skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see this posted, as this wasn't particularly widely used even at Red Hat. And the timestamps for revision history show you that it's of a certain era.

What I would recommend is something like the MailChimp style guide: http://styleguide.mailchimp.com/

The upside here is that those teams are small and centralised and obsessive over the tone of their product. The same goes for other SaaS companies like Intercom (Elizabeth is an amazing content strategist). They have to be.

For context, I'm an alumni of the Red Hat content team, which I joined from a corporate background and was frustrated to see the team relied on the IBM Style Guide. I pushed for Red Hat to make a canonical open source style guide, as I researched common patterns across engineering and tech writing that can create disparity in UIs or APIs if one group ends up writing one way, and another the other.

For various reasons this wasn't a feasible project so my team focused on tooling instead (creating the PressGang CCMS internally, and then I took funding from one of the Red Hat founders to launch Corilla, a collaborative publishing tool for technical writers considered "the GitHub for content teams").

This style guide here is at best a reference for the kinds of things you might want to consider if you're building one for open source. In my era this guide was pretty useless though, as the content team voted for a strange hierarchy of style guides going from the IBM, then the CMoS, then the American Heritage dictionary, and then this guide. Or maybe some variation - nobody paid attention and we all just used the IBM and had opinions.

This is why the smaller SaaS companies make the best style guides (and the MailChimp one is not only creative commons so you can use it too, but not stuck in the awful DocBook XML format!).
Why not both? Do you think that ending segregation wasn't also a major opportunity booster for the african american community? Is it impossible for something in your own interest to also be just?
So your company wants to do AI?
The population of San Francisco proper is only ~800k but the population of the Bay Area as a whole is about 7 million people, which is only slightly less than Greater London's 8 million.
And tell me why Braintree has an obligation to take his business. He's in a risky country Serbia, which has a high potential for chargebacks and fraud.
It's dangerous to make predictions like that. We've seen worse companies last longer.

In the 2008 financial crisis, people from the bottom to the top committed outright fraud; swallowing up other banks whole (PNC bought National City for $5 billion; then got a $5 billion tax credit .. they bought National City for free .. NC wasn't allowed to apply for TARP).

Ford sold tank treads to Germany. IBM made punch cards for the SS. BP got the UK and US to remove the democratically elected leader of Iran and install a dictator. United Fruit and everything they did in South America

Wal-Mart is still around, and Amazon has turned into the new Wal-Mart. Uber could die tomorrow or last another 50 years. I don't think any of this is make or break.
We actually had the exact same situation here in Hong Kong with Braintree. They did not transfer the funds to our account and always blamed "banking partners" for the problems. The worst customer service I've dealt with and switching to Stripe as soon as it became available in Hong Kong was a no brainer.
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I'd be happy if new stuff lasted 10 years.
Why would the price of labor be treated any differently than any other price. In general, inflation is more dollars chasing less goods and services(where services includes, but is not limited to, individual labor of any sort).

To be fair to your question, inflation does not necessarily mean any individual price will rise, but all of them generally more or less. For example, market forces may cause the price of labor to decrease while most other prices are increasing.
Of course it makes sense, they would be more desperate to hire and you would have less competition from others who have ethical problems with Uber.
In a world where Stripe is used in very few countries - Braintree seemed like a great alternative(It was just about the time it was being bought by PayPal).

Six months into our "cooperation" they sent an email breaking the contract with us(e-commerce retailer) because their "bank" was protesting too many of our sales..

The truth of the matter is that Braintree was literally accepting all credit card transactions and had almost 0 fraud protection(for example we had orders being shipped to a Greek city, ordered by Iraqi-named citizens using US based credit cards..they all went through fine).

So they just breached the cooperation and they kept a large chunk of the owed money for like 4 months until their "bank" verified some thing or the other.

In my personal experience you cannot rely on Braintree to block fraudulent transactions for you - you have to do it yourself and pray that still you don't miss on too many frauds passing through to Braintree. Makes you wonder what use all these "credit card gateways" have if you still have to bear all the cost of doing the fraud-prevention yourself..
But which direction does this pear shaped atom point? Towards the big bang?
If only that were true. Lots of VC is simply FOMO at any cost.
https://i.imgur.com/3pyKkY9.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/A8T3aso.jpg

They both have the name of the app in the top center, in a thin stylized font, with lots of spacing between the letters. Immediately under is the words "Pickup location" in light text on a white background then under that the address where you are being picked up. There's a blue circle to represent your location.

There's the map with pastel colors, and a popup with round corners saying "Set Pickup Location" then on the right side of that is a circle with a right 90 degree angle arrow inside with rounded corner and ends. Under that is a pushpin with a sphere with a specular highlight. In one corner of the screen is a man's silhouette inside a circle.
Oops, I said "couple of weeks" when what I meant was "couple of days"! So current progress with just Justin Sandercoe's online courses (and not having had any full days to devote yet) is that I've learnt a few chords (D, A and E) and have been working on speeding up the transitions between them.

Mentally I feel like I'm in the stage of curiosity right now, where I simply want to get a feel for the instrument and see whether or not it sticks. I know the genres and styles that inspire me though, and I try not to think about the vast gap between my current abilities and even basic fluency on the instrument (adult self-consciousness).

With piano I played and picked things up myself for quite a long time, such that I now wish I'd realised my interests were serious sooner than I did. With guitar I'm hoping that I work out if it's something I want to continue much sooner, so I don't waste as much time ;)

I certainly don't feel too frustrated at the moment, but I wouldn't mind if the keyboard fluency I've acquired over the years made a difference on the fretboard instead of the whole thing feeling completely unnatural ;)
Set up a Google News alert. It will send you an email every time the person is mentioned in the news.
Very unlikely.

Once you work in manufacturing you realize that components are actually very expensive, not a $10 joke.
Something should be said about repairability. Seems like manufacturers are purposely trying to make appliances unrepairable. For example recently a temperature sensor (cost USD 1$) failed in my fridge-freezer in the freezer compartment. Electrolux does not provide a way to replace it nor instructions on locating this faulty sensor so the repairs guy just tells you to replace the appliance [1] because a 1 dollar sensor failed, can you imagine? Shame on them!

[1] http://pingec.si/blog/articles/fixing-a-faulty-freezer-senso...

On the other hand I have a 30 years old washing machine which is rust-free and it simply just works. I am not sure I would ever want to replace it.
"You should go collect my data for me" is something you tell your lab tech, not your unconvinced interlocutor.
More from the follow up tweets in regards to John's statement to Recode[1]:

> one imagines that the above statement wouldn't have come if the below email didn't include the passive aggression

[1]: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/843620898967969793
You can right-click on any playlist and select "Create Similar Playlist" to generate a new playlist with similar tracks.

I suspect this uses the same underlying algorithms as Discovery Weekly, except that DW uses the songs you've listened to as the basis.

Discover Weekly does suffer from a pollution problem — listen to one style of music for a while, and the entire tone of your DW playlist will change. Fortunately, the above trick works.

There's also the Release Radar [1] playlist, which seems to be an undocumented feature. It gives you new tracks by artists you follow, as well as related artists based on some mysterious metric.

DW explicitly excludes classical music and also jazz, for some reason. I think I've had Arvo Pärt come up, probably because he's a contemporary artist; same with folks like Max Richter and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbtE...
I thought that's exactly what it was.
Dustbowl -> Great Depression -> New Deal -> WWII -> Industrial Revolution takes off
Updated title :)
How is almost no one talking about the esp32? WiFi, Bluetooth, two cores, and an ultra low power processor that can wake the main cores for when you need low power consumption are just the main features of this thing, there are plenty more. Not to mention they have a great tool chain with lots of example code.
That is really cool. Just like it was really cool when we learned how to translate neural signals farther away from the motor cortex to do similar things a decade ago. But I'm failing to see the evidence of revolutionary AI. I see a really well-researched piece of hardware paired with a solid understanding of anatomy and probably a few great data scientists to assist in it all.
Don't forget about Release Radar [1], their apparently secret feature that tracks new releases by artists you follow and also by related artists that they think you want to track.

It replaces the new-release light bulb dropdown menu that they removed some time ago. Apparently you can still get emails for new releases, if you go into your notification settings.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbtE...
It can be both, but see my reply to the latest comment in the chain. It's unwise to rely on it being both; you cannot write a blank check to a corporate entity to break rules just because you usually agree with the outcomes of breaking those rules.
That's correct, but that has more to do with what happens at termination or liquidity events.

It's very likely he had to forfeit everything, including any signing bonus (1 year timebomb is standard).
I parallelized SHA-512 for a competition - the compression function runs 4 copies in AVX2.

https://www.nayuki.io/page/lowest-sha512-value-by-brute-forc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1y17al/hashcha...
Does Braintree?
Gotta be either the Soros or the Koch, right? I don't have a coin at hand to flip.
You'll have no problem recruiting the people over 30 who are not interested in the ever changing web dev.
I hear a lot of complaints about SF being too tech-centric and monocultural. This is only true if you segregate yourself from the SF natives and the vibrant, diverse community that's existed before the tech booms and busts of the past two decades.

It's easy to feel like it's just a tech bubble -- there's not much interaction outside of it. But if you make an effort to step outside the tech-centric environment, it can be extremely rewarding.
Ólafur Arnalds is great. Make sure you also check out his fellow Icelander Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Formula Compiler: Compile code to correct, but useless mathematical formulas
Yes, but I replaced my ice maker for $36 and about 30 minutes of my time (10 minutes to figure out what to order; 20 minutes to put it in).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002GZND6U
D.C. citizens may have more electoral college votes per capita than California, but D.C. residents have no representation in the U.S. Senate.
Of the list I didn't see any Japanese brands... and I guess it makes since because I don't see many Japanese washers, refrigerators, etc outside of Japan. The ones I bought while living in Japan seemed good and of high quality... I had no issues with them. I wonder why they aren't sold outside of Japan?
Sure, but I believe we were limited by the available chassis to a lot lower than 16 slots.
While I have found it quite easy to take a code-first approach to deep learning/machine learning, I have encountered a lot of scepticism from existing ML/data science practitioners about such an approach, and I feel like investors will be even more risk-resistant.

Funnily enough big tech companies have seemed the most willing to accept people making a switch. I'm guessing because their appetite for ML/DL people is currently unquenchable.
When we moved in to our house we didn't have the grass mowed for a few weeks. That was enough to have a cobra show up.

After that we're quite dilligent at having the grass mowed every two weeks.
How are you so blase about jumping into a toxic work environment? A little bit more money isn't worth those conditions, assuming you could even get it. And keep in mind that a lot of the compensation is going to be in Uber equity -- which is affected by this scandal.
Speaking of James May and manufactured items of yore vs today, he recently did a series where he puts together a bunch of old stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+may+reass...
USA is notorious for having fully equipped kitchens.

In Europe it varies by country. From the same, to having only a bare sink with a tube for the gaz.
What's a good one of these marketplaces?
Well, the NYT has a weekly circulation of about half a million, and Limbaugh gets a weekly audience of 20 million. As to who clicks through a google link to their site? I don't know. I don't think that's anything like "controlling the political narrative" though, and I don't think having a site that people sometimes read is the same as twenty million people listening to you for hours.
Why do you think they've done nothing except "whine on facebook" and what action, exactly, would you advise them to take? If they sue Braintree in the US, the legal costs will be insane (especially by Serbian standards) and it will virtually ensure they won't see a penny until years later.
The comparison to soldiers killing people is pretty ridiculous.
I feel like philosophers have an over-active desire to simplify. In their mind consciousness must be something elegant and having refined gem-like qualities.

As we see now, consciousness is probably a lot more fuzzy than we had predicted. We now have robot appendages for amputees that interface more and more closely with the natural brain. Even from this cyborg point of view, the patients don't seem to think so much about it other than simply "OMG, thank you".

The question of where "soul" exists is older than science, and not really something I could add anything to.
Newer high-efficiency heat exchangers are much thinner than they were in the past, and failure there means carbon monoxide poisoning.
Relying on an LG appliance warranty is an invitation to heartbreak...
That's actually the series in which he makes the observation I was paraphrasing. I found that show pretty entertaining actually, and oddly satisfying. Edit: I think it might have been the stand mixer episode.

I also strongly recommend the mini-motorcycle episode.
Thanks so much for highlighting this!
>> AI is becoming a tool that can be used by anyone.

The fact that I can do it should be evidence enough for that statement. ;)

As far as the bulk of your comment goes, maybe. That's a prediction, but I can't say that I feel especially confident in the prospects of it. But who knows. Cold fusion looked like a lock for a revolution 60 years ago, and social media looked like a fad a decade ago.
It's called Mietskaserne https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietskaserne
In the literature these are called Barnum Statements (after PT Barnum, of "there's one born every minute").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
I think developers come at payment services with a mindset that it's such a simple thing (it's really just decrementing a number in one account and incrementing a number in another account) that they leave it to last to implement. Like security, it should be part of every decision you make, from day one. Particularly if you live outside the US.

CarGo's experience is a great example. For an app that lives and dies on efficient payment processing, they would have had been wise to have two payment processors coded up and ready to go. They should have been completely honest with their payment processors, built up a relationship, and sought assurances that their operation was acceptable.

The payment processor's biggest problem by far is fraud. That is why they have to charge significant margins, and why you have to send all your great-grandparent's birth certificates to them, and why they will suspend your account if there is the faintest whiff of suspicion. That's what makes the decrement-increment hard - really hard.

Treat the payments problem with the respect it deserves - as CarGo has found out, it can kill your business dead overnight.
Bootstrapping a Type System (2010)
Which time period in history? In the 1830s, you'd get younger sons or daughters of a farming family who would move away to the city to earn extra spending money for their family and find a measure of independence; oftentimes the eldest son would inherit the farm, so there was no place there for the other children.

In the 1930s, the farms were themselves collapsing. Mechanized agriculture created both a huge oversupply of produce (which drove down prices) and also ruined the ecology of the plains, which eventually led to the dust bowl. Farmers absolutely were forced off their land: that's where we got Okies, Hobos, the Great Migration, Grapes of Wrath, and all those other subcultures of migrant workers from.
I was more thinking about non-profit's own payment network over cc & others.

Fraud can be solved by making each irreversible txn ratable. Each seller can choose to make sum of all ratings and txn over some period public to appear more trustworthy. The algo can be more tweaked but txn rating is the gist.
Well, demonetisation isn't as big issue as action against Human rights organizations like Amnesty International or Environmental groups like Greenpeace. Trump isn't going to ban them or choke their funding directly.
Also Steve Bannon is tame in comparison to Yogi Adityanath, the newly appointed CM of UP (a state with 204.2 million population).
This Adityanath guy:

1. Said that he will put hindu idols in every mosque.

2. Said that Shah Rukh Khan(one of the greatest Bollywood) actor is a terrorist(Hafiz Sayed).

3. Distributed arms for rioting.

4. Has a person on his organization stage who said they should rape dead Muslim women in graves.

5. Said those who don't want to do yoga should leave India and should drown.

6. Will kill 10(100 in another) muslim for 1 hindu(killing anyone is wrong).

7. His organization (Hindu Yuva Vahini) engages in nonviolence during valentine.
This guy has been chargesheeted but no action.

What I have noticed is that during Bush time, Cheney was boundary of fringe for right in US. Now in Trump's time, Bannon is the boundary of fringe.

Similarly in India during vajpayee time, Advani was the boundary and Modi was fringe. Now during Modi's time, Yogi is becoming boundary. And mark my word, next boundary will be more direct oppression and removal of minority identity.
Hard to say. Universities aren't very good at instilling good applied engineering. If you are 18, very high GPA and you've passed this course and have strong programming skills, I think some investors would be interested. Similarly, if you have say a physics degree from a good university and you've done this I think investors would be interested.

If you're 22+ with a high school degree and not much of an engineering resume... Yeah, your pitch deck better be good.
I don't think we are on the precipice of general AI, perhaps we are not even close.

But we don't need fully general AI to have a huge transformative impact on society and the economy. Think about the full spectrum of jobs that exist in the modern world: doctor, teacher, construction worker, truck driver, chef, waiter, hair dresser, and so on. How many of those jobs actually require the full power of human intelligence? In my view, almost none. Maybe the intelligence required is still more general than what a computer can do, but probably a determined research effort could be enough to make up the gap for any specific task (say, to cut someone's hair, you need to have good visual understanding of the shape of the head, and very good scissor-manipulation skills, and a good UI so that the customer can select a style. It hardly seems like an insurmountable technical challenge).
Keep in mind this was written in early 2014. Mike Judge's Silicon Valley would come out a few months later.

* cough *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXuFrtmOYKg
>"But if you make an effort to step outside the tech-centric environment, it can be extremely rewarding."

Can you give an example?
Mayo to give preference to privately insured patients over Medicaid patients
I liked both of them. The 3D modelling was so much better in RT3 and alot of the economics was more "real-world". I do feel like RT2 had more of the history and charm however than RT3. Also a bit less pressure compared to some of the later maps in RT3 which were more scenario based and less open ended.
Chuckling at this ingenuous question.

Agile + scrum were transparently about providing leadership/managers with a reason to be involved at higher rates of compensation. Streamlining customer/developer communications or promoting the creation of well designed solutions were not part of our agility. We didn't need paid moderators to chuckle at our jokes, enjoy our insights, and make bad decisions on our behalf.

Devops and the whole automation phenomena I ignored till the realization creeped in that companies were hiring HR folks who thought that automation and the anti-pattern of SA OPs were silver bullets 'everywhere'.

The tools that are in use that have become part of the devops 'stack' like ansible and chef or jenkins and atlassian and all this...cruft. If I want to deploy and CM for *nix please don't tell me I have to work with Ansible specialists doing deploys and orchestration + CI and builds behind some Atlassian sales masterpiece.

You may not be able to hire someone who can understand our shell scripts and deploy|test automation for cheaper than us but you actually have people who can write a shell script and diagnose a systems problem without handing off
to a developer to decipher '312:yaml malformed button hook, dict value unbuttoned.'

I'm just a veteran of some psychic wars and probably don't know what is good for me though. :)
Decrease or remove altogether sales tax/VAT on appliances that come with a 10-year guarantee.
A Russian teacher in America [pdf]
Which isn't exactly germane to the issue at hand. Cloning someone else's business idea has no bearing on 'should they be able to earn money for services provided?'.
I know that weight makes a big difference when shipping parts or complete machines. So the cost of shipping magnifies when you use heavier materials.