skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because when you need to juggle multiple meetings across 3 continents and 5 time zones it's much easier to kick everything off in a single email and having full visibility into who is available and when, and then having all of the resources needed for the meeting to be automatically reserved.

The latter is especially important when you have different conferencing / dial in systems in different regions that all need to be reserved and tied to the same meeting request.

This isn't about having different apps that model has no advantage or a disadvantage the ability to see the presence of people and resources across the entire organization is the big important feature that is not available on other platforms at all or without a momentous amount of work.
In a downturn, lenders get more strict so one may not be able to get a loan in the first place.
I usually recommend a few different books:

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

http://amzn.to/2vcRcgU

This book really helped me focus on code organization and seeing maintainable code as an overall goal whilst building long-term applications. I'd say that one of the reasons why the work I've done 3-4 years ago can still be used, expanded, and maintained today is because of this book. Short functions, code organization, and naming conventions all stuck with me.

I'd say that unlike other programming books, this one focuses on the "art" and "organization" rather than syntax and other aspects of programming.

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

http://amzn.to/2vfeUaT

This book tackled real-world application building and practices. I'm still reading it. I liked how it tackled not only some basics of programming (resource management practices) but also project management to a certain extent. Eg. how to use prototypes, how to use "trace bullet" programs, etc.

Game Programming Patterns

I think one of my favorites has been "Game Programming Patterns" http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ which is free online or you can get an ebook/print version http://amzn.to/2veRdiO

The book introduces several basic design patterns, it explains WHY they're used, how to implement them, etc. in the best way I've read so far. No CS book or online article has been able to explain these patterns as this book did.

And I'm not even a game developer.

Also, check out this post on dev.to -- https://dev.to/ben/what-are-the-most-interesting-readable-so... it has some good answers! :)
Decoder library for 32-bit MIPS I machine code in Go
(Former NYC resident here.) For those who don't know, the state of the NYC Subway System is abysmal and plummeted several years ago due to neglect and underinvestment.

I went to NYC last weekend and, just like the previous 7 times i went there, subways weren't running normally after-hours (growing up, it functioned well 24-7). This time (last weekend) no subways were running to where I needed to go. The only option was Uber/Lyft. It took me ~$17 instead of the $2.75 for the subway, but I was just glad to have some means of transportation.

Removing Uber/Lyft is a bad idea. But removing Uber/Lyft without first fixing the mass transit system is insane.
Basics of Image Resampling
What worked for me was saving and not caring what other people had.

- My car was fine, I didn't need a new one every 3-5 years. I drove it for 15 years before I bought another used one.

- I bought the least expensive house on the most expensive street I could afford.

- I never tried to compete with neighbors or colleagues (keeping up with the Jones's).

- Only went out to eat on special occasions and bagged a lunch to work everyday.

- Always paid special attention to my bills and costs so I was aware of my spending and could trim waste where necessary.

- Consistently looked for better employment opportunities where I was able to triple my salary in about 6 years (invest in yourself, stay relevant).

- Held off on starting a family until I was 32.

-Invested through a 401k, etc.

There was an element of luck since my wife was a great saver and low maintenance. We also had no health issues or unfortunate life events. If you live responsibly (within your means) and build that safety net, you will be fine. Try to stay out of what I call bad debt, like Credit Cards, Car loans, Lines of Credit, etc.
Hmm, interesting to try and pinpoint the difference between "lein" and "erl".
I would say they are both diminutive but not exactly in the same way.

erl ... would be more related to the actual size

Sack -> Sackerl (bag -> small bag)
Wagen -> Wagerl (cart -> small cart)

lein ... would be more related to the inner size (sorry I can't frame this into words any better)

Frau -> Fräulein (Woman -> Younger/Fragile woman (unmarried))
Wagen -> Wäglein (Cart -> smaller but also lesser cart)

edit: referring to the answer of pavel_lishin. Yes "qualitative" modifier was the word I am looking for.
Infinite Descent – An introductory textbook on pure mathematics
Good point. Whats the point of using the Erlang VM if your NIF could bring down the whole VM. How is this different from using any other language like Go then to implement this platform?

The approach confuses me because there is so much praise for the Erlang VM but to get all its benefits of the Erlang VM they need to use ports. (Which they confess is going to be slower).
What's with the giant photo of a hipster starter kit at the top of the article?
Yeah that is impossible, rare earths are all over the place if you are willing to go to slightly less optimal places you can never run out.

That would be like saying in 1800 that Britain will not use domestic coal because they want to save it.
Yeah, I don't agree with that - last year 165 billion dollars was spent on pharmaceutical development, and tens of billions on oncology research. There are tens of thousands of people working on this.

Everyone can help clean the Earth and eradicate cancer and disease. That doesn't mean the world needs to stop all other activities.
Q2 GDP growth was 4.1%, don't listen to heavily to the outlier nay-sayers. They've been predicting negative returns for the next ten years since the S&P was tracked
Actually, though, the voice was a standard, default part of the DECTalk system, called "Perfect Paul". There were a few other options. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8pewe2gPDk4

In general, there's no security to be had in unique the sound of someone's voice. It is too easy to impersonate.
As for the German perspective: There are several big time companies around here who had to institute regulations so that you can't even access your work emails beyond your office hours (BMW, Telekom). So the employees themselves would check them more and the company had to limit that.

Granted, I don't know how much the "Betriebsrat" was prompting that, but I doubt that people themselves are that much different, despite German Gemütlichkeit.

I found that both IT workers and MBAs are IT/MBA first, nationals second.
The inclusion of the metal price graph[1] is very strange. What are they trying to tell with that? To me it demonstrates that nickel and cobalt prices are currently right where they should be in the market (considering the concentration), compared to the other metals. So if cobalt prices quadrupled from 22$ to 81$ recently, doesn't it mean that cobalt was highly undervalued before and is now correctly priced?

[1] https://media.nature.com/w800/magazine-assets/d41586-018-057...
There were iPods before there were smartphones, and that completely revolutionised my listening habits. I don't stream music or listen to podcasts so that need was already a solved problem for me.

Except. Now I only carry one device. vOv
The wording wasn't trigger warnings existing in a broad sense. A trigger warning on every art installation is a position many would regard as clearly excessive. Not sensitive content, not things that could be expected to be upsetting to some significant minority of the population, every art installation.

Imagine that every time you went to look at a digital representation or photo of art, you had to click through a trigger warning.

Seems like it could, in some cases, be a bit excessive. Although I understand if some people find still lifes of fruit terrifying.
Yes, the landing page is not part of the bundled Vue.js app, it loads Vue as a standalone script from a 3rd party - from a CDN specifically.
if you want to decouple the namespace from the repository location you can!

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths (read until the end)

or TL;DR: https://blog.bramp.net/post/2017/10/02/vanity-go-import-path...
The CallText 5010 is a descendent of DECtalk, so the voice he used has been around. Hawking's voice was based on Perfect Paul, which the DECtalk Express I have here is set to, and sounds very much like him. You can still buy these devices and a software version is available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtalk
https://www.fastcompany.com/3050267/stephen-hawkings-voice-i...
sorry, the books for my field just aren’t beginner friendly.

Oppenheim, Schaffer and Nawab, “Signals and Systems” is a foundational text but it’s a total bear.
Same exact thing applies to many of these metals and worrying about cobalt and nickel is really not close to as important as rare earth mines.

You need rare earth for batteries as well, also for many other things in the new electric transport infrastructure.
Thanks for the update, they all look to come from the same guys.
How do you phish a smart card?
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The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
For software development - I favor books that are about good practices generally rather than books about particular languages which work well as references.

I usually recommend:

* Code Complete (Steve McConnell)

* The Pragmatic Programmer (Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas)

* Clean Code and The Clean Coder (Robert Martin)

* The Mythical Man-Month (Fred Brooks)

* Test-Driven Development By Example (Kent Beck)

I also recommend blogs for more bite-sized knowledge. Jeff Atwood's blog at https://blog.codinghorror.com and Joel Spolsky's at https://www.joelonsoftware.com in particular have been helpful to me.
True. I quickly threw that out as an example.
The article is not about rare earth metals.
War on Terroir
Hey I tried looking into setting up webhooks (inbound and outbound) on Mattermost (we are running our own instance) but your technical documentation is quite spread out and thin. If you could improve that I'd be super grateful!
When I say "2FA" I mean proper 2FA with a hard token. As used for 20 years or so in government, large companies.
What's a NIF in this context?
Hopefully this will encourage them to finally deal with their handle-squatting issue.
However SMS/email is not comparable to Twitter. One is push, ie you don't have to do anything to receive the unwanted messages. The other is pull, where you explicitly have to search the user's profile or follow them to see the unwanted tweets.
Cancer research often gets the spotlight due to the emotional nature of death and disease, but that doesn't make space research less useful to humanity as a whole.
You are lucky that your bank still issues physical tokens. My bank started to require its app for authentication a few years ago, but it still offered tokens for presumambly elderly or "luddite" clients. Now it has announced that physical tokens will be phased out in 2019.
Is your comment to say that cobalt should simply be more expensive to compensate for the negative externalities of obtaining it?
The bubble that is going to pop is Ad Tech
NASA Interns Develop and Release Star Tracker Navigation Simulating Software
Be wary of Hussman. He has been on the wrong side for at least 20 years. Eventually he may be correct but you will have missed many opportunities to grow your wealth.
Test tech job posts for issues with sexism, culture, expectations, etc.
Debt is the killer. Pay off all consumer debt as a first step to financial freedom.
Retroshare: decentralized Friend to Friend network
On-prem isn't the problem, building a crappy product is the problem. Atlassian's other products (Jira etc) over 50% of the revenue comes from on-prem customers. Same is true for GitHub: https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett.... It just turns out that offering an on-prem version is not enough to close the gap created by all of the other features, integrations and UX that their competitor had. On-prem is a great feature, but it isn't a silver bullet. Nothing is.
If Google Play Services is disabled, it shouldn't be able to run. Disabling it takes a bit of extra effort, but is possible without rooting, at least on my phone. (The Fairphone forums advise not to root the phone and uninstall it, because then the phone won't boot. That does make me a bit suspicious, but at least the process is not running during normal usage.)
Oh, absolutely - solar sails in general only really work for things like satellites and probes (and, possibly, asteroids) where you can afford to give them quite a while to get into place, so no manned solar boats here. Although you can do some interesting things with them in gravity wells (statites, anyone?).

Still, you only need to perturb your orbital plane a very tiny bit to be out of the way of future launches, and then you have all the time in the world to navigate to where you want to go.
In English they’re also called water bears.
Probably a subtle nod to objects, as in, these are the objects you need to be a hipster.
That's a great tactic. Keeps the ball rolling on the negotiation & also shows them your competence in a real way. Thanks for sharing.
By that definition the market can never solve anything because there is some overlying system of property rights, government or not.

But any economist worth their salt would never discussed these issues in the simple market<->government paradigm because it simply breaks down.

There is lots of research on property rights and institutions, whole sub-fields of economics are devoted to it you are vastly oversimplifying and projecting a idealistic view of government and their intensives.
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A broken clock is right twice a day...

Not saying you should assume the market is going to crash asap and panic, but long-term thinking requires you to prepare for the inevitable downturn the best you reasonably can.

Let's not forget how rosy things looked before 07/08
At least the same household.
So it is accessible over SMS?
Unfortunately no. It turns out there's a distillery in Fife now : https://www.kingsbarnsdistillery.com/
We've seen so many issues with certificate authorities, that validating ownership of certificates based on that system is completely pointless if you're looking for trust.

Like, remember Trustico, the guys who emailed 20,000 of their customer's private keys? They're both still in business, and working with one of the largest registrars: https://www.trustico.com/
I know of one other commercial synthesizer based on the Klatt model, DECtalk. (In fact, DECtalk is the product that Dennis Klatt went on to create after his research at MIT.) I wonder if DECtalk is close enough that it would fool most people. Here's a clip I made with DECtalk 4.50 (the last good version of that synth IMO, from the 90s):

https://mwcampbell.us/tmp/faux_hawking.mp3
Implementing an emulator is similar to writing an interpreter and imo more rewarding in certain cases.

Start with CHIP-8, it's the gateway drug to others.
A few folks are pointing to the RFCs. In particular, let me recommend RFC 1000 as a place to start:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000

(This RFC is a reference guide for the Internet community which summarizes of all the Request for Comments issued between April 1969 and March 1987. This guide also categorizes the RFCs by topic.)

Where Wizards Stay Up Late, also recommender by a bunch of folks here, is also a great read.
In reality nuclear warfare is always extremely limited and that is a good thing. Either they can dictate terms or they have a cold war. Look at India and Pakistan- they have long hated and fought with each other but are relatively cordial for two nations with borders disputes because they are both nuclear powers. Even sociopaths and meglomaniacs know nuclear warfare is like having a polonium tipped knife fight in untreated sewage- even if you win you lose.

The lack of supplies is also a good thing to irrelevant - most wars are too quick to involve significant production during combat and the superior equipment takes a lot of to build but are often one vehicle armies compared to the old fast to produce ones given the lopsided casualty ratios. And even if things somehow lasted that long without peace breaking out and it was worth doing resources are still subsitutable even if they are strictly worse otherwise. We can run cars on coal but don't for many reasons. That applies to many of the best options that so overshadow alternatives that almost nobody does it.
I would say that your example scenario isn’t necessarily an argument for having a smartphone, it is a reason to always have a Kindle with you that contains a few hundred books. (You can leave the Kindle in airplane mode at all times and get everything you want to read from pirated ebook websites, no need to deal with Amazon's ecosystem and DRM).
Native Implementation Functions - http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html - Erlang/Elixir would not be performant enough to generate realtime video/audio encoding.

It's possible to make them crash the VM if they leak memory or don't prempt when asked. In Rust you can make better guarantees about your code and there is this that allows you to write them in Rust: https://github.com/hansihe/rustler
I think it means that like JS Objects, two hipsters are never equal, even if they have the exact same properties.
Twitter is prioritizing “health” over growth
There are known resistance especially in northern europe where up to 10% might be resistant to aids. You still carry the virus though (although at very low concentration)

There are strong suppositions that the locale distribution of the gene might be linked to earlier plagues (smallpox it seems).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC299980/
I created a small script that detects users coming from Product Hunt and blocks them + redirect them back to PH.

Product Hunt became a huge part of a product launch and at getting traction. But it can be ruined by a premature hunt.

I hope this tool will help some people or maybe start a discussion at PH to address this problem for all product developers.

The snippet is available on github as well if you'd like implement it yourself: https://github.com/marcantoine/donthuntme
Most people replace their new cars within 10 years, but those cars are sold to second owners rather than being scrapped.
"Exceptionally decent"? It can't even be compared to MS Office in quality and usability.
There's also a ton of cryopreservation in the trilogy, especially the third book.
What are undercover coders you personally met?
An undercover coder is a non-IT professional who secretly writes code to gain advantage over his less skilled colleagues.

I knew an accountant working in enterprise consolidation business. Not a layman accountant but a regional CFO at a major multinational company. He coded websites in PHP in his spare time and wrote thousands of lines of of Visual Basic at work to process dozens of Excel documents. None of his colleagues knew he could code, so they were amazed at him sipping coffee while they were working around the clock to meet deadlines. He moved on to become a CFO at another multinational later on.

Another time, I met a sales guy working for a conference organizer. He broke his leg once and, working from home, he designed a conference management system around the company website. Not even his boss understood what he did. For years, everyone in the office took it for granted that they had ticketing, scheduling and other bells and whistles available to all conferences through their own website. He had to come out when giving resignation and they barely had time to hire an IT team to replace him.
I had a funny problem with my router QoS a couple of years ago. It was classifying unknown UDP traffic as junk, and QUIC counted as unknown. This problem was entirely self-inflicted, I was using crappy firmware and I misconfigured it. But I can easily imagine other network infrastructure treating UDP traffic poorly.

Which is a mistake. A lot of UDP traffic should be priority for low latency; games, for instance. The problem is that there's also a lot of bulk transfer happening over UDP, like Bittorrent. Long story short, traffic shaping is hard.
Twitter vows to continue spam fight despite negative impact on user numbers
"Be authentic" is not good advice to adults.

To kids, sure. But you also have to explain to them that as an adult, nobody cares for your search for authenticity, you're expected to show up and work. There are too many people who are flaky these days who all think they're special, I think it's related to the wave of "be authentic" advice out there.

Edited to not come across as negative - people are real sensitive about that.
My research group (at MIT) also uses Zulip for messaging.

While I agree with everything jremmons said (hi john), it's important to note that their mobile apps are so bad that they're basically unusable - there's a particularly aggravating bug in the iOS app where if you don't open the app for a while, it forces you to load and scroll through days of messages to read the most recent ones.
E-mail.
Santa Barbara resident here. Where is this coming from? Jail time? Fake news? I'm cringing for even typing that out.

https://www.keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/the-last-st...
you forgot this: /s
It's also just not that useful.
> age of JSON

Yeah, modern and shiny JSON.
IT is now a subdivision of the fashion industry. Suck it up ;)
In-depth shared access guide (USB scanner)
MacTerm implements Sixels, some of the bitmap graphics sequences from iTerm2, and TEK vector graphics.

Graphics are definitely not that widely supported though, making it hard for programs to reliably display images.
As a side note, someone being consistently wrong for 20 years is a great predictor; we should just continue doing the opposite of the advice.
But to try to dismiss the whole lawsuit over that? That's outright outrageous.

Dismissing a lawsuit because somebody can't show damages was instituted to prevent frivolous lawsuits, the idea that it would stop the judicial branch from performing a check-and-balance on the executive is absurd.
You can't 100% guarantee anyway.
But you can pay your cloud vendor to do that for you, with the right legal contacts. Should work out cheaper due to economies of scale.
either way people are trying not to lose their jobs, and their paychecks, so they can keep eating. don't really see the difference.