skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i regularly travel from karlsruhe to munich and i can't work on the bus, since there is not enough space for my laptop. Working inside the train is pleasant and after christmas every ICE has free wifi (wow, that took forever for them to decide to implement it! Rolling out was rather quick)
The best business advice I've ever read was put out by the Scientologists. Not that they do a good job of following their own advice; but its good. They know how to be effective.
For the record, I really appreciate that you took the time to record these events and make clear the sorts of things that you experienced. Even though it's hard to see now, from the commenters in this thread and others, I think stories like yours are important, especially as they contribute to a broader narrative. I hope and believe that we are working towards a sort of inflection point, where the scales tip and this sort of subtle and subversive nonsense is reliably identified, acknowledged, and rejected.
Business shcool, as best i can tell, have elevated the operations of a widget factory to a religion. And thus MBAs everywhere attempt to turn every institution they are put to manage, into an assembly line to fit their religion.

Observe the insanity in health care, where patients are not people but raw materials to be put through the medical factory and turned into a finished, aka healed, product at the other end.
I stopped watching because slides are not showed. Could have been interesting.
Looks handy. Thanks for posting, Dan.
Such as....??
>> If you are going to represent ‘jobs’ or tasks as threads, and you need potentially 100s or 1000s of those, it just won’t scale - the overhead is too high.

This seems to be an indictment against containerization (ie docker, kubernetes, etc). How can a single machine, even with containers, scale out if this is true? Do people advocating docker and similar technologies not understand or recognize that their containers should only utilize y threads (where y = (total threads per machine)/(number of containers hosted on that machine))? I personally have never heard this mentioned as a consideration when deploying docker, for example.
It's security marketing, in particular: they're trying to increase engagement with their bug bounty program. A big problem bug bounty programs that run without promotion run into is that the median submission is of terrible quality, but the best submissions are so good it's hard to get them through any other vector.

If you're looking to run a bug bounty for a specific feature and want to maximize quality while minimizing effort triaging terrible submissions, I think there are much more cost-effective ways to accomplish that by structuring the bounty program (for instance: I might not run it on a platform like Hackeroni at all).

But if you're looking to run bounties for all your stuff in the future and want to maximize the likelihood that the good bounty hunters will pay attention to you to begin with, this might be a pretty cost effective way to do that.
I doubt basic income would work. People with too much time on their hands will riot anyway, eventually. Work keeps people busy, even if it's low paid work, provided work conditions are okay.

East, West is a nice collection of short stories that would give you a taste of his writing style. Also The Groung Beneath her Feet is quite popular.
Syntax-rules has difficulty in any context where referential opacity or the introduction of bindings is desired. This means anaphoric macros, loop structures with break statements, and so on. It's not impossible (at least in Scheme), but it is hard.

In addition, syntax-rules is based on a DSL. If you want to build a macro that cannot be expressed in that DSL, or is hard to exress in that DSL (fairly common), tough.

With imperative hygienic macros (provided they give you control over hygene), or imperative unhygienic macros, this isn't a problem.
I wonder why Delphi was more "popular" than Go-lang?

I wish Borland Pascal had been more popular in the 90s. It's interesting to think how Java would have fared if there was another viable alternative to the clearly inadequate C++ language. Of course, Borland would have had to NOT try to compete with MS Office, and have been content to be like JetBrains is now - provide a best in class IDE for open source languages, assuming they open sourced the Pascal/Delphi command line compiler.
Every week the same question? And I got banned bc of this shit ad.
God's Number is 20 (2010)
I don't believe all FedEx drivers have to supply their own trucks but most freight oth drivers do. They also work pretty strict and tight deadlines.

Most delivery services in general work their employees hard. An ex of mine drove for different food and drink vendors driving truck doing ltl to grocery stores and gas stations and they would consistently exceed maximum hours cdl drivers are allowed to work.
I've basically only noticed or cared about fonts when I'm on a windows computer or a poorly configured linux computer. Windows's hinting drives me nuts.
Sure, but I find the problem isn't competing against twenty somethings once you're hired (could be done with one lobe tied behind your back, haha). It's getting hired by them at all, and very difficult if you're not "internet famous."
Same here. I believe it was via linuxstart.com
Unless Microsoft fucked up postinstall scripts, what programmers that build
packages tend to do.
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
Bad example but his point is overall pretty solid imo.
I am unsure of what to think of this. It sickens me. In Scotland, Amazon workers chose to sleep in tents near the warehouse. In the depths of winter.

1) Workers in the warehouse at Amazon are in pretty bad conditions but how does this compare to working in a warehouse in other companies? Not sure if things are rosy elsewhere

2) What I fear is the growth and normalization of this behaviour in the future. Crappy jobs and child labour were acceptable during the Industrial Revolution, it was always better then no job in the rural area. But now it feels like a step backwards. In the information age, when tech giants are changing/destroying entire industries to create this new (great?) future?

3) And then, what happens when delivery drivers are replaced by drones and autonomous car makes car ownership irrelevant? Cloud subscription has made hardware servers irrelevant. Will we have car subscription to Google, Tesla and Uber? How will we earn money to pay for those subscriptions and buy on Amazon?

:?
Perhaps you could provide a more intellectually substantial reply.
I love Linux as much as the next sysadmin, but given how central it is to the bottom lines of so many corporations, there's no way I'm going to donate to it as an individual. Let the companies that profit from it fund it.
SQL Server ships with a number of "tools". I.e. applications that are pretty awesome.

SQL Server Management tool is a great core user interface to managing database servers and databases. Other tools that are commonly used by developers include the rather awesome query planner, query profiler, performance analyser and data import and export tool.

There are lots more told available for data warehousing / OLAP etc that are not so commonly used by most developers. SQL server is undoubtedly tool rich.
Yep... and it all started in the 1920s with Taylorism - the idea that management could be a scientific process.

Taylorism is why, for example, some companies still use lines of code written as a measure of productivity.
tl;dw?
> This is some serious FUD, pretty standard for Newsweeks bitcoin reporting

Newsweek has been a tool of US propaganda for a very long time.

From his first days in power, Allen Dulles polished the public image of the
CIA, cultivating America's most powerful publishers and broadcasters, charming
senators and congressmen, courting newspaper columnists.

He found dignified publicity far more suitable than discreet silence. Dulles
kept in close touch with the men who ran The New York Times, The Washington
Post, and the nation's leading weekly magazines. He could pick up the phone
and edit a breaking story, make sure an irritating foreign correspondent was
yanked from the field, or hire the services of men such as Time's Berlin
bureau chief and Newsweek's man in Tokyo. It was second nature for Dulles to
plant stories in the press. American newsrooms were dominated by veterans of
the government's wartime propaganda branch, the Office of War Information,
once part of Wild Bill Donovan's domain. The men who responded to the CIA's
call included Henry Luce and his editors at Time, Look, and Fortune; popular
magazines such as Parade, the Saturday Review, and Reader's Digest; and the
most powerful executives at CBS News. Dulles built a public-relations and
propaganda machine that came to include more than fifty news organizations, a
dozen publishing houses, and personal pledges of support from men such as Axel
Springer, West Germany's most powerful press baron.

Dulles wanted to be seen as the subtle master of a professional spy service.
The press dutifully reflected that image.

p. 88 of Legacy of Ashes

https://books.google.com/books?id=UlCPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...
Because data is rarely static.

In the instance where data changes rarely, static output can be cached, but you still need a way to generate the output dynamically.
The worrying implications of China's social-credit project
A friend developed a cellular automata engine, 20 years ago. He sampled porn for palette mapping. There was Zero correlation of physical shapes. While the visuals were abstract, the color scheme felt warm and inviting. Did the original material help 'promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts'?
No. Systems that rely on encrypted and signed credentials to perform login theoretically do not suffer from that problem: case in point, the Windows SAM had hashed that seem to preclude if limited to NTLM decryption save for brute-forcing, which itself is curtailed by salting the hashes — but if those hashes are removed by offline editing to the SAM, the system allowed access. A system that did not allow removing the hashes because the file system is encrypted and/or because signing made the tampering visible (itself evaluated by TPM-style verification) would be conceptually not vulnerable to this line of attack (implementation flaws notwithstanding).
Don't forget Google Shopping Express if you absolutely need it next day - which even passes on sales from local stores to delivery purchases.

Prime (free) Video could be seen as simply a sales channel for their paid video.
The median income is $4000 in Switzerland. What matters is that they have less income inequality and a good welfare safety net. When you let people with mental illness become homeless because everyone should fend for themselves, of course they're gonna occupy and piss where they can. When you help them become productive members of society, they don't. That's quite simple and has nothing to do with ethnicity like you're trying to imply.

Switzerland has some "fend for yourself" dimension where stuff like health insurance or childcare is largely private (and expensive), but they have a super strong safety net too. You are never being let down to the point that you have no choice but to be homeless.
It would probably help if there was some/better/easier to find documentation on how to get a build going.
They should have added:

0) Management is independent of any particular firm. You can "bring in" managers or managerial ideas from the outside, impose them from the top down, and any given firm will not only continue functioning, but function much better.

The evidence shows that good management is intimately tied-up with the particular circumstances of each firm, and with obtaining information about firm operations from the bottom up.
...Can't the Clojure people just implement a native code compiler for mobile stuff? I mean, come on, CL/Scheme have been doing that for years, and they weren't constrained by the JVM, forcing a more optimized design.
tl;dr
This "finding" of this study: if people take longer to accomplish the same task, they are more accurate in accomplishing the task.

Please spare us from more tiny sample studies.
"if you tax companies more, then prices will increase." I stopped there.

That's so "let's not change anything"...
That's not in the "street" its a steel plant with an out door drop hammer.
You may be misunderstanding. The "hacking tools" phrase likely refers to what others might call "penetration testing tools" and/or tools used for reverse engineering.
This is not a good idea. From a language learning perspective, it is essential to become immersed in the sounds and shapes of a language as soon as possible. Approximations will not do. Arabic is equipped with sounds that foreign speakers are not able to produce without significant effort and coaching.

This will make it more difficult to become proficient.
Wouldn't bitcoin respond to such an attack by just finally implementating a proof of stake protocol on top of their proof of work one?
In France, for a 5:30 hours ride, I pay most of the time 75€, 40€ in off-season, as sometimes as much as 100€.
The most painful experience is buying a ticket for Christmas season when everybody is trying to buy at the opening of the sales: a few seconds late and you lose 10€. I once lost dozen of euros when my card was refused. It feels like these riots-like black Friday I sometimes see on tv...
That's kinda true, but we can request to get our copyright back on a per-project basis.
See also the nationalised of East Coast.
I'd say "advanced management theory" may be dying, but I don't even see basic 101 management theory being acknowledged in many organization. Things like "don't have one person report to two or more people" are violated all the time and result in predictable chaos and problems.

I'm reminded of the story of garbagemen strike that brought New York City to their knees, while the Irish Banking Crisis caused only a blip because people turned to alternative forms of currency. Real managers provide real value solving real problems, and are well liked by their employees. Unfortunately most management nowadays is awful, and needs to be pruned.
Google seems very Taylor.
This is a good idea, and one that I could certainly have used when learning Arabic— but its real utility is not for Modern Standard Arabic- it's for 'amiya/3amiya (spoken Arabic), which, to those not in the know, differs from region to region and is vastly different from both written and spoken forms of Modern Standard Arabic.

As someone suggested above, learning Arabic script is the first-- and smallest--of many challenges for those trying to learn formal Arabic.

There are few good systematized sources available for people trying to learn spoken Arabic, particularly if they're not particularly interested in reading the news or classical texts. I'm thinking of aid workers, diplomats, vagabonds, whatever.

A system such as this has great utility to these people— except it already exists in much of the Arabic-speaking world, particularly the Levant and Egypt, where numbers are used to represent sounds not found in the Latin alphabet.

For example: "You will speak Arabic soon" (Levantine) - "إنت رح تحكي عربي قريبا" - can also be rendered as "inta ra7 ti7ki 3rabi 2areeban". This makeshift system is used widely in texts in Lebanon and elsewhere. Utilizing this existing method will be easier and have wider applicability.
It's not just animals, humans will anthropomorphize even robots which we know for sure aren't conscious. I remember how, not that long ago Boston Dynamics posted a video of a man kicking a robot dog and a lot of people were really unconformable seeing that.
The high precision offered by Galileo was one of the reasons why the Pentagon rejected the system in the first place. There were fears that adversaries of NATO or of other allies could use it for military purposes. However, engineers have found a solution to that problem: should a serious crisis arise, the military can jam a certain part of the broadcasting spectrum. This would cut off civilian use, but still retain the functions that are reserved for allied military purposes.

This seems like quite a big issue; If any of the EU states go to war, then planes and other civilian things relying on Galileo would stop working? Would they fall back to GPS?
Now I just can't stop thinking about the comparison between humans and ants.
People complain about Silicon Valley's obsession with culture fit, infantilizing its employees, and supplanting an actual adult life with 'perks' but truth be told only the last one is a SV invention. (government standard raises and hours are probably the only good thing about such jobs)
I would like to take a moment to praise Quanta Magazine. They really are the one magazine that got me reading all forms of long form articles about science which if it were written plainly would go high above my head and/or would seem boring.
It's maybe fair to say it's the most important technology when it comes to web development. The software engineering world is much bigger than just web development, though.
Scientists Successfully Lengthen Mice's Lifespan by 30 Percent
If the card was VESA compatible, there were a number of display modes to select in the "safe mode" menu, which you could get to by pressing space on the boot screen.
Six reasons why I find F# a better language than C#
In this case it refers to a specific website, well known to Germans but now taken over by a competitor, that pairs up carpoolers: www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de
whether pornography promotes the progress of science and useful arts

The creation of sexual pleasure is a useful art. People clearly care enough about sex to devote significant parts of their lives to it, and it has major interactions with their health and happiness. Why then should its practice and technique not be fit subjects for art? What is the purpose of music but to supply aural pleasure, or of paintings and sculpture but to supply visual pleasure?

To be sure, pornography of one kind or another may not appeal to people. What of it? Many art works in other media leave me cold or even repulse me. I can cite artists whose work I loathe looking at but yet consider to be extremely high in art value, partly because they make me so uncomfortable. I see no reason for art based on sexual performance to be any different.

I find this whole proposition offensive, designed to devalue the interests, creativity and effort of one group of people in order to maintain the convenience of others - the very definition of oppression. In a broader sense, telling people in general that their sexuality is inherently lacking in worth is little more than a crude bid for psychosocial control by associating a center of bodily excitement and pleasure with feelings of shame and uselessness.
It's… complicated.

On one hand, instantaneous mpg is seriously misleading. To me, accelerating efficiently means maximizing the amount of acceleration I get per unit of fuel—doing that does NOT maximize instantaneous mpg, but ideally finds the optimal point on the fuel-consumption-rate*time graph that you actually care about.

On the other hand, real-time feedback is probably better for the not-exactly-scientifically-rigorous way people learn, and it can be useful for noticing unexpected behavior not covered by intentional experiments.

A realtime unit-less fuel efficiency gauge in a U-Haul clued me into non-ideal behavior from the automatic transmission climbing hills. Feedback from this dumb gauge caused me to adjust my driving, which meant only my first tank of gas lasted way less time than expected.
So, basically you believe that people are gaming the system but you have no examples of how this happens or which companies might be doing this?
> Frankly, bounties are something I might push back on for a lot of startups.

Care to elaborate why?
Clojure core.async
"Minimalist box for older hardware with high performance. "

That's what I like. For when even a good Linux distro is too much for the hardware. The slow, old thing can be transformed into a nice, new thing.
Hindsight is 20/20
I mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about it?

Exactly. And, then, publicize it for karma points somewhere, when the outrage kicks in and it gets lots of eyeballs.
> Are we really so comfortable with, unencrypted, cloud storage now that we don't even mention the potential for warrentlsss access and other abuses?

It is worth noting that iCloud allows encryption of your data using a passphrase (Usually the device passphrase but I believe you can set a custom one, if you prefer).
I wonder if this was released due to Xen's recent x86 instruction emulation bugs.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9932

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9383
Releases: unbelievably good deployment story.

> be me

> build a release (see distillery)

> put it on a machine (don't care how, but I like building AMIs with packer + ansible)

> build a systemd unit

> never go down because fault tolerance and good supervision strategy

Performance: so so good, and horizontal linear scaling is basically the holy grail and the Erlang VM makes it trivial.
No it let me, but the URL was broken with an extra /, so I had to delete it and link to the about.
Ok, I'll rephrase it. Becoming a scientist is so incredibly hard that for the 99% or scientists in the planet there is absolutely neither point nor desire into spend their huge inversion validating the 2.0 version of old uninteresting themes linked with pseudo-religious connotations.

We are instead thinking about cancer and other diseases, biological invasions, contamination, climate change, and how explore, discover and save new animals and plants. Each one of this problems could fill several lives.

Do you feel that your turtle pet is so smart that could read your mind? Sorry if I'm being rough, but honestly... I don't care. We are trying to fight against the sixth extinction here.
Well, I didn't want to write a book of reasons but one of my math professors avidly uses it and it crashes EVERY SINGLE class, many times it crashed at least two times in a 3 hour class. The max was about 7.
Complexity analysis, ability to explain and implement sorting algorithms on your own, understanding of threading, mutexes, semaphores and all that.. Think of the difference between knowing how to program sql and understanding relational algebra and normalization forms.

Perhaps you can figure out what you don't know by looking at the study schedule for a computer science program?
A popular app could ship with 100 different primes pre baked and pick one at random? Not perfect but 100x better than having one prime.
I agree with you there. I only use viJournal Lite on my MBP. Finding a replacement has been difficult.
I like living in Europe most of the time. And I'm sure if we could get over a lot of petty, cultural, differences, we could build more amazing things and innovate at a much faster speed then we have been so far.
For self awareness and subjective experience: can you tell me if a self driving car has either of those?
Comparing Tree Shaking to Closure Compiler Optimizations
Yep. The geek port, as well as at least one midi port iirc. The geek port had both analogue and digital I/O.
Most websites are not constantly changing and would benefit from static hosting.

I guess the dynamic page generators are simpler.

You need to change a lot of the static generators for custom solutions. A lot of tinkering is involved.