skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Splitting teams along the API boundary is a sure way to get crappy API's. To get good API's you need to dogfood the API. In other words the team that writes the server side should be writing at least one of the clients consuming the API.
Greece does not want to affect their pensioners? What? Greece has already made massive cuts across the board on Government services, including pensions.
I really appreciate your warm gesture. I wish my neighbors are just as kind as you are, sir.
This seems to be something that would benefit from standardization and modularity...

Pausing for a second, going back a second in time or changing how long a second is all are hacks that are bound to cause some edge case failure somewhere. I'd like to see a minute have a 60th second just as February has a 29th day.
As an introvert 3 hours in a private office or even cubicle is probably equivalent to working 6 hours working in an open office space in terms of productivity.
I just ran into this very problem.

My workaround includes checking the window width with JQuery and changing the fixed status box (originally on the right side of the page) to floating at the top should the width be below a certain margin.

Is this an acceptable solution?

(I am just beginning web dev in lisp)
Numbers don't lie: there is virtually no interest in high level synthesis
How we built our tests parallelization framework with docker
That's a reason to set appropriate scale factors, not to prevent zooming entirely.
> But after I left school and started The Commute things got hairy.

> I switched to Google Fi about a week ago and the service is already much more incredible.

Do you mind explaining this further—you mean calls/texts were getting dropped while you were on the road with RW? I'm trying to decide between Republic Wireless and Project Fi myself, I've got about a 30 minute commute each way.
Incoming ban on office headphones to improve "communication" ...
Yes, but people coming from java or c# or something will like it. Despite it being just syntactical sugar. I wasn't about to list out all the benefits of es6, that would take several entire blog posts.
Frankly it's more infantile that Americans insist on talking about "restrooms" when it's clear you're not going there to have a lie-down.
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Was there not a recent blog/article that mused about the likelihood of systemd spawning all manner of special case entries?

And now i ponder likening systemd with CISC...
As a non-native English speaker, I find the omissions of "the" very prominent and interesting in SpaceX speech. "shortly before first stage shutdown", "resulting in loss of mission", "139 seconds into flight", "some period of time following separation", "data to determine root cause" -- is this a general theme in engineering or journalism? I wonder what linguists have to say about this.
8+Characteristics+of+Software+Developers+at+Atomic
Autonomous cars and man's future. Revolution is coming
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The article goes over how one marketer increased email optins from 3.9% to 9.14% in a month
Anonymity seems to appeal most to the dregs of society. Whatever the intentions of the developers, I honestly can't see this ending well.
The only legitimate reason I know of: if your site is interpreting touch events directly, and you use pinch-to-zoom yourself; for instance, full-page maps. In that case, it's your responsibility to make all your non-zooming elements (such as the fixed UI overlay on the map) appropriately sized for the device.
Adam Smith was a genius, and the foundation for much of the field of economics, but not an old-testament prophet or an oracle. His work has been built upon and surpassed by extensive research in the field today.

I mean, I'd be quite happy to trot out sources like Is there consensus among American labor economists? Survey results on forty propositions (Whaples, 1996) -- or another of the similarly titled papers in that series -- to illustrate there's a scientific consensus against the minimum wage, but worry that it's a mere two decades out of date. :P
Granted, assuming you trust your own judgement about other people's values. Still, something doesn't feel right to me. It sounds too much like a "cognitive dissonance" type of justification for acting against one's own values. You have a lot more certainty about the effect and morality of things you yourself are doing, and a lot uncertainty about how much damage this other person (who would happily fill in for you) is doing now instead. It's hard to know if one less person willing to do "bad things" would simply cause another person (who doesn't care) to "turn bad". Or to put it more extreme: you don't become a dealer of illegal drugs because someone else will sell the drugs instead who would spend the earnings worse than you.
> bitcoin solves that problem and doesnt require stashing money into a mattress

Some people feel more comfortable with their understanding of physical security than digital security.
If zooming is disabled, the browser can respond to clicks without a 300ms delay since it doesn't have to wait for a double-click zoom. It seems like the best solution to this problem would be to make a global toggle in settings.
I am very excited about the SparkR package. I have it set up on my desktop box and look forward to seeing what models and learning algorithms will work well with it. There really is no runner up to R in terms of the variety of statistical models, now what it needs is to scale up.
I hope you'll post a follow-up to that in a few months, I am curious about it.

My (unsubstantiated) opinion is that the contact with a physical piece of paper (emphasis on physical) has much more impact than we think.

Personnaly I like zen doodling :).
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I think you can get the right result with a media query, assuming those are recomputed on zoom, which they should be.
I can imagine they went silent because it's an awkward issue and they are trying to avoid it. I know I am more likely to respond to the problem emails I can solve quickly than those that are more difficult.
When Facebook Grappled with the Ultimate Build versus Buy Decision
One of the co-authors here, we are planning to release the source code on GitHub in a few days.
As a bit of an aside, cgmanager got kinda sidelined thanks to the cgroups kernel maintainer at one point insisting on there being only one cgroup management process. And as systemd did both init and cgroup management, it ended up being favored...
Does anyone know why Alito apparently recused himself in this case?
You spent a year and a half trying to get your money back. A few hundred bucks to a lawyer is pretty small compared to that.

That said, small claims court is kind of made for stuff like this.
It wouldn't be more expensive. Coke uses HFCS because of the corn subsidy. If that went away, they'd surely revert to sugar.
I think there's a difference between working for free and doing occasional favors if you have the time and it's a two way street (no need to keep score, just in general).

Work often implies responsibilities and demands. There can be none in a favor.

> it makes sense to do those things for them.

I try to "teach them to fish", not just "give them the fish", though. Unless it's too complex or we're too pressed for time.
From experience, I can say that it's stressful and unsatisfying to do approximately "nothing." I recommend taking a hard look at your finances and setting up some kind of concrete goal(s). Take that class, build that joke app, polish your resume -- Whatever it is, just have your goal clearly defined and at the right difficulty level. You've basically just been transported forward in time 2 years and you're sure to have a lot of culture to catch up on, friends, family and acquaintances with whom to reconnect, and reflective thoughts to ponder. Don't be too hard on yourself as you build a new foundation from which you'll make your next move. As for money, my advice is to be wary of stringing along odd jobs for income. I think that kind of instability does more to harm your environment of freedom than to extend your runway of cocoon-mode.
If they are truly going down and are a LLC or otherwise incorporated, there's probably not much you can do. Going forward, there are a few options:

- If you are doing project-based work with specific deliverables, delay delivery of the project until payment is received.

- Ask for a deposit from the client up front to cover such an eventuality. Depending on how much you want to cover your risk, this could be somewhere between 1/2 to a full month's worth of pay. To the client, if they ever want to terminate your consulting agreement, this becomes part of the last month's pay.

- Ask to be paid in advance for your work, stop working if payment isn't made in advance.

- Setup your consulting agreements so you are paid more frequently and stop working if you aren't paid when agreed. This limits the amount of money that could be owed to you.

If you are going to seek legal options for compensation in your current situation, you should try to do it before they shut down and still have assets. Of course you should consult a lawyer and get real legal advice from someone who knows the law before pursuing this option.
> and the JVM gives them that option

By using java.lang.Thread?
Ya, I mostly gave up on the headphones. I know correlation is not causation, but I've started to get ringing in my ears (the more likely causation is age). I don't do high volume, but these are my ears, no company gets to eff with them. If companies want low productivity and high dissatisfaction, why, they will get it. It's absurd, but its where we are.
street wisdom (or they...) says that roughly 95% of charity/help donations go to management and delivery of those donations, and only 5% is spent on actual goods (be it medicine, blanket, food etc.) that help people. it seems a bit over-the top statement, but then you realize how massive organizations (or corporations?) like UN are, employing thousands and thousands of people in most expensive parts of the world (New York, Geneva... seriously WTF?).

Here in Geneva, there are gazillions of non-profit orgs, then there are various organizations grouping those non profits and so on. Still talking about one of most expensive cities in the world. Yes, those people probably don't have private bank-levels of salary, but I know a people or two who are curently buying high-priced properties over the border in France, so they are more than OK.

Friend in quite high position in Red cross hates UN with passion, stating they are useless in real crysis scenarios, just bureaucrats etc. Not sure if that's an objective statement, but there is probably at least some truth there.

What I decided to do, at least for now - Amnesty International. Rather than putting bandage where bleeding, it might lead to improvement of system. And I pay directly organization of lawyers who actually try to do good stuff, not bureaucrats who travel all around the world and check some spreadsheets and do presentations.

But what one poster says here is probably one of best things - directly invest into treating people, no useless middlemen who, like it or not, also need to be payed.
Not a linguist but a writer here who loves language.

I'm seeing a lot of folks dropping articles. It's also becoming quite common to eliminate pronouns at the beginning of sentences, i.e., instead of "I went down to the store" you write "Went to the store"

I use this purposefully to jar the reader. I have no idea what the underlying linguistic reasons are.
Multiple UberPop drivers in custody in France
It's the infectious enthusiasm that draws me in. He was an awesome man.

I see some of the same qualities in Guy Martin's presenting style.
'Valgrind HOWTO' (OpenBSD)
Most likely, he owns stock.
As a child growing up in the 70s and 80s, our family used to love colouring these:

http://doodleartworld.com/
Scandinavian Unexceptionalism [pdf]
Not really. The non-profit branch implied that the completed work will belong only to the non-profit. With open source and creative commons, ultimately the intellectual rights still belong to you; you're just letting other people use your work for free.

You also don't have to release open source or creative commons work for someone else. If you look on github, most projects are the work of individuals, and released & maintained primarily by them and not a separate non-profit entity.

TDLR the author has forgotten that you can also work for yourself for free and not just other people
Not sure i would consider being part of the whole systemd blob as having "less dependencies".

Maybe if your chosen distro has adopted systemd already, but then the dependencies are masked but that fact rather than reduced in a real sense.
There have been "Adult" coloring books (often with a BDSM theme) being released for a few years now. Quite expensive, but I've had fun coloring the pages with other people at events.

You likely won't see sexually-explicit coloring books becoming popular on bestseller lists, due to the overall puritanical nature of the UK and the US. I wouldn't be surprised if some more liberal countries such as Denmark or Belgium's bestseller list reflected this.
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Most likely there is legal advice available for you for very little money. Ok, I am not in the US, but in Switserland you can have an 30 minutes of lawyer time for 50/100chf via local services. Similar things exist in the Netherlands. In the US, talk to one of the "ambulance" chasers, that is unlikely to cost you.

Legal options can cost a lot, but not for the first conversation. That first conversation is 90% of the value of a layer.
Isn't Mathematica very Lispy? It looks like R-expressions.
At times, it feels like, the more someone is paying you, the more they will respect you. Don't work for free unless they have a good respect for you otherwise you will be used. My own experience was trying to help out two non-profits with some IT work and they ask you for the world and treat you like shit.
I worked in a place that did that, it was terrible. When I started, it was part of the culture to have small conversations throughout the day and the team that I worked on had 3 people. The people that talked throughout the day left and eventually the team grew to 8 or 9 with most people wearing headphones. The manager decided that productivity had gone down because of headphones and decided that nobody would be allowed wear them anymore.
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I think it's a good thing (tm) that
{ x sin } could be valid code with x pushing the value of x whereas sin is executing the value of sin.

Theoretically speaking, I need at least the deff and defq distinction, otherwise { } could not be invoked during "parse" time. The defv case could in principle be removed, but as * needs to execute (otherwise nothing ever will), execution would need to be the default or I would need to decide based on dynamic type. The first option would mean a lot of superfluous {} (or | actually) around normal data variables, the second one would destroy the nice similarities between arrays, strings and functions with integer domains.
How? It should just zoom the viewport, there's no reason for any of the DOM elements to even be aware that it's happening. Or has this been implemented in a really stupid way?
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Ugh, now imagining trying to debug a really sneaky bug that costs $100 million every time it triggers...
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At a three month review back in 2005, I was criticised for "sitting there all day with headphones and not synergising with the team". Never mind there was no door to the office and a recruitment agency with 15 telephones and two radios 15ft away.

Didn't even make it to the end of the review before quitting.
I think the original article deals with working under contact for a start up, not as a founder. The context seems to be people with specialised skills who are approached by start ups for specific items of work (graphic design projects), with an expectation of free our cheap labour.

I agree with other commenters that if you are a cofounder, the situation is different. Since you are getting equity in consideration, as soon as it matters to get these legal protections, you must provide a license, and preferably, attribute ownership of the software to the company.
It's how engineers talk in this context.
Perhaps it makes economic sense to have you working less efficiently while saving a large amount on rent.

Perhaps if giving an office to an introvert developer they'd have to also give an office* to a large amount of other workers that work better with open offices such as extroverts and people whose jobs require a lot of communication and collaborative work* * .

* Because it is a status symbol.

* * Which actually covers developers, I sometimes wonder how much of the feedback here is wishful thinking "I'd be so productive if left alone" rather than actual data.
Absence of social class is debatable as most projects are structured hierarchically, and then being a FOSS celebrity does give you advantages. Not that those contradict anarchist principles, necessarily.

Absence of state is true for all software development until it isn't. Computer networking enables you to do things unfavorable to nation states up to a point, but at the end of the day there are various ways it can intervene to enforce copyright, patent or other form of law.

Absence of money isn't true. It's simply utilized differently than simple per-unit consumer transactions, though those aren't out of the question either.
The article doesn't mention doing away with client-server architectures but rather the separation of frontend and backend programmers which is indeed very harmful.
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> It is important that all data put in the lake should have a clear provenance in place and time. Every data item should have a clear trace to what system it came from and when the data was produced. The data lake thus contains a historical record. This might come from feeding Domain Events into the lake, a natural fit with Event Sourced systems. But it could also come from systems doing a regular dump of current state into the lake - an approach that's valuable when the source system doesn't have any temporal capabilities but you want a temporal analysis of its data. A consequence of this is that data put into the lake is immutable, an observation once stated cannot be removed (although it may be refuted later), you should also expect ContradictoryObservations.

> The data lake is schemaless, it's up to the source systems to decide what schema to use and for consumers to work out how to deal with the resulting chaos. Furthermore the source systems are free to change their inflow data schemas at will, and again the consumers have to cope. Obviously we prefer such changes to be as minimally disruptive as possible, but scientists prefer messy data to losing data.

So basically, a data lake is a fancy word for a file system?
Until last week, I was sat next to someone who drummed his fingers on the desk, drummed his feet on the floor, and swung on his chair like it was a playground ride. My productivity has shot up since I've moved away from him.
Sure, it can go spectacularly wrong. It really depends on the manager. I don't know this story at all, but I can see two possibilities:

1) This is a know-nothing manager who doesn't really know much, but somehow correctly identified the problem and picked the correct number out of the air.

2) He actually understood the market, the competition, and ground operations so well that he was able to correctly identify the problem and realize that 10 minute turnaround was possible.

I've had managers of both kinds. I was technical lead on a software project, and my manager was a PHB who never played with the software, and insisted that a positive, up-beat, can-do attitude could negate the actual facts. Which were that the software was going to be more time to build than he wanted. And then I've had the other kind, who understood the software, and therefore understood how much could reasonably be expected.
Ok, I finally get your point, thanks for detailed explanation.
This case is going to be especially relevant for Microsoft now that they are cloning Apple's iOS APIs: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges/project-islandwood

In my opinion implementing someone else's API should be allowed under the fair use provision of the copyright law. This is needed so that whoever came up with the API does not hoard applications developed for the API and stifle innovation and competition at the platform level, as Microsoft did for many years with the Win32 API.
Can you actually insure receivables in practice, or is this just something we've all heard about but never actually done?

My experience with receivables over my consulting career leads me to believe that any insurance you could actually acquire for them would come at a stupendously high premium.
The split between backend and frontend is not arbitrary; it is based on client-server paradigm and it has worked well.
How in the world could that article miss out on any of Theo Nicole's amazing coloring books, Mer World Problems, Unicorns are Jerks, Fat Ladies in SPAAAAACE, and Dinosaurs with Jobs.

These are fun adult/everyone coloring books with great art and humor and make amazing gifts. I've seen these sell out at conventions consistently.

http://www.amazon.com/Theo-Nicole-Lorenz/e/B005HHMSMY/
Not sure if I speak for all Australians, but to me "pee" and "poop" sound very juvenile. "Poo" and "wee" would be the standard options.

Hearing parents using terms like "willie" or "pee pee" with toddlers in place of "penis" strikes me as really odd and awkward.
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There's useful reasoning in there beyond your summary. For example, the fact that "it's a good portfolio piece/exposure" is a big pile of BS is useful to know.
This makes me sad : Taxi drivers in France are running private-hires most of the time (through radio-taxi, ambulances in rural zones, and trips booked for consulting / financial / lawyer firms over the phone...) They had abandonned the "on the streets" taxi business, unless for tourists they could rip off, and since Uber is making money and driving people back to transportation services they want to steal Uber's success. And they try to make it happen the worst way you could think of
> I really suck at confrontation.

When people become angry, uncertain, and mistrustful-- they physiologically hear less. The ability to take an emotional temperature reading, both yours and the other party-- and deal with it, is vital in all interactions.

Here's an uncommon read on assertiveness by Stuart Diamond > www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZo6Lx70ok
... and people think debugging pure software problems are hard.
I wouldn't swap healthcare of today with healthcare from the 60s, though.
...and here I was ashamed to tell anyone about my very recent addiction to jigsaw puzzles.
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> Oslo’s “bee highway” aims to give the insects a safe passage through the city, lined with relays providing food and shelter – the first such system in the world, according to the organisers.

This reads like the bees are going somewhere? Like they are stopping off to feed on their way somewhere?
AFAIK bees have about a 3km forage radius from their hives - when the find food they bring it back to the hive.
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For what it's worth, using the viewport meta element to disable zoom is a WCAG AA accessibility violation: http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-accessibility-mapping/#zoom-magn...
What's even more amusing is that Microsoft sided with Oracle in this case. Looks like that's going to bite them in the ass soon.