skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree with "Some of the best managers I know, especially in tech, are the ones that admit their teams are far better qualified to make those decisions than they are."

These people defer everything to their subordinates including major technical decisions. Then what the hell is their job!? To "people manage"?

As Steve Jobs said, "I don't hire managers. I hire amazing individual contributors, but the only reason they become managers is that they can't achieve their vision on their own."

Just to be clear, technical managers don't necessarily have to get mangled up in detailed work - they need to have a vision for what their team is going to do. It is a "pull" rather than "push". An ideal manager should be someone that their subordinates aspire to be and they have a leadership character that is worthy of following. They give room for their team to provide inputs and they're decisive when time comes.
If that were true, why George Soros and not other liberal jewish billionaires, who no doubt exist? I think it's absurd to state that he's not being singled out due to his political activities.
Just so we are clear:

Hogan and Gawker had arranged to settle. Hogan was even going to be offered part ownership of Gawker, and had agreed to that. Until his (I mean Thiel's) lawyers met with him again.

And then he withdrew that offer.

And then after winning the lawsuit, withdrawing the only claim that would allow Gawker's insurance to allow Hogan to recoup some of his claimed damages (including an "estimated $50M loss of _future_ earnings, for a man who has only made $25M in his career and retirement so far).

Let's be very clear, Thiel's involvement in this was much more than "paid legal costs".

Regardless of the right or wrongs of thing, it is a generally accepted concept in modern societies and legal systems that you should have the right to face your opponent, not for them to have a legal 'proxy' or puppet acting at their behest.

Was Hogan wronged? Absolutely. But, as noted above, he'd agreed to settle until Thiel (and/or his lawyers) stepped in (again). He'd also settled with the person who _made_ the nonconsensual recording _and_ sold it... for _1/55,000th_ what he claimed in damages from Gawker.
Direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05441
Off topic, but I'm curious, can you tell me more about the CMS application?
Sure, but the argument by lordnacho is an extreme overextension of the idea that the leader should have relevant experience.

The context here is a member of the national executive, so demanding detailed micro level experience is required is just silly, at that level nobody can have such broad detailed knowledge. The only practical way is that whoever is in charge learns what they need as they go along.

I think far more important is that whoever is in charge isn't an idiot so they can realize when they have to learn new things. The fact that this guy accepted a position for cyber-security without reading up on computers is plenty of evidence he is an idiot.
Build a Unit-Testing Suite with Mocha and Mongoose
Damm, I had unikernels on my card. :)
I would risk number 2 and replace it with exercise (not too early or too late)
Buffer Overflow: The origin of vulnerabilities: C/C++ memmory management
Tulsa is paying people more than $10,000 just to move there
Don't just read the comments. Go and find out what the product is about. Hell, try to use it. You will see what I'm talking about. It's fluff.
The question about who will leave is always silly because we don’t have privileged info about IBM’s plans for what happens after the acquisition. Things that keep people with RedHat could go away without much notice.

That’s why the uproar and threats to leave over the MS acquisition was dumb.
Architecture projects are managed by architects. In fact, non-architects don't get to play in "management" of the architecture firms.

Those with no experience in construction do not run around being managers of construction companies doing construction. Those that do won't account for rain delays or know that at certain wind speed one cannot operate a crane and that wind speed would need to come down before 11am. And that's why the projects end up slipping.

> You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have been a personal injury attorney?

You will fail at managing a personal injury lawfirm unless you are someone who is intimately familiar handling ( and therefore laws ) of personal injury cases.

> You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have been an accountant?

You will fail at managing an accounting firm if you have no idea about accounting process, deadlines, amounts of paperwork or different filing schedules.
Exactly, that's a great point that I should have articulated above.
I'm excited to see Apache bumped to 2.4.35 with HTTP/2 support.

Also, PHP has been bumped from 5.4 to PHP 7.2, which will be extremely nice to have out of the box.
While it's still early days, I think holochain is showing real promise and has delivered alpha software that delivers on it's promises.

They're creating a framework for building decentralized applications built ontop of distributed hash tables (the technology behind torrents) instead of blockchain.

https://holochain.org/
I see the boring work as the way to finance the fun stuff. Helps a lot.
McDonalds is a poor example here. McD is primarily a franchise model, selling supplies and demand for what the brand sells. Higher wages would primarily impact the franchisee. The only way McD (the corporation) can increase wages is to mandate that franchises pay above minimum wage.

I believe Starbucks is a better example as they don’t use the franchise model.
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that Hogan's case was a legitimate one, he just lacked the funding to see it through. AND you're forgetting that Gawker could've avoided the whole thing if they had obeyed the earlier court order to take the video down.
So how can I become a minister or manager? If it doesn't take domain knowledge, then what roadmap / path / strategy do I need to become one?

It's a real question I have on my mind after reading this.
Please don't be naive.
In the parliamentary system here, only the Prime Minister is selected from parliament. The other ministers are selected by the PM, and don't have to be (and usually aren't) members of parliament.
Without having used sr.ht yet I'd say that it's most likely less of a pain to use than Trac. Also Tract doesn't have any build capabilities iirc?
If your argument was applied to something like money, the conclusion would be that governments do not have any control over the financial system, because anyone can chose to barter and anyone can chose to break the law.

>What Facebook and Google have is massive, large scale user loyalty.

Google has effective control of web standards.

Edit:
Also, the podcast directly addresses your comment. In fact, that's what it is about.
> It is an email server and client, a calendar, an online office suite, a cloud provider, a mobile platform, and I can go on listing things to fill up several pages of what Google is.

In my mind search, email, calendar, cloud, drive are all separate services. Just because I use Google Search doesn't mean I use google drive and gmail. In fact, I use Microsoft's OneDrive most of the time instead of Google Drive, and I don't use Calendar at all (much prefer Outlook).

You do not have to build out that entire list to compete with Google - you can build and compete with a superior version of just one. Even indie developers can (and do - successfully) compete with services like Calendar.
Exactly. Billionaire’s funding political organizations are only bad if they don’t support your side.
Closest one I know of is the RockPro64 (https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=61454), iirc it starts at $59 (2GB RAM) but you need to add the cost for a PSU, eMMC, an eMMC flasher, a heatspreader, etc to that.
Yep. That’s where docker compose comes in. It takes care of the whole process of linking together different docker containers as well as configuration of each of them (such as env vars).
The queue is large, but the number of engineers capable of working competently at Facebook's scale is not. They already had a code quality issue when I was there (briefly, leaving for reasons of conscience) - the site will fall down and never recover if they have to replace the right 10% of their engineers.
Not rolling your own consensus algorithm is approx. rules zero through ten of distributed systems programming. Nothing on this page provides any positive signal indicating unique (or even average) competence to the task. To wit,

> We are borrowing all the best parts of existing technology and combining them in a unique and innovative way.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the listed existing technologies have been formally verified.
Yeah, there was a lot more to it than that.

And while I personally found Gawker trashy and not worth a lot of respect, Thiel had profile pictures on open social media accounts of him shirtless on gay cruises. Short of a formal press release saying "I am gay", this wasn't any particular revelation.

(As to the "well, it's still noone's business" - while I agree, the courts have repeatedly held that billionaires are considered "public figures" "by virtue of the undue or oversized influence they wield or are capable of wielding" - so Thiel had little legal claim to his own situation, so used someone else as a proxy for his own grievances).
Nothing you mentioned is a replacement for Youtube, where on demand I can get a video on replacing the clutch on my car or a quick tutorial on promises in node.js
The thing is duckduckgo is just a search engine. I dont want email or calendar or purchase histories to get involved in that. More interlinked services like drive/gmail/calendar are hard to compete with, but others are not. I think most users don't care about or even actively dislike youtube's efforts to include other services.
Great point.

A lot of the interesting things in audio were inspired by radar. Dan Wiggins at Sonos used to work on radar, and Don Keele created a loudspeaker technology called "CBT" that's based on radar technology.

Because microphones are basically the inverse of loudspeakers, what works in loudspeaker arrays can also work in microphone arrays.
I've never seen a clear explanation of the right's grievances regarding Soros, but what I can put together contextually is that he is a wealthy source of finance or power brokerage for political action involving anything left of far-right. There is also a deep, non-explicit anti-semitic tinge to it all as well.

However everything I have heard him about his didn't come from credible sources. I've honestly wondered for a long time as well.
yay wage inflation
A government minister isn’t a tech. Honestly, not having experience with computers may be an advantage from a policy perspective — having no dog in the fight may be useful.
Facebook’s weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection
He’s one of the most wealthy contributors to left wing activism. It has absolutely nothing to do with him being jewish - those claims demonstrate the ignorance of the left regarding how right-leaning voters (who are overwhelmingly pro-israel due to their religious beliefs) think. Same thing the left says about Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson (also Jewish, oops, there goes that theory), etc, just reversed.

The left’s complete failure to understand the other side is why they were so shocked that Trump got elected. And it looks like we are in for a repeat in 2020, since they’ve learned nothing.
in my work with python, easy to unit tests usually makes things a bit harder. You want functional methods , not mega classes with 100s of class variables , and each class method operates on some portion of those class variables. It makes it impossible to truly isolate functionality and test it. While coding though, it is very easy to make a class and throw god knows what into the class variable space and access those variables whenever... However if we have staticmethods , not reliant on any class , just the arguments provided, and it doesnt modify any class state, the test are great. We can change/refactor our models with confidence knowing the results are all the same.
I don't see Beaker as running counter to that idea; we just don't have tooling for that use-case yet. We could handle this mostly in userland: write a service that exports a filesystem API that's compatible with `DatArchive`, and then swap it out according to users' choices. I can imagine storing the user's service endpoints in their private dat for people to pick from (via apps).
Not trying to start an argument about country wide wage compensation. But relative to other 'competitive' professional careers, such as doctors, lawyers, bankers, etc, Europe vastly underpays programmers, but also shows them little respect in the workplace. It's not just about the money, the social status of a software engineer in Europe is very low. This is making it difficult for Europe to compete on an international basis to create powerful tech companies. There are other reasons, such as fragmented markets, multiple languages, and the conservatism of the VC industry.
Because exploiting anti-semitism for political gain has a reliable historical track record, and for modern anti-semites he is the new face of the protocols of the elders of zion.
Imagine if those 3B were used to seed 3000 startups with 1M each. Even if only one third of these worked out, what an incredible golden age of productivity would that mean for the country.
How will SIM porting help in such attacks?
I hear you, but I think what's happening, in terms of psychological insight, is that millennials have more insight than earlier generations. They are also more likely to have narcissistic traits. The vigorous conversation about these issues (which involves the notion of toxicity) could be seen as a growing pain.

There are probably some walks of life (e.g. fine art) where unbelievably bad behaviour, narcissism, sociopathy etc. have always been prevalent. Now we're seeing awareness of those traits across the whole of society. "Toxic" may be a bad word to use; it's better to be more precise, within the constraints of what we know about personality. It's good to consider every interaction as the product of its constituent personalities, not the "fault" of one party.

But it's not an emergency if the word toxic is over-applied to mildly dysfunctional behaviour. Have you heard about global warming?
But FB/Google can't force you to use their systems and enforce that action with an army (yet).
In addition to other comments nearby: He has been an intellectual leader of the movement to integrate and democratize Europe, and he has been hawkish on Putin's intentions. You can read for yourself: he has written a bunch of articles at nybooks.com (e.g., https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/10/08/ukraine-europe-w...)
I live hear in Wisconsin. I tend to side with the big box stores. Lots of empty space around that indicates their store properties are not that valuable on the open market. As for the municipalities, they are in way too many things that they should not be into. Like running the electric and gas utilities, water utilities etc. Civic centers and so called industrial parks that turn them into real estate developers. Scores of government employees trying to attract businesses by handing out freebies to companies that would have come to their town anyway. Stick to doing street repair and snowplowing and quit your bitching.
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I'd make a clear distinction b/t liberal causes and leftist ones. Soros is a very wealthy capitalist and he's not funding anything that would upset that order.
Cool project :) Not something I'd really use but it's neat to make.

Small mistake though, when it can't find trends, it has a small typo in the error message:

Oops!! No trending developers for Python. Try another Languaje / time

Languaje should be Language :)
I don't think they are monopolies.

I use DuckDuckGo for search & Twitter for social media. I find discovering new things/People on Twitter more interesting than the sclerotic family/friends stuff on Facebook.
Are we using NativeScript? Not sure what you're referring to here.
Future interview question for a company with a mission statement it takes seriously: "I see that you worked at fb from 2018 on. Tell me about your broader career goals and how that fits into them."

If employers publicized such questions now, it could discount the future value of having worked at fb.
Because they don't have the power to change how houses are built.
Me as well, since someone had the clever idea to create GUI distribution management tools in Python, it is a pain to use them, given how slow some of them are.
Storj internal person here: If you're referring to the change from publishing a payout sheet to providing the new payout tool, we did this to better protect the privacy of our farmers. Even though all the data you're talking about is public (on the ethereum blockchain and the Storj network) we didn't want to make it easy for those who might want to target farmers (those sharing their hard drive space) on the network. Usage on the current network has dropped off significantly due to us limiting new users while we build out network V3. If you haven't checked out the alpha, you can run a local test network following tutorials on our GitHub: github.com/storj/storj
The Kellog-Briand pact prohibits signatories (including the US) from offensive wars anyway. Article 2 of the United Nations Charter states that members shouldn't even use threats of offensive actions. And the Grundgesetz obviously bans offensive wars as well.

Not sure what you're thinking, but you're waaaaaay out there.
He's funding a lot of pro-migration and pro-open borders groups
Sorry then,

Sarcasm is sometimes hard to decipher on-line.

Add to that one of my pet peeves: Folks claiming that they can't quit Facebook because how should they stay in touch with their 600 friends and family members without relying on this truely evil company.

For the record: I "deleted" my account some 5 years ago, when it became obvious how despicable this company actually is.
There have been several dozen people arrested for arson in the last couple of months just in the bay area alone. Are we certain someone didn't tamper with pg&e's equipment?
To put it more succinctly: I agree you should do it by metro area. But you don't - several states have a singular value, or only a value for one city in the state. The above post has some sources you can peruse on identifying metro areas that need to be assessed in the algo.
Politifact says no on the Mastercard claims.

https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2...
Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties
The best thing is probably something similar to what people at Google have done, with respect to Project Maven and the China stuff, as well as the recent walk-outs.

If you just leave, nothing changes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentago...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...
The linux box sitting on my desk at work is running RHEL6 (which is really starting to get super annoying). My IT dept is just now starting to roll out RHEL7.
Happy to see this topic re: rich text editors back on track. It's one of those things that never seemed to evolve since the early '90 days. Google docs set the bar really high.

I have been struggling to find a good editor for my form builder site [0] and settled with quill but I like slate's approach better

[0] https://www.inputu.com
Here are 2 wistia video's on images in slate specifically. The one on the bottom includes images + galleries

https://www.prezly.com/news/the-different-ways-to-use-images...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations

In particular, OSF backed the pro-Western side in Ukraine. This has resulted in a well-funded disinformation campaign against it and him by Russia.
This here is the truth. idk why people blame it on antisemitism alone (not saying it does not play a part). He's veeery wealthy and uses that wealth to push left wing politics through his foundations and stuff. I've seen many examples of left wing/communist/degenerate stuff that, when traced back, leads to one of his foundations. It's normal that those who are not left wing don't like him. That doesn't mean they are antisemitic automatically.
Because Germmany like most other European countries doesn't really have any local FAANG like companies and you can see than in the job market.

Most dev salaries at local companies are garbage compared to what FAANG companies pay in their EU offices.
This seems pretty obvious. Anything static is forageable and hence vulnerable. Bio can add complications (is this fingerprint warm and pulsing?) but ultimately all will be overcome.
(Note: I work at Zapier.) Thanks for the kind words, aaronharnly! You're right, we don't have a generalized way to do that sort of thing right now, but if you're triggering from a webhook, one option might be something like:

- duplicate your prod zap

- adjust the url to send a webhook to both your prod zap, and your (duplicate) dev zap (with just a single request):
https://zapier.com/help/webhooks/#triggering-multiple-webhoo...

- once your changes are ready, "promote" it by turning the new zap on, and the old one off

There could be other workarounds for doing similar things, kinda depends on the overall structure of that particular Zap. Feel free to give us a shout anytime, and we could take a closer look at your specific setup! https://zapier.com/app/contact-us
And it isn't as if the new home couldn't be bought as well.
Blockstack engineer here. Curious what makes you say our solution is DOA? Anyone can register a username with a Bitcoin transaction or two, and anyone can run a Gaia hub of their own. Blockstack PBC provides defaults to help users get started, but we encourage power users to take things into their own hands.
No, he literally said

> If you’re not a lawyer, don’t run a law firm

and then never climbed down, just adding detail about why it was bad.

You are defending a more reasonable position than the one GP expressed and I attacked.
Then what are politicians for?
How is this naive?

He's giving to people fleeing terror with literally nothing.
Yeah, I kind of moved of definition of good code from cool-smart-novel approach to something as simple as possible, that almost anybody can pick up, maintain and improve. This has various aspects - cleanness of the code, comments of algorithms/edge cases, overall structure, modularity etc.

Syntactic sugar can't impress me anymore, unless it comes with significant performance gains or compress the code significantly without sacrificing readability to average Joe coder (this is important part). Actually I prefer 1 page of simple clean code to 1/2-liners that do it all, until they don't. I guess I am getting old.
I have not tried to clone it myself. But if it is not a web-facing URL, you should list it in clear CLI command and remove the <a> tag. People will click if you make it clickable.
The linked blog post https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-3-... has more info and is interesting.

In it they say "Back in March, we explained that the 3+ platform is the final iteration of the “classic” Raspberry Pi", I've tried finding the corresponding blog post but didn't have any luck. Does anyone know where I can read more about this ? I'm interested in hearing more about their need for "new core silicon, on a new process node, with new memory technology".
That's called "thinking you're smarter than everyone else." That's not the same as being intelligent. You can read about and learn how to intelligently invest your money over the desired time period for the goal you have. And if you have a long time period, you can read that you're most likely to succeed by dumping it in a total stock market index fund!