skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stop paying so damn little for your infrastructure then.

That's very difficult when the services are public and prices are politicized. Nobody wants to campaign on raising water and sewer rates, no matter how desperately that is needed.
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https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses
Mixture of trendy & failed startups - experience shared by founders. It is pretty new I think but the idea is cool.
GCC is in the set of bootstrap binaries, which needs to be kept as small as possible. It's imperative to raise awareness of this issue so that language implementors provide a way to bootstrap their compilers. For example, Guile Scheme can bootstrap itself from source using an interpreter written in C.
Do they actually know how to make these chicken pieces? If so, why can't purdue or anyone else just simply grow chickens? I assume it would save them a fortune.
Used Transferwise with few clients from USA, and had great results with it (quick payments, notifications).
I dont live in america.
How does cross compiling help? How do you build the first Java from source?
London gold market will welcome the blockchain technology
I live in a geographically isolated area which is small enough to not get it's own Criagslist area, but big enough that there is a lot of 2nd hand selling and buying. This almost exclusively happens through a FB group. It seems like this is a good natural move for FB.
Yeah that's what I thought? I'm sure I checked it out before and found it pretty useless.
Kind of an interesting problem, no? It's a question between what things we want to economize and the things we don't want to economize. In the long run, however, I fail to see how we really have a choice. Since "public" services are tied to some pretty basic realities; they still rely on human labor and they still rely on finite resources. So the real question is - do we want to realize the inherent inequality of existence now or push the ball down the road and assume (usually on behalf of future generations) the inherent inefficiencies of public work?

For me, I find it troublesome to take out credit cards in my children's names and hope for the best... I'd rather accept the realities of resource allocation now and maximize the system's efficiency. And sure, that might expose us to inequalities; I, for one, am super psyched for a post-scarcity economy :)
I sold my old motorcycle in 2009 using FB Marketplace. Half the inquiries I got were from scammers, even then... Have they improved anything in that regard? I especially don't want people spamming my Facebook messages now that they're more intrusive.
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Another advantage is uMatrix on Firefox is already multiprocess compatible and NoScript is not.
I can't Imagine a platform I'd trust less than anything related to facebook.
> My grandma has an LG something or other with the volume and power buttons on the back,

That design was actually based on Proper Market Research (tm) wherein LG determined that most phone droppages occurred when people were using edge-mounted buttons and therefore only holding the phone lightly. With the buttons on the reverse you can keep a firm grasp of the phone whilst activating them.

Plus of course it's a differentiator in a crowded market, but I wouldn't be surprised if it originated on a Chinese design. That's where the real innovation is happening.
I think this is the point. You can do all these things, but they are all extra hoops you have to jump through when all you want/need is an anonymous on-the-spot closure.
I was offered to interview at a company, they wanted me to do a coding "pre-screening" which consisted of creating a full-stack, and fully operational registration website from scratch.

Maybe I'm a super slow architect and developer, but I'd estimate that to be a greater than 8 hour time commitment.

I assume that the org's leadership acted in good faith, that someone honestly think's a non-slapdash solution would be a couple hours of work. It boggles my mind.

And yes, I declined their invitation to pre-screen and thus did not complete the interview process.
I run quite a lot of apps on Azure but normally just stick to their PaaS offerings as I don't usually want to bother administering the server at the OS level. When I do IaaS level stuff and want to connect directly to instances I've used AWS. It's massively oversimplifying, but I think Azure is stronger for PaaS and AWS is better for IaaS if you want to do more yourself.

The dual admin web app thing is a massive pain but once everything is set up you don't have to go near it often. If you use CI then you'll normally just git push.

My blog (https://unop.uk/) is running on Azure and although I've had a few problems they seem to be node/ghost related. If you want to run WordPress then AWS is probably better as they support MySQL natively.

Shameless plug: I cover some of this in my book. For example, in the final chapter I highlight a couple of the advanced features such as Azure ML and HDInsight. https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/book/Application%20Development...
More services means more data for them to exploit. Weak on privacy guarantees = whatever services they offer are heavily mined for your data.

When it comes to sales, craigslist is useful because it allows you to remain anonymous. With FB, I seem to be exposing exactly who I am, where I live, what I have for sale. In places with high crime rates, this opens me up to becoming a victim, as perps can search this information, see my name (maybe search online for more details), etc. Craigslist has even worked with police departments to set up safe areas[0] for people to exchange items. Will FB prioritize these important aspects?

I just recently saw an advertisement for their rural internet initiative, launching 3kW large-wingspan aircraft over remote areas to transmit network signals[1]. On the surface it is a useful goal - to connect more people - but ultimately, FB wants to increase its membership, and enrich its supply of data collected by people. Do we really prioritize having people send likes on FB from their shantytowns[2] instead of helping them improve their own villages -- food, sanity[3], customs, etc.?

From [2]:

> Mr. Kohli, 17, said he spends about four hours a day on the Internet and uses an Express Wi-Fi plan to supplement his Airtel data plan.

> Facebook has no desire to enter directly into the Internet service business.

> An important cog in the system is the merchant in each village that sells the service. Facebook and AirJaldi decided that there should be just one authorized seller per village to give that person a strong incentive to sell as many subscriptions as possible.

[0] http://www.npr.org/2015/03/27/395586863/police-departments-o...

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-31/facebook-t...

[2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/facebook-strives-to...

[3] http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_madiath_better_toilets_better_l...
Man, you're so right and so wrong at the same time!

So spot on about railways example: the real problem to solve is transportation, not railways, and a different form of transport could replace railroads.

So spot off about education: it damn is an externality! Try living in two societies/regions with different average levels of education and see how it feels. Also try starting different kinds of businesses in places where the pople are on average more or less educated. Also try implementing things like pollution reduction strategies or crime fighting strategies for places/communities with varying levels of education!

Yeah, it does not always work in the most obvious ways: a college educated person will not always make a better decision than someone who dropped out of high school. But the high school dropout from an on-average well educated society will most of the time be more of a person you want to be around with / sell to / buy from / live on the same planet with, than anyone from a less educated one.

Replace "educated" with "science literate" for the clearest particularization of what I've just said, as other types of education have more variability in effects on people and are easier to "get wrong".
Yes, I do have a strong belief that environments that allow private individuals the freedom to experiment/innovate and compete with one another produce massively better outcomes. However, my comment about the USPS was based on a series of stories in the news over the past several years about their financial difficulties and the closing of numerous Post Offices in small towns across the country.

Keep in mind the USPS has locked in one massive customer that continues to rely on post mail instead of electronic communication for virtually everything - the U.S. Government. So while yes, the USPS may produce better outcomes for the last-mile delivery, it is most likely being subsidized by the U.S. Government using their services to communicate virtually everything to 330 million U.S. Citizens. In that regard, UPS and Fedex are saving money off the back of taxpayers when they use the USPS to deliver packages to homes beyond their most profitable routes.
Modern anthropologists have had the opportunity to observe several groups of neolithic hunter-gatherers. They hunt or gather or prepare food for a couple of hours a day, and spend the rest of the day napping and playing. The pressures that create the variety of more developed cultures simply don't exist for them.

Of course, sometimes the whole tribe dies from disease or starvation or war, but those are relatively rare events.
You are correct, but are taking these guys too seriously. They know about the mythical man month and are just riffing, for better or worse.
Sorry to the moderators if this isn't allowed, but it's 10/3 and the hiring bot hasn't posted the month's thread yet.
Another advantage is that they are confident of their position and do not feel the need to put you down / downplay your achievements.
2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi [pdf]
It would not be wise to argue with someone who can hellban you. Even if it is purely logical and factual in nature.

Lobste.rs is also a good HN-alt. A bit more groupthink on common topics, and less groupthink on VC stuff.
I'm part of a local Facebook community for trading and selling board games. You basically meet in a parking lot during the day and make the trade/purchase, and it's pretty hard to fake the components/packaging of a board game. Possible missing components is the biggest worry, since they're not likely to wait around as you count each component.

Also a lot of these people can be vouched for since someone tends to have dealt with each other at some point.

I've only made a couple of trades through it so far, but it seems to work well.
Another case of "showing every shit available in an closed walled app" copying the Chinese social apps formula.

I can understand why Chinese apps did what they did, because of the isolation from the international services and being more accessible via mobile devices to the majority. But Facebook is an attack on the Internet.

#fuckfacebook
Given the local aspect of this I think it's more a craigslist killer than an ebay killer. And Craigslist is successful in part because it's not very regulated.
Fragile web of mocks. You will find yourself spending 90% of time fixing this web.
Extremely cold is pushing it. Chilly is probably more apt.

It generally has a mid-level UV index, so you feel warm in direct sunlight, but the humidity is very low so the 'breeze' feels cold. Some may find this unpleasant.
Wow, that works surprisingly well. I drew a terrible cat face, and it managed to get it dead on.
Tony Robbins' 'Strategy, State, and Story' framework works for me. Let me briefly explain this using my own terminology. Tony goes into this in much more detail, and I would recommend watching one of his more recent Youtube talks.

Strategy: There are very basic strategies for getting tasks done these days now more than ever, and they're all well documented, with people even outlining the potential pitfalls and benefits of the strategy. If your goal is to make friends, there is a strategy for that: Take up salsa classes, or a cookery course. If it's to make a million dollars, there are blueprints for that: Set up vending machines in every store you can find selling bubblegum.

State: State actually comes first before strategy and the idea is to get your mindset right before doing any task. Remember it's body first, and then the mind. The mind essentially runs off the body, so you want to nourish it. Eat healthy fats, avocados. Do Yoga. Make your gut biome more diverse with probiotics. Anything to make tasking seem more frictionless and effortless.

Story: Story is tied in with identity, and so much of our identity can be hacked. Your story doesn't have to be set in stone. Sometimes its useful to throw out your current narrative and replace it with an entire new one. Also: Nobody actually cares about your story. If you're telling yourself the same things over again and again in your head, you will start to believe it, so tell yourself what you want to hear.
"If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." The Social Network.
While I respect that they claim not to be about accumulating wealth (and it does feel as if this is genuinely true compared to more traditional VCs), this looks a bit like the Google X of VC. I suspect that they have generated enough returns from their seed investments that they no longer have outside LPs for a lot of the stuff they do, allowing them to freely pursue off the wall ideas (the exception here is probably their continuity fund). I'm not sure how sustainable this is in the long term. They would have to keep churning out Airbnbs, which is not guaranteed.
Yeah Hetzner is nice if you just need VMs and set up everything yourself. The big plus of GCP and AWS is the Platform. If you don't need hosted MySQL (because you want to set up that stuff yourself) or PubSub, Storage etc. go for Hetzner.
Interesting. It really has, but I didn't see it before.

I was using Karabiner to set caps lock to control AND escape when pressed independently, something extremely useful to use Vim and command line. This doesn't appear to be supported, unfortunately.
Not quite. Read my other comment above in this thread. When you have the US Government locked in as a customer, and that customer continues to rely on you for the majority of their communication instead of moving to electronic communications, you are relying on taxpayer dollars to pay for those stamps that fund your operations.
Fears of massive net attacks as code shared online
Then the municipality should have made that service a required part of the contract with penalties built in. The government always sets the rules of the economy, which is why it tends towards monopolies where graft and corruption can flourish. The ultimate example being when the government controls everything and you get the absurd differences between near sides of the Iron Curtain.
Which ones did I miss?
With its configuration layers, menmonic RSI-friendly key combinations and high discoverability, Spacemacs is one of the truly innovative developments in the world of editors (whether you prefer Vim-style keybindings or not).

If you're bored on a Sunday, go through the ABC of Spacemacs -- the 100+ multi-letter keyboard combinations included in the distribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFV5EqpZ6_s
Neztdoor is just starting to try to monetize their network now. Would not be hugely surprised if Facebook ended up buying it.
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It's an acceptable language for writing the piece of software that init is supposed to be. However, systemd is for more complicated and integrated and unsafe than that piece of software.
Okay, that makes sense. I 100% agree that bringing collections online in exotic formats is a terrible idea.
Curious if Owlorbit is available on other platforms.
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Pretty sure most people are still using http://docs.seleniumhq.org/
tutors and students alike?
I believe that's a tongue in cheek reference to the movie industry in Hollywood where this is (was?) a common phrase.
It's a race to the point where the consumer is willing to pay more for better quality. At that point, the costlier alternatives survive and the low cost provider exits the market.
(Random) sampling error does not very according to the size of the total population; only according to the size of the sample. A sample of 18,000 from a population of 6 billion will have the same random errors as a sample of 18,000 from a population of 100 million. And 18,000 is a BIG sample.

(This breaks down a bit when the sample size and the total population size get very close, and does not include sources of sampling error other than random variation - e.g. biased sampling, which I would be more worried about in a global study like this.)
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Of course, in reality this bias can be corrected for. I don't know if specific crime-stat software does it, but it's certainly doable. Here's an example where I solve literally the same problem (better measurement => more events detected) in a different scenario. Is it remotely controversial that I can do this for a sensor network?

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/delayed_reactions.ht...

You might also be interested to know that a variety of studies have shown that policing is not particularly biased. Arrest statistics and the like correspond pretty well with NCVS and similar crime victim surveys.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...
It wouldn't because most of the routes aren't economical at the current consumer price.

Amtrak always feels like the entire country subsidizing the rich and powerful as they commute over the NE.
You need to be able to produce .class files, as well as C headers, to bootstrap the Sun JDK. You don't need to compile Java to native code.
It has to for the time estimates and finding the 'closest' driver to you.
Nope. Nine women can't make a baby in one month.
I agree with you and parent that it is (and should) be a > 20 person job for its scale, but the career page is probably not the best example.

Many of those positions are perpetually open or rotated periodically (see: "You're leaking trade secrets" by Michael Schrenk) while the actual position was given to someone internal or someone connected to someone else internal to the firm.

Most of these pages are used for resume harvesting so that [if the firm has resources] an HR or technical recruiter can periodically evaluate the rest of the field. The firms holding out for the "rock star" often are more aggressive in recruiting them (whether at Job fairs or through LinkedIn headhunting).
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Used for enterprise wipe/disable.
this is kind of like "letgo". but if they don't commit to it, it will go know where.
Anyone know if gcj ever experimented with a precise GC? Or did the design of GCC simply not allow for a non-conservative GC implementation?
Look at the actual tree chart "Genealogy of Myths". There are numerous Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Inuit examples from northeastern North America, a number of examples from southeastern North America, and a small cluster of cultures from Siberia and the Russian Far East. A common myth transmitted through North America and possibly the Russian Far East is very plausible—we have multiple lines of evidence of cultural transmission among the preColumbian cultures of North America, including language, technology, and other beliefs.

Outside of that sphere? There's two Tuareg examples from North Africa, two Basque examples, and the Greek myth, which is represented by four(!) individual writers. It's certainly possible that there was some transmission of this myth around the Mediterranean, but... The Greek myth is apparently closely related to the Ojibwe example from the Great Lakes region(?). Let's also note that there is no other evidence of any cultural transmission between these groups and North America before the modern era. This is very implausible.

Cultural practices can be invented as well as transmitted. How implausible is it that these represent independent inventions? Well, it's very common to relate constellations to animals, heroes, or divine beings. The constellations naturally follow each other through the sky, over the course of a night and over the course of seasons. Hunting was a primary subsistence activity in every pre-agricultural culture. These are not ideas that are hard to tie together.

Note also the likelihood of chance resemblances between languages. http://www.zompist.com/chance.htm
Yahoo is the perfect candidate for the next Microsoft write off. I wonder how these executives analyze these opportunities.
Probably the biggest bullet Microsoft ever dodged considering what it eventually got picked up for.
Just to confirm, you meant just register -> store to database + forgot password and validation right? (Greater than 8 hour time commitment do sound about right, but I'm just curious to make sure I read it correctly).
Sydney even uses the electronic ticketing system to provide an estimate on the capacity of the bus.
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Facebook Marketplace – Is This the Death of Craigslist?
Azure is paying the penalty for being late to the game. They are making the exact same mistakes AWS made with the whole service fragmentation with the introduction of VPCs, except with azure its fragmentation of ARM vs Classic. fragmented UIs, fragmented documentation, fragmented CLIs (literally, the powershell and the xplatform cli have totally different sets of commands).

They are slowly making progress. Disk IO isn't horrible, you just have to over-provision premium storage when it really matters (just like you do in AWS with GP2 volumes). That said, their concept of storage accounts for housing volumes/disks is absolutely horrible. Luckily I hear mumblings of change there.
they are only supposed to go out in ~40 minutes: 11 am Eastern time on the first weekday of the month.
It also incentivises the google engineer to be as productive as they possibly can, assuming that salaries are indicative of marginal utility.

Otherwise the engineer could spend his brain power on his own hobby projects while mowing grass for income.
The scurvy thing stands out to me.
Understanding Autophagy: 2016 Nobel Prize for Medicine
Erm... Gumtree?

It sounds a lot like that, only tied to facebook, which makes it worse.
Lol, that's exactly what I was thinking
This is sadly accurate. I've had unemployed entry-level candidates say 'no thanks', and I have the benefit of a decent reputation based on my writings. It's getting difficult to do the job.
Has anyone criticizing it actually tried weChat?

I know that there are better ways to do things, and you don't have to accept the "Chinese way" of doing things, but that's mainly politics, and yes there ARE a lot of privacy concerns, but, and there's a big but.

Technically speaking, the app is amazing. I recently used it to talk to my girlfriend while she's in China and seriously, it's the best (face to face) communication app I have used. I'm not talking about any features in particular, though it does feel very stable. I'm talking about un-interrupted voice communication for hours and hours!

I've lived abroad for the last 4 years, so I use skype and Hangout and facebook call and whatsapp call and appear.in and any new hipster service that comes up a lot. The main thing they have in common is that I spend a quarter of the time saying "hello, hello, do you hear me?"

This is the best VOIP service I've ever tried, period. It just works.

My point does not address the privacy concerns and so on, but seriously, I really think that most people commenting here are implying that the app is necessarily crappy, reality isn't that simple. I'm seriously trying to get my friends to use it, I will not discuss very sensitive matters over it, but seriously, if you're really concerned about privacy, you probably shouldn't be using any of the big ones anyway.
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