skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also work at Virtru and I'm on the DevOps team. We are looking to hire 2 more team members for the DevOps team. Give a shout if you're interested.

We currently use (in no order):
- AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc)
- PagerDuty
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- NodeJS
- New Relic
- DataDog
- ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana

We are also going to start using AWS Aurora in the near future.
The Artist Using Museums to Amplify Tor’s Anonymity Network
That depends, in general yes.

Generally I believe the only persons that should be in "prison" are those that are a clear danger to society Serial Killers for example.

Not for punishment, but for the protection of society.

I think the legal system should be less about punishment, and more about Restitution and Protection.
One might ask why asbestos causes mesothelioma. Maybe the mechanisms are similar. Although talc is obviously less effective. But if there's increased risk, the lack of mechanistic understanding doesn't negate the evidence.
I'm not really sure. Maybe that:

>>> u'0١߂३৪੫૬୭௮౯'.isdigit()
True

So it's not equivalent to matching [0-9]+, which some people might expect. It's quite nice i think, because apparently int() supports Unicode numeric characters too (i didn't know this):

>>> int(u'0١߂३৪੫૬୭௮౯')
123456789
I can see how useful it is for the less technical part of the team as a way to see all components and their important states.
I was in one at 3500 yesterday, checking /r/robintracking today it looks the biggest is probably down to 2500-ish
>"it affects the unskilled labor with near-limitless supply that you have mentioned."

That "near-limitless" supply is the actual problem. Horrible as it may sound, but we're already talking about people and people's labour as a resource.

Unless you allow the market to regulate the supply, you'll always have an imbalance. In fact, we make it worse by letting it get to this point. If we were to let the market work on it's own now, with no government interference, people would probably be dying in droves from starvation (assuming charity doesn't help them along).

Attempting to make everyone's life not miserable (with e.g. minimum wage laws) skews the market and allows individuals to have (or have more) children than they would if they were living in a tough market. If occurring naturally, this sort of effect would be very subtle and not be a cause for misery. But, since we've already propped up a large population that would not have occurred ordinarily, we're stuck in a situation where outcomes are unthinkable.

I'd even argue that it's a self-reinforcing cycle at this point. The over-abundant supply pushes the wages down, making the situation even worse were it not for welfare/minimum-wage hikes. I think as a society, we have a moral obligation to wean this tap off, minimizing the harmful effects as the market adjusts while at the same time removing the perverse incentives that caused us to get to this point in the first place.
Nice article, but I don't find anything unintuitive about what it says.
More info please. I'm a resident of CA. I have a named Oracle seat paid for by the state? How do I get my login credentials???
There is no clear value to you, just like there is no value to you that a criminal could break into your window and watch you sleeping at night. For your security and privacy, you'd be better off having no windows.

That an unintended person can read your private messages is an unfortunate consequence of compromise. What we'd have to do is figure out a way to implement a security system that detects all intruders via cyber-forensics or whatever other effective means.

I see the consequences of unrestricted encryption as more severe than the consequences of restricted encryption.
The point is that if you can't do this, there is no way you can do stuff more complicated than this, which will actually be necessary during regular work. (And which you won't be able to type into Google).

I run a software company and I'll say straight up I would not hire someone with your attitude.
It's not legal anymore, thanks to Obamacare. This happened the year before that provision went into effect.
What would they gain though? NT is a pretty good kernel with very broad hardware support.

If anything, they'd just make NT fully POSIX-compliant. They'd get the same benefit with a fraction of the effort of porting Windows-the-GUI to Linux.
"How do you motivate a team? [...] I’d say first and foremost don’t be an asshole"

agreed. the easiest way to get people to walk out the door is to be a jerk to them. it's amazing to me when i encounter a manager type that hasn't yet learned this very basic lesson.
>the best way to get that is to let people build affordable housing.

Can you name an example of where this actually happens? I've never seen affordable housing built unless it was mandated by law or had some sort of government subsidy.

Even out here in tiny flyover midwest cities, where developers have no restrictions of any kind , there's no affordable housing being built that isn't government mandated or subsidized.

Lots of new developments, all 100% luxury apartments, or luxury homes. I wish it was as simple as "let them build it", but experience has taught me that if you let developers "just build", the only thing they ever build is impossibly expensive luxury units.
The government could achieve full-employment by drafting everyone or paying them to dig ditches then fill them in again, but that would be really wasteful. If there's actually nothing useful for some people to do (they can't find a job that supports them) then we should stop thinking of employment as a requirement for survival.

If the economy can't find full-time roles for some people, then we as a society — though the state — can just give them money to survive (a 'basic income') and let them do whatever they want with their time (including working part time jobs that wouldn't be able to sustain them on their own). It would be a much more productive and enjoyable use of their time than digging ditches :p
That's your notion of safety. For me (and I am sure for many others too) it means a product that is critical to my my workflow and the one on which my financial, health and other such critical aspects of life depend, if such a product (here Gmail) goes berserk due to some foolish prank played by the company then the company (here Google) is irresponsible and unreliable. Cars and robots present only some kinds of safety problems, not all.
I downvoted for passive-aggressive bullshit and I don't care who knows it.
CDMA is largely immune to this, largely owing to the lack of implementations of a CDMA BSM
Cluster plots of genetic ancestry and brain morphology
This is basically a framework for making living style guides? That's potentially very useful, but it wasn't a super hard problem to solve before.
Yes, people will be fired. Yes, that is fine. Yes, we need a minimum guaranteed income as a result of increased automation. Ideally, you'd get the income for going to school and learning.
Clarification: McQuiggin continues to leave open the question of whether "actual innocence" can be the basis for habeas review standing alone. In practice, there is something else that can be alleged to "bootstrap" the "actual innocence" claim.
Good point on talking vs writing. I've stumbled the same. Finding the right balance among writing and talking crossed with 1x1/small group and large group is an art.

Though I'm in management now, I can say that our pay scale is fairly even. Top engineers make more than most managers, though our very most senior execs (CxO) still more than our top engineers, which I think is fine.
There's a difference between 'being censored' and 'being shouted down'.
As a Korean, fuck Confucius, Tyler diesel asks who I wanna fight, if take on Confucius over Hitler any day
The Mainstream Media Thinks Ethereum and Bitcoin Are Competitors
The real beauty of a system like k8s or mesos is that you can do cross cloud and/or on-premise stuff with the same management system / tooling. Amazon is great, but what about when you want to move to GCE to arbitrage price differences for certain services?
But we look up to assholes don't we? Steve Jobs. Michael Jordan. The Wolf of Wall Street. There's something to be said by that. If only "different people are motivated by different things".
http://i.imgur.com/BIy8fcj.jpg

The rest of the images are in:

Sjöberg, Åke W. 1972. “He Is a Good Seed of a Dog” and “Engardu, the Fool.” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 24(4). 107–119. doi:10.2307/1359629.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1359629
A Terrorists Phone and Phantom Wipe
These are nice, will probably allow some C# code to be more succinct. I wonder if this will eventually help improve F# interop?
The consequences of failing to pay attention in the car is offset by the seatbelt, crumple zones and airbag.

As a pedestrian getting hit by or running into a car will likely kill you.
Many (and, I hope, all) jurisdictions will reopen a trial when significant new evidence appears, but not just for any new evidence. For example, "I suddenly remember that, the morning of the crime, I woke up five minutes earlier than usual" or "it turns out there are not 20, but 21 HD videos of the crime" may be new, but is very unlikely to be deemed reason to reopen a trial.

Problem is to determine what is both significant and new.

Even somebody else confessing or new evidence showing up that the convicted has an alibi to the crime may not be deemed significant, as somebody must judge whether the new information is true.

For example, blindly trusting confessors to speak the truth would open the door for groups of people to keep each other unconvicted (A gets indicted and, a few months later, convicted, B suddenly shows up claiming he was with A, giving A an alibi, a year later A gets convicted again because that alibi didn't turn out to be watertight, C (who may already be in jail for something else) confesses, C gets convicted, D, who's dying, confesses, etc.)

So, some judge must determine whether new evidence warrants reopening a case. If that judge is (consciously or unconsciously) biased, this easily can lead to injustice. From what I read, that seems to have been the case quite a few times in the US.
Good article, but he neglected to mention that it makes way for guaranteed minimum incomes.
Of course I am a racist. It is true that certain races are intellectually inferior to others. Blacks(especially in Sub-Saharan Africa) are intellectually the most inferior. Maybe we should rethink a questionable idea that all blacks should be allowed autonomy and revise 13th Amendment. Many of them have low self-control and exhibit impulsive behavior, compared to other races.
However, blacks are physically superior to all races, which made and could make them again good slaves.
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launches and successfully lands rocket
As rich as apple is, they don't have a stranglehold on the market in the way that 1990s microsoft did. Of course, we're not talking about 1990s microsoft anymore, but the reputation continues.

(That said, I think their policies are equally awful. Nobody should be happy with apple's nonsense.)
It will happen.. we still live in a democracy. Sanders didn't win, but he moved the democrats to the left.
Well at least you realize you are...
Curtis Yarvin, is that you?
I'm not sure what you mean by "fundamental macroeconomic objective". Surely the purpose of full employment is so the people who are employed can enjoy a certain standard of life.
Why isn't this same story true with, say, the price of bread or gasoline?
I agree. I think this article's title steps over the line for a forum like HN.
I love when I read a website footer that says "Handcrafted with love in SF/NYC/Portland".
"I do not believe in any form of quotas or similar affirmative action items"

Same here, but apparently that's what makes me "a racist", or so the media has informed me.
> Full employment is one of the fundamental macroeconomic objectives

Except for kids/students, and retired people. Nothing is preventing us from studying until we're 30 and retiring at 35 - if only the minority of the population can be productive enough (with the help of machines, obviously) to produce enough for the rest.
And the other thought experiment: you're currently making 70% more than somebody who holds significantly less responsibility than you do, and has significantly less skill than you.

If the salary their position pays is increased to match your salary, what are you going to do?
It's not even "American", it's a Valley startup culture thing.
Should we start at the motor cortex?
Speaking of pretty clear, later evidence is pretty clear grounds for a new trial according to U.S. law, at least up to 3 years after they're found guilty. Beyond that I'd leave it to the lawyers to figure out.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_33
It can also be used to schedule review of problems.

You can enter homework problems (like page number and problem number) into Anki and use that to schedule review.

You can use it to review proofs, too.
You are also paying for the Oculus hardware while having no recourse to privacy even if you wanted. I am not saying Windows 10 doesn't have privacy issues, but when compared to Facebook's approach, it is far better.
Maybe. I think it depends on the runner. I had success with the Run Less Run Faster for a couple races, and I know a lot of other runners who've had good success with it to. And I did qualify the point with "to achieve your goal". If your goal is to BQ and you can achieve that on 40 miles a week, then why run 80 miles a week?

I can't argue with your second paragraph at all. All the mountain runners I know are beasts. :-)
Already growing :D
No, but unconscious biases can have equally pernicious consequences.

Take tech for example. When hiring companies select for candidates with "culture fit" and that effectively rules people out based on their race/ethnicity or religion. Those people get fewer opportunities as a result which results in lower compensation. It's very difficult to judge who is qualified for a job and who is not. So people take shortcuts. Reject those who didn't graduate from a good college. Reject those who didn't get the right internships. Reject those who don't have relatable hobbies and life goals. All of these hiring shortcuts effectively discriminate against qualified minorities, even if the intentions of all involved are pure as snow.
Yet, if a young company built by collage kids is bought out the parent company generally dumps the source code as worthless. That might tell you something. The same thing happens at successful company's you just don't see it. Twitters Fail Whale did not end because they brought on more collage kids.
Well, laziness in terms of typing more, probably.
Laziness in terms of thinking less, definitively no.
It's interesting how programmers want to be called anything but "programmer". Whether it's "ninja", "scientist", "artisan", or "craftsman" IMO all are BS—what's wrong with just being a programmer?

You don't see a scientist say he's a "science artisan" or an artist saying he's a "canvas ninja".
It was posted on international lie to idiots on the internet day, I don't trust anything that comes out April 1.
Obviously there are no plausible confounding factors, and this is the only possible rational conclusion.
Completely agree. Can't help myself from thinking that the "continuous economic growth" supported by an ever growing population size is a broken paradigm. The more automation the less people will have an intrinsic value to society unless extremely highly educated/specialised.

"Normal" people simply won't be needed and according to liberal capitalism, they'll quickly be marginalised.
They even shipped IE for Solaris in the 90s!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
These plans are terrible. In particular, the marathon program recommends a 26 mile training run followed by a three week taper. No one recommends 26 mile training runs outside of the very top elite athletes (and for very, very good reasons). It just isn't actually good for you to run that long, especially when you're only running three days a week. Seriously, that marathon program, if run on cement, would likely cause a stress fracture in a new runner.
we already are exploring it in the form of food stamps, tax credits, guaranteed student loans, etc. I agree, we should be pushing more though.
If you're interested in Greece and how they've been screwed b the ECB, I recommend a video[1] I posted[2] a few days ago. It's a discussion from about a month ago with Mark Blyth (prof econ at Brown) and the former Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis. They discuss "negotiating" with the ECB, brexit, and the "least worst" ways to save the EU.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMk6aVsl8Rs#t=66

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11398625

(If you think Greece's economic situation is anything other than a bailout for the major banks of the EU, then you haven't been paying attention)
Apple's new short film starring autistic teen shows how tech transforms lives
Over/under-representation doesn't imply racism. Look at the pipeline to the NBA. Top college basketball programs are predominantly black as well. Take a look at the pipeline there - a large percentage of inner-city kids who grew up playing basketball because courts are abundant and equipment is cheap.
Or appreciating good ideas, being excited with them and bored with the old ways.
Is it able to run user-created programs? And if so, with what tools?
> wear good earbuds

Is there such a thing as "good earbuds"?

Earbuds, as anything else, quickly accumulate dirt.

I do not like the idea of sticking dirty things inside of my ears.
If we make an analogy between programming and metabolism:

- Implementation (anabolic process): Create complex things from simple things.

- Maintenance (catabolic process): Create simple things from complex things.
Thank you for the explanation, I left the repair industry just as iOS devices started to take the forefront and there wasn't much left to "repair" w/o getting out (de)soldering and reflow equipment.

Pretty sure they do "own it", that's what the whole warranty, either original or 90 days from last repair is all about. ;) I just think a single digit # of boards, that should've possibly failed QA, making it out to the public compared to the thousands you've seen is a pretty good testament to them being damn proud of their work.

Re-reading the description for your video, I think the issue is for non-AASP repair centers, much like any 3rd party repair location (whether it be Apple, or some other name brand electronic, appliance, or vehicle) is guaranteeing the quality of parts and labor one gets from the plethora of independents out there. I think the real issue to rail against is the plethora of poor 3rd party repairs that aren't certified or backed by any sort of warranty vs these outliers, as they're the ones that really cast a bad light on the independent.
All these years and 'Northwind Traders' still gives me the fear!
This classic is still relevant today:

"Evidence Based Scheduling" by Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
I didn't see any solution being proposed here...
Duplicates are allowed if a post hasn't gotten much attention in a while. Sometimes HN will auto-repost your post. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
I don't want employment, and hell no I definitely don't want full employment, just the opposite. I want us as a species to transition to a leisure society with the ick automated away, and the only jobs humans do being ones humans would love to do for the sheer fun of it.

Because a minimum wage has a loophole for "not employed at all", it isn't good enough. A Basic Income has no such loophole, and will allow poor people to reject awful jobs, forcing them to be automated.
The earbuds that Apple ships with their newer devices are very high quality. I think they've set a new standard with those.

By the way, I'm talking about earbuds, not in-ear-canal earphones. I don't like those and I agree they get gross. They also block out far too much ambient noise to be safe when running.
I had enough attention span to make it to a room of 4 before I bailed. Even after we had all voted we had to wait out the ballot timeout.
Hi, Australian here. Our nominal prices (in AUD) are about the same as in the US (in USD) and our minimum wage is $17.29 an hour (+ 25% for casual employees). People who make minimum wage here aren't struggling to survive like they are in the US; the minimum wage is actually liveable.

Prices don't just rise when the minimum wage does. Firstly, people who make minimum wage make up a small proportion of overall income (something something 1% something something). Secondly, prices vary mostly because of the price of inputs and the demand for the product, not the overall wage level; if anything, prices of locally produced, labour-intense goods will rise a little because labour is now more expensive (not because some customers have a little more money).

I understand that your brother might not like the social stigma of making minimum wage again, but make not mistake; he will have more purchasing power than before.

YOu didn't bring it up, but the strongest criticism to make about a higher minimum wage is that it will leave some people with better paying jobs and some people with no jobs.
The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon and Transhumanism
I'd pay that $800.
no. talking in person appeals to extroverts, sure, but for real complex subjects I actually prefer writing it all out so I can explore every detail and nuance. verbal communication has its place, but I find more complex ideas deserve more thoughtful and thorough exposition. ymmv
This seems very reasonable to me, but I feel like this could also be used as justification for there not being a sexism problem in programming, it's just that lots of middle class white boys grew up playing with compilers.
In the newer version of intellij once you run code coverage it highlights in the side bar if that particular line was covered or not, its a pretty neat feature.
I'm not familiar with the latter phrase.
There is absolutely no basis for arguing .net being behind Java, JVM or the ecosystem by 20 years. I am sure you are conflating the library advantage that Java has enjoyed. .Net is clearly going to give Java ecosystem fits in less than 5 years.
Business is a social construct and we can un-construct it if it proves no longer to be the socially valuable way to do things.

It's there to serve humans. if it doesn't do that, it's a parasite, drag it out behind the shed and shoot it.
Or it could be that in an employment environment that systematically discriminates against blacks that you would expect that they would end up over-represented in fields that didn't? Or that in a country where blacks are systematically undereducated that they would be over-represented in a profession that didn't require education? Or that in a system of higher education that is expensive and places value on what high school you went to, that black people with lower wealth/income who went to segregated schools that aren't valued as much would gravitate towards sports as a way to go to University?

None of these come up in your head before anti-white racism perpetrated by whites?
Not necessarily. Golf is a very highly white dominated sport. This I'd not because of racism by anyone choosing golfers for tournaments. Its note likely in my estimation to be because of subcultures that can afford and do promote the game. Basketball is fairly popular in inner cities, is cheap to play and become good at. Golf costs more money and has a long history among more country club culture. Demographics alone if those groups could drive the apparent bias
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Driverless cars are legal in 3 states.
You might do something like this for local development, keeping things fast with some confidence you're not grossly breaking things. But you run the full suite through CI.