skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. So many people get up in arms when a competitor starts trying to do their job. That doesn't make sense to me... There is so much to do, so many challenges out there to address. If someone wants to do exactly what you're doing, why not let them? Most people struggle to find a worthy successor. It's a gift. Take the opportunity to move on to the next phase in your life, which has a good shot at being even better. You're smarter now, after all.

I know some people feel they only have one good idea in them, but I think that results from either a) aiming too high on subsequent rounds, or b) phoning it in. But if you love to work, just start small and you'll avoid both of those things.
It is good to be concerned about batching disk drives, as you imply.

However, given that the problems that arise with a bad batch are physical ones, properly burning in the drives does, I think, alleviate those concerns.

We burn ours in for 5-6 days[1] before we put them into production and history shows this weeds out the bad ones. If there was an entirely bad batch, we would catch it that way.

In my opinion, far, far more likely to find yourself with fake-new drives than with an actual "bad batch". We see that all the time from amazon sellers that claim brand new drives, but SMART says otherwise...

[1] with a zero tolerance policy for even the tiniest deviation from normal in the SMART output. Even a blip and that drive is out.
Most investors are not actually qualified to invest in technology startups based on evaluating their technology. They rely on other methods, like investing in companies once they've already achieved some traction, or companies founded by well connected people, or people good at schmoozing.

It's a small flock of sheep all watching each other's moves because no one knows what they're doing. If the economic problems in China scare a few of the sheep, the whole flock will react.

The traditional style investors will freak out, but the people trying to scale startups (like YC) will just double down by investing in every good startup they see.
Hey dang - it might be worth clarifying in the title that the author of this works for Chef, not GitHub.
I manage a software team at a Fortune 20 company, and my developers have a ton of freedom. They can work from home any day they please, and I'm honestly surprised when I tell them, "You don't have any meetings for the rest of the day, go home." By no means am I an exceptional manager, but that statement is taken as suspect by most of my staff. Good software can't be coerced.

They also own houses instead of renting flats in SF with roommates.
It's simple: This was made by a JS developer who shared it on Twitter and whose followers/community friends are more likely to be JS developers.
Correction made, thanks.
I got a live demo of this at a conference a few years back. There was a line to see the demo, so I first waited while others did it. They first showed the full resolution image, then enabled the foveated rendering. The latter looked terrible - a tiny patch of hires imagery and a massive blur for everything else.

When it was my turn, they started with the full resolution image. I was waiting for them to enable the foveated rendering - until they told me it was already running. I could not tell at all that it was not all rendering at full resolution. Really impressive.

The main presenter mentioned that the optic nerve/brain processing 'shuts down' for up to 40ms during a saccade, so they have that long to render the small region at full resolution between the time when your eye has its new target and the optic nerve comes back on line.
I have two sets of drives on my home server and keep them mirrored using a nightly rsync. It's infrequent enough that I can recover from accidents.
I noted this in the edit to my post that I posted just before your comment was written (you were probably writing this when I posted my change). Given the sort of 'distributed' nature, and low managerial overhead of GitHub, this could well be considered a "they" post were it from a GitHub employee.
This. As long as there are still "unknowns", or things that I still need to learn/figure out, I'm good to go. But once I hit that 90-95% mark where the problems are solved and it's just grunt work, I bail out. My last project I was able to overcome this, so hoping it becomes the new norm for me.
Light-bulb moment
I have a house and i'm married. This is real "saving" money, not money that would turn you cash poor getting into a mortgage. Mortgage is half paid off still need money to pay it off. Getting another job won't fix my problem. What I need is to go fulltime on that for a few months and see how that goes. I code everyday all day at work, i am more interested in hearing similar experience, someone who was willing to give up a sweet spot to start from scratch with a %5-10 success rate
That isn't what happened at all. At no point were they kicked out of the App Store.
The recent change is entirely opt in.

"Most people don't know about"

The only people affected are those who accepted 0-conf transactions. If you accept them, either you trust the person, or you accept the risk. In the first case, this change makes no difference. In the second, you should be checking for the flag that says the payment was opted in to RBF.

>However, this change makes unilaterally reversing a transaction trivial and certain for multiple hours after it was originally created.

This is false: it is trivial until accepted into the blockchain. That usually happens for normal transactions far sooner than several hours.
Too much drugs from Haight Ashbury...
Bitcoin did fork. That is what Bitcoin XT was. Every major operator of Bitcoin XT nodes got systemically DDoSed, including Coinbase, until participation died down. There are concerted efforts to prevent blocksize expansion.

Additionally, admins at most major bitcoin news sites censored or banned users discussing it.

Switching to another cryptocurrency is a whole different can of worms - remember, btc right now costs around $420 a coin, and all that value is because of the total sum of people invested in it. No other cryptocurrency has anything close to the btc market cap, so capital fleeing the bitcoin blockchain may not trust alternative ones that are much smaller. The problem with bitcoin right now is that mining power is majority controlled by a very small group of people, and any other competitive cryptocurrency is much more at risk for whales taking control.
And this fact is why Github can't afford not to prioritize "Dear Github." If there's one thing we've learned from social media, it's that network effect makes you strong as an incumbent, but it doesn't make you immortal. All it takes is one upstart that just feels "perfect" in terms of UX to cut into your bottom line. (Though I suppose you can acquire them...)
It's nearly impossible to verify that because:

1) Most of Buddhist scripture is not translated to modern languages

2) There is so much of it. Which Buddhist scriptures? Zen? Theravada? Tibetan? Tantric? It's hard to say which text is representative of Buddhism as a whole. Some people say all of them are (except when they disagree).

I'd encourage you to wonder if that's the right question to ask. In terms of International war and politics, do the words themselves matter more than how they're used?

In most cases, Buddhists kill others in the name of compassion. It is compassionate to kill a misguided (or Muslim) person and give them the chance to reincarnate as a Buddhist. To me, that's more fucked up than justifying murder by twisting the definition of something like Jihad.
And wait! Government officials will be glad to take credit for the driving revolution that is about to happen :-) For some reason, people in power think that it was by their hand that the world turns.
Something else: electric everything and using less oil is the only way out of political instability in some parts of the world.
News drones - Reporters stay in the building and the drones cover the story on-scene - outdoor items.
Two words: "kids" "videos".

Between me and my wife we have our phones, a SLR, and then there are other people's phones. Whenever they fill up I dump them onto my file server and delete from the phone; it's amazing how fast the terabytes get filled up. Nice problem to have I guess.
I am not your grand parent poster but I fully agree with you and I'd go further than that.

The people who ask for more proprietary features (or should I say anti-features) in Github are encouraging lock-in inside of Github. Github ought to be a hub. I'd like to emphasize on the hub part as it should be one hub out of many. It should not be the center of the software universe any more than AT&T/IBM/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Uber.
You monitored those ports for drops, buffer errors, and discards? You alerted when they occurred? Most don't watch the right counters or log messages. Even then, I guess you can get away with it if your customers aren't savvy enough to complain. Detecting microbursts in a VM would be impossible. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

One of my first bosses thought his Dell switches were awesome until I showed him all of the drops.

Also, roaming profiles were a great idea in principle and a horrible idea in practice. There's a good reason those things went away circa Windows 2000. ;)
What a 45,000-year-old mammoth carcass can tell us about human history
About time! :)
"...including...investing in technologically connected roads"

The private sector can't install a network of communication technology to wirelessly link roads and self-driving cars on public property (plus you probably need to coordinate with the FCC). From my reading, it seems like they're investing in things that only the government has control over and at the request of private sector companies like Google who want clear national guidelines formed and are probably pushing for a new "connected road" infrastructure.

But if you still can't see that reading of it, then let's just agree that there aren't enough details released yet so let's just wait for more.
Notorious Chicago coder drops Graphic Novel inspired by real computer science
"So far lower oil costs are reflected in transportation fuel, but not in household electricity costs."

In 2014, petroleum only accounted for 1% of US electricity generation, so the price of oil isn't likely to have much of an effect on the price of electricity:

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
Google releases intervention rates – and the real unsolved problem of robocars
Link to the scientific journal abstract about this find:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6270/260

The story submitted here is a journalistic story, one of the better reported (and not paywalled) stories of several that were published today about the early date discovered for butchered mammoth remains in the high arctic.
"On the Neo900, the modem is connected via USB (bus; there is no physical connector) which means it doesn't have DMA."

I have been "Mr. Cry About Baseband Ownage From The Rooftops" for years around here, and even I have to admit that a lot of baseband implementation in modern smartphones uses this same USB connected model.

It's not universal, but a lot of USB-connected baseband is out in the world...

Still closed source and owned by the provider. I would love to see an open source baseband with a hard switch to disable it.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html
I'll check them out -- thanks!
Brazil’s scientist-entrepreneurs unfettered
I second the DS380, had a HD failure the other day and it was easy to hot swap. +1 for the case -1 for Seagate Barracuda's
I suppose what I meant is this, when someone is quoted as saying something is "not a democracy" most people read it (or at least what I first read it as was) as meaning it is an autocracy, whereas the point that theymos (referred to as the person that @octskyward was talking about in my parent post) was making is that anyone can do something if they want, even if it goes against the majority.
I know. My point was Apple is known for tightly enforcing their rules, especially when an app does something they didn't plan on people doing (using system APIs or not). Figured out an alternate use for the volume switch? Put a calculator in Notification Center? Smack down.

I find it odd that people develop the kind of things that Apple is very likely to dislike and then act surprised when Apple acts totally in character.

I'm not arguing what Apple did is good/ok/legal/fun, but it was totally predictable. Even if the app wasn't submitted.
Why? At the time of this comment (and -according to the timestamp-, the time of your comment), the title was 'Dear "Dear Github"', and the domain that hosted the article was listed as juliandunn.net.

I... can't imagine that any reasonable person would draw from these two facts that this was a GitHub employee writing in any official capacity.
> Machine Learning was certainly considered a part of AI then

That's part of the problem. The definition of AI is extremely loose. If by AI we actually mean "replicating the process of human intelligence through algorithms" then Machine Learning is certainly not it.
The tl;dr version of this is that "Applied Rationality" is a New Age cult, whose God is "Rationality" and whose Devil is human nature, rather than watered down Eastern mysticism.

The creepy part is how they expect you to live together and unquestionably repeat the mantras ("techniques"). It reeks of dianetics and other bullshit that claims to be a cure-all for all of your problems.
> Instead of almost all developers being wrong, maybe you're the one who's wrong.

It's so hard to tell how much of what you're saying is meant to be taken seriously or responded to.

Regarding BSD, it's worth spelunking through the comments here with a search and then trying it for yourself. These forums run on FreeBSD, I'm not sure if you knew that.
I wonder if the author has run into many problems with FreeNAS, or the terrible community. I've seen posts on the forum where the problem was with Samba not authing correctly but the first response is "You don't have enough RAM".

At least they're patching the SSH CVE from today, but it's not just a pkg upgrade, it's a tarball that upgrades the whole root drive.
This reddit submission links to the site for Mad In America, which apparently is a book about psychiatry's delusions:

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/12/timberrr-psychiatrys-evi...

This is most helpful. Thank you.
A few years back some friends and I made an April fools video about a new browser feature. Every now and again we'd get colleagues around the company let us know someone had mentioned it, without realising it as a fake, as their 'favorite feature' in job interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkNxbyp6thM
It's stuff like this that gives me a bad taste in my mouth when I think about Chef.

Whenever I've interacted with people from Chef-the-company, I've always gotten the impression that they believe they're talking to me because (at best) they want to save me from my misbegotten ways and join the Chef Way. At worst, I've gotten the impression that they think I'm a terrible person and/or worthless for not just getting with the program and bowing to their wisdom.

I know from other experiences that the Chef community in general is not like that. But Chef itself has never imparted a good experience on me.

It doesn't help that I wholeheartedly agree with the Dear GitHub letter, and get a very bad vibe from this "Dear 'Dear GitHub'" letter.
The article asserts:

> It would, in my view, be abject insanity not to
> assume that half a dozen or more nation-states (or
> their associated contractors) have code execution
> exploits against popular basebands in stock.

To me this ignores the flip-side of the argument. If US intelligence services really thought the Chinese and Russians could remotely and invisibly hack all/most smartphones then no-one with access to sensitive information would be allowed to do work on one, unless they're very confident that they've managed to secure their devices without leaving a stone unturned.

Soz Hilz[0].

[0] http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2015_10/913276/150303-...
iMetros.com will be launching its powerful Real Estate
I can tell you that developer salaries are growing. I have tried telling my senior management that the average senior developer salary in Boston will go from 120k in 2014 to 140k by 2017. I don't think that 16% can be called "exploding", since it's just 5% y-o-y, but it's definitely growing faster than the rest of the economy, and one of the few jobs where "real income" is growing.

Finally, my observation is that the biotech boom in Boston has created unique housing pressure in Boston, particular South Boston, Cambridge and the North End (East Boston is the only affordable place). So many biotech IPOs in the area have created newfound millionaires over night, and helped support a housing boom in the area. Combine this with DraftKings, Wayfair, Buildium, Amazon acquiring Kiva Systems, Samsung acquiring LoopPay, and other major tech companies coming into the area over the last 5 years, and you suddenly have markets where there is huge competition for labor but really expensive housing. This necessarily entails salary hikes or relocation. Relocation requires the board to negotiate with other states to relocate talent, which is always treacheous for high end white collar jobs.

If you want metrics to validate your assumptions, I recommend using CareerBuilder rather than these newer places like Hired.com. CareerBuilder has great analytics tools which show you where your salary offerings rank competitively.

Also, I can say that I don't think our problem is really salary, so much as the fact that so many developers lack adequate training in _engineering_, which entails solving real problems related to total cost of ownership, stability/uptime, throughput, etc. If you work for a _product company_, it is very hard finding these kinds of engineers, for two reasons: (1) they tend to become specialists or architects, but your replacement reqs are generalist roles like full-stack developers (2) 60% of all developers are contractors, and never acquire sufficient depth to solve real hard engineering problems.

End note: I work for erecruit, enterprise staffing software. I have tons of data about the market.
In the U.S. $0.20 per kWhr is a more common rate.
I used /etc/hosts to redirect distractions to a full-screen rickroll. Surprisingly effective.
Furthermore, I work for a company that both pays for closed source repos and uses open source ones heavily. There are a large # of hybrid OSS/paid companies out there these days. The original author sounds like a pretty out of touch PM if you ask me.
That was a good explanation thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to run the numbers. Your parent poster stuck out as obviously wrong based on high-school math.
Somehow this "Product Guy" misses the fact that popular OSS devs that evangelize your product are also "Paying Customers" - they help you Grow & spread in a fashion that is next to impossible by buying advertising.

Please stop spreading the FUD that they adon't count
In general that's not "the Apple way". When they provide customization points like that (keyboards, notification widgets, share sheet icons) it tends to be after the 'reference implementation' has been in iOS for a few years and the problem has been well studied. Examples where it works very successfully (Android usually) help.

Content blockers are the only thing I can think of off the top of my head that haven't followed this pattern. That may be because it was a feature Apple wanted to improve the experience but didn't want the legal fight that would come with shipping their own blocker.
Hyatt says hackers took card data from 250 of its hotels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905150
I have a ~8TB NAS on an Atom C2758 system. I've loaded less than 4TB so far and FreeNAS is really getting on my nerves. Am I "protected" from a single drive failure with LVM? Can I grow the storage size by swapping out one drive at a time? If so, I might just go to Debian and be done with it, although FreeBSD 10's bhyve hypervisor looks really good.
I am shocked to hear that the techno-libertarian goldbuggery scheme didn't work out well.
If you set you location to something closer to the equator and west a few time zones, it will be later and more consistent.

Dimming with the sun just contributes even more to SAD in the winter.
If you're going to go with 16 bits per component, please at least increase the color gamut. sRGB is fine if you can only dedicate 8 bits per component, but with 16 bits per component the extra depth is more useful as an increase in the color space rather than only greater precision.
I find this move by the Stack Exchange network annoying and it seems like they are trying to cash in on the monopoly that they have built up recently as the ultimate Q&A site for developers(and others maybe).

On a more serious(or lighter) note, how about building a similar website as the Stack Exchange network without the new licensing restrictions and a better UI to begin with and launch before March 1,2016? It's an oppurtunistic time to cash in on this unpopular licensing requirement.

A new startup idea maybe?
Not really, it used to be that they would just pick the first non-conflicting transaction they saw, although iirc that wasn't a "rule of the protocol" so much as how-the-software-worked.
And if you pay using PayPal?
> Github ought to be a hub.

So, I heartily agree that vendor lock-in is bad. [0] However, git doesn't handle mailing lists, or issue trackers, or hands-off repo push access control, or.... So, if you're going to do more than just serving git repos, you're almost certainly going to have to do these things yourself, and you very well might end up doing them in a way that differs from how everyone else is doing them.

I mean, as long as you can get complete exports of the data in the important non-git bits, who cares, right?

[0] I'm STILL mad about how Hangouts turned out.
This is why I wish Replicant was more successful. They mention a CM issue to fix it, and nobody did. As an owner of several Samsung devices, the fact there is a wholly proprietary processor in my phone with complete control of it makes me not treat it like a computer.
What drew me to jQuery over Prototype in particular was the fact you could use css-style selectors to get and operate on several elements at once. This often reduced several lines of code in a loop to a couple chained methods.

Prototype first came out in Feb 2005. Dojo 0.1 was Aug 2005, and 1.0 (first stable, after a total rewrite) was Nov 2007.

I do remember using Prototype with script.aculo.us and thinking it was pretty neat to add some effects to my server-side-created web apps, but that they'd largely stay server side. The first time I saw jQuery, that was when I thought "Yeah, okay, we can actually start building some serious client-side interactions here" instead of just server-generated HTML pages.

jQuery took me from hating (but tolerating) javascript to actually enjoying client-side web development.
There is at least one thread where there's already been confusion around it.

At first, I thought this would be from someone who worked at GitHub, because I didn't understand why else it got upvoted.
If there was an entirely bad batch, we would catch it that way.

You're a very optimistic guy. That test would not have caught IBM deathstars or the more recent Seagate 3tb barracuda failures.

I lost 6 of the 8 drives in my NAS due to that last one.. luckily not all at the same time.