skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero Dark Thirty is a good example of what I would consider poetry by Aesop.

http://genius.com/Aesop-rock-zero-dark-thirty-lyrics
Strikes me you could also go through the process using letsencrypt in a container (eg Docker on Linux) and extract the results.
Firefox dev tools have something like that (experimental)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/CSS_Coverage
Yes, in fact that is exactly what happens. Many of the people at Google who are level 3/4 SWE's (about 70% of engineers are at that rank, it is considered a junior level) feel that they are under-utilized, and there is a lot of angst at that level. Those people would probably have more important/impactful roles at other companies. Some do in fact leave for other companies, but many end up tolerating the situation as other aspects of working at Google compensate (stable, brand name, perks, etc.).

As for why management continues this interview process: probably because they can. Lots of people apply to Google, and they have a high acceptance rate for offers extended. There is also a historical aspect to it: "we have hired this way in the past, and it worked, so why change it?" and fear: "if we lower our standards, the company culture is at risk" The problem of low-level SWE discontent showed up on management's radar around the time that I left, so I'm not sure if they are doing things to change that.
I'm vaguely trying to learn spanish using Duolingo, but haven't been very diligent. I was hoping your chrome extension could be a more passive way of learning that integrates into what I already do, and which would let me stick with it as a result.

Unfortunately, the current version isn't. Unless I'm using it wrong, here's the process of learning spanish with your extension:

- I'm on a page
- I decide to learn spanish
- I click the extension button
- i click random words and see the spanish word for it

There's a lot of friction (I have to steps 2 and 3) for not a lot of pay off (I can choose to click words and see what the spanish version is). Also, the fact that it gets in the way of every link means I immediately turned it off.

May I suggest an alternate version:

- on every single page the extension is active
- pick some number of words (1% maybe?) to translate into spanish, while keeping the text in english. Underline them in green and let me mouseover if I don't understand
- when I'm reading the text, I will come across these spanish words and learn them in context

Much lower friction, and doesn't get in the way so I won't turn it off.

WDYT?
> “At an average (salary) of $200,000 per person, you can see the savings we’re going to get from an operations perspective.”

Wow, I guess I should've been a truck driver!
Well, if the PHP site gives you full control over the domain, then you have full control over the domain, don't you?

The security issue there is not the fact that MitM becomes slightly easier, it's that you can alter the site for all visitors and don't need MitM.
If you're getting paid $200,000 to do drive a set route in a truck then you deserve to be replaced by a robot. The justification for getting paid this much for such a monotonous job is ridiculous. Their union better be sweating.
TIE!!!
"The Crying of Lot 49" by Pynchon // "The Demolished Man" by Bester // "Ubik" by Dick
!!!
There's a /bin/sh because libc needs it, but we're going to remove that one too in the future somehow.

But /usr/bin/env is in nixos to make it easy for people to run scripts. But packages never use /usr/bin/env, it's just there for convenience.
Poor security, buggy software and over-reliance on cloud hosted "intelligence" could become the Achilles heel of IoT.

Unfortunately PHBs rush in, jostling to dominate the new opportunities which IoT promises. The result could be a slew of meh products that work poorly and hardly ever interoperate with other brands.

IoT products could become the VCR blinking 0:00 of this decade.
Hasn't the luddite argument already been addressed by economists in general? Do we need to have it every time? Remember when a high percentage of humans worked in agricultural jobs?
Rather than solving Newton's equations for gravity (with initial conditions determined by the masses of the bodies, their position and velocity) he simply calculated the acceleration and a point in time .. advances time by a small bit, changes velocity (based on acceleration) and location (based on the velocity) by a small bit and then repeats (computersare good at doing the same thing iteratively). This is using a computer to numerically estimate differential calculus.
It's a different approach. That's basically an implementation using ostree. Nix is way different than that. Neither is better in my opinion, but I use Nix happily.
There are a lot of variants of bullfighting. My favourite is typically Portuguese and probably the most 'fair': an organized group of men trying to catch the bull with bare hands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcado

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t8_iDGChs8U
Lovely illustrations.
This comment reminds me of South Park's "Dances With Smurfs" episode.
Don't forget raising animals for meat, growing food to feed animals, and growing food for export to feed animals. This accounts for more water than almonds that seem to always be the scapegoat.
Is your work for domestic or commercial applications?

How do you cope with the support issues when things don't interoperate?
Extremely bad title. This is about one startup, not startups.

If they do want to do some properly backtested analysis of the predictive value of various financial indicators versus expected value across many startups though, that would be great.
Calif produces food for the whole nation.

Yes, but it's not like the rest of the nation can't pick up the slack, just that we export a lot of food from California. For example, there are lots of places in America where cattle are farmed, and cattle farming if water-intensive, so do we really need to be rasing cattle in California? I am OK with paying a bit more to get beef from other states.

California has a huge comparative advantage in the production of some crops like wine grapes and almonds, there is some economic value in preserving a comaparative advantage where one already exists. But we could probably shut down quite a bit of our agricultural production without creating any national drop in food security, it would just make California a bit more expensive of a place to live.
So something like this?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-immersion...
Mountain View, and probably many other cities in California, have already made that declaration, and other restrictions.
Even if a MITM can intercept HTTP requests to your server, they still can't hijack your registration attempt.

The real problem is that if somebody can intercept your HTTP traffic, they can register their own account key. After all, they can control your domain, and that's all letsencrypt cares about! If you haven't already registered an account key, I can't see how anything would stop them. If you already use a different CA and don't want to bother with letsencrypt, you might never find out either!
The argument is not luddite or the oppression of technology. The argument is that we need to revamp our economic system to allow for the displacement of workers. The reality is that more and more jobs are 'bullshit' jobs and more people are becoming rapidly economically irrelevant.
Are you offering a job?
Implicit in your comments is that the founding engineers are in charge and you are not. Perhaps it is worth expressing your concerns to them, but perhaps not: it depends on if your workplace is the sort of place where the founders appreciate unsolicited opinions regarding the quality of their decisions.

In my opinion, there's nothing particularly wrong from a business standpoint with posting a Flash/Flex position on a Python focused job board: if you're not seeking Python engineers, then being perceived as having poor manners by Pythonistas doesn't make much difference for recruiting one way or another. That's not to say it's a good strategy, but most people won't care. That's sort of the sense I get in regard to your company's founding engineers as well.

Good luck.
There's some penny pinching, for sure - I had a coworker whose brother is on the iPhone hardware team and they have a lot of trouble with samples coming back from manufacturing with the wrong resistor here or a missing capacitor there to save a few bucks, because the factory sees it as overengineering, but doesn't understand the purpose it's built for.

That said, relying on an older processor may actually not save money. Sure, there's a premium on the absolute newest processor, but in general what's cheapest is what is most mass produced Right Now(tm).

I think a z80 on something like this was likely similar to the reasons that NASA control systems typically use the most reliable hardware they can, which means something that has been in use for many years.

For HVAC, maybe a little of each, but also the software may have been written to the z80, and if you change that out, you have to do all the testing you'd have to do if you built a new machine.

I often think back on this old chat I had with my grandfather, where he kind of tilted his head at something I was explaining about 90s tech and said something like:

"Interesting. In my day, we programmed the software to the hardware, it kind of seems like now you all are programming the hardware to the software."
I think that the PO criticism is this: An incompetent or indecisive PO can cripple an agile process. That's true, but (except possibly in the case of a startup), there's always a non-technical layer of management over you somewhere, and if that layer is incompetent or indecisive, your project is equally in trouble. Labeling that layer "PO" and the process "agile" changes exactly nothing about the problem.

I've been in an agile process. It worked, mostly, but it broke down when the PO didn't have the time to do the work. (It was huge for an agile team - 30 people - which put a huge amount of pressure on the PO position).

For the next project, the PO "didn't have time" to give us actual requirements - just "improved reporting". In the most amazing display of agile that I've ever seen, the development team lined up a series of customer conference calls to expose their requirements for reporting, and proceeded to run the entire development process without a PO. And that worked amazingly well...

... right up until three weeks before the scheduled end of the project. (We were probably going to miss by a week, on a six-month project.) Then product management showed up and said "We like what you're doing. But we need these additional things as well. Oh, and we can't change the end date." Predictably, that was the end of agile, as well as the end of any management reality for that project. (You think you can add three months of work without changing the end date? The real world will demonstrate to you that you cannot in fact do that.)
Arch is great. The only reason I switched away from it were the occasional manual intervention updates which could just mess up your system if you weren't paying attention.
What Is “What Is Code?”
There are two things that you might be seeing. One is the 'religion/mysticism vs. science/engineering' argument. The other is that many Chinese nationalists see positive comments about the Dalai Lama as a cover for anit-China sentiment. In their minds, anything pro-Dalai Lama is proof that Chinas enemies are conducting a smear campaign agains China.
The kind that they can solve at a computer with a real code editor.
Heh. At least, we don't have to have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) anymore navigating down the registry tree. It's a completely different story though, if one is going to edit the complete .reg dump, and import the settings from there.
iOS finally at some point added the alt text to the click and hold menu.
We'll All Eat Less Meat Soon – Like It Or Not
Or not, right?
Odd to see so many people focus on the slider. I don’t really care about the slider--meaning I'm neutral on it. What I do like is your copy for describing the sentiments. I threw the slider back and forth just to see all the options. Unlike other surveys, it felt like it more accurately resonated with me over other likert scales:

http://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/likertscales....

I think that made the biggest difference on getting people to contribute. It felt like the data was going to represent me. This is probably a small experiment, but if you’re thinking about this mini-site as a form of lead generation for WorkShape…then your main goals should be around getting people’s credentials and having it spread to their coworkers.

I would highly recommend figuring out how to give people accounts without passwords needed up front. It should feel almost like a mailing list at the end of the survey…

“Thanks! Let us know your email and we’ll check back in on you next week.”

Bonus points if you explain clearly why tracking this weekly is good for them. Then in your confirmation email, you can say you generated a password and you can follow their stats over time through this login link.

Your secondary goal should be explicit as well (if it’s what I think it is).

“Want to track how your entire team is feeling this week? Send them a link.”

Repeat on telling them why that’s a great idea. Right now, everything seems a little too subtle. Of course, I know you were probably just whipping this up to get it out the door.

Again, the copy is the best part of this site. If you change anything on the interface, be sure to leave that alone. Good luck taking this further!
Let's look at this slightly
differently: Suppose the 10
year old child the CPS abducted from
playing safely in their back yard
was -- right, you guessed it --
a girl.

In this case some fathers might --
I won't if only because I'm not a
father -- might, ..., might,
right, what's the term?

CPS abducted his 10 year old
daughter: Zuilly makes a bundle
selling pretty princess and angel
clothes to grand parents for their
grand daughters, often just 10.
Those princess, angel clothes
indicate some of the protective
emotions grand parents and parents
have for daughters, e.g., Perfect
Daughter. In our society, there
are strong norms that girls are
cared for, protected.

And CPS abducts her? Perfect daughter?

Am I getting to make this situation
clear?

Okay, maybe it's her dear dad
or her dear uncle, one or both
fresh back from Akrapistan,
maybe Army Rangers, maybe
Seal Team 6. And CPS abducted
Perfect Daughter playing safely
in her backyard?

CPS might be in line for a Darwin
award.

Looks like Perfect Daughter
needs two or three very devoted,
young, healthy German Shepards or
Rotweilers.

CPS overreach is not all just
click bait: I know a family,
well known coast to coast, in
US finance, famous name,
wealthy, generous philanthropists.
Well, at one point a son of about
8 in the family fell and, maybe,
bruised his arm or some such.

Well, somehow CPS paid a visit. Insisted
on getting involved. Issued
this and that order
to the parents.

Absurd. Wacko. Overreach.

If my startup works, I
get financially comfortable,
and CPS or some such
makes trouble for
the nephews, nieces, etc.
in my family, then
I will go to a big, powerful,
all-go, never-stop,
nail'em to the wall law
firm and see just how much
legal trouble we can cause
CPS and its wackos.

If they want a legal fight
and my checkbook is much
thicker than theirs, then
bring it on. It will be
a good purpose for my startup
work.

I don't like gumment
wackos hurting
families and children.

It's happened. It shouldn't.
In addition to those government issues, there's less cash flowing from the non-existent workers to [local] businesses, which means that infrastructure from those businesses is no longer sustainable. The internet does that too.

Futurologists of the past speculated that salaries earned by machines would be shared out to civilisation (to allow us to stop working), but it's gone in another direction.
Proof terms in Idris (2015)
He was shadowbanned for good cause a very long time ago.

In partial answer to his question, the Manhattan Project wasn't trying to create a polished weapon, and the weapons it created were very crude and not very many steps from the lab bench. The F-22 also had a goal of totally outclassing the previous generation of air superiority fighters, which it handily does; compare to our first operation jet fighter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star

ADDED: From the Wikipedia article; we aren't comparing the same thing at all:

It was estimated by the end of production, $34 billion will have been spent on procurement, resulting in a total program cost of $62 billion....

So more like $34 billion for R&D and all the units manufactured. I think total program cost is what it'll take to keep the fleet flying until they're retired, e.g. engine repair and replacement, maybe even an avionics mid-life kicker.
Coin Center holds major Capitol Hill briefing for senior congressional staff
I don't know how a culture like Spain's can call this a "sport". The whole game is rigged against the bull; if the bull does get an upper hand, he is quickly shooed away and the matador saved. And I also can't understand how the matadors can act all macho and stuff, when they have the whole cavalry behind them, so to speak.

It'd be closer to being a 'sport' if it was just the matador against the bull, mano a mano.

I'm very glad that Catalonia has banned bullfighting: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/europe/adeu-to-catal...
> nix-shell can now be used as a #!-interpreter. This allows you to write scripts that dynamically fetch their own dependencies. For example, here is a Haskell script that, when invoked, first downloads GHC and the Haskell packages on which it depends:

Wow, that sounds super useful! I'm finding more and more default.nix and shell.nix files scattered through my hard drive, along with wrapper scripts for invoking nix-shells.

I can probably replace a lot of these with appropriate shebangs :)
Things you must be afraid when using nix:

1) If you install a bad grub, you cannot rollback it using nix. That means, not a wrong grub line, but if grub itself is broken.

2) Anything that is not under nix control, the data: like desktop configurations, databases, ecc.
Who's using Jekyll?
It's probably fully-loaded cost, so salary is 50-75% of that, but yes, doing a temporary and undesirable job for a large company in some remote barren location generally pays well.
Second hack of federal records hit intelligence and military personnel
The parens around salary make me think that whoever was quoted originally said "cost" or a more specific term than that. I don't know how it is in Canada, but in the US I believe it's typical for less than half of what a company spends on an employee to be their actual salary (the rest being payroll taxes, benefits, and stuff like that)
IoT is great for tinkerers and hackers. It's kinda cool to have the watering system turn on as you unlock the front door. Changing the colour of the lights when your phone rings is fun too.

As for the average consumer, where are the use cases that make the over-priced products appealing?
> But twaddle it is.

That's a bit harsh, don't you think?

> The failure of poetry in the modern world is a result of the rejection of concrete experience as the foundational matter of poems. This has been accompanied by the abandonment of the physical rhythmicities of speech (including rhyme) as the basis of poetic structure.

In "Ranking Contemporary American Poems"[1] Michael Dalvean uses natural language processing and rudimentary machine learning to prise apart the language poets use. What he finds is that professional poets tend to (among other techniques) use more concrete language than amateur poets. This is because imagery relies on concrete imagery to effectively evoke emotion. And it the emotive force that moves us. So, no, poets (proper ones) haven't, as you say, rejected concrete experience. In fact, it is one of the things that distinguishes them from rank amateurs. Secondly, what has been abandoned is not "the physical rhythmicities of speech" (metric verse?) but rigid form. That is the achievement of contemporary verse -- free-form verse or projective verse[2] or whatever you want to call it. Consider, in the same light, the flight from representation in the visual arts that swung through impressionism and rattled past abstract expressionism. Poetry followed suit, at a slower pace. It is not twaddle, it is experimentation (pardon the clumsy word) with form and it has its own "bitter logic" in its progression as Mr. Lerner explains.

Really, where poetry intersects computation is the current frontier -- Lerner does not even allude to this. There you'll find, perhaps, your meat.

[1] http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/1/6

[2] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-creeley ("Olson and Creeley together developed the concept of “projective verse,” a kind of poetry that abandoned traditional forms in favor of a freely constructed verse that took shape as the process of composing it was underway.")
Yes, rather than decreased work all we have is increased consumption (which is slowly destroying the planet).
Even if that were true, doesn't it matter more what he's done in the 50 years since then?
"The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker
You have to not do that. Cycles you don't use cost absolutely nothing. Indeed, they may actually reduce jitter if you're careful ( they should not but that's another story ) .

This is the ultimate YAGNI.
A month of inactivity and an issue that is 12 days old, and someone is trying to fork the project under a new name?

Seems kind of fickle and impatient. Gogs is a great project, and that thread doesn't seem to imply that it's dead only on a brief hiatus. If development resumes will the new fork merge back in, or will it try to compete?
Not all shareholders live and pay taxes in the same place that the displaced workers do. Also, rates of taxation on dividends and capital gains often differ from those on wages, though I haven't looked up the specific rates in Canada.
Have you looked at third-party tools? Postgres may not come with everything builtin, but it supports the necessary underlying features for external tools like Barman[1] to work.

[1] http://www.pgbarman.org/
YouTube Announces YouTube Gaming, a Standalone App to Compete with Twitch
Robotic labor will be taxed and regulated in the near future, in most countries, to force such outcomes. Restrictions will be put on robot output or on how many human-hours equivalent they can operate per day.

Within a decade or so we'll see marches in the streets by lower-income laborers arguing for these changes. Robots don't vote, so it's obvious what will occur eventually.
Map of Train Travel Time to Any Point in Europe from London
Man, I really hope people contribute to this. It would be great to see the list of challenges with supposed difficulty level and expected amount of time needed to finish.

Someone should make a repo for testing designer skills as well. Thanks for sharing! This is really well done.
You may find "QuickTranslate" Chrome extension a good fit. It simply translates either the word your cursor points to or a selected text fragment - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-translate/nf...
One bad Buddhist clergyman doesn't mean they are all like that.

Analogically, there are both "good" and "bad" clergymen in catholism, protestantism, [insert your religion/beliefs here], but that doesn't mean they are all like that.
As they say, the creator is abroad, probably doesn't have much time to work on it. Far from dead, by any stretch of the imagination.
I've been using it for nearly a year. One comment I'd make is that learning the nix package language will make life much easier.

I've written a few thoughts about nix at http://chriswarbo.net/essays/nixos/