skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be that as it may, I can smell somebody who doesn't floss from 10 feet away. You should floss if not for yourself, then at least for the rest of us.
While it is probably true that a big chunk of yahoo addresses are defunct, this could probably be said about most free providers.

The more interesting fact about Yahoo mail is that Verizon now will manage a very large percentage of all free email accounts on the planet now. US estimate for Yahoo, AOL, Verizon would be somewhere near 35-40%.

And before the No Way AOL reply trickles in from somewhere, AOL is still estimated near 10% of total active addresses in the US, and is substantiated by the ESPs. edit* With the demographic of your sample being very linked to that percentage.
Is there any mechanism that will disable all this logging?

> When I purchase a $100,000 vehicle, I want the vehicle to act under my control. Not under Tesla's control.

I feel the same way, and kind of find it intrusive that Tesla can seemingly obtain this data at will without my explicit permission.
Chapter 2 is titled ‘Kissed by Jesus’, if that helps anyone avoid the longread.

// edit whoops yeah I'm wrong, my replier is correct. Nevertheless... Chapter 1 was stumbling into a long resume of the boy's high school experiences and I was getting bored, so when the title of chapter 2 was "Kissed by Jesus" I ended early. The first portion of the article is really good, but the long backstory and gateway-drug-ism in the article got old.
I highly doubt that the disk writes were the original bottleneck. It probably is the new bottleneck, after parallelizing the data fetching and database IO.

I agree that the article has some flaws, though.
>There would be far, far fewer deaths from overdose if all drugs were legal.

2/3rds of all overdoses are opiate related.

The biggest impactor to preventing overdose death is the drug Naloxone which is an opioid blocker.

Putting naloxone in the hands of at risk drug users, and as standard kit for police officers/EMTS, is the most effective way to save lives.
Microsoft deservedly lost because they failed to innovate. But that isn't the case with graphics, where they have been at the forefront of innovation for well over a decade now. OpenGL has historically lagged behind DirectX in terms of features, ease of use and performance. Only in the last couple years has anyone (Mantle, Vulkan) actually begun to threaten Microsoft's dominance and if DirectX is inferior it should lose, but to equate that with how the HTML wars went is glossing over a lot of detail.
University of Texas used to do this. They still might. Djikstra wrote a bit of a letter about it once.
You’re Not Meant to Do What You Love. You’re Meant to Do What You’re Good At
Use of alternative medicine is associated with absenteeism
I think that the "if-then" part is a simplification of imperative paradigms.

I've never heard it described that way, but I assume the part about "pin pointed procedures" tied to data is a weird way of describing the way that methods relate to the data encapsulated by their owning object.

Ultimately, I think this is a case where someone familiar with the concept has explained it to someone who is not, who has then tried to paraphrase and, lacking any domain knowledge, summarised it in an unusual and vague way.
Personally, I would be interested in this service when I am job hunting.

Having a trusted third party between myself and the prospective employer would help shift the power dynamic significantly.

Also having a trained negotiator would take a lot of stress off of me.

Any thoughts on a rough price range you would look for to provide this sort of service?
We also didn't used to have nice things like JITs and hardware accelerated graphics.
Is this a feature that AeroFS customers will also get access to? Or is this meant to be a completely separate product line? Overall, this is amazing. Congratulations on the launch :)
Pengines: Web Logic Programming Made Easy
Until you convince those CAs to start signing for code, they still cost $400+. And remember, that's per year. The driver will continue to function after that year, but they will either need to cough up another $400 the next year, or cease development. Even at $100-200 per year that's still an unreasonable cost for hobby projects.
> Which is why it pains me to see that so many engineers get stuck with such ridiculous salaries (relative to the value and wealth they provide and create). Problem is that some salaries are seemingly high compared to what the average worker does in the country but ridiculously to what they would look like if engineers were allowed to capture a greater (that is a >0.01%) percentage of the added value they CREATE.*

As an engineer, I'd certainly like to make more, and I plan to negotiate more aggressively at my next position; but I'm honestly more concerned about how little most of the rest of the nation gets paid compared to the value they create. I don't like seeing my friends who work harder than I do--and contribute at least as much to society--getting paid 1/3 of what I make, just because they don't happen to have natural aptitudes for a currently fashionable skillset.

If I could fix just one of those two problems, it would be the second one. I make enough to live comfortably. Too many people don't.
Well that raises the question, if you want a $100K vehicle that is under your control, why would you buy a Tesla, one of the draws for which is increasing automation? For that matter, many systems are out of your control even on more ordinary cars.
Yes, I find it quite ironic that one of the most privileged groups on the planet is suddenly supporting an essentially communist argument of wage theft, as soon as there's even a slight possibility of them being underpaid. Apparently they are also entitled to unprecedented upward mobility.

I sincerely doubt many software developers here spend any sleepless nights wondering what it would have been like had they been in another field or profession, which are just as much victims of wage theft as supposedly these engineers are.
Reminds me of this bit from BSG (a conversation between two "artificial" humans):

Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star supernova?

Ellen: No.

Cavil: No. Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks
of the universe, other stars, other planets, and eventually other life, a
supernova, creation itself. I was there. I wanted to see it, and be part of the
moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the
universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull. With eyes designed
to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, with ears designed only to
hear vibrations in the air.

Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.

Cavil: I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear
X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am?
I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to
conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I
know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and
feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can
know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd
body. And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way.
1. The driver acknowledged that he should have turned off autopilot, but the focus of the complaint is that the car did not decelerate after hitting the first post.

2. The driver claims that the warning sound never came on. If the indicator was buggy, logs would not necessarily show that if the car thought it had played the sound but the speaker malfunctioned.

3. The logs haven't been released AFAICT and since Tesla motors isn't under any oath not to lie, there's no proof that they're telling the ttuth here either.
So, this supply and demand thing.

We keep hearing from large tech companies that there's a crisis -- a massive shortage of qualified software engineers, to such a degree that they won't be able to operate at all if they can't raise the H1-B quotas and import more people to fill all the jobs currently going unfilled.

If that truly is the case, then supply and demand would tell us that currently engineers are underpaid; if there are companies so desperate to hire engineers that they're turning to immigration law to try to increase the supply, why aren't they simply offering large enough compensation packages to attract the existing pool?

Pondering the answer to that may enlighten you.
Location: Bangalore, India.

Remote: Nope.

Willing to relocate: Yes (team, work,...)

Technologies: Python, Openstack(django, flask, cherrypy..., Oslo-libs), AngularJS, C, C++, Sql, Qt, Haskell (in decreasing order of experience)

Resume: https://goo.gl/znCpzU (google-drive)

email: inside cv

https://github.com/sum12/python-rtmbot - personal bot for use on daily basis.

https://github.com/sum12/songbook - dynamic video-clip-loops for guitar practice.

https://github.com/sum12/spreader - speed reader, speed controls, play-pause, qt-experiment.

--------------

Let me know if any more info is required. Though resume has most of the stuff. I use vim, let me know if want to look at my vimrc.
It would be great if there was a major telco that was excited about being dumb pipe and just crushing the others. That seems to be what Google Fiber is an attempt at creating but the capital required is so great that only a hundred year old company like Verizon or AT&T is really in a position to execute on that well.
"Debates or putting down other people’s ideas wasn’t permitted"

If I had a dime...
I like the snowflake method [0]. It gives you a very strict plan.

Disclaimer: I have not written a novel yet.

[0] http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-met...
I found flights to Venice on flychecker at € 50
But they are exposed!

In case of financial trouble (very common at startups), who gets to be laid off first, the CEO or the developer?

Also, rank-and-file employees are typically scape-goated in legal proceedings, example: finance people going to jail for rogue/insider trading, even though upper management at least encouraged such behavior.
> They can definitely also EEE with this. Take a game engine, create a fork for your platform, wait until your platform and fork has a significant market share, and then start introducing features to your fork, which are not directly available on the main-branch.

Exactly. Or if it's not even a fork anymore (let's say it was merged upstream), make those features platform dependent / unportable even in the main codebase. It will still be EEE.
>As road conditions became increasingly uncertain, the vehicle again alerted you to put your hands on the wheel.

why not publish the video from the car's Autopilot for say last 30 seconds?

Looking at the photos, the road seems straight and with proper lane markings well visible. Though, given that it was 2AM, may be Autopilot has issues at low-light - if say they use narrow lenses (for cost as well as depth of field reasons) then it would mean more sensitive sensor (more noise) or longer exposure (less FPS) and relationship of colors of objects are different when illuminated by headlights instead of Sun - all this making it harder to discern the objects. Yet it all would be just a technical reasons that should have been solved before product release.
> There are techniques for writing for role-playing games that are a hybrid of planning/winging.

That sounds very interesting. Do you have any links you could share with more details? I've been trying to come up with a way to get some friends involved to play out some of the scenes in a book I'm working on and those techniques might really help. The only thing I've seen that sounds related is a game called "Downfall" [1]. I think it's a little too structured to use for this purpose, but I liked the concept.

1. https://lessthanthreegames.com/downfall/
They sell a "Mac cleaner" product? Aren't those scams?
Using an untested procedure for a non-essential health intervention does raise a mental health question, or certainly a question of judgement.

And anyway, of course it's a hit piece! The vampire metaphor is just too juicy.
To me, the main benefit is potential knowledge about specific risks that I might be able to mitigate. But even if it just satisfies my own intellectual curiosity, I find it to be a benefit.

To the world, I think that having a large dataset helps to improve the quality of studies such as the one being discussed. There's great utility in having a "hold-out set" for verification.

The OP presumably perceives some similar benefits, hence the sense of being "conflicted". Whether the benefits are real is a valid, although separate question than whether the privacy concerns are justified.
Hashicorp's Terraform 0.7 has been released
Those here who write, do you use plain text with source control? If so, what's your work flow?
Are you not aware of how Safari works?

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
There is nothing religious in this. The quote was describing the feelings when they were on the drug.
The worst example of this that I've met to date is Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander's Surfaces and Essences. It conveys such an important message but it repeats itself so often that the eyes start glazing over.
Depends. On the one hand we would have even less competition in an already-oligopolistic market. On the other, it would possibly give a new entrant a shot to rebuild a company with better culture, more innovation, focus on product rather than profit (at least in the short run).
I've tried to produce a full reply to most of the technical points raised there.
http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/thoughts-on-ubers-list-of-postgr...
Yeah, I got the exact same experience at my doctor. I tell them it's not single sound but several and the frequencies are changing all the time. Completely ignoring that assistent then spends a few minutes figuring out the sound frequency (me trying to compare a hissing sound in my ears to a single tune...). Afterwards doctor looks into both ears for a few second and then tells me it's nothing obvious, so there is nothing that can be done about it, but I can get some cortisol for 3 days in case it helps (didn't).
This. Greenfield development makes it far easier to implement multiprocess and sandboxing. Try contending with a decade-old extension ecosystem and a legacy extension API that provides direct access to browser internals.
We could certainly ask. It may be that they are legally required to publish certain data but not certain other data. It might be the NTSB that determines this, or the privacy laws in the state where the crash took place. Tesla has been pretty transparent, or has appeared to be, for years now.

To posit a deliberate conspiracy to obscure unflattering facts seems unnecessary when the company and Musk himself have faced up to unflattering facts before — largely in order to publicly spin them in a positive light, admittedly, but the facts weren't suppressed.
The latter is not necessarily true - you might be creating tremendous value, but have barriers to market entry that are enormous such that you can only really create that value from within one of the existing players on the market. See aerospace, telecommunications, medicine, government contracting for examples of such industries. If I'm making a huge amount of added value for a large telecom, it's unlikely I can start a startup to compete with it, and given the state of the market I'm unlikely to make much more at their direct competitors. Thus, as long as my value is industry-specific, and the industries have large barriers to entry, I might be creating much more value than my salary but unable to leave and compete against my employer.
I am not sure of the utility of asking the salary question anyway. A credit check which is usually part of the pre-offer paper chase will provide an employer with plenty of info for determining your current burn rate.
They are forcing countries to extradite accused citizens while refusing to do the same. They have gitmo. They're asking companies like MSFT to collect data that even MSFT is not legally allowed to do. So, yeah, they're more 'covert' than others, but not necessarily more benevolent.
Many (if not like more than half, I forget the statistic..) of those overdose deaths result from combining a GABAergic like alcohol or especially benzodiazepines with an opioid.
Some of the node hacker community's work on scuttlebutt, hyperlog etc also seems highly relevant, as it's all based on merkle DAGs.

https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt
https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperlog

These are all super modular so fishing around in their dependency graphs should lead you to a whole bunch of really interesting projects :)
And Michael Crichton's Airframe has tens of pages describing airplane parts and their inspection processes.

I love it when books do that -- fortunately, it's easy to distinguish between technical passages and drivel.
I enjoy my work. If I go more than a week or two without doing some paid programming, I start to feel listless.

I'm lucky enough to get paid well as a freelancer, so I can work as much as I want from wherever I want. Even if I could retire tomorrow, I would still continue to do similar work to what I'm doing now.
The Mental Impact of Tech Interviews
I love to see similar stat for SSD.

Maybe DigitalOcean can publish their SSD failure rates if any.
Personally I floss daily as well as Waterpik on most days, but don't you think that may just be a confirmation bias?
thank you! this is mostly for founders. Anything for first employees?
I use tab tree and typically have a couple of hundred open tabs...
This only makes sense if the compensation isn't tied to your replacement value. If it's tied to replacement value... well, too bad - the company shouldn't create an incentive to ramp up technical debt.
I read the title and couldn't help but think about pipes.yahoo.com after VZW's recent acquisition.
Wouldn't this be better not as an actual data store, but rather a way to snap shot relational databases and then use it as a back up mechanism or perhaps doing historical analytics on that database?

A coworker and I have often talked about doing a git-based database but for far different reasons, and we've run into problems largely with querying data and having large amounts of reads happening concurrently. I'm curious to see how this will (hopefully) be eventually handled.
They said that the radar and camera detected the trailer but that it looked like an overhead sign and so was ignored. The sonar sensors play no role in preventing forward collisions, as they only have a range of about 16 feet. They are used to aid parking and to avoid side collisions from cars in adjacent lanes.

Since the system didn't detect any danger, I think it's safe to assume that no alarms sounded. Hands on the wheel isn't relevant, since the problem wasn't one to be solved with steering.

Aside from timestamps (which don't seem particularly useful here), this seems to include just about everything interesting.
Sometimes your "common sense" reaction is not supported by the data.
You can get an Alphasmart on eBay for 30$ if you want a distraction-free writing device.
> 99% of sites have no business accessing a lot of that stuff and popping up warnings every time they try to would make it a whole lot more obvious when a site is taking advantage of your personal data.

I agree, sites should not have access to that data. I would prefer if those features would be removed again instead of introducing more popups.
Bullshit. Some people have halitosis, some people just don't brush regularly. There is one of my coworkers who occasionally has really bad breath, but it's not clear that he just missed a flossing.

Source: I have a hygiene pact with a coworker. (If either of us ever smells or has a bad appearance, we're pact-bound to tell the other.) I floss twice a year: 48 hours before my dentist appointments, the times I've had bad breath have not been flossing related.
I once wrote super simple `git in js` for data objects. Was less than a couple of hundred of lines.

But there's also - https://github.com/mirage/irmin
> Microsoft deservedly lost because they failed to innovate.

Whether they lost deservedly or not, lock-in is always a crooked practice.

See my other comment[1], that with DX12, it's more clear that MS are doing it for the sake of lock-in. Problem with it - it doesn't compete on merits on Xbox for instance. Because it's the only thing supported there.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211987
"...The Minitel business model was a thing of beauty, a well-tended garden that didn’t admit outsiders. In this world, the Internet was the unwashed enemy...
To paraphrase one of my past collaborators, the Minitel did less, but it cost more"

Replace Minitel with iPhone and call me in 10 years.
Does it still heed HTTP_PROXY env variable under Windows?

The proxy dialog is (was?) convenient to swritch between proxies quickly; the env var, of course, cannot offer that.
Especially since they have different behavior. The outside handle can't open the door while locked, but the inside handle can.
Pythonista for iOS.

Just downloaded it. Can write scripts for your phone ON your phone. Includes libraries to for ios.
Those were smart pipes though.
At first glance, this reminds me a little bit of datomic - all data history is preserved/deduplicated, fork/decentralization features. Can you comment on how it compares?
Ok, got it - it's probably semantics then. When I say 'work', I mean doing something other than what you enjoy. If you love it, it's not work, in common vernacular.
I forced e10s on 47, and it's still enabled in 48. In both I see random beachballs (OS X) hitting refresh in one tab and moving to another, and sometimes spinning wheels trying to navigate to a new tab.

I don't think there are any real performance improvements in 48 other than the improvement you'll get from restarting a long running process.
>as an engineer you either have the choice

I don't feel like I do. I cannot afford to battle patent trolls when something I produce somehow infringes on their "intellectual properties." There has been some progress, given the Alice vs CLS Bank decision, but there's still lots of patents flying around out there like this one (https://www.google.com/patents/EP2973038A1) where Google attempts to patent "Classifying resources using a deep network." Given that there's a very real threat of bankruptcy for even trying to start my own venture, I plod along at my position which is automating thousands out of their jobs while I make a minuscule fraction of what those people were once paid.
My car is getting better all the time because of that sensor data they collect, and I knew what I was getting into when I bought it. It's not like they hide the fact that the car is constantly connected to the mothership.
What about coercion via phone and internet?
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

WebExtensions / Chrome-style extensions are pretty limited to things which the browser dev already anticipated needing support for, while the old model let them do pretty much anything the browser could.

While it's certainly possible for Tree Style Tabs or uBlock Origin to be ported to/rewritten for Web Extensions when it's finished, that's only because there has been proven demand for the API to support those features.

When the next addon developer with an idea of that level of modification to the browser comes around, they're simply not going to be able to do it unless they manage to persuade Mozilla to give them APIs needed.

That's not to mention addon developers that won't care enough to update their addons to stop using XUL when it goes away.