skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember this problem. To my best knowledge nobody else has ever had data loss after a clean shutdown and no hardware problems.

It sounded to me like it could have been the same problem as this person encountered:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10560834/to-what-extent-... . Based on their data
loss after a clean shutdown of mongodb in order to perform a backup, I think the only way we could have possibly saved the data is if we hibernated the system instead of doing a clean shutdown. But I don't know how well mongodb handles sudden time jumps. In general, since time jumps can be an issue, we typically perform shutdowns if a service needs to be stopped for whatever reason.

I hope you ended up with a hosted mongodb service or an MSP with an expertise specifically with mongodb, as mongo seems like it can be very tricky to administer properly if it's not the one thing you do.
Big fan of yours and do think Amazon does a ton for customers, but that's not quite accurate. I'm also a huge fan of Amazon so this comment isn't meant to be negative, but more admiring.

It's not that Amazon is giving its money to customers. Bezos is very cleverly taking advantage of a loophole in how taxes/accounting works. Over long periods of time, cash flow and income will generally converge. But in the short term, they don't have to. Bezos runs the business around cash flow while minimizing income. Corporate taxes are based on income. The reason for that is because the tax code wants to make sure a business actually has the cash to pay taxes, before owing them. Straightforward enough.

As Bezos bluntly states publicly, he focuses on free cash flow. That number is going through the roof, and while portions of it go into lower prices, a lot more of it goes into investments in new products/infrastructure that will further grow cash flow while effectively deferring net income. That balance is extremely difficult to manage, and Bezos is probably the best the world has ever seen. All that said, it's not quite right to say that they're donating profits to consumers.
> I have had 2 girls ask me out at work in the past 3 years.
> I have also had girls approach me in professional settings such as conferences and ask me for my number and invite me for drinks

Lucky son of a gun
A lot more than one stone can be (and often is) at risk in an atari, and an atari situation can absolutely determine the winner of a game.
Yes, this was my intention with the three categories. I was hoping to find the right balance between too few categories (can't distinguish between ideological opposites) and too many categories (no meaningful signal from each category).
I think there's a third issue, or at least two pieces to your number 2.

Whether a government should have the mechanism of banning foods that are safe to eat in moderation available to it is a different question than whether it would be good policy given that mechanism.

If the government should be in the habit of regulating nutrition, banning foods with exceptionally poor nutritional qualities is probably good policy, but is that the kind of thing governments should be regulating at all? I would argue that it usually isn't and should only be permitted in exceptional circumstances.
Someone needs to do it. It's not any particular person's duty, and she has definitely gone above and beyond by writing this up, but it would be a great public service for someone to bring a (preferably class-action) lawsuit.
That is any startup / private company. That isn't unique to Uber at all. IPOs are usually done when your profitable or have no other choice. You want to do an IPO when your profitable / break even or usually it becomes a bad deal for everyone.
Political compass is sort of like MBTI; it's been around for a while and is, in that sense, established, but has no real validity. (It's very similar to, and likely has a similar kind of partisan motivation—though for different parties in a different country—as, the US Libertarian Party propaganda "world's smallest political quiz", which uses the same axes.)
The few drivers I've spoken to say the Lyft app is simply way more reliable, for a start.
> People hear the term "union" and they think "shop rules" and "union contract salary".

The problem is that a significant number of the people who push "unions" (especially on places like HN) are actually trying to push for those things. Just look in this thread to find people arguing over whether there actually are large differences in developer performance.

If people want a professional association (I do!) let's call it that and avoid all this union talk. Think lawyers, not factories.
Thanks, we'll start doing that more often.
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They have the most cash reserves because they're (a) incredibly profitable due to product demand and monopolistic practices (i.e. patent suits); (b) stockpiling cash. It's that simple. There's plenty of things they could be improving at Apple or just investing in. They're hoarding instead. They're not alone: many of the greediest, richest, and shareholder-oriented companies are doing the same thing while stagnating.
Linode wins hands down. Check out detailed benchmarks at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/kvm-vps-benchmarks-...
aka "Poorly done user research is worse than no user research at all".

If you're not asking users the right questions, and havn't considered what you options for change as a result of their answers - then yeah, you're probably wasting your time (but you're just as likely to be wasting the time you prematurely jump into design and development as well...)

There's a lot of good advice in this book: https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research
A blog post like this gets so much attention where is the fucking evidence? I am a male from Iran having spent more than half of my life here and worked in Silicon Valley long enough to be considered an easy target for labels like terrorist and misogynist simultaneously (finally I'm beginning to believe it, how slow of me.) I have to say there is more and more similarities between the two with each passing day, with very little substance and meaning behind those concepts, just a vague feeling of unfairness, a thread to our identity and a powerful tool to control and manipulate and not on behalf of the proclaimed victims of course.
Why should YC or VCs give more money to females founders, blacks and hispanics? [1] [2] Are we not pawns in an ugly game of moral superiority and virtue played out by those looking to profit from our moral outrage and fear?
[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter (much high acceptance rate for those demographics)
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/winnie-grabs-2-5-million-f.... (a publication about babies raises 2.5MM, female founders, having worked at places like Google and Twitter gets you a free pass with VCs if you're a woman? Homebrew Capital: Well her, she must be special not her male-counter-parts. What is special and investment-worthy about this publication and those founders, and not just adding an uptick in their portfolio's founder ratio? Hey look we got two female founders in one round!
Indexicals
When they come with court orders and injunctions mandating changes of behavior (and not just financial compensation) they can indeed solve the underlying problems.
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•	Please share it to whoever you think might be a good fit. You can also email kojikondo@stanford.edu and request a PDF of our detailed job listing to send out to candidates.

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We believe that all team members should have opportunities to explore, cultivate new interests, and do fun activities outside of our startup; therefore, all team members are required to pursue one hobby during the workday! One member takes gypsy jazz guitar lessons to play like Django Reinhardt, another bakes French baguettes, another practices martial arts, another volunteers at a silent film theater, and another audits a seminar at Stanford on intellectual history. This is all in addition to the time that we devote -- during the day -- to reading, attending concerts and viewing films. We don’t believe that “being busy is a badge of honor” and that one must work long hours to be productive. We want to create a fun environment where people love to learn and explore. And our goal of unity of work and life is inherent in all facets of our startup, from our goal to our culture.
From personal experience, yes.

I cured a congenital gastrointestinal condition simply by introducing a couple of food items into my diet. I wish somebody had told me about them when I was much younger.
I’ve got Mick Jagger’s lost memoir
Who was fired? The victim or the harasser?
>Also, the author repeatedly used the percentage of women engineers as an index of workplace quality/sanity. So we'd expect Stripe's to be much higher, right?

Don't have the answer for you. But I would say the repeated lies by HR she stated in defending repeat offenders, and having the same reports of harassment by her female coworkers over the same managers speaks more to the quality/sanity of the place than percentage of women in the workplace.
Also on the lookout for good answers here - bonus points if the solution" allows me to use a domain name under my control, and extra bonus points if there's a out-of-the-box importer for my Flickr export...
Same here.

A blog post like this gets so much attention where is the fucking evidence? I am a male from Iran having spent more than half of my life here and worked in Silicon Valley long enough to be considered an easy target for labels like terrorist and misogynist simultaneously (finally I'm beginning to believe it, how slow of me.) I have to say there is more and more similarities between the two with each passing day, with very little substance and meaning behind those concepts, just a vague feeling of unfairness, a thread to our identity and a powerful tool to control and manipulate and not on behalf of the proclaimed victims of course.
Why should YC or VCs give more money to females founders, blacks and hispanics? [1] [2] Are we not pawns in an ugly game of moral superiority and virtue played out by those looking to profit from our moral outrage and fear?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter (much high acceptance rate for those demographics)

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/winnie-grabs-2-5-million-f.... (a publication about babies raises 2.5MM, female founders, having worked at places like Google and Twitter gets you a free pass with VCs if you're a woman? Homebrew Capital: Well her, she must be special not her male-counter-parts. What is special and investment-worthy about this publication and those founders, and not just adding an uptick in their portfolio's founder ratio? Hey look we got two female founders in one round!
It's the weekend. The pros are no more likely to take a busman's holiday than anyone else.
Hopefully the improved writeback management will mean my music doesn't start cutting out while I copy a huge file.
Yes, the "cost basis" of that stock becomes the price of the stock on the day of their death.
is this the same guy that said "640K Ought to be Enough for Anyone" and "We will never make a 32-bit operating system"?
errno is a macro on most (maybe every) platform supporting pthreads.

Furthermore, C11 literally defines errno as a macro in 7.5p1:

The macros are

EDOM
EILSEQ
ERANGE

which expand to integer constant expressions with type int, distinct positive values, and
which are suitable for use in #if preprocessing directives; and

errno

which expands to a modifiable lvalue that has type int and thread local storage
duration, the value of which is set to a positive error number by several library functions.
If a macro definition is suppressed in order to access an actual object, or a program
defines an identifier with the name errno, the behavior is undefined.

Notably, C11 introduced an optional threading API, effectively derived from the common functionality between Window's threading API and POSIX pthreads. While I can imagine ways to have a unique errno symbol that doesn't rely on macros, the obvious solution does and there's little reason not to use it.

While C11 is most definitely not the same thing as C++11, I think, similar to atomics, the committees cooperated on the threading API. I don't have a recent C++ standard handy at the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if C++11 at least allowed defining errno as a macro.
probably explains why their disk i/o performance doesn't match Linode or DigitalOcean https://community.centminmod.com/threads/kvm-vps-benchmarks-...
This is a nice idea. Once it gets large enough though, you're going to half to infer political leaning from what a person votes for, or else it'll be very easily abused.

I do think it's great though. I think I'll give it a whirl.
instead of talking with words, i talk with facts. whenever you have the proof, that pandom doesn't offer 64 ubits / 64 bits, please contact me. you have to work with test.s have a nice day and good luck :D
The scaleway bare metal server still have essentially virtualized storage, though, so it's not without its issues.
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•	Many team members feel that the web is not as magical in 2017 as it was in 2009. We all believe that the web has many possibilities that have not been realized: we are working together to realize those possibilities.
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Are you kidding me? Expecting others to hang a huge decision like a job change on a single issue like this and punishing them for not deciding the same way you would is absurd.
I don't think the value you generate actually matters in regards to compensation though. What matters is how easy you are to replace.
In my experience "swapping out an alternate implementation" happens so rarely that it isn't really worth the additional architectural complexity and making debugging harder.

Seems to me like DI (at least the heavy-handed Spring XML style of it) is a solution looking for a problem, but I've only worked at one company that used it heavily so I'd be happy for people to try to change my view.
There's a difference between brushing your teeth in the same room as your toilet and storing your toothbrush uncovered in the same room as your toilet.
Samoan traditional food isn't unhealthy. Fish and taro isn't going to make anyone fat in a hurry. About 15 years ago we would joke that Samoans only got fat when they came to New Zealand and discovered KFC.
"stubborn enough to push back against upper management"

Every conversation I've ever had with management about rewriting/refactoring has been fruitless. Now if I think it's necessary I just bake it into feature/bugfixing. The work takes ~20% longer which just means that features and bug-fixes take 20% longer to deliver.

That doesn't really get pushback, whereas asking for an extra week to do some cleanup work certainly does.
It's simplifying things a bit but basically the first $5.5/$11 million in total assets are Federal tax free. They are valued and taxed based on current market value and therefore the basis is stepped up to current market value at that time.

After the lifetime exclusion of $5.5/$11 (single vs married) million then any further inheritance is taxed around 40%.
What can some of the top apps of 2016 teach us about the mobile market?
My partner was in a somewhat similar position. When she spoke to a lawyer, the lawyer asked her two questions:

1 - did she ever want to work in X industry again / was she comfortable with being blacklisted, legal or not;

2 - was she comfortable with this being what she did with the next two years of her life

It's a harder decision to make than you think.

Not to mention the unrelenting wave of assholery that would be generated on sites like, well, HN towards any woman that dared do what you suggest.
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> I don't get why it seems like languages are designed for convenience then later down the road billions of hours are spent trying to get better performance.

Usually, it's many orders of magnitude less than billions of hours, and the reason is that raw machine language is fast, all higher level languages are designed around ideas of desirable abstractions.
VP of Product

Director of Product

These titles both exist...
So that's Uber's problem. They hired Google/FB engineers when they should've been hiring MS experts for Ballmer Peak calibration. /s
Most companies operate on the myth that the people responsible for doing work are interchangeable cogs that can be eliminated and replaced by a new doer with little to no impact to how the company functions.

So if you have enough traumatic brain damage to buy that line, stack ranking makes a ton of sense.
Better title: "How a clever business strategy helped Amazon succeed."
You raise a good point. Perhaps I should have said it's a much greater challenge to compare Go to dynamic languages as there are too many moving parts. However, when you constrain the comparison to a specific domain, then the problem is more tractable. I don't have a ton of dev ops experience, so I won't weigh in on this matter. That being said, despite how far Python/pip has come there are still great challenges when installing certain packages. For this reason, I do see the value in statically linked copies of everything--even if it seems like overkill. Disk space is cheap, but does make remote installs take longer.
Don't forget Thorbjørn Jagland.
The behavior discussed in her story includes stuff that's not sexual harassment, though. A sizable chunk of it is about poisonous office politics, something pretty much everyone would be aware of and which most people dislike. So it's not hard to believe people with better options would leave, regardless of gender, leaving people who either like that sort of politics (some do) or don't have better options.
I believe they're referring to the fact that Uber took specific action to promote itself by canceling surge pricing at JFK during the strike, not that it did anything passively through inaction.

Lyft did not negate surge pricing that day, AFAIK.
Travis Kalanick's response: https://twitter.com/travisk/status/833480964315557888

> 1/ What's described here is abhorrent & against everything we believe in. Anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.

> 2/ I've instructed our CHRO Liane to conduct an urgent investigation. There can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber.
Your Morals is an interesting alternative. It was set up by, among others, Jonathan Haidt, probably most commonly known for his book The Righteous Mind.

http://www.yourmorals.org

From the "About Us" page (http://www.yourmorals.org/aboutus.php):

This website is a collaboration among social psychologists who study morality and politics. Our goal was to create a site that would be useful and interesting to users, particularly ethics classes and seminars, and that would also allow us to test a variety of theories about moral psychology. One of our main goals is to foster understanding across the political spectrum. Almost everyone cares about morality, and we want to understand --and to help others understand -- the many different ways that people care.
For some odd reason this does not include their oil extraction.
So when you sue them, you also get fired, if you hadn't quit already. I am pretty confident you'd find a similar clause in any company's employment contract, but even if it wasn't there it would be a safe assumption that any lawsuit brought against a current employer would result in termination.
Now I want to use Uber even more.
Why isn't a fourth option being explored: local storage with async replication? Seems like it'd be fairly simple and fast, and no worse than non-clustered NFS regarding data integrity.

I'm just talking from ignorance, so am I missing something?
I think it's kinda interesting what tiny little tweaks will affect code speed- I recently discovered that in python, if you're only going to use an import for one or two functions, importing it locally shaves off a good bit of time depending on the function, in my case, .2 seconds!
Hmmm...

A blog post like this gets so much attention where is the fucking evidence? I am a male from Iran having spent more than half of my life here and worked in Silicon Valley long enough to be considered an easy target for labels like terrorist and misogynist simultaneously (finally I'm beginning to believe it, how slow of me.) I have to say there is more and more similarities between the two with each passing day, with very little substance and meaning behind those concepts, just a vague feeling of unfairness, a thread to our identity and a powerful tool to control and manipulate and not on behalf of the proclaimed victims of course.
Why should YC or VCs give more money to females founders, blacks and hispanics? [1] [2] Are we not pawns in an ugly game of moral superiority and virtue played out by those looking to profit from our moral outrage and fear?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter (much high acceptance rate for those demographics)

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/winnie-grabs-2-5-million-f.... (a publication about babies raises 2.5MM, female founders, having worked at places like Google and Twitter gets you a free pass with VCs if you're a woman? Homebrew Capital: Well her, she must be special not her male-counter-parts. What is special and investment-worthy about this publication and those founders, and not just adding an uptick in their portfolio's founder ratio? Hey look we got two female founders in one round!
This is neat. I think that {left, right, neither} is too broad a categorization, and suffers from the usual problem of self-reporting: most people are bad at judging themselves, and this is before you factor in the desire to paint themselves in a better light. An open affiliation could also make some people reluctant to participate (particularly with point (3) in your top-level post, seeing the distribution of posts upvoted).

Instead of having users explicitly choose from {left, right, neither} I would suggest not asking at all, and using analysis to find groups that vote the same way. You don't even need any labeling, just scores for how much the article agrees with the user's previous voting pattern and how broad of a group the article appeals to.

Now that I'm done insisting that the bike shed be painted blue I hope this takes off -- echo chambers do no-one good.
Now's your chance to tell other young people about them. :) What were they?
"I don't think having a drinking culture means drinking while programming."

What is the union of work, drinking culture and SRE (the job the article refers)?
If they didn't extract the oil it would obviously not be burned.
Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
I have been using Google's AutoValue [1] instead of Project Lombok. It does not have as many features, but it makes creating model classes much easier.

[1] https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value