skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fact is manufacturing all moved out of California. Tesla is still a boutique small little tech outfit. Who knows if they'd be manufacturing in California when they're the size of Ford/GM/Toyota
This seems to be a bit of a deep assumption, no? There are lots of advantages to home automation besides "fathers wanting to control every aspect of their families lives."

The Nest Thermostat, for instance is about energy savings and not having to think too much about the thermostat. Lockitron about the convenience about never having to worry about keys again...
Couldn't they move to almost any state and the same claim would be made? I don't think this is news.
"It will be interesting to know how many undergrads graduate with CS/EE degrees from MIT...."

Before the dot.com crash, it was ~ 40% of the undergraduates for more than a couple of decades, ~ 400 students. After, enrollment dropped by a bit more than half, and as of late it's climbed back up a great deal.

Is that 140-150 students total for those 4 ITTs, or for each?
Am I to understand that this is like Twitter's Promoted Tweets without any other functionality? Because Promoted Tweets are really the best part of Twitter?
I think it's a good idea to change these types of links (it prevents the 'it's behind a paywall' comments overwhelming the thread.

I actually submitted that TC link a few minutes after the FT one was submitted. Now that the link on this has been changed to match the one I submitted what happens to my submission? (I don't have a problem with this just curious as to how the system works as identical links can't be submitted usually).
Show HN: Launchpad – Django deployment made easy
I wrote a set of scripts to make django deployment less of a headache. After much deliberation I decided to open source the project.
> We're getting closer every day to this dystopia.

Except that as we approach it, piracy becomes more and more socially acceptable.
How about checking out the wall formerly known as shame.

http://python3wos.appspot.com/
This looks like it's the same as The List Serve:

http://thelistserve.com/
Still reading the talk, but as an aside wanted to point out that the way the transcript is formatted with the words alongside the slides is probably the best way I've seen a talk presented in text form on the internet.
"...and also that the FT allegations are significant" (my emphasis).

Original Tweet:

"3/But UK--&, I now believe, US--methods need to be explained by #Piketty, else looks pretty bad. Just not CONSEQUENTIAL 4 overall thesis" (again, my emphasis)

https://twitter.com/swinshi/status/470880036233699328

"are significant" vs "not CONSEQUENTIAL" seem like exact opposites to me.

EDIT: missing parenthesis
It mostly harms the big name producers. There are plenty of niche writers and small-time musicians who are super happy to be published on Amazon and iTunes.
Accelerating the Cloud with GPUs
Sounds fascinating. Have you written anything about this?
So how many days will it take for everyone to tell their message, if there are 20 message slots per day?
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While author seems to believe all gloom and doom, look at this graph http://py3readiness.org/

Python 3 support is getting better everyday.
Do you think that they will open the home up to a app store like they did with phones?
Simple, Fast, Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms
Locks, security systems, garage doors, PV inverters? Plus I think it would be useful for major appliances like refrigerators and electric ranges and water heaters to output their power usage since you can't just plug those into a Kill-A-Watt.
I began my python coding in both 2 and 3. I eventually dropped 2 and stayed with 3, because I didn't need any of the "still haven't made it to 3" libraries for what I was doing.

Part of me feels like I'm living in the future, waiting around for everyone else to get over it. I then have to remind myself about the nature of change over large groups of people, and wonder what else I could be missing.
I'm under no delusions that I have access to all the hardware and I hope there comes a day when we do. Till then however, it would be unfair to not acknowledge that we have made some strides in gaining more access to our devices by default compared to just a few years ago.
Most of it does seem pretty unnecessary. Things like shades that adjust automatically throughout the day definitely seem more like luxuries than even conveniences or necessities.

I've gotten much use out of a simple remote control dimmer [1] in the living room, but that's not automation, and most people would probably consider even something that simple as an unnecessary luxury, much less want whole-home automation.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Lutron-MRF2-600MTHW-WH-Multi-Location-...
Node.js vs. Opa: Web Framework Showdown (web chat comparison)
> My use case was that you already have a set of edges that profiling tells you is "rarely taken", and you wish to know if eliding any of those edges improves optimization.

True, I somehow forgot that stipulation by the time I got to the end of the post.
Here's the chance to insert the inevitable xkcd comic. Anybody remember which one? About trying to combine 13 versions of Unix into one - result - 14 versions of Unix.
A really compelling read.

How many hidden industries like the pallets one are out there, waiting for software (or hardware) aid or disruption? I mean, 3.5 billion in pallet-related revenues :) , and millions in losses due to lack of tracking... is RFID really the best solution?
Ask HN: Steps to take as a CTO to create a great eng culture?
TL;DR: How can I quickly pick up the soft skills needed to become a good CTO/lead dev? Are there any good books/articles on the processes to follow/implement?

I'm a CS grad and I've been offered an exciting lead dev position at a very early startup. I've never worked in a management position before (although I started/led multiple projects); I've briefly worked in research, open source, industry, but only as a SWE. While technically I'm comfortable with the challenge (of scaling their product, building good tools/infrastructure, etc), I'm not that familiar with the skill-set needed for a CTO.

I have a basic idea of what to do (encourage writing good tests/docs, do code reviews, encourage pair programming, start code katas, etc.), but I'd love the opinion of people who've actually dealt with this first-hand. Or at least get some good reading recommendations.

1. What are the best books/articles on the topic? (eng-focused, not the regular PM mumbo jumbo)

2. What are some of the common (potentially counter-intuitive) challenges that arise?

3. I'm a big fan of Urs Hölzle and would like to emulate the way he helped build an incredible engineering culture at Google [0]. What do you reckon he did right and how can one follow from his example?

4. AFAIU, surviving startups need to be good at market validation and maintaining focus ("build things that don't scale", lean startup, etc) and over-engineering seems like a quick way to fail. How do you contain the impulse to build superfluous stuff, when you're also trying to emphasise engineering? (I guess the typical answer to this is "start from your customers and work backwards", but I'd like a more detailed answer.)

Many thanks

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0: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html (Urs is referenced covertly in the article)
The thing is Traditional Chinese Medicine does not fit into the Myth of Progress (TM), which clearly state that everybody before Francis Bacon were retarded caveman/peasants/alchemist/inquisitors/whatever-triggers-repulsion-in-listener.

The idea that non-European (a.k.a. non-White) peoples of thousands of years ago were making careful observations of natural phenomena, which lead to relatively accurate predictions and techniques that allowed to increase the chances of preferred outcomes - even if the explanations they came out with were off-base and terribly fantastic for our civilization's sensibilities - is anathema to Modern Science (TM) Dogma.

In the particular case of Acupuncture, they first said that you cannot run a proper clinical trial because the technique is invasive and you cannot control against placebo effect. When pointed out that there are invasive techniques, such as surgery, in modern medicine, they claimed that since the mechanism of action of surgery are evident, it'd be unethical to run tests with double blind controls, but since acupuncture mechanism of action is unknown, it's unethical to run any tests at all.

Now (I mean, 15 years ago) someone comes up with a plausible, non mystic, mechanism of action, and they claim that since it is impossible to measure the voltage/amperage of a needle stimulus, only properly designed equipment is good to use. This movement has the double advantage to create a new fancy specialty with a fresh occidental name, and allows ignorant GPs to keep calling acupuncture a quack.

And in the mean time, we force the new field to rediscover literally centuries of accumulated knowledge from first principles. But it is a small price to pay, so that traditional medicines practitioners are kept outside of the "Evidence Based" umbrella.
Sites like HN apparently follow an unwritten rule that says there can only be one official URL associated with a post.

Maybe that rule doesn't need to be followed. Maybe it's just a common pattern sites follow, and it can be tweaked.

There could be official metadata URLs such as cache links or non-paywall links, that appear alongside the main links.

Certainly you've thought of this and some of the possible dangers of doing it: For instance, there could be blowback from sites if they think you are systematically circumventing their attempts to charge for content.

But perhaps some mild flavor of it could be done, to address a subset of the use cases. For instance, content could be cached privately by HN, with the cache link hidden at first. Then if the content became unavailable, depending on the reason for that unavailability, HN could reveal the cache link or not, based on HN policy about which reasons for content unavailability are cases where it is desirable to provide a cache link.
I don't trust Apple to do this well.

Firstly, they cannot (or will not) make their devices multi-user, which is a problem in the home environment (eg an Apple TV that's tied to only my account - and already exposes more info than I'd like).

Secondly, Apple has a habit of abandoning things and shutting them down when it doesn't suit them. This is mostly ok for some services but would be disastrous for me as a user if I've put bought into the system.

Finally, Apple doesn't play nice with others. Perhaps they've learned to be better since they've had to interface more due to the App Store but for the most part I don't see them caring about an ecosystem other than their own.
This looks great, but somebody's going to have to obtain the password so people can try it.
A Bullshit Generator for the New Web Economy
I meant pirate. Why would you bother going online to buy a book if you can do it with one click on amazon, and have it on your device straight away?

I mean, sure, if that's an author you already know and there's no other way to get the book, you might do it. But die-hard fans are always going to buy the books anyway, that's not what publishers and authors compete for. Reaching the audience that has not read previous books is the main purpose.
Indeed, 73% of popular packages in PyPi already support Python 3 http://py3readiness.org

And it's getting better everyday.
It was a joke! Hence the ":P".
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The psychology of getting more done (in less time)
YC application question: "How have you hacked a system in real life?"

> What is most vexing to many recyclers is the belief that the accumulation of blue pallets in their yards is not an accident, but a deliberate CHEP strategy. After all, collecting these stray pallets takes a lot of labor, a lot of miles, and a lot of trucks. If you are CHEP, why do this work yourself if you can get someone else to do it for you, at a price that you dictate?

> In 2008, a group of recyclers filed a class action lawsuit, claiming that CHEP was leveraging its dominant market position, and violating anti-trust law, by transferring its operational costs onto recyclers. The recyclers argued that CHEP had made them into a “conscripted collection army.”
Killed because you used a link shortener. Please repost with the real url.
What industry is this? There seems to be a lot of spaces where a few smart people could make a lot of difference. And it sure beats doing locsomobile amafacegoosoft.

EDIT: I am genuinely asking about the industry because I want to find spaces to expand to.
T-Mobile goes down the route you are suggesting: Lower monthly charges if you BYOD with the option of going the traditional contract route. They even push this as a competitive advantage.

ATT and Verizon to my knowledge do not offer equal quality service as their contract plans at lower prices for BYOD customers.
Product Design is a Joke
If you're afraid of looking silly to the company, just remember that everyone will be having that fear if their digital profile is requested. Relatively, your value doesn't change. If everyone has stupid stuff on their digital profile, well, the company still needs to hire people, they're not going to reject everyone because that guy posted pics with booze and that guy posted some incriminating status and that guy got in a fight with his LIT 101 teacher over the legitimacy of the class and nearly got suspended! So I doubt anyone rational enough is gonna care.

Also, the most successful companies hire the most capable programmers, so the most successful companies have to be aware of the fact that whatever stupid status you posted about getting arrested for a night in your freshman year at college is not at all correlated to your skill as a programmer. So they wouldn't even bother wasting the legal effort and time to get their hands on your digital profile from Google or Facebook.

Most of this tracking stuff is just going to be used for targeted advertising. All this social and personal stuff is pretty much useless for the workplace unless you're like, a murderer or rapist or something (in which case you're already in records far different than Facebook's or Google's and it really doesn't matter what they do). 70K NSA employees aren't going to randomly stalk the intricate life of some random Average Joe to figure out what color underwear he's wearing. Another irrational fear is that you're unwittingly breaking some stupid bullshit tiny law and all this tracking will allow you to get in trouble with that. howevermanyK Google employees aren't going to hunt you down and get you in trouble because you did something technically illegal because that costs resources to develop the technology to automatically detect those crimes and then legal resources to accuse you of them, and Google really doesn't get anything out of spending those resources (I doubt the government would pay off Google for that information, either, because if it's some insignificant, mundane, bullshit traffic violation caught by a Google Car, the government wouldn't care because they're too busy spending their resources towards more important stuff, like murders or kidnappings. Big companies already cooperate with government on large scale crimes like that, if that qualifies the trend.) No one is going to fucking make the US into some 1984 clone because that's in no one's incentive.

All of this data is just going to be sold to advertisers because all of these companies don't have any other source of revenue because we all decided we'd rather get ads than directly pay money for Google products. In very rare cases, the government is cooperating with regards to stuff like murders or kidnappings or such.

I mean, if you don't like that, fine. Go ahead and petition to get the ability to pay $30 a year to use Google products (which is the revenue per user per year that they're making off advertisement).
Just recognize that this data isn't going for some James Bond-villian-esque desire rooted in pure evil. It's advertisement.
That app is no longer working. At least the links in their website don't
Sociomantic is a $100m annual revenue company:

https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/

that uses 100% D to drive its trading software:

https://www.sociomantic.com/technology/
I believe he means signal-to-noise ratio.
This tells the truth.
> I don't get why these bars are being used everywhere

I Blame it on the design patterns of (Twitter) Bootstrap. A lot of sites are put together with it. Although the default nav-bar is not bolted to the top it is easy to read how to do that in the docs and implement it because it seems like a good idea at the time. Others, not using Bootstrap then copy the 'new convention'.

Personally I believe that for some content, e.g. a Tumblr style blog, the nav-bar at the top (and fixed) makes a lot of sense. If you also have pet-peeve infinite scroll (as many do on Tumblr blogs + Pinterest), then it is helpful to have a fixed header as there is no footer.
> Inevitably these approaches to learning will get hindered by myopic interpretation of this metric

I really don't understand this attitude. Of course this will not work if it is used incorrectly. Why would you expect any different? However, the same can be said for normal course work. What if the teacher gets the students to read only the first word of each sentence? This shows books will never work, and lecturing is the only way to teach.

Putting that aside, the point is that as you say, there are many ways to learn a topic. Asking children how they best learn things is not going to get useful answers most of the time, but analysis of reading and research patterns using sophisticated data mining or ML software will allow teachers to segment their students into groups that all learn in a similar way. So everyone benefits.

As I suggest above, I'd go further than instrumenting the ebooks. If they are on a tablet device using the Internet, then instrument the browser too, and you can correlate Wikipedia and Google searches with whatever page of the textbook they were on, and see what topics are unclear and always need additional research. You would also find out which students are deeply interested in the topic, as they read on past the end of the assignment, and download extra information or search for related topics. And you can discipline those who never open the book a all, and spend all their time looking at amusing cat pictures.

With such power there is also a responsibility to manage the student's privacy appropriately, bout with a school-provided device, similar to a work laptop, they should have no expectation of absolute privacy anyway. I think any worries about monitoring pale into insignificance against the powerful augmented learning regimes that can be created, and a suitable auditing and management routine will prevent any abuse.
Yes there is curation and 4 rules to be followed if you want to publish a message
SteamShovel, a Node.js code coverage tool (Ghostalk Podcast)
Most of the article (on medium) is an unsubstantiated rant. Granted that the move from 2 to 3 has been much slower than what you see for major revisions but it was a _big_ overhaul. In hindsight, maybe the developers could have done something different. But using phrases like "Python 3 is killing Python" & "you might as well port to ruby" is absolutely false & misleading.
What's the point of any luxury? Isn't a nice sofa just furniture for furniture's sake? And a home theater is just entertainment for entertainment's sake. If your opposition to automation is rooted in asceticism, that's perfectly fine, but then why are you on HN?

Home automation provides convenience (not having to drive all the way home to close the garage you accidentally left open), integration (being able to control and monitor your lighting, HVAC, sound, video, pool/spa, landscaping fountains/lights, etc. from a single remote with a single UI), and customization (pre-programmed actions, timed sequences, and unique designs that make a house uniquely suited to its occupants) that are not otherwise available.

Edit to add: there are also accessibility benefits to automation.
Quite on the contrary. 1.9-compat was very quickly expected of all libs and all important core libs run better on >1.9.

1.9 was the cleanup release after the language became popular and very necessary.

Also, everything before 1.9.2 was considered a preview release.
"As reported by Joe Silver at ArsTechnica on 14 May 2014, Hadfield chose to remove the video himself, in compliance with the agreement he had made with Bowie, and that plans were underway to renew the license. This was a private matter between the two parties, and could have stayed that way."

It amazes me how much foolishness results in gawking commenters involving themselves in other people's business. Screw asking for a reason and what the plan is, just show outrage and hashtag away.
Promoted tweets are paid for
https://business.twitter.com/en-gb/products/pricing
New multiplatform packaging framework for linux
During the development of Cloudify at Gigaspaces, we looked for a good packaging software/framework to use in favor of delivering easy to use installation debs/rpms. packman looks to simplify this ordeal.
Australian Senator smuggles fake 'pipe bomb' into Parliament House
Good project, nice tease, bad frustration!
Game Theory Is Counterintuitive
At the end of the video (approx. 8:25), he tells you that the machine is actually an Altair clone made with modern technology, not a real Altair 8800.
Similar to checking social media accounts before hiring someone. Twitter comments on a URL, for example, this is similar to taking notes in the margin of a book. Now imagine those margin notes are visible within your company, organization, school. I called this "collaborative reading" on my blog back in 2004. Two years later the Kindle came out. I predict the Kindle will evolve into a collaborative reading device eventually and "minutes reading" will be one of the least interesting metrics.
wxPython is a big one for me. But it looks more like it's dying altogether rather than not getting ported to 3.
Having some stupid chemical mess with your head is an obstacle to processing new ideas and experiences as they deserve.
I guess I'm naive and think that comments on HN should try to be constructive, so your sarcasm did miss me.

If the proposed idea is a bad one, don't you think it would have been much more helpful if you added your opinion on that to the convo rather than snark?

My apologies for ruining your fun.
The difference is that in Vint you have the chance to post your message to a selected date, and you don't have to win the chance to post in a lottery. Here anyone can post.
One thing: this guy says he couldn't figure out how to block YouTube ads. Ridiculous. It was years before I learned they even had any. Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge both fully block them if you have EasyList (the default).