skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has regular threads but with appropriate data race safety guarantees. So that won't help in context when large number of concurrent contexts are happening, but perhaps it should first become a bottleneck and then solved, because it might just be good enough.
I doubt Rich will ever push for it, but stranger things have happened. Types get in the way of data. When you ask a request "What's in you?" in Clojure you can just look at the data and find out. In Java you can ctrl+space in your IDE and look for public methods that by convention start with 'get', and then for the return values of those things also look for things that start with 'get', but that's a pretty impoverished way to get at the data. Try printing it out and you're likely to just get a memory address, great. So what do types buy you? Sometimes performance, but if that were always true then all static languages should be about as fast as C. The other thing is this "certainty" mentioned, and that certainty is just that you didn't make a typo or spelling error, woop-dee-doo, those are among the fewest sets of errors dynamic programming language users run in to, especially when you change your workflow to take advantage of the nature of dynamic languages, and a more valuable certainty is that this piece of data you have isn't going to change underneath you. You have to go all the way to Haskell (I'd argue Shen) to get real benefits of typing beyond performance and typo-protection, and most programmers are unwilling to do that for very good reasons.
When I bought my property from a guy who still owned the property next door, among the things I went through on the terms of the sale--so not zoning per se--was to be allowed to run a mail order business from my property given that their proposed terms were no business on the property at all. (I was writing some software at the time as a part-time business.) This was a very minor thing and their only concern was traffic, which wasn't an issue, but it really makes sense when you can to resolve anything like this before it becomes a problem. Sure, sometimes ask for forgiveness is the right approach but that doesn't mean that it's always the right approach.

And things that shouldn't be a problem often aren't--until they are. I also got a couple of other things put in the purchase and sale agreement (as did he) that wouldn't be a problem with reasonable neighbors but could be with unreasonable ones.
Sometimes I spend all day on one ticket to find a one line solution and sometimes I can close one in 10 minutes with a 20 line solution.

I get that you want averages but even between senior and junior devs it seems like this would be massively weighted towards devs who don't pay attention or bother to look for a 'right' solution and instead go for the quickest

Is tickets closed a good metric?
I think you're confusing users with customers. Most SAP users probably don't like it or hate it, but the people buying or paying for it? (CEO's, shareholders, etc).. they probably love it, and word of mouth does work - if someone has a SAP-killer that people don't know about, I haven't heard of it.

ju-st said it best - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10617830

Also, long sales cycles are normal in huge multimillion dollar B2B products.
There won't be for much longer. No state can remain independent in the Eurozone. Its survival will require more integration and centralisation. Time will tell whether this applies for other EU members who don't use the Euro. Just quite what the separatists hope to get from independence, I don't know. They won't gain more sovereignty from it. Then there's the issue of the police state experiment that was run last night. People were persuaded to drop their free speech in exchange for cat pictures. By and large people seem to have fallen for it.
Your legacy code matters
> For a stark depiction of how Taiwan’s technology industry has been ravaged by the rise of the smartphone...both are down by more than 40 percent -- and smartphone maker HTC Corp (as well)

Didn't bother wasting my time with the rest.
Our team uses Thoughtworks Mingle (https://www.thoughtworks.com/mingle/) Its got a simple, rich interface and is free for a 5 user team.
You can create your own card walls and track features/bugs/to-do items with different types of cards.
Works really well for Agile teams.
And the one we should know is the Geometric Algebra formulation, where it ends up as Maxwell’s Equation, singular.

Gibbs/Heaviside vectors are cumbersome and confusing, and the faster we can dump them as a society the better.
so would you say then that the next logical step would be to try out joyent baremetal container runtime?
We're discovering fewer, but not none. For instance, there are forms of leukemia that we have almost cured in the last 15 years. HIV seems like another good example.
Whenever I see an announcement to that effect, I'm reminded of this classic The Far Side cartoon: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/509399407824121060/

Alas, no new ones for over 20 years.
I've been playing around with it, but not for a full project. It's very interesting - unlike React Native the JS has full access to all native APIs, so if you want to call one no-one has written a wrapper for yet you just can.

I've actually ended up writing a lot of platform specific code as I found the cross-platform stuff to be kind of janky. But it basically lets me write an iOS app, using iOS APIs (and even iOS sample code, if I apply myself)... in JavaScript. It's not bad at all.
Wow, I find it really bold that WSJ has so openly dug into the demographic issue. I've previously only heard about it so openly discussed in conservative circles (eg http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/20/the-return-of-patriarchy...). They pretty much hit all the major areas with fertility and women and all the other stuff lined up http://graphics.wsj.com/2050-demographic-destiny/. It'll be an interesting century with this unprecedented implosion.
Debian, run them on VPS for small websites, testing. Backups.

I love the package tool, apt-get and apt-cache search to find what I need.
I'm a library lover, but my only two (attempted) visits to the British Library left me annoyed (at best). The first time was in the 80s. I joined a queue to go into the library. I thought that was weird, but what the hey. After many long minutes we went into the library. Great. Time to start exploring the rooms, wander through the aisles, have a great day fossicking about right? Wrong. It turned out what I was queuing for was the opportunity to be marched into the reading room, stand there for 30 seconds or so, then be marched straight out again. One of the true WTF moments of my life.

In London again in 2014 I decided to check out the new British Library, heavily promoted. Surely things have changed. I rock up. There are any number of guides, promotions, pamphlets, exhibitions, whatever on offer. After a while though I realised that I wasn't going to be in luck this day either. I approached the friendly ladies at the information counter. "I just want to go into the library and read some books. That's not going to be possible is it?". "No, no it's not" she replied just slightly sheepishly.
Made me think of the old classic "Belgium Doesn't Exist!"
or "Land of Sprouts and Chocolate, I Think Not.":

http://zapatopi.net/belgium/
I felt like I was watching a visual piece of software.
Interesting:

> each Dedicated Host can accommodate one or more instances of a particular type, all of which must be the same size

I'm surprised by the "same size" requirement. It seems like even if you ask customers to stay within a single family (m3, m4, etc.) the customer could do their own hand placement of 8 vCPUs next to a pair of 4s...

Edit: Disclaimer, I work on Compute Engine.
Going to Mars may be "just an engineering problem", but securing funding for it is a political problem.
Actually, the chinese are comfy bribing their way in african nations. And they are changing the continent quite fast. It's the unreported story of the decade.

Check out this lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycHsaGOModU
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You're probably right. I remember hearing about how much manufacturing expertise was lost to rust belt cities when globalization shifted factories overseas. I remember a story on the PBS Newshour about how some cities were bringing some of that expertise back, especially with a lot of CAD modeling and what not to streamline things.
OTOH, the value of gold does fluctuate relative to other numeraires. Its value in $USD has been dropping steadily for a few years now.
HIV is the other good example. I'm pushing back against your argument that we need to make more people or we'll stop finding teh drugs. We were far better at finding them back when we had less than half the current population.
Perhaps, but seeing as POS taggers are ~97% accurate (at least in English), I'd expect this to be minimal. Furthermore, the baseline neural network also has access to the gold standard POS tags, so the comparison of adding POS disambiguated embeddings is pretty clean. It's the difference between "words + pos tags" as features and "pos-disambiguated word + pos tags".
Apart from the elastic IPs already mentioned, two more options:

1) Have a canned VPC-based test server that's off, and only turned on for the test. VPC-based servers do not lose their IP addresses between activations (though a single server may not suit you)

2) Use AWS internal DNS - have your vendor product use hostnames rather than IPs (if possible), and when you spin up the new machine for testing, switch it's IP into the hostname on the internal DNS zone. Again, you'll need to be VPC-based to use this. You can destroy the instance between runs with this method.
Reminds me of my idea: https://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage/
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Good way to take a few words completely out of context. I said "web devs who use ruby for 90% of projects" as in "they obviously don't care much about performance in the first place"

If you had anything you wanted to offer, I'm all ears but you telling me dynamic vs static reflection have different implementation details (and necessarily different implications) is pretty obvious, wouldn't you agree?
> the rates that regular banks pay (and receive) for interbank loans

Something still doesn't make sense.

If bank A borrows $100 from bank B at 1% (positive) interest, then A has to pay back $101 to B.

If bank A borrows $100 from bank B at -1% (negative) interest, then A has to pay back $99 to B.

In the latter case, A would try to borrow as much as possible, and B would try to never lend anything.

What am I missing here?
If they go out due to bankruptcy/liquidation, the b'y trustee can "avoid" what(ever few) privacy and IP ownership protections that my exist in the Evernote EULA and sell all of your data AND identity to data brokers... after all what's more important than making the creditors whole?!?
how about eradicating poverty across the world?

We're doing it. https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/poverty3.jpg
What is an "A+ career" anyway?
I'm working on a real-time collaborative note taking app with math typesetting. (www.escherpad.com)

Do you think porting data over is something that people might be interested in paying for on a subscription plan?
Alternatively you could set up a forward proxy server on its own instance with an elastic IP and proxy your network requests through it.

This has the added benefit that if you ever need to spin up more instances to run simultaneously, you don't need to get a new whitelisted IP address.
> We still have a ton to figure out around plugins, extensibility, contributions, Windows and Linux releases, API speed, localization, and harmonizing the WordPress.com API and WP-API so it can work with core WordPress. Thousands more PHP developers will need to become fluent with JavaScript to recreate their admin interfaces in this fashion. I'm also really excited to revisit and redesign many more screens now that we have this first version out the door.

http://ma.tt/2015/11/dance-to-calypso/
I'd guess at some point computers will become a literal brain prosthetic - instead of writing code by tapping words with your fingers, you'll have the cognitive enhancement offered by a programmable computing machine integrated directly with your conscious awareness.
Good luck, don't give up.
Matt has always been ambitious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10618666
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Also credit to this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside

... Who took the original 20 equations and simplified them to the 4 we normally see.
Oh come on. We've been over this "government subsides for Elon" bullshit half a year ago. You're late to the party.

TL;DR: Tesla is the kind of lendee you want to have more of - uses the money for real R&D, pays loans down quickly and in full, gives back lots of value to economy. It's basically the textbook case of what those loans were made available for in the first place. It's the one company that you shouldn't be complaining about.

Government is giving free money that could be used to bring ideas to market faster; why should Musk not take it?
I would be really curious to see if this sort of strong arm tactic actually works for them. Part of me wants to see them implement it just to see if their users cry loud enough to make them revert, but I have a feeling the vast majority would just disable Adblock and go on about their business. Most anyone serious about privacy likely quit using free email services long ago.
They could also just spec that firmware be stored on ROM rather than flash.
I'm not sure about tickets, but I grade a lot of math tests. In some cases, there are a lot of easy to grade tests (almost empty, straightforward solutions, easy to read fonts, ...) and a few very difficult to understand cases. Some of the graders "specializes" in difficult to grade papers, they read very few, but the contribution is very important.

Not all bugs/tickets are created equal. Just counting them would incentivize to cherrypick the easy ones.
I know Hetzner, but I didn't think they had any datacenters in the US.
The only thing surprising about this is that they are implementing it in the form of an explicit negative interest rate instead of hiding it from the customers in a per month account fee charge or something like that. Rates have been effectively negative for a while now it's just that in the US the banks have implemented it by piling on fees instead of explicitly charging a negative rate.
A beautiful PJON application example
The thing I hate about the truth-o-meter stuff (either promises kept or broken) is that so much of it is still subjective and a matter of degrees and opinions. If Obama (just as an example) promised to "implement" some program or tax reform, what exactly does that mean? Someone could feel like Obama kept that promise so long as he put forward (that is, lobbies for the introduction of) a bill about it, even if it was defeated. Others might feel he broke that promise even if he put forward a bill, and the bill was passed and signed into law, because they would say that the extent of the bill should not (in their opinion) count as "implementing" something -- e.g. it doesn't go far enough in their desired direction in order to justify even calling it an "implementation."

None of this stuff is spelled out in specifics before election night and put up for bid on something like a prediction market. Failing that, I think we can only really say he "kept" or "broke" promises whenever there is a super clear, unambiguously understood outcome that can be indisputably verified and doesn't rely on anyone's interpretation of degrees.

This also doesn't address the further fact that many people find some of promises to be really insignificant next to other ones, and so they might do an importance-weighted sum of kept promises instead of just an equal-weighted sum. The total number of kept promises may not matter to them much if two or three major promises are believed to be broken.
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What is at stake? Is this a finance app? Is it keeping track of people's dog sitting appointments?

The money/time involved in the application should drive the security measures.

No need to put a padlock on your bag lunch. And don't keep $10,000 in your wallet.

Another thing, try to balance actual cost with potential cost. Somewhere around 10:1 is a good place to start. Think insurance actuary tables. Are you constantly being attacked? Are your user accounts worth millions? Would a break-in reach international news?
i stand correct. this will be awesome. :)
All I can say is when you work at your passion you don't work a day of your life.

I love hacking tech even on the weekends and after hours. If you don't then you might want to consider a new career.

I think a big part of why 30 years into my career I'm still learning is because to me this is my "fun". I don't want to watch 30 hours of reality TV. I'd rather build a cat feeder that uses OpenCV to identify which cat is eating and when the cat's feeding bowl is empty.

Recently my job shifted yet again to more management and my wife suggested I "take vacation and work on that iPhone app you were playing with a couple months ago". She knows I'm a much more enjoyable guy to be around when I have had a couple really nice zoned out hours pounding a keyboard to beg a computer to do something stupid I've come up with.

PS: When my wife saw this first thing she asked was if I could interface something like that to the cat feeder. :-)
it looks like there's a bunch of stuff out there that this doesn't find. it seems limited to specific silos like github and so on.

the debian code search, on the other hand, has access to all software shipped with debian: https://codesearch.debian.net/

this is arguably another silo, but the diversity of software in there is also interesting.
WSJ is actually pretty conservative. I mean, it is owned by Newscorp!
If you take your gold bars down to the bank or to a warehouse, they will absolutely charge you to store them (from what I can Google, on the order of 1% per year).
What have you done! Now nginx will read "engine eggs" to me.
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Both of my three examples?

Anyway, you're right, they would all get an S at the end either way.

A better example would be "captcha." You'd say "two captchas," not "two captcha" or "two captscha."

For a less polite example that works the same way, consider MILF.
They make an interesting claim:

Between 12 percent and 45 percent of machines
at Google experience at least one DRAM error
per year. This is orders of magnitude more
frequent than earlier estimates had suggested.

We just had a big discussion on this topic a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598629
Yes, your first point is the true argument against raising unskilled laborer's wages. The higher their wages are, the more cost-effective it becomes to replace them with robots. I'd argue that this is probably ultimately a good thing, but many people see it as a reason to avoid raising minimum wages.

As for what happens when robots replace engineers, that is essentially the singularity you're talking about. And what happens then is presumably some form of post-scarcity economics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy), though its hard to say exactly what form that will take.
Setting up is a real cost, but I manage users on our corporate github and our self hosted gitolite; for github, the user gives me their username, and I add it (after looking up my password), gitolite I add their public key to a directory and their username to a file and git commit; git push. Not a lot of difference.

I don't worry about backing up the git repos, one of the promises of git is that every person who checks out the repo has a full copy, any of which we could use for a backup (helpful if we get a recent checkout).

Third party hosting hopefully has a good disaster recovery plan, but the disaster could be your hosting provider quietly went out of business and everything is offline.
Sadly there is still no IPV6 support...
Bribing a corrupt government doesn't make that government better for business in general. It doesn't create permanent change away from the status quo that would lead to more sustainable development, rather, China gets some minerals for cheap while a despot can buy more BMWs.
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I use Ubuntu on my laptop. I've found that I typically don't need the latest and greatest versions of various software, and have been happy with 12.04 LTS. I suspect that my next version will be 16.04 LTS. I value the Long Term Support releases because I can stick with the same system for several years and still get security updates. At this point in my life / career, I'm not nearly as interested in with tinkering and tweaking things and would rather have something that generally works and is stable.

I've toyed with the idea of going with CentOS on a desktop, but I think that release cycle may be a little too slow. Ubuntu's LTS every two years gives me the opportunity to upgrade sooner if there's a compelling reason (e.g., Docker support).

I do web development at a consultancy (lots of different projects in a variety of languages / environments) and have in the past been able to do a pretty decent job isolating different client applications while running them locally. However, these days I'm moving more to Vagrant for some of the heavier applications and likely to Docker for some of the lighter ones.
Where are all the gradient and curl operators in the picture of the original manuscript on the page? Or was that notation developed later?
Not only that, but say in Australia, you can skip college and go into mining (until the last bust happened), make a lot of money, and compete for housing (and other more limited resources) that normally only professionals would consider. This makes fields like IT a lot less appealing in those countries (and then making them even more natural resource dependent).
I see Africa now like China in the late 80's or early 90's - the change is there, but the perceptions haven't shifted yet and anyone doing business there faces a situation of chaotic progress. A good place to be if you like extremes of risk/reward.
"Consider: if you want {to let} someone else {drive around in} your car {and rent it out to other people} ... you have to pay them."

Excuse me?
+1

I built a nginx+luajit RTB bidder that did 168k qps on 8 cores. It smashed the C eventlib version and of course it crushed the Java version. Golang came in a close second but at the time with 8 cores I had to do crazy things to get it to pin to CPU's since the golang thread scheduling didn't seem very scaleable beyond 4 cores.
That same year he patented, in England, the coaxial cable.

That's a fairly major footnote, on an interesting career. He seems to be one of those people who quietly had a significant impact on the future.
Freedom for all mankind, hopefully.

Or death and bloodshed as more and more people get excluded from the economy and are left to starve. It's up to us to pick a direction, and the time for it is starting now.
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No, I'm saying the relevance of Java ends at the source level. When the app is converted to DEX bytecode and then compiled to native code there is no dependency on the language or JVM as you seem to think.
Website looks to be down or at least very slow due to load. Should move the DNS to CloudFlare and host it there- it will help a lot in cases like this.

(I was going to make a joke about how maybe hosting the site on the MyCPU was a bad idea, but thought that perhaps that was a silly notion. It isn't. The site itself notes that it is hosted on the MyCPU computer, and gives this alternate address if the site is slow: http://mycpu.thtec.org/www-mycpu-eu/index1.htm)