skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading you right, it sounds like you're saying that a quality needed for one tycoon of the tech industry was to disavow his paternity and then subsequently treat his daughter as if she was not a real part of his family. I've been an admirer of Jobs in the past. I think there is a real problem in our professional culture of people taking the wrong lessons from him. I'd be interested in any rationale for how his treatment of Lisa Brennan-Jobs was necessary, or helpful, or even acceptable.

I don't know that I've read anything painting Gates, in his personal life, in anything but a pretty flattering light. He was a tough competitor in business, but he retired and seems to have genuinely and sincerely dedicated his life and fortune to the betterment of the world in a way that few others in our field have. In fact, what he's done post-Microsoft has led me to reconsider his conduct while leading Microsoft. Certainly, I don't think it's fair to compare him to Jobs.
Les Moonves Would Collect at Least $184M If He Got Ousted as CBS CEO
> Plan tech debt into your sprints.

Exactly! Nothing about Scrum or Agile discourages tackling tech debt. Managers and Product Owners encourage features—not sprints.
Hey brightball - if you're looking for an alternative that's free for HN users, is mobile first, and has a deep slack integration, I'd love to hear your feedback on Tape (https://agile.trytape.com/)!
About the same time with "drone" and "crypto".

Language is defined by usage, not by what you think is correct.
On his key point: “The Federal Reserve Has Lost Control”: it never had control. Monetary policy has limited power, mostly to moderate short-term effects and stop them (or slow them) from becoming runaway catastrophes. The real power is in fiscal policy, which requires the government (as opposed to central bank) to act, usually through Congress. Recently—despite modest and inadequate action in the Great Recession—Congress has been basically asleep at the switch on fiscal stimulus, leaving the Fed on its own with monetary policy as the only lever. Whether this is a limited-time historic aberration or a durable condition is unclear. He's probably right to the extent that collapse is inevitable, even if the timing is far from clear, if the Fed continues to be left alone with monrtary policy as the only took available. He's also right that if Congress were to respond to that by obliterating the Fed and taking on monetary policy itself, things would go from bad to worse.
Is it really because of political agenda though, or rather an issue of scale?

From a scale perspective you have basically 2 choices.

1) Treat kids like adults, let them do whatever so long as it doesn't impact others around them, and if they flunk, so be it.

2) Assume kids don't know best and impose rules you can enforce at scale, with the end goal hopefully being they learn the subject.

Either option gets you boatloads of complaints and anecdotes, depending on your perspective.

If you don't want efficient but merciless scaling (perhaps it's not working?), then we should explore another (new?) approach that lives within or expands upon (good luck!) the economic constraints. Ultimately we settle on something that seems "good enough", meeting as much of 1) and 2) without going bankrupt.
Awesome, the Z-Code Infocom game interpreter is derived from the one I wrote/maintained back in the mid 1990s! :)
Every time I hear the phrase: https://youtu.be/evlrs5Bi_6E?t=1m25s
Chasing fame on instagram is not going to get you freelance work, so focus on having a decent portfolio website instead. Take pictures everyday, and post some on Unsplash. See which photos people end up using. If it's interiors or landscapes, focus on that. Find your niche fast!
That's the tricky bit with student loans, yes. Part of why I opened with 'financial advisor'. With low interest balance transfers and mortgages the math is much simpler.
This reads as an ad for Okta, and is posted by an Okta employee.
Why is a Proof-of-Waste blockchain necessary for this?

We already have https://www.eff.org/observatory, and anyone can run a DNS server for free.
Memes are a meme twilightzonetheme.wma
I must say that it took me a while to understand that the problematic logo was not the one you refer to. It looks much more like men boxer briefs than the dodecahedron (after all the seam follows the anatomy).
No, that would be as if I said Water is less flammable than Hydrogen and you had replied: "But Water is just Oxygenated Hydrogen!!"
And by Crick and Watson you mean Crick, Watson, Franklin and Wilkins, right? It's fairly clear all four deserve at least partial authorship by modern standards. James Watson was a piece of work.

(https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/23/sexism-in-sc...)

Crick was absolutely certainly familiar with the crystallographic space groups; he was the student of Lawrence Bragg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bragg), who is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics – winning it with his father for more or less inventing X-ray crystallography. It's mostly 19th-century mathematics, after all.
Breaking the back button and bogus sw patent, not sure you will be too popular here.
Here are some more, there is a nice archive for 8 bit Atari.

https://www.atariarchives.org/
> Their next challenge will be ramping maintenance/service of the rapidly expanding installed base.

I agree that this will be the next obvious challenge. "Thankfully", they're already seeing how this plays out in Norway, where they're really struggling to service the Model S fleet as it ages and repairs are required more frequently.

I consider this a good thing, because certainly there's someone in the service department thinking about what will happen in 3 years when the amount of Model 3s requiring service starts increasing further. Norway is the canary in the coal mine, which should be completely obvious to someone who does this full-time.
This makes me wish I took more screenshots of my old websites. My personal sites have had some very fun evolutions, including some outrageous styles/themes. May have to checkout the Wayback
Machine. I’ve migrated from Wordpress, to rails, to Hakyll, and finally to my own static site generator in Kotlin, Kakyll. :)

My most recent change which significantly improved traffic was making it mobile friendly. Im also no in the process of making blog content fit to percentages of the page instead of absolute pixel size.

My one issue is that I’m always a bit concerned that my first page is a wall of blog post titles... not the most pretty. feedback welcome: http://kennycason.com
Absolutely, story points are used as a component in the estimation of time.

Story points on their own are useless though; they are an abstract thing that only means anything to the team and it’s velocity.

A good analogy is that they are an estimate of distance. Knowing roughly how far something is away does not tell you how soon you will get there. You can only do this by working with an average of how fast the team can go.

If the team is terrible at estimating distance, then the velocity will reflect that and gradually self-correct.
Introducing new technologies to replace old ones

I took that to mean if you must start using new solutions, make sure you remove some similar tech from your stack for every new solution you start using (e.g. replace RabbitMQ with Kafka) so that you don't end up with 50 ways to store data say. That was certainly the context in the article.

preferring services to local hosting

There is an argument for using hosted services too though - it reduces the ops workload - the correct solution probably depends on scale, staff etc. I agree this isn't one size fits all.

If you end up storing binary content on SQL to avoid having to roll a file hosting, you are taking the simplicity mantra too far.

I don't think the article mentions storing binary content in Postgresql does it? They're just talking about all non-ephemeral data, I imagine at one point they started using some data stores better suited as caches or message queues for permanent data storage, and discovering that when data was lost was the impetus for simplifying their storage - I like that they've moved to using their own hosted Postgresql solution to store their customer data, it simplifies their infrastructure, and makes sure they feel any pain customers feel too - a good kind of simplicity to strive for.
Agreed that those are other common causes.

I think that keeping standups short does very little to mitigate the damage they cause, though. The biggest cost isn't the time they take, it's the act of forcing your entire engineering team out of a flow state (or worse, forcing them to wait until after standup to even start) on a daily basis. That happens regardless of if they're 10 minutes or 30 minutes.
> A professor of mine once said to me that all teaching was a process of lying, and then of replacing the lies with successively better approximations of the truth.

In philosophy of sciences, it is called "idealization" and "concretization". Many philosophers from Poznan even name this philosophy of science as "Marxist philosophy of science", since Marx uses the technique of idealization and concretization in his work "Das Kapital".
This is the most inconvenient truth of the entire 2016 Campaign. Hillary requested Trump to be propped up as someone she "knew" she could beat. If she had just played fair, she might have actually won against Jeb who the GOP actually wanted.

Don't like Trump? Thank Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and the media for playing along.
But that's not the same as a walmart employee finishing work, and then driving stuff to people's homes. Am I missing something?
And this is why memes sucks now... people take it way too seriously. Four different apps? Most of this stuff could be done with only Paint.net.
> It just proves theres no market for anyone

No, it just proves there's no market for people who obsess over shitty games. There are plenty of good games with native linux support (e.g. Civ 5, Mount & Blade, Crusader Kings 2, etc etc).
It's understandable if you still take it somewhat personally. You worked on it, just like an author who wrote an article in a magazine once would still likely care about that.

In my case (not the person you replied to) the Antergos website and IRC (sorry, I know reporting on IRC is not as useful as a proper bug report) people gave me the impression it was all good and it worked for everyone. I spent 2 hours hacking the installer to try to make it work, until eventually giving up and using the Arch iso to install in 10 minutes.

The entitled behaviour one might see is therefore sometimes not just entitlement, but could also be frustration from "feeling misled". We all know it's free, and I'm grateful for that, but I'm not grateful for feeling promised something to work and then spending 2 hours too much on that promise.
Early USB keyboards tended to support PS/2 with a passive adapter. Probably less common nowadays.
One thing I'd like to see added to freebies discussion is the meaning behind of the word 'free'.
For example: 'College education and healthcare /should/ be free for all in this country(USA).' really means 'College education and healthcare /should/ be paid with taxpayers' money for all in this country(USA).'

This really adds to discussion as people get also to discuss if they really want to spend more of their own money. The word 'free' in this context seems to automatically dismiss any discussions about tax rise and public spending.

Disclaimer: I'm Brazilian, not some angry republican.
Unfortunately it doesn't work when people can't agree on definitions. For example, Wikipedia has lots of pages listing all entities of class X (all these list of pages). Who decides if an entity is of class X or not? In my opinion that would be decided by acclaimed experts on X. Wikipedians routinely disagree and will assign entities to class X of their own volition even if no support can be found among acclaimed experts. They will then challenge you to find a source claiming that the entity does NOT belong to class X, or else it should remain listed. That is of course almost always impossible because there aren't many experts out there spending their time publishing articles refuting Wikipedians misconceptions!
Hehe thanks a lot for spotting that. Just updated it! :)
Zero and heavy alcohol consumption could both be side-effects of isolation. Isolation is associated with dementia as a cause or an effect
UPASH – Node.js Unified API for password hashing algorithms
Infinity is a mathematical concept that doesn't actually exist. Just like the infinity gauntlet, it's a made up imaginary thing.

https://plus.maths.org/content/does-infinity-exist
Photoshop. or Gimp.

I mean it's superimposing text, possibly at different fonts, sizes, angles; then combining various images, again possibly at different rotations, and then applying filters.

Tools exist for this.

A "meme making app" made sense when it was just top and bottom text over an image, but these people are basically saying they want a heavyweight image editor.
Verbose compared to what? It doesn't seem overly verbose to me. This isn't some Hello World example, this provides a fully featured real-world example (minus all the Okta fluff).
Very nice, maybe there could be some inline Assembly as well, BBC Basic style.

In any case very well done!
The irony is that the very, very early prototypes of the Pi were a lot more like this, built around an Atmel microcontroller; it was eventually decided that HDMI and a browser were too important to do without.
Minimizing what code you own is a naive optimization. When you consider the liabilities that third-party library and service dependencies introduce it becomes quite attractive to build your own minimal systems. I'm not sure when programmers became so averse to writing simple code. But leftpad was just the beginning.
Why DO 99% Candidates Fail in Technical Inrerviews
The punny section headers are a treat:

"A Brief Problem"

"Getting to the Bottom of This"

"But Y?"
I would appreciate any feedback: https://www.echevarria.io/. It's just basic HTML, CSS, and I think three small scripts for the whole thing.
> see below

Better to use hyperlinks; order of posts on HN is not immutable.
Let's get to Mars first before worrying about whether colonizing it is feasible.
Article mentions nothing about why it's a bad idea...
I’m not sure that Silicon Valley thinks politics don’t exist, so much as it’s that elites (VCs, big corporation CEOs) spend a lot of time/money defining for labor what is and is not political (e.g. their class position as labor relative to elites). This frees up elites to then nakedly use politics to serve their own interests, speaking as the "voice of tech."

This article seems to fall into the trap of collapsing that class divide, even as more and more tech workers are awakening to the power of labor solidarity. That's unfortunate in the face of things like workers at Google acting collectively to stop the company from pursuing work with the military.
Fantastic suggestions.

Not only does having fewer technologies in your stack mean there're fewer to maintain, it also means they're used more so your devs are more expert at them.
One idea would be to pay customers to deliver packages. Then you can incentivize them to come in to buy something and then take and deliver some packages for you.
Silicon Valley thinks when it closes its eyes, it cannot be seen.
They're expanding beyond just image macros. Especially the surreal ones, or https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/deep-fried-memes
That's what the UK has. In fact the free healthcare is better than basic. It's generally very good quality, to the extent that many people don't buy private even if they can afford it.
Reminds me of the email Steve Jobs sent after Apple's market cap passed Dell:

> Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/technology/michael-dell-s...

That market cap was $72.13 billion in 2006, by the way. What an amazing run Apple has made.
Eggs and cheese are pretty easy to find so that can't be it. Plus if you've done a keto diet (I assume that's what is meant by getting over a "sugar addiction") for a length of time, the cravings are real, and sometimes interesting (e.g. craving things you haven't had or thought about for years even pre-diet).

I think most people who have trouble getting on and sticking with a keto diet are more addicted to easy-access food variety rather than particular foods. They'll succumb to the easy-to-order pizza delivery in larger part due to its easy-to-order and being-something-different properties rather than the craving for pizza/sugar itself being too strong. Keto is easy if you don't mind the monotony of the same easy-access food for almost every meal, or enjoy cooking enough to make a large variety of food. If you do mind, that'll probably have to go first, sugar or no sugar.
> use that along with other rules that you know to re-infer what the 3D structure is

Great answer, thank you :-) Saved me a bunch of typing to explain it less well than you just did.

It's worth adding, for this crowd, that another way of thinking about the "other rules" you allude to is as a system of constraints; you can then set this up as an optimization problem (find the set of atomic positions minimizing reconstruction error under the set of symmetry constraints implied by the space group – so that means that solving crystal structures and machine learning are functionally isomorphic problems.
There are a lot of guides to this, and one click Windows install tools for images etc. It's kind of the point of the Pi.
Dude, based on your writing skills, I'm pretty certain that you are one of those rare autists that has no measurable intelligence. Kill yourself.
I'm happy to hear you like it! Glad that I finally could launch.

Sure, timebox for now is fixed, but I will soon be pushing a change to make it toggleable and editable :)
Interesting! So how did he run the standups?
A meme is anything that traverses socially.
Rails?
Extrapolating data from 90 years of an isolated island nation to evolutionary timescales is the major assumption. The other weak foundation is the assumption that this gene should correspond to educational level. It was weakly correlated in the early 20th century, less correlated now, and we can't put any weight on to what it actually controls (maybe it's related to IQ, maybe it's delaying gratification, who knows, the writers don't claim to).

I think it's a bold conclusion to leap from one genetic marker doesn't seem as strongly correlated to education levels among Icelanders to "cognitive genomics is on the decline".
I've done this for four years and it has been a very rewarding experience. Happy to answer any questions folks might have.
Even in medieval and ancient times a certain portion of the very rich people were merchants/bankers/entrepreneurs - though the stereotypical "very rich" of the time is a major landowner, there are even richer-than-whole-empires people like Fugger or Crassus who did work just as much as the founder-owner-CEOs of modern technology megacorps.
Con: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/technology/personaltech/p...
So, it doesn’t have a Korg Wavestation built in? :-)

Check out something like Korg iWAVESTATION or u-he Zebralette for something like wavetable (soft) synths, vs merely 1 or 2 layers of PCM samples possibly with an envelope generator to fade between layers.
> Philanthropy is not the only metric when considering if someone is a good person.

And a biography is?
Is it possible to whore out AWS?
I hate how microcrappy the AWS UX/UI is... Would it be possible to build a better experience and sale that shit for a profit. Essentially whoring out amazon?
Thanks for mentioning that because I've had audio on my mind since the beginning, and it's definitely gonna come soon! Please follow https://twitter.com/@standupsHQ for updates on this, and feel free to try it out :) I'll be happy to hear your feedback :)
I really enjoy old, stable tools that are maintained and made incrementally better, day by day. Postgres is one example, Elixir is another (which doesn't re-invent the Erlang VM, but builds on top of it).

I also really like hosted cloud services, but they need to be replaceable with little to no effort. For instance, I don't want a new NoSQL platform, I want high-availability, managed, on-the-fly-scalable Postgres.
Sparse matrix representations in SciPy (2017)
The degree to which your comment has been downvoted makes me laugh. This article basically points out EXACTLY what HN's blindspot is, I'm amazed it even got posted and that I saw it in their algo.
So what applications this will have ?
These are not bad. But "Use services" seems like a recipe for long term pain. It's an external dependency you can't control. I would prefer to use the external service to learn what you really need and then try to insource it again.
what happens when one of these large mining operations in China/South pacific/etc target this network and begin accumulating all the handshake "coins".

How would someone 3 years from now have access to generate coins/tokens after the protocol increases the difficulty and stops generating coins so easily?

Wouldn't it be cheaper just to run a normal DNS server?
What's the use case?
What do you think caused being selective not to scale at other platforms? What do you think we can do to keep the quality of our researchers extremely high?

What we’ve heard in talking about this to a bunch of talented researchers is that they’ve been frustrated with payout rates (too low for amount of work), tone of the interactions between researcher and company, number of opportunities/companies where they can add value (given their skillset - many have said they do the work in large part to learn).

I think there is probably a lot we can do to create/keep balance in the marketplace to address a lot of these if we take things slow.

Would love to hear more of your thoughts on the strategy of building out our team with salaried pentesting talent. Why do you think that is critical to adding a lot of value for startups?
I was a little bit surprised to see this article with him at Spotify. Their Squads framework is shown as an example for larger-scale agile, I heard about it at a place that had just started doing SAFe. The approach mentioned in the article doesn't really match up with my idea of larger-scale more corporate agile.
Depends on how you define political which sounds incredibly lawyery. Honest Research proving a substance is or isn't carcinogenic in itself may lack any political motivation. However those with an interest may politicize it.
Thanks. I just did not see that one.
I read "You don't need startups" and nodded my head in agreement.
This reads like a piece that is just meant to garner attention since Tesla is high up in the news cycle (as usual).
I found this article incredibly frustrating to read. It doesn't do anything to support either of its two titular stipulations.

The best I could find as to why colonizing mars is unlikely:

> But according to a new study, published in Nature Astronomy, Mars has lost so much of its potential greenhouse gases to space over billions of years that there is now no possibility of transforming the remaining atmosphere into a breathable one with available technology.

... of course terraforming Mars would be difficult with available technology. Certainly the author doesn't imagine technological process standing still?

On the second stipulation, that colonizing Mars is a "bad idea," could we please get there first then figure out the ethical issues? Does the author really think we should have a perfectly correct ethical plan of moving off of the planet?