skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because U.S. unions are the reason why unionised professions are so miserable. C.f. theatres, in which different people must take down a picture, carry a picture to a different part of the stage, put a nail in the wall, and hang the picture. C.f. prison guards, whose unions actively lobby for increased incarceration. C.f. public 'servants,' who are effectively unfireable.

When unions strike, they attack those who go to work anyway. They are closely associated with the mob and racketeering. They are, from what I can tell, generally worse than the corporations they ostensibly protect workers from.

I think it should be perfectly legal to organise, perfectly legal to collectively bargain and perfectly legal to strike — but it should also be perfectly legal to fire folks who strike, and perfectly legal to refuse to deal with a union. Also, public employees should be strictly forbidden to strike, or to collectively bargain.

I do kinda wish that there were a non-adversarial way for employees to have a voice with their employers, but unions as they currently exist are not the right mechanism. Maybe employment contracts?

There was a time in history when businesses were abusive enough that unions' outrageous actions were perhaps necessary, but that's simply no longer the case. Strikes and violence to overthrow paternalistic company town and unsafe mines? Maybe. Strikes and violence to ensure that teachers who browse porn in class don't get fired? Nope.
This is a good story, and it's worth noting that Feynman reiterated the idea of building a repertoire of techniques or problems in several different ways.

Here are two:

The way to excel in physics, according to Feynman, was to have several unsolved problems in the back of your mind, waiting for new information to spark an insight.

Feynman reports that fraternity kids at the university he attended would be taught slick answers to classic questions like "why does a mirror reverse left and right but not up and down" -- a kind of repertoire of responses that was part of their initiation.

Creativity doesn't come out of nowhere, it's a cumulative thing.
Interesting but let's look at rent prices to give us a guide shall we?

In central Tokyo you can get a 300 square foot apartment for $1800 per month and in the Mission (probably the cheapest part of San Fran?) for something that small (it's the legal limit) it's about the same.

The rest of Japan is more expensive than the US per square foot.

You actually get less space usually in new Japanese housing if anything. And I maintain they are cheaply built compared to US property.

It's very difficult to compare property across countries but this has been my experience and I think everyone living in Japan vs Western countries you seem to get larger better built buildings for your money.
If it's a very specific way of earning income, isn't the income, thus, earned?
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The NT kernel got async I/O right, for the general case, over 20 years ago:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

It's scary, really, how behind the times UNIX is, in so many ways.
depending on industry they may or not may not be good for you. a lot of the blame for the steel industry failing and in part the woes of the auto industry were blamed on unions demanding too much.

they also are a reason many don't like the police because that union buries a lot. throw in that public service unions run up salaries and benefits of members who aren't in dangerous or unfairly compensate industries and regular working people get annoyed (countless stories about exceedingly high payouts for some retirees because of pension abuse and such all paid by taxes). Government unions tend to be the prime reason many dislike them because of the near immunity some members derive from such status

lower income earners tend to not get as much benefit from the high cost of dues (based on percentage of income) versus some higher wage earners.
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From your experience, what advantages/disadvantages are there to:
1) Majoring in electrical engineering and physics, minoring in software development
2) Majoring in software engineering, minoring in electrically engineering and physics

Context: I'm a first year engineering student and would like to pick either Software Engineering (electrical engineering with computer science) or Engineering Physics (electrical engineering with physics). I already have a couple years experience programming, really enjoy it, and is why I went into the program. But, I've also really enjoyed physics and math classes and they've given me a strong desire to learn more about physics. Intuitively, I think that having a strong physics background opens the door to more problems I could solve with software. However, I don't want to to discount the value of studying software engineering. I don't have the experience to see what kind of walls and limitations each choice offers. What have you seen?
Check: https://www.pcengines.ch/

Maybe you can get some alternatives based on those cards.
Syncthing is entirely made by volunteers, and so far no one has had the time or interest to work on an iOS app. If you (or someone else) wants to work on an iOS app, that would definitely appreciated.
That's right, but then when did they spent so much on mobile R+D?
>but in the end did not do it as we felt he might have trouble being managed by people significantly older than him.

Why would he have trouble being managed by people older than him?
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That's another good point. The people who are actively blocking ads are probably not the ones going to click them, even if they are not blocked. So not worth the money to invest in unblocking the ads going to people who aren't going to click them.
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Its worth mentioning that kafka only supports guarantees for ordering inside a partition, not globally. (nifty little detail :) )
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I think that the phrase "utilize similar" does not imply an order.

Anyway, I'm curious what would be the engineering counterpart of caffeine :)
Link to the Android Client (unofficial):

https://github.com/friimaind/pi-hole-droid
... Otherwise known as "industry standard"
"My only concern for Scotland is that they wouldn't be able to gain (re-gain?) EU membership then would be left out on their own for many years."

Why? How?

Scotland would easily fulfill the requirements to join pretty much right away and the EU needs good news and would be able to sell that as something positive, so they have clear incentives to make it happen ASAP. Scotland also would be a net contributing country.
What we traditionally think of inheritance is only part of the picture of what makes life unfair, but abolishing it would certainly help stop the top 0.1% controlling massive dynastic wealth for generations.
Compelling an individual to support a group runs against the concept of individual freedom. I support the right to form a union and the right to not join one. I do not support the right to require an individual to join.

I support the individual. Pretty simple.
Having a monopoly could potentially be a great thing, no more tech-change anxiety, consolidation of effort etc

But there is so little structure, and so many roll-your-own efforts, the JS world is heavily fragmented...

> we're too bad at educating people in how to properly use the language

Does such a thing exist? How does a seasoned JS dev avoid DOM manipulation/interference nightmares, lack of typing, event hierarchy complexity? How do you really make a modular site without heavily committing to one framework?

> ideal of a perfect language is a pipe dream

Nothing's perfect, but still keep fighting for better.
What's the drive or motivation behind people running syncthing discovery & relay servers?

Do they generally then run their own clients to only use their own servers?

With Tor I'm convinced over the "speech should be free, I'm making the world a better place" type argument.

With syncthing I'm incredibly impressed that this optional (but incredibly useful) infrastructure is being run by people for free since it doesn't quite make the world a better place in the same way? It just saves a bunch of other people setting up their own relay/discovery server on a cheap linode/aws instance?

Impressed!
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Yes, it would reduce the search space three-fold (the 4th mechanism uses the same stored hash as the 1st), and your suggestion of different salts would prevent that since each password variant would need a separate search. Still, the difference between looking for 3 things out of ~10^20 options vs. just 1 thing is not that big.
They did. They invested a lot in R+D on mobile processors.
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I would have but that would have made things very confusing: I feel 100% British. My immediate family is scattered around the UK our forefathers were scattered throughout the British Isles—one half of the family was Irish. Even my English parents have Scottish blood somewhere down the line.

Even worse for me, I'm an internationalist and I felt very proud to be part of the EU for many of the same reasons I felt proud to be part of the UK: civic nationalism. The UK was the worlds most successful civic nation built on mutualism between a number of ethnic countries. To break up on ethnic borders and return to tribalism is heartbreaking.
The word has been used when discussing the politics of economics for over a century.
caffeine is the engineering counterpart of caffeine.
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What does that have to do with Trump? Who are you concerned he is going to go to war with?
Whilst that doesn't seem to be the case in other parts of the world [corrections?]

Some (many?) Americans would describe themselves as hailing from a specific state or city, not the nation.

Personally, when traveling abroad, if asked where I'm from, I generally say "Washington DC", not "the US".
Why do you plan instead of living your life ?
> They do that for reasons that have nothing to do with not paying their taxes...

If that's the cost of getting away with it, most people are not going to be willing to pay it.

> still, if you need an even ore obvious example... http://fortune.com/2016/04/29/tax-evasion-cost/

That's not the enforcement cost, that's the potential revenue gain from increased enforcement.
How about if they load them through *.google.com?

Sure, you could whitelist www.google.com, mail.google.com, etc, but couldn't they keep ahead of you if they were ok with using their main domain? They could even start using www.google.com/ad-id
> Fracturing is almost always a bad idea and bigger countries almost always do better than the smaller ones.

This is demonstrably false: roughly half of the top ten countries ranked by standard of living and quality of life are small European nations about the same size as Scotland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
This is a wonderfully ambitious project, but mind maps are really, really the wrong thing for this. They are basically trees, but knowledge is a web. Linear Algebra, for example, shouldn't live only under math because it's heavily involved in machine learning, graphics, and many other areas.

It's an excellent venture, but it needs a way better system for organisation and navigation.
A linked list is one of those things everybody thinks is trivial to write until they actually try to write one that supports all the normal operations and actually works in all corner cases.
There are a number of projects which make life easier for Windows users (tray icon, autostart, make it look and feel and bit more like a Windows application, bundle filesystem notifications, etc). Two of the big ones are SyncTrayzor (https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor) and Syncthing-GTK (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-gtk).

See the Community Contributions page (https://docs.syncthing.net/users/contrib.html) for the full list.
This doesn't seem terribly surprising to me. There are still companies that use them, so if you need to spy on one, a device like this would be useful.

The weirdest part is that the CIA uses agile-type user stories when developing its spy gear.
In lieu of todo lists, schedules seem like they help me get things done better. To back up what people are saying here, I find making the schedule each morning is helpful, even if the schedule proceeds to go completely to shit throughout the day.

Also, I think it's hard to have goals. I prefer systems. Rather than have my primary driver be, "I want to work from someplace other than my home office 3 times each week" (I work from home), I say, "I work from places other than my office sometimes." and then work that into my schedule. That way I'm not checking a box so much as just "being" who I want to be. The externality of a goal is gone, and "Who I am" now incorporates "work from a place not in my home".

I dunno if any of this helps. It sometimes doesn't help me. It sometimes does, though.
Seems pretty nice! Thanks for share it.
Yeah, first think I did after setting up pi-hole was go and visit all my primary sites, and see what was being blocked. Then white listed things I was OK with, or things that were breaking sites.
Indeed...hardly human.
Have you tried http://focuster.com?

It automates scheduling your to-do list in your Google Calendar so you're always working on your next top priority.

Don't finish it? It moves it forward in your calendar until you get it done so nothing falls through the cracks.
I appreciate Matt Yglesias's snarky tweet[0]: "Depriving Americans of valuable founder opportunities". The lump of unicorns fallacy is a nice update to the lump of labor fallacy [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/841305139440959488
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Not at all, and that's why I upvoted it.

I mentioned the date because it is traditional in titles. Here it might put comparisons to ES9 and complaints about display on the iPhone 10s in context (I'm optimistic). Pessimistically, it might give fair warning that hyperlinks from the page 404.
Quick reminder, there is no correlation between CEO pay and performance:

http://www.motherjones.com/files/blog_ceo_pay_performance.jp...
In what sense? 3 million cash for an executive of a high profile public company that's quite a conservertive cash payment for that scenario.
If advertising aids your revenue then you're operating as a monopolist or oligopolistic. In either situation you're outputting less than optimal, extracting rent, and society loses out through waste. Billionaires have accumulated a lot of inefficient rent.
Could the website server make the requests to the ad networks, then serve the responses as if it were native content?

Current browser-based blocking tech would be rendered useless, right?
Oooh... this is really obvius >.<
Thanks. It's because I'm really a big Lain fan. Lain for all.
I know, I wasn't referring to you in particular, it was no secret a while ago. I guess it was inevitable since it was so easy. I'm just sore that this will likely be patched in future updates now.
Commented a few times on the Catalan point but I don't think it's as big an issue as it's made out to be.

Rajoy will likely follow the direction set by the EC and also, Catalonia is a different situation to Scotland. The former is a region of Spain whereas Scotland is already a sovereign entity and would only be withdrawing from the Act of Union, not seceding from a country.

Edit: Also, it's already a choice between 100% being out of the EU if we stay in the UK, or at least having a shot of joining the EU which could be more likely in the backdrop of Brexit negotiation.
Is there some kind of search engine that limits itself to the "ancient"-style web, as it existed from its beginning to ~10-12 years ago, though not necessarily confined to older sites when newer ones fit the style and content of that period?

I'd use the hell out of something like that. I'd take enthusiastic amateurs with their web-rings and guest books, and academic sites over the modern advertising-centric web any day. Very little of that bubbles to the top of searches as it is (Wikipedia being easily the most prominent).
well advances in self driving tech will have payouts in all robotics. any robot needing to operate in an environment which isn't 100% predictable will improve.

simplest way, think of robots used to automate cleaning everything from the mall, your house, to the sides of the roads. or one day pulling up to a fueling facility and it automatically connects to your car for gas/electric/etc all is improved by better sensors and such
meanwhile, the median wage is ~ $30k.

things are only getting worse.
At this point it is clear that software size increase linearly with the size of your software team, whatever the problem you solve.

This affects every organization and is something that should be actively fight against. Having accidental, unplanned, unaccounted costs should not be the default path.
What is the difference between cold mailing and spamming?
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As long as you don't run an exit relay, it should be completely safe and legal. The EFF has a good write-up about it https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html
Because apple has so much scrutiny, and is able to get away with less, it may even be the most child-labor free option.

http://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/labor-and-human...
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Ad blockers do a lot more than just block domains. They look for and remove divs/DOM elements that contain known ad naming schemes and remove them from the page.

And if a site decides to start combating the ad blockers, the adblock list providers will update their rules specifically for the site in question. Adblock users get upset whenever they see ads, and report them pretty quickly.

The business I work for tried blocking adblockers and after a bit of back and forth they trumped us by blocking all AJAX requests on our site. We gave in after that.
People greatly overestimate their ability to completely ignore ads, and to make purchasing decisions free from influence.

Sure, I believe that I am pretty much completely unaffected ads, but then so does almost everybody else.
I'm not sure that quite addresses the problem here.

After all there is no clear definition of 'what dogs look like' (in the sense of a collection of logical rules), but deep learning models excel at detecting them, when provided with enough positive examples.

If it's possible for humans to agree on whether a given article is clickbait or not, we should be able to put together an adequate dataset for training a system to classify them too. From the linked article I am unable to discern how the training dataset was labelled.

In other words, the fact that 'clickbait' is a nebulous concept shouldn't preclude machine learning from being able to detect it.
To be clear, it is not ZFS that requires or even mandates ECC. Since ZFS uses data as present in memory and has checks for everything post that, it is prudent to have memory checks at the hardware level.

Thus, if one is using ZFS for data reliability, one ought to use ECC memory as well.
Not any more—they are currently running at a net loss. the rest of the UK are subsidising them to be decommissioned and for staff to be made redundant.
And another 22 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10537138
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In my past working with teams with network service SLAs, they had to design a robust multithreaded backend app and modify the frontend service to ensure all http transactions finished within 60ms. Timeouts were one of the smaller concerns...
that is a sweet way to fail. don't blame her, though. there is only one real solution to this problem, unfortunately: much higher taxes once you start raking in absurd dollars. odds of that happening in US in near future: low.
The other post incorrectly had "2010" in the title and I made a comment about how this should be corrected. The "2010" was then removed.

If, like you say, the moderators never saw the story then who made these changes? I find it hard to believe that foob would put the wrong year in the title of his own post.
Schedule things that have to be or can be scheduled (meetings with others, classes, whatever), create projects with priorities and contexts for everything else. I "schedule" time to read each day, but it's not fixed to any specific reading, but rather a set of reading projects (presently cookbooks, soon math books mixed with programming books). But I have other things that I want/need to do that sometimes takes over that reading time (learning Spanish is higher priority).

GTD isn't dogma, pick the right approach for you, but it is a good toolset/approach for many things. It can be very flexible to fit your particular motivators and environment and constraints.
How small where the box? normally kafka dosnt need much (4GB/8GB) and just uses the rest for page cache which can be sacrificed for performance.
>What a sophomoric, bad faith quip...

There's no need for that, and it occludes rather than clarifies what little point you have.
Up to a point, but the wage fixing issue has already been settled and this article is current, not historical. Walt is pointing at what he sees happening now. Can you point out instances of criminal collusion you think are or might be currently happening?
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I suppose you're right, but really, in what context do you need to do this? I've never had to do this in over 15 years of software development. I remember learning LLs in college, and it's good foundational knowledge -- it teaches you how to solve problems. I'm not saying we shouldn't learn these core concepts and algorithms, just that some people want to feel better about themselves and make others feel inferior when they can't remember something at a moment's notice, especially something they haven't used in over a decade.
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If you do it it's 'cold mailing'. If someone else does it it's 'spamming'.
Aviation tech isn't stagnant because of their unions and professional associations. It's stagnant because the FAA mandates it be stagnant. Go read up on what you're allowed to do with a Cessna you just bought. You can't so much as run a USB charger out to the front panel without the FAA coming down on you like a ton of bricks. Disruptive avionics start-up? Get real.
Mercola is one of the worst promoters and profiteers of pseudoscience.

https://www.google.com/amp/scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/0...

Here Mercola is ranked in the same "pure garbage"category as the Food Babe. http://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidenc...
Fair enough but my point is that in practical terms you are against them.
With PagerDuty on top it's fine from an operational point of view (you'll still have to trust both PagerDuty and Slack to keep your data secure).

> fine-grained notifications

A common approach is having a "alerts" channel that grabs everyones attention, even though most alerts are only relevant for a small subset of people. A company-wide #general channel is bad enough, and an #alerts channel only makes it worse.

You can totally do this with Slack by having something like PagerDuty in-between. We use a custom-written alerting broker that makes it easier to correctly handle some of the more complicated cases but it's pretty much the same idea.
People were led on by millionaire politicians and billionaire newspaper owners who flat out lied during the referendum. Politicians have been blaming immigrants and "benefit scroungers" for problems which are really caused by austerity. It would be nice to have an informed demos who could look past all that, but we don't right now.