skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you even have any anecdotes to support this? I have literally never encountered an example of an employer proactively managing an employee's stress level. To suggest that an employer can somehow put employees at 'an optimum amount of stress' suggests a lot more understanding of employees than I think is possible in most scenarios.

I mean, yeah, we can spout platitudes all we want here. I agree that if you aspire to be a good employer, you should treat your employees well. But that's not the problem here: The example employee in the OP was a top performer who helped solve tough problems, and nobody seemed to suspect that anything was wrong until he snapped.

The problem is that workplaces are not designed to be able to identify an employee having problems with stress, let alone to actively manage it. I have never encountered a workplace that can do so effectively - some employers are better than others about things like work/life balance, etc. But the level of stress in your life is variable, and the level of stress being generated by your work is variable, even in the best of circumstances. It is difficult, if not impossible, for an employer to even understand how much stress you might be under outside of work.

For example, a lead artist at a previous employer got let go for getting into too many arguments at work. It was only at that point that we learned that he was having a really tough time because he was a single parent and his son was suffering from a severe, life-threatening condition. It's nice to think that if his supervisors had known they could have done something about it - maybe they would have - but from the outside it merely made him look like a bad employee. Maybe he wanted to keep his personal life private, maybe he thought he had it under control, or maybe they decided they had to set an example regardless of his reasons - but the point stands: Ultimately, it is up to you, not your employer, to manage your stress.
As an American living in the UK, I was amazed at how easy it was to transfer money here. It's seriously painless.
Totally disagree! I'd also say 30 is the new 20 - especially for me, I'm nearly 28 and have more enthusiasm for things like education and my career than I've ever had.
Reddit is under a heavy DDoS attack
Apple Finally Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data
I'm in Spain, and this is very much the case. Overtime is basically expected, in many places there's a real culture of not leaving before the boss.
Could this have something to do with reddit's co founder speaking against CISPA and calling out major tech companies? [1] Considering reddit played a big role in killing SOPA, CISPA backers feel threatened?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670
Norway's is also pretty easy. You log on, enter the person's account number (unless you already have it saved), and give the amount you want to send along with the date you want it to happen.
I wasn't considering "smart" interpolation methods, I was assuming the best available interpolation was already implemented in Chrome. I think it would load faster with client-side interpolation actually, 17 MB takes a long time on most connections.

But I don't see why client-side can't do "powerful resizing". Not since <canvas> appeared, anyway.
When you 'had him write it' maybe you should have specified it more clearly.
that's really odd, you should maybe report to the JS lib authors?
I think it's far more likely that someone decided to mess with the party all the Boston observers are having on Reddit.

It's all idle speculation, though.
Troll banned, right? Or "hell-banned" is it?

Either way. You're completely missing the point. First off "insane" is a completely non-precise term, and I strongly believe a clarification of psychological framework be made before the discussion actually begins. Let's stop wasting time on this. Let's stop throwing around "type" systems in CS but not in Psych, which are both supposed to be sciences.

I sent this to some developer (acting as a recruiter) for a prominent SF company during a bar run (he was looking for front-end devs not with 10+ startups under their belt but with someone they're looking to mold):

The Web is a hypermedia application. So we're building pretty much http://schema.org/ vocabularies implemented over models (Django, Rails, etc.) with hypermedia specs (front-end begging for more data in more stupid ways than anyone cares to document).

Look. You want kids who'll acclimate better than the Chinese or Russians to text editors like LightTable and who enjoy the pleasures of vim-seek.

And you want an actual Web, or at least people who have dreams which logically entail that such a thing is possible (dreams of mundane facts).

So what am I getting at? What are you dreams restricted by? Is it this or that job? What are you building? What am I building? And what why does it seem that we should be building these things, by our evolution? Demanding high-pay? Insane? What are you talking about? "High-pay"? "Insane"?

What does any of this have to do with the Internet Declaration of Independence? Why are you inheriting this psychological framework? Why haven't you consumed post-structuralism? Why is your Internet "American"?

Again: "Insane"?

That's in your headline. In your headline. Headline. That's significant weight.
Apparently everyone and their mother is making a Glass type product, or so the rumors say. I have a feeling this is not like iPhone and smartphones. Smartphones had a huge potential market, but this kind of product has a niche market, at least until the use of product is clear to the mainstream.
How about memory usage? For what I do, that's considerably more important than CPU.
Curious, what about his writing compelled you to draw the comparison to HST?
That's a bullshit argument and I don't think it was raised. You can always run JIT on a subset of architectures (ARM, x86, x86_64, PPC and MIPS really cover a lot) and run interpreter on others.

The argument was always "easier to maintain", but that said, unladen swallow was agreed to be merged into cpython, had it met it's goals.
Looks like someone's not a happy drunk. ;)

Thanks for the interesting perspective.
Hi, I'm Alexander Kozlovsky, one of Pony ORM authors.
I'll try to answer some questions

> why such an obsession with "pure" Python?

With this statement we are trying to say Pony is not just to offer some syntax sugar. The end goal of Pony ORM is to understand the semantic of each Python generator which can be translated to database query and then do translation accordingly.

The direct benefit of this is that generator query are more high-level then resulted SQL, and can be much easier to understand and refactor. The simplest example is an automatic converting of attribute path traversing such as grade.student.group.department.name to a minimal set of SQL joins. Pony also can use attribute path in reverse direction, from “one” to “many”, such as department.groups.students.gpa, which in this case resulted in a multiset of all ‘gpa’ values for this department. Also you can see examples of query optimization in the documentation, for example when the subquery is converted to LEFT JOIN with GROUP BY, where it can give performance benefit.

There are more distant benefits of the semantic translation. In future, we plan to add support of denormalized database schemas. Such denormalization will take place on a physical level (i.e. in the database) while on the logical level (in Python) all queries and logic will remain the same. But first of all we are going to add the migration support.

Another future plan is to add support of MongoDB. This is a distant plan, but I think Pony architecture will allow this. After that, migration of PonyORM-based project from relational databases to noSQL and vice versa will be possible.

> An ORM like Django's offers a higher level of abstraction

I disagree with this. I think, any Django query can be written in PonyORM much more concisely, and there are easy-to-understand PonyORM queries which cannot be expressed in Django easily.

Also, Pony ORM completely eliminates N+1 select problem.
Dark patterns suck. I'll shame companies that do this, regardless of how efficient it is. We should be focusing on selling products, not manipulating clients into buying them.

A business that needs this kind of practices is a sloppy one that will collapse before it gets big. It's a waste of time and money on both sides.
Dragnet Shuts Boston; One Suspect Is Slain but Second Man Is on Loose
Why is that the PHB's wet dream?

Because it makes the business more failure tolerant. Finding even one 10x guy is tough - many teams will have only 1 or 2 of them, and a swarm of 1x guys.

If the 10x guy is on vacation, quits, or has something more important to do, you can throw one of the 1x guys at it.

You don't need nefarious "I hate the 10x cause I'm a psychopathic PHB" motives to explain this one.
Humble is not a word I'd use to describe this stunt. If _why and their readers are having fun then fair play to them, but this is putting more attention on the person and less on what they've done, whereas the truly humble would want the reverse.
I hate to be that guy but I can't even zoom this page using Firefox. The font size is huge and can't be made smaller. Why do people do this?

What setting in this page is responsible for this?
That was amazing.

On a side note, and not complaining about this at all, how much did it cost to get that water to the space station? I guess that bag had maybe 300 ml?
Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange & Eric Schmidt
Thank you for pointing this out, will check this out
I don't like labeling this type of situation mental illness. That suggests that it's only the individual who is ill. It seems to me that situations like this result from a sick system as much or more than from individual sickness.
Given that this is in the news - the Python Software Foundation issued a grant to rewrite this software. While it's kind of good looking, the code is a mess and the original maintainer no longer available to help.

The goal is to have a kick-ass speed.
The update you quoted above has conveniently been deleted from the source now that the AP has done some real reporting and identified the Russian suspects.
> Am I ignorant of tech, because I barely know anything about electronics and bitcoin?

If you want to write a book about it then yes.

> Who are you with your pretentiousness?

Also please let's keep the discussion polite and non-personal.
Watch me. I suspect there are many people here who had the opportunity to rip a client off but chose to instead do the right thing.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope someone with some influence realizes the silliness (not to belittle the situation) of this whole affair. I presume sites like the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/) get away scott free by not providing any source links at all!

You have my promise, at least, that I won't reproduce any of your work (until you deem it good to go) except in the form of drunken pub factoids :-)

I love, for example, that the complete works of William Shakespeare is currently number 4 on the most vulgar books list!
But the weights will be different, which it seems to me is comparable to saying that the principal components change.
The real problem is by the time a county has big debts there so used to deficit spending defaulting = austerity. The US borrowed enough money to avoid a significant economic melt down. Long term avoiding pain from borrowing is not sustainable be cause you always want lower taxes and faster growth.

For austerity to work before your forced into it you need a multi decade commitment to gradual spending reductions or significant external stimuli. The US could for example cut military spending by 75% today and still be just as safe. The problem is simply flooding the job market with such people. However cut 3% a year and you have few short or long term problems as people naturally leave jobs and you just avoid highering. Increase the retirement age slowly and the personal impact is minor, cut benefits directly and you destroy lives.

PS: Also slowly cutting back government like that withought reducing taxes reduces short term economic growth. The advantage is keeping a good credit raiting and avoiding default but it's still painful.
Right on, motherfucker !
Hey Reddit isn't going to sort everything for the FBI and give them names of suspects to arrest. That's the job of the FBI.

All we are saying is that Reddit, 4chan and others may help the FBI if they care to watch these threads. That might or might not be helpful but it can't hurt as long as the FBI isn't willingly looking away, which might then trigger the vigilante action.
Please stop using OS X as a benchmarking platform. It lacks an official package manager and you'll end up using very old software (GCC 4.2 is from 2007-2008) because it's hard to install recent versions.
We're mostly recovered, at this time.
Five reasons to use jQuery mobile
It's pretty easy in India too. It's called NEFT and very cheap. I've never been charged more than Rs. 10 - 20.
Tissues can be hanged somewhere on a clip, water evaporates, is picked up by dehumidifiers of the spaceship, goes back to the water system and purified back into drinking water.
I wonder what CLAMP has to say about that CCS-mod.
fontsize is okay and zoom works with chrome...
Who's behind this campaign?
How certain are you guys that it wasn't the sheer levels of traffic due to the ongoing Boston situation?
I know a famous equivalent that has been used to hire a manager. The company back in the time was searching for a guy able to "think out of the box".

You'll find the answer on google in seconds if you search, so take a minute to think about it by yourself ^^

The question was simple :
You are in the middle of nowhere, riding a two-seats car during a storm. Stopping to a stop sign, you see three people waiting at a bus stop.
- the girl of your dreams
- your best friend
- an old granny on her way to die

What do you do?
I have to admit, I didn't expect them to fix this.
[of] is optional in this case.
It is important to build up your fuck-you fund. Once you have a large cushion to weather over a long period of non-working time, your attitude to work will change. Having the fuck-you option to walk away on your side will help you tremendously in dealing with pressure from work.
Shameless.com seems more accurate.
And the hate America first crowd rolls on.
I guess they meant getting the drinking water to the space station in the first place. Water doesn't really compress well (unlike the hockey puck rag) and also weighs quite a bit so sending it up should be pretty costly.
No reason why it would: Pypy exists.
Cyber-security: From SOPA to CISPA
Eric Schmidt has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, wrote Lex [1], and just spent 10 years running one of the most important software companies in the world, while generally retaining the respect of the thousands of engineers in his company. His credentials are as close to unimpeachable as, say, PG's.

Tech is massive, multifarious, and constantly growing. It's easy to believe one's parochial corner is the center. Tor, it's safe to say, is not the center.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)
Update: it looks like that was utterly false information, originally spewed into the ether by Punditpress. I'm really glad it didn't turn out to be this guy. I hope they do find him or he decides to go home again.
I'm Alexey Malashkevich, one of the Pony ORM authors.
For now Pony ORM runs on CPython only because there is no access to frames in other implementations. "Pure Python" means that you can write queries in term of objects using Python generators.
At that resolution level, the second image should look similar.

Heck video games depended on people filling in the blanks when using low rez sprites to convey information, and it still works swimmingly.

People will see everything from Marlin Brando to the Mona Lisa in low resolution images, while their brain will happily fill in the blanks.
Video version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9OzhVAw8pM
I was really suprised to see them in the original package. One would think they had applied some form of vacuum sealed pressured bag or something to minimize space, or had special designed wipes with material that’s light weight.

I guess not everything up there is special space stuff. Some of it is just the same stuff as in the local Grocery store.
Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.
Discussion here --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575841
I wonder have long will they get to know this stuff.
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No one must know this is a sponsored blog post
Finite Element programming in Julia
Agree with what you said. But please don't make it sound like an axis with two extremes: "the maker/hacker" and "the profit maximizer". There's a third sweet spot, the "making your client happy" spot, sometimes at the expense of your hacker spirit and sometimes at the expense of a little more short term profit ("ripping them off"). The people who find this 3rd mode of thinking, who believe in "making stuff that helps others make stuff" make the company work and stay afloat and keep it a warm and nourishing environment for both themselves and the "pure hackers" and the "profit psychos".
Sure, but I mean to ask "who's white hat guy" and "what does Sunil have to do with either of the two attacks"? I saw the name thrown about here but nobody really clarified.
What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?
Microsoft smartwatch reportedly in the works
Whats the goal here?

Regardless, I will ask my besfriend to drive my old granny to the hospital and stay at the bus stop with my dream girl in the middle of the storm.
Your willingness to talk about stuff you have no idea about is astounding.

If I want to write a book, I needn't have any competence in the domain. Often, indeed most of the time books about societal topics start with the author having little to no knowledge about the specifics. And the biggest part of writing a book is doing research about the domain. And this transcript is exactly that. Research.

And I believe that this book is going to be about society and people, not a technical manual.

And even if it were. Quality of the book is never judged, by the amount of knowledge the author had about the domain at the start of the process. What matters is the quality of knowledge within the book.

And even that quality is pretty much relative to the knowledge of the intended audience. I am pretty sceptical that either you or Julian Assange are the prime audience.

Also having a clueless author at the start of the process about a specific domain gives room for interesting observations and conclusions down the road.

Edit: Calling you out on your pretentiousness is hardly personal. I am merely observing a fact. Maybe it is redundant as I am certain that other readers are aware of it on their own.
! I remember having this on early versions of Windows. Such fun memories. Glad I can have this on Linux :-)
All I see (latest Chrome on Vista) is a man page on an Ubuntu website for the oneko software.

Should there be anything else?
Do you have any reason to think this?
When you work in a company you don't own, there are a lot of things you will encounter that not under your control (1). Personally, I find the Stoics' attitude very helpful when dealing with that fact. They advocate distinguishing between what is in our control and what isn't, suggesting to focus on acting honorably oneself, but always with reservation, i.e. aware that others can always stop us from reaching our goals but never invalidate our sincere efforts.

Talking of morning exercises, Marcus Aurelius used to remind himself in the morning that he would be around exactly the kind of people you describe, but that they did not have the power to make him crazy if he is aware of their inevitability:
http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.2.two.html
(BTW: I only used this source because it seems to be public domain and available online, if you want to read translations of ancient texts, invest in a modern one that is more convenient to read.)

(1) Of course, if you start your own company, you will be dealing with things you can't control as well.

Edit: Replaced asterisks that made the text italics.
I'm not sure what reaction you want to elicit by being so scathing, but I disagree with your assessment as it relies on the premise that programming is a science, which it's not.

It's a two headed beast, part science, part craft and _why lives deep in the craft territory. I think many of us here took time to realise that, that there's not just a right answer. When you realise it's a craft you want to be artistic with it, but you can only be with the output, who ever sees the input?

In my opinion _why neatly bridges that desire to be artistic with the invisible nature of the craftsmanship of code. It's an outlet that coding can't sate. And it happens by doing that he also taught and helped a lot of people.

Have you noticed how a lot of programmers are also musicians? I think that's part of the same desire.
Pony gets the code object from a generator, decompiles it to a Python AST and then translates it to a SQL abstract tree.
Fark is down too, 4:21 am Pacific time.
It's pretty old and should have been on Linux a long time ago. Or is this just a flashback memory and inspiration about the availability not being just Win?

(ftp://ftp.connect.org.uk/hpux/X11/Demos/xneko-2.00/xneko-2.00.man.html)
Probably the same as when an employer asked my girlfriend if she was a virgin during an interview.

In french, virgin and virgo (zodiac sign) are the same word.

It puts yourself in situations you don't expect. You have to use your guts, and not your knowledge to answer those :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670
I was on Reddit until 2am (EST) with no issues. Back on at 6:45am with no problem.

Either they've been doing a wonderful job with mitigation, or I'm missing something (I suppose I did miss a few hours while sleeping...). If anything I figured they're getting hammered with EST sunrise/Boston incident traffic...but a simultaneous malicious DDoS attack "beyond any shadow of doubt"? Wow
Augmented reality is on its way, and to be honest I've been waiting for it. I will be using it where it makes sense. The point here should not be to play Luddite in a world that is moving too fast for the majority of people, yet I see exactly that as the potential takeaway of this campaign with its generic "Glass is banned on these premises" signs.

I am worried that the only company who is trying to market a usable AR product is Google, whom I increasingly have huge trust issues with and who is objectively getting to big and too powerful to be trusted. I would love a hackable AR device with an open interface, one which I could potentially hook up to my own server, a device I could install on whatever I want. You know, like an Android phone of some kind.

Categorically banning glass-like devices is not the solution. Attacking Open Source as undermining democracy doesn't sit well with me either. I also didn't like how they're attacking the fledgling movements of participatory politics, which we need more of (and which needs to become more meaningful) - not less.

Finally, the campaign's title is misleading and supports a disagreeable sentiment. It implies that extending or repairing the capabilities of our biological bodies is wrong.
_why somewhat reminds me of David Foster Wallace.
Heyoffline.js is framework-agnostic. No need for jQuery. It's written in CoffeeScript, and compiled into JavaScript.
I'm reading it now, had to turn the laptop around and people gave me odd looks as I'm in a coffee shop. _why belongs to the line of writers that mastered the "stream of consciousness". Love the little details, the shades of little feelings he describes... reminds me of John Fante. Next month _why don't you read John Fante?
Seems like you're still down...