skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever done nothing but code for weeks on end? 7am-1am usually, though 8am-2am and 9am-3am are popular. You get bathroom breaks, some small parts of your commute when you can't physically be coding or communicating, and maybe some spare moments around meals (generally you work through them though), so you're looking at 16-17 hour days overall. That puts you at 80 hours before you've hit the weekend, so 100 overall is not unreasonable.

At least in my experience, no amount of pride or grit can prevent you from crumbling if you do this for more than a few weeks. The physical aspects are somewhat noticeable but can be mitigated with a little exercise, good posture, alternating work positions, and so on. I found the real price is paid mentally. You lose control of your emotions and work becomes the center of your world to an unhealthy degree. A frustration that impedes your work becomes a mental disaster. You lose a sense of who you are, drowned in the work. You start to take pride in being this code machine. I sleep very little as it is, and can only imagine the havoc this would wreak one somebody who needs their 6-8 hours.

When you surface, the return to reality can be jarring and embarrassing. It happens when the project fails, or is hugely delayed for causes outside of your control, or the business is acquired, or what have you: The reality sets in that you were burning the candle at both ends and getting upset for absolutely no reason. You realize that your pride, your perceived grit, not only was futile with regard to the project, but was really a protective mechanism. Vanity carried the day. That is just plain crushing for your self-esteem, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
I think the only way not to leak any information through caching is not to cache anything.

What do you think about my bloom filter idea?
Its a popular alternative to Nagios, Cacti, Solarwinds and other monitoring solutions.
The parts that touch the ground aren't very wide, and can use something more like a gutter than a full lane.
I am saying the exact opposite. Our governments are segregating people by law. We should stop doing that.
Not sure what you're comparing here. Cable modems replaced analog modems. Ok, wires in wires out. Same. LCD panels replaced CRT displays. Big and bulky to flat.

We're talking putting something on one's _face_. Even if they made it the size and weight of normal glasses, it wouldn't get any where _near_ as popular as geeks and nerds think (hope?) it will. It just won't.

But, hey, let's put a pin in this conversation and revisit it in 5 years. Ok? If I'm wrong, I'll send you lunch.
England’s 7-Circle Roundabout
This may be the reason we haven't found alien life
It was a joke … I thought it was obvious.
Why would I spend money hiring and training someone that I expect to leave before they contribute anything significant? Contrary to what most people think of themselves, they aren't capable of hitting the ground running. This is even more important in a senior dev position where they need to know how everyone under them actually performs. I don't hire monkeys, I hire employees. They should be a benefit to each other and the company, not just themselves.
Same with brick and stone facades. If you have a sprinkler system where water gets directed onto the building (intentionally or not), there's a phenomenon called "Vapor Drive" which is essentially capillary action. Without the air gap between the facade material and the wood framing, that moisture goes in there and rots the wood.

http://mattrisinger.com/understanding-vapor-drive-in-reservo...
Ask HN: Our startup has a Facebook page imposter – what to do?
To keep it brief - we noticed today that somebody has replicated our Facebook page (using the same name, profile picture & header which contain our trademarked logo). Of course we don't know who it was, but definitely not a team member at our startup. Anyone had a similar experience and know the best course of action to take? Apparently FB isn't very helpful in this kind of situation...
Ndslice.algorithm: speed up your matrix computations by – 7x with @fastmath
Oh sorry to hear that Stavros. Sometimes Erlang knowledge doesn't translate directly to Elixir, there are just a few conventions to keep in mind.

I've used these before when playing with it:

* http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

* https://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1

* Asking on #elixir-lang on freenode IRC

Here is a specific chapter on distribution and nodes:

http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/distributed-t...

Their IRC channel, they were pretty helpful for me. And also I am sure they'd want to hear about your experience to also improve their docs and tutorials.
Zabbix is great, but PRTG is better. However, PRTG is expensive and requires Windows Server.
The article (and the screenshot) seem to imply that it doesn't actually check with the Wayback Machine to see if the URL exists. It only displays a prompt telling you that you can try to view it there. So theoretically it would only send the URL to the Wayback Machine if you chose to use its service.
I agree with you in general. I think the key justification point for ongoing trials is this organisation is in the works of infiltrating the government since 1970's. Also I am aware that Erdogan helped this organisation in the past, so I'm not a supporter. I only think it is better for the future of Turkey to get rid of a secretive organisation like this.

>"As for businesses being threatened, how many media businesses have been closed by Erdogan?"

Erdogan and Gulen organisation in police and in judicial system done those things together. Every trial that is against Gulen's opponents contamined with fabricated proofs.

>"Turkey is worst in class in that department"

I sadly agree with you.

>"whatever people support doesn't really matter, because the leader can dictate what news they see (or not)."

Things are a bit complicated than that in Turkey. Most of the people hated Gulen's organisation before 2013, where Erdogan and Gulen media protected and praised him. Also other political parties support Erdogan in this case...
There is nothing to west of Oregon (technically pacific ocean), most of the 19th century is because of west-ward expansion. People can go to Montana and get homestead etc. Again, this is not beating up on people who are down on luck, My inspiration in life has been Helen Keller, who is blind, deaf and mute, she wrote damn fucking awesome books. You are trying to shoot the messenger, your argument is similar any thing that is worthy has already been discovered. Upward mobility is hard, it usually is and has been and historically there are only few times, when a raising tide rose all the boats, but there is a thing about tides, they raise and fall.
Japanese Olympic champion racks up $5,000 bill playing Pokémon Go in Brazil
The amount you work is one of the few variables in your control. I'm still a believer that luck plays a bigger role than most will give credit.

Also, people tend to think they work harder than they actually do. I'm sure they worked hard, but there's almost no chance they were working 130 hour weeks, certainly not consistently. There are only 168 hours in a week. I also don't believe the one all-nighter a week line. Working like this would completely destroy your productivity.
While it is true that yes, people in general communicate more sloppily in informal settings it doesn't mean they don't know the formal way of writing (at least for common terms)

German dialects are pretty far from the "official" language, but everybody knows that
It's also a really bad thing that this happens in late sophomore year - you've wasted 2 years of someone's time on a trajectory they aren't suited for .

That's why traditionally colleges start with weedout courses. If someone isn't cut out for STEM (and in my experience teaching, some folks just aren't), better to find that out in semester 1 so they don't waste several more semesters doing the wrong thing.
The function which to any integer a associates f(a, a) with f defined as in the article is the identity function on the natural integer set.
> I always considered that if you believe nuclear deterrence is effective, it would be logical to disband the entire conventional military, and keep the nuclear weapons.

That only makes sense if you believe "effective" for a deterrent is a binary trait that isn't sensitive to context.

But even those who believe nuclear deterrence is effective only believe it is very (but not, for any of them, perfectly) effective against a particular range of threats, and less effective (ranging down to completely ineffective) at deterring other things that application of conventional force might be useful for.
It's very rarely the case that "all" available ground space is covered in cars; most roads have a bit of extra width, even if not enough for an additional car + separation with the next lane over.

Gutters, shoulders, bike lanes, etc. Sidewalks are also often wider than they need to be - there's usually a dead two feet or so on the sidewalks of major roads where signs or parking meters are planted.
Retropie is Linux right? That will have the same latency issues discussed. A more realtime OS is needed.
British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane
A random lottery system for ordering attorneys state-wide would probably get enough lobbying pressure to fund the system properly.

But I love this.
All that we've learned from her now makes me question whether she was actually useful while at Google.

Seems like she a walking business cliche. Can anyone counter this with evidence of her creativity?
> ... to [satisfy customers] you should implement exploratory/first look testing by manual testers which are then converted into automated tests.

Agreed, that's a great way to find bugs. Another complement is to use fuzzing. With system level testing that includes UI components, finding a way to abstract that UI input and detecting display errors becomes pretty challenging. But excluding the very tip-top and lowest-lowest-bottom of the stack, much of software can be adapted to take fuzzed inputs.
Yes, so many applications, stop motion would benefit from this incredibly.
Microsoft accidentally emailed its file on a journalist to a publication – again
What's your definition of altruism? I let a guy behind me at the grocery check-out in front. He had one item and I had an entire belt full, and the express lines (for low item counts) were all closed. Why? Because I know that situation sucks, and it's what I would have wanted to happen for myself. Does that make it egoist? I don't know. I never expect to see that person again; I never expect anything to result from that transaction other than my leaving the store a minute later than I could have.
For all the interesting things happening today, this is an incredibly dull article. I'm convinced I read this same article in the 90's.

If we're going to see any developments in alternative architectures and hardware, it's going to happen in the cloud computing space. From my perspective, this is the only sector that is in the unique position to sell specialized computing services to customers on a mass scale and make great margins in the process.

There are many interesting and useful things you can do outside of Von Neumann architectures and Turing Complete systems that were never practical on PCs. Simple services like Reddis could probably be implemented with alternative memory architectures like content-addressable memory. Many useful algorithms in the data analytic and machine learning space can be compiled down the specialized hardware using using a combination of transistors and memristors.

For companies like Amazon, Microsoft + Google, there's actually a financial incentive to harmonize hardware and software much in the same way Seymour Cray harmonized the software and hardware of Cray's supercomputers. These cloud companies don't want to be constrained to selling commodity virtual machines. They want to sell you the next generation PaaS solution like DynamoDB, SQL Azure or Firebase so they can lock you into their cloud platform.

If there's a future where developers are writing code in special DSLs that's compiled to gates on an FPGA, the cloud computing guys will be exploring it because they have a huge incentive to get their customer's into the walled garden that yields better margins. If you can create one platform service that developers love and runs on cheaper specialized hardware, you'll be able to destroy your competitors and signal an alternative hardware arms race.
> everything should be a customer deliverable

And everything should be delivered in a 100% predictable timeframe and that predictable timeframe should be about a day.
> Just switch jobs?

Meet the new job, same as the old job.
Sounds like your model assigned a high probability to Derrick Rose tearing his ACL :)
Hacker Compromises Fosshub TDistribute MBR-Hijacking Malware–Audacity Affected
I've been supporting LWN for years, because I love the Kernel page. I've learned so much from reading it over the years. I don't know of anything else like it. Their other articles are often great, but kernel nerdery is what keeps me.

I'm happy to keep supporting them.

(Since others have commented on the design/redesign I'll say one thing: The way the sidebar works now means I can't zoom text in on my iPad because it gets covered by the sidebar. It's a serious functionality dent which I wish would be fixed. That's it.)

Keep up the great work.
How does this prove anything?
My observation is that learning by doing is a strong component in each of these areas because expertise requires cross domain knowledge. My advice would be to just start trying to find resources that work for in your unique case.

Good luck.
The essence of the iterator pattern [pdf]
The vast majority of those problems sound fixable by software. In the absence of MSAA, supersampling goes a long way to improve crispness. With proper text rendering (i.e. NOT E:D) you can squeeze much more information in your field of view, even when the game runs at a lower resolution. Not seeing IRL objects or not being able to do anything else at the same time are also software problems. E.g. with OVDDP[0] you can have a virtual "tablet" inside E:D with a window of your choice, in the world or in a controller so you can grab it. Double clicking system or the HMD button (on the left) enables the camera pass through (must be enabled in settings). Using a regular headset instead of the included earbuds to hear the people outside. Etc etc.

I find turning your neck in E:D an advantage: being able to look up (and down in some ships).

[0] https://github.com/Hotrian/OpenVRDesktopDisplayPortal/releas...
Weed-out is a really bad way to look at teaching. It puts people in the mind set looking for excuses to get people to fail. The attitude should be teach-in.

If someone passes your entrance tests then in most cases if they fail either you failed to develop the ability that you decided they had, or your entrance test was wrong.

The UK military realised this a while ago and describing any activity as being 'weed-out' is a big no-no.
> This is literally a 100% complete recreation of MtGox all over again.

Regardless of outcome, this article is literally a blaming rant which represents speculation as truths.

Edit...decided to rant a bit myself.

I ran in the Bitcoin scene in SF for about a year and a half. As with most human endeavors which involve stored value/trust, Bitcoin suffers from its share of less trustworthy individuals. Throw in the fact most normal people fail to get the fact Bitcoin isn't just money, and you get the perfect setup for high amounts of dissonance when it comes to debating it. This dissonance manifests during highly polarized events, including Mt.Gox, the halving, the hard fork, the DAO, the tragedy of Ethereum, and on and on.

I'm fucking sick of all the drama because of the continued polarization. The likelihood that I'll be able to go to Peet's tomorrow and buy a cup of coffee with my phone's crypto wallet is greatly diminishing as time goes on. The fact I could be doing this today using existing technology in a highly efficient and trustworthy way makes me sad when I see these exchanges failing over and over again, especially when their only value is bridging cryptocurrencies with the highly untrustworthy world of fiat currency. I think there is no real value to the exchanges for the public, other than for the groups of traders who consider themselves in charge of crypto liquidity.

The bridges are the problem because they represent a vector by which hackers can gain access to large amounts of stored value. It matters not who the hackers were - exchange employees or Turkish hackers both deal the same punishment to the ecosystem. Ethereum was the way to fix this, with decentralized exchanges the promise. Maybe that will happen, but I'm not holding my breath.

The world is ripe for a change in the way we do things we need to trust. Government. Buying things. Agreeing in contracts. Deploying software. Accessing software.

As long as we continue to elevate the value of cryptocurrencies based on their weak links to The Market's financial instruments, stuff like this is going to keep happening.

It's time for cryptocurrencies to stand on their own, separate from the world's markets.
Codeship: Continuous Delivery Can Elevate Developer Productivity
> In the Midwest, where I grew up, you shrug off a ­compliment like that and think a lot of people in the world are really busy, like President Obama. And then President Obama started posting YouTube videos for fun.

I have nothing against Marissa Mayer and some respects really appreciate having a prominent female CEO but did anyone else find that shocking that she would say that? I mean she is a CEO. Wouldn't she want to avoid talking about US political figures. Also I'm not really sure if it is a dig or a compliment. It could be a compliment. Lots of busy people can have the facade of looking like they have relaxing lives which takes even more work.

There is also an intensity factor of work. Some work is insanely intense both physically and mentally and you just can't do 130 hours. I did consulting for 40 hours a month for a brief period. Those 40 hours felt like 40 hours a week. Meanwhile I worked on my own startup and early in its fledgling years my wife complained about how many hours I worked (she claims more than 90 hours) but to me it felt like 40 hour work week.
"According to a study conducted under the leadership of the Federal Office for Spatial Development, the new alpine tunnel will hardly relieve any pressure on the roads but instead create new rail traffic, as the newspaper “Der Bund” reports."

Isn't the environmental impact of 1000 people traveling from point A to point B via rail far preferable to than 1000 people making the same journey by car? The quote above seems to imply that rail provides no appreciable environmental benefit, I'm finding that hard to believe.
> It's similar to Node in that regard.

No it's not, it is very different from Node. Elixir/Erlang know how to take advantage of multiple CPU cores easily. Node by default doesn't.
As much as I love the metaphor, it's been quite a while since I first noticed the "eye-twitching" among non-technical management types whenever the term "technical debt" comes up. I can almost hear them thinking, "oh, boy, more spoiled programmer bullshit for me to deal with".
Pick any `b` you want, even infinity, and evaluate:

sum_n^b 2^n (floor(0/2^n) mod 2) (floor(-1/2^n) mod 2)

sum_n^b 2^n * 0 * 1

sum_n^b 0

0
I'd think the smell test for whether he can serve is no different than if a state governor can serve jury duty. The requirements for impartiality are similar.

It looks like governors have served on jury duty as well

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/10/even...
We updated the title from “Firefox latest now directs users to the Wayback Machine on a 404” to that of the article.
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> There is major advantage to being or even feigning irrationality when the stakes are this high.

There is a major advantage at times to feigning rationality with a different utility function when the stakes are high to shape perceptions of your likely responses.

Irrationality is less useful, because you always want to project a clear set of preferences from which likely actions can be predicted which will strongly create an incentive for other actors to act in your interests.
Yea, it says that I'm awesome :)

Come on, how can you possibly call this "self-less"?? If you're doing something for someone you love, it's because you love them. That's the ultimate good-feeling. You're doing it to feel good, period. I hate people who do things like this and then say "I acted selflessly for you". No, you didn't, you moron. You acted as selfish as can be. Now, thank you very much for doing what you did for me, but don't EVER expect me to pay you back in any form, or to thank you, or to even acknowledge what you did, because then there wasn't anything selfless about it, was there?

If you love someone and you've done something for them, good for you. Yay. Move on.
To be honest since Microsoft took ownership of Skype, Skype itself is weakness of Skype.

I myself went from literally a daily Skype user with two Skype accounts to someone who uses Facebook Messenger instead (for text AND video-calling).

Literally the only reason I even load Skype now is to use up my Skype credit on international calling. And even that is painful, as they might break my user credentials for the nth time.

Skype had a lot of issues before the acquisition, it has even more now.
Another viewpoint: Did Mother Theresa perform her acts for fame and influence? Or did she receive fame and influence for performing the acts that she would have performed anyway? It just so happens that people like being helped, and will generally feel friendly and helpful to those who help them. Do this enough, and you'll end up with a pretty large sphere of influence, even if that was not ever a goal.
After going through 7 or 8 advanced level math courses in college, I noticed there was a dissociation of interests between the teachers and many of their students (90% STEM).

Mathematicians might be interested in math because they enjoy math purely for what it is: abstract and theoretical. However, many scientists and engineers just what to know where what they're learning might be useful or applied somewhere in their career.

Even if one never uses it directly in their jobs, it's at least nice to know where it actually has an application so it's in the back of your head. I ended up having to look much of that up on my own, but after I did, I had way more interest in calculus and linear algebra than I did beforehand.
College courses aren't standardized, but calculus is often a weeder class and far more difficult than previous classes.

This is often unintentional. The real problems are that kids are being passed through high school without learning math and that the other college classes are far too easy and lack any rigor. Therefore a class that requires memorization/understanding of concepts and isn't open book is considered incredibly difficult.

If english/history/science general education classes weren't such jokes then calculus wouldn't be considered a bottleneck.
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