skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, it's the part of UK school that happens post compulsory education (so after 16yrs old).

Basically post-16 you can go out and work, or learn a trade, go to a trade-school, or continue with your more formal education at 6th Form level at either your school or a college (and we treat colleges as different to a university).
Manhattan has plenty of places where it could get denser. The limits are 1) public transportation -- especially on the East Side and 2) rather silly preservation / zoning rules -- like preserving the character of the East Village which is ugly and not worth saving.

The second avenue subway should help somewhat (assuming it's finished before the heat death of the universe) but increasing congestion and the subsequent decay in the quality of buses transit is a worrying countervailing trend.
LiFePO4 batteries for cars are not new.
You can even buy them on Ebay right now.

EV Power is just one of several companies that have been making them for years.
Dodgy pharmaceutical ads are some of the most profitable dodgy ads, so SEO spam sites are likely to have content related to marketing dodgy pharmaceuticals. Dodgy pharmaceutical sites are also more likely to be based in Russia, due to lax law enforcement.
There are other lightweight batteries out there, but they generally aren't suitable for daily use for one reason or another. The usual sacrifices are either lifetime or performance over temperature. The battery you linked is only warrantied for 2 years and likely wouldn't work south of freezing - not quite what you'd expect for the price tag. We think we can already beat them on value prop, but with a little bit more work, we think we'll be able to get them cheaper than other lightweight solutions and eventually price competitive with a normal lead-acid.
$190k, I assume.

Salaries are higher here for one. Say $190k vs 4x as much, $760k. Assuming magic 10% down appears in your pocket, 0% property tax, ignore the differences in state/local taxes, and assume a spherical chicken in a vacuum.... $3200/mo vs $800/mo.

4 times as much! Wow! That's a lot of money. Right? Except.. it's "only" $29k/yr. Most cost-of-living expenses don't scale with income. Now, of course, your salary has to be more than that to cover taxes, but say 20% overall tax rate, you really only need $36k more per year, which you might see straight up on a single salary, based on cost-of-living pay adjustment alone. If you're married, suddenly you only have to make $18k per person per year more.

If you follow the "1/3 of your salary" rule, it would suggest that you need to make $86,400 per year more, which is why expensive housing sounds so expensive. One would hope that in a low cost-of-housing market, you're not spending 1/3 of your income on your housing, because then you really don't have a lot of money left over for retirement or food or entertainment. Similarly, in a higher cost-of-living market, you might fudge that a bit and pay more than 1/3 of your salary, which still leaves you more money for your 401k and transportation and entertainment, and all those things that really don't scale with cost of living much at all.

You could also look at the high cost of living as a savings plan. As long as you retire before whatever particular housing cycle bubble bursts, you can still retire to Texas (or wherever) -- you can just do so with more money (equity, savings, retirement plan, etc).

Also, some tax and expense treatment of housing is pretty regressive. You're probably not getting a mortgage interest/property tax income tax deduction on a cheap mortgage; on a more expensive one you are, so you're immediately paying a lower effective interest rate and property tax rate (if you want to look at it that way). You're not paying PMI for that sub-20% down payment because it's not federally backed. etc.

This is not to say it's cheap, or easy, or affordable for everyone, or even smart. It's just saying how it's possible, and how it's probably not as bad as it sounds.
It did, but then look at the languages it borrowed from: Self and Scheme.

Yes it has warts borne of ridiculous deadlines, but it also has elegance learned from prior art. All things considered, JS is a good advert for standing on the shoulders of giants, imho.
Your diffing doesn't suck! That alone is really valuable. What really sucks on Windows is merging: there are very few products that deal with merging at a basic competency level (the git merge markers usually wreak havoc).

One criticism: that jgit tab needs a serious UX pass. It's extremely scary looking to someone who has never used it (me).

That being said, I'll be keeping a very close eye on your kickstarter. Very close.
No. I already had a reliable communication system over UDP. I tweaked it with some stuff from PSYC and elsewhere. Let me achieve needed goals without doing a whole PSYC system. Had I needed full XMPP alternative I might have built PSYC just to see what would happen.
I've never seen anyone do this. We just run lightweight batteries and keep the car on a tender.
Yes, it's docker that was holding on to these exec instances (and cluttering up the `docker inspect` output if you do a bunch).
We now do GC on these.

ps, you can add `reastart: always` to your compose file, and docker daemon will automatically restart those containers for you.
Outlier employees of an outlier company

Editing my curt response:

The original poster asserted that he/she was "pretty sure" that if you work for [established companies], you "will" be making well north of 200k+, as if it was a certainty or at least a high probability. I don't deny that some outlier companies have some outlier employees that make that much, I'm just questioning the claim that it's usual to make that in these companies.
> For the n not pictured, the trivial packing (with no tilted squares) is the best known packing.
Cannot say about my current company, but the last one (a real estate listing agency in South America). It was very important, but there was always a huge debate of what was important to comment. One developer thought that adding docblocks was just enough. The other thought about commenting the why of code blocks etc.

So your question may sound like "How important it is to live within your own means". Everyone will agree, at some level, the living within means is important - but people will diverge on whether you just give up your goals or aiming for them anyway.

Comments as much as code are meant for human eyes. The main difference are that comments are not executed, therefore they are less likely to be updated when the reason for a piece of code changes as well. Programmers update code until it compiles and passes tests, but it doesn't follow they update comments accordingly. Nothing is more misleading than an outdated comment.

Also, you might find those who will say that if the code is self-evident, then it does not need commenting. Which is theoretically true, but usually people miscalculate the ability of later read to extract context of uncommented code.
"Today’s change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun."

Calling the ability to send arbitrary long messages "powerful", when virtually every other internet messaging service has allowed this for ages, requires some serious marketing reality distortion.
For sure losing 30+lbs is a big deal in the high-performance automotive world, and Ohm's price premium is nothing compared to, say, replacing structural elements with carbon fiber etc.

But I don't think your average mass-market consumer is going to care much about 30lbs, or notice a difference in performance or handling if they did.
$250k a year is $12k per month after tax in SF.

If your baseline for living includes owning two luxury cars that you store in a private garage, a brand new luxury apartment, shopping exclusively at Whole Foods, having maids clean your house and take care of your children, and sending your kids to elite private schools, then yeah 250k a year is basically poverty. Life as an engineer sure is hard.
The story of Little Red Riding Hood just keeps on inspiring new takes. For instance, The Path by Tale of Tales has been done a couple of years earlier, to a wider critical acclaim; and in Belgium, no less. http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-path

I wonder if the developers could possibly not have heard of them?

There seemed to be quite some money in funding for artsy games in Belgium. Personally, I love games and I think both that and Kickstarter funding are needed to suppor more experimenting off the beaten path.
One reason is that this site only seems to have listings for the "top companies." These companies are very hard to get a job and and tend to pay well, so the home listings are probably skewed to suit buyers that work at the elite companies and have more money to blow than a normal person.

I bet that if and when this site begins targeting the other 99% of companies, the listings for those will trend lower to reflect the average salaries.
A worthy post.
I agree. I'd go further and say that the NY Times is the world's best English-language newspaper, with the possible exception of the Financial Times. I think much of the criticism comes from two issues:

1) Newspaper journalism is very hard; look at how much new research (i.e., almost everything they publish outside the editorial page) they publish every day; they're going to get a few things wrong and make a few errors in judgment. However, name a paper that does this job better.

2) The ideological right-wing, trendy in some places (e.g., News Corp publications such as Fox News and the Wall St Journal), in their effort to discredit any source of information for their followers but themselves, have tried to politicize the NY Times. After all, the NY Times prints facts, and those are always a threat to any ideology.

That said, some errors, such as during the leaup to the Iraq War, are inexcusable (but what papers did better?[1]). They're the best, but they could improve a lot.

[1] I think the one answer might be McClatchy's (a leading owner of local papers) DC bureau. Highly recommended for their courage on unpopular questions and for their integrity. A very underappreciated resource: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/

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The Economist and NY Times do two different jobs. The Economist provides analysis; the NY Times generates and presents new knowledge (i.e., journalism), essentially for you to do your own analysis.

For example, the NY Times researches and breaks the story on NSA wiretapping; the Economist provides context and analysis of it (think about it: Have you ever seen the Economist break a story?). The NY Times interviews the head of the NSA, telecommunications companies, privacy adocates, etc. and provides their responses to you. The Economist summarizes and analyszes the responses (think about it: how often do you see quotes in the Economist?).

I'm not criticizing one or the other; both have their place. My perspective: The Economist approach is more efficient (someone does the analysis for you) but is more prone to bias (e.g., they apply their free market ideology everywhere). The Times approach is essential (someone has to create the new knowledge) and less prone to bias, but you need to read a lot more to understand the same story.
Is that to own, or rent? If that's rent, then that's insanely high... If it's to own (assuming modest mgt fees), that's not too bad.

Right now my rent in a fairly nice place in Arizona (Tempe) is $1400/month. Similar places in SF/NYC are 3-4 times that much.
I'm also using 1x, but not sure what to do for new production apps right now.
THE hands on training to take is OffSec's starting with the PWK training (and accompanying OSCP certification).

https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-trai...

Ran me something like $1,500 for the course and 90 days of lab time. Had a blast.

The CEH and Security+ certs are "hands off" certs. The CISSP is more oriented towards policy and higher-level stuff.

Obtaining the OSCP will make you immediately employable in at least a junior level position.
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A third factor at play that certainly can’t be helping anything is how a handful of companies and individuals own the majority of real estate and use their vast fortunes to snatch up anything new the moment it appears. Ownership should be more diversified.
> "I don't know if the editor changed after 2004, but me and many other readers have the feeling that after 2004-5 the quality dropped incrementally."

I'd concur with this. Even though I disagreed with some of the articles I found them to be well written/edited and I'd learn about different viewpoints (so I subscribed). They even published a style guide. I don't recall when but I started to feel that they (ironically) stopped following their own style guide and around the same time the quality began to drop.
It seems the geologist even underestimated the disaster He was advising residents to check their water at the time so they could compare it later for contamination. Instead of a hidden change in water parameters, we got a river that looks like carrot juice.
I thought it was interesting to be heavily invested in one Kickstarter as it made it to the finish line with just a few hours to go, while watching a similar one fail a little while after.

Descent:Underground [0] and Starfighter Inc. [1] both had well-seasoned teams of industry veterans, including founders who had written popular space games (X-Wing, Wing Commander).

One of the big differences I identified between the two campaigns was that D:U asked for an amount of money that seemed like enough to run a small game studio for a year ($600,000) while SI asked for an amount of money that seemed like it wouldn't get them anywhere close to done ($250,000 for a bigger team). D:U was also really clear in their messaging -- if we don't raise the funds, that's a market signal that we shouldn't make this game. SI communicated several times that if they didn't reach their KS goal they'd just do it another way. What that indicated to me is that D:U had a realistic crowdfunding plan that could get them to release, while SI seemed not to know what they were trying to accomplish with kickstarter.

To be sure, there were a lot of other factors at play. With D:U, Eric Peterson pulled a lot of support from Star Citizen backers and they released an excellent trailer in the last 48 hours of the kickstarter. SI dodged questions about what engine they were using and had a number of other customer interaction problems. But I think one of the big issues was that they didn't ask for a realistic amount of money, which made it seem like they either didn't know what they were doing or were relying on additional funding which would increase the risk for kickstarter backers.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/descendentstudios/desce...

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impellerstudios/starfig...
I get asked dumb questions all the time and don't call anybody out for it.
I guessed this might be about PFOA when I saw the headline! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid has the whole story, minus the anecdotes. Apparently a few parts per billion of PFOA in your drinking water is enough to detectably raise your risk of some cancers. Most environmental regulatory agencies propose 0.5 to 1 ppb as a safe limit for drinking water, while 4–5 ppb blood serum levels of PFOA are currently common among "unexposed Germans".

I was pleased to see that they aren't hyping the risk of cooking on Teflon.
I can speculate, though :)

You can periodically pulse the circuit at a low voltage and figure out the resistance, and if the voltage is low enough, you won't power anything up. When the ignition goes into the ON position, you've got a huge drop in resistance as fuel pump, and other necessary electronics get enabled. A sudden drop in resistance is a good signal that you should turn the power back on. This will not work with some more recent electronic systems, but should work great for most mechanical ones. Pretty sure you haven't solved things like the interaction with a BMW battery monitoring computer, for example, and those cars will probably reject your battery with some crazy error after a while.

It's good that you've got space for more reserve capacity, parasitic drag is getting higher as cars get more fancy. For example, radiator fans and turbo oil circulators can run for quite a while after the engine is off.

Your super capacitor design is elegant - you can charge the supercap off the battery slowly, even at low state of charge where its voltage would sag too low for the starter relay if you were directly using the battery.

I have a little car which I race and weight matters, so I've been using a ~12Ah LiFePO4 home-made battery for a while (A123 cells). This is a very durable little battery chemistry. No fancy super-caps, though, I just keep mine topped off and starting the car puts the battery cells close to their maximum discharge current.

I wish you guys the best of luck. Lead acids are pointless with modern battery technology.
Is there any detailed breakdown of the data that led to conclusion 5?
I believe the author may have re-invented RCU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update

This code follows the basic structure of RCU. The traditional RCU primitives correspond to DataProtector primitives like so:

- prot.use() is rcu_read_lock()
- prot.unUse() is rcu_read_unlock()
- prot.scan() is synchronize_rcu()

RCU was originally a kernel-side concept, but it has since expanded to user-space also, see:

http://liburcu.org/

https://lwn.net/Articles/573424/

liburcu is clearly not as simple as what is described in the article. One reason is that they are using pre-C11 C, which has no standardized atomics or barriers. It is also much more aggressive about reducing overheads: this article's code incurs a test plus a (possibly contended) atomic increment/decrement pair for every read critical section. liburcu offers several variants of the implementation, but none of them are as expensive as this.

I said "possibly contended" even though the article's code endeavors not to have contention. But it appears it still can run into contention in the case where there are more threads than the compile-time template parameter of the DataProtector class. In that case the id space will wrap around and multiple threads will be assigned the same slot, leading to contention. The more you exceed this, the more contention you will get. This is an unfortunate drawback of this code's simplicity.

Also, it seems like there is a bug in the code. _mySlot is thread-local, but _last is an instance variable. It seems like two DataProtectors (which will have independent _last values) could assign the same _mySlot to different threads. This would cause unnecessary contention even if you don't exceed the thread limit. It seems like _last should be static (global).

I don't mean this commentary to come off negatively. I think there is a lot of value in the way they have managed to factor this so that the DataProtector class is short and simple. Lots of lock-free algorithms have been known for a while, but in many cases they aren't practical because they aren't factored in such a way that they have convenient APIs. SMR/Hazard Pointers is a great example of this. I would love to see improvements to this class to address these problems while still remaining simple.
This is true compared to normal nuclear facilities operating normally. However, it is not a comparison to nuclear activity as due to nuclear accidents.
http://www.cejournal.net/?p=410
None of those mentioned certs involve advanced penetration testing, let alone basic penetration testing.
The Orange Box is a fantastic collection of games. I can also recommend Portal 2.

However, if you have a friend who likes first person shooters, you could play through one or more of the Gears of War games in cooperative split-screen mode. I hate, HATE, HATE playing FPSs on consoles, but I had a blast playing Gears in coop. It was the first console FPS I'd ever played where

* the gunplay felt good

and

* I didn't find myself longing for a keyboard and mouse after two minutes of play.

Indeed, the combat works really, really well with a controller.

I don't know how the game has held up over the years, but it was lots of fun back in the day.
I had 12 upvotes here, and then returned to 1.
I think you've hit the nail on the head... they really don't want to. The people that live there like it there, and don't want it to become a city of sky scrapers.

I wish someone would wake up and try to build out from a nice city somewhere else with room to grow. Boise, ID and Reno, NV come to mind... For that matter grow existing cities with infrastructure and room for growth. Some of the latter is happening but not nearly to the extent that it has in SF.

There are plenty of cities that have room, and would appreciate seeing hundreds of thousands of tech jobs move into the area in a couple decades, without the population constraints SF is seeing.
I tend to agree with you. I don't use Twitter for nearly anything (except reading occasional newsworthy information that other people tweet), but this could easily change that. It's in rare company as a platform that allows both completely private conversations (of arbitrary length) plus has a hugely vibrant community of public commenters.
If "seasoning" the pan achieves anything at all, doesn't it necessarily have to result in some sort of coating of the pan's surface?
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It's a benefit I call security by economics. The bad guys focus limited energy to produce attacks with maximum ROI. Makes them aim at most popular stuff. Simply choosing less mainstream, yet high quality, tech avoids many attacks as a side effect. Erlang is currently benefiting from this. So, I list it as a side benefit over Java.

It's not a high assurance system designed from ground up for security. It's a commercial system designed for availability. It will have plenty of flaws for malware writers to find. Meanwhile, they ignore it and smash Java instead. Gotta be a weight off Erlang crowd's mind.

Truth be told, I'd be getting my codebase in secure shape during such a time. Would look higher quality when attacks appear.
Engineers work their tail off to master their craft, build scalable products, etc. while the firm they work for potentially makes millions off the product. I fail to see why engineers shouldn't try to command a very high salary. Engineers are, and will be for quite some time, in very high demand.

Also, how does wanting to be paid well imply that he's out of touch with "humanity"? Are you comparing the engineering salary dilemma to those who lack food and shelter? That's a pretty silly comparison.
I think the many successful businesses and open source projects that exist prove that not only do we have the right tools, but that real, successful, big projects can be and are completed with some or all of the contributors being remote.
Maybe it's hidden like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OECOoNYZXmk
To elaborate: he's got an up-to-the-minute view on library and technology choices made across the entire App Store. I figure this would basically be killer for e.g. sales teams at API companies, analysts following them, etc.

(Do a for loop over your customers and profile as many signals as you can. For example, I don't know, "adopted analytics solution X." Search store for firms who match the signals which correlate with adopting you but have not yet adopted your app. Call them to pitch.)