skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> solutions all point to markets

It's amazing how this merry-go-round of meaningless and misleading language gets echoed in an echo chamber unquestioned.

The USSR had markets just like the US did. You go to the store, you see radishes and milk, you buy radishes with your rubles at this market, you go to another store, you buy the blue shirt instead of the tan one with your rubles. The markets are the same. What do I have to twist my thought process around to think they are not the same.

Not to go off on another tangent, but that store could be privately or state owned in Russia. Just like liquor stores and post offices can be state owned in the US. The transistor and Internet was created in the US by government spending and government granting of monopolies (read the MCI lawsuit papers) The ARPAnet and NSFnet were not allowed commercial traffic until the 1990s. Then there is the Federal Reserve, NSF, DARPA, bank bailouts - the US economy has been government-directed since WWII, as Warren Buffett's father pointed out in Congress back when that all started.
I think the rule of thumb is that biology textbooks are 5 years out of date by the time they're published, so getting a slightly older edition is very practical.
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Is it even right to try to compare this with New Relic? Prometheus looks very interesting and I'm trying to figure out if this is something useful to us. Thanks!
Completely unrelated to the bay area but some strip clubs prefer nerdy Indian and Asian customers more than other races.

These are the guys with some disposable income and no inclination to cause trouble. Model customers for such businesses.

In strip club land, trouble = drugs, prostitution, arms, fights, gangs etc.
Socialists don't understand economy so there you go
You say "Trump has done really well in business", but has he? No one knows his actual net worth, and numerous undertakings of his have been abject failures. Without his father's money, it's hard to see how Trump would be anything today.
Is this only available in select locations/cities, then? I'm not sure I'd terribly like a huge app downloading a world of information for monuments and things in cities/countries I'll never use.

It might be a good idea to look into post-install "city pack" downloads, where you can download some subset of data for cities you care about (or are about to travel to). Might be kind of neat also, and opens up a cognitive gate to letting people potentially just "browse" beacon information remotely in the cities they care about.
You're describing some things you don't like about being at work, but how do we know which of all these things are actually detrimental to brain function?

Why is programming, being in a meeting, making peace with the annoying coworker or having to be sneaky about reading HN more damaging to our brains than playing a shooter game at home for five hours, having a heated debate with a friend, bingeing on some TV show or contributing to an open source project in your spare time?

Maybe the only thing that really matters is whether we are forced to keep doing something once we get tired of it and would rather do something else.

Maybe all this study reveals is for how many hours the average worker likes doing what they are forced to do at work. That wouldn't tell us very about what work does to the brain function of someone who is exceptionally motivated and loves to keep doing what they do for 16 hours per day.
Socialism just advocates for collective ownership, without specifying the scale or scope of that collective. It does not have to be the state government, and could, for example, be a group of football fans.
> I think I'd skip an industrialization like that.

Then you could enjoy Holodomor every day thanks to the unfortunate fact that you happened to occupy some prime Lebensraum.

Stalin was a mass murderer, but he ultimately made or allowed the correct strategy to put the USSR in a position to defeat Germany, which was a pretty good trick (to put it lightly).
Would they, though? I think it is a plausible argument that things would have been less likely to go south if the opposing force knew the U.S. forces were there to step in if necessary. While things might still have ended badly, I think there's no question that pulling the U.S. troops out so soon made the collapse a certainty.
Hey, this isn't about me, it's about making future comment threads you participate in not suck.
This is not a distinction, but a generalization, or abstraction that better describes the phenomenon and your assertion that a state controlled economy may be contemplated without respect to the ideology to which it conforms is dubious.
There are some interesting bits in here, such as that Incense, which attracts Pokemon to your current location, is 5x more effective when you're moving vs standing still.

Items {
TemplateId: "ITEM_INCENSE_ORDINARY"
Item {
UniqueId: 401
ItemType: ITEM_TYPE_INCENSE
Category: ITEM_CATEGORY_INCENSE
Incense {
IncenseLifetimeSeconds: 1800
StandingTimeBetweenEncountersSec: 300
MovingTimeBetweenEncounterSec: 60
DistanceRequiredForShorterIntervalMeters: 200
}
}
}
Well, I have to use OpenGL for my development, and it's a giant state machine that works mainly via side-effects. It's notoriously frustrating to work with, but that's life. I realize not all code works that way, but I'd bet the majority of code does.

I suspect your sample is a bit skewed.

The Smalltalk class library wasn't stateless. It certainly wasn't pure. Really, code only has to be "pretty good" for such techniques to work well.
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Colombian here. You can't even compare the situation to what's happening in Venezuela. There's a lot of corruption in south america but Venezuela is total disaster right now because of the totalitarian goverment.
In that case the whole thing is even sadder. If the venture was doomed from the start they didn't need to bring down everyone else with them.

You seem to think there needs to be a solution to this that somehow maintains the status quo of VC funded ventures. I personally don't. You're welcome to come up with a solution. I'm not the one to brainstorm it with.
This is why I work from home. I can work in sprints and take breaks to make food, exercise, run errands and play video games. You will have to drag me back to an office 9-5 at gunpoint.
If history is a guide, I suspect it will just increase the size and complexity of apps. Its amazing what small teams with serverless architectures can accomplish nowadays.
How about the interstate highway system then? As far as I can tell, it is pure socialism.
Question: who wrote the book?

> Howard Kaminsky, the former Random House head, laughed and said, “Trump didn’t write a postcard for us!”

Is that a lie? Because Trump says:

> I wrote the book. I wrote the book. It was my book.

One of them is lying.

The point of the article is not about whether Schwartz "likes" Trump. It's about truth versus fiction.

When two people's accounts are flatly contradictory, it doesn't mean that one of them is "biased." It means that one of them is wrong.
No, the idea is simple - the servers are invisible to the user, he doesn't know what or how many are in use.

Since the servers are completely abstracted away, they could have just as well not be - hence serverless.

An analogy escapes me but I sure there are some.
"Of course democracy is not incompatible with Communism. How could it be when the people are enthusiastic supporters of Communism?"

There were/are enthusiastic supporters for some of the worst causes.[1]

Also, historically, comunism did not support occidental democracy systems.[2]

[1]http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/new-isis-islamic-state-daesh-a...

[2] https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1918/xx/principles....
> My thought is that if companies simply paid people as much as they could, all of this would go away.

It would also go away if employees would simply take whatever the company's first offer is.

Neither are very realistic suggestions.
No one is asking who are the Turks looking for someone like Hitler.
I've experienced more loss of data and programs when upgrading minor versions of Android, iOS and OS X than I ever have upgrading to Windows 10, which is running on no less than seven computers in my house.

My wife upgraded her laptop and the TV/Kodi computer that I built for her on her own. She's an elementary school teacher and by no means is she a computer professional. It wasn't scary at all. She didn't lose anything and she has a LOT of apps on her laptop.

If she had lost something, it wouldn't have been lost for long because A) we had backups and B) when Windows removes a program during an upgrade, it doesn't remove all of the app data so at worst you have to run an installer...big deal.
He holds wide appeal despite what most sources would tell you, he was as popular with elites as Bernie Sanders. He would not have made it this far without receiving record numbers of votes.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/trump-trumps-wins-hi...

> As a result Trump has more votes than any candidate in Republican history.
What evidence could there be, beyond a common assertion?

I have admired software, but art is not simply that which is admired. I have admired tools, and have been happy with them even while they sit beside me, unused.

I may write this comment without expecting it to be admired for its luster. I may write a lyric poem with quite different hopes. It is hard to say just what art is, but I imagine many would agree that writing may or may not be an artistic practice. The same goes for pencilwork; I could be tallying in a margin or sketching a scene. It all depends on how one goes about it, and what one makes—and to what purpose it is made.

As with art, almost all software is forgettable, most of it is a poor copy of something already done well long ago, and the best it can hope for in future is to take up a few minutes of an archivist's life. Still, it may have been worth making.
Isn't that an ad hominem attack?

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
I think that's a very plausible conclusion. I've been working up something along the same lines (further justifying the underlying concept). The mechanism you're using is essentially the genetic algorithm, and that depends on being fed an extensive diet of 'not brilliant' people to throw semi-complete and individually failing ideas into the mix until you get a lucky combination.

It is indeed science, just maybe not the science you expected :)
The idea of using a bash script is not original. People have been writing custom bash scripts since about 1989. Why does it matter that the project was written in the same language if the argument is that they've copied your idea?

As for the specific colors, many people use those color choices when designing a CLI.
It is hard not to like him. But as a recovering linguist (not the programming kind), I find him strangely approachable.

I wish I had his code and programming abilities. He seems like such an interesting guy. Every once in a while Perl6 comes up. I read about it, and like Perl 5 but more so (at least Perl 5 I have used from time to time), but it seems like such an impressively rigorous build-up of work by hardcore veterans. Most of his jokes come off as sarcastically arrogant, and I enjoy how he pokes fun at his work and himself. I only kind of worry about the Perl Jam security talks his "doctor it hurts when I laugh" retort, because malicious doctors force you to laugh all damn day and steal PII and run up your bills online with malicious transactions. I do not want to dismiss TIMTOWTDI, but if you have a limited set of bad ways to do it, you cannot expect people to ignore it. This shows a weird kind of idealism to me in the one area we know idealists do not lurk.

Jokes aside, I will always see him in a special light. If only I could honor him better by churning out some Perl!
Indeed, this is the difference between socialism in a free market and socialism in a command economy. While the former may try to influence the market (through social programs, state investment, money supply), it still must bend with the winds of market forces.

The latter is an imposition of structure irrespective of the market: It might be seen more as a rigid body that can stand in certain conditions but begins to buckle once the wind changes.
Well if I can't use it now due the constrains mentioned above it is dead to me. Would you bet your project on Google functions[0]?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/
>since 2004

That's after two Chavez elections. Then the people were voting for Communism well before the elections were rigged in an observable way
Yeah, completely agree.

I should rephrase: "This is solved by modeling your data as documents whether or not that is its natural structure."
You might also look at the geocaching community. They might make for some great partners to get the word out about your startup's use & potential to a slice of your target market. Probably just need to coordinate some event(s) and donate/lend some of your hardware and you could find some loyal fans.

Not sure if it'd work out or be worth it, of course, but an idea.
No. Some of us would contend that the basic tenets of socialism cause a society to degenerate in the same way. Communism brings it on brutally, all of a sudden.

Besides, Venezuela considers itself socialist. "21st century socialism", they proudly named it.
A couple of years back, I burned out a friend's tweeters by hooking up an Arduino's 31.25kHz PWM to his stereo system. Worked fine at first, but it eventually melted his tweeters. I figured the stereo would low-pass-filter the input for me, and I paid the price.

The PC speaker didn't have PWM; it had a square-wave generator with adjustable frequency. Very few 1980s programs achieved anything even approaching decent sound quality using the PC speaker, although by the 90s, CPUs were fast enough that it was reasonably feasible. In the late 90s, I used to patch my Linux kernel with an unofficial driver that provided arbitrary PCM output via the PC speaker. It was glitchy if I left interrupts disabled during IDE disk accesses, which was the default at the time due to some buggy IDE devices that would sometimes corrupt data if you didn't. Fortunately, mine wasn't one of them.

I feel like PDM is just as simple as PWM and often gives better quality, and an R-2R DAC like a Covox is arguably just as simple as PWM and gives dramatically better quality. You need a few more pins, though, or a 74595.
All of which goes to show that a novel can be highly influential and immensely successful albeit that it's badly written, incoherent, very long and subject to scathing critiques as in:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
While I don't have specific examples of this being abused. I would point out that there are actually country/region specific app stores, not one unified store. It's very common for software to not release globally. For example, much to the chagrin of most of my Thai friends, Pokemon Go is still not available in Thailand.
I always find it strange that Genghis Khan is used as an example this way. He was solely responsible for one of the largest economic revolutions in history by uniting the Silk Road, standardizing a writing system, and ran a meritocratic society. So yeah of course he could fix it, he's one of the most successful rulers of all time by all metrics.

Edit: Yeah, obviously he and his conquest killed a lot of people. And yeah, in this case it was a metric of success for him and his empire.
So apparently "serverless" means you don't have to requisition a cloud instance to run the service.

I remember this movie the first time around, when it was called "virtual hosting". What a revolution -- transitioning from needing a Unix box running Apache to run your PHP e-commerce site to having your host take care of that for you -- and everybody else.

Just because you're doing something old "in the cloud" now doesn't make it a new thing. Just like you can't append "...with a computer" to an existing method and get something patentable.
> What if I want to use language XYZ not supported by lambda ?

Such problems can apply to any ready made solution. In general, a vendor product may or may not suffice custom needs and a user is free to build one from scratch. Abstraction of major pain points that fits a wide variety of user needs, if handled properly, can pave the way for a competitive solution.
We strongly disagree on the title.
Only loosely in so far as bad performance can make scaling more important; however, scaling is not about performance, a super fast db could scale poorly while one that scales well could perform worse than the fast one but scale better. Scaling is about growing across machine boundaries well, so that adding more machines increases the ability to handle more load. That doesn't require good performance, it's requires good architecture.
given how tailored games are already anyway, as well as wanting to be as low level as possible, that wont really matter
I worked three years full time and now on a startup. I've come to realize that most of the performance improvement for me with the latter is attributable to a difference in sleep duration and quality. I'm someone who needs variability (+/- 2-3 hrs) in when I go to sleep and little to none in total duration. This is especially important when you're exercising consistently (and doubly so for HIIT).

Work life normally doesn't account for sleep, but I feel like it may very well be all the reason for the problems we see. It's no secret that most Americans are experiencing chronic sleep deprivation. And that's linked to a host of other issues like obesity, learning impairment, low energy/productivity, increased stress, etc. In other words, it has a cascading effect on everything else. Most people need around 8 hours per night to function normally and get only around 6.
It always amazes me when people vehemently defend the USSR and similar, especially in a place like HN. The USSR was nothing like the United States. You did not start a "radish and milk" store in the USSR without approval from the government. To argue that the USSR was anything remotely close to a free market is absurd and a dangerous reinterpretation of established history. I'm afraid you have very skewed, incorrect understanding of facts and of human nature.
Some blame socialism, others blame this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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Interesting reading. Thank you for posting that.
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what are the best or the worst things that can happen in the professional circle management. Like Most of the HR Profes' use Linkedin as a tool to work on. Do are we going to see more ads about Nokia rather now called as Windows Phone. Integration of windows product with linkedin.

Please share your views
To follow up — someone unbundled the Android APK and confirmed that it does not use certificate pinning.

https://applidium.com/en/news/unbundling_pokemon_go/
If this were entirely true, businesses wouldn't be open from 9am-5pm but would have three 8-hour shifts throughout the day and run 24/7 and simply outcompete companies that are only open 9-5. The "best" companies would have even longer shifts and more complex schedules, with fewer employees.

9-5 isn't the 'optimal'. It's simply what is 'most common' for a diurnal society. Nobody is driving around town looking to get a hair cut at 3am and staring at an IDE from 1pm-5pm trying to solve a bug isn't making you any more efficient than thinking about the problem while cooking an early dinner.

Humans do suffer fatigue - both mental and physical - and proper lengths of rest helps both kinds.

I posit that happier employees are more likely to trend their work/life balance in favor of work if they enjoy their work and enjoy their company. Unhappy employees will skirt by on the bare minimum required knowing that hiring/training a new employee isn't worth the cost of firing them.
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Oddly this looks like a screengrab from a mobile device.
What is the scale out process with Prometheus? Is sharding/replication a manual setup process or is it automated? What's involved in scaling out?
Have you seen Samsara?

http://samsarajs.org/

I'm hopeful it could do some of the middle bits.
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I could see having to constantly add things to the dictionary being a distraction.
Keep commenting. Ignore the bullshit downvotes. I understand weariness when arguing with someone who is hardheaded. They can even be nice, but so stubborn that you are drained by the end of the debate.
You're free to simplify and to contemplate
Ah, Postgres-XL is multi-machine, ok sure, that's scaling.
He used "somewhat higher" twice. While I'd personally prefer smaller government, paying 50% more for 50% more services isn't nuts.
I agree that it's a pointless argument, but that goes both ways. Plenty of people use the term "socialist" in ways that don't connote planned economies. Moreover, there are examples of state-run economies that are neither socialist nor communist.

The trouble is that when we talk about the positive aspects of socialism, we have an annoying tendancy to exploit the word to make Sweden an apology for Venezuela: we confuse "socialized services" with "command economy" and end up ignoring the real public policy failures of places like Venezuela.

And when we talk about its negative aspects, we tend to make Venezuela a cautionary tale against, say, single-payer health care.
> I mean that the government regulates the economy or large pieces of it

The Federal Reserve, bank bailouts, the government spending and government-backed monopolies that created the Internet we're typing on etc. The US "government regulates the economy or large pieces of it".
Dios es Venezolano
That's a reasonable point (although it's not like Assad is short on human rights violations), but implying there's some sort of "natural line of development" that would have happened without interaction with the west really strikes me as (unintentionally) racist.
But does it support atomic writes?
I have time for that: I exercise, I read.

The problem is I cannot schedule in the stuff that is hard where I need progress.

Let's say I must understand Shannon's perfect secrecy, which I do abstractly, but these 3 quiz questions I do not get.

10 minutes passes, I have no answers.

20 minutes passes, I am not closer.

Two days later, do I need to go back and review the notes from the whole lecture to steer this ship back on course?

My point is context switching to topics I need to advance in, not the ones I know I can advance within parameters, consume time but with variable estimates of duration AND worse any success at all.

What are people in this spot doing? Just chugging along? I am going to not take these courses for credit, but I do not spend some time daily for the last week dropping one or all and admit I will never be the programmer I said I would be like 5-10 years ago! Haha.

UPDATE: To be clear, after those 20, I procstinate a little, and maybe come back. Or I move to a different class, or something else. Point being I have no way of knowing if it will click, and when. So scheduling these things adds another level of failure, where I miss deadlines I impose, and I start cussing myself out for not reaching my own desired accomplishment for the day.