skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue that I’ve had with Slack is more related to text like this from the New Relic integration:

This integration will allow you to receive updates in a Slack channel when an alert is triggered in New Relic. If you would like web, transaction, server, and mobile alerts to be posted in separate channels, you will need to set up separate integrations.

You can quickly hit the limit of ten integrations on the free service by having to set up a separate integration for each channel you want things to appear in. So…between GitHub, Bitbucket, Semaphore, a custom API integration, and a couple of others we ended up hitting the limit of 5 integrations (which is what the limit was as of May or June when we made the switch to HipChat; it’s double that now, but we’re starting to use even more tools, so it’s the same problem).
Good question. Someone else pointed out that _all_ societies have benefited from destroying the environment. I get the feeling they were pointing this out to argue that "we" (modern day Americans) don't really need to feel responsible. "Everybody does it, so it must be okay."

I don't know what the answer is to the question of what actions I (and "we") should take because of my responsibility (and our shared responsibility). I do know that the responsibility I feel is greater the more tightly I am tied to a society or community. I don't feel much responsibility at all for homo sapiens' eradication of Neanderthals (assuming that's what happened). The actions happened too long ago and the "society" is too loose (homo sapiens). I do feel some responsibility for what my country's recent forebears have done; I feel a tie as an American and 100 or 200 years in the past is just a handful of generations.

For me it seems the minimum is to identify myself as an "environmentalist". Many (most?) of the objections to proper care of the environment come from people who argue against it because doing so will lessen business profits by a little bit. Even assuming it's true that it will lessen profits, seems like we need to devote more of our resources to preserving the environment. At a minimum, that should mean that businesses in our society should have to accept somewhat lesser profits (perhaps by being taxed) in exchange for better preservation of the environment.

Also, I have no problem with businesses that affect the environment negatively bearing much more of the cost to replace past harms. In the past, and even now, we've allowed businesses to pollute our environment (air, water, land) without them paying for the damage they've caused. They are among the prime offenders, although everyone does share some responsibility for being part of a society that's let those businesses operate as they have.
This is one narrative in an overall spectrum of experiences. Important not to sidebar someone's very real experience or assume every "woman in tech" goes through the same thing, so I welcome the introduction of a new perspective that runs against the grain a bit. I wonder if this was prompted by a well-intentioned friend asking "what it's like to be a female in tech these days"? This is a question I get frequently and I'm just sort of at a loss as to what to say -- I see a lot of problems with the lack of diversity especially at the senior leadership level and have been through my fair share of negative experiences, but I've also been fortunate to have insane mentors -- male and female (well, if I'm keeping score, more male than female) -- to help me progress, learn, develop. For me, and maybe this is fraught with its own issues, I've always just sought to prove myself, demonstrate my value by working hard, and earn respect that way. Few people -- male or female -- can hold you in poor esteem if you constantly work to be an ethical, industrious team-player.
Precedent: Facebook paid Caltrain a bunch of money to clean up those tracks a few months back.

http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/Projects/Caltrain_Capi...
> Why not just re-snapshot and send the new snapshot instead of the old one?

Because then you have to start form scratch every time. The snapshots are so large that if you wanted to send a complete one, a large amount of stuff will have changed.
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Quoting ChuckMcM's post from a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032555):

> I've often wondered what might happen if Apple, Google, and Facebook joined forces, bought a couple of Tunnel boring machines, and bored a pair of tunnels from Cupertino to San Francisco, right underneath El Camino. If you looked at the number of people carried by private busses between San Francisco and the south bay it would get good ridership. If you threw in access to as much dark fiber as you wanted between those two points and added big fiber drops to PAIX, MAE-EAST and SF, you could offset costs by selling this capacity up and down the peninsula.
I also know if Google built the tube they could figure out how to do it for a whole lot less than the $1B/mile that these things command in the public sector.
Amazing!

Have they ported a good text editor to Emacs yet?
> Old hands remember a time when Facebook offered a few hundred dollars for employees who lived within a few blocks of its old offices in Palo Alto. Landlords got wind of the situation and quickly raised rents to match, they say.

There's a big difference between "within a few blocks" and within 10 miles (which includes 3 separate counties). Landlords would be foolish to raise rents just because one employer is giving a housing incentive.
When's the last time you tried to unplug an ATM? How'd that work out for you?
The term "free market" is thrown around rather easily in this article, oftentimes with the assumption that consumers have absolutely no recourse in said "free market." A few places, you could replace "free market" with "freedom of speech" and it would read the same. Of course the "progressive" thing to do is to limit speech as well, for our own good.

When an economy has a strong central bank meddling with the interest rates, firms and individuals receive an incorrect signal in the time-preference for money, since the interest rates are not determined by the market. Coupled with an inflationary monetary regime and Keynesian ideology throughout, the "free market" has no chance to produce optimal outcomes.

Come back with a book that examines actual free markets and we'll talk.
I wonder how this is going to affect residential real-estate prices (and COL in general) in Menlo Park/E. Palo Alto...
yeah true. for me its about the same though... guess i was so happy to come to the US in the first place ;)
The article brought my ML prof at UBC, Nando de Freitas. Absolutely stunningly brilliant, in a way that inspired deep questions in philosophy, CompSci, math and psychology. It's a shame he no longer teaches at UBC and now works at Google.
Yes, there are if's involved. It is not certain that you will achieve senior tier at a large company in a metropolitan area. But you are also not certain to earn anything from your startup equity.

I will reiterate - you are more likely to reach $250k working at a large company than you are to earn it (in salary or lump sum) at a startup.

This has been corroborated by numerous individual's experience in this thread, including my own. I personally interact with companies that pay this on a weekly basis.
Along with inestimable human livelihood and wealth, the free market creates various possibilities to foolishly harm oneself. Some questions Sunstein does not raise are:

1. Does the option of self-harm have value? If such options are forcibly removed, is the human condition degraded? For example, if one is stripped of having the sense of self-ownership, is that person limited in their level of human development and functioning?

2. Can harmful products be forbidden without the threat and use of violence against their would-be producers and consumers?

3. How successful could we expect such efforts to be, based on similar past and current efforts? And how costly, monetarily, socially, and in human lives?

4. How likely are such efforts, and the institutions that exert them, to be corrupted and bent to the service of powerful interests?
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I really suggest watching the whole thing, it's quite eye opening. The most irritating parts are when the portly speaker genially describes how they read Reddit and Hackernews in an attempt to buy off and shut-down startups which might threaten their ability to collect intelligence. Peoples lives are inevitably ruined by anti-progress paranoia, and tools which could make all of us more secure from bad actors are intentionally sunk.

These people are your enemies, and they are chuckling to each other how easy you are to manipulate. You, on HN.
FWIW, the reason I know about the EME-free version is because I do use Windows for some things that it excels at.

When I said "Stuck on windows", I was being a little tongue-in-cheek. I'm pretty darn uninterested in platform wars.
> That some/most economists like to use. There is a huge field in economics (and econophysics and stuff) that focused on actual irrational behaviour (like trend-following, trying to time the market, predicting the 'mood' of the market)

Behavioral economics is really interesting, yes, but this isn't even an example of irrational behavior (in the technical meaning of "rational").

What a consumer says they want isn't necessarily the same as what they do want, as determined by their revealed preferences (ie, what they do with their actions). If those are self-consistent, the behavior is rational, even if it contradicts what they say they want.
just missing the cracking sounds :)
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Incredible! I just looked up trends for Menlo & East Palo -- unbelievable.
I don't think that's realistic. Rarely has that happened in practice; often people go overboard trying to suppress dissent and change.
The thing is, lots of enterprises do allow for remote work, but apparently it is only allowed for the off-shore consultants, not for their own employees.

I never understood this duality.

It is ok for an off-shore consultant to work remotely from somewhere on earth, but not for the employees.
So, is hitting the startup jackpot. If a 250k job has 5% odds, and a startup jackpot has 1% odds then it's really worth thinking about.
I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. The original commenter's suggestion was to "modernize" a train route that runs near their campus. My assumption is that the route is currently functional, only missing the required stations and amenities necessary for relatively short-term passenger transport. I don't think high speed is called for in that situation, just anything capable of making a commute more bearable and less costly, therefore a conventional passenger train would likely suffice.

Additionally, it would still be a primarily municipal project, for which Facebook (and perhaps other interested private parties) would only partially contribute to in monetary terms.
It's not the same, obviously, but one thing you could do is redirect "zfs snapshot" to a file (instead of passing it to "|zfs send"), encrypt that locally (using whatever means you prefer: openssl, gpg, etc.) and then upload that.

Of course, tarsnap pretty much does that all by itself and does it quite well.
In the GTA, the cost of gas is $1.00/L ~ $1.30/L over the past year or so. I converted the cost of gas in the US a month ago when I was visiting family (in the Detroit area) and it came to ~$0.70/L (also converted between USD and CAD at the time).

Edit: I recall the cost being 2.09 USD/gal which currently converts to 0.77 CAD/L according to Google (Search for "2.09 USD / gal in CAD / L")
For the guardian article to not mention this, where the inspiration obviously came from, feels off.
Favorite quotes:

“…the benefit to the data analyst has been limited, because the knowledge among computer scientists about how to think of and approach the analysis of data is limited, just as the knowledge of computing environments by statisticians is limited. A merger of knowledge bases would produce a powerful force for innovation. This suggests that statisticians should look to computing for knowledge today just as data science looked to mathematics in the past. … departments of data science should contain faculty members who devote their careers to advances in computing with data and who form partnership with computer scientists.”

2001 Leo Breiman publishes “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures” (PDF): “There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are generated by a given stochastic data model. The other uses algorithmic models and treats the data mechanism as unknown. The statistical community has been committed to the almost exclusive use of data models. This commitment has led to irrelevant theory, questionable conclusions, and has kept statisticians from working on a large range of interesting current problems. Algorithmic modeling, both in theory and practice, has developed rapidly in fields outside statistics.
There's actually a European company that is working with Facebook to do just this. I don't remember the company's name, but I met their CEO a couple months ago at the Pioneer Summit (which had a focus on transportation, among other things).
Don't they pay a ton of property tax on those fancy headquarters?
Most of the driving of new desires is done by individual companies in the private sector though. Apple aren't trying to stimulate aggregate demand each time they release a new phone, they're trying to increase their future profits, just like every other company before them.

Keynesianism ensures these companies can borrow more cheaply in an economic downturn, as can the less-likely-to-lose-their-job consumers. But it's lubricating the process of creating new markets rather than powering it.
Interesting. Both both and attic are new to me. What are the differences between them? They look very similar.

Edit: Never mind, I found a handy list of differences here:
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/stable/#differences-be...
Autotools can be replaced. I know because I've done it. :) And so have KDE which replaced it with cmake. But unless you have a redhat.com address, good luck trying to convince the GTK developers that it should be done. It's essentially Red Hat's product and they decide what to do with it. Which makes it very hard for contributors to drive meaningful change which makes few contributors interested -> resource shortage.

So if the question is "why does GTK have a resource shortage when Qt does not?" then, imho, that is very easy to answer.
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I'm familiar with approaches like that, but they've always struck me as supremely silly. Answers like that miss entirely the problem, the uniqueness and the mystery of consciousness. (But then I'm one of those despised classical theists who think that consciousness is best explained by postulating a divine origin for the world - an answer desperately out of fashion these days.)
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I appreciate some of the writer's points, but he's so eager to prove his point that he makes some obvious mistakes. The 38% of founders who failed took on average a few months to do so. Quality of research papers is produced is not a measure of how interesting work at a company will be - was Steve Wozniak churning out papers while he worked on the Apple II?
Although, overall, I think this article is reasonably right, there are quite a few things sketchy about it. But I'll just start with the first that comes to mind:

If Google and Facebook are your median exemplars, I really want to know what your sample is. Those aren't exactly large companies. Amazon, too. Apple and Microsoft may be, at least in this industry, but I still have the feeling that the total number of the technical people that this article seems to be addressing is much larger than the total employment of the "large companies" (and small ones).

Also, another minor issue: During my years at IBM (technically, contracting for IBM, but even then you couldn't pay me enough to sign on), I did get to work on very interesting projects and learned a great deal from some very smart people. On the other hand, everything I did was shovelled into the trash can immediately after I finished it. Project cancellations, reorganizations (IBM: I've Been Moved), etc., these are fun facts. Of course, I don't expect start-ups to be any different in this regard, given their failure rate.
> evolves

If you're being intellectually honest here, you need to go the full distance and acknowledge that your logic (if actually scientific) requires the "irrational" genes to NOT be passed on (at least not as much as the "rational" ones).

So... eugenics or death.
I can come up with a few on top of my head: Netflix, Apple, Google
>what if suddenly most companies realize that they can have 15-25% of the workforce work remotely without damaging the productivity

Because this isn't true at all. Working remotely (on average) is much less productive than an office. Distributed, smaller offices would be a better solution, but then people would be much more locked into whatever team/project they are currently on.
I wonder how this compares to HDT [1], a compressed format for RDF which can be queried directly from the HDT files without having to parse/index it. It's sad that research coming out of Harvard doesn't mention other quite related-work such as HDT.

1. http://www.rdfhdt.org/what-is-hdt/
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As someone in The Bay Area looking for work as a sysadmin with a heavy interest in automation/devops (obligatory plug), it's not a question of Big Company vs. Startup, it's a question of who is hiring and has at least been open to interviewing; these have almost unanimously been startups. I'd like nothing more than the stability of a large company with interesting projects and decent pay but lets be honest, how many of us will really have the chance to work for Google or Facebook vs the earlier stage startup that's a bit more risky but has a product you find worth supporting and has reached out to you based on their interest in the projects you've been working on?
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This is why I prefer dating contracts to deep technical interviews. If someone shows enough promise in their CV and portfolio, and they're personable enough to sell themselves reasonably, then a 1-2 week contract to cover some real work is low risk and a better measure than trivial whiteboard problems.
I took me several years to grok monads. I even learned some category theory to try and get there (it didn't really help, but I do think it was useful for some other almost programming related things).

The nice thing about monads with respect to the haskell programming thing is that you don't have to know why they work to get their benefit. However, if you wanted to build your own you probably do need to grok them.

However, I'm not convinced that monads are the best way to proceed on the most part in programming advancements. The immutable/mutable tracking, affine types, and borrow checker in Rust seems like it would help prevent a lot of the same types of bugs that pure FP does, but without the cost of needing to have a monadic effect system (and Rust is a more familiar style of programming than the State monad with a host of monad transformers). I'm hoping for optional affine types and more immutable data structures to become the norm more than I am monad usage.
How'd you do it instead?
Looking at the press section shows there are real newspaper articles about it: https://campaignagainstsexrobots.wordpress.com/press/
> > Very few economists foresaw the great recession of 2008–2009

> First, it ignores the realities of both economists and financial insiders who made attempts to blow the lid off of the ARM/toxic loan schemes - not unlike pre-Snowden whistle blowers who were equally ignored and erased from history.

Yeah, whether it was tied specifically to those particular schemes or not, lots of economists were predicting an imminent severe recession -- including both notable Austrian-school economists and notable neo-Keynesians -- driven by a collapse in the housing market bubble.
...from Stanford or a similar school.
Facebook, Salesforce, LinkedIn. And that's just what I have either direct or first-hand knowledge of.
Isn't a lot of that related to how the video is encoded/decoded though? I have only a basic understanding of how it works through working with video (not developing or tweaking actual codecs) but when I'm doing VJ-type stuff in Resolume (for example) I use a setup where all clips are encoded with a keyframe every frame. It makes for some huge clips but I can scrub or jump around or manipulate clips with no delay at all.

On the opposite end you've got streaming video or even many common formats and settings for ripped/downloaded video. Those do a keyframe every (x) frames and then between keyframes the file only contains the data for changes to the keyframe. This gets you smaller files so your downloads are quicker and your streams look nicer while using less bandwidth.

I know there's a lot more to it but at least with locally stored files, I thought it mostly had to do with keyframes. With streaming I'd imagine it's related more to how the stream is managed to download in chunks and maximize quality versus bandwidth (rather than focusing on quick scrubbing or quick access to random points of the video).

I'm interested in this stuff so if there's something I'm missing or flat-out wrong about, feel free to educate me.
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Paul Graham/Sam Altman/Michael Arrington/etc... are just spreading their messages as they are always, because in the end more startups/more smart people at startups, the more it has an impact on their wallets.

It's just a fun as arguing which is a better phone, Android or iOS... it's super old and a boring, divisive conversation.
I work for an ISP and wear a bunch of different hats but one of them is my "mail server admin hat". I hated our (when I started) Windows-based piece of crap "solution" we were using and have been migrating all of our users and domains to a "proper" Postfix+Dovecot on FreeBSD mail system.

All hosted e-mail lives under /var/vmail on its own ZFS dataset ("filesystem"). I snapshot this dataset (via cron) several times per hour and ship those snapshots off to another machine in a different datacenter for safekeeping. If anything tragic were to happen to the mail server itself, I've got a pristine copy of all my users' mailboxes I can turn to that will be, at most, roughly 15 minutes out of date.
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Or maybe they could guess numbers and if someone guesses the right number then they win!.
I think it's certainly true that human desire for more will never be sated, but I think this overlooks the fact that there are also finite resources (like land) that won't grow to match productivity, and thus a substantial part of our productivity is captured as rent. And this isn't something that we can grow our way out of...
When they believe that telecommuting works.
Do you have sources for this information?

Is 200k median salary, or an outlier for the top senior engineer there?
I wonder what people do with all that money. If you're capable of earning $250k working 5 days a week, why not earn $100k working only 2 days a week?
I'm excited for there to be alternatives to SSRIs. I've never been diagnosed with depression, but my partner has and takes an SSRI. It certainly seemed to have a generally positive affect (totally subjectively), and relatively few negative side affects. That being said, having to take it every day sucks, and when she runs out, having forgotten to get it refilled, the mood affects are pretty terrible for us both. Hopefully this branch of research will continue and develop into a more positive alternative.