skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your logic is in a complete freefall. Someone might have hijacked a plane (e.g. one of the pilots) with similar mental processes as a school shooting murderer.
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I don't get this, I never will. So this journalist gets access to Ive himself, does an interview, then feels the need to hide that interview and retell it to us, inserting mini-quotes here there.

Why!?

Give us the damn interview!
La Quadrature du Net has them, FWIW. Here's for Denmark: https://memopol.lqdn.fr/search/?q=country%3ADK%20is_active%3...

Not all MPs have contact information filled in though.
I've got a crappy dev job that I've been in for over a decade that only gets worse with less pay. I don't bring home enough money and have my family living paycheck to paycheck. I stress over it and keep trying side stuff to bring in more, which mostly fail. I'm working hard right now trying to get this next side project out the door in the next month.

I'm in my 40s and no one in the area has raised their dev salaries since the 2008 drop. Given my age, it's only going to be harder to find jobs if it comes to that. I'm stuck. It's stressful and it sucks.

But, I still make time for the family. I go to their school functions, and help with their homework. I play games and watch movies. I'm doing it for them. I just wish I could do more. Someone once said they were jealous of me because I seem so content. My poker face must be pretty awesome.
I Just had my 1 year anniversary of standing desk. It is great, although I do sometimes get tired but I have a stool for that.

You can see my desk design here. It was acquired for very cheap: $1 counter top from thrift store, $10 in 2x4's from lowes. and only 1 strategically placed screw in the wall. I also have an anti-fatigue mat and a foot stool that helps a lot.

pic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3zl8jxk7xeazsr/Screenshot%202014-...
That's a funny claim for you to make considering your continued attempts to portray my statement as coming from ignorance (which you've done yet again). Actually, friend, my daily professional language is go, thought that has zero relevance here given that this discussion was .NET, and then apparently .NET relative to nodejs.

Your quote comically excludes the preceding paragraph about .NET, and the following sentences specifically contrasting .NET with nodejs. Instead you continue this transparent charade of pretending that I said something that I didn't.

This boring side discussion is done. You have said absolutely nothing of value, but should feel relieved that you took a irrelevant shot at nodejs for no particular reason.
I honestly hope you are right and she was honestly trying to help however my gut tells me it's all about appearances with this one.

Just the fact that she was told to leave her alone and she completely ignored that request leads me to believe her husband has no control over her and she's just a loose cannon.

Worse still he might actually back her up when people complain which is just encouraging this bad behavior.

I looks to me that she is sabotaging the company and bringing a lot of drama to the office instead of helping him.
You misinterpret what I mean and find it distasteful? I am overcome with apathy.
I've written plenty of embedded code where the first rule was "Thou shall not malloc." In just about every case it turns into setting aside static buffers and doing manual structure allocation. This is such a common idiom in embedded systems that most RTOS systems have this functionality built-in.
If your job sucks, be patient and make a long term plan to improve it/get out. Find/make something awesome outside of work to look forwards to and focus on. All work ends up being boring to some extent, so focus on the good things in life like your nephew or perhaps that microbrew taste testing night with your old friends.
It's an incentive problem. People tend to game any system based on how there measured. And PHD's are generally measured by how much they publish as well as how quickly they publish. Take two academics that publish the same finding 3 months apart and it's the guy who published first who becomes famous. But, there are a lot more PHD's out there than famous ones so for the most part it's #of papers that's most important.

Ideally you want a lot of incremental research(easy), using other peoples data (cheap), and showing something novel(fame lottery). While most of this is practically useless it still gets published because there are plenty of Journals and they all need to publish something every month.

That's not to say people are not still doing high quality research but rather the signal to noise ratio often low for a reason.
one of the best things i've ever seen on hn.
Two in Chicago (Lincoln Park and Mag Mile), but both of those areas are basically outdoor malls in a loose sense.
Firefox says Windows 8 is a black hole, kills its Metro app
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IPyXMPP, a chat bot serving an IPython shell over XMPP.
Or the Mac Pro with faulty GPUs experienced by users around the world....

http://www.mbp2011.com/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577?start=0&tstart=...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4637833?start=0&tstart=...
That's an interesting hypothesis, one I have not heard discussed yet.
I cannot for the life of me figure out which Doge is which in tier.
It's a problem with people who think they can wind a power cable tightly around something hundreds of times, pay no attention to strain on it or to abusing the weak point where it enters the charger, and then are mystified when it finally fails.

Apple's chargers are in fact much, much tougher than the competition's; this is obvious if you just look at the construction for five seconds and even more obvious if you go read a tear-down of them.
I do C# dev in my day to day and I really enjoy it, though my personal preference for a "one language" scenario would probably be F#, if it were to come from the MS camp. (I don't mean this as a comparison of languages; just casually throwing out a personal preference)

Was wondering what, in your opinion, are the largest differences between Java and C#? It's been a long time since I've done any Java, and while I can definitely name a bunch, I thought it'd be interesting to get your take on the most impactful or meaningful differences.
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Oh, my point was not to criticize Tesla's strategy. They chose the correct strategy. Working from the top down is the right course when you need to preserve funds (high margins) and can't yet scale (general production, battery, limited demand at the time). My point was simply that it's a flawed argument to say you can maintain high margins, while still servicing the mass market with the absolute best design, materials, manufacturing.

If a car manufacturer could, it would be disruptive - but it's the exception, not the rule. That said, I think Tesla's the most likely candidate to do this! But it's worth noting they did it from the top moving downstream. It's more difficult to do this when you're starting at the position of a Kia or even a Toyota. It's not just about throwing money at the problem, and that, I believe, is contrary to Musk's argument.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the average person can concentrate on one thing for a maximum of 30 minutes. After that, attention wavers and efficiency declines.

No idea where I read that, though. It might be rumor only.
> I would say that LINQ is one of the worst things to ever happen to .NET. On one team I had to make a dictum that barred LINQ from even being used, except in exceptional circumstances.

I find it incredible when I see comments like this. What you should have done is instigated a mentoring programme for the programmers who aren't yet up to speed. LINQ is one of the best things to happen to the language and you just go and kill it.
Dorian S. Nakamoto hires lawyer to 'clear his name' of Bitcoin claim
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Ive is selling a Mercedes, not a Chevy. By that I mean there is a very carefully curated image of Apple and the products it sells and the people who buy them that he is working to maintain with his words.

I read the whole article, and it's a total fluff piece. It's a hit for Apple's PR machine. Their message is: we are trying to appeal to people who purport to care about quality. We come across as just a little arrogant, but not so arrogant as to be off-putting to the people who want to buy our stuff.

Honestly, if you want to buy a $199 Nexus 7 for your daughter, you should do so and not feel bad about it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with (1) buying a chair from Staples, or (2) being an employee of the company that makes the Staples office chair.

But if you're buying a Mercedes, you need a little affirmation that you shouldn't feel guilty that some people can only afford Chevy. And now you have an article in Time magazine that gives you that affirmation.
meh,it's the definition of SOA.
I can't upvote this enough. At the very least, developing cognitive empathy can help you communicate better with people by understanding their emotional state and responding appropriately. But more than that, there's all the positive benefits of applying emotional intelligence to your work and personal life that come from empathizing with people.
I think it's less common elsewhere, but so-called "March Madness" is a HUGE problem in the US- leading to countless hours of lost productivity.
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To check how the game would play out if the opponent (the computer who in the original game places the tiles randomly) would acutally play instead of randomly dropping the tiles I made a fork of the original game: http://sztupy.github.io/2048-Hard/

It's kinda nice to see how much harder the game becomes if you'd be playing against someone, as even getting to the 128 is hard. The current AI usually only gets to the 32 and sometims the 64 tile.
I use a standing desk at work, but one that can be raised/lowered, which I think is superior to a fixed one, since it is easy to adjust to a good height, and also makes it easy to switch between sitting and standing. Yes, they cost a bit, but not as much as some people think. Also, how much is your health worth?

I had severe RSI problems several years ago, but managed to get it under control, and I am now completely recovered. The most important step I took was to start using a break program. I also switched to an ergonomic keyboard (Goldtouch) and a pen-like mouse. Using a standing desk is also part of the solution.

I've described my problems, and the solutions, in a blog post: "How I Beat Repetitive Stress Injury" http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
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I've found many ISP's to have terrible DNS servers. They update slowly, they might hijack requests, etc.
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Will the Internet of Things Undermine Capitalism?
are you in a big city? All the devs I know make good money, and their salaries have been steadily rising for over a decade. Also, all the devs I know can get a new job in a week or so.

Then I hear stories like yours and wonder what the difference is. Maybe location?
Who Works for Startups? The Relation between Firm Age, Employee Age, and Growth
I wrote to every single one of the Dutch MEPs, trying to explain to them what NN actually is, why a lack of it is a bad thing, and reminding them that our Dutch national laws do protect NN. Several have e-mailed back that they agree and will do their bit to protect NN.

I suppose the good thing about Euro-politics is that, even though many citizens don't seem to care about what Brussels and Strasbourg do, that means MEPs are more likely to listen when people do voice their concern.
That's actually really interesting - what makes you excited about Win Phone? Is it just that the other platforms are getting stale/boring and WP is the "final frontier"?
Ways the War on Drugs Makes Us Less Safe
When did it become that you are not responsible for your own health? He is not a slave that has to jump when the whip is cracked.
They claim to take into account marital status, education and income.
I got burnt out on a contract a few years ago, was a horrible feeling, continually tired and falling asleep, no enthusiasm for the role. Switched to a different contract and halved my commuting time and turned into a different person.

Now when I finish work I'm out of here, no more coding or hacking at home, instead, I train at the gym or go out for food or more recently chill a lot.
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> which is oppressive and therefore evil and an underclass (female) which is oppressed and therefore good

If you think Marxism considers classes to be evil and good, you have already demonstrated that you don't know Marxism. Marx was very clear that he saw the members of the different classes as effective slaves of circumstance, who acted out their roles in history out of necessity.

The capitalist, to Marx, not only is not evil, but is seen as a historical necessity that drives progress: Only through the development of advanced capitalist economies does production reach sufficient levels to be able to eradicate common wants, thus making socialism possible.

I'll not disagree with you that there are some feminist groups that follow the same twisted idea of what marxism is that you describe above, but they're by no means the only feminists out there, nor does their views have much of anything to do with marxism.
Cosmic inflation: 'Spectacular' discovery hailed
OT, but thats pretty much a myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_and_myths_regarding_RMS...
Given the name of the site, I'd like to add an off-topic remark on culturally sensitive naming.

Your site is named nshipster, which is fine, unless it will become the name of a product which you would ever want to market in Germany.

In public discourse in Germany, the two letters NS are commonly used as shorthand for National Socialism in the historical sense.

So if you want to sell, I don't know, your coffee break management app and call it ns-coffee, nobody in Germany will touch it with a ten foot pole.

Another two-letter combination for which the same holds (I'd even say it is a lot worse) is KZ.

KZ is the everyday stand-in term for concentration camp. So think twice before you name that Kazachstan travel app.
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I didn't think a majority of Google preferred stock stock is for sale?
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I prefer ansible too, but FWIW DigitalOcean has a pre-configured gitlab droplet as well. You can literally have it live in < 5 minutes, including registering and configuring a domain.
We had a network powered by Novell, and you could run any exe in Powerpoint by clicking on it during a slideshow. Through that, someone ran a QuakeWorld or Unreal Tournament server and distributed the game through the network drive.

I met my friend Alex by kicking his ass in UT.
I wish the messages would stay longer, they go by too quick to read.
Happiness and motivation: the scientific link
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> If I have DNS server 10ms away

Ah, if only my ISP's DNS server were 10ms away, and reliably up, and not serving ads instead of NXDOMAIN results.

Not that I'm deeply trusting of 8.8.8.8, but it definitely wins on each of those points. (I use a different "public" server.)
Depending on the terms of your employment, this might not even be possible, but you should try augmenting your primary source of income with some part-time consulting. While the lure of the profitable side project is hard to resist, it's much easier to become financially independent by doing consulting than through a side project. Bootstrapped SaaS projects grow very very slowly in terms of monthly recurring revenue (also known as the Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death [1]).

[1]: http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...
The site's name is an Apple/OSX cultural reference. It refers to NeXSTEP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep
In particular, the core classes of Objective-c (and thus Cocoa and Cocoa Touch for iOS) use NS as a prefix:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/...
I use it because every ISP i've used in North America hijacks shit and feeds it through their own search portal, driving me nuts in the process.

I'd rather it get hijacked into a potentially useful Google query plus 8.8.8.8 is extremely easy to remember.
Awesome too see - I expect an update for OneNote on the Mac coming soon!
Not really...

Nations (and other organizations) have been carrying out false flag operations since forever. In the 1960s there was Operation Northwoods - a plan by the US government to bomb US civilian aircraft and plant evidence it was Cuba who did it to justify invading Cuba. The Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on it and it would have been implemented except JFK wouldn't sign off on it.

So even if this had nation state involvement, it is about the same danger to get on an aircraft as it always has been, or go out in a crowded event, or theater, school, etc... which are also targets for terrorism. Example would be the failed Lavon Affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair
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While technically true, today "Cultural Marxism" is mostly a label that the extreme far right use to try to brush centrist and moderate leftists with associations of Stalinism.

Beware whenever the term is brought up - it's usually used as an ad hominem.
Crazy:

"And the problem is growing. In 1985 most people said they had 3 close friends. In 2004 the most common number was zero...

This is sad, and for more reasons than you might expect. We need friends to keep us healthy. Lack of social support predicts all causes of death.

Having few friends is more dangerous than obesity and is the equivalent health risk of smoking 15 cigarettes a day."

I find it sad that folks seem to not have close friends. I would say I have 3 really close friends (emotionally) although I may not be close to them physically (we are in separate cities since we finished university).

Would most of you concur with the article? Do a lot of people really NOT have very close friends?
The lab I work for tried to do this for a few years. But the problem with this (cloud computing + storing in remote repository + trying to do reproducible science + collaborative scientific computing) is always a tough sell. The idea is neat. Everyone likes it. But transiting to the remote platform, letting others to host and keep your data, and not always accessible to the machine is a tough sell.

That's why some scientists are going to use Google's Compute Engine. They just need the machines. The researchers have their own C++ and Python scripts. They can live with some complexity. They are happy with HTCondor which is awesome for running big computational jobs.

Sharing data results with the world is awesome. But transiting to a new platform is again a big problem.
I would change this a little bit. LINQ creates much more readable code, which is always a good thing.

I think the real problem is Cargo Cult programming. People are using linq (especially in combination with EF) and not understanding what's actually going on. So they end up getting things like n+1 selects on collections with thousands of items. They don't understand delayed evaluation. Or how sorting effects a Where() call.

The problem is programmers who think they can take some code from stack overflow and use it without outstanding it. That problem is not unique to LINQ or .NET.
I actually really liked the previous-generation Apple earphones -- decent sound-quality, while also letting in lots of outside noise, which makes them safe-ish when used on the street. The latest generation sadly (and ironically) doesn't fit in my ear.

So far, when I see someone trashing Apple headphones, they go on to recommend something which forms a tight-seal in the ear -- without a doubt better sounding, but really a different category of product.
> I understand that for some people this is great: I don't think anyone is actively complaining that Python 3 shouldn't exist, more that it's existence at the detriment of Python 2 snubbed a very large community of people.

There's a very simple solution, for those that can't/won't upgrade: Fork it. Work on OldNewPython 2.8. The core devs of Python want to work on Python 3, so that's where we're headed. There's no need to argue technical merits of Python 2 vs 3, the simple fact is that the development momentum is with Python 3 now.

Open source is a do-ocracy. Bring together your other like minded devs to work on Python 2 and keep on keeping on. We can't expect the core devs to keep maintaining an old version of Python. A lot of them are doing this for fun or as a hobby.
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Then prepare to have your mind blown (if you haven't heard about this before): the correct culture-agnostic term is "grouping separator" because not everyone uses 3 digit groups - in some East Asian languages (specifically Japan and China, not sure who else) you have separate words for "ten thousand" and use 4 digit groups.
What's funny is he goes on to pretend that iPhones are expensive because they're made with space age technologies like DIAMOND TIPPED CUTTERS.

Shame that their margins are public knowledge and we know he's talking utter shit.
> You have said absolutely nothing of value, but should feel relieved that you took a irrelevant shot at nodejs for no particular reason.

I do, however I fear it will do very little to stem the tide of frontend developers discovering the awesome powers of asynchronous callbacks in Node.js, and continuing to repeat the meme that it is the best way/a good way to write fast applications. Every other thread on Hacker News is about Node.js these days.
It is very unlikely (but has occasionally happened) that a cellphone would get reception at 35,000 feet.
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Get an old-school drafting stool with a back support. That's what I do for my standing desk. It encourages me to move around a lot because it's so easy to just stand up, or lean on throughout the workday. I stand, sit, get up and pace when I'm thinking. Much better than a "sitting" chair since I feel like that just encouraged me to slouch down and not really move around or change position through the work day and much better than just standing through the entire day -- which feels like a return to working as a cashier.
I know it's not for everybody. But sometimes moving to another city is the best option.

I've done it myself 2x and it payed of somehow. My job is boring like hell right now( it wasn't like that some months ago), but the paycheck for my country standards is ok. Also the city I am at right now has plenty of other jobs so if I get pissed of I can get away from it.

Think about it...
NS is a common prefix for Apple-derived ObjectiveC classes. In that context it stands for NextStep, which Apple acquired many years ago. The NSHipster blog is a reference to this usage of NS. I understand that it has extremely negative connotations in Germany, but unfortunately you're going to have to take that up with Apple, not with the blog's author.
Very interesting Ben! Did you have a look at https://wit.ai ? It's an API that encapsulates both speech rec and semantic interpretation.
Shut up and take my up-vote.