skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to waffle a bit and say that it's not technique; it's an effect.

Further, it's not always an effect with a reasonable cause. Have a $5 billion exit, for instance, and I will listen in rapt attention to anything you say that's not asinine. Perhaps not if you write it to the public of HN, but in a private conversation? I'd be impressed, flattered, etc., not necessarily because of what was said or how it was said, but because of who said it. There's a reinforcing effect here where the more leeway the listener gives you, the more rhetorical risks you'll feel like you can take.

Which brings me to my next point: be less accurate. This is a habit (good? bad?) that hackers can pick up because we deal with computers that do care about accuracy and don't care about rhetorical effect.

The harder part here is sacrificing your self-image of someone who doesn't bullshit.
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Is there any portion of the spectrum left over for them?

It reminds me of this recent article: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/irobot-lawnbot/

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9388115
> whereas in an agentless setup like this, if your attacker gains access to your monitoring server, said attacker has a (hopefully non-root) shell on all the monitored boxes.

I think the idea with rtop in particular is not to have it running headless ever, but you'd only use it interactively. There would not be a "monitoring server", at least not running rtop.

If you wanted to use it this way, note that rtop currently sshes around places and then execs a bunch of local commands. That gives me both the heebies and the jeebies. I'd much rather deploy an rtop-server compiled binary and restrict the ssh key that rtop uses to connect with something like "command=/usr/bin/rtop-server" in the .ssh/authorized_keys file for the local user that will accept rtop-initiated ssh connections.
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And yet every time I looked at the docs for git in the two or three years I was using it heavily I happened upon these dire warnings about destroying and losing work. I understand why git is so powerful, and to manage something as complex as the Linux kernel that power matters.

For what I do for a living it isn't, and Mercurial is a nice alternative that for whatever reason doesn't have any scary warnings in the docs about how I can destroy everything if I revert or rebase inappropriately, or whatever. Mercurial also seems a lot more aggressive about checking if I'm doing something stupid or dangerous and warning me about it, whereas git takes more of the traditional Unix "You Asked For It You Got It" philosophy.

Again: I understand why this is the case, but it's not the optimal tradeoff for me.
One of the best pieces of advice I have heard - and admittedly this is in the context of a presentation - is, "state what you will present, present, and state what you presented".
I always chuckle at the "couple of miles from West Point" analogy, because West Point is in the middle of basically nowhere. One could easily live in the nearest town, a sleepy little town called Cornwall, without ever being noticed by the military if you didn't want to be.
On exception to the not saying "ummm" rule is when many other people want to speak and you need to say "umm" to keep from losing your slot.
Bribing people to get key info is investigative and its what the CIA is supposed to do.
This would be considered "harmful interference" in my country and our communications authority would take a dim view of it. Amazingly they have way more power than the police in these matters - if they detect harmful interference they can enter property without a warrant, confiscate the offending equipment and impose hefty fines.
Just don't user the OneDrive folder. The default folder for documents is just a local folder I believe.
Nice one! Good on you for building a thing and putting it out there.

A few comments/suggestions:

* You have DEBUG = True in your production Django config. (eg. http://deckofcardsapi.com/api/)

* You are mutating state with HTTP GET, this is an anti-pattern for a number of reasons. The common one I use with people I coach is that browsers/proxies will happily cache GET requests unless told not to, but there are a number of other reasons if you read up on REST [1].

* Being a public API in a well known domain this is a good opportunity to make the API self documenting & navigable with a hypermedia format. (eg HAL, Siren, JSON-LD) [2]

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...

[2] http://sookocheff.com/posts/2014-03-11-on-choosing-a-hyperme...
What's being used for RNG?
Well, first of all, I am not against IDEs. I use one most days of the week, and I'm productive in it. Some of the above discussion has misinterpreted my remarks. I only ever said, that a language making itself amenable to IDEs isn't a convincer for me, since languages requiring tooling to be effective are possibly less good as languages. So when somebody tells me Typescript is good because IDEs can autocomplete it, it's an unconvincing argument to me, since I prefer JavaScript which, having no type annotations, has less typing and little need for autocomplete in the first place.

I didn't even bring up environment flexibility, or terminals!

Since you asked, though, it is fairly nice to be able to ssh in to a box and make a code change, and recompile, for those languages that require that. Continuing with Scala as an example, I, myself, could not edit a Scala program extensively without benefit of an IDE. So say I have a Scala program sitting on a dev server where I'm building a batch image processing program. If Scala were as simple as Jacascript, I could easily use vi or emacs to iterate the development remotely. As it is, I edit and test locally on my laptop using an IDE, then push this big jar over to the server. So, there are plenty of cases where remote edit, compile, test cycle using a terminal is convenient.
I read the article, because it's at such variance with the official version. I have no idea how close to reality it is. My gut feeling is that your skepticism is justified.

would probably bring Hillary's political hopes crashing to ground

Here we disagree. To put it crudely: NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!

Let's look at something IMO much more serious, Hillary's prowess at trading commodities.[1] She supposedly makes a cash deposit of under $1,000 into a trading account, and through a series of quite astute trades walks away with about $100,000 (about $323,000 in today's money) in about ten months, all as part-time activity.

As someone summarized it:

Only four explanations can account for
these remarkable results.

1) Blair may have been an exceptionally
good trader.

2) Hillary Clinton may have been
exceptionally lucky.

3) Blair may have been front-running
other orders.

4) Or Blair may have arranged to have a
broker fraudulently assign trades to
benefit Clinton's account.

Unless she was one of the greatest "amateur" commodities traders of all time, this was nothing more than a bribe to the Governor and First Lady of Arkansas.

But, like I said, NOBODY GIVES A FUCK. As Wikipedia put it: "There were no official investigations of the trading and Clinton was never charged with any wrongdoing."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_...
>If true, it also provides more explicit verification that SA and Pakistan are terrible allies at best.

This was already the world's worst kept secret. Anybody with more than a passing involvement in A-stan knows the Pakistanis, in particular, were working both sides of the street.
Seriously, why wouldn't you just use a local RNG? Do you realize it's actually less work than reading API documentation?
Take voice lessons. They are relatively cheap and very effective at allowing you to "sound impressive".
What textbook were you reading?
One effective technique is to speak less often. I fail dramatically on this one, but it is something I have been trying to work on. A technique used by Japanese businessmen is to have one of their juniors do all their talking at a meeting. They just sit and observe and occasionally whisper one or two words to their colleague.
Is something new with this project? I believe this same thing was posted 10 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9462184

Would be interesting to hear if some of the issues raised in the previous submission were fixed or updated.
OMG! Of course I entered "type something" (no quotes) and five minutes later dragged myself out of the trance it put me in. :-)

This could actually be very useful for meditation.
Which country, if you don't mind me asking?

(the idea of the FCC breaking someone's door down and taking their equipment is pretty funny to me, although I can't say for sure it's never happened)
> Chadwick executive 12

That term has no Google footprint
Google buys a lot of companies for their bodies, not their products.
view-source:http://getmagicnow.com/
view-source:http://www.privatecuratorservice.com/

ugh. painfully lazy rip off.
AWS is a much more mature service. It is more of a work to create Load Balancers etc on DO as of now. Would highly recommend continuing with AWS for production environments. Our product is currently on DO but we would be migrating to AWS soon
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What about testing these systems with headphones then?
You could look at something like Apache Cordova that lets you apply your web dev knowledge to iOS development. Might be a good way to get your feet wet, anyway. If it turns out you like the mobile platform, then you could look into learning Obj-C or Swift and going native.

https://cordova.apache.org/
Double clicking the title bar has in my experience, always been a synonym for clicking the non-close, non-minimise/button, on any desktop OS since about 2000 (classic Mac OS had "minimise in place") - on Windows and most Linux DE's that means maximise. On OS X, it means zoom, which is deliberately app specific behaviour. I find very few apps that truly need the full size of the display, and those that do (i.e. IDE's, Photos/iPhoto, etc) usually do just that when you hit zoom.

If you really want the browser window maximised, scale it up once and if it's a halfway decent Mac App it will retain that window size & position until you change it. Or make use of full screen mode for that app maybe?
How long did those scripts take you to write?

With similar scripts an OS X machine could also be configured.
And if you're good you can make $140K base outside of finance (and outside of NYC and SF, too) without too much digging, too.
Couple of learnings got crystallized for me from reading the post:

1) Learn to focus on the actual ideas and patterns behind languages, libraries, methodologies & concepts, instead of implementations

2) Observe how libraries, languages, methodologies & concepts get adopted & perhaps later rejected
This is an anti-enterprise play. There are significant costs to OS updates, including retraining, downtime, and legacy (working) software compatibility. Most enterprises are pretty good at applying security patches but rightly balk at full OS upgrades.

>This is also a huge win for not having the need to support super old OSes

Who wins?
If you want to see a teardown of this post:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/05/how...

See here:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/05/the-investor-arbitrat...
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And by the way, hackinthebochs, your line of argument down through this whole thread has been to call me a two fingered typist (accurate) with whom something is seriously wrong; a Luddite; and you erect straw man arguments like this, as if I'd somewhere argued for the environmental flexibility of terminals.
I just stole all the images off wikipedia. I wanted to make sure I wouldn't get sued.
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Uh, yeah but didn't Cyanogen recently announce they're working with Microsoft? But maybe that's just a coincidence.
If by safe you mean you can ridicule anyone as long as they are a cis white male, then I'm sure they are keeping it very safe.
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Perhaps I was a little too flowery. :)

Anyways, the point intended was that, while there are transient enemies of The American Dream (however one may wish to define it within reason, but including the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and general zeitgeist of 20th century America), they tend to go up in flames with their victims.

The true enemies, though, see that by either exploiting or altering the processes of government and manipulating popular opinion, and they tend to integrate themselves with the host and extract as much value as they can. They are also more likely to stay around, having become part of the system. It's unfortunate.
fixed. Good catch.
Audible has a few lecture series from the "Great courses" which I found helpful in this subject: Effective communication skills, How conversation works: 6 lessons for better communication, Influence: Mastering life's most powerful skill
Apparently, "Jive" is a lot more common in the UK, but it's not unheard of in the United States.

http://americanenglishdoctor.com/wordpress/jive-and-jibe

Still considered an "error" in the US, but, give it time. I've already started pronouncing aluminium like Jony.
This kind of activity tracking and productivity management is so helpful for students at a variety of levels. I wish these skills were clearly and intentionally taught either in high school or in early university! Even if everyone's goals and patterns are different, figuring out what works best is a HUGE asset. Your observations about your ability to estimate are especially interesting!
>Yup, totally the same story.

yep, Story A is just the shining facade with nice sausages on the shelves and the Story B is the rest of the sausage factory. There is no contradiction between those 2 stories, they dovetail together as parts of the same thing.
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It's interesting how many converstations on HN devolve into "This will put people out of work".

Of course it will.

Think of how many in industries related to horses (hay, stalls, cleaning, horseshoes...) were put out of business when the automobile was invented.

Think of the guys that used to drive around and put blocks of ice in your fridge before electricity.

Or countless millions of others that were put out of work when a better/different way was found to do something.

It's fine. Those people will re-train. When there are no more coal plants there will be a lot more people working in the solar/wind business. It's OK, don't panic.
Heh. For the helluvit I entered the Transcendental Meditation mantra given me 45 years ago and got something much, much more compelling than the mantra itself. I might just revisit that old fad.
Look a lot like containers. But docker is a bit more than that, the first that jumped to my attention is what is related to filesystem (layered images, repositories, CoW image+running container fs, volumes) seem to be missing. It runs everything in the normal filesystem by default?

The ecosystem build around it (compose, kubernetes, weave, machine, swarm, etc) will be missing too.

Its desktop app focus made me remember of http://subuser.org/ that is docker based, but maybe it have less requirements.

But is another voice in the container space, and could be more fitting than other alternatives for some use cases.
Many sign up forms disallow the use of '+' in email addresses, either to prevent this, or more likely because the programmer wasn't aware it was a valid character for an email address in the first place.
I don't know about the breaking down the door part, but the FCC does conduct spectrum surveillance and they do look for illegal stations and troublesome operations.
Report back here when you do, please.
I read this many years ago. Let me find the source.

Edit: I can't find it. Anyone else remember reading this? The mysql job queue reference was from a popular article that went out about it at the time

Edit 2: the job queue article is from 2011.

Edit 3: still can't find it. But I know every part of this article before seeing it ... I tested myself and remembered all the details... Where is this thing from?

Still can't find it. My confidence in the permanence of the web is pretty destroyed right now. I can't even find references to it existing.
> By then, the military had constructed a mock-up of the compound in Abbottabad at a secret former nuclear test site in Utah, and an elite Seal team had begun rehearsing for the attack.

Question: What former nuclear test site in Utah? Am not familiar with tests in Utah. The model seems to have been in North Carolina? See http://www.thewire.com/global/2012/10/satellite-images-captu...
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Read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie[1], never mind the title. Written in 1936 and still relevant today. I've recommended to many friends who come back feeling like they have superpowers, it's that good. Personally, I've read it a few times now and still can't wait to read it again.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/15...
I don't want to be nitpicking conspiracy dude, but one thing seems wrong. The article mentions several times that the electricity to the town was cut for the raid. But it was widely reported that someone live-tweeted the raid as it was happening (without knowing what was going on), which shows the power must have been on. http://mashable.com/2011/05/01/live-tweet-bin-laden-raid/
https://github.com/crobertsbmw/deckofcards/blob/master/deck/...
As the guy they're talking about, I did keep an offsite backup. The GURPS Cyberpunk manuscript existed in three places -- my computer at home, my computer at work, and the Illuminati BBS.

They took all three. They also got my wife's in-progress Master's Thesis, and she had to restart from scratch because they refused to return even a copy.

I'm curious where the quote attributed to me was sourced from, as I don't remember saying that. However, since I regularly come across things in old backups that I had totally forgotten, both code and written text, it may be completely legit.

I'm kind of surprised the author didn't bother to contact me at all (I'm hardly difficult to find). We weren't awakened at gunpoint, for instance. That was Goggans. We were awakened by pounding on our apartment door at 6 AM.
Something I haven't seen mentioned here yet:

Write.

Write essays, write long blog posts, write 500+ words a day.

Writing helps you learn to clarify, organize, and structure your thoughts. Writing helps you think better.

(And, conversely, read! Read good writers. Read writers who write for the joy of using language. Then work on making your own writing more playful! And, sleep with a thesaurus under your pillow.)
Consider it a bad Rube Goldberg Machine.
So use them to launch the long running task
It is astonishingly bizarre that this so called tree focuses only on a small number of recent religions and their sects and orders.

There are thousands of religions not represented, most significantly older than the oldest concrete points on this graph.

I do recognize though that this focuses on fairly modern religions of the last two millennia. Still, what a small, narrow, and uninteresting group of beliefs that is.
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Anyone can use Azure. They even have Linux distros available. Deploy what you want. Get charged micro transactions for CPU time. When your machine in the cloud is off, you only have a storage fee. Consumers won't really notice and Azure is priced to compete against other cloud providers.
might be that you can do without a second driver for long distances.
At its peak in 2010, the US gave Pakistan 4.5 billion dollars in aid [1] (although in more recent years this value has decreased). That sort of money can buy a lot of cooperation.

[1] http://www.cgdev.org/page/aid-pakistan-numbers
An ironic response given that the author is himself white [1] and he also wrote, "The Case of the Missing Adjective: Writing and Choosing Whiteness" (http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/350).

[1] Since you question his mention of race, I also find it interesting that you didn't also question his mention of sex or age.
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Talk to yourself often. Have loud arguments with yourself. It improves coherence, because you can easily tell if you are babbling or stalling. This practice is enough to to set you on the path to 'talk smart'.
It's both. I'm a poor typist, and more importantly, the terser the better. The less screen noise you have to filter, the clearer the picture becomes. I also put high value on DRY.
I had thought so too. Thanks for the reply :)
Just a suggestion: Poetica might be a better platform for this. https://poetica.com/
I'm not sure what this file does: https://github.com/crobertsbmw/deckofcards/blob/master/list....
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LOD is even thanked in the book credits.
Yes, while I mostly agree with that, I think an MS also provides a lot of time to freely pursue our interests. However the high fees does kind of put a constraint to that :)
I think you could technically block updates that would appear to be major/minor updates. That level of control will have to be available for enterprise releases. I don't know what will happen with security updates though if you purposefully block some updates and allow others. It may be that some security patches will be dependent upon other system updates.
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Yes, my parents are Ahmadi. Why do you say that about those communities?
I mean I do companies honestly expect employees to use applecare themselves?
If your app can run with just the h/w (CPU,Disk,RAM) available @ D-O you can do the migration. AFAIK, D-O does not have EBS like storage, which is essential in case there is lot of data that needs to be stored.

I have couple of sites (pretty low traffic) [nodejs, hhvm] running on D-O with pretty good uptime (> 1 year)

I'd recommend you to jot things down w.r.t what all things you have in terms of CPU, Disk, Memory, Apps, Server Usage over a week/month/year period and then see if the instances @ D-O can help.

Also, plan for future growth of the App, Just in case there is a sudden spike in traffic, there might be sudden need for additional Storage. In such scenario, with D-O you need to buy new servers, with EC2 you can add another disk with ease and can scale on storage.

AFAIK, D-O does not have ELB, so we need to buy instances and run ATS, Nginx, HAproxy, etc to do the load-balancing
"The simple point is that if you control 51% of your company and/or the voting rights you can avoid a lot of headache and you can still be very generous with early people who join your mission."

That's one way to do it. Co-founders sound a bit like partners in Proprietary Limited companies: bad news. A video from the post where Mark talks about founder problems: ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PFxUGgAJ4
Remember to always gitignore your list.txt file folks!
It's even capitalized.
That reminds me of Borges' story, The Library of Babel. It concerns a library which contains every possible book. Many great books would be contained within, but it would be impossible to differentiate them from books that devolve into pure noise halfway through.

http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html