skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting series of tweets here: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa59...

It outlines a model of "supernova" companies. Companies that initially earmark such a large market that they implode, creating the materials for many other companies. AirBnB for example is just a small chunk of craigslist. Twitter may be in the process of exploding, being unable to capture or tame the reaction.
I would be extremely interested in seeing what you come up with. Will it be on terra.farm?
I get what the author's saying -- that white rice is pure carbohydrates, while sweet potatoes are a healthier mix -- but it's phrased pretty strangely. What exactly is rice, if not a plant?
Yes, but it's still a race to the bottom. To make it "less undesirable" for an employer to hire a full time employee simply means reduced compensation, benefits and protections for said employees. "We won't hire you on a full time basis because we need the flexibility to lay you off whenever we want and we want to pay you less and offer you fewer benefits."

Do we really need to make employment as unpleasant and stressful as it can possibly become before we accept the fact that some kind of basic safety net is needed?
It varies widely based on the sorting center near you, your local post office, and your specific mail carrier. A friend of mine used to work in a sorting center and said it was the most brutal job he'd ever had because it involves a lot of physical labor. He said he never saw anyone purposefully mistreating mail, though he did see one or two people busted for stealing packages. He also saw several accidents where automated machines would mangle a package, once while he was working the station. IIRC he had to carefully pickup all the pieces he could get out of the machine and pack it in a new box.

Everywhere I've ever lived all of them were great and I've never had a lost package or any problems.

The only negative experience I've had is the substitute carriers here in SF; when my regular guy is out the sub loves to claim he tried to deliver the package without bothering. When someone is home all day it is a bit difficult to believe they attempted delivery without leaving even a note.
My understanding is that this problem is in part due to the huge boom in higher education after WWII. Departments got into a growth mode where they produced more ph.d.'s than were needed to replace the present generation of college professors. When the grow came to an end in the 1960's, they should have cut way back on graduate students, but they didn't, and so we now have a great surplus of would-be professors as compared to the number of available slots.
You still get the problem where pickup trucks are a popular vehicle. It's not intentional (although perhaps from a lack of caring sometimes), but trash thrown in the back simply flies out when cruising down the highway.
Why is a compiler writer attempting to legislate the kernel address space?
Quotes can be used for different purposes. I suspect that you can use a quote in a civil, constructive way as an example, though it might just be better to find a reference to point to.

In the case you're referring to here, the commenter was intentionally bringing up an inflammatory quote to discredit the parent comment, taking the thread completely off track from what had been a relatively civil discussion, which is what the mod pointed out (as did other commenters in the thread).
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I think that in-between area is generally called, "the working poor."
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As the article says, the ban includes bags, cups and cutlery.
Given the levels of unemployment in the EU over the last 10 years, and the current million+ a year immigration rate, this is going to get worse before it gets better. A lot worse.
Yes its better not to pay them at all because it sends a strong economic signal of "go do something else you're not wanted here".

Far better they get a new career and become net sources of tax money rather than net sinks.

At the macro level you have a totally different problem if there's 320 million people and only 90 million jobs, well...

There is no logical reason retraining or breaking into a market naturally requires receipt of food stamps. If there were a healthy demand, pay would be healthy.
Ted and jakewins both advocate subscribing to support newspapers and journalism.

I absolutely agree that quality journalism is essential and should be paid for. But aim higher: In addition to subscribing, try to find a funding method that actually will work in the long run. Specifications, in no order:

A) Journalists have sufficient funds to do quality work, earn a decent living, and attract talented, dedicated people to the profession.

B) Journalists can speak truth to power and to an angry Internet mob. They are free from influence by their funders, to a great degree.

C) The quality work is as widely distributed as possible. This is essential: If only subscribers can read it, then only tiny portion of the online world can benefit and it's not part of the public conversation. Instead of the Internet dream (very achievable) of distributing valuable content effortlessly, we're back to the old days of it being available only to a few subscribers and everyone else subsists on 'fake news'.

It's a question that's been asked many times, but so far nobody has solved it (and specification C is usually ignored).
Very good paragraph here:

>The truth is that teaching is a diminishing priority in universities. Years of AAUP reports indicate that budgets for instruction are proportionally shrinking. Universities now devote less than one-third of their expenditures to instruction. Meanwhile, administrative positions have increased at more than 10 times the rate of tenured faculty positions. Sports and amenities are much more fun.

The author alludes to sports and nice dorm rooms as the place where the money goes, but is that true? Do they really take up all of the slack that was once the use for instruction? That can't be right. There has to be a lot more corruption than that these days.

Still, if the University really has become High School 2.0, then this makes sense in a way. But the real question we then have to ask is what happens then to the MA/S? Is that then the new BA/S? I have been told so by many hiring managers that it is the case. Follow the logic here, that then means the PhD is the new MA/S. Perhaps these students are smarter than the author lets on.
An argument like this is fun on the internet, and it might (eventually) help you out in the courtroom. Let us know how it works out for you if the border guard decides that you're trying to make a fool out of him.
Wikipedia (with it's current edit culture) is an example of what bikeshedding looks like when scaled up.
I'm curious to know this as well. It would be cool if they implemented this in the U.S., even if only for the return to dominance of the glass bottle soda.
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Scheduling is hard too. Every company has different requirements around how their scheduling works. Lots of businesses need their employees to clock-in and -out of their assigned shifts for accountability reasons, not sure if Staffjoy supported that. The shifts can have requirements too, e.g. the maintenance shift can only be scheduled for 8 and 12 hours, but nothing longer/shorter. There are usually payroll and billing implications, so adapting to an existing payroll/billing system would be an additional challenge, and not doing so would be a non-starter for lots of businesses.

If anything, the product surface area they were trying to tackle is really broad. Probably could have focused on a particular vertical and provided more value-adds.

I'm excited to see what gets open-sourced. Schedule visualizations are also hard. :-)
> only recently

Perhaps you should do a more thorough literature review.

The NYT reported, "Nation roused against motor killings" in 1924.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/murder-machines/
I understand the point, what I am saying is that most of the contributors will have no idea how to implement this idea nor the technical chops to do it.
I for one would love to see a hosted offering of cockroachdb!
You do realize the way most services get into AWS is that they're first built in the retail side of Amazon (without any thought towards AWS) and then once people realize it's effectively solving an actual problem, it's rebuilt for AWS. Having to support Amazon retail is a pretty demanding stress test -- I'm not sure why you're getting this notion that Amazon doesn't run anything. I should think handling Black Friday alone would count for something..
We built a new GraphQL client that makes it especially easy to integrate with Redux, which also handles all of the related concerns about data caching and state management: http://dev.apollodata.com/
What will be the effect in air pollution when burning plastic garbage is replaced with things like paper garbage and the poor return their glass bottles because it gives them $$$?
Sounds a little like "shit's easy syndrome":

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
That can backfire, though.

"California's two major public pension funds (CalPERS and CalSTRS), the biggest in the nation, lost a total of more than $5 billion on energy-related investments for their fiscal years, ended June 30 (2015), according to a new report."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-calpers-calstrs-energy...
I think I missed that, thanks for the reference.
We're building a specialized Rails web app that gets deployed, customized and possibly extended (via additional engines) per tenant. Having a single VM per customer is just so KISS, simplifying every step of the process, billing, security, data isolation, load management... Any other solution would become ludicrously complex in comparison, for no reason at all, buzzwords be damned.
I have found just about everyone picks one carrier: FedEx, UPS, USPS, etc, and decides they suck. It's all anecdotal. I've had several problems with UPS and so I tend to avoid them. Yet USPS is batting 1000 for me.
They do mention it:

"For all the alluring backstory, questions still remain. Chiefly there is that brittleness. Iceland are ready. Iceland have a great system. But are they actually any good? Most riffs on this story tend to overlook the fact Iceland had plenty of luck in qualifying.

The expanded tournament helped. Other teams played poorly. Iceland tended to sit behind the ball, scoring from knockdowns and set pieces. Even in the key home defeat of Holland they had 26% of possession."
I eat the same every day - but I still wouldn't do long term calorie restriction - I enjoy being physically strong quite a bit more than potential years in my 80s
So crops rot. The price goes up. Now they can make more money selling crops. So they can pay people more. What I am missing here?
That's snazzy, good work!

I found myself wanting to set my own initial order of the list to see what some specific edge cases (already sorted, one element off from being sorted, in reverse order, etc) look like.
I just eat with my bare hands.
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The entire motive for this "mainstream media is fake/lies push" to get people to ignore anything that doesn't come from them. It's exactly the same as the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt legal strategy pursued by people like SCO only you don't have the benefit of court managed discovery to force a version of the truth out in the open.

"Even the big names get it wrong" isn't the same thing as "trust no one [but me]"
> Conservatives didn't politicize the academy alone

I'm talking about conservative politicians - external actors, not internal.

Also, I'd love to see some cites about the issue you raise from reliable sources. I'm sure it happens to a degree - it happens everywhere - but there is so much static on the issue from partisan conservatives, who follow the program of delegitimizing everyone who disagrees with their ideological program (e.g., the "media", climate scientists, Obama, Clinton, etc.) that they can't be trusted on anything.
By central server I mean a referral hub, yes. But I just couldn't keep one up reliably (in the sense that I didn't want to, since the mesh had to be fairly dynamic in my case).
I agree with you regarding the importance of thinking and acting locally, especially for the majority of people who don't realistically have the power and influence to make a difference outside of their locality.

But it's a tremendously cynical and harmful to believe that "everyone is for themselves." It's just not true: there are millions if not billions of people who live much more for others than themselves. The supremacy of self-interest is not some foundational truth of social reality - it's an economic theory of human behavior which corporations and power hungry individuals want us to believe in because it props up the system of predatory capitalism that enriches them at the cost of the public good.
Thanks!

ran this:

sudo apt-get install xorg-dev

and then this:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libglew1.5 libglew1.5-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev

And that fixed the problem
This is the classic of the genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGu4AwL5Kho
Hope they find someone, nim is a very good language for how small and independent it is. Especially considering its operating in the same realm as heavyweights like rust and go.
So the standard does not require the compiler to e.g. remove the "redundant" check for null or assume that signed integers don't cycle values on overflow, but _permits_ the compiler to do so. Thus, we have two problems: a poorly thought out standard which permits dangerous compiler behavior and poorly thought out compiler that jumps at the chance.
I've met quite a few grad student interns from Europe. Was very surprised when they told me. Quite an unintended consequence of a well-meaning policy.
Having done it for short periods of time (months) it makes you feel like you're 50 at 20 - drained and weak.
This is tricky as the server needs to mix audio and video streams for group calls, which can't easily be done if they're encrypted.

I understand that the Matrix.org/riot.im team have some interest in working on this.
Do not use third party recruiters! Do your homework and apply directly. It used to be a better way to get in... but in 2017 3rd party recruiters are more like backup plans in case a company doesn't receive enough Resumes.
I would pay for this feature.
If you read down to the "Problems" section of the page, you'll see that I agree with you. I don't consider my prototype (that uses git) an acceptable solution at scale.

The actual solution would need to be as easy to set up and use as gmail. But if you're going to do the work of setting up hosted personal servers for wiki pages, you might as well do it for all content. And that's actually the plan! I'm working on it here if you're interested: https://juniorschematics.com/
scheduling is a classic mgmt. science problem.
Kontena (https://www.kontena.io) has pretty nice integration to DO.
No, "user" means someone who can initiate meetings.
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So twice the limit and 30% cheaper :-)
As a consultant, sounds like my bread and butter (specialized problem, no generalized tools).

For a product company, sounds like a nightmare - no one's paying you by the hour to meet their unique requirements.

Thanks for sharing your story!
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But, if that Droplet goes down, so does the reverse proxy. You'd need at least two Droplets to ensure no SPOF.
Most of the critical low level of components of Vulkan are there: multiple command queues with manual synchronization, resource heaps (although they are optional for Metal), mixed compute/render support. Mostly Metal simplifies some of the distinctions Vulkan drivers may dump on the user: for example, Metal has only one command queue type while a Vulkan driver may force the user to manage several.

The biggest hurdle I can think of is geometry/tesselation shaders. Newer versions of Metal support tesselation shaders, but they work rather differently than Vulkan's (they're based on a compute shader, instead of the Hull/Domain split other APIs use). Geometry shaders aren't supported at all.
Cans are actually more energy efficient to produce and recycle.
Seems like there could be good money in there if someone were to create a tool that allows sellers to track down fakes on sites like Amazon and fire off the appropriate takedown requests to the retailer.
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I did a solid 24 hour session yesterday. Writing an integration with a British bank for my startup (https://twitter.com/stevegraham/status/831501656734982145). I had no external pressure to do so, I just didn't want to finish until I got it done. I could have carried on afterwards but I thought it was probably best to sleep at that point.
Dr. Jason Fung, a Canadian Nephrologist is an encyclopedic resource for the impacts of calorie restriction and fasting. While he has a couple (really good) books, the following presentation is a nice overview of his work, findings and results of therapeutic fasting:

'Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk
That post didn't look particularly noteworthy to me, but I remember creating a similar page regarding a casual wear company (called "Lost..." if I recall) that I got distracted with one time. I saw their logos in my local mall in every department store. I spent a lot of time researching and writing up an article on the company. Then it got deleted. Probably not particularly noteworthy either, even if at one time it was a national brand.

I also wrote up a thorough discussion of various kinds of permanent life insurance contracts (I was a financial advisor at the time, and I had spent a lot of time studying them, and wanted others to have that information). I think the bulk of my contribution managed to get redacted at some point, but it lives on in the version control, forever.

There's a lot of stakeholders to Wikipedia: the subjects of articles and their followers, hawkish community members who try to control new and changed content, and consultants who charge money to change the framing of subjects on the site.

As a result, pages tend to be flattering of their subjects, unless the subjects don't have a lot of followers who speak the language that the page is written in. And new pages are likely to be deleted unless you have the cooperation of community members who will advocate for it when you start focusing on something else.

Now I mostly write up Python on Stack Overflow, where I get credit for my answers in terms of valuable internet points, which reflects my reputation in the community.

Perhaps Wikipedia could learn something from Stack Overflow. But unfortunately, it looks like they have incentivized deleting content and creating value for subjects over creating value for readers.
Why annual pricing? I'd do it if you had monthly pricing.....Since the payment is annual what happens if 2 or 3 months in I decide to change and need something else?
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If you said it that way, yeah. But it means that the site is nice to use on very low-end devices - you know, the sort used by people to whom the second-hand market is very important, because they can't afford high-end devices.
Oh, you can probably make it work. The question is: can you make it work cheap enough? Sending people to the moon wasn't cheap..
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We lived without plastic for a long time. There are many different things that can replace it depending on the product. For example, we had glass bottles for a very long time and we washed them and reused them. You can use reusable bags at the store. Wash metal silverware.

I'm sure plastic will always have to be used for certain things, but if we can limit the amount that's great.
Netflix mainly uses Cassandra as their database.

And their needs are reasonably complex. They use machine learning and big data analytics to generate the list of videos that you should be watching. In order for those to work they need to capture a whole raft of end user metrics e.g. at what point you paused video X.
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Because the purpose of law is to protect people. The purpose of murder laws is to protect people from the act of murder. The purpose of constitutional law is to protect people from tyranny.
I never comment against actual press releases, because, hey, that's what they're meant for.

"Blogspam" is appropriate for literally ripped content without specific attribution; to then proceed to edit out a byline or other author credit is simple plagiarism.

Press Releases always have either an embargo date/time or "For Immediate Release" and a press contact for the originator, in my experience.
To be sure, it's not "completely protected," as we've seen with The Pirate Bay, etc., but Common Carrier says the phone company indeed can't refuse to rent you a phone number just because you want to run a sex line on it. That YouTube has protection against people posting videos of themselves speeding or doing drugs (it's always "vices," natch) was a necessary consideration in Sec230.

I guess there are arguments to be made about how far apart these might be conceptually, but what would the country/world look like without Safe Harbor? We may be about to find out.
Holy, why do you need that computing power for streaming shows/movies?
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Disappointing article. This for example:

> Twitter "failing" to own the revolutions it obviously took mainstream (messaging, chatbots) isn't a failure really if viewed that way

Twitter in no way made messaging mainstream. It had absolutely nothing to do with it. Twitter's peer to peer messaging system being so horrific is one of the reasons it failed (WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc. took advantage of that screw-up). ICQ, AOL, MSN messengers, MySpace and Facebook, all did drastically more to take messaging concepts mainstream (the messengers had hundreds of millions of users before Twitter even existed). Twitter was late to the party and showed up with the wrong solution.
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This feels like a piece of "what-about-ism". Certainly there are other environmental issues facing India -- but that doesn't mean that this one isn't worth dealing with either.
Inflation. More expensive cost of living for your customers. Not a problem when your Apple gadget budget is a multiple of your food budget. But not everyone has this luxury. Protectionism in international trade will have similar impact. Tax chinese imports and suddenly walmart will hike their prices.
Can you help with a community driven website content as well?
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For some reason they only have toll-free for India, which explains the cost, I guess. (Still seems pretty high.)

https://chime.aws/dialinnumbers/
I have no idea how this works. Can someone explain the site simulators? When the site simulators intercept the traffic, they can see all the data. If it's encrypted, can they still read it or decrypt it somehow?
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Anything that you can easily specify and describe in detail can be automated. In practise the world is filled with computers that need programming to cope with ever changing chaotic actions of our users. Personally I'm long on software developers, despite being very excited by how AI has blown up lately.