skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm searching around for something I can integrate with. I'm not going to create my own payments solution.
You forget that democracy has always been broken, by design.

>>The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.<<

The current fit on part of the intellectuals and media is due to them having lost this power to control the narrative and ideas because they failed to adapt to the new media which have replaced the old.
I think the significantly better performer is something we see in all areas like sport, music and craft.

I think Anders Ericsson does a good job of explaining the phenomenon in his book Peak: http://uk.businessinsider.com/anders-ericsson-how-to-become-...

What we should be doing is looking to create companies that can allow workers to reach and sustain peak performance in all areas, not just coding.
The argument in the above post would not classify those as 10x programmers. antirez is claiming that high quality design and a commitment to simplicity is a big part of what makes some programmers do much more productive.
I am the mythical 1/10x programmer. Sadly currently not available for hire. :)
Please remember:

1. Raspberry Pi Trading use UK based manufacturing facilities, so yes, it costs a little extra to ship outside of the UK.

2. Raspberry Pi Trading do not have the capital to make x million devices upfront. So supply will always be limited for devices like the Zero, while demand is high.

3. The profits from the sales of all Raspberry Pi devices are used to fund the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We do charitable work to further Computer Science education around the world. The target audience is educators and children, and that will always be the focus. That it happens there are hackers out there that want to use the device is great, but not the priority.

4. The popularity of the Raspberry Pi range is mainly down to the amazing community we have and the huge support available from that community.
Not Leonardo di Caprio, he will stay behind even though there is enough room for two people on that return vehicle.

Also, hopefully not Matt Damon.
Not a citation but I've heard of various UK companies that do this. Usually for intellectual property reasons.
Hypothetically we're completely screwed already and nothing we do at this point matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Nope. Speaking from India it's Ola or "Uber or something else" in big cities and Ola or something else in other cities or towns.

In fact there are many smaller startups that keep coming and going. Bikes, autos, cabs. In fact there was a bus startup too that failed just because it didn't have money to play against the system.

There are rumours of a huge business house (with pretty much endless supply of money and extremely easy access to the central Govt - in fact the PM on a personal level) entering the market.
I am more interested in GPIO support in embedded boards. With RaspPi it is very probable that I will find a snippet to read a specific temperature sensor via I2C or bit banging for example. For the rest of the options (orange pi, banana pi, even odroid, etc) I have not heard such good things.

Literally, once I got my Pi, I got a DHT22 from my arduino box and in less than 3 minutes I could read it.
Exactly. And give a kid any kind of recording devices chances are they'll also end up recording you at times you wouldn't expect to be recorded.
As I mentioned in another comment, you can get one for $18 shipped from a UK seller (The Pi Hut): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753174

Max order quantity is 1, though.
In my head it would be booting into Chromium to run an offline web app, and the app would make requests against a CouchDB service on the local network. No transaction data would be written to the Pi's memory.

This is all just spitballing though. I'm literally just considering it.
Where do I take my energy
I've worked with some too and they've always needed another 10 junior engineers to clean-up and thoroughly test their code later on. In some big corps, that might not be such a bad thing. If it weren't for them, most projects would be stuck in so called "design-meetings" forever.
I've been reading antirez's writing for a long time and he's been consistently getting stronger as a writer of English. I think this is some of his best writing yet in terms of grammar and use of the language.
A VPN could create a false sense of security. After all the device is still untrusted, and will need to connect to the internet even just to do security updates.

We have good security measures for connecting to servers (which is what IoT devices are) so why reinvent the wheel? Why not require devices to have normal TLS certificates and map the internal IP address to a subdomain of the manufacturer. That way browsers can access the device using CORS, and the normal XSS protections will apply. Authenticate and authorise using a well known standard like OpenID, OAuth or JWT.
Favorite line: "For example, 125,000 years ago, the climate was going through an interglacial period, during which it was several degrees warmer than it is now."

And yet people keep saying our current conditions are unprecedented...
Close but not quite - the trigger for change will be falling profits. The powerful few will decide our fate.
The 10x/-10x decisions are made by the architects, and the decisions tend to involve where network/codebase/layer/service boundaries are drawn.
I absolutely loved this article. Don't get hung up on the "10x", read it as "good". All the characteristics Salvatore describes are the characteristics of every good developer I know, and that every developer should strive for.
They make you a better artisan, but also increase your productivity. Who cares if it's 10x, 100x or 2.5x? The important bit is growing to your personal full potential.

One thing that it's missing from the post is a bit of focus on how good developers (and indeed good leaders) concentrate on maximizing their impact. Not only you want to be fast and reasonably accurate, but also make what you do matter. Sometimes shaving down compilation time by a couple of minutes will save each developer in the team two minutes multiple times a day for years, for example. Not all productivity wins are obvious.
The worst part of working with people like that is that they are usually rewarded, while the rest of us are criticised for not being able to keep up, or lack understanding.

I worked with a guy who was the star of the department, a nice and friendly guy, but holy crap he built some interesting solutions. Example: Our main product could only be debugged if we started up a development environment, consisting of 12 VMs. The 10x guys only problem was that the subnet these thing ran on was a little to small for all us to have a full environment.

You're absolutely right that these people develop tend to develop a very personal style, and often it's harmful to everyone else.
Some productivity killers:

- Distractions

- Feature creep

- Poor code organization: coupling, action at a distance, cyclomatic complexity

- Noise: comments that do not get to the point. A tool to mitigate this is https://foxtype.com

- Hacks and lack of consistency

- Lack of automation: tests, builds, deployments

Regarding hacks, imagine what would physics equations would look like if a fundamental constant was wrong. All equations would need to compensate for it by including some arbitrary constant making everything more complicated. That is what messy code bases look like, layers of lies to compensate for lies. Clean code is more straightforward, easier to work with.

Regarding iterations... does the army run an exercise with soldiers and trucks and live ammo each time a general wants to test an idea? No. They use simulations, and only the ones that look promising are turned into exercises. So rather than asking engineers to prototype some throwaway idea, get your hands dirty and use Powerpoint and your imagination, stress the idea, then build it. And if it's built, keep it in a feature branch until you've actually decided to keep it for good.

When a car is built, engineers tell designers to modify their concepts in order to make the production more cost efficient. Same in software... be prepared to negotiate requirements if that is in the best interest of the project.
Google says:

* reboot

* check anti-virus

* requires 'Workstation' service

* try a different/older version

* verify other SysInterals utils can load their driver

* extract the 64-bit version and run it directly

http://superuser.com/questions/211759/process-monitor-fails-...

Any further details on the error message?
> Should Hans Reiser be given a second chance because he's good at file systems?

I'm not sure I'm able to follow your analogy. Hans murdered his Russian mail-order bride who was getting a divorce from him. There's a pretty big difference from a convicted murderer to an alleged sexual harasser.

If someone came to me and told me that they'd been convicted of murder, I could not in good conscience hire them and expose my team members to that risk. There would be no further discussion.

If someone came to me and told me that they'd been accused of sexual harassment and had left that job, I'd inquire and try to understand the details. There is much more gray area. If someone had physically assaulted another person, I'd immediately say no-hire. If someone had made untoward sexual remarks and was unapologetic for it, no-hire. If someone had said they misread someone else's body language and made a pass was apologetic for it, then negative, but not an immediate no-hire.
I am very happy about this. Finally no more USB hubs hanging around my Pi Zero to have WLAN and keyboard access at the same time (yeah, yeah, SSH I know...). Just ordered two pieces over here in Germany, I hope they will arrive by the weekend. :-)
I found at least one UK seller that will ship to the EU for £4 (€4.70) and the US for £5 ($6.20), and they seem to have some in stock still. Just shop around a bit.
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What are you saying is bullshit? I'm pretty confused.
I've seen these dark patterns justified by "UX experts" like so:

1) Make a A/B test with an annoying pop-up sign-up box and an ordinary unobtrusive one.

2) Data shows that more people sign up using the pop-up.

3) Obviously people want to sign up, but can't find the unobtrusive box.

4) Hence, the pop-up design helps people achieve their goal (of signing up) better and is therefore more user friendly.
More like 4 GBP. I paid 26 GBP for Zero W, Essentials kit, original case and international shipping to Norway from GB (ThePiHut).
This is the one that I'd probably investigate seriously apart from indy for any comms http://www.nsoftware.com/platforms/delphi/. I looked at it many years ago and it seems the best supported.
As we're starting to learn from pro sports, concussions are serious injuries that can have lifelong effects on cognitive function. He did injure someone badly.

To get hit in the head hard enough to lose consciousness is not a minor incident.
Given that intergalactic trade is at an all time low, I think it's safe to say that the sample was stolen by someone keen on selling it for a tidy sum.

Pretty doubtful that there is anything driving crime beyond scarcity, paucity, and the greed that comes from having to have control over everything to assuage feelings of inadequacy.

If there is a galactic police then surely the intergalactic police and the cosmoslogical police have the matter well in hand. I know because no one told me....lol.
I've also seen negative impact developers. If they did not code, we'd be closer to the finish line than if they did not.

Works great if you pair them with a more senior developer who has the chutzpah to make an impact by deleting egregiously bad code. E.g. one of the best I know made a failing project succeed by literally deleting all unit tests (which in that case were not providing value at all).
Sort of retail.

Yeah, I'm looking at having a printer controlled cash draw. I don't need a bar code scanner. A Raspberry Pi touch display. And some sort of pinpad hardware and payment processing service I can integrate with. I think that's "all" I need for what I have in mind.
I have definitely been involved in teams where removing the "top programmer" made everybody more productive. Usually, these developers are "10x programmers", in the sense that they write 10x the lines of code as the rest of the team, it's just all bad.
You are wrong. End of discussion.
> One person's bloat is another person's critical feature.

That's what extensions are for. Those who want it, can have it, those who don't, they won't. Everybody wins, no need to raise emotions.
Show HN: Gitlab.com runners are pending for too long
Exactly. At my last job, a colleague of mine was tasked with creating a tool to generate a monthly summary report based on 100s of millions of records. It took him weeks of trying to get something working in Python (naively read in all the data into Python objects and then trying to iterate over them), coming up with convoluted algorithms trying to speed things up. His final solution took multiple days to run (too slow for the requirements). An equivalent solution using PostgreSQL (using the built-in COPY to parse the CSV records) and couple hundred lines of SQL (a day's work) could do the job in less than 10 minutes.

At the beginning of my career I've done comparable things. I once spent multiple weeks implementing a solution to a problem that would have been trivial if I had known about unification [1]. Thousands of lines of complicated C++ code, countless bugs,... If you don't even recognise the problem, how can you expect to find a reasonable solution in a time that is only 10x as long as it would take someone who recognises the problem and knows how to solve it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_(computer_science)
The whole 10x programmer thing is just interpreted wrong. The original statement was that the best are 10 times better than the worst.

I've certainly worked alongside programmers who's output is so bad that I would consider myself both 10 times better and 10 times faster. And I wouldn't even consider myself a top teir programmer. They are often people who's contributions to the project are net negative in that they actually require additional work from someone else to go clean up their mess afterwards.

Stop imaging a mythical coder who is 10 times better than everyone else, and instead think of the worst coder you've ever worked with who is 10x worse than everyone else. There is your 10x'er. We are nearly all 10x'ers when compared to the bottom few percent.
A -0.01x programmer would flip the working state of the codebase everytime he commits ;)
My 7 year old son is rapidly becoming far more hostile to anything from ads to privacy invasions because it is simply making up a far bigger part of his life than it does for me.

I wonder how children learning about these things from such a young age will play out once they're gron up.
well, all you have to do now is get all that water and carbon to the moon, I guess.
Tablet's get expensive pretty quickly, and they will break. I need at least five EPOSs for "reasons". And I reckon I could have every thing I need, plus replacement hardware on location for a fraction of the cost of using tablets.
I travel with no laptop or cellphone as well. That part of the article was really bizarre.
That's technically true (the best kind of true) -- a representative democracy is a republic --, but the problem that the poster was pointing at was that the people are not being actually represented by our elected representatives.
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Yes, I have seen that too, but that's not what I was talking about.

I have heard about a case where really the best programmer left, and now everybody else had more responsibility, had to learn about parts of the code they did not know previously, had to fix harder problems.

So, everybody else was getting better because the one person who could help with the hard stuff was not there anymore.

But I honestly can't remember where I heard that...
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I don't travel that much anymore, but as recently as 5 years ago I traveled many weeks a year for work. So I have an old travel backpack with a laptop sleeve and about a dozen pockets, I've cut off some straps and buckles as they have become frayed and useless but I still use it, mostly in my office, hung on a hook to keep certain items like survival gear, knives and firestarters away from my kids (I work from home and you can see where this is going)

We traveled across the U.S. last week for an important family even. At the 11lth hour in a moment of thrift and panic as I realized my 5 children had commandeered my normal carry-on and luggage, I snagged the old travel backpack, dumped its contents on my desk and began packing.

13 hours later as my happy brood gathered at the benches on the other side of the lemmings line I realized something was wrong as the scanner belt kept going back, and forth, and back with the scanner maw right around, I guessed, the location of my ill-fated backpack.

15 minutes later when an elderly TSA agent finally found the 10 inch 1/4 inch thick black coated survival blade[0] in between the padded lining of the laptop sleeve and the back pad (a perfect place for an idiot, paranoid, delusional to hide an implement of murder) I was certain I was in for the full cavity treatment much as my ragged backpack had been.

I'm convinced the only reason i was able to check my carryon WITH the knife inside it after being perfunctorily and even gently escorted back to the check in counter is because I myself was so convinced of my innocence and lack of contraband.

When asked if I had anything sharp or dangerous in my pack I answered a quick and unabashed "nope" fully convinced of my own lie and maintained this demeanor until 15 seconds before they pulled the knife from thin air - only being persuaded of my deceit after seeing the fully empty bowels of my pack and remembering its former contents.

[0]https://www.topsknives.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/ima...
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This is also why "every statistician/expert is wrong for predicting Hillary would win".

In a binary mind, a 70% likelyhood of an outcome (more than 50%) means that if the opposite happens, everything that went into the prediction was wrong.
You always have to trust the DNS, unless you use certificates for something else. (The exception being EV certificates, but it is far from clear how many end users know or care about that.)

So the question should be why trust DNS and CA when the DNS is sufficient? And it doesn't have to be DNS, you could use domain names for other things too, but DNS is what end users care about so that's where you need to start.
On macOS, the following works as well:

$ pip install youtube-dl

even if you don't use brew. Python is there out of the box.
I ordered two from the pi3g shop listed on the site. Seemed to work fine so far.
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You didn't believe the Chinese when they said they would be there by 2035? :)
> "The job of a storyteller is to get out of the way!"

> This means no fancy literary devices that let the reader appreciate the choice of words - that alerts the reader to your presence, and distracts from the story. It also means strong settings and descriptions.

This is subjective, though. I, for example, love authors who alert me to their presence. This can powerfully reinforce or enhance the story. Vonnegut was a shining example of this.
Actually, I think it's the inverse. Most 2/year novelists are professionals, and it shows. Stephen King consistently wrote at about that rate. 6 months full-time is a good amount of time for a professional writer: 1-2 months for writing, and then another year or so of polishing and editing that happens in parallel with other efforts.

10 year novelists are often amateurs. That novel your next door neighbour asked you to read? He's probably been working on it for years.

Even notoriously slow George R. R. Martin takes less than 10 years to write a novel.
Failing project or failing project tests?
If by that you mean to simply add display on top of a cash register and pinpad, then yes, RPi will do just fine. However, if you want to manage payments as well, you must conform to PCI standard and get certified which is lengthy and costly process.
Provided your business will never need more than one and only one expert programmer who may not work in a team and this expert programmer will never leave your business and will always be trustworthy to do the right thing and they can support/maintain their own work in your production environment then a 10x programmer is a great idea.

Otherwise consider other human qualities such as communication skills, adaptability and critical thinking as more valuable than raw coding skill.
So freaking what?
The only reason that is so is the government steals moneyed from the coal industry and gives it to the green robbers.

Those (solar) jobs are largely parasitical economy that would not normally exist in a free market economy.
Someone still has to die before some people realize how dangerous drones can be?

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/dangerous-drones-dai...
Make sure your examples match your claim (2014)
What makes you say that cuckoo uses 2x memory?
As now you need 10 times more developers to maintain the over-engineered Docker, Consul, ELK [...] stack while the 10x developer finds another victim to play resume-SEO?
Found zwavepublic.com now :-)
10X? Steve Jobs said more than once in interviews that he saw a 200X difference among professional programmers.

Which I think is bull, of course. You can't quantify things like that. Some people are better than others, but any claim of 10X or 200X is missing a much bigger picture of how humans contribute to each other's work.