skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There sure is. I've got a tiny bit of experience with ZenPayroll, and they're separately licensed in the states they're permitted to operate in (and it's a minority of states, IIRC).
'Primates of Park Avenue,' Stranger Than Nonfiction
FogBugz period not so much.

Still blows my mind that this is the same company that built Trello....
Well, maybe. But then maybe I wouldn't have a girlfriend. And more importantly, maybe I wouldn't be reminded that sometimes it's OK to peel myself away from a video game.
> Its a fork of Qt by a guy who wants to see how much cleaner you can make the framework using a modern version of the language

A very astute observation. Actually, it's a fork of Qt by a girl and a guy but the rest of your statement is spot on.

There is no way we could merge back upstream, but that is not because we forked from 4.8. It is because statements made by several key individuals in the Qt project indicate that our changes would not be welcome and they see no reason to remove moc.
Your availability to answer stuff here is really nice. Thanks for this.
For reference, this is from a year-old reddit post on /r/cscareerquestions found here https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1z97rx/f...

I'm not sure how up-to-date the information is, considering that I've been a part of their interview process within the last few weeks and only a few parts sound similar to me. My recruiter was pretty on top of her stuff with organization and getting back to me quickly, but did not ask me a single technical question. My phone interview wasn't quite as challenging as the one mentioned here, but different engineers will obviously have different interview styles.
Follow your local laws. If wherever you live/operate requires you collect sales tax, collect it. Some places have weird rules about this; maybe you have to collect sales tax from everyone, maybe only from residents of your country, maybe only from residents of your state/province, whatever. Look into it. This is the one you definitely can't mess with, if you don't make the effort you can be on the hook for serious penalties.

Once you've done that, as greenyoda says it looks like you're clear in the US. If you have any other large markets it's probably worth looking into them.
Sure, but there's numerous ways to get DHT peers. Sure there's those 3 bootstrap peers, but there's also trackers that give you peers, peer exchanges, and torrents that point to trackers. Running pretty much any torrent client that has ever been on a torrent before is likely to find you additional DHT peers even if all the bootstrap hosts are down.
How powerful would a terrestrial satellite amp need to be in order to be effective? how cheap would it need to be to sell?
"Just because something is being built with other people's money does not make something a success."

It doesn't preclude it, either.

Pretty much every business larger than one or two person operations uses Other People's Money to grow to profitability. See Facebook, etc.

Use of OPM doesn't guarantee success, but for industries that have large capital entry and operating costs, it's necessary.

Musk is working in fields that manipulate matter, not just bits - so it will take longer to see if Tesla and SpaceX reach profitability ("success") than it would for a generic software startup.

Be patient. You may not know whether a company or a child is successful for a couple of decades, at least.
There are political entities fighting for this future. They aren't the dominant factions of either of the major political parties, yet, but in our system, issues that become successful often start out being pushed by smaller entities.
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Is it actually named after the machine on Epsilon 3, or is it just a coincidence? There's a B-Film called The Machine as well.
> The important question is: should we prefer nuclear kwhs to coal or oil kwhs? The answer to that question is less clear. Coal, in particular, kills thousands of people every year.

I find that answer to be simple. Of course we prefer nuclear over coal, with the caveat that its existing nuclear capacity that will be attritioned out as more renewables come online.

> People aren't just going to turn the lights and air conditioners off.

Agree. Use pricing to incentivize the expedited reduction in fossil fuel generation. Don't allow new coal fired plants to be brought online. Allow natural gas plants, but only for peaking and with strict emissions controls until utility scale battery installations are provisioned.
I used to attend group therapy, and a few of these folks would come by from time to time. Without exception, all were young women from middle-upper class families. While I'd never say it to them directly, they were much more like people with borderline personality disorder than they were like the folks who experience psychosis or more severe, debilitating, break-with-reality mental illnesses. That is to say, creative and more than a little bit attention seeking (whenever one came to the group, regardless of whatever else was going on with folks - including family deaths and close suicides - the meeting would always be about them and their alters). I never really bought it as anything more than identity politics inflected role playing, though I know they would hate that characterization.
Focus-follows-mouse doesn't work so great in OSX because of the global menubar, everywhere else it's great though!
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<code>In this video Terry gives a brief tour of some of the more interesting features of TempleOS. At 5:50, he shows how to build a small graphical application from scratch. Now let’s just think about how you’d do this in Windows for a second. Consider for a minute how much code would be needed to register a windowclass, create a window, do some GDI commands, run a message pump, etc. You’d need to set up a Visual Studio project perhaps, and either use the resource editor to embed a bitmap, or try and load it from disk somehow. Now compare it to the tiny snippet of code that Terry writes to accomplish the same task. It certainly makes you wonder where we went so wrong.</code> Before MS killed Visual Basic 6, it was also almost this easy..
There are a lot more large pieces of space junk in LEO than that. We track about an order of magnitude more than that above 5cm diameter. Exploded upper stages, debris from collisions, discarded separation bits and pieces, no-longer-active satellites.

4000 is still a large number, especially at a higher LEO altitude where junk lasts forever. There's a reasonable case to be made for shifting to a regime where we require that satellite providers remove more mass and more pieces of debris from orbit than they put into orbit. But we don't want to split the baby and force them into bankruptcy either. The weak interim guidance might be that built-in deorbiting devices are required for anything with more than a ~10 year orbital lifetime. This doesn't end the Kessler Syndrome cascade, but it at least doesn't contribute very much. Presently there is only a ~25 year voluntary initiative, and adherence is not universal.

The most advanced initiative in this area is the geosynchronous graveyard belt, which the FCC enshrined into law for US telecom providers, but even that fails a large fraction of the time.
If you are on the inside and you think the issue is pay scales and job descriptions, surely you've tried to fix these issues and have some data instead of a rant?

Not trying to be sarcastic here, but actually interested th the results
I get the feeling margins have gotten so slim in the music industry (at least for the big labels) that they feel they need to make a big play. Apple, with their almost iconic relationship with the music industry, seems like the right move to them.

What I think they don't realize is at this point (IMO) it's probably going to end up being a fruitless effort.

They're competing with empowered independent artists, whom alot of times only have to earn a paycheck to pay themselves, who simply love music and don't care about fame or becoming wealthy from their efforts. Most of them care about making great music and making a modest living doing so.
It sounds like you're just struggling while on your way to your own 'black triangle' moment.. It's a good thing! The reward is totally worth it!

http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
My domain was on an Ubuntu LTS server that had reached the end of the LTS, so I had to move it a couple weeks ago. I created a new virtual server at Rackspace with a newer OS.

Within a very short time, there were several different IP addresses from Russia trying to guess the passwords for root and several other common accounts.

Not too long after, Chinese IP addresses joined the party.

Note that this was before I had finished migrating my domain to the new server (the Russians showed up before I even started the migration). None of my DNS entries pointed to the new server yet. They probably are scanning all Rackspace IP addresses looking for new servers. I would expect that the same happens at other major server providers.

I don't know if CISA is the right approach or not, but we need to do something to defend against this stuff.

If CISA is not the right approach, the opponents need to start suggesting an alternative that addresses the problem better, because otherwise the pressure is going to mount to pass something, and if CISA is the only proposal available that will be the one that passes.
Pretty much this. I was working on a simple Rails app to get familiar with Rails and someone mentioned Docker to me. So I went to their website, did the tutorial, didn't understand why this is essential or better and just pushed to Heroku instead. Half of the time, if not more, I have no idea why this or that technology is being pushed so much or mentioned or whatever. And the landing page is not making it easier. Sometimes I feel like web development is more complicated than it should be.
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Oh, do you know where I can read about that? Never heard about it before.
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I don't mean this as a knock on the author, but outside of full-scale books does anyone know of some resources that go more in depth with building nontrivial systems/apps/programs in Elixir? I would love to dive further but I find my limitation at this point is my understanding of OTP and the core methodologies, but want to get some more familiarity before I take a dive in as deep as a book would require time-wise.

That said, awesome illustration of building something useful with a minimal codebase and really embracing the nature of what the language is built upon. :)
> It's not perfect, it doesn't perfectly encode every nuance of a performance in the same way a recording can.

There is a common misconception that music notation (at least the European kind) is about capturing a performance, or describing sound. It is not. The function of the notation is to preserve and communicate an abstract musical idea.

That idea is then interpreted by musicians and becomes a "performance". For example, in a jazz context 8th notes would be played "swinging", in a similar fashion to the "notes inegales" of baroque music. In early music in general, the idea is that the notes convey only the gist of the music, and the performer is expected to elaborate on them with ornamentations and diminutions.

This double life of the music, as an eternal abstract idea and an ephemeral, momentary sound happening, is perhaps the defining characteristic of the classical European tradition.
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Could he call it Skynet? Please?
What's funny is that CircleCI is one of a million CI deployment services out there too.
You can do the same non-focused window dragging in OSX by holding down command. Actually, you can interact with the unfocused window when holding down command, click buttons, etc.
Google is interested in deploying a global data network, hitting all the places that have never seen a fiber installer. They're pursuing every avenue available for that simultaneously - long-endurance balloons, solar drones, and LEO satellites; They are involved in SpaceX's project.
The incentives facing event organizers are quite bad. If only one side throws a fit then non-martyr event organizers will normally capitulate to their demands. Its hard to align the incentives without suggesting people on the free speech side act like the SJ types.
Speak to your hosting provider about options they have.

While considering Cloud based storage don't forget about bandwidth cost / latency.
Depend on your application workload.

Maybe, SSHFS can do the trick for you.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

..depend on your use cases
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As promised flags are now visualized.
If the losses cannot be written off, then you have this weird situation, where let's say in California you have a top tax rate of 52.9% combined, a person could've spent $500,000 on lotto tickets or raffle to win a $1 million and still end up with a loss.
Look at a graph of log GDP for the world or the US over the last 200 years. Why does it keep going up? Mainly because of technology. If you want an accurate, rather than pithy, summary of the effects of technology, it would be "technology gives us more and better things" or "technology makes the world richer". Distribution is an issue, but without technological growth there would be nothing extra to redistribute in the first place.
Scientists create first computer simulation of a complete organism
Ok, I went through your presentation, it does give more background. Let me re-raise my concerns.

- You are based on Qt 4.x. Why? The 5.x branch is better in every respect (yes, bugs, but that's fixable). This project is breathing life into a version of the lib which really should be dead. I think this is a net negative for Qt.

- Why is this the first most of us in the Qt community hear about it? The project is basically coming out of nowhere, imposing itself as this shiny new thing when it has critical flaws and the only point of contact is an email address and a forum with 0 posts in it. Feels like it was developed in complete secrecy.

- (minor) Autotools build system, really? You're not going to get much respect about this from most Qt devs. Why not just use cmake?

- I'm concerned about the entire way this project came forward. You don't have a git repository. You claim you will but claiming things is easy - the question it immediately raises is why don't you have a git repository yet? (And this comes back to what I was saying earlier about developing this in secret).

The lack of a repository is the second most important issue after 4.x, I think. Git repos aren't just "the code". They're insight into how development happens (are commits clean and readable? is it easy to contribute?), insight into who contributes (is it a corp? how many people are working on this?), into whether upstream changes are being pulled down, etc.
Reminds me a lot of the game Defcon. I love it!
Stopped reading after the first part of the first sentence: "Ernest Hemingway, who may well be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer..."

I don't understand why people like him. He sucks. Back in high school AP English, his book was the only required reading I just couldn't bring myself to finish because the writing was so terrible. If it wasn't a professionally bound book on the required reading list, I'd have mistaken it for an attempt at writing by another high school student in my class who lacked literary talent (as well as vocabulary skills appropriate to the most advanced English class my high school had to offer).

To me it seems like there's some shadowy cabal of literary critics who magically decided to appoint him as a great writer with no reason whatsoever, and their influence is so powerful that his praises are spoken in locations and times as diverse as a mid-century issue of The New Yorker, a millenium-era AP English required reading list, and #13 on a 2015 HN frontpage.

What am I missing?
Very good--and ambiguous--play. There's been a fair amount of historical research on the meeting but the play itself is ambiguous enough that it doesn't really matter what actually happened. There's a 2002 BBC production that is probably available. If you're in the Boston area, the Central Square Theater has a production next year.
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While I generally totally agree, when it comes to banks anymore this is not nearly as true when you are small or the bank large. I had an amazing relationship with my prior banker who happened to be with Bank of America and it got to the point that he couldn't help us with anything even a simple notarizing of an important document because it didn't originate from his branch. He used to waive stupid fees for teller help etc but couldn't anymore. Given the amount of money I was pushing through his branch I also got very good terms personally before, not anymore.

So I switched to a smaller bank, not tiny but where we could get better service and have been much happier.

I researched carefully, PNC, TD, BBT and a number of regional banks. Finally went with PNC and have been really happy. And while they aren't perfect they really do stress the local relationship and do their best to help out. Even at that they still are a bank and it is no longer the old type of relationship where a branch manager could really do a lot for you.
As a spokesperson for the label?
'course it's true it's a hypothesis.
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In the interactive part it helped me to use debuggers.

It's a bit harder with callback heavy languages, but it helped me big times when I started developing.

With a good IDE and a debugger, you can read while you step through and actually see whats happening.

Also it helped to ask the devs of the code on their architectural design decisions. Especially in the Java sphere where many design patterns get used and you find yourself often "Why didn't she code this more straight forward?!"
I need something smart enough to beat the microwave.
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Just at a glance, it doesn't seem to record the requests. This would be a great stealth survey for problems to solve if it saved the requests anonymously.
If you raised $1.6B, it doesn't sound like fundraising was the problem... or did the incumbents try to strong-arm the project?
Yikes! Is this realistic? There seems to be a doctrine that ICBMs will only be launched upon receiving a complete nuclear strike, and once that happens it's pretty much game over.

This makes fighter jets a critical buffer because the only way a defense can prevent mutually assured destruction is to prevent non-ICBM first strikes.
I believe they would be low enough that if they failed they would pretty quickly fall back into the atmosphere, and be replaced on the fly. I'm pretty sure I heard this in his talk about it in Washington on youtube.
By which definition?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid
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You're really that skeptical that an artist who has been dominating pop stations for years is upset that more and more of her listeners are moving to a nearly revenue-less distribution stream?
Technically these issues are solved with what I indicated is always missing: time. What you outlined is accurate: proper testing also requires proper planning for tests. For more complicate projects, you don't just start writing them without mapping out everything that needs to be done - and how to go about it. And yes, when code changes, more time must be invested into refactoring the tests.

This disastrous ecosystem exists with QA too (which is again, a form of testing). A lot of companies - usually the smaller ones - don't invest any resources at all for QA. Others just do point-and-click smokescreen tests that'll discover bugs that are blatantly obvious (also typically the ones the developer should never have committed to begin with). Real, proper QA? That requires investing serious time into test cases - completely figuring out every possible interaction and scenario that can take place. All before a single actual test is run. And similar to unit/functional tests, QA test cases need to be reviewed whenever the smallest bit of functionality changes.

The reality is that most employers who "want test cases" want there to be a magical solution that gives all the benefits, without any effort.
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Some of the day-to-day duties of an Application Engineer at Rescale are:
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