skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Thai people can do exactly the same.

While from a legal perspective it might be all correct what you're saying, I think that most people simply have more important matters to worry about.

For example, it's also illegal to cross a red traffic light as a pedestrian at 3am in the night on a deserted street. That doesn't mean that it is immoral or that it causes harm to anyone.

And I wouldn't even want to know all the "illegal" things you're doing that you are not even aware of. Just saying.
Looking for some feedback on my first iOS game – Grayscale
Amazon has filed its first ever lawsuit over fake product reviews
> If you have nothing to show here, I see three posible causes.

Nowhere in that list is "I spend a lot of time on work and, when I'm programming in my free time, it tends to be work related anyways... hence, not shareable".
There's a pretty interesting article about the efforts in GA to manage the deer population: https://www.gon.com/article.php?id=2518 . Hunting is still pretty popular in the southeast, so there's a constant balance between destroying the deer population and the deer population destroying the environment.
In Free Mobile Games, ‘Whales’ Still Do Most of the Buying
This is the part that stood out to me, though not entirely unexpected.

Earth, as biologist E.O. Wilson has noted, is in the midst
of a sixth mass extinction. (There are five others in the geologic
record, stretching back 500 million years.) “Extinction is now proceeding
thousands of times faster than the production of new species,”...
> It's like people are out there riding horses while others are driving past in their cars.

This is a good analogy but in software development, as in life, there are roads and there are trails. Some developers try and drive their car on the trail and their horse on the road! But sometimes you need a horse and face already solved problems because your environment requires it (e.g. using C for embedded development).

> So many people adopt these tribalistic mindsets when discussing their preferred technologies rather than allowing themselves to be open to better ideas.

The problem is there is always a better idea. You have to strike a balance between being open to new ideas and just getting the job done. But there is definitely tribalism because that is human nature; You earn your way into a technology and community through pain and suffering so you become attached to it. Maybe some people can avoid that but I believe it's pretty hard. Especially when the differences between technologies are mostly cultural. You're less likely to be tribal when considering C vs. Ruby but perhaps more so when faced with Ruby vs. Python.
Which is why you have sales guys close the deals, and have a sales executive who is compensated based on the performance of the company to approve them and set the comp model for the sales team.

Your variable comp model can't be just a straight % commission, or else your sales reps will go chase enormous contracts that may be bad for your company. If you want to target smaller deals, weight their comp more on number of deals closed. There are hundreds of metrics you can use to judge your sales staff, and getting it right is hard. Your sales strategy needs to be driven by your business strategy, which should decided upon at the highest levels of the organization.

There is an art to creating variable comp models. You need your metrics to line up with your strategy. A star will deliver the numbers no matter what they are; while a low performer won't. The model is proven, but the details are up to every company.
There's a difference between deterministic actions like an electron, and random events.

Using that language with events that always happen doesn't lead to problems. But as soon as you use it with events that only happen sometimes you cause your thinking to be skewed.

There is also a difference with complexity level - using "want" for single step events is not the same as using it with multi-step complex events, that only as a final result "want" something. Doing that leads you to personify the system.

> The problem usually is people who don't know what they are talking about misinterpreting it as though atoms/molecules/cells/etc. have feelings.

Exactly. Which is why you should not do it.
Too bad you are getting downvoted, it's a very good point.
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Firstly, at the end it says "Last modified: 2010-07-21"

Secondly, there's a lot more to regex engines than the paltry features listed here. It's important to look at more complex features and if they are supported and how they perform. Many engines will have multiple regex implementations, some optimized for fewer features, and swap in the best engine for the task at hand. Others will just forego more complex features for a speedy implementation.

This matters. For a regex heavy project, if you choose an system that turns out to be fast but doesn't support a needed later feature, it can be a problem.
> "I'm not sure I can muster any indignation that hunters can't hunt as much"

Once a rural area with an overabundance of deer becomes re-zoned as a "residential area" the hunters often can't hunt at all, and a heavily overpopulated species becomes effectively a protected species in that area.
The interstellar age: Inside the 40-year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell.

The dawn of planetary science and the amazing discoveries of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus found by the two Voyager space craft and the people who built and operated them and the scientists who analyzed the data returned.

Flash Boys: A Wall Street revolt by Michael Lewis

How and why we all were totally fucked by Wall Street during the 2009 market meltdown.
PackageKit was supposed to do this...
Oh, I didn't know about that. Grew up nearby and I used to bike all around the Cargill HQ property (a really nice bit of real estate) on the weekends, but never entered any of the buildings. So I was trespassing, but it was kind of a lower grade of trespassing.

They used to have some interesting things to poke around at, like a couple of big satellite dishes on the south side of the property, which are now gone.
Can Your New MacBook's USB-C Port Be Hacked? You Bet
Learning to Code with Disney Infinity
hmm strange. I'm on win7, X64 with chrome, and it renders poorly to me. Maybe I have some font setting wrong.

Good luck with your project!
Leak-Free Skylight Installation Tips from a Roofing Contractor
In that specific case, you do seem to be trapped, and I too would be frustrated about that, but it seems like you have the trapper wrong. The financial markets are providing the cheapest investment options ever, but your representative government is taking that away from you.

I'm not even willing to say that is a net bad thing (there may be all manner of benefits that come along with it), but place the blame where it belongs.
Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul and SICP (Structural Interpretation Of Computer Programs) because at the time I had no idea wizardry could be performed and was banging out boring scripts for a living.
> The problem it is trying to solve would be better approached hosting Debian, RHEL etc repositories which mirror each other in their structure.

I disagree, and I think Linuxbrew fills a different niche.

When you install something from your distro's package manager, you are actually installing another program that happens to come with the operating system. This has two implications:

- It's usually fixed at a particular version for that distro release.

- It's installed into the root filesystem or /usr.

When you compile something from source or download a pre-compiled .tar.gz, on the other hand, it's not something that came with the operating system, it's a third-party package installed by the administrator, and the rules are a bit different:

- You usually grab the latest version or a very specific version from the vendor's website.

- The correct place to put it is usually in /usr/local.

This is where the FreeBSD ports tree puts programs, and this is also where Homebrew puts programs in the OSX version at least. Assuming that Linuxbrew does the same thing, I believe Linuxbrew aims to be the ports tree equivalent for Linux.
"The Moon is Down" by John Steinbeck, and "A Discipline of Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra. Before that, "The Most Human Human", by Brian Christian. "The Most Human Human" was particularly interesting, about what we can learn about being human by looking at machines.
I already pay $2/month for a channel for the kid and then $30 for a random third-party "youtube downloader pro" app that lets me load those videos on iPad for a long car ride, some YouTube use cases are better than others.
I'm something more than twice your age, and have felt the same way you do now. I've spent countless hours "keeping up" - lost a marriage in part due to this - and there is always stuff I don't know and am curious about. There is always someone more knowledgable, or faster at coding, or better at interpreting requirements. That's one reason I like working with smart, capable people-there's always something to learn from them. I've lived through marathon coding sessions, death march projects, been a manager, been an employee and been a contractor.

I don't care to keep up on everything any more. I remain intensely curious and "keep up" in a general fashion, reading articles, playing with code samples etc with an eye to being able to converse with my colleagues about what they're doing, not with the idea that we're competing to be the alpha geek.

Some of the other posters here have suggested you find something you're actually interested in and spend time on that, or that you find cause you can volunteer for and to that. Those are good suggestions. Find something outside your head you can do and commit to it. Part of your anxiety is because your world is narrowing because of the concentration on what is in reality a little area and you see others doing "better", whatever that means to you. Get out of that world for a bit.

Understand that time will pass and whatever technologies you get to know well will pass out of the market sweet spot. Maybe you'll be ready for that and maybe you won't. The question is will you have enjoyed your life when you realize this? Tech is a tool. One you use to make a living, one your employers of whatever stripe will try to use to make money. It is not a reason to get up and breathe.
Not very likely that they adopt one, but pkgsrc works across OSX, Linux, the BSDs, Solaris and more.
Future of Wearable Technology: 7 Experts Share What's to Come the Next 5 Years
I am very happy that police will often choose not to use lethal force, even if it would be allowed. The point is, however, that had such a thing happened without cameras, proving it (versus an officer's word, which is often treated as Truth in courts) is very hard.

Cameras' purpose is to allow gathering evidence in the (hopefully rare) instances of inexcusable behavior by officers, and to encourage them to do things "by the book" rather than stretching the truth (lying) about what actually happened.
In that case, I think "backdoor" is hyperbolic. That word is usually uses to indicate intentional secret security holes.
Upon completion of the book I was left with the feeling that there was no book in the universe too complex or erudite that I couldn't tackle.

It also gave everyone who read it a valid excuse not to read anything by Dan Brown.
Amazon files lawsuit against fake review providers
I don't see the point in muddling the distinction between creating something and making it popular.

If it wasn't for MFC, C++ (which was released in 1983) might not have reached the widespread adoption it did in the 90's.

Yet, I would wager most people wouldn't argue that Microsoft should be mentioned along with Bjarne Stroustrup when talking about the creators behind C++.
Fountain of youth uncovered in mammary glands of mice
I find these threads are often very interesting, but can we please make sure to include something about the book or about how it changed your perspective? If I just see a title it doesn't add much value to the discussion. Thanks for taking the time, y'all.
The new 12-inch MacBook is a laptop without an ecosystem
Yes. I would say watch what happens when the Fed definitively decides to raise rates. If there is no pullback in the big social companies then I'll be converted to the "This time is different" camp
I've been living in Thailand for more than 10 years and have had a few major medical events. Medical care here in Thailand is far better than what I experienced in the U.S. The quality of care at private hospitals (and the country's central public hospital Siriraj) are generally excellent. And the cost is a fraction of the U.S. plus you actually know the cost going in instead of the run-around bait-and-switch hide-the-price until it is submitted to the insurance company game that is the U.S.
Re-Reading Age old Jules Verne Collection. Nothing beats a nice adventure novel. ( tired of thrillers and sci-fi.) Any recommendation on Adventure novel most welcome.
"What the Doormouse Said"
Just a small note about "Cambridge, MA" not being the same place as "Cambridge, UK".
I read this book a few years back and while I found it quite interesting as a story, I did not glean any major insights from it.

It most likely has to do with my own ignorance about philosophy, but all I got from the book was that the author hates Aristotle and rigorous classification. And that quality is a more important property than morality.
Homebrew (mostly?) uses glue code around installing dependencies and doing the ./configure && make && make install dance with sane settings for your environment. It's one-liner, low-hassle installation from source. You're not relying on anyone to be timely/trustworthy about packaging binaries for you.
There are still organizations paying huge stacks of money for Windows XP support past EOL.
Notes from a big country, Bill Bryson, is an controversial view on the USA from an Englisch man who moved to Amerika.
Same. I was just looking at the new courses last night on Lynda...all business-oriented. I left the site with relief that I had canceled my membership. With the acquisition news this morning I see now why new developer courses have been lacking.
Perhaps they should have chosen a more appropriate version number then.
The latter can't be enforced, but individual buyers can demand that for all known certs.

And I think you can currently get certs expiring later than the domain, which seems wrong to me. Is there a good justification for that?
Best URL ever.
To be even more fair, there's been a number of issues with Yosemite that make some of us want to stick with Mavericks.

Just because something is free doesn't make it better.
Ask HN: My First Interview as the Interviewer
After many "fun" interviewee experiences, the tables have turned. Not only am I the interviewer: I'm also crafting the process. After contemplating my gripes from past interviews, creating a do-at-your-own-pace code project for candidates to complete just felt right. I'm also doing resume-blind reviews, which has proven assumption shattering. Now for the questions:

- Have any of you had failures/success with a similar approach?

- What are the risks of this approach? Any horror stories?

- What are the best next steps to take with candidates? Is there any value to live coding?

- Do you think the project is too much? (https://github.com/AthletesResearchInstitute/warmup) I worry that it's a bit long.

- What's a reasonable time frame to decide on a candidate after they've submitted a project?

- Any general advice for a first timer?
Paulo Coelho, edited the post to include that.
Yes, I disagree with her philosophy. Rand believed that a person had no further moral duty than to pursue their own happiness, and that you are solely responsible for your success or failure. If you succeed, you should be applauded and be given the deference to do what you want. Those who point out that the government, by and for the people, provides for the schools that educate the workers, the roads that are use to deliver products, the police who keep the country safe, etc., are parasites and moochers for wanting the wealthy to acknowledge this and contribute to paying for the services the government provides. The same goes for unions who want recognition and fair wages for the workers.

If you reject her philosophy, it's very hard to identify with the characters she positions as the good guys. And why else do you read fiction if not so that you can root for the good guys?
Kickstarter Does Not Equal Product/Market Fit
The Power of Habits
>>It's worth noting in that case you mentioned above it was mobile phone footage that led to him being charged, not a dash cam[3].

I do agree on your points, which are all well made.

Do you think he would have been charged had it not been for the civilian video? Or do you think it simply would've taken longer to charge him since they would have to get the video off his dash cam, review it, and then decide whether to take action.
That makes much more sense.

"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
"Metallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others
who Heat Treat and Forge Steel" by John Verhoeven
http://www.feine-klingen.de/PDFs/verhoeven.pdf
An interesting technical introduction to metallurgy, without being overly tedious. Congratulations to the author, for what sounds like it could be a dry subject. I am pleasantly surprised by how ignorant I was about such a common everyday material, and about the fascinating changes that take place in the crystal structure of steel with mere temperature changes. I've got no plans to forge steel, or make blades, but found this book very good so far (although I have been interested in metalworking in general lately).

"Basic Lathework" by Stan Bray. This is the best of the beginning lathe books that I've been reading recently, covering the parts of the machine and accessories, techniques, and cutting tools. Very minimal pre-requisites.

"Metals in the Service of Man" by Arthur Street and William Alexander. A very light read about industrially useful metals, a little history about them, and their uses.

"Measurement" by Paul Lockhart. I finally got this book after reading his "A Mathematicians Lament" from a while back. https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....

"How Round is Your Circle" by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin. Just started this, but it sounds interesting, the pictures are intriguing, and it pushes a lot of my "interesting" buttons.
the power of habits
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If nothing else, they should feel a moral obligation to fix it in previous versions.
I think the explanation that physiology is responsible for this accident is questionable. The Taipei pilot made a mistake in an emergency - a situation where a decision has to be made in a very short time. If a computer algorithm needed 60 seconds to compute a result, but it was needed in 10 seconds, and that result ended up being wrong, what would you blame? Reducing the time to solve a problem will decrease the accuracy of the solution. It's a logical constraint, not a flaw in evolution.
ECB said to boost emergency aid for Greece by $1.3B
Callbacks are more or less handled by the continuation monad transformer, `ContT`, if you want to use it.
> but I also really don't want to have big companies spend big advertising budgets on making people addicts.

Some of the most dangerous drugs (alcohol, benzos, opiates) are already heavily abused by people addicted to heavily, heavily marketed drugs.
The issue is that good advice, surrounded by thousands of pages of irrelevant advice, isn't a good source to be relying on.
Interesting. I hate books that teach you how to negotiate like a scumbag (ie most trial attorneys and car salesmen) so this is a refreshing change of pace. I will put this on my to-read list. A book in similar vein is "Getting to Yes". which influenced me greatly in how to handle disputes. It was recommended by Charlie Munger, in his book "Poor Charlie's Almanack" (antoher great book).

Also, check out "Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger". Both that and Poor Charlie's Almanack are two books that describe the Warren Buffett/Charlie Munger way of thinking. In fact, I found out about "Getting to Yes" through those two books. Read them, these three books changed my outlook on life in a big way.

A summary of these books is here: http://sivers.org/book/SeekingWisdom
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Yep.

And, again, personal expenses go down to almost zilch while living on-base.

My mom's boyfriend is in the National Guard. Every few years, he gets activated and deployed somewhere for a year or two. Every time he comes back, he takes the money he saved by not having to pay for anything for a year and buys himself an expensive new car. Last time, he bought a Dodge Challenger SRT8.
Philip K Dick - VALIS, Divine Invasion and (next) Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
They even released "Security Update 2015-004" at the same time, including many updates for 10.8 and 10.9, but not the admin framework.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204659
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Thanks for the feedback! That particular post is missing because the city is written in all caps (TORONTO). I used a bunch of tricks to be able to catch as many cities as possible (say NY and NYC and Manhattan and even NEW YORK all go under "New York City"), but not every city is tested against its "all caps" equivalent atm because I wanted to be able to rebuild the db as fast as possible during development phase. I should probably fix that now.
I just finished the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter. The series is a look at the (solution to, reason for, questions surrounding the) Fermi Paradox through three potential lenses. Best and most raw sci-fi I've ever read. The books left me hopeful, suspended, disgusted and in awe of the depth of this man's observation of humanity.

If you're looking for something lighter, perhaps check out Time Ships by the same author. This was the only authorized sequel to the legendary classic The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
For the Thai experiment it was exclusively those who didn't have family. Some with family considered it, but as most of their kids are still very young they didn't do it in the end.

Regarding the remote work, even when we're at home, that means we're in different cities and even different countries, so our whole company is set up as a remote company, although many chose to work from the main office in Barcelona. To answer your question, no one felt left out, because we simply continued to work as usual (chat, video calls, etc.), it just happened that some of us were at the different location.