skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anticircumvention laws may or may not apply. I'm not sure. It certainly sounds like it does. The thing is I don't think those laws are very successful at preventing anything.

They didn't save the music records, movies and video games industries. They're still actively fighting against the user, an adversary that has all the power. DVD content was successfully decrypted despite the DMCA; ironically, genuine games are often inferior to their pirated counterparts. A site without ads has better usability and is more secure.

Even if sites say you can't access content already transmitted to your computer unless you view ads, they're not in a position to enforce that. A bunch of laws saying people can't circumvent their protection won't suddenly change that fact.
I don't read the article as glorifying stress, merely acknowledging it.

Edit: on closer inspection, this is an example of the uncanny power of titles to focus attention, magician-style, on only one thing. Certainly Levchin didn't write the title and the interviewer probably didn't either. We shouldn't pick the most provocative detail and then react exclusively to that.

I can almost guarantee that if the headline had singled out his fierce astronomer grandmother instead, the comments here would be about fierce astronomer grandmothers. Which come to think of it would be a lot better.
There's a lot of information out there, but what's most useful depends on your goals and current level of knowledge.

If you haven't read them yet, Agner Fog's guides are an excellent place to start: http://agner.org/optimize/.

Intel's Software Development Manuals are enormous, but contain a lot of great information: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm.

Their "Software Optimization Reference Manual" might be the best place to jump in: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/9e/bc....
The way the author addresses number 2 is by claiming that businesses need to focus on a different way of earning money than just clicks and page views. It's a sort of view that the web is already too inflated with unrealistic expectations of what's valuable, and I somewhat agree. Maybe when you start a company, focus on how to make a product instead of how to gather attention.
When I first started using React, I was very concerned about the lack of template support for conditionals.

In practice, I've find that I now segregate heavy logic into it's own function, which ends up making my components very readable. The lack of first class support for conditionals as a part of JSX has forced me to encapsulate code better.

I would say the only trade-off I've noticed is I end up losing a little bit of DRY-ness here and there with some components having near identical functions. I think it's an acceptable trade off as long as functions are small.
Thanks, Cumulus Linux seems to be the way to go.
I smell some sacrasm. When I say "FPS" I mean that as a distinct category from a shooter with RPG elements, cover based shooters, etc.

Ok the Q2 story was perhaps thin, but have you played todays fps'es? (CoD/BF/...)
That's actually what happens. The low-end models have cheap ssds used as a cache. I'm not sure there's a model that ships with a literally empty nvme slot.
Also recommended: The Theoretical Minimum, courses by Leonard Susskind [1].

[1] http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
> push publishers into a new form of advertising

Its such a new form that it is already illegal in most places, and common not taxed properly. If publishers are going the illegal route, there are better ways than illegal ads. Many sites with "sponsored posts" have been fined for doing this, and more sites likely will until the risk of doing so is higher than the profits.
When Quake 1 dropped the gaming press joked about how everything was 50 shades of brown. Now, that's a cutting edge look for games (especially shooters).
I don't take this as an attempt to re-define anything. It's a pretty clear statement of a (admittedly strong opinion): Advertising is, by its very nature, an intrusion.

I don't think that is completely out of line. An ad's purpose is to convince me to part with some amount of my time or money. And even when they don't managed to do that, they still have an impact on my environment. It ends up cluttered with animated banner ads and auto-playing videos and tasteless billboards and sudden jumps in the audio volume coming out of my radio. It fills my mental space with memes that are deliberately engineered to harm my mental health by convincing me that I'm too hairy and smelly and old and bald and bored and overweight and under-penised and any number of other things that I wouldn't be the slightest bit worried about otherwise.

Which isn't to say that there aren't ads that I appreciate (shout out to Metromile for running the most recent subway ad to get me to buy a product), but they do seem to be a relative rarity in the grand scheme of things. That's coming from someone who deliberately tries to occupy a low-ad environment by avoiding things like live TV, though, so there's my bias.
Note that in English we don’t use the word “manifestation” to mean march/rally/protest gathering, the way the word is used in French.
> Because you don't get to just chose the content on a page you load that you want to see.

What do you mean? Of course you get to do that. That's exactly what ad blockers do.

> A news article with ads is paid for by those ads, and if you want to go to their website to read it you are implicitly agreeing to see those ads.

You have no case to say I'm "implicitly agreeing" to see ads when in fact I am explicitly running software to prevent me from seeing them. This "implicit agreement" argument is the worst anti-adblocking argument. It would be like me ordering a pizza, picking off the olives, and being told that I have to eat those since I implicitly agreed to olives when I ordered the pizza. Nope, the act of picking off the olives is as explicit as I could possibly get that I don't want the olives.
What happens if you can't find tenants for 12+ months? I've seen many commercial properties sit barely occupied for years.
I love that this question baited your well-known introduction out again. Wasn't there a post at some point that searched for 'GitLab CEO here' on this very site, just for kicks and giggles?
He's wrong because he's assuming the average result of the zero-sum game is the only result you can have.

It's a simple fallacy most people with a statistics background understand, but the average journalist doesn't.

Saying you can't beat the market, is like saying you can't win at boxing, because on average nobody wins (there's always a winner for every loser).. but I would put my money on Mike Tyson in his prime.

Your expected value for investing across the market, will roughly converge to the market because of diversification. ~20 funds will start to approximate the underlying universe of stocks, because the range of views of the fund will be across all of them. All of the alpha will be evened out into beta.

So after fees - you would be better just investing in an index than a basket of funds. But there is dependence, a good fund is consistently a good fund. So if you get a chance, it's much better to invest in a good fund.

But the best funds aren't accessible to the public, so the public doesn't get to understand the market for what it really is. And there's a lot of shit ones that market heavily to the public.

There is also a populist idea to the notion that indexes beat hedge funds etc, it makes the average person feel good to think the top investors are no better than they are. So why would journalists peddle the true narrative?
Probably IPv4 on a /24 block but we'll open up a vacancy for a network engineer.
These were really good.
Google's top boss is stumped by one of his own firm's interview questions
Isn't non-invasive advertising just non-functional advertising? As soon as advertising is noticed it has distracted from the content.

The solution they seem to propose is: block ads and see what happens. I don't think one must propose a specific solution in order to advocate ad-blocking.

Regarding piggy-backing they seem to be trying to spread the word to everyone to do the same as they do. I think they want to see advertising go away, and piggy-backing off people who are unaware of ad-blocking is not going to lead to that end result.

Personally I block ads and have no solution or alternative for them. I even dislike billboards and physical ads in my town. They make the place ugly.
"JSX is also the reason when you have to keep splitting your 15-lines-of-html-code component to 3 components, 5-lines-of-code-in-each."
this stuck with me the most
But you have a choice about whether to read that.
Lol at the author saying a leading expert on Google search is someone who doesn't even work at Google.
How is $10 basic wage + $10 equity vs + $10 wage a tradeoff? You seem to be missing the point.
The choice isn't "this machine or that machine." It's "stay on the same platform or incur greater switching costs later." It is a question of ecosystems, and one only gets more enmeshed with more use. There's nothing crazy about deciding whether to rip off the band-aid now rather than create more of a sunk cost to deal with later.
Whomever dreamt up the idea of Indentured Servitude as a idea and sold it to ship owners was quite an amoral businessman.

Definitely parallels to the passage of migrants to Europe from Africa, but imagine after that ordeal they'd have to be slaves more or less for 5-10 years or so.
That's a false dichotomy. The options aren't advertising or astroturfing (which is just advertising). My goal is to not look at ads, be they pop-ups or sponsored Reddit posts.

It's true that companies won't be able to saturate markets quickly without ads, but I'm not sure why we want that. I'd rather see small businesses grow slowly based on the quality of their products than see companies with the best advertising grow, crushing competitors with better products. Every dollar spent on advertising is a dollar not spent on developing a good product.
> The servers have a separate management port and "Apart from those routers we'll have a separate router for a 1Gbps management network."

It was followed with "For example to make STONITH reliable when there is a lot of traffic on the normal network". That sounded like you want the heartbeats on it, not out of band management.
While it's nice finally having access to FPGA's on the cloud, it's still a shame that there isn't much going on with Open source development on FPGA's, on either the toolset or libraries/modules. Though this is largely due to manufacturer hostility. Maybe wider access and adoption might finally do something about this situation.
Nah it tends to be operating system and printer driver related. It is possible to setup a PC to connect to both. But it's a lot work.
in the past they've spread servers into different rooms that had interconnects that challenged a team I was on to spend extra time writing compression code. is this better now?
We are also a SL customer -- 4-figures of hosts with them. We have had networking problems in the past (latency and loss far higher than I would expect to see in a well-provisioned DC) and talked to them about it. It ended up being contention with another customer, it got fixed, and our network performance has been great since.

I would encourage you to look at what you can get without trying to do your own colo. You're not at the scale where you should be thinking about that.
That book was so funny. My favorite is the story where he finds out he can get the radio broadcast an hour early, and so he uses that to troll his relatives into thinking he can predict the outcome. I forget exactly what it was -- a sports game, or something.

There was also an interesting one about how he and some of the other physicists tracked the passage of time differently. Like one guy would imagine a little clock ticking, and could parallel process, whereas Feynman would say the seconds in his head, so he was fucked if he tried to do other shit at the same time.
For anyone wondering, 4.9 is expected to be the next LTS kernel:

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2016/09/06/4-dot-9-equals-equals-n...
Eleven Tweets on the evolution of fake news
Latency, power and cost.

The PHY has to do a lot of forward error correction and filtering, so it adds latency (for the FEC), power (for all the DSP) and cost (for the silicon area to do all of the above).
long live the carry trade
The whole internet is gamed. Should have taken advantage of the open internet while you still could, morons.
Everything anyone does is their decision. That doesn't put them above criticism. Lots of people make shitty decisions.
The elephant in the room: a large majority of sites just don't have good enough content to support themselves through reasonable advertising.

Too many have it 180 degrees reversed: instead of trying to support their content with advertising income they are trying to supporting their advertising income with content.
I was recently in position to choose a new laptop, and in the end opted for T460s rather than X1 Carbon. It is essentially a slightly thicker and barely heavier sibling, with more memory (20GB), two batteries, and an Ethernet port.
Thanks for clearing that up. It's not at all clear from their website.
Yes, as long as you buy on-site support, which is the same price as apple care in most circumstances.
I looked at their site and they talk about bring your own block, anycast, and IPv6. But I can't find any information about networking speeds. What if we end up needing 40 Gbps between the CephFS servers?
>That's exactly what ad blockers do.

That's the same thing as saying that buying a lockpicking kit is the same as being given permission to enter private property. You are using an outside exploit to get around the terms that the provider laid out in order to see their content.

You are confusing the ability to filter the content with the right to filter that content.

> It would be like me ordering a pizza, picking off the olives, and being told that I have to eat those since I implicitly agreed to olives when I ordered the pizza. Nope, the act of picking off the olives is as explicit as I could possibly get that I don't want the olives.

This is a completely ridiculous and useless analogy. You bought that pizza, and you own it. Period. When you go to a website, you are not buying or owning anything. You are requesting a set of data and refusing the price that comes along with it.

>You have no case to say I'm "implicitly agreeing" to see ads when in fact I am explicitly running software to prevent me from seeing them.

This completely disregards the fact that the website has little or no power to stop you from doing so. You are implicitly agreeing to it, and then you are failing to hold up your end of the deal. If you cannot see that, then you are just being self-entitled close-minded to the obvious truths that inconvenience you.
There are only so many areas where having capital and calculating the same numbers that everyone else has differently can reap great profits. I think lending is one such area.
Nope. They are both part of the same thing - the joint electromagnetic field - and they transform into each other in different reference frames, but in a given reference frame, the electric field and magnetic field components behave quite differently.
> The market cannot be beat

On average, and when bench-marked against itself taking into account fees. There are funds that consistently beat the market, that you should put money into over the index if given the chance.

But your general notion that the average person shouldn't try is a good one. At the end of the day you have to earn money because you took it from someone else. To think that there is a dollar for everyone is to ignore this simple truth.
Threatening someone's livelihood based on their speech is about as antithetical to the idea of free speech as you can get (short of suggesting they should be arrested or killed for it).

It might be different in a situation where the speech reveals a critical incompetency for an important job (like a judge who suggests certain races deserve harsher punishments or an MD that suggests homeopathy is a viable alternative to chemotherapy etc), but in the general case, if we accept loss of livelihood as a consequence for uncomfortable speech it is a tacit endorsement of censorship.
>Regarding piggy-backing they seem to be trying to spread the word to everyone to do the same as they do. I think they want to see advertising go away, and piggy-backing off people who are unaware of ad-blocking is not going to lead to that end result.

So how do they expect the Internet to exist afterwards?
Without any judgment on those two points, there is not necessarily a conflict between being against a state that protects some large business and being for a state that protects the entire national economy. A conflict will of course arise if you deem states to be inefficient in general or something along that line.
The Economist is a good weekly review; the stories are very short but the information density is high.
I find it odd you mention freedom but run Windows. Bit of a conflict there, no?
We certainly don't have any experience hosting our own hardware.

We're not doing this to save money, we're doing it to increase performance https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/
10+(10|10) not (10+10)|10
Because Cortana, the chatbot thing, doesn't use your search default.
Should GitHub Implement a Downvote/Flag System?
I propose that GitHub introduces a feature that lets users either down vote, or flag a repo.

The reason is because there's many repos that exist that are no longer maintained but this isn't made known to the user viewing the repo.

This a problem for high starred repos that are linked from other places on the web and continue to get traffic, and clones.

It's not always possible to see if a repo is no longer maintained by looking at things like last commit, or issues. This doesn't indicate a repo is no longer maintained or neglected. There's also a demographic that consume repos but don't necessary understand much about GitHub, or how it works (I've worked with them!).

This is a problem for user who clone and invest any amount of time into using something they don't know is no longer maintained.

For example, I had to submit a pull request on the Compass CSS framework to make users known it was depreciated. It wasn't listed anywhere on the repo, and was still being used. Issues were still being fired but left most unanswered at the time.

I'm not sure how this could be implemented to avoid competition abuse. But i feel it's something GitHub should consider.

What do you think?
This is probably the most clear example of that:

http://www.try-alf.org/blog/2013-10-21-relations-as-first-cl...

Before I found this, most talk was at the more theoretical level and about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Manifesto

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However, I learn first FoxPro. Is more closer to my own idea (in fact, is what I'm after!) because is practical and is proven... yet the xbase family of languages fade in obscurity for weird reasons (http://wiki.c2.com/?ExBase talk about some and MS killing both Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro because .NET, making the the death of the most popular and practical) without any modern undertaking.

This make a huge community of developers that, I suspect, left the market (without citation because is my experience in my local market) because more "normal" languages are not as appealing as database-oriented languages. In fact, despite I love python/delphi as the most productive languages I have used, none is closer to Fox in the area of database-based apps. Is just another league.
Ads are not the only nor, afaik, even the most common vector for malware. If your computer can get hacked by you just visiting a webpage, you need to fix that regardless of whether you block ads. It's a huge security problem
I don't see why it wouldn't be difficult to do a git implementation that replaces all the FS syscalls with calls to S3 or native ceph or some other object store. If all they're using NFS for is to store git, it seems like a big win to put in the up front engineering cost.

I mean, especially because git's whole model of object storage is content-addressable and immutable, it looks like it's a prime use for generic object storage.
Couldn't agree more. It seems Gitlab is severely underestimating the cost of having similar infrastructure on bare metal as their AWS infra. I would probably start to re-architect their software and replace Ceph with something better, probably with S3. Much easier to scale up and operate. Also their Ruby stack has a lot of optimisation potential. Starting to optimise on the other end (hardware, networking, etc.) is a much harder job, starting with staffing questions. AWS, Google and MSFT has the best datacenter engineers you can find and there is a huge amount of effort went into engineering their datacenters. Not to mention your leverage you have being a small startup vs a cloud vendor when talking to HW vendors. Anyways, in few years we gonna know if they managed to do this successfully.
It really really wasn't that hard, have a look through the code, it's just a hundred lines or so, IIRC.
The Wirecutter has a good business model here. Do the leg-work and review and compare the products to find the best. Make money on affiliate links for those products.

People who go to that site to research a product want to be sold to. They want to give their attention and money up for a product. Advertisements on websites are completely backwards from that model.
>businesses need to focus on a different way of earning money than just clicks and page views.

This is a complete non-answer. Where is Facebook supposed to get its revenue stream? It is monstrously expensive to maintain.

>Maybe when you start a company, focus on how to make a product instead of how to gather attention.

What kind of condescending crap is this? Getting attention is literally how they make money. It is their product. What product are they supposed to be focusing on to make money if not advertising?
This... should not even be a hard thing.
Have you looked into Jama software? It is customizable and very user-friendly. I use it for requirement management but imagine it would be good for document management as well.
You don't need to use Redux, and I don't - it gives me nothing I need and adds complexity.
I did the same thing years ago. Same reaction. Nobody in my home watches the news. We are better off
maybe you could partner with that AI generated logos guy (was posted within the last couple weeks, can't remember the name, sorry)

edit: i'm remembering it as logojoy
Its not obnoxious now because uBlock and spam filters works so well, and HTML5 killed Flash. If you don't take such quality filters into account, advertising is far, far worse nowadays.

We're talking about everything before the dotcom boom here. The internet was a lot bigger than WWW, and Macromedia Flash (and Doubleclick) were initiated in 1996. That covers less than 5% of the 20th century. Also, Flash wasn't (ab)used right away for advertising, and if one didn't have it installed not much was missed. Perhaps an online Flash game or two didn't work. No big deal. There was spam on Usenet (the first spam coming from Digital Equipment Corp or was it SUN in the early 80s) and IRC, but it wasn't acceptable.
The Oculus itself is still 600€, plus another ~1-2k€ for a powerful enough computer. Sorry, I don't see this as a sustainable market vision.
I'm not sure what you mean by "this will never be viable". If you mean that many content providers' businesses will never be viable without ads, good. Content providers that serve advertisers rather than their users should go out of business. That would be a great benefit to humanity if content was geared toward the needs of humans rather than companies.