skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be hesitant to just make a broad statement like 'overquoted pice of (bad) software engineering advice ever' just based on your experience.

It's one thing to replace legacy plumbing code (which what you describe is likely just that) with new 5 line plumbing code.

It's quite another to walk through lines and lines of classic ASP code (sub your own 'legacy' language here) that mixes data access with business logic and perfectly meets the businesses needs.

I have found it hard to go to a client and say we will build you a new version of the application but most of the cost is in the rewrite to make the software more "modern" and only a small portion of the cost is new features.

Also, try getting current requirements from business stakeholders who sometimes don't even have a clue what the behind the scene 'magic' is happening in the application but it fits their business needs and gathering requirements amounts to 'do what the app already does'.

I certainly don't disagree with your opinion but I would venture that if Joel's advice were to be treated as a software development pattern, it would generally fit the situation.
Title: "New groundbreaking research may expose new aspects of the universe"

Then again, it may not. The article doesn't offer any evidence that ground has been broken, or even walked across.

Quote: "The most widely used model today cannot explain everything in the universe, and therefore there is a need to explore the parts of nature which the model cannot explain."

Actually, there's a need to scientifically explore parts of nature that current scientific theories cannot explain. We already have more than enough hypotheses and speculations, with everything going for them except evidence, or any chance to gather evidence.
This is interesting, especially for someone who has researched the concept before.

Some immediate questions come to mind, like: at what point do you start tracking hours as sleep deprived versus not? What areas of cognitive performance are being evaluated exactly? How was the research collected and what was the sample size?

Any time I see explicit numbers like this connected to neuroscience a bunch of little red flags start to fly up. But then again, I didn't sleep well last night.
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What I mean is I don't like how anything that is grouped into "renewables" is considered to be equally perfect.

In which case, you're projecting opinions on me which aren't correct.

In the world of energy sources available to humans, there are two classes:

Renewables which replenish given time.

Nonrenewables which don't.

For all of human existence save the past 250 years, we've depended virtually entirely on renewable resources. Which isn't to say they didn't have negative impacts on the land humans occupied. Deforestation and desertification are very common in human history and prehistory.

For the past 250 years or so we've had coal, oil, and gas. The chart looks roughly like this:
https://plus.google.com/photos/104092656004159577193/albums/...

There are a handful of other nonrenewables which are sufficiently abundant that they might be able to address some of our energy needs (mostly electricity -- transportation, liquid fuels, and chemical feedstocks remain a major issue). They have some pretty tall technical challenges however. Thorium reactors are more probable, fusion rather less so: we've been unable to reach technical let alone commercial viability with 50 years' research during the period of maximum abundance.

And there's a very clear relationship between energy, economic growth, and population:
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/08/29/the-long-term-tie-betwe...

Anyhow, as I said: list out your options. Figure out how viable they are, and what the negatives are.

A list of questions I like to keep in mind:

1. How Much Energy is Returned for the Energy Invested (EROEI)?

2. Have the claims been verified by an independent third party?

3. Can I see the alternative energy being used?

4. Can you trace it back to the original energy source?

5. Does the invention defy the Laws of Thermodynamics?

6. Does the inventor make extravagant claims?

7. Does the inventor claim zero pollution?

8. Can I see blueprints, schematics or a chemical analysis of how it works?

9. Infrastructure Requirements -- Does the energy source require a corporation to produce it? How will it be transported and used? Will it require new engines, pipelines, and filling stations? What will these cost? Who will pay for them and with what? How long will it take to build them?

From: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/052703_9_questions...

Have fun.
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This keeps coming up and I have to keep asking, what is a shortage?

If we double the amount of IT workers available, do we still have a shortage? How do we determine what a shortage is?

I think it's all perspective. From the manager/business owner who is looking for the lowest cost and highest-payout labor, there is a shortage. To the actual laborer who is competing with other laborers, there is an oversupply. So this talk about there being a shortage like it's an objective fact really strikes me as bizarre.
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RTFA: "WikiLeaks says it waited until the recent conclusion of the court martial of Pvt. Chelsea Manning (formerly known as Bradley Manning) to file the criminal complaints." It's not clear what that has to do with anything, but perhaps Manning's leaks were on the laptops.
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That's nice to know Mirasol isn't dead like I thought it was. It's pretty cool display technology.
I don't think the only alternative to the current system is home schooling. There are schools in which learning is less curricular and more curiosity-driven, and the pupils go on to be very successful in higher education. In Belgium I came across a schooling system called Decroly, and in Germany the Waldorf schools.
But Mesos already provides distributed service management. Why is Marathon doing it too? And why do you need Chronos if Marathon performs the same functions?
From the article: "And to this day, we’ve never posted any content." They haven't built a brand (or denied her anonymity), just the empty space should she decide herself to build it.
Oh for fuck sakes, your spin that homeschooling is mostly "culturally diverse, community-involved, and intellectually curious" is really getting old.

Even with your anecdotal assertions, do you really, really expect us to believe that you're unaware of the number of parents in this country who home-school their kids largely if not solely to prevent access to such dreaded concepts as, oh....evolution:

"Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S. And for most home-school parents, a Bible-based version of the Earth's creation is exactly what they want. Federal statistics from 2007 show 83% of home-schooling parents want to give their children "religious or moral instruction. "The majority of home-schoolers self-identify as evangelical Christians," said Ian Slatter, a spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association. "Most home-schoolers will definitely have a sort of creationist component to their home-school program.""

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-03-08-home...

In what way is homeschooling to suit a parent's utter stupidity not a prison?
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FTA: The blueprint still used for today’s schools was developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were created to teach children to read the Bible, to believe scripture without questioning it, and to obey authority figures without questioning them.

So the worst case of homeschooling is better than the ideal model of public education? As long as we're on the topic of cultish practices, I'm not very comfortable with an institution that forces its "pupils" to pledge allegiance to flag on a daily basis. I hypothesize that people who are against homeschooling pledged to flags many of times, and are probably incapable of forming opinions that aren't regurgitated to them from a figure of authority. It's just a hypothesis.
Thank you for your input. Upside of employees knowing how the staff sleep overall (nothing to a specific employee) could possibly lead to a better shift schedule and the ability to feel less fatigued in your free time
Recycling has its limits. I've mostly looked at this with regards to lithium (critical in Tesla's EVs, though other rare earths are also limiting, perhaps moreso).

With present known reserves (including recent finds in South America -- Bolivia as I recall), there's not enough lithium to build batteries for an EV for the entire world's population. I believe the number I came up was about 1 in 10. And that's for one generation of vehicles.

Turns out that you can recycle batteries. But the process recovers only 90% of the lithium. After about 7 generations, you've lost over half your original stock.

With sufficient energy, you can extract virtually anything from seawater (even stuff like uranium). But that "with sufficient energy" prerequisite is pretty much specifically the challenge we're looking at.
"We are not allowed to distribute updates through other channels to apps which were purchased from the App Store."

The solution is simple.

All Mac developers should stop selling through the App Store, regain control of the distribution channel, and leave the Mac App Store barren of quality applications.

Until Mac developers have leverage, Apple will continue taking their 30% cut and enforcing rules which suit them and not the developers.

EDIT:

Just wanted to add...

What are developers going to do when Apple says every single new API in Mavericks can only be used if the app is sold through the Mac App Store? This has already happened with the iCloud SDK, so it's likely they will continue on this path.

What if one day Apple says you can only have a developer certificate if your apps are sold exclusively through the Mac App Store?
Ah ok, thanks for the clearification. I already have a "Enskild firma" and they don't allow them in the AppStore.
If memory serves, they measured reaction time, short-term memory and ability to solve complex tasks. Can't remember how they measured what is a sleep deprived hour and what isn't.

Also "ability to solve complex tasks" seems like it might be difficult to quantify and I can't remember how they did that.

But it's fairly easy to measure the difference in reaction times and capacity to remember strings of numbers.
FYI android apps update automatically without intervention from the user. yet another way android wins.

and then for good measure you repeat the nonsensical statement that google doesn't care. of course they want users to love android and increase their audience.
To make it completely clear, I was providing an example completely unrelated to the picture.
Prahlad Jani has yet to be debunked and he was observed twice (in 2003, 2010) round the clock for up to 15 days without food and water intake or waste movements.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/International/man-eat-drink/sto...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Jani

Very credulous. But, as the wise man says "We'll see." :)
The current reality, I think, that everyone is ignoring is that time spent in school and money spent per child are not solving the problem.

Teachers, yes, parental involvement is a huge factor, however it should be less of a factor, I think, than you allow it to be.

Parents, yes, teachers need to be properly assessed for results, however if a standardized test isn't the best way to gauge your child's ability, why do you think it's the best way to gauge your child's teacher's ability.

The reality is that we are spending insane amounts of money on students - sometimes upwards of 20 thousand dollars per student - and the outcome of the education system is not what we expect it to be. This is a societal issue, and part of what I would call America's ignorance - there is an upper limit on how much money you can throw at a problem before they money you threw at the problem attracts the wrong kind of actors and makes the problem worse.

I'm not a libertarian, but I like many of the libertarian ideas surrounding education. I also know what "free market" means in my country. I don't like our healthcare situation, and that's all I can picture when I imagine "free market" education.

Teachers unions currently have a regulatory capture on school boards across the country in the US, which is a big problem. School boards, in my experience, are dispassionate, dramatic, and exploitative of residents. There are far too many administrators in schools, and far too many passionate teachers, but how can you be passionate about your job when you have so many eyes on your back, so many hoops to jump through, and so many layers of bureaucracy to report to.

Education is not an easy problem because it has turned into a self-interested Mexican standoff, with people on all sides unwilling to give an inch, and no one wants to act rationally until it is too late.
I don't have the patience that you do. It must be the result of public schooling. ;)

I can't be bothered to speak about this topic with people, who like me, suffered public education. To suggest that state-wide/nationwide education-prison system isn't the best setup causes others to give me strange stares save the staunchest libertarians and anarchists.

The school system teaches us first and foremost that it is the best education system. I can't imagine an institution better designed for self-preservation than the current style of public education in the west.
Nobody knows that Google Play gift cards exist.

I've been using Android since I got rid of the iPhone 3G (circa Nexus One), and this thread is the _first_ time I've heard of it being available.
Mmmm, while it sounds interesting, I am surprised at several things they have not implemented:

1 CDN or mirror service to lessen the load. There are free ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network#Notab...

2. P2P software for distributing content across a mesh network between the multiple servers (e.g. Gnunet & Freenet). Distributed Filesystems also work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_distributed_file...

3. Other communication than Jabber. Proper recommended secure channels are SILC, OTR, and now Beta secushare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILC_%28protocol%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-record_messaging

http://secushare.org/

The VPN is nice although. I wish STOMP was used more instead of PYSC. I still love IRC. It would also be awesome if they had a mini USENET, that would sell me over to volunteer.
What an incredibly simple solution you've devised. I'm not sure why it hasn't been adopted!? It's so simple!

Either way, I've alerted the committee of the Nobel Prize of Economics about your discovery.
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From a purely statistical point of view (user logjam gave numbers and a link in another comment), yes it is representative.
The only diversity in experience I got in public school was seeing the full range of ways humans can be horrible to each other. The only positive is that I came out with no illusions that women were inherently more caring than men (the faculty was 100% women as far as I could tell). I guess K-12 did help nudge me toward egalitarianism. +1 for public education.
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It's worth noting that a lot of the Nobel discussions of school involve boarding schools and corporal punishment, neither of which common in today's systems.

Interesting also that that page also finishes with an 'if you like school, then you're a paedophile' angle. "I can't find statements of medicine or physiology winners who said they didn't like school... but one of the ones who said he did like school was a child molestor!". Sounds like the deck was stacked to me.
Whoa! Awesome, thanks!
I came to say that, but you beat me to it.
They want it to be her choice.
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> So, you can probably see how something like this could easily have happened.

NO. I will not allow this as an excuse. This has actually happened just some years ago in a hotel in the USA, where people taking a sun bath at the pool had severe sun burns because of the design of the hotel. It is a shame and very stupid to let this happen again, and you not knowing this as an architect makes you not look good ..
Thanks for the correction on the Python point.

> OTOH, over the years, many people have requested the ability to use arena allocation with Protobufs due to the speed benefits, especially with Protobufs being rather heap-hungry. I always had to tell them "It would require such a massive redesign that it's not feasible."

Yes totally, I agree that arena allocation is great. I think we both agree on this point, though we've taken two different paths in attempting to solve it.

Your approach is to say that arena allocation can be made pretty convenient, and sparse messages can compress really well, so let's design a message format that is amenable to arena allocation and then implement a system that uses this format both on-the-wire and in memory.

My approach is to say that we can solve this (and many other related problems) by decoupling wire formats from in-memory formats, and having the two interoperate through parsers that implement a common visitor-like interface. Then a single parser (which has been optimized to hell) can populate any kind of in-memory format, or stream its output to some other wire format. Of course this will never beat a no-parser design in speed, but the world will never have all its data in one single format.

I think of these two approaches as totally complimentary; to me Capn Proto is simply another key/value serialization format with a particular set of nice properties, and I want it to be easy to convert between that and other formats.

Since your approach is much more focused, you have been able to turn out usable results orders of magnitude faster than I have. I'm spending time implementing all of the various protobuf features and edge cases that have accumulated over the years, while simultaneously refining my visitor interface to be able to accommodate them while remaining performance-competitive with the existing protobuf implementation (and not getting too complex). As much as I believe in what I'm doing, I do envy how you have freed yourself from backward compatibility concerns and turned out useful work so quickly.
I'm sorry - I wasn't very precise. I think his wife does some supervision. Most of their coursework is online.
"The problem is when you arrive to age 24"

Stopped reading there.
TFA says he waited for the trial of Chelsea Manning to end, which is fair enough -- Manning was in a delicate position already, no point in making it even more complicated. Also, part of the alleged activities were put on record during that trial, so they cannot be denied now.
Yes, GitLab's pretty good. It has per-project (that is, per repository) issues/tasks, but not ones that span several projects.
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If this is like most n-gram analyses, the percentages are of the total corpus, i.e. percentage of words, not articles. So 60,000 articles could be 12,000,000 words and 2400 positives if there are 200 words per article (a SWAG).
So preventing people from updating their app for a week even if they find bugs helps quality? Should we start making website changes only once a week to improve quality - I expect Heroku will implement a 5-day delay in deploys?
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The system isn't designed to maximize your personal well-being. Your extrapolation from "this was good for me" to "we should have everyone do it" is troubling.
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In my experience (homeschooled from about 7 to 17), there are at least two, both explicitly Christian, but one pretty far out there and one much more moderate. To be fair, this was in Kansas and Nebraska. I get along fine with everyone in the moderate group where I live, despite objectively big differences in beliefs.
I fail to see how this keyboard improves on other mechanical keyboards in any significant way.
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While both tools are nice, do you think they're part of the core toolset of a development team? Both strike me as things you'd want later, once you have your own service live.
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Learning statistics has been a fundamental part of the development of my critical thinking. Being able to understand that 'many' is a weasel word and why (see my other comments). It makes me less susceptible to things like yellow journalism, and makes me require more rigorous arguments to sway my opinions.

Statistics gets a bad rap, but it is far more important for day-to-day life than people give it credit for.

Math is not important at all for the vast majority of adults today.

This is just plain not true. I can't speak for calculus, but in addition to what I mention above, there's plenty of day-to-day need for math by the general public - money handling skills, for example, are something that almost everyone should have.
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So, how does this compare to the Corosync/Pacemaker cluster stack?
I gotta know, what did that comment say?
That's the reasoning, but to me it just proves that drunk driving shouldn't be a crime separate from poor driving. (I guess it would be OK as an aggravating factor for other traffic crimes.) Someone who drives acceptably while drunk drives acceptably, period.
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Say on Netflix or Amazon or Apple TV, how do you select what to watch next?
Wow, I'm amazed they dropped support for computers that recent. New versions Windows/Linux will still run on very old hardware, there are usually drivers around.
It's probably going to be like the processor wars. It'll keep going up until they reach a peak and then it'll switch to multi-cores (or in this case, expanding the number of bits).

But you definitely have my vote right now!
Certainly not all! While I don't have the undying patience necessary to wade through Gwern's entire list of modafinil suppliers[1], it does seem statistically likely that at least one of those is semi-reputable[2] and ships to countries beyond the US. Whether any of them ship to your country is a lower — but still probably finite — probability depending your country's chemical restrictions.

[1] http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#suppliers-prices

[2] See /r/nootropics or LongeCity for reviews.
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> An Ivy League degree is expensive, but the value may not add up to the expense. Try Georgia Tech, not MIT. Try University of Washington, not Harvard. Use your own judgement here.

If you're poor however, reverse this. UW or Georgia Tech will maybe give you enough aid to cover half the tuition.
Harvard and MIT will give you a full ride plus money for a return flight home and extra spending money each semester, all before you get a work-study job.

This is one of the greatest equalizers of income disparity available in America and I'm very glad to be able to take advantage of it.