skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, that's not my opinion at all!

Usually, those people are making disproportionate contributions to the world for comparably small rewards. Usually. We're lucky to have Einsteins and Bachs and Taos and an infinitude of less well-known but probably equally capable hard-working geniuses. I'm very grateful for hard-working geniuses who devote themselves to important problems! Some of them do apply themselves toward more secular ends, such as Gates. That's OK too, although the world takes care of gratefulness for me ;-)

It's just important to realize they exist if you ever get into a situation where you're regularly competing with them.
> What do you guys think is the point of all our activities if people eventually die?

For me it's to spend your time being happy. Nothing else really matters. If you spend your life being unhappy and feeling bad, remember that you will die and that will be it.
I was born 2 months early! Not sure I have anything to blame on it.
After discovering Discord and having a large group of Facebook friends who are on the other side of the country or out of the country, I'm intrigued... but that could just be the intriginol I took this morning.
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Never feed a troll. He would get even more famous.
What a blockbuster release (candidate). Congrats golang team!

I can't wait to start adding in the mutex contention to our tests, remove our custom graceful http shutdown library, compile 15% faster, start using context within our queries, write custom comparators [I needed this just last week! We had a type that already implemented the sort interface, but I needed to sort it by a different key in this one-off] for sorting, and have a much better time debugging JSON unmarshalling.

And those were just the big pieces I noticed that will be an immediate improvement!
Chris is basically just an occasional contributor to llvm code itself at this point, but serves heavily on the board.
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It's pretty clear that in 2017, diversity of opinion is a very low priority for universities. Do you think this has ever been any different? I wonder.

At one point, I think a university education served, sociologically, as another barrier separating the upper class from the rabble. Do you think diversity of opinion was perhaps more tolerated when the only students were children of the rich? Would universities have defended their cultural values as ardently as they do now, when membership in that culture was enforced differently?
Could you explain why you think there will be a cultural conflict? Do Tesla engineers typically act in ways counter to being nice and humble?
Location matters, but I also think it depends a lot on how you market yourself. A small mountain town won't have enough clients interested with the means to pay for those services. A resort destination (Hawaii?) could be really good. I think that is why I want financial independence though, so I can worry a little less about how much I can earn.

From reading it sounds like yoga teachers are plentiful since a lot of people practicing naturally progress to getting certified. Starting wages can be very poor because of this. That's where I think marketing can be the differentiating factor. Travel around India learning, maybe write a book or blog about yourself. Get on reality TV and become a minor celebrity. Have a very well respected lineage. Just some ideas to bring in more clients.

Big cities are definitely the safest.
> The cost it took to do QA for Windows was immense

As it should be when you're developing an OS for 90% of the market across a huge variety of hardware. There's really no way around that, and jettisoning QA teams as a cost-saving response is incomprehensible to me.

Trusting telemetry alone to ensure the robustness of your product will result in a "good enough to ship" focus on mainstream work-flows and leave corner-cases unaddressed since they're rare. And corner-cases are where the bad, system-breaking things happen.

Telemetry should help QA people write mundane automated test-cases to cover the 99% and then enable them to go and spend the constructive part of their time focusing on breaking the system. But it's absolutely not a replacement for QA.
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This is the job I have now, and believe me, not having to research for a living is so liberating.
I actually like it. Makes it really easy to share code between my own programs - really handy for "microservice" projects. And if I want to have a Go program in a different source tree, links allow me to do that.
There is, it's called seven figures worth of reasons.
It used to be a problem, but I haven't seen much overt racism in a while. Avoid Taake, as they're popular (won the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy recently) and are outspokenly racist. I have no idea what the hell the awards committee was thinking.

Other than that, Varg (of Burzum) is also a neo-nazi, but he hasn't written any black metal in 20 years. In fact, he stopped writing black metal around the time he became a neo-nazi.

Aside from that, I don't think you're going to find much popular modern black metal that is openly racist. Maybe some band members are secretly racist, but they know better than to talk about it if they are.

My (now) wife introduced my to black metal over 15 years ago when I was still a kid. I turned out fine, and still have no tolerance for racism.
In what way did Java go that road? Java doesn't impose any constraint on location across projects.
It would be nice if they can share some info about Github::KV.
And IoT companies will have to put trust in another language. We deployed hundreds of ARM5 gateways accross Africa with a golang stack.
This kind of decision is not compliant with serious IoT HW providers. Software is easy to upgrade, hardware not. Now we have to bet on another language... welcome rust?
Lattner had nothing to do with any of the things you listed.
Aouch... And there goes my enthusiasm for this language.

I already felt weird knowing Apple didn't use swift internally for their core product, and seing all the huge bugs and crashes remaining in the swift compiler, now i'm left wondering who in the company is going to have sufficient weight to push this language forward.

EDIT : well, on the positive side, he's now free to make the language evolve without caring about the huge objective-c bridging layer and iOS-specific troubles...
This isn't generally a problem on smartphones and tablets because they can usually detect captive portals and prompt the user appropriately.
Imagine a world where the breathalyzer tech we have had for a couple of decades now was installed into cars and simply prevented drunk people from driving.

This is coming; I've seen mentions of a system with passive alcohol detection (just from the air inside the car) plus active "blow in tube" test if the passive test triggers that will start rolling out to cars soon.

But it seems if stopping drunk drivers was really a major concern, we would have done this years ago.
I'm sorry, not following. If not for what feature?
Microsoft Research made a number of Feynman lectures available in 2009 with their Project Tuva [1]. Originally it required Silverlight, but the Silverlight app has been decommissioned. The videos are now directly available online.

For those interested in Feynman, the man, I highly recommend "Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman.". It's a mostly fun, sometimes sad, look at his life.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/tuva-richar...
I've personally experienced working on the inside of a "culture of secrecy" in political organizations, in business and as everyone in personal groups / family.

My personal opinion is that this model does not work by default, it's not a modus operandi that is conducive to 'progress' (whatever the metric, be it innovation, profit, or even just the will to do things adequately).

I'm pretty sure there are other key points but my observation is that you need a strong leader, usually at the origin of that culture, who's able to mesh all subgroups together at a high-level (since they don't work together on a normal basis). What you observe is that leader's dream team (trusted advisors and insiders to the 'secret') taking various roles at various places in the structure to glue it all and maintain the secret while furthering core goals.

You also want a non-negociable acceptance of the culture by the people working there, meaning that you just can't tolerate any internal politics/wars and everyone has to flock in line. It's only ever possible to jail teams like that if there's trust in management (because eventually this is your career...) and nobody questions the 'why' or 'how'. You just do your job as best you can and forget about your high-level vision: big boss will decide (pray he thinks better than thousands of field engineers, few men on earth should be trusted with such decision power). Often people won't even know why X or Y got fired. It's part of the fear necessary to such a culture. Divergence is like random cancer in a culture of secrecy because nobody knows the big picture.

I'm more and more of the opinion that the kind of Apple built by Steve Jobs was 100% in line with his own way of managing (culture of secrecy, dividing or even gut open too-powerful groups to maintain his absolute might/vision, etc.) If you look at Apple's execs they're great soldiers, but not much of campaign-waging generals in and out of themselves (more beta than alpha, so to speak, perfect for a Jobs but maybe not a Cook). And I think it's painfully obvious, from the outside at least, that Cook just isn't the man to rule this Apple: he either must change it or give the reigns to someone more like Jobs (clearly only the former is a realistic goal, even for the next CEO and the ones after that).

Obviously this is all speculation and I might be wrong, but there are so many blatant red signs that I have little doubt that there's this culture/management fit problem within Apple.
> I know what it should do, and I use it regularly.

Kind if off-topic, but I have to ask. Why do you use autoremove regularly? The amount of storage that is wasted it negligible so I barely bother with it, even inside vms and containers which often have tiny filesystems.
While fark.com may rank well, as a news aggregator the individual pages inside the site don't rank well. My site suffers the same problem: despite having thousands of pages of content, they all sit at the bottom of Google's results. So now I don't even bother to try to rank on Google and just use traffic from social media instead.
I hope you similarly dislike the term 'head-hunt' on the grounds that no-one's head is severed. 'Poach' is a useful metaphor that suggests that one company actively tried to lure an employee from another. It is a metaphor, it doesn't imply that the employee is a chattel. I think one can get a bit too precious about these things.
Perhaps slightly off topic, but relevant to the community—Hacker News comments on stories like this are now being "reported."

As one author mentioned at Business Insider, a site where people write about business stuff:

> 'As one person said on Hacker News, a site where programmers chat about stuff: "He is leaving Swift in an excellent position and has set up an outstanding structure where Swift is way more than just one person. He spent more than 5 years building Swift inside Apple, so I can definitely understand he is ready for his next challenge."'

http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-lattner-swift-creator-l...
Those people would be ethnically diverse, perhaps diverse in terms of nationality, but probably not very diverse at all in terms of viewpoint.
> Well, mystery solved.

That was a short mystery! :)
Yea, I was using "op" as shorthand.
Offers.com (at the time a record-breaking price paid for a domain name) is still getting peanuts in traffic compared to retailmenot, which has the dumbest name ever. And I'd argue offers.com has marginally superior content, except for the odd exclusive deal that retailmenot is able to swing based on their identity. But retailmenot got there first, and it hit the ground running building marketshare, and that has made all the difference.
We're seeing the market care more about responsible scheduling now. The delayed Obamacare rules means that many more workers are eligible for overtime. We've seen many workers happy about this, and we're seeing more businesses take ownership of scheduling.

If nothing else, Staffjoy maintains strict audit logs and could eventually help companies evaluate managers (average lead time per schedule, etc).
It's more like the person above than the people below.
> Really? So easy to think of scenarios where there _is_ no safe answer.

Then the human is no better or worse, no?

One of the improvements is that an autonomous car will avoid getting into a situation it can't dig itself out of. And, at times, it will detect those situations long before a human will.

My favorite counterexample for people like you is driving in Southern California in the rain. An autonomous car NOW is probably better than 25-30% of the drivers on the road in that situation.
Echoes of Comcast ... the NYT is constantly promoting 50% off the posted rates for new subscribers, without ever offering such terms to existing customers. But if you're a "frustrated" long-time customer who's on the verge of canceling, then suddenly the 50% discount is rolled out.

In most other industries, loyal customers get better treatment. Or it's the same deal for everyone. These sorts of inverted pricing structures may squeeze more revenue out of a few long-term, inattentive customers, but the hidden cost in churn, irritation and haggling is considerable.
Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs.

He is an inspirational leader and talented people want to work with him. It appears it will be harder and harder to attract and keep talent at Apple with out a leader like Steve Jobs.
In this case, wouldn't it be more like letting in a plumber to your house, where the plumber is getting paid by the FBI?
And then should correlate that with handgun ownership!
The landing page is really great, and the effort shows, the concept will also work for a number of people.

However, this is not for me as I find audio intrusive, where I would either annoy people around me to record/listen to something, or fetch earphones every time.

Even if it is not for me, I'm sure that there are a lot of people who would enjoy this and put it to good use. Good luck!
I have a suscription to Headspace that I rarely use to be honest. 10-30 minutes feels like "too much" time to take out of my day. Like most people here, I feel like rests will make me fall behind.

SimpleHabit's 5 minute meditations can be done anywhere and are really easy. I find that 5 minutes is just what I need to kickstart this habit. The "stress fix" is a godsend. Thanks for this!
Agree, but why didn't he link to the video at the beginning of his blogpost. I had to google the video to find it.
Same problem in the Uk; The Times was the best online news site by a long stretch but when they went behind a paywall the biggest disincentive to subscribe was the phone only cancellation policy.

As a comparison (although not directly related), I think this is where Netflix gained traction initially here because despite having an uninspiring catalogue the option of a frictionless cancellation made in it an, almost, no-risk proposition.
I think you'll find that it's extremely unusual for modern software developers to remain at the one company doing the one job for a long time.

Given it's largely a field for intellectuals, sticking at the one thing for a long time can become repetitive and boring; losing the challenge and the appeal.
How much talent is Apple losing today?
If it's on http2 and/or preloaded that certainly isn't true.
what a whiny, irrelevant comment
If he actually cared about technique he wouldn't have said anything remotely like what you quoted. Even if it was hyperbole.

The only difference between film and digital is the set of limitations. Arbitrary limitations can be instructive - e.g. fixed focal lengths, monochrome, limited shutter counts. They can also be pointlessly stifling, e.g. tediously long feedback loops.
> But I don't think that most people would get into a car that was twice as likely to crash as an average human driver

I grew up driving with my grandparents who were over 70, and my friends/random people with a car who were under 20. I think that the decision would realistically be made mostly on how the question is framed.

"Will you get in the car that's twice as likely to crash?"

"Will you get in the car with grandma to go to the zoo?"
He has a track record of being able to scale engineering organizations in open source and corporate environments.
as Freud said, sometimes a poach is just a poach
I agree, encrypting a regular web page seems overkill in many cases. Plain HTTP along with a method for signing should be sufficient enough.
It's usually a lot less overt than this, even on articles that touch on racialized topics.
Yeah, I read more about it, only subgraph isomorphism is known to be NP-complete...of course the complexity of that will remain a mystery for a long time.
Oh, it wasn't you?
> Kind if off-topic, but I have to ask. Why do you use autoremove regularly? The amount of storage that is wasted it negligible so I barely bother with it

I have lots of VMs that I update pretty regularly for clients. Many time I just chain the command after apt-get upgrade.
>should we get rid of traffic lights?

Yes. I foresee nothing going wrong with this. Ever.
Get 10,000 snow machines to dredge the water and spray snow and water everywhere ;) If people can build islands, why not glaciers?
The reading comprehension on HN is pretty bad lately. OP didn't say Lattner had anything to do with those examples.

The point is that Apple's been dropping the ball a lot lately. Lattner leaving is either another example of that (why didn't they make him a better offer to keep him?) or a consequence of it (what smart person wants to work for a company that's constantly screwing up?).
Last two desktop UI apps I did were in C++ with QT.

Last few console based apps for desktops were in node.js

If I need to do anymore I'll likely stick with the same stacks.
In a free market, if a company breaks its Terms of Service with me I have the legal right to walk up and shoot every Employee and Shareholder of that company (No limited liability in a free market -- that's a government decree.)
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You always get to the problem of "decider of truth" in these kind of approaches.
How is Apple Car clearly a bet-the-company level product for Apple? It could just be Apple's normal secrecy, but as far as I know that project isn't generally well-known enough to be mentioned in the same pantheon as Google or Tesla.
author here..

all I can say is, buy a B+ domain name, expect B+ results.

I prefer buying an A domain (not A+, not A-), and speed the process up, whether it fails or succeeds.

If it fails, eh, cost of doing business.. move on..
I suspect the goal here is to automate the task of intelligence analysts. As the quantity of signal data has gone up exponentially, the DoD needs ever more subject matter experts who are also schooled in data science techniques. But that's a rare combo of skills, and given the high demand for these folks in industry and the better pay there, I suspect Uncle Sam is suffering a dire unmet need. Ergo the proposed solution: automate them.

But the example in the article of traffic modeling with 30 person-months of analysis and 90 p-months of cleansing illustrates how hard such analysis actually is. Ain't no way you can automate it.

Useful intel signal is hard to find in noise, especially in what by now must be zottabytes. Enlisting anyone to do analysis without deep domain expertise, especially someone as dumb as a computer, is not a promising strategy for success. But it sounds like a great way for beltway bandits to get funding for long term blue sky R&D contracts...
What complexity issue?
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Congrats on the sobriety!
I hear you, but a simple folder system sure would be nice. Not organizations, just: Client/Project

Nice and simple.
Even homeless people are on facebook. All it would need is a popular slogan (and a rationale of why you follow the slogan, i.e. that poor people are being oppressed by the judicial system and the most effective way to fight it is to not plea bargain). Everyone knows the phrase "black lives matter" and I'd wager that their campaign spread on social media. [ let me be clear, I only mention blm due to the commonness of the phrase, and not the outrageous things that have been done under their auspices ].

I dont know much about marketing, but the notion of "I demand a trial" would need a very simple catch phrase outlining an entire campaign. A clear, concise idea that is implanted in someone's mind even during the stressful process of being booked into jail. It would need to be slogan or motto (I think) to work en-masse.
Not all https are created equal. I am no expert but I understand that you need to tweak and twist your setup to not merely serve your site securely, but also ensure that the latest protocols, cyphers, libraries, etc are used; which means a deeper understanding of your web server software and OS is required.
76 cases in 2 years. I was 18 when I started.

73 were child pornography.

69 depicted rape.

65 also depicted some sort of effluence.

52 were depicting individuals I got to see in the court room.

Whereas, when I pivoted to web design, the worst I could say about someone was that they were annoying or didn't document things.

(For interest's sake, the other 3 cases were murder.)
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