skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Innovation is evwrywhere in government. I imagine you don't see it because yoy are only focused on the federal level.

For example, in an effort to promote caring for the urban landscape, New York City, through an army of volunteers, mapped all of the trees. in its 5 boroughs, including the species, what state it is in, what care. it needs, its measurements, how it benefits the surrounding community, and more and its all available as an app here:
https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org

There are tons of examples of innovations at the city and neighborhood level.
That's not really what they mean.

Introvert means focused internally. As in you're oriented around what's happening in your head.

Extrovert means focused externally. As in you're oriented around what's going on outside your head.

We all have both sides of each personality and they can even be broken downtown into many subcategories probably to the point where everyone who ever existed has their own unique personality.

I've also seen many people mistake one for the other. So I wouldn't put too much stock into what you believe yours is.
> It frustrates me that these projects still use mailing lists and have no sane UI to track issues, submit PRs like Github, or maybe a Gitter channel for ad-hoc chat/questions.

I'm not a kernel dev, but I have to ask: what's wrong with mailing lists?

Unlike your examples of GitHub and Gitter, they're unencumbered FOSS; this is very important for the Linux kernel, since Linus et al. invented git specifically to remove BitKeeper's proprietary sword of damocles from hanging over the kernel. GitHub is basically BitKeeper 2.0.

UI-wise, each dev is free to access their mail however they like. It also has advantages of being federated, accessible offline, easy to write bots for, etc.

Presumably some devs have nice UI and automation scripts for their particular workflows; it would certainly be nice if links to such things were collected somewhere, but I don't see any dichotomy between using email and having a nice UI. I certainly find my email UI (Emacs + Mu4e) far nicer than any Web site I've ever seen.

As for GitHub pull requests, I've never actually seen the appeal. Once I've cloned a repo and made a change, why do I then have to "fork" the repo, add a new remote to my clone, push the changes then open a pull request; when I could instead run `git send-email`?

I agree that bug tracking seems to be a bit lacking. I've dabbled with things like bugseverywhere, but so far nothing's managed to stick :(
The training resources available on the ASP.net website are excellent and cover all skill levels.

https://www.asp.net
Some thoughts:

Everything will take longer than you expect. Nobody will answer your emails or return your phone calls. If somebody, by amazing chance, does reply, it will be weeks later than you expected.

The code you thought you could finish in a month? It'll take 4 months. And you still won't be satisfied with it then. And you should be so lucky as to have written something anybody will actually pay money for.

As Grant Cardone says, companies die from lack of attention. Nobody can buy your product or service if they've never heard of it. You have to find (a) way(s) to get people's attention. Jump and and down and scream and yell at the top of your lungs. You have to figure out the marketing / promotion / sales stuff to succeed. Don't believe "if you build it they will come." You have to work far harder than you might expect, just to get on someone's radar so they will even consider buying your thing.

OTOH, the good news is, you don't have to worry about competition from other startups. Startups don't die from competition from other startups. They die because they build something nobody wants, or they can't figure out how to get attention in the market.

Read The Four Steps To The Epiphany by Steve Blank. Read The 10x Rule and Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone. Read The Discipline of Market Leaders.
Do they have to actually answer your questions?
Battery size? But that's a engineering problem or a manufacturing problem, not something that just happens.

If Samsung isn't to blame directly from a faulty design, it'll be blamed for lack of quality control.
Microsoft supports Windows on multiple cloud providers, while competing vigorously to be the "best cloud" for running Windows.

Joyent's business team surely knows the difference between demand generation for SmartOS (anywhere) and a marketing pitch for Joyent as the "best cloud for running SmartOS at scale".

There is nothing indirect about a marketing funnel that makes it easy for the largest developer community to evaluate your operating system.
I'm currently traveling around the world (8 months, 12 countries so far) carrying a refurb MacBook Air from 2013 (I think). It's great, and I especially like that the all-metal chassis makes it really quite rugged. It fits perfectly down the back of an REI Trail 40 backpack, along with the rest of my stuff (great backpack for traveling light, BTW). If it breaks down there are Apple stores or repair shops in lots of places (though it may not be a cheap fix...) and if I'd bought AppleCare I think that would cover me all over the world.

Edit: We're also carrying an iPad, and it's the least-used
piece of electronics we have.
For planning our trip, booking, programming, email etc the laptop is way better, and for everything else we use
our phones. Unless you're sure you want a tablet you might just want a normal laptop. Also, weight matters a lot (this might be an argument back in favor of the Teclast)
It was a state jobs site which has since updated to HTTPS. They still suck in a lot of ways - the required login is SSN, plus an 8-digit (numeric only) PIN. That's a laughably bad login scheme, but at least they aren't passing it in the clear.

If I do see it again, is there anything like a clearinghouse for this sort of complaint?
There are so many fundamental mistakes here that I don't even know where to start.. Nice idea though.
(I am a cloud solution architect with Microsoft)
Try https://reddit.com/liveoverflow
and https://fsecurify.com
They don't touch on the other Star Trek society that has no need for money and materialism...the Borg.
Yep, it's spam.
Redux: Structure your front end application
I've used a Humanscale Freedom Chair for years. Love this thing.

https://www.humanscale.com/products/product.cfm?group=Freedo...
>What's interesting is that why there's no "start-up" that's focused on delivering factual news - real "independent" press that can accept push requests.

What? There's a lot, they don't call themselves 'start-ups' they go by other terms such as 'listener supported'
I can think of a few possibilities. Ricky Williams (former NFL RB) would be one. Also, Vince Neil (lead singer from Motley Crue). And maybe Warren Buffet. Or our very own pg.
Not to be biased, but personal 9 years of experience tell me that if a program has a landing page "oh yeah, and for linux and mac too", it looks shit on mac.
Robot Cars to Descend on 10 Sites U.S. Names as Proving Grounds
Oh those silly scientists and their never ending fear mongering.
Fertility rate below replacement isn't the same as not having positive rate of natural increase; like you, I find every source on fertility rate has it below replacement, but every source on natural increase has it positive. [0]

That's entirely consistent; below replacement fertility doesn't imply a current negative rate of natural increase, though if maintained indefinitely it implies an eventual negative rate of natural increase. [1]

[0] examples: https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/topics/Dem... http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-population-... http://www.susps.org/overview/birthrates.html

[1] Assuming the replacement rate is accurate, but current replacement rates are based on projections into the future based on past mortality trends, and can be inaccurate in projecting what is needed for replacement for that reason.
Nashville startup plans to use Uber to bring healthier food to your door
Coal use is still increasing globally.
Outgoing FCC Chair Warns Against Overturning Net Neutrality
Dude, who cares about it not being a literal statement?

Civilization as know it, literally, is going to end and so will the ecosystems that have supported societies for thousands of years.

You're playing words games that no one cares about.
Your site looks really nice. As someone who is potentially in the market for a used Tesla, I would mainly be shopping on price. But on the other hand there are some services like Beepi which offer price and service and have a good reputation. Take some time to research your competitors and find a good way to differentiate yourself.
I've used everything from an Aeron to a Staples branded chair... and I've found that as long as it's sufficiently adjustable (height, back angle, seat tilt, arm rests, and lumbar) and feels comfortable, it will probably work. One of my long time favorites was actually a Tempurpedic chair I got from staples. Quite comfortable over long periods of time.
NO kidding, I thought they meant 25 MM Tonne. Who the hell quotes commodities as an amount of money? The price of LME aluminium went from about $1720/MT a month ago to $1825/MT today. I've gone through the entire article and still don't know exactly how much metal they seized.
Short answer - Cloud Services is the old stuff. Virtual Machines is the new stuff. Never use cloud services for new projects. I wouldn't event include it in the article
It's an interesting design with some real potential, and may have improved since I last used it, but at least 6 months ago it was a bit too sluggish for real-world use on mid-tier laptop hardware.
I've had a Leap before over 15 years and still looks good and works great.

A couple years ago the gas cylinder failed and the dealer drove 45 minutes to my house to replace it. Maybe contact Steelcase directly for help?
No, it's not. Good luck living in 1984. Bye.
Enterprise DevOps and Microservices in 2017
Elon Musk should lend him a Culture novel... :-)
How about a couple of the most egregious so we can judge, do you have issues with their explanations of the core services or maybe just the more niche stuff like the Media Services?
Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot
Trying Atom for funsies. Will be back to sublime soon
Yes. Applications only get access to the resources needed to do what I want them to. Sorry, nobody gets telemetry.

It is a bit of a pain the first couple times you run a new app, but settles down fairly quickly. OS X upgrades are far worse - Apple seems to build a dozen new weird little things that want to connect to god knows what every release, and the right answer there is, for instance, `sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed Disabled -bool true`
Wheeler tweeted a farewell Friday morning: "Upon my FCC departure, I would like to sign off with 3 words of wisdom that guided me well: competition, competition, competition."
> That said, he is unlikely to push climate change one way or another globally.

He's likely to push climate change one way -- that is, in the direction of reinforcing the current trend. He's may be unlikely to push substantive policy responses to climate change, but that's a different issue.
I liked my Marcus a lot, and I thought it looked great, too. Unfortunately I stained the fabric and found it impossible to get it out, so I'm not sure if I'd buy one again.
> We've been working on this for over 15 years.

Over 25 years, actually - CMU's ALVINN (1989) was one of the first full-sized vehicle implementations:

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&c...

It was preceded by an E-MAXX based RC car system called DAVE (DARPA Autonomous Vehicle).

CMU also worked on an investigated other systems, going back to 1984 or so:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/alv/www/

They had an interesting system called the Terragator, from at least 1983; I can't find a paper about this system, though I know they exist - there is a video, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beGRM9ZmWlI

One might consider the Stanford Cart as an earlier example (I believed it used computer vision techniques - and was really slow at computing the "next move"):

https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/cart.htm

(side note: As part of SAIL, the Cart was instrumental in paving the way for Thrun's Stanley - which won the DARPA Grand Challenge, and ultimately led to Google's efforts in self-driving cars)

ALVINN was unique in that it used a (simple compared to today's CNNs and deep learning) neural network (and a WARP systolic array):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARP_(systolic_array)

...coupled to a camera to digitize and model/learn the road features for driving, while "watching" the human driver (early form of "behavioral cloning" - but it wasn't termed as such in the various papers you can find about ALVINN).

Interestingly, during the ML Class in 2011 (which I participated in), one of the students - after we were shown several times how ALVINN worked - decided to replicate the system using "modern hardware":

http://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/

We've really come a long way...
A voice of reason far outnumbered by the mob.
Steelcase Leap is a standard office chair I liked. I never liked Aerons.
This is not a fake issue.
I use Common Lisp for real projects. My recommendations:

- Always follow the KISS principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle). Don't use Lisp's "super features" too much. The same applies to Haskell, by the way.

- Use QuickLisp as much as possible. In many cases you don't need to add your own lib. Read Quickdos [QDC].

- Comment your code well, even if others don't ever see it lest you could not be able to understand your own code later. What's the purpose of the function, which arguments are expected, of which expected type are they, what are the possible results, possible side effects, etc.

- Read and understand how Lisp's package system really works. This is important to avoid strange behaviors in your own code.

- Use SLIME (https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/). It is an awesome interactive debugger which catches bugs and presents different options how to deal with that. SLIME is also useful as manual for Hyperspec (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/) which is a basic tool to look quickly for code examples.

- Don't use Hyperspec too much because it is really confusing. Use proper reference manuals like Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp [PCL] and Edi Weitz' Common Lisp recipes [CLR]

- If you cannot get used to Emacs (which is a wonderful tool with a steep learning curve, really the best editor ever) then you can use proprietary IDE's like LispWorks or Franz Allegro.

[QDC] http://quickdocs.org/

[PCL] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

[CLR] http://weitz.de/cl-recipes/
The only change I would make is to add an additional call-to-action button at the bottom. I got to the bottom and didn't know what to do next and had to scroll back to the top to find the trial/buy buttons.
Question: are you a full-time nudist? Just saying, someone has seen you naked, so why not everyone?
The Crisis of the Multiverse
Rising Stars for Static Site Generators in 2016
Strings in Swift 4
For sure! I think the nuance (and if you read the article and the study) is the best performers are consistently "assertive" -- or in the middle between passive and aggressive.
I noticed no one mentioned https://www.tripmode.ch/ I used to use Little Snitch before but it was to complex for what I wanted to do, allow disallow internet access to certain apps, tripmode does the trick in the simplest way I've even seen.
Massive Antarctic ice shelf ready to break apart
> decent 4 core Cherry Trail Z8300 CPU

None of the Atom chips is decent for anything that requires heavy lifting. You really need a Core processor.

> 4Gb of RAM, 64 Gb of ROM

4GB is workable but 8GB is obviously better. However, I think you mean 64GB of storage. This is usually in the form of an eMMC chip soldered to the motherboard. The performance is similar to an ordinary SD card. It's nowhere near the performance of an SSD.

If you want the tablet functions, your best bets are a second hand Surface Pro 2, one of the Lenovo Yoga's, or an Asus ZenBook -- they're all available with SSDs and 8GB or more RAM.

The Surface Pro 2 keyboard isn't good and the touchpad is awful, but you can get a nice portable Microsoft Bluetooth mouse instead.

If you can live without the tablet functions, go for a refurbished ex-corporate ThinkPad X range with an i5 or i7, and fit your own SSD. The X220 was the last model with a "real" keyboard, but the newer keyboards are not too bad. (Most of the alternatives are worse.)

Battery life isn't great but look for a model where you can buy a second extended battery. I spent many years with a ThinkPad X and two extended (9-cell) batteries and I could outlast anybody ;-)

I shared your doubts about Lenovo products but you should get over it: I've bought three in the past 18 months and they've been fine. It's the highest-volume PC manufacturer today and nobody else is competitive at the really cheap end of the market. Also, you can often pick up sale bargains when it's clearing out overstocks, which is what I've done.
me too and I found this very useful with the 'engineering_blogs.opml'
Varier move standing stool

I really enjoy rocking and spinning around all day.

It's not the most comfortable thing and forces you to stand and walk around a bit. However, I think that is why this stool works so well for me.
First thing I install on any new system, couldn't recommend it more!

And the ability to do per-application captures and open them in wireshark is excellent for debugging.
I am kinda thinking the same way. What I liked so much about your comment is that I found myself in pretty same position.

I used vim for a few years, got used to that zsh+tmux combo, and my environment was mostly wrapped around Vim (not UNIX like I thought it was). Then after I gave Emacs a shot, I used GUI version, and I saw that it is not the end of the world because I didn't use it as in-terminal editor. I am seriously reconsidering ditching everything and go to Sublime.

Why? It's fast, sleek and it does the job. With Emacs I start working on something, and few hours later I am like "why the fuck am I writing lisp and tweaking emacs". I get it, people that used it during 90s, and for 10+ years, they are set in the stone, and why would they switch. But now I really reconsider my options. Vim is much better in that aspect, I spent years with it and have it much or less to my liking, but I always come to some edge case where I change editor.

For example, I want to practice few exercises from SCIP I need Emacs, because Lisp programming in Emacs is so effortless and good. I want to write some Go I jump to Vim because vim-go just works perfectly for me. When I am doing some admin work on system I run Vim, but when I want to play with Clojure I need to go back to Emacs. You see the trend? How would Sublime cover all those functional languages, is it any good?

If I could have extremely light version of Emacs, that worked in terminal, much better and much more flexible than og Emacs, with good support for REPLs. When you break the no-mouse barrier, you see huge boost of productivity, but later after some time it diminishes and returns. I know I do not want Electron based editor. Terminal preferably but not the key. Something swift and clean. Vim does the job 80% of time but functional languages just work better inside Emacs.

I am holding my breath for Xi Editor [0]. It's written in rust, has some interesting abstractions and implementations, native is priority, and overall looks like potential checker for all my boxes. But it is nowhere near to the point of replacing vim or emacs for me. I rambled too much...

[0] https://github.com/google/xi-editor
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Works like the train toilet
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You have already started by saying you're a cloud solution architect with Microsoft.

Please continue.
Nate Silver’s Lessons for Big Data from the Unpredicted Trump Victory
What about Khan?

According to the backstory revealed in the episode, Khan is one of a group of genetically engineered superhumans, bred to be free of the usual human mental and physical limitations, who were removed from power after the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.[3] Khan had been both the most successful conqueror and the most benign ruler of the group, ruling more than a quarter of the Earth's area across Asia to the Middle East from 1992 to 1996 with a firm but generally peaceful hand until he was deposed.

There's a lot of would be rulers practically mimicking that today.

Isn't the big issue about how you get from a society with scarcity to one without? Nobody agrees how that should be done (or perhaps for some if it can), and without that agreement someone is going to have to force that from above and force that on to other people. Someone has to be the loser, whether it's the working class person in middle America or the Middle Eastern refugee.

I guess Thiel is against that from above approach, though it's ironic that he should be one of the largest funders, drivers, and proponents of illiberal and undemocratic companies.
Depends on what you see by "largely unique". Do you have a spinner while you wait for data to show up on each page? Then you might have a common spinner component.

Of course, you could also re-code the spinner every single time. Or you could use an existing library of components and then you don't have to deal with modules, only that library does.
Another vote for the Markus here - I've had an adult lifetime of back problems due to being attacked when I was 19 (I'm 45), and this is the first chair I've found in years that I can sit in and work for more than half an hour without problems - in fact, I bought it the weekend before I needed to do several straight 12 hour days working on a project with a tight deadline and instead of being crippled at the end of it I felt OK. The seat-to-floor height is just right for me, and it offers just the right amount of support. Hopefully I won't stain it like the other poster here!
> Added: https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=hs

> Unfortunately the symbols will not show up, because I'm ignoring them

Makes sense. I notice that some funky unicode stuff has still managed to come out quite high, e.g. ⊇ ("superset of or equal to") :)
I suppose "dogma" was the incorrect word in that case.
Widespread reef death, loss of the fisheries that depend on them, mass starvation?
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