skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as a military officer i can tell you that my "go-to" soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines are the men and women who can either understand what i'm saying or smart enough to ask questions when they don't. once they understand the task and the bounds of my authority, they go out and execute to the fullest extent possible, returning only when the task is either finished, or taken as far as they can take it without additional assistance (which is why they're coming back to me).

those who become "go-to" personnel must learn to be confident in their own judgement, and be willing to take calculated risks. as the officer, it is up to me to trust them to execute my vision, and when they make a mistake, know that the blame will be placed on me, and me alone -- since they were following my orders.

i find that failures of execution are as often failures of leadership (mine, most likely). when things go wrong, i often find myself asking subordinates if i have explained myself enough -- and then i circle back with them and try to clear up any misconceptions they had so they can go out and execute my vision.

this tool has proven effective in tech as well. i am developing a product right now, and spent the last 72 hours sitting with our coding team. two days later, they sent me a revised mock-up, and it became clear that they had internalized some, but not all of my guidance. and so i had to go back once again and try to explain in a different way.

an old english teacher of mine once said that good writing was like looking at footprints left in concrete, whereas bad writing was like looking at footprints in the sand. with the former, you can see exactly where the person is coming from, where they went, where they are going. the latter you can only see intermittent prints -- the rest is lost to the aether.
hope that helps!
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Certainly, there is no need to put <span> tags inside <div> tags, that is invalid HTML5 or at least according to W3C validator.No offense meant to the author. Peace!
> The guy who tried this at EA didn't last long there.

Paul Pedriana, the man responsible for the lions share of the EASTL work, started at Maxis before it was acqired by EA in 1997. EASTL has been in continuous development for more than 10 years.
Wow. The essay they keep referring to throughout the exchange --Wadler's "Proposition and Types" [1]-- is hands down the best exposition of the Curry-Howard correspondence I've seen so far: deep but thoroughly readable (Howard wasn't just being nice!).

Even if you already know this stuff, I seriously recommend reading it (this one, or any of his other expository writings on this topic [2]). His perspective is formidable.

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-...

[2] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/history.html
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We would all be lucky to have contributed as much to technology. I hope you start your next project out of the same sense of joy. Thank you!
San Francisco, where allocating resources by paying for them is vulgar. You should instead come by them honestly, such as by telling the concierge at the Four Seasons that you wish to partake in the cultural delights of the city.
Couldn't find any feedback form on the site, so I guess I'll post it here. Seems there's a small bug in the way the time, dispayed in the console, is calculated.

FilerCtrl uses:

var c = new Date;
a.date = c.toDateString() + " " + ("0" + c.getUTCHours()).slice(-2) + ":" + ("0" + c.getUTCMinutes()).slice(-2) + ":" + ("0" + c.getUTCSeconds()).slice(-2);

Which does not respect the current timezone.

I suppose it could be fixed by replacing

c.getUTCHours()).slice(-2)

with

(c.getUTCHours()).slice(-2) + (c.getTimezoneOffset() / 60))

Although you'd probably be better of using a library like http://momentjs.com/.
Thanks. I appreciate being disabused of my misunderstanding.
You don't have to use AT&T syntax in GAS. I wrote a blog post a while back showing how you can use Intel syntax instead, and skip a whole lot of % characters while you are at it.

http://madscientistlabs.blogspot.ca/2013/07/gas-problems.htm...
make your blogspot(is google blog platform) link with Udemy.com to monetize your tutorial x)
I don't know what it means that the message "self destructs." I brief glance in the FAQ and the about page didn't help either.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/guinea/index.html

Current outbreak appears to be around 50-55% mortality.
I've encountered another approach in NYC which I haven't seen mentioned here. Some higher-end restaurants require a credit card number (over the phone, maybe online is possible too) which they tell you they will charge e.g. $25 per person for no-shows. The first time I was a bit put-off (giving out CC numbers on the phone never feels great), but now I'm more sanguine about it.

Aside: in central London, booking is essential. Many decent (not even high-end) restaurants have most of their tables booked in advance. I did a double-take the first time I walked into a place with two-thirds of its tables empty and was turned away. "Fully booked" seems a lot more common there. I never knew a restaurant to charge for booking, but I did know people who paid "unofficially" to get tables, or had office assistants scramble for them.
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Google Fiber has Gigabit internet for $70.
I can't remember at the moment where I read it, but there is a university in the states that is going to attempt a full house 3D print with concrete with rebar in the print process.

EDIT: Found it! http://3dprint.com/12034/3d-printed-house-pool-ny/

"New York City architect/contractor Adam Kushner begins construction of the first ever 3D printed estate, which features a 3D printed swimming pool, 4-bedroom, 2400 square foot home, and more. The 3D printer which will be a modified version of Enrico Dini’s D-shape printer, will, if all goes as planned, eventually be able to automatically place rebar within the 3D printed house, as it prints."
Interestingly, once you enable the developer tools, Komodo is very similar to what you're describing. Pretty much everything is exposed as an API to the JavaScript environment, you can change stuff on the fly and the like. It also has a Python API for certain features. I think that's a consequence of being based on XUL, a web browser is similar to emacs in terms of runtime extensibility, though not 100% of the way there.
Those "ten soldiers" was captured/destroyed earlier. Right now there are way more new Russian troops deployed in Ukraine right now. They captured Novoazovsk city yesterday, and are advancing towards Mariupol'.

Of course, this doesn't count everydays artillery attacks over the border by Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTcWVSiDTY (more on youtube)
You're forgetting the people who sell missiles & guns.
Specifically, "all this" is a 17-year legacy. Incredible at his age, regardless of his wealth. XX Thousands of techies looked to a kid as the authority on hardware.

His writing looked a little weird at times, which folks took to be a foreign accent, not him actually being a kid at the time.
What is it if a woman says she is receiving threats just for attention and never informs the police?? Is that playing the victim? I shouldn't known there'd be plenty of white knights here.
if this is currently a hack, it seems like a great candidate for a refactor into a more robust version- what a handy idea! thank you for making this, i will use it whether its a hack or not!
Yes, saying my comments are heavily downvoted is an ad hominem?? Don't worry, apparently I can only upvote.
The best way to control the current outbreak is with traditional measures: diagnosing patients, isolating them, tracing their contacts and testing them, and extending the process out in circles, until all exposed patients have been isolated.

I was wondering about the software they use to track this process, if any? Say, for example, you get the manifest for a plane where a passenger was infected. If you wanted to track infections from that point, which is unlikely but possible, that's a lot of work. And if it spirals out from there?
Typing in file name within a page just to generate URL seems clunky to me. I believe, you can provide URL generation from a REST API that can be called from command line.
Have never seem udemy, will check for sure! Thanks. ... I am just not sure if the tutorials could extend to a whole course with lecturing. I would rather go a little bit into the direction "passive income" with quality tutorials.
I'm pretty sure $/mbps for speeds over 25mbps (probably for all speeds) were much cheaper even before fiber.
Um, the folks at CERN don't agree with your assessment of frequentism in science. Their papers are explicitly frequentist, they celebrate results based on how many "sigmas" they get. P-value all the aym
great overview of his book "The Innovator's Dilemma"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen

and at the end of the video is a great little vignette about how you drive home the necessity of change in large organizations (Professor Christensen demands to explain the theory, and not simply "what it means for Intel").
Check out net.tutsplus.com and sitepoint.com. You could get paid if your tutorials are published.
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Not much of an answer. How the heck do they lay it and control slack at greater than 8000 meters? How do they verify the cable is on the seabed at those depths?
OK, now try to make some claims about the real world. You will have to make frequentist confidence or Bayesian credibility claims.
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Rent control reverses this, and the landlord loses the
incentive to upgrade the apartment and otherwise keep the
tenant happy.

I'll stop you right there; while that may be what happens in theory, it certainly hasn't seemed that way to me in practice.

Perhaps in a market where there is sufficient supply for demand, but in a market where demand is sufficiently high, many property owners don't do more than what is legally required and keep raising their rents.

You would not believe some of the dumps I've been shown by smiling realtors or owners that wanted thousands of dollars per month -- I'm talking about $2500+ a month for a two-bedroom apartment with boarded-over holes in Windows, holes in walls, a terrible smell and carpet that looks like it was last replaced decades ago.

Time after time, the pattern I've seen from experience in the Bay Area has been that owners will do whatever the market will bear -- in a market with severely constrained supply, the market is forced to bear quite a bit.
It comes naturally when you're confident (and wear glasses.)
Yes it should be implemented!

hnnotify.com/how
Wow. It absolutely astonishes me that someone would downvote this. Since when is clarifying a use of a term, then demonstrating what a contrary point of view would look like - without once stating my own personal opinion - downvote-worthy?

This is just disgusting behaviour to see on Hacker News.
Exponential feedback is a bitch!

When I put together plans and estimates, I always take a lot of care to separate out those things which are linear and those things which exponentially impact other things within the schedule, along with the sort of inflection points. I may not know where I'm going to roll a 9 or 10, as they may crop up anywhere, but there are certainly areas where they are more possible and less possible.

In a sane world, at least. Can't do much with a black swan.
Rather than looking into the laws yourself, you should have consulted a lawyer. You would have learned how the rules actually apply to service providers of health institutions instead of developing a serious misunderstanding of how HIPPA works.
Its all just negotiating the terms of your slavery if you agree that people have the "right" to health care.

Slavery is, by definition, not negotiated. It is a condition imposed upon someone without their choice. There are still actual slaves in this world, and none of them negotiated the terms of their slavery.
Probabilists often think of a uniform distribution over the whole real line as giving an infinitesimal (but non-zero) probability at each point. The intuition is very similar to the way physicists understand the Dirac delta function. Like the Dirac delta, an improper prior doesn't have any formally acceptable definition as a stand-alone mathematical object [0], but it does have a good definition that covers the way it's used.

Now, why does a uniform distribution correspond to an "uninformative" or "unbiased" prior in the first place? Because the uniform is the unconstrained maximum-entropy distribution. If you don't have rock-solid intuition about the concept of entropy, I recommend starting with Arieh Ben-Naim's book [1].

0. But with nonstandard analysis, it's a simple thing to give a rigorous, intuitive definition of a uniform distribution whose support includes as much of the real line as we could possibly care about.

1. A Farewell to Entropy, http://www.amazon.com/FAREWELL-ENTROPY-Statistical-Thermodyn.... It's a probability book masquerading as a physics book.
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Using curl!
Go/Azul3D: Yin and Yang: Using Glow and GLFW
I've got a vague grasp of IT security and crypto etc and I must say I find it very difficult to reconcile the world "self-destructing" with any kind of technical concept. I can sorta see what is meant on a colloquial level...but the tech side of me keeps thinking "what does that even mean".

On to more positive aspects...the overall website looks smooth. 9.5 out of 10 - well above par even for startup type sites. Something about the width/look of that encrypt button bothers me, but I can't quite place whats wrong so we'll let that slide.

Advice: You say its encrypted. Cool - means nothing to me. Add a link to an info page of whats happening (pictures, flowcharts etc). Right at the start of that overview page add a comment saying something along the lines of "This article provides a broad overview of the encryption process - should you want to view the technical details please see this link". i.e. Tell people why its safe and secondly split it into people wanting general assurance that its safe vs people wanting to know why you used SHA instead of Skein. The info these two groups need is very different.
Wow. I was wondering how the last couple of months had fewer and fewer articles by anand himself. And how they also became less and less relevant to what I'm interested in. I've been particularly interested in their / Anands analysis of CPUs which has been somewhat lacking. Why was nvidias Denver CPU not mentioned at all?! Where has the analysis of upcoming arm64 CPUs been?! While the quality of the tech reviews might have been the same, the direction hasn't. Let's hope they can keep on revealing and analysing CPU designs such as apples A8, nvidias Denver or qualcomms comm chips. I'm doubtful they will.. Or at least the last half year they haven't.

Last but not least, hats off to an amazing accomplishment by anand. The number of times he has revealed some deep tech info/cheating/etc which was seemingly superbly hidden is unbelievable.
Without knowing the hash, it might be nice to just:

curl -F "@file=/path/myfile.tgz" http://curl.io/send

and get the hash returned with a url.
You should talk to him. When you get down to it, people are just people. S peach comes naturally.
This is typical of Closure, as a sort of anti-Haskell. It starts with empirical structures invented by folks without PL theory training, and then wriggles to find an explanation in terms of standard theory. You can see this here on HN when Rich talks to Haskell folks and people translate his writing into standard language.

I would love a comparison in the form of Haskell, converted to Lisp syntax, and wired up to JVM.
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How Facebook could accidentally make its engineers into cyberwarfare targets
Yodlee is the leader.

There's an old OSS code base that may (?) be useful.

http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint/

http://readwrite.com/2011/02/25/crawl-your-bank-account-with...

https://github.com/wesabe
Yeah, it's not the mainstream classification but it's been proposed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Chimpanzee) and I find it entertaining. So. ;)
'The more important advances of this technology lie in its architectural possibilities and energy-efficiency. Architects have waited many years for this technology, and now that it's here, this opens up a whole window of possibilities; soon, we will see new kinds of architecture used to construct new structures.'
Caffeine is probably a good example of how weed should be handled. Caffeine is actually way more dangerous (OD'ing on it is something that is actually reasonably possible). If you want precision doses of caffeine, you can certainly buy it in pill form produced by reliable laboratories. On the other hand, buying it in 'natural' products such as coffee beans is perfectly legal. Don't want to mess around with the inconsistent results from raw product but don't want it in pill form either? The Coca Cola Company has got you covered there.
4 weeks vacation, 1 week personal, 1 week sick. All available after the first of the year, if you don't use by the end of the year you lose it. And can't cash any of it out.
JPMorgan Hackers Came in the Front Door
Yikes, this should really be accessible only via HTTPS.

Copying commands from untrusted websites (or insecure connections) and pasting them into your terminal is not a good idea:

http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
I don't think there is anything wrong with span inside div. The other way is a problem though.

But http://validator.w3.org doesn't give me errors about spans or divs. It just gives errors with attributes.
I'm currently working on a one handed keyboard and only recently did I learn how to solder.

As a proof of concept with a teensy, I did a 3x3 and in the end, I did get a "hello world" out!

http://youtu.be/nsoSEf64tbM

I too am using clear switches, and today I was working on the real version with a protoboard. Drilling is not fun.

Cherry MX's website also has some of the sizes in inches while on a mm grid. I wish they were just consistent and used mm, even though I am in the US.
Russia is defending its self interest, much in the way any other country would and does where they can to the extent that they can. Russia's capital elite aren't dummies, they have avoided having their wrists tied by the West so far but that will change in time. Americas military budget dwarfs Russia's, it would take a relatively large collective group of the mentally ill to want a direct confrontation with the US. I'm Russian and we aren't as any more or less so, dumb or inhumane as any other people. Don't demonize entire group of people you happen to disagree with.
What I can't believe is that people seem to be seriously suggesting taking power away from the justice system.

Are we truly that insane ?

Wasn't the whole problem with "spying" that there wasn't judicial oversight ? Here we have a case where federal prosecutors went for judicial oversight, were put in the right by a judge. Isn't that exactly what you'd want ?

Laughable comment in the article:

> Let there be no doubt that Microsoft's actions in this controversial case are customer-centric.

Really ? Have we truly forgotten this quickly what happened ?

http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/microsoft-admits-spying-on-...

Btw : keep in mind that this case is also about setting precedent. That is why both parties want it to go to appeal, and don't care about the outcome of this particular trial. It is beside the point. Both the US federal police and Microsoft want the American justice system to decide this issue, and well, the current judge can't make that decision (well, technically it wouldn't be final).

So keep in mind this judge is mostly doing the minimum her job requires and trying to be home in time for dinner here. There is no decision made, nothing like what the article claims has happened, legally speaking.
Awesome!

Seems many new ideas around file sharing recently. To name a few:

- https://popbox.io

- https://nfil.es

- https://wsend.net
I far prefer this, it uses filepicker as it's backend.

https://github.com/uams/geturl
I don't know which castles you've seen, but they tend not to look like horizontal corduroy.
It's not safe to use this for anything serious, of course, since it uses crypto in a web page. Were there any real intended uses for this, or was it just a fun side project?
Your comment could be the perfect solution to a homework problem in a critical thinking class:

Give an example of a slippery slope argument in economics, social science or politics.
Are the hollow walls filled with anything?
The job of a judge is exactly to NOT see "what is wrong with this". Activist judges are very, very bad.

Congress, and to a lesser extent POTUS, are the parties that have voted in these laws and are controlling the agencies doing this, and have the power to change them. Judges should NOT attempt to do so. That is the very definition of what a judge does.
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First, I love the website layout. Kudos!

Also, "Destroying" (or self destructing) a message is pretty difficult, once the information is on the hard drive software can often retrieve it even if it is deleted.

That being said, explaining how it is destroyed would be advantageous to the project. Which would make me (and likely others) more likely to use your service/application.

With this in mind, defining the form of encryption would be beneficial as well. :)
Show HN: Handy vagrant plugin that lets you use environment variables from .env
I think what the author ultimately means is "well behaved transducers are equivalent to functions of the form a->[b] (modulo state) and therefore form a category".

True story: the transducer announcement has mostly made me read up on the Haskell fold and lens libraries...
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http://www.citeulike.org may be helpful.
Anyone knows what happened to the previous smartphone editor Brian Klug?
I wonder what their file storage limits are. Can I send them /dev/random ?
My interpretation? If not clear, I'm quoting the penultimate paragraph of the last post in the series, right before he thanks the reader for making it to the end: http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bay...