skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is, in part, suggesting that it's exactly those kind of status-conscious people who benefit from 'meeting therapy':

"Academics from the University of Malmo in Sweden say meetings provide an outlet for people at work to show off their status or to express frustration."

But yep, that might not be ideal for a participant who would prefer to be making progress on something else. I've seen a bunch of tech companies start to suggest to employees that they can and should leave meetings if they don't feel like their presence is important.
Dd-wrt was still a lot more stable every single time onva wrt-1900ac.
Maybe it just depends on the context. I write embedded linux applications. One application I wrote talks to a Qualcomm modem using their QMI framework and then passes on messages to an antenna subsystem.

I wrote some library functions, which were easily unit testable, then I wrote the glue code, which I found wasn't very testable at all. I found myself having to stub out the entire QMI Framework/modem and the entire Antenna subsystem API since obviously I don't have access to those things at build time. So basically now my application/glue code is being testing in a fake vacuum that may not even reflect the real behaviors of the modem or antenna. So I waste tons of time trying to predict how the modem and antenna might behave, and test my application code accordingly.

Lastly, I end up scrapping a bunch of the tests because the actual behavior of the modem/antenna is different than I predicted and changes slightly with each update.
Seems pretty irresponsible considering they're death machines. I had one in my blind spot on the highway the other day, and it was virtually invisible. I always manually check beside me too, I never trust my side mirrors. Literally couldn't see her. Luckily, nothing happened, but I don't understand what people are expected to do when they can't see you.
Outlining where humans live – The World Settlement Footprint 2015 [pdf]
I imagine you do some of these things, some of the time.

Do you write some tests, sometimes before coding something?
How is this a scam?
'developer and early adaptor'
'storage expension'

guys, english proof reading, please!
People should decline pointless meetings.
Some of them do. If a company purchases GSuite, GSuite for Education or Chrome Enterprise Support then they have paid for this.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/188447?hl=en
The problem I experience with meetings is that often times the information presented is only tangentially related to you.

I hate it when I’m in a meeting and it ends up a conversation between two people. It’s stressful if you have an expectation to get something done but also an expectation to sit in a meeting you realize really doesn’t pertain to you.
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Perfect, thanks very much
And it would lead to everybody having the fastest fibre for free. What is wrong with bankrupting companies that aren't needed anymore?
If I have time to write only one of unit or functional test, I will always choose a functional test, because these ones test what the user actually sees.

It's possible to write an app that passes 100% of unit tests and still be completely broken to the user.
Started my self-taught programming journey about two weeks ago and thought this would be a fun/manageable/somewhat useful project. Appends years found in Wikipedia entries with how old the subject was at the time. Would love to hear what y'all think!
The website has no SSL certificate and asks for passwords. That looses all trust in tech, hacking, cybersecurity. In 2019 it's simply inexcusable.
It does not ask for a login.

Here is a full Pink Floyd album for your streaming pleasure.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=k_MP8URO-Xc

Works perfectly in a private safari window on my iPhone.

Great work!
From a testing standpoint the former is often superior. It will also tend to focus your attention on organizing your corner cases better.

But as my peer alludes, there are a lot of people who happily write a lot of functions full of side effects and string them together. And in those hands a great mess can be made. I used to be more tolerant of this sort of code but I’ve heard enough complaints to scrutinize this pattern and it does seem to result in quite a few more errors.
Sounds like a local maximum at the organisational scale.
Not to downplay the pure and applied mathematics implications. But the immediate discovery was made in the context of calculating neutrino oscillation probabilities. Yielding insight into matter / anti-matter imbalance in the known universe ;)

Eigenvalues: the Rosetta Stone for Neutrino Oscillations in Matter

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02534

Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Underground_Neutrino_Expe...
Apple’s Head of Marketing Wrongfully Dunks on Chromebooks
What Makes a Good Runbook?
Every time I clean right after I cook I'm stunned by how quick, easy and painless it is.

You know, the two times a year I actually do it.
Why would recording a public scene be a problem?

Should we rather restrict the use of said recording, e.g to prevent its publishing?
Enlighten me, why?
> I'm putting off buying a new phone in general until we get a decent Linux variant.

Me too. I want a smartphone which can run an up-to-date OS for more than 5 years, just like my laptop.

LinageOS dropped official support for my current phone a couple of month ago, which means no more updates for this phone... EOL... The phone was released July 2016. The hardware works just fine. I would use it for many more years if it was still receiving updates. What a waste of resources and time.

Once again I'm looking for a new phone, because my old one died of planned obsolescence.
Apple to Ban Vaping Apps from Its Store
I've had times when a pointless meeting with too many participants was a welcome break. Of course, just reducing the work week and having more free time would be a lot better. But I'll take what I can get.
At a guess, I would hazard the thousands of people who would become unemployed? And not all be able to immediately go and work for the 'British Broadband Corporation'? That's one negative side effect.
There are services and people even in their own company that can do better. There really isn't an excuse here.
It does. Under “Can I get phone support” it states:

Yes, if you have a G Suite or G Suite for Education account, or if your company purchased Chrome Enterprise Support.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/188447?hl=en
Canada's School Spending: A Look at Business Administration Expenses
Read the bill instead of blindly believing the article. The article is lying outright about what the bill says. Not only does it not require teachers to accept religiously-based scientifically incorrect answers, it outright forbids them from doing so, requiring them instead to grade such answers based on "legitimate pedagogical concerns". The article - and your take based on the article - are the complete opposite of the truth.
Perhaps you haven't read the product description. Here it goes:

An Open Source Smart Phone Supported by All Major Linux Phone Projects

Perhaps you’re in a line of work where security is a must, or a hard-core Linux enthusiast, or perhaps you’ve just got enough of Android and iOS and you’re ready for something else – the PinePhone may be the next Phone for you. Powered by the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit SOC used in our popular PINE A64 Single Board Computer, the PinePhone runs mainline Linux as well as anything else you’ll get it to run.

The purpose of the PinePhone isn’t only to deliver a functioning Linux phone to end-users, but also to actively create a market for such a device, as well as to support existing and well established Linux-on-Phone projects. All major Linux Phone-oriented projects, as well as other FOSS OS’, are represented on the PinePhone and developers work together on our platform to bring support this this community driven device.

The Moto Z3 is not competing with this phone.
Mooney Aircraft Has Closed
Free in this context is that everyone who already pays for broadband will still pay for it through increased taxes.
It's not but I also have more fun not getting paged in the middle of the night because something is broken ;)

It's a balance for sure. I know it's cool to hate on Java, but I actually like Java for it's predictability, and my deep knowledge of it, and when using Intellij, it's a breeze for me to program in.
>I'm guessing that some people wouldn't want to see a doctor who believed that ultimately my life had no value.

That's not a valid counterpoint. It assumes that only people of faith believe that life has value, and that medical practitioners who don't believe in an eternal soul are somehow categorically more reckless as a result.

>Both belief types can affect the outcome of patient care.

Not nearly as much as avoiding modern medicine and believing that prayer, homeopathy and magic crystals will heal your cancer.
*cheapest fiber for free
No. I write tests after I write code.
UBI Is Not a Handout, It's a Proxy for Human Value
One of my employers actively discouraged meetings and phone calls. They wanted everything done through Slack and email.

It felt great at first. Having a wide-open calendar and knowing that random managers can’t pull you into a waste of time meeting seems like a dream come true. However, we quickly learned that removing meetings doesn’t removed the need for communication.

Instead of scheduled meetings, our Slack channels turned into never ending pseudo-meetings. Instead of the well-defined start times of a meeting and the implicit expectation that meeting participants come prepared with an agenda and material to discuss, we had a spontaneous free-for-all in Slack. People could, and would, start important team discussions in Slack at random times all day long. “@here” started to feel no different than a meeting, except it was unpredictable, you couldn’t prepare for it, and it would certainly disrupt your concentration.

The other unintended side effect was that people were still scheduling secret meetings. They just had to be quiet about it because technically we weren’t supposed to do it. The teams with regularly scheduled meetings were more cohesive, less disrupted, and significantly less stressed than those who tried to handle everything in the asynchronous “always on, always connected” style.

So yes, excessive, unnecessary, or poorly-run meetings are bad. But I never thought I’d miss properly run meetings as much as I did when they were removed completely from our communication toolbox. Use the right tool for the right job and enforce good meeting discipline.
Thank you for your feedback and support :) Are you currently using OpenRefine?

We are currently thinking about providing other dataframe libraries like dask or pyspark and similar. However, we are a little bit unsure on how to make sure that there is user demand before we implement it. It is not a complete rewrite but it would require some additional abstractions at some points in the library. And we need to check if some features might not be available any more.
Would dask support be a reason to buy for you?

Great hint with yellowbrick and yes, we are considering some of those features as well if there is a useful place in the library.

In general, we are also thinking about ways how you can extend the library for yourself so that you can add your own analyses/charts of choice and then they will come up again the right point in time. In case that this is useful.
I'm just a support person, but it seems to me that it doesn't. At least, not directly. If it did, then development would be focusing on it.

Why not? Because the customer already paid. Because Dev wants to focus on getting new customers instead of catering to the ones who have already forked over the money.

"What do you mean feature X isn't working for the customer? It's working for us in our lab. Anyway, we're all focusing on getting new feature Y working in our lab now." - This is the attitude I am sensing below the surface. It's frustrating.
There are plenty of examples of bank runs and other crises pre-regulation and pre-fiat currency, dating all the way back to the 1600s— that’s about as decentralized as you can get. If you want to argue that there’s something fundamentally different this time around, that’s fine, but I’d appreciate evidence rather than assertions.

In fact, the least problematic time in terms of bank runs appears to be the years of the highly-centralized Bretton-Woods system post-WW2 (1).

It’s also not like holding bitcoins yourself is entirely risk-free. You can accidentally expose your private key and have your money stolen or you can lose your private key and have it locked away forever. Either scenario means you no longer get to use your money, and any defense against one makes the other more likely; it’s a difficult balance to ask people to get right.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
At a previous gig we wanted to have a regular scrubbed snapshot of our production Heroku database for dev and QA work. We didn't want unscrubbed data to hit a developer's laptop, both because it contained PII and because it was huge. The nightly process we ended up with (after a lot of iteration) was:

1. fork the production db and wait for it to sync

2. run a task within the production Heroku app pointing at the new fork which does the PII scrubbing and compacting[1]

3. `pg_dump` the compressed result onto the Heroku dyno running the task above

4. upload the dump as a release on the GitHub page for our main codebase

When a developer wanted a fresh dev database all they had to do was run a local rake task that would grab the db dump from the latest GitHub release, drop their local database, and restore the dump.

[1]: This isn't as easy as it sounds because one of the tables we wanted to compress contained raw financial data, but we wanted a coherent story for dev, so we dropped 95% of the data, keeping more recent stuff, randomized all the amounts, and then recalculated summary tables.
x is unknown, T=True, F=False, ttt = x or x or x, otherwise all connected with "and"

By definition:

#1: xTTTTT
#2: xxFFFF
#3: TTxxxx
#4: tttxxx
#5: FFFFxx
#6: FFFFFx

Begin evaluation from 6.

Let's assume 6 is T so we have xxxxxT. In that case 5 need to be F. But if 5 is F, then any from [1,2,3,4] need to be T.
But if any from [1,2,3,4] is T then 6 cannot be T.
Thus 6 cannot be T, so it is F if correct answer exists.

Now we have: xxxxxF

Next, we try to set 5 to T: xxxxTF. 1 cannot be T, 2 cannot be T, since their last elements are different (TT!=TF, FF!=TF), 3 cannot be T because it requires 1 and 2 be both T , 4 cannot be T because (1 or 2 or 3) are F.

So we have: FFFFTF

Thus only 5 is True.
Yes, I recently someone hack an e-ink reader to add GPS and show maps. I can't find the link anymore. :)

Other avenue for fun is buying broken stuff on auction sites, and reverse-engineering/fixing it.
I do it too. But incrementally.
Definitely the beginning of a sci-fi horror movie plot...
Does lineageOS run faster on older hardware? I have a Samsung S5 Active that I loved, and when lollipop came out it really dragged it down. My new S8 active already has cracked screen and screwed up case, while my S5 is in perfect physical condition.

I'd love to install some other OS and make it usable.
I would like an IDE that can virtually inline code. That way we can write code like your top example and avoid jumping around like the second example.

There could be a + to the left and maybe a red box around the fake inline-ing.
>it decided to conquer the world because of $$ at disposal.

Injecting $ in to a donkey in the hopes it will become a unicorn.

Not all growth is good, some growth is cancer... and it sounds like OYO is basically stage 3.
When you decamp from SF to Texas, or NYC to Florida, you avoid a significant amount of taxes whether you made the move specifically for that or not. Similarly, if you are in Europe and change your primary residence to Monaco or Luxembourg, you accomplish the same thing.

There is a disconnect when you do something and someone vastly richer does something. There is a line above which it is immoral and wrong, and below which it’s totally OK because you aren’t rich and you are just a good person making a financial decision.

Probably we should pass laws that stop anyone from making any decision that avoids taxes. It’s not fair if you are raised and educated in SF and then take all your money away from the future generation there. Logically it must follow that you owe the community that raised and nurtured you a lifelong duty of taxes. It’s very wrong how people move from SF to Texas.
The goal of the transformation is to make the image look like as if it were photographed above water. A straightforward measurement would be to photograph certain subjects above and below water and compare the appropriate reference and transformed images.
I was driving from Berlin to Skopje once, and at one point really needed a rest, having not found a hotel in Austria. In Croatia, I did find a place that I could rent a room for 4 hours so I could have a shower and a nap before continuing my journey.
Sounds like the management - who are also employees - are the ones who get to vent.
So we should have worse, more expensive internet instead, to keep people in positions that aren't necessary? That seems like a terrible idea. Presumably a Labour Manifesto with this policy in it, would also include a bunch of provisions for unemployed people.
> there is one product that has completely nailed it

yes that's Keepass, cause it's open source and you keep control of your password database instead of on somebody else's server.
> read the terms and conditions to online services

sure you do
It's a constant pain of mine to chat with friends that work in Enterprise that deny the possibility that ci/cd & agile mindset could work for them.
Usually this is justified by the idea that their org is immutable and therefore everything has to be planned way in advance and in every possible detail.
With that mindset Agile can't actually work, as it requires reflection in the org structure and decision making process.
DAMP (descriptive and meaningful prose) is especially useful for maintaining tests. Which is where they bulk of the time investment comes.

Literally any testing strategy can be forced to work for about 18 months. Anyone working with shorter lifetimes than that is inexperienced.
And some people are arrogant jerks, but I'd never jump to that conclusion after reading a single comment.
Given the fair assumption that any piece of data you give to a third party system that has access to the internet will eventually be breached, I feel like we need an entirely new system for data sharing.

The problem with most of these hacks isn't usually so much that the hacked system itself has lots of valuable data, but that the data from the hacked system can be used to hack into other systems that do have valuable data. Just like we tell people to only use a different password per-site, we need the option to essentially give only tokenized versions of our data to third parties. We've started somewhat with tokenization in place of credit card numbers, but we should be able to do this in many more areas.

There are obvious difficulties here regarding how we'd handle certain fields (e.g. how do I calculate your shipping if I don't know your exact zip code), but these should still be solvable problems.

The alternative of believing that every rinky dink (or non-rinky dink) site out there will be able to keep your data secure is laughable.
You read that wrong. OP never said s/he wasn't good at their job, nor did they say they didn't care.

They said they do it in such a way as to make it seem easy.

I'm in that camp as well. I never get flustered. I never get overwhelmed. I never get bothered to run around like an idiot or panic over everything, like so many other administrators in my field do.

And it's all on purpose. I never get flustered, because I want everyone around me to understand and believe that I'm doing what comes naturally to me, and that I'm the best at what I do because of it.
For an extended version, see this:

SELF REFERENTIAL QUIZ
http://faculty.uml.edu/jpropp/srat-Q.txt

Soltion(s):
https://faculty.uml.edu/jpropp/srat.html
“Iced tea company rebrands as “Long Blockchain” and stock price triples.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/iced-tea-company...
Could you send me a link to the docs where they say which ones are not included in Pandas? Would love to take a closer look at his.
I think Cal Newport, and the study discussed in the article, are right on.

By most measures I have had a very successful career developing software and doing research.

My deliberate practice has been learning new languages, solving very difficult problems both on my own, and for work, and for most of my career averaged about 30 hour part time work weeks (even when working for large companies like SAIC).

I work very hard for a few periods during the day. The exception to this was my last job before retiring this year where I really had three jobs in one, so I had very few breaks in my work day except for a couple of long walks.

Deliberate practice is the way to get good at things and achieve success.
Beyond Amazon's reach, India's women lead an e-commerce revolution
I was using the words of the comment I responded to. If the fibre was of inferior quality, that would be the space for other companies to compete in.
The article lacks one important detail: number of companies studied. Because frankly, it sounds a lot like n=1, and generalizing from one (or possibly a few) dysfunctional examples is a fallacy.

And even if there were an overall trend: not addressing other scenarios seems like a substantial omission regardless.

The article makes it sound like the whole world needs status validation and/or a place to vent. I know enough places where stuff like that gets shut down, hard.
Yep. OP is. So was I when I first read the text. TBH, at first I thought they were taking about some kind of adaptor, not adopters. This is a kind of basic mistake that should have been caught before it made it to the website.

Pine64 can do far better, and have done far better in the past. There's not much of an excuse to be had here -- especially when similar copy was written for the watch.
There’s a thin sliver of space outside of a black hole where light is bent approximately 180 degrees. I have this fantasy that in the next 5,000 years we will build a telescope in space of sufficient resolving capability that we can peer deeply into that sliver and see Earth as it was eons years ago.
> personally I think photos should be most accurate representation of what healthy naked human eye see

Under what lighting?
Basically all of what you are saying could happen, is already possible today. You have no control over the routing of a packet once it leaves your network.
Spaghettification