skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 51% cannot completely neglect the wishes of the other 49%.

In these cases, the only non-gridlocked solution is fragmentation. It's the survivorship bias - the only issues that continue to paralyze a region are the ones that couldn't be decided one way or the other.

In the US' case, this would be granting certain issues to be within states' power to decide upon, and incentivizing people to move and live under the system that works for them. Ultimately, though, that won't happen - because the people who believe in these issues (be they taxation, abortion, LGBetc rights, etc) are in an all-or-nothing mentality whereupon changes have to be enforced federally.

America will never admit to itself that it's too diverse and that its various extremes cannot be reconciled, so it's stuck moving at a glacial pace with the eventual hope that the 'average' will move in the direction of progress.

Which is all well and good as long as you don't mind the periodic risk of government shutdown or terrible policy precedents being set by lobbyism/financed-campaign promises in the interim.
Does DOS have anything like "locate x"? Or do you have to use the horribly inefficient graphical search which takes AGES. The Unix terminal takes a little while to learn, but it is powerful. Windows is mind-numbing.
Yeah, probably not very fun. My dad is currently crossing the Atlantic in a boat that's about 42 feet, not inches. Just got an email from the Azores (he's going from Florida to Portugal) and said he's changing his route due to force 8-9 winds and 6-10 meter waves.
LastPass now supports 2FA auth, completely undermines 2FA auth
Bad drugs are a huge problem, that kills many, many people. Fentanyl, anyone?
How about simply working on what you find interesting and sharing the results with the world for free? If more people did that, this world would be a better place.
Interestingly, I can't open the full link in incognito mode with uBlock Origin enabled. If I remove the tracking cruft, page loads fine.
You must remember that the candidate is not Triplebyte's customer. The hiring organization is their customer. They need to balance their credibility with hiring orgs against their desire to redesign the whole process. They're a newer company, so they naturally will start with what is credible with their clients - whiteboarding being part of that. Over time, I agree, I'd like to see a shift, but that will require buy-in from their clients. If Triplebyte does a good enough job, eventually clients will simply not worry about the mechanics of Triplebyte's screening process and just trust that candidates they pass through are of high quality. At that point, Triplebyte can do whatever the hell it wants in screening provided that quality doesn't dip, and I'm sure that's exactly where they want to go. There is an unbelievable amount of corporate inertia, from startup to fortune 500, in fundamentally changing the hiring process. I wish them the best, and honestly hope they get there.
> &utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170519&utm_campaign=bloombergdaily

Those are urchin tags, aka Google Analytics: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/
From the followup updates, it sounds like Firebase actually tried to do this: https://medium.com/@startupandrew/firebase-founder-here-im-v...

Sounds like they've processed the credits as well, so that's good.
They've followed through now!
I think some people just copy-and-paste links and don't bother to remove that stuff because they're so used to the cruft.

Maybe that's naivety on my part.
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He does, later in the thread...

"I just learned by doing. Got annoyed by something being bad in one of the BSDs, found out how to get into their secret chat channel, started whining and got told to shut up and write the code. So I did."

And rambles more about why he feels Fuchsia did the wrong thing. Specifically because better implementations of some parts with licenses compatible with Fuchsia existed. Which I suspect is a nod again to BSD.

With a more calm tone I think saying that writing your own suboptimal tick timers, or locking strategy, or whatever...versus using something known good, is fair criticism. Not being my space, I wasn't sure if the base criticism was valid. The responses here seem to indicate they are.
> OK. I'll just fire up my VPN to route around the 'problem-solving'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374926

Nonparticipation and avoidance are stopgaps; don't expect stopgaps to save you. Those who participate and invest themselves in making their systems work (and find a place within such system) are not the ones who get stranded without recourse when the governments continue to act in accordance with their own precedents.

In this instance, if you were a citizen of Britain and decided your response to this was plugging your ears and using a VPN, I would not put much stock in your success with that venture going forward, as you'd be at the mercy of the gov't not implementing one of the contingencies I listed in that comment or any number of others they could easily justify given their precedent and direction.

Cryptocurrency is as vulnerable to the will of the people as anything else. At some point, the point of sale is discoverable - oh hell, I've written on this before too.

Head-in-the-sand-ism only gets you so far :)
I'm at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. My focus has been on human, mainly because that's where the impact is, and because of minor technical issues making it easier to do human data. But we do other species as well, the system is just rougher around the edges for them.

The way we get around the bias for (supposedly) hypothesis-driven work is to get a lot of our funding on collaborative and center grants. We can augment our local aging research work by providing them with context and pretty figures for their papers and grants, and they are happy to send a few $100K our way in exchange. We got a Shock Center award a year or two ago which has accelerated things a lot. A lot of it has been catalyzed by Arlan Richardson and Holly van Remmen, who came here from UT San Antonio.

When it comes to "bridging the gap", yes, it is hard. The key I guess is to be flexible and understand what they want. A lot of them are not looking for grand, informatics-driven hypotheses, but they are ecstatic about extra figures or data they can put into their papers to spice them up. Sometimes I slum it a little and do routine statistical analyses on their experiments just to keep the connections live.

In general, I think it is sensible to try to design systems in such a way they bridge multiple species from C elegans to rodents to humans. If you do one, it's not that hard to do them all, and they all have their place, as C elegans is good for quick testing of lifespan stuff but may or may not generalize, so it is considered helpful if you can use data to give tips about what may or may not translate.

The best brief advice I can give is to figure out what the wet lab people want, and give it to them in a way that maximizes the overlap between what you are doing and what they are doing.
I got work through HN when I was in a tough spot a few years ago.
Oh, I am in no way claiming this isn't a risky investment. But I have seen a trend in the microbrew market where a lot of these failures[1] tend to occur as they try to expand. The general pattern is they load up on debt to fund expansion, but hitting even a few bumps during that time (slump in sales, construction delays) can send things into a tailspin. As mentioned in the previous post, the economics of these taprooms are really good (500-600% markup, costs about $1 to make a pint, which they then sell for $5-$7), so microbreweries don't quite face the same pain points that restaurants do (super thin margins). But expanding operations tends to be a huge pain point, because unlike a restaurant, you need to build out the new brewhouse, and then there is a lead time before your brewhouse is pumping out beers (the more sought after beers these days require a decent amount of fermentation/aging). So if you took out a risky loan to finance the expansion, as you can imagine, it only takes a few small things to go south before the whole operation tanks. But if you finance the expansion using equity, you would probably have a lot more flexibility as you don't have to worry about default.

My thought is that crowdfunding could be a good financing option for someone like this[2]. They have already established themselves, but are trying to get to the next stage. If I was local beer fan, I might support them on kickstarter, but if they offered a crowdfunding option, perhaps with some perks like an annual tasting, than I would probably be a lot more enthused. Also keep in mind, that a lot of specialty microbreweries already have 'fan clubs' that cost a few hundred dollars a year. In return, you get access to limited releases. It seems like a creating a 'lifetime fan club' for a few thousand dollars would be doable, with the added bonus that the supporter gets some equity.

[1]http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-s-popular-M...
[2]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/findlaybrewing/findlay-...
Of course, the point I was making is that it's perfectly possible to write a parser that understands newline as a terminator without sacrificing these idiosyncrasies.
Screw you, stop stealing my people :)

Seriously, though, the people that can endure the corporate marathon are uniquely skilled. Imagine that it's not the long hours and breakneck pace that kill you, but the exact opposite. The ones that can see their work through to the end are amazing in their own right.
I guess we'll have to take your word for it.

The account that posted was created about two months ago and this was the only submission which was the red flag. And this was the very first submission. Usually people have to repeatedly post to get the traction this post did because they get ignored sometimes.
A Go routine is spawned which runs the etcd client's KeepAlive method to tie a session to a lease in the proxy. The code is here: https://github.com/coreos/zetcd/blob/d33e3b836a2a2de8a8ec077...

Disclaimer: The person who wrote this is AFK at the moment so I might be completely wrong ;)
Yes...lots of frustration when I write a script and co-workers can't use it. I'm glad they're adding stuff, but the default installs are ancient in a lot of companies.
AFAICT using async defer, one cannot express "you need to load X.js and Y.js before running Z.js, and you need to load X.js and A.js before running B.js". It looks like fetchInject allows you to express that type of thing.

But how is this different from RequireJS? I think RequireJS uses XHR and I don't think it supports CSS, but aside from that, what's new? I feel like this is just reinventing AMD.
I've tried to use PS for some system automation glue using .NET libraries I was also developing, the biggest irritation was that code written with some common C#/.NET idioms are awkward to interop with via Powershell. It's been a while (and this was with PS v4 I think so some of this may have gotten better in later versions) but off the top of my head the problematic stuff included:

* Referencing dependencies (if you're used to "add reference" and "using" it's awkward having to write a bunch of Assembly.Load that then needs to be maintained redundantly with the C#; it would be nice if PS could somehow work with VS/MSBuild projects)

* Calling extension methods (ties in with above since in C# they depend on "using")

* Calling generic methods

* Calling overloaded methods

* Calling async methods

There are workarounds for all the above but put together they definitely make PS less pleasant/useful for me.

Also, much of the above also applies to interop with WinRT which I think is becoming important (as much of the value of PS comes from good access to the underlying system, and more and more Windows functionality is being exposed through WinRT APIs).

The other problem I've had is performance - for example, PS could be useful for some of the same text processing tasks for which Bash is often used (and I'd prefer it for its stronger programming language/object system), but in my experience is dramatically and prohibitively slower when dealing with large amounts of text.
I don't follow. Server-side rendering did you mean rendering html? It would be the same as non-JS rendering engine framework the server side sends out the html after the template file is rendered on the server side.
As I understand it, Boeing planes physically move the cockpit controls to reflect computer control inputs. Would that approach have made a difference in this event?
It would be an improvement, but probably not enough to convince many people to switch to it. The network effect gives Facebook too much of an advantage.
I could tell that you were being sarcastic, but to me it looked like a typical response from someone who had only read the headline and didn't bother to click through and read at least some paragraphs from the article. (That's also why I was a bit more condescending than usual.)
Yeah but there's good discussion going. Might as well allow it.
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It would be much better to send those defaulters to prison where the annual cost is typically more than the most expensive colleges in the country...oh wait, maybe we should just send them to college and pay for it, that might save even more money?
A while back you posted

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Fricken 26 days ago [-]

Kalanick is a Napoleonesque figure, a great conqueror who doesn't know when to pull back on the reigns, because he knows nothing else. Our memories are short, we're skewering him for being exactly the kind of animal that not to long ago most everyone was rooting for.

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I just want to drop by to make it absolutely clear that there's many, many, many of us who've always hated Uber/Kalanick and seen right through the facade. You shouldn't assume "most everyone" holds the same opinions as you.
That's an absolutely insane way to do statistics. You can't just say "it's a deterrent" and then magically assume that anyone who pays their debts wouldn't have in absence of the evidently horribly inefficient debt collecting process.
I've played in Bing quite a few times as a member of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra.

My personal perspective: I've found that there's three core interesting benefits/drawbacks of this hall.

1. The ability to hear individual instruments/players is remarkable.
2. Weirdly, although it's easy to pick out specific sounds, they tend to be quieter than you'd expect. Both on stage and in the audience.
3. ... EXCEPT when the full orchestra plays something loud. The hall is very easy to "overpower" (a phenomenon I'd not previously encountered). I don't have a good way to describe it, but when this happens, effect 1. and 2. go away and everything just becomes... too much.
Worth noting that CockroachDB isn't using an eventually consistent model. Yes, it's not the same thing as etcd, but I can see some potential use case overlap.
Prisoners and the job market: Should employers know about criminal records?
I got so used to listening to a relative explain how IBM is run by incompetents that when that person retired I felt like we lost a family tradition.
Morgan Stanley on roboadvisers and fintech
To be fair, all the safety briefings I've seen tell you not to do that. ("Do not inflate while inside the airplane" is the line, I believe).
It's a pretty safe bet that if no one was collecting this debt, not many people would pay it back.
Or the kind of programming you do at work is easier solved by short scripts such as Perl, Python, PS, Bash, or Batch instead of something like Java where one has to write a lot of scaffolding.
I'm not sure how your second example works, but the first definitely reflects a cotton shortage.

This discussion and the original article is focused on analyzing why wages are falling with unemployment. "Businesses are failing because they are uncompetitive" describes most businesses. The question is: Why are the failing? How does that impact down-stream systems? What up-stream systems could have had an impact? Follow the chain of cause -> effect.

Ineffective labor cross training into high-skill high-demand jobs -> labor shortages -> only large scale operations can afford to bid -> dramatic efficiency gains -> lower asking price of products -> businesses that couldn't bid collapse due to uncompetitiveness in the new market -> surplus less-skilled labor and economic disparity -> less taxes for infrastructure -> less regional competitiveness -> ... so forth, hypothetically.

Which is why I concluded with investing in education (root cause resolution) and competitive regional infrastructure (new growth, avoid another labor glut from overcorrection).
I'm definitely guilty of doing that the very few times I had to write a powershell script.

But what's the alternative? What's the proper way of signing a script, and how much work is it to do that?
You just made that up and then complained about journalists that did actual reporting on the issue, and I don't even think you read the actual article.
That seems like an unnecessarily abstract way of saying "make good choices".

Drug abuse seems straight forwardly defined as using a drug for purposes other than as prescribed. Not following the schedule or following it when it is unwise to shouldn't be considered abuse as long as you are still using it to manage pain. Of course that boils down to intent, which is hard to determine.
It it a crime if everyone does it?
Capitalism has its problems.
Oh yeah I saw that, but this was also interesting:

> This is not really a mistake from the ransomware authors, as they properly use the Windows Crypto API. Indeed, for what I've tested, under Windows 10, CryptReleaseContext does cleanup the memory (and so this recovery technique won't work)

(From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14377328)

So it's yet another security bug in Windows that lets people recover those keys.
If you think people will pay nevertheless government should declare the payment voluntary and see how many people pay.
So what's weird is she actually posted last week too, but only she can see that submission in her submissions page.

I can't see it -- I only see this one.

Maybe that's why this one was allowed to go up? Not sure.
Ex NASA and US Air Force Rocket engineer is live right now, doing a ScienceAMA
Its funny, I thought this article might be about Dwiggins losing his work in a fire. When he was working with the Village Press, they moved from Massachusetts to New York City. The office was destroyed in a fire on Jan. 10, 1908. Obviously,"Graphic artists" (I think he invented the term) didn't back up to the "cloud" in those days; everything was physical. His also famous mentor/collaborator, Fred Goudy, lost work in both that fire, and another in 1936. The article doesn't mention the fire, but details like this explain how extremely high quality projects didn't survive, or didn't re-emerge until the digital revivals.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34564322@N03/15630456883
Adding to that, I recommend "Chasing Bubbles" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5254722/ full version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibP5IQxId34). Watch it before reading the plot.
I think if you tried to publish an article where you tried to add an opcode to an existing JVM... Oracle would nastygram you even if you never released the source code or even if you didn't do it to a JVM based on theirs.

Something is seriously wrong with some companies.

Edit: To those downvoting, remember, if you disagree, post a reply.
WAD was also an astonishing and whimsical puppeteer. He ran a puppet theatre for his friends on Boston's South Shore for many years, and documented it in a large, beautifully designed and illustrated book. Many of his puppets are held by the Boston Public Library's rare book collection and were displayed outside the entrance to the rare book room. They provide rare insight to a remarkable man.
PowerShell is a scripting language though, but it can also be used as a shell. The syntax is more advanced now that it has classes...etc.
UnitedHealth Overbilled Medicare by Billions, U.S. Says in Suit
This seems to be a lot simpler in scope. RequireJS allows you to essentially do dependency injection, whereas this doesn't handle that. It also uses the fetch API rather than plain XHR as well as using and returning native promises when fetching libraries. I think it's primarily for loading resources from a different server, like a CDN, in arbitrary but definable order, and that's it.
If deterrence is the main value here, surely they can still improve the process a bit?
> so they just added so much abstraction they had to use hacks to pre-render it on the server"

Actually, you have that exactly backwards. It's only because of React's abstraction of the DOM that it's even possible to render using a simple JavaScript interpreter running on the server side.

You do understand that server-side rendering is not (typically) necessary, right? I mean, React will render just fine initially on the browser, of course. It's only done (wisely) on the server before serving to the client for performance reasons.
Before we start paying for it, we should ask why the costs have increased so dramatically in the last 10 years, and why the benefits of a degree have gone down. Then, neither debt nor debt collection would be an issue.

After all, the reason people can't pay back their debts is 1) even state colleges are expensive, and 2) the job market doesn't reward degrees. It's not like changing the payer of tuition from the individual to the government is going to change either of those issues.
> laptops that randomly won't reauthenticate after wake, network drives that fail to map, other transient network problems, you name it.

Sounds like a problem with the System Administrators at your workplace. For example who is still using mapped network drives? Group Policy is the modern way to do it and has been for over ten years.

As to the two network issues, I'd have to dive into the event log to see why. I've seen WiFi drivers cause this, specifically a HP driver that took almost a year to get fixed.

Poor technical support and setup will hamper your work on any operating system.
So, what's the follow up a dozen years later? Do clang or gcc treat the floating point stack as a stack?

Is x86-64 completely different?
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Oh my bad. I just saw work such as seL4 then assumed it was a seL4 reference. I actually didn't have this one by Appel. Thanks for the paper! :)

Here's the one I was referencing with the tiny TCB:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/flit.pdf

OK. So, it was a few Kloc. Still smaller than Coq. They could probably get it even smaller with recent work given translation validation knocks compilers out of TCB. So, in between 803-2668loc.
This looks like it might be interesting, but the most recent date listed is 2006, with little to suggest that anything has been done since then. Does anyone know if this is nothing more than an historical artifact?
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We're thinking about putting in an NDA-like process that's more formal. People should feel secure that we have their back.

Interestingly enough, "licensed career coaching" is a complete sham. There's no real accreditation or regulatory environment: the largest career coaching programs that bestow certificates are private, for-profit orgs and give out their certs like candy on halloween. It's really sad.

I agree that there's a large amount of information that probably shouldn't be sent to us, but people also need to give us the full context for their personal problem. We don't encourage people to send us information we don't need, and often they can get by with indirect info... "we're raising $8.6m on a $100m valuation" -> "I think we're going through additional funding soon."
On that topic I found Steve Callahan's account [1] of how he survived 2.5 months on a lifeboat really impressive. The whole book was a series of "how in the did he pull that off" moments.

[1] "Adrift: 76 days lost at sea," Callahan, Steven (1986).
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