skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News is sensationalized, augmented, agendized, skewed, propaganda, entertainmentized garbage.

Could not agree with the author more. Only pay attention to "the news" if you spend the necessary time online researching and finding out each real/complete story (facts and both sides of the story). Otherwise how can you not help being persuaded and shaped by the mainstream media?
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Spray on superhydrophobic coatings (video)
Doesn't your experience indicate pretty clearly that the real problem are not unions as such, but the way they're operating in the USA?
They'll also be irrelevant if they don't support the modes of interactions that are currently employed.
Live every day as if it might be your last.

Might is the key word their.

How would you live, if tomorrow _might_ be your last day?
"to get a director position"

v0cab challenged the idea that employees aren't actually "entitled to own a piece of a company" unless they go through these great hardships. This is obviously incorrect because some companies provide shares as part of employee compensation, making those employees also part owners of the company - they are 'entitled to own a piece of a company.'

You cannot now switch this to mean 'to get to a director position'.

"Do you think it would have been more or less severe ..."

In the first startup I worked for, I think it didn't make a difference. I took on responsibilities that weren't part of the job, and unlike the management, who were at least 15 years older than I was, I didn't have the experience to separate myself from my work. I felt that I, personally, had to work harder so that the company wouldn't fail.

And I got paid under market wages for it. (Did I mention that I was completely inexperienced?)

While the management of the company had enough experience to demand compensation which was more commensurate with their market rates, with good insurance, and definitely enough that they had more stability in their respective futures.

"Wouldn't being put in a controlling share of a company only make that situation worse?"

It depends on the company, doesn't it? If I had a controlling share of, say, Microsoft, then I think I could guarantee a very comfortable financial future for myself.

BTW, when you say "controlling share", you mean here ownership, not management, yet earlier you talked about management ('director position'). I don't understand why you changed the topic.
> You "value" your family. What does that mean? You spent one hour pushing your kid on a swing because you realized you don't have the confidence, discipline, or perseverance to do the things you really want to be doing.

What if what you really want to be doing is being with and enjoying your family?
These will be web startups. Main problem for enterprises is lack of support from enterprise applications (ERP,CRM..) like SAP.
What a fantastic example of false quantification and pretension to objectivity.
I think they are their own network, so you don't connect them to your existing one.
Ouch - no thank you.

I pay £15/month (O2 PAYG) and take the £6/month 512Mb data bolt on, leaving £9 of call credit left. That gives me free O2<->O2 calls and texts as well which is great as I don't know anyone who is not on o2. I usually use £2-3 of my call credit calling land lines. My phone balance is currently £85 - nearly the value of the handset.

My handset is a Lumia 710 which cost me £129 on O2[1] and my TCO is £244.50 a year over two years and I have £85 of call credit left a year to play with...

So that is approximately 85 hours of calls, 2500 text messages, 512Mb of data for £15/month. The handset over 2 years is £5.75 a month so all for £25.75 with NO CONTRACT DEPEDENCY.

The only thing I had to do was cut my SIM down to a microSIM one which was easy with a metal ruler and craft knife.

If anyone can do better, I'd love to know.

[1] http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/buy/NOKIA_LUMIA_710_O2PYG_W... (now £115)
Why would anyone want to use something like a smartphone to control their lighting?

Smartphones are todays temporary fad, and will change every few years.

The lighting of your house, however, is supposed to last a few decades, unless you like totally redocorating every few years.
Not following the news is what causes harm. We pay a price for ignorance and the bill is about due.

Following the biased and agendized mainstream news machine is even worse. If you only hear one side ever every story, your sense of reality and judgment will be warped (this is brainwashing). You will be out of touch with reality more so than if you did not follow the news at all because you will be biased based on what you have always heard.
Meg Whitman Steers HP Back to Smartphones
We need objective comparisons to promote PostgreSQL.
What is SAAS and examples of great SaaS web design
> For me, you can view that problem two ways, "I'm going to work harder and prove my value to the company"

Surely that might also be a realisation that the promotion you wanted takes more effort than you're willing to put in to it?
I asked on Kickstarter and Phil Bosua responded:

"When you launch the app for the first time it guides you through a simple configuration process. You enter your network password and then the device and all lights are paired."
His meme-based blogging style is annoying, like reading the article of a 12 year old. Although the subject sounds interesting I didn't finish reading the article.
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One thing that instantly got to me looking at this, is not seeing a single female. Knowing that the gender equality situation in many middle eastern countries is less than ideal, I wonder what their policy on women coming to, and using the space is. Then again, they seem to only be trying to use a space for a day or two and want the community to make one from there, and I imagine it would be difficult to push for a more progressive idea when it's out of your hands like that.
Changing lightbulbs =/= "totally redecorating".

Besides, while smartphones may change over the years, they will be replaced by something where a smart lightbulb would be equally applicable. For instance, if at some point in the future we are able to integrate computers with our brains, we could use our brain-computers to turn on/change colour of our lightbulbs.
They say that they will release an SDK so you can connect to it in the future too, whatever kind of device you have.
Or http://talkerapp.com, which is free and maintained by the (subscription driven) Teambox
If my experience with other DBMS (mostly SQL Server) is anything to go by, index only scans will do wonders for append-mostly workloads, and the new transactional scaling looks really good.

I can't wait to try this out, alas I use debian so it's a couple of years out :/

Also my inner grand prix follower is slightly irked by the varying years of the graphics.
WebOS was retired but it now lives on as Open WebOS and the Community Edition WebOS - two distinct and separate projects.

Would love to see Open WebOS on future hardware, however I believe there are requirements that the drivers must also be open.
The many pivots of Leah Culver
have you used linux in '99?? i did. it was pleasurable but in a certain academic or toy sense (if i had to be productive back then i might even have been prodcutive but not everything worked and it was surely missing many reliabilities). it did go a long way and it is now at a point what thompson would not attribute to it back then. he would surely conclude differently now.
Sentry is also open source, but for very different reasons than what you describe. I treat it like part of the business value, but that also means that many people can simply run their own, which means potential value lost (I wouldnt argue that there is value lost, but its not something that can be ignored).
Why accuse all the MVC frameworks in go of copying rails? Rails and django came out at about the same time and since then a similar frameworks for languages like java, php, perl, C#, and groovy have come out.
True, but given the country's situation, it would already be good if some guys could get going and then improve the situation from there.
> He's really the only one to blame for getting himself into this mess.

Not historically, due to principles of solidarity. In decent leftist movements, activists expect assistance from others. I heard one way to assess a leftist movement is how much support incarcerated people get.

(Imagine blame-oriented workplaces where people are completely on their own if something goes wrong. Who'd want to work in such a toxic, self-defeating environment?)

After all, prison is often kind of a limited death penalty, imposed by the state. You're stripped away from social bonds and freedom. (Particularly in the US; though fortunately Aaron is wealthy and white, a great advantage. Not to mention that he was engaged in a rather elite crime.)
With the success we all know.

Better does not always succeed.
Gee, you've triggered a memory for me too. I remember doing something very similar (1.38 was the trigger) around the same time. It probably writing floating point routines for processors that didn't have them, perhaps the Z-80.
I wish people would stop obsessing about PA. That acquisition was a fiasco. All the talent bailed after a tiny lock in period, went to a "startup", and were promptly "acquired" by the googs. The whole thing was a mess that should have ended with a vp or director "pursuing other opportunities".

The Intrinsity talent buy was way better. Those guys actually put out product and have a functional team.
No. Sounds like you are in the UK/Europe. There is no streaming service attached to Prime over here, Love Film is a separate streaming service. Prime gives you free next day delivery.
There are a number of frameworks that have come out since then that have said "Basically, we're Rails for <X language>" when that might not be the best option for the constraints of the language.
Pdf2htmlEX: A PDF to HTML converter
No, the Free Software movement and Open asource movement is completely seperated from eachother.

Different names results in different ideas.
I have enough difficulty convincing people in my .NET based company that it's a fully supported language that ships with Visual Studio and the .NET runtime.

I recently had someone complaining that they'd have to install extra software to use it! Took a lot of convincing otherwise.
HipChat (https://www.hipchat.com/)

- It "just works" on every platform, including my phone.

- It's great for group chat and one-on-one.

- If someone @mentions me while I'm away or offline, it will send me an email and/or pop-up on my phone just like any other notification (all of this is configurable).

- You can use HubBot with it and it has GitHub integration.

- You can use it over XMPP if you need to.

I never thought I'd pay for a chat product given all of the free options out there, but it is just so good that I can't help but recommend it to everyone.
This made me wonder how often. http://www.freedomlaw.com/archives/oldsite/GRANDJRY.html says 0.6% in 1984.
Can anyone with insight into Chinese politics comment on these observations? They seem salient, but China to me is just such a mystery that I never really know what to believe when I read press coverage about it.
what?

If you didn't read the article, ffs, why are you commenting on it?
Of course "warez" and such appeared earlier, but it ws far from being so mainstream. And I'm still correct about the first purpose of the protocol.
>Sentry is also open source, but for very different reasons than what you describe. I treat it like part of the business value, but that also means that many people can simply run their own

Then there's no issue in the hypothetical scenario I laid out.

I'm a Sentry user (of the hosted service) because it's open sourced. I wouldn't have given you a seconds notice otherwise and I doubt I'm alone in that.

Why be so defensive when you're clearly not in a position to be guilty of leaving all your customers up the creek?
Not a single female? There are 3 in the still picture of the video before you hit play. None wearing veils, even, and one in bright yellow, so I'm not sure how you missed them unless you were trying to.
I've wanted to do this to my place for years, but I've always wanted to do it to improve the lighting - more smaller sources so you don't get blinding looking at the globe and better locations.

Alas I rent so I've never been able to do it, and $99 is a bit much for a pair of lightbulbs.
"Normal" is indeed a perfectly good word, but not when you're talking about human beings.

The fact that a majority of people is in a certain way does not make those that aren't that way abnormal. Just different in that particular aspect. Would you use normal as synonymous for heterosexual? That would have been totally acceptable 30-40 years ago, but not today.

You could go as far as calling the women in tech abnormal, as the overwhelming majority is male ('We have 3 women and 30 normal programmers in our company').
Hosted IRC is an awkward place to be.

Those that don't give a fuck are using Campfire/HipChat.

Those that do give a fuck are usually hosting their own IRC.

Find a way to squeeze out both and you have a potentially nice business model. (Hosted IRC + nice web clients for paying customers?)
I prefer 'assume makes an ass of u and me'.
The hard news parts are interesting. The commentary added seems to reflect (US-biased) wishful thinking. It'd sure be nice if China transitioned peacefully into a democratic egalitarian nation, but the evidence suggests it's heading more towards a Russia-like klepto-oligarcy.
Yeah good point - pitty I can't edit it.
Nothing troubling about it. Enjoyable :)
Let's try to rationalize the question. Raising a family is slowly losing some appeal due to overpopulation, possibilities of dramatic life extension, and the mere fact that it's something that everyone can do (and does). Also, history books never mention someone as a good parent. In the end it's an investment decision: what are you willing to invest your most precious resource (your time) on? It depends on what kind of rewards are regarded as better.
I'm taking a wild guess here.. but I assume the bulb will reset to on @ 100% when the power is cut and turned back on..

That way, you can get manual control of the light by just flicking the power off/on..
Kind of? There's been in house vlsi & soc at apple forever. Theyve had in house mobile CPU & graphics talent for a couple years at this point. Go check out the stuff Intrinsity was doing as a cash starved startup. Then extrapolate that same team being a well funded semi autonomous design group inside apple.
nice idea, but unfortunately I do not see this becoming 'big' for a couple of reasons. For instance, even though one can buy LEDs advertised as having a 'warm' colour, the light produced is still rather harsh compared to halogen for instance. Most people do not want an entire house, or even a single room, lighted purely by LEDs. Same goes for the colour: on paper it's nice to read that colour can set a certain mood and such, but is there really any practical use? Who wants to sit in a blue/green/red room anyway? Another factor is that it seems to be a small subset of an actual existing but practical system: current domotica systems can be controlled by your smartphone, by a pc, over the internet, you name it. And there are already dozens of them.
Same here. I found it distracting and tiring, and just not very funny.
Electric starter motors made car drivers obsolete.
> Do you think it would have been more or less severe if you were had the extra responsibilities and commitments that came with being in a controlling position of the company?

I don't know. Is being a shareholder particularly stressful? Do Scandinavians find that their unions sitting on work councils and having a say in major company decisions increases job stress?

> So? They didn't sign up for (being filthy rich). I don't expect to get paid $200k a year when I sign a contract saying I will get paid $50k.

Contracts can be renegotiated.

> Wouldn't being put in a controlling share of a company only make that situation worse?

Depends on the situation. I believe that the current state of research indicates that people are more stressed by situations outside of their control. I guess the company would have limited liability, so not too much financial risk and much to gain financially. Of course, financial worries are a major source of stress for most stressed people.
> bogleheads.org

WP:

> John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (born May 8, 1929) is the founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group. He is known for his 1999 book Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor, which became a bestseller and is considered a classic.
Storagetek only does Tape; the Pillar division does real storage.
so Bill Gates should read the Quran in his spare time?
My Chinese friends tell me that China's only hope of reform is through Hong Kong's success as a democracy, and I (from Hong Kong) reply that Hong Kong's democracy is doomed by Beijing's influence through majority control of the legislature, that China reforming internally politically is Hong Kong's only hope; The party with the most funding and the most votes, "Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress", represents Beijing in Hong Kong.

No, there is no hope at all. China growing on the wrong set of axis will first lead to economical, and then eventually, political collapse. The only question is when. It probably won't be this year, or even next year.
I think it's a cross-licensing issue, companies obviously are pushing for single service contracts to emphasis why people should come to their service.
So, in nutshell: Build your web apps in something hyper productive like rails to proof of concept them, then find the high load bits and replace them with a go service.

Seems like reasonable, if generic advice: prototype quickly, then go back and rebuild in something performant if its successful. Iterate quickly, etc. etc.
Yes, Objective C with a little bit of JavaScript.
When the sun is down, you need that space between the panels them to let the light hit all of them. If you elevate some of them, they will cast a shadow over the ones on the floor behind them.
Yup. Apple has been putting together a CPU team for a long long time now, including high-perf simulators, libraries, etc. etc.

However, the point about this catching up to them and biting them is a real possibility. Now, they have a lot of discipline, it seems, and that is critical. The other part is having a very tightly closed platform with control of the entire toolchain.
Aliyun App Store Confirmed To Be Distributing Pirated Android Apps
Even the nautilus shell, which this article says follows the golden ratio, doesn't. Proof: m_for_monkey's link: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
more accurately "There's no doubt Windows 8 will be a success"...when we make it the only option.
Most people are "meh" only those involved somehow care.

These are really small issues. If you were no one and got into a car crash no one would care. If you are the son of someone important to the federal government no one would be allowed read about it. If you are the son of someone important to local government then it will be all over the media as the censorship is the duty of the federal government.
Malware being installed on computers in factories in China, warns Microsoft
IRC is great because of the simplicity of bolting things to it.

We do all of our CI notifications and deployments with a bot in a builds channel.

With that said, Grove is going away and it doesn't look like there's a polished hosted alternative, so we're torn between setting up and managing our own internal system (which dollars per month will cost us more, once you put a dollar value on ops time) and trying to find something which will do what we want.
Birth of the Logic Analyzer & rules for Intrapreneurs
Is it true that "not everyone can be a programmer"?
If you do compare Limbo to Go, compare them to Alef as well.
Yeah yeah yeah, I might have been wrong with some details and with the sales numbers in 2012. However my main point stays the same: the traditional cell phone manufactures are in big trouble because of Android.

Samsung may be exceptional, although I doubt their current success is long-term. HTC's success, eventhough it is in absolute numbers smaller than Samsung's, is way larger in relative numbers. Samsung was popular before Android, HTC was when Android was released just a "chinese noname brand".

To illustrate this even more: HTC was founded in 1997, Samsung was founded in 1938.

There a many examples of companies that are able to make lots of money with hypes, but most often after the hype is over, they stop earning that extra money. Even when the current smartphone hype is over, HTC earned something that Samsung already had: brand recognition.
Ask HM: How do you get good sleep?
Try keeping your kid home from public school without obtaining permission to withdraw them, and see what happens.

Permission is actually not that hard to get. Try talking to someone who home-schools their kids. As for 'see what happens', are you suggesting that the parents get jailed? Could you please cite some references? Because otherwise you're just using weasel words, leaving it 'out there' for the imagination, rather than actually specifying what happens.

I have to say also that it's a neat trick of yours to turn the entire educational system into a 'system to create criminals' simply because you think it's hard to homeschool.

Try not paying your share of the tax money that the government is turning over to the industry, and see what happens.

Uh... taxation is separate to subsidies. I know that libertarians try and turn everything into an argument about tax, but saying 'subsidies are an exercise of power making people criminals because... tax!' is just being childish. Rand's comment is saying that the government can only act through punishment, and clearly it does other things as well.

Hey, embassy staff helping out a citizen who has run into trouble in a foreign country... well, that's the evil of the government coming to the fore... because... tax!

Hey, government interpreters translating materials for new immigrants so they know their rights and responsibilities... well... that's the evil of the government coming to the fore... because... tax!

Hey, government-provided lawyers to represent you if you can't afford one... well... evil tax!

Street maintenance is not an exercise of "power."

It is a power the government has - which proves Rand's comment incorrect. Rand didn't say "Governments exercising power can only make criminals", she said "the only power a government has is to crack down on criminals".

Fire/paramedic services are not exercises of "power."

Ditto.

Libertarian arguments rely on the government being turned into a fantasy boogyman. All governments have problems, but how do you expect a pragmatic solution to them if you don't actually care about using truthful definitions?
Not yet, but it makes a nice extra income every month. To make a living I also offer Git and iOS training classes in Germany. Combination of teaching and building my own apps makes me happy :)
Facebook: Mapping the World's Friendships
It would be interesting to see how your homegrown sync solution works on various operating systems (desktop + mobile) and offers a web-based UI to do the same on the go.

Maybe you discover the sarcasm in my comment. ;)