skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in downtown Camden, NJ once a couple years ago, being given a tour by a black pastor who's focus was on helping the poor of Camden turn away from drug addictions. (Point being, he knew the city very well, and knew its drug problem very well.)

It was an absolutely astonishing time. Camden literally felt like it had just been through a war: desolate buildings, so many people homeless on the streets, people desperate for food. It's hard to describe just how bad this city was.

I can't diagnose all the root causes behind why Camden is so messed-up, but this pastor pointed to the heroin epidemic primarily.
Review of Garmin Forerunner 235 Heart Rate Monitor
Running out of places to upvote you.
It's taken Visual Studio quite some time to get up to feature parity for things like C++11/14/17. A year or two ago was a super frustrating time to be writing modern C++ that supported Windows. Oh, I can't use that feature here. Oh, this networking API call is slightly different from every other platform. Oh, this same function exists but the Windows team changed the name to be camel case instead of using underscores.

And if you're working on a cross-platform project, it's probably using CMake or something similar. The development cycle of `cmake .. && make` is simple and easy. As far as I could tell, Windows builds were not as straightforward. It's been awhile so maybe they've improved it, but I would hardly call their developer tools "unequaled"

I just want to install Clang in a straightforward manner, call the above-mentioned `cmake .. && make`, and have an exe waiting for me. Is that possible now? It wasn't in the past which is why I'm highly suspicious of your "hands down developer friendly" comment. Windows always seems to be the platform that has to do things slightly different, and has offered the most friction when developing projects that run on OS X, Linux, and Windows.

EDIT: I would also like to add that most CI services offer at least G++ or Clang++. AppVeyor seems to support Windows builds with MSVC but isn't free. This is yet another hindrance to smooth cross-platform development.
Maybe because GNU's, uhh, Not Unix?
I loved 'Uncanny Valley' by Weiner. Wired is one dimension of the mid 90's, Morph's Outpost was another, less corporate one. More Kai's power tools than Adobe....
https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2800394161_32c40ecc6c.j...
Companies also hire higher level positions above current employees all the time. I don't know the details that would make them need to only replace one employee instead of getting another employee but that would've been another solution.
This seems plausible. This is why essentials (salary range, core hours) should be discussed before or on a phone screen.

1. Looks like netflix pays 200-300k http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=netflix&job=&city=&year=All
I love writing NT-style C-level (no CRT, just pure C and whatever the CNF/Cutler Normal Form style is).
Also UNIX devs seem to forget how cumbersome the X11, Xlib and Motif APIs are.
The Christian rock band raising money for a Thai orphanage[1] was a slam dunk, in terms of this so-called "low burden of proof", but it still took them two months to get their money back.

(Edited to add: I just realized they didn't actually get their money back. They got a check. Yep. You can generally cash those for free if you have a bank account.)

Imagine the situation of someone whose circumstances are less clear, or who can't otherwise afford to stay in one place and fight the seizure for however long it actually takes.

What happens to the person who just had all of their money taken away?

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/months-after-53-00...
I'm not sure about 'reinvented'. The jury is still out on 'unlimited vacation' - i'd much prefer a generous but structured policy. In the case of "Maria" the QA Engineer I think it's better to give her a plan to grow her skill-set if she is smart and hardworking instead of firing her. Simple policies like how much to spend on a meal aren't expensive to implement and make things clear and understood. Whether you codify it or not there is, eventually, going to be an informal policy - might as well write that shit down instead of leaving it ambiguous.
I still see it here and there, and it's great sign about author's bias. usually saves me from reading the rest of the comment.
Tried to use it just now. To be honest the UI felt like having my hands tied behind my back coming from pdb. It's in that uncanney valley of being a GUI but without the mouse. If I have to use keyboard-only I'd rather have it a command line at all times so I can just type an expression like `b myModule:381, myObj.prop == "my-condition"` instead of going through 7 modes until I get there.

That plus it just crashed on me with a permission problem in some breakpoint file as soon as I wanted to execute and it had strange screen update problems in my terminal when setting the theme.
Are you sure it's funny?
I am hoping for INTERCAL. "COME FROM" is very much needed now that GOTO is considered harmful.
Installing and Configuring SSL Certificates for Nginx with CertBot
Ionic an open-source framework
Is this from Let's Encrypt?
I get what the words say. What I am remarking on is that engaging in domestic, socially-acceptable and conventionally female work around the household for the economic benefit of ones family (as opposed to oneself) is a highly strained interpretation of "empowering."

Yes, if the alternative is wallowing in penury and being completely economically dependent, it is certainly better. But empowering?
Finally! A good, solid, professional operating system from Microsoft. It's the first time since Xenix they have such a product...

;-)
>Machine learning gives performance without theoretical undertstanding.

that is good experimental data and the role of theorists here is to look how that performance achieved and why. For example, one can reasonably suspect that there is a good reason why the kernels in a well trained image recognition deep learning net do look like receptive fields of neurons in visual cortex. I'm pretty sure that there is some kind of statistical optimality in that, something similar to like normal distribution is maximum entropy distribution for a given standard variation. The same way i'd guess Gabor of neuron receptive field is something like maximum entropy on the set of all possible edges or something like this. The point here is that the great success of deep learning generates a lot of very good data for theorists to consume. You can do only so much theory without good experimental data, and in the decades before the availability of computing power (and resulting success of deep learning) there wasn't that much of the computer vision theory advances to speak about, really.

>leaves flying and various things

Newton did that for 20 years. With great success.
Why should I have to prove anything about myself to the government if I'm not suspected of a crime? Merely having some of what everyone else has - money, drugs, etc - doesn't itself make me suspect. It just makes me a target.
I used to do this before I saw my colleagues tests using Rhino.Mocks. I found myself willing to write far more/better tests as it got easier to generate when using the framework than rolling my own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
Ya but the only use case for R over python is because some package is written in it.
Which is annoying to no end, these should be 2 different things IMO.
500K is not a lot of time. It's six months with a small team and maybe not even that considering you need to either have time to pitch another round of funding or get to the point where you can pay the bills independently. If you don't see a path to something strong enough to get you to the next level in that amount of time, there is no choice but to walk away.

Every idea to fix it takes time to develop, and with whatever time remains you have to make progress with sales and the existing customer base. With any given product and the right team you can get there, but the only way to get the right team to commit is with a passionate belief that you will get there before you run out of money.

If you spend the time trying to build a roadmap out of whatever options you can come up with, and none of those options give confidence given time and budget constraints... well, then you've done all you can do. It's not hard to come up with a list of reasonable options to move forward with, but it is hard to come up with one that's worth committing to.

If you've grown to the point where you can man up and make the decision to walk away early, you have a good future.
Considering mount points, reparse points, and things like subst, I doubt you can ever really know that. Granted, the deviations from the normal scheme are your own making as a user, but so are the places where you mount volumes from different physical drives in a single root hierarchy.
I laugh when you bring up compatibility issues because man have I grappled with them, too. You won't hear me say they're on the bleeding edge of c++ standards. It's their IDE that compels me to speak on their behalf. I do get what you're driving at, though.
I dunno. I've tried mocking frameworks and found that when the interface they were mocking changed I spent more time trying to fix for the arrange step of the test than adding tests that added huge value.

Rolling my own might take fractionally more effort to initially set up but the transparency of what happens and ability to debug through to me is of more value.
Haha. Well, you know what they say, if it is a good idea today, it's a good idea tomorrow too ;-)
You might like ipdb:

"ipdb is a standalone Python debugger based on IPython. It is similar to the
pdb debugger from the Python standard library but has additional IPython
features such as improved tracebacks and syntax highlighting."
You and me both.
If someone invents something that gets classified as secret and then a decade later another inventor invents the same thing, but by then the government doesn't feel the need to classify it anymore, would the original inventor have any recourse?

How does patent infringement claims work in a world with secret patents?
The weird thing is, isn't it obvious that the first thing to do is to replicate all of the functionality of the customers' current package? It's nice to get a laundry list of possible future features, but when testing indicates that people are only using it for the minority of their contracts which fit the software, that's a signal that besides the laundry list, the software is still incomplete. Did they really shut down due to an inability to prioritize enhancements? Kinda sounds that way, but runway is runway.
If the situation were really "take the money and do 70+ hours a week for a year" versus "shut down the business" then I'd agree, but that's a false dichotomy. You can run a startup putting in far less time than that; putting in long hours is a choice. You can bring in a team or outsource the parts you don't like. It makes it harder to succee but it's an option. You could (depending on lots of caveats) simply hand the business over to someone else.

I respect the author for admitting he didn't want to run the business, and I realise it was his choice to stop in the face of any other options, but I really don't agree with the idea that running a startup requires 70+ hours a week and if you're not willing to put that time in you have to shut down.
The suicide bombings only came after attacks by Israel, each one was a response for an attack by Israel, for example attacking apartment buildings with helicopter gunships. That's important to remember - they have a context.

Yes the wall is working well for Israel, it's annexed more of the West Bank by default, and is disrupting the lives of Palestinians massively, and also the migration of wildlife.

There's been quite a lot of violence lately, death toll is still pretty high since late 2015.
That is definitely not a good reason. Food delivery startups don't just deliver food, they make it easy to order food. They have their own app, you can pay through credit cards and mostly it just provides a better experience ordering food.
Even if restaurants hire their in house delivery team, they will still need to get orders from somewhere. I have been ordering from restaurants directly, and it is just not fun giving orders on a call to the restaurant with your friends shouting what they want to order.
Wouldn't the practice of "A" players only hiring other "A" players imply a certain monoculture to your team?

Yea, probably. If the goal is the dominate some sector, then having a mono-culture is incredibly valuable. Singular focus, shared task, shared vision is just staggering when it comes to effectiveness. All high functioning teams, from sports, to military and especially in business share this. And yes it looks like a cult from the outside - partly because it shares cult-like aspects.

It's worth defining what "A" players are, however because I think while there is a pool of them, not all of them would work out for any team.

I think people get the wrong idea that mono culture means no diversity. That's basically what your questions do.

I think back to the spy world and while everyone has the idea that all of the best spies in the world look like James Bond, the reality of it is that the best spy teams in the world look - well like a cross section of the planet. Old people, young people, uber nerds, jocks, preppies etc...but they all have a critical piece of a singular mission of collecting some critical piece of information.

Here is how I define an "A" team: A team that for a defined macro-goal, there is no better possible combination of persons on the planet to be filling the individuals roles, which accomplish micro-goals in furtherance of the macro-goal.

You compose that as needed. It doesn't "look" any way - but there are common features among the individuals usually: Domain expertise, Flexibility, Leadership Ability (which includes followership), Emotional Maturity etc...
I'm interested in three things:

1) ERAD training materials disseminated to law enforcement agencies (LEAs).

2) Correspondence between those LEAs and DHS, or occurring in DHS forums, regarding ERAD technology.

3) DHS reports, studies or memoranda mentioning ERAD usage in the field by DHS or any other agency.

I figure DHS Science & Technology Directorate might not be the right target. Should I just aim at DHS directly, or is there a specific group that would handle those connections between DHS and other law enforcement?

Should I structure this as three separate requests?
If we take the broad context and not just this particular article then yes, I can understand the growing frustration. It's a sentiment shared by the others. There was an article here about Facebook's latest language understanding tool . The comments focused mostly on how filter bubble and how tools like that fuel advertising sales. Only a handful of comments were about the main topic.
Aaand it's gone.

Now you can't dismiss it at all.
http://tilde.club/ is what feels like 1999 to me, because it's just a plain old multi-user Linux box. That's it.
Don’t find your passion. Grow It
Mhm. I'll bite. Got a source? Government wants kill people who use a lot of Oxycontin to kill the people who snort it or something?
<Insert obligatory Microsoft has changed comment?>

Except they haven't changed that much. Windows is now malware and they are bullying Android and Linux device makers with their patents, so they aren't really that different from the Microsoft that funded the SCO lawsuit.
> they're fairly unrelated to creating, maintaining, or deploying code

Actually it's very useful to know and understand potential misconfigurations.

e.g. if your 3rd party integration starts failing, it's useful to know the signals that imply their sysadmin messed up a zone transfer.

This sort of 'hands-on' knowledge that you only really get from messing around with the daemons yourself reduces downtime and emergency maintenance from hours to minutes.
I came from an European country, and the root cause seems pretty clear to me: why defending yourself in court is so damn expensive? In my country, you don't often need an attorney (although for complex cases you certainly do), but even if you do hire an attorney, they cost way, way less. Like $20,000 for a complex case, and it's going to be a team of lawyers.

Also, companies just don't sue each other that often. I don't know why US is different.
>In the evening, they'd return to their chicken house in their pen and go to sleep.

>If you have enough vegetation around, you don't need to feed them at all.

These two things are why you frequently see free roaming chickens in villages in poor parts of the world. They don't need feeding and minimal care or supervision is required.

In a rural setting whether there is plenty of vegetation available and few predators chickens are very close to being free egg and meat producing machines as there is virtually zero time or money required from their owners.
OTOH, hay is hard to make and expensive to store, because you absolutely cannot let it get wet. If it even becomes damp it can give cows the heaves (and will give horses), and it can give farmers farmer's lung. Plus an untimely rain after you cut it can ruin a growing season's entire yield.

If you get it wet, you'll burn your barn down because it composts.
Why I left Facebook [video]
The title is misleading, as the first words on github are: "This repo contains a select number of files".
The title should say "Dump of some of the files".
Considering the state of popularity if the Edge, maybe even "reference on what not to do"
Worldwide prosperity index
Bit-Squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (2012)
Check out Electrovaya, they have a non-toxic battery production process. Cautiously optimistic here as well :)
wink wink, nudge nudge ... say no more!
Adblock users consider New York Times ban.
Elite for Emacs
Hmm this is very interesting... I was looking for exactly this so I could try to hook up WebGL calls from canvas into HoloLens' 3D environment. Three.js holograms :)
I've seen .NET projects with massive amounts of complexity because of DI introduced to support mocking. It's become a cult/fetish in some parts. There has to be a better solution.
5 Important Features to Ask from Your Performance Management Software
No. I think its really the mindset of higher ranking people (professors) who due to funding or conflict-of-interest are motivated to do engineering rather then science.

Most folks I know are desperate to do actual science, experimental or theoretical. Instead, they optimizing some procedure/protocol.
Tim, I only have your perspective to go by, however, from what you describe, I agree that you did the right thing.

On the bright side, you still have Contract Beast on the back of your mind and if you ever do think of an interesting solution then you'll be in a good position to test it out.
That's a bit negative; it's the source for the WebGL implementation; rather than wait X amount of time till they can do the 'proper' release; the source is available to read, how can you be mad at that?

This is something Microsoft would never have done in the past, and I think we should applaud the efforts that are being made.

Lastly; they are doing this to improve interoperability; give them some credit for the effort.
Israel instituted the separation fence in Gaza in 1993 during the Oslo process. It's remained there since despite being explicitly banned by the Oslo treaty, to which Israel is a signatory. It moved immediately to divide the West Bank from Gaza. If you look at the map, Gaza is the one possibly opening to Palestine to the rest of the world, Palestine is otherwise surrounded by hostile countries. This is why the blockade is maintained.

There were have been ceasefires in 2008 and 2012 where there were no rocket attacks. Hamas lived up to it. Most rocket attacks were in reponse to an Israeli action. It's a long history which I don't have time to go through now but has been covered by observers like Noam Chomsky. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175892/
Reading the article, after browsing the comments, I assumed the article would appear somehow employee-hostile. While, looking from Norway, the concept of at-will work states like California seems crazy -- if you're already in the situation that you can fired for basically no reason -- this sounds like a pretty good deal. At least if they make good on the idea of "spectacular severance packages" and the honesty and communication goes two ways.

I do note that they don't trust their storage/stock workers as much, and she kind of glosses over that bit.

I don't understand why people would expect any loyalty from California-based tech companies, is there any precedence for that? I thought the entire business was generally based on pretty predatory hiring and firing practices? As if the colluding on salaries scandal wasn't enough of a hint?
That's fair. I first used Visual Studio with C# and loved the debugger and code refactoring tools. And I use it occasionally when logging statements just aren't enough in C++.

So in that regard, yes their IDE is one of the best, but their platform sort of diminishes the developer-friendliness of the whole experience when developing on Windows.

I need to check out CLion again, haven't tried it since they released one of the first versions.
Big companies in Silicon Valley can defend themselves, so they don't care. It's small businesses that are affected.

And big companies do not really want competition from small businesses.
If you are anywhere other then NY or SF Bay area you are throwing money out the window on other expenses. I make 185k a year and support a family of 2 young kids and a stay at home wife in the SF Bay area.

Sure we manage money and things are tight but we get by so I'm having a hard time thinking how 155k can't support a family if you live in cheaper areas.

Maybe look at cutting expenses first.
What are the 5 most important features you need to ask from your Performance Management System ?
Here is a list of features which discusses how you these will benefit you with open communication, improving trust and setting expectation at first.
The article headline is an obscene lie.
"OHP Uses New Device To Seize Money Used During The Commission Of A Crime"

The article is a balanced analysis that speaks truth to power, but the headline is statist propaganda.
Based on what I read, it wasn't that there was no way to make this work - as you state here.

It's that you didn't want to stake your future on an uncertain outcome.

Nobody can argue with you that such a decision was a bad idea. If you, the founder don't want to do it - it will fail. So I think this just wasn't your passion play and you can't go down this road without being passionate and come out the other side in one piece.

That said, if every founder thought this way we wouldn't have most of the companies that we rely on today (not just startups by the way) - maybe that's good maybe that's bad.