skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found myself that asking myself a couple of important questions each week do the trick!

These are a few questions that I ask myself every week:

1. Are you talking to your clients enough this week?

2. Are you making what people want and is your business going well?

3. Did you pace check your vision?

4. Are you measuring the outputs of your busines?

5. Are you making money ?

6. Are we planning enough creative stuff or just being stagnant?

7. Is the team trying to scale itself enough ? (when you push the team, think about that -- power of leverage and all)

8. Do you scale yourself or are you doing same thing every day?
I generally despise the concept of ~infinity recurring payments, I want giving someone money to be an active thought.

>Any time you can lesson the pain it takes for someone to give you money the better

I see Patreons base model as to get people to sign up and forget about it. Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but it's just.. ick.
You can record the radio.
I fail to see how the OP was incorrect at all. A subsidy is funding.
then if you really need it, save a copy yourself...
maybe this lawsuit is good news for Apple stock then
I just got a refurbished 5th generation and I love it.

I get 10 hours batter life running Manjaro with TLP. This is the first computer I've ever had where I never carry the power cord around. Amazing feeling.

The best thing about it is the keyboard. It's so much more enjoyable to type on this keyboard than other ultrabooks.
Kinda off-topic here, but as someone who co-authored a thesis on the subject, snow white was indeed ahead of it's time in terms of fluid animations and mood making, but it still featured the passive damsel-in-distress archetype which put it way behind in terms of sociological evolution.

Compare it to female counterparts in, say, Hayao Miyazaki cartoons where women are proactive and actually have character development.
This sort of shallow, hasty dismissal of someone else's work is just the kind of comment we're hoping to convince people to pause before posting here—and then not post. Would you please not do this in the future? It's easy to convert this kind of bad comment into a good one: instead of acting like you know someone's work better than they do, post your points as respectful questions.

The odds are that a hasty internet dismissal is missing something, and even if it isn't, it damages the conversation culture to snark this way. The kind of comment we want on HN comes from reflection, not reflex.
The other side of this is the stability that a government job provides to low to middle income classes.

The southern states where I grew up and went to college both lauded people who were able to secure government jobs. No matter how grueling or toxic a work environment becomes and no matter how inefficient workers become -- everyone stays in those jobs for the pension.

In cities and areas where education in literacy is higher it's as if the market "pushes" that desire out, and the perception around having a government job is largely negative (excluding contractors).

I wish there were a way to increase competition for gov jobs and change the perception of them without resorting to privatization.
Check out Phabricator, it’s written in php, but it has that nice integrated suite feel that Trac had. It also gets a lot of use including at Facebook.
This is most likely the case. Which is why companies like Mapzen and Mapbox will go out of business or sell for cheap in the near future. There is no long game for them to play.
There's a lot of blaming of external factors being injected into this discussion. Namely, government pay scales, and the Trump factor.

But let's not forget the NSA's own self-inflicted wounds as well. Let's see, here's what I remember:

* mission creep

* overreach

* LOVEINT

* massive collection of bulk intelligence with dubious justifications

* withholding information about 0 days it wanted to stockpile for its own use

* misleading technical committees so as to weaken encryption and security related standards

* introducing flawed security protocols

* paying money to security companies (RSA) to introduce weaknesses

* (thus with the above four items) actively sabotaging its own mission of helping to secure our nation's systems

* allowing its documents to be leaked en masse

* allowing possibly its most powerful and dangerous (though we don't know) sets of tools to be leaked as well.

Did I forget anything?
I can't recommend the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition enough.

Comes installed with Ubuntu, and I've been running mine with Fedora for the past year and change.

Battery life is over 22 hours, roughly 14 hours while streaming NetFlix. (You have to get the 1920x1080 screen for better battery.)

At idle it uses about 2.3 watts with screen on.

The laptop works well with https://fwupd.org/ under Fedora for all BIOS/firmware updates.
you might - my xps 15 9550 (once tweaked with TLP, powertop, non-4K screen) gets 10-12 hours. There was a recall on batteries for the 9550 so this is with my new battery.

However, this doesnt discount the other issues I had with the box. BUT, once sorted it runs well now even after several upgrades ( Ubuntu 16.10 thru 17.10)
>the generated html/css was terrible (think old ASP Net for example)

We've come a long way in tooling, libraries, and in the underlying standards. Technologies like ASP also pre-dated SPAs and were targeted for server-side development; hence make for a poor analogy. Swing would be a more apt comparison, and even Visual Basic.

In general, poor execution in the past is no reason to drop the objective. We've tolerated plenty of bad HTML-based frameworks and years of CSS-quirkiness, yet we keep plugging away at it.

>and maintenance hard

But the actual objective is that you wouldn't hand-maintain the generated code. We're currently so bound to HTML-thinking that it's hard to embrace that notion.

>designers, devs and users in general expect to have custom design for everything

I've heard this. Interestingly, though, we look to tools like Bootstrap and design-motifs like Material, etc., which emphasize uniformity. Also, there's no reason branding can't be applied without directly manipulated CSS. A good component-based library would allow for that and would also allow for the construction of extensible custom components.
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> Okay, taxpayers provide part of their funding, the remainder of which is through donations and student fees.

Taxpayers provide part (a declining share and declining real per-student amount) of the funding for in-state students. Why would this subsidy have any bearing on the number of out-of-state slots, which are fully (or more than) self-funded? If taxpayers want more in-state slots, then the taxpayers can fund more in-state slots.

> the remainder of which is through donations and student fees

And research contracts, IP and publishing revenue, etc.
'almost certainly'?

Do you have any sources for that? Everything I've read has suggested it as possible but never going stronger than probable
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If you have an HTML5 game that you own and it doesn’t require a server (it runs entirely on the client side) then there is no technical reason it can’t be archived.

You can’t run google docs offline because what would that even mean? One of the main features of google docs is the live collaborative editing. It’s a multiplayer game that requires a host server.

You can architect your game to be friendly to being archived or you can make it completely impossible by introducing a dependency on the network. This is true for native games and web games.
Thanks, Harry!
New Bill Could Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines
I, too, had a much loved 12" Powerbook G4 notebook. What a lovely little machine. This gives me more to consider. Thanks!
This is not a good thing at all. This will lead to a shittier NSA and with their power, this is a lousy combination,
so if the jvm is installed in your system, 11M out of the 11M in the example (since it includes the cut down jvm) is irrelevant? Then all you need for the example is a 1k .class file.
Yes, but “their funding” is not the same as “a part—and a declining part at that—of their funding”.
> In a nutshell: Infidelity doesn't destroy a relationship. Instead, it grows out of serious problems within the relationship.

Sometimes the "serious problems" are simply that one partner is a cheater. An ex of mine (who cheated on me) went on to cheat in their next relationship, and the one after that, and based on mutual friends' comments, a few more since. Some people just aren't wired for monogamy.
I'm guessing there are no answers yet just because the right people haven't seen it, so don't lose hope! (Unfortunately, I don't have an exact answer either...) However, hopefully this response may be helpful in some way :)

First thing- what's your goal? I'm guessing it's to get experience... but what kind are you looking for? Here are some basic things you could do, if you haven't done them already:

- Check to see if your high school CS teacher knows of any internships or other good sources to gain experience. If your school doesn't have a CS teacher, or the teacher doesn't know of any (or they're not great sources, etc.), try contacting department heads / professors at local universities or community colleges.

- Google cs high school internships (I saw some on glassdoor and other sites, not sure how legit that is though). If you haven't done this, you should have done this already.

- Go to local meetups, and get experience there. Your age or experience should never matter; no one knows 100% what they're doing, and if they claim they do, avoid them. Network with people. Build things with people. And, ask them if they know of any internships, or even if their companies would be willing to host an internship! My first CS internship was the summer after my senior year, before I went to college, which became invaluable.

- This may be a stretch, but if there's a special high school for CS, and it's good, go. During junior and senior year, half my day was spent at a special high school in the same city. Instead of tons of pointless AP classes, I was learning how to become a software engineer. It was supported and connected with the city school system, so the class was worth 3 hs credits each year, and connected directly with students' hs degrees. I was surrounded by people who had applied specifically for programming, and I made a lot of connections and basically had college equivalent education in cs before going to college.

- Go to CS competitions. The special school I went to (mentioned above) sent us to different colleges for hs cs competitions. There were different kinds, but think ACM stuff. For example, there's the High School Programming Competion at the University of Virginia (http://acm.cs.virginia.edu/hspc.php). If you go, work hard, but don't forget to have fun and enjoy the experience. Multiple colleges offer this type of thing.

I know this isn't exactly an answer to your question, but hopefully it helps in some ways! Even if you don't find internships or sources of good experience, pick a project and build it. Even better, make a product or app or something that makes some money- that'll look good on a college app or resume. Ex: built iPhone / Android app, made $5,000 or had a 10,000 count user base, etc. And, have fun! Don't worry too much about the future, if that's what this is about. Don't forget to do what you love, and learn cool stuff. You're only in hs once! (hopefully...)
> The brain drain has been so pronounced that at one gathering in 2016 of the agency’s elite hacking division, one individual raised the concern with Rogers directly. According to several people familiar with the exchange, Rogers disputed that there was any increase in attrition and told his employees that they should stop complaining and get back to work.

Remember this. As someone who started their professional life in 2000, lived through 2009, and went through a multinational's "reorg" (mass-firing by geography, several 10s of thousands of people), let me tell you :

As soon as you notice there is general discontent, and people no longer care enough about their jobs to ask questions like this to the top brass, it is time to make sure you have another job lined up. You can get better jobs this way, and the hammer will come down.

Above all, know that this Rogers guy is fairly honest. And yet, he directly contradicts the Washington Post. He's an exec, and he has ONE job : do exactly what his superiors say without bother them.

He (once for me it was a she) will NOT give you any piece of information you do not already have. They are there to get people to work together.

By "motivating".

By lying.

By cheating.

This means that when it comes to the health of the company and your future job prospects, a sober chat with the cleaning staff will yield more useful information than an hour long "fireside chat" with a highly placed manager. Not because they know a lot, but simply because they don't lie, and they know a little. An executive is not talking to you, except in the way a vet is talking to stray dogs at the impound. They don't respect you, they can't do anything for you, they don't like you ... and they're very, very good at hiding this (just look at financial presentations on youtube, say of the IBM CEO, knowing that she has for years, every 2 months or so, fired 1000+ people, with the constant online reports of them getting cheated out of severance. Listen to her, then think about the kind of person who does that. You half expect to get free candy and a hug every 2 minutes or so when listening to her. Or listen to Clinton talking, knowing that he's the sort of man that threatens women to have sex with him. Think about what those people he talks to really mean to him)
It's popular to say things like some government employees are "folks who can't hack it in civilian life," but there's basically no evidence this is true.

First of all, let's make sure we look at the full scope of civilian life with a sober eye. Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town. And any medium to large company has plenty of internal politics. Don't make the mistake of comparing the worst case of government to some idealized notion of private enterprise.

Second, take a look at what happens to people who do leave the government. Very often, their salaries go up in the private sector. This is especially true for specialists like the folks who work at the NSA. Seems like they can hack it.

Folks who have not worked for the government, or very close to it, have a hard time comprehending the fundamental differences between government and private enterprise. For one thing, when you work for the government, many rules of your job carry the force of law. Being too flexible might not just get you fired, it might get you prosecuted.

And there are so many rules. I'll give you one example scenario: a person leaves their job, and a subordinate steps up, takes on their workload, and does great.

In a private company, you'd just promote the subordinate. You already know they can do the work, you retain institutional knowledge, and it's easier to hire junior positions. Efficient and effective.

But in most federal agencies that would be illegal, as it might permit some form of corruption. The subordinate would have to keep doing the extra workload, while the supervisor requisitions a new position to replace the old one, and then runs a (highly regulated) open public application process. The subordinate can apply too, of course.

This is not because the supervisor is some terrible inflexible or dumb person. The rules are just stricter and more burdensome in the government than in private enterprise.

Why? Because everyone loves to believe the worst about the government, so it's easy to sell voters on the necessity of a shitload of burdensome rules.

So: if you want people to act smarter in the government, you have to give them permission to act smarter. Firing has little to do with it. You have to give people the opportunity to try things and make mistakes in good faith.
That's clearly good for some American businesses and their customers, but that doesn't mean it's good for American workers. A teacher in Kansas City might benefit from more rapidly developed, higher quality consumer software, and other cheaper, more competitive goods. A teacher in California will get higher rent and more traffic.
i'd say a "gotchya" is something in a language where there's a subtlety that confounds what you would reasonably expect to happen, after obtaining a casual famiarity with the language.

the slice examples doesn't qualify because it's integral to the fundamental idea of what a slice is. they only way this could confound your expectation is if you'd literally spent zero time learning what a go slice is.

(so i guess it is a gotchya if you see "slice", know python slices, and assume the concepts are the same and don't bother to investigate any further.)

by the way, i agree with you that "Design is about the emergent interaction of myriad details"; by that criteria go is very well-designed...
I work in the public sector, in Denmark, but I think a lot of the myths around public IT are just that, myths.

We have some of the best talent in our country. We pay them less, but a lot of people prefer working in the public sector for a variety of reasons. Some are idealists who want to build a better society, others like the flexible hours and the paid sick leave for their children, others again like the relative stability or safety or the fact that they get to work on big projects.

I think the bad image comes from the fact that our scandals are public. When the banking sector does a big project that fails you typically won't hear about it. When the government fails, you'll be reading news articles, blogposts and the likes as well as having researchers from prominent universities trying to pour their take on what the government needs (typically to ask said researchers).

The public sector does fail more though. I think there was a study in the 00's that showed around 75% failures on major IT systems in the private sector and around 85-90% in the public sector. But then we have to digitize an un-digitizable law, so I think this is only natural.

In my municipality we don't do complete failures often, but we don't always succeed in implementing as successful as we wanted, leading to a lack of benefit realization.

That being said, we operate around 370 different systems 50-70 of which we've build ourselves, and most of these are working fine.

I think I'm a nice example. I get headhunter a lot, and I could be making a lot more money in the private sector, but I prefer the public sector because I have Children and since my job comes with paid lunch breaks I work two and a half hours less per week. On top of that, I'm not expected to work 40-50 hours a week despite being in management. I sometimes still do, but then it's typically for interesting projects such as heading the digital voter registration process during elections.

This may be very different in America, but I suspect that the NSA would be able to attract the best of the best on image alone.
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As long as policy is driven by lobbyists for private corporate interests, that will never happen. Keeping government jobs weak serves to make the labor market easier for them by reducing competition.
You have a few issues listed in that blog post. Do any of them sill plague your system, or has Arch sorted them all out?
Google already has ads in Maps & Waze
Because you can do things that would be illegal in private practice, like developing and deploying systems to hack into computers, phones, cars, telecomm equipment, etc.

There is a type of work and a class of problems that can only be legally pursued in a federal agency like the NSA.
Considering the amount of care and feeding that a Nobel Laureate would require to support their research program that seems appropriate.
Assume the moral obligation lies at exactly the same point as the legal obligation. Now assume the tax law changes. Has your moral obligation changed?

Edit: I wasn't saying there's a moral obligation to pay more than the legal obligation. I was saying there's not necessarily a moral obligation to pay even the legal obligation. They're orthogonal issues.

You implied that there is a moral obligation to pay at least the legal minimum, and I'm saying that's not a moral obligation but a legal obligation.

Edit further: imagine living in a regime with 90% income taxes, and which takes that money and uses it to do terrible things. You have a legal obligation to pay those taxes, but I'd argue at least that you don't have a moral obligation to pay, and perhaps that you actually have a moral obligation not to pay. Therefore the legal minimum tax payment is not a moral obligation but a legal obligation.
I stagnate. Initially it's awesome, but sooner or later I remember how shitty it feels, and push off once again. (Starting again always sucks, too.)
Ask HN: Plug and play framework / widgets for SAAS
We are SAAS Startup , To develop the tool we need the following features
Support
Team Chat
Feedback
Survey
Product announcements
Discussion room / forums
Onboarding
Is there a tool which provides frameworks for all these services . I Believe these frameworks are required for SAAS startup .
Pricing is a concern thats why i am not considering intercom , uservoice and the likes .
Thanks in advance for your suggestions and a wish you all a very happy new year
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"Xcode is still limited to macOS."

Yes, their IDE was made for their platform. I'm not seeing why this is a problem.
>> Racism against Americans is still racism.

"Americans" is now a race? How about Texans or Australians? If I say that I hate Australians because of their silly accents, am I now a racist? Race and national citizenship are very different concepts.
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> for there potentially being nuances or exceptions to the claim you are making of which you are unaware.

Making a statement just to avoid an edge case is what we hackers like to call "boilerplate". We don't find it useful, and generally prefer to avoid it, both for the writer and the reader.
If you get the FHD model, be aware that it has content adaptive brightness control (CABC) that can't be turned off. And Dell has so far refused to fix the issue. Extremely annoying if you're working with dark terminal screens and regularly tabbing into brighter windows.

For more information see [0].

[0] https://github.com/advancingu/XPS13Linux/issues/2