jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is not uncommon situation when some venture fund owns a large share in a company they just appoint someone to sit on the board. The appointee need not actually own shares they just represent shares, so company A sends Sam to be on B's board and company B sends Ted to sit on A's board.

The funny thing taxes would just end up eating up any profit as B sends say 70% of their profit to A as a dividend which sends 70% of 70% to B as a dividend and repeat.
Joe gave a great talk on Pachyderm at a recent RethinkDB meetup that's definitely worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRjk_Xsf7t4
As long as you're able to share sessions between services I think that would work. If you have multiple backend systems it may take some work to get session sharing implemented.
Fun fact: original content (that's clearly identified as such) gets twice as many upvotes on Reddit in average than non-original content: http://i.imgur.com/3iudvZ8.png

Methodology behind the chart: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2rv76z/oc_r...

The 10% rule is archaic, from a time where undisclosed self-promotion was rampant. Now that it's hitting false positives, it needs to be revamped.
Things that have made me a better programmer:

- Mentoring

- Outsourcing my thoughts to discussions with other engineers. Help leverage their knowledge, and help myself.

- Thinking about error handling when integrating 2 systems. Expecting failure should be part of the solution.

- Making systems that are designed in the "there are obviously no problems" vs "there are no obvious problems" which I have succeeded in various degrees. Every time I hit the latter I get sad that I failed.

- Knowing when a test is absolutely critical, and when one is optional.

- Knowing how to abstract better, into more testable code.

- Knowing what "project ownership" means and practicing it heavily.

Honestly, I still use the mouse _A LOT_. I don't use VIM for coding, I like it but I prefer JetBrains for everything.
I'd be curious how this compares in load to Google's internal applications. I'm also curious what the capacity of Google's infrastructure goes to Google vs. GCE - has combined GCE usage even passed the compute needs of Google internally yet?
https://twitter.com/kvlly/status/1360238746109640716

appears they had the kind of trouble that made them publicly reach out for support from Name.com and then delete their tweet.
As far as I am concerned, we can prohibit advertising altogether and replace it with independent reviews.
I have had eat ubers eats deliver to McDonald's

It was after the inside was closed and they don't let you walk through the drive thru

Alcohol may have been involved
Twilio’s “Ask your developer” billboards. It managed to put developer experience back in the center of business decisions.
At my current gig, we've been burned pretty badly by scalability problems with MySQL, and the prevailing wisdom is that new functionality and services that have to deal with data at scale should be built on Cassandra. My cries of "we wouldn't have this problem with Postgres" have mostly fallen on death ears.
How is a Canonical rep contacting him purely a "Microsoft feature"?
Does anyone know if mobile Safari supports websockets yet?
I don't think a modern sounding name would help revive Radio Shack. AutoZone would do fine with many names, because they carry products people want to buy. I can't think of anything I'd want to buy from Radio Shack, now that they don't carry electronic components any more.
Related tip: make your build copy the apk to your dropbox folder, then tap to install on your android
This is how Dodge explained it: "The engineering background brings a rigorous thought process that questions assumptions and requires accurate data in the decision process. That doesn't mean every decision will be perfect, but it will be based on data...not opinions."

I think that strategy is unimpeachable. I've worked at plenty of non-engineering companies, and the inability to question assumptions seems rampant. If Google manages to avoid that, then whatever it costs will likely be worth it.
What makes me unhappy, it now becomes clear that 3rd generation 8gb iPods were just re-branded 2nd generation ones. Unlike the 16gb and 32gb model the 8gb didn't receive an hardware upgrade (more ram and 3GS CPU), so it doesn't support multi-tasking now.
I see it on the iPhone app store. Looks like it's the right version, but it says you need an iPad?

I dunno. Guess I'll find out tonight.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8 should get you it now. Otherwise it may take some time to propagate.
Do fewer people know how to write SPARC shellcode than x86?
We’re obviously big fans of Unity (& David!) and we have some work going right now to support .Net/Unity
Except that the author then goes on to outline a portfolio and recommends it. It’s also terrible advice (~30% in crypto and self-picked stocks).
There's a lot of comments about it online now, yes, but it's pretty relevant when talking about alternatives in a thread about the cost of a big BCH transaction. This isn't shilling.
Arrays in Postgres are my guilty pleasure. I know I shouldn’t use them but I just cannot help myself.
Just need to wait for a shell with native support for ssh
Saudi is nothing like North Korea this is just an edge lord comment. They’re completely different in a 100 ways. You can criticize the Saudi state without drawing comparisons that make no sense.

“Is the best what you can do?”
Really? Coming up with an inaccurate comparison is the best you can do?
You could make a table where row is guessed probability(input to Kelly criterion) and column it's actual probability and cells contain expected value and expected log value. And pick something which looks reasonable.
With a schema, you have a fully-documented and soundly, statically typed DSL. If it were a Ruby library, you'd have to read the docs anyway, and you also lose static parsing and validation.
Author here:

I would be flattered if people found this invaluable enough to install on fleets of servers. But pragmatically that's not the problem I'm trying to solve. I think managing remote systems is largely a solved problem with tools like Ansible (or which there are many competitors) and the few occasions you want to drop into a shell on a remote machine are occasions when you want the least resistance. So Bash is a sensible choice. But the problems Sysadmins/DevOps/Developers face these days is that a lot of tooling starts out being ran on local machines before being pushed out to CI/CD, Kubernetes, ELK stacks, Github/Gitlab, to all these other wonderful enterprise tooling I've neglected to mention. And having a shell that glues all these local machine executables together can still give big productively gains even if it does diverge from Bash.

So that's the inspiration behind this shell. It's not there to replace Bash on the server but it is designed to make engineers lives easier when working locally with CLI tooling like Docker, git, Terraform, JSON log files, and so on and so forth.

Of course, you're free to use / not use this in any way you want :)
Alternatively, not giving the money to majority, yet producing enough food for everybody will drive prices to zero.
I agree, but I dislike the use of the qualifier `primarily'.
Because it hasn't begun speed improvements yet. Basically once everything is "done", everyone will optimise it to run faster.

There are lots of improvements going in to make it 'fast by default'.
"How Google Backs Up the Internet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
Ask HN: Would you use a Google voice for email, one email that acts as a entry door to your other email accounts?
I am an itnrovert, but believe me, what this article describes (albeit maybe a bit overblown) is a sad story even from my perspective. Introvert != being inside surrounded by 4 walls. In fact, for people like me, being in nature & mountains, alone or with friends, has amazing mental soothing effects
Why IRC isn't the foundation for all chat I still don't know. I assume a lot of the typical workflow (logging in, choosing a nick) can be automated for users who don't care to know what chat protocol they are using.
I think it is because of the expectations set by Tom (mojombo).

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...

He mentioned not to opensource anything that represents core business value. A Text Editor is best set to grow when available free. Examples - VIM, Emacs, LightTable.

That said, there have been hints that it might be paid ("Atom is free till beta") and Github might try to make money through it like Sublime or Textmate.

Though I wouldn't worry much about Opensourcing, I might think twice to pay for a Text Editor - considering that there are really good free alternatives.
Secure enclaves are very useful tools for OS design, but that's not the kind of security we're talking about here. Enterprises can't easily exploit processor protected VMs and address spaces to, say, prevent PII from leaking. By and large, companies aren't losing data to VMWare jailbreaks; they're losing it to much, much more prosaic attacks.
Isn't it very similar for programmers? I don't get paid >100k for knowing how to create a button with boostrap and jQuery, but rather for the 1% of the time where I need to do something 1000x more complicated
But if something is a disaster, like you describe, then they need to figure out a basic effective strategy for making it not be a disaster. Like headphones or turn off your mic if not expecting to talk. It's not exactly Rocket Science.
I posited not that sars-1 caused some of that immunity, but that another coronavirus which was spreading around later in 2019. I lost my sense of smell completely around thanksgiving 2019 and don't think that was covid-19 but a similar virus that possibly turned more deadly due to a mutation. My brother was in China earlier in October 19' and I believe he got me sick with it. He himself got sick back to back to back from whatever he had(and he never gets sick). But this is total conjecture.
One thing I find interesting is that individual contributors always seem to feel they are more productive when WFH. But at least anecdotally the upper management I have talked to in tech companies are saying that WFH has dropped productivity significantly. Now maybe this is just WFH w/ all the stresses of a pandemic vs. WFH in normal times, but it is interesting.
America has AML and KYC and running an exchange that allows trades which dodge those requirements is a great path to men in black suits knocking on your door.
Not by burning vast amounts of energy to do meaningless calculations whose results are discarded.
I stopped a few paragraphs in...
Robert Graham (eratasec) told a story that they threatened to falsely taint his security clearance if he didn't cancel a DEFCON talk.
Stop with the anti-union FUD. The worst civil forfeiture abuses are in states where the law enforcement aren't unionized.
I think this is more of a case where we were lucky, since most applications used 7-bit ASCII and the high bit was available for UTF-8 encoding.
The way this should be solved is for everyone to enable multiple U2F keys in every site and de-register any device or key that is stolen.

Unfortunately many sites suck at this. AWS, Twilio, PayPal all suck.
This is sort of more interesting because modern ciphers are so much better than older ones. Between Caesar, Enigma, and AES, the growth in robustness seems exponential.
It is a gross mischaracterisation to frame the issue as "linking to someone else's site". That is not what is causing this dispute. Through cloaking news links and a tandem of redirects, Google is collecting data on readers of other sites in quantities that no single one of those sites ever could. As such, the advertisers would rather deal with Google. That is what is at issue. It is not simply "linking to someone else's site". As someone in another thread commented, Google's PR is seriously disturbing. They are treating the public as if they were idiots.

I wish the laws to were for the benefit of users to curb the collection of data, but unfortunately the fight is over who gets to profit from data collection. In some sense it is better for users to not have one company gathering so much data. Better it be an array of different news media sites.
Then there is the argument that society needs news media, who employ journalists, more than it needs Google, who refuses to hire journalists but wants all the ad sales revenue that normally goes to their employers.
Yes, absolutely. Either in audible frequencies but too quiet to notice, or perhaps in inaudible ones. Though the inaudible frequencies are ones that might get filtered by whatever transmission media you're using.
Can it work for more advance keywords like say, "traffic violation" where it spots a car jumping red light or pedestrian not using a crosswalk, etc?

It could be very useful to help with law enforcement.
It all comes down to efficiently ranking and unranking permutations, at least for symmetric ciphers.
Exactly this. Few laptops have 10GbE, though many have Thunderbolt and USB 3.1.
This seems far more lucrative than private prisons. The prisoners actually pay to be there!
>Now let's suppose for the sake of argument (and without loss of generality) that this foot fetish site were just a list of hyperlinks to publicly available foot pictures in their original context. I suspect the author of the article (and a lot of other people) would still be squicked out by the foot-fetishist link-aggregator site

Yep, what furyg3 said. I always think about cases like that from a creator perspective. If I'm a painter, I probably sell my work, so it's in my interest that every usage lead back to a canonical place where I expect to make sales/build following/communicate with fans. So reposting a picture and posting a link to a said place I chose are absolutely different things.

There's always fair use, which should cover things like education, citation, etc. That's a different topic.

And don't get me wrong, copyright system is broken and rotten to the core, but some of the concerns on which it builds are perfectly reasonable.
> Are countries (and their citizens) only permitted to be connected to the internet if their culture matches that of your country/federation?

Don't be so easily offended. Nobody said anything about their culture. The reason the question is being raised is because of the unignorable number of DDOS attacks being launched from their Internet space. Stop that, and you'll have less calls for cutting their connection.
Due to git's distributed nature, there should be very few people who are not able to work on their code.

Also, it's Sunday, so very few employees are expected to be working today.
As convenient as GitHub is, let this be a lesson to ensure you have multiple remotes for your repositories. The more popular GitHub gets, the more it will become a target from a wide range of vectors.
this is interesting - could you talk a bit about your solr schema ? In a very naive way I would be simply storing it all as a indexable text blob. Did you do anything more, just so that you can avoid a database ?
"Bully" is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator. This attack is criminal. If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war. We don't allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses. Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of "bullying".

GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.
If the PRC were merely snooping, and not actively attacking, that equivalence would work.

I was also under the impression that this is already in violation of treaty, the only saving grace for the PRC being that it hasn't been proven it's them.
I’m sure toxic culture is one of the reasons for Samsung falling behind. But I don’t think that can be a sufficient cause. If toxic culture is the reason for the recent slip up, how has Samsung grown before the slip up when it was arguably even more toxic?
There's a Bullshit episode where Penn "argues that free trade and economic interdependence are the best means to achieve peace."

He brings up an example of hating Teller, but never hurting him because there's no money to be made as a single stunt magician.
Just when I was thinking that there couldn't be an easier introduction than railstutorial.org + heroku.com.
In what sense is marriage "archaic"?

The bond of family is unlike any other bond.

Friendships, business partnerships, strategic alliances, romances, all of them are transient in ways that family is not.

But the family you're born with is a happenstance. Apart from marriage and adoption, what other discretionary act allows two adults to create a new, deliberate familial bond?

I don't want to get too "no true Scotsman" about this; I accept that there is divorce (partly because we've embraced divorce as a culture, partly because we've embraced casual marriage as a culture, and yes, partly because as a society we have rightly grown out of practices that secured marriage, such as single-income households) and failed marriage.

But marriage as a concept has a clear, practical value. It's more challenging to realize the concept in 2010 than it was in 1910, but that doesn't mean the concept itself is outdated.
Thank you for elaborating. I wasn't seeking an argument, just clarification. I don't agree with all of Ron Paul's positions either, but the one impression I do get from everything I've seen of him is that he is truly genuine in his beliefs, and how he professes them. If anything, I'd say he generally displays more candor than people usually give politicians credit for.
When I need to concentrate, I reboot into another partition where I have neglected to enable wifi, and have a rather drab, but efficient-looking environment set up. Turns out FreeBSD and wmaker are great productivity tools.
And that is fine. But I could be. Just needs to go all in with the no b.s.
> X11 not being a monolithical piece of software sounds like a cognitive dissonance issue.

But it isn't. Have you ever tried to use X11 without any window manager? You can't! In the best case you can type inside a terminal that is not moveable or resizable. X11 can not function on its own, hence it can't be monolithic.

Just because it is bloated doesn't mean it is monolithic. And most of the bloat is old graphics drivers which are not installed on your system anyways.

I'm not really liking X11 either. Just like I switched from sysvinit to runit I would be happy to switch from X11 to the next best thing. But Wayland is not it.

The protocol is flawed on so many levels but most importantly because it does not provide the necessary interfaces required for normal, functional desktop and degrades them to "implementation details" (or in your words "1000s of things"). Just blitting bitmaps is not sufficient for a working desktop system. The biggest pain point is access control policy, which Wayland completely ignores.
Yeah, this could help a lot. Scaling based on the past response rate of the sender and how many messages the sender has sent recently would make the pricing more relative, and thus prevent a basic enumeration of "prices of people".

It would also go a long way to not have these prices be listed on a catalog page, but only when clicked into an individual person, so it's less of a feeling of comparison shopping.

The psychology of these UI design things matters a lot.
Not one wants to live in a society where your every moment must be dominated by one cost-benefit analysis or another. There is an assumption, I would argue, in the everyday notion that society exists for the common good, that our lives not be either 100% optimized or, otherwise, exploited for profit by some other optimizer.

There is a sense in which being induced to consider whether your life is efficient or not is virtuous, of course. Since much of what we use every day is common resource, rather than private resource, we don't want people to be completely careless.

But things don't shake out fairly in the real world. The people who are most often punished for failing to optimize are not, by any stretch, the most profligate resource consumers. And yet no one is particularly concerned about whether the lifestyles of the wealthy are completely optimal or whether they could be making more rational use of their resources.

Even this state of affairs could be tolerable except that only a clown would suggest the distribution of resources we see now is one that aligns with what people deserve. For the most part, its the vagueries of history which have decided who gets to live without too much care for optimization and who must be completely rational or get fucked.
Startup? This is a 23-minute infomercial filled with meaningless psychobabble.
Your remark is reminiscent of "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."

Are you aware what an awful history lies behind the idea of "merely a leveling off at a higher level"?

That is not how markets work. Things go up and down, they do not stabilize for any length of time.

The above quote is famous because it was terribly wrong, and it came from a respected voice. In the USA, the recession had already begun, which later developed into the Great Depression.

For context:

"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."
- Irving Fisher, Ph.D. in economics, Oct. 17, 1929

He said this 12 days before Black Monday.

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_01/seymour062001.html

I recall some economics blog, it was either Calculated Risk or Paul Krugman, pointed out several examples of "a permanently high plateau" being applied to the USA housing market circa 2005-2008. It is remarkable how often this phrase gets resurrected, and always just before some class of assets is seen to be losing a great deal of its value.
Sure, I'll comment on the feasibility of this: it's a ridiculous idea.

One of the features that allows AWS to scale is that it runs on a unified and consistant hardware platform. Take a look at the recent Google Data Center video or the Facebook Open Server initiative - companies try where possible to run identical hardware for all of their needs as it removes inconsistances in behavior and performance between arbitrarily different pieces of equipment.

So the idea of giving Amazon your own hardware to host is terrible.

The other part of his idea sounds like mirroring servers so that if an EC2 instance goes down, some bare-metal hardware running elsewhere could kick in. That's totally feasible, but no need to do it in the same DC under Amazon's control. Just set up your own machines (bare-metal or virtual) and keep them in sync with your EC2 instance. In the event of EC2 going down you can just change your DNS over to point your fall-back IP or do some clever off-site IP load-balancing tricks (assuming the load balancer hasn't gone down too)

In fact this would have been a good strategy for the ECG monitoring folks if they needed to keep service up even during a prolonged EC2 outage.
In being a participant in many of these online communities, these kind of things sometimes seem like a losing battle to me. There will always be a slice of the population that will try to game the 'karma' system on sites like HN. Slashdot went thru this years ago. Kuro5hin went thru it. Digg. Reddit.... All sorts of solutions are proposed, like hiding a user's 'karma' rating, having the user population meta moderate ratings on comments...

I do find it interesting that the comment score has been hidden. That's kind of novel, and it might be the kind of solution needed in this case.
I'm actually thinking of that. You deploy to the service that take care of deployment, backups and transfer in down times. It would make up of it another kind of hosting company, though.
This morning Bitcoin reached parity with EUR ($1.45/BTC).

This afternoon it reached parity with GBP ($1.65/BTC).

Insane. http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html