skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most users, it doesn't make a difference if they install a shell script by first downloading it, and then executing it. While checking for PGP sings, etc are nice, only a very small portion of users will actually do that or check the source of the script. I believe those users are smart enough to first download it manually and then check it.
For the rest of the users, this is really convenient, and fast. No need to storage a junk script and copy/paste two commands. Sure a simple "apt-get|yum install PACKAGE" would have been better but that adds more concerns:
1. If you let the package managers of public repose (Ubuntu, fedora) package your script, there are going to be a lot of outdated versions.
2. If you want to host the repo yourself, you now have to package your software at least twice for fedora and Debian. The user also needs to add another repo, which makes `update` a lot slower (especially when having a lot pin because it needs to connect to n many urls).
The slides interface is supposed to be for the presenter, really, not for the general public. The benefit to the presenter is if someone from the audience says "I'd like you to go back to the slide where you talked about X" -- finding the slide in a 2D-organized deck is much easier by going to overview and finding the right contextual column.

I find slides.com very handy because I can present from any web browser and don't have to worry about bringing my laptop.
Bjarne's book on C++ - the newest - is pretty good IMHO.
I don't follow the sausagemaking process in DC, so I don't precisely know in that instance, but my guess would be a public advocacy group.

In my state legislature, which I follow, it's really common for various groups to write sample legislation. Everything from duck habitat preservation to open source software.
Look at the compass rose in the lower right corner. When there's another detail slide below, the down arrow is dark. If you're at the bottom, it's grey. Basically you're navigating a grid and the arrows tell you if the cell in that direction is populated or empty.

I'm not totally sure if moving sideways pops you back up to the top row (which it should) or to the equivalent depth of the neighboring stack.

I actually really like this style. It allows you to quickly skip across the top row to get the main points, then dive deeper when needed.
The space we live it -- whether it be San Francisco and the Bay Area, or life as a 20-something male -- is pretty techified. Go hang out in Louisiana if you're looking for ideas :)
Not anymore, with the carbon-route elements they built a pretty awesome routing system.
https://elements.polymer-project.org/elements/carbon-route
yes. Do you think it's better to be used in Firefox ?
An Ayn Rand Acolyte Selling Students a Self-Made Dream
It pretty much requires you to use the babel/crisper/vulcanize toolchain, which in my limited experience doesn't do nearly a good a job of minifying Javascript than other tools (because it can't do symbol renaming). I haven't found a way to use browserify with web components, for example, so no ES6 modules.

Polymer is made of magic. It uses magic cutting-edge browser features where available, and where they aren't it fakes them using magic. Some of its APIs like Polymer.dom(x) are completely magic. When it works, it works really well. When it doesn't you are going to waste so much time trying to find out why.

It also assumes that everything you're doing is through Polymer; so you won't get much mileage out of, say, JQuery. While it admits the existence of other Javascript libraries it tends to blank them at parties.

If I were to do my current project again... I'd probably still choose Polymer, although I'd take another look at the other Javascript UI toolkits. Web components are so, so nice for designing UIs --- I can finally use actual computer science techniques like abstraction and modularity for building UIs! --- and it's got the best consistent look and feel that I've ever seen in a Javascript UI toolkit.
wtf. really? my goodness.
Uber and Lyft shutdown in Austin after voters defeat Proposition 1
Funny file endings in the CPAN and what to do about them (1998)
During this period his fascination with chess so distressed his first wife that she glued his pieces to the board.
That is truely awful.
AMD is also developing a tool to convert CUDA into HIP but I haven't looked into that

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/...

https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Tools/HIP
How suffering a dislocated knee turned me into a better developer
This entire article is an indictment of the gigantic market failure of medicine. Everyone is incentivized to do the wrong thing.
I see what you're trying to say, but you need to understand that those "distractions" or "drawbacks" you refer to about remote workers also exist, differently, for office workers. This does sound personal and simply that your company (or your experience) doesn't have the infrastructure to properly support remote workers. Because of this, your experience of remote workers is skewed (understandably).

That would affect the remotes as well and doesn't set anyone up for a good working environment. If your desk were all wobbly, lighting dim and office space generally just lousy, you'd say the same thing about the office space and how it isn't conducive to a positive work environment.

I work remotely for an SF company and, honestly, I dislike making trips to head office sometimes. Why? Because the entire place is a distraction. I observe (and get dragged into) multiple coffee walks/chats a day that take up 20/30 minutes at a time. The constant distractions of an open plan office are something that office workers don't notice, but remotes do. I can get more work done in 8 hours at home that I feel I can do in three days in that office. I've spent most of my career in an office and only became a remote worker a few years ago, but it's clear to me now just how much of a distraction an office is. I would argue that this is already a more than justifiable benefit of having a larger remote workforce.

A large % of my colleagues are also remote, and it works great. Almost every meeting happens with at least someone on VC, and it works. In-person meetings happen in the office, but Slack has become our primary method of sharing ideas and having conversation. Ideas have definitely formed over lunch, but more of them form when there's an active conversation in a Slack channel.

All of your reservations are justified, though, because that seems to be the default thinking of many people who either haven't been remote themselves or who have had a less than stellar experience of remote working. I can honestly say that the majority of our remote force across different teams (eng, support, sales) are the best in the company. But remote working isn't for everyone, and there have been people who thought it was be perfect way to work, only to crash and burn because they couldn't handle it.
My friends are each making £30k per annum, the stipend itself is 25k but they make at least 5k a year just marking exams and giving practicals. With it being tax free, it's easily equivalent to a job paying £35-40k(they are both at a Russel Group university).

I, on the other hand, make £25k per annum, and that's before tax :P
the hole in this argument is that you need to know what to work hard on. the psych studies about 'praise kids for their work not their brains' seem legit as a way to improve test performance but school is scripted. In the real world success is based on how you navigate without a script, and persistence matters there but correct choices also matter.

Given an oracle that gives perfect advice of course hard work is the largest factor. That's the experiment being done in the test performance psych studies.

The 'deliberate practice' papers capture this best. The 'practice' half is hard work, but the 'deliberate' half is the ability to plan and analyze your training to advance your skills. With music or sports a coach can help you. With product, business or war (fields requiring strategy because the rules are ever-changing) not so much.
Rust also clashes with a video game named Rust. I tried to check the Rust Reddit yesterday but ended up at the video game Reddit. Fortunately, the game will soon fall into obscurity while Rust lang grows in popularity.
Generative Art in Angular 2
Code Page 437 Refuses to Die
New Study Shows We Are Bad Judges of Friendship
Because AMD cut linux support for their mid-range GPU's 2 or 3 years in after their release they can royally go fuck themselves.

They would really need to do something groundbreaking for me to even consider them.

Meanwhile im on Nvidia 460GT playing Witcher 3 on high settings (yes, sometimes cutscenes(of all the things, huh) stutter at the beginning, but otherwise for a 2010 GPU is runs ~60fps) , still getting updates, linux "Just Werks(TM)"
In a year I'll prolly upgrade...
Tangential, the band "Chvrches" chose their name specifically because it was easy to search for. And indeed, search engines never get confused.
Parted4Android – Android partition app (v0.0.0.6 release)
It's not about Marco's business. He doesn't need whatever little money Overcast may make. His point is that podcasts as a medium are threatened _for everyone_ if Apple asserts more control over distribution and/or what shows up in the iTunes Store podcast directory.

It doesn't matter what OS your phone runs, the proposed changes are huge threats to today's podcast ecosystem and the opportunities it presents for small podcasts to get a foothold.
If you "add this apt repository" then the programme will be installed via apt & dpkg. Hence you know:

* It will not overwrite any files that are owned by another package.

* If/When you update it later and the programme has changed the config files, apt can tell you if you've changed the config files on your machine and offer you a diff, or what to do.

* It can be easily uninstalled later

* You can download the dpkg file(s) and store them locally, and give them to a friend later/install on your own server later, knowing that you are installing the same files as you installed on your desktop/testing system.

* If there is a network problem while downloading the deb, so what? Nothing bad happens. The software won't be installed, But there's no risk of your home directory being deleted.

* Installation is more atomic. Either the package will be installed properly or not at all.
Because you could make a lot of money in the interim.
I prefer AppArmor myself, you should def evaluate it before going down the SELinux route.
Hmm, I've found that the polyfills work fine, if you need to target IE11 and latest Firefox/Chrome. Even old Chrome versions work well with the polyfill.
Thanks for the reply - useful, but it continues to raise questions.

By looking at one of the slides, is what you've said obvious? How can you tell? From the start it's not obvious to me that there's a grid of slides. It seems to me that you need to experiment to work out how it works, and it's really not obvious. You yourself say that you don't know if moving sideways pops you back to the top of the next column.

In short, it's all taking my attention away from the presentation, it's making me work to figure out what's going on, and it's just not obvious. Ask yourself if this is a good thing - making your audience work to figure out how the presentation works, taking them away from the content. It's swish, it's fancy, ...

... it's obscuring the actual content.
I'm dealing with this right now - I (foolishly) bought a Radeon 390 instead of an Nvidia card of the same price, and the Linux drivers for it are complete clown shoes. Hell, Ubuntu 16 doesn't even have fglrx. The open-source drivers kinda-sorta work, but they're definitely not good for gaming, and I get a whole bunch of tearing.
Why are different modes of travel's safety measured in passenger mile instead of passenger hours? To measure utility of distance traveled, it makes sense, but passenger mile doesn't reveal how safe it is per hour that I sit in a particular vehicle (train, plane, car, etc.).
Yeah, you only need a single http request thanks to vulcanization.
Open source projects we are digging in 2016
A NEW APPROACH TO INTEGER FACTORIZATION
Did you follow a tutorial by chance? Moved one of my sites over to GitHub and Hugo recently and the ease of Hugo has made me seriously consider moving as much as I can of my other stuff.
The problem is that there's absolutely no incentive for doctors to act ethically. You don't win any points for ignoring drug company marketing.

Vendor marketing exists in all fields, technology included. The difference is that when I'm spending money on a vendor as a tech manager it's coming out of my budget. I have an incentive to make sure that the spending is intelligent and the solution is effective.

Where is the incentive for doctors to do that? They're spending other people's money on other people's problems.
My parents survived a head-on collision in a 1965 Corvair vs. an out-of-control Camaro, with minor injuries, thanks to the trunk being in front. The trunk was just about obliterated, but the passenger compartment was not compromised. Had they been in a Chevy Vega, Ford Pinto, or other '60s/'70s-era small car, they would have likely been maimed or killed.

As far as I'm concerned, the second-generation Corvair was considerably safer than typical small cars of the era; the trunk was large, the gas tank was behind the front axle, and the first-generation Corvair's swing axle rear suspension was superseded by a fully-independent design.

I'd feel safer even in a first-generation Corvair than in a classic VW Beetle. F*ck Nader.
I am on mobile, and while there was a set of 4 arrows to navigate vertically and horizontally as required, there was no spacebar equivalent. You had to tap each time to animate in the next bullet point. And you had to differentiate between light brown and slightly lighter brown under your finger to know when you reach the bottom of a column.
Ask HN: Looking to get in to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
I am interested in learning more about OSINT.

If you are an OSINT Analyst with experience from law enforcement, military, cyber security or the private sector, please share what your work entails. How did you get started? Where do you see OSINT going in the future?

What blogs, courses, tutorials do you recommend? Do any of you have experience with the AutomatingOSINT.com online courses?
A little unfair that they write the K program out when finding primes smaller than a number is a J primitive.
Cron on Ubuntu silently truncates commands to 999 characters
When Mount Everest was first measured, it came in at 29,000 feet. But they released the figure of 29,002 feet, to prevent people thinking that it was just an estimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest#Discovery
If you read the biographies of famous British people, you soon get used to reading that X or Y did okay/miserably at Oxford or Cambridge, but one day as they happened to bump into A or B who knew them from Oxford or Cambridge who said "I'm looking for someone to do something. Do you want to have a go?"

In the US, we already know from numerous surveys that after the first graduate intake, most software hires are made by personal recommendation - which is obviously going to exclude anyone who isn't part of a network.

So those are two examples of the value of networks.

As for "grit" - what does the word even mean? If someone gambles everything in startups and loses everything three times in a row before giving up, do they have grit or not?
No, it's uh most definitely not. That's like saying genital herpes is a good problem to have because you had sex with someone in order to get it.
As someone who has lost a fair amount of weight recently (97 lbs in just under 10 months), I was prepared to argue against this article before even reading it. However, the method he recommended (mindful eating) is basically what I used to finally lose weight.

I have been overweight/obese virtually all of my life (my baby fat was immediately replaced with fat fat). Over the years I have been under the care of two separate physicians for weight loss and taken 3 different types of prescription drugs for weight loss (Phentermine, Xenical, and Contrave). The most that I lost under those physicians and medication was about 30 lbs, which I promptly gained back PLUS an additional 30 lbs for my trouble.

Once I took a more mindful/intuative eating approach, the weight came off easily. I follow 4 basic rules that I took from a book called "I Can Make You Thin" by Paul McKenna (the book also includes some hypnosis stuff, but I don't use that).

1) When I am hungry I eat.
2) I eat what I want.
3) I eat consciously.
4) When I am full I stop.

Seems simple enough, but the devil is in the details. For example, regarding rule 1, I ONLY eat when I am hungry, not when I am bored or stressed. Learning when I was actually hungry and not just wanting to eat to change my emotions was HUGE.

Regarding rule 3 (eating consciously), that means no more eating in front of the TV/Computer, or while reading a book, or even thinking a lot about other things. I focus on eating and JUST eating. I eat with as few distractions as possible.

Regarding rule 4, knowing WHEN I was full was a HUGE issue for me. For most of my life, I ate until I was bloated or nauseous. Now as soon as I am satisfied or full I stop.

Because of Rules, 1, 3, 4, the results of rules 2 (eat what I want) were interesting. I still eat what I want, but what I want changed. I have always loved pizza, but now I am also addicted to spinach, either raw or steamed. I can honestly say that I eat more spinach in a given month than I had TOTAL in the 10 year period between 2004-2014. It's nuts. I am absolutely astounded by how few vegetables that I used to eat before this eating plan.

I don't get hungry and I don't have those cravings that everyone who has been on a diet knows so well. The key for me was that I wanted to find something that I KNEW that I could do for the rest of my life, not some diet that I would just stay on until I reached my goal weight, then revert to my old ways.
Obesity has nothing to do with what you eat but with how much of it you eat.
Of course it's signed in your repositories, but if it's in the repositories you wouldn't be doing curl|bash anyway, you'd grab it from the repositories. The point is to distribute software that is not in there, which is not even packaged as a .deb/.rpm (or whichever distro you're using).

You could still sign the .sh installer with GPG, but then you'd have to get the public key from somewhere (and get people to care about verifying the sig first). If you're communicating a key somewhere, you might as well just publish the hash sum and communicate that.
Like many of us, I had family fighting in colonies and know lots of histories from people that were affected by PIDE/DGS or had "nice interviews" with their officers.

I wonder how you can wonder about those days, unless from being part of more younger generations where those days sadly don't mean anything any more.

Do you know that the way PIDE/DGS imprisoned some students is part of the genesis for Amnesty International?
The bar for prior restraint on public airwaves is much lower. We'd be much better off if drug marketing were relegated to the shady corners of the internet for advertising.
Incidentally, this is why serious gyms, which are built for powerlifters, Olympic weightlifters, strongmen, and similarly dedicated athletes, charge a lot more money. When you get a membership at a 24-Hour Fitness for $30 per month, you're being subsidized by all the resolutioners who buy a membership and never show up.

Meanwhile, powerlifting gyms cater exclusively to the people who will show up 5 days a week, every week. You don't have that massive pool of resolutioners to provide effort-free cash, so you have to charge more money.

Of course, on the other end is Planet Fitness, which specifically caters to the specific demographics who don't show up and actively discourages the people who will show up 5 days a week. Brilliant strategy.

This is also why every lifter bitches about the lack of squat racks, cramped lifting spaces, and fuckstick trainers at corporate gyms. They are often a net negative for the gym, so the gym doesn't care about them; the folks who occasionally show up and do 20 minutes on the elliptical are where the money is.
Quoting the answer with 1 upvote:

> Experientially, there is a 999 character truncation per line on all of my Ubuntu machines, although I have not yet found any related explanatory documentation.

> I've tested on Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, and 14.04, and the 999 character count is started at the first non-whitespace character past the schedule.
Many people have grit, not all of them are successful. Some people don't have grit yet are still successful.

So obviously grit isn't the unifying thing that leads to success.

High Schools and Universities are by no metrics a measurement for success. And if you want to make them that you can start with the luck of whether you are born with rich parents or poor parents.

Of course grit is good to have, but it's not what define success.
Thanks for posting a balanced perspective. I find passive-agressive finger-pointing at the OP blog really distasteful. It implies (but never says directly) 'look at those lamers lol. and if you need some explanation on why this is bad you are a lamer too'.
Life Is Chill When You Believe Science Will Solve Death
Ironic coming from someone who follows the anti-vax herd despite a raft of evidence to the contrary.
sxBRZ – A Swift port of the xBRZ high quality image upscaling filter
So this is what Nature has come to? Following up on a study where people took Ketamine once and felt good for a while? Nobody was doubting that people could get high on Ketamine. Isolating the most intoxicating metabolite is a bit useful, but it really bothered me that "studies" looking at a single dose of Ketamine and labeling the rather short effect "sustained" get so much press.
Recently I stumbled across a family of algorithms known as image upscaling filters. They can scale an image to 2,3,4,5 or 6x the original size while preserving the details (using pattern recognition and other techniques). I was amazed by these algorithms and how underused they are. The main area where these algorithms are used are emulators(gameboy, SNES etc). So I decided to port the best one of them (xBRZ) to Swift. So check out the project and I hope you find it useful. I will gladly accept pull requests for any bug fixes, performance optimizations or new features. I will also be making a Python and C# port of the algorithm in the near future.
Right - it's a Western charity, but I'm asking - is it just solving a liquidity issue by pumping in the money? And if so, is the effect that different than if a central bank had done this?

I buy the "You need foreign currency as a country to purchase imports" point, but if we are talking about local money to support local demand, how is sending $30mm in, and exchanging it for local currency for local projects that different than the government just printing that same amount of local money?

There are inflationary effects of printing large amounts of money, but wouldn't this exist if you imported the same amount of money?

I recently reread the babysitting co-op story [0] and it got me thinking about these monetary implications.

Please note that I do agree that "giving people general support, and let them figure out what to do with it" is largely better than "I know what you need, so let me provide it for you" aid. II'm just working through the mechanics of this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
Interesting observation. Thank you.
I am not underestimating anything. You are simply missing the bigger point here because your understanding of luck is too simplistic.

Many people have grit not all of them become successful.

Steve Jobs was lucky he met Wozniak.
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