skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the current, non-EncFS compatible version open source for the crypto components or audited by anyone reputable? If not we don't necessarily have any reason to believe it's safer.
People should stop using the term waterfall to describe any real process. It's only been used to describe a fictitious cartoon of a process, purely for the sake of their argument.

That wikipedia article is a bit of a mess, but read the article at footnote 7:

http://www.idinews.com/waterfall.html

"There's no such thing as the Waterfall Approach!
(and there never was)"
I thought this would be a perfect article for testing our some summarize tools :). According to the osx summarizer tool, the following came up when I set to 1 sentence:

It’s the angst of an early hire at a start-up that only he realizes is failing; the angst of a founder who raises $5 million for his company and then finds out an acquaintance from college raised $10 million; the angst of someone who makes $100,000 at 22 but is still afraid that he may not be able to afford a house like the one he grew up in.
What Running Can Do for the Heart
At some point people need to stop treating the web as something distinctly separate from the rest of human life. If a huge majority of business interaction is conducted on-line it is not e-business but just business. If you are socialising with friends on-line it is not social networking or IM, it is just socialising. Basic protections existed in law before the web and they should still exist now. That means that piracy is unlawful, but so is spying without a warrant. The web is just a set of protocols and does not have unique set of protections or privileges for anyone. Problems should be addressed by modifying the protocols in an open way.
Future of Post-It Notes
You don't have mutable branches in Git, I think he refers to commits mercurial don't allow you to alter (public ones).

Local branches in Hg is the same as bookmarks you havent pushed.

Remote tracking branches in Hg would be bookmarks you have pushed.
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The average wage in Vietnam is $2,200 a year.[1] He made over 22 times the average yearly wage in a day. The average wage in the US is $50,233.[2] 22 times that is $1,105,126.

If you did that for a month, that would be the Vietnam purchasing equivalent of maybe about $33,000,000. He still has income coming in from the game, it hasn't stopped. He has enough money to retire and live a nice life in Vietnam.

For many people (myself included) enough is enough! He made enough and now he wants to get back to his quiet simple life. That is what he values, not an endless quest for more money. He felt the game was destroying his life. I don't blame him, I wouldn't want that kind of attention either.

Some people can just be happy with what they have.

[1]http://www.thanhniennews.com/business/vietnam-average-monthl...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
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I'm in an open office at this moment. Nobody is wearing headphones. Everybody is working, there is a tiny bit of chatter now and then but nothing distracting. The feeling of other people working seems to affect my own productivity positively (no, the irony of me being on HN is not lost on me. I'm taking a five minute break).

But then, I also like to work in cafés. In fact, when I work from home I will sometimes open www.rainycafe.com to "simulate" that feeling. As long as nobody is speaking really loud or addressing me directly, it doesn't disturb me.
That's probably the case. The author of the article is David Kushner, writer of "Masters of Doom", so he probably knows Romero pretty well.
Seeing an article that gives Latin words as an example of English language pronunciation errors makes me shake my head. Seeing that the example given contains an error itself (his "correct" version of "ex-cetera" is "etcetera," where it is supposed to be written as two words, "et cetera") makes me bang my head into my desk—twice.
> The backlash in recent months against the self-involvement and frivolity of the new guard has actually been a long time coming. Instagram photos of opulent tech holiday parties have been lambasted, Google buses blockaded

In what universe is a carpooling system that gets dozens of cars off the road and allows each passenger to reclaim ten working hours a week classified as frivolous?
Because framework that big takes months to understand and discover, a 2 week project is the same as a 'hello world' when it comes to gauging a framework.

You're in the enlightenment phase. You start to understand some critical part of the framework and you feel giddy about it.

However good angular.js is, your feeling right now is due to you wrapping your head around angular, not angular being awesome.

I strongly think it's a dumb idea to jump around framework that does the same thing (1 project rails, another nodejs, another sinatra, etc.)

Choose angular, or backbone, or ember and stick with it, you'll learn a lot more.
Yeah... no. He had already been in power for years when she got here, and there were decades between then and the campaign in question. The evidence under discussion doesn't rule out that interpretation, but it doesn't actually make it particularly likely.
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In the US the increased use and then widespread adoption of Common Core over the past decade or so has changed mathematics pedagogy. There's much more attention to procedurall reasoning and its systematic content standards in the elementary grades has reduced the prevalence of ad hoc methods.

When my son started multiplying fractions, the instruction from the teacher was clear and to the point: Parents don't teach them the methods you learned.
At this stage, we need someone to write an article about "Why open floor plans being bad for programming will never, ever be fixed."
All branches can change, and are mutable in that regard (altough commits can't change).

Local branch == Bookmark with unpushed changesets

All branches and commits/changesets are treated equal.

Yeah. In mercurial you have Branches and Bookmarks. In git you just have branches. Head is the current checked out commit/changeset. Git doesn't allow you to alter commits, only branches, so every modification in Git is inherently safe.
* Unique PREFIX; cool. Where do I get signed labels and checksums?

* I fail to see how baking configuration into packages can a) reduce complexity; b) obviate the need for configuration management.

* How do you diff filesystem images when there are unique PREFIXes in the paths?

A salt module would be fun to play around with.

How likely am I to volunteer to troubleshoot your unique statically-linked packages?
I am so tired of this kind of ignorant bullshit. Do you folks still think countries like Vietnam are still like what they were thirty years ago? Like it or not, that part of the world has changed a lot.
Mega.co.nz removed Popcorn Time (http://getpopcornti.me)
The file you are trying to remove is currently not available.
>There's a lot of crazy that goes on in a desktop OS that must be cruft left over from legacy.

I agree with you but it depends on what you mean by cruft. There aren't really any windows features that actively consume (noticeable) resources and are not useful to someone. Designing feature rich software for a billion different usecases is quite hard. Its reasonably easy to make one-off products that just do one thing well.

> If you put a bad CD in it you can lock the whole window manager up while it's thrashing the CD to be head or tales of it. Sometimes crash it. As soon as you hit the hardware eject it will free back up.

Wow.. are you running Windows 95 ? :) The CD thing was common back then. The only reason this can happen on NT is because of some really buggy driver/hardware combination but even that is highly unlikely. Whats far more likely is you have some kind of buggy explorer plugin that is attempting to generate helpful thumbnails or something while enumerating an unreadable medium. AFAIK Explorer is still single-threaded for the most part for backwards compatibility - which worsens the impact. (Unfortunately a lot of this crap is preinstalled by the OEM) IMO Microsoft made an enormous mistake by allowing third parties to extend their OS in ways that can seriously impact user experience like that. Learn from Apple, MS !

>There was the post on HN some months back about the tickrate in windows being set by random applications super low and not being put back up so it uses lots of extra power for no reason.

Are you talking about timer coalescing? I believe you cant change that setting without a reboot. Or perhaps you mean something else.
Nice idea, but I don't believe there are no opponents available with this #1 on HN ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection#H-adding
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Well, no. These are _at most_ the names of various third-party extensions, which are not even distributed with Core.

Mercurial itself has just heads, which can be named or not. Bookmarks are orthogonal to the whole thing.
he was too quick to release...
Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality (US Adults)
The obesity epidemic is attributed in part to reduced physical activity. Evidence supports that reducing time spent sitting, regardless of activity, may improve the metabolic consequences of obesity. Analyses were conducted in a large prospective study of US adults enrolled by the American Cancer Society to examine leisure time spent sitting and physical activity in relation to mortality. Time spent sitting and physical activity were queried by questionnaire on 53,440 men and 69,776 women who were disease free at enrollment. The authors identified 11,307 deaths in men and 7,923 deaths in women during the 14-year follow-up. After adjustment for smoking, body mass index, and other factors, time spent sitting (≥6 vs. <3 hours/day) was associated with mortality in both women (relative risk = 1.34, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.25, 1.44) and men (relative risk = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.11, 1.24). Relative risks for sitting (≥6 hours/day) and physical activity (<24.5 metabolic equivalent (MET)-hours/week) combined were 1.94 (95% CI: 1.70, 2.20) for women and 1.48 (95% CI: 1.33, 1.65) for men, compared with those with the least time sitting and most activity. Associations were strongest for cardiovascular disease mortality. The time spent sitting was independently associated with total mortality, regardless of physical activity level. Public health messages should include both being physically active and reducing time spent sitting.
I agree with you except the "level up" word choice. That implies that it is necessarily better, whereas I still think that's up for debate.

I think we've all been burnt by "magic" code before. A good "smell" for that sort of thing is when newbies start asking questions on stack exchange like "How do I do this in Angular?" when they should be asking "How do I do this in JavaScript?" (or rather "How do I do this at all?").
I've found a couple of issues:

- With a clear point advantage still both players get declared winner

- After one move I was declared loser, while actually I made the only move and it was a valid one as well, with loads of options left (as it was the first move)

- It thinks the game is finished on random occasions.
What?

Git push by default pushes to where you cloned from. If you want to push to a different remote, you say so: "git push another-remote". If the remote doesn't have that branch, you create it, same as you would with bookmarks in mercurial.

git push == push all branches to origin
hg push == push all changesets to origin
Design Guidelines for Application Performance (2004)
Hmm, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take this. Does or does google NOT shut down services when they feel like it? :-)
My point is that Git has accumulated too much cruft and has introduced one too many concepts to be usable.

Your point is totally invalid, since git is self-evidently successful, and regarded by many people as usable.

The "cruft" you've pointed to consists of usable, useful features. So it would be useful to talk more about areas in which git could improve—even if that involves looking at features from Mercurial—rather than engaging in vague and abstract descriptions of "cruft".
Ask HN: How productive are you?
I'm a programmer at a trading firm, and I am interested in how productive or unproductive people in this industry are. I know it's hard to quantify productivity and even more so comparing across industries and projects, but some anecdotes could help paint the picture.

Do you sometimes spend a whole day working on a supposedly "simple" bug fix? Do you spend most of the day in meetings? How many hours do you work? How has this changed over your career?

I know productivity is not measured in hours.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else agrees with the author about disliking it when people walk behind him. For some reason, I find having people behind me really distracting. I think it stems from having people watch my screen while I try to code. Instant productivity killer.

Interestingly, I don't find this precludes open plan offices. It just means I want to grab a corner desk.
Apparently you lose by getting the higher score.
Would love to see numba added into this benchmark.
Eh... to my mind it partly depends on the degree they benefit and the degree of harm they inflict (taking into account a bunch of things, including the chance of someone else doing the same thing instead of them). But I agree that the balance of blame should be reserved for the system when it is structured in a way that encourages poor behavior and leads to poor results,
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It's the same for me I really dislike the idea of having people behind me and not knowing what they are doing. I also don't really like knowing people can stare at my screen so I always try to win a spot in a corner or with my back to a wall
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GnuPG can encrypt files and is more secure.
I think I would take everything CSR says with a grain of salt. Within ATT they are probably near the last to know of any official policy change. My hunch is that it's just a rumor.
I'm in a coworking space right now and I'm one of the only one I can see with headphones on all day. And I wear them by choice, I really love to work with music, not because I want to avoid the noise around me
In my experience with Angular, both in the capacity of using it and teaching it, is that there is this huge amount of rote facts that need to be absorbed. THAT is the "steep learning curve" that people talk about. Directives, for instance, require understanding of what "@", "=", and "&" mean in relation to your isolated scope...

The analogy that I present that it is like multiplication tables and algebra. If you don't have the FACTS by rote, it is a way harder to do useful work.

A nice set of ng-flashcards would probably be very useful :>
o·ver·blown, ˌōvərˈblōn/
1. excessively inflated or pretentious.
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2. (of a flower) past its prime.
"an overblown rose"

These JavaScript frameworks are overblown.
From what I have read, attractiveness is highly advantageous for all defendants, except when the crime was attractiveness-related (such as swindle). In the latter case, attractive people instead get harsher sentences.

(See Harold Sigall and Nancy Ostrove, Beautiful but Dangerous: Effects of Offender Attractiveness and Nature of the Crime on Juridic Judgment)
Skype works perfectly fine on linux natively and has for a while.
Google knows that the Open Source development process while nice and warm and fuzzy, can get in your way when you don't own the entire development of the project - especially if this is a product that can impact your revenue. Others can arbitrarily (sometimes with good reason) block your feature pushes and slow down your product releases. They did the right thing forking webkit, keeping Android/Chromium in-house, and are doing the right thing here. - IMHO.
Ask HN: Suggest a platform for programming blog
Hi,

I want to start a programming blog to share my experiences nowadays. I think I've got enough experience to guide fellow new developers. There will be plenty of code in the blog too. So I was wondering which platform suits my needs.

- Ghost
- Blogger
- Medium
- Wordpress
- Github Pages with Jekyll
- My custom site?
- Other

Thanks :)
I am pretty sure a dormitory is the exact opposite of an open floor plan, in most dorms people have their own space that they may share with someone and then common spaces that everyone shares. Contrast to open floor plan where every space is a common area.
It will only take one sales person to shatter that.

If everyone is being quiet creative it's fine.

Introduce a person constantly on the phone and it's not.

The other ones, and god I hate them, are the pacing round the office while on a mobile. Only topped by pacing round the office on a mobile who's route goes behind your chair. The most distracting thing in the world to me.
All the players I played against play blazingly fast, seems almost just mindless bashing. Is it just me who actually takes their sweet time thinking about every move?
Forcing your music on others in an office is simply not done. Your colleague can use headphones if they want to listen to music. I've usually had a co-worker who preferred to listen to music, which was never a problem.
Animating XKCD #1335 with HTML5
although its labelled and oft quoted as such the black book is really an optimisation manual in disguise imo.

the content on graphics is virtually non-existent except for outdated information about old hardware interfaces from a time before DirectX, OpenGL and any particularly friendly rendering interfaces (so there was GDI and Win32 for early Windows, but we weren't yet in the time where programmers could spunk away resources and the hardware suck it up without destroying your performance).

there is some discussion on VSD techniques, the bresenham line algorithm etc. but these are also outdated - libraries today draw lines for us and even AAA games can ship without giving a serious crap about culling and hit framerate...

i do still highly recommend reading it, just don't expect to learn anything useful about graphics. my main takeaway from this book was 'optimise by measuring then experimenting and measuring to confirm the optimisation'. its so obvious but a large number of programmers i've worked with seem to prefer to guess and not measure...
Nice article. Never heard of tinkerforge before, interesting tech. And using Node.js for home automation is interesting. I wrote my home automation in C and use various Arduino's and I plan to add some Pi's.
This is why instincts are relevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisit...
What content makes up an Android Game?
One problem with 'rm -f' is that it returns success even when it fails.
The flag actually means two separate things:

* override normal protection
* don't return error if it fails.

I'm pretty sure it's this way for the benefit of "make".
You typically don't the clean target to ever "fail".
The Most Underused Compiler Switches in Visual C++
This post is interesting because I can't remember the last time I read a programmer's blog dealing with emotions and how it feels to program.

We're not cold, calculating automatons. We get scared, frustrated, angry, but also elated, excited and encouraged. Yet these kinds of words don't find their way into blog posts very often.

Kudos for stopping the post there and splitting the intellectual half for later.
I thought I'd chip in.

I had a professor visiting from the U.S. and he was absolutely in love with the culture in Europe - how we sort of accept more responsibility.

He told me he would choose building a business in europe vs. the U.S. every single time. He has been sued several times for the most ridiculous things that never would have held any ground over here.

That, he said, was the single best thing about Europe's business culture. Not sure if I agree with that, but he has a point.

funny addendum: he was surprised at the lack of disclaimers on products here. Go figure.
My kid brought this math homework and I'm stumped
Obama seeking overtime pay for "computer technicians"
I will add to those:
* sometimes system gets stuck and no competitor is found (well - maybe there really is no one else)
* once board was loaded, for competitor blocks were moving so fast as if computer would play or some sort of bot
woah, cool down! I didn't call anyone a petulant teenager, not even teenagers. Your own space that you control is nicer and I'm arguing that people want it mostly because it's nicer. Productivity often overlaps with privacy and it may in this case, but I don't think people are as passionate about productivity boosting choices when they don't overlap with pleasantness.

BTW, There is nothing wrong with wanting a nicer work environment.
It was mentioned.

"As word spread from Reddit to YouTube, playgrounds to office parks, Flappy Bird rose to the Top 10 of the U.S. charts by early January."
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Programmer flow
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It's possible you may have misunderstood or misinterpreted posters here. There is no inconsistency in preferring a more pleasant workspace, while also pointing out to the employers that it makes software people more productive. One proposition does not make the other false or dishonest.

In fact, most tech professionals are ethical people who enjoy their work and prefer to be more productive. Posters here have been hoping, I think, to point out to employers that a cost savings on workspace, walls etc. may actually cost more in productivity, turnover, inefficiency.

There may be some dishonesty in management claims that open plans are beneficial for anything other than the short-term budget. Managers may have to make such decisions to produce numbers their bosses are demanding, because of the way corporations work. However, there is no apparent basis for the implication of some conflict between employee comfort and work-product benefit to the employer.
Around the age of 11 or so, I heard my daughter, a voracious reader, mispronounce colonel the way it is spelled. When I corrected her she was very upset to the point of arguing with me that I must be wrong.

So we went to the dictionary where we both learned the source of the confusion:

http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/2...

Borrowed from French but altered to an Italian prononciation. There are other such words in English, but I can't think what they are at the moment.