skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the only serious, tangible problem that happened was that Amy's employer (Ingalls) fired her because she was the victim of hackers, and then she couldn't get a new job because future employers didn't like what hackers had written about her on the internet. This is a pretty big failure of employment law as well as immoral behavior of the employers. That's the kind of widespread discrimination that we try to prevent against blacks, women, etc. But it can still be perpetrated against individuals and there isn't even any popular belief that it's wrong.

Imagine two headlines:

"Ingalls Health System fires woman after finding offensive comments on her social media account."

"Ingalls Health System fires woman after finding that she was gay."

Both are equally terrible, but only one is popularly considered to be very bad.
Why does WhiteFriday.com link directly to Amazon?
I think the article provides some great foundational perspectives on how HA/service discovery/port mgmt and so on were handled in the "pre-containers" era of VMs with a look into how these challenges are somewhat re-imagined in this current world of containers (predominantly Docker). I'm looking forward to the follow-on post about why they chose Kubernetes and how that solution works for them.
That's the syntax? Looks to me like another reason to stick with Python2.
and is wearing a Postal t-shirt

What's wrong with Postal? It's a good franchise, although RWS' decision to outsource Postal III development to Akella proved to be a gaffe. Nonetheless, it is hardly any more obscene than, say, South Park.
I get a 403 page when visiting this page using my browser (Chrome), but cURL works fine. Are they rejecting certain user agents?
Notwithstanding my above comment, this is a valid concern that governments need to address if they move to a 'untied rent subsidy' approach. In my opinion, the best way to address this problem is to take measures that increase the elasticity of housing supply, and reduce distortions in housing and land markets.

So things like: replacing transfer duties with land value taxation, relaxation of zoning regulations, removal of any unnecessary regulations on dwelling density/height etc.

Hell, they could probably achieve a pareto improvement (though probably a lower one) by completely separating government supply of additional housing stock and provision of rent subsidies. In other words, it would be better, relative to current social housing schemes, if the government just built and sold houses at market value while separately providing rent subsidies to the financially disadvantaged.
On Q2, I don't see any faulty premise at all.

It seems clear to me that on its own, in a narrow reading Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press makes no reference to the President or to any other laws at all.

Under a narrow reading of that on its own there is nothing to stop the President doing anything at all (indeed, there is no recognition of anything except Congress).

Same with the other question: for this exercise you are supposed to read this in complete isolation.

Yes, this is a pretty silly exercise.
This is a job for the little used -O flag.

Are there a any good libraries to turn on/off type checking using if debug as part of the decoration logic? If so then running with -O in production would solve some of the problem with this.
I've taken up BJJ this year, and took some boxing lessons (no time to actually train in it yet). That was something emphasized in boxing, and only rarely in the BJJ classes. But when I started applying that concept to BJJ (particularly with sweeps and a couple other things), I improved significantly in just a couple weeks.

A bit of this "quiet eye" stuff as well. I think, along with the benefits of properly seeing and visualizing to improve coordination, it also encourages a deliberateness of motion. Similar to "punching through", when you move deliberately and without hesitation you get a more fluid and powerful movement.
Speaking as one person who has been interviewing developers (and others) for 20 years, getting to specifics is something I try to do in every interview.

It's just not that difficult to B.S. your way through an interview with great-sounding generalities even when you don't know how to actually do anything (think FizzBuzz). It's also an actual problem in real life that some people would rather live in the abstract and never want get into the details of actually getting work done.

The only way I know to clarify that in an interview is to drill way deep into the specifics of something you've done. If you actually did the work, and knew what you were doing, then that'll be pretty obvious -- and you can certainly motivate the specifics with principles as you go.

However, quite often I have to really push to get the specifics even if they are there. People don't expect that I want to be bored with details, or something. So I've learned to be very explicit that I want boring details, lots of them. It sounds like the interviewers in this case didn't do that, whether deliberately or not.
> The "rule of law" means that people are willing to abide by legal decisions.

But surely very few people will say (and fewer truthfully) that they are willing to abide by any conceivable legal decision that is in accordance with the law in the given jurisdiction. Most people will agree that it is quite possible to have "bad laws," where "bad" is defined not by some objective moral claim but rather by their own beliefs and preferences.

So I find any appeal to "rule of law" disingenuous at best. Even if it did exist in the most extreme form, i.e. legal questions were objectively decidable and always executed flawlessly, most people agree that laws themselves can be bad and some laws can be so bad that they ought not be followed or enforced.
What? So these otherwise very intelligent people, don't see the flaw with discrediting their own profession for the sake of getting respect? You think that is what's going on?
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While we may not have reached the depraved depths of some past civilizations, the 20th century was by far the bloodiest century in human history (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, ...) The vector is not towards any higher morals.

"There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade." http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/

Torture is alive and well.

Forgiveness is the key for all of us. But this does not bypass justice. Forgiveness can not simply be sweeping atrocities under the rug. A price has to be payed. Fortunately it was and forgiveness is offered freely to whoever wants it. But generally few seem to care.
Additionally, it was really hard to piss people off who lived far away from you before the internet took off. Even if a Finn could do all these things in 1991 (phone phreaking to bypass the high cost?) they would have no motivation since they'd probably never get that pissed off at somebody in the US.
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This is totally meaningless.

Let me try to explain a different way.

I'm going to invent something we are going to call "personal happiness." Right now.

I'm not going to define it in any way at all. We are all just going to assume that this is a good thing that we all want. I'm not going to tell you how to measure it or how to quantify it or anything like that. This is simply an objective thing that we all want.

Now I am going to tell you that there are 5 key components to personal happiness. And I am not going to tell you how to measure those either. Because who would do that?

But I am going to tell you that if you do x, you can score higher on one of those components.

I am not going to tell you if these numbers are statistically meaningful because I can't be arsed to actually talk about my methodology.

If you engage in one of these behaviors, you will increase your score on one of these metrics, and ultimately increase your personal happiness.

Does that help clear up my problem with the original blog post?

In my opinion, it's worthless at best and possibly damaging at worst.

We have an undefined goal, supporting goals that are also undefined, and we get sub-metrics that are measured without specific sample sizes or anything else that would let you know that there is actually something interesting happening.

This is complete and total bs until we get more details. And we won't.

It's probably not worth posting here, but worth mentioning that this really boils down to a psychological experiment tested on employees without their consent.

I hope that works out for those of you who think that HR is a valuable entity for preventing legal actions.
Related: https://aeon.co/essays/we-all-agree-forgiveness-is-healthy-b...
This number struck me as unbelievably large when I first heard it, so I looked into it here: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/20139/do-poor-ch...

tl;dr I think 30 million is an overestimate.
Sure, but in local government you can (a) make real progress at a local level and (b) shape priorities of the layers of government above you.

In local government you can adjust zoning to encourage low-income housing and encourage multi-use residential/commercial zones. You can demilitarize local police forces and encourage a "protect and serve" attitude. You can set up needle exchange programs to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases. You can accept refugees into your community.

There is also communication between different layers of government, both formal communication and informal networking -- a lot of state representatives and congressmen used to serve in local government. Getting involved in local government gives you another way to influence policy at a state and federal level.
Is Google disrupting the wireless business?
Ok, let's use your phrase. Title changed from "Docker Orchestration". If someone suggests a better title, we can change it again.
Not sure what your point is...

If mine wasn't clear to you, the article starts with a claim that this 'word gap' is the cause of effects observed later in life. It's easy to see the attraction of this, simply talk to kids more, then better adults right?

This is hardly cutting edge research, this has been floating around for some time, long enough for people to do some 'interventions,' of talking to kids more and the like, what did they find? Not much difference.

Back to the drawing board then right? Nope, not in social science, in social science if the results don't match our desires, we keep trying to beat the square peg into the round hole until they do!

What makes this shoddy science is that they assert the 'word gap' to be the cause with no evidence of it being so, and ignore other explanations, things like perhaps there are heritable 'psychological proclivities' that lead to parents raising a child in a particular way, the child inherits some portion and arrangement of these 'psychological proclivities' from the parent, these same 'psychological proclivities' then have an effect on the things observed later in life.

So if the social scientists want to do something productive instead of ignoring or bemoaning the fact that there are genuine differences among people, they could explore ways of structuring societies and institutions such that better results for people of all 'psychological proclivities' can be achieved.
When I was in school our student IDs were our social security numbers and encoded directly on our ID cards. Grades were left in folders outside the department office with our full SSNs on them. You could easily take someone else's grades, encode their SSN onto a card, and spend their money.
From the document - "older" means < 11.
Not in all cases, I believe. For instance, to use my debit card in China, where a lot of payments is still done via magstripe, I have to call my bank and ask them to enable magstripe transactions for me in their system. Otherwise, the bank will keep rejecting transaction attempts.
That's technically true. The Constitution only lists a few powers for the executive/President, namely being Commander in Chief of the armed forces, making treaties, and filling vacant senate seats. I'm no expert, but I would guess that most of the authority the executive branch enjoys comes from the the phrase "executive Power," which I presume would have been understood at the time to refer to the physical implementation and enforcement of laws.

I have heard the same for the judicial branch, particularly regarding judicial review. Judicial review isn't mentioned in the Constitution, but apparently it was well understood at the time that one role of the judiciary is determining the constitutionality or validity of laws.
Here's how I would answer these, and how I would expect a candidate to answer them:

Absolute positioning defines the placement of an object based on the boundaries of its parent. Relative positioning defines placement as an offset from where the object would have appeared in the normal document flow.

Promises are a way to handle asynchronous events...you can define now what you want to happen in the future when an expected condition is met in a way that is cleaner than nested callbacks.

Client side rendering inserts data into templates and pieces them together in the browser using Javascript rather than generating html on the server and sending the rendered page.

Clear specifies whether other objects can float next to the current object or whether they have to go below it.

Html templating is best left to the professionals. I doubt I could do better than one of the popular open source ones.

Source: I am a director of engineering
From Wikipedia:
"By 1982, Atari had US$1.3 billion in annual sales and was the fastest-growing company in the history of American business.[22] By 1984, the company had crashed and was split into three pieces to be sold off."

I met Nolan Bushnell in 1986 during his Catalyst Technologies phase. I often wonder what would have happened had he continued to lead Atari.
> They are obviously aware that the law is inherently political... [yet this] in no way prevents people from simultaneously regarding the law as a body of definite, politically neutral rules amenable to an impartial application which all citizens have a moral obligation to obey.

Why should it? There's no law that says rigid absolutes can't come from chaos. Look at quantum mechanics: a bunch of seemingly random nanoscopic reactions come together to form an elegant predictable macroscopic world. And why can't it be neutral? If the Wisdom of the Crowd theory holds any weight (hint: it does) the misconceptions and biases of a large group of people should cancel out leaving us with the correct, or in this case most neutral, answer.

Now, of course, there's no denying law is highly political for reasons that extend beyond Congress being highly political. That said, this is understood by most people. Did you know TRAP laws aren't actually designed to mark abortion clinics safer but to make abortions more difficult? So did everyone else that follows the issue!
"She asks the policemen precisely what she needs to do to prove she hasn’t just been murdered. Holding out her arm, she sighs as they take her blood pressure."

What? Seriously? I mean, yes cops are incredibly stupid, but they're not this stupid. I don't believe this happened. And if it did, the cop should be fired. Can someone really be that stupid to think that someone who is standing up in front of them is not alive? I call bullshit. Even a cop cannot be that stupid.

EDIT: Why not just ask for ID, since now all the cop's proven is that someone is alive, not who that person is. Ridiculous.
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Those were my exact thoughts while reading this. How can someone who travels the world try and give advice to the other 99% who work in an office all day? She has an interesting perspective, but its hard to take it seriously.
One big problem with using these stats as a morality vector is that they are not adjusted for population growth.
What's so bad about that? Do you think it's better to have disputes between two parties resolved by a third party that was not agreed upon by the two parties?
Functional programming, even when not in, strictly speaking, functional programming languages (MLs, Haskell, lisps, Erlang), has worked. It's moving more and more into mainstream languages. Either as a sublanguage (Linq) or by piecemeal incorporation of its concepts (pattern matching, anonymous functions, TCO so recursion can be used penalty-free, etc.).
On the other hand, I've eaten my share of expensive food at "fine" dining establishments across nyc and have found less then 10% are worth the price (eg. worth going back). The recent one was Maialino in Grammercy. So much wanted to like it but our dinner was disappointing (thankfully the company picked up the tab). Overly salty Fettucini and Sausage and mediocre chicken cutlet.
I don't think that most crime will be considered more of a mental illness, unless we're willing to consider selfishness as a mental problem too. Serial murderers may be getting treatment, but a lot of crimes (especially white collar) happen out of plain old willingness to pursue your own interests at the expense of others. There will need to be a form of enforcement that will keep people in line - the will to game the system seems to be far too common to consider it as an abnormality.
> What is Yahoo's area of expertise that they make money at and can do better that Google, Microsoft, Facebook or Amazon?

Fantasy sports.

In much the same way Sega pivoted, Yahoo could.
Speaking as someone currently in the "enamored with capabilities" phase, I'd like to know more about how people get disillusioned with them and whether it can be prevented. Is it something we just need to keep trying until we get out right, or are they somehow fundamentally unworkable despite their elegance?

Also, does the increasing importance of power consumption affect the RISC vs CISC issue? Naïvely I would expect that to work in favor of RISC.
I feel like we may be running up against some language and cultural barriers here, and am happy to discuss further at hn@ycombinator.com if it would help clear things up. But you do have to follow the rules, like everyone else, when posting to HN.
It's optional typing: you don't have to use it with Python 3.
the service providers: the florist, the pizza restaurant, the community depending on civic services are all victims in this spat also. i can't imagine family owned flower and restaurant businesses enjoying losing thousands and thousands of dollars to phoney orders, let alone tying up the police and firefighters on prank calls.
What you're getting at is important, and described really well in a recent article by Judea Pearl on Simpson's paradox [here](http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414.pdf). Namely, because they didn't manipulate words spoken directly the evidence for more words causing an increase in performance is conditional on your/their beliefs about the structure of the world.

I would say that many scientists are good at acknowledging this, though they may get over eager and forget to emphasize the point once they get to their discussion (or when an article is summarizing a piece of research).

Whenever I read observational research, I just mentally insert "under a set of structural assumptions about the world" before every statement like the one you listed above, and everything is okay again :).
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While reading it, I was constantly thinking how far this can be applied to an organization as well (Ex. a Startup).
Quite a lot I would imagine, would love to have a startup (my own or otherwise) which has following culture. Paraphrasing the original text..

Psychological safety: Does it have open culture where people are humble, unpretentious and open to other people’s ideas and thoughts.

Dependability: Does it have A team which is smart and reliable (delivers on time and can be counted upon to gather around in crisis and firefights).

Structure & clarity: Are goals, roles, and execution plans of our startup clear?

Meaning of work: Are we working on something that is personally important for each of us?

Impact of work: Do we fundamentally believe that the work we’re doing matters? Or, is there enough upside for a great exit, which frees us to do whatever we wish to do later in our life.
Is Small Business Banking Next in Line for Disruption?
Mr.Susskind has a Stanford lecture on this topic detailing the physics in his own unique & awesome way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crggox5rbc
Okay. I think I get it now. So since Michael Jordan can play basketball better than a handicap person, we should cut off Michael Jordan's foot so that the handicap person can now be equal to Michael Jordan. Awesome logic. Makes so much sense.

Purposely dumbing down the boys so the girls can be on par. Wow.

Why not just get something for the girls to play with, something that'll also increase their math and logic skills?
Disgusting. I had to deal with the INS myself to get a visa, and later a green card. Thank God I didn't experience a tenth of what the author describes and I can still say that this "machinery" is incredibly dysfunctional.
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I don't understand the $45K for the 3 green cards. Right now it costs maybe $1500 to process one green card application with the complexity of tax form. You can definitely do it yourself though a lawyer may add another $2000 to help you out. Back 10-20 years ago everything was probably half the amount. Also as I understand, H1B based green cards are sponsored by the employer?
This reminds me of a book:

Insert the last chapter of Alexandre Dumas' book called The Count of Monte Cristo.

Assuming you were Edmond Dantes and have read the book by Dumas, would you still be on the path of vengeance or would you heed the advice of the article and the last chapter of that book? That is given the scenario that you were in Edmond's shoes and just beginning your journey again right after you escaped your falsely convicted time in prison?
I am not new at all to HN and never knew this, cool :)
Maybe Clockless Chip Design's Time Has Come
Folded a co, near bankrupted, took side job, launching new app: Neighbor Chat
A buddy and I are launching our side project called Neighbor. We thought it'd be cool if we could chat with random people like we used to in the AOL. So we created it for your iPhone. It's called Neighbor. We're releasing our baby slowly. Please install it, give us a star or 5, and let me know what you think! I'm always around in app to chat!!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neighbor/id1028174117?ls=1&mt=8
i completely agree - its not Marissa fault either - steve jobs couldnt have turned that company around. they probably make a lot of money of fantasy sports though - that would be a lucrative brand to acquire; presumably tumblr is worth money also
Uh, she faces more than a mere "morale challenge". Her job is impossible. Her company is a gigantic load of bovine excrement with literally no redeeming qualities, products, or domain expertise to build upon. It should have been shut down five years ago and put out of its misery.
What a strange random list of things big and small loosely related to computers.

So "bitmaps" work? "Software engineering" does not.

Sure things change in this industry. But you really need a bit more focus to capture what is going on and what drives it.
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Exactly, we're all naturally short housing.

https://thezikomoletter.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/you-are-nat...
Its difficult to measure if brutality, genocide, tortures is waxing or waning, but its long way from being non-existant.
A long query written with CTEs is eminently more readable than the logically equivalent query written with nested sub-queries.

Just like a pipe operator makes long strings of function calls more readable than the semantically identical nested function calls.