skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One bit of trivia I really love is why "DEL" is at 127 -- weirdly way away from all the control codes.

It's because 0x7F is all ASCII bits set to "1". Back in the early punch card (and telegraph?) days, if there was a typo, you couldn't "unpunch" a hole to make it a 0 again, but you could punch out all the rest of them, indicating "ignore this char, I've deleted it" -- 0b1111111.

source: http://www.trafficways.org/ascii/ascii.pdf which is a really neat read if you like that sort of thing :)
Agreed. Point in case, the recent death of nearly the entire Chapecoense football team:

> According to the preliminary report, several decisions of the flight crew were incompatible with aviation regulations and rendered the flight unsafe. Insufficient flight planning (disregarding necessary fuel stops) and not declaring an emergency when the fuel neared exhaustion caused the crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMia_Flight_2933
Legally firing someone is easy, but the cost of bringing someone on, getting them up to speed, having them become part of a team only to discover you wasted all that money and time and need to start that process again months later with a now slightly demoralized team who has less confidence in the hiring process is very significant.
> There are other classes of public land you are leaving out and that is National Forest, National Grassland, and National Monuments.

Sure, I agree that there are other designations and functions. We should move toward one of those functions or perhaps a new one -- unrestricted land owned by the federal government for whatever a bureaucracy sees fit is not a good use of the land. It would still be better to be owned by the Forests Service and treated differently/less restrictively than other parks. "Wild Park" or something, where hunting and recreational activities are allowed but farming and commercial activities are not. And then sell the less interesting and more profitable lands to private buyers.

I've spent a lot of time in BLM land, particularly around Steens Mountain in Oregon, which is beautiful. It's a great example of something that should be put in the National Parks category -- pave that damn road and get the grazing cows out of Pronghorn territory.
They're certainly worth tarnishing. Knowledge of PFOA and PFAS is not without science and evidence of it's harm already established. Here are two sites where the chemicals have contaminated groundwater and caused illness in communities.

http://healthvermont.gov/response/environmental/pfoa-drinkin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/nyregion/military-base-co...
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This needs more explanation of what's going on and what the benefit is. Don't tell us it's big deal ("the holy grail of secure computation"), show us why it is.

I had to stare at the animated gif for a quite a long while before I realized the two spreadsheets were different, and I still don't get quite what's happening here. Computations are not automatically updated when input data changes like they usually are in spreadsheets? Do both sides have to agree to compute the cell before the operation is performed?
> does not contain any third-party software, including without limitation, “open source,” “copy left,” “public” or other similar code or anything derived from or based on any of the foregoing (unless approved by Gigster in writing)

So is a Gigster developer contractually obligated to build everything from zero and take advantage of no OSS whatsoever? This seems like asking to handcuff your developers into writing terrible software by reinventing the wheel.

Or do they have some additional "in-writing" approval document that specifies acceptable OSS licenses? Several companies I've worked for had lists of OSS licenses that were reviewed and approved by general counsel as acceptable (pretty much the list boiled down to BSD, MIT, Apache).

Then again it seems like if that were the case, the sensible approach would be to write the contract such that using open source software is acceptable, so long as it is offered under a license that appears on an approved list and does not obligate the release of the entire project's source code.
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Glad you enjoyed that post so much. It really is a shame that we do such a bad job of teaching students about the inherent subjectivity of descriptive statistics and let students leave their courses with dangerous ideas about the existence of a Holy Grail statistic that will solve all of their problems.
You need to account for ONSITE. That's specified at the top, but I don't see it anywhere in your spec.
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That's very morally correct of you. Personally, I'd like respect to be on both sides of the relationship. I would rather not engage in a relationship (business or otherwise) where there is a high likelihood that someone will use psychological warfare in lieu of punctuated, professional, respectful language.
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> there's no way to accidentally type db-production

That's what auto-complete is for.

rm -rf db<tab><tab><enter>
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How does this help in situations where something rogue starts filling the disk? The idea makes sense in theory, but in practice, it doesn't work out that well. Ops work is significantly harder than many devs think..
Interesting. So no matter what, it's impossible to get a "perfect exposure"? As in, there is only a perfect exposure for a shot, not a platonic idea of a perfect exposure for every color situation.
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I don't think he was reading between the lines at all. You flat out said that it's brand loyalty and learning curve keeping people from switching.
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You can use SIP on iOS:

https://developer.apple.com/reference/callkit

You can also push notifications to your device in an end-to-end encrypted manner. iOS 10 supports notification extensions so your private app extension can receive the encrypted payload, decrypt it, and then present a normal notification.
This is gradually changing. I worked for a small Japanese company that eventually went under and if I look at my ex coworkers they are doing well. Some of them became freelancer/consultants and are being paid more than people I know who work at Sharp and have been hired directly out of university.
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I'm running a remote-only company and we moved to GitLab.com last summer from cloud hosted trac+git/svn combo (xp-dev). The reason we picked GitLab.com was because the stack is awesome and Trac is showing its age. We also wanted a solution that could be ran on premises if needed. We spent about a month migrating stuff over to GitLab from Trac. Once we were settled the reliability issues started to show. We were hoping that these would be quickly sorted out given the fact that the pace of the development with the UI and features was quite speedy.

A sales rep reached out and I told him we would be happy to pay if that's required to be able to use the cloud hosted version reliably but I got no response. Certainly we could host GitLab EE or CE on our own but this is what we wanted to avoid and leave it to those who know it best.
xp-dev never ever had any downtime longer than 10 minutes that we actively used during the last 6 years. I'm still paying them so that I can search older projects as the response time is instant while gitlab takes more than 10 seconds to search.

Besides the slow response times and frequent 500 and timeout errors that we got accustomed to, gitlab.com displays the notorious "Deploy in progress" message every other day for over 20-30 minutes preventing us from working. I really hoped that 6-7 months would be enough time to sort these problems out but it only seems to be worsening and this incident kinda makes it more apparent that there are more serious architectural issues, i.e. the whole thing running on one single postgresql instance that can't be restored in one day.

We have one gitlab issue on gitlab.com to create automated backups of all our projects so that we could migrate to our own hosted instance (or perhaps github) but afair gitlab.com does not support exporting the issues. This currently locks us into gitlab.com.

On one hand I'm grateful to you guys because of the great service as we haven't paid a penny, on the other hand I feel that it was a big mistake picking gitlab.com since we could be paying GitHub and be productive instead of watching your twitter feed for a day waiting for the postresql database to be restored. If anyone can offer a paid hosted gitlab service that we could escape to, I'd be curious to hear about.
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If I'm reading this correctly, and he set GOMAXPROC to 1, that means that Go uses one system thread, but it still serves many requests concurrently, as there is an asynchronous IO loop under the hood. Same goes for Node.
You didn't miss anything.

One of the things I've been working to understand the with regard to the continued support of the President is how can I see a set of things and someone else can see a set of things and we draw two diametrically opposed conclusions from it.

So far a consistent them has been ideas which are like the ones suggested by the GP which are both simple to say, clearly would solve some great ill if they were possible to do, and disconnected from reality in a fundamental way. Our GP suggests a unilateral quintupling of the minimum wage (as an example).

I can see how such a suggestion is highly attractive to someone who hasn't learned or thought about how wages get set and the limits of the ability to arbitrarily control those things. I suspect it would help to get more coverage of Venezuela into the consciousness of these people because it demonstrates some of the effects of not understanding how markets or economies work can affect everyday people.

There are lessons there for both sides of this discussion, both for people who advocate a leadership that promises them quick and simple fixes, and for people who believe that rationality will successfully displace their support for a bad actor. Neither of those things are true.
For Kubernetes, checkout https://www.distelli.com

Its a SaaS (and enterprise) platform for automated pipelines and deployments to Kubernetes clusters anywhere.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160218

disclaimer: I'm the founder at distelli.
> WHY? If it's so easy to fire someone if they ended up a lemon?

it still costs money to bring the person up to speed, not to mention the opportunity costs involved in not having the right person for that much longer.

and many employers even in the US are terrified they'll be sued for wrongful termination. or they just don't want to risk having to do something viewed as "mean".
Yup, voluntary redundancy was jokingly called the 'muppet retention policy' in a previous job. You announce to your staff that the company has some trouble, and allow all the bright, motivated, and in-demand folks to jump ship with a redundancy package, then you get to soldier on with everyone who's left, but now thoroughly demotivated.

The side effects of labour laws (and, to be clear, I am a big supporter or social / economic justice) can be really difficult.
Find a dock that doesn't use DisplayLink. There are plenty of them out there that pass through the USB-C DisplayPort and have an ethernet port on them as well.

Dell sells one that is pretty good and used by a lot of my friends.
This is where Facebook and twitter bans tread as well. Moral outrage on its own does not justify social acceptability, however well meaning.
Then it should be fine since teflon doesn't start releasing dangerous fumes until about 575, which McDonalds grills probably don't reach even if you try.
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Ah, I see. It's not arXiv specific.
Furthermore, my intent with this submission was to highlight a specific finding of the research that is not the emphasis of the previous post (namely, the unexpected result involving telomere length). The discussion on this post generally focused on that result, whereas the discussion on the previous post did not.
Putting keyboard on your lap sounds like an interesting idea. Will try it out today at work.
There are liberals with guns. I'm one of them and mostly pro 2A but not a single issue voter like many 2A people.

Also there is an irony in the switch between all the talk on the right about armed resistance to the BLM and Hillary and now the left talking about armed resistance to Trump.
Avid cast iron user here as well... I've been using heavy cast iron skillets and pots on an electric stove for over a decade and enjoying it with no issues.

Could it be an issue with an induction-type electric cooktop? I never tried cast iron on one of those.
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What benefit do you personally get from having some desert scrub available to access?

Ask yourself this: what benefit do you personally get from my having access? Let me answer that question for you: when you're hoping to snag a camp spot in Mount Rainier National Park, you can because I'm camping on BLM land. You want to go see Mount Rainier, I just want a place in the middle of nowhere to drop the VW camper for a weekend. But the BLM land went away, so even though I don't give a shit about viewing a big volcano, I'm taking your camp spot because there's nowhere else left.

...and we could make some money selling it.

"A representative for the interior department, Mike Pool, who weighed in on a version of the bill in 2011, said selling those 3.3m acres 'would be unlikely to generate revenue'."

IOW, we can sell it to our campaign contributors for pennies on the dollar, and it's all perfectly legal (thanks to a recent change to House rules by Republicans).