skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Podcast Interview about Umbraco. Paul Seal on the Cynical Developer
Looks like he's alluding to religion being a powerful tool to use.
Good to hear that Caddy might support real plugins, either optionally or by default. Please note that my criticism was not targeted at the Caddy developers. It's not your fault that the Go core developers have dragged their feet so long on making such basic functionality available, or that the Go community in general has enabled such dereliction. Writing Go code seems like it might be quite pleasant. Integrating Go code into the rest of that ecosystem is what gives me a huge "this isn't a safe way to do things" vibe.
What AI needs is a dose of realism
Bet amount certainly plays a big part. This is what philosopheer means when he talks about "the mathematics of the game". Bet amount is part of that mathematical part; it's basically a signal of your confidence against the current size of the pot. This is why, when you do reading, many strategies will talk about bet amounts as multipliers of the current pot.

Timing can be informative, but it's actually weaker online than in person. In person, you know whether the person is physically present, and can generally gauge when they're paying attention also. Online, taking a long time could simply mean that they're not paying attention. (I've watched streams on Twitch of pro players working multiple tables online.)
No, because we've found empirically that torture doesn't work. If it did, why not?

I know many will not like that conclusion, but again, presuming an amoral universe, and I have little evidence outside of a religious world view that I'm wrong to presume such, there is no right or wrong. You admitted in your first sentence. Comment is helpful in that many people, from all backgrounds, assume that ethics are absolute. An atheist will never claim otherwise in discourse. However, they act contrarily to this view. They get mad when someone violates one of their rules.

Edit: corrected to empirically.
http://wekan.io

Libre open source alternative.

Can be self hosted or self hosted from within Sandstorm
Another way to describe Trump is that he ran a business that created more value than the S&P 500 (the top 500 businesses on US stock exchanges) over a 30 year period, created a world famous brand associated with quality and luxury, created a tv show that dominated ratings for a decade, and crushed two political dynasties that have held power for almost 40 years.
It suggests he may be Buddhist. You can't really use a religion other than Christianity if you're pandering to Americans.
That's wrong. Figuring out your true odds against multiple players who can hold an unevenly distributed range of hands requires a bayesian calculation that takes at minimum a few minutes for a human to perform, even using the best software tools for the purpose.

Strong players develop an intuition for this, making estimates on the spot, but they are frequently wrong and can't be very precise.
Great article on eating lobsters by the inimitable, late David Foster Wallace:

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
> OK, well, we may just have to agree to disagree on this.

Yep I think that's where we disagree! Like I said at the very beginning, I don't think this is a question of logic, one can only use these tools as a rough guide. Belief in God is purely non-rational.

Anyway, I enjoyed speaking with you, even though we may disagree :)
Faroe Islands with Low HDI?

If you throw out small island nations your trend lines will probably be a lot more accurate.
What? That doesn't say PRISM doesn't exist it says it does and suggests how it might be used ("I imagine"). It says the info is collected.
A browser based web server
Yep. 1. Cities destroyed by atomic weapons 2. Rockets 3. Computers 4. A dystopian one party nation state murdering millions of it's own (murdering en masse is nothing new but usually there was some excuse - soviet system brought state instituted terror to a whole new levem).
According to James Bond it should be octopussies (or is it octopussys?).
Thanks. Debian is all I've ever really known in regards to Linux distros.
Not try to be negative.

But Perl is still used more widely than Lisp in bioinformatics. or lisp can be neglected in bioinformatics compared to Perl.

Check the status of BioPython, BioPerl. BioLisp? not even exists.
Havelang is an attempt to implement full blown generics (among others) for Go, and is getting close to being usable.
Unless there are regulatory constraints (can't expect logic there...), I don't understand this attitude. Are all your dev boxes air-gapped? If so, how do the devs use google, stack overflow, etc.? If not, how is your on-prem setup so very different than one that used SaaS?
I just find it interesting that extra little bit of info an http get request sends in the header. And if a school is running IIS vs. nginx it says something right?
> Pretty sure when he said "the expected value" he meant monetary value.

You might well be right. But I wasn't trying to tell him what he meant; I was pointing out that viewing "expected value" solely in terms of monetary value does not explain why people buy insurance in the first place. To explain that, you have to take into account non-monetary costs and benefits.

The same is true for any economic transaction that involves anything other than pure financial instruments. For example, I go to the grocery store and buy various items for money. If I only consider monetary value, the "expected value" of this transaction is negative. Does this seem like a useful way to explain the economics of grocery stores?

Contrast this, for example, with trading stocks. Here there is no non-monetary value involved; people don't eat stocks, or get any other non-monetary benefits from them. So when analyzing the stock market, it is appropriate to use "expected value" to mean monetary value.
a bus in my city more than quadruples the time to get anywhere around or near my city. That means a 15minute car ride can take 1.5hours on a bus.

Most people who can afford a car will opt out of spending 3 hours a day on a bus, but for people who don't have any other option, they are burdened with this on top of working long minimum wage hours, and walking their groceries 1/2 mile home in the freezing cold with their children after a 10 hour shift, and judged for not being able to get themselves out of a bad situation.

Whatever the cost of an uber ride is, can be earned back multiple time in the amount of time people could work more, or allow them to come home and spend more time with their children instead of keeping them in after school public welfare programs which is shown to decrease crime over time.

In general, unless you are in Boston or NYC, the option of a bus is really the only option, and it is a disgraceful and absurd option for poor people working long hours at minimal pay. Ive ridden the public bus system in my city. It's a joke. I feel sad for people who have to navigate to work using it everyday, especially considering the majority of jobs that provide any hope of economic mobility are on "the other side of town" taxing their time even more to navigate further.

It is unreasonable to assume the working poor who are more statistically likely to have kids are not at an exponential disadvantage when a 15minute ride to work takes roughly 25% of their waking day, when maximizing hours worked is important with less pay, and kids are left in understaffed public daycare programs or unsupervised in areas with high crime rates at home. What do we expect?
Unfair and cruel to whom?
Context for those downvoting me. I have been blocked from commenting on anything the moderators consider political.

I am asking here because I am afraid of having my comments blocked again and because I do not want my account to be deleted.

I am looking to get confirmation that I am allowed to speak.
Of course they are.

Wow. It's like the bad news just keeps coming. They already have massive powers to conduct investigations.
The 2nd edition was published in 2015:
https://www.amazon.com/Guide-NumPy-Travis-Oliphant-PhD/dp/15...
finite resources on earth can lead to meagar resources which stop infinite growth is what I took from that paper.

So we'd have to get resources from elsewhere like asteroid mining or space colonization.
Companies create software that reflects their structure and culture. The software that Atlassian makes is radically different -- and opposed in spirit -- to Trello. I think Trello will inevitably lose its Trello-ness.

Hope to be wrong though!
"a business that created more value than the S&P 500 (the top 500 businesses on US stock exchanges) over a 30 year period"

What's this based on?
See my response to mholt in this thread. I wasn't criticizing Caddy so much as Go itself. Go has been around for about seven years now. While it's nice that such an obvious and serious shortcoming has been addressed recently, it has still taken way too long IMO. Plus, we're still stuck with "vendoring" and other community-embraced practices that are bad for long-term maintainability. People have been led in a bad direction, and I'm not about to let the leaders off the hook for that.
I thought it's like JIRA. Or is JIRA self hosted also different from the cloud version?
>"I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper."

Better tell the Wekan team they're wasting their time then. ;-)

https://wekan.io/
1. Given that not even Zooko understands zk-SNARKs, the ZCash name is trademarked, and they've shut down their Reddit and IRC channels, there is no chance of a community of competent developers that understand the technology springing up. Also I wouldn't be proud of forking Bitcoin, especially when the changes that have been made are so substantial that they can't keep in sync with upstream.

2. No, it's not in my hands to do so. The onus is on ZCash to demonstrate this the way any other cryptography is proven: peer review, and time. ZeroCash has little of either.

3. Anyone that sees it as an advantage has no clue about disincentives or game theoretic attacks.

4. The exact point of failure is that they all booted off the same ISO that was provided by one person. Additionally, when an observer at one of the stations had their phone compromised they didn't shut the ceremony down and restart, they just continued. Also, the participants are just Zooko's buddies - who's to say they aren't conspiring together, and merely compromising the procedure for anyone who isn't part of that (e.g. Peter Todd)?

5. If privacy is not the default, and is immensely hard to use (due to the system requirements), it will hardly be used. The entropy of the private system will be restricted to a relative handful of users.
>Anybody out there: have an opening for somebody who can deliver value at literally every level of your engineering organization while always being game to help bring your other developers up?

Sure just do our HackerRank coding challenge and implement some algorithm that will be completely irrelevant to your job in a web browser under time pressure.
I agree with you. Poor people not studying for the test is a problem with culture. It is the crappy culture they have learnt from their parents that is keeping them down. The parents don't know any better or don't care and henceforth they never push their kids to prepare for those test.
>There is no difference between a "developer" and a "sysadmin"

Ridiculous. Many developers have specialties that take years to gain proficiency. If there were no difference we could just replace a math PhD doing computer graphics with a sysadmin. Sometimes it's possible, but the blanket statement does not hold up.

>I would be a bad developer if I did not understand how the systems my code runs on work

I agree, but so what? Becoming a sysadmin is not the only way to do that. You shouldn't confuse what you've seen work, with being the only way something can work.

>[your] mindset is why "devops engineers" get hired and very often end up being burnt at both ends

You’re reading way too much into this. I never said a sysadmin rotation couldn't be helpful for some. I said devs don't necessarily have to do it to be great at their jobs. I wouldn't pull a dev who was, in the zone so to speak, being highly productive into a sysadmin role misguidedly thinking it would have no impact on delivery.

>[sysadmins are] able to solve the problems that the incurious developer cannot

I never implied I wanted “incurious” devs who couldn't solve problems to the extent they needed a “savior” as you put it. Maybe you are projecting your past experiences onto others based on overzealous inference? I didn't say what you suggested, and I don't believe it.

> please excise the word "fallacious" from your vocabulary

What are you talking about? The definition is “based on a mistaken belief”. I claim the argument that devs cannot understand scale out architecture without being a sysadmin is based on a mistaken belief. Why are you so against that word?
You just can't win with grammar Nazis. If they'd written octopuses, someone would be in here telling them "It's octopi".
The massive stockpiling of nuclear weapons that began is kind of on league of it's own. The western electorate has been taken on a ride since national suffrage became a thing (before that they had very little power thus no rides were necessary - ditto for non-democratic states)
FYI, I think you're being downvoted because of your tone. You can point out things like this in a friendlier way, and I think HN will respond positively.
Nice to see you on here, Mr Holt. Thank-you for the great work you've done with Caddy.

Like the rest of Caddy, I find the plug-in system to be simple and solid. Some people just seem to like complexity. (smile)

Is there any way to query what plug-ins are bound into a Caddy exe? (given that I'm a non-Go-programming, Windows guy)

An idea I had for the website was to allow us to sign in and have accounts. Downloads and plug-in preferences could be tracked. (It might even lead to a way to pry some money out of cheapskates like me with premium plug-ins and whatnot.)
Ektachrome is E-6, like all other transparency film used today. Anybody can develop it (for cheap).
Show HN: Log based forms for static sites
> As a conscious being I know that there is a circle of life

I would argue there are two pre-requisites for that: consciousness, and culture.

With no culture, starting from zero, during the limited span of a single life, it would be pretty hard to come up with grand concepts such as the circle of life.
How is that comment anything but a refusal to move on unless some magic tradeoff free solution appears? It even ends saying that "Programming language researchers are sometimes disappointed that Go hasn’t picked up more of the recent ideas from the literature, but those ideas simply haven’t had time to pass through the filter of practical experience. I believe generics is one of those ideas.".

But Generics are neither some new PL topic, nor have they not passed the "filter of practical experience" (millions use them in C++, Java and C# alone).

I'd rather they explicitly said: "It will take a total breakthrough in computer science regarding generics implementations for us to consider them for Go, and we wont ever care of paying the costs of any current, viable in practice for millions of programmers in other mainstream languages, approach".
Why? Let me limit that a bit: why are there ethical/moral truths? There are probably statistical truths. Such as generally don't kill people. However, every society has loopholes or outs for such a law. What leads you to believe that there is a universal truth especially in light of the fact that the universe does little to actively preserve life, and doesn't seem to evolve too many creates that could even care.
That's an interesting argument!

What do you think Tyler's goal was in that movie? His fight club -> project mayhem plan seemed to go off the way he wanted it to. If you think he wanted to promote that free-your-mind, reset-the-score, you-are-not-your-possessions ideology, that desire seems to fit with the fact that he's the alter-ego of Norton's unfulfilled white collar weakling character. But you lay out pretty convincingly that Project Mayhem is more of a trick, trading one kind of prison for another. What would compel Norton's alter-ego to play such a trick?
Not actually sure if serious.

I've spent a very significant part of the last 20 years of my life staring into screens. I love low-tech analog media. If nothing else, it's a great way to relax and break free from my work life.
Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Ruby, Backend-y things

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kkurian

Email: hello@bq2.com

10+ years experience. Worked at MIT Lincoln Labs. Current contracts with Twitter and Techstars. Assorted startup experience. CS degree from Brown.

Seeking: More contract work on backend-y things. Python is my current favorite. Ruby is A-OK. Used to do loads of C/C++. Not afraid of anything. Open to whatever challenges you may have.
I would guess that with good-quality film, the lens is more often the limiting factor for sharpness. Maybe you should advocate for older, less tack-sharp lenses. You might get results you like even with a digital sensor.
No, this is a terrible idea. If you play like this consistently, you are basically telling your opponents when to play against you and when to get out of the way. They can even pick bet sizes (assuming no limit) to refine your possible hands very accurately.
> Perhaps a larger concern is the chemicals that are required to develop the stuff and making sure they are disposed of responsibly and not just flushed down the drain.

The same argument can be made for the disposal of electronic devices, the half life of digital camera bodies seems to be far shorter than that of film camera bodies. I know of at least one photo project on the subject: http://www.bitrotproject.com/ and i'm sure there are others.

I think what has happened here, in reference to your original comment, is that the decline of film sales has reached its end state; that being it has stabilized. The fact that there are millions of film camera bodies floating around means there will, at least for the short to medium term (decades), be a market for film. Hipsters or otherwise.

> There's more important reasons than "liking how it looks". I know people will disagree, but a skilled photoshopper can often reproduce the look and feel of film with digital. And certainly can do things film could never do. I believe it's a good trade-off

I agree, but the film vs digital argument is always reduced to boring technicalities like resolution, sharpness, colour rendering, etc etc. The most important reasons to shoot one camera over another, or one medium over another, is that it will inform your approach and ultimately your results. If you're working on the long term, then that matters.
Not only does it reach them, but it knows more about them than any political campaign ever dreamed of.
I don't blame Trello for selling but I'm not looking forward to whatever Atlassian could do to the product. I use Atlassian at work and I dislike their software, though it's not all bad.
I have two kids and a mortgage--I think I understand where you're coming from. If toughing it out or raising your issue up the chain are not options, it's best to start looking for a new gig in the evenings after the kids go down.
You're right quantity-wise, but then you have https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/812708946225963008 . I'd be surprised if Tesla EV's don't soon charge faster than it takes to fill up gas, within a couple years even. If EV's in general take off though, I think it's true that Tesla may have trouble keeping up with the larger market in terms of chargers.
> However, we "Gatekeepers" are the ones that get paged and / or yelled at by a CTO when an application keels over. Not the developers.

And that's why people are moving away from that model. It's part of the reason DevOps is being embraced as a model. Developers should be on call to support the applications they build. You get benefits all around.
Twitter, Reddit and Conway's Law
The idea is to evaluate how you're doing every 25 minutes and take a break every 50. You're "allowed" to work as much as you want; if you don't have an issue over or under working, there's not much point to the timer.
I see this as baby steps... he knows that being an atheist is a non-starter, politically. Better something than nothing. Watch him get more religious and move towards Judaism/Christianity as we get closer to 2020 :)
TABBY EVO: an open source hardware platform for electric vehicles
I wouldn't suggest "critical thinking" missions - change must come from within.

It's not like rural areas are completely red washed... most areas are below a 70/30 split, and the middle third are on the fence. We just need to help the 30% talk with the middle 30%.
Does he take into account that population growth has been mostly hyperbolic?

Hyperbolic Growth of the World Population in the Past 12,000 Years: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00992
OSVehicle: The First open source mass market car platform (with Renault)
I hope you're wrong too! I use Trello a lot, and I also use Jira a lot. I would much rather use Trello than Jira.
The Geek Squad is a Best Buy brand, not Apple. So I don't think there is anything specific that Apple needs to do here.
This is so weird. Why does HN not notice these dupe submissions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353736
Dear god please don't make it anything like HipChat
"prove against human weakness."

You were likely thinking of moral and ethical lapses, but there's also the crucial problem of IQ and disability. Could a ancap community of PHD students work? Probably. Elsewhere? Well...
Have you got any other authorities besides yourself? Here are mine:

1. I have looked at the Cambridge Dictionary which makes no claims to it being archaic: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gage

2. I have looked at the Merriam Webster Dictionary which makes no claims to it being archaic: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gage

3a. Although it's unclear where they get their info from, Dictionary.com makes no claims to it being archaic, and says that "gage" is used "especially in technical use."
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gauge

3b. Dictionary.com claims the verb "gage" is only archaic when used to mean a "pledge, stake or wager," which is not how it's used. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gage

4. The Oxford English Dictionary makes no claims to the verb gage used as a synonym for gauge being archaic. Only when used to mean "Offer (a thing or one's life) as a guarantee of good faith" and that's not that spelling, but the meaning which is archaic. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/gage#gage-2

Concession speech?
>And those people are outnumbered by people who are comfortable and productive with the current Go implementation.

The only way to know that would be to be able to compare one implementation with and one without generics. But only one Go implementation exists. Perhaps there's some toy attempt by someone, but not anything that is equal in all other aspects to mainland Go but with Generics on top.

Plus, since most of the burden falls on the compiler writers and most of the benefits to end users, it just takes the compiler writers to be "comfortable with the current Go implementation" for this to continue to remain Generic-less.
How would you suggest regional office leaders can foster entrepreneurship in developing countries?
Context: I want to start an incubator/accelerator in Ecuador for local founders with global scope.