skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One source of conflict is that many "business type" tasks/projects can be fairly easily time-scoped: "a report about opportunities for our product in Poland" can be a 5 minute comparison of populations, or a multi-year PhD dissertation.

Technical work often has a more rigid "minimum viable solution": a civil engineer can't just give up on a bridge halfway over a river, nor can he say "I just skipped the wind loading calculations and hope the school buses don't run on windy days." Some types of software (especially embedded e.g., aerospace and automotive) have similar concerns about safety and warranty.
I don't know why. VMS also used it to indicate the revision number of a file, as I recall--demo.c.1, demo.c.2 ...--but it has been a while.

Years ago I worked with Data General minis. The 16-bit ones ran the operating system RDOS (real-time disk operating system), the 32-bit ones AOS/VS (advanced operating system with virtual storage. All used the '.' to mark of stem from extension, but all also had a file type associated in the directory. This meant, among other things, the the assembler would balk at processing something called urgent.asm if the directory showed that it was a generic file. That was baffling the first time you encountered it.
> Do you get how huge this infrastructure is ? Its a massive engineering effort to manage that kind of information flow.

Which is why it could never happen without it being well known inside Google.
I grew up in rural India, where banks were non-existent. People kept the money locked up in houses or worse yet, lent to the local money lender, who may or may not pay on demand. The government in those days introduced postal savings plan, which helped people greatly. That was my introduction to banking as well. Here are some observations:

1. Banks were inaccessible to poor people. Too much paper work. Too far away. Too difficult to conduct business. I hope with new bank accounts all these are changing too.

2. Saving is not new. People save money; even poor people do save. But, then, if the savings are in women's hands, it is spent more wisely. Historically, the only way women could store the money was in gold. Eventually, gold itself because such a coveted possession, it's monetary value was not exploited for capital needs. Bank accounts may not have these problems.

3. Historically, the only reason rural folks went to bank is to take loans, under some government project. And, that had a big potential for corruption. People had to pay money to take the loans. The funny thing was the underlying assumption is that the borrowers need not pay money back, since the government will write it off, for some election purposes.

4. Money transfers for poor is new. I think that would work lot better. And, perhaps giving to women would make it work whole lot better. In my observation, there is lot of social and cultural conditioning in seeing the kids doing better than the parents, the mothers will try to put the money to use. Whether they have the financial education or not, different issue.

5. Any system will be exploited over time. I think it is important to shake them up every few years to disturb the existing power structures, especially in the relationship between the government and the people.
Despite the idiosyncrasies of the community, at least bitcointalk members were there sharing and praising his work until the last days... It is not sad nor strange, it is actually a nice thing...

The fact that he was actually quite emotional and thankful for these posts is the only thing that matters here.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1649089#ms...
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Very good read, thanks for posting!

More images from the Chauvet cave that might be interesting to see in that light:

https://kerritargett.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/cave-painin...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OKDK4Aq9HbE/TdEpBomuxQI/AAAAAAAABZ...

http://www.warrencriswell.com/The%20Membrane/chauvet-rhinos-...

Also the superb documentary about Grotte Chauvet, "The Cave of forgotten dreams" by Werner Herzog talks about animation:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/
Sometimes people should really stop and smell the roses.

And the less time I have to spend preparing my coffee, the more time have to sit with my coffee and do just that.
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Could a (2010) be added to the title? The website don't seem to have been updated since then
Couldn't someone just cut the top off or take the foil off a legit k cup and place it on top of a non legit one then run the machine? This would cost the non legit companies less... Not having to retool production. Just tell the consumer what to do or include a special cover.
I'm not one of those complaining about the "lack" of updates but:

- a lot of SublimeText users came from TextMate because TextMate stopped being developed actively

- the SublimeText developer was extremely active and then new developments just suddenly stopped so some users might feel like TextMate happening all over again

Maybe people are having issues with the current SublimeText, I wouldn't know, I'm a perfectly happy paying customer.
As mentioned elsewhere, consumers could just cut the top off or take the foil off a legit k cup and place it on top of a non legit one then run the machine?
But this just means that you should include a margin of error in arrival times when calculating which changes are possible. Doesn't excuse them from using the average time of arrival instead of the actual time of arrival each leg of the journey.
For me,im implement accounting.most customer want to follow their rule.no gap no frs or whatever.just request.customer need third party accountant to consult so smooth project.i see havoc in oracle e business and baan implementation.internal staff request non functional and destroy the good base erp.their vendor everyday meeting and meeting and day by day programmer left..
I'm with onion2k on this one. It's mostly do to with differing mindsets and world views.
I'm not a coder, I'm in Digital Marketing, but yesterday I had a meeting with management regards their Google Ads campaign. A simplistic overview of the dilemma I had yesterday: We need to collect data on how well their site is performing for which we need to run trial campaigns so that we can analyse data. The management team see it purely as an expense and don't see the value of the "learning" exercise. That causes a struggle. Now the result is that the campaign that will be run is already compromising the quality of the learning that we can do, and this because the "Business" people have to be answered to.
Like not being born in a first-world country basically.
Its simple, its clean, and convenient. There are many makers of k-cups to choose from so finding an acceptable cup of coffee made this way isn't too hard. I went through a few variety packs, read reviews on Amazon and the like, to narrow my choices. I then used Amazon's subscribe and save feature, visits to slick deals, and even my costco membership, to buy k-cups are good prices.

During summer my coffee drinking goes down and the ability to just make one cup is great. Cooler months and its time for the Bonavita, sometimes its good when friends want some but even then I have dropped back to the k-cup.
As pertains to Linux desktops, a "desktop environment" is a loose term for something like Xfce, KDE, or GNOME, and typically provides things like taskbars, application launch menus, desktop icons, and to a greater or lesser extent, a suite of interoperating applications.

Which DE a user is currently running is irrelevant to the rendering of Sublime Text's sidebar. The Sublime Text process is sending commands directly to the X server. The DE is not involved.
What I miss on the site is current offer of tours. Sometimes you have to "fake it before you make it". If that doesn't work out you can always switch to maintenance mode and come back to the project once you figure out what to do next.
Yeah, I had that problem as well. I solved it by removing .config/sublime-text-3/Local/Session.sublime_session

WARNING: this will clear some history, e.g. the list of recently opened projects!
Think that's bad, you should see when a new Apple thing comes out.
Also, programmers are usually "to the point" people, while business people love buzzwords.
It "kills it" because it's only really appealing if the universe we're in appears extremely unlikely, like it's the "just right" goldilocks balance of cosmic variables that we can't explain, that happened to be the stable ones that resulted in life evolving eventually.

If the universe is actually very likely to occur in the state that it's in, then we don't need to use this "vast multiverse where our universe was the one that produced an observer" explanation. It could be a single universe in all of existence, where everything makes sense mathematically and no further posturing is required in that silly unscientific field of cosmic philosophy.

Or if it fails, and it remains that our universe is unexpectedly perfect, then we are forced to resort to statistical explanations within an impossible-to-observe external multiverse. Scientists don't very much like conclusions built on not being able to observe things.

Though to me, the multiverse theory has a sort of fractal appeal to it. It is surely applicable to our planet, after all. Why not our entire universe?
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Good idea. I did that for a while, but somehow stopped eventually. I'll block HN on my desktop via /etc/hosts again.
I don't see how is lag a problem at all.

You can cache times as ETA, and even in the worst case when an unexpected change in the schedule needs 2 minutes to propagate, it's still an improvement for all wait times longer than 4 minutes (i.e. all wait times that matter).
Original article with less visual crap around the sides:

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140818-at-multivers...
We are rewriting a dating web site and the backend is implemented in Go. It exposes functionality as JSON over HTTP (along with some long-polling). We also considered erlang, Haskell, Scala and C# for various reasons.

Coming from .NET world, I love the simplicity and power of database/sql in Go. Sometimes it can be too verbose because of error handling, but there is nothing that can't be fixed with a few helper functions.

I've been documenting our project on a weekly basis, if you are interested in more details: http://abdullin.com/long/happypancake/
On Elementary(Ubuntu 12.04 based), this happens due to file permissions. If you assign correct permissions (if you're doing web development, this may happen due to files being owned by some other user/group, happened this morning!
Thanks, framing it that way makes a lot of sense!
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I don't see any reason that this lag couldn't be predicted in advance (similarly how NTP is able to synchronize computers' clocks even though there is latency on the network). Or use the last known "most accurate bus arrival time".
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In addition to that great list, see also "Hacker's Delight", and several of Jon Bentley's books (Programming Pearls, Writing Efficient Programs, etc.). They're dated, but the basic ideas are eternal. The application to x86 requires combining those ideas with the specifics you get from Agner Fog's references.
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Actually, the real point of flipping a coin is that during the brief lapse of time during which the piece is in the air, you will know what's the choice you prefer. The result doesn't matter.
wow, I'm not a user of instagram, but I will use it just because of this feature.
> Very rudimentary lane/intercharge information, no waypoints, no POIs along the route.

The quality of the lane/interchange information is kind of subjective, so I will give you that, but Google Maps fully support waypoints, and POIs are available from roughly a billion overlays available. On mobile, I'd argue the Google Now based POI feedback from Field Guide presents a much nicer UX than anything Garmin offers.
Business type people make businesses.
You can't just take a 35 year old truck driver and turn him into a skilled knowledge worker.
Ego.

"Not getting along" is what happens when one believes that "I" is more important than "we".

Once one gets beyond themselves, one can "get along". They still may not agree, but now they've put themselves in a position to solve problems, not perpetuate conflict.

This is also true in the general class "Why x can't get along with y," not just for programmers and business type people.
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Sure they can. In fact, many programmers are business people.

That said, there are plenty of conflicts between programmers and their managers. Usually, it's because the management doesn't understand programming.
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I think, we are not bad at describing reality, the problem is describing our self, because whatever the outcome is it doesn't sound, well, motivating?
Sounds like broken company culture, not a general truth. I've never experienced that problem anywhere I have worked. The only problem I've seen is that the "talkers" often do not know what is possible, and the "makers" often don't know what the business needs to actually make money. The big moves come when both sides get together to determine the company's direction.
But we can get along with business people, it is opposite way around:

b> How long it will take?

p> About 2 months.

b> We need it in 1 week.

....
I had the privilege of meeting Carlo Rovelli (who attended university in my hometown, many years before me) in a public event targeting people that, like me, were at the time finishing high school and had to choose what to do with their lives.
We showed up already bored, waiting for the usual adults who would explain us why to study this and not that, what are the many possible career paths achievable by that, which economic sectors were growing and how, and so on. In fact, some of the speakers did mostly that.
On the contrary, Rovelli started to explain how he did not know what to do after school, and that he went to university initially because his family would have forced him to work as a plumber with his uncle if he decided not to go. He then advised us to choose to do only what we feel passionate about, and to distrust whoever, truth in hand, will explain us that by studying X we will be able to enter sector Y and achieve great success in life. It can seem trivial stuff, but when you are 18 and are being told those things by a humble but successful person, it really empowers you. He is also fairly easy to "approach", he himself came to speak to us after the event, joking about the fact we should not cut our hair "just to get a job" (I haven't since then, and I am 28 and working), hence I am not surprised he answers to people's comment on the interview, or that he is active on physics.stackexchange, for example.

I have studied computer science and got interested in physics and philosophy of science thanks to him, he kind of embodies my idea of science, and of civil responsibility, and I must say I have been a bit disappointed to see that also the academic world is full of "scientists" that underestimate the value of philosophy or other related subjects, or that teach students not to question "too much" what they are doing, preventing them to really see the "big picture" behind knowledge.
Don't think so. Works fine with Safari in my iPad.
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It's not overkill when the space required is absurdly cheap. 2TB for under 100 usd in the US.
Condescending remarks like this don't help the issue. A business person can also say "Business people are down to earth, while programmers love to use jargon that nobody understands."

There are good and bad communicators on both sides.
This is silly, and untrue. Any business where this is a case,is a business that is doomed in the first place - the best people get along fine across the spectrum.
For the moment it seems to me that there is no chance to ever know what something REALLY is. There is obviously stuff out there that behaves exactly like mathematical models we made up - there are things called electrons behaving like our model of electrons interacting with things called photons behaving like our models of photons. But what does this tell you about the nature of electrons and photons? Is a electron just a handful of numbers like charge -1 and spin 1/2 behaving according to the laws of physics or is there more to an electron? I can't even imagine how one could bridge the gap between our models of reality and reality but then there is probably so much more to learn about our universe, maybe some day...
There's an interesting account here:
http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/recovery_blind/recovery...
which contains the following passage about a man who recovered his sight:

"In view of his depressed state, we felt it best not to undertake formal tests. We did, however, ascertain that he was able to find his way about without the use of his eyes, and that he could detect the presence of houses and doors by the echoes from his footsteps. He was still fascinated by mirrors, and he still noted improvement in his ability to see. In particular, he said that he noted more and more the blemishes in things, and would examine small irregularities and marks in paint work or wood. Quite recently he had been struck by how objects changed their shape when he walked round them. He would look at a lamp post, walk round it, stand studying it from a different aspect, and wonder why it looked different and yet the same."

I think the last line is interesting. There is a conflict between the spatial reconstruction and the optical appearance.
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On balance, I don't think programmer motivations worse than businesspeople motivations on average, though.
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And it's quite visible in some of the comments here.
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Does your experience with business people resonate with this at all?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
I do not think that it is possible.

Any physical system that can be described by a set of mathematical laws is bound to have some axioms that simply cannot be proven within its context. Godel's incompleteness theorems prove that.

Hence, we will never get to the bottom of the reality of our universe.
Ahh ... the nostalgia!

I used to write little Sinclair BASIC games on the Spectrum, save them to tape, copy the tape and share them around at school with the couple of other kids who had one. My first introduction to programming.
Huh? Working means getting along with different kinds of people.

I think that if you aren't getting along with a business person, it is incumbent on both of you to discover what the disconnect is. What are you each missing? Maybe it is an understanding of technical limitations on their part, or a blind spot about the business on yours.

Except in the case of ill will on someone's part, discussion between adults should resolve the problem. If there's ill will, that's a good job to leave.
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Someone in the comment section claims plagiarism. What's that all about?

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/multiverse#comment-1560643455

Edit: Never mind, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mensur_Omerbashich
I run a software house and work with programmers every day. I'm a business type person (I guess?) in that I'm the CEO, but I'm an ex-programmer, so I'm a weird hybrid of the two types of person you're trying to draw a line between.

I think the question you're asking leads us to look for reasons why ALL business people can't get on with ALL programmers, which is simply untrue. There's lots of business people around the world happily working with programmers, and I'm one of them.

For me a good programmer is not good just because they can rattle off reams of beautiful code and fix bugs insanely quickly. A good programmer must also be able to prioritise their work, manage their time, communicate effectively, understand the wider context of the work they do and much much more. These skills outside of their core skills I refer to as "soft skills", and they're necessary in all walks of life not just programming.

In the same way, a good business person is not a good business person just because they can run a business that makes money. To get along with their employees they will need to be able to delegate work, communicate effectively, plan ahead and so on. Again, these soft skills are just as important as the ability to make money.

So if a business man who is only good at making money works with a programmer who can rattle off code, and they lack the aforementioned soft skills...they're going to have a hard time working with one another. Equally, if either of the two individuals lacks soft skills, the relationship is going to suffer.

What's really interesting (in my experience) is that a rockstar programmer without soft skills isn't just going to struggle to get along with business type people, she's going to struggle to get along with everybody!
Now that they use a reasonable language, I expect them to provide one killer feature of UltraEdit:

Opening really big, GB sized files, without thrashing.
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I'm not sure you're on solid ground assuming that there is a "real nature of real things" beyond known time and space and sub-light speeds. As a passage in a recent piece I read on Schopenhauer pointed out:

Thus, for anything to be empirically real, it
must be spatial, temporal, and causal. Yet space,
time, and causality cannot be proven to be
empirically real themselves! If space is thought of
as an empirical entity, the insoluble problem arises
whether it is finite or infinite. In the first case,
there would have to be something 'outside' space, a
metaspace, which is an absurd notion; but in the
second case it could never be differentiated of
anything and would therefore have no identity. If
time is finite, there would have to be something
'before' and 'after' it, which again is absurd; but
if it is infinite, it would take an eternity to
arrive at the present moment, which therefore could
never come about. Finite causality would enhance an
unimaginable 'first cause' of all events in the
universe, while infinite causality poses, mutatis
mutandis, the same problem as infinite time.

Given that the very foundations of causal logic (cause --> event) assume our ability to differentiate in time and space, it does seem as if the most interesting aspects of physics are operating in areas where open-mindedness helps.
I suppose the fact that this inserts hashes into the Bitcoin Blockchain. makes it entirely different to what ethereum is, that is not to say that something like this could not be implemented using ethereum alone.
It was dead easy in Common Lisp. That's the most impressive thing about it.
When I'm sleeping for >60 minutes, with those states of deep sleep, I really feel like I'm sleeping. But not when I'm just lay on the couch for 20 minutes.