skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good newsletters that excite the recipients will inevitably get linked to people not already familiar with the topic, and by ignoring them you're passing up on one of the best ways to get new people excited about your thing. A 1-2 line blurb can be very effective and there's really no reason not to do it.
That's so blatant that I have a hard time believing it.

If that's really true, it's a jackpot discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen, and I hope it happens sooner rather than later. Completely unacceptable.
My personal path went something like this:

2009: Had an idea for an app, didn't know how to develop it (I was a network engineer). Paid an offshore dev firm on Elance $8k to build it. They took months to give me a shitty alpha build. Even I knew that was bad, so I bought some books and started learning enough to argue with them. In the process of learning I built a better version of the app than them.

2010: Finished building my own app, and put myself on Elance, pointing out in my profile that I specifically wasn't one of these sweatshop outfits, and lowballing on price.

2011: With 3-4 of these gigs under my belt, looked for a real job. Found one with a major news org in NYC. I called it "The job I need to get the job I want". Probably started considering myself "top talent" (and being called that by others) around 2015 as I started my 3rd FT dev gig.

Don't know whether it can even work this way in 2017, but my takeaway is you've got to have a mixture of talent, hustle and luck.
When it works at all it's been fine for me, but sometimes I just get a black box
I'd rather have parking than fighting to find it!
Do you have data about how reddit images score vs imgur images? Right now /r/all first page has 14 imgur.com and 4 i.reddit.com
None of the videos loaded for me on Chrome with Ublock and privacybadger.
yes this is a good thought. I wish they had a free tier for this purpose. 1 review a month or something.
How you can get idm for free and it's latest 7.1 version
Well...yeah. Trello is free, and the expectation is that if you're not paying, you're the product.
I truly wonder when we, as a society, started to grow so fragile. So brittle that the slightest exposure to disagreeable ideas would make us shatter and lose ground. Education is supposed to give us tools to make us intellectually stronger. To give us enough critical sense to understand and confront. But all we can do is ignore and retreat. The fact that most triggered people are highly educated (cf. the safe spaces in colleges) looks like an indictment of our modern education system. Is it because we are bred by so much tittytainment that we cannot face displeasing thoughts or situations? Or because we are so strongly formatted to see the world in one shade that we feel threatened when we are confronted to other shades. Or are we simply so bored of being content and fed that as a result we are becoming intellectual hypochondriacs? Regardless of the cause, I am not hopeful for the future of our intellectual elite.
I'd say so, I have the same mentality and only buy Sony Xperias & ThinkPads.

I like functional black slabs that don't try to be "trendy"
Video playback experience sucks right now for their mobile apps. I think they can aim for a much better viewing and uploading experience.
You do not have to face the response, if the response is violence or hacking, because those activities are illegal.

Talking on the internet and organizing legal, peaceful, rallies, is fine in my book.

The US really doesn't care about freedom of speech anymore, which is spreading to the internet, and everyone is giddy to deal the last nail in the coffin.
You really are way too easily influenced by this conspiracy stuff.
Yeah, I hand-soldered about 1/4 of BYTE-8 in 1980. I think it was roughly 1982 that most of the computers sold in his store were pre-built.
Blood Test That Spots Tumor-Derived DNA in Early-Stage Cancers
Surely the watermark could also be ugly and irreversible; ie clamp to white.
You should consider eSIM. SIM data will be stored on your smartphone without any SIM card and you can use multiple SIMs at the same time. Much better than Dual SIM.
> How would you like your manager to handle being involved in data modeling?

When it comes to business-domain concepts, like "what is a project" or "what subtypes of customers do we have", that's stuff where I feel a manager should be helping to involve more people.

I'm speaking from the perspective of working on a business' proprietary ERP system, and it feels like nobody really knows how the business "ought" to work, they just follow the traditions enshrined in the code and then ask for their itches to be scratched.
I'm not sure how you assumed that one. I mean the currently bestselling: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N39W2DI
Only if he's talking about scotch. Pretty sure it applies to bourbon and other non-scotch whiskeys, too.
Random but, whenever a new company comes with a dot com that is a standard word, I wonder how much it cost them. I remember color.com going for something like a quarter of a mill. Essential.com has to be in that ballpark.
"Do you not accept a line where free speech threatening violence harms other free individuals? "

I don't.

I rather have people saying out loud, that they want to kill me, than saying it it in private and then just doing it ... so I - and others (like police) know whats going on, and can prepare for them.

If you forbid things to be said out loud, they will just boil hiddenly, until they explode.
I wonder how much % of my CPU potential performance is given to all this "gimping" done in order to provide state actors a backdoor to every PC and to help the CPU manufacturer recover field servicing costs.
But your email app will still get updates right? (I guess I'm using Gmail and assuming you are using something like it that gets updates too, but maybe I'm wrong.) Same with SMS - lots of apps that get updates. What's the exact issue?
Government: money expires after two years. Which means that if you come in under budget, you have to find something else to spend the money on - which is sometimes needed infrastructure, like upgraded computers, but is more often whatever happens to be in stock at Supply. Or you dump it on a contract with a services contractor with whom you already have a contract vehicle in place. Or you lose it. But you can't save it. You can't hold onto it to do more work on the project after the two years is up.

You also can't extend the deadline for project completion in case of unforeseen events. If you run out of time, but not money, you just have to stop, because the money evaporates.
Why can't you just spin up a VM?
Have you looked into IoT systems control? Things like temp monitoring feeding into A/C draw, electricity off when people leave etc? Utilization of space is,one consideration, but a major other factor is maintenance, which comes down to optimizing running costs and minimizing wear through preventative maintenance and proactive design - IoT has a lot of potential in that space.
it's effectively impossible to write quick and dirty cross-platform desktop apps in anything else,

A Tcl/Tk app packaged with StarKit would be better and consume literally one-tenth of the resource, and quite possibly one-hundredth.
Integrations with third-party stuff perhaps? Plus Wekan's slight differences seem like improvements to me.
I've found that pretty much all Turkish places (be it a kebap shop or a restaurant, snack shop, etc.) usually sells Ayran, it's what I usually get with kebap / iskender / adana, it helps with some of the spicy sauces.
Dying product? This sounds like blatant propaganda sorry.

Most of the so called clones don't even have basic stuff like using Command-v to paste pictures right from the clipboard directly into some card and you tell us Trello is dying?

Trello is UI-wise the best kanban thing by far. All clones might look like Trello but their usability has so many glitches and is always inferior.

Besides, nobody needs nested boards, just make another board. Moreover, it is common that after a while a board should get archived and a new one should be created instead. Otherwise it gets too messy and I don't want to imagine how 'nested boards' look.

Edit: thanks for the downvotes, would love to hear your opinions instead
Worked with just Chrome and uBlock.
Yea, but that may be acceptable for eg previewing a photographer's work—you reach out for the originals.
For those who haven't been following what's been going on in the Bitcoin space:

Various groups have been proposing new rules that govern what constitutes a valid Bitcoin block (Called consensus rules). Bitcoin, as a blockchain protocol, functions by communicating with other peers in the network that meet the same consensus characteristics.

If a peer communicates a block to you that is in disagreement with your consensus rules, your node bans that peer. Similarly, if you update the blockchain with a block that is in disagreement with what your peers consider as a valid block (say you increase the mining reward) your block is rejected by your peers.

What Bitpay has done in this situation is tell their clients that the code that they are releasing is for a feature (Segwit - segregated witness) that doesn't break consensus while simultaneously implements a change to the blocksize which breaks consensus with all other nodes on the Bitcoin blockchain.

The ethical issue here is that Bitpay hasn't disclosed these consensus-violating changes in their release notes and any client following their instructions will be out of compliance / consensus with the rest of the Bitcoin network.

Imagine if ICANN "released an update" enabling new top level domains (that everyone agreed was something they wanted) while installing software that simultaneously turned it into AOL/Compuserve and fracturing those nodes off of the internet -- AND DIDN'T DISCLOSE TO USERS THEY WERE DOING SUCH.

Bitpay's motive here is likely that they want to force the network to change and gain political control, by fracturing the Bitcoin network into the two consensus paradigms: The legacy Bitcoin consensus and Bitpay "btc1" consensus.
who said anything about confidentiality? i'm talking about long-term viability. if i self-host, i don't have to worry about Trello's business model or changes to the product that i don't like/want. i have control. which is whole point.
People do sometimes use small, non transparent watermarks.

If they are small enough though, then the person copying just overlays their own. Or uses automated inpainting to approximate what's underneath.
people not doing work
I would start by reducing it bit by bit and avoiding large voting blocks that would be hurt by the changes.

- So for example, prop 13 would only apply if your above retirement age for example. (Avoiding old people)

- Or prop 13 only applies to somewhere where you live as a homeowner. (Not a lot of people have second homes)

- No secondary residences or rental properties would get prop 13 benefits.

- Prop 13 benefits cannot apply to corporations / LLCs. (Many people don't have their own house under a corp since they lose a big capital gains tax break if they do)

- Prop 13 benefits cannot be passed on to your children through a trust or whatever else.
Getting through tough times is much easier with an end in sight and incentives to keep going. This is truly the right answer
The most costly inefficiencies I've seen are companies / organizations that are wrongly constituted to begin with.

For example, when you have a division of larger company that really should be its own company. But, no one's allowed to talk about that because "that's been talked to death already" and the show must go on, etc. Or because no on really cares (or bothers to think about things on that level) basically.
Disposable utensils, cups, etc. in the break room and kitchen.

But i'm kind of a dirty hippie.
Just launched my fashion store, All feedbacks welcome
Also recently bought by Atlassian.

Not sure about the other stuff, I love Trello, but that purchase gave me pause.
Very interesting link. btw I didn't mean for static normal traffic barriers, of course here, you'd want something that can absorb car-class amount of energy. Just for low speed crowded urban area roadwork.
Hiring consultants to absolve management of accountability for decisions.
Most people in the world are not developers and cannot change jobs or locales as easily as them.
My kidnapper used my phone to find an ATM/my bank (maybe other reasons too), and you couldn't make this up but Apple Maps gave him a bank location like 20 miles away and I got my phone back by telling the frustrated attacker I would find a closer bank, it was shortly after getting my phone that I made my escape.
If the non-existence of the internet did not stop this, I am not convinced that censoring the internet will.
Which is basically what any other Android phone manufacturer would offer for their flagship phones, except for the fact that they don't guarantee it. Samsung, HTC, Sony, Google, even LG, all have similar track records with the margin of error within half a year or so.

Make me a $200 phone with 3 years of updates and I'll be impressed, or an Android flagship with 5 years.
Huwawei opened a large office (about 1K workers) here in Kista beside Ericsson's global headquarters - obviously to pinch workers/IP. I can't imagine the Chinese tolerating Ericsson opening a large office beside Huwawei's HQ!
You want fixable and well designed, long software updates, and a good price?

Buy an (old) iPhone.

I've got a 5S -- still perfectly fast for what I use it for (email, youtube, brokerage account, general internet, some small games), and is getting OS updates and security patches until IOS11. It's $120 on eBay; a new screen can be had for $13, a new battery for $11. it's solidly designed and there's a gigantic field of accessories and apps.

Maybe titanium and no bezels are worth a price premium, but there's no way it's worth a 5x increase in price.
Southern Comfort by James M. McPherson (2001)
There are legitimate reasons for wanting/needing to self-host. For example, in a regulatory environment, I could see managing PHI data (not for clinical treatment, but maybe tracking clinical research). In this case, Trello would either need to sign a BAA or you'd need to self host something.

There are many reasons why self-hosting is the only viable option for some use-cases.

And then there are also data longevity issues, where you'd need the ability to backup and restore your data. If Trello goes away (as a free service), then you have fewer options in the regard.
NIMBY is actually a very vocal minority. A lot of them are retired folks who have a lot of time to engage in City and County politics. I do a little bit and write to City, State, and County officials. But between a long commute and a kid and a dog, I just don't have time to dedicate on this. And that's the problem with local politics.
Everytime I see a "Why I am moving to ____ " or "Why I am leaving ____", I cringe. 9 out of 10 times, it's OP's specific situation that makes sense, but the articles paint a very generalized rosy picture of the destination or a very generalized terrible picture of the current city (ex: "SF Bay Area has gotten so expensive, commute is horrible, everything sucks.... so I'm moving to Austin, tech community is so great... blah blah..."
That's true, we can't hire everywhere.
I'm loathe to go down this rabbit hole, but I have anecdotal experience here. My wife convinced me to buy a pair of what I thought was very expensive boots. (Wolverine 1000 Mile boot). They are nice, and supposed to last "a very long time."

There's a hidden cost though. I recently had them re-soled and had to buy some laces (this is after about a year and a half of wear) and the cost of re-soleing the boots was also very expensive! I'm not sure I am saving much over the cost of regularly buying less expensive boots.
I think you're over thinking how it will confuse people even more.

Surfers/readers won't really notice unless it is just that awful.

Serious online personalities will still use YouTube and link in.

Casual uploaders or Reddit-only sorts won't have to click away and deal with some other system and its rules as well as Reddit's.
Not sure about that, we have both, Greek and Bulgarian, they're noticeably different in texture and taste, though it might be different on the American market, I don't know.
For some projects you need to self host because of the US protectionist and paranoid export laws for tech. Specially in aerospace, nuclear, some type of sensors, etc...

That or you need a contract that guarantees that the software is hosted outside the US, which Trello won't provide.
why did i land on the fullscreen background pattern?
ML is a real thing, unlike AI.

No clue where the VR came from.
Have you tried swiping keyboards ? I don't think it's for everyone, there's only a few that do it well, and afaik none open-source which does it all (though I believe the functionality is in development for ASK); however I find that the GBoard with swiping and multiple languages is a very decent way to type text for most usage.

If you have a heavy use of the symbols we find on common keyboards, sure a physical keyboard might be better... But then once again good luck if it's not the layout of your heart.

I don't there's an easy solution for these glass slabs but I think that software keyboards have gone quite a decent way from what they were 4 or 5 years ago.
I do think it's a mistake to look at high memory usage and immediately assume the software causing it is bad.

There's basically no downside to using otherwise-inert memory, so plenty of programs will eat whatever memory you have but degrade nicely when you're out. Hell, several IDEs seem to cache their tab contents just because they can, and that's only a text file on disk. If my memory usage never drops below 70% of available, I have no real complaints.

Of course, there is the question of why that much memory usage is even possible. I don't blame Chrome for eagerly caching webpages - it's delightful when I'm on shaky internet and pages don't reload every time I change tabs. But I do object to whoever decided a Blogger tab should have 750 MB worth of crap to cache in the first place.

I increasingly feel like many webpages are actively hostile to their users; in service to click rates and advertisers they eat bandwidth, squander memory, and actively oppose security measures like adblocking and SSL enforcement. That, at least, seems like a step backwards.
Tim Cook Disagrees with Trump’s Take on Neo-Nazi Violence in Charlottesville
This is truly the tabs-versus-spaces pointless debate of drinking culture.
I know you say generally, but I usually use my phone for communication, not media consumption. It may be an age bracket thing, as the folks I associate with seem to be much the same. At most, I browse the web.
That's my exact point, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but we all got so emotional we couldn't question. If you look at the civilian deaths it really becomes a big "Wait... are we the baddies?" situation.

(According to estimates over 30 times more innocent civilians died in the Iraq conflict than died in 9/11 attacks [1])

As for the holocaust, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. My point is that allowing yourself to get emotional, even when you think you're right, is how all of the tragedies of the world happened (including the Holocaust). Those German soldiers thought they were doing the right thing, because they were swept up in emotion. Not because millions of evil people were all born at once in Germany in the 1900s.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Ira...,
My laptop is a 2008 MacBook Pro with a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo and 4G RAM. It's perfectly fine for running R Studio, Emacs, Python, Excel, Safari and VirtualBox with 1 or 2 VMs. Yet a trivial Electron app will make it crawl with the fan spinning like a jet about to take off.
You never run out of things to see if you never go AFK!
Nobody here is saying that for any town within 80mi of Zurich, the commute time is short.

I'm sure you can find dozens of examples where it isn't.
I'm probably one of the only people who liked the .Xresources file.

Sure it's a text and you do regexes to specify objects, but I found it easy to customize and because much of it was automatic there would be a ton of the UI variables in it. You want a different color on the background of a particular text box? No problem. You want to change the font used in the app? No problem. You need to customize the contents of a menu? That might be possible! Every application used the same file so you only had to figure it out once.

Granted, you would leave 99% of the variables alone, but it was nice to have the option if you needed it.

Interestingly enough, I still have the file on my box, although I doubt it gets used much anymore. Looking at the file I forgot how you could do a sort of primitive themeing by specifying broad wildcards like "* MenuButton.Background" and "* Toggle.Font"[1]. That's probably a bit dangerous but I can't remember it ever exploding on me spectacularly. Probably because Athena widgets were so damn minimal to begin with.

Oh, man it even still has:

Netscape4*blinkingEnabled: False
Netscape4*myshopping.isEnabled: False

[1] The spaces aren't there in the file, they're just necessary to work around the way HN's markdown does italics.
> It would never play out like that. Trump is not going to order some sort of genocide directly. He'll simply stand aside while others do the dirty work and he'll lament at how terrible it is that they are resisting causing violence on both sides.

I think you'll agree that a systematic genocide like the ones you mention where you go into a city and round people up cannot happen. That would require the police, national guard, army to stand down and allow it.

So we are left with small scale attacks, the kind terrorists do. We need to fight and guard against those, infiltrate the cells and arrest anyone actually planning such thing, but they are not in the category of genocide, especially because in a genocide the killers walk away with nothing happening to them (because they are protected by the state), but in a terrorist attack you either die or are quickly caught.
Seen it at previous work places. Focusing too much the agile boards and not enough on engineering. Then hire expensive
Consultants because you're hitting the wall.
Excel is the universal format for the enterprise.

Need to share a screen shot of your error? Paste it into excel.

Project management? Excel.

Database of assets? Excel.

Transactional information? Excel.

Incredibly complex, multi page calculations? Excel.

Kill me.
Better article, with developer comments:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/hacker-claims-to-have-de...
I share some of my data to Google in exchange for their services, but I can flash any OS I want on my phone and I have used Android without Google services for non-trivial periods of time.

My phone is most certainly my personal property.
A million upvotes if I could.

It’s always surprising to me how many “lean” and “agile” productivity tools completely focus on the artifacts and seem to have skipped the core concepts entirely.
You think Dinesh D'Souza is reliable? This guy?

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/dinesh-dsouza/statem...