skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the point is that--for most shows and most people--the idea of jumping into a previously aired series requiring a 100+ hour commitment to work through is daunting, to put it mildly. Given the amount of TV hours I budget, I know it's a non-started for me; I still haven't made it all the way through the Sopranos. There are a lot of shows--even many with well-defined arcs--that lend themselves to a "20 hour version" or so approach capturing both the overall flow and feel of the series. I'm not sure it works for everything--not sure about BSG or Lost for example--but I think it works pretty well for most of Star Trek.
> AWS would cost a fortune.

Isn't that comparing apples to oranges? Taking any application built for large servers and putting the same application onto a cloud-based architecture will be more expensive.

Cloud-based architecture requires ground up differences in how the application is built. Now whether or not it is better to use a cloud-based approach or traditional bare metal is highly subjective and isn't my point.
Do your thing when you need the cash, and when you don't need the cash, don't work for awhile.

How would you explain the gaps in employment? It seems to be a popular question.
Extremely interesting read, especially because it goes against many fashionable engineering practices. They see (correctly) that abstractions, DI have their own compromises. Also, they're not religious (about technology), that's also quite rare.
The people that sign quarter/half/million dollar checks aren't posting to YunoJuno.

Get out a meet the people that matter in the companies you want to work for.
'We are going to RED alert'

There are endless procedures about handling classified information. You are dealing with state secrets, girding for war, and what have you. From the perspective of security, you are 'arming' your system when you go to secure mode. It is not the time to relax because you are 'safe' (safe from evesdropping), but a time to watch every word - the President has access to information that he should not share with many people who are cleared; you need to be cautious and circumspect. Red is entirely appropriate in that mindset. Secure is a burden, a huge responsibility.
I used to feel terrible about Crusade - I was a huge B5 fan when it came out. Then, I watched it (what there was of it) again recently... it really wasn't that good. I don't know that showing the episodes in the proper order would have saved it, although maybe it should have gotten a chance to find its footing either way.
It's a Microsoft/Linux hybrid. SQL Server on the backend, Linux for monitoring, Redis, HAProxy, etc.
> The reason you were not feeling connected wasn't that you were freelancing. It was because you presumably didn't do anything else that gave you the opportunity of connecting with people. If you were freelancing and met like minded people in your free time doing things you like, you would have felt as much connected, if not more, as you feel now in your full time job. And would probably have had more free time.

But that's where you're wrong. I went to meetups regularly, participated in events like Rails Rumble, worked at co-location spaces, etc. I got plenty of human interaction but it simply wasn't the same as what I get now at my full time job. I liken it to home schooled kids. Sure, they can setup play dates and events with other home schooled kids or participate in out-of-school programs with public school kids, but they will never truly get the same level of social interaction public/private school kids get because they aren't going through exactly the same trials in exactly the same way.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the freedom I had when I was a freelancer and I will likely go back to that lifestyle some day but I would be lying if I didn't admit that there was a certain sense of disconnectedness I felt after all those years being on my own. I'm happy as a full time employee now and that's all that matters.
This was a really good article.

I have one of the manual reel mowers listed. I love it. Not only does it give a better cut, it uses no gas and doesn't have all the associated hassles (pull start etc) of a gas mower. It's only slightly more effort to use than a gas mower too. And it cost like $100 as opposed to 3-$400. I predict it lasts much longer as well.
Spotlight on libraries relying on C++14
Great article, thanks for sharing this. My dad and I were on opposite sides on whether to mow low or high. Now I have proof that I'm right!
Multi-language not yet, but it is on the todo list. At the moment only localization.
Reverse Engineering Unobtanium
Stipe is hitting on a bunch of the key points here. The big one is that bitcoin alone is not going to solve all our money problems, it will be the network of companies that build products on top of bitcoin. Its the reason we are seeing so much money going into these companies instead of investors just buying and holding Bitcoin.
> There was no sense of separation or exclusiveness.

Even for the people who didn't eat with the group every day? I notice that those people tend to get excluded over time. Not on purpose, necessarily. It's human nature to see things in terms of "part of the tribe" and "not part of the tribe".

> maybe you're not working with the right people..

This depends on a lot of factors. Even if you absolutely love everybody you work with, you may not want to eat lunch with them every day. For example, you work in an open office environment and see, hear and talk to them for 8-12 hours every day. Some would argue that, under those conditions, taking an hour in the middle of the day to be by yourself or to meet with people you don't see quite so often would be considered healthy.

On the other hand, if you all work in private offices 8-12 hours every day, then taking an hour and socializing with your co-workers sounds fantastic.
I work at a startup with a development team of 9 people. Of those, one is in his 30s, two are in their 40s, and two are in their 50s. The rest, myself included, are late 20s.

Just because some parts of the tech industry fetishize young developers doesn't mean all of them do.
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You can skip most of the first season without too much detriment, maybe up until the last six episodes. It had a lot of onboarding, and honestly served mainly to get audiences used to the style of the universe and that things were not just rubber-mask villain-of-the-week nonsense (the passing of Ivanova's father, for example).
Agreed, it's also a bit topical.

Check out Wiering + van Otterlo's "Reinforcement Learning: State-of-the-art." Covers many new techniques--I used it as a reference for a project earlier this year:

http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligen...
Knicks Star Carmelo Anthony Launches Venture Firm
There are a few erroneous replies to your comment, re: Windows support for that much memory.

Memory support for versions of Windows:

User-mode process	Kernel-mode
address space	address space
(process bit-ness)
32-bit 64-bit	all
Server Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2008 R2	4 GB* 2048 GB	2048 GB
Windows Server 2012	4 GB* 4096 GB	4096 GB
Windows Server 2012 R2	4 GB* 131072 GB	131072 GB
Client Operating Systems:
Windows 7 (x86)	3 GB* n/a	2 GB
Windows 7 (64-bit)	4 GB* 192 GB	192 GB
Windows 8 (64-bit)	4 GB* 512 GB	512 GB
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)	4 GB* 131072 GB	131072 GB

* requires IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag, otherwise 2GB
** All units use binary exponents (GB = 2^30 bytes)
Meet The UK Startup That’s Taking On Big Pharma – With Digital Medicine
I tried reading that and found it fairly bad. Even the opening sentence "Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat" is bollocks. I rather liked the "Happiness Hypothesis" by Haidt although it's more of an academic look at the area than a self help book. Also "Philosophy for Life: And other dangerous situations" is good on the philosophical side.
What if he's not willing to sacrifice his work-life balance, even for a higher compensation?
FWIW, I posted this story today because of the New Yorker's announcement of their redesign and temporary disabling of their paywall. I remembering reading the abstract of this article in 2009, and then became a subscriber because I wanted to read the full version...I'm not passionately against or for paywalls, but the New Yorker is probably the only single publication that could pull me like that.

That said, I did a cursory search for the gunmaker...didn't see any big update, I saw a mention that it's in rotation with the Marines...but no contemporary mention of what sounded like an impending revolution of shotgun-wielding-robots.
Care to try out https://github.com/chenglou/react-tween-state? I've been experimenting with animation in React and would love to see the general paradigm behind this and implement it in React.
Good piece. If you're reading this expecting something new from Stripe though you'll be disappointed:

>> "So what role will Stripe play here? We already provide Bitcoin acceptance, and we're actively investigating other functionality. We'll have other updates on this front before too long."
I am not sure what's more nuts. Melo doing tech investments or the TechCrunch readers cheering this on.

Not a bubble, obviously...
The Emoji Challenge: Guess the movie
iOS 8 Beta 4 Available Now
"unpythonic" once again meaning "disliked by van Rossum."
Semantria acquired by Lexalytics, Semantria Becomes Super Powered
I tend to agree. We also had weekly Friday lunches and even weekly tai chi which became almost a chore after only a few months.

I believe a good manager/boss should be keenly aware of the emotional state of his or her team, and plan accordingly.
Wow, I never knew about that. Gripping story.
That's great that you use a manual mower, we've always had a gas mower because we have a fairly large lawn. I wonder how a manual or electric mower would do on a large lawn, especially going uphill?
Because the underlying DOM is essentially untyped. This is a low-level adaptor library. One could easily build a more strictly typed wrapper on top.
Mid summer tends to be pullout season for Blackhat and Defcon speakers. A handful happen every year, thats why they have alternates.

Sometimes the speakers screwed up and didn't get their material together and they weren't important enough to ignore that. Other times they're threatened by their employer or some external forces.

Subway hacking, Padgets RFID (and GSM a few years later IIRC), etc. Theres quite a history of great presentations that have never happened for one reason or another.
And you wouldn't mind if your so-called "primary" or "side" (how interesting to apply such terms for significant others) did the same to you?

Because most people would, whether they realize it or not, and that is why they agree to commit to a relationship in the first place---because they expect the same from their partner.

Also, your "primary" will know at some point. Is a configuration really stable if it sets the stage for collapse?
Cool tool but I prefer teamocil since its configurations are stored as yaml instead of a custom format.

https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil
Rigid adherence to certain technologies could be a culprit. "We're a Ruby shop!" is fine for problems where Ruby is great, but the limitations of the technology are bound to creep up somewhere. Not using a polyglot approach would be bad.
Blinded by scientific gobbledygook
I don't have an answer to that but if traffic was encrypted then Comcast "shouldn't" care and should act as the pipes that they should be...
Pretty sure Razor is a .NET thing. This looks like the same syntax. The Play framework's Scala based template engine is based on it as well.
A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/cybercrime-confere...
where is your location? or are you willing to travel?
Why TOR for updates ? I've always dreamed of a product using bittorrent to update itself.
Using Swift's Closures With NSTimer
Las mejores chicas malas de la internet
You're probably looking for something like http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienc... , though it isn't entirely clear what you're fishing for.
Anyone who knows Joel Spolsky would expect a MS stack :)
Ctrl-F "white": 0 of 0 results

"Women" doesn't mean "white women", and as Haul4ss pointed out, all women won the right to vote in the U.S. years after minority men did.
Dutch court: selling e-books second hand is legal
Wow, I didn't realize. I was in s0ap for a little while from 96-97 but hadn't checked it out in years. Thanks for providing the link.
Fellowship?

It's my personal opinion, and it might not be very popular, but I've never seen a company making such ho-hum products being so pompous as Fog Creek. (Well, StackOverflow is great. But it's not a Fog Creek business per se, and it's probably more due to Jeff).

One might say 37 Signals, but 37 Signals has written New York Time best-selling books, created the most celebrated web framework of the last decade, and has a bunch of web products people love to use. Plus, I don't find them much pompous anyway, just good at self-promotion, which is a different thing.
I think there are two good Wesley episodes:

Final Mission http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Final_Mission_(episode)

The First Duty http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_First_Duty_(episode)

Other than that he is pretty terrible.
If these initiatives were really about helping out disadvantaged minorities, then you might have a point. But bridging the gender divide solves two problems that bridging the race gap won't solve.

The first is product sensibilities. While it's not better or worse, most women do think about things differently from most men. If a large portion of your customers will be women, it's really difficult to develop software that's intuitive and serves their needs if you don't have some female perspective when building that product.

The second problem it solves is keeping the best and brightest male developers in the industry. It sucks working in an industry where 90% of your coworkers are other men. When I was in school, there were a number of my classmates that switched away from a CS major simply because they wanted more girls in their classes. To a lesser extent, the same happens after people get into the industry and see just how few women they'll get to work with.

It may be cynical, but I think attracting white women to the industry is just as much about better targeting a rich demographic and keeping the white men we already have happy rather than it is about being inclusive.
No. Why not?
$4k is all you need to build a whitebox 256GB machine: dual-socket G34 motherboard with 16 DDR3 slots lke the ASUS KGPE-D16 ($500) + two Opteron 6320 (2 * $300) + sixteen 16GB registered ECC DDR3-1600 (16 * $160) + chassis/PSU ($500) = $4160.

Doing this on Amazon r3.8xlarge ($2.8/hr) would cost you $8100+ over 4 months.

A DIY server can make sense in some cases. Eg. you are a very early-stage startup with almost no funding, and you are good at assembling and troubleshooting computers, and are ok with mere warranty on parts as opposed to full vendor support from HP/Oracle/Dell, go for it. That's how many startups started (see Google and their makeshift half-donated half-loaned boxes in 1998).
A Spotlight Effect for Interactive Guides in HTML
The number of medallions is set in an effort to reduce the total number of taxis in the city.

This is not good for any one particular person trying to get a cab.

However, it is good for the total traffic situation in the city. If there were a significantly greater number of taxis, gridlock would be all but unavoidable. Then no one could take a taxi anywhere.

It's one of those situations where the negative eternality is felt a tiny bit by everyone, so the regulation needs to take that into account.

I'm not saying we have the perfect scheme - if we did congestion pricing would be higher, street parking prices would be way higher - but there is actually a rationale behind it. Most of the people are hyper focused on the rider/driver interaction, but there is a bigger city wide transit question in play that is often ignored.
There are benefits and drawbacks to multi-writer teams. I say this as someone who spent the first half of his career in TV development and production. (In fact, I briefly interned on a Trek series back in college.)

One of the benefits is, for lack of a better word, scalability. A single writer would take forever to write 100+ cogent, consistently great, full-length episodes of a TV show. Since TV series' fates are always in flux, you can't afford a primetime series with only one writer, who becomes a crushing bottleneck if any changes in volume need to be made. Writing a great TV episode is hard, hard work and takes time. Now imagine writing 12, or even 22 of them on an insane production deadline!

On the other hand, some shows and formats work really well with a single writer/auteur. True Detective is famous for having been entirely written and entirely directed by just one writer and one director. Now, True Detective was a miniseries of only 8 episodes, and at that scale, a single writer is more realistic. I doubt you could have produced a primetime Star Trek series with only one writer and one director.

An interesting hybrid approach is what I'd call a staff structure with a clear "visionary" at the helm. This is sort of like what we saw on Battlestar Galactica: a show with a full writing staff, but one or two writers who basically dominated the process and authored the bulk of the series. MASH is another good example; Larry Gelbart clearly exercised strong, authorial control over the show, even though he didn't write every episode.

This latter approach tends to work the best, in my experience as a fan and as a former TV person. But it can have its difficulties and drawbacks, all the same. Sometimes there are limits to the imagination of even the most creative individuals. If you're relying too much on a strong auteur type, and he or she gets writer's block, or gets sick, or becomes extremely difficult, you're SOL.
The beautiful thing about bitcoin is that it's an open system, an open currency if you will, that will allow a nice app ecosystem to be built on top of it. That aspect will allow many non-technical people to interact with abstractions that hide away all the complexities (such as Stripe), but it will also allow experts and hackers to still tap into the network directly with their own wallets, nodes, private keys etc.

I think that bitcoin is currently in its early infancy when it comes to user adoption and still has a very long way to go before it reaches its potential. It's not completely off base to compare it with the way the internet was back in the early 90s.
This is one of the best posts on the "state of the Bitcoin economy" I've read yet. They nail a few key points that shows they get it in a real-world sense.

* Mass-consumer adoption of Bitcoin is a tough sell in developed countries (USA, etc.)

* Bitcoin the Network may ultimately be more valuable than BTC the currency

* "No chargebacks!" is a pitch to merchants for BTC, not consumers. Consumers like chargebacks & trust.

* BTC the currency may end up being a behind-the-scenes player so long as traditional currencies do their job.

This says to me that Stripe's position is ultimately to be the Visa of Bitcoin or the SWIFT of Bitcoin. And that's could indeed be a huge opportunity.
Wow this got nuked fast.
That bullet point surprised me. It comes right after "110K lines of code. A small number given what it does"; to me this reads like they didn't write tests because that would add complexity.

Can any SO devs give us more details on "not many tests"? Or how many bug reports get filed vs rate of change of software?
If you're being asked to work outside of office hours alot, then no matter what your job or position is your company has an efficiency problem and that's something that should be addressed for the good of the company.

If you're changing jobs alot because you can't find one that suits your needs then you should be more aggressive and thorough in your search. Let those companies court you, not the other way around, and get everything you're hired to do written into your contract.
If you're changing jobs that often just because you're supposed to in order to be considered successful then that's probably the biggest problem.

Freelancing is an option I guess, aswell as starting your own company without the intention to sell. That still makes for alot of work on the business side of things though.

Lastly, you seem like a guy who doesn't have too much trouble finding a job so risking your job by saying no seems like a small risk to take considering what you could gain. Also I'ld say that 9 out of 10 times you're just calling their bluff. You are an investment for any employer. If they lose you after 1-2 years they've basically thrown every penny they've ever given you out the window.
> "what might a Bitcoin that's useful for the mainstream look like?"

Great article, and the extremely familiar line above made me smile.
I've been on it for years, but I firmly classified it as internet television and a fun place to argue amateur philosophy. Productivity impact, pfeh. YMMV of course.
Folk once held that view of sailing far into the Atlantic.

Besides, I wasn't so much meaning going as far as the Oort cloud, was just thinking you could tag along with a comet for a bit as it went through the mid solar system and suck up some reaction mass from it without having to land on the thing.
Ask HN: AdaIs still alive???
To add on this -- 20% is the least of your worries. I've never had a good experience working with people who I had no connection to. Someone ends up being flaky or tries to take advantage. Referrals are the way to go.
I think that telling yourself that you're "successful" can be a huge impediment to doing what you need to do in order to be happy.

If you are not happy with your job/life, then you are not successful. Take a pay cut and tell the business dept to fuck off, or go work somewhere else. Having money in the bank grants you that luxury.