skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find I have no time to think when I'm pairing. I tend to build experimental abstractions and chop and change them quickly to best fit with the problem, and vocalising what I'm trying to do slows me down 10x - not just is it tedious to explain the bigger picture I have in my mind about the change I'm performing, but while vocalising I don't have time to think further.

And when I'm not at the keyboard, the slowness of my pair and the inelegance of their code - it's hard to formulate the right nudges or wait for their cogs to spin and realise the issues with their approach.

I'd love to work with better programmers, but they're hard to find.
The problem isn't at the executive level, it's at the schools.

The expected levels should be set based on what was happening in the education system, not the population in general.

I work at a place where this bullshit is happening and it's clear they're putting barely qualified people based on gender. In the end the company, all its employees, and the people it serves will be harmed.

Instead they should work on getting more diversity in the STEM degrees and fix root cause.

If they truely want it to be fair they should use "blind interviews" voice changers over the phone, written exams, etc... Not bullshit targets and incentives.
That article tells us that the plug/unplug stuff was a consequence of a bunch of other stuff (like mismanagement, working without a union contract, etc).

According to that article, the problems didn't begin with the who's-allowed-to-plug/unplug. They were structural and systemic, and had to do with the port being mismanaged as much as the unions agitating for their workers.

So, I'm not entirely sure why you're saying it's about plugging and unplugging refrigeration units.

But, also interestingly, they lost Hanjin, and a mere year later, Hanjin's bankrupt. There was a lot of press a few months ago about container ships being stranded, etc.
I had the same problem with the Canadian equiv (CRA).

I just treated it like I bought it all at $0 / BTC. I was selling between $100 and $1000, with an average purchase price between $4 and $10, so the cost was basically minuscule.
You could do a wireless point to point bridge in most places where running a cable is difficult. It is much more reliable than relying on an omnidirectional wireless access point over that distance.
ISPs are emphatically NOT "significantly more likely to install security updates" than Apple is. That's hilariously wrong.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here? I think you may be over-reading the critique of Soylent and assuming that everyone's gone in the opposite direction to cook-from-scratch all the time?
As a counter example to your implication that blockchain enthusiasts are fanatics, I offer my opinion that centralized tech is the right choice in many cases. For context, I'm the organizer of the Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup[1] and am hopeful that blockchains and related distributed technology will have a big impact on society. Many compare the rise of blockchain tech to the rise of the Internet; I think blockchain tech is in the protocol development stage (1970s, maybe 80s), and that it will take 5 to 25 years for the tech to evolve to the point that average person will use it (90s and 2000's).

For context, in the cryptocurrency world, often the word maximalist is used to refer to hardcore tech evangelicals; so there are bitcoin maximalists and blockchain maximalists. Even though I am naturally a skeptic and not a maximalist, I don't want to discourage them. Yes, they're crazy[2]; a part of that craziness is a hope for a better future that I find refreshing.

[1] http://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
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I've said for a long time that the problem digital currency proponents seem to be missing is that there is nothing intrinsic to the technology that prevents it from being regulated. A bill is already up in California that requires businesses to report anyone who uses it. The only reason it hasn't been heavily regulated is because it hasn't become big enough to be on the radar yet. The second it is, it will become like anything else.
Nasir Shah's Book of Delights
Record-High 77% of Americans Perceive Nation as Divided
According to the NetBSD Wikipedia page[1] the firmware in Apple wireless routers is based on NetBSD.

I have heard a few people say that their Apple router has been very reliable, so maybe it has to do with it running NetBSD, or at least I would like to think that is the cause.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Examples_of_use
SOGo has native Outlook compatibility, CalDAV, CardDAV, and ActiveSync: https://sogo.nu/

I use postfix as a backend for it.
I'm curious, why is it allowed to register domain names with mixed character sets? I am behind allowing Unicode characters in domain names for the obvious reasons, but are there compelling use cases for allowing them to be mixed?
“Jump! Jump now!” — Kosh Naranek
Ya, this is kind of silly. I'll actually say - before this election I was all about a Blockchain / electronic voting system. After Russia and Wikileaks and everything, no way. The paper based, locally run elections are incredibly secure, and protect against systematic attacks (which in an electronic world could even mean phishing, or something more mundane than actual hacks).

I'm a huge fan of bitcoin, but I'm still looking for the killer Blockchain app.
I don't agree with that assessment. If Balmer was following that strategy, MS would have moved to just 2 products: Windows and Office.
Check your SSL/TLS certificate installation
My Airport Extreme goes YEARS without me touching it. It took me a couple minutes to set up. I very much doubt that Ubi's ease of management or use is superior. Equal? Maybe. Superior? Nah.
Ask HN: Questions to ask when considering joining a 1-man struggling business?
Business Qualities

Revenue: 50K/month off online store

Emailing list: 70K users, not taking advantage of marketing at all

Website: Minimal

Employees: One struggling founder who is stressed out and wants an exit

Finances/Debt: Unsure

My goal: Get on a two-year plan to sell the business, learn and grow through a side project

I reached out to a business to help out in a small way, the response I got was asking me to help out in a big way. Business (sales/popularity/revenue, etc) peaked for this business around 5 years ago and has been struggling ever since.

The current owner told me there were once 3 people total, but business differences drove them apart and he had to buy them out. What once was a passion project for this owner, now is a struggling business looking for an exit.

I'm interested in helping this business out (my skills are complementary and different than what the current owner has) not because of money, but because of the business opportunity to learn, grow and have a side project for myself.

What questions would you ask this current founder about his business to evaluate the opportunity?
Now that they got CloudFront fully supporting it, it seems like it's just a manner of time until VPC/EC2 is IPv6
> That is, acknowledge the fact that Armenians may crash more, but give them a government subsidy to offset the higher premiums

I'm just incredibly impressed that you came up with a way to make this sound even worse.. can you imagine the government giving subsidies to Armenian drivers with good records because insurance companies are overcharging them due to the statistical performance of their category?

A tax benefit for being an outlier from the mean? My god. Not only does that sound like a terrible idea, but intensely complicated to organize in the general case.

And what happens when an individual is in multiple categories? What if only gay Armenians who listen to disco are the at-risk driving category? How do we aggregate the tax subsidies, multiplicatively, additively, ..? This sounds like an administrative nightmare, I congratulate you on your evil ingenuity.
They could just require a particular pose within the next 30 seconds to avoid it.
That's not a markdown problem. Its a consequence of using markdown within a framework, generator, etc that uses frontmatter or an equivalent to define meta data.

Several frameworks and tools allow for markdown and static site rendering that also support an admin UI where one can define this data more easily.
Cool! I want a cool non-alpha unicode domain. I guess "square-root" is already taken, but there must be some cool domains left (even though nobody can actually type them in).

Actually, some of these would probably be nice aliases for some math / science oriented sites.

E.g. - .com
One could even extrapolate from this, that for emotional health it's good thing to postpone teaching that skills to as late as possible, or until Adobe VoCo ruins it for all.
Meh. Markup ate my "radioactive pie" (9762 dec / 2622 hex) symbol :-(
I went through the first two CDs of German I and French I, but because I'm a driver who automatically prioritizes driving first, I was only half-attentive to the language courses. That said, what was on those two CDs, if I started hearing the phrases again, would come right back.

I didn't stick with it, however, because I moved to Netherlands :).
Yes, Turbo Pascal was blindingly fast - I could type almost as fast as I could think :) (I mean, even though incrementally compiling my code every few lines) - equivalent or better than a scripting language - at least for small to medium-sized programs. Fantastic for exploratory programming and learning and correcting as you go, though also for bigger, less exploratory stuff. I don't think I've met its match to this day. I read that the Borland developers who created it wrote it in tuned assembly language.
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"Our only office is Slack"

But they're also doing consulting. What if one client adds them to HipChat and another to Skype? Three offices this way?
It is great to see IPv6 finally taking off. I remember being exited about IPv6 back in 2003. I was fortunate to be on a university network with great admins and made sure to enable IPv6 on my Linux computer. Then nothing much happened for years and years and years. Not until around 2011 did the numbers start ticking up much above 0%, and now we are in the early part of the steep slope.
Good call on Excession. I love the Culture books but can see why folks wouldn't, but Excession is the best in my opinion because it reveals the Culture's flaws and limitations. The rest of the time it's just invincible good guys.

I feel Banks tried to write a novel about the Culture dealing with peer civilizati0ns, but they a;ways ended up being significantly inferior and we're back to Consider Phlebas (which is The Culture vs a clearly weaker civilization).
You mean they should prioritize ipv6 over ipv4 if a DNS lookup returns records of both? Why?
Why Did Ancient Italians Bury Thousands of Clay Body Parts?
It'd be cool to make use of their current templates and input the content in for them then. I have never actually used Jekyll though so I don't know if my understanding translates to practicality or even makes any sense.
> Most people just can't get stuff done.

I know this is tangential, but after working in engineering for the last 6 years its absolutely mind blowing how much this is a factor. Smart, likable, normal people who just never get any real, meaningful work done seems to be the complete norm. Hiring people (not a position i'm presently in) is an absolutely terrifying prospect to me, because I can't figure out any real way to separate the former from the latter.
I keep a list of mine...

Agorophile

Illusory Lie

Lapse of Sanity

GSV Presence of the Void

Just Like a Simile

As Seen On TV

Indivisible Composite

Ad Nauseum

Cannon To The Left Of Them

Cannon To The Right Of Them

Volley'd And Thundered

Echo of a Dissipating Dream

Life's Dust Empire

Multifoliate Rose of Death's Dream Kingdom

Melancholia, Inspiration, Efficiency

Bigger Stick

Indifferent Caretaker

Still Life With Supernova

Guernica

Enthalpy's Shadow

Thevenin's Theorem

Kirchhoff's Laws

Stress-Energy Tensor

This Is Not A Name

This Is Not A Sentence

Majority Report

SSK(S(K(SS(S(SSK))))K)

(λx. λy. x y x) (λy. λx. y (x y x))

CAT GRP TOP SET FUN

Life's Dust Empire

Multifoliate Rose Of Life's Twilight Kingdom

Rat's Feet

Paralyzed Force

Gesture Without Motion

Falls The Shadow

Handful Of Dust

Vials of Ivory

The Change of Philomel

Turn The Wheel

Look To Windward

Consider Phlebas

HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME

King of Kings

Look On My Ship, Ye Mighty, And Despair

Abandon Hope

Land of Thebes

Red Sails Wide

Plucked Hence From Poetry

Then Spoke The Thunder

Levity Sucks

If You Can Read This, You Are Literate

Purely Coincidental
remembering that time, we saw BTC spoke to the ~1000$us mark. my thoughts about his at the time was that the price spike was largely driven by Chinese demand for BTC.

Note that the price crashed after Beijing halted BTC exchanges with their state banks.

It could be part of some larger plan to leverage info against the sorts of folks who have enough RMB to help drive the price of BTC to +$1000.
To play devil'a advocate, a Ruckus Zoneflex R710 ought to work well in such places.

Also, I have gotten wifi working well in non-rural areas using Ubiquiti Unifi AC Lite APs. In suburban New York, a couple of them blanket my home. In my grandmother's Shanghai apartment in a building that is a mix of concrete and plaster, just 1 is sufficient (although for a much smaller volume), despite dozens of nearby APs. Admittedly, I moved to 5GHz there because I was literally the only one using it, but 2.4GHz had worked fine when I tried it. Peak throughout is higher on 5GHz due to higher channel widths though.
I bought a few 'copy cat' paintings on ebay from china about 8 years ago. Had them framed and people love them. Paid less than 20 each for them... That must have evolved into this.
There's no greater metaphor for the detachment of the tech-elite from the average user than the pervasiveness of Markdown. Its a poor answer to a problem that exists solely because of lack of coordination among the very tech-elite who rely on MD.

An open spec for efficient binary encoding of formatted text is the thing we've needed for 20 years - not more MD tools.
I am glad you have found a way to incorporate your children into your lives in this way. And I would hope many parents attempt to do the same thing. When growing up, I cooked from a young age (about 7) simply because both of my parents worked two jobs, so if I didn't cook, I wouldn't get fed.

But I think many people lose perspective on this. There are a large number of people who, once they have finished their long hours at work, finished their >1hr commute home, washed the clothes, taken the kids to their activities, picked them up from school, cleaned the house, helped with the homework, etc. find that they do not have time to dedicate to cooking. Often, these are poorer people, they may live a long distance from a good supermarket, and simply buying fresh groceries is a challenge.

Knowing people in this situation personally, they feel extremely guilty and regretful over the fact they can't make their kids nutritious home cooked meals every day. People not in that situation often don't realise that buying a freezer full of frozen meals and a cupboard full of tinned pasta/beans is often more cost effective than trying to plan buying fresh food such that it doesn't spoil - given the inherent variability in how long fresh food tends to last. And arguably, more importantly to individuals with cashflow issues, is the stability. When you buy that frozen Mac & Cheese dinner, you know that $1 is going to feed your child for an evening. And that meal is going to cost the same next week, and the week after. It's simpler to budget that way. If you buy locally sourced, organic head of lettuce at the farmers market - it might last two days, it might last two weeks - there's not really any way of knowing.

I know many people who take great pleasure in cooking with the family at the weekend, but don't have time in the week. So from Monday to Friday, they live from prepackaged frozen food, takeouts. Innovation in this space would be welcome - but simply telling people to "make time" to cook isn't going to change anything. Making Mon-Fri cheaper and healthier might make room for higher quality food at the weekend, though.
Also there are some laws in the USA, such as the relatively new "revenge porn" laws that may have clauses that protect borrowers in the event that they can't pay up.

Credit where it's due though: "nakedloans.io" is a domain that could be pivoted to other purposes should this one fail.
Creating a profile and raising funds are two different things. To me, the place to start is with some research around the previous funding of German companies funded by Angel List and to look at how those companies were structured...assuming that there are some.

The market type and product type of funded companies is also probably worth looking at alongside the profiles of investors who have invested in German companies.

Finally, it's worth looking at the domestic implications of foreign investment in terms of regulation and taxes and at that point deciding if it makes sense for your particular company.

Good luck.
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Lets keep the dream alive!
Beyond Google's Cute Car [pdf]
Using Google Admob in Your NativeScript Angular 2 Mobile App
Wish I enjoyed working remotely, but it drove me insane when I did it for 8 months. I was ignored, time zone differences sucked, actually need human interaction, and I needed guidance as a junior. It's 100% a culture thing, and if I ever do it again, then I'll make sure to choose a company which embraces remote work.
'artifactory' is not in the npm registry
That's interesting in that it suggests why more blogs don't follow Daring Fireball's style.
This is false if you're only using Fios for internet service. Verizon asked me if I was providing my own router, and I said yes. The tech who "installed" and activated my ONT confirmed that I was using my own router so that he could activate the ethernet port on the device. There was nothing to bypass—it fell within their expectations.

I hear it's a challenge to avoid the standard Verizon router if you also have TV or phone service through Fios.
The premise of the article seems very weak. This article itself cries foul play.
One of PG's rules from the beginning is: no politics. Can't fault him for it, because if you open that door, the whole thing turns into Slashdot.

That, and I think most of us nerds are 21st century "house slaves." As long as we've got our little projects and our 20% time and our six-figures and our stock options, everything else is not our problem.

Those among us who see things as they really are tend to make the big cash money, then drop-out to do something less subservient to power. JWZ started a nightclub. Moxie does crypto and sails. Even going back to Paul Lutus, he made his word processor, collected his checks, then retreated back to the wilderness and the sea.
Without passports or border controls, how do you know if someone is not from your country?
Are either of the relationships long distance?
Technically, Unicode is only one character set. If you want to disallow mixing, you have to disallow it on some other basis, like script. There are many edge cases to consider, though, and many legitimate reasons to mix scripts.
Do you cater only to blogs or to static website in general? I tried both Hugo and pelican but neither really supported general purpose websites.

For example, https://hearthstonejson.com uses Jekyll and I haven't been able to move it.
That's 99% by volume, not by population, right? Because I would estimate that at least 5% of the US population both chooses to live in high-density urban areas—so must rent apartments—and cannot afford large ones, precisely because of how high-density (and therefore high cost-per-sq-ft) the local area is.
Many operating systems now prioritize IPv6 over IPv4. Otherwise there wouldn't be much IPv6 traffic at all.
I think that people are afraid of conditions that one can't control, and are correlated with negative characteristics.

Lets say that I am male, and am young. Lets say that as a young male driver, I am likely to be a cause of an accident 20% of the time i.e. 1 in 5 young male drivers will cause an accident. Lets say as a young female driver, I am likely to be the cause of an accident 5% of the time.

So on the face of it, young male drivers are riskier, and should pay appropriately.

But lets say there was another measurable factor, such as a 'recklessness' score, which describes how recklessly you behave. And lets say that if you are 'reckless', you are likely to be the cause of an accident 90% of the time. And the maths works out that if you take the 'not reckless' group from men and women, they are equally likely to be the cause of an accident, i.e. there are more reckless men than women.

If you were to take the stats at face value, then a good proportion of people are being over and under-charged, because you are using a proxy measure rather than digging deeper for a root cause/don't have the data available. I think this is exactly what people are afraid of, businesses/people being lazy and making assumptions that are correlative, based on characteristics that one can't change.
I don't see how this is remotely relevant. For starters, there is evidence that shared distributed ledgers actually exist.
There's an SF fan theory which tends to show up around the late-night bars in conventions that the Star Trek Federation and the Blake's Seven Federation are, in fact, the same Federation --- it's just we're seeing the propaganda films released by both sides.

Naturally, the anti- side doesn't have nearly as much money as the pro- side, which is why the special effects in Blake's Seven are so bad.
If humanities are so valuable, why aren't they valuable?
1. Symantec buys LifeLock
2. Oracle buys DYN
3. Oracle buys massive protection policy for DYN via LifeLock
4. DYN gets hacked
5. Oracle submits massive insurance claim
6. Symantec stock tanks
7. Oracle acquires Symantec dirt cheap
Thanks! That helped! Fixed now
Sometimes people make the mistake thinking that people want the perfect solution when often good enough is fine. One great example is .mp3 vs lossless audio compression. The average listener (myself included) don't care about about perfect audio. We are perfectly happy with good enough.

Wireless networking falls into this category. Yes a wired home network would be faster by for the vast majority tasks wireless is fine.
I noticed in the blog: "This is why all but our largest sizes of paintings cost less than $100"

But when I go to pricing, only the smallest is $100...Mixed media has items cheaper, but still, not exactly 'all but our largest size of paintings cost less than $100'

Am I looking at the right place, or has prices tripled in a year?
Facebook is full of groups about "organized gang stalking" that display everything mentioned in this article. They very obviously need help they're not getting.
Because their crawler is so monolithic that it would be expensive and annoying overhauling it for IPV6.

There is a great use-case for IPV6 for IOT where each device gets its own IPV6 address. IPV6 addresses are appearing more like MAC addresses at this rate as IPV6 is not exhausted yet.
Not cost effective, obviously.
Same for me! I check every couple months to see if anything changed in the Google Wallet policy but I lost all hope now. It's outrageous.
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