skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently have a whole stack of thoughts about this as today kicks off the 2nd week of a new job for me.

I'm a sys admin who has worked in a range of environments big and small. My new job is once again returning to a "big" environment. I feel that the tips which would help me in this role are completely different to tips which would have helped in my last role which was in a small environment.

The one which I'm 100% confident is good for both is: record every piece of work you do. The tip from the link here about rating each piece of work is something which I'd overlooked, but will start doing.

I've used trello religiously since I became aware of its existence. It was a real challenge to build the habit, but as I've matured and gained experience in various work places I've set aside my youthful ideas which went somewhere along the lines of:

"I know I'm good at my job, my work should speak for its self. If people up the chain of command can't realize my worth based on my output then I don't want to work under them anyway."

Now I'm more focused on doing the following:

#1
- find out what my manager thinks is the #1 priority I should be working on
- ensure that his/her boss thinks the same thing
- crush the hell out of that task

#2
- look for opportunities which are too "low level" for my manager to think about
- bring them to his/her focus

Far too often I used to have those around backwards.
In Settings > Navigation, you can change the routing engine, incidentally, which might solve that problem. Although the other options require an internet connection for the initial calculation.
Back up anyway with a scaled configuration
This is awesome OP, have been waiting for something like this.
Sorry if I misunderstood, the "LOL" made it sound like you were poking at the lack of speed. My bad then.
It's raining invites – One Plus One
What if you eat a clean salad loaded with raw veggies? - that always does it for me. Or a fruit/greens smoothie.
Oh, expected is it? Is the mere expectation enough to make the knowledge jump into their head? Your privilege is showing.
Could you please provide more context on the extent of this discounting (esp. the measurable part)?
Where? They might not be on that page anymore.
>Well, one thing you can do is admit everyone who a colleague you know and trust says can do research

I always thought this was simply how you get into grad-school: do research in undergrad, and have your research mentors write you letters of recommendation, trusting their reputation to carry information the admissions committee will understand and care about where grades and awards won't.

>So the "schmucks" ... and I've known of one MIT professor who didn't get tenure who was in that category (a friend tried to do research in her laboratory and found it impossible, it was so badly run, something subsequent events proved) ... are either false positives from the above metric or from the cohort of department's best guesses after running out of them.

Kinda. Politics become a problem, but it is true that once you actually get to the point of publishing papers, the cap on your achievements disappears, so you do, in some way, get career credit for doing more.
Ruby/Rails – Refactoring with a thoughtbot apprentice
Agreed, my point was that there are also run-of-the-mill military flights/launches which SpaceX is also interested.
Improving Go cookie handling
While I do lots of web work, the majority of my work with Python is as a scripting language embedded in a cross-platform app (Sublime Text). There are easily hundreds of thousands of developers who use that work on a daily basis.

The Windows support in Python is extensive enough I was able to write a web-client using ctypes and the native Windows network API to better support users with funky proxies and so forth.
How to make a quantum random-number generator from a mobile phone
If it's politically inadvisable to work your ass off, for example because it makes your less dedicated peers look bad, then this can be good advice.

Given my druthers, though, I'll do the best work my talent and skill make possible, for two reasons: first, should I find myself having trouble in a given situation, I find it strongly preferable to have the certainty that it's for some other reason than because I'm not working at the top of my form; second, because if I should find myself in need of support from management, it's a lot easier to start that conversation, and achieve a favorable result, when the fact that I'm working at the top of my form is obvious to everyone involved.

Of course, not everyone shares that opinion, and my own experience isn't universal. But I will note that I've never found myself in a situation where I had peers gunning for me because I was making them look bad -- on the contrary, one of the benefits of an insatiable appetite for hard work is that others quickly learn I can be relied upon to help them out when they need it, while rarely asking for such help myself. Quite aside from the fact that helpfulness is one of the criteria by which I evaluate my worth as a human being, this gives my colleagues the very best of reasons -- those of self-interest -- to bend their every political effort on my behalf.

This, by the way, is an example of what I mean, else-thread, when I talk about playing office politics in a principled fashion. Sure, there's some of my own self-interest in the mix here! I don't deny it. On the other hand, I've found a way in which I can serve not just my own interests, but those of my colleagues, and of the organization as a whole, all at the same time -- in short, a style of play that redounds to the benefit of all involved, and an excellent illustration of how it's possible to play office politics quite adroitly indeed, without having to become a Machiavellian bastard in the process.
Greenland will be far greater contributor to sea rise than expected
Fast FIR Filters with Accelerate vDSP
Probably a long way off, but I can't help but imagine the kind of amazing applications something like this might have. If we could reliably capture and store the resulting positrons, then recombine them with electrons later to release the energy and harness it somehow, I'd imagine this could make for an energy storage system with some really interesting properties.
#24 caught my attention with the poem/song about the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_AbM8ZykI

Somewhere in between music school and programming for a living, I had the superficially nonsensical epiphany that algorithms and data structures were essentially music... just another language for expressing ideas about combinations and time. It's interesting to see this other perspective... an algorithm expressed as a song for the purpose of clearly communicating how it works.

The interview with Radia Perlman is a good read too:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/radia-...
It is an economic law that the least costly means of exhcange wins and predominates in any given niche and drives out all other means of exchange.

"Least costly" here does factor in convenience.

You can have a case where there is no clear winner---e.g. one type of exchange is harder to use, BUT more private.

So in summary, there is likely to be one predominant cryptocurrency, and at best maybe one or two others that offer nice things (e.g. more privacy) but at an additional cost.

If one cryptocurrency can offer all commonly-wanted useful features, it will strictly dominate all the others and drive them out.

That said, there are many, many potential uses for _blockchain technology_, such as storage and computation.
Also, as much as it sucks.....

- get in early

http://qz.com/209513/no-matter-what-the-boss-says-about-flex...
> I suspect your problem is the "third level domain"

That's one of the problems for me at the moment. A friend in a similar situation (but with regular .net domain) triggered one of their "must pay now" criteria (ref: the StartSSL business model).

They have worked in the past, and are sometimes an option, but a "second source" is unfortunately necessary.

> That certainly isn't the intention of the security community

I don't really intend to make any accusations - take any harsh tone in my post to be a general annoyance at the current situation.

I appreciate the ideas about technical workarounds. They are similar to some things I've considered already, and might yet try.

I'm more concerned about a general solution to this PKI/cert problem - XMPP and HTTP simply being the common examples. In reference to the manifesto linked at the top of this thread, the time to encrypt everything is "now". This is a great idea, but it can't happen everywhere until the money-issue needs to be solved.
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not your fault.

it seems I did not use the word right...

:p
I just tried the OP's app (Scout Maps), which is free, and it looks pretty good so far for where I'm at. Not as clear or concise as Apple or Google maps, but the road data seems good so far.
I'm really sorry for your loss. I experienced something similar when I lost my son 5 years ago. It can be very dark the place you are right now, but believe me, it will get better. I went back to work after 2 weeks and it was extremely hard. I couldn't do anything and I would go the the restroom to cry, because people around me were feeling uncomfortable with my grief. I found an online support group that really helped me. I was so depressed that I can't even leave the house and meet other people, so the online group was a good starting point. After two weeks of terrible work, my employer agreed with me that I couldn't go on and I took a leave for health reasons. At my job I had disability insurance and profound depression qualifies as disability. You should go see a psychiatrist to have the depression diagnosis in your records and to try some medication. If you are feeling too bad, please, check yourself at a hospital. In my case it took me over a year in disability to recover from my son's loss.

Here are some links for depression support in NZ: www.depression.org.nz
http://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/page/40-getting-help
http://www.depressionsupportnetwork.org.nz/

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, seek help.
Multiply it by 3 then.

Edit: Let me clarify - not saying that Eastern European programmers are better or worse but the living costs are obviously lower in Eastern Europe than say Western Europe.
Sadly, my original cube from 1980 broke last year. The plastic just gave way on the center rotating "star" and it came apart. :(

I bought a new one, but it's much harder to turn. I think I may have put some Vaseline in the original to lubricate it, but it's been too many years to remember.

I wonder if Dr. Rubik is getting his royalties now that the Soviet Union is gone (The story I heard was that the Soviets kept all the royalties, giving him a relatively generous salary in return).
How Google Built Its 3D Interactive Rubik’s Cube Doodle
Does the author mean "character" in a literary sense? Because many of these things have better names, and in fact "character" is wholly incorrect for anything like "#_" or "#'" which consist of multiple characters.

Also, functions are not methods, and the terms are not interchangeable.

All of this is summarized in a much more succinct and correct fashion here: http://clojure.org/reader
Solar panels wouldn't be the ideal use of this ability if it were made real, would they? I haven't looked through the full article yet, but would this new approach help overcome the problem of Carnot's theorem in any way?
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I appreciate the suggestion, and it's certainly well warranted; I find in my writing that eloquence is optional, but windiness is quite mandatory. :) I'll see if I can restrain my tl;dr instincts long enough to come up with a suitable summary to prepend, and thanks again for pointing out the need.
Thanks, that is a bit better.

I would hope for more applications that use cloud service to hook up apps on mobile devices, that would then directly peer to peer. I have fairly broad experience in networked applications since the 1980s, but this is one application area that I have never got my fingers on except for peer to peer UDP connections in a few networked games (LAN only). It will be really interesting to see the future effect of IPv6, more use of lossy but more efficient broadcasting protocols, etc.
>An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far.

What ?

We've known that the NSA was engaging in corporate espionage on behalf of American corporations for a long time now and the American government doesn't even deny it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/820758.stm (from 2000)

>The journalist, who has spent much of his life investigating Echelon, has offered two alleged instances of US snooping in the 1990s, which he says followed the newly-elected Clinton administration's policy of "aggressive advocacy" for US firms bidding for foreign contracts. The first came from a Baltimore Sun report which said the European consortium Airbus lost a $6bn contract with Saudi Arabia after NSA found Airbus officials were offering kickbacks to a Saudi official. The paper said the agency "lifted all the faxes and phone-calls between Airbus, the Saudi national airline and the Saudi Government" to gain this information. Mr Campbell also alleges that the US firm Raytheon used information picked up from NSA snooping to secure a $1.4bn contract to supply a radar system to Brazil instead of France's Thomson-CSF.

>former CIA director James Woolsey, in an article in March for the Wall Street Journal, acknowledged that the US did conduct economic espionage against its European allies, though he did not specify if Echelon was involved.
How is the PLA hacking American companies and accessing designs different from the NSA hacking Huawei and accessing source code? Their justifications differ, but not their actions.
MapQuest Open is probably the style you are looking for. You can even select that as a layer on openstreetmap.org

http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/52.5147/13.3899&num=4&mt0=m...
The question is, would an angel investor take that deal? The answer is obvious: no way.

An analogy would be if we all belonged to a VC fund, and the fund manager took a deal where instead of equity they take a cut of future sales tax. Imagine that. No way you'd consider that a fair deal, even if the startup produced some nice products and job opportunities.

You'd want equity if it was your personal investment. Why should it be any different for taxpayer funds?
Predicting What’s After the Mobile-App Era
Where did you hear about this? Googling around for "miu", "miu haskell", "miu haskell standard chartered", "miu haskell standard chartered strict", etc hasn't given me anything.
Ask HN: Quality entrepreneur web resources?
As a web developer, I have a rich set of quality online resources for learning and staying up-to-date.

Now I'm trying to grow in my entrepreneur skills, and I'm having trouble separating the wheat from the chaff.

So HN, besides HN, what are your recommended blogs/websites/books/etc for entrepreneurialism?
>You missed the entire point. Software uses patents,

I haven't, I just didn't focus on software patents because software patents are just one niche within the larger "Intellectual Property" framework. Even if you get rid of software patents, and I can be convinced either way, you're still left with patents in general, and copyright.

>And that's the problem with over-generalization

IP? I think it's a useful abstraction. Patents, software or otherwise, trademarks and copyright all are rooted in the same ideology. Giving a content creator a conditional exclusive right of distribution of a creative work.
yes, did miss the pun. (and your point.)

Your pun is a good one, as is your point - neither came across well. You need to tweak the delivery :)
Have you known people to have successfully gone down path 2? Any stories or tips to share?

I'm in a similar situation. Despite having been moderately successful, I lacked passion. Now I'm a 30 year old graduate student, working three times as hard and making a third the money that I used to, but I couldn't be happier.

My most difficult project remains mastering myself. I'm doing okay now, but I know I can be much better. I'm worried I won't be able to master myself and will be stuck with mediocrity because I'm my own worst enemy after decades of terrible work habits.

I often spend too much time on "self-hacks", and not actually doing stuff that needs to get done. It feels like paralysis by analysis, so that's why I'm questioning this advice.
Apparently they plan to end support for the "old" hangout version at some point in the future. Hopefully it's not soon.
I'm just gonna point out something: OSM is 10 years old, and after countless hrs and investing its finally ready for prime time. People who think a new internet is coming via some disruptive technology need to read this article and realize that real, long-term, awesome change takes time.
The US is bombarded with the ideology that politics and economics are separate subjects. When naturally, the point of that distinction is to severely mislead. (Capitalism itself couldn't exist without a huge infrastructure of laws and violence which supports it, like violence towards people who violate abstract social rights to "property".)
Won't this be useless if you've changed any of the shortcuts?
Eastern Europe or whatever - if you are any good, people from Western Europe would pay you at least something more like EUR 30.
I've knocked up an ejabberd install within a half hour. Really simple, really lightweight, and in the debian repos (IIRC.)
Isn't apple based on OSM? Which basically means we got more players here. All that's left is for google to jump on the bandwagon and we're in business.
Jodd – Java micro frameworks, tools and utilities, under 1.4 MB.
drcoopster is right. I know how much people make in Eastern Europe also in Asia. USD 5-15/hr is more than average, but I realize this is the reason programmer out of the western nations are so underpaid and undervalues.

Opportunist take advantage and low ball all of us. We need to stick together.
I find that pretty hilarious
Nosey? Or maybe "curious"? Explorer? Pioneer?
Either way, thanks for writing about it.
This is why:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856900
Founder here. Happy to answer any questions and take feature requests.

The API is scheduled to be released in June (only for paid plans).
Providing arguments/dynamic input when executing recipes is coming shortly.
The ability to create/destroy servers from within Commando.io is also in development.
Automating the Data Scientist
Broken back button, bleh.
Eehhmm that's because our customers rule? XD
Ok, this one was lame :>
we trust our customers :-)
Looks well designed and thought out.

Can you give me a use case as to when this would be better a better solution than say Chef or Salt?
Interesting, I wonder do search engines crawl pages like this?

You'd need to add at least a `doctype` and `title` for this to be valid HTML5 (not that it necessarily matters for a search engine crawler).

Edit: Also if you added the script to the top of the doc then you could `display: none` the doc and wait for the css to load before making it `display: block`. This would overcome the FOUC effect.
I did something similar years ago with xslt rendering xml in browser. It used an xsl stylesheet loaded in the xml itself, similar to this approach. It was a pain to debug, and I'd imagine this approach is easier because tooling has caught up with this sort of thing.

I use httpsb so this comes through as a pile of text until I allow the js to do its thing. I'm ok with this, since a browser plugin that does markdown would work here too.

Sometimes I miss things like Archie that had very small network footprints due to technical requirements of the past. They really were able to focus on the content, like this solution.
I simply ask them to wait and leave the phone unattended for a couple of minutes. If they're still there, I say hi, sorry and turn to ask them to wait.

I like this method because I don't have to lie, argue, insult or harm anybody, while the marketers waste time that they could use to annoy fellow humans.

Oh, and it's very effective.
Anyone out there using TFS to store iOS code?
My company is a .NET shop that is starting developing iOS and Android code. They use TFS for source repository and they control all their deployments from there. ADT works well with TFS eclipse plug-in, but Xcode doesn't recognize TFS at all. We can't yet migrate to TFS 2013 that supports git. Currently I wrote a build script that can be remotely executed from the TFS server using ssh and we have a mac mini for our QA/Prod builds. In order to also embed automatic revision increase, I had to add some custom steps on the post archive phase that take care of it. The whole thing seems a bit too complex. Does anyone have experience with this setup and have some suggestions?
Thx.
in what court exactly ?
The C Family of Languages
So am I right in thinking that this is like a template, but the template gets added dynamically by javascript?
http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

It's a pretty awesome community of entrepreneurs.
I have totally converted to OSM with my startups.

We use it soley for all our mapping needs and it does quite well.

See it in action: https://rdnation.com/roller-derby-leagues
The FCC Must Ignore the Silly ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
Cool site, neat idea. Any chance I could get a week's trial before I sign up? I'd be more interested in data science, and/or Python/Django work. I can't tell if you have that.
>"most people" are people that have grown up in a civilization that has some legal understanding of "intellectual property" and the economic effects thereof, so their intuition is already pretty skewed towards the status quo.

That may be so, but I still claim that there is something intuitive in supporting the idea that content creators be allowed to "own" their creative work. Doubly so if you live in a society that allows ownership (of things, or land), because it's a very short conceptual jump from one to the other.
1. The NSA have been implicated in economic hacking/spying/espionage throughout the Snowden leaks.

2. The only - ONLY - country to have engaged in cyber WARFARE, is the United States; by unleashing stuxnet/flame on another sovereign state.

This is beyond hypocritical of the Americans. Not only does the US violate their own and international laws but to have the gall to stand in front of the world and sanctimoniously blow their own trumpet, it's disgusting.
Nope. In GR, energy has as much "gravity" as the equivalent mass, so it won't affect anything. (Energy is more tied to the expanding universe, though, as the wavelength increases too, so it's an important distinction in early-universe cosmology.)
>Which do you want to install/contribute to/star?

To be honest, not yours. I'm immediately suspicious of "open source" projects written by OS X/iOS users and demonstrated on said platforms. Without installing your program myself, I can't expect it to work on GNU/Linux, since all of your screenshots are taken in Safari.
Like the fact that light doesn't take up any space, so you could theoretically store an infinite amount of energy?
Ye this was a WE project that just looked so cool, and some of the libraries needed were already out there. Opensourcing & moving everything to telnet/ssh is probably the next step. For now it was just fun :P
As long as the individual can demonstrate strong existing programming & engineering skills, and their pay scale is modest, I haven't seen it as a problem.
That's not the same thing as stealing trade secrets and giving them to a domestic company.