skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please allow me to affirm you're not alone in craving structure and a sense of professionalism in the modern workplace. Personally I genuinely dislike the "casual-ification" of work, if that made-up phrase makes any sense. At a prior job, I genuinely enjoyed wearing nice slacks, a nice button down, and a nice tie...which was the standard for back-office employees. Reason being if a client ever came in, they should see consistency and the effort (very relationship oriented firm).

I have poor personal discipline at times so working from home is distasteful to me. My wants and desires for fun / chores / etc don't mesh well with "being by computer or phone waiting for contact" - I get edgy. Then how can I unwind, I'm already home?!

I'm aiming to one day be self-employed, preferably in screenwriting. Should the financial compensation reach the point of the luxury of quitting my full-time employment with benefits, my first order of business will be to sign a lease at some type of office. I want to work 8-12 and then, as my brain shuts off, go home and spend time on personal things, chores, amusements, cooking, etc. I crave structure and therefore feel empowered by recognizing this characteristic in myself.
"alt+space e p" is still how I paste in a command window since you couldn't ctrl+v for ages.
Moving from RavenDB to Marten (a document store on top of PostgreSQL)
On further review, I think I was conflating undefined behavior with implementation-defined behavior. As pcwalton pointed out, though, in the early days there wasn't really a distinction between the two.
Could you elaborate on what the actual complexity is, rather than what you imagine?

For a developer writing a tool, exposing an interface as objects is far easier than having to constantly serialize data into a string. Keep in mind that once you serialize data into a string, you can never change the order of the data or else other tools will break. Not so with a object based interface.

In other system-admin type tasks PowerShell hides complexity. For e.g. finding the IP address of a network interface is simply

Get-NetIPAddress | select IPAddress

compared to something horrendous like

ifconfig | perl -nle 's/dr:(\S+)/print $1/e'
Yeah, it's a mixture of Perl and Bash with sudden C# calls interspersed.
Neat, but that doesn't seem to be integrated into .NET like IronPython was (well, is, just not maintained it seems). Which is what the post I was responding to was talking about.
Why did it get removed? I can only seem to view the first chapter now. Which really isn't enough to tell me if I'll like this or not.
Exactly!

They gave away the .book TLD to Amazon too and now no one can publish their own book using a .book domain name for their work.
Ask HN: Is it wise to seek a UI-building collaborator for a math editor project?
I have an idea for a mathematics proof editor (I plan on making v1.0 be a clone of Netty, which is well described here: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~naiman/netty_rome.pdf --- Netty hasn't been updated for a while, and it's written in Java, which I am not too huge a fan of: https://bitbucket.org/naiman/nettyproject/overview), but I have been finding the process of actually building a UI for it tedious, to say the least.

I have tried two things to some extent:

* Qt: mainly PyQt, worked with simple examples for getting a text editor going; started procrastinating thinking about all the ways I could subvert existing widgets for different features of the editor, and made procrastination even more effective by being generally repulsed by the Qt documentation (not that it's bad, it's just that there's a LOT)

* terminal painting: basically using something like urwid for Python to create a simple terminal based UI

Some things I have tried to a lesser extent:

* alternative UI building tools for Python, like Kivy

* building my own UI toolset from scratch using pyglet

I appreciate the tremendous scope of the infrastructure and many number of man-hours it takes to create tools that finally allow pixels to appear on our screens, but its not my cup of tea. I care much more about how I want the UI designed overall, using the editor for doing some actual work, and then seeing how I can streamline the process further.

I am wondering if I can overcome my general procrastination by finding a partner who'd be interested in working with me on the project especially on the UI side of things, instead of learning how to do everything by myself (even though that is a romantic and appealing notion -- the lone wolf dev). I am particularly wary of asking because I have no way of compensating such a partner monetarily, and this is almost definitely not going to be a profit based business which we can earn money off of.

Could you discuss pros/cons with me, and if the pros outweigh the cons, how I might go about finding a person?
How could I possibly prove that? You guys should ban all comments that look like astroturfing. By banning accusations of astroturfing, you endorse it, because there is no way to discuss it on your forums. I'd have to organize an anti-astroturf astroturfing movement just to balance it out.
Presence of music affects your studies based on what kind of thinking mode you are in.

For focused mode, music is a mere distraction.

For diffused mode, music is part of diffusing, relaxing, and thinking wildly.

As you said, change the environment so that it can dictate how you think.
Official announcement: http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-178... (Gawker.com is a banned domain so a third-party domain is necessary for submission. Although I guess that doesn't matter anymore).

Note that this does not affect other sites in the Gawker network (Gizmodo, Jalopnik, etc.)
Machines and Humans = Future of SaaS
+1. Colloquially know as, "talking his own book."
What kind of sanction do you imagine then against "non-violent" offenders?

Who is to decide what is "violent"? We could make the case that even white-collar crime is a form of violence (e.g. ruining people's life, etc)
I agree - certainly not convinced that this particular idea is a workable solution, but any eventual fix will definitely look like bribery just because of the political dynamics here.
One other thing to keep in mind is that there was a great boom in building in the US during the 1970s and 1980s, and many of the homes built during that period were built using substandard building materials and techniques, many of which are no longer up to code for new construction but were grandfathered in.

How many of those millions of homes are actually solid, reliable structures? How many suffer from moisture damage, mold, or have been poorly maintained? What kind of cement was used to pour the foundation? What kind of insulation? How many insect or rodent infestations has the house suffered?

There is a vast difference in quality between an old building in a city that has been renovated for apartments compared to a suburban home that has essentially gone unmaintained for decades and was built as part of a speculative housing development project by someone who had no long term interest in the quality of the construction.

I think we'll start to see a gradual crumbling/disintegration of suburbia as the houses fall into disrepair and the mortgage debtors are in too far over their heads to afford proper maintenance.

The right thing to do in 2008 would have been to let the prices fall and stay down, to encourage proper renovation and maintenance.
Everyone fails, but only the wise find humility
After checking out the blog post https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/tracker-ingesting-mys... I thought it would be interesting to see what happens if I converted their NullEscape.c program to Rust. The results were encouraging so I submitted a PR :)
Perhaps the bus will have a very conservative driving AI, like subway trains do, where "anything in front that isn't getting out of the way" means "slow to a stop and ping the driver to decide what to do."
there is no workable solution without their consent.

Governor Brown has a proposal that would work to improve things:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-francisco-needs-governors-hous...

http://www.hcd.ca.gov/housing4agrowingca.html
So, it's perfectly fine to personally enrich yourself by:

A) Working as a prison guard/admin (in which your job security/salary increase with incarceration);

B) Hiring released convicts (in which your model becomes increasingly profitable as more of the labor force is branded as less hireable due to greater incarceration);

C) Supplying goods to prisons (in which your specialization at the problems of delivery to prisons becomes more valuable with greater incarceration)

D) Lobbying for tough-on-crime laws due to the above incentives, as e.g. CO interest groups have done [1]

But running the prison itself? "That's too much, man!"

Frankly, the anti-private prison movement is, IMHO, very confused. Numerous groups financially profit from the prison system even when they're publicly run, and such prisons produce the same egregious incentives to encourage more incarceration. (See the three-strikes lobbying.)

It seems like a way to exploit anti-market, anti-profit bias to get the masses enraged at an enormous red herring -- which, by the way, is still only 6-16% [2].

[1] http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/the_undue_influen...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization...
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If there's one thing I want, it's my wife's friends getting spammed with Facebook notifications about the fact that I got the Monster Kill achievement in Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
Not "The IT Industry", surely only a subset of Windows systems managers.
"Is a desk of my own where I can do a little nesting really too much to ask for?"

If we give you that, then you might start to think you're an individual, instead of a replaceable cog.
This was the hardest thing to figure out. I have a program just to ensure I'm sending the arguments that I think I am.
Looking for feedback on developer quote
I'm hoping to get some feedback on developer quotes I'm getting. I'm building a case management system that utilizes asp and html5. It has three main components the database and two web portals, one for the patient and one for the case manager. I've been getting quotes from lots of India based development teams as they fit my start-up/MVP budget. While some indicate they can build for 40-50k one said they can build the software in 3 months for 10k. My question is, is this price competitive? Can it truly be that the system can be built for 10k in India? Any comments, experience, or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Weird thought -- has anyone ever considered non-profits privately running prisons? Advocacy groups, human rights NGO's, hell why not even religious institutions. You think we need prison reform, here's your chance . . .
I don't think they are always a bad thing. If we could make it so that didn't profit off tuitions/fees that would be great.

Some schools have contracts with companies, the government, or even have legitimate patents.
They do a little more than "root for war". https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indus.php?id=D
I respectfully disagree. I think C is a giant disaster that will continue to plague us entirely due to inertia. You're really underestimating how entrenched it is. Try to go program on micro in something other than C. Try programming a driver. The toolchains simply don't exist - the comparability with several decades of work is also shaky.

C is a terrible cross platform assembly b/c it doesn't allow you the level of control which one would expect in this day and age. Maybe it was written in the days when CPUs were brain-dead simple, but basic things that are available on most architectures aren't part of the language. It has no notion of a CPU cache, it has no notion of branching (you can't tag a likely branch and an unlikely one), it even goes as far as to ignore user keywords for inlining and provides no keyword for blocking inlining. RVO is implicit magic that you just pray happens. Const != immutability.

When you write C you have no notion of what the compiler is going to output whatsoever

A lot of these things are available through compiler extensions (so great, now it's not cross-platform), but even still the language is broken. "Expert C Programming" has a really long chapter that goes over all the more confusing subtly problems C has beyond just arrays being pointers-but-not-really.

I have to use C pretty regularly and all I can think is "God.. why hasn't anyone made this better yet"
Why not use Do Not Disturb mode?
that is any interesting connection. the for profit prisons seem to be worse than the govt run counterparts, but for profit schools seem to vary on the effectiveness with their govt counterparts. i would guess there would be some inverse corelation btwn the avg age of the student and overall effectivness of the school - my experience is that the private schools for highschool and younger seem to do better, while college for profit seem to do worse.
Jose tuvo miles de dólares en sus manos, y no lo sabía (ES)
Wouldn't it be better strategy to be as public as possible with this? To start a competitive situation where prospective acquirers would want to get to the tech first before their competitors?

Like Oculus did and got bought by FB.
I have to agree. I can only feel like this is pollution or another EEE attempt.
Rents were declining in 2009? On the back of the biggest recession in 80 yrs and a collapse of the housing market?

You shock me.
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Uber Acquires Otto, a Self-Driving Trucking Startup
The article says the judges took a plea deal for only 87 months of prison time.
I don't recall exactly when, but Jim Cramer did an entire episode of Mad Money last year about how private prisons are a good investment.

Here is a link to a segment form 2011 about private prisons being good investments - http://www.cnbc.com/id/44677873

I'll keep looking for last years episode.
And for example, even in this case what the developer is being blocked from building is far too low-rise for a site that is right in the middle of the downtown core grid of Oakland, and only 2-blocks from a BART station. This should be a 30+ story mixed-use tower going up.
The word "remote" is so general it's basically useless. We need new common terms to describe the different types, such as:

- Long remote: When someone is offshore or many time zones away (such as India or Eastern Europe).

- TZ remote: Same timezone, but requires airplane flight to meet.

- Local remote: Within driving distance.

Local remote is the best of both worlds and all companies should be doing this. It can be a 3-2 balance (3 days remote, 2 days in office) or 4-1, whatever makes sense for the team and company. Employees get the benefit of remote (flexibility, no commute) and in person meetings (such as designing a new system on a whiteboard). It's sad that so many tech companies (such as Google and FB) don't do this. Considering that it's tech that allows this (with video conferencing, git, slack, etc.), it's ironic that tech companies are so resistant to doing local remote.

TZ remote can work, but it should be only for employees who are already established at the company (spent many years doing local remote). The connections developed during the local remote years will help make TZ remote work. And they can fly to the office a few times during the year to refresh those connections.

Long remote has a lot of issues. The big time zone difference, lack of any history of in-person meetings, and culture differences make it very difficult for this to work.
Change Favors the Robust, Not the Radical
The thing that killed my interest in the rift was Facebook's transparent desire to make it a walled garden.
Censored?
Security Experts Agree: The NSA Was Hacked
Interest rates are not going to be negative. The only reason government bonds have been able to go negative is because of buying by governments (quantitative easing) and by banks who get political advantages for doing so.
Parsing an Indentation-Sensitive Language with Haskell
That doesn't help if the public doesn't care, and for decades there was no public pressure to reform any prison, public or private. Now that criminal justice reform is mainstream, private prisons have received a disproportionate amount of public attention, enough for the feds to phase them out. I hope the newfound criminal justice reformers don't declare victory as soon as private prisons are gone. Never forget that over-criminalization and mass incarceration preceded private prisons, not the other way around.
I was puzzling over exactly this during Ledecky's win in the 800m. I watched a replay with constant WR graphic overlay, so you could see her gaining and losing ground on it. IIRC the BBC commentators also contradicted themselves more than once about whether she was going even better or about the same (without really realising something strange was going on).

Try to catch a replay if you can.
Do you have any articles/books detailing construction practices during that time period? Also any numbers on what percent of housing in America was built during that time period.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12299126
The simplest approach would be ... The nationalised mortgage firms that guarantee the bonds ... should be forced to raise their capital buffers and increase their fees

Raising capital requirements seems like a minor tweak, a band-aid cure.

I would argue that the systemic risk could better be managed by changing the fundamental economics of the financial instrument in question: the classic residential mortgage.

I'm surprised the Economist didn't mention the short-selling idea which Richard Schiller has been pitching [1] since the Financial Crisis.

The basic idea is to make it possible to accurately short-sell residential real estate. This would allow homeowners and lenders to be partially protected against declines in real estate prices (the risk being transferred to third-party speculators and investors). Just like a lender requires homeowners to buy property insurance, it could also require homeowners to enter into financial protection against declines in property value. This would protect the homeowner against negative equity (where the property value falls significantly below the borrowed principal). It was because of negative equity that so many homeowners defaulted on their mortgages during the Financial Crisis, leading to a vicious cycle of foreclosures, sales and declining property values.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/upshot/the-housing-market-...
"At least for now, the configuration tooling will be a part of the Qt for Device Creation product, and not open source."

I do wonder how a lot of companies's dual license model is going to interact with the IoT / embedded world.
It's not. That's why I do what I do in my free time, the time of my life that's actually mine. The school and the work is just to reproduce myself day-to-day, year-to-year with the necessary resources. If I felt I had the material and financial freedom to do otherwise, I would.
Unity Engine is definitely performant enough. Unity's low barrier to entry is likely why there are so many low-quality, poorly developed games using the engine.
The groupthinking majority loves censorship.

(this is one reason why we avoid building/using centralized trash)
I'm sure that's on their radar in terms of contingency planning, but it shouldn't be a surprise - looks like sentencing policy changes in the past years (thanks Obama, for reals) have reduced the inmate population, and this is an adjustment to those policies.

I sure hope Hillary will continue this good work.
Recently, Dropbox wrote about dewarping prior to OCR in their app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12297944

This code had the same idea, and is open-source!
> Some have PS4s. That's plenty beefy enough.

Sony has their own competing VR solution, though. That said, I seem to recall some talk about the Xbox One (maybe just their Scorpio refresh?) supporting the Rift, but I can't recall details offhand.
At the risk of sounding frivolous, there are numerous prisons that have been turned into hotels.

http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/10/30/incarcer-vacations-...
It does not gloss over that; it considers that possibility in detail, and addresses it with facts.

But ultimately, yes: the problem isn't the war on drugs or long sentences (at least not directly), but rather the staffing and aggressiveness of prosecutors.
Wouldn't that be a destination service? There is no need to carry a person/bot that is just needed at the endpoint.
Favorited for later. Thanks, that's useful!
> They do a little more than "root for war"

that is so sad all the stats in the link you posted. hopefully with the rise of the internet and everyone becoming connected we can raise awareness and not let things like that happen anymore.
Here's the history:

Taking nothing away from Heisenberg, he reformulated a particular quantum system in the new language. But in order to be able to apply QM to all kinds of systems, one needs to also reformulate it in a universal language. At that point, Max Born interpreted Heisenberg's example using his knowledge of math -- Here's the story I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg%27s_entryway_to_mat...

----

Max Born had two seminal contributions:

1. Interpreting the noncommutative structure in Heisenberg's observation as linear operators

2. The "Born rule" that relates amplitudes involving the wavefunction (quantum state) to probabilities.

For both of those, he used existing math knowledge. He did not re-invent linear algebra or probability theory. And differential equations were part of the standard toolkit of physicists by then (given successes of the theory of heat and the wave theory of light)
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I believe he is talking about this. Still, no brothel mentioned. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/08/18/...
A fair observation if you use twitter like the majority of users (at least in the UK). The key to getting a decent bellwether is to actively seek out prominent and active users with differing opinions.

Regarding social medias influence, while it has been hyped up massively, I do believe it is a significant force. Even if just for the fact that the media class use it extensively. I expect it has an impact on their reporting.
In every case I'm aware of the government went after the US-based registrar rather than exercising its power over ICANN.
I've used both extensively, and I don't think so. Unity is a fine engine and you can do quality work with it, but Unreal is quite a lot more powerful out of the box.
By being sued for invading someone's privacy?

I don't like Peter Thiel, but he wasn't the judge or the jury.
I think it is, in fact, fine to do A, B, and C.

We do need prisons. Some people are too dangerous to be allowed in society, and this will likely always be the case. So they must be guarded. (Technically, you're also guarding everyone else from them.) If it's immoral to work as a prison guard, it's also immoral to work as a policeman, or a firefighter, or a street cleaner - as your job becomes more secure when there are more criminals, or house fires, or litterers. Patent nonsense.

Hiring released convicts is also a good thing, in general - people go to prison, pay their debt to society, and come out. They need jobs, now.

And a person is going to need a bed sheet, a tooth brush, and toilet paper whether they're in prison or free.

D, I agree with, is wrong. And especially when done by the folks who do C.