skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel there were some decent bits to this biographical article, but there are some huge swaths of text that just read as intellectualized tripe by someone that thinks they know the person through the media choices of his career.

Tom Hanks has been a very private person regarding his personal life and one can only take limited queues from those that do know him. To do much more than that is to make speculation that may be interesting, but not at all real.

I'm reminded of one of the scenes from the last episode of Babylon 5 the series, where they're talking about Sheridan a hundred or so years later. And this is a guy that's still alive.

Also, what's wrong with having a boomer dad vibe. A generation of can-do men who learned to fix what needed to be fixed themselves far more than hiring it out. We're a generation of men who wouldn't even try to change our own oil, let alone a broken electric outlet or fixture ourselves. There are a lot of things that can be interesting, informative and even funny (when you don't have a stick wedged up your rear).

Yeah, I'm a middle aged white guy... no I'm not a Trump supporter, and I didn't exactly grow up middle or upper class. I'm not even sure where I'm going with this all, it's just the tone of the article itself pissed me off.
> I built and sold tech businesses in the UK, US and Brazil.

It's always intriguing when people write that without mentioning the names of any businesses.
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The asphalt shingles are very popular in the USA, which is what I assumed their first market would be, since contractors apparently have to be trained in their installation.
If they can't get it to drive in the US, I doubt it'll be able to navigate most big cities in Asia. (Maybe a few of those ghost ones.)

I think what's attractive about China may not be its lax regulatory environment with regard to transportation, but rather in regard to investment.
An experimentalism promises results while a theorist promises commentary. In terms of funding, typically a large sum is awarded for equipment and students, and the 1M is never given to theorists.
Setting Up Nginx as a Load Balancer
Does it count blank comments? e.g. https://github.com/minoca/os/blob/master/kernel/io/iobase.c#...
Research has demonstrated that people who view their craft as a calling, take pride in it and view it as an important duty in society (even if it is menial) are happier and healthier. I remember watching an interview with a migrant farm worker who took pride in the speed and quality of his berry picking, and the fact that he could pick with two hands simultaneously. That was such an inspiring example for me.

The time involved is basically the same for laborer, craftsman and artist; they differ only in quality of and intention behind the effort. The laborer could be a craftsman or an artist by changing his perspective and approach to his work. From this perspective, the laborer is lesser because he does not fully apply himself, not as a result of his profession.
Sure. My earlier point:

> A longstanding policy doesn't make it a good one.

If this was a disclosure by the books, there would've been broader, less overtly promotional mitigations discussed.

Project zero would be better off reformulating its disclosure policy here if credibility is what they're going for. Sometimes it's healthier to admit being wrong.
The only case where the author "sees" gender bias (it's in the outsiders) is completely destroyed by the error bars that make the numbers the same both for men and woman.
It would be easy to say that Nitrous' issues were due to technology or the market not being excited. But they went through 3 different CEOs and did not advance / innovate for a number of years after raising a bunch of money.

The market shifted on them and they didn't adapt to that. I think that in their case, they had other issues beyond technology that got in their way.

They were way way ahead of Codenvy and Che, and in many ways Cloud9IDE 4 years ago when all of us raised our money. And they just didn't adapt.

By all rights, my company, Codenvy should have been out of business because of Nitrous. They had a good 2 year advantage on us with Docker workspace management. They had top top tier investors with seemingly endless pockets and a native understanding of how to sell into the enterprise or with SaaS. Essentially, they had a stacked deck. If they had innovated or open sourced their IP it into the right community two years ago, we would have had no oxygen to pursue our Eclipse Che strategy.

That would have turned us into a #3 or even worse a #4 or #5 vendor. That would have cut off additional capital, not a great growth strategy, and death would have been likely.

At this point we are a #1 or #2 vendor, and likely the #1 vendor by revenues given the number of enterprises we have with onpremises systems.

I don't know what we would have done if Nitrous had moved differently 3 years ago, but for a number of years I obsessed about them as a competitor, refreshing their home page every day.
> It is backed by Apache Kafka and designed primarily for ease of use.

That's a bold claim.
The "moving parts" FUD in regards to ICE is largely unwarranted in a reasonably modern (i.e. made in this century) car. Use good synthetic oil and you'll likely never have a problem with moving parts in the engine. Likewise transmission. If the engine has a timing belt, preventative maintenance on that every 100K miles or so. Compare to battery pack replacement.

ICE engines probably do need fluid changes more than EVs. However that's not a huge expense all things considered. If you give them at least moderate care, ICE engines are very reliable.
Why dont you add a captcha?
Sorry to hear this. I always thought Nitrous had a pretty nice platform compared to other cloud IDEs and Peter is a great guy that was building some cool stuff. Wishing the folks at Nitrous all the best in whatever comes next.
but that hardly makes it an unusual proposition - tmo is the 3rd largest network.
Yes. I've used it in graphic design when calculating ratios especially. I've used it when converting time tables for payroll at a previous job. I've used it in carpentry. That gets into geometry, but it's still algebra.
But how often do you cloc the BSD codebase?

I do clocs maybe once a week. So waiting for 2 minutes isn't really a huge issue here. (Well, it's less than 2 minutes for my code bases).

Smells like premature optimization ;)
At my company, every server has its own internal load balancer (previously haproxy, now nginx). While definitely possible, I don't think sharing a single file across hundreds of boxes is a "best practice".

That said, this certainly would work for companies with a ton of money to burn (nginx+ licenses aren't cheap) or who are at smaller scales. If it works, ship it!
But there's a neutral General American which a majority(?) of Americans speak, with very minor variations. Most accents that deviate strongly from it are slowly dying out.

This is in stark contrast to the UK, or just England, where you have an incredible amount of linguistic diversity in a very small geographical area. RP is theoretically "standard", but in reality it's a niche upper class thing.
This is totally true as well.
If you're going from pretty much any major city to ski areas, mountain hiking, kayaking/canoeing, etc. you can easily be looking at a couple hundred miles or more. You may not do that but it's a very common weekend activity for many people in urban areas.
As an ex-manager at a very large gaming company, I assure you, your manager doesn't typically make twice what you do unless you're at the very highest levels (the CTO is, of course, going to make quite a bit more than a mid-level engineering manager, esp. if they've gotten a lot of stock and have been around a while) or at a company with some seriously skewed engineering pay grades.

I regularly managed people that made 20-30% more than I did. That was usually corrected within a raise-cycle or two, but it was by no means unusual. I don't think I ever had a direct report that was paid less than 75% of what I got, let alone 50%.
Hi I want to point out that a while back "Barack Obama" created a github account.. press releases went out "Obama learns to code" ... but then the github account went down and was replaced by a similarly named one like presidentobama_bot or something like that. Sorry I don't remember the exact string but it was odd.
Thank you! I'm working for a computer company in Kaohsiung. There are no Mandarin classes outside my working hours. I'm doing what I can with private tutoring and self-study, but it's going to take decades before I can read basic signs or have a conversation. I thought about making an app like yours, but also got quite intimidated by the scale.

Is there some way to see your character composition database? Lots of words that look like 包 sound like "bao" or "pao", but I haven't yet seen any patterns in the few characters I've actually learned.
OP, please add the year to your title.
>A thoughtless edict in favor of some bullshit enterprise definition of “security” that disenfranchises or inconveniences students every time they try to pay their tuition or view their grades or register for classes is unacceptable. It doesn’t matter what percentage of students it inconveniences unfairly — Multi-Factor Authentication should be optional, like it is everywhere else.

I disagree here. A university's cloud is a resource with different security requirements from "everywhere else". Even as a student, your login probably grants access to things like a directory of every student and faculty member, selectively shared files on GDrive or OneDrive, access to university networks through VPN, and an institutional email address that can be abused to obtain other privileged information. A university is completely justified in making security choices for the student in order to protect other students, faculty, and staff.

Of course, they ought to get it right, and there seem to be valid concerns about Duo.
Tech Billionaire Backing Trump Suggests Silicon Valley Is Out of Touch
I almost always refuel at a gas station that I'm driving right past anyway, so it's a 5 minute delay not any extra distance.

Can your EV fully recharge in 5 minutes? No? Then I think we call it at least a draw in terms of saving time.
"Microsoft is assuredly fixing this into overtime"

Citation needed.
A couple years ago when I was first learning to code all I could afford was a cheap chromebook and nitrous enabled me to learn and grow as an engineer with very little barrier of entry.

I am sad they're shutting down, but more for sentimental reasons, I haven't used nitrous in over a year and once they dropped their freemium version I couldn't convince myself to come up with the cash to use them.
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Why would that be a problem ? The open web needs standards that are well defined and used by everyone, and WebAssembly seems to bring just that with the simultaneous announcements by several browser vendors. PNG is binary too and it's arguably one of the assets of the open web.
Musk recently posted to Twitter about using dedicated heating elements in the tiles for this purpose: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/792218248917811204
We have four, one of my neighbors has at least six (family of three), another about four or five. The guy across the street probably has at least four.

Pretty much all the families I've known have at least two cars.
The Volt would beat the Tesla there too, since it has unlimited range.
Never underestimate the degree to which enterprise IT departments view change as something to be feared. I once heard someone say that they wanted to delay Chrome updates until their security team could review them — said review process basically being waiting in a backlog for weeks and then someone searches for CVEs posted on that version.
That would drive me out of corporate life in a hurry, especially the gatekeeper part.

It was a different kind of relationship. My job comes with a fair amount of autonomy and authority. I'm trusted to communicate with people directly, and consider that to be a vital part of how I do my job.

And the department is "matrix" organized, so there's a lot of cross communication.

Anyway, the rank inversion was temporary, and was just a matter of having different numerical rankings for "technical track" and "management track" employees.
I tried an address in Cave Creek AZ.

2000 hours of usable sunlight a year.

4664 sq ft available for panels.

Total 20 year savings: $1,000.

Seems... underwhelming.

Oh, this is for a lease.

$2,000 if you have to borrow to install the panels. Still... $100/yr?

The only worthwhile benefit is you can afford to pay $21,000 out of pocket.
http://insideevs.com/insight-toyota-tesla-partnership-marred...

Toyota’s rejection of Tesla’s proprietary regenerative braking system, as it enabled the system upon release of the accelerator which Toyota felt was too abrupt and disconcerting for their customers. Any adjustment meant opening up and sharing either Tesla or Toyota’s “code” – of which neither was willing to do
Apple is so deeply in Gruber he can barely say anything that would off be Apple. Very old - his site would be dead if Apple didn't give him the occasional morsel of inside knowledge. Move along.
> the burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove you do have the key to it (and therefore that it is encrypted data).

If they know that you have the key, they could simply confiscate it from you to decrypt it. But how would you even prove or disprove that someone has the key?

If they arrest someone with a laptop encrypted with ransomware, will they force this person to pay? Let's say he pays or the police and gov authorities pay and the outcome would be that it's not decrypted, would it prove that this person encrypted it themselves or could it be that ransomware decryption didn't work. Does it really matter if we would be jailing potentially innocent person, I mean the terrorists and pedophiles are rampant right!?
It's 3 years of security updates for Pixel and Nexus phones.
Wow. Any details you want to share?
I'm investigating Consul right now along with HAProxy and consul-templates for a similar use case. One takeaway from this article seems to be that Consul isn't quite ready for prime time. The concluding message feels like Consul works great...except when it doesn't so don't rely on it too heavily or you'll be sorry. Did anyone else get that after reading the post?
Fascinating. The growth of architecture containerization will help facilitate this transition away from high latency centrally-located services. At a high level, this means users on a particular continent will see their continent's 'shard' of data much more quickly than off-continent shards. I wonder if we'll start to see prioritization of locally-available data in algorithmic content aggregators (Facebook, Reddit, G+) because of this.

Also wonder if different regions will impose restrictions on building these duplication services in hopes of promoting growth of their own content-producing industries.
I mean, China is already doing this with their firewall. Maybe we'll see the WTO grow to prevent this kind of manipulation.

With the proliferation of PAAS providers (Firebase, for example) I wonder if there will be transparent ways to proactively structure access to data to prioritize latency.
To be fair, more like a project manager, and a damn good one. He could keep things straight in complex projects, and was deft with politics, but without sacrificing his integrity or engineering cred.
> Maybe in a couple months we are going to hear about the imminent release of the Comma Two in Not-America. I seriously doubt they've gone home. There are tons of places where they could starting selling right NOW.

Then I'm very thankful for the NHTSA we have in America. I don't want a bunch of half-ass, poorly-engineered self-driving cars on our roads. I use those roads, and so do my family members.

While I'm looking forward to self-driving cars taking over, I don't want the Comma One in the field if they can't handle the most basic safety inquiries.
What’s in a symbol? Assignment revisited
Everyone here is talking about what is going to happen if Hillary is elected.

Is @realDonaldTrump really going to give up tweeting from his account if elected? I'd be surprised.
From a consumer perspective, what's wrong with c9.io being purchased by Amazon? Shouldn't that mean more stability and an acceptance by enterprise of cloud coding?
I presume "the compiler" you're speaking of is some version of MSVC?

I only ask because while this article is about MSVC's pgo, other compilers also have pgo and lto, and may not have the same issues wrt optimizing across compilation units with lto enabled.
That's the part I thought was completely out to lunch.

The people who really drone endlessly about "innovation" are the finance section people.

The pro and dev customers who are complaining now - ie: the ones who cheered for "no new features" back when 10.6 was announced - generally want better computers, and they generally focus on speed and stability.
It takes quite a bit of developer effort to write good desktop apps, especially if you want to make them cross-platform as well.

Developers are expensive, and getting pricier. CPU cycles get cheaper every year. Spending more cycles in order to spend fewer developer hours is better from the perspective of rational allocation of resources.
GBPUSD: Risk Remains Higher on Corrective Pressure
> The part you conveniently omitted was the most important part in that sentence.

Speaking grammatically, that's the least important part of the sentence. Quoting my reply to the same point elsewhere,

> Add on top of that the trivialization of "Windows 10" as the noun in a second-order preposition of place as well as the reference to Chrome as the primary subject of the sentence, and even basic analysis of the sentence in question shows a bias.

A proper non-promotional security disclosure would've included multiple mitigating strategies, even if they're user actions such as browsing only trusted sites until a patch is released. Even if that sentence was worded differently ("Browsers which block win32k.sys system calls using the Win32k lockdown mitigation on Windows 10, such as Chrome, prevent exploitation of this sandbox escape vulnerability."), I would've given them a partial pass.
SUSE does too. As far as I'm aware, most stable distributions use a kABI checker. This is the same reason that Android doesn't have many kernel updates -- because proprietary driver authors don't feel like keeping up to date with kABI changes.
The NeXT had such a clean aesthetic, even on the original B&W displays that were limited to just four shades of grey. I still use the house icon from the later color systems on my Linux desktop.
Amtrak is OK if you have +/- 48 hours flexibility on arrival times to account for random breakdowns and accidents. I tried them once, never again.
Rare Color Photographs from the Trenches of World War I
First gen of Intel Mac's had 2GB limit (even though the chipset could address 3 or 4 GB), this got fixed later.
My bet it that revision 2 in 6-12 months with whatever next Intel CPU generation will take 32GB with no issues.
You really shouldn't need more than a handful of load balancers (may one or two in a few different availability zones for HA).

You can even pay Amazon and NGINX hourly using the NGINX Plus AMI[1].

[1] - https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A04GAG4/
gcc has had PGO and LTO for some time now, I know Firefox uses it. I'm not sure if Chrome does, but I'd be a bit surprised if they didn't
The question was about "the quality of general life for the average person in the West". I looked through most of the links and I don't think they address the topic.

Income inequality for example measures relative equality, not absolute "how well off" someone is. If for the sake of argument an alien benefactor made everyone in on the planet 100x richer in the sense of material wealth, there'd still be the same levels of wealth inequality as today. The articles about job quality and job polarization also do not address how well off people are in an absolute sense.
> Deis and Convox are both trying but not really "hitting it".

Can you elaborate on this? Any feedback on how we "missed the mark" is always helpful.

(I am an engineer working @ Deis)
I guess it would mean that the accused would go to prison either way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12749885
There was a WSJ article awhile back that theil authored about Trump. His basic argument is that it's a vote against a political establishment that can't accomplish anything. I was as confused as you are about the seeming inconsistencies.
One fatality in 200 million miles of driving reflects a cavalier attitude to safety? It's not like the guy who died in that accident wasn't familiar with autopilot's reccommended usage, he read the manual, Tesla made it pretty clear you still gotta watch the road while it's engaged. I mean, if you're into misusing cars, any of them will allow you to accelerate into a brick wall if that's your inclination.

I'm not sure what Falcon wing doors has to do with any of this.
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Maybe for a specialty tire, but I'm guessing that is pretty rare. My pilot is in at $650(fouth set @ 60k each. Roughly a penny a mile vs 15 for the whole car.)
From 2003 there's been a lot of progress.. since around 2009 not much in raw per-core performance in CPUs, but a lot of effort around reducing power draw. GPUs are significantly faster today. The real slowdown started around 2009, but there has still been progress.

Also, "prettier" has a cost... it takes a lot of memory to pump that much data to a screen at a usable rate. Hell, even a modern powerhouse with a top of the line video card still cant play modern games at 4k with higher quality settings at a playable framerate, so there's room to grow.

Also, prettier has value, as does some of the interactive pieces that we tend to take advantage of. It isn't like things have stood still. Also, most of the work is about delivering overall value, not optimal performance, so there is still room... but not on very old hardware that doesn't have a lot of support.

Yeah, there's a few powerpc users, but how many of them are contributing to upkeep... not many would be my guess, and maintaining testing labs is another issue entirely. I'd much rather get a great ootb experience on an under 5yo macbook in a current linux distro than hardware that is much older.
Finally, time to create a programming language that run on top of wasm.
One for official business, one for bringing the bantz and keeping the feud with Rosie going.
"network-driven hypervisor" is what we have already with modern browsers. WebSockets, WebWorkers, WebRTC ... all that.

Personally I see WASM as a potential way to speed up technology evolution and acceptance.

Like from CSS 1.0 era authors were struggling with flexible layouts on HTML pages. In 2008 work on flexbox module had started in CSS workgroup at W3C. And at 2015 we've finally got something. 7 years and very far from ideal at the end to be honest. If CSS would have an open architecture and with something like WASM in place + an ability to hook up that almost native code in rendering tree creation and composition process ... We would have significantly better results and significantly faster.

That's just an example. May be that's too optimistic of course. In any case if web browser, that we all rely upon, would be an open platform/technology it will be better for all of us. Can WASM be the way to that? I wish to hope.
After hearing people complain about the new Macbook limit on 16gb RAM, I went to check out what the Surface Book offers -- which is, also, a max of 16gb RAM.