skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you agree with Cleese's premise, I think it follows that what you need is motivation for the open mode (the blue sky, blank sheet of paper period), and discipline for the closed mode where you put your head down and get the work done."

I have been doing Learning how to learn at Coursera[1]. There is actually term for this 'blue sky' thinking mode, it is called the diffuse mode.

In the course they call it the diffuse mode, you can also be in the focused mode.

In the focused mode you tend to see all the details, though its difficult to get insights in this mode. Your thinking and problem solving is constrained by your natural thinking patterns and heuristics. This mode is really good when solving problems you have seen before.

In the diffuse mode, you gain new insights/discoveries by linking up different bits and pieces.

Having said that:

"If you agree with Cleese's premise, I think it follows that what you need is motivation for the open mode"

I do not understand this logic, can you clarify?

My reading of the article after having done the course is:

You can be disciplined and still do this blue sky/diffuse mode thinking, i do not think they are mutually exclusive.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/learning

* Edit: Added more details on thinking mode, and link to course
I have to second this. Sumologic is very powerful and saves hours of time troubleshooting.
How does a copyright work?

In practice it's simple - if you're paid to build a thing for someone, that someone owns the thing. It's known as a "work for hire". That's what your customer will expect, anyway. I mean, would you pay someone to build a thing for you and think didn't own the copyright on the thing?

how can I make it so the contract would hold up in a court, if, for example, they refused me payment?

You know what's better than a contract? Getting paid in advance. Whether it's 10%, 30%, 50% or 100%. You should work your ass off for your customers. But if they haven't paid you, they aren't really a customer, are they?

If you didn't get any upfront payment, ask for something once you have any deliverable to show. Show proof of work and a reasonable client should be willing to send money your way. Worried about getting paid? Establish that they will pay as soon as possible.

Also, a contract that holds up in court and results in a judgement in your favor is no guarantee of payment. A judgement means you can send a debt to collections. But the collections agency will extract a hefty fee and it may take months or years to collect.

It seems like you're focusing on what can go wrong. Ignore that stuff. Focus on building trust and rapport with your clients.

How should I value my time?

Is my time worth $20 an hour? $40? Less? More?

Abandon the concept of time. Think instead of services. What services are you providing? What are these services worth to your customer? Approach this from their point of view, find out what they're willing to pay, not the minimum you're willing to charge.

Start out high. Charge a rate that seems too high. If the customer says "no" find out why. It may not be the price, but some other concern. If the price is too high tell them you're open to negotiate, ask for them for a counter-offer.
I've only maintained a small number of servers, but I've found a good solution in what I'll call the GEL (Graylog2 - Elasticsearch - Logstash) stack. It's been some time since I last used Graylog2, and I can recall that it was somewhat lacking in the pretty charts and graphs department, though that may have improved recently, and the search functioned beautifully.
And you could write 简简易易 to emphasize it—given that this post is exactly an intensification of the original "Simple, Easy!" paper, I think that's appropriate :)

And for those suffering under the GFW, https://gist.github.com/tel/7ad4dafb6c39221fc773
According to the article, the machine reads a special ink from the lids of the cups. My assumption is that the orange dot on this clip contains that ink so as to fool the machine, not just block the reader.
What are you using to execute commands on thousands of hosts in parallel?
Bumping datasize-cur in /etc/login.conf up to at least 1024M should prevent the libreoffice crashes. It's quite possible that this limit will be bumped up by default soon as the low default limits keep causing issues with applications like libreoffice and firefox (though for some setups low limits make sense).
Nobody should be promoting this inferior, environmentally disastrous product on this site, really. Makes terrible coffee, the pod design is not recyclable, and hot water + plastic is a bad equation both for coffee quality and for human health.

Edit to add: I do of course concede that DRM is evil regardless of context and must be defeated.
I worked there. He got it right.

Some managers are supportive and want their reports to succeed and will encourage them to direct their own work. Some are not. Google's great if you get a good manager. It sucks if you don't. Not much of a different story than in other companies.

"20% time" means that if you do a skunk-works project and it succeeds (which is hard to do-- because Google places high demands in terms of reliability and internationalization before it allows a launch, and for good reasons-- if you're only giving it 8 hours per week, so most people whose projects succeed will "cheat" a little bit) that you don't have to apologize and won't get fired for the mere fact of having a side project. That's important, but the idea that average Googlers get 1/5 of their working time to devote to anything that helps the company is a myth.
Ever hear of an NES?

History didn't start in 2008.
Loss of one's descendants. Imagine a grandfather losing all their children and their grandchildren in a flight crash.
How can I prevent my parents' divorce?
Your comment has reference to nothing useful to the conversation. None.
Care to share what that means for you, food wise?
I always find it a bit strange and it takes me a few days to adapt, when I'm in countries where "how are you?" is a common way to greet someone (I'm from Denmark & live in Cph).

It feels very rude for me to just answer with a "great/fine/ok and you?" when someone asks me how I am, I think is has something to do with that the Danish version of that sentence (hvordan har du det?) is something that is most often said to someone when that person is having a tough time or is sick or if the person saying it is worried about the other persons emotional well-being.
The article links to another that discusses "culture clashes". E.g.

Some of these Glassdoor reviews claim that Nest
is “killing everything that was special about
working at Dropcam” and that “everything we
built is being carelessly dismantled after
[the] acquisition.”

This acquisition is probably no different than most. Probably about 90% of these kinds of acquisitions fail?

What does succeed is when a company buys another to deliberately kill that competing product. That usually makes good business sense. But that wasn't the case here.
I don't want to read someone having a conversation with their community, I want to read what they themselves think without the lurking context of the subset of their audience that demands to speak up and be heard right then and there.

I also frequently don't like the results of community feedback shaping a blog; a lot of times it just puts the writer on the defensive all the time, and can easily become toxic and contribute to burnout. If you can read even the best comments on the best blogs and not want to just give up on humanity forever, you're a better man than I (either that, or you were one of the people writing those comments and thought they were awesome).

There's already plenty of places on the Internet for people to discuss things written elsewhere on the Internet, like right here for example. Or Reddit or Facebook or Twitter or any number of other places where you have persistent communities of commenters. If it's just comments at the bottom of an article, you end up with a lot of drive-by comments that are even more dumb or pointlessly cruel or boring or strangely insistent about your potential to make $2500/day at home on your computer, just like I did! Because you totally can.
Well - as I a Dane I will let you in on a couple of secrets:

1. The happiness study is flawed: We are not happy; and if happiness was a one-dimensional measure that was comparable across countries and cultures we would not be number one, nowhere near.

2. We are overtaxed, our welfare system is too big and bureaucratic: Filled with freeloaders, unmotivated cival servants, unsustainable rising pension costs, ill incentives that are destroying innovation and initiative.

3. Globalization is killing us: Our industries are being outcompeted, our welfare system is being exploited thru an influx of poor immigrants, our internal solidarity is gone; the beggars, petty thieves and hookers you see on the street are foreigners (though they live here for years) with no entitlements to any social support and no one is helping them since everyone thinks it is the job of the state.
How a MIT team records sounds purely from pictures
Did monitoring logs with Bayesian filters ever catch on? They are very good and finding things that are "off"
It's not fair to blame these OSs for asking you get firmware. It is a LEGAL issue, not a technical one!!!

Get the vendors to make wifi firmware freely redistributable (or even better, fully open source + build instructions) and it will work out of the box.
One quick point: No matter how different the sizes of different organizations are, they come with different DNAs more or less. Normally, one organization has very limited tolerance towards other DNAs. This alone will kill the new comers. Or the container will fall apart.

Resources are basically not a big issue for big players. It's their DNA and abilities derived that set what they are not able to achieve.
Inferior to what?

What's wrong with the biodegradable pods used as an example?
If this article is correct, I am guessing it is the front-runners who are leading the charge against the spoofers.
Why not just instead forbid Russian politicians and their families to access Europe? Now that would be a real pressure, don't you think?

Instead, completely innocent people on Crimea are banned from doing any business with Europe. I don't think Russian politicians care - they live from taxes!
Wait... how is piracy or a knockoff anything like the spoofing this article talks about?
I don't know what the GP's answer will be, but I would use pdsh.
DEX UI – A science fiction desktop running on Linux
That's easy.

Now, automating that by putting enough NLP together to scan social media and news sites to classify popular characters with a comically limited vocabulary and automatically generate a Brainfuck variant based upon said character's vocabulary? That's the hard part... ;)
Are you going to come clean the office coffee pot when it's been left stewing for 16 hours?
Getting to Denmark
In the gp's post, he's talking about above ground mounting, similar to rooftop, and more like the parking lot coverage in tfa... in this case it's actually about a break even for the solar in 8-12 years usually... (feel good qualities not withstanding)... that covers the electrical usage for the lot's residents, at the very least. Assuming you are charging for the electricity... you are still making the lot rent, and on top of that, you can charge more for being a "green" lot (if the organic food market is any indication), which means you can charge over 20-30% more than standard lots... so your break even on investment is about 8-12 years, but you'll be making 20-30% more on the lot rent, which means you'll probably break even much sooner, and see a close to pure profit for 8-10 years after the investment paid for itself.

It's not a bad system... this also doesn't account for states like Arizona and California that offer tax breaks and incentives for solar initiatives like this one.
DMCA does get abused on youtube on occasion. But the main complaint is content ID, which is completely unrelated.
The "low expectations" trope trotted out again. When almost every important economic and social metric is in world leading territory, then I think it'd be better expressed as "ambitious, but realistic expectations".

The Danish do not exclusively hold the secret to happiness. As the article ultimately concedes, it's not a secret that egalitarian societies are happier, which - from a Danish perspective - means they're more successful.
I'm curious (really curious, although this might sound like a troll), have you ever tried a benchmark test on this? Things like this [0] come up every so often, and make me wonder about the efficiency advantage for coding in Fortran.

This is also relevant and insightful [1]. The top answer talks about Fortran's strict aliasing semantics.

[0] http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-go...

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-faster-...
The client conveyed their intent not to pay when they asked for the special favor. I mean the special favor was not paying when push comes to shove. In general, most people aren't sociopathic, so they have to find a way of rationalizing their bad behavior. The web designer/programmer does favors of a financial type for them and stopping the favors makes the designer/programmer the bad person.
How many logs are we talking about, and produced at what rate? These are key questions. If you have tons of logs and you might have to make a full access pass over them, the last thing you want to do is to centralize them on some kind of logs host with lots of disks and few CPUs. But if you have little or moderate amounts of logs you may be able to get away with a single host and some xargs -P grep type of thing.
You don't want the "raw sensor data". You need it after it's been processed to the appropriate level, to retrieve geophysically-relevant quantities (like temperatures and wind speeds) from the data that is measured. That is not done by the forecasters.
By "monitoring" do you mean anomaly detection?
ELK is easy to setup but when you really need to analyse logs it can be painful, I think the real problem is Kibana which is just not good enough for that task.

- no logs coloration

- a lot of bugs / weird refresh behavior

- no auth
By the way, add Realtek and Ralink (now Mediatek) to the above list of companies writing drivers for Linux.

And now name a wifi chipset that isn't made by one of these companies. :-)

It's awesome that Linux has achieved this kind of support. But this is a luxury. Don't take it for granted. It took a long time and a lot of energy to get there. These companies are still keeping hardware docs under NDAs so it is very hard for other open source systems to compete fairly.
"FB will give Snapchat $20b, 30b, and 40b offers over the next two years. 50-50 they get Evan to sell.
"

Does anyone else here think a 40B dollar offer for snapchat is kinda, lets say, out of the realm of possibilities?
While I applaud the spirit of the Freedom Clip, I have a better idea if you object to the DRM in Keurig's new product: Don't buy Keurig. There are plenty of alternatives. Why participate in the ecosystem at all if it means buying a product from a company whose products you object to? Buy a Mr Coffee if you have to have a K-Cup brewer.
This is a nice little problem, I had fun solving it.

For those of us who are familiar with TopCoder, CodeForces or, perhaps, ACM ICPC, this should be daily bread and butter on prime numbers and data structures :)

Here is my solution if you are curious: https://gist.github.com/Slava/74276f5b7889a1d68a71 - computes the result in 400ms

Edit: hah, looking at the problems discussion board I took a very bruteforce approach, other people solved utilizing math, I used priority_queue for no particular reason :)
One thing we've done that's greatly improved the effectiveness of our API logs is creating a unique context identifier string for each api call and passing it back in the response headers of a call. This allows you to copy the string from the browser and grep the logs to immediately find the call in question, and if an error occurred.
At Mozilla Opsec, we use (and write) MozDef: https://github.com/jeffbryner/MozDef/
I don't consider my Facebook application (i.e. wall, timeline, groups, etc.) usage very high, but my Facebook messenger usage is through the roof. I don't even have any other way to reach most of my friends or contacts.

I get the impression this is very common among people in their twenties.

Alternatives like Google Hangouts, Snapchat, Line, WeChat, etc. don't have nearly as many users, at least among my social groups.
I second emacs occur.
Having ads means you're acting commercially which is a very bad idea if you already in a semi-legal area. Besides from that it's far away from their initially spread ideology to make a lot of money or show porn ads. I mean TPB users always argue with not wanna seeing ads on DVDs and being enforced to anything and then their website is just unusable without ad blocker.
The strategy genre has finally embraced the apocalypse
It's realistic to me that individual bloggers can't live on advertising. The well-known corrosive effects of ads are too big to deny. I'd particularly cite the need it creates to pump out tons of "views" to tons of "eyeballs" which is corrosive to any sort of quality that might let one stand apart from a crowd of others doing the same thing. (And please note how I phrased that, it's very important. I'm not saying they can't have quality in some snobbish sense, I mean it leaves them unable to cultivate any unusual quality that might let them dominate some micro-niche under such constraints.) But I've got at least one guy in my Patreon lineup that I'm essentially sponsoring to write his blog. In that particular case it's not political, but there's no particular reason why that couldn't work.

But I would say at least speaking for myself that for politics, I would expect to either see some very original, quality thinking, or some sort of substantial research being done if I'm going to be paying for it. Party-line punditry's supply already verges on the infinite. (Not a crack at Sullivan. I never read his blog, I have no opinion about the writing I've never read. Just an observation from the other political blogs I read.)
He's broadcasting, not blogging.

And I like writers on the defensive. When they write crap, and they take comments, the crap comes up awful quick.

Notice how a lot of sites don't take comments? Notice how many of them are very seriously moderated?

One could argue trolls, and that's a fair case. However, not actually being out there enough to take feedback on one's words tends to make nice, magic, bubbles, filled with unicorns and rainbows.

Sullivan occupies one of those bubbles.

And it's not just comments. It's dialogs, even among peers. Sullivan largely just broadcasted.

Either way, his departure means pretty much nothing.
I hadn't even heard of Andrew Sullivan until I bumped into his defense of Brendan Eich.

Honestly, good riddance. I hope that Sullivan and Eich both fade into obscurity.
Research suggests that the average person will not pay more than $200 for the premium pill [over a pill with a 0.1% chance of killing them].

I don't buy this. For a young person, a 0.1% chance of death is years' worth of death risk. However, I think there's a way to "trick" people into a result like this. Say that Pill A has a 99.9% chance of delivering a cure, and Pill B has a 100% chance of curing them. First, "99.9%" sounds very good already, and "100%" sets off our bullshit detectors because almost nothing in medicine always works. The 99.9 figure is more precise and therefore more impressive.

Furthermore, there's a difference between (a) the pill itself kills in 0.1% of chances vs. (b) it's 99.9% efficacious. In (b), you can take the cheap medicine and try the expensive one if the cheap one does work. As for (a), that's not something we really face because no drug that kills 0.1% of patients at normal doses would be on the market. If it were used at all, it'd be restricted to hospitals and used only when the disease was severe enough to merit it (e.g. cancer drugs).

The prime candidates for entrepreneurial ventures are actually people in their 30s and 40s. Their startups are less likely to fail and reasonably so. They have more experience than people in their 20s and more drive than people in their 50s.

Adverse selection. Most 50+ who have their shit together don't want to deal with VCs and their bullshit. There are plenty of driven, 50+ year old entrepreneurs, but they're not interested in VC. Also, they aren't interested in get-big-or-die gambits in general because getting back into the careers they left, at that age, is just much harder.

This suggests that corporations have a great deal to make by offering entrepreneurial opportunities to their employees.

I don't think that the concept of an "intrapreneur"-- except at a small number of companies like Valve (which only has a few hundred employees)-- has legs. Would Google or Microsoft or Citibank allow it if everyone wanted to be an "intrapreneur"?

While the intrapreneur path will involve a lower risk of financial loss (because it requires no capital investment, except opportunity cost in the willingness to take a lower salary and a more interesting job) it probably has a higher per-month job-loss risk. Employees can avoid behaviors that will make them enemies. They can choose not to give a fuck when it isn't their turn to give a fuck. Intrapreneurs don't have that liberty. They have to fight battles, work hard enough that they lose social polish, and (if their managers aren't supportive) navigate a conflict of interest between their personal project and their assigned work. They can easily turn into overperformers and get themselves fired. Moreover, I don't think that the sociological issues that are in play here are going to go away easily.

None of this refutes the title itself, as presented:

Why Corporations Could Get Higher Returns Than VCs

In fact, they already do. But that's another story entirely.
Painting with Mathematica: A Talk with John Muellerleile
It doesn't say anything about the future of blogging in my opinion. I think the future of blogging is bleak for people who want to make a career (aka a salary) doing it. There is so much noise and so much bullshit online, not to mention amplified/fake stories and zero fact checking (read Ryan Holiday's book Trust Me Im Lying). It doesn't mean people are going to stop reading them or blogging, but the traffic / ad space $ will probably continue to go down as more content continues to spews online.