skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started programming when I was 8, on the family Apple ][. By my late twenties, I was ready to give it up. Working on legacy code bases for bad bosses has a way of sucking the joy out of software engineering (kind of like after four years in the Army I never wanted to go camping again).

But about the time my kids were old enough to no longer need constant, unrelenting supervision (all my kids were born by the time I was 25) I began taking up side projects again, which has largely renewed my love of programming.

So now I put up with the drudgery of the day job so I can go home and work on something I enjoy (I mean really, the day job could be anything at this point - programming just pays better than anything else I could do, and occasionally an interesting problem at work pops up). Which is also why I tend to become extremely resentful if forced to work very much overtime :)
There's some work being done in superfluid discovery which would create the sort of conditions you're looking for but physics discoveries move incredibly slowly and some of the materials are rare or difficult to create. However, that sort of "lubricate, seal, and forget" kinetic system is essential for a lot of surface work in space. Increasingly important on Earth as well.

As a heuristic, the less mechanical parts in any system, the more efficient it is over time.

Ideally, everything that's built is engineered like a spacecraft, because to some extent it is, and is onboard one.
I found it in this issue: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525
The west hasn't offshored manufacturing that it could automate. It automated it and kept it at home

Not entirely true: another reason to offshore manufacturing, if you are a certain kind of executive, is that you don't need to worry about pollution laws.
TL;DR - expect vendor lock-in when a vendor puts your lock in.

> The Key-compatible locks are made by Yale and Kwikset, yet don’t work with those brands’ own apps. They also can't connect with a home-security system or smart-home gadgets that work with Apple and Google software.

> And, of course, the lock can’t be accessed by businesses other than Amazon. No Walmart, no UPS, no local dog-walking company.
This feels like a corporate plug with extremely minimal engineering discussion, and which mostly just boasts platform features.

I wouldn't even say this really counts as significant industry news.
whith hitachi who is damn fuckin' good at atomic research
Comparing API Gateway Performances: NGINX, ZUUL, Spring Cloud Gateway, Linkerd
In my life some of the most interesting lasting friendships were made with strangers I met in hostels while traveling and at weddings. But my recent experiences with hostels and weddings and bus stops and pretty much everywhere (even in remote areas in the third world) is that instead of talking to each other everyone is giving their attention to their smartphones. Social media needs to start making its emphasis the creation of more real world social interaction. What about an opt-in geoaware app tied into or within FB (or other) that runs in the background and when it notes a critical mass of people nearby looks for common friends and interests in the crowd and after appropriate reactions to prompts, makes introductions or even proposes a flashmob activity from among those that some of these people have stored (in the app or somewhere that the app can access) in the hopes that just such a moment would arrive.
See the American West, water was sold cheaply and is still for the most part under priced resulting in waste. throw in laws preventing farmers from one area selling their own well water or stream water to other farmers who merely may be a county line away and it just exaggerates usage from reservoirs
I definitely agree that puzzles/challenges for their own sake are pretty pointlesss. However, I also think (guided) puzzles/challenges are really good for learning new tools/languages. It can be hard to just sit down in front of a real world type problem with even just one new tool and know what to do with it.

The best approach is probably somewhere in the middle. Best example I've seen of this are the "workshopper" lessons on NodeSchool.
Agreed, I'm considering catching a few falling knives when the inevitable crash happens, but that's about it. Looking at the Bitcoin price chart for the past week/month activates the same part of my brain that prevents me touching unrecognizable, large, red, spiky arthropods.
It's amazing how bad Skype for Business is, really. I suspect that if Microsoft didn't essentially give it away, it would never be the first choice for a chat platform.
I personally just lost $200 on NiceHash; not a big sum, but enough to give me a scare. Its frustrating, because I've had concerns about this happening before, but its so difficult to find a good service outside Coinbase.
I think that's exactly why companies fight so hard to watch our behavior everywhere: it's because they want to know the true us, or at least feed as much of the data about the real us to it's ad algorithms.
LLVM/lld linker and its "User-Agent" compatibility problem
Labor costs.
I find most of the Zen of Python fits well for graphical design as well as code design :)
I remember there was a joke that in google's code base, there are more Bayesian cases than if...else...
It's worth noting though, that this is how industries (e.g. finance) that look at it this way are filled with people (e.g. you) who look at it this way.

That doesn't mean they've achieved some sort of global optimum. Confirmation bias is a significant effect here, and it works the same way for people who are doing what they consider to be "socially meaningful" work, or whatever, as for people who are "maximizing paychecks".
What happens if the price remains near the current price?
Good summary. Some systems groups are already going in this direction. PeletonDB is trying to use DL to build a self-tuning DB https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton
We have been trying to self-tune resource management decisions in Hadoop YARN using deep learning.
Get rid of as many things as is possible. Imagine that you'll need to grab your closest family and friends, a bunch of survival gear, and the 10 things you value the most, and escape to a remote region. If you can't carry it, don't bring it. If you haven't used it in the last year, sell it.
We are a 7 member team and only 3 come to office. Rest 4 are in different cities - but same time zone.

We use the following
1) https://appear.in/ => Good conferencing tool
2) Asana -> to plan
3) Google docs to share the docs
4) Google chat & whatsapp web to chat

Has been working pretty well till now.
Main problem, how? Wouldn't doing what you say feel incredibly limiting since you know you could be enjoying so much more? Do you do what you describe?
Same here! Played it on my dad's old black and white display AST laptop :-)
PrivateInternetAccess VPN Acquires Cypherpunk VPN
Good stuff. Do you use a particular extension for that? Any fall out?
That's the sum of all integers on the complex plane, solved using an analytical continuation of the Riemann zeta function at -1 (fwiw, by the same definition, the sum of 13, 26, 39...inf is also -1/12).

It's disingenuous to assert that is same as the sum of that infinite series without the associated caveats. By the definitions of infinite series that we all learned in calculus, that is a divergent series with no sum.

Edit: Wolfram Alpha[0] has a good graphic showing why this series converges to -1/12 (the one with the red line, drawing a peach-like shape). It also gives an intuition as to how complex numbers are influencing the results despite being omitted from the equation.

[0] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannZetaFunction.html
Good design doesn’t follow necessity it leads it.. removing head phone jack as example of good (controversial) design.
Bluetooth <> Bluetooth. There are (about) 37 distinct profiles [0]. One of these is HID (Human Interface Device Profile) Keyboard and keypads must be secure. For other HIDs security is optional.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles
Europe's strange border anomaly
It doesn't. You can take it down fairly easily with the prowler. Takes about 3 shots. The prowler easily takes out Goliaths and Mohawks. It's a great unit.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cash-and-carry-arbitrag...
Not to mention, if every company out there is claiming to be changing the world, it's just delusion. Boring enterprise software is boring enterprise software - and that's OK.
Been thinking along the same lines but having a hard time moving the family fully in that direction. What are your core belongings.
Entirely possible. Luckily there are enough jobs to go around for both the “F you pay me” and the “Cash is not king” tech workers.

There are waaaaaay more startups claiming to help the social good or that they’re changing the world versus the number that are just money-driven enterprises. My problem is the disingenuity and virtue signaling being used to underpay workers.
Two things you can do:

1) You can opt for job roles where your perks are directly linked to your efforts - eg: Sales, Marketing.

2) There are side projects which can get you really decent and increasing revenues. You need not be a big visionary and build a company around it but you with the help of some freelancers can manage it. I can help you with some ideas if you want.
Why I think “potential security vulns” on GitHub is potentially harmful
"keylogger" has become one of those loaded words for me that I basically ignore whenever I read.

You can make any piece of software that takes user input sound like a "keylogger" with the right wording, that the word has basically lost all meaning.
If RCN is available near you (I'm in Watertown), I highly recommend them. I was used to very frequent Comcast outages but haven't had a single issue with RCN after subscribing for almost two years.
An app to socialize. How about just shutting the damm thing off?
Why arXiv papers should have comments
Yes. In Debian 7 one could switch among van Smoorenburg init+rc, systemd, upstart, and Felix von Leitner's minit.

runit-init had been removed in 2010. Felix von Leitner's minit was later removed by Debian member Iain R. Learmonth in November 2015. upstart was removed as a consequence of a bug report (#789524) filed by Kyle Amon in June 2015.

One of the contentious events during the Debian Hoo-Hah was one of the package maintainers leaping to remove support for an init system from one package almost as soon as the Technical Committee had made its decision favouring systemd over upstart, OpenRC, and van Smoorenburg rc. People opined then that Debian package maintainers should not blithely remove support for init systems like that.

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746715

More recently, however, this has begun to happen. In August 2017, a group of Debian people got together to organize the removal of all upstart support from all packages; and that is progressing.

* https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-installs-deprecated-...
Not true, you can reinstall the same version and it will pick up the licensing from the BIOS. You can even extract the key from the BIOS to use on a VM (same hardware) if your running linux.

It's even very easy to get the install media direct from Windows, not like back in XP days.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
CryptoKitties Sales Hit $12M, Could Be Ethereum’s Killer App After All
I think the point is that there are some opinions that must be based on objective truth (whatever that is), for civilisation to remain stable. For instance- accepting the fact that our activities are causing climate change is something that has the ability to affect our chance of survival as a species -etc.

I don't think the author means that _every_ belief held by any person must ultimately become "objective" (and, therefore, aligned with that of all the rest of humanity). For instance, I don't see how it is bad for human civilisation if I think I look ravishing in red, whereas everyone else thinks I look like a pillock.
This was my very first question. Thanks for pulling the basics out. I've been loosely following the proliferation of nuclear power in Ontario for a little while now, it is interesting to learn they'll be starting production nearby.

In light of the current geopolitical climate, it's probably better that NASA's (et al) plutonium should come from Canada vs. Russia.
I also agree that the first (being innovative) isn't quite right. To be innovative depends on the state of innovation of what everyone else is doing. To be innovative you have to do something new, which is different from what's already been doing. So it's implying that you have to be different to have good design. I don't agree that good design has to be different.

All the rest are spot on in my opinion.
Machinery is basically a Go implementation of celery (popular Python task queue).

It has two core components: broker (AMQP or Redis supported) and backend (Memcache, Redis or MongoDB or even no backend if you don't care about storing task states).

I think comparison with Sandglass would not be valid as Machinery is a higher level job/task queue while Sandglass is a lower level library (basically a message queue such as RabbitMQ which would be just a component of Machinery).

Faktory vs Machinery could be compared as they are on more or less same level of abstraction.
That would have some pretty interesting privacy implications, not to mention the room for manipulation...
Office parties are a great form of getting to know each other for employees in multi site companies. It is a way of keeping in touch.

Also, knowing the faces behind the names in Slack gives you some common grounds for verbal communication.

For me office parties are almost an vital part of cooperation.
Full screen pop up warning.
Are you kidding? Every single laptop brand with a thin model went for the low-power 16GB, long-battery life configuration. Look at Lenovo!
Those are the people behind it all
Correct. All of the big unlicensed and unregulated exchanges that provide no transparency of their ownership, or as to how customer balances are held allow significant margin trading. And they have no impartial 3rd party proof of reserves.
I don't want to have kids in the slightest, but this is not accurate at all. You can have kids for both reasons, and enjoying the lives of your kids is not wrong if you love and care for them for their sake alone as well. In fact, when I tell people that I don't want kids, people go the other way and tell me I'm being selfish not to.
And probably a great idea for improving general health and thus reducing the cost of health care.
Saying that people are addicted to it is largely equivalent to saying that people are addicted to other people

Think about it this way: a little sugar, salt and fat isn't harmful. In fact you need salt and fat as part of your diet to be healthy, and sugar was a rare treat - that's why they taste good. But if companies start adding more and more of these things to food, such that the consumers start to forget what real food tastes like, and then start making foods that are nearly all sugar and fat, well that is very bad for your health. That's what social media is. It's food without nutrients, and only the most shallow form of human contact.
Some mostly random notes/questions:

1. Seems to support SQLite only, is that right?

2. It deletes even migrations from Django's default apps (auth, staticfiles, …) in virtualenv/site-packages, is that intentional?

3. Why is there `db.sqlite3` hardcoded[0] instead of reading the name from settings?

4. Even with default settings in a new Django project (so using "db.sqlite3"), the DB file is still there after running blowdb…

5. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/django-admin/#flus...

[0] https://github.com/iogf/django-blowdb/blob/e3947da2e97448a0d...
The following has worked marvellously for me. More than half of my team is remote:
1) Sync up once in a day - at a fixed time - for a fixed duration, with a clear agenda for every one to tell their plan for the day.
2) At EOD every body share a two liner update on Asana.
Here's what most companies want:

>> We only hire "passionate" engineers who have proven themselves to be "rock stars" and we call them "family" so that they can "take one for the team" and forgo a "raise" because we didn't meet our quarter. But we did make enough to give ourselves "bonuses!"

I am motivated by money because every company I work for is motivated by money. They want theirs, I want mine. I factor into my asking salary a "what if I get screwed" amount.
BLE Secure Connections, supported on Bluetooth 4.2 and later.
The Business of Busyness
Well life is about choices. People are free not to have children. But yes, when you do you bear a certain level of responsibility to them. I think a lot of people would characterize sitting in your office building CRUD apps every night so that you have a sweet green GitHub calendar while your kids sit alone on the couch watching TV as an abdication of that responsibility.
When you're talking about code written for hire, you have to separate the developer's priorities/cares from the company's. There are many, MANY companies that do not care about performance or quality, where good enough means "At least won't actively enrage customers." These companies sometimes hire individual developers who do care about performance and quality. But if you're Third Developer From The Left on Project 123, what you personally care about is irrelevant.

This is one of the reasons I got out of actually writing software as a profession. My interests as a developer rarely aligned with my employers' business goals. I got tired of the whole "Cram features as fast as you can, quality be damned" mode of development and bailed.
…well, I just donated $50, thank you for reminding me I should.
> All advertising is (intended to be) mind control. It wants to get you to take an action you weren't previously inclined to take.

That is one reason for advertising, but not the only one. Advertising is also meant to simply notify people of the existence of a certain product. In that sense, it isn't supposed to force people to buy something they don't need, but it is supposed to make them choose advertised brand, once they need such product.
All you’ve said though is that your personal marginal value of working on an interesting problem is worth more than 25k, but you haven’t stated where that ends. What if the offer was 100k more? 250k more?

I hated working for Amazon more than any other job. But I’d do it again for double my previous salary. And that’s why the suggestion matters: nobody is going to change their job requirements to recruit more candidates...you are best off paying more money.
Apple AI chief reveals more progress on self-driving car tech
You probably sought out a job with that technology.

If some recruiter is reading tea leaves to figure out what motivates me so that they can lowball me, that’s different.
Hmmmm a normal boiler for a 4-person family home is about 8-10kW so again, probably not. At least not for heating. But for normal power consumption should be ok, especially if paired with some storage device to account of periods of higher consumption(running a 3kW kettle for couple minutes for example).
Ok this is an empty wiki. I've just tried async, thread, hash and blockchain... No entries...
Hadn't heard of The Humane Interface, I'll have to check it out :)

Re: C&C, a couple of things (just picking from my highlights).

Chapter 2 - Consistency & Character

This informed my own work quite a bit. Especially notes about how consistency aids clarity in the product. Also nice "hmm, now there's an idea" type of stuff like "a designer creates an architecture of information within the mind of the recipient of his work." This triggered a bit of a waterfall, leading to stuff like reading Christopher Alexander's _Notes on the Synthesis of Form_.

Also from this chapter is the point about how having a consistent behavioral language. Meaning, if two elements perform similar tasks, they should look similar to one another.

Lots of great little beats like this that have wedged themselves into my thinking.

Chapter 3 - Simplicity

The one about only forcing a user to create an account when it provides value really informed my ability to design solid onboarding experiences. Taught me to build gradually invasive products that speak to the user like you would a new acquaintance. Over time, you slowly get comfortable asking them for more and more (e.g., use things like local storage to persist data temporarily to give the feel of hitting a DB).

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Man, is there a place to talk about stuff like this? You got my hamsters spinning.
No, i said they made it mainstream, to the guy who had 500$ as investment.
Spotify is frustratingly dishonest about what’s paid placement on their service.

Recently they introduced a feature called “2017 Wrapped”, which contains a playlist named “Your Top Songs 2017”. I imagined this list would contain the songs I actually listened to most. Instead it’s biased so that many of my favorites don’t appear, yet there are major label songs that I don’t even remember actively playing.

It’s borderline misleading advertisement to pretend these are “my top songs” when obviously the list is a pay-to-play for labels.
TagPro is amazing, thanks for developing it! I love games with such simple controls and goals that lead to emergent strategies.

[0] http://tagpro.koalabeast.com/
US production has resumed, according to Wikipedia, as Cobalt 60 is coproduced and useful for medical sterilization.

As an aside: There are some people who are very skeptical of both atoms and space exploration. I'm not sure what their motives are but given the amount of steel necessary to produce wind turbines, I'm unconvinced that "renewable" is actually "greener."
Many of our developers are remote, so we needed a solution for facilitating retrospectives. I found a web app called RemoteRetro https://remoteretro.org/

Completely free, and it's also open source. Highly recommend even if your team is local.
Some people are speculating. Some people are believers. No one knows if it's a bubble. And you don't know the reason why people are choosing to buy.
This. And it is what I say when friends & family say it "must be a bubble" or "journal X say stay away". Investing/risking is not a binary, all or nothing bet. Just set aside some money you have not immediate use for, and you won't regret losing or many nights without sleep, if a crash comes. It is still early enough, and one can learn a lot of crypto technology, which won't be going anywhere regardless of future prices.
If eating meat is truly something that should be discouraged, it should be done in a way that has equal effect on rich and poor.
While true, this isn't particularly actionable if "fuck, yes I'll take the job despite the conditions" is economically unfeasible for most cases.

Of course it's different for everyone but I would speculate that most people are also strongly motivated by other factors, once money is not too strong a constraint on what they can do.
Yes, security (exclusivity) is on the application layer and user defined. Welcome to BT :)
I heard this argument thrown by a manager at an annual review: "We're paying you what you are worth to us, not what the market pays", to which I promptly replied: "Following your logic, can I step in a Ferrari dealership and pay only 1000$ for a nice car, because that's what it's worth to me?"
The prowler is one of my favorites. Can take out a goliath or mohawk easily. The other units usually need assistance to destroy.
Family? Owning a home? Obviously your passions aren’t in the right place! :)
>It is seen as a utopian project that could finally unlock the creative potential of all people

LOL