skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an alternative wording of the 6-rat experience, with one being the leader, one the leader's right arm, 2 workers, 1 independent and 1 black sheep. I definitively have the same feeling about my time in companies: Someone has to speak up and get fired, someone else with the same strong character but better communication becomes the leader, someone's hard work finds a positive feedback loop in being the boss' preference, the others work for money. The most costly for all parties is the black sheep: Not yielding appreciable nor appreciated results, also a security risk (employment laws, data breach, PR mistake...).

Is there any way in management to avoid transforming the worst person into a black sheep? If he knows he's the worst, he'll be angry anyway and fail, right?
Pipe dream. Decentralised networks sound well on paper, but you must be able to somehow stop abusive users, spammers, etc; you must be able to pay your bills (servers, employees, ...), etc
The Mono team did an amazing job, and they actually had a lot of support deep within Microsoft all along. But yeah, I think it's okay to say "it never really worked."

(And there's nothing wrong with being a port factory that deals with obscure path issues all day. That's why they give you a paycheck...)

Still, Xamarin is doing a LOT more than just Mono, much of it extraordinary.

Also delivering something that actually works is an ego boost. Probably attracts the "right" kind of employee for the task, too.
But I don't think people are wasteful in that sense. Voter participation and voter awareness tends to be low, at least in the USA. Besides, if your government only works if people act in a specific irrational manner, I don't have high hopes for it, especially considering that one usually cited fundamental role of government is to fix problems where individual rationality does not lead to group rationality.

Forcing people to vote doesn't incentivize people to educate themselves on the issues, which is required to "vote responsibly" according to the usual Western civics class description of how democracy is supposed to work.
Abusing block chain to share illegal data, including pedo material
Can that concern be quantified? Properly implemented (without extra-large DH parameters [no 3072 or 4096 bit params for EDH if your RSA key is 2048 bits], using ECDHE preferentially, and with a sufficient SSL session cache), extra processing should be minimal. Didn't Google quote something like low single digits? 3%? Of course, Google did a lot of work on optimizing their SSL layer, including pushing for higher initial window sizes in linux's tcp stack, and their work on SSL false start even though they later abandoned it.

For organizations that are doing SSL termination on their frontend webservers, it depends on their traffic flow: what percentage of page hits are new vs already established ssl sessions that can hit the cache. Different kinds of sites are going to have different traffic mixes that will affect that cost.

Does Amazon use the google strategy of software SSL termination, or do they use hardware like F5 terminators? Either way, they already have some ssl termination capability, since the secure parts of their website rely on it, so it's only a matter of beefing up existing capability rather than implementing it from zero. They may already have a lot of excess SSL termination capacity that they're not using.

If SSL everywhere always costs a company money, why did Google switch so early? I think there are benefits that at least partially compensate for increased infrastructure costs.

I think it's more likely that embedded resources from non-ssl external pages are blocking SSL deployment. Or Amazon has a bunch of hardcoded http://www.amazon.com links in different parts of their codebase, that have to be tracked down and fixed. Mixed content is what I think is blocking ssl deployment on most sites. Small sites that have switched to SSL-everywhere often haven't spent the time to do it right, and whether because their software has hardcoded http embedded links, or they're linking content from other sites, mixed content warnings are common. (Protip: //domain/path [without the initial http or https] is a protocol-relative link, if you need to link to a different host but keep the protocol the same)
Firms Now 5/6 Dark Matter
I'm not sure I can agree. I didn't say that the type of the array function is independent of the choice of error propagation mechanism. If you think an array is a partial function from integers to some value domain, say A, then in the exceptional POV the array type is int -> A, and in the Try[.] POV the array type is int -> Try [ A ].

I was talking about the mechanism for array indexing.
In both cases, indexing is function application. So the choice of error representation is orthogonal. This is even more evidence that we should not use a different operator for array indexing as Rust does alas.
Compatiblity with existing libraries and example code for other Arduinos is the key here. I find it surprising too, but there are people who do not really want to know all the low-level details but get the result quickly :)
Actually, lots of them do. Its still a lot less money coming in from when the same people did and it was a popular destination with much wealthier US tourists.

I also think you completely missed the second (original, not quoted) paragraph in the past you responded too.
You can write to the Estonian Police and Border Guard (teenindus@politsei.ee) and ask for your card to be sent (free of charge) from the police station where you applied to any Estonian embassy. My card was waiting in Tallinn as well since I don't have the time to go there again to collect the card in the next couple of months, so I had it sent to Berlin. Might take two or three weeks for it to arrive.
Timeless Decision Theory [pdf]
PWM is useful because that can be used to drive servo motors and brushless DC motor controllers and other gadgets. It can't be easily replaced with analog output, e.g. from audio ports. OTOH, audio ports are a lot more useful if you need actual analog output.
Or, do if you're out of fucks to give.
Why does a commodity like gold have the value it does? Its price outshines its industrial uses. The remaining values are that it doesn't corrode and it's shiny.
We have been using the Netlify service for the past few months (when it was just BitBalloon) and I must say it has been excellent. We have a handful of sites on the platform. All of them have preformed great with no issues.

The ability to host a static site with continuous deployment in less than a minute is amazing, along with all of the other great features mentioned. I'm excited to see what they produce for non technical content editing.

When setting up sites the support has been great. Mathias and the team have done a great job at building our trust.
Discrete Steps in Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts [pdf]
Direct Brain Interface Allows Blind Rats to 'See'
Bigcommerce not happy with Softlayers object storage degredation
PC: Political correctness.

Best example of my head: the developer on Node.js who got haunted to hell because he reversed a change from he to some gender-neutral term. For the feeling of some undefined person Node.js, and I suspect open source in general, lost a good developer.

Other example: after landing a satelite on a rock tens of thousands of miles away the lead of the rocket team is forced to make a tearful apology because is found to wear a shirt with semi-dress women and guns on it. Said shirt being made by his friend, who is a woman.

Other example: dongle gate, github metocracy.

So yeah, a few of these people may, sometimes, have a point, but the community will be much better of if we kick them out on sight.
My experience is that its open source or cracked in PYMEs here in Spain (small and medium businesses).

There is no money here compared to N.A. and parts of northern Europe.

Its complicated, different and has way less capital.
I find it sad that RPI managed to suck the 'educational' market because of the price point, when the design is extremly obscure. Unless they planned to turn teenagers into hardware reverse engineer...
"In 2012 eSports total viewership was at a meager 134 million viewers. By 2014 the total viewership had grown to 206 million viewers and it is estimated that by 2017 a mind blowing 335 million people will tune in to watch the best gamers in the world go head to head."

jeez.
If there are biomedical scientists reading this, you might (as I have) confused Mr. S. Weinberg, the Nobel Laureate and Physicist, with Mr. R. Weinberg, the prolific cancer scientist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Weinberg
Ah, my mistake. I didn't realize the distinction there. Makes more sense now.
Wow, tons of questions...

1. Each Nanodegree has 5 to 6 projects that you can add to your portfolio. For the Front-end Web Developer Nanodegree (FEND), one of the projects is actually building a portfolio.

2. I probably learned the most in the Data Analyst Nanodegree (DAND), but enjoyed the Full Stack Nanodegree (FSND) the most.

3. The FSND and FEND are separate (no cross-over), but complementary (skills in one will help the other). The FSND covers mostly back-end.

4. For data analyst/scientist positions--I did not receive any offers.

5. For FE/FS job offers--honestly, I don't know. I really wasn't actively seeking them, but I was lucky enough that people were coming to me. Udacity did a Student Spotlight blog on me, so I think that might be where or how they found me.

6. Udacity has some awesome career services support, and they hold workshops on technical interviews.

7. My bill at the end of the day was $980 total. I took the FEND and DAND concurrently, and they took 2 months each ($200/mo * 2 mo/ND * 2 NDs = $800). I finished the FSND in one month, and was part of the inaugural cohort (10% off = $180).

My best advice to you is to give some of the classes or Nanodegrees a test drive. Udacity is still a MOOC provider, so all the classes you can still take for free. Good luck to you.
A 20nm 32-Core 64MB L3 Cache SPARC M7 Processor
1000%: Antibyte posts the commented code of his 1998 democompo winner
Found a LoveLY song – thought i should share
For non-open source projects, an inexpensive alternative source of PIDs is http://www.mcselec.com. Do a product search for PID.

They assert the same rational for selling PIDs under the old license.
Then fix my account.
Is remote outside US possible?
As a citizen of Lithuania, I disagree. You can feel destabilization efforts here.
I don't think it's an anecdote. If you are funded $ 30M then you can buy "pro" plans to virtually everything. If not, you buy a VPS for $ 15/month and setup everything you need there.
Voter participation is very high, and voter decisions very wise, relative to the lizard scenario; and it's not clear that "not being overlorded by lizards" is a kind of irrationality.

Remember, the lizard scenario is something like "500 lizards outvote 300 million and put in 99% tax rates on non-lizards, to be spent entirely on lizards, all because none of the 300 million want to vote, reasoning that their vote doesn't affect the outcome."

Mandatory voting would definitely be an improvement over that for much the same reasons I gave before.
This seems a bit different from my example: being attacked for using a less common term. In this case, the "PC police" (going by your examples) were the people attacking me because I used a term that offended them.
Tail call optimisation in F# ?
ah, interesting. so the charitable, non-gratuitously-negative interpretation of the OP is that he or she is a very lazy summarizer. the uncharitable interpretation is that he or she uses deceptive rhetorical devices to bolster a weak point.
Maybe in the US, but in poorer countries things are a bit different. And let's not forget that money are scarce in startups unless you have some investors.
This is a draft. Mono 4.0 hasn't been released yet. Who keeps publishing mono's release-notes drafts as HN news?
Who said anything about not caring? It's about making technical decisions based on money.
Ok, sorry my reply was too brief. What I was trying to say is: What would be the most useful single metric that a journalist could use for his audience? Z-score certainly wouldn't be that.

I think that "percent change" captures the reader's imagination well, because it rather easily can be converted to an answer to the top question that a reader of a finance article is probably wondering:

"What potential returns were there to be made on the market, for this event, had you had knowledge that this event was going to happen?"

Otherwise, if you want to answer the reader's possible question of:

"How rare is this type of movement?"

I would prefer a metric of "mean time between events like this", with "events like this" having some reasonable definition, like versus previous history of this asset, or against similar assets, or against all previous April 1st movements of this asset.
Cloudways Brought Some Treat to It Customers This Easter
I'm very happy to see this guide encouraging the use of squashing and rebasing. It's really frustrating to see patch sets being merged that look like:

* Add widget

<code review happens>

* Fix typo

* Add test

* Fix test

* etc.

People fear rebasing because they already pushed to a remote server. Just delete the remote branch and re-create it after you've rebased. Assuming, of course, that this is a feature branch of some sort that no one else depends on.

Clean, logical commits and a mostly linear history make me a happy developer.
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

Dust by Joseph Amato

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku

Most collections by Stephen Jay Gould (though I like "I Have Landed")
I think it works well (been reading and posting to /. for about 15 years), and if I designed a forum then it'd work the same way. The trick is it forces you to justify your opinion in some way. There isn't a "-1 Disagree" or "+1 Right On" so to mod a comment you have to find some actual flaw with it, or justify why you think it should be raised above the rest. If you pick a dumb reason that clearly can't be justified based on the text, meta-moderators will wash things out later.

That said, it's not perfect. There are -1 Overrated and +1 Underrated mods. I would not have these if I was king for a day, because:

• They apparently somehow bypass meta-moderation, or have done in the past (!) so not surprisingly they get abused a lot

• They are vague and don't force you to justify what's good or bad about a post, in many cases I have seen abuse of these mod types devolve into reddit style agree/disagree modding

• They don't adjust the adjective that goes with the post, so for a long time and maybe still now you can get posts like +5 Troll or -1 Insightful, which is just confusing and generally bogus

Stripping out Underrated and Overrated would improve things a lot. I'd maybe make +1 Funny count for karma too because funny posts deliver a lot of value to the slashdot reading experience, IMO, and I see no problem with encouraging them.

I think the balance of adjectives is important though. There is no -1 Wrong or -1 Misinformed mod and that's important. If someone posts something polite, earnest and completely wrong there's no justifiable word to mod them down with. Instead you have to wait for a reply to correct them and then mod that up as Informative, Insightful etc.
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Show HN: Shirt URL – redirect your T-shirt to new content every day
Is massive credit card fraud not a problem? It is a problem for most people, and if not for you, then certainly for the businesses losing 3% to credit transactions on top of all the fraudulent orders.

What about remittances that cost already poor people enormous amounts of money?

What about the more core issue of being in charge of your own money? People in Venezuela, Argentina, Russia, China and Cyprus might have something to say for being able to choose what money they use.

What about accepting payments without relying on credit card companies and middle men like Square and Paypal?

But really when you say 'consumers don't want it', what is that based on and have you ever used bitcoin yourself? It is so simple and easy I buy everything online with it that I can and it's a breath of fresh air.
USB vendor/product IDs are for unique hardware designs/firmware so that they are easily recognized by their respective drivers, not each unique piece of hardware. For example, Logitech's vendor ID (they probably have a few) allows them 64,000 different keyboard, mouse, etc. products of which they can manufacture millions of units.

I don't know of any vendor ID that has exhausted their product ID space which includes companies like Microchip which give away PIDs on their VID when you use their USB chips (with under 10k units in production)
I'm glad somebody is doing this.

I think, if they knew, most people wouldn't be happy with how their private data is being used by tech companies.
The only thing funny here is your blaming comment. What the founders do now is of little relevance. What we all do now is what matters.
Python 3 vs. Java
A Tale of Two Therapies
The Deflationist: How Paul Krugman Found Politics
If you don't want to get sued, stick to the straight and narrow. Sell a product in exchange for money that does what you say it will do. Don't collect extensive user data, and protect what you do collect so it doesn't leak into the world. But if you make your money dabbling in legally and morally gray areas, then litigation is how you find out where the lines are drawn. There is frivolous litigation in this space--firms hoping for a quick $100k payout to just go away. But I don't think that's Edelson's business model.
“There Is Only Awe” – on Julian Jaynes
The 5 psychological barriers to climate action
Intelligence: the elusive 'fundamental cause' of social health inequalities? [pdf]
That is literally how Richard Stallman got into open source software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leading...
"I'd really rather if the people in our government were mature enough to understand that death is the inevitable result of being alive, and it is futile to trade our civil liberties to attempt a 100% survival rate."

You suppose that they don't know that. You suppose that their motives are to improve your survival rate, ie to protect you. You suppose they are uninformed, erroneous, lack historical knowledge and sophistication. That they are basically unknowledgeable, and uninformed. That they opt for (unattainable) perfection, destroying unwillingly freedom in the process. Basically, you assume they are "stupid".

That's, (without you wanting it,) arrogant on your part. "They don't know/understand". You don't give enough credit to the enemy. Things get much clearer, all over the place, if you suppose instead that the people in charge are NOT actually "immature", "stupid", "uninformed", but instead that they target your civil liberties in the first place, for personal and their sponsors' gain, and that caring about you and me, are just convenient excuses.
Tech companies are sending your secrets to crowdsourced low paid workers
Georgia Virtual Trade Zone for IT Companies (Tax Haven in Europe)
Bolt, the World's Most Portable Electric Vehicle
That's nonsense used to justify invasive and immoral tracking, nothing less.
This is a side project where we are trying a new concept and I would love some feedback. If you want to try it, use discount code 'HACKERNEWS'.
Well, at least one can modify a rep-rap style 3d printer into a poor man's plotter... But it won't really do for printing a 600 page manifesto to send to newspapers in preparation for a grand terrorist attack...
I guess part of the problem is that there is disagreement about what the down vote is for. I try to think like this: I press the up and down arrows if I think something should be farther up or down on the page. Since the comment score was removed a while back, this approach is now more intuitive. Since I read from the top down, and will stop reading when the comments become uninteresting, it should also produce the desired effect. Whether I disagree with something is orthogonal to whether it is interesting or informative.

I do wish, however, that there were simply two voting options: one for up/down on the page and one for agree/disagree. Just to give us all something to do when we disagree with a comment, other than reply or downvote. It would give "disagree" downvotes their own place and let the other votes dictate a comment display order and user karma. Of course, it would also be interesting to see a user with high karma and high disagree score, for example.
What I want: 64 or more lanes of PCI-E 3.0, 4 or more channels of DDR3-1866 or DDR4-2133 or faster... combined into a chip with few but very fast cores.

My closest option? E5v3-1620 or 1630. It'd be nice if someone started producing non-x86 options for that.
Emacs shell.
The site isn't necessarily about the meta data - that information is provided in multiple places around the web. It's more about the gathering of information and links in one place and sharing feedback on usage experience amongst developers.

Regarding the names and urls - you have a valid point, they should more clearly indicate the library they are referencing.
>The difference is that Rails has DHH as BDFL and he didn't want to make money out of Rails (if you don't count public speaking...) and Node has no BDFL...

Node has had a few BDFLs in its lifetime: Ryan Dahl (2009-2012), Isaac Schlueter (2012-2014) and TJ Fontaine (2014 onwards)

Almost all of Node's problems stem from Joyent. They're just incompetent at stewarding the Node project.
I look forward to being able to use this all in Unity3D in 7 years.
Dilbert's App Evaluates Job Candidates
Living off $1 a day convinced Elon Musk he could do anything with his life
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/132859/popularityISeveryt...
Interesting, would it be possible to create a Google Play Store merchant account with this? Estonia is in the list of supported countries for merchants.
Running a strand of WS2812 LEDs is a pretty common starter project and requires real-time. The BBB does support this through the PRU, but it's a lot more complicated than just using an Arduino with the library.