skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said that would be their first thought. It is simply another consideration and part of the reason that China would not tolerate an escalation into a real war with South Korea.

The only way for North Korea to "get away" with crossing the DMZ is if it, at the very least, gives China advanced warning of their actions to placate some of these concerns. Yes, protecting rich Chinese citizens in South Korea is not the only concern, but it is any important one.

Besides that, I never said the warning would come from official diplomatic channels within the DPRK. I just said "warning". What this could mean is a warning from asset China has within the government and country. And believe me, they have plenty of assets within the DPRK government that will tip them off.

I'm not even sure what your argument here is: That China wouldn't care? That they would care but they wouldn't care about their overseas citizens? That they have no oversight or control or assets in North Korea?
Two answers:

a) you can tell them it will be $10 a month for hosting, and offer to set it up for them with their credit card, or the client can make their own hosting account and host it themselves.

b) You can chage up front for a year of hosting, then let them know you'll be contacting them in a year for another year of hosting.

I would suggest a) is the better one. I tried to do b), but then got lazy/too many clients/hosting costs were negligible anyway, and now a bunch of my clients just get free hosting.
Thank you for that.

I suppose I generally consider that when US/UK cancer survival is brought up in this manner it inflates US medical treatment and uses the UK as a proxy for western rest of the world medical treatment - however this isn't true as Cuba, France, Canada and Australia for example hve essentially the same survival from that chart as US survival...
Code ricing
Metafilter + Ask Metafilter.
Typical of Singularity Hub, this is a link-baity treatment of a story that has already been widely reported. The underlying research study

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(13)00...

is interesting, and worth replicating with varied experimental conditions, and indeed it may be important for clearing up what glia cells do in the human brain. But in terms of treatments on human beings, this looks a lot more radical and a lot more likely to be expensive and subject to regulation than simply engaging in deliberate practice and finding a good coach.
Highly unlikely. How did you manage to get this screenshot if not made-up in the first place?
Late reply: bad for start up owners (convertible notes seem to be preferrBle)
Support for tail calls pretty much depends on the actual runtime implementation.

If it is important to you (it certainly is to me), use an implementation which supports proper tail calls.

I'm doing it and I have never looked back.
I actually prefer tabs rather than a slide out navigation. Then again, Facebook is so complex and has so many features, it would be interesting to see how they would be able to condense things into 4 or 5 tabs.
You can't really have a totally safe systems programming language (correct me if I'm wrong here).

It depends what you mean by totally safe, but Cyclone (http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/) is a type and memory safe dialect of C. It works by adding additional information to the type of every pointer, e.g. if it can be NULL, if it's NUL terminated, if you know the length, the scope it was allocated in, the location on the stack it's from, etc...

This all happens at compile time, and it runs about the same speed as C, so I think it qualifies.

From what I've read, this has had more of an influence on programming language designers/implementers (rust, possibly c++11, probably more), than on anybody else, though.

edit: NULL -> NUL
Simple answer: You're doing it wrong.

The standup (in Scrum at least) should be three questions everybody answers: What you did yesterday, what you're doing today, any blockers? This should take a team less than 10 minutes easily.

These meetings are not supposed to generate actions points, or problem solve, or discuss anything. They are merely supposed to make sure everybody knows what's going on.

Follow up specifics later with only the people who need to be involved.

The time of the standup should be set by the team not imposed on them. Consensus is needed.
> $10k a year. I realize that doesn't sound like a ton of money

Sounds like quite a lot to me considering i would pay (here in Canada) ~66$ a month, ~$800 a year (0 co-pay i think its called), if my employer didn't pay my insurance fee for me. And prescription drugs are also mostly covered... 10K really sucks :(
I think the GP is calling them "idiots" not because they use C in a dumb way, but because they keep using a language that is error-prone.
Thing is, while the research is ongoing we are taking the default dangerous route of letting neonicitinoid still be used which seems totally back-to-front to me when the consequences could be so severe.

With new chemicals that have concerns like this I would have thought a "guilty until proven innocent" approach would be more advisable.

Last thing we want is "Oh yes it was that stuff, sorry about that, any bees left?"
I fairly sure there is a second karma threshold (or other gating mechanism) which gives you the ability to down-vote someone who you've replied to, or is replying to you.

I'd like a reality check on this statement. What have other users observed? I think the routine behavior is that users with downvote privileges on comments can downvote comments other than those that are direct replies to their own comments and submissions. But I could be mistaken. What is the general case for most users who can downvote at all?

I agree with the OP that the best policy here is upvote what is good. Upvote early and often if you see good stuff.

A previous thread I saw suggested flagging blogspam ruthlessly, because that supports the community guideline "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They might get some of the bad human traits. Consider religious wars over brands of cheese or colors of automotive electrical wires.
How is there anything wrong with bulk buying like that?
Pinching Pennies When Scaling In The Cloud
That's all about pollen being removed. The only point it talks about cutting honey with other sweeteners is when it mentions that packers independently decided to start testing their suppliers honey.

The guy (in the reddit comment) probably has a point about the filtering and heating (and more broadly, the sourcing and purity of the honey). Tossing it in there with some rabble about other sugars being added makes me wonder if his agenda is one that I would like.
This is exactly how we do things where I work. We're a pretty big team (about 12) and our standups are finished in 10 to 15 minutes. It's strictly time-boxed and we don't go over.

If you can't make it, we have a phone set up in the middle of the table for people to call in, or you can email someone on the team and they will say your standup for you.
Where Have All The Physical QWERTYs Gone?
looks behind for a huge semi-inflated sentient white ball ...Then we're doomed to be stuck in this patent village forever aren't we!
The scrum can be any time of the day that's convenient. At my last place we used to do one just before lunchtime. Definitely a good way to keep it short...
Yeah Tumblr can be silly. I've been into Tumblr for a while, and prior to about 6 months ago it was nearly impossible to find the original source of something without trawling through pages of "notes".

Some people put links to twitter/other social networks on their blogs but since probably >99% of the visitors to Hank's blog will get there from somewhere else in his network (Twitter, Youtube or any one of our number of community sites).

So yeah, don't feel to bad, Tumblr confuses even those of us who consider ourselves "social-media competent"
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My cheap Dell v131 goes about 5 hours with minimal tweaking (turn off keyboard backlight, low brightness setting). What kind of machine did you get?
And Minimap can overlay the function names over the map, for even more usability.
Five Theories Why China is Bashing Apple.
ansi-term and term are massively buggy.

I've never been able to get it to deal well with vast amounts of output well. Constant overwriting issues etc. Definitely prefer to use tmux + emacs considering the huge amount of stuff i end up throwing at my term.
To me the author seems to have linear view of productivity; that he seems to think time spent away from the keyboard is wasted time and worse still to waste that time communicating with your colleagues.

IMO the hidden goal of standups is to make sure a development team communicates, ideally face to face. Why? Because it's extremely valuable to shipping quality code / product etc. My experience has always been when standups over-run, the reason is there's some topic that needs discussing and preventing that discussion from taking place is usually a mistake.

Without standups, in a typical office environment with introverted personality types, communication doesn't happen. So in the end they're a compromise; perhaps not the best solution to the problem but good enough.
Well, technically, they hate science, they hate careful discourse, and they hate themselves for being very stupid, but psychologically won't admit that and they need an object to project these feelings onto, so Obama becomes the instantiation of their bogeyman. But all points agreed with!
I can second this. We do a stand up around 11:45, before we head to lunch. We each answer what we're working on that day, bookended by what we did yesterday and/or what we're working on over the next few days.

Any bigger questions which arise get discussed over lunch (sometimes) or in later one-on-ones.
There's a reason it's called a standup. Take it literally, which I doubt you're doing if meetings are running at 30 minutes.

(Yes yes you don't have to stand if you have a broken leg etc)

Action points aren't supposed to be produced. Standup's there to help people understand what everyone's working on and ensure there are no blockers. If there are blockers such as someone has no tasks or is waiting on someone else, you set up a follow-up meeting with just those people. Then you get your action points.
Maybe your parents should have it?
>(Of course, in a closed-allocation company, your boss can just give you impossible or extremely boring work if he wants to flush you out.)

I found your post very insightful until you brought in your standard and (imo) off-topic closed-allocation rant.
What's the quality of code produced by Mono? How does it compare with Microsoft's compiler? I'd like to see Mono C# and F# numbers compared against Microsoft's compilers. Will I get 90% of the performance?
Perhaps of more interest is Frege, which is basically Haskell for the JVM. Seems to be coming along nicely: https://github.com/Frege/frege
I've only seen it happen occasionally, but when it does happen, it's
consistent for the occurrence, well, at least for a little while. It
does not last for very long, so there's a time element involved, similar
to how you get a "Can't make that vote" error if you try to up-vote
something that is too old. It might be a bug caused by how caching
is handled, or it might be intentional, either way, I've never actually
tested to see if the odd down-vote button on a parent post actually works.
Natural copyright systems: implications for evolution?
You are missing the point of a standup somewhat.

>> Morning standups force people to be in work before 10:00.

What's wrong with that? Surely 10:00 can be considered core hours for anyone who isn't a remote worker?

>> They always overrun. Rarely are standups shorter than 10 minutes. 6 person team * 30 minutes = 3 hours lost.

They never last that long in my experience, but even if they did, 30 minutes per person per day to sync up the team sounds reasonable to me.

>> Action points are rarely produced, so the value of the outcome is questionable.

Standups aren't about acquiring 'action points'. They're about knowledge sharing, raising problems and impediments, making progress visible etc. You don't decide during the standup what people should be doing.

>> Others switch off if they’re not interested in the current monologue.

That's why it's a short standup. Its whole reason for being is to avoid long meetings, status updates and overhead. Anyone who can't stay focussed for 15-30 minutes in a morning also has a severe case of ADHD.

>> Notes are rarely taken, so by the time the weekly update gets compiled the team have to scratch their heads about what they did over the last week.

If you have minutes (and agendas and notes etc) then it ceases to be a standup and turns into just another meeting! Again, the whole idea behind the standup is to avoid this kind of stuff.

There is lots you could rant about in agile, but a morning standup is definetly one of the things you should retain.
There are games running on Mono (e.g. Unity C# scripts, Bastion was ported to Mono to run in Chrome, etc..). I'm sure the performance of Mono may depend on your specific application but many people have been using it without any issues.
From TFA it looks like a subset of what has been available on various Unixes for decades... Can ReFS, at least, delete an open file?

Next to ZFS (or BtrFS), ReFS is a joke.
Seems like they've been hiring...

Lots of young people perceive Microsoft as the underdog in the internet server space and, somehow, think defending Windows will allow them to capitalize on its coming dominance of the server market.

BTW, I also notice their downvoting crew did a thorough job with your comment.
Top Church Walks
A better title would've been: Breaking Hacker News: Building defect detected at Fortune 500 marketing firm.
“Funded hacktivism” or cyber-terrorists, AmEx attackers have big bankroll
The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals
This is a good question.
HGTG-scenarios aside, what if they become sentient?
Do they deserve the same moral weight humans have now?
It's Tumblr, which has a younger audience. A younger audience made up of people like myself, who have grown up with the internet, and unfortunately have awfully short attention spans as a consequence.
Yea, I should have written the disclaimer that it all depends on what you're playing, what kind of amplification, etc. One instance of where electric exposes technical mistakes more is with accidental string bending, like when you're trying to hit an awkward chord, or any chord at all as a beginner. Overall, I'd still go with electric being more forgiving. A sort-of-proof of this is that the set of songs you can play on acoustic is a subset of the songs you can play on electric. Think of a ridiculous Jimi Page solo as being in the electric-only set. Many acoustic songs might not suit electric, but you can still play them with electric. Eh, maybe it's not a proof, but it sounds clever. :)

I personally ended up doing mostly finger-style acoustic with all kinds of weird alternate tunings, so probably nobody should take my word for it.
I believe you may to want to state the subject matter that you would like to get your friends engaged with. If it's stuff like SEO, social media, CPC and business, then try inbound.org. Other then that a sub-reddit around specific content may be your only shot. There are sub-reddits for just about everything. Once you create an account and choose your sub-reddits, that is all you see.
Reminded me of this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2881
I like that Unix, Smalltalk and Lisp have a similar idea of smaller things getting composed. They are all different but I wouldn't judge the ideas based on what we have today.
The general thrust is spot on.

Models are approximations. Don't confuse your models with reality.

Know what your assumptions are, and have a plan for what to do when those assumptions no longer hold.

Know why your models work, so that you know when they are likely to stop working.

Get deep domain knowledge.

Know that the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Experiment ruthlessly. Apply the scientific method.

Start simple and iterate.

This probably applies to more than just finance.
The spirit of Postel's Law applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel#Postel.27s_Law

Upvote a lot.

Ignoring is usually better than downvoting.

Flag anything that's a blatant retail advertisement. "The best shoes at rockbottom prices!"
Aren't they sentient? They are able to perceive and feel things.
"The attacks weren't coming from just the darker corners of the Internet, places where people trade "creepshots" of 14-year-old girls. This time, many of the threats came from places like Hacker News, a respected computer news discussion site run by Paul Graham's venture capital company, YCombinator."

Terrible journalism. This makes me sad. Why put in the phrase about creep shots of teens ? Written only to provoke and not to reason.
A nearby city's lights are enough to hide much of the starscape so depending on how wide a blackout is you might not have seen much.
My first exposure to Unix was on an 8 megabyte 68010 multi-user machine with 50+ terminals. I learned C on an IBM PC XT clone running QNX.

Claiming doing something useful with a 20 megabyte kernel is extraordinary is, itself, extraordinary naive.
6 person team x 30 minutes = 3 hours lost.

If you have daily stand-ups, why would you have 30 minutes worth of update per person?

This whole article is pretty extreme. Standups, just like any other process (light-weight or otherwise) is only good until its original intention is being served. If a standup is taking a long time, make it a point to cut it short. If someone is narrating a long story, ask that person to stop and take the rest offline.

Finally, everyone should understand that stand-ups are used to convey status and information about important things. It's not a recital of what each person did the previous day. Sometimes, you might have nothing to say and in that case, just say so. Nobody should be talking about details in standup.
Solution: each persons update is 60 seconds or less. If you need more ask the parties affected to stay after the standup. Teams should be 7 or less in numbers. This way the PM can properly focus. Follow that ... And it works wonders. Also PMs need to be ruthless about the 60 second rule and with being on time. If your later to the stand up you owed a dollar to there team fund which gets donated to charity quarterly.
If I understand you and your parent correctly then what you're each implying about differences in numbers of single men seeking women and single women seeking men within a given area appears to violate at least one of a few basic and seemingly-reasonable assumptions:

1. The ratio of females to males is very close to 1 anywhere in the country.

2. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, etc. is about the same in males and females.

3. Almost everyone who does not identify as "single" is in an exclusive relationship with one person.

I don't live in the US so am quite probably missing something here that you know and I don't. Or my reasoning is mistaken. Could you clarify?
To younger self: ^this
We do known that Clothianidin caused the bee deaths in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) in 2008[1], which led to a ban for corn seeds[2].

[1] http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news264587 (press release by Julius Kühn institute, German)

[2] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/maispflschmv/BJNR502300009... (neonicotinoid ban for corn seeds, German)
China's Anti-Apple Smear Campaign Backfires
FYI, F# 3.0 is shipped as part of the Mono package for OS X.

It's also available through the FreeBSD ports system:
http://www.freshports.org/lang/fsharp/
If they didn't have free plans they would lose the ability to have easy sign up and experiment/learn.
"native" and "cross platform" are not absolute terms. An Android application runs across many android-based operating systems (in the user's sense of the word), and even more different devices. A web application runs across even more systems, but on ChromeOS it is considered native.

Developers will favor the most cross platform solution that can meet their needs. That's why we look at Javascript before we look at C before we look at Assembler. That's why nobody makes two different apps for Samsung Galaxy S4 with Touchwiz and the HTC One with Sense. The result is just as good, and much cheaper, if you make a single application and then, if necessary, optimize for the differences.

Theoretically, one could argue that you already make a decision to cross-platform if you decide to make the same app available in two different languages: The differences in languages (e.g. length of words) can impact the user interface of your application. Yet how many iOS developers do you know who make a separate app for every language?
Adobe Launches Blank, An Open Source Fallback Font You Can’t See
It's not off-topic. To assess whether managerial power exists (and whether it is toxic) one must know that form it will take when it is expressed.

Standup prevents a manager from saying, "This guy isn't getting any work done". In a closed-allocation company, there's nothing to prevent the manager from assigning terrible or impossible work. It's still unilateral firing; it just takes longer.
Agreed, I like justinguitar a lot. If this is all this guy ever does, he's improved the world.
Love the Pascal script
> Morning standups force people to be in work before 10:00. Great when you’re supposed to have the benefit of flexi-time.

I once did an internship at a company where we would do the standup over a conference call, we would also sit. We were such rebels :P.
From an article on NPR (http://www.npr.org/2013/01/28/170473476/north-koreas-rhetori...):
"The toughest technology in the nuclear world is to shrink a nuclear weapon down to something that is light enough to fit on a warhead and that can detonate at the right place and so forth."
That's why you start your daily standups 10 to 15 minutes before lunch break. People will quickly state their point, everyone will have a good overview over everything that's going on, and more thorough discussions will go on during lunch. BTDT, and it worked really fine.
Pyongyang Blusters, and U.S. Worries About Quieter Risks
I really enjoy the standups on my team; I find them to be incredibly useful. I suppose everyone's standup is different, but we each quickly go over what we had, are and plan on doing, then mention anything that's blocking us. If the blocking issues are something that affects everyone, we discuss for a few minutes, otherwise a few people agree to hang back after the meeting to talk about it. Suddenly your standup is only 5-10 minutes long for 12 people working on 3 or 4 different projects.

Of course, we haven't solved the "you must be in my X:XX" problem, but doesn't every meeting get I the way of flex time?
"I don't think I follow this story."

The author's ultimate reference point is the Lisp Machine. Being Lisp "all the way down," the user could modify running code even at the OS level upon encountering an error or other undesirable result.
And do stay away from _any_ light at least during that half hour. Rods take that time to fully adapt to the dark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation_(eye)#Dark_Adaptatio...; I think some experts claim even longer times). Since light adaptation goes much faster, even a short glance at a light means you need minutes to get fully dark adapted again.
> The median value for indoor air...is 0.68 µg/m3; the average value was 7.36 µg/m3

That's a big skew. It would be interesting to know what the distribution here is, but it sounds like most places have very little trichloroethylene and then a few places have tons of it. So it may still be an unusually high concentration.

It may also be that the EPA set the numbers correctly and just tons of people are exposed to harmful levels of it. I'd love to hear from someone with specific knowledge here.