skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way that's what some of the early 20th century Marxists (in the group of "Orthodox Marxists") were arguing. In the extreme form of that view they had a view on management that aligned nearly 100% with the view of the big capitalist "barons". A common view among industrialists of the era (starting in the late 19th century) was that modern scientific management, statistics, supply-chain-management, etc., was making bazaar-style capitalism obsolete, and ushering in an era of efficient, centralized, vertically and horizontally integrated, scientifically optimized production. That was one of the arguments used against anti-trust legislation: industrialists argued that anti-trust legislation was just purposely shoring up obsolete, inefficient models based on the medieval bazaar, which were out of touch with a modern scientific, centralized industrial sector.

A certain variety of early Marxism said more or less: yes, we agree with all that. Except for one thing: once industrial capitalism has centralized the economy, with a few huge trusts running things as a smoothly oiled production machine, the shareholders are now more or less superfluous. So, we'll just knock 'em off and distribute the proceeds of this machine among all the workers equally. The industrial capitalists only disagreed with the idea of socialist central planning in that they didn't want to distribute the proceeds of central planning, not in believing that decentralized planning was better. Many did agree that some kind of redistribution was necessary so that all society benefitted, but they preferred redistribution managed by the monopoly capitalists themselves in the form of philanthropy, which they felt they would be able to thoughtfully manage (Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth is representative of this view).
I'm not going to visit every blog that occasionally has interesting news to me on a daily basis. But I'm content to scan headlines/summaries in my RSS reader (Feedly) to pick out the gems. I follow a number of blogs that aren't popular or well known, so expecting them to show up on [insert name of social network/news agreggator here] would be folly.
As one GT grad (MCRP03) to another...get off the bridge a build a castle (or a speed boat) -- on a solid foundation. When I sang "I'm a hellava engineer" at graduation I was entering real estate for a short and successful (until the music stopped) career wishing I actually had been an engineer when the banks failed. Now that I am an engineer -- and someone who's been f@!37cked a few times over for not choosing CS (self taught) -- I feel like I know what it means to be lost then found...it sounds like you need to dig deeper into programming.

When I started I thought I would do web apps but I just didn't feel like an engineer no matter how well I learned JS (I read four books before I used my first API). Picking up C and objective C has been far more rewarding even though I've only put one app in the store to date.

Your mind is plastic and needs to be told what to be. Don't settle on fu$&%d.
Thanks for your response.

I had a feeling I was going of faulty memory myself. I will certainly find out about that book.
Oh nice, haven't used this in years but will download right now, bring back some memories :')
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Suspected NSA FOXACID server advertised at HOPE 9
I really wish ES6 does that because as it is, Javascript only has two things going for it: the speed provided by the big boys (V8, xMonkey, etc) and the fact that it's only language available on the web. And none of those are merits of the language itself. Kind of sad.
What is more strange, is that Wolfenstein 3D was allowed on the App Store then…

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-plati...
That math doesn't add up. Once you choose your editor, you're no longer spending 90% of your time choosing it. (Other tools, sure, but you can't get away from that - any more than you can build a log cabin by chewing the trees down with your teeth.)

This article also assumes that the editor you end up choosing does nothing to increase your productivity. Nobody's going to be able to effectively work on a large Java app in notepad.exe.
Rare? Quite the contrary. The average life expectancy of a fiat currency is 27 years [1]. This is across 775 currencies.

[1] http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/08/average-life-e...
I've worked with quite a number of former Soviet block programmers, and a common story I heard was how limited access to actual computers meant they had to write their programs out and hand validate them so that when they got their actual time-slice on the real thing, the program ran the first time. Almost every one of them was a very, very good programmer.
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The main difference I'm seeing here is that the current model is siloed, e.g Military-Industrial, Media, Wall Street. The interesting thing here is that this model aspired to optimize the entire economy and all of it's pieces. What we have now is really expansion over optimization, and it will continue to do while we follow the culture of ego. Things like improving living standards and happiness really involve going beyond this solipsist mess we seem to be in.
Yes, all of WW2 they were opposing each other. Just because they split Poland doesn't mean they weren't enemies, it was nothing more than opportunism.

While Hitler was busy carving up Poland, he was planning the entire time for how to bring Russia to its knees. At no point did he plan for anything but eventual confrontation with Russia.

If I give you a ride home today, while plotting your demise for tomorrow, we're not pals.
Synthesio secures $20M
I really wanted prismatic to be the replacement for google reader, but after a year with it I still feel like I have lots of unmet needs.
If most people don't know about this then it should be in Arch Linux's Unofficial Beginner's Guide.
Uhm, why this if we have GPG? I've never heard of Text Shredder and automatically distrust any new crypto (just look at Telegram), whereas GPG is very well known and much more battle tested.

Edit: The download button gives me some .exe file and the source code is Microsoft shit. Not gonna work.

Edit2: It seems to use AES ECB. Definitely secure... not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tux_ecb.jpg

Pseudocode of what it does:

function EncryptBlock(data, password)
encrpytedMessage = aes.Encrypt(data, passwd, salt, pbkdf2RoundsCount);
return encrpytedMessage; // sic

function aes.Encrypt(data, pwd, salt, pwd_rounds)
hash = pbkdf2(pwd, salt, rounds);
IV = hash.getBytes(16);
passwd = hash.getBytes(32);
encrypted = aes(data, passwd, IV);
return encrypted;
Where? Growth Hacking lol.
A rejection with no proposed solution is the most extreme result of an app review. I would think that would get reviewed by someone higher up.
eBay and Amazon is different. Pushing shipping fees into the item cost is a profit driver for them. When you pay shipping explicitly, those costs usually aren't driving profits.

Remember the classic EBay scam back in the old days? You'd sell some widget for $5, with $25 shipping. Commissions were calculated on the item cost and excluded shipping.

Also, Amazon is making rule/practice changes that are eroding the benefit of Prime. In 2010, they would send products to me that weren't in east cost warehouses via 2nd Day air. These days, they usually just deliver it late.
They're getting there in some places. Netflix is a tad popular in the US, here and there.

Hollywood has two major issues that's aren't faced by the music industry. The first is the theatrical release window: they're tied in to a business model in pretty much every country worldwide where a significant chunk of their revenue comes from a system that relies on limited availability via a single method. This is changing, slowly. The window is shrinking and iTunes is being used to push out online releases prior to the DVD hitting retail. But it's slow and will not go away unless there is some seismic change.

The second issue is international releases. Unlike music, films needs to be dubbed / subbed for releasing in many countries. This means staggered availability for most films worldwide (less so for the massive blockbusters which have resources thrown at them to ensure simultaneous release as much as possible to maximise the return from publicity), staggered retail windows, etc etc. It makes catch-all online release services more difficult to produce.

On top of all that? There are three (verging on two) major record labels worldwide (plus a bunch of indies who often operate quite well together). There are six major film studios in the US, seven if you count Lionsgate, multiple major studios in many individual countries, and persuading all of those to do the same thing at the same time and throw all of their films onto a Netflix-style service in every country worldwide....? I'd rather fight a hundred transformer sized ducks.
To me, the key phrase is

"My favorite job was probably the year I worked at Apple retail in college, because I got to explain technology to people and change their lives in some small way."

I moved from programming to techsupport and ended up in marketing exactly because I liked helping people troubleshoot and/or make the most of our product, and now I like telling them a product exists that solves their problem. I feel great reading customers' emails with praise of our product, even though I have not written a single line of its code. (Full disclosure: I either wrote or edited most of the documentation.) I also do a bit of programming every now and then, either for our Web site or to automate my or colleague's work.

So can you think of some other job where you would change people's lives while still doing some programming? Maybe for some non-profit/charity? There are quite a few startups in this area too these days, like Watsi.
There is a huge uprising about Mac Book Pro's motherboard's failing. I wonder if this would work for the issues described here. https://discussions.apple.com/message/25163418?ac_cid=tw1234...
Dispatch from 2015: Warren Buffett, “I wish I had bought Bitcoin years ago”
The Disappearance of Collective Hope
Except that primary_extension does not serve any purpose.
If the Russians hadn't been on the opposite side against the Germans, we'd be speaking German now.
Whenever I'm looking for something that I can't find through other channels, I fall back to soulseek and it never fails me.
I will soon be working as a PM at one of the big tech companies as my first job.

I've gotten the gist of these lessons from a software engineering class, HN articles, and from my internship (at the same company), but I'm still not very confident about becoming a great PM. Can you recommend any books or resources that covers more of this kind of stuff?
Immigrant communities often live together. Let one known undocumented worker in, and State Security can then follow them to uncover existing communities.

I feel bad having just written this.
You might want to brush up on that list of yours:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Examples_of_hype...

Anyways, insuring against political instability is not a bad idea
Stability comes with volume.
So. Many. Weasel words.
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Yes it looks like you are correct. By 1942 they were fighting against each other. I don't know what the game allows, but reading the article I got the impression that those entities were only depicted as enemies. If that's not the case then it appears to be a misapplication or mistake according to the app store rules.
I assume what was meant was "all the implications", not "all the technical details." There probably are people who fully understand the latter.
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring
Well... I'm 33, and in a similar boat. Except, I don't feel fucked.

I crashed out of Software Engineering aged 19, because I couldn't hack the maths, and a bunch of personal stuff. So I got a law degree. Then I went and worked in government (in the UK) for 7 years, before deciding that, yep, I actually did hate it, and leaving when they decided to pay a bunch of us off. I went to work for a startup (non tech role), because I wanted to learn about starting a business and running a startup. I learned a bunch, mostly about what not to do.

Then I decided to (re)learn to code, and hacked together http://test.gmbl.io - it just about works, but I'm only a couple of steps beyond your 'couldn't deploy anything more than a single page application' ability, I think.

Largely it depends WHAT you want to do. Sorry to be brutal but wanting to "make a real impact through technology" isn't what you want to do. It's the output of something, you're having the Coffee Shop Problem. Lots of people say they want to run a coffee shop. No, they don't. They want to hang out in a coffee shop, drinking coffee and chatting to customers. Not grinding beans, cleaning stale milk out, mopping floors and humphing inventory all over the place for basically minimum wage (in most cases.) What do you actually want to do on a day-to-day basis? If you like coding, then do that. If you don't, do something else.

If you want to code and don't have the degree, get more technical and build your portfolio. If you want to do product management (which sounds like a shout), then DO IT for a bunch of products - your own or someone else's.

Edit: I got more technical, but I don't use it on a day-to-day basis for work - just to solve my own side-project-problems.
It's amazing how people accept censorship when it comes from Apple or other corporations (as evidenced by the sales and usage of iPhones and similar technology) yet complain when the government does it. What's even harder to accept is the extent of damage that a corporation like Apple does in this case. Through arbitrary censorship, they're essentially eliminating other businesses' ability to exist. They're essentially saying, "develop at your own risk." A company who has poured a ton of money and development resources into a project that falls within guidelines can no longer publish their product because of the invisible guidelines at Apple and their rigidity. One would think they would at least have an appeals process to deal with all the mistakes.

EDIT: With arbitrary approval like this, what is the incentive for a business to take such a huge risk?
It reminds me a lot of the present day "Zeitgeist Movement".
It is not CloudFlare, but I would be fascinated to learn some more technical detail of these attacks as I work on systems to block this type of Layer 7 attack.
This ... this is humor, right? I'm not running afoul of Poe's Law? The vim license bit (and what looks like Sublime Text in a screenshot claiming to be vim) seem to be hints. Perhaps even the misuse of "medal" is one too. I want to think this, though.

Taking this seriously: I've used input redirection to write things in dire circumstances a few times, but beyond that, anything that changes that file would be a text editor by definition.
I remember that they allowed Wolfenstein 3D, as does Apple;

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-plati...
Finally!!! I thread that I feel that most competent at answering!

My background is highly similar to yours. I started life as a Mechanical Engineering student and quickly grew to dislike the degree. I discovered that I did enjoy running projects and my school offered a degree in Engineering Management. It's one of the few schools that has that degree AND is an ABET accredited program, its mostly a manufacturing based degree, my specialty was Industrial Engineering.

I digress...

My initial job out of school was operations for tin rolling mill, I quit before my first day. I switched to aerospace avionics/comms. I guess I was really lucky in the fact that my department was really meant for gray beard engineers, and I did do a lot of grunt work. I was, and still am, a hybrid part business and part engineer. I've since moved through a couple of different positions but I've landed at a web agency as a technical project manager. In the beginning it was a lot a harder to find positions. Why? Not many companies are interested in Junior Project Managers. Despite the belief, being a good project manager isn't easy and requires experience that's not easily gained by hacking at some software in your undies (that's my weekend hobby). Particularly dealing with clients, there's no substitute for experience.

I'm a bit older than you, and I know that you feel fucked at 25, I did too. Ever job posting wants more experience than you have. Do the very best you can now to pick up those key responsibilities and accomplishments of a project manager. Make sure you resume resonates the level of responsibility. I ran a $300k project 2 yrs out of school, which was a lot of money for my company. I made sure that was on my resume.

I'm currently looking to relocate to the Austin, TX area and for the first time, I'm telling companies that I'm not interested in them. Here's why I'm now successful:

1. In small companies devs & design tend to dislike PMs, there's a lot of bad ones out there, and a lot that have no clue. I'm pretty good with Linux and I can write some basic Django & Python scripts, but I've also managed some very nasty clients.
2. It's experience, I run about 4-5 projects at at time now.
3. Just stick with it.

To give you an idea, I'm approaching about 6 yrs of work experience now. It's been an uphill battle but nothing easy is worth having.

My suggestion to you is look for opportunities to grow your BA & PM skills, while your technical skills are important as well the focus for you should be the former. The technical skills are easier to pick up on your own.
"He stays away" is not the same as "he recommends everyone stay away". He's not saying "I don't understand it, make sure you do before you invest." He's saying "investing is a bad move, period."
Isn't the whole point of distributed VCS like git not to rely on a unique root ?

I don't use Git at work (SourceSafe ftw), but if I had to, I would use Github as a long-term backup storage, not as the nexus point of my dev env.
>apps that are clearly against the app store guidelines

The absurdity is that all they need to do is change "Germans" to "World War 2 Enemy #1" and it passes the guideline.
Some of us would, perhaps. Not the British though (although you have to wonder about what would happen if Germany got the bomb first). America would definitely be speaking whatever the hell the wanted to.
Semi-technical for you is plenty technical to someone else, and it's interesting that your favorite job at Apple retail involved explaining technology.
It does if the player can only play as one of the factions. Especially if the factions are really called "Germans" and "Russians". The war was fought between the Axis and the Soviet Union, which included plenty of nations besides Germany and Russia. Also, "Germans" and "Russians" are not the same as "Germany" and "Russia" (there were Germans, for example, who fought against Germany too).

But the article doesn't say much about the game, so I don't know if this was the case.
> I see, still thats quite a bit especially when need to hand over a large chunk on any sale from Irish/EU28 customers in tax!

I am not sure I understand what you are talking about. If we set the price at $1K, we get from FastSpring $1K minus their commission, whether the customer has paid the EU VAT or some sales tax on top of that $1K or not. And it is FastSpring that does EU VAT remittance.
From the 'date' command manual, there's more readable alternatives:

show New York time 14:25 in your local time zone:
~$ date --date 'TZ="America/New_York" 2014-03-14 14:25'

show New York time 14:25 in Alberta time zone:
~$ TZ="Australia/Alberta" date --date 'TZ="America/New_York" 2014-03-14 14:25'

On a GNU/Linux system, for more timezone strings see
ls -Ral /usr/share/zoneinfo/
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun was available on the GameCube, where you fight the Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor%3A_Rising_Sun
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I wrote a clone with a configurable grid size.

https://bitbucket.org/ElwinR/ipv4-defrag

I decided to give it a network admin theme, but don't be fooled, it's really the same game.
You got a firewall so you don't have to wonder.
Whoa, no. You pass errors as the first argument, but that's about as much convention as there is. There certainly isn't anything official or whatever on what to do with them, here or in any other framework.
Laws on disposal of bodies tend to be fairly strongly-worded for reasons rational and otherwise. I'd check before making such an assumption.
Buffet and his business partner Charlie Munger have a simple philosophy: You can't make intelligent evaluations about everything, so focus on the (simple) things you can evaluate well, and pick the best of those to invest in.

It works well enough as an investment strategy, assuming the political landscape affecting the moral view of businesses doesn't change radically, or at least it has worked well for the last ~half century. It also means you end up investing in candy companies, sugar water companies (Coca Cola), sugar tomato sauce companies (Heinz)... (and did they invest in a tobacco company? I don't remember, but Buffet was on record in the 1980's praising the business model of big tobacco, even though he later changed his tune.) Note the externalities and lack of vision: some major BRK investments are in companies that are rather bad for people's health.

Buffet and Munger are very smart. They know their limits, and they are fanatical about avoiding cognitive bias. They're very ethical within the small domain of their business. However, they don't concern themselves with, or dream about, the big picture. They have avoided most tech companies, for good reason, but individual tech companies have flourished (e.g. Microsoft and Oracle, then Apple and Google, and now newer startups). Being too complex to be favored by Buffet and Munger does not necessarily mean you will fail.

Seeing Buffet complain about bitcoin, I have to wonder why he's warning investors about something he doesn't understand (nothing against him; neither do I) rather than focusing on his core competency. The sad answer, I fear, is that Berkshire Hathaway is in the politics business now because their business has gotten too unwieldy (which they're honest about; they openly admitted long ago that returns would decline). Slowing the decline in their rate of return is their business now, and that means playing politics. Bitcoin, whether it's viable or not, could be a threat to the economic establishment. Therefore, it threatens Berkshire Hathaway, and rather than staying silent on the subject like he does about almost everything else he doesn't understand, he makes a public statement against bitcoin.
It surprises me that GitHub doesn't sell/license a 'GitHub Appliance' that can get installed locally, but mirrors with something on their side too.
If you mean PM as in Project Manager/Management, then please read this one for sure [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
There have been quite a few Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games on Nintendo systems where you have to fight German or Japanese enemies.
It's one thing to say "I don't understand it, that's why I'm staying away from it", it's another thing to say "I do understand it, you should stay away from it and here's why", but I'm not sure why anyone would listen to somebody who says "I don't understand it but you should stay away from it."
> In a synchronous language, you HAVE TO go to one shard, then another, then another, and the time is 10x longer.

Have you ever heard of threads?