skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "decentralization of decision making" is a result, not a cause. I love it.

In geopolitical way of thinking, a state is always competing with other states. Not because we are bad people, but for the simple fact that states that can hold their own are likely to survive. Certain type of political "evolution".

To succeed in that competition you need armed forces. For that, you need manpower, equipment and supplies. All can be bought with money. So successful taxation is essential for any nation.

When traders and banks started to amass wealth at end of medieval period, any state that could tap into that flux of money had upper hand. But taxing individuals or sales actions or anything like that is more difficult than taxing nobles based on the land they hold. It helps a lot if those people have some sort of motivation to pay taxes. Concept of nation state provides such patriotic feelings. Now you are paying taxes for your people, not your feudal lord. Accounting and bureaucracy in general are also key elements.

French revolution established democracy and right after that the French levee en masse could defend the country against very big and powerful nations. Despite the facts that the french were short of money, had few trained troops and only little time. It showed that you could compensate with motivated and numerous troops. Imagine if you had democracy and money? This happened in the period where rifle had become more important in the battlefield than trained cavalry.

Possible scenarios? I think cryprocurrency will put traditional taxation in a binge. Governments need to tax what they can control, income and sales are going to be difficult. Taxation of energy seems easiest. Both persons and companies need energy. And it has some legitimacy with environmental concerns. Another big one is going to be information, it's difficult to lay cables without government knowing about it.

National identities don't seem to be important to people anymore. Conscription seems to become unneeded as well as unpopular. Bureaucracy is not going anywhere.

Political power seems to be shifting towards military-industrial big players. I don't think we will see feudalism. But maybe a modern version of powerful families of Venetian Republic. This time more with company allegiance than family ties.

Was that more understandable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev%C3%A9e_en_masse

EDIT: I just would like to add that technological progress seems inevitable. But speed of technological development seems often biased. It's likely that current power structures pour R/D money on technologies that keep them in power. And it's completely possible that some unforeseen technology emerges and changes the picture totally.

I like Swedish arms production for this reason. For example they develop new anti-tank missiles to keep infantry relevant in the battlefield. Which in a way promotes democracy.
I think it's unrealistic to expect 2/3 of your corporate users to pitch in $6k to support one of the many OSS projects they use. Not because it's trivial to build or anything, but expecting those kinds of rates is just setting yourself up for failure.

If you really want money from them, figure out what it is they want from your library, maybe they're perfectly happy with how it is, maybe the work you're proposing is completely irrelevant to them.
It's not a bug, it's a feature! Seriously.
At our place there are also some kind of car detector, presumably magnetic coils in the ground. You can't walk past.
GMail really became the IE of mail readers, that's how bad it is
Netflix hires very few entry level engineers. I just checked their jobs page[1] and there are almost no postings for non-senior engineers.

I'd argue that a senior engineer should be highly effective while still developing in her role. Also, expectations for different "levels" of engineer vary. Typically an "exceeds expectations" performance review for "Senior SDE" would be neutral for e.g. a "Staff SDE."

[1] curl 'https://ats-api.netflix.com/postings' | jq '.postings[]|select(.organization[] | contains("Engineering"))|.text' | grep -v Senior
1. 30

2. Once. I found her attractive, and I think she was at least willing to become interested in me. (Of course, I'm a clueless male geek, so I easily could have been mistaken.)

3. Her equal.

So, yeah, it hasn't happened to me very much. But the time it did, I did what I felt I had to to make sure that nothing happened. (What did I do? I sent one message that I wasn't going to play, and I asked a male co-worker that I trusted to hold me accountable for what I did and thought about her. It was enough.)
Mesosphere working with nvidia to bring gpus and deep learning to the dcos
On my phone, if I type in the name of a store, it gives me the most popular store of that name in the United States instead of the nearest one, because I have wifi locaiton turned off. That's the only reason. If I turn it back on (I don't want it on), the results are sorted as expected.

This is clearly an intentional anti-pattern, and it's been there for over two years. I have to actually type, for example: "Fry's electronics, city, state" (remember, this is on a TOUCH KEYBOARD) to get where I want to go.

It shouldn't really be in debate that the UX of maps has gone way downhill. There's simply no comparison to the older version and I've never met anyone who wasn't disappointed by the changes.
This viewpoint comes up a lot on HN, but it's missing the point. Don't think about bitcoin as an alternate currency, think of of it as a distributed protocol, like TCP/IP or bittorrent, which supports arbitrary value transfer. The media tends to focus a lot on the price of bitcoin, but in the long run the price is irrelevant.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

Another way of phrasing your mother's advice: "What if everybody did X?"
Examples:

* Every .COM

* Every .CO.UK

* Every .COM.AU

* Every .IO

* Every .ORG

Your response:

* The Swedish tax authority's site.
Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
Why are they not offering 8GB drives. It's late 2015.
They did not willfully let their partners control the last mile. They demanded this right in their original OEM agreements, and used it to define the out of box experience for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Circa 1999, the Department of Justice took it away from them as a result of an antitrust litigation settlement.
OK - updated it on scalescale.com (the original post) and gave you credit in the comments. Good find guys. Appreciate it.
It become slow and run my macbook pro fans. I have a late-2014 macbook pro and running latest Chrome (46) and yet it is painful to use.

I have a very long time since I used it. (I still use Google earth too).
I'm very interested in the upkeep cost - do you have a source for that?
A bit off-topic: If you want to understand the essential topic of war, Lapham's Quarterly's first issue, States of War, is required reading. It's almost required to be a citizen. I thought I was not one of the ignorant on the topic, but I learned I was only less ignorant.

As I understand it, Lewis Lapham put it together partially in response to the ignorance that spawned the second Iraq war:

Cicero made the point fifty years before the birth of Christ: “Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.” The American historian, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., made the same point in the essay that served as his epitaph when it was published in the New York Times on January 1, 2007, two months before he died. Under the heading, “Folly’s Antidote,” he prescribed strong doses of history as a cure for “the delusions of omnipotence and omniscience,” akin to those that persuaded the Bush Administration to stage a rerun in Iraq of America’s misadventure in Vietnam. The failure to connect the then with the now Schlesinger diagnosed as an illness which, if left untreated, he thought likely to lead to the death of the American idea. Children unfamiliar with the world in time make easy marks for the dealers in fascist politics and quack religion. ...

An acquaintance with history doesn’t pay the rent or predict the outcome of next year’s election, but, as the season or occasion requires, it makes possible the revolt against what G.K. Chesterton once called, “the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about” ... About the methods of pacifying cities bloodied by civil war, I learn more from Machiavelli’s Discourses or the Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman than from the testimony of General David Petraeus or the commentary on Fox News. When I see Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani being bundled around the country in a flutter of media consultants fitting words into their mouths, I think of the makeup artists adjusting the ribbons in Emperor Nero’s hair before sending him into an amphitheater to sing with a choir of prostitutes. The remembrance of the good old days in ancient Rome serves as a program note for the performances on set with Diane Sawyer and Tim Russert. [1]

Contributors include brilliant people and witnesses to history spanning millenia and nations:

* Thucydides

* Sun Tzu

* Winston Churchill

* George Patton

* George W. Bush

* George Orwell

* Krishna

* Homer

* Lenin

* Saint Augustine

* Albert Einstein

* Kurt Vonnegut

* Jessica Lynch

* (far more than I will list)

.

Buy it now, really:

http://store.laphamsquarterly.us/back-issues/states-of-war

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[1] The whole essay is well worth reading, both for his writing and for his ideas: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/gulf-time
You can upgrade, it'll just have to be a clean install.
> "Hearts? Finally! I fucking hate stars!"

I can't quite make sense of https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/661781723038912512 but it's quite clearly related to the (soviet-)star->heart transition over at twitter.
They also post a few times a day on Twitter vs about daily on Instagram, so the interactions are split between more posts. Other users post many more times a day (most likely because they are posting text rather than photos/videos), so they have more posts to compete with.
That's because people won't pay. Those professions should be paid more, but there not because of the whim of some administrators deciding what the wage should be.

Exactly what were trying to avoid here.
I am a bit surprised. Why host Netflix application on Amazon EC2 and not have your own data centers? A startup hosting at Amazon EC2 makes sense
They also explain the psychology behind the emails - pretty useful.
Having worked on a team using Scrum, I agree with this: it's pretty much the least process you can have while still fairly accurately predicting when work will get done and when any given feature will show up in the product.

But it can be done well or badly: the team I worked on rigorously adhered to the process, and only cautiously diverged from it after careful consideration. Scrum done badly will rapidly become micromanagement instead.
After 30 years of research, a new rocket engine starts to sizzle
This is so negative.

Look... the process can't be, "Hey you get all the time in the world to build undefined requirements with out providing any sort of insight." The reason you let people who don't code in to the meetings is because they pay your salary -- right? So translate. Give them something that makes them feel you are spending their money correctly.

It's not all that hard to just define requirements, put a line in the sand for what you think you can get done in a two week block, and show your progress on a board -- is it? This article seems to take the stance, "Devs are the only ones who matter and everyone else is someone who is going to make me sit in a meeting I don't want to be in." It's really immature to think this way, and short sighted.

You need some sort of process, some sort of roadmap, so your sales and marketing team can drum up interest for the product and the team can be successful growing the business. This isn't an academic exercise, it's a job, and you work on a team that requires communication to operate.
Is this reliance on a variety of external services why Netflix fails so often compared to e.g. youtube.com? I assume so.
I discovered maps.me app only this summer, but it's my favorite, so far - also, I had the chance to dive a bit more into the OSM community. I hope they continue to grow and produce more open map data in the future.
A New Canadian Retail API
I saw a really nice post from either sama or pg or dang about /noobcomments. Someone had suggested that was a page where new users were going to get rapid downvotes and flags. This person said that they regularly read noobcomments and upvote the good posts and provide advice to the others.

(I have absolutely no idea what I need to plug into the search box to find this post. Sorry.)
The "prevailing wage" of an IT worker at these outsourcing firms (Tata, Infosys, etc) is precisely $60k. These $60k workers will replace salaried employees at many firms making twice that much.

So a company doesn't need to hire H1Bs directly. They can just setup a contract with one of these outsourcing firms to supply workers. That's precisely what Disney did when they replaced a huge number of IT employees with H1Bs.

The cap on the number of H1Bs prevents Disney from setting up their own little H1B shell corporation to perform the same function which is why they (along with many other big corporations) complain to Congress about the cap. If the cap weren't there they wouldn't need to outsource to Tata et al in order to completely screw over American workers.
I don't know what you consider "getting to close to any woman at work," but I have seen plenty of men build close working relationships with female colleagues, mentor female direct reports, etc. And vice versa. I would also point out that lots of people, male and female, simply don't want to invest the time and energy required to build strong professional relationships.

Final comment: I am a heterosexual male in a committed relationship and I have never avoided a professional relationship with a woman out of fear of the "problems" you refer to. Interestingly, there are many women decision-makers today and the number of women in positions of power and influence will only grow, so men who avoid relationships with women as you suggest are just as likely to find their own professional and business interests harmed. Fortunately, I simply don't believe that most male professionals are operating the way you believe they are and I have met plenty of men and women with strong professional networks who reflect that.
Define lower middle class -- the median household income in India and China is $3000 and $6000 respectively. What is the average net worth of the households who send students to America?
I was looking for a site / service such as yours. Love it! Any stats on success rates, esp of Sideprojects that were looking for co-founders?

Also, do you "vet" the submissions? Ex: Here's a SnapChat clone for sale for just $15. There's even a comment from a user asking if price is real. https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/2571/flash-ch...

And here's another one. I saw a Craiglist meets Instagram iOS App that is on App Store, and seems like a real lot of work, that is for sale for just $50. https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/3424/instagra...

And your search is not working. I searched for "Poshmark" to locate the above link to the 'instagram-mets-craiglist-style-app' App project and I get 0 results (the word Poshmark is in that listing)

Here's the URL https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home#search/all/all/a...
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You left out the key reason cited:

"2) Boredom after nearly a decade with Java programming."
In some countries, business addresses aren't considered PII (private information). I, as a business, regularly get emails because of the Whois, as well as I receive letters which I dutifully send back to sender, but the law doesn't identify the latter as spam. Is it the case that emails to businesses aren't spam?
Not sure if it was left out on purpose, but I'd love to see more details on their transcoding stack (they only mention that it is done in EC2)
There is no question in my mind that public education in the US is broken. You get what you measure and we measure students' ability to do well at standardized tests. So we produce graduates who have spent their school years pursuing high scores on standardized tests.

What we need are problem solvers. The problem space is boundless, and it evolves with very innovation and every discovery. Even for the working middle class, the level of intellectual flexibility they will need to support their family throughout a 40 year working life is not being taught in school.

Students need to be challenged to identify problems and then approaches to solving them. This can not be learned by locking themselves in their bedroom memorizing facts.
This is nitpicking.
This is amazing. Now things like Garman have no real purpose (offline maps was their niche as Google Map's version of the same was terrible).

Now who do I need to bribe at Google to get Google Maps to support Mirrorlink so it works with a quarter of a million vehicles? And to give Google Now a fake telephone number?

Google would prefer vehicles implement Android Auto. I'd prefer that too. The reality on the ground is that about a dozen vehicles in the 2016 model year support Android Auto, while four times that support Mirrorlink (a Android Auto/Car Play competitor). That's a lot of vehicles who for their ten-twenty year lifespan won't have Google Maps without MirrorLink app support. So they're stuck using wonderful Android apps like "BringGo" and "Sygic" that are MirrorLink compatible.

As to the Google Now fake phone number issue. Microsoft's Cortana does this, it rocks. A lot of vehicles totally botch Bluetooth. On a $20 Bluetooth Headset you can push and hold the call button and it opens up a audio stream to your smartphone, you say "OK Google" and Google Now works. Unfortunately many vehicles lack this very simple functionality. They outright refuse to open up a blank audio stream over Bluetooth, instead they want a specific phone number to call (that is stored on the vehicle's contact list). With no telephone contact in the directory the vehicle won't even pretend to start a call. Once you ask your vehicle to call someone, it opens up the Android dialer app and "OK Google" does not function (since you're now in a voice call). Cortana's fake number solves this outright, you "call" Cortana, she answers and you conduct your query. Your vehicle cannot know it isn't a real voice call, it is amazing.

PS - No, Tasker does not solve the bluetooth thing. You can intercept the call and start Google Now, but as soon as it hangs up the call the bluetooth cuts out.
I agree with you. "Scrum is the new waterfall" is true in this case in that both have been built as total strawmen.

Scrum says nothing about unit tests, nor does it require sticking to the commitment (although it used to)

> I dont think they had a very good explanatory service

The most recent documentation on "Core" scrum is very simple and easy to parse.
hey, thanks for the feedback lappa. We've updated the original article to display node.js better and added a comment.

The idea behind mentioning the Netflix prize is to show the openness and willingness to get a lift on their existing recommendation algorithm. There was a 10+% lift in accuracy. Their ability to open up the data and implement really gives them a competitive edge IMHO. It's a shame there seems to be some regulatory reasons they don't do it any more.
I've become convinced that gmail's goal is not to improve email, but to extinguish and replace it. This article talks about one minor aspect of that. In addition:

* breaking established addressing conventions. Gmail (last time I used it) made it difficult to distinguish between To: and Cc:, both in received emails and when sending.

* messed-up quoting, and other broken conventions.

* the one that's been discussed to death here recently: it's on the way to impossible to send email and expect it not to be silently dropped if you're not on gmail.

* the email authenticity measures linked to the last point also screw up mailing lists and forwards. Most of the DMARC notifications I get from gmail now include a bunch of FAILs for people that forward from another domain to gmail. Soon, they'll simply stop receiving most mail.

Email is walking dead, and gmail is largely to blame.
Wow, very cool!

So, candidate for offloading that's really commonly considered is "scrubbing". Essentially, protecting against passive bit flips by checking your data against your own checksums.

If you have some N TB of data under management, it's really expensive to be striping these large serial reads all the way to an application's userland. So finding ways to keep these as low-priority "background" reads (that always yield to interactive reads) in the scheduling sense that a.) notify the daemon in userland if they fail and b.) without requiring that daemon to be in the data plane, is high-reward. Ideally, the daemon can stay in the control plane so it can manage/report accounting on scrub scheduling and time since last-scrub per disk region, or whatever.

You can offload it to a kernel module to avoid `copy_to_user` (if you can't DMA) and/or context switching. Or even offload it to hardware--some custom host adapter, possibly, using custom ATA/SCSI commands to control it and query it. (and the `sg` driver).
That's the startup mentality: "we can't develop our employees" because they're being cheap and naïve.
There likely is nothing to be done at the moment to prepare for these possibilities (the only body of writing on the subject available in an emergency is science fiction), because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.

An entertaining conclusion.
Why Netflix chose AWS: http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-a...

Also Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Netflix-use-Amazon-EC2
But then you're working in a bigger business where you do actually need to interact with managers and internal/external stakeholders. And they're all asking you: «When can you deliver?».

Yes, estimating is hard. It's impossible really, but everyone knows this and accept the consequences of delayed deliveries and blocking events. But they want status updates and delivery schedules all the same.

Pointless exercise maybe? But in real life and in business actually having someone thinking longer than three days ahead is usually a necessity, in my experience.

I agree though that you should minimize the amount of pointless meetings and solve blocking issues as they come - this is more a sign of a good tech lead and healthy work environment rather than weaknesses in the Scrum methodology.
Yeah, so the second case, someone who entered IT after 2005!

I guessed so, because back in the day (1995-early 00's) most devs outside of seasoned functional etc veterans (who were extremely few) or hardcore systems guys, saw Java in mostly positive light, and never considered it "boring" back then.

The change (for new devs to consider Java "boring" and lacking in features) happened sometime after 2005, with Rails entering, Javascript catching up, C# getting more features with 2.0 and 3.0.

(Consider than back then Scala, Go, Clojure et al weren't even started, and AJAX had just been made mainstream).
It is amazing that Microsoft is spanking Google in web interfaces of all things. Google does great stuff, but their disregard for the end user experience just ruins it.

Office 365 for email is dramatically better than GMail. Google Drive is much better, but I'm sure they will find a way to design that up too.