skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After being married over 20 years, which I still find shocking that anyone has put up with me for so long, I find that "to let her be as emotional as she wants but stay rational and prudent" frequently backfires because she wants emotional _involvement_ and support. Being rational doesn't meet her needs, even though as a man, a geek HFA man at that, I'd rather stay in the safe, predictable, rational realm. Staying married and supporting my wife is more important to me than my comfort zone, just like apologizing means you value the other person more than your own ego.
One particular browser vendor has a particularly strong incentive to push more and more computing "access" through their own controlled channels, core of which is making "everything" accessible through a browser (for some values of accessible and for some values of browser)

WebRTC started at Google, and oh wait it can expose local network information without so much as a prompt or notice?

WebUSB started at Google and the security section of the spec basically says "some truly evil shit could happen via this API. Because of that, the spec leaves any notification or prompting about access to devices up to implementors. "may display a permission prompt" is not something you want to see on anything providing a website access to your local devices.

and now we have WebBluetooth.. oh look. 4 Google staff contributors with 97% of the commits to the spec doc repo. Oh look and the security section also basically says "this shit could seriously fuck up your monday my man".

Never make the mistake of thinking that Google gives two shits about the security of the people using it's $0 services/products. This is a company that force included Flash Player as the rest of the world was finally ready to give up that piece of shit, and still ships it today.
JavaScript and Desktop Apps – Introduction to Electron
Self-Driving Cars Will Improve Our Cities. If They Don’t Ruin Them @rmchase

https://backchannel.com/self-driving-cars-will-improve-our-c...
Where are the successful accelerators? I count "success" as "have nurtured a number of companies that went on to be successful".

I think YC counts as one. But I think it counts as the one. Accelerators (AKA incubators) go back a long way (e.g. techfarm back in the 1990s) and yc is neither the first or last. But I've looked at the proliferation of accelerators and have not seen a lot of success. There is idealab, but that's more a bill gross shop (like Kamens' operation) than a true accelerator IMHO.

My sole metric here is successful companies: those that went on to have significant impact.

Not to pick on anyone, but lets look at techstars's own report since to their credit they publish one: http://www.techstars.com/companies/ . Two things jump out: they did nurture a significant company: digital ocean. They list Sphero, who is doing great with BB-8, but who already had $40M invested and were willing to pay techstars' large fee basically for an introduction (that was hugely valuable). The rest of the companies, well, apart from sendgrid I haven't really heard of them (or the couple I have heard of are struggling). Worse, TS's published metric is funds raised by alumnus companies. It's hard to find a better metric but funds raised don't necessarily predict success, and after all these years you'd think they'd have more than 28 companies on their list.
I think you are right; however, I will have to dig into my old copies of the Norwegian engineering monthly Teknisk Ukeblad; I read a very interesting feature there a few years ago, interviewing a couple of then NORSAR employees who admitted that quite a lot of tinkering and exploring resulted once the link was there - as you'd expect, given the nature of boffins...

Edit - I'd like to dig out the old feature not to dispute your suggestion; only to share what was a very entertaining read. :-)
It's not sufficient. How quickly could you procure new hardware, install that in a datacenter, make it fully functional, and restore your backups? The answer is likely weeks/months. Could your business survive being offline that long? It sounds unlikely.
LoRaWAN vs. Haystack
That only works if the message is coming from somewhere that can be linked with Keybase. Say for example I sign a message on Voat rather than Reddit. Then what? There exists thousands of sites that can't be paired with Keybase.

Pasting a message into /verify is a lot easier for people than installing GnuPG and verifying it themselves. Still faster and more user friendly even if they already have GnuPG installed.
https://virwire.com

Breaking and trending news curation continues to elude much of the the MSM, we created Virwire to solve critical automation and bias issues.
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>Before that shift from the fields to the factories there were no factories. Most people couldn't conceive of what people would do if they weren't farming not to mention all the wacky things that people do today.

"There are things we can't conceive" is not a very convincing argument.

Sure.

There are also things we can conceive fairly well.
It referred to a real and serious phenomena, but now the phrase has been muddied by political rhetoric. It's still a problem, and it's different enough from the old clickbait sensationalism and conspiracy theory chain emails that it deserves its own name.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-j...

https://medium.com/@ev/i-found-it-interesting-that-when-i-we...
Designing Responsive Email Newsletters with MJML
I've not watched that in a while! Enjoyed it again, so thanks!

Have we not almost arrived at this dystopian javascript hella-future though?

I mean, with unikernels which run node in ring 0:

http://runtimejs.org/

And that we can run an emulated linux in browser:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

I'm doing my best to ignore it all....
I just can't get behind either the Surface or Macbook Pro. I had a Macbook that my wife has taken over and I'm currently rockin' an Asus ultrabook that has a 15" screen. I love the bigger screens and 13" is just way to small for me. For the price of a Surface Book I could get a Dell/HP/Lenovo with a 15" screen, 32GB of memory and a large SSD.
I understand where they are coming from.

Sure, folks would do some things that require effort. That's just most people, of course they are going to do some things they find enjoyable, even if it has some effort involved.

But that might be that they discover a new love for video games. Maybe they will start going for speed records, even though they are 45 years old. In between sessions, they'll smoke weed and eat and entice their wife, who has similar passions for similarly lazy activities. Neither works, as they are wealthy enough not to. They take breaks as wanted, leave on a whim, and drop it for a month before coming back to it.

This is hardly the same thing as work: You could replace this with any other hobby, and it still wouldn't count as work. Something might come of it, and they might enjoy life immensely, but hardly work and hardly puritanical.

But weirdly enough, it is effortful under your definition. Unfortunately, yours doesn't actually meet people's expecation of daily work or the sort of work the article eludes to.
The only thing in this article I could never subscribe to is this:

> Set “key objectives” before bed. I decide what I want to do BEFORE I go to sleep. This saves time in the morning when I want to jump right into doing focused work.

Going to sleep is my disconnect from the world. I do my best to let go of all worries or thoughts and embrace what an active brain really needs: shutting down for a while.
Hmm.. Well, if I'm completely honest I can't say I dove too deep into the material; this just happened to be part of the theory/philosophy that I had to study during my design bachelor/master that really resonated with me. But "What Things Do Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design" by Peter-Paul Verbeek is a touchpoint when it comes to post-phenomenology, AFAIK.

http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02539-5.html
"A secret CIA assessment found that Russian operatives covertly interfered", tells absolutely nothing to us about anything at all.

"Washington Post reported" oh it's the fake news people at it again, fucking quacks
To be fair, in Jefferson's time newspapers were overt instruments of a political faction. You started a newspaper to spread your point of view.

We have at least a veneer of nonpartisan purpose to the major newspapers of today, although you can argue they still have a bias. Online news/blogs/etc. are more analogous to the newspapers of the early Republic.
The Revolution Has Begun: Beyond Meat
Fair enough, but if they're going to write about their opinions and argue that "JSX sucks", they should at least be intimately familiar with it. Choosing lack of conditionals as the issue to focus on instead of any other problems templating in React has tells me that they're not.
Kim Jong-Il wore the same thing every day so the regime could release photos without leaking information on when the photo was taken.

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/286-No-...
For all the reasons listed, and because working alone means there is no one with which to share the misery when things don't go well, the objective best practice is probably to find another developer to work with.

The second best practice might be remaining aware of all those risks.

The third best practice? Perhaps realizing that all of those things are sort of normal among ordinary humans and just to accept that fact.

Good luck.
One of the few times they make sense is in a database server application where you might have hundreds of thousands of connected clients.
Apple should realize that most of its cash cow (iPhone) is due to Mac and developers are key to long term success.
So its basically like Orgmode (a simplistic version, that is) but for Vim?
> But instead, "society" says they have to work to have a worth

I disagree. The drive to work and/or be productive is one of the reasons we're the apex predator, and not our prior evolutionary human-like variations. It's not "society" that says you have to work, but your DNA.

Example... do you notice the drive among the powerful/wealthy individuals, governments, and corporations - to get to space and colonize our solar system and beyond? That drive does not exist if we sit on our laurels. Those are the people pushing the species forward - it would be simple to do nothing, and for them to sip very expensive coffee and entertain themselves until their life expired.

> We're coming of an age, where machines can increasingly provide more and more, and we are still addicted to human labor and that connection of self-worth.

This isn't about "human" labor, it's about working in general. Perhaps your occupation is designing, improving, or repairing these machines you speak of. That is work, and has a noticeable impact - opposed to camping, hiking, sipping coffee, and existing for the sake of existing.

tldr; if/when a society meltdown occurs, I don't want you on my team.
KFC reports user credential breaches as result of website "targeting"
Given the findings on stereotype accuracy are some of the best-replicated in psychology, I've always found stereotype threat a humorous idea. It implies stereotypes are accurate because they trick us into perpetuating them. Can you think of a more absurd conspiracy theory? It's in keeping with the very popular notion that you can change reality with words, and thus is commonly said to be true in hopes of making it so.
NASA: 8 small satellites will give us a new look inside hurricanes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13149469

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144876
I live in a rural location and don't want to wait 30 mins for a car to arrive from the nearest city to take me 10 minutes away to fetch groceries. Also my children (7 months and 3 years) require car seats set to their size/weight for safety. I find it is inconceivable that I and my peers with young children in rural locations make up a market large enough for firms to target with ad-hoc rentals. Purchases (or PCP) already provide a plethora of reasonable priced options for us at a level of convenience that is actually useful.
I have a longstanding suspicion that these issues are why there are so many different 'measurement' structures for programming, which don't ever converge to a few winners. I totally believe the GitPrime result is accurate, but my first thought was "I wonder which teams this doesn't apply to?"

'Programmers' is a coherent grouping in terms of "people who write code as a job", but it doesn't generalize well to "people whose daily work is similar". At the extremes, it's a bit like calling a typist, a copy editor, and a poet all "writers" because they produce text. That's a useful grouping when you're designing Microsoft Word, but it's a lot less useful when you're judging everyone on "lines written today". (I worry that there's a value implication in those three careers, and it's not intended; I just wanted vastly different daily workflows.)

And so the GitPrime result seems useful to know about, but there are clear cases like yours where its inapplicable. I suspect it would also run into issues with things like embedded or critical-failure code - NASA's commit patterns might have nothing in common with the industry standard. Even in my largely standard work, I realize that of my last two projects, one had ~50 commits and the other had ~3. The 3-commit one was a tech-debt project with lots of reading and documentation work, and I'm skeptical the two are at all comparable.

Even within similar work, I imagine things like branching strategies and test coverage alter commit frequency. For the near future, we'll probably continue to see the value of a given assessment stay company-and-role specific.
good ol' Microsoft FUD if they had numbers I see no reason why the wouldn't make them public
I would definitely be interested if you threw Electron in as well. I would pay $20-$30 for an ebook on that as I'm struggling with getting React to work with Electron and all the tutorials have their stuff just work and it doesn't work for me when copying what they have. It is beyond frustrating!
If mood-setting music is unacceptable emotional manipulation, we'd better all stop interacting with one another to avoid the great crimes we're all (apparently) constantly committing, because that's about as benign as it gets.
Why Universal Basic Income Is a Terrible Idea
Microsoft means "than before Surface exists".
If Scotty didn't confirm that it's important enough to risk serious damage, he didn't do his job. His job is not to blindly trust the captains omniscience, his job is to inform the captain of the technical consequences. If warp 9 in 15 minutes is preferable to taking damage, than that's the better option.

In the example with the line of code that took 6 days, there was no dramatic emergency in production that required cutting corners. If it had been an emergency, of course the code refactoring demanded in code review should have been postponed; those changes increased the impact of the change, and therefore the resting requirements.

And if it really is an emergence that requires people to drop what they're doing, then someone with sufficient authority should be directly involved in order to override all the usual procedures.

But you don't just drop all procedures just because somebody claims somebody said something. That would be dangerously irresponsible.
It's a function of how you use your computer. I travel a lot and find 13" is a pretty good compromise between portability and usability. No way would I travel with a 15". I do sometimes just go with a small Asus Flip Chromebook but with the knowledge that I can't use it for everything.
When one institution costs money to operate, and another makes money by operating, the latter will very quickly outstrip the former.

Granted, not all desired behaviors can be made more profitable than their alternatives. But this is an example of how to encourage this sort of technological progress. We can be promoting electric cars not just because they are green but because they are awesome, or a free-market economy not just because it is more fair but because it works better, or no-till farming not just because it is better for the environment but because it produces higher profits, or space exploration not just because it is educational but because there are huge opportunities.

When profitability is a part of the equation, most other motivators are weak in comparison.
Try learning foreign languages. To understand a language, one must possess a level of understanding of the underlying culture and history.

Then one discovers that dialects arise from a common language with differences in geographic or societal culture and history.

Linguistics and etymology are fascinating topics, _almost_ as much fun as building (and test breaking) fault tolerant distributed systems.
> Don't listen to people telling you dongles and USB-C is bad. It's not bad. It's just the future.

God I hate this argument. Sure it is the future. But what you and other keep forgetting/not mentioning is the fact that USB 2 (type A) isn't going to suddenly disappear. There are just too many use cases where a bigger throughput from USB 3+ isn't needed.

So what do you do? Throw away all usb 2 peripherals? Buy multiple adapters? To think of all the usb sticks that would be basically useless without a dongle...

When apple decided that CD/DVD's are deprecated it was an ok decision because a) Most media can be put on an external dive b) you can buy an external CD/DVD reader.
And i think you need an USB-A dongle WAY more often then an CD/DVD drive.

Apple should have just keep 1 usb 3.1 (Type A) port => 1 USB-A + 2 USB-C for the non touchbar MBP. If the macbook would then be a few mm taller, excellent. More room for the battery.
So the year they were wrote (first book came out May 2015, second book in Dec 2015), I made $15k profit. Mainly because I did two Kickstarters for the books + the launch campaigns. Of course, 2015 (and a bit of 2014) was when I was spending time writing/designing/editing/publishing the books, so "profit" would be lower if you include my time.

This year, other than answering questions on my book's discussion forum as well as running a couple workshops for PyCon and DjangoCon, has been largely writing-free so it would truly be 13k in profit. :)
>Microsoft refuses to provide numbers but vaguely claims “our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever.”

But wasn't it the first time they ever offered a trade-in for Macbooks? I just googled it and was not able to find old offers.
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hi guys i was wondering is there any way to earn more yt viewers?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31K_88jyMOR1AzCp5FaBAw
I know magsafe is probably a lot better than this, but my type c charger also comes right off when I trip over the cable.

Granted it's because the port got wrecked, but it works (kinda).
It appears that this happened a few days ago, but they only just sent me an email today informing me so I assume a few other people don't know as well. Probably not a bad shout to let your loved ones know that they should change their password (which they probably use everywhere) if they too have a love of Chicken.
Is there a way to skip the paywall somehow?
Put a physical button to enable/disable the network connectivity. That will limit the damages.

Add a hard firmware reset button as well.
I really tried myself but switched my XPS on linux after 1 hour. I placed all my hopes on that Ubuntu on Windows thing but it's full of limitations and you can't get through with a working development environment. It's locked on ubuntu 14 from what I recall and you can't really install/compile do your thing freely due to some limitations. If working with nodejs and light stuff I presume it can be okay'ish.
AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Accelerators, One Based on Vega 10
Maybe it's comfortable and they don't care?
Maybe Leaker 2.0 is inferior to 1.0. It perhaps parallels America 2.0 (indefinite detention without trial, torture, and maybe a few other crimes against humanity) being a bit inferior to America 1.0.
I didn't set out to do this, but I wear effectively the same thing every day (jeans, button-up, topsiders, north face). The biggest choice in getting dressed is which socks I'll wear, but that's fun.

I love variety in my food, and cooking is my "relaxation" time every day. I would (and do) get depressed eating even the same thing for lunch every day. Similarly, I like wandering the aisles for the grocery story (when I go—my wife does most of the shopping) to find interesting ingredients that inspire food ideas.
This has nothing to do with how mainstream media actually act and everything to do with the thought processes of people that want [others] to believe the Democrat party elite is running a paedophile conspiracy act and the MSM is trying to hide it

So a mainstream media source - the AP is as mainstream and widely syndicated as it gets - running a story on an unrelated and probably actually real paedophile conspiracy in Norway after the Pizzagate 'revelations' becomes "MSM is taking down articles on high level pedophile rings" because the NYT removes news agency articles after a fixed period
(even ones about fake news - e.g
http://archive.is/760xP
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/15/technology/ap-us-...)

And the many reports into the story aren't proper investigative journalism because - shock horror - the journalists don't agree with 4chan that "cheese pizza" is a term identified by the FBI as a pedophile codeword that nobody in their right mind would ever use in a pizza store.
The fundamental problem sounds like it's that SQLite insists on not running in its own thread. This, coupled with the fact that Linux has no way to issue a true (i.e., non-blocking) write barrier, means that there is no way to implement write barriers in user space.

Whereas, if SQLite did issue I/O from a separate thread, one could easily implement an "async commit" function which guaranteed consistency and ordering but not necessarily durability (i.e. a write barrier). This would suffice I suspect for 95% of usage in applications: users will probably be OK if their phone loses the last few seconds of user input before an OS crash, so long as everything else is left intact.

EDIT: In fact, Postgresql has an option to permit exactly this behavior: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/wal-async-commit.... This is possible in Postgresql because, unlike SQLite, I/O does not run in the client thread.
Small flying vehicles for daily travel seem insanely unlikely. The energy expenditure is wasteful, especially if you need vertical takeoff. Seems like not the best future for typical commuter traffic, I feel like.
I don't think there are any that provide enough power for the pro
I'm using PrintNinja (http://printninja.com) - they also do the printing for me, and they've been phenomenal. Great quality, reasonable prices, absolutely stellar customer service. The fulfillment is relatively new, and they're still working out the kinks, but I really like working with them so it's nice having only one company for both aspects.
> Lots of cultures don't have that pressure.

Any specific ones that you have in mind?
Making some decisions before going to bed helps reduce the time to mental shutdown once you're in bed.

If you go to sleep and know you have tasks the next day, you need to let go of them somehow. One way is to make those decisions now, have a plan or a list of things that will be done tomorrow (even if it's just basic). For instance, look at the calendar and see that you have an 8am appointment the next day. Better to know before going to bed than to realize it as you're halfway asleep and suddenly jolted awake by the memory.
if you're still using fglrx, configuring xorg.conf is still a part of your life.

the sooner fglrx dies, the better off the planet will be.