skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how my honest answers to that line of questioning would be interpreted?

">What were the biggest challenges the team faced?"

Struggling with a crony manager whose universal incompetence worked its way into every aspect of the project. This ultimately made a smoking wreck of the first public milestone.

">Walk me through the biggest team problems and how they were resolved. What was your role in this?

After the major public embarrassment described above I was sent before a panel of consultants to effectively interview for my job. I successfully convinced the consultants of my own my own plan to recover the project while laying provable blame for the project dysfunction on the problem manager.

The team was appointed a new manager who was happy to stay all but completely out of the way. I was made technical lead and given free reign to pull together a new team. Within six weeks we completed a new public milestone with 4x the scope of the previous failure without a hint of trouble.

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Personally, I see "team player" often being confused with simply being subordinate to the established team.

I think there's definitely wisdom in a mentality of service, to the team or the job.

Thing is, the team may be best served by having part of it removed and the team function may be best served by a completely different team.

In my experience, people don't like to hear that.
The thing is, portable computing is now cheaper and more ubiquitous than desktops. There was a time when laptops were more expensive than desktops, but now that they are similar in price or cheaper, consumers are picking portable devices.
My two cents.
The idea is good but I am not sure if you are presenting it in the most user friendly way. When one selects a category or year its hard to easily get a clear picture of whats 'on' or falls in the selection selection and whats 'off' (whats not part of the selection criteria).
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I'm actually fine using IMAP, but I really don't want to run my own dovecot/exim/spamassassin servers. It's really inconvenient and really hard to filter out spam. What I need is a hosted IMAP/SMTP service that does spam filtering. I'd prefer not to stay on gmail and use their imap/smtp, but that might be the short term solution.
The problem with Linus isn't Linus; it's that people want to be like Linus.

This nails it.

It's not that Linus or his style are right or wrong, it's that that some people assume that his abrasiveness is the cause of his genius rather than an unrelated personal trait.
Or how about those potentially-excellent candidates who don't have children but just have a life? I love my job. I love writing code. I am passionate about it. The time I spend at work I mostly enjoy, but 40 hours a week is enough for me. I would rather spend the rest of my time with the people I love or on other ventures that don't involve sitting in front of a screen. If you don't want to hire me because my job isn't my entire life, than I don't want to work for you. Nobody should be penalized career-wise for enjoying their free time.
if I'm talking to my mailserver over HTTPS/IMAP TLS, I don't mind where the traffic is routed.

It's still not ideal (they can still see who you're talking to), but you'll never have 100% privacy. Just make as much of the data useless as possible.
Nah. The real difference is that God, if one exists, really doesn't give a shit. The problem with governments is that they care way too much.
>> he thinks it's necessary to swear to get people to listen.

That is correct, but ONLY when people (specifically kernel maintainers) produce much below acceptable standards. In case I am missing smth - can you point to an e-mail where Linus was cursing at a newcomer (i.e. not kernel maintainer)?
But if you are found in possession of the physical book you can be prosecuted. In a totalitarian scenario of course, nothing like enlightened society today.
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Maybe someone reading this would be interested in my own calculator? Not as fancy as Calca for sure, by it can do functions...

https://github.com/prog-re/klak
New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users
The proper response to old arguments that no longer convince is to fork. If all the people who claim to be tired of working with Linus put their efforts where their claims are, they would have a viable fork.
What I want to know is, when will it support regular expressions?
I'm surprised ads is what gets people up in arms.

Google knowitall overlords logging your whole digital and physical life. Media bubble. Emails shared with spooks.

Ads are annoying. I get that. This is less annoying than youtube ads. Less annoying than TV ads (even if you can fastforward them). Anyway, annoying is not the same as evil. Gmail is convenient. Ads are annoying. If (annoying > convenient), use something else.
Narrato – a personal journal you won’t give up on
A drone won't shoot your dog.
New Relic is pretty great if you want a hosted solution.
If you want to roll your own I'd suggest starting with something like yahoos boomerang [0]. It gathers metrics on the client and sends them to your server over a beacon/pixel endpoint. I also really like this bookmarklet [1] to visualize the window.performance object.

[0] https://github.com/yahoo/boomerang
[1] http://kaaes.github.io/timing/
Still compatible with what I said. After God forgives you he ceases to give a shit about what you did. Governments never forgive you and keep on giving a shit about what you did, forever.
RubyLuwak is a compiler and runtime for Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine.
The revival of the Pinkerton Agency? Seems like all this technology is making us go _backwards_ in society, not forwards.
I completely disagree. I've kept every email I've ever received or sent since 1996 (close to a million emails, all searchable/indexed) and it has proved extremely useful over the years to be able to find ancient emails very quickly. I'm sure some large proportion of those emails I will never use, or will never be useful, but space is cheap, and keeping them doesn't hurt at all.
I made the step back from a HP Veer to an older Samsung Smartphone. The difference in DPI is enormous, and only after using a different font and a nice theme to hide the effects of low-DPI as far as possible I was able to stand the Android.

Which means for me that I'm sold on 4k Displays (and higher), if the effect is even only near to the one I experienced, if you get used to it, you won't want to get back. I image it to be equal to the effect of old CRTs with the curved display, which was unbearable after getting used to a (good) TFT or even one of the modern CRT without the curve.

The resolution change we experienced earlier, or at least I did, was always with a bigger screen. A 17" with 1024x768, a 22" with 1280x1024 and now ~24" with 1920x1080. So most(?) of us never experienced a real DPI increase on the desktop, only on smartphones or tablets.

I really hope it will be the next step after the SSD. Higher DPI-displays are genuinely better.
Detroit bankruptcy could hit millions of retirees
You like governments spending your money on lies to make people paranoid?
That comment was terribly meta. Yet I strain my brain trying to come up with something to do about THAT that isn't 'post a comment on HN' and I can't come up with anything.
Well, assuming the lost cosmonauts conspiracy theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts) is wrong.
Notice the "tend to" != "are". Obviously there are other factors at work. But statistically speaking, or as a rule of thumb, growing economies are clearly leading to more stable countries.
If they take example from AT&T, they would be selling your information even if you are a paying customer, which might result in more targeted ads elsewhere...
Developer here, yep that was a bad omission. The worst part is I do that kind of math all the time! You can count on it showing up in updates either as a function or as syntax.
She didn't understand physics.

Yeah, her and nearly every other teenage physicist I ever knew, certainly including myself. ;)

My experience of physics is that it takes time on the order of a decade to learn, mostly because you have to approach it from so many different directions before you finally grasp it. I'm not sure it matters which angle of attack you pursue first, provided you can remain interested enough to eventually come back from a different angle.

There were bits of physics that I could handle algebraically but which I didn't intuitively understand, and there were bits that I intuitively understood but where I didn't have the formalism so I would kind of flail around. And the knowledge of the landscape, of how a particular problem fits into the universe of known problems, is yet another level.
Given that this concerns behaviour on public roads and driver-less cars are around the corner, I'm not too concerned about being dump-trucked by the California Highway Patrol. More worrying is the ability to retro-actively mine mobility, social interaction, and private actions on private property. More reason why the NSA's behaviour needs to be properly scoped today before the issue metastasises.
Sorry, forget this subthread, my brain wasn't working as well it might. A part of my objection was better expressed by dragonwriter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6066608) and I've replied there with the rest.
But don't you know that HN is the goto site for anyone who is serious about the technology field?

... /s
Perhaps just as much of a "faux vote" but...

Right now the White House is promoting the hashtag #WeTheGeeks to talk about tech on Twitter.

I'd love to see We The Geeks reclaim this hash tag to talk about how we feel about NSA Spying.
Show HN: Bitcoin data aggregator with API
DJ says the content will stay online[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/Codepope/status/358144985520025600
Hey, me too. I have some really great ideas and I'm taking time off school and work for one year starting September once my work contract is over. I want to work on fun ideas for a year to gain as much experience as possible. My email is m at eveo dot org, send me a note and we'll talk?
The if(x=1) problem, and the problem that declaration/assignment and mutation look the same when they're actually very different. I don't think an expression/statement distinction is the right solution to this problem, based on my experience in e.g. python (where not being able to include statements in expressions makes a lot of code more cumbersome).
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The devil is in the details, as always.

Would I want to be left alone by the Borg? Yes. But what if it was The Culture? I would be very disappointed if a civilization like that saw us and said "Oh, they probably wouldn't want all of our bullshit, leave them alone." I'm sure there are many who would disagree.

The big problem with the alien analogy is our level of knowledge and language. The tribesmen are...savages. There is no framework whatsoever for them to understand anything about modern society and make reasoned evaluations. Conversely, it's hard to imagine that scenario between us and aliens. It's certainly possible that their society is so far beyond our wildest dreams that we can't even begin to make sense of it, but it's also possible that we have crossed some fundamental threshold of knowledge and communication.

Is our culture superior, is it not, how can that be evaluated? Most people do tend to stay in it rather than set out into the woods. Of course they have been biased towards that since birth, likewise for the Sentinelese and their ways, it's a really interesting and highly subjective question.

Whether we attempt to contact/assimilate them or not, we have made a choice. If we did try, it could go well or it could go poorly; they could be eternally grateful for knowledge and technology, or they could be destroyed. There are so many factors and ideological viewpoints at play, I just don't understand how people here can be so sure that one way or the other is The Right Thing to Do.
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Please tell me there is something deeper in this than putting coupon codes on a website.
If you want to keep something a secret, using a pgp encrypted message would be far safer than SnapChat.
Google is not sending spam. If you use IMAP, those never show up. Google is making it appear that there are emails there.
Local law enforcement doesn't need million dollar drones or a sizable payload. There are already many small cheap drones available for local use. All that is really needed is a functioning camera.
"The revival of" private security companies? G4S is the third largest company in the world.
At first glance it reminded me of this counter argument which warns about using `dd`, especially on a failing drive.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/11/cloning/
The newly-built, PV-covered stop&shop on the way home from my work has a flat, black board with the name "Motorola" on it hanging over the entrance. Presumably, it's full of antennas. Since Google acquired Motorola, I'm sure this data is being resold and who knows what kinds of restrictions there are.

It is unknown what signals it records. It would be nice if someone who knows cell phone signalling can chime in on how much is legible in this way.

As far as legal records, well, everyone on HN probably knows how easy it is to fake a WiFi MAC address and make it seem like someone was at the scene of a crime, or seem to be innocently hanging out somewhere else. So subpoena'ing this information might not lead to useful evidence, but probably to lots of confusion and prosecutorial mistakes and disasters. I would love to know how easy it is to fake a cell phone IMEI or other identifying info.
Everyone should, I agree. And maybe I'm delivering IT a backhanded-compliment, which I don't intend.

My have tremendous fondness for people that work in Corporate IT. I've worked there in the lowest levels, managed them, protected them, fought for them, and ultimately have seen that the larger system at play works against them. I believe they are usually the smartest, hardest-working, most creative, most driven people in the company.

I should have set the context of my comments for those working within dysfunctional companies where IT is at the bottom of the pecking order. In my experience, this is when the need for strong relationships will go the farthest.

If things in an IT org are great, professionalism is key. Otherwise, I stand by the idea that being nice is more important than being clear.
It was not a shining example of successful intervention. It may or may not have been a "shining example" - in the sense of an example that is good as an example - of a tendency toward attempted intervention.
In 2006 Cassini already took a beautiful image of Saturn with the Earth visible: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html
What Really Makes Free Mobile Apps So Profitable?
The problem with this strategy is that all you get is a mindless angry mob. This the Egypt scenario: everybody knows things are broken, but nobody can agree on what it's supposed to look like.

Contrast this with the Federalist Papers, where an intellectual debate was held to vet solutions.

You don't want "any change" to take the place of "fix what's broken" By dumbing this down, you make what could be a productive movement into something much more dangerous.
Consider using Clonezilla [1] instead. While dd will produce a sector-by-sector image of your medium (which can be terribly inefficient if you're using considerably less than 100% of its available space) Clonezilla is file system-aware for a number of common file systems and has built-in support for compression as well. It resembles the recently discontinued Norton Ghost this way but is fully FOSS.

I normally run it off a live CD/USB of Parted Magic [2], another tool I can wholeheartedly recommend.

[1] http://clonezilla.org/

[2] http://partedmagic.com/doku.php
When it's time to retire the service, they need only redirect everyone to http://foaas.com/off/users/FOAAS
They're scary to adults. As a scala programmer I wish there was a similar language that used words rather than punctuation.
Of course, if the patch is helpful the response should be a positive one. I'm not debating that point.

I'm debating the fake politeness that is expected when a patch is in fact rubbish. It's more impolite to lie to someone and make them feel better by phrasing such as "It's good but...". It's much better to simply cut to the "but" part and tell it how it is.

Fellow developers are not clients who are our responsibility to make feel good at the end of the day.
Additional requirements are : passlib, twill, markupsafe

after following the instructions I was still unable to login, with invalid password message.

registration takes me to a 500 error page as well.

I think I will wait until this becomes more developed.
The basic HTML interface doesn't show this either, or at least I don't have this tab and that's what I use. Nor does the really basic old mobile interface (which works great from the terminal with w3m) -- this one https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=mobile

You're right of course, all of these will probably disappear soon :(
It's from scratch C# code using Xamarin to build the UI layers for iOS/OS X. Well, I also use a parser generator jayc which is based on jay which is a yacc cc. Everything else is mine. It's a pretty standard Expression tree implementation with a symbolic interpreter.
Furthermore, you can't assume that because someone is unwilling to be a mentor that it's always the mentor's fault for not having enough patience or the right attitude.

Sometimes the student just isn't worth investing your time and effort into.
I suspect most organizations are even more cutthroat than Linus: if we're paying you to contribute patches that are of strategic benefit to the company, and for whatever reason those patches are not accepted, we'll find someone else to contribute our patches.
Linux mint is definitely the best transition from a lifetime windows user. Its like a sleek robust XP.
This is a ridiculous line of argument.
Let me re-contextualize with a parallel scenario. Suppose you are the victim of any of crime. Suppose your teenage daughter is the one who actually called the police. Suppose the perpetrator of the crime was an animal rights activist with a large cohort of people with similar viewpoints who occasionally in a mob mentality anonymously engage in violence, or threats of violence. During the prosecution of the crime, the DoJ goes a little crazy and the accused commits suicide. The estate of the animal rights activist wants to release your daughter's bus route home from school, email address, and cell phone number.

Do you file to prevent this information to be released?
What about backups? I don't worry about Gmail backing up my email (though I probably should), but is there some way to get iRedMail to send encrypted backups to S3 regularly or something?
Between your two examples, the second one is by far more demeaning. Cursing is not always an example of being demeaning to another person. Your first example has two curses in it, to some just one, but they weren't directly aimed at the person being spoken to. That's just being rude by using language that many people may not like to hear in a public space.

If your first example was an abrasive comment directed at the person, such as "You are a fucking idiot because you can't follow simple naming conventions that a slightly trained monkey could follow!", then it would be demeaning towards that person.

I would also say that your second example isn't exactly polite either.
Shine a spotlight in the direction of Saturn, or build a fire. I wonder how much light you'd need to emit to have a noticeable effect? The Narrow Angle Camera is 1024x1024 I think[1], I have no idea what integration time, so my first guess is that we need to get a major city to riot/burn, or start a forest fire. Hmm, on second thought, maybe I'd better just have a beer and wave like cdevroe.

[1] Based on the properties of this image http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS...
The whole world is a Blub Paradox.
I wish that were true. The questions required simple one word or one sentence answers. It was absurd.
It's sad that I can read that, miss the word 'fake', and not be surprised at all. I was a bit too far away to be 100% sure but I'm pretty sure I saw a drone taking off from Moffett Field the other day. I've been meaning to look into whether or not there are publicly-acknowledge test-flights happening there or anything.

edit: publicintelligence.net says there are "future" plans by the Army for launching drones from Moffett Field.
See previous discussion at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6015148
SOAP, by passing it escaped XML blobs in string containers.
Federal Research Suggests New Approach to Teaching Fractions
People leave private keys in repos all the time. I'm pretty sure this talk goes over it pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUJ9vpR7Vg
This is much of my objection, better expressed than I was able yesterday. Thank you.

A part of it that this comment misses, though, is that there's a difference between "system as described by the text of laws" and "system as it is run on actual humans." It is entirely possible that the optimum system as run on actual humans is produced by a set of laws that doesn't match it exactly. One can still "believe in" that system of laws, in that one believes that it is the system of laws that should be implemented because it produces optimal results, while still understanding that actual human behavior will differ sometimes and that that won't always be a bad thing.
Is China succeeding with their marketing gold plan?
Actually, they do have it: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/05/03/google-authenticator-now-...
How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? (2009)
Everything you program that uses Juju's API, automatically also gets AGPL licensed and that's a big no-go for any commercial development.
They launched Windows RT and regular Windows 8 the wrong way around. In 2-3 years time, when the Windows app store is more mature, Windows RT will make more sense so that people don't need desktop mode as a crutch.

At that point they should try again, but with a fully Metro UI, i.e. ditch desktop mode (including a Metro version of Office). Also needs a different name, maybe SurfaceOS, it's too confusing for users with a name that includes "Windows", and has a desktop that kinda-sorta works like regular Windows.

Saying that, I think the Surface Pro and other Windows 8 tabs are going to get a lot better as x86 chips get better with power consumption, continuing from Haswell. Seems Windows 8.1 is solid step forward.
XKCD: Quantum Mechanics
Oh, in that case bullying is ok as long as enough people agree that it's low-grade?

It's also possible that one person's "low-grade bullying" is another's "gee, I'm glad my bullying is not that bad".
Does anyone out there know of something similar to FastMail (or gmail) that is self hosted? I've been dying for a fast, modern webmail app that I can host myself, but everything I've tried is just terrible (by comparison).
There is also http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-ports/ios2.git;a=summary that seems to be ahead of ios.git by a few commits. Do you know what's the point of having two repos?
AutoDesk ReCap - create 3D models from scans and photos
Non-cooperative games by John Nash (1950)
I can see why: given Tumblr's focus on images, porn or at least NSFW material seems like a logical use pattern. For text, at least, I prefer Wordpress.

DailyDot doesn't cover this, but I wonder: what is the logical NSFW-friendly alternative to Tumblr?
Biggest challenge: A fake scrum system whose claim was "this will make us into great teams" when really all it was used for was micromanagement and scapegoating.

"Your velocity is off by ten percent. We're concerned."

"You're the most talked about person in the scrum-of-scrums."

Gahhh.