skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. You'll see tons and tons of people excusing this behavior, those folks are zealots.

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. Instead they've used these forks to massage the core problem: which is that relying utterly on code as a binding contract is unworkable. It's not going to stop.
Approaching problems with a calm (and positive!) mental attitude is a tough life skill, even more so when it's become a life-or-death skill.

This is why I really dislike road rage - people take dangerous situations and make them worse, usually saved by instincts alone.
I think it's odd that they offer no cheaper workstation configuration - that $18k price includes maxed-out ram, a higher-end workstation class graphics card (32GB ram on the card! much cheaper workstation cards exist), and an LSI SAS controller card instead of using built-in sata3. A more minimal configuration could probably shave $10k off the price (but maybe they thought it wouldn't make sense to pay $8k for a minimal config).
This is the Kaizen/Deming principle #8 of "Drive Out Fear". Here's a good in depth blog article about this as it's a difficult to explain topic that, especially for managers trained in the older methods of management, deserves a long form treatment:

http://michelbaudin.com/2012/10/27/deming_8_of_14_drive_out_...
Because the KDE project themselves have not described Plasma as a stable daily driver until just recently with the release of 5.8 LTS.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php
> Founders who claim not to need to sleep / date / etc. have major problems with their business.

Who else is on this list besides Elizabeth Holmes? Also, don't most founders have problems with their business?
Game Maker deserves the criticism it gets. It is easy for beginners to learn, but it traps you in its proprietary ecosystem with subpar tools.

Moreover, it is designed around bad practices in the name of simplicity. Games cannot be framerate-independent, for example.

It may be a useful prototyping tool, but I feel sorry for the people stuck using it when those prototypes turn into full-size games and they can't easily port to something better. It's better to teach people something more flexible and similar to what's used in the real world.

PHP doesn't have these problems, it's just painful.
I have yet to read it, but I've seen good opinions on 'About face' in some threads on the topic

https://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Des...
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I've never waded into JavaScript, so I'll take your word for it. I've heard some...surprising...things about JavaScript, so I'm not really taken aback that this might exist.

I'm referencing a time when I was in school, and most everything was taught in Java, where that doesn't make sense. This was written by someone who was almost finished their degree and had already started at their professional job. Definitely junior, but I still feel like that's stretching the acceptable level of noobishness. That said, I have an EE degree, so maybe had to solve / reduce a lot more boolean algebra expressions than a straight CS major?
You mean to imply you're not already using fockeros?
I remember two good due-diligence check lists inside long articles explaining an acquisition.

https://trevormckendrick.com/how-i-sold-my-bible-app-company... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032480)

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-sell-your-company
The original title of this article is "Obama decries 'wild west' media landscape."

Please avoid changing a title to add your own sensationalist spin or political bias. That's what the comments are for.

As per the site guidelines, titles should default to the original unless the original is misleading or clickbait (in this case, the original is neither.)
If anything, acting arrogant helps maintain any habitual problems you have. If you teach someone something, you have to reword it - which teaches it back you you most of the time, and offers a good third-person view of your work habits.
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This is my understanding from CS. CPUs are designed to be general purpose which unfortunately also means that they are slower and less efficient than dedicated logic circuits.

The implication of FPGAs is efficient and high speed hardware-coded algorithms which can be reprogrammed.

It's almost like you're refactoring the hardware using software, giving you the ability to upgrade a chips capabilities over time.
Mindfulness in Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64369.Mindfulness_in_Plai...

http://www.mindfulvalley.org/files/books/mindfulness_plain_e...
For hundreds of years, if not longer. See: "The Diet of Worms".
First mover advantage has little value in the industries DARPA and NSF find. And both DARPA and NSF (by design) allow companies receiving grants to patent the results of their research.

That is not to say that all DARPA and NSF-funded research should be patented. To the extent the research is more fundamental and less applied it shouldn't be. But DARPA and NSF fund both theoretical and applied research and so do universities.
Books Programmers Don't Really Read (2008)
18,000 is kind of pricey. If they had a less fully loaded machine for a more affordable price, I'd be tempted.
EcmaScript 4 was too ahead of its time
Why did you post this yet again?
Fivethirtyeight is anything but balanced as you might expect from a company that is Clinton's biggest donor.

See Taleb's tweet storm of their methodology: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/762032883414556674
AFAIK all the OpenPower boxes use the same firmware, so why not buy the cheaper Supermicro ones?

And on a practical level we know that people who bleat about firmware blobs are not going to spend $6,000 to escape from them.
I haven't had that experience to be honest. But I use a fairly narrow subset of their services.
It's simple... police in this country need oversight, and not from within their own departments or detached units like IA. Right now we're just fighting to have some minimal oversight in the form of the public's right to record.
Wow, this really resonates with me.

The very first day of my first 'proper' job, I made a total mess of something that cost the company around $5000. But my manager was like 'don't worry, we'll sort it, just learn to ask if you don't know how to do something'.

Many years on and I lead a development team. Now I always try my best to 'be kind', to coach and mentor, and it almost always pays back.

That one guy's kindness had a lasting impact.
The friction with those groups are that Mormons aren't a traditional Christian group, are largely pro-immigration, and are largely sympathetic to Muslims.
In a previous job, we'd receive weekly updates of data from a vendor that would need to be imported into the database. There were a few occasions where the update file had errors which would break the application where this data was used. Features like this mean that one can very quickly roll back to previous known good data, and also troubleshoot a problem by comparing results to what they were last week/month/etc.
Remotely control iTunes on Mac without Internet
I had reading list by Kevin Hale in my notes. I think he doesn't mind if I share:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R18EQHH...
I guess the question will be can Facebook block a user if they act on the behalf of another user. It seems unlikely.
Overconfidence is a huge benefit in playing the political game - getting people to take you seriously, managing up, interfacing with the outside world. Like it or not, humans are primed to respond to confidence; for most people, listing the dozen ways a system may fail signals that you shouldn't use the system, while for engineers, it signals that these are a dozen things to be fixed.

The trick - when getting to higher levels of technical management - is learning how to context-switch between being overconfident for the benefit of non-technical stakeholders and being paranoid with the technology so that the things that could go wrong don't actually go wrong.
Elon Musk doesn't sleep much, if I remember right he said about 4 hours per night once.
The PHP people are working instead of complaining about it https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329#...
The insane thing about this is that it is wholly unnecessary. Why can't the feds go court and get a search warrant if they really have anything more than a "hunch". And if that's all they have, do we really want them issuing secret orders with no public oversight at all? That's exactly where you need scrutiny.

The current and previous administration is going to find out in a hurry why checks and balances are important if Trump gets into office. He's exactly the kind of chief executive who will be terrible to behold with that kind of power.
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SpamAssassin works well enough for me.
Great point of view into what sometimes causes this problem. As a male who works with plenty of female engineers, I've never considered that (but I also give them the same treatment in code reviews as any other engineer).
I swear, it's like people pass around the same handful of examples when they want to complain about irrelevant academic research.

What they never do is justify the "becoming" part. For over a century, people have complained about university research as 'useless ivory tower activities' (quoting https://books.google.com/books?id=p6T3eo5ltFAC&pg=RA15-PA53&... as a 1983 reference I picked arbitrarily from a Google Books search).

Go back to the 1950s and I'm sure you'll see similar complaints about the uselessness of academic humanities research.
If you're interested in building your own system, you can buy the CPU separately:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/power8-...

The price range is $1,135-$3,350.
Agree, the title "Obama advocates for censorship of internet" is misleading when the articles quotes the president with "The answer is obviously not censorship"
I've contributed to the PHP codebase for 3 years, and I think it's bad.
And when most software companies break things people don't die or get misdiagnosed and then die! This is very different.
> If the government demands 100% equity in return for investment, it just becomes the least competitive VC on the market, doomed to fund the least compelling projects.

If the government demands 100% equity then research that can support itself will be funded by the private sector and the government will be left funding research the private sector won't because the benefits are diffuse and the transaction costs of licensing would be prohibitive, and foundational research that won't bear fruit for several years, and high-cost high-risk high-reward research that the private sector won't fund because individual private sector entities don't have the requisite scale to survive the failure of a high-cost high-risk investment.

Which is as it should be. Why does the government need to be wasting tax dollars on research the private sector would do on its own?

Even for research the private sector might fund anyway, all it means is that the government to be competitive would have to pay the researchers more up front rather than after the fact with a patent, which could still bring about an efficiency improvement by eliminating the patent prosecution and licensing overhead.

> One of the reasons the U.S. has hands-down the best engineering universities in the world is because of the fluid boundary between academia and the private sector.

There is a difference between not patenting something and preventing the original researchers from benefiting from it. Not having a patent doesn't prevent them from commercializing the research, it just doesn't give them a monopoly -- they still have the knowhow and first to market advantage if they want it.

They could even patent the commercialization itself if that wasn't funded by the government, provided it's enough of an improvement over the now-prior-art government-funded research to be awarded a patent. And if it isn't then why should they have one?
That's a brilliant example. I wont forget that now.
Yahoo Dodges Questions on Hacking, Verizon Deal by Canceling Earnings Call
A newsletter that becomes obsessive about one thing, then forgets about it
Carmakers forced back to bigger engines in new emissions era
Exploiting CVE-2016-8606: a cross-protocol attack on Guile Scheme repls
As an aside, I'd like to point out that while Trump has encouraged the muzzling of reporters, Clinton has used noise machines to stop the press from hearing what she was saying during a fundraising speech.

http://gawker.com/report-hillary-clinton-used-static-noise-m...
You sound unfamiliar with Ian Gibbons' role in the situation. He was Therano's chief scientist for 8 years. It's hard to envision how Holmes could have ignored his concerns simply because the rest of her echo chamber was positive, short of God herself fêting Holmes.

For more info on Ian: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-ther...
I went with an Android ROM from XDA that brings it up to Android N. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I don't understand - all methods of inspection exist in the same world as the hardware and thus can be spoofed.
In the future, cities may solve problems stumping the world’s biggest nations
Yes there are, and many of them will block all of your email if you run your own server...

Or did you mean "good for independent email operators"?
While highest and best use is indeed rare, much of what appears to be vacant is so for important reasons such as utility rights of way, contaminated sites, watershed protection, or geologically unstable land. What is needed are dense clusters of development like we used to build before cars and the green city movement.
They have been manipulated. There's a investigation close to begin to the PR person of the NO leaders. I would agree with describing the Colombian people as "misguided children".
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The more of these they do... the more obvious it will be that its design is fundamentally broken.
Prince’s Urn Is a 3D-Printed Model of His Home and Studio
The problem is that this probably violates Facebook's TOS. Enabling a TOS violation for users as a business model would make for a pretty easy tortious interference lawsuit by Facebook against Power.
What about R&D output? Even if the company goes broke, they / their research can be purchased and used in the future. They might only produce new materials that they sell the patents for upon going bankrupt. Their engineers and scientists will develop and learn, and move on to other firms if Hyperloop becomes insolvement, and take that knowledge with them.
I specifically didn't state my opinion on the matter here, because it's irrelevant: I'm only highlighting the inconsistency of "left"'s position. Your position doesn't have this inconsistency and therefore, is much more logical.
I really long for a tiling wm with sane defaults.

Even something as simple as volume buttons needed to be configured manually in i3wm, and after battling compositing for so long, I ended up just giving up and using GNOME.
It's hard to envision how Holmes could have ignored his concerns

Yet, it appears that she successfully did exactly that: Ignored his concerns. And your article says so, from the very top:

In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology.
I have no inside knowledge but at this point it doesn't seem that Theranos has any real assets outside of whatever hard assets and cash they've still got from their funding?

At what point do you just throw in the towel, declare bankruptcy and try to make your creditors and investors as whole as possible.

The buzzards are circling on this one.
> Personally I'm not to keen on the whole flat look, it makes it less obvious which UI part are clickable.

I also don't get this why material design and flat look is so popular. I want my icons and UI elements to be visible not blend together in a awful mess and cartoonish colors. No one says that we should go back to the 90s designs but its a terrible fad, specially in the linux themes.
In our days, surveillance is being performed by all governments and many private companies. For US to be the only country that doesn't do it, it would be uncompetitive.

How does surveillance improve competitiveness?
You can't get comfortable in Web Development
>It may be a useful prototyping tool, but I feel sorry for the people stuck using it when those prototypes turn into full-size games and they can't easily port to something better.

On the one hand, yes. But on the other hand, I doubt the people who made Undertale are complaining.
He's still not a mechanical or aerospace engineer. At least lionize him for actual qualities, not ones you project onto him.
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The DEA reversing course due to public outcry (and common sense)?! What alternate reality have we slipped into?!

Previously:

DEA will ban chemicals contained in kratom, a popular herbal supplement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410083

Call to Action to save Kratom plant from DEA's uninformed Schedule I decision https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12438605
Interesting that HTTP/1 is better with packet loss, and also that Firefox is reliably faster than Chrome.
It's interesting that in the midst of all this, Holmes is carving out time to host a Hillary fundraiser[1].

I almost wonder if we'll see the government/military magically acquire her company at a pre-scandal valuation in a couple of months.

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[1] http://www.recode.net/2016/3/14/11586966/theranos-ceo-elizab...
yes, use this instead:

Zuck: They "trust me", Dumb fucks.
It's much more likely that she was a well-connected, upper-crust WASP with lots of connections. When you have Kissinger, Bill Frist, and George P. Shulz as advisors, and a few VCs already on board (who it turned out were family friends), other investors and media tend to just assume everyone else has done the due diligence.

From second-hand experience, women (young and pretty or otherwise) have absolutely no trouble getting their ideas shot down, or getting dismissed in general as unserious.
One of Tufte's main themes was, I thought, that only information that directly conveys meaning should be included, and everything else should be thrown out. Where everything else, in the context of UI design, would probably be excess styling. On the other hand, I forget where I read it but we know that people are biased into finding more attractive interfaces more usable, even if a "usability expert" might disagree. So personally, I find Tufte's title fitting - he really is talking about effectively displaying quantitative information.
Two deeply unrelated quotes that I find apply here. The first is from a segment on a Christmas special of the British radio comedy panel show, The Unbelievable Truth, and the second is Einstein's.

"Schrodinger, philosophic science whiz
popped a kitty in his
a pretty kitty and says
‘If you open the box, the 'lectric shocks.’
'Don’t touch the box… the cat is now a paradox.’
'Both dead and alive is the feline situation’
'But its status will be changed by the act of observation’
The main thing that we learn from that: Schrodinger did not like cats." -Rufus Hound

“[I advocate] that one conceives of the psi-function [i.e., wavefunction] only as an incomplete description of a real state of affairs, where the incompleteness of the description is forced by the fact that observation of the state is only able to grasp part of the real factual situation. Then one can at least escape the singular conception that observation (conceived as an act of consciousness) influences the real physical state of things; the change in the psi-function through observation then does not correspond essentially to the change in a real matter of fact but rather to the alteration in our knowledge of this matter of fact.” -Albert Einstein
I highly doubt that the supply curve in this area is completely horizontal. So, at the margin, yes.
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Hello, at the moment the site is under development, thank you for your understanding.
Only thing that can save her is a presidential pardon.
I started running my own mail server recently and spam hasn't been much of a problem with postscreen + spamassassin (with pyzor and razor).

Also, if you are worried about deliverability of your own e-mail: worry less. I am running my mail server on a VPS and the only place I've had any trouble delivering mail to so far is hotmail. They were blocking my IP, so I requested that they investigate the block and it was removed within hours.

It's really been a very pleasant experience.
I've never used KDE on a machine with multiple batteries, can't really comment on that. In fact I almost exclusively use i3 and i3pystatus, the latter has no problems with multiple batteries.

Now while trying Qubes I have that twitching in my typing hand to just make i3 work better with QVM, because seriously - xfce is... not nice to use.
Had similar experiences in my first job with one of the smartest engineers I ever worked with (Claudio Marcio da Silveira). He early-retired to work on his family business (something related to flowers). But I can still remember all the times he let me learn by doing small mistakes, covered my bigger mistakes, and also educated me.

Trying to become that same engineer in my own way, but I definitely own a lot to him. And to other professors from uni/school that were extremely kind as well.
You can export your data:
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It's a dangerous position to take if you can't fathom that someone may legitimately disagree with you.
I'm no Hillary fan, but that's hardly "silencing the Press." If so then, any celebrity attempting to close their blinds so that the paparazzi can't see into their house is "silencing the Press."

She's definitely not getting an brownie points for what amounts to an open-air "closed-door" speech, though.
Personally I'm paid in bitcoin from an asian company I work for and use them with a bitcoin pre-paid/debit card for a big part of my expenses.

I used to be paid by wire transfers, but it's faster this way and less fees (especially the currency exchange ones).

Some few companies also have rebates if you pay with bitcoins so that's a nice plus. But it really is refreshing and interesting how free you feel in a sense.
It's not a suicide pact. Future generations can just flush it and write their own.

Only slavery can bind people to a constitution they don't want.

We nitpick ours because we like 98% of it...
Design for Hackers is a pretty good book - https://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Be...

Meanwhile https://www.designernews.co is Hackernews for designers
He said he averages 6 hours of sleep per night: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Elon-Musk-thrive-on-little-sl...
Are other medical startups having troubles because the science is inherently hard or is it really because Theranos did some "mistakes" ?
How exactly is that interesting, or relevant?
Design failure. It doesn't have any design. It's has no window decorations - except an optional 1 px border line - and the title bar has no controls, and is simply text on a solid background.

This makes it what people normally call ugly, unpolished. Nonetheless it works very well. While doing that it doesn't look very well though.

IOW: I don't see it as big problem, because that absence of design / uglyness is a nameplate feature of it. Like a command line interface - it's ugly, but works.

In fact, looking at xfce right now again, I'm inclined to say that the simplicity of i3 would look better - design-wise - than what xfce offers.
Elon Musk, who makes cars nobody wants and spaceships that explode.