skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it's fairer to say that it's built by enterprise technical people for enterprise technical people. Things like the fine-grained control over networking and resource permissions are hallmarks of enterprise tech.

That's not to say that these things don't solve real problems, but they are the problems of big organizations. Smaller teams building pure-cloud products don't have the same problems, and may not even have people with Big Corp experience.

AWS is the Java of cloud platforms.
That is true, but it is also true that UPS and FedEx still operate a lot of non-profitable areas. They rely on easier metro areas to help subsidize the losses.
Why Entrepreneurship Always Takes More Time Than You Expect
> one brand of yogourt is price per 100g while another is price per 100mL

Given that they are similar specific density, then the end result is the same and you can pretty much ignore the unit name.
When i was in Japan a year ago i especially liked the convenience stores for their coffee. Family Mart in particular has excellent coffee that's really cheap compared to other places.
Programming Advice from My 13-Year-Old Self
I'd love to read that article, but it's in Japanese :(
Ahh GOAP This is a very interesting approach to AI. This topic was a huge part of my FYP. I got this to work on a GPU with cuda.

Anyways, http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html (more from the same author : Jeff Orkin)

has a lot more information about this approach.

https://github.com/stolk/GPGOAP (not mine) for anyone who wants to look at this in action (c/c++ code).
That's because he has just had his wits scared out of him. Being that close to a windmill that comes apart is super stupid and must have caused him/her to think 'what the hell am I doing here?' at the moment it came apart.
You are spot on, that is more confirmation for my suspicion of overvoltage. The power drives the windmill, so the machine is rotating faster than the wind it generates due to slippage.

Normally it would be the other way around, the wind would pass through the turbine faster than it could move (Betz' law, in both cases but for the opposite reason, just like it is impossible to extract all the power in the wind due the air then having to 'pool' around the windmill you can't transfer power with 100% efficiency from the rotor to the air either, you'd create such overpressure behind the windmill that some of that air would have to move back to the front of the rotor. This stuff is all not-so-intuitive and the video is actually (accidentally) a really nice illustration of Betz' law at work.)
That sounds reasonable, although, shouldnt at this stage airbnb be earning a profit?
My first laugh of the day.
We know what you're doing
I wish the online Japanese translation was better.

The convenience store chains selling Oden should realize where a sure growth area is -- Europe.
Having skirted around the edge, and been through burnout several times, I urge especially solo entrepreneurs to set up a support group with other colleagues, friends or family to keep watch on their mood and performance.

It is all too easy too rationalise some of the symptoms of burnout as @eliboy stated in this thread as being 'other things' and ignoring the bigger picture. For example, if you are feeling tired and sad, is it depression or early onset burnout, or are you just suffering lack of sleep? Or just dehydration? Or is it because you had a late night out a couple of days ago?

Left to your own devices (especially when you are already burning out), it is all too easy to diagnose it as the latter causes, especially as your reasoning ability will be diminished.

Many times I have felt overwhelmed to the point of paralysis, thinking that it was because I couldn't say "No" to new projects, but it ended up being pure burnout.

Oh, and the frequent 'cure' for burnout from many of my colleagues is to force me to take a break and do nothing for a while. That actually makes it worse for me. I find that my best solution for burnout is to actually WORK HARD at another passion of mine - for example, If programming gets me down, I will go off and learn a fiendishly difficult piece on classical guitar instead. Others are horrified that I am putting my brain through more gruelling stress, but I find that thinking about music rather than programming for a while tends to help me feel creative and refreshed again.
For a flavor of automated offensive system, see this Automatic Exploit Generation paper: http://security.ece.cmu.edu/aeg/

David Brumley, PI of the research, went on to found ForAllSecure which is the company covered in the article.
Yeah... if you look at global stats and extrapolate to your own company you're doing yourself (and your company a disservice). It completely depends on what you're selling and who your customers are.

Sure, okay, I'll tell my CEO that 2% of our customers just don't matter, becuase - yanno, the progress of the internet needs to happen.

Or I could just use jQuery from the start and not think about this problem again.
I understand that in principle, but before paying the big cloud providers between 10 and 20 times what I would be paying Vultr/DO (for network traffic), I would like to know a great deal more about the actual performance difference.

I know it's probably on me to find that out myself.
> The left-pad fiasco

the whole "oh god, excessive dependencies mean js is gonna die!" response that people had at the time, which was imo more due to their dislike of JS as opposed to the dependency management
> PostgreSQL does not have bugs

What a nonsense. Postgres has over 14K issues listed against it, they just don't use a bug tracker, they use a mailing list instead. It's a holdover from the old days.

https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-bugs/2016-07/
You may care to read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-fiv...

It seems likely our attitudes change as we age. Perhaps not, perhaps the imminence of death warps perspective. However, dying with minimal regrets is surely something to cherish.

Anyway, whatever works for you.
Chrome Ext – Link a GitHub repository and save the links to content you like
> Oh that's silly. You drive to work you drive home. Maybe you go out to dinner then you go to bed. What lifestyle are you talking about? Sf would be one thing but sj and mv are really not so different from novi or farmington. Just suburbs

Oh really? That sounds like a very sad life you have. After work, when it's warm outside, I take some colleagues and we go for a cold beer next to the river. Sometimes I'd go home and take my dog out for a long, nice walk. On weekends, my wife and I love going to the woods, enjoy ourselves. When not, I take my motorbike or bicycle and go find a quiet place to read an interesting book. Often times, I'll take my wife and we will go to a nice café and sit outside, drinking the best latte in town while sitting in the sun. Oh and I forgot going to watch the kids play with their local team - it's so much more pleasant when weather is warm.

I could go on, but I guess you get the idea. There IS life outside and reducing it to working and commuting seems the saddest thing ever.
Same here, biggest reason to be in AWS is Postgres RDS which works like a charm!
If anything node is a hugely magnified version of jQuery in that respect. Instead of using 200 different jquery functions to do stuff, you're using 200 different npm libraries to do stuff.
> if you are feeling tired and sad, is it depression or early onset burnout, or are you just suffering lack of sleep?

Or maybe you're just not that into working in tech, and you're only doing it because x,y,z circumstance 'pushed' you into it when you were younger.

There's nothing wrong with career change, doing something different with your life, if you feel like programming or startups or whatever might be making you miserable.
Mine also has one, but the apps just don't want to go there. In fact, some apps like spotify insist on storing even their data in the internal storage. So I have a full internal storage and an almost empty big SD card. I know these things can be solvable via rooting, but most people doesn't root.
There are a few quotes floating around the web, all with the exact same wording, but I cannot find the original source anymore! I'm not sure if it's bitrotted or if it's a story someone made up before the release of the game, and then people spread it until it became "true". But it is what it is:

> 1. One character was given a rake and the goal “rake leaves”; another was given a broom and the goal “sweep paths,” and this worked smoothly. Then they swapped the items, so that the raker was given a broom and the sweeper was given the rake. In the end, one of them killed the other so he could get the proper item.

> 2. In another test, a minotaur was given a task of protecting a unicorn. However, the Minotaur repeatedly tried to kill the unicorn because he was set to be an aggressive creature.

> 3. In one Dark Brotherhood quest, the player can meet up with a shady merchant who sells skooma, an in-game drug. During testing, the NPC would be dead when the player got to him. The reason was that NPCs from the local skooma den were trying to get their fix, did not have any money, and so were killing the merchant to get it.

> 4. While testing to confirm that the physics models for a magical item known as the “Skull of Corruption,” which creates an evil copy of the character/monster it is used on, were working properly, a tester dropped the item on the ground. An NPC immediately picked it up and used it on the player character, creating a copy of him that proceeded to kill every NPC in sight.

> 5. In one test, after a guard became hungry and left his post in search of food, the other guards followed to arrest him. The town people looted the town shops, due to lack of guards.

> Bethesda worked to fix these issues, balancing an NPC’s needs against his penchant for destruction so that the game world still functions in a usable fashion. In-game there are over 1,000 different NPCs, not including randomly spawned monsters and bandits. The result is that the AI in the release version is much reduced, only featuring NPC schedules.
> In many countries lobbing is illegal

Can you name one of them? I can’t find any, and sending gifts or bribes is lobbying.
Wow. My apologies, I didn't realise your personal self-worth was so wrapped up in your google account. I wasn't even referencing google with the car thing, but the AWS mechanism doing what it's been activated to do.

If you're that sensitive about lighthearted hyperbole, then perhaps you shouldn't use it in the first place.
dry run for cfn == create change set :-)

(also, it helps to use nested stacks)
Great, for the same reason I switched back to Firefox for all my browsing needs on all my devices. I think using Mozilla products is also an important way to support them.
> We're supposed to spend $20 million on every potentially hostile sub?

Nowadays an M1 Abrams tank costs around $8 million. This means that for the price of 3 tanks, they can track and ultimately destroy an enemy asset that costs around $800 million new, can't be replaced, and can destroy an entire fleet of billion-dollar ships.

The expense is well justified.

Now, if only the US didn't kept wasting billions of dollars in assets that can be destroyed by any navy with a diesel electric sub.
I read once about a highschool boy, a good student, who was shocked when a teacher asked him "What do YOU want to do?". What? he thought. This question has never crossed my mind. Nobody told me I can make my own mind. It was always "teacher knows best" and "parent knows best" and "be a good student and learn what we teach you, do what we tell you".

I wrote from this point of view, but I agree that parents and teachers know better most of the time, I just don't know if it is good to try so hard to make sure the child doesn't make any "wrong" choices.
Here is 2015 competition postmortem from Trail of Bits: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2015/07/15/how-we-fared-in-the-...
That's a silly argument. All money has already been taxed many times over. If you hire a plumber, she has to pay taxes on the amount you pay her, even though you've already been taxed once. Why should it be any different with gifts or inheritance?

I didn't express myself clearly when I talked about deserving money. What I meant was that you don't pick your parents. Weather you are born to wealthy or poor parents has enormous impact on your opportunities in life. You may not agree, but I believe society should strive to ensure that we all have the same opportunities in life. Only when the playing field is level, can one person's success in life really be labeled deserved.
So you've been brought to norm, too.
Eh, no, alcoholism lead to farming.

If you need the booze, you need the bees, if you need the bees, you need to stay for the summer. If you want a year round supply you need storage, if you have storage that is not transportable, you have settled.

If you cultivate plants, you can up the numbers and found city states- but for that you allready have to be half way settled. Else that nomadic sheep guy from across the fence will drive his cattle through your fields.
Stack Computers: the new wave (1989)
I think generally they just find her interpretations to be in poor taste?

My impression is that people who weren't really into classical music before listening to her are more likely to like her, whereas people who have followed classical music for a long time are less likely to. I suspect it has something to do with how they consider certain music should be played. As far as I know, she was relatively unknown until she posted some videos on YouTube.

Personally I'm not a big fan of her but I don't dislike her; she certain is a much better player than I am and I have no issue listening to her playing. My teacher absolutely abhors her playing though..
In France, the price per unit is indicated as well. The unit is the most relevant one (kilogram, liter, meter, ...) It makes it really easy to compare the price of similar products.
Funny you mention old Japanese cars, as mine was stolen (and subsequently found) just a few days ago.

90's era Japanese cars are notoriously easy to steal, and the only thing that stopped them was the immobiliser kicking back on. When they initially took it, the immobiliser was off thanks to a mistake on my part, but it automatically re-activates when the car is turned off.

To get it home after it was found, I actually started it with a plastic spoon thanks to the minor "productivity hacks" they had applied to it. Keyless start!

The window and door were fine, because all you need to get into the door is a coat hanger down the window sil.

Given enough time, I suspect they would have gotten through the immobiliser fairly easily, and I honestly don't think a kill switch would slow them down much either as to be convenient, they need to be in the cabin.

My last car had a kill switch, and it was a big red button underneath the steering column. They're going to figure it out, but it might slow them down enough to consider giving up.

Car alarms are next to useless, no one cares or checks, but a good immobiliser will at least push it past the "easy grab" realm of opportunity. Unfortunately not until after they've broken in, taken your stuff and broken your key barrel though.
Yes, I also think VC6 was the best IDE. But WPF happened in VS2003, so most people who describe VS as the best IDE ever actually refer to a WPF version.
That won't work, my car had those on both terminals and the battery was flat. They brought their own battery and rigged it all back up. It might stop an opportunist doing his first theft though.
Git team workflows: merge or rebase?
The Asshole Filter (2015)
> That's kind of what I mean by homogeneous.

Then I have a bad news for you: except for rare case of overgrown startups,
virtually nobody else has this kind of environment. Larger, established
companies need file servers, external web servers, application servers to run
internal services (multiple of them), directory services, print servers, and
many others I couldn't remember at the moment. Heck, even development vs.
production environments can have significant differences in configuration.

>> If you happen to have two or more roles for the servers, shell scripts start tearing at their seams.

> I guess it depends on how you set up your scripts. I made mine "config-management-esque", which is very modular, and it works well for me.

Of course it depends. CM systems are regular programs and not magic, after
all. One can write one from scratch. I just really doubt your is a sensibly
generic one instead of being "mine set of scripts that only works for my
environment". It takes a lot, lot of experience in both programming and system
administration to develop such a thing.
Italy passes law to encourage all supermarkets to give unsold food to needy
Maybe Swift's presentation about their SIL is something worthwhile for those that want to learn about this kind of stuff.

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2015-10/#talk7
Oregon, Iowa, South Carolina, Belgium, Taiwan definitely is fewer than the 11 AWS regions.
How to Use Google for Hacking
Try uMatrix instead of NoScript, it allows first-party js by default if the domain is not black-listed. I've found that to be a great compromise.
>The problem is that you need to have papers published for this to work

The one place where one could actually use a "Follow" button for other people...there isn't one. Classic.
> The reason people find git hard is that concepts of distributed version control are hard.

Have you ever used Mercurial?
> This, is one of the main sources of time waste and stress in everyday life. Take choosing a car insurance policy, each insurer will provide many options with only minor or irrelevant differences, making comparing competing offers hard.

That reminds me of how ITA's QPX has additional effort invested into ensuring that the top connection search results aren't almost identical with only minor differences, even if the resulting order doesn't correspond to some simple "objective" metrics.
When I was a kid, going home from school, when passing through a calm couple of blocks, I'd let off into a full out sprint, and I'd smile from ear to ear, because it felt great. I still smile when I think about. By the way, Forrest Gump anyone?

Anyway, the word coping is the innocent version of escapism. Similar actions are denial and projection. The point is to find a comfortable posture for refusal of reality. The opposite is acceptance of course.

Generally, when we talk about escapism, we mean compulsive escapism. Substance abuse is the worst, because, coupled with compulsiveness, it slowly erodes your ability to function and recover. More constructive escapism, like physical exercise, is probably best, because it has the opposite effect over time. Workaholics are somewhere in between, they get their superegos stroked, because of achievements, but they usually develop poor family environments, so, even though, they survive ok, they have poor life quality in general. Not that the compulsive joggers have great life quality, just that they are probably more emotionally stable. Glandular balance is main reason for that.

As I mentioned, the answer, universally, is acceptance, but how to get that is a journey in of itself.
I expect that the devices themselves may be legal, but lots of the uses we'd be talking about here would be illegal under plenty of current laws.
Dukpy: From Nodejs to Python
bras – a different kind of ‘make’ (2002) [pdf]
He keeps pointing the camera to the ground and he misses the moment the windmill finally breaks down. Suggestion:

1) look into the camera to keep it aligned

2) look at the subject and keep the camera off

Pick one.
You are trying to turn economic transactions into "personality traits" and it's kind of really disgusting. What you pay them isn't irrelevant if you are dedicated to paying them what they can get elsewhere. Because it's an economic transaction. Be more desirable, pay market rates, and people won't bounce. But nobody wants to invest in their people and nobody wants to pay market rates once you've signed on the dotted line. No, "yearly reviews" to get a five or even ten percent raises are not sufficient.

I create a lot of value--in much less than six months, at my last full-time job by the time six months had elapsed I'd built out a deployment system that reduced developer time for every deployment by literally seventy percent and gotten an "attaboy, maybe at the next perf review", which never happened because I got a new gig with a sixteen percent comp increase, before options in a publicly traded company no less, that would never have been matched by that perf review. This is why I consult now, as it happens: because I can parachute in and create a lot of value, because I don't need a bunch of ramp-up time, and I can get paid literally double per-hour to do it. (And it's why I can work three-ish days a week and make more money than my last full-time job.)
> Don't even get me started on electronics when it comes to the overabundance of choice. I only buy Apple laptops now specifically because the choice is so limited and I can be sure that I'm getting "the best" laptop.

Unfortunately, this only works as long as the few choices are all good. In case of laptops, most of them are crap for at least one good reason (cue all the 15,4" laptops with a 1366x768 TN screen) and can disqualified immediately. The real problems for me seem to be that 1) filtering the whole local market efficiently can be problematic and 2) a limited choice of often-idiotic configurations seem to be available in my boondocks so I usually have to give up on something.
A list of valid phone numbers isn't needed. Calling every phone in a desired area code -- or even every phone number in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) -- is perfectly feasible for a robo-caller.

My back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that phoning numbers in sequence (or chosen at random) will get you a real person on every 6th call.

Briefly, my calculation is 293 area codes x 7.9M possible numbers per area code (not 10M because some number formats aren't allowed) divided by 360M (population of the NANP countries, principally US and Canada, and assuming 1 phone per person) implies that every 6th number is assigned.
I like the winter. I have stayed in Novi when working in Detroit and being able to go skiing after work was great.
Flex your computing power
Where in Australia were you from that makes SJ weather life alteringly different? And different how?

Thank you :)
Perhaps in Europe and the US, but here in Australia (and many other places I suspect), 2MB/s is a luxury. We have the NBN (partially) rolling out at the moment, but anything better than 12/1mbit will be largely inaccessible to the majority.
> A "6 months here and there" person isn't magically going to change their perspective on life just because they finally had the opportunity to work for me

I've seen those people stick for multiple years when they found the right fit. Of course, they got paid for their time and their employers worked to keep them happy because that right fit understood their value.

I'll be real with you: from every post you've made in the thread, this isn't the employee's problem. This is a you problem. You want to hire people who actively work against their own interests. That's super gross.
My 50-something year-old parents use Airbnb. So no.
Great point. People (and organizations) are seeking return/yield and low/negative interest rates push them to riskier and riskier options.

Of course, that's kind of the point -- to get the money out there flowing through the economy's veins.
Will WebAssembly allow for self-modifying code? Otherwise you're stuck with CPython, apparently.
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