skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
misogyny may be a bit speculative, but from reading the following:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/divorce-wars-justin...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/elon-musk-parentin...

http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/mill...

he definitely falls into the creep class in my book. I hope neither of my daughters ever gets into a relationship with someone who shares his worldview and says stuff like "if you were my employee I would fire you" to them. Or asking where he can find a new girlfriend that can fit into a 10 hour per week time budget. What a cad.

Then there are the kids. The kids he admits he doesn't spend enough time with (and even then says he can be a great dad spending time with them while simultaneously working. Multitasking for the win!) and who have been through the divorce. Again, just my own biases and take on the world that I am sure aren't shared by all, but I can categorically say that every single person I know whose parents divorced when they were young has resulting damage they carry to this day, into their own marriages and parenting.
"The letters you brought spoke in the highest terms of your sales genius. The only question which they did not answer to my satisfaction was why companies which had valued you so highly should ever have allowed you to get away!"

This is a truth that holds today (in the form of things like LinkedIn Recommendations): Outside of exceptional circumstances, people seldom talk up the people they need the most, but they will talk up the people they wouldn't mind losing.
Airbnb in funding talks valuing it at about $10 billion: source
I think he is saying "charitable organizations only help poor people and I would rather help build the future seen in elysium"
To put it simply, the problem is that any possible cure is worse than the disease itself. Stopping people from having that much money creates at least as many problems as it solves.
I agree, it was more of a non humorous joke.

Reading this article is almost in perfect timing with my situation. I am 24 year old with only 2 years of college. I was learning more outside of school than in. Even though I might not be the best developer or maybe not even average, I took the jump in trying to make it. So far so good. With learning that experience is everything and know how to get help will take you far. I feel like I know twice as much as I did last year. Is it possible that a lot of us are trying to reach that feeling of accomplishment?

I most certainly pass this article on to friends and peers.
These are not IS questions, they are ITS questions. There is a very serious difference between the two.

ITS without IS governance, policy, and management is worthless. It is chasing ménaces du jour, not actually managing security.

Were I interviewing someone for a serious and senior IS role, I would start with social questions, asking them to describe what organizations they consider to be the most threatening in general and to businesses in my country and field specifically, and why.

I would describe (hypothetically, without saying so) an organization like mine (but different enough to give away little), its flaws and concerns, and ask them how they would address those flaws.

Were I to hire that senior IS person, I would let them build an IS organization, which would include an ITS component.

Without policy, governance, and management, you do not have security, you have techno farce - and your organization will remain perpetually reactive, never really knowing how secure it is, never really being able to assess risk reasonably.
Take the 7B people on Earth, and assume they're all families of 4. Put them each on 1/4 acre of land. Say that additional infrastructure like roads, schools, and retail will take an extra 50%.

That gives us roughly 1 million sq miles to hold the entire population of the planet on a comfortably-sized lot. That's 1/10 the size of the USA, about the size of the land area of Alaska plus Texas.

The people aren't going to be the problem with land usage.
But if you have a beef with how much of the domain logic is in the Model, don't blame Rails, blame MVC. I mean, come on.

Either you want to use MVC or you want to go in a different direction. Fine. But don't blame Rails for being a good MVC implementation. Instead, formulate your own, new "philosophy" about how this all should work.

While I don't generally acknowledge the validity of "Before you criticize, think of something better", in this case I think it's appropriate. You appear to be critical of the whole MVC philosophy. And that's FINE. No problem. But before you go criticizing Rails I think you should formulate your own philosophy of how it all should work instead, rather than blaming Rails for doing what it is supposed to do, and doing it well.
Just food for thoughts, I forked DHH's implementation and modified it to support a bigger structure (so you can keep stuff in different files/class). I haven't tested the file so it may contains bugs, I apologize if it does.

The file name contains dash(-) replace them with slash(/) as github doesn't like path.

https://gist.github.com/pothibo/9673715

I hope you like it ;)

Edit: It had a shit loads of typos, I believe I have fixed most of them.
Nice work Andrew. No specs though? :(
Because you missed one thing - caring about something else than your own (and your family's), short-term profit. Musk has all the things you mentioned, but he also has a strong imperative to do something for the betterment of mankind. Not - like 99% of businesses seem to work - how to earn money pretending to care about something valuable. And, sadly, that kind of thinking seems to be rare and discouraged in the society.
You might want to try, if you haven't already, making public, specific, measurable commitments to have things done by a certain time. Give your word that you'll do something, in a concrete form that people can see failure or success on, to someone whose opinion really matters to you.

I've found that exercising that sort of honesty works very well for me. It's like, if you value your word, (which I do,) then you can leverage it back against yourself when you have to do something difficult.

Don't know if it works that way for everyone who values their word, but it might be worth a go. Might need some fine-running at the start, making tamer goals than you think you can achieve to prevent inadvertently breaking your word.
You can so tell who his mentor was :)

Hint: Apple
That makes more sense. Thanks.

It has been two years since I was last at a foreign currency exchange here, and things could have changed since then as well.
Upvoting for conflation (my favourite word) and making it known that "brilliant" may have been used a different way back then.
Brothers exploited a computer error to trigger $650K in cashback (4/9/2012)
The bizarre thing is, most extinction-level events (e.g. a large asteroid impact) would probably leave Earth still more hospitable than Mars to life as we know it. If we have the capability to survive in a climate so cold that there are CO2 avalanches, where there is practically no nitrogen or oxygen or readily available fuel and where the air is flooded with radiation equivalent to two chest X-rays every hour, what are we afraid of?
Indeed. But that's already happening, see for instance: www.marscoin.org
GMail Man!

Oh wait.
I agree that investing in both is optimal. I'm unclear, however, how quality of life builds infrastructure?
A corollary to this principle is to respect risk. If you never take on volatility that can ruin you, you will grow slow but steadily.

Conversely, if you accept excessive volatility by taking big bets, you can end up broke even if your expected value was positive.

Rule #1 according to Buffett: Never lose money.
Rule #2: Don't forget Rule #1.

I learned this the hard way. Maybe I was brilliant.
If you think that use of such tools would be restricted to robbers or terrorists, you are incredibly delusional. If you think that all victimless crimes necessarily take place in the privacy of homes, you are so naive it seems like you are trolling.
I agree, it's ironic.
Thanks for responding to these threads. While the "beautiful & unique snowflake" stuff is a bit much, I appreciate developers standing up for simplicity in design. The architecture astronauts try to take the intellectual high ground by providing a complex solution and it drives me nuts. We should be working to make our code less complex not more complex.
My precious billions: Sounds like an interesting example of the Gollum Effect in action. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/01/06/the-gollum-effect/
If you have detailed requirements the people at http://www.reddit.com/r/suggestalaptop can provide you with some suitable laptops.
Thank you! You brought an interesting point with the example you gave, it is one of the things I was thinking about. Thank you for your work, and for making it available!
Well, I'm available then ;).
>I have wondered why FB didn't use a proper language with proper typing to begin with.

Because there are factors like an existing codebase that works that trump BS idealism.
You are saying your boss goes to the trouble to get a working prototype going and even does the UI fronted and when he asks you to finish and scale it out as an engineer (which is your job) you take offense to this request?
What's up with your weird country restrictions on the Play store? I can't install it over here in the US...
Exactly. gotta read the fine print :) We think this could get more interesting with time though. It was really cool when we got our first couple days of data and were able to see the basic principles of economics at work by looking at the anti-correlation of supply with price!
Maybe I'm being picky, but 'ninja' in the name doesn't represent the service as serious which can connote lack of reliability, even subconsciously.
If we're talking Linux, then yes, IntelliJ is a gruesome sight indeed.
This is an interesting comment.

My visceral reaction was that it was a huge generalization, but when I think about it more, I do have a difficult time thinking of people that are both charismatic and tech-savvy. The obvious example is Jobs, but even he wasn't the "tech" guy in a sense, we always associate that with Woz or others.

I guess for a lot of people here Musk is maybe an example of it? Is there some left/right brain separation that keeps techies from being charistmatic, is it a historical, cultural thing?

Or is it just a stereotype after all? :) It seems like a fascinating topic, though.
Wearables are an overhyped fad
It depends on why I admired the people. If I admired them for their success in business, then yes, I would expect their writing to show attention to details like spelling. But if I admired them for something else, I wouldn't necessarily expect that. I'm certainly not saying that anyone who is worth admiring has to spell correctly.
True but only one company makes the new iPhone, many companies design enterprise software that need a simple workflow and a solid working database with reliable uptime.
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Ah, a more creative fork. I like the keyboard mapping.
I see what you're getting at, but I don't see why you think direct cash donations to people has no impact on someone's enterprise. The studies by Give Directly show that a lot of poor people will use direct monetary donations to invest in themselves in sustainable ways, such as starting a new business or buying infrastructure for their home or village. Besides, if you have a bike and ride it to a job, you are not the kind of poor I'm talking about.

The poor I'm talking about are people who have insufficient food and fresh water. You can't expect people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps when they're dying of malnutrition and disease in the middle of a country with a dysfunctional government.
"All other sites are derivatives of this derivative, and should be used with extreme caution." Que??? I don't think all other sites are derivatives of your derivative, unless you were joking? I think you accidentally double downed on the original disclaimer. But, this is really cool, already showed my friends!
It's interesting how most people seem to attribute the quality and longevity of a software to the language it is written in or the frameworks it uses rather than to the amount of thought that was put into its design. Sure, the former is important, but largely overrated.
It wasn't just word of mouth but he was also dazzled by what these geniuses were telling him and their enthusiasm. Eventually he realized he needed employees who can deliver more than talk.
I'd say investigating corporate trade secret leaks with substantial evidence pointing to an MS owned Hotmail account, to which the leaker agreed could be accessed by MS personnel would be deemed necessary.
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Not to go against you, but nothing about that person deserves celebration. I would rather you simply piss on his grave. Yes, the world is better for such an awful bigot to be gone, but don't celebrate it. Rather just let it go without any publicity. He doesn't deserve anything more.
This could be more accurately phrased as "I believe Elon Musk will do more good for mankind with my money than any organization that would qualify as 'charity.'"

NOTE: He may actually not mean that, but that is how I understood what he said, assuming by context that he is speaking about what will do the most good.
Or:

Is possible to create a monoculture on top of a badly (non)designed language with not chance in hell to escape it?
Now all you need are some billions.
Um, he's using this whole episode as an example of what not to do, not what to do. He says right out that hiring that person that way was a mistake. The whole point of the article is to help people avoid the mistakes the author made. How many articles that get to HN's front page are basically the same thing?
or it will just happen anyway over the course of thousands of years
> If MS patched Office to upload your local files to MS servers, you would have a very strong case against them for "stealing" your files. If you upload them to OneDrive/Google Drive, not so much.

At work, we use exchange. In the webmail settings, there's a list of plugins, many of which provide basic, necessary core features such as meeting invitations. All the microsoft plugins had a disclaimer along the lines of "This plugin may send your mail and data to a third-party server".

Not saying they're archiving it, but I'm not sure running microsoft software is a great idea if you're very worried about the security of your data.
Fortunately, as proven during Cold War and before, scientific cooperation can work fine regardless of political situation.
Employees still optimize for pay / effort, NOT absolute pay. In that respect, commissions are still FAR from perfectly aligning incentives.

You can't really be suggesting that commissions are the silver bullet for aligning incentives, as if that hasn't been tried for thousands of years already, with very mixed success :)
Having just gone through all of the tutorials and documentation, I can see this type of thing shaking up configuration management in enterprise environments quite significantly. The amount of headaches I have keeping several environments (Dev, Staging, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, Prod) in sync - across any project I've worked on - would be far better maintained using this kind of container-based management.
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It absolutely matters. It's a completely open question under which circumstances and to what extent we should trust expert opinion in planning the future. "...investing in long-sighted, ill-defined, radical, impractical projects is not only valuable but essential" is a rather useless platitude without further data--as in actual facts--because such long-range projects run the gamat from promising to useless to actively negative.
And we know nothign about those companies because they're not on HN.

We suspect that they probably have restrictive workplace policies, helpdesk in India and office politics. Those things OP won't like.
This bit maybe?

We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

...

protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google ,our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

[1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Cryengine, Unreal, and Unity are all moving to support Linux.

I wouldn't worry about this.
Couldn't agree more. I would add that the Git integration is just about perfect, as well as the remote synchronization.

My main complaint, however, is slow load time and occasional hangups/momentary unresponsiveness.
He became Warden of the Royal Mint and became rather passionate about his new role - even to the extent of working as an undercover agent and personally leading the prosecution of "coiners" in court.

[NB For a fictionalized, but hugely entertaining, account of the relevant time in history I can recommend Neal Stephenson's wonderful "Baroque Cycle" - Newton is a major character.]
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Kitchen table physics is done. We already have universities brimming with underemployed PhDs producing many more exotic theories than we have the equipment to test in their lifetimes (assuming we can ever do so near Earth). More brains are no longer very useful when each requires a huge commitment of resources that we aren't providing.
"his money is better off in the hands of private corporations it should be a warning to all of us" - where else should it be? why is "private" with a vision worse than "public" squandering funds?
Take on smaller projects that you can feasibly finish. Finish them. Don't let yourself take on any more large projects until you've built up some track record of finishing small ones.
That price was a big 'wow' moment for me. I would 100% purchase this BUT I'm worried shipping will make it unaffordable (I'm in the UK).
The issue is the tangible results. You could put a lot of money in science and end up with a lot of dead ends.
I think it would be better to think of it as investing in the cutting edge of science that has already been researched being implemented.
When you're no longer stressing about where you're going to get food for the next day, researching big ideas seems a lot more reachable
People who aren't struggling to survive have the luxury to spend time working on other things, like infrastructure. There's no guarantee that will happen, though.
> FDR turned giving money away into something that was literally awesome, using the Tennessee Valley Authority to reshape the landscape with bridges and dams.

Some more libertarian-minded folks would probably make the point that the government is never actually giving away money, it got that money by obtaining it from somewhere else. Regardless, government spending is definitely not charity in any traditional sense.

Not to mention, that was a very difficult time. Spending money on a project like that was perhaps necessary just to keep things going. Getting back to your original point, can you make spending cool, or transfer of money from the wealthy to the poor cool by private means (charity) when it isn't required?
It doesn't have to look that bad, their screenshots are not using the OS's native look and feel (LAF) but the really ugly Java fallback one.
Some facts. I'm not sure how is that helpful in real life or how important but I'm adding them just for information:

* SQLite itself has configurable cache and some other caching options:

a) http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size

b) https://www.sqlite.org/sharedcache.html

* Node.js has SQLite library with caching option (matter of single line). https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/wiki/Caching . It might be possible that other languages has something similar as well.

P.S. Here is one of sites running on SQLite http://skaityta.lt/ with some caching.
>> "Only question is the cost. We really need something in the sub $200 range."

Considering how expensive even basic standing desks are that price is phenomenal especially considering a POS standard wooden computer desk is generally around $100-150.
Who said it was always true? I certainly didn't. I made an assertion about Google, not Microsoft.
Precisely this. Elon is a genius, and absolutely one of the greatest men alive. But we must understand that he is an engineer, not a scientist. The fact that he had to put his own money into an ambitious engineering project just goes to show how ridiculously conservative most investors are. Is it any surprise then, that basic science funding from profit driven investors is so abysmal?

We need the NIH, we need the NSF, we need CERN, now more than ever. Basic science is the only way to get significantly more return from a dollar invested, but nobody wants to pay upfront. That is why we need taxpayer funding in basic science. Scientific breakthroughs will yield such massive dividends in the long run, that citizens would literally be spending on their own well being in a way that would otherwise be impossible. Discoveries such as vaccines, antibiotics, surgery, genetics and others have allowed humans to enjoy a standard of living unfathomable even a hundred years ago.

If politicians had any vision whatsoever, they would have instigated a New Deal with massive investment in scientific and engineering research projects. Yet what did they do? Feed banks infinite loans at prime to keep them afloat, so that banks can choose to continue lending on a profit driven schedule.

Guess who gets loans at prime from banks? Not the NIH, that's for sure.
Yup, but it's worth it.

Also, allow yourself some blow-out projects. You don't have to finish everything, but you want to become reliable. I.e. if you say you'll do something, then you'll do it.
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Not sure this is the place. But always looking for talented python devs.
Why would you need a causal inference to make a trade?
Similar to what the others say, in GA the ad valorem is paid annually and is based on the value of the vehicle. This is (was?) true in NC circa 2010 (when I moved) as well. Though, now in GA you pay the tax once on new (? not sure the criteria, either vehicle model year or sale date) vehicles, and the sales tax (if purchased in GA) counts as the one time ad valorem.
To the point about what would attract users to a platform, offering a developer friendly environment and quick ramp up time, I certainly agree.

The 1M writes/second would be a capability more specifically focused for users/developers interested in using already existing platforms such AWS's High Performance Computing platforms and the like.
Regarding UI appearance, it really depends on what OS you're using and what theme/feel you choose. Though I agree, some people using some very ugly Netbeans settings [0].

[0] - https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/leiningen_clojure_an...
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I wonder why the ambulance-chasing lawyers haven't already dinged Airbnb with class-action suits?

Is the ToS really ironclad in limiting their liability?

Or are they just not big enough yet that they can be counted on to settle the case? After all, class-action lawyers rarely want to go to trial. They're much happier with a settlement that leaves them with a rich payday, but has only modest benefits for the putative class members. (A $10 coupon for your next Airbnb stay!)