skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A surprising (to me) benefit of going from a car-based life for 35 years to a car-less life is that more frequent grocery trips have given me incentive to move away from processed foods to fresher foods.

Shopping once every 7 or 10 days obviates the advantage of the freshest produce, meat, etc. but when I'm shopping every couple days it makes a difference, and I've enjoyed cooking and eating more.
Take 2 weeks off and buy an airplane ticket asap.

It helps to have something to look forward to.

Go to a different country, a change of scenery, new cultures to explore are always a great way to take your mind off the daily grind.
This is how it should work, in theory. However, in practice, with ES whenever a single node went down the whole cluster would fail. Trying to add a new member to the cluster never worked, nor did trying to recover the failed node, hence the cluster-swap.

It doesn't help that their logging (at least pre v2) is incredibly dense.
> The only immigration related topic I've heard him talk about is illegal immigration, not legal immigration.

Aside from talking about currently illegal immigration, he's also talked about a ban on foreign Muslims (the details of which have morphed over time), he's talked about curtailing existing legal immigration programs (focssing on the H-1B, but he's also said he'd implement an "absolute requirement to hire Americans first for every visa and immigration program" -- which doesn't even make sense for many visa categories and immigration programs [including the main US set of immigration visa categories, which are the family-based categories], but its what he said), he's suggested increased application and other fees for existing legal immigration programs.
> That's because Britain is essentially ripping up its free trade deal with the rest of Europe.

Countries can engage in free trade deals without losing their sovereignty. For instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_F...

This hasn't entailed Canada adopting the US dollar or joining the US as the 51st state.
I don't disagree that the US healthcare system is the exact opposite of a free market. But I do disagree that it would be impossible for a functioning healthcare system to exist without the gov't.
Currently, VCs must fund salary increases to keep pace with rent hikes. Renting apartments for employees just shuffles the numbers around. VCs could buy their way out of exposure to this phenomenon by owning their employee's homes and not increasing the rent.

Yes, this is a bet on rising home prices in the Bay Area, but that seems basically equal to a bet on the Bay Area tech ecosystem, which is already their core business.
Hum... not that much.

I partially take back my comment, but only because there were plenty of vendors using BSD. As much as I would wish it to be a micro-kernel RTOS with just the needed functionality, it often isn't.
> This is a legitimate question, not a criticism: why do you think that you, specifically, will be the scapegoat?

Because I am the lead developer on this project and the manager of this project was always unavailable to escalations / concerns. In the end I just think he'd wipe his hands off and say he was never involved in this project ( though he is supposed to be working 50% on this project)
If this is in fact true, does this mean FB is poised to disrupt the ~$2B/year online dating industry?

Totally serious btw. Right now FB plays a pivotal role in how people declare their relationship status. They already have tons of photos, they already have the users, they already have an ad model that is way more profitable than OKCupid or PoF. They also likely have the data and ability to determine when someone might be about to break up and how compatible people might be. And any added fields for self-reported compatibility data would be gravy for their targeting.

It also seems they have an advantage over most online dating sites in that they don't have the problem of it being more profitable for users to not find their true love. If a couple stays together, they get married, have kids, etc. which likely leads to further engagement with FB.
Most VCs wouldn't let you do that. They want you nearby.
Honestly do you really think that this rises to that level of government intervention in business practices of private companies?
I think pairing an app on your smart phone would be an easier solution. It's not offline as the device presented, but it would be easier for the average user to get into and to have them start generating different passwords for each service they use online. Plus, I think it would be easier to integrate 2FA this way as well if we're assuming the average service either uses SMS or Google's Authenticator for their the process. And another plus is if the phone has a finger print scanner, it'll make it way easier to unlock the password manager to filling in the logins.
Not Linux, but JunOS on seriously large core routers (T1600, MX960, etc) is a direct FreeBSD derivative.
It actually sounds a lot like the old Vonnegut talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ

non video description https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/kurt-...

the talk is funny though, i saw him give a much longer version.
IF you have enough time to push an update that causes people's computers to shut down and install a new operating system in the middle of a Skype call, then you have enough time to fix that glaring problem.
> You're asking people to effectively vote against their own best interests because it's in the best interests of someone else.

I'm asking people to consider the fundamental rights of others and to notice that they're at risk. Compared to putting up with the status quo for a bit longer, losing fundamental rights and being discriminated against by the government is a much larger issue.

I'm asking people to put up with the status quo for a bit more because the only alternative is discrimination and would take away fundamental rights of others.
> For someone with no responsibilities except work, 70 hour weeks are sustainable (did it for 3 years, not to be recommended, but no burnout.)

Folks in the military do 84-hour work weeks when deployed (twelve on/twelve off — and really, with 30-60 minutes of handover time factored in it works out to 91-98 hours/week), and are deployed for up to a year. It's brutal, but it is sustainable. Having no other responsibilities to think of probably helps; I've no idea how distracting modern communications technology is to folks with families.
According to Jeff Speck (https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/d...) 1 way streets have a negative economic impact for the business that line those streets. Which I think makes intuitive sense. Anyway, that doesn't matter in C:S, but it probably matters in the real world.
Don't startup incubators long predate the show?
If that's true, then why don't they suggest moving somewhere else?
"The bigger point (and the dirty secret of globalism) is that nobody can really afford labor, especially multinationals."

That's a lie they tell you. McDonalds may not to some degree. I've worked with many companies that are low-margin, including food companies. The low-cost, food industry is tough enough that tradeoffs can be harsh. $15 might be too much to ask for them. But better than minimum wage, crazy scheduling (below), pushing them to skip breaks, and so on? Yeah, they can do it but don't want to. What's common in most of these are tons of highly-paid, corporate people with expenses, catered meetings, jets, 8-digit CEO's, and so on. Almost all I've ever worked for could afford all that but not labor that generates revenue. Strange, eh?

https://populardemocracy.org/sites/default/files/HarpersMaga...

Anyway, I like citing rebels from low-margin industries to disprove the general claim that people can't be paid well. I mean, we had an article on Hacker News recently showing all the big companies used to do it but switched to a shareholder focus. But what about companies making pennies on the dollar? Two favorites:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2013/07/24/the-wal-...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/19/reasons-love-costco...

These companies operate in a very-rough industry where margins usually range from below 1 to about 3.5% for Walmart. Most companies in it are clear people can't and shouldn't be paid almost anything unless they're management, executives, or board members. Yet, these two do the opposite with more profit as a result than most of them. Also show you can get good executives in 6-digit range instead of 8-digits. Lean, too, with Publix having a 200 to 1 worker to manager ratio without breaking a sweat. Motivated people and their supervisors, esp with financial stake in earnings, tend to manage themselves mostly.

So, even if I conceded McDonalds after seeing detailed accounting, I'd still like to take a closer look at the books and management practices of most of these other companies that say they can't afford labor. I think they probably can if a lower-margin business can. Just a hunch.
I don't think it's that crazy, it's five 12 hour days and then 10 hours over the weekend. It's a lot of work, but without kids and other responsibilities it's doable. 70 hours of working is usually only 40-50 of real programming / hardcore thinking, there's always internet surfing, lunch, chit chat, etc. mingled in.
I'm talking more about people who have grow up and have families. That stuff gets boring after you get older.
If a contract is opaque to you, you get a lawyer to look it over. End of story. If you sign a contract that is opaque to you, without talking to a lawyer or at least someone knowledgeable (e.g. personal friends that are senior engineers that have talked to lawyers), you only have yourself to blame, not Silicon Valley.

It goes without saying that I've rarely found the contracts I've signed to be opaque.
No. By my definition (lay, may be wrong), the probability is the ratio of heads to tails to which we converge at the limit (infinity). The only way for it to converge to 0 is if the probability of heads was 0 to begin with, which would contradict the initial assertion that it was a fair coin.

This seems problematic to me. You can not perform an infinite number of coin tosses and know to what the relative frequency converges. So how do you conclude that a fair coin has probability of 0.5 for heads then? I can't really put my finger on it, but that argument is somehow circular. The probability is what the relative frequency converges to and I can not get anything other than 0.5 because that means to probability would have to have been not 0.5 to begin with. I can really only say that I disagree, I just can't pin it down exactly.

Are you familiar with the argument of whether 0.999... equals 1? (Spoiler: it does) Some people have a really hard time coming to terms with it, and the fundamental problem for many comes down to the same difficulty of reasoning about infinity.

I am aware of that and it seems totally obvious to me. And I also certainly know that infinity is not just a really huge number, but I am not sure I internalized that well enough to not make any mistakes because of the difference. Actually I am pretty sure I make mistakes because of that.
Hmm not bad. Embarking / disembarking sounds difficult for the handicapped but I'm sure that's work-around-able. I'd be interested in seeing more cities adopt quick transportation like this even if it's in a different but similar form.
Bad ones, sure. But I got all 6 poems right in that case as well. I had to read them carefully and think about it, but I still got them all.
It is, but the equivalent is "people with high end headphones replace their headphone cable all the time".

And if the rumours are true that Apple will release a lightning -> 3.5 mm female for standard earphones, there's nothing stopping them (or someone else) releasing a lightning -> 3.5 mm male to replace that cable.
It would be nice to be able to put specific issues into "moderated" mode. I want to approve comments on divisive issues before everyone is spammed with email.
If you assume a 7 day work week, it's less crazy from an hours-in-the-day perspective, but more crazy from a no-recover-time perspective. I kind of assume the hours a week number is somewhat inclusive of non-specific work items. It may include a lunch where you are on the computer but not specifically working, such as watching a few short videos, and time spent on HN and other social/information resources, which may be somewhat relaxing.

Not everyone means the same thing when they say something like "15 hour work day". That said, I think short busts of non work specific activity without changing your surrounding is no substitute for changing your surroundings and context enough to switch gears for a while. A trip to the local coffee house with coworkers where you still discuss work is a poor substitute for an extra 15-30 minutes at the end of the day where get out and do something entirely different.
Examples in tutorial uses Monaco [1] which is integrated in various Microsoft tools not only VS (Code) and also open-sourced. If you do not like it then there is i.e Ideone [2] which gives possibility to play around with C# online without tinkering with the VS installation which may be too lengthy.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/index.html

[2] http://ideone.com/
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-empirical_mass_formula
> But if you think about it, it has the exact same problem: until you reboot, your Linux box is still running the known-buggy code.

This has not been true for some time, and not in any mainstream distributions currently that come to mind.
It appears that they have done a decent job of identifying full-time Airbnb operations, so it wouldn't be a big leap to think that the 8,058 units they identified as "impact listings" are not on the market because of Airbnb and that they would be if Airbnb were suddenly no longer an option.
All of these issues sound like they should be fairly easy to resolve with the tech.

The unit should have an internal map of the company and know where each employees desk is, you shouldn't have to manually drive it around an unknown office, thats just crazy! I'm sure the fact that it doesn't is a result of it still being in the novelty phase, but I would think the industry might get serious about this technology as teams become more and more distributed. Anything that simulates the effect of presence is going to be very valuable and detrimental to the communication of the future distributed workforce. I think VR/AR will ultimately take over this space, but these roving camera/screen's might be a good interim solution.
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Yes, a capitalist venture program is a communist plot. Is this a joke or what? These things are only being promoted by YC because in the long run they are good for the capitalists.
I've been working on my latest project for about 5 years (before that I spent 5 years on a project which ended in failure) with my latest project, the market has kept changing and I keep pivoting in subtle ways to stay relevant.

I've never raised any funding and I'm competing against really well funded startups so basically every few months, I see some other company implement my idea (ahead of me) and I have to keep refining the idea and narrowing my target market in order to stay competitive.

I managed to find some people to join the project so it's a bit better now but much of the weight is still on me.
What's the light at the end? What's the train and why is it going to get dark and ugly? I'm not being facetious, I'm wondering if you're feeling the same thing as me.
In this particular case I think it was fairly obvious, not so much because of the meaningfulness of the human-written poems (though the poems that were written by humans did clearly have meaning associated with them), but more because the machine-written poems were very awkward.

Sonnet 1 was about a person mourning their mother who died in a car accident. It read well and made sense, so I would have been very surprised if it were written by a machine.

Sonnet 2 didn't make sense, but more than that there were very awkward constructs. Rhyming "drawer" (the furniture) with "door" and "drawers" (the undergarments) with "floors" in the same quatrain reads very poorly. "Sergeant" does not rhyme with "apartment".

Sonnet 3 was about something (a growing plant), and it reads well, so it was written by a human.

Sonnet 4 was about something (Joy, a personification of the emotion), and it read well. "Joy" being consistently capitalized throughout was a subtlety that convinced me it was written by a human.

Sonnet 5 had more awkward constructs. "Shame" and "Tame", "Inflame" and "Came" in the same stanza. "Bring" and "wandering" don't really rhyme. The last stanza is just weird -- "hear" is supposed to rhyme with "cheer", "cheers" (which is the line right before "cheer"...) is supposed to rhyme with "roars" (?), and "nights" is supposed to rhyme with "respects"? Again, it didn't really make any sense.

Sonnet 6 was similar to Sonnet 3. It's about something (a growing plant again), and it reads well again.
Well nothing in the diagram here says anything about onStop being not guaranteed:

https://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifec...
Why doesn't everyone just exercise as soon as they join a company? At least at earlier stage startups, it seems that the amount of salary offered as compansation is at least an order of magnitude more than the amount of options. Given this ratio, it seems like most employees should have enough in liquid savings after even a few years to avoid taxes on the appreciation between stock grant and vest times.

Of course, there's the possibility that a startup will tank, but even in that case, losing out on having bought stock seems much smaller than the opportunity cost of not having worked at a sure-bet tech giant.
seems pretty natural to put the questions you have answers to into your reader's head and then answer them.
Yes, because you are ignoring the fact that most engineers that make money off stock options are doing so at well-established startups that haven't gone IPO yet. Companies like Airbnb, etc. 4 years ago, everyone knew Airbnb, Pinterest, etc., would be successful.
Humor me here, I'm just a dumb ol' linux guy, with no real Windows programming experience at all. Truly.

The title of this article caught my eye: "kernel font fuzzing". Seems that both Silbershatz and Tanenbaum missed an entire chapter worth of kernel-related material: font handling. But if I get down off my linux high horse, I can see that the Win32 subsystem should have font handling. The question I have is: why does the kernel end up doing that? Don't the kernel programmers end up putting huge amounts of code in Ring 0/kernel space that really shouldn't be there? Doesn't putting font handling in the kernel make for slow/difficult development? Honestly, I don't get it. Why is font handling in the Windows kernel?
You could always have Japanese style zoning. To simplify a lot, you can build houses in residential zones, you can build stores or houses in commercial zones, and you can build factories, stores, or houses in industrial zones. So people who want peace and quite have a place for it and nobody is allowed to surprise you with a pig offal disposal site next door. But if people really want to build houses in an industrial zone they can.
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Fascinating reading. There were nor programmers, neither bots at that time. Conveyor belt existed though ang Mr. Ford was making his black magic from condensed sweat of American workers.
I think this is actually something more people need to be aware of. When I found out a good friend of mine was in this position, a lot of my opinions about immigration and foreign workers changed. To me it is of a similar spirit to the condition of Bangladeshsi workers we hear about from time to time.
I'm not entirely sure about that.. Node.js has made huge inroads in the 6-7 years it's been around, and Go is pretty popular in some circles as well. Also, look at how RoR grew. It's entirely possible we'll see a shift towards .Net away from Java as an option for lots of projects.

Especially as the tooling for micro-services and docker (or similar) gain traction moving forward. C# is pretty well supported, and at least here in Phoenix is about as common as Java is... can't speak for other metro areas.

I've been a pretty big node.js fan, and haven't used C# as much the last few years, but I wouldn't count it out. Two years ago, C# wouldn't have been on my radar for a new project, now it's entirely possible, given the opportunity for better cross platform deployments.
The fire soon fire often ideology is stupid advice for anything but a small startup. The reason it's stupid advice is that you already have a bunch of people that over time will develop their own politics in the organization, and they will then exercise power in the organization using that politics. For instance the developers will figure out ways of working less by overestimating everything or forcing project managers to do additional work to delay things, and any new developer that does not get the games that they are playing will be denied enough information by the lead developer to do his job properly and will be promptly fired for that. Any new comer that does not adhere to their politics will be fired. All that this sort of advice does is it maintains cultures, whether they are positive or negative. Good team players can get kicked out to maintain the rotten apples or vice verse and often upper management is clueless to what's actually going on.
Snowden's making up to $1.25M/yr on speaking fees plus script consulting for Oliver Stone. Nice bump from gov't payscale. Though not enough to compensate for being under 24/7 FSB watch.
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Almost by definition, a terrorist is on the other side of the conflict. Therefore, relative to the US, they are not terrorists.
Interesting. That's also how I felt the first time I ever used Twilio, having come from a background including telephony (including wrestling Asterisk). I can easily tell Fred has also been exposed to the hellish nightmare of telephony in his past at some point. You can't really imagine just how bad it used to be, even with the Asterisk project. For example I have a fairly large library of computer books (perhaps five or six shelves) in my office ("laboratory"). The thickest book in that place by far is the Asterisk animal book from O'Reilly. The next thickest book is Sendmail's animal book. Twilio really did do something totally amazing.
You can opt out by creating a background process. The thing that makes that part complicated is that there is a background process lifecycle to learn (including interactions between a UI process and background process). Also, Windows wants a bit more of an explicit knowledge than say classic Win32 about what the background process is for so it can best manage it.

The support for background processes continues to improve. Windows 10, for instance, now supports a "single instance" background processing model where background processes can be seen as an invocation of the UI app (if already running) and vice versa (the UI app is presented as an invocation to the background process if that is already running) with hand-offs from one to the other, simplifying the programming of some of the interactions between background and UI for some apps.
Why? There's plenty of rumours that Apple will launch a lightning -> 3.5 mm female for existing headphones to plug into. If they're doing that, there's nothing to stop them creating a lightning -> 3.5 mm male to plug into these kinds of headphone.
English is not my first language, so I am curious. When you say 'in tears' are you using some metaphor or was she actually crying?
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