skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm a pebble wearer and have been for about a 2 years. You get used to it.

What's happened is: people got lazy at their notifications on their watch. Then they bought the Apple Watch (or rather, journalists got a review unit), and then they get lots of notifications on their wrist rather than on their phone and they complain about all the notifications.

Same thing happens with the Pebble and others I'm sure: you just have to take a minute and set up the notifications right so that your wrist buzzes when it's actually worthy of your immediate attention. When is that?

For me it's when one of eight people call me, my wife texts me, or when I get an email from one of three people. Those are the things that make me go "ok, sorry person I am talking to, but this thing has happened and I have to check it out."

These things happen maybe once or twice a day. Not once or twice an hour.
Are 2GB the max amount of RAM per server?
> Writers who are not driven by metrics will push on society. Writers who are driven by metrics will be pushed by society.

It's intriguing to think of this in the context of Plato's _Republic_. A simplistic conception of the philosopher-king might interpolate the positive relationship between knowledge and justice, and argue that the more knowledge one can obtain of reality, the better a leader one would be. Such a leader would seek out every metric available, right? But, as in the Allegory of the Cave [1], where people might become very skilled at interpreting shadows but never recognize the true Form of the hidden objects casting the shadows, metrics are only good when they convey the Truth... which, in the case of publication quality, may indeed be that justice is ill-served by journalistic pandering, and that metrics are inherently short-term.

Of course, Plato was also an advocate of censorship in the very same work [2], so any reading should be taken with a grain of salt. It's very interesting, though, that the idea of an "uncanny valley" of knowledge, of wrongly optimizing on a subset of the Truth, is an idea millennia old.

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
[2] http://www.iep.utm.edu/republic/#SH1c
In my experience, the people who say agile is awesome would likely say any process is awesome. Because the true awesomeness they are experiencing comes from being on a good team. After wading through years and years of agile, even working for a major agile tool maker for a while, I've come to the conclusion what process you choose isn't that important. Get a good, passionate, driven team together, and they'll figure out how to kick ass. Without that ingredient, nothing else matters.
>> Your phone is out of battery? sucks for you i guess!

??

Can you use telegram from another device? I think WhatsApp now has a windows client, maybe macos as well, recently announced.

No idea what the security is like though.

--edit-- Erm, I'm confused at the downvote, the parent raised a series of objections to WhatsApp and I asked for clarification of what they meant and suggested a non-phone client was available.

I've done the research now and it turns out to be utterly useless if your phone's out of batteries as it does some sort of sync'ing and relies on the phone being on, so it's not fit for the purpose.

But I'm still mystified at the downvote...

--edit 2-- More downvotes! Yay! Wtf?
That's not quite how I read it. Anandtech raises valid concerns about the power consumption of power8, but other than that they are quite supportive and show power8 beating these xeons in benchmarks [1]:

> Ultimately, the POWER8 is able to offer slightly higher raw performance than the Intel CPUs, however it just won't be able to do so at the same performance/watt. Meanwhile the reasonable pricing of the POWER8 chips should result in third party servers that are strongly competitive with the Xeon on a performance-per-dollar basis.

I think the comparison is fair, however I also have to say that repeating all the benchmarks in the rest of the article with power8 as well, would have been better. It seems to me a bit like the power8 comparison was an afterthought.

[1] http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/7
I can't recall the where I heard this before but I once heard that drug dealers purchase and wear expensive gold necklaces because if/when they get busted and booked, cash can [more easily] be confiscated (forfeited) by the police and assumed to be "dirty" drug money while gold necklaces need to be inventoried and kept safe as personal belongings. Then the dealer can get bail money from a friend with them knowing they can go and pawn the necklace to obtain cash.
So how does it look? Lots of parentheses? Are the special characters replaced with something?
I wonder how hard would it be to reverse-engineer the APIs used by the app and put out a web site using them.

I also wonder how hard would it be for Myntra to create a basic web site using their own app's APIs.
Likewise, I'd never go to Russia, because unlike in the US, I might get swept up and accused of being a spy, or have my hotel room turned over when they use hidden cameras to determine I'm out of the room.

Another example would be to see how long someone could shout obscenities at Putin in front of the Kremlin without getting thrown in the back of a truck. In the US, we have the freedom of press to put out articles like this.

I'm sure the everyday life of a Russian isn't totally miserable, and the US has its major issues, but I can't think of a single civil-rights issue where Russia is a leader.
This! Looking back at my career I didn't really learn to program properly until I was in an industry job staring down the barrel of a massive codebase collaborating with colleagues across different teams. It was great.

But time and time again I find my strong theoretical grounding in computer science coming in handy. The last time I hit the front page of HN was with a blog post about how I spotted an NP-complete problem in $m+ enterprise system for insurance companies. It would have gotten to clients with unresponsive brick-like performance if they upped a couple of parameters because my colleagues didn't understand the Curse of Dimensionality and why it was important.

I'll admit that college professors can live in their own world of academic navel gazing, but there is an actual point to theoretical computer science. And the best time to learn is when you have the time and freedom from short term goals and arbitrary client deadlines. If only there were a few years we could devote to such endeavours before entering the workplace. Hmmmmm...
I think you're looking at this the wrong way.

Today, only about 20 million people[1] are building software for over 3 billion internet connected people[2] (and even more who can get access to software in other ways). That's only about 0.6% of users contributing to the rest. Tools like bubble.is are not replacing the very scarce resource of software engineers, they're just vastly expanding the bubble (har har) of potential developers.

The world will always need people (or at least creative robotics) capable of designing and building hardware as well as the software that interfaces with that hardware. But the amount of resources spent on those critical systems will be minuscule compared to the resources spent building very custom things on top of it.

It's sort of like how you may be able to build your own computer at home with pre-made components and plug it into the wall and have it start up, without having to know how to generate the electricity required to run it, or how to make the hardware components.

In 2020 farmers may very well be building their own application, and if that is the case then most likely the number of people using these "WYSIWYG" tools will outnumber the kind of software engineers we see today. I personally think 2020 is a bit optimistic, but it's clearly the direction in which we're going.

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/there-a...
[2] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
This isn't the students' fault, though. In industry, we're asking for a "Computer Science" major, and often times our hiring processes are very CS heavy, when for most of us it only covers a portion of the skills we need, and others we don't. It's sort of like if accounting firms were recruiting math majors, and hiring based on their theorem-proving skills.
Did you read far enough to get to the benchmarks? The Power8 chips do very well, and their discussion says good things about it - it does not read like advertising from Intel.

Disclaimer: I work for IBM (but not on hardware).
The US has its problems but I think your perception is greatly exaggerated. Let me tell you how I believe those scenarios would play out-

1. Patent trolls have no political clout. Zero chance of police arresting someone on their behalf (let alone them calling police to request this). Patents are a civil matter, not criminal.

2. I have not heard of the US interrogating any suspected Ukraine-invasion fighters.

3. Muslim friends could bring you more scrutiny. But they'd have to be pretty dirty to warrant that much attention on you. I haven't heard one case of someone being taken to a secret prison just to be convinced to turn spy. If you're taken to a supposed "secret prison", you're probably there to stay.
Yes, the Apple Watch DB factor is that it is expensive relative to very cheap watches, but cheap enough to be universally recognized.

When the watch is new, there will be a period of time where early possessors are seen as douche because of from those that want but don't have yet. However, in a few months, it will just become another watch that you either have if you want, or just don't want.
Not one Indian model on that website.
Yes, the C1 server is a 4-core CPU with 2GB of RAM and a 1 Gbit/s network card.
Other variation of servers are coming, including x86-based CPUs.
Why don't billionaires build palaces in Iowa? Regular income folks build amazing cities, and then rich folks move in and crush the cities and price everyone else out, and often don't even live there, just put up empty properties that drain local commerce.
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You're still missing the point and still don't appear to understand the consequences of your actions. By not tactically voting in a first past the pole system, you are actually helping the guy you'd least like to win; you are actively making things worse. It doesn't matter than you like neither of them, as they're different you'd clearly like one less than the other and he's the one you're helping win. You aren't opposing both of them, you're helping the one you'd least like to win, your little "protest" vote may as well be a vote for the worst candidate.

> I prefer to oppose them both, however feeble my voice may be.

This little act of ego is helping ruin the country; thanks.
Yes. Yes, you do. But you also need to buy a Costco membership to shop there.

Having money makes it easier to save money, even on a much smaller scale.

If you can pay cash for your commuter car, you pay $15000. If you get a 48-month loan at 5%, you pay 10.5% more total over those 4 years. That additional expense is not added to the resale price of the car.

If you can pay cash for your house, you pay $250000. If you get a 360-month loan at 5%, you pay 93% more total over those 30 years. That additional cost is not added to the value of the property.

Loan interest is an expense that is consumed. It does not return to you as equity in any asset. Rent and taxes are similar, in that the money you pay does not return to you as retained value. They are gone, in the same way that a cake that is eaten cannot be saved for later.

If you're rich, you can establish an accident liability escrow account instead of buying car driver's insurance. You can effectively self-insure with a risk pool of one person. The money in the escrow account still earns interest. Not only do the people who do that not pay premiums, which are lost, they can keep all their money, and even pay themselves a little extra, for not causing accidents. But if they have one, no big deal. They pay for the damage, then top up the escrow account. Their premiums do not increase.

All you need to save money is to be rich. So simple. Everyone should do it, right?

That's what the extreme frugality crowd does. If you drastically reduce your living expenses, you can save more rapidly, and begin to take advantage of the lowered expense opportunities available to people with lots of savings, such as the incredibly simple elimination of all loan interest payment expenses. And that allows you to save more.

And the calculations don't care about how much you earn. The only thing that matters is what proportion of your income you can save, and how much your savings can return in excess of inflation.

But you can't just become rich by doing the things that rich people do. They already have their rich people membership cards; their discounts are not yet available to you. You have to get rich first, then do those things to stay rich or become richer.
I'd agree with you in that drones are pretty dangerous in cities.
But for the case of filming extreme sports, like bike races or skiing, the sport is likely inherently MUCH more dangerous than whatever could happen because of the drone, especially if the drone isn't directly above the athletes. Your bike/skiis/etc. aren't anywhere close to 99.9999% safe.
Interesting approach.

I agree with the premise (code is structured, and shouldn't be handled as flat files). I've played with the idea of using my own card-tree editor as a LISP editor before:
http://blog.gingkoapp.com/features/gingko-as-a-lisp-editor

It's an avenue I definitely want to explore.
Using ngrok for local site testing in RemoteIE
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I did the "uberman" sleep schedule for a few months about 10 years ago. It works; you can definitely survive and stay surprisingly functional on a 20 minute nap every 4 hours. You do lose some cognitive ability, though.

The advice in the OP is pretty bad, though. Any nap of more than 20 minutes will leave you feeling groggy when you wake up, especially if you're sleep deprived, which could be catastrophic for a pilot.
A PLEX goes for $17 purchased from CCP directly in bulk and ~850M isk (isk = game currency) in the game. So if you have 1 trillion isk / 850M isk, that's 1176 PLEX (which have the utility of giving you 1 month free playtime, redeemable any time in game), and it's theoretically $19,992. Re: cashing it out: Maybe... but good luck finding a buyer at anything like $20k
Student wants to learn the vocational art of programming, discovers Computer Science is not about programming, drops out. Sounds like everything went the way it should have.

I majored in CS and there were no end of students complaining about discreet math or analyzing algorithms when all they wanted was to learn what ever the hot language was at the time.

Schools don't need to change CS programs, they need to better market an alternative software development curriculum.
A result of the weapon of choice in domestic abuse. Men favor fists, while women favor improvised weapons (the legal term as in sticks, stones, or whatever is reachable).

Weapons in untrained hands do generally less damage than fists, so men in general cause more damage in fights. However, if the weapon do cause damage, that damage has a higher risk of being major.

So which one is more server, a untrained knife wielding attacker or someone going for you with their fists. The legal system has one view, the statistics has one.
You are saying that the presence of low income housing causes its own destruction? Then how will low-income folks ever find housing?
I would guess that even Software Engineering students would have to go through Calculus (just because it is a good weed out if for nothing else) and other math heavy, theoretical practice -- just like other Engineers.

What they want is almost a Software Technician degree. Someone that can put together apps and know how to troubleshoot but who are not working on the bleeding edge but putting together technology that others have largely already designed.

There is a huge need for this level of skill but not so much formal training. There are budding movements in that direction but nothing in the traditional higher education landscape or with that same level of trust and recognition.
This is great in class and for homework, but it can be taken too far. UChicago professors like to put open problems (without any indication that they are unsolved) on final exams. Half the battles is identifying which problems are unsolved to avoid wasting time on them.
I actually like Threema. But convincing others to pay $2 when whatsapp is free is a tough sell.
But isn't that why there are coding bootcamps to allow those blue-collar programming positions to be filled? Like the Iron Yard, General Assembly, Hack Reactor, etc. I think there needs to be more advertising of these alternatives to a Computer Science degree if thats what somebody really wants to do.
This isn't a justification, but I've had to use the virtual floppy drive as recently as this year, to install drivers on proprietary OSes under virtualization.
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I see what you mean but try looking at it from this perspective; dinosaurs are extinct but we know they lived. and how do we know it? because we found fossils. So if find fossils, does that mean dinosaurs never went extinct? Or if the birds evolved from dinosaurs is a true statement, then that should mean they never went extinct, right? What I mean by "extinct" is exactly how the dictionaries define it "no longer in existence".

Interesting thoughts though. And you are right, I never thought of Excel as a programming langue if I'm honest.
This sounds more like secondary school than university. Certainly for first year undergrad there are worksheets and a significant workload, but it sounds like you're describing what I think of as straight school-type work.
Sure they are, but they employ mostly the same techniques. The implementation may differ, but the ideas remain the same, at least to the extent where well organized code optimized for one engine is unlikely to be slow in another.
I half-expected this article to be an elaborate troll =/
Computer Science is not identical with learning to program.
You seem to be blaming the student.

Did I know as a 17-year-old applying to college what the hell the difference was? No. Did I study CS? Yes. Was it the right decision? Probably not (though I did stay in it). And I had about every advantage in the world of being exposed to programming from when I was 5 or 6.

Maybe the craziest part of the US college system, and technical fields in particular, is that most people don't know what's available, and don't know what they're applying for, all the while they go somewhere between the cost of a car and a house into debt.
Discussion from last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070879
When I get to the payment page, part of the text is in Estonian (apply.e-estonia.com, Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet
Pärnu mnt 139,Tallinn).
I think most teams that implement/try to implement agile/scrum/xp and end up disliking it / failing at it completely miss the point of the retrospective step - and thus, skip that step.

Without the retrospective, it's just modified waterfall.
Any information on what SSD's these servers are using? Are they sata or pcie?
>They think they need to find the right process, apply it without making any stupid errors, get the answer, and move on.

Perhaps because they've been conditioned for 12 years to believe that this is what "math" is.
Yes, that's what the story is about -- excessive/vacant properties should pay progressive tax. Just like how cities condemn shoddy apartments and hand them out for redevelopment (Kelo)
Yeah, but the will to actually not dying of AIDS should be taught somehow. Otherwise, you are covering up the problem. In a year the lottery goes away, AIDS comes up again.

Just like fixing a bug superficially instead of going for the root.

If you wanted donuts you could've just get them in the first place.

I am not saying the results aren't positive, or that they aren't better than nothing. But I don't think this solves anything in the long term, and the manipulative and "the ends justify the means" approach rings the "should this really be done?" alarm bell in my mind.
I wish they had posted this to HN after it was available...I want it now! This project still appears to be in its infancy.
The essence of Agile and XP still stand tall

- sit close to the customer (literally)
- write good automated test coverage
- release early and often and get feedback (see point 1)

If you are doing those three things, it's hard to totally fuck up.
There is a lot of process in making those things happen to be sure, but how that process happens is not important.

the Agile Maifesto / Scrum tried to downplay process so much it became a by-word for no process, and almost broke the good it was doing as no one could track / report what was going on so every implementation looks like an uncontrolled mess.

(Yes there were sticky notes up on boards, but it's hard to mail that to upper management)

So a little more process, a lot more talking to end users and waaaaay more automated tests and automated releases and we might have something
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Great thread. I'm one of those people that was poking around and trying to figure this out a few years back.

Obviously, there's a lot I know you can't say, but I'd love to know your general thoughts on how far off we were:
http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome
https://moz.com/blog/just-how-smart-are-search-robots
It happens all the time everywhere anyway. Advertising, regular non-AIDS-related lotteries, law enforcement, even simple things like traffic signals, all are "game-y" to some extent. At least this instance is using it to accomplish something good, instead of just convincing people to consume a different brand of sugar water.

I understand the reluctance to use persuasive tactics like this. But in a practical sense, if being principled means avoiding anything "game-y" then all you're saying is that the world is to be run by non-principled people.
Wait, what are we even talking about here any more - are you saying men contemplate suicide because feminists make them feel bad about themselves? Because of sitcom tropes?

Anyway, feminists fight for women. They are mostly women. They had a serious bunch of wrongs to right, more than just some unfavorable sitcom tropes. If they were not, during this fight, sufficiently sensitized to the problems of men, can you really blame them? Do you even realize how unjust and hypocritical such a judgement is? Had feminism followed such standards, it would have never achieved anything, and women would to this day be unable to vote, own property, etc etc.

Men would do well to stand up for themselves in these matters, and not allow themselves to find scapegoats in feminism.
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Here is put.io and Popcorn Time in a single app: https://github.com/barisariburnu/putio-popcorn-time
That's rather good.
then nobody, like almost nobody would major in computer science.

the article started off as a good look at where computer science is / needs to go and then disintegrated into a 'why aren't there more women engineers?' ok... why aren't there more women garbage men? erm, garbage people?

anyways, I think computer science programs have come a long long way since the early 2000s. I think the major thing computer science majors have to know is, your education that you pay for will not be enough to succeed. you MUST be a autodidact and teach yourself what is important for the specific thing you want to do when you graduate.
NYC has the highest pop density of just about any city in the world. It has extremely high demand, due to its celebrity status making it a magnet for the whole world.
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