skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally draw a distinction between the gigantic-sized stuff the US federal government does (military and wars, fiscal and monetary policy, taxes, transfer payment programs) and the medium-sized stuff (HUD, EPA, FCC, etc.)

The medium sized stuff can be steered by the adminstration in power. The people you elect can exert influence in those areas, I mean.

But the huge stuff is out of their control. The military especially is very interesting to me because no war just happens spontaneously. It's all got to be planned years in advance. In that context, where does a Jade Helm fit in?

Anyhow, regardless of what you think of the loudmouths regarding Jade Helm, that campaign was certainly odd in its conception both in terms of size and setting.

What possible valid reason would the US military have for doing large scale trainings in US urban settings? I don't mean that question in a conspiracy sense. I mean, logically speaking, why? The military has the tactics and hardware to engage in urban settings down pat. Just training for training's sake? That's nonsense.

I'll leave the speculation as to the "real" motives for Jade Helm to the more frothy-mouthed. What I know after-the-fact was there was an odd/confusing move by the military, followed by a terrible sales job by the stuffed shirts in power that led inevitably to a failed/cancelled campaign. It reinforces my point that the power structure seems to be creaking here.
Why would you intentionally harass victims like that?
Ask HN: How to build a product org?
I'm currently at a company which lacks a product-management organisation internally (i.e. it doesn't exist yet), despite having a number of product managers. To date - this means that the role has been fairly fragmented, with everyone doing their own thing without much guidance/direction. This has caused some problems (e.g. some people have ended up as managers in charge of fiefdoms, poor product results, etc).

I have the opportunity to change this and to create a product mgmt org, but I've never done something like this before.

Aside from poaching some senior product managers from other orgs, has anyone been through this transition before who can offer advice? Can you recommend some resources that could help out?

How did the product mgmt orgs get started at places like Google, Slack (only recently), etc..?
Piston is pretty quirky, honestly. The window builder is pretty vanilla, but the event-processing-for-loop stuff is super quirky.

The `e` that is yielded by iterating the window is the window itself WHAT

Especially because the examples use stuff that is basically impossible to find in the docs (even though the docs are auto-generated from the source!). The modularity makes it really hard to tell how anything works, what anything is, or what functionality anything has.
They can do better - they explicitly list in another part of the handbook what every employee receives (https://github.com/clef/handbook/blob/master/Employment%20Po...):

> Every employee will be offered 41,963 Clef stock options (~.9% of outstanding shares, including the option pool these are drawn from). As mentioned above, they can also choose to reduce their salary by $5k/year in exchange for 4,663 more options (totalling ~1% of outstanding shares).

This is a genuinely impressive commitment to transparency.
At least in my corner of the industry (commercial) , we've been asking for better test cycles because we don't want to wind up in a situation where we are chasing fuel economy on the test cycle at the expense of fuel economy in the real world. The regulators want to keep the same test cycles so they can measure how emissions and fuel economy are changing over time.

Internally, we have much better test cycles correlated to real world routes that we use to validate fuel economy simulations.
I don't know why anyone in 2015 would pick mysql when postgres is an option. Live postgres. So nice to work with. It's json support is amazing too
Is the standard Uber Black really a Mercedes S-Class now? What happened to the Town Cars?

I'm not sure who the market is for riding in the back of a BMW 3-series is though. People who prioritise a fancy badge over legroom, perhaps?
Access to natural resources.

How do you expect the non-rich to get land area, energy and materials to produce anything at all?
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It seems to me that opinion shaping on Twitter has been using this effect for at least the past year.
I had massive problems getting 3d up and running. I'm not really inclined to try again, unfortunately - because it's actually a pretty cool library.
Then "handshake" bit is rose colored view of the past. Scams were incredibly common in the past. Real estate, diamond and gold jewelry, and even the original "snake oil" and patent medicines, and all the classic "confidence man" scams.
At the end of the day, it's belief by someone in future dividends or purchase by another entity. If you don't want the latter to mean 'speculation', then take it to mean 'wholesale acquisition by another company.' That makes stock valuable too.
Reports of Human Waste in San Francisco Map
An FPGA dev kit probably costs more than a NIC and is harder to program.
> You never have to use somebody else's copyright work.

You do however have to suffer the consequences of being falsely accused of doing so.

And if you want to use your own copyrighted work it helps if there are platforms to support you in doing so that aren't either locked down by the incumbents or passing on the eye-watering costs of compliance to you.

As for Free Software, forcing it to comply with censorship is trying to square a circle and is going to either criminalize or neuter it. You can always make your own, but you'll be breaking the law if you install it on your router or your tablet.

What bright side?
It wasn't bad. I appreciate the attempt to reduce my cognitive load.
How a bunch of government space geeks at NASA won the internet
I would just like to add my voice to the cacophony of others shouting into this particular echo chamber: Peace out Lastpass
If you want resistance to thermal shock, go and get some old Corning Ware from a thrift store. Corning Ware can go directly from the freezer to the oven without damage.
What physical defeat device is VW using? (There isn't one)
I don't know about the rest, but Mexico won the Metalclad case; there's still no toxic waste dump there. Mexico had to pay for the stuff they told Metalclad to build while knowing all along they were going to deny the dump.
I understand what you're saying but please replace MySQL with Postgres. Only one of those two is an actual consistent database.
Model Clauses/Contracts (https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Model-Contracts/38.htm) are an alternative method of satisfying EU data protection requirements in dealing with overseas data transfers. Amazon, like Google and many other multinational technology companies, have adopted these in years past.

What this posting means is that * from Amazon's perspective * they are compliant with Directive 95/46/EC (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...), which established (for the EU) these regulations.

What it doesn't mean is that customers of Amazon are also compliant, because Amazon has no clue what types of data they are processing, what they are doing with it, and where they are putting it. They are wisely advised to consult counsel to ascertain this fact.
Please do not use MySQL,,, unless you've read the it's dual licenses. MariaDB was forked for good reason. MariaDB > MySQL
That's why it is important to set up these plans for yourself before you get old and proud, when you know what lies eventually ahead. And to spend lifetime developing the tristworthy relationships you will need later.

Or go on physically dangerous adventures in your old age, like skydiving. Or donate your funds away before you get senile, and rely on charity and public assistance
I agree that those are products which to varying degrees compete with parts of AutoDesk's product line. To me, Desault Group and Siemens aren't really competing as companies with AutoDesk, their core business lies elsewhere, i.e. manufacturing, and their interest in design software seems more of a byproduct of their core interest...e.g. Siemens licenses its parametric modeling technology to other Cad vendors (e.g. Nemetschek).

On the other hand PTC is a similarly sized company with a similar strategy of acquisition. It predates Autodesk's acquisition strategy and appears to target a different set of customers...hence no webstore. I suppose the analogy I'd draw is that AutoDesk has products that dominate their market segments in the way PhotoShop dominates its segment. There are competitors for profitable corner cases (in PTC's case product life-cycle management solutions), but those aren't in the just whip out a credit card and wait for the UPS truck sweet spot.

As an aside, my comment mentioned AEC and that's a market that Autodesk has clearly shaped and dominated.
ccache hashes the preprocessed input to gcc, hashes it, and pulls out a previously compiled object file if possible. You can use it together with distcc to farm out jobs to other machines; whether you pick their caches or yours depends on the order of ccache and distcc on the command line.
> Some technology is designed for massive scale and some is not. You may have to layer a little scale magic on top.

This is as wrong as saying that everyone needs to scale day one.
Won't each unikernel image running on a hyper visor also include redundant copies of libraries like libc?
I run a multiuser shell system for hosting tmux/ssh/irc type usage. It's limiting but it's a labor of love for friends. For anything that matters I use a modern (piles of VMs and containers!) design.
Not a bad idea. Personally I'd still reform it based on the Australian system, though.

Rank every single graduating high school student, via a series of tests, from smartest to dumbest. Let each kid nominate their college preferences on a form. Universities then offer places to the students who nominated them based purely on their ranking. (There's some messing around for second, third preferences and the like). Done! Easy!
I didn't state my point clearly. My point was not that GPUs give some new capability to HLLs, but that GLSL itself is higher level for a restricted domain than what is afforded by a general purpose processor ... and, owing to their specialization, GPUs are faster than normal CPUs.

FPGAs blur what it means to "run a HLL", since you can optimize the circuitry to a point where there is no explicit representation of the "code" or "microcode" anywhere so the question becomes pointless. Heck even what part of physics is used is blurred! [1,2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware (Ref: Adrian Thompson's work)

[2] http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Luckily AWS already has CloudFormation is their closing? There's no content here.
Good article on the dangers and time-wasters of MySQL: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
Make some noise with your politicians, educate your neighbors, start alerting others. US here and I'll be doing what I can.
DigitalOcean on-track to reach $100m ARR by end of year
One of our data providers at MSN gave us this binary blob, which we had a decoder to run over and produce a text file, which we then transformed in something regular, did a diff, and updated the table we needed to update via SQL.

We begged and begged for XML support. Many releases on, they trumpeted XML support! Huzzah! The XML had a header and one huge CDATA block of the Base64 encoded blob they usually sent.

Thanks!
Disclaimer: I wrote the article. I feel the HN community may find some of the business numbers for DigitalOcean and Backblaze interesting.
Maybe your associate can fix referers next
Feeling anxious over the prospect of having to figure out just what I'm feeling, how to communicate it in ways that marginalize other potentially troublesome feelings and justify how and why all of that makes sense given the same shit I did the work to communicate yesterday...
Yes. I had a nice steak in a Pyrex brand dish, in the oven. It was around 1986. When I took it out, I set it down on a cold electric stove burner. Kaboom.
At risk of feeding the troll: the point, as made in their tag line, is that you don't always want any individual with the ability to create a branch to be able to merge to master, for a variety of compliance and stability reasons. This is just a codification of the existing strategy used by all kinds of teams, where a PR is submitted and approvals are solicited in the PR from other team members before merge.
You are correct. It is going to suck living in a developed country unless you have enough money to be financially independent. Deflation is a very likely outcome as the standard of living in the first world countries will decrease, and we will be meeting the third world countries in the middle.
Isn't he being paid by YC though? And there are frequently special hiring threads for YC companies.

Anyway there's a very thin line between spam and not spam, and is generally based on whatever people want to see at the time.
Wow. Wondering if this won't have an even bigger impact in African towns / cities as there are invariably more things to fix? Was it the app that helped with the fixing or more the city's capacity to respond quickly and fix things?
It's now possible to have a choice between a company whose benefits result in only crumbs, and a company that offers slices.
There's a Reddit thread about possible TPP censorship which describes a variety of techniques for influencing the visibility of posts, https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/3azxth/are_reddit...
Absolutely spot on! Nobody talks about it, and it is a very important issue. In the US, the balance of employer/employee power is heavily tilted in the employer's favor.
How Not to Be a Spammer When Marketing Your Business
I can play this game as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

tl;dr is USA has higher per capita suicide rate then China.
Awesome links, thanks!
I'm guessing: "sharpness" of image, good saturation, presence of (smiling?) human faces, non-human mammals facing the camera, bare human skin (?)

(I agree that'd be cool.)
I use Docker to keep my development machine clean. For example: https://github.com/ChanderG/H99. For playing with different technologies, I love the ease and organization that Docker offers.
Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006)
Wind turbine promises to blow away your home utility bills
I realise this is an oldie, but I recently shared it with a friend who recognizes 6 out of the 18 situations... So I thought I'd repost for anyone who missed it the first time.
Look at what specific YC companies do, so you can infer what they might need... Lots of founders have blogs, Twitter, etc, and will speak their minds up out there. If you think you can create your own startup, you probably can do something of value to another, specially early stage ones... It can be as simple being an user of one of their products and offering feedback. I personally looked at YC company lists, saw ones that were on a similar space as mine, and, since I am from another country (Brazil), offered help. I ended up knowing a couple of YC founders that way.

Just remember to give first and always be nice... Startup founders usually have their hands full, won't always be able to help or even reply to you. And be resonable, don't think Drew Houston will become your best friend and take a bullet for you just because you sent him an email saying you like Dropbox...
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Yes.

I devote about 5 or so percent of my free time to civics. This means learning about my local options, who actually can impact my life in notable and significant ways, as well as just being active. Being active means doing advocacy actions, the occasional trip to the State capitol, phone banking, GOTV efforts of various kinds, etc...

I sure wish I knew how to convince more 20 somethings to vote.
There are lots of love for MySQL, especially from Facebook and Pinterest.

I wish the same for PostgreSQL
Yes, the world must be deeply confusing to people who aren't aware of genetics.
Elephants: Large, Long-Living and Less Prone to Cancer
...and now the advantage is political, not technical. This is a bad road to follow, EU bureaucracy is a destructive force.
Can you please link to some "highlights"? Some must-reads from seriouseats? I like Kenji too, but I only started following him just recently.
I beleive the perjury clause applies to whether you represent who you claim to represent (eg. not saying you are a lawyer for SomeCorp when you are not). As pkinsky said, I think you only have to meet a "good faith standard" that you think the thing you are filing against is actually infringing.
How big is the team over at pinterest managing the MySQL infrastructure? I think this is the big difference here.

I have a particular project. The database has well over 1 billion rows in multiple tables which need joins to generate complex reporting.

As the only tech here, there is only so much I can be working on. Before... time spent on trying to get MySQL to work, was time not well spent. I spent countless hours on IRC talking to devs on #mysql/#mariadb and was told many times, you seem to have the indexes in the right places and the query was well written, you are lucky you are getting it that fast.

Sure, if I had a huge team like Instgram (who I think sharded mysql) and Pinterest. I could assign dbas to get my MySQL infrastructure to scale and possibly fork my application to work different.

I even called Percona and Mariadb and was given pricing from $50 to $70k to work the issue. Note, that they didn't even promise to resolve it. They needed between $10 to $20k up front to check my schema and the data and then the other sum to do the work. Really, almost $100k and no concrete answer?

So I don't have a team and I didn't employ Percona/Mariadb to help solve my issue. Instead, I did something completely different. Some may even say drastic.

I need something simple, that will work with the 5x9's and is very robust. So instead, I went to Postgres. I ran to Postgres. I ran and didn't look back.

With Postgres, 80% of my issues went away. PG 9.5 has some features that ALL of my issues will go away and I may be able to have quarterly queries of 10b rows with multiple tables in under 2 seconds. Cloudflare is currently doing it and I'm trying to replicate it.

Bottom line is this. MySQL for me, was a dead end. Postgres seems to every year go from strength to strength.

Postgres isn't shiny. It's dependable, actually cares what you are putting in the database. Makes your schema simple because you can go from var(x)/int(x) to text/int and it's still fast.

I've converted about 10 other dbas who were used to MySQL and thought PG was hard, to switch over. Now, like me. They won't look back.

If you are still using MySQL. Take a look at Postgres. MySQL has lost it's shine. It's now dull.

Fingers crossed PG 9.6 comes with MPP capability. That would really blow the doors off!
I hope all this attention on emissions and cheating helps to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.
Purportedly [1], TechCrunch exited for less than $50 million. That's in the range Arrington himself might classify as a "dipshit" company, but it's a pretty good exit for a blog type business.

I suspect that if someone applied with a blog/magazine that looked like it could be worth a billion or two, YC would bite. Then again, it probably wouldn't really be a blog/magazine.

Good luck.

[1]: per Wikipedia
Agree -- I hope people don't still consider Postgres to be "shiny and new"
The rich don't just own robots, they also own the mines, the factories, the railroads, the self-driving transport trucks and the cargo ships. The non-rich don't own any of that stuff. So how are the non-rich going to make anything?
The article suggests on average real-world emissions are 2-5x more than in the lab except for a 20x outlier. VW was 40 times more than in the lab.

I don't think most of these cars are hiding anything, it's just an example of how easy it is to optimise for a fixed test.
No. The world isn't running out of problems to solve, but if we are not careful, we may not be allowed to take on the challenge and solve them.

Either the rich will do this by force using their agents (e.g police, military, mercenaries, security robots) , or the intelligent robots will do it.
I think it's a difficult question because "guns" are a moving target along two or so dimensions. The obvious is rate of fire with an efficacy twist:

Muzzle loaded smooth-bore (short range, relatively fast to load).

Muzzle loaded rifle (long range, slow to load)

Then the muzzle loaded rifled musket, which used the Minié ball to achieve both, and great carnage in the Crimean War and our Civil War.

Now the developments are rapid:

Breach loaded single shot rifles.

Repeaters with relatively slow loading, with a move to smokeless powder.

Clip fed repeaters, a critical Mauser innovation. With the 1898 model, the battle rifle is fully "modern". With of course effective semi-auto models to follow, plus the lower powered/lower range assault rifle (and I can't help but notice that the short ranged AK-47 is something a dictator would prefer to be issued, vs. something more able to reach out and touch him).

But ammo, going back to the rifled musket, we're using corrosive primers, and black power residue attracts moisture. That is, it takes a fair amount of diligent effort to keep a rifle from rusting out.

In 1911 the Swiss switched to non-corrosive primers, appropriate for their militia system. Our first weapon with 100% non-corrosive primers was the WWII M1 Carbine, a weapon for officers and rear echelon troops.

So the likelihood of a less organized having a lot of functioning weapons increases with their using non-corrosive primers. Or, in the case of the Soviets, using chromed barrels.

Now you have to factor in wealth. Poor people who can't afford much in the way of weapons aren't going to have a chance here. See e.g. Rwanda, where rifles didn't play a big part on either side.

So ... what examples might we have? The successful resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is suggestive. You might count Hitler deciding it wasn't worth breaking 80 divisions to take (most of) Switzerland.

More than a few liberals had an epiphany about gun control in the dark days of Watergate ... how many dictators/oligarchs/tyrannical whatever didn't try, or try very hard, because the cost would have been too great?

I'll start looking for examples; today, all I know is case after case, USSR, PRC, Cuba, Nazi Germany, those are just the most prominent off the top of my head, where gun confiscations preceded slaughter.
This doesn't mean that people in China are happier, though: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268111...

Summary: the happiest places tend to have the highest suicide rates.
> Why do the rich use law enforcement to interfere with the non-rich economy?

Because they will see the confiscation of land and resources by the non-rich (a necessary step to establishing a new economy from which they won't be excluded) as a threat to themselves.

Remember we are dealing here with irrational, imperfectly-informed people, not with perfectly-informed, perfectly-rational frictionless spherical humanoids in uniform economic motion.
From the link below, the older borosilicate is safer.

https://youtu.be/UyhdMa1ikKM