skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the problem is there isn't a better title.

I want a title that indicates that I'm the manager of a group of devs and that I also have final call on the technical side of the company.

Any ideas?
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"American resources are being depleted?"

Water.

"Should we stop exporting corn..."

Mostly.

*"...and industrial machinery too?"

No.
Do you find Dropbox to work any better than Google drive? If so how/when/where?

I'm pretty firmly in the if-can't-self-host-i-don't-care camp (which rules out Dropbox and drive alike) - but I've recently had reason to share documents at work, without any in-house infrastructure. And the combination of "good enough" Google docs and sheets along with easy to use drive on laptop/desktop/mobile is hard to beat - especially with a pretty easy learning curve.

I only whish drive had the ability to mark a "folder" as available offline, as the fiction of 4g everywhere gets a bit tiresome when you find yourself on a mountain and need to pull up your list of students to make sure you haven't left someone to bleed out on the way up (ok, for that you practice the buddy system and have a paper backup. But it's still nice to work on notes offline wherever you are and have them sync, without offline-first being something special).
It's still a linear change. The tube needs to withstand 1 ATM of pressure, which isn't all that much in the grand scheme of things.
From second-hand experience, young pretty women have absolutely no trouble getting their ideas shot down.

Getting your ideas shot down is not at all the same as getting good constructive feedback that helps you orient properly. It is actually pretty easy to chalk that kind of thing up to jealousy and hatefulness (and, thus, ignore it). "Haters gonna hate" and all that.

I did consider further editing my original comment to clarify that detail. I have gotten plenty of negativity in my life, even quite ugly stuff. That is extremely different from someone who actually wants me to succeed telling me why my project will not fly and that I need to address those things in order to have any hope of succeeding.

My adult sons can be counted on to give me that kind of constructive feedback. So far, I have mostly failed to get it from other men and it is mostly men who have the kind of knowledge I am interested in accessing.
What's an early grave worth?
Mate isn't too bad and there's always i3, stumpwm and/or xmonad
You can assign a score based off of what they said, and how confident they were. Check out this article

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-part...
The domain specialists know what their customers would like and are thus fantastic at evaluating proposals, but they don't know the range of possible solutions nearly as well as the people doing the implementation. Someone technical can propose something that the design side never considered because they didn't know it was even possible.

Having people from the technical side in there early also means helps to spread understanding of why something is designed as it is.
Bringing Up Babel
Not going to happen. Bureaucrats aren't CEOs, they can't just unilaterally spend billions of dollars. The money would have to be appropriated by Congress, and the chance of Congress doing that in the current environment is about 0%. Whoever sponsored the bill would get raked over the coals for years.
Is Bitcoin any more volatile than a "normal" currency in regards to value on the time scale of when work is done and work is paid?

Usually when I hear the dollar is down its cents on the dollar over weeks but what I hear about Bitcoin sounds more like a stock market, with sudden crashes and rallies
No IDE will ever be as responsive as VC++ 6.0. That thing was a pleasure.
What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s Most Fascinating Electronic Market
Does iCloud even allow storing arbitrary files? I can't even figure out how to drag and drop a file from my mac to the icloud drive, let alone retrieve it from the iOS side.

I don't think you can compare iCloud with general purpose storage; it seems angled towards iOS app integrations instead.
I'm not sure if that sentiment isn't carbon chauvinism, given that the best we know so far has been carbon-based.

I'm sure the universe in its infinity has plenty of surprises in store for an species that has yet to leave their home planet.
The rant is totally unwarranted but I do sometimes wish the smiley was something more subdued
CMU's self-paced and free Open Learning Initiative classes on statistics might be helpful early on:

Empirical Research Methods:
http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/future/empirical-research-methods...

Probability and Statistics:
http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistics-course-detai...

Statistical Reasoning:
http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/free-open/statistical-reasoning-c...
"Forth has been compared favorably to Lisp"

In some contexts, that's true. Lisp needs insane amounts of RAM to get a decent REPL running (I can't find figures for the original 704 implementation (did it even have a REPL or was it compiled?), but I guess easily 20kB or more), while forth runs its REPL happily in a tenth of that space.

If you are bootstrapping the firmware for a device, where bootstrapping means that you have to write the code interfacing with any of the hardware before you can use it, and you can find enough I/O pins to use for a serial port, a forth REPL is both easier to implement and way more useful than a lisp one. And if your device doesn't have much memory, it may be your only realistic option.
One.
I know they fund the companies. I was just saying the people getting that funding often work for universities that wouldve built it any way whether a patent or not. Lots of top-tier results come from that. So, I dont think switching to that model exclusively would make less compelling results. It might reduce the number or change university/private ratio of where innovations come from.
Honest Agents are keeping us from a dictatorship. Hats off to these brave men and women.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/majority-colombians-back-peace-de...

Kind of weird how virtually overnight support apparently went from 59.5 in favor/33.2 against to 49.8 in favor/50.2 against.
But, you can't welcome an 'open and honest' discussion and then when someone discusses something that offends you, call them out as a 'racist', 'sexist', or 'islamaphobe'. In our current state of things, we can't really have an open and honest discussion about anything important.

If during the course of a conversation someone says something you find racist, sexist, Islamophobic or otherwise bigoted, it's open and honest to point out that you think it is so. Of course this is subtly different than calling the speaker names.
Having been alternatingly over-praised and ripped apart by people I look up to, that's where the parents suggestion of agency comes in for me, to be able to step back and look at your situation analytically, to not believe your own hype, to have a clear enough understanding of the task "her life was built for" (taken from another quote elsewhere) to question once in a while if there is any meat to the opposition. These are all components of professional/adult responsibility; and with great power etc etc. (implied is the typical transitive money==power of our society)

The thrust of this ramble; I do hold her to have a great deal of personal responsibility, and differentiate very little between any participants who had sufficient knowledge and did nothing.
Head of development.
Perhaps, but when it comes to PHP's niche—websites—it's easier to _get started_ than basically any other language.

Got a simple Hello World PHP site? Open your SFTP client, drag and drop, done.

Got a Hello World Python app? You have to know about WSGI adapters, process monitors, usually some sort of reverse proxying, how you're going to handle your static files, and so on.

Oh, and let's not forget that to even get to that point, you needed to use a framework of some kind, which meant wrestling with Pip and virtualenvs; you can't just 'echo "Hello World"'.

I'm picking on Python here because web dev in Python is my day job, but the story is similar for many other languages.
Darn. So, HtDP and The Little Schemer keep being posted as good intros. What your pic on best Scheme and into text to use to get started in a way where foundation knowledge will keep paying off vs non-standard dialect?
No Linux unfortunately.
Timestamping documents can be useful:

http://proofofexistence.com

(the site isn't necessary, but quite convenient unless you do it very frequently)

Compare that to going to a notary or something..
Well, yeah. They're WMs, not DEs. However, you can use i3 with gnome by launching gnome-session with the arg --session=i3. The instructions for setting up the DM to do this on Ubuntu can be found at http://blog.hugochinchilla.net/2013/03/using-gnome-3-with-i3.... They're for Ubuntu, but it's fairly similar in other distros (although it varies by DM).
> Poor business model: I refer to their freemium offering which is poor compared to competitors.

Okay, that's a start, do you think you can explain some of the analysis backing the opinion which you assumed everyone else shared?

> Security: If you think that's a judgement call, fine, if you think that the dropbox hack is a judgment issue.

If we stopped using any company which has had a security problem, we wouldn't be using computers. That's why I said it was a judgement call: one incident years ago is not much of a trend line so different people might reasonably have different comfort levels.

> Pricing: For Joe Bloggs, 100GB is generally enough. Google handily offers that for $2. With Dropbox, there's a cliff - a few gig for free or a terabyte for $10/m. Why no middle ground? Both Apple and Google offer scaled plans, why doesn't Dropbox?

Oh, now there's a valid question about the business model: perhaps they should have a middle tier. That's what you should have said instead of claiming that Dropbox was more expensive or whatever “the storage for the price just doesn't add up” was supposed to mean.
This reminds me of a similar story about being nice. It has nothing to do with software development but I want to share this anyway.

I was in Seattle and I took a public bus. The fee was $1. It was my second day in the US and I didn't have a dollar bill in my wallet (nor a transit card). I was assuming that I can pay with a larger bill just like Japan. Big mistake. The driver yelled at me but nonetheless she let me ride for one time. Then the guy sitting next to me suddenly offered a dollar bill and said "take this, so that you can pay for it by yourself." I probably looked at his face with amazement. "Thank you very much, sir." The guy got off the bus in a few stops later and I never had a chance to say this, but I know it's my turn now. I want to thank the nameless person who slightly changed me. Kindness is contagious.
Withstanding one atmosphere is certainly not an unsurmountable challenge but given the dimensions and given that this thing is supposed to be cheap it is also certainly not a negligible issue. You also have to maintain the quality of the vacuum, possibly in presence of expansion joints, and you have to deal with the consequences of a loss of vacuum for whatever reasons.
I don't see an issue of free speech here. All I can see is a thug using the cover of a police uniform to beat up people he doesn't like with impunity. In a just world, Hawkins would be charged with "inflicting grievous bodily harm" (a torn ligament in your knee is no joke, it might never heal), be locked away for a while and made to pay substantial restitution.
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1297536
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754545
I follow http://sidebar.io/ for a couple of years, it's a nice place to get the latest articles about UI, UX, fonts, etc.
Also safety and robustness of a cutting-edge, real-time microkernel.
Isn't this similar case as Zenefits vs ADP? Power Ventures accessing Facebook on behalf of their users, same way as Zenefits was accessing ADP? I did not follow the Z vs A case, just barely remember that it happened.
By tendencies I was meaning making jokes like "Having kids is great, you should, unless you're brown. There's enough brown people already"
We at Globo.com[1] are using docker in production before it was considered ready for prod, with tsuru PaaS, as some features in tsuru(like self-healing) made docker easy to handle, manage and scale containers. Tsuru has more than 4 years, it's really stable and reliable, we are attending huge traffics in a large number of apps and it has lots of important features like multi cluster(pool), metrics, auto scale, granular in relation to permissions of users, etc. We are investing a lot in this project as anyone can see in our repo[2] and we changed completely the way devs, (dev/)ops and product people worked here.
Tsuru was already easy to install(all in one VM[3,4]), and now we have an experimental way[5] to make it in all IaaSs supported by docker machine.

[1] Globo.com is the internet arm of Globo Group, the biggest broadcast television in Brazil and second in the world
[2] https://github.com/tsuru/tsuru
[3] https://github.com/tsuru/tsuru-bootstrap
[4] https://github.com/tsuru/now
[5] https://docs.tsuru.io/stable/experimental/installer.html
It's not, but it's election season and certain voters like to wax-vitriol about opposing candidates.
Muhammad Ali's memorial was put in yesterday
The message was determined not to be spam, but regardless, Facebook constructed and sent that message.

As far as I can tell from these documents, Power setup a Facebook event, then Facebook added it's own text (eg. "The Facebook Team") to the event message and sent it as an email to its own users. Then, Facebook took down Vachani based on those emails.
"Practical typography" is great
Deep Learning School 2016: Individual Talks
Learn X in Y minutes: Where X=zfs
It's nice to see companies building on Ethereum acting professionally in times like these: https://twitter.com/ambisafeco/status/786570218625572864
In said quote, Einstein advocates hidden variable theory, which was disproven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments

I would strongly advise people who do not have extensive tuition in Quantum Mechanics to refrain from speculating about the consequences of QM. I have been taking QM classes for several years now, and the most valuable thing I've learned is that almost everyone's understanding of QM is based on bad ad-hoc analogies, and it takes years of study to progress to gradually less ad-hoc analogies. Different mathematical models inform different "interpretations" of QM. If you can't tell the difference between a rigged and non-rigged Hilbert space, you certainly don't have enough background to speculate on classical QM, and I'm not at the point where I could even tell you the background required to speculate on modern QFT.
I've got a thread on Facebook about this utility: https://www.facebook.com/tknomad/posts/10103065290335418
"Build Better Products" [1] by Laura Klein, will be available on Nov 1st. Laura Klein was recently a guest on the Lean Startup Podcast [2]. She brings an experimental, iterative, approach to design.

[1] http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/build-better-products/
[2] https://soundcloud.com/lean-startup/4-season-3-combining-use...
Not really. I stay with Dropbox because, as others have said, it just works, and it does so across pretty much every major platform, both desktop and mobile. Cloud storage is their core product, and it shows. And the pricing really isn't that different from other similar solutions from what I've seen.

The few times I tried to use Drive, it was considerably more hassle to work with (and slow), iCloud was right out because it's Apple-platforms only, and my experiences with OneNote's sync issues makes me wary of trying OneDrive. Haven't looked at Box since I was under the impression it was aimed at businesses/enterprise more than individuals.
I had a similar one. I was working in Rio de Janeiro, here in Brazil and money was really really tight back then. I would fly from Rio back to my city where my girlfriend is every other week.

So sure enough I got into a taxi cab and asked him to drive me to the airport, but make a stop at an ATM. When I went to withdraw the money for the cab, I noticed my payment didn't go through, it was still pending. I was desperate, didn't know what to do.

I kid you not, the guy withdrawing money from the ATM next to me somehow managed to notice my despair and got a chunk of money bills out of his pocket and said: "how much do you need?". I think I just stared back at him for a minute or so. "What?", I replied.

He told me that one day I'd have the opportunity to do the same for another person. I always remember this and always help strangers any time I can. And I realized that we are the ones that gain the most when we help.

EDIT: somehow somehow
I transfer money internationally using it. I also pay for my hosting with bitcoin, because paying with bitcoin is the easiest thing in the world - it's way easier than CC, PayPal, anything else I've tried.
Sealand's willingness to defend its sovereignty, and the UK's apathy about the matter actually held up in a court of law. In principle, the recognition, ties, and recognition around a claim of sovereignty that can stand are the same as gang "turf" that are recognized.
Seems like this story is being received pretty well here.

Though, in my opinion I think it's kind of insulting to be asked something like "What did you learn?". The question isn't really necessary. You know that you screwed up.

That kind of dynamic between an engineer and a team lead is off-putting to me.

I think the proper way for a team lead to handle it is to instead work with the engineer to help find ways to eliminate the human error by implementing tooling or processes. The conversation should go something like this:

Lead: "I wonder how we can make sure none of us break XYZ widget again"

Engineer: "We can build out ABC and run that, also generally just test better before pushing to prod".

Lead: "Cool, do you want to go ahead and take care of that?"
NSLs aren't signed by "The FBI", but rather some Agent of the FBI, which includes their case number and contact information. Even if one had to cold call the FBI operator, they could probably ask for the investigator in charge of case "X1234" and get whomever they needed that had clearance to discuss the issue.

If someone forged an NSL, it would be arguably trivial to verify it's authenticity by doing a number of things, including walking into a local FBI office and asking to speak to someone about the case number, which is public enough information within the confines of the agency to get you someone who can talk about the case without having to describe the specifics of the letter over a phone to someone who might leak that information resulting in your arrest.
I watched that video as well. He doesn't respond to more than a small fraction of the objections in the reddit thread.
> but rewrites almost always deliver zero value to the customer.

I disagree. Sure no immediate value, but in the long run? You could argue certain rewrites would mean faster product development, less bug proneness, happier developers. All of these deliver value to your customers.
The book gets high marks for its own design (https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi).

I also enjoyed his one-day course: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses ($420, includes four books).
Well, the root problem is prosecutorial misconduct which is how they get their success rate so high that you're forced to plea-bargain.

As proof of misconduct, note that when evidence is proved systematically unreliable, prosecutors argue that the rulings should remain. (eg, hair testing, etc) There's no desire to get the right answer, just to get the most convictions.
> The reality is that the system is broken.

> If Ethereum wanted to add a management and regulation process into the system

> they should have done so explicitly, from the start.

From TFA:

".. hard forks are arguably part of ethereum's DNA, as many in its community view the action as a way to upgrade the software in a way that supports its larger goals.

"The ethereum project always stated that it will hard fork often to progress the technology," Heiko Hees, a developer working on ethereum's Raiden Network, explained."
I found Design for Hackers helped make my work less vomit inducing, but I'd suggest that it's really mindfulness of what you're building (rather than just flinging interface at a screen) that'll get you over the first hump, and almost any book will suffice.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Be...
To contrast that, Linus Torvalds has said many times over the years that he gets at least 9 hours of sleep everyday (http://www.linuxscrew.com/2011/07/15/linus-torvalds-the-fact...).

Me personally, I do NOT feel well if I haven't had a solid uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep.
Schrödinger's cat was a zombie
Sure.

The book, and Tufte, focuses on effectively displaying quantitative information. He takes a relatively hard line about it and I have found it one of the most useful texts for helping me take "some truth the system knows" to "some truth the user knows".

Of course you have to take it with a few pinches of salt.

Firstly it is largely his opinion. Studies into this area are rather good on the general points however the fine detail is incredibly hard to study accurately.

Secondly you may not actually want to make a UI that conveys the "truth it knows" above all else. Often you want to convince the user that the UI is good at conveying information (which is not the same thing) or that it is very easy to use (which is again, not the same thing).

I heartily recommend this book because it teaches one very hard thing very well. You just have to understand that you do not always want to do this thing (yet you now have a way to start to understand the trade-offs you are making).
Announcing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3
Or worse — billionaire trolling to try to subvert a state (CA) initiative.
It really isn't a course reversal, the people holding the purse strings seemed to have forced the DEA's hand into extending the period of public comment.

IIRC something similar happened with MDMA.

Hopefully folks like myself who have used Kratom to alleviate opiate withdrawal to great success will come forward and comment.

Anecdotally speaking, there are folks who have used kratom to ween themselves off of maintenance drugs like methadone and suboxone.

The withdrawals from long-acting maintenance opiates like these can last months making it nearly impossible to get off of them cold-turkey.

Switching to kratom, which has a shorter, more forgiving withdrawal, can be of great benefit to an addict looking to get off of these maintenance drugs.

For an addict, kratom stops withdrawals in their tracks. It doesn't get you high, and taking more to get high would be pointless.

To an opiate-naive individual kratom will at most give a mild buzz. It's not like taking heroin, hydrocodone, or even codeine. just a mild buzz.

Kratom is usually sold as a powdered leaf. You can't overdose on kratom, because if you take too much of the powdered leaf you just throw up, well before you're able to ingest a dangerous amount. It's very self-regulating in that way.

You can't smoke or snort the powdered leaf. It is usually swallowed as a powdered leaf with a thick juice or simply brewed into a tea.
I also loved his follow up book, "Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things".

One of the best design books I've ever read.