skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much control do you want?

No one can answer for you whether you want more control and your own site. If I can assume based on your comment history that you're focused on Win/C#, perhaps creating one with a C# blogging engine will be most rewarding?[1] If you feel it's a time sink, then you probably want to jump right into writing. In which case the stability and portability of Blogger + domain name + code formatting plugins is probably adequate.

1. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=c%23+blog&as_oq=sof... (filtered by past year)
> It's probably possible, but expensive as always.

Frankly, I doubt anyone but a rich eccentric would have the money to get into SoC design in their garage. My university acquired the resources to run a semiconductor class in the form of some antique (70s vintage) silicon lab equipment from Micron. Even though this stuff was brand new before I was born, Micron charged them in the neighborhood of $200k for each device. That's six machines for a total of $1.2 million. And that doesn't even encompass the whole cost of what you'd need to get a proper semiconductor development environment - you'd still need a cleanroom, electrical and gas hookups, chemical certification (you need all sorts of nasty stuff to make semiconductors - HF in particular is quite common in fabrication, and has horrifying effects on exposed skin when mishandled), etc.

Yeah, sorry - with all respect, I don't think anyone's gonna be starting a semiconductor company in their garage any time soon.
The answer is going to be different based on size and the general sketch of the system, so you might want to be more specific (a 3 day battery bank will cost a lot compared to no battery bank, capacity to run a washing machine will be very different than capacity for lighting and small appliances, and so on).

(I don't know much regarding the prices...)
This is lovely, but how do I adjust the default WPM? I want to use more than 400, and having to adjust it each time is very annoying.
One theme was that there are older developers who are still working and doing what they love. Of course there are also plenty who have gone into different directions.
Well it's worth keeping in mind that the ringing you hear is coming from the cell-phone tower / service provider / etc. and not the called person's phone anyway whether or not they're on the network. I don't know the specifics on how a tower determines if a phone is or isn't on the network at the current moment, but I don't think it's unreasonable to imagine that the service provider wants to appear to be fast, and thus starts playing the ringing tone immediately after the call is placed (Rather then wait). This definitely happens in the US, I can attest to that, I'm surprised to hear this doesn't happen everywhere else. At the same time, it's not like it really makes any difference one way or the other.

It is a curious thing though. It seems to be like computer networks, where Ex. if you ping a non-existent address you just sit there waiting until a sufficient amount of time has gone by that you decide they aren't on the other side.
Not sure that this is true for everyone. Shifting from sitting to standing full-time didn't change anything for me.

Even so, this is hilarious.
Am not a reddit user, nor did I know this -- but thanks (now I know).
I believe that is part of the whole knock against spritz. In German, where some of the founding members of Spritz are from, spritz means a similar thing that squirt does in American culture.
I love this concept - I hope you can find a way to integrate with Instapaper on iOS!
Pull request templates make code review easier
> Think about all the web servers that are linux

None, unless you install them and activate them? What sort of desktop distro comes with pre-configured webservers?
As someone who trained recently (after hand washing became a widespread practice), I can say that I developed a consciousness I didn't have previously. Though I don't practice now, I still get this strong sense that my hands are unclean and need to be washed when I blow my nose, touch something dirty, am around someone who is ill, etc. But not touching my face (or glasses) was a much harder habit to break and something I still do subconsciously. So I'd also be curious how often docs using Glass do this.

Also, hospitals already sterilize surgical instruments, but I did a quick search and it looks like some manufacturers are designing devices meant to be deployed in nursing stations in response to mobile.[1] So maybe more use of these devices will actually drive increased use of rapid sanitizers within the clinic, as a secondary benefit.

http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/09/steridesig...
While it is unfortunate that hygiene is not prioritized I feel that both sanitation and energy are big problems and any attempt to solve either should be applauded.

I also think that making the people self sufficient in terms of energy might help in improving the lifestyle of these people.
how close is git-subtree to svn-externals? I've always had people complain about moving from svn to git because there wasn't a feature like svn-externals. git-submodules obviously didn't cut it.
You have just exemplified the issue completely.

Spend less time thinking about getting sex and sharing photos. Spend more time thinking about how to solve hard problems. Spend less time thinking about "us" and "them" and more time thinking about "everyone".
Have you tried editing the bookmark and see if there is a parameter in the javascript for that?
In this case, however, it's not so much an answer, as an opinion that he vents dressed up as an answer. The real answer is that there's nothing wrong with `git pull`, but for some unusual ways of working with git, it may not be the tool you need. And that's no problem; git has other tools.
Yes, heaven forbid some beefy blue collar workers make an honest living extracting useful resources from the ground.
No, let's all become Warby Parker wearing hipster app-developers in Brooklyn and SF.
the notion that developers somehow intuitively know agile and management is ruining it is straight up BS. I know plenty of developers who jump on bandwagon x and then without any understanding proceed to screw the pooch for all of us. The drive to look smart is so important to some(maybe most) people that they'll gladly throw the whole team under the bus so they don't have to appear to not know.

Believe it or not, I've seen waterfall work, I've seen waterfall fail. I've seen agile work and unfortunately I've seen agile fail more often as people who don't understand what they're supposed to do create a clusterfuck of a process that just gets in the way. there was an article on HN not too long ago by an old school developer about development methodologies and how he didn't really think it made a difference. What he saw made a difference was how well the team communicated. People over processes, the very discussion of "Agile" ad nauseam violates that very rule. For crying out loud the process will not save you! try to find a process that will not get in people's way while allowing people to communicate effectively. I'm sure that some social scientist might have a better idea on how to solve it than another random developer who thinks he's God's gift to mankind.
How Guy Kawasaki Manages His Time
We're not dying of cancer yet, that's you guys.

I'm 30. I'm one of the young guys.

I also realize that (a) my odds of winning the VC-funded lottery are low and (b) all of us are going to be old one day.

No age is too young to die of cancer. One of my friends died last year at 31.

You guys are the ones running those companies and generally we don't like how you guys run companies.

I don't like how stodgy, checked-out, appearance-obsessed execs run companies. I also don't like how VC-funded egotistical frat boys run companies. It has nothing to do with age. Most people of any age are not equipped to run companies.

We want very flexible hours, self direction, relaxing lighting, productive work time and a near absence of meetings.

I agree 100% and that won't change when I'm 50. I'll probably be even grumpier about the corporate nonsense (if God decides to be a dick and I'm still working corporate jobs by then).

The people I know that are in their twenties and trying to fix cancer are being met with the horrible baby boomer mentality about everything.

Sure. I don't think you're wrong, and your observations are valid. Is it generational? I'm not sure. I don't like the Gen X, VC chickenhawk mentality or the Millennial-generation "move fast and never fix things" mindset either. People who gain power become short-sighted, flippant, emotionally insensitive and, over the long term, creatively and intellectually weak. This is true regardless of age.

I rail on "the Boomers" all the time because the political impact of that generation has been terrible, and their economic mismanagement has fucked us up big time, but I don't actually think it's a problem with the individuals.
I'm not a fan of SQLAlchemy, I was referring to psycopg2. I don't think of SQLAlchemy as a driver, just an optional layer on top of the driver that one may prefer to use, but I don't.
That doesn't work for me; latest Firefox. I tried a couple of random popular sites,including HN, and it didn't work on all of them.

This is a nice demo, but not a finished product.
The obvious solution is to run everything on Temple OS.

I'm only half joking.
Wow, surprised at -4 downvotes. Handling long paths is necessary when working with Node.js, for example.
I didn't use the word "evil" though certainly some do. I commented on why one claimed benefit - reducing the number of cars on the street and making more effective use of a commute time - can be reasonably seen as "frivolous" to some.

Everything has good and bad in it. Even buses. There's always a tension. Sometimes there are mechanisms, like public input to planning decisions, which help reduce the tension. Sometimes there aren't. Tension rarely just disappears on its own.
> These speed reading tools should be extended so that they can show multiple words at once rather than one word at a time.

http://spreeder.com/ allows you to put in multiple words.

However, if the code for this is available for anyone to edit/modify, perhaps anyone wanting that feature could add it.
What is significant about the GP's nick?
Oh good lord. That is not a safe image search.
Cool. Is the idea based on any existing studies on the subject?
In the trenches, methodologies don't get projects done. Dave Thomas's original description of agility seems an accurate description of how code actually gets made--and that description is deliberately not a description of a methodology. I ship working code every day, and my clients are happy, despite the fact that I'm not following any definable methodology. Coding is a messy process. Codebases evolve in many ways: They advance by leaps and bounds, they stagnate, they regress, they sputter along, they bloat--often all at the same time. Sometimes you write tests first, sometimes you code first. Sometimes you whiteboard first, sometimes you write up a detailed spec. How do you know what strategy to adopt at any given moment? You can try to formalize it all you want, but in reality, the choice is usually made on intuition.

That last point--the key role of intuition--is one of the biggest reasons you can't package up effective coding as a book, a manifesto, or a training session. Which implies something managers may find distressing: There is no silver bullet; a coding team's only salvation is smart coders.
Free startssl certs only run for a year. For me, it's worth paying for e.g. a 5 year one to put off the renewal faff.
Lets be clear: Burning natural gas (CH4) still puts carbon into the atmosphere. It's true that natural gas put less "black carbon" and other things into the atmosphere. It's much more clean than coal. But it will still enhance the greenhouse effect that is warming the planet. It is still a fossil fuel.
Yeah, the name just sounds dirty. I changed the name of the bookmark...
By asking questions lots of people want to know about and then waiting a year for votes to trickle in? Sure, but I would have thought that would be obvious.
Every article I read about this topic focuses on 3 things; strippers, housing shortages and ..strippers (I'm only half joking). I get the idea of writing an article that will attract clicks and views but I'd like to read more articles that focus on why we're drilling for gas here and what it means for the country in the long term.

Boom towns are full of all kinds of awful, I would imagine many similar articles were written about the gold rush and other mass movements of workers but that situation is only temporary and in the grand scheme of things not very important.

Does America want to be an energy producer? If not are we willing to do business with countries that do, that might also have problems with Americans? Also, ss this the kind of energy America wants to produce?

To me it boils down to national security (or terrorism if you must) and prices. Having the security of energy in your backyard comes with tradeoffs. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but could we all stop focusing on the strip clubs and instead look at the bigger picture?
Then just stick to `git pull`, `git commit` and `git push`. They do everything you need. All that messing about with your history that this guy is talking about is totally unnecessary.
This is quite misleading. Yes, letting your anger out can make you angrier in the long term - providing the right circumstances.

Why? Because if anger becomes socially acceptable, you're more likely to express it. However, saying everyone should bottle it up is trying to take an extreme and apply it to everyone.

Anger is an emotional response to a situation, much like depression. If you don't change your situation, you will become angrier or more depressed. If this "venting" makes someone feel better, and prolongs their stay in this bad situation, then of course they're going to get angrier.

This is like someone who's depressed because they're in an abusive relationship taking antidepressants rather than leaving the relationship. You're treating symptoms, not dealing with causes.

So suppressing that anger is going to promote you to resolve the situation rather than tolerate it.

I'll point out that you're linking to a blog post and not a peer reviewed study, so the actual merit is zip without sources, which he provides none.

I however, would like to provide an analogy that is well studied. Porn. The availability of pornography is a well known reducer in rates of both rape and violence against women. Enacting the fantasy - Aristotle's method - IS a proven way to release sexual frustration and thus reduces the resulting violence. At least as far as the general population is concerned.

However, overconsumption of porn is linked with a progressive increase in aggression against women, decreased sympathy to rape victims, etc. Although, this is a chicken and egg issue is the porn delaying the persons aggression or causing it. Basically is porn preventing men from becoming Jack the Ripper, or is it causing them. We don't know because all we have is a correlation between overconsumption of porn and increasing violence.

To put it simply, for the average person "venting" their anger in a healthy way is going to be beneficial if their situation isn't producing the anger but an isolated incident did: your hot water heater rusted through, you've got a new one now but you're pissed about the flood. Getting that anger out is going to be beneficial if you do it in a healthy way (go to the batting cages or driving range and hit some balls). It's the same as porn, your girlfriend went away for two weeks over christmas to see her parents is a very different mental state compared to someone who's watching porn to see women have the shit beat out of them.

To me, it's looking at the chicken and the egg problem and saying "oh my god, eggs cause more eggs! Let's get rid of all the eggs." It's wholly naive. If you don't want eggs, just get rid of the god damn chicken!
What do you think of the IDE from Github – Atom?
Yea it's sad Agile method is now a marketing word, a marketing trend. Same goes for Big Data, any marketing guy with a 100k row DB think they are doing big Data, sell it as big data...
Mid-risk/mid-growth businesses. Designed to grow at 15-40% per year and hire selectively (see: Valve). Can have a desirable culture (e.g. open allocation) that wouldn't survive 75%/year personnel growth. Too risky for bank loans (personal liability) but not the billions-or-bollocks long-shot gambits that are career-making for VCs. But still potentially very profitable if VCs took a portfolio mentality rather than a careerist "I want the next Facebook because of what it'll do for my reputation" approach.
I like this arguing tactic of intentional obtuseness!
He's talking about capital gains, so your interpretation is definitely the correct one.
regarding your first point:

Democratic decision making is useful for big picture stuff (like choosing representatives for government). Its actually dysfunctionally terrible for small scale stuff. You can't put literally everything to a vote. If you do, then nothing happens.
You might want to look into pixomatic... which I believe Mr. Abrash worked on until relatively recently. Its a very full featured software renderer and i especially love the small footprint - 255k lib + 4k alloc (just the vsd on the last AAA game i worked on took 640k just for PVS data and my compatriots thought that was a small amount of memory - using whole megabytes for trivia is not uncommon these days sadly)

http://www.radgametools.com/cn/pixofeat.htm

there has also been work done to rasterise depth buffers using the PS3 SPUs - but not sure if there is anything public domain.

real-time 'software' rendering is not quite dead yet... :)

i'm generally of the opinion though that 'we' have lost a lot of knowledge. i taught myself C/C++ through quake 3 modding and the quake and quake 2 sources. this was invaluable coming into the modern games industry where the barrier for entry is now extremely low, and consuming megabytes or millions of cycles on trivia doesn't stop your game shipping...
Nice footage but I didn't really like the editing.

On a side not, damn $900 and it can fly 22 minutes. That sounds very little, I hope this things will improve soon they sound amazingly fun!
in rapid succession. like a flip book.
Ubiquiti Networks' San Jose Engineering Offices
Heh, from my experience if the company has 'Certified Scrum Masters' they will try to apply everything they learned (while pinning their certificate to the wall for everybody to see) into development process.

They are usually so clueless that the concept of thinking outside the box and adjusting what they 'learned' from book/seminar is unknown to them.

So if company you want to work for has a 'SCRUM MASTER', do your self a favor and run.
Technically, much of the Bill of Rights applies to the federal government and all subordinate governments. If they are not allowed to do something, period, it hardly matters if the person they are doing it to is in a particular place or has a particular attribute.

Politicians, realizing that only the citizens may vote, may exempt those folks from their otherwise unconstitutional activities, because others have no effective means to seek redress. My reading of the 4th is that it is a restriction on the conduct of the government, such that it applies to every natural person on Earth.

It may well be that the Supreme Court has not ruled this way because it is overwhelmingly staffed by politically-connected lawyers, rather than linguists and logicians.

The government is not allowed to search anyone, anywhere, without a specific purpose. Drawing a dividing line between foreign and domestic spying is a distraction from the notion that Uncle Sam is breaking the law when he listens in to Joe Terrorist's phone calls from halfway across the world to about 45% of the way around via dragnets and data mining.

We are willing to tolerate some degree of law-breaking when it is clearly in our own interest to do so, but it has gone well beyond that by now. Someone's wrist out there is just aching for a good, light slap.
Case in point, Texas (because of it's size) is #1 in almost every economic category. #1 per capita energy consumption but also #1 in green (wind) energy.
> Does something like [this](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22983386) characterize the described differences symptoms report?

Yes, but only as a description. Science requires testable, falsifiable explanations. If I claim that I can cure the common cold by shaking a dried gourd over the sufferer (which actually works), I have only described my miracle cure, I haven't explained it or considered alternative explanations for the result.

There is a huge literature in psychology that stops at description and increasingly offers drugs as treatment -- drugs that in most cases were created for some other purpose but are now being prescribed off-label, to treat ailments of questionable origin, with questionable results, to an unquestioning public.

> Anyway, when it comes to health issues, the burden of proof rests on ethical issues.

No, ethical issues are orthogonal to the scientific issues. If there is no scientific explanation for various mental illnesses, then there's no scientific substance to the field, at which point an ethical debate may begin about the consequences of treating illnesses we don't understand and that may not even exist in an objective sense.

> Years ago in biopsych we were shown that early age treatment was important for preventing much worse symptoms later in life.

This sort of thing is meaningless until we know what we're treating, otherwise we'll have any number of dried-gourd treatments masquerading as medicine. But wait, that's already true -- Asperger's was brought into existence, and then abandoned, based on votes, not evidence. So was homosexuality, which remained an official, listed mental illness until public opinion shifted away from this outlook.

> The claims of "over-diagnosing" seem unfounded if there are treatable symptoms that we just happen to currently call ADHD.

Not at all -- this won't be the first time psychology has created a new illness out of thin air, and then "treated" it -- see above. Depression is another example -- some argue that it's an illness that can be treated, others have found that "depressed" people are better at reality-testing and accurately assessing their circumstances than those not so diagnosed. This calls into question the very meaning of "mental illness".
Ha. 2048 and 20000+. Now I can put it in my /etc/hosts.
Purr Programming is much more fulfilling :) http://purrprogramming.com/?page_id=2
GLitter – A Simple WebGL Presentation Framework
I wish, instead of adding new features, they had a release which dealt with all the problems from previous versions.

Its generally a good product, but one thing that I find really annoying (with the Rubymine branch of the product) is the way tabs randomly reorder. It is frustrating to have to search for a tab when you have more than about 6 files open and find that it has moved to a different place.

They don't seem to have been able to fix it since 2009 ! http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-22546
I think this would be an extension of wiretapping, not soldiers taking residence forcefully in a home.