skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a company that primarily has small businesses as customers, and I agree that they're a handful.

We average something like 2 hours per customer onboarding. However, the value of each customer is pretty high. Good customer relations is also fairly important as there's a lot of staff transfer within the industry. Satisfied customers basically do your marketing for you.
You might want to look at Cliodynamics: the Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution [1] which attempts to develop scientific theories of history and sociology. Peter Turchin, one of the authors of the study described in TFA, has a brief description of the journal in his blog [2].

[1] http://escholarship.org/uc/irows_cliodynamics

[2] http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamics/
the pricing models for bigquery and redshift are different enough that it is hard to compare on price. redshift is fixed cost (hourly per node like ec2) while on bigquery you pay proportional to data scanned during queries

if you do only occaisonal queries on mostly static data bigquery is probably fine but redshift is a fraction of the cost for more frequent use
Ha ha ha. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I am not sure what type of self-respecting guy would go to one of those things. The lady organizing it thinks your a "potential rapist in a pack"

Dudes, go grab a case of beers, go back to your frat and come up with the the next snap chat.

Men don't need safe spaces.
I like CBOR (http://cbor.io/). It's a standard (RFC-7049), it can encode 64-bit integers, IEEE floating point, text (UTF-8), binary data (anything non-UTF-8), booleans, null and undefined. You have arrays and maps (and maps can have any value as an index, not just strings) and you can semantically tag data as well. The RFC is one of the better RFCs I've read, covering all the details and plenty of encoding examples to test against.
At least in NYC AirBnB is indeed why it is much, much harder to rent an apartment at the low/middle end of the market. Couples who move in together don't free up an apt - they rent it on AirBnB. To say nothing of landlords who don't replace tenants in order to do the same.
> Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo was seen as the city that started the global pandemic. From there it spread to the Caribbean and the US around 1970.

I think that was the only new part of the story. The've known for a long time that HIV existed before patient zero and that it was estimated to have crossed to humans around 1900.
Don't those computers cost a lot? Like $10k per blade? Granted it's probably amortized but still...

On the other hand the Redshift cluster doesn't run itself, despite what Amazon says. You still need at least a part time DBA guy.
yes, every resume counselor also says that

reality: get the equity, get out, get an exit

the incongruences in your resume won't matter, the number of vacation days you took compared to someone else won't matter, the number of hours you stayed late won't matter

solve the inefficiencies in the hiring process if it bothers you
Wait, so it creates a privileged session before verifying the password? That's your problem right there. A crash in the JSON processor (or anywhere else) is a minor blip compared to this godzilla bug of granting access before it's been earned.
It's interesting that Asimov offered advice that suggests writing without concern for whether everything fit together; just getting the first draft out was the goal. This somewhat conflicts with Asimov's own style of writing (which he talked about in at least one of his three memoirs, as well as other places), which was effectively to write the final draft the first time. He was not prone to heavy editing after writing, and was also not prone to editing while writing. So, he was basically just writing and handing it off to his editor/publisher (and I think it's also been established that his editors also had a soft touch with his work).

So, maybe he was just being kind enough to not hold everyone to his own standards. And, maybe he developed his skill for writing without a net through tremendous amounts of practice (more practice than almost every other human who ever lived...he's among the most prolific book authors the world has seen).

Anyway, I read everything about Asimov I come across. But, this is kinda blogspammy. Asimov's own memoirs are worth a read. I have not read Janet Asimov's books about Asimov, yet, but surely will eventually.

Also, this site breaks the back button for me in Firefox. That's gross, and I literally hate every person who's ever intentionally broken basic browser functionality for profit, ego, or whatever reason they thought made it OK.
Andrew I think you're too optimistic about spectacles given no one has even proven it's a viable market, let alone that Snapchat will have a successful implementation.

What's your best guess of how many pair will sell through to actual customers?
The daemon needs superuser privileges to do its business, but your containers are not running as root. That lives behind the --privileged option and has ample guidance in the documentation against using it.
Why do bugs exist?
Do the business people realize they are insisting on a hellish dev environment that programmers would only put up with if they had no other options?
Maybe it's the double overlay that requests it. You close the first one, then there it is again, then you close that one, and bam there it is once more within the content. However I am sure it is working somehow.
It sounds like the IPO is employee retention driven.
No, young people will not stand in line to buy or wear those glasses. Snap chat is very popular. However, the current user base will outgrow it and those younger will have something else. Better get that 4B while they can. It doesn't have the roots or staying power of a Facebook or Twitter (I know Twitter isn't making money).
We're not dealing with some podunk law firm client-attorney confidentiality policy. We're talking about national security secrets. "Not understanding the situation" or being "lax in dealing with classified information", as you say, is criminal gross negligence. I don't think you realize how easy it is to have your security clearance revoked. We do not, and should not, play word games with this sort of thing.

"To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now." - FBI Director James Comey
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-b...
The discussion above concerns why JSON isn't a good choice for configuration files. That's exactly because configuration files are not human readable binary files.
Just curious: Which issue(s) are you talking about?
They're flagrantly violating Google's rules. That's their choice, but the penalty is deindexing. Additionally, HN has a rule against posting links to sites that use paywalls without workarounds.
The fairy ad business model.

Don't know about Facebook (never been) but I keep hearing about this fabled Google Ad business and honestly, not only I can't recall the last time I even noticed one, needless to say have never even clicked on one. Some interested party wants to keep these surveillance cum social networks afloat and the fairy ad business model and overblown evaluations and VC cash is the front for funding them.
How long do you have to drive a Honda Civic before it's free?
We use BigQuery after trying all other options including running our own VMs with database software, 3rd party data vendors and the big managed cloud services.

BigQuery's no-ops model makes a huge difference. It saves a lot of effort when all you have to do is just load up your data and run queries, no other cluster starting, sizing, tweaking or maintenance necessary.

It has real-time streaming input, nested/repeated records, powerful RegEx support and UDFs so you can run some really complex queries that you can't do with traditional SQL. It also has the cheapest storage at $0.01/gb after 90 days. They even have DML statements in beta now to support update/delete statements.

If you have lots of data to store (TBs to PBs), which can archived by time or other dimension as it gets older, but also needs to be available at any time, and have a decent amount of queries or but also need to run massive scans, and don't need sub-second response times, and want really complex query logic, BQ wins.
You don't need the car to be "free" though. If you were going to buy a Civic in any case, you were going to get the intrinsic value of getting around in a decent car. Now you're getting the same thing and in addition, a little spare change. If the numbers that person quoted are correct, it's a strictly better deal.
Q. Price $120. Can we use this as a sample? (Yes: -$3)

A. Happy to pay the full price!

--

Q. Price $117. Can we use this as a sample? (No: +$3)

A. No fucking way I'm paying $3 NOT appear in your gallery of samples!
No, no they don't. The will plug their ears rather than try and fix the dead sea effect:

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
It's actually a very Apple strategy - discount the old iPhone, the fans realize a new one is in the pipeline but nothing's announced, and then the new one is finally released.
First of all I want to say that this regulation, like most regulations of these nature, will do very little if anything to combat the affordable housing crisis in NYC. There's a severe non-luxury housing shortage. The solution is to build more non-luxury housing.

Regarding the regulation, it's well-meaning but poorly designed, broadly punishing anyone who wants to sublet their whole apartment for <30 days. I subletted my room multiple times at my last NYC apartment while I was on vacation. It was nice to make side income on a room that would've been vacant anyways, while allowing tourists (one of which became a good friend of mine) to visit NYC without paying the outrageous hotel prices here (yesterday I was looking for a hotel for the same night, the cheapest I could find would've cost $350, most were going for $450+).

I get it, we want to punish landlords who turn apartments into illegal hotels. Then why don't we simply target landlords renting out apartments that aren't their primary residences instead of painting broad strokes and making it illegal for me to make some extra income off of my vacant room while I'm on vacation, or sublet a place for 10 days while I look for a more permanent accomodation? These regulations are lazy and inefficient, causing unnecessary negative distortions to the market.

But before I come off as sounding really pro AirBnB, AirBnB has absolutely terrible customer service and a pretty steep fee (6-12% for the guest, 3% for the host), and thus I'm really hoping a competitor will step in to break this monopoly and force them to get their act together.

A couple months ago after my lease ended I decided to try living on AirBnB full-time, switching apartments every month. It worked out for the first two stays, but three days ago I ended up in a disgusting apartment with no internet connection and a different room that I had booked for 30 days.

Immediately I contacted AirBnB, and since then I've wasted an extraordinary amount of time over the phone/email with them trying to get them to simply cancel my reservation and refund me for the time I won't be staying there. After over 24 hours of this, they closed my case and offered me a $100 refund, telling me I'd need to accept this measly offer within 24-hours or get nothing (I paid over $1,600 for the reservation). Had to keep calling and eventually was able to escalate it to a supervisor, but right now three days after my initial contact with AirBnB, the reservation has been cancelled but there's still no word regarding any refund.

TLDR: This regulation is too broad and not targeted enough, but AirBnB has terrible customer service so it's hard for me to feel sorry for them and I wouldn't recommend them for long-term stays.
The author has barely anything to say himself about this study. Instead, he hides behind the Estonian government's self-serving response, which seems to depend on a heavy dose of wishful thinking. His proclivity towards avoiding the difficult questions suggests to me that he is incapable of considering the serious concerns raised by this report with adequate rigor and objectivity.
Why? If they were doing there jobs satisfactorily until now then why would you fire them for lying on their resume?
This worked for nomadic steppe people effectively from the domestication of the horse to the invention of gunpowder.
Are they using 2.5gb drives? I know they make very small spinning drives now for custom gear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_500
Those cities would own all the fiber, maintain it as part of the city budget, and lease it out to Google and other telecoms. That's the context here.
How to Get 3D Effect Subtitles After Shrinking 3D BD 50 to BD 25
Livecoding becoming LiveEdu
A funny conversation with a design client
Have you worked at Google? There's a very popular internal comic much like that...
I believe that is the point. Choose the right serialization strategy to fit the job. Most projects default to JSON regardless of how suitable. At some scale that should be revisited since the human-readable / performance trade-off equation can change.
I'm actually thinking of doing this starting this weekend (mostly for fun). Any tips you care to share?
That's not how business works. Unless you want transitory success.
The WebXPRT test even seems to have a margin of error and Chrome and FF are in each others range.

I would like to see what they did to ensure a clean system state and whether they repeated the tests and averaged the results or just showed the first one.
Yeah, and all queries. Good stuff. It'd be nice to have some kind of instructions to reproduce, though. And some explanation on the technology behind it. For example, do you guys scale indexed search or is it just partitioned without indexing?
This means their rent is too low, right? If they can make money by being a middleman, it means people are willing to pay more than what the landlord priced the apartment at. (I bet in NYC the brokers are to blame for this; they make the cost of moving very high.)
I hope you only ever hire fresh graduates and not people with experience. Otherwise you're stealing someones trade secrets.
25-35 billion dollar valuation, and Facebook started at a 100 billion and is now at 373 billion.

Is there revenue/profit going to blow up? I have no idea but the thought that it could become the next Facebook will probably cause the IPO to pop.

I would probably wait for some more concrete data before you invest a lot of money on it as I can see it being equally likely that it will become the next Facebook or the next Twitter.
Yes - there is a market. Legitimate companies that make things you use and ride in every day.
>I've been consistently impressed with their technological prowess

Like what, the glasses or the apps? Would be interested to learn what they've done so well with on the software side.

I attribute their success to product design and knowing their market, but hadn't really thought of it as technical acumen.
My initial impression upon seeing the spectacles was that they had two cameras. They don't, but the impression points to a key design choice that was, IMHO, fatally absent from Google glass: attempted symmetry.

I think that people will be more likely to wear the spectacles for this reason--they can actually pass for a pair of somewhat ostentatious sunglasses to an unknowing observer because of their near-symmetry, vs. Google glass, the mere shape of which screamed "BORG!"
Because the lasting effects of unchecked tourism are never positive.
I assume people intent on murder are happy enough to take out someone blocking their path. I've never lived in a doorman building, but I'm pretty sure they don't wear bullet proof vests and carry guns.

The reason most people aren't murdered is because nobody wants to murder them.
I will shed light on the fact that at one point over 70% of my team were extremely bright and talented Asians and South Indians.
It's amazing to me how Wikipedia ends up being a reasonably good website with such a cancerous community behind it.
They're famous for underpaying and overworking, which I supposed could affect hiring, but yeah, maybe the subtlety is that employees were carrot-and-stick'ed with promises of IPO and now word has got around about work conditions there. Still, it's usually because VCs want their payday.
The problem is that there is no single package manager that covers every platform. If you are writing an inherently portable library in node.js, as an author, are you supposed to also provide packages for RPM, dpkg, pacman, brew etc? Or do you expect distros to package every tiny thing?

So in practice there is a niche that npm covers, that wouldn't be filled if we removed it.

On the question of whether the system package manager should wrap npm - the reason why you want to do so is because it lets npm dependency resolution work regardless of how packages are installed. If the system package manager just does its own thing, then next time you do need to npm install a package (because it's a relatively obscure package that's not in your distro), you don't want it to install copies (or worse, yet overwrite) all the dependencies that you've already installed by other means.
That's correct I had a twist of the tongue between the US/Global term and the local British speak.

White Goods are called that because they tended to have a white finish usually white formica, small appliances are sometimes still called "brown goods" because early electronics like radio's TV's etc either used wood or bakelite and had commonly a brown(ish) finish.
In NYC buildings without a doorman have locked outer doors were people are buzzed in once they have spoken to the person they want to visit over the intercom.
A quick check on "this" and "upon thus" searches suggests that Google's search results depth may not be sufficient to measure the size. I was seeing ~400-500 results for each going back to 2012, on an Oct 26 - Oct 25 year (just to get most current data).
Like goatsi said below, it makes it much harder to duplicate than a metal key, and tracks the times and fob IDs of everyone using it to get in the building. Instead of being able to run to Home Depot and get a key copy for $3 that you can hand out to whomever you're lending the apartment to, you'd need to copy your fob or lend them yours.

This makes it fairly trivial to lock a single fob out, and there are timestamps that can be corroborated with the camera in the building lobby, to see who was using the fob to get into the building.

Of course, cursory Googling when they were handed out shows that it's not that difficult to clone the model of key they handed out, but it's still a big 'win' over everyone having the same key.
I've been running Ubuntu virtualized in Windows 10 on my Surface Book (VirtualBox) and it's a great way to get around driver issues - everything works great on W10 and it just gets passed through to the VM.
Do you mind shooting me an email (in profile) with questions you would like to see answered? I'll try to do that in a followup post.
I'm right way more than half the time. How do I get rich predicting $newTech will fail?
It's really tough. Even basic problems are extra painful because of the limited tooling on GitHub.

One major problem that is still ongoing is code review. How we act on our own mandatory code review requirements as well as make sure we are responding to community issues and PRs.

Another big issue was the number of repos and lack of good centralized views. We've sort of simplified this by moving things into monorepos (e.g. All our plugins are going into a single repo).

The major missing piece for us on GitHub is being able to assign to teams vs just mentioning, and automating tools to guarantee those assignments exist.

The last bit is private discussions (e.g. Stop our competitors from stealing all of our ideas). We keep all of those big product design concerns in Dropbox Paper until we begin implementation. That's not only for keeping them secret but also because it's just easier to collaborate.

Also curious to learn more about your custom service and choice. Wanna drop me an email? david at sentry's domain.
They have made buckets of dough at the height of American surveillance activity and now they want to cash out while the getting is good.
I'd say it's perhaps the former, since he's a little dickhead whose tenure was denied based on his attitude, and in part for harassing his colleagues. The other part is his research output, which is not that great either: much of the work he had was done at Harvard, and his work at Buffalo isn't that great.
I understand people can be and are distractions but from my background I believe you should be able to perform your tasks regardless. While a legitimate issue, this sounds like searching for excuses. You perform in the environment you are in. Everyone else is suffering the same distractions.
PostgreSQL Primary Key Type Analysis
TBH. I find package.json files to be much much much much nicer files than configure.sh or settings.txt files, even a configure.py.

And if that isn't the case for you, not like you don't have the choice.
Coming clean on why my investors pushed me out of my company
$200MM rev is crumbs when you're taking billions. I don't think this provides a good example of how it can work.
Together they form spam voltron.
Presenter Club is written in React/Redux:

https://gitlab.com/presenter.club/presenter.club/tree/master...

https://www.presenter.club/
I had to migrate my archived articles off Readability prior to the OEL at the end of September. I'd only used the service for a couple of years, and hit about a 5% bitrot rate, this on fairly significant articles.

One of the more curious cases was CSIRO (Australia's national science and research organisation) which seems to have not only deliberately purged a fair amount of data (Graham Turner's work specifically), but has a robots.txt in place which blocks archival by TIA. That strikes me as ... downright curious.
Thanks. Would you happen to know where these firms source the human labor from?
I recently started playing WoW again. Don't tell anyone!
The autoignition temperature of manual cars is much higher than Fahrenheit 451
Vivaldi with vertical tabs work well for this too, coupled with the keyboard shortcut to bring up a fuzzy tab selector. It's pretty awesome. Plus you get tab cycling in recently used order - the only sane option.
Well, I for one encourage more rkt support in Nomad, it's very awesome!