skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone keeps telling sysadmins they need to be able to write code, how about developers start learning more about how their applications are deployed.

I wear both hats, and then some more on top of that - if someone on my team is doing something that will make deployment and security difficult I make sure to nip it in the bud during testing.
Physicists patent detonation technique to mass-produce graphene
I agree. If you live in a condo building, it's very unlikely you can get a charging station installed.
Foreign language teaching in Japan is notoriously poor, which severely limits the opportunities for remote work. Remote work wouldn't provide many of the non-cash benefits of being a salaryman - social status, access to housing and credit and a multitude of other things.
> Would you buy software from a company that by de-facto policy did not hire Black people? Maybe not. Someone from another part of the world might consider that to be 'stupid' or 'irrelevant to the situation', because of a lack of understanding of the context (i.e. maybe it's a very segregated part of the world and such weird policies are reciprocated)

See, you might have inadvertently illustrated exactly what was ridiculous about this, and with my anecdote, I was just trying to show how reassuring it was to see that despite what views the technical people I had been working with had on the middle-east, they didn't do the shortcut between the nationality of the company, and the foreign policy of the country.
Fine if that's their strategy, my argument still stands.
Yes.

If anyone wants to bet against them existing, I'll take the bet.
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It's an ideal to strive toward.

"Real world" and "real life" dismissals of said ideal are stupid, lame excuses for people who want to make a stupid, lame argument to cover up stupid, lame technical debt in operations by either (a) assailing the credentials of the speaker, as this entire thread has spent much time doing, and/or (b) providing a "well, everybody else isn't investing in this, neither should we" cop-out. And yes, you are doing it wrong. Rather than getting defensive, pulling the knives out, downvoting on sight, and trying to wipe away or justify doing it wrong, why don't you instead realize that it's motivation to do it better? We should all do things better, and every time a single AWS region goes down and takes out half the Internet I sigh because it's this exact, stupid, lame justification fest that results in that situation.

Work toward correct operations. You will never reach it. The cognitive dissonance of these two statements is totally acceptable. If you build a new service today and don't account for DR and security up front it just goes to show me that you haven't learned from the very public failures of those who have come before you, and that to me shows a lack of real world experience.

And yes, I'm aware of several shops that can literally flip a switch, and we're talking cage and ASN, not hobby-scale iOS backends. It's not like finding the holy grail and requires developers who "get" operations. It does exist. And it exists in real life! \u1F632!
That's a pretty good point. Still, I think it's relatively rare (statistically, out of all those who attempt it), unless they themselves are active among the community of users that adopters -- and even then stories of developers building developer tools in return for almost zero donations are not uncommon.

Thanks!
I had a coworker admit he was a Trump supporter, and most of those things haven't happened. However this coworker doesn't actually HAVE sexist, racist and bigoted opinions. The coworker expressed distaste in Trump's immigrant ban, but still believed that he would help the economy. I think this coworker is wrong, however I don't think they are a racist/sexist/bigot. I do think they are a follower of a neo-facist party, but I do not think they themselves are facist. He does make people uncomfortable sometimes, but not because of his political views, and yeah sometimes people do go, "He's a trump supporter?", but they get over it.
One common problem with the SiliconDust boxes (though it hasn't happened to me, knock on wood) is wall-wart failure. No doubt another example of Capacitor Plague. (rant) I can't help but wonder how many tons of perfectly good electronics get landfilled because of crap caps. (/rant)

If you still have the old box, try the new power supply with it, provided it's the same voltage and provides sufficient current.[1] Merely checking the supply with a voltmeter isn't sufficient.

[1] https://forum.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=192...
The timing is curious, they signed this dead and added $2B in fixed liabilities on their balance sheet days or weeks before the S1 filing.

That they didn't wait until after the IPO suggests Snap may see the partnership as a positive. Could also have been pushed from Google's end as it is a nice way of bragging about a big get but without having to formally announce it, and being associated with a hot IPO that will get a lot of coverage.
Yeah, it's THEIR fault they're being overworked so hard!
Eh, I dunno, I've played the whole series twice through and loved it both times. Yes, each game is its own beast, but no one can claim any of them isn't flawed in their own ways. ME1 had mediocre combat and a brutally bad inventory system. Not to mention th elevators.

ME2 streamlined a lot of things but the game lost its RPG elements as a consequence. The scanner game was moronic.

ME3 struck a slightly better balance but the "side quests" were ridiculous.

The real problem is, story wise, the latter two games could never live up to the first. Hell, The Expanse demonstrates that very phenomenon. The first two books are fantastic, but Abaddon's Gate and Cibola Burn are only decent by comparison.
It's become painful to me to listen to most well-intentioned folks debate estate taxes and wealth inequality. So few understand what wahern describes above. The whole debate is a school of red herrings. European tax law is even more of a mess than the US in this regard; even if some practices are eventually ended here, whether in 10 years or 100 years, I have little doubt they will continue on unabated most everywhere else.
The academic system is kind of broke; how are we going to fix it?
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IMHO, operating systems are a solved problem. I think that's why Microsoft is pushing the line between OS and applications so far into application space. I understand they may want to ship with solitaire and weather and all the other garbage apps, but why not let me uninstall them?

I don't go to my computer and think "oh great, I get to use Windows" (or Linux or any other OS), I'm there to run some application.

If Windows didn't arbitrarily send data to their servers, I might use the built in calendar or contacts. It feels like they want me to give up my privacy and they are offering nothing in return.
A letter to the Editorial Board, Journal of Algorithms (2003) [pdf]
Did you read what the parent said? That is not how hardware works.

Yes it's easy to build a single device... successfully scaling it to millions of devices is the hard part.

Also: "100x the resolution?" You obviously have no clue.
dx12 doesn't work with 8
So there are a couple of different projects trying to be distro-agnostic/sandboxed/multi-version package managers:

- Snappy

- FlatPak

- AppImage

- Nix

Snappy is an Ubuntu/Canonical project and FlatPak is a Fedora/RedHat/FreeDesktop project. Snappy and FlatPak are remarkably similar and kind of mirror the DEB/RPM spit. Nix and AppImage are independent.

AppImages resemble macOS's app bundles in that they can be run directly without installation. Snappy, FlatPak, and Nix need to install to a root directory, /snap, /var/lib/flatpak/, and /nix respectively. FlatPak and Snappy need a runtime daemon but Nix and AppImage don't.

AppImage, Snappy, and FlatPak include all of the dependencies in one package. Nix packages just include hash names and install as needed.
What I loved most about Mass Effect was that in its universe, humanity was the new kid on the block, the weirdo completely ignored or mistrusted by all the other species - in the SF I'm used to it's usually mankind who's the savior and the good guy (think Star Trek).

io9 has a nice writeup around this: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5886178/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-i...
Front-end Developer Handbook 2017
The headline: "The wolves of Tel Aviv: Israel’s vast, amoral binary options scam exposed" of [1]. It's an example of Israel tech firms doing business in the Arab world, quietly.

[1] http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wolves-of-tel-aviv-israels-...
Back to a time when Lego meant wooden tractors
Exactly, this is the thing that many moderate democrats aren't even facing! I voted for Hillary begrudgingly because Trump was so horrible, but I didn't like her at all.
If you want details: http://ruststat.youknowone.org/
The objective evidence on how well people care for their land shows that your supposition about how incentives should work is not borne out by the facts. I believe that your supposition is false because reality itself disagrees with you.
When I refer to how it used to be I'm talking like 10+ years ago. It used to be one of the best tech sites bar none.
I'm sorry, what? A warrant for something intangible and inert inside of my body? Police will have access to the information I choose to store inside my own body when I am either dead, or heavily restrained and tranquilized, and not a moment before.
It begs the question what their product really is if so much is outsourced to others and where the valuation is at if all it is is just branding.
In theory, yes, but the replacement is incredibly expensive, I believe around $15k.
> no more than one projected astronaut fatality in 270 flights

> success rate of 99.5% or something. 0.995^135 is about 0.5

Method seems pretty good, but unfortunately that math would only work if there was exactly one astronaut per flight. Per Wikipedia, the capacity is up to 7 crew members, so I reckon at full capacity, that would be 1 full vehicle failure with 7 lives lost in 1,890 flights.

My math is a bit rusty too though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_2
It might have been in development and/or internal use for a long time before being released to the public.
Prime Spiral
Tesla will put an end to that, based on how protective they are about their cars.
It got leaked at one point. If I remember correctly, the use of biotics and eezo was supposed to be destructive to space/stars/reality in general and continued use would eventually lead to the end of the galaxy and all life whether space-faring or not. The reapers were created to end advanced life, with its dependence on mass effect technology, before the effects were catastrophic in each cycle. The sun with irregular behaviour that Tali was investigating in ME2 was supposed to be showing early symptoms of its eventual destruction from these effects.
Instagram's stories have been evolving very quickly.

They've added the ability to tap on usernames written in the videos, to take you straight to their profile, or open up an in app browser to look at websites and catalogues, or link to the geotagged place.

It'll be a game of cat and mouse.

Snapchat users are still posting more on snapchat, and sharing subsets of what they posted on instagram. Instagram only users are using the stories on Instagram exclusively.
Snap needs to have consistent booked revenue in order justify this sort of outlay.

This is akin to dot-com era companies signing long leases on buildings or small business owners buying lots of inventory. Plus, 2 gigadollars could easily buy 4-10 soup-to-nuts datacenters that have tangible (although less) resale value.

Overexpansion is easy to do and super risky... these sort of moves increase expectations and scare off wise investors.
And to add to my previous comment, I can't see why you would want to keep your laptop or desktop unencrypted. If someone steals your computer, they have access to all of your data.

And without Secure Boot and/or TPM-backed key management, hard disk encryption becomes vulnerable to someone planting a modified boot loader or firmware on your system.
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Not only that, I'm skilled in setting up marketing automation which can help warm up leads so they are ready for the sale. Think of that. Using email marketing to help teach clients, build trust, and to get them ready to buy from you.

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The thing I most hated about ME3 was the fact that the "galactic readiness score" depended not just on achievements in the single player mode, but also on time spent in multiplayer.

It totally wasn't clear in (earlier release builds of) the game, and I didn't want to Google it because I was afraid of spoiling the ending. I felt like I had done a pretty good job getting the whole galaxy together under my banner, and my readiness score was quantified by the game in a way that made it seem decent, so I initiated the final sequence and found that I'd been denied the best outcome simply because I had never played multiplayer.

Whatever I thought about the actual ending, the fact that EA and Bioware decided to pull the rug out from under me at the last second after I'd spent something like a decade really invested in their story and universe was a real blow. To me, it demonstrated an astonishing lack of integrity as storytellers. I was so upset that I just couldn't get myself to go back in and replay the re-done ending or any of the DLC.
> What database would you recommend for solving the taxi problem using the JVM?

You have me at a disadvantage here... The only taxi problem that comes to mind is a probability problem that I'd not likely use a database for at all...

> If this is a business problem, and I solve it in 1/1000th the time, for roughly the same cost, then what exactly is your complaint?

If you came to the conclusion that your business problem runs 1000x faster because of differences in the runtime... you've made a mistake. It is far more likely your benchmark is flawed, or there are significant differences in the compared solutions beyond just the runtimes.

Seriously, I've spent a career dealing with situations exactly like that: "hey, this is 1000x slower than what we are doing before... can you fix that?". Once you are dealing with optimized runtimes, while there can be important differences between them, there just isn't that much room left for improvement.

> It's not ambiguous. I'm pointing to the timings for a specific, and realistic business problem.

The problem is perhaps not ambiguous to you, but you haven't described it in terribly specific terms. More importantly though, you haven't described what you mean by "faster"? That's the ambiguity.

> Does Java include glibc?

> What exactly is your point here?

C programs do. Lots of very efficient, high performance C programs.
Ask HN: Recommendations for internal docs / knowledge-base?
Digital Agency; we've got an incredible amount of docs scattered between google drive, emails, confluence, repo wiki's and readme's, trello/aha, and inside people's heads - just thought I'd see if folks have any advice / recommendations on tools / processes to get it all together in one place, and make it more uniform / easier to search / use - as currently it's still easier just to grab the "knowledge" person and pick their brain (with the detriment of disturbing them during their current work sprint).

I'm more concerned with "internal" stuff; such as guides to a platform, who to notify when X happens, or who'd be the best person to talk to about Y platform etc - essentially a company handbook of sorts, rather than client related stuff such as specs / scope of works etc.
RF is appallingly difficult to re-use for inference, though. At least with a DNN or CNN you can pop open the hood and see what the model is doing at various points.

Tradeoffs, tradeoffs everywhere. It's almost like traditional mathematical statistics has something to offer them fancy machine learners. (Breiman was a professor of statistics, after all... ahead of his time, but no less a statistician.)
You have "remote" in the post, but when I took a look at your Careers page it looks like every opening is location-based. Can you clarify? Thanks.
We run our infrastructure on public cloud but almost our entire stack is cloud agnostic (except for a particular big database service we use). So our serving nodes are distributed across many public cloud providers and we can make decisions based on location/cost etc. in different regions of the world.

The rule of thumb I've heard is that you should start looking beyond public cloud once your cloud spend hits ~200K/month. Since at this level, engineering and ops investments you need to make to maintain your own infrastructure start making more sense. I think it's safe to say Snap is beyond that threshold right now.
One answer: restricting the vote to people who have skin in the game. If you have to personally pay for your favored policy you might consider it more carefully.
No article last year held me in such horror as this one. I haven't dared even discuss it with anyone until now. It still takes my breath away. Especially because the U.S. now has less class mobility than most of Europe does. Automation is likely to be a "Yuuge" force multiplier for societal stratification; certainly modest minimum annual income grants aren't going to change that. All my life I've wanted to believe everything this study disproves. My parents and grandparents worked very hard for their kids because they didn't thing this was really the way the world worked. But it certainly is. If I want to become damned depressed all I have to do is think about it. There's no reason not to enjoy the day 'cause of it, but it is more than a little demotivating.
An alternate pattern goes like this:

1. Create new data model and adjust reads to read from the new model first and fall back to the old model. Update ALL your readers first.

2. Change writes to use the new model.

3. Now you have different options. You can leave things as they stand. You can actively migrate data from old to new. You can do a lazy migration, for example, only when your read old data you migrate it.

There are some gotchas depending on your system specifics, esp. races between writes from the migration process and writes coming from the application. How you address those depends on the specifics of your situation...
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What "chaos" and what "waste" do these statements generate?

Here is a man fighting against nearly the entirety of the news media which control the main communication channels. If he's not supposed to use misdirection and hyperbole to fight back, how can he possibly expect to get his side of the story out there?
> Of course, maybe they got some killer promotional deal with Google

For sure. How much is this free marketing that Google cloud service is getting worth? I'm pretty sure whatever discounted deal Google gave Snap is more than made up by this free marketing blitz they're getting.
...the popular vote for any election is meaningless...

Yet the administration itself keeps bringing it up. Making up stories to explain it away. As if it mattered quite a lot.
A few idiots attack people and then Milo and company get to play the victim.

Was very frustrated last week when way too many people were cheering the sucker punching of Richard Spencer. Was attack on free speech and just made another otherwise obscure figure famous.
I was just offered 1 gigabit unmetered for $500/month in the Denver colo I run my servers in. I have to be sure, that Google gets their bandwidth for far, far less!

Which means, 50 cents per Mbps/per month. Usually a 1Mbps means about 190GB of transfer over the course of a month, I think. So 1000 * 190GB = 0.190 PB per month.

412PB thus means ~ 2200 Gbit/s . Under my pricing, I get a whole lot less than $33M / month.

So, does your calculation involve storing that same 412PB?
A quick Google search found a PDF with this list:

Eight states have repealed the rule against perpetuities.
These states are Alaska (repealed the rule for vesting of
property interests), Delaware (repealed entirely for
personal property interest held in trust; 110 year rule for
real property held directly in trust), Idaho, Kentucky
(repealing the rule interests in real or personal property),
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota.

Nine states have adopted longer fixed periods for the rule
against perpetuities, sometimes only for certain types of
property. These states are Alabama (100 years for property
not in trust; 360 years for property in trust), Arizona (500
years), Colorado (1,000 years), Delaware (110 years for real
property held in trust); Florida (360 years), Nevada (365
years), Tennessee (360 years), Utah (1,000 years),
Washington (150 years).

Source: http://www.actec.org/assets/1/6/Zaritsky_RAP_Survey.pdf

In those states--even the ones with the absent or absurdly long vesting period limitations--there may be other rules that make it hostile for multi-generational trusts. But I'm pretty sure that in at least a few of them you can do exactly that. But I don't know enough about estate law to be able to point them out without further research. Much like the laws leveraged by lawyers and accountants who help the rich move their money off-shore, they don't generally discuss this stuff in public forums. But it's not nearly as secret or esoteric, so with some effort it should be easy to figure out which states are attracting the most business, so to speak.
It's supposed to be achievable precisely because the shuttle was such a dumb/difficult/unwieldy concept no matter how it was implemented. SpaceX and Boeing get to have abort capability all the way to orbit and inherently simpler capsules.

To torture the shuttle comparison, they shouldn't get damaged by a piece falling of their launching rockets because they get to sit on top and keep their heat shields protected during launch, and they shouldn't be destroyed if the booster explodes because they have launch escape systems. The only two shuttle failures causing fatalities were kind of inherent to shuttle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13527153
That's not true. I never played multiplayer and got the best ending. I believe you need most (all?) of your crew alive, among other things, but it's absolutely doable (I did it by accident... I just assumed that was the proper ending... and honestly, wasn't really a fan :S).
To be far I'm the same as the grandparent post, but I tend to stick to the legacy settings menus which still have everything and only encounter the new ones occasionally (ie: updates).

I've learned enough of the new one to navigate it, but I can still basically type my way through settings in the old style menus still so it doesn't bother me.
You are both making claims, the positive and negative of a particular characteristic of batteries.

When I first read your comment, I thought you were a little over the top, but it sounded like you likely had something solid to back it up, so I was interested in learning something new. Personally, I don't make strong statements like that unless I can pretty quickly defend them. I honestly wasn't trying to catch you out. And seeing a myth busted is generally a good time!

As for phone batteries, I just had to replace mine, so that's not a particularly useful example. As I understand it, there's a lot of circuitry in phone batteries these days anyway, so I'm not sure what failed. I'm not going to use my anecdotal evidence for or against your case, for what it's worth.

Be well!