skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when I was doing a talk in Melbourne, another developer told me what he didn't like about Atlassian was that they essentially only had one product (was it Jira? or Confluence? can't remember) and almost everything else in their offering set; they bought from other people and re-engineered to fit into their product line.

Having administered, Jira, Confluence and Bamboo servers (all with slightly different installation steps, logging and means to connect to LDAP), what he said made sense.

That being side, I really like Confluence. It's an amazing wiki, even though it's a bit expensive (although they do have free open source project licenses) and kinda resource hog.
To see it as an investment, and also an act of self-interest. Getting basic health care to billions lowers the risk of new plagues. Improving their quality of life lowers discontent and the risk of more and larger wars. Establishing a basic standard of education does more than all the rest, adding billions of voices to the global conversation and inventions that benefit everyone. You can't sell tertiary services to people subsisting on $1/day. The situation had to be addressed, the pain is real, but we will all be better off.
I like keeping functions small and writing tests first.

When you are under a lot of pressure to finish something same day, it helps to know all the basics are working by automatically running your tests.
They cancelled subscription just this year when they already had billion users. That means people are willing to pay for it.
I think it would be nice if there were clearer instructions. Plus, I'm hesitant as I don't know if texting 'STOP' to a +1 (US) number from the UK.

I've just looked up the cost, it would be about £0.20 to send it.

I did tweet them about it a while ago, but I din't think it really made sense.

https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams/status/702074369296769024
Does imperative programming force you to micro-manage variables and arguments?

For me I think the challenge is that the stack-effects are 'hidden' in the code. However, this seems like it could be solvable by compiler (typed stack effects for instance) and tooling/IDE.
Coffee works wonders my friend.
Facebook Blames Lack of Available Talent for Diversity Problem
>> if someone builds a better search engine, all of Google's customers could switch to it in ten seconds and never look back.

The point here is not that Google is a monopoly, rather that it's treating its competitors unfairly.

The fact that Google has competitors indeed means the "only shop in town" excuse holds no water. Google does have competitors, except they're not in the search business, they use Google's search business. And Google uses this fact to put them out of business and take their customers.

Also- just because you don't have any options when someone puts a gun to your head doesn't mean it's fair for them to do so.
Your siblings may hate a song you love because they were annoyed by your singing along to it. They may love a song you've never heard because they were with their friends when listening to it.
London’s digital ticketing technology could influence MTA
> Luckily it might look like snow from a television set rather than a typical image produced by a camera.

That would actually compress rather well. A hard to compress random image would not look like TV snow (white dots, with space between them), but rather randomly colored dots that are continuous in the image.
>using incompatible controllers

Aren't the new controllers specifically compatible with the Wii and WiiU?
Where is the money going?

Buildings and administration. The "undergraduate experience" that involves 24-hour gyms and subsidized restaurant-quality cafeteria food.

The truth is that professorial salaries are low and tuitions are high (for full-price payers) for the same fundamental reason: universities set the levels where they are, because they can.
Ouch.

I know snark is generally frowned upon, but HipChat and hosted JIRA/Confluence downtimes have been serious issues for us.
That sounds like 40Khz
>>Real photographer, old shool photographer, don't edit the picture after, if you need to edit it it's was not a good picture :-)

I guess you're too young to have ever worked in a 'real' 'old skool' darkroom then?

Where do you think the phrases like "mask" and "burn in" that your graphics software uses came from?
Not to diminish the suffering of the western middleclass (as I'm part of it) but what about the people in emerging markets?

If I understand his thesis correctly our 1% raked in the profits of letting us compete against emerging market workers. To put it in startup lingo: we are the cab drivers, they are the uber drivers.

It's not 'perfect' for us. But I have a hard time seeing only immorality at work here, while emerging markets getting a shot at having a middle class at all.
Step #2 in the "how it works" on your main website landing page misspells "assistant" as "assitant".
Stock app for high and low breakouts to uncover new trades
Hint: along with the times and timezones, most of this post is also fictitious (although the premise is very real!).
So a bunch of ceo's, co-founders, and elite types are against trump. This plays exactly into his hands.
+1, I also tried loading that page, I want to see what the information it returns is without needing to hook up into a Slack instance or give access to my leads!
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law)

When you optimize for, say, the number of publications, you encourage aspiring professors to vomit out more minimal publishable units and self-promote more loudly rather than thinking interesting thoughts and writing them down after some rumination.

The property you actually care about, the interestingness and quality of the research, is a latent property. You cannot optimize for it by optimizing any of its indicators; they are only noisily related, and intervening on the indicators will only break the connection between the indicator and the latent interestingness.
Antitrust law is emphatically about what's best for consumers, not what's best for competitors.
Show HN: Nedbot, Facebook Messenger search for events
https://www.facebook.com/heynedbot/

Would be great to get your BLUNT feedback about if this is useful to you, suggestions for how to make it better, features to add, etc.
"If you have the tendency to involuntarily hyperfocus on things, re-consider your interest in flying."

I understand OP talk about a personal opinion but that is really bad advice from falcolas and dghughes, which with a grand total of a few hours of actual flying should have no business at all misleading potential wanabees pilots.

You don't know how to fly with a PPL, yet alone without it during your lessons. You learn flying every day, every minute, every seconds of practice. From zero hours to 30,000.

The truth is "hyperfocus" is a common trait of EVERY baby pilot out there. That is just the way it is, you were not born with flying skills. So you take a few lessons, you fly the plane but you make so much mistake and tend to be overwhelmed, "behind the plane" every time, some can't even manage the radio by themselves before 10 hours. That is expected, that is why there is this guy on your right to teach you how to fly, it's actually a job you know. So, fast forward 100 hours you won't believe what you can achieve with your airplane, but you still does not know anything about flying, just continue to learn. Then there will be this IFR thing when you will be IMC in the soup shouting your first ILS solo to minimum, yes on a Cessna 172 if you want to. This day you will feel overwhelmed once again. This game never end, but this is absolutely the best game around.

"For me, the traits which make me an exceptional developer made me a terrible pilot." Pretty BS statement. Let's forget the "exceptional developer" selfie part, I have the complete opposite experience regarding IT pilots. I would say this very traits is just a great asset for pilots, had falcolas not chickened early on he may have pushed to the IFR part and challenges, he would have discovered a better world than IT.

You may read this guy on this very topic : http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/

Direct to the point, for the HN crowd :
http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/avi...

Just leave your computer and live the life.
Please wanabee pilots, don't listen to chicken talks, anybody can do it, go ahead, take this flight lesson, it will be one of the best time of your life !
"in my opinion" is implied here, especially given the context of the surrounding discussion.
That could get tough if the unfamiliar ones were carefully-chosen to smell similar to the three main ones, for instance. I picked out those three because they're so easy to tell from one another (which is why the Pepsi Challenge things strikes me as silly) and because "blind" Pepsi/Coke taste-tests were the topic. I'd guess something like RC thrown in the mix could make me confuse it for Pepsi, and some of the closer Dr. Pepper clones might get me, especially on a smell-only trial. Coke'd be tricky since its got the mildest odor of those three and I'd have mainly picked it out by process of elimination. With the other brands thrown in I could well miss a few.

[EDIT] if it helps, it seems to me that having a "Pepsi Challenge" is like having an "Orange Challenge" where the other contender is a lime. It's not exactly gonna be hard to tell which one you're dealing with, even if the sample's the same size and you're blindfolded. Throw in a half-dozen other citrus fruits and yeah, I could see getting a couple of them wrong but just those two? No. Judging from the reaction here, though, I'm starting to wonder if I need to re-evaluate my sense of smell/taste. Maybe it's not only farther from normal than I thought, but in the opposite direction.
Ahh. Sorry about that. Shoot us an note to hi at statuspage.io and we'll get you taken off. No text messaging necessary :)
Few of us got a free dinner out of an unfortunate friend of ours who claimed, for years, superiority of one product over another and his ability to taste the difference easily.

So one night we decided to put his claims to test: he was summarily sent to basement with a few friends; while the remainder of us prepared the samples in the kitchen.

We (preparers) then left the room while he sampled and wrote down his choices - as double-blind as we can make it.

He was wrong even more than random guessing would've allowed; and the video of his confident, but entirely erroneous reports are still an amusing viewing amongst our group :)

Mind you, he still claims superiority of one product and his ability to tell. But time again, these claims don't bear testing...
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> we've systematically made housing dramatically more expensive through parochial zoning

Surely this is a side effect of something else.

This effect cannot be caused by population increases because most of the 20th century had large increases without this zoning pattern emerging.

Additionally many European countries have declining populations and high rent/house prices.

So what is it? Low interest rates?

But then low interest rates are supposed to spur business development and new enterprise. More people should have more savings to spend on things, like houses.

Why isn't this happening?

And finally we're back to Peter Thiel's position = ex-computation technological progress has stalled and many people in the intelligentsia haven't noticed it due to their cocoon.

Do you agree with this train of thought?
I don't think the colleges are keen for students to have that information. College budgets depend on people getting degrees using debt they will have severe difficulty repaying.
Thank you. I'm an older programmer with health issues living below the poverty line so there's not way I can afford the subscription. I hope Jeff Bezos does't mind if I take a peek for free.
Ya, I could estimate sales tax for sure. I just don't have precise records like I do for income tax where I can just look at last year's 1040[1]. Instead I would have to think about how much I spent last year on goods & services subject to sales tax. And I don't even really know what's subject to that and not in some cases tbh. I spend a lot on rent and daycare and other things not subject to sales tax. Really it probably only applies to a relatively small % of my spending personally.

Also not all of sales tax really falls on me. Some % falls on the provider of the goods in the form of lower prices. It depends on the price elasticity of the product in question. Taking this into account would only further complicate the question.

[1] I'm a very precise record keeper of my income taxes now after I screwed something up years ago which cost me $$$. I keep everything in a github repository. It's pretty awesome actually. Highly recommended!
Anyone not familiar with this, do go to the link and check out the Control Room. Beautifully retro-futuristic, looks like a '70s sci-fi film set, but they were actually using the thing.
There's nothing usable you can write in Swift that would run on other platforms. Lack of cross platform standard library makes portability only a lip services, "opensource" or not.
Many younger programmers wouldn't want to get into mainframe Cobol programming because of the almost compulsory requirement to provide after-hours support duties in most of these jobs. Many managers find it easier to let programmers get woken up at night to fix the problems instead of allowing them to prevent the problems from occuring beforehand during the daytime. Years of getting woken up at 3 in the morning to fix those types of production problems tends to make many people look for other lines of work. The people who do stay employed doing after-hours support are often the ones who deliberately put the problems into the code during the daytime, generating those money-making callouts. US businesses with some India-based programmers will utilize them to fix those overnight problems because of the time zone difference.
Congrats Scott & the StatusPage team! I interviewed for a position with StatusPage at one point (ended up going with a different company), but I have huge respect for the product and the team.
We use hipchat on premise and still have quite a few issues with it going down. It isn't just the hosted version that is meh fwiw.

Jira, although it is slow, works quite well for our on-premise version.
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Thank you, I think I will read all 3 of them!
Even the greatest geniuses do not advance their field by an order of magnitude all by themselves within seven years of receiving their PhD and their first permanent position (a tenure-track evaluation timeline). Einstein took ten years after publishing on special relativity and the photoelectric effect to discover and publish general relativity. Hell, in 1905, he only had five papers published and had just finished his PhD thesis.

You just denied tenure to Albert Einstein.

(Luckily, in real life, he was appointed a lecturer in 1908, three years after finishing his degree, and became an assistant professor in 1909 and a full professor in 1911.)
There's more to training than coursework.
Very much so! I'd love to read it...
This. It lies as one of at least two root problems with the Internet as currently conceived and implemented. I have heard horror stories of people loosing entire collections of digital works that they paid for because of a violation of terms of service in a completely unrelated area. Could you imagine loosing all your Google Play purchases because of a copyright dispute on a single blog post?
The "investment" would be in plague prevention, foreign education, and potential war prevention? So that tertiary services can be sold by members of the upper class to citizens of the developing world? This seems like the sort of argument that strengthens Joe Middle America's nationalist sentiment, not alleviates it.
It's not that COBOL is particularly good or bad. It's that COBOL-era database technology is painfully-obsolete. Flat files, ISAM, and IMS are all pre-SQL, and old shops are likely to still be running some of that stuff. DB2 isn't too bad; it speaks SQL and runs on various platforms including Linux.

With the older systems, the database update logic and the business logic are in the same programs. This is not good.
>Also not all of sales tax really falls on me. Some % falls on the provider of the goods in the form of lower prices. It depends on the price elasticity of the product in question. Taking this into account would only further complicate the question.

That's true for all taxes, but not a reason to arbitrarily clip (only) one out and tell someone he's wrong for including it.
Yes, individual productivity has gone up in almost every field due to technology innovations. However, the increased profits generated from the productivity increases are only being captured by the business owners. The actual workers are seeing nothing, and many workers are actually being laid off so they are losing.

So in this case, businesses are using their leverage in the job market (high unemployment) and the fact that they own the means of production to break the relationship between income and productivity.
That's okay, I sent the STOP text and looks like it's done the job. Thanks for replying!
3 is one of my biggest pet peeves with SVG. Accessing the SVG document from its container is extremely annoying and not necessarily straightforward to debug, as I learned in one of my recent side projects: http://scottmmjackson.com/weekend-project-offline-fullscreen...
That's like saying you don't need math. For the most part, in everyday life, that's true, but there are cases where functional human beings disagree, or we find ourselves in novel situations that we don't know how to handle. In those cases, we need new ways to think and communicate. Intuition works great for catching a ball, but you'll need math to land a rocket on mars.
Natural selection at work. They were not a good fit for their environment so their environment killed them.
You know you have job security when you fuck up so badly the government steps in and you still don't get fired. Most of us can only dream of ever achieving that kind of job security.

Very nice article. Captivating read. I was interested about what kind of 'previous computer experience' your mom had. That era of computing is completely alien to me.
Will it fly has a 5 star rating from 450 odd reviews!!
Random link: "I am trying to design a cloth that, from the point of view of a camera, is very difficult to compress with JPG, resulting in big-size files (or leading to low image quality if file size is fixed)."

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/2010/what-is-the-lea...
I have some COBOL on IBM experience; I did a short stint about 15 years ago for a large grocery store chain. There is no way that COBOL is more reliable and maintainable -- it's effectively equivalent to programming in old-school line-number BASIC. The place I worked at was extremely strict on reviews, process, and testing. Every line was reviewed extensively by a group of people and if you did a SQL query you always accessed the fields in alphabetical order. It was that kind of strictness. Some of this was because the consequences of a mistake are pretty severe (Hawaii doesn't get a shipment of groceries) most of it was because the technology was so antiquated. What I can do now in a week would take 4 months to do that in that environment.

I was one of the few new hires with actual education and experience in software development. The majority of new hires were people in their mid-thirties who were looking to change careers from trades, etc. The company was specifically looking for smart people that they could train extensively in house. Almost nothing you learn outside of that environment is applicable inside and vice-versa. The best I can describe it as a complete parallel evolution of technology. The technology is similar and yet also completely alien.

Connecting to the mainframe didn't mean you were editing the code live. It's exactly like shelling into a remote Linux machine to compile your code. You didn't work locally because there's nothing that is local.
I can blind-test Coke vs. Pepsi, Coke is noticeably more sour. That's how I can tell.
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Then logically texting must also be made illegal at all times. These are not simple accidents, these are people texting, driving and killing people, and its happening a LOT more frequently.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/06/tennessee-bus-drive...

http://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/2016/07/11/driver-...

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/boone-county/2015...

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/dangers-texting-while-d...
> all of Google's customers could switch to it in ten seconds and never look back.

Google's customers are all the businesses buying ads from Adwords.

And yes, Google is a monopoly, the cost of switching away from Adwords will probably drive you bankrupt in 2016.
I've seen a few articles where people are already delivering drugs with drones. So...I guess that's already now.
Even those not living in city centers are affected by this.

1) It implies a lack of mobility from job-poor places to job-rich places

2) Suburbs outside of job-rich cities are similarly seeing land values rise: marginal land is expanding outward to exurbs

Ideally, we'd see people be able to chase well-paying jobs by moving to denser, job-rich areas if they wished to, but that's become an impossibility.

As far as solutions go, I think it basically boils down to:

1) People can live in exurbs and ex-exurbs, and work through VR

2) We can lower land costs with a land value tax.

I prefer the latter to the former.
Because that's what it is?

"Even with the influx of thousands of foreign fighters, almost all of the leaders of the Islamic State are former Iraqi officers..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-hidden-...
selection pressure will help us in the long run.
I think we had the same view a year back but the bar is higher when your experience is less relevant. Of course we make judgment errors too, feel free to reapply.

I promise that your open solicitation to GitHub http://octohire.me/ was not held against you :)
Deserved in this case...HipChat went from rock solid and growing feature list to login failures and crashing all the time. On top of that it's losing features like video.
+1, I also am curious of how prevalent is RL in industry.
> With the older systems, the database update logic and the business logic are in the same programs. This is not good.

Can you elaborate? Sometimes it seems that business logic must be implemented in SQL, for example, or else you will get a massive performance hit.