skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You can read that paper here: https://people.ok.ubc.ca/rlawrenc/research/Papers/LittleD.pd...
To stay on my initial point, a situation where the Asian middle class grows and the US middle class has not eroded in the past 20 years would be an appropriate example.
At the bottom of the page, Bret says "at least for the next century, the “problem” of climate change will not be “solved” — it can only be “managed”. This is a long game. One more reason to be thinking about tools, infrastructure, and foundations. The next generation has some hard work ahead of them."
Thanks, we added 2014 to the title.
how is this at all insightful?
To your last point, I have suspected this for a while. The mere fact that you care where you're seated is a signal that you're willing to pay for the change.

Airlines are going the way of ISPs. Monopolies that just don't care how annoyed they make you.
I'd think there are better sources for reading about climate change than an author one who must admit "I didn’t mention nuclear because I don’t know much about it."
I still like Burt Rutan's take on the AGW question (http://rps3.com/Files/AGW/EngrCritique.AGW-Science.v4.3.pdf).

He looks at it as an engineer, using generally-accepted data. His conclusion is that the alarmists are wrong.
It's not a question I would ask every time, but it is one I ask sometimes. I just picked it to give an example of trying to get a specific answer but failing.

I might ask this question of an engineer who is interviewing for a lead position. These days, an answer could be as simple as, "I paired with a colleague yesterday," or, "I gave thorough feedback on a pull request."

I would then follow up with "Tell me more," and a candidate might talk about a recent PR where they pointed out a vulnerability, or an optimization opportunity, &c.
> I am not a lawyer myself, but the "hypothetical loophole" scenario you described would involve you making a derivative work of our code—kind of like photocopying Harry Potter and adding some doodles in the margins, and reselling that.

So you're comparing someone who forked your project to add what could be major features, to someone doodling in the margins of Harry Potter? That's a really optimistic view of the open source community there. But I understand what you're saying, I'm just used to forks being a common practice in the FOSS community, so I expected them to be better accounted for.

You still haven't made it clear what would happen in the case of a fork. Even if they kept it under your license, who gets the money? How do they get paid? How are terms agreed to? Can it not be forked at all?

EDIT: This really applies to any modifications, essentially, say I make some modifications to your code, under what terms am I allowed to distribute them? Is the only way I can go to license them back to you without seeing any of this "fair" profit myself? What if you don't like them and decide not to use them can I redistribute them for free or fee on my own? Is there any way to make the forking and distribution of modifications as casual as it is with so many open source projects under other licenses today?
Interacting with that graph of world carbon emissions and gradually realizing what it is showing me. Stuff of nightmares (and fantastic interaction design).
they don't have "The New Turing Omnibus" service fail.
Technologist can do approximately the same thing about the climate change, that our Sun can do about the average temperature in the Milky Way. Keep calm and carry on! Humanity is not a geological force on this planet.

UPD: Lovely stockpile of relevant information though. But I have a better one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfeytbHBPFM. Snows always melt. Look at glaciology data, dudes!
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. Yes we do live in an amazing time where the standard of living/availability of goods and services in developed countries is great relative to 40 years ago.

The only thing I would push back on is the increasing cost of some of the more fundamental investments - higher education and housing. Can't (sustainably) enjoy fast computers/airplanes/Amazon without a degree and a home.
Sourcegraph CEO here. :) I saw the GitLab CEO doing it and liked it a lot! (I hope he doesn't mind.) Of course, I just want to make sure people know I am affiliated with Sourcegraph when I comment on it.
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To say that it exists in all languages is perhaps a bit strong, but, yes, most do. However, there are difference in the degree to which ambiguities occur. German, for example, has many morphological cues that allow the comprehender to rule out alternative interpretations. The price is that German tends to be slightly more verbose.
Yes, this is definitely something I've learned and would do differently next time.

Saying that, I wouldn't judge a huge, successful company on one jerk. As much as I want to say "Fine, I don't want to work with people like that anyway" I know that interviews are (often) a poor reflection of overall culture.

What's frustrating to me is that this guy was an anomaly (according to the recruiter) but I have no recourse. The power lies with them and what do they care if they miss out on one good person? There are 20 more people waiting behind me.
Generally, I find that conspiracy theories only work on the sort of people who are gullible enough to believe in conspiracy theories....
Well if the intent is that Sourcegraph Core is "for teams of any size", and the code at https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph is the Core, then it seems like the LICENCE file in the source should be updated to reflect the intent and not say it's limited.

Inside https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph@master/.tree/LICENSE it has a line that says:

"Use Limitation: 15 users"
As others have noted, the resource constraints associated with many of the most cost-effective 8/16/32-bit AVR or ARM devices simply cannot run on SQLite. I even looked at making it smaller before starting LittleD, but I deemed that a Herculean task.

SQLite itself requires at least 100KiB of Heap space, sometimes many times more memory than already available: http://www.sqlite.org/about.html
Frankly, I don't buy the story of an eroding American middle class. A stagnating one maybe. But there just isn't data to support the idea of a regressing one.

People look at the past with rose colored glasses.
3% down w/3.85% fixed interest 30 year locked in. That's 4.5k/month in mortgage. That's not including maintenance, property taxes...etc.
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What would you recommend?
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>The media is saying Elon was just beat at his own game.

The media is not a single, conscious entity. Some Gizmodo blog may have claimed as such, but I think you'll have a very hard time producing any other person who would claim that what a Gizmodo blog says is what the entire media is saying.

>Elon tweeted to point out that it's a horrible comparison

Not really. There are comparables: stick goes up, stick goes down without crashing.

Elon only appears to have made a non-sequitor argument (unless someone shows where the media made the claim that space and orbit were the same thing).

Ultimately, this is probably a defect of Twitter's character limit. It is extremely difficult to put a fully reasoned argument into a single tweet.
Or you pay someone else for support. I don't know how many options are out there but where I work, we have Oracle Linux (which is basically RHEL) and get support through Oracle.
While I don't really agree with the premise, my initial impression is that this should get ten upvotes for being so well reasoned and executed. Amazing work, I'm confident a lot of good will come of it.

One recommendation, at your earliest convenience do something about this:

> I didn’t mention nuclear because I don’t know much about it.
It looked like a gridiron 100 years ago. Field changes, name stays the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_football#/media/File:...
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Is it? Do you have a reference to relevant international laws?
Many CS researchers publish in conferences, not journals, so they tend to be pretty spread around. Each field usually has a major conference whose proceedings are worth looking into when they roll around. Of course, conference papers are behind paywalls, but you can usually find a free version if you search the authors/paper title in Google Scholar. The system could be better.
Nah, this just means that language did not evolve to be written. In spoken language, these ambiguities are not a problem because of prosodic cues. Also, non-recursive languages are not necessarily unambiguous, which shows that this problem is not tied to recursion.
>create a futures exchange whereby renters and landlords can lock in rent.

Can't you just sign a longer lease?
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Negative price means they're paying you to take the product. They're not paying you to do something unless doing that something is the product.

In the case of negative-priced airline tickets, they are not paying you to ride an airplane. They're paying you to take a ticket. That ticket then gives you an option to ride an airplane. Ticket use is not mandatory, not even ethically.

If it were somehow advantageous for the airline to actually have people take the trip from B->C, then they could pay people to actually do it by, for example, giving you a rebate when you step off the airplane at C, or charging you a fee for not boarding the airplane at B. But they don't do this. So either they benefit from just selling the ticket, or far more likely they don't benefit from selling the ticket but are trying to manipulate the system in some other way.

I don't understand your optimization comment. There is no scenario in which it's cheaper to fly more people from B->C than fewer. Larger, more efficient planes are still more expensive in total to operate, so if your passengers fit on a smaller plane you'll save money that way, not lose money. Even if the bigger plane were somehow cheaper in total, nothing says you need to fill it up. You can just fly your normal B->C passengers in a bigger plane with lots of empty seats, if that ends up being cheaper. Airliners don't require ballast. There is no scenario where the airline makes more money at the end of the day by having you use your B->C ticket compared to obtaining a B->C ticket but not using it.

I also don't understand your "flying privately" comment. Airlines are cheaper than the alternative, so it's OK if they play pricing games? Well, it's a free country, they can play as many pricing games as they want, but I'm going to play them too.
The majority of science studies, papers and reports disagree with you. Humans can and do have a huge impact on the world.
Ask HN: Why does Uber need ID to DELETE account?
A friend of mine was asked to send a copy of her government-issued ID to confirm her account. It freaked her out too much -- they kept on creepily insisting she immediately send a copy -- so she wanted to close the account. Now they won't let her close her account either, and demand to see a copy of her ID. Her number, email, CC info hasn't changed, so why in EARTH does Uber want someone's ID to DELETE their account? So now they've locked her out of her own account (they still have her CC info, and other highly personal info, mind), and won't take any action until she shows her ID.

If someone from Uber's lurking here, I wouldn't mind help with the support. It is getting ridiculous
That's quite an interesting theory. Do you have any good books on the topic?
How many blogs do you scan? How do you add/remove blogs to the list?
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>Here’s an opinion you might not hear much — I feel that one effective approach to addressing climate change is contributing to the development of Julia. Julia is a modern technical language, intended to replace Matlab, ...

Well that was awkward transition.
whoever voted this down, must have never read the book.
No, the context here was "EC2 Dedicated Hosts" and pinned VMs vs dedicated servers, which is a fair comparison. Or were you actually speaking about things like S3 or WorkMail and traffic spikes related to those?
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I think a great test for the font would be to have Quran readers read the Quran with it, and perhaps test their speed. It is a pretty good benchmark. I have a HUGE problem with reading the Quran electronically because i'm used to the Indo-Pak script and become almost illiterate when reading the traditional Arabic script. Unfortunately most electronic materials are in the traditional Arabic script.
The guy has a MS in Electrical Engineering and knows his stuff. Bret maybe just doesn't want to discuss topics he knows little about. Doesn't mean the rest of the manifesto is somehow broken :)
Almost all of the transmission is done at much higher voltages (3-4 orders of magnitude higher).
Just FWIW, Section 8 (in combination with depressed rents) is why for a good portion of the past decade I was constantly awoken by sirens: police, fire and ambulance services coming to take care of the folks renting a condo near me.

Y'know, I really do feel for poor folks, but I'd be just as glad if thieves, prostitutes and dysfunctional alcoholics would live somewhere else (financiers, escorts and functional alcoholics may be just as immoral, but at least they are discrete). It's nightmarish to have one's home turned into a disaster area.
Is there an official mirror policy to ensure multiple copies remain alive?
I was curious so I actually measured it with a watt meter. AMD FX-8350 consumes ~39 watts at idle and ~180 at full load. Intel Core i5 (Ivy Bridge) consumes ~27 watts at idle and ~90 at full load. They both consume ~1 watt in standby.

Also FWIW if you're holding onto an older chip because it's still "good enough" then you might want to think about upgrading to either of the above. Dual socket Intel Xeon 5160 uses 300 watts at the plug at idle.
Gitlab graduated from Ycombinator and raised a 4MM series A round. While these are both tremendous accomplishments and important milestones for any startup, it may be a bit premature to declare their business model a success.
I approached a bank, and that was their offer. 3% down on a 1mil home w/a 3.85% 30 year fixed rate. I've also met some people in the bay area putting 0% down and leveraging their RSUs as a down payment.
What is the use case for this product? Could you use it as a replicating database across sites?
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Would it be fair to say it's sort of like a Hype Machine but for books?

I'm also always interested in hearing about books that authors I like are reading or maybe books that they've been influenced by.

Regarding the design, there is definitely a lot of gradients and drop shadows happening which makes the page feel "heavy" and not relaxing like I think Hawaii brings to mind. I'm not sure if it's that but something is making the large grid layouts to load slowly on both my desktop and laptop.
Thanks for looking. Because I get book recommendations from the blogosphere, older books don't get found as quickly unless someone is writing about them.... I added in Omnibus - here: http://www.thehawaiiproject.com/book/The-New-Turing-Omnibus-.... Thanks!
I'm struggling to figure out why nuclear is lumped in with fossil fuels.
In the example given, it was more about needing to collect data over a large area, such as across multiple city parks. They needed to manage data at the source(s) to inform good watering decisions.
Wow, that slide presentation is a masterpiece in how to deceive engineers. He's not looking at it "as an engineer," he's looking at everything with preconceived notions and trying to cherry pick his way to his conclusion.
Very little. This isn't just the last mile, its the last 10-100m. Transmission losses at this level are miniscule, especially relative to the capital cost of changing over to a higher voltage.
The graph on page 10 is absolutely beautiful. I have discussed the same idea with others and I was told that the real 50 degrees difference between summer and winter is irrelevant while the 2 degrees increase in the average temperature over the next 100 years will be devastating. Having been told that a human construct (average) is more important than a real fact, I gave up. :)
That's probably true in many locations. Here, though, the city and university are interested in infrastructure changes that will reduce the "natural speed" of the road… effectively tackling the 85th percentile from the other direction.
It would just be their opinion on the term. They are probably saying it because they know many potential users will have assumptions about what open source means. They wisely avoided going head-to-head with those assumptions to reduce number of negative reactions like seen here in other comments.

I contend that open-source has always been a mix of philosophies which originally included commercial variants. The reason those disappeared probably had a lot to due with the greed of the dominant companies in IT. More utilitarian owners or charters might have had different results. However, there's still companies doing proprietary w/ source code and dual-licensing of proprietary + OSS.
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Since when number of publications became the measure of truth? There were numerous publications before Leonardo since Aristotle that flies have 8 legs. They all still have 6 though.
Humans are nothing in impact comparing to a single volcano.
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"Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest."
-Perhaps I could have phrased this a bit better, but the design in its current state makes it hard to take it very seriously.

"Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine."
-N/A

"Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more."
-My suggestion was to hire a designer, which I hope they follow. However good an app is, without good design a lot of people won't take it seriously or consider it a professional product. This especially applies to non tech people, which is most people.

"When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative."
It's not like I called it a piece of crap. The app may be fine. But at the same time I'm going to call a spade a spade. The current design makes it look extremely dated.
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It's around 800 right now - I curate all the source sites by hand at present, to ensure quality. If there's something you think I should add let me know...
I actually find Hangul very interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing Michael. A really through look at how we can use data and technology to help in preserve stable climate.
Right. Extending daylight savings to extend leisure time makes some sense (although it wouldn't accomplish much in places where the sun sets before 4:30 in winter anyway). But extending daylight savings "to save energy" is counterproductive.
Is that really the case? Would liquidation take priority over contracts (EULAs in this case) -- I wonder what happened when St. Vincent's Hospital went bankrupt...were all the medical records sold off to the highest bidder(I dont remember hearing about that?)
It's not working for me. Firefox 42/ OS X El Capitan

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Very much so, like Hype Machine (which I love), with the caveat that THP is personalized, whereas Hype Machine is more one-size-fits-all in terms of the music it recommends, it doesn't really know whether I like EDM or Jazz and act accordingly.
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If you choose to serve out your sentence in full do you still have to go through all these different fees and classes?

Do all felons have to have SR-22 insurance or only those convicted of vehicle offences?
I installed Zork on my Fossil Wrist PDA, though I never actually played it much. I mainly played Sudoku.
I legitimately hope this causes even a few technologists to shift their attitudes & how they approach their careers (the way Inventing on Principle did!)
I don't think that at all - where did you get that? I'm referring to national security letters, which any regular reader of HN should know about and which require you to hand over information like this and keep it a secret. If Microsoft had government mandated backdoors, there's a good chance they'd be required to keep the intentions hush-hush as well.
Sanctimonious and generalized, yes. But inaccurate? How so?
thanks for notes on design. I suspect the page loading is because my server's getting hammered right now :)
> There is a guessing game going on in an interview

Or you should act how you will act on the job and let the chips fall. If you are a question-asker you gain nothing (and stand to lose quite a bit) by rushing into it because that's what your potential boss wants.
"That it is complex enough that there's a need for a separat setup "explicily designed to be installable on a laptop" is to me an admission that CF is flawed from the outset."

I don't get this. The setup for a Chef or Puppet managed 1000 node setup is quite different than it is for your laptop. Is it somehow fundamentally flawed?

"Exactly because I refuse to follow a setup built to be easy to get up on a dev machine only to find out that the full production deployment ends up being totally different (a lot of software fails here)."

I agree. That's actually not the case in CF / Lattice land, the install is actually bit-identical, Lattice just removes stuff you may not need but a big organization might need (multi tenant security, access/identity management, infrastructure orchestration, etc.) Lattice is pretty dead simple to get up with Terraform or Vagrant. The actual pieces aren't particularly complicated relative to other container schedulers like K8S or Mesos+Marathon.

"I'm just in the process of cutting a clients hosting costs by about 80% by ditching AWS for a setup on managed servers, for example, and the full deployment of all the infrastructure we need is"

Right, I don't think a platform cloud like CF or even Kubernetes is appropriate to your client base's needs. My issue was with the concept that something like CF is "fundamentally flawed" because it doesn't meet your niche use case. It fills a different niche that presumes an infrastructure cloud to begin with. Most companies are moving OFF of managed services onto clouds, so it's a reasonable assumption. But there will always be a market to cost cut with a dedicated setup, where you play, and that's great. The market's big enough for everyone to get what they want.
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There is probably a diff history, so if the notes get out, encrypting only protects you on new notes going forward.
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I imagined cryptic regular ones, mixed with some Perl :)
That's what came to mind reading this. Why a whole post on this when you can literally just go look at the webpack docs and do this in 5 seconds.