skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
86 % of Global Telecoms Report OpenStack Important or Essential to Their Success
Introducing Multifactor Authentication on SourceForge
And gone...
As with most things in language, it appears the interpretation of "most" is dependent on the context.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55920/is-most-eq...
Free Software Foundation Seeks Nominations for 19th Annual Free Software Awards
Interviews are about selecting someone who:

- is prepared

- has demonstrable working knowledge

- is motivated and feels challenged

- is a culture fit, or can influence the culture positively

I did not see any of these aspects in the article.

About the "Drop theoretical questions, put applied knowledge exercises instead"... be careful. An interview has limited time to form a perception.

Based on that perception you need to be able to rank candidates, and commit to an offer towards the ones that, according to that perception, did well. What you commit is usually some significant amount of money, as well as a lot of HR work for benefits, and sometimes even immigration stuff, relocation, etc. In addition, this decision will affect many of the day-to-day lives of your employees.

Then, you want to know how people react under pressure. Because chances are not every day will be an ideal day without pressure. So the happy time interview idea concept sucks, to be honest. If you are too easy you are exposing yourself to be stuck with an unwanted paycheck zombie bozo that bounced around from company to company.

Just apply rigor. Rigor is important.
At least they didn't go gray. Brick brown is a huge step up. And glass improves it.
Wire does not use Signal Protocol, they used some of our code to create a protocol of their own devising that we do not recommend.
It's really sad that the only way to get macOS running in a virtual machine is with hacks and tweaks. I'm working on a cross platform desktop app written in Qt and while it should theoretically work on macOS I haven't had a chance to actually try it, because I don't own any Apple computers. Apple is shooting themselves in the foot.
Was that the defacto way of communicating tech products to non-tech people within the company? Do fortune 500 companies not have training on how to use all the software they'd need to use, or is this just for in-house tech that might not be well documented or designed?

A lot of my non-tech friends are given google docs that are essentially if-else chains on how to query databases or work with custom tech.
There's a Surplus of Worry About Debt
Yes, one of the most beneficial things we can all do it to spend time with kids, listen to what they talk about, care about, are worried about, are playing with. Their actions contain within them deep metaphors for the collective conscious. It's also just wonderful for them to be in the presence of adults who are in a state of non-judgement, exploration and curiosity about them -- it helps model for them a healthy relationship with their Self.

Smart creators of any type will be curious about what children are up to.

Various wisdom traditions have observed this as well.

From the Tibetans selecting a Dali Llama to Christ saying "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

One of my psychedelic mentors, perhaps it was Ann Shulgin, said that the state an adult enters on a psychedelic is the default state for the child... That the "return to the garden of eden" is to return to the pre-traumatic self without shame.

Spending time with kids is a great way to reconnect your Self with the possibility of possibility and the essenence of who you are.
VirtualBox and VMware don't "support" virtualisation of OS X on non-OS X platforms. You either have to hack your VM, or the guest installer.
> Amazed you believed the FPSRussia video

Not sure what you mean. I believed what about it, exactly?
This is a very strange attitude about truth. What does it have to do with one's comfort level? Not everyone is emotionally invested in understanding the universe. I personally rather enjoy it when the universe surprises me, although again, surprises can be good or bad.
That makes a lot of since. Many of the NonStop and VMS clusters were in same country but far enough from each other to isolate against many disasters. Could be why they did better on the issue.
no idea, but balanced charges I imagine
Not having a healthy predator prey relationship in areas leads to public health issues

I wonder what could be released in a dense city like New York to take care of the rat problem. Bats? Snakes? It's a comical thought, but so far there's no real solution.

The only healthy relationship we've found so far is that of rats to poison, but the rats seem to be winning that battle given their ubiquitousness!
What about the ipad made it so special to my dad? Better resolution than whatever monitor a 12-year-old computer could power? Portability? Easier to use?

Seems like parent's seem to be responding better to mobile tech than computers.
To be clear: I was not referring to the manner in which the Christian church later regarded the apocrypha, but the manner in which the Jews in the inter-testamental period regarded it. The Jews then, as today, did not regard the apocrypha as scripture. However, I must limit what I wrote above to the Jews in Palestine and the establishment of the Tanakh. There were Jews in Egypt who considered the apocryphal books part of their canon.
Ruby Front-End Framework – Component, Router, and Store
If anything right now people want to stay away from the risk of third degree burns from an exploding phone.
Robots reduce labour costs in 1st world countries not 3rd world countries who have cheap labour. However I agree with the point you are trying to make.
Mnesia built into Elixir/Erlang potentially?
`cat` is short for conCATenate. Here it is being used to concatenate files. This is the canonical useful use of cat.

The problem with that example is parsing `ls` output.
I think you're on to something. Know of any ways to make a desktop experience enforce a single context? Essentially build a smartphone-like interface, except for desktops?
Appreciate the tip. Im aware of it. They had a recent post on HN where they were just getting around to dealing with stability issues. I was really excited till I saw that. Im holding off for a while till it matures a bit.
There is a misconception at work here regarding Luther and the apocrypha. The question of the apocrypha's canonicity was not a significant point of discussion during the Reformation, likely because his position was a common one in the Roman church itself (Occam, for example, was of the same opinion as Luther on this point). Luther's German Bible included the apocrypha in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments, describing them as books that, while not Scripture, were profitable to read. This is very nearly a translation from the Glossa ordinaria in which Luther was schooled. In fact, Luther and his fellows regularly quoted from the apocrypha and even preached from it, without controversy. In this regard, Luther's understanding of the apocrypha represented the theological training he received prior to his period as a reformer.

It was not until the Council of Trent that any controversy arose regarding the apocrypha between the Lutherans and Rome, when Rome formally declared the apocrypha to be inspired and canonical. For more on this topic, see the Examination of the Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent by Martin Chemnitz.
GitLab 8.12.6 released
An American Boat Sailed to Vietnam During the War. Then It Disappeared
I 300% do not trust consumers to perform surgery on batteries. It feels even more likely that it would trigger an uinpleasant and dangerous chain reaction than the current situation provides.
There's no reason to.
Interesting.

I'm referring to the US associations; I think that's the cultural zeitgeist that the New York Times is more familiar with :-P

Sort of the backlash to the right wing calling both European Social Democrats and American moves to expand the welfare state "socialist" as a term of abuse.
Starting a startup while working full time
Hi all,

I have an idea that I want to develop but I don't have the means to not work and work on my idea full time. I was wondering who has had experience or knows of some reference individuals who have done this?

Any insight is really appreciated!
Cat's don't just live in urban environments. The article says most of the damage is done by ferals.
God, I wish the opposite! After years of using AwesomeWM [1], now that I'm stuck in OS X for work I feel like I'm tied down and handicapped.

While I'm around, anyone know the keyboard shortcut to UNminimize a window?

[1] https://awesome.naquadah.org/
How to Build an Autonomous Car: Algorithms
Stock Ownership Act aims to solve tax liability
> (e.g. "get the argument immediately after '-f'")

Is there a language commonly used for cli tools that doesn't have an inbuilt options lib? Even bash has inbuilt 'getopts' to handle this for you.

while getopts "ab:" option; do
case $option in
a) VAR="foo";;
b) VAR2="$OPTARG";;
esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

which will allow you to "myscript -a -b myarg"

By all means, use env vars if it works for you, but it should be right tool for the right job. Imagine trying to use 'ls' with env vars...
> The first thought that struck me when I saw it was "that is a visual expression of Orwellian thought".

Yup, exactly. There is little more care for the inhabitants inside than there is for the ants, the ivy, the birds, the earthworms which could live on & around a homier structure. A Brutalist building spares no more thought for its inhabitants than does an abbatoir for those who enter its confines: they are a necessary nuisance, but mustn't be permitted to intrude upon the happiness of the architect anymore than absolutely required.

The Brutalist Le Corbusier famously said that a house is a machine for living in, but what he really meant is that he thought a home is a machine for performing intellectual labour, consuming calories, excreting waste and engaging in other animal activities as required. In other words, he didn't really know what it means to live; if he did, then he would have known that a house is not a machine, but rather a fractally intricate ecosystem, itself contained within even more intricate interlocking ecosystems.

I don't actually blame him: he lived through the collapse of civilisation that was the Great War, and then the complete nightmare of the Second World War. He had seen so much that was great and good ground up in destruction, so much that had seemed so permanent turned to ash, that I can understand why he didn't think permanence could be found in an organic, human scale of building (it's much the same sentiment which fuelled Hitlerism & Stalinism: the old order had fallen, and the only thing many people thought they could turn to for strength was raw totalitarianism).

Brutalism is a kind of totalitarianism of architecture, a demand that those who build, those who inhabit and those who maintain must constantly bend their wills to the will of the Great Man (the architect), bend without love, without understanding, without hope, without fear, without joy, just mute, abject obedience to a cold and uncaring plan.

No thanks. Give me ivy, give me bricks, give me marble, give me dirt and grass and trees; give me men and women and children; give me sheep and dogs and horses; give me colours and light and ornament; give me emotion and delight; give me, in short, life.
IMO, I think its a security problem. People run diffs on the updates and use the detailed bug fixes to uncover exploits faster than most can patch. It could also be MS ending the era of "admin approved updates". Google started it and now MS competes with Google and even Apple in the the School market so it makes sense in a way.
Not simply a voting decision. As DHH explained, "this is a man who's a Trump delegate! Keynote endorser at his convention! Political action and operative."
What are their protocol's shortcomings?
VS Code is based on Electron as well but manages to perform significantly better than Atom.
Yup, I used it about 2 years back. Will give it a shot again. Thanks!
I really want to love Atom. Even with the least plugins enabled, it crashes pretty frequently for me. Then, I moved back to Sublime. I've done this ceremony about 3 times and I think it is time to just give up until some miracle happens in Atom's land.
Ask HN: What you think of this recruiting startup idea?
Problem: It's very hard to find technical talent and most solutions are very expensive (hiring agency recruiter) or issues of scale (eg. hiring a recruiting workforce)

Solution: Sourcing as a solution. Creating a platform that creates target lists for positions and conducts outreach on behalf of your company (eventually AI to replace the agency recruiter)

Market: Global Staffing is $416 billion business.

Competitors: Ultimately, agency recruiters are going to disappear. No matter what industry, middlemen are replaced by the internet. Our current competitors would be hired.com, wayup, and whitetruffle. They are taking a marketplace approach to the solution of staffing which I think is very difficult and misaligns incentives. The companies that are taking our approach are recruitloop.com and http://wadeandwendy.ai/ (this is great idea and our ultimate solutions borrows from this concept)

Go-to Market strategy: Connections I've built recruiting and running newsletter. Content strategy and Drip campaign.

Business Model: We will only offer sourcing in the beginning and it will cost $250 to get 100 candidates with information and contact info on an excel spreadsheet (MVP)

Team: I'm currently a technical recruiter at an agency and my two friends are developers.
New techies are coming online all the time.
Google cached it before it disappeared: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pcBDnIR...
"Sorry, you're unborn child was killed by a virus we could have stopped but we spent that money on a rocket."

"Sorry, you're unborn child was killed by a virus we could have stopped but we spent thousands of times that in wars over oil".

"Sorry, you're unborn child was killed by a virus we could have stopped but we spent thousands of times that propping up dodgy financial institutions".

"Sorry, you're unborn child was killed by a virus we could have stopped but we spent thousands of times that making Hollywood movies".

.. yawn
Thanks for saying this, I was about to say the same thing. Write a man page. --help or -? is OK for a terse summary but don't put detailed instructions in --help output, because then I have to run it twice (since I didn't add '| less' the first time).
When do you expect ember to transition to yarn?

Are there any branches of ember-cli implementing yarn?
> the JS community seems to prefer just trusting that new versions won't break anything. Its either very brave of them really (or maybe just foolish).

Let's not pretend that we aren't all blindly tossing in random libs of dubious quality and origin we find on github into our package.json and hoping for the best anyway. My company talks a mean talk about "best practices", but, my god, the dependencies we use are a true horror show.
I highly recommend the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast: http://historyofphilosophy.net. It gives a great cursory overview of (many of) the seminal events and is a great diving board to see what you may like to explore - the corpus of what you can study is gigantic.

As a degree holder in Philosophy I would have killed for a podcast like this; I have no affiliation with the podcast or its producers.
Hmm are you using a special plugin for this? I haven't had a single indentation issue with atom and I'm also writing JavaScript all day. The only issue I've seen is opening an older file that mixes tabs and spaces when ch sometimes makes it harder to read. Even the beautify plugin seems to work well for me.
Fun fact: The Lexington avenue line carries as many passengers in a day as the entire DC Metro
Sure, but refusing to hire you is not an action, it's the lack of one. Hiring you would be an action. That's exactly the problem with such laws - you are not prohibiting people from doing something, you're forcing them to do something. That needs to meet a much higher and/or nuanced bar of social need to override the inherent infringement of individual liberty.

Discrimination is already legal in many contexts - private individuals can discriminate in most countries, private membershib clubs can discriminate in many places etc. Furthermore, even in areas where discrimination is illegal (e.g. public accommodation), there's generally a very limited list of traits on which it is illegal - race, religion, gender etc. Anything not on that list is not illegal to discriminate on - for example, it is perfectly legal to refuse to serve someone on the basis of their political view in US.

Do you believe that all forms of discrimination should be illegal, including private and personal? Do you realize the implications of that?

And yes, the onus is, in fact, on you to show harm. That's how legal system works in most cases. I don't see why it should work any differently here. Do you really want to people to be able to just claim discrimination on the basis of any random thing, and demand that the other party prove the lack of discrimination?
Maybe instead of reinventing npm use a more general staging or deploment tool/strategy like Docker.
I tried creating a startup in this space in the past. After interviewing about 60 recruiters, I changed to a totally different industry.

Solutions to finding good talent are not easy
Hey, Seeing your menubar item reminded of a software - Bartender[1]. I like it; you might.

It looks a bit like this - https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqjrz2wiwuxho4z/Screenshot%202016-...

1. https://www.macbartender.com/
> not when it's protected speech

In some states in the US, you can't legally fire people for lawful off-duty activity, including political activity. There are some states where political activity specifically is protected. But, there are plenty of places where you can be fired for any reason.

In many cases where off-duty activity is protected, there are exceptions for when that activity conflicts, or (sometimes) is seen to conflict, with your employer's interests.

Even in cases where your political activities are protected and no conflict can reasonably be inferred, you may be in a "at will" jurisdiction that allows your employer to fire you for no reason, which then puts the onus on you to prove to a court that the real reason was because of your protected activities.
Great options already exist:

MemSQL for blazing fast distributed full SQL database with cross-datacenter replication and in-memory rowstore + disk-based columnstore.

ScyllaDB for Cassandra rewritten in C++ for blazing fast dynamo-style multi-master multi-datacenter disk-based wide-column database.

I'll also throw in AMPS (by 60East) as the best messaging platform that supports innovative SQL and real-time state-of-the-world queries on it's message streams (instead of using that rabbitmq or kafka crap).
"your Developer Story is the best way to share whatever it is that you take pride in. It’s your story; tell it your way."

Are people still relying on third party companies marketing to both sides of the market, to attract employees? You don't really need them. The Internet and contributions to open source [0] is your developer story, use it. [1]

reference:

[0] I realise not everyone can/will want do this.

[1] offer from google engineering (SRE) on basis of newsgroup questions and code.
The Azure team could learn a thing or two about putting together good documentation for their products.
By invoking the Resistance, pg compared Trump to Hitler. DHH was merely probing where the line falls between Hitler and the other Nazis in that metaphor. DHH didn't bring up black and white, pg did.
Also, you still haven't explained what, exactly, the harm is in being refused a job when other equivalent jobs are available. Is it material? If so, what exactly is the nature of the loss? Or are you claiming some sort of psychological harm?
Welcome to HN. Thousands of people and they do hang out on hacker news. Your question isn't specific enough, so you might want to start using the search feature (bottom of page) and research 'side project'. Even filtering to just the last week or month will give you a couple of good discussion threads (and motivation). Good luck on your venture. Feel free to ask specific questions in the https://news.ycombinator.com/ask category (just add 'Ask HN' to the beginning of the question).
For in-house stuff, I also run by the rule that any tool should be safe to run if there are no args provided. Run any of my tools, and if it's potentially destructive, you'll only get a help screen if there are no args provided. Even tools that don't need any args to function will still require a misc arg if they might theoretically damage something.

The theory here is that these tools aren't well-known, so it's an extra level of safety. It also means that colleagues don't have to hunt me down to ask about what it does...
>If your answers were different for the two questions then you are being sexist by definition.

Nonsense. This is how the question was worded:

>A man takes a woman on a date, who should pay? Two gay men go on a first date, who should pay?

Implying the man asked the woman out on a date, while the gay men went by mutual agreement. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the one who asks will pay, and therefor the man pays in the first instance and the gay men go dutch.

This sort of false Facebook poignancy is annoying.
> You might find Riverside Plaza (aka Cedar Towers) in Minneapolis an interesting bit of colorful Brutalism.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Riversid...

The colour does remind me a bit of a Mondrian, but I think it should be removed from the earth just as one would remove mercury-contaminated soil.
Guide to Debugging Your Neural Network
Yeah, the DMV is probably the most difficult and time consuming part about getting a license in this US.
This Internet comment is fairly typical of the general feeling:

This building and space feel like something straight out of a Eastern European Soviet bloc country. I think Kim Jong-un would be impressed! It's hard to believe a city so beautiful would chose such ugly architecture for it's government.

That said, it's exacerbated by the huge bare surrounding expanse in a northern city that's cold and windy for a significant chunk of the year. There's work going on at the moment. I'm pretty sure I'll never like the architecture but with a reasonable exterior space it may be more tolerable.
I had a non tech job, but I have a Certificate in GIS. I was often improving on some existing tutorial. A lot of our programs were in house tech.
WRT the national security fears - because rockets are such a security-sensitive technology, the market is highly regulated. Multiple government departments have veto power over any foreign acquisition of companies involved in activities covered by ITAR, and if SpaceX decides not to cooperate with the US government it will likely find itself without launchpads, telemetry, surface-to-orbit communication, and a whole range of other services that NASA, the FAA, and the DoD provide.
That's not 100 % accurate. Arguably symlinks are kinda weird under Windows, but that doesn't mean symlinking node_modules doesn't work (you just need admin privileges).

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of ied.)
Why we are here? It's an accident of evolution.

Why we live only to suffer and die? Because otherwise old animals would consume resources needed for growth, and thus there's evolutionary pressure for limited lifespans.

It's not that those are hard questions. It's that people don't like the answers.

Deal with it.