skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this German guy seems to be a extremely unpleasant person to work with.

I'm not sure if it's a problem with education or a problem with reduced authority but I wouldn't see these kind of issues some years ago. I just can't tell if it was because people in the past knew how to behave themselves when in a team or if it was because the PI's had more leeway to get rid of people like German.

Normal people, specially when they have no option but to work in a team, can reach a common ground, and from the article, the PI tried in several meetings to appease the issues and reach that common understanding.

I do see that the PI was also not in the right by sending the mental staff to pick up German in the middle of the night, but that seems to happen after more than one year of trying to solve the conflict with the guy.

All in all, it's quite sad to see a good research team being hurt, because some guy doesn't know how to behave around other people and to see the higher authorities side with the person that started the problems just to look politically correct and go against the "installed power".

It's my belief that in some years from now, when Universities start getting behind in research due these kind of actions, that competition will get into play again and this nonsense will stop.
I often had to call my parents to pick me up, both because of snow days and after school activities. Depending on pay phones for this was a giant hassle.

It's also ridiculous that someone who has a life threatening accident near this school might not be able to call emergency services from their cellphone.

Your appeal to cyber bullying is also baseless unless you can provide some evidence that blocking cell phones at school will accomplish this. This kind of hollow emotional appeal is how we end up with draconian laws that don't actually accomplish anything except massive inconvenience.
"Are you using a third-party firewall, such as Little Snitch? If so, please click allow all connections for our app so it can communicate with the server properly."
First of all: correlation != causation. People do live in semi-arid regions bordering on deserts, so if the local climate was even slightly better than it is today people would have lived there and as things changed they would have given up settlements. People living there previously is not proof of them causing desertification.

Also roads going through deserts does not prove much since they could just connect oasis or move goods across the desert without people living within it.

The Sahara itself also is fairly old[0]. Of course its total extent is variable and subject to natural and man-made climate change and other human influence. But there is a huge difference between human activity creating a desert and influencing its extent or aridity.

Most deserts are naturally created through the rain shadow[1] and other precipitation-reducing effects of geographic features.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhongshi_Zhang/publicat...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_shadow
I recommend the Asus Flip Chromebook (running Debian under Crouton for development) or a refurbished Lenovo X2xx series.

The ASUS is tiny for travel. The X2xx is larger, still pretty mobile, and built like a tank (military spec moisture and dust resistance).

As a side-note, the ASUS died on me during my India trip due to moisture.
Writing Programs for “The Book” [2007] [pdf]
Please stop calling databases CP or AP (2015)
It's incredible hard to figure out what Oracle is planning and they really need to make their intentions more clear. If they don't, Solaris and SPARC will just die off, and to be fair, that might be the plan.

Right now we don't know if Solaris 11.Next is a maintenance release or if they are just moving to something more akin to a rolling release, as some people have suggested. Unless all the question currently floating around are addressed by Oracle, no sane person would base new infrastructure on neither Solaris, nor SPARC.

Perhaps Oracle want to move all Solaris and SPARC deployments in-house, but what sense would that make?
My comment was not about establishing an across the board level of technical competence. In my opinion the audience was not general tech people, the audience is security / infrastructure folks. I apologize if anyone felt slighted.
+1

B2B SaaS here too, and targeted cold calling is our most effective lead gen channel.
Is it all Intel? That's excellent!

I presume you can get every component into powersaving states (which you can monitor with powertop).

Tricky question, do you get battery discharge events via ACPI (run acpid, and unplug)? That's the gold standard for uber good Linux support, and allows for neat udev rules to be written.

What material are keycaps made of?
Check out Elementary OS and their Pantheon DE for consistency. One of the few distros that actually has (sane) designers onboard and adheres to the outline set by those designers.
Is data science really science?
I've been in people-facing jobs for a long time. I've gotten to see hundreds to thousands of people doing this stuff. All the good ones at sales were extroverts save a few. Those few introverts had above-average understanding of people and unusual styles for presenting themselves. They had adapted to a role they weren't really suited for by nature.

The article is BS. Author clearly hasn't spent much time with sales people.
Nice article, ideal to get new users started with ST. Couple of remarks:

- fuzzy search example uses ctrl-p, should be ctrl-shitf-p

- idem for wrap lines example

- Put your cursor on a word, then hit ctrl+d it will select that word. just double-clicking seems faster (though I reckon if you'll be using ctrl-d repeatedly afterwards anyway it might not matter)
Therein lies a dilemma: knowing what does what on macOS.
I just sit around watching log stream output and wonder why that JPEG is being 'processed' by Safari. But that's another story.
Preparatory Practices to Calligraphy
> It may be inefficient in terms of memory and CPU resources, but it was very efficient in terms of dev time and allows for easy modification by third parties

I appreciate easy customization as much as any dev, but, in this case, I don't know if that's an advantage when as a result Atom doesn't do its primary task terribly well: stay open all day, let me type code.
I find it really difficult to believe that someone used to OSX could have much issue with Unity. I mean if you put the osx dock on the left screen edge you pretty much have unity. And if nothing else, you have great big icons for web browser and office suite by default which are kinda hard to miss. My introduction when i replaced XP on my friends old laptop was literally 'that big firefox icon opens firefox. wifi icon does wifi settings. now you're good to go'
The maze write-up: https://medium.com/@danielfschmidt/a-maze-map-of-innovation-...
> The ASUS is tiny for travel. The X2xx is larger, still pretty mobile, and built like a tank (military spec moisture and dust resistance).

The X205ta is not robust and not recommended if you want to run Linux, unless you enjoy painful noodling to get anything working.

It's a nice machine for what it is (A windows 10 machine for Youtube video and social media).
I never really understood the introvert vs extrovert sort of definitions. They are always measured in absolutes meaning you can't be both, yet I'd wager that most people are.

I'm a good example of how unfitting the definitions are. In my professional life I'm an extrovert. I refine my ideas by running them by other people or thinking out loud, I engage in office talk every time I think I can contribute (it's not always the case), I wastly prefer face-to-face communication, I couldn't function outside the open office space and I'm a member of every sort of club and social activity we have as well as being friends with pretty much everyone I've ever worked with.

In my private life I'm almost he exact opposite. My ideal Friday night is alone on my couch with a good book, and maybe my fiancée. It's not that I don't like spending social time with my/our friends, but it's usually a taxing experience that I need to rest after.

I score as ESTP on the Myers Briggs related tests professionally, but if I answered in regards to how I live my private life I'd be a clear ISTP. I've thought about whether one side was dominant or not, but I frankly can't say that one is.
Everyone develops packages for it, and they're much more actively supported than ST3 packages. It's really the ecosystem.
You only have to see the connection to a server once if you mark it approved forever.
All of those changes will cause great pains and tribulations for the most vulnerable. Maybe we can genetically engineer more drought-resistant plants or whatnot, but the farmers in rural parts of third-world-countries will suffer, while what's left of their freshwater supplies dry. Once the coral reefs are wiped out from the increased acidification of the oceans, another hundred or so million will starve to death because they rely on food from the ocean.
The right way to quit your job
Flaskr: Intro to Flask, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Is this just because JS isn't good for desktop, or because Electron is not optimized or efficient?
3 out of 4 most common words are related to error handling. How does that imply 75% lines are error handling?
The best sales people I've worked with (in a software/services B2B context - specifically when the customers are large companies) are into long-term relationship and trust building.

They analyze the hell out of the customer from an organizational perspective and really try to figure out what problem they need to get solved.

They are definitely extroverts. They are interesting people to be around, have great conversational and wining and dining skills, etc.

They know their limits when it comes to technology and see themselves as facilitators of deep technical discussions between the prospective customer's tech people and the internal staff. They are happy to take the backseat when it comes to tech discussions - while still listening, taking notes, etc. (That they'll then come back with to i.e. me to try to understand and figure out the next step.)
> the open source version of HBase has much lower adoption than Cassandra so that was a big factor

Is this due to the availability of experienced developers or another factor?

PostgreSQL has a lower adoption rate than MySQL, but we chose it due to its suitability to the tasks at hand. As long as the adoption rate is not low enough to give concern about the longevity of a tool, I'm less concerned about it than other factors.
An informal comparison of sparrowdo and ansible eco systems
Little Snitch 3 has the research assistant thing where you can check each application and process to verify if it's legit against a database.
I recently bought a new HP ProBook 440 G3, for 610 €. Not a tablet, but thin and light. 6th generation i5, 256GB SSD, 4GB DDR4 dual channel (I upgraded to 16 GB for 99 euros), full HD screen, fingerprint reader, plenty of ports (VGA, HDMI, many usbs, SD card, ethernet, which is surprising in a thin notebook). Easy to take apart too.

Only downside is the TN screen. In the US it's probably even cheaper.
The point that the servers are in Ireland, versus Switzerland, is interesting as well, given that "Swiss Based" is used as a marketing pitch.
They've also been on the Mac for 10+ years.
The Case for Optimism?
Testing the methods of neuroscience on computer chips suggests they are wanting
I think that's really a side effect of it being free. (And I wonder if VSCode will eat that ecosystem...)

Do you have examples where the Atom/VSCode package is much better maintained than the ST3 one?
Go is a language in the almost-forgotten algebraic tradition (loosely descending Fortran → Algol → BCPL → C → Go), in which people prefer E=mc² to MULTIPLY REST-MASS BY SPEED-OF-LIGHT-IN-A-VACUUM BY SPEED-OF-LIGHT-IN-A-VACUUM GIVING ENERGY.
> I've never met a (good/great) salesman who was introverted

I'm an introverted salesman. Meeting new people is no big deal. Shooting the shit isn't exactly rocket science.

However, if someone _mainly_ wants to shoot the shit, there's a good chance it's an annoying sell compared to other prospects--they're just looking for a deal, or checking a checkbox, and I'm offering deeper value than that.

I can get way more mileage out of a shit shooter who has an introverted admin assistant who told them to shoot the shit with _me_ in particular. That's what I'm always sniffing out, some depth to match what I'm selling. But this is a lifestyle business for me, no quotas, etc. Has to be fun and interesting.
It also tends to over-reward those who create value by having a strong negotiating position (usually due to coming to the table with lots of capital) and under-reward those who create value through labor. This is better than crony-ism, but it's not at all a panacea.
I started to wonder if Sublime would suit me.

I am for many years now primarely vim user. I use it now mainly, because I've got used to it and it's available everywhere. I was once a no-mouse-only-keyboard user, but now it all seem like busy-work. I would prefer just to point out what I want. I am not affraid of typing as I mainly use command line and like to use ocasional pipeline with some awk scripting to achieve output that I want. I find Unix toolset more approachable than vim.

It's just that I feel like every magic incantation of vim commands spends my mental energry. I feel smart after some complex edit with only a couple of keystrokes, but a bit less focused at real issues. Editing is such a small part of programming. I understand that people may not have such problems, but that's me.

My dream editor would be something like Acme [0], but a bit more modern. I even started doing my own experimental editor [1] inspired by Acme. I mainly want a mouse driven editor with easy ties to shell. Unfortunately my development pace has been glacial for some time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

[1] https://github.com/hadrianw/werf
Could use the distro's package manager?
It's extremely difficult to know who's account to trust. But it seems likely that both sides made missteps. Committing him is ludicrous. To me, it sounds like German may have set off this bitter battle and while he might not have mental health problems, he doesn't sound like a net positive team member.
I think you overestimate their commitment and responsibility. It's not a server but in case of e.g. EC2 only a virtual container. I don't even get a permanent IP but a rotating one which is already blacklisted by many websites and services. I'm talking about low end, not demanding setup. In such cases I still think that requiring credit card details is too much.
That's not the definition of feminist I'm using, nor is it the definition I ever see actually in use. That's what it used to mean, maybe, but these days it refers to someone (usually but not always a woman) who has built "women are oppressed and we must fix it" into their identity, such that they support many discriminatory policies as long as they are in favour of women.

In other words it has stopped being about equal rights. Now it's about better rights for women.

where is the evidence that people who harass and abuse women online are doing it because they feel their rights and their jobs are under threat

There is a well established history at this point of outspoken 'feminists' (using the above definition) attracting disproportionate amounts of hate online. The reason is pretty simple: they dish it out themselves.
> for C++ there's no clear winner, because it is minimalistic by nature

I presume I'm missing the sarcasm here...
Is culture really a thing anyway? If someone is a high performer and treats others with respect how can they be a bad culture fit?
FBI Issues Alert Warning College Students of Employment Scams
Shouldn't you use the best tools for the job though? Unless you really need that last GB of RAM, it just seems like you're punishing yourself for the sake of an ideal, all to no greater consequence.

A gig of RAM is probably less than a tenth of your total resources. If it makes your job easier, surely it's worth it, no?
This article is extremely similar to almost every other "OMG! We used Cassandra and it was nothing like a SQL database!" article by Netflix, Spotify, and so many more. The fact that every single one contains the same 6 or 7 self-inflicted issues is pretty funny to me. I mean, I thought we lived in the age of the Google Dev.

Cassandra does require you to know more of it's internals than most other data stores. Unfortunately, the move to CQL and very SQL-like names for things that are nothing at ALL like their SQL counterparts is not helping.

Also, our own personal death by tombstone: A developer who didn't even know those existed checked in some logic that would write null into a column every time a thing succeeded.

After that passed QA and went into production, all hell broke loose with queries timing out everywhere. SUCH FUN.
Regions get less rain because of rain shadow. They can become deserts because of removal of water-conserving ground cover. Its a delicate balance, and wholesale deforestation or grazing can unbalance it with effects lasting for thousands of years.
Is there a reason git is not on this table yet?
One of the complaints is that it runs stock Android, without "enhancements." Personally, having had a Sony Android phone and a Nexus, I think stock Android is way better: stock is a feature, not a bug.
Of course, as I said the transition period will be uncomfortable. A few hundred million people dying over a time of a couple of decades is very different from the end of the world though.
hack-haters

maybe in this case it was not so much directed towards the hack itself, which sure is cool and, erm, hacky, but more towards the clickbaity title announcing something 'ultimate desktop' which indeed isn't what most might consider 'ultimate'
It depends what you mean by "free". Of course all software should be handled with varying degrees of skepticism, but open source software can be directly verified (though this also requires building from source), and you don't have to just hope that the author was honest.
That sounds like a valuable 2 months!!
State of Elm Survey 2017
That you're trying to tie this in with SJWs and such is just sickening. Not every dispute boils down to entitlement, and there's no evidence of it here. Just smart people differing opinion and one side taking it too far.

You can disagree all you want but I'll go with the judge who got all the facts.
Yeah everyone's gonna react differently. I was hoping to hear some stories.
But why would people develop for Solaris if there is Linux and the BSDs? Sincere question
Sorry, it wasn't exactly clear from the context but by hand holding I meant more in terms of the resources available. C++ by its very nature has tons of great libraries, tools, and various kinds of documentation. If you can think of it, someone has most likely written a tutorial about how to do it in C++. Additionally there have been entire forests worth of books written about various facets of C++. Rust in contrast has few libraries, fewer tools, and little to no documentation for most of what it does have. This isn't to say Rust is bad, it's simply new and building up documentation takes time.
>> one of the last "real" lenovo typing friendly keyboards

And the terrible buttonless trackpad
Since 1870 sea level has risen <8 inches. To more than triple this amount of sea level rise in less than a quarter as many years would require a truly horrific change in climate.
First, you again ignore the students who do take education seriously but have other issues.

Second:

> It doesn't matter the reasons why they don't take education seriously, the fact is that they don't. It would do absolutely nothing for these students

The reasons do matter, because some are more amenable to fixing than others. They also matter because we should fix them.

> It's not until we have 95-99% high school graduation rates, with a majority of those graduating also have high GPAs, that we need to consider whether we are providing sufficient access to colleges and universities.

This is monstrous. It is an excuse for inaction, not a serious plan.

If only one student needs more education but cannot get it, then we need to consider why. That other students are unready does not lessen their need. That other students are unready does not lessen the potential benefit to society of having a more productive, better-educated person in society.

[1] So? More work suggests that it does. And whether or not it's a primary effect or the derivative of other effects, you are certainly engaging in the pattern of behavior here, which is the point you are so busily ignoring.
My suggestion to open source is based on the idea that for other developers to be like in regard to the app, those developers need to be able to:

1. Control the stack (same as you)

2. Extend the application to meet their needs (same as you)
Can SmartOS / Illumos run on Xen/AWS? OpenSolaris had Xen support at one point.
Unfortunately, I think a pulsar type situation is much more likely. There's many things that could potentially cause those fluctuations, especially considering our relative lack of knowledge about extrasolar space. In 1967 when we started detecting regular, precise bursts of EMR from deep space it looked a lot like aliens.
That is cloaking in my book - Video on Matt Cutts explaining Cloaking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtnfOgp65Q
I can only say good things about the Zenbook. It also has an amazing linux support, just one package to install for the two finger scrolling on Ubuntu and that's it, no issues whatsoever.
I bought Autonomous' ErgoChair[1] couple of months ago but it got delivered in December 2016. I like it and It's lot cheaper than other options in the market.

Warning: KickStarter suspended their campaign [2] because they were reselling the product. You may also want to check this Reddit thread [3] before you make your mind.

[1] - https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chair

[2] - https://thetechreviewer.com/tech-news/kickstarter-suspends-a...

[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/58ndet/...

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