skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense to me. For most of my 40+ years of working, I worked a 32 hour work week and this was mostly for large corporations. I simply informed HR that I would not be working Monday's and to pay me 80% of my salary. It always amazed me that I was able to do this decade after decade, but the trick was that I worked really hard the 4 days I was in the office.

I mostly used the extra time for friends and family, and to write books.
Using Java probably won't help you with the numerical issues though, unless you happen to use a good statistical library.
What are some simple programs you wrote for yourself?
"but MGM couldn’t do that after casting a real-life brother and sister in those roles."

Ha, if that was the actual logic then they deserved it.
Buying a Kalashnikov Is Easier Than Ever at the Moscow Airport
Yep Japan is amazing. No tipping, but if you ask for help in a shop the staff will literally run to help you.
Thanks for the pointers! Unfortunately, I don't think this applies. I'm certainly not getting this behavior - I wouldn't have even thought of it if I haven't observed higher latencies resulting from (sub)requests chain jumping from node to node back-and-forth, instead of staying within the node's boundaries.

The problem is, the network space there is flat, not hierarchical - while I haven't looked at the actual implementation code, I believe container addresses are just randomly chosen from a single big 10.42/16 subnet and I'm unaware if there's a way that I can assign hosts, say, a /20 out of that space (yes, this would've solved things nicely).
It doesn't matter which success metric is used, the point still stands. If you only measure the ratio of solo-founder companies that are successful, you haven't measured anything at all about how likely a solo-founder company is to succeed. We need to know how many of each type failed as well.
121 Strategies to Get Work Done Fast, Save Time and Organize Your Life
Isnt this a much more simple tale of greed and corruption. the ceo is the daughter of a democrat senator and lobbied big government the jacked hwr salary 600x. Just another shkrelli, maybe even worse because she lobbied for schools to have them.
Which doesn't actually make any sense. It's a fun joke, but you could make the same "it's just an identifying feature" argument about any libelous part.
It only gets easier to build, launch and sell stuff.
>We're profitable, growing, and valued at about $2.2 million. We're implementing a lot more over the course of this year and next, and I will look to exit in early 2018, once our valuation is closer to the $10 million or $20 million range

If you positvely have a feature pipeline that is going to increase the value of your company ten times in less than two years, why isn't that the valuation now?

Silicon Valley math gives me a headache...
Someday I might go back to FreeBSD.

The time I have spent doing things like

apt-get remove unity* libqt5*

to rip off all the bloatware and reduce everything back to just gdm + gnome-shell + gnome-terminal + emacs-gtk3 + chrome with pdf viewer + hangouts is comparable with bootstrapping all this from FreeBSD ports (unfortunately without hangouts).

Notice, by the way, how easy and intuitive plain text configs done right are.

Each time I see systemd processes in some ps output I feel nothing but despair and disgust.
It would be interesting to hear the other side of the story. So far, as in this piece, there is only the implied or stated theory that the price increases are due to greed, or just because they can.

This whole thing reminds me of the flu vaccine debacle. The original narrative was that flu vaccines cost less in other countries, so why not in the US? Must be due to some greedy capitalists! The truth turned out to be a bit more nuanced.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-08YyGE...

It should surprise no one that these kinds of price problems occur in a system with heavy regulation, very little choice, and no transparency.
Because companies are profit-maximizing and the Bay Area gives them the best location for that
It is a bug. There is no way to stop Excel from automatically turning certain strings in files that it reads in, into dates.
I actually did the reverse (decided that I wouldn't have been good at actually being a doctor, dealing with patients, etc.); I happen to still help friends with exams and, well, there is basically nothing in there that is harder to understand than the first year calculus exam that you have to take in a computer science or engineering course. You need to acquire a working multi-level understanding of very complex systems, but I have found the chemistry->biochemistry->cell signaling and regulation->tissue etc. chain more intuitive for most people than the electronics->system architecture->machine code->programming language-> etc. chain. I'm interested in reading what made you feel that the opposite was true; maybe the issues with incomplete understanding of many processes that pop up in medicine?
Great work! Thanks for sharing your unused work.

My side project is a HN reader. (yeah, I know)
https://hack.ernews.info

Some parts of the back-end are open source, and I intend to rewrite the front-end in Elm and make it open source as well.

Maybe you want to try and make a more "modern" version of that classic "Y" logo?
So far I just used some principles from Google's material design, and a free icon set.
I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, especially for mobile users.

Happy to hear any comments/advice on the design.
I don't fully agree with this.

I remember installing red hat from a bunch of floppies around 1997. Tinkering, etc. But it certainly didn't let me understand what was going on with the machine. I got a much better grasp of linux many years later when internet came around and well... started doing useful things with the machine instead of configure a VGA Xorg whatever file to display the desktop (and then what? play mp3 ?).
Don't be ridiculous, Linux [1] is not better at this. Maybe out of the box experience is a bit nicer, but it's not generally just usable after that. Want a properly working network? Guess what - network manager is the problem, you have to disable it and configure network interfaces manually with config files and everything. Or want vim as a default editor - good luck with config files, "update-alternatives" shell magic is the only way to change it. Want to disable avahi, mlocate and other annoying stuff? Dig deep into configs and .overrides and magic chmods (hud-service). Locales are of course incorrect by default too. And it's not even close to everything, far from it. That's why I have like a 500 line shell script to automate configuration after installation.

The only way to make it better is to recognize the problem and make a new distribution with a decent well thought out package and configuration manager.

[1] I'm talking about desktop Ubuntu of course.
One person's high state income tax bill enables another person's low Prop 13 capped property tax bill
Obama, as a Democratic president, should be embarrassed and ashamed that he has not closed this loophole. Treasury has the power to unilaterally do so, but yet America's regressive tax policies with all there undesirable consequences to exists.

Misallocation of economic resources towards tax-effective financial activities over other more productive, but less tax-effective, activities.

Increasing wealth disparity in this country--so much so that the Fed is basically afraid to raise rates because it would lower asset prices.
It's not about specific users. It's about the user base in general. A native app has many advantages that a user may like or may not care about. On the other hand a Web app has one advantage, not needing to install it. In my opinion, people in general would care much more about having a lot of options and features even if they have to go through the extra click needed for installation.

One way to check what most users care for is to look at subscription numbers. And I couldn't find a reliable source for that. So I guess our discussion is pending until we see user numbers.
Hopefully there are still unoccupied lots that are comparable.

Otherwise it's pretty much whatever number the tax man decides. Note that in many jurisdictions property tax values are only assessed periodically.
It is worth noting that Sourcegraph also published add-on for Mozilla Firefox [1].

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sourcegraph-a...
Killing everything on shutdown doesn't seem like a good idea. Programs should be able to shut down cleanly.
Shorter version: Bay Area politicians disagree with author, so market results must be ignored since they are not in line with his ideology
How to start freelancing as a programmer?
Sounds like you want a PaaS.

Cloud Foundry is currently running real applications with 10k+ containers per installation. We are on track to test it with 250k app instances.

Plus it's been around for, in internet terms, eternity. Garden predates Docker, Diego predates Kubernetes, BOSH predates Terraform or CloudFormation and so on. Used by boring F1000 companies, which is why it's not talked about much on HN.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we are the majority donors of engineering to Cloud Foundry.
> Northern Europe would like to disagree, and to point out that Americans are far from obsessed with this. Take Mitt Romney: in 2012 he disclosed paying 15% taxes on his around $15 mill./year income. In a reasonable country he'd be paying at least 35%!

The overwhelming majority of Northern European countries have a lower top marginal tax rate than that that on dividends and capital gains. So apparently Sweden, France, Germany, Finland, Norway, etc. aren't "reasonable countries"?
Jordan Hubbard is a very small voice in a very large chorus of people running FreeBSD. My money is on a new kind of init system coming to FreeBSD, but it not being anywhere near as controversial as systemd.
Edward Tufte himself says to use a non-zero axis for time series.

If the extent of your analysis is "10k is a lot, 8% isn't" then I'm not really concerned how you interpret my chart.

I have no comment on the quality of the article.
7 Tips for Writing Better Unit Tests in Java
G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up
The Outliner for the Rest of us
High-Performance Java Persistence – Part Three
> In principle I am opposed to regulation, but in this case, where all other measures have failed, I say regulate away.

But the article says there would be competition except that it's too hard to get a product to market. Doesn't the author mean it's too hard to compete because of regulation, like from the FDA?
One could make a number of arguments about at least half of these. Racket/PLT has been free for a long time but ten years ago, a friend of mine simply left it for Common Lisp for the sole reason of speed. Gambit is great - I'd say almost as good as Chez - but there's no proper modules or native multi-threading. The Scheme->C model is also cumbersome; reintroduction of a native compiler was promised but if I'm not mistaken, still hasn't happened (although some other interesting things did - the recent mobile code support is very interesting!). T was a research vehicle but apparently the closest thing to an accessible environment for it was A/UX on Mac. Say what you want about IBM PCs but they won.
How Clinton is using Signal to foil the Kremlin
It's unfortunate the NYT story doesn't get into the billings process as part of the dysfunction. It makes me wonder how the pricing is then negotiated with the insurance companies. Did they set the retail price so high because the insurance companies were refusing to pay a workable price? Mylan has already commented that most EpiPens are paid through insurance, and there's the "billed rate" and "paid rate" on claims reports which often shows outrageous retail prices by health providers and then the negotiated rate the insurance company actually paid. Mylan's "quick" offer of a $300 discount to individual payers appears to keep in line with this and potentially not impact the insurance claim issue, but does anyone have any evidence that this theory is mistaken?
It's obligatory for me to recommend Cloud Foundry here. We've already built the platform, there's no need to build and maintain your own.

It just works. Really well, actually.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry.
Send a Text
There's a different epinephrine auto-injector that has generic versions. The generic versions cost $150 for a set of two (http://www.goodrx.com/adrenaclick).

It's reasonable to assume that most of the $350 difference goes to things like marketing, profit and shenanigans to encourage people to utilize their insurance (the rebate cards eliminate copay and some deductible costs and extract money that eventually has to be paid out of premiums...).
I'm an Ecology student, and the last few days there's been a lot of (justified) criticism of Excel. I use R and Python for data analysis, but a lot of what I do is gathering data, inputting into Excel and then exporting this as a CSV for use in R/Python for statistical analysis - are there any other tools that can replace Excel for this step?
Listen to your gut.

I started my business with 2 partners. One of them I trust completely, even with my life. I had a negative gut feeling about the other since day 1.

The latter is the one we had to let go, and it got really really nasty.
If they can't interact with normal matter or light, we're the dark matter to them.
Of course, it's true. Yet, I hope, no one would argue this is also exactly how we ended up with a giant pile of hacks. ;)

The only solution I can think of is a cartel-like agreements between all major browser vendors, on issue-per-issue basis, when they decide they want a sane tech and for the sake of it won't compete on certain compatibility points. Which is quite unlikely.
> We have an oversupply of capital which is causing a wide range of problems.

Citation very, very much needed.
Only a San Francisco politician would consider demand a problem.
The Traitorous Eight
I work for what is a Red Hat competitor in this space, Pivotal.

Like this fellow says, OpenShift 3 is lightyears ahead of 1 & 2.

(Obviously, my horse in this race is Cloud Foundry)
What is SEO? And what its benefits
> I put money in my savings account and I receive interest.

You do? I think you're an outlier there. Is that rate beating inflation?

I count the .15% rate on my savings account as a joke, rather than any sort of meaningful interest.
I'm adding very basic Windows 10 (because notifications are ~50 lines there, many many more on older platforms) support.

Writing my first Go code was easier than packaging ntfy for Windows, FWIW.
By this analysis I wonder whether Ramanujan would be in Hardy's family? In terms of strength it should be the other way around.
Not speaking in an official capacity, but the analogy I've seen used is that big companies don't want to relive the RDBMS vendor lock-in experience.

I'm speaking about something other than k8s (Cloud Foundry), but the industry mood is the same. Folk want portability amongst IaaSes. Google are an underdog in that market, so it behooves them to support that effort -- to the point that there are Google teams helping with Cloud Foundry on GCP.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry.
When my Ph.D is finally done (~3 months), I'll post some of the code I've had to work with daily for the past three years.

"Spaghetti" doesn't even begin to describe it. "Ball of yarn under a cat-lady's sofa" comes readily to mind, as does gouging my eyes out and amputating my fingers.

The problem isn't excel. The problem is scientists.
Just nodding and agreeing with all your points.
Judging by what we recently learned about the Army's finances, well funded government agencies like the DoD probably don't notice or don't care about this kind of thing.
> Stiglitz points his finger squarely at “the fatal decision to adopt a single currency, without first providing the institutions to make it work”.

The second part of this quote means something quite different from what the headline implies. He isn't advocating an end to the single currency, he wants stronger institutions, which the Eurosceptics have undermined at every opportunity.
Maybe its because there is a possiblity the page table has done something wicked to the destination.
feature set - not pricing. Am I making a mistake with my english ?

I'm willing to pay their 20$ thing - but the features they include in that price is weird for the segment on HN. And for the features people like me would really pay for... there is no pricing (so I dont know whether its broken or not).

I dont want them to lower the pricing - I want them to rearrange it... or atleast talk about it. I dont know how much to pay to get the Google Apps feature.
Amazing offer, thanks for the opportunity!

LentilDI is an ES6 Dependency Injection framework that aims to:

- reduce the boilerplate in wiring stuff up

- reduces the complexity of managing the ordering of dependencies.

- make testing components easy and transparent

Github: https://github.com/magicmark/LentilDI

It's a hobby side project at the moment, but it's well tested and any assistance/feedback would be great!
And if you want to use an external usb disk that's shared with FreeBSD, you can use https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-lkl/ to fuse-mount with the original linux kernel filesystem code. Once lkl is updated to 4.7 or 4.8, ext4's encryption support should allow a shared, external usb drive that work with Linux and FreeBSD, but I don't know if lkl will also support the keyring on FreeBSD.
Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms
> someone else would package docker as one part of a turnkey solution

Indeed, Red Hat have done exactly that with OpenShift 3.

Disclosure: I work on Cloud Foundry for Pivotal, ostensibly a competing project/product.
> The greater the number of valuable, diverse inputs the greater the likelihood for success

But is that really true? Seems like more of an unsubstantiated platitude. "The more colors you use in a painting, the more beautiful it is!" Until you get a brown mess
Kaspersky launches an OS to be used in routers and in critical equipment.

To be more secure it was written from scratch, and

> To achieve a guarantee of security it must contain no mistakes or vulnerabilities whatsoever in the kernel [...]

Here is where it begins: IMHO, Cisco and any other manufacturer of sensitive OSes, even Microsoft with Windows NT, probably had a goal of not having defects and vulnerabilities.

But security isn't a binary knowledge, where you just know or don't. Many attacks, many exploits, happened in ways that nobody had previously imagined.

To be secure, all possibilities must be considered during manufacturing/development. To be insecure, just one failure needs to be found, in any point.

Example: if the data you send to some input (that is perfectly secured, sanitized and so on) can cause a RAM bit-flip, there goes your security, even if the blame goes to the chip manufacturer...
I am horrified at the idea of living in a truly free society.
This happened just yesterday.

Had to write a custom blog system for my day job (they don't like wordpress or etc...) Blog has been in production for months now.

Yesterday, I get an email from the blog author:

"I'd like to let you know that I'm noticing some issues with how the new Blog Comment System is working. I have been noticing these things the past couple months, and despite trying to work around them, I feel they are making it hard to get done what I need to do."

15 minutes after she sent the email, she called me (I was in a meeting), she then called another programmer who has nothing to do with the blog, who was in the same meeting, then sent a followup email to my boss making sure I got the email.

Hold on - you found a bug, you've known this was a bug for "months" now and your reporting it now? Further, months have passed until your now reporting the bug, but because I didn't acknowledge the email because I was in a meeting, your now going down the phone list, panicked, apparently, looking for help?

The devil in me says don't fix the bug for months also but I know that won't fly.
These are some I currently use:

A strong password generator

A web app to sync short notes between devices

An invoicing/crm app

A few web scrappers

A tiny script to capture and delete all Android notifications from Google apps (b/c I disabled all Google apps on my phone)

A script to send a url link to my e-business card via sms
Cursory googling revealed that "lah" in Singaporean Colloquial English signifies agreement. You know what I mean, right?
Pardon if this point wasn't clear. I am talking about additional, direct regulation related to this product and this issue.

Normally, I would say the logic doesn't follow that, the answer to failed regulation is more regulation. However, in this case, my opinion is that we should call this out for what it is and do something to counteract it.
Companies Rethink Annual Pay Raises
Yeah, I get what you're saying. I just don't agree. I've never thought that a native app was "missing" - I never thought about it at all until it was brought up in this thread.

And for me, it's not at all about the user base - it's about a specific user - me. If it's not the right service for you because there's no native app luckily you have alternatives and can move on. I think it's an awesome service for 10 bucks a month.
Judging from the Matt Dillon case, a lot of "nah, the bug must be in my code" must have been involved.
If that's the case, then the market equilibrium makes un/underinsured patients collateral damage in a battle between pharmaceutical and insurance companies. That's a massive market failure that's killing its victims.

Here's my capitalist suggestion: figure out how much the pharmaceutical company stands to earn from life saving medication. Then let the government purchase the rights and put them in the public domain. The variable costs of producing these things is so low that we can treat every one for nearly the same price as treating only the rich.
Do you work for Apcera?

Your submission page is heavy on the linux-toys.com domain, implying that it's yours. That same site identifies the author as working at Apcera.

There is also a submission in your account that points directly to an Apcera blogpost, with the same author name.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry. Apcera has beef with us.
We have our 30hour employees and 40 hour employees on the same team. No reason they can't mix. We even have a couple part timers too.
> Comedy Central's own lawyers have a solid defense against the libel case you describe.

They do indeed. But those defences do not begin and end with a title card calling everything fiction, as the OP would suggest.
This seem to bring up the zone enumeration issue. Except for now, approaches like used in NSEC3 won't help at all.

"Private" DNS entries matter, when one wouldn't want to remember IPs (one'd rather remember "correct-horse-battery-staple.int.example.org"), but also wouldn't want to disclose the addresses used internally and aren't exposed to the end-users (because DDoS).
Facebook terminates trending topics editorial contractor team
mmap doesn't help much if you do syntax highlighting or other formatting.
I do not agree. A person who doesn't work their butt off usually lacks any sort of meaningful perspective derived from hard work.
I hate to say anything positive about DC, but here we go. DC has grown significantly faster than San Francisco since 2000. And because it's relatively low regulation, that growth has been relatively painless. There is a ton of construction everywhere: 12-14 story buildings popping up left and right.
Here's Michael Crowley's response which I thought is interesting.

https://newrepublic.com/article/62416/cock-and-bull