skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author has a lot of good reads on her blog. Also, some of her live coding demos on YouTube are fun to watch.
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I've been developing a tool that lets you create your own HackerNews. Then it grew to a SaaS that lets you create, manage and grow an online community.

http://www.hellobox.co
Exactly, there is the flexibility. IF you need to track source of commits together with the permanent branch info you use Mercurial branches, if you want a "symlink branches" in GIT style, bookmarks are the way to go.

It works nice with Pull requests when you can move branch pointer after rebase or updates of commits.
This'll sound like a cop out but it really depends. Are you going into academia? If so it takes years of specialization to get good enough to make a meaningful contribution in the form of innovative and good quality research.

Are you planning on going into startups? In which case jack of all trades does very nicely!

The key is to be very good at some things but to also keep your eyes open and learn things outside your comfort zone - you never know where your new found knowledge can take you and often times it can make you better at whatever you chose to specialize in.

So senior architects who write APIs - for fucks sake (showing my background here!) - write the prototype client library - it will improve your API design skills.

Backend devs should write a front end or two or at least do some pair programming with the front end guys.

Bottom line - be very good at some things - but be open to learning new things and getting out of your comfort zone.
This is indeed very similar to how initial sorting of the database is done. To improve accuracy (over performance) further sorting is done.

Like mentioned the non-linearity with regard to latitude makes standard trigonometry useless. In my case I opted for the haversine formula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula) this is pretty accurate on the small range of 1km
This is truly beautiful! I am definitely using this as inspiration for my next website update!
So it's going to be Qualcomm and Nvidia going head to head for automotive chipset market?
Coffee shop workers/service workers are rarely unionized, even in the union-obsessed NYC/NJ area
I managed a similar transition about 2 years ago. I expected failure like the many times I'd tried before. It went off without a hitch.

The difference wasn't really the linux desktop itself. There never was a "year of the linux desktop". It seems to be everything else. The webification of everything slew the desktop native app and the ubiquity of a gazillion different smartphones primed people to accept new UI experiences.

The business world is finally coming out of the place where everything it does has to be rammed through the Office/Excel/Powerpoint/Exchange funnel no matter how it distorts the outcome.
>DMCA abuse flourishes because, in practice, companies that send improper notices don’t face sufficiently serious consequences.

Is there any consequence of sending fake, improper, revenge... DCMA notices? Because, every discussion about DCMA so far leads me to believe that there's absolutely no down side to this practice.
Our AI overlords are going to have a laugh scamming us

... creating a 20 year long world of relationships, work and virtual reality is all it took to fool sickbeard. He really deserved it.
Indeed. Whatever his name is, used the fact that the FDA has to "authorize" a drug, which is more akin to an indefinite patent.

Then again, the deeper we dig, the more idiocy we see. How can we expect anyone to fix: insurance, pharmaceutical, device companies, FDA, AMA, government interference, medical schools - everyone has a part in the current system. And it is the combination of the worst that capitalism and socialism have to offer.

And yes, I misspelled his name, because a google search was too much work to get his name correct (marque of disregard). But admittedly, probably was not the best case to explain.
I agree - a lot of the issue in the US is that there isn´t any effective competition (or control of) the drug companies and price gouging. A single payer will help tackle that. But the key question is, why is American healthcare so expensive, and for such poor outcomes - measured by life expectancy at least? You can lop off a few percent as the cost of running the insurance company infrastructure, but it still doesn´t explain all of it. Nor is it the case that US patients are subsidising other patients drug costs - not all drugs are researched or manufactured by US drug companies.

There is a supply element to all this as well, and it´s not just drugs. Let me give you one example from the UK, since I don´t know the US figures.

One of the problems in the UK is that doctors are very expensive, and there aren´t enough of them - this isn´t because of their student loans, it´s because there´s a shortage of doctors. The NHS imports a lot of doctors from abroad to cover this (causing issues in their home countries), the US does the same. (If you´re a doctor from a country with low cost medical training the markup for working in the US is insane. I digress.)

Dig into the statistics for medical training in the UK, and it becomes clear that the number of places has been held more or less constant, while the base population has increased significantly, and you can put whatever fudge factor you like on the population needs more healthcare because of obesity/ageing/excessive tea drinking, etc.

http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/16155/1/medical-and-dental-school-inta... (p11)

Finally - this year:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/up-to-1500-extra-medical-...

Which unfortunately won´t have any real impact for at least 6 years or so.

To solve the american health care problem requires essentially a large scale attack on the cost of the health provisions, and that has to be across the board, and it´s going to take years just because of the lag times involved. Personally I would start with simply doubling the number of medical school places - maintain standards on admission - and work on dropping the salary levels. Provide scholarships so students don´t need big loans. Attack the anti-competitive practices of the drug companies directly, etc.

In other words, remove artificial supply bottlenecks, let the market sort it out... and have some kind of bailout ready for the existing medical professionals, and medical providers, who then can´t repay their loans.

Making the rest of the world pay US prices...isn´t going to happen. Sir Alexander Fleming was Scottish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_mile
Are you seriously suggesting that their teams of cpu engineers, battery engineers, material engineers, wireless engineers and electric engineers, among many, many others, don't have the chops required to design, build and manage the complexity of maybe one of the most valuable products in the world right now? all because you think their software engineers are not as good as you?

How do you think they got to be one of the most valuable and profitable companies of all time? by luck?
> Obamacare was expressly designed to fail, it seems.

Of course it was. Anyone with half a brain understands how risk pools work and understands that allowing people to join said pools after developing an expensive, crippling illness will completely wreck everything.
I believe there are already places with fixed wireless services(austria or south-korea if i recall correctly) that looks competitive.
Thanks for your contributions.
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Very good read. I was just hacking around with a tiny Python program that implemented enough to init, add, commit, and push itself to GitHub. It's all very simple until you get to the index format ... which isn't that bad, but it's definitely more complicated than this article makes out.

She refers to .git/index as a text file where "each line of the file maps a tracked file to the hash of its content". However, .git/index is actually a binary file where each entry is a bunch of different fields like creation time and modify time and SHA-1 encoded in binary. See https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technic...

So I wasn't sure whether this part of the article was simply wrong, or whether git index format "version 1" was text, or something else?
Could you please explain this?

_"And Monero's RingCT is currently implemented and in use on TestNet with a target "go-live" this January."_

I couldnt find any relevant infromation on this. Does it mean that from January 2017 bitcoin will have anonymity properties of Monero?
That's an argument for the government paying for healthcare. But why is it a good idea to achieve lower consumer prices via centralized price negotiation for health care but not for other things?
The biggest criticism levied against Twitter are:

1. Not lean enough. That's why today's news bumped their share price.

2. Not great at leveraging value into revenue. That's what an acquirer would do, ostensibly.

Plus, the specifics of the Disney/Google rumors are of dubious veracity. Don't put too much, er, stock into them.

You could argue that they've hit peak audience and that might be fair. A change in leadership would probably push Twitter into becoming a more aggressive on the acquisition front itself, too. Basically, a lot of untapped value and too much overhead.
I get severe scroll stutter in Chrome on my MBP.
There is a small cross in the corner of messages. The underlying menu allows for both reporting/blocking of a particular user.
it's DMCA, not DCMA.
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I have been learning Racket to make a footprint editor for KiCAD. KiCAD is a software for creating electronics PCBs and a footprint is a drawing of the PCB layers for a landing pattern for a particular electronic component. https://github.com/kasbah/footwork

The idea is pretty much a sketch-n-sketch approach to footprint editing. https://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/index.html

Choosing Racket for this application was a no brainer as it demands data-code intermingling with an s-expression based format and redefining the language to suite the application. Racket also has excellent GUI library that allowed me to get a graphics pane and a text-editor GUI up very quickly.

The APIs that Racket libraries provide seem a bit like quantity over quality to me. I dread having to sift though the docs for the functions I actually need. On the one hand every function is thoroughly documented on the other the descriptions are often seeped in the jargon surrounding the language.

For instance, this may be a stupid beginner mistake, but I couldn't work out how to make `send` and `apply` work together. Coming from Haskell I assumed there would be straight forward way to compose these things. Instead I had to resort to use the `send/apply` function and there seem to be a lot of these special purpose functions all over the place that are trying to anticipate your usage rather than providing composable primitives.
> It has not worked all that well, and that is at least partly to blame for soaring premiums next year on some of the health law’s insurance exchanges.

People love to blame any post-2010 health insurance problem on Obamacare, but what's the evidence that rate hikes are actually significantly influenced by PPACA?
I remember a french teen got scammed like this online, the scammer threatened to release nude videos of him if he didn't pay, the young man committed suicide because of the shame.
> It's also really difficult to say what premiums would have been without the changes the ACA made.

No it's not. Forcing insurers to take people with pre-existing conditions completely screws up risk pools. Anyone could've told you that doing so would make premiums rise much faster than if those customers could be denied.
The only bit I'd be worried about (and I am prone to these kind of worries, not claiming this is particularly rational) is that "anti-abuse" might not sound revenue generating to a senior manager with a bean-counting perspective.
> They spend about 2.5 billion dollars to make 2 billion dollars. Not a great business model.

You must be new here ;)
It has been restored. Here is the email chain:

https://imgur.com/a/teTNN

EDIT: The following paragraph is incorrect, I was misinformed - see the child post.

Also, this was almost certainly a YouTube takedown request, not a DMCA request. YouTube is free to take down whatever it likes, and Samsung is free to request a takedown for whatever it likes - whether it's a valid copyright claim or not. It's only when Samsung brings it through the courts rather than through YouTube's system that it becomes a DMCA request with legal requirements. Not that censorship or siding with certain companies is good for YouTube's reputation, or that submitting legally-meaningless take down requests is good for Samsung's, but it's important to distinguish the DMCA from simple requests.
If you are sincerely interested in quashing abuse, and if the risk of being laid off does not frighten you, forget about the numbers and let’s talk about quashing abuse.

Twitter gets extremely mixed reviews from people who are the targets of abuse, and I believe I am putting that conservatively. So, what I would ask is not whether they are going to lay me off because they run out of money, but whether I am going to quit because when I get inside, I discover that they are not going to actually do much about it.

If Twitter has had a come-to-jesus moment about abuse, and there are no structural obstacles to doing something about abuse, this could be a job where you will one day look back and say, “I was part of the team that turned the corner on Twitter’s biggest problem. I made a difference.”

On the other hand, if Twitter doesn’t have quashing abuse in its cultural DNA, or if there are deep structural obstacles to quashing abuse, then you may discover that you cannot actually make a difference. That can be soul-crushing if you are passionate about the work.

I am not making a claim one way or the other about where Twitter is with this, I’m just suggesting that if you are motivated by making a difference, the biggest thing to figure out is whether you will actually be able to make a difference.

IMO, this matters more than the financial risk.
It's odd how these subsidies are somehow seen as a negative for Tesla, when they are not tesla specific, they apply to all EV regardless of manufacturer, in addition the incumbents have been getting subsidies and bailouts for longer than Tesla Motors has existed and it would take a huge amount of government support for tesla to come even close to say GM in terms of public money received.
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THey are paying $170M in stock based compensation this quarter. That is in addition to salaries. These costs add up fast. No wonder lay offs are needed. If I were them, I would target people who are stock compensated very high to start lowering those costs. That said, Adam Bain and Anthony Noto are each paid $70M/yr in stock compensation [1] - so you have that.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-anthony-noto-had-top-pa...
Can I have a trash landfill on my property?

There're externalities with Airbnb that neighbors end up paying for.
Twenty to fifty years from now historians are going to reference the ACA as a case study of early 21st century American government:

1) hyper partisan political process

2) special interest control of the content of laws

3) release of information by the government used as a method to manage the electorate rather than inform

4) front loaded benefits with back-ended payments

5) political class taking credit for the good stuff and leaving if for others to clean up the mess

Generally speaking, all aspects of American government in this place and time are reflected in the ACA. All aspects share the same sustainability issues.
Google is pretty transparent about the underlying technologies such as Dremel X, ColumnIO, Capacitor, etc. Even if there is no source code, there is quite a bit in the form of papers, talks, peer OSS projects (e.g. Apache Drill), etc.

But I can't say the same about RedShift, it's a complete black box. (Other than that it's a mod of an ancient version of Postgres)
Doesn't look like the application shows the distance in the UI. As long as they don't leak it in the packets (hopefully they don't given how they claim anonymity) triangulation would require the target to be sending messages continuously on a consistent interval for you to detect whether or not they are at the 1 kilometre 'border.'
An example of said burden on the middle class. I make a senior software engineers salary and my wife has Lupus. I'm beginning to have signs of having Lupus and RA myself. Her prescriptions alone barely have any coverage until we meet our out of pocket max, and by then, 10-15% of our income is gone paying just for drugs. This is on top of 25-30% taxes, plus the rising cost of food, and now they are telling me I may need the same drugs as her? So in this new found world, I could potentially lose up to 55% of my income in taxes and health coverage. Oh and for a laugh, Medicare won't cover her because I make too much. This is insane.

Despite this, I'm of the mind that we can't return to the way things were before ACA, and ACA isn't the answer either. Something has to change or we may have to move to another country with better options. People huff about waiting lists, but neglect to realize that waiting lists are often for non-life threatening surgeries. They also forget to tell the part about how routine office visits don't have the same types of waits, and how prescription coverage is still free.

All of my crying aside, I'm left with one thought. How in the actual fuck do poor people afford this shit? I grew up poor and I know what we did--we didn't have insurance and thankfully we were lucky enough not to have any chronic illnesses in my immediate family when I was growing up.

On a lighter note, a small joke: I downloaded the GoodRx and it physically started emitting laughter from the speakers once I typed in the drug names.
The 1 mysterious view was the youtube moderator Im guessing.
There's also this from the same author: https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-in-six-hundred-words

She's a really clear informative writer
Go for it flukus! Easy peasy! If what you say is true, you can probably become a millionaire before the decade is out!
It's occurred to me that businesses are likely to have better experiences with fleets of Linux desktops than individuals do with their own machines.

Configuration management is ubiquitous on Linux servers now, and it seems most of the problems with personal Linux desktops are related to manual tweaking around configs and drivers.

If only a small contingent of experts needs to deal with that manual tweaking, and then they encapsulate it in Puppet modules and automated provisioning processes, end-users could have an OSX-like smooth experience.
it's a great product for a bowling ally. Fixed space/costs So, each extra person you bring in has value. Horrible for food service where marginal costs are ~65%, so you lose 40% every time someone comes in.
If you're a Linux desktop user you probably would've known that it might be talking about desktop use :)

Although I would've put the ballpark at 5% - and for developers even 10%.
"The Liberals are anything but liberal about what others think - they are the same kind of people like the PETA supporters who would kill a human to save an animal."

PETA isn't liberal.

"As somebody raised during Communism in Bulgaria, I can say all Left are the same - eventually, they either turn Nazi or Stalinist!"

Stalinism isn't socialism either, it's just industrial capitalism with a cult of personality.

"The gay parades are one of those extreme manifestations."

Clearly you're not gay so you've never had to deal with thugs like skinheads try to turn your face into a fine red paste on the pavement. Pride parades are basically a big middle finger to people like those skinheads. LGBT people engage in them to show that they'll never stop being themselves. If this is offensive to you then you need to grow a thicker skin.

"Well, of course, times today are slightly different than during Hitler or Stalin, but the cruelty against people who think differently is the same order of magnitude!"

Yeah gay pride parades are totally Stalinist rallies considering Stalin put LGBT people into gulags. /s

"The patronizing, the unsubstantiated claim of superiority, the low-class ridicule of half of America is simply disgusting."

I think you're confusing brogressives for actual leftists. Brogressives (like how they're portrayed by South Park) aren't legitimately progressive or left since to them it's about the performance of appearing left rather than supporting or engaging in leftist ideas (think dudes who claim to support georgism but oppose implementing Land Value Tax). So please make the distinction between the PCbros and actual leftists.

"I watched Michael Moore yesterday, and he is a manifestation of that kind. But, I guess, the culture in the states have totally destroyed by the TV and movie culture promoting ridicule and pranks! In general, there's no more respect, there's Narcissism, and all this is not going to end up well!"

If being smug is your sufficient condition to becoming literally Stalin I'm not sure your thesis really makes sense. Stalin wasn't just some smug jerk from Georgia but an actual murderous thug that was paranoid beyond belief. A liberal being smug isn't an exclusive trait to liberals anymore than it's an exclusive trait to conservatives (Rush Limbaugh is the essence of conservative smugness). Smugness is a human trait and to make it into something otherwise betrays your position. I suggest you think it over and question whether or not you're just upset that some leftists aren't listening to you online. Because you're not owed a hearing (nor am I) online/offline just because you have opinions.
There are a lot of people in this discussion who know more than I do about Twitter - and part of the answer is situational specific.

Often, "cut fast and deep" makes sense because you're in a difficult situation where both expenses and time are against you. People use all sorts of analogies (e.g. "cutting the fat") but the reality is that if you take out 20-30% of your workforce you will cut back needed functions and you will lose people who are both good and whom you need: there simply won't be enough time, insight or structural ability not to make some mistakes. There tends to be a big impact on morale for a long time after the event - improving morale becomes a major management objective. The upside of this approach is you do it once, it's a big shock internally but then everyone can focus back around the mission.

The alternative approach is a more gradual deflation of your numbers, closing down teams and not-backfilling roles. If you have time then the upsides of this approach are that you can be much more surgical about the changes. Presented in the right way it's going to feel more like a "pivot" with some natural wastage of people that won't work in the new mission. The downside - is that it can feel like a "long march" as successive sets of cuts are made.

Pick your poison as it's both the framework and the implementation!
When "your own unique way" requires less development time and efforts and it's easier to learn for new hires, yes.
That's why you hire system engineers - to write good automation.
Freescale comes from Motorola

NXP was originally Philips

They merged on 2015
Top 3rd looks good, below that could be more interesting.
But do the majority of 15 - 25 Snapchat users have $130 to spend on these? I'm asking because I don't know. Also sunglasses seem to get forgotten/lost somewhat regularly no?