skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What exactly do they do that requires 60 hours of work and no less?

It's not so much the type of work, but other factors like volume, availability and perceived engagement. Even if you were capable of getting done in 20 hours what takes 60 hours for someone else you'd be expected to be available to help the team or respond to issues. Often times, in these types of environments you'll be expected to reply to issues quickly, respond to managers/leads if there's a question and these will arise at any moment within those 60 work hours, because even though you finished "your tasks" the team is still working to finish theirs and you're expected to be around "adding value".

As regards to the "checks emails", the task can literally be anything: a question regarding code, a response to an inquiry, a prompt for a decision on some topic, or a request for information that's needed ASAP. I've seen organizations that track the time taken to get a reply to these emails and they keep track in Excel sheets the average response time from individuals and their number of responses.

For example, I've also seen people get reported to management for taking a nap during their lunch break, even though they had finished their assigned task. The details of the tasks become irrelevant in those types of toxic environments.
My masters thesis is X-trace derived, as well as a paper we published at ICPE a few years ago. I'm on mobile so don't have a link handy. You can probably guess my name from my username.
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Woah no need to attack.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938412...

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/739321
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Well yes, they want you banned, but specifically for your behaviors, which is exactly why .. anyone.. should want anyone banned.
Gave it a try, seems to be kinda slow building docker images. An image that take 2 minutes in my machine is taking around 10 minutes in CodeBuild.
The build seems to freeze a little between docker build steps :

--- Example 1 ---

[Container] 2016/12/01 22:39:59 Step 9 : EXPOSE 3000

[Container] 2016/12/01 22:40:31 ---> Running in 1c6e3a4dbec8

[Container] 2016/12/01 22:40:45 ---> 602aa4bc97ac

-----------------

--- Example 2 ---

[Container] 2016/12/01 22:36:00 Step 4 : WORKDIR /src

[Container] 2016/12/01 22:36:32 ---> Running in 98800352e6c2

[Container] 2016/12/01 22:36:45 ---> b437afe2a1c5

-----------------

Not sure if this caused by the fact its a docker inside docker implementation.
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Some tax credits disappear faster than the rate of increased income. The only federal ones I'm familiar with are on the upper-middle-class portion.

California has some incentives that cliff at around $40k per household, no graduation (e.g. renters deduction).
You're correct it's not a straight comparison, I was looking at it more from the generic "black liquid with caffeine" point of view.

I've been lucky enough to use La Marzocco espresso machines at work for many years and they absolutely make better espresso than my Nespresso machine. The problem is that machine was $15k and my Nespresso was $100. I understand there are more consumer-grade espresso machines, but those still cost $1000+ and don't necessarily make espresso better than the Nespresso.
Additionally, the implicit threat of having your paid membership revoked for bad behavior can provide a natural check.

Something Awful has used this to great effect to keep trolls in line. I wonder what % of their membership revenue comes from banned users purchasing new accounts.
...but why?

We already use CloudFormation under the hood for the API Gateway, though to be honest I'm seriously considering moving away from it because it's so fickle.

There are also some security disadvantages and other problems from using CloudFormation for maintaining Lambda functions, plus you lose out on all the extensive functionality we provide. We're pretty damn well battle tested to avoid that stuff now.
That's a good point. I definitely overstated. Thanks for the correction.
One just adds one zero, the other adds three. The proportion is correct.
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Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_element_name_... for a full table. There are a bunch named after places (even copper and magnesium), whether continent (Europium), country (Francium), state (Californium), or even UC Berkeley (Berkelium). All told, nearly 30 are named after different places.

I haven't read it yet, but supposedly this book is a fun read with some interesting stories on the discovery of elements: https://www.amazon.com/Periodic-Tales-Cultural-History-Eleme...
I know what brokers ostensibly do. I'm asking: Why do we need healthcare insurance brokers in this day and age? If the answer is "we might not", then entrenched middlemen shouldn't be propped up by outside lobbyists, regulations, or "because, jobs."

In fact, you could probably make a real case that middlemen are directly responsible for substantial markup on healthcare insurance costs!
AV. Browsers, too, but browsers at least have a good excuse.
I don't doubt we will be able to do great things with machine learning in the coming years.

What I do doubt is that machine learning will become generic anytime soon. I predict machine learning will always need some degree of specialization - we aren't reaching general intelligence/learning within our lifetimes. A machine that is awesome at playing Go will suck at translating languages.

I also predict machine learning will never be able to surpass humans in terms of creative ability. A top notch machine-written book/poem will always be inferior to a top notch human-written book/poem, for example. Humans can invent new things, machines seem only capable of rehashing existing things. For example, at some point a human writer invented the concept of an unreliable narrator. If you "teach" a machine how to write by feeding it thousands of books, but you exclude books that have unreliable narrators, will the machine ever write a book whose narrator is unreliable? I think not.

I'll happily admit you were right all along if AGI does come about within even the next 20 years, but I think you are grossly oversimplifying things in order to embrace the sci-fi fantasy you wish were real.
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As a stay-at-home dad with twins, I spend about 2 hours a week shopping and probably an hour a day on average on housework. We cook lots once a week and microwave it; I run the dishwasher every day and do laundry perhaps 3 times a week.

Of course I spend a lot of time with the kids, playing, dressing them up, changing diapers etc. All day basically. But that's more like hanging out than housework.
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I thought the comments aboout Typescript were misguided (not familiar enough with Angular to judge those parts). The whole point of using the any type in Typescript is to dodge the typechecker. By declaring the parameter in the example to be of type any, you are declaring that you want this behavior.
It's good to hear about your experiences, but please don't make personal attacks on HN. Usually, commenters here are quasi-anonymous; even when they're wrong, it's bad to make assumptions about who they are as people, since in most cases you just don't know.
True. However we make purchases in the present, not the future.

People who need a car today and runs the numbers will probably come to similar conclusions: they might like to buy electric, but hybrids or even non-hybrids make more sense for at least the foreseeable future, due to wider availability, good track record, lack of severe depreciation, etc. Sadly, because of the rate of improvements in electric cars, they tend to depreciate at a much higher rate as well.
$100/month is the MINIMUM for Business tier support. If you spend $2K on AWS services then it is $200, $3K is $300, $4K is $400, and so on... Up until $10K total AWS spend then it drops from 10% of spend to 7%, and from 7% to 5% over $80K.[0]

Enterprise tier's minimum is $15K by the way.

And the Business Tier lacks "Business-critical system down" support with a 15 minute response time. But it does have the "Production system down" level with a "less than 1 hour" response.[1]

AWS's support isn't cheap. And it isn't simply "$100/month" that's the minimum for real support (and no, developer tier isn't real support for production systems).

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/pricing/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/
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This was my thought as well. I've seen them offer a few different of these "workflow engines" that seemed to be quite clearly oriented towards build services, although this is the first that's very explicitly focused on that.
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And I'm not even sure about the 99% number. I've been told that trains tend to be used for most longer distance shipping so a lot of trucking is relatively short distances. There are also a lot of reasons I can imagine for keeping a human in trucks even if the trucks could mostly drive themselves between depots.
I find it interesting that this didn't make into the keynote.
Is the actual interest really low?
The negative effects of low inflation are well documented. You can see Japan as an example. Low inflation has perverse incentives that hamper employment and econmic growth. Essentially low inflation is good for the consumer until they lose their job.
Atomic scientists get excited over the littlest things...
Why does 128==128: false but 127==127: true when converting to Integer wrappers?
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I've found that a rough version of GTD has really helped me focus on "getting things done" when I feel i need structure because I am pulled in many different directions.

Don't worry about all the self help material, it really is a simple workflow:

https://goo.gl/images/R7ciME

From an overall "how to think and act effectively" philosophy, the original is still the best IMO: "The Effective Executive", by Peter Drucker, written in 1967. It contains very simple ideas, but I've found them to be tremendous life lessons on how to do the right things, rather than just doing things right.
So a CEO with a seven figure salary is still upper middle class? I think not.
It is sad we can't assume any objectivity in any research/studies based on who is sponsoring them these days.

Not saying their study was biased, just that the joke plays to an assumption we all make.
Definitely. This wasn't meant to be an actual guide as much as a way of concisely explaining the terms. You'll almost always want byte-code of some kind if you want good performance.
> literally the most abundant natural resource on the planet.

_Second_ most abundant natural resource. I like my free oxygen.

;p

...wait, silicium's a natural resource too, right? Oh darn I've over-pedanticized myself.
People who can make a living as writers generally have a spouse who makes much more money, more regularly. It shows.
> just no one wants an electric Golf

Speak for yourself. I have 28k miles on my e-Golf and I think it's a great car!

The problem is most people are shocked SHOCKED, when I tell that it's fully electric. They've never heard of such a thing until I told them because VW doesn't actually want people to buy the e-Golf, not the other way around. I still have yet to see an extensive tv or billboard campaign for the e-Golf. It's a compliance car and VW is only selling it because they have to.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my perfectly capable and affordable electric car.
One note about the bridges: Basically, any elevated section of road seems to qualified as a bridge. That's why you can follow the interstates on the map; they're full of overpasses.
Even though I think the title is click-bait, I do think he makes a good point. Programmers need to take more control on how their code is being used and how the code is created.

We write code with the idea that important bugs will get caught and fixed in time. We don't really worry or care about its final form and the consequences. That's one of the reasons Agile has taken hold. Programming under Agile is similar to driving. We don't care how we got to the point we are in we just need to get to the finish line. Unfortunately, it's very easy to output some very ugly code and what's worse in some case very dangerous code.

He's right programmers need to take more control and responsibility on how and why they write their code. Good and enlightening article.
Ding, dong, an app is dead! What did it do? I have no idea.
Just found a page dedicated to Python 3 for scientists:
https://python-3-for-scientists.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Also an impressive line up of scientific tools that will drop Python 2 support by 2020: http://www.python3statement.org

(And for completeness: the book discussed in this thread is available for Python 3 at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~fangohr/teaching/python/book.h... )
Ignorance may be temporary bliss but I'd bet it turns out questionable long term results.
A lot of things aren't correct in the article

Rxjs isn't a drop in replacement for promise. Rxjs is about stream, promise is just a way to avoid callback hell. Promise can be replaced by rxjs but not the other way around

You don't break the promise of being cross platform by using local storage if you do it the angular way.

I'm to lazy to keep going ...
I have seen same thing in Indian newspapers where concerns of of many 0.1% of nation's richest are frequently discussed as the biggest issues of populace.
This reminds me a retro-hack-game: http://telehack.com/

Telehack is also a multiplayer hack game featuring tons of BBS systems, simulated uunet hosts, and a chat room. Available via http or telnet.

You are welcome to `finger mayli@telehack.com`.
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Sure, but it can't be your strategy, since then you can never win either.
Cogs implies lack of choice. I choose when I move teams. Or sometimes, a manager asks me if I'm willing to move, as there's a team that needs more help.
As a Fitbit employee and a huge Pebble fan, I feel conflicted... I hope the fantastic engineering put into the Pebble OS and hardware will be put to good use.
Looks like they have some sort of event coordinating app called Frenzy. Which is basically just phone alerts for when people are trying to start a flashmob-style event. https://getfrenzy.com/

And they have something else that just looks like Snapchat-style image overlays/editing called WYD. https://itswyd.com

The name of this sounds like a blatant rip-off of the "Verb, it's what you do" public health campaign in the US. Changed just barely enough to cover themselves from getting sued. https://www.cdc.gov/youthcampaign/index.htm

It also only has 41 likes on the app Facebook page.

Unless there is some IP or hires that they wanted to snatch up, there doesn't appear to be anything of value that couldn't probably be done cheaper in house at Twitter. This seems incredibly frivolous.
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> Energy generation is another rural activity. Although solar is fine on roofs[1], wind is rather annoying to live next to...

It was interesting to see just how notably absent windpower was in the South (excluding Texas). What's the reason for such apparent opposition to it? Curious.
To clarify the problem, consider this variation: instead of going into the room yourself, you are to write a program which will output either 1 or 2, corresponding to the number of boxes you take. The super-intelligent being will analyze your program before putting money in the boxes, and will then run it to determine your action.

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These comment is just saying stuff is difficult. I agree, stuff is difficult.
Is it really? At $50k/year, planning to save for things most people have to deal with is hard. You have to actively plan for it, and still might not be able to. At $500k/year, it's easy. At a million or a billion, it's still easy. Yeah there are large differences, but not in terms of day to day life relative to a normal person.
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> Yeah but

Most professionals have a financial safety net the working class do not. That is a huge psychological difference.
What I wrote was just a reaction to when you said that the arrangement wasn't a privacy invasion. I don't have any problem with off-site testing, just this particular implementation of it, which seems uncomfortably distrustful, like a harbinger of what working there would be like.

> And given that all of this happens voluntarily

There's voluntary in the sense of willingly (I have no reservations about doing this; heck, I'd offer even if you didn't ask me to), there's voluntary (I choose to do a thing that sucks because I don't seem to have another choice), and there's everything in between. My problem is when the "voluntary" action is more on the negative side of that scale, which it often is when someone's looking for a job.

I'm not trying to criticize candidates' choices. I'm trying to criticize Amazon's implementation of their hiring process. The point isn't that "candidates should be principled enough not to stand for it", but that Amazon should decide "this way sucks, let's find something better".

> assuming that Amazon isn't going to infect you with malware(which seems very unlikely)

True, they just have you voluntarily install someone else's malware.
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Not directly that I'm aware of, since they decay before you could do anything with them. Just a better understanding of their physics. We've hypothesized an "island of stability" where we might find heavier but more stable elements, but the ones we've found so far aren't it.
Funny enough we're doing something pretty similar for our external lb tier but instead of a custom proxy we're just using nginx proxying back to HAProxy. Your solution is really nifty though because there aren't two accepts going on.

In the thing that we're trying nginx terminates TCP (and SSL if needed), proxies back to a unix socket where HAProxy is listening. This gives us the best of both worlds: we can reload HAProxy all day long and socket listeners are hitless, and we rarely need to reload the nginx config which comes out of the box with hitless TCP sockets. But it's not quite as cool as this solution because HAProxy and nginx both have to accept.

We haven't decided that we're going to do our internal load balancing this way yet because the listening ports change so often, but if we do I'll probably be working on https://github.com/airbnb/synapse/pull/203 to do it. The PR makes it so that Synapse can manage both nginx and HAProxy simultaneously (to deal with the extra system complexity of an additional proxy). Or we'll try this cool thing out :-P
You're not allowed to do jokes on HN. You have to save those for Reddit.
I don't think you can consider someone "upper class" if they aren't at the point where they can comfortably work for their own enjoyment without needing to draw a wage from someone else.
We both know these are the people you were advocating hiring in your previous post.
What about small open offices? Like an office with 5-7 people in the team sharing the office?

That's sounds kind of coo.
Would you be able to route facebook/google to a pre-rendered version of your app without sending it a 301 redirect though?
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That has something to do with it.

However I notice we have a lot of billionaires and millionaires in comparison to the former centuries. Not many Renaissance Men or aristocratic scholar-patrons (think Lord Asriel from HDM) though. The groups aren't special either. The modern cliques of the rich and powerful I see today are pathetic in comparison to the likes of the Royal Society or the Lunar Society.

Imagination and implementation of the new is hard, but is also a cultural issue. Today I think many people are convinced the low hanging fruit is picked and what remains is the difficult stuff that shall require large sums of capital and decade long education to solve for X.
How much are paved roads, fire trucks, city administrators, and hospitals worth to you?