skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original author here. I think i wrote the sentence in the post confusing.
The error rates of (40% 500 error) were not normal.
A normal hit rate was at ~97%. But because the redis server itself was overloaded by KEYS request, BGSAVE / forking, etc. this instance was not able to answer the cache request.
Due to this we had a high error rate.

But in general i agree. A normal behaviour of a cache with such a bad rate should be avoided.
I hope this make more sense now?
Had a ping pong table at the old office, can confirm was never used.
whoops. thanks!
There is a vast difference between "idle" in terms of enjoying the fruits of your labors, vs "idle" in terms of enjoying the confiscated fruits of the labors of others. It's the difference between retiring early vs living on welfare checks.
> This, also, by the way, is a great illustration of Elon Musk's contention that these technologies don't just keep working. Brilliant, competent engineers and scientists have to invest themselves in making them work.

Is this expressed in a paper, or conference that I can watch a video of?
You beat me to the Richard Stevens book. Truly the comprehensive guide. Everyone should have it on their shelf.
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> How about ads with privacy? They are not mutually exclusive.

Mozilla attempted this on the Firefox home page. Nobody understood the point (partly Mozilla's fault for poor messaging) and it was roundly criticized for putting advertising in the browser, instead of providing a solution to funding websites without violating privacy.
There is a chrome extension for that: https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
Useless career path. You'll be competing against robot design robots.
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Meaning isn't an emotion. Meaning is a story. A story we tell ourselves, over and over again, until we forget it is a lie.
Have you tried Construct 3? The feedback we're getting (some in this thread) is that it's very responsive. We're getting feedback on social media that people are forgetting sometimes they are using it in a browser. Making it feel as performant as possible has always been the #1 goal. Browser apps have a bad rep because there are a lot of badly written ones out there.

What specific parts of Construct 3 do you feel are clunky?
This is a very well written and insightful article. However, while I was reading this I was wondering; "what is the time-frame over which the debugging and solution finding occurred?". Was it hours, days, weeks or even longer? My guess is that the time-frame was days (not necessarily continuous).

I think an article like this could serve well as an example to non-developers to demonstrate the path taken to solve a problem but also how long it takes to solve a problem.
Why post anything from ZeroHedge? Really....

edit: the author is Tyler Durden ;)
No, you need to raise compensation. If someone is worth 250k at Google, they may work for your company for 150k if they get 600k worth of options paid out over four years at a reasonable valuation.
What was the outcome of the vote to enter the EU?
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Beej's is great. Crack it open every time I have to work with network sockets (on my third reliable UDP library now...).
Engineers love cats
??

You said people could write C++, as a response, suggesting they cannot write it in Go?
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Very interesting historical example! (I did not know this about the film industry.)

But when I think of the 80's, I think of awesome concepts for films. When I think of the early 2000's I remember...nothing outstanding?

Compare for yourself:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=1980,1989&tit...

(Many of which I had in mind as I wrote the first paragraph.)

And:

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls057556971/

I've seen many of those films: I couldn't remember a single one. Also throwaway films like Bond films are in the list.

There were between 5 and 9 Bond films in the 80s depending on how you count (for example License to Kill, For your eyes only, The living daylights, Octopussy, A view to Kill, Never say never again, The Naked Face, Bonds are Forever) not one of which made it to the first cited list above, edged out by better and more memorable stories and films.

Who is going to remember "Up in the air" in ten years?

The fact is, although there are twice as many (my first link shows 50, my second list 100), there is hardly a concept among them.

So the interesting fact you've stated about the eighties can be seen very, very clearly. The concepts from the 2000s...simply suck. Your additional information about the market history of concepts is most interesting.

--

EDIT: in response to ajmurmann's reply below:

So I consider those worse concepts than the concepts embodied in the first list, movies from the 80s. Really look at the two lists (really) and see the strength of the concept behind them. They're worlds apart (to me.)

I realize this will be a subjective judgment. Look at the overall impression, not just one or two films.
> How many articles do you read each day?

0 - 1 Articles

100+ Comments on 20 - 25 articles.

I use the comments as a curation tool, to decide if the article is really worth reading, or click-bait. Sometimes the comments also do a TL;DR; summary of the original article, so that saves me time (esp. on rambling articles that write 1000 words to prove a couple of points or make a statement / take a stance on something).

> They're usually related to your job or to some side projects?

Job, side-project and technology related. I'm here only for the comments as I see gems from software industry veterans and experts whose knowledge on various tech topics far exceeds mine.

> Do you usually read about a variety of topics or it's focused in 2 or 3 topics only?

Usually 2 to 3 - I mostly come here for "Show HN", "Ask HN" and technology related announcements / findings. I come here to find inspiration and motivation to ship my side-projects.

> Do you usually read during some time of the day or it's usually random?

Random, throughout the day. It's gone up more ever since I gave up reading mainstream news after the elections. ( Nov 10th 2016 to be precise). I try to avoid political news on HN also. The mods have done a great job of flagging and removing them, so I am very grateful for that.

Related Reading: http://joel.is/the-power-of-ignoring-mainstream-news/

P.S. I also use https://hckrnews.com/ It loads super fast , has a very clean pleasing UI and helps me quickly scan the top stories on HN and decide which ones to come and peruse.
countries have many element in common, but the eu as organization has given the middle fingers to those values putting economic interests of few above all else.

i.e. why do Italians have milk quotas, spain has orange quotas, but germany has not car quotas? the general feeling is that few are getting the advantages of the free market and many are taking the piss.

on the other hand where's the democracy in the Dublin III agrement? 15 or so states voted to screw the three southern states, of course those kind of provisions gets passed, the majority gets an advantage, but the minority of states having to bear the weight will breed resentement for years to come. and to add insult to perjury now that migrants have forced their way to the other countries they want to renegotiate migrant quotas

this is not the europe that was sold on us, and if it were to be an italeave I'd vote yes in a heartbeat
Sony's acquisition of Columbia/TriStar hasn't gone particularly well either...
In my university days the statistics showed that a lot of more strikes happen in France and USA compared to Germany. Theory was that the German model had more build in mechanism to deescalate problems between booth parties regulated by law.
From my perspective the unions are really weak these days.
Sorry, I did notice that. I'm referring to the child by the way, not the adults.
Yes, but there's always a price.. psychological and/or emotional, in my case.
Basically the same core design as Tesla autopilot and other autonomous software today... but the hardware to make a useful finished product just weren't available yet. Way ahead of it's time.
Calling Leavers "white nationalists" is like Glenn Beck calling Obama a communist.

Jews voted for Leave more than any other demographic group, even more than whites. Arguing about hypothetical white nationalists is total FUD.
In the 1980s and later parts of the 1970s, nuclear projects in the US did face the impossible challenge of regulations that shifted as projects were underway. But that doesn't apply here, AFAICT. The American AP1000 projects began work on their nuclear sections, starting with basemat concrete, in March 2013.

The regulations haven't changed since the new American units began construction. Regulations were supposed to be factored in to the cost/schedule estimates. Yet the original cost/schedule estimates turned out to be badly mistaken. Being in a highly regulated industry (like making nuclear reactors, airliners, or pharmaceuticals) does increase costs over lightly regulated sectors. But it isn't an excuse for mis-estimating costs and schedules that were supposed to be developed considering those factors. Boeing would be in crisis too if every unit of its latest airliner were double-digit-percentages over budget and over allotted assembly time.

I've been following the American AP1000 projects for years. The contractors blame the sub-contractors. The new sub-contractors are behind schedule just like the old sub-contractors. Nobody actually involved with these projects, AFAICT, is blaming the cost/schedule problems on regulators. Pro-nuclear bloggers have still tried shifting the blame away from the industry and back to environmentalists/regulators/the public at large.

EDIT: here's what Georgia Power and Westinghouse alike believed about the new AP1000 design:

Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 will be the first in the industry to use the Westinghouse AP1000 advanced pressurized water reactor technology. This advanced technology allows nuclear cores to be cooled even in the absence of operator interventions or mechanical assistance. The AP1000 is the safest and most economical nuclear power plant available in the worldwide commercial marketplace, and is the only Generation III+ reactor to receive Design Certification from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The AP1000's simplified plant design results in a plant that is easier and less expensive to to build, operate and maintain. The plant's design has:

+ 50 percent fewer valves

+ 35 percent fewer pumps

+ 80 percent less piping

+ 45 percent less building volume

+ 70 percent less cable

than earlier-generation nuclear plants. The modular design also allows for faster construction.

https://www.georgiapower.com/about-energy/energy-sources/nuc...

The builder and the buyer both believed that these reactors would be faster and cheaper to build than past designs, before they actually tried to build them.
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I don't think the problem with React is with the DOM aspect, it's state management and persistence where things get bogged down conceptually.
You didn't have the kind of authoritarian powers we have with the ability to archive information about people.

We know what the statsi archives did... now there's unprecedented power to repeat that mistake at a larger scale.
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US - where most jobs outside tech are either pointless or heavily regulated. My mistake, oligopolized was the intended meaning there.
You say his argument is nonsensical, but then make exactly the same argument as him by calling it a public utility.
I still find it pretty strange that the definition of federal poverty threshold is based on pre-tax income.

What actually matters for poverty (and income equality etc) is income after taxes and transfers.

(I.e. before deciding if someone is in poverty, take into account income taxes, which are progressive, and social security payments which are meant to alleviate poverty).
The problem with that idea is that even if the human labor is absurdly cheap, that doesn't make it good. Would you want a car built by hand, or a car built by robots? The latter is going to be better built and have fewer defects. Many jobs can't even be done decently by humans (think of modern cellphone circuitry assembly).
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Problem is, there are subcultures which encourage family breakdown, which normalize it, which see it as the means to eliciting revenue from the state.

If it's a true aberration, others should be willing to help out. If it's normalized social behavior, something is systemically wrong with the culture.
Thanks for this insightful comment. The current VR status irritates me as well. It has only affecting gaming till now, despite the remote working/AR implications. What do you mean by an 'explosive growth pattern'?
Rothbard's approach to pollution in many cases does reduce down to "tough...buy a filter if you want clean air/water", due to his requirement that the plaintiff prove strict causality, and in the case of invisible pollutants prove actual harm.

When you find, for example, your crops damaged by acid rain, that acid rain can have been caused by pollutants releases hundreds or even thousands of miles away, from hundreds of sources.

Who do you sue? It's generally not going to be possible to prove that the pollution emitted by any particular source ended up in the rain that fell on your crops.
Why only senators? It would be an effective way to teach the public too. "Hi, <full name>. I know you live at <address>, and that <other facts>. If you care about privacy go to eff.org (or some other organization)."

You might also include a message along the lines of "everyone knows this information about you, it's just that we're the only one telling you that we know".
But the code is definitely slanted towards a C style, not C++, and they are very different languages. (He prefers C strings vs C++ strings, for example).
these types of owners dont care about these things. they want new feature now and they want problems fixed now.
People made exactly the same predictions about the Castro regime in Cuba. They were wrong about that. I predict they are wrong about this.

I think people underestimate the power of indoctrination. Predicting that the Kim regime will fall when people realize how much better life is in South Korea is like predicting that the Trump regime will fall when Americans realize how much better life is in Denmark.
Renewable power generation may already be cost competitive with fossil fuels [1]. It's gaining popularity in developing nations for this reason [6].

Natural gas, which is leaked heavily during fracking [2], is an order of magnitude more harmful than CO2 in the short term [3]. But it breaks down far faster in the atmosphere [4] and is comparatively better than coal when it's burned [5]. Thankfully, fossil fuels are losing to cleaner technologies [6].

Cheap renewables, like solar, allow EV owners to opt-out of centralized power generation and charge their cars with clean power [7]. One could argue that this is the entire business model of Tesla [8].

[1] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/re...

[2] https://thinkprogress.org/methane-leaks-erase-climate-benefi...

[3] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warmin...

[4] https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-methane-once-it-is-rel...

[5] http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fue...

[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

[7] https://www.wired.com/2011/11/evs-go-off-grid/

[8] https://www.wired.com/2016/06/tesla-solar-city-elon-musk/
I've never actually called someone a sociopath when they said that meat tastes good as justification for eating it. But now that I think about it, justifying killing for pleasure (of eating) seems like a pretty good definition.
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The appliance division of Westinghouse was sold off in the 70's and is now managed by Electrolux. This division of Westinghouse was spun off in the late 90's and is now owned by Toshiba. The history and scope of Westinghouse is super interesting/confusing you can read the full details here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Corporat...

Its current incarnation is now CBS corporation which licenses out the Westinghouse name to other corporations.
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Original author here.
Thank you.

The article didn't go into depth of the server architecture. But in general all instances i wrote about were setted up as a classical Master <-> Slave connection. Sometimes with multiple slaves.

Related to persistence: It depends. It depends on your tooling around.
E.g. If you have a Master <-> Slave setup with persistence enabled, you have multiple options. BGSAVE on master only. BGSAVE on slave only. A seperate slave without traffic only for BGSAVE (to avoid the forking issue, many companies doing this) or BGSAVE on every node.

BGSAVE on every node can make sense of you have a running sentinel that propagades the slave as the new master once the master failed.

IMO it depends. We are running master <-> slave envs with persistence enabled on every node.
Were we don't need persistence there we are running only single instances that are combined by the client to a consistent hashing ring.

Does this answer your question? Any questions left i can answer?
Sure. Lets say the UK wants to implement an immigration point system for evaluating which immigrants to let in. They can't do that while being in the EU.
If you are from Northern ireland, you have an automatic right to irish (and UK) citizenship. If your parent is Irish, and still alive, if they become a citizen, then you can too. This can be continued down the generations (presumably, but I'm not aware of it happening very often).

edit: added UK part
> Them wanting people to believe that this will lower the cost of internet service is laughable. Have TV ads lowered the cost of cable?

It's a very important point; this false argument is often used. In truth, in the marketplace, goods are not priced at 'cost-plus'; i.e., they aren't priced by taking the cost to the vendor and adding a profit margin.

Goods are priced at the point that will maximize profit for the vendor; economists would say at the point that maximizes marginal profit. Colloquially, they charge as much as they can.

The fact that the vendor has another stream of income from Product B doesn't cause them to reduce their prices for Product A. Microsoft doesn't cut the price of Windows because they are making so much from Office.
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I already encounter this in my daily life. There are people in the world who can do anything and everything I can do better. When I think of something interesting, I google it and usually find out that not only has someone already done it, they've done it better than I was thinking of doing it.

But then I go and try anyway. I'm not even really sure why, but I like doing it.
A VPS provider would be very unlikely to sell that sort of information. If they were caught capturing traffic, I doubt many businesses would want to use their services.
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You might not realize just how easy it is to track users behind NAT.

You might also not realize just how shady and willing to sell you out many of these VPN services are. They tend to be un-audited, un-regulated.
> Also 19th century Europe (since Napoleon's fall to WWI) was largely free of war.

Well, if you exclude (and these categories are overlapping and non-exhaustive) the Italian wars of independence, conflicts associated with the 1848 revolutions, the various wars involving Russia and it's neighbors, the wars between the Ottoman Empire and it's breakaway regions, the wars between regions that has broken away from the Ottoman Empire, the (with substantial outside intervention) Portuguese Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, the (again, with substantial outside intervention) series of civil wars in Spain, the Schleswig Wars, and the wars of German Unification...Sure, maybe the post-Napoleon I 19th Century was relatively free from war in Europe.

If you don't ignore those, war was pretty much constant​ in the period.
I like that you're using actual data to back up your claim.

However, I have one issue: how come you're comparing the 80s (a whole decade spanning 10 years) with the early 2000s (a span of 3 years? maybe 4?).

If you looked at the entire decade, I think you would see many fine movies.

One way to go about remembering movies is to think about the great film makers of the time: Cohen brothers, Aranofsky, Nolan, Fincher, Tarantino, Boyle.

A lot of their great work was done in the 2000s.

Edit: Do you think your 2000s list is worse than your 1980s list?
> You're not going to get kicked out of your home and neighborhood forever because of a malfunction at the coal plant.

Until we get a couple more of degrees globally and we'll see floods in many coastal cities. Not to mention destroying the stability of weather we had for ~12,000 years and allowed farming to thrive.
Notable news coverage:
http://www.popsci.com/building-hanging-from-an-asteroid

Related news coverage:
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I find it dishonest for an article to say that corporations donated to a candidate, when they actually mean that a corporation donated to a PAC or that employees donated to a candidate. It creates an extremely misleading picture. Telecoms are major employers in places like Tennessee (which Blackburn represents). AT&T alone has 5,600 employees in Tennessee (more than Twitter has employees total). It's no surprise telecom employees donate to her.

Many of the people who voted "no" on the bill received similar amounts of money from Internet companies: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2016.... Are all those votes suspect?
My solution: business and executives in Bay Area, engineering in Poland.

Syncing: I have to wake very early every day, but it's a small sacrifice in the grand scheme of things. "Remote, office not required" book have a case study of 37signals with two founders in Europe in USA. European moves his day forward, USA wakes up very early, at least 4 hours of overlap a day is enough.

Relocation: If you open European subsidiary, you can long term relocate people to USA on L1 if necessary.

How to find good people: It helped that I studied in Warsaw before relocating to Bay Area and I know some good people who stayed in Poland due to personal reasons.