skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If price is your thing, Linode for compute and Backblaze for storage; 4 CPU and 8GB RAM for $40 a month and 1/2 cent per month per gig. For full feature cloud I find Azure a better competitor to AWS as far as features/price/interface and per minute billing.
Thanks. I figured this was possible. I just never got around to looking at loginctl's options.
Disagree. DST is actually part of the time signature.

You are either in DST or not - that's why we have PST and PDT - one is a daylight time and reflects a different offset from standard.

Most people are in the same timezone but when not, it's the responsibility of the attendee to know that it's shifted - and the calendaring system should know to update it accordingly.
At Google, is it common to develop code in some kind of cloud IDE?
Finland will soon be blessed with a magnificient MUMPS system: https://www.epic.com/epic/post/2118
The world's first trillioaire may be an AI. Actually I though the Rothschild's had already reached that point.
I have to admit, the name of it throws me off. The intended or unintended relation with the subculture of obsessed adult men with a pre-teen show, and this programming language's name really makes me not want to take it seriously.

I love to judge things for what they are, and not what they're named or related too, but given there's so many languages fighting for my attention, this one is hard to swallow.
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He went missing before the bombing.

> Tripathi had been missing for a month prior to the April 15, 2013 bombings.
Data is useful for large companies - especially when you want to make data-driven decisions.

- Can we stop dispensing USB cables in the vending machines?

- Should we deploy the new Macbook Pro without classic USB ports as the new standard?

- Do our conference rooms really still need USB presentation remotes? Does anyone actually use them?
Can someone say how Cloudflare uses the Cap'n Proto rpc framework? I would be interested in hearing how this fits into a CDN architecture. Cheers.
Rather unlikely. A blocker that fails to block one in a 100 ads is still 100x better than no blocker.
no one has the right or should spam people with ads. There are lots of ways to support your projects without ads. Privacy matters!
maybe I missed your point, but imagine you were a person who could never go so much as a week without experimenting with something that is intellectually stimulating

then imagine you had spent decades working in programming shops, propping up one poorly conceived project after another, using so many languages and frameworks and operating systems that they blurred before your eyes.

then it might not be hard to understand how tending oranges might be a lot more intellectually stimulating. its not some generalized 'burnout', its just mind numbing boredom
Engineering certification managed by the NCEES (the Professional Engineer certification), used by most other engineering disciplines outside of software, has an apprenticeship of sorts in that one much work for several years as an Engineer-in-Training before being able to get your PE credentials. They do offer Software PEs as of recent.

Yes, the real question is more one of bootstrapping demand than finding associations to provide credentials. I considered trying for a Software PE because my current job (which is an environmental engineering firm where PEs in civil/environmental/electrical/et al are required/needed/present) would give me a small salary bonus for a PE title (and job title distinction that matters to my ego), but the effort involved doesn't seem worth it if the distinction is largely ignored by the software industry itself.
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- Flow understands the semantics of it.

- The path can only be given as a static function literal and there is no function call overhead at runtime because of the bundled babel transform that transforms the code to a bunch of ternary operators.
I agree, ads serve a useful purpose, but their implementation is bad. I'd like a compromise where we have ads, but they're less bad.

The trouble is that incentives are misaligned so we can't get to a middle ground position.

- Content owners and ad networks have little incentive to make ads that are better for users. They just want to get an ad system going that's simple to implement and allows tracking and fraud detection.

- Users who dislike the privacy, security, resource use issues with ads find it easier to just block ads completely. It would be much harder to work out a solution involving proxying, sandboxing, etc.

These conflicting incentives mean ad networks produce something good for them but bad for users and users (who know what to do) will do something that's good for them but bad for ad networks. There's a middle position, but neither party has a reason to attempt it.
Fresh way to work with gestures in iOS
> He was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type filesHe was a Sharepoint admin with access to Office type files.

I wish he were a participant on HN so he could chime in here and defend himself.

My impression is that he held several jobs over a few years which gave him access to more of the breadth of what was going on.

Surely after the revelations more security checks would have been implemented. But the other instances of large caches of leaked material suggest that there are not effective internal controls.

As a thought experiment, I'd suggest that the small size of teams required to maintain security, combined with a 'need to know' rule, results in an environment where creating an internal audit trail puts operational security at risk, and so it is avoided. All the anti-Trump leaks suggest that this is true, since surely Trump would have asked who had access to the leaked information, and the list would have been small enough (b/c of need-to-know) that he could have made a spectacle of the leaker.
Funny enough, I'm a recruiter by trade. We walk an impossible line with candidates, particularly when demand is so high (candidates care a lot less when the economy is down, and I used to get job seekers acting like my best friend in the early 2000s).

If it's "too generic" the recruiter is dismissed as being lazy and spamming - "too personal" and the recruiter is fake.

I do understand what you mean and have seen recruiters that try to get a bit too chummy. By relating to someone, I might mention if we went to the same college or if I know people from their company or group they belong to. I'm not going to ask about their kids or spouse unless it's someone I know well.
tbh you'll be better off just sticking with python for now, until you understand what's going on.
Reminiscent of Clojure's get-in function as well. [1]

[1] https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/get-in
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Do you have any specific criticisms of this site?
I was under the impression that those were introductory teaser rates that balloon up later, just like what happened with subprime mortgages.
Facebook updates its platform policy to forbid using data for surveillance
In 2011 I took the N every weekday from 30th to Montgomery around 9-9:30am and back around 6-8pm and sardines are the perfect simile.
One of the biggest issues with the housing market collapse was that the size of the fan wasn't known until it met the shit. There was a LOT of "safe" money invested into mortgage-backed securities. Even people who knew the shitstorm was coming could only guess at how far-reaching the problem would ultimately be.

And just like last time, if "too big to fail" institutions start going under, they'll get bailed out again because no politician wants the economy to collapse on their watch.
Part of being able to do DD is expecting integrity from auditors, and ratings agencies. One of the big problems of 2008 was that the rating agencies were, essentially, conducting fraud on a massive scale.

Perhaps it is a bit naive of me to expect either from a financial firm... But it really is in their best interests to maintain some semblance of law and order in their dealings.

After all, if things get bad enough, there will not be a shortage of hemp and lampposts.
There also exists something like stackoverflow-ish man-pages: `bro`. Basically, the same thing: community-maintained, upvotable bash snippets.
Nomadic ecology shaped the highland geography of Asia’s Silk Roads
I too am shocked how HN is taking a hard turn to the authoritarian side. "lega" "legal" "legal" "is it legal" "but they're illegal" geeze. I live in a country where it used to be illegal to know how to tune your radio to western frequencies and emigrating could get your familly sent to a workcamp. Now the west is talking about legality as if it were the holy grail. WTF?
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Creator here.

From the README:

* Write wiki pages in reStructuredText (rst) or Markdown (md). Both types can be in the same wiki.

* Run make to output html, and/or pdf, and/or plain text.

* Read your wiki pages.

* Optionally catalogs any book/media files in your wiki.

No software provided, just a makefile and two convenience scripts.

No templates provided.

Relies on existing tools that you already have or are easy to install.
Ridiculous how many of you still believe that the US is a first world country
While I'm not a fan of a looming crisis, I don't see enough critical mass to this space to have a lot of concern for macro impact.

It is also worth realizing that while the great recession trained us to be scared of news like this, defaults are a sign of risk taking and not necessarily a bad thing.

Case in point, YC tries to make good bets, but they have a lot of losers in their portfolio. And in that case, we're talking about unsecured debt.
Trump+health+bill:+Winners+and+losers+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
Yes, agreed - my iPhone alarm at 6AM for my workout should trigger whether I'm in Florida or California, and does.
Hi! It was hard to draw the line. And then, it was an omission to not even make a suggestion in the FAQ. Now fixed, thanks :)
Today is one of those days when driving a bus actually doesn't sound so bad.
The NCEES which maintains Professional Engineering certification in the US does support Software PEs already.

The question would indeed be one of bootstrapping: processes to convert on the job experience into more certifications and conversely to add appreciable demand for the certifications into the job market.
Nice article. Good explanation of what some of the major numbers and features mean in a practical sense.
They're all app developers. If RN developers are cheaper and faster, then "hard core native developers" will go extinct pretty quickly.
MedImmune and Rockwell Automation Executives Join NIST Advisory Committee
An SQL interpreter written in MUMPS:

https://github.com/robtweed/node-mdb/blob/master/gtm/MDB.m#L...
Using bytes as the unit of currency is awful. That's like releasing a car whose dashboard displays speed in liters.
I agree way more with you than with the parent, /but/...

Those I know who're the most successful at software will train themselves, and will look for the opportunities to do that; you don't need the company to train you, you just need them to give you [pay you for] the time to learn.

On the other hand, this moves it from "a small matter of work/life balance" to "a small matter of office politics"...

but on the gripping hand, it does make sense that this difference in attitude is such a differentiator.
Could the headline be a little clearer? The typos in particular threw me off...
Via a recent Bloomberg article [0], the (pre-Waymo) car project had an "unorthodox compensation system" resulting in "multi-million dollar payouts" that were somehow tied to the success/value of the project. A fascinating and weird way to incentivize hard work.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/one-reaso...
Bloggism at its worst. A blog post with an agenda making huge leaps of faith without bothering to keep a semblance of impartiality to try to show that Uber somehow conspired to steal technology. Without bothering to hear the other side.

"From Waymo’s filings, it seems that they have Levandowski dead to rights on stealing their LiDAR designs." This is one of the dumbest quotes in the post. Of course the lawyer's job is to write up their side of the story. He hasn't even heard the other side of the story and he's already coming up with conclusions. That's pretty terrible.
Removing height restrictions isn't the only way to increase density.

Improving efficiency of land use can be accomplished by eliminating idle and under-productive use, through the tax policy recommended in the article (land value tax).
No, should've made it more clear apparently. I'm referring to the 'antifa' members (who are massively overrepresented) by msm; same misrepresentation/oversampling and 'echo chamber' that led to the massive Trump 'suprise.' I'm only suggesting the comment I responded to, which I agree with ignored even more then just half the population not almost half.
If you love pursuing a career, finding jobs, following job trends, promoting yourself to potential employers, doing the work necessary to stay ahead of the competition, etc., than sure, doing what you love will keep you employed. Loving to work with computers will not.
Pro-tip: Lazy-load the imprint link and support form so that these adblocking bastards cannot annoy you. /s
Read the original allegations, not the summary here. Just to start you off, here's some the things alleged by google you're missing from that summary:

- He installed custom software to access the files.

- The files were in a data store he had no normal access to.

And here's my best guess as to why Google knows so much:

- Google requires access to their networks using either your Google assigned device, or a pre-approved list of devices of your own (basically chromebooks). I know from past interactions with a friend that works at Google that they often give beta versions of software (Android) and/or hardware (Nexus phones, chromebooks) to employees to test. It's entirely possibly that quite a lot of debugging data is reported on some build. Additionally, that same friend noted that Google has a whole department dedicated to rooting our invalid access like what is alleged here, and since they control the devices available to access their network, there's really no conceivably limit to the amount of activity data they could collect about employee usage.

In short, I see no reason why Google couldn't have as much data as they allege and possibly much more. to me, the fact that they waited until this stage to present it also seems calculated to benefit the most from those trying to defraud them (why not stop the forming of Otto initially, or the buyout?). If that's the case, I don't really have much sympathy for Uber, as they seem to possibly have been integral to the crime, and may have escaped punishment if it hadn't gotten this far.

Edit: Whoops, said Waymo where I meant Otto,
SaaS postgres "biz"ness
Yes, at least around here in .nl, both doctors and lawyers are required to take a certain number of hours of training every year to keep their licences.
>After all I said it was only my opinion on nylon being uncomfortable and that I have heard the same sentiment from others.

Yes, and I've heard the exact same thing about wool, and it's in fact my opinion too (that wool is itchy and scratchy and uncomfortable), but somehow you seem to think wool is the most comfortable thing on the planet. But of course, there's wool defenders out there who keep trying to claim that wool is wonderful, but everything I've ever touched that was made of wool was the same, to some degree.

Maybe you shouldn't go around proclaiming what is and isn't "comfortable" like you know what 100% of the human population will find comfortable.
Citrix working with Goldman Sachs on potential sale process
I have honestly no idea, other than I know that the grains are not permanent resident processes. IOW when they are not in use, they spin down and do not actively consume resources other than disk.

I think the grain runs in one place, I think to use the container analog it would be one container, but as a point of clarification I believe that it is not using one of the container runtimes like docker or rkt that you will be familiar with, but uses its own sandboxing instead.

I have not tried running the newly opened up Oasis backend so I can't really speak toward how it works. My experience with a single server running Sandstorm has been good, painless automatic upgrades, I would expect from what I know about this team, that since it's their dogfood they made it taste good.
You should have stayed hellbanned. We could make a parallel forum, without the possibility to reply to each other's comments directly and limited to about 4-5 comments per day, but visible only to that minority with "showdead" enabled in settings.
I wonder if there are other useful monads that would be useful to add to JavaScript.
California is unique in this regard, and is paying the price for it.

I'm sure it must be nice for older landowners to see windfall profits thanks to the productive activity of others, but surely there must be a better way of helping people save up for retirement than to make the area completely unaffordable for younger people.
Something was wrong. It barely touches the processor even with 10-20 clients running.
With a good enough credit rating, and in tough enough times, you can get 0% loans, no payments for 12 months. Sometimes, the need to dump inventory outweighs the need to make money on loans.

(Of course, if you miss a payment, that 0% rate will jump to 12%.)
One of their strategies is to starve competitors of investment by hoovering up as much as they can themselves.

This doesn't mean that they're in a good financial position, just that the signalling is different from other VC funded companies.
Personally I think one of the problems with self-learning are gaps in knowledge.

As a part of a formal education you get to learn what you like, as well as what you do not like much.

My advice to self-learners is: never engage in
"cargo-cult programming". This means: do not touch or reuse code that you do not understand. Force yourself to understand. If you lack the time, write it down and follow up later.
Identity management software provider Okta files for today’s second $100M IPO
I... stand corrected. I guess if he was wearing, shirt and shoes...
Are there techniques for neutralizing the effects of things like race during the hiring process that could help make these sorts of decisions more objective?

I'm reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis and it digs into things like this with great enthusiasm. Making people aware of their own inherent biases and devising criteria that help make objective decisions is not easy, but often necessary. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undoing_Project)
I read the whole article and it was very interesting. Thanks for the info! However, could someone explain to me why Uber is losing money from their taxi services? Obviously the drivers take home a large chunk of revenue, but what about the rest of the money they receive from the fares? Shouldn't that be enough to cover the overhead of running a mobile app? Are they trying to do too much? What gives?
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Well in this case sure, competition is good and apparently Austin has multiple choices so everything is fine but competition is not always the answer. Competition does not seem to be the answer to public transit for example. It's not such a leap to say that ride sharing type apps might end up being replaced by a more personal and dynamic form of bus service.
I'm glad I saw this here. HN has some of the strangest draconian moderation of any website i've ever visited.

Though, i'm continually driven back here because of the insanely high quality of the comments here.
I block ads, yet I financially support content creators by voluntarily subscribing to them via Patreon or tip them money (e.g. Twitch streamers). I also subscribe to publications to support journalism.

I'm also fine with ads in podcasts since the creators will sometimes at least use the product and it's implemented in a way that's largely expected, e.g. (plug in the beginning, plug in the middle, maybe a plug in the end...)
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I think the point of the comment was as kind of an upper bound. For instance if drivers made 100% (or more) of what the passenger pays, then Uber would be obviously not breaking even. At 65-75% it's feasible that at a certain scale Uber's cut would make them profitable.
The title clearly states what the (non-partisan) report says without making any implications whatsoever. Are we really going to complain about lack of bias in the media now?
If you have the luxury of using .NET, embedding IronPython is considerably easier, in my experience. A while back I was fooling around writing a game engine with python scripting support, and it was pretty slick to get going with.
Some licensed medical professions in the US are contingent upon completion of "continuing medical education" requirements. This often involves learning about changes in diagnoses and treatments of illnesses.
Why Ethereum is great for payments
Facebook Now Shares Exactly Which Brands Know Your Intimate Details
One is already on the face (literally) of 4 billion people while the other one is confidential.
Don't think this is what OP meant, but this explains something similar in a less-interactive way: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
Interesting to see another crypto vulnerability straight out of Cryptopals challenges - in this case - set 8.
It's not like people writing ad filtering lists care if ads are relevant or not.
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I few years ago I met a I guy who run some small business and for few hours per week drove a buss, mostly at night shifts. He told me that he had to do that for little extra cash and to keep his bus driver skills in case the business would not work. But I got an impression that he just enjoyed the driving.
This is the biggest issue that rural America is facing right now. There's an incredibly large voting bloc of people that had vocational training in mining, manufacturing, etc, etc. Their training is now worthless and nobody has a great plan to get them either a real education or more useful vocational training.
8 (obvious) things every rational man should know before buying a diamond ring:
Well, you could look at it that way. But the "encoding" is the same encoding that an "int" field in a struct uses, and "decoding" it is a trivial load instruction.
I work with a Pick derivative every day. UniData still runs many higher ed ERP systems. (As it does at our institution, which was the first installation of our particular product.) I sometimes joke that we were running a NoSQL DB before SQL existed! ;)

I can't comment directly on Pick, but UniData is an... interesting DB. The concept of MultiValue fields is both powerful and horrifying (reporting is a nightmare for anything designed to deal with SQL DBs). The configuration varies between installs, but for the most part all data is treated as ASCII text. Numeric values are converted at runtime. Dates are stored as number of days since December 31st, 1967. (You read that right.) There are no real checks on field length or content. Also, for the most part we program in a basic variant (UniBasic) where the only dynamic programming feature is "dynamic arrays" which are strings with special delimiter characters. "Structured programming" is still mentioned as a novel concept in the manuals. However, there is a vendor "augmented" version of UniBasic that interfaces with our software product's frontend in various ways. It's a niche ecosystem.

My manager still remembers the good old days back in the '80s when our ERP system ran on a Prime minicomputer. I still have some manuals sitting around my office with "Prime" printed on the spine...
This may be useful to those of you interested in "solving" this problem: https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-...