skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the author resents having to compete for attention with "bullshit", but I'm not sure if there's a realistic alternative. You're going to throw out the baby with the bath water I'm afraid.

As for advertising, paying for entertainment and information with some time and attention is not really bullshit. It's a voluntary exchange, and both sides would not engage if they did not have some inclination that they would be better off than without the exchange. There are other things you can exchange for entertainment and information, and you can completely opt out.
Transit is different. Because you never leave the transit area of the airport, you aren'"entering" the country. This is why Snowden had to hang out in a transit area of an airport hotel until he could get the paperwork to legally enter Russia.

You may still need a transit visa, but those should be easier to get.
Somewhat related, but I recently started using systemd, and I really like it. The init systems discussed in this article are fascinating though, it'd be really interesting to see what would've changed should one of them "won the war", so to speak.
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I know this is the man who formulated the CAP Theorem to begin with, but I am shocked to hear him say "partitions are rare" without any justification. Could somebody please expound on this, as my bread&butter comes from building distributed databases, and I can assure you I encounter faulty networks all the time. Am I just crazy, or call me maybe?
That's assuming people have been so brainwashed they need to be told what they want / should find fun. And I'm sure that's not true.

For example, sure there's lots of advertisements of snowboarding, but if any/all of them disappeared, it doesn't mean I would stop wanting to do it. But of course, I don't need it. I'm still spending my money on gear / clothing / transport / accommodation / food / services that are related to snowboarding, because I want to do it.

People wanted things before bullshit all around us existed (or existed only in a limited and local scale). Civilisation existed before the first advertisement agency was created.
He worked with them on the Jepsen test that they ran. You can ask him what he thinks about it on Twitter.
The People in Picture are representing an Upper Caste.
You definitely made a wrong assumption.
Same in Australia. They audit you if something looks off (and there are big fines if you intentionally mislead the tax office), but generally they just accept your assessment as true and correct.

https://www.ato.gov.au/General/How-we-check-compliance/Self-...
How Google's new logo is just 305 bytes
I wouldn't call that a cache. It's certainly computed state, of the kind that can be thrown away and recomputed ala Crash-Only programming, but in my experience a "cache" is supposed to be transparent: to decorate an file/device/socket/RPC service/object/whatever and expose the same semantics as that whatever, but more performantly. Your indexed set doesn't expose the same semantics as the data file it was constructed from.
Adult, Autistic and Ignored
Mapv is a visualization of map
The mouse was made by one of IDEO's precursor companies Hovey-Kelley.
See http://www.ideo.com/work/mouse-for-apple/
and
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-engineer-of-the-original-ap...
Chris Guillebeau writes/wrote about similar issues. (see this post on getting into Saudi Arabia):
http://chrisguillebeau.com/getting-to-saudi-arabia/
The ESTA is definitely a curious hoop jump that feels like applying for a visa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program#Electronic...
In exchange for votes from such people. Before, many of those people were disenfranchised.
I'll second Namecheap. Good service, good prices
We do offer paid accounts, and in fact already have a nice size group of paying customers.

Still in the process of establishing our service tiers, but our basic hosting plan starts at $5.00 per month.

http://hook.io/pricing
This is a sentiment I've heard from a lot of my friends in academia.

I hope the author isn't also similar to those friends of mine in another way: assuming that the marketing job that private industry has done when comparing themselves to academia is true. That things are more rational and productive outside academia. That they won't just enter another game played by chickens with no heads that has slightly different rules. That they won't spend most of their time doing useless bullshit that the system demands they produce even though it does nothing to further the goals they are supposed to be advancing.

I liked the piece, so I do hope the author ends up preferring the different kind of pointless make-work the alternatives provide him.
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Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland are all capitalist countries with a high economic freedom index.

That the voters choose to vote themselves high taxes for the purposes of high government spending is more a function of their culture than anything else.
P.E. did expose me to many sports. I didn't really like any of them; some were more tolerable than others, but that's hardly equivalent to enjoyment. I don't dislike physical activity in itself (though it was practically impossible to maintain any consistent volume before my sleep apnea was treated), and I think I understand at an intellectual level why "people enjoy sports". But empirically the reward processes haven't happened for me.

Anyway, the reason I'm harping on this is that vague, noncommittal advice like "find a sport you enjoy" is exactly the sort of thing that a true exercise prescription ought to be able to avoid. Doctors don't pull out the Rx pad and write down "find an anticonvulsant that works for you".
Yes, in many ways we have gotten rid of a lot of bullshit since the dawn of society, and one could argue that we have been on a monotonically upward slope over that period. One thing I think some people get wrong is the sense that the bullshit is a new thing, introduced by relatively recent societal/technological developments. People have been calling bullshit since as far back as we have records, and I think on the whole it has actually been steadily getting better, counting by the total percentage of the population that is educated or "enlightened" enough to recognize and condemn and not practice various components of what we are generally calling bullshit behavior.

And "relative" really is a key word here because while this is happening insanely fast on universal time scales, it's actually agonizingly slow within the context of a human lifetime. Which creates a catch 22: I could devote my life to stamping out some form of bullshit (if simply by promoting education), and on my death bed wonder if my efforts were even distinguishable from noise. But it is combined efforts like these that do gradually move the needle, and for each person that makes that evaluation and decides it's not worth it, it will take that much longer.
Going out for a walk is free, and few even do that. I doubt free gyms would make a dent.
The same developments are happening as we speak in places like South America. The Economist runs enlightening articles about this. (A collection available via https://www.google.com.au/search?q=economist+domestic+servan...)
The Refugee Crisis Isn’t a ‘European Problem’
Programmers have passion but journalists have agendas!
Fixing Twitter
List helpfully also has "What's a typical age-related change?" under each - those are normal manifestations of each point.
America’s once magical, now mundane love affair with cars
Blogpost from six months ago, subsequently patched. OP also only submits articles from this domain.
> It's a good thing that upper middle class people today can't afford to have lower class people do domestic services for them. It's an indication that lower class people can make a lot more money doing non-domestic work.

Not necessarily. Many lower-class people are unemployed.

It may also be an indication that lower-class people are getting lower in, well, class. Many, many rich people would be happy to employ in-home servants for some reasonable wage (say, more than minimum) but the days when you could get servants who knew how to dress, speak, et cetera properly around upper-class people are long gone. Culture has bifurcated, the lower class have no idea how to behave around polite society, and more problematically don't think it's worth trying.

It's much better to be a butler (or even a footman) than a janitor at McDonald's, but the average McDonald's janitor isn't someone you'd want inside your house.
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In other news Excel has replaced 1,000s of programmers. So sick of this lame tech worker bias with these "poors" jobs. These posts on HN really reinforce every stereotype toward tech culture. Please stop posting and upvoting this crap.
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I think that depends a lot on the perspective / use case, so piece by piece:

> Also the harsh reality is that Twitter never really solved their troll and spam issues.

I keep seeing rayban/shoes/watches bot spam every week on Facebook, but never seen one on Twitter. Trolls are everywhere, they're just people.

> Twitter is great if you don't want anybody to know who you are so you can troll all day, but bad for conversation.

I've never had/seen a serious conversation on Facebook. But I've learned a lot from discussions (ok, trolly arguments) between tptacek and dakami.

> In fact it's so bad that users who get frustrated with the character limit post photos of text.

I don't think that's "frustrated". They just do it. They do exactly the same on Facebook when the format/context gives you extra information this way - for example part of a screenshot of an article, rather than copy-pasting it.
Both factors come into play.

Arranged marriages, in nearly all aspects, emphasize communal values in place of individual wants and as such marital disharmony is worked around (or pushed under the carpet) for the sake of the group. And individual satisfaction is hardly desired by the group.

However as young people increasingly become independent, and (ironically) continue to emulate Western values, they develop little tolerance for such compromise and will readily opt for separation if necessary .. to the point that Indian divorce statistics may well come to resemble that of the US.

All the while hardly anyone questions marriage/love itself.
By growing the income, you mean growing their productivity so they make more money.

Rising minimum wage and reducing hours does the exact opposite. Decreasing a tax burden is a good idea - but decreasing the tax burden on everyone.

'Tax the rich' while a popular strategy to single out a minority group, is ultimately a useless strategy as there aren't enough rich people to tax, and they already disproportionally pay more than anyone else.

The UK dabbled in extremely high investment taxes at 98%. I think this would fall under your 'tax the rich' proscription. The unfortunate side effect was that investment was virtually stopped overnight and the country stopped growing GDP for two whole years, making everyone significantly poorer and destroying many industries and companies.

Unfortunately I read this type of comment frequently, and they all fall into the trap of the 'daddy model of wealth' : http://paulgraham.com/gap.html

But not all is lost, you did suggest that middle class income is key, understanding that productivity is the key to income growth is the key to that. However, cutting hours and increasing pay are the exact opposite to increasing productivity.
Wells, in general, are a public health nightmare in India. Most of India, except a few states, has heavy quantities of fluoride in the soil.

Ground water is not portable and drinkable because of this. India has suffered numerous episodes of widespread fluorosis. Removal of fluoride to normal levels is one of the major expenditures of water works.
It's news of change; the article didn't seem like it had too much of a slant.
Ah, yeah. I think given the amount of abuse on the doc, the post should be updated to have this as the link.
I would say that a lot of issues could be solved in the US by reducing the amount of sugar in everything and reducing the amount of credit used to buy everything.

Getting people healthier and saving more can never lead to bad outcomes.
The man is a visionary who - like Moses coming down from the mountain - single handed introduced desktop computing to the world. /s
>trying to delete old messages is complex and sometimes impossible

I'm not familiar with ZeroMQ's data structures, so forgive my ignorance. At the high water mark, why can't the consumer throw away old messages instead of the producer throwing away new messages? There are no locks or bugs — that's what the consumer does anyway.

I'm not saying that should be the default behavior, but perhaps an option. It's cleaner than silently dropping new messages, then sending an entire buffer of old messages if the subscriber recovers.
Its not. It's the posting of this crap like only the poors will be replaced
Shouldn't really assume that. I mean, yes, it's unlikely, but given that most of the research is around prevention of damage, surely it's better to get tested early if you even remotely suspect there is a chance of it being Alzheimer's.
Yeah I'd be up for that - could probably slap a repo together for it if interested? Suggestions welcome!
> [...] but bankers would find it very difficult forging a reputation in software engineering.

As long as you can program, we'll hire you.
I read the article carefully, and I didn't see any of the slant you did. It was just an interesting article on how automation is moving deeply into a new field. And, as pmarca has constantly reminded us, once you've got automation, you've got software - and so this is yet another place in which software is eating the world.
The author is seriously overselling their claim, which is regretably common in the 'complex networks' field.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

We would (biasedly) say that Kubernetes is ready for production today, and have lots of public folks (Samsung, eBay, Porch, and thousands more) who are doing so.

If you're in any way concerned about the management, feel free to get a trial on GKE (the hosted version of Kubernetes) on the Google Cloud ($300 trial free). We have a 99.5% SLA on it, so it's backed by Google engineers.
I didn't see that discussed in the article at all.
Who the hell says 'the poors'.
It is so incredibly new though, not having major breakthroughs isn't too surprising. I don't think anyone is expecting it to replace research labs.
This story is the latest confirmation of a worldchanging trend that YC companies (and their ilk) should be thinking about a lot.

Your Excel analogy is apt -- just as a tech investor or startup founder in 1990 needed to be aware of the revolutionary impact programs like Excel were having on the world of business, or one in 2010 needed to be aware of the ways software is eating the world, in 2015 they need to be in touch with the ways mechanization et al are on their way to changing everything.
The blog has the date (at the end) and also prominently at the top :

"UPDATE: Google has corrected this behavior as of Android OS 5.0 (“Lollipop”)"

However, it is very odd that the account was created 24 days ago and has submitted 20 pages from the same site since then. It does look like some sort of paid advertising or site traffic generation account.

Perhaps one for HN mods to look at a bit more closely.
I'm a director of engineering, not a VP, but there isn't a higher engineering position at our startup, so it's just a matter of semantics. I sort of lucked into this position when the CTO left the company suddenly due to personal reasons. Rather than bringing in a new CTO right away, I convinced management to promote me to director to ease the transition. So far it's been a year, and they haven't even started the search for a CTO, since I handle most of those duties (though the time may come where we need someone with more experience as we grow and expand).

The most important skills for my position are being able to quickly spot talent (or lack thereof) in other engineers (necessary for quick hiring and firing), the ability to mentor and develop other engineers, especially when they are possibly more talented than I am, and the ability to communicate with the rest of the management team. This last one is the most important of the three listed. Part of that is giving good estimates for level of effort, time to market, expenses, etc.

Being in a leadership role, you have to be able to trust your team to get the coding work done so you can focus on bigger picture things like managing, architecture, etc. A good VP will not be coding most of the time.
Yet another great thing beer can do: Revitalize an entire Midwestern city
I think you're reading a lot more into this submission than the submitter intended.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

You're correct that the scheduler in the box is declarative. However, it is easy (well, as easy as writing a framework) to swap out a scheduler that might be a better fit for what you're looking for.

See this stackoverflow answer by one of the core Kubernetes team for more info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28857993/how-does-kuberne...
> primarily the big three: transportation, housing, and food

You forgot taxes, which for me is larger than transportation, housing, or food and is nearly as large as all three combined.
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes

I'd love if you could mention stuff in particular that you felt like was missing - we're trying hard to catch up!
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Indians (and Bengalis and Pakistanis) don't get divorced for three major reasons: 1) it's culturally discouraged, and even severe problems get swept under the rug so people can save face; 2) with a workforce participation rate under 30%, most Indian women have little choice but to stay in their marriages; 3) the stigma of divorce makes it very difficult for divorced women to get into other relationships.
> even remotely suspect there is a chance

Generally speaking, this is not a cost-effective approach to medicine.
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Ah, the headquarters of the Usenet Administration!
you are mixing up communism and socialism. socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. the scandinavian systems are called "nordic socialism" for a reason.
Huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge
Programmers don't have the same ability to influence many people with their work.
Well, she is attractive, but I don't think that defines her success. She has a following because she works hard at it, maintains a consistent style and engages with her audience.
Ask HN: Exporting AWS Lambda?
I'm designing a web app and I'm considering using AWS Lambda. My concern is that I'm going to need to offer an enterprise version of my app to be able to be run on premises, but that I won't be able to export AWS Lambda functions into a self contained image of some sort the way I could with an AMI to hand over to the customer. I couldn't find an answer to this on the Lambda site. Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
The IRS is currently being under-funded to a degree that that we are not spending much on hunting down tax-evaders http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/06/1...
Scaling Clearbit to 2M API requests per day
Businesses with great products still fail often
Folks gotta hustle and market to get distribution & advertising, or it's closing time.

See also: Hlaska[0, 1], Trager USA [2]

0: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/10/chad-hurley-leaves-youtube-for-fashion-label-hlaska.html

1: http://www.gilt.com/brand/hlaska/product/66863224-hlaska-caliper-small-messenger-bag

2: http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10625
In other words, you're advocating using more memory in a shared environment just so your server can (try to) be faster? What happens if everyone else does the same? Everyone ends up competing for the limited amount of memory, and no one wins.

"I'll grab all the memory I can so others can't use it" is a horrible way to think, as anyone who has attempted to simultaneously use multiple applications written with this mindset will know. One takes most of the memory, forcing other apps into swap, and then the opposite happens when you start working with one of the others, accompanied by massive swapping slowdowns.
Again, as links:

0: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/10/chad-hurley...

1: http://www.gilt.com/brand/hlaska/product/66863224-hlaska-cal...

2: http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&...
Madison judged her social life as inferior to what she saw in the online posts of her high school friends.

I'm 32 and still feel shitty about life compared against everybody else posting their amazingly perfect success-success-success lives online.

Computers used to be the domain of nerds, then they became too common and now it's a permanent social status ranking high school game you never get to exit and can't even completely opt out of either.

Maybe we could make a viral game like the ice bucket challenge except this challenge is to not post online when something amazing happens in your life. Just be quiet and know you got away with something.
There is no concept of transit/international zone in the U.S.A..

This means passengers, even the ones on transit, must have legal right to enter the U.S..

Going through a U.S. airport just for transit is always a bad idea, as it takes a lot of time to cross the border.
Gawker posters and writers.
Every single Ph.D. on my data science team has pretty much said the same thing (independently). The way I put it: Academic science is a branch of the entertainment industry in a socialist sub-economy.
tell her to switch to data science
Think that it is fine just the way it is. A "programming language for musicians" could just as easily be BASIC or something, while a "music programming language" could be aimed exclusively at computer scientists.
I think everyone has been overly harsh. While walking is not illegal almost anywhere it is nigh on impossible in many countries, for example the UAE. Walking may also be very, very dangerous to be out on the streets due to corruption, reckless drivers, crime, oligarchs, etc.
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I wonder if there is some sort of more incremental way to introduce basic minimum income that won't get legislative pushback and will scale with automation.
Test shows how old your body really is
Despite the impact it has on the availability of unskilled manual labour jobs, I think it's great that machines are finally turning to harvesting - having worked on a similar project to do with grapes (specifically, pruning), it's not always the easiest of things.

It does highlight to me that we are getting closer to the point of needing to rethink labour distribution, because the non-technical jobs are the easiest to replace with machines.
That was true like 5 years ago. The author is just misinformed.
The other day I read about "bride burning" [0]

Beyond the various non-investigative news articles, does anyone know about this in recent times or it's history?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_burning
Short runways yes, but gravel kits were only offered on the 737-200 series with its low-bypass turbofans. The enlarged nacelles required to retrofit high-bypass turbofans to the already low 737 design ended that possibility.
Very interesting point regarding the illusion of interaction that Instagram provides. I do find Twitter's displaying of replies and retweets (to the first 100) questionable.

As for how Twitter can improve in that aspect, how about a horizontally-scrolling feed of users who retweet, and a less-annoying version of such for comments? They seem like relatively easy design choices.