. A real DSL instead of relying on comparatively inexpressive YAML is very appealing to me.
> I could play my entire life and never achieve the level of play Lee Sedol has. AlphaGo surpassed that level in a matter of months.

In one, very tiny area, sure. But step outside the very specific task of playing winning moves in go, and Lee Sedol wins every time. AlphaGo can't explain its moves to someone learning go, let alone cognitive tasks we take for granted like moving feet in a way that produces transportation. AlphaGo can't even do things that other programs can do, like play chess.

Sure, you can "disrupt" with Monte Carlo algorithms like AlphaGo in the San Francisco startup sense of the word "disrupt", but that's also not new. AIs have been doing that for years in finance, genetics, chemistry. We've been able to write code that does one thing well for decades--what we lack is code with breadth of application, and AlphaGo doesn't even make a dent in that.
By the identity function a package is functionally related it itself and so can be scoped.

I am not sure if I am being playful or not. I'll edit this post if I figure it out before the hour's grace period is up.
A terrorist is a freedom fighter who is not on your side;
I presume the < > means to and from. In my specs shorthand that usually implies bidirectional communication.
This concern is indeed not addressed in the text I cited. However, though my English reading comprehension isn't precisely the best either, I'm pretty sure this concern wasn't brought up in your comment that I was replying to when citing that text.

I don't see this concern addressed in their Package Name Disputes document at all: https://www.npmjs.com/policies/disputes

Perhaps they'd be delighted if you brought it up in the public forum they linked to at the end of the blogpost? https://github.com/npm/policies/issues/44
That's why it's best not to force people to namespace with backwards website addresses.
Finding a novel way of storing a bunch of toxic waste spread all across everything is the same thing.

Fracking fluids can basically be made from anything, so just randomly pumping random chemicals into the ground to store them there is the same as spreading the volume of aluminum production byproducts across a vast population is the same thing.

Further, with respect to fluoride - like I said, the CEO of Alcoa said this to my dad... So that comment holds some fucking merit.
I'm a big fan of React for frontend web work but I'm also not sold on React Native. It's a step up from web frameworks like Ionic but it's still a lowest-common-denominator experience that can easily be beaten by a real native app. And given that the competition for a spot on the user's home screen is tougher now than ever I don't think you can afford to be lowest common denominator unless the service behind your app is so essential that users will put up with a less than stellar app.

So I think RN is a reasonable option for some kind of business that needs a decent, usable app on both iOS and Android. But if your business is mobile-first then I would still recommend you take the time to do a real native implementation.
How a 'CEO' scammed everyone by laundering money through China
How MIT Became the Most Important University in the World
Do you have tips for the "document authoring" side of things?
Whistle-Blowers Deserve Protection Not Prison (2013)
The majority of their costs come from buying content. In 2014 they spent 70% of their revenue on labels and artists.

Fundamentally they have a bad business model. Good on them for ditching Taylor Swift - while she is very popular the financials likely showed the ROI for having her on the platform was negative.

IMO Spotify is going to either need to change how their business works or make some painful cuts to become sustainable.
Oklahoma will be a superfund site.
> At all angles and speeds tested, both walking and running involved having at least one foot on the ground at all times.

That doesn't sound like running to me?
Each state offers a free or small fee service where you can view detailed well information. I work at a company that aggregates that information.

There are 475 oil and gas drilling rigs running in the US today. The shallowest well is permitted to 1600 feet. The next shallowest is 2600 feet. In all, only fourteen of these actively drilling wells are permitted to depths shallower than 5000 feet.
React != reactive programming.
I don't think all his writing is like this. Some of it is clear and cogent. This was specifically an indict of his writing on race-related writing. When MM's writing goes wrong, it almost always follows this pattern (highly specific missing-forest-for-the-trees with the explicit central thesis carefully scoped and the actual central thesis left unstated). But it doesn't always go wrong.
Yes. I would say it's worth learning. The best way to learn emacs is to use it everyday. When you're comfortable enough, then you can start learning org-mode. You'll be much more productive eventually after you discovered what org-mode can do.
I'm having trouble grasping the coherence of your point.

While it may be fine to believe that some speech is considered beyond the pale (and let's leave aside the forms of speech people already agree on, like yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded movie theater), the question remains, who is the arbiter, and what standards do they apply? The point is that there isn't a consistent answer to that question. And since an inconsistent answer would lead to abuse, and to the "wrong" people having their speech suppressed, the only alternative is instead to defend free speech even when objectionable, and thus argue that it shouldn't be controlled.

The whole crux is what you're saying about the "wrong" people controlling speech, and for the "wrong" reasons. There is no consistent definition for "wrong" here, not that cannot be turned around and used against you or the people you'd define as "right".

Which is why I essentially agree with your final paragraph, at least the sentiment about not being able to predict the moving lines of what is acceptable if we were to assign values of what kind of speech should and shouldn't be controlled. But since I don't agree with your first three paragraphs, I don't understand your point of view.
>> Externally, companies like Spotify

I hate people bringing them up - its just being a sucker for marketing. Spotify and Netflix are clearly brands recruited to promote their respective platforms. The only question is how large a discount they are getting among other special treatment in return for their name. I wouldn't be surprised if its conditional on a gag criticising the platform too. These are the sort of situations that are revealed years later to have required a totally isolated and custom solution that bore no resemblance to the service it was intended to promote.

Special partnerships prove nothing because the economics and service you get won't be remotely similar.
He is saying something dangerously close to racism. I don't think it is racist, for the following reasons. I also think it's wrong, for other reasons, mentioned at the end.

He says he doesn't think "intelligence" is uniform across human populations. That sounds racist because e.g. the Nazis said Jews were mentally inferior, and racists in the US said black people were mentally inferior. Racists believe such things, and they believe them about an entire race as a whole.

However, the tricky part is that it's hard to avoid the topic without being anti science. For example, black people are far more likely to have sickle cell anemia for genetic reasons. That's a well-known fact, and it isn't racist to mention it. What Yarvin mentions in that post is that he thinks intelligence might work the same as sickle-cell anemia. When put that way, it's not racist. It's not about races as a whole, it's about genes not being uniform across all groups.

However, obviously the difference between the racist statement and the non-racist scientific one is worryingly close. For that reason, a lot of people take the easy way and oppose even considering genetic differences in populations. That's not a good solution.

The good solution is that Yarvin is wrong for other reasons. Intelligence is NOT like sickle-cell anemia. Intelligence is a very amorphous concept, with changing definitions over time. It's not an objective, scientific quality like "has sickle-cell anemia". And we know that that ill-defined aspect of intelligence has been misused in the past, when "intelligence" tests were used to prove that black people, Jews, and Italians were mentally inferior, for example. Instead, when intelligence is studied carefully, it's actually a mix of a huge array of skills, and many of them depend on culture and training and context. Even if genes affect brains which affect mental abilities, the mediation of culture, training and context are so large that it is meaningless to talk about intelligence differences in race. There is also a huge amount of relevant genes; sickle-cell anemia has one.

The bottom line is that we know Yarvin is wrong because this was studied. For example, black children raised in adopted families have noticeably different results on IQ tests than non-adopted children with similar genetics. We know genes matter here, but we know they matter in such a complex way, and other factors matter just as much, that saying "group X is inferior" is wrong.

So no, I don't think Yarvin is being racist there - even if he cuts it close - but he is in fact wrong on the facts of the matter. We don't need to call him a racist to show he's wrong, the facts do that.
I'm learning electron. But, React Native launch the Desktop.May i give up it?
> Perhaps they'd be delighted if you brought it up

Or perhaps they would not. After all, my question is a very natural question to ask, and they don't seem to have given it any thought, as if they were ignoring a particularly big elephant in a small and cramped room. It seems deliberate to me. And, even under the unlikely assumption that it isn't deliberate, it says a lot about npm Inc's lack of empathy for their own users.

In any case, not being a JavaScript programmer myself, let alone an npm user, I can't bring myself to care enough to comment on their GitHub issue.
> Despite the article author's recognition given for BMW's OSS compliance, I am dismayed to see yet another example of likely inconsideration given toward implementation of security in the engineering of an Internet-connected vehicle.

I hear you, but isn't this one of the reasons for wanting compliance around the (L)GPL? It allows us, the owners of the vehicle and users of the software to make that inspection, and hopefully, patch the vulnerabilities in the software, right? (I believe one of the provisions of the LGPL is that it must be possible to replace the LGPL'd software with a different version — this is why most software dynamically links to LGPL libraries: it allows the .so/.dll to be "simply" swapped out for a different one.)
I really like org-mode and used it heavily for about a year. But I found having my todo list on a single computer pretty limiting. Thankfully, there's a new generation of org-mode inspired cloud apps:

* https://workflowy.com/ -- the most mature app

* https://www.moo.do -- really nice Google Apps integration

* https://checkvist.com/ -- extremely feature rich

I'm really excited by these tools. I feel like org-mode has some really nice insights, but there's a lot of potential to improve.
Kudos to Looker, great partners here! We're just getting started :)