skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, that's a niceidea, I hadn't thought of that, thanks! If you have some more ideas for how to improve it I invite you to make an issue or PR!
They don't fondle your balls... they take a picture of them through your clothes, that they "promise" will disappear in time.

Man, I really miss the 80's right now.
Calm down SJW.
I think that requiring robust safety is the best way to both combat aggressive offshoring and help the environment and prevent the race to the bottom in working conditions.

"The power of habbit" showed that once you got safety pinned down you can expect for it to spill over in other parts of person life.
Callbacks are well supported in SWIG for most languages.
So I ran a few tests by indexing https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode and these were the results

DO - $10 | Vultr - $5 | Vultr - $10
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00:38:59 | 00:31:58 | 00:29:43

Indexing produced 64 searchable branches and as the above shows, Vultr easily outperformed DigitalOcean, at half the price.

Edit:

To put the numbers into perspective, I ran another test in a virtual machine with VirtualBox on my local desktop and finished indexing in 00:21:29

I allocated 1 virtual core and 1 GB of RAM for the virtual machine. The desktop processor is an i5-4460 @3.20GHz
>although we can harbor optimistic thoughts for scientists, medical professionals, lawmakers and maybe even politicians all around the globe to do the "right" thing to preserve human life in a currently recognizable form

That race is already over. Technology over the last century has changed our realities so much that we can never hope to go back.
Note that the Pro versions of GlassWire do aggressive ARP scanning on all networks to populate the "What's on your Network" tab. I think it's still only controllable via a text file.

https://forum.glasswire.com/t/temporarily-disable-arp-scanni...
Handbags? Oh my god, why isn't she selling on Facebook?

I know a very wealthy woman in Thailand selling custom $400-600 handbags to New York yuppies and literally her entire business is on Facebook.

I normally don't advocate this sort of thing but their ad platform and social network are basically made for this kind of business. Custom/Handmade luxury goods for upper-middle class women over a certain age? Facebook, every time.
Why not move to shopify?

Disclaimer: no relation, just a satisfied user.
Sad to say, but the amount of environmental impact, at least on a local scale, might be best represented on a logarithmic graph.
Quality can only exist when people are willing to pay for it. And often, they are not. Making money in that case is not a deficincy, but a skill.
Concerns about Kubernetes Community newcomers
We have the history of the XBox, which took ten years to make any money, and is likely still in the red. Currently, the Surface lines volumes are too small to give MSFT the economies of scale to make gem profitable.
As a person who had the misfortune of taking Public transport from La Guardia to Manhattan, I would not label entire NYC "world-class" unless I get to append it with "mess".
That's why I think public defenders and prosecutors should be from a common pool, and that if their conviction/release rates are too lopsided, they are let go.
Can you point me to a good reference paper about this?
@eli_gottlieb: You're being downvoted for what reasons that should seem fairly obvious, so here's some support from a fellow native New Yorker :)

@sremani: We have really fucked this up. The lack of a direct rail link from any one of our three airports to Manhattan is shameful.
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That was what I meant, although I have to agree with the parent that Facebook really should show everyone a get out and vote message.
A lightweight distributed task scheduling framework
At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35% more than males
> who were likely to commit violent acts at some point

Wow. Given what happened with MLK and others at the time, why are we so willing to trust these groups with such power? The court system exists for a reason.
Scale isn't everything. first if you're a good marketplace you attract more and more diverse vendors, each of whom does low volume.

Besides, when the point of the site was unique handcrafted items, selling manufactured stuff undercuts the one thing that makes you different from your competitors.

I can't understand the argument you're trying to make. It's like saying that fine art doesn't scale because painters are so slow, so art galleries should postcards instead. Perhaps that would indeed be more profitable, but then you're not an art gallery any more, are you?
OpenSnitch is an unsanctioned recreation by an unrelated party of Little Snitch's functionality, appearance, and name.

How is it not a clone?
Are they homing in on anything that would excite the general public like the Higgs did?
Indirectly!
It seems that others gave you a good hint. Since it is your software that is making a difference, ditch the hardware, adopt external numerical keyboard and go with that.

What do you think?
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What was the impact of management and efficiency of operation, production process, and improvement process within these companies? Surely not none. In the decades post WWII they were simply able to produce better product faster and with more predictability and consistency—that was not an accident, nor was it simply capacity, world economy, or internal policy.

"If Japan Can, Why Can't We?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcG_Pmt_Ny4

The opportunity still exists to make a sea change in industry through the widespread improvement of the management of people.
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Because we are afraid of terrorists.
I agree Unicode emojis in URLs it's a really cool idea. I'm pretty sure that would still require database. So using a database is not the direction I would like to go in with this.

And if it was using compression to produce an encoding using unicode the first trouble is I'm not really sure how to do that encoding since Unicode is not straight up translating any sequence of bits into characters there are some restrictions and there's all kinds of rules I think and I don't really know how that works and I would like to keep it simple. And the second point is I want to keep it so it's very easy to transport which pretty much means we need to use base64 in my opinion.
While that's true, there's different forms of racism. There are many people in Northern cities who have biases against blacks but wouldn't ever say it out loud (maybe wouldn't even know to say). The integration takes away from the idea that "blacks are lazy and whites are hard workers" at the very least, and I think it would be interesting to compare how people in different parts of the country subconsciously act on that "presumption".
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/google-collected-data-on-schoo...

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2016/02/goog...
That you would even ask that is exactly why they are failing.
Isn't Facebook still doing this? You have to explicitly restrict FB access to your microphone or they will use convos to inform advertising ... or conspiracy theory?
Not just Flint.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pittsburgh-tries-to-avoid-becom...

"A total of seven U.S. water systems, which each serve more than 100,000 people, had lead concentrations above the federal action level of 15 parts per billion in recent months, according to Environmental Protection Agency data. They include Portland, Ore., and Providence, R.I., which both exceeded the limit at least one other time in the past five years."
Your cell radio is only still on if you leave it on. I've spent plenty of time in airplane mode with wifi enabled for battery reasons.
This video was published in 2016-10, and contains this exquisite quote (around 6'):

> In 2015, scientists use CRISPR to cut the HIV virus out of living cells from patients in the lab, proving it was possible. Only a year later they carried out a larger scale project with rats that had the HIV virus <sic> in basically all of their body cells. By simply injecting CRISPR into the rats tails they were able to remove more than 50% of the virus from cells all over the body. In a few decades, a CRISPR therapy might cure HIV and other retroviruses ...
Reversing the Grid
People think many things. But reality may end up trumping all that.

Edit: What I mean is that, if negative externalities of energy and resource use were priced in, most people couldn't afford to live in the suburbs. Or at least, not in the manner that they've been accustomed to.
I'm not familiar with the library, but if you're running on a system with an SSD, it should be more than okay... even then, it shouldn't be too big of a DB for sqlite, unless you are servicing thousands of users.
Proof of work. Hahaha. URLCoin. Cryptocurrency based on reversing hashed URLs to their Originals. Involves a lot of web crawling to verify as an added bonus. Proof of crawl.
After integrating protobufs in my application for messaging I decided to use a separate schema for storing the current state of the program. Ie. When state changes, the protobuf is updated and written to disk. When the program restarts, the state file is loaded into memory. I have not run into any problems doing this.

Edit: Your question is addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14249367
All large enough companies would consider this. Why pay someone else when you are the driver for economies of scale?
The East German restaurant across the street from the Saudi embassy in north sanlitun Beijing has good curry wurst.
On Windows we get to use COM and .NET bindings, with UWP controls slowly picking up steam.

Much better and we get to use a modern OO API.

Hence why better Windows support is relevant for Rust, if you want it to be more seriously taken by Windows devs.

EDIT: Same applies to mainframes, which also don't follow a C ABI, rather their own native languages.
If they did it would still be seen as a Democratic-leaning message.
The definition of "shall not be infringed" gets smaller every day. In some states it has pretty much disappeared.
For job safety, if your job has answers online, you probably want to specialize to move out of that.
* Looks at email from representative asking if we should step up bombing in Syria.

Yet we keep creating them.
That title is false : the article states viral load was reduced.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. It sounds like a highly technical project you're optimizing there and having some success. Keep up the good work! I might take a look.

edit: I looked at your gist and this is a totally great idea. I see what you're doing, converting it to make it more compressible. Very clever. If you have some ideas about how to improve my compression in this binary URI encoder, please do submit an issue or PR! Thanks for commenting!
And Microsoft won't?
OnPrem vs Cloud computing – Cost perspective
Ex-phone company employee and someone who set up his own personal voip service (Asterix server) with DID & Termination for dirtcheap "cell phone" service here:

It's such an easy thing to do, but requires a lot of coordinated effort to do correctly. A company of Uber's size definitely should be in-housing this kind of operation and so should anyone with budget to hire engineers and a competent ops team. Heck, the hedge fund I worked at had a dedicated telephony team.

It's not sexy technology, so nobody wants to do it and that's where Twilio makes all of their money. Expensive, but convenient.
You mean like IBM, Intel, Oracle, Dell, Facebook, Apple, Dell, VMWare, Rackspace, PayPal, Indeed, etc. etc.?
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But then you have to live in Dallas or Houston.
Slightly off topic but what kind of things are people automating behind macros here? I run autohotkey but only use 2-3 macros daily which are macros to start and kill apps I work on (hard kill to avoid waiting some shutdown time) and an "attach to app" macro.

Not enough to justify buying these. Am I missing out? Any great macros for developers?
> Ideally the phone would handle this in a smarter way, e.g., by monitoring the strength of both the wifi and data signals and switching to whichever is likely to have the least packet loss

The tradeoff here of course is battery life. The phone OS doesn't want to switch on a second radio until absolutely necessary for obvious reasons.
I have no idea, but profitable companies use it regularly. The larger question is whether enough smaller, profitable companies exist to backstop losses from larger, (unprofitable) companies abandoning ship to continue their growth.
Just throwing this in, as I thought it was pretty cool.. If you use google domains, you can update via dyndns request. I haven't tried it yet, but there doesn't seem to be a charge, and would probably be easy enough to setup a cron job.
Here are the options:

Airplane mode, Wifi only, Mobile data (LTE) only, Wifi + Mobile data (LTE). This listing is in order of battery consumption AFAIK.

The user I responded to uses only Mobile data (LTE). His Wifi is never on, but his Mobile data always is. I suggested that since he uses mobile data instead of wifi, he would be using more battery.
There are very few original ideas, and you'll just drive yourself and everyone around you crazy by fretting over originality. Don't fool yourself into believing that only Chinese companies are interested in ripping off ideas; this has been a major function of large companies for a very long time.

We have to pop the fairytale bubble that some of us live in. Marketing and sales will win the day. No matter how fancy your technology is, there will be competitors and rivals, and it won't really matter who was "first". Being first can, in fact, be a substantial disadvantage, since you don't have the response/feedback from a competitor's prior attempt to gauge and reference.
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Why would they need a policy specifically for that and not a generic one that encompasses all situations where employees may be discriminated against?
"There's going to be some specific skill that you need and you simply are not going to be able to hire it locally."

Such as?
Root beer doesn't naturally have caffeine, but sometimes it's added for flavor.
>Pushing the education market theme...OS also runs only apps offered on Microsoft’s app store.

Why do they do this?? Every flipping time.

Whatever. As long as they keep windows 10 open, I don't care if there are idiots out there who'll fall for this crap.
I've actually defended the NSA a lot as it seems incredibly naive to leave that information sitting on the table so no sane government would do so given the probability that their enemies could grab similar information.

But isn't your trade-off kinda weird? Not that it's bad to catch 40 terrorists, but how many terrorists generate 3 million different phone calls in a year even in their extended network?
Some papers about autonomous vehicles verification
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> most of the experts in the Bitcoin system do not think eth has any chance of achieving decentralized scalability

Most of the experts in the natural gas industry do not think solar power has any chance of achieving scalability, either.
Remote work isn't hard to find if you have a technical skill set that people are looking for. If you're concerned about networking opportunities, you're better off at a conference than your local coffee shop anyway.
not a chance my underground swiss friend
The answer to that of course is that the underlying network protocols need to be aware of this dilemma. It's wasteful for every developer to try and solve this problem on their own.

The main culprit here is of course TCP's session based view of the world which was invented for a completely different era. An era when "cable got cut" was a catastrophic event that was almost never going to happen. It's a pity that the native app world is still mostly stuck with TCP/HTTP based networking stack where a UDP/mobile-specific-protocol is what's needed.
Well, you can always try your luck selling on wechat. According to my wife, she drops a few people a month because they start trying to sell her something.
Who called it a Chromebook competitor?

They compare it to a Mac but I can't find anything about a chromebook.
Lauren Bossavit has taken the trouble to trace those citations. His book about his search for the truth behind those claims (and several other common software engineering beliefs) is well worth reading:

https://leanpub.com/leprechauns
In the projects I've worked on that require frequent table modification, I came to the opinion that the correct approach would be to store the data where the columns/values are stored in a table or set of tables based on types and linked together with a relationship to the original table as the parent. The big downside I could see is performance, but maybe I'm falsely assuming that this would still be faster than NoSQL? (I haven't actually used nosql however.) But, for my projects, the performance hit should/would not be a problem.

Since my experience is probably just limited, I'm curious if there is an easy to explain example where this is incorrect? (Or I guess maybe most people disagree with me and see my above opinion as always/most of the time incorrect)
102% yeah.

This specific URL has a long hex component for the commit hash.

We might be able to get that size down by encoding the hex string at the end into numbers. I'm working toward this in radix_coder.js[1]. I'll open an issue[2]. Thanks!

In tests of strings not URIs I got 68% of original for digit strings, and 90% of original for base36 strings, after encoding as numbers then into base64.

More generally I see rates of 70% to 90% for URIs that have a mix of words and numbers. And more than 100% for strings with lots of identifiers.

Eg:

https://www.citylab.com/housing/2017/05/the-new-suburban-crisis/521709/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Is 89%

And

http://www.saveur.com/chinatown-produce-prices

Is 70%

While

https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Grants&filter_organisations%5B%5D=hm-treasury

75%

OK is not an informative commit message. Thanks for the prod. I'll open an issue.

Issue: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/urizip/issues/5

And thanks for commenting! If you any ideas about how to improve the compression please submit a PR!

[1] https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/urizip/blob/master/radix_...

[2] https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/urizip/issues/6
Cyclers are already ahead of the curve and were caught using this substance: https://cyclingtips.com/2013/04/the-new-epo-gw1516-aicar-and...
I only work against smaller companies who tend to be frank and flexible with similar ages of 30 or so.

Initially, both sides agree in what to deliver (no concrete spec but we talk until we know what needs built) at what price and that is usually enough to ask for more if other side tells me something new or if I'm getting a decent deal for monthly charges after going production, then I tend not to bother much about little extra additions.

I always ask questions as I encounter them to be sure that I'm not developing against their intention and let them see the progress continously too.

I even question whether what they want is valid or not and provide the reasoning in plain language without much technical terms why I'm complaining about it.

The only problem would be I can be slightly behind schedule often on everyone by managing 4+ clients in parallel.

Task switching seems crazy but I guess I'm trying to free up brain memory as much as I can to speed it up by not caring anything unnecessary in life (Have no TV, don't care about personally uninteresting stuff even if popular around, work from home where it's quiet etc)
Now I'm curious how much someone's chance of having seen/played anything Steins;Gate goes up when preconditioned on visiting Hacker News at least once a week.
Documentary on Steve Jobs and NeXT
Looks like it is Firemacs and I've been using it so long that I never realized those shortcuts were tied to it. Thanks.
> If you die off because some Chinese seller "stole" your idea which by the way you came up with first, then you deserve it because it means you didn't execute well enough.

Okay, I think I understand this idea. If somebody else can cut corners by cheaping out on materials, or skipping testing, or relaxing tolerances, and their product still sells, then clearly your own standards were simply too high.

> I think this kickstarter culture has done more harm than good for makers because it made them chase instant gratification instead of substance.

This seems in contradiction to the first statement. If you take instant gratification, you're a symptom of more harm than good. If you take your time and do it right, you deserve to die because you're not going as fast as your competitors. ?
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You covered product decisions pretty well, but I was curious about organizational decisions. Based on your talk, it seems like you existed mostly outside the SV bubble and seemed to maybe even avoid it. Nonetheless, many of your employees came from the network you developed in SV and it seems you were based in SV at the time.

Do you feel that it helped to have started there? Do you feel at this point that you can build a successful company "where you are," given modern tools (AWS, etc.), or does it still help to do your time in SV first?
This looks like Facebook a bit too much.
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Not surprised. That's the story of eBay. eBay decided to embrace it.
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I wonder how many viable product ideas have disappeared because the companies were too focused on exponential growth.

There's definitely a market for Etsy, but the concept behind it doesn't scale enough to meet crazy startup growth expectations.
Not always, and that is exactly the point.
So, Little Snitch has lots to block because MacOS is proprietary and filled with proprietary software which would be inclined to track users for the goals of the developers (which are only sometimes aligned with the interests of users)…

On GNU/Linux, is this much of an issue? Most programs seem to offer opt-in on metrics related stuff. If you assume OpenSnitch is set to match the opt-in settings whenever they are present, what sort of stuff is remaining to block at all? I.e. if people use this, what stuff are they seeing blocked?
Please provide a source for this. I assume you mean the messenger app.
Try out https://wakatime.com which automates entering the time.
You could say the same thing about decaf coffee. If the caffeine delivery is the only reason to drink it, that is.

But then if that's the case, you can also ask why everyone doesn't just drink water and take a caffeine pill.
> This all started with you saying that it was "almost certainly pure fiction" without providing any evidence for that claim

For the last time: saying that a claim is pure fiction is not a claim, it is a dispute of a claim.
Would these "average people" try to press Ctrl+F? If the argument is that most of the public is ignorant to the client-side jumping/highlighting facilitated by Ctrl+F, what purpose does overriding Ctrl+F serve? It seems that people who press Ctrl+F would have an expectation of what should happen next, and people who want custom search would move their mouse to the search bar and click.

Maybe a better compromise would be including a modal or a hint highlighting the site-wide search box without suppressing the native Ctrl+F functionality.