skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point! I did not address the global talent pool, I only considered the US as a closed system.

That is because I disagree with: "In many cases, H-1B work isn't extremely location-sensitive, and foreign suppliers are acceptable substitutes to local suppliers"

For an H-1B, US companies go out of their way to recruit remote talent, pay legal fees, take on risk, to get a talented worker to come work in the US.

For a significantly reduced cost to employer, they could have recruited that same worker in their country of origin, and pay them for working in their country of origin.

If H-1B work is location in-sensitive as you suggest, why do for-profit companies, take on additional costs, risks, and pay higher wages for the same talent?
I use iterm2's "badging" to set a large text badge on the terminal of the name of the system as part of my SSH-into-ec2-systems alias:

i2-badge ()
{
printf "\e]1337;SetBadgeFormat=%s\a" $(echo -n "$1" | base64)
}

It's not quite as good as having a separate terminal theme, but then I haven't been able to use that feature properly. :(
Think MacBook Air 11" with an amazing, actually usable screen (compared to the old 768p screen), and even trimmer size.
Or use `mv x x.bak` when `rmdir` fails
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How many of those do you use while traveling?

The only port I find myself missing so far is HDMI. Having to carry a USB-C to HDMI adapter (actually multiple since compatibility is an unmitigated disaster) is quite annoying. I rarely use thumbdrives, but carrying a USB-C<->female A adapter isn't a big deal since it's so rare and I can just toss it in my bag.

For a primarily desk-sitting laptop you're getting a docking station of some sort (monitor or actual) so you get all the above ports with it. I also don't upgrade components there very often either. I do admit this was annoying so far - as the release of the laptop far preceded any decent docks. Single-cable docking though is pretty neat, and a definite upgrade if minor.

Really it ended up being a USB-C to HDMI, female A, and ethernet that I need to toss in the bag. The latter two I expect to use a few times a year at most.
Sorry for the rough night Yorick. This could happen to all of us but of course it happens to the person that is working the hardest. <3
Has the leadership in Saudi Arabia changed? Because it's not just "some Saudi guys" who did it. It was the government of Saudi Arabia. That's why Republicans said Americans are allowed to sue them.
In many respects, Y Combinator, or really, start ups more broadly, seem uniquely ill equipped to solve this problem. Startups seem to be especially incompatible with the business challenges that face media companies right now. While perhaps the S curve of user growth could be attained by a media startup, the S curve of revenue isn't. And if it was, the quality of the journalism it produced would be terrible. Viral content is almost invariably superficial, frivolous and uninformative, or has an emotional quality very different from the impartial, sober thinking that we now need.

Americans have so many prejudices against publicly funded media. There's a widespread belief that if the government funds your media, its editorial perspective will reflect the government's interests. It's a completely misguided assumption in the case of, say, the CBC. The insulation from competition, and, therefore, not having to optimize content for sharing or views is necessary for producing quality, informative content. The New York Times seems to be holding onto at least a sliver of its integrity because it doesn't use such metrics, and instead is funded by subscriptions. But government funding could be valuable too (although there'd be hurdles).

That being said, the person who cracks the code for how to run a lucrative content/journalism business will make a lot of money.
Are you saying that an act is no longer considered speech if you're paid for it? This seems to fly in the face of innumerable legal precedents, from porn to commissioned/sponsored art works to TV shows.
Humans absolutely can use ethanol for energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_metabolism
We net 7 kcal/g from ethanol, (compare to 9 kcal/g fat, or 4 kcal/g carbohydrate/protein.) There's several intermediate steps, but it's pretty efficient and a dense source of energy.

Much of lipid and protein catabolism also does not rely on glucose as an intermediate. Everything that doesn't get converted to glucose first will get converted to acetyl-CoA (glucose catabolites turn into this too) for use in the Krebs cycle.
Thanks, not feeling great about the job we're doing today, but we'll learn from this.
I second your points. I have the Macbook 12" and even though I don't use it daily (I work from home and my dev/gaming beast PC with a 35" wide screen does the job perfectly), every time I use it at home or carry it outside, I am marvelled by that small, beautiful, and very functional laptop.

It's compact, extremely light, the keyboard is okay-ish (you get used to it), the display is the best I've ever seen anywhere on any kind of machine, and the battery longevity for casual browsing, some video/music, and coding, is out of this world. It can easily last me at least 6 hours of medium usage; if I use it sparingly (not much video for example) it can easily go to 8+ hours.

I have nothing bad to say about this laptop. The keyboard could've been slightly better but at the thinness of it, it's pretty adequate.
2017/01/31 23:00-ish:

a) YP thinks that perhaps pg_basebackup is being super pedantic about there being an empty data directory, decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com

b) YP terminates the removal, but it’s too late. Of around 300 GB only about 4.5 GB is left

Nightmare material. Are there any known cases of DBAs or developers suffering a heart attack due to this sort of thing?
How about you go through a tiny bit of trouble and figure out for yourself that John Cook is legit?
> under no uncertain circumstances are they allowed to submit code

Really? Why is that?
Having just spent the last three week writing a manual for a new product I have to laugh at the suggestion. Absolutely nobody reads manuals.
Despite what Fermentis claims, I don't think S-04 is that "traditional." It's a beast of a yeast and it will keep going and going. 10% is pushing the upper end of its range, but more because of the limited alcohol tolerance of the yeast than because of anything else.

It makes sense if you consider where it came from-- it was supposedly used in the tower fermenters of the old Whitbread brewery. Where the most important thing was a cockaroach-like ability to survive and keep fermenting no matter what, as new wort was fed into one end of the system and fermented beer came out the other end.

I don't like s-04 because it throws lactic acid, which tastes like someone squeezed a lemon into the beer. Not what I want in an English ale.

If you want traditional, go with something like Danstar Winsor. But be warned, the yeast can't ferment maltotriose, and it struggles with gravities above 1.040.

As to what early moderns did-- well, they could have just put sugar in the wort if they wanted to push up the ABV. I guess that wouldn't apply back in the middle ages though (not sure what you are considering early modern).
The doc says that there is a LVM snapshot being 6 hours old. <strike>And there should be a regular logical backup with at most 24 hours age as well (they just can't find it for whatever reason).</strike> (Scratch that, my doc did not update, despite Google saying it should automatically update).

Regarding what's gone: The production PostgreSQL database. This suggests that the code itself is fine, but the mappings to the users are gone. But git is a distributed VCS after all, so all the code should be on the developer's machines as well.
Arguments that add-ons are competitive advantage for Firefox have had no base in reality for the last few years.

Maybe. We'll see. All I know is that if I could get a menu bar and tree style tabs in Chrome, I'd have switched 5 years ago.
> basics of liberalism as we see it today - rule of law and representative democracy

Add capitalist property relations though too.
If you believe the poster is missing important facts, and you're willing to take the time to do so, let them know what it is you think they're missing in a constructive, non-combative manner. Claiming someone is heretofore unimaginably non self-aware is a direct personal insult, which is never appropriate on HN. Please contribute substantively and civilly, or refrain from doing so.
If you haven't tested your backups, you don't have backups.
And we're sorry for the inconvenience this caused to your workflow today!
Yeah, the "You don't have backups unless you can restore them" stikes again.

Virtually the only way to lose data is to not have backups. We live in such fancy times that there's no reason to ever lose data that you care about.
Pumped storage hydro is great, but it is limited to places that have the right terrain.
> How does it go unnoticed that S3 backups don't work for so long?

My uneducated guess (this one hit a friend of mine): expired/revoked AWS credentials combined with a backup script that doesn't exit(1) on failure and just writes the exception trace to stderr.
We've hired some great new people recently but as you can see there is still a lot work to do. https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/production-engineer/
Why would it matter? In my last job we had user home directories synced via puppet (I am overly simplifying this) which enabled any ops guy to have same set of shell and vim configuration settings on production machines too.

I daresay - having hostname as part of prompt saves lot of trouble.
> There isn't a business too small to benefit from ML/AI.

That's not exactly what I'm saying. There are ML problems everywhere, opportunities to create efficiencies, new products, etc. out of existing data and processes. But nobody hires an AI/ML candidate to come in and tell them what to do. Nobody says "we want to dabble in ML somehow but don't have any pressing needs, can you start at $140K?"

Those businesses need to recognize the opportunities first before the market will expand.
Yup, it's never the fault of a person, always of the system. Once we get this resolved we'll definitely look at ways to prevent anything like it in the future.
That is a fair point. In the United States, people used to make "apple jack" out of apple cider that way. It's essentially freeze distillation.

But be warned! Don't do this, because it concentrates the methanol and other conjoiners. Remember, distillation bad, brewing good... unless you really know what you're doing and are legally allowed to do it...
Thanks for sharing. I had wondered what the word on the street was and couldn't find good information about it despite having searched before.
What about every Electron app?
You leave it out in the snow.
Boson:A C++14 framework for asynchronous I/O, and green threads scheduling
I'll pour one out for you next time I go out.
If you haven't done so recently, TEST YOUR BACKUPS.
Thanks smarx. Also, hi smarx! Been a while! ;)
As much as I disagree with the GP commenter, this doesn't make any sense at all. It's possible to think that Garner was breaking the law and that police use of excessive force (including a banned technique) was _unjustifiable_.

How on earth do you jump from "he was doing something illegal so the police had the right to enforce the law" to "the amount of force used was appropriate and unfortunately led to his death". You may have lost the thread of the conversation, but no one was talking about bakers being killed by inappropriate use of police force in the course of compelling them to serve gay weddings.
I've been color-coding my PS1 for years, but this is seriously brilliant, thanks!
I did something like this when choosing a builder to build a new house. $200k+ decision.

The ones with their pricing for fixed plans listed publicly on their site got our business.
They are actually more of an exception to the rule. It's certainly possible to have a good software business that is self-service through and through, but very few large (as in multi-billion $$) software companies actually are this way. Even the companies you might think of as good examples will still often have a sales operation to go and get the big contracts.
Even with the digital technology, we still need the test pictures and both the human faces and the cards in them:

http://www.thehurlblog.com/film-education-testing-your-camer...

http://niximages.com/blog/?page_id=20207

http://www.colour-science.com/quality%20test%20tools/test%20...

http://www.gballard.net/photoshop/pdi_download/

http://blog.kasson.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/generic-ca...

http://previews.123rf.com/images/spaxia/spaxia1411/spaxia141...
The high-resolution image of Daphnis is pretty astonishing [1]. You can see the moon back-illuminating a thin silver lining around the crest of the trailing density wave. I missed it just looking at the thumbnail picture!

Both of the moons imaged in the flyby, Daphnis and Pandora, are of interest because they're examples of shepherd moons [2] that sculpt the surrounding ring material. For example, the Cassini Division [3] is made by Mimas clearing material at the 2-to-1 orbital resonance. Daphnis, along with Pan, also happens to be the only shepherd moon orbiting within Saturn's main rings.

[1] http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21056 (click the "full resolution JPEG")

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_moon

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#Cassini_Divisi...
Amen. If a comment on HN is controversial score is almost anti-correlated with insight.
true that!
Sometimes it is wise to be cynical, especially when dealing with companies which pride themselves on their profit margins while keeping their users at a tight leash. Doing anything else is not only bad for your budget but also rather illogical, knowing that those profit margins depend on keeping users' noses pointing in the 'right' direction.

So, yes, there are good reasons for Apple being very determined over what you can, and more importantly can not do with Webview and Safari on iOS: they do not want iOS to become too good a host for web-based apps for fear that they might out-compete appstore-bought apps as Apple does not make a cent off the former. This is also why Apple does not allow other 'real' browsers on iOS as those could be used to circumvent these restrictions. That thing about power consumption goes just as much for other apps as it does for web browsers so it is rather easy to defeat that argument.
Anyone have suggestions on alternative programs that are less expensive, online, and self-paced? 40+ IT guy trying to stay relevant.
It's running Win10 and I've installed different drivers. It works ok after changing various settings and using my pointer and ring finger instead of pointer and middle finger for scrolling.
I wonder what the cost would be of pumped storage in just like a massive water tank on a hill, or a big manually dug out lake, rather than in somewhere that could actually be a natural lake.
Backups sucked for the starting in 8.15 on our instances of GLE, because someone decided to add "readable" date stamp in addition to unix timestamp in backup file name without proper testing, which caused many issues. It was somewhat fixed, but I do still issues in 8.16.

I'm not complaining, but backup/restore is important part, with 100% test coverage and daily backup/restore runs.
you're missing the

> including official Apple ones

part here. If Apple had planned it better, all their USB-C cables (starting with the Macbook One) could do all the functions they need for any Apple product going forward. But even today, if you walk to an Apple store and buy a bunch of USB-C Apple products, you'll probably have to color code them yourself to not mix them up, because it won't work if you do. All Apple is helping here is saying "if you have a cable with an intsy tiny serial number print starting with X, use it only for Y". Gee thanks, that sure is a great ecosystem you got going here Apple.

There's a reason why Apple 1997 - 2007 pushed interoperable standards hard (examples: USB-A, 802.11B and then G, Firewire, mini-DP). None of these had connectors that you could confuse, including when switching between different Firewire standards, and these buses did fairly complex things as well. They even had a powerbook generation with two different Firewire ports so people don't get left hanging with their old Firewire devices. That's all under Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, just Ive not being the one in charge of doing these decisions.
> Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either: the bucket is empty

followed by

> So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place.

is no way to be running a public service with customer data. Did the person who set up that S3 job simply write a script or something and just go "yep, it's done" and walk away? Seriously?
Does it count if it's not being used to actually browse the web? I believe Apple would allow that even on iOS.
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The example puts Fox at one extreme. Uh, might this be your own filter bubble? Not too long ago, there was a study posted here with statistics-derived positioning that showed Fox being barely right of center. (BTW, can anybody dig that study up?)

FWIW you're missing Drudge Report, Breitbart, Stormfront, The Daily Stormer, The Daily Caller, /r/The_Donald

You had more on the other side, but Mother Jones was notably missing.
Best of luck with the recovery! I know this must be stressful. :(
I am :/ ... currently maintaining service for 500 high-volume businesses 24x7x365 in 9 timezones. Luckily the product and infrastructure is pretty stable and problems occur maybe once a quarter.

But the constant nagging in the back of your head that shit can go wrong at any second is draining and has been the biggest stressor in my life for a long time now.

My S.O. still gets mildly upset when I pack up the laptop on our way out to a fancy dinner, or disappear with my laptop when visiting her parents, but the fact that our life goals are aligned is the saving grace of all these situations. We both know what we want out of the next 5 years of our lives and are willing to sacrifice to achieve this goal (long term financial security).
I deployed my code before the backup issue. So, no worries.
Agreed. More information about the "propellers" and specks here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21059
Heeeey ;-) Yea, I look back fondly on them. Had much less to do, less responsibility - could spend my day frolicking on the internet...no more!
Uber (and similar apps) will never reach many remote villages

Here in China you can get long distance ride-sharing to remote locations with the shunfengche service of Dididache. It's very popular, particularly since transportation options to some areas are limited and bus stations are often located in irritatingly obtuse urban peripheral locations.
So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place.

Ouch. That is so harsh. Sorry to hear about the incident. Testing ones backups can be a pain to do but it is so very important.
A Nash equilibrium (or very close approximation thereof) does sound like it would reliably accumulate a chip lead over a very large number of hands against four top level human players though. They'll tend not to have readily exploitable weaknesses and won't be equilibrium players either.
Pls read this before using GumRoad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139000
and decide. All the best.
It can be better than the alternative, but I think you would be hard pressed to have anyone say abortion is a good thing. The ideal would be no unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
Yep.
And Sebastian Thrun's course (the Stanford professor, google VP, Udacity founder and google driverless car initiator) is part of that program. You can take AI for robotics for credit there :)
This is very good, but I wish it was more up to date:

From the link:
"Finally I optionally challenge the methods gather/scatter and sheep and goats utilizing PEXT and PDEP. I do not know how fast these methods will be since there is not yet any real hardware and no timing tables available. I guess that they are not faster than one AND and one SHL/SHR/ROL instruction, and so I optimize to masking and shifting if possible."

PEXT and PDEP have been in everything since Haswell (2013) and are latency 3, throughput 1. His guess is actually correct.

Another approach to bit permute is to use the byte-level permutes in SSE/AVX2/AVX512. It's slightly ponderous, especially given the fact that AVX512 won't have byte permute before the VBMI instruction extension. But there will be a short instruction sequence that can permute up to a 64-bit word (or even across a pair of 64-bit words) via a trip through SIMD. Smaller scale permutes can be done with PSHUFB now, of course, and sufficiently clever people can figure out how to compose these smaller scale permutes into bigger ones.

See https://software.intel.com/en-us/isa-extensions for details of the future instruction stuff (VBMI).
Are modern-day people perpetually drunk on mass-media opiates from consuming up to a gallon of behaviorally-engineered dopamine shots each day?
> I suspect that the new "trashcan" design had some kind of critical flaw that left Apple in a Catch-22 situation

I suspect that the custom hardware has something to do about it. They have basically custom everything and a cooling solution that probably prevent them to shop around for easy GPU upgrade. The engineering cost must be awful just to duplicate the performance level you can get with off-the-shelves component. Even server grade components can fit in tiny "alright looking" cases nowadays.
Thanks for clarifying on this. Such a system definitely needs a way to verify news, though I'm not quite how a web of trust might be integrated here.

Grouping by geography and interest is definitely needed (Medium/WordPress style tags can help with both here, especially if users can follow/subscribe to them).

Making your own newspaper sounds interesting as well. You mean like a sort of blog or Medium publication? Or a social network type feed?
The linking aspect is only a line in the sand where fsf will enforce the license, and is not part of the license text. To my knowledge it comes from the idea that binaries with linked libraries will generally not work without those libraries and that that dependency is a strong indicator that we are dealing with a single work rather than multiple independent and separate works.

In contrast to uncertainty, I think we can be quite certain that django works without mysql (I personally run several sites with postgresql). Modules for django would likely not work without django, so they are likely derivative of django and not the other way around. I also vaguely recall fsf stating that they don't consider the linking guidelines to be that relevant for software written in languages without linking, which would include python programs.

Is your problem with the license that FSF as an organization has an opinion on how derivate works can be identified for software?
> I can't understand how anyone who has ever tried well-water can believe that misconception about choosing beer over water.

But for urban folk in the middle of London, or New York, was the water they were consuming as fresh as what you're imagining when you think of "well water?"

Even if it was drawn from nearby wells, and not from dirty cisterns, was their sewage system good enough to keep it from getting contaminated?

I don't know so much about water cleanliness, and the article suggests it may not have been that dirty, but I wouldn't assume that it was all as clean as a perfect little rural well.