skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's possible that failure to perform a test which is probably not going to helpful has a large downside for the doctor, and performing it has only got downside for the patient - you'll end up with incentives which clearly dictate excessive testing.
https://landsatonaws.com has a nice interface I think.

API is https://landsatonaws.com/{path}/{row}/{scene}
Thanks for the note, just added the link to the site.
That's the most vexing thing I've read in a while. I manage Facebook addiction by not having the app installed on my phone and only using the browser(which works just fine). If they ever compiled their site to WebAssembly, that would be the end of them for me. The whole idea of WebAssembly is simultaneously awesome and scary.
I think of Elixir typespecs as documentation more than as overhead. Given that I'm writing comments that tell the shape of the inputs and outputs of every function anyhow, I might as well do it in a way that lends itself to static analysis. :)
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Smart Cards used for military/corporate computer authentication and facility access, some transit systems, some purpose-specific stored value cards (like bike locker rental at BART stations), then of course chip credit/debit cards.

Anywhere you want the user's credential to have some intelligence (sign challenges under specific circumstances, credit and debit a balance without any central database in the loop, etc) but be highly resistant to data tampering/exfiltration (like inflating the balance or copying the key) by its bearer.
I just know the basics of Japanese, so I'll trust you on that, I assumed that as many words have lost their original meaning nowadays. But that's the thing, from what I know it's not split so hard in spirits vs energy and those two are closer concepts in Japanese philosophy.

In western philosophies we have a body and spirit, where the body provides the energy to move it and the spirit the will. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) in Japanese philosophy that energy and will to move is closer together, it is the spirit the one that provides the strength to move the body (talking about philosophy, not biology).

If I recall correctly even some body sickness are attributed at a weak spirit.
> For example to distinguish a religion from a cult, you don't study the bible or some other holy book, instead you look how that abstract believe system has been working so far, e.g. by checking how many generations have been successfully raised with it and how much progress they made.

Note - I am not an expert in any of this, but that said:

“In a cult there is a person at the top who knows it's a scam. In religion that person is dead.” - Anon

Examples:

Mormonism - started by a known documented and convicted con artist

Scientology - started (apocryphally) because of a bet

Both of these new religions, both started within the last 200 years (1830 for Mormonism, 1954 for Scientology), the former having in common only certain general themes with Christianity, and then ret-conning new material in to complete the "history", and the latter making up everything out of whole, bad sci-fi cloth.

One could easily argue that all religions started out as cults; certainly what we know of the historical parts of Christianity makes it a likely candidate. Likely only the very earliest naturalism-based quasi-religions lost to pre-history are among the only ones which could honestly count as "pure".

Not that any of them have led to honest understanding of the world (I will allow for philosophical introspection and discussion, which definitely and ultimately led to our current scientific methods, though those methods too were influenced and pre-empted by earlier non-religious philosophical methods, particularly those by the early Greek societies).

Again - these are my (perhaps flawed) understandings, though I am open to learning more, even if that new knowledge contradicts what I already know...
Key point:

- The US mobile data services revenue has seen QoQ growth for 17 straight years until Q1 2017 when it saw its first negative growth for the quarter. (Q1 is generally a down quarter but for the first time the revenue growth dipped below zero).
While I don't discount your example. In the wider context there is a vast pressure to paint unions as a bad thing because they cost people with power money.

Work unlike normal products has a fuzzy relationship to market forces because people are not quite fungible. If you pay relative to the lowest common denominator, then the surplus from over performers ends up with the company. Ratchet up the pay and that surplus ends up with under performers.
someone mentioned it earlier but it's not true that cdr always returns a list, for instance, `(cdr `(1 . 2))`
Haha, yeah. And when I saw it was based on "Hydra" I thought it was the Nix/Guix continuous build system. I was briefly really excited!
Oddly enough, this is what I was trying to do with my Defiant project (http://BeDefiant.io). I wanted it to be a one-step installation framework to combat proprietary systems (better description on the website).

The bad news is that I am the only person working on it, and while I am an experienced developer, I am also a grad student.

In other words it is not ready for production at all. I have presented it to quite a few people for the purpose of finding help in the development, and everyone thinks it's a good idea, but everyone also wants to see a finished version of it before seriously considering helping out. Unfortunately, I can only work on Defiant in my free time, so developing the basic functionality is steady, but slow, progress.
We use Embarcadero at work for our older stuff and have moved to Qt.

It's a clunky piece of crap, built around what used to be a big community due to Delphi in the Borland era. Their standard library is awful, support for 3rd party libraries is slowly dying. I'm sure some people from that era love it, but unless you have legacy code to maintain I really wouldn't suggest it. Maybe their new version with the move towards a Clang-based compiler will be an improvement, but the IDE itself is just... bad compared to Qt creator - doesn't support DPI scaling, no easy jump-to-class, upgrading packages often involves hacking at giant XML project files by hand, it's just a mess. Not only that, but the compiler has some pretty horrid bugs. Just this morning the compiler exited with no error, had to reboot the machine to make it work.

It's also incredibly expensive and making decent use of it almost necessitates buying expensive component packs from 3rd party vendors like DevExpress.

If you're an individual or small time company, you can get better visual IDEs for free via Qt Creator or VS Community. Most old Delphi-style development has moved to WinForms or WPF in .NET land.
This train of thought can be dangerous - especially once your business grows to support more than a handful of customers.

Can you name a profitable organization that has successfully eliminated ops/devops? I've yet to find any example of this.

At a certain level of scale, silos can be a very beneficial thing.
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Adam, great to see you on HN. I assume you're the same ABS that founded calc.org. I always love seeing people from the TI Calculator community doing well.

- Harper
Time to think
you mean as long as you do dynamicall link?
There is an entire classical book on it, available for free:

https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-r...
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In reality these startups are already marketing,promoting and hyping "smart contracts" as something they are not.

I have no problem with a dencentralized/distributed "if this, then that" algorithms but let be honest about its real life applications and its limits...and not call them "smart contracts" capable of replacing lawyers/courts/legal systems in order to sell the tech to investors who are uneducated about the technology or law.

im not saying we should not use smart contracts (computers) because there was a bug in one, I am saying the tech is being sold as something it purports to be which it is not, and that is ripe for abuse. In the case of dao, assuming there was no bug and smart contracts really were capable of contract enforcement and preventing breaches, they never needed to collect investors money up front, yet no one ever stopped to ask why they did that, well when $150m gets stolen it becomes obvious why they wanted investor funds upfront before a single investment opportunity even existed.
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We don't need to design/develop for different screen sizes when it's just text and a few images. The developer in this case decided to use font-size 130% which is too big. Combined with justified text, it will be painful to read on a small screen. Justified text is more suited to print.
I've described this. Downstreams of the feature branch rebase from their previous feature branch merge base (a tag for which is left behind to make it easy to find it) --onto the new feature branch head.

E.g., here's what the feature branch goes through:

feature$ git tag feature_05

<time passes; some downstreams push to feature branch/remote>

feature$ git fetch origin
feature$ git rebase origin/master
feature$ git tag feature_06

And here's what a downstream of the feature branch goes through:

downstream$ git fetch feature_remote

<time passes; this downstream does not push in time for the feature branch's rebase>

downstream$ git rebase --onto feature_remote/feature_06 feature_remote/feature_05

Easy peasy. The key is to make it easy to find the previous merge base and then use git rebase --onto to rebase from the old merge base to the new merge base.

Everybody rebases all the time. Everybody except the true master -- that one [almost] never rebases (at Sun it would happen once in a blue moon).
I don't think you are correct about this at all, and since you said "pounds" I assume you're talking about the London Marathon (though most others are similar).

With the London Marathon, charities buy their spots for £300 each[1] and get well over £1000 (sometimes much more) in return for each spot. Marathons are very expensive to organize, so it is not unreasonable for the organizer to charge for the entires. In addition, many spots that charities get are given out totally free of charge.

In all, millions of dollars and pounds are raised through these programs.

https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/en-gb/news-media/m...
Could you share the profile file and some additional screenshots in the github repo as an issue? That would help a lot identifying the issue.
You're right, but, I'm just focusing on the fact that the Fed maintains a distance, an independence, from politicians and government officials. The Fed is not directly accountable to an elected leader in the same way that a typical federal agency is.

As for who buys government bonds from the US Treasury, I just wanted to emphasize that the Fed is not the only buyer.

The often repeated notion that, "to a great extent, we owe this money to ourselves," is not necessarily comforting. Most American citizens have very little, if any, savings. The "ourselves" in that notion is heavily weighted to a relatively small number of wealthy US citizens. It's fair to question whether their interests align with the interests of the average US citizen.
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Yeah. I think that's a huge part of the reason why the so-called 'full stack developers' will probably never obviate pure 'DevOps' roles. A lot of people can't wrap their heads around why setting up infrastructure takes so much time, and focus attention on speed of raw product (code) delivery.
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It's not that a shirt and tie is uncomfortable, it's that a t-shirt IS comfortable. If I can pick between two jobs where I sit at a desk all day in front of a keyboard, and only one requires a button-down shirt and a tie, the tie job can suck it.

Why would I volunteer for that? Additionally, I think in terms of tech jobs, especially in California, you'd actually have to go looking for a place that makes you wear a tie.

I don't think I've interviewed anywhere in my adult life that had a dress code other than 'you have to wear some kind of pants in the office'.
Slightly OT, but: would you pay for a "mail confirmation as a Service"? I'm building such product, but I don't know if it makes sense, or how to market it.
For each person who climbs Everest, a Sherpa has effectively made 2 to 3 climbs...and for many of them because of the dangers, it costs them their life.
How Distributed Ledgers Are Set to Reshape the Internet
Does this take into account opportunity cost for time off of work? I watched a presentation from someone who had summitted, and apparently you have to spend several weeks at basecamp acclimating to the altitude before you even start the climb. So not only are you paying for equipment/travel/license/lodging, but you have to make sure you'll still have a job when you get back. I imagine CEO types can take all the time in the world, but all my sick/vacation days combined as a lowly employee wouldn't give me enough time.

Edit: from the article, "Alpenglow unapologetically offers a climb from the Tibet side for an astonishing $85,000 per climber... They have a high western guide ratio, and include pre-acclimatizing in an altitude tent at home." So it sounds like pre-acclimatizing exists, but with this particular deal it's not cheap either.
Would you agree that a project with less than twenty engineers that "has to" use micro services has issues completely unrelated to Conway's law?
Misleading title; Amazon is hiring experienced engineers for their experience. They can do this because they can afford it, and they are doing it because they want to enhance their services.

None of this demolishes "the cult of youth". If you're running a startup, hiring young people with no families and the stamina to give 110% to their job is still the way to go. As experienced as James Gosling, Tim Bray, et al. are, they're not going to be working 12 hour days, nor are they critical to Amazon's survival.
I get that they're hand-picked examples, but it's still a bit misleading when every "older" engineer in the article is quite a remarkable individual with incredible resumes. They'd likely be warmly welcomed at any tech company.

I'm more curious about the average age across the engineering organization, and specifically older engineers who are solid, good workers but aren't creators of popular languages or pioneered tech migrations for large company.
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Getting likes is addicting, sure, but scrolling through my newsfeed and seeing autoplay videos with obnoxious text banners in impact font ('me af rn crying-laughing-face-emoji fire 100 100') has made it so that I'm very annoyed with social media.
> When you sit down with one of the AWS engineering teams you’re sitting down with grownups. At a guess median age would be 40-45...

As happy as I am to see AWS hiring industry veterans with awesome experience, this statement couldn't be more wrong. AWS is dominated by college hires and distinguished engineers are very much the exception, not the rule.
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Thanks for the feedback. Just made font smaller.
Lol I always love replies like this. Scuse my french, but are you fucking kidding me?

So basically you don't use 80% of the internet because the occasional site annoys you?

Do you also cut off your hands when you get dirt on them???

People have been saying this since like 2000's, and the more advanced JS websites get, the more cringeworthy this comment gets. It's 2017, just fucking leave javascript on and use ghostry + ublock origin.
That's interesting. I recently learned about a philosophical thought experiment that may apply here, it's called "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
> When you sit down with one of the AWS engineering teams you’re sitting down with grownups. At a guess median age would be 40-45, someone like Andi Gutmans, now 41, one of the original creators of PHP, who now runs Search and New NoSQL for the firm.

Ha... All the senior managers, directors, and VPs at Amazon may be in their 40+ years, but everyone who's actually building the day-to-day code isn't. On any of the teams I worked for, the average age was probably ~24, and that was without interns.

This isn't me dismissing the wisdom, skills, and benefits of having seasoned tech talent, but it's definitely not that way at AWS.

Source: ex-AWS Employee.
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Too late: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14182406
American unions somehow painted themselves into a corner.

They became too focused on an adversarial relationship with the company. Germany has the right of things. Unions there have guaranteed board seats [0]. This gives the employees​ more of a say in the direction of the company.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
> but my tinkering tends to be writing new versions of old arcade games, and that's pretty time-consuming on its own.

Well, frankly that sounds bad ass. Next to my 2000 is a mint C64. I use it almost daily for PETSCII specific BBSes. In any case, there is still a very interesting game dev scene for it. My most recent favorite is Bear Essentials, by Graham Axten. You can read more about it here, if you're interested.
https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=238

Disclaimer: I wrote the article, and it's my commodore shrine/site.
As @zeckalpha says, rebase != centralized repo.

You can have a hierarchical repo system (as we did at Sun).

Or you can have multiple hierarchies, contributing different series of rebased patches up the chain in each hierarchy.

Another possibility is that you are not contributing patches upstream but still have multiple upstreams. Even in this case your best bet is as follows: drop your local patches (save them in a branch), merge one of the upstreams, merge the other, re-apply (cherry-pick, rebase) your commits on top of the new merged head. This is nice because it lets you merge just the upstreams first, then your commits, and you're always left in a situation where your commits are easy to ID: they're the ones on top.
I am confusing with decentralized.
If there is no central server, how can my node find the first neighbor node? If there is a server maintain a nodes list, it isn't decentralized, right?
DevOps role is different because it assumes full product ownership. Typical system administrators are focused on just the infrastructure portions. In a DevOps role you are more focused on the things running on that infra, as well as the infra. It's a more encompassing role than the traditional 'sysadmin' role.
It's true. But it can and does kill fit people occasionally too. Some 25% of people are genetically predisposed to altitude sickness above 4000m according to a researcher I met while walking that trek myself. Base camp is well above 5000m.

Amazing trek though. One of the greatest experiences of my life.
>The web used to be much more simpler when we were just making 1024768 pages with <table>s*

The problem is mostly with overdesigned websites, not ensuring it works for all devices. Simple designs and sticking with mostly default settings will be responsive-by-default.

In this case, 130% font size is fine but I feel it should have more line height (1.7 vs 1.45) and text should be aligned left instead of justified for smaller devices. Two small changes.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/VRJ14eF.png
The original Wiki:

http://wiki.c2.com/
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An interesting contrast with the widely held opinion that Amazon burns through development employees; something that mature developers are, IMO, less likely to put up with.
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Google knows exactly the times, places, and details of how Levandowski did questionable operations on his laptop.

If management wanted to find out who posted what on yag, it would have no problem doing so.
I think there is more to it than too cheap. I think it is not enough money and not enough need. If the budget is $150k and it is SV, you aren't going to hire a team.

Another problem is I think Google and like companies have been vacuuming up the best of the best sysops and DBAs. This has had the effect of making them hard to find, and even if you can, you can't afford them. Then you see the conquences of companies trying to figure out an alternative plan. The results are Devops and NoOps.
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Why did the submitter add "amid bitcoin boom" to the title here? Or did Bloomberg change it?
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"Why 1955 was a good year to be born to shape our future."

Bill Joy, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidtt, Tim Berners-Lee, Bill Gates, James Gosling, Dave Winer, Tim Bray, Ray Ozie

The center point of this rare astrological alignment in the mid 1950s was June 11, 1955.

James Gosling was born on May 19, 1955. So was I (note my username).

Whenever anyone asks for my resume, I just tell them I must be a great programmer because of my birth date and I send them this link: http://www.astrology.co.uk/news/1955.htm.

So far no one cares. But it makes me feel good to be in such company.
> people into GITS might like this post we made about shots in the movie recreated from the anime: https://medium.com/@gitsost/a-love-letter-to-ghost-in-the-sh...

I find it quite superficial to call the new movie a love letter just because a number of stills have similar elements in them.

As an example: In the water fight scene the anime has a LOT of story-telling with her actions being clearly based on high level moral motivations, as well as observations of and adaption to the progression of the fight itself. Every action taken has a reason and nuance behind it, based on who and what her adversary is as well as the tactical situation. In the movie it's a straight-up beat-down of an almost entirely unresponsive puppet.
Who cares about how a product's sub-projects were put together? What one should care about is how those sub-projects were put together into a final product. To be sure, the sub-projects' internal history can be archived, but it needn't pollute the upstream's history.

Analogously: who cares how you think? Aside from psychologists and such, that is. We care about what you say, write, do.
For clarification, Kin is a token using the Ethereum blockchain. There is a straight forward tutorial how anyone can create their own currency/rewards program/token.

https://www.ethereum.org/token
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Company scrip is a problem because the tokens are usually artificially priced by the issuer above their market value. If Walmart tokens in Mexico were traded freely, they would have had non-zero value (the ability to buy something at Walmart is better than nothing), but less than their face value. The same thing happened with government money many times, so there's nothing new here.

Having a law to always accept some currency in some jurisdiction is convenient, but non-essential (given the availability of exchanges and overall liquidity).
That's what most startups do. But, it's not clear if it's a net benefit because most startups also fail.

Another way of looking at it is finding a group of motivated 20 somethings is almost trivial. Find a motivated group with 20 years experience is vastly harder because it's a smaller group who have less interest in joining a startup.

PS: IMO, it would be a really interesting experiment, but I am not sure how you would go about it.
The British solved this problem without technology OR communication.