skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what are you doing it for then?

To satisfy a political agenda?

Because you're a child looking for fun? (And will create yet another cookie-cutter framework named something childish.)

To satisfy a need for validation because you aren't an adult?

To make great products? (so someone else can make money.)

Because it's new and shiny and trendy and you need to keep up with the Jones's?

Why is an experienced coder so much more efficient than an inexperienced coder? Because they have learned many infrastructures, frameworks, and algorithms, have learned through experience not to make certain mistakes like over-complicating a problem or seeking clarity to a problem prior to coding it and thus understand the cost of requirements, and have picked up good design habitations like divide and conquer, coding without making assumptions, or multi-tiered architectures.

Most Managers don't understand the foundation of good software and great IT infrastructure are solid requirements. That requires a solid investment, like a building foundation, in analyzing the business; great managers know enough about a particular business that they can spot the mistakes analysts make in building requirements and vet them so they don't change in major ways. Do colleges teach any of this? No.

When Changing requirements meets improper planning and tight project budgets (which may be tight because the company is in trouble, or may be tight because the Project Manager is incompetent), it means over-working staff to hit those changes which produces cognitive pollution. That pollutes the code base with too many assumptions, and pollutes the staff's minds with bad habitations and expectations. Eventually like any pollution, it builds up until it becomes terminal; developers quit, the cost of making any change becomes terminal for the code base, and so forth. We've all seen it. More importantly you take a developer who's worked a 9-5, then spend 2 hours a night for the last 10 years learning advanced mathematics, or low-level compiler design, or other things that really create good habits and techniques, and you literally cannot introduce them to that environment because the environment won't be able to value them; it can't see through the pollution.

The tautology simply is the overtime exemption. If you don't have staff clocking in and out, there's not a chance in hell of you ever figuring out how much time it takes to do any project, which in turn, feeds the tautology. Very simple question to ask at an interview "Do you track the hours of your software developers?" "Well no." "Why would I want to work at a company, overtime-exempt no less, when the management has no idea how to estimate the hours consumed for a project?". We get into concepts like "We practice scrum and estimate the story points based upon"; you sound like a 5-year old when you start talking that kind of jargon.

The pollution sloshes around in the talent pool, and companies end up with poisoned projects because of it.
I can't make sense of your comment. Can you please clarify a bit?
There really isn't anything like HN for the alternative investments industry.

The business, finance and economics news found in major newspapers like WSJ and FT catch a lot of the relevant news stories.

The nature of the work and how the industry operates are such that there won't be public discussions like you find in the "Show:HN" or "Ask:HN" sections.

As another comment mentioned, the bloomberg terminal has news. And it also has a chat feature, so a lot of discussions happens on there.

Obviously BB terminals are crazy expensive, so it's hard for people not working in the industry to access that info, but if you live in NY the NY library has a few terminals that anyone can use.
So what are suggesting for when the vast majority of job sectors vanish? "Everybody relax and wait for the coffin?" When there's nothing to do anymore in the traditional sense, we receive an opportunity: millions, possibly billions of intelligent beings with nothing to do. Until they realize that they've got a whole to do, inside themselves. The brain is a magnificent thing that most people never really get to explore in their lifetimes. However, such exploration can only happen in tandem with education, otherwise there is nothing to explore.

The jobcalypse would give us the time needed to become better humans instead of better marginally intelligent machines. Make music, draw, sow, be creative. Lovingly tend to your garden. Develop crazy new theories about stuff and discuss them with like-minded individuals. Spend weeks on end in a library, not because you need the knowledge, but because you suddenly took a fancy to ancient Nordic literature. Come out to find that other people are interested in the subject and teach them. What about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything? Are we going to find that by watching TV all day because "education won't help"?

There is stuff do. Lots of it. It's in our heads.
Autarky with juuust a little bit of foreign aid (USSR/Venezuela). Slightly contradictory, no?
"PARIS — Cuban leader Fidel Castro asked the Soviet Union in 1962 to launch a nuclear attack on the United States if it invaded Cuba, according to letters published today by a French newspaper.

The respected daily Le Monde said the letters were exchanged between Castro and Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis.

In an acrimonious reply, Khrushchev suggested that Castro was irresponsible, since such a war would have killed millions of people in both East and West and destroyed Cuba."
We should all hope they come up with something that's competitive. Even 80% of the performance for 50% of the price would be good enough.
And this is because the last 3-4 Intel CPU generations have been simply not worth upgrading to. If some real competition from AMD shows up, things will change.
"evil" - or usually known as - not my side
None of that is true. I've been to Havana; I've seen the buildings where 3 families are crammed into an apartment meant for one, where the windows are covered with cardboard because there's no glass, the electricity is on a few hours a day, where the concrete is crumbling so badly you could break it off with your fingers.

And I've seen just outside town the gorgeous villas with manicured gardens and water features, where members of the Party live. There's inequality in the West but nothing like there is in the "worker's paradise".
>Why didn't you compared Cuba before the coup

Does this sound better?

Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[4] Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American Mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large US-based multinationals who were awarded lucrative contracts.[4][5] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace—which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations—Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from hundreds to 20,000 people.[6][7][8] For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
Charismatic? Yes, but so was Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
Revolutionary? yes, but so was Hitler.

So, let's get it clear that that doesn't make him humane and good for society.

>>If you think you're better, then do better. Be better. Don't refuse to acknowledge the humanity of another person because you believe you can totalize their entire life under a cheap tagline.

This is a disingenuous advice.

Will you not criticize Hitler? So, do you propose to acknowledge the humanity of Hitler and don't criticize him? Castro would have happily become Hitler, if he could get power.

Criticizing him or anyone is not necessarily reducing them to a tagline. He deserves much and harsh criticism than most thugs, criminals and religious extremists in the world. He was an extremely cruel, dictator with no remorse for his cruel and inhumane actions.

But what do you expect from a follower of communism? Communism is a very vicious ideology which leaves no room for any type of dissent. You either toe the party-line or get killed/maimed/imprisoned.

Sad, this criminal didn't die a lot earlier.
Maybe you know something I don't, but I don't find these statements about the determinant and trace intuitive just from knowing that matrix multiplication corresponds to composition of linear maps. They can be made intuitive by appealing to geometry, but I don't see how to do that just by staring at the algebraic picture.

Actually, proving them without picking a basis and then showing that what you get is invariant under base change is quite nontrivial and involves throwing a lot of heavy machinery around; see for example Coffman's non-coordinate proof of the statement about the trace in http://users.ipfw.edu/CoffmanA/pdf/book.pdf

For the determinant, if you want to do everything without picking a basis, you're basically proving that the exterior power operation defines a functor on the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces, which isn't that bad to do, but you somehow have to explain what all those words mean along the way.
Better technology did not make more better jobs for horses.
Ursula Haverbeck.
Maybe, but I think they should. That's what it means to have a conscience.

I worked for a major gambling (sports betting) corporation as a software engineer (for 6 months). The job was enjoyable (and extremely well paid) but it was obviously bad for society. I don't have a problem admitting that what I did was evil. I was a small fish, but it's no excuse.

Essentially, I took money from people who were not as smart as me. Maybe I caused people to lose their homes, maybe they got divorced or maybe some even committed suicide (there were stories in the office). I think it's important to acknowledge these things and try to fix them (by quitting, for example).

You can always rationalize that people are responsible for their own actions, but when you are guilty of manipulating people's minds, I don't think it's reasonable to do so.

Sometimes you do have to do a little bit for the common good.
That podcast looks to be more about day traders no?
It didn't try to "save" South Korea from itself it tried to build it up into an industrial bulwark against the Soviet Union.
Central planning is very hard due to hidden preferences.

People aren't going to say "I want more loli hentai".
How New Age Mobile POS Systems Are Reinventing Food Ordering
Reddit's website source code is actually open sourced. The backing database is not though.
Just have the computer print a machine-readable and human-readable ballot and put it in a box

If you mistrust the computer vote count reread the ballots (and manually count them if the doubt persists)
"Never again" yeah, right.

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21710847-germanys-chanc...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/06/europe-forges-ahe...
I second the Two Scoops book. Django documentation is excellent (try the tutorial if you want a quick sense of django). Two Scoops help you understand why to do things in particular ways and make good design choices within all the things django can do.
Doesn't at least objc_msgSend have to be assembly?
The principles of communism aren't that different from capitalism, you work and get rewarded, the same way it happens right now. Communism is simply a system that places limits on individuals so that they do not exploit others and so they do not own the means of production. To avoid a concentration of resources/wealth for a small group of the population, because by just pure ownership and wealth such individuals can enslave humanity.

In my personal opinion, I don't think that if communism ever emerges it will be through forced means as it was before, I think it will occur naturally where Capitalism will simply fail in certain areas and the system will need to change.

For example say in 100 years, climate change causes enormous damage worldwide in various aspects of life. At this point perhaps governments will realize we can't just exploit raw resources, pollute and allow people to do what they want, so new economic systems emerge that utilize central planning and needs based production and distribution as to avoid harm, it will no longer be simply market driven. Just a rough example, of what could happen.
It also ended up a lot better than non-intervention in Syria. Although make no mistake, the USA is blamed for both anyway.
This is false, the Germans didn't learn anything at all from WWIII. If they did learn anything, they learned the wrong lessons. Germans learned that one shouldn't wage war, that there is no such thing as 'better' cultures or societies, that one should under no circumstances label any group, that one must be tolerant towards anyone at all cost. What do Germans do then, once we start talking about cultures where infant genital mutilation is the norm? What do Germans say, when confronted with the fact that certain religious ideologies push for LGBT people being shot, hanged or thrown from rooftops? What do germans say, when one takes any western, developed or not, society and compares it with others known for legitimizing rape, child marriage and even pedophilia? What do Germans do when the group to be labeled is indeed the enemy? All Germans say is: "WWIII taught us <insert totally wrong statement here>." Therefore, everything you have mentioned is perfectly fine, since it takes place in small numbers and in a culture we do not understand. Small for who? Of course, small for those who have the provilege of observing reality from afar. Then, in a very German fashion, everyone who disagrees with their utopic rosa-tainted view of the world is a Nazi and deserves to be socially isolated and ostraziced! Well, they did, indeed, learn nothing from WWIII.

Trust me, I live here, love politics and philosophy and discuss these topics with all my German acquaintances and friends. I respet them for many reasons, but being ethically and morally mature and capable as a society is not one of those reasons.
https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youv...
And watch as MPG drops when people start carrying 100 pounds of whatever in the passenger seat.
The fixation people have with expanding middle classes is odd. I'd say progress where the poorest are included in social gains is more valuable than any other kind. Otherwise we end up with societies like the US where some parts of the population live in ghettoes worthy of the worst of the third world.
Gravity, as in the film where Sandra Bullock's team gets nailed by a bunch of space junk?
Not to piss on anyone's parade, but for comparison, Alibaba (Tmall and Taobao, via their own Alipay platform) did about 50bn RMB of sales in the first 2.5hrs of this years 11.11 sales festival.

That's roughly US$50m a minute. In the first hour of the promotion they did about 2/3rds of that volume, which is insane.
It's good to understand why some people feel positive about them, as well.
Try working on minimum wage in London.
My 10 days of silence with Vipassana
??? Sarcasm?

What in Big Hero Six says anything about the tractability of automating elderly care in the real world?
I know. That's why I wrote "typically".
This is naive

As even you said, Cuba was not supposed to have Windows copies, but I'm sure they had

Iran theoretically couldn't have access to Boeing parts (and this was a stricter embargo), but they had

There's always a way of solving things.

Most of Cuban problems were caused by themselves, not the embargo.
Friend! That was to prepare you for TBOTNS. Mere homework before your final exam.

Here is an introduction by Alastair Reynolds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kY1kJA0jA

It is the favorite book of a huge number of well known authors but is less known outside of their circles.

Wolfe's book is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
The solution to this is simple: one way or another, except for people whose job it is to drive, we should stop having people drive cars, whether that means public transit, more bike lanes, or self-driving cars or something else.

I do think it's possible to approximately locate a driver's phone, though it will likely work relatively imperfectly. But then consider that driving drunk is also a huge hazard, and yet most people don't have breathalyzers required to start their cars (and yes, this technology does already exist)
Actually the people on /r/The_Donald branched off and opened another discussion that led to the Pizzagate (accusing a restraunt owner, Hillary Clinton and others of being pedophiles). And when /u/spez deleted the Pizzagate stuff (people were actually harassing the restruant owner), the mods started abusing and accusing /u/spez of being a pedophile.

And also take note that witch-hunting is prohibited on reddit and can warrant legal action.
You could write your software in another operating system, giving a middle finger to oppressive Uncle Sam. Not doing so shows you did not appreciate Cuban market enough.

Same goes for other products. Don't base them on U.S. technology if you plan to trade with America's enemies.
Is American and Cuban poverty the same?
Golang code comprehension tools [2015]
> What is this useful for?

Twitter.
Do you have palpable proof that holding such a sign in Cuba will lead you to trouble?

I'm genuinely asking. Not from the US and just today found out (by curiosity) where Cuba is.
>That's the biggest problem I see as well with reaching a post-labour future. Every single political party across the entire spectrum has full employment as their stated goal.

Yes, because the boring truth is that because people want jobs and we need them to do stuff.

The only reason we really have a "reserve army of the unemployed" is as an inefficient way of enforcing "labor market discipline" for private companies. That's why they lobby for austerity, etc.
It's quite out of date as well: from Oct 2006 to Oct 2015
No, a dictator can be benevolent. What if a foreign government destroys your country, the populace is largely uneducated and you have the power to reinstitute order in to then transition to a government by and for the people? The US, under Obama, destroyed Libya, what if someone with genuine good intentions would have seized the opportunity in order to prevent what did become reality, that all the people got was a puppet government. This is partly hypothetical but my point is clear, I hope.
> Only those who actively attempt to undermine the Cuban democracy are imprisoned
Have you actually looked at the faction supported by Cuba? Not only are they responsible for launching global private military corporations, they are Africa's worse cleptocracy.

Then, oddly enough, MPLA also intervened in Namibia's civil war against the communists.
I know people how love work. Actually majority of people who I'm surrounded by in my daily life - love work. It's been weird growing up...as every job I've ever held has turned me into a depressed turn. I hate work. I hate all of work. I hate spending time outside of my own parameters. I prefer waking up whenever I want. I prefer not having obligations. Work not only ruins this but adds an additional set of things to the mix; the commute, co-workers, and the sheer fact of hey - here comes the weekend and the time of freedom ticks away towards another week of hell and torture. I left the workforce to get a PhD. I used money I saved to learn to trade with my brokerage account, lots of losses before I got decent enough at it. I don't see my PhD as something for job holding, it was just something I wanted to accomplish. Trading is my income. Often I have to deal with the nonsense of people asking me what I do and I prefer just to lie and say I telework as an assistant or something because..I don't want to hear uneducated thoughts about how I make my money. That said..I'm not rich but eh..suppose it was the need to adapt and avoid things I hate that got me to this point. Either or..having grown up in a very bias setting that favors work I really look forward to the continue destruction of the labor force. This mentality that you must work for even the purpose of character must die. Not everyone is going to trade, a basic minimum income is needed etc..but yea..jobs must die and the sooner the better.
I am not saying accommodate homeless people in public, I am saying give them housing. Everyone should have at least a small room to sleep in with an attached bathroom, and a small kitchenette.
Up in the Air: Life Lessons from Richard Branson
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There are legal, efficient ways out of poverty in the UK. There are none on Cuba.
Surprised SICP isn't in there. Also surprised to see the Code book is ranked so high, I personally didn't get much out of it though it's probably a great introductory book to people who are new to the field.

On a related note, my favorite book this year was "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann. It's a great overview of modern database systems with a good balance between theory and practice.
For all interested in good photography - Castro had great photo session shoot by street photographer Elliott Erwitt - really worth seeing! (https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Elliott-Erwitt/1964/C...)

Also: there is nice set of photos here: http://lahabanaphoto.com/?page_id=132
I feel like something which is missing from this entire conversation is the idea of building user interfaces which are easier to use while driving. It feels like we are stuck in an era when abstinence was the only teen pregnancy solution which was politically safe to discuss.

A simple example would be a music player where the UI is a full screen block of solid color which recognizes swipe guestures to control playback. There's no reason to look at the phone because there's nothing to look at.

A bit more controversial would be Apple automatically dialing up the accessibility font size boost if the phone is moving faster than 10 mph. We may not be able to prevent people from using their phones while driving, but we can reduce the amount of time required to interact with their phone's UI by using easier-to-acquire font sizes and putting less text on the screen.
I'm as anti-communist as they come, but comparing Castro to Hitler is ridiculous. Castro never set up camps for the sole purpose of mass murder. Castro didn't create special army units to machine gun hundreds of thousands of civilians. Castro didn't deliberately starve entire cities of people to death.
I feel like everyone who downvoted you is missing the whole point of the article that was posted.

The point is to imagine what your life would be like if you didn't have to work for money. Imagine if you could work on startup ideas and software projects simply because you were passionate about solving a problem or creating something, and not because of the money. And it doesn't even have to be something useful, or something that people will pay for. You can work on literally anything you love doing, and you can find people who feel the same way.

That's the opposite of a "nine-to-fiver" who is primarily there for the money, although they might also enjoy the work.

Of course, you can be passionate about working on something while maintaining a healthy work/life balance. That's not really what people mean when they say "nine-to-fiver".