skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not from India or China.

The possibility exists. Layoffs + current management complicates things.
I think feature flags are a smell if used for anything other than controlling which users see which output.

If Inhave a feature that is, say a way to calculate a customer quote, turning on that feature without managing the deprecation is poor. Most "features" can be seen as services provided to other areas of the code base, micro service style or not.

It's a nice idea but I worry
Right. I run into a lot of people who will argue passionately about how stupid it is to pay down your low interest mortgage early given alternative investments.

At the same time, many of them will not agree that taking out a HELOC so you can play the stock market is a good idea.

The two situations aren't really equivalent given liquidity, etc. But at the margins they're pretty much the same thing.
I guess it's a pretty cheap way to get an article in the NYTimes and most other news sites.
And BAK stands for Binary Adaptation Kit.
I think you nailed it. Oculus is order to not become a niche product needs to be sold as part of a console bundle. That would make premium VR to a one pressed button distance. Maybe Project Scorpio + Oculus? Scorpio specs seems to be enough for a good VR experencie.
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Facebook and Google are beating the ad blockers
Not everything hashish ends up being salted passwords. Hashing is great for just hashtables and partioning.
How about Siphash?
It's really that speaking french in a predominantly french region shouldn't stop you from getting a job you have every competencies to achieve. That's why the law can go into absurd territory(e.g. having only english equipment cannot be a valid reason to refuse employment to a francophone).

But then again, most of the law only applies once your business reach a certain number of employees(30 I think)
The United States is already dealing with economic problems caused by the Chinese trade deficit, which siphons almost as much demand from the economy every year as Obama's 2008 stimulus added in a one-time shot. So it is an interesting question and certainly not one-sided....

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/protectionism-g...

A trade war would theoretically cause a deadweight loss in global GDP, but as long as the US is not at full employment it is likely losses would end up distributed almost entirely on the Chinese side. Domestic losses would only take place after the return to full employment. Restructuring costs would also be imposed disproportionately on China because they'd be the ones dealing with insufficient demand.

Sure, a better alternative from a conventional economic perspective would be having the United States ramp up spending. The problem is that just printing more USD to enable this causes its own set of problems given that the USD is the world's reserve currency. Having the government take on additional interest-bearing debt avoids this problem, but does not seem particularly attractive when the Chinese are the ones who will end up collecting interest on the loan.

Political outcomes? My sense is that we'd see an upsurge in nationalism in China, perhaps more aggression in the South China Seas, but also a rapid collapse in the Chinese economy that would make coming to terms with the trade deficit a political priority. And is it really crazy for the West to demand a level playing field in exchange for its willingness to keep China from economic collapse?
Sweet, I'll add it to my resume!
> Horrific pollution

Like how the US had horrible pollution during and after the industrial revolution and never got anywhere?

China's going to get their Clean Air Act. Just give it some time.
Click through to the article those words are linked to in the submission; the answer to your question is in its first two paragraphs.
I did not do absolutely nothing, I incremented a variable under the lock to hopefully avoid optimizer shenanigans and also tried an unoptimized debug build. Now I tired just spinning and incrementing a variable for a millisecond under the lock, that took 4125 ms for 4 processes with 1000 iterations each. A single process without lock and 4000 iterations took 4005 ms. Those 120 ms would make it a 30 µs locking overhead, the first test without work under the lock hinted at 5 µs. This is probably one of the harder things to profile and depends on quite some factors, but some ten thousand locks per second is probably the correct order of magnitude.
Yes, it is different - the economy is in the dumpster.

Official reports herald 1-2% GDP growth rate, but if you realize the inflation is more like 5-6% rather than the official 2% , the economy has, in reality been contracting.
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The sentence above was about considering the extreme case irrelevant.

Focusing on flossing itself, as person who started doing it regularly only as adult, I think that researching on how frequently one should floss (or not) is in a way like researching how frequently one should change underwear. It may make sense theoretically, but ultimately all it requires is just to pay attention.

I never noticed the bleeding and/or irritation of the gums (which dentists always mention) until I started flossing regularly.

Now I do feel a difference (as a matter of fact, I floss irregularly, depending on how the gums feel). Of course, I'm pretty sure I could survive without flossing at all.

This is in line with what dentists generally suggest. Given that flossing can be ultimately considered as simply extra cleaning, and that the presence (or not) of the effects can be easily observed, a couple of weeks of flossing should be enough for anybody to make a solid judgment more than any theory.
They are nowhere near even being close to Google in terms of revenue, technology, innovation, invention etc. After all, they started off just copying myspace and calling their users dumb f*cks. Facebook is the next AOL.
IBM Simon
I have a very small company / startup mindset but to me co-founder is really as impressive as titles get. I'd just focus your resume on what you did there. To me that experience counts for a ton since founders have so much less supporting them.
That appears to be surprisingly uncommon. By that I mean maintaining the authorized keys file at all.
Tech positions in demand by region [pdf]
How do you work with Designers?
As a developer on a variety of small teams within small companies, I've never 'clicked' with a designer in a consistent way.

There are two buckets in my head. Visual designers simply want to make things look pretty, often with little regard to usability or implementation. UX designers take responsibility for understanding the users, and all the tradeoffs present in the entire interaction. UX designers answer "What?" Developers answer "How?" Visual designers answer "am I happy with how this looks?"

Likely pissed some of you off so please understand: don't intend to demean visual design. My frustration is spilling into the definition. In the projects I've worked on the designers produce work that looks pretty but isnt usable, or has no regard for implementation. Feel frustration at the emphasis put on the visual part because I feel like its coming at the detriment of putting out useful, intuitive software

Noticed the designers in each org slowly become someone that nobody else wants to work with, so they get silo'd off into their own projects and at some point cut out. Honestly a lot of the time I feel like I can't talk with them without deeply offending their ego, and so I'm left dedicating a lot of time and energy to communicating the "right" way with them. I feel like we should be discussing, we should be arguing, talking about stuff. But its silent, deadline comes, and I've gotta put something there so I do and thats what sticks. But there's no thought behind it, just me getting to functional.

Want to be able to lean on the designer to think the things I can't (even if it makes implementation considerably more difficult!). Looking for: explanation why, how they got there, and have some input along the way (ideally to judo down a complicated implementation to a simpler and still be good). On occasion collaboration will happen and usually these are the best parts of the projects.

Beneath it all, here's my real question: Is it me? What can I do better?
Learn a lot of things, "specialization is for insects" [1]

The type of person who follows this advice will have no problem going deep on the stuff you really like, that will just happen because you find things you love doing. It's much more likely you'll need the push to broaden your interests, especially after you get used to being good at a few things. You'll end up with both a balance of general and specific knowledge and know more about what you personally can do long term.

Of course, it all depends on what your goals are. Self-improvement? Money (specialization is risk, how much are you willing to take on)? Happiness? Fulfillment? Power?

[1] http://www.elise.com/quotes/heinlein_-_specialization_is_for...
I don't consider it a problem because there is full employment nationwide even amongst the most marginalized engineers.

So why is the Washington Post obsessed with Silicon Valley, in particular Facebook, Google, and Apple.

Who even cares about what schools they recruit at? I didn't go to any of those and I get a recruiter from Google trying to poach me every 6 months, and I just assumed everyone else was too.
New York bill would require some game devs to track where sex offenders live
Amish Barn Dust May Prevent Asthma in Children
Add 2015 to the title please.
or pay for a managed solution. There are affordable options.

Most unmanaged "hosted wordpress" packages are shared hosting, which is junk for a serious business website.
This sentence was so interesting the author included it twice: "Facebook says it spent $4.8 billion on research and development in 2015, nearly doubling its budget from the previous year."
Yup, even moreso when HTC is pinning their future(I assume) on the Vive they're going to throw everything the can behind it.
The issue is the contention caused by all the processes waiting on file IO behind the lock, not the locking
Legally submit to App Store when it uses encryption (or how to obtain an ERN)
In other words, the poster hasn't lived anywhere else in Asia.
I seem to recall Torvalds having some less than kind words about ACPI.
This is evaluating hash functions for use in something like a hash table where the concern is first and foremost for speed at goodish distribution, not collision resistance.

The security (DoS rather) issue with hash tables is more that 1) attackers often control the input, and H(a) == H(a) obviously and 2) the hash function output is reduced to a few bits to decide which bucket to put something into. In those cases making your hash function slower just makes you more susceptible.
A preferred method for doing this at Google is to open a bug, and then leave the TODO in the code with a reference to the bug number. This has the advantage that if someone comes by to refactor the code later, they'll have the chance to go look at the bug (possibly taking it and working on it, possibly resolving it as obsolete if the original issue no longer applies, etc).

Having the two-directional link between the bug and the code is quite useful, especially for what is probably the most frequent use I've seen for TODOs: "We could do this better, but the better way is blocked on circumstances beyond our control. Once those change, revisit this."
Bit late to the party, but for me (not OP), deciding to cut my own hair was about rejecting perfectionism and learning something new. The money saving is a relatively minor. I get to sit in my bathroom for an hour or two and think.

I'm actually happier overall with my hair for two reasons: 1) barbers never completely did what I wanted, 2) I cut my hair more often (2-3 weeks)
Wordpress.

It's the cheapest, most capable, most user-friendly CMS available. It has the largest community, which means it has the best support and greatest plugin availability.

There's nothing wrong with running E-Commerce on Wordpress also, as long as your payment solution does not include storing sensitive data such as credit card numbers in the database.

"How do I improve security" is a question too in-depth for a forum comment. You need to spend some time researching that using your favorite web search, in my humble opinion. Just keep in mind there is not one cure-all solution.
The short-term supply of housing is fixed. Yes, there will be an increase in renovation of houses due to larger loans being affordable, but most of our housing costs are the cost of centrally located floorspace anyway, whose supply moves really slowly. Supply of central floorspace increases due to mass transit buildout, city expansion, and building height, only the last of which depends on average ability to pay for housing. Building height is usually restricted by zoning, in which case average ability to pay doesn't influence supply at all.
now if they can just make it earthed by not lacquering the connector designed for that purpose to make it shiny... maybe macbooks everywhere will stop giving people shocks (!)
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Yes: Google has internal controls on information access, and government access is subject to legal processes, and governments don't automatically share all information between agencies. Your argument is hyperbole.
> Revenues are about $100 million, with operating expenses being $85 million. That's about $15 million profit, on about $400 million invested, or under 4% ROIC. The system was funded with bonds issued at 4.5%, meaning it would never break even without being subsidized by electric ratepayers.

Your is assertions are incorrect. EPB Fiber is profitable, is servicing it's debt in full, pays less than 4.5% in interest in their bonds, is not subsidized by electric ratepayers and would have broke even even without the grants it has received.

Not only are electric rate payers not subsidizing the fiber network, the fiber network is subsidizing the electric side!

Looking at the finances, about $400M was invested, but EPB fiber only has ~$260M in debt left due to a $111M grant for smart meters. Furthermore the $15M profit is after debt service. EPB paid $19M in debt service (FY14).

Source:
https://static.epb.com/annual-reports/2015/wp-content/upload...
I know. In fact, there is a reason I wonder what would have happened if Intel bought Compaq back in 1991 with Rod Canion and Jim Harris staying on.
Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup
The first paragraph is great. It's the next three that really get interesting.
I honestly don't understand why any corporation would spend money on anything other than chasing the absolute best candidates, regardless of race, gender or anything other than their excellence with respect to their positions.

Every minute spent caring about diversity is a minute not spent caring about excellence; every dollar spent chasing diversity is a dollar not spent chasing excellence. Hire the best candidates, no matter who they are.

I don't care about someone's race or gender, so long as he is the best possible candidate for the position. And if he's not, why would I want him?
> and having the government take on additional interest-bearing debt instead does not seem particularly attractive when the Chinese are the ones who will end up collecting interest on the loan.

But the Chinese aren't the ones that will end up collecting interest on additional US debt; while they are the biggest current foreign holder of US debt, their total holdings are dropping; they not only aren't the biggest purchaser of new US debt, they aren't even a net purchaser of US debt. (And they are only the biggest foreign holder, most US federal debt is owed to...entities within the US; non-federal US entities hold 4 times as much US debt as China does.)
The Cortex-M4 does not have a MMU; there are no page tables or anything. The MPU you mention is a sort of primitive MMU.
Here's what the last 6 years of my resume look like:

* 1.5 years - Startup I joined crashed and burned

* 0.5 years - Contract work for web design firm while I went back to university, they couldn't get their clients to pay their invoices

* 1.0 years - Worked for the university while I finished my degree

* 1.0 years - Startup I joined crashed and burned

* 1.5 years - Small company that was doing well, but proceeded to have one of its worse years as it lost all but one of its clients, eventually laid off 75% of its staff

* 0.75 years - Contract work for department in enterprise corporation that decided to cancel its own internal development and fire everyone after the lead developer quit

* 1.1 years - Current job, Fortune 500 corporation, still going well for now, but I'm expecting the sky to fall at any minute considering my luck.
It's sad to me that a historical institution is bowdlerizing history.
Software Development, It’s Still about People
But Singapore doesn't help much with that because its only 20 miles across.
To be allowed on regular public roads without humans behind the wheel in most jurisdictions, they're going to have to be better than people in virtually all conceivable circumstances rather than just on average. (This isn't even necessarily a bias in favour of the status quo or irrational fear of machines though those exist too; the analogy would be a person with unusually quick reaction times who drives 100k miles every year without incident still being liable to lose their licence if they're proven to have a bug in their system that makes them occasionally inclined to drive under the influence or faster than speed limits...)
Land is fixed, so the greater ability to pay from the subsidy simply increases the 'rent' earned by landowners. To a great extent, one gets the same house on the same land, but priced higher.
Wix is a terrible answer, their business model is built around ripping off the ignorant, as far as I can tell. For example they'll charge you $150 for a domain name, and their service offers no method of exporting your website when you eventually decide to get a real host.

I can't speak to the quality of Weebly or Squarespace but I'd never use them, the cost is a few bucks more per month than a Wordpress site and I don't see how their services add any value for that extra cost.
The Copenhagen Wheel turns any bicycle into an electric hybrid (2014)
Writes to files less than PIPE_BUF aren't atomic on parallel file systems. e.g. Panasas, Lustre, GPFS, etc.
Not only is that most meaningful, it olso has the most bang for the buck (saves people the most time), AND is the easiest technically.

I wrote a long post about it before, but basically I expect self driving trucks on dedicated interstate lanes to be the start. Then self driving cars on the same lanes.

Over time all interstates will be self driving. City streets will never be unless we get AI with general intelligence.
> 75% of the benefit goes to people making over $100k/year

It's much closer to households making over $100K/yr than people making that.
> And is it really crazy for the West to demand a level playing field in exchange for keeping China from economic collapse?

I think the US should demand that China reduce restrictions, not that we should increase them.

> government take on additional interest-bearing debt instead does not seem particularly attractive when the Chinese are the ones who will end up collecting interest on the loan

Why not? Personally, I find the obsession with debt entirely counterproductive. If the government can seemingly borrow endless sums of money with incredibly low interest, why not borrow as much as we can?

Especially since, as you said, we could actually benefit from a bit more inflation.
> The short-term supply of housing is fixed.

Sure, so the immediate-term effect of a change in policy on the deduction would be what you would expect with a fixed supply; but that's hardly the only, or most important, effect to consider with a long-term policy.
Firefox Priv8 extension.
Double-insulated appliances don't need to be earthed.
> Scorpio specs seems to be enough for a good VR experencie.

That's one of the project's main goals. But my understanding is that Microsoft is developing its own Xbox VR headset.
A bit of a ;)

My advice used to be "run it as its own user"
I'm more familiar with NT's internals than Amiga's, but I'm sure Amiga is what influenced the design.

Though Amiga was more of a true microkernel but without memory protection; NT and DragonFly have memory protection but the kernel is a single executable composed of multiple message-passing modules.
Foucault, then One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, then Reagan.
I dont doubt that it is a threat, but disagree that its the greatest threat. I think it will have costs and that the 1st world will be able to (reluctantly) afford these costs. Its the people who cannot afford the costs that will suffer, due to reasons listed below, such as disease, food and water supply, etc.

I'd list accidental nuclear war as the greatest threat to civilization, fwiw.
> the first FB consumer device where they were completely responsible for the hardware

To be fair they bought Oculus after the hardware had been created and funded by crowd sourcing.
All desktop and server power supplies use active PFC at this point, because the cost of the much bulkier passive components is now higher than the cost of the active ones.

EDIT: apparently not quite, I went on Newegg and the non-80plus power supplies still have passive PFC.
Thanks. This is a good point, which I agree on.

But in general, interdental flossing is very good against contact cavities [1]. Perhaps deep flossing is leading to bacteraemia. I have always found hard and awkward to perform deep flossing, and that's why I use oral irrigators instead. However, maybe irrigation also leads to bacteraemia. I've seen some references supporting that too.

[1] http://jdr.sagepub.com/content/56/6/574.short
The above is incorrect.

EPB Fiber is profitable, is servicing it's debt in full and is not subsidized by electric ratepayers.

Not only are electric rate payers not subsidizing the fiber network, the fiber network is subsidizing the electric side!

The EPB fiber made $15M profit (FY14) is after debt service. EPB paid $19M in debt service (FY14).

Source:
https://static.epb.com/annual-reports/2015/wp-content/upload...
Pricey real estate I can wrap my head around, Bay Area here. But $12/pack? Madness.
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I strongly recommend reading about John Cochrane's notion of equity-financed banking (PDF): http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/geor...

It functionally eliminates bank runs and the need for most regulation.

People will be able to bank like normal, but contagion and bank failures go away.

Not all banks need to be forced to go this route. But if you offered banks the option to opt-out of Dodd-Frank if they were 95% financed by equity and retained earnings, I'm pretty sure most would.

Longer essay here:

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2016/05/equity-financed-ba...
Capitalistic democracies are the only thing likely to solve the problem. The dictatorships are among the worlds worst offenders in terms of pollution and overall environmental protection.