skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I considered a project loosely along those lines. My idea was a One-Meg-of-Data project. Define a megabyte of data that everyone would have have in a bit-identical form.

The appeal of this to me would be in the code golf style of approach of specifying the actual data. Apart from plain useful raw data, It would include a bare minimum VM that can be used to generate larger outputs from the data. More complex VMs would be permitted provided a reference implementation can be run on the Minimal VM. The code for the reference Implementation would, of course, be included in the one megabyte.

A program using the data could request

* raw bytes

* output from the VM given code and parameters (with perhaps a cycle limit to stop endless loop hangs)

* output from the VM given code and parameters specified at an index in the data.

* output from the VM given code and parameters specified at an index in the data plus user parameters.

The system would be stateless, the VM would only exist for the duration of the data generation call. The same parameters would always produce the same output.

I have doubts as to it's fundamental usefulness but it would certainly make a fun collaborative project at the very least.
And for developing on the early Macintosh you had to have a Lisa Workstation[1]

[1] http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=3rd_Party_Develop...
I don't think you understand. This isn't the case of "oh that product's better integrated with Amazon than Google". Amazon has put the resources and legwork into establishing a business and development integration with every single major connected device maker in retail stores. All of them, in a way that nobody else has. I think it's wrong to say it "doesn't say much about Echo itself". It shows a focus on becoming the center of the smart home nobody else has.

If a device works with Samsung SmartThings, Philips Hue, Belkin Wemo, Insteon, Lutron, Wink, Nest, HomeSeer, Almond, LIFX, GE Link, TCP, iHome, Leviton, Honeywell Lyric or TotalConnect, Ecobee, Haiku, Keen, Garageio, Z-wave or Zigbee (via a hub)... then it also works with Alexa, out of the box, because Amazon has relationships with all of them already.

You just say "Alexa, discover my devices" and she finds whatever you happen to own on your network on her own, instantly knows their names (that you gave them if applicable) and capabilities, and can address them through natural language.
In particular see the "Mary the super-scientist" thought experiment for a nice explanation of the difference between the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/F...
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Thanks for clarifying the point re: federal government department employees.

What are avenues for US based employees to seek arbitration in cases like the OP, where leave entitlements and agreements are abused? What if someone had to take time off to, say, care for a sick family member and they had 'n' days leave owing to them and their employer would not let them take it? Can there be some non legal industrial mediation, or must they take it to court?
> In the UK, all vehicles on the road are required to abide by the highway code. Yep, that means bicycles have to follow the same rules as drivers.

They're required to follow the road traffic act. The highway code is a simple guide to the road traffic act, and it contains best current practice, but people are not required to follow the highway code.
I definitely agree with you here. I worked for Nokia a few years ago, and traded $20k in salary in exchange for 3.5 weeks of guaranteed vacation. When I went to take my 11th day of vacation, they refused to honor my offer letter, so I said goodbye to my coworkers in that afternoon's stand-up, and found a better job.
except you'll find the house cheats.
My oven has a clock that resets to 00:00 whenever there is even the briefest power fluctuation and the oven will not function unless the clock is adjusted with tiny buttons. The stove will work, though.
until peak silicon

EDIT the analogy with peak oil is not literal, but that just as uneconomical sources of oil (and of energy) became more economical when the price went up, the parent's "alternatives" will become more economical when present silicon technology gets more expensive (due to the lattice size for example, as discussed). Just as with oil, it doesn't necessarily mean we'll give up silicon. Though we might.
I'll write about this after I've secured new work. Sadly they know I'm stuck there because it took me a year to find a DevOps position which would allow me to work from outside the United States.
Are you sure that "no jobs, low educated populous" really describes Greece? Especially "Greece 10 years ago"?

I know plenty of highly educated Greek engineers or other professionals (e.g.: archeologists) and not being Greek myself I met them through international working groups, so I suppose they qualify as "educated-enough" outside their own borders, too.

On top of that, the current economical situation of Greece is due to some decisions taken outside of Greece itself and it is debatable if the current state of Greece was really the only possible outcome for them.
I think the key point here is this one:

> social media ensures we're constantly exposed to the highlight reel of people's lives and that's leaving some feeling like they're not quite making the most of their time on this mortal coil.

Social media and the internet has made it incredibly easy to see the various people out there who are in the top of their league at any particular hobby, vocation or activity, and made it seem like that's the 'norm'.

If you're an entrepreneur, it can feel like everyone's making millions off their startup ideas and that anyone who isn't is a failure. If you're a web developer, it can seem like the majority of developers are experts in every one of the latest trendy languages and frameworks and that you suck for not being like that. If you're making a game, you might end up judging your worth in comparison to say, the makers of Minecraft or Pokemon GO.

But keep in mind that these are outliers by default. The top percentage of people in a field are overrepresented online and even then, they mostly only post about the things going well in their lives.

Most people are average, and for any one thing you're interested in, there will almost always be many millions of others who are either better or worse than you at it.

And hey, you don't have to be 'great' or even 'good' at something to be successful in it. Many people who were 'average' in a field ended up doing really well in it regardless. Maybe they had a good team, maybe they put in a stupid amount of time, maybe they simply had the right idea at the right point in time. You can just as easily be an expert or prodigy toiling away in obscurity as you can a celebrity with few skills to speak of.

In other words, don't worry too much about it.
Azure is the whole Microsoft platform. If you are using Azure CDN, you have the same thing CloudFlare gives you. If it is just an Azure virtual machine, it is a completely different thing.
<3 Are you hiring for remote DevOps engineers? I'm cheap, and have 20+ years experience.
There is a solution: put a little lamp into the switch, so it lights up when it’s on.

It’s the best solution that still allows showing state, and is done commonly here.
I've seriously thought of doing that.

Then I came to my senses and reminded myself that if these were truly important they'd be hardwired. The cameras are capable, I just have no desire to run the cables.
Actually, people are looking forward to a long period where a certain node, "20" something nm (not Intel's 20 something), becomes so standard that economies of scale result in it being the one most entities use for their designs, especially non-mobile or otherwise seriously power constrained.

I gather we're already sort of there, with wafer costs in the $5,000 or so range, the trick is of course to limit the NRE to something you can afford. The lowRISC project is going this route, I learned much of this starting from their future production plans.
Your company does not have unlimited vacation based on how you have described the situation. It's unclear to us how much time you've been with the company. Let's say you've been there just 1 month and didn't mention upfront you'd be taking those 6.5 days off, then that feels like minor abuse of the policy on your end. Let's say you've been there a "significant" period of time of > 3-4 months, then they are shafting you.

In my experience unlimited vacation is only as unlimited as the person asking for it. Many people are too timid to actually ask for the days off. It seems like you've already done the asking, and this is more of a company culture problem and you are right to consider leaving or having a frank talk with your supervisor about what unlimited means. Perhaps you can change it to be 5 weeks a year with them and they'll feel better with a bounded number for you and you'll feel better being able to take off when you want.

Recently interviewed someone and was mentioning the work/life balance and unlimited vacation and their response was "Come on...unlimited vacation is a scam" I then explained that I had already taken off about 3 weeks this year with another 3 planned, and that it's "unlimited" if you ask for it. Maybe my situation is unique, or maybe people are too timid, I'm not sure. I'm glad I'm working at a place where taking vacation is part of the culture for long term success.

I'd also encourage anyone interviewing with a company that has unlimited vacation to talk to a non C-Level or founder employee about what vacation they've taken so far this year and their opinion of how well the unlimited policy works at their company - hopefully you can get a straight answer as this is just as important as monetary compensation.
> No mention of the Animated extention to PNG, which Firefox, Safari and Opera do support.

If I understand correctly what you mean, the article does mention it, albeit somewhat dismissively:

> It wasn't until 2001 that the PNG group's animated GIF-killer-that-couldn't, MNG, emerged to find a web that had finally resigned itself to the GIF.
> The Dutch have been doing this for 70 years or so

The other thing the Dutch do is give priority to all bikes on shared roads where there aren't cycle lanes.
It's not the right thing and doesn't pay long term. Charge three times as much, don't use scare tactics if it's not something you should do, discover that you have more clients paying 3 times as much. And now they're using you and not some scammer.
I didn't argue that was right or wrong. I explained why creshal's comment about it biting them in the ass made sense.

Your first argument was about the benefits of fixing data corruption, not about latency.

Duplication is a poor way to handle data corruption. If you really wanted to recover data robustly, there are better methods for error correction.

Yes, you are free make a new argument that there are other benefits to data duplication. Do be aware that the HTTP header duplication example I gave is not one of cache consistency, but the more general problem of data consistency.
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To me this seems to be a flawed response to the article critical of OO.

For example, the author seems to have consulted Wikipedia for a definition of OO, found the "Inheritance vs subtyping", and decided (mistakenly) that inheritance is orthogonal to subtyping.

As I understand it, inheritance is inseparable from subtyping, because inheritance IS-A kind of subtyping (meta irony!)

This leads the author to make erroneous statements, e.g. "In a lot of languages, inheritance is implemented as a subtyping mechanism, eg. Java/C# etc, but in some languages its not. These languages decouple inheritance and subtyping, e.g. Go."

But Go actually does not have inheritance. This is why the Go FAQ answers the question, "Why is there no type inheritance?" by stating that, "Object-oriented programming, at least in the best-known languages, involves too much discussion of the relationships between types, relationships that often could be derived automatically. Go takes a different approach."

Go is based on criticism of OO similar to the one that this author is defending.

The author cites mixins as a better way to get inheritance, but mixins aren't inheritance (Wikipedia: "Mixins are sometimes described as being 'included' rather than 'inherited'.) So how does this exonerate the OO pillar of inheritance?

However, if I am not mistaken, mixins are effectively a subtyping mechanism. I thought we needed to remove the subtyping to make inheritance work?
True, you can never really verify that the house is cheating either.

However, if the collusion site is made popular enough that a majority of users are on it, then the house cheating is much easier to spot.
I you want to check the video I'd recommend to skip to approximately minute 13, as the beginning is pretty boring - 1 minute of musical introduction, then the hand of Edward Witten looking in his notes, and then some introduction in what I believe is Dutch.
I see. You are sometimes checking for multiple bits at once. Didn't notice that.
The number of poorly/low educated people are in the hundreds of millions, if not billions.

And I'm not sure why you feel the need for a throwaway, seeing that HN user has a pretty big biased for basic income.

Also, I don't think your question quite hits the mark, for several problems. For one "runs out of money" is a pretty vague concept and you have to define it more strictly: seeing that money is merely an abstraction for our economy, do you mean a situation where privately owned automation/capital would mess up the economy as we know it (ie. money can't be used, massive inflation etc.), or do we run out of wealth (goods), or something else? In a magical-land of socialist/communist with state-own automation and capital, the first case isn't really a thing. If we run out of goods, then apparently the automation isn't enough and human needs to start getting to work again.

Jobs by itself is merely a proxy for productivity, and productivity is what we want/need. Trying to keep job AND reduce productivity isn't just solve any problem (since someone else will ignore it and blows you out of the water).

Your post has a lot of hidden assumptions -- on top of the fact that the issue itself is a hard one. I mean, if in the end there isn't enough resources to sustain the human population that we have right now, a whole lot of us is gonna die, in one way or another ...
I PhD student in Switzerland. Here, we just have a yellow marking for the bike lane, and car drivers are surprisingly considerate towards bikers. I don't know what the penalties are for hitting bikers, but biking here is a bliss. Even in big cities like Zurich and Geneva!

Really, god bless this beautiful country :)
You're talking specifically about North American cities, where everything is designed around automobile usage. And that is the problem the article talks about. It has been designed with this goal in mind so much, that it results in lots of pedestrian and cyclist deaths. Cities that are not designed like this are much compacter, so distances become smaller.

Commuting 5km by bicycle is fine, takes roughly 20 mins if the roads are decent. Using a tram or bus that has a decent frequency it will take roughly the same time, even including a few minutes of walking.

See example:
https://www.google.nl/maps/dir/52.1136289,5.0897208/52.08605...
I guess I look at waste because of the motivation. The only motivator in the Silicon Valley, in the end, is greed. Even if it begins with wanting to change the world, or wanting to work on cool challenges, $3k/month rent inevitably leads to "omfg, gonna be homeless, gotta make lots of money".

My time in refugee camps teaching Syrian music to Syrian refugees had more of an impact on the world than any of the companies where I've worked.

When you were a little boy, did you ever say "Mommy, when I grow up I'm going to sell banner ads?"
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for some reason I can only find the remotes in Japanese sources. I suppose they're afraid of English customer support calls...

http://image.rakuten.co.jp/e-akari/cabinet/led/1892240-e.jpg
I don't really agree with the example that was chosen. "Functor" is a well defined term with a specific meaning.

A much better example would be "Show"(Showable) vs "Traversable".
The answer is Basic Income.

Good luck getting anyone to take it seriously though.
I really have to internalize this message. I always feel like I have to be better and smarter than everyone around me just to feel adequate. I guess that's one characteristic of insecurity.

Is this why romantic relationships seem to kill ambition? I've seen this in myself and some of my friends.
There is a serious error in this article: by definition and etymology, "mediocre" means "in the middle, average, ordinary", absolutely not "the worst possible quality".

The "tyranny of excellence" undeservedly pushed "mediocre" meaning for many people down towards "bad", but "mediocre" isn't really bad; it's just barely average.
It's the opposite. Neural networks show that the human mind cannot be a recreated computationally.
As others mentioned, placing a bid on eBay doesn't cost you anything.

More importantly, these penny auctions lack is transparency. The argument is that they're not gambling because it's a game influenced by skill, but for that to be true you would need transparency into who many bids have been made, by which people, with what timing. This doesn't appear to be possible without running an aggregation script.
Pollution and idiot car drivers.
>But this article isn't really about value, is it? It's about pricing.

Perhaps he's responding to _you_ and your comment instead of the article? You wrote:

>the Labor Theory of Value may not be the most profitable but maybe it's the most ethical, both compensating the workers fairly and not ripping off the consumer.>

You had connected "value" to the "pricing" ... but if tallying labor-hours to measure value is flawed (which you agreed with), what clarity is made by using "labor-hours" to justify "ethical pricing"? Isn't it better to ignore LTOV if it makes us less knowledgable on what we charge others and what we are willing to pay?
Mediocrity is an illusion. Elon Musk "level" is an illusion. Musk for example, is a great entrepreneur but just an average (maybe mediocre?) husband: had two wives, divorced three times from the same, is that even possible?

Now do i think he is mediocre? No way! Even as a husband only him can tell that, maybe not even his wives. Nobody know how hard it was for him to be in a marriage, or even get to marriage in the first place.

Take again an small entrepreneur from Brazil, India or Africa in a small village. Are they mediocre? Sure, low money, not visible for the world, no New York Times covers.

But how hard it really is to be a entrepreneur when all the education you had when you was a kid was how to ask for money in the streets?

There's no mediocrity there's just this illusion created by the very riches and powerful to make even more money, to create a crazy game to make us feel bad and always keep charging for the carrot.

In the end of the day, it's your job to respect everyone limitations, including yours, and never judge the guys next to you as mediocre, or yourself. You may not get in the history books, but a lot of people around you that need you and your "mediocrity" wont read then anyway.
This won't work, it's perfectly possible that they draw the same color; which could be the opposite of what they agreed to write down.
There needs to be a website listing companies that have "unlimited vacation" with a place for people to submit average number of days taken.
Uber beats Google to consumers with self-driving cars
Perhaps I should have said : more of a menace to me.
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Do you have any idea why that is?

Poker and sports betting are considered gambling despite being sufficiently complicated processes st. a small minority of participants achieve regular profits against virtually any field. I would be happy to bankroll Phil Ivey to play poker Tony Bloom to bet on football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ivey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bloom

Both low-bid and penny auctions seem much simpler to me. I can't see how consistent profitability is achievable when playing with non-crazies?
I didn't read that as condescending towards poorer people, but more an critical observation of the US political system.
Perhaps that was a feature added after the article was written. It dates from January.
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> In the end of the day, it's your job to respect everyone limitations, including yours, and never judge the guys next to you as mediocre, or yourself. You may not get in the history books, but a lot of people around you that need you and your "mediocrity" wont ready then anyway.

History books are way overrated. I can name like 3 Roman emperors, one of them is famous for being killed. And those dudes are about on top of the world as you can get.
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> As do motorists. Cars go through red lights all the time but we don't seem to notice, for some reason.

Hell, I've seen buses run red lights and once almost kill somebody in my city. Nobody complains, nobody does fuck-all about it. Deaths from road vehicles are seen as normal, having a bruise for a couple of days on the very rare occasion a bicycle runs into you is the end of the world.
> Wouldn't validity and principals be best left to something like LDAP?

Yes and no. Even with easier access to caching etc, ldap can still be rather fragile (no (readable) ldap; no login)[1]

In general certificates need to be (proof of) principals (the entity that can prove ownership of the secret key X' corresponding to public key X" is X - where X is a uid (eg: e12e) Or a machine or service (login.example.com).

But if your use case is simple, and some meta-data can be readily attached to the certificate, it's easy to add limits on where key X is valid from (source ip/host), have access to (services) and when (time of day) -- and adding an expiry. If policy is max lifetime of a week except for CA keys, then that greatly simplifies revocation lists.

Generally "trust only this one CA" is simple, and allows moving capability (largely) to certificates. Centralised, on-line catalogs like LDAP make some things simpler.

And there might be a balance: perhaps some basic group info is in the cert - and each service can base policy on that (email login ok 24/7 - certain other services only 8-16 -- although I can't think of a compelling need for the latter right now).

[1] Of course one should check for revocations, but with an automated system to mint certificates, one can trade off with hour/day/week lifetimes. There was a recentish show hn: sharkey:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097992
It would be good if you could filter this data by sector.

It doesn't really matter how many jobs have been posted if none of them match up to the field you work in and that's without even getting into the level of experience or specific skill set required.