skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there's much more to software engineering than entering and editing text, and you'll need to make a judgment call based on your priorities. I do more than web development, so I don't think your "web dev bias" applies to me. I merely find disagree with your absolutism:

> It is an utter waste of time compared to point-click-go-go-go.

If you don't have free time to devote to learning an editor, then that's fine. I was referring to those who spend most of their time programming (i.e. at an editor/terminal).

As an aside, I'm not sure why you keep mentioning web development. Of all the things that I do, web development requires the least amount of code. Other things have vastly bigger codebases. But yes, if most of your time is spent doing R&D, then you won't benefit much from improving your engineering tools.
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Yes. You can either do AA or do nothing with your problem. That's the only two options in the world.

Jeez these AA PR snippets are just stellar.
i think that's the point the author was trying to make. when you're a drunk, you're incapable of those things.
It's not even subconscious for me. I have a very small group of friends who know how I feel about most things, and everyone else gets the PC version.
And then she goes to AA?
And what would shock you most is some of the methods used to send those transactions (eg ftping a text file, and if it gets corrupt, someone opens it in vi to fix it - I have a friend who used to do exactly that).
And who gets to make the decision on how many of each "Race" gets well paying jobs special programs and a seat at the table? Is it you? Is it you that gets to tell a poverty stricken Asian or European child that they do not get to be successful in life because the percentage of there "Race" is to successful and they are no on your favored "Race" list?

That is horribly Racist. And totally oblivious to that fact.
Except for when she checked herself in to AA, and then publicly wrote a piece calling herself a drunk, and admitting she'd let a disordered relationship to booze screw up her life for years.

Jesus. Empathy is dead here.
Good question. I have wrestled with the same thing.

I have found that the literal interpretation of "How are you?" can be countered with a rough summary of your internal emotional/mental machinery by way of an emphatic grunt or groan. "Meh.", "Woo!", "Ugh." are a few good places to start. Get creative, do some homework.

Remember this is a very basic, mammalian level trait. This is after lizard brain stuff, but before primate brain stuff. We don't need a lot of words for this particular relationship transaction. Have fun with it, but don't stress it. The person asking the question is certainly not stressing it.
I just question why the NY Times classifies a story about alcoholism as "Fashion & Style".
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring generalists to build the GitHub of biotech
Dreamforce 2015, is it worth your time?
I didn't say Microsoft is in the wrong. I think he is naive if he thinks they care or even really appreciate it though.

They didn't even give him proper responses.
"Lost labor hours" in minimum wage fields might very well be spread across a larger labor base of formerly unemployed potentially reducing crime and incarceration rates.

Also, "lost labor hours" in what fields..? Reduced labor hours would not necessarily suggest reduced economic output, or a reduction in construction projects, or small business experiments.
I wasn't that young at the time and maybe I'm a cynic, but what I heard was "let's take the social security money and let my campaign contributors skim off the top".

I also heard him talking about ownership in the sense everyone should own a home. Right at the peak of the housing bubble. Lots of people took a big hit.
I'm always puzzled by these articles looking at the Great Firewall of China as if it is an alien thing. Much of it was designed in the US, by American engineers, working for companies like Cisco ( http://www.wired.com/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do ). So just ask them. People have even sued companies like Cisco about this ( http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/suit-over-ciscos-ro... ), but the US government dismissed those cases ( http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/03/china%E2%80%99s-go... ).

I read bizarre pieces from New York Times columnists ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/opinion/18kristof.html ) which say "If President Obama wants to support democratic movements on a shoestring, he should support an “Internet freedom initiative” pending in Congress. This would include $50 million in the appropriations bill for these censorship-evasion technologies. The 21st-century equivalent of the Berlin wall is a cyberbarrier, and we can help puncture it."

Huh? US corporations built it. The US courts have OK'd it. Why should US taxpayers pay to circumvent the technology that S&P 500 companies like Cisco are building?
To be fair, most people who think they need a "big data" solution would do just fine with a Postgres single instance install.
How ‘Starshades’ Could Aid Search for Alien Life
Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
Your argument appears to imply that racism cannot exist if even one person of minority succeeds. That is sheer idiocy.

If you're able to hold that opinion in the face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary I don't think there is a point in continuing.
Getting people to use your app
That is an excellent point.
That's the first thing that struck me too. Total abdication of personal responsibility, and her self-important, solipsistic attitude is found all throughout her writing.
And that "even if my ex had wanted to be the savior I was looking for, he couldn’t have rescued me from myself."
- nethack
- mc
- ag
- ssh
- renice,pkill,htop
- ncdu
Haha this. :)
Same here, from last job out of ~40, only kept in touch with 3. We meet once a week for coding, gaming, drinking and food.
"Gladiator, make no friends of gladiators." - from Spartacus.
Ask HN: Is finishing my degree worth it after working at a startup for a year?
Hey everyone,
I left school last fall to take a job at a startup. It was my final year and I had 2 classes left but I ended up failing them in the summer semester and moving onto work anyway. 12 months later I’m dissatisfied with the startup and want to make a transition. I’m wondering if it would be worth it to go back to school for 12 weeks and finish off my degree, while looking for work at the same time. I have a feeling that it would be difficult getting past many HR recruiters without at least a degree under your belt, so that’s one of my principle motivations for going back to school.

The ultimate question I’m trying to answer is: Should I forget about the degree entirely and try to get a new job without it, or should I go back to school for 3 months, complete my degree, and then start job hunting once again?

Some potentially relevant information:
- School I go to is a top 25
- My GPA is abysmal (1.996). I’ve never put my GPA on my resume and I’ve never been asked about it and I’ve interviewed at companies big and small so I don’t exactly know if this is a “deal breaker.” The issue here is that I would need a 3.0 GPA this final quarter to graduate. Doable but my track record is less than stellar (see GPA). - Already been in school for 5 years…this would be the first quarter of the 6th
- Not the best coder, so this might hurt during code interviews. I plan on prepping for them though, but i’m not immediately good at them, meaning if you tested me on them right now I might not do so hot. Plan is to build out an app or two in the coming
Maybe but people look at epidemiologic patterns (i.e. the whole point of the World of Warcraft Zombie paper earlier), and Parkinson's disease doesn't really seem to show any of the typical patterns. It's a really difficult problem, and also the reportability of linked cases may be an issue, as if you "get" parkinson's, you don't really know until 10 years or more after the fact...

There may be something to whatever makes misfolded synucleins agregate, but at the last big international conference, there was a battle royale between the pro's and the con's of prionism, i.e. do synucleins exhibit the properties of the prions involved in CJD and other prion disease, vs. just being an example of a self aggregating protein. The con's won by a healthy margin
I work for the State, in a non-competitive and low turnover environment. A lot of people here make friends with their coworkers, but I do notice that the depth of those friendships seem more significant with the older employees; they speak of road trips together, staying at each others' houses, and hijinks that I don't hear nearly as much of (if at all) from younger coworkers. It could just be the amount of time they've worked together, though, that leads to that impression.
I know this is just anecdotal, but my experience is quite the opposite. Some of my closest friends are friends I made at work. I was in their weddings.

Sure we drift apart when we no longer work together, because we don't see each other every day, but we're drifting apart from being very close. I'm still just as "in touch" with them as I am with my other friends.
Neuroscience based startups
Endemic in humans in the United States at least, some of my fellow Americans would remark.
The 737 is also specifically designed for gravel and short runways.
This actually is not the primary reason for the tradition. See: http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/en_tradition11.pdf
maybe, but the BS detector of a lot of people in the field are ticked off when someone tries to propose one cause for a broad variety of biologically different disease. It's also hard to prove that it isn't a general effect, vs the cause, of badness. mitochondrially-powered eukaryotic cells are awfully more susceptible to many things and my cynicism suspects you can measure worn/beaten up mitochondria in pretty much anyone as they age. The last CoQ10 trial that was based on the mitochondrial stuff for Parkinson's failed miserably.

If someone can design an experiment to prove a causative role of mitochondria in all of this, more power to them, but a lot of the proposed mechanisms never really appealed to me as all that compelling, other than to note correlation, i.e. "All of our Disease X patients exhibits abnormal test Y, which could potentially, possibly, but not definitely, be related to mitochondrial dysfunction, and this is why the NIH should give our group more grant money next year!"
I've seen that too and it is one of the things that have made me more critical of Google and the way it does things. I still use Google Search but I avoid everything else the company produces.
Is it hard to evaporate half of saltwater and dump the rest back?
If you're interested in working with us and think you've got the skills/experience/expertise we need, we'd encourage you to apply. Any further terms of engagement and employment will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
I haven't dug up the stats in the while, but last I checked, their success rate was exactly the same as cold-turkey going it alone.
Because its China, you can label it this way so people think:
Gosh, glad its China using it... Our country have no interests in such technologies...
Will the data breach problem ever be solved for good?
From this article, it seems the issue will stay for some years...

http://www.wired.com/insights/2015/02/the-root-of-the-security-problem/
Take/off landing cycles affect jets more because they fly at higher altitudes, and you get the pressurization/depressurization fatigue stress cycles.
Wordstar -> jstar from joe(1).

Or try wordgrinder

https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/howto-use-wordgrind...
How to Hold Bad Prosecutors Accountable
I have a story of a lost PC game... Long ago, around the time of the first Scary Movie, the company I worked for was tasked with creating "Scary Game"... and we were given one month.

Since there wasn't much time, the game basically amounted to a few simple Flash-type minigames. Not great, but that's what they wanted.

After we finished, the client informs us that they goofed and they don't actually have the legal right to release the game. I wasn't on the project, and I didn't hear exactly how they made that blunder, but we still got paid.

The best part was that at the end, those who worked on it got T-shirts saying, "I see dead games."
So this is basically sinking without a trace, likely thanks to the anodyne title and the release on a Friday. Mozilla is going corporate.
W^X policy??
Post Author here!

Your understanding of this particular issue is correct: the system described in this post would not be able to provide repeatable reads.

However, as you've alluded to, Cockroach transactions use a form of snapshot isolation (implemented with MVCC) which does provide repeatable reads. And yes, that will be the subject of my next post. :)
This is the reason Europeans CS is generally much more theoretical than American CS: in the early days of computing, Europe was rich in talent but not so much in hardware, so focused on computer science in a purer sense; the Americans had plenty of hardware, so focused more on pragmatic aspects.

This still has some effects today in department cultures even though hardware is readily accessible to all now.
To be honest, it may all be semantics. Does synuclein aggregate? for sure. Do they self aggregate? probably. Are they "prions"? That I'm not sure, as they are probably molecularly quite different than say CJD or GSS proteins. But "prions" is a scientifically flashy term, tied not at least in small part to Prusiner's personality (and of Olanow, who I'm sure is helping stir up the pot a little bit), and gets a lot of buzz.

I think the effort and the debate are worth it though because on the top of it all, prion or not, the root cause of Parkinson's disease is still not known. At least several million bucks of taxpayer money will probably go to prion-related grants because of the publicity and interested of various research groups, and while the prion idea may pan out or not, it can only add to the effort to figure out how this all starts in the body.
Well, the whole art of designing an aircraft is shaving away the metal (weight) where it isn't absolutely needed!
Indeed, learning to program and learning to think like a computer are very different activities and skills.
> Not at first.

Not ever unless the economy gets incredibly more productive.

> Also: Suppose we become unable to support the UBI for some reason and have to reduce it. How many cities burn as a result? Or do we just not reduce it until society keels?

If we can't support it, it will reduce itself -- not in nominal terms, of course, but the fact that we can't support it means that it will will drive inflation, which will reduce the real value of the set level of basic income.

As long as UBI isn't pegged to inflation, setting the level too high is self-limiting.

> I want to see this work at a smaller scale before I would even remotely support recklessly experimenting with the largest economy in the world with such a fundamental change.

The smaller the scale the less well its going to work; it makes more sense to try it at a lower level displacing fewer existing programs than to do it at a smaller scale.
At first glance, I interpreted it the way you did -- "nobody is here to help me solve my problems"

But now, thinking about the story, I think maybe she meant it more as "No One [but me] to Rescue Me from My Drinking", because certainly she's taken control of her own life, and that's commendable.
There is far more aspects to big data than just how much data you store.

But regardless you completely missed the point. PostgreSQL was tested as a single instance. Everything else clustered. It's apples and oranges. The clustering part is the hard part here.
alternative to the CPI is the Billion Prices Project, born out of MIT

http://bpp.mit.edu/
That's somewhat covered in the "Expected utility theory" section of the Wikipedia article. In short, if you double your money it doesn't double the usefulness you get out of it, so you have to take that into account.

However, that analysis assumes that additional money always adds some additional usefulness, and then you can make the problem reappear. To get rid of it entirely you have to declare that there is some point beyond which provides zero additional value no matter how much more money you add. And as you say, such a point surely exists.
Did they really not see that coming?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX

Also known as DEP under Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention

Or more general: NX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

There should probably be a definitive name for this.
>That doesn’t OBVIOUSLY mean that you don’t have to deliver anything or that you don’t need to work.

YOU said that all their success was due to some random meetings. If you don't mean what you say, then stop saying those things. Creating any successful business requires immense mental and physical resources. MZ is a genius (even though I personally dislike his personality-type) and FB is a result of him being awesome at what he does. You're trying to paint this picture that people have the raw ingredients within them to be a success, and all you need is to be in this right situation to take advantage of them. That kind of model is incongruent with reality.

> first because it’s a very limited experience of one personal story (so there’s no guarantee it’s representative for other billion dollar company makers) and second because it’s about them, so its highly probable that they won’t be objective (and it’s actually a common human trait not to be in cases of success, one studied by psychology).

'representative' doesn't mean anything because there are countless factors involved in being successful, and it is impossible to isolate them all. So let me ask you, why do you focus on success guarantees and objective success models? These things do not exist in the real world. There is simply no point in trying to establish ANY kind of logical reasoning behind success because it doesn't work that way. People look at what successful people do and they think "Hey it worked for X let me try and see if it might work for me". That is a perfectly normal way to approach these things - Which is the point the parent poster was making - "Business isn't exactly chess, but it's a lot closer to hold'em than it is to a lottery."
Thank you.

[edit] I understand HN prefers to use the original headline when linking and the source has no need to explain the term but I do so enjoy learning new things from HN.
Self-important... as if the writing's subject were... herself!? "Personal responsibility" is just an excuse for you to refuse to feel empathy for a person making herself vulnerable in a personal account. Your mean-spirited contempt is not as sophisticated as you think it is.
Mozilla: data stolen from hacked bug database was used to attack Firefox
So LGA1155 is a Land Grid Array Socket with 1,155 pins.

Their scheme may be somewhat internally consistent (until they change it again next year). The information it conveys remains completely useless.

Nobody cares about the number of pins on a socket or which "generation" a CPU belongs to.

We want to know which CPU is compatible to which socket, and how CPUs compare on their key metrics.

So here's a useful naming scheme: Sockets should be called S1, S2, S3 [...]

CPUs should be called: S1-8-40W-PM15000

That would be an 8 core CPU for Socket S1 that draws 40W and scores PassMark 15000.

If Intel & co insist on making us sift through hostile numeric identifiers then they should at least make them useful.
We used state machine-based software in high assurance systems for easier analysis and synthesis. They've also been used in hardware design and synthesis. I believe LISP OS's with functional programming is similar.

All in all, many interesting and robust systems have leveraged state machine model in design. So it's really neat to see an OS that tries to build on this pattern from core up. I look forward to digging into it. Plus, might help with an idea ive been toying with about implementing an OS kernel in hardware: state machine synthesis is already good and these are state machines.
> protecting members from arrogance which everyone know 'precedes a fall'

I feel like nothing can _really_ protect you from members' arrogance if they were determined enough. The rule, in my mind, only creates a certain exclusiveness shrouded in secrecy, which as far dealing with alcoholism seems pretty pointless. If it really works then why not spread the word?
Writable exclusive OR eXecutable policy, applied to memory pages it makes memory safety bugs a lot harder to exploit, as an attacker can't simply load an executable payload (typically, shellcode) in the address space of the exploited program and jump to it...
Actually, for the 1/1,000,000 chance of GBP 10,000,000,000 then GBP 1,000 seems OK? My EV is GBP 10,000 or 10.0 times my stake, which is _much_ better that buying 1,000 lottery tickets at GBP 1.00 each, for a 1/14,000 chance of GBP 10,000,000 (nominal; neglecting rollovers) and an EV of GBP 714.28 (approximately) which is an under unity gain (0.71 of the stake returned). However using the Kelly criterion for placing bets, I think it turns out that even though the return is high for the ten billion wager, you should only place the GBP 1,000 bet if you have a bankroll of 1,000,000,000 already ;( Corrections to my maths welcome!
I don't think Aphyr ever tested FoundationDB, that I can find.

They ran some tests themselves using the Jepsen framework, but given that a large part of the testing is setting up an environment that exposes the system's weaknesses, that doesn't give me the same level of confidence.
> A company can't live forever on one-time payments.

Which is why they've been charging for updates outside the year. You yourself provided them two recurring payments with no need for a subscription model to prompt it.
Oh come off it. We're a social species and we depend on others immensely for our well-being. Different people have different needs but not one of us goes it alone. "Personal responsibility" is a massive joke in a society where everything one does is connected to dozens to millions of people and we depend on huge organizations of human industry for our necessities. I see no merit to your contempt.
This is an American thing in general, not just a workplace thing. I know that people in other cultures find it quite strange sometimes, and frankly it is when the actual meaning of the words is considered and what their use implies. But it has somehow just become a kind of standard default greeting.

I think it's probably meant to imply a kind of warmness to the person it is directed to, kind of like, "nice to see you," or "I wish you well."

No one expects it to lead to extended conversation when it is used nonchalantly like this. And you're right, it is frequently encountered in situations where one or both parties are in motion. Often in a form like:

A: Hi

B: Hi, how are you?

or

A:Hi

B:Hi, how are you?

A:Good, thanks!

or

A:Hi

B:Hi, how are you?

A:smile, nod

or

A:Hi

B:Hi, how are you?

A:Good, and you?

B:Good, thanks.

I think this is fairly common in languages, that words are used in a way that from their literal meanings you wouldn't expect. Idioms of course, but I think in other ways as well.