skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue here is that it's quite possible (if often inconvenient) to use a programming language for markup. If it's good at that, I might call it a programming and markup language. I would only call it a programming language if it is good at defining meaningful computation and/or sequencing actions.
Why You Need a JavaScript Project Checklist
They're not hard. They're things we'd expect a solid CS student grok in one year.

He just happened to be the first to grok them. Question is how he came to face those problems without any apparent precedent.
"DO UPDATE SET description=description;"

I think that should be:

"DO UPDATE SET description=excluded.description;"

And doesn't it also need an inference clause or constraint specification for DO UPDATE?

Please update example code to be self-contained, so that readers can copy/paste.

The example itself -- upserting product descriptions from another data source -- is a great one though.
Education exists because Microsoft provides cheaper licensing to schools as a marketing exercise. They also let you buy the license entitlement through volume licensing, so smart schools will buy PCs with FreeDOS or Linux and BYO Windows.

This creates a problem, because the Federal government requires that it receives the lowest possible price for a particular product. So they carve out the education market as a separate SKU.
> You really think it's on the schools to tell students what they should learn or what degree they should get?

No, not me. I agree with you that we've pushed the age of adulthood too far out.

But when the mistake you learn from comes with crippling debt, it is on us to guide kids to make low-consequence mistakes before the big ones. That's why I suggest we encourage more real-world exposure with internships, co-op programs, shitty jobs first. We need to foster the environment that allows kids to actually critically think about their future instead of shoving them towards it, and we need to practice the meritocracy we preach by looking past degrees to hire people.
I'm guessing if you're the kind of manager that sees progress in burndown charts you're already on the wrong course as it is.
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Please open a bug report and CC :hsivonen
Would people crazy enough to consume rhino horn even know real vs "fake" horn?
Windows 10 was version 6.4 internally but it sounds like they're going to go make it 10.0 on release.

(Windows 8.1 is 6.3 and Windows 7 is 6.1 and Vista is 6.0)
> My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of:

You are probably right, but doing so would have cost MS a significant amount of money. This is an entrenched company trying to avoid killing so many cash cows.

Likely the biggest motivation for this segmentation/pricing strategy is profit extraction from existing, business customers.
They get furious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8972744

(I don't know why you were so heavily downvoted. I upvoted you.)
Always interesting to check Google's report on IPv6 use by their users.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

tldr: Consistently above 5%, almost reaching 7% on weekends. The gap between weekday and weekend IPv6 usage is widening, indicating that home ISPs are moving faster than businesses.
Yeah, there's a lot of devil in the details as far as determining the actual formula as a function land value. I typically imagine there are ways to align an LVT along a progressive scale, such that the little old lady who owns nothing but her own small lot isn't burdened by the tax while generously backed speculators buying up all waterfront property in sight are.
Software Engineering and Proofs of Concept
I read Zezima as being sincere, and Grue3 as being sarcastic towards the terms of service, not towards your helpful comment.
If you want to do it in realtime, your best bet is to use Marching Cubes to tessellate the isosurface into a triangle mesh. You can either do that every frame, or cache the result and animate it via conventional means.
Where to Start with Using Microservices?
I don't think performance costs are that big of a deal in general. The real costs with those sorts of services is perhaps centralization and dependency on an outside entity.

If we did manage to create some magical cross-language library (compile everything to C?) then maybe libraries would be back in style.
Clash of Clans Attack Strategy Town Hall Level 8 – FULL DRAGON
With that in mind, what do you think is the acceptable way to get students out of the answer-getting mentality?
Are Products the Road to Prosperity?
> How many people need a floppy disk controller?

Raises hand
VPNs break down, are filtered out or throttled by ISPs, etc. The office internet is usually significantly more reliable.
> My ideal setup is a multi-monitored station with a nice chair and an awesome view of a beach.

I had that in Hawai'i. It's more of a distraction than you might think.
That would have been one charitable reading :D Of course I understood you as if you were implying that I am forcing something. Thank you for the clarification!

I cannot really speak for others, I represent no one but myself. I can only guess that, to some extent, such reaction from some feminists is simply defence. The MRA narrative is too focused on feminism, and has too much relativizing, "who's the greater victim" talk, which is stupid.

But I also definitely agree that some of the reaction is just a lack of will to hear what the other side has to say, which sucks.

BTW, what do you then blame?
A Really Remote Car Starter
Maybe I'm just jealous but has this concept of a startup retreat achieved any real world success stories someone can point to? Wouldn't being isolated in a remote corner of the world put a real damper on being able to build business relationships?
The last time I checked, acknowledging the problem was the first step to solving it.
Communication and management overhead of remote workers is harder to do right. Like functional programming.
No Indian Friends
I actually really like what they've done to make Daredevil more "realistic" in a lot of different ways:

- Characters who speak other languages don't speak English for no reason, they just use subtitles.

- The villain is actually portrayed with a lot of positive human emotions and motivations.

- The struggles the characters are often grappling with are familiar every day things, like how do I prioritize work vs. family?
Define "Feature Reduced"? Lack of Domain? HyperV? Remote Desktop options?

What features are people "losing" with Home that 95% of "Home" users "need"?

Sure... You and I can't live without half of those things, but home users generally won't notice - or care - if HyperV is missing.

You pay more for Pro/Enterprise because it has added features that Power Users/Businesses need.

Glass Half Empty/Full... Potato/Patato... Home isn't feature reduced... Pro is feature added. Enterprise is feature complete.

If you want feature reduced... look into versions like Starter Edition - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-w...
> I had one project where we basically had our own process that just kind of evolved, a mix between waterfall and agile I guess.

Actually, having a team evolve its own process that works for the team is agile. That's all and exactly what the Agile manifesto calls for.

> That actually worked well for a year, until management had to fix it, because we weren't Agile.

Having management intervene and institute a process based on external, process-based preferences rather than evaluation by the team of what is and isn't working for the particular team in the particular context is exactly what the Agile Manifesto was a reaction against.

Agile was working for your team, then management came in and -- through an apparent lack of understanding of both what your team was doing, what worked for your team, and what Agile is -- did exactly what Agile is defined in opposition to, and broke it.
The 1st link on the Google search I linked to was my source. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31001941

The Guardian article is written by someone who is most likely a freelance writer. Their goal is to pump out articles that make attention grabbing claims while staying truthful. The author was not a rhino expert and likely didn't do much journalism research to find the facts people need to know, but some sob story about the last of it's kind is better news (more shares, more likes, more viewers, more ad revenue).
If I were living in abject poverty and someone told me that if I killed an animal and sawed off it's horn they'd get me $300,000 I would probably murder that animal.

I view poaching as a poverty issue. Poachers are largely in poverty and buyers of animal goods are largely in cultures with major poverty issues. Yes some rich people in those cultures spend outrageous sums of money on items, but I contest that if you eliminate poverty the majority of these issues are also eliminated.
The ACLU makes an app that streams the video recording to an Internet server in real-time at the best possible quality given your data speed. It will also upload the full video when possible without additional action.
Like most people, I've had mixed experiences with agile. I like short regular meetings where I hear what people are doing - but not for process reasons - it's just nice to hear. The places I've worked fit comfortably into one of two categories.

In smaller shops, developers circumvent the process (whatever it is) when it makes sense. Things are messy, but it's not so bad. Hard to say how much process helps there.

In larger shops, the process has won and people just work around it. Developers still try to get around the bad parts, but The Process is stronger than any individual. Work seems to get done less, but everyone understands why the work didn't happen. Generally, I get to go home earlier in these kinds of environments.

All that said, a co-worker recently said they were excited to get more into agile and linked a product that uses this chart to advertise their agile tracking software: http://i.imgur.com/uYZwtFY.png . I cannot for the life of me figure out how we got from "people over process" to that monstrosity.
Facebook embraces its contract workers
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/16/rhino-hor...

This article appears to support you. Letting people know that rhino horn is not medicine reduced the numbers of people wanting to buy rhino horn.
Just curious, where were you from?
For clarity, are you talking about joining your laptop to the domain, or merely logging into domain accounts using a non-domain-joined laptop?
So this is just a dev wanting to scratch an itch issue and/or arrogance and/pr ignorance?

I always wondered why there was a separate layer for VPN's when you can so easily use ssh for a VPN at least for a secure way to use the internet. I suppose if you want it for the act of "being" on a remote network as if you are local is a VPN advantage, but I'm pretty sure ssh has a way to make that happen as well.

If I get this correct, it is a good idea to use ssh as a chat app's security methods?
What seems to be new in this announcement is that if you do upgrade for free, you get that for life. Before it wasn't clear if you'd need to pay subscription fees afterwards.

Plus, you can still get retail Win7 DVDs at under $100, then upgrade for free to Win10 Pro.
NIST Looks at EMV to Speed Up Physical Access with PIV Contactless Cards
> Hear hear! If you aren't paying for a product, you are the product.

Worst is that you already paid AND are the product!
> Which in a way makes most agile processes a sort of oxymoron.

There's no "sort of" about it. Rigid, context-blind processes -- whether sold as "Agile" or not -- are exactly what Agile is a reaction against.

No process is Agile, and a team is only Agile insofar as it evaluates what works for the particular team in the particular context and places that ahead of preconceptions about what process should be that derive from other sources.
I love playing with this graph. Anyone have any idea why there was an unusually high (for the time) spike on Oct 4th, 2014?
Most parents gets the bad side (waking up at night) without the good side (napping during the day), though.

I really loved the weekends when my son was younger and would still have an afternoon nap and we ended up napping at the same time.... But I did certainly not enjoy when he was a baby and woke up around 4:30am full of energy and I had to offload his mom and keep him busy until it was time for me to get ready for work just as he decided it was nap-time again.

If I got to go down for a nap again whenever he did I think I could have quite enjoyed it. Unfortunately I doubt work would have agreed.
Well in that case, there's no reason to pay taxes at all - simply don't every earn enough to pay taxes. But that's an absurd solution. Otherwise you would have said "You do give consent by continuing to live here past the age of maturity and making enough money to be taxed". (I assume that the major issue is income tax, not sales tax.)

In any case, the current cost to renounce your citizenship is $2,350. You might say it's a "fee" and not a "tax". That label is irrelevant in the overarching context of financial obligations imposed upon a person. Otherwise the US should just charge everyone a fee for having US citizenship and forget about the whole "tax" issue.
The No True Scottmans Fallacy coupled with an assumption that the problem is men not being more like women emotionally.
This is going to happen in most cities; it has to, because the pendulum has swung too far from "abusive regulation" to "abusive lack of regulation".

People like to invoke the evil "hotel lobby", which I'm sure does exist!, but it is not even a little bit hard to find loud, angry citizens complaining. Those complaints are entirely predictable: people buy or rent residences in buildings expecting those buildings to be inhabited by long-term residents, then some part of the building gets converted to a hotel. People aren't OK with that.

There are also places where vibrant short-term rental markets may exacerbate tight housing markets.

I've had nothing but good Airbnb experiences, in SFBA, NYC, and London. I hope Airbnb works this out. But they don't really hold all the cards here.
Necessary? Probably not.

But you should anyways.
Please don't take threads like this further off-topic with prefabricated lists of links and talking points. This is not conversation.

This entire thread is a train wreck, but this comment is one of the places the tracks were blown up.
Don't think so. The people with an iPhone are a minority. In Europe iOS only has a market share of 18% so I doubt that's a big factor.
Yeah, sorry, I wrote whatever came to my mind before reading everything...
I'm not sure if your comment will get much attention because of how strongly worded some of it is, but I feel it contains a nice insight about the relation (and potential tension) between Product and Process.

If your hypothesis holds, then perhaps that this is why Scrum appears well-suited to people doing client work!

The client has the responsibility for product/market fit, and "the realities of the business." The software shop they may hire to build something will doubtless think deeply about finding and exposing the value in their concept to users, but at the end of the day the contractor is already insulated from the next-level, "should we be building this or something different?" questions.

One of the best projects I've ever worked on was making an effort to be agile -- but not to adopt any packaged process! 2 fulltime devs, 2 part-time, weekly sprints with working code, story/task level breakdown of effort with estimation/hours assigned to stories, 5-10 minute stand-ups, retrospectives only over email if there's anything we want to talk over ... the people who were on that project still feel like it "just worked" and that it was one of the more pleasant and 'agile' projects they've ever been involved with.

... but, as so many other messages here mention, the reality is that the product itself was the key. There was a good, simple product vision, which the product's (deeply technical, programmer) owner and the lead developer (myself) shared. And, again potentially supporting your hypothesis, it was client work (a tool that salespeople used to do quick mockups for leads on their iPads; it's not a consumer product but it was at least heavily used, and replaced an inefficient manual process).
In other words, it's mens fault.

This is exactly the problem. Instead of considering what it would take to solve the problem you point the finger at men for no other reason than they aren't women.
A Private Machine Learning Model for Your App Company
"I live in South Africa and we like to hunt game... Some people think rhino horn makes their dicks work."

Checks out. This guy is from South Africa.
Een platte buik krijgen zonder sporten, hoe doe je dat? – Leef Nu Gezonder
Their idea is that they'll dump their product into places where rhino horns shows up (e.g. in hair conditioner in SE Asia), which would then bring prices down for the real thing. Rhino horn is mainly keratin with extra hormones, which can be readily recreated.

It's really fascinating, and similar to the arms race in detecting purity levels in drugs. Also, mobs and stuff too make it pretty exciting and non-typical 'startup' work.
Yes, the EME-free build of Firefox 38 will auto-update to EME-free builds of future Firefox versions. The EME-free version is not a one-off build.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2015
I don't compile much code, but having my full test suite run in 10 seconds instead of 10 minutes would do wonders for my productivity.
A Day in the Life of a WebDevStudios Developer
The technical previews have offered an upgrade option, but that's not guarantee it will be included in the final version. Either way, it's almost always better to do a full reinstall for a major version like this.
"Telegram is free forever. No ads. No subscription fees."

How is that sustainable?
But sir, DRM cannot and will not be the sole factor in determining what is worth buying. I will take DRM into account, but I'm not going to let my opposition to DRM cripple my access to Media as much as the worst case nightmare DRM scenario would do.

In some fields DRM is known to be bad and I have excellent competitors making top quality experiences without DRM.

Gaming, and particularly strategy games have a glut of amazing content like this.

In Film though my choices are pay-per-performance(Which I have gleefully several times for Ultron already), or accept that the best work in genres I enjoy is behind DRM.

In Music I've no idea, I honestly just rent access to music without ads from google, and play whatever the playlist generator comes up with.
It's nice to see companies moving towards taking security more seriously, but boy oh boy some of it is a real pain in the ass. Every website you log into now needs to text you, or have a companion app or whatever. Every time you lock your screen to get a cup of water or take a leak, you have to log back in, wait for your flaky vpn connection to come back before you can resume what you were doing (maybe not an issue here if they actually do away with the VPN). "Credentials" often comes down to typing very long cryptic passphrases, on a glass screen, with dots instead of being able to see what you're typing. Et cetera.
I'm so happy to see this. As Bruce Schneier (who runs an open WiFi network at home) explains, "if my computer isn't secure on a public network, securing my own network isn't going to reduce my risk very much."[1]

The same is true for corporate applications (and devices like printers). If they're not secure on a public network, securing the corporate network won't reduce their risk that much: they're still exposed to potential breaches elsewhere in the corporate network.

--

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirel...
Yao Yu made some observations in her (excellent) talk about caching at Twitter over the years (https://youtu.be/rP9EKvWt0zo) that stuck with me: having a bunch of services doesn't itself isolate problems within one service. Twitter's cache service had to deal with clients rampaging to all load the same key zillions of times, for example.

The impression that gives me is that some of the gain from microservices might be from doing all of the things we're used to doing at service boundaries: documenting APIs, sanity-checking requests, logging, monitoring availability/resource usage/other metrics, etc.--the same sort of things any public Web service does knowing it's going to have to deal with funny clients, rising and falling load, and so on.

If all of the stuff it would take to properly maintain another usable customer-facing service sounds too expensive, that may be a sign that this isn't the place to split off a service. But if you find yourself wishing for separate monitoring, a cleaner API, etc. around some part of your system, it becomes more interesting to separate.

(I can also buy that some folks can see organizational benefits, or benefits from isolating hardware or making operations async, but separate ideas.)
Should be called "Talk". Looks like a nice product though.
http://i.imgur.com/1tsncdX.jpg
How are you planning on not having companies using the referred candidates from your platform and hiring them outside of TripleByte?
Thankfully people are at work sequencing the DNA of the rhino so that we don't lose all of that data.

Of course, there's much we won't get back. There was no doubt a huge amount of variation in the historical population of the rhinos that just isn't present in the handful that remain.
This article explains some of the problems caused by short-term rentals such as Airbnb:
http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-airbnb-hous...

Also, it seems reasonable that hotels and Airbnb comppete on a level playing field in terms of tax and regulation.

All that said, I think they need to find solutions that accomodate all parties: Hotels, short-term rentals, and the housing market for renters.
I don't think its fair to say FB ads dont work as well when your audience is not ready to buy. If you try to run an Adwords style campaign on FB, then you are right, that isn't very likely to work but that isnt because of FB.

The problem is the ads don't match where the prospects are in the buying cycle. Where FB excels is driving leads into a nurturing campaign that gets them ready for the sale down the line. These campaigns work wonderfully across a wide variety of industries.
One of the things people often fail to learn in university is that, once they leave, they will be judged on what they have learned, not on their grades. I think that the sooner an undergrad learns that getting an answer wrong on a homework assignment isn't the end of the world, the better. For their own stress levels, too.

The focus on grades and "the right answer" instead of learning and thinking is probably why it can be so frustrating for both parties when someone fresh out of university comes to a (programming) job interview.

I've noticed a lot of attempts on freelancing sites to pay a contractor to complete homework and school assignments. I can't imagine a worse form of self-sabotage, and it seems like students have profoundly the wrong message about education.
did you read the part of the post where he tells us sales by operating system? iOS is 33% and Android is 9%.

it's a certain demographic that would buy a monthly box for their dog and i'd expect them to be mostly iPhone users
Right, but if you don't upgrade in the first year then you might not get it for free. I don't think anyone has said how much it will cost exactly. I haven't heard of a subscription fee either?
1 JAN 1970 was a judicious choice for the UNIX epoch date; it allowed a 32-bit signed integer time_t type (counting seconds) to handle dates almost all the way back to the year 1900 as well as 'way into the future.