skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I didn't intend that there was a contradiction, just that "jargon" and technical words are actually used more in technical writing than in other kinds of writing, and it can be tricky to understand where the line is, how to introduce these terms such that the reader is not confused by the unusual term (or by a common word used in an unusual way, like how in programming contexts the word "string" refers to a sequence of characters).

Anyway, it's not that none of these principles apply, it's just that there are almost certainly many tweaks here and there and additional tips for people writing technical documentation - for example, almost no one sits down and reads the documentation for a library from "front to back", it is usually used in segments, which has implications about what you can expect your reader to know, and about how important navigation and organization of the document are.

These are just some things that I've noticed as a consumer and producer of documentation, and I don't know that I even have good answers to most of them.

(I hate to make it seem like I'm arguing the point that these more general writing guides are not good, I just want to clarify the kind of thing I'm looking to improve, for myself.)
Federal mortgage regulations are strongly biased against that. And in the USA the Federal gov't. owns the mortgage industry.
The wikipedia entry for Hacker News needs to be changed. It currently reads:

"Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship."

Politics needs to be added. What a fucking joke. Someone regex the submissions.
>But in today's "cloud first" world, it doesn't seem to make sense for any company to roll their own infrastructure [1]. To me it feels like they may have over-engineered their solution.

It's possible you're just incorrect. Hard to tell from the outside.

And it can very much make sense to roll your own services, for a variety of reasons from service guarantees to cost.
>In my opinion you may just not be the best writer for some reason (Lack of education? Incompetence? Both? Who knows).

Then right back at you -- that triggers the same problems as the original statement. :D

You could very well have stated your point more constructively with that.
I have a situation where a full framework was overkill but using Jquery was causing an unmaintanable mess when creating a dynamic UI. I took a middle ground. I came in and introduce Handlebars to the work flow. We still use Jquery, but our ui is created with simple intuitive handlebar templates/compiled functions.

When we do start building more complex web apps, we decided on Ember since it uses Handlebars as its templating engine.
> With a little practice, that won't be a problem.

I've written quite a bit of prose over the past decade or so. I still find a lot of things in the third draft (read out loud) that I didn't notice in the first two.
What kind of bs is that?
I found it somewhat amusing, and whilst it did not have a significant effect on my understanding of the article it did break 'the flow' and made the piece much less compelling.

Does this hurt the authors credibility? Yes.

The piece is a summarisation of a book literally called "On Writing Well" yet the text itself shows the author has not fully digested the information they are regurgitating. This is ironic.

That said, it is very well written for a non-native speaker. I would feel much more comfortable having this author communicate on my behalf than many native English speakers that I am close to. With some practice (probably including spoken word and works of fiction) there is no reason they could not exceed the skills of the majority.
Yes it does. My 2 laptops and 2 Android phones all use the dame profile. Everything syncs, tabs, passwords, addons...
> Like it or not

I don't like it. I don't really understand the point of your comment, you seem to just be summarizing some of the article. Do you have something substantial to add?
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I actually had this same idea about a year ago.
A dietitian I know and told me it would be very hard to infer calories just from a picture, so I did not pursue the idea.
This worries me a little. You can destroy an organization quickly but building it back up takes much, much longer.
He increased the price
Google Compute Engine has live migration, so host/hypervisor updates (including security updates!) can be applied without taking VMs offline. AWS doesn't support live migration.

I don't work for AWS, so I can only speculate about their internal technology; but they've demonstrated an ability to apply security updates without requiring guests to reboot.
I absolutely love when games properly do this.

As in, being able to jump back and forth between controller and mouse, with all the visuals changing too. Hopefully it catches on more.
here is how his response looks like http://take.ms/UTHnJ
It is related. When the diagnosis is much cheaper and doesn't require that much of a long wait, people will be much more tolerant towards it.

And I don't why you bring up the spokesperson stuff, it doesn't need to.
Ars announces HTTPS by default
"you need to dogfood your own product"

"Dogfood," even if you consider it a word, is not a verb. What is this supposed to mean?
>I know he won't be able, his talk is of ignorance and provocation.

Says the person missing that it's an opinionated list, lol.
It was more meant to provoke discussion, not hurt feelings (like your obviously seem to be).
Any system where they control entry not just by a passing threshold but by raw numbers or on a curved exam scale is a monopolistic regime. They aren't just looking for people who can pass the test and meet qualifications but to keep a throttle on numbers.
> I feel like I need a PhD for steam controller configuration.

If you think that's bad, try using their map editor[0].

[0]https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Hammer_Editor
What a failure of an article. Paragraph after paragraph, and it doesn't say WTF Trello is.
predictions which were based on statistical evidence

Polls aren't evidence. In this case, they were barely data.

There are polls which are designed to gauge opinion, and there are polls which are designed to steer opinion.

evidence-based statistical modeling

Given that the model failed, it apparently wasn't evidence-based.
yeah, it's meant to imply everyday people are starting to feel the negative impact
Thanks for the link. That might be the heritage.

For KiCAD, initially I believe, the s-exp parser and writer were there just for communicating with an external auto router (Specctra session). But it's taking over more and more.

The footprints have been s-exp for a long time now. I quite like it and am experimenting with mixing in Racket for footprint editing: https://github.com/monostable/footwork
I'd also second the Job DSL plugin if you want to keep all your Jenkins config in version control.

Its also worth looking at replacing all your freestyle jobs with Jenkins Pipeline and have the job definition defined in a Jenkinsfile in your repository. We've got a new syntax coming out of beta shortly that makes the experience a lot more declarative thats worth a look https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-model-definition-plugi...
This is also my opinion. When users start complaining about this or that being broken or just sucking in general, you have a little bit of a fire lit under your ass to fix it.
In Silicon Valley it is rare that an engineering manager would have an MBA. And at Google or Facebook, they would more likely have a PhD than an MBA.
"Wouldn't of"?

What is that supposed to mean?
Extreme, the open office plan means I'm constantly interrupted no matter what I do.
“Sass is like adding a V8 engine to CSS”
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Have you taken Jenkins Blue Ocean [1] and Declarative Pipeline [2] for a spin since moving to TFS? We are quickly modernising everything from the UI to the way you manage your Pipelines in version control. Would be very interested in getting your thoughts on how we stack up now vs your past experience :)

[1] https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/
[2] https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-model-definition-plugi...
This will do ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?_r...
I agree zbraniecki! And that's part of pain... we actually learnt a lot, enough to know how to do most things right now.

But anyone building a new mobile OS will be facing the elephant in the room: will you get the top 5 apps to run or be ported on your OS? Without that, no way you can succeed. For FxOS, the unwillingness of Whatsapp to build an official app was more damaging that all the other reasons I read about.

OSes are commodity vehicules for apps, which are rightly what users care about. This gives a lot of power to prominent apps, which are often silos themselves - so maybe the fight to give is to displace these!
1. I think not for something like a pole barn. And maybe someone else usually does that part.
... Yeah, that's gnarly. :D
That is emulating `let` using lambdas, though, and not mutable assignment. Still useful if you really want to nest them, but still immutable.
Interesting to hear. I like the idea of gradual typing as I'm coming from a predominantly python background and sometimes want to add types as I go. Perl6 looks really promising here. Curtis "Ovid" Poe has a good YouTube video on this. He starts with the Fibonacci function which can easily go wrong depending on a variety of inputs and keeps adding type restrictions such as it has to be a positive int between a range of #'s...i dunno, something along those lines.
Major failing of the article: not saying WTF Trello IS.
It was a standard STD test at the beginning of a new relationship and the results were negative so it was clearly a scam. This was in Ontario.
No, it's not mine!

I agree it's quite broken. But I still love their house design and concept.
That's if you create the volume from a snapshot. You may want to clarify that.

This process can take a long time; sometimes you're better off actually rsyncing the data than using a snapshot.
Walking around France and walking around the US, that's not remotely what I see.
What does "wouldn't of" mean?
High-five for learning R better via exposure to Racket. People ask me how to level up their R programming, and I tell them, "Read HtDP."

I haven't read RoR--placing an order now.
To be clear, I meant market share isn't solely a corporate concern. Certainly it is in the corporation's best interest, but it is also a very big interest from a non-profit/altruistic perspective.
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This is neat. How did you find out about this video?
Sort of hard for either of them when the polls turned out to be completely wrong
Ya, I'd like to know this too. I was just recently in India for 3 weeks and I saw day after day that IT was bringing in people for black money (usually to the tune of $1M USD equivalent). Just propaganda then?
Why We Expect Private Equity to Invest More in Tech in 2017
I wonder what things would be like if employers were somehow required to adjust pay for inflation by default. I guess they'd just label it a "raise" and take credit.

Heck, I'd be happy if Congress would pass legislation to make the minimum-wage automatically adjusted too.
It's more of an urban verses rural than a red verses blue states issue.
I believe it was actually that a different fork of Wine was not contributing back which caused the license change. I want to say it was Cedega but memories are hazy at this point (since I'm an outside observer).
The gag order is a temporary measure until new leaders are in place.
Regarding the visual changes, I actually find this occasionally problematic when using the steam controller because it's so jarring.

Running around with a joystick to suddenly see keyboard prompts pop up when I aim is a bad user experience, even if it is relating the truth.

I would like to see games detect the steam controller and default to using the controller visuals even when there is mouse (or keyboard) input.
> in this case JS absorbed the best pars of CS.

Actually my favorite part of CS is the instance var intitialization. e.g.:

constructor(@x, @y) ->

would initialize @x and @y to the arguments.
It makes writing records much nicer.
It's also grammatically wrong.

"less" ≠ "fewer"
More commenters here, including me, tried to explain you that even before Brett chimed in. It shouldn't be even necessary that somebody like he does that. Just imagine how many users there are in the world, imagine the burden of the people who invest their energy in maintaining that huge project. It's the users and all the already written programs that make it huge, not the code base alone.

> I do apologize for that

Maybe making your apology visible on your blog too?
We'd need a specific example to determine if the communications were a personal message, raw data supporting climate change or (unlikely) 5 sigma confidence level results in say a temperature trend.

Personally, I struggle with the idea that scientists working for the federal government have to report to or be muzzled by the current administration. I see these people as working for the country not for the administration but I'm naive and optimistic in general so I'm sure many people will point out that it would be a crazy way to run a country.

In the Canadian case, scientist needed to request permission to attend conferences months in advance and, from what I understand, if there was the least chance of bad press coverage from the scientific results being presented, then the person was not allowed to attend. I believe there was a similar muzzling of attempts to publish in peer-reviewed papers. That sort of thing is clearly not acceptable behaviour for a government administration. Government organizations like the EPA are not companies trying to maximize profit by selling a widget, they are researchers and regulators trying to determine the best path for everyone in the country with respect to economics, health, and environment.
Is a just a encrypted file with a master password. Any mechanism that enables me to leave to someone else that master password (or a key part of it) would work.
But are you maintaining POSIX compatibility? I thought I'd read that somewhere on your blog, but I might misremember.
JShell features - java's new REPL
You can use static or short lived tokens to bootstrap: http://gravitational.com/teleport/docs/admin-guide/#adding-n...

Vault is not yet supported but PR's welcome :)

edit: Looks like there's an open issue for consul to start: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/issues/423
Polls aren't meant to be predictive. They're meant to be influential.
Which begs the question: Is modern's "occupied with crap" better, equal, or worse than the ancient "struggle to survive"?

While in the measurable numbers game, the world certainly has become a better place (less child deaths, more literacy, longer life expectancy etc.), the actual question to ask oneself is if those numbers indeed are good proxies for a "better" world or life.

Is living longer, assisted by mechanical and pharmaceutical products plus surgical procedures, really that great? In general, we now are working more hours then ever before in history, and hence have less time for being creative, having hobbies, or simply to behold one of "Goethe's moments," because we always are in a hurry. Are we really happier, and even if we were, is that maybe only due to every second adult over 40 or 50 using anti-depressants?

Actually measuring if we are indeed living in a "better world" or a "better life" is very hard to do objectively with the parameters we have, and I honestly doubt it is possible. In the end, I believe the answer probably is: In many cases, it depends more on what you make of the time you were given than in which year you were born.
Influencing the Pythons of this world is generally a waste of time; just go use that which, today, works the way you want, or make it yourself if it doesn't exist.

Anyway, are you saying that knowledgeable people who think Python is junk shouldn't say anything? Only get involved in Python development or shut up?

If someone's words can save just one person from using Python, that's worthwhile.
I can totally see your point, you need to manipulate the DOM, make AJAX calls and add some event listeners painlessly for something relatively simple. Its very little boilerplate. I also think its relevant.
But just like this is relevant, if you dominate any other framework or library, you may as well be proficient with it to the point where you could put together an app in the same time. Maybe even using code from stuff you've worked before for tasks that are common patterns. I think it comes down to what you dominate the most will still be relevant.
But PBS/NPR are "public" only in the sense they are publicly funded. They aren't balanced in any way, nor do they invite public participation.

What would you consider to be the "conservative" equivalent of the following?:

- To The Contrary

- Latino USA

- Frontline (political topics)

- Democracy Now!

- Charlie Rose

- Tavis Smiley

- John Lewis - Get in the Way
Ha, thanks for inspiring me with your terse "What?" that made me laugh!
I read the headline and wondered how ml could train the difference between a new dermatologist and a seasoned one. Cancer I get, looks totally different than non-cancerous skin :)

That said, pulling this is one of the best ML applications to date. Recognizing cats or scenery doesn't seem nearly as useful
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The final national polls turned out to be quite accurate.
If you or anybody else cannot imagine succumbing to this sort of blind rejection of scientific studies and would like to experience it firsthand, consider your attitude towards research into the relationship between race and IQ.
Because bullying kids boosts their social intelligence and learns them important lessons ? Bullying had a far greater impact on me then any class in those elementary school years, but i can tell you it has the inverse effect you suggest.
The situation in the EU is a lot better in many ways because the EU has much less purview than the US federal government. When you do less stuff, you're less likely to piss off people with irreconcilable cultural differences.
Hey, that's a great idea. I just made a beta signup form for anyone who'd like to try it out.

https://goo.gl/forms/WQ2VOJwRsn9yWTfC3

We'll just add you to testflight or google play beta.
These are strong, contentious claims. What evidence do you to support them? Polls? Studies? And while comparisons with other governments or groups can be problematic, as the bad actions of one group don't justify the bad actions of another, there is a well-known bias against out-groups of any type, which is part of human nature. It's admirable to keep this in mind and work against this bias, though to make the claims you are, I think it's fair to ask whether this behavior is significantly different from comparable nations, and whether you're holding the USA to a different standard. A different standard is fine, as long as it's explicit.

Your points about whether actions are moral or smart is well-taken. Similar arguments about claims regarding the purpose of the NSA are needed as well, however. Intelligence gathering predates the NSA, or the USA for that matter. It goes back thousands of years. The NSA is not exclusive in the world for doing this type of work. Whether or not a nation engages in intelligence gathering and to what extent is likely more an issue of resources rather than ideology. What is done with that intelligence matters as well.

I'm not arguing for or against the NSA or the work it's doing. I do think a more in-depth and supported criticism is required to be truly substantive.
So the guy is told that migraines generally improve as you age. He goes to this specialist, and there's minimal progress for three years, and then later things get better. How do we know any of this is causative?

More generally, do journalists without scientific training need to consult with anyone before declaring who we should be praising for health improvements?
Was it Lisinopril? A cough is a recognized side effect of it, but I think something as severe as you are describing would be fairly rare?

While I think you might be overreacting a bit here, I have a similar story. I had an irritated, gunky eye for the better part of a year. Was bounced around multiple doctors, including one specialist, and had all sorts of really annoying treatments I was supposed to do. Finally got bounced to a specialist at a major teaching hospital. Took him five minutes to correctly diagnose me, and the major part of the fix involved instantly stopping all of the things recommended by the other doctors. (The rest of the fix was simply to make sure my eye was protected while sleeping.)

So yeah, I think there is a lot of value that might be added by an expert system that is familiar with the slightly more exotic things that can go wrong with your health.
Jason Scott (twitter handle @textfiles) is already on it:

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/824104225688981504
> FYI it takes about 3 years of learning 25,000 London streets to get a cab licence.

What a ridiculous waste of time in 2017. That certainly drives up costs unnecessarily.
Flip a coin 10,000 times, 8200 times it lands on heads.

You: "The coin is not imbalanced nor is the process gamed in any way."
What if I were to suggest that blaming climate change denial on "profit" resembles a conspiracy theory in every way? If it were an emergent phenomenon of hyperpartisan craziness instead, would that suggest different efforts in response to it?
I just made a beta signup form for people that aren't in north america. If you sign up we'll just add you to testflight or our android beta.

https://goo.gl/forms/WQ2VOJwRsn9yWTfC3
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I'm pretty sure the kind of AI actually discussed in the article is only going to be a good thing for doctors - even the pretty mediocre ones - by sending them more work rather than less.

Person checks funny looking mole on smartphone app, app with intentionally conservative algorithm says there's some risk it might be a melanoma, dermatologist gets to have a proper look at it in three dimensions (and a second opinion from the medical grade version of the ML app). Result: more people visit doctors over issues that never bothered them that much and the doctor gets assistance with their diagnosis.

And of course some of those people that wouldn't have bothered visiting the doctor under the old system actually do turn out to have a melanoma and the early diagnosis significantly improves their survival chances.
The firefox syncing is awesome. FF syncing feels friendly and the Chrome feels like a stranger being 'overly' friendly.

Somehow I'm willing to sell most of the rest of my soul, but not my browsing history.
"Long time" React user, still use it on new projects, but I was looking at Vuejs in depth a little bit yesterday, and it augments JS and HTML in a much simpler way. That simplicity - to me - is reminiscent of jQuery to a certain extent. I'm sure it has its own faults, but not having to write a webpack config or download some sort of transpiling monstrocity for once was a nice change.

I think I'd probably agree with you on the "ship it ASAP" premise, but Vue could be a real contender in that category as well.
Other than some corner cases, the idea that there's a lot of spending on issues that could have been caught sooner is a non-starter. We're already doing most of it and it is reasonably cheap and not all that contentious: Vaccinations, pre-natal vitamins for pregnant mothers, etc. Most of the rest turns into the problem with false positives (and the treatment that entails) outweighing actual early detection.