skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amara's law: we overestimate the impact in the short run, and underestimate it in the long run.
Systemd is undergoing continual scope creep.

It may have started as Poetterings way to handle some transient daemons on his laptop, but has since grown to cover containerized servers (hello CoreOS) and multiseat (effectively turning a single X86 computer into a desktop terminal server).

I sometimes wonder if the systemd people encourage the confusion about what systemd really is about, so that they can shortcircuit any debate by claiming their opposition is misunderstanding and therefore not fit to comment.
Unfortunately it's hard to separate this from legitimate requests for work sample based interviewing tasks.
It would be easy, if the agricultural industry was concerned about antibiotic resistance. Unfortunately, like most markets, externalities like that are hard to price in. If Farmer Bob takes the high road and stops using so many antibiotics, he'll lose some stock and get outcompeted by Farmer Bill. If the turkey farmers band together heroically and agree to reduce their use of antibiotics, uninformed consumers will choose chicken instead. And there's not enough governmental desire for them to regulate it - and local government would be outcompeted by imported goods that use antibiotics.
GFW project was started around 2004, and google was blocked years later. Let's see how it will turn out in 2024.
I have actually found questions with no answer that I eventually found the answer for myself (either from another site, trial and error, luck, or frightening insight). I have zero ability to add an answer for these tough problems.

The easy questions get answered quickly because it's a game. I don't play that game, I work for a living. I have the knowledge to contribute the long tail value of SO if I was able but I am not. I'm not sure there's a solution but that's the gripe I have.
IBM Scientists Achieve Storage Memory Breakthrough
I think the article is pretty light on the specifics.

There are parts of technology where you're absolutely right - if some mission-critical system is running on some old circuit, but it works reliably and maintenance is feasible, don't change it!

But other pieces of tech include the Windows 95 computer that is the only one anyone can do _____ with, because of some complex system that only runs on it. And anytime you do _____, you need to copy your data onto a file, and exclude some specifically formatted config file that you write in notepad, in order to get it done. And the whole system is a small project that could be feasibly implemented quickly and cheaply to run on modern computers.

So there are two sides to this, and arguing absolutes doesn't get us much closer to the truth.

From the article, it mentions that Social Security has a variety of legacy systems, and updates the ones that it thinks are the slowest and costliest. Which is the right way to think about it, so long as they have the technical expertise to make those judgements correctly.
> The US legislative process lives and dies on building alliances and horse-trading.

It used to, back in the day. That hasn't been the case for a while in today's extremely partisan environment where compromise is now a dirty word and presidential support for something makes it less likely to pass given the hostile congress that will remain even after Clinton wins.
Tesla Model S on Autopilot crashes
Spotify is in T-Mobile's Binge plan now
> Usually people bring civil suits in order to get justice for some wrong that has been done to them

The jury can decide whether some wrong has been done based on the facts of the case itself. If some wrong has been done, that's true regardless of who footed the bill. If no wrong has been done, that's true regardless of who footed the bill.

Judging cases based on who we do and do not like is something our justice system has been set up to avoid.
I think his point was that the boy's mom wasn't careful to ensure all the bacteria had actually been killed. The boy probably kept getting strep because some bacteria had survived and thus the bacteria could have become resistant to the antibiotic.
Replace "bots" with "internet" and this could have been a quote lifted from a circa-1995 Microsoft strategy meeting
I recently met several people who may become potential collaborators due to comments about what I'm working on (privacy-focused ad-tech), and I've met a few generally interesting people in the Bay Area to have lunch/dinner with here as well. I always reply to handwritten emails, my email is in my profile.
Then why is it then being pressed into service across distros?! Why not let it churn on in its own world somewhere out of the way until it settles down and the interfaces are more defined?
Seriously, we should find a solution for all those poor stranded railway passengers. Oh, wait, what are those tramway, buses, cabs, metro, rental cars, bikes and scooters are doing in front of the station. Hmmmm?
Indeed, for anyone interested => https://github.com/pulkin/esp8266-injection-example/issues/1
Sounds about right. This is the norm based from my experience interviewing with startups as an engineer. It shouldn't be acceptable to waste candidates time like this. Yet there is every motivation to since it's basically IP for free.
Sorting algorithms visualizer
I still find the whole "talent war is so competitive" statement a bit of a hype. Is there any data on this? There are millions of Engineers in the US.
https://www.uber.com/careers/list/20169/ here's a link to the career post for the alleged job title
By "system service", I meant analogous to everything under /etc/systemd/system - it should be operated the same way things like networking and printers, etc are handled.

I actually have some services (like Transmission) in /etc/systemd/system that are run on boot as arbitrary users, and they're completely detached from any user sessions (i.e. logging off will never kill them). It seems comparable to logging in, running `nohup transmission` and logging out, but without the weird "he logged out - how are his processes still running?" confusion.
Was going to say the same thing. My doctors have always told me to finish the prescription, but never once why.

My mother was a nurse so she always reminded me of the critical missing reason why, and I've always dutifully finished all antibiotics prescriptions as a result.

But that was a simple thing the doctors writing the prescription should have been doing themselves, and an apparent systemic failure of the medical profession to account for messy human psychology in a critical procedure.
I see; this is a very different workflow than I am describing (or am used to). While I understand it's useful as a snapshot, that's not a useful use of history in Git. In fact, it's quite useless, and I'd agree that those commits should not remain, and should be replaced with something useful.

But since context has been lost, that "useful" commit might just be a single, squashed one; I've observed this situation at work from others.

So, this is a situation where those users are digging their own hole.
Monster Project Management
a little bit of internet sleuthing on the username didn't turn up much, but it has been around for at least 5 months
Sounds awesome, would love to try it. Spent 5 minutes trying to sign up, but every variation of usernames that I tried were taken. This normally wouldn't be an issue to complain about, except that in order to test whether a username is available or not, I have to enter the username, password, and captcha every time.

Please please please tell me whether or not a username is taken as a type it before I go further.
Now your history is in two places and can't be inspected from a cli. If you ever stop paying github (for a private repo) or github goes out of business your data is lost.

Or you can use git to track this with merge commits and it comes along wherever you go.
One of the primary use cases of tmux/screen is to act as a base for Process Groups so that this does not happen.

There was a case for the init system doing this when unix was young. But changing it now breaks convention, and compat with other distros, without good cause.

Let me explain where I come from. At times I write distributed systems that expect to be based in a non-specific unix.
Whenever I mess around in an area such as process control, I carefully read the relevant section of Stevens and my distro's own docs (usually linux and until now I have tried to avoid caring about choice in init system). And - in these phases - I write in C because I don't trust that runtimes like python won't have wacky defaults that make the system hard to reason about.

This issue is a groaner, because it suggests that mainstream linux is becoming harder to reason about during development and debugging. Instead of being able to think clearly and tell the computer what to do, you will be constantly looking over your shoulder for unnecessary vagueries of your local systemd configuration and whatever quirks have been introduced by the neckbeard who owns commit rights to its default behaviours.

This bug and the abrasive german's response in the ticket suggest to me that there is a point in the near future where people who care about developing against the unix api will Bozo-bit systemd-affected distros altogether. Which would be a shame for all the good citizens who have steadily done low ego work towards those distros.
I like systemd. It solves a lot of problems and does some cool things. But it always worries me when they go around breaking stuff. Too often the response is something like tmux has been doing it wrong - use the new systemd-tmux service instead.
Also many of the SMS and MMS companies sign contracts for X messages per month with the telecom companies. If they have a slow month where they can't fulfill the obligations of the contract they'll resell their remaining capacity to another company in the space.
You mentioned it before I could! I'm somewhat amazed that site is still ticking, but I'm happy it is. I should make use of it more often... It even has some really nice features like being able to send email from your temporary address and more manual management of each temporary address you create. I highly recommend checking it out, even if the website looks old and strange, it's solid.

EDIT: Oh, and you can download the code for it and run it yourself if you want. Fantastic.
We used to make jokes about Emacs being bloated and how it would eventually be its own operating system, etc. systemd has gotten much closer to that point in a much shorter time.
I dont have time to review all 15 citations, it was the first one I picked based on the claim made in your document. It was also the most closely related claim that you linked to the document in question:

>"An investigation of 500 U.S. businesses found that
companies with more race and gender diverse
teams had higher sales revenue, more customers,
greater market share, and greater profits than did
less diverse companies.4"

You are being very uncharitable to suggest I am "grasping at straws" by reviewing the very document you are using as evidence.

Lets review page 3, each paragraph is a claim.

1. executive boards

2. executive boards

3. top management level

4. top management teams

5. greater profit and market share

6. student study make believe

Now you can see why I Chose 5 to investigate as 1-4,6 are pretty much unrelated to what we are talking about which is diversity of the work force, not high level management.
"She" did nothing of the sort. She told someone she wanted her email available. They said, ok, we'll just host it ourselves. "Whatever, I want my daily suduko and make sure I stop getting those damn linked-in spams". "Ok boss".

Seriously, how could anyone really believe she specc'd this out herself? Her staff probably threw it together as a MVP with the full intention of revisiting the implementation "really soon".

And then they lost interest.
Lots of good points.

However, regarding that only reason not to share - that primary differentiator which allows competition to overtake you. In many cases it's all there is.

When you start company, or a project, and - as it is in many cases - you're trying to find that one thing which you can present better than anybody - you only have that one thing. It's the reason you hope to survive and thrive.

Do you think it's a good idea to open source it? If yes, why?
Great post, related to my thoughts above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11783491

I think another important factor is the pseudo-realtime update loop that synchronization is tied to.

Unless there is some garbage collection between game state changes (unloading unused resources during a level, etc...), its rare that references are invalidated unexpectedly, or accessed in parallel to the cleanup step between game state changes.

eg. a global state change from RUN to CLEANUP tells the subsystems to stop using a resource, so during the CLEANUP state the subsystems can safely delete any resources they have ownership of.
No, this isn’t the start of the antibiotic apocalypse, just bad reporting
I like Yahoo's approach-- they do their disposable email aliases like this:

basename-spammerspecificsuffix@yahoo.com

Where basename is user-chosen (and not necessarily related to the real email address), and the suffix has to be registered ahead of time (so a spammer can't just start randomly generating suffixes to avoid filters).
Time to switch to one of the BSDs. I hear they're a better unix than unix and these systemd clowns are out of control.
In theory that would all be fine but this magical contract that I signed at birth some how which gives the IRS the right to commit violence against me some how doesn't sound as appealing as you make it.

When the three wolves vote to eat the sheep, the sheep is also 100% responsible because didn't you know? You signed this thing at birth that agreed to such a possible outcome!
I expect Obama would pardon her if necessary. Worth noting that Bill Clinton pardoned John Deutch for something remarkably similar when he left office.
FPGAs win in latency and I/O performance. Colleagues are running FPGA systems that handle nearly 100 Gbps of data. FPGAs will also get you latencies down in the microsecond range.
Happens all the time to me. I have an interview and they probe for details on how to solve a problem. It is what it is. Two of the three companies I liked hired me the second time I interviewed for them. I'm a freelancer, so I move around a lot.
There is no confusion unless one is clueness about unix.
Ebay. It'll take a bit of effort to gather up the obsolete materials yourself, but get a few obsolete drives, get a backdoor firmware in there, and wait until some .gov clicks buy it now.
Google wins Java lawsuit. Oracle sees future fight
I had this happen to me and some of my friends a long time (10y) ago while interviewing for different positions and Cisco.

It's why I always offer to present this kind of output only in person now. If they're scamming at least I don't throw away hours of work or ideas without first getting an opportunity to interview the hiring manager as well.
If you have a problem with that, use your own network.
Sometimes this could have negative impact if promoted too much right? Imagine the feeling that your peers thinking you're in management level because HR wants to meet the quotas and don't actually respect you for the talent.
Check his About page.
This. So much easier than trawling through terribly structured docs. I find the CLI version even more useful for this purpose.
""If you're not going to pay me what I'm currently getting paid"

Not sure exactly what this means. Are you saying that they're not paying you your salary, or something else?

What could they possibly sue you for? Do you have a contract with them that says you'll work for a particular salary for a fixed amount of time? If not, you're an "at-will" employee, and can leave at any time. In any case, I don't think they can drown you in legal fees because they seem to have nothing to sue you over. I'm pretty sure this startup's investors wouldn't be happy if the founders started pursuing frivolous lawsuits against their employees - it's a waste of money, and companies that have a reputation for suing their employees will find it very hard to recruit new employees.

If my employer made a crazy threat to sue me, I'd be looking for a new job right away.
This seems to align quite well with their number 1 value - 'hustle'. With all the cost-cutting going on in their US offices this seems like a good way for them to save some cash, and hustle their way to free research. I admire their guile, but hate the way they treat people.
> The problem is not with the software, it is with human drivers.

If the problem is with humans, then the remedy is to be found in updating either the training procedures necessary to qualify on this particular aircraft or with the pre-flight checklist.

Wait, we are talking about a car and drivers don't have specialized training but we have to take their error rate as given? Then the problem is with the software.

Is humans+autopilot is riskier than humans without autopilot?
...displaying a great example of why the free market is not the best way to handle healthcare and medical research. The availability of treatment has everything to do with profit, and little to do with need.
To be frank, my experience with configuration management has been a mix between "YES! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED!" and "...but it still doesn't adhere to immutable states." That's been true with Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, for me. I haven't experimented with other techs.
I can confirm they do ask homework questions that they could potentially steal work from. I interviewed for an ML position and was also given a fairly specific homework problem, and was not followed up on nor given information on how I failed when I asked. Of course I have no idea if they used my work or not, nor could I know.
There was another server for truly classified info + hard copies were used for sensitive stuff. Also, the official non-classified state department server was confirmed hacked during her tenure.

Excerpt:

How did Clinton receive and consume classified information?

The Secretary's office was located in a secure area. Classified information was viewed in hard copy by Clinton while in the office. While on travel, the State Department had rigorous protocols for her and traveling staff to receive and transmit information of all types.

A separate, closed email system was used by the State Department for the purpose of handling classified communications, which was designed to prevent such information from being transmitted anywhere other than within that system.
This is really the crux of the case no one is talking about. There seems to be this notion she set out to do this evil deceptive thing. She had no idea, if anything her underlings were to blame. It was a colossal error, and she's terrible at articulating just about anything, let alone this failure.

Our choices this cycle are extremely poor, but I'll take her finger on the button any day of the week over the real estate oompa loompa.
So where's the explanation of how nohup is broken enough to be worth breaking the rest of the way and replacing with a more complex non-portable alternative?
Primary care doc here. I agree that strep is "severe" as in "makes you uncomfortable with a fever, sore throat, enlarged tonsils, etc" but the infection generally resolves without antibiotics, if given proper time. The main rationale for treating strep pharyngitis (aside from appeasing patients) is prevention of rheumatic fever, a rare but devastating heart condition that occurs as a sequelae of untreated strep throat. Given the rareness of RF in the developed world, there are those in the infectious disease and primary care communities who think it is an excellent example of antibiotic overuse.
yup, so why bloat up the spec? Introducing a 3rd option that represents a non-deterministic remote state isn't entirely helpful IMO. Having the ability to abort the connection should be enough (which is a rejection).
Signup seems to be broken? I've tried a few 'random' (keyboard-mashing) usernames to no avail. As guptaneil pointed out, some immediate form feedback on username availability would be very helpful as well.
On Siberia's Ice Highway
Reactive Ruby: Building Real-Time Apps with JRuby and Ratpack
Definitely paranoid - the number of stories about bad things Uber does is a lot higher than any other company around! To believe this is competitors trying to throw dirt on Uber, why don't we see more negative press about other companies?

You'd have to believe that a significant number of parties are out to get Uber (and not others), which doesn't seem right to me?
The key words there are appeared better, meaning that the mother halted the treatment once the child was no longer symptomatic. Assuming that the author of the parent comment is from the US or EU then the amoxicillin would have been prescribed. If the course of treatment was carried out then there would not have been any amoxicillin left over.
Indeed. I believe she should be investigated and prosecuted for this, but I nevertheless think it remains a mostly credible claim with respect to Powell. If I understand correctly, Politifact makes the argument that Powell used a personal e-mail address at an established service whereas Clinton installed her own mail server.

As someone who believes strongly in revitalizing self-hosting, I find focusing on Hillary's use of a personal mail server (and not on the fact that it was not an official e-mail account, full stop) to be unfairly marginalizing personal mail servers or personal servers in general. There's nothing wrong about running your own mail server. The problem is running your own mail server to give yourself a personal e-mail account to use in your job as Secretary of State. But the key part is using a personal e-mail account for your job that involves dealing with highly sensitive and classified materials—an action that would get most government employees fired if not imprisoned.
Congress addressed the issue of security of government servers more generally by passing the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) in 2002. Her use of a rouge external server violates this law on every level. Clinton's predecessors have the defense that their terms preceded this law.
The jagged edges on straight lines is interesting, it looks to me like this could get closer to the input image with a little bit of intelligent anti-aliasing.
How do I order it or top up?
Yeah, studies show that many healthcare professionals don't wash their hands like they are supposed to. My guess is this is the primary vector for spreading disease in hospitals. I know it's kind of annoying to scrub your hands for 30 seconds multiple times per day, but it really is such a simple fix.

On a similar note, I have never once seen someone in my office wash their hands for more than 5 seconds. Also, on several occasions I've seen someone poop and simply run water over their hands for half a second. It boggles my mind.
Couldn't spammers just start sending to (rand).username@mailhero ?
"Do you assert that that doesn't happen?" Yes.

Many (most?) ethnic minorities are significantly more successful than whites in the US. Whites represent the largest group of people in the US living in poverty. Whites must face the entire ideology of diversity which is that they must be replaced by non-whites due to inherent moral inferiority. Wait you're right I think systematic disadvantage does happen..
Her underlings were speaking up and were promptly silenced.

"The first query was dismissed by Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, claiming that the requirement to use two devices for official and personal e-mail “didn’t make a lot of sense.” Staffers raised concerns again the next January, but were told by a director that Clinton had received approval for her private server, even though she never requested it. Furthermore, the same official “instructed the staff never to speak of the Secretary’s personal e-mail system again.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-know-hillary-lied-multiple...