skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Plato v Aristotle: A clash between two ways of how to approach understanding of the world: mystical idealist and methodological, which would become scientific method."

The article mentions this epic intellectual clash but fails to make the connection to today. This battle continues between the ideas of Immanual Kant and Ayn Rand. Philosophically the battle is over the Primacy of Consciousness (Plato/Kant) and the Primacy of Existence (Aristotle/Rand). The future of Western Civilization hangs in the balance.
YC has been funding solar startups as well. The partners overall are also interested in this field and any single partner in an interview can fund a startup.
In the case of an instance with a satisfiable solution, it just increases the chances of a false negative.

When a solution exists, you want the check to be extremely strict; 0% let through instead of 99.999999%^(n^6).

When there's no solution, you want relaxed checks the allow non-satisfying solutions to get through after not-too-many-retries (so the algorithm can terminate).
3 female devs built a hilarious, awesome guide to periods that you should read
This is the kind of armchair comment that misunderstands how Silicon Valley works. You're right that stock value is disconnected from actual value (or productivity), but it's not right to connote there is no value at all.

The first crash was lack of startup fundamentals. By all means it was a Valley-induced bubble.

But the second was an external liquidity crisis uninfluenced by the fundamentals of startups. In the aftermath of both crashes, billions in value were created by small teams of software engineers in Silicon Valley, and that's real earnings/cash flow.
Harvard's Program on Negotiation.

'Any meeting, discussion, or human contact, is basically a negotiation.' is their stance, with a real emphasis on role play. Position vs. Interest, Group vs. 1-1, etc.

The role play exercises can be downloaded from http://www.pon.harvard.edu/store/
* Free for checking / testing with detailed notes for the trainer / post-exercise
* Low price for use (around $3 dollars/copy licensed use - super low for what they bring)

What do they bring? Really accelerated understanding of behavior (yours and theirs) in any interaction you have. This is be done via role-play and reflection, not a reading and 'know it' resource, so download a few and play them with colleagues.
Example graph visualizing Silk Road Bitcoins from second auction: https://www.blockseer.com/g/v9qpi1fO7v3k (Desktop Only)
What surprised me - average salary of $90k+. Does someone have any insight what this country produce to be able to pull of such pretty significant wages?
Hey I'm Matt, another member of the Convox core team.

SSL setup isn't in the product yet, but it's coming soon. For now you can set up SSL using the AWS cli: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Devel...
Table Saw called SawStop (won't cut your finger off)
This author is really on an anti MIcrosoft tear.

Her right to do so, but I don't agree with much of what she says.

Microsoft's data collection seems similar to what Google Now does. Sometimes I go on a privacy tear also but I just run a locked down Linux laptop for a while. I set my Windows 10 privacy settings. It took me less than a minute.

Also, P2P sharing of updates happens I think on local networks, at a company for instance.
It also appears that this $90k+ is less than GDP per capita - https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&... which is really weird.
I'm sure it can suck but compared to the US I think it's far better for the majority of citizens.

I'm saying this not as a European or an American with a particular bias either way but as an Australian who's been in both countries and frequently interacts with their citizens. I'm also someone who's worked in "low" positions (cooked fries at McDonald's) as well as someone who's worked in "high" positions (Software Engineer at a rather large company) and the conditions I've noticed in the US are just straight out bad.

I got more vacation time as a McDonald's fry cook than I do as an engineer at one of the world's largest tech companies (20 days McDonald's, 15 in US tech). And that company is one that's celebrated for being one of the "best" places to work in the US for its revolutionary benefits. The majority of those benefits are statutory back home or in the more affluent European countries.

Just have a look at some of the numbers:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_empl...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Americas

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_leave

- http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ (adjust by work life balance and watch it fall even further)

The US has no statutory parental leave, vacation time, very limited sick leave and a minimum wage that in many cases leaves full time workers living paycheck to paycheck. Switzerland by comparison has 4 weeks statutory leave, 14 weeks at 80% pay maternal leave, 3 weeks sick leave and while it has no government mandated minimum wage, most of the population are covered by union agreements giving them a minimum of $15k/year PPP adjusted (http://www.therichest.com/business/the-top-10-countries-with...), one of the highest in the world.

Sure there are some people who have it better in the US than Switzerland but the people right at the bottom get a lot more benefits from Switzerland than they do from America.
There were only 12 people in the study, this can't have any statistical significance. The differences they saw could be completely caused by chance.
> Programmers typically don't like politics and tend to argue using technical language. But that doesn't make politics go away, it just makes it subconscious. In fact, I am tired of people pushing their political agenda under the disguise of technical argument.

That's well said, I'm tired of this too.
I'd add google maps to that. Been wandering around Tokyo and Japan for a while on vacation and I've never once felt like I didn't know where I was going. Google Translate is also pretty good for translating text on signs through that photo functionality (sometimes the english is a bit rough, but still totally usable). Met a software dev last night at dinner who spoke little English (I speak pretty much zero Japanese aside from basic travel phrases) and we sat there with our phones out and had a great conversation about everything from baseball to work to family. That kind of connection would have been much more difficult without it.

Hell, call me crazy but maybe we could even add Snapchat to that. The "Live" stories where I can see snap videos from cities around the world is pretty cool.
Great book, author stopped by Stanford entrepreneurship class so you can watch her talk here http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3005
As one of the dokku maintainers, I wholeheartedly agree with ddollar. Convox seems extremely interesting to me, since our goal is a single-server heroku experience. I personally would never be able use Dokku in production exactly because of this, but its quite good for throw-away sites, as a test-bed for side projects, etc.

Good work ddollar. I quickly looked at the github repos and once I saw your name attached, I knew it was going to be a quality project :)
please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987226 first.
Common themes: a guy, living on his own (or with an often absent girlfriend), cooking simple dishes while drinking beer after working out. He has an ear fetish. There is a cat somewhere. Some magic realism and lots metaphors.

Conspicuous absence of bar/nighclubs, jazz, records, from that list.
We have a winner :)
Bidirectional path tracing. You send rays from the sun, rays from the camera, and try to connect them. The ones that connect are the ones that get computed for illumination.
I think routine is important. If you launch the same routine before sitting down to get to work then you can use the routine to get rolling even if you don't actually feel like. Also, the mind is inherently lazy. (Unfortunately "lazy" is the closest word we have, but it does not capture the emotion/state of dismotivation). In any case, you have to consciously choose to focus and ignore any self-generated distractions (I should check my email again) or false fatigue that will fade in 5 minutes once you start working.
> uber genuinely expanded the market by reducing friction?

Based on personal experience, I would have no trouble believing this (particularly for SF, Seattle, or other cities which lack a dense taxi presence). Prior to Uber's arrival in Seattle I walked most places or took a bus. I had never personally used a cab in my life until I went on a corporate trip at age 29, had no rental car, and there was nothing more convenient between the airport and my hotel. I think since then I've used traditional cabs ~four more times, two of which were in NYC.

On the other hand, I take Uber 2-3 times a week because it dramatically cuts down on time spent in transit and is essentially zero hassle.

It's an anecdote, but I expect I am not alone in dramatically upping my use of this sort of service due to Uber.
David had to go AFK, but thanks, on his behalf. I'll make sure he sees this :)
Reading your website now. All the more exposure, all the more to learn.

I do disagree with your assessment of Myers-Briggs and DiSC, however; perhaps that's because of my exposure to them differs:

I've always seen Myers-Briggs as an example of self-discovery, rather than putting others into a box. i.e. "Are you aware you do these things?" with the answer often "No" or "Actually, I thought I was the opposite." My first company did it for everyone in the on-boarding 2 weeks training/induction period. It was useful for self reflection.

DiSC: Every training I've been exposed to started really clearly with a line like "This is a tool for understanding people and their environment. Your home and work environment, for example, are probably different, and so is your communication in these environments. Likewise, your work environment changes over time and role. DiSC types are not about putting people into a box, and people are not a single type, but a combination of types with stronger weightings in some areas."
When was the last time two English-speaking countries went to war with each other?

When you can talk to "the enemy" without a language barrier, or watch their creativity on YouTube, or go for a virtual walk down their streets, it's a lot harder to support killing them.
Why do u say Uber was created to facilitate date rape ?
> There were only 12 people in the study, this can't have any statistical significance.

That's just mathematically untrue. I'm not saying anything about this particular study though.

(For example, here's a study with 12 healthy people that'll get you a statistically significant result. Have 6 of them run a mile, and for the other 6, have them run a mile with their legs tied together. You'll find, with plenty of statistical significance, that having your legs tied together worsens mile run time performance.)
Thank you for this, I modified it to be able to grab "all" posts/comments/likes from groups... and store them in an sqlite3 DB (because there is just too many rows for a spread sheet): https://github.com/slxh/facebook-scraper
Depends on how this is done. An objective framework to work in can help a lot, in which case supplying information does help, but selective disclosure can be dangerous.
Fair enough - but then we're talking about completely different things :)
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Indeed, it seems like the paragraph:

> After the talk about “Poetry, Drumming and Mathematics”, we arrived at the appointed time at the Bose–Einstein Guest House to find our man, with his mother, standing transfixed by the deer grazing on the lawns. We managed to prise him away for a while — here’s what followed.

is meant to provide that intro/context; but, like you and the grandparent, I was puzzled about who 'our man' was.
The sources of distribution for p2p sharing can be configured in the settings panel.

Setting 1:
"Download updates from multiple sources to get them more quickly?"
- yes
- no
(choose one)

Setting 2:
"Download apps and OS updates from Microsoft and..."
- PCs in my local network
- PCs in my local network and PCs on the Internet)
(choose one)
Interesting tour back in time. I had a loaner Smalltalk license in the early 1980s for my Xerox Lisp Machine.

As one commenter in the article mentioned, there is Pharo. Pharo is open source and very good.
Aside:
> we

everyone isn't in a developed region
@ddollar: This is Michael from Livecoding.tv
Do you want to demo Convox live on Livecoding.tv?
Would be cool to see this in action and ask questions
My email is michael@livecoding.tv
Accepting it would mean legitimizing the border treaty that costs them the larger stretch of land. Stranger things have happened.
I see Google a little adrift in many of their new ventures, from Google+ to date. But, however, they maintain a pretty solid strategy in the fundamental products that generate most of it revenue, which is pretty much the ad market.

I think that the urge to diversify their money, coupled with, "well, we have a lot of money" is causing Google to invest in many things that eventually turn to dead-ends. That makes Google seem a little adrift, from my perspective, but nothing that would put their business at risk.
Hey Michael that sounds great. Sending you an email now.
With all due respect, what a bunch of b.s. Goes to show that always being connected maybe isn't all it's hyped up to be. From the sound of it, it doesn't appear to produce any lasting insights.

p.s. Whoever typed "exec" to run a DOS program?

p.p.s. "Software is a dead. Digitarians know apps, games, and web browsers." WTF?
Credit card payment reversals keep merchants honest, they are disincentives to enact or continue unfair behavior against the consumer.
My argument is that they are not optimizing for lifetime value, and in fact are wrong. It's difficult to measure, thus they go for the route that is easier to measure. Classic McNamara/quantitative fallacy, and I think it applies cleanly here.
OOP is a naive and limiting approach and I avoid hiring anyone who advocates it. Very few problem domains are effectively modeled through the lens of inheritance.

Today's event driven programs are much more suited to functional programming.

All programs are data transformation pipelines.
My father is in his mid-70s and after a short stint in retirement went back to work about 5 years ago. He claims it's because of the money, but there's not a lot preventing my parents from selling their home and moving to a cheaper part of the country and living out their retirement years.

On the plus side, he was remarkably sharp and agile for a 70 year old. But his legs are starting to fail and that's made him age very quickly.

Now I can see it being about money (and health care), he's going to need knee replacement surgery and months of rehab. Something my parents will struggle to afford.

He's lived a fascinating life, and is full of stories, but to me he's also a warning about the need to cultivate non-work interests and stash away enough money to enjoy a long retirement enjoying those interests.
Any details about your EFI (I'm trying to figure out what that is).
Sounds like you like the hardware side of things, IoT is (I think) a risky place to be right now, but everybody says that is going to change in the coming years.

I think it is going to be incredibly valuable for companies to have somebody that can span both the software and hardware engineering, and it sounds to me like that is where your interests lie.
There's also http://tilde.club, although they haven't been accepting new registrations for a little while
Sorry I downvoted by mistake... I was trying to upvote so quickly that I pressed the wrong button. I love what you have built! Definitely spending the rest of the weekend playing with this...
Yes, they are probably posing as citizens of their other nationality. Generally they are probably bribing institutions to get their work done.

> Were there actually passport controls at the frontiers?

Generally any real passport control is probably implemented more as an extortion scheme. "Pay 50 ₹ or else!"
What a sexist statement. Women are different from men. Pffft!
> Should I jump into learning all the "new framework"-javascript, htmlX, <insert any new framework>, should I keep working on improve what I already do/like?

You may learn other things, but stick to what you know and specialize.

- You know C#, probably you could learn game development with Unity as it also uses C#. Game development has been in the churn due to VR. That's something that might be good in the next 5 years.

- You could push your JS knowledge a bit further then learn TypeScript, a superset of JS that eerily looks like C#. In addition, WebAssembly (imagine binary executable payloads over the web) is in the works - which means you can use any language (as long as it compiles to web assembly) to make stuff.

- If you go the electronics route, JS is also in the hardware and IoT (internet of things) business. There's the Tessel, a JS-powered hardware platform similar to Arduino.

I suggest not diving into hype-driven stuff. Go for the stuff that sounds very impossible at the moment, learn, and master it. That's what happened with JS during my time, calling it a "toy language". Look where it is now.
Kudos to those who go about it cheerfully, but I also fear it will be increasingly mandatory, as the top-heavy demographic crisis comes home to roost in many developed countries. By the time the median HN user is a "senior citizen", Social Security eligibility will start at what, 87?
This generation is fighting the largest class warfare battle in history and guess what. There is only mutually assured destruction.
Agree: OCR works nicely in OneNote without Retina.
Actually, Uber was not founded to facilitate date rape, nor does any quote about being a "baller" in any way imply that.
I urge technical people to explore non-technical subjects and general "well roundedness". I've gotten immense relaxation and satisfaction from community art classes, martial arts, yoga, etc. There's a powerful argument that technical work is inherently creative, but creative work without the technical is something else entirely.

I also urge technical people to study history, language, speech, public performance and public speech giving. All of those things give a sense of perspective, and abilities to confer with partners and customers on a level that most technical folks don't understand.

Public performance in particular enables one to overcome lots of fears and be able to talk in front of both crowds and executives. This capability is often rewarded in important ways that build one's career...and the only way to get good at it is to do it.
How about nyx.net? They've been around a long, long, time

http://www.nyx.net/
FYI - it would be so so helpful if the postings mentioned whether or not they support remote workers.
... most people do consider racism a bad thing.
Nice work. I implemented something very similar last year: https://github.com/jlafon/pynamodb.
"Everyone I know masturbates at work."
-- Beth Shreve

FTFY
Breaking things out into APIs is one way of adhering to the Single Responsibility Principle, which has nothing to do with politics. (Microservices are a good example of this, but so are basic things about software design like encapsulation.) I think the author's assertion is overly broad.

It reminds me (although I can't find any links, not sure how popular it really was) of the movement in the open source world for not needing the "private" keyword in Java if everything's open source anyway. It's a completely misguided fallacy to assume that encapsulation only happens due to politics and proprietary software.
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There is a difference between stating a scientific finding and making a prejudice remark. Especially when the former isn't thinly veiled support for the latter.

I guess I'm being oversensitive because I'm reading the OP as implying that the term "sexist" is thrown around inappropriately.
The leaking battery: A privacy analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API [pdf]
Universal Empathy Machine: Nonviolent Communication Explained by ComputerScience
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You may enjoy "Geek Heresy"

http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Heresy-Rescuing-Social-Technology...
Haha :)

We're excited about it, too. Hit us up via the www.convox.com Intercom button or support@convox.com if you have any questions.
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And when something like Google Maps enables my mobility like it does in a place I'm totally unfamiliar with, it's a lot more difficult to be guarded or reserved when traveling, because I'm not stressed about getting around, and I can enjoy the place more and meet people, which is sort of the point right?
Let me second the appreciative inquiry stuff. As a programmer, I'm used to looking for problems so I can fix them. But I wasn't nearly as good at consciously appreciating what was working well. It has been a big help in improving how I work with people.
TIL "polyannish" [sic] is a word.

Agree Ribbonfam peaked with the Gervais Principle essay. Agree with some of the criticisms here. Will add my own: the first three essays are somewhat accessible but after that the author is talking to the echo chamber which is his regular blog audience.
Unfortunately, as Pericles said, "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." (Sometimes also attributed to Trotsky)
Thanks @brudgers you nail it down a level, I still need to narrow down my question but so far so good.
It is a side project I started because I couldn't get the carburetors on my gs500 to work properly... so I said how hard can it be?
The project consist of a set of shields to interface with the electronics; a harness to connect the shield to the different components and the Arduino program that control delivery of fuel to a engine as well as reading a lambda sensor, controlling a fuel pump and read the throttle sensor.
Right now even when I got it to work reliable I stopped the project momentarily due to a gas station that filled my tank with bad gas killing the lambda sensor.
It's on my bucket list to get it to work with industrial quality.

"I think it is going to be incredibly valuable for companies to have somebody that can span both the software and hardware engineering, and it sounds to me like that is where your interests lie."

You may be right, it's kinda difficult in my case due to market limitations on my country (Guatemala) but I think I would like on that environment.
This is not about the U.S.