skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "same juice" are you referring to the same (MGPI) stock? It's a bit unclear on the first read of your comment, but I've found High West to be a nice Rye so I'd certainly agree with the suggestion.
I work with web/mobile. My job is still very boring at least 75% of the time. E-mails, admin, client contact, delegation of jobs to staff I'm responsible for - and that's before we get to the boring parts of the job itself. We can't all be working on brilliantly exciting stuff all the time.
I think people ignore the second part, because it is a lie. (see my post here commenting about my situation)
I have not read that book, but the answer here sort of blows it up:

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-a...

(That too many things are crimes is probably something I agree with; that accounting companies must only destroy documents according to retention policies and not after they find out one of their clients is a giant fraud is not something that worries me)
And if your meal with them also reveals that the person asks the waiter whether the meat is Halal, or that their significant other is the same sex as them, then you had better have a better argument than 'I just didn't like the way they treated the waitstaff' or 'I don't like their SO' to justify not hiring them...
>- Those same people are now whining about it.

I tend to doubt that. HN commenters in one thread are not the same as HN commenters in another thread.
> Most of the VC funded startups I'm aware of are founded by graduates of top US schools (Ivy or similar), where almost no one graduates with debt.

Not true. Although not bad, students typically graduate with $15k in debt. Families with income just above the aid cutoff point or with high assets but lower income tend to get hit hard; I know some individuals that are graduating with $50-100k in debt from undergrad at Ivies.

http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/04/07/brunonians-highes...
OK, but the article is light on solutions. In fact, I don't see any solutions.
Why did you introduce a weird and flame-bait diversion?
A lot of the folks here who are criticizing the writer for “paying the ransom” (of sorts) rather than let the cops take it for evidence: slow your roll and put yourself in her shoes.

It’s not that she wanted it “fast”, it’s that the alternative was waiting •months• for the gears of justice to turn. Furthermore, this is a person whose income was such that she had to turn to friends to scrape together a lousy $250 to get it back — the snow could be thawing by the time this person could buy a new laptop OR the original was returned by the police.

Justice is for people who can afford it (or, hate the game, not the player)
I don't know how I feel about this. Balvenie famously does their own maltings, but then Balvenie is one of the largest Scotch brands in the world. On the other hand, you look at the smaller distilleries and realize that there's no way they can be doing that kind of work themselves, and you wonder how much impact doing ones own malting has on the final product, as opposed to designing a mash bill, controlling yeast, making cuts, and (most importantly) selecting and aging in barrels.
I'd completely agree. In fact, I'd say a big part of learning to cook is learning what to cook, what not to cook, and why.
You have to prove that the pawn shop knew that the items were stolen.
Most irc channels are public. It's not that useful unless the channel or maybe the entire server is ssh and invite only.
Broken Build Alarm Using RPi and Custom PCB
Social Sharing Buttons with Analytics for Companies Using Wordpress
Well, as someone that drinks both, there's also a lot in common. Obviously the peating & the resulting tie to the terroir is a little less important, but there are Solera process rums that are top tier spirits for 10-20% of the cost corresponding quality single malt scotches.

Obviously a scotch drinker is going to want to stick to scotch, but there are very fine examples of other distilled beverages (rum, cognac/armanac, bourbon, anejo tequila/mescal) that are going to be as complicated on the palate for fractions of the price. At some point people will switch. The reason I haven't, honestly, is that there are still "bargains" in middle market scotch... it's not clear that intrinsic quality is driving market, as opposed to scarcity or marketing.

EDIT: sorry, got back to this thread a bit late. I echo the other commenter on the Ron Zacapa 23 or Centennario. That was specifically what I had in mind, and is a great launching point for exploring them. https://www.masterofmalt.com/samples/ will let you get 30ml samples for a modest markup and is a great way to try a lot w/o ruining your finances or liver. Astonishingly high end single malts available that way, too (I have no incentive to promote them whatsoever)
There are a few languages that are good for (internal) DSL, ie. Dialects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394181

Unfortunately the Dialecting wikipedia link given in above comment now just redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect_(computing)

The original page listed... Forth, Lisp, Rebol, Ruby & XL - https://web.archive.org/web/20140708161345/http://en.wikiped...
It may be your property but you cannot break the law to get it back.
An Algorithm for the Forecasting of Romantic Options
> So what if someone has more confidence than you? Is it such a threat to your company and well-being?

I think it's interesting that you tacitly equated "asshole" with "confidence." I don't think you're alone in this, and certainly not if you treat it as merely a fast heuristic. I don't think it's right though. And I think it's a relatively new cultural phenomenon, perceptibly growing over the last thirty years.

"Confidence," (in the self-confidence sense) is etymologically just about trust or faith in oneself or one's abilities. It has nothing to do with aggression or selfishness. That correlation is something, I think, that people notice and selectively remember. It makes sense from a Darwinian perspective that we selectively remember "assholes." And the Sammy Glick / Gordon Gecko / etc narrative is so much a cultural staple at this point that it's self reinforcing.
When I was in the market for a small low-power home server, I actually found the NUC's to be overpriced and under-performing.

There's no i7 option, and they will run you about the same base price as an Gigabyte Brix which does offer i7 and/or i5's with more powerful graphics (and AMD APU options for very nice graphics if required).

My home server did not require much graphics of course, but the i7 quad core is very much so a nice-to-have.

Even a Zotac Zbox with an i5 will get you more bang-for-the-buck since they are about $50-$100 cheaper, and come with more peripherals (like dual Gigabit ethernet ports).
>Is it filling slower than comparable office space, in NY or elsewhere? The writer never bothers to find out or inform us.

I wonder if 42Floors would have any data on this that they could share, in general, as they ramped up a NYC office.
CES 2015: Intel Introduces Compute Stick with Atom Quad-core CPU
OpenJDK vs. OracleJVM
Finally we have promises support built into JS.
From the Times editorial board:

> If the Police Department’s current commanders cannot get the cops to do their jobs, Mr. de Blasio should consider replacing them.

> He should invite the Justice Department to determine if the police are guilty of civil rights violations in withdrawing policing from minority communities.

> He should remind the police that they are public employees, under oath to uphold city and state laws.

I could not agree more.
This seems to insinuate that financial firms are not as numerous or maybe not as big as before. Does anyone know whether the financial sector has significantly grown or diminished from 2001 to now?
That latter two parts seem to have been added later. The original uses only included the first, and then the second parts.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/jack-of-all-trades.html
Filezilla isn't malware. The SF installer is malware
Mosh doesn't really impact real latency, just perceived latency by buffering the screen (and ironically, is slower on good connections than regular ssh).
Attach a highspeed microSD card reader (or build one in) and this would make a very compelling low power, personal media file server. Although needing to keep the television on to power it might get annoying.
In many cases, I think this is fine.

Take the case given in the article: 2 designs that appear equal, but segmenting reveals (incorrectly) that one performs better on Android and the other on iPhone. Statistically, it doesn't matter which one you pick, because you don't have a strong result. Anecdotally, you might go down the wrong path and waste some time doing something like showing design A to Android and B to iPhone. But the only thing lost is time -- probably a small amount of time compared to creating the different designs.

Best case, you realize there's something technically wrong with your changes in a certain segment because things are widely different. Worst case, you make some changes that don't matter. Overall, the risk / reward of segmenting seems worthwhile.
Deploying immutable servers using Packer
I work in Manhattan and visit fairly shitty areas of Brooklyn and Queens regularly. These past few weeks have been the first time since I moved here that I've felt safe in the presence of cops. I'd read about enforcement being down just after the funeral for the officers shot in the Bronx but it really didn't click until a pair of them walked down the street by me in Chelsea. They didn't look at my SO like they were ready to beat the shit out of him for once. They were actually laughing and looked approachable.

I think all this little passive aggressive "protest" will prove is that the world isn't going to end when the police stop hassling the young, non-white and homeless. I'm surprised they don't realize they're pulling the curtain back on their own charade.
Cool article but I think things are very different now. If the author launched the same app today, I think he'd have a much harder time getting to that revenue, even in 6 years. The time when the App Store opened was great for the first developers there but things have changed.
> If I wanted this to be my value add, I would need to spend a lot of time and energy going from competent to expert.

That still isn't enough. Until you invest in the branding/marketing aspect, it doesn't matter how good you are, you will never be considered an expert by those who aren't experts themselves. That's the people who hire and pay experts.

Don't worry about being better than everyone you know. You're the expert, obviously you know people who are better. But potential clients don't. They probably don't even need someone who's better than you. You can solve their problem while a "better expert" is busy doing something else.

Most niches will gladly handle more than a single person serving that niche.
Give your feedback! I will re-launch it later in the year with your suggestions implemented.
Actually in many states fortifying your home is already a crime.
require.js loads modules that are written to the CommonJS and AMD standards. systemjs loads those too, but it also loads a few other things including modules that just dump things in to global scope and things written to the ES6 standard.

It's sort of like require.js on steroids.
I would imagine they have a big dinner, with drinks etc. Invite all significant others (Candidates and Employers) to make it a kind of "fun" thing. I would be super proud to have my future employers meet my SO. Also, she's a really solid sounding board, and she could point out that the employers are actually "assholes".
Exactly what law are they breaking? Taking their own property with them?

I didn't suggest they assaulted the clerk, threaten, or smash their way out. Those are illegal. I just said leave.

As I said before, the more you think about this question the less black/white or obvious it is. Your answer is a knee jerk one, but needs a doctoral dissertation level of clarity.
Ask HN: Learning about product management?
I'm looking to get more into product management. I've built a few of my own apps and have acted as a product manager when a client needed help, but no formal training at all. Do you know of any good training courses / books I could read / people I could speak to for advice / as mentors to help me get better at this.
Now imagine if this were wireless, so that you didn't have to connect it to a TV? And while we're at it, add a screen, so that you can use it when you're not around a monitor.

And... it's a smartphone with chromecast.
so many clueless people downvoting :/

>50 mA at 50 V across the heart is enough to kill you.

1 Voltage doesnt matter!

2 AC 60hz, not DC. I dont know the state of safety education in US, but in Europe it was the first thing on the first day of EE lab. Quick google:

"The threshold for ventricular fibrillation for direct current shocks longer than 2 seconds is 150 mA as compared with 50 mA for 60-Hz shocks; for shocks shorter than 0.2 seconds, the threshold is the same as that for 60-HZ shocks, that is, approximately 500 mA"

so >2 seconds at 45 volts if you jam two live wires at 45V into your open wounds across the heart

and here are some funny, but educational yt clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp97GjuULX8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf2nhfxVzg
A peak at the Mercedes concept car at CES
Wow. Great post.

"When you have to start your own bus company to get your employees in and out of work something is amiss." - hits the nail on the head.

I lived in NYC for three years and desperately miss my time there. I've forged some strong friendships and had some great experiences.
Just saw it.
Basically he's an advocate of the "only bad guys want privacy everywhere".

I still have not seen a single proposal from him that is not "forget about crypto", or "let everything be tracked".

He doesn't seems to even understand how basic key exchange work, and all his arguments boil down to "I think they can break it anyway, so we should stop using it".

IMHO, forget about him. he has no proposal and his understanding of security and crypto is downright dangerous.
I have been thinking about this lately. I have a Russian friend who tells me all the time that Americans have no understanding of the value of social capital. It's clear that Al Sharpton does.
Wasn't the suggestion to run an IRC server on the server you're SSHing into? In which case, surely it'd only be accessible from that machine...
It's all relative I guess. Here in the Nola we desperately, DESPERATELY need more cops.
This:

images <- get "http://example.com/images.json"

is objectively easier to reason about than:

var images;
get("http://example.com/images.json", (err, resp) =>
if err throw err;
images = resp;

even though the former might be internally implemented as the latter.

In addition, the former doesn't give the programmer the 'opportunity' to cause a race-condition, and encapsulates the failure entirely for you (automatically and defaultly); If `images` ends up erroring, and you use it again, then it'll short-circuit without crash, very similar to `then()`.
I have stumbled upon Candy Japan about half a year ago when I was moving house and said I'd try it after I settle down. I have recently come back to this topic and did some research on different Japanese snack subscription options.

- Most services cost around $25 monthly.

- Candy Japan seems to offer the most frequent service, with almost all of the other options only offer monthly delivery.

- But Candy Japan also offers the smallest amount - 282 grams (141 grams * 2) compared to others who usually offer 1lb (450 grams) monthly.

Has anyone tried other subscription services? How do they compared to Candy Japan?
Penderyn distillery in WalEs produces whisky thereby breaking the mnemonic.
What Kinds of Experiences Does a Writer Need?
Or click the direct download link on the front page.

https://i.imgur.com/o7sE9aP.png
Maybe a third to a half of acquisitive crime is committed by people addicted to drugs.

These people just need things they can exchange for drugs; or things they can exchange for money for drugs.

Here's some UK Freedom of Information.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-cost-of...
he doesn't complain about the website design he is complaining about the functionality. In fact he's stated in interviews he doesn't wish to ponder in web development.
Is there a good link to the differences between SmartOS and illumos? Why does the fork exist?
AC ....
Same for me, though I bet joining toastmasters would have helped. I started small and worked up from there. A few tips are to really know back and forth the material you are covering. Another is to mask nerves with enthusiasm. A few years ago my boss made me give a 45 minute long presentation to a team of ~ 10 engineers. I was freaked out, but it ended up going well. I had a slide deck that I rehearsed with my manager and went over may times. I also included several jokes in it. Since then I've been able to lead weekly meetings with the same number of people. I even gave an all hands presentation to ~35 people. Good luck.
Compared to a smartphone, this has:

unlocked bootloader
open-source graphics driver
no app store restrictions
no Java overhead
no OEM customizations
Some people are too nice and others are too mean.

In the middle are people who can hold themselves and others accountable and whose behavior cultivates a culture of respect and teamwork.

In my opinion, assholes are people whose behavior (intentional or not) shuts down creativity and collaboration.

The key thing to understand is that companies learn as a team how to get the desired results. This means people need to be able to communicate, to trust their coworkers, to feel comfortable putting themselves out there, etc. Success is made up of thousands of small interactions.

Assholes are people who get in the way of healthy team functioning by bullying, trying to be right all the time, intimidating others, etc.

Some assholes are smart and have something to offer, but it should be weighed against the cascade of downsides as well.
Let me add this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/the-bene...

>>But the police union's phrasing—officers shouldn't make arrests "unless absolutely necessary"—begs the question: How many unnecessary arrests was the NYPD making before now?
The Sudden Shift in SaaS Product Pricing
The infinite book - http://www.amazon.es/The-Infinite-Book-Boundless-Timeless/dp...

Sometimes is a bit hard to conceptualize the infinite, you know!
That seems like some low hanging fruit for local police stations to target. How serious a crime is "dealing in stolen goods" in the US?
I don't see dishonest / various other anti-social behaviors as code for "confident". Even being egocentric is something other than confidence. In fact it's often a lack of one that leads to the other.

It's entire possible to be confident without being an asshole.
The Gopher Gala is the first worldwide Go hackathon
I don't know if it's any different in objective/subjective, I think, as applied to software engineering, anyway, there's always a subjective element.

I suppose the corresponding operationalization to the way I've phrased it is: Don't add genericness unless you are unable to find a way to proceed with what is needed without it.

I think (and I think the OP thinks) the problem we have more often is people adding too much abstraction, not too little. If so, we need a rule that discourages, rather than encourages, the problem.
Even if HN threads are not comprised of the same people, it is still remarkable how entirely different sets of people show up depending on which way the wind is blowing.
NUCs are the modern incarnation of Intel whitebox reference motherboards. If they were too cheap or tailored to specific use cases, OEMs would be out of business.
"He made an emotional plea that police might not be able to stop crimes against children or solve murders without access to the data."
It's FOR THE CHILDREN! Of course.
In my experience, the early apps rank well and it's much harder to launch a new app and get downloads.
> In his case, he was stuck at work at a public housing project for 3 days with the residents, because the city didn't ticket parking violations and the plows couldn't clear the clogged streets.

This has still be case during some of the big snows of the past several years even with parking violations tickets.

> Broken elevators left the elderly trapped in high-rise buildings for days. People with medical emergencies had to be carried by fireman down the stairs and down the street to an ambulance on an avenue.

This still happens every once in a while. Police don't generally handle these kinds of things anyway, as the 311 service handles a lot of building code violations.

> One of the reasons for the current practice in NYC is the Mayor Giuliani did a complete 180 and aggressively enforced all sorts of laws. Chaos transitioned to order. The optimal answer lies somewhere in the middle.

This isn't accurate. Broken windows policing in NYC goes back to the mid-eighties and efforts to handle graffiti. Bill Bratton, the now police commissioner and comissioner during Guiliani's tenure, started using broken windows policing tactics and policies in the early 90s when he was at the NYC transit police.

Also, violent crime rates were already well in decline when broken windows policing became the major tactic and policy of the NYPD. It is not at all clear that broken windows policing is responsible or a contributed to that falling rate and to characterize Giuliani as instilling order on a chaotic city is laughable, as you could view many of his policies as instilling chaos.
I mostly meant anti-regulation.

I'm not sure we need strict laws regarding parking, public drinking, loosies, ect. Let alone aggressive enforcement.

I think parts of NYC are a good example of how enforcement can cause a more negative environment than the original activity.
Encrypting backups makes a lot of sense. Is encrypting an active db a requirement in some enterprise environments?
Things have definitely changed over the years, and I've had to pivot many times along the way. I think it remains a good opportunity today. In fact, maybe even better because the market is much more stable and the right way to do it is more evident. I made mistakes along the way that probably cost me a lot of money.
Unless something has changed dramatically recently Pappy is not KBD juice. It is a wheated buffalo trace. That said, I agree that it is hugely overrated, but old whiskey is all overrated right now. If you are looking for a similar spirit I'd recommend the Weller bottles.

As for the cheap bourbons, be careful, several have changed recipes recently or more troubling done away with their traditional age statements in shady ways (I'm looking at you Very Old Barton). Due to the demand for whiskey right now, anything with any age at all is being snapped up for NDP sale. Leaving the bottom shelf in worse shape than it used to be.
Yes, you said it well.

It requires a very thorough understanding of the domain you are working to create a solution in. And time and effort.

The actual context most software engineers find themselves in does not usually encourage (or even allow?) that kind of development.

Creating quality software really is more 'expensive'.
Some thoughts on workplace diversity
This makes me nostalgic for the days when I used commandline programs like ytalk to chat with friends...
Yeah we aren't the best at coming up with names, we love acronyms and they always have to be bilingual.

So Web Experience Toolkit - Boîte à outils de l’expérience Web

I'm pretty sure it was named by a committee.
Interesting and disappointing news regarding Templeton. I'm going through some of the reading on the subject now. Thanks for the suggestions for alternatives.