skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think "diverse" experiences and opinions (at least the ones related to race and gender) matter as a software engineer. Race/gender does not affect the experiences and opinions that do matter.

The ones that do matter are related to topics like specific technology backgrounds (PhD in distributed systems vs. machine learning), functional vs. OOP, Java vs. C++, etc.

It might matter to a small degree in product management, although technically every little detail can matter.

Race/gender are also poor boundaries to segment for diverse experiences and opinions. Upper middle class, liberal black people benefit the most from affirmative action. They aren't much different from upper middle class white people.

Software engineering is already diverse by the most divisive measure: by country of origin which completely eclipses differences between races and genders.
Speaking of: are the non-US AWS regions subject to warrantless searches? Or are they technically their own "companies"?
This view is demonstrably false. Cannabis enables people to treat nausea, wasting, epilepsy, pain, and anxiety, all of which can be debilitating or even disabling. That therapeutic dosages are typically far lower than recreational should be a clear indicator.

The practical uses of hemp are also not to be dismissed. The fibers are strong and the oil is uniquely compatable with human physiology.

Trivializing cannabis because of its potential use as an intoxicant is a mistake.
Except it works just fine for RethinkDB because it was designed from the ground up to efficiently send changes from the shards directly to open connections. It's a design tradeoff postgres didn't make and they get other benefits rethinkdb doesn't have. But for this use case RethinkDB has a distinct architectural efficiency advantage
The place where I colocate our servers (the company is probably in the top five in the industry in terms of size, with data centers in about a dozen cities) runs with a tech staff of ~six during the day and two overnight. They've obviously got other staff for all of the other business-related roles, but data centers just don't require a lot of staff in the general case.
"The arrow of time" which you're referring to (entropy increasing in closed systems) is something that is IMO still puzzling in the field of physics. To be clear, entropy isn't a "force" its just a statistical effect (a very large number of particles in a system are always going to be more likely to be in a macrostate that has the most microstates -- meaning that the system will tend towards more "disordered" states).

However, it should be noted that the arrow of time only applies to the macroscopic universe. All of the laws of physics (in this article's case it's quantum mechanics) are time symmetric (if you play the experiment in reverse you couldn't tell it was being done in reverse -- which is what you can see in Feynman diagrams). So at the heart of it, the universe is very symmetric in time.

To quote Primer: "What's the one variable in all of the equations of heat and matter? What's the one variable that you can turn negative and still get rational answers? Its not energy, it's not mass..." [It's time].
I wish I could say I'm a perfect martyr for the feminist cause, but I'm not.

I'd rather have a happy and productive career than an ugly sexual harassment and wrongful termination suit.
> I have seen the code for eclipse -- there is so much dancing, it's a miracle that handling a key press eventually completes in some time.

In many IDE's it barely does, I've had issues with Eclipse, Visual Studio and IntelliJ at some point regarding input latency or the total freeze of the UI while it tries to handle magic with my input in the background.

Visual Studio has gotten progressively better since VS2010, especially with Roslyn; IntelliJ-based products have made strides since IDEA 13 where they really started to focus on input latency; Eclipse was never quite as bad, but it's a pain to use compared to VS or IntelliJ so it's irrelevant that it freezes 10% less in my eyes.
Oh definitely.

The interesting trade-off though (as with all protectionism) is where the boundary between promoting and hindering innovation is.

VPN blocking Facebook probably has good ROI for generating internal social networks (which in turn can be monitored).

Blocking Google, even more so GitHub, seems far more dangerous economically as you impair innovators' abilities to obtain research done abroad. (Google is especially bad since a large percent of English language sites have Google dependencies (css/js hosting) -- effectively most of the English internet has become unusable in China without a VPN since the complete *google.com block went in).
When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a
scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean
—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice,
“whether you can make words mean so many different
things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which
is to be master—that’s all.”

-- LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 (1934). First published in 1872.

:D
Conspiracy theory: Apple is intending to launch its own documentation reader built-in to macOS. This is just a way to "out" the incumbent.
If you're competitors really want to spy on you, they would spend the money for one month of your service so I would not worry about that.

Unless your potential customers are pre-sold on your software or they really need your software immediately, it will be difficult to convert them into paying customers. By having the free trial, it makes it easier to try it out without any monetary repercussions. Also, it's difficult to get approval at many companies to try a new software where they have to pay for it. Imagine your solution doesn't fit their needs. All of a sudden, the person that requested your software will look bad in front of colleagues and bosses. This is a very real risk people want to avoid at all cost.
I thought Second Life was the low rent version of first life. You know, life life.
Good answer, still makes no sense why you don't eat your dogs. It's hypocritical not to; pigs are smart and they respond to you like dogs do (if you let them of course). It's fine, many people do it and at least you look them straight in the eyes while most buy something in plastic 'which taste nice' and they don't have to think.
It's true. I'm not a physicist. I have never claimed to be a physicist. The only contribution I have ever claimed is a pedagogical one.

When I first wrote the paper 15 years ago I submitted it to Physics Today. It was rejected, not because it was wrong, but because the reviewers thought that it was nothing new, that everyone already knew this stuff. Since then the physics community has bifurcated rather neatly into two camps: the ones who agree with the PT reviewers, and the ones who think I'm a "category 5 loon" (that was Lubos Motl's term). Personally, I think the existence of people like Motl and your anonymous "dismissive" QFT experts -- and the fact that I can still stump card-carrying physicists with the EPRG paradox -- falsifies the hypothesis that "everyone already knows this stuff."

I will also say, because I'm feeling rather annoying by all this, that in 15 years no one has ever pointed out any actual mistakes in the paper (except for a few typos).
Telstra also confirmed they'd be holding back and altering updates. Nobody should buy this phone from a carrier.
Isn't the reverse stat more interesting? What percentage of drives reporting an error fail within X weeks? I don't want to know how many failed drives had errors, I want to know how many errored drives fail. (A more accurate title might be "What failed drives tell us about SMART stats".)
UX designer or researcher, product manager, visual designer, graphic designer, QA engineer
I'm a recent Fi convert, so take this with a grain of salt.

- Customer service is exactly what it should be, accessible, excellent, quick, friendly and timely. It feels a bit like stepping back in time 40 years.

- The service works very well considering it's combining the coverage of 4 different networks (3 mobile + wifi)

- call quality on the mobile providers is about what you'd expect from them, not as good as AT&T or Verizon

- call quality on wifi is great

- the additional built in services and integration into the phone are really well done: simple website to service the account, reasonable pricing, automatic voice transcription of messages

I'm pretty impressed with how consumer friendly it is.
I'm honestly not sure i understand how your evidence supports your point.
They did, indeed, have incentive to make everything better.
That they later stopped supporting a thing does not contradict this, because they had the incentive to make reader in the first place.

Stopping support is, as someone said, not about incentive, but about later action.

The fact that they cannot focus on everything does not in fact, mean they have less incentive. It just means they can only do a limited set of the stuff they have incentive to do at any point in time.

That does not change the incentive itself.

If you want to argue "they only have incentive to do what is profitable in the first place", you would have had to argue "they could have made reader, but chose not to" or something similar.
(IE they did not have sufficient incentive)

TL;DR your argument is misplaced. Google has incentive to make everything better. They only have resources to long term focus on things that make profit.

These are not contradictory statements.
> 1/2: Are you on iPhone or Android? I was there a month ago and my Google Playstore downloaded variant only used Google Maps.

Android. But my wife has iOS and that works as well?

> egardless, I don't begrudge Uber much here; the driver call culture is hard to fix (even in America, I'm called sometimes) and it's not unreasonable to require your customer base speak the local language. (It is unreasonable though for the phone app to assume your locale matches the local language [help screen problem] or to assume that you've downloaded the app from a completely local source [Google maps source issue])

Agree, but not being able to SMS while you can in every other country IS something to begrudge Uber for. If I could immediately SMS with a perfect Chinese sentence explaining where I am, which is how I always do it in countries I don't speak the language (well), then this saves all the hassle. They should put that back immediately. In Hongkong it has it (as it has it everywhere else) and the driver never calls...
From your phrasing, it seems like you've made up your mind that you don't want to offer one - and looking for validation on that thought. That said....

How are you acquiring your customers currently? How much context do they have about the product and how it fits their issues. Do they "stumble on you", search for you, referred by friends, etc? That does matter in their trust of you - and what they're willing to part with.

You can always test options like "buy now, we'll charge in 14 days", "money back guarantee, etc".
The quite desperation of Millenials
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Could it be they're aging? The correct question is "Why are there no younger Nobel candidates? It could be ageism, as the panels who choose laureates are, well, older. It could also be that it's taking longer to generate breakthroughs. When you look at the early laureates and compare the complexity of their work to the work of more current ones, it almost appears silly that the earlier laureates would win a Nobel for that work... I mean... pfft.. it's basic stuff... now...
Japan has low crime, by and large, because they have only a single criminal organization: the Yakuza.

They are not nice people, but as criminal organizations go, having one that views itself as the protector of the people isn't so bad.

After the massive earthquake a few years ago, the Yakuza were among the first to offer aid and assistance to the region -- ahead of the national government, even.

And, if you are going to engage in criminal enterprise in Japan, you need their blessing. If you attempt to sell drugs here without their permission, you will quickly find yourself suffering from an acute case of death.
Just because a thing is sufficient doesn't make it efficient or pleasant.
Sounds almost like how words appear to be moving across a scrolling led (or previously, incandescent bulb) display, when nothing is moving it's just each led/bulb switching from lit to unlit.
To be fair, Uber is heavily subsidizing rides in China (below cost). Even in the US, a foreign company doing this could have anti-dumping tariffs slapped on them.
takes selfie with virtual selfie stick cam and posts it to facebook

"we can do anything we want"

Does anyone know if there are any other demos/applications available?
How exactly are you contradicting that sentence you're quoting? In fact, it seems to me you're confirming it. He didn't say that everything a programmer knows will be useless in 10 years, but that half will. You're only enumerating the half that won't.
I think you're talking about the other half (which isn't useless).
In the same way that some companies have negative externalities like pollution, you could think of a data-centre more as having a positive externality of job creation.

Data-centers don't do many things themselves, using manual labor; instead, they're just large machines that consume purified resources (power, live fiber, provisioned equipment) and turn it into APIs. But purifying those resources for the DC's consumption does require people—and DCs need a lot of each of the resources they consume. For every N data-centres that get built in a state, that state probably employs a good few more power-plant workers and linemen, for just one effect.
React Virtualized: Components for large data sets
I think so too. But I don't think, say, not having a 32-bit integer type, and 16-bit and 8-bit integers, is a big problem, if you've got doubles. Maybe it's a nice-to-have. A 64 bit type or bigint would add real value.
They have multiple radios and my bandwidth is basically capped by my comcast internet at around 180 Mbps which I get everywhere in the house with 2 airports, one extending the other.
Twitter has huge room for growth, at least 10X from where it is. I just don't think they have done enough to figure out what is preventing so many other people to become its frequent user. In my own experience, I find Twitter's newsfeed algorithm pretty bad and completely lacking stickiness. I can easily find stories that would have kept my attention which should have ranked much above. The presentation of content is fairly complex (too many # and @ to parse). Ranking of re-tweets is especially bad. Lot of essential tools are still missing, for example, I can't even search my own tweets effectively. Lot of essential integration is left to 3rd parties (for example, no official Chrome plugin). If you think about it, we communicate a lot like Twitter by using medium of text messages. However text messages lack lot of desirable features (non searchable, history gets purged, hard to create one-off groups etc). Twitter, if done right, can replace text messages and even emails at large extent in addition to social aspects.

I've recently started using Twitter more to stay in touch with deep learning community and I can absolutely see why less tech-savvy non-fan user would turn away after few attempts. I can also see if they can turn this around and grow 10X in terms of DAW/MAU with good product planning.
When it's easy / boring as hell why not make the computer do it?
You may not think you are, but you are.

For productivity, virtually all of the Solow residual disappears if you add energy as a factor. R. U. Ayres and Charles A. S. Hall are two (and independent) authors among many who've demonstrated this. Ping back if you'd like me to dig for specific references.

Orthodox economics of course ignores this.
Ask Brendon Eich, Douglas Crockford, Palmer Luckey, and Curtis Yarvin.
> How is this worth it for Google?

Anytime you find yourself asking "why is big company X giving away Y for free?" the answer is usually that they're commoditizing their complements:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

Virtually everything Google gives away for free follows this pattern.
It does when the volumes are low due to overhead and non reoccurring engineering. Back in the 80's took an engineer and draftsman a 2-3 months to design and layout a PCB with tape. Might spend $100k on engineering, overhead, and sales and sell ~500 units/yr. ($200/unit)
Good deal, congratulations then!
The owners of Google should be charged with thousands of crimes. And Mark Zuckerberg too.
You don't need to learn React or Angular or another framework. Spend your time getting really good in your preferred stack of choice. That could be a framework or something of your own creation. Do not go to work for a company that only wants to hire people familiar with a specific framework. It's a huge red flag. The work will be boring and the team mediocre. More often than not there will also be culture issues.

Great companies who have interesting projects will want to see what you've built in the past; the technology is just a tool. They will trust you to use the right tools for the job, and will respect you enough to let you pick those which you prefer.

For legacy systems, it's helpful to have some experience but it's not like you won't be able to be effective if you're good given sufficient ramp up time.

In my experience it's far better to hire the smart, motivated engineer who can actually get stuff done and has created high quality software before than someone who is an expert in a specific framework.

Also I avoid going to tech conferences about web stuff, unless it's a legitimately new technology. A new way to organize your code and conventions are not new technology, it's just some guy's opinionated way of doing things. And most of the talks are less about conveying useful information that will help you and more about the speaker's ego and vanity.
The Yakuza is far from being a single, unified criminal organization.

Even if there were a single organization controlling all drug trafficking, that would not explain why drug crime, and drug use, are so low in Japan.
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Ah, ok, I must have misremembered. Apologies
I totally agree it should have been a merge request and the master branch should be protected so novices can't merge to it.

There is a chance that the merge itself breaks the build. I must say that in practise we don't often see this. Maybe because we keep our branches small. Other people seem to be more aware of this problem https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4176
Apple, how on earth is this good for existing customers? You're not protecting us - you're discouraging us. We've paid for the application and now can't get access to it. If there's an alternative channel, I'll never buy from an Apple app store again.
Is this true for any of the big tech companies? I have friends at Google and IBM, and they've both told me that getting access to production databases is extremely challenging.

I wonder what it's like at Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc.
Good luck with schema migrations and backups when you hit 1,000 customers (see Citus rep's comment).
AWS mega deal with VMware is money making for devs
Some of the Noto faces are hinted, some aren't -- the filenames tell you which ones are which.
On the contrary, those popups are a really stupid and annoying trend, and I think it's good people voice their dissatisfaction with them.

Without people leaving the sites and complaining on places like HN, web designers will have no feedback that it's such a stupid idea.
> 1) Drought. Severe drought. Trees need water. There's less of it.

Due to alfalfa, almond/pistachios, pastures, rice, corn, other field crops, vineyards, other truck crops, cotton, grain, and tomato, primarily, according to:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/05/11/cows-not-almonds-...

I was surprised about alfalfa and pasture.

And "The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades, has been responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region, or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the world's largest single driver of deforestation."

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

Convince your friends not to eat as much meat, especially beef. It's bad for the environment.
> Governor McAuliffe approved a $1.25 million grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund to assist Fauquier County with the project. The company will also be eligible to receive sales and use tax exemptions on equipment.

Was this worth 54 (unspecified types) jobs? I guess It's not that bad since it doesn't mention property tax exemption which usually goes along with new developments.
That is (almost) exactly right. The only difference is that with classical states it is possible to distinguish between the object (the light bulb) and the state (on or off). With quantum systems the object is the state, so there is no way to distinguish between "the same atom" and "different atoms with the same state".
He didn't use "sarcasm" to mean the opposite of what it actually means.

Because his post could be read as sincere (unjustified) criticism of Google, he used the well-known internet convention of "/sarcasm" to avoid an unnecessary, off-topic sub-thread stemming from his post. How's that for irony.
I watched your video. Viewing measurement and entanglement as the same thing or closely related is ineresting, and the EPRG experiment is clever. I've never seen that before. Thanks for that! I need to think about it for a bit.

But I think you give too short a shrift to Many-Worlds because it's not intuitive to you. Plenty of things about QM are not intuitive; I don't think that's sufficient reason to reject it.
OVH has great prices, especially on the SoYouStart line. https://www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/essential-servers/
Poll: How old is your Hacker News account?
Saw a post that PG's account is 10 years old. So was wondering about the distribution of users joining in.

PS: Mine is 3510 days old. ;-)
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You don't even need the 'smartStats' temporary file at all, since you can do that with just one grep:

smartctl -a /dev/sda |
grep '\(Reallocated_Sector_Ct\|Current_Pending_Sector\|Offline_Uncorrectable\|UDMA_CRC_Error_Count\)' > /root/stats
Possibly. Various "Helvetica to Lucida" scripts and tools came out when the default font was switched in Mavericks or Yosemite.

Worth trying!
Nonsense. Ignorance is fixed by teaching. Malice is not.
I'm just surprised as the absolute magnitude of the number. Virginia has hundreds of thousands of unemployed right now; 54 is probably within measurement error. Even if they're off by orders of magnitude, 500 is a drop in the bucket, and 5000 is barely noticeable. It just seems weird to me that that number is big enough to be worth trumpeting from the hills.
Great. If they figure out the ordering system, it could be interesting. Last time (3 months ago) to install 200 servers (that they claim to have up in 120sec) would take 9 weeks, even if with our long term commitment.
To clarify, I'm asking what are some clever ways to ballpark what a company's financials might be, to pre-screen out ones out of my league before I even contact them. Most companies don't publish anything about their finances at all.
It's just a small bash script, and one that's apparently worked well for 10 years. Rewriting it to J2EE standards would just be a waste of time; the best outcome is that it still works the same, and the other outcome is that you introduced a new bug refactoring it.