skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of "why X is Y" articles are really "why X is described as Y" rather than "what caused X to be Y".
If you take nothing else from this, just take the bonus advice, which Thomas and Patrick have been flogging here for years. It really is just true.

If you bill hourly, people will attempt to attain an intimate knowledge of the comings and goings of what you do in order to get more out of you for less money, and this will be irritating, and they will also demand that you produce itemised invoices, which will, in itself, be time-consuming and even more irritating. Tell them that your minimum billable unit of time to complete a task (any task) is a day - tell them that it's a resourcing requirement, or just tell them nothing (if you're not brave, then half a day just about works too - but nothing more granular than that, ever).

If you're working with any decently sized kind of enterprise, almost any reasonable rate you can imagine will be absolutely fine - worrying about $800 vs $1000 vs $1200 per day is utterly pointless; pick the highest number you dare and if they want to work with you it will be fine, and if they didn't want to work with you, the rate wasn't the problem anyway. I once charged a client ~$15,000 for a week's work, because they needed it in a hurry; I thought I was being outrageous (because the work was very easy and very repetitive), but they went for it. Later they accidentally sent me the pitch deck they had sent to their client, which included their costs, and I found they were charging ~$25,000 for the technical side of a $90,000 project - they made $10,000 on the bit my consultancy did, and a hell of a lot more on the rest. So yeah, raise your rates.
Is there a reason you want fewer languages instead of more?
Even better then: try the Win key + arrow keys.
I definitely agree with you. And we are better off compared to the hack-hell it was when you were doing [0] (yes, that is still the tutorial), but I feel we are still finding our ways very much. If the progression from the old 'install and start developing and deploying' to the current brittleness and dependency hell is going to continue into the future, I will find something else to do :)

[0] http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php
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Me too. CAs are fun. But obviously people like Wolfram take them way too seriously (assuming "A New Kind of Science" was sincere and not just a way to convince hobbyists to buy Mathematica)
Google DeepMind's Untrendy Play to Make the Blockchain Actually Useful
Are you implicitly arguing that humans going about their day to day lives have a self that they are incapable of modifying?

What's the difference between a pill and an idea?
Yes, my concern is that this functionality is baked into the client and is at a high risk of being executable remotely.
I didn't say it had to be any of those things, and mentioned ticketing as well, which is none of those things. The comment I was responding to was about being checked-up on frequently. And regarding tech leads, once you get above the size of a single very small team, how many of those don't have some form of technical lead?

Besides, the Agile Manifesto explicitly states at least one form of daily interaction: Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. Having this in the list and then pretending that having standups are the functional opposite of "what Agile really means" is just nonsense.

Every time I see one of these "Ah, but Agile doesn't have to be that way", it makes me think of lynx and w3m. There's the way the majority of browsers work, and then there's ones like these. Yes, you can make the correct technical argument about what a web browser is, and then there's the way that almost everyone thinks of when the word 'browser' is used. File a bunch of bugs about how your front-end is failing in w3m, and then sit back and watch the WONTFIXs roll in.
Now try a new experiment:

* There are 60 students, all taking 5 classes, with multiple assignments due at random time points in each class.

* To finish any assignment, the student needs several tasks to be performed by other students in different disciplines.

* The exact amount of effort required for any of those tasks is unknown.

* The college has ordered the professors to assign just a bit more work than can possibly be completed, or equivalently, has under-estimated the number of students needed to complete all of the assigned tasks.
Teaching business, he also wrote this on the blackboard on the first day one semester:

business
entrepreneuer
its it's
there they're their

And said that if any of these words were misspelled on a paper or exam, it was an automatic F.

He was sick of business majors misspelling business, and said after the new policy he didn't have to give anyone an F for that. Nobody complained about it, either.

Give people reasonable standards to live up to, and they will. In fact, they'll thrive on it.
Let me save you 18+ months of agony by recommending: expensiveproblem.com/hbin

worth every penny, IMHO. Been freelancing 3+ years, getting off of hourly and onto value-based billing has been life-changing.
Sure did. CBP found they were playing other shows, and they didn't have a work visa. Am I missing something?
This won't suprised anyone that uses twitter. In fact I rely on 2-3 bots to retweet my tweets and so get more coverage. They have a place, it's not all bad.
Wonder how many times Edward Snowden will be nominated? :)
Graduate from Sed and Sort to Lnav, the Logfile Navigator
Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language.

http://www.ponylang.org/
And shift+win+arrows to kick it over your multiple monitors.

With those two features now in Windows (for a while) I could finally drop my autohotkey windowing script.
No, there is no built-in firewall for outgoing connections on iOS, and I don't know of a way to install one without using an external device like a router with a filtering proxy.

The OS limits an app's access to data that belongs to that app, so an app can't gather information you do not give it access too. (e.g. you have to give explicit permission for it to access photos or GPS location). But you do not have any control over other analytics the app may gather and upload, e.g. frequency of app use or info you enter.
Hal was in a double bind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind

And given that this is a now obsolete explanation for schizophrenia it makes perfect sense that they'd use it in a movie back then. I can also attest to being caught in one and that it can be enormously stressful - they are also more difficult if you are prone to all-or-nothing or black and white thinking, so again the traditional notion of computer logic would be more prone to it.
There was and maybe still is this site called TechCofounder that was started some years ago, by a Korean guy (maybe in the States).
Since Conway's Life is Turing Complete (IIRC), it would be theoretically possible for someone to write a compiler for it, no?

This seems obviously very hard, but since this seems to be catching up, how long until someone decides it's "easier" to write some sort of language + compiler that outputs the initial state needed to do whatever you want in a Life's board?

On another note...this is truly mind-blasting. So, what else do people like him/her do when looking for a challenge? I can't even start to fathom what kind of intelligence level do you need for this, let alone imagine what would I find challenging if I were able to reach these level of mental performance.

Or maybe it's just my puny brain trying to make sense of it... but it just seems so amazing to me the type of minds that you can encounter when public forums like SO are there for almost everyone to access.
The article said that.
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To take another comment, suppose the Media Lab awards Snowden the $250K. What possible conspiracy charge could the Media Lab (or the person(s) who nominated Snowden) catch?
Find number of bits to store an integer, and its binary representation
YouTube downloader for macOS
SREcon '16 insights
Giving people impractical tasks and expecting miracles is something else entirely.
What is the actual plan? To harvest DNS requests?
I think you're looking for WUPHF.com... [0]

[0] http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/WUPHF.com_(Website)
and yet we dont care when Manning tech books always have a discount someway somehow. there's almost always a deal of the day. just have patience. I know it's not technically perpetual but it has the same effect.
> The recipient must have taken a personal risk in order to affect positive change for greater society.

There are plenty of ways to disobey without breaking the law.
I find it an odd idea that the military (at least the US military) is the paradigm of efficiency or organization.

It's true they do have ways to get people do do what is directed but they aren't very efficient and organization at the micro level might be good but not at the macro.

There is a reason the military is so absurdly costly and apparently has trouble decisively ending conflicts. Because all the parts are in place doesn't necessarily mean organization at a higher level.

I also offer as evidence the growth of the use of contractors. Because we apparently can't put three guys in a rowboat for less than a million bucks. That's not organization, even if all uniforms are pressed to specification.

The successes the military does enjoy are more a matter of literal brute force and a big budget rather than organized long term planning IMOP.
Population-Scale Physiological Sensing: A Case Study of Sleep and Performance
"Engaged in" makes it sound like they're more interested in ongoing disobedience, e.g. the folks at sci-hub.
Remember Aaron.
How much natural sunlight are you getting vs. artificial lighting? Maybe you have some problem with the mechanism that resets us to the solar day or maybe you are disrupting it in some way. Like you suggest it's possible that the light from your monitor is also messing with your body.

My sleep pattern when I'm in nature with no artificial light is very different than at home with lights + screens. In nature I wake up much earlier and my sleep patterns tend to align themselves with the solar day. At home it's a lot less aligned with the solar day and more impacted by having lights and screens on.

For me getting proper sleep is also very important. I don't get it how some people seem to be able to function well with a lot less sleep and alarm clocks ;) I think they are just in some sort of perpetual sleep deprivation mode.

Do you get jetlag?
Hey there! Thanks for using us :D Icefo is correct, we don't currently have plans for Linux support - but we do have Backblaze B2. While not unlimited, it gives a lot more flexibility, and may end up being less expensive, depending on how much data you're storing -> backblaze.com/b2
San Diego itself (where I lived, near UCSD) is a "suburban slum" in terms of density. I now live in an actual suburb of Washington DC and it is far more dense than San Diego (as well as being on both the DC Metro and commuter rail lines)
It's usually not advisable, but I genuinely think classical CGI is beautiful mechanism for dynamically generated pages. It's a natural extension of Unix scripting: shebang'd scripts in any language, environment variables, stdout. Job's a good'un.
Except that also depends on your latitude... Here at 57N it's dark until 9pm on Dec/Jan, currently the sun rises at 7am, and in the summer it's only dark for a couple of hours at night. Even with all-round DST it'll still be dark when children go to school in winter.
The iPhone is full of wonderful affordances like this for low-vision folks.

My favorite option I've discovered is the magnifier. When it's on, you can triple-tap the home button to open the camera and turn the iPhone into a little hand lens, even if it's locked. The shutter button doesn't save the picture; it just freezes it (with some fancy optical stabilization) so you can pinch and zoom even further with your fingers. This is more convenient than swiping around on the lock screen to open the ordinary camera.

It's really helpful to read signs and restaurant menus. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Magnifier.
I wouldn't say "must", but Photoshop is absolutely the best thing on the market for image editing.

What's your workflow for creating, say, sprites, if you're not using Photoshop?
Clever but the clocks aren't really analogue. In an analogue clock the movement is continuous and there is no state where both hands are horizontal

But still, it really is clever.
True - my point was more that accidents happen and often are caused by people. In this case there may not have been data loss, but monetary impact of sites going down was probably not insignificant.
Not that it isn't impressive, but it begins to make much more sense how one would go about this once you realize there are higher level functional pieces studied in Conway's GOL. Thinking about the solution in terms of just the rules to the game would require beyond-human intelligence (I speculate); but if you can use these higher level constructions, it's reasonable depending on how well you know them. E.g., from his response:

It uses p30 technology. Just basic things, gliders and lightweight spaceships

You can find lots of info on all these higher level things, e.g.: http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Spaceship
It needs way better pictures to sell itself to the developers. A wireframed sphere is not very inspiring.
I second this - Gross is a phenomenal lecturer. These videos would probably be a great supplement to any self-study of algebra.
While automatic control of computerized interfaces should surprise no one, “bot”-like behavior is not limited to computers and isn’t new. One should always be skeptical even when something comes from humans: for instance, a “customer review” could be a paid reviewer, or someone talking on the nightly news could be essentially controlled by the puppet strings of their organization and not really voicing their own position. Ideally no one ever puts too much faith in what they hear from a handful of people because that is not statistically significant (there are literally hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. alone, billions in the world; sample sizes must be gigantic).

Where “millions” of accounts become dangerous is when trying to determine if even a “statistically significant sample size” is legitimate. I seriously doubt that most organizations ever come close to finding a large enough sample in the first place before reporting a finding. And yet, if they primarily look at online postings instead of actually talking to people, it’s likely that even a large sample is totally messed up. That should concern everyone.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Glad you like it! I'll keep giving the writers compliments, they love those things :D
It took a while for me to understand Yalgeth's Limit, but once that piece of information cracked itself open, the rest of it all really falls into place.

Edit: Check out the wikia to get started (http://vxmodules.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_Started) Be careful though, the first time you ever calibrate a wide-angle spectrograph, you'll be hooked!
Why would a developer be creating sprites? A designer would do that, normally.
Richard Muller on why the flow of time is not an illusion
If IPSec is a complicated, commitee-designed and NSA interfered technology, and moreover not recommended by information security researchers, isn't a detail such as support for post-quantum algorithms irrelevant?

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123...

https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-ipsec.pdf
Ah - that makes sense. Our devs are always looking at ways to make us more viable for folks - so they are aware :D
Anyone know how the backups get done? eg block based, WAL based, pgdumpall based, etc?

The docs seem unclear on this. Hard to tell if backups would be transaction consistent. :/
Today I clicked on a random story off the HN front page, then found a random comment on that story.

Then I clicked on the subreddit linked from that HN story. I saw a submission in there by a guy I sub to on Youtube... referencing a reply to a video he made that I watched like two days ago.

The hell? How does the Internet work?
they do train the CNN from scratch, see section 3.4.
After watching this video, I spent a few hours reproducing the core functionality of what Howard demonstrated (with an .org file of my own)...

...and then went further down the rabbit hole. I installed org-reveal and used it to create a very nice presentation out of my .org file - with syntax-highlighted code seemlessly merging with screenshots.

Incredible. Thanks for pointing me to this - and thank you, Howard!
Good suggestion. :)
And that would be awesome if we had meaningful competition (and, in this case, I mean more than even two providers) from local Internet providers.

It is not out of the realm of possibility, if ISPs and mobile providers start putting in "you agree by subscribing to our services that we can harvest, sell, package, and distribute your access history to any company we deem suitable" their terms of service, that I wouldn't have any choice of provider who doesn't do this.

If both Comcast and CenturyLink do this, I'm SOL for wireline broadband. If T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon all do this--and why wouldn't they all, as a group?--I'm SOL for wireless service.

So that's six companies to completely foreclose having a choice.
I've nominated Alexandra Elbakyan of sci-hub and encourage everyone else to do the same.

I'd also be happy if Aaron Swartz won!
What do you mean "not even that high". It seems to be the second most potent opioid on the list.
Nothing new under the sun, the rest of us suffer while the top part of society buys their 3rd house and 2nd boat. Let them eat Ramen.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer my code naked, plain php and postgres, nothing else, not even JS. So for me, echo 'Hello world' is good enough.
$1900 for sharing a house with 40 other people? What a joke

And these are people making 6 digits per year

I'd rather get a lower pay and not worry about crap at this level, even though rising rents seem to be an issue at every city that matters
I’m not putting an upper limit on how many things an OS can do; it can have hundreds or thousands of features that are still largely invisible (excellent file systems, secure networking, massive APIs to help developers create apps supporting a wide variety of standards, etc.). You would never convince me however that a user is “asking” Microsoft to pop up crap in their face when trying to browse the hard drive. There is no one “asking” to have their laptop automatically rebooted and reimaged with an entirely new system that has a brand new and unfamiliar UI that breaks not just one but several of the applications needed on a daily basis. A lot of the changes to Windows lately have been actively user-hostile and it’s even more egregious that these things are present in paid versions of the system.
Personally I find Magnet[1] (for Mac) to be wonderful, it moves your windows around to halves, thirds, and two-thirds presets with either dragging or keyboard shortcuts.

[1]: http://magnet.crowdcafe.com
I can't believe this slipped under me. In all the years I've been on reddit I never once came as far as 4th world, let alone 1000th.
Well if you'd like to select the k-th biggest element from a distributed array it's impractical - if not impossible - to send everything to one machine so another approach is needed. A fairly simple algorithm would select a pivot randomly on a random node and broadcast it to all other nodes. Each node then does the partitioning locally and counts partition sizes. Now you do a sum all-reduction on the sizes to decide which side you need to recurse on. This takes logarithmically many rounds in expectation just like the sequential algorithm, but it could result in very unbalanced work if the data isn't distributed randomly. It also has even more trouble if the pivot selection is bad because of the communication overhead. There are various techniques to overcome these challenges but it's a bit much to go into here.
Poe's law in full action. If for some reason this is not a joke, it's a pretty lousy tutorial, as for every single arbitrary framework/tool decision here, there's not a single rationale here but "because it's 2017". I'd absolutely prefer 1995's Hello World if it's just about saying "Hello World".
Look at Imgur, it has become a series of memes, reused content from (Twitter, FB, etc), or repetitive "dumps". original content is automatically downvoted
As someone still using Window Maker, these mini-DockApps are a a reason why I keep using it. The dock is on the left or right, so it does not take the more precious vertical screenspace. And dockapps are reasonably sized (64x64 pixels by default) and thus can show useful information. I am especially fond of one showing CPU activity like blobs in a lava lamp (wmforkplop).

I also got very used to the way WM does virtual desktops, though KDE can be configured to behave nearly identical by now.
Why Quantum Computing is Weird
The first eligibility requirement: The recipient must be living.
Depends on the country but often engineers are more expensive than designers.

It is not cost efficient to have engineers doing design, unless it's for prototyping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer_art
It sounds like you applied for a senior developer position in some kind of interactive/digital/marketing agency... Skills you mentioned are required in that context. It would be different if it was a game dev company or embedded software shop or fintech software house, but all of them use "senior developer" as a name of a position.
One of the criteria is that the nominees are alive. :-/
Not trying to berate your experience. Touchwood, I never had any problem with TSA. I have got myself TSA pre. My total time for security check at O'hare and LAX is between 2-5 mins. There have been times when TSA officials were cracking jokes with me.

Edit - let me share a small story with you. It is from the times when I was on EAD (about 4,5 years ago). I was returning from India to Chicago. Immigration office told me there will an additional check so they asked me to follow another officer. The area had lot of chairs and TVs. While, I was waiting for my return of my passport, I saw another guy sleeping on 5,6 chairs. A TSA officer came and telling him while shaking his body to try to wake him up - "hey! wake up. You can go home" :-)

P.S - english is my 2nd language so please pardon my grammar.
> any given person should rationally conclude he or she is made of ones and zeros rather than flesh and blood

This statement presumes that "flesh and blood" are already not "ones and zeros". It also relates to my view that the conflation of "information" and 1s and 0s is very misleading. 1s and 0s are a view of information. The things on my hard drive are not 1s and 0s, otherwise what would I call corrupted locations?
There's a certain good aspect to this. Users should be aware that networks (any, be it their FTTH or a WiFi hotspot in some cafe) can - theoretically and practically - access and analyze their traffic.

I'm NOT saying that such capability or legality of third parties accessing that data is a good or bad thing. It's complicated. I'm sure only that the fact that proper user awareness on this matter is a good idea.
>I find it an odd idea that the military (at least the US military) is the paradigm of efficiency or organization.

People in the military usually talk about it being a clusterfuck on the macro level. I think most of the people with this mental model of the military are just office middle managers.