skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that I get no output because I have an SSH certificate:

robryk@sharya-rana ~> ssh -v whoami.filippo.io
<...>
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/robryk/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Offering RSA-CERT public key: /home/robryk/.ssh/id_rsa
Connection closed by 178.32.139.168
Or worse, "there is a limit, but we won't tell you until you've gone over it and now there are marks in your file against you."
Introducing etcd 2.1 – authn, metrics and transport stability
"not having PTO on the books" inherently makes it an anti-employee policy, since the employee no longer will receive anything upon leaving. In theory it could come out better for the employee, because they may get more vacation time than they would otherwise, but my experience has been that unlimited vacation means less vacation.
I agree - the more frequent riders are likely using Uber for shorter distances, like commuting to work. It's great to hear the other side of the numbers (riders' anecdotal experiences) so thanks for sharing!
> correctness, performance, maintainability, and robustness

What? I want whatever he is smoking.

> correctness

C++ allows for casting to/from different types (the core behind polymorphism) - but if you cast to the wrong type then that's your own fault. If you want a warm fuzzy feeling of not worrying about bad casts - use Python/Go/FreeBASIC/some other language.

> performance

That is complete and utter delusion. Your program won't run any faster or optimize better because you used the auto keyword [1]. If anything - it will take even longer (ms longer) to compile.

> maintainability

I have an odd feeling about that. Yeah you can change the return type of a method or function and you don't have to worry about changing the code calling those methods/functions. But if you are changing to a vastly different type - you are going to have to change the calling code anyways.

> robustness

I don't want the compiler to fix my mistakes. I want the compiler to tell me how stupid I am and force me to fix them.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19618759/c-11-auto-compil...
Years :(
Ask HN: Has something happened to AWS SimpleDB
Amazon has no free technical support, how they came up with this idea I don't know but it's horrible.

Anyway I don't at all see SimpleDB when I login to my account. Anyone else have this problem or know what's up.

You should provide _some_ free technical support. But whatever.
He called github "braindamaged". Isn't that against the CoC?
True, this bothers me in most games to be honest... I mean in Mass Effect I was basically on a mission to same the universe, and was employed as a freaking spectre, an elite unit of super soldiers who are above the law. Now the game's universe has many species and many hundreds of billions of intelligent lifeforms, yet there are only 10 known spectres.

In other words, these are comparatively fewer of these guys than the US president, millions of times fewer than elite navy seal units or army generals or joint fight strikers, fewer than aircraft carriers that cost billions of dollars each and can house a hundred aircraft each worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and all military more significant, each and every one of them, after all you as one of the spectres is about to same the freaking universe.

Yet the player has to buy freaking omni-gel with scarce credits. Meanwhile you're flying across the universe in one of the most technologically advanced, trillion dollar spaceships, saving that very universe. In fact you employ said spaceship to go on missions to

That's like a carrier with joint strike fighters and nuclear bombs and the general of the navy, has to freaking sail across the oceans in search for somalian pirates that they can arrest, so they can make some money on their bounty, so they can buy some freaking bandages and rations, while simultaneously being on a mission to save the planet from impending doom lol.

There's not a lot of games that get this right. Tons of games get it right because the character isn't as important. Like in Pokemon, you're just a kid from a little village with ambition. But if you're the most important character in the universe, please don't have him pay for his bandages and ammo. And even in a convoluted 'everyone thinks I'm the bad guy, so nobody funds me, but I'm actually trying to save the universe', if you have universe-saving skills, just rob a freaking bank or something, it can't be that hard in comparison.
> But (if I understand correctly) in the military, you aren't subject to civilian law. You're subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and civilian law does not apply to you.

Civilian law generally applies to active duty military personnel the same as to anyone else (though some laws have express exceptions or alternate provisions for military personnel), and the UCMJ even provides for the delivery of military personnel accused of violations of law by the civil authorities to be delivered to those authorities. [UCMJ Art. 14, 10 U.S.C. Sec. 814]

More to the point upthread, members of the military retain First Amendment rights, and military regulations have been struck down for violating the First Amendment.
only tangentially related, I have a very rough setup that stores the maildir encrypted on disk: https://github.com/jakeogh/gpgmda/blob/master/gpgmda.README

Works for me, but I'm rewriting most of the bash in py.
Isn't that basically what I said?
Thanks dang. The linkbait effect was unintentional - we'll be more mindful of this going forward!
This has everything to do with GitHub.

Git provides mechanisms to sign both commits and tags, and to verify those signatures. GitHub fails to make use of those mechanisms.
N.B.: DoD didn't "release" 11/8 in the same way that Interop "released" (i.e., gave back to ARIN) 45/8 several years ago [0].

What they did do was start advertising it into the global BGP routing table (technically, AS23352 did, as the post mentions) -- apparently ~5d6h ago, according to my routers.

In addition, AS23352 is sending the ("informational") community "23352:41216" along with this prefix, which means that it was learned by a "customer" peering session at their Chicago, Illinois, POP:

Community: 3356:3 3356:22 3356:100 3356:123 3356:575 3356:2042 23352:41216

The other communities attached to this prefix indicate that:

a) ServerCentral is a Level 3 customer, and

b) Level 3 is receiving the announcement from SC in Chicago.

FWIW, I'm receiving the routes via Level 3 peering connections in both Chicago and Cincinnati, Ohio.

[0]: http://evilrouters.net/2010/10/20/arin-regains-458-from-inte...
Google gives non-birth-mother parents 12 weeks of paid parental leave if they're the primary or equal caregiver during that time.

For example, if you work at Google and both you and your wife work full time, and then she has a baby (or you adopt) and you'd like to both stay home to be equal caregivers, you get 12 weeks of paid leave with basically no questions asked.
As a Western Canadian (who works with a lot of folks in California, Oregon and Colorado) one thing that gets pointed out all the time is my pronunciation of:

- JavaScript
- Americano
- Pasta
> He called github "braindamaged". Isn't that against the CoC?

So, you think he violated a Code of Conduct that did not exist at the time, in the course of explaining why he was not a user of the service (so that any Code of Conduct for that service would not apply to him even if it existed.)
Hmm, I left Western Canada 15 years ago to move to Denver. I thought I had grown out of the accent, but now it seems the accent is catching up with me?

I studied linguistics in school and was fascinated by the linguistic shifts in Germanic languages long ago. But it seems a shame for it to be happening now as pronunciation becomes homogenized.
Nice extension, and I use something similar on Reddit. However, I feel on HN (given the tighter moderation standards), if a user comments and contributes to the discussion there shouldn't be a need to block them. If a comment is not contributing to the discussion, then flag it!
it really gives you a good insights on where you stand. Just a question , are you comparing the results with others who have already taken the quiz?
More so than accents I'd argue that the north-south orientation applies to culture and trade as well.

St. John's Newfoundland is geographically closer to London England than Vancouver. Aside from an interest in hockey, there's not a great deal of commonality. Seattle and Portland are more relatable and relevant.
You are referring to Pokémon (notice the o where there was an a previously). And you are correct, the é has an accent on it (though I've always wondered why--Pokemon is an abbreviation for "Pocket Monsters", and neither of the e's either word contains have an accented e!).
BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring people who love construction
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BuildZoom is a marketplace for the construction industry. We help property owners hire great contractors for any type of construction project. We specialize in major improvements (our average job is $30,000), but we handle both new construction and remodeling, and both commercial and residential.

We've put together a unique data set that helps us with the task of identifying great contractors: 100 million building permits matched back to 3.5 million contractor profiles. We are now managing $1 billion/year in projects, and 1 million US homeowners/month visit the website to research and hire contractors.

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Compare Solar City / KB Homes stock price / other public builders to their permit filings (beta!): https://www.buildzoom.com/charts?q=for+kb_home
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DNS. Have you heard of it?
I was worried about that too but I'm sure someone with a degree in biology would have figured that out, right? Pretty sure its meant as a metaphor
I've been able to delete comments I've regretted.
Yes! Pasta was one of the first words I learned to say differently when I moved from Edmonton to the US.
> how you chose to get people to be applicants

Applicants are self-selecting. Your argument attempts to shift responsibility (and agency) away from speakers and practitioners.
This can't be stable at this rate.
Clave curp y rfc
Sadly, I'm no longer surprised that a company like Comcast has no modern security precautions... I am surprised that Andy Weir, an author who did enough deep research to realistically simulate a NASA Mars landing...

1) Uses his Comcast.net e-mail as his primary
2) Wasn't already using 2-factor authentication

Bet he will now.
Wait to try or smell Fisikh[1] and you'll change your mind instantly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fesikh and pronounced like this "Fisíj" borrowing from Spanish
They need to be logically accessible because they are managed devices. NAT doesn't work in this case. Of course, IPv6 is the more correct solution, if you can manage it (no pun intended).

See Comcast's presentation about their motivations: http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-54/presentations/IPv6_manageme...
Anyone else immediately think of the screen-reader
> sounds like a typical baseless meme I've heard many times

Is it though? I'd probably install GuixSD on a virtual machine if I knew most of the non-free software are used are packaged or at least accepted [1]. This means more users, which means more contributions and it's realistic for the project to go somewhere.

I can give you a baseless opinion I don't have any fact to show for but I don't think it's so hard to see: many GNU projects are very cool but for some reason they fail to reach critical mass and they just seem to grow very slowly (or die a slow death, depending on the point of view.)

1:

> [...] the GNU distribution follow the free software distribution guidelines. Among other things, these guidelines reject non-free firmware, recommendations of non-free software, and discuss ways to deal with trademarks and patents.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Software-F...
What about JSAWS? :)

(pronounced "J-Sauce" in case you were wondering)
Part of the value of making the distinction, IMO, is that the "accomplices", as you call them, are probably an easier and more effective place to attack the problem. Get people who aren't bad actors to speak out about (or even against) the bad actors, and the latter will have to modify their behavior, or will leave the force one way or another.
Living in northern New England, my experience of Canada and Canadian accents has always been in relation to Quebec, which is a whole different beast.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a good representation of the Quebecois accent on TV. South Park butchered it awfully
It was when I was in High School. I used to alternate with a friend: one brings the notebook, one brings the pillow.

Pro Tip: Do not try the above in English class; many teachers will use subjectively graded assignments to punish you for sleeping through their lectures.
> Why wouldn't you proctor exams? The time spent is small, less than 10 hours a semester, and the proctors can answer student questions or make corrections and clarifications to test questions.

Because Caltech faculty (and, for undergraduate student exams, grad students) have better things to do with their time than proctor exams (and, perhaps more to the point, because Caltech wants to attract faculty and grad students that feel that they have better uses for their time that baby-sitting exams.)

And, frankly, like many aspects of the trust extended to Caltech students, its a recruitment policy -- Caltech is an extremely selective, extremely small school that is competing with other elite institutions to attract the best students.
It's not clear from the game story and contents, but monsters are now oftentimes taken care of by royal huntsmen and contracted mercenaries. As a result, witchers are considered old school practitioners of a dying field and the majority of the population is so poor that witchers are paid infrequently or sometimes not at all (they get scammed too!).

Remember that entire villages pooled their money together to pay for a witcher's fees. Also, monsters are not as frequent as they were a long time ago, so contracts are rarer and lower in payout, especially during a horrific war.
Gitualize – Like YouTube for GitHub
I'm one of the developers of OGS (online-go.com) We're really passionate about building the site and providing the best place to play Go online.

We also have full public rest and real-time APIs. Stop by chat and say hello!
The fantastic YouTube-dl team
Fun fact: the Bill of Rights didn't even apply to the states until 1925. At the time of the founding when the Constitution was presumably still all American and whatnot, a law like this to protect the unique interests of an agricultural state would've been kosher. There might have been a state constitutional issue, but those are much easier to amend.

The idea of a federal court striking down a law duly enacted by a state legislature (by more than 2/3 of each house) on the basis of the federal constitution, as happened here, would have been very disquieting to the framers.
Was hoping for the inclusion of ES6 fat arrows. V8 has a solid implementation now.
So keep in mind this was a decade ago and I'm sure it's changed but when I was in highschool in Florida you could go Dual-Enrollment and the district would pay for any class and reimburse you for books. I went to college with my first three semesters of college finished. While that was particularly open handed many districts will at least pay tuition for what ever advanced classes you can test into as long as it fits the curriculum (X english classes, Y math classes...).

My local community college implies that sophmores and above (including home schoolers) can take any 1000 level or above class free (although the highschool gets veto power).

http://www.cnm.edu/depts/outreach/dual-credit/dual-credit-th...
I was not saying that the signature is _just_ at a commit level ("patches" being the DARCS lingo).

DARCS, just as git, has tags for that. A tag depends on all previous patches, so a signed tag guarantees just the same as a signed git tag does.

In that regard, git is strictly less powerful.
Software developers are like chefs
AWS SimpleDB has not been in the console for a very long time. Look at the API docs. I think you can still use it.

Edit: I'm pretty sure they are pushing people away from SimpleDB to Dynamo.
Take that xemacs, all stuck inside your managed window.
They don't have any formal way of knowing my salary, and I don't know what they think I make.

I'd share the details of the managerial bands if they were considering a switch, but to date they've been very clear that they're happy staying technical.
I'm using ed25519 with Github, figured it was just laziness. (also deliberately set it up to send that key because it wouldn't normally).
I've been looking for something like this within a ClojureScript workflow. With the new JS compiler it seems not too far off.

This is very cool. I would love to see more aws resources exposed as well through JAWS like dynamo or RDS.
They phased it out a while ago:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/12/amazon-dynamodb-serves-tril...
At my school many, many students cheat. This devalues the education that I'm getting and is frustrating to students who actually put in the time to study.
It's not that you lose them outright, but they can be deliberately waived in certain contexts. Here's an example:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/judge-nursing-student-wa...
Me too. I've been hoping someone would integrate webkit in Emacs. Then I could go full screen and that would cover 98% of what I want to do. This might be even better, except that these days I'm usually stuck in IntelliJ on OSX.
That's a great point and something we'll be adding. It'd also be a good way to see how different people use Uber (commuters vs. travelers) - even if Uber is available locally.
JAWS uses DynamoDB. Aurora (RDS) support is coming soon!
> Individual students certainly can have this integrity, but the demographic as a whole is demonstrably susceptible to cheating.

Certainly demonstrably true of a significant portion of the demographic of "college students".

Caltech would probably argue that Caltech students are not a representative sample of college students, and that generalization from the more general class to the more specific here is a textbook example of the fallacy of division.
Public Key crypto was discovered by GCHQ (and then given to the NSA) several years before it was publicly discovered by Diffie-Hellman and RSA. I think this was to avoid having to have the symmetric keys under armed guard. The public discovery is also what kicked off the 'crypto wars'. I'd be surprised if modern nation state intelligence communities found symmetric encryption sufficient.

A lot of interesting information about the history I learned from Steven Levy's crypto: http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit...
The iPad pro may turn this a bit. Also, are Surface Pros considered Tablets? They have been quite popular.
This looks like an amazing dataset. Are you able to extrapolate from your sample up to their full US revenue? How often is your dataset updated / how much lag is there? Looking forward to your future blog posts!
The quantity means that (a) makes the world worse off and (b) makes it better off. That seems like a pretty significant difference to me.

> I never said my actions were capitalistic at all.

I got that impression from one of your deleted comments. Perhaps it wasn't intentional.

> If that makes me into an asshole and the world into a shithole, so be it.

That's not a "so be it" outcome, that's an "oh crap, let's try to avoid that" outcome. As a society, we try to avoid that by punishing (a). You can do your part by not doing (a) even if you think you can get away with it.

It's bedtime, so I'm tapping out now.
Thanks for replying. Here is another question that may help clarify some things:

Availability: Each client can always read and write.

Consistency: All clients always have the same view of the data.

Partition Tolerance: The system works well despite physical network partitions.

The saying goes: "Pick two." Are you implying that you can pick three with your system?

When you say 'Data resides in memory with lock-free data structures' I feel like the trade-off is consistency-- data becomes eventually consistent.

What are your thoughts?
I've seen quite a few reactions to the Netflix unlimited PTO policy that are similar to the reactions to the new Maternity and Paternity policy. Many of these opinions are the likes of:

* "I'm suspicious of this."

* "No one takes any vacation at Netflix because of this."

* "Unlimited == None"

* "Peer pressure means that everyone works 52 weeks a year."

* "Without a PTO policy you can't cash out unused vacation. This is a rip off."

The thing I haven't seen in these statements are "I work at Netflix and this is what it is really like"...

Here we go - I work at Netflix (as an engineer) and this is what is really like:

* I'm pressured to take vacations.

* Managers are taught that they are examples to the teams therefore they must take regular vacations.

* I take more vacation now than I did when I had 2/3/4/5 weeks a year of stated, paid, vacation.

Questions I've answered about this:
* Does my team fall apart when someone leaves for 4 weeks? No. They're adults and they know how to prepare to be away for a while.

* People must raise their eyebrows at you when you leave! No.

* You get called all the time right so you keep your laptop with you on vacation? No. They're adults and they know how to get along without me for a while.

* You must do tons of extra work when people go on vacation! No. People don't just drop stuff and run. They prepare, get stuff ready, postpone things until they're back, etc.

* Managers must "encourage" you not to take vacations. Nope, opposite.

* You feel irresponsible taking time off then. No I don't.

* People must leave for months a time right? The policy gets really abused! No, stop it. Assuming the extreme case must be the common case is silly. You're smarter than that.

* This can't possibly be true. You're a liar/shill/idiot! Next.

* This doesn't/can't work at my company. Therefore, it can't work at yours! Netflix corporate culture is likely very different than your company. Take a look at the culture deck presentation.

This type of policy likely can't work everywhere.

It may not work everywhere in the valley.

It does work here.

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That is how it is supposed to be, isn't it? Always trying to find a balance between those opposing factions. Not like the US where all have capitulated against the intelligence agencies.
Mine's are still going. :) One for 2.5 years, another for 2. I don't think I'll stop any time though, I've gotten into this groove of doing small bits each day.