skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I didn't want to give up nicotine. I just wanted to give up cigarettes.

So that's what I did. I took my carton money for the month and invested in a proper setup after doing my research. I spent time trying different juices until I found one I could use all day, every day.

That was 2 years ago. Everyone around me still smokes, but I've never even been tempted to go back. I smoked for 10 years as well.
> Because if I have a machine pegging 90% CPU, I totally want an i/o heavy job running on that machine, because interrupts are, like, imaginary, man. Yeah, i'm sure the machine's utilization goes up... right up to triple-digit load.

They're clearly tracking their own latency and reliability and comparing it to their availability goals - there's numbers right in the article, so I would think they would notice this and handle it somehow.

So I guess either they're lying in the presentation, or your sarcasm is targeted towards a problem you conjured up on you end for your personal satisfaction.
SOMEONE is learning how to take down the internet
Not so pure, see [1] and [2] about glyphosate contamination of some brands.

Not really a well researched article, the research linked below is well known in Europe and was discussed in every major news outlet six months ago.

Edit: If you disagree, reply, don't just downvote.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-beer-idUSKCN0VY222

[2] http://sustainablepulse.com/2016/02/25/german-beer-industry-...
> India is now part of MCTR (Missile Control Technology Regime) that limits ICBM development. So that's no longer a valid concern.

That's regime sounds like a great intent, but the simple fact is that taking a satellite launching rocket, replacing the satellite with a nuke, and aiming it back at the ground somewhere is trivial.
No, but it includes advertising.
True that the more America stays out of it, the freer hand Iran and Russia have to meddle to their heart's contents. Our only options are to either essentially let them take over the region, or try to meddle better than they do.
This is awesome! You automatically get sign in with Google and (in the future) other providers!
Then don't say I'm "required" when I've got all of 5 seconds of valuable input. Just fucking shoot me a slack message and ask a question.
If you are in silicon valley you can sample from everyone that took a seed round or everyone that quit their job to work full-time on a startup.

In my sample of people I know or know of, the people who took risks created more wealth.
> "even worse than LA"

people in the bay area loves chiding LA like this.

but you are quickly starting to understand first hand how exactly LA came to be the way it is. it was/is a mixture of extremely powerful political, economic, and social forces exerted over generations.

unfortunately SF/the bay is doing nothing to fix it -- at long last LA is building new housing, mixed-used real estate, and new light rail and other public transit very aggressively.

it will probably take the bay area another 2-3 decades to overcome the resistance, just like LA.
Someday, you'll be whisked through the Bay area and the Valley on maglevs traveling between 70-200 mph.
Unfortunately, that future is running a little late.

The good news is that China is working on it:

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2016-11/01/content_39610565...
Right, but I'm curious what exactly the issue was (on a technical level), and how you've mitigated it. This might be useful knowledge for other people building similar things, to avoid making the same mistakes :)
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99.9% of our requests are handled by the CDN. The CDN doesn't cache 404s, so 404s are handled by our origin servers, which are much fewer in number and therefore quite easy to overwhelm.

You're right that our handling of 404s was naive, and that's definitely something we'll be improving as a result of what we've learned from this incident.
SpaceX May Lose Inmarsat Launch Order
If company can survive without one of the developers being out for a couple of days, there must be something very wrong with the company. What happens when you get sick, and you don't work for a week/month?

One idea I like on this topic (can't remember where I seen it) is that each week randomly one of the employee is given a week off, and company has to work around it. Similar to how Netflix (I think if my memory is not mistaken) test their infrastructure by randomly killing servers to see if the system can fix itself up.

Stand your ground, or they will trample through you until you burn out and quit (or get fired).
Our application connects to a device that has very low tolerance for electrical interference, which means that the computer it is connected to must be on battery power. If we detect that the power supply is connected we disable the application. Also, we disable the application when the power is low, so the computer does not shut down in the middle of a session. Of course if anything happens to the API it is not that hard to bring it back via a native Electron plugin, I would just prefer not to have to do it.
"since men entering the teaching profession also show the exact same data"

This is really interesting, could you provide a citation?
I don't blame them. They want to get paid well, and having experience with 'stuff that hasn't even been invented yet' makes them look innovative. And, generally, looking innovative means a big pay increase.

What's funny to me is that I've had a track record of leading and building core parts of successful applications used by millions of people. Yet, when I go to interviews, often they don't seem to care about my successes. And, to them, my methods look ancient. And, they express disbelief when I ask for $200k (a paltry sum compared to how much time and money that they'll spend).
Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda sells Russian takeout business to Mail.Ru for $100M
Amazon Linux distro released to public
Of course they have e-cig brands; they're the disgusting gas station brands that will be the only viable business in the market in two years. It now costs $1 Million to approve a new flavor at every nicotine concentration: the tobacco companies couldn't have asked for anything better: it's like they're functionally illegal, but they also make more money.

There are other measures like the $2 "tobacco" tax on ballot in California now that means you'll pay $3 for a coil worth $1. This was also likely lobbied by the tobacco companies.

Finally, realize that theres nothing expensive about making these eliquids. Somehow they pulled an arbitrary way of making it more expensive than any other way of leaving tobacco out of their ass.
I don't think they do have much adoption. SystemVerilog is still Verilog, and most of the new functions are aimed at simulation and testbench use. SystemC is rather painful as you have to write an artificially constrained subset and style of C.

> "Vendors pushing high-level synthesis have a decades long track record of overpromising and under-delivering."

Abstraction is important, but in hardware detail matters. In software you can afford to have a less efficient language if it results in faster development. This is absolutely not true of hardware.

High-level synthesis has usually held out misleading promises of portability; that you might be able to get some complex application working written by (cheaper, easier to hire) software developers, then just drop it straight onto a chip. That's simply not true because the constraints are different.

Chisel looks extremely promising, as it addresses a lot of what I'd say were Verilog pain points:

Algebraic construction and wiring
Abstract data types and interfaces
Bulk connections
Hierarchical + object oriented + functional construction
This is always so weird to me. These problems have already been pretty much solved in other countries, but the US always thinks it's a special snowflake. Public transport works pretty well for non-young healthy people in other countries.
I tried the instructions for Linux on a Mac: https://portainer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment.html#c....
(I'm guessing the developers simply haven't tested on Mac)
So far, it seems to work. My guess is that the developers haven't had a chance to test on a Mac and just don't want to make any claims just yet.
Wow, kafka would be proud!
Unofficial devdocs desktop app
Funnily enough, "lane retention" on European roads is much lower.
Metaculus is a community dedicated to generating accurate predictions
Yes I did, and did not saw the business case (monetary) in the decision.
If you're using a distribution like Alpine Linux, which uses musl libc and busybox en lieu of much of the GNU userspace, it's not really a GNU/Linux by any definition.
Completely agree with you - there is a happy medium with respect to experience and training that the vast majority of hiring completely misses out on today. I think the problem is that's it easier for hiring managers to keep a position open for longer while telling themselves they need a unicorn than it is for them to actually put in the effort to train a new person properly.

And yes, employee retention is a constantly debated topic that most companies only pay lip service to.
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The point is to question why that is -- other fields have stubbornly insisted they were purely merit-based, that women and various other minorities simply were predisposed not to like or be good at what the field was about, etc. etc.

And pretty much every time that's been shown wrong.
When I worked in magazine production (90s, California) we used the term for both whitespace and other patterns. Other patterns are a lot less common, because whitespace is the most common "character", but they happen.
I don't think it assumes it's 8 bits, but rather it assumes the values won't be outside the range of an 8 bit number, which should be fine, given that it's an octet-oriented protocol?

Using char pointers presumably is to get correct aliasing analysis?
Who is going to do the work? Obviously BART can't get enough janitors to work these shifts, hence why this guy is busting his ass 114hrs a week to make BART cleaner than it was.
Cron Log Parsing
Relies on Media Source Extensions, pretty widely supported already : http://caniuse.com/#feat=mediasource
> Come on, you don't go to a mall with a pencil, a brick or a bow and kill 50+ people

Has this ever happened in the history of any 1st world country? The closest we've ever come is the Orlando shooting at 49, but... the events with the highest body counts are vehicular mass murder or bombs, not guns (9/11, Nice France, Oklahoma bombing, etc.)
Right. I am a veteran that uses government portals for certain services, and you are absolutely right. There are so many moving parts behind the "single" portal the government wants veterans to use for access to services and information. I have been using those services for many years and haven't even seen them all, let alone used them all.
Hired a developer on UpWork to build a basic dashboard for a startup idea I was working on. Dashboard got completed, code was fine, but took far longer than I expected. I guess you get what you pay for. Startup idea flopped for other reasons. Will try and write it off on my taxes this year.
Obviously don't start. But do write the FDA urging them to recognize them as at least less unhealthy than cigarettes. And removing those moronic testing charges associated with flavor and nicotine would help consumers make healthy choices instead of accepting the tobacco companies products and actually get people off of smoking.
All that is evidence of is that women give up more often than men. That doesn't provide any evidence that it's because men's value is tied to achievement.

I could just as readily argue that women give up more than men because they have stronger priors of tech not being for them (fewer peers and role models, less experience, etc.) so any evidence they get confirming that hypothesis is more likely to push them into giving up.

We could, in fact, have both things happening simultaneously: some men giving up to protect their ego, but even more women giving up because they think it's not for them.
Of course the person who chose to not flip their coin at all...didn't end up being the person to flip the most heads in a row.

So the truth lies somewhere between "it's entirely chance" and "it's entirely hard work/intelligence/participation".
I would not call it 'screwed'. Yes, they established, that APIs are free to reimplement.

However, just having an API to follow does not mean, that the task of reimplementation is easy - following someone's else API is actually harder than designing your own. Just ask the WINE team.
Which to be fair is entirely rational from their own points of view
I think that is the practical solution.

Even public transit systems have to go suffer rush hours !

Capacity of a transit system be it public or individual will never match the load.

If the employers only ask the employees to come in 2 days a week or only when necessary, there should be a significant improvement in the situation. This could be even tried as an experiment for a while to see how it plays out.

I have been commuting in London for about 7 years now and I cry when I see how much the commute costs me and the sub-par service that I have to deal with on the services feeding into the main hub I have to get to to be able to use the tube.

The tube service itself is not so bad but I cannot afford to live inside the zones where I only have to use TFL services.

The best solution is for the companies in SV (or other major employment nerve centers) to realise that making all of your employees commute everyday into work is the root cause.

Just chiming in here with this example since I have had the chance to use the VTA for about a month and I have first hand experience of a well established transit system i.e. London.

I personally loved the VTA trams since very few people used them even in rush hour, they always travel at ground or above ground level (underground travel does get a bit depressing for me), effective air conditioning (never experienced a fart-attack although my time spent on VTA is very little), always get a seat and there's "free" Wifi.

Most local coworkers who I knew there were driving and they were driving in early and leaving early to avoid the back up on 101 or the 280 routes.

That's what I do on my commute on the public transport system even. But if everybody managed to learn that trick, then it's the same situation in the end.
Sure, but they give nicotine gums so it doesn't matter. I was just thinking about a smooth transition toward healthy lifestyle. (no cigs, no ecigs, no gums).
The assertions of incompetence of Indian PSU's are not without merit, although I think you are taking a rather pessimistic view of institutions.

First of all, there are a whole lot of talented engineers in India, simply because of the population itself. Few go to the top colleges that you speak of and graduating from there doesn't necessarily mean they are the "best". So you can't take a lack of graduates from those colleges as a sign of lack of competence.

Next, good institutions can take even "mediocre" people and enable them to do great work (Notice that I use "enable" and not "guarantee"). ISRO seems to have created such a culture, and as long as that tradition/culture continues, it should continue to do very well.
Setting up a self-learning group in your company in 14 steps
From my personal point of view, I've done many small-medium projects. I'd say on average 3-5 experiments per week (trying ideas out on JSFiddle, drawing pad or just an .html) and 2-3 finished projects per month. My main motivation is to keep learning and trying new things so it wouldn't make much sense for me to hire someone for this.

I've thought about it though for documentation and testing, but then again doing it myself and because I was a student (so no $) I also learned a lot.

BTW, What kind of projects are we talking about? I'm freelancing now :)
That's why CIA exists.
There were a few years in London recently where (annual increase in deposit requirement) > (average annual salary); I don't think it's true that everyone can save for deposits in these kinds of conditions of house price inflation.
I paid $5 for a logo on Fiverr that took the artist about 3 days (general turnaround time, not active work time). To this day, I feel really bad about taking advantage of an artist like that.
The HN guidelines call for changing linkbait titles (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Titles that use superlatives and evoke indignation are on the baity side, so we changed it to the subtitle, with "you" replaced by the more neutral "a startup".
I guess this is true of almost all the big companies; nevertheless, it's interesting to see it written explicitly:

"tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem"
Exactly, they aren't perfect (nothing is) but the work they've done by government standards is incredible and by commercial standards very good.

They also worked really hard to get government departments to buy-in to modernising with some success.

Current government is gutting them though.
Of course, always! My details are in profile.
It's also real hard when a dictator pops up shooting civilian willy-nilly, and you know you have the power to stop him, but you don't.
this advice should have been used and adhered to for last 50 years, and the world would be truly much better place. what a dream...
I was a mega commuter for about 6 months. It did terrible things to my mental health. On a really, really lucky day I could make it home from work in about 75 minutes. Those were good days. Average was around 90min, and god help me, if there was an accident on the bridge, it could sky-rocket to 2.5 hours.

I have never been more depressed in my entire life. After the drive home on Wednesday, I had already spent over the equivalent time of a standard work day in my car. At the end of the month, I had spent well over a work week's worth of hours commuting.

That is time you don't get back, and it is near impossible to use it for anything worth while if you're stuck driving. Audiobooks helped _a little_ some weekly podcasts made some days better than others, but on the whole, it was just 3 hours of bored raging every day.

When you're finally home, you've got about enough time to cook, say hello to the family, and then nip off to bed because you've gotta wake up before dawn to beat the bulk of the traffic. It was such a fucking grind.

Never again. I'll happily trade 10s of thousands of dollars off any potential salary to not endure traffic again.
Yes. And PL/Perl is perversely fun. I don't think I've ever seen other languages used in production, though[1]; I think folks tend to stick to PLSQL because of defaults.

[1] I'm sure people do, but this discussion has an anecdata deficiency.
Of course, it's totally subjective. It's not boring a dull to me. I find Gnome to be boring and dull (and I like that). I also was talking more about KDE shell than the apps but the apps are somewhat similar :)

I mean checkout this: https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.3/images/kde430-desktop_...

Too much going on. Too much transparency, too much eye candy as if everything is made of glass. Plus the unnecessary widgets to hold desktop icons. I'm no expert in UI/UX design but as a user I find it unpleasant.
I heard from a few former employees that back in the '00s, a few years before their bankruptcy, Kodak spent close to a million dollars on redesigning their logo. They changed a font.

727 employee hours, in comparison, seems like a pretty sweet deal.

Not to mention that the logo change was only part of that 727 hours (But out of context, it sure makes for an awesome soundbite!)
Because a lot of those companies are involved in defence and national security (List X in uk terms) its probably impossible for non citizens to achieve the required security clearances.

Not so long ago in the UK you had to have both sets of grandparents as citizens to Join the civil service.
I think there's a bit of a false dichotomy there. Some engineers are willing to work in a harsh, toxic environment if they think the founder isn't delusional and is actually onto something. I presume that's how Apple employees felt.

People are willing to put up with authoritarian assholes if they think their vision is worth implementing.
Maybe its a good recruiting tool though? If you're not a famous or wealthy company it can be a way to recruit good people if you use leading (not bleeding) edge technology. It didn't attract you but lots of people seem to like shiny things.
You'll note that countries in Europe also require to be an European citizen for this line of work.
Very much like this style, very close to what I do... really the only difference between your style and mine is that I will indent the joins. For me it makes it somewhat easier to be able to scan for the where clause. Also I'll typically not use the AS keyword for table aliasing, no real good reason for that choice other than many years of habit.

But mostly commas first and logical operators and such first: If I have complicated queries that I'm working through... having the ability to just comment bit out here and there without worrying too much if I've left a dangling comma (et al) is a good time saver.
Where have you looked? For example, a quick search on Quora will tell you the range of RSUs handed out to employees at Google at various levels.
This is very close to the style we use. The only big difference is that we opt for CTEs over subqueries whenever possible.
" Apple’s year of the cloud

– tie all of our products together

– make Apple ecosystem even more sticky"
There are no "liberal" syrian rebels, the factions america along with Saudis are supporting are Sunni militias which are cousins if not brothers of AQ. You have divided interests of Kurds, Turks, Alawite regime + Russian, Sunni Militias + Saudi + USA, Iraqi Shia + Iran each having their varied interests.

Assad wants ISIS to linger around since the focus would be on it rather than him, and he is focused on fighting the Sunni militias (freedom fighters according to US kind of like 80s afghanistan), Turks do not wants Kurds to be powerful and are interested in marginalizing them in Northern Syria. Kurds want to fight ISIS with help of US and score brownie points for Kurdistan. Sunni militias do not have much problem with ISIS want to fight the Alawite regime and make Syria Sunni Again ;). Iraqi Shia and Iran want to marginalize the Sunnis supporting ISIS. To say the least its a giant clusterfuck and US is willingly in bed with Al Qaeda ( wannabes like Al-Nusra front)
I think the US is just adding a self-imposed constraint that hinders their own progress. Other nations have built ICBMs and have space launch capabilities too. The US is not significanltly "ahead in the game" and their development is slowed down by hiring US citizens only in the aerospace industry.

Not all rockets are practical as ICBMs. ICBMs tend to use storable (hypergolic) propellants so they can be maintained and ready to launch at short interval. Many space launch vehicles, such as those built by SpaceX, use cryogenic propellants and need to go through a time consuming (and dangerous!) propellant loading before they can be launched. (note: the Indian and the Chinese space programs use primarily solid fuel and hypergolic propellants)

I'm sure SpaceX, ULA and others would be happy to recruit non-US citizens if the regulations didn't disallow it.