skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very difficult to classify people by e-mails. I worked with so many people who were very nice to me. We'd discuss requirements. I'd even type up timelines and e-mail them docs.

Next day, a thread with every manager in the planet saying our team was stonewalling everything, being unhelpful, etc. etc.

My boss would come up to my cube and say, "Stop e-mailing these people! Why are you e-mailing them? Pick up the phone and call them!"

I hate to rush judgement, but looking at the statements that are out, I am really unhappy with her approach, her statements and her totalism. Just because you don't agree with a policy doesn't mean the FSF shouldn't exist. Pulling your project feels reactionary.

I'm guilty of reactionary anger too. I'm human, we're all human. We feel like we've been wronged often by our neighbours or our landlords or police. This might have just been a bad week for her and some rushed decision making. But if she's always like this and doesn't learn from it, then she'll find herself alone in other communities in the future.

Just a side note, there was a good video by School of Life on anger. I don't actually agree with all of it. Their premise is weird, but it would actually put her reaction to the FSF in a different light:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiCkmcKjX8
It's not venture capital. It's the standard reason 150-person organizations die; they have no revenue of note and no plan to get more.
I'll bite: what does that mean exactly? "A living" implies something different to me than you.
I loved my ASUS ROG Gladius It comes with different pressure switches and is easy to change the switches (Bad switches is what killed all my other mouses before) and a detachable cord. I've had it 2 years and it is a tank. I hate switching mice.
who says the next 15 years won't see the automation of investment bankers? We've only recently started seeing the rise of deep learning to reach new heights like AlphaGo, put Picasso to shame, drive cars, replace managers in Japanese factories, mimic human voice, predict conversion and see patterns & deep links unclear to the human.

I don't see why we can't automate the workflow of coke snorting gordon gekko wannabe fuckboys on wall street in the next 15 years as will a large chunk of professional careers. To boot, we see lot of the floor trading becoming automated as a result of the innovation we had in the past 15 years.

Luddites of the 21st century will hit the mid to lower upper class hard, I'd love to work on such problems.
It needs A on one end and C on the other, because nobody I know works on only one device.

(OTG too for various devices, of you want really wide compatibility)
Intel’s Compute Card is a PC that can fit in your wallet
Indiehackers
I'm not a lawyer, but according to this definition the fraud perpetrator need not gain, only cause injury to the fraud victim:

"A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of what should have been disclosed—that deceives and is intended to deceive another so that the individual will act upon it to her or his legal injury."

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fraud
>> I think 4K has ended up being a bit of a whiff in most respects.

And some unintended consequences as well. Buddy on my hockey team got a notice from Comcast that since he continually went over his 100GB data limit every month, they were raising his rates.

Incredulous, I asked him, "What on earth on you doing where you're blowing through 100GB of bandwidth every month?!"

His response? "I have to stream all my Netflix movies in 4K."
Soundcloud Posts €51m Loss
This is almost too ridiculously misinformed a statement to even justify replying to, but since it's easy enough, the SS trust funds earn interest through investment as necessitated by law. They've also been used as an intergovernmental loan vehicle, acting to keep gov't debt lower than it would otherwise have been. It's not a Ponzi scheme.
That is pretty awesome. I've only worked remotely from a place where everybody is based in the same office, but I think your place addresses the big lack of social interactions that usually accompanies remote work.

On a side note, I'm also tangentially interested to see how VR can affect the remote workspace. I've used Bigscreen Beta (shared multiplayer lounge with virtual screens) with the Vive to work on a mutual side project with some friends and being able to see each other's screens by turning your head rather than by sharing with some program has also made the experience feel closer to in person work.
> If I knew then what I know now, I'm not sure I would have started this.

You said you are making more money from this than from your full-time job. So I'm assuming the business is profitable and has a ton of potential. Are you saying that it requires too much work, and that it wasn't worth it?
What mechanism do you think will decrease inequality?
is that really true? this election more than ever most voters believed they had to choose the lesser of two evils and didn't like their choices. both candidates had record disapproval ratings. i understand trump
isn't a typical politician but it didn't quite seem like people got what they want... more that they voted against hillary and for a republican supreme court.
> I don't think you can reasonably frame clicking on too many ads as an act of sabotage. It's interfering with the metrics that some people who you don't necessarily have a business relationship use to make business decisions (like paying out money), but it's not obvious to me how you're obligated to be particularly cooperative in their gathering of the metrics. The system continues to work as intended, you're just not supplying it with the data its creators would ideally hope to receive. That also seems to contrast it with a DoS attack.

Blocking an ad/tracker is being "not particularly cooperative", and fulfils the goal of not seeing ads or being tracked pretty well. The entire point of modifying an existing ad blocker to click everything, as stated by the creators is to disrupt the metrics to the point where the system doesn't continue to work as intended, and cost the indiscriminately clicked ad-purchasers an average of $1.58 per wasted PPC click, as they've taken the effort to estimate (see their FAQ).

I can't see how anyone can honestly argue that a tool whose creators openly state that its purpose is to indiscriminately "obstruct" and "resist" an industry to force it to change its business model by rendering its analytics worthless and wasting PPCers budgets isn't sabotage, irrespective of whether they agree with the desirability of the end goal.
Which are some of your iOS apps?
Annual fundraising. The entire industry is definitely a mess, but the big players are well established. There are a few companies that focus on online fundraising for small organizations, but it seems like most of the companies that handle traditional fundraising are targeting large institutions like schools and hospitals.
... because you're immediately ignored as persona non grata when your presidential term is up?
srch is namespace:

I think it was about line 8 in this file:

https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/meta64/blob/master/src/main...

That's funny that you don't like singletons. Not sure how you got brainwashed about them, but they are good and VERY widely used today by all major codebases. Singleton is literally the "default scope" for all Spring Beans, so you are so completely clueless about that.
Unwaffle looks interesting. Is it ML? Good luck with it!
Social security is not a Ponzi scheme.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2014/sep/24/car...
Original Intel announcement: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-card/intel-co...
You're not facing a resolution problem so much as a brightness and contrast problem.

Bright sunlight is about 120000 lux. That's about 38000 nits -- and the brightest specialty monitors I know of go up to about 10000 nits. A typical "wow, look at that" display is 2-3000 nits.
Looking at the source, it comes from http://coincap.io
>Except power in US politics is fleeting. 8 years. That's the most you can be at the "top."

What makes you think that regular fair elections are going to continue indefinitely in the United States of America?
> Whatever the case is, even though I know null about the project, I can easily say that Leah Rowe, whoever she might be, is apparently toxic for the project.

So you don't know anything about the project beside that their main/core maintainer accuses GNU project to have fired a trans person and therefor she doesn't want to work there anymore.

Call me SJW or Gutmensch but if that makes you 'easily say' that she is 'apparently toxic', you are a prime example for what is going wrong in tech.
As far as (1).... making a web request is NOT a user saying they clicked an ad. That is an inference that the website owner is making, not a statement the user is making. The user never agreed to that.

This would be like if you are a dairy farmer and you notice people who buy cookies usually buy milk, so to make things simple you make an agreement to pay a store 25 cents for every cookie they sell (because you want to incentivize them to sell more cookies and therefore more milk). You couldn't then accuse a customer of fraud when they buy cookies but not milk. They never agreed to always buy milk when they buy cookies, that was just an assumption you made.
How to make diseases disappear – Rangan Chatterjee – TEDxLiverpool
Tesla has started cell production at the Gigafactory [video]
Wow, I made it up to the payment portion of your checkout process. Not a single mention of the shipping time. The button says "Complete Order" so I assume this is the last chance to notify people before they pay.

That's shady as hell, dude.

> You just need to clearly state all over the site that your delivery times are 3-4 weeks.

You definitely don't do this... at all. It's clear that you've intentionally buried that information in a separate "How we ship" page. Nobody thinks to look for that, they'll all assume shipping is the standard 5-10 days unless otherwise indicated.

If this is actually working and not causing tons of angry emails/refund requests, congrats. But I'd feel like a jerk doing that to people.
I've been using IRC for over 15 years without scripting anything... I wouldn't call a client "useless" without scripting support.
Your 60" TV is not big enough for 4k at 7' away. You need > 75" of screen[0]

[0] http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-re...
Libreboot and other projects with a similar relationship to upstream suffer from a paradox: It appears that no original development is happening there, because all of the original development is sent upstream. The work done by developers hired to work on Libreboot looks like work done on Coreboot, because Libreboot cooperates with Coreboot and sends their work upstream.
Unlike the majority here I have zero coding skills.

Currently monetizing www.hashtaginvesting.com, a Slack chat for stock traders and investors to discuss in real-time.
Then you'll love this concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mk0RySeNsU A 1:18 "clickjacking" demo. (Link to video because I think this is legitimately one of those cases where a video can describe and demonstrate the problem faster than text.) You can google around for more info, or at least my YouTube is definitely popping up some other relevant videos.
I took it to be a personification of his Critical Inner Self.
Having seen a number of 'libre' projects disappear or radically change management (sometimes under unlitigated accusations of harassment or misconduct), I hope that important projects to the freedom of computer use continue to exist.

Recently TrueCrypt has disappeared, TOR got new management (a bunch of suits), etc.

Personal spats aside, these projects are bigger than the organizations and people who sacrifice so much to contribute to them.

I might recommend to the FSF and GNU that these sorts of projects need to be given special attention with regard to their continued existence, the happiness and healthiness of the contributors, the transparency of internal activities, and the thwarting of intelligence/infiltration activity.

The continued, healthy existence of free software depends not only on the code but on the institutions and the people who provide, advertise, decide and distribute that code.
Letting go of people often has to do with a series of mistakes. It's something most companies and non-profits can't do lightly. There is so much potential blowback, like with this case. These decisions usually involve a couple of people. We don't have introspection into this, so we can't be sure. Resist the urge to assume.
The difference comes in the tone...

When the tone is more accusatory than informative, it invites plenty of criticism...
> The level 2 and 3 stuff on a Tesla, is already a better driver than most humans.

Ehm, how do you come to this conclusion? Statistically, Autopilot Teslas are no safer than the NHTSA average, at least so far.
Heya -- I just tried Subscribing but I haven't gotten the confirmation e-mail. Been about 10 minutes. Looks like it's handled by mailchimp so probably their issue but wanted to let you know.
Emirates Has Invested $500M to Build a 'Fort Knox' of Wine
There are simple fixes that could dramatically extend the reserve depletion date to sometime in the 2050s. Not doing so is purely a political question.

Increasing the marginal rate of income tax for anyone making more than $120,000 by 12%+ may be a "simple" fix or just a matter of politics, but it's some pretty hard politics! (And also might lead to some unfortunate economic outcomes.)
Loving your drive for this site Courtland. Very inspiring.
> So the browser would have to determine if the item is visible to the user, which is not trivial

This is not terribly difficult, browsers need to know what is visible because they have to actually display it. If an element isn't drawn it shouldn't be autofilled.
Hmmm, maybe the book Guns, Germs, and Steel would be an interesting start. It's a beefy and detailed book, but interesting. Definitely a broad overview. Also, I think the made it into a movie. That might be more digestible.

I've always like Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He covers a broad range of subjects but they're ways great!

Ancient China is also really awesome to learn about. It's not studied so much in the west but they had some extraordinarily advanced civilizations and cities well before those in Europe. Japan, Egypt, the Middle East all have pretty mind-blowing histories.
He should be in a Shimano 105 groupset commercial :)
Technology is easy, people are hard.
I've moved to weechat these days, but I'm glad to see the revived project making progress.

Irsii was my daily communications hero for many years.
You can disable it,

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-whether-firefox...

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893?co=GENIE.Pla...
> Binary test packages for various Linux distributions are automatically generated by the openSUSE Build Service

The most underused Linux service to the rest of the community. So glad they are using this.
soundslice is awesome!
I built a plugin to connect WordPress with MailChimp (https://mc4wp.com) while hospitalised in Vietnam a few years ago and it has been selling well enough to support me in my travels & now back home in The Netherlands from day 1 (right after I started offering a paid version, that is).
I made an agreement to myself to never use any Google language, tool, or library after they decided to shut down google code. Google has a history of creating all of these crazy projects and then just completely abandoning them leaving the early adopters to fend for themselves. It's really bad practice and leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. That's why I haven't even tried Go. I have no interest in it. As soon as Google develops some other language they'll drop Go like a hot potato and everyone using it in production will be forced to rewrite or stagnate.

Look at AngularJs for a more recent example.

Add to this that Google has some of the worst versioning practices I've ever seen and you get a recipe for destruction.
Husserl noticed it before you...and before me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other
Things have changed a bit, now I have to worry about Thunderbolt 3.
This is great thank you. I'm a super-novice, but extremely fascinated by this field. I just ordered his book Quantum Computing since Democritus.
In that same vein, I plug The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps as often as I can. It is thorough, expansive, and succinct. Given how intertwined Philosophy was with government and religion there is significant background information regarding the regional context of developing Philosophical thought.

The podcast has the added benefit of being brief episodes, so you are quickly exposed to a variety of things you may want to explore more.

http://historyofphilosophy.net/
We're already pretty darn well optimized for cars. As a friend of mine often says... "just lie down until that feeling goes away."
Googlers are better than that.
The amount of job postings say otherwise.
Sure it's not often considered a part of the definition of a CDN, but version management very much is the duty of a good CDN (even just as a part of cache management to know when to clear/refresh caches).

A CDN built for public usage (ie, that you do not run yourself DIY style, and isn't a corporate internal CDN they don't expect outsiders to reuse) that is built to serve JS (and often CSS, too) will through necessity provide some versioning mechanism. As I said, if you find a CDN that is serving JS files and doesn't have some sort of versioning mechanism or policy in place then you find a better CDN. I think at this point good versions strategies is a requirement for a good CDN.

Take MaxCDN as a good example since it is one of the most common CDNs at this point for JS/CSS (Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Twemoji, ...): all of their URLs have version numbers in their path structure (/bootstrap/3.3.7/...).

RawGit is probably the next most common I see, thanks to it making it very easy for anyone to CDN access a GitHub repo. As I mentioned before: RawGit uses git branches and tags in its folder structure for version management. If you are using a RawGit URL with /master/ in the URL you should switch to a version tag pronto (and that's not RawGit's fault, it's yours for giving it a floating version requirement).
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I used to work for a high end home theater company.

The boss' son was a total audiophile and was constantly bragging about all the high end audio they sold and put in their clients home theaters.

I used to listen to a set of $15K speakers and then to a set of $8K speakers and I just couldn't tell the difference. It's kind of the same I think with monitor resolution, at some point, can the human eye really tell the differences between all the high end resolutions out there right now?

I have doubts most people can TBH, but would love some evidence we're not beyond the capabilities of what the human brain and eyes can actually differentiate between.
Probably a hardware limitation?
But after those hypothetical 8 years he would still have FB.
What freedom is being withheld by the FSF in this message? They're granting the maintainer's wishes to a T. The maintainer even explicitly requested that the FSF make a public announcement about it.
This guy is a cardio machine.

Kudos to Ed for finding a passion like this in his life. I hope some film maker gets a chance to interview him, and to capture some footage of his feats.
this was an interesting read, but i have an similar, but slightly different observation.

google and facebook also have mountains of technical debt and they don't necessarily fix it. in particular some google projects i have had to build have had the absolute worst kinds of dependencies and requirements to build - from what i've heard from the inside they don't suffer so much from this because they build elaborate systems to deal with it... that is not paying back technical debt, it is creating the risk of more in the future to avoid having to pay it at all.

aside from google some facebook projects i've seen also contain the very worst of practices of the kind that invariably result in technical debt and difficult maintenance work... but i know nothing about what they do

maybe it has the same effect, and maybe that is part of the trick, that its more productive to live with technical debt if you do it right than it is to pay it back
Good way to learn is to get a bicycle (borrow maybe?), remove pedals and cruise to build up confidence. Lower the seat, start at a flat ground and just push yourself (as kids do). Then you can move on a slight downhill to gain some speed and learn to operate the brakes. Once that becomes easy you can move onto pedaling.. which is cycling!
My GUI design is definitely not yet perfected. I experiment with lots of different things. The website is not ready for users, but mostly DOES work. The RSS is pretty much usable however. One of my own main news sources. The triangle icon at the top is what takes you to the Parent node. BTW, i'm 49yrs old so my definition of "native" still means "desktop". lol. Apps like MSFT Word (and all others) don't have back buttons, becasue the back button was invented for web browsers showing static documents, back in 1993. It just still exists, but today but is valueless (and even problematic) for SPAs.
My description of my Vive is "Nintendo DS". You can tell the quality 3D rendering is there, but it's still on a low resolution screen (compared to what you'd expect to see today). It's cool, but it's so obvious how much room there is for improvement.
> "A Ponzi scheme is unsustainable because the number of potential investors is eventually exhausted."

Which is exactly what is happening now with the lopsided ratio of retirees and new incoming workers.

They seem to have marked the assertion as "False" based off of really semantic technicalities
I can't definitively speak to that, because I've never tried -- but if you have the capital, then it should be doable.

AliBaba (as opposed to the "express" version) is generally used for buying direct from manufacturers, and there are other sources, as well.

If you order from AliBaba, many manufacturers will put your branding on items, and you can do custom orders as well--if you have a design for a new item. However, they usually have minimum order quantities (MOQ's) of 500+. So you'll be out a few thousand dollars to get started, even for a cheap item.

I haven't done it, simply because it's very expensive to get started, but I've read some blog posts from people who've done what you're saying.

The biggest selling point of AliExpress and drop-shipping is that it's low-cost to get started. You can build a business with only about $250 of capital. (Or less.)
If the FSF thought that minimizing drama was a priority, they could have accepted that the maintainer wanted to take libreboot out of the GNU project without prolonging the whole thing. Like, basically this submission, but a couple of months earlier.

Also, more generally, I maintain that there's more nuance to the question of professional behavior than whether your communication includes common swear words.
Why do we still have or still need HDMI when we've got USB 3.1 Type-C?
When an engineer makes a stupid decision, there are peers who point at it during code review.

What is the equivalent in management? Does it exist?