skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to believe that he is incredibly bureaucracy-savvy though.
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They're the system admins on all their managed databases. Think about it
> For the briefest moment in March 2014, Facebook’s dominance looked under threat. Ello, amid much hype, presented itself as the non-corporate alternative to Facebook.

Okay, this is a terrible opener. Ello never appeared to have any greater traction than as a hipster fad, much less posing a material threat to Facebook.

Also, you can not nationalise any of the companies listed, because they are not British nor of Commonwealth country origin. Perhaps we could nationalize, but that's not really Trump's style.
> the thousand or so tech workers on its marketplace

That seems rather low for a company with 60 employees and 4 years of history, especially considering that only 30% of them are supplied with fulltime work.
Jeez. I'm a senior front end developer in Western Australia, on 70k. Build Fintech systems... It would be interesting to compare the costs of living etc to see how salaries over there compares to here.
I have only studied the subject of drawing very superficially, but it is easy to find people who say "the trick is drawing what you see, not what you know is there". Then there are other people who seem to agree with you, and break everything down into basic shapes, which seems to contradict the previous statement. Different schools? Different approaches to suit different persons? A fundamental divide in the drawing community? :-)
Wildberger is a recurring subject on /r/badmathematics including this recent story. He's almost a crank and has some very very strange views on mathematics. He strongly objects to the use of infinity and proofs and mathematics that involve it, which includes real numbers.

If I understand correctly, he goes even farther and claims even really big but finite numbers don't "exist". And through this he claims to have "resolved" the Goldbach conjecture and other strange things.
Why Do Developers Get Password Storage Wrong? A Qualitative Usability Study
I think this is a great idea. Threads should stay on the main page, but also be pinned on a new tab, maybe called "Breaches", or something.
Considering their irresponsible painting of Whatsapp's end-to-end encryption re-key scheme as a "backdoor", I no longer can be surprised by The Guardian's lack of editorial quality.
I like how they ghost ride the whip at the end of the video.
Imagine there would only be only one car company where you could by good, affordable cars for some reason. Now image this car company would not be an American one. I'd say there were national regulations, taxations and tariffs in about zero seconds.
This is mostly a puff piece touting their new investment. The idea of "gig" marketplaces isn't exactly revolutionary, and Gigster is far from the only (or best) one. But you would certainly think it is if the only information you had about this space was gleaned from this article. I actually kept looking for the "sponsored article" disclaimer based on how it was written.
That seems bananas to me, because JIRA is literally the most painfully slow application I've ever used in my entire career. We use their hosted version, though.

Do you host your own JIRA instance and have somebody in charge of running/tweaking it?
I'm not sure it would be such a huge difference from now, when the US government can go through the NSA to acquire data from internet companies. Surely if you had a document the contents of which you wouldn't want the US government to know, you already wouldn't put it on Google Drive?

But you raise another important point. What happens to all the infrastructure and personnel that Google or Amazon have outside the US? Ireland and the Netherlands probably don't feel the same way about hosting a branch of the US Government as they do about a global corporation, and vice versa the US government wouldn't want the same level of scrutiny from foreign governments that Google does. Would European countries attempt to nationalize their local Facebook datacenters? Would it effectively break those colossi apart along national borders?
> Anyone who ever remixed, sampled or DJ'ed will disagree.

Could you expand on this?
How do ants survive floods?
At this point it's half and half, but it's been trending towards strategy over time.
An electromagnetic shock
and lose any credibility? Lets throw away our entire cloud revenue to look at the raw data rather then scraping the public site? Please. This is tin foil hat crazy
> and most of the recent innovations in Solaris's core technologies (DTrace, ZFS, Zones, etc) have all happened in illumos.

My use of "Solaris's core technologies" implies that I'm referring to technologies that already existed. Yes, I am aware that ZFS, DTrace and Zones all happened long before the Oracle acquisition.
There's one kind of growth where you are investing dollars in marketing, sales, hiring and scaling the YoY percentage points; another, where you're investing in efficiency, automation, better gigs, and reduced work load. Why wouldn't anyone be interested in the latter? Small businesses aren't aware what technology can do for them and often, there's a reluctance to change.

I am not sure if businesses have become tired of the constant bombardment of promises that don't have a solid ground but I believe some level of effort can make a positive change in their lives.
Hybrid VS Native Mobile App Development- Which One to Choose – IQVIS
If they do it there would be someine at some point who would leak information about this. And this will probably much worse than loosing some customers.

Nonetheless with Amazon Marketplace they already habe a platform where they know every transaction, price and product from third parties.
Are you seriously saying that the master watchmaker wasted _his_ time making the watch?

That's ridiculous, he (or she) doesn't do it just for the money, the work itself is satisfying entirely separate from the monetary compensation. I'm sure he could find a job with pretty much the same income but less responsibility and therefore less stress if he felt like it but then he wouldn't have the satisfaction of building such an object.

I don't make watches but I do write some moderately complex software (I try to avoid it being complicated). It pays me the money that I use to feed my family but that is far from the only reason I do it. It is a satisfying endeavour in itself, sometimes just to see the customer's delight in using the finished article and sometimes my own delight in achieving a neat and efficient solution.

Back to physical things, I used to be a test equipment designer and the one thing I regret about moving into software is that I can no longer show my creations to people like my wife and have her see even a slight glimmer of what I have achieved.
I once heard a story about a manager who let it be known he would give out 20$ if people used product management tool X. During one meeting, someone pulled up a note on said tool and he handed them a crisp 20$. A few more instances of that and everyone was using it. Or so the story goes...
Not that Target is well-known to be good at security, but if AWS was discovered snooping on their data that would probably be the end of their business. Not to mention the tsunami of lawsuits launched by other companies spooked by the scandal.

I can't imagine any manager or engineer willing to risk their career doing so.

Then again, a director at Volkswagen agreed to intentionally cheat emissions tests, so perhaps an Amazon employee would be foolish enough to snoop on Target's data.
A factor in the McCain collision will likely be the merchant ship's over-reliance on AIS and radar and not getting a visual check before turning into the path of fast-moving ship that a.) doesn't use an AIS transponder, and b.) is purposely hard to see on radar. There will be certainly enough blame to go around to hit McCain's leadership, though. ("They should have known that the merchant couldn't see them well and been prepared for yadda yadda.")

The Fitzgerald collision, however, is a real mystery...
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Can we get one of these installed on former President Obama? He's no longer in charge, but he's still screwing things up. I'll pay the $200 just to have it installed.
If that happens it will be the worst disaster in the history of humanity. Like 20x worse than Mao's great leap forward.
Complexity and complication are not the same thing.
65 freaking inches! Of course you are gonna need 4k
Ok, thank you for clarifying. I absolutely agree, I believe we must all focus on policy and debate the details.

> I don't find that either side in the political spectrum can legitimately claim a moral high ground

Ah, well, I think we could complain that the moral high ground no longer exists. We've spent the past 100 years telling ourselves that there is no objective truth and therefore there is no moral basis for anything.

"Family values" on the right is the ideological shadow of traditional Judeo-Christian ethics and morality. And "identity politics" is the ideology of some twisted-up cultural marxism that seems to hold "being nice" up as the highest virtue. Both left's and right's claims lack all conviction or consistency and are too flimsy to represent any kind of moral high ground.

I suppose a lack of specificity means you're less of a target for your political foes and you have fewer concrete campaign promises to make and keep with the voters.

I'd say that conveniently, this lack of moral high ground allows snaky politicians to passionately proclaim whatever obscenity they fancy is moral since people hunger for a framework. Damn the consequences, the world is their political science petri dish.
That absolutely will not look at your data under any circumstance, even if you specifically ask them to.

Multiple times I was trying to troubleshoot an issue and asked them to "just log into the database" and they said they have very strict policies against that.

There is no way they have any of Target's data.
That's the 24-bit part, which provides more play room then 16-bit. Normally 16 is plenty, by consider an example track which is heavily compressed so only the top 1% of range is used:

16-bits = 2^16 * 0.01 = 655 discrete levels

24-bits = 2^24 * 0.01 = 168000 discrete levels
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A big effect in a small area vs a small effect in a large area [?]. The same volume of water in two cylinders of short and long width. We have prizes for big problems in mathematics and science, but rarely focus on enablers. The tribe rewards the hunter when he comes back with deer, not so much the one that perfects the hunting spears (tools).
I honestly don't understand how you can develop a product without speaking to potential customers or users (in this case the plumbers). Reading this article, this makes me wonder if you really took this serious.
Amazon is a company that cares about credibility above all else, plus word travels fast in software engineering circles. Seems unlikely they would risk snooping
Hey did you know that there are pens made specifically not to allow stabbing for prisons?
https://smile.amazon.com/Prison-Flexible-Non-Lethal-Ball-Poi...
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Using Varnishis a huge boost in performance for sure, but it doesn't solve vulnerability and maintenance problems
I found their glassdoor reviews enlightening.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Gigster-Reviews-E1168400.h...
Agile Life Planning: Defining Goals
I think the single client-side state and navigation control is the most prominent cause to chose SPA. Every time you want to avoid full page/javascript reload for some reasons. Such reason may be heavely interactive website/app like whiteboard, chats (Slack,SkypeWeb), music apps with online playback (Soundcloud, Spotify), text editors, spreadsheets, real-time updating stuff.

In my opinion most cases applying full SPA to CRUDs and content pages with normal hipertext navigation is overkill and comes from fad or desktop development experience. Such end ups with poor implementations failing with edge cases which normal browser navigation would support. E.g. try to change LinkedIn tab while you are offline - nothing happens, no error, no "You are offline" etc.
If I understand it right, you effectively acted as cheap consultants for your big accounts? Did you have a stable product that you could sell without any modifications to it?
I wish startup and industry publications spend more time with post mortem style stories of businesses that didn't work, rather than making it seem that all you need to do to print money is to start some sort of software as a service company.

Sure, it won't sell as many copies or ads for the publication, and some may say it will discourage the entrepreneurial spirit, but I think it is far worse to see a legion of young, bright, keen people quit jobs and start writing code dreaming about what colour their Ferrari is going to be.

The inevitable disappointment (for 99.9% of them) from unrealistic expectations, and the sheer, gruelling reality of just how hard it is to make a dollar in a self owned business will surely do more to crush spirits and shatter dreams.
Machine Learning Is Fun Part 6: How to Do Speech Recognition with Deep Learning
I bought a Nexus 5 (that was supposed to give you the Google experience) after my iphone 4 and was the worst phone that I ever had.
I barely managed to not throw it against the wall for several times.
After less than 2 years I sold it and bought an iPhone 6s that I still have and I use happily without any "phonicidal" thoughts.
Payoneer works well but keep in mind that their ATM charges are really high.
How 12,000 tonnes of dumped orange peel grew into a landscape nobody expected
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That's not true. Small farms are more efficient and productive per area. Therefore also more "green". I've read much about it but here's one link [1].

However, it is more efficient in terms of farmer-hours to have large farms and that's what really counts financially.

[1] https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/21085/1/sp06le03.pdf
Structuring healthcare as an insurance doesn't work because pretty much everyone needs it at some point. It needs to be structured like a tax, because the rate at which you pay in has no correspondance with how much you need to get back out, but in aggregate the total sum paid matches the total care provided. That's why the successful healthcare systems in the world are typically single payer systems. However, such systems are politically untenable in the U.S. and so you get obamacare. I'm sure if it was within the overton window of acceptable political thought obamacare would have been a single payer system.
Hmm,
so they offer a Linux client? If they don't then how come you have access to command line tools for Linux?
I heard the same about literally every other charity.

My take is: people will always remember that one negative article they read once, and assume everything is wrong. I would suggest asking them "so, which one is good?", and see whether they know what they are talking about.

(Disclaimer: I don't donate to the Red Cross now, but I've done it)
I think I finally know what is wrong with this crap and Common Lisp loop-macro: The "X for Y in Z" is comprehensible only to native English speaker. Try "X für Y im Z" or "X för Y i Z".

In other worlds, most other languages not have "I am red for (sitting in) the sun"-type construct. One has to read it 3 times, because it is not "because", but some kind of post-fix adjective notation.
It has nothing to do with the 24/192 values themselves, but rather the treatment given to the recording during the mastering. Because 24/192 and SACD are "audiophile formats", the engineers who master the recordings expect them to be listened to in serious listening environments that are relatively noise-insulated so that very soft parts can be heard clearly, and there are no complaining neighbours so the loud parts can really blast. Consequently, an ample dynamic range is preserved.

"Remastered" reissues on the other formats – CD or lower-bitrate downloads – are nowadays expected to be listened to through cheap earbuds or speakers and perhaps in noisy urban environments. So, the engineer applies "loudness wars" treatment, compressing their dynamic range so the listener can still hear the quiet parts even with all the noise around them.
By "we" does he mean the UK? How do you nationalise a multinational?
Article is just an excessive length "I told you so" directed towards people doubting climate change with no new information.

Climate change -> more rain -> Harvey.
No, that has nothing to do with it. See my reply above.
I agree with you that this is a good approach for learning the genre of drawing you are describing, but the art of drawing in general has just about as much to do with representing 3D forms on 2D planes as the art of programming does. It's a niche, especially these days.
>I've used Postgres and Mongo pretty extensively, and for any reasonably seasoned developer, the startup overhead of an SQL system is a myth. There may upfront cost to learning how an RDMS and SQL work in the first place, but once you're familiar with them, they'll be faster than Mongo on any new project.

Exactly, I was very new to the RDBMS world and always I have preferred to go for MongoDB. Once in my side project, I thought of learning RDBMS and used Postgresql. Once I learnt how transactions, joins works then RDBMS was totally an easy topic.

I have used Jooq instead of ORM, which again helped me to learn the queries and underlying system of Postgresql!
>> decidedly non-topical links you have provided.

> Really? Why don't you do a Google Scholar search and see how typical or non-typical they are?

Topical. Reading skillz. They help.

> everybody knows differences are a combination of biology and society.

Excellent, so you've finally come around to Damore's point of view. So where did all the opposition and vitriol come from?

> The hypothesis is: society marginalizes women from positions of power.

No, that is not the hypothesis here. Do pay attention.
"In Houston’s particular case, a lack of zoning laws has led to an explosion of building, which further worsens flooding."

That's a feature, not a bug - housing in Houston is notably cheaper for that reason (amongst others) than elsewhere in the country, and the world.

Zoning also kills innovation and flexibility. See e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zESacteu4
Gigster used to give fixed price quotes, but it looks like they may have stopped doing that based on the website copy. Can anyone confirm that?
You aren't wrong, but tools people hate will get used as little as possible. With Basecamp for example, people might create tickets but then all the discussion about them is done via email rather than the ticket itself. It's enough to not get fired but still an overall poor result for the company.

A little while ago I wrote some docs for a project, a simple markdown readme basically, but the boss decided that all documentation has to be in sharepoint, so I converted it to a word doc and threw it in sharepoint. My takeaway lesson was not to not document anything though because I hate using sharepoint and Word for.

A top down command like "use x or get fired" isn't particularly helpful, making the right thing to do the easiest thing to do generally is though.
There are already national regulations and taxes that apply to Google, Facebook and Amazon. Hell, there's a story on the front page right now about that.
The kind of crank with a PhD from Yale that has taught at Toronto uni, Stanford etc?

Or is it impossible to have contrarian views to basic tenets of a human-made axiomatic system such as math without being called a blasphemer?

>If I understand correctly, he goes even farther and claims even really big but finite numbers don't "exist". And through this he claims to have "resolved" the Goldbach conjecture and other strange things.

Does he just "claim" or does he give proof? Because if he has the proper system, and he proves his theorems based on his axioms, and does that correctly, that's not much different than e.g. non euclidean geometries.
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> Right now that is true

It isn't though.

> lower economic footprint, less land used per output, less energy spent per calorie

Small farms are actually a lot more efficient than large farms in everything but man-hours.

Think about it like this: If you had a 10 meters by 10 meters garden vs someone who had a 1km x 1km field. You would make sure every square cm in your garden is irrigated properly, that no insects are munching on your plants and each plant has the right amount of space and correct soil treatment for maximum yield. On a large farm, you cannot possibly do that. The total yield is a lot higher but the plants are not as healthy and are not living under optimal conditions.
The politics of this discussion is really interesting. I think this might be the only substantial policy topic where The (progressive leaning) Guardian and (fairly right-wing) Breitbart[1] both push roughly the same approach.

The thing both have in common is that they are media destinations, and are deadly afraid of the the power Google and Facebook have to direct traffic.

Not sure why Amazon is included in this though..

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/07/28/report-steve-bannon...
These are some good marketing tactics but we can also move to video marketing as well it is a part of marketing and also join communities relevant to our business to have more exposure in business world.
I'm using korma for my project and it ends up being a pain. It is the one library I want to get rid of.

The documentation isn't really great, and when falling out of the most vanilla use cases, you need to fire up Google and pray to find posts from someone with a similar problem, or go read the code, which always takes more time. I ended up several times using "raw" and writing big queries in a string, as I desisted to fight against the library. I'm planning on porting everything to either honeysql or yesql whenever I have time.

In my opinion, korma was a good experiment from earlier clojure times, but the approach it takes ends up suboptimal. Honeysql's approach seems more lean and more integrated into the core language, so it is easier to operate (disclaimer: I did not test it yet).
Leveraging IT in food delivery industry
You keep saying "not something that free societies do" as though that phrase in itself has meaning, but fail to explain why. From a socialist's pov putting a profitable industry in the domain of _everyone_ and sharing the profits is freeing capital from the few and providing an (more)equal share to all. It's not capitalism but that does not mean it isn't "freedom".

What is "freedom"? Market competition The way Amazon, Uber etc have been set up, using hundreds of millions in investment, able to operate against smaller competitors for literally years without breaking even until the opposition is crushed and consumers are herded into being customers... is that freedom? Maybe for the already established wealthy. For everyone else it's an unfair advantage. There is no freedom for the average Joe to start a publishing an distribution powerhouse

I agree it's a terrible idea to nationalize these companies, but citing 'freedom' as the reason why is not why it's a bad idea. It's a bad idea because it would lead to excessive bureaucracy, higher prices and is unlikely to benefit the competition much. It might help governments get those companies to pay some tax though.
This is only the third consecutive year since such a 1 in 500 years event happens.
While this is bad, most gems are executable code, which will get executed (seeing as you installed the gem).

So while this is bad, I don't think it's that bad -- a malicious gem could always mess you up. Still update!