skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mmmh... yes and no. This is only a part of the whole picture.

Nature is not returning, is being reinvented. This is a 'totally new rebranded' "american" fauna and flora.

New Jersey wild areas have currently: Japanese honeysuckle, Asiatic elm disease fungus, Japanese crabs, Chinese Chesnut blight, Red Bellied Pacus and Oscars from the Amazonas, Chinese grass carps, Freshwater jellyfishes from the Yangtze river, European green crabs, Northern Snakeheads from Russia and Korea, Nutrias from Argentina, Chinese softshell turtles, english Ivy, Australian Mimosa...

So you can remove the corn and end having a polyculture of mostly asiatic and south-american weeds and shrubs instead. Something totally new and that never coevolved before.

To the untrained eye, this could seem 'american nature', but in fact is 'now enriched with a 72% of alien plagues'.
Are you seriously arguing that because some Indian and some Asian people succeed, racism is not actually a problem?
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Yeah, I realized that a little bit late, heh. I did search for "libsoundio" to see how unique that was, but I did not find libsndio until later.
(slap forehead) OK. Got it, now. Thanks.
I would be careful here - when I studied organic and physical chemistry, I was very surprised to discover how much of the discipline was empiric. X + Y + heat = Z. Why? Mmmm, ask a physicist.
I have to ask, but since so much of Hawaii's electricity production feeds air conditioners wouldn't it be more efficient to pipe this cold water into houses as coolant? Or to a datacenter?
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I'm not sure I understand the logic here, so just because microsoft is a multi billion dollar company people shouldn't be inspecting their code to find security holes?

would you say the same thing if the subject was ubuntu/linux?
What I mean is that it is caused by how PDF.js is integrated into Firefox.
He also says people with strong accents are bad founders[1] and we shouldn't allow women to be founders today because they probably haven't been hackers for 10 years[2]. I dig Lisp, too...but maybe Paul isn't the best person to uncritically take advise from. And yes, I've read all of his "well that's what I said but really I'm not sexist" justifications.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/accents.html
[2] http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be.... Key insight: "If we really wanted to fix this problem, what we would have to do is not encourage women to start startups now."
I don't know about the rest of Europe but in Scotland the taxis are definitely in the hands of gangsters. The drivers will tell you as much. I'm not sure what the reason is but I'm guessing it's because it's a cash-in-hand business that would be easy to use for money laundering.

Here's some real problems which Uber addresses:

- taxi services being run by organised crime

- taxis wasting fuel driving about looking for fares

- massive shortage of taxis on a Saturday night in the city centre

- having to wait on the street in a queue for a taxi rank, probably in the rain, in a crowd of drunk people

- people getting mugged/assaulted because they had to walk home because they couldn't get a taxi

- being totally surrounded by cars but unable still being unable to get from Point A to Point B

- owning a car and a drivers licence, being unemployed, and not being able to put your skills and capital goods to use

- taxi drivers not knowing how to get to your destination

- not being able to get a taxi because you don't have cash

- not knowing when your taxi is going to arrive

- not having any log of the fact you ordered and got into a taxi, in case no one ever hears from you again

Ironically in ex-communist Russia, they don't really have these problems because people apparently just flag down any car on the road and hitch a ride, probably for a little cash.
Not only that but it's actually harder to claim violation of IP/Copyright since once the code is de-obfuscated/reverse engineered it will not resemble the shipped product and any resemblance to the original factory code can be claimed as purely coincidental since by obfuscating the code they denied anyone access to the original.
> Yearly sales cycles create a toxic incentive to focus engineering time on flashy demo-friendly features

I understand that argument, but what incentive does DRM with a killswitch create for the software company, if its customers must pay in order to keep the product running at all? Might it not create different perverse incentives, for example trying to close the ecosystem in order to make a switch a painful experience?

Or in other words: What incentive to improve the software (other than the threat from competitors) does subscription DRM provide, if you can just collect the rent, because the cost of switching is too high anyway and the customers are at your mercy?
I've only tested on Windows 7, but looking over the API functions I used, I could probably relax the restriction to Vista. I'm not sure I'd be willing to extend testing and support to Vista without getting some funding. It feels harsh to say, but I have ambitious plans which will be stalled if I git bogged down with deprecated and proprietary software.
That really should be an article title though.
One of the startups I worked on was a classifieds aggregation engine pulling data from external feeds.

We basically queued all retrieved items for processing with no attempts at avoiding data loss whatsoever - including using in memory queues for lots of things.

Our reasoning was that if a machine crashed, worst case was that a few listings would take up to 24 hours to update, but generally much less (we adapted crawling rate for our sources based on change frequency; so large sources of listings would get re-indexed far more frequently, so if a feed didn't update or 24 hours it'd be because it wasn't a source of much data), and we could force refreshes of the data.

Some people were horrified at the approach because the idea of ensuring consistency and not losing data is so ingrained. But the reality is that you need to measure the cost of consistency up against the value it provides. And often it's not very valuable, especially when there is an authoritative source of the data to recover from and when the data will be outdated quickly anyway.

A lot of the time any notion of consistency is an illusion anyway - by the time the page has returned, the results are outdated - and what matters is maintaining the illusion (e.g. ensure that if a user makes an update it's reflected in the page that's returned).

The key is you need to know the tradeoffs and apply them consciously rather than get caught out by tradeoffs components you rely on makes without telling you..
That is precisely correct. The Identity politics that the Grievance Industry try's to interject into every socioeconomic problem is part of problems not the cure for under preforming racial groups.
Here and there. Suppose your dungeon is full of ant people or orcs, creatures that can swing picks but are essentially dumber than the rocks they are hitting. They are rule followers and have not care for design, much like an algo. You can imagine an adventurer having to infiltrate such a place to steal a mcguffin, be it an uber-bee hive, an intestinal system of the dragon that ate you, or the random water paths that carved out a cave. The creator has to give the player a good reason why the system is random.
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This is a very beautiful story, but not very thought-provoking and it doesn't really offer anything new. (To me, at least)
An Honest Guide to the San Francisco Startup Life
Bugzilla 0-day can reveal 0-day bugs in OSS giants like Mozilla, Red Hat (2014)
TL;DR being "You can lead a horse to fresh water but you can't make it drink."

Or in this case; not drink.

I agree with meesles sentiment.
Considering that LM and other companies are also building multi-MW installations in other regions like the 10MW installation that LM is building for China I'm not quite sure what the value of this project will be since it doesn't really being scaled up by any account.
Presumably, with that amount of cash you could buy enough political power that the US military would be on your team
The whole DISCARDABLE thing was a relic of pre-NT versions of Windows, back when people were just beginning to realize that 640K was not, in fact, enough for everybody. I'm surprised the kernel pays any attention to it at all anymore. There's not much upside to paging memory associated with drivers in and out. Certainly not worth the additional attack surface that you get by making things more complicated than necessary.
weird that she just flat breaks AA tradition 11 "we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.”

The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA.

Try it before you judge it.

AA finds u when u need it, not to be traded for a drunkalog to generate page views.
"In 1985, about half of Americans said they had a close friend at work; by 2004, this was true for only 30 percent"

This decline precedes the Uberization of work (where people work more part time gigs with less coworkers around). It even precedes smart phones and being totally mired in watching our social media accounts when we get free time at work, as opposed to interacting with those around us.

I can only speak for myself but at work I feel a little constrained when trying to speak to people in a friendly non-work related manner. Primarily I'm concerned I might offend someone, with an offhand comment or joke. The laws and guidelines in place to protect employees against offensive behavior are a great thing but perhaps I take it too seriously. Perhaps it also affects by ability to make friends and "be myself" at work.
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It may not be the intent but it is definitely the outcome.
Hawaii is a chain of seamount islands, so the deep ocean isn't far away. That's unusual. Continents have a continental shelf, and it's usually a longer pipe run to the deep ocean, which means the 4°C cold water warms up along the way, plus pumping costs are higher.

Solar works so well in Hawaii that the power company there is trying to stop it. Once batteries get a little cheaper, Hawaii will be mostly solar.
The point is, how many of us techies suffer from similar problems? After all, many alcoholics started excessive drinking due to stress - and I'd say the startup world is filled with people under loads of stress.

80-hour weeks are going to take a cut of your soul and I wonder sometimes how many of us are trying to replace said cut with alcohol or other drugs.
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The temperature of the littoral water in Hawaii isn't cold enough (77f/25c during winter an 85f/28c during summer) for efficient transmittance cooling not to mention that salt water can't be used for evaporative cooling like the one being used by commercial AC units for fairly obvious reasons.
PostgreSQL was running only on a single machine i.e not clustered.

It is irrelevant in this discussion.
Universal Basic Income isn't creating imaginary money into the existing supply, it's just shuffling tax resources around. Potentially lifting impoverished people out of excessive meager full time busy work, and allowing several workers to live a higher quality of life (reduced hours) yet the sum of their employed paycheck + UBI equating about what they had as a full time employee of BusyWork Inc.

Pegging the UBI to the consumer price index could possibly help as well. Or segregating luxury items outside of UBI credits. Or just taxing luxury goods and services.
> The reason this is so important is that should this woman have a "slip" - which LOTS of alcoholics do - now the world, and needy alcoholics, have one more reason to dismiss AA.

> Try it before you judge it.

An organization that tries to inflate its own public success rate, and then asks people to keep an open mind towards it rather than dismiss it. Ok.
This is just risk and reward at work. People subconsciously fear the consequences of offending someone in the work place, with very little upside most people prefer to just keep it about work and nothing else.
It sounds like your understanding and my understanding of linking are not compatible. I carefully link only with C and disable exceptions, run time type information, and check the output with ldd to make sure no C++ symbols snuck by. If I'm mistaken about how this works I want to know about it, but I'm still convinced that the generated library is indistinguishable from a library compiled with -std=c99 rather than -std=c++11.
I just think it is naive to feel good for helping Microsoft, when judging by the way they replied, don't care that much at all, and are profiting from your free work.

It's fine to feel good for helping fellow users or yourself though.
I don't talk to anyone at work, because the workspace is an enormous open bullpen with hundreds of engineers, and talking in such an environment is obnoxious.
Someone always tries to make this comment when a security vulnerability comes up, and it's just as silly every time. If Microsoft asked him to investigate this, then paid him nothing then sure, you can call it "free work". But really, it's just that the author was interested in this one particular thing and decided to investigate it as a hobby and sent his findings in. The company shouldn't be expected to pay for it, or even care about it because they never requested it, and calling it "free work" or trying to imply that a company is in the wrong for not paying him because they're a "multi billion dollar company" is asinine.
FoundationDB was hardly redefining the database industry. There is more to a database being successful in the market than how well it fairs in one particular guy's blog posts (as excellent as they are). Apple isn't harming anyone.
I'd love to see a sentiment breakdown of % of usernames in this thread who agree vs. disagree on this basic issue. Does a tool exposing this exist?
This might be overdoing things a bit. FoundationDB was a rigorously tested KV store with strong consistency (uncommon for such a product). Yes, that talk from StrangeLoop was great, but there's two common misconceptions here:

(What follows is my opinion / guesswork as a VoltDB employee)

1. FoundationDB wasn't killed by Apple; it was rescued by Apple. The product couldn't compete on just being a KV store and wasn't doing well in the market. Apple saw a very bright and now experienced team and scooped them up for a song.

2. Before this happened, FoundationDB realized they needed a way to query their system to compete, so they bought Akiban (a failing SQL db company) to add SQL to their system. But they assumed they could do this without deep integration, which was wrong. They added a SQL "layer" on top of the KV store and it was way to slow to be practical. The benchmarks they published were embarrassing.

I wrote a blog post about this:
http://voltdb.com/blog/foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-value-s...

SUMMARY
FoundationDB: Great Testing, Great Engineering, Not particularly good product...
Expected utility is great, expected money is silly.
I have found that lots of aa members have a casual understanding of the traditions of aa. They attend meetings, and share about personal feelings but have little desire to learn and live by the traditions that were created out of hard lessons.

The particular tradition you refer to (appropriately) is about protecting AA from the ego's of its members and protecting members from arrogance which everyone know 'precedes a fall'.

Another misunderstanding of this tradition has to do with confusion with confidentiality. It was never intended for members to be secret from each other. This tradition is at the level of press, radio and films. Some people have tried to say that anonymity is at the level of members with each other, and that members should hide their full name from each other. In my opinion (which could be wrong) this is due to the influence of treatment centers in the 80's and 90's on the established program of AA.

Regardless, I find that careful anonymous sharing about the program of AA online is ok as long as you don't identify yourself as an AA member or use your full name and picture. Or if you do use your full name and picture, you shouldn't admit membership in AA.

I do not care to comment on my personal affiliation :)
Man, I HATE the MD-80 and the 717 and every other plane with body-mounted engines. There's always a beat frequency between the two engines and that's ok for the first couple hours but eventually it drives me crazy. Would be nice if they could somehow lock the engine speed perfectly.
That's what all the drama around OSS communities have been about lately, haven't it. People that say they want more diversity and inclusion in OSS communities, at the possible price of toning down or neutering certain elements of human culture and interaction. And in effect turning voluntary OSS projects into professional -- in an American sense -- gatherings. How diverse.
These analyses mostly ignore the obvious fact that the value of infinite money isn't, in fact, infinite, because eventually you'd run out of things to buy. Using the aggregate wealth of the entire world (which is probably in the neighborhood of $250 trillion[1]) as a bankroll yields a expected value of about $50.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding...
Makes more sense if you include the full context, why are you manufacturing outrage?

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What that means is the problem is 10 years upstream of us. If we really wanted to fix this problem, what we would have to do is not encourage women to start startups now.

It's already too late. What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that. God knows what you would do to get 13 year old girls interested in computers. I would have to stop and think about that.
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Meh, $19 a month for all their products sounds like a steal to me. I currently use many of their products and upgrade every year so this actually saves me money.
I know that's how I function. Any new gig I'm in(which happens to be right now), I start in super-professional super-PC mode. As I get to know my surroundings and happen to overhear other conversations and jokes, I get a better idea of the sensitivities of those around me. But yeah, I can totally see people(especially devs) just deciding to only talk work and nothing else and not even try/risk going into the casual social conversations.

I'm too much of a people-person to survive in the workplace without knowing more about people's lives outside of work. I'd get depressed and quit eventually if I couldn't feel relaxed and chatty with people.
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Your argument is a logical fallacy. If it was institutional "racism" against non-European ethnicities that was a cause of disparity then there would be no Asians, Indians etc.

Unless you want to make the claim that Europeans, Asians, and Indians are all "racist" specifically towards Africans in some grand ultra "racism" conspiracy.

There would also be a long line of qualified African Engineers that could not get jobs. Which is false.

The racism towards Europeans, Asians Indians and others by the Identity Politics Grievance Industry Industry (most of which are 'rich' 'white' peopel) is Disgusting and has no place in Tech or any other field. Its a self perpetuating social cancer that has metastasized in the social sciences.
I think the economic explanation is at the root of this. As they mentioned, long term employment is essentially gone.

In addition, things like pensions are no longer common except in the public sector. Add to that, the rise in cost of living relative to salaries and you end up with a situation where the work place is a very competitive environment.

We are competing with our coworkers for raises and advancement opportunities. Often this competition has an ugly under-belly, as it invariably involves criticism of coworkers' performance and self-promotion of one's own work.
Note the total lack of self-blame, or taking responsibility for one's own problems. Even the title, "No One to Rescue Me from My Drinking", puts the blame on someone, anyone, else.
i wonder if this was a man how the story would go.

much worse i'd imagine :/
Take your own inventory and let others take their own, dude.
If you're interested in this also checkout netmap and vale: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
One thing I find a bit weird, and I suspect it started in America (but I'm not sure), is when colleagues pass each other and they say 'how are you?' and keep walking, making it entirely obvious that they're not really interested in how you are. Or maybe they expect some rapid fire response. Not sure. But I think it would be better to just say 'Hi' if you don't intend to stop and actually talk.
Sorry, I didn't mean that literally, I meant getting equivalent functionality. I'd be fine with semicolons, Renderman Shading Language uses that syntax.
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I feel similarly, but I also don't want to be friends with my coworkers. I'd rather we keep a friendly, polite distance in our relationships. I love my job, and go to work to actually work: my social interaction comes from elsewhere, on my own terms.

I honestly think this keeps things more productive. There's less room for wasting time socializing, or worrying about people feeling left out, or (like you said) offending people, or anything else that takes time away from work. I've personally seen it happen where relationship concerns ("why won't they talk to me more?") get in the way of people's comfort working together. It's just silly to me. It has no place in the workplace in my mind.
This looks pretty interesting.
>He also says people with strong
accents are bad founders

More accurately, he said that people who fail to improve their accent over time are likely to be bad founders. I don't have a strong belief about this hypothesis one way or another but I see no reason to dismiss it out of hand (expect for signaling).

>we
shouldn't allow women to be
founders today because they
probably haven't been hackers for 10
years

That "we" shouldn't allow women to be founders is not just an uncharitable interpretation of PG's words, it's a downright implausible one.
I do have a sense of entitlement. I want things to make sense.
Yea, better to do nothing, I'm sure it'll sort itself out.
I could never be an alcoholic, alcohol does nothing for me except dulling the senses. But there were kids I knew, from the first drink of their lives, it made them a different, less stressed, happier person. It was like heroin (I imagine, never tried it). Point is, some people genetically have an alcohol problem. And this person is writing about it, exposing themself to potential criticism like this, and taking action about it. Does judging this person make you feel like a better person? Because it's not helpful in any way. If you've avoided problems, good for you. If you haven't, and you've had struggles, it doesn't make you a hero, and it doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you a human being.
As a counterpoint from the "flyover country" viewpoint, I live in rural Minnesota about 40 miles outside Minneapolis.

$1MM will buy you a very nice new construction 6,000+ sq ft house on about 20 or more acres of land with an outdoor pool most likely. And you're within commuting distance of major job markets. $10MM and you're living quite comfortably (probably spending weekends at your cabin on the lake) and certainly not needing to work, so maybe you spend your free time tending to your horses or alpacas.
The only thing I'd take out of your comment is "all providing strong guarantees". I'd say that if you document that it does provide those guarantees that it damn well better do that (modulo bugs of course).