skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I felt so awesome when I got slirp working on the dialup shell I had access to. Not gonna lie, one of the first things I did was very slowly load some porn.
Yeah, I only stopped my claim at XP because that's the last version of Windows I really used.
I have to tell you that I'd rather the person who operates on a heart or a brain or flys a 777 (and there are many more I'm just picking a few obvious ones) focus on their job 100% and get rest to function at a top level.

Then those people should probably think long and hard about having families, right?

I'm of the opinion that if you really want to devote yourself to a career, you should skip having kids. Interestingly, the same traits that help in career advancement (hard work, willingness to sacrifice) are the same traits that help foster a successful marriage and family. Certainly, a few people can pull off both, but I suspect those people are the exceptions, not the rule.
Have you seen jq? It's supposed to be like sed for JSON. http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
It's hardly fair to allude to one of the deepest theories we have. Besides which, in all such cases, there are many popular works available for explanatory purposes.
The GP was speaking from the standpoint of the business rather than that of the developer.
Nice! They should use this in schools.
Very much agreed. For me staying home with my kid is much harder than going to work. It is boring, repetitive, frustrating...mentally draining.
What "authority"?

Different people have different roles. If I know tons about implementing caches, I probably end up making most of the decisions about that sort of thing. If you know a lot about scheduling projects, probably you'll end up doing a lot of that. A junior person probably won't get to make a lot of decisions, except in whatever rather small area they are contributing in. And so on. Management doesn't mean you are an authority, it just means you have different responsibilities (and I manage as well as develop, I don't write this solely as a developer).

We can all come up with counterexamples to the above. What if someone is not pulling their weight? What if a group decides to drink (heavily) at the job? And so on. Sure, at some point somebody needs to make decisions about hire/fire/probation, and so on, but the hope and desire is to build a team that self directs itself in as much as that is possible.

I don't know, the whole 'authority' thing comes off as weird to me.
paypal until square cash became available a few months ago
ComputerLand in Wichita, KS. 1992. :-)
I agree. Depending on the context (another commenter related prices being higher previously), it's not always the optimal choice, but having all the info to make the best choice is good news.
Some do, that's how I learned them.

edit: I still think the most confusing thing about radians when learning them is the 2 pi. This seems so arbitrary.

We now use Tau at work and it makes everything easier to understand.
IIRC, Julian Assange worked on torture resistant passwords: users memorize a maze that they would have trouble doing under duress.
I suppose "manager" is industrial aged thinking for a company with that particular culture. Good developers are self managing and self actualised and self motivated I believe. Support/facilitate is an apt role for someone to massage the backlog and keep accountability with stakeholders.
Yeah, people are different. Assuming everyone gets email on their phone vs text messaging which is pretty much ubiquitous is completely my point.

I can cement my point even further. You don't get emails, your family does, but you all get text messages.

Bam, that was easy.
After working the first few months and taking days/weeks off whenever I wanted to, I took an entire month off with full pay and no PTO days. They didn't even question it. If I need to take more time off on the order of months, it wouldn't be a problem. On top of that I had to push out some deadlines by a couple of months. That's incredibly supportive in my book.
You keep using that word
Or sites could opt-in to this with a header?

EDIT: homakov says the same thing down thread.
Hhat one of the problems with workplace I have seen 2000 odd words of wafflely answer that does not address the question asked - get voted up.

A lot of the users also will jump in with completely pointless anecdotes about employment law as it applies in some country but the question is obviously about a different one (hint at will has no meaning outside of the UK).
Needs a version with tau: http://tauday.com/
This is by LucasVB, who is prolific at animating math for Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery

His other works are also worth checking: http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/
(for example, he has a super-nice explanation of Fourier series).
Obama tells Germans spying won’t damage ties (16 minutes interview)
People keep telling me that research I'm doing with some friends overlaps with what these people are proposing, so I've spent a little time trying to figure out what they do and how they do it from their website. I haven't yet played with their client or anything like that.

I really can't see any substance here. The name is also sort of darkly humorous: they've clearly poured a lot of effort into (at least marketing) what they're doing, but have yet to realize that they're just tilting at windmills.
I'm only going to reply to this because so many of you got this impression. My take was "very early on you have to do these incredibly long development hours to ship a product, hit a milestone, and raise" The engineer's were looking at a rough 3 - 6 months of weekends etc. The CEO was looking at a rough 7 years. I'm not advocating that the engineers needed to even do that rough 3 -6 months just highlighting why I think he doesn't show remorse vs talk about the pain of CEO's.
My real issue with the video is not even in the bad proof. It's that mathematics, which I find to be so great and fun, is being misrepresented. Mathematics gets so little public exposure as it is, so to have this be the thing that makes its way through the internet is just sad.
Thanks, saw the image linked on Twitter without this context.
Launching the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (2013)
You use τ where you work? Where do you work (in general terms)?
Most bitcoins today are stored on insecure addresses
SICP is okay for that but if you really want to discourage operational reasoning you should check out courses based on Haskell or ML. I hear the course Bob Harper co-designed is doing really well at CMU.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15150/
imho most DS & Algo are like kihon - the basic principles t'werk just fine, it's about augments and applications.
I think bind is essentially correct too, but the failure to use it properly tends to suggest a level of understanding too small to be writing Yet Another Monad Tutorial. I've seen real JS monads, and I believe they are irretrievably ugly to use, with the need for nested functions.
Once you get past the Dale Carnegie stuff though, the top response is actually dead on the mark.

Your compensation has effectively changed (free time is a form of compensation), so it's time to negotiate this change in compensation. Don't threaten to quit and don't assume you can "educate" the new manager on how the industry works. You can't. Try to come to an agreement on personal compensation. If you succeed, great. If you fail, smile, say "thank you" and start looking for another position.

Not only do I think that's excellent advice, I don't think it differs in any material way from what you're saying.
Yep the wording of the title reeks of a prima dona who has a massive chip on his (and I would bet that it is a male) shoulder.
It Is Now Possible To 3-D Print Your Unborn Fetus
I remember the moment when I opened my mind to the possibility that some immunizations may not be right for my family. It was when I found out doctors get paid to push them.

It used to be you were the only one paying your professional.

Now when I go to see a professional I can't be passive. I have to participate and be active in every decision. Because now I never know if I'm the only customer or if there is some other party to the transaction.

I want to be the only one influencing the behavior of the professional but even a paying customer can't be confident anymore.
Tau version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circle_radians_tau.gif
I was skeptical, but tentatively convinced by the end of the section on the hypersphere volume/surface area.

I don't think it's worth actually changing things, but if we can accept that 2pi is a more natural constant than pi, then it should help us write more sensible formulas, even if the symbol tau isn't used.
Why arbitrary? C=2pi*r. It's degrees that are arbitrary.
80% copy /
20% innovation
There appears to be an implicit assumption in many of these comments that success is measured solely by career progress. The vibe seems to be something like: "How can I successfully compete with these folks who do nothing but work?"

The truth is, maybe you shouldn't try. Clayton Christensen, author of the mega-influential book, "The Innovator's Dilemma," wrote another book that addresses this issue called, "How Will You Measure Your Life?" In it, he recounts how none of his bright, talented, and good-natured classmates from Harvard Business School graduated with plans to get divorced, become ostracized from their children, and end up in prison. Yet some of them did.

He claims that it's easy to optimize for career success because it's straightforward to measure, whereas success in relationships and raising children is only apparent after many years of hard work.

Ultimately, the book encourages its readers to determine their own definition for success and build a strategy to achieve it. If your definition of success includes a certain minimum level of career accomplishment, but also strong, happy relationships, and satisfaction from meaningful volunteer work, then you should not optimize solely for career accomplishment. And perhaps you shouldn't feel weighed-down by the need to compete with exclusively-career-focused individuals.

Quote from interview with Clayton Christensen putting this advice into practice:
"Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance. I never work on Saturday. I don’t ever work on Sunday either. If you make that decision on a macro level once, when all the incremental decisions arise on an incremental basis, life is easier."
http://www.businessinsider.com/clay-christensen-how-will-you...
The 1950's called they want their rationalization back! Think of this a different way. If the woman who decides to stay at home keeps the house incredibly clean, the children bathed and well nourished and is there when they wake up, come home and go to bed but speaks to them only once or twice a day is she crushing her role or sucking at it? I'd say sucking.

Your role is to nourish their brains and souls not just cover their heads and bodies.
I think you missed the point because you list physical appearance and other factors for which there exists statistical data proving it. I'm not saying statistics don't exist, I'm saying the author's generalisations go too far. There are statistics about corruption you can compare between Japan and China. What you can't say is that Chinese are liars and Japanese are honourable.

"Just like all people, all cultures are exactly the same."

It's hard to read through your stream of sarcasm but I think you're building a strawman there. I'm not saying everyone is the same, I'm saying everyone is different and you get nice people in every country just like you can meet utter arseholes anywhere. And really, that's the bit that matters because their height or skin colour and other things you can get handy stats for are largely irrelevant.
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Awesome (although I'm trusting you that the query properly gets posts that made the top 30). This Bitly link will let you see the pretty printed version without having to manually mangle the URL.

http://bit.ly/19DzODh

Top ten for the impatient: github.com, medium.com, youtube.com, techcrunch.com, nytimes.com, bbc.co.uk, wired.com, en.wikipedia.org, arstechnica.com, theguardian.com.
Maybe if you'd decided to keep reading instead of leaping to a self-righteous conclusion you'd have noticed that they called him a sociopath because of his attempts to hire hitmen not because he was involved in drug sales
C = tau * r. Why divide the circle in half?
There is an easy solution:

Follow
http://superuser.com/questions/290280/how-to-download-chrome...
in order to download the crx file manually.

Then unzip it and vet it manually to be clean.

Copy it in a folder, enable extension developer mode in Chrome and install the local copy of the extension.

No autoupdate, everything's fine.

Unfortunately Google plans to disallow local extensions, which is a major disaster and very evil:
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/07/google-block-local-c...

What happened to that?
The wifi problem drives me absolutely nuts. Most of the time I'm somewhere I can use a wired connection but the lack of a solution is incredibly frustrating.
Venmo is getting really popular. I use Venmo on a weekly basis for any shared expenses with friends or co-workers in the Bay Area.

The reason for its quick traction is that if you hook up your checking account you can send money without any fees, and also because they give out referral bonuses for inviting others.
Sorry but wrong.

N Korea was better off economically in 1950 -70s, mainly because of the infrastructure Japan had set up with the goal of using that region as a staging ground for invading Manchuria/China.

S Korea has better infra and education than N Korea.
Perhaps this is slightly off topic, but it seems to me that the 45 hour week is what employers really mean by a 40 hour week. For example, a very recent advertisement for a position at Gold Mansacks stated the job was full time, 40 hours per week,
from 9AM to 6PM. One can argue about lunch time, and whether the 40 hours are to occur somewhere within the hours of 9AM to 6PM. (Something tells me that 10AM to 6PM won't cut it.) In my experience, the mandatory lunch isn't mandatory, and the employer is getting closer to 45 hours than 40. At least to me, there is a significant difference between working 35 hours/week and 40 hours/week,especially if those 40 hours involve another 5 hours for "lunch."
Direct deposit into account when both of us are in Australia. Requires bank account number of recipient. Doesn't incur fees like paypal does.
IntelliJ for development (alongside its plugins like RubyMine/PyCharm) is my most recommended way for anyone who starts to get up to speed and be productive quickly.
Or just by having fairy tales read to her, say. I don't mean Disney-fied ones, of course.

If you read those, there's poor people, people starving to death, people out looking for firewood in the winter, etc, etc. And while some kids just accept it as-is others ask questions. Yes, at 4. It _really_ depends on the child.
C = pi * D
I muddled through it learning electronics not realizing I was not quite understanding it, this helps.

Who was it that said something along the lines of " If you can describe a complex thing to someone briefly in simple terms that shows knowledge" Feynman? Einstein?

Whoever said that I find it profound because most people can learn something eventually but to know something, knowledge, I find close to impossible, very hard.
+1. This is invaluable. This falls in line within a larger frame of thinking -- "immutable infrastructure." Schedule time to regularly provision your entire stack from ground up without any of the caching optimizations and have it run in production.

With tools like Chef & AWS CloudFormation, there shouldn't be an excuse.
Yet you can still do this and hang Visual Studio 2012, and maybe 2013:

* On a new machine (or maybe a new profile, I haven't checked), enable PowerShell's AllSigned option

* Open Visual Studio and open an MVC4 project, bonus points if it's close to the template in terms of installed NuGet packages

* Watch as Visual Studio hangs indefinitely.

This has been reported a number of times to Microsoft, but I don't think it was fixed in Update 4.

What's happening is PowerShell, running inside Visual Studio is prompting for something to do with a signed PowerShell Script, but Visual Studio hasn't loaded enough of the UI to let you accept the warning/prompt.
Paypal, Venmo and Chase QuickPay.
Yes at least in the UK you cannot end up with a huge un-payable tax bill for worthless options.
I am a data scientist and right now I am working on exactly this problem: automatically identifying good content; in my case among piles of user generated content. The question is how do you define that? It's not what most people like (or at least say they like), it's not what most people share or reply to.

I wonder if anyone here has a good idea.
Maybe I'm just unlucky but I've never worked at a startup where pressure relents on engineering after the initial push. I feel on call 24/7 now that we're in production with paying customers.
Looks like a very promising concept, at least from a technical perspective. I don't rate its chances of success all that highly, since it needs a lot of buy-in before it gets enough network effects, but it's nice to see someone genuinely trying to find workable solutions to what we can no longer deny are serious privacy and security problems with the current setup.

Something I'm not clear on is the licencing of the code. Is it open-source? For trust reasons I'd want to be able to read it.
Yes I agree it's hard and I struggle with some of these issues but I'm luckier I'm a bit older (wiser) Probably would have screwed it up more 10 years ago. He mentions "truth in calendaring" which is pretty good. The raw point there is that right now your actions reflect your preferences. You love everything about your startup and want to be connected to every little blip every waking second. There's nothing wrong with that per se. Some people just freaking love to work and build things and have that adrenaline thrill. The problem arises if you think about losing your family. He makes a quick reference in the article but it sounds like his wife pretty much threatened to leave him and only then did he pull his head out of his ass. So think about it like that. How much fun would your startup be if you were coming home to an empty house? That'll chill you enough to shut off the phone or force calendar an evening a week or a full 6 hours one weekend afternoon unplugged and just fully immersed with your family.
I had similar problem few days ago ...

I'm using "Super Awesome New Tab Page" for Chrome, and since few days ago random ads started popping on youtube, ebay, dx.com, amazon etc ... Took me ~30 mins to figure out which extension it was, and removed it... They also injected <script> tags to ALL websites I visited (that loaded external JS), tracking my history and they could easily put any form/input logging and silently insert keylogger into my Chrome if they wanted. I have reported the extension then, but nothing happened yet.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-new-tab-pa...
This is what it's like hiring a developer:

Me: "I need an omlette for breakfast tomorrow morning"

Developer: "Tomorrow is too soon. That's not enough time to raise a chicken."

Me: "I don't want you to raise the chicken and make the eggs yourself. Just go to the store and buy eggs."

Developer: "I can't do that. That's not the proper way to get eggs. We have to do it the complicated way, so that I can feel like I'm an elite programmer."
As I said I'm not endosring it. Just explaining what seemed like a gap for so many readers.
Painfully slow, and now throwing 404s. Devs get hard-ons for fat client front-ends when web servers since the early 90s have been able to trivially serve up this kind of content.
While some jobs are in fact harder than other jobs, I will bet that being a typical stay-at-home parent with three children (the situation under discussion here) is in fact harder in most ways than being an average 777 pilot. It's certainly harder than programming, and I say that having tried both. Especially if the children are fairly closely spaced and still young. If you think staying at home with three kids is likely to be _boring_ (as opposed to not intellectually stimulating, which is a different story), I have to wonder whether you've ever tried it.

Of course it's a lot easier in the short term to get away with being a crappy parent than a crappy pilot...
So I will connect to Facebook without a password and that will prevent ID thieves to impersonate me?
"free access to Amazon Instant Video"

should read "free restricted access to Amazon Instant Video" the restrictions are many (no HD in a browser) and many venues you would expect are simply closed, such as Tivo. They intentionally mislead all over their site as to what it really means.
OTOH, rented modems get bursting and owned modems don't, so you may see lower speeds. In general, getting the speed you pay for is an orthogonal issue from renting vs. buying the modem. If you're on a high-end plan (as it appears the author is) TWC should have given you a 3.0 modem already. If not, it should be free to swap modems.
FWIW, this applies to Comcast too.

Protip: buy a used modem say SB6120/SB6121 off of craigslist for about $30-40 and never have to pay that silly $7 fee that Comcast has been sticking to customers forever.
Windows download page not found
http://www.invictus.dev/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip

edit: OK, some of the download links are broken. This one works:
http://invictus.io/bin/keyhotee_0.5.0.zip
I think the term complex is massively overused. With a clear explanation many things are really quite simple. The difficulty in understanding something is far more likely to come from confusion in the instructor's mind than the student's.
Clearly the author has never stepped foot inside a cheese factory. Here is what happens:

Milk arrives

Milk get pasteurised

Rennet gets added to milk

Milk separates to curds and whey

Salt gets added

Whey gets drained off

Whey gets compressed into moulds with remaining whey squeezed out

Moulded blocks of what was whey go into plastic bags, put in the cold storage 'fridge'

After a while the moulded blocks mature into cheese. Typically they weigh 25 Kg each. Over time they mature - mature cheese is a premium product, however, the cold storage facility is only so big. Therefore some cheese gets sold as 'mild'.

The price of milk comes into it. As does what cows eat. As does how much rain falls. Sometimes it is better to make coloured cheese or 'diet' cheese if the milk is not up to scratch.

The whey actually is a very salty 'byproduct'. You can put it into a big machine that looks like a washing machine and churn it into butter. It will be salted butter because it already has salt in it.

As for wastage of the 'curd', there is practically none in a modern cheese factory. So I have no idea what this author is on about. You may have a useless employee knock a corner off a cheese block due to poor handling, but other than that there is practically no waste. The idea of 'what shall we do with this waste' is a bit beyond a joke.

This 'Velveeta' stuff has nothing to do with cheese. It is disgusting. The ingredients say it all. It is a fake product, like what salad cream is to mayonnaise. There is no quaint charm about it, no matter what the spin is here.

However, in the days before refrigeration was commonplace there was good reason to adulterate products so that they could have some half-decent shelf life. So, even though the original product was honourable, today's monster, reformulated product is just plain evil. Avoid with a bargepole.
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I work for a large non-IT company in the midwest. People with the ability to translate between business process teams and development teams are always in demand.
Also, although it seems to be looked down on by the hacker community, SAP/ABAP skills are good if you don't mind the enterprise environment.