skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of a section of Edward Bernays' "Crystallizing Public Opinion," where he argued that people are inherently tribal and assume identities for themselves, which, by necessity, requires that they also view their identity as being not a part of the other side.

It's like the Dr Seuss story where one guy gets a star tattoo, then everyone wants stars, then one person wants to be different so they remove their tattoo, then everyone wants to be different so they remove theirs, and it continues back and forth.

I think the perspective to keep in mind about this piece is not that people are afraid of new things, but rather, different things. When I lived in the city, I couldn't imagine life without walkable access and being in the middle of the action. When I moved to the suburbs, I couldn't imagine life without abundant space and tranquility. Now I'm back in the city. Technological advancement had nothing to do with those perceptions, but my resistance was still there, on both sides.
Thanks for your responses guys! Some excellent answers were given. To sum it all up:

1. Feedback is great, it helps employees develop and improve themselves.
2. The way feedback is obtained in organizations is broken and somehow it acts as a tool by managers to penalize the employees during their performance appraisals meetings.

3. Feedback has to be given in a very constructive manner so that the receiver actually tries to improve it without feeling bad about themselves.

4. Feedback has to be continuous and we cannot except feedback to be delivered only on yearly or bi-annual basis. Real time, contextual feedback is needed.

5. Feedback not only on tech capabilities is needed but also on interpersonal relationships, management/leadership style, professionalism and much more.

6. Most important of all, feedback is a personal thing. It should be requested by the user himself if the idea is to improve themselves and to improve their performance and in no way it should be related to appraisals.

All this feedback is definitely used for improvement and growth and to make yourself a better professional. I had similar thoughts in my mind when i posted this question. Because my latest project that I posted here(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142878) and here (https://medium.com/@aliibrahim_36896/story-of-pleasantfish-a...) exactly tries to tackle the discussed problems. This is as we know a not simple problem (and also not easily understandable in the first go) so therefore my solution i believe is far from perfect but to start I have separated feedback from organization level to individual level just for personal growth purposes.

Also, to allow users to grow, i recommend articles/stories to improve those skills.

I would like to thank you all as I have gained valuable feedback information from this thread tech professionals and for growth feedback was a necessary ingredient.
Montreal: 1.65m

Calgary: 1.1m

Edmonton: 820k

Ottawa: 800k

The surrounding areas are suburban, not farmland, just like any metro area for most of these cities. Greater Montreal is about 4m people for example. Canada is a whole hell of a lot more than just Vancouver and Toronto. Actually Vancouver is relatively small with its 600k population and greater metro area of only 2.4m. Toronto and Montreal are the real population and economic centers and Vancouver coming in 3rd place.

I'm a US citizen and I've been to some of these places. It blows my mind how dismissive people are of Canada. It has more than a little diversity, distinct regions, amazing people, and the population of California and almost its GDP. Its 10th on the GDP scale globally. This isn't some farmland country, its a economic powerhouse.
As a kid growing up in India. Refrigeration was considered a expensive unhealthy luxury. In fact chilled water was synonymous with falling sick.

I've seen similar trends with Microwave ovens as well. For some reason people have all sorts of weird notions about new stuff.

One more thing I can think of is TV. Kids growing up in a home with a TV were considered will end up being bad students.
What's she into? If she likes games I'd just have her download Unity and learn C#. Tons of videos, tutorials, and books to choose from.
Dataloop now supports Prometheus metrics
You're not going to get much else than comments explaining how ineffective these measures are when you are asking how ineffective they are.

That being said, let me explain how ineffective they are:
Your law-abiding citizen will give up their encryption, but this doesn't raise the bar much for a criminal to get it. It's still just a matter of minutes until you have an encryption-implementation which is not compromised. You might get the occasional idiot-criminal who doesn't think of getting proper encryption which you therefore might be able to stop, but that's about it.

And on the other side, you expose your entire population to criminals who might steal their not-properly-encrypted information, as well as putting the country at risk of devolving into Totalitarianism. And even if none of that happens, you still have the Panopticon-effect which can have severe negative effects on mental health.
Managing rights for users on document level granularity was pretty easy in 1.6. A simple js function (it's called a "design document") to handle the logic and you are done. Just an example:

function(newDoc, oldDoc, userCtx) {
if (userCtx.roles.indexOf('can-write-sessions') !== -1 || userCtx.roles.indexOf('admin') !== -1) {
return;
} else {
throw ({
forbidden: 'can-write-sessions role missing'
});
}
}

Why do you think that the Couchbase Sync Gateway is better?
I find a recent video by Veritasium [0] very much relevant here. As stated, cognitive ease makes us wary of new or unknown things. It is not simply fear of the unknown, we literally takes the shortest path to something we know, hindering ourselves from new discoveries.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebFWOlx848
The global impact of air conditioning: big and getting bigger
SQL is not Prolog though. SQL, at least the parts mapping to relational algebra, is not Turing-complete, Prolog is. I'm pretty sure Prolog not specifying an execution strategy would mean that your program terminates under one interpreter but not under another, not to mention their asymptotic complexity, which I think is not as bad with SQL.

In other words, it's not a lie to promise that you can specify a query over tables in a declarative way, but it's sort of a lie to promise that you can spell out predicates describing a solution and the machine will find a solution satisfying these predicates, because sometimes it can't. Specifying an execution strategy doesn't make it less of a lie but it lets you write a working program kinda looking as if it weren't a lie.
Indeed a very valid point. Feedback has to be obtained at an individual level and it has to be given just for one purpose of constructive employee growth. I posted my comment summing up all the answers here and how i am trying to tackle these problems in my startup pleasantfish.com
Race really is a social construct. Why do you think Jewish people are considered "white" nowadays? They didn't used to be. They really do have a shared heritage; Levites really do seem to be descended from a small group; etc. But they're white... unless you ask a neonazi.

Meanwhile, there is more genetic diversity in Africa than in most of the rest of the world and yet in America there's one "black" race. In South Africa there's White, Colored and Black. In Brazil it's more complicated. People have been trying to divvy up the world into races "scientifically" and it literally never stands up to scrutiny. It can't be done.

Race is a shared fiction. Heritage is real.
Hacking StumpWM with Common Lisp
Thank you so much! The waste reduction algorithms we use definitely help cut costs (on the back end, we can see the waste savings in $ over time -- though it's not visible to users yet, it's pretty remarkable.)

There's a question in our personalization quiz that asks about whether you want more familiar family flavors, so definitely check that box. Beyond that, you can hit "remove" on anything in your meal queue that looks like it might be unappetizing for your toddler. If there are specific foods you know are no-gos, you can also add any ingredient as an exclusion ingredient in the quiz (in the "other" field).
To flip this on its head, just because something is new doesn't mean we have to use it all the time.

Americans refrigerate more than we need to. Butter, eggs, certain vegetables (like tomatoes). Tomatoes have healthy compounds in them that break down under refrigeration. I'm sure you've noticed certain things taste different after they've been refrigerated?

In this particular arena, we often don't know what we don't know. Instinct can lead us astray, but it can also be nagging at us for a very good reason.
I've noticed quite a few young people interested in electronics and computing programming start out with wearable electronics.

They make Arduino boards for wearable projects that run of batteries. The Adafruit blog is quite interesting.

https://www.adafruit.com/category/65

https://blog.adafruit.com/category/wearables/
Yes. That's what "Holdings in Yahoo Japan" mean. It's a different company but Yahoo proper has a stake in it.
In my example it would be my friend's telepresence robot that I gave him.
The Diabolos in Musica is the tritone: their original statement and correction are both wrong. They probably meant B-D-F or something, which contains the tritone.

Disappointed in this. Nautilus's biology stuff is quite good, but this is trite. [Then again I know far more about music than biology.]
At a data level, you are more likely to die or be injured in a politically-motivated attack today than you were 10 years ago. Attacks are now more frequent, more geographically dispersed, and more deadly - even if only on a very small percentage level.

Even if it's not a problem today (in your opinion), then either that trend has to be reversed or it will become a problem at some point.
there's so much data available in the form of reviews and flavor profiles, etc. I will follow this project, best of luck.

Also - what's your favorite american brewer&beer and favorite non-US?

For me, I like Stone Brewing/Stone IPA and imported fav is Weissbier Brewery Munich/Franziskaner

BTW as of now it looks like I just get a list of similar beers - would be nice to be able to set a profile and a list of favorites or pull from your existing ratings on beer rating sites with a public API
Ya beat me to it. :)
Constructive feedback is all what is needed and the only motive it should be given is to enhance individual productivity and grow him as a better professional.
Members of the BC Liberal cabinet are personally invested in the housing crisis; for instance, Mike De Jong and his 7 properties[0]. And maybe we should ask why the Ministry of Natural Gas Development is responsible for housing, as well[1]? It's like Minister Rich Coleman carries housing around with him wherever he goes; couldn't have anything to do with his sketchy behaviour[2]...

0: http://thetyee.ca/News/2016/01/11/Finance-Minister-Well-Inve...

1: http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/organizational...

2: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-minister-...
Hahaha, they are truly not! But we will tell them you asked :)
Okay, to me some of your examples seem high risk, but still incremental. There was plenty of prior research/innovation/development in those areas that they built upon. But to be fair, I also think that its almost impossible for someone to independently do something 'earth shattering' without building upon other people's work.
If done "right" it could also maintain an environment that is excellent to develop in iif you do fit in the culture.
I'm going to assume they don't have any remote software dev positions?
As far as I can tell - Stripe doesn't store anything like addresses. So does this mean that you handle this yourself or just not store customer addresses?
I understand it is about tradeoffs, and that the benefits and limitations of every language(in terms of syntax and semantics, and its associated runtime/VM -- if any) definitely define to a large extent the final product's characteristics.

I am only saying that Mongo is not unreliable because C++ was selected; it's unreliable because of architectural choices and lack of care which may or may not have been intentional.
If locals didn't overstrech financially to buy something they can barely afford, they should be able to weather the storm. If they blissfully took on massive mortgages in a highly overvalued market, well, I think they might get the short end of the stick. I don't think governments should provide safety net for foolishly risky behaviour.
> Fwiw Toronto is quite affordable still; you can live like a king in a brand new condo with curtain glass walls overlooking the city for under US$500k.

Is this sarcasm? USD 500K translates to 660K CAD. Is this supposed to be affordable? I love Toronto but the real estate prices are out of control. They should implement similar measures in Ontario.
Economics and sociology require politics for anything meaningful to happen. You might be able to develop some interesting financial instruments, but they will still require politics to get them adopted.

What attracts me to tech is the fact that I can build things without regard to all of that. I'll admit it's selfish, but frankly life is too short to waste on something I don't care for.
Yes! It wasn't something we had initially but came up very often in customer requests. The hard part there is knowing what's seasonal in different geographies but we think we've got a good system.
The quote about Woz using a TRS-80 for phone phreaking is a misquote of the referenced Wireless article. I'm sure the "one" that Woz bought was a touch tone dialer, not a TRS-80.

Read about the biggest tech stories of the 20th century, and RadioShack keeps popping up: Long before he founded Netscape, Marc Andreessen learned to program tooling around on a TRS-80, one of the first affordable personal computers and one of the first devices RadioShack ever produced. Kevin Mitnick, the first hacker ever on the FBI’s most-wanted list, learned his trade on the demo models at RadioShack because he couldn’t afford a computer of his own. John Draper, the phone phreaker known as “Captain Crunch,” hacked his way into free long-distance calls using a Touch Tone dialer he bought from RadioShack.

Woz bought one too, and he says it cost him a fortune. He used it for the now-infamous Blue Box, which he and Steve Jobs used to make their own free calls without interference from Ma Bell. Without RadioShack, there’s no Blue Box. And as Woz tells it, without the Blue Box there’s no Apple.
Why Education needs its own Pokemon Go moment
I agree, but I think we're at least 25 years away from that vision being realized. That leaves Apple a couple decades to sell a really good electric car which may have some "smart" safety features, but probably zero automation.
I learned Python using Codecademy, then I did some fun projects from Python Playground.

Wearable electronics are good; the Make book seems like a good intro to that area.
Iirc, coffee was originally used as an entheogen by Sufi mystics and likely killed many people also.
hey koliber, good work at 15Five.com . Basically i am trying to tackle the same problem which is why i posted this question. I made a comment above summing up all the good feedback in this thread. Your feedback will be appreciated.
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It's obviously a question of intent. If service providers are granted by law the ability to define what's authorized and not ex post facto, then every request is a potential crime.

I realize this is a good scenario for authoritarians like yourself, but from the network point of view it's problematic.
> You don't have tasking authority for the emacs devs; it's puzzling that you seem to believe you ought to.

You're probably right, I shouldn't have been ranting.

On the other hand, I'm a bit tired of the holier-than-thou attitude of many Emacs (and many Vim users) on internet forums.

In my case I voted with my feet already :)
"[book] gave us the secret ... sealed enclosure created two separate acoustic environments ... one inside the speaker enclosure ... and one outside, where the microphones were"

I would have thought that part of the design would have been self-evident?

As a TRS-80 owner starting in 1979 I also morn the loss of the inventor/creator version of Radio Shack - hung out there often walking back from school and many started learning BASIC programming (which at the time included hand-assembling Z-80 code in read/data statements and POKEing them in) in the store.
Sometimes, but not in less than an hour.
If it reduced the number of attacks by, say, 20% would it be worth it?
mommy sounds insufferable
A few years back I was significantly depressed. Every day felt the same and without meaning. Desperate for an outlet, I began to keep a daily journal to remind myself that every day, whether good or bad, was a day in my life, and therefore had meaning. The journal itself did not lift me out of depression, but it helped me cope through those dark times.

Last year I met someone more dear to my heart than I had ever imagined. Nearly every day since then has been of joyful bliss. However, I was enjoying myself so much that I stopped bothering to record my journals for months at a time. How ironic is it that in this time with so much meaning and so much happiness and shared experience to record, I felt that there was no need to record it, because I was having such a great time. Now I regret not having a reference for us to look back upon.

The article may not apply to everyone, but to me, it certainly does.
> Only today did I put 2 and 2 together on the inspiration for Silicon Valley's Russ Hanneman "I put radio on the internet" joke...

http://shop.markcuban.com/three-commas-universal-symbol-for-...
I have numerous friends with several children and who live in a condo. Hell, the Mayor of New Westminster moved _out_ of his house and into a condo; he has three daughters. As usual, there's a Vancouver blog for this[0].

0: http://5kids1condo.com/
I use the Magic Formula[0] strategy because index funds are too boring for me. It's a value strategy and you have to hold for a year, but it's fun to see your stocks rise (and fall).

[0] https://www.magicformulainvesting.com/
Maybe someone with industry experience could have started those things. I mean, having experience doesn't mean you think the industry is working well right now or doesn't need to change in the future.

Yeah, there are some people in various industries that either couldn't see approaching issues or just flat out ignored that they could be issues.

But there are also people who saw say, the rise of services like Netflix as a positive or likely thing. People in the publishing industry who saw the possibility of selling books online or replacing them with eReaders like the Kindle.

They just might have not done so for other reasons. Perhaps they saw what was coming, but thought they didn't have the entrepreneurial mindset to start their own company. Maybe they did start a company like this up, but they didn't find the right connections or investors or anything else to catch on.

Always been bothered with the assumption that those in 'disrupted' industries are too stubborn to know what could replace their business.
OpenVZ 7.0 released
I don't think any discussion of CouchDB is complete without mentioning PouchDB. And now that CouchDB will have clustering out of the box, there's all the more reason to support offline versions of your database in your webapps.

https://pouchdb.com/
hey mikechar, thanks for your excellent insights. I think we can agree that whosoever wants to improve themselves they listen to the feedback given to them and who so doesn't its useless to them. So if someone really needs it there has to be a mechanism to be given to it (which basically i am trying to address in my startup i mentioned above in the comment i did). I would love to hear your thoughts on that.
Very frequently regulations are blunt hammers that solved one problem and created many more. The people attracted to politics that actually make these rules normally have almost no grasp of economics and pass rules that are completely brain dead. I'm happy companies are willing to take risks to challenge obviously stupid protection rackets.
The other issue I saw with EU data is the EU privacy laws about where the Stripe data is stored. Stripe don't mention about where they store data in their privacy statement (https://stripe.com/gb/privacy).

However as far as I can tell - Stripe stores no customer details except for email and information that would be on a card.
There's only ~100MB of RAM so it's a bit ascetic. You're better off running an old PowerPC Mac with Linux as that'll give you better but nearly equivalent hardware.
Not to answer for dax's mother in law, but it could possibly be due to the fact that refrigerated food can be kept longer, and thus is less fresh.
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> What is unusual --- I think unprecedented, in fact --- is for the victim's negligence to negate criminal culpability.

You know more about these issues than me, but I expect that people who are thinking this way might be thinking in terms of an analogy of a conversation with a bank teller (the analogy being that network communication is just like a conversation between your system and theirs).

So if an attacker talks to a bank teller working at a bank and tricks them into revealing lots of private information about other customers that they shouldn't reveal, and it later comes out that the bank had not provided training to the bank teller about customer privacy, and had given them access to all kinds of data that they didn't need access to (which they shared in the 'attack'), I would expect there to be some liability on the Bank.

I agree though - even though they've 'just' spoken to the teller (and perhaps not told any direct lies), this doesn't negate the culpability of the attacker - if they've deliberately set out to trick the teller then they've committed fraud. If the 'attacker' didn't set out to trick the teller, and the teller just confused themselves, then yes, I'd expect there to be no culpability on the attacker but culpability on the bank.

In cases where it's less clear (maybe the attacker tricked the teller into giving them information in a way different to that desired by the bank, even though the attacker is normally allowed to access that information), I would very much want to err on the side of caution.

A world where using an unsupported browser or a scraper or unknowingly clicking a link or writing software that accesses data that you are otherwise allowed to read can make you liable for committing a serious crime would be a very worrying world.
Tomatoes that are eaten as they have just been taken out of the refrigerator certainly taste different, at least for me. Just had a recent contradictory discussion with my gf about this, as I choose to always keep the vegetables out of the refrigerator. The same goes for fruits. Butter is different, if you keep it for more than an hour at room temperature (20-21 Celsius) it will most certainly start to melt, I personally do not like that.
17 year old boy hooded, gassed, strapped to chair – in Australia
Exactly feedback has to be given on continuous basis and based upon the real performances on the projects. Not just on annual basis.
* that's the point
I agree, I was pointing out the stupidity though of claiming a car shouldn't be self driving because of its max potential speed.