skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't predict when the bubble will occur, but you can certainly brace for it. Hiring contingent workforces that can be immediately let go if tax receipts fall, not entering into any long term contracts with large penalties, based on the belief you will always have a large population, and, most, most importantly, don't enter into long term unfunded liabilities with the hope/prayer/belief that times will always be good, and that the future will be able to pay for the present. Unfunded Pension Liabilities (among many other things) crippled Detroit, Puerto Rico, and, very soon, Chicago.

Also - for large infrastructure investments, certainly issue bonds for things like water, sewer, hospital, basic infrastructure - but don't get too crazy/extravagant with Sport Stadiums, or overly complex derivative hedges that blow up if the economy tanks.

If you really want such nice toys for your city, consider saving for them rather than going into debt.

Municipal finances are not like Federal (or heck, even state) finances - you really do have to balance your books.
Yeesh. #2 hits close to home.

I think I've asked this question but I found myself a cofounder with 2 others that prioritized too highly IMO coffee meetings with "investors", no name board advisors, expensive conferences, and basically everything on that list. My approach was to gently voice my concern and but also let them do it in the hopes they'd see how useless it was. The other thing that didn't help was I was the "technical cofounder" and the attitude essentially was I didn't "get" business, and sometimes I wondered if they were right.

Interestingly both were woman, and I don't recall too much of #3. They definitely participated in women in tech type groups but I thought it was no different than any other useless networking others that aren't focused would do.

This will be definitely something I probe for in the future. Anyone looking for a cofounder? (I'm serious, and I have a cool little project we could do to see if we can build something people want together)
How Apple’s App Store search ads will affect developers and users
Thanks for open sourcing this. I know that can be hard to get through legal and can be something that is hard for people. Great to see this!
> No killer feature or guarantee of privacy or distributed solution is going to break the network effect of Facebook or Twitter now.

This is a key point. The reason free software and the open Internet have been able to achieve what they have was due to their first mover advantage. TCP/IP, email, and Linux itself all benefited from network effects. Absent that we would have likely wound up with something like AOL owned by a Baby Bell.
>This is a very limited type of communication. Asyncio with stuff like crossbar.io allow pub/sub.

Celery also supports pub/sub, and other topologies.

>So can your celery workers. It happened to me many times.

With the major difference that your tasks can be redelivered to a different worker, and so will complete anyway.

>Well, the main point of the article is that celery is solving >the GIL. It's not, it's bypassing it

I was agreeing with you there, but I guess my reply was not clear on that. I just wanted to point out some inaccuracies in your reply.

>coroutines and multiprocessing

Be careful using the multiprocessing module, it has some very serious bugs. I've spent the last 4 years rewriting parts of it for Celery
Probably somebody's birthday. And probably part of a bot.
I don't think there's a single blue badge (old colloquialism for "Microsoft employee") that believes BSD and nix are "competitors". Why wouldn't Azure run other OSes? It's not a virtualized Windows hosting service, it's a virtualized OS hosting service.

Agreed on other points made on this thread regarding pricing, though.
can you recommend a book for someone who wants to understand more about the US - IE what the declaration of independence and constitution are, and how the US got to where it is now? covering history and politics and anything else useful to really grok these types of discussions?
> Can we stop pretending the real world isn't full of douchebags?

OK. But don't miss the rest of what she said:

> So while I’ll tell you that it is going to be harder for you as a woman, it’s not going to be so much harder that it will make the difference between success and failure.

There's real sexism, still. It makes it harder for women. That's unfair. It shouldn't be that way. But while all that shouldn't be, and all that makes it harder for women, don't just look at "harder" and decide not to do it.
The entire point of this story (and others like it) is precisely that there is NO judicial oversight over this kind of police theft.
One of the reasons why the German atomic project was so much behind because there was no concerted effort, but instead several competing organizations (Wehrmacht, SS, Post ministry, possibly others) that didn't have nearly enough fissible material in the first place.
I think there's two domains in this case, one being "macro luck", the other "micro luck".

The rise of the PC, or the fall of the horse buggy are in the former category. They can be influenced, but individual contributions are often insignificant, and predicting their course is very hard.

Then there's "micro luck". Things like hiring a great engineer, finding the right investor, or including the right feature or line of copy fall into this category.

With these smaller random, but not fully random events you gain the ability to influence the outcome significantly. Want to find great engineers? Move to Silicon Valley, join your LUG, get wasted at DEFCON, these all significantly increase your chances of succeeding at that particular subtask. You get to make significantly more educated guesses at what works and what doesn't.

I think this is an important distinction, after which it becomes good practice to follow the advice in the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebur

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

I'm not particularly religious, but that has always seemed like good sense to me.
"So what's our next fight?"

I don't have a next fight. If I'm going to fight for something, it's going to be something a whole lot more important than computer software. Free software is here to stay. Success has occurred. I'm not going to grope around for another fight. Instead I'm going to harness my software freedoms to write software that does what I need it to do.
Rising health care costs are a classic example of the tragedy of the commons[1].

In general, human needs are boundless, and as long as the people who make decisions about healthcare use do not bear the associated costs, health care costs will keep increasing.

The costs are two-fold : the financial cost of the medication, the doctor’s visits or the procedure and the moral or existential cost to the person who receives the care.

I argue that even in a fully subsidized, “free” healthcare system costs would not rise as fast as they are now in the USA (and elsewhere in the developed world) as long as healthcare use was only decided by the patient, who is the only one to suffer during futile procedures.

It is not surprising that care is most expensive in the ICU and the long-term facilities for the demented or otherwise disabled — in those setting the patients themselves do not decide, and their families bear nor the actual costs nor the sufferings incurred.

Anecdotally, those family members who care the least in everyday life, who never come to see the patient, are those who push the most for expensive, pointless care, who demand that “everything be done”. Every day, demented patients are shipped, alone and frightened, to emergency rooms, where they are put into restraints and treated for their tenth episode of aspiration pneumonia while their next of kin stay home watching TV and never bother to come.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
At my last job, about 2/3 of the company was in the US and 1/3 was in China. Members of the China IT and Developer teams were always trying to get the US teams to put WeChat on our phones so they could send us questions and we always refused. They thought it was because we did not want them to send us questions after hours, but someone finally told one of the China Developers, while they visiting a US office, that no American would put WeChat on their phone because Americans considered everything WeChat handled to be accessible by the Chinese government. We did not want our calls and messages to be spied on by the Chinese government. We would not even tell them that over the phone because Americans just assumed that the Chinese government listens in on all calls to China.
Tesla's New Model S 60kWh Has a 75kWh Battery That's Software Limited
I mean last time I needed RabbitMQ I just used

https://github.com/Mayeu/ansible-playbook-rabbitmq

and it took 3 minutes. But I hear a lot of people saying not to use Celery because RabbitMQ is hard.. maybe people just have different standards for hard?
isn't that the conclusion of every marketing study? never stopped them.
Israeli startup presents $14,000 unhackable phone
Work on open source. Be active on message boards and other social places online where your target community spends a lot of time (twitter, etc). Write blog posts about things you've done and share them in those communities. It's not super fast, but it casts a wide net. And then even if people don't know you, they know about you. Eventually a lot of people will be like "hey, it's lj3, who always responds with intelligent and well-thought out answers... oh, and didn't lj3 write that cool proof of concept for x thing?"

And then you look for people you've interacted with in the community, see where they work, and talk to those people about whether or not their company is hiring. Always ask, even if their careers page doesn't have anything. You never know when a new headcount may have opened up, and just hasn't made it to the careers page yet.

Good luck!
It's dead easy to open source stuff at CloudFlare. We have an internal mailing list. Email was sent on March 11, 2016 requesting this. Everyone signed off (including legal) that day.
An application for chrome that will change the way you watch videos on web
> He assured me that this would make it easier to publish, and publishing was all that mattered. There were no bonus points for publishing a novel technique, and there would certainly be extra work having to deal with referees.

He was a terrible professor! Yes, publish or perish is real, but that's such a terrible, pessimistic attitude to have. Its like he had given up on trying to actually do research. Tell him to go become an adjunct.

My professor during my Master's adventure was insistent on publishing a lot. He didn't mind if it was little deltas. He burned the phrase "publish or perish" into my brain. But had I figured out something novel, he would have absolutely supported putting it out there. That would have been the whole point of doing this work! Deltas help you survive, but novel ideas are what you should strive for.
They could probably get away with keeping it but turning it into an off by default feature. Renaming the linker object file into telemetry.obj (or something entirely different) to enable it. It seems as though it wasn't really used though so I guess with the public outcry they just decided to axe it and be done with it.
I think things are different, just in ways that are not necessarily apparent to e.g. normal Americans living out their lives. Our awareness of what has changed is largely confined to the specifics of our individual lives (profession, community, subculture)... but as with newspaper reporting, we make assumptions about the parts we don't interact with as deeply, only noticing acute change when it's right in our domain.

I call this the 'postmodern Potemikin village'– the constructed and maintained illusion that the world we live in is in large part unchanged from the one we lived in in e.g. 1995 (and most definitely 1975).

The clearest way to clarify what I mean is in this HN venue is maybe to say that: the B2B realities that back to the B2P experiences of most people are radically different than the ones we grew up, in many industries, unrecognizably different.

It is only the 'last mile' to our doors and into our pockets that maintains the same branded feel.

The footnote to this is of course the ubiquity and centrality of the internet (including by mobile), I don't know if there's ever been such a radical change introduced so quickly and then so uniformly renormalized to.

In this one case it's less a lack of obvious change, but a change that brought with it such a deep sense of inevitability and obviousness that we forget it's new.

But back to the change thing.

Good examples are probably Amazon and Walmart. Depending on your social stratum, the role that these play is probably equivalently profound in your life. And the core logistics behind both business [models] is predicated on a set of technologies and integrations with other related industries that is radically unlike what came before it.

In our normal human lives, we don't see the scale of that change. We just 'order a bit more for home delivery' than our parents did. Or shop at a store that's yes, a little bigger.

But that sense of familiarity about the sourcing of our lives from those places is false.

Other examples include the slow-boil but now nearly complete homogenization of the commercial landscape in the US. If you didn't grow up in e.g. the 70s or earlier, the ubiquity of a couple hundred brands and the insignificance of anything but large regional competitors (aside from in a few exceptional industries perhaps) is actually a very different and quite new reality.

Again, we still e.g. stop for fast food. It's the scale and sophistication of consolidation that is genuinely new.

This is btw in no way a value judgment, just an observation.

The point is simply, the rate of change has not actually diminished...

...it's just that the majority of its effects are in domain outside the public sphere, and hence forgotten, discounted, or invisible a lot of the time.
Moving away from clojure? I can't get to the itch.io site from work for some reason, but saw an older version github. What were some of the factors in choosing lua? Has it been weird, difficult, or liberating?
From $4.5B to Nothing for Elizabeth Holmes
I'm surprised that hardly anyone is mentioning the activity wheel. That's the killer feature as far as I'm concerned. I don't know much about the science behind it, like if filling your activity wheel actually means you are doing a somewhat good job at being healthy, but I know that my settings are definitely keeping me more consistently active than I would by default otherwise. It's a key part of my life now, and I've filled that damned wheel about 95% of the days that I've owned the watch. Given that I'm not sure I would have improved my habits without it, I feel like it has definitely improved my life.

Other things that the watch has been a nice addition for - checking the weather over the next few hours by spinning the dial is very convenient. Receiving/reading messages while the phone isn't out.

The rest of it, not so much. The watch could be better at showing the time when you want to see it; I often have to tap the face. I rarely use Siri. I ignore calendar/mail entirely, phone works better. I dislike Apple Maps and use Google Maps instead. I could theoretically be in the market for a smaller/slimmer Apple fitness device.
Just a few http://www.rcfp.org/jailed-journalists
Comparing the speed of VM creation and SSH access of cloud providers
Heisenberg's greatest contribution to humanity may be his (accidental or intentional) scuttling of the Nazi nuclear program.
Tesla is shipping 75kWh batteries as 60kWh batteries, and requiring customers to pay an extra $8,500 to flip a configuration bit to unlock that last 15kwh.

I don't mind DRM for digital goods in which the variable cost is essentially $0, but this sort of DRM on physical goods leaves a yucky taste in my mouth. I'm curious how illegal it would be for someone to perform (and sell) a jailbreak/unlock for that last 15kWh of capacity.
even with surge pricing.
In the beginning (10.0 - 10.2 timeframe), OSX was pretty much broken if you wanted to work on software that was destined for Linux. Even the existing software was PITA to get running on OSX, you were fighting both autotools and OSX linker and libraries at once.
"I knew I was missing something in life, turns out it was more notifications."

Constant tracking, the physical web and augmented reality are so interesting yet so not what we really need. Not trying to burst any bubbles, just saying that if anyone is looking to this for inspiration, sure it may be the future of advertising and AI giving us what we need when we "need" it, but is it the future we really want?
You can invest in infrastructure.
SSL acceleration using NGINX and back end SSL connection identification
Our genomics workflows use dozens of packages even before I get the data and start really doing analysis, statistics, and plots. It's just not feasible to cite every bit of code we use (though we certainly point people to the higher level routines, which they can use to see what was run/how to reproduce the results).
That merely shows the problem with calling every tech boom a "bubble". Technology has been boom-and-bust in the Bay Area for decades, but there was only one bubble: 1996-2000. There have been technology booms since, but there have been no "bubbles" in the Bay Area tech economy since March, 2000.

Recessions, while painful, are much less extreme than bubble-bursts, and can (and should) be planned for.
I have "phantom" stock options that "vest" (such that they are actually worth something in the event of an acquisition) but both vested and unvested shares are forfeited if I leave the company under any circumstances. So there's one bit of anecdata for you. These were granted initially to a small handful of us near the beginning of the company and since, about a third of the original group have left, forfeiting their shares.

You get what you negotiate, I guess.
There's no question. Unlike, say, ibuprofen and acetaminophen, there is no "synergy bonus".

The added pain reduction effect of acetaminophen stands in no relation to what the opioid is doing. There's no research anywhere showing that the combined effect is any more than the literal addition of taking both (for which there would be no reason if you could just as easily take a tiny bit more of the opioid that you'd be taking any way).

All it does is take away an addict's choice not to wreck their liver. And the system encourages the availability of this unnecessarily dangerous substance by awarding it a less restrictive drug schedule.

The incentives are rather twisted in this particular case.

edit

> but it certainly has near term implications for severe abuse.

the implications being death and permanent liver damage (it's not actually stopping addicts). but looking only at the numbers, it seems to limit abuse, even in the near term. ugh.

edit 2 seeing some of the other comments, apparently it's not just this particular case. I only knew about this one
Have you even looked at statistics? I get the impression you haven't. Pandas has aggregation and that's it. I don't really like to start those language wars, but what the heck. Your precious pandas is actually worse than the R alternatives in every way. It is slower than data.table while having comparable syntax. Dplyr is comparable in speed while having WAY better syntax.
TIL about the s method..

Thanks for the tip!
CloudFlare was actually very encouraging. I emailed our internal open source legal mailing list and had responses from our CEO and Head of Product Strategy within 5 mins that were really excited about it. There was a brief concern about phishing, but that was quickly resolved. It was more difficult writing the blog post than getting legal's approval :P
Her analysis may not apply to women in general, but only to fortunate subgroups. Discrimination compounds at intersections. So the game becomes much harder for Latinas and African-American women.
Design for Programmers
Not the GP, but I'd settle to learn that in 2 to 5 years as "quickly".
Rescale (YC W12) is hiring a security-focused software engineer
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Responsibilities:
- Identify and define platform security requirements

- Design and implement platform security architecture

- Prepare and document standard operating procedures and protocols

- Develop technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities

- Ensure that security monitoring systems are in place and effective

- Willing to get your hands dirty in the code. Our stack consists of a set of Java and Python services

Location: San Francisco, onsite only

If you are interested or have questions, drop us a line at dev-jobs@rescale.com
DRM doesn't prevent privacy, it only professionalizes it. At some point the data is decrypted and crackers will take the data from there. You can only make copying harder, but not impossible. Pretty soon after release everything lands on the pirate bay.

The only people that are hindered are legitimate costumers. The playback might not work, because the monitor/projector because it doesn't support HDCP. With movies on Blurays they can't make copies for backups/to play the movie without a disc spinning/to play the movie on a device without a bluray drive. My sister cuts music pieces together for dancing, you can't do that with drm'd music. Pirating media often is hassle-free compared to the legal way.

The problem for customers is that compared to buying analog media or digital media without DRM you are restricted to simple playback and also in certified settings (certain programs, devices etc.). With streamed media the issue is not as bad, as you can compare it more to renting, but there are also issues (e.g. I need crappy silverlight to use amazon prime video in Safari).

My hope is that movie and series content owners will wake up the same way as music studios and book publishers. Selling music without DRM didn't hurt the music industry. Selling ebooks only with DRM led to the strong market position of Amazon with the Kindle.
Any paper I peer review better have source code available or they will hear about it. That said, yes, there isn't time (or funding) to actually re-run the entire analysis.
Commencement Address by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [pdf]
Uber: Schedule rides in advance
Should independent drivers be able to set their own price? General contractors charge a fixed price then subcontract out so it seems like the same model to me.
I couldn't figure out from the blog post why you switched from backbone to react. Could you talk a bit about the reasons?
Ask HN: Did you read Ben Horowitz's book?
How is TOTP being an open spec relevant? If $TOTP_APP does not work when you need it, it doesn't really matter. Even with a backed up secret.

All I'm really saying is that limited options does not mean "broken". It just means limited options.
So everything except mental focus?
What level of concurrency is required though? 99.9% of web request only needs concurrency at the user level, which standard python + fork will do just nicely.

Making a realtime system to crunch some massive numbers in 50 micros? Then you might want some C or Java concurrency. But much of the world is not coded at that level.
Whitelisting every site disabled by Ghostery (or whatever tracker-blocker someone uses) kinda defeats the purpose of having it in the first place.
Generation Snowflake: hysterical young women who can’t cope with being offended