skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I do is to publish short things that I may want to read latter in my blog. Sometimes someone else find them useful, if so great. But the main consumer of my blog is me. I usually use it as reference for some little problems that come over and over. And, sometimes, I do send links to my blog when someone else has a problem I blogged about in the past.

Doing this I publish about 25 articles every year. Wanna take a look? Is at https://aurelianito.blogspot.com (warning: content is written in Spanish)

And lately I also do some YouTube screencasts about go, the game. The trick for me is to commit to upload whatever happens in the screencast, no preparation at all. Check them out too. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTQoyI2lMoFO2bGa2b6Sy-...
Job is rarely utilizing all your capabilities, in fact rather forces you to spend too much time on things you hate and would do differently or even not do if you weren't forced by your employers. Your advice is for people that are happy to be defined by their job, not by their accomplishments and potential fulfillment. The rest of us with some ambitions and drive have to do/study things on our own with the hope we can go ballistic on those ideas and make some part of our world better.
OVH labs routinely spins stuff up and then shuts it down, so that's not a great path. It seems more like a product testbed, and not many products make it.

Which of these has S3 or ELB equivalents? I haven't seen that. I saw DO has failover ip addresses.
I really don't think consumers want this. We're moving away from our TVs, not towards them. I think that's why Apple never released this product and probably never will.
+1 my wife and I set up a kanban board in our house for tasks we needed to accomplish so we could easily see each others priorities and current efforts. It was game-changing. We are able to get more done with much lower stress.
I also don't get what this offers over renting these machines individually. It can't really be some preinstalled software with no support whatsoever as installing usually is the easy part.
So your thesis is that it's silly to talk about school effectiveness because of the larger socio-economic condition of the population.

In other words, given certain external conditions, there should be no successful schools.

Proceeding down this path of analysis, you should find counter-examples, if they exist, and begin listing conditions that make schooling impossible.

Also not my point, but certainly a fun exercise. So close the schools, provide the useful public services they offer (if any), and work on the larger conditions.

The question remains whether or not the political structure that is paying for and supporting these organizations is honest enough to stop the dysfunction when it's thrust in their face. Even in your scenario, close them.

ADD: I want to point out that there is this Stupid Human Trick we all do: when presented with a situation that involves difficult-yet-implementable decisions, we point to some larger, impossible-to-solve situation and demand that this situation be addressed first. It's a way not to deal with things. I've spent decades watching Cold War arguments play out with "Well, if we had peace in the Middle East, these other things would also fall into line"

We were never getting peace in the Middle East. But it was easier just to throw their hands up and ask for the moon than it was to make the simple, immediate decision that was achievable.
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Native speaker. Agree that it is poorly written.
Maybe if they are can afford to move and switch school districts. Or if they live in a school district where they can choose their school (which also correlates with income).

Edit: Also, If a school is so bad that you have to move away from it to avoid being considered a bad parent, that reflects worse on the school more so than the parents.
Perhaps you've missed the memo?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/moores-law-is-dead...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/moore...
The dictionary is sourced from Google Translate and Unihan, with a few hundred manual edits. Click the Edit button to fix it if you already speak Chinese and find a problem! You said the pronunciation is wrong on 2/6 characters, but you didn't tell me the correct reading. Teach it! Teach me!
That sentence does sound weird, it's not just you, and using of contain rather than contains doesn't help either. If it was referring to the Naica Mine it should have been "which contains caves ...".
That's because they were not intelligent or deep thinking enough to follow the teachings of Epicurus.
I'm saying that the wars in question had lots of people killing going on, much of it not being done by the Americans.
Paper describing the processes of recovering historical versions, attribution, and creation of the repo: https://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/jrnl/2016-EMPSE-unix-histo...

If you only look at the GitHub repository, look at the branch listing.

(I'm not the author, just an admirer of the work.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_the_Uni...

It goes both ways. Geopolitical peers and adversaries always spy on each other.
The term itself is concerned more with a person's own experience of the world. What you're describing, i. e. his actions/words as observable by others, is probably closer to 'hypocrisy'.

"Cognitive dissonance' is far less judgemental–its considered to be an essential mechanism of learning.
You didn't say anything that disagrees with the parent.

Except if you mean that you could do it since 2001 on web pages in < 16ms -- which is clearly not the case.
1. Build something sane.

2. Find bottleneck.

3. Fix the bottleneck.

4. Goto 2.
This same comparison was made at the release of the original GE90 20-something years ago.
The guy wants advice on "how", not some words to make him feel better about not doing stuff, so let's give him that.

> for most people this is an exercise that will in the long run lead to burnout. Your mind is already subconsciously telling you this.

I want to point out that this is one of the reasons why people never start things. Let me share my experience as someone who has started, AND burned out, multiple times. Hopefully this helps people change their beliefs.

1. Yes you are right that you will burn out if you push yourself too hard, but this only happens if the result is not satisfying enough compared to the effort you pour in. From my multiple experiences where some I succeeded and some failed, I only burned out enough to give up when things weren't going well despite the effort I put in. I guarantee you you WILL NOT burn out if your thing goes well.

2. Another mistake people make is thinking that burning out is like dying, and you can't recover. This is why people want to "save it for the best" and don't commit 100%, because they "want to be able to commit 100% only when they truly really come across the perfect opportunity". But the thing is, these people NEVER end up doing anything because of the law of inertia. "The perfect opportunity" is an elusive thing, and the more you wait, the higher the bar goes up, which means you will never meet that perfect moment.

3. Burning out is a phase, not the end. I've burned out multiple times, and stopped working for a couple of months to several months (and did nothing but entertain myself). But eventually you recover and can't wait to start a new thing. This never happens to people who wait for the perfect moment because they don't even know what it feels like. They think there's only one chance.

4. Don't try to bend the spoon. It's impossible. Instead, only realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is yourself.
The fears about citizens privacy being severely eroded came true! Steve was speaking more like an ideaologist / optimist than a pragmatist, but I believe his intentions were sound.

It seems generations (young and old), never became computer literate to the level Steve anticipated. Personal computing access quickly outgrew computer literacy in the time frame required to stop societal damage being done.

The majority of users have become passive consumers and not free spirited, well rounded, democratically inclined, creative types that fit go with Steve's vision and observations.

Hindsight is 20/20 though and one can't blame them, who could've predicted the rapid PC uptake plus the Internet of 2017 back then?
>My gut wants to agree but then I see things like VSCode that shows it can be done with discipline and proper engineering.

VSCode just makes an tolerably-fast Electron app. Still doesn't solve the CPU usage, battery hungrinees, and memory hoginess of the platform.
You can do more than read the study, become a part of it: https://www.trackyourhappiness.org
I don't know anything at all about this topic
> 60 kHz? Surely these MOSFETs can do better than that! And even simple modern PCBs can run at much higher speeds.

Any single MOSFET can. The slow clock is due to propagation time across multiple MOSFETs.
There's still a limited number of job types at your workplace. If you search for "django" odds are none of your non-technical colleagues have been searching for anything other than the Python framework at work.
I don't think the California system is great. It ends up benefiting whatever faction fields the least number of candidates. IE, if 40% of voters support the Purple Party and there are only 2 candidates, and 60% of voters support the Yellow Party but there are 10 candidates, there's a decent chance that in the general you'll have two Purple Party candidates even though fewer people support them.

Anyway, in my experience the biggest issue with primary votes is that the vast majority of the population doesn't care, doesn't pay attention, and most don't even bother voting. Check out the turnout for most primaries (and California's "jungle primary" doesn't seem to have helped with turnout[1]), or ask the people around you about the positions between the two candidates in some of the recent local primaries.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-californ...
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The two are incomparable. A mere 40 years after Perry sailed into Tokyo bay, Japan went from backwater feudal island to an industrial superpower and unshackled itself from the unequal treaties, asserting its dominance on the international stage as an independent, sovereign nation. Nearly 70 years after the fall of the Dalai Lama's regime the people of Tibet are still largely poor and marginalized, with their cities and resources taken over by the occupying Han Chinese that claim the land as their own. The subsidies given to Han Chinese that relocate are straight out of the manifest destiny playbook. So I'm not really sure what point of comparison you are trying to make.
So this is like when Elon Musk calculated that in the worst case he could live on hotdogs and peanut butter for about $1.50 per day :)
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In addition to being condescending, most of this is false.

Your examples are bizarre. Buying hair extensions is a tiny niche market to begin with. The percentage of people buying cars from dealers via text message is a rounding error, and I highly doubt that they would have been using email to do it a decade ago, so it's completely irrelevant.

Text messages and similar are fundamentally no different from email except that they have a few limitations that limit their use cases (length, subject lines, attachments, etc). If those limitations are removed...you basically have email again.
>proof that their actions were justified

The thing is that while the courts already ruled Snowden's leaks were of legitimately of illegal activity, and in this sense he has been proven in the right in the eyes of the law--in other words, vindicated as a legitimate whistle blower--what you're talking about with 'proof his actions were justified in the public's eye' is about public education or cultural standards. Where we disagree is with the fact that going by the definition of vindication, he has already been "proven to be right, justified" and "cleared of blame." in other words, Just because the public is unaware of this does not mean it has not happened. There are plenty of things in which public opinion is frankly wrong--it doesnt change the fact of the matter though.
Now you may go so far to expand on your point that his action of whistleblowing in itself needs vindication--but that is a different statement and one which would be about whistle blowing in general.
I've always been extremely sceptical of the "positive thinking" school of thought. Not only were there quite a few studies showing no or negative effects, I just can't get over the mental image of some car salesman screaming "You can do it" at his mirror every morning.
They are one of the largest server hosts in the world.
Personally I've been using reddit for about a decade. It seems more or less the same site it always has been just a lot bigger and with some incremental improvements. 99% of the user base has no clue about who most of the people in your post are, they aren't up in arms about anything, they only care that the site continues to work, which it does.

Additionally, I cannot see how a competitor can possibly compete with reddit, reddit offers everything most people want without charging anything, without excessive advertising and without demanding a lot of personal information. How do you build a competitor that matches those criteria and then makes a ton of money?
If by demographic, you mean ethnicity, I think that's dead wrong.

But one thing you can say places like Finland and Korea do share is a deeply held cultural belief that everyone in the nation is in it together. What we lack is the same societal norm that it would be unacceptable for children in the suburbs to have all the advantages, while children in cities and rural areas tend to grow up in great disadvantage.

Some say that our size and heterogeneity holds us back. I think that's bullshit. It's a cop out that's ultimately self-defeating for the whole nation.

Lastly, I don't think it's simply arbitrary, whether we pick the Finnish or Korean models, despite the fact that they both appear to produce great results. I think the pressure culture of Korean education is deeply problematic, and Finnish success proves that you can generate well-educated children without forging them in a crucible.
For the easy tasks. Try a CPU heavy C/C++ app -- like an audio/video editor, number crunching of any kind, etc.
Probably predates computers, if you look back far enough.
Here is a good introduction:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFecm9NKbM
This is also the standard greeting for JS newcomers. Perhaps being 'web developers' has an impact on their perception of simplicity.

Making a better todo system is on my todo list as well.
Beyond saving hundreds of thousand of Allied soldiers, using nuclear weapons on Japan saved millions of JAPANESE lives. The conventional Allied bombing in preparation for invasion would have laid waste to the entire country. (Indeed the conventional firebombing raid on Tokyo killed more civilians than either nuclear strike). And the Imperial government was training civilian (women and children) suicide squads, and Japanese civilians had already conducted mass suicides in the face of capture in places like Saipan.
No one is disputing that they don't use chat. Everyone uses chat. But they also still use email. This company in question gives every employee an email address, right?
I found a good article that you might be interested in: https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/bitcoin-money-transfer/ (make sure to read the comments as well for some actual use cases!) Growth in usage for international remittances indeed seems to be minimal. An important takeway from the article is that changes to people's behaviours take much much longer than we usually expect. In the countries mentioned, people still rely on cash agents rather than using the available (and cheaper) online banking tools. A similar story can be observed in e-commerce. 25 years after the invention of the WWW e-commerce has only reached 10% of all sales. A similar development can be expected when consumers are changing their banking behaviours. These things take a lot of time.

Now, regarding actual demand for blockchain assets (outside of speculation): Previous price rallies in 2016 were most likely caused by the Chinese as a method for capital flight ( http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-02/bitcoin-surges-abov... ). Another recent surge in ethereum prices was caused by more and more ICOs, which use ethereum as way to crowdfund their project. So those two I believe are currently the most important sources of demand: Tax evasion / capital flight and funds raising.
So, what does convince the least knowledgeable?
Git Town contributor here.

This tool was built to help stay sane in large high-velocity development teams. In such environments, one can easily spend an hour (or so) each day resolving merge conflicts. Feature branches go out of sync with the main development branch multiple times a day. One has to keep pulling, merging, or rebasing all open branches regularly to avoid more merge conflicts later. Those things require running many Git commands.

Git Town makes all of this quick,easy, and bulletproof. A lot of people have been using it for years and love it for that.

Apparently our documentation doesn't get this across well enough. We'll add more details.
> It seemed difficult (impossible?) to pay with anything but cash

That's true and it is not convenient for visitors. Local people usually just use public transportation card (magnetic/contact-less smart card) everyday and don't have to pay with cash (you can charge the card with credit card or Alipay). Some station gates also support paying with NFC smartphones (eg. Xiaomi), and I think that's modern :-)
I think they meant that there is never blocking I/O
OpenStack. Way overkill. I would advice always against OpenStack unless you have very good reasons to go into this direction.
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What I do is to publish short things that I may want to read latter in my blog. Sometimes someone else find them useful, if so great. But the main consumer of my blog is me. I usually use it as reference for some little problems that come over and over. And, sometimes, I do send links to my blog when someone else has a problem I blogged about in the past.

Doin this I publish about 25 articles every year. Wanna take a look? Is at https://aurelianito.blogspot.com (warning: content is written in Spanish)

Oh! The key for me is no commitment. Just do the first video/ blog post and work from there. If I take a year off it is fine.
No. I charge the same rate. For travel to the client's location sometimes I will use a per trip rate instead of a per hour/day rate for trips to the client's site. I stopped discounting rates years ago because it does not help me and encourages the notion that it might be ok to not pay me or pay me less in a client's mind.

Because my rate structure is simple. I can describe it easily: W per hour/day. X markup on expenses. Y per mile travel. Z as retainer applied against final invoice based on my non-binding estimate of the time it will take to do the project based on the client's description (often Z is from 25% to 50% of the initial non-binding estimate). Most projects take at least K hours/days.

I don't wait for a potential client to bring up rates. Once it is apparent that the person is soliciting services, I describe my rates. This avoids wasting both our time when there is a gap between a potential client's economic expectations and my rates. It avoids wasting my time with potential client's who balk at writing me a check to get started...willingness and ability to pay are features of a good potential client. Execution of payment is a better criterion than a signed contract for separating actual clients from potential clients. A reluctance to pay me is a good criterion for distinguishing bad clients.

To put it another way, the essence of consulting is the business of "nickeling and dimeing" clients. And in general, charging money is the essence of business. A reluctance to charge people money is not wrong but it is at odds with trying to run a business.

The flat rate up front replaced my previous system where I would tell the client that I would follow up with a proposal and then spend time researching and pondering and estimating and then putting together a document and then waiting for the client's response or non-response.

Good luck.
Well, sometimes I try to prepare stuff workdays. But I mostly write about stuff that comes to mind on the day of blogging.

If it's Sunday and you need to write your post, you aren't picky with topics, haha
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I feel that Ethereum is not yet another coin, or maybe coins are not simply currencies from the beginning, but ethereum's site did not make that clear except mentioning "scripts". This seems to open a whole new perspective, but I fail to get it myself. Where can I read more on this?
One thing this doesn't touch on is the different handling of microtasks and macrotasks:

https://jakearchibald.com/2015/tasks-microtasks-queues-and-s...

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/overview-of-micro-tasks...
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Here I was enthusiastic, but it's not-quite-there. If they took up administration of the Openstack setup this would be a very interesting product.
There's an auto-playing video in that page somewhere. Switch to reader mode before it gets you.
Vendors of filers (emc, netapp) aren't the quickest with patching -or smaller shops could be out of support (not recommended but seen it).
> the async IO that happens is done via an internal thread-pool

Not quite, since using threads internally (thread per IO operation) would defeat a purpose of async system, which is created specifically to not pay threading cost (context switches, etc.). In layman terms, kernel will simply invoke your C callback function when "stuff happens", and libuv propagates that to JS in platform-agnostic manner.

There are still threads and thread pools in V8 and node for stuff like calculating PI (or, more realistically, password hashing and other number crunching), but that is mostly unrelated to async IO itself.

Some google queries: select, poll, epoll, kqueue…
Yes, but there's at least two other filesystems called TFS as well, per other threads... so even then, it's still overload. If I were releasing something to the public, I would probably namespace or consider something different in this case.
See the definition of prevalent... Even if it's proprietary, it's pretty widespread... not to mention other file systems called TFS already.
Paper and ink, in separate notebooks for each subject. Review the next day, and again before any exam that the material is likely to be on. I find paper is faster, easier to copy equations, and easier to read later.
Assuming you get two collaborators, how will be the equity split approximately? 33+33+33? 40+30+30? 90+5+5?
If your argument is "other walled gardens are doing it too", it sounds like we have the same understanding of the problem. You just seem to think it's ok and I don't.
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