skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the EdgeRouter Lite an Octeon "Plus"?

Looks like:

ben@edge:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type	: UBNT_E100
processor	: 0
cpu model	: Cavium Octeon+ V0.1
It's also cheaper/easier to get good manufacturing tolerances on body panels if they're all big smooth curves rather than many abrupt lines and bends.
This is likely to be slightly controversial, but is Amazon running some sort of "Stanford-Prison-Experiment" kind of test on their employees? It seems like about once a month we're seeing some kind of horrific thing being done to their workers that are almost comic-book-supervillain-bad.

It's stories like this that make it easy for me to deny the Amazon recruiters when they bother me.
Is there some kind of equivalent power rating for the purpose of comparing plasma cutters and lasers?
Hey! Something about this doesn't seem right. I checked our system and couldn't find anything resembling this. I'd be happy to look into it if you can provide me with more info.
Game cheat prevention: Chasing sock puppets in a world of sparse data
> Mailing lists are far too outdated. Forums are good, and some good people out there are still developing them.

WTF?

How is it even remotely sane to provide a user interface instead of an API/protocol?

I don't care to learn your forum's user interface, and I don't care to poll your forum for new content. I have a mail user agent that's configured to fit my needs and that I know well how to operate, and that's where all the mailing lists that I am subscribed to push their new content into this one unified interface for me to interact with them. Web forums for the most part are just a pile of broken usability.
This is just outright denial. Bethesda titles are rife with segmentation fault galore. Even their most recent titles suffer the same terrible CTDs as all of their previous titles.
I wanted to add that the problem of the performance of GitLab.com was not because of the revenue but because of our focus and the fast growth. The revenue will help with paying the hosting bills as we keep growing.

And we'll make GitLab.com fast for everyone, including the free users.
> they should take the hit themselves, not punish an innocent passenger for their own mistake.

If they don't get their crew to the other airport, the next day a full plane load of people (or more, due to knock-on effects) might have been denied a flight.
It's variable. It's mostly annoying because you never know when the person may show up or not, and how long it may disappear.

On the other hand, as far as the disease is not too bad, the person is still doing regular work like everyone else when it's here and you may really need the hands.

That's up to the environment. Amazon is in the business of cheap warehouse workers. It's very draining physically and it probably hates unpredictable leaves from employees. It's likely very unfriendly to chronic disease.
Hackers have stolen large amounts of cryptocurrencies from individual targets because they used SMS 2FA. (If probably more money than I've ever had counts as large.) You might not be as juicy a target, but if you're reading HN I guess you're at least mildly interesting these days, this being the cyberpunk future.
Okay. This is great, but I feel like Google's off doing everything but looking after their current products. Google Inbox is in dire needs of new features to bring it in line with competitive mail products, and GMail needs a facelift.
I would think https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloman_Air_Force_Base#Germ... has uniformed German military and flies German flags.
Should be, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space
Could you put like-minded people in touch who submit similar projects?
does anybody have experience with neurofeedback? I've heard it works very well for ADHD, but it is a bit pricey for me and insurance doesn't cover it.
Many Westerners are under the impression that St. Basil's Cathederal is the Kremlin. It's a bit like thinking that the Washington Monument is the White House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Basil%27s_Cathedral
It's the ease of declaring components and structuring complex applications with it. There is nothing in WPF that is comparable to it unfortunately, except Redux.NET maybe, but XAML is a lost case against JSX. You'd have to see it, or work with it. The bottom line is, drastically less code, clean structures, things become simple to do.

Debugging is also something different: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a0d66cf145fe35cbe5fb34149...

Like hot module reload where you write your app live. You edit one component, everything else stays in place and maintains state. Or time travel with Redux, where each piece of state is inspectable. You roll back or slide through the apps history and see it literally build and deconstruct itself. That's possible because UI is just a function of state. Same state, same UI.
How does that work? I'm sick, but I come in and my colleague stays at home?
This is when Uber should go back to their investors, ask for $10B and just buy Lyft.
Without Lyft Uber will have an easier time to become profitable and avoid a "race to zero" in cities when they compete against each other.
There's also the two ice pack things in there, not sure what we can do about those, either.
UK rail isn't high speed and probably the worse in Europe outside of the old com block countries.

London to Manchester is somewhat still OK but London to Newcastle takes longer and costs more than London to Brussels via the Eurostar.
I'd give you a standing ovation if I could. So well said! It's heart-warming to know there are other people out there thinking exactly like myself.

Nobody ever learns from history and it is full of examples of what happens in an industry where speed is valued more than quality.
We'll have a look at improving this.
Arch linux?! Whaaaaa haha, you think I have a brain to follow directions!

Anyway thanks for your time.

I can't seem to find 8GB chromebooks, they might not exist yet and when they do expensive oh well. Quit being poor is what I keep saying to myself. "Hey buddy why don't you snap out of it and quit being poor?" haha.
>I like languages with a clear, simple concept behind their operation.

So you dont like C because Undefined behaviour complexitys. Im confused now.
Can a German reader read the original article for us? I would assume the warehouse staff can't work from home, then again maybe they have very generous group sick day quantities. The translations supposedly relate "german IT groups up in arms" so thats probably not the janitorial staff being affected.

Where I work if you're sick or a kid is sick, that means work from home via VPN, just like if they called you for an emergency at 2am except its 2pm. If you're not a total loser or slacker your boss won't expect much "work" especially if you're genuinely sick, but even if all you do is idle on instant messaging and reply to emails, they're getting at least some kind of value out of you more so than a sick day and if you accomplish anything, however slow, plus for the bean counters you're not logging a sick day. Actually burning an actual literal sick day frankly means you're going to baseball opening day or a job interview or you're in the terminal stages of your career so to speak (bad relationship with company or boss), or maybe you feel cheated out of vacation days so you pad mondays and fridays with more than 2/5th of sick days etc.

Obviously jobs or employers incompatible with VPN work are a different scenario.

Sick day in the 90s mean literally sick, like the flu, whereas in the 10s if I have the flu I just work from home very slowly and literal sick day means "go local professional sports team go" or similar unscheduled vacation.
Delete this post before Jeff Bezos sees it
Train two neural nets against each other, one as 'artist' and other as 'critic'
Business fails all the time usually does not result in seppuku. The problem with government bloat is the lack of death for the business, not its purveyors. The plane is not built by the government, but Lockheed Martin, a private company. If government cut funding a while ago, they would've stopped working on the plane.
> It's stories like this that make it easy for me to deny the Amazon recruiters when they bother me.

Same stuff and it goes both way.

There was a candidate who showed a counter offer from Amazon. We had a good laugh. :D
That's a great point; I hadn't even thought about development. If that is indeed the case, this could be a godsend for Android devs!
Tickets from the last year excluding application bugs, that resulted in downtime. I did not get any notification of outages on these. Everything has been resolved and I am very happy with the product when it is working. I get that some of these are due to companies you rely on for your infrastructure.

#26561 Server Not Responding (No reponse for over a day)

#24895 500 on Application Settings (17 hour for response 24 for fix)

#29731 Sever Not Responding (disk full with no warning [actually at 67% but that hangs backups]) Solution expand block storage which failed several times.

#41739 Repositories Unavailable (Githost infrastructure failure moving storage to block storage)

#45163 DNS failure (DYN Attack)

#22524 Expired SSL Certificate

#72593 Server Not Responding (Data Center Outage)
I'm sure you're right. Which is why you only see activity on weekdays.
I've been pondering this because on the face of it it sounds stupid and counter-productive. I want to think that the decision makers aren't complete baboons and at least thought they were doing something good. What i think they might be thinking is this:

In germany workers have EXTREMELY strong sick protections and take every chance to get paid-sick-leave as mandated by law they can.

And the main way this happens is the flu, which knocks a person out of work for two weeks over here. And this is unavoidable, people get the flu, people get sick. It happens. Especially in group environments.

But if people are individually on the hook for their flu stuff, have it affect their bonuses, then they have an incentive to show up to work, not get their days counted, but get everyone else sick. Out of those there will be a number of people who do take the sick days.

However if you average the bonus sickday connection out over a group, then suddenly the sick people have an incentive to stay home. If they don't infect coworkers, they don't raise the sick days of the group en masse, thus affect their own bonuses, and everyone else's less than if they went to work sick and got everyone else sick too.

At least that's what i think the managers are thinking.

Whether that works out like this here, i can't even imagine.
This sounded absurd and we haven't heard the justification for it, so I tried to think of possible benefits.

It is actually interesting that if I go to work sick and get a couple others sick, it will cost me more money than if I had stayed home to begin with.
You've living in some serious denial. You were given a point that proves that your line of thought is incorrect, and you continue on to completely ignore that point by stating that it is correct. So tell us, o'wise one, why is that top C and C++ projects are continually riddled with CVEs, crashes, and other severe issues that are 90+% the fault of C and C++? Why is it that veteran, experienced C/C++ programmers are still making these same mistakes 20, 30, and even 40 years into their careers?
Ask HN: How to overcome the feeling of being cheated by startup founders?
Hello HN,

I'd like to receive advise on my below state:

Few years back, I joined a small (unknown) startup. The founders has no-prior startup experiences.
Just a week after I joined them, they released DOA(dead-on-arrival) version. Their product has no quality and they can't find talent because no one willing to join their team.

I took it as challenge and fixed their product with-in next 3 years. Honestly, I did a 4 person job myself for a low-end salary. When the startup acquired by billar-dollar company, I was kicked out because I refused to shoe-lick the new boss. Founder didn't even gave me a chance to explain my position, told me to 'we will start your resign process today'. I was shocked and devastated by his attitude. Everyone in the team knows my dedication towards job. I never expected this. Most of my friends said, "you got cheated by that startup". few co-workers sympathetic
towards me and gave some job-referrals.

I realized they don't need me anymore, because he sold his startup for millions of dollars. Other co-workers received 50k to 100k stock options after acquisition, I was left with 5k.

Later, founder became serial entrepreneur and started another companies. Whenever I come across his new startup or interview stories, I'll be hugely pissed off and angry. Even though it happened years back, I'm unable to let-go the feeling for being cheated. Financially, still struggling and unable to provide better health care to family - things like this makes even hard to forget this incident. I swear to god (if there was one), without my effort - they won't have been acquired.
(I can provide more details, it may reveal startup/founder info).

Sometimes, when I see him on HN, I'll downvote his comment. Sadly thats the only thing I can do, vent out my anger :(

Any advise how to overcome this mindset? thank you.
I don't know, 5+ years isn't that old anymore for a computer. Like, 5 years ago I was running... a core i7 with 4GB of ram. And now I'm running... a core i7 with 16GB of ram. The only things in computers that have really gotten significantly faster are SSDs and GPUs
Stripe markets to tech companies. Tech companies typically have very strong margins, and are therefore less price sensitive. Ergo, Stripe survives on businesses that print money.

Not everyone can afford an iPhone, but Apple still is filthy rich from the people who can.
I used IRC a bit in the mid 90s when I first encountered this whole internet thingy. Even though I was young and dumb, it struck me as a bit lame: nerd bullshit with fiddly setup. The async aspects of usenet and email struck me as more scalable, and the web had, you know... graphics.

I had to use IRC again in 2015, and pretty much nothing had changed, except now I was 20 years older.

Most of the criticisms of Slack seem to boil down to: this (whatever it is) is something IRC could do. But it (whatever it is) is virtually always something IRC doesn't do, something it does in some half-arsed fashion (that requires a huge amount of fiddly setup), or something that's supported by only a few clients. How is this not obvious? I'm perpetually mystified that anybody would admit in public to not understanding why Slack is taking a massive dump on IRC.

(Criticisms of Slack's closed nature are valid. It's also worth asking why it has to take up 2GBytes of RAM just to show a tree view, an HTML view and a text box! But don't tell me that you can't understand why Slack is winning anyway.)
I imagine there might be serious anti-trust concerns with such an acquisition.
You're arguing semantics. What most people are looking for is a "service bureau", and they use the word software to describe that. People don't want to manage their own infrastructure, and right now will happily pay for someone to take care of that for them.

Open source isn't wholly incompatible with this model, for sure - you can still have open source code that can be hosted by the developer for a fee. But the specific idea of throwing something up on the web and letting people use it if they want isn't as effective, because not having to worry about the software (including how it's hosted) is part of the draw of using third-party software in the first place.
Regarding Inbox, I couldn't care less about more features at this point, I just want better desktop web performance.
People report being happier after talking to strangers on public transit. They also underestimate how open other passengers are to it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/opinion/sunday/hello-stra...
This Amazon chap does sound like an idiot.
Transparency is what makes IH great. I don't see this sell as a good move, if Stripe cannot appreciate that, and allow you to disclose how much you get from the deal.
That's also assuming that the thickness of each ring is constant. If they increased the thickness by a certain percentage relative to the previous band, then you'd have exponential growth.
Yeah, but that page is ugly.
> so by your logic he should not do whatever he can to create the most effective submission possible?

Ideally without breaking the HN rules.
Is it possible to also accept EPL?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License
this was proofed 2011 already https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/92946-a-wiggly-approach-t...
> A relative of mine got cancer. The company he was with ended up paying his wages for over half a year, because they had no legal way of finding out what was wrong with him

I call BS. If you're off sick for 6 weeks in a row with the same diagnosis, the employer stops paying, and the employee has to apply for sick pay (Krankengeld) with their health insurance (Krankenkasse). No doctor is allowed to sign off a patient for longer than 4 weeks at once (i.e. the sick note has to be renewed every 4 weeks), this is even mandated by the public health insurances. So obviously there is no way for the employer to find out for how long an employee will be off sick in the long run, it's meant to be like that, and the employer shouldn't care about it because they're not paying salaries for sickness longer than 6 weeks. In addition to that, there's even a system in place, named "Hamburger Modell", to reintegrate long-term sick patients back into their workplace by working part-time hours, and it's even paid by the health insurance.

Source: was long-term off sick and went through the whole shpiel.
Very common in the US to use sick time for either you being sick of staying home for a sick kid.

At one co this causes some friction. Company policy was 20 vacation days and 10 sick days. A young healthy type guy would use maybe 1 sick day and 20 vacation days, for 21 days off a year.

Anyone with kids know they get sick a LOT. So basically anyone with any amount of kids would use all 10 for their kids. So parents go 10 sick + 20 vacation = 30 days off a year.

I guess enough people complained that they just combined the two into a single "PTO" pool of 28 days. That way you can take the 28 days if you have kids or not. I guess the downside is people with kids got less vacation, but it seemed bit more "fair" overall.
This is a great example of how many of the things in C that don't compile in C++ are horrible programming practices, and it's really nice that C++ doesn't allow such garbage.
I don't think there is much spin going on here. Your original comment has a pretty obvious agenda.
Would that not violate antitrust law? At this point, Uber and Lyft have basically created a market and become the two biggest players in it, and if the "race to zero" as you put it disappears, it's literally prices no longer being competitive and consumers paying higher prices.
Just check out Google's GitHub repository.
Nope. It is definitely attributed to malice for money savings.

Some European countries have very stringent laws to cover employees sick leave, potentially for very long time. That can cost sizeable money to companies and that goes against what American companies are used to.
It absolutely supports the statement: where does the majority of gitlab's money come from?

Their strategy page (https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/) suggests that these subscriptions, at least for some time, will be a small part of the revenue (enterprise customers being the larger revenue source).

So with these subscriptions being a supplemental revenue source, it's pretty apt.
That's 100% fair.

Re-reading your posts, I kind of get the feeling we're on the same side. While I think it's important to create a better culture in software dev, I also think it's probably just as important to make it easy to write a program "the right way". Right now, it's just way, way too hard.

I kind of blame Electron for making it easy. It's sort of a trick right, "hey, I don't know what those C++ people are doing, just use JS, it's super easy". I don't necessarily think projects should post a table of pros and cons of their software -- there's definitely a certain level of "do your homework" involved -- but I do think some level of self-awareness is warranted. Think of SQLite's "Appropriate Uses For SQLite" page.

> If we want native clean apps back in the game, we need to make it easy and convenient for the new generation of devs to provide the features the new generation of users want.

Yeah, thinking about it a little more, I super agree. I don't think we should compromise all our values, but we definitely need to spend some time making software dev a lot easier.
It's also the most important thing. If your culture is bad, changing what tool you use isn't going to fix everything. You're just going to have a new tool everyone uses poorly.
Why? Neither of those companies has anything even close to a monopoly.
It's arguable that extensive use of macros and faux-dynamic-typing violate the ideology of C that makes it simple and predictable.
I think the focus on RETE is due to the implicit efficiency advantages of the more restricted execution model. Unification and backtracking aren't always friendly or easily optimized.
Not always. Often a revenue stream costs more time (money) than you get from it.

Note that the above is tricky. There are revenue streams that lose money by the books, but are worth having because they help something else. An example is a store sells milk at (or below) cost because people come for the cheap milk and buy lots of other things.
Amazon horror stories go way back. Anyone remember that hilarious Yegge hangouts post from 2011 [1]? I kind of hoped they'd changed their ways since then, but guess not.

Easy pass tbh. Working for one of the "big 4.5" isn't worth some of the shit they pull.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
What do you have in mind? There is nothing particularly specific to HTTP about Matrix at all - it just needs some kind of request/response mechanism, and a way to stream events back and forth. For instance https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/drafts/... is the proposal for Matrix over websockets (which streams server->client events over a websocket in a manner which has nothing to do with HTTP). But nobody's bothered to implement it, because nobody seems to feel HTTP+JSON is particularly broken in practice. Similarly switching HTTP for COAP would be trivial, but nobody's bothered afaik.
Seems you need to learn what trolling and logic are before using those terms.
Pancho Villa's Division of the North attacked Columbus, NM, provoking the Punitive Expedition.
This is covered in their FAQ:

"Is it possible to install the Google Play Store?

Yes, this is generally possible. However Google doesn't allow anyone to ship its applications as long as the device is not certified and the vendor didn't sign an agreement with Google.

The Anbox project does not have any interest in shipping the Google Play store and we're not allowed to do so. We may add an easy way for our users at a later point which allows easy distribution of Android applications suited for the Anbox runtime environment."
In some sense you don't have to recognize the Pentagon to know it when you see it. Everyone knows that the words "the Pentagon" are used as a metonym for the US military, and it's pretty much the only pentagonal building. So if you saw a pentagonal building you'd say "Hey I bet that's the Pentagon" even if you'd never seen it before.
Paradoxically, I'd argue that many knowledgeable people/frequent flyers will understand and excuse United's behaviour, but they haven't flown United for years, because they're so crap.

While clueless idiots are now making a huge shitstorm on social media, and then fly United next week because it's $3.50 cheaper.

So, not sure that will have any impact on United's actual numbers.