skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here using Fastly with great results. Consistently fast, including SSL negotiation. Truly fast invalidation. A ton of control available with Custom VCLs (they run a custom Varnish version). E.g. you can generate an "Expires:" header automatically on the CDN edge based on the Cache-Control header. You can serve a static resource if the backend times out. Best of all stale refresh and soft purge means that you can update resources "in the background" on the CDN and avoid exposing your clients to "miss latency" (backend server latency).

I feel that the ultimate answer is a multi-CDN solution. If your assets are critical to be always available, I think you are going to want to diversify your CDNs. The challenge comes in how to load balance and/or failover across CDNs--whether that's easy or not depends on your use case. Doing so automatically at the time of trouble is a challenge too. Dyn just rolled out a product called Internet Intelligence that monitors all the CDN's performances (with end-user perf measurements) and can help you determine whether one of your CDNs is slow (and whether it's slow only in certain parts of the world). Theoretically, then you can combine geo-aware DNS with congestion-aware CDN selection and BAM, diversified, less-congestion-sensitive content delivery.
Mm, that's some thin philosophical ice you're treading there
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That sounds interesting! What are some examples of good games in each category?
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Good point, thanks for that
Listen.

It's not an absurd expectation that a system only does exactly what it's told to do, and only when told to do so.

Don't paint that premise as if it were some ridiculous pie-in-the-sky unattainable cadillac of desires.
We already saw what happens when the government doesn't take control and lets industry do what they will. The result is massive pollution, widespread health problems, and global climate change.

And in fact we already saw what happens when government does take control. The result is vastly improved pollution, and without wrecking the economy.
This is one of the reasons why gamedev jobs suck - especially lower level - who doesn't want to write stuff like realtime 3D graphics - majority would do it for free in their own time anyway.
My definition of a "software engineer" is someone who gets paid 6 figures for writing code, any code.

And it just so happens there there are quite of lot of 6 figure jobs that solely involve building crud apps by gluing together frameworks.

You can shit it on all you want, and talk about how "us real computer scientists are solving the Hard Problems by building compilers and OSs".

But at the end of the day, the person going to the bootcamp doesn't care about this opinion. All they care about is that they were able to spend 3 months of there time in order to double or triple their salary.

And the only other price they have to pay is having to put up with people like you shitting on them for not working on Hard Problems. And to me, that seems like a very small price to pay.
In total there is a 13% fee (that includes Stripe fee). What is the real advantage of using your service? How do you handle the selling of pirated material?
This is great news (for the Dutch, at least). I am forced to have Windows VMs in order to properly interact with multiple functions of the Brazilian government and it's not funny.
The Tragedy of the Commons illustrates precisely the opposite: that if other people are messing up a common good (the world, or the atmosphere, in this case), that means you should mess up as well, or you lose (in every sense: productivity, sustainability, etc).
The Lucifer Principle
you should highlight some grails. :)
The article said he used two books, one of which was free. Ordinary Differential Equations make use of linear algebra concepts, but can be self-contained.

It's entirely plausible to go with Strang, and another book for this type of course.
> The reality though is that an event that took out the internet would take out lots of other stuff.

It doesn't even have to be as extreme as that. If the device depends on "the cloud" (e.g. some company's servers), your device is useless once those servers are shut down. A good example of this actually happening is Zeo, they made a sleep monitoring device that was much more capable than all the fitbit garbage we're left with. Unfortunately they went out of business, their servers were shutdown, and their devices became useless to anyone who couldn't do a fair amount of hacking.

Companies going out of business or discontinuing products is a common occurrence. Products should be designed to be tolerant to those failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeo,_Inc.#Out_of_business
Original Article Title:
Indonesia’s palm oil fires are emitting more greenhouse gases every day than the entire US

More Accurate Title: Indonesia’s palm oil fires are emitting more greenhouse gases on some days than the entire US
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What don't you like about those CDNs? In particular Akamai?
> Burning trees doesn't actually change the atmospheric balance at all. Every tree releases its carbon, either by being burned or when it dies by rotting.

In the normal lifecycle of a forest, there is a continuous low-level carbon release from trees rotting (or small fires) which is cycled back in the forest by new trees growing up in their placed. A mature forest is a carbon store, if the forest is stable it takes in as much carbon as it produces out.

You burn the forest, all the locked carbon gets released in the atmosphere with no recapture.

And that's not even considering that indonesian forests sit on peat, which are non-cycling long-term carbon stores.

> The problems only crop up when you extract trapped hydrocarbons from underground and burn those. Oil and Coal bad, Tree's not so much.

All that oil and coal originally came from the environment, it's the exact same result.
If your self funding you can do things how ever you want. If you want other people's money you need something special. They need to believe your bullshit is worth more than the money in their pocket. Which means you need to believe in your bullshit more than that. And if it is why wouldn't you be working 90 hours a week to make it happen.
I find that hard to believe given that the way US farmers harvest sugar cane is to burn the entire field off.

https://google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sugar+cane+burn+field
We're still figuring out pricing. Different industries have different needs. For example, 24/7 workforce has different algorithmic demands than a 9-5 business. Contractor-based businesses where workers claim shifts rather than have them assigned are easier for us to accommodate too.

Shoot us an email and I'm happy to provide a quote for your particular case!
I'm sure there are reasonable criticisms to be had, but until people actually start making them, it's hard not to dismiss all criticism when it's all so terrible. For example, people who refer to it as a "cult."
I think you meant "thank you for trying to explain, since I was too lazy to Google it for myself"
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen a language benchmark be a very specialized contrived problem (in this case specific JSON with specific access pattern) I'd have a lot of nickels.
Except that cows are pretty environmentally-unfriendly too.

Sigh. There is no getting around the elephant in the living room: population. Either we control it, or the laws of physics will do it for us.
No one uses the built-in Scala JSON parser. Checkout jawn[0] or spray-json[1].

[0] https://github.com/non/jawn
[1] https://github.com/spray/spray-json
"Shriek" has been in the jargon file since pre-ESR. See http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt (Also, AnimalMuppet wasn't attributing that shebang etymology to ESR or the jargon file, just the word "shriek".)

> the political leanings of what the book describes as "hackers" would get updated to reflect ESR's own views, and not in a subtle way either.

ESR identifies as a libertarian. I don't think the jargon file has ever said that hackers are typically libertarian; what it currently says, and as far as I can tell has always said since the politics entry was added, is that there's a strong libertarian contingent. I see that we've argued this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6997211

(It also seems relevant that there was no politics entry before ESR.)
Butter is more expensive than burning down Indonesia. (Using certain definitions of expensive)
It's not the personnel affected, it's the level of morale it affected was my point. People see hypocritical leadership decisions and look for the exit right away usually.
> 50-90k...wow. For people with so much promise to advance human welfare to be worth less to society than an entry web dev salary in a decent market speaks volumes.

It basically depicts in stark contrasts what our true priorities are. Not what we pretend we value, but what we do value in reality.

Sorry if it sounds cynical, but I see no other conclusion.
How about we figure out a way to make palm oil somewhere else? Is it really that hard?
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Are there any engineering efforts[1] being proposed or actively worked on by Singapore to solve this issue? Every now and again I hear about the hazes forcing everyone in Singapore to wear masks and stay indoors as much as possible until the hazes dissipate. That state should be unacceptable for a first world city.

[1] Like, a giant sci-fi ocean-fan... Or a military solution of invading their neighbors and running things better.
"similar to an open-source [version of] datomic, which also stores quads"
I'm not sure where you've got the idea that it's 200x more efficient to achieve a 5% reduction in emissions in countries which produce lower emissions than the US for about 340 days per year....

And if you're looking at how the US could effectively use its financial clout to help the environment, funding investigations into who started illegal forest fires in upstream Kalimantan is probably going to be lower on the list than subsidising cleantech in California.
OneButton is a website generator, not just a product page. Users can add their own domain name, etc. We're like Squarespace meets Gumroad (and will soon have more features on the 'squarespace' side of things).

We plan on dropping the fee to around 5% soon, but we want to make sure that we won't lose money doing that. We decided to launch with a 10% fee to make sure we don't lose a bunch of money on hosting fees.

Our first target for marketing will be musicians as an alternative to Bandcamp (which charges a 15% fee + paypal fees).

Regarding pirated material, we'll remove anything we find that falls into that category. We'll soon have a reporting feature, etc.

That said, in order to sell users have to verify their identity with Stripe, so we don't expect to have a ton of illegal stuff going on.
> No OS gives much of a damn about anything else running on the computer.

Most Linux distros (the ones I have used, at least) will detect an existing Windows installation and put a corresponding entry into GRUB's menu. Linux has been able to access data on Windows partitions for many, many years.

I agree that the boot loader issue probably has at most negligible impact on the adoption of Linux (or any other OS for that matter). I am just saying that in light of Microsoft's history one may feel inclined to judge them differently.
> Trees, on average, have a life span of a couple of decades.

This is not burning a tree it's burning forests, forests have lifespans of millennia. And that's not even considering these specific forests sit atop peat, you're not going to re-grow peat soils in 10 years.

> If we could capture all that carbon back by just re-growing trees for 10-20 years, we'd be fine.

Which is not what's happening, and fast-growers impoverish the soil and don't set up self-sustaining forests, we're mostly just setting the whole area up for erosion.
It make a huge difference whether or not it's legal. Drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians need to be able to make reasonable assumptions about other vehicles on the road. Whether cyclists should be required to stop at stop signs or not is debatable, but I'm not ok with the police deciding which laws they want to enforce. Enforcing the actual law is the whole point of their job.

This whole debate has become toxic.
My experience with fastly as an end user is not great. rubygems is hosted with fastly and it times out a lot on some PoPs (singapore). Also fastly has per request pricing which is something I want to avoid.

Another multi CDN solution is from cedexis - http://www.cedexis.com/openmix/multi-cdn.html
Where in this document does that statement (or one like it) appear? I gave it a quick read but didn't spot it.
> Your nullable example is better compared to this, which also discards the required information:

Exactly. Your version is just doing what `join` or `>>=` would do, which I mentioned at the end; ie.

mySpouseDB u = fmap getDOB (getSpouse u)

-- Using join
yourSpouseDOB u = join (mySpouseDOB u)

-- Using >>=
yourSpouseDOB u = getSpouse u >>= getDOB

> Maybes are just pointers. There's nothing magic about them.

Of course there's nothing magic; `Maybe` just increments types. I was phrasing myself in the context of a language like Java, which has NULL but no pointer manipulation.
Google is paying a lot more than $50k - $90k for new PhD grads. I've had a couple offers declined - at what I thought was market or above market! - to Google Life Sciences in the last six months: recent PhDs, engineering bents, $180k - $250k+. True story. $50k - $90k would be "competitive" based on academic salaries, but some companies are paying a lot more. What the tech companies moving into LS are paying is way out of line with what the "native" LS companies are paying, too.

It seems to be a little random if GLS wants you or not, but if they want you they really want you. From my own experience and that of friends working in science-based startups, Google salaries are a major impediment right now for hiring. We're still able to get great people, but it certainly slows things down.
I don't know about the forests in Indonesia, but for the most part, it's natural for forests that will burn to burn. At the extreme, there are tree species that only really reproduce after a forest fire, Jack Pine and Sequoia come to mind. Google says they are pyrophytes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophyte
It's not. When you're in a superposition of two states, it only appears to be "indeterminate" under measurements which are not orthogonal to the state. To measurements which are orthogonal, the state is 100% determinate.

What's more, measuring with a non-orthogonal measurement makes the state orthogonal to that measurement, and not orthogonal to the other measurement!

This is totally different to how lazy evaluation works.
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Misleading. Perhaps they're right that many of the ingredients in McDonalds food are unhealthy, but "filthy" is a real word with a real meaning that's not even close to anything they address. They're just using the word for emotional effect, so FAIL.
Hey Tyler,

Medical scheduling is a fascinating place with unique constraints. AnalyticsMD from last winter's Y Combinator class did an amazing job of building a forecasting system for emergency rooms.

We are interested in beginning Staffjoy deployments at outpatient medical facilities immediately. Operating in an actual hospital likely has unique constraints that we do not support right now.

Down the line though, the medical industry seems like an excellent fit for our product vision!
> We already saw what happens when the government doesn't take control and lets industry do what they will.

Where? What's that place where the industry (short for "all private companies") can do what they will (your words), meaning, government cannot curb their will?

I've never heard of such place in all my readings of History and Economics. I'm ready for you to blow my mind!
Yes, if they're dead.
You're right, I must have misread the original article while composing my response. This is what I was remembering:

"Taken together, the impact of peat fires on global warming can be more than 200 times greater than fires on other lands."
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It is also misleading in that burning trees and burning fossil fuels is very different in terms of global warming. The carbon trees are made of was extracted from the air as the tree grew so the net added to at atmosphere is zero. The carbon from fossil fuels was nicely sequestered before it was dug up an burnt, adding to total carbon concentration in the air.

Edit: OK I read the second half about peat and yes, the peat was sequestered before the fire so that is not good.
I was talking about pollution in particular, not every possible conceivable action.

For times and places where pollution was not regulated, look at just about anywhere before 1900 or so.
Title says 'per' day, meaning each day, implying continuity.
The point is that if you're selling widgets, you have to sell them through the stores you have and not the stores you wish you had.

Well, unless you're apple and you can make your own stores, but still - they sell through Best Buy too.
Or lack of demand for services in their area.

I wonder how they are clustered geographically.
Yes? Making any oil takes lots of room, palm is actually one of the most space-efficient productions (according to wikipedia it's 38% of the total vegetable oil production for 5% of the vegetable oil farmland), however it grows in tropical climates competing with existing old-growth native forests and the demand for it grows exponentially.
Salesforce actually does use a multi-organization identity model for SalesforceIQ (formerly RelateIQ).

http://www.fastcompany.com/3051088/elasticity/relateiq-sales...
> Except that cows are pretty environmentally-unfriendly too.

Well, you can milk anything with nipples.
Wrong. The biggest consumers of Palm Oil are China and India, and the main driving factor is price. Palm oil is cheap. It has nothing to do with the FDA's position on trans fat.
I know that the Graal JIT guys are working on chained function call fusing for inlining when generating machine code etc... But I am not sure that is what you call "fusion". There is definitely only one iteration over the collection in the example style code.
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Kind of serious-kind of joking:

auto x = 3;

"Infers" 'int'. Everything else is an error.
This comment is overly reductionist -- 'disabled' is a code word for long-term un-employable.

Just eyball the proportion of working adults in the 50 to 60 year range. It is only ~5x the number of disabled. In other words, that is a huge %--maybe 20%--of potential workers in that age bracket.

Any employment process that disables 20% of its workforce would be normally considered a problem.

But instead we call the un-employable 'diabled', to sweep the data under the rug.

It almost certainly helps keep other people in their jobs, tho (like burecrats and academics).
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That should only happen when logged in, and given the context here, I assume the user was not logged in (since when you're logged in, all privacy is definitely completely lost).
Deity i miss Gorklaw.
> That state should be unacceptable for a first world city.

Happens in Los Angeles.
Medium and large organizations should just run their own services that parse the blockchain and turn the data embedded in to Bitcoin transactions in to the state of names and owners. This service would read from the public network and but could itself be only accessible on the corporate network/VPN.

This applies to all sorts of Bitcoin metadata protocols beyond just Blockshain ID, such as Open Assets, Blockcast, and Open Publish.

All of these systems use the public key infrastructure of native Bitcoin wallets for identification and authorization so it's in the ballpark of SSH, a proven approach in corporate settings.
No, what makes us uncomfortable is having to come back and maintain the code written by some of these boot camp graduates after the fact.
Jonnie,

On our Manager App, there is a setting for configuring when we generate a schedule relative to the work week. We've seen users be able to increase this number over time as they get better at forecasting.

Most of our users right now are on-demand startups, and with contractors that means that availability is a hard constraint. As we begin to onboard more employee-based businesses, I expect that we will focus on asking workers for their preferences in place of availability.
CH4 emissions could also be greatly reduced by switching from cows to marsupials. Emissions are not zero as sometimes claimed, but research on wallabies [1] found emissions "between 25 and 33%
of what can be expected from ruminants fed the same
diet".

[1] https://www.animalsciencepublications.org/publications/jas/p...
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Agreed. There are a lot of people working on this, it's too bad that they only mentioned one group. My mother is working with a competing group (J. Craig Venter and Martine Rothblatt):

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540076/surgeons-smash-r...
http://medschool.umaryland.edu/facultyresearchprofile/viewpr...
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Peat contains hydrocarbons? Are you sure?