skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Democrats were happy to keep importing voters

I think it's important not to discount the difficulty of securing the border because of the size of it. And as you mention, American companies (like Smithfield) are happy to create incentives for border hopping because they can use the threat of calling INS to keep wages low and prevent unions from forming.

The problem with the idea of widespread voting fraud is the data doesn't support it, at all. Bush's DOJ came up with an estimate of %0.00000132 of fraudulent votes in federal elections, for instance. Note that by then it was explicitly illegal for aliens to vote in federal elections.

> We take for granted just how much Christianity has shaped our secular culture and morality.

I'd argue that across peoples and times you see more variation in theological doctrine than moral teachings in the various religions. Hinduism, for instance, is practiced by different people differently and encompasses polytheistic, monotheistic, and even atheistic traditions. But morality remains a feature, specifically the concept of karma. Sweden is by some counts 85% atheist, but I'm not aware of anyone calling it a den of iniquity. Certainly my Muslim-American friends are moral.

In other words, people tend to be recognizably moral regardless of their very divergent beliefs about other things. That points to a general human capacity for morality, rather than one specific to any one religion (that the others, even those predating it, were presumably lucky enough to develop independently).

Certainly moral codes differ. But they also differ within the same religion across time -- for instance, the modern Christian view of divorce vs. the ancient one.

Christian orthodoxy varies. Ancestor worship is common in African Christian sects. Protestant and Orthodox churches abhor the Roman Catholic practice of praying to statues. Unitarians discount the trinity. Sure, there's a common thread of Christian morals there, but I'd argue that it's the same thread you find everywhere, modulo views on homosexuality and a couple of other things.

I don't mean to be cruel but I find the assertion that America gets its morals from Christianity to be somewhat narrow in that it presupposes that Christians got theirs from on high, and ignores the similar moral teachings you find throughout the world and throughout history.

It also runs contrary to the founders' explicit intentions for the role of religion in government, and I would argue that it does a large disservice to your fellow Americans who aren't Christian.
Fair enough. I never claimed my dislike of "reasoning about" things was rational! 'Grok' definitely has a context, that likely does not include talking to non-hacker types like clients, board members, or whatever.
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PHP always reminds me of the Dijkstra quote:

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
There's a lot of (unfortunately) classified knowledge in this area. For example the SR-71 used its fuel as a coolant -- they had a lot of crazy thermal problems (that they worked out on slide rules!)
This. It's not that nobody thought of evaporative cooing before. It just didn't make sense within the constraints in the prior cases when it was considered. Water methanol (or any other fuel but you pretty much only see it used this way with water methanol) injection in combustion engines makes a large part of its performance impact through evaporative cooling. That's more than half century old technology but it was applied in a different situation. I would have never thought of using a porous alloy to deliver coolant like that but that's also way outside my area of expertise.

This isn't very amazing. It's more of a "congratulations on finding a novel way to solve the problem utilizing the resources available, now produce it at scale". All sorts of cool things can be done in a lab if you've got modern manufacturing techniques at your disposal and a pile of cash. Scaling at a reasonable price point is the hard part.
...what? If I could upvote the top half and downvote the second I would.
A bit late, but had meant spotify, not skype.. :-) I plan on letting XM lapse at the end of the free term as I really don't use it, and the cost is more than pandora and skype combined.
HP to cut 3000-4000 jobs over the next 3 years
Yeah I did pop in on Github and report it to you guys[1] and I did really appreciate the speed in which you guys were able to respond to issues. I would like to give Flynn a shot again in the future, but I'll probably at least wait until that issue is solved first ;)

[1] https://github.com/flynn/flynn/issues/3396
Wait, they were selling a phone whose hardware was close to an iPhone's, for $10? What am I misunderstanding?
Scientists plan to create 'Asgardia' nation state in space
I think these cheap Chinese rip-off are bad for the electronics market and consumers. If your biggest concern is price when buying electronics, completely ignoring the fact of quality, care, and engineering you're contributing to decline of quality built electronics.

They don't do any of the hard engineering or go through meticulous testing and QA. They blatantly copy, and as such provide no innovation. Stop supporting this behavior, have some pride for the products you buy.
The Sentimentality Trap
But it's a matter of sublimating that fury, isn't it? You really do have to give (most) people benefit of the doubt.
I would call Commonlisp an imperative language.
Chinese man sentenced to 3 years in Iowa for stealing GMO trade secrets
Is there any HIPAA story for Flynn?

You can do HIPAA on AWS yourself or use (expensive vendors). However both of these routes lose you the management/deployment abilities of things like Heroku/Flynn.
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Nobody got fired for buying VMware + nobody got fired for buying AWS. Now if only they could add Cisco and EMC it would be perfect.
and miss out on all the awesome aspects of the language/environment?
No. To suggest that Mexico's problems are free market problem is not at all true.
Caveat+: No one yet knows if we can even reliably count the planets of a distant star, so the figures could be off by some significant amount.

Caveat++: That light reaching earth from far away galaxies was then, this is now.
> very wasteful

Define "very". Because for me it's more like "a few hundred microseconds per request".
Yeah, we ship unmodified Heroku buildpacks, plus one Cloud Foundry buildpack (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/staticfile-buildpack).

So far no one is using Flynn in a fully disconnected environment, and we're aware of this limitation. My take on this is that we need a replacement for buildpacks that allows for repeatable/functional builds (think Nix for app deployment).
As somebody who follows about 75% of those sources, those are definitely not the places to get unbiased news. Editorials, perspectives and opinion-based articles maybe, but half those sources don't even make being unbiased a goal.
Psst: the Rasmussen brothers were behind both Maps and Wave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Rasmussen_(software_devel...
Well, I finally wrote a patch for that: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2160
Uh, the early versions of PHP was written in Perl running under mod_perl, which was not CGI.

Also, e.g. fastcgi was around the same time frame.

(In order not to end up in a flame war regarding the first point I checked wikipedia -- see second paragraph of the intro here. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_perl )
Better support for Realm. All our apps (native apps both on iOS and Android) are build around Realm as the shared data model and while I prefer Windows as my dev platform the lack of support for Realm in Visual Studio and the fact that there is only a Mac version of the Realm data browser really keeps me from going back to VS. Also we might have considered experimenting with Xamarin, but the Realm support there is also pretty weak (same problems with lack of VS integration, sync feature not supported yet, no UWP version).
Facing a similar situation a couple years ago, the solution I had pushed for was just for a few (3) dokku servers setup behind an nginx server as a reverse-proxy... the reason for multiple servers in our case was redundancy first, this split allowed us to do the exact same deploy to three servers, run tests, update nginx config then down the old version(s) of the apps.

Flynn and deis definitely seem interesting, as does the tooling that coreos and docker themselves are working on.
PHP is perhaps one of the easiest technologies to scale horizontally, because of its statelessness.
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Hi, thanks for asking! :)

Some background: I've used Linux since 2004. I think I mostly used Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch. Recently (2013) I've move to macOS as my primary OS.

* Snapshots. Many of my co-workers are actually afraid to run 'dnf upgrade' (or equivalent) out of fear of it breaking the system. About half wait about a month after a major release, then upgrade to that, get it working, then never touch it. If dnf could take a snapshot and print "if you experience issues, you can revert back by running 'snapshot --revert-to $snapshot_name'". Similar for the GUI.

* App Store style interface for the repos.

* I can't remember if Fedora separated updates into 'new version' vs 'security update' vs 'bugfix'. I would like if security and bugfix installed silently and without intervention (with opt-out provided). I would also like it if new version updates could be marked auto-install on an individual basis and if it would also notify me about what it did. Android does this well, imo.

* Better ability to keep up with the lastest version of package X, particularly when X is related to my dev stack. If the next version has some features you're excited about, it is really unsatisfying to have to wait 4 months because that's when the next Fedora is. Ubuntu has tackled this with PPAs. Chakra (dunno if it is still around) was a semi-rolling release (it updated the base-OS in one go every few months, but everything else would just chase the latest version). Having to setup rvm and the like is just a pita.

* This will be a bigger/long-term thing: separation of my dev stack from the OS. One thing I really like about macOS (homebrew) is that I can chase the latest python/ruby/vim/etc without worrying about that breaking a Gnome app that happens to be written in Python.

* Look nice. A lot of people will write this off as frivolous, but I think it matters. If you are going to be staring at something all day, why not have that thing be nice to look at? Fedora has generally done well here. I don't know how it stands when you throw hi-DPI and mixed-DPI at it though.

* Be able to connect to Cisco VPN and Cisco wifi out of the box.

BTW: What does 'dnf' stand for? How is it pronounced? 'dee-en-eff' or 'dunf' or something else?
I remember reading a definition from a DoD document for 'legitimacy': "the willingness of people to act according to the will of a government without coercive compulsion."

In the same vein a definition for 'power': "The degree to which outcomes can be influenced into a desirable state."

The ability to build and dissolve legitimacy absolutely is power. The ability to build consensus and through that consensus change outcomes absolutely is power.
Good advice. Thank you very much
The US isn't being hosed, however some in the US are being hosed by globalization.
There's more too it than that though, yeah? Say you use a service that uses oauth2 authentication. You need to do a request to pull in a oauth token. If you lose all state between requests, you waste time re-fetching tokens.

In PHP, persisting this sort of thing between requests becomes a painful task instead of a triviality
That's what I'm wondering, too - is this actually true, or is it just a deflection?
I've worked on enough projects to have covered both sides of the equation. The pristine codebase that belonged on a museum yet took way too much time to ship a feature. The other side of the coin with the codebase that somehow worked (no one knew how) and brought in millions because people would keep piling stuff on top of it. Have also worked with a codebase that started off awfully and was cleaned up enough to reduce the amount of time lost on stupid bugs and and thus increased how effective the team was delivering new features (with a direct financial improvement as a result because sales picked up significantly). It all boils down to finding a balance. Sadly, people confuse technical perfection with a product that works.
I'm not sure that your two scenarios are as different as you suggest. An expensive pastry chef may produce fewer pastries (I don't see why it would be more expensive otherwise if the ingredients are the same), but the higher quality may also yield more sales. I can bake you a muffin, but you definitely wouldn't want to pay for it.

For the second scenario, most companies don't need the mythical 10x programmer. The correlation between code quality and profit isn't any clearer to me than the correlation between pastry quality and profit. Most businesses survive on "good enough", and aren't willing to pay a dime more than what's required to meet that threshold.
It seems he's retitled the book to "An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies by Tyler Cowen (2013) Paperback Paperback"

I do like yours better, but suspect that'd be less popular stateside
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12693007
That query searches for files of type PDF that contain the text "allinurl:.pdf" because 'allinurl' appears not to work any more. The following query, however, generates 1,410 million results, all of which appear to be PDF type files, and the URLs contain '.pdf'

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=filetype:pdf+inurl:.pdf

It's an interestingly eclectic bunch of results. I particularly liked the 'International Chronostratigraphic Chart' I found on the second page, immediately followed by 'A Visual Guide To Achieving LinkedIn Profile Perfection' ...

http://www.stratigraphy.org/icschart/chronostratchart2015-01...
No, the policy/process DannyBee references is fiction. What's standard is what happens in reality.
I'm clearly not talking about statistics.

For your second point, DannyBee focuses his efforts on discrediting this seemingly exceptionally qualified candidate, never yielding an inch from his position that Google is exceptional and can make no mistakes.
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Knowing proper terminology is necessary in order to stay up to date with developments in your professional subject area. If concept X is an established concept in your professional area of expertise, and you don't even know that its name is concept X, then you likely have not read much about concept X, and consequently, are likely not up to date with current developments related to concept X. This isn't just semantics, it's about professional literacy.
Better start currying.
Could you explain how static typing makes less safe programs?
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I think it might have had something to do with the recession. Now that the economy is improving, it is a better time for such things, imo. I applaud your long term thinking, but the short term is important, especially for those worried about their jobs.
That's a bit harsh on pigs.
If I may, have you read any of Scott Adams analysis of the techniques in use?

It is not like it is specific to Trump; he just does it to a greater degree than others.
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You slaughtered the equivalences no one made but failed to demonstrate your ostensible point entirely.
Everybody loves to talk about growth, but seems like not that many people are investing in the boring work of building its foundations. When I've advised early stage companies, I typically get asked for "hack-tics," -- aka the tips, tricks, hacks, tools, and secrets that promise to solve our growth problems -- only to see the team burn out and look for our next hack-tic fix.

Brian Balfour has always been against-the-grain on growth marketing, and outlines his core principles for growth -- non of which is a trick.

Curious if people agree / disagree / have something to add.
I just want to say, that while I haven't financially contributed, that I do appreciate the work that has gone into dokku, and it's a great platform for self-hosting smaller projects on a single vm.
Hello, I studied economics and statistics in college and grad school, and worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate statistics courses. Here is a short, annotated bibliography of my favorite statistics books.

1. Ayres, Ian (2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart

[Good introductory summary of the main concepts in statistics with many real-world examples]

2. Bernstein, Peter (1996) Against the Gods: Remarkable Story of Risk

[Intellectual history of statistics, accessible to beginning students.]

3. Healey, Joseph (2005) Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, 7E

[This is the text book that was used in the undergraduate statistics courses while I was working as a teaching assistant at UC Santa Cruz.]

4. Kahneman, Daniel (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow

[Kahneman combines cognitive psychology with statistical concepts; highly recommended]

5. Silver, Nate (2012) Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don't

[Silver's book offers an excellent summary of major concepts in statistics and how they are applied to real-world problems]

6. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2005) Fooled by Randomness, 2E

_________ (2010) Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2E

[Important critique of statistics and how it is mis-used and mis-applied, particularly in econometrics]

Hope this helps. Shoot me an email if you have any questions. Good luck.
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it looks like this is impacting sites hosted on google cloud using the load-balancer (you upload your cert, and I'm using a globalsign cert). I am getting 502 errors via mobile but via desktop it's fine.

anyone else use globalsign via google load balancer who can confirm?
Why do the actions of the country in question have anything to do with it? Do we truly need affirmative action for royalty now?
So people who don't care make successful projects and PHP is a garbage language that is responsible for more successful projects than any other server side scripting language. LOGIC.
It looked like an iPhone. It didn't work like an iPhone.
Bad chefs create negative value just as easily. Wasted ingredients. Bad product that looks ok and leads to unhappy customers. Etc.
Kind of ironic this wasn't a video post.
Your point that it's a "culture interview"? Or your point that it's probably not a verbatim transcript, which nobody argued? Or is it your point from way back that these are skills needed for a Director of Engineering, which apparently this wasn't an interview for?
As an aside, you might consider a tool similar to the docker tooling that can help manage multiple dokku hosts on different cloud platforms... People seem to be more inclined to pay for things like that.
You are drawing a conclusion and you're making it public to discredit this person.
Certificates are very expensive with most providers, $59 is a bargain depending on your needs. The sole reason I've been staying with StartSSL is I've SSL'd all my subdomains (it's awesome for Postgres, for example), and a wildcard certificate costs $300 to $500 at all other shops.

By the way, anyone knows a cheaper wildcard certificate provider?
Their founder are planning to use URBOCOP (as I understand) -https://room.eu.com/article/urbocop-saving-planet-earth
I made the argument clearly and directly in my comment. Coalition voting doesn't explain the behavior in the Stern videos.

I only referred to Moldbug for a description of one particular tribe (Trump's) - ignore that tribe if Moldbug causes you too much angst. I included other examples. Do you have any argument beyond highbrow dismissal and appeals to uncited authority?
There is definitely some evidence for this hypothesis. If you read about the restaurant industry you'll see a lot of comments from restauranteurs that seem to indicate that they think the salary ratios between FOH and BOH staff are off.

We've had a couple of restaurants in NYC go tip free, instead building the cost of service into the base cost of menu items. Unfortunately it appears that this can be a challenge because consumers aren't used to the higher cost menu items. Even though a $30 entre with no tip is roughly the same cost as a $25 entre where a tip is expected apparently consumer behavior changed significantly. Quite a few places have abandoned their gratuity free plans after a couple of months of testing.

There might be a bit of a prisoners dilemma problem here. If every restaurant eliminated tipping consumers would soon get used to new prices, but when only a few do they stick out as feeling more expensive (even if they really aren't).

We might currently live in a stable but non-optimal equilibria.
I'd rather they don't change it. I like my code to not stop working (python3, perl 6) when upgrading.

Also it's not a bug, more like a design oversight that doesn't cause any problem if you rtfm
There are healthcare companies that already use Flynn today, though not for HIPAA compliance specifically.

Compliance is a really interesting vertical. As we make progress on our security roadmap, Flynn will become a very compelling option for environments like HIPAA, PCI, etc. especially when combined with clouds like AWS that are also compliant.
Thankfully Rich Hickey & co wrote Clojure so we can program on a modern Lisp in the Java Virtual Machine and in the browser! (ClojureScript) (even the .NET CLR is supported)

[1] http://clojure.org

[2] http://clojurescript.org
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I see, that definitely makes it easier. The Heroku code (quite reasonably) assumes 100% connectivity.

One gotcha: if you are snapshotting images after building, your images are not truly reproducible. Heroku occasionally swap out the binaries. This surprised once or twice. This is one reason we wound up building all our own runtime binaries[1].

When you get to disconnected environments, look us up. We built a whole tooling, compile-extensions[2], to make it pretty close to seamless. We intercept URLs and transform their either into our URLs or local copies of the files.

(edit: actually, you could just switch to the Cloud Foundry buildpacks, since they have an identical detect/compile/release cycle)

I agree that buildpacks are not the super long term solution. One area being explored by engineers at Pivotal and IBM is to give a buildpack-like experience to OCI layers[3]. I'm sure they'd be happy to work with you on this as well.

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/binary-builder
[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/compile-extensions
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTT0przx4g&list=PLhuMOCWn4P...