skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3.

I work mid-management part time, software part time (lead a team of ~5). The management part is awful, not managing my team but interfacing with other teams is unbearable. The egos of other managers are sickening.

Currently trying to figure out a way to give up the management part without being fired.
I was also discouraged to see there was no 2fa option. Email is simply too important. One of the reasons I stick with gmail is because I know Google hires some of the best security people in the world and takes it very seriously. They also support 2fa and other security measures.
OK, gotcha. Somehow, I thought "strategy" was more general than just a single method/function to plug in. (confession: I have the GoF book, but don't remember every section)

I think one of the best points PG (of YC) ever made was about programmers thinking in a particular language. "If Blub doesn't do it, you don't need it" (paraphrasing). Convincing the C++/Java/C# fans they need other features sometimes is quite hard.
I thought the image was going to be sent to GitHub pages to be hosted there. Will Liveform support thousands of image uploads if it is hosting the images forever? S3 is not cheap.
Probably same as previous releases.... Keep holding your breath
The very concept of colonization flies in the face of Utopian dreams. This isn't about sending our poor and huddled masses to colonize a new land. This is about investing gargantuan resources into a tiny band of elites. We are talking literally billions of dollars per person to get there, followed by maintenance costs on the order of millions of dollars per person-day.

A Titan colony wouldn't be self-sustaining for years, probably decades. That means we many investing massively in the maintenance of the elites on Titan. That isn't Utopia. That's elitism. (See every non-trek sci-fi ever written.)
Actually, the overwhelming majority of Baby Boomers were never hippies in the first place.
> I love the language and framework we use

And what's that if you don't mind me asking?

Also,

> and I get really, really lonely working from home all the time.

look up co-working spaces in your area! If you find a good one with private booths you might be able to stay productive but also have the benefit of having people to chat with if you want to. (and a good mix of startup people with seniors also does not hurt I guess..)
Can't company is a MS shop.
Also I meant leveraging the win32 api in Go.
okay, but then why did women's ability to do software suddenly shift when software became the more important force in computing?
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I get the feeling that every job requires me to exaggerate how passionate I am about what I'm doing and how strongly I believe in the company's "mission" (I missed several job opportunities before I learned how this game is played). The truth is I would rather work to live than live to work, but I still want to learn and grow where I do work (i.e. work at an innovative company with smart people). Are these mutually exclusive?

My current company is good, but I have no idea what I'll do when I realize I can't pretend I like what I do anymore and quit or get fired.
Apart from novels it's pretty unusual for me to read all of a book. It's laziness a lot of the time I'd have to admit.
I see this as a huge problem too. Apple just doesn't seem to have high level advocacy for software quality. This is driving me to Ubuntu at the desktop.

I am sticking with my Macbook but on my next laptop purchase it will be a matter of if Apple hardware quality makes up for their software failings. I haven't looked closely in 2 years but back then I didn't see any hardware close to Apple's laptop quality.

I do agree with those disappointed with the MacBook Pro (or whatever they call it now) but those disappointments are not as great as my disappointment with Apple software quality the last 5 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drinks_tax
With the possible exception of underground colonies on Mars, it seems likelier, sooner, that humans will re-engineer themselves for long-duration space travel and life on other planets than we will engineer those planets to be livable for Earth-dwelling humans.
It certainly was, but there was less of it.
At the same time, if you access your email only from secure devices, is your password at any risks?
ah, sorry for the confusion.

have you had a look at

https://github.com/AllenDang/w32
> Varnish is nearly 300% faster for E3

That is the most worrying thing IMO. If the cache is hot (i.e. all loads are from RAM), then the E5 should be vastly more powerful, not vice versa...

Could you try the benchmarks with Gentoo, with optimised builds for each CPU?
Everything on PBS is gold. Jacques Pepin is my favorite, but America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Country, Lidia, Ming Tsai, even Nick Stellino. All great.
The code doesn't seem to change on click.

EDIT: Don't downvote, is anyone else having this problem?
Which is terrifying, as the whole point of plausibly deniable passwords is that attitude will end up with innocent people in jail for data that doesn't exist have.
Truthy Researcher Launches New Fact Checking Project
Use a bookmarklet and org-protocol to trigger an org-capture template:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7464951/how-to-make-org-...

You can make the bookmarklet pass along extra info on certain pages, eg. gmail and have a capture template match it - handy for TODOs with deadlines that link back to emails.
I get AMP pages via the Facebook app quite often
https://github.com/go-ole/go-ole
If I recall correctly, the XPS can charge either through USB-C, or through the dedicated port.
Counterexample: https://www.propublica.org
I'm more of the type to prefer textual content. A lot easier to scan through and process at your own pace than video content that you naturally are expected to perceive in a time-based manner.
3 seems like a minimum to me. Power, mouse (yeah, bluetooth, but the only ones I like require a dongle), and phone. My current laptop has two USB ports, and it covers about 99% of my needs, but it's also frequently full.
It all depends on the scenario. Consider this situation: a sending object has an internal collection of items and wants to send it to a receiver. With a mutable collection the sender sends a shallow copy of the collection, because the receiver can't be trusted not to modify the original (which is part of the internal state of the sender).

With an immutable collection the sender can send the original, no copy required. The immutable collection can be shared (lock free) by any number of users.

In this case you have both reduced time and memory use.

So while immutable collections are obviously "slower" for general (mutable) scenarios, the win comes when you need less locking, less copying, and so on.
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While I respect the fact that the overall critical thinking bar is high, I absolutely hate the fact that most of us have a hobby/timepass activity that involves coding. I think we should work on hobbies that are less brainy and more physically challenging(I'm thinking general fitness here).
10. writing software is like entering a virtual world, going behind the screen and controlling everything about that world. You get to be master of the universe, and there is no end to learning or creating new things.
Performance is one of the goals, so I am benchmarking everything. I run benchmarks on Travis, locally on my machine, and sometimes on a Raspberry Pi 3. You can check some of the reports here: https://public.sinusoid.es/misc/immer/reports/ (this is a bit hard to interpret without further comment).

So, the slowdown depends on the operation.

At the moment, comparing `immer::vector` to `std::vector`, example, for reading, using internal iteration (e.f. `for_each`) you get 1.5X, using iterators something like 2.5X, using [] something like 6X iteratively, something like 1.1 in random order.

Updating a single `int` element is like 100X. (This factor decreases with the size of the updated element, though!) But then, for example, `push_back` is only 1.1X std::list, and it does not rely on amortization, making it better for latency. Considering that you get access time similar to std::vector and persistence, it is a good deal. Also, with `flex_vector`, you get logarithmic slicing and concatenation, making these operations faster than for std::vector (when using big-enough vectors). Also, I am working now on _batch updates_ via transients, so if you update 10 elements in a row, you don't pay 10 times 100X (basically, you only pay the 100X once, which is very much ok for most use-cases, think like a 1microsecond tax per mouse click ;)

There are lots of trade offs one can make (in general, one can make updating a bit faster by making access a bit slower). Also, it depends a lot on the memory management strategy, which can also be customized.
Agree with the author. I tried out the game and while it's a fun little game and a neat concept, there were a bunch of small glitches and issues that cause it from feeling -great-, and it doesn't feel native or perhaps the author just didn't bother to add specific support for the iPad.

To me the issue is clear cut -- if you're selling direct to the market and you care about your users at all, UI should always use native components. The choice of language is secondary, but personally I don't see how it would ever be better to deal with differing and inconsistent web view standards -on top of- the differences between OSes and devices. On Android, these alone provide more than plenty of enough grief.

The advantages of coding direct to the platform are many:

- higher efficiency and lower battery consumption,
- smaller downloads,
- better performance, particularly on older devices,
- fewer glitches,
- and finally, an app that just "feels right".

Code reuse can still be achieved by using C++, Rust or another layer to share code. If most logic lies in the UI, writing it twice may be OK along with tailoring the UI more closely to the platform paradigm.

There are different tradeoff so involved here, but to me, the increased user satisfaction is worth the additional effort, and seeing how glitchy these web apps can be, I'm not at all even convinced that it -is- additional effort.
There are lots of technical problems to be solved associated with space travel and colonising a new planet. SpaceX is trying to solve some of these but there are a lot of other problems not well know. Once we solved these we can move on to the more popular subjects like near light speed space travel.

The problems to be solved:

- how to reduce exposure to radiation (cosmic rays, GCRs) while traveling with a space ship

- how to reduce exposure to radiation coming from space while living on a planet like Mars not having a magnetosphere

"The health threat from cosmic rays is the danger posed by galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles to astronauts on interplanetary missions or any missions that venture through the Van-Allen Belts or outside the Earth's magnetosphere.[1][2] Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) consist of high energy protons (85%), helium (14%) and other high energy nuclei (HZE ions).[1] Solar energetic particles consist primarily of protons accelerated by the Sun to high energies via proximity to solar flares and coronal mass ejections. They are one of the most important barriers standing in the way of plans for interplanetary travel by crewed spacecraft."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays
Free markets might work for some things well, for education they don't, not in development countries nor in developed countries.

Simply not true. Plenty of proof that private schools in the UK (weirdly referred to as public schools) provide a far better education than "bog standard" State Comps.
May be anecdotal: I have several friends who got really excited about this and bought anything from DIY kits to industrial grade Sous Vide immersion circulators. All of which are now collecting dust after using them 3 times. Reminds me of the phenomenon of sandwich makers in Germany somewhere in the 90s. Must have been 15 years since I've seen one since.

Edit: After all these replies, my evidence seems to be in fact anecdotal.
On the other hand, it has a larger constituency in government who oppose undermining encryption than most other western nations and a good negative example in the recent past (the Stasi). Just look at the recent legislation passed in the UK, and the statements of Theresa May on encryption or the recent lawsuits by the FBI against Apple. It may be our best hope in stopping legislation mandating backdoors to encryption, which would damage everyone.
You are your bubble. Stop worrying and learn to love it
If anyone is looking for something like this for Java, there are a few of them, including my own FSet: https://github.com/slburson/fset-java
Visualizing your AWS costs
Avid is what I meant. My cell phone keyboard apparently disagreed. ;)
Does anyone else find it odd that both

Base-122 was created with the web in mind.

And

As §3 shows, base-122 is not recommended to be used on gzip compressed pages, which is the majority of served web pages.

Occur in just a few lines from each other? I get there's more use cases like email and such but if you're going to create something for the web but it can't be used on the majority of web pages that seems like a fairly large oversight/caveat.
"Medicare fiscal intermediaries and carriers shall use the Government furnished Medicare Data Communications Network (MDCN) to support all Medicare operational data connectivity requirements. Such uses include Common Working File communications, shared processing remote operations, remote printing, shared system maintenance support (testing, release/fix distribution, remote diagnostics) and functional subcontracting arrangements necessitating the transfer of data to remote sites." [1]

Quoting a government healthcare consultation document as an example of language used in the UK is about as meaningful as me going to healthcare.gov, clicking a few links, and then copying a paragraph here.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/CMS...
The direct GitHub link: https://github.com/dangoldin/aws-billing-details-analysis
What language and framework you use that make you so happy?
> Also, when you have a mostly physical demanding job, you can easily socialize with your friends afterwards, with dev work you're brain dead by the end of the day.

This! I tend to think the same way. I can drain my brain so much that by 5pm I'll be a ghost. I've found helpful to divide my tasks into smaller composable units and if I can't reach that point then I try to think that I'm doing something wrong and I'll poke someone else in the team looking for some help. It's hard when you don't have anyone you can talk to.

My biggest challenge is stop thinking about work. It's not always like that but when it gets rainy and dark and there is something interesting going on at work I can get 100% absorbed. Not healthy at all but it's hard to overcome it. I'll wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something I'm working on. It's kind of scary but I also enjoy it. Do you feel like that at all?
But then why would they include a dedicated charging port? That doesn't make any sense.
With AS? Yeesh. Mine (previous gen) will drain in about 2 hours with that or PyCharm open. IntelliJ stuff is super power-hungry unless you put it in power-save mode (and then it's not even as useful as a "plain" editor like sublime text or something).

I mean, I like all the power-hungry features, and I'm usually plugged in - I'd prefer they keep adding useful things rather than worry about my battery. But it does hurt at times :)
8 - I'm a junior developer working mostly with Angular.js and (previously) RoR. I love doing low-level things like solving a tiny problem, but I sometimes wish I was doing something more science-y than front-end development.

I also miss my artistic side (I don't do web design as part of my job) and I would easily switch jobs if I could work for a more art-oriented or creative tech startup. The reason I often doubt whether software development is my true calling is because I don't like concentrating on just one thing in my life. Work-life balance could be better, for that matter :)
Meetups, Conferences and Do-iOS Conference
Not the GP, but I'd want to learn both the ideas and the notation. That way, more math would become accessible to me.

Just don't let the notation get in the way of reaching clarity on the ideas.
Andrew Gelman notes that if you look at historical polls and check the total error vs just the sampling error, the latter is about half the size (implying that systematic error is as large as sampling error, but unfortunately much harder to deal with as it is unsystematic over time), and the 2016 election margin fell within the confidence interval you would expect from that: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/upshot/when-you-hear-the-m... http://researchdmr.com/ProbabilityTotalError.pdf http://andrewgelman.com/2016/11/11/david-rothschild-sharad-g...

And statisticians have pointed out the inherent limits to surveys/polls in election forecasting since at least the Literary Digest debacle; a particularly good discussion is in Schlaifer 1959 https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/1959-schlaifer-probabi... (excerpt: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/5c10jx/post... )
Same here. New battery, new secondary SSD, reconditioning of the MagSafe power supply and maxed out RAM are underway. Performance-wise it should be about the same as the latest Macbook, which doesn't feel like an upgrade for software development.

Slow hardware helps one write good software after-all..
Yep. I had that happen. Someone tipped the police that me and some friends were hacking computers and stealing credit cards. We were raided, gave access to the police to our computers, they found nothing related to cc fraud (of course) but then prosecuted us for some pirated games they found.
What is hypothetically possible - i.e something can be used to green-wash a crappy brand in marketing materials and what is actually done in practical terms are two very different things.
This whole comment is so apparently naive it feels like trolling.
The general consensus is it never got to production beyond the two prototypes, but who knows?
How is T. gondii infection actually diagnosed? Is there a way to treat it?
Storing images on GitHub is also a good idea :) At the moment Liveform hosts the images forever. However, you are right about the cumulative cost. I'll have to think about a proper archival mechanism. Thanks for your feedback :)
This article seems to highlight the many reasons why some people shouldn't code.
Show a normal person an average technical thread in HN and ask them to summarize it.
This is a pretty neat idea. However as we know mankind is showing some pretty interesting features that can be found only in viruses.

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. --The Matrix"
Did a fairly standard install of Lubuntu 16.04 + full disk encryption, and I seem to get about 10 hours (i5, 8GB, 128GB). I'll have to try powertop and see if that changes anything.
Mars has an atmosphere, it's just not breathable by any life form from Earth.
No almost about it.

"Give me six terabytes of data from the most honest of men and I will find something in them which will hang him. Probably before I make it past the boot sector." - Cardinal Richelieu
By the time I used BFV simulators in 1989, they were more advanced: The driver and gunner had independent screens and controls, and the wireframes were shaded. Still, I remember thinking at the time that it felt similar to my misspent youth in arcades playing Battlezone. Wouldn't be surprised at all if there was a direct lineage.
Devaluation Triggers Exodus of Wealthy Chinese, US West Coast Primary Target
No I'd have bought many books that I have never gotten around to reading, sometimes they were bought on a whim.
Other times I'd start a book and then start another and leave the first one.
The cynicism also comes from the fact that all these "improvements" are just well known existing techniques coming into and falling out of fashion. I do agree that finding a new chapter is a productive approach. It would be nice to find a physical job that doesn't pay peanuts and where you don't get treated like shit.
QNX was ahead of its time. I think it underpinned most versions of the BlackBerry OS and is used in cars / infotainment systems, but I think they would have made a killing in the IoT space if they had developed in another era.
Never too late. I am wondering what other projects are out there like this one that a corporate lobby products and mass poison a large part of humanity for decades.
The reason that older cities such as Washington and Ottawa are successes whereas some newer cities such as Naypidaw and Brasilia are considered failures is due to designers of the time trying to fix urban issues with modern solutions but fundamentally not understanding at all what makes cities liveable. The designers had no concept that their 'fix' would have side effects that would make things worse.

A major issue is that many of these newer cities are designed not at the human scale, but at car scale. The result is massive roads and lengthly blocks that are unwalkable for pedestrians. This results in no street life and a desolate experience. The designers believed that by building wide roads great for moving cars they were fixing traffic problems that traditional cities have, but the unintentional side effect is that the experience for people on the ground is terrible.
So I'm sitting here, just unlocked my Mac through putting my finger on the touchbar and reading your post, wondering who that "pro" is that I keep on hearing in conjunction with Apple during the last 6 months. I'm a dev, doing the Kool Aid for a 100bn$+ company, together with designers in my team. I always thought devs and designers would be that pro usergroup people are referring to. I've read all the complaints in the last time of "Apple is abandoning the pros" but funny thing, I only heard that on the internet and in hypothetical perspectives, nobody actually complained about the lack of Kaby Lake irl. I'm very fine with the current lineup and I'm wondering if that "pro" you're referring to is actually just an extremely narrow niche.
Wait, the point was to control things around the home, how do you do that by writing into a notepad?
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I work at a mid-sized startup operating in the eCommerce space. We're well funded (Series D, recently acquired another company) and have lots of clients so it's a good place to be at. Honestly, since we got bigger, I miss the joys of being able to code more engg driven features, and actually innovate, as opposed to be driven by what the clients want (which are usually fancier dashboards or more reliability).

But being at a good work place at a stable time means I have time to take it easy at work and actually work on stuff that I'm more passionate about outside of work while not having to worry about financial stability.Currently doing a deep dive on Deep learning/LSTMs etc., reading like crazy, planning travel as well.

I have good work-life balance, and I'm making sure I grow as an individual/developer while also contributing to the company so I'm in a pretty good place! :)
What about the orphans?
What's the net energy on combusting hydrocarbon fuel when all your oxygen comes from breaking the oxygen bonded with H20? I'm betting it's not great.
Yeah, thanks for your comment. Indeed, the idea is that by paying a tax on updates, you get a much bigger improvement on the overall system performance, and also, better scalability.