skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have liked to see some real cost analysis, other than it should save you money, because that is only true if scale is small to medium.

That's the thing, I guess the demographic that lambada is going for it will save money, but along with the mentioned vendor lock in, when you really need to have something on and processing requests non stop the costs savings really evaporate.

It's weird to me that the serverless thing catches on when it seems to be best suited for projects in their infancy without need for 24/7 request processing , or things out of the critical path like image resizing or things of this nature. But entire apps? Feels very much like going back in time to shared hosting.

I could see it saving money until about 1m requests a day and then a sharp drop off where you are hemorrhaging cash after that...

With modern auto scaling systems that aws and gce provide I bet most shops don't stand to save any more money than with a normal modern day refactor.

At the end of the day this leaves you more rope to hang yourself with. It makes it easier to run slow or poorly thought out code. 1000 processes might be cool but is never as cheap as 2 working correctly that accomplish the same thing, as an extreme but actual example of a situation I helped unwind with GAE, which was serverless before the buzzword.
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When it's the first hit on Google you start feeling as though you are doing other peoples' work for them. Luckily I now have a fantastic manager: she aggressively defends the time of all her team members.

Being a wizard developer also requires a wizard manager that the developers can trust completely.
Well but what about those people who do not even have Chrome installed and are not even planning to use Chrome for privacy reasons?
Nice work. What prompted you to write this? Are you using it anywhere?
If you're interested in another view, see scrollaway's code example linked above, along with my other comment in this thread that links to a couple of my previous discussions of the topic.

In short, the real issue with tabs is that you can't reliably use them for column alignment. But many of us have concluded that column alignment is a harmful practice, preferring indentation instead to show the structure of our code.

And once you give up column alignment, you can use tabs for indentation, and it just doesn't matter what tab size the person reading your code prefers. It will read just the same in any tab size and any font, even proportional fonts.

It's really quite liberating to stop using column alignment. :-)
I love Leanpub and buy a ton of books and contribute as much as I can there to works in development. The whole feedback process has 100% won me over! If I ever published a book (something I've fantasized about for years), it would be probably through Leanpub or self-published. I'd probably consider one of the smaller presses, but Leanpub would be my go-to. You guys do great work at Leanpub!
A lot of things such as electronics are getting cheaper which probably softens the blow of stagnating wages but the essentials such as rent and food are still rising in cost.
Look here for a colorforth like system: https://github.com/phreda4/reda4

Many programs, 2d, 3d, editors, voxels, compilers, etc ..

Everything is written in that colorforth inspired language.
I used to copy my friends' Amiga games, and by far the trickiest was one of the Worms games. The code book was black paper with glossy black text, making it almost impossible to scan or photograph.

I settled on figuring out the most freqently used page and copying it out by hand, my mum reading out the numbers as I wrote them down. Good times.
I'm sorry but I really cannot see where you get this bizarre interpretation of the article from. Global warming isn't mentioned anywhere in here! ("Climate change" gets exactly one mention, between two commas, and otherwise plays no role whatsoever.)

I think you really missed the point of the article. Of course the problems the author talks about don't invalidate already established results, the big deal is that they potentially prevent new results from being soundly established (or discarded if necessary)!
CoD has been offered by almost every postal service in the world. It used to be one of the main ways of paying for goods you ordered, and remained so well into the 80's or 90's in countries where credit card penetration remained low. The main limitation in most countries have been the pickup at the post office.
Probably it dependes on what is going to happen with those money. If they will be reinvested in UK into something equally succesful as ARM chips, then this could be a big win for UK.

UK released from EU sometimes absurdal regulations with cheaper pound can be very competitive, given the capital that is around there.
There is also a ... "business model" ... for technical books which goes like this. Get someone with a PhD to write a book on something. Around the world there are about 300 libraries of record which are legally required to hold a copy of everything published. So you can sell them a book that nobody wants for $200 each. That is $60,000 of sales guaranteed, with minimal requirements for copy editing and other forms of quality control. Rinse and repeat for as long as the supply of stage-struck PhDs holds out.
People not living in Western world may not know such things
> "Except the EU isn't undemocratic"

What gives you that impression?
How the fuck (sorry for language) does a bicycle hold up traffic. I have not seen a lane so tight, that a car and a bicycle can not occupy it at the same time and pass each other.
Agreed, "functional" code in C is when you write pure functions with no side effects and nest them like `f(g(h(x)))`. Everything else is an abomination.
If you look at the value of ARM's $-denominated ADRs

http://www.google.co.uk/finance?cid=662445

This is basically a measure ARM's value in $. You will see any value in the fall the pound was more than offset by a rise in ARM's share price at the time. As ARM's revenue is largely $ denominated and it has significant proportion of its costs in UK people (£) then the fall in the pound led to a bigger rise in its share price as the markets expected bigger profits.
Wasn't there some method where a (physical) hole was made somewhere (presumably in an unused track/sector) in the floppy so that the original floppy would work, but disk-to-disk copy operation would fail?

Then, at some point in time came along those (parallel port pass-through) dongles - I think they used to be called HASP (HArdware for Software Protection).
I guess it's a case of defense in depth. Software may have vulnerabilities that still allow for data connections despite the prompt. But no data wires being physically present cannot have that problem at all.
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Selling licensees is even smarter than selling chips, no risk and probably same margin.
Ask HN: Doing whatever it takes to land your dream job.. advice?
I've worked in the telecommunications industry for 10+ years and have a niche specialty.

One of the few businesses that work in telecommunications, and my niche, have recently begun recruiting in my country. They're a USA business, I'm in the UK. A rare opportunity. I know a lot about their business and my skill set matches the job description.

I have sent my CV directly to the recruiters e-mail, applied through the formal application form and attempted to follow up with a phone call (but can't get through). I've also sent a 1 page cover letter that goes through the job description and provides insight to my suitability.

I'm worried I'm crossing the annoyance line.. Have I done to much? Will they see my enthusiasm (rightfully) as a good thing and not a sign of (wrongly) desperation? Maybe there's something more I could do?

Cheers!

tl;dr.. Dream job has come up. A rare opportunity. I have exactly the skills they're looking for, reputation (in my country) and the passion. Is there anything outside of applying and following up with a phone call I can do to stand out from the crowd?
After this post I am considering buying your book just for more of your writing.
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Would you please explain why this is absurd?
I don't have good source on Chinese demography, picking info about it one line at a time.

Anyway, there's no reason to think that Germans would easily defeat post-Imperial Russian Republic (given no Bolsheviks and therefore no civil wars, no mass emigration, famines or murders). Soviets basically lost half of pre-WWII years on chaos.

Russia without Soviets would look more like 350M strong Norway than like 140M strong Nigeria how it ended up.
The EU has put a regulation in place that as of 2020, all published research that funded by it must be open access (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/27/eu-mandates-open-access-fo...).
Indeed. Only last week I imported a year's bank statement (one single file downloaded manually) into Google Sheets (worked perfectly first time). Then I spent an hour scanning it by eye and constructing dirt-simple regexes to extract outgoings into categories. As a check I compared total outgoings vs total regex-extracted outgoings; it was out by £400 for the whole year, which I can tolerate.

It told me exactly what to needed to know: I spend a surprising amount on eating out, and a surprisingly small amount on holidays. Budget for the year: spend 50% less on eating out.

Two hours work total. Not perfect, but a piece of cake, and very valuable.
> What are all those software engineers doing? They're definitely not building an aws. They're just maintaining the website.

Consider that Amazon built up the IT capability to build AWS because of the thousands of engineers they had hired that were "just maintaining the website". It's not a simple problem.
Macros can clean this up a little. Still, all C is ugly.
I would refer you to this https://caddyserver.com/docs/faq for a detailed break down of that. The second points answers your question with the stand out point for me being that Candy focuses on use for static files. Also, it serves all pages via HTTPS by default.
I'm not sure the second part of your question makes sense in the context of LING. It's a complete reimplementation of an Erlang emulator, not a derivative of BEAM.

That said, I've been working recently with Erlang on Rumprun precisely because I didn't want to rely on a totally unknown commodity (LING) in terms of implementation and behavioral semantics at the same time as drastically changing my operational semantics (unikernel deploy).
> value being extracted from the business and taken overseas

Anecdote: looking for a flat in Cambridge, I found a great one overlooking Market Square, last two floors above that cornish pasty store whatever it is called. We got a good deal because we agreed to take over the lease immediately from the two current occupants, who seemed in a terrible rush to leave.

I asked them why, they said Index Ventures just invested double digit millions in their company and part of the terms included an immediate (literally) move to Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, I've forgotten the name of the company but the image of wealthy Americans sniping off the best British companies stuck in my head ever since.
You're demonstrating why people become afraid to ask questions, and stop doing so even when they should.

I'd much rather have someone ask when they get stuck, or even if they're kinda stuck. If someone happens to ask me a question that's easily found via poking around a bit more, I'll show them how they could have found the answer, and then they'll have learned two things: the thing they wanted to know and a new pattern for solving problems.

As a result, I rapidly find myself surrounded by people who ask smarter and smarter questions, and who can solve harder and harder problems. And I love that result.
Sounds like "pointing out a failure to meet one's responsibilities" is just blame in your book. Am I right?
Haha, what EU are you talking about?

When did you vote for Juncker or anyone else on the commission? The commission where all the power of the EU is concentrated?

It's got better than when it was at its worst, but the EU is still incredibly undemocratic and unaccountable for a Western institution.

And let's not even start on how Germany suddenly seem to be in control of the Euro and seem to be essentially dictating monetary policy in Greece, Italy and Spain.
Tabs don't work very well when you use whitespace for alignment, for example in multi-line statements. Change the tab size and it's all off...

And seeing as 80 characters is still the normal line limit, because of window splitting, it does happen quite often.
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> The sense of "accident" used in "car accident" unmistakably refers to the lack of intent (in a situation where human intent could conceivably exist).

In that case it's still flawed, because in most cases it fails to acknowledge the presence of gross negligence, which is often the case.
Amazon is years ahead in customer support and services. Yes. but in terms of products sold, I'd argue that they are mostly the same: made in China or southeast Asia.
Ask HN: Open-source requirements management?
Does anyone know an open-source requirements management tool?

Something like Polarion Requirements or DOORS, just smaller and open source.
C can be beautiful if you use it in the way it was intended. Code that mimics OO or functional patterns from other languages is certainly not.
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So first you develop your game for Windows on DirectX, and than you make a port to OSX/iOS/Android using OpenGL, and than if you're lucky you make a port to XBox and PS4, maybe WiiU. Graphics pipeline rendering code is really small and simple part of any game, usually in big games you do have different render code for different GPU series or/and platforms, but it's much smaller in comparison with everything else.

What's big and bulky - shaders themselves, but there are solutions to translate them between different available languages.
It's one thing to shit over the workers Kraft, but to shit over the product is another (They changed the recipes, sizes, and generally turned the best chocolate in the world into shitty American chocolate (no offense to Americans)).
Incidentally, your odds of being killed in a collision with a vehicle are much higher while walking, cycling, or motorcycling than while driving, so it might be worth considering the fact that drivers are displacing risk from themselves and on to other road users.
The investment sector is simply too conservative, for historical and cultural reasons. Regulation is mostly an excuse, a fig leaf for a spiritually-bankrupt upper class.
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The IBM turn around was turning them into a consulting company.

Might not be the most glamorous turn around but compared to yahoo...
From [2] above:

> important general differences from the JPL institutional C coding standard for flight software references (JPL-C-STD) are: (1) the Java standard allows
dynamic memory allocation (object creation) after initialization, (2) the Java standard allows recursion, and (3) does not require loop bounds to be statically
verifiable. Apart from these differences most other differences are due to the different nature of the two languages.

That said, the standard in question is explicitly only intended for ground-based systems.
Well you did had Toni Blair working as Louis Vutton salesman post his Prime Minister days ...
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Analyzing a read-only transaction anomaly under snapshot isolation (01/2016)
It's still not intentional if you didn't, you know, intend to do it. Even if you're drunk off your ass, texting, and trying to change your shoes at the same time. It's still an accident if the goal was to get down the road in one piece.

That's not the same thing as saying we shouldn't prosecute drunk or reckless drivers.
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In short, glibc malloc is wait-free. In long, You may not know that terminology of "lock-free" does not mean that it does not mean never using locks.
Nothing on the planet can do the job of a judge perfectly. There will always be edge cases and vague situations. Human judges are sometimes unfair and inaccurate, but we can listen to their reasoning, criticize it, continue the discussion by appealing their decision, and so on. How do you criticize the reasoning of a statistical algorithm?
I wish I had grown up in an environment flush with resources for this kind of thing.
open arXiv version from April: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02265

Figure 3 is absolutely spectacular, and deserves to be admired by the whole world.

A comment on the inevitable promises of revolutionized data storage: Yes the areal density is fantastically high (>500Tbit / square inch as opposed to 1Tbit/in^2 in bleeding edge HDDs / NAND flash). But it requires ultrahigh vacuum, preparation of a clean copper crystal, dosing with copper chloride and then writing/reading with a scanning tunneling microscope, maintaining liquid nitrogen temperature.

Also a modern SSD will write about 500MB in a second, while this method would write 500MB in 240 years.

I don't mean to slag it off; we should all appreciate it for being an absolutely wonderful and awe inspiring technical feat. Just don't get carried away dreaming of the applications in your laptop/server/phone.
They probably saved themslves years of ridiculous BS, poor instruction, and a mountain of debt. Good for them.
And in light of MS paying $26M for a post-peak social network.
The "best" chocolate for some values of "best", i.e. "the one I remember growing up in UK". Across Europe, Cadbury is widely considered barely edible. Pre-Kraft Cadbury were also instrumental in watering down EU regulations on the minimum amount of cocoa in chocolate products.
Thank you for pointing this out! I come from biology, and yes, you almost never get your model to fit the data as well as a physicist would with his - because there are just way too many factors involved! (In fact I would probably treat too high a correlation in a publication as suspicious.) When you're working with living organisms, their sheer complexity and diversity is going to limit the statistical significance of your results (which might be why the urge to p-hack can be so strong). This doesn't mean we're doing bad science; on the contrary, I would argue that we are simply doing harder science...
It's been mentioned elsewhere, but I figured I'd emphasize it here, given

> And once you give up column alignment, you can use tabs for indentation

You don't have to give up alignment for tabs if you like it occasionally; just indent with tabs and align with spaces. (I highlight leading spaces in a slightly different shade from the background to allow for this.)
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There is more than one class of flaw. Some are objective, ie. fail to meet spec. Some are subjective, typically where the spec doesn't cover.

If software functions correctly but is unnecessarily hard to use due to (eg.) bad layout, would you still call it perfect?
If there are any US investors looking to get into the UK healthcare market, I'm sure you can get a good deal on the NHS if you ask nicely...
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Of course not. Many Pythonic idioms don't really work well in Perl. I have tried to write perlish code.
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I think most of the value of ARM is in its IP rather than anything else. There are plenty of good chip designers around, and the best ARM cores are often the ones designed by other companies, but ARM is ubiquitous because it's well-established and there's a lot of code written for it.
They don't care what you say or do. They've got a nearly monopoly share on supermarket and newsagent shelves.
The problem there isn't tabs, it's column alignment.

If you stop using alignment and use only indentation for your multiline statements, these issues go away. Your code will be just as readable with any tab size, and even in a proportional font. And your line lengths get much shorter in the process.

For specific examples, see the other comments in this thread from scrollaway and myself, in particular the Servo source code I linked to.
Too much savings is the problem, and no political will to introduce policies to get it moving again. Austerity kills spending.
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He also excluded "high velocity". No electron beams alas.
It's basically just blaming the outgroup.
Ruining it is never the _intention_, but it happens often enough that people are right to worry when a company gets bought out.
We still do a nice line in money laundering for African dictators and selling 11tn paperweights to the Saudis if you ever want to return.
Big Web Frameworks aren't there to "keep code bases organized and consistent", they're there to do stuff like render state changes into a complicated DOM without causing jank, without FOUCs, without crashing IE9, etc. Those aren't problems that "adopting good coding standards" can solve.

Web frameworks have architecture to them, but their value lies in solving technical problems, not architectural ones.
At least sales of Creme Eggs took a hit after their adulteration. Isn't Cadbury owned by Mendelez now?
That's a great metaphor...
FWIW I wasn't suggesting sticking to one language exclusively, some of the biggest jumps I've made have been caused by exposure to different paradigms. But for beginners I think it can be helpful to keep focus in one place. There's a lot of overhead involved in a language (tooling, IDEs, best practices, quirks etc.) that can get in the way of seeing the important stuff.
It's a long shot, but you might be missing that he was on an airplane?
Sorry, I hope nobody minds a humorous posting (a quote from meet the parents):

Dina Byrnes: I had no idea you could milk a cat!

Greg Focker: Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Jack Byrnes: [He reacts] I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?
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Thanks for the pointer to the blog, looks amazing. Bookmarked!