skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Micropayments dead? In-game purchasing alone has yearly revenue of how many billion dollars? It just doesn't look like people thought in the 90s.
I don't necessarily "blame" air-conditioning, it's just that in order to have AC you need to have a functional power distribution network that works at country level, which in turn requires having the initial capital for building it and then (I say most importantly) the necessary political and economical stability in place in order to raise the power distribution poles and, generally speaking, keeping the power distribution network up and running.

I know that us people in the "West" now take this for granted, but I'd say that in a great part of the world the conditions for putting that in place will not be met in the next 30-50 years.

I speak from first-hand experience (I spent my childhood in communist Eastern Europe in the '80s, when the going got tough) but one of the first things to go when a regime/society is economically and politically crumbling is the power distribution, meaning country-level power black-outs.
I'd argue that deliberately spoiling your ballot sends a more powerful message.

Not voting cannot be distinguished between abstinence on principle versus apathy. However making the effort to go to vote and then making a protest is much clearer.
Any device that prevents a user from installing their own CA root cert is not one I would use. I'm not sure if they have started to do this or not.

In terms of protecting users, there's no valid reason the owner of the hardware should not be able to control the list of endpoints that she has already authenticated and is willing to trust.

It would be like if SSH did not allow the user any control over known_hosts or to decide that she will accept or not accept a connection.
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I've been on the other side of this too. A few days into a design decision going "why didn't I just ...".
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Lego Mindstorms: A History of Educational Robots
>Yes, it's crazy.

Seems to me if you vote in Putin and applaud his oppressive autocratic government, then you'll get stuff like this. Not sure what the long-range plan here, but total autocratic control by the executive branch with zero oversight is clearly on the immediate roadmap.

This is further evidence that the west needs to disengage economically from Russia as much as possible. Facebook would be selling Russians to the FSB torture squads. There are real human rights concerns here that Western companies should not be part of. I can't imagine all these EU human rights laws allowing this. It'll be interesting how this all unfolds, but if Russians think this shit will get them out of a recession, then I think they will be sorely surprised. There will be a further divestment from Russian markets from the West and probably more sanctions, or at least, the political will to lift existing sanctions will be lower than ever.

Not too long ago people were talking about a reformed Russia who would be an EU partner, if not a member. Instead, Russians are proudly going back to the Stalin days and giving Putin's regime a 90% approval rating. Now that's crazy.
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Or, table stakes to distinguish folks worth spending time on & folks not worth spending time on. Since it's so easy to get the little things right, anyone who doesn't is just a bit suspect.

It's like discarding resumés which arrive with large food stains on them. It's just too easy to print off a clean copy, that anyone who doesn't must be a bit off.
For the same reason a techie might work for a low bug bounty. Or go to a hack-a-thon. Neither pays well, relative to time invested, but the experience itself has value. And there is the prestige earned, which may translate into future earnings. For an athlete, those future earnings could come in the form of future coaching opportunities, etc.

That, and world class athletes are just wired differently than you or me. In addition to the obvious physical gifts, they must share some of the personality traits with politicians and executives - incredible competitiveness, large ego, etc.
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> It’s important to note that all the testing to this date had been performed slowly and carefully, as one would expect.

Ah, so if I click these angular nav-pills very quickly in series without waiting for the page to load, something unexpected might happen?

What is annoying in one context may be deadly in another.

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If the "Sentinel Event" policy had been in place at the time, perhaps these deaths would have been prevented.

A sentinel event is any event that either leads to death or serious permanent injury -OR- could have lead to death or serious permanent injury.

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There _is_ a Foreign Data Wrapper that wraps MySQL[1]. Not exactly the same thing though, and no idea how well it works.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/mysql_fdw
It's comforting that it's not a new technical capability.

On the other hand, if anyone does have that technical capability, I'm pretty sure they're not going to announce it on a web site...
I've worked in corporations and Silicon Valley to see a plant article a mile away.
I like how the site loads something from ajax.googleapis.com, with Google being known for not respecting DNT.
I think nothing is objectively better than the results we'd get from either candidate.

We will not improve our situation, but I don't believe we'll devolve into chaos either. With Trump he might bomb someone or aggravate existing problems or something else unimaginably stupid. With Hillary we'll just see an increase in corruption and an expansion of the rights of corporations at the costs of the individual.
Why will global warming cause the aquifers to be sucked dry? On the contrary, don't we expect global warming to cause more precipitation, thus less load on aquifers?
Anyone interested in educational technology should read Mindstorms and Powerful Ideas. Papert described how technology should be used in schools and also predicted most issues and trends with education today.

Papert work is also present in most educational/programming toys we see today -
Scratch, Kibo http://kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/, LittleBits, LEGO Mindstorms all owe their roots to Paperts ideas.

http://worrydream.com/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg/
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Soundcloud: Removal of Groups endpoints
Better than blatantly corrupt or blatantly racist?
((This is also why NBA players earn by far the highest salaries among U.S. athletes - basketball allows for much more player/fan connection than any other major sport.))

I agree with much of your post, but it seems to me that NBA players make the highest salaries because the structure of the game and the level of competition put them in such high demand relative to supply.

NBA rosters are small, and only 5 players are on the court for each team at any time. There's also a huge drop-off in competitive performance[1] as you move down the bench from the elite players. Unlike the NFL, which has a substantial reserve of "replacement level" talent from college ball, there aren't that many folks who could play basketball at an NBA level and not be totally exposed. That's similar to baseball players, who are also among the most highly paid, even though there are more positions and rosters are bigger: There just aren't that many athletes out there who can bat above .200 against Major League-class pitching.

[1] http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2016_leaders...
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There's a tough balance to strike. Like I said in the post, it's easy to get trapped in tunnel vision and an outside perspective is exactly what you need.

On the other hand if a producer/project managers says "can you just" day after day frustration is inevitable. It's easy to complain about producers though. Striking the right balance with peers is more nuanced.
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This is a attitude classic case of engineers optimizing for the wrong damn thing. Sure, we've all sat in on 18 month projects that should have been a five line shell script. One hopes that whatever expert is teaching ops "the ropes" knows this already. But at least you get a consultant paycheck for their ignorance.

> My fav. test for sysop/devop candidates

But how do you query your LDAP server without installing additional tools? Because in 2016, we have more than one machine. Hundreds. Grepping /etc/passwd is missing the forest for the trees.

You can have all the shell experts, I need people who can write Chef code that passes peer review. kitchen lets us poke around the OS all we want to inspect proper functioning.

> People like you allowed me to have a 336 day uptime as the lower limit. Most of my machines have more than a thousand days of uptime :)

AFAIK, none of the BSDs have online kernel replacement facilities. So you willingly admit you haven't upgraded your kernels in years? I know fBSD has a reputation, but every once in a while this still happens: https://threatpost.com/freebsd-patches-kernel-panic-vulnerab....
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Do you currently employ any ninjas or pirates or hiring any? If so, what is the expected compensation?
> How to use your full brain when writing code

I'm curious how the parts of my brain responsible for walking, riding a bicycle or telling jokes could be used when writing code.
This is an interesting article, but I mean... these bases still exist. They're no secret. Both Russia and the United States have underground missile control facilities that control small clusters of nuclear silos ready to launch at any moment. (Additionally, the U.S. has a large submarine nuclear force that does the same and Russia has a small submarine force ready to do the same, both have a small contingent of bombers, and Russia has quite a few mobile ground based launch platforms).

Living in Nebraska, I drive by the Minuteman silos pretty often when I chase storms. They look like this (I took this a couple years ago): https://www.flickr.com/photos/digicana/14505073893/

There are lots of them. This is a map of just one of the three fields, based out of Warren: http://www.nukewatchinfo.org/nuclearweapons/nebraska,%20colo...
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Seconding this recommendation. I'm a Mac developer and sell shareware, but have very little web development experience. I switched from a (pretty thrown together) implementation using Paypal to Fastspring a few years ago, and the process could not have been smoother. Fastspring was super helpful getting me set up, and I had to do very little work to get my existing (PHP) license generator integrated with their system. I've been a satisfied customer ever since.
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TrueCar is hiring Engineers with interest in the below technologies and more at our HQ in Santa Monica

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We acquired the talent of quite a few Carwoo (YCS09) alums a little over a year ago. We've been around for 10 years and went public 1 year ago. The company has big plans for the coming years and is looking for good developers to help us grow.
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Can you cite an example from your own experience where someone saying 'can you just' worked for you?
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>Imagination itself is only limited by our technological progress and there are few limits beyond physics itself to stop us there.

What is the difference between the natural world and physics? I would argue that there is no difference. I use the language "natural world" as a synonym for "the nature of existence" and "physics." I would assume that in your vernacular, the meaning is the same.

Thus your own statement above validates My argument. You state physics limits technology and technology limits the imagination. Thus in turn imagination is limited by physics. This is exactly my argument.
If you mean getting bigger in size, all adults.