skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Update: Hacker Scouts and the BSA
The sarcasm tag was because Portland is all white. I didn't want to offend anyone.
Yes, this is probably true. Many of the recent graduates I know make over $100K.
This is true - to an extent. Scrum screams out to measure relative story points, and never provide the data for "management" purposes. But even the same team estimating in succession will face external pressures - and if those pressures will be alleviated by gaming story points, they will. This catch-22 had me - I truly think the only way is to report only an estimated finish date. Any public posting of velocity eventually filters into a management by velocity - because that's the only metric management has. And we are back on the same old loop - we can have a measure of productivity as long as we do not use it in any manner as a measure of productivity.

Add to this I don't think scrum has become setup to take this to its logical conclusions - agile/scrum has been sold as a fairly fixed methodology, not as a means to get some relative metric out of teams and use that in a series of experiments to achieve productivity improvements. And even if it were, the major wins we know and can prove work (quiet conditions, minimal interruptions, trust, respect, time for reflection and education, are a long way from being accepted by today's enterprises.

In short there is no silver bullet, and while agile looked a magic bullet it just turned out to be plain old lead.
1. I was given this team right off the bat, I've been here for a few months now. It's not to take me down a peg. I had a great portfolio and track record in this industry, however young, and they believed I can do it. I didn't get here without being a people person ;)

I am so uncomfortable with 3b, but if that's what needs to be done..

What if they can't find a job? What if they lose their houses/apartments? It can seriously screw some people and I can't have someones life situation resting on my shoulders because they failed to do a great job.
Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code
Google Cloud Storage vs. Amazon S3. Serving JS and CSS
Climber.com, SimplyHired etc. I think are particularly good for remote work.
You can't put in a chrome error report (The page will crash) I would assume the same will happen if you try to enter it in an Apple crash report.
As long as you are willing and able to pay Apple $100 a year to install your own apps on your own phone.
1. Not true: We guarantee your satisfaction on every product we sell with a full refund. The following must be returned within 90 days of purchase for a refund: televisions, projectors, computers, cameras, camcorders, touch screen tablets, MP3 players and cellular phones. [1]

2. Not true. Regular folks at CS desk usually ask only one question: "Anything wrong with it?". You refund does not affected by the answer.

4. Don't spread FUD.

[1] http://www.costco.com/membership-information.html
What's the name of this functionality in fish? Might be worthwhile to install it just for that.
You don't have to make a call to register with the tower. I would imagine that sitting directly between two towers would cause lots of renegotiations as one signal gets stronger or weaker.
Once the source is released, it should be possible to make such a client without needing to connect to a web service. These breakdowns are figured out by the Python code written by the author.
His message indicated that he works for a VDN provider, rather than be a user of one.

This would seem to be his employer:

http://www.advection.net/
My analogy was terrible. I admit it. But in actual practice, software varies more than houses do.

You could easily walk into my house and find the kitchen. The stove and sink are both there as expected. But despite how carefully I thought it through and built it, and despite the fact that it made perfect sense to me, I doubt you'd find my custom-built intranet app easy to navigate.

On the other hand, my last Rails app has a structure familiar to any Rails developer. The actual business logic is unique, but that's the part that has to be unique. "How do we update the database schema?" is a given.

And if it's unfamiliar, there's plenty of documentation and blog posts to help you. With custom-built code, there's no help on the web.
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I was on the scene at the time too, hired by the author of AppleWorks. The only reason AppleWorks became Microsoft Works for the Mac, a computer which desperately needed software at the time, was because the author of AppleWorks (Lissner) couldn't deal with Jobs despite being very willing. I'm not knocking Jobs, but Wozniak has every right to complain if that's what he chooses to do.
Yes. As I understand it from my readings, the US developed a deliberate strategy of investing in things (like submarines, or the "star wars" defence system, etc) which would cause disproportionate investment on the other side to match them - ideally investment that would not help the offensive capability of the USSR. It switched to this model from the previous model which was to match USSR expenses (e.g. they buy more nukes, we buy more nukes too). This was deliberately designed to leverage the fact that the US economy was stronger and more flexible, and amplify that.

According to "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy" (great book) this was the result of a paper written in the 1970s where this strategy was conceived, which was then adopted by the US military as its main strategy against the Soviet.
> His initial paper on special relativity had no citations, despite the existence of a lot of relevant work by others.

It's important to remember that what we now understand to be special relativity, with its spacetime interpretation, was crafted by others (primarily Minkowski) after the original paper. This is important to remember when reading the original paper -- we might be suffering from perfect hindsight.

But I might have chosen a bad example, because it's true that Einstein tended not to attribute the work of others as much as he should have. Compare to Newton's "standing on the shoulders of giants" remark.
The regex is already getting out of hand ;) https://gist.github.com/idank/6382427

At some point I wanted to convert it to a DFA because I thought it will give me more control and flexibility and be more maintainable over time. The thing to look out for is not make it too permissive so it starts catching things that aren't really options.
No, I don't. Sorry. Thanks for the link. I'm actually looking to start learning some advanced stats also, so I'm on the lookout for resources.
Very thoughtful letter sent by Hacker Scouts in response to the Boy Scouts of America threatening to sue over the use of the common word "scouts."

There is one section that bothers me.

At bottom, if the Boy Scouts are willing to allow the Hacker Scouts to keep their name, the Hacker Scouts will make whatever reasonable concessions the Boy Scouts require to protect their trademark going forward.

I'd prefer the Hacker Scouts to not suggest that it is up to the BSA to allow them to use the word scouts. This strikes me as a roundabout concession to the BSA's initial claim.

It might have been better phrased as, "At bottom, if the Boy Scouts are willing to forego legal action against the Hacker Scouts ..."
How Money Worries Can Scramble Your Thinking
So I get the vibe that this will never be open sourced but is a side-project of yours that (should it come to fruition) will be run as for-profit.

Am I right?
Doing science does not make you a scientist.
Another thing that people often forget when they use plugins on their development machine is that if they happen to ssh into server (or work on another user's machine), it is unlikely that it will contain the same plugins. It is better to become effective at using the bare vi/vim commands first and only use plugins as a time-saver.
Tim Bray talks about Persona
My guess is that if you're using words like dialectic then secretly you aren't an extremist. (By extremist, I mean someone who adopts a polarized position, which you freely admit.)
NEW YORKERS AREN’T RUDE. YOU ARE.
I think he has a very good point about the verification.

It is completely pointless Mozilla flying a big flag about how amazing it is that Persona is decentralised while it is absolutely tied to Mozilla servers.

Once the verification is decentralisable you can make the case that any remaining centralisation is because Google/Microsoft/Whoever aren't hosting their own IDP. But at the moment them doing so wouldn't make it decentralised - because Mozilla are still told about every single site you visit. But at the moment it makes them look hypocritical.
"Microsoft Said to Discuss Strategic Stake in Foursquare"
No story yet - Breaking news on bloomberg.com web site
And this is bad...how? They are working to further MLK's goals.
One of the reasons for which motors in scooters and other electric vehicles are large and bulky is that they have to be designed to last a long time in real world environments.

The motors being used for this project are hobby model aircraft motors. These motors put out a lot of power per unit volume but are most definitely not designed for continuous duty at anywhere near to full output. They are also not sealed against the elements and have bearings selected for reasonably balanced loads with relatively low radial loads.

I have piles of these on my workbench ranging from cheap Chinese units to top of the line German designs. I use these on our planes, helicopters, multi-rotors, boats and cars. At the top end you have amazing hand-crafted quality with a prohibitive price (unless you want to pay $8,000 for a skateboard). At the low end they are cheap and they are junk. I've seen everything from magnets coming off, coils burning out, power leads coming off, bearings going bad prematurely and shafts bending.

In short, while the design process is interesting, I think the most fundamental flaw is being ignored: The motors are not designed, nor are they suitable for, this kind of an application.
I'm moving out to Costa Rica this Sunday, and also staying about (rather, at least) 3 months on the Pacific coast. See you there!
The exact type of rhetoric from a Black Panther that doesn't help his cause one iota. This is why MLK gets a national holiday and Carmichael is a footnote.
Sarcasm, actually no, I am sure Windows File Explorer few advocates in the wild.

Personally, I really prefer the Windows File Explorer over Finder or Gnome/KDE with its file system integration with apps (right-click open with), easier more powerful search capability, very easy cut/paste from right+click as well which in OSX is only "copy" -- so to "move" a file requires a copy, go find the new location, paste, then go delete old location.

Not really debate-worthy just personal opinion. Do you know a better way to cut/paste files in Finder? I'm eager as I'm on a mac (and otherwise love it)
When I resize my browser the display order switches back and forth from xzv to vzx. Their lines connect on the left side.

In the original order the lines cross.

The f-argument is always on the bottom with its line on the right.
New Webapp Temporarily Locks You Out of Facebook
In my experience fools do disagree and more often than they agree.
Is it just me, or are there a number of fairly high-profile writing tools that have launched recently? The ones I'm thinking about:

* Draft http://draftin.com
* Editorially http://editorially.com
* Quip http://quip.com
* Loren's Penflip http://www.penflip.com
* Google Docs (obviously not new)

A lot of thoughts running through my head, including that finally products are being built from the ground up both for collaboration and for mobile/tablets. (And that this appears to be an early sign of the end of Microsoft's dominance in the office productivity software world.)
The number of bytes doubled, not users.

I will wager that some somewhat popular high-bandwidth application (bittorrent client?) has integrated tor in some way, and they released the version with that integration about a week ago.
Send me an email (gregory [at] phileasandfogg.com); we'd love to meet up!
For completeness, here's the article about the raising of Pioneer Square that the parent post was referring to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...

The question you have to ask yourself, whether you think that would have come out without the Snowden revelations.

Evidence that the govt. broke rules to do their job (after Obama explicitly denied the powers are abused):

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/nsa-illegally-c...

Evidence that checks are not in place:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...

The LOVEINT revelations only showed up when the officers volunteered the information pre-polygraph test, which are more of a fear instrument than verifiably accurate. That's not a check or balance. More to the point the relevant facts emerged after Alexander categorically denied that abuses take place.
Shifting topics away from grammar for a moment, it's unfortunate that these issues can't really be studied scientifically. The result is that people can take the existing data and twist it to suit any conclusion.

Most European countries have fewer guns or no guns, and much lower levels of violence. But then, they're different people with different values -- the role of guns in their societies might be an effect, not a cause.
Self-Defense and the Law
People say that a lot, yet I enjoy consuming two or more of those at once... (well, less so tobacco, but I really don't see THC being a replacement for nicotine. If you're into nicotine, you're still going to want nicotine.)
I think the problem is selectively enforcing federal laws isn't a good option. Even thought he supreme court struck down DOMA, they stated that until that happened the administration should have still defended it.

While I think they should change the federal marijuana laws, I do not relish the future prospect of an administration deciding not to enforce federal laws they don't like because of this precedent. Voter ID, Abortion, racial profiling, etc.

Admittedly, though, I'm not sure how the laws will get changed. The Right to Vote took a very long time, so the Right to Toke might take a bit longer than the next couple of years.
R/news bans rt.com as news source, offers no proof for reasons
There is also an answer for that: do not build large system. Split them into largely independant parts (I think this is called silo architecture). When one of your silos get outdated, you replace it.
I disagree. I think it sounds belligerent. If he had stopped at "Steven didn't ever code" (which I'm not sure is accurate), maybe. But then he goes on to include zingers like "no original design" which is sort of a fighting phrase (and not part of the question) and "I did...all the feature choices" which we know is false, it becomes belligerent. Then Woz has to pile on even more about doing everything solely except for some tiny, trivial component. Belligerent in my book.
I'm on your 'high-profile' list!

Made my day, thank you.
There is no substitute for reading source code.

grep -A20 -ri "usage:" src-directory

should get you started. But if you rely on looking only at usage(), you'll miss "undocumented" features. Try reading the OpenSSH source for example. There is at least one undocumented option.

If the source code is so voluminous and the organization of the project so convoluted that it is prohibitive to scanning through the source to figure out what the program does, then that in itself tells you something.

The smaller the program (and its source code), the easier it is to master it, in my humblest opinion.

Generally, the larger the program, the higher the probability of bugs and vulnerabilities. This, you might say, is the cost of adding "features".

I prefer small programs where I can read the source code quickly and easily. They need not have many features. The less output the better. As long as they do one thing well enough, and reliably.

Not to mention what it does to ease of use every time you add more "features" to a program. Look at the OpenSSL binary. It is like they are going for the World Record on the number of options you can cram into a single command line program. Insane.
Cheaper, but not that cheap. Moto X, comparable spec with Nexus 4, has $210-220 Bill of Materials (BOM). Adding cost of sales, warranty, customer service, there is very little margin left, if any.
Here's an overview of the scenario you are talking about: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough

Also, this news has nothing to do with a jump in relays.

Perhaps it's due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBrowser
I was initially worried about end-to-end traffic, but saw that the exit nodes and bridges haven't increased. If Google search traffic is a fair indicator, it looks like genuine user growth is driving this. Google searches for "tor" haven't seemed to move much globally [1] but Russia saw a huge jump starting on August 16th [2].

Anyone know how to get the same info for Yandex to cross-check?

[1] http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=tor#q=tor&date=today%...

[2] http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=tor#q=tor&geo=RU&date...
The smart criminal is as an imaginary figment of pop-culture fiction/dramatization. They do exist, but they are by far the exception, not the rule. These guys were knocking off rural banks for a few grand between fist fights. Ballsy? Yes. Masterminds, they were not.
How is vim + tmux any better than gvim + xmonad + terminals? Just out of curiosity, I may want to test this setup.
Can you elaborate on why you believe this to be the case? Saying that a scientist is one who does science seems like a truism bordering on being tautological. I'm curious why you disagree.
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Why must you be eligible to work in the US? Isn't one of the benefits of being outside the US not having to deal with the nightmare of US Visa applications, and expanding your candidate pool to those unwilling/unable to go through it?
>"The product side needs to provide a set of requirements, and the development side needs to find out what the client needs, and how to deliver it. The development side has to have enough product knowledge to determine the actual need, not the stated want"

When I've been in "QA-ish" roles and worked with developers like this, I loved them - and told them so - which was the last thing they expected from an extrovert. I was OK with the ones who DIDN'T have the product/business/user knowledge, but were willing to listen to what I had to say - even if I was saying you/we/I need to go back to the product side for clarification; I don't think this is what they really need/want. And I've battled with those developers who neither had nor wanted any business/user/product knowledge AND didn't want to talk to the product side or listen to QA AND still wouldn't listen to QA after QA got clarification from the product side.

Of course, ideally any clarification is received before or - at the latest - during coding, but life ain't ideal.
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Love this site. Hoping people contribute a few more lessons to it in the near future.
You don't just need to authenticate sjcl.js (or whatever). You need to authenticate every page element that can influence the JS, because JS is malleable. The service you propose won't work.
I'm going completely off of the Wikipedia page you posted, I haven't read the book either, so it could be really misrepresenting the book. But the whole "theocratic -> technocratic society" step seems to be based on that shallow argument.

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" seems like a good book, I have a copy but have yet to read it.
It isn't the outcome a lot of people wanted. Many people wanted the feds to throw a hissy-fit so that Colorado and Washington could successfully defend themselves against the Feds and set some sort of good precedent.

If the Feds just keep turning a blind eye, then really we still remain in limbo as the status remains merely a matter of (subject to dramatic change) policy.
good point. but I think windows and symbian are qualitatively different.

windows is such a massive install base and such 'critical infrastructure' that unlikely it would vanish like Symbian -- the cost of switching as many on this thread have pointed out is high and nobody is suggesting Windows be dumped for XYZ so...

it's the dominance of windows that means they still have a good strong position to do this and control the process.

because of its still dominant position it would only likely increase market share thus relevance, thus developer interest in a virtuous cycle.

cannibalize your products before someone else does... a good rule to follow in this biz.
I've had to fire people pretty young too (I think I was 20, but I'm not 100% sure).

It is hard, but at the end of the day, nobody likes doing a shitty job. Get them out the door immediately and don't give them a chance to finish something. Assure them that you will format their computer and not look at their personal files they had on it, and have security ready with a bankers box. Make sure you tell them why they are being let go but also focus on your own personal failure to fix it or make it work (because lets face it, you are failing right now if you want to fire 80% of people).

Then get on with life. Be kind and fix problems, but stop getting pushed around. Stop trying to do hero-coding, if you are a manager that should be eating up at least 50% of your time, not programming.
I love git, but some of the metaphors and inconsistencies it makes are definitely not good and make it much harder to pick up than it should be. I think with the right set of metaphors and ui it can work.
This is a fantastic idea, beautiful and beautifully simple. Of course, one can think of a million objections to its success, but I really really hope it succeeds!
Re: conkeror, I keep hoping the lazy web will take Shane Celis's emacsy and webkit proof of concept[0] and make a scheme-based emacs-like browser.

[0]https://github.com/shanecelis/emacsy/blob/master/README.md
How did you find the house?
That's of course great but as a child of our time I want my explain command now ;)
> It has been clear for years that you can produce inefficient code quickly, and conversely efficient code more slowly (...)

That's not only false, but is often the opposite.

The symptom number one of an inexperienced programmer is to waste development hours reinventing the (square) wheel, while a good programmer is lazy (already knows which solution works best, and will probably just import it from a tested library).

So an experienced programmer not only doesn't waste computation power, also doesn't waste hours on the development cycle.

I agree with everything else you pointed.
Can imagine future posts: tea better than coffee, blue better than red etc. That Apple keyboard is rubbish for devs. Arrow keys are perfect as is. Pg Up/Down are useful etc.
Emirates Airlines is hosting a travel themed hackathon in the Bay Area