skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking of something maybe even simpler - a place for people to post projects they're actually interested in maintaining as open source projects. A subreddit could be the mvp.

Or go the other way, and train a searching algorithm based on a data set of actively maintained open source projects on Github, with things like commit history/contributors/etc as features.
> I don't like people being able to sneak up behind me

This doesn't get discussed enough, compared to noise.

There's something very primal about wanting to defend our backs. At work, in a restaurant, at the library... I want to have my back against the wall. My lizard brain thinks it's protecting me from predators, but my modern brain really doesn't want a pair of eyes behind me when I'm on email, or reddit, or whatever. And I don't want people to make their inevitable comments whenever I bury my face in my hands to just THINK for a while.
Prediction only works for what you know. Seems obvious, but people have a way of "forgetting" that. So you estimate within the parameters of what you know about. If what you know changes, then your predictions have to change.

There are various points on the predictability curve. I used to work in an environment that was extremely predictable: projects with well-defined scope that took years to complete and changes were tightly managed. If scope changed, the stakeholders understood the cost to the schedule. An environment like that is perfect for using past time estimates vs. actual time taken to estimate future similar or dissimilar-but-related tasks.

In other environments I worked in, it's more chaotic. Things change frequently, so estimates change frequently. Often you your long term vision is compromised by firefighting, so that vision has to be adjusted constantly. If you have a deadline, then tasks need to shift to meet the deadline.
"All volts and no amps", so to speak. Or "All RPM, no MPH". Lots of overheated rhetoric, not much in terms of concrete proposals. Except that they think self-modifying code is just fine.

This seems like the emotional outburst of a bunch of amateurs. These aren't people who have ever had to maintain someone else's "burst of genius".
I agree. I moved from having an office for 8 years to an open office in March, and for the most part I love it. I'm pretty introverted, and I thought it would be difficult, but it actually helps with team interaction because before it wouldn't be unusual for weeks to pass without talking with anyone. The open plan "forces" interaction, and it has been a good thing for me.
No, because you also have to account for duration and for a number or other factors (e.g. Chilean population was concentrated in very few cities, so the effect of one death was relatively higher than in a place like Russia, where things often happen "at very long distance"; and so on and so forth).

This is not a rational historical comparison (if such a thing can really exist), these are just random numbers shouted in a pub argument, "My guy killed less people than your guy!"...
Wow, this is fantastic! The little animations give it a playful vibe too.
What you are describing seems similar to Szasz's ideas of mental illness (, but please correct me if I am wrong).[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz#.22Myth_of_mental...
I work with homeless people, people in precarious situations, people without ID, immigrants without papers, etc.

I've discussed this very concept multiple times, from multiple angles, with a few organisations.

This issue becomes a real issue of when the person becomes gravely ill, or dies. Most of the time, it's impossible to trace the person's history - contacting next of kin, working out their path until their demise.

This is a real problem to solve.

However, the practical aspects are that this device needs to be non-identifying, and needs also to be non-exploitable by third parties (in particular: police).

Many people without papers are already in a situation that's difficult enough as it is, but this would be made even more difficult by giving police / other authorities a tool to trace, track, and punish.

Likewise, many people in these situations do not WANT to be found, or do not WANT to carry papers.

The conclusion that I had come to would be that these devices are completely encrypted, and provide no form of external data (ID, etc); and a 'read only' industry facing interface would be exposed.

Services, such as hospitals, or indeed police, etc - could lodge requests to a system with this data. The system would register this information, but give nothing back.

The organisation trusted with this information (could be a recognised charity that works with homeless etc) - would be able to, if requested, or required, or at the person's death, be able to access this information.

The end result being, a person holding one of these cards would be able to have a medical history, and be able to build up a map of their lives.

Such things already exist: social security card, etc.

It's a tough problem to crack, once you start to consider the human element.
> I’ve always thought that much of the bitching is about individual productivity without taking into the considerations of group productivity.

On the face of it, that seems illogical.

I don't think anyone disputes that a well-functioning team's whole (team productivity) is greater than the sum of its parts (individual productivity). What is hard to fathom, though, is the idea that reducing the sum of its parts increases the whole. I'm not saying it isn't possible, just not straightforward.
Not only that, at least one fact, how much AT&T saved, seems to imply open office spaces are not terrible. That is because the click-bait headline doesn't specify for whom.
Real Property really does have scarcity-- nobody is making any more Earths right now. Comparing that to to manufactured goods (which have scarcity only in that a finite number of copies are manufactured) or software (which has no scarcity) isn't a very good comparison to my mind.

I disagree with the idea that we need to renegotiate the norms and definitions of ownership. I think we need to require sellers to be clear on whether you're buying or renting.

Rentals are great for a lot of things, but I want to know when I'm renting something. It's very frustrating that I must to heavily scrutinize every business transaction because, seemingly, many things that are sold as purchases are actually rentals. If I'm told I'm purchasing something I would expect it to perform in reasonably the same manner until it physically wears out. I don't want to be required to be tied to any third-party services, updates, "cloud", etc. If I am then it's not a purchase-- it's a rental and needs to be called that.
It seems pretty horrible for the environment for a country to be using coal-powered electricity for aluminum smelting. If a global carbon tax existed, aluminum production would correctly be even more skewed toward counties with surplus renewable energy (iceland, canada, norway, brazil)
Depending on the pipeline you use and the compute resources available you could have a full workflow done in anywhere from several hours to a couple days. Illumina BaseSpace is free (for now) and has some example data sets with a bunch of canned pipelines for analysis if you're interested in trying it for yourself. https://basespace.illumina.com/
Oh yes. I second that strongly. Some of the best things I ever saw on HN, and that I sometimes bookmark, are those random off-topic subthreads that spawn in the middle of another discussion. A way to cross-link comment threads like this would be really useful.

'dang, any thoughts?
uploadvr_will, you've been marked as [dead], probably due to spam filtering on new accounts. Most users won't be able to see your posts, but you should be able to contact the admins to get it fixed.
Hi, I'm the co-author. This has been a little side-project for us because I couldn't find anything to generate a personal site for myself in a few seconds. Full-featured website builders seemed much too cumbersome. Any feedback always appreciated!

PS Here's my site for example: http://krymski.com . A bunch of friends copied it, and that's what gave us the idea.
Wow, i never even considered the aspect of the violations under the color of authority....

So when you guys wanna try to make this a bill?
There are much better articles on the problems associated with noisy offices. At the very least, they should provide a link to the studies cited (which we can only hope aren't behind a paywall).
I don't think anything has the flexibility of tsung to be honest. It can test many different protocols already. A better way would probably be to optimize it a bit for lower memory usage.

For web server benchmarking, only wrk2 by Gil Tene does things correctly. Everything else usually does coordinated omission:

Imagine you have 10.000 connections. Each connection is doing 3 req/s. Let's say one connection blocks for 1 second, which means that 2 req's should have fired on that connection "in between". wrk2 will count those two as being "late" whereas most other load generators won't count at all. This means a framework can opt to "stall" some connections in order to get better performance and fewer bad results in the upper latencies.

As an example, here are the Erlang/Cowboy numbers for such a test in wrk2:

Latency Distribution (HdrHistogram - Recorded Latency)
50.000% 6.33ms
75.000% 10.23ms
90.000% 13.73ms
99.000% 22.37ms
99.900% 31.26ms
99.990% 38.62ms
99.999% 45.09ms
100.000% 49.60ms

Whereas the Haskell wai framework returns

Latency Distribution (HdrHistogram - Recorded Latency)
50.000% 1.71ms
75.000% 2.64ms
90.000% 14.92ms
99.000% 38.75ms
99.900% 742.40ms
99.990% 985.60ms
99.999% 1.03s
100.000% 1.05s

Note how the median latency and the 75th percentile is better for Haskell, but that it occasionally stalls requests for quite some time, probably due to a GC pause or some other cleanup that happens and then in an unfortunate moment all has to happen at the same point in time.

If you go look at typical benchmarks their latency reporting is way off compared to this, which is a surefire way of knowing they did not account for coordinated omission.

Mind, when benchmarks disagree, the trick is to explain why this happens. It often leads to an insight in design difference.
You do realize that the U.S. Constitution only prohibits the _government_ from infringing on right to free speech? The Mozilla Foundation is not a governmental entity, thus they can take whatever actions they want when employee says something they don't like. Also, while there are laws prohibiting private employment discrimination based on e.g., race, sex, religion, or other protected classes of people, there are (afaik) no laws against discriminating against people on the basis of political affiliation or gun-rights beliefs. Heck, in many states it's still legal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination...
And the Republicans never say anything more intelligent that Trump/Palin's last quote. Right?

When you judge a group by the loudest, most extreme members, you get a parody of the group.
The EU does recognize genericization of regional names in some cases, so I'm not sure it's in principle different from the U.S. on this, it just draws the line much further to one side, with a stronger presumption in favor of regional name protection. Two examples of regionally named cheeses now legally generic in the EU are "cheddar" and "emmental". These are the names of cheeses traditionally produced in the vicinity of Cheddar (in Somerset, England) and Emmental (in Bern, Switzerland), respectively, but have since become names for cheese style rather than cheese origin. There's an argument that "parmesan" should be similar, especially when used with a lowercase "p" in a manner analogous to the way "cheddar" is used, but the decision came out the other way on that one.

One that's currently being litigated in the EU is whether labeling products not from Greece as "Greek yogurt" is misleading. I personally think yes, especially given the capital 'G' and the parallels with other clear origin-designating terms like "Greek wine" and "Greek olive oil" (and mixed origin/style terms like "Scotch whisky"), but it could end up going either way.
I've seen 200GB runs take 4 days, I've seen runs take 3 hours. Depends on your computing structure but more importantly is your IO. High CPU core counts and high speed storage access make a big difference, as does distributing the computational workload.
AWS Lambda: Schedule and manage backups for EBS volumes
The Big Bang project aims to create a typed language with the feel of scripting
In economic terms productivity usually means GDP per capita or per work hour. The article implies the everyday meaning of the word.

Besides: As the common job of IT is automation, e.g. reducing the need for labor, increased (everyday meaning) productivity of IT could actually result in lower (economic) productivity, as GDP gets smaller.
"Sweden can no longer guarantee accommodation to everyone who comes. Those who are arriving could be met with the news that there isn't anywhere to stay." http://news.yahoo.com/sweden-apply-emergency-eu-aid-meet-asy...
Yes I'm adding something on that.
It makes sense to take a higher percentage because they need the money less. It's not just because they have a lot of money, it's because $1M in the pocket of a billionaire does almost nothing, while $1k each to 1k people in poverty can be a massive stress relief.

If someone's at the poverty line, you shouldn't take any money. If someone's making 8+ figures, they'll be almost as well off even if you take half.
"It would be interesting to see some sort of cost/benefit analysis from the gov perspective on whether or not to subsidize a public service like Twitter."

If you're going to think like a government (well... a good one anyhow), you shouldn't be thinking about Twitter. You should be thinking about the category of things it represents. Is that category in trouble? Goodness gracious no, it's all but in a Cambrian explosion.

There's no compelling reason to subsidize the category in general, and even less reason to subsidize Twitter specifically.

Arguably the correct move is to definitively kill Twitter and show that "get really big, have vague hopes to show ads someday" is not a viable business plan, instead of it being in an indeterminate limbo.
There's something about the moving starfield in that game...
> Happiness rank of private-office occupants, according to research at the University of Sydney on work environments.

with a "1" above it.. Is that 1 person? 1 rank (out of how many ranks)? Rank #1? 1% happiness?
The sequencers can stream to a data analysis center as the data is being generated.

It takes a 100mbit stream/$1M of sequencing capital, so network connectivity to transfer to a data center is a tiny tiny cost of the whole ordeal.

However, paying for AWS storage is pretty prohibitive, unless you're at a small scale. So big centers will build their own storage facilities.

The small data producers like the ones that the thread author talks about can use often use AWS more cost efficiently than building a compute cluster. However, they need to budget for that, which is not always thought of. They may also need to fight their institute's core center so that they can use DNANexus.
>... but it still feels that this was an infraction on his freedom of speech

https://xkcd.com/1357/
> I appreciate that some of the larger banks might actually consider the impact of a data breach at an aggregator but reading this a couple of times it really sounds like a whine that they feel they have to provision more capacity for both their user base + the load put on by the aggregators their user base is using. They don't have a way to charge the aggregator for their use like they do the customer.

They absolutely charge their aggregators. Most of the aggregators can't screenscrape without permission of the aggregators. Why on earth would you think they can't? Why do you think Mint doesn't need to do MFA for so many banks and can just get away with a user-pass challenge?

This is about holding control of their customer base, plain and simple. They know everyone else, even other banks, are eager to dis-intermediate their customer base. They're spending too much money maintaining branches and offering inferior savings products to compete digitally, so they would rather delay that as long as possible.
> It's worth pointing out that "liberal" here means classical liberal

No, it doesn't, though if you squint really hard you can see a very loose connection between the "liberal" in liberal education and the classical liberalism.

> which is nearly the opposite of "liberal" in the context of American politics.

No, its not. Both "liberal" and "conservative" in contemporary American political terms have roots in classical liberalism (and both have elements that are hard to reconcile with it).
Hey, isn't there a refugee Crysis in Europe? How about filling up these ghost towns with actual people in dire need of shelter and other basic necessities?
> That's an argument against patents existing at all.

No it's not.

It's not an argument for or against patents, I'm pointing out that @aroch is wrong about them "patenting the processes".

That's not true for most of these patents, they're patenting isolated organisms, compounds or genes. I.e. the end result, not the process.

What incentives we should give individuals and corporations to advance biotechnology is another matter.
Books:+Food+For+The+Imagination
So if towers start broadcasting on 5.8, won't they have so many more devices to talk to no wifi stands a chance?
Dear Lost and Damned Denizens of Hell,

You can leave any time you're willing to stop calling us nasty names and accept our help. Or hell, even stop calling each-other nasty names and accept each-other's help. It's not like you're actually damned in any strictly metaphysical sense. It's just that you've got two primary tools, your intellects and your social abilities, your brains and your hearts, and you vilify the fuck out of both of them in favor of fists and fire!

Sincerely,

The Other Place
It's not just you, it's their entire investment strategy.

I did some study of Buffett/BH/Graham in college and resoundingly they do "value investing" which is predicated on the notion that true gains are made in longevity. Highly recommend the intelligent investor as a starting point in understanding the BH ethos.

That said, BH has done some short term deals - and was taken to task in 2008 for their involvement in CDO trading. So it's not all peaches and cream.
This put me in mind of this QI episode and David Mitchell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9PSg0sQyfs
I don't think anyone was as exactly specific as that, but in reading discussions of MMM's possible contribution, the description was almost universally (on Reddit and HN) comparing, explicitly or implicitly, the previous MMM's total volume to the Bitcoin market cap, showing that pretty much everyone seems to have been intuitively confusing stocks with flows - the unspoken argument seems to be 'the old MMM's total was about as large Bitcoin's market cap is now; the new MMM is also quite large and may be a large fraction of Bitcoin's market cap; therefore, the recent near-doubling of Bitcoin's market cap may be mostly or all due to new MMM's large total'.
Every now and then, it's time to stop concluding that you're right, and start to ask why nothing has changed. The data at this point seems overwhelming that open offices are bad for health, stress, productivity, and personal happiness, and they don't save a whole lot of money. So why are they still around, and how can this be changed?

That's the article I'd love to read, though the issues go very deep. PG was certainly right in an essay from years ago where he concludes that private offices are really used to denote rank in a company, rather than to provide people with a quiet space for productive work.

My own experience at Sun Microsystems a long time back was a good one. They had drop in centers with quiet rooms and loud rooms. Loud rooms had phones, quiet rooms didn't. None of it wouldn't have mattered without enforcement - every now and then, someone who did a lot of work on the phone (never a developer, they always took phone calls outside) would try to use the cell at a desk, figuring it was "ok" as long as they kept it short and used mildly hushed tones. Nope. The office manager, who didn't care who they were or if they liked her, enforced the rules.

That could work, while preserving the rank/status qualities to offices that are important to other elements of an organization.
The Dilemma of the Startup CTO Title
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512087
So companies that are acquired by Berkshire Hathaway get improved management 'for free' (in that there was no HR/recruiting work required). Sounds like a good deal if you have pre-acquisition ownership in one of them.
Absolutely! I used to live in one of those "cities". Just wrote a post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515003
Facebook+Launches+New+Music+Store
Getting started with Digits (for the web)
Maybe they should not be able to be hired by the government again (directly or via a contractor) and be released from their current function right away (prison would be an option, depending on the severity of the offense).
That would explain it.

In addition, the classic PubSub pattern here screams the Disruptor pattern (which I first heard about from Trisha Gee and Martin Thompson). The Erlang runtime has no direct good support for this kind of pattern, so you have to opt for things such a ETS to simulate it. It'll work albeit at an overhead.
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@Greg I can see the Rick and Morty influence on some of the art ;) ;)
Interesting that the Pixel can tell it's a bad cable. Makes me wonder if it will still charge from it.
I understand and respect that position. In the specific cases of both China and GNU though, I think the principles are misguided and naive.
The scary part is they largely do this due to two factors:

1) Cheap labor. [ But India and other countries have cheap labor ]

2) A willingness to completely disregard ecological damage.

Its #2 that makes them into a blackhole and since everyone on Earth breathes the same air...yeah.
If you click the timestamp you should be taken to a page that has a "vouch" link. So non-mods can now vouch for dead posts.

Here's the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

And here's a follow up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478886
Why Is Peter Thiel Not a Fan of the Lean Startup Movement?
Can you imagine that there are people who actually program on such a low level that they actually care about that kind of functions, constants and the number of T states that the resulting assembly code takes? I'm one of those. If these aspects aren't relevant to you please allow me to address them.

The article author actually engineered an effective function for spreading out bits to bytes. I invite you to read the comments here that are actually mine and what's in them.
I guess if I used Google the way this author did, I could write an article called, "Why Open Offices Are Great."
Where I come from (Canada), you can't call yourself an Engineer unless you are certified as a Professional Engineer by the appropriate licensing body. This is similar to the fact that you can't call yourself a Lawyer or a Medical Doctor unless you have the appropriate certification. It's not a matter of fussiness. It's just that there are certain niches for professional behavior and those niches have evolved a process to prevent those without appropriate qualifications from marketing themselves using those names. There are also, broadly speaking, liability ramifications for the people in all of those occupations.