skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you are suggesting? Do you feel it's an anachronism? PEX was invented in the late 1950's and was certainly around in 1983. (though there was one or two things that made me think it was 1984/85, but can't quite remember, so going on the He-Man reference)

Edit: Oh, it was the "All The Right Moves" reference, "it's still playing" which suggests it was several months after it released in late October 1983, so I think I pegged it as Spring-ish of 1984...

Edit 2: The Clash's "Should I stay or Should I Go" came out in 1982, and was in a flashback which seemed a year or two back, so if this was 1983, it wasn't out of date, but him having it on a mix tape was pretty soon after it's release, not an anachronism necessarily, but borderline.

Edit 3: The Bangle's version of Hazy Shade of Winter came out in 1987 (though they played it live as far back as March 1983).
I've seen lots of stickers on cars saying "the car is unlocked, and there's nothing valuable inside".

The unlocking in the hopes of preventing a window smash.
If you haven't read any Ursula K. LeGuin yet, she is amazing. Start with either The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, or The Wizard of Earthsea, depending on whether you are most interested in gender, societal systems, or wizards, respectively.
I could see this being useful for families too. Third question could get people help when they might be reluctant to ask about moving furniture or getting time without kids to catch up on work, etc.
No, hipster is wanting to be seen as being all about niche unknown things, but it's really about jumping on the bandwagon before it overflows.
Elixir is pseudo-hipster, LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang)is the true hipster language ;)
That's a very good point. Aurelia is a system. It gives you what you need to build an application as software. I think many developers realize that they don't need to learn how to use structural patterns, but they do need basic functionality, such as binding, and it needs to be invisible.

We've done amazing things with Aurelia. More and more, it's beginning to feel like an extension of HTTP wired directly into the UI. I'd like to think that it will become The Next Big Thing, but it will probably stay relegated to a lesser seen community of devs like those of the Django community. Architects, engineers and developers will love it while many may not realize just how beneficial an agnostic system really is.
J made #44, yipee!
JavaScript itself also need competition. I really hope the browser vendors can sit down together and start working on a better language for the future browsers.
I think you are discounting the huge amount of PHP around. It is the single largest presence on the web.
Generally yes, specialized no.
If you are talking about more general key escrow for cryptography:

Use Shamir's secret sharing strategy (or similar) to share your private key with 500 other people, cooperation of an 400 people necessary to retrieve the secret.

This way law enforcement can look at your stuff with a warrant ('nothing to hide' after all) but not in secret: they will have to contact a few hundred people, that's hard to keep hush-hush.
Don't forget the baggage handlers who have it before/after the TSA screeners:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/sfo-baggage-hand...

(SFO is notorious and most of the airlines keep lax enough records that they'll even deny that you checked a bag in the first place, much less that the contents were anything more valuable than old t-shirts)
Trust your employees enough that as soon as something goes wrong, they will let you know. Don't expect them to wait until the end of the week to alert you of something, that makes no sense.
First there was stool transplants. Now, we can have snot transplants.
13% would be the state income tax.

On top of that you need to pay the federal income tax, as well as social security and Medicare tax!
One of the things I love above all about Python and Ruby are the kitchen-sink standard libraries. The node ecosystem is deeply frustrating in this respect.
> Being written in 1995, the training set is independent of the test set

There is an important bias effect in play. OF the books written in the past about the rise of tyranny, not all are brought up equally in discussions. It is easy to observe that people upvote articles that support their ideology and flag articles (concrete example: the recent terror attacks were flagkilled off the front page) that go against it.

The articles that make it though this filter are not independent of the test set.
"The operating loss at the time was 39 million euros, widening from 21.3 million euros in 2013." Hmm... Not the most obvious why this would be worth a Billion. Is paying subscribers or visitors still growing at a rate that makes it possible to see a scenario where this makes sense to turn a profit? Or is Twitter just embarrassed about their investment and going to finish purchasing to save face?
If you spoke more openly about what you did, maybe briefly about any challenges you faced, someone may ask you about that. They may realize you solved a problem they were having. Maybe your team lead would be able to notice, "oh, you were struggling with that? So was your other teammate, you two should talk!"

But understand the hesitation. And if someone is blocked, agreed, it should result in a quick email or IM. Of course, if you spent all day yesterday trying to figure something out but are just feeling kind of stuck, standup call is a great place to say, "hmmm, I can keep working on this, but if someone has some time, I could sure use a second brain to help."
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Yes there are a lot of things you have to think about, as well as a lot of domain knowledge to pick up.

But expecting the developers to act as the domain experts is also detached from reality. I've never worked with anyone who I would consider a domain expert that also keeps up to date on a technical level.
But even then, languages that have great, thriving easy to use dependency systems and package managers with small standard libraries still run into problems

see: javascript
Call it 'googles view of a stack', at least that doesn't make it sound like an elitist view on (one of many) versions of a stack (that yes is just one version of many stacks that have and do work for the <wider world>).
Bill : Also, be prepared as either a founder or an employee to spend your life on it. Be prepared to
give your life to the enterprise. Forget about family, forget about children, forget about your pets
or your garden. It is going to be all-consuming and that’s one reason why I’m starting my startup so
late. I waited until I could neglect my children without harm to them.
Craig : [Laughter] How so?
Bill : They’re out of the house now so I figured, “Okay, now I can do what I want.”

I really like this attitude, and it's something that's on my mind too as I'm abandoning my kids by working 6 evenings a week to deliver my startup's first product. I hope there are a whole bunch of older entrepreneurs hiding in the wings, just waiting until their kids are young adults before jumping out into startup land with amazing ideas and a career's worth of experience to actually build them sensibly.
I wouldn't say very few people use the standard library?

CSV, logger, json, fileutils, tempfile, pp, and on and on are used all the time...
In many places (such as Wales and Iceland) sheep are allowed to roam grassy, mountainous wilderness that is otherwise not arable land; surely such meat actually has less impact than, say, fields of corn?
Whatever works, right?
Yeyyy.. hurrayyy ... ok back to work.
I'm sorry that your family has had this difficult experience. Based on this thread, one suspects you're too close to this particular situation to retain a proper sense of perspective. No disinterested observer of the USA court system would suggest that the problem is not enough family court intervention or not enough criminal prosecutions. On both of those measures, USA leads not only all other nations, but all other nations in history.

Even though your comments seem unrelated to the topic at hand, they might be in some sense a twisted reflection of the common sentiment here. Many comments say, "It ought to be illegal to speak of the guilt of those who haven't been convicted by a court." You say, "The court should decide ahead of time which divorced parents are destined to do awful things to their children." These propositions seem to be at odds, but really, both you and others here decry both the fallibility and the limited purview of the courts. It simply isn't possible for the courts to punish all rapists, nor for them to predict ahead of time which divorced parents will illegally harm their children. In many cases, we must decide for ourselves whether to kick assholes out of our organizations, or have children with them, or do something else entirely.

Eventually one finds the courts to be a human institution: fallibility is unavoidable, so their limited purview is all that can save them from creating tyranny. When the courts are silent, we may use our own judgment.
I imagine password cracking apps are also smart enough to try letters from the site domain combined with other known base passwords (dictionary words, common substrings from other password leaks, etc.).
The Ars article is probably a better link, because it shows that Ballmer's position was uncontroversial in technology circles at the time. With hindsight it's obvious that the iPhone would be a success, because the entire smartphone industry is now modeled after the UI and interaction model of iOS. But that was a really tough thing to imagine 10 years ago.
two points

First, the idea that freedom of speech is completely suppressed whenever it has a chance to stir up a popular movement, that is simply nonsense. For instance, the UK Labour party was voted into power after WWII and nationalized much of the economy. You seem to be taking the Marxist position that real change is possible only through the violent overthrow of the government.

Secondly, you seem to be for social democracy, a political philosophy for which I have some positive feelings, and which I wish Americans knew more about. But I think you can be more effective in arguing for it if you avoid labelng it as "socialism." That is because the term has no standard meaning, and different groups have different meanings for it.

In fact, even self-identified socialists can't agree. Social democrats call themselves socialists, but orthodox marxists say it is not socialism, but a form of capitalism. And Soviet communists called themselves socialists, but many social democrats said it wasn't socialism because it wasn't democratic and was for the benefit of a small, powerful elite.

I think it is much better as a persuasion technique to stick with the term social democracy, because everyone agrees on it, and focus on describing how it works, what are its benefits, and so on.
OKRs generally last a quarter (or a month) and are higher level than tasks. So weekly is a good timing but referencing them daily is overkill. OTOH if you do scrum type status, weekly isn't frequent enough. So in practice, "virtual" stand-ups and OKR inspired status emails are often distinct.
Pinterest gave me helpful feedback.

I can also recommend a service called gainlo.co that organizes mock interviews with interviewers from big tech companies and a YC startup called pramp that matches you with a peer for free to interview each other.
Awesome research. But...

> The researchers then checked snot from hospitalized patients. Of 187 samples, all but one were colonized by either S. aureus or S. lugdunensis

> S. lugdunensis, was killing S. aureus. Its weapon of choice? A small compound dubbed lugdunin

> The German researchers who performed the study have filed a patent for lugdunin

Are we really allowing people to patent naturally occurring biological compounds these days? Shouldn't the patent be for specific treatments derived from their findings on lugdunin, not the compound itself?
Sql?

It does all the wrong things; singletons, no testability, cgo for implementations, side effects and you have to use every database differently based on their individual semantics.

Virtually everyone I've ever spoken to either uses a high level wrapper around the sql library or a no-sql solution.

That's the definition of 'stdlib is where packages go to die'.

It's not that the API is unusable, it's just basically not used by the community because there are other better things out there...but you're stuck with it forever, because it's there and some people do use it, and changing or removing it would be a breaking change.

Anyhow, we're just speculating. Does anyone actually collect metrics about the usage of different parts of the stdlib for any language?

Without hard data to back it up, you couldn't really make a strong argument either way.
This is exactly the main problem with Haskell. A stunning language with a lousy standard library. In my opinion, Haskell should offer arrays and maps as built-ins (like Go) and ship with crypto, networking, and serialization in the standard library (I know serialization is already there, but everyone seems to prefer Cereal, so...)
Zip tie? Only a ballpoint pen is needed, and you will never know someone messed with your luggage. Definitely easier than any lock...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpIJVWXsBBI
Why not? The commenter is providing a service by informing us of a relevant, potentially useful product. He/she should be rewarded for such information.
Wont using this be long term harmful to our nasal health, as bacteria acquire immunity?
It looks like the server is just down. It might have been hugged to death due to people's reactions to the DNC.

Edit: No, you were right. It does take the server down. Weird.

It seems to be based on some product called Volusion.
I wonder how much counter-signalling there is on the part of the interviewees. They are going to be prone to say things that associate far-mode, positive ideals with them.

Like, they won't say, "I found a lot of meaning that time my hard work, blood, sweat, and tears were actually meritocratically rewarded with that large bonus" because it makes them sound near-mode, greedy, overly materialistic, etc.

Instead, they'll say something far-mode, about how they related to the human element of an experience or a coworker or a client, or how their family finally appreciated the deeper meaning in their work.

I'm not sure I really believe that people find work meaning mostly in these far-mode, idealistic things. Rather, I think they want to be seen as someone who values these things because then people will associate good stereotypes with them.

This also helps explain why it's more reflective, episodic, and after-the-fact rationalized to be meaningful, rather than being tied to concrete properties of the work itself.

I think for myself, I do have some moral and ethical baselines that I don't want the byproducts of my labor to violate, like harming others, perpetuating government oppression, wasting resources.

But beyond these things, I don't actually get more or less meaning out of any different topical type of work than some other type.

What does make me feel like work is meaningful is to experience lots and lots of autonomy in my workplace decision making and my approach to solving problems. I also like to feel that I have the freedom to pursue whatever quality standards are pragmatic for the problem, and am not constrained by bureaucracy to pursue inelegant solutions when there's no pragmatic reasons why they actually need to be inelegant (this happens all the time).

After that, I feel meaning at work most when I am given adequate quiet and private physical space and can reach a state of psychological flow.

I could be writing code to process ATM transactions or to cure cancer and I'll feel the same amount of meaning if (a) I can mostly do it my own way within some loose context of the broader team's needs, and (b) I am left alone to actually get work done and I am not interrupted or inundated with an unhealthy, oppressively wide open working space.

For me, these resonated more with the comment in the article that good managers are rarely even mentioned in the context of meaningful work, whereas bad managers are often to blame for work that is not meaningful.

Good managers are invisible geniuses who know how to fade into the backdrop, get out of your way, allow you to make decisions, and do not feel fear that they have to micromanage or create empty superficial artifacts to justify that they are working. They are so, so hard to find, and when you find one, you are so happy that you will give so much loyalty to working for that manager, and forgive so much other crap the company might pull.
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I was in the room for this talk; it was pretty electric. Some of the other talks I liked were the Social Engineering talk, and Cory Doctorow's keynote.

The thing that crystallizes what HOPE is about, for me, was that their closing ceremonies opened with a fifteen-minute talk about the network situation -- the cabling they had to run, the 1.5Gbps DDOS they withstanded, and then chastised us for not using enough bandwith, saying the ISP that donated a 10 gig line threatened to downgrade it next time.
Password managers exchange too many strong secrets to remember, for one strong secret you can remember.

You just have to turn off any automatic / integration features. I do. Unlock with master password for every use. Really, how often is that, since most sites keep you logged in? Just a couple times a day for me.
I inferred it from what he said. But I re-read the comment, and he did say the US is more socialist than liberal (a very strange set of meanings for the two terms), so maybe I am wrong. Perhaps coldtea could say if I was right or wrong.
> The researchers then checked snot from hospitalized patients. Of 187 samples, all but one were colonized by either S. aureus or S. lugdunensis, but not both. The researchers think where one species grows, the other can’t.

How does S. aureus prevent S. lugdunesis from invading?
Nice astro-turfing in your comment history. Remember my name buddy, I won't remember yours.
They explicitly claim lots of things. That doesn't make them true.
So because 95% of worldwide software developers write PHP web servers full of security holes, it is not possible for a different group of developer to create a secure interface? None of these web developers ever cared one bit about the security of their app. You can't compare that with someone intending to develop a secure interface. Security doesn't happen by mistake.

The value proposition of Xen is that it's a well-defined interface. The host OS kernel takes care of hardware initialization, and Xen becomes an interface on top of this kernel, through which untrusted client applications access hardware resources. So the innovation of Xen is not that it's supposedly bug-free. It's that it separates concerns: not mixing together hardware initialization (Linux) and resource access/isolation for user space code. That alone leaves less room for bugs.

The value of Linux is its drivers, not the actual kernel. So let's use Linux for its drivers, rather than as a standard library. The only reason people use, for example, the Linux CPU scheduler, is that it's inextricably tied to the Linux drivers, because no interface exists (all code runs in one huge blob). This is what Xen wants to fix. If the Linux folks concentrated on creating secure driver interfaces, rather than implementing CPU schedulers and memory managers themselves, it would mean that all the other developers of the world could write CPU schedulers, rather than only the select few people who think they know the Linux code base (who still end up producing bugs). An interface is worth so much more than just an implementation of one, because it not only makes access easy for the client, but also makes the creation of new server implementations easy (by having a well-defined protocol/interface to which they must conform).
Thanks for sharing! Somewhat reminds me of The Walking Dead's Alexandria.
You have to choose a system. If we don't want naturally-occurring compounds patented, but we want them researched for potential drug use, we need more public funding. Otherwise, we have to offer researchers and drug manufacturers an incentive to take risks with exploring these compounds.

Barring lugdunin from being patented while providing no public funding would incentivise this group to withhold publication until they thought they'd found every commercially-reasonably derivation.
>The latter is just some abstract doctrines based on protestant ideas that time after time lead to bad results (corporatism, every man for himself, broken social contracts, etc.) where it's overly practiced. Even U.S. itself in fact has been much more socialist than liberal for the most part.

Boy, I have never heard the US described as more socialist than liberal. Normally it is taken as the model of a liberal country. Could you describe any nation in the world today that is mainly liberal, as you are using the term?
> I think JavaScript is used extensively in web development but almost not at all anywhere else.

This matches my experience I think JavaScript is popular on the internet but within businesses it is much less common.

Within my world (Industrial manufacturing) the most frequently used languages at least in my orginization...

Control Systems (HMI's, PLCs, Operator Guidance etc): C, C++, A lot of domain specific stuff for PLC's

Process Modelling / Engineering Simulation: Fortran, C, C++, some python, some matlab.

Scrpting: Perl, VBS, .BAT

Analytics / Reporting: SAS, COGNOS, ACCESS (older mostly replaced)

Web Apps: Java, ASP (older), Oracle Forms (older)

Legacy/Mainframe: PL/1 (rarely touched mostly just runs)

In House (business) Apps: Java, C++ (older), VBA (i.e. excel spreadsheets)

Intranet: Sharepoint
iPhone, iPad and Mac sales all have dropped; the iPhone drop was 50% greater (proportionally) than the Mac drop.

It's likely that Apple wants to continue to focus attention on the iPhone, not because of MBP sales, but because the iPhone continues to make up more than half of Apple's revenue (and probably a greater proportion of its profits).
Probably Microsoft want to take over NodeJS ecosystem. They are lobbying to replace v8 engine with their chakra engine for Win32 builds. Read up about the history of the company, it can be very bad if the official NodeJS project switches to chakra for one or all platforms. So it's in probably bad news that Microsoft targets NodeJS even more. And their TypeScript adventure and how they steer/lobby the ES6/7 development in their interest isn't great for JS and WebAssembly. They have a vast interest to port their class based old C++/C# codebase of Office tools and Monaco editor to the web. They could stick with their new delayed lacklustre rather unfinished DotNetCore 1.0 ecosystem. Let's hope Google and others cone to the rescue to help NodeJS. On the other side I really wonder why Google switched to TypeScript for one of their project. Maybe the choose between Facebook and Microsoft and favoured the later because he former is an even bigger competitor in WebFrameworks (React), because they were late to the game?
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Wow, a bad day for them. Two different awful bugs on the front page.
It's pretty different. Not just because it feels different, but also because it's hands free, so you can do it while e.g. carrying a baby.
LaunchKit joins Google
Might be luck. But also for eg IBM: they were always in the business of servicing businesses. Hardware was just one way to do that, and weren't many mainframes leased instead of sold?
LaunchKit team heads to Google and open-sources its tools
There are some parts that are good, and some parts that are bad, for sure.
The whole story about Facebook getting into real estate and building apartments makes me think they're trying to build a company town.
Google has actually more data on me in gmail than Facebook ever had.

(But there's an important distinction: Google is not free to use that data in gmail they have.)