skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd submit that those cost overruns are driven in part by the irrational fear.

It has made it politically difficult to research and deploy safer and more cost-effective reactors.
Depends on how you try and reason about this; The fact that there was no clear definition doesn't mean it wasn't excessive beforehand, just that the definition wasn't clear.

To the extent that this doesn't request damages beyond the fees collected, you could interpret this as a decade-long interest free loan to Mastercard. Obviously that's a bit of a facetious interpretation, but the fact that something wasn't spelled out as illegal doesn't mean it wasn't wrong.

Of course business prefer to get away with as much as they can, but there's no reason we have to accept this as the way things should be.
As a dev I don't mind Jira that much (I try to use it the most basic way possible) but I often get remarks, especially during daily scrum meetings, that I don't update my tickets enough.

Well OK but at that point it is kind of redundant with DSMs anyway ... but I guess it fulfills product owners micro-management fantasy land.
My guess is they are trying to get it labeled as an invisible tax because a mastercard transaction fee wouldn't have shown on the receipt or the customer wouldn't have known they are paying higher prices due to the transaction fee.
Can you say more? What makes the difference between correct and incorrect instrumentation? What are the powerful features that it has that the others don't?

In short, how do we make a Jira install into something powerful and useful?
I generally think a focus on restoring the person to a good citizen is a bonus: There is no point in putting someone with an anger problem in prison if you aren't going to take care of the anger problem while they are there just like it isn't likely that a prison sentence is going to help much if your main problem is that you were nearly starving or addicted to drugs.

Nonetheless, I do believe this is where education, information, and standards should come into play. We should expect training so that judges can overcome things like the result of emotions on sentencing. We should have recommendations of standards for sentencing, and public feedback on how the judge tends to lean. With numbers, a particilar judge can know they are more harsh after lunch, more lenient on women, and other such things. They can look to see what the average sentence range is for the basic situation (x-y for first offense: y-z for second, etc).

Some folks have mentioned a computer system, and I don't think this is all that bad of an idea if used wisely. More like information and suggested sentencing: First offense? Age? Family? Extenuating circumstances that might require leniency or harshness? and then get a range of recommendations with their effectiveness rates.

I do think it is prudent to have sentences seconded by a separate judge, especially if the judge is towards or over the harsher end of the punishments or too far into the leniency. I do think they might get rubber-stamped if not done correctly, but I also think this would get judges to consider outcomes.
Isn't Meteor a stand-alone server? It sits on top of node.js, and has a number of extra packages included to make it more of a complete framework, but those packages can easily be removed or replaced.
> Government should have no say what a private entity can/can't do in their walled garden.

I have some sympathy with this point of view. I would like to see a world where anyone can build whatever website they want, and the amount of attention the website gets is determined by its "worth" as defined by how many people choose to use it.

However...

> The fact that over a billion people use it is a different issue.

...there's the rub. The usefulness of a social network depends on how many people are already on it. Network effects mean that its very vary hard to build a competitor to Facebook or Twitter.

One possibility might be if social networks, one they reach a certain size (say >10 million users) be required to put all their public data on standard APIs (such as RSS feeds) under terms that allow anyone to re-use them.

This would make it a lot easier for anyone to piggyback a service on top of Facebook/Twitter/etc and if their censorship or other policies got too cumbersome, there would be much less stickyness preventing people from moving to sa competing service.
This is a little idealistic. I agree with both employer (manager) and employee advice in some areas:

A good boss starts preparing for you to leave the day
you start your job. [...] I let them know that if
they’re getting the urge to leave, I can help them line
up their next job.

I started doing this as a manager, and it's great. You have to initiate the conversation, but it makes your relationship that much more transparent. You can see them relax. And as a bonus, this is a proxy for, "Talk to me about other issues you're having." Complaining about a shitty internal process is nothing compared to talking about leaving.

Tell your boss you’ll be leaving at the end of your
current project, or a specific task that’s on your
plate. [...] I’d aim to give your boss about a month’s
notice.

Idealistic, but I've never met an employer who's that flexible on start dates. Pretty much everyone wants you to start AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. It's hard enough to push for two weeks plus a week or two downtime, let alone double that.

The author (Mike Monteiro) does cover this as something employers should want to see, but it just doesn't happen.
Not to mention multi-level parking lots, which have height restrictions imposed by the structure itself. I'm sure most people wouldn't mind having the top level covered as well.
I'm not a huge fan of credit card companies, but trying to do business in an environment where you are potentially subject to ex post facto laws at any moment sounds like a nightmare.

I guess the only way to protect yourself would be to try to curry influence so that the tides of politics don't run against you.
The same could be said for Hydro Dams. When they fail it is catastrophic.
> it's a great intro on good ways to nail PM interviews, at least at Google (where I now work, thanks in no small part to the lessons from this class).

Could you give an example? It would be great to know why you say so.
I want to see WaveNet used to create a synthetic William Shatner, trained on old episodes of Star Trek, TJ Hooker and priceline.com commercials!!!
Right, only 4 times. Which is still hard to explain.
Well, since your own site is throwing database errors, I can't give credence to some of your complaints about system performance, especially where DB access is concerned.

You've moved from GitHub issues (a free service with more limitations) to a hosted JIRA instance, but there's no indication of the number of issues or users. I'd look into the other articles, but your infrastructure has crumpled under the current load. I'll have to revisit this in the future.

JIRA demands a set of dedicated hands to mitigate some of the issues with complexity when it comes to workflows - particularly when there are a bunch of eager, yet disenfranchised hands granted power over implementation-wide workflow, screen and issue configuration parameters. Guidance and change management philosophies apply to JIRA, as well as any other core tool.

Atlassian's hosted JIRA instances are not high-performance. They support up to 2,000 users, but you're paying $1,500 per month for the privilege of a) month-to-month hosting b) managed infrastructure and updates. You can't take the license with you when you leave, and you have zero control over the performance of the instances. This is the tradeoff, and your situation is how it's usually (painfully) realized.

Now, I'm not an Atlassian apologist. I find the lifespan of some of their bugs extremely disappointing, as well as the nature of some of them.

Many of the problems you describe mirror what I see as a consultant providing guidance and rescue to teams who have; inherited a (now critical) skunkworks JIRA installation, operated without a dedicated administrator, outpaced the sizing of their instance, or gone completely crazy with plugins to the extent that they can no longer identify what features are JIRA and which are plugins. Workflows, black arts that they are, have been left to grow as bramble. Team/project/product hierarchies are managed from the bottom up, as opposed to top down, as is the rest of the organization.

These all have remedies, apart from Atlassian's habit of leaving bugs to languish (despite being voted on), which arguably has a remedy of its own.

Limina's sounds like every other frustrated rant I hear from Atlassian users.
Much of the 2-3% US companies charge is spent in the form of rewards in the US. The fact that US companies offer 1-1.5% back to customers as rewards implies they can support lower fees to merchants if they get rid of rewards. Do EU cards have cash back programs?
We're on servicenow. I begged to use the atlassian stack over that platform.

Too late. The choice was made by those who'd barely use the tool.
We are all working to make it easier still with things like "Self-Hosted Kubernetes" to bring up and manage the clusters: https://coreos.com/blog/self-hosted-kubernetes.html

And the work that we have been going on with kubeadm.
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30360
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv3JmHKlA0I
Keyword in your text: "consumer". Not sure what happens when you buy as a business customer, but at many of the extended protections are specifically for consumers. Business customers are supposed to know much better what they are getting themselves into, since a) they have to regularly be much more aware of terms and conditions and legal stuff then consumers and b) they are themselves sellers and not just buyers.

At least for Germany I can point to several web pages that show that business buyers don't have those protections (German, sorry):

- http://www.wirtschaftsrecht-news.de/2013/08/widerrufs-und-ru... (no returns for B2B or C2C)

- http://www.shopbetreiber-blog.de/2007/03/22/kein-widerrufsre... (the decision of a court in a case)
To the commenters responding to this comment saying the Civil War was about slavery, slavery was the trigger. The Civil War was in truth about whether the U.S. would remain "these united States" ("States" capitalized, "united" not), as the Founders set out, or become a centralized federal system where the States were parts of the whole rather than independent entities in a political alliance. The states in favor of a powerful centralized government prevailed, and the governmental model of the united States changed (into that of the United States).

"My paramount object, is to save the Union, and not either destroy or save slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing the slaves, I would do it. If I could save the Union by freeing some and leaving others in slavery, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all, I would do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because it helps save the Union." - Abraham Lincoln
So, automated, just not with the usual suspects. That seems reasonable.
Of the "western democracies", or the "industrialized western countries", or however you want to lump those countries together:

* The US has unusual size, both geographically (which matters here) and population

* The US has unusual diversity

* The US has an unusually toxic history with racial diversity, in large part because unlike (say) Belgium, their racial history occurred almost entirely within their own borders

The argument therefore isn't that the US is distinctively racist. It's not! Japan, for instance, is far more racist: it's an overt part of the culture. No, the issue is instead that racism germinated and produced toxic effects in the US to a greater degree than it did in other countries.

We're still grappling with those effects. We incarcerate a huge percentage of our population, and almost 45% of our prison population is black. The median income of a black family is just over half that of a white family. Black people are poorly represented in executive ranks. Look around you: they're poorly represented in technology as a whole! As a demographic, they get less value from the public school system than any other, and so we have persistent pipeline problems reinforcing these disparities. Black people can't even reliably rent rooms on Airbnb. In 2016.

"Race realists" and "HBD people" would have you believe those phenomenon are due either to biological differences between black and white people, or to our pathological responses to those biological differences. That's horseshit, as the HBD's aptly demonstrate when they try to deploy and extrapolate from their corpus of dubious or cherry-picked statistics.

So I'd say: unless you truly believe that the black/white disparity in the US is genetic, the evidence for the US's outlier cultural issues with racism is right there in the numbers.

We're politically correct in part because we're right in the middle of trying to fix these problems.

Political correctness isn't a good thing. Also: when I take antibiotics, they wipe out my gut bacteria and give me stomach problems. That's not a good thing either! It is, in fact: a bad thing! But I don't call the whole enterprise of eradicating a bacterial infection in my body into question over it, nor do I back off the dose to try to minimize the bad side effect.
Gonna plug Micro Snitch, which is Little Snitch, but for your microphone and webcam: https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch.

(No affiliation.)
The long term definition was more or less 'A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.' This brings up the arguably semantic idea that physical separation is enough even if they are still genetically compatible.

So, in theory you can have genetically compatible separate species as soon as they are no longer capable of interbreeding. However, as Humans and Brown bares are both biologically capable of interbreeding and live in such a manner that the do interbreed they don't fit that definition. Temporary barriers are not necessarily enough as they may exchange DNA in the future.

PS: Ring species are considered a single species because a mutation can start at one end and given time make it's way around the ring. Thus they are a single pool that can and will exchange DNA.
Houston took this winning approach to adding housing. Could DC do the same?
As the sibling says, the market rate is set by the banks - that's what LIBOR is. The central bank rate only sets an effective floor by offering a minimum coupon on government debt. This is partly why things get weird around zero.

There's no shortage of money, just a shortage of people and companies willing and able to borrow it.

(There are some subtleties here over things like the central bank "deposit window")
That's not the core part of my comment, it was a side remark. I think it is kind of interesting in context of PC, but not more.

Read the wikipedia article you linked. The very first sentence talks about race as a social construct, and goes on to explain that it is a biological concept no longer used for humans . You'll find an article about that in every language, that does not imply the same usage. You won't find the idea of different races between humans in media or official forms in many countries outside of the US, according to my experience – which does not really mean you will find it nowhere, of course.

Race is in the US used as a stand-in for ethnics. Distinguishing between ethnics you find everywhere, mixing that with the term race you don't. Not if not following Nazi-ideology.
If your friend (on Facebook or in person) is showing you photos, saying things you find offensive, isn't your issue with your friend, not the mechanism by which they chose to do this?

Isn't that the same argument we use for things like BitTorrent?
An Analysis of Motivations for Income Redistribution [pdf]
Covering up large areas of a desert with solar panels may be more harmful than you realize.

I've heard & use the term solar strip-mining.

Solar power maxes out at no better than 1kW/m^2 (sun at zenith, clear day, practically 100% efficient conversion), we're talking an absolute minimum of 1 sq km to match a baseline 1GW power plant ... and likely 100 times larger for real-world scenarios (10% efficiency, night/clouds, non-zenith air densities, dust, etc). So yeah, the net effect is "strip-mining" a vast area by removing all (or a seriously impactful percentage) natural power input and thus killing everything off.

Rooftop solar should indeed be the focus.
There's even solar panels intended as road/pavement surfaces, super-durable interlinked hexes grabbing power where we've already wrecked the natural surface.
Micro Snitch – know when your microphone or camera spies on you
For a small to medium sized hosted to suddenly land a customer that needs $4m/mo of rack and power, or leased dedicated x86-64 servers, they almost certainly went into significant debt and/or leased a lot of the equipment themselves. I doubt peakweb has two nickels to rub together now.
> Government should have no say what a private entity can/can't do in their walled garden.

If an entity has no say what another entity can do within some domain, then the first entity is not the government with respect to the domain, and (assuming that no other entity has such a say), the latter is the government.
> we don't seem to have any of the problems described in this article...

You may want to more carefully read said article:

> Sounds like a combination of an old version and poorly configured setup. Possibly running on out of date hardware.

Ahh, now it makes more sense, especially since the article said they was running on Jira's hosted Cloud version. ;)

> Bugs filed against Jira are done in Jira.

Perhaps this is why the mentioned bug has been outstanding for five years ;)
Establishing a morning schedule for your kids
> Suppose Facebook's agreement said "blacks are not allowed in this site and will be removed". Would that even be legal in the US?

I would imagine it would be. I don't really frequent any racially-charged Web sites, but if KKK or Aryan Nations or you-name-it run a forum of some sort, those are likely the rules they go by.
I agree, it was a great read!
But you probably wouldn't have bought it, then! They need to get rid of stock, obviously in whatever fashion they can.
I mean, what are they supposed to do, kick their children out of the house?

In the end, the genesis of Hikkikomori's reclusion is their feeling of having failed at life. They can't deal with society's expectations of them, so they withdraw from it completely. There's not much parents can do to change that feeling of failure.

It's not really a distinctly Japanese phenomenon. I'm sure you can find just as many young recluses in every developed country. Japan just found a cute term for it, that's all.
It is very easy to inadvertently add dependencies on key order. For example, if you are generating HTML, you might have something like:

print("<a " + " ".join(k+"=\""+v+"\"" for (k,v) in d.items()) + "/>")

And d would be a dict of attributes for the anchor element. The code will produce different output depending on computer which is not what you want because it can cause subtle problems for other systems expecting a certain output.

Several compiler bugs have been of this kind so it is not only newbie programmers that make these mistakes.
Right now we are focused on getting the experience right in GitHub, but I agree that an ultimate solution must allow teams the choice of which source control system they want to use.

We get lots of feature requests for GitLab and BitBucket support so those are two likely points to integrate with next.
If only it was! But then we discovered "ring species" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species) which threw a monkey wrench into what was once a simple definition. Basically, there are populations of animals A, B and C, where A and B can inter-breed, B and C can inter-breed, but A and C can't. So our definition of species no longer satisfies the transitive property, and it all falls apart. As far as I know, this issue hasn't yet been satisfactorily answered in the case of ring species.
> was not "torture"

You might want to catch up and actually read the torture report. They went well beyond anything the Justice Department authorized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...
Humans may not be the only beings on this planet with agency/ consciousness, whatever you want to call it.

How do you know the planet isnt a gift to them, instead of us?
>Canada is a pretty diverse place

I know Canadians like to tell themselves this, but your country is ~80% white
Non-clickbait title: "How Dropbox uses the root access that you give it during installation to give itself Accessibility authorization without triggering the usual popup".
How is a 1% fee excessive? If you don't like MasterCard's rates, then don't accept MasterCard. If the government wants to ban such rates, then ban them. But allowing it for 20 years then digging up some vague "excessive fees" provision and demanding two decades and $20 billion worth of "excess profit" is nothing but a business-hostile dishonest shakedown.
Just because you think John Yoo's opinion is due process doesn't mean that anyone else has to.
For a lot of clustered software it makes sense to build small controllers and resources that bridge Kubernetes's knowledge of the system and the distributed systems knowledge. See this demo of a WIP etcd controller from the community hangout: https://youtu.be/Pc9NlFEjEOc?list=PL69nYSiGNLP1pkHsbPjzAewvM...
This is a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Charl.... Market participants often do know there's a bubble. However, if your neighbor keeps making more and more money selling tulips (that was a thing), then you will be tempted to buy some tulips yourself, knowing full well that you are commanding an absurd price.

Bubbles can be more "musical chairs" than rational pricing.
I like the concept.

I always find lack of good non-animation css for radio buttons and drop down select elements to be lacking.
Yes I know that, but what if all you want is just to execute the JavaScript on a page?
I'm considering this - but I used the boss's debit card so I'm not sure it'll work. Debit cards being "same as cash" in the USA, not sure those terms protect wrongful purchases. But - can't hurt to try.
They used this technique in Mr.Robot to emulate Obama talking about the Ecorp hack
Channels adopted as an official Django project
Linux.BackDoor.Irc.16 – A backdoor for Linux written in Rust
They used to but they are being phased out - the EU piously thinks that the merchants will pass on lower costs to the consumer - which is to borrow a line from Sir Humphrey "A brave choice commissioner"
What was it fought over, then?
The law covers what amount can be tacked on to the consumers bill that depends on how they are paying. Not how much the provider can charge the merchant. In the US very few places charge different amounts depending on payment type.
The relevant detail is that you can indeed censor a publication by adding a rule that says "you can't censor your publication in the following ways". I don't personally use Facebook at least in part because I don't want to use a centralized, censored system, but the fact of the matter is that it's a bad idea (not to mention likely an unconstitutional one) to tell Facebook what they cannot publish and indeed what they must publish.

Although it's irrelevant to the point, I also don't totally understand the nature of your objection. If you are saying that any publication gets to define what it does and does not publish (i.e. Facebook says "I am a company that publishes non-nude photos" or "I am a company that publishes censored material"), then they merely have to re-define their service in order to censor people while complying with whatever scheme you have in mind.