skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, it was a field dozen years old already

valid point, what i meant was that it was new field to me. fixed it, thanks.

> first you believe declarative tool fits better than imperative ... but now you complain that Puppet moved in different direction than Ruby? Make your mind already

where do i even begin.. a) i was talking about functional/declarative approach, not tool; b) ruby is much more mature, coherent and pleasant language to work with - working hard to move in opposite direction is what i'm complaining about; c) while being very much imerative/oo, ruby still beats puppet in being functional and declarative.

> Calling Puppet's language functional is a major insult to caller's knowledge about programming languages. It's declarative, and it's not even a programming language, it was not meant to be Turing-complete.

what it was or wasn't meant to be i'll leave for your imagination, i'm concerned with what it is in practice. name me one feature of declarative puppet language that definitively rules out possibility to classify it as functional language?

> What made you think it's a programming language? It's not

i could go this way: have i used the word "programming" even once? but this is probably more efficient way to settle the issue:

> The Puppet language is more declarative/functional in its style than imperative/object-oriented, and is more likely to evolve in the functional direction instead of becoming more imperative and operating on mutable objects. - Henrik L
This isn't the difficult situation.

The difficult situation is one where you develop genuine feelings for someone that you work with every day, intensely, day in and day out. When the attempt of both parties to refrain from a relationship itself becomes an issue that you console each other over, ironically sending you into a relationship.

Or what if the woman approached the man, aggressively so? This does happen. Maybe not so difficult, but a different dynamic, and maybe a different reason to refrain, that turns this piece on its head.

Although well-intended, there's a certain sexism in these kinds of stories, a kind of "knight in shining armor" for the modern age. I realize that in most cases the issue is male -> female attention, but sometimes it is female -> male, or [fe]male <-> [fe]male, and it seems like we tend to assume everything is the same.

I'm trying to figure out what concerns me about this piece, because I'm not sure I have a problem with its content. I'm thinking it's not really what's written in the piece, but the subtext, context, and assumed reasons for writing it, and what to generalize.

I guess I worry that in trying to deal with the massive problem of sexual harassment, the actual messiness of other situations becomes stereotyped and painted over. And then we get blowback.
I have:

- A home NAS (4x5T + 7x4T = 48T, btrfs raid1)

- A 2U server sitting in a local datacenter (8x8T + 2x4T = 72T, btrfs raid1)

- An unlimited Google Drive plan

I run periodic snapshots on both servers and use simple rsync to sync from the home NAS to the colo. Irreplaceable personal stuff is sent from the colo to Google Drive using rclone.
CDMs are sandboxed, which is an improvement over the NPAPI plugins. I don't think we have to worry much about Sony rootkit attacks at least.
I bought one of these https://www.ospreypacks.com/us/en/product/comet-new-for-fall... a couple years ago as a convention backpack after being disappointed carrying my TB2 messenger bag. It has a padded slot in the back for a laptop plus an internal pocket in that slot where you could slide a tablet easily. Separate from the laptop slot, it also has one large and one small pocket, with some smaller internal pockets in the small one. The straps are comfortable enough to wear for multiple full days, assuming breaks here and there and I've never been wanting for space inside of it.
> Email is the only truly successful decentralized protocol

HTTP?
Check out this awesome video by 3Blue1Brown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4
Projects exist to serve a business need. Teams serve the project. Projects can develop problems that the team can't solve, for instance if an e-commerce project is losing revenue for business reasons rather than technical reasons.

These problems have to be tackled by management. Management has to change the scope and goals of the project so that the design team can better create deliverables for the engineering team to build.

Once you get to this level, generally the coders can only raise issues, they don't have the expertise necessary to actually recommend solutions.

About the only thing a coder can do if he sees something like this is to work really hard to actually understand what's going on, raise his concerns to management, and if he doesn't like their answer, get another job. Because chances are, if the project dies, so will his job.
The last few years have seen a number of very interesting developments along the lines of understanding the natural world through the so-called "lens of computation." Some interesting talks can be found here [1] as well as an essay here [2], on the topics of economics, social interaction, biology, and physics.

[1]: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/lens-of-computation-workshop

[2]: http://theory.cs.berkeley.edu/computational-lens.html
Any DCF model will not directly plug in assumptions. These assumptions impact the Discount Rate (r). Investors look at the same assumptions and may arrive at different Discount Rates.
OK so it's a $4 ESP8266 and maybe something else that plugs into the OBDII port. Why do I need this?
Totally. I've always been surprised that we don't consider how our bodies resemble much more a planet, then anything else. We're just cells to the earth, and who's to say mother earth isn't conscious. Our cells exhibit intelligence, they make their own decision and carry out actions independently, yet to our mutual harmonious benefit in general, but not always. Nature is much more then we make it be.
Maddow’s “Scoop” About Fake NSA Document Raises Several Key Questions
"I'm really paranoid about losing family photos"

No you aren't paranoid. Sensible. However, you've only just started. Try and do a restore every now and then from the HDDs.

There is no such thing as paranoia when it comes to protecting your data.
The Cost of Virtualization (2008) [pdf]
I think you have an interesting point, but I have no idea what you're saying. What would "deforming their own skulls" correspond to in modern society?
I think it would be a merger of equals type structure so the valuation stays academic vs. a buyout. You are correct but just to add a bit more about the board, they are pretty much the largest investors. If you look at CrunchBase other than the black female they tacked on in late 2016, it's mostly VCs, PE, and Saudis SW fund on the board. Kalanick had "controlling" shares and provisions but ultimately either through the board or indirectly, if you're not profitable (or not profitable enough) large shareholders control your fate, even if on paper they dont
Inside the Q2 2017 Global Venture Capital Ecosystem
CVE-2017-1000082 assigned to systemd, despite Pottering's objection
Thankfully you can't obscure the DOM, but people certainly obscure JS and CSS plenty already. Mostly in the name of shrinking its size, but not always just that.

Try to learn how a Google web app works by inspecting the source code sometime.
Hi, Markus, Founder of DataRevenue here - we can't open the original sheet for editing as that would put the employees data at risk. So here's another sheet for companies to post and edit directly - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JDx5acZPvdmmSeMyEr77...
> Many people believe the "real world" presented is in fact another layer of the Matrix, otherwise, how would Neo have superpowers in that world (among other issues)?

Short answer: WiFi

Longer answer: For reasons (probably involving systems of control, because, hey, it's the Matrix), in addition to the high-bandwidth wired connections, the implants in humans attached to the matrix also include lower-bandwidth wireless units, and the machines (obviously) have wireless network connections to coordinate mobile units. Neo can hack machines (or formerly Matrix-connected humans) via his (and their) wireless interfaces, giving him “superpowers” in the physical world.
Can't you see most of Panda's information with a $6 bluetooth OBDII adapter? (something like http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mini-OBD2-OBDII-V2-1-Android-B...)
I tend to kind of agree that a very high discount rate is appropriate, but, I do not see how Saudis will agree to even discussing 30% let alone 50% discount rate. They will rather quietly go to Institutional Investors Pre-IPO and allow them a major buy in share. There is no doubt that Saudis are unreliable and too many risks at play.
...to verify that you are correct and the items are genuine.
Waymo must disclose details of Lyft car deal to Uber
Might as well throw in Product Mentions (http://www.productmentions.com). Scraping reddit to figure out which Amazon links are mentioned, and displaying them on the site. I was going to add affiliate links, but didn't seem really correct. Still have the possibility of companies getting in contact about looking for mentions of their brands to make sure users aren't complaining. Obviously I'm sure there are other companies who do this, but always could be an option that I already have the code for.

And also planning on throwing in HN Amazon link mentions using the API. Even if making no money, always fun to see what people are talking about on sites like Reddit.
Re: PSF: Agreed. The good news is that the author will be compensated for this work. Sadly it makes me, personally, regret my time investment and trust in python.
Found the PSF member. (Kidding, kidding.)
The same can happen with Facebook.

By the way - I am surprised Windows is used so much on laptops because I see mostly Macs since 2008!
TAD EDC. It's extremely overbuilt but between the integrated dry bag laptop sleeve and the MOLLE attachment points it's worth it. http://store.tripleaughtdesign.com/FAST-Pack-EDC
> Why buyer's agents are paid on sale-price-commission is

Once again buyer's agents are a large part of the equation. They have to drive around the actual buyers and waste time showing properties with nothing to show for it often.

So the way it works is the people who actually buy (or sell) make more money to compensate for people that do not buy.
You're technically correct, which is of course the best kind of correct. But it's not quite so easy.

I can't speak for any other Git hosting service, of course, but if you have a private repository in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services then:

- all engineers are given a background check before being hired
- very few engineers have access to production servers or databases, only those who have an operational neccesity
- engineers that do have production access are given a still stricter background check

Certainly we don't have private repository just lying around, and yes we do treat them like they're your financial data.

Microsoft hosts all of its source code in VSTS, including Windows. This is data that we absolutely want to protect. Our customers' data is no different.
I made a udemy-course called "Drastically improve your speed on the Linux commandline" [1].

It has generated enough to cover the a bunch of domain names, but not much more, and I have many times questioned whether it was worth burning 3 weeks of more-than-full time work one summer vacation I was otherwise supposed to spend with wife and kids.

In a way I'm happy I tried, but I have also learned that making any substantial money requires tons of work.

I guess the topic is kind of narrow, with a quite small audience consisting of (I assume) mostly productivity/ergonomics-geeks ... out of which not everyone scouts around for courses at Udemy.

I was planning to add a few more courses around it and give some discounts for taking course packages etc, but never really found another uninterrupted bunch of weeks like that summer when this course was created.

Ideas and feedback always welcome.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/command-line-productivity/
2 is related to 1 - there are credentials hard coded all over the place.
Right, but that's not what you stated. If we take an extreme view of "scheduling distractions" why not keep your second computer in another apartment you rent for this purpose, a block away? You can still go there whenever you take a 10 minute break, but it's a shift in environment and context that it takes will to go through.

Regardless of whether this would work or not, or the dollar value you place on your increased productivity, it is easy to see why the suggestion of renting a whole other apartment would be extreme! Likewise, given that a single computer can switch tasks easily, the suggestion of using a whole separate computer is clearly extreme.
Do you see a substantive difference between AI and ML? "Machine learning" to me is pretty cut and dry, in that anytime something is automated we are employing machine learning, literally teaching a machine to do something. "Artificial intelligence" I have a hard time defining, because I don't have a good definition for "intelligence".
Everything's a chemical. I've never seen any persuasive evidence that this particular chemical does anything harmful to (say) mammals.
Well sure, it's a "supply issue" in that demand exceeds supply, but that avoids the important question, which is why does demand exceed supply? The author is quite frank that the exact nature of the excessive new demand is not known, but he presents several theories, each of which contributes to an unknown degree.
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From Kent Beck himself that is of relevance to this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858667
This is probably true. I agree. I would aim for balanced teams, some top ICPC performers balanced with people who are better at solid design, creating maintainable codebase and working with business people to define requirements.
A 90's Aerosmith song goes, "There's something wrong with the world today, I don't know what it is..." I don't know either, but I've a few observations...

With regard to the "wellness" industry. Mostly it's a sham, but so too are many medical treatments. Women are particularly vulnerable to medical profiteering - I posted about this yesterday [1]...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708472

There’s something grotesque about this
industry’s emerging at the moment when the most
basic health care is still being denied to so
many in America and is at risk of being
snatched away from millions more.

People are focused on Wellness because they're not getting it from their doctors. Sometimes a conventional medical practitioner's diagnosis is helpful, but usually they miss the big picture.

I took lots of people to & from their doctor appointments. Sometimes all a person really needed was to feel safe, but their doctors couldn't prescribe that. So they'd go from doctor to doctor to doctor looking for answers, but never finding them.

But what’s perhaps most striking about
wellness’s ascendancy is that it’s happening
because, in our increasingly bifurcated world,
even those who do have access to pretty good
(and sometimes quite excellent, if quite
expensive) traditional health care are left
feeling, nonetheless, incredibly unwell.

This section reminds me of one passenger in particular... She wanted help, and had a few resources, but her doctors only made her condition worse. Sometimes doctors do good work, sometimes they don't know when to stop. "Wellness" is for those who've given up on conventional medicine.
How to Set Up Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I did the "disable notifications" for every single app on my phone, with the exception of Messages (which doesn't vibrate or make a sound) and Phone. Oh, and Pagerduty :)

It's a very positive change. Default setup on phones/apps encourages maximum distraction and slot machine functionality.
I use a 2017 iMac 5K with 32G memory and quad core and OBS is absolutely a lightweight for this one.

Before, I was using a 2015 MBP and it was having a VERY hard time handling the streaming at 1080P (mind you I was running 2 screens off of it).

I am not sure it's a hog because of bloat, it's just that you need a more than average computer to stream with good quality.

Funny story is that once I clicked stop on the stream and it kept streaming. Showing me having a phone call, going on Facebook and just continuing with my day. I had to just shut down my computer because OBS would just not stop.

On the new iMac I had absolutely zero issues with it and I am running it with 2 screens and 5K on the main screen.
In your case I would recommend Effective Python and/or Fluent Python if you haven't read those.
I feel kinda alone on HN, Lobste.rs and LtU in not having in-depth knowledge or opinions on type systems. I get that these underpin the technology we as programmers use every single day, but I'm a little ashamed that I can't get excited about the subject and feel like it's too late for me to bother trying.
A mountain lion is a very different animal from a lion. Different subfamily and genus, even. I don't live in the US, but when someone tells me "lion", I tend to assume they mean a lion, and not a puma. Though if there's any doubt, that's absolutely something to ask questions about.
It seems so strange to me that there is such an ever increasing push to get people to click ads when I can't tell you a single person I know that ever actually clicks one on purpose. If I see an ad for something I just search it instead because I don't trust ads..

Except for one time years ago when I saw an ad on my own site for a drawing tablet and getting my account suspended for cheating even though I actually bought the tablet. Decided then I'm never gonna do ads on any of my sites.

I think the advertisers care more about about manipulating companies to buy ads than actually increasing that companies sales.
Don't think of it as someone introducing someone because they think they'd hit it off. Instead, "A bunch of us are going to the watch the fireworks, want to come?" You accept and meet someone in the group -- you met through mutual friends.
People wanted LPTHW removed from beginner programming resource lists because Zed actively spreads misinformation about Python 3.

He writes condescending articles that confuse and mislead newcomers to the language. From his redaction:

> In the previous version I trolled people by pointing out that, if what the Python project says is true and it would have been "impossible" to support Python 2, then they broke it and Python 3 is not turing complete. Obviously Python 3 is turing complete, but Python project members frequently claim something this basic is "impossible" soooooooooooo alright. I even had a note after the gag saying it was a gag, but everyone is too stupid to read that note even when they do elaborate responses to my writing.

Check out the past HN discussion on his article, "The Case Against Python 3": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019819
The Python Language Reference is pretty good if you're already experienced: https://docs.python.org/3.6/reference/index.html
That's a cool idea. Our long term vision is definitely to get transaction costs approaching 0 so that home ownership becomes more accessible.

> Did different portions of California respond differently to your pricing?

As a young startup the sample size was pretty small, but I didn't see a regional difference. I'd say the mentality split was more experienced vs first time homebuyers. Experienced deal seekers understood commissions and were already looking for hacks around using a full-price agent (e.g. getting their own license, going direct to the seller), but the FTHBs often thought it was an additional fee. However, our product naturally attracted more of the latter group and as a team it's just easier to get excited about helping young families become homeowners than helping millionaires save 100k. That said, we didn't really see a dip in the deal seeker audience when we switched the pricing (it's still very competitive).
It's nice to see Zed on board with Python 3 - I know he has been a strong advocate against it for a long time but it would be really silly for people to hold that against Zed or his books into the future.

Zed Shaw educates ALOT of beginners about Python. Everyone should be both glad and supportive that his education is now in the Python 3 world.

Time for everyone to leave the angst of Python 2 behind.

I can no longer think of any prominent industry figure who stands openly against Python 3. With no well known industry figures standing openly against Python 3, I think the long and painful transition can now be said to be complete. Finished. Certainly much Python 2 code still exists but conceptually Python 2 is now legacy.

Thanks to Zed for his work on the Python 3 book.
I use blurays to store "archived" files that I don't actively edit: music, pictures, book reports from high school, etc.

Then the usual btrfs send/receive tricks.
Empty land?
I have clicked ads. A lot of people do- if they're relevant and right there we click them.
I'm curious what proof the author has about this. Is there actual proof that the PSF is trying to undermine his work?
In what way are tax funded services free?
Google's spin is that they're dropping them because they're no longer using them, but the reality is that the judge has told them they're wrong:

> Judge William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco, who is overseeing the case, urged the company’s lawyers at a hearing on June 7 to drop the patent claims because "you’re going to lose on all these patent claims unless you pull some rabbit out of a hat."
Yup! Languages and frameworks: Angular (1.2.X) for the client-side code, Node with a custom framework for the server-side code, and C/C++ for the emulators (then compiled to asm.js).

The initial emulators were handmade in Javascript, but the asm.js-compiled ones ended up much faster in practice.
If you don't work together and have basically no way to impact each other's careers (i.e., she is a developer and you work in marketing)
I like Redfin, but I have a couple of qualms with it:

1. They will tag a house as "hot" arbitrarily. The cynic in me thinks this tag is for sale.

2. They tend to hide information. I've seen houses come on the market, not sell for weeks, go out and then come back in the market for a lower price. But their "history" section does not list "price reduced"; they just pretend like the previous listing never existed. For example, the house at 110 Steiner Street ( https://www.google.com/search?q=110+Steiner+Street&ie=utf-8&... ). It came on the market, and now is nowhere to be found. But when it does come back on the market, they will completely erase the history of this house not having been sold.

3. They allow you to filter with other criteria, but Walkscore is not one of them. I have given them feedback several times, but no response.
As far as I know/talked to Indies/helped some, no.

#1 on most of their lists is getting the music/name out. DRM is counterproductive.
>Try and do a restore every now and then from the HDDs.

Not only do I do that, but I also occasionally pull down some files from Crashplan just to make sure everything is backing up and working as expected.