skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> the authors did not find any correlation between the amount of “tinkering” — which is often thought to signify lack of programming expertise — and course performance. However, the authors found that students who changed their programming style — going from being a “planner” to a “tinkerer,” or vice versa — were the ones who performed best, suggesting that behavior change (rather than learning one single behavior) was determinant for course performance.

Not being flippant: The conclusion here seems to be evidence of an ability to learn something new, regardless of what, is strongly indicative of performance.
@switch33 No, our detection method is hash based. We also have on our roadmap to to content based scanning, that would indeed require un-obfiscating the code.
This article makes me sad. There is a mode of thought that "work" has to be the other. Work is not your time, but that thing you have to do. Work is another "four letter word" according to the author.

This is partially an artifact of history and partially conflating all kinds of 'work' together. We're living in interesting times where there's a shift of what's valuable from simple mechanical and repetivtive skills (industrial revolution type jobs) and knowledge workers and digitial creatives. We have a unique and amazing opportunity, where it is our collective creativity that is what's valuable and not merely our presence or ability to be turn a mechanical crank.

If you follow this advice, and engage in purely a value exchange for the 8 hours a day in something you don't care about and have no real interest in, you're selling 8h/d * 5d/w * 50w/y * 40y = 80k hours. That's a hell of a lot of your life to give over for merely a paycheck, especially when you don't have to. It's that last part that makes me sad, we are in am incredibly unique industry and point in history (which may not last) where you can find a job that engages your whole self while simultaneously making a good living.

I recommend "Drive" by Daniel Pink, about how to think about human motiviation and the opportunities that we currently have to reshape work. Where things like Autonomy (being self directed, choosing your hours and what you work on), Mastery (becoming great at something), and most importantly missing from the rant in this article, Purpose are what really lead to greater happiness and overall better results.

"Purpose" was why I left a high paying job where I was respected to spend 10 years starting companies that (until very recently) meant I made radically under what I was "worth". Would I trade those years? Hell no. Because even if I hadn't had the recent success with Smarterer, I knew I was working towards a bigger and more important purpose, one that could really make a dent in the universe. Being able to do that, and still eat and satisfy all my basic needs is a pretty amazing thing, and one that's totally missed by a rant like this.

When I think about passion, and look for passion in people I want to work with, I look for people who care about what we're doing. Because I don't want "butts in seats" I want people thinking creatively about how we can change the world together. That could mean a day of thinking deeply without banging out any code at all. It could be a crazy "in the shower idea". It could mean long hours one night to hit some big milestone. It also means that if you've been pushing hard on something and you need to take days off to recenter, I trust you because you care about what we're doing together.
To be blunt, altruistic behavior is seemingly assigned to liberals without question the end results of many of those actions seems to have the opposite effect but when you dig down it had the effect they desired.

simply put, they don't want the type of people associated with that type of housing messing up their neighborhood. The lesson learned in the 60s is that it takes regulation to control who can move into an area by simply pricing it beyond the means of the undesired groups from moving in.

The separation is now more money based than race, but a little of the latter still exist; actually a lot of the latter still exists
Yup, babel does it too. http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/modules/

The problem is supporting dependencies. You need something that can load everything, which is the functionality that SystemJS provides.
OpenBSD sucks least – AsiaBSDCon 2015
I like the idea for internal discussion of problems but I don't think we'll see usage of a scale like this on say a corporate support Twitter account.

It will end up with the Hacker groups of the world bragging about the 10s they've caused major technology companies and competing for scores...
I really like Startup and I'm an avid listener. But, while Alex does a great job of trying to present an honest view of starting a company, I don't think his experiences translate to the everyday entrepreneur.

Sure listening to his initial pitch to Chris Sacca is horrifying and hilarious, but eventually people just start throwing money at him. Everywhere he turns someone is trying to invest. I'm not saying this doesn't happen, but because of who he is the "money" side of things neatly works itself out for him.

Again, I love the podcast and I think Alex is completely honest in it, but he never has to confront the issue of runway which is probably the most nerve-wracking part of being starting a company.
Any experience on the side of cost? What is considered as cheap in academia?
It's falicious to think demand is fixed in SF. Removing rent control does nothing to stem demand. Also arbitrary deeming '$2' affordable is made without any supporting evidence.
It's trivial to show out that rent control increases the cost of rent for new renters. It's been talked about in the academic literature since the 40's[0]. The harder question is, "is it worth it?" Do the people who build a community in a place, and contribute to it's value, deserve to be shielded from the price increase they helped create? Home owners are incentives to help build a valuable community, shouldn't renters?

[0] Friedman, Milton, and George Joseph Stigler. Roofs or Ceilings?: The Current Housing Problem. Foundation for Economic Education, 1946.
SF is the same way, down to the oppressive height restrictions.
Please note that this is the actual title of the talk given at AsiaBSDCon. I am not personally saying "OpenBSD sucks", or editorializing in any way.
The geospatial implementation is a true 3-space model. You can content-address objects and features past low-earth orbit by default. All surfaces upon which geometries are constructed are embedded in this space. Polygons relative to an embedded surface, such as a geodetic 2-ellipsoid, are actually represented as 3-space shapes under the hood; the 2-surface is a convenience for popular use cases but the data is not organized that way.

There are an unbounded number of possible shapes and surfaces in 3-space. Storing and content-addressing them is easy enough. The challenge is that to be useful you need, at a minimum, generally correct intersection algorithms for all of the representable shapes. It is an open-ended computational geometry problem and we continuously extend geometry capabilities as needed. Currently, the most complex shapes can be constructed relative to a number of well-behaved mathematical surfaces embedded in 3-space. Shapes directly constructible in 3-space are significantly more limited but I expect that to expand over time as well, particularly if there are specific requirements and use cases.

The underlying representation was intended to mirror the spatiotemporal organization of the physical world at a data level. We can generate projections but the data lives in 3-space.
It can happen in some places. In Dublin, Ireland someone's rent went up by 50% http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin-couple-forced-to-l...
Here are a few reasons[0] you might want to look into about this fabled "equilibrium" in commercial real estate.

[0] http://www.ezracompany.com/2012/04/30/why-do-landlords-let-s...
I realized I left a dangling sentence:

One of the nicer things about running Phabricator is that it has quite a bit of documentation, and..

..and the install provides really great feedback about how it's running. Server issues are identified and displayed to logged-in administrators, so phabricator actively analyses its status and any reports what actions might need taken. The upgrade process is really smooth as well.
A small number of reposts is ok if an article hasn't had significant attention yet (see the FAQ). I'd say this is about the limit, though.

You're right about the submitted headline ("Best object system is actually from a functional language").
Currently, we just run bacula inside the VMs, which has the benefit that VM owners can simply use bconsole inside the VM to restore files from a previous date.
Look-and-feel is famously not copyrightable in the US, and there's a familiar interface brings a lot of benefit to the user.

So, no, it does not bother me. :-)
this assumes a perfect system, with specific conditions. the real estate market tends to be neither. apartments go vacant all the time waiting for the $4 swm.
That's not going to happen without some sort of equalization.

Prop 13 benefits people that have owned property for a LONG time. I cringe every time I see my prop tax bill while my neighbors who have been here for decades pay a fraction of taxes only because they were here first [1]. But Prop 13 props up housing prices which would drop like a rock if Prop 13 were outright abolished. So there would need to be some sort of retro tax event to help lessen the pain.

Additionally, I would make the distinction of this tax event for primary residence, investment property and commercial property. Maybe it should just apply for primary residence, I don't know the right answer to this but longer term, I agree that rent control and Prop 13 need to be revisited.

[1] http://www.planetizen.com/node/40895
Thanks for links.

They're not sockpuppets btw — we asked people to upvote/comment if they liked the new release. Guess that was a mistake.
A few months ago, I had to order about 130 copies of the same book from amazon.com all of them to be delivered to a different address, but paid from the same CC.

While the orders went through, Amazon didn't like this and eventually sent us an email roughly saying to stop doing this (which we did, it was a 1 time thing)

It was a PITA, having to enter in each of the addresses, going through the checkout process 130 times, etc... but was easier then having all 130 shipped to my address, then re-packing them and mailing them out individually.

I don't think I'd build any kind of business around doing it this way; they appear to not like it.
The syntax for specifying dependencies is irrelevant -- webpack aims to support all of them, and as far as I know has experimental ES6 import/export support. I'm definitely going to transition to ES6 modules soon.

The infrastructure is the important piece, not the module syntax. Webpack provides this infrastructure, and it's easy to provide it for ES6 modules as well.

For example: how do I hot reload modules? How do I eval code inside a module? Webpack allows you to do all of this, and is more advanced than anything out there. SystemJS and jspm are nice but I still find webpack to support way more features.

What do you mean "hacked together"? Look at how small my config is! Do you know how much you get from that small config? The only thing hacky is the `node_modules` hack, and as far as I know, you'd have to do something similar with anything else (I don't see anyone using SystemJS/jspm on the backend).

Also, re-transpiling files that change? Just fire up the watcher (`webpack --watch`) and webpack automatically does this...
> > Oh c'mon, he ordered a hitman inside a play the FBI fully staged for him. There was never any harm done to anybody.

> I'm not sure this line of reasoning makes a lot of difference. We judge criminal intent, not simply outcome, and it's pretty clear that the intent in hiring a hitman is to have someone killed - staged or not. It's surely different from pulling the trigger yourself, but I think it's quite fair to expect a gut-check moment when one decides not to pay for murder, and to hold someone criminally accountable for ignoring that gut-check and deciding to go ahead with the hit anyway.

But the FBI could basically do this to anyone: try and convince them using a play that involves fabricated emotional pressure, blackmail and, if some other comments are correct (I haven't followed the case that closely), even inventing physical danger and multiple other people's lives being on the line.

The FBI could do this to anyone, do you think it's fair or desirable that anyone that could be tricked into agreeing to hire a (fictional) hitman should in fact be charged with that crime and put into jail for the rest of their lives? Because I think that would be a lot of people you'd pre-emptively have to put in jail. Especially if they deliberately put in the classic moral dilemma of saving a whole bunch of people's lives from being destroyed versus killing the single person responsible.

How many people would make the same decision if confronted with this circumstance? Should they all be put in jail, just for the fact that they would've made that choice if it had been real? Because I don't think that's a very good "test" for detecting "bad people" or people that are really dangerous for society. You can argue about the moral choice (since those victims would merely "have their lives ruined", not be actually killed), but as presented I think it's a really difficult dilemma, and I couldn't really fault a person for choosing one way or another. It's a terrible moral dilemma that I personally just hope to never have to face in my life.

So, having argued that any random person who would make this choice is not necessarily so bad they should be convicted, what differentiates Ross Ulbricht? Seems that, in this particular context, his "crime" was that because of his involvements, he was a person likely to actually face this dilemma situation at some point in his Silk Road career. That seems about the only reason to expose Ulbricht to this moral dilemma situation, instead of just any (or every) random person on the streets.

So then, really, is it reasonable to entrap and then convict someone because they are involved in business that may likely at some point in the future lead to a situation where they would have to make choices like these?

To repeat, if the hitman thing had just been about offing a competitor for financial or business gains, my whole argument above doesn't hold. But they actively put him in a situation where there was no moral right answer, and then convicted him for it.

EDIT: if this is true then that rather changes the whole story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9192416
Looking into the Far Future of Earth’s First Long-Term Nuclear-Waste Vault
They are literally using Github's icons set.

https://octicons.github.com/
Thanks, James, one of the reasons I set out to climb the ranks on SO was because I needed to build credibility, since I don't have a CS degree. I've been playing around with code since I was a kid coding elementary games in BASIC. I've been reading material on coding online for a long time too. But all that is not enough.

My MBA, personal programming experience, and constant exposure to tech at NYC meetups (like NYCPython and NYLUG) got my foot in the door, but I knew I needed to build reputation over time in a reputation based system. I now feel like I have not only my own work as a source of credibility, but also an independent source that gives me a requisite gravitas for my desired trajectory.

I know I'm not ready to be a Kirat Singh (or fill in your favorite giant system's architect's name), but I'd like to build up that kind of capability one day.
Heh, "simple"...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/03/10/10598...

Nice to hear you're working on something simpler than simple. :-)
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure if it applies to political concepts. Think of the issues the United States is split over (roughly 50/50) and how difficult it is to form an opinion on some of the topics. There are significant repercussions for choosing one side over another.
Putting a license file on this would be helpful. b2d itself is Apache 2.0 licensed...
You need more data. Just because 72% of apartments are under rent control doesn't mean that 72% of apartments are going for under market rate rent.

Even with rent control, San Francisco would benefit from being denser. There's a lack of all kinds of housing which is making it unaffordable. Manhattan is 70,000 people/mi2. Brooklyn is 35,000 people/mi2. SF is 17,000 people/mi2.
at this point there's a respectable literature on the potential dangers of unconstrained, powerful optimizing agents, of which I linked a couple of examples.

There isn't really though. Superintelligence, while an interesting book, doesn't do much more than pontificate on sci-fi futures based largely on writing from Yudkowski. Bostrom gives no clear pathway to AGI. Neither does Yudkowski in his own writings or Barrat (Our final invention). By the way Super intelligence is kind of an offshoot book from Global Catastrophic Risks.

All of them take these interesting approaches, WBE, BCI, AGI etc... and just assume they will achieve the goal without looking realistically about where the field is or how it would get there.

So what they do is they say: We are here right now. In some possible fantasy world we could be there. The problem is they can't draw the dots between them.

For example, find me someone who can tell me what kind of hardware we need for an AGI. Can't do it, because no one has any idea. What about interface, what is the interface for an AGI?

Even better (this was my thesis project): What group would have a strong enough requirement that an AGI would be required to build? Industry, Academia, Military? Ok great, can they get funding or resources for it?

etc...

Note, I am not saying that there is no potential that AGI could be a problem. The point here is that nobody has firm footing to say that it will definitely be a huge risk and that we need to regulate it's development.

There are actually people calling for legislation to prevent/slow AGI development - see Altman's blog post and many of the writings on MIRI. So that is what I am rallying against.

We need more development into AGI not less.
Talking to relatives who live out of state, Prop 13 really does protect the elderly from rising property taxes. I think you don't really see it because it has largely solved the problem of rising-propery-tax-based evictions without much fuss, so you don't really feel it in action.

One issue with Prop 13 is that it should maybe only protect property owners who live in their property as a primary residence, but currently covers commercial properties, vacation homes, etc..

Higher home prices get locked into the tax rate if the property changes hands so I'm not sure what the link is to Prop 13 creating higher prices....
How many search engines were there before google? Social networks before Facebook?

All startups are a copy in 1 form or another. Afaik Magic had major problems that essentially made it a non-service. If this one actually works, and people want it, whats the problem?
Awesome product! I'm literally quite amazed by it.
What size instances were you using in EC2 that were having performance degradation, and what kind of specs did the real hardware have that you moved to?
In your proposal, does "mass produced" refer to the physical production techniques, or merely the total quantity of identical items produced?
They apply whether you have 1 employee or 50,000.
But I like going home and coding because it's fun. I also like doing other things. Why is he telling me to not code at home?
Wish I could vote this up twice. The people who approve (or don't) the building of new housing units, The people who vote to control or not control the rents, and the people who make the rules about what you can and cannot do on a saturday night when out with your friends are all elected. If you don't like it you can easily affect the outcome of a city council election by getting your friends together to vote as a block.
Thank you for your constructive criticism. I never intended for this to offend or anger anyone. I just wanted to build a service, that people who lived in Canada could use.

I'm sorry if this has angered anyone.
Aren't these the same ideas that Rich Hickey has been talking about since his seminal 2009 talk about values, identity and state? http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Identity-State-Rich...

Joe Armstrong's proposal seems to boil down to this:

- Identities as UUIDs

- State as the payload of UUID URIs

- Values as SHA-1 URIs
Or the third option: they want to get in on the AI buzz that is happening.
Edward Snowden: Encryption Is the Key to Reclaiming Our Digital Freedom
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I wouldn't call them quite different. Both are a 2nd party guaranteeing the rent and damage compensation. The other differences are minor.
Your entire rant can be summed up in to, "Why doesn't everyone think the same way I do?"
While you all are enjoying your high rents, I would like to brag about my hometown Memphis, TN. We just got some hype in the WSJ.

"In a nod to the youngsters, the survey found that the top markets offering “the right live/work/play environment” for millennials were Nashville, Brooklyn, Portland, and Memphis."[1]

In all seriousness, I think its a shame that SF can't keep up with housing. It's a tough problem. I don't envy the people in Government that have to balance all the different interests.

Then again, I would hate it if the majority of my paycheck went to my rent.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/11/u-s-regained-top-s...
I wonder how many left the project after launch because they were burnt out? I wonder if we would have a better product now if the core team has stuck around. Talent retainment isn't just about throwing more money at people, it's about a good working environment and often hours.
While for many, backup is better on disks these days, tape is far better for archival and Amanda does this quite well for Linux.
The Open Government Paradox
Not to be mean but I don't see anything interesting here, just a function that returns a dictionary with some keys that happen to be functions. Welcome to Python I guess?
correct -- for ISOs.
https://www.facebook.com/careerharbour

"We introduced our first professionally designed CV template. You may purchase it at john@careerharbour.co.uk You get a free preview."

(How do you purchase something at an e-mail address ?)

http://www.careerharbour.co.uk/ is down.

Profile on linkedin seems to have disappeared.

Facebook has been silent since the beginning of March (after an avalanche of posts since the beginning of the year).

Smells like a failed/failing startup...

Does someone know more ? Didn't really care much (I just wanted to know what kind of company they were) but now I'm curious.
America to lose one-third of its fresh produce when California runs out of water
FYI, I interpreted "BASH-wards compatible" as "BASH-compatible" as well. The subtlety seems a little lost on me.
Ring brings Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together
An example that sprung to mind while reading was the arson/suicide attack on Chicago's air traffic control facility late last year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Route_Traffic_Contr...