skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, let's take BLM then. There's no doubt in my mind that Ben & Jerry's factored visibility into their choice of organization - after all, visibility is the perpetuating force in activism.

The question is then whether that visibility was chosen over the organization's reputation for efficacy, which is very debatable. For example, BLM is in the forefront in the movement for law enforcement bodycams. It's once again up for debate whether that's a "good" thing, but it's undeniably a consequence of their activism.

This is more anecdotal, but I don't think about B&J's BLM support when I go to buy ice cream. I buy Cherry Garcia because I like Cherry Garcia, and knowing that some of my money goes to a cause that I like is just a cherry on the top. This, in my mind, is no substantially different from choosing McDonald's over Burger King* and subsequently recognizing that a small part of your purchase goes towards their children's charity.

* Sorry.
I don't eat at either of these, but they came to mind as institutions that engage in (less partisan) activism on behalf of orphans and children.
it kind of feels like skipping homework at school, things are always building up

There's always more work to do! No surprise! This is why we automate so that the amount becomes smaller and that's why we cut things we don't need.
I commented on the previous thread about this, but I work somewhere between about 4-5 hours a day on average I think, have been doing so for the last 6 months. My productivity is now greater than it was when I worked 8, and I'm more relaxed and happier.

I'm a contractor so it's relatively simple for me to do this, I'm in a lucky position in that I can afford to not work 8 hours, but personally I can really see a huge benefit.
Hey Apple, where's your Web Midi support at?
Ah, I see, thank you. I mostly work with the hobbyist 3.3/5/12V, so I don't really need a fancy multimeter (the socket experiment was a one-off and I should have used one of those screwdrivers with the light instead).
There's even a game: http://psdinvaders.com/
When to Go for 2, for Real
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IBM Bans Marketing Remote Work
Yes, but my dreams blend together code and the other people in my life in a bizarre manner which only makes sense inside the dream itself, but is otherwise ludicrous. It is as if I am trying to debug other people, which of course never works, and thus it inevitably turns into an anxiety dream.
Strangely, this wasn't mentioned in this or the other English-language articles about this that I saw:

The setup was to during 23 months test if six-hour days resulted in any meaningful improvement on the (rather high) amount of sick leave the employees used.

The conclusion was that the amount of sick leave only went down with 0.6%.
Compare it to the Soviets shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983. Chomsky writes, "For the month of September 1983 alone, the New York Times index—the very densely printed index of articles that have appeared in the Times—has seven full pages devoted to this story. That's the index, for one month alone. The liberal Boston Globe on the first day of coverage had its first ten full pages devoted to that story and nothing else."

That's what a peep looks like.

What do you think would happen if Iran were to shoot down an American commercial flight in US waters/airspace with hundreds of families on board?
To be honest, if this happens, the next time I visit the US it will be with a dumb phone.
A side project doesn't have to be an LLC. Majority of most basic web services require some sort of Terms of Service but if you're only building it for fun paying a couple of hundred bucks for a lawyer to write up terms of service no one cares about doesn't seem cost effective.
As to be honest, I have no clue about SEO at all :) I'm happy some other developers checked it out...Didn't even think to support this project, data is quite static. But according to some feedback, some things to be changed for better filtering. Will get on it at night :) Not really interested in sales, will be happy if amazon would send me a pack of beer :)
Out of curiosity, is this a result of your employer having flexible working hours and you being able to get the work done in that time, or are you also being paid less? (or are you in freelance, etc?)
Yes there is, but it's a private repo so we see a 404. Beside the point.
This feels like a straw man, I did not make the argument that founders will retain all of the value. Obvious the economy is complex but corporate profits and executive pay are at all time highs. Employees are capturing less and less of the revenue stream. Now, founders may not retain their ownership but the ownership will remain in the hands of the class of the wealthy.

(I think it is a weak point for me to make, but I'm pretty sure there won't be Uber drivers in 20 years, probably not in 10.)
I have implemented this with the aim of providing a "search assistant" type feature which would highlight the (socially) "most liked" links as well as a summarized info (which will get very useful over time) as more and more users use it.

The mobile users would no more be required to dig out the information through the search results or inadvertently click the ads that fill the mobile screen.
Garbage collection isn't as big a detrement to performance as you might think. There are many realtime systems that run LISP. Like original LISP from the AI crowd. You might want to check out http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
They started with Mills ntpd, so there have been downloads available since t0. There's a significant amount of code you can lose from a large C project just by getting rid of ifdefs that nobody uses, so the +/- line count isn't a great metric either.

The true metric for success for something like ntpsec is the number of meaningful security problems ntpd has been vulnerable to since ntpsec's inception that ntpsec hasn't been.

At the point where they rewrite in a new language, they're embarking on a fundamentally different project with a different value proposition, which sort of moots the progress they've made (or not made) on hardening ntpd.

(Fair warning: I am both an ESR skeptic and an ntpsec skeptic; I genuinely do not like the idea behind the ntpsec project).
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Where in the recording is the quote you're talking about?
> Looking at Android as a representative of "embedded" also seems a bit fallacious. The lowest-end android device I can buy has a lot more ram, storage and clocks than an average home router.

Well you can look at ARM Cortex-M3 running MicroEJ instead.

http://www.microej.com/resources/supported-platforms/
> $60,000 in 1998 would be about $89,000 today, after adjusting for inflation.

I have a hard time believing $89k is the equivalent of $60k in 1998. Gas was $1 a gallon, average rent in LA was $900, health insurance was $35 a month, DOW was at 9k.
> How does KDB handle replication and failover?

With -r and (in my case) SO_REUSEPORT. Most people use a dedicated gateway (have seen custom tomcat stuff and haproxy).

Meanwhile, MongoDB doesn't actually replicate reliably (acking then losing anyway) and failover can crash cascade in the naïve configuration.

> Or even high insert/update rates to datasets that exceed the size of memory?

This is literally the KDB tickerplant model. Have an RDB that flushes out regularly (daily) to an HDB.

You can also just write to a log `:log upsert ...

> How do you shard KDB?

Same way you shard anything else? By picking a key and directing the query to the appropriate server. h[(first md5 k) mod count h] "query..."

> KDB doesn't support unicode text.

UTF8 is fine.

The number of times I've needed the first 5 code points (and not the first 5 bytes or the first 5 characters) in my life is zero. All that half-baked Unicode support in various languages (like MongoDB) just makes people think that they've solved a problem that they really haven't.

> Yes, KDB excels at its relatively well defined niche of transforming and aggregating "smallish" (say 10 TB or less) numerical time series data. It would be a horrible choice for the backing store of a high throughput CRUD application...

I use it in one of those big CRUD databases (digital marketing and tele-lead tracking).

> What is it with KDB zealots thinking that KDB is the best database for every task? I swear, KDB is the Scientology of databases.

Because it solves problems they have.

Even when I don't use KDB I use a similar architecture because it's the correct architecture, because I've had these problems for a lot longer than I've had KDB.

If it doesn't solve every problem I have, that's because I have work to do, not because it isn't great at the problems it does solve, and I don't shout at my hammer because it isn't a spoon.

However MongoDB doesn't solve any problem I've ever had: I've never needed a bag of objects/filesytem that loses data, or a binary blob that I cannot query. It's so famously "web scalable" it has made a joke of the very idea of being scalable.
He does, there are releases for NTPsec in C. He's just recently debating about Go vs Rust as a possible transition.
And if you don't use social media, and they don't believe you?
> During the first 18 months of the trial the nurses working shorter hours logged less sick leave, reported better perceived health and boosted their productivity by organising 85% more activities for their patients, from nature walks to sing-a-longs.

How do you eliminate bias in a trial like this? I mean, a lot of people want to move to a 6-hour day, so they'll be working hard to prove they're productive in that format. That doesn't mean it'll be sustainable though once it becomes the new normal.
Please stop thinking of IBM as a vertically integrated technology company. They are a service company, with a veneer of technology and intellectual property. These kinds of hypotheticals should be formulated the other way around, specifically: "What if IBM sold off the Power architecture and IPO'ed it big enough to go acquire a sustainable hardware technology stack?" Power will eventually wither within IBM due to the impedance mismatch in R&D investment.
For me, some days it would be awesome, on others it would be stressful as shit.

What I would prefer is to work as long as I need to and when I come to a logical breaking point, I go home. Some days that may be 4 hours, other days that may be 12. Some things I can't easily break down into chunks that easily fit into 8 hours and not have me lose my place by going to sleep. Some days I get into a flow and I don't even realize I'm hungry until it's dark again and I suddenly realize everyone's gone to bed and left me on my own. Other days I struggle to figure out what I'm doing and the more I fight it, the harder the struggle becomes. It's not because of a lack of discipline or lack of want to work, it's just that I struggle to connect dots that when I'm on form just connect themselves.

On days when I'm on form, I'm unstoppable, a machine that just churns out working, tested, simple, elegant solutions to problems. When I'm not on form, I can't figure out how chew gum without gagging. This seems to hinge on how much sleep I've had, which directly impedes the amount of time I have in a day... finding the balance between enough sleep and enough time to get work done to a high degree of quality is a constant struggle

So I don't think changing the length of the work day for me even enters in to my psyche. It's always either far too long or nowhere near long enough... it would be the same if the work day was 2 hours long or 22 hours long.

That's what it's like for me, I can't speak for everyone else.
I flew with my final-trimester (ie very visibly) pregnant wife in a small helicopter. The pilot announced the number of souls including the unborn, i was, (and still aren't) sure whether this was just cute for effect, or what he was supposed to do.
I can see taking it to the drag strip for a little fun, but a real track day? Does anybody do that with a big sedan like this? Just curious, I haven't seen enough of those to really have an opinion here.
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What is Edge Analytics?
See a sibling comments to GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624
Pilot makes a gross error, Airbus software saves the day ... cue comment how this shows Boeing is better.
Are there any plans to improve debugging ? It seems to be the elephant in the room with this kind of tech
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> * explosion in the rate of single parenthood (perfectly in line with economic theory on how availability of resources affects child rearing choices)

This has more to do with the evolution of freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Any economic theory rooted in rational decision making is incomplete at best. We could lower this rate by going back in time when marriage was treated like a contract with the intent of producing viable offspring.

> * slow down in improvements in life expectancy

You mention that you're against any regulation. Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, making it by far the leading cause of death from cancer and on its own the second leading cause of death. This is nearly one in five deaths. I shouldn't have to bring up the behavior of the major tobacco companies in the past and how life expectancy would be now without government regulation.

Also, if you're going to blame this on social democracies and not that we may be reaching what the limits of human lifespan are in the anthropocene era, I don't know what to say.

What I can say is that we will likely see an uptick in human lifespan due to CRISPR related technologies (discovered at a public, government funded university with research grants provided by public and private sources).

Free market ideologues make the same fatal mistake that economists did when creating decision theory. They eschew psychology and replace it with the mythical rational, utility maximizing individual. Also, humans are horrible at pricing things and rarely take externalities into account. For example, is the cost of submerging pacific islands and displacing the inhabitants taken into account when doing things that release greenhouse gases? It's like a cult or religion that thinks they uniquely have the solution for all the world's ills.

> But hey since 40 years of social democracy has failed so utterly,

There is more to life than simply money. I'm not the biggest fan of social democracies, but I am thankful that I have things like the right to vote after Jim Crow was shut down. I am thankful my cousin was finally able to come out of the closet and marry the person he loves. But I guess since I can't put a value on that, social progress is irrelevant =P
Perhaps tech workers could instead work three ten-hour days instead, if indeed it's not just a symptom of deeply ingrained conditioning towards work-a-holic behavior.
"High-quality" is a metric that was already established by the article:

> They’re looking for the LeBrons and Bradys — the best people in the world

"High-quality" means "would pass an interview at a top tech company that your typical US mediocre programmer or CS graduate would fail", or perhaps "could work as a senior executive at a top tech company". The article is presenting an argument that hiring at tech companies would be affected; humanitarian concerns are irrelevant to that argument.
On one, ok. I haven't followed DirectX too closely. I knew 12 was designed to match modern GPUs much closer but I didn't know if that was sort of 'medium' between DX 11 and Vulcan, there being something even lower from MS.

Thanks.
After more than doubling revenue, Duo Security looks ‘Beyond’ the firewall
Not a lot of algorithms books on this list, I was surprised to see CLRS at #14.
Seems like an easy debunk here is a test that has a more realistic response delay instead so that the slowdown can de demonstrated as an absolute amount vs. a percentage amount.
(Redash author)

Having a single executable is definitely the best, and I wish we had one for Readsh... trying to compensate on this with the Docker and cloud (AWS / GCE) images for easy setup.
I suppose it depends whether six hours is a hard maximum.

If you're being kicked out of the building in six hours, that could be stressful.

But if six hours from now you have the option of leaving with no one looking askance, that's nice. (Until everyone tries to prove they're more hard-core than the next guy.)

It seems like the tech sector _was_ starting to realize that people can get more done in five hours of "flow" than eight hours of forced confinement to a desk.
Being arrested doesn't mean you are guilty of a crime, that's the issue.
I'd go with a 4 day workweek instead
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"What is "data" without an interpreter (and when we send "data" somewhere, how can we send it so its meaning is preserved?)"

- Alan Kay, from a discussion he had with Rich Hickey on HN (Rich Hickey disagrees with the idea that you need to send an interpeter)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722
People who make these Amazon referral farm sites, is anyone willing to share how much money they make off theirs? Maybe like a $ per 100 pageviews stat or something? I'm curious.
Ansible brings inventory management to the table. I can have an inventory with my backend and frontend instances tagged, run my playbook, and it will copy/start the appropriate systemd units.
Thank you, but I read their comment carefully, and I'd like to let this person (Matthias247) speak for themselves. (I've asked mods to unflag my comment.) I hope they will respond.

To reply to the take on their comment that you've just written: I'm not talking about the decisions junior engineers make. I'm talking about the decisions senior architects, who whiteboard and diagram solutions as complicated as necessary (which is the correct approach), make. They are making the wrong decisions, using the wrong trade-offs. They are not doing their job well.

The specific issues you have paraphrased could be solved in a different way (I'll just quote what you just said: "something like a 'thread' leak". This has specific possible solutions). The point is, that way is not the way that has been chosen, due to bad, incorrect, wrong decisions.

It's not that there are leaks or bugs (I'm not talking about the work of junior engineers). It's that the chosen, correctly implemented algorithm implements the wrong choices.

Let me give you an analogy: there is a very, very good sort algorithm called quicksort. It has very good behavior and is commonly used. It has excellent theoretical properties.

In its first naive implementation the worst case happens when an array is already sorted or nearly sorted. (http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/when-does-the-worst-case-of-qui...) [1] As a practical matter sorting things are often done in cases where they might be sorted already or nearly so.

So it's not that the other cases don't need to be taken into consideration - after all even bubble sort works optimally when lists are already sorted....

It's that it's wrong to code quicksort by making the choices that ignore the most common case. Anyone coding the naive quicksort implementation I mentioned on data that is frequently already sorted or nearly sorted is not doing their job well.

In the case of network logic, the wikipedia article I linked shows that it does not even have technical properties that mean it is theoretically correct under all network conditions. So it's even worse than a naive quicksort: it's broken for the most common case, and not theoretically correct (because that's not possible) for every case.

They simply need to wake up and change their trade-offs and priorities. For example, by randomizing sort order for quicksort, of course this adds steps - at the same time, it improves the most common condition (sorting an already-sorted or nearly-sorted array.) Use this analogy and, yes, by God, code (and more importantly, architect) for the common case!

[1] http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/when-does-the-worst-case-of-qui...
What would the small patch look like?

As a consumer, the requirements I have are 1. always available, 2. machine-parseable without running a script, and 3. cross-distro (like lsb_release already is).

I think any patch that gets you that causes you to end up with /etc/os-release, although possibly under a different name, no?
Judging from [1], Richard Stallman may be in trouble:

> I have never had a Facebook account. There is a Facebook account called "Richard Stallman", but it is an impostor.

[1] https://stallman.org/facebook.html
I was not the OP who you replied to but I assumed that this was what he was referring to.

When asked about students staying back in the country after going to Ivy league schools the quote is

“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

Which implies that he would prefer fewer legal immigrants. The three-quarters figure is of course a gross exagerration.
Facebook announces paid family sick leave and new bereavement benefits
As far as i can remember, they've been consistently behind on support for emerging web technologies (since the app store came out), it just doesn't seen to be in their business interests to keep up.
Forgotten trick
In my experience, there's a significant overhead even before anyone can apply their sloppy coding skills - and scaling, oh boy the scaling (super-linear, more likely exponential). "Clientside filter works great for 10 items, and sort of okay for 100 items, ship it!" (And becomes unusably slow at 1000 items).
If you're security-minded you're already extra suspicious, because then you must have something to hide.
Is that a goat around 1:45? : D
People are cornered by high rent/land prices. They understand this and hate it. The whole point behind high land prices is to prevent most people achieving financial independence. At this point the workers call the shots. This is why we are kept wage slaves.
If what you are suggesting is that latency measurement is difficult but what is probably most interesting in the context of http service libraries, I completely agree.

My major issue was, if they had run this exact same test and reported in "request overhead in seconds" would be largely not valuable at all because it doesn't tell you nearly enough information to determine if there has bean a meaningful latency regression.

With throughput, its likely not as valuable in real usage, but the single stat does tell you there was a throughput regression.

So I think we agree that this isn't a meaningful regression, I just disagree that changing how you report the number would be valuable.
Seems like a flaw in the algorithm if Effective Java is not in there. I filtered by the Java tag and "Effective C++" showed up, but not Effective Java.
Actually I am quite interested in hearing about these "H1b cartels." I feel that this issue is underreported. I am also still quite bitter about the Disney World bait-and-switch, and so I believe this issue deserves more attention.

I work in higher education, and H1bs have been very useful for attracting talented faculty from all over the world. It's neither a perfect nor fundamentally broken system, but to understand how to fix it we should feel free to discuss the flaws and benefits openly.
I highly doubt any cost savings will be routed to anyone but shareholders.
Completing the quote:

"... and how it’s overwhelmed the country? When you look and it’s got 61 million, 20 percent of the country is immigrants. Is that not a massive problem?"

I don't know about those numbers, they seem to come from a right-wing think-tank called the Center for Immigration Studies [1], but wasn't Bannon claiming that there are too many immigrants? Which wouldn't be the same as wanting to stop all immigration.

1: http://cis.org/61-Million-Immigrants-and-Their-Young-Childre...