skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peak use vs. average use. A dramatic spike in usage means you need to get power from somewhere (or put up with brownouts), and on occasion that means 50% comes from coal even if it's only for 30 minutes a few times a month.
I have no idea what statement you're referring to in particular since it's not in the article and you haven't cited anything.

Facebook is looking at tackling farming. In that context, the vast majority of accounts are likely to be operated in the same way. They need to avoid detection and they need to do it as efficiently as possible in order to make the most profit. Facebook has now cracked this particular code and an arms race is likely to ensue. But at the moment Facebook discovered this, it was unlikely there were a significant number of farming operations doing things any differently.

No one is claiming this applies to all fake accounts (or if they are, it's definitely not in the article). Obviously a catfishing account will be run quite differently than a farming account.
The default for OSX is hidden - http://imgur.com/3AdT6Vs (46.0.1)

On Windows, it is shown indeed (45.1.1 ESR).
What are the possible implications of this for Elixir?
I would posit that it's not just money that's dumb, there simply aren't that many smart people in general. You can't escape the bell curve whether it's developers, investors, sales people and, worst of all, consumers.
Yeah, it seems like they wouldn't be dead ends because they get you to a vocation.
I like getting my news on what Russia is doing bad from the New York Times. It doesn't get more credible than that.
Ultimately it is good news, although the number of agendas present when reporting energy news is amazing sometimes.

It would be interesting to find alternative uses for coal that weren't polluting. A more enlightened civilization might use the revenue from that alternate use to fund re-education and social support for people too old to learn new skills other than coal production. In that way you could humanely "close out" the era of coal use on the people whose lives were intimately tied to its existence.
That makes a lot more sense than the literal translation.
Well said. My take on it is this - saying "everyone should learn to code" is NOT the same thing as saying "everyone should become a developer". By analogy, imagine saying that "everyone should read/write English" is the same as saying "everyone should become a novelist".

It's not that everyone should become a developer as their profession, it's that everyone, in every profession, can benefit from a bit of coding knowledge - just like they can benefit from speaking English. (For the sake of argument, let's pretend this discussion applies to the US where most people speak English. I'm over-simplifying by ignoring specific neighborhoods that are dominated by Spanish speakers, Chinese speakers, etc. Substitute $YOUR_LANGUAGE in the preceding commentary if you'd prefer).

Now obviously there's a little bit of hyperbole there. Maybe not every profession in the most absolute sense, can benefit from coding. Or maybe they can. But I think it's safe to assume that pretty much any "knowledge worker" or "white collar" role can. I mean, if you have to make decisions that involve data, or if there are processes you can automate, then coding can help you optimize your job / business / company / whatever.

And even going beyond the traditional "white collar / knowledge worker" role for a minute... there's a LOT to be said for the kind of automation you can enable at a grassroots / DIY level if you can do some basic wiring, and program an Arduino or a rPi. Are there applications for this stuff that apply to plumbers, welders, farmers, auto mechanics, etc., etc? Almost certainly.

So yeah, definitely learn to code, just don't think that necessarily implies "move to Silicon Valley and become a full-time software developer".
It would be great if browsers had an option to only allow one instance of a certain website. Half my problem is opening multiple tabs of gmail, whatsapp and facebook, for example, when i'm only actually looking for one instance of them.
It plays out in parallel to the political systems. In America the individuals cheat and in Russia the state cheats.
I rely on the email updates too. I edited the comment.
The discovered vulnerabilities are in the 7-Zip application's UDF and HFS+ filesystem image support.
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And yet 50% of my Instagram interactions seem to be spam
This is very good point. For example, MongoDB and Oracle are not that different compared with Splunk.
You don't even have to do that: Just well-order the universe and use the resulting ordering for your less-than operator.
In any situation where a business employee cannot significantly improve my experience by going beyond the minimum standard of service set by the employer, it is inappropriate to tip. It is also inappropriate to ask for tips, even passively, by way of a tip jar. Restaurant counter service, where you order and pay at the point of sale, and leave with your tray, is an example of this.

Never tip unless the employee is genuinely helpful to you, saving you time or labor beyond what you may ordinarily expect their employer to provide. Do not tip at all if there is a service charge included on your regular bill.

If the employee is providing you with a one-time personal service or a prolonged but nonpersonal service in conjunction with a regular purchase, you tip 10% the total regular value of the goods, before discounts and before sales tax. This applies to delivery drivers, taxicab or livery drivers, massagers, stylists, or tour guides. Most tip-worthy services that improve the value of your purchase will call for 10%.

If the employee provides you with prolonged personal service, you tip 15%. This is for something like restaurant table service, or golf caddies, or personal shopping assistants.

If you are requesting a service that is technically part of the employee's job, but only tangentially related to the main paid service, tip what you would regularly pay for one drink in a social context, rounded to the nearest dollar. If you drink coffees at IHOP, give $1. If you drink Miller or Bud at the dive bar, give $2. If you drink lattes at Starbucks, give $3. If you drink caramel appletinis at a bar lit by blue LEDs and with bowties on all the bartenders, give $20. This is what you give to porters per suitcase, hotel housekeeping per day, concierge per favor, valet per car retrieval, matre'd per non-snooty table-seating. This is also an appropriate amount to give for a street busker's performance that you enjoyed, or for a crowd-patronage subscription.

For a full standard deviation above and below the median quality of service, those are the only three numbers you need to know: 10%, 15%, and your personal fixed tip amount. For quality between one and two standard deviations below the median, you subtract 5% from a variable tip. For quality above one standard deviation above the median, you add 5% to a variable tip. For service more than two standard deviations below median, you complain to the manager and give a reason why you are not tipping.

If you intend to be a "regular" at any establishment, it is acceptable to tip more than the standard amount when the employees can greet you by name, or remember your "usual", but not until then.

Anyone advising you to tip 20% for median-level service, or 25% for anything, anywhere, does not have any idea what they are talking about--completely clueless. The standard is 10% for delivery or buffet, and 15% for table service. It already scales perfectly well with the menu prices.

Never tip with anything other than cash. Advice is not a tip. Religious tracts are not a tip.
It doesn't read that way to me, it just reads as an adjective to make the article more "shocking" and illustrate the role of a webmaster to appear more against the grain of our little IT/startup world.

I think the rest of the essay does a great job of explaining why and how webmasters were so important and how they were/are the ultimate problem solver. No ego boosting qualifiers necessary.
There's nothing the GPL requires that should be a problem for an app store. It's a bug.
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Rule number 1 for the interaction between humans and the computer is to never blame the user. Humans are the way they are and hard to change, you are programming for them, so you need to take into account how they use your program. If you provide tabs, they will leave tons of tabs open.
I know, but playing along with the thought experiment, how do you account for things like VAT and service-specific levies? Property, income, inheritance, capital gains - all relate to the acquisition of value, so they fit the model in a distal sense.
NoSQL DBs became popular because performant distributed joins are hard.

Joins (and aggregate, group by, etc.) were thrown out to make horizontal scale out simpler. Cassandra CQL, for example, shares keywords with SQL, but the key-value(ish) data model couldn't be more different, and is much easier to scale horizontally.

Various systems are trying to solve the distributed join problem while keeping easy horizontal scaling, and if they succeed the NoSQL label won't make sense for those systems any more.
That is a great addition then
Magazine fires do not go over well with the crew. So yes.
Stocks versus flows. You integrate power over time to get energy. 5% of the energy comes from coal but up to 50% of the power. That means that much of the time the use of coal power has to be less than 5%. Probably but not necessarily much less.
A flat tax rate, in its most basic form is neither progressive nor regressive, but simply proportional. I'd take that over the currently implemented progressive* tax.

*Progressive as long as you ignore the primary sources of income for the wealthy.
gamasutra provides a link to the blog post where this actually came from. i just want to say that his blog is one of the best i have ever seen and that you should check it out. it has tons of posts that are just as interesting as this one except about getting hired at naughty dog, implementing a physics engine and much more.
I always enjoyed Google owning 1e100.net thought that was a clever name for some of their networking
> That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year?

I get a few more than that, but the pattern is always the same. Profile picture is of an arguably attractive girl and we have a mutual friend. The mutual friend, in my case, is always one of a few guys who historically hasn't done well with women.
If you follow typical Clojure usage recommendations (avoid global state), you can often get started with a fat prototype that is trivial to slice up as your ideas become more clear. As a lone developer, I would recommend not making your nREPL and generic dev experience harder than it has to be.
This is all very cool, but I'm having trouble figuring out what the visualization actually means. I'm assuming that overlapping bubbles have more in common, but how is that calculated? Just mousing over the bubbles doesn't reveal any immediate connections or shared papers.
Or you immediately pump it up into a water tower/elevated tank so that when electricity is no longer available, it can still have pressure.
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are people going to get their money back?
Not really. More iOS users, like myself, use iMessage 10X more than Hangouts. Actually since Telegram came out I haven't really used Hangouts at all.
> The aim of this spec is not to exceed 2 pages

Then this spec will never be anywhere close to complete.

Money isn't just a piece of information that can pass from one place to another. "encryption, workflow, trust and aggregation systems" are not just things you can handwave away.

Who is willing to process transactions like these? Why is encryption and signing not part of the standard?

What happens if I post a credit that is not my own, or with the same @id but differing contents? How much data is exposed by GET /wallet, and will it be a privacy concern?

It's just not helpful.
Before California pats itself on the back too much here -- people should realize that the switch to natural gas has largely been driven by fracking, which has made natural gas more cost competitive.
Ding ding ding! Exactly this.
It's not m safe standing by a tank anyway. Integrated light/heavy tactics have changed since Full Metal Jacket.
Like, "Tesla" is an original name?
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Sounds like you'd be difficult to please in general.
it's a deliberate attempt to smear Tesla by associating it with another company that fails /conspiracy
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Paperscape looks like a really useful tool for exploring a subject. Thanks for mentioning it.
I've actually been convinced of this stance for some years, though everyone I've talked to seems to think it's nuts.

The thing is that education--and particularly choice of school--is tightly linked with class, which in turn is linked with race, etc. Add to that the bias of "I graduated from here, therefore I favor people who graduated from similar" and I'm pretty sure there's some bad stuff that comes out of it.

We already recognize a little bit of this in that there's often advice not to put the schooling dates on your resume because it implies age, but people somehow don't make the jump to the schooling itself implying other discriminatory factors.

Plus the emphasis on schooling filters non-traditional learners and autodidacts. The software industry exploded in part because we historically haven't done that, at least during the high-growth periods that corresponded to high-demand periods. There are obviously some sectors for which you absolutely want formal training (medicine, EIT/PE-type engineering, etc.) but I'd argue that's the exception and not the rule. In most jobs it just matters that you know what you're doing.

We should figure out a way to evaluate and select on actual competencies rather than trying to use school as a surrogate for them. For many professions this should be relatively straightforward. Competencies are not the be-all/end-all (as we know from programming interviews) but to the extent that we expect schools to represent them we should be able to evaluate with testing if they're truly anywhere near objective.

Unfortunately, that won't happen as long as the easy option is available.
I really like this word! Did you coin it just now?
Discovered some of my teammates got a pay raise and not me, what to do?
Today, while talking to my teammates about promotion and pay raise, some of them said they were happy when their salaries were lifted to match the market price before the CTO has gone.

To give you some details, last year our CTO told us he was going to ask to get pay raise as our salary don't match the market. However I didn't get any news since then. But today I discovered some people got it and not others, why I have no idea, I could go to ask the CTO himself but unfortunately he just left.

So, I feel like I am betrayed and leftover mainly the pay lift is not work related, my feeling is I have to get pay raise too as I deserve it as much as my teammates and at the same time feeling it's not worth it, even it's better off to move on "to quit".

Any advice is welcome.

Update:

I cannot agree on "underperforming issue" as the monthly and annual report show I am doing a real good job and got the annual pay raise related to work performance.

What I did not get is the exceptional pay raise to match the market and even to be fair comparing to 2 teammates that got the pay raise they don't do at all a better job than mine and we know it.

And why I was told to get a pay raise in the first place if he knew I won't have it. I would be happy to accept it if the real reason was due to the performance but all signs don't show that.
The name is too similar to Tesla. Tjey should choose another.

I hear Infinium Labs is no longer taken.
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Why the downvotes? Most curricula I'm aware of only teach FP at the beginner level and thus one hardly sees the benefits.

Or it's an tiny mid-/upper-level chorus taken by those already hooked.
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Quit.
I find WWW::Mechanize::Firefox an interesting alternative. The API is similar to WWW::Mechanize, but it remote controls an instance of Firefox using the MozRepl addon. This means scraping/interacting with pages using JS works fine.

http://search.cpan.org/~corion/WWW-Mechanize-Firefox-0.78/li...
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The link to the "Sporks" website is hilarious, it even has an order form for "sporks gear":

> Do not do this. There are no shirts. This site is 20 years old. What's wrong with you?

https://www.spork.org/spork-gear.shtml

And this anti-IE site has some nice badges we can still add to our websites:

http://toastytech.com/evil/buttons.html
> there's no demand for the supply
huh?

but, natural gas has, like, a positive price and people buy it to heat their homes and stuff.
There's also the W3C Web Payments Interest Group [1] and the defunct Micropayments Interest Group [2].

Micropayments for web content is notoriously hard.

Some existing players are:

* Flattr - https://flattr.com/about

* ChangeTip - https://www.changetip.com/ (acqui-hired by AirBnB)

* Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/

[1] https://www.w3.org/Payments/IG/

[2] https://www.w3.org/ECommerce/
I love that you can also slide on the spacebar to move the cursor left or right. I like that feature from Nintype, but Nintype is always not all that stable.

If this keyboard proves to be more stable than other slide keyboards (SwiftKey / TouchPal), then it stays!
The water can be the capacitor, or the battery for that matter, if you can get gravity involved.
A thousand conventional wars? Maybe on the scale of WW1 where an entire generation of men were wiped out in Europe? Or the Franco Prussian wars which convulsed Europe before that? Or maybe something simple like the ethnic cleansing in Uganda that only resulted in a hair under 1 million casualties?

How about the Indian sub-continent? Nuclear weapons have largely been responsible for keeping Pakistan and India from going at each other. Both know that their enemy has the ability to wipe each other out with nukes.

Nuclear weapons should also be credited with keeping Sino-Soviet tempers from flaring too hot before the end of the Cold War. Some of the border incidents would have easily escalated to full war if Beijing hadn't been intimidated by Soviet nukes.
Oooh. I definitely need to add an under construction gif.
I made a site that programatically generates a 15s version of new movie trailers
Just immagine having to scan through 100 articles every day looking for new ideas. You find something that sounds interesting from somebody you do not know personally (happens to me all the time). The topic is of your interest, but you are not necessarily an expert of that particular subfield (because you are an observer, a "user" of models, not a "developer"). Judging its quality would take away one day of your work. Clearly, if there is a comment from a famous established professor saying that the work is wrong, you will happily forget about it.

It is also true that a famous professor can backstab you when reviewing your paper. But, first of all, your work is already on the arXiv, so everybody already had a chance to form their own opinion. Secondly, in a peer review process the reviewer cannot arbitrarily reject papers. It does not work like that. He/she has to provide good motivations for his/her recommendations. Reviewers can also be challenged to the editors, who can ask for second or third opinions.

Finally, as others commented, to truly disseminate your work you need to go out and engage the community, giving seminars and talks. I couldn't agree more with this. My issue with that, and I talk as a privileged because I work in one of the top Universities in the USA, is that going to conferences, giving seminars and so on, is way easier if you come from one of the top places. You have funds for traveling, you had a lot of chances to network with the right people (when they visited your institution, for example) and so on. It is much more difficult if you come from lesser known groups or from abroad.
The system as it is now already strongly favors people working in the top research Universities in the USA and Canada.

The arXiv is great because it puts everybody at the same level. It ensures that the best ideas have a chance to come out, independently from their origin. I wouldn't want the scientific discussion to be dominated by few loud voices.
Steam is cross platform right? Would it be insane for me to develop an Enterprise application on the Steam platform?
Elixir immediately gets access to all of these features in the VM. Over the next coming months, there may be the creation of more Elixir-friendly access wrappers to the features.

However, there is the need to make sure Elixir can work with R19 in the first place, but Jose Valim and co. has usually been quite good at getting that working.
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I referring to the title of the submission (notable because it's not the title of the article, which is against HN guidelines), which is currently "Fake Facebook accounts can be detected by when they post and the vocabulary used". I assume the top-level comment was referring to that as well. My comment up-thread was really mean to address that while it's true that knowing things with absolute certainty is hard, that shouldn't excuse us from making sure our claims aren't overly broad given the experiment and results.
> Except for the case of storing a lot of binary files, when Subversion repositories could be significantly smaller than Git ones (because Subversion’s xdelta delta compression algorithm works both for binary and text files).

Does this still hold true now that GitHub handles large binary files? https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-stora...
Though something in their pitch reminds me some superpower notebooks "L-something" 15 years ago, that were never produced, so I am a bit sceptical about the reality of this promise. But I wish them luck.
Lots of good stuff, also excited for:

* dirty schedulers improved

which means much better scheduling of long running NIFs from what I understand:

https://medium.com/@jlouis666/erlang-dirty-scheduler-overhea...
I disagree with most things NIMBY, but can you really fault people for not wanting a coal-burning power plant in their backyard given the sheer volume of pollutants released from them? It seems like a great thing that California hasn't approved a new one in 40 years.
Master baiters, you might say!
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It's just not necessary to be in Silicon Valley to build a great product. Once you've got a team of smart people, get out! "The Valley" and San Francisco have been overtaken by sales and marketing bros, anyway.
I couldn't understand if they are enabled by default or not still. I didn't see the announcement mentioning that...
In other words, this spec is on the easy part of micropayments. The hard part is undefined.
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Ok, we've attempted to make the title more accurate. If anybody suggests a better title, we can change it again.
Why are you worried people will think you're immature for sharing something interesting that has cursing in it? Immaturity is to be distracted by fuck to the point where you take to the comments and only contribute that you empathize before policing their chosen form of expression.
They state in the article that there are a lot of variables to account for when measuring battery savings - keeping it in high-performance mode likely makes it a more reliable control for testing against.