skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this was an interesting anthropological experience to me as the lifestyle is so different from my own though it seems the underlying long-term goals are similar to mine (wealth, meaning, having smart and interesting friends and acquaintances). I too live in SV, but in a modest home I own in the East Bay. I too commute a little less than an hour to work, but I do my own grocery shopping and I don't care for nice restaurants, fancy cars or the latest gadgets. I still drive my 08 Prius.

I have a fair amount of stock options I've collected from 3 different mid-size companies over the last half decade; all are still in business but none are showing extremely promising outlooks, so I no longer count stock options in my long-term financial planning though it would be a welcomed bonus to my plans. Instead, I count the value of $5000/month left over from my decently high salary minus my non-materialist lifestyle invested in index funds to achieve financial independence the old fashioned way. Somewhat anti-Silicon Valley philosophy? Perhaps, but the Bay Area is all testing diverse ideas and out of the box approaches to life satisfaction. I don't claim my life is superior to the theoretical in this article, but it is much simpler and probably lower stress, and I'm pretty happy on a day to day basis so I'm not yet tempted to dive in to the alternate approach.
I cannot take NSAIDs so Acetaminophen remains the only non prescription option for the occasions I need it. I still try to avoid it when possible and keep a careful tally of how much I take.
Wired has an article describing how Dropbox switched over to Rust as they moved away from AWS:

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amaz...
bravo - tickling read!
The part that I fear is the seemingly cookie cutter questions for CS grads, not for developers for that position. I've been doing software dev for almost 3 years. Never had to implement a red black tree. Nor could I, since I never took CS at school.

I'm very good at my job but would bomb the technical part of many of the traditional interviews.
so what you're saying is, you've seen everything i've described happen, at least to "a few people", and you're just one guy.
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I used to work with Wiki markup for a living. The time you think you'll save with regex hackery is quickly chewed up by the time wasted eternally tweaking your regexes to catch yet another corner case -- it's much better just to parse for real from the get go, just like it's much better to use a real HTML/XML parser than trying to do the same job badly with regexes.
Downvoted because you shouldn't complain about downvoting, read guidelines.

Personally I find it a particular bad form of karma whoring. You are saying it to get karma.

By implying people will downvote you, you are implying people disagree without any evidence at all.

But inexperienced people take this as a given and will upvote you even if they only partially agree with you because you have fooled them into thinking most people totally disagree with you, it's a clever scam that works. Hence I believe the guidelines.
What was the difference in the interviews?
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> I have no evidence as to how Peter Thiel truly feels about privacy in general

Thiel founded Palantir.
https://www.motifinvesting.com/ does exactly that.
On the flip side, I just interviewed two candidates claiming 10 and 16 years of experience for a "Senior DevOps" position. Neither of them could tell me what a default route was - one of them spewed some nonsense buzzwords and the other one thought it might have something to do with DNS.
livin' the rat race one latte at a time
I will always bet on what comes natural to most to be healthy.

It's absurd to think we evolved "wrongly" and need to fight natural tendencies.
> * AWS: Servers kept alive, got some engineering assistance

This depends a lot on what level of customer you are.
Thanks for sharing your father's story. Luckily my pain isn't chronic level, so I am tapering off already after a few days. My heaviest use is 6-8 OTC pills over 24 hours, probably not considered out of normal. Personally, however, I'm for OTC codeine. It costs nothing to produce, is stupendously effective, and the only problem is potential addiction (the least of all opiates IIRC) which is basically a non-issue with (cheap) supply.
Saying someone who masturbates is going to become a sex/porn addict is just as bad as preists saying it leads to blindness. Really your post sounds like someone confused by their own shame.
Suicide queens.
How do you envision it not being self reported?
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The book was not well received by mental health professionals ;)
When is the server portion likely to be open sourced?
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Those are both decisions regarding preliminary injunctions, so your claim that they were found "not illegal" is erroneous. It's explained pretty clearly in the short paragraphs you linked to.
Things like load balancers and database servers especially, though they do charge a pretty penny for the latter.
I've heard the challenge is that since they buy individual stocks, and constantly change the holdings, it isn't easy to keep changing that and you'll be stuck with whatever stocks you had last and can just rebalance within those. I could be making that up though.
Anything serious that can corrupt or eat data?
A significant amount use DigitalOcean and Linode; AWS just really dominates.

https://www.gra.pe/?p=36
Business rules systems and logic programming are definitely similar. Most business rules are based on "Forward Chaining" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_chaining), basically using what we know to satisfy the left hand side condition and then using the right hand side to assert new facts. Logic programming is usually based on "Backward Chaining" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_chaining), where the system attempts to work backwards from a goal to what facts are needed to satisfy the goal.
Aggregation and volume itself is dangerous.

My challenge to the Surveillance Business Sector (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, banking, etc.) is to figure out how to offer services with minimal, or better, zero, user tracking. That's challenging, as even incidental signatures leave traces, but what's currently happening is, IMO, either untenable or leads to quite horrible things.

Consider: in a world in which any conceivable piece of information is available on a person, then any conceivable claim becomes credible. It's McCarthy's "binders" on steroids. Insinuation alone can be devastating.

On the matter of "collecting only the necessary data" for a given transaction, there's a post I tried submitting on Ello (oddly: specific content seems to break their submissions, they're aware of this) of my experience clicking on "log in via Google+" on TypePad.

For the service of authenticating to TypePad, I was expected to divluge:

1. All people in my Circles. Including non-public Circles.

2. My own demographics.

3. My email address.

4. Permission to "manage" my Google profile.

Under what Orwellian Hell would I provide access to my entire damned Google profile to some third party for the ability to post a comment on a blog?

Who possibly, at TypePad, or Google, possibly thought this was a good idea?

(I've got quite the rant written on this, waiting for Ello to fix their bug so I can post it.)
Any real innovation flocks to the states if they become any relevant.
Like that ever stopped audiophiles and their $850 ceramic cable supports to hold up their $13,000 cables...
The reason I am freaked about acetaminophen is that I suffer from migraines. The most effective OTC medicine for me is Excedrin Migraine (a combo of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine). I didn’t realize that this med contained acetaminophen. I also didn’t realize that the product name Tylenol equaled acetaminophen. Only put things together when I heard about people overdosing and examined my medicine cabinet and check product labels. I think I had 3-4 different medications that contained some amount of acetaminophen, mostly cold medications. I know I’ve taken most of them in combination and probably in an unsafe way.

I also had no idea the overdose margins were so thin. I’ve taken a shit ton of Excedrin Migraine over my life. And Theraflu. And double doses of Excedrin Migraine after a does of straight aspirin or Tylenol didn't work alone.

Given the easy ability to overdose, I am of the opinion that acetaminophen should be sold singly and not in combination with anything else. Even if that means Excedrin Migraine doses come in a two pill combo. This way, people could easily calculate a total daily dose without it being in an unexpected product.

It's a miracle I still have a functioning liver.
Tom is conflating two premises - As engineers the team has done some nice work, but as a product Larrabee has failed.

- The perf/watt has not been competitive

- For the most part it has not been loved by its users

- The market share/penetration is small

- There is no evidence sales have been material to Intel; In fact it's not even clear it's been profitable

On the upside, though the product has failed to date, it's not dead. Maybe the 2016 release can turn things around.

Also it's nice that AVX512 came out of Larrabee, but the last line claiming credit to a single person seems dubious.
Vultr looks very comparable to DigitalOcean. I'm curious why they left DO out of their benchmarks. It seems the most obvious comparison.

https://www.vultr.com/benchmarks/
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I would not hire someone who claims to be a sys admin but has not coded( assuming that a sys admin is someone who would have a computer science or engineering background). Sys admins deal with processes and processes are nothing more than code executing on hardware. This would imply that at some level of your training you would have to have had exposure to hardware(computer architecture/organization, assembly language, discrete math) and how code brings about the desired outcome from that hardware at a systems level.
That such a question is even asked frightens me about who is managing systems these days.
I've been getting into Makefiles more over the past year, and still a noob at it. I see them as a necessary evil - they're baroque and they hurt... and yet they make other things easier. I'm using them less to compile stuff and more to package/upload things, but they certainly have their place.
And impossible to finish any game by the schedule
Yep that's the zeitgeist.
Yeah, the isolation in this Japanese case is similar in intent to the isolation your motherboard advertises, but on a much larger scale. It's the isolation that matters. Every mobo has a DAC if it has audio, but not every mobo has an isolated power supply for the DAC.
Steam engines were an amazing innovation as well. They brought countless improvements to society, and were a precursor to true internal combustion. However, no one relies on them in normal daily life anymore as there are much better alternatives. We can move on from a technology and still honor what it brought to the world.
Why do you still use it? If a company ever did what was described in the article to me, I would not only never use it again, I'd actively go out of my way to tell people not to use it. Have your experiences been much milder?
Correct.

Either it expires after a certain time period, IIRC 2? years, or your startup takes off and you burn through the rest quickly.
Or use magit! (And spacemacs)
Until you find yourself on (Free)BSD, where it doesn't look like the long options are supported: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)
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Better than plotting the voltage is plotting the frequency spectrum (e.g. via FFT) of the voltage. If there are multiple spikes, the power is dirty.
You can get that info one by one with their Chrome extension. Front end framework detection was not perfect in the limited ~10 startups I examined.
Yes, I've noticed if you have Texan culture in you, they welcome you with open arms.
Funny, I was just listening to a serious piece on NPR this morning about how internet porn is causing an epidemic of erectile dysfunction in teen boys. Considering our history of blaming various diseases on masturbation, it really makes me wonder whether it's just another reefer-madness-esque round of the same thing.

Edit - Example from the mid-19th century: https://books.google.com/books?id=AiEDAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22self-po...
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I bought the PS/2 version. Don't have this problem.
Is your only life goal to survive long enough to reproduce? If you want more than that out of life, it's at least plausible that you might need to second guess some of your natural instincts.
If being homosexual is not societally acceptable, or carries a stigma (as it did at the time, as evidenced by Thiel's own criticism of it as an unhealthy "lifestyle"), then isn't yelling "Faggot!" at someone rather privacy-invading? As Thiel would himself know from Gawker's outing of him?
I'd be ok with taking the "hometown discount" and being being paid much less if it was cheap to live here in Canada, but it's not. The cost of living is dramatically increasing and housing hyperinflation has made made Vancouver and Toronto totally unviable places to start a family for almost everyone.

Unsurprisingly plenty of people with in demand skills that travel are looking at the exit or are already gone.
FYI: Firefox says that this URL is a "reported attack page".
"the site was load tested at 1 million submissions per hour, which if obviously not enough for the evening peak time on census night."

Yep. There were some other technical/spec insights. Like the router failure [0] and the most important bit the use of really poor techniques [1],[2] to ID sensitive data and the potential sale of it. [3]

[0] https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/763583981749100545

[1] https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/763266008383578112

[2] "using publicly available data @TurnbullMalcolm yr #SLK581 is URBCO241019542" ~ https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/763244867564601344

[3] http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/cen...
Backend analytics tools like New Relic have that info (at least a large portion of it) for many companies.
I have been using spacemacs and I can't really go back. Some parts are clunky, but it feels like I am riding a battle cruiser. I can literally do anything.

I have gone on the editor search for a while, and now I have settled. Can't be more happy!

The editors I might switch to are Acme, LightTable, or Lamdu, but probably unlikely.
Only if you want it that way.
Potash, diamonds, gold, seal fur, oil sands. We basically dig things out of the ground and sell them to the US, it's really lame :(
My reading of the study was that the indication measured was if the mother had remembered taking Acetaminophen and not a direct measure of her actual Tylenol intake. So the study should read "mothers who remembered their drug intake have a slightly elevated risk of attention deficit children."
>If this is implemented in say 1.8, am I supposed to check for Go versions in order to know if the SystemCertPool func works or not?

No, not really. Just compile the program with 1.8, and don't worry about the bugs in the past.
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I think this is part of the joke.

Most US "companies" which hire tech talent, aren't looking to scale up "businesses" which are cashflow positive. These "startups" are effectively bankrupt relying entirely on their current runways and their bi-annual VC injections.

Like they said in the video, Canadians for better or worse are inherently more risk averse than their American counter parts. Even more appropriately the entrepreneurs which stay in Canada vs move on faith to the bay, are tautologically less risk averse.

To look at this from a different perspective, Canada may just be living with a sustainable tech sector.

Its like watching/envying your neighbors as they come home from their third sunny vacation, this year, to their over sized house and driveway with two Mercedes. But that envy would quickly disappear if you ever got a chance to look at their books. You'd see they just took out a second mortgage on the house, when they could barely pay for the first one, so they could continue to finance their cars. Meanwhile, they still have so much additional debt accruing it really should be criminal.

I really wouldn't know though.. I'm a risk averse Canadian, whose just sorta hoping I've found a sweet spot on the risk-reward line.
Or, from the abstract:

" While Danish social policies for children produce more favorable cognitive test scores for disadvantaged children, these do not translate into more favorable educational outcomes, partly because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility"

As the equality of outcomes is achieved by transfers, it makes the equality of opportunities meaningless (money-wise), and therefore makes education hereditary.
>"No live PoC for the Windows or OS X RCEs ‘cause I don’t want to host public-facing SMB or NFS shares :)"

I wonder what the minimum amount of code / work would be to make a Samba-lite to do this kind of testing. I'm surprised it isn't in Metasploit already.
> to borrow shares so that she can short sell.

why would she do this instead of just buying a bunch of put options on the stock ?
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Sure. That's a real risk. There are probably much bigger risks to worry about, like the market crashing again or losing your job. The risk of interest rates going high enough to significantly push home prices down seems really small for the next several years.
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I really take issue with this chart: http://s3.amazonaws.com/marquee-test-akiaisur2rgicbmpehea/H4...

In what world are old text messages or Twitter posts better technical artifacts than commit messages or tests? The latter are directly tied to the code expression, include a clear history, and are easily discoverable when looking for the source of an issue or the explanation.

This is so wrong that I'm wondering if I'm reading the chart incorrectly.
I admire the fact that the author was able to add a humorous twist to almost every paragraph. However, to get the humor they indulge in a bit of exaggeration. That's fine, I have no problem with parody. I would find this style revolting if the article was longer, or if this was a book, but as a short blog post it reads fine.

I am curious if the emphasis on status symbols was meant to be so exaggerated? The first joke was funny, but there were several on the same theme. By the time he got home and was thinking about watching stuff on Netflix, only because other people were talking about it... by that point, either the joke is over-used, or if it's meant to represent "real life" then it is just sad.
Good point. It adds yet another layer of uncertainty to the findings.
I mostly agree, been using Regexes to parse known limited subset of HTML tags in known limited format (1 tag per line, forced padding, no attrs, etc.).

But on the other hand, this is often how long term "proper" solutions are born — evolved from something cobbled together in couple of hours.
One of the issues with standard logic programming is that sooner or later you want to be controlling the search strategies. Mozart/Oz has the notion of "computational spaces" as a primitive on which to build custom strategies. Quite a while back, I wrote tan implementation of this in JS called FD.js[1] for finite domain constraint programming. Might be useful for those interested in such in JS.

[1] https://github.com/srikumarks/FD.js
Agreed. I recently transitioned from Rails development to devops, and there's no Ruby on any system by default. My Bash got better fast!

Fortunately Elixir/Erlang releases include all the executables you'll need. They aren't quite as slick as Go binaries, which all live in one file, but it's still pretty cool.
Updaters are probably the scariest thing I've written. It's like sending a space probe to another planet with the risk of losing it out there with no recourse, not to mention the security implications and inherent responsibility of effectively having access to tons of users machines. FYI a Raspberry Pi makes a great air gapped machine for signing such things.
Our biases.

We are not evolved to deal with time. As a thematic extension, every time we remember something, we overwrite the memory. The past is not in our control.

The future is not in our control either. We are poor at acknowledging delayed gratification. Few animals had to invest and sacrifice their current rewards for a payoff months or years later.

On a similar note, when humans imagine an average-case scenario for a task, we imagine best-case scenarios.

In an age where investments of time and money play a large role, those humans who can better grasp time (with external systems of aid) will survive.

Becoming a time lord is more important than ever.
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