skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the application would not be POSIX-compliant, but it would be running on a POSIX-compliant OS. I was confused by the comment I replied to because it sounded like he was saying that POSIX compliance was more likely in "modern" applications, but if anything the opposite is the case.

POSIX compliance is much more common in consumer OSes nowadays, to the point that every major desktop and mobile platform is built on a POSIX-compliant kernel and runtime except for Microsoft's offerings. In that sense POSIX has taken over the non-Microsoft world, but now it's being used as a much lower-level compatibility layer for system-level frameworks rather than what it was originally designed for.

Even Windows has had multiple POSIX implementations over the years, they were just built as compatibility layers on top of the native APIs. So POSIX-compliant operating systems are almost universal at this point, but POSIX-compliant applications/daemons/etc. (all the programs that run on those POSIX OSes) are rarer than ever.
Only 5 years? Seems like it's been longer than that
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People usually switch after a year and a half of being on a team, but not much different than that.
Are you that hateful of Java that you are blind to the implications of an Oracle win?

It won't be just Java 'dying.'
(yes, "bona dude"; not gonna fix that one...)
Thanks for the link!

Yes, I should have been more clear in original post. I think Onegin, Pale Fire, and his other critical writings on translation are all part of the same artistic performance. We tend to look at writers/artist through this kind of atomizing lens, distinguishing one work from another in a kind of consumptive mode. Each book as a product to be evaluated in relation to others, it's techniques separate from the experience of the work. I think this says more about the circumstances of art under Capitalism than a writer's/artist's subjectivity, especially in the case of someone like Nabokov, who was so obviously fond of meta-narratives and intertexuality.
I still don't understand why Google did not buy Sun Microsystems. They hired a lot of the staff anyway, and could have avoided the lawsuit.
Could you link to an example?
great Amiga movie out, didn't know about the Euro demo scene. I didn't get one until the Video Toaster. https://fmovies.se/film/from-bedrooms-to-billions-the-amiga-...
Ah, yes some areas are lacking. I am more concerned about correctness though. Do you ever find math material that is completely wrong on Wikipedia? Stuff like number theory, abstract algebra, and category theory seem to hold up when I cross reference. I'm in no position to qualify myself as mathematician though, I just enjoy mathematics a lot.
I've only been there 13 months but I've found the quality of previous and new hires are ridiculously high. Given the number of talented people applying every day I think Google could increase hiring by 100% with no appreciable drop in quality.

Google has a lot of imperfections addressed elsewhere in the comments here but the engineering culture is extremely strong and one of the best parts about being there. I think the overall "Googley culture" is suffering but it isn't for technical reasons.

Then again maybe I'm one of those C players who snuck in the past year.
English is my first language and I find the wording confusing as well.
Why is eBay so protective of PayPal? PayPal has been a separate company from eBay since 2015.
It's going exactly where you'd expect it to go now that workers are in a much worse negotiating position due to jobs being automated away, efficiency improvements, etc: to the owners of the businesses. This is probably an across-the-board thing, but in areas where increasing automation has pushed down costs heavily that helps to disguise the impact a little on the consumer side. Even there I think workers are getting a much smaller slice of the pie and owners a lot more.
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Online encyclopedias suffer from the network effect like everything else.
Our laws governing software are so fundamentally broken already lol. It doesn't matter anymore.
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Another thought too: Oracle kicking the hornet's nest on this may end up being a "good thing". Their verdict was dubious at best, they might get overturned and lose even more ground and $.
How long will this take until Moxie gets this taken down, too?

He’s been pretty vocal about preventing others from distributing clients able to use his servers that aren’t built by him (and don’t transmit usage statistics to him).
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The sources I can find say there is only a violation when the person trading is an insider or is purposefully tipped off by an insider.

http://www.sandstormgold.com/_resources/policies/SSL_Stock_T...

https://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Definition_of_...

The most direct version is here:

> In 1983, Switzer was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an alleged civil violation of the laws prohibiting "insider trading" of securities. He defended himself as having innocently overheard the information while lounging on the bleacher behind some corporate insiders—at a stadium where Switzer was watching his elder son compete in a track meet. The case was tried in Oklahoma City United States District Court (before a special U.S. District Judge appointed from Kansas). The case was dismissed at the conclusion of the Government's case for its failure to demonstrate that there had been any purposeful disclosure to Switzer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer#After_coaching

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/1986/062086grundfest.pdf#pag...

Do you have a source that says otherwise?

The situation is even more clear for Twitter. If I'm a marine biologist making the world's most detailed measurements of the ocean, I can clearly use this info to buy or sell stock in a fishing company, even if I don't release that info publicly. Likewise, I can sell that info to someone else who makes the trades.
From what I've been told by a contact in their database sales team is that there pipeline for on-premise licenses is drying up quickly but their SaaS business is doing well.
It largely depends on how impressive you are when you come in, and how in-demand your skillset is across the company. After the hiring decision is made, managers then "bid" on Nooglers they want for their teams, and higher-priority teams (like Android, Ads or Search) will beat out lower-priority teams (like Blogger or Finance). If multiple managers bid on you but you don't like the team you're assigned to, you have the option to work for one of other ones, eg. I was assigned to Search when I joined in 2009, but my recruiter made it clear that if I really didn't want to do it, there were teams in GMail and Docs that would be happy to have me. If only one manager has bid on you, then you're stuck there.
In general, "college towns" can be a good choice if you don't want a big city but want some access to culture/food/etc. College towns often punch [EDIT: above] their population weight in those respects.
Ask HN: Why GitHub made black navigation color?
When HN makes black navigation means tribute for someone, but why Github made navigation color as black[0]?

[0] - http://imgur.com/U9ULAjn
This is not helpful. Specifically, petulance will not lead to improvement.

To that end, do you have any suggestions on making things better? Do you contribute to any organizations that are trying?
What are you referring too exactly?
There is no single US healthcare system that someone can experience first-hand. There is a lot of variation from state to state. I take you haven't experienced the system as someone, say, making less than $25k/yr, in every single state, at various times of year (say 2 months before your deductible rolls over) with various kinds of conditions (acute, chronic, extremely rare, etc?), at various points in their careers (if they can even claim to use that word)? And you've experienced this in a range of personal contexts? with various mental issues, or with dependents, or with poor mathematical skills coming out of a bad-fit-for-them public schooling system, or no slack to even be able to take any time off, no PTO?

There are millions of Americans who can't afford $250/mo on top of food, rent, and transportation costs, working more than full-time hours spread across several jobs, all of which pay minimum wage in poor conditions that are bad for their bodies and with unpredictable scheduling.

In light of the reality of many, many people's experiences in the healthcare system that are contrary to your own, which are NOT hard to find, your comments comes across quite poorly.
Hiring the staff and handling the lawsuit - Google has their own in-house law firm anyways - has likely worked out to be cheaper for them than buying Sun Microsystems would have been.
Just a random design change.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13618061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619406
This is de rigeur in payments; the brand guidelines for the big three credit card companies have similar things IIRC. They don't want you to say "Visa accepted here THOSE BASTARDS we prefer Amex" or otherwise interfere with their customer relationships while servicing your customer relationships.

There has been litigation around this routinely, including (IIRC) a US holding that says that merchants are allowed to say X is cheaper for them than Y if that statement is accurate.

Edit: that may have been reversed on appeal. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-26/american-...
I'm not sure this solves a real problem developers have. I have never heard from anyone that storing key/values was a pain.

A wide range of popular key/value stores exist and are easy enough to manage. Cloud provider also offer cheap managed stores.
It's $7.4 billion they didn't need to spend. The legal fees are a fraction of that.
If that were the true explanation, I'd expect followup videos of cats freaking out just as much over other innocent objects -- it's what some people would try and others would upvote. I didn't see any when I first heard of the cucumber thing, so I'd guess that the phenomenon's real: cucumbers seem especially like poisonous snakes to cats. I won't try a controlled experiment on my own cat, though.

The opinions on quora don't appear to be backed up by anything more than 'not proven'. I think it's reasonable to be skeptical, but also that experts are still pretty ignorant and prone to dismissing phenomena they don't already know about.
The weather is clearly your concern. Colorado and New England are certainly high on the list in terms of nice places, but winter is a big problem. I'd rather go on a 2 week trip to the mountain in the snow, than spend 6 months waking up early on the morning with a shovel in one hand and a bag of salt on the other hand :)
Okay, either I'm crazy or everyone else is. Assuming the court isn't trying to set a new precedent with regards to software it seems like Oracle should have easily won this case. There is an argument to be made that APIs shouldn't be copyrightable but surely it's not fair use -- Google's use of Java doesn't even come close to meeting the criteria.
Until we have enough skilled workers in the world where we are regularly pumping out robots that can perform menial labour there will always be a need for this type of worker. We live in a time where hyper robot production is not happening, we also live in a time where actually there is a absolutely horrendously massive number of these types of workers.

What do you want to do about it? You want to put them all out of jobs so that companies are forced to spend more money developing robots? What? What is that going to solve? You act like people would rather not work. That's probably true but I hope you have a backup plan for them.
88 of these are Planet Labs's Dove satellites, which are 4kg, 3U (10x10x30cm) satellites. From what I understand, the goal of these is to image the entire earth every day at 3-5 meter resolution.
HTML and XML took off for web. That's what the vast majority of devs write and that's how all devtools display the DOM.

> If you do have to roll up your sleeves and work with the serialized syntax, you're far better off it its is S-expresions.

Convince the masses, because they don't seem to agree.
Although Oracle denied they bought Sun just to sue Google you have to wonder since they are claiming "billions" in damages and only paid $7.4 billion after IBM dropped their $7.0 billion bid.

This purchase was such a seminal moment for the industry you have to wonder what an alternative history would look like if say IBM or Google made the purchase not to mention some dark horses like Amazon or Red hat.
The ISRO 2016-2017 budget is approximately $1.1 billion USD [1]. The national budget is about $301 billion USD [2]. That means that ISRO constitutes approximately 0.37%.

[1]: http://www.isro.gov.in/budget-glance

[2]: http://indiabudget.nic.in/glance.asp
So... mentally ill, or just a sociopath? It's hard to tell at a distance, but he's clearly a broken man.
Why would he care about two companies he doesn't own? I don't think this is a big concern.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13609762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13615894
Elon Musk claims employee pushing to unionize is a paid agitator, UAW denies
> If you are going to use email, use Gmail, with a physical security key on your laptop and Google Authenticator on your phone.

I understand Google runs a tight ship security-wise, but what about the unintentional information leakage that occurs because they read all your mail to serve you ads?
I live in the Bay Area and love it. I have a 3000sqft house in East Bay and I am not even an exec in a top five company. Dual income makes it really easy. What I really like about living here is excellent ethnic food even in the suburbs, outdoors, ocean and access to great companies. Other things I like about living here is that I can do the urban life if I want and go to some of the best Michelin starred restaurants if I want or just do my suburban Costco shopping. I also like that the wine country is only 1.5 hrs away. Healdsburg is my favorite small town. I also like going to Tahoe 4-5 times and drive down to So Cal few times a year. Not to mention weather.
> As it turns out, the "Neutral Point of View" rule that Wikipedians so proudly tout is quite strongly biased toward a specific world-view: that of the so-called "progressive" mindset.

How? You're making that claim but not supporting it at all. Do tell me how anything here is biased towards a progressive mindset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
Ask HN: How to get LSD
After reading Sam Harris blog post https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life I'd like to try LSD, but I'm no t sure how to get high quality, pure drug.
He seems like just that kind of opportunistic scumbag, but frankly, I'm not sure what this is supposed to be telling me. Nothing in his past is more reprehensible than his recent present and likely future.
Yeah. I got a suggestion. Don't join the industry. And if you're still in college, don't major in Computer Science

Edit:

Got hellbanned lol.

@gregnoire:

HN is a giant circlejerk

You prolly think this site is so great and intellectual just because it has ycombinator in the URL. Internet comments fundamentally suck

@DanBC:

Pretty sure I got hellbanned. It's been an hour, still can't make new comments

@sjwright:

The medium is the message. Text typed on a psuedo-anonymous HTML page never leads to substantial discussion. This was obvious back in 2000s but I guess since the internet has regressed so much, most people turn a blind eye to it. Fuck, honestly, why am I even writing this? This is hypocrisy in its biggest form. I need to stop writing in these stupid comment sections
I work at an IT Helpdesk and we build a custom GRML image which we write to our pen drives. We use it, for example, to quickly live boot Debian/Ubuntu PC's and run a script that mounts all necessary file systems (including pseudo file systems). This makes it really easy to quickly chroot into a broken system right at a users desk.

On our Linux installations we have separated most of the directories into different LVM partitions. Such as '/home', '/usr', '/var' and of course '/' (the root).
Just last week I helped a user live boot his system and ran a fsck on his '/home' partition. We had "frozen" the system and hard reset his computer which led to a couple of corrupt blocks and inodes.
Ah OK, I agree this would be useful. I think a newer CSS proposal factors the display property into separate values to declare element flow and element content flow independently.
I find very few relevant hits on that on Google (stack probes apparently also are hardware to measure various quantities such as moisture in stacks of materials), and none that explain to me what they are (you can enable them in gcc and Microsoft's compilers, and rust should use them instead of stack overflow checks, but that's about it), but from what I guesstimate, they are runtime instrumentation, not anything that a rust compiler could do to guarantee that a compiled and linked program never overflows the stack.

Can you tell me more about them?
That "good idea" has a name "tag soup".

But even you can add some non-semantic DOM elements...

What if you have

<ol>
<li>first</li>
<li>second</li>
<li>third</li>
</ol>

And you want to replace them in two,three,etc. aligned columns (depending on view size), like these:

@media handheld {
ul { flow:vertical; }
}

@media ... {
ul { flow:row(li,li); } // two columns
}

@media ... {
ul { flow:row(li,li,li); } // three columns
}
Another nice trick of this family (with reboots, or without with using systemd-nspawn) lies with clever btrfs usage. Long story short:

* use btrfs, and create your main root filesystem as a btrfs partition subvolume and another btrfs subvolume for snapshots (also a sub of master btrfs partition)

* to start any experiment (e.g. installing whole gnome and 500 different packages you MIGHT WANT TO REVERT in the future) create before the risky operation snapshot (btrfs subvolume snapshot / /.snapshots/yournameofsnap) of current filesystem

* experiment in any way :)

* switch between old root (snapshot you created) or the new one with (btrfs subvoulme set-default)

* delete any of them (btrfs subvolume delete)

btrfs copy-on-write allows all of these commands to happen instantly without (almost) any actual copying. Also booting from both volumes is possible without any additional steps as long as master btrfs partition is the one to be booted from UEFI.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs
Wikipediocracy is so over. All the cool kids have already moved on to http://wikipediasucks.boards.net/
Your english is good. It's very unclear what it means as the sentence can be parsed different ways. That suggests that either their lawyers are incompetent and shouldn't be let near a contract, or they are are competent and therefore are intentionally trying to fool their customers.

It's probably incompetence though since this can work both ways. If PayPal tried to bring legal action with this clause, the first defense one would look at is to simply respond, "Where did I say it was a payment method? The clause says I can't mischaracterize it as a payment method, and I didn't."

In any case as it reads most simply it says you can't call PayPal a payment method. I doubt that's what they really meant to say.
Semantics is defined by the specification, so in this case no. But yes, a change of the markup.
Oracle invested in Theranos
Sort of the same for me but I learnt it from the Arch Linux installation process.
The shit we breath and drink and surround ourselves with... the particulates, the nanoparticles of soot, the hundreds and thousands of chemicals in various concentrations and interactions we don't even pretend to understand. People will look back at that in the same way we do at people bathing in filthy rivers.

Human beings driving cars. The activity that for years maimed and killed millions of people, but we did it anyway while worrying about terrorist attacks.

I would suspect that at some point the notion of carrying a firearm is going to be pretty laughable, given what they'll be capable of then.

Human doctors and the current standard of medical errors and deaths due to lack of cleanliness... which is a lot of death and suffering by the way. We do it now, like driving, because we have no choice, but as soon as we do humans doctors will look like barbers.

So so much more. It takes time to start to see your own time from a future point of view, but once you start you can't stop. Then again, an alternative and perhaps more realistic view is that in a hundred years civilization will be collapsing, and these will be the last "good" days. Who knows?
Yeah it doesn't surprise me beyond not realizing those companies were structured enough to have someone with a tit le of CEO, but it doesn't really change or mean anything as far Bannon goes.
Why wouldn't people with mental illness or substance abuse problems be able to be creative and productive if their basic needs were met?
There's sites where they openly ask buyers not to use PP for some items that are high fraud risk and allow PP for less risky items. This means retailers will just drop PP as an option completely. I generally use it for most of my online buying as it's become difficult lately to use prepaid cards for some reason, I used to be able to effortlessly convert cryptocurrency into a virtual visa and buy anything but alas. Paypal, for buyers, is an easy experience now there's no waiting for your account to be loaded from a bank.
We already have that viewpoint though... some people are just slow.
This is tricky because if you declare any API no matter how trivial copyrightable then the first guy to copyright a function to compute sqrt, tan, atan, etc wins. And if you can't copyright trivial interfaces then the question becomes where the line is drawn.

There's far more at stake than Oracle trying to squeeze money out of Google.
There are ways to hack this if you know your way around the system.

What you need to do is find a team doing work you find interesting within a higher priority focus area with headcount, make contact with their manager, and start 20%ing. If you do a good job with your 20% project - high quality, and done timely - then you can float the idea of transferring permanently to their team. If a manager with headcount in a high-priority focus area requests a transfer from a low-priority focus area, and the employee is enthusiastic about it and has already done work for them, they're going to get it.

I've seen this work for several people who were there only 4-6 months. Officially, you need to be on your starting team for 18 months before transferring, but this is bullshit. Unfortunately, nobody in an official capacity is going to tell you this as a Noogler, so I've also seen a few talented Nooglers leave the company because they ended up on a poor fit for their skills.
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Ah, I see. Location probably has a significant effect, then - I joined the Seattle office, which had only a couple hundred people at the time.
I understand the logic of saying that the API itself is a creative work and should be copyrighted. Creating a solid, logical API structure isn't simple.

But I believe the API signature itself (function name, argument types, return type) should not be copyrightable, in the interests of the industry as a whole. Google didn't steal the implementation, they just reused the same function signatures to make their drop-in replacement of the JVM work with existing software.

If developers can't even have the API signature without being sued, you are seriously hurting competition. It's just reality.