skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relationship between technical and sales is always going to be complex.

A salesperson has to not only sell, but retain customers. It's their job, regardless of where the product is at. Customers are not easily acquired and the position is unforgiving.

As a hybrid sales/development guy, I was always conflicted selling products that I found myself having to convince users to stick with it on the renewal, because the product is not performing as it should or as promised. It was the technical side of me knowing this product is not really where it should be, just good enough.

And the clauses, yuck!, cancellation fees to end contracts, worst conversation to have with someone you're trying to build a relationship with. For anyone with a conscience, it's a hard position to be in but that's what you are being paid to do, sell. To survive you have to be at peace with the process and have a long term outlook that the product will get better.

It's crushing to have to sell a not so great product just as much as it is hard to push one out. I think what really makes the difference is the company culture and shared vision. If people are not ultimately working toward the same long term goal, there is going to be a disconnect.
Your post doesn't make much sense. You could use a new packagin system, a new *SQL database, SASS/LESS, a new test framework, a new built tool etc. even without letting go of YUI.

If you never want to learn anything new, then be my guest, but I don't understand those developers.

Besides, developers should learn new software all the time, not develop with YUI for five years and suddenly learn everything at once.
As I stated, it does take some work to make sure your wallet is secure and redundant (or even just your private key). Most people are just barely computer-literate, and therefore can't realistically do that. For them, third party services are a much better option.
I have that problem too. I usually narrow it down to two or three options and ask the server/cashier what I want. About 80% of the time I go with whatever s/he says; other times, simply hearing his/her recommendation makes me realize what my actual preference is.
Thanks, well credit where it's due, the look and feel steals from @myusuf3 who made me discover his powerline inspired configuration in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASOwagptPB8.

Then, I made in sort everything is self-contained.
But if it improves the quality of PHP coding and development in general, then that's a good thing.
Same reason as always: The existing payment system used in the world has a weird system of "chargebacks" which mean that it's hard to know that any transaction is ever "final" and can be considered completed. This flaw in the traditional payment infrastructure makes it hard for coinbase to hand you over your coins even if they received a perfectly valid bank wire or credit card payment.
I would love to see decent research about the benefits to the landlord of a well maintained property.

Because my landlord does (polite!) extra inspections on top of the legal minimum I feel fine telling them when water's coming in or plaster is falling off.

(It's an old building. And the derelict building next door causes some problems. And the demolition of an old cinema is a bit disruptive too.)
Hah, it's funny that the place that handles your money is only worth 30% more than the place you chat with your friends.
> since I was talking about accidentally implementing interfaces and you're talking about deriving new types that you then do not add any methods to.

Go makes a distinction between interfaces and types? Why?It's useful to have the type system enforce that you only call methods that exist. And a language in which you can't pass around functions as values is crippled - but if your types can contain functions, surely they should behave as interfaces.

> "Multiple inheritance" is a particular thing, not a vague word salad phrase.

Look again at the way the actual context is constructed. You compose together a bunch of traits, which can contain implementation as well as interface; this is multiple inheritance in the sense people normally use the phrase.

> Given the large number of distinct Java cultures that have arisen, surely at least one of them would have valued simple code by now.

I don't think there are distinct cultures. There's a common Java culture, and the corporate influence has been large. And any other languages used in the same kind of setting - C++ and C#, mainly - seem to me to be just as verbose as Java, meaning it's not the language but the organizations using it.
I don't know if Ebola qualifies, but there are 'orphan drug' laws in many places that help pay for the development of medicine to treat rare diseases or conditions.
MRI imaging is effectively harmless (unlike, say, CT scans, which might cause harm).
Great comment, pretty much agreed on all points. One minor correction -- it's "toeing the line", not "towing":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line
Even aluminum mined on the moon would be potentially useful.

And due to the oddities of space travel, it costs a lot less delta-v to go from the Moon to Earth orbit than it does from Earth to Earth orbit, especially if you do aerobraking.
Looks nice. Would i be able to post code? That's a feature I would really like to see in a site like this.
Social Collaboration in a startup is important
That's from 2011, I'm not sure if that qualifies as 'recent' in the JS world these days.
mind elaborating on what you liked about react.js over angular? I am guessing performance?
What are the best front-end package managers?
Yes I read his comment. Both entanglement and measurement apply to individual particles, so the opposite of what he said is true.
Oddly enough, I think in the US you would get more support for increasing taxes on wealth and decreasing taxes on income, at least at the lower ends of income.
To be fair, that's not an intrinsic limitation so much as a browser implementation limitation.

File a bug report?
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"halfway decent database" is a very vague notion. What would that even be? Something similar to SQLite, MySQL, Cassandra, VoltDB? Are you talking about write ahead logging of flushing dirty pages from the buffer (aka sequential or random writes)?

All of these database systems have extremely different host requirements and write characteristics. Even SQLite and MySQL can be pretty different depending on the storage layer (SQLite can use BerkeleyDB)

The future isn't MySQL and spinning disks, the future is a tens of different databases that do things and handle reliability in a variety of ways. I know that complicates the issue even more, but my point would be that writing a halfway decent database is possible (or impossible, depending on your perspective) within a lot of this literature.

( Also, spinning disks even have abstractions since mostly you are using a RAID controller with a decent size of cache to alleviate random writes. )
> Ebola is a scary disease yet rare (across the entire planet) so there doesn't seem to be a lot of monetary reason to invest in it. Antibiotic resistance is far more widespread.

All true, but once one understands the microbiology, it becomes obvious why drug companies are giving up on antibiotics. It's perfectly rational behavior -- no matter what antibiotics we invent, the microbes will evolve resistance to them in a short time. That's been the history of antibiotics until now, and there's no reason to expect the future to be any different -- if anything, it will probably become worse.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-techn...

Title: "Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached 'The End of Antibiotics, Period'"
Obviously it's not black and white and you'll probably have to do a little of both.
Bitcoin Core dev GMaxwell resigns job at Mozilla to work more on Bitcoin
I don't think he read up too much on Flux since he implies Flux ditches unidirectional data flow. Flux is all about unidirectional data flow.

In the example involving the cart; he assumes the only way two sibling components can share state is by bloating parent components (by making them pass callbacks that they don't care about to their child components) or by breaking unidirectional data flow.

However, Flux (as described by Facebook) has a Store in which interested components can subscribe to change events. Your top level components will subscribe to the store and pass data to the child components. When a change occurs, only the top level component will get the new data and it will pass the data to its child components as usual. That doesn't break unidirectional data flow.
Companies like Wells typically have governance policies and processes which expressly consider the scenario of the the open source 'vendor' ending development. Doesn't make it easier, but presumably someone considered the implications already.
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I think IPython notebook would be the best format for this.
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•	Scrappy, resourceful and iterative
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They can do whatever they have the internal capacity to decide to do.

They're richer than Facebook, sure. But at many non-tech companies, spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to build a solid library is simply not in the cards. (Why should we spend so much on engineers? All they're doing is slapping together some HTML, my nephew in high school does that!)
Whether it's a "flaw" is in the eye of the beholder.

I have confidence buying from questionable online merchants using a credit card because I know I have a recourse if they are deceptive. I would say it's more of an issue of incompatibility between the systems rather than a real "flaw" in either.
Sounds like a nice business opportunity: a chart library that is as easy to use as it is to customize.
As someone who has been working with GWT, and since moved to JS, I can elaborate on why I agree. GWT was an excellent tool when I started using it, but has been eclipsed (no pun intended) by substantially nicer frameworks (IMO). I am extremely thankful to be using it as little as possible, and am migrating as many of our GWT apps over into Javascript apps as soon as workload allows. (I'd LOVE to hear from someone who is currently using GWT, and has compelling reasons that it's a great tool that are not driven by the inertia of a large codebase.)

The main reason I'm glad not to use GWT is that I enjoy developing in Javascript a lot more than I do in GWT (Java). I have found that I can implement, modify, or troubleshoot a UI roughly an order of magnitude faster than I used to be able to do it with GWT. This is due to a combination of being able to reload by refreshing my browser (no slow re-compilation steps), as well as being able to inspect elements/styles directly in the Chrome dev tools.

There are about an order of magnitude (or more!) people who write about Javascript, or $FrameworkOfChoice (Angular, Backbone, etc) than there are that write about GWT. This includes both blogs and Stack Overflow, not to mention examples on JSFiddle or the like.

GWT doesn't easily let me integrate other Javascript libraries or components, so you have to implement your crappy version of Chosen (or similar) yourself. There's no JQuery or Underscore or similar, because it's all Java (basically).

The Chrome Dev Tools or Firebug are >>> the GWT debugger. The GWT Dev Mode plugins required for debugging, is also no longer supported in Chrome, and soon in Firefox. (I discovered this last week, the first time I've touched GWT in half a year. There's a newer Dev Tools alternative, but I've been unable to actually get it working.)

Javascript testing tools (Jasmine, phantomJS, etc) and build tools are now a MUCH more mature ecosystem than they were when GWT was first invented. We used to use a combo of JUnit + Watir/Selenium to test our UI, and now we can do similar with Javascript frameworks in a less fragile way.

In summary, GWT was awesome, but I see no reason to use it today. It helped me find my current job, so I'm grateful for that. However, if you were looking for a web framework, you would be much better served (IMO) if you chose React, Angular, or Ember rather than GWT.
Treating an ebola patient is complicated.

Treating an ebola patient who has a bunch of weird side effects caused by an experimental drug makes a sub-optimal situation much worse.
Will the sources/data be available for download, as in the Perseus Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/?
My company still uses VMS today. This:

DSA0:[USERS.MVEETY]LOGIN.COM;5

Looks all too familiar to me :-/
I even still have to write some DCL from time to time!

I swear we are going to be the last one's off this system.
> I have to say, enterprise companies like WF really have it tough.

I will code up and play the worlds smallest violin in reactjs today in their honor.
DARPA thinks it's a scalable method, at least for producing flu vaccines:

"Accelerated Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals (AMP), companies in four states are building facilities where they can quickly produce vaccine-grade proteins grown in the cells of tobacco plants. Once they produce the proteins, the goal is for each company to scale up its process to produce 100 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine per month."

http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=61520
This works for me

curl http://a.tiles.telegeography.com/maps/submarine-cable-map-2014/6/\[0-9\]/9.png -o row09_column0#1.png
curl http://a.tiles.telegeography.com/maps/submarine-cable-map-2014/6/\[10-63\]/9.png -o row09_column#1.png

curl http://a.tiles.telegeography.com/maps/submarine-cable-map-2014/6/\[0-9\]/\[10-54\].png -o row#2_column0#1.png
curl http://a.tiles.telegeography.com/maps/submarine-cable-map-2014/6/\[10-63\]/\[10-54\].png -o row#2_column#1.png

echo "Creating montage"
montage -mode concatenate -tile 64x *.png final_map.png
Ripple Consensus Whitepaper Released
I'm not sure what Walmart's annual revenue is, but I would guess it's a tad greater than $500 million :)
Fascinating! I watch World War Documentaries a lot, and I noticed that Adolf Hitler was 1 of the 1st people to latch on to this theory and cause worldwide destruction of property and loss of human life.

The Nazi Party understood the enormous power of film / cinema and appealed to the instincts and emotions of the german people by carefully crafting slogans and short film clips that would be played in movie theaters and at all their public gatherings.
They even took care of their self-created "Jewish Problem" by creating fake movies that appeared to show the German people that the Jews were being take to a "better place" that had picket fence homes, fancy train stations and public buildings, plenty of food and clothing and an all round "Paradise".

They did this because German neighbors were, at first, very opposed to their Jewish neighbors being driven out of the country and almost caught on to the evil intentions of Hitler and his Nazi thugs.
This reply is so bitcoin.txt that I honestly don't even know where to begin.
It sounds like the problem with Prop 13 was that it applied to all property owners. Florida has a very aggressive value increase cap, but it is tied to homestead. If the property is not your primary residence, no cap for you. As soon as you move and rent the place, your value jumps up to market. Commercial property of all stripes is completely uncapped. This protects grandma who has been living in her house for 30 years while not allowing the apartment building owner who has owned a building for 30 years to rake in the dough because the taxes are absurdly low.
I found that quote to be consistent with my experience at UPenn.
A few weeks ago I read an article on undersea cables somewhere. I think it was posted on HN. It mentioned about a planned cable between South America and Europe for exactly the reasons you mentioned. A quick duckduckgo gave me this link: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2174686/data-center/eu-m.... It mentions the NSA surveillance as one of the unofficial reasons for laying this cable.
Here's the secret to getting a lower cable bill: Threaten to cancel
I feel like when you remove a large portion of the dynamic features of PHP (references + global variables) you're now comparing different implementations of different languages, not different implementations of the same language.

HHVM is impressive largely because of the strides in performance despite PHP being an obnoxiously dynamic language, in the same way that V8 is impressive in the optimisations they're able to do on Javascript.

It's certainly a cool side project, but I don't think anyone is under the illusion that HHVM (or the official PHP interpreter) wouldn't be orders of magnitude faster if they didn't have to support the idiosyncrasies of PHP.
This thread is exactly why I called BS early and often on Gravity, despite being downvoted in numerous places for doing so and being told "It's just a movie, lighten up." A movie that leaves everyone who sees it a little bit dumber.

Yes, it was "just a movie," but you know what? Reality is pretty goddamned interesting, too. Hollywood should try it sometime.
Prototype Puzzles of Oskar van Deventer [video]
Who Owns Big Data? (Michael Nielsen)
That is one badly written article.
Open source communities start to buzz about edX
Meet the Man Building the Fort Knox of Bitcoin
Awesome article. I can't tell you how sick I am off job postings which say they're looking for "rock star" developers, etc. Nothing turns me of faster because as this article illustrates well, who on earth would describe themselves as a "rock star"? And would they make a good employee? I doubt it. I certainly don't want to work with people who think they're rock stars, or for people who expect me to be their subjective and imprecise definition of a rock star.
> ..makes a sub-optimal situation much worse.

I guess the OP's point was how much more sub-optimal can the situation get if the alternative to not trying the experimental drug is the death of the patient.
>>Personally, I have found react.js to be much better than Angular

This is a tangent, but can you explain why?
So maintaining the integrity of the blockchain isn't useful ?
Hi srean ! One of the author of steady speaking.
Hyperlapse tech looks like a lot Steady, because when you are using the same gyro data, you're quite bound to follow the same maths to compensate the camera shake.
About the gyro stream / frame stream sync, it's very important to have it as precise as possible. We have seen that having just 1 ms of error in sync is already very visible to the naked eye.
So you have to build a very accurate model of the timing of the CMOS and gyro sensors, taking into account exposure, rolling shutter, and sometimes software / hardware glitches in the lower technological stack....
Hope it give you some clues about that kind of tech !
QZSS (the Japanese GPS) is not autonomous. It uses GPS and use the additional satellite to improve precision. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation)
If you are worried about finding a place with 0 days notice, ask that your lease include a "30 days notice" clause. I've never seen a lease agreement that didn't have one.

Most lease contracts are 12 months. That gives you 1 year of warning.

If someone is living on near minimum wage...

Most poor people aren't.

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~lrazzolini/GR2010.pdf

There are people who can barely afford to put food on the table

Poor people are typically fat.

The typical poor person has no job, if he does have a job it isn't minimum wage, and he has a car. He would also be healthier if he put less food on the table.

Why do you keep discussing these completely atypical poor people, and extremely uncommon rental contracts?
> Special care is required when specifying rational numbers, because integer division might not produce the answer you want. In other words, Python will not automatically convert the answer to a floating point number, but instead round the answer to the closest integer

Note that this applies only to Python2, Py3k does float-division by default and integer division with // operator:

Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1/7
0
>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 1/7
0.14285714285714285
>>> 1//7
0
>>>
Booth did a survey to see how risk averse their students were. There was a giant gap between the white and non-white students.

The question was: Imagine how it feels to lose a dollar. Now imagine winning x dollars. What does x have to be for the feelings to be equal.

I think the median result was 2 for white students and a ridiculous number over 10 for Indians and Asians
It's not an either or problem - you can use Angular with React. React does not buy you code organization for large apps.
Same for iPhone, support for GLONASS appeared in 4S (the fall of 2011).
I've read this story where a girl noticed her granny really likes watch sports.

This puzzled her a bit until once she heard granny watch pole vault and muttering "oh it's so nice".
When she asked her granny - what's so nice, and why does she enjoy sports?

Her granny replied: "I'm just so happy I don't have to jump with the pole".

Stories about modern education always spring this emotion in me. I'm so happy I don't have to "study" anymore never!
> otherwise competitors could print artwork which is not the trademarked logo but..

And by definition imitates with the intent to mislead? Seems that ought be illegal?
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I fundamentally disagree with the concept of telling people what to do with their earned post-tax, post-obligation wealth.

You could make the same argument for any number of things, probably things you even do. Let's play with your sentence a bit:

"The thing I find most depressing about televisions is that the trillions of dollars collectively spend on hardware and programming would actually save millions of lives."

You can apply that to pretty much anything people do in first world countries that isn't available to people in the third world. Please get off your high horse and don't get bent out of shape when people do something that's in their own interest.