skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Microsoft has done a great job of transforming to being very brand-conscious and these stories are both a recognition of that from the press, and a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy (they talk about how different they are, the press does, then they point to the press and dress up their UX, it's very self-feeding in a way). That said -- I can't say I've experienced great technical changes in the products from microsoft that I do use, at least yet. Windows 10 is still windows underneath, and I've run into some real rough patches on windows 10 on my tower setup. Xbox controllers are still breaking down after several months. Their Cloud offering just blows my mind in a bad way in almost every interaction I've had the displeasure of experiencing.

So I read articles like this and look at the rebranding and really have a hard time deciding whether I want to point to these things as at least having a good direction, and showing that they understand that they need to care about these things. But then I'm dismayed at the execution. Does anyone else have the same thing going on?
https://www.pingdom.com/ is often my backup monitoring service (we use CloudWatch and Nagios for real things)
There are some substances that can put you there (at least in mindset) for some period of time. Noticing the beauty of a color you have seen thousands of times is an interesting thing.
Common Usenet binary retention is north of 3 years today, shared across many providers. Yes, you will need an account at one of those providers to download the backup in the future. And yes, nothing is guaranteed about retention.
Great. I cannot wait for nick cage in the thor-national treasure crossover.

I lived in new england for a while and this mythmaking culture around the founding fathers gets old very quickly. The US just isnt old enough to have mythical kings and gods. That went away when the US broke from the uk. These new myths are rather weak alongside those of europe or asia.
Here is a list of roles at Google in Mountain View http://h1bpay.com/salaries?company=Google&city=Mountain+View...
That's what the Par2 in the fine article is.
Sorry for the late response. Nextcloud is super easy to install. It is as simple as extracting the zip file in your web server directory.

You don't need more hardware to run it either. I have mine running on a raspberry pi 3.
My first guess would've been to support a connection between North America and Russia, but there doesn't seem to be such a connection on the map.

My second guess is that there might really be a significant data demand there. Between research stations, defense stations (gotta protect 'Murica from those damn pinko Soviets), oil drilling, and at least one or two decently-sized cities, the need for those cables doesn't seem unreasonable.

EDIT: the one covering the northwest Alaskan coastline appears to be the first phase of a cable connection through the Northwest Passage.
Very much so! [1]

You can even see on the chart how there was very little until inauguration, giant leaps after unpopular EO's, and you can even see the portfolio drop when Trump took a beat and eased up on the EOs after Feb 3rd.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/OoeMEJF.png
Yep. I use par2 for my local backups.
> They were always in the early birds for taking decision about the future

RHEL7 already dropped support for 32-bit hardware (although it still maintains the compat toolchain+libs for 32-bit binaries on 64-bit O/S).

I believe Windows Server 2012 similarly only runs on 64-bit hardware.
> How can they prove that intention?

Obviously they cannot. It's basically subjective, and it looks like Sarao just got too greedy.

The CME does enforce rules about trade executions, that the ratio of orders placed to orders executed does not get too low (like 1/30 or something.) I'm guessing Sarao just placed a small amount of large-size orders to get around this.

The whole thing kind of surprises me as I think it is well known that there are plenty of algos that place orders with the sole intent of enticing/manipulating the market. But as I said, it's not really something you can define objectively.

EDIT: I did a bit of reading, yes, Sarao placed orders for massive size on CME. Big kahoonas for sure.
That helps those without an income how exactly?
Do you have an "facts" to back up your claim that this "era" we've "entered" is a recent phenomena?
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Am I the only one who read the title as "Kernel Glitch"?
https://studentloans.gov suggests otherwise. They are called subsidized loans.

More data here: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsid...
Ask HN: Is it more fun ( and wise ) to implement or to read about coding theory?
I love to read about design patterns, syntax and semantics language specifications ( e.g. the C++ standard ), Unit tests and this kind of stuff. Actually even more than to actually implement it because I am not confident with my skill level and the final outcome.
I do not want to stop reading about coding theory until I reach an expert level, writing good and clean code. For me it feels right and I love it. What do other programmers say about this approach? Thanks
> I don't know of any other country than the US where turning right on red is allowed

The DDR (East Germany) had this law and IIRC it was one of the two things they tried to preserve in the unification agreement (the other was abortion rights). Neither survived.
Being a startup in the automotive manufacturing business is not the same as being a startup in the software business. A software company with 1000 employees is huge, an automotive manufacturing company with 1000 employees is tiny.
Why is it so important to you people to believe you were born better than someone else? This is a serious question, not just snark.
He's keeping the numbers, for now.
Mind share is definitely not what it used to be, which will appear later on as numbers.
Video showing "worlds" 0-2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjOO2pkN9KU
You can actually use this glitch for an ending warp to finish it in minutes: http://www.speedrun.com/run/9me9l88z
Why the Upwork color theme? That turned me off for a while.

The first thought I had: "Is this from Upwork?"
This startup only wants to keep employees for two years
WP10 is great these days. Switched from Android a few months back, to a Lumia 650, and will never go back to the bloated, resource heavy battery eater which is Android.

Fewer apps, turns out to be a pro, I've found. I'm realizing how much less distracted I am without every app and its dog installed. Also I'm realizing how well most things work via the web anyway (such as youtube), without requiring me to be logged in and sending rich tracking data to Google all the time.
I've explained enough.
We can't know for certain if there has been an investigation, but you will notice that some people are desperate to declare that this has not been investigated by the relevant authorities.
> they deserve what they get.

what about buy-and-hold investors who don't do anything to deserve that ? Why should they get unnecessary volatility in their portfolios just because some get-rich-quick kids want to treat NYSE like its Mortal Kombat?

> if people are so stupid as to move their orders trivially based on others' actions

Then why show level 2 quotes at all ? Isn't your argument equivalent to "level 2 information is useless"? If not, then people wouldn't be stupid for using it, would they ? Would you trade in a market that only had level 1 quotes ?
> the printing of money is what causes inflation

Not really. Demand outstripping supply is what causes inflation.
> I think if you care about the value you are creating then the team is also on the hook to make the tough decision.

I think if management isn't able to do it then what are they even for? (This is not just a rhetorical device - if I was working at one of those radically-less-management places like Valve then this might be one of the pieces I'd expect to have to pick up). But yes, I want the boss to make the call - he can ask me questions and I'll try to answer them, but I want it to be his decision and his responsibility. Not liking to make that kind of call is part of the reason I've chosen not to go into management (and paid the price financially), after all.
i don't mean to sound dogmatic but the source I cited does explicitly say that the "insider" does not have to work inside the company specifically but rather just be privy to non-public information.

Unless you can find another citation that contradicts my point then I'm going to have to assume my point is correct. And I say that welcoming a correction in the name of "science" :)
Transparency is part of their marketing / way of operating
Why the World Needs to Police the Growing Anarchy of Cyberspace
New York got to be the exception (!?)
I wish I could upvote you more than once.
Does UBI provide impetus to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Given current interest rates, even a long-term bond at 5.5% will have significant default risk priced in. Vanguard's non-junk long-term corporate bond ETF presently yields ~4.4%. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=3147&...
Inside Medium's Meltdown
You just explained how pressure of natural selection stimulates talent in Russia. Once it is squeezed into civilization, it flourishes.
This isn't anything new; apparently SpaceX is the same way. It's why I don't want to go work for an Elon Musk company. I have respect for myself, and it seems like you have to be willing to undercut yourself to work there.
I wish AWS had both high-level and drill down status pages where it would post API success rates or the equivalent detailed information like github's status page has [0].

[0] https://status.github.com/
are you talking about vyos or ubiquiti. Im not sure what the relationship is between them - could you talk about what's so amazing for a complete first timer?

i currently have pfsense running on a mini quad NIC box (https://m.aliexpress.com/s/item/32670582442.html)

do you think vyos will run on this stuff. in your opinion are pfsense and vyos generally at par?
Motivated team chooses technology X. Succeeds. Other team chooses X but forgets to have motivated people?
Inside the crash of fling
I agree. I think the situation created the philosophy which we have today, but the situation has changed. It probably could be done better today, just either nobody's doing it, or it's not gained traction yet.
> who don't even understand

That's below the competence of an H&R block adviser. Having basic minimal competence is of course a good idea. But, the risk vs. reward from messing with your taxes is capped at a fraction of your income so there are generally far better risks to take.
I'm sorry, but do you have any evidence for this? Or that it happened here?
Two very different interpretations of our dwindling grip strength
You'll likely never get full transparency from a post like this. All parties involved have a shared interest -- to paint the best picture possible to maintain the value of the company. Everyone cordially agrees to disagree, saying this is just a personal growth thing, then everyone hugs and gives high-fives on the way out the door....

Take these posts with a grain of salt. If everything were hunky-dory, there wouldn't be a senior level departure at all.
> the lives are full of this kind of risk

should be:

"their lives aren't full of this kind of risk"
It's pretty effortless to switch. For me, I found: .vimrc was compatible (but lives in .config/nvim/init.vim). Plugins were compatible (in fact, YouCompleteMe worked better). There was a little bit of faff setting up symlinks. In case you use Arch, it offers a package neovim-symlinks that handles that for you.
This Paragon shop is the only group I ever see putting out any quality code/docs in the PHP ecosystem. They're simultaneously proof that it's possible to develop good software in PHP, and that PHP is otherwise a mess, insecure, and should be pretty much avoided.
Why would I want use Go for the backend, rather than a Python or Node.js framework? Just looking at the syntax it strikes me how inconcise and it is.
In many ways it's a worthy successor or sequel. It walks you through different paradigms, and shows how everything works with Mozart/Oz. A fantastic language with big influences from Lisp and Prolog.

CTM is a bit more focused on programming language theory, it even has a formal semantics appendix. CTM is highly regarded in Lambda the Ultimate as a basic primer to programming language theory. In contrast SICP is a bit more hacky. It shows you how to build some abstractions, whereas CTM is more about their semantics and how to build programs using different paradigms.

Along with SICP, CTM is easily my favorite programming book. Close seconds are PAIP and TAOP (The Art of Prolog). I wish we could have a Lisp with Mozart semantics and a great ecosystem.
Bitcoin has never been "great". The market cap is miniscule compared to some unicorn startups and a killer use case hasn't been developed to grow the tech virally. Continuing to talk about dark nets with the tech is only going to tarnish the image people have, which is unfortunate given how awesome the trust is that it embodies.
Not sure why this is downvoted. One can certainly argue that personal identity /shouldn't/ be closely tied to one's occupation, but for better or worse right now for most people it very much is, at least in the US and I'm guessing in many other places as well. To my mind, this is the potentially problematic aspect of UBI for which the solutions are least obvious.
and in V8 https://v8project.blogspot.ch/2015/09/custom-startup-snapsho...
Personally I find antagonizing non-contributing users more morally objectionable than the non-contribution.

Of course I'm speaking generally, I don't know the backstory here so there might be some other things causing the bad blood. But I would prefer we as a community would not attack people/companies just for not contributing.
I reject the prominence that most people place on them. I reject the idea that they're as common as some people want to make it seem. And I reject the use of them as an excuse while offering no evidence at all that it happened.
Which ISO or vendor do you work for?
Don't be too impressed. They have a habit of showing up in these threads and feigning concern. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303948
I think you pretty much nailed it here.

> If you're talking about it as it is today, it's a mixture of great and horrible

Most PC run Wintel and nowadays even more people use/care about ARM/Android/iOS. That's reality and I don't debate that. I'm only/mostly interested in reserarch/CompSci as a discipline.

> But the influence is not as wide as gets claimed by its proponents.

To me, the problem always seemed to be less of how wide these ideas spread but how well they and their origins were understood. OOP made a lot more sense to me, when I found out what Alan Kay had in mind (Sketchpad, Arpanet, biology, etc.).

> Some of the ideas in Smalltalk are synergistic and don't work well taken piecemeal.

Exactly. I think of Smalltalk as more of a system and not just a language. In my opinion, C++, Java, et al. fail (or aren't as good as they could be), because they only take just one idea from Smalltalk (e.g. classes; or the GUI, in case of the Apple Macintosh or Niklaus Wirth's Lilith), when the good things about Smalltalk were due to the interplay of multiple ideas.

> Smalltalk is worth using today, but it has actual faults that shouldn't be whitewashed

I see Smalltalk (and its usefulness) more as a research system than a production system. I'm mostly interested in research and moving Computer "Science" as a discipline forward. I'm sick of people trying to sell me their 5% performance improvement as "new"/"research". Problem is, things haven't fundamentally changed since 1965 (the von Neumann bottleneck is still present, both physically and mentally). Smalltalk could have been the greatest piece garbage in computing history and I'd still respect it (somewhat), because at least it tried to do things fundamentally different.

> I find the cult of Smalltalk distasteful because it prioritizes in-group mythbuilding over the truth.

To be honest, you've got that problem everywhere. Heck, look at Apple, Linux, BSD, Unix/Plan9 …

Btw: I'm currently reading "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its implementation". What's your opinion on that book? And thanks for the other two book recommendations.
It works well enough. You can find binary providers that charge by download quantity and use that style of plan to upload for free. (And upload is usually free -- usenet providers want more content, after all.)

Name your backups something inconspicuous and have your client generate an .nzb file for later recovery (has the unique mail ids for each component mail in it).

It's a little risky in that maybe providers would delete your backups if they identify a pattern, or if you name them wrong some studio may issue a (bogus) DMCA takedown against them.

Tarsnap is cheap enough that I wouldn't bother with any of this unless you're already using a binary usenet account anyway.
I thought a part of Manhattan was still coal powered -

Some 20 years ago we took a behind the scenes tour of the museum of natural history and saw huge "doors" where coal was dumped. Our insider said that the museum borders on the 1/2 of the island still powered by coal. And that 1/2 if the museum's property was still coal powered.

Btw - he also showed us the remains of the real Jumbo. Quite cool for a cub scout parent.
Physics, specifically their much higher capacitance. The buried lines cost more, but mainly they aren't buried because of physics.

"A typical 345,000V transmission line will be able to deliver no power when the line becomes about 26 miles long."

https://www.puc.nh.gov/2008IceStorm/ST&E%20Presentations/NEI...

In New York City specifically most distribution (not transmission) is already underground.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/downloads/pdf/power_lines...
aah, my bad. I meant the EAD you get after your I-140 is apprived in the GC process.

Ofcourse you need EAD to work on OPT, but thats only for the duration of your OPT
Open Source library to decrypt the results of complex encryption algorithms
Reasons I can't stand the rationalists: They pick an arbitrary objective metric for a topic about which they have no expertise, assume the metric is basically complete, and then draw ridiculous conclusions.

You can have the best methods in the world, but if your prior is crap and your data collection is crap, your posterior estimate will be crap.

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(sardonic paraphrase): "test scores aren't increasing, so objectively schools aren't better".
and "I talked with my parents and their school experience seemed similar to mine".

Hypothesis that they didn't seriously evaluate: "the spending went to things not related to test scores which still has value"
This is my exact experience when asking questions about a broad subject that has to do with politics. You get downvoted, therefore information doesn't flow properly your way, which leaves people just as ignorant as they come in and resentful that they get punished for asking serious questions in a respectful tone.
Shocked to see Windows 10 being depicted as an advancement in some of the comments along with that office 365 service. Yeah the Halcyon days of PC ate definitely gone by looking at these cringrworthy points.

M$ clearly have made their point with continuous eternal Beta program and sheeple insider ring, UWP and WDDM2.0, Gimmicky stuff cough DX12 gamemode cough.

Destroyed the PC, Mr Nadella should be praised for all this...
I am stressing it to highlight the fallacy of
considering AOP a "programming paradigm".

AOP was not presented as 'a "programming paradigm"'. It serves as a novel example of "Generative Programming", which is the paradigm I mentioned.

The reasoning behind including AOP in the examples is based on the ability to use it to produce, manipulate, and/or otherwise enrich program flow independent of the assets being processed. Thus its "generative nature", such as when environments use declarative constructs (such as Java Annotations[0] or C# Attributes[1]) decorating functions/methods/types to manage DBMS transactions.

0 - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/annotations/bas...

1 - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288454(v=vs.71).a...
Is there any similar writeups of the fishing glitch where you get the fisherman to sit on the tree and then go fishing? That's one of the two I found as a kid. The other gave me some super item but I never could recreate it.
"When did you stop beating your wife?"
Seriously? Did you not watch the Trump campaign or what he's done in office at all? Have you not seen the reports from the press briefings in which his advisors go on TV and claim things that are demonstrably false?
their EMEA Sales are in Prague. Anyone can go and see their offices map on https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/ . By the way, most contact second names are distinctively Russian. And the name of their own programming language - Kotlin, is a tribute to island in front of St. Petersburg.
It's a bit early to be saying that I think. I was disappointed not to get on it. I would have become self employed in a heartbeat.
TIL that George Washington had the phrase "the ends justify the means" painted on his carriage. That's an honest if unsettling bumper sticker for a President.
I thought vast consensus by scientists was proof of conspiracy, like in the case of climate change.
> But if you're somehow harmed by my honesty or passion then that's your problem.

You're harmed by your "honesty" and "passion". People don't listen to what you have to say if they are turned off by your tone.

Look, I've been there, too. I've gotten angry about Lisp and Haskell zealots, for much the same reasons you got angry about Smalltalk fans. And my anger was... unproductive at best.
Game Boy games used a CR2016 or (later on) a CR2025 battery to maintain save data.

These are soldered in place, which makes replacing batteries rather annoying, though they're replaceable if you put in the effort.
>on a crowded trading floor?

does such a thing even exist anymore?
The SEC is fine with HFT traders executing less than 1/10th the orders they place so the rules are not that clear cut.
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Isn't being able to take more than I give the entire point of the bsd license?
Yes. The right paid many people to try and drum up support for Betsy DeVos's confirmation.
So by "these companies" you mean Facebook, Google, etc, because they are paying the going rate by paying $152k.

That just confirms the OPs first point, that TCS, Wipro and Infosys, with their 30,000 Visas avg. ~$70k, are massively abusing the system.

Its about time these companies were prosecuted for lying to the government:

Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 makes it a crime to: 1) knowingly and willfully; 2) make any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation; 3) in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the United States.
Another idea:

Split your data into ping packet sized chucks and throw them out on the Internet. Keep all your data bouncing around on the Internet and use that as your storage provider.

Not really practical, but a neat idea. Saw in the excellent "Silence of the wire": https://www.nostarch.com/silence.htm
For an automotive company, when it has produced more than 200,000 cars for more than 5 years in a row.

200,000 cars per year would be:

* 2% of Toyota's yearly output,

* 4% of GM's yearly output,

* 20% of BMW's or Mazda's yearly output.
Not a huge surprise: this is why shirts arrive starched -- the starch made the fabric stiff and easier for humans to handle when cutting and sewing.

The article mentions starch in passing but doesn't point out why it was used in the first place, which makes the invention seem more magical. The actual invention is finding something washable that can deal with the rougher handling by robots.