skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the two as being equivalent. For one thing, the contractual issues involved in the two cases are quite different. For another, one case could be considered to have involved criminal activity while the other clearly does not. On the other side of the ledger, Visa/MC enjoy a level of monopoly power that nobody in this case does. Those are just too many differences for a comparison to be very informative. I'm slightly inclined to say Visa/MC's actions were wrong, but not on that basis. The principle still stands. It also stands regardless of whether I or anyone else applies it consistently in disparate cases. Legal severance of a commercial relationship is still not censorship, and it does not harm anyone's right to free speech. Denying people that manner of expressing themselves, on the other hand, does abridge free speech.
The absence of a clear product definition and strategy is hardly unique to large teams, and in fact will manifest itself more fatally in small teams in my experience.

I may be suffering from a bout of biased sampling but it certainly seems that the problem of actually defining a product is getting substantially worse these last few years and in the absence of real product strategies there is instead a proliferation of cargo cult product thinking.
Hey all, co-creator here.

We built Thankuu because lots of businesses aren't very good at asking for referrals, so we created a platform to make it easy :). Thankuu enables you to reward your customers for referrals by giving to good causes of their choice.

There is also a broader intention for Thankuu, which is to create a direct connection between businesses donating to charity and them gaining new customers. Basically, so they can see an ROI from their donations. By making that connection, business-giving will rise along with business sales. A win:win for charity and business.

I'd be very grateful for feedback...
Nomad: Replacing Queues with Nomad Dispatch
docker-compose 1.11.0 will be released soon with support for secrets, probably using the same system.
I second this. I've read a lot of his books, with Breakfast of Champions being my current favorite, but I'm halfway through Mother Night and I gotta say it's my new favorite.
The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016)
Stuff like this seems in the same performance range https://www.seeedstudio.com/MediaTek-X20-Development-Board-p...

Even tough it doesn't have OpenCL 2 capable GPU it has 10 cores - but something on the higher end seems very expensive and cheap boards are generation old chips with Mali450 GPUs or PI level HW.

It seems cheaper to get a cheap chinese phone with top level chipset and all the sensors and dissasemble it - maybe get one with a broken screen - although it's a gamble that the rest works.
Baidu estimates a deep net takes ~20 ExaFLOPs to train on imagenet. The RPi GPU has like 100GFLOPs....
MS was definitely not becoming irrelevant. The vast majority of enterprise software is written in .NET and the MS stack runs millions of businesses.

They are evolving the framework to be faster and cross-platform based on external pressures but in the last few years they have managed to overtake several of the other language/framework options to again be one of the top choices for new projects.

They aren't catching up, they're leading the way.
Having that sort of calculator also encourages developers to embellish their competancy level as well, which is not going to help in finding quality developers. I'd much rather a company figure out where I am on their scale (each company I've worked at seems to have different ideas about what makes a junior/mid-level/senior/lead) than taking my word for it.
Kubernetes supported secrets for nearly 2 years: https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/secrets/

They currently debate over pluggable secret stores: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/10439

You can use Hashicorp Vault as a third party resource to store your secrets:
https://github.com/Boostport/kubernetes-vault

Kubernetes also supports RBAC to control access to secrets:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authorization/
I don't think arch has ever been particularly focussed on writing an OS for the least performant hardware in circulation.
Instapaper is down in US as well.

I agree with your surprise.
You won't be able to match price/expenses (fixed with hardware or variable with upkeep) of AWS/GCP due to their economy of scale. Even startups who are doing similar things sublicense from AWS.
>Sure, but do you disagree that P(smart|elite school) > P(smart)?

I expect it to be only negligibly higher, but in the case of some elite schools like MIT or Georgia Tech, I do expect the elite kid to have received a better education.

I mean, I got my master's at the Technion, so I'm one to bag on elite schools, but still. My experience was that the people weren't innately smarter than everyone else, but they had been given a bunch more background coursework and research experience when they completed their official degree level.
>This is why Octave is part of GNU, and why it's GPLed.

And why NumPy/SciPy will overtake Octave, if it hasn't already.
I can't vouch for it, but I've previously noted that Digital Ocean offer a "one click install" for Elixir. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/one-click-i...
How is it better than AWS?
As an Urban Airship employee from 2010-2013 this is eerily familiar stuff. I feel like we should all have a big "we tried and failed to use mongodb as a distributed oltp database" support group.

One point of disagreement:

> However, they had an unspoken value system of not trusting their users to deal with complex database and architectural problems.

At least for enterprise customers (who actually pay the bills) this is the correct value system. It's not that enterprise developers are bad. It's that enterprise development moves incredibly slowly, so the more freedom and options and implementation details you give them to work with the longer it will take them to be successful.

What you as a startup engineer may feel like is a powerful and expressive API just added 6-12 months to the development cycle of every enterprise customer... and thus many will give up on the integration.
I don't see why he felt the need to halfway add in package management, but not go all the way. You still have to download the package and update it manually from what i can tell... where the others you simply add a github path (or other repository path) and updates come eaily, install comes easily.

Consider the case of people like me who work on remote servers, who spin up new vagrant boxes and work on them remote... with the package manager as he described it, i'd have to download all the plugins and manually place them, etc... as i currently stand, i install vundle really quickly , then it just reads my .vundlerc.bundles and installs all the plugins i want, presto. Half solutions are worse than no solutions... because now people will compare the two, and default (likely) to the default solution and make package management harder on themselves than it needs to be...
In the spirit of helpfulness, I think you mean "critique". :-)
No mention in the article and worth re-iterating...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
This is the reason I am so excited about Keybase. I can't comment on the integrity of the software but the vision is there. All encrypted everything is where I see the future of the internet.

Does anybody know if they are working on a mobile app for at least the chat system? I don't necessarily need the whole desktop app on the phone but encrypted chat would be fantastic. (Currently using Signal but would be open to using everything keybase in the future)
I don't think the argument still works of you view the different companion animal breeds as generally fungible. You would need to make the argument that the breed would need to somehow be substantially better than other choices or else it would always be better to pick other dogs.
Strange bedfellows: Trump and Kathleen Wynne.
Usually right before a major market correction, at the peak of a bubble, unsavory, downright illegal and deceptive elements are introduced because of the monetary incentive.

I'm looking at the headlines and thinking whether the clock has begun ticking.
The also typically have an okay semiconductor parts selection, but you have to cross-ref with an NTE part number (hopefully they'll have the catalog nearby to look up any specific parts).
How to create consistent development environments that just work
Not true on Apple selling a record amount of Macs. Apparently they added 7 days to the quarter versus a year before and therefore Mac sales declined again. For 2016 Mac sales also declined compared to 2015. Apple Mac sales declining is tied to the lack of new OS X software, IMO. Otherwise why decline?
The argument that I was making is that the determining factor for getting into this tier of school (aside from luck) is your hard work and determination. Intelligence comes after that. Sure, there is a minimum level of competency. The world's best ditch digger isn't getting into Harvard, all they know how to do is dig ditches.

If you want to make the argument that there is a concentration of intelligence around top tier campuses, sure (though that makes less sense when you realize that the average state school is 4x the size of Harvard and the like). However, I argue that what got those people there was primarily their determination to be there in combination with their competency (competency which was learned by the way, not inherent to the student/person).

> Oh give me a break. Have you ever been to an elite university? Do you know anyone there? My parents sure as hell weren't thinking about my college acceptances when they conceived me. I certainly didn't work hard to get there.

While I did not go to a to a top tier school (I was offered and couldn't ironically, due to money), I work very closely with people who did. Those people possess a drive that took them to success. Sure "from birth" was a hyperbole, but I'm sure you didn't just finish your SAT and say "well I guess I'll go to {top tier}". I'm sure it was premeditated. If you went yourself that is.
> To me, government-ordered public-interest website teardowns sound a lot like a 21st century version of book-burning.

Fortunately that's not what this is. No longer operating a website is not the same as ordering other such websites to be torn down. No need to overstate the problem.
I'm not really qualified to confidently talk about best practices, so these points have question marks attached, since I can't judge what's possible in their setup and what's not. I guess I'm not sure if they did judge it, see last paragraph.

More frequent backups would of course help, if their impact is tolerable. They also need to be tested to actually exist and work.

At least LVM snapshots apparently are cheap enough that they can be done out-of-schedule just to get slightly newer data to staging, so they likely could have been done more often (but they probably weren't thought of as backups, which is why 24 hours seemed enough and nobody had a prepared plan to get back to production from them).

Similarly, Azure-side snapshots are mentioned as not enabled for the database hosts. Maybe that's not viable to do (they had performance issues with Azure, and I don't know how much overhead they case), maybe just something they forgot to set up.

Others have asked "why is there only one replica", which also seems like a good question (but my experience with database replication is close to non-existent, and maybe the higher load of more replicas would have caused other issues. Don't know.).

My point is more that I don't have the impression that the 24 hours are a figure that they arrived on by evaluating what "service level" they could achieve, but more a result of someone at some point setting up a backup with some interval. I don't think 24 hours is a figure where they can say "that's the best we currently can achieve", or even "that's what we planned for", but "that's what we have because that's what we have and nobody has paid closer attention". There is at the very least a cultural angle to it, which is why how they work could be relevant.
Pre-distressed guitars are sold all the time as "relics". Both Fender and Gibson do it. Their custom shop will relic them to match a particularly famous one or generally.

I would link to a source, but they are all pretty much just advertisements. Your favorite search engine could find them.
I'm really curious what their bill looks like. 1.000x m3.large, petabytes of S3 storage, loads of traffic.

I can't imagine what the numbers are. Is there any big player which has public numbers about their infrastructure? (I mean in detail - which services, how many instances, traffic, ...)
We're looking into ways to improve the ranking, so thanks for sharing that teej. We actually started with a normalized and more complex algo that was more along the lines of what you suggest, but the resulting feed had mostly random products and was not very helpful for more casual users. It also made it difficult to understand why a product was ranked. I think you're right that as it stands, we can do more to surface younger products. So far, we're doing it manually with "wildcards".

I mentioned in another comment that one of our bets is that since a user can only recommend a product once, over time the more obvious products should find it relatively more difficult to get new recommendations and newer products will surface.

e.g., if we did a filter of recommendations by YC companies (or more extreme - YC founders), then something like Slack would be popular the first month, but then have few remaining votes. Thoughts?
"LIQ𝑈𝑖⏐〉" is a very strange logo...

Doesn't seem terribly legible to me.
You may not see it as an issue, but the people negatively impacted by it certainly do. Or are we pretending that events like laws suppressing voters based on race [1] don't happen?

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/03/...
What about supporting older 32-bit applications? Without 32-bit support, there won't be any way to run 32-bit games in Wine for example, unless Wine will somehow rewrite it all to work with underlying 64-bit libraries.
I'm referring to the gains of Bitcoin, not the currency itself. Bitcoin advocates point to price growth as a sign of stability and use, but I'd posit that much of the growth comes from early use-cases which will likely disappear due to increased regulation (drugs, tax avoidance, escaping capital controls) or the result of fake market conditions (WillyBot, artificial Chinese volume due to bots operating in a zero-fee environment)
Yeah, same here. If I max out the possible compensation by setting lead w/ a lot of experience, it's roughly 60% of what I make now (as a non-lead with a lot of experience).

The kicker is that I'm employed remotely by by a company based in a city whose CoL hit is even larger than the one I currently live in. The NYC range they give is plausible for me as someone who lives in a place that is much cheaper than NYC, but it's not exciting and wouldn't really motivate me to apply.

GitLab's numbers may look right on paper (and they do explain their methodology in the second link, discussing rent indexes, etc), but they're absolutely not comparable to what good people earn in the real world. Good talent commands good wages everywhere. A skilled remote worker is not going to come to GitLab for an average-for-their-area salary.

Even when working locally, talented people make much more than the average for their area. I know this because I've hired many good people and unless they're entry-level (meaning they're good but haven't had a chance to prove it yet), they don't start coming in the door until you're offering at least a 50% price premium over the reported median. In fact, we had a lot of bad candidates come in asking for around that much. The senior people I hired would make more than double the median for their nominal role. The stats on these government reports don't account for seniority, skill, niche demand, etc., and likely include some people that self-report as holding a title when they're really just aspiring to that position.

Once you're a mid-level dev, you should be pulling in a bare minimum of 80-85k, no matter where you live. I say this not as a bubble-dwelling San Franciscan (who surely finds such numbers laughable even for entry-level), but someone who has lived in various parts of "flyover country" his entire life. When local opportunities for at least this compensation are not forthcoming, go contract or remote.

There's no reason for good people to leave money on the table, and GitLab doesn't appear to get that.
I should probably have left out the last point as it was a distraction from the overall point

whether what's dissuading them from going to ivy league schools are myths or not, the larger point, is that big state schools tend to have pretty (statistically) good critical masses at the top of them
>The parts aren't really available on the open market, but your best bet might be to get a secondhand phone with a broken screen.

Yeah I thought about this, will fish around but I'm afraid that if the screen is broken the rest might be damaged too. But even disassembling my phone doesn't seem too expensive if everything works out as expected.
MIOpen is AMD's cuDNN alternative.
It does, but Nazi control over Germany shaped and changed the kennels significantly. The Verein fur Deutsche Schaferhunde (the breed organization for the GSD at the time) was relinquished to Nazi control a few years before the founder of the breed, Von Stephanitz', death.

Nazi influence on breeding and the use of dogs for experiments (Hitler's "beloved" German Shepherd, Blondi, was famously fed a cyanide pill to test its effectiveness) had quite an impact. Many of the best bloodlines have vanished because of this (in Blondi's case, her puppies were shot and killed after her death) but because of the dogs military value, this was of course not the fate of all of them.

The ancestry of the "working line" dogs we have today can be traced back to these same dogs that fought alongside soldiers in WWII. What's left of them, anyway.
I wish it were that simple. Firstly, what definition of racism are we using, because by measures such as bias against black names on resumes, in the justice system, in police shootings, there is strong evidence we're not remotely in a post-racism society (against blacks, let alone middle-easterners).

And having grown up in a 95%+ white area and moved to SF, it's been my personal experience that it's very easy to have sweeping assumptions about groups you haven't met any members of (which is a class segregation of housing and schooling can lead to future problems).

To take this a step further, I think such biases even hold to a lesser extent within races (based on accents, dress, hobbies) that perpetuates the class system and ultimately the 1% issue.
There's an old saying, I believe it was from a native American tribe (can't say for sure); "To name something is to own it."
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> This interview was recorded a little while before the incident when we were unaware of some of the issues we have in process.

Could you elaborate? I recently heard about GitLab probably less than a week ago and was under the impression they're a great company to work for.
Arch is rolling release; there isn't really an older version that you can go back to, the installer just fetches the latest versions of the packages.

Of course, there's the Arch Linux Archive, which lets you sync packages as they were on a particular date.
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Windows Developer Day–Creators Update (Channel 9 videos)
I'm not sure how you get to the last assertion from the previous two statements. A lot of the bloat for modern web applications come from tracking / analytics.
My university had only student licenses.
> Or they are in a hurry. I will take the faster option every time and that usually means no human.

Correct, but this is the result of the store intentionally routing you through the self checkout by under staffing cashiers to save money.

>What if there was no work to do? Amazon is exploring that concept and if it works as described (I haven't used it yet, but have walked by and it seems to) seems objectively better in every way.

Excellent point. I should have used "self service" instead of "automation". It was a poor choice of words on my part. Full automation to remove anyone from needing to do the work would certainly be objectively better. The article linked is more about self service than automation.
Or, a possibly much simpler answer:

Projects that require large teams are larger, and thus more complicated and difficult. More difficult projects fail more often.

Artificially shrinking the size of the team without reducing the scope and complexity of the project will rarely improve its chances (unless the team size was only an effect of beaurocracy, and you manage to only kick off the people who aren't contributing).
Unrelated to the specific issue of layoffs: It's getting harder and harder for me to understand why some people continue to say valuations aren't out of control. $4.5B on a $100M run rate? Get real.
Since when do US corporations represent the people of the United States and their government? The US has done, and continues to do, some evil shit but there is clearly a much more effective feedback loop between American politicians and their constituents than between the Politburo and the Chinese population. That feedback loop includes peoples' beliefs in the principles of the United States and the Constitution, even though a tiny minority (corporate executives) clearly do not.
So you're saying that Shopify can be used for porn and that Shopify does not have TOS and does not enforce it?
A great description of the feeling of depression can be found in the Netflix stand-up special of Neal Brennan, 3 Mics. (He's also the co-creator of Chappelle's Show, and quite funny.) It's really difficult to convey the feeling of depression to people who don't have first or second hand experience with it, and I think Neal did a great job with that task.
Interview with Seattle's Civic Technology Advocate
I loved watching "The Magic School Bus" as a kid. It would start just after I'm home from school and most of the time had lunch while watching it.
Snobbery. It may taste as good, but if it becomes available too all, it will be judged to be inferior.

Diamonds are higher rated the clearer they are, except for when they are man-made, too.
What products are we taking about? Why does the author simply assume the fact that a large team exists is the reason why the project fails?

He doesn't seem to touch on the fact that many times large teams exist because a project is large and complex, which makes it easier for projects to fail.
>For the other board, I probably wouldn't use USB, but a serial or pin connection could be faster.

I was just thinking USB since it's guaranteed to be there and should be simple to program on android if I chose to go down the "disassemble a phone for parts" route.
> It's not entirely clear to me why it's important that I know somebody is a "queer sapiosexual" or whatever else. But there are clearly a lot of people who think such things are very important.

The people who think it's most important of all are the people who disapprove of it. If we're living in an era where everyone thinks the details of their gender and sexuality are important, that's not because of hipsters in Brooklyn, it's because of fundamentalists in Kansas.

>In a way we can see this in how protest movements are labeled - it used to be that they were labeled by their goals or the problems they were trying to solve, like the "Civil Rights Movement" or the "Conservation Movement." But now we label things by their identity.

I think this might be a rather hasty generalization. What about the peasants' revolt, or the women's march on Versailles? And there are lots of protest movements today that aren't labeled based on identity, such as most of the worldwide protests against Trump.