skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to illustrate an example of how people are using the term "agile" wrong:

If you ask around, you'll notice that (many|most) people equate "agile" with "two week sprints". But if you actually read the Agile Manifesto you find this:

Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.

Agile does not dictate that you use two week sprints. In fact, th term "sprint" itself is not even part of agile! The term "sprint" comes from Scrum, which is simply one specific methodology which claims adherence to the agile philosophy. But Scrum != Agile. Agile can also be XP, Crystal Clear, or AUP, etc.
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Oh yeah, I think I got this garbage email in my inbox and realized I have to unsubscribe from their 50 mailing lists.
We used to be adults when we left home for college or a job. Then, college became an extension of our youth... Now, that's not enough either. We need our jobs to be our next day care...

We're growing up slower. It's not a problem, so long as we're equipped as a society for longer maturation cycles, longer lifetimes, etc. The real world always finds its way in.

Better to accept the new paradigm, call it what it is, and adapt accordingly, than to judge.

Anna's story would make a great movie, btw.
I would happily go back to mainframes if given the opportunity. I miss the days of the "priesthood of the computer". I sorely miss linear languages like COBOL and PL. Yes, yes, I'm old fashioned, but man, were those the days. I miss programming on my 8-bit Commodore 64, praying I wouldn't run out of space on my floppy drive. Anyone remember Creative Computing magazine. I wrote every program in every issue for quite some time.

Now? I'm stuck working for a salary in a job that pays the bills. I live in Texas (I know, I know) where IT salaries are already low. Texas has that "right to work" mentality. My bosses are not real IT guys in the sense that they love IT. They're in it for the salary, whereas I'm in it because I still love it after a span of pushing bits over three decades. I would retire only if I won the lottery, but if I did that, I would likely buy a Z-Series mainframe and spend my days playing.
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This is how Bitcasa is working I think.
You would see all the files, in a fake hard drive of unlimited space. Some magic (machine learning and smart decisions) would try to figure out ahead of time my data access pattern.

So I would see all my pictures list, if I decide to open the first one, it would take a few seconds to download, and then I start browsing the pictures, it would figure out I plan to look at all of them, and pre-fetch them from the cloud, so there would be on average no perceived latency.
For people working in an office, you could have a spare machine with a full copy of the whole Dropbox; then LAN sync makes updating a lot faster.

I already do this because I have to change my selective sync set quite often.
I've been a huge fan of herbstluft since I started using it. Herbstluft's 'frames' definitely take a little while to adjust to and it took a few days to figure out how to fit hlwm's tools to my normal workflow, but I find the manual partition/automatic tiling within partitions system to be my favorite paradigm by far.
Louis CK does a bit about this thats pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSRPMFDTSs - only 1 minute long, no swearing
This is what Dropbox should have been. Glad they're moving towards that.

(Now, if they can only implement a .dropboxignore feature...)
I think the problem with making this change to more generic networked protocols is several aspects become a lot trickier then you can't impose limitations on the filesystem.

The biggest problem, as usual, is invalidating the local cache. For Dropbox, who own and implement the authority on the shared drive state, it is a _very_ (relatively speaking) simple problem.

Other protocols like SSHFS have to deal with filesystems of all kinds. Many of those do not support anything like inotify, and polling over huge directories would be horrible experience or performance wise (long delay or slowing down the whole host machine).
> Isn't using containers much more efficient anyway, instead of moving the whole truck?

The core problem is that freight companies in Europe standardized on the Euro Pool Palette (EPAL) but ISO containers worldwide use the non-metric US measurement system - thus leading to waste of space and potential safety issues (sliding palettes due to slack space on the floor).

Trucks, however, are fitted to the metric system and can safely transport EPALs, so you've got next to no alternative.
Roads are really expensive. Adding rail lines is cheaper to build and operate so a dedicated automated truck lane seems like a poor idea. If anything building 100+ MPH rail for long trips like this seems like a great investment until you adjust for actual traffic levels.
No more electronic road pricing gantries, every car's position will be tracked via gps in real time
http://www.carnextdoor.com.au/

These guys already do it. Don't get me wrong I had exactly the same sentiments as yourself and even aired them during an interview with the company. But that being said they seem to be growing steadily as people will do anything for an extra buck and hell the range of cars available is crazy. I encountered everything from beaten up old for lasers to late model Mercedes SLK Coupe's. (disclaimer: I did some work for them doing insurance checks/photo's of vehicles a year or so ago, something that was done at regular intervals, every 2-3 month or so depending on how heavily used the vehicle was/owners preferences)
Worth looking at this before assuming that "society has pushed him".

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-pr...
I'll keep this polite and assume you're intelligent and informed, a courtesy you did not extend to me.

You are aware that Irish and Eastern Europeans, and on and off through history Greek and Italian, have had all those same problems right?

I'm very, very aware of that fact. Hey, for the record, I'm partly Welsh. The Welsh have been oppressed by everybody! They're pretty damn white.

Literally nobody is denying that Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans, or people from unfashionable parts of Brussels, or your mother's uncle's cousin from Estonia, have faced discrimination at various points in time, and perhaps still do today.

White Privilege should just be called White Devil.

I won't try and change your opinion, but you should at least understand what the concept of "white privilege" means.

It absolutely does not imply that white people are bad, or that white people are devils, or anything of the sort.

The concept of white privilege is a way of viewing things that challenges us to observe freedoms that we as white people have that others don't always enjoy.

For example: as a white person, if a cop pulls me over, I may be treated unfairly. But whatever happens, I generally know that I won't be treated badly because of my race. He certainly didn't pull me over because I'm fucking part Welsh, I can tell you that! Black people don't have that privilege. Now, 99% of the time, maybe their race doesn't have anything to do with their interactions with the police. Most cops are good people. But wouldn't it suck to be black and never really know if a cop was going to treat you badly simply because you're black? And that at least once or twice in your life, it probably will happen? That's some bullshit I don't really ever have to deal with in my life. A privilege I have, if you will.

Now, like I said above, I can't help but wonder if we do need some new terminology here.

I am certain that I have not changed your mind. Again, I'm just defining the concept for you. You can agree with it or disagree with it at this point. That's cool. But your post made it very clear that you had no understanding of the concept. Probably because the term "white privilege" itself was a turn-off. You probably thought it was an attack on white people. It's not.
Yeah I think it's largely the same functionality as OneDrive/SkyDrive has, it's really useful for businesses who've uploaded many TB to it.
The whole story is a decent read. I actually read from top to the bottom. As long as the whole idea makes sense, no need to pick a few sentences and enforce political correctness on them, that just missed the point in my opinion.

He is not a politician and is speaking for himself, and he has the right to say that I guess. Overall, a great write!
No, but it would be a marked shift in their attitude towards Linux if they just never brought cool new features to it.

Not saying they're doing that here, I'm sure it'll take time to implement.
I also use Selfoss, it does what I need it to. Although the author's decision to override the Space key is odd. I comment that part of the JS and let the aggregated js regenerate to return that behavior to the browser.
Any idea why 2 is so common? This same trend shows up on my system and seems to be caused by 102-byte files.
To add to the amusement/despair value, pink used to be considered a boy's colour during Victorian times, because it was considered a stronger, bolder colour, whereas blue was more delicate and feminine and thus suitable for girls.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/pink-used-co...
THIS. When I go to a website that doesn't have prices listed and you have to "Call for a Quote" I move on. I know the prices are going to be garbage and it's not worth my time to deal with the idiots on the other end trying to scheme me into spending money with their company.
The sad part is: despite reading this article and fully agreeing with it, conservatives in this country will just shrug and say: mistakes happen, let's not dwell on it. And they feel justified in taking this view because they know deep down that it would never happen to a white person in today's US. Case in point: John Walker Lindh -vs- Jose Padilla. JWL (a white guy) was actually fighting against the Americans; was taken prisoner, treated well, immediately put on trial and sentenced to 20 years (he'll be out in 7). Jose Padilla (a Hispanic male) was tortured for years in a Naval brig, without charges.
That RFC was created because of mDNS/Bonjour, to stop others from using that name for other purposes.
I'm guessing it had to do with pressure from international rights-holders.
Thank you for posting about NewsBlur. I'd like to remind everybody that one of its most important features is that it is entirely open source

http://github.com/samuelclay

This means that if I were to ever invoke the bus factor you would still be able to use the same reader you use today. It negates the Google Reader problem and gives you confidence that I'm not selling your data or doing anything nefarious.

Plus it means you can contribute your own pet feature. About sixty people have done that so far, for web, iOS, and android. Open sourcing has paid off in spades and I'm planning to do the same for my next secret project, of which I'm in China for right now.
No one is attacking your grandfather. The previous poster is simply pointing out the better mortgage rates many white Americans of his generation would have received as a direct result of the racist culture.

From Wikipedia [1]

> For example, in Atlanta in the 1980s, a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by investigative-reporter Bill Dedman showed that banks would often lend to lower-income whites but not to middle- or upper-income blacks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
>Who are they, and what justifies their torture?

>People being tortured don't tell you valuable information; they tell you whatever they think will make the torture stop.

You're already asserting your position, and disguising it as a question. Virtually everyone seriously condoning torture believe it is effective. If they were to believe it wasn't effective, they wouldn't order it to be done.

You may think it's not effective, but that should be argued on its own merit. You're assuming the conclusion, then pretending that everyone else does and are therefore unjustified.
>And the Soviets are a terrible example. Centrally planned economies of course destroy all individual incentives to accel or improve.

Which economy is not centrally planned? We have more and more central planning every year.

The Soviet Union did not collapse because of central planning. It collapsed because everyone was lazy and stole shit from the factories. No productivity, no quality. People were drinking at work and were utterly incompetent. This is what happens when you remove the incentives for improvement. If you guarantee people they can eat, no questions asked, they just stop caring after 10-15 years. They just forget to care, this is the new reality for them. No repercussions, why even bother. Who are you to tell me to work harder? Why should I work at all? I am ENTITLED to your money so I can buy food.

And when the proletariat smells they can get other people's money, will they stop at just a pinch, so they can buy the very basic necessities? Or will they go and protest and push for more money in 15 years? Those fucking 1%-ers! They are not better than me. Who said they are better than me? Why should they have all this money. I need to feed my kids! And for booze.
Your first sentence is valid. I wished the opposition was better, so that we have real representation. The current opposition parties are fragmented, and worse, seem very reactionary. Unfortunately with Singapore's aging population it is unlikely any party will try to appeal to voters in my demography.

The second sentence however, is unfounded and uncalled for. The Lee's may be many things - harsh, autocratic even - but their integrity has never been called into question. Given their track record (the current PM Lee Hsien Long is a Senior Wrangler - "the greatest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain") one could very well imagine them being the CEO of a large multinational, which would be far more profitable than running a country and bending its policy to line their pocket.
Not a fan of authoritarian governments, but I have to say that from the perspective of a UK-based SaaS company trying to cope with VATMOSS, their reasons are more than a little compelling. Sometimes pragmatism really does need to win the day.
Odd, when I see something that offends my area of expertise, it causes me significant skepticism on everything else from that source. I need it to be right about things I know are right, or I can't trust it on things I truly know less about.
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You had it easier than someone with your original circumstances who was a minority or a woman, is the point. You are highly unlikely to be sexually harassed or threatened on a regular basis. You are highly unlikely to be insulted, questioned, or dismissed because of the color of your skin. Other people aren't so lucky. If you feel upset about this extremely mild general statement about white men, try multiplying that by 10, add it to every part of your life, and you might start to experience what people who don't look like you live with.

It's not about arbitrary quotas. An industry overwhelmingly populated by white men is missing out on 90% of the talent in the world. Programming ain't the NBA.
Thanks :) what do you like about it?

So apart from the alternatives people use today that I mention above, the most direct mentionable competition would be coach.me, stickk.com, and pact.com. We're taking the best bits of each and focusing them on letting users build an entire daily routine.

There are lots of possibilities to make money. We're starting by charging a small fee (1-2$) per achieved goal - so no cure, no pay. We're building the model with insurers in mind who have a huge benefit if current and prospective clients live healthier. Companies also benefit from more productive and healthy employees, so there could be a model there.
My boss is already sold on this. Is there any time line for a release?
Your url is broken and should be:
http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~jplozi/wastedcores/files/extended_t...

Parent directory:
http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~jplozi/wastedcores/
Swift on Android?
Ever heard of a thing called the Holocaust? Or the purges in the Soviet Union or any other ex-communist country?
I was going to say something about how I occasionally use the phrase "white privilege" and I agree with you, but I think I actually just tend to use "privilege". You're right, in different times and places there's a lot of change in who is privileged. And it's definitely not a two-level system. I don't think the word "privilege" necessarily implies it, but it's used like that a lot, and I think that's unfortunate, and it's definitely a simplistic view of the world.

For instance, Irish-Americans did not have a particularly great time in the US in the mid-19th century by any means, but they had a much better time than African-Americans. They faced serious discrimination, but they rarely were assumed to be runaway slaves.

I think it's useful to acknowledge that even today, some groups of people have basic privileges like being assumed not to be a thief that everyone ought to have, and we can acknowledge that without reducing it to a simple white-nonwhite line.
I think you are right in your perception of his thinking, and I didn't mean to interpret his views in a friendly way - I just wanted to note that there is a more academic dimension to the way how he meant this. I think you are exactly right in your view that he is basically thinking the opposite of a "negotiated society", this is what I got from his "Constitutional Theory" of 1928 as well. It is very instructive though because he is probably the most literate and well-spoken opponent of the liberal constitutional society - that's what I meant when I compared it with software security testing, he's basically looking for all the loopholes and small inconsistencies in liberal societes. I think his notion of these extreme powers of government is an example of that, and history has shown (with the further development of the Weimar Republic) that he was right there. I am not sure if he meant it in a normative way, as addition to the idea of politics as a fight between enemies.

Having said that, this mix of academic, positive right thinking, in the context of the abolishment of a state of law and civil society probably makes this all even more evil.
He did have brown skin. They all know each other, amiright?
> Bingo. Race is just one facet anyway.

There's no part of examining privilege that says race is the only facet of one's existence soooooo at least you don't disagree with it there.

To even make a statement like that is like getting mad at "breast cancer awareness" because "it's not the only kind of cancer."

I can't emphasize enough that literally nobody is claiming that race is the only facet of one's existence.
From the GitHub doc[0]:

> Homebrew is provided free of charge and run entirely by volunteers in their spare time. As a result, we do not have the resources to do detailed user studies of Homebrew users to decide on how best to design future features and prioritise current work. Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Homebrew.

I read this as:
"Google Business Development contacted us and offered us a sum of money for high-privilege-level analytic data on developers."

I would have rather homebrew extended the donation coffer cup on line 0 every time "brew update" or "brew install foo" was called. Much like how Wikipedia ends up getting me to donate each year. Part of me wonders if this was my fault for not donating.

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homeb...
"Escaping" isn't immoral. Lying is.
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I plead ignorance!
It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
But it's not just about Universities booting people out of school because it's their own private club and they can do what they want. There are some weird terrible consequences that come out of the "school court" system that many people don't realize are perfectly legal, and commonly practiced.

A student at my alma mater was brought before the "honor board," where the school specifically prohibits lawyers at the hearings. Part of the required procedure for these hearings is giving a full account of your side of the story, and answer questions from school administrators, a "jury of your peers" and the person bringing the case against you.

These two things combined wouldn't be such a huge deal, except that the person bringing the case against her was the chief of campus police -- a registered police officer in the town the school was in.

So the deal was either "automatic expulsion with no proceedings" or "give your account of the story and answer questions from us and a police officer without a lawyer present"

So we have 18-21 year olds, forced to testify against themselves, without lawyers, in front of police officers. Also keep in mind that this often isn't just a case of "well, it sucks that they're threatening your degree..." These students often live and eat on-campus. They may not have significant money in the bank between student loans. They may have recently moved and not know anyone in the area. In the case of my friend, the school got a restraining order that prevented her from being on campus, and changed the locks on her housing, all without warning, in order to put pressure on her to leave quietly. I mean, she was living out of a backpack and sleeping on a couch while going through the Honor Board case, but if she left, she'd have access to her stuff again. It was nuts.
> "Ok, let's make a rails app"
> "Oh, I need rails first"
> "Oh, I need rbenv first"
> "Oh I need brew"
> "Oh I need xcode tools"

As a Rails dev, this made me chuckle, yes, I've put a lot of hours into troubleshooting dev setups. But this is the wrong example. All of these are installed with one line on the terminal. And really, there are far simpler web stacks to pick up without even having to leave Ruby. Sinatra on system Ruby works just fine. All you do is 'gem install sinatra', open up a text editor and go.

Really, the complexity you have to watch out for is the complexity you impose yourself. Choosing the wrong tools for the job or the wrong abstractions. For many applications, Rails is overkill.