skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't a textdrive user and actually didn't even know about it, but just reading that part of the interview made me think the tech wasn't that fine. he goes from "people moved to amazon because of s3 which worked so well" to "our tech was fine".

Seems like he considers s3 a marketing trick..
draft notes, no endorsement. could be wrong, read at own
risk. perspective from over 51.3 years plus former professional engineer.

THE GENERAL PATTERN. like in 'climategate' for scientists
1.) Point to the pilot flying the plane where even the
computer system tends to glitch.
2.) FASTEST WAY TO BLAME THE PILOT instead of fastest
way to avoid errors is MORE RESTFUL SLEEP for the pilot.

Read book Death March and too much sprints, overtime for
the software engineer. Yes, I am former system admin.

3.)top engineer and even GOVT engineer - professional license - helps with reputation but FUKUSHIMA Nuclear Disaster. alleged incompetence (like gotofail gotofail)
in the DAMS of New Orleans, etc.

4.)very hard to stop the corporation - one size fits all
PARADIGM plus THE ECONOMIC GAME - externality costs are
often ZERO.

Simple. Microsofthardhard makes more money on rentals when
your code breaks. Economics is called perverse incentives.
THE NEXT SCAPEGOATS WILL BE SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. Every other
profession/industry has had reputation destroyed and
'the bankers' will need to point the finger at someone.
Tradition, probably
I don't think I see the point in centralizing a decentralized chat application.
> As with diamonds, cocktail ice is judged by its clarity, density, size and cut, all of which add to the quality and aesthetics of the experience. As water freezes, air bubbles are trapped and eventually disperse inside

Same bullshit as with diamonds. Just boil water before freezing to remove gases and make ice transparent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597409
Recipes are usually written chronolically

So you mean timeline the visual sense?
I found it interesting that three people cracked the code independently: Dr. Ernst, in 1996, Dr. Reeds, in 1998, and Heidel, in 1676. But Heidel's work wasn't understood because he encrypted it, and Ernst's work was overlooked because it was published in an obscure journal.

Dr. Reeds' unique contribution wasn't in solving the problem, but in communicating the solution in an accessible way. A lot of successful companies have been the same way -- they might not have been the first ones to solve a problem, but they brought their solution to the masses effectively and accessibly.
I call bullshit.

This guy has 100k/yr in income but no savings at all? And his much highlighted Nissan 350 Turbo "pro street" was bought on credit? Where did the money go? He had people renting his house, presumably for a monthly profit? Did he fail to mention being a heroin addict, or where thd hell did all his money go?

He didn't sell his swanky car immediately, so he could rent a sucky apartment to avoid being homeless?

He gets attacked by a bunch of hoodlums who beat him up before he gets his gun out? But he somehow gets it out anyway.

Then his assailant pulls a gun right back at him, and instead of shooting in fear for his life, he proceeds to engage in a Mexican standoff (which the other guy is happy to maintain too!), and walks up to the guy to deliver a macho line, as if he's in a goddamn movie or something?

Then cops show up and somehow magically diffuse the Mexican standoff situation without using any force themselves?

And finally, there's a time when he's got thousands of dollars of "tax free" income (hah!) in the bank, but he's still homeless? Because having money in the bank sure beats having shelter?

This story is complete bullshit.
Most of the configuration tools we deal with try to bring the world from an unknown state to a sort-of known state with imperfect information.

They're full of absolutely awful workarounds for not having well contained state.
In addition, some people will do it voluntarily (and not talk about it), motivated sometimes by profit (bribes) or some sense patriotism[1] and duty. There are many authoritarian collaborators in this country - including way to many from the tech industry.

[1] misplaced, as they should be supporting the Constitution, not a particular administration
> foreign

That's the keyword there.

> for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military operations

This is meaningless without oversight.
Only in the same sense that you are your cousin.

English and German are both West Germanic languages, but English has had a lot of influence from French, and to a lesser extent from the Celtic and Brythonic languages. German has undergone its own separate evolutionary history.
It's much the same in India. Credit cards are not easy to qualify for, and in most cases you can only expect to get one if you're employed somewhere full-time. As a self-employed person for a large part of my career, I would always have to ask other people to use their credit card for occasional use where no other payment option existed (and pay them directly). I finally got one after having put a significant amount of savings in the bank.
(MS India intern here, but speaking for myself)

I know of three offices in India -- Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Delhi. These are proper Microsoft divisions, with a hierarchy and all that. Not managed by some other company (At least, Hyderabad/Bangalore aren't; I don't know anything about Delhi)

Some things being worked on here are VS, Office (specific portions), Bing, and Azure.
Apply numbing cold to digits and then hack around them with a sharp knife for around 4 minutes per ice-ball. I wonder how often you cut your fingers when making these things.
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Ex-Joyent employee here, but I don't go back that far.

The company has quite the history.

I have to disagree with your characterizations. The products changed much over the years, many things were tried, many failed. Most startups change their product significantly over time and it's hardly surprising that the business they are in now isn't one of the early iterations they tried and failed at.

I strongly believe that Jason is one of the best technologists on the planet. So there.
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ has an interesting condensed recipe card format: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/89/Cheesecake-Plai...
I use a service called cooksmarts.com (weekly recipes so you only have to shop and cook, very little planning) and they use an optimized timeline. I.e. everyone takes a different amount of time to do certain things so there is room for mistakes.

That's my best guess for why recipes don't have a timelines. You're also probably cooking more than one thing at a time I.e. entree, sides, desert etc. If each of those had their own timelines you'd be screwed.
Human-friendly date formatting in JavaScript
This is a good example, I think, of how complex the idea of "privilege" is, in that you can have privilege even when you're pretty much at rock bottom. ShakyCode was living on the street, but was able to secure some advantages and eventually pull himself up because he was educated, well-spoken, and able to make a good impression on people who could help him. Those options might not be available to a lot of homeless people. When we say that it's possible to have privilege even if you're poor and marginalized in some ways, this is what we mean.

(I hope it's clear that I don't mean to belittle ShakyCode in any way; there's nothing wrong with using whatever you have to make the best of a bad situation. I don't know what I would have done in his place; I doubt I would have had the emotional strength do do any coding at all in such a rough state, and I absolutely respect what he was able to accomplish. And that's another important point: saying that someone has privilege is not an insult; it's just an observation.)
Thanks for sharing such a great information..Its really nice and informative.
http://www.joinfita.com/django-python-training-institutes-in...
I haven't considered UML for anything for many years. I can't really see any advantages to UML these days.
No. That is not how it works. Read the papers again.
If for the author PHP is complex, then I wonder what he considers to be simple? :) Like CSS maybe?
This reminds me that both India and China are building a huge number of cities all wired up to collect data on everything, so that they can be micromanaged and studied.

Modi promised to build 100 "Smart Cities" - a lot of it with foreign and private investment dollars.
Welcome to the future.

It has taken surprisingly long time for people to make difference between functional eating and social eating. The key insight is: they are not mutually exclusive.

When there’s something more important to focus than food, so be it, and powdered foods enables you to stay in flow. However, nothing replaces the psychological need for social dining with your friends.

I’m just a bit worried of some of the second grade ingredients some of these powders contain. There are also organic real-food options available which contain 100% of nutrition guidelines. Have a look at Ambronite ( http://ambronite.com/ ) for example.
>Marisa Mayer at Google famously had a gaggle of special junior PMs that she shepherded into high ranking roles.

Got some source on that? I'm curious now ...
Except for gold mines. Artisanal gold mines don't sell for as much as a typical gold mine.
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Ask HN: Where to recruit a Minecraft developer
Looking to hire someone to develop/build a minecraft environment, English speaking.

Beyond the usual freelancer/elance stuff - can anyone recommend a good resource for someone that can:

* Setup a minecraft server
* Create a minecraft-world based on a real-world location, such as a town/village
* Protect the server to prevent/minimise it being defaced.

??

For example, hoping to recreate the environment of the war in Gallipoli in 1915 within Minecraft to enable players (i.e. kids) to experience the scale and vastness of the environment. We're hoping to use it to complement a News story.

Looking for a quote at this stage.
There is historical precedent: remember back in 2004 when congress shut down Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" program, and we never had to worry about domestic surveillance ever again?

Rebranding has been the tactic of choice ever since Blackwater decided that PR was expensive and it would be cheaper to simply rebrand themselves as "Xe" (now "Academi" - they ruined the "Xe" brand, too).
Build capital now, and buy shares in a post-scarcity company before they get expensive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9591739
Would you be more comfortable using none than using a "random one in the trunk"? I do not really see how a carseat can cause additional harm in an accident.
This is a level of dedication I fear we lost somewhere in the 90s. That, or being a cracker teaches you more about how computers work than most jobs.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristoteles
So, "P" and "NP" are just one possible set of precise definitions for "tractable" and "intractable", and so far they have aligned nicely so they can be used interchangeably (and it's unlikely to change much).
Pure alchohol freezes at -114 C and 80 proof spirits at around -27 C. Instead of using techniques designed to reduce temperature without diluting the cocktail, why not just keep your mixers close to freezing and your alcohol cold enough to achieve the desired final temperature? Alternatively, keep everything at whatever temperature your freezer can handle and pour in a measured amount of liquid nitrogen (which is cheaper to obtain than high-end ice apparently!). Some dilution is probably desirable in many drinks, so then add ice in the desired final particle size.

This would take some of the art out of shaking and stirring drinks, but it would also make results less labor intensive and more reproducible.

Bah. I drink scotch with a few drops of water. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to cocktails, so I'm probably missing something.
Very nice short video Nash did for the Abel prize http://www.abelprisen.no/artikkel/vis.html?tid=63683
The driving game (RIP J.Nash)
If you can't aggressively market your startup with honesty, then you don't 'believe' in your own product, which is a red flag.
This is true, but I always felt that I had been unable to explain to them that the subject was important. Anyway it is not a problem I worry much over these days :)
The author of the article worked in windows phone, so those sites make sense. Note thst Cambridge and India have both dev and research, the latter being kind of big.
Chances are that no one will contribute to any given project in any popular language either.
I don't know how jocose you wanted to make it, but it's really not that far-fetched from reality in companies where performance review results are stacked or quota-based. I saw it happening first-hand and it is indeed revolting. Humans shouldn't be handled like ordinary resources.

And the worst thing is that these strategies aren't any better in managing subjectivity and prejudice. For all its quantitativeness and statistically-oriented methods (e.g. fitting the performances to a normal distribution), these systems are subject to biases just like others. More often than it should, your placement in the stack or distribution reflects more your influence and relationship with evaluators than your actual performance.
This is true, but when you have legal system so complex that nobody even knows how many laws there are and everyone is breaking at least several every day you know there is a great need for simplification. I am in favour of few laws and more justice.
We can either blame (or improve) the following things:

(1) The children

(2) The parents

(3) The teachers

(4) The system

Supportive (and pushing) parents are HUGE in the educational development of a child. Ever wonder why asian-american and asian kids in general usually have a higher education? Because of their parents (and environment they grew up in).

It's just such a tricky system which is 'sick' at the root ..
Yes, the US - "domestic"
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Because there was public support for it when it was enacted.
And this, people, is how psychopaths get to be managers.
I am mostly certain that I am less trusting of this website because of its font choice.
(1) Just let me scroll ...

(2) You tricked me into watching a large ad for Zoho?
Yes. That. Bond was a bit of a "rebel" and he would signal it by being contrarian. Ordering vodka instead of gin would also signal "I'm an alcoholic, I'm not ashamed of it, I don't care for taste" (as vodka is a tasteless spirit).

The funny thing is that, due to Bond's popularity, asking for your martini stirred is now the contrarian thing to do. Unless enough people read up on it, discover that one should ask for it stirred, and then decide to signal their rejection of arriviste iconoclasm by asking for it shaken. I haven't been in a cocktail bar for a while so I don't know where in the cycle we are at the moment.

The French Bond, S.A.S. (by De Villiers) did not bother with these mind games and at least in the early books just orders vodka on ice, the alcoholic's drink of choice (tasteless, and with less congeners, leading to an easier hangover). De Villiers' willingness to do product placement sees him go through Cointreau, Gaston de Lagrange cognac, the ubiquitous Moet 1964, and one of the more popular brands of American bourbon (ends around the 20th book if I recall well).
On a related note, here's a comparison between Apple's San Francisco and Google's Roboto, along with FF DIN and Helvetica: http://www.fontshop.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/comparison...
Using the term "scripting language" for either Go or Python is a complete misnomer.

Back in the day, languages called as such where so slow, that there was a feeling that they were used "in lieu" of "real" programming languages. They were there to extend "real" software.

Today? Much the opposite. Computing power is almost always cheaper than brain power, and we use C to extend Python rather than the other way around.

For that matter, I think Go is great for networked infrastructure, but bad for interfacing with other languages and still significantly harder to learn than Python, Julia and R.

That is why I caution on the use of Go in projects which have "scientific" bent to them...
What about Telegram? Seems to work well for me, and a key thing is it has a desktop client. The thing which annoys me about it though is by default it isn't client-to-client encrypted. When you create a "secret chat" which is fully encrypted, it doesn't work on all your devices.
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If you are lurking on hacker news to improve your productivity, I think you're in the wrong place ;-)
In today's issue: Does Betteridge's law of headlines have exceptions?
> While you lose out on some of the benefits in the short term, in the long term you get the benefit that previously hard-to-decompose monolithic legacy setups can be sliced and diced gradually until you have units that are reasonable to start rebuilding cleanly. This one of those areas where layers etc. really are quite useful.

So. Much. This.

I work with very view greenfield projects. I work with a lot of existing, complicated, annoying monolithic architectures. Approaches that let me start refactoring those into something vaguely sane are a godsend.
Gracipe was made by two students from my Data Vis course at the TU Delft: http://www.gracipe.com/ (it only started during my course, their app is far more extensive now)

They parse and show recipes as icon-oriented graphical timelines.
This is one of the reasons why debt can be considered fundamentally immoral.

A fresh college student might well consider writing genocide apps if the alternative is a boot stamping on their face forever in the form of tuition debt.

You can't fix this form of 'corruption' completely, but ensuring that people don't end up in the banality of evil scenario in which they switch off their brains 9-5 and do bad things in order to feed their families is extremely important.
The lower-case a in the PDFs doesn't display the same as the lower case a in the linked website.
Many IDEs have built in support for this and I find it very useful. Good that it is coming to the command line too!

It works great as a code review tool, too. Agree on a marker, add review comments to code, commit to source control and tell your team mate about it. It's just about at-your-fingertips as diffs-with-comments tools (like github PRs), and way lighter on the tooling. You also see all the context, not just the changed lines. Eg:

// REVIEW(me): This is getting big, maybe split into two classes?

In smaller teams (say, <5 people on a single shared codebase) I've found this to work remarkably well.
This tactic goes back, I am sure, millennia.

Blackwater was a private company. They did briefly rebrand as Xe. A ridiculous name that sounds even more scary than blackwater. Academi may as well be a new organization.i don't consider it a successor to blackwater, even if it is in a legal sense. a company purchased blackwater for their extensive training facilities (possibly the most best in the world at the time). The blackwater IP left a long time ago.

the true spiritual successor is Prince's UAE private contractor company. according to Wikipedia it is called Reflex Responses, but Wikipedia is generally shit with this kind of information. *

* Wikipedia has to cite sources, the only publicly available sources are mainstream media, written by clueless journalists who barley understand the subject matter. for example the Wikipedia article mentions Prince recruited from Executive Outcomes, 12 years after they ceased trading. He may have recruited from EO's alleged spiritual successor, but he definitely did not recruit from a company that no longer existed.
A bit anticlimactic.

TL;DR: A book published 500 years ago contained an obscure message. It wasn't actually "encryped" by modern standards, it was simply as encoded similar to ASCII (i.e. each number represents a character). The numbers were assigned characters in reverse alphabetical order. Converting them to letters again, you get random sentences. No hidden knowlege.

The more interesting part is perhaps that three people discovered it over the years, independently of each other. The first one actually encoded (encrypted? There is nothing said about the method) the solution so nobody could actually check whether he cracked it. More recently two other people also solved it and verified that the previous person also cracked it and wasn't talking nonsense.
I have had this "overqualified" experience a couple of times; it's incredibly bad and it drove me nuts at the time. (I was making very little and trying to get a better job; being rejected because "overqualified" was very painful.)
There are plenty of people who slam bread for being unhealthy for being highly processed. In particular, they maintain that the milling process discards the fiber- and vitamin-containing bran and germ, leaving empty quickly-absorbed calories.
As someone who considers himself "a few times better" programmer than I was a few years ago, I wouldn't say that the 10x thing is down to raw programming speed.
More that I think through the problem better, and come up with a more elegant solution that will require less debugging and maintenance.
multi vitamin/mineral + fish oil capsules (a few depending on quality) + normal decent quality protein powder. If you don't eat any fiber rich foods, add a spoon of fiber (phylum husks or something)

Unless you go 100% soylent (why though?) that will sort pretty much any deficiencies you may have from the rest of your meals.
My MacBook (with Chrome) does not like this site -- within 5 minutes of opening it and clicking through slides, it got very loud and hot and the battery went down by ~8%.
> as one of my Microsoft-employed friends brutally said about my declining, "No loss for Microsoft"

That's a pretty poor thing to say to a friend.
what! No Burger Time! Bah!
In 50-49 vote, US Senate says climate change not caused by humans
Cygwin is not a valid replacement for a shell, sorry. It's a crutch. If you want a proper scripting language, literally dozens are available on *NIX-like OSs, and some are preinstalled with most distributions. Tens of thousands of libraries to solve every conceivable task with minimal, if any, work. Package systems to make installation/removal easy. Microsoft has excluded itself from this by once again by rolling its own.
to be fair, for someone one not from SV, sv is quite lala land. Just spent sometime there and it does look like a caricature of normal living.
I'm not saying there isn't more in a job. I'm just saying that setting things up so that "more" is mutually exclusive with "money" is a piss poor way of doing it. These things can and should coincide. Once they do not, it's time to move on.
It's not about who first discovers or invents something, but about who does it last. Ie who communicates so well that afterwards no one else has to go and discover it on their own.
Infection inflicts a persistent decrease in IQ: study with 180,000 participants
Yup, many states have 'click it or ticket' laws, yet school buses have no seat belts. The argument I heard growing up was that its 'actually more dangerous to wear one on a school bus'. I was never given a real justification to that, though. My adult assumption is that it's simply too expensive for cash-strapped school districts to upgrade, and the legislatures passing seatbelt laws don't want to increase school budgets to allow those upgrades.
This is exactly what really happens.
Water keeps the temperature pretty well. But if you just want a temperature buffer without any effect on dilution, you can substitute a heavy glass (or water / ice in a separate compartment but in themic contact).
That's symmetric encryption using a passphrase though. Since he mentioned GPG I assume he's looking for public-key encryption.