skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk Nearing $1.4B Windfall as Tesla Achieves Milestones
Of course someone has to actually become a pop star so if you never even approach or try it, then you almost certainly will have zero chance.

And in a different decade, who knows, Taylor Swift herself may have never been anything particularly famous or well-known.
If we as a world get serious about it and begin taxing carbon emissions from flights (and other sources), I'm confident that we'll be able to handle the problem. There is going to be some extreme global discomfort in 2100-2200, but we're not going to go extinct and things will be getting better by 2400-2500.
Probably the same ultrasonics hat are used in humidifiers. Hint, they don't travel far.
Awhile back I found this curated engineering blog list https://github.com/sumodirjo/engineering-blogs
Cool thing
I'm a little confused by your comment. This article is a pedagogical exercise: it demonstrates how thread creation works on Linux by implementing it from scratch using assembly. The author's intention is not to create a new library, but rather to show how such a library might be implemented. Nowhere does the author advocate doing this in production code over using the standard implementation of Pthreads on Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library).
The ROI of maintaining and enhancing is probably under-represented in the freelance space. It may make more financial sense for freelancers to bid on greenfield projects but I wonder, aloud here, if there is some business model for a network of freelancers that are experts in maintaining <your-old-system>, with price tiers of one-time fix, small-medium sized project and retainer based services.
Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference
IoT Security Is Hard: Here’s What You Need to Know – Hackaday
That's China, not Russia and while its almost indisputable that age falsification happened nobody was that young, more like 14. I think one even confessed to being underage a few years later.

Its worth noting the age limit for gymnastics was only raised to 16 in 2000 and many previous Olympic gymnasts competed while 14, including Nadia Comăneci who earned a perfect score (which was until then considered unobtainable, the scoreboards weren't equipped to even handle that score) at 14. Of course, at the time, the Chinese athletes were competing against other athletes that followed the age rules which, arguably, gave them an unfair advantage.

That's all irrelevant though because the whole subject is totally off topic.
I work at Cloudflare, since joining almost 3 years ago I've seen multiple pieces of technology get deployed and then replaced because "it just doesn't work at our scale".

It feels kinda weird to say that, but then I see what our DNS servers are doing, or I learn about some customers that struggle to consume their own logs due to the speed at which we produce them, and things that you think are not an area of concern become that... when you have enough traffic flowing through your systems.

Pretty much the only thing that has really stood out is Kafka. Kafka does work at scale.
Er, of course survivorship bias applies - it applies to everything.

Not everyone who goes to med school ends up as a high earner, not even all those who graduate. Sure, their success rate is much higher than those who decided to play the lottery instead, but there's always going to be some degree of survivorship bias when the failures are less visible than the successes.
Awesome answers here.
Some self marketing - I developed a parser for some engineering blogs. I did it for myself, and created a simple web app to serve content - http://kubiq.co. I'm going to add more companies soon. Enjoy!
Netflix is the last place I'd expect to do this. They're famous for letting people go when they're no longer needed.
At which point this turns into a "No true Scotsman" fallacy
Not an "engineering blog" in the traditional sense. Percona has been posting deep-dive high-quality pieces about database performance and the inner workings of InnoDB since around 2006, so more than 10 years now. If you've ever had to troubleshoot a weird performance issue in MySQL as an Ops guy or DBA, you've probably ended up finding this in your Google results:

https://www.percona.com/blog/

Disclaimer: I am currently employed by Percona, although that is not my motivation for sharing this.
Btw, I'm thinking to create iOS app as well. Anyone will use it?
Yes, not trying does give you a zero chance of success. That said, trying very hard only gives you a slightly-greater-than zero chance. That's a large increase in effort for a minimal increase in chance of success.
And that is IMO the way it should be done: standing up and saying the obvious with enough power that it actually get heard.
The description of the (two) co-founders are 'Cofounder and Thought Leader' and 'Cofounder and Communications & Marketing'. This sounds a lot like they come both from a non-technical background. Maybe this the reason why?
It's not actively exploited, just ignored when checking the optimization is valid. Putting values in loops into registers can require making assumptions about different types of pointers pointing to different things.
Try to differentiate between what is necessarily and what is sufficient. You might have to work and hard to succeed but that sure as hell isn't the entire equation.
To "Dalvik".
they stated their aim is to help 2B people in develop countries.
it is very hard to fix the government. there are networks here, poor villagers how use money have a phone, I think its better to by-pass the government. relying on private company is terrifying as relying on third world government. decentralized solution would be the best.
also E-money is used here already, trough the cellular company but they have a monopoly backed by the government so its just another way of stealing from the people.
It's rather rare to see off the shelf technologies (open or closed) that scale to the top 5%. This makes sense because the techniques required at that level are pretty different, and don't apply well to other situations.

So, making an off the shelf product that actually does scale to the top 5% rarely makes sense, since, at best, the customer base will be limited. In the average case, though, the customer base will be almost nil, because of the per-site quirks and customization that are always present.

I experienced this on a weekly basis in the late 1990s and early 2000s at WalMart, where we were centrally managing a network with well over 10 million nodes.

Every vendor ever constantly tried to get in with us, so we had to come up with a triage system or an enormous portion of our time would be spent evaluating.

Even those best of breed would almost never work for us, because of our unprecedented scale (at the time).

In the rare case where an off the shelf product was selected and successful, it had to be heavily customized.

I am of course talking more about 'framework' kinds of tech, or, I guess, things that work at scale. A lot of off the shelf tech was and is used that isn't scale related.
As someone who hasn't followed the actual specifics here, do you happen to have any links to those discussions/issues or other places these things happened? I'd really like to see their reasoning.
Aside from the app, and what it can facilitate, I find chat UIs to be a zone for invention. Here Token partially formalized the UI [1] for menus and the like. As it is with Telegram for example, you provide a "keyboard" of a grid of buttons to press, similar to SOFA each button has a value. However Telegram does not have menus, so general purpose bots need a lot of back and forth to refine what the user's intention is.
With SOFA, it seems to be one payload with nested options that do not need to be committed in order to explore what options there are, reducing concerns for connectivity requirements just to find out what they can do.

[1]: https://www.sofaprotocol.org
Rising sea levels due to AGW is a contributing factor[0]. Living in an area (whose economy is) also dominated by the oil industry, I understand why you and the people living in your area tend to be confused on this.

[0]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314081553.h...

EDIT: added source link
> Today, we are in the process of rebuilding how we deploy device-specific server-side logic to our API tier leveraging single core optimized NodeJS servers

Is this the core Netflix API ? have they moved from java - previously, their entire open source contributions were around java (https://netflix.github.io/). Hystrix repo was updated barely a day ago.

For me, this is more interesting than the VM part.
We do have global rules: the Berne convention, which has been ratified by all 170 UN countries plus the Holy See and Niue, states that copyright is automatic and mostly universal, so any unauthorized copying is illegal. By having certain paths listed on robots.txt, the site are explicitly saying they don't authorize people to crawl them, so unless you have a license granting you permission, your legal position is probably iffy - CFAA or not.

Obviously some countries have a more lax enforcement than others, but don't be surprised if the US starts squeezing and one day you suddenly get a knock on the door.
Idealistic view: BTC is used to create peer-to-peer marketplaces (OpenBazaar [1]) and the underlying blockchain tech can be used to implement smart contracts that can automate systems and remove humans from the loop (Samsung/IBM ADEPT [2], Filament [3]).

Realistic view: BTC is used as a speculative hedge, and to evade currency controls in China.

[1] https://openbazaar.org/

[2] http://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/ibm-samsung-unveil-adept...

[3] https://filament.com/technology/
There's a link to the source in the article.
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Start building and see what happens.

Understanding does not require completion or utility. It just requires research. Some experiments fail. That does not mean nothing is learned.

Good luck.
Grammar, Go, and the Unconscious – the power of facts  and rules
At that point in the article, it seemed clear the context was investing in digital currencies and why that might be advisable.
Appreciate the overview. It sounds similar to what I'm used to but, as you say, perhaps a bit more verbose. And some stuff is non-obvious to me, such as mvn exec:java instead of my-java-runtime main.java or whatever.

I've encountered a bit of this with most AOT-compiled stuff except for Go. Make or compiler-flags also requires a bit of learning to get going.

Most dynamic languages tend to be more straight-forward with this.
What's more scary is them getting branded as "terrorists".
The "free child care" aspect I would think definitely helps. I have co-workers that are either lucky enough to have parents around to help or end up paying $2k/mo for pre-school for their very young kids. The kids had to be put on a waitlist before they were even born. I'm in the US, in Los Angeles.
Caddy is a web server written entirely in Go.

Features:

- Easy configuration with Caddyfile

- Automatic HTTPS via Let's Encrypt; Caddy obtains and manages all cryptographic assets for you

- HTTP/2 enabled by default (powered by Go standard library)

- Virtual hosting for hundreds of sites per server instance, including TLS SNI

- Experimental QUIC support for those that like speed
TLS session ticket key rotation for more secure connections

- Brilliant extensibility so Caddy can be customized for your needs

- Runs anywhere with no external dependencies (not even libc)
The First-Ever Banner Ad on the Web
Hah. But that's​ my point: what's political about some author recreating a famous naval battle in an updated backdrop using space ships? What's political about the chemistry needed for Kirk to make gunpowder and shoot diamonds out of a bamboo cannon at the Gorn?

Maybe what got him into that situation could be classed as politics and for those most interested in and by politics I'm sure that's what the story is about for them. But for me that's just a lever and the interesting bit is the science. It is after all called science fiction not political fiction.

I just object to the poster's portrayal of all sci-fi as equivalent to something like House of Cards.
A lot of the other responses have been focusing on how simple Caddy is to get started with - batteries included. We've been using Caddy for a bit over 2 years in production. At the time we had just moved our infrastructure from an assortment of self-written python scripts to Mesos/Marathon. We were looking for a solution that would reverse proxy to our app servers without having to rely on DNS. I initially thought about writing a plugin for nginx before I found Caddy. When we found Caddy, it was a better solution for us as it was far easier to write a mesos integration for rather than trying to integrate it into nginx.
I do remember buying the install media back in the day, you used to be able to get RedHat, Suse, and FreeBSD (if you were a Unix purist) too. The problem then was the problem right now, you can't buy a pre-loaded Linux PC at the store.

Imagine if RedHat back in 96-97 could have got HP, Dell, Compaq, etc... to sell a pre-loaded product. How many more people would have been exposed to Linux. Good or bad, exposure is exposure.
E2E Testing for Enterprise Angular Applications
I just clicked because I thought it was a cool new web browser. I don't care about Ethereum and it feels like clickbait to me.
Unions are far more than the people they represent. They often are run by non-workers. They are supposed to run it for the workers benefit, but they have their own interests which conflict.
>Maslov's theory we have other needs as well

So you think every hunter-gatherer is extremely unhappy?
Well, the GP mentions moral relativism, so it's no so farfetched.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/6/2563

> Research has shown that young children—younger than 8 years—are cognitively and psychologically defenseless against advertising. They do not understand the notion of intent to sell and frequently accept advertising claims at face value. In fact, in the late 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held hearings, reviewed the existing research, and came to the conclusion that it was unfair and deceptive to advertise to children younger than 6 years. What kept the FTC from banning such ads was that it was thought to be impractical to implement such a ban.
Why are we talking about prejudice from hostile white men in the industry? Who brought up that topic? Are you aware of studies on that? Do you have any links to them? It seems like a complete digression from the article and the thread to this point, but if you really want to discuss it I'm game. What opinion on that do you feel like arbitrarily ascribing to me?

> do you seriously mean to suggest

I didn't suggest any such thing. Where are you getting this stuff? I presented what I think is a perfectly good test as to whether unequal gender representation is an issue and an example of one example of under-representation of men I'm aware of. What is it with making up opinions for me?
It's not even that niche though is it? A lot of the women I work with have started having kids in their mid-30s. In the US, I think overall people are marrying later and having kids later, IIRC.
uhm http://i.imgur.com/FeF1gcb.png
Yeh I've dug through that forum post a hundred times by now, the best option is the public script. https://getcaddy.com/
Stream Processing with Coroutines (from C to OCaml)
Which neighborhood are you in?
>> We didn't blame Microsoft for "lock-in" back in the IE-only website days

>Yes, we did.

My phrasing wasn't as clear as I thought - what I meant to say "We didn't blame Microsoft for 'lock-in' due to 3rd parties creating IE-only websites, we blamed the 3rd parties." Implementing non-standard extensions was par for the course during the browser wars (Netscape did the same), and I doubt there was a real expectation of achieving lock-in via the browser by either party: Windows achieved lock-in via Windows, Office and legal threats. Not IE.
Servo is still far from ready to use as a complete browser, but Servo is modular, and some modules are far more mature than others (intentionally so, because Mozilla wants to integrate those bits into Firefox ASAP, and so focuses most development there).
>I hold some BTC, and am looking to diversify into ZCash.

Diversify into some non-monopoly assets too.
Aquafaba
> Really neat stuff

Pun intended?
they are common, people value communication. most of the phones are older models or very cheap Chinese brands.
It verifies enough information to be secure. It is obvious that at one point they need to connect to some node because this ia the way blockcgain works.
You're forgetting also that a "serious person" is probably classified by their success at their business.
2000 req/s is tragic. We have services with 100 000req/s so i need a reverse proxy with at least 500 000 req/s. What is the reason of this low performance?
Was just on the front page a few minutes ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164600
Lucky you. Try doing that in Chicago or Miami and your clothes will stink like holy hell thanks to the humidity.
Don't forget season 4 of Silicon Valley starts on Sunday :)
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164600
Fair enough. I was mostly responding to the thread of discussion overall. I realise now that I was probably reacting more to the viewpoint of hota_mazi.
Thanks for sharing! Search enhancement on web will be helpful. I will not use app.
Just to idly correct you.

Archive Team (not a part of Internet Archive) actually archives piles and piles of web-based material, sometimes in response to current events, sometimes because of known shutting down of services, and sometimes because of speculative worry about longevity. (For an example of the last one, we've been archiving all current FTP sites left.)

Meanwhile, Internet Archive's crawlers are bringing in millions (really millions) of URLs every day, just constantly grabbing websites, files, video, you name it.

There's certainly a "bias" to the current administration in terms of 1. They're in power 2. They keep removing things new and old. But think of it as us having a few lights shined in specific directions while thousands of other floodlights go literally everywhere.
You'll be happy to learn that the P=P folks are most likely going to be handling full end to end encryption integration for Thunderbird, for the current version, and the new one (if it happens):

https://pep-project.org/
Not only is it unlikely to be perfect representation, but it can be quite extreme when the choices are done at a later time in life.

For example, the teacher profession is generally female dominated at 80%, but gender segregation becomes even worse when a teacher finish studying and chooses a specialization. Language teachers are above 90% female, while music is 80% male. There is no innate reason why the language of music and the language of text has this difference, but over time it just have been that more women choses languages and more men choosing music when picking a subject to teach. This trend that people has a tendency pick places (especially within a profession) where ones own gender is majority was given as one of the primary theories in a government report on the subject a few years ago here in Sweden.

I see it as the best theory available to explain the data and general trend for gender segregation.
If the studies on humans works you could put to use the amount of blood that goes bad based on the shelf life of 49 days. That blood could go to good use .
Thanks, this is what I was looking for (found through your link):
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/collections-app

So it does seem to be the case that they are using the rust version here. That's nice.
Could you elaborate on why containers don't perform on EC2?

I'm not running that combination myself so I wouldn't really know, but I'm not aware of problems with that specific combination or can think of anything obvious.
> The union is out to strengthen the position of their members.

Did you mean people in the union? AKA workers? Sure they want a strong position when bargaining for worker rights. This seems like it's good for workers still.

Going another step further one could, more truly, state CEO's and the board are just out for their own interest. They could (and do) attempt to skate by caring as little for their own workers as possible. In which case, it'd be nice if someone had enough power to stand up and get better working conditions through some sort of organized union perhaps?
At least in those situations wikipedia does not have a single answer, which is what I would have expected for self-hosting as well. Especially given the quite different use-cases of it. That triggered my question.
> there's a significant difference between small business failure rates and small businessperson failure rates

Most people can not afford a failed business. If you are looking at repeated tries, you are taking a huge amount of survivorship bias already.
>In my neighborhood there are bars that accept Bitcoin.

Something tells me you don't live in Nebraska.

>Quite convenient in a city where you usually can only pay with cash...

How is it more convenient than cash?
Warning: Attempting to open this file in ebook software stalled my decently-specced Android phone for about a minute until the software crashed.
Awesome, I really love meta-analyses too! Our product involves web scraping so it's a natural fit to write articles about scraping and analyzing data in general. A few of our articles so far [1,2,3] would probably be classified as meta-analyses and we have some more in the pipeline! Feel free to sign up for the newsletter in the footer of http://intoli.com if you would like to read those articles after they're published :-).

[1] http://sangaline.com/post/reverse-engineering-the-hacker-new...

[2] http://sangaline.com/post/the-stories-that-hacker-news-remov...

[3] http://sangaline.com/post/wayback-machine-scraper/
I agree with you, but understand too that the ability to capitalize on lucky breaks is not something we're all equally positioned to do. This is where poverty starts to feel a lot like a trap. If it's all you can do to keep your head above water until payday, you're less likely to be able to skip work for the afternoon, or put in the extra time somewhere else to catch that lucky break... whatever that break is, it's going to be more available if you're not coming at it from a survival mentality.
> mind you, we simply ignore fields where women are over represented).

No, we don't. This point has been asked, and answered, so often (even on HN) that it probably falls under this bit of the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

EDIT there are dozens of these:

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598659#5599061

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538789#7539557

5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3452516#3454185

The same trite point - "what about women in nursing? Are they oppressing men" ignores the fact that nursing is generally a low status job and that men in nursing get paid more and promoted faster than women, which is not what happens to women in tech.
Does "voluntarily" here mean they did not wait for the lawsuit? Were they legally obligated to do it? If yes, that "voluntarily" is a pure shit PR move.
Japanese City Accepts Bitcoin Donations
FEDS abolish SEC due to Data exposed
I've been asked a half dozen times in the past week to send (international) payments via Bitcoin. Not because the receivers are enthusiasts, but because it's the simplest way.

There's admittedly a high cost of learning/adoption, but once that is overcome it's not an issue. My guess is that (like most technology) bitcoin will eventually be easy enough to use that we don't have to understand or think about it, the same way I don't really understand how ACH or merchant processing works but I have a credit card.