skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the final agreement (if you dare and don't vomit easily):
- Those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity will NOT go to jail, in a blatant violation of the Rome statute.
- Despite earning BILLIONS from drug trafficking, they will not issue any reparations to the victims, instead, ordinary colombians will be taxed for that purpose.
- They will be GIVEN between 10-30% of control of the senate. No election necessary.
- They will be GIVEN 26 regions where there will be no state presence. Coincidentally in every strategic drug corridor.
- They will not return the recruited minors.
- They will participate in the creation of a "super-tribunal" with absolute legal powers, even over cases that have been sentenced and closed.

This is not an agreement, it is the surrender of a state and should be an international disgrace. In a real country this would constitute high treason.

https://www.mesadeconversaciones.com.co/sites/default/files/...
Decoding the Civil War
No their civil war ended long ago. But they do still have a lot of violence caused by gangs like Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and the armed vigilante groups that hunt them.
E-Mail privacy in a 14 eyes country ?
From the site (http://www.lugaru.com/why-lugaru.html):

'Sometimes people ask what our company name, Lugaru, means. It's actually a phonetic spelling of the French word for werewolf, "loup-garou". One day in 1984, after finally turning off the computers and noticing the sun had come up, we decided this might be an appropriate name for our new company.'
Ask HN: Open source libraries/frameworks to build video streaming app?
Hi, am looking for tools to build a video streaming app either.

Am comfortable with these languages: Python, NodeJS, Java
Yeah I know, but on a modern PC, with the latest VS and silly settings turned off, I'm not often annoyed by slow UI issues. I know some people who use the debugger a lot are annoyed more often than I am.
as text editor extension languages go, i really liked aurora's [old dos-era editor with an emacs-like core + soft layer architecture]. it was pascal-like, and really pleasant to work with.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~knassen/amacs.html
The Future of Tokio
0%. Scandinavian style (pure forms, "clean lines", simple geometry) will last forever.

Sigurd Lewerentz will never go out of style. My concern would be that we're not making more architects/designers who can produce timeless quality.
In which way is "working from home" "taking it easy"?
They can lie about having the means to fulfill the contract or any basis to pay damages etc. CEO is a good job to lie from. You can always complain that your employees should have made you filthy rich so that you could fulfill your promises.

One reason I quit was that all of the mounting promises were predicated on me in the end. If that's true, go alone instead of giving yourself bread through a middle-man.
Racing?
> I wonder if RNA/DNA has a checksum or data correction code somewhere?

You may consider CRISPR mechanism that Bacteria use to defend themselves against mutations introduced by the invading viruses as sort of data corerction.

As for greater organisms, it seems that preferable approach is to have copies of single genes in case. Apparently some species are more resistant to cancer to other due to number of anti-cancerous genene they posses in their DNA. Phenomena is known as Peto's Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox
You're arguing against a straw man. There is a lot that happens before someone gets held in contempt, and even then the usual solution is a fine ("$1,000 for every day you refuse to comply with the order") not jail time.

But the threat of criminal contempt is absolutely necessary. Judges have to be able to do things like get CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies to hand over documents or testify about things that could cost their companies a lot of money. They have to order construction halted on a multi-billion theme park to protect endangered frogs. Fines aren't going to get that done. The fear of being sent to jail will.

As a practical matter it almost never comes to that. And even when it does, it's subject to review like any other charge.
Swift uses reference counting and does not suffer from latency spikes. So it can also be used.
TL;DR: ...

That is, it didn't answer the question at all.
Thank you. I was looking for something just like this on spreadsheet implementations, inner workings, models etc.. If you have any more resources like this please post them as well.
3/4 pay for 3/4 butt in seat time. Seems like Amazon is getting a great deal here!
I am familiar with the FSF line on this. The same argument applies to any closed source software.

However I want to know why OP is against the Fair Source licence, especially if it is time-bombed with a clause that reverts to GPL after a period of time.
Punctuation and order are not prerequisits for making a point, but they help. Sometimes sleep deprivation manifests itself in strange ways sometimes.
Unfortunately, there is so much antagonism between the conservationists and the sports(eh, people...), when, really, they should be allies. Ultimately, their goals are actually aligned, although they don't seem to realize it. A healthy ecosystem provides healthy populations for hunting, with good ratios of trophy animals, and likewise, an animal population needs predators or else you end up with the sad and disgusting spectre I have seen in too many mid-Atlantic and southern states, where the animals are emaciated, undersized, and disproportionately succumbing to vehicle hits.
This is an excellent step to getting people more motivated and productive.
I don't find working more hours improve my life in any positive way. It's much less satisfying as I want to commit some hours to learning or creating something new.
I agree. First, this is a team made up of part-time workers, not full-time workers, which is not what I was expecting by reading the title. So working 30 hours a week is really really not that special, consider they are PART TIME.

Regardless, there are weeks people will have to pull extra hours to complete work, such as during product launch week.

If this were a program made up of full-time employees, I would be interested to see the number of overtime hours this team will accumulate. Otherwise, I don't see what's so interesting about this experiment.

BTW, I work extra hours because sometimes I just want to work extra hours. Sometimes, I just want to pull extra hours to get the most boring stuff out of the way.

Instead of a 30-hour pilot, make Friday a half-day for everyone.
Nothing a bit of camouflage cannot fix. If these cases start looking like regular ones, what are they going to do, ban all phone cases from entering the country...?
>Twitch has shied away from dark patterns that lock out adblocking users. I don't see any big modals or disabled video if I run an adblocker on Twitch. This is no doubt on purpose.

I vividly remember this not being the case, whereas (at least in partnered streams) if twitch detected an ad-blocker it would stop the stream and then fill your screen with recommendations to subscribe to the streamer.

What ended up happening if I recall correctly was the adblockers would just block the anti-adblock screens so they were rendered ineffective.

I'm pretty sure there was other efforts, but I found this on their blog [1]

[1] https://blog.twitch.tv/experiment-with-advertising-on-partne...
As does spelling.
There's no evidence Native Americans managed the land to this degree. In fact it's clear there weren't enough of them to do so.

The population in all of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia, was somewhere around 50 million. All of Canada had about 500,000 people. Do you know how much forest there is in Canada?

There's a theory that early man had widespread effects on the environment using purposeful burning, but even if that's true (it's hard to tell the difference between lightning strikes and purposeful burns), it hardly amounts to "manicured and well cared for woods". Unless you are willing to give beavers an equal designation.
You put "working form home" all in quotes :)

For some of us its "working" from home :P
Is it really required to found a startup inside US to have a greater chance of success? Or more specifically in the bay?

I have seen many successful startups found in other countries (such as China) Alibaba, Tencent, etc.

Is this a push that all talented software engineers HAVE TO move to the bay to become successful?

I'm very doubtful on that claim.
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When you're running errands, fixing your car, and working on changes when you can.
I don't see how; presumably a CHANGELOG should only be updated as part of release engineering, not during development. It's a document owned by whoever bumps the version number.
I think what they really mean is "30-hour workweek while being physically present in the office". I would find it difficult to believe that employees wouldn't continue working from home under pressure from management or simply because of tight timelines.
It reads like they still pay full benefits though. This is usually around 20% of salary and makes the comparison unproportional.
I prefer to think of it as Voltron... but potato potahto.
Netbeans is pretty good: https://netbeans.org/features/cpp/
There's a 17-page discussion here: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=72032
It is special in that you have proportional salary and full benefits. Many part time jobs have substantially reduced pay and benefits, unlike this.
Hard to say without doing the experiment.

On the one hand, you get more people thinking about the problem for the same amount of money. (And most people do sometimes think about work problems off the clock.)

On the other hand, more people means more coordination, communication, and disagreements. There's a reason people like small teams.
Raymond Chen has a nice article about NOPs that had to be used on the 386 in Windows 95:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110112-00/?p=...
I'm also curious what the issue is. While I understand that a full open source license would be preferable to many, if the choice is between Fair Source and a proprietary code base, is there a rational reason for users to prefer the latter? (Assuming, of course, that the licensor doesn't try to spin the Fair Source as open source in PR, which would be annoying. I assume Sourcegraph doesn't do this, though.)
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365956
Sure! Just beware that I'm far from an expert and may well have gotten something hilariously wrong. If he rips it to shreds, please let me know what he had to say.
Work-life balance?

As well-educated adults it makes me cringe how we constrict ourselves mentally to being productive employees only in a specific geographical location.

When working in companies with a global reach, the workday has 24 hours.
Off topic but in case you might consider it helpful, I think you used "What's to gain from..." incorrectly. "What's to gain from X?" always means "What benefits will X bring me?" I think you meant, "What's to gain compared to..." or, alternatively, "What's to gain over..."
Uber's Failure in Japan
No, they dont' have to.

However, if you are startup, then startup == growth, which means having access to lots of capital, fast. Therefore, you should move to where there's an abundance of money, harboring people with just the right mindset to invest.
"Required", no, but being in the US gets you access to the world's largest truly single market#, the world's largest IT talent pool and the world's largest startup ecosystem. Put another way, if you had the choice, why not do it in the US?

# Thanks for trying, EU, but you're nowhere near there yet, and those language barriers aren't going anywhere anytime soon either.
For the backlog of this year - yes! But imho it is just the beginning of clogging pipeline and the symptoms will only worsen going forward.
If one company's earnings are growing quickly, and another's is slowly shrinking, and they have the same P/E ratio, I'm likely to skip the index and buy the high-growth company directly.

If a company can reinvest earnings at a high rate of return, it's to the advantage of stockholders if it doesn't pay dividends. How much should the index weight it?
I recently moved my django running on docker to google container engine. Basically by following this tutorial you can be up in 15 minutes: https://cloud.google.com/python/django/container-engine . k8s picks up your stdout logs and sends them to stackdriver and you don't need to do anything to set it up. I was running nginx+gunicorn inside my docker image, but nginx part have been taken care of by k8s.
It's special in that currently getting non-full-time work as a software engineer is pretty tricky (you can often arrange to drop down to part time at your existing company, but getting a job at a new company on non-full-time hours is much harder). So if it catches on and the opportunities for part-time workers become more numerous that's great for people (including me) who don't or can't work full time.
I think he's getting at the fact that if they're in a cage they can't commit crimes while in there (sorta). Recidivism rates would suggest that prison doesn't actually do much to prevent future crime unless they're physically in the prison.
Apple is under fire for “excessive overtime” and illegal working conditions
Precisely.

Amazon is a sweatshop. The expectation is salaried employees put in ungodly hours.

All this is doing is giving people more freedom to burn themselves out at home, while further blurring the lines between work and life and throwing in a 25% pay cut as the cherry on top.

It's like the opposite of Google campus life, but with the same goal.
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So while this is really good for people that have dependents at home, or other consistently demanding activities. I would not enjoy such an arrangement.

The arrangement I'd be most excited by is a team with forced three month sabbaticals yearly (or honestly even 6 month sabbaticals). Of-course with the normal amount of vacation time added as well.

The way it would work is: Say a team is supposed to have 8 people. Hire 25% more people and schedule sabbaticals such that there is always ~8 people working. Additionally, you could ensure that there is never a time where two developers go more than 2 months without working together.

Benefits: Increases the supply in the job market; Reduces income disparity; Improves employee work-life balance.
AFAICT, "modern" lighting uses spotty directional lights which only seem bright if you look right at them. Their actual subject illumination is quite poor, especially with the contrast.
The only thing worse than debugging in VS is debugging in any other IDE - or even worse, via the command line.
> done a far better job than Haskell at explaining Monads [..] the elitist sounding language

For fucks sakes, nobody invents words like "monad" to sound elitist.
I hope most places arent
Comparison of opensource time series db's
I hate to be cynical (really, I do) but this seems like a clear attempt to soften Amazon's current public image as being a horrible place to work. It seems like all surface/headlines and no real substance. The headline makes you assume "Oh employees are going down to 30 hours a week but still being fully paid." because in order for this to be really noteworthy at all, it would have to be, right? But that's not what this is. They are basically just knocking people down to part time but keeping benefits, apparently?

That doesn't seem like a good deal to me. I don't want a 25% pay cut for 25% fewer mandatory hours of work. As other commenters have pointed out, unless this comes along with a reduction in responsibilities and/or increase in staff, the same amount of work still needs to be done. And most exempt employees already work more than 40 hours a week.

Add to this the fact that the Washington Post is owned by Bezos, and this just seems like a clear PR stunt to me, and a lame one at that.
A couple comments here are somewhat conflating dark matter, in general, with non-baryonic matter, which is what we presume to be the primary component of dark matter. Dark matter theories arose because the Milky Way and other galaxies are much heavier than they appear to be based upon the mass of objects in them that we can detect. Therefore we know there's something else out there that has mass, and is spread fairly evenly throughout the galaxy but is otherwise currently undetectable to us. We don't know enough to definitively say what that stuff is or isn't. Part of that mysterious stuff may be MACHOs (massive compact halo objects), which are just made of normal baryonic matter that's aggregated in bodies too small and dark for us to individually detect through existing means, such as small rocky objects which would be perfectly visible if we could get a spotlight on them, and also black holes, neutron stars, dwarf stars, and other dark objects. However, it's currently thought that the majority of dark matter is non-baryonic, which fits the exotic description of invisible and completely non-interacting except through gravitational attraction. MACHOs have the problem that if they're plentiful enough to account for the missing mass, we really ought to be able to detect them through other means. (And furthermore that if baryonic matter were the primary form of dark matter, it would be too abundant for our well-established theories of structure formation and nucleosynthesis to work.) But the bigger problem is that none of the theories of non-baryonic matter are in any way substantiated either, except for garden variety neutrinos, which don't have enough mass and are too energetic to account for the bulk of dark matter. This leaves the door open to even more exotic speculations such as tweaking the theory of gravitation. In a sense, the real darkness to "dark" matter lies in our understanding more than anything else.
Arseuming makes an arse out of you and me. Give the techies on the other end of security@ the benefit of the doubt on the first go.

When they fail to understand that then feel free to go ahead and pick one that's not yours to prove the point. One though, not 20 thousand.
Show: Build a Team and Get Placed at a Startup as a Unit
"..will last forever.."

Architecture and design may last a long time, however that does not mean they are looked upon favourably by the zeitgeist. History proves this time and time again. I think it is a mistake to think "we have got it right this time", as if we are immune to these trends. We are very susceptible to thinking in this way.

edit: Unless you think design is going down the path of constant refinement, eventually leading to some fundamental perfect design. I do not believe this exists.
> If you really care about the process and how everything works, I don't see how you can beat vim/emacs + command-line. Ultimately text interfaces will always be easier to manage

A few things I think text interfaces are, or tend to be, terrible at:

Profiling information (can't beat flame graphs)
Graphics debugging, previewing UI layouts (text is terrible at displaying the results of pixel shaders)
Discoverability (VS has so much UI up front to discover that it's literally overwhelming for some, a vim user will hit the manual to figure out how to even get into insert mode...)
Manipulating and viewing many tree and node based structures (shader graphs, parallel stacks, ...)
Even basic scrolling (map style scrollbars are wonderful for large files in alien codebases...)

Even basic intellisense requires text interfaces to awkwardly pretend they're a real user interface with ncurses or the like. VS has it's drawbacks - it's a hard-to-extend monolith, there are too many blocking operations are on the UI thread, it hits the disk too much, etc. - but I've seen these issues in text based tools as well. The problem isn't that it should be text based.

> Ultimately text interfaces will always [...] give the lowest resource utilization

I want to maximize the useful utilization of my time. "Lowest resource utilization" is not a goal. "Most efficient resource utilization" might be getting there, but I'll happily eat some wasted CPU time on the off chance it'll mean less wasted mind time. Powered down silicon is a wasted investment.
Like saying sometimes twice
I'm living in Colombia, and my perception is most people want the agreement rejected and the President impeached.

There's going to be a referendum on the agreement, and in spite of the government being heavily campaigning for it, odds are voters will side against it.

If they don't I'm out of here. This will become Venezuela 2.0.
It's really not that bad. If you want, the Wilshire 5k is probably about as broad as you can go. And with market cap weighting, the additional diversification wouldn't likely help much.
Is it that today's children don't value outside activities because it is too enjoyable to be indoors ? Which leads to obesity that makes outdoor play less fun and more dangerous. The danger coming from weight variance (e.g., it's risky for a 60lb 12 year old to play with a 200lb 12 year old).

The streets throughout NYC were depressing and violent when I was growing up. But those working class homes were even more depressing and there were only a handful of TV channels. So we had to go outside to keep our sanity. Even if I wanted to play a video game, I'd have to ride my bike to get a pirated copy or to commute to a friend's house. So you'd see kids outside at the very least because they had somewhere to go. Even having a job was common.

Now all those homes have been comfortably remodeled with air-conditioning, high-speed internet, and countless TV channels.

Coincidentally, the first household to get cable television and a video game console on my block also had the first notably obese child.
Compared to the alleged 80 hour norm, it's 3/4 pay for 3/8 of the butt in seat time. If it's truly just 30 hours per week, that's a great deal for the workers!
'According to sources, the Trending team’s editorial staff were alerted at 4pm that they were being fired—as the news of Facebook’s switch to algorithms first broke—and were asked to leave the building by 5pm. The contractors (all of whom were at the company less than 1.5 years) were given severance equal to pay through September 1, plus two weeks, sources say.'

Given how much they were all apparently complaining though ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/facebook-... ) they must have seen it coming!
Gravity, in its normal sense (of matter's gravitational attraction), has no frequency or wavelength. Its only property is that of acceleration.
I'm not entirely convinced that it's the threat of punishment that stops criminals. Going on the criminals I know (crap evidence, I know), excluding the total psychopaths, what has stopped them is guilt for hurting people and/or wanting to be a better role model to their kids/siblings/younger kids that look up to them. All that the justice system seems to do is take away their ability to make legal income and years of their life.

For the criminals lacking empathy, I don't know of a good solution to preventing them from hurting people.
John Ellenby, Visionary Who Helped Create Early Laptop, Dies at 75
Low latency inter-thread messaging in java
(Perhaps a bit off-topic) Another non-free editor that's been around for a while is BBEdit. It's always been Mac-only, unfortunately.
When I was at amazon I was routinely putting in 170hr+ work weeks. It was impossible.
This article is competent devoid of any interesting details. I think I can sum it up in one sentence:

> the startup I confounded was acqu-hired away and they only wanted to keep my cofounder.

It's unfortunate about the NDA. How was was it sold for? What were the details of the employee staying on? What types of terms did they ask?
I honestly had no idea that the "antiques" at those restaurants were actually real. I had assumed it was all reproductions made specifically for that interior decor.