skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I had the power to turn that into a competition, but I don't think they need me for that :)

Jocking aside, I don't think there can only be one. I am comparing BO and SpaceX the same way I'd compare google and apple. In the same industry but not doing exactly the same thing. And when Apple tried to go on one of Google's turf with maps, they sucked. When Google tried to go do phones, at first they sucked. Comparison is natural and welcome.

Here, it feels to me that BO is putting themselves up for comparison for no reason.

As far as the positive direction of spaceflight, I think that transparency is key. Space exploration needs more accountability and trust that ever has been available before _in_any_industry_ever_. And there, so far SpaceX is winning hands down, including versus the old players (soyouz, ariane, ULA...). When SpaceX says "one of our struts was structurally deficient, broke down, made the rocket lose equilibrium and ultimately explode", they're also telling their competitors "Watch this. We've learned it the hard way.". Same with fog icing the leg lock. In the grand scheme of things they are making space safer, and not only for their customers. I only see bragging and borderline (note the "borderline") bullying on BO's side
The Joy of a Never-Ending Search for Hobbies [video]
Guilt and Shame as a UI Design Element
I am not in the UK, but looked through the course. The info / pictures make it look like a great intro -- do you know if the curriculum is published anywhere?
"As all answers were self-submitted, they are, from a technical standpoint, unverifiable."

let alone the fact that the analysis could be coming from a position of bias, but it's an interesting start. I'd want to see the results of research into learning trends between primary genders in different cultures to see if any of the trends level out depending on upbringing.
A system for signed installers to replace curl | sh
I'll keep using straight ALSA then, as at least there it will not blow my ear drums if i forget to tweak the settings before first use.
I really think this list has a lot of truth to it.

"There’s no such thing as a 10x engineer spending time on something that never ends up delivering business value. If something doesn’t deliver business value, it’s 0x."

I have found myself to work really well as a "value enabler" of 10x engineers. It's a symbiosis thing - my best work has been done working with a 10x engineer with our skills complementing each other (I'm strong on the business value/UX side, defining overall architecture/network protocols/optimizations etc, but weak in e.g. hardcore C low-level implementation.)

A challenge: Whenever I've stopped spending 20 hours a week working closely with these guys (in order to focus on building other essential parts of the business where there are no 10x engineers), their output value has severely decreased. They often fall back to like 2-3x. (Really nothing to be ashamed of, but...)

Things like this can make company switching challenging :).
This tool doesn't work well. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1583
I'm in that non-muslim category in a muslim country you mentioned, and I'd say you are right. One does not openly say that here though. One would say you are generalizing muslims but statistics are on your favour with this one. People I know who are against radical actions define themselves as muslims but they don't even practice it. Even if they do, they could be considered reformist but such people are stigmatized, even killed. A woman would throw away her burka as soon as she manages to reach a civilized country, If she does not support incidents like the ones in Germany in new years eve. That ideology is simple, no burka otherwise getting raped is natural. She might very well be under scrutiny by her relatives to be forced into wearing that way, if that is the case those relatives more than deserve to be deported.
"Coming Soon: How is the Zcash project funded?"

I feel like this would've been important to address with the launch of the site in order to help differentiate why this is different from every other crypto currency.
You are making a big assumption that threads will be woken up in the first place.

Also when it comes to concurrency it is all about scaling, and whatever scales will perform better as there are more cores.
Show HN: RSS Puppy, a watchdog tool for monitoring RSS feeds
So you want to be a Data Science superstar
Speed-of-light results under scrutiny at Cern
I've been having the same problem with the same solution, but it didn't seem worth dealing with the hassle of reporting a bug for something I had no way of reliably reproducing knowing it'd most likely just get closed or ignored because of that.
I don't think being a 10x engineer is about engagement, work ethics, ability to code fast or anything like that.

It's about making great decisions. That includes using the right tools, using libraries instead of inventing everything yourself, not using libraries when not appropriate and pushing back on a product decision that does not make sense.
What went wrong at Target Canada
the not coming back is a given, and the talking to the manager frankly seems like more of a hassle than its worth (i.e. just making my night more unpleasant)
This is a bad analogy. Webvan failed because they had huge CAPEX needs. In contrast, Uber has relatively low overhead requirements but they are spending heavily on immediate and future growth. They doubled revenue from Q1 to Q3 which is incredible. Sure, costs nearly doubled but they're not buying cars, they're not carrying drivers as employees, they don't need office space and warehouses in every city they operate in. The fact that Lyft burns through less money is an indication that Uber is pushing for growth over profitability. Finally, they just need to dominate the market long enough for driverless cars to become a reality. At that point their profit margin with 2x-5x and it will be easy to finance the cars with debt.
I personally doubt that. No matter what, the fuel will still cost in the $100k, plus the marginal cost of the vehicle, launch authorization, coordination on the ground and having an emergency team ready to dispatch at a moment's notice.

That stuff costs money and if you're only launching 5 people at once, it's still a high sticker for each launch. While "regular" vacation scales pretty well with the number of people you're going with, it's not going to be the case for space exploration.

On a regular vacation, most of the cost overhead for each additional person is the transportation cost. Here, the vacation _is_ the trip
but... Error establishing a database connection

Almost seem appropriate given the title.

I personally see my own productivity improve by about 4 fold given the right conditions - i.e. being able to focus on the one task at hand, not jumping between projects and not being interrupted with questions every half hour. Anyway that's my comment having not read the article.
It is only the very tail-end of that group which are still in HS or below. You need the numbers for the kids born between (say) 1998 and 2015-minus whatever year they start preschool.

Also baby boomers may have retired but most don't need to be in a nursing home yet (which is the really expensive part).
BitTorrenting from seedbox to client
Did you know that bulletproof, useful STM implementations existed? And that covert channel suppression was a pre-requisite for secure, cloud applications? And that M:N had been used to help handle that? It seemed to me you didn't know these things.

Instead, you agreed with the blanket statement that those two techs were totally useless instead of a more qualified one that they overpromised and couldn't deliver for "legacy" systems whose models didn't fit. I also bet money that Cantrill's product is still vulnerable to covert, timing channels. I'll win by default because they show up every time a resource is shared, that's his business model, and countering them usually requires ditching UNIX or x86. Want to place that bet? ;)
2 very good points. It's just that I'm probably not the target audience for any of their PR
I can think of two people who might fit this bill. Both have a propensity to jump to conclusions and not fully understand various perspectives before passing judgements and weighting their judgements significantly more than others who are more knowledgeable and familiar with a problem (aka big ego). Brilliant by themselves but very difficult interacting with others.

Imagine a quick thinker from an accomplished competitive programming and math background who has a raging ego and a chip on their shoulder. From what I've observed some companies see this in interviews and won't hire despite solving the technical challenges significantly better than others.
The irony here is that studies have shown that there's more boys that are willing to take a product with a girl on it than there are girls that are willing to take a product with a boy on it. They're more than halving their market share, and risking flak over excluding women (again), for a statement that isn't true.
WW3+AMERICA+TO+WEAPONISE+UKRAINE+NAZI'S+GET+WW3+GOIN+-+YouTube
The solution is simple: vote with your wallet. Encourage others to do the same.
Oh yeah, the 1/10 engineers are a problem as well (and 1/20, etc)

Usually a mix of not knowing how to use docs, google things or just stick to their old ways (the 1/20 miraculously find bugs on well tested software used by lots of people - at least that's what they think)
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How does this compare to something like cryptocat?
Linux Kernel ROP – Ropping Your Way to # (Part 1)
[This](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/es6) is also a very informative guide of ES6. I highly recommend perusing it.
Those unions aren't going to be very effective, unless they somehow get a monopoly on being able to drive for uber, which I doubt they can get.
The laws and legal opinions are public domain. The issue is distribution. Pre-Internet, courts were not in the business of publishing books of their opinions. Making the opinions available at the court house was deemed to be sufficient public access. That treatment was consistent with pretty much every other kind of public record (you had to go into the county clerk's office to view deeds, etc). Post-Internet, many courts publish their opinions online. E.g. the Virginia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals has opinions going back to 1995: http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/home.html.

What private parties provide is a value-add. That's what you purchase access to. They spend the money and go to the effort of digitizing, indexing, and annotating, case law and statutes going back a couple of hundred years. No single public entity can do that, because the 51 individual federal and state court systems are part of 51 distinct sovereign entities, and as a practical matter individual courts even within a single sovereign operate largely autonomously of each other.
Have you ever been to rural Mississippi or West Virginia? I have...

You have seriously misunderstood the situations that you've seen. Yes there are poor people in Mississippi. No they do not live like poor people in Romania. They are probably similar in a way that looms large for you, in that they make different choices about their lives than you would make for them. An American who doesn't have a smartphone doesn't want one, which is a perfectly valid choice. [0] The use of animal traction in agriculture is also a valid choice, but one would be wrong to assume that the Amish are poor. It's especially problematic for "yuppies in McMansions" to attempt to universalize their idiosyncratic tastes in housing. Most of humanity does just fine without a giant pile of pine sticks and drywall.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/lifeline-affordable-tel...
10x engineer is a relative comparison based on the engineers around you, not a universal ranking. Most of this can be explained by managers who dont know what they don't know. (Never hired or managed hundreds or thousands)

I have met, hired, and worked with engineers of all stripes and tend to think this idea is just a mental way of covering that "we have a guy our company or team relies on to a high risk degree".

10x engineers are a bad sign because it means she or he probably belongs with a better crew... And someday either they'll realize that or leave for another reason, exposing our over reliance on them.
This seems to make downloading scripts safer when encryption isn't supported by the server. Is that true, or am I way off base?

(For those reading who are incredulous that a reasonable person would ask you to download an installation script over unencrypted HTTP, you are right to be incredulous. Even some large-ish companies do it. It's insane.)
Fruit, feathers and hair
I believe I might have completely misunderstood what "lower level work" meant. I took it for "more fundamental work" in opposition to "easier work". My bad
First, I'd like to mention that The Expanse is pretty damn good hard sci-fi.

Secondly, the main problem of making scifi flicks is their cost. The Expanse is getting a TV series because George R.R. Martin is backing it and the books sold amazingly well.

You'll need a pretty big Kickstarter to match that.
I'm a 10x engineer - under perfect conditions.

But I think focusing on this work is wrong-headed. As noted in the article, making 5 other developers twice as efficient is roughly equivalent. The difference is that I can't sustain a 10x rate (I do a lot of "research programming" where I'm probing a domain rather than producing production code), while there's a good chance that training other developers will translate into a 2x (or better) increase in the team's productivity.
The (in)security of IoT
You don't get mortgage relief as an owner occupier in the UK. The tax treatment of rental properties is somewhat complex depending on structure. There is no filing jointly here either. You can get tax relief for pension contributions up to a limit.

These are all using the tax system as designed.
Try to find a more solid, ubiquitous Unix-like environment that "just works". This is especially so if you're deploying entirely onto a Unix-like platform, such as a Linux flavor or BSD.

The Linux distros, for all their good, requires too much handholding and prodding to get a productive desktop development environment working. Windows, too, requires too much handholding, and you're liable to just use a VM for development.
Vert relevant: http://yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html ( and the not-so-long HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5577722 )
Pick one of the following conjectures and argue both sides:

a. There are no 10x engineers, just environments where there is a 10x discrepancy in productivity.

b. There are no 10x engineers, just 10x yardsticks.

c. There are no 10x engineers, but plenty of .1x engineers.
I worked with a guy who everyone thought was 10x, I thought he was shit. This guy and another built all the systems for this company, and a product that was the cash cow. Started in 2005 using struts. Everything they built was struts. They duplicated the entire code base for the next web app. There were like four versions of this thing customized to do different things (ie trivial shit like the web sign up form). These guys couldn't even factor out the data access/service stuff into separate modules for reuse.

When it came time to learn Spring, this guy flailed, and wrote Spring like it was struts. In addition, he was a pontificating jack ass, real abrasive personality.

The non technical and business users thought this guy was a super star. I've only quit a job once because of personalities, and this was that time.
I think it's sort of funny when people think 10x engineers don't exist. For most of us, it's pretty obvious because we've probably worked with one. (If you haven't: you might want to rethink your job choices :-))

If you think about it, there's essentially no physical or finite limit to how much you can get done in a day with software (outside of, like, typing speed), so it boils down to how fast and comprehensively you can think. So you might think, well, nobody is 10x smarter than anyone else, and that's probably true, but you could certainly imagine someone that has learned 10x more and has 10x more experience and given the right context can apply that effectively.

I strongly agree with the no-jerks part. I think, short term, you can be a jerk and still be effective, but long term if you're unpleasant you'll develop blind spots because people don't want to deal with you. Once you have significant blind spots, I suspect it's very hard to maintain the 10x pace. There is of course, a strong counter example here, which would be someone like linus torvalds (who is both extremely effective, and, by his own admission, kind of a jerk), but I think while exceptions like that exist they're not the common case.
I had typed up a point-wise list but decided against it.

In short, they bullied, insulted and did not inspire co-workers positively, instead demotivating them by acting impatient and making fun whenever interacting about work.

Vague statements, but don't really want to get any more specific.
I'm not talking about reflection at all. AS you are going through your life you are very aware of the advantages other may have. When I was going to University I also had to 30 hours a week. While friends from wealthier families could spend their extra efforts studying. In the summer, I couldn't quit my crappy job to take an internship because I needed that job in the fall. And on holidays, while everyone is getting a vacation to decompress and battle burn out, I was working.
These Processes Are Vital to Creating Copyright Rules That Work for Everyone
This point is the real key. If you have enough users who like your product it is possible to beat intrenched interests.
Great points.

I think the confusion is due to the fact that debt can (and will) be restructured in a downturn, just as equity will lose value. So they're both risky when you make a poor investment.

But, as you note, debt and equity both have distinct risk and payoff profiles that are determined by law.
It's something that, if it could be optimal, would only be optimal in specific situations. A lot of tactics CompSci discovers are like that. So, we experiment with them, stash them, whatever. Mainstream and crowd effects in academia both have a tendency to occasionally jump on something like a crusade. Many promises are made, much money thrown at it, and it never delivers. Inability to integrate with models of legacy systems, either at all or with desired attributes, is often one result of this. I knew the moment I saw the activity that it couldn't be trusted without further review. It was at least useful in security kernel model but most of those are gone now. So, we stash it in case it benefits another problem one day or someone has a use for it likely in a clean-slate system.

That's how these things go. I wouldn't expect it to work on NetBSD or any UNIX. Even the good ideas often fail to integrate into UNIX. Half-ass ones like M:N more so. UNIX model is just too broken. Hence, my opposing it here.
You can get a self hosted HipChat for the group chat.
Sorry, I don’t. Maybe get in touch with them?
It's not about ethical imperative, but ...

1. It doesn't look good on your CV if you only worked on projects that don't have any business value.

2. If what you do does not have any value chances are someone will figure out at some point.

3. It's not fun to work on a project that has no value for anyone. This is the kind of thing that will create burnout.

If what you are doing is very intellectually challenging for you, or it has value other than business value then it might be different.
Didn't realize arrow functions preserver this! Now using arrow functions.
I think he is referring to the notion that Germany still owes Greece war reparations from WWII, which Greece put at 297 billion Euros [0]

This is a hairy topic, with Germany insisting that these matters were closed in the Two-plus-Four Treaty, and Greece wanting to be repaid for their post WWII magnanimity, in addition to this being viewed as the Greek government trying to weasel themselves out of systemic issues and necessary reform using dubious legal claims.

Germans, and younger Germans in particular may also view this as a "sins of our forefathers" issue, which also strikes a nerve, especially since the claim seems frivolous to many.

If Greece were devastated by a natural disaster and demanded aid citing their waving of reparations more than 70 years ago, this would be viewed in a different light, but the general perception in Germany is that they brought this issue upon themselves, even though the situation is likely considerably more complex than that.

Very very controversial, that's as much as I'll say.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reparations_for_World_W...
Epicycles FTW!
As a community, or as software?
If nobody pays the professors, how do they pay for lunch?
Link to article rather than comments: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/patent-troll-real...
In general Tory governments cut taxes, Labour increase them. As we swing back and forwards between parties the tax take oscillates backwards and forwards. This is all about political ideology rather than the actual budget.
This describes me in the past. Don't let him date someone from HR, it opens up Pandora's box about relative value and standard practices with salary negotiation. The largest factor for salary at most companies is how much you ask for rather than your skills or contributions.

However there may be other things he values besides money. Continue to make those great and I'm sure he will continue to enjoy being your coworker.
Really nice. I wondered how an elixir app can be designed and this is a cool resource to use.
The "10x engineer" I worked for quit and left me with an extremely over-complicated piece of software to manage. He's a sweet guy and a good friend, but really left me holding the bag because he was not happy.
Every bullet missed the important detail where a ton of companies seem to be basing their business models on datamining and advertising... and if they have a slightly more viable business model (regulatory disruption a la AirBnB and Uber), they're still relying on this data for revenue to some extent.

My hunch (and it is just a hunch): there's going to be a watershed moment where company marketing efforts realize that a lot of the data they're using to make marketing decisions, be it directly via their own analytics or through targeted ad services, is worth a lot less than they think it is. Given how many bay area startups depend on selling data, that's bound to cause a crunch.
The idea that all things should be reduced down to a quantization of money is a chunk of the toxic rhetoric that led to this.

We could apply the same hollow catch phrase to the election of government and reveal how ultimately toxic the trope is.

Quote from article, that brings up the trope:

“For far too long, fans searching for merchandise of their favorite female characters have been told that the onus is on their wallets. “Buy the toys that are out there,” the message has echoed, even as fans scour the unyielding shelves for a green-skinned assassin, a black-clad Avenger — and now a fearless young woman who hums with the power of the Force.

It is time to reverse the conversation. Toy and merchandise companies must stop taking a character’s gender into consideration when including them in products. Put Gamora with the rest of the Guardians. Leave Black Widow on her motorcycle. And when Star Wars: Episode VIII finally arrives, don’t make us ask “Where’s Rey?””
RSUs in a highly liquid publicly traded company are pretty close to cash