skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's a lot of crap out there, but I'm not entirely sure that the crap to not-crap ratio is larger than it has always been. I remember saving up dimes and quarters to buy discounted Atari 2600 cartridges only to find re-hashed versions of games that I already had played. Television, in particular, I remember as being pretty terrible and repetitive. That it's so much easier to get at the stuff, that seems like the biggest change to me.

Children aren't particularly great at ferreting out the best content, but I think that when they work together with parents (or older siblings, etc.) that are at least somewhat interested then they can find some real gems. The Toca Boca games (so far) have lacked in-app purchases and can be a lot of fun. There's some really good content out on Amazon and Netflix, I find that if I spend a little time working with my child every so often, we find some really fun stuff.
Shameless plug: https://github.com/ipartola/amadash

This is a general purpose daemon I wrote that monitors an arbitrary number of Dash buttons and does whatever you want when they are pressed.
In Germany we have public and private TV, why can't we have something like this for decentralized social services?

The public TV/radio is meant to help people with opinion making independent of the government and private corps.

A public corp could develop the software, promote it and inform people about the usage, but the software could run decentralized on home PCs or smartphones etc.
As long as that setting is opt-out and not opt-in, they deserve all the criticism they get for this shady business model.
I spit out my drink at "our very complex tech stack."
> what is the appropriate way to bring people on when you can’t pay them?

You don't.

Pay people for their work, or don't hire them. Anything else is at best ethically gray, but almost always bad.
I should definitely try that for replacing Insert with something else (probably delete)
I strongly urge you to make a mobile version - it's much easier to enter data on the go, rather than having to walk over to your computer. UX is going to be key here - dropdowns are hard, buttons are easy.
most factory farmed animals get their B12 from an injection
You can share your screen but you cannot share control of your screen. Screenhero was the word on sharing control.
So, does monthly payment works now ?
I tried flattr years ago and it didn't even do it, that's a pretty obvious feature...
As Flattr 1.0 did not get any traction, my guess is that they went with AdBlock Plus creators (Eyeo) just because Flattr run out of cash and Eyeo was the one who offered to invest and later on to buy out. Simple math. Even though I'm not fan of what Eyeo have done in the past, fact that old team was able to continue to work on this, makes me hopeful, that this will not turn out to be some sort of malicious or grey area project. But time will tell.
Shit. I have a baby due next week. My first one. Help?
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I thought using Flattr is not as easy on mobile phones. It requires using a separate browser app. (E.g. the Adblock browser app for Android). Since ~99% of smartphone users won't using anything but the default iPhone Safari or Android Chrome browser, this leaves out most audiences[1] that Flattr can't reach.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=majority+browse+web+with+mob...
I disagree. The death of Moore's law is exciting. It means all those optimization and constraint driven design skills are relevant once again.

For better or worse, working within constraints is frequently much more interesting than "don't worry about constraints, Moore will take care of it".

I'm excited to see where we go now that we've started to plateau.
The Exponential Boom, Bust and Rebirth of ICO Economy: Dotcom Bubble with Dumber $
> Mac users using a hypervisor? Windows using running Linux in a Virtualbox?

Vagrant works natively on Macs and Windows, unlike Docker. There is zero reason to run it inside an already virtualised environment on those machines.

> I am talking about rebuilding the Vagrant image every time you change it

You know you don't need to destroy the vagrant environment to re-run the provisioning scripts, if something changes.. right?

> Sure, once it's written (by someone who has to spend a fair amount of elapsed time doing trial-and-error tweaks)

With the minor exception of a few Vagrant specific optimisations (a `vagrant` user with the predefined SSH key & passwordless sudo, for example) during base-box building, literally nothing in a Vagrant provisioning environment needs to be specific to Vagrant.

Also - if you're building base-boxes, it's probably worthwhile forking an existing project that targets your Distro/OS of choice and customising from there.

> On the other hand, that too can result in people using stale images over time as the configuration drifts.

Why? If it's a small change, just set the provisioner to `run: "always"` and it will run on every up. Assuming the changes (i.e. new/updated deps, or config files being copied) are small, it'll be almost instantaneous.

From everything you've said, I'm very curious how you use Vagrant (if at all). It isn't intended to be used like Docker, where you package up an entire image completely ready to use with 0 cycles needed to configure anything, and an update means a new image.
Just to clarify, I don't mean "close contact" in a lewd or sexualized way.
Blockstack releases full details for token distribution
I'm curious, how can that be legally possible? That's like working in a restaurant and not being allowed to cook a meal for visitors at home!
Corruption here is pretty obvious. Check his ties to those he is supposedly "regulating". In this particular case, John Oliver's analogy about a dingo is very to the point.

Current Congress won't step in, because of exactly same corruption going on. Current majority supports this insanity.
Career Trajectory of Top 10,000 Experts in the World[mp4]
Could I use this for deep learning research? It’s common for my models to be anywhere from 100mb to a few gb. Although, I’d find it more useful for reading batched training data.
As I've grown from a junior to senior dev, I've found that the "harder" I work, the worse I work. There is definitely a balance to be struck (YMMV) but as I've decreased the number of "butt in seat" hours my productivity and quality of work has increased greatly.

I have friends in other professions which think I'm lazy because I take far more "breaks" than them, however both me and my employer know I am still performing at a high level.

It seems like the difference between trying to force a solution, and letting it come to you. The latter being the most effective, in my experience.
Patreon solved this problem by being developed as a solution to the founder's own problem (getting paid), and priming it with his own fanbase. Do flattr's founders use it for their own creative work?
I think it's irresponsible to hire employees at that stage then. Either they are co-founders and are buying into the struggle equally or they are your friends and they're doing you a favour and can afford it (or can sink the cost for you because of your long-standing relationship already). To ask this of a general person who is looking for a job not a dream would be poor form IMO.
> The FCC's mandate is to regulate communication, how is radio communication ownership outside of its jurisdiction?

In the same way consolidation among trucking companies is outside the NTSB's jurisdition. The FCC's legitimate purpose is to prevent interference among radio and TV stations. It's not to regulate content (which isn't a legitimate area of regulation at all). And it's not to enforce antitrust laws (which are enforced by a different government agency, with specific expertise in antitrust).

The fact that radio is influential in politics among a certain segment of the population is even more reason for the FCC to steer clear, not a reason for the FCC to intervene.
Only played with it a bit so far but it seems to me that the call and flame charts are now missing any timing information. Unless I've overlooked it you can't actually see how long a function takes to execute - defeats the purpose of instrumented profiling surely!
And B2 lowers the risk, so you are back to baseline. Carry on guys; nothing to see here.
Feedback on computer vision system [survey]
I'm going to parrot others and say 'you dont'.

You wait until you have the operating income to afford to hire another. Until then, focus on growing your current business.
It's like Brave payments https://www.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/ but from Flattr
Apparently they're not just starting out:

"This also isn't one of those startups that is trying to find a developer to do what they can not. We have a fully functioning in house dev team and simply want to move faster. As such, you will also be working alongside one of the leading React developers in the world who will assist you every step of the way."
> makes me hopeful, that this will not turn out to be some sort of malicious or grey area project

Looking at their "all-knowing, privacy-friendly algorithm", they are already there:

https://blog.flattr.net/2017/06/key-elements-of-the-new-flat...

Even the title is an oxymoron, let alone the scary description.
Whilst this is true for a lot of cases, it doesn't always hold true for companies which consistently release highly profitable games, an example of such company is Travellers Tales in the UK. With their volume sales, the royalties outweigh paying for an internal team to develop the engine (multiple times over). You can check vgchartz to get some idea of their game sales, and if you are particularly inclined, use companies houe to drill down to get the P&L (although you may need to spend some time getting through their company structure to find the actual P&L which has the right information).

But for a lot of companies, using an existing engine is a no-brainer - even more so when the developer has no idea how well their game is going to do, using something like Unreal effectively means they share the risk with you.
Patreon with less features but a browser extension?
I don't remember any off hand but later I will rewatch an episode and list the problems. In the meantime you could search YouTube for "John Oliver rebuttal"
I specifically stated some examples. The purpose wasn't to list them all.

Mirage OS has the problem that it still relies on Xen, so sometimes listing it gives argumentation power to those disregarding the dependency as a convenience, rather than lack of support on OCaml for such kind of programming.

Go's weird threaded runtime is nothing new. That is how Active Oberon tasks (aka Active Objects) are implemented.
I've used emacs for about... gosh, 18 years now since I first learned it in 1999 in my high school AP CS class.

I'd say the main benefits of learning emacs or vim today are:

1. Exposure to the history of systems they embody.

2. Experiencing the philosophy that customizability should be a key characteristic of your tools and work environment.

For the first, deep use of emacs will teach you about using lisp in a non-academic way; self-documenting systems; modularity; maybe even the unix command line. Oh, and the indisputable fact that your caps lock key should be remapped to Ctrl. :)

For the second, you have a fair bit of customizability in JetBrains but it's nothing compared with emacs or vim. In both of those there is incredible power to modify the behavior of the environment, and the incredible range of ways this power has been applied is a testament to its design.
i was going to say this, but you nailed it.
According to Crunchbase, the CEO has a degree in Law/Business Economics.

He probably felt this hiring approach was a) legal, and b) economical.
Is there an alternative to dash buttons in Canada?
Well, when I was in college I think I survived on nothing but Mountain Dew and ramen.

So....maybe that is what they expect?
Ponyfoo (https://ponyfoo.com/) is my go-to. I subscribe to their mailing list and I feel I get consistent, high quality news, even if a few days old.
Comparison of Open Source Web Crawlers
In relative terms I agree. However, what if some outside force were causing the 111 elements transitions to speed up, but that outside force had no effect on the 1 who was immune to that cause? How can we ever be sure of anything? If we go into things assuming that the 111 elements are correct and the 1 was incorrect, we could be tying ourselves to assumptions that may be invalid.

Think to Geordie's epiphany: "It never occurred to me that space was the thing that was moving."
Thank you for your feedback. I know a lot of internal information from Ukrianians dev shops. Sometimes it can shock people.

About myself. I don't like term "dev shop". Its business model is sell dev with max price, hire dev with min price and don't care about a project. I prefer term "product or service outsourcing" for now and my goal is "product or service co-ownership".

What I know about the difference between West Europe, USA and Ukraine it's product mindset.
That 10th of a second case is where Mosh shines - you typically won't notice the typing latency, even with closer to a full second of latency.

It's more noticeable when jumping around the code, but I've found that such activities are not as intolerant of latency.
> To be clear, I never mentioned or implied microbenchmarks.

> As for "what I benchmarked", my comment was based on a decade of experience with these languages…

No doubt others have based their comments on their experience, which they trust more.
DNA Research using biopython
What does the author mean with mHz?
Yeah, I really would have liked to make it an app with better handling of offline data and such. But I simply didn't have the setup or experience to approach it that way by the time I decided to start (I think a month or so before our son was born).

On the plus side, the current app does have a pretty solid (I think!) mobile UI. When in mobile, there is a special one-click button for starting a timer and bigger "quick add" dropdown for entries. I actually have been meaning to add a mobile version screenshot to highlight the fact that it is pretty functional on mobile (with the caveat that it needs an Internet connection). Mobile is how my wife and I use it about 95% of the time and has been a huge driver in my development of the UI.
Usage is tricky; as far as I'm aware there are no real uses of cellular automata in the wild. Here Wolfram is using the fact that the future state of a CA is difficult to predict or reverse, which is a good property for a cryptographic hash function, but as far as I'm aware, this has not been adopted into any modern cryptosystems. There are a couple of articles that follow up on this, including [1], which seems to indicate that the system is vulnerable to chosen-plaintext attacks.

http://jsfiddle.net/yxz4su0r/ illustrates the calculation of the 1d cellular automaton that Wolfram discusses in his article.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1025039&CFID=998930375&CF...
Wow. I'm a few months into a PhD after having worked at a startup for a number of years, I just completed my first project, and just a few weeks ago my advisor had the "you need to stop thinking like you're building a product" talk with me. It's definitely tough to make that mindset change.
I was smoker for 9 years - I thought I enjoyed smoking, I can't live without it, etc. A friend recommended a book - Alan Carr's Easy Way. Tried quitting before and it never worked. After reading the book it didn't feel hard, it just made sense. Recommended the book to 2 friends who also quit. Give it a try.
Code Reuse in Actual Practice
Because Valve assume majority of users are using Ubuntu or derivatives. Which doesn't contradict what I said above. RedHat developers contribute a lot to Mesa. Canonical isn't exactly known to do that.
> Hearphones may be cheaper, but they aren't a substitute for hearing aids.

The fact that they are cheaper means that they are a substitute for hearing aids.

They may not be quite as good right now ... but we've been over the affordability aspect already.

For people without access to USD $5k for hearing aids, a 'poor substitute' may be a perfectly reasonable alternative.
Couldn't you just use cookies to track which creator a user visits and how often?
I doubt many people are willing to install a extension for that.
Going by that logic you shouldn't tell your spouse if your terminally ill because he or she can't do anything about it and public companies shouldn't be required to release their financials because you can't do anything about it.
Something else that seems to be overlooked here is that the cohort were folks who already had heart disease. Since smoking is heavily correlated with poor cardiac outcomes, I imagine a significant swath of that 6,837 cohort were likely to be smokers.

Even if they aren't smokers, taking an already sick test group and trying to draw general conclusions about certain inputs is madness. Epidemiology can be a great way to form hypotheses, but this entire discipline of research has been misapplied for the better part of a century now.
What's your config management tool of choice? I assume they will have recipes/etc for basic tasks like that.

Personally I'd just put the call to `apt-get` and then `psql` into a shell script.

Either way, set the provisioner. Either do it in vagrant provisioning, or if that takes to long, build a base box with Packer and put the provisioner there.

Edit: or for a simpler use, look on Vagrantcloud.com and find a base box that has what you want, and run that.
Should be read with an epic music background
Cans you share details what is difference between US dev shops and Ukrainian?
In the amount of time it took for you to write this question and parse the subsequent opinions, rants and religious arguments, you could have followed a basic Docker tutorial, written a simple Dockerfile and answered the more important questions: Is this useful to me? Can I be more productive with these tools?

:)
Earlier this summer I researched air purifiers because of a large painting project that was going to take place in my residence. I am super-sensitive to smells and the like, and I was not going to mess around with this purchase. I ended up choosing the EnviroKlenz mobile air unit.

There are no two ways about it: the unit is expensive. However, it does not resort to using carbon, which can end up releasing pollutants, and I was told the product gets used in clean up operations by the government.

I would not call the purchase a perfect panacea, but I believe it helped, and do not regret it.

https://enviroklenz.com/remove-toxic-paint-fumes-fast/

https://enviroklenz.com/large-wildfires-in-washington-oregon...

The SweetHome (part of the NYT Company!) did not review EnviroKlenz, and I believe that is because of the whole Amazon affiliate aspect to the SweetHome.

(I'd be curious if others here have used EnviroKlenz.)
In that case we better have a clear definition of what a real-world problem is. Is a real-world problem specifically any issue that impedes ones ability to fully capitalize on incentives? If that is the case then issues that do not impede incentive gain such as mass surveillance and corporate data collecting are not real-world problems.
Why I may never write a book again
Participants took folic acid (lab created), not folate (the form found in nature) which has been shown to be far more absorbable. Folic acid also binds to the folate receptors, preventing folate from food being taken up. In people with MTHFR gene mutations, folic acid is contraindicated. Anyone with such mutations should be avoiding foods with added folic acid. Folate and folacin seem to be ok. MTHFR is already associated with increased cancer and heart disease.

No mention was made whether the participants had MTHFR mutations, perhaps because the cohorts started 20 years ago and cheap sequencing wasn't yet available.

All it tells is that more actual science needs to be done here. Also the article was classic poor science reporting with obvious bias.
DNA Hacking with Swift 4 – Xcode 9
Alan Kay on Lisp
Acme is an editor from Plan 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
There's an amazing podcast by Dan Carlin on this particular part of history, too.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-60-the-cel...
You're very mistaken, regret is certainly not rape. I have absolutely no idea where you could have gotten that information from.

For the second point, you're confusing sexual harassment and sexual assault.
>Very useful to know how long (so you know roughly home much the baby is getting) //

Length of feed doesn't equate with volume consumed. Does it really help? Weight progression seems like a much stronger indication. Weighing nappies (aka diapers) and child would give useful information. An infant can have a lazy feed, fall asleep whilst suckling, feed hungrily, feed ineffectively. Added to that breast milk changes.

What then do you do with that data, it's not like your child feeds 8 minutes, but as you then speculate "volume is down" you can make them feed 9 minutes next time. If they're not unwell they'll feed to satiety.

Reassurance, or perhaps it's more just a diversion, is a good enough reason to go mad on stats though.
I don't think the focus on incentives is the best way to look at the problem.

A different perspective is that decentralized social services fail because of the lack of capital/revenue and sufficient management structure to compete with their centralized, commercial counterparts.

Money can fund a team of great designers, engineers, testers, marketers, sysadmins, writers, translators, product managers, to name a few. Together they can roll out and maintain a service that meets high standards of quality, uptime, usability, reliability, engagement, customer support... The things that actually matter to people.

Decentralized solutions really don't stand a chance against a well-funded company.
> Increased number of games is simply because it is close to zero-effort for most game engines to press the button and deploy to Linux Steam.

It's far from zero effort. Besides, engines are making Linux support easier, is also driven by demand. But hey, legacy execs would rather talk about how Linux gamers don't buy games, instead of actually making games for Linux.

See https://twitter.com/icculus/status/923201260819550209
> So ask candidates questions. You really expect candidates to have work relevant to your interview to show? But you can ask how they deal with problems, cultural preferences, etc.

First of all thanks for being so disingenuous with your responses. But a programmer is actually creating things ie, code and programs which can be shown. A manager is talking to people, going to meetings, emailing people, ie not much work to show, because their work boils down to talking to people. So basically different jobs have different job interview processes, you wouldn't hire a designer or architect without seeing their previous work.
install a software? i think im passing on this one. too much spyware floating around these days
Games don't have inherently have crazy crunch times, they are simply going to fire a lot of people so they don't care about burning them out.

It's completely rational behavior that has nothing to do with games, just look at MMO's for a more reasonable development process.
Haha, good luck! Due in week may mean you get a baby tomorrow (:

If you are becoming a new father, I very highly recommend The Expectant Father and The New Father. Really great books about what you and your partner will go through.

It's intense!
Yeah, targeted attacks like those are different from drive-bys - both in the physical world and in the digital.

On the other hand, targeted attacks are not just for industrial espionage; for example, a friend of mine caught his landlady stealing from him. Family members and friends are also not that uncommon either, unfortunately.